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27,934,229 | 27,933,894 | 1 | 2 | 27,933,334 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>The search results counter is 12,385...is that really all (or &quot;nearly all&quot;) of what Vid.me had for content? I mean I know it failed at dethroning Youtube, but 12,000+ videos is barely anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sp332</author><text>4 years ago, Archive Team backed up &quot;nearly all&quot; of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;archiveteam_vidme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;archiveteam_vidme</a> so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive.<p>(And you can help keep them there, too <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;donate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;donate</a> But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don&#x27;t feel guilty or anything. Just use the Archive!)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22589403/porn-site-bought-expired-video-hosting-site-old-embeds</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swiley</author><text>That really is an amazing organization.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sp332</author><text>4 years ago, Archive Team backed up &quot;nearly all&quot; of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;archiveteam_vidme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;archiveteam_vidme</a> so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive.<p>(And you can help keep them there, too <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;donate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;donate</a> But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don&#x27;t feel guilty or anything. Just use the Archive!)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22589403/porn-site-bought-expired-video-hosting-site-old-embeds</url></story> |
39,009,248 | 39,007,504 | 1 | 2 | 39,006,398 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>metaphor</author><text>&gt; <i>I suspect its just a tax break related policy</i><p>1. What publicly-traded companies report to investors and what they report to the IRS are more different than you might initially suspect.<p>2. This $73.2B figure was pulled directly from their 2022 10-K filing[1] under an ops expense line item labeled <i>technology and content</i>, which includes R&amp;D and then some. The devil in the details is buried in a footnote on p. 26:<p>&gt;&gt; <i>Technology and content costs include payroll and related expenses for employees involved in the research and development of new and existing products and services, development, design, and maintenance of our stores, curation and display of products and services made available in our online stores, and infrastructure costs. Infrastructure costs include servers, networking equipment, and data center related depreciation and amortization, rent, utilities, and other expenses necessary to support AWS and other Amazon businesses.</i><p>At face value, to handwave this figure as just R&amp;D and purport that it&#x27;s directly comparable to other publicly-traded companies who report disaggregated <i>research and development</i> strikes me as somewhere between shotgun analysis and hoodwinking.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1018724&#x2F;000101872423000004&#x2F;amzn-20221231.htm#icc32c5c732854b7f9975929c57cd5bd4_97" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1018724&#x2F;000101872423...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lnxg33k1</author><text>I suspect its just a tax break related policy, ive been doing the same shit at US companies (still in EU), and some European companies (in EU) and the US one were the only one asking me to file reports for hours classified as R&amp;D, maybe european ones have no incentive to do that<p>Id say, considering that, and considering that for these corps taxes are lava, i’d go to look at incentives on taxes about R&amp;D filing</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France</title><url>https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1746254000914092480</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wharvle</author><text>Can confirm, filed some “R&amp;D” hours at a company some years back that did software development but nothing I’d call “R&amp;D”. They straight-up told us it was a requirement for some tax benefit or other. Like they did have us do it only on non-client work, but… it was not really R&amp;D the way anyone means that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lnxg33k1</author><text>I suspect its just a tax break related policy, ive been doing the same shit at US companies (still in EU), and some European companies (in EU) and the US one were the only one asking me to file reports for hours classified as R&amp;D, maybe european ones have no incentive to do that<p>Id say, considering that, and considering that for these corps taxes are lava, i’d go to look at incentives on taxes about R&amp;D filing</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France</title><url>https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1746254000914092480</url></story> |
7,982,723 | 7,982,388 | 1 | 2 | 7,982,290 | train | <instructions>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&#x27;m not sure why people seem surprised by this.<p>Any sufficiently (i.e. correctly) encrypted content&#x2F;traffic should be indiscernible from any other of the same scale. While there are ways to infer what sort of traffic is being carried from certain packed inspection and statistical techniques (a bulk HTTP transfer will look different to a peer-to-peer one and both will look very different to an interactive SSH session, and so on) you can&#x27;t do that for the content.<p>There are five groups using Tor and similar by my understanding (in no particular order): criminals (including terrorists, people trafficers, illegal drug industry people, and so forth), the oppressed and freedom fighters (depending on your point of view a lot of people in this category might belong in the first one instead and vice-versa), the paranoid who think the whole world is out to get them, those wanting to protect all their content+comms whether secret or not out of principal, and those who are simply experimenting with it (out of &quot;random&quot; interest, academic interest, or because they work in a relevant&#x2F;related field).<p>The proportion of nefarious types (relative to the total user-base) routinely using Tor is going to be significantly higher then the proportion of such who are not, so the authorities are naturally going to look to Tor for that reason. They are not saying that they think everyone using Tor is a terrorist, they are saying some are but we can&#x27;t tell who so we are going to check everyone.<p>The only way this will change is if everything is thusly protected, so there will be no difference between the diversity of Tor users and the diversity of the overall population.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extremists</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FXKeyscore-Quellcode-Tor-Nutzer-werden-von-der-NSA-als-Extremisten-markiert-und-ueberwacht-2248328.html&edit-text=</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sveme</author><text>Trying to human-translate the first part of the article:<p>XKeyscore-Sourcecode: Tor-Users are marked and surveilled as extremists<p>According to an analysis of the XKeyscore sourcecode by German public broadcasters ARD and WDR, people showing an interest in anonymization on the web by, for example, googling for &quot;Tails&quot; or &quot;Tor&quot; will be added as extremists to an NSA database and monitored from thereon.<p>That&#x27;s at least the gist of it. I&#x27;m pretty sure you&#x27;ll get more background once the anglosphere awakens.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extremists</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FXKeyscore-Quellcode-Tor-Nutzer-werden-von-der-NSA-als-Extremisten-markiert-und-ueberwacht-2248328.html&edit-text=</url></story> |
21,943,334 | 21,937,451 | 1 | 3 | 21,936,930 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nstart</author><text>As much as I am wary of being negative towards children&#x27;s behaviours that don&#x27;t match my own, focus related criticism is something that I feel is really valid. I&#x27;ve watched children below the age of 13 Snapchat and watched any number of children aged 2 and above using YouTube. The same behavior shows up where before a video has finished, the children are reaching out to tap to another one. I try not to judge but I do cringe when I see 2 year olds spending 1 minute on a baby rhymes video, then reaching forward, tapping to another one while the first still has 15 minutes to go, and then doing that again and again and again. The older children swiping without fully watching even a Snapchat video is equally bothersome for me. I&#x27;m seeing swipes and taps happen in the range of 2 to 3 seconds.<p>This behaviour is not unique to children though. I watch adults at the hospital using Facebook and it&#x27;s the same. It&#x27;s almost like they just want to swipe rather than look at the content for real.<p>I have no idea what the long term effects of this behaviour are. Perhaps it&#x27;s nothing and I&#x27;m fretting over it needlessly. But I&#x27;ve experienced it myself and it took behaviour similar to rehab to come out of it and be able to slowly enjoy content again. And it always feels easy to slip back into. It&#x27;s terrifying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nugget</author><text>As soon as I finished this article I immediately thought of a thread from last week, &quot;Focus has become more valuable than IQ&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21906727" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21906727</a><p>Watching energetic young kids run around, I can see how tempting it is to give them an interactive device which consumes their attention and makes them easier to handle. But phones seem designed to encourage the shortest possible attention spans and rabid multi-tasking, the opposite of deep focus. So what do you do? Is it as simple as banning phones, if you&#x27;re willing to give them the needed attention? What about friends&#x27; phones and the Internet in general? What if they fall in love with web programming at the age of 8? You want them to be familiar with technology and ideally to be able to drift between multi-tasking and deep focus. I haven&#x27;t read much on how to achieve this from a practical parenting perspective, though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50830944</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buran77</author><text>Unfortunately this also applies to adults. My parents grew with little more than a radio and a handful of books yet today they&#x27;re tied into their phones and tablets, constantly checking for FB updates or the latest (irrelevant) news.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nugget</author><text>As soon as I finished this article I immediately thought of a thread from last week, &quot;Focus has become more valuable than IQ&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21906727" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21906727</a><p>Watching energetic young kids run around, I can see how tempting it is to give them an interactive device which consumes their attention and makes them easier to handle. But phones seem designed to encourage the shortest possible attention spans and rabid multi-tasking, the opposite of deep focus. So what do you do? Is it as simple as banning phones, if you&#x27;re willing to give them the needed attention? What about friends&#x27; phones and the Internet in general? What if they fall in love with web programming at the age of 8? You want them to be familiar with technology and ideally to be able to drift between multi-tasking and deep focus. I haven&#x27;t read much on how to achieve this from a practical parenting perspective, though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50830944</url></story> |
16,062,735 | 16,059,594 | 1 | 3 | 16,058,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stult</author><text>At age 55 after raising three kids and being out of the job market for two decades, my mom randomly decided to get into acting. At the time, tons of movies were filming in Boston where she lives. She was quickly able to land lots of extra work, especially because the city lacks the constant supply of aspiring actors living in NY or LA.<p>It was a perfect cure for empty nest syndrome. She eventually landed a speaking role in a major film, though tragically her speaking scenes got cut and only the scenes where she played a corpse made the final cut. But, she got the opportunity to act opposite Robert Duvall! And she played Robert Downey Jr&#x27;s mother, which by the transitive property of fraternal handsomeness makes me as good looking as he is (hint: I&#x27;m not).<p>Sadly, she gave up on it after receiving some harsh feedback from a talent agent. It can be a fun, carefree way to earn some extra cash if you have the stability not to have to worry about a volatile income stream. But once you get into the more serious levels of the business, the competition can be brutal and the industry insiders vile. C&#x27;est la vie, I suppose.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Curious Life of an Extra</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/09/my-life-as-an-extra/541212/?utm_source=atlfb&amp;single_page=true</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dizzystar</author><text>I think it&#x27;s pretty cool that she made a go of it, managed to step up, and found a new passion.<p>I did extra work in the mid 00&#x27;s, and it was an interesting and highly unstable way of making a living. It was mostly actors and musicians at the time, as the money was just good enough (for some) to make time for auditions and workshops.<p>The rest were people like the author: people who just couldn&#x27;t find a job and make ends meet.<p>I think that extra work in LA is possibly more fickle than out east, mainly because there are a few thousand people who move out here to become an actor every week, and the first place they find themselves at is Central Casting. Being too (fill in the blank) was the difference between working all the time and working just enough to pay for a calling service. It seemed that the next step for many was use the free time to launch their own business. It&#x27;s very difficult to find a job if your resume says &quot;extra work&quot; for the prior two years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Curious Life of an Extra</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/09/my-life-as-an-extra/541212/?utm_source=atlfb&amp;single_page=true</url></story> |
15,722,405 | 15,721,924 | 1 | 3 | 15,721,466 | train | <instructions>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>That&#x27;s absolutely the wrong way to go about looking at it. Not all facts are of equal importance. 97 correct facts about, say, gardening, and three incorrect facts about first aid is not a successful system.<p>If Google is presenting the tool as a canonical source of truth, it needs to be right 100% of the time. In fact, being right 97.4% of the time is worse in many ways, as it lulls people into a false sense of security about how much they can trust the system. Get 97&#x2F;100 obvious answers correct, then give someone wildly inappropriate advice when they ask something more &quot;off piste&quot;.<p>And let&#x27;s not delude ourselves here, Google isn&#x27;t doing this out of an altrustic desire to help people. They&#x27;re making sure fewer people leave google.com, in the process starving the very sites they&#x27;re getting information from of revenue. That should worry all of us.<p>&gt; we are mandated by management and ownership to produce anti-google PR and provide a steady supply of ammunition to its critics.<p>This feels like an absurd criticism. Couldn&#x27;t it apply to absolutely every negative thing written about Google, ever? Why should Google be immune from criticism?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dontnotice</author><text>Halfway down that piece:<p><i>A study this year by Stone Temple, a prominent analyst of the industry, showed Google’s search engine answered 74.3% of 5,000 questions, and on those answers it had a 97.4% accuracy rate. Both percentages are higher than services from Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.</i><p>Alternative WSJ:<p>Let&#x27;s bury that tidbit under the fold while we nitpick and highlight edge cases in a constantly improving system.<p>We should also emphasising how integral google&#x27;s search is to the health of society and civilization because we are mandated by management and ownership to produce anti-google PR and provide a steady supply of ammunition to its critics.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google increasingly is promoting a single answer for many questions</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-featured-answers-aim-to-distill-truthbut-often-get-it-wrong-1510847867</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>97% accuracy is abysmal for something you are presenting as &quot;answers&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dontnotice</author><text>Halfway down that piece:<p><i>A study this year by Stone Temple, a prominent analyst of the industry, showed Google’s search engine answered 74.3% of 5,000 questions, and on those answers it had a 97.4% accuracy rate. Both percentages are higher than services from Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.</i><p>Alternative WSJ:<p>Let&#x27;s bury that tidbit under the fold while we nitpick and highlight edge cases in a constantly improving system.<p>We should also emphasising how integral google&#x27;s search is to the health of society and civilization because we are mandated by management and ownership to produce anti-google PR and provide a steady supply of ammunition to its critics.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google increasingly is promoting a single answer for many questions</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-featured-answers-aim-to-distill-truthbut-often-get-it-wrong-1510847867</url></story> |
40,490,720 | 40,488,871 | 1 | 2 | 40,480,913 | 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>wongarsu</author><text>You can read (scan) code to get the general gist of it. It&#x27;s more at the level of &quot;this code looks at the pathname, then some cookies, and then either calls the signin function or returns True&quot;. That&#x27;s about the same level where I read most prose. It&#x27;s enough to answer the question &quot;what does this do&quot; (answer: &quot;calls signin if you aren&#x27;t logged in but should be&quot;) or &quot;how complex is this&quot; but not enough to modify the code or understand the intricacies of it.<p>What you are referring to is simulating the execution in my head to figure out which execution flows exist, figuring out which cases aren&#x27;t covered, what the function calls actually do, what the significance of those cookies is, etc. That&#x27;s similar to how I read contracts. But unless I have to write a literary analysis or somebody asks me to find all the plotholes and inconsistencies I don&#x27;t read normal prose that way.<p>It might be interesting if there are similarities between programmers tracing execution flows, lawyers reading an unfamiliar contract, and editors finding inconsistencies in short novels.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>If you read code and don&#x27;t think about what it&#x27;s doing, are you really &quot;reading&quot; it?<p>Reading code without running it in your head feels like reading prose without actually comprehending it.</text></item><item><author>nextaccountic</author><text>Perhaps reading code activates the same arras as reading prose in English, but <i>running</i> code in your head activates other areas</text></item><item><author>JonChesterfield</author><text>The paper wasn&#x27;t linked as far as I can tell but is probably <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7738192&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;elife-58906.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7738192&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;eli...</a><p>&gt; While the programmers lay in a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) scanner, the researchers showed them snippets of code and asked them to predict what action the code would produce<p>I have a suspicion that writing code and understanding that written by someone else are different skill sets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usrusr</author><text>I&#x27;d put most of my code reading much closer to &quot;inferring intention&quot; than to &quot;running in my head&quot;. It&#x27;s really more like navigating through a complex building, looking for certain rooms than simulating execution. &quot;running in my head&quot; is to reading code like &quot;pronouncing in my head&quot; is to reading prose. Both aren&#x27;t the norm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>If you read code and don&#x27;t think about what it&#x27;s doing, are you really &quot;reading&quot; it?<p>Reading code without running it in your head feels like reading prose without actually comprehending it.</text></item><item><author>nextaccountic</author><text>Perhaps reading code activates the same arras as reading prose in English, but <i>running</i> code in your head activates other areas</text></item><item><author>JonChesterfield</author><text>The paper wasn&#x27;t linked as far as I can tell but is probably <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7738192&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;elife-58906.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7738192&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;eli...</a><p>&gt; While the programmers lay in a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) scanner, the researchers showed them snippets of code and asked them to predict what action the code would produce<p>I have a suspicion that writing code and understanding that written by someone else are different skill sets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215</url></story> |
2,747,636 | 2,747,631 | 1 | 2 | 2,747,621 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petervandijck</author><text>And the reason they want social Open is to commoditize it. (Same strategy as Android.) Everything a commodity except for search is the perfect world for Google.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open</title><url>http://marshallk.com/google-pluss-real-goal-is-not-to-kill-facebook-but-to-force-it-to-open</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tilt</author><text>I think Google+ biggest bet right now is to spot, or introduce, the way people will live the web tomorrow. Changing it from Search to Discover.<p>And no, it can't relay completely on our friend's interests (à la Facebook) cause they're their interests not ours.<p>We'll probably stick much and much more to our beloved communities (topics, not friends) and start every web-related activity from there.
That's something Google can't let Facebook win on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open</title><url>http://marshallk.com/google-pluss-real-goal-is-not-to-kill-facebook-but-to-force-it-to-open</url></story> |
5,819,151 | 5,818,563 | 1 | 2 | 5,817,728 | 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>mikeash</author><text>Why exactly is this worth noting?<p>Nobody jumps to point out that there's still somebody paying for the "free" tiers of Dropbox or GitHub or whatever. Yet the moment somebody mentions a "free" social program, people suddenly have to hammer on the point that <i>somebody</i> pays for it.<p>We're not a bunch of imbeciles who think that social programs just rain from the sky....</text><parent_chain><item><author>jan_g</author><text>It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer. Many European countries have similar arrangements.<p>Personally, I think all this is money well spent by the governments as it gives nice financial boost to young parents and a sense that someone/something cares about them and their baby.</text></item><item><author>ProcessBlue</author><text>Lovely article. However, I must say that the box is only the tip of the iceberg. It's been almost four years since we went through the gauntlet so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but if I remember correctly the FREE tier of forming babby in Finland includes:<p>- Initially monthly (increaing to weekly) pre-natal checkups that include bloodwork, metabolism tests, ultrasounds and any treatments necessary to ensure the baby's and mother's health.<p>- About 12 hours of parental training which I found surprisingly useful (containing none of the Lamaze class stereotypes I had been expecting). Also, our group of people contained an absolutely adorable teenage couple, everybody else was in their late twenties to mid thirties.<p>- The whole "actual business". Now this bit we did have to pay for, about $80 per day that we stayed in one of the maternity ward's private rooms with full room service.<p>- First weekly and later monthly post natal checkups (also for the mom) including vaccinations. At two years the schedule switches to annual checkups and starts including dental chaeckups. At some point during the first months a doctor actually visits your home to check up on how you are dealing with the whole situation. If there are clear indicators of problems (e.g. alcoholism) the doc can point you in the direction for help.<p>- You start getting about $150/month from the state for the baby (until it is 18 years old), this is about half of the cost of municpal daycare. In addition to this you get financial support during (m|p)aternity leave (the amount is actually scaled based on your salary). Maternity leave is about 100 days, paternity leave is about 50 days and on top of that you are entitled to 160 days of parental leave (either mom or dad can take this). Your place of employment can get state compensation if they decide to pay you a full salaray during your leave. Then there is a general child care leave than can extend to three years, it gets nitty gritty with the bureaucracy of compensations but effectively it is possible to take care of your kid for the first three years and still have your old job back when you're done. In our circle of friends there are at least a couple of "career women" who have checked out for ~5 years to have two kids and successfully gotten back into the game.<p>So yeah, the box is nice but it is only the icing on the fabulous cake that is having a baby in Finland :-).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>belorn</author><text>&#62; It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer.<p>While its technically true, its really misrepresent it. Every time i hear that argument it sounds like a kid holding one part of a singular share of Microsoft stock, proclaiming to the world that he has now "funded Microsoft!" because of his $10 investment.<p>Sure, in societies with lower tax, the state would be less likely to be funding a baby box. However, in trade of, society itself tend to then evolve a culture of charities to handle the slack. The US is a good example here, where such a box would likely also exist in some places, but maybe coupled with a bible or a cooperation logo on. People could then argue that such a thing is also "not free", but provide under advertisement for a religion or brand.<p>So while its technically true that this is a gift paid by tax payers money, that description deserve a lesser attention that we currently are giving it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jan_g</author><text>It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer. Many European countries have similar arrangements.<p>Personally, I think all this is money well spent by the governments as it gives nice financial boost to young parents and a sense that someone/something cares about them and their baby.</text></item><item><author>ProcessBlue</author><text>Lovely article. However, I must say that the box is only the tip of the iceberg. It's been almost four years since we went through the gauntlet so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but if I remember correctly the FREE tier of forming babby in Finland includes:<p>- Initially monthly (increaing to weekly) pre-natal checkups that include bloodwork, metabolism tests, ultrasounds and any treatments necessary to ensure the baby's and mother's health.<p>- About 12 hours of parental training which I found surprisingly useful (containing none of the Lamaze class stereotypes I had been expecting). Also, our group of people contained an absolutely adorable teenage couple, everybody else was in their late twenties to mid thirties.<p>- The whole "actual business". Now this bit we did have to pay for, about $80 per day that we stayed in one of the maternity ward's private rooms with full room service.<p>- First weekly and later monthly post natal checkups (also for the mom) including vaccinations. At two years the schedule switches to annual checkups and starts including dental chaeckups. At some point during the first months a doctor actually visits your home to check up on how you are dealing with the whole situation. If there are clear indicators of problems (e.g. alcoholism) the doc can point you in the direction for help.<p>- You start getting about $150/month from the state for the baby (until it is 18 years old), this is about half of the cost of municpal daycare. In addition to this you get financial support during (m|p)aternity leave (the amount is actually scaled based on your salary). Maternity leave is about 100 days, paternity leave is about 50 days and on top of that you are entitled to 160 days of parental leave (either mom or dad can take this). Your place of employment can get state compensation if they decide to pay you a full salaray during your leave. Then there is a general child care leave than can extend to three years, it gets nitty gritty with the bureaucracy of compensations but effectively it is possible to take care of your kid for the first three years and still have your old job back when you're done. In our circle of friends there are at least a couple of "career women" who have checked out for ~5 years to have two kids and successfully gotten back into the game.<p>So yeah, the box is nice but it is only the icing on the fabulous cake that is having a baby in Finland :-).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415</url></story> |
33,384,098 | 33,382,909 | 1 | 3 | 33,381,920 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>10000truths</author><text>Two strong points for BearSSL:<p>- Its sans-I&#x2F;O design. Too many networking-related libraries out there mix the protocol state machine logic and the I&#x2F;O. In doing so, they impose a certain style of I&#x2F;O and make it impossible to integrate with an existing event loop, unless you’re willing to sacrifice scalability by spawning a thread+semaphore for each connection. I’d love it if I could use libssh2 or libmysqlclient’s state machine with io_uring or DPDK! Other TLS libraries do have stuff like memory BIOs, but they’re managed by the library and force an extra memory copy to get your data to its final destination.<p>- No mutable global state. The fact that all functions are fully reentrant means that it’s easily usable in an interruptible context, common in freestanding environments or runtimes with fibers&#x2F;coroutines.<p>The tradeoff is that it lacks TLS 1.3 and DTLS support. The latter in particular is something I look forward to so that a QUIC state machine in C is possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using MbedTLS which is a similar project and loving it. But the last time I looked at the BearSSL code, it was very clean and beautiful in a way that MbedTLS isn&#x27;t. Does anyone here have experience with both libraries who could illuminate the tradeoffs? For example, does BearSSL have TLS 1.3? I&#x27;d be willing to give up all previous versions of TLS just to have 1.3. I want it so badly I&#x27;m about to implement it into MbedTLS myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BearSSL: A smaller SSL/TLS library</title><url>https://bearssl.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harryvederci</author><text>By now, <i>you</i> saying you&#x27;re about to implement something yourself is probably an indicator for everyone else that they don&#x27;t have to do it.<p>&quot;We&#x27;re good, everyone. Justine is on it.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using MbedTLS which is a similar project and loving it. But the last time I looked at the BearSSL code, it was very clean and beautiful in a way that MbedTLS isn&#x27;t. Does anyone here have experience with both libraries who could illuminate the tradeoffs? For example, does BearSSL have TLS 1.3? I&#x27;d be willing to give up all previous versions of TLS just to have 1.3. I want it so badly I&#x27;m about to implement it into MbedTLS myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BearSSL: A smaller SSL/TLS library</title><url>https://bearssl.org/</url></story> |
28,809,061 | 28,808,563 | 1 | 2 | 28,808,556 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>juicysaurus</author><text>I&#x27;ve contributed some lines of code to this project, and thought it might be interesting to some that the library powering the UI is also written by the OP. It&#x27;s a clever experiment that uses JSX but instead of VDOM diffing it embeds observables directly into the DOM.<p>Harmaja (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;raimohanska&#x2F;harmaja" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;raimohanska&#x2F;harmaja</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard</title><url>https://www.ourboard.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nullzzz</author><text>This is my open-source project. I use it almost daily for simple whiteboarding, notetaking, online whiteboard sessions.<p>The idea is to have a simple and highly usable, fast alternative to more complex software such as Miro or Mural.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard</title><url>https://www.ourboard.io/</url></story> |
24,158,527 | 24,157,731 | 1 | 3 | 24,157,100 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimmar</author><text>I&#x27;m a professor at a regional university. Not a big name school, but we have about 5,000 students. We would be bankrupt if we told students we&#x27;d only be offering classes online this fall because students, by an overwhelming majority, want the in-person experience. We know we would lose enrollment if we went fully online this fall, and the drop would be significant enough for the university to declare bankruptcy. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and other big names have enough reputation and big enough endowments to weather a storm of a temporary drop in enrollment due to shifting instruction online. Many universities cannot.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus</title><url>https://stanforddaily.com/2020/08/13/stanford-cancels-plans-to-bring-half-of-undergrads-back-to-campus/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eric4smith</author><text>I firmly think there is a sea change going on from standard “college” degrees to more practical training that will be a mix of apprenticeship and solid training like air&#x2F;vac, electricians and online skills, since the vast majority of jobs don’t really need a college degree.<p>This has actually begun already at the high school level.<p>Once again I believe net&#x2F;net the beer virus will be positive for America in the long run - even if only on the educational level.<p>Some will insist that a portion of the population will be disenfranchised and that is true.<p>But our education assumptions and priorities have been wrong for so long now that it has actually become the weakness of an entire generation for the last 10-20 years.<p>Just think of it! In a few months we are completely re-examining the utility of taking out a student loan that many cannot pay back in their working lifetimes.<p>We’re looking and complaining if colleges will go online or reopen in person classes - but there is so much more going underneath that conversation.<p>This is maybe (hopefully) the last generation of the “underwater basket weaving” so-called useless degrees.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus</title><url>https://stanforddaily.com/2020/08/13/stanford-cancels-plans-to-bring-half-of-undergrads-back-to-campus/</url></story> |
5,739,218 | 5,738,979 | 1 | 2 | 5,738,969 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Arjuna</author><text><i>"A few hours before the Yahoo acquisition was announced in June 1998 I took a snapshot of Viaweb's site</i> [1]. <i>I thought it might be interesting to look at one day."</i> [2]<p>[1] <a href="http://ycombinator.com/viaweb" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/viaweb</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (1998)</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-Viaweb-for-49-million/2100-1001_3-212001.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>ig1</author><text>With all the talk about Yahoo acquisitions I thought it might be a good time to remind everyone that back in 1998 Yahoo acquired a three-year old Viaweb.<p>With that exit money the Viaweb founders (Paul Graham, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell) went on to start a rather well known seed accelerator and a popular hacker news aggregation site.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (1998)</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-Viaweb-for-49-million/2100-1001_3-212001.html</url></story> |
39,435,736 | 39,435,692 | 1 | 2 | 39,418,810 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gtrevorjay</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine another cocktail party where my own one handed keyboard would be relevant, so here it is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trevorjay&#x2F;Handler">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trevorjay&#x2F;Handler</a><p>It&#x27;s chorded, (based on the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ardux.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ardux.io&#x2F;</a> layout), but I don&#x27;t think chorded is really that hard to learn if you&#x27;re actually willing to give it a week or two (which you have in any situation where you <i>need</i> a one hander).<p>The key (ha) I&#x27;ve found is that you want the keys to be as easy to press as possible while providing feedback. The Twiddler, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twiddler.tekgear.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twiddler.tekgear.com&#x2F;</a> , is great for this as it uses light tact switches, but it has reliability issues.<p>This is a great project. Of all my one-handed experience, I never got to try a FrogPad because of the expense. Having a software implementation of the FrogPad is awesome.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad</title><url>https://www.kianryan.co.uk/2024-02-16-one-handed-accessible-keyboard-inspired-by-frogpad/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Syzygies</author><text>I have experience with both the FrogPad and the Matias Half Keyboard (I paid $95; now $595). The Frogpad never caught on with me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matias.store&#x2F;products&#x2F;half-keyboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matias.store&#x2F;products&#x2F;half-keyboard</a><p>The Matias Half Keyboard is based on a theory that our minds mirror each hand, so by holding the space bar to access the missing half keyboard, we already know what to do. I was skeptical. Recognizing that we&#x27;re modal (do we even recognize that telephone keypads and numeric keypads are different, or do we just use them without thinking?) I decided to learn Dvorak on the half keyboard while continuing to use QWERTY on my full keyboards.<p>One day, on a lark, I tried Dvorak on a full keyboard. I could, easily. The mirror theory holds.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad</title><url>https://www.kianryan.co.uk/2024-02-16-one-handed-accessible-keyboard-inspired-by-frogpad/</url></story> |
22,414,182 | 22,413,837 | 1 | 3 | 22,413,676 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>poulsbohemian</author><text>Nearly everywhere in US society where productivity comes up, the “early bird” is held up as the standard of efficiency. Thus, those people who instead prefer a schedule that doesn’t begin pre-dawn have been chastised in books, talks, and in media despite there not being any proof that that they are “lazy” but rather are simply naturally attuned to a different schedule.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ZanyProgrammer</author><text>Maybe it’s just the small subset of software engineers who frequent HN, but I swear 99.9% of the people on here are night owls, and they very much let their opinions be known on every thread about sleep.</text></item><item><author>bilekas</author><text>I am very much a night owl and I have a really hard time getting into a routine of getting up early in the morning, even if I do manage to get my hours of sleep.<p>It took a long time to find a balance of forcing to sleep and forcing to get up. But now I have to be very concious, if I have a late weekend I am out of sync for the rest of the week.<p>People say its a lazy thing, but its really not.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Well, they&#x27;re the ones most likely to click on threads about sleep probably.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ZanyProgrammer</author><text>Maybe it’s just the small subset of software engineers who frequent HN, but I swear 99.9% of the people on here are night owls, and they very much let their opinions be known on every thread about sleep.</text></item><item><author>bilekas</author><text>I am very much a night owl and I have a really hard time getting into a routine of getting up early in the morning, even if I do manage to get my hours of sleep.<p>It took a long time to find a balance of forcing to sleep and forcing to get up. But now I have to be very concious, if I have a late weekend I am out of sync for the rest of the week.<p>People say its a lazy thing, but its really not.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/</url></story> |
9,082,960 | 9,082,836 | 1 | 3 | 9,080,834 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skywhopper</author><text>The people who made the decisions involved here essentially hacked hundreds of thousands of PCs and defrauded their customers. I don&#x27;t expect anyone in Lenovo to be punished for a crime, but there&#x27;s no doubt they did something clearly unethical and borderline illegal. Their best possible defense is that they were just incredibly negligent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notsony</author><text>Seems to be a lot of self-righteous moral crusaders on Twitter, and some on HN too, who won&#x27;t be satisfied until they see Lenovo employees hanging from lamp posts...</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>At least &quot;Lenovo US&quot; is owning up to it. <a href="https://twitter.com/lenovoUS/status/568578319681257472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lenovoUS&#x2F;status&#x2F;568578319681257472</a> Not sure how they&#x27;re connected to the &quot;Lenovo&quot; that issued that statement.</text></item><item><author>buro9</author><text>Microsoft is currently doing Lenovo&#x27;s work for them: <a href="https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/568800260111388672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;FiloSottile&#x2F;status&#x2F;568800260111388672</a><p>The latest version of Windows Defender is actively removing the Superfish software <i>and</i> the cert.<p>The text of the definition is here: <a href="http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=us7iXvkn" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw.php?i=us7iXvkn</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PhasmaFelis</author><text>If this had been done by a private person instead of a corporation, they would be looking at prison time. The double standard is frustrating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notsony</author><text>Seems to be a lot of self-righteous moral crusaders on Twitter, and some on HN too, who won&#x27;t be satisfied until they see Lenovo employees hanging from lamp posts...</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>At least &quot;Lenovo US&quot; is owning up to it. <a href="https://twitter.com/lenovoUS/status/568578319681257472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lenovoUS&#x2F;status&#x2F;568578319681257472</a> Not sure how they&#x27;re connected to the &quot;Lenovo&quot; that issued that statement.</text></item><item><author>buro9</author><text>Microsoft is currently doing Lenovo&#x27;s work for them: <a href="https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/568800260111388672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;FiloSottile&#x2F;status&#x2F;568800260111388672</a><p>The latest version of Windows Defender is actively removing the Superfish software <i>and</i> the cert.<p>The text of the definition is here: <a href="http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=us7iXvkn" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw.php?i=us7iXvkn</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish/</url></story> |
