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8,885,257 | 8,884,943 | 1 | 2 | 8,884,838 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheDong</author><text>It&#x27;s worse than that. To me, the biggest flaw of bitcoin is that you have to constantly spend energy on it (as in computation power &#x2F; burn coal) for it to remain viable. As soon as enough people get tired of throwing away money at their miners someone can pull a 51% attack, so everyone must put more energy into their miners to protect their investment... forever.<p>Over time the amount of energy wasted by bitcoin could become stupendously dumb. We could be using our spare processor cycles to fold proteins or aid in numerous other research, and yet we&#x27;re using it to allow people to send bits of data to each other without a need for centralized trust.<p>Compare that to the centralized bank where you have a single centralized trusted source which allows transferring money from one person to another to take no more energy than a modest server and some backups -- far less than the power consumption of a single GPU miner.<p>The above problem also won&#x27;t get better. Even after you&#x27;re no longer mining for new coins, you must keep up the mining volume to protect existing coins and allow transactions to occur at all. I personally find the above to be a fundamental problem with the &quot;proof of work&quot; solution. Sure, on paper you&#x27;ve solved the General&#x27;s problem, but the reality is that you&#x27;re throwing massive amounts of energy out the window. Because of that, I think this proof&#x27;s place should have been to remain on paper.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tribaal</author><text>Yeah, as much as I like the concept of bitcoin (and the blockchain), I don&#x27;t see adoption becoming anything more than anecdotal.<p>No interest rate, and you have to secure it yourself? No thanks. My &quot;big bad bank&quot; guarantees me at least a small interest in saving money, and if my card is stolen, I get a new one in 24 hours and all transactions are cancelled. I&#x27;m happy to pay some transaction fees (&quot;extortion!&quot;) to get that kind of insurance.<p>Bitcoin is the electronic version of &quot;let&#x27;s buy a lot of gold and stash it somewhere&quot;.<p>EDIT: Burn karma, burn. Ah well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin crashes over 25% in 24 hours, under $180</title><url>http://bitcoinity.org/markets</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hueving</author><text>&gt;Bitcoin is the electronic version of &quot;let&#x27;s buy a lot of gold and stash it somewhere&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s even worse than that because normal people at least have a decent idea of when their gold is secure. A non-techie just has to trust that the online bitcoin provider or author of the wallet is doing what he&#x2F;she really says and in a secure fashion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tribaal</author><text>Yeah, as much as I like the concept of bitcoin (and the blockchain), I don&#x27;t see adoption becoming anything more than anecdotal.<p>No interest rate, and you have to secure it yourself? No thanks. My &quot;big bad bank&quot; guarantees me at least a small interest in saving money, and if my card is stolen, I get a new one in 24 hours and all transactions are cancelled. I&#x27;m happy to pay some transaction fees (&quot;extortion!&quot;) to get that kind of insurance.<p>Bitcoin is the electronic version of &quot;let&#x27;s buy a lot of gold and stash it somewhere&quot;.<p>EDIT: Burn karma, burn. Ah well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin crashes over 25% in 24 hours, under $180</title><url>http://bitcoinity.org/markets</url></story> |
28,285,663 | 28,285,648 | 1 | 3 | 28,285,427 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walrus</author><text>The trackballs are listed as &quot;completely open-source&quot; on their website, but the mouse is listed as &quot;open-source firmware&quot;. This is consistent with what&#x27;s available on their GitHub page—the Altium and STEP files for the trackballs are available on their GitHub page, and the firmware for all their products (including the mouse) has been upstreamed[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;qmk&#x2F;qmk_firmware&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;keyboards&#x2F;ploopyco" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;qmk&#x2F;qmk_firmware&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;keyboards&#x2F;pl...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Fordec</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how &quot;open&quot; I consider a pdf of the schematics (no sign of PCB layouts), compiled hex files and I&#x27;m unsure where the mechanical 3D files are. [0]<p>When I think of open hardware I imagine Kicad&#x2F;Altium files of the electronics (not gerbers), access to the C, C++ or Rust firmware and the STEP files at least or other source modifiable files so they&#x27;re 3D printable if I was so inclined to modify all three.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ploopyco&#x2F;mouse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ploopyco&#x2F;mouse</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ploopy: open hardware trackballs and mouse</title><url>https://ploopy.co/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cookiengineer</author><text>I was looking through the repos for the Classic Trackball, too, but found the design files and was kinda impressed that also the PCB files were open [1]. They contain the Altium Designer files in that case.<p>The only thing why I&#x27;m probably not going for it is that 1) shipment would be way too much to justify and 2) the STLs seem to be 3d printed instead of injection molded or similar, so the &quot;no cheap shit&quot; argument on their website is kinda different for me if I have to print all files myself anyways.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ploopyco&#x2F;classic-trackball&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;Electronics&#x2F;DesignFiles&#x2F;PCBs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ploopyco&#x2F;classic-trackball&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;ha...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Fordec</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how &quot;open&quot; I consider a pdf of the schematics (no sign of PCB layouts), compiled hex files and I&#x27;m unsure where the mechanical 3D files are. [0]<p>When I think of open hardware I imagine Kicad&#x2F;Altium files of the electronics (not gerbers), access to the C, C++ or Rust firmware and the STEP files at least or other source modifiable files so they&#x27;re 3D printable if I was so inclined to modify all three.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ploopyco&#x2F;mouse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ploopyco&#x2F;mouse</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ploopy: open hardware trackballs and mouse</title><url>https://ploopy.co/</url></story> |