15,732,812 | 15,731,315 | 1 | 2 | 15,730,981 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>&gt; <i>Code-monkey Indians</i><p>I realize (because you say it below) that you&#x27;re Indian so it feels ok to say this. That might be true in person, but not here. You&#x27;re broadcasting to a far larger audience with far less information about your intent. In this context, subtleties with slurs (such as &#x27;it&#x27;s a self-slur too, so that&#x27;s ok&#x27;) aren&#x27;t really possible. If you casually drop the slur in anyway, you&#x27;re damaging the container that protects what little kindness we have here, so we&#x27;d appreciate it if you&#x27;d not do this sort of thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>&gt; move to harm Indian IT professionals<p>Title of the story linked-to is quite sensational.<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of the current administration at all, but as a former (Indian) H1-B visa holder myself, I welcome this move. It&#x27;s clearly aimed at the top 10 H1-B visa abusers, almost all Indian Companies - think Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant Technologies, Wipro, Tech Manhindra etc - who grossly underpay the Indian software engineers and abuse H1-B visa program.<p>Now these crooks won&#x27;t be able to file Labor Certificate applications with very low prevailing wages, and I think this will help real startups and software companies everywhere in the US, who can&#x27;t find top engineers in US for new technologies, hire people from Europe, Asia and other parts of the world who are qualified, and not just from India.<p>Code-monkey Indians and the companies that try to bring them in on low wages will automatically get filtered out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers</title><url>http://www.businesstoday.in/current/world/us-congressional-committee-h1b-visa-holders-minimum-salary-for-h1b-visa-holder/story/264157.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>codeonfire</author><text>Also should mention these companies are openly tolerated by the government for their extreme racist hiring policy, violating every conceivable US law, hiring upwards of 98% Indian race only in the United States. But it&#x27;s alright because it&#x27;s just &quot;engineers&quot; not important people, right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>&gt; move to harm Indian IT professionals<p>Title of the story linked-to is quite sensational.<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of the current administration at all, but as a former (Indian) H1-B visa holder myself, I welcome this move. It&#x27;s clearly aimed at the top 10 H1-B visa abusers, almost all Indian Companies - think Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant Technologies, Wipro, Tech Manhindra etc - who grossly underpay the Indian software engineers and abuse H1-B visa program.<p>Now these crooks won&#x27;t be able to file Labor Certificate applications with very low prevailing wages, and I think this will help real startups and software companies everywhere in the US, who can&#x27;t find top engineers in US for new technologies, hire people from Europe, Asia and other parts of the world who are qualified, and not just from India.<p>Code-monkey Indians and the companies that try to bring them in on low wages will automatically get filtered out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers</title><url>http://www.businesstoday.in/current/world/us-congressional-committee-h1b-visa-holders-minimum-salary-for-h1b-visa-holder/story/264157.html</url></story> |
23,252,440 | 23,252,603 | 1 | 3 | 23,251,909 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ebg13</author><text>&gt; <i>I refuse to be a donor. If they want me then make a real donation, say some money towards funeral expenses.</i><p>You refuse to save lives at literally no cost to yourself or anyone you know unless someone pays your family off?<p>&gt; <i>there&#x27;s no reason the donor should be left empty handed</i><p>The donor is dead! Hands don&#x27;t get any emptier!<p>&gt; <i>So I&#x27;m not just a grubby meanie out for a buck.</i><p>Ok, let&#x27;s see...<p>Cost to you? 0.<p>Cost to your family? 0.<p>Benefit to others? You could save several lives.<p>Will only do it for? Money.<p>Yup, no conflict there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>casefields</author><text>I refuse to be a donor. If they want me then make a real donation, say some money towards funeral expenses. I would sign up in a heartbeat.<p>And I&#x27;ve been plenty more altruistic when it comes to tissue donations. About 10 years ago I came up as a match to a stranger through the Be The Match Foundation. I went through the whole process and gave that lady bone marrow. So I&#x27;m not just a grubby meanie out for a buck. Everyone else in the chain is getting paid, there&#x27;s no reason the donor should be left empty handed.</text></item><item><author>mft_</author><text>While I totally support the opt-out approach (or indeed, no option to opt out) I wonder if we need a new term - as it doesn’t seem like a ‘donation’. ‘Donation’ implies gift, and also an element of conscious choice, both of which mightn’t apply any more.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>This is a great decision. There&#x27;s been a lot more interest in behavioural economics over the recent years and I remember reading one of Dan Ariety&#x27;s books about this.<p>The key thing that increases the rate of organ donations dramatically (from 30% to almost unviversal between opt-in and opt-out) is that there&#x27;s a very significant cost to choice. The more choices people have to make, even if they arrive at desired outcomes, hugely diminishes the chance that they do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system</title><url>https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/uk-laws/organ-donation-law-in-england</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theonemind</author><text>Hmm. What do you think about systems where you personally can&#x27;t get those sort of organs (for yourself, from someone else) unless you opt into donation yourself? Would you find that adequate compensation, or would the possibility of not getting organs you need sway your decision?</text><parent_chain><item><author>casefields</author><text>I refuse to be a donor. If they want me then make a real donation, say some money towards funeral expenses. I would sign up in a heartbeat.<p>And I&#x27;ve been plenty more altruistic when it comes to tissue donations. About 10 years ago I came up as a match to a stranger through the Be The Match Foundation. I went through the whole process and gave that lady bone marrow. So I&#x27;m not just a grubby meanie out for a buck. Everyone else in the chain is getting paid, there&#x27;s no reason the donor should be left empty handed.</text></item><item><author>mft_</author><text>While I totally support the opt-out approach (or indeed, no option to opt out) I wonder if we need a new term - as it doesn’t seem like a ‘donation’. ‘Donation’ implies gift, and also an element of conscious choice, both of which mightn’t apply any more.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>This is a great decision. There&#x27;s been a lot more interest in behavioural economics over the recent years and I remember reading one of Dan Ariety&#x27;s books about this.<p>The key thing that increases the rate of organ donations dramatically (from 30% to almost unviversal between opt-in and opt-out) is that there&#x27;s a very significant cost to choice. The more choices people have to make, even if they arrive at desired outcomes, hugely diminishes the chance that they do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system</title><url>https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/uk-laws/organ-donation-law-in-england</url></story> |
24,323,402 | 24,323,466 | 1 | 3 | 24,322,861 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>History doesn&#x27;t repeat, but it rhymes ....<p>There was a huge AT&amp;T outage in 1990 that cut off most US long distance telephony (which was, at the time, mostly &quot;everything not within the same area code&quot;).<p>It was a bug. It wasn&#x27;t a reconvergence event, but it was a distant cousin: Something would cause a crash; exchanges would offload that something to other exchanges, causing them to crash -- but with enough time for the original exchange to come back up, receive the crashy event back, and crash again.<p>The whole network was full of nodes crashing, causing their peers to crash, ad infinitum. In order to bring the network back up, they needed to either take everything down at the same time (and make sure all the queues are emptied), but even that wouldn&#x27;t have made it stable, because a similar &quot;patient 0&quot; event would have brought the whole network down.<p>Once the problem was understood, they reverted to an earlier version which didn&#x27;t have the bug, and the network re-stabilized.<p>The lore I grew up on is that this specific event was very significant in pushing and funding research into robust distributed systems, of which the best known result is Erlang and its ecosystem - originally built, and still mostly used, to make sure that phone exchanges don&#x27;t break.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.csc.calpoly.edu&#x2F;~jdalbey&#x2F;SWE&#x2F;Papers&#x2F;att_collapse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.csc.calpoly.edu&#x2F;~jdalbey&#x2F;SWE&#x2F;Papers&#x2F;att_collap...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kitteh</author><text>Massive reconvergence event in their network, causing edge router bgp sessions to bounce (due to cpu). Right now all their big peers are shutting down sessions with them to give level3s network the ability to reconverge. Prefixes announced to 3356 are frozen on their route reflectors and not getting withdrawn.<p>Edit: if you are a Level3 customer shut your sessions down to them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Level 3 Global Outage</title><url>https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187.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>guerrilla</author><text>What is a reconvergence event? Is that what&#x27;s described in your last sentence?</text><parent_chain><item><author>kitteh</author><text>Massive reconvergence event in their network, causing edge router bgp sessions to bounce (due to cpu). Right now all their big peers are shutting down sessions with them to give level3s network the ability to reconverge. Prefixes announced to 3356 are frozen on their route reflectors and not getting withdrawn.<p>Edit: if you are a Level3 customer shut your sessions down to them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Level 3 Global Outage</title><url>https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187.html</url></story> |
17,618,801 | 17,617,869 | 1 | 2 | 17,617,210 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>guitarbill</author><text>It&#x27;s still ethically questionable. In fact I&#x27;m struggling to come up with a better example than facial recognition tech (except other mass surveillance). Maybe cutting corners while developing driverless cars that results in the death of a pedestrian.<p>Almost every engineering discipline has a code of ethics [0][1][2][3]. It&#x27;s time software &quot;engineering&quot; grew up and did the same.<p>I rarely see ethics mentioned on HN, and granted, people&#x27;s view differ. But it&#x27;s weird we&#x27;re not having that conversation at all.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raeng.org.uk&#x2F;policy&#x2F;engineering-ethics&#x2F;ethics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raeng.org.uk&#x2F;policy&#x2F;engineering-ethics&#x2F;ethics</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ieee.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;governance&#x2F;p7-8.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ieee.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;governance&#x2F;p7-8.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nspe.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;ethics&#x2F;code-ethics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nspe.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;ethics&#x2F;code-ethics</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asce.org&#x2F;code-of-ethics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asce.org&#x2F;code-of-ethics&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dfundako</author><text>I think a fun thought exercise is finding the fine line between tech and guns&#x2F;alcohol&#x2F;cars. You cannot sue a gun&#x2F;car&#x2F;alcohol manufacturer if their product is used to injure someone because it functioned as designed but was used maliciously. How does that legal precedent work when extrapolated to tech and something like facial recognition? If it worked exactly as designed and we know it has a margin of error (or can be used improperly and have disastrous results, like a car or gun), could Amazon or a tech administering it be liable for someone falsely imprisoned?</text></item><item><author>alphabettsy</author><text>Some commenters here mentioned they may have setup the test incorrectly and that may be, but I think the problem this highlights most is that technology used improperly, especially by law enforcement can have major ramifications and consequences. Is the contractor that makes software for your local department going to follow best practices and have the algorithm audited by experts? Will they release the code? Those are real considerations for any program that has the potential to help ruin someone’s life.<p>It also possibly highlights the fact that algorithms are not immune to bias when they are designed by humans. Obviously I don’t think this bias is intentional, but so much of it isn’t and happens anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Mugshots</title><url>https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>&gt; could Amazon or a tech administering it be liable for someone falsely imprisoned?<p>I would wager &quot;absolutely not&quot; for the exact same issue as firearms or cars. The person who mis-applied the technology or a middle man vendor though? Unless they fall under qualified immunity, there&#x27;s your fall guy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dfundako</author><text>I think a fun thought exercise is finding the fine line between tech and guns&#x2F;alcohol&#x2F;cars. You cannot sue a gun&#x2F;car&#x2F;alcohol manufacturer if their product is used to injure someone because it functioned as designed but was used maliciously. How does that legal precedent work when extrapolated to tech and something like facial recognition? If it worked exactly as designed and we know it has a margin of error (or can be used improperly and have disastrous results, like a car or gun), could Amazon or a tech administering it be liable for someone falsely imprisoned?</text></item><item><author>alphabettsy</author><text>Some commenters here mentioned they may have setup the test incorrectly and that may be, but I think the problem this highlights most is that technology used improperly, especially by law enforcement can have major ramifications and consequences. Is the contractor that makes software for your local department going to follow best practices and have the algorithm audited by experts? Will they release the code? Those are real considerations for any program that has the potential to help ruin someone’s life.<p>It also possibly highlights the fact that algorithms are not immune to bias when they are designed by humans. Obviously I don’t think this bias is intentional, but so much of it isn’t and happens anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Mugshots</title><url>https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28</url></story> |
26,368,331 | 26,367,630 | 1 | 2 | 26,367,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nojvek</author><text>I 100% agree with some of the trends you mentioned<p>1) lightweight isolated computation - VMs, containers and the lot.<p>2) asynchronous io - user space green threads, epoll, event loops and the likes to have single OS process handle 1000s of connections<p>3) distributed - scale up compute + have it run close to user. Cloudflare workers, edge@lambda, fly.io. They’re all moving to this direction.<p>4) polyglot micro services - rather than one big thing written in a single language, many small things that talk to each other via HTTP &amp; grpc. They can be independently changed and scaled up without having to restart the whole system.<p>Erlang + webassembly are a great fit for this paradigm.<p>Seeing the success of fly.io, Cloudflare workers and other cloud providers, this definitely has legs and I would love to try it out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssembly Platform</title><text>Hi HN! We’re Bernard &amp; Hrvoje and we are Lunatic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lunatic.solutions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lunatic.solutions&#x2F;</a>). Our goal is to improve how you run server-side code by building an open-source runtime that gives you lightweight processes, fault tolerance, and capability-based security for different parts of the application. Basically, we want to combine the power of Erlang with WebAssembly and bring that to new and existing applications.<p>The two of us met in high school, studied computer science together, but then went separate ways working as backend engineers. Bernard worked at CERN and Hrvoje co-founded Amodo, an insurance tech startup. Bernard, being a huge fan of Erlang&#x2F;Elixir, started working on a similar open-source runtime for WebAssembly which he called Lunatic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunatic-solutions&#x2F;lunatic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunatic-solutions&#x2F;lunatic</a>).<p>Lunatic runs Wasm modules as lightweight processes with its own heap&#x2F;stack and preemptively schedules them on a multi-threaded executor. You can spawn those processes using a library we provide (currently for Rust and AssemblyScript) to enable actor-based architectures with message passing. Scheduling is implemented by modifying a Wasm module and adding “reduction counts” (similar to Erlang). You can write seemingly blocking code but it won’t actually block the underlying OS thread as our implementation of WebAssembly System Interface (WASI, think of it as POSIX syscalls) will be implemented with async Rust and a bit of magic [0] :) The code is JIT’ed and we build on top of existing Wasm runtimes Wasmtime&#x2F;Wasmer for this part (codegen is done by LLVM or Cranelift).<p>To step back from technical details, working on Lunatic for the past few months, we have started to form a bigger picture about server-side applications. Over the years we have witnessed many trends: Docker &amp; containers became popular, asynchronous programming and green threads are ubiquitous for IO intense work, polyglot codebases are always present, microservice architecture became popular, and distributed is being used both for scale and to bring computation closer to clients to lower latency. Two important driving forces are hardware capabilities and how we develop software. Those have changed dramatically from the time operating systems were created.<p>For example, to maximize resource usage of a single machine, we started running virtual machines and then moved to more lightweight containers, both to give isolation and sandboxing to different applications. Serverless is pushing this even further. Lunatic builds on top of WebAssembly security principles [1] to give sandboxing and isolation to enable even more lightweight environments.<p>Servers also needed to handle more and more network connections and spawning an OS thread per connection became problematic so developers used different programming patterns, async implementations, or user-space threads&#x2F;processes to tackle this problem. Lunatic solves this by using Erlang’s proven approach [2].<p>How we develop software has also changed. Today most of our application consists of third-party libraries and it’s common to have hundreds or even thousands of dependencies and obviously it’s impossible to audit them all. When you compile and run your application, the whole code has the same privileges, so a malicious dependency could easily steal your private keys.[3,4,5] WebAssembly is trying to standardise ideas like Interface Types and dynamic linking between Wasm modules. We could isolate libraries into different modules based on capabilities they require (which “system calls” they use) and let developers decide which parts of their app have what capabilities.<p>Other use-cases that Lunatic and Wasm enable are plugin architecture to run third-party code, sharing code between frontend and backend, polyglot codebases that use Wasm interface types to call each other functions, etc.<p>Currently Lunatic is just a runtime but ultimately we want it to be more like an operating system for server-side applications. The value we want to give to developers is simpler deployment and management of running apps, better capability-based security model, and seamless integration with third-party tools (logging, monitoring, profiling). Ideally all you need to do is compile your app to WebAssembly and you are ready to go.<p>We have built two demo apps to showcase Lunatic. Lunatic.run (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lunatic.solutions&#x2F;run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lunatic.solutions&#x2F;run&#x2F;</a>) turns any command line application into a web server endpoint. Read HTTP requests from stdin and respond to stdout. The other is Lunatic.chat, a telnet chat server written in Rust using actor-based architecture (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunatic-solutions&#x2F;chat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunatic-solutions&#x2F;chat</a>).<p>We are super excited to work on these problems and we hope we have managed to convey some of that excitement to you. Please share with us your thoughts and questions. Does our big picture resonate with you? Would you like to use a runtime like Lunatic? Do you have some other use-cases in mind?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;async-wormhole" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;async-wormhole</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webassembly.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;security&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webassembly.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;security&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoenixframework.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoenixframework.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-road-to-2-million-...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26087064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26087064</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jordan-wright.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;2020-11-12-hunting-for-malicious-packages-on-pypi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jordan-wright.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;2020-11-12-hunting-for-m...</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snyk.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;yet-another-malicious-package-found-in-npm-targeting-cryptocurrency-wallets&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snyk.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;yet-another-malicious-package-found-in-...</a></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>maxmcd</author><text>Hey, I tried to build something like this too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;embly&#x2F;embly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;embly&#x2F;embly</a><p>My takeaway after building that is that the build tooling is the major pain point. If you&#x27;re trying to onboard someone onto this platform from their favorite language the hard part is getting from code to the .wasm file. wasm-bindgen (as an example) has put so much effort into build tooling, I wonder if that&#x27;s a necessary path for success here. (edit: this also might be out of date, maybe wasi solves a lot of this)<p>It&#x27;s also great that WASI exists now, if I had to do embly again I&#x27;d just use wasi and then implement all of my &quot;platform&quot; features as filesystem features, not syscalls. If your API interface is the filesystem then you could provide interoperability between environments. Let&#x27;s say you want to include a key-value store in the wasi runtime, you just make the keys files and the values file contents. Then you could so something like ship a FUSE filesystem to interact with the filesystem in the same way from a traditional VM or on a personal computer. I got really bogged down in custom syscalls and this path seems potentially more elegant.<p>Have you also thought about live process migration? I got really excited about this from a technical standpoint. Since you completely control the runtime you could set up a clustered wasm solution that moves long running processes from VM to VM by sending their live memory state to another machine. Not sure if that&#x27;s actually useful, but cool that it&#x27;s not bogged down by the usual complexities of doing the same in a full OS environment.<p>Anyway, so glad to see this. Please make a cloud platform and let me pay for it. Also happy to chat more if any of this is useful, I&#x27;ve joined your discord as &quot;max&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssembly Platform</title><text>Hi HN! We’re Bernard &amp; Hrvoje and we are Lunatic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lunatic.solutions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lunatic.solutions&#x2F;</a>). Our goal is to improve how you run server-side code by building an open-source runtime that gives you lightweight processes, fault tolerance, and capability-based security for different parts of the application. Basically, we want to combine the power of Erlang with WebAssembly and bring that to new and existing applications.<p>The two of us met in high school, studied computer science together, but then went separate ways working as backend engineers. Bernard worked at CERN and Hrvoje co-founded Amodo, an insurance tech startup. Bernard, being a huge fan of Erlang&#x2F;Elixir, started working on a similar open-source runtime for WebAssembly which he called Lunatic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunatic-solutions&#x2F;lunatic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunatic-solutions&#x2F;lunatic</a>).<p>Lunatic runs Wasm modules as lightweight processes with its own heap&#x2F;stack and preemptively schedules them on a multi-threaded executor. You can spawn those processes using a library we provide (currently for Rust and AssemblyScript) to enable actor-based architectures with message passing. Scheduling is implemented by modifying a Wasm module and adding “reduction counts” (similar to Erlang). You can write seemingly blocking code but it won’t actually block the underlying OS thread as our implementation of WebAssembly System Interface (WASI, think of it as POSIX syscalls) will be implemented with async Rust and a bit of magic [0] :) The code is JIT’ed and we build on top of existing Wasm runtimes Wasmtime&#x2F;Wasmer for this part (codegen is done by LLVM or Cranelift).<p>To step back from technical details, working on Lunatic for the past few months, we have started to form a bigger picture about server-side applications. Over the years we have witnessed many trends: Docker &amp; containers became popular, asynchronous programming and green threads are ubiquitous for IO intense work, polyglot codebases are always present, microservice architecture became popular, and distributed is being used both for scale and to bring computation closer to clients to lower latency. Two important driving forces are hardware capabilities and how we develop software. Those have changed dramatically from the time operating systems were created.<p>For example, to maximize resource usage of a single machine, we started running virtual machines and then moved to more lightweight containers, both to give isolation and sandboxing to different applications. Serverless is pushing this even further. Lunatic builds on top of WebAssembly security principles [1] to give sandboxing and isolation to enable even more lightweight environments.<p>Servers also needed to handle more and more network connections and spawning an OS thread per connection became problematic so developers used different programming patterns, async implementations, or user-space threads&#x2F;processes to tackle this problem. Lunatic solves this by using Erlang’s proven approach [2].<p>How we develop software has also changed. Today most of our application consists of third-party libraries and it’s common to have hundreds or even thousands of dependencies and obviously it’s impossible to audit them all. When you compile and run your application, the whole code has the same privileges, so a malicious dependency could easily steal your private keys.[3,4,5] WebAssembly is trying to standardise ideas like Interface Types and dynamic linking between Wasm modules. We could isolate libraries into different modules based on capabilities they require (which “system calls” they use) and let developers decide which parts of their app have what capabilities.<p>Other use-cases that Lunatic and Wasm enable are plugin architecture to run third-party code, sharing code between frontend and backend, polyglot codebases that use Wasm interface types to call each other functions, etc.<p>Currently Lunatic is just a runtime but ultimately we want it to be more like an operating system for server-side applications. The value we want to give to developers is simpler deployment and management of running apps, better capability-based security model, and seamless integration with third-party tools (logging, monitoring, profiling). Ideally all you need to do is compile your app to WebAssembly and you are ready to go.<p>We have built two demo apps to showcase Lunatic. Lunatic.run (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lunatic.solutions&#x2F;run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lunatic.solutions&#x2F;run&#x2F;</a>) turns any command line application into a web server endpoint. Read HTTP requests from stdin and respond to stdout. The other is Lunatic.chat, a telnet chat server written in Rust using actor-based architecture (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunatic-solutions&#x2F;chat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunatic-solutions&#x2F;chat</a>).<p>We are super excited to work on these problems and we hope we have managed to convey some of that excitement to you. Please share with us your thoughts and questions. Does our big picture resonate with you? Would you like to use a runtime like Lunatic? Do you have some other use-cases in mind?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;async-wormhole" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;async-wormhole</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webassembly.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;security&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webassembly.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;security&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoenixframework.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoenixframework.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-road-to-2-million-...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26087064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26087064</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jordan-wright.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;2020-11-12-hunting-for-malicious-packages-on-pypi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jordan-wright.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;2020-11-12-hunting-for-m...</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snyk.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;yet-another-malicious-package-found-in-npm-targeting-cryptocurrency-wallets&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snyk.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;yet-another-malicious-package-found-in-...</a></text></story> |
22,387,469 | 22,387,625 | 1 | 2 | 22,386,440 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codegeek</author><text>&quot;isn&#x27;t just bad for the poor. It&#x27;s bad for everyone&quot;<p>Thank you for saying that. I am amazed at how so many people don&#x27;t see and understand this. It is not just about Cost which is insane alright. It is about the BS we have to go through after a visit to a doctor or hospital. I am scared about the type of bills and claim fights I have to do if I visit a doc. Not because I cannot afford it necessarily. But because I have to spend may be like 5 hours calling doctor&#x27;s offices, insurance admins, billing departments and what not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beat</author><text>This is where I think political leaders (Democrat or Republican) could do really well. It&#x27;s not just making sure people are covered. It&#x27;s the existential dread of dealing with opaque, unpredictable, and incomprehensible bureaucracy that can make life-and-death decisions or drop financially crippling bills in your lap, <i>even if you have good insurance</i>. The American health care system isn&#x27;t just bad for the poor. It&#x27;s bad for everyone. We just can&#x27;t deal with it, because we are exposed directly to unnecessary complexity.<p>But the fact that the people with money and good insurance are suffering from the system as well as the poor seems to be lost on Democrats, and the Republicans are just paralyzed by the whole idea of fixing health care. It&#x27;s a massive political failure for both parties.</text></item><item><author>onemoresoop</author><text>I&#x27;m paying nearly 20k (parents+child) on insurance I don&#x27;t have time to use (and luckily no serious need) and once my son went to see his pediatrician and our &#x27;private&#x27; insurance company (that i&#x27;m not going to name) sent us bill of $500, for a check-up. We disputed the charge with the insurance and they agreed to wave the payment next month. Next month comes and guess what? The same letter comes in mail. We disputed it again and again the month after when the bill was sent to us the third time. This is been happening for 6 months and don&#x27;t take it seriously anymore, I don&#x27;t have time to waste. I realize that a lot of money goes to waste on a system that is not working even if you&#x27;re paying a lot. It is utterly broken. Downright revolting. And on top of it I get a better deal if I use no insurance at all for prescriptions. Then what am I paying for? Emergencies? I am paying nearly 20k a year for possible emergencies? It&#x27;s become so complicated that nothing can be reasoned about it, this is a monster that has to be killed with fire then drowned in deep waters.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sjg007</author><text>One problem is that a bunch of folks have gold platinum private insurance. Things like $0 copays, no co-insurance etc... A lot of that was union negotiated. Some high end jobs have similar perks.<p>Regular rank and file workers use to have HMOs but those plans have given way to HSAs and PPOs. PPOs were advertised as doctor choice but that&#x27;s really misleading, all they really do is increase your out of pocket. For a condition that can&#x27;t be handled in network within a reasonable distance of your house then the HMO insurer has to allow out of network access. HSAs are a great deal if you don&#x27;t get sick, are rich or can put money in them... but if you need health care they aren&#x27;t so good since the out of pocket is high.<p>If we don&#x27;t get a public option or Medicare for all then I think HSAs will be the future, basically pushing insurance as catastrophic care with some legally mandated primary care covered by default (with a copay).<p>At least with a $25k deductible you generally won&#x27;t go bankrupt and you just have to imagine paying off that imaginary new car for 5 years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beat</author><text>This is where I think political leaders (Democrat or Republican) could do really well. It&#x27;s not just making sure people are covered. It&#x27;s the existential dread of dealing with opaque, unpredictable, and incomprehensible bureaucracy that can make life-and-death decisions or drop financially crippling bills in your lap, <i>even if you have good insurance</i>. The American health care system isn&#x27;t just bad for the poor. It&#x27;s bad for everyone. We just can&#x27;t deal with it, because we are exposed directly to unnecessary complexity.<p>But the fact that the people with money and good insurance are suffering from the system as well as the poor seems to be lost on Democrats, and the Republicans are just paralyzed by the whole idea of fixing health care. It&#x27;s a massive political failure for both parties.</text></item><item><author>onemoresoop</author><text>I&#x27;m paying nearly 20k (parents+child) on insurance I don&#x27;t have time to use (and luckily no serious need) and once my son went to see his pediatrician and our &#x27;private&#x27; insurance company (that i&#x27;m not going to name) sent us bill of $500, for a check-up. We disputed the charge with the insurance and they agreed to wave the payment next month. Next month comes and guess what? The same letter comes in mail. We disputed it again and again the month after when the bill was sent to us the third time. This is been happening for 6 months and don&#x27;t take it seriously anymore, I don&#x27;t have time to waste. I realize that a lot of money goes to waste on a system that is not working even if you&#x27;re paying a lot. It is utterly broken. Downright revolting. And on top of it I get a better deal if I use no insurance at all for prescriptions. Then what am I paying for? Emergencies? I am paying nearly 20k a year for possible emergencies? It&#x27;s become so complicated that nothing can be reasoned about it, this is a monster that has to be killed with fire then drowned in deep waters.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext</url></story> |
12,771,778 | 12,771,833 | 1 | 2 | 12,771,406 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevhito</author><text>I agree with this. But research isn&#x27;t everything. And there are at least some hints and signs that this person doesn&#x27;t know how to get along with colleagues.<p>&gt; I worked really hard to bring an exciting and rigorous operating systems class to UB.<p>Why did this effort require working &quot;really hard&quot;? Was it because of obstructionist, jealous, or stupid colleagues? Or people who wanted a boring and unrigourous course instead? Or were there perhaps legitimate reasons why others didn&#x27;t want to change the existing course?<p>&gt; I led a complete overhaul of our department’s undergraduate computer science curriculum. It includes two new exciting introductory programming courses that I spent a great deal of time designing.<p>Let me guess: the existing curriculum was terrible, boring, not at all rigorous, and there was no reason to keep any of it, and the author made sure everyone knew it. And why did the author have to spend a great deal of time? Because no one else in the department was capable of doing as good a job? Because nobody else could comprehend this grand vision?<p>Everything listed under &quot;speaking out&quot; gives me the same vibe. It doesn&#x27;t seem to have crossed this person&#x27;s mind that there are reasons why other people have different approaches to teaching, research, administration, hiring, etc., beyond others being obstructionist, brainwashed, or just stupid. I&#x27;m reminded of the parable reminding us [1] to not take down a fence until we have truly understood why the fence was erected in the first place.<p>And really... bringing a dog to work in violation of a clearly stated campus policy, repeatedly, even after having been warned, then encouraging a student petition and getting your name in a local paper about the incident? That&#x27;s just asking for trouble.<p>(Full disclosure: I&#x27;m coming up for tenure myself, and one lesson it has taken me 5 years to understand is that people who disagree with me on campus aren&#x27;t doing so out of spite, stupidity, or carelessness, they often just have different priorities than I do. Just because our department absolutely needs more resources to do a good job handling our rapidly growing student population, doesn&#x27;t mean the college should make this a priority over other things.)<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chesterton.org&#x2F;taking-a-fence-down&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chesterton.org&#x2F;taking-a-fence-down&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>code_sardaukar</author><text>I read the whole article and it&#x27;s very hard to judge the correctness of most of the article&#x27;s claims. Most importantly, it&#x27;s hard to judge the most important thing: the author&#x27;s own research.<p>However, I can say that there are different ways to interpret things. The author sees tenure as a way to establish obedience to the unwritten rules of the department. Based on my knowledge of academia, including friends who were granted tenure, the process is mostly fair, but of course most people are going to want to do everything they can to maximize their chances. What the author interprets as proving obedience, I interpret as not wasting time on things the committee can&#x27;t measure objectively, or doing things that might piss off people on the committee.<p>As someone in industry, I see academia as somewhere where people can make immense contributions to human knowledge, that cannot be done elsewhere, but they have to jump through certain hoops to do so. Outside of academia there is very little opportunity to do research. Industry is conservative, and prefers to implement and refine known techniques.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Best Way to Not Get Tenure</title><url>https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu/posts/2016-10-22-the-best-way-to-not-get-tenure/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>&gt;What the author interprets as proving obedience, I interpret as not wasting time on things the committee can&#x27;t measure objectively, or doing things that might piss off people on the committee.<p>I&#x27;d be astonished if any academic committee in any university anywhere in the world had any idea how to measure the value of research objectively.<p>As for not pissing people off - I&#x27;d imagine it&#x27;s impossibly hard to do truly original research without pissing at least some people off. There will be petty jealousies, back-biting, gossip, and all the usual nonsense. Too much, too soon, and hackles will be raised.<p>It&#x27;s very sad. Academia seems to have become stifling rather than expansive.<p>My working definition of organisational dysfunction is when politics and status become primary motivators, and quality of output - and pride in that quality - become secondary.<p>From the outside, that seems more true of academia now than it should be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>code_sardaukar</author><text>I read the whole article and it&#x27;s very hard to judge the correctness of most of the article&#x27;s claims. Most importantly, it&#x27;s hard to judge the most important thing: the author&#x27;s own research.<p>However, I can say that there are different ways to interpret things. The author sees tenure as a way to establish obedience to the unwritten rules of the department. Based on my knowledge of academia, including friends who were granted tenure, the process is mostly fair, but of course most people are going to want to do everything they can to maximize their chances. What the author interprets as proving obedience, I interpret as not wasting time on things the committee can&#x27;t measure objectively, or doing things that might piss off people on the committee.<p>As someone in industry, I see academia as somewhere where people can make immense contributions to human knowledge, that cannot be done elsewhere, but they have to jump through certain hoops to do so. Outside of academia there is very little opportunity to do research. Industry is conservative, and prefers to implement and refine known techniques.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Best Way to Not Get Tenure</title><url>https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu/posts/2016-10-22-the-best-way-to-not-get-tenure/</url></story> |