10,331,774 | 10,331,618 | 1 | 2 | 10,331,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xorcist</author><text>&gt; Either you believe that free trade<p>I wish we wouldn&#x27;t speak about such things in singular form, without qualifying what we mean <i>specifically</i>.<p>A normal trade agreement is something along the lines of &quot;we promise to not tax import of European cars, if you promise to tax Asian lawn mowers&quot;, or &quot;if you promise to allow antibiotics for farm animals&quot;, or something else a commissioner wants to see implemented.<p>Is this for or against free trade? It is part of a free trade deal so one could argue it is for, by definition. But that stance makes it very hard to discuss these things, especially in media sound bites. And that&#x27;s exactly where we are today.<p>I think if it&#x27;s one thing we&#x27;ve seen during the past ten years, it is that such negotiations needs to become more transparent. They have turned into political issues where&#x27;s there is an opinion (which is a good thing!) many years before the facts are public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>They have 90 days from publication, don&#x27;t they?<p>At any rate: every member of Congress has a staff with a million dollar annual payroll.<p>Are they going to carefully review the TPP for problems? Of course not. But the negotiation process has nothing to do with that. They&#x27;ll vote for or against free trade as a valence issue and nothing more. What few surprises we&#x27;ll get will be a pure result of election year posturing against Obama.<p>As for whether this is a problem, again, I think that boils down to a valence issue. Either you believe that free trade and trade rule harmonization led by the US is a good thing, or you (reasonably) do not. If you don&#x27;t, then the process we have now is terrible, because that process creates the potential that trade deals will happen. Because of course, if Congress was looped in on TPP negotiation from the outset, with advise-and-consent on each successive draft, there could be no trade deal. This Congress couldn&#x27;t work out an agreement to fund a pothole repair if the repair was close to a contested district.<p>Remember here we&#x27;re talking about Congress deciding about laws <i>for other countries</i>, much more so than for their own.</text></item><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>Well, isn&#x27;t that the entire problem at the US side? Your Congress has 60 days to read and understand several thousand of badly written legalese, and make a decision on it.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Just a reminder: the TPP, like most trade deals, is <i>negotiated</i> in secret, but <i>ratified</i> in public. The final version of the deal will be published in 30 days, and then Congress gets 90 days to consider before an up-or-down vote.<p>The 90-day thing is a result of Trade Promotion Authority granted by Congress to the administration. This is the &quot;fast track&quot; Congress voted to allow the President. It means the bill can&#x27;t be filibustered.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/business/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-is-reached.html?_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>Or, in other words, they&#x27;ll vote the bill by its title, and won&#x27;t ever care to know what is in it. (And that is the naive explanation, the cynical one is way worse.)<p>Do you really not think this is a problem? And how will society push Congress to represent its interests if nobody had time to read it either?<p>(And, no, that&#x27;s not about the US Congress deciding about laws for other countries. Each country on the treaty must accept the bill independently. Each one of those countries has a process for it, that&#x27;s usually at least as broken as the US one - it&#x27;s just that I was commenting on the US process.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>They have 90 days from publication, don&#x27;t they?<p>At any rate: every member of Congress has a staff with a million dollar annual payroll.<p>Are they going to carefully review the TPP for problems? Of course not. But the negotiation process has nothing to do with that. They&#x27;ll vote for or against free trade as a valence issue and nothing more. What few surprises we&#x27;ll get will be a pure result of election year posturing against Obama.<p>As for whether this is a problem, again, I think that boils down to a valence issue. Either you believe that free trade and trade rule harmonization led by the US is a good thing, or you (reasonably) do not. If you don&#x27;t, then the process we have now is terrible, because that process creates the potential that trade deals will happen. Because of course, if Congress was looped in on TPP negotiation from the outset, with advise-and-consent on each successive draft, there could be no trade deal. This Congress couldn&#x27;t work out an agreement to fund a pothole repair if the repair was close to a contested district.<p>Remember here we&#x27;re talking about Congress deciding about laws <i>for other countries</i>, much more so than for their own.</text></item><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>Well, isn&#x27;t that the entire problem at the US side? Your Congress has 60 days to read and understand several thousand of badly written legalese, and make a decision on it.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Just a reminder: the TPP, like most trade deals, is <i>negotiated</i> in secret, but <i>ratified</i> in public. The final version of the deal will be published in 30 days, and then Congress gets 90 days to consider before an up-or-down vote.<p>The 90-day thing is a result of Trade Promotion Authority granted by Congress to the administration. This is the &quot;fast track&quot; Congress voted to allow the President. It means the bill can&#x27;t be filibustered.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/business/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-is-reached.html?_r=0</url></story> |
5,336,630 | 5,336,436 | 1 | 2 | 5,335,773 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>othermaciej</author><text>"All"? Not Safari yet (knock on wood). Which is a big change from back in the day when it was usually pwned first in this contest. Or are you saying it's not a major browser?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pwn2Own owned all major browsers</title><url>http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-2013/ba-p/5981157</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>fruchtose</author><text>It looks like George Hotz [1] is attending! Judging by his work with the PlayStation 3, I expect him to do pretty well at cracking Adobe Reader.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pwn2Own owned all major browsers</title><url>http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-2013/ba-p/5981157</url><text></text></story> |
2,197,492 | 2,197,536 | 1 | 2 | 2,197,340 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>Taxation is at the heart of what makes the state possible, and it's the state, as a guarantor of justice and peace, which makes creating and keeping wealth possible. The wealthy benefit more from this arrangement, and it's fair that they are taxed more as a result. I presume you're not arguing against the existence of the state, or the need for taxation for its upkeep.<p>Given the need for taxation, making taxation fair requires information about economic transactions. But there's a balance to be struck here: having the state be informed about the details of every transaction, tied to each individual, would probably be too dangerous for liberty. But on the other hand, lack of oversight will lead to evasion and free-riding. So it seems that it's best to put effort in investigation in proportion to detecting potential free-riders.<p>Large amounts of money held in opaque arrangements abroad would seem to me to have a high probability of abuse; and with the numbers of people involved being small, the instrumental loss of liberty in having these arrangements investigated seems to me small compared to the free-riding risk.<p>I also object to the argument you've used; it gives me a slimy feeling reading it. You've tried to drag in this notion of privacy and respect by association with "professionals", attorneys, priests and spouses (!), to what amounts to hired thugs protecting a box of valuables. Banks spend a lot on appearances because they need to give their customers the impression that they're safe places for their customers' money, but at the end of the day, they're out to extract as much of that money as they can. Banking isn't a respectable business, particularly these days. They're a necessary part of the economic infrastructure, a bit like water supply and sewers are to cities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lionhearted</author><text>I've got a perspective here that will likely run contrary to the dominant view, but I encourage you to think about for a moment -<p>I'm of the belief that the ability to keep your work, voluntary exchanges, and assets private contribute to a free society in the same way that attorney/client privilege, priest/community, and spousal privilege all exist.