11,766,919 | 11,766,853 | 1 | 2 | 11,766,621 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MichaelBurge</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t matter. You don&#x27;t need logical certainty(&quot;If you violate the law, you will be punished&quot;), just some statistical possibility(&quot;If you violate the law, there&#x27;s a small chance you might be punished&quot;).<p>The small chance that someone somewhere might file a lawsuit against you could be enough to frighten future Gawkers, which protects even the small-time people who can&#x27;t afford their own lawsuits.<p>And if some Gawker executive says to himself, &quot;Let&#x27;s do a risk assessment on this person to see if he&#x27;s likely to get outside support to fight back.&quot; Well, there&#x27;s now the risk of leaving a paper trail demonstrating intent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>&gt; but Gawker seems to very clearly be in the wrong here<p>That&#x27;s not really relevant to my point. Even if Gawker was completely wrong to do what they did, why did Thiel pick that case to donate to? Plenty of people file lawsuits just as valid as Hulk Hogan&#x27;s every day. Or why didn&#x27;t he file an amicus curiae? This is clearly an attempt to destroy press he has a grudge against, which is alarming even if the specific lawsuit he picked was a valid one and the defendants were &quot;Gawker bloggers&quot;. Look at the bigger picture.</text></item><item><author>DKnoll</author><text>Please do not equate publishing the sex tape of an unwitting victim with freedom of the press... or Gawker bloggers with journalists, for that matter.<p>I don&#x27;t agree or disagree with your statements about Thiel as I don&#x27;t know enough about him to form an opinion, but Gawker seems to very clearly be in the wrong here. If Thiel in any way helped justice to be served here, for whatever motive, good on him.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>(Reposting here since I&#x27;m not sure which submission on new is going to &quot;win&quot;)<p>Sure does make this line in Thiel&#x27;s Wikipedia page a bit awkward: &quot;The Thiel Foundation is also a supporter of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which promotes the right of journalists to report the news freely without fear of reprisal&quot; Oh, but I&#x27;m sure this wasn&#x27;t reprisal against Gawker (and specifically Valleywag, which was always extremely critical of libertarian VC techbros in general and Thiel in particular), he was just so moved by the plight of a pro wrestler suffering immensely from a leaked sex tape.<p>Look, I&#x27;ll get out in front of people accusing me of bias and just say it: I&#x27;ve always hated Thiel. I hate his politics, the behavior of <i>several</i> of the companies he founded, and his smarmy &quot;drop out of college!&quot; advice. But even if you don&#x27;t share my bile, you should be deeply disturbed by the fact that at least one Silicon Valley billionaire is talking about freedom and innovation with one side of his mouth, while using his money to try and destroy insufficiently sycophantic press outlets. We&#x27;re moving ever-closer to a world where our industry leaders are not very distinguishable from 19th century robber barons (maybe not to you, but increasingly to the general public)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#fa8140778057</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DKnoll</author><text>I am looking at the bigger picture, and what I see is that those who wield extraordinary power, whether it be financial, political or otherwise, rarely use it purely in defense of the &#x27;greater good.&#x27; However, sometimes their pragmatism serves it by coincidence and I&#x27;m willing to celebrate when that happens.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>&gt; but Gawker seems to very clearly be in the wrong here<p>That&#x27;s not really relevant to my point. Even if Gawker was completely wrong to do what they did, why did Thiel pick that case to donate to? Plenty of people file lawsuits just as valid as Hulk Hogan&#x27;s every day. Or why didn&#x27;t he file an amicus curiae? This is clearly an attempt to destroy press he has a grudge against, which is alarming even if the specific lawsuit he picked was a valid one and the defendants were &quot;Gawker bloggers&quot;. Look at the bigger picture.</text></item><item><author>DKnoll</author><text>Please do not equate publishing the sex tape of an unwitting victim with freedom of the press... or Gawker bloggers with journalists, for that matter.<p>I don&#x27;t agree or disagree with your statements about Thiel as I don&#x27;t know enough about him to form an opinion, but Gawker seems to very clearly be in the wrong here. If Thiel in any way helped justice to be served here, for whatever motive, good on him.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>(Reposting here since I&#x27;m not sure which submission on new is going to &quot;win&quot;)<p>Sure does make this line in Thiel&#x27;s Wikipedia page a bit awkward: &quot;The Thiel Foundation is also a supporter of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which promotes the right of journalists to report the news freely without fear of reprisal&quot; Oh, but I&#x27;m sure this wasn&#x27;t reprisal against Gawker (and specifically Valleywag, which was always extremely critical of libertarian VC techbros in general and Thiel in particular), he was just so moved by the plight of a pro wrestler suffering immensely from a leaked sex tape.<p>Look, I&#x27;ll get out in front of people accusing me of bias and just say it: I&#x27;ve always hated Thiel. I hate his politics, the behavior of <i>several</i> of the companies he founded, and his smarmy &quot;drop out of college!&quot; advice. But even if you don&#x27;t share my bile, you should be deeply disturbed by the fact that at least one Silicon Valley billionaire is talking about freedom and innovation with one side of his mouth, while using his money to try and destroy insufficiently sycophantic press outlets. We&#x27;re moving ever-closer to a world where our industry leaders are not very distinguishable from 19th century robber barons (maybe not to you, but increasingly to the general public)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#fa8140778057</url></story> |
27,741,482 | 27,741,384 | 1 | 3 | 27,739,499 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>What are the practical applications of gravitational wave research?</i><p>Currently, not much. We’re Galileo grinding lenses at home.<p>Theoretically? Everything from a whole new mode of active sensing, <i>e.g.</i> deep into the Earth and&#x2F;or Sun, all the way to communications. Being able to directly measure gravity also lets us do new classes of experiments (not yet, but if we can measure more sensitively). We don’t know what we don’t know when it comes to gravity, so that’s another pot of potential.<p>Less fantastically, these are immensely precise instruments. The manufacturing methods and know how will almost certainly translate to other domains.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hnrobert42</author><text>What are the practical applications of gravitational wave research? Or is it purely basic science for now?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/european-plan-gigantic-new-gravitational-wave-detector-passes-milestone</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonh</author><text>The several already existing gravitational wave detectors have already detected signals believed to come from black hole-black hole, black hole-neutron star and neutron star-neutron star mergers.<p>Using the time delta between detecting the same events at different detectors around the globe, we have inferred the directions the signals are coming from.<p>The intensity curves of the events tell us details about the masses and other characteristics of the colliding object. Also over time the distribution of their masses and other characteristics will give us information about the populations and distribution of these objects, which can help validate our theories of star, neutron star, black hole and galaxy formation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hnrobert42</author><text>What are the practical applications of gravitational wave research? Or is it purely basic science for now?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/european-plan-gigantic-new-gravitational-wave-detector-passes-milestone</url></story> |
21,482,108 | 21,481,539 | 1 | 3 | 21,480,590 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mfer</author><text>You deserve an award for best &quot;Get Off My Lawn&quot; post of the day. Thank you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>s9w</author><text>Software getting worse, just out of my head:<p>- VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler)<p>- Firefox &quot;new&quot; extension API still means you can&#x27;t remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks<p>- Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And now started showing a glowing red &quot;error&quot; because I &quot;only&quot; have a Pro account and no business account (when using 0,4% of my storage). Also they still have no way of ignoring folders.<p>- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware just jumped the shark two (?) years ago with its redesign. It was so good back then<p>- Skype is being almost completely unusable. Still popular because of the name unfortunately<p>- Imgur is a joke and became what it was literally founded to avoid<p>- The new Reddit layout is borderline unusable. They will lose the rest of the core users when they disable the old. subdomain<p>- Teamviewer. How is it possible that such an program is not backwards compatible between versions? Everytime I want to use it it&#x27;s a dance to quickly delete&#x2F;find&#x2F;install a version that the other side has<p>- I don&#x27;t understand how the &quot;modern&quot; Windows start menu works they introduced in Win 8 I think. Luckily everyone I know uses classicshell<p>- Phones have gotten almost to the point of being unusable. The latency, audio quality, skipping and hearing your own voice made me avoid phone conversations for years now. Even landlines are all digital and horribly compressed. Humanity had that one nailed in the 60s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Updates</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2224/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Neil44</author><text>The TeamViewer thing will be deliberate, because they’ve sold a load of perpetual licenses for older versions so incompatibility is how they get more money out of you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>s9w</author><text>Software getting worse, just out of my head:<p>- VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler)<p>- Firefox &quot;new&quot; extension API still means you can&#x27;t remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks<p>- Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And now started showing a glowing red &quot;error&quot; because I &quot;only&quot; have a Pro account and no business account (when using 0,4% of my storage). Also they still have no way of ignoring folders.<p>- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware just jumped the shark two (?) years ago with its redesign. It was so good back then<p>- Skype is being almost completely unusable. Still popular because of the name unfortunately<p>- Imgur is a joke and became what it was literally founded to avoid<p>- The new Reddit layout is borderline unusable. They will lose the rest of the core users when they disable the old. subdomain<p>- Teamviewer. How is it possible that such an program is not backwards compatible between versions? Everytime I want to use it it&#x27;s a dance to quickly delete&#x2F;find&#x2F;install a version that the other side has<p>- I don&#x27;t understand how the &quot;modern&quot; Windows start menu works they introduced in Win 8 I think. Luckily everyone I know uses classicshell<p>- Phones have gotten almost to the point of being unusable. The latency, audio quality, skipping and hearing your own voice made me avoid phone conversations for years now. Even landlines are all digital and horribly compressed. Humanity had that one nailed in the 60s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Updates</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2224/</url></story> |
21,231,427 | 21,231,395 | 1 | 3 | 21,231,191 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Teever</author><text>Can I ask you why you have this particular hope?<p>Is it because you are a user of apple products and hope that you will continue to do so in the future because you are dependent on them?<p>Is it because you believe that apple is a good company and you hope for the best for them?<p>Why should we hope for the best for a company that has made hundreds of billions off of offshoring jobs to an authoritarian country with little regard for investing in manufacturing in America?<p>The way I see it is that if China decides to squeeze Apple by restricting their production it will be a fair comeuppance for a company that has seen fit to extract billions in wealth from developers through their app store and has sought to turn their commodity hardware into status symbols to extract even more wealth from middle class people who want to feel like they&#x27;re more than middle class.<p>If the executives at Apple had any foresight and any interest beyond self interest they would have encouraged domestic production a decade or more ago. Instead we have a situation where people are crying for poor Apple, a company who that has more money than god and who could have used that to create their own supply chain domestically which would have had tremendous benefits for America and the American people.<p>Instead they have chose to consort and ultimately enable an authoritarian country into a situation where they now pose a legitimate threat both militarily and culturally to America, the albeit flawed but last best hope for freedom in the world.<p>Think different indeed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mokash</author><text>Apple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think the bigger issue is manufacturing: if they piss China off they won’t have anything to sell, anywhere! I’m sure Apple execs know this and I hope they’re quickly planning to reduce, if not remove this dependency.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/apple-china-tv-protesters-hong-kong-tim-cook</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjeaff</author><text>It&#x27;s mind boggling to me that Apple has become so big, and a huge majority of their revenue is still coming from outsourced products.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mokash</author><text>Apple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think the bigger issue is manufacturing: if they piss China off they won’t have anything to sell, anywhere! I’m sure Apple execs know this and I hope they’re quickly planning to reduce, if not remove this dependency.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/apple-china-tv-protesters-hong-kong-tim-cook</url></story> |
31,359,106 | 31,358,903 | 1 | 3 | 31,356,579 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MattyMc</author><text>&gt; What real math is involved in predicting the stock market?<p>I have a MSC in Statistics, studied quantitative finance. Generally I&#x27;d agree with you. For general investing there&#x27;s often little math involved other than some simple ratios and comparisons. Three numbers I look at most often are the Price-to-Sales ratio, Gross Profit %, and annual revenue growth. There&#x27;s no complex math involved here at all.<p>Where investing does get mathy is in calculating risk. When constructing a portfolio, generally the aim is to maximize returns while minimizing risk below some threshold. There is some very interesting and fun maths involved in this process that is beyond the scope of general investing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>UnpossibleJim</author><text>I will preface this statement by stating that I know nothing about the stock market and let my retirement account be handled by an investor...<p>What real math is involved in predicting the stock market? I understand there is a lot of theory behind TRYING to predict it, just as there is a lot of study in trying to predict trends in the stock market, which is why you are better off investing in groups of stocks as opposed to a singled stock (there you go, that&#x27;s the grand total of what I know about the stock market). But so far as shorting stocks (betting that they&#x27;ll fall) and buying stocks (betting that they&#x27;ll rise), there isn&#x27;t much real math, is there? Isn&#x27;t it all just a gamble? Not even a statistical gamble, like dice or cards, but a public market analysis with the uncertainty of public trading and public sentiment thrown in, not to mention the hope of government bailouts on occasion?<p>I don&#x27;t see a huge amount of difference in crypto except for physical assets, which don&#x27;t cover the stock price for public companies, generally.<p>Now, how horribly wrong am I? I&#x27;m willing to admit I missed the mark, entirely as I don&#x27;t understand trading. That&#x27;s what my broker does.</text></item><item><author>IAmWorried</author><text>It&#x27;s less that I&#x27;m glad the market is crashing, and more that I&#x27;m glad that the insufferable crypto bros are finally getting a punch to the mouth. Seriously, these people are the worst. Your average &quot;crypto investor&quot; has no skills, no mathematical foundations, nothing. Except for pure stupid luck, and the ability to spew inane crypto babble 24&#x2F;7. And yes, they think they are much smarter than you, because they achieved better financial results than you did while only doing 1&#x2F;1000 of the work to get there. I truly hate the fact that these people are so rich. It makes me want to move to Alaska and just try to ignore society for the rest of my days.<p>This came off as pretty bitter. I apologize, but I am bitter, and I&#x27;m having a shit couple weeks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?</title><text>Obviously it&#x27;s bad if people lose their entire life savings and all that dead horse beating disclaimer stuff.<p>I fancy myself as a somewhat esoteric idea person, and so when I first discovered cryptocurrency a few years ago, I was very excited to explore the mind bending ways we can build __NEW__ things.<p>Instead, JPEGs and skeuomorphic representations of traditional financial vehicles in web3 space.<p>I&#x27;m hoping this crash and those in the future rid the space of the toxic backrooms these $30,000 jpegs provide access to and get us to collectively work on building really exciting cool new things.<p>What do you all think?</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>epolanski</author><text>&gt; What real math is involved in predicting the stock market?<p>Are we really comparing the two markets?<p>Owning a stock means owning a piece of a business. If you have all the stock in the world, you seized all means of production, good job.<p>If you own all the UnpossibleJimCoins in the world what exactly has changed? Oh but that coin is not <i>insert another coin</i>, it doesn&#x27;t have the consensus&#x2F;cult.</text><parent_chain><item><author>UnpossibleJim</author><text>I will preface this statement by stating that I know nothing about the stock market and let my retirement account be handled by an investor...<p>What real math is involved in predicting the stock market? I understand there is a lot of theory behind TRYING to predict it, just as there is a lot of study in trying to predict trends in the stock market, which is why you are better off investing in groups of stocks as opposed to a singled stock (there you go, that&#x27;s the grand total of what I know about the stock market). But so far as shorting stocks (betting that they&#x27;ll fall) and buying stocks (betting that they&#x27;ll rise), there isn&#x27;t much real math, is there? Isn&#x27;t it all just a gamble? Not even a statistical gamble, like dice or cards, but a public market analysis with the uncertainty of public trading and public sentiment thrown in, not to mention the hope of government bailouts on occasion?<p>I don&#x27;t see a huge amount of difference in crypto except for physical assets, which don&#x27;t cover the stock price for public companies, generally.<p>Now, how horribly wrong am I? I&#x27;m willing to admit I missed the mark, entirely as I don&#x27;t understand trading. That&#x27;s what my broker does.</text></item><item><author>IAmWorried</author><text>It&#x27;s less that I&#x27;m glad the market is crashing, and more that I&#x27;m glad that the insufferable crypto bros are finally getting a punch to the mouth. Seriously, these people are the worst. Your average &quot;crypto investor&quot; has no skills, no mathematical foundations, nothing. Except for pure stupid luck, and the ability to spew inane crypto babble 24&#x2F;7. And yes, they think they are much smarter than you, because they achieved better financial results than you did while only doing 1&#x2F;1000 of the work to get there. I truly hate the fact that these people are so rich. It makes me want to move to Alaska and just try to ignore society for the rest of my days.<p>This came off as pretty bitter. I apologize, but I am bitter, and I&#x27;m having a shit couple weeks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?</title><text>Obviously it&#x27;s bad if people lose their entire life savings and all that dead horse beating disclaimer stuff.<p>I fancy myself as a somewhat esoteric idea person, and so when I first discovered cryptocurrency a few years ago, I was very excited to explore the mind bending ways we can build __NEW__ things.<p>Instead, JPEGs and skeuomorphic representations of traditional financial vehicles in web3 space.<p>I&#x27;m hoping this crash and those in the future rid the space of the toxic backrooms these $30,000 jpegs provide access to and get us to collectively work on building really exciting cool new things.<p>What do you all think?</text></story> |
17,455,220 | 17,454,692 | 1 | 2 | 17,449,475 | 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>mmt</author><text>&gt; The advent of nonvolatile memory is changing the equation, though, and swapping is starting to look interesting again<p>It&#x27;s not clear to me why the <i>nonvolatile</i> part makes any difference to swap. I&#x27;d expect it would make more sense to attach a volatile, RAM-based SSD [1], maybe via PCIe or even once removed via storage fabric.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s just incidental, and it&#x27;s merely price and&#x2F;or capacity that&#x27;s important, considering that it&#x27;s attached via the memory bus.<p>[1] Not that I&#x27;ve ever seen such a product with a high enough capacity for a low enough price. It seems like it could be a way to recycle old and&#x2F;or slow RAM, maybe a startup idea, but I&#x27;m no hardware guy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The final step for huge-page swapping</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/758677/0d004feb1bbc862b/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deckiedan</author><text>All those quoted performance improvements sound great - but what kind of Real World workload or environment would one need to be in to see this in action? Anywhere when swapping? Or does it need to be with special hardware? Would a SSD backed low-memory VM be improved?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The final step for huge-page swapping</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/758677/0d004feb1bbc862b/</url></story> |
2,197,119 | 2,196,948 | 1 | 2 | 2,195,520 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CaptainZapp</author><text><p><pre><code> Locked Phones are the norm in Germany too.
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You forgot to add that this is only the case for subsidized phones. Nobody stops you from going to Media Markt to purchase an <i>unlocked, uncrippled</i> phone for full price.<p>In addition: SIM locked (i.e. only able to use a designated network) is not quite the same as a crippled phone (like in intentionally crippling the Bluetooth stack to force users to use a crappy service to upload photos for a couple bucks a pop).<p>I can't speak for Germany, but in Switzerland the only SIM locked phones are the ones that you buy together with a pre-payed deal. And then they have to unlock it for you after a couple years.<p>Personally I perceive the development of locking down devices as rather disturbing and I really hope that this trend doesn't swap into European mobile phones. That's why, yeah, I feel that Nokia matters a lot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thomasz</author><text>Locked Phones are the norm in Germany too. If this holds true for France too, the vast majority of mobile phones in Europe is being sold locked. I don't know the details about the "illegal" claim, but normally those things are governed by EU laws, making it somewhat hard to believe that contracts common in the UK and Germany would be considered illegal in the Netherlands or Portugal.</text></item><item><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>&#62; Unlocked handsets don't count: almost no one is paying that much for a phone.<p>Most mobile phones in the world are bought unlocked. Carrier-locked phones holding most of the market is an US/UK quirk, and in many European countries, carrier-locked phones like used in the US would actually be illegal.</text></item><item><author>semanticist</author><text>&#62; Yeah, but that's the case with every phone manufacturer.<p>That's exactly my point. In this regard Nokia are not in a special position to stand up to the carriers.<p>Unlocked handsets don't count: almost no one is paying that much for a phone. Even Apple had to accept carrier subsidies for the iPhone to get the end purchase price down.</text></item><item><author>metageek</author><text>&#62;<i>Nokia regularly cripple features, specifically including VoIP, at the demands of carriers. Perhaps not US carriers,</i><p>Oh, definitely in the US—look at the difference between the E71 and the E71x, the AT&#38;T version. The GP was talking about <i>unlocked</i> phones. I have an N86 which I bought on Amazon, and it's got SIP and other features which AT&#38;T would hate me to have.<p>&#62;<i>The carriers were always Nokia's customers, not the consumers</i><p>Yeah, but that's the case with every phone manufacturer.</text></item><item><author>semanticist</author><text>Nokia regularly cripple features, specifically including VoIP, at the demands of carriers. Perhaps not US carriers, but it happened frequently in the UK.<p>I took the calls of people angry that their 'top end' handset couldn't do VoIP because they bought it from Vodafone.<p>The carriers were always Nokia's customers, not the consumers, I can't see how that's going to change.</text></item><item><author>vessenes</author><text>This is an excellent, really excellent call to arms from a new CEO. I have a few takeaways -- first: the board brought Elop in for a four to seven year turn-around. He's going to make enemies, but that's okay. If he executes the turn-around, they'll put someone more finnish back in to sooth the old guard after they're making money again.<p>Second -- this guy has the Microsoft internal criticism DNA, through and through. This isn't quite a Gates-level memo, but it's in the ballpark. I'd love to see some leaks of him reviewing his experience using different phones, Gates style.<p>Third -- he's totally correct. Nokia f-ed this up, all by themselves. I STILL miss my Nokia E-90; it had 7mb up and down, a beautiful keyboard, video chatting, first-class SIP phone account support, and an 840x320 screen in 2007, for God's sake! The UI sucked, the apps weren't there, and there was no touch interface. Apple cleaned Nokia's clock. Then Android did it again.<p>One reason HN readers should care: Nokia is probably the only carrier in the world with the balls to just go ahead and release unlocked phones with things like VOIP accounts built in. They may be the only company who doesn't have to play nice with US carriers around; innovation from them will be excellent for consumers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msh</author><text>I dont know about UK/germany, but in Scandinavia the carrier must unlock the phone for free when the contract is up. The max length of a contract in denmark i 6 months, longer in norway/sweden.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thomasz</author><text>Locked Phones are the norm in Germany too. If this holds true for France too, the vast majority of mobile phones in Europe is being sold locked. I don't know the details about the "illegal" claim, but normally those things are governed by EU laws, making it somewhat hard to believe that contracts common in the UK and Germany would be considered illegal in the Netherlands or Portugal.</text></item><item><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>&#62; Unlocked handsets don't count: almost no one is paying that much for a phone.<p>Most mobile phones in the world are bought unlocked. Carrier-locked phones holding most of the market is an US/UK quirk, and in many European countries, carrier-locked phones like used in the US would actually be illegal.</text></item><item><author>semanticist</author><text>&#62; Yeah, but that's the case with every phone manufacturer.<p>That's exactly my point. In this regard Nokia are not in a special position to stand up to the carriers.<p>Unlocked handsets don't count: almost no one is paying that much for a phone. Even Apple had to accept carrier subsidies for the iPhone to get the end purchase price down.</text></item><item><author>metageek</author><text>&#62;<i>Nokia regularly cripple features, specifically including VoIP, at the demands of carriers. Perhaps not US carriers,</i><p>Oh, definitely in the US—look at the difference between the E71 and the E71x, the AT&#38;T version. The GP was talking about <i>unlocked</i> phones. I have an N86 which I bought on Amazon, and it's got SIP and other features which AT&#38;T would hate me to have.<p>&#62;<i>The carriers were always Nokia's customers, not the consumers</i><p>Yeah, but that's the case with every phone manufacturer.</text></item><item><author>semanticist</author><text>Nokia regularly cripple features, specifically including VoIP, at the demands of carriers. Perhaps not US carriers, but it happened frequently in the UK.<p>I took the calls of people angry that their 'top end' handset couldn't do VoIP because they bought it from Vodafone.<p>The carriers were always Nokia's customers, not the consumers, I can't see how that's going to change.</text></item><item><author>vessenes</author><text>This is an excellent, really excellent call to arms from a new CEO. I have a few takeaways -- first: the board brought Elop in for a four to seven year turn-around. He's going to make enemies, but that's okay. If he executes the turn-around, they'll put someone more finnish back in to sooth the old guard after they're making money again.<p>Second -- this guy has the Microsoft internal criticism DNA, through and through. This isn't quite a Gates-level memo, but it's in the ballpark. I'd love to see some leaks of him reviewing his experience using different phones, Gates style.<p>Third -- he's totally correct. Nokia f-ed this up, all by themselves. I STILL miss my Nokia E-90; it had 7mb up and down, a beautiful keyboard, video chatting, first-class SIP phone account support, and an 840x320 screen in 2007, for God's sake! The UI sucked, the apps weren't there, and there was no touch interface. Apple cleaned Nokia's clock. Then Android did it again.<p>One reason HN readers should care: Nokia is probably the only carrier in the world with the balls to just go ahead and release unlocked phones with things like VOIP accounts built in. They may be the only company who doesn't have to play nice with US carriers around; innovation from them will be excellent for consumers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/</url></story> |
40,731,612 | 40,722,203 | 1 | 2 | 40,718,908 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refset</author><text>Slightly off-topic but CedarDB is extremely exciting. It&#x27;s the commercialization of the widely cited Umbra research DBMS [0] that has been in the works for several years, which benchmarks faster than DuckDB for OLAP [1] whilst simultaneously being really strong for transactional workloads. Also discussed recently here [2].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;umbra-db.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;umbra-db.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cedardb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ode_to_postgres&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cedardb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ode_to_postgres&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40241150">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40241150</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When are SSDs slow?</title><url>https://cedardb.com/blog/ssd_latency/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wmf</author><text>This &quot;non-production mode&quot; has a bad side effect where benchmarks on laptops will be artificially fast and people will &quot;forget&quot; about the data loss disclaimer, just like the bad old days of MongoDB.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When are SSDs slow?</title><url>https://cedardb.com/blog/ssd_latency/</url></story> |
18,822,657 | 18,821,457 | 1 | 2 | 18,819,747 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>continuations</author><text>&gt; Otherwise Apple would be seeing shrinking sales in other regions<p>Apple does see shrinking sales in other regions:<p>&quot;iPhone shipments in India have dropped 40 percent so far in 2018 when compared with 2017&quot;[1]<p>China and India are the 2 largest developing economies in the world. It&#x27;s no surprise that Apple&#x27;s high price strategy has struggled there. Charging $1,000 for a phone might be viable in developed economies, that&#x27;s not the case in developing countries like China &amp; India.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appleinsider.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;18&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;declining-iphone-sales-in-india-is-a-sign-apple-is-failing-to-adapt-its-business" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appleinsider.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;18&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;declining-iphone-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>That&#x27;s part of it, but the bigger issue is China is rapidly slowing down. Otherwise Apple would be seeing shrinking sales in other regions, which according to Cook has not been the case.<p>WSJ today posted this alarming chart of Chinese consumption-tax revenue:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2LzUKrz.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2LzUKrz.png</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;chinas-economic-downturn-takes-the-shine-off-its-resilient-consumers-11546513717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;chinas-economic-downturn-takes-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Priced Itself Out of Shrinking Chinese Smartphone Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-03/apple-priced-itself-out-of-shrinking-chinese-smartphone-market</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PKop</author><text>Why is Huawei doing well then? [0]<p>&quot;Huawei posted 33% global gains y&#x2F;y, versus flat for Apple, and for Q3 in China,
where Apple is reporting struggles, Huawei sales rose 13%. Have rising trade tensions created anti-American Sentiment???&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;quantbond&#x2F;status&#x2F;1080863553454780416" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;quantbond&#x2F;status&#x2F;1080863553454780416</a><p>I think it&#x27;s all about Apple losing share and being overpriced compared to competition, along with Chinese support for Chinese company.<p>A slow down will exacerbate this but as of now huge disparity compared to Huawei.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>That&#x27;s part of it, but the bigger issue is China is rapidly slowing down. Otherwise Apple would be seeing shrinking sales in other regions, which according to Cook has not been the case.<p>WSJ today posted this alarming chart of Chinese consumption-tax revenue:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2LzUKrz.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2LzUKrz.png</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;chinas-economic-downturn-takes-the-shine-off-its-resilient-consumers-11546513717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;chinas-economic-downturn-takes-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Priced Itself Out of Shrinking Chinese Smartphone Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-03/apple-priced-itself-out-of-shrinking-chinese-smartphone-market</url></story> |
30,786,189 | 30,786,219 | 1 | 2 | 30,785,646 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmckn</author><text>I got an Air last spring, and yeah--it is really quick. Though I will say, my workload didn&#x27;t see the sort of absurd speedup that some reviewers ogle about. I also still don&#x27;t have a comfortable dev experience on the M1, because the world just isn&#x27;t ARM-centric (yet). It&#x27;s a great secondary computer, but unless you&#x27;re an Apple developer, you should expect friction.<p>I recently built a 12th-gen Intel workstation for my main dev machine, because x86 is still the path of least resistance for the type of work I do. It&#x27;s got a ton more cores, a higher memory ceiling, and faster storage than the MacBook. I&#x27;d choose this over a Mac Studio, too; because I built it for a third of the price. I love my Macs, but I&#x27;m enjoying linux (again, for the type of work I do). Different strokes, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ketzo</author><text>Man, the M1 Macs are the first piece of tech in a while that I’ve felt myself actively pining over. They just seem… <i>really</i> goddamn fast. Everybody talks about it so glowingly.<p>Hoping I can pick one up soon. I figure the Pro is probably the right move for a developer workload, although I do like the size of the Air.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks</title><url>https://spacedoutandsmiling.com/blog/2021-12-27-nerdy-aws-graviton-vs-m1-vs-m1-pro-nodejsr-benchmarks</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thatswrong0</author><text>Yeah, I&#x27;m completely satisfied. The M1 Pro is definitely the best computer for the money I&#x27;ve purchased, despite it costing an arm and a leg to get more RAM and SSD space.<p>For my workload (music production), and despite still having to run Ableton through Rosetta, it can handle roughly twice as many tracks as my 2018 MBP (which luckily is _not_ something I purchased). All my previous &quot;problem&quot; projects now run perfectly. And this is all while running completely silently and barely getting warm compared to my 2018 MBP, which runs fans full blast and gets super hot if I so much as glance at Ableton. Can&#x27;t say I miss the hiss of the fan when I&#x27;m trying to mix tracks.<p>If the developers of plugins I use all the time ever get their ducks in a row and finally get around to updating them to support native ARM (that&#x27;s the current limiting factor), I imagine it will be even better.<p>Kind of embarrassing that it&#x27;s taking some devs so long.. Steve Duda managed to get Serum updated within a couple months of the original M1 release.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ketzo</author><text>Man, the M1 Macs are the first piece of tech in a while that I’ve felt myself actively pining over. They just seem… <i>really</i> goddamn fast. Everybody talks about it so glowingly.<p>Hoping I can pick one up soon. I figure the Pro is probably the right move for a developer workload, although I do like the size of the Air.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks</title><url>https://spacedoutandsmiling.com/blog/2021-12-27-nerdy-aws-graviton-vs-m1-vs-m1-pro-nodejsr-benchmarks</url></story> |
39,052,157 | 39,049,774 | 1 | 3 | 39,049,217 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gmerc</author><text>As someone who worked on platform and partnership in big tech:<p>Because they smell leverage. Vision Pro adoption has to be subsidized by Apple, there’s no demand. To bootstrap demand popular apps with users need to be available. They have no risk of losing customers to a competitor by not shipping this.<p>So they are building negotiation ammo for a bit for the next round of conversations over platform fees, app review processes, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>By why not let Vision Pro users install the iPad versions of their apps? They&#x27;re explicitly opting out of that!</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Considering most of these companies are in the middle of budget cuts and layoffs (including specifically in the YouTube division), it should be obvious that they aren’t going to be rushing to staff up teams to build an app for an untested device that will probably be in the hands of a few thousand people at launch. “Wait and see” is the best approach right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps</url></story> | <instructions>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>I assume because they haven’t been able to fully test them yet. Better to offer no app than a broken one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>By why not let Vision Pro users install the iPad versions of their apps? They&#x27;re explicitly opting out of that!</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Considering most of these companies are in the middle of budget cuts and layoffs (including specifically in the YouTube division), it should be obvious that they aren’t going to be rushing to staff up teams to build an app for an untested device that will probably be in the hands of a few thousand people at launch. “Wait and see” is the best approach right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps</url></story> |
12,389,379 | 12,389,399 | 1 | 2 | 12,388,486 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to use our Strict mode. We&#x27;ll give you a certificate for the origin for free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;cloudflare-ca-encryption-origin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;cloudflare-ca-encryption-origin&#x2F;</a><p>Or you can bring your own certificate from someone like Let&#x27;s Encrypt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Protection against &quot;passive attacks&quot; is mostly meaningless: if you can observe packets, you can hijack sessions. It&#x27;s only the certificate validation that Cloudflare apparently performs only in &quot;strict&quot; mode that prevents this attack.<p>In particular, the &quot;full&quot; TLS they offer that Hunt is taking advantage of (because he can&#x27;t deploy a working certificate) is grievously insecure: he&#x27;s essentially running his system on top of the equivalent of the &quot;goto fail&quot; vulnerability in Safari that the Internet was (justifiably) freaking out about two years ago.<p>Hunt is smart about a whole lot of things, but he&#x27;s wrong about this. There&#x27;s nothing &quot;unhealthy&quot; about the absolutism here: you either have end-to-end cryptographic security, or you&#x27;re vulnerable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/cloudflare-ssl-and-unhealthy-security-absolutism/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>type0</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s nothing &quot;unhealthy&quot; about the absolutism here: you either have end-to-end cryptographic security, or you&#x27;re vulnerable.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why he talks about absolutism, where this usage basically invalidates the whole point of TLS. This seems like an after-rationalization on why he chose to use CloudFlare, there is much more reasons not to use them. In the end of course it depend on what type of site you use it for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Protection against &quot;passive attacks&quot; is mostly meaningless: if you can observe packets, you can hijack sessions. It&#x27;s only the certificate validation that Cloudflare apparently performs only in &quot;strict&quot; mode that prevents this attack.<p>In particular, the &quot;full&quot; TLS they offer that Hunt is taking advantage of (because he can&#x27;t deploy a working certificate) is grievously insecure: he&#x27;s essentially running his system on top of the equivalent of the &quot;goto fail&quot; vulnerability in Safari that the Internet was (justifiably) freaking out about two years ago.<p>Hunt is smart about a whole lot of things, but he&#x27;s wrong about this. There&#x27;s nothing &quot;unhealthy&quot; about the absolutism here: you either have end-to-end cryptographic security, or you&#x27;re vulnerable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/cloudflare-ssl-and-unhealthy-security-absolutism/</url></story> |
21,658,357 | 21,657,956 | 1 | 3 | 21,655,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leshow</author><text>Rust has a lot of core team members that no longer work at Mozilla, so this isn&#x27;t really true today.<p>Also, C and C++ are some of the most widely used languages in the world. I wouldn&#x27;t call them niche.<p>Edit: according to the TIOBE C&#x2F;C++ are ranked higher than PHP</text><parent_chain><item><author>SergeAx</author><text>The most interesting thing about PHP is it is, AFAIK, the most community-driven language today. Go, Python and JavaScript are all under heavy influence of Google, C#, VB.NET and TypeScript is Microsoft&#x27;s turf, Java is Oracle&#x27;s, Rust and WebAssembly - Mozilla&#x27;s.<p>С and С++ are holding their grounds, but they are more and more niche today. Facebook tried to domesticate PHP, but failed spectacularly. So it looks like PHP is most democratic and liberal programming language of today) I am glad it&#x27;s getting steadily ahead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PHP 7.4</title><url>https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-11-28-1</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>lillesvin</author><text>Aren&#x27;t Elixir and Ruby primarily community driven too?</text><parent_chain><item><author>SergeAx</author><text>The most interesting thing about PHP is it is, AFAIK, the most community-driven language today. Go, Python and JavaScript are all under heavy influence of Google, C#, VB.NET and TypeScript is Microsoft&#x27;s turf, Java is Oracle&#x27;s, Rust and WebAssembly - Mozilla&#x27;s.<p>С and С++ are holding their grounds, but they are more and more niche today. Facebook tried to domesticate PHP, but failed spectacularly. So it looks like PHP is most democratic and liberal programming language of today) I am glad it&#x27;s getting steadily ahead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PHP 7.4</title><url>https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-11-28-1</url></story> |
40,098,102 | 40,097,421 | 1 | 3 | 40,085,437 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GarnetFloride</author><text>The Braille Institute has a a big interest in helping people with low vision and a few years ago commissioned a highly legible font Atkinson Hyperlegible <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brailleinstitute.org&#x2F;freefont" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brailleinstitute.org&#x2F;freefont</a>
They did a lot of work making sure it was easy to read by working with actual people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jiehong</author><text>Intend and purpose? I mean, it sounds so very subjective with no link to research that it matters that much assuming it’s good enough in the first place.<p>Sure, DIN or the typefaces used at the airport to guide pilots are extremely legible, and less ambiguous in their context.