<p>Now, in the United States, we don't have that and people know that and live with that. But people doing business in Switzerland are under the impression that they have a very private, safe relationship with their banker, the same way you'd have with your lawyer, psychiatrist, priest, or spouse. This man breaching that is doing a very serious thing.<p>This goes beyond politics. When you have a private relationship with a professional, sanctioned by the local law, that says that you have private confidence and that's betrayed... that's serious. If you don't believe in the Swiss banking system, not working there is acceptable. Protesting it is acceptable. Taking on a fiduciary duty of loyalty and confidence, and then breaching it... that's serious.<p>The average American might not think this way, because they don't have a private relationship with their banker. But generalize this to all duty - this man pledged duty, people were under the impression that he had a duty of confidence to them, and he breached that. This doesn't get into right/wrong, but it's something worth thinking about.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/41257962</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kenjackson</author><text>Privacy with your banker is fine. Just pay your taxes.<p>Just like your medical records are private, but if you are HIV+ you must disclose that to unprotected sexual partners.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lionhearted</author><text>I've got a perspective here that will likely run contrary to the dominant view, but I encourage you to think about for a moment -<p>I'm of the belief that the ability to keep your work, voluntary exchanges, and assets private contribute to a free society in the same way that attorney/client privilege, priest/community, and spousal privilege all exist.<p>Now, in the United States, we don't have that and people know that and live with that. But people doing business in Switzerland are under the impression that they have a very private, safe relationship with their banker, the same way you'd have with your lawyer, psychiatrist, priest, or spouse. This man breaching that is doing a very serious thing.<p>This goes beyond politics. When you have a private relationship with a professional, sanctioned by the local law, that says that you have private confidence and that's betrayed... that's serious. If you don't believe in the Swiss banking system, not working there is acceptable. Protesting it is acceptable. Taking on a fiduciary duty of loyalty and confidence, and then breaching it... that's serious.<p>The average American might not think this way, because they don't have a private relationship with their banker. But generalize this to all duty - this man pledged duty, people were under the impression that he had a duty of confidence to them, and he breached that. This doesn't get into right/wrong, but it's something worth thinking about.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/41257962</url></story> |
24,615,303 | 24,614,464 | 1 | 3 | 24,610,266 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jgraham</author><text>&gt; The fathers are looked at negatively if the don’t take some of this time.<p>This isn&#x27;t just an apriori fact of the culture, but an intentional result of the structure of the leave.<p>90 days are reserved for each parent (there&#x27;s an exception for single parents) i.e. if the father doesn&#x27;t take those 3 months they are lost. Apparently before this policy came into effect, fathers would typically take very little leave. But once there was an incentive to take 3 months they began to take longer periods and split the overall time more evenly.<p>So even though it&#x27;s part of the culture, it&#x27;s not impossible to understand how it came to be, and therefore not impossible to replicate elsewhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>car</author><text>Compare this to 480 days of shared and paid parental leave in Sweden at 80% salary.<p>The fathers are looked at negatively if the <i>don’t</i> take some of this time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;sweden-maternity-leave-paternity-leave-policies-latte-dads-2018-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;sweden-maternity-leave-pater...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave</title><url>https://www.vogue.com/article/french-fathers-paternity-leave-doubled/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>France has both paternity leave and parental leave, which are different things.<p>France has 1 year parental leaves, which may be extended up to a total of 3 years (and more in case of twins, etc). But they are unpaid though the employee may then qualify for various benefits.<p>There is also a &#x27;birth leave&#x27; of 3 days. So when you have a baby you can have a 3 day leave at birth, then the now 28 day paternity leave within the next 4 months, and an unpaid 1-3 year parental leave.<p>Iirc, the first leave is on full pay by the employer, the second on capped pay by a special state benefit (but employers can top up), and the third is unpaid though, as mentioned, other benefits exist subject to conditions.<p>The idea being that one leave is for attending the actual birth (in France mothers are usually kept in hospital for a few days after birth in order to recover and to be taught how to look after a baby, fathers are welcome during the day), one leave is for bonding with the new born baby, and the third leave is, if needed, to look after the baby until (s)he reaches free nursery school age.<p>French admin is always as simple as can be, not ;)<p>In my case, at the time I worked for a company that offered a lot of annual leaves (I had about 8 weeks a year) so took normal annual leaves instead of the paternity leave after the initial 3 day &quot;birth leave&quot; in order not to lose money as the paternity leave cap was quite lower than most engineers earn.</text><parent_chain><item><author>car</author><text>Compare this to 480 days of shared and paid parental leave in Sweden at 80% salary.<p>The fathers are looked at negatively if the <i>don’t</i> take some of this time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;sweden-maternity-leave-paternity-leave-policies-latte-dads-2018-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;sweden-maternity-leave-pater...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave</title><url>https://www.vogue.com/article/french-fathers-paternity-leave-doubled/</url></story> |
22,465,256 | 22,465,118 | 1 | 3 | 22,462,628 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>This is why separating return values from error codes is important.<p>For example, in Rust, you’d never get into this situation, because a decent fork ffi function would immediately convert -1 into a Result carrying an error, and properly check errno. Java and C++ would throw an exception, etc.<p>Thus preventing all sorts of bad behavior up the stack.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fork() can fail: this is important (2014)</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/08/19/fork/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usefulcat</author><text>When I first learned of this behavior, I immediately replaced all calls to fork() with calls to the following throughout our entire codebase:<p><pre><code> int checked_fork() {
const int pid = fork();
if (pid &lt; 0) {
throw std::runtime_error(&quot;fork failed&quot;);
}
return pid;
}</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fork() can fail: this is important (2014)</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/08/19/fork/</url></story> |
13,147,287 | 13,147,336 | 1 | 2 | 13,146,716 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>merb</author><text>&gt; it was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home in Perth<p>so it would be fair if somebody who did a poor job in his school days (probably, I never heard that anybody work at Amazon with higher education and even than in germany amazon pays way more than other employers Zalando for example) and already have a home to get as much money to have two homes because one of the fact that his job is too far away from his regular house?
Btw. I&#x27;m dropped out of &quot;College&quot; (in germany it&#x27;s called different) but I tried hard to get a decent job and search a place to live (which is extremly hard here in Freiburg) but I got a cheap one that I can afford, besides the fact that it&#x27;s not big, but it&#x27;s fine. And I never complained since It was my own fault that I don&#x27;t live like the rich boys now and &quot;only&quot; drive a &quot;small&quot; car, but some people are just ridicoulus.<p>I know there are a lot of problems in the world but actually Europe and USA are actually still not the one&#x27;s with &quot;really really&quot; big problems, actually we discuss about problems that some people did not get enough money blabla, while in other countries they barly get any money, food and water, it&#x27;s just ridicoulus that we live in the cockaigne and call out some big companies because they don&#x27;t pay their workers more. What all people forgot, they have a job, without one they would get way way less.</text><parent_chain><item><author>s_kilk</author><text>&gt; But really, what can Amazon do about this?<p>They could pay their workers a living wage and not treat them like dogs.</text></item><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>I don&#x27;t like this article because it seems like a purely emotional appeal.<p>To be sure, there&#x27;s a lot of people who have said that Amazon is a shitty place to work: not just in entry level jobs, but even as a well-educated 6 figure software engineer. I would not choose to work for Amazon unless I was desperate, period. It seems too corporate and too micromanaged a place to work and the few good things about working there that I&#x27;ve heard like small teams don&#x27;t outweigh all of the negatives.<p>That being said, Amazon isn&#x27;t a government entity that is responsible for your housing and they have no right to tell you where to sleep at night.<p>Look at this section of the article in particular.<p>&gt; One worker, who did not wish to be named, was reluctant to speak to The Courier but did describe the firm as a “poor employer” and criticised working practices at the Fife site. He added that he had opted to stay in a tent as it was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home in Perth, although his camping equipment had disappeared by Friday afternoon.<p>This is a guy took the best job that was available to him (even though it&#x27;s far away from his house) who is doing this by choice for a period of time as he believes that this decision benefits him the most. I don&#x27;t see anything wrong with this. I feel bad for him if his stuff got stolen because of the extra media attention there: the reporter was probably intending to do something nice for them and it might end up backfiring.<p>But really, what can Amazon do about this? For that one example, that&#x27;s a guy that already has a home but chooses not use it out of convenience. If they offered seasonal workers some extra resources and facilities (say use of the parking lot to sleep in safer at night) to make their lives easier, they&#x27;d instantly be accused of exploiting workers and there would be images of tent cities on the news every night trying to make them look bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon workers sleeping in tents</title><url>https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/325800/exclusive-amazon-workers-sleeping-in-tents-near-dunfermline-site/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>intopieces</author><text>Can you provide evidence to support how your solution addresses the issue?<p>Would the wage you propose all workers make allow this individual to live closer to his work site? Does the wage he makes now specifically disallow him from living close to his work site? Would his employer treating him better mean he doesn&#x27;t sleep in a tent?<p>This article doesn&#x27;t give us enough information to know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>s_kilk</author><text>&gt; But really, what can Amazon do about this?<p>They could pay their workers a living wage and not treat them like dogs.</text></item><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>I don&#x27;t like this article because it seems like a purely emotional appeal.<p>To be sure, there&#x27;s a lot of people who have said that Amazon is a shitty place to work: not just in entry level jobs, but even as a well-educated 6 figure software engineer. I would not choose to work for Amazon unless I was desperate, period. It seems too corporate and too micromanaged a place to work and the few good things about working there that I&#x27;ve heard like small teams don&#x27;t outweigh all of the negatives.<p>That being said, Amazon isn&#x27;t a government entity that is responsible for your housing and they have no right to tell you where to sleep at night.<p>Look at this section of the article in particular.<p>&gt; One worker, who did not wish to be named, was reluctant to speak to The Courier but did describe the firm as a “poor employer” and criticised working practices at the Fife site. He added that he had opted to stay in a tent as it was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home in Perth, although his camping equipment had disappeared by Friday afternoon.<p>This is a guy took the best job that was available to him (even though it&#x27;s far away from his house) who is doing this by choice for a period of time as he believes that this decision benefits him the most. I don&#x27;t see anything wrong with this. I feel bad for him if his stuff got stolen because of the extra media attention there: the reporter was probably intending to do something nice for them and it might end up backfiring.<p>But really, what can Amazon do about this? For that one example, that&#x27;s a guy that already has a home but chooses not use it out of convenience. If they offered seasonal workers some extra resources and facilities (say use of the parking lot to sleep in safer at night) to make their lives easier, they&#x27;d instantly be accused of exploiting workers and there would be images of tent cities on the news every night trying to make them look bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon workers sleeping in tents</title><url>https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/325800/exclusive-amazon-workers-sleeping-in-tents-near-dunfermline-site/</url></story> |
4,994,235 | 4,993,472 | 1 | 2 | 4,992,401 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gaustin</author><text>I was diagnosed with schizo-affective and bipolar disorders when I was 19. I was on disability until I was 26 (I am now almost 31), even though I worked part time as a software developer through that entire period.<p>I've managed to live a pretty "normal" life so far, even with my health issues. I have both Bachelor's and Master's degrees. I've been with my wife for 5 years so far. I've held down jobs pretty well, with ever-increasing levels of responsibility. I have healthy hobbies that take quite a bit of attention but do not become overriding obsessions.<p>My wife and I have different struggles than most other couples. She is most definitely not with me because it's novel, nor to "save" me or any other sort of co-dependent nonsense.<p>Schizophrenia may not be fixable, but it is controllable to a degree and with care it doesn't have to mean a life in institutions or a life without a satisfying career.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guylhem</author><text>I'll cast a dissenting opinion.<p>Do you really, honestly think the author will be happy - and for long (say more than 2 years, after the initial thrill of doing something odd and new)?<p>It does not looks like a sane relation to me, but more like a relation based on needs - such as the need to "save" someone (frequent with young upperclass women) or such as a profound emotional need to display love.<p><i>"I'll throw myself in front of a bus for her if she wants it"</i> - this doesn't looks like a good thing to say about a relationship - especially about a relationship with someone hearing voices who might recommend such things.<p>Are normal persons (or life) so boring that one needs to import another person problems - especially unfixable problems given the state of our technology regarding schizophrenia?