But the difference between Fraktur and SF Pro is much bigger than between SF Pro and DIN for example. Plus, being on hundreds of millions of devices made it common so people got used to it.<p>Reminds me of the difference between Kai and Song font types in Chinese.<p>Is there any research with a graph of legibility over fonts? Any idea where the point of diminishing return is for different activities?<p>I do like a good programming font, but if I’m honest with myself, as long as the foundation is right, most differences are to accommodate one’s taste. I’ve yet to found a case where there was a bug because my font threw me off, or something.<p>Side note: I recall the first time I read digits written in the English style, and got tripped because the 7 looks like a 1 in my culture, because we all add a little horizontal bar in the middle. You can used to it, but on hand written notes, nobody would write an English 7, yet virtually all computer fonts only offer one version of it (Berkeley Mono offers both, in a mono space font!)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers</title><url>https://www.nubero.ch/blog/011/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw0101c</author><text>&gt; […] <i>and got tripped because the 7 looks like a 1 in my culture, because we all add a little horizontal bar in the middle.</i><p>A &quot;crossed seven&quot; if anyone is curious:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Arabic_numeral_variations#Other_variations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Arabic_numeral_variations#Othe...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;7#Evolution_of_the_Arabic_digit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;7#Evolution_of_the_Arabic_digi...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jiehong</author><text>Intend and purpose? I mean, it sounds so very subjective with no link to research that it matters that much assuming it’s good enough in the first place.<p>Sure, DIN or the typefaces used at the airport to guide pilots are extremely legible, and less ambiguous in their context.
But the difference between Fraktur and SF Pro is much bigger than between SF Pro and DIN for example. Plus, being on hundreds of millions of devices made it common so people got used to it.<p>Reminds me of the difference between Kai and Song font types in Chinese.<p>Is there any research with a graph of legibility over fonts? Any idea where the point of diminishing return is for different activities?<p>I do like a good programming font, but if I’m honest with myself, as long as the foundation is right, most differences are to accommodate one’s taste. I’ve yet to found a case where there was a bug because my font threw me off, or something.<p>Side note: I recall the first time I read digits written in the English style, and got tripped because the 7 looks like a 1 in my culture, because we all add a little horizontal bar in the middle. You can used to it, but on hand written notes, nobody would write an English 7, yet virtually all computer fonts only offer one version of it (Berkeley Mono offers both, in a mono space font!)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers</title><url>https://www.nubero.ch/blog/011/</url></story> |
19,345,607 | 19,343,348 | 1 | 3 | 19,342,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rjf72</author><text>If your hypothesis was correct I think we&#x27;d expect to see a coldening of e.g. hunter and prey. In reality, I think most hunters tend to disproportionately be animal and nature lovers. And as you go back in time (and in present as well) there are often rituals of respect involved in the slaughter of prey. Such things would be rather pointless if you had completely desensitized yourself to the nature of animals.<p>But there&#x27;s some nuance in here. For instance I&#x27;d completely agree that factory farming is inhumane, but I think that&#x27;s in large part because those that operate such institutions have become so far detached from what it is that they do. If your business is butchering chickens, you should be at least occasionally involved in butchering chickens.<p>There&#x27;s some irony though. If there was a chicken and rice shop, as you can find all across the developing world, with chickens running about outside - the same ones ending up on your plate, people would be incensed. Similarly imagine somebody in a not entirely rural area was raising their own goats and&#x2F;or chickens for slaughter. Again, there would be outrage. People inadvertently drive invisible inhumane conditions by expressing outrage at visible humane conditions that they find distasteful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>telchar</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to get a man to understand something if his accustomed lifestyle depends on his not understanding it (to paraphrase Upton Sinclair). It&#x27;s harder to justify eating meat and supporting factory farming if you believe animals have emotions. I&#x27;m not a vegetarian myself but I think that is more uncomfortable for me than for someone who doesn&#x27;t believe animals have emotions.</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>It&#x27;s strange to me that this is still considered controversial. Even long-duration emotional effects like depression is very obvious in pets after the loss of other&#x2F;companion pets in a home.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Animals are no less emotional than we are</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/opinion/sunday/emotions-animals-humans.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>TaupeRanger</author><text>No. We can have the philosophical and biological discussions without useless moralizing. I have been vegan most of my life but I question whether animals emotions are as similar to ours as many seem to be implying here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>telchar</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to get a man to understand something if his accustomed lifestyle depends on his not understanding it (to paraphrase Upton Sinclair). It&#x27;s harder to justify eating meat and supporting factory farming if you believe animals have emotions. I&#x27;m not a vegetarian myself but I think that is more uncomfortable for me than for someone who doesn&#x27;t believe animals have emotions.</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>It&#x27;s strange to me that this is still considered controversial. Even long-duration emotional effects like depression is very obvious in pets after the loss of other&#x2F;companion pets in a home.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Animals are no less emotional than we are</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/opinion/sunday/emotions-animals-humans.html</url></story> |
40,901,531 | 40,900,111 | 1 | 3 | 40,898,121 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fn-mote</author><text>My conclusion from your story is that you needed to cut your losses earlier.<p>Put them in a situation where they need to produce a result, give them support, but if they need hand holding give them that feedback: you need to be independent on this or you will not be retained.<p>It sucks, but one or two experiences writing code for a junior dev and then seeing they do not even move on from there was enough. You can have the same kind of issues with crappy “senior” colleagues too, though…<p>Of course, if you don’t have the right kind of task for an “advanced beginner” (so to speak), that is a problem on the management end.<p>Bringing up junior colleagues is a fraught business, but when it succeeds you get a LOT of results out of it.<p>In the end, I try to keep in mind that it is all about money and time. From an individual project point of view, though, it can be very satisfying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cheema33</author><text>During the past 5 years I spent untold hours helping 3 junior devs level up in a very supporting and encouraging environment. In the end, it did not work. The devs were not self driven or motivated enough to make a difference. They would make small incremental improvements, but nothing that allowed them to work on a task independently. They have up too quickly when they ran into a difficult situation or immediately wanted to jump to a subpar solution.<p>We had to let them go. Then we hired an experienced dev who was self driven and the difference is night and day. The senior dev costs slightly more than the junior dev.<p>I don&#x27;t think I will ever try the &quot;talent development&quot; approach again. The talent needs to do that work itself. If it is unwilling or unable, then so am I.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf]</title><url>https://community.ams.org/journals/notices/201909/rnoti-p1471.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>0xC5</author><text>From that experience, it makes total sense that you wouldn&#x27;t want to work with juniors like that again.<p>But I have the complete opposite experience. I&#x27;m a junior dev working on an embedded linux system, and some associated test applications. I have an extremely good mentor&#x2F;boss who&#x27;s helping me develop skills for those environments, and other associated skills that are absolutely invaluable to my career.<p>Now the difference of course is I am highly motivated. I love the work I do, and because it&#x27;s so enjoyable and fun, I absolutely take a lot of my personal time to play around with work-related or at least work-adjacent projects.<p>My worry is that when I do eventually move to my next company&#x2F;product, Ill be assigned to a manager that has had too many poor experiences with unmotivated juniors, and is unwilling to share their experience with me (in a cooperative manner, not just a one-sided relationship of course).</text><parent_chain><item><author>cheema33</author><text>During the past 5 years I spent untold hours helping 3 junior devs level up in a very supporting and encouraging environment. In the end, it did not work. The devs were not self driven or motivated enough to make a difference. They would make small incremental improvements, but nothing that allowed them to work on a task independently. They have up too quickly when they ran into a difficult situation or immediately wanted to jump to a subpar solution.<p>We had to let them go. Then we hired an experienced dev who was self driven and the difference is night and day. The senior dev costs slightly more than the junior dev.<p>I don&#x27;t think I will ever try the &quot;talent development&quot; approach again. The talent needs to do that work itself. If it is unwilling or unable, then so am I.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf]</title><url>https://community.ams.org/journals/notices/201909/rnoti-p1471.pdf</url></story> |
17,316,043 | 17,315,810 | 1 | 3 | 17,313,392 | 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>p2t2p</author><text>Surface&#x27;s trackpad is as good as Mac&#x27;s even though all other parts of experience is trash.<p>However, now Mac has this force touchpad which you don&#x27;t really press, so it recognises all of the presses with no respect to where you do it. Nobody has anything like this and I must tell you that one gets used to it reaaaaaaly quick.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grimgrin</author><text>Who has a useful trackpad anyways? An actually great one, besides Apple?<p>I have no idea why this is the case? Patents or too expensive to justify?<p>Genuinely curious</text></item><item><author>Clubber</author><text>Maybe Dell should fix their trackpad.</text></item><item><author>codegladiator</author><text>I wish there are less people like you and more people who want to fix things. For reasons which should be obvious I guess.</text></item><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>This is the perfect description of why I’ll probably never leave Mac land. I want my technology to work out the box, and Mac does that.<p>Sure I could probably setup the Linux trackpad to be Mac like if I threw plenty of hours at it, but I don’t want to waste my time like that, not anymore. I did in my youth, but now I’ll just buy the thing that works.</text></item><item><author>reacharavindh</author><text>I have a Dell XPS 13 as my personal machine. It runs Linux. Everything works.<p>But, I still find myself using my MacBook Pro (provided by work) for almost everything even at home.<p>Two things that keep me in the Mac land.<p>1. Retina Display and the 16:10 aspect ratio.
2. Smooth, and usable touchpad.<p>XPS13&#x27;s display is too rectangle and I&#x27;m not watching movies in it. It feels too cramped for looking at code. GNOME out of the box does not do fractional scaling (125%) hence everything looks either too big or too small to my taste.<p>I dont have the patience or the know-how to tune the touchpad to be decent in Linux.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/dell-xps-13-9360-review-lifelong-mac-user</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gizzlon</author><text>I like my XPS 13 trackpad :) The mac ones seems too big, suspect it would be in the way and hamper the keyboard. (I haven&#x27;t used a the newer Mac models enough to be certain). Dells works great on Linux (Arch + KDE)</text><parent_chain><item><author>grimgrin</author><text>Who has a useful trackpad anyways? An actually great one, besides Apple?<p>I have no idea why this is the case? Patents or too expensive to justify?<p>Genuinely curious</text></item><item><author>Clubber</author><text>Maybe Dell should fix their trackpad.</text></item><item><author>codegladiator</author><text>I wish there are less people like you and more people who want to fix things. For reasons which should be obvious I guess.</text></item><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>This is the perfect description of why I’ll probably never leave Mac land. I want my technology to work out the box, and Mac does that.<p>Sure I could probably setup the Linux trackpad to be Mac like if I threw plenty of hours at it, but I don’t want to waste my time like that, not anymore. I did in my youth, but now I’ll just buy the thing that works.</text></item><item><author>reacharavindh</author><text>I have a Dell XPS 13 as my personal machine. It runs Linux. Everything works.<p>But, I still find myself using my MacBook Pro (provided by work) for almost everything even at home.<p>Two things that keep me in the Mac land.<p>1. Retina Display and the 16:10 aspect ratio.
2. Smooth, and usable touchpad.<p>XPS13&#x27;s display is too rectangle and I&#x27;m not watching movies in it. It feels too cramped for looking at code. GNOME out of the box does not do fractional scaling (125%) hence everything looks either too big or too small to my taste.<p>I dont have the patience or the know-how to tune the touchpad to be decent in Linux.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/dell-xps-13-9360-review-lifelong-mac-user</url></story> |
18,615,387 | 18,613,784 | 1 | 3 | 18,612,571 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darren0</author><text>The PoC is mostly correct, but basically is testing for a side effect of the fix, not the presence of the vulnerability. Either which way it&#x27;s probably still useful, but since we are all geeks here might as well talk about the minutia.<p>The PoC basically tests that if you create a websocket request that results in non-101 response the socket is closed by the server. That is a side effect of the fix. The way the proxy code works is that on presence of the Upgrade header it first hijacks the HTTP request and dials the target. It then starts a copy loop but reads the first bytes into a http.Response. If the response is not 101 it will exit.<p>The a side effect is that it just so happens to be that because the connection is hijacked the golang server will not reuse the TCP connection and will close it. But according to the HTTP spec that TCP connection is still valid for reuse so the server does not have to actually close the connection (but it happens to). Where this PoC could fall apart is if you are running kube-apiserver behind a particularly pedantic LB (ALB might apply here). Most LBs will not reuse any TCP connection that had an Upgrade header in it, but if they are smart and read the response they can if it didn&#x27;t result in a 101. From that perspective a load balancer (or reverse proxy) is not obligated to close the TCP connection to the client.<p>To fully test the vulnerability you need to find a pod you can exec to and another pod on the same node you are not authorized to exec to. First send a malformed pod exec and get the open socket. Then send another request using the kubelet API to exec to a pod you are not authorized for. Then see if you get a valid response (which I believe is a callback URL for the actually tty stream).<p>The PoC is still basically valid because it could just give you a false negative that you are vulnerable (not a false positive all is swell).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver</title><url>https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-websocket-upgrade-security-vulnerability/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coder543</author><text>&gt; K8s also allows upgrading apiserver connections to full, live, end-to-end HTTP&#x2F;2 websockets.<p>There&#x27;s no such thing as an HTTP&#x2F;2 websocket.[0] Websockets are a purely HTTP&#x2F;1.1 concept, and they&#x27;re only HTTP&#x2F;1.1 until the moment that the `Upgrade` happens, at which point the TCP socket gets hijacked.<p>I&#x27;m confused as to why HTTP&#x2F;2 is mentioned. I guess they just mean a normal websocket?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;axiomzenteam&#x2F;websockets-http-2-and-sse-5c24ae4d9d96" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;axiomzenteam&#x2F;websockets-http-2-and-sse-5c...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver</title><url>https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-websocket-upgrade-security-vulnerability/</url></story> |
27,667,586 | 27,667,879 | 1 | 2 | 27,666,767 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alasdair_</author><text>&gt;It completely boggles my mind that anyone ever cared what the next iPhone will be like.<p>I mean, people had freaking launch parties for Windows 95.<p>Now I&#x27;m actively trying to work out ways not to install windows 11.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>It completely boggles my mind that anyone <i>ever</i> cared what the next iPhone will be like.</text></item><item><author>spoonjim</author><text>What&#x27;s really funny is that this escalating response from Apple in response to leaks comes directly as the relevance of Apple leaks has gone down. Nobody gives a fuck what the next iPhone is going to look like. Apple events are no longer these mystical ripples in spacetime because 1) Steve Jobs is dead and 2) Apple is not cool anymore 3) everyone knows the next iPhone will be a rounded rectangle with a screen on one side.
Apple thinks that they will reclaim their cool by controlling leaks but nobody is going to get excited about Tim Cook pulling the next iPhone out of his pocket. Apple&#x27;s engineering is still great, but they are no longer an entertainment event.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks?</title><url>https://www.frontpagetech.com/2021/06/28/exclusive-apple-making-employees-wear-police-grade-body-cams-in-response-to-leaks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RicoElectrico</author><text>Back in the old days, every non-S iPhone blew people&#x27;s minds, because it made the old generation look like shit in comparison ;)<p>I think iPhone 4 had the greatest differential impact, on its release the IPS Retina was something unreal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>It completely boggles my mind that anyone <i>ever</i> cared what the next iPhone will be like.</text></item><item><author>spoonjim</author><text>What&#x27;s really funny is that this escalating response from Apple in response to leaks comes directly as the relevance of Apple leaks has gone down. Nobody gives a fuck what the next iPhone is going to look like. Apple events are no longer these mystical ripples in spacetime because 1) Steve Jobs is dead and 2) Apple is not cool anymore 3) everyone knows the next iPhone will be a rounded rectangle with a screen on one side.
Apple thinks that they will reclaim their cool by controlling leaks but nobody is going to get excited about Tim Cook pulling the next iPhone out of his pocket. Apple&#x27;s engineering is still great, but they are no longer an entertainment event.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks?</title><url>https://www.frontpagetech.com/2021/06/28/exclusive-apple-making-employees-wear-police-grade-body-cams-in-response-to-leaks/</url></story> |
10,414,928 | 10,415,025 | 1 | 3 | 10,414,375 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bravo22</author><text>In this case the fault lies with the bank. The chip can authenticate the transaction and also optionally cryptographically sign it as verified. The bank should check the last step but most&#x2F;some don&#x27;t because a lot of the first wave of terminals that went out didn&#x27;t have full&#x2F;proper implementation, therefore they only relied on the chip saying &quot;yeah it looks good&quot;, instead of &quot;yeah it looks good, btw here is my signature on this transaction which you can pass to the bank to verify that it really is kosher&quot;.<p>So it is more an issue of the bank accepting partially verified transactions on large dollar amounts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajross</author><text>FTA: <i>A fraudulent chip can listen for that query and pre-empt the real chip with its own answer: a “yes” signal regardless of whatever random PIN the fraudster has entered. “The attacker intercepts the PIN query and replies that it’s correct, whatever the code is,”</i><p>Wait, what? How is that the protocol? There&#x27;s no two way validation at all? The chip just says &quot;yes&quot;?!<p>Can anyone with knowledge of details confirm? This seems isomorphic to my ears with &quot;the PIN is just security theater&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>X-Ray Scans Expose Chip-And-Pin Card Hack</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/10/x-ray-scans-expose-an-ingenious-chip-and-pin-card-hack/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thrownaway2424</author><text>There&#x27;s nothing wrong with the smart card system and the crypto protocols developed around them. The problem is that the applications that have been bodged onto the smart card since it was invented (in the 70s) have all been garbage. The banks and payment networks just aren&#x27;t qualified to implement these things, and they don&#x27;t have any reason to because they&#x27;ve managed to externalize the cost of fraud onto the individual customers and the merchants.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajross</author><text>FTA: <i>A fraudulent chip can listen for that query and pre-empt the real chip with its own answer: a “yes” signal regardless of whatever random PIN the fraudster has entered. “The attacker intercepts the PIN query and replies that it’s correct, whatever the code is,”</i><p>Wait, what? How is that the protocol? There&#x27;s no two way validation at all? The chip just says &quot;yes&quot;?!<p>Can anyone with knowledge of details confirm? This seems isomorphic to my ears with &quot;the PIN is just security theater&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>X-Ray Scans Expose Chip-And-Pin Card Hack</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/10/x-ray-scans-expose-an-ingenious-chip-and-pin-card-hack/</url></story> |
28,424,526 | 28,424,304 | 1 | 2 | 28,422,062 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomhoward</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen PG [1] say&#x2F;write versions of this: &quot;The Y Combinator founders who followed our advice succeeded. The ones who didn&#x27;t, didn&#x27;t.&quot;<p>The advice is so simple, it&#x27;s hard for a lot of outsiders to believe it&#x27;s worth anything. &quot;Make something people want.&quot; &quot;Talk to your users.&quot; &quot;Do things that don&#x27;t scale.&quot; &quot;Keep typing and avoid dying.&quot; People hear about this and ask &quot;You gave away 7% of your company for that?&quot; No, you give away 7% of your company to join a network of people showing you what it really looks like to do that.<p>My company got into the Winter 2009 batch of YC, the same batch as Airbnb. They weren&#x27;t around for many of the dinners; they spent a lot of their time away from the Bay Area doing exactly those things that PG advised, mostly in NYC, where many of their most active users were. They just did that stuff, over and over, for several years. Now they have one of the most successful companies out of Silicon Valley in the last 15 years. (I saw PG tweet a couple of years ago that he&#x27;d recently dinner with them, and Brian would still write down PG&#x27;s suggestions in a notebook.)<p>During that batch, I was flailing about trying to find some magical trick to make our company work. I remember one office-hours session with PG, excitedly telling him some buzzword-filled story I&#x27;d dreamed up about how our company could be a brilliant success. &quot;Just make a good website&quot; he replied.<p>It took me a while to work out how the Airbnb guys were able to follow the advice so effectively whilst we and so many others got stuck in the weeds, but looking back now it&#x27;s pretty obvious. They were just very comfortable in their own skin. They didn&#x27;t have ego issues around needing to seem like geniuses, needing validation all the time, fearing rejection or embarrassment. &quot;Talk to your users&quot; was easy, as they were sociable, likeable people who put on cool parties and who were naturally able to make everyone in their company feel welcome and valued, and everything else emerged out of that.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paul_Graham_(programmer)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paul_Graham_(programmer)</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Follow boring advice</title><url>http://nywkap.com/other/follow-boring-advice.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>darkerside</author><text>My favorite example of this is how to get stronger and healthier. There&#x27;s no secret, and you actually don&#x27;t have to do anything too extreme.<p>Exercise regularly, drink water, don&#x27;t eat too much, mostly plants, get lots of asleep, avoid drugs and alcohol.<p>Now that I do so well with all that advice, I can&#x27;t quite remember why that all sounded so hard or &quot;boring&quot; before.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Follow boring advice</title><url>http://nywkap.com/other/follow-boring-advice.html</url></story> |
19,467,660 | 19,467,112 | 1 | 2 | 19,466,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text><i>He was just a quiet man who had tried to do the right thing in the face of an inferno. And maybe that is enough.</i><p>Speaking as a former firefighter, I would say &quot;Yes. Yes, that is enough.&quot;<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, <i>anybody</i> who runs towards a fire in an attempt to help others, when everyone else is running away, is a hero. Doesn&#x27;t matter if you&#x27;re &quot;officially&quot; a firefighter, or anything else. If you display the behavior, the willingness to sacrifice, the bravery, of a firefighter, then you are one of the brotherhood. And if you pay the ultimate sacrifice in the process, you are a hero to be cherished, whether you saved 10 people, or none.<p>And before anybody says it... yes, I know the old saw about &quot;not becoming another casualty, and one more person to be rescued&quot; as well as anyone. I used to teach that stuff. But at the end of the day, while we might not <i>want</i> civilians or untrained&#x2F;unequipped people running into fires, you still have to respect and honor the courage of the people who are willing to do that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I wrote a story that became a legend, then discovered it wasn’t true</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/first_person/tinazzi-motorcycle-mont-blanc-tunnel-fire-rescue.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>tungwaiyip</author><text>At least Mark Gardiner has the integrity to reflect on his mistake.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I wrote a story that became a legend, then discovered it wasn’t true</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/first_person/tinazzi-motorcycle-mont-blanc-tunnel-fire-rescue.php</url></story> |
17,186,309 | 17,186,342 | 1 | 2 | 17,185,569 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>genpfault</author><text>&gt; I miss the most in the traditional desktops is starting programs by hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs.<p>Brisk Menu. It binds to the Windows key by default and still somehow allows shortcuts like Win+R to work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;solus-project&#x2F;brisk-menu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;solus-project&#x2F;brisk-menu</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>brusch64</author><text>I have no experience with Mate, but the feature I miss the most in the traditional desktops is starting programs by hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs.<p>I know that you can use Alt+F2 for this, but using super is much more ingrained for me since I&#x27;ve seen Windows Vista (I am using Linux at home and Windows systems at work)</text></item><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>Long time Mate user here.<p>The &quot;problem&quot; with Mate is that it just works. I interact with Windows and OSX daily, and I have yet to find a feature that makes me thing &quot;I wish my desktop environment could do this&quot;. Mate gets out of my way and lets me work.<p>In other words, it&#x27;s boring. There&#x27;s nothing new and shiny to be excited about, because it&#x27;s as good as it gets. I left Gnome 3 because I was tired of visual effects getting on my way, but those visual effects were what attracted me to Gnome 3 to begin with. I think Mate lacks that &quot;wow!&quot; factor and, as grateful as I am for that, I think this might stop it from being more popular.</text></item><item><author>keyle</author><text>I recently switched to Linux (from Windows 10 - forced upgrade took 45&#x27; in the middle of an extremely important moment)<p>Debian netinstall + Mate desktop (Gnome 2&#x2F;3 extension?)<p>I expected to switch back within a week. Surprisingly, I love it. After a few tweaks and Nvidia drivers installed, it&#x27;s way better than I expected. Super fast, minimal, and no annoyances.<p>Linux desktop really has improved in the last 20 years, since I last tried it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lobotomizing Gnome</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/lobotomizing-gnome</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diffeomorphism</author><text>You can use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alols&#x2F;xcape" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alols&#x2F;xcape</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hanschen&#x2F;ksuperkey" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hanschen&#x2F;ksuperkey</a> for that.<p>The windows key is a modifier like shift, alt or ctrl and hence at first it seems like a really, really bad idea to use it a shortcut by itself. The above programs hence implement the same behind-the-scences workarounds other desktop environments and windows use: treat pressing and releasing win alone as special.<p>You can of course also use this for other keys, for example<p>caps alone-&gt; Esc<p>caps+c -&gt; ctrl+c<p>Alternatively, I win+space instead of just win also is quite natural shortcut.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brusch64</author><text>I have no experience with Mate, but the feature I miss the most in the traditional desktops is starting programs by hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs.<p>I know that you can use Alt+F2 for this, but using super is much more ingrained for me since I&#x27;ve seen Windows Vista (I am using Linux at home and Windows systems at work)</text></item><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>Long time Mate user here.<p>The &quot;problem&quot; with Mate is that it just works. I interact with Windows and OSX daily, and I have yet to find a feature that makes me thing &quot;I wish my desktop environment could do this&quot;. Mate gets out of my way and lets me work.<p>In other words, it&#x27;s boring. There&#x27;s nothing new and shiny to be excited about, because it&#x27;s as good as it gets. I left Gnome 3 because I was tired of visual effects getting on my way, but those visual effects were what attracted me to Gnome 3 to begin with. I think Mate lacks that &quot;wow!&quot; factor and, as grateful as I am for that, I think this might stop it from being more popular.</text></item><item><author>keyle</author><text>I recently switched to Linux (from Windows 10 - forced upgrade took 45&#x27; in the middle of an extremely important moment)<p>Debian netinstall + Mate desktop (Gnome 2&#x2F;3 extension?)<p>I expected to switch back within a week. Surprisingly, I love it. After a few tweaks and Nvidia drivers installed, it&#x27;s way better than I expected. Super fast, minimal, and no annoyances.<p>Linux desktop really has improved in the last 20 years, since I last tried it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lobotomizing Gnome</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/lobotomizing-gnome</url></story> |
7,541,865 | 7,541,626 | 1 | 2 | 7,541,223 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>I have an old muscle car with a built V8. The crackling sound of the engine start, and the sound it makes when it &#x27;digs in&#x27; under acceleration, is viscerally thrilling.<p>The smell of a hot engine, and the shaking of the car also add a lot of fun.<p>One of the best movie montages ever is the opening sequence of the movie &quot;Grand Prix&quot; where they start the engines and warm em up.<p>In &quot;Rush&quot; they ruined the movie by having a rock soundtrack laid over the sounds of the cars.<p>&quot;Bullitt&quot;s car chase has never been equaled because the director had the guts to let the V8s and various car noises be the whole soundtrack. The music overlay stops when the chase starts, the complete opposite of every other movie.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Who <i>cares</i> about the sound? I&#x27;m tired of seeing blog comments on Jalopnik complaining about it. Of the many dumb excuses car nuts use to whine about electric cars, &quot;they sound different!&quot; is by far the worst.</text></item><item><author>johnwyles</author><text>Also keep in mind that Formula E debuts this year; it will be the sport we all eventually follow (not sure how I feel about the passing cars sounding more like aircraft than cars): <a href="http://www.fiaformulae.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiaformulae.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>ntkachov</author><text>I&#x27;m loving the direction F1 is going. Sure, for the hardcore fans, the noise just isn&#x27;t the same, and the cars aren&#x27;t going as fast anymore, but I love that they are trying to force the manufacturers to improve their lower spec engines. Maybe the next rule change we&#x27;ll have CVT as a requirement instead of a gear box.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/mercedes-f1-turbo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gsnedders</author><text>At the end of the day sound is an inherent inefficiency. The aim is to maximise the kinetic energy output of the motor — any sound or heat energy produced is waste that could&#x27;ve better been produced as kinetic energy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Who <i>cares</i> about the sound? I&#x27;m tired of seeing blog comments on Jalopnik complaining about it. Of the many dumb excuses car nuts use to whine about electric cars, &quot;they sound different!&quot; is by far the worst.</text></item><item><author>johnwyles</author><text>Also keep in mind that Formula E debuts this year; it will be the sport we all eventually follow (not sure how I feel about the passing cars sounding more like aircraft than cars): <a href="http://www.fiaformulae.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiaformulae.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>ntkachov</author><text>I&#x27;m loving the direction F1 is going. Sure, for the hardcore fans, the noise just isn&#x27;t the same, and the cars aren&#x27;t going as fast anymore, but I love that they are trying to force the manufacturers to improve their lower spec engines. Maybe the next rule change we&#x27;ll have CVT as a requirement instead of a gear box.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/mercedes-f1-turbo</url></story> |
41,567,489 | 41,567,308 | 1 | 2 | 41,558,554 | 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>consteval</author><text>It&#x27;s unpopular because the positions aren&#x27;t on equal footing. In order to achieve the in-office scenario you HAVE to force people into the office. Because the office itself has no value - it&#x27;s a building. The value is the people there.<p>That&#x27;s not the case with WFH setups. WFH scenarios do not care where people are. They could be in the office, in a stairwell, or on the beach.<p>So one position is inherently one of control, and the other is one of freedom. Maybe that&#x27;s controversial to say, but to me it&#x27;s plainly true.</text><parent_chain><item><author>netsharc</author><text>Sheesh, why should it be unpopular. It&#x27;s called having a preference&#x2F;choice. Companies telling everyone to be in the office 5 days a week 9-5 (or whatever) is removing that choice. Some like you may not mind, but for others it might be hell...</text></item><item><author>kwanbix</author><text>I know this might be an &quot;unpopular opinion,&quot; but after working fully remote for three years, I found myself feeling really down. I felt like a prisoner in my own home. So, three months ago, I started a new job with an office that’s 45 minutes away, and I’ve been going in every day—and I couldn&#x27;t be happier! I do have the option to work from home all days if I want, but honestly, I prefer going to the office. Now, I get to see people, move around more, and when I’m at home, it truly feels different from being at work. It’s been a game-changer for me.</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; Eliminating 2 hours a day of driving and train rides left me with more energy I can expend on my work!<p>Companies forget this. I have had coworkers quit because they couldn&#x27;t deal with transport. One got stressed out of his mind because our office was close to motorway which frequently has accidents and if that happened he might not be able to pick up the kids on time. Others had to leave clients hanging because they had to leave, &quot;daycare closes at 16:30 and it&#x27;s now 16:00&quot;. Working from home it was much more frequent that clients in the late afternoon would get &quot;Sure, give me ten minutes to pick up the kids and we&#x27;ll finish this today&quot;.</text></item><item><author>ryukoposting</author><text>As a firmware engineer, my job demands more &quot;in-office-y&quot; stuff than most other engineers on HN. I have specialized equipment. Hardware. I need to interface with manufacturing. So on.<p>Guess what? I&#x27;m going on 1 year fully remote, and I&#x27;m doing great! Turns out, all that fancy equipment can be brought home with you. We deal with a contract manufacturer, and emailing them from home is no harder than emailing them from the office. Instead of being stuck in a concrete jungle, I can go test the product out in a more realistic environment in the park across from my home. It&#x27;s made me happier, healthier AND more productive. Eliminating 2 hours a day of driving and train rides left me with more energy I can expend on my work! Who&#x27;da thunk it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazon-jassy-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week.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>treis</author><text>Because it&#x27;s really hard for a company to do both. Even if it&#x27;s a remote first and the office is just a place to do zoom calls. Human nature will divide it into two camps with social bonds being stronger within the remote&#x2F;on office groups than across.<p>Speaking as someone who would have to be dragged back to an office, it&#x27;s obvious that the in office group would win out. Bonds are weaker in the remote group and your type A ladder climbers will be overrepresented in the in office group.<p>So hybrid office is probably going to lead to all in office. Especially in these difficult economic times as workforces stagnate or shrink in these companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>netsharc</author><text>Sheesh, why should it be unpopular. It&#x27;s called having a preference&#x2F;choice. Companies telling everyone to be in the office 5 days a week 9-5 (or whatever) is removing that choice. Some like you may not mind, but for others it might be hell...</text></item><item><author>kwanbix</author><text>I know this might be an &quot;unpopular opinion,&quot; but after working fully remote for three years, I found myself feeling really down. I felt like a prisoner in my own home. So, three months ago, I started a new job with an office that’s 45 minutes away, and I’ve been going in every day—and I couldn&#x27;t be happier! I do have the option to work from home all days if I want, but honestly, I prefer going to the office. Now, I get to see people, move around more, and when I’m at home, it truly feels different from being at work. It’s been a game-changer for me.</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; Eliminating 2 hours a day of driving and train rides left me with more energy I can expend on my work!<p>Companies forget this. I have had coworkers quit because they couldn&#x27;t deal with transport. One got stressed out of his mind because our office was close to motorway which frequently has accidents and if that happened he might not be able to pick up the kids on time. Others had to leave clients hanging because they had to leave, &quot;daycare closes at 16:30 and it&#x27;s now 16:00&quot;. Working from home it was much more frequent that clients in the late afternoon would get &quot;Sure, give me ten minutes to pick up the kids and we&#x27;ll finish this today&quot;.</text></item><item><author>ryukoposting</author><text>As a firmware engineer, my job demands more &quot;in-office-y&quot; stuff than most other engineers on HN. I have specialized equipment. Hardware. I need to interface with manufacturing. So on.<p>Guess what? I&#x27;m going on 1 year fully remote, and I&#x27;m doing great! Turns out, all that fancy equipment can be brought home with you. We deal with a contract manufacturer, and emailing them from home is no harder than emailing them from the office. Instead of being stuck in a concrete jungle, I can go test the product out in a more realistic environment in the park across from my home. It&#x27;s made me happier, healthier AND more productive. Eliminating 2 hours a day of driving and train rides left me with more energy I can expend on my work! Who&#x27;da thunk it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazon-jassy-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week.html</url></story> |
30,150,315 | 30,150,535 | 1 | 2 | 30,149,108 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>olieidel</author><text>When hiring &#x2F; recruiting Clojure devs, there are quite a few second-order effects which are quite unintuitive.<p>Clojure devs are much more senior - they&#x27;ve typically been burnt by at least one tech stack, often more (Java, JS + React, Fortran, Cobol, punching tape, etc.). Clojure devs also tend to be really passionate about, you guessed it, Clojure, which commonly turns out to be a good thing. People passionate about that level of language-detail tend to be meticulous about many other useful things, like choosing the right tools and building simple and maintainable applications.<p>There&#x27;s sometimes a slight tendency towards over-engineering which is understandable. People who dive deep into other programming languages and go through the pain of learning lisp sometimes tend to lose focus of the actual (business) problem to solve. But I wouldn&#x27;t say this tendency is significantly higher than elsewhere. Still, sometimes, the pragmatism of a rails dev just churning out code is missed.<p>Also, because Clojure jobs are scarce and there&#x27;s a high number of &quot;secret Clojurists&quot; (people who code Clojure at night and secretly dream of using it at their day job), you actually get a much higher number of applicants than you would have estimated based on the most recent Stackoverflow survey.<p>Also, you get a real shot at hiring rockstar devs. This is huge and cannot be overstated. If you&#x27;re hiring for a standard JS &#x2F; Python stack, you&#x27;re suddenly competing with FAANG companies and their salaries. If you&#x27;re hiring for Clojure, you&#x27;re hardly competing with anyone. And you get a good pre-selection of senior devs. Like, those which were burned at a FAANG company, who finally came to their senses and now want to code Clojure. What&#x27;s not to like?<p>I guess a drawback would be that you couldn&#x27;t instantly hire a local team of 100+ devs, even if you take secret Clojurists into account. But who would want to work at a place which hires 100+ devs in a short amount of time?<p>(I interviewed around 200 people, many of them for Clojure roles, sometimes even comparing Python and Clojure applicants for the same role)<p>Relevant talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;kNiGu_VaoTg?t=1566" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;kNiGu_VaoTg?t=1566</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>How about hiring though? If you have a vacancy for a Clojure developer, how many applicants could you expect?<p>When it comes to programming languages, I&#x27;d stick to the top 10 languages if your company isn&#x27;t hip enough to attract a certain kind of developer on its own.</text></item><item><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>Weirdly enough I do believe Clojure ticks the boxes from that checklist.<p>It&#x27;s familiar in that it both &quot;supports popular language runtimes&quot; (runs on top of the JVM or transpiles to JavaScript) and it&#x27;s a Lisp dialect (or close enough) and Lisps have been around since a <i>very</i> long time.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly stable: so stable some libraries commonly used haven&#x27;t been updated in <i>years</i>. There&#x27;s also very little code churn inside Clojure&#x27;s own codebase.<p>It is very reliable.<p>It&#x27;s limits and trade offs are well known.<p>Somehow I though my language of choice was &quot;edgy&quot; but I realize it may actually be &quot;boring&quot;: a dialect from a very old family of language running on top of a boring tech (the JVM).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boring Technology Checklist</title><url>https://blog.begin.com/posts/2022-01-27-the-boring-technology-checklist</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregors</author><text>From what I heard, Nubank hired a good deal of Elixir developers when they aqui-hired Plataformatec. I suspect having functional programming experience matters more than having concrete Clojure knowledge. It definitely didn&#x27;t seem to be a problem in this case anyway.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;building-nubank&#x2F;tech-perspectives-behind-nubanks-first-acquisition-deal-what-this-business-move-means-and-how-it-d7d1233c72b8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;building-nubank&#x2F;tech-perspectives-behind-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>How about hiring though? If you have a vacancy for a Clojure developer, how many applicants could you expect?<p>When it comes to programming languages, I&#x27;d stick to the top 10 languages if your company isn&#x27;t hip enough to attract a certain kind of developer on its own.</text></item><item><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>Weirdly enough I do believe Clojure ticks the boxes from that checklist.<p>It&#x27;s familiar in that it both &quot;supports popular language runtimes&quot; (runs on top of the JVM or transpiles to JavaScript) and it&#x27;s a Lisp dialect (or close enough) and Lisps have been around since a <i>very</i> long time.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly stable: so stable some libraries commonly used haven&#x27;t been updated in <i>years</i>. There&#x27;s also very little code churn inside Clojure&#x27;s own codebase.<p>It is very reliable.<p>It&#x27;s limits and trade offs are well known.<p>Somehow I though my language of choice was &quot;edgy&quot; but I realize it may actually be &quot;boring&quot;: a dialect from a very old family of language running on top of a boring tech (the JVM).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boring Technology Checklist</title><url>https://blog.begin.com/posts/2022-01-27-the-boring-technology-checklist</url></story> |
6,617,573 | 6,617,559 | 1 | 3 | 6,616,924 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JelteF</author><text>There is a lot more wrong with PHP than these (anti-)features.
It&#x27;s loose comparisons for instance, with gems like 0 == &quot;php&quot; returning true, but 0 == &quot;1&quot; returning false [1] [4]<p>Having a function like nl2br [2], which converts newlines to br tags. The only reason this function would be useful is when you want text to HTML. The problem is, this requires a lot more than just replacing newlines with br tags.<p>A function like intval [3], which according to the documentation when passed a string &quot;will most likely return 0&quot;.<p>And just about anything on <a href="http://www.phpwtf.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phpwtf.org&#x2F;</a><p>My main point is, that PHP is not broken because of these features. PHP is broken because the language has been hacked together from the start and there is no way to guess what built in functions will do if you haven&#x27;t looked up the full documentation for them first.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.decontextualize.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/php-loose-comparisons.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.decontextualize.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;ph...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;php.net&#x2F;manual&#x2F;en&#x2F;function.nl2br.php</a><p>[3]: <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.intval.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;php.net&#x2F;manual&#x2F;en&#x2F;function.intval.php</a><p>[4]: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/pyDTn2i.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;pyDTn2i.png</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>porker</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this asking for all the features that lead HN-readers to despise PHP?</text></item><item><author>nnq</author><text>If you did a python&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;node-javascript that would capture the best features of PHP, instead of inventing a whole new language, I&#x27;d actually be tempted to use it.<p>The features (or what others would call anti-features, but one man&#x27;s &quot;bug&quot; can be another&#x27;s &quot;features&quot; so lets ignore the long talk) would simply be:<p>1. Ultra-Ease of deloyment - I want to be able to just:<p>- load a module for my webserver of choice (Apache, NGINX etc.)<p>- drop code in a folder via ftp and have it &quot;just work&quot;<p>- have a <i>shared nothing</i> app model with <i>no long running processes</i>, PHP style, because this way I can ignore 99% of security and performance problems, both as a provider of dirt-cheap shared hosting and as the developer of a web application that doesn&#x27;t need to scale that much and isn&#x27;t that much of a target for hackers either (so I can have the following mindset: &quot;I don&#x27;t need to care about scalability&#x2F;performance or security, because by the time I&#x27;ll need to care about these I&#x27;ll be already making enough profit from it to be able to hire some very smart guys to rewrite everything from scratch the right way or I will have already sold the company and be enjoying my $ while others care about this&quot;)<p>2. Ultra-Eease of app&#x2F;site setup:<p>- I want to just drop files in a folder and have it work, just like that, just like magic<p>3. &quot;Don&#x27;t make me think&quot; style of development:<p>- I want the same language in my controllers, in my db code AND in my templates<p>- plus points if it&#x27;s in the browser too<p>- have all the component I and other might need in &quot;one pack&quot;, &quot;batteries included&quot; style<p>4. Almost non-existent learning curve:<p>- someone should be able to go from A - &quot;poetry major with no knowledge of what computers are&quot; to B - &quot;expericenced full-stack developer&quot; withouth feeling any learning curve: yeah, it will take time to get from A to B, the first 10% of the road should be made as easy as possible<p>...and to &quot;kill&quot; PHP you&#x27;d still need to add a killer extra feature. I can imagine something like an object persistence feature (Maglev&#x2F;Gemstone style) baked into the language&#x2F;library&#x2F;framework that would allow you to simply persist objects without even thinking about a database (it could be implemented as a very smart ORM underneath, but it should be as opaque&#x2F;black-boxed as possible and 99.99% of users shouldn&#x27;t need to know how it works) - this imho would be the kind of thing really enjoyed by PHP developers.</text></item><item><author>charliesome</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m the author of Slash. I wasn&#x27;t expecting Slash to show up here so soon - the website&#x27;s pretty out of date and the language itself still needs a bit more polish before it&#x27;s ready for use.<p>Slash is something I&#x27;m building out of personal need. I love Ruby, but there isn&#x27;t much going on in the &#x27;small web scripts&#x27; area. It&#x27;s either frameworks like Rails or Sinatra that require app servers constantly running, or tools like Jekyll that can only do static websites. Slash is somewhere in between. It&#x27;s not supposed to be a &#x27;PHP successor&#x27; as much as it&#x27;s supposed to be something that Python or Ruby fans can turn to when they just need to chuck a small script up on the web.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Slash Programming Language</title><url>http://slash-lang.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nilliams</author><text>I think most people hate the language itself but recognise its strength of crazy-easy-to-get-started-with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>porker</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this asking for all the features that lead HN-readers to despise PHP?</text></item><item><author>nnq</author><text>If you did a python&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;node-javascript that would capture the best features of PHP, instead of inventing a whole new language, I&#x27;d actually be tempted to use it.<p>The features (or what others would call anti-features, but one man&#x27;s &quot;bug&quot; can be another&#x27;s &quot;features&quot; so lets ignore the long talk) would simply be:<p>1. Ultra-Ease of deloyment - I want to be able to just:<p>- load a module for my webserver of choice (Apache, NGINX etc.)<p>- drop code in a folder via ftp and have it &quot;just work&quot;<p>- have a <i>shared nothing</i> app model with <i>no long running processes</i>, PHP style, because this way I can ignore 99% of security and performance problems, both as a provider of dirt-cheap shared hosting and as the developer of a web application that doesn&#x27;t need to scale that much and isn&#x27;t that much of a target for hackers either (so I can have the following mindset: &quot;I don&#x27;t need to care about scalability&#x2F;performance or security, because by the time I&#x27;ll need to care about these I&#x27;ll be already making enough profit from it to be able to hire some very smart guys to rewrite everything from scratch the right way or I will have already sold the company and be enjoying my $ while others care about this&quot;)<p>2. Ultra-Eease of app&#x2F;site setup:<p>- I want to just drop files in a folder and have it work, just like that, just like magic<p>3. &quot;Don&#x27;t make me think&quot; style of development:<p>- I want the same language in my controllers, in my db code AND in my templates<p>- plus points if it&#x27;s in the browser too<p>- have all the component I and other might need in &quot;one pack&quot;, &quot;batteries included&quot; style<p>4. Almost non-existent learning curve:<p>- someone should be able to go from A - &quot;poetry major with no knowledge of what computers are&quot; to B - &quot;expericenced full-stack developer&quot; withouth feeling any learning curve: yeah, it will take time to get from A to B, the first 10% of the road should be made as easy as possible<p>...and to &quot;kill&quot; PHP you&#x27;d still need to add a killer extra feature. I can imagine something like an object persistence feature (Maglev&#x2F;Gemstone style) baked into the language&#x2F;library&#x2F;framework that would allow you to simply persist objects without even thinking about a database (it could be implemented as a very smart ORM underneath, but it should be as opaque&#x2F;black-boxed as possible and 99.99% of users shouldn&#x27;t need to know how it works) - this imho would be the kind of thing really enjoyed by PHP developers.</text></item><item><author>charliesome</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m the author of Slash. I wasn&#x27;t expecting Slash to show up here so soon - the website&#x27;s pretty out of date and the language itself still needs a bit more polish before it&#x27;s ready for use.<p>Slash is something I&#x27;m building out of personal need. I love Ruby, but there isn&#x27;t much going on in the &#x27;small web scripts&#x27; area. It&#x27;s either frameworks like Rails or Sinatra that require app servers constantly running, or tools like Jekyll that can only do static websites. Slash is somewhere in between. It&#x27;s not supposed to be a &#x27;PHP successor&#x27; as much as it&#x27;s supposed to be something that Python or Ruby fans can turn to when they just need to chuck a small script up on the web.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Slash Programming Language</title><url>http://slash-lang.org/</url></story> |
37,979,432 | 37,979,406 | 1 | 3 | 37,978,118 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ulizzle</author><text>No, It’s not about that. This was a cultural reaction to the excesses and cruelty of the French ruling classes.<p>And both men and women changed their styles, Im not sure why they don’t mention that. No one wanted to be mistaken by a jacobin and have a bomb thrown at your lap. Women stopped imitating Marie Antoinette way before she was beheaded in the pangs of birth of the reign of terror<p>The obvious historical parallels are obvious because what generally happens is that chaos can only build up so much until the people rebel and kill everyone in power. That’s why the Egyptians mentioned “maat” (order) all the time, but there are some very good movies on this time period even on netflix</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jensson</author><text>Bright colors used to be a sign of quality, everything expensive had tons of colors. Industrial revolution changed that, now bright colors are associated with cheap toys instead because they are used to cover deficiencies in the production process.<p>So it makes sense that people who care about quality moved away from colorful things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Great Male Renunciation</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>It&#x27;s probably not cheap toys as much as the rise of synthetic dyes generally meant color was no longer a mark of cost. The denim community still likes indigo because it fades, but that could just be signifier that it&#x27;s authentic.<p>It could also just be that color attracts attention. With birds, it&#x27;s often the male that&#x27;s more colorful. See peafowl.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jensson</author><text>Bright colors used to be a sign of quality, everything expensive had tons of colors. Industrial revolution changed that, now bright colors are associated with cheap toys instead because they are used to cover deficiencies in the production process.<p>So it makes sense that people who care about quality moved away from colorful things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Great Male Renunciation</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation</url></story> |
17,211,859 | 17,211,592 | 1 | 2 | 17,203,048 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mturmon</author><text>Your first paragraph is gold. It succinctly summarizes some of the problems with reactions to science articles on HN - especially science articles in certain subject areas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mbioguy</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting cognitive bias where people who are intelligent and informed about one domain, try to interpret information outside that domain. This stereotypically affects doctors or engineers making pronouncements of things as laypersons, and underestimating their own ignorance, commit errors without realizing it. Hacker News is an excellent place to get insight on technology. However, the lack of formal training often means that when other domains are discussed, we get armchair biologists or historians. That is happening here. (The loss of Y-diversity is much, much earlier in date than the Late Bronze Age collapse: starts at roughly 10k years ago, with a little variation depending on what part of the globe you are looking at.)<p>Here&#x27;s the original article that caused such a stir in 2015. Figure 2 shows the sudden drop in the reproducing Y-population globally (meaning it cannot be explained by genes or migration).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4381518&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4381518&#x2F;</a><p>The paper cited in the article alters the date of the event, but really there&#x27;s a lot of uncertainty remaining.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41467-018-04375-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41467-018-04375-6</a><p>The best current hypothesis to explain this drop (and that no similar one occurred for the reproducing X-population) is the conflict between predominantly agricultural societies versus predominantly hunter-gatherer societies. Until sufficient evidence has been found to rule out this or alternatives, take any explanation with a grain of salt.<p>Look at Figure 2, and you&#x27;ll notice the Y-axis are different. Between 50-10kya, the effective reproductive population was 3-4 times larger for women than men, globally. This fits with modern anthropological evidence of polygyny in early hunter-gatherer cultures (loose polygyny with on average 3-4 wives per successful male over a lifetime, but with limited ability to enforce fidelity). Y chromosome diversity tends to accumulate, albeit at a lower rate than the X.<p>An agricultural community is likely to be much more homogenous in terms of Y-chromosomes, than a hunter-gatherer one. Power is much more effectively concentrated in these communities, allowing leaders to amass more wives and enforce fidelity much more strictly than in hunter-gatherer societies. Stories of King Solomon&#x27;s wives, or Sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco (who reportedly sired hundreds of children) are an easy way to visualize this.<p>While man-for-man, a hunter-gatherer may be healthier and stronger, a hunter-gatherer society may find themselves vastly outnumbered by an agricultural community. Over time, hunter-gatherers would find themselves pushed off of prime land onto marginal land. The newer article mentions a founder effect. Where are these Neolithic pioneers coming from and where are they going to? From agricultural communities, expanding into territory previously held by hunter-gatherers. While certainly many deaths occurred due to combat, Y-chromosomal diversity loss also would have occurred to disease and famine. The agricultural population would continue to rise, while the hunter-gatherers would struggle to maintain on more marginal land. History is replete with stories of taking women, so if this scenario is the best explanation, it is unsurprising that there was not a corresponding drop in X-diversity.<p>This sort of scenario occurred globally. Agriculture independently arose in many places: the near-east, sub-saharan Africa, China, Mexico, the Andes, and possibly others. We&#x27;ve seen what happened to the Americas after Columbus. Similar mechanisms help explain the population-level Y-cide on smaller scales that probably occurred during each of the agricultural expansions above.<p>This hypothesis, while probably the most widely-accepted at present, is challenged by some of the evidence in the newer paper. It will be interesting to see how it falls out once the original authors have a chance to respond or additional voices join the conversation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sudden Neolithic population drop was the result of brutal warfare: study</title><url>https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/967289/neolithic-population-drop-brutal-warfare-y-chromosome-scientists-research</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>Two points:<p>1. How, in layman&#x27;s terms, are they reconstructing the history of the genomes from current genome samples? (I think that&#x27;s what the paper you mention says, but I&#x27;m not sure.)<p>2. My understanding is that the creation of agriculture was separated by thousands of years between the centers (near East, China, etc.), followed by thousands of years spreading from each center. The figure in your first paper makes the bottleneck appear essentially simultaneous world-wide. What&#x27;s up with that?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mbioguy</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting cognitive bias where people who are intelligent and informed about one domain, try to interpret information outside that domain. This stereotypically affects doctors or engineers making pronouncements of things as laypersons, and underestimating their own ignorance, commit errors without realizing it. Hacker News is an excellent place to get insight on technology. However, the lack of formal training often means that when other domains are discussed, we get armchair biologists or historians. That is happening here. (The loss of Y-diversity is much, much earlier in date than the Late Bronze Age collapse: starts at roughly 10k years ago, with a little variation depending on what part of the globe you are looking at.)<p>Here&#x27;s the original article that caused such a stir in 2015. Figure 2 shows the sudden drop in the reproducing Y-population globally (meaning it cannot be explained by genes or migration).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4381518&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4381518&#x2F;</a><p>The paper cited in the article alters the date of the event, but really there&#x27;s a lot of uncertainty remaining.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41467-018-04375-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41467-018-04375-6</a><p>The best current hypothesis to explain this drop (and that no similar one occurred for the reproducing X-population) is the conflict between predominantly agricultural societies versus predominantly hunter-gatherer societies. Until sufficient evidence has been found to rule out this or alternatives, take any explanation with a grain of salt.<p>Look at Figure 2, and you&#x27;ll notice the Y-axis are different. Between 50-10kya, the effective reproductive population was 3-4 times larger for women than men, globally. This fits with modern anthropological evidence of polygyny in early hunter-gatherer cultures (loose polygyny with on average 3-4 wives per successful male over a lifetime, but with limited ability to enforce fidelity). Y chromosome diversity tends to accumulate, albeit at a lower rate than the X.<p>An agricultural community is likely to be much more homogenous in terms of Y-chromosomes, than a hunter-gatherer one. Power is much more effectively concentrated in these communities, allowing leaders to amass more wives and enforce fidelity much more strictly than in hunter-gatherer societies. Stories of King Solomon&#x27;s wives, or Sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco (who reportedly sired hundreds of children) are an easy way to visualize this.<p>While man-for-man, a hunter-gatherer may be healthier and stronger, a hunter-gatherer society may find themselves vastly outnumbered by an agricultural community. Over time, hunter-gatherers would find themselves pushed off of prime land onto marginal land. The newer article mentions a founder effect. Where are these Neolithic pioneers coming from and where are they going to? From agricultural communities, expanding into territory previously held by hunter-gatherers. While certainly many deaths occurred due to combat, Y-chromosomal diversity loss also would have occurred to disease and famine. The agricultural population would continue to rise, while the hunter-gatherers would struggle to maintain on more marginal land. History is replete with stories of taking women, so if this scenario is the best explanation, it is unsurprising that there was not a corresponding drop in X-diversity.<p>This sort of scenario occurred globally. Agriculture independently arose in many places: the near-east, sub-saharan Africa, China, Mexico, the Andes, and possibly others. We&#x27;ve seen what happened to the Americas after Columbus. Similar mechanisms help explain the population-level Y-cide on smaller scales that probably occurred during each of the agricultural expansions above.<p>This hypothesis, while probably the most widely-accepted at present, is challenged by some of the evidence in the newer paper. It will be interesting to see how it falls out once the original authors have a chance to respond or additional voices join the conversation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sudden Neolithic population drop was the result of brutal warfare: study</title><url>https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/967289/neolithic-population-drop-brutal-warfare-y-chromosome-scientists-research</url></story> |
35,996,590 | 35,993,175 | 1 | 2 | 35,989,462 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MindSpunk</author><text>Not saying you&#x27;re wrong, because intel stagnation was very real, but please don&#x27;t use userbenchmark as a source of numbers for anything. They&#x27;re a terrible source with biased benchmarks and reporting. Just look at the dribble they write for basically any AMD product on their site (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;SpeedTest&#x2F;1817839&#x2F;AMD-Ryzen-7-5800X3D-8-Core-Processor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;SpeedTest&#x2F;1817839&#x2F;AMD-Ryzen-7-...</a>, or this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;SpeedTest&#x2F;2081998&#x2F;AMD-Ryzen-7-7800X3D-8-Core-Processor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;SpeedTest&#x2F;2081998&#x2F;AMD-Ryzen-7-...</a> which just find-and-replaces half the 5800X3D comments).</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>This &quot;stagnation&quot; is nothing like the stagnation during AMD&#x27;s poorly performing Bulldozer era (the post Athlon era) where they were consistently beat by Intel&#x27;s offerings and there was a general lack of innovation in the prosumer space.<p>During that era for the most part Intel&#x27;s i7 prosumer CPUs started with 4 cores with the Bloomfield Nehalem chips in 2008 (which at the time were awesome and a game changer) and ended with 4 cores with the Kaby Lake-S in 2017. It really only changed in 2017 with AMD Ryzen forcing Intel to actually increase core count.<p>2008 Nehalem benchmark: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;SpeedTest&#x2F;778&#x2F;IntelR-CoreTM-i7-CPU---------960----320GHz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;SpeedTest&#x2F;778&#x2F;IntelR-CoreTM-i7...</a><p>2017 Kaby Lake-S benchmark: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;Intel-Core-i7-7700&#x2F;Rating&#x2F;3887" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;Intel-Core-i7-7700&#x2F;Rating&#x2F;3887</a><p>When I compare the two, it shows an effective 20% speed increase, although microbenchmarks show a 50% increase. That is a stagnation.<p>During that era it felt like a lost decade. I don&#x27;t miss it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Great CPU Stagnation</title><url>http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-great-cpu-stagnation.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>semi-extrinsic</author><text>Can confirm, I bought a pair of desktops for work in 2012 with Ivy Brige i7&#x27;s that could &quot;turbo boost&quot; to 3.9 GHz indefinitely without overclock. I did not feel a real upgrade need until the 32 core Threadripper machines came out in 2018.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>This &quot;stagnation&quot; is nothing like the stagnation during AMD&#x27;s poorly performing Bulldozer era (the post Athlon era) where they were consistently beat by Intel&#x27;s offerings and there was a general lack of innovation in the prosumer space.<p>During that era for the most part Intel&#x27;s i7 prosumer CPUs started with 4 cores with the Bloomfield Nehalem chips in 2008 (which at the time were awesome and a game changer) and ended with 4 cores with the Kaby Lake-S in 2017. It really only changed in 2017 with AMD Ryzen forcing Intel to actually increase core count.<p>2008 Nehalem benchmark: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;SpeedTest&#x2F;778&#x2F;IntelR-CoreTM-i7-CPU---------960----320GHz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;SpeedTest&#x2F;778&#x2F;IntelR-CoreTM-i7...</a><p>2017 Kaby Lake-S benchmark: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;Intel-Core-i7-7700&#x2F;Rating&#x2F;3887" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpu.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;Intel-Core-i7-7700&#x2F;Rating&#x2F;3887</a><p>When I compare the two, it shows an effective 20% speed increase, although microbenchmarks show a 50% increase. That is a stagnation.<p>During that era it felt like a lost decade. I don&#x27;t miss it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Great CPU Stagnation</title><url>http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-great-cpu-stagnation.html</url></story> |
31,607,960 | 31,604,040 | 1 | 3 | 31,602,417 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stutsmansoft</author><text>The dealers brought it on themselves...many of them actively disincentivize EV purchases when you try to buy one.<p>Why? They want to protect that recurring service bay revenue. Oil changes, plugs, belts, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spikels</author><text>Ford reorganized back in March so that their EV business (Model e) is separate from the legacy ICE business (Ford Blue). There was speculation at the time that this was in part free itself of the dealership sales model. The dealers would keep the dying ICE business while the fast growing EV business would start with clean slate. Farley was quoted describing the EV sales model as:<p>&gt; &quot;It&#x27;s going to be much more efficient, a lot more online. It&#x27;s going to be a really different model.&quot;[1]<p>Obviously this will be very controversial and subject to interference by state legislators who have often protected dealerships. Will be interesting to see this transition.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideevs.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;571959&#x2F;ford-dealerships-impacted-ev-ice-split&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideevs.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;571959&#x2F;ford-dealerships-impacted-...</a></text></item><item><author>medler</author><text>This article takes an off-the-cuff comment from the CEO of Ford and reads too much into it IMO. He wasn’t saying dealerships are going away; he was actually saying the opposite. The point he was making was that Ford is going to adopt some of Tesla’s practices while using the dealership network to compete with them.<p>Here’s the quote with more context:
“I believe for retail, we have to -- it&#x27;s kind of like what happened between Amazon and Target. Target could have gone away, but they didn&#x27;t. They bolted on an e-commerce platform and then they used their physical store to add groceries and return -- make returns really much easier than Amazon. They used their expertise as a physical retailer to their advantage, but they modernized the e-commerce piece. So it would be really easy to do business with them. It&#x27;s exactly what we have to do on the retail side. We got to go to non-negotiated price. We&#x27;ve got to go to a 100% online, the vehicle there is no inventory goes directly to the customer, 100% remote pickup and delivery, but then we have this opportunity to use our physical presence, they outperform them. Like, I believe some Mach-E and Lightning customers would love to have a Mustang for the weekend. Maybe they want a Super Duty. I can do that, they can&#x27;t do that, unless they ran a Ford.”<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4515793-ford-motor-company-f-ceo-james-farley-presents-bernstein-38th-annual-strategic-decisions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4515793-ford-motor-company-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2022/06/01/ev-online-sales-ford-uber-lyft/7474822001/?gnt-cfr=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>runnerup</author><text>Huge thanks for this context.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spikels</author><text>Ford reorganized back in March so that their EV business (Model e) is separate from the legacy ICE business (Ford Blue). There was speculation at the time that this was in part free itself of the dealership sales model. The dealers would keep the dying ICE business while the fast growing EV business would start with clean slate. Farley was quoted describing the EV sales model as:<p>&gt; &quot;It&#x27;s going to be much more efficient, a lot more online. It&#x27;s going to be a really different model.&quot;[1]<p>Obviously this will be very controversial and subject to interference by state legislators who have often protected dealerships. Will be interesting to see this transition.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideevs.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;571959&#x2F;ford-dealerships-impacted-ev-ice-split&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideevs.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;571959&#x2F;ford-dealerships-impacted-...</a></text></item><item><author>medler</author><text>This article takes an off-the-cuff comment from the CEO of Ford and reads too much into it IMO. He wasn’t saying dealerships are going away; he was actually saying the opposite. The point he was making was that Ford is going to adopt some of Tesla’s practices while using the dealership network to compete with them.<p>Here’s the quote with more context:
“I believe for retail, we have to -- it&#x27;s kind of like what happened between Amazon and Target. Target could have gone away, but they didn&#x27;t. They bolted on an e-commerce platform and then they used their physical store to add groceries and return -- make returns really much easier than Amazon. They used their expertise as a physical retailer to their advantage, but they modernized the e-commerce piece. So it would be really easy to do business with them. It&#x27;s exactly what we have to do on the retail side. We got to go to non-negotiated price. We&#x27;ve got to go to a 100% online, the vehicle there is no inventory goes directly to the customer, 100% remote pickup and delivery, but then we have this opportunity to use our physical presence, they outperform them. Like, I believe some Mach-E and Lightning customers would love to have a Mustang for the weekend. Maybe they want a Super Duty. I can do that, they can&#x27;t do that, unless they ran a Ford.”<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4515793-ford-motor-company-f-ceo-james-farley-presents-bernstein-38th-annual-strategic-decisions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4515793-ford-motor-company-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2022/06/01/ev-online-sales-ford-uber-lyft/7474822001/?gnt-cfr=1</url></story> |
33,363,731 | 33,363,889 | 1 | 2 | 33,363,621 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ckastner</author><text>Annual revenue of $394 billion, more than a billion a day.<p>Not the first company to do it, though. Exxon did it in the 2000s when oil was up to $140, and I think Walmart did it, too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>retskrad</author><text>Holy moly, the Mac keeps growing like crazy. It’s amusing how Apple wanted the iPad to disrupt the Mac but the advent of M-Series chips on the Mac has really nipped that ambition in the bud.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/</url></story> |
21,826,318 | 21,825,113 | 1 | 3 | 21,824,752 | train | <instructions>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>Softbank isn&#x27;t perfect, but its disappointing to see such a snarky&#x2F;dismissive tone coming from Bloomberg.<p>This is ridiculous:<p>&gt; Three months later, Zume has yet to revolutionize food production or to be profitable<p>I&#x27;ve worked with Jeff Housenbold. They got his intelligence right, but this nonsense sounds like Gawker not Bloomberg<p>&gt; Jeff Housenbold,... Acquaintances describe him as smart and arrogant and almost entirely lacking in self-awareness<p>And when did random company gossip become news reported as fact? How does publishing the denial make it OK to report anonymous smears as fact?<p>&gt; Navneet Govil, told a Mormon employee to “go back to Utah to get more wives.” The employee left the company. Via a spokesman, Govil denies making such a statement. Around that time, Govil also berated a young accountant in front of a group, bringing her to tears. She later quit. And at a work lunch a few months later with several colleagues, Govil remarked that “Chinese people sound stupid,” according to two people who heard the comment. Via a spokesman, Govil denies making such a statement or berating the employee; SoftBank says it has no record of these events.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-18/softbank-vision-fund-employees-depict-a-culture-of-recklessness</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>This is comedy gold:<p>&gt; <i>After Vision Fund invested $375 million in Zume Pizza Inc., whose mission to use robots to automate pizza making had shades of Silicon Valley frivolity, CEO Alex Garden expanded his mission to include rethinking the entirety of U.S. food production. Employees were unnerved. “Are we the next Theranos?” went one anonymously submitted question at an all-hands meeting over the summer</i><p>edit: More info about Zume and the investment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;recode&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;21&#x2F;20974979&#x2F;zume-pizza-softbank-fundraising-four-billion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;recode&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;21&#x2F;20974979&#x2F;zume-pizza-so...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-18/softbank-vision-fund-employees-depict-a-culture-of-recklessness</url></story> |
17,014,161 | 17,013,914 | 1 | 2 | 17,012,995 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Traveling for business, I&#x27;ve paid extra for a flight that cut my coast-to-coast travel time from 8 hours to 6 hours (can&#x27;t get nonstop flights to LA from my airport). That was the difference between &quot;do I visit my client today for a few hours or do I go straight to the hotel and see them tomorrow&quot;.<p>The difference wasn&#x27;t worth paying Concorde prices, but it was an extra $200 and since my billing rate is over $500&#x2F;hr and considering the hotel prices in LA, the client was happy to pay it if it meant seeing me the same day I flew in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I think there are thresholds there. Reducing a 12-hours long flight to 8-hours long flight makes no practical difference to people traveling. Cutting it down to 6 hours might start. Cutting it down to 2-3 hours (or under an hour, as SpaceX is proposing) enables new use cases for which people might be willing to pay premium. Suddenly, a company can send someone to a meeting&#x2F;conference on the other side of the world and have them back the same day.</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s that simple, if you asked someone if they would pay 50$ to save 8+ hours off a long flight I think a significant portion would say hell yes. So, it&#x27;s more a question of cost vs. saved time.<p>50$ seems crazy as supersonic flight is going to use far more fuel, but it also means the aircraft, pilot, and flight attendants can make more trips. So, a minimal cost increase might be possible.</text></item><item><author>JanSolo</author><text>Concorde was a fantastic technological achievement; It&#x27;s beautiful and revolutionary. My heart really wants it to be successful.<p>However, my head tells me that no amount of tweaking or tuning will change the fundamental problem with Concorde.
The root problem with this aircraft is that people prefer cheaper flights over faster flights.<p>The real success that we can take from the Concorde program was that some of the technology found its way into the A300 program and its derivative, the A320.<p>Cheap, reliable aircraft are what people want. Fast, expensive ones are cool, but not really economic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Concorde ‘B’</title><url>https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sambe</author><text>Almost everyone I know who flies recreationally would pay to reduce 12 to 8, and I have done so myself. Maybe those routes&#x2F;budgets are not a big enough proportion of the overall flight volume?</text><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I think there are thresholds there. Reducing a 12-hours long flight to 8-hours long flight makes no practical difference to people traveling. Cutting it down to 6 hours might start. Cutting it down to 2-3 hours (or under an hour, as SpaceX is proposing) enables new use cases for which people might be willing to pay premium. Suddenly, a company can send someone to a meeting&#x2F;conference on the other side of the world and have them back the same day.</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s that simple, if you asked someone if they would pay 50$ to save 8+ hours off a long flight I think a significant portion would say hell yes. So, it&#x27;s more a question of cost vs. saved time.<p>50$ seems crazy as supersonic flight is going to use far more fuel, but it also means the aircraft, pilot, and flight attendants can make more trips. So, a minimal cost increase might be possible.</text></item><item><author>JanSolo</author><text>Concorde was a fantastic technological achievement; It&#x27;s beautiful and revolutionary. My heart really wants it to be successful.<p>However, my head tells me that no amount of tweaking or tuning will change the fundamental problem with Concorde.