<p>(my cousin has a severe form and spends most of his time in various institutions)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic</title><url>http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-i-fell-in-love-with-schizophrenic.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>leamsisetroc</author><text>As someone who is in love with someone with Borderline Personality Disorder. Your general idea... the way the author is handling the relationship won't make him happy in the long run.<p>That phrase you highlighted ("throw myself in front of a bus") also impressed me when I read the post. It tells me that the author himself should get some help.<p>If there's something I've learned after more than a year of being together with someone with a mental problem is that you need to take care of yourself before you can take care of somebody else, otherwise you're both going to drown in problems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guylhem</author><text>I'll cast a dissenting opinion.<p>Do you really, honestly think the author will be happy - and for long (say more than 2 years, after the initial thrill of doing something odd and new)?<p>It does not looks like a sane relation to me, but more like a relation based on needs - such as the need to "save" someone (frequent with young upperclass women) or such as a profound emotional need to display love.<p><i>"I'll throw myself in front of a bus for her if she wants it"</i> - this doesn't looks like a good thing to say about a relationship - especially about a relationship with someone hearing voices who might recommend such things.<p>Are normal persons (or life) so boring that one needs to import another person problems - especially unfixable problems given the state of our technology regarding schizophrenia?<p>(my cousin has a severe form and spends most of his time in various institutions)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic</title><url>http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-i-fell-in-love-with-schizophrenic.html</url></story> |
9,221,038 | 9,220,576 | 1 | 3 | 9,220,442 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>genericuser</author><text>After a week or so for people to adopt it send out $1 gifts to 100,000 (or however many that will represent a rounding error in dollars) people with accounts meeting some set of activity requirements, who have not yet signed up. They then have to enter their info to claim it, once their info is entered they have no barrier to use it and may send money to others further spreading it.<p>Also publicize that you will be giving like $1,000 to 100 lucky fb pay users who have performed at least 5 transactions, after 2 months of fb pay.<p>I mean Facebook just needs to get a decent initial seed of people to add their info, and for it to be so painfully stupidly easy that every relative on Facebook can now send their nephews&#x2F;nieces and grand children those $5 birthday gifts so that it spreads.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FreakyT</author><text>It&#x27;s an interesting feature, but it seems unlikely that enough people will add their card information to Facebook to make it worthwhile, considering that both the payor and payee need CC information included for the payment to work.<p>On a related note, this continues Facebook&#x27;s unfortunate user-interface decision to replace the simple &quot;send&quot; button in Facebook Messenger with a row of increasingly crowded and not-particularly-useful buttons to send various &quot;other&quot; things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Send Money to Friends in Messenger</title><url>http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/03/send-money-to-friends-in-messenger/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajessup</author><text>The Payee will be reasonably motivated to add their CC to retrieve the funds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FreakyT</author><text>It&#x27;s an interesting feature, but it seems unlikely that enough people will add their card information to Facebook to make it worthwhile, considering that both the payor and payee need CC information included for the payment to work.<p>On a related note, this continues Facebook&#x27;s unfortunate user-interface decision to replace the simple &quot;send&quot; button in Facebook Messenger with a row of increasingly crowded and not-particularly-useful buttons to send various &quot;other&quot; things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Send Money to Friends in Messenger</title><url>http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/03/send-money-to-friends-in-messenger/</url></story> |
31,134,211 | 31,134,021 | 1 | 2 | 31,133,393 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tphyahoo2</author><text>Yanis:<p>&quot;The Gold Standard is, indeed, a great source of insight into how dangerously primitive Bitcoin maximalist thinking is. Suppose Bitcoin were to take over from fiat currencies. What would banks do? They would lend in Bitcoin, of course. This means that overdraft facilities would emerge allowing lenders to buy goods and services with Bitcoins that do not yet exist. What would governments do? At moments of stress, they would have to issue units of account linked to Bitcoin (as they did under the Gold Exchange Standard during the interwar period).&quot;<p>The reason governments could do this with gold is that gold is easy to counterfeit, hard to store securely, and expensive to transact with at a distance. So it makes sense to keep it all in a giant vault (a bank, or central bank) and trust the vaultkeeper to issue ious and transact in those.<p>But bitcoin does not suffer from these defects.<p>I don&#x27;t think Yanis understands this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nassimtaleb.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;intellectual-yet-idiot&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nassimtaleb.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;intellectual-yet-idiot&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crypto, the Left and Technofeudalism</title><url>https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/04/23/discussing-crypto-the-left-technofeudalism-with-evgeny-morozov-crypto-syllabus-long-interview/</url></story> | <instructions>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>Maybe slightly out of topic, but I&#x27;m incredibly impressed by the intelligence of this man, and how easily he can communicate on complex topics in such a simple language even a teenager without most of the context could grasp.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crypto, the Left and Technofeudalism</title><url>https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/04/23/discussing-crypto-the-left-technofeudalism-with-evgeny-morozov-crypto-syllabus-long-interview/</url></story> |
17,457,168 | 17,456,721 | 1 | 2 | 17,449,444 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hevi_jos</author><text>Reading about this always makes me remember how much we stand at the shoulders of giants.<p>Thinking about things like on each of those voyages half the crew will die of Scurvy and other illnesses, for hundreds of years.<p>Now it is going to the moon or Venus, or Mars what requires a significant risk to do, because of danger like radiation or absence of civilization out there.<p>Some day in the future, traveling to Mars will be routine and people would barely think on those that made it possible.<p>How much people think about the incredible thing it is we could travel to the other side of the planet on a single day?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The China Ship</title><url>https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.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>nerdponx</author><text>Cool article. This was one time when I actually wish the article was slightly longer. I came away with only the vaguest sense of what made the return trip more difficult. Who were the &quot;enemies&quot; in question?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The China Ship</title><url>https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.html</url></story> |
13,095,420 | 13,095,199 | 1 | 3 | 13,094,106 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aorth</author><text>I wanted to try it, but the downloads page presents a popup asking for your name and email address, and you cannot dismiss it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.influxdata.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.influxdata.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality</title><url>https://www.influxdata.com/influxdb-1-1-released-with-up-to-60-performance-increase-and-new-query-functionality/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hbs</author><text>Performance usually varies greatly with your set up. I have not tried the 1.1 release but earlier relases suffered very badly when authentication was turned on and when data came out of order. Nobody cares about the ideal case, it&#x27;s never encountered.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality</title><url>https://www.influxdata.com/influxdb-1-1-released-with-up-to-60-performance-increase-and-new-query-functionality/</url></story> |
25,610,323 | 25,610,295 | 1 | 2 | 25,609,669 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jumanjisama</author><text>Off topic. I highly recommend the book written by the site&#x27;s author<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;swdddf&#x2F;domain-modeling-made-functional&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;swdddf&#x2F;domain-modeling-made-func...</a><p>Although it may look like just Domain Driven Design (DDD) and F# from the title. I think I&#x27;ve learnt a lot more from it. It changed the way I approached a problem and I somehow keep coming back to the book to get a refresher of the teachings in it. I suspect it is due to the influence of F# and functional paradigms that is also being shared in the book.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>F# for fun and profit: Terms and Conditions</title><url>https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/about/terms/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>I only used F# on the side for a few casual projects but I&#x27;d really love for it to gain much more traction. Just like Clojure feels to me like a great pragmatic language on top of the JVM, F# feels like Ocaml on top of a really strong ecosystem.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>F# for fun and profit: Terms and Conditions</title><url>https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/about/terms/</url></story> |
19,480,234 | 19,479,877 | 1 | 3 | 19,479,352 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>I hear you, but I think colonizing the galaxy might still be feasible. If we can get to the point where we have the technology to colonize Mars, which will hopefully happen this century, then I would imagine it probably won&#x27;t be long after that until we manage to have permanent space habitats that harvest materials from asteroids.<p>If we have fusion power, durable permanent space habitats, and the technology to harvest materials from asteroids, then traveling to the next star system doesn&#x27;t seem so far-fetched anymore. If we could just reach 0.1c, we could make it to Alpha Centauri in less than 50 years. Once we make it there, if we&#x27;re already comfortable living in space, we don&#x27;t even need to worry about terraforming or anything lengthy and complicated like that, we can just harvest asteroids and build more space stations and ships.<p>Not a physicist, but I see Project Orion could have reached 0.33% of the speed of light. Would it be realistic to extend that design to accelerate to 0.1c?</text><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>I&#x27;m in a more conservative camp than speed limits: the practicality one.<p>Even if we ignore the ponies and rainbows of wormhole travel, if you want to travel to a plain black hole to use the magic teleporter, the nearest two are V616 Mon at 11 solar masses and 3000 LY away, and Cyg X1 at 15 SM and 6000 LY. If you buy into the article&#x27;s assertion that you won&#x27;t get burned or spaghettified on your way to becoming a nucleon paste, and you want a heavier BH, the nearest is Sag A* at 4.1e6 SM and 25000 LY away.<p>Anyway, to travel between the teleporter and Earth, we&#x27;re talking most of the resources of a planet to accelerate a mass to substantial fractions of c. Then you&#x27;ve got thousands of years of collisions, radiation, and maybe (assumption?) cultural and biological challenges of living in space for aeons, plus needing another planet&#x27;s worth of resources to slow down at the destination. All this makes it hard enough even to get a dozen LY to our nearest start system.<p>My opinion is we&#x27;re in something of a Well World universe, where everyone is pretty well travel-isolated from their neighbors.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Put me firmly in the camp that believes the speed of light is a hard limit on the universe and I&#x27;ll use Isaac Arthur dismissal of FTL travel as to why.<p>He contends that there likely isn&#x27;t a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable. Now this isn&#x27;t to say there isn&#x27;t one that&#x27;s say, 600 million light years away that built their first Dyson sphere 500 million years ago although, in practice, this doesn&#x27;t really change the probabilities that much.<p>If there&#x27;s FTL then that billion light year practical limit really goes out the window as you can effectively get anywhere in the universe, making the volume of absence be many, many times the size of the observable universe.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why the author is talking about gravity ripping you apart in a black hole. It Is Known [tm] that larger black holes have pretty gentle event horizons.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why it matters that a black hole would be spinning. You can pretty much assume every significant mass in the universe is spinning to some degree (a state of zero spin being highly unlikely over even small amounts of time).<p>The author talks about the inner event horizon and I guess that&#x27;s the point. But all of that is highly theoretical. Nothing is known about the inner workings of a black hole. It&#x27;s all highly theoretical and beyond the ability of general relativity to describe. No other theory has been able to adequately explain or describe gravity let alone extreme gravity so your view on what&#x27;s within the event horizon probably depends on which unproven theory (eg string theory) you subscribe to.<p>So this is speculation based on speculation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel</title><url>https://theconversation.com/rotating-black-holes-may-serve-as-gentle-portals-for-hyperspace-travel-107062</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wallace_f</author><text>Very interesting, but this assumes life evolves to Type II civ.<p>I mean, looking at our own planet, it seems this might be extremely unlikely.<p>To the best of my knowledge, another Planet Earth could possibly be within a few hundred ly of us(0.000000001 of known universe), and we&#x27;d have no idea(1)..?<p>1-<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.centauri-dreams.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;31&#x2F;is-our-civilization-detectable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.centauri-dreams.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;31&#x2F;is-our-civilizati...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>I&#x27;m in a more conservative camp than speed limits: the practicality one.<p>Even if we ignore the ponies and rainbows of wormhole travel, if you want to travel to a plain black hole to use the magic teleporter, the nearest two are V616 Mon at 11 solar masses and 3000 LY away, and Cyg X1 at 15 SM and 6000 LY. If you buy into the article&#x27;s assertion that you won&#x27;t get burned or spaghettified on your way to becoming a nucleon paste, and you want a heavier BH, the nearest is Sag A* at 4.1e6 SM and 25000 LY away.<p>Anyway, to travel between the teleporter and Earth, we&#x27;re talking most of the resources of a planet to accelerate a mass to substantial fractions of c. Then you&#x27;ve got thousands of years of collisions, radiation, and maybe (assumption?) cultural and biological challenges of living in space for aeons, plus needing another planet&#x27;s worth of resources to slow down at the destination. All this makes it hard enough even to get a dozen LY to our nearest start system.<p>My opinion is we&#x27;re in something of a Well World universe, where everyone is pretty well travel-isolated from their neighbors.