The root problem with this aircraft is that people prefer cheaper flights over faster flights.<p>The real success that we can take from the Concorde program was that some of the technology found its way into the A300 program and its derivative, the A320.<p>Cheap, reliable aircraft are what people want. Fast, expensive ones are cool, but not really economic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Concorde ‘B’</title><url>https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b</url></story> |
28,127,328 | 28,126,947 | 1 | 3 | 28,105,692 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmje</author><text>I know we love evidence, and rightly so. But I do think there is space here for intuition. Is a life of mindless clicking ever going to be as good as a real one, spent in the company of real people who aren’t endlessly distracted? Is a sunset through a lens ever as satisfying or heart wrenching as a real one? I know for sure that I’m happier, my wife is happier, my two teen kids are happier when we’re in the real world more of the time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health</title><url>https://theconversation.com/flawed-data-led-to-findings-of-a-connection-between-time-spent-on-devices-and-mental-health-problems-new-research-162585</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>playpause</author><text>I think these are very different hypotheses:<p>1. A person&#x27;s mental health is likely to improve if they reduce their social media usage.<p>2. A person&#x27;s mental health is likely to improve if they <i>and all&#x2F;most of their friends</i> reduce their social media usage.<p>Intuitively, I can see why the first one might be false, even if the second one turns out to be true. So much of modern social life is deeply involved with social media, including a lot of the conversation at IRL social events. Unilaterally cutting yourself off from all that doesn&#x27;t seem like an obvious boon to mental health.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health</title><url>https://theconversation.com/flawed-data-led-to-findings-of-a-connection-between-time-spent-on-devices-and-mental-health-problems-new-research-162585</url></story> |
19,746,499 | 19,746,456 | 1 | 2 | 19,736,214 | train | <instructions>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>1 - string contents and actual length are handled in separate variables without correlation<p>2 - no enforcement that a null terminator actually exists in the string<p>3 - C brags about performance and is probably the slowest language to compute string length<p>4 - manipulating strings requires very carefull handling of buffers, usually forcing everyone to use the heap as easier way out</text><parent_chain><item><author>aap_</author><text>I never really got that complaint, I&#x27;d like to see some examples of what people consider so ugly about C strings.</text></item><item><author>drb91</author><text>I stopped writing C because string manipulation sucked.</text></item><item><author>aap_</author><text>I don&#x27;t like how people on the internet hate on C all the time. To me C is a wonderfully simple and elegant language that I can most of the time very clearly express my thoughts in. I find that this not the case with many other languages. This is the reason I use C. Of course compiler writers are trying to sabotage this but I don&#x27;t write any critical code so if I get hit by an occasional bug it&#x27;s not a big problem.
I think C is misunderstood, perhaps because it is used everywhere and standards for critical pieces of software are applied to non-critical ones.
E.g. never freeing memory, even leaking it by destroying all references to it, can be totally fine if your program just runs for a few seconds. Just allocate what you need, throw it away, and let the OS clean up when you&#x27;re done. This is perfectly fine but I feel like many people wouldn&#x27;t accept this kind of code because it&#x27;s not acceptable in other circumstances.<p>Anyway, the author makes a few good points that are important but often overlooked, but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d agree with him on the safety aspect in section 6. Making a safe C implementation doesn&#x27;t really appear possible. If you allow casting integers to pointers, how do you implement these saftey checks he&#x27;s talking about?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21//research/papers/kell17some-preprint.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>flohofwoe</author><text>I agree, but C (the language) doesn&#x27;t even have the concept of a &#x27;string&#x27;. It&#x27;s just the convention how some C standard library functions interpret an array of bytes with a zero at the end.<p>At least in C it&#x27;s quite obvious that strings are not trivial if you want both an intuitive way to work with strings, and high performance. The C++ std::string type is neither intuitive to work with, nor does it allow to write high-performance code.<p>For string processing it&#x27;s really better to use another language with different trade-offs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aap_</author><text>I never really got that complaint, I&#x27;d like to see some examples of what people consider so ugly about C strings.</text></item><item><author>drb91</author><text>I stopped writing C because string manipulation sucked.</text></item><item><author>aap_</author><text>I don&#x27;t like how people on the internet hate on C all the time. To me C is a wonderfully simple and elegant language that I can most of the time very clearly express my thoughts in. I find that this not the case with many other languages. This is the reason I use C. Of course compiler writers are trying to sabotage this but I don&#x27;t write any critical code so if I get hit by an occasional bug it&#x27;s not a big problem.
I think C is misunderstood, perhaps because it is used everywhere and standards for critical pieces of software are applied to non-critical ones.
E.g. never freeing memory, even leaking it by destroying all references to it, can be totally fine if your program just runs for a few seconds. Just allocate what you need, throw it away, and let the OS clean up when you&#x27;re done. This is perfectly fine but I feel like many people wouldn&#x27;t accept this kind of code because it&#x27;s not acceptable in other circumstances.<p>Anyway, the author makes a few good points that are important but often overlooked, but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d agree with him on the safety aspect in section 6. Making a safe C implementation doesn&#x27;t really appear possible. If you allow casting integers to pointers, how do you implement these saftey checks he&#x27;s talking about?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21//research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf</url></story> |
14,320,890 | 14,320,231 | 1 | 3 | 14,315,355 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neuro_imager</author><text>This article is interesting but misleading. (I do surgeries on patients with strokes):<p>CCMs (cavernous malformations) are vascular lesions, rare vascular lesions and relatively rarely they can bleed and cause &quot;strokes&quot; (as in neurological deficits in patients).<p>However CCMs that bleed make up a minuscule fraction of a percentage of all patients who have strokes (which are generally caused by ischemia - blockages to vessels with decreased oxygenated blood to the brain).<p>The title should read &#x27;gut bacteria can potentially trigger rare type of brain vascular malformations&#x27;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Lead to Strokes</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-gut-bacteria-can-trigger-brain-lesions-that-lead-to-strokes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tudorw</author><text>I find this a fascinating subject, it would seem our gut microbiota is a driving force of much of the bio-chemistry that we experience as consciousness, serotonin, adrenaline, dopamine, oxytocin are all influenced by the state of our gut microbiota and it&#x27;s great to see so much research in this area, how we feel seems to have a lot to do with what we eat...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Lead to Strokes</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-gut-bacteria-can-trigger-brain-lesions-that-lead-to-strokes</url></story> |
41,504,352 | 41,503,699 | 1 | 3 | 41,502,510 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vanishingbee</author><text>Happens in the very first example:<p>[Attention is All You Need - 1:07]<p>&gt; Voice A: How did the &quot;Attention is All You Need&quot; paper address this sequential processing bottleneck of RNNs?<p>&gt; Voice B: So, instead of going step-by-step like RNNs, they introduced a model called the Transformer - hence the title.<p>What title? The paper is entitled &quot;Attention is All You Need&quot;.<p>People are fooling themselves. These are stochastic parrots cosplaying as academics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dlisboa</author><text>One problem I see with this is legitimizing LLM-extracted content as canon. The realistic human speech masks the fact that the LLM might be hallucinating or highlighting the wrong parts of a book&#x2F;paper as important.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio</title><url>https://illuminate.google.com/home</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gs17</author><text>We&#x27;ll have to see how it holds up for general books. The books they highlighted are all very old and very famous, so the training set of whatever LLM they use definitely has a huge amount of human-written content about them, and the papers are all relatively short.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dlisboa</author><text>One problem I see with this is legitimizing LLM-extracted content as canon. The realistic human speech masks the fact that the LLM might be hallucinating or highlighting the wrong parts of a book&#x2F;paper as important.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio</title><url>https://illuminate.google.com/home</url></story> |
6,499,254 | 6,499,169 | 1 | 3 | 6,499,036 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oblique63</author><text>Surely I can&#x27;t be the only one wondering why this kind of functionality isn&#x27;t just built-in already (with option to enable&#x2F;disable accordingly)? I mean, the site has been around for about 7 years now, and the whole &#x27;community&#x27; aspect seems to be a big selling point, so it just seems odd...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HN Notify</title><url>http://hnnotify.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>siong1987</author><text>I created HNMention (<a href="http://www.hnmention.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hnmention.com&#x2F;</a>) a while back.<p>It will notify you when someone mentions you in comment like how mention works on Twitter (@username).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HN Notify</title><url>http://hnnotify.com/</url></story> |
27,735,147 | 27,735,234 | 1 | 2 | 27,734,565 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdaniel</author><text>Given that no one should be _actively_ writing 2.7 code, and that GH is trying to monetize this, I would think they could retrain the main model that excludes 2.7 code, and then allow people who need 2.7 to &quot;pay for supporting 2.7&quot; just like I&#x27;m guessing folks stuck on old platforms always do<p>You raise a fascinating point about older platforms of other languages, too; Java has a super backward compat story, but woe be unto the coder who tries to name a variable &quot;enum&quot; nowadays</text><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>A fun issue I keep hitting with Github Copilot in Python is that it&#x27;s a coin flip whether it will give me a Python 3-style print statement or a Python 2.7 style print statement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot</title><url>https://blog.hrithwik.me/the-good-and-the-limitations-of-github-copilot</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kzrdude</author><text>This seems to be another side of the problem that it gives code that doesn&#x27;t actually compile for the target language. They should have a check for that, that should be the baseline.<p>For me, it sounds like it&#x27;s closer to dumb copy paste than a smart code generator. AlphaZero wouldn&#x27;t play a chess move that was against the rules.</text><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>A fun issue I keep hitting with Github Copilot in Python is that it&#x27;s a coin flip whether it will give me a Python 3-style print statement or a Python 2.7 style print statement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot</title><url>https://blog.hrithwik.me/the-good-and-the-limitations-of-github-copilot</url></story> |
21,561,077 | 21,561,100 | 1 | 3 | 21,560,660 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>t_mann</author><text>The article doesn’t seem to deliver on its headline. It seems plausible that urbanisation, economic growth and the emergence of a wealthy class with sufficient leisure time to hang out and discuss might also have had something to do with the spread of ideas about political freedoms. The article doesn’t touch on these at all, and doesn’t provide a compelling reason why the mentioned historic events wouldn’t have occurred without coffee. It seems more like a spurious correlation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coffee may have hastened the Ottoman Empire’s demise</title><url>https://www.1843magazine.com/food-drink/world-in-a-dish/how-turkish-coffee-destroyed-an-empire</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>Ethnic groups in European regions of the empire with an Eastern Orthodox Christian majority started agitating for independence. Nationalist leaders planned their tactics and cemented alliances in the coffee houses of Thessaloniki, Sofia and Belgrade. Their caffeine-fuelled efforts succeeded with the establishment of an independent Greece in 1821, Serbia in 1835, and Bulgaria in 1878. The reign of kahve was over.</i><p>Those things (the rise of nation states) would have happened with, or without the coffee, as they happened all around central and western Europe as well even earlier, and in the 20th century, all around the world.<p>There were several factors for that, including the rise of national awareness, easier promotion of such causes through typography, the decline of the Ottoman empire itself (the &quot;Sick man of Europe&quot; as it was called at the time), and the plain old fact that many regional majorities, especially Christians, were ruled over as second class citizens...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coffee may have hastened the Ottoman Empire’s demise</title><url>https://www.1843magazine.com/food-drink/world-in-a-dish/how-turkish-coffee-destroyed-an-empire</url></story> |
36,825,148 | 36,824,915 | 1 | 2 | 36,823,565 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sen</author><text>This is so cool, there&#x27;s nothing I love to read about more than someone spending insane amounts of time hacking some old piece of hardware that even when done will be completely useless in the modern era, for no other reason than &quot;why not?&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's interactive television box: Hacking the set top box System 7.1 in ROM</title><url>http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/07/apples-interactive-television-box.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>rcarmo</author><text>This was an amazing read. As someone who spent a long time hacking 68k Macs, I laughed out loud when I came to “Moving or substantially altering this code in ResEdit has side effects, usually explosive ones”.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's interactive television box: Hacking the set top box System 7.1 in ROM</title><url>http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/07/apples-interactive-television-box.html</url></story> |
40,211,570 | 40,211,599 | 1 | 3 | 40,211,010 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Retr0id</author><text>I know a couple of people who moderate niche-but-active subreddits, and they&#x27;re still inundated with spam. The only real difference is that they <i>can</i> stay on top of it, for the most part. So yeah, the niche subreddits are still alive, but I think they&#x27;re struggling.<p>One of them closed to non-approved submitters, and now they get AI-generated requests for account approval.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluetidepro</author><text>The key to make Reddit still an amazing resource is finding niche subreddits that fit your interests. The very broad subreddits like funny, news, pics, politics (where this is likely from), etc. etc. are all just full of spam, and trash like this. They have been for YEARS now. However, say you dive into a subreddit for a specific video game you like, it&#x27;s going to be full of relevant content with very little spam. Or if anything, the type of spam is just reposting content which still may even be new for you. Reddit is not dying, just the giant stadium size subreddits are trash. I visit video game subreddits for games I actively play almost daily and they are all incredibly useful and interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later</title><url>https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11615413</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rospaya</author><text>Why would I dedicate my time to a subreddit that might vanish overnight or might get taken over by the admins? Way back, subreddits were independent forums, and now they&#x27;re one protest away from being kidnapped.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluetidepro</author><text>The key to make Reddit still an amazing resource is finding niche subreddits that fit your interests. The very broad subreddits like funny, news, pics, politics (where this is likely from), etc. etc. are all just full of spam, and trash like this. They have been for YEARS now. However, say you dive into a subreddit for a specific video game you like, it&#x27;s going to be full of relevant content with very little spam. Or if anything, the type of spam is just reposting content which still may even be new for you. Reddit is not dying, just the giant stadium size subreddits are trash. I visit video game subreddits for games I actively play almost daily and they are all incredibly useful and interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later</title><url>https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11615413</url></story> |
10,642,014 | 10,641,645 | 1 | 3 | 10,641,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ricw</author><text>This argument is one massive false assumption. Renewable energy sources are becoming cheaper and are already cheaper than coal and nuclear. Cheap means they will become pervasive and replace the majority of existing sources. There is technically no reason we couldn&#x27;t do it [3], rather &quot;the key roadblocks are: climate change denial, the fossil fuels lobby, political inaction, unsustainable energy consumption, outdated energy infrastructure, and financial constraints&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s only a question of time until renewables will kill fossil fuels. If only we&#x27;d stop subsidising fossil fuels [2].<p>The report you&#x27;re quoting is itself highly questionable. Just as an example, wind speed averages are based on Cambridge, which isn&#x27;t anywhere near the coast where wind turbines should live. Anything from a comprehensive report. Furthermore, he compares the energy to a random amount of energy (50% of energy consumed by cars). The report itself seems a little bit of warm air.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Energy_transition_in_Germany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Energy_transition_in_Germany</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;energywise&#x2F;energy&#x2F;fossil-fuels&#x2F;in-2040-fossil-fuels-still-reign" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;energywise&#x2F;energy&#x2F;fossil-fuels&#x2F;in-2...</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;scientificamerican&#x2F;journal&#x2F;v301&#x2F;n5&#x2F;full&#x2F;scientificamerican1109-58.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;scientificamerican&#x2F;journal&#x2F;v301&#x2F;n5&#x2F;ful...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pilom</author><text>The problem is scale. Here is a really good analysis of renewable resources in the UK: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.withouthotair.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.withouthotair.com&#x2F;</a><p>Conclusion: The UK doesn&#x27;t receive enough sunlight or have enough wind&#x2F;waves&#x2F;tidal pools&#x2F;land to grow food, power cars (of any kind) and meet other energy needs. The UK can never get all of their energy carbon free without nuclear or importing power. The US is in a better place because of solar in the Southwest but we still don&#x27;t have the technology&#x2F;infrastructure to transport all of that power.</text></item><item><author>T-A</author><text>&gt; We already know that today’s energy sources cannot sustain a future we want to live in.<p>Is this really true? In Lazard&#x27;s 2014 comparison of total cost per MWh, both wind and solar beat coal and nuclear [1]. Costs have fallen so much that it&#x27;s becoming hard to justify continued subsidies [2].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;energyinnovation.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;levelized-cost-of-energy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;energyinnovation.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;levelized-cost-of-ene...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treehugger.com&#x2F;renewable-energy&#x2F;us-energy-secretary-solar-and-wind-energy-cost-competitive-without-subsidies.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treehugger.com&#x2F;renewable-energy&#x2F;us-energy-secreta...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New Atomic Age We Need</title><url>https://nytimes.com/2015/11/28/opinion/the-new-atomic-age-we-need.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>Retric</author><text>BS, solar is not great in the UK, but your comparing electric generation at 2009 efficiency levels with powering cars, heating using resistance heating etc. (Heat pumps break 100% nominal efficiency by extracting heat from outside air.) It&#x27;s also perfectly reasonable for the UK to continue to import significant amounts of energy in one form or another and or increase efficiency levels.<p>EX: We can manufacture 40+% efficient solar cells, sure there expensive, but saying the only thing possible is some lower efficiency level is clearly BS. [They use 10% as some sort of arbitrary limit on page 41.]<p>PS: <i>Photovoltaic panels with
20% efficiency are already close to the theoretical limit (see this chapter’s
endnotes</i> Current, world record for concentrated solar is 46%.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pilom</author><text>The problem is scale. Here is a really good analysis of renewable resources in the UK: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.withouthotair.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.withouthotair.com&#x2F;</a><p>Conclusion: The UK doesn&#x27;t receive enough sunlight or have enough wind&#x2F;waves&#x2F;tidal pools&#x2F;land to grow food, power cars (of any kind) and meet other energy needs. The UK can never get all of their energy carbon free without nuclear or importing power. The US is in a better place because of solar in the Southwest but we still don&#x27;t have the technology&#x2F;infrastructure to transport all of that power.</text></item><item><author>T-A</author><text>&gt; We already know that today’s energy sources cannot sustain a future we want to live in.<p>Is this really true? In Lazard&#x27;s 2014 comparison of total cost per MWh, both wind and solar beat coal and nuclear [1]. Costs have fallen so much that it&#x27;s becoming hard to justify continued subsidies [2].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;energyinnovation.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;levelized-cost-of-energy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;energyinnovation.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;levelized-cost-of-ene...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treehugger.com&#x2F;renewable-energy&#x2F;us-energy-secretary-solar-and-wind-energy-cost-competitive-without-subsidies.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treehugger.com&#x2F;renewable-energy&#x2F;us-energy-secreta...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New Atomic Age We Need</title><url>https://nytimes.com/2015/11/28/opinion/the-new-atomic-age-we-need.html</url></story> |
27,089,271 | 27,089,275 | 1 | 2 | 27,088,272 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sgtnoodle</author><text>Lol, I alternate between aero-press and pour over depending on the grounds I currently have. My tolerance for latency for good coffee is high regardless of how urgent other folk are for my time! Not that I&#x27;m a snob about coffee, I have instant on hand for convenience as well, and I&#x27;ll happily drink a poorly brewed cup too. It&#x27;s just a nice ritual and something to optimize for fun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>The low latency approach is pretty much already encapsulated by the MVP approach to product design and incremental release schedule. Actually, considering the lower overhead of testing &amp; implementation for small incremental changes vs. monolithic releases that are much harder to reverse course if there&#x27;s a problem, the low-latency approach could also be the higher throughput approach.<p>Anyway, I am literally going to make myself one single cup of coffee now. No one in my house drinks it, so I have tried just about every method of making a single good cup of coffee. Right now, that balances towards very low latency but very low quality: instant coffee, because my tolerance for coffee latency is usually very low. (also low tolerance for cleaning up the equipment needed to make coffee-- garbage collection!) At some point the needle will swing back towards quality and I&#x27;ll take the extra 5 minutes to do a pour over &amp; deal with cleaning more stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inefficient Efficiency (2019)</title><url>https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/inefficient-efficiency-5b3ab5294791</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>If you&#x27;re not very cost-conscious, you can get excellent instant coffee (e.g. Sightglass), but it&#x27;ll cost you &gt;$2.50&#x2F;cup, much more than equivalent quality beans.<p>Yet another instance of fast&#x2F;cheap&#x2F;good, pick two.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>The low latency approach is pretty much already encapsulated by the MVP approach to product design and incremental release schedule. Actually, considering the lower overhead of testing &amp; implementation for small incremental changes vs. monolithic releases that are much harder to reverse course if there&#x27;s a problem, the low-latency approach could also be the higher throughput approach.<p>Anyway, I am literally going to make myself one single cup of coffee now. No one in my house drinks it, so I have tried just about every method of making a single good cup of coffee. Right now, that balances towards very low latency but very low quality: instant coffee, because my tolerance for coffee latency is usually very low. (also low tolerance for cleaning up the equipment needed to make coffee-- garbage collection!) At some point the needle will swing back towards quality and I&#x27;ll take the extra 5 minutes to do a pour over &amp; deal with cleaning more stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inefficient Efficiency (2019)</title><url>https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/inefficient-efficiency-5b3ab5294791</url></story> |
19,890,543 | 19,890,492 | 1 | 2 | 19,889,365 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donw</author><text>I like the German solution for dealing with glass bottles: rather than recycling, they are made to be washed and reused.<p>You pay a deposit when you buy a bottle of tasty beverage, and some time later, can take those bottles back to the grocery store. There, you put your used bottles into a machine which scans each bottle, and gives you an aggregate receipt for all of the bottles you returned, which you can then use to buy goods at that store.<p>It&#x27;s a great system for encouraging reuse, and we should be doing this in the US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>barry-cotter</author><text>&gt; There is an energy saving component to recycling. Aluminum for example takes a tremendous amount of power to produce and recycling reduces that.<p>Yes, that’s why aluminium is recycled everywhere. Glass, on the other hand, is more of a “What the hell do we do with this?” situation because making glass from sand is cheap and doesn’t have the quality control issues of making it from old glass. That’s why recycled glass goes to making gravel, decorative or not, mostly.<p>Transport is cheap and most recycling makes no economic sense and wouldn’t even with a carbon tax. Chemical feedstock is cheap, wood is cheap, metals are cheap. That covers plastics, paper and manufactured goods. Recycling is a religious impulse, not an economic one.</text></item><item><author>acomjean</author><text>There is an energy saving component to recycling. Aluminum for example takes a tremendous amount of power to produce and recycling reduces that.<p>Recycling makes different amounts of sense depending on the material. I suspect that a fair amount of material mined is subsidized by different governments (natural resource extraction at least in the us often takes place on leased government land).<p>I did some landfill design engineering in a previous career. while there is lots of space sometimes it’s far away, so there is trucking waste around. Plus landfills despite their liners and clay layers can leak nasty stuff into the groundwater.<p>You pay for what you put in the landfill by weight, so reducing waste can save municipalities money.</text></item><item><author>ordinaryperson</author><text>The NYT has had several decent articles on this over the years:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;climate&#x2F;recycling-landfills-plastic-papers.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;climate&#x2F;recycling-landfil...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;business&#x2F;local-recycling-costs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;business&#x2F;local-recycling-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;recycling-is-garbage.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;recycling-is-gar...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;the-reign-of-recycling.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;the-reign-...</a><p>Ask yourself: how does recycling help the environment? It doesn&#x27;t. Recycling arose out of 1980s landfill anxiety but we have plenty of space, what we don&#x27;t have are plenty of climates. All the money wasted on making us feel better by recycling could be far better spent reducing carbon emissions.<p>What a waste of tax dollars, especially now that most cities and counties just throw out recycling anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Recycling Doesn't Work</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-recycling-doesnt-work/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>&gt; Transport is cheap<p>only because heavy goods vehicles do not pay for the damage that they do to the roads and the environment and because the oil industry is effectively subsidised.</text><parent_chain><item><author>barry-cotter</author><text>&gt; There is an energy saving component to recycling. Aluminum for example takes a tremendous amount of power to produce and recycling reduces that.<p>Yes, that’s why aluminium is recycled everywhere. Glass, on the other hand, is more of a “What the hell do we do with this?” situation because making glass from sand is cheap and doesn’t have the quality control issues of making it from old glass. That’s why recycled glass goes to making gravel, decorative or not, mostly.<p>Transport is cheap and most recycling makes no economic sense and wouldn’t even with a carbon tax. Chemical feedstock is cheap, wood is cheap, metals are cheap. That covers plastics, paper and manufactured goods. Recycling is a religious impulse, not an economic one.</text></item><item><author>acomjean</author><text>There is an energy saving component to recycling. Aluminum for example takes a tremendous amount of power to produce and recycling reduces that.<p>Recycling makes different amounts of sense depending on the material. I suspect that a fair amount of material mined is subsidized by different governments (natural resource extraction at least in the us often takes place on leased government land).<p>I did some landfill design engineering in a previous career. while there is lots of space sometimes it’s far away, so there is trucking waste around. Plus landfills despite their liners and clay layers can leak nasty stuff into the groundwater.<p>You pay for what you put in the landfill by weight, so reducing waste can save municipalities money.</text></item><item><author>ordinaryperson</author><text>The NYT has had several decent articles on this over the years:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;climate&#x2F;recycling-landfills-plastic-papers.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;climate&#x2F;recycling-landfil...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;business&#x2F;local-recycling-costs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;business&#x2F;local-recycling-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;recycling-is-garbage.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;recycling-is-gar...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;the-reign-of-recycling.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;the-reign-...</a><p>Ask yourself: how does recycling help the environment? It doesn&#x27;t. Recycling arose out of 1980s landfill anxiety but we have plenty of space, what we don&#x27;t have are plenty of climates. All the money wasted on making us feel better by recycling could be far better spent reducing carbon emissions.<p>What a waste of tax dollars, especially now that most cities and counties just throw out recycling anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Recycling Doesn't Work</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-recycling-doesnt-work/</url></story> |
11,681,982 | 11,682,068 | 1 | 2 | 11,666,802 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>egjerlow</author><text>Would you elaborate on why you think comments on papers might be dangerous? For me it seems like the most natural step forward, given where we are today.<p>As I see it, it would solve many issues. Ideally, we would move away from a publication-count metric, and more onto a reputation-based metric. It would lower the bar for participation in scientific discussion, make reproducibility more important, and generally be a healthy thing for science as a whole, I think. But I want to hear opposing viewpoints!</text><parent_chain><item><author>charles_dickens</author><text>Interesting to see their approach and the reasons why they are not building more features on top of ArXiv. Although comments on papers might be a dangerous area to venture into there are definitely places on the web where the ability to annotate and comment papers is helping science move forward. A good example is the Polymath project and Terry Tao&#x27;s blog. Tao&#x27;s recent solution to the Erdos discrepancy problem,an 80-year-old number theory problem, was actually triggered by a comment on his blog. Another example is www.fermatslibrary.com. Although the papers in the platform are more historical&#x2F;foundational, they were able to get consistently good&#x2F;constructive comments that help people understand papers better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/05/legendary-sites-reboot-shape-future-open-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>return0</author><text>&gt; might be a dangerous area to venture into.<p>The only danger is that the true obnoxious nature of some academics would be aired in public. There is a lot to gain from opening up a discussion in each paper. Asking questions, making clarifications, even suggesting improvements are things that are not possible to do now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>charles_dickens</author><text>Interesting to see their approach and the reasons why they are not building more features on top of ArXiv. Although comments on papers might be a dangerous area to venture into there are definitely places on the web where the ability to annotate and comment papers is helping science move forward. A good example is the Polymath project and Terry Tao&#x27;s blog. Tao&#x27;s recent solution to the Erdos discrepancy problem,an 80-year-old number theory problem, was actually triggered by a comment on his blog. Another example is www.fermatslibrary.com. Although the papers in the platform are more historical&#x2F;foundational, they were able to get consistently good&#x2F;constructive comments that help people understand papers better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/05/legendary-sites-reboot-shape-future-open-science/</url></story> |
28,557,718 | 28,557,525 | 1 | 2 | 28,555,480 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ericmay</author><text>That&#x27;s <i>exactly</i> why so many companies are enacting &quot;unlimited&quot; policies.<p>What they do is say &quot;It&#x27;s unlimited, but if you take more than 4 weeks it has to be approved&quot; or something and then that way they can cap you like they did before but also not pay you out if you leave because <i>wink wink</i> it&#x27;s &quot;unlimited&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lostlogin</author><text>Hang on, I’m in danger of understanding something.<p>If you get 5 weeks PTO and never take any then leave after 2 years, I assume it gets paid out?<p>If your contract is for unlimited PTO and you never take any and leave after 2 years, what do you get?<p>Edit: Thanks. Yikes. Unlimited PTO actually seems worse than a specified allowance from where I sit.</text></item><item><author>darthvoldemort</author><text>I worked at a startup where the CEO reverted the unlimited PTO because one asshole engineer took 2 months off paid leave and then came back and quit immediately. We were angry at the engineer, not the CEO, because it was clear what he was doing was taking advantage of the company&#x27;s generosity.<p>When I worked at Uber engineering which had unlimited PTO, I took between 6-8 weeks of PTO every year. Most years was at least 6, but one year I took 8. No one batted an eye. I think it all depends on company culture or maybe team culture.<p>I would never work for a company that denied me a PTO day, even if it was a single day. I would never irresponsibly take PTO but I would also make sure that I took at least 4 weeks off per year no matter what. The secret is taking 1 week off per quarter, and then another 2 weeks off during Christmas. That automatically brings you up to 6 weeks.<p>But make no mistake, unlimited vacation is a way to keep PTO off the books as a liability. In California you cannot lose PTO that you have accrued. They can stop accrual however once you reach a certain level. Once you max out on accrual, you are giving the company money, which is stupid so it&#x27;s important to consistently take PTO.</text></item><item><author>jaeming</author><text>I worked at a company that had unlimted PTO when suddenly one day they revoked the policy because they said some people were abusing it. The new policy was still very generous (6 weeks PTO per year) so no one complained. Fast forward a year later and we were hearing things from executives and managers like, &quot;you know you don&#x27;t have to use all you&#x27;re PTO, right?&quot;. I&#x27;d ask, oh, it will rollover to next year? The reply: &quot;No, it won&#x27;t. But that&#x27;s really the wrong way to think about it.&quot;<p>So it turns out people were taking much more time off now than when PTO was unlimited. They started denying request and making up trivial rules, like 2&#x2F;3 of your team must be available at any time (regardless of the team size), oh, and those rules weren&#x27;t in the official policy. Good luck trying to get specifics in writing.<p>Eventually they changed back to an unlimited policy but secretly told managers they should start denying requests after x number of days have been used. I think it was five weeks, which again is still generous but it bothers me because the intent is to hide that number in hopes that people will use less. I also get no tracking for how many days I&#x27;ve already taken unless I go through my requests and count the approved ones myself.<p>The unlimited policy is definitely a scam at many companies. Most of my team has been denied requests for reasons that don&#x27;t exist in the written policy, like, &quot;you recently had PTO already.&quot; Honestly I&#x27;d rather have a policy that only allowed 3 or 4 weeks with a minimum mandatory that each employee is required to take at least two weeks off per year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer</title><url>https://shitlassian.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>eli</author><text>&gt; If you get 5 weeks PTO and never take any then leave after 2 years, I assume it gets paid out?<p>Even in this case, it depends where you live and sometimes what your contract says. California requires it, but most states don&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lostlogin</author><text>Hang on, I’m in danger of understanding something.<p>If you get 5 weeks PTO and never take any then leave after 2 years, I assume it gets paid out?<p>If your contract is for unlimited PTO and you never take any and leave after 2 years, what do you get?<p>Edit: Thanks. Yikes. Unlimited PTO actually seems worse than a specified allowance from where I sit.</text></item><item><author>darthvoldemort</author><text>I worked at a startup where the CEO reverted the unlimited PTO because one asshole engineer took 2 months off paid leave and then came back and quit immediately. We were angry at the engineer, not the CEO, because it was clear what he was doing was taking advantage of the company&#x27;s generosity.<p>When I worked at Uber engineering which had unlimited PTO, I took between 6-8 weeks of PTO every year. Most years was at least 6, but one year I took 8. No one batted an eye. I think it all depends on company culture or maybe team culture.<p>I would never work for a company that denied me a PTO day, even if it was a single day. I would never irresponsibly take PTO but I would also make sure that I took at least 4 weeks off per year no matter what. The secret is taking 1 week off per quarter, and then another 2 weeks off during Christmas. That automatically brings you up to 6 weeks.<p>But make no mistake, unlimited vacation is a way to keep PTO off the books as a liability. In California you cannot lose PTO that you have accrued. They can stop accrual however once you reach a certain level. Once you max out on accrual, you are giving the company money, which is stupid so it&#x27;s important to consistently take PTO.</text></item><item><author>jaeming</author><text>I worked at a company that had unlimted PTO when suddenly one day they revoked the policy because they said some people were abusing it. The new policy was still very generous (6 weeks PTO per year) so no one complained. Fast forward a year later and we were hearing things from executives and managers like, &quot;you know you don&#x27;t have to use all you&#x27;re PTO, right?&quot;. I&#x27;d ask, oh, it will rollover to next year? The reply: &quot;No, it won&#x27;t. But that&#x27;s really the wrong way to think about it.&quot;<p>So it turns out people were taking much more time off now than when PTO was unlimited. They started denying request and making up trivial rules, like 2&#x2F;3 of your team must be available at any time (regardless of the team size), oh, and those rules weren&#x27;t in the official policy. Good luck trying to get specifics in writing.<p>Eventually they changed back to an unlimited policy but secretly told managers they should start denying requests after x number of days have been used. I think it was five weeks, which again is still generous but it bothers me because the intent is to hide that number in hopes that people will use less. I also get no tracking for how many days I&#x27;ve already taken unless I go through my requests and count the approved ones myself.<p>The unlimited policy is definitely a scam at many companies. Most of my team has been denied requests for reasons that don&#x27;t exist in the written policy, like, &quot;you recently had PTO already.&quot; Honestly I&#x27;d rather have a policy that only allowed 3 or 4 weeks with a minimum mandatory that each employee is required to take at least two weeks off per year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer</title><url>https://shitlassian.com/</url></story> |