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Put me firmly in the camp that believes the speed of light is a hard limit on the universe and I&#x27;ll use Isaac Arthur dismissal of FTL travel as to why.<p>He contends that there likely isn&#x27;t a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable. Now this isn&#x27;t to say there isn&#x27;t one that&#x27;s say, 600 million light years away that built their first Dyson sphere 500 million years ago although, in practice, this doesn&#x27;t really change the probabilities that much.<p>If there&#x27;s FTL then that billion light year practical limit really goes out the window as you can effectively get anywhere in the universe, making the volume of absence be many, many times the size of the observable universe.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why the author is talking about gravity ripping you apart in a black hole. It Is Known [tm] that larger black holes have pretty gentle event horizons.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why it matters that a black hole would be spinning. You can pretty much assume every significant mass in the universe is spinning to some degree (a state of zero spin being highly unlikely over even small amounts of time).<p>The author talks about the inner event horizon and I guess that&#x27;s the point. But all of that is highly theoretical. Nothing is known about the inner workings of a black hole. It&#x27;s all highly theoretical and beyond the ability of general relativity to describe. No other theory has been able to adequately explain or describe gravity let alone extreme gravity so your view on what&#x27;s within the event horizon probably depends on which unproven theory (eg string theory) you subscribe to.<p>So this is speculation based on speculation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel</title><url>https://theconversation.com/rotating-black-holes-may-serve-as-gentle-portals-for-hyperspace-travel-107062</url></story> |
16,932,002 | 16,930,921 | 1 | 2 | 16,928,975 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NickM</author><text><i>This &quot;kind of autonomous driving&quot; is absolutely deadly, by definition. It&#x27;s never going to work well.</i><p>Instead of just speculating, the NHTSA did an actual study on this, and they reached the opposite conclusion. They investigated crash rates in Tesla vehicles that had the original autopilot hardware installed, both before and after autosteer was enabled via a software update, and found that autosteer reduced accident rates by 40%.<p>When Tesla talks about how much lower their accident rate per mile is compared to other cars, that&#x27;s kind of statistical bullshit, since there are plenty of other uncontrolled variables that are in play that could affect this besides the cars themselves. But in the case of the NHTSA study, they were looking at the same drivers in the same cars, and the only difference was that one day a software update came out and enabled autosteer, and suddenly accident rates went way down. That&#x27;s pretty damn convincing if you ask me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.nhtsa.gov&#x2F;odi&#x2F;inv&#x2F;2016&#x2F;INCLA-PE16007-7876.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.nhtsa.gov&#x2F;odi&#x2F;inv&#x2F;2016&#x2F;INCLA-PE16007-7876.pdf</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nakedrobot2</author><text>I think the brunt of the &quot;Tesla Autopilot Deaths&quot; problem is not the tech, but the marketing department (which has to include Elon Musk of course). This &quot;kind of autonomous driving&quot; is absolutely deadly, by definition. It&#x27;s never going to work well. &quot;The car will drive by itself, until it can&#x27;t. So don&#x27;t pay any attention, until you need to save your own life. We&#x27;ll give you 2 seconds warning&quot;. I mean, really? I don&#x27;t know why Tesla could possibly think this is a good idea. By extension, anyone who actually uses or trusts autopilot is basically forfeiting their life. I think it is cognitively harder to use autopilot and pay attention, than to simply drive safely.<p>As far as the tech goes, I am in agreement with Elon. I think LiDAR is a short term advantage, but the companies&#x2F;stacks depending on LiDAR will reach a local maximum from which they won&#x27;t recover without totally starting again from scratch. LiDAR is short range, low resolution, and extremely expensive. There is no reason that visible light (+ IR) CMOS cameras can&#x27;t do better by an order of magnitude, at a lower cost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down After Two Years</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/tesla-says-autopilot-vice-president-keller-is-leaving-carmaker</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikejb</author><text>I fully agree with you, except to the Lidar argument. It holds currently, because Lidars are relatively new (compared to cameras). Considering the progress cameras have made, and apply a similar progress to Lidar. It&#x27;s ultimately a race between learning enough on mostly-visual input, and developing cheaper and better hardware. It&#x27;s a race, and I think it&#x27;s brave to make claims on what tech will develop faster.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t think a &quot;restart from scratch&quot; is required when moving away from Lidar - I don&#x27;t have any hard evidence to make that claim and am happy to change my mind, but I haven&#x27;t found any argument for doing so yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nakedrobot2</author><text>I think the brunt of the &quot;Tesla Autopilot Deaths&quot; problem is not the tech, but the marketing department (which has to include Elon Musk of course). This &quot;kind of autonomous driving&quot; is absolutely deadly, by definition. It&#x27;s never going to work well. &quot;The car will drive by itself, until it can&#x27;t. So don&#x27;t pay any attention, until you need to save your own life. We&#x27;ll give you 2 seconds warning&quot;. I mean, really? I don&#x27;t know why Tesla could possibly think this is a good idea. By extension, anyone who actually uses or trusts autopilot is basically forfeiting their life. I think it is cognitively harder to use autopilot and pay attention, than to simply drive safely.<p>As far as the tech goes, I am in agreement with Elon. I think LiDAR is a short term advantage, but the companies&#x2F;stacks depending on LiDAR will reach a local maximum from which they won&#x27;t recover without totally starting again from scratch. LiDAR is short range, low resolution, and extremely expensive. There is no reason that visible light (+ IR) CMOS cameras can&#x27;t do better by an order of magnitude, at a lower cost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down After Two Years</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/tesla-says-autopilot-vice-president-keller-is-leaving-carmaker</url></story> |
32,577,248 | 32,575,043 | 1 | 2 | 32,571,893 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>&gt; Godot ended up allowing a lot of its users to be a tool to learn programming instead.<p>This, so much. After careful deliberation I chose Godot and GDScript as a follow-up after Scratch for my kid to learn programming.<p>Godot and GDScript are great, because:<p>- Easy enough to pick up after Scratch. GDScript is easy to learn yet powerful enough to teach most relevant programming concepts and it even is able to make real world applications.<p>- Graphics and Sound! Nothing is more motivating for children than something that moves, blinks and makes noise. That&#x27;s how I got into programming in the 80s and it still works the same - technology changed a lot but humans are still humans.<p>- With Godot it is easy to make a mobil app. I cannot stress enough how important that is. The primary computing device for kids today is the mobile phone. If the thing you make isn&#x27;t there it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>- GDScript is quite similar to Python - in syntax and spirit. It will make learning Python as the next language a lot easier.<p>- GDScript just makes sense and is free from legacy cruft. You don&#x27;t have to constantly hand-wave away things you can only explain with a lot of historical context, which children totally lack.<p>- Games! The only thing more fun than playing games is making your own.<p>- Godot is not a toy (like Scratch) but is used for real world apps!