29,676,913 | 29,676,950 | 1 | 2 | 29,674,831 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>guimplen</author><text>I think the real problem is that in most countries the healthcare system was &quot;optimized&quot; to such extent that even seasonal flu was almost clogging it every year. And now SURPRISE, any disease, even a tad bit more deadly and contagious than the seasonal flu would make it collapse. TOTALLY UNEXPECTED.</text><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>The primary concern form day one has been the capacity of our healthcare systems. &quot;Peak pandemic mortality&quot; includes scores of people dying from unrelated illness due to lack of care. Does anyone truly think its acceptable to let people die in ambulances outside of hospitals because a highly contagious disease filled all the hospital beds and medical staff is too fatigued to work? Maybe people with a political axe to grind pretend to think that.</text></item><item><author>Amezarak</author><text>The question ever since it became clear that this coronavirus was endemic has been what a &quot;manageable end game&quot; is: that is, what level of risk and mortality are we prepared to accept, given that deaths from Covid will never be zero.<p>This is, in my opinion, the primary underlying disagreement. Some people think that no amount of deaths from Covid is acceptable. Some people believe that even the peak pandemic mortality is acceptable. And others fall somewhere in between, by, for example, focusing on hospital capacity. I don&#x27;t think there is any long-term solution to Covid as a social issue, something we talk about and can&#x27;t move past, until some kind of consensus is reached on this.</text></item><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>Finally some glimmers of hope in moving past Covid.. if Omicron continues on its current track of highly infectious but less serious —- and infection confers reactive immunity to a variety of strains, we could be closer to the endemic but manageable end game. Good vaccines + mild severity illness are basically the best case.<p>What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nightmare that would keep this rolling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01089-8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway55421</author><text>No, lots of people do actually think that, but we believe that three main methods can be employed to mitigate this:<p>1. aggressive triage based on chances and QALY remaining<p>2. increased healthcare funding<p>3. voluntary isolation of individuals who see lockdown as being preferable to their personal coronavirus risk<p>Will it result in more deaths than February 2020? Sure. But we don&#x27;t have that choice because sars2 exists now.<p>We think it&#x27;s better to ration healthcare and therefore doom an unlucky minority, versus rationing life itself for everyone (via lockdowns and restrictions) and slow killing everyone.<p>As far as I can tell, most of the lockdown debate centres around an erroneous idea that we can just do X, Y, Z, and then immunosuppressed Harriet can rejoin the world and avoid contracting coronavirus.<p>But she just can&#x27;t. Even the original strain would have eventually infected her with high probability unless we continued to cycle lockdowns or she voluntarily isolated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>The primary concern form day one has been the capacity of our healthcare systems. &quot;Peak pandemic mortality&quot; includes scores of people dying from unrelated illness due to lack of care. Does anyone truly think its acceptable to let people die in ambulances outside of hospitals because a highly contagious disease filled all the hospital beds and medical staff is too fatigued to work? Maybe people with a political axe to grind pretend to think that.</text></item><item><author>Amezarak</author><text>The question ever since it became clear that this coronavirus was endemic has been what a &quot;manageable end game&quot; is: that is, what level of risk and mortality are we prepared to accept, given that deaths from Covid will never be zero.<p>This is, in my opinion, the primary underlying disagreement. Some people think that no amount of deaths from Covid is acceptable. Some people believe that even the peak pandemic mortality is acceptable. And others fall somewhere in between, by, for example, focusing on hospital capacity. I don&#x27;t think there is any long-term solution to Covid as a social issue, something we talk about and can&#x27;t move past, until some kind of consensus is reached on this.</text></item><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>Finally some glimmers of hope in moving past Covid.. if Omicron continues on its current track of highly infectious but less serious —- and infection confers reactive immunity to a variety of strains, we could be closer to the endemic but manageable end game. Good vaccines + mild severity illness are basically the best case.<p>What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nightmare that would keep this rolling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01089-8</url></story> |
25,942,367 | 25,940,553 | 1 | 2 | 25,940,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhartzer</author><text>Let’s call it what it is. It’s not a domain taken over by squatters. The domain was stolen.<p>I’ve seen other domains get stolen recently, it seems to be about the same time.<p>Patterns dot com
Piracy dot com
Perl dot com<p>All stolen at around the same time.<p>With patterns, the thief hacked the network solutions account, put the domain under privacy, transferred it to a Chinese registrar, and then put the old whois data back. They then tried to sell it on sedo and afternic for 10 percent of what it’s worth.<p>I have been able to get sedo and afternic to remove the listings. But patterns has not been returned to its owner after about two months. Still working with the owner and registrars on that.<p>My advice is to lock down your domains, register them for at least 5 years, and if there are changes deal with them quickly. Once a domain is transferred it’s much harder to get back. It can be done, but it’s a lot of work to unravel it all.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters</title><url>https://twitter.com/briandfoy_perl/status/1354535622069919748</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erikkri</author><text>Looking at whois history sites, it looks like the domain was owned by Tom Christiansen aka tchrist, which wrote Programming Perl, Learning Perl and the Perl Cookbook.<p>The record wasn&#x27;t supposed to expire until 2029, so not sure how the squatters got this domain.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters</title><url>https://twitter.com/briandfoy_perl/status/1354535622069919748</url></story> |
14,302,585 | 14,302,393 | 1 | 3 | 14,301,531 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think suggesting their vote against Jigsaw is somehow a political plot to benefit OSGi or JBoss modules is reasonable. (FWIW: I also don&#x27;t think OSGi&#x27;s and JBoss&#x27; alternatives are great, but that&#x27;s OK, because they&#x27;re opt-in.) That theory has little explanatory power: why are all of these other companies voting against?<p>I think RedHat&#x2F;IBM are opposing it because it isn&#x27;t OSGi&#x2F;JBoss (and whether that&#x27;s for nefarious reasons or because they genuinely believe OSGi&#x2F;JBoss are the Right Thing is beside the point), and most of the other opposition is following their lead.<p>I think OSGi&#x2F;JBoss are failures in the market because they&#x27;re hideously overengineered, and if Jigsaw is to succeed it should avoid solving most of the problems that OSGi&#x2F;JBoss claim to. Rather it should solve the common case while being much simpler. The current proposal seemed like a pretty good effort to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lvh</author><text>This is unambiguously a good thing. Jigsaw didn&#x27;t solve the toughest problems it had hoped to solve, and there are much less impactful ways to accomplish some of these goals. As it stood, Jigsaw broke tons of applications that did non-trivial things with class loaders, reflection or even circular deps. As a consequence, while Jigsaw (after significant effort) might not be disastrous for Java, it&#x27;s pretty awful for most things that aren&#x27;t Java that target the JVM, like Clojure. Meanwhile, significant incremental engineering benefits in JDK9 were being held back by this sweeping change; so now maybe we can just get a better JVM without breaking the world.<p>As it stood, Jigsaw required a ton of engineering effort internally and externally and severely broke the backwards compatibility that has made Java such a workhorse of the enterprise. All of that at very questionable benefit to the end user: still no module-level versioning of deps. That doesn&#x27;t mean this effort is totally wasted: the oldest parts of the stdlib were due for a touch-up.<p>Lord knows that I have my differences with how Red Hat operates sometimes, but I don&#x27;t think suggesting their vote against Jigsaw is somehow a political plot to benefit OSGi or JBoss modules is reasonable. (FWIW: I also don&#x27;t think OSGi&#x27;s and JBoss&#x27; alternatives are great, but that&#x27;s OK, because they&#x27;re opt-in.) That theory has little explanatory power: why are all of these other companies voting against?<p>Disclaimer: I have no stake in any of the voting parties, but I do write a lot of JVM-targeting software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JDK 9 modules voted down by EC</title><url>https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5959</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slantedview</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think suggesting their vote against Jigsaw is somehow a political plot to benefit OSGi<p>RedHat and others clearly do want Jigsaw to be a meta-module system though, which to any sane person who has no financial interest in existing module technologies is ridiculous, and would be exactly the kind of mind-numbing complexity that people hate on Java for. Eclipse&#x27;s No vote even came with this comment:<p>“The Eclipse Foundations looks forward to a revised specification which will enable independent implementations”</text><parent_chain><item><author>lvh</author><text>This is unambiguously a good thing. Jigsaw didn&#x27;t solve the toughest problems it had hoped to solve, and there are much less impactful ways to accomplish some of these goals. As it stood, Jigsaw broke tons of applications that did non-trivial things with class loaders, reflection or even circular deps. As a consequence, while Jigsaw (after significant effort) might not be disastrous for Java, it&#x27;s pretty awful for most things that aren&#x27;t Java that target the JVM, like Clojure. Meanwhile, significant incremental engineering benefits in JDK9 were being held back by this sweeping change; so now maybe we can just get a better JVM without breaking the world.<p>As it stood, Jigsaw required a ton of engineering effort internally and externally and severely broke the backwards compatibility that has made Java such a workhorse of the enterprise. All of that at very questionable benefit to the end user: still no module-level versioning of deps. That doesn&#x27;t mean this effort is totally wasted: the oldest parts of the stdlib were due for a touch-up.<p>Lord knows that I have my differences with how Red Hat operates sometimes, but I don&#x27;t think suggesting their vote against Jigsaw is somehow a political plot to benefit OSGi or JBoss modules is reasonable. (FWIW: I also don&#x27;t think OSGi&#x27;s and JBoss&#x27; alternatives are great, but that&#x27;s OK, because they&#x27;re opt-in.) That theory has little explanatory power: why are all of these other companies voting against?<p>Disclaimer: I have no stake in any of the voting parties, but I do write a lot of JVM-targeting software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JDK 9 modules voted down by EC</title><url>https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5959</url></story> |
34,103,755 | 34,103,377 | 1 | 2 | 34,101,016 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>npteljes</author><text>&gt;Noone parts with money for an exchange that they don&#x27;t find useful.<p>Come on, there&#x27;s many. You can, for example, manipulate people to pay for something. You can get them addicted, so that they become repeat customers, despite rationality. You can lie to a lot of people, so that you will have one time customers, but you can do that to a large crowd. You can quasi-force people to buy something, if it&#x27;s a prerequisite for something else.<p>Just because people buy something, it doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s useful. Far from it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>&gt; the type for whom the entire point of making things is to make money, not do something useful.<p>the fact that somebody is paying for said app implies that it is useful. Noone parts with money for an exchange that they don&#x27;t find useful.<p>The idea that just because _you_ don&#x27;t see it as being useful doesn&#x27;t make it not useful.<p>If you suppose that the exchange ruins the world somehow, because there&#x27;s some externality that causes harm to you, then it&#x27;s a case of making such an exchange illegal through some democratic process, and have enforcement. Absent of that, i think it is totally legitimate, and that the person doing the entrepreneurial endeavor is just trying to improve their own situation. One does not have to have the purpose of &quot;improving the world&quot; - that naturally would happen as people exchange to make their own situations better.</text></item><item><author>ajkjk</author><text>The weird subtext of this article is that it&#x27;s an example of a certain kind of person, the type for whom the entire point of making things is to make money, and it&#x27;s only by accident that it&#x27;s about doing something useful. Here&#x27;s a person who reads entrepreneurship books and takes notes on good ways to find business opportunities, makes an app to help people basically cheat because that&#x27;s where the money is, naturally explains how it&#x27;s not cheating when asked, and dismisses the obvious reaction as &#x27;negativity&#x27;... I mean, it&#x27;s cool to make something, I guess, but it&#x27;s possible that your life&#x27;s work is to help slowly ruin the world despite doing your &quot;job&quot; &#x2F; following all the obvious rules of society at every step... and I kinda think this is what that mindset looks like &quot;on the inside&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The simplest app that makes money</title><url>https://billprin.com/2022/12/07/simpest-app-that-makes-money.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>ehnto</author><text>&gt; Noone parts with money for an exchange that they don&#x27;t find useful.<p>I think this is true at face value, but when we consider addiction and self-destructive behaviors it is clear that while the definition of useful my still apply, the result is a negative impact on society.<p>The easiest most inflammatory example is drugs, but a more nuanced example might be slot machines. I won&#x27;t wax lyrical about the examples, but I think they show that a transaction of money doesn&#x27;t imply a positive impact on society.<p>Another example is rent seeking and fees, sometimes the transaction of money is non-negotiable, and one side is exploiting the other, or a middleman has inserted themselves (sometimes through policy lobbying) and extracts rent that no one benefits from but them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>&gt; the type for whom the entire point of making things is to make money, not do something useful.<p>the fact that somebody is paying for said app implies that it is useful. Noone parts with money for an exchange that they don&#x27;t find useful.<p>The idea that just because _you_ don&#x27;t see it as being useful doesn&#x27;t make it not useful.<p>If you suppose that the exchange ruins the world somehow, because there&#x27;s some externality that causes harm to you, then it&#x27;s a case of making such an exchange illegal through some democratic process, and have enforcement. Absent of that, i think it is totally legitimate, and that the person doing the entrepreneurial endeavor is just trying to improve their own situation. One does not have to have the purpose of &quot;improving the world&quot; - that naturally would happen as people exchange to make their own situations better.</text></item><item><author>ajkjk</author><text>The weird subtext of this article is that it&#x27;s an example of a certain kind of person, the type for whom the entire point of making things is to make money, and it&#x27;s only by accident that it&#x27;s about doing something useful. Here&#x27;s a person who reads entrepreneurship books and takes notes on good ways to find business opportunities, makes an app to help people basically cheat because that&#x27;s where the money is, naturally explains how it&#x27;s not cheating when asked, and dismisses the obvious reaction as &#x27;negativity&#x27;... I mean, it&#x27;s cool to make something, I guess, but it&#x27;s possible that your life&#x27;s work is to help slowly ruin the world despite doing your &quot;job&quot; &#x2F; following all the obvious rules of society at every step... and I kinda think this is what that mindset looks like &quot;on the inside&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The simplest app that makes money</title><url>https://billprin.com/2022/12/07/simpest-app-that-makes-money.html</url></story> |
13,312,172 | 13,310,990 | 1 | 2 | 13,307,928 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Pigo</author><text>&gt;because these sites were long known to local people, they had invariably been disturbed, if not badly looted.<p>No kidding. I had a Spanish teacher in high school from Peru who&#x27;d bring in artifacts he&#x27;d found in caves around his home town, his collection included a human skull he claimed was from an Andean civilization. It didn&#x27;t dawn on me until years later how ludicrous it was that this man had kept this skull he&#x27;d found in a cave and then took it across the world to be handled by kids. It still had dirt inside of it!<p>Now I wonder how many laws and customs he&#x27;d broken, and whether it was a significant enough find that much was lost by him using it as a trophy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/an-ancient-city-emerges-in-a-remote-rain-forest</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>This article badly needs pictures!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/an-ancient-city-emerges-in-a-remote-rain-forest</url></story> |
15,832,814 | 15,832,873 | 1 | 2 | 15,831,668 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rotareti</author><text><i>&gt; I used to have a &quot;poor man&#x27;s time machine&quot; system based on rsync + hard links to files that didn&#x27;t change with new backups.</i><p>I build something similar, that runs on a Raspberry Pi and creates backups for the machines in my home network [0]. The Pi pings each machine every hour, if a machine is online and a backup is due, it starts a backup process. My Pi uses a USB battery as a UPS (unlimited power supply) [1]. I put all the hardware in a little medicine cabinet on the wall [1]. It&#x27;s been running stable for month now, without a single reboot. It needs about 15 minutes to backup my dev machine over WiFi. It&#x27;s a little independent backup module, I&#x27;m really happy with it. :)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;feluxe&#x2F;very-hungry-pi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;feluxe&#x2F;very-hungry-pi</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.de&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B00FAU7ZB2&#x2F;ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.de&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B00FAU7ZB2&#x2F;ref=oh_aui_searc...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.de&#x2F;HMF-Medizinschrank-Arzneischrank-Hausapotheke-Original&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B002CVKEWY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.de&#x2F;HMF-Medizinschrank-Arzneischrank-Hausa...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>funkaster</author><text>I used to have a &quot;poor man&#x27;s time machine&quot; system based on rsync + hard links to files that didn&#x27;t change with new backups. Essentially it was the same concept than time machine. Of course you couldn&#x27;t upload a single &quot;snapshot&quot; because tar wouldn&#x27;t know what&#x27;s a hard link. One advantage of using rsync is that you can also keep track of things you delete.<p>Today I&#x27;m using zfs with real snapshots. For systems with no zfs support (my wife&#x27;s iMac for instance), I have a zfs fs that those systems rsync to, after the rsync is done I create a snapshot. All scripted. The snapshots can be stored in another server for an additional layer of backup, or incrementally send them to s3 if you want.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Incremental Backups Using GNU Tar and S3</title><url>https://ops.tips/blog/incremental-backup-linux/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derekp7</author><text>I wrote a tool called Snebu (www.snebu.com), which is intended to give you the same thing as rsync + hard links. Uses find and tar to grab file metadata and retrieve files, on the back end it stores file data in .lzo compressed files with all metadata for each snapshot (including symlinks, hardlinks, etc) stored in a sqlite3 DB file.<p>The design goals were to make something that didn&#x27;t store data in a proprietary format (you can analyse the backups using straight sql commands, and access the data using lzop), and to be able to back up systems without installing a client agent on them, and support compression, and avoid filesystem issues you run into with a large number of hard links (such as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8305283" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8305283</a>). So far I&#x27;ve been using it to back up a few dozen RHEL 4 - RHEL 7 systems over the last couple years without issues.</text><parent_chain><item><author>funkaster</author><text>I used to have a &quot;poor man&#x27;s time machine&quot; system based on rsync + hard links to files that didn&#x27;t change with new backups. Essentially it was the same concept than time machine. Of course you couldn&#x27;t upload a single &quot;snapshot&quot; because tar wouldn&#x27;t know what&#x27;s a hard link. One advantage of using rsync is that you can also keep track of things you delete.<p>Today I&#x27;m using zfs with real snapshots. For systems with no zfs support (my wife&#x27;s iMac for instance), I have a zfs fs that those systems rsync to, after the rsync is done I create a snapshot. All scripted. The snapshots can be stored in another server for an additional layer of backup, or incrementally send them to s3 if you want.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Incremental Backups Using GNU Tar and S3</title><url>https://ops.tips/blog/incremental-backup-linux/</url></story> |
25,976,234 | 25,976,250 | 1 | 3 | 25,974,757 | train | <instructions>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>Prevous attempts at taking a regular CPU architecture and turning it into a GPU haven&#x27;t worked so well --- it&#x27;s what Intel attempted many years ago --- so I&#x27;m not too optimistic about how this will turn out. Then again, the boring and uniform nature of RISC-V may be more suitable to mass parallelisation in a GPU than as a CPU.<p>The name is slightly reminiscent of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:RIVA_TNT2_VANTA_GPU.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:RIVA_TNT2_VANTA_GPU.jpg</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V</title><url>https://www.eetimes.com/rv64x-a-free-open-source-gpu-for-risc-v/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nynx</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see more MIMD or MISD architecture exploration. 2048 core basic riscv processors anyone?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V</title><url>https://www.eetimes.com/rv64x-a-free-open-source-gpu-for-risc-v/</url></story> |
16,886,587 | 16,885,382 | 1 | 3 | 16,882,430 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>It&#x27;s really too bad the inverted classroom model hasn&#x27;t become any more popular.<p>In a nutshell, the idea is to take the traditional breakdown of what is done in class and what is done at home, and swap it: Kids do their readings and watch recorded lectures at home. And then they work on problem sets and projects in class, typically in groups.<p>It&#x27;s a really clever idea. Compared to the traditional model, it has so many interesting advantages: It levels the playing field between kids whose parents have time and inclination to help them with homework and those who don&#x27;t.
It makes the teacher much more available for questions and any necessary 1:1 assistance. Having kids work together (even on math problem sets!) helps them to learn better, and has the side benefit of giving them more opportunity to develop social skills.<p>I&#x27;ve heard it criticized for expecting students to have better access to technology at home than they necessarily do. In the case studies I&#x27;ve read about, though, the schools supplied equipment to students who needed it, and the most dramatic relative improvements were seen among the kids from less wealthy families.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CannisterFlux</author><text>Ha, I think that argument is made by people who don&#x27;t have kids (with homework). It&#x27;s not leisure for me at all. While I worry about being branded a terrible father for this comment, I will admit that I am a terrible teacher. I have no patience for it.<p>My kids mess around, constantly want breaks (&quot;Well I&#x27;ve written a line! time for a 10 minute break!&quot;), waste hours doing shit that should take them minutes... When they start &quot;accidentally&quot; dropping their pencils on the floor because they&#x27;d rather be faffing around picking it up than working, I often just lose my temper. Man, I&#x27;m getting slightly pissed off just thinking about it now! xD<p>There are brief moments of joy&#x2F;relief where you can see they&#x27;ve grasped a concept or improved and you can be proud of &#x27;em. But most of the time it is a frustrating experience, slow going, and a slog to get them to do anything. The worst of learning, with the worst of kids messing around, with a massive feeling of wasting everone&#x27;s time.</text></item><item><author>lighthazard</author><text>An argument can be made that doing homework with your child is the leisure.</text></item><item><author>westiseast</author><text>Very surprised the article doesn’t mention a few things:<p>1. Some places <i>just have more homework than others</i>. Chinese kids have mountains of homework aged 7, vastly more than British kids. Chinese parents spend much more time either managing or literally doing their kids homework for them.<p>2. Efficiency&#x2F;productivity - What are kids doing in school if their parents are still spending hours and hours after school helping them with homework? How is this a productive use of parents precious work&#x2F;leisure time?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/04/daily-chart-11</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josephorjoe</author><text>Exactly.<p>And on top of all that, you&#x27;re lucky if the teachers even look at the homework they assigned.<p>My kid&#x27;s teacher doesn&#x27;t bother -- she emails photos of the answer sheets to the parents because I guess we are supposed to review the homework too?<p>Maybe this isn&#x27;t obvious... but if I wanted to homeschool my kid, I would homeschool my kid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CannisterFlux</author><text>Ha, I think that argument is made by people who don&#x27;t have kids (with homework). It&#x27;s not leisure for me at all. While I worry about being branded a terrible father for this comment, I will admit that I am a terrible teacher. I have no patience for it.<p>My kids mess around, constantly want breaks (&quot;Well I&#x27;ve written a line! time for a 10 minute break!&quot;), waste hours doing shit that should take them minutes... When they start &quot;accidentally&quot; dropping their pencils on the floor because they&#x27;d rather be faffing around picking it up than working, I often just lose my temper. Man, I&#x27;m getting slightly pissed off just thinking about it now! xD<p>There are brief moments of joy&#x2F;relief where you can see they&#x27;ve grasped a concept or improved and you can be proud of &#x27;em. But most of the time it is a frustrating experience, slow going, and a slog to get them to do anything. The worst of learning, with the worst of kids messing around, with a massive feeling of wasting everone&#x27;s time.</text></item><item><author>lighthazard</author><text>An argument can be made that doing homework with your child is the leisure.</text></item><item><author>westiseast</author><text>Very surprised the article doesn’t mention a few things:<p>1. Some places <i>just have more homework than others</i>. Chinese kids have mountains of homework aged 7, vastly more than British kids. Chinese parents spend much more time either managing or literally doing their kids homework for them.<p>2. Efficiency&#x2F;productivity - What are kids doing in school if their parents are still spending hours and hours after school helping them with homework? How is this a productive use of parents precious work&#x2F;leisure time?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/04/daily-chart-11</url></story> |
20,857,370 | 20,857,373 | 1 | 3 | 20,855,886 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>I&#x27;ve learned one important thing on the job: how <i>not</i> to do things. That&#x27;s more important than it sounds. I noticed for instance that I developed a taste for simplicity over the years that wasn&#x27;t there when I started. Now junior programmers can read my code.<p>Domain specific knowledge (so I can talk to the customer) I generally learn on the job. But it&#x27;s not generally applicable, to other domains, and thus other jobs.<p>Technical, generally applicable knowledge? Mostly on my own time. Companies don&#x27;t want to pay you to learn. They want you to apply your knowledge. I suspect this explains in part why they can&#x27;t retain employees: they learn nothing, they get bored, so they leave. Changing gig at least lets you learn a couple new things the first few months.</text><parent_chain><item><author>meuk</author><text>I found that companies always pretend to be all about learning, but in practice I haven&#x27;t learned a damn thing after leaving uni, except the idiosyncrasies of their code. Maybe it gets better in senior positions (I spent 7 years in uni and have only 2 years of working experience), but I don&#x27;t expect so.<p>I feel like since I am working, I am just getting dumber. I miss the time in uni where I was learning new things every week. I&#x27;m thinking of taking a year off just to learn new things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The more you learn, the faster you can learn</title><url>http://pranay.gp/how-to-learn-things-at-1000x-the-speed</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>formalsystem</author><text>&gt; I miss the time in uni where I was learning new things every week. I&#x27;m thinking of taking a year off just to learn new things.<p>Even at the senior level I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll get what you&#x27;re looking for. Unless you&#x27;re leading new research efforts, it won&#x27;t make much sense to move you away from a system that you only understand.<p>A friend convinced me to quit my job a year ago and I&#x27;d highly recommend it. If you can afford it, quitting your job to learn new things can be a really valuable investment. There are so many new fields and textbooks out that could each easily turn into an interesting OSS project and some income. You can write a book about all the new stuff you&#x27;re learning which which will help raise your profile. It takes a couple of days to really to the gist of any CS&#x2F;Math field if you have access to the right resources and the right amount of free time.<p>So taking time off doesn&#x27;t have to be a career hit, you need time to explore new fields (all the interesting ones are initially hard to grok) but you&#x27;ll have a unique skillset by the time you&#x27;re on the other side and will probably make more money if you decide to get a job again. This has only really been true post-internet.<p>If you wanna chat, email me, it&#x27;s in my profile.</text><parent_chain><item><author>meuk</author><text>I found that companies always pretend to be all about learning, but in practice I haven&#x27;t learned a damn thing after leaving uni, except the idiosyncrasies of their code. Maybe it gets better in senior positions (I spent 7 years in uni and have only 2 years of working experience), but I don&#x27;t expect so.<p>I feel like since I am working, I am just getting dumber. I miss the time in uni where I was learning new things every week. I&#x27;m thinking of taking a year off just to learn new things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The more you learn, the faster you can learn</title><url>http://pranay.gp/how-to-learn-things-at-1000x-the-speed</url></story> |
30,820,432 | 30,819,876 | 1 | 2 | 30,819,368 | train | <instructions>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_duke</author><text>There are so many red flags here, it&#x27;s not even funny anymore.<p>* a third party has barely restricted, deep access to all customer data<p>* the &quot;SuperUser&quot; app can apparently have logged in users idling around in a VM, waiting for someone to come along and use it without any automatic logout and re-authentication<p>* a single account accessing 300+ customers in a few days doesn&#x27;t trigger any alerts<p>* they detect a compromise, and do absolutely nothing about it for months, except letting the third party order a security audit; they patiently wait for a report; they don&#x27;t even audit the access logs<p>* only a screenshot posted online triggers an audit of access logs and a public response<p>* they still try to blame the third party and the security firm for their own (basically outrageous) inactivity<p>All of this by a company entrusted with the most critical gatekeeping functionality of systems, used by many large enterprises and expected to have top notch security.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Okta: “We made a mistake” delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/okta-we-made-a-mistake-delaying-the-lapsus-hack-disclosure/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>They blatantly <i>lied</i>. A third-party auth provider, where trust is absolutely <i>crucial</i>, and they lied about being breached. Repeatedly.<p>And even now, they are not coming out and being honest like &quot;we lied because we were scared about liability, but the person behethis decision has been fired&quot;. It&#x27;s not good enough.<p>Sorry, but they have some serious work to do if they want to regain that trust. I for one, will not be using their services again.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Okta: “We made a mistake” delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/okta-we-made-a-mistake-delaying-the-lapsus-hack-disclosure/</url></story> |
14,484,397 | 14,483,924 | 1 | 3 | 14,483,350 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>artursapek</author><text>&gt; terrorists seem to have done just fine in the absence of encryption -- the bataclan attackers coordinated with ordinary sms<p>Even if the UK somehow managed to illegalize use of AES and other &quot;professional&quot; encryption algos, it would still be trivial to communicate using simple innocuous sounding code words over plain SMS. There&#x27;s practically no way to detect it. The entire effort is futile from the very beginning.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nyolfen</author><text>&gt;All that being said, how do we the tech community solve Theresa May&#x27;s problem? Her philosophy is &quot;if we knew more, we could have prevented this.&quot; Is that the right philosophy? Is there some other mechanism to authorize &quot;legitimate&quot; access to encrypted data?<p>there&#x27;s absolutely nothing substantiating her claim. terrorists seem to have done just fine in the absence of encryption -- the bataclan attackers coordinated with ordinary sms. governments still make this push _all the time_, witness the doj going after apple after san bernardino.<p>the UK is literally the most surveilled society in the history of the world in terms of communications of its inhabitants intercepted by its own government, comparable perhaps only to the stasi. this is mode of action is not working. two attacks in two weeks, and their answer is &quot;the same but more&quot;?</text></item><item><author>joshpadnick</author><text>I&#x27;m also deeply concerned about &quot;backdoors for the good guys&quot;. Beyond just worrying about who else could get access, the &quot;good guys&quot; really just means government, and my comfort level with the current Trump administration using their &quot;good guy&quot; backdoor for a noble purpose currently sits at zero.<p>All that being said, how do we the tech community solve Theresa May&#x27;s problem? Her philosophy is &quot;if we knew more, we could have prevented this.&quot; Is that the right philosophy? Is there some other mechanism to authorize &quot;legitimate&quot; access to encrypted data?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2017/06/04/theresa-may-king-canute.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>cJ0th</author><text>&gt; there&#x27;s absolutely nothing substantiating her claim.<p>yes, and this is very weird. She must have a chain of reasoning going on in her head before opening her mouth, right? We always only get the conclusion, that is: &quot;we need more access&quot;. Any normal person looking for a solution to a problem would generate loads of ideas and then, when pitching an idea, present the pros&#x2F;cons of their various ideas to finally argue why they have chosen solution x. We don&#x27;t see any of that wrt to this topic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nyolfen</author><text>&gt;All that being said, how do we the tech community solve Theresa May&#x27;s problem? Her philosophy is &quot;if we knew more, we could have prevented this.&quot; Is that the right philosophy? Is there some other mechanism to authorize &quot;legitimate&quot; access to encrypted data?<p>there&#x27;s absolutely nothing substantiating her claim. terrorists seem to have done just fine in the absence of encryption -- the bataclan attackers coordinated with ordinary sms. governments still make this push _all the time_, witness the doj going after apple after san bernardino.<p>the UK is literally the most surveilled society in the history of the world in terms of communications of its inhabitants intercepted by its own government, comparable perhaps only to the stasi. this is mode of action is not working. two attacks in two weeks, and their answer is &quot;the same but more&quot;?</text></item><item><author>joshpadnick</author><text>I&#x27;m also deeply concerned about &quot;backdoors for the good guys&quot;. Beyond just worrying about who else could get access, the &quot;good guys&quot; really just means government, and my comfort level with the current Trump administration using their &quot;good guy&quot; backdoor for a noble purpose currently sits at zero.<p>All that being said, how do we the tech community solve Theresa May&#x27;s problem? Her philosophy is &quot;if we knew more, we could have prevented this.&quot; Is that the right philosophy? Is there some other mechanism to authorize &quot;legitimate&quot; access to encrypted data?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2017/06/04/theresa-may-king-canute.html</url></story> |
28,426,398 | 28,426,383 | 1 | 2 | 28,424,544 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beerandt</author><text>This is alarmist BS.<p>I worked on the surveys and cors equipment that directly measures subsidence in Louisiana, and have worked on many of the levees and other coastal civil works.<p>Relocation? For a problem that hasn&#x27;t happened yet and isn&#x27;t likely to happen in the foreseeable future is absurd.<p>New York City is at a much greater risk and will be inundated long before New Orleans.<p>The fastest rate of subsidence in New Orleans is&#x2F;was due to organics in the soil decomposing once the groundwater table was lowered (drainage projects going back 300 yrs), allowing oxygen to infiltrate. This decomposition is mostly complete in most areas of the city.<p>Piles under everything from skyscrapers to personal homes penetrates the organic layers, so buildings don&#x27;t subside even if the ground does.<p>The biggest risk to the city and state is environmental activists, the EPA &amp; the Army Corps of Engineers, and the largely untouchable Mississippi River levee system, preventing the delta land building process that counteracts subsidence by depositing new sediment in yearly floods.<p>Additionally, erosion&#x2F; runoff prevention and dams through out the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio river watersheds have decreased the amount of sediment flowing down river, and results in less sediment available for natural land building.<p>The coastal barrier marshes and islands are dying because we&#x27;ve stopped the natural processes that sustain them. Each mile of marsh results in the natural lowering of storm surge by 1&#x2F;2&#x27; to 2&#x27;.<p>The federal government, environmental groups and others fight the restoration of these natural processes. For example, they argue fresh water introduction will hurt dolphin populations in coastal bays, but they are only capable of being there in the first place because of man made interference: the bays were freshwater until the levees cut off their natural supply of freshwater.<p>As for global warming? Infrastructure, business and homes are amortized at 30yrs or less. Maybe up to 50yrs for very large civil projects.<p>Worst case sea level rise estimates easily gives New Orleans 300+ more yrs, likely much longer, a time frame longer than the current age of the city.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ahnick</author><text>As the article rightly points out, levees will do nothing for a slow moving hurricane like Harvey that dumps tons of rain or for a large cat5 hurricane with storm level surges that are much higher than Ida. The place is sinking while sea level rise is already locked in with current levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. The only solution is relocation, but nobody wants to hear that. It is an inevitability that New Orleans will be uninhabitable. The only question is when.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Orleans levees passed their first major test</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/new-orleans-levees-passed-their-first-major-test</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reddog</author><text>&gt;New Orleans will be uninhabitable. The only question is when.<p>A very, very long time from now. According to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report sea levels are projected to rise between .57 and 1.25 meters by 2120. So unless you have waves currently lapping against your back porch you, your kids, your grandkids and your great-grandkids will be OK in NO.<p>For context, sea levels have risen about .3 meters over the last hundred years and we have adapted without city evacuation and relocation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sealevel.nasa.gov&#x2F;ipcc-ar6-sea-level-projection-tool" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sealevel.nasa.gov&#x2F;ipcc-ar6-sea-level-projection-tool</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ahnick</author><text>As the article rightly points out, levees will do nothing for a slow moving hurricane like Harvey that dumps tons of rain or for a large cat5 hurricane with storm level surges that are much higher than Ida. The place is sinking while sea level rise is already locked in with current levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. The only solution is relocation, but nobody wants to hear that. It is an inevitability that New Orleans will be uninhabitable. The only question is when.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Orleans levees passed their first major test</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/new-orleans-levees-passed-their-first-major-test</url></story> |
3,987,021 | 3,986,985 | 1 | 2 | 3,986,595 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomaskafka</author><text>Hi guys, I'm one of CSS Hat devs and I'd like to thank you for your interest and show a little bit more:<p>This is the output of current version of CSS Hat:
<a href="http://jsfiddle.net/tomaskafka/ZXgqN/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/tomaskafka/ZXgqN/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3</title><url>http://csshat.com/</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>colinramsay</author><text>Fireworks CS6 has something related to this. If you select an object in Fireworks, you can get the CSS which will build the shape, gradients, curved borders, etc.<p><a href="http://layersmagazine.com/new-css3-support-in-dreamweaver-cs6.html" rel="nofollow">http://layersmagazine.com/new-css3-support-in-dreamweaver-cs...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3</title><url>http://csshat.com/</url><text></text></story> |
21,913,830 | 21,912,782 | 1 | 3 | 21,911,090 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drinfinity</author><text>I find it interesting that somebody dedicates his or her life to figuring out how these CPUs work when exactly that information is just laying about in some vault in Santa Clara.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping</title><url>https://gamozolabs.github.io/metrology/2019/12/30/load-port-monitor.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>herendin2</author><text>I read this. It&#x27;s quite interesting, but I think it is short of a few clear basic definitions of terms.<p>Could anyone help explain, in a few sentences, what is a Load Port, and why is it interesting in this context?<p>It appears to be some type of indicator of the proportional time slice given to certain opaque internal processes which are not normally visible to users.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping</title><url>https://gamozolabs.github.io/metrology/2019/12/30/load-port-monitor.html</url></story> |
26,633,970 | 26,631,830 | 1 | 2 | 26,631,041 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twobitshifter</author><text>If China takes control of Taiwan it would be a strategic disaster for the rest of the world. Building a factory as far away as possible is a great idea for both Intel and TSMC. There is still expertise in the US. Wikipedia has a good list of fans that are still open and those that have been closed. The number in Taiwan is shocking, but you’ll also see many older fabs still running in the US<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants?wprov=sfti1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/technology/intel-arizona-chip-factories.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>herodoturtle</author><text>&gt; TSMC previously announced plans for a new factory in Arizona, a project that it valued at $12 billion and that is expected to receive federal subsidies. Samsung is seeking government incentives for a $17 billion expansion of its facilities in Austin, Texas.<p>I found that point really interesting - and also perplexing.<p>I can understand why US companies would choose to outsource manufacturing concerns to East Asian countries, but I&#x27;m wondering why the opposite is true in this case here.<p>Could someone with insight into these matters please help me understand - why would TSMC or Samsung choose to build factories in the US?<p>Government subsidies on the upfront CapEx aside - I&#x27;m curious what the long term benefits to them would be.<p>Thanks :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/technology/intel-arizona-chip-factories.html</url></story> |
34,032,472 | 34,032,531 | 1 | 2 | 34,032,402 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MaxLeiter</author><text>The project zero bug linked in the post (which I recommend reading first) has more details on the exploit<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;project-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=2337" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;project-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=23...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Get root on macOS 13.0.1 the macOS Dirty Cow bug</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/macdirtycow/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>&quot;Will this be useful for jailbreak?
Probably not.<p>This - as far as I can tell - affects userspace processes only. Jailbreaks require a kernel exploit. (The Apple Security release notes says that this bug may allow “arbitrary code with kernel privileges”, but I can’t see how.)<p>You might still do something cool on iOS with this, but I’m not sure what you’d overwrite: codesigning should protect all executables and libraries. (I have not tested this: let me know if you find anything!)&quot;<p>Looks like system integrity protection? or some other mechanism preventing this?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Get root on macOS 13.0.1 the macOS Dirty Cow bug</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/macdirtycow/</url></story> |
4,333,005 | 4,332,531 | 1 | 3 | 4,331,855 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acabal</author><text>I hate having dotfiles in ~/ for the same reason why I hate "My Documents" in Windows: because it's supposed to be <i>my</i> space that <i>I</i> organize, not a generic dumping ground for your config files, brand-named folders, or other nonessential garbage.<p>I want my space to be <i>mine</i>. Keep your app's stuff out of there!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles</title><url>https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>caf</author><text>The fact that "." and ".." were allocated actual directory entries and were returned when reading the directory, rather than just being handled by the kernel when parsing pathnames seems like the original sin of expediency here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles</title><url>https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp</url></story> |
13,916,088 | 13,915,675 | 1 | 3 | 13,911,451 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SilasX</author><text>I think I would refine that a bit as, insurance [1] involves payout on an event the insured <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> want to happen [even given the payout], while a gamble is where the insured <i>does</i> want it to happen [because of the payout].<p>This matches the historical and in-practice role of the insurer: they try to keep you from overinsuring things, or insuring things you don&#x27;t have an interest in preventing from happening (&quot;insurable interest&quot;). Both of these create a so-called &quot;moral hazard&quot;, the same category that make gambling bad, and vastly increases the fraud they have to deal with.<p>[1] or rather &quot;the kinds of risk transfer we want to allow&quot; vs those we don&#x27;t</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>I&#x27;d say the fundamental difference is that gambling sometimes provides a huge payout after a small loss, whereas insurance provides a payout roughly equal to the loss.<p>Insurance isn&#x27;t supposed to have big paydays, it&#x27;s just supposed to make you whole. Your house insurance might pay out a million dollars, but only if that&#x27;s what it actually costs to rebuild your house.<p>It&#x27;s telling that when insurance starts to get away from this model, like people insuring stuff for far more than it&#x27;s worth, or taking out life insurance policies on strangers, both the law and morality start to frown it.</text></item><item><author>MR4D</author><text>Article gives a good background, but doesn&#x27;t clearly answer it&#x27;s own question. The simple answer (although not followed as closely as it should be in regulation):<p>Gambling involves the creation of risk where none previously existed, while insurance is solely about the transfer of risk from one party to another (or more than one).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What makes gambling wrong but insurance right?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38905963</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>massysett</author><text>Life insurance can have huge paydays. The size of the payout is tied only to the premiums paid, not to the size of the loss.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>I&#x27;d say the fundamental difference is that gambling sometimes provides a huge payout after a small loss, whereas insurance provides a payout roughly equal to the loss.<p>Insurance isn&#x27;t supposed to have big paydays, it&#x27;s just supposed to make you whole. Your house insurance might pay out a million dollars, but only if that&#x27;s what it actually costs to rebuild your house.<p>It&#x27;s telling that when insurance starts to get away from this model, like people insuring stuff for far more than it&#x27;s worth, or taking out life insurance policies on strangers, both the law and morality start to frown it.</text></item><item><author>MR4D</author><text>Article gives a good background, but doesn&#x27;t clearly answer it&#x27;s own question. The simple answer (although not followed as closely as it should be in regulation):<p>Gambling involves the creation of risk where none previously existed, while insurance is solely about the transfer of risk from one party to another (or more than one).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What makes gambling wrong but insurance right?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38905963</url></story> |
38,313,046 | 38,312,679 | 1 | 3 | 38,312,372 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kromem</author><text>The focus on openness was literally how the board ended their statement on firing Altman.<p>And then Greg being all &quot;committed to safety&quot; in his resignation statement makes me think this was a conflict between being an open OpenAI with global research or being closed and proprietary in the name of safety.</text><parent_chain><item><author>valine</author><text>If anything this is a power grab by the board away from Microsoft. Optimistically, this could be an attempt to return OpenAI to its original status as a true non-profit company. OpenAI lost most of its openness under Sam.<p>They needed the Microsoft investment before GPT scaling was proven out. I imagine many entities would be willing to put money into a truly open research lab given OpenAI’s track record.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/microsoft-openai-sam-altman-ouster</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>speedylight</author><text>Microsoft gave them billions of dollars and access to lots of high performance compute, why would the board want to jeopardize that now?</text><parent_chain><item><author>valine</author><text>If anything this is a power grab by the board away from Microsoft. Optimistically, this could be an attempt to return OpenAI to its original status as a true non-profit company. OpenAI lost most of its openness under Sam.<p>They needed the Microsoft investment before GPT scaling was proven out. I imagine many entities would be willing to put money into a truly open research lab given OpenAI’s track record.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/microsoft-openai-sam-altman-ouster</url></story> |
39,864,999 | 39,864,731 | 1 | 3 | 39,864,107 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>morphle</author><text>Yes, basic physics shows [1] that we can use (free space) optics instead of wires inside chips. This will improve energy use and speeds by 3 orders of magnitude. Next to a transistor you put a photon detector. You can flip the transistor with the voltage from the photon detector by sending 10000 photons (or less). Pictures of such systems in the slides [2].<p>We can beam billions of optical channels with different frequencies in parallel across chips, exabits (yettabits, yottabits) per second.<p>We will not compute with photons tough [4][5], the optical structures are to large and it would only work for very specific types of computations.<p>We design wafer scale integrations (very large chips) this way we can start making these fast on-chip interconnects around 2027 if we invest a few billion today in making free space optics. A layman&#x27;s introduction in my talk here [3].<p>[1] Stanford Seminar - Saving energy and increasing density in information processing using photonics - David B. Miller <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7hWWyuesmhs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7hWWyuesmhs</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;David-Miller-65&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344585772_Saving_energy_and_increasing_density_in_information_processing_using_photonics&#x2F;links&#x2F;5f81e682a6fdccfd7b565f87&#x2F;Saving-energy-and-increasing-density-in-information-processing-using-photonics.pdf?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;David-Miller-65&#x2F;publica...</a><p>[3] Smalltalk and Self Hardware <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;731037615" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;731037615</a><p>[4] D. A. B. Miller, “Are optical transistors the logical next step?” Nature Photonics, vol. 4, pp. 3–5, 2010.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;David-Miller-65&#x2F;publication&#x2F;40764874_Are_optical_transistors_the_logical_next_step&#x2F;links&#x2F;0fcfd5072ec68dae82000000&#x2F;Are-optical-transistors-the-logical-next-step.pdf?origin=journalDetail&amp;_tp=eyJwYWdlIjoiam91cm5hbERldGFpbCJ9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;David-Miller-65&#x2F;publica...</a><p>[5] Attojoule Optoelectronics for Low-Energy Information Processing and Communications – a Tutorial Review <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1609.05510.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1609.05510.pdf</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I know basically nothing about computer engineering or electronics, so bare with me on this, but conceivably could tech like this be used <i>inside</i> a computer?<p>As in, instead of just using fiber to make different computers talk to each other really fast, could we use it for like a RAM bus or something? Is there too much latency associated with it compared to the copper we&#x27;ve been using? 301 Tbps seems like insane speeds, even inside a computer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/fiber-optic-data-transfer-speeds-hit-a-rapid-301-tbps-12-million-times-faster-than-your-home-broadband-connection</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>486sx33</author><text>The biggest problem I see from 10,000 feet is you’d need to constantly be converting electricity to light and back again… there is a penalty for that in speed… so far putting ram on die with the cpu has been the best way to reduce that particular form of latency…</text><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I know basically nothing about computer engineering or electronics, so bare with me on this, but conceivably could tech like this be used <i>inside</i> a computer?<p>As in, instead of just using fiber to make different computers talk to each other really fast, could we use it for like a RAM bus or something? Is there too much latency associated with it compared to the copper we&#x27;ve been using? 301 Tbps seems like insane speeds, even inside a computer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/fiber-optic-data-transfer-speeds-hit-a-rapid-301-tbps-12-million-times-faster-than-your-home-broadband-connection</url></story> |
18,506,454 | 18,505,534 | 1 | 2 | 18,504,879 | 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>SiVal</author><text>To find the answer, I would ask, Why <i>are</i> there conferences for other technologies? What are they for?<p>And I think the answer is probably 1) get useful news about recent and upcoming changes and 2) to socialize. I&#x27;m going to guess--possibly just projecting--that most C developers are older and not terribly interested in meeting new &quot;C friends&quot; or jumping into some hot, new &quot;C startup&quot;.<p>That leaves #1. Web&#x2F;AI-ML&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;mobile tech conferences feature speakers from the big tech companies that might reveal, in a talk or a hallway chat, info about which of your problems they are about to solve or to cause. Independent speakers serve a sort of journalist role of gathering intel from the big companies, organizing it, and revealing their findings. It&#x27;s all about &quot;tell me what I need to know so I can decide what to do&quot;.<p>But there isn&#x27;t much news about C that most C programmers will want to know in order to make decisions. It&#x27;s almost like news about algebra or, yes, hammers: mature, slow-changing technologies whose changes seldom impact more than a small percentage of users.<p>So without reasons 1 or 2, the answer to why aren&#x27;t there C conferences is basic and boring: what important purpose would they serve?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>Because though there might be building trades conferences, there are no hammer conferences. Oh, there will be tool vendors <i>at</i> the building trades conferences, there might be sessions on &quot;Efficient Hammering Techniques Using Machine Learning&quot;, but there are no conferences about hammers. Don&#x27;t forget about the blacksmith conference next week, they&#x27;ll have hammer vendors, too.<p>I dunno, a Ruby conference kinda makes sense because one will mostly build web sites with it, so it&#x27;s really going to be a &quot;Building $FOO with $TOOL&quot; kind of thing. But C is so widely used, it&#x27;s like having that HammerFest 2019 with everyone from people splitting wood with a sledghammer to jewelers with their teensy little tapping tools. I just don&#x27;t see the diamond workers drinking with the lumberjacks at the hotel bar after hours. :-) I jest, but it&#x27;s mostly about networking anyway, otherwise just watch the videos online.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Aren't There C Conferences?</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/11/21/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Exactly. C programmers don&#x27;t define themselves as C programmers mainly. They are firmware developers, game developers or something else. That&#x27;s where their real interest is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>Because though there might be building trades conferences, there are no hammer conferences. Oh, there will be tool vendors <i>at</i> the building trades conferences, there might be sessions on &quot;Efficient Hammering Techniques Using Machine Learning&quot;, but there are no conferences about hammers. Don&#x27;t forget about the blacksmith conference next week, they&#x27;ll have hammer vendors, too.<p>I dunno, a Ruby conference kinda makes sense because one will mostly build web sites with it, so it&#x27;s really going to be a &quot;Building $FOO with $TOOL&quot; kind of thing. But C is so widely used, it&#x27;s like having that HammerFest 2019 with everyone from people splitting wood with a sledghammer to jewelers with their teensy little tapping tools. I just don&#x27;t see the diamond workers drinking with the lumberjacks at the hotel bar after hours. :-) I jest, but it&#x27;s mostly about networking anyway, otherwise just watch the videos online.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Aren't There C Conferences?</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/11/21/</url></story> |
28,200,026 | 28,199,539 | 1 | 2 | 28,199,089 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>igammarays</author><text>Classic Ukrainian arbitrage - selling Eastern talent to the Western market for prices they can&#x27;t believe with the high quality that they don&#x27;t expect. I love it, I did the same thing, most of the design work on my startup was also done by Ukrainian designers. Fantastic idea ... win-win.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround</title><text>Hi HN, I&#x27;m Stacy from Awesomic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;</a>). Awesomic is a website where you create a design task and receive a draft from a professional designer in 24 hours.<p>On freelance platforms, it takes up to 7-14 days to find the right designer. You negotiate, then manage, and you need to look for a new person every time a new task is needed, like branding first and then a website design for web and mobile. With Awesomic, our algorithm connects you based on availability and expertise required. Then, you never manage this person or worry about deadlines—we do it automatically and guarantee a 24h turnaround. You have all skills covered under one fixed price subscription.<p>While running a local online business (coding school, the first Github partner in the CIS region), we had the hard time hiring the right designer part-time. We experienced a lack of quality, style consistency and speed as freelancers changed. Roman, my co-founder, thought that being matched with the right person on subscription would be the perfect solution. We got traction in 10 days just from the idea, with no product. Our first client was YC alumni Outtalent, and the next 20 clients came from word of mouth. Our best-selling ad was a napkin left in a co-working space—it brought us People.ai as a client.<p>For the first 2 months, we emulated the app processes manually and turned the tasks around in 24 hours via email. Since then we’ve been gradually building software for everything that can be automated, including matching tasks, managing daily updates, files and communication.
Our matching algorithm defines the criteria of each task (like timezone, type of task, software) and finds the best-fit designer due to them. When you create a logo task, you work with the best logo&#x2F;branding designer. When you do an app or landing page that requires different skills, an algorithm will match you with a great UI&#x2F;UX designer. If you like the result, you will continue to work with the same person based on matching.<p>When you log into our app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.awesomic.io&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.awesomic.io&#x2F;login</a>), you can choose any popular design task brief or add a custom one. Then you describe the task, and it gets matched with the best-fit designer. In 24 hours you see the first results, and every business day a new update is guaranteed for you. So you can iterate fast on any visuals and stick to your deadlines. The expertises covered are branding, graphics, product UI&#x2F;UX design and animations. You communicate with the designers directly in the app, via comments or screenshare calls. All files are stored on private DigitalOcean Spaces and are accessible over the platform, so you don’t need to go back and forth between various tools, email, etc. We operate on a subscription model, but it is flexible: startups can upgrade&#x2F;downgrade or cancel their plans anytime. This helps to stay cost-effective and scale easily.<p>Here’s a case study on how we made a redesign for the most funded app on Kickstarter: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;memory-os" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;memory-os</a>. Here’s one on a Norwegian fitness startup using us for 18+ months already—their app is in the top 10 most popular apps in the country: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;entirebody" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;entirebody</a>.<p>As specialists, we’ve been reading HN for quite some time and we are really excited to share our story with you. We would love to hear back from the community! How do you manage your design tasks? What is the most painful?</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>egypturnash</author><text>Only $7&#x2F;wk for rush jobs? Damn that sounds like a shit deal for the person actually doing the work, even if y&#x27;all take absolutely nothing off the top. I wouldn&#x27;t touch that kind of deal with a ten foot pole, even if I was shitting out the most banal, generic work possible.<p>Oh okay that&#x27;s just the first week trial period, it&#x27;s a monthly rate of $500 for &quot;graphic&quot; work or $1000 for &quot;product&quot;, that&#x27;s not <i>as</i> shit but it&#x27;s still like $16 or $32&#x2F;day (not accounting for weekends, I don&#x27;t feel like seeing if your rules cover that, and again that&#x27;s before your fees and any payment processing fees), and that&#x27;s still sure not anywhere <i>near</i> what I&#x27;d be charging for a month of 24h turnaround.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround</title><text>Hi HN, I&#x27;m Stacy from Awesomic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;</a>). Awesomic is a website where you create a design task and receive a draft from a professional designer in 24 hours.<p>On freelance platforms, it takes up to 7-14 days to find the right designer. You negotiate, then manage, and you need to look for a new person every time a new task is needed, like branding first and then a website design for web and mobile. With Awesomic, our algorithm connects you based on availability and expertise required. Then, you never manage this person or worry about deadlines—we do it automatically and guarantee a 24h turnaround. You have all skills covered under one fixed price subscription.<p>While running a local online business (coding school, the first Github partner in the CIS region), we had the hard time hiring the right designer part-time. We experienced a lack of quality, style consistency and speed as freelancers changed. Roman, my co-founder, thought that being matched with the right person on subscription would be the perfect solution. We got traction in 10 days just from the idea, with no product. Our first client was YC alumni Outtalent, and the next 20 clients came from word of mouth. Our best-selling ad was a napkin left in a co-working space—it brought us People.ai as a client.<p>For the first 2 months, we emulated the app processes manually and turned the tasks around in 24 hours via email. Since then we’ve been gradually building software for everything that can be automated, including matching tasks, managing daily updates, files and communication.
Our matching algorithm defines the criteria of each task (like timezone, type of task, software) and finds the best-fit designer due to them. When you create a logo task, you work with the best logo&#x2F;branding designer. When you do an app or landing page that requires different skills, an algorithm will match you with a great UI&#x2F;UX designer. If you like the result, you will continue to work with the same person based on matching.<p>When you log into our app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.awesomic.io&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.awesomic.io&#x2F;login</a>), you can choose any popular design task brief or add a custom one. Then you describe the task, and it gets matched with the best-fit designer. In 24 hours you see the first results, and every business day a new update is guaranteed for you. So you can iterate fast on any visuals and stick to your deadlines. The expertises covered are branding, graphics, product UI&#x2F;UX design and animations. You communicate with the designers directly in the app, via comments or screenshare calls. All files are stored on private DigitalOcean Spaces and are accessible over the platform, so you don’t need to go back and forth between various tools, email, etc. We operate on a subscription model, but it is flexible: startups can upgrade&#x2F;downgrade or cancel their plans anytime. This helps to stay cost-effective and scale easily.<p>Here’s a case study on how we made a redesign for the most funded app on Kickstarter: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;memory-os" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;memory-os</a>. Here’s one on a Norwegian fitness startup using us for 18+ months already—their app is in the top 10 most popular apps in the country: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;entirebody" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;entirebody</a>.<p>As specialists, we’ve been reading HN for quite some time and we are really excited to share our story with you. We would love to hear back from the community! How do you manage your design tasks? What is the most painful?</text></story> |
32,752,465 | 32,752,342 | 1 | 3 | 32,751,538 | train | <instructions>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>&gt; 43% of the batch were accepted with only an idea<p>I would love to hear more details about this lot. A billion+ people on the planet (including most of this forum I bet) have &quot;killer&quot; startup ideas and swear they can successfully execute on them with some money. How exactly does YC judge their merit and fund them without as much as a working prototype? Do you look at past history of successful launches? Education&#x2F;work pedigree? Personality? It&#x27;s pretty wild that such founders make up almost half of the batch.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The YC Summer 2022 Batch</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-batch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdorazio</author><text>&gt; 15% of the companies have a woman founder and 9% of the founders are women<p>The trend continues. I still want to see an objective analysis for why so few female founders make it through the funnel. I haven&#x27;t found any good stats to see if the overall % of startup founders (regardless of YC participation) is abysmal, if it&#x27;s the software focus that acts as a filter, if it&#x27;s the VC focus, or something else entirely.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The YC Summer 2022 Batch</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-batch/</url></story> |
15,417,743 | 15,417,139 | 1 | 3 | 15,415,312 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saberworks</author><text>Frustrated by the new &quot;screenshots&quot; tool. The &quot;save&quot; button automatically uploads your screenshot up to mozilla servers. The &quot;download&quot; button saves it to your computer. It seems completely backwards. The &quot;save&quot; button should save it to my computer (there&#x27;s no reason call something a &quot;download&quot; when it&#x27;s already local). The &quot;download&quot; button should be replaced with an &quot;upload &amp; share&quot; button that sends it to mozilla&#x27;s servers. Also somewhere it claimed it could screenshot the entire page, but I can&#x27;t figure out how to actually do that.<p>I&#x27;m also might not upgrade to quantum because I will lose my status bar (status 4 evar addon). I don&#x27;t understand how people browse the web but can&#x27;t see where links are taking them. Showing me where the link points when I hover the mouse over it is something so fundamental to browsing I just can&#x27;t figure out why it was ever removed. I think by default it eventually shows up in a tiny popup but it doesn&#x27;t show the full link and the delay is infuriating.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/firefox-56-last-stop-before-quantum/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pricechild</author><text>I&#x27;ve been following <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;utcc.utoronto.ca&#x2F;~cks&#x2F;space&#x2F;blog&#x2F;web&#x2F;Firefox56AddonWorry" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;utcc.utoronto.ca&#x2F;~cks&#x2F;space&#x2F;blog&#x2F;web&#x2F;Firefox56AddonW...</a><p>It&#x27;s surprised me the amount some people rely on addons for their workflow and the amount of effort they will be going through to resist this change come 57.<p>For my usage, I&#x27;ve found Firefox Klar&#x2F;Focus (which I believe already include the speed improvements from 57+?) on Android and have been extremely impressed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/firefox-56-last-stop-before-quantum/</url></story> |
33,738,231 | 33,738,219 | 1 | 2 | 33,737,344 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gpm</author><text>How would moderation work here? Like, what prevents me from being literally inundated with people trying to sell me scamcoins, or viagra, or nudes, or whatever the latest thing is.<p>You say &quot;Self-moderating: a user has enough control over what they receive to reject spam content&quot;, but it&#x27;s unclear what that means. Are you telling me I&#x27;m going to have to keep saying &quot;I don&#x27;t want to hear from ViagraSupplier1493956&quot; every time ViagraSupplier1493957 makes a new account? Won&#x27;t they just automate creating new accounts so I continuously have to reject them?<p>Or is this an opt in system? That&#x27;s not what the word &quot;reject&quot; means to me, but it&#x27;s the other &quot;simple&quot; alternative that I could imagine this describing. If so, is there literally way for a new user to onboard to this network except to convince people to start &quot;listening&quot; to them via side channels (like asking friends on other social media to follow them)? That&#x27;s basically how things like substack work... I&#x27;m not sure I see it scaling.<p>I think it was one of the reddit founders who recently made the point that content moderation is fundamentally about increasing signal to noise ratio, and frankly I can&#x27;t think of a harder problem. When you&#x27;re trying to pitch a decentralized social network to me, it&#x27;s literally the first question I have.<p>PS. The readme links to &quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatternet.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatternet.github.io&#x2F;</a>&quot;, but that doesn&#x27;t exist.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub</title><url>https://github.com/chatternet/chatternet-client-http</url><text>Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.<p>This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.</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>stonogo</author><text>Not implementing server-level blocklists is almost a guaranteed method of getting your instances added to federated blocklists. I see that this is not ActivityPub compliant, so presumably this would only federate with other Chatternet instances? If that&#x27;s the case, I recommend hurrying to implement a solid product vision, because otherwise &quot;no deplatforming&quot; is your primary sell, and the people who are buying are perceived as folks who have been deplatformed already. It&#x27;s a hard problem right now to get some people to separate &quot;free speech&quot; and &quot;hate speech&quot; in social media, and until that&#x27;s got a solution I&#x27;m not sure a slightly-different protocol will move the needle.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub</title><url>https://github.com/chatternet/chatternet-client-http</url><text>Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.<p>This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.</text></story> |
9,319,941 | 9,318,024 | 1 | 3 | 9,317,003 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>The Mountain Pass, California rare earth mine, once the largest source of rare earths in the world, was shut down in 2002. After a series of toxic spills, and price competition from China, it wasn&#x27;t economic to operate any more.<p>Now it&#x27;s back on line, after a huge rebuild.[1] It wasn&#x27;t easy to satisfy California environmental controls, but they did it. Even the Sierra Club is reasonably satisfied.[2] Rather than tailings ponds, they have a large back-end processing operation which gets the water out of the tailings. They can then reuse the water (a big deal during the drought), and they get a solid waste material out, which is essentially what was in the ground to begin with, minus the good stuff.<p>A few years ago, China tried cranking up the export price of rare earths, and refused to export them to Japan at all. So users of rare earths came up with alternatives, and production restarted in the US, Australia, and Canada. Rare earths aren&#x27;t all that rare worldwide, it turns out. With demand down and production up, the price tanked.<p>Molycorp, which owns the US mine, is having terrible financing problems, but the mine and all the associated gear are up and running, producing about 4,000 metric tons a year of rare earth materials. Rare earth supply is now mostly a solved problem. China&#x27;s mining operation remains a mess, but that&#x27;s not inherent in rare earth mining any more.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=id8hDUT5nHQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=id8hDUT5nHQ</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.desertreport.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;DR_Spring2011.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.desertreport.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;DR_Sp...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth?p=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>devindotcom</author><text>Not to sound overly cynical, but this looks like another &quot;naive reporter discovers how the sausage is made&quot; story. It&#x27;s always good to get some perspective on these things, but to this forum it doesn&#x27;t seem like it will be a revelation. Tech manufacturing is an enormous and enormously dirty industry. We&#x27;re all complicit, of course.<p>Separately, I&#x27;m not sure I like his usage of &quot;dystopian.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth?p=1</url></story> |
23,277,468 | 23,277,650 | 1 | 2 | 23,269,636 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quwert95</author><text>These are great points. I&#x27;d like to add some more to them:<p>On minified source code, Extensions&#x2F;Add-Ons are allowed to be deployed with minified source code as long as you provide the unminified versions to Google&#x2F;Mozilla during review time.<p>On chrome vs. browser namespaces, a quick &#x27;let chrome = browser;&#x27; can help you keep the diffs small between versions. I have yet to find a complete solution to fixing &#x27;forked code&#x27; between Google&#x2F;Mozilla Extensions&#x2F;Add-Ons.<p>Also, storage mechanisms between browsers using the same extension code can be completely different. Beware if you&#x27;re using caches, navigator.storage, and storage.local.<p>Finally, extensions don&#x27;t consider themselves secure, depending on the browser. moz-extension:&#x2F;&#x2F; is not considered secure for cache access, whereas chrome-extension:&#x2F;&#x2F; is.<p>There lots of little &#x27;gotchas&#x27; like these when developing browser extensions. :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things I wish I knew before making a paid extension (2019)</title><url>https://www.amie-chen.com/blog/making-paid-extension/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mastermojo</author><text>YC W19 Sapling here. We have a freemium browser extension that acts as a grammar checker. Couple thoughts below:<p>1. Source code. You are allowed to minify source code. Chrome actually recommends minifying source to improve performance. If you require certain permissions you&#x27;ll have to submit un-minified source for security review.<p>2. Cloud&#x2F;subscription based models are the way to go if piracy is an issue, but it doesn&#x27;t make sense for all products. Licensing hasn&#x27;t been an issue for Sapling fortunately because the &quot;brains&quot; of our app are in the cloud. I know hacker news is very privacy conscious but our language models are too large to run on a user&#x27;s end machine right now. Spier Pro seems like a useful web-scraping helper. People who can pirate a chrome extension probably can probably run xpath scripts or a free xpath testing extension themselves so if I were Amy I wouldn&#x27;t worry _too_ much about piracy.<p>3. Forked Code. There should be no reason to do it. Firefox and Edge have done a lot of work to support most of the chrome apis. You can handle minor edge cases build time with a variable toggle. Keep the same manifest, even. Browsers are good about ignoring keywords in the manifest they don&#x27;t recognize. My recommendation is to pretend they are the same platform until you find bugs&#x2F;issues and hard code around them. Theres a handful but it&#x27;s very manageable.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;trustworthy-chrome-extensions-by-default.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;trustworthy-chrome-extensi...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;37649620&#x2F;does-chrome-market-accept-extensions-with-minified-and-or-obfuscated-source-code&#x2F;56006881#56006881" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;37649620&#x2F;does-chrome-mar...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;WebExtensions&#x2F;Chrome_incompatibilities" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;Web...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things I wish I knew before making a paid extension (2019)</title><url>https://www.amie-chen.com/blog/making-paid-extension/</url></story> |
24,168,954 | 24,168,859 | 1 | 3 | 24,166,994 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chongli</author><text>I think the whole framing of this discussion is inappropriate. The interesting thing about this fungus is that it can use the radiation as an energy source to sustain life. The fact that we can’t use the fungus as some kind of miracle lightweight radiation shield is missing the point.<p>Here we have a life form that has adapted to make use of a very unusual (on earth’s surface, anyway) energy source. That should not be taken for granted. It’s an amazing demonstration of the adaptability of life. It also warrants a deeper investigation into how this ability works and how it came about by evolutionary processes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>burtonator</author><text>There&#x27;s simply no way that this type of fungus could absorb enough radiation simply because it&#x27;s not dense enough.<p>If you want to absorb radiation you have to block it which means it has to come into contact with matter.<p>The only way you can do this is to have either a smaller volumetric amount of something that&#x27;s dense (lead, gold, uranium, etc) or a LARGE amount of something less dense (water, concrete, etc).<p>If you&#x27;re just talking about an organic organism, sure, it can use the radiation BUT you&#x27;d need to have a MASSIVE amount of it in terms of volume and weight.<p>Simply put, the fungus itself is sparse when looking at it from a subatomic perspective. Most of the radiation passes right through it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis</title><url>https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/videos/chernobyl-fungus-eats-nuclear-radiation-via-radiosynthesis-338464</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DarthGhandi</author><text>Given we are taking about space here I&#x27;m quite sure water outperforms per kg compared to the others you&#x27;ve mentioned.<p>Fairly certain there&#x27;s no high-Z solid that could compete on cost to orbit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>burtonator</author><text>There&#x27;s simply no way that this type of fungus could absorb enough radiation simply because it&#x27;s not dense enough.<p>If you want to absorb radiation you have to block it which means it has to come into contact with matter.<p>The only way you can do this is to have either a smaller volumetric amount of something that&#x27;s dense (lead, gold, uranium, etc) or a LARGE amount of something less dense (water, concrete, etc).<p>If you&#x27;re just talking about an organic organism, sure, it can use the radiation BUT you&#x27;d need to have a MASSIVE amount of it in terms of volume and weight.<p>Simply put, the fungus itself is sparse when looking at it from a subatomic perspective. Most of the radiation passes right through it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis</title><url>https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/videos/chernobyl-fungus-eats-nuclear-radiation-via-radiosynthesis-338464</url></story> |
4,798,113 | 4,797,038 | 1 | 2 | 4,796,755 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mvanveen</author><text>I really like how the author enumerated all his "mistakes" along the way.<p>I was reminded of my mistakes the night I couldn't sleep and embarked on a full-day bicycle journey up to San Clemente at 3am (mistake #1). Woefully unprepared (#2) and on my mom's upright commuter bike (#3), I got lost in Camp Pendleton (#4) after convincing the entry guard I'd walk my bike all the way to San Clemente since I didn't have a helmet (#5). Pretty soon I started hearing closeby gunfire (#6), found myself next to extremely fast traffic (#7), and was eventually escorted off the premises by a friendly, but firm Military Police officer whose parting words of wisdom were "you might want to try the 5; the highway patrol might have a problem with it, but you sure as hell can't ride back this way!" (#8).<p>As soon as I got off the base, I opted to explore a bit before immediately taking my chances on the freeway. Sure enough, there was a deserted road a little off the beaten path, sandwiched between the army base and the freeway.<p>Pretty soon, I realized the MP had inadvertently dropped me off in familiar territory. I was on the very beach trail to San Clemente I had taken with my dad, from many years prior in my childhood when I went on my first multi-day bike tour.<p>A few whimsical "mistakes" every now and then can make up for the rest of the bullshit in life. Oh, the places you'll go!<p>Great post, thank you for sharing!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer</title><url>http://www.cyclelove.net/?p=2190</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>crazcarl</author><text>I really enjoyed reading this. I liked the writing style, and the mood of the pictures gave the story a good feeling to it.<p>Thanks for sharing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer</title><url>http://www.cyclelove.net/?p=2190</url><text></text></story> |
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