Not even games only but also serious apps with 10k+ users, like the Tesla app for example. Kids love to do serious grown-ups stuff.<p>Funnily, even after spending quite some time with Godot recently, this article is the first time I heard about Godot&#x27;s visual scripting. If I had known about it, I might have used it to ease the transition from Scratch.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-will-discontinue-visual-scripting</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zubspace</author><text>I am really looking forward to Godot 4. GDScript improved a lot.<p>I&#x27;m mostly excited about callables (function pointers), easier signal handling in combination with await (former yields) and an improved tweening system. The scripting environment inside of the editor with inbuilt documentation, code completion and debugger is really an achievement.<p>The only thing I miss are static typing and refactoring tools. You can use type hints, but you need to fall back to dynamic typing at some places for example because there are no generic collections.<p>Therefore I&#x27;m quite excited about the dotnet6 branch being merged into main a few days ago [1]. This is a huge step and will probably make some unity developers consider Godot for their next game.<p>Also there&#x27;s GDExtension, the successor of GDNative, which will make it easier to integrate C++ code [2].<p>I could never imagine myself using Visual Scripting, because you can express yourself so much easier in Code.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;godotengine&#x2F;godot&#x2F;pull&#x2F;64089" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;godotengine&#x2F;godot&#x2F;pull&#x2F;64089</a><p>[2]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godotengine.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;introducing-gd-extensions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godotengine.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;introducing-gd-extensions</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-will-discontinue-visual-scripting</url></story> |
37,331,346 | 37,330,874 | 1 | 2 | 37,324,683 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Reviving1514</author><text>Hi Jeremy,<p>I&#x27;m sure you get this a lot, but thank you for teaching me ML - I am a hardware engineer&#x2F;manufacturing person who learned to code in the early 2010s and it&#x27;s been immensely helpful in my career. Learning ML feels like V2 of that - picking up a new skill that is going to end up being useful in so many places. You made that journey much easier and more accessible and I very much appreciate it.<p>(No need to respond at all - just wanted to pass along the gratitude!)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jph00</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the recipients of the AI grants, to support my work at fast.ai. I&#x27;m extremely grateful to a16z for their support. Here&#x27;s some additional details based on questions I see in the comments:<p>My grant covered the purchase of a Scalar server from Lambda Labs, which allowed me to configure a system with 8 previous-gen A6000 GPUs, partly also thanks to NVIDIA who has recently given me 3 of those cards, and Lambda Labs who offered to provide everything at cost.<p>a16z didn&#x27;t ask for any equity or any kind of quid pro quo, other than to let folks know that they provided this grant. They couldn&#x27;t have been more helpful through the process - I didn&#x27;t have to fill out any forms (other than sign a single one page agreement), the contract was clear and totally fair (even explicitly saying that a16z wasn&#x27;t going to receive any kind of rights to anything), and they wired me the money for buying the server promptly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants</title><url>https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/supporting-the-open-source-ai-community/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>0xcde4c3db</author><text>&gt; previous-gen A6000 GPUs<p>Just in case anyone hasn&#x27;t surveyed the landscape lately, the distinction being made here is between &quot;RTX A6000&quot; (Ampere architecture; GeForce 30-series equivalent) and &quot;RTX 6000 Ada Generation&quot; (Ada architecture; GeForce 40-series equivalent) products. Nvidia is apparently convinced that it can get away with being almost as terrible at naming technology generations as the USB Implementers Forum.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jph00</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the recipients of the AI grants, to support my work at fast.ai. I&#x27;m extremely grateful to a16z for their support. Here&#x27;s some additional details based on questions I see in the comments:<p>My grant covered the purchase of a Scalar server from Lambda Labs, which allowed me to configure a system with 8 previous-gen A6000 GPUs, partly also thanks to NVIDIA who has recently given me 3 of those cards, and Lambda Labs who offered to provide everything at cost.<p>a16z didn&#x27;t ask for any equity or any kind of quid pro quo, other than to let folks know that they provided this grant. They couldn&#x27;t have been more helpful through the process - I didn&#x27;t have to fill out any forms (other than sign a single one page agreement), the contract was clear and totally fair (even explicitly saying that a16z wasn&#x27;t going to receive any kind of rights to anything), and they wired me the money for buying the server promptly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants</title><url>https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/supporting-the-open-source-ai-community/</url></story> |
8,186,950 | 8,186,974 | 1 | 2 | 8,186,200 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>caycep</author><text>In the film days, it really made a difference. You can use a Leica M4 or 6, yeah it&#x27;d cost you a little more but your camera took amazing photos at 1&#x2F;4 the weight and size of say, a Nikon F3, with a shutter that is whisper quiet. You can go closer and shoot more unobtrusively; while a given Nikon has equal optics, if different characteristics, it couldn&#x27;t go where a Leica could. At least that&#x27;s my take on it.<p>Granted, you could get the same effect from, say, a Canonet or a Yashica but still...<p>Nowadays, though - I am assuming mechanical precision and design is a more commoditized skill amongst companies whereas EE design - semiconductors, sensors, etc is more of a differentiator. In the age of tiny mirrorless Fuji&#x27;s and Sony&#x27;s, Leica&#x27;s value proposition is more or less destroyed.<p>I think it&#x27;s the classic story of an original innovator sitting on their asses while a disruptive tsunami -- modern electronics and computer science -- passed them by. Granted, they sat on their asses for arguably 4 full decades, so they had plenty of time to go &quot;oh shit&quot; and adapt, and the fact that they didn&#x27;t leaves me with little sympathy.<p>Them and Eastman Kodak.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheMagicHorsey</author><text>Having used a great many different cameras what I think about Leicas is that their primary advantage is the state of mind they create in the photographer, which isn&#x27;t really connected to any tangible usability in design, or engineering marvel in the camera performance.<p>Just the fact that some photographers know they have a Leica in their hand, makes them feel more liberated and ... how shall I say it ... &quot;photographery&quot;.<p>I think it cannot be denied that with a suitable picture style, you could shoot JPEGs on a 5D MkIII that look similar to what a Leica produces without processing. I bet you most people would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the JPEGs with their naked eye, and even fewer would be able to pick out which one was from the Leica, and which from the 5DMkIII.<p>Leicas remind me of French Wine. Everyone waxes poetic about them until they are asked to pick out the Leica photos from a lineup in a double blind test.<p>At that point everyone then says the Leica is about intangible things like &quot;superior UI&quot;.<p>In the end, I think the Leica is a brand first, and then a camera with certain characteristics next.<p>A camera made from a solid carved piece of aluminum is just damn attractive. But people feel the need to imbue the Leica with more qualities than it actually has, because maybe they feel embarrassed to have chosen the tool of their trade based on its looks, rather than its utility.<p>I for one think designers should not apologize for choosing a camera just because it looks good. Design is their whole trade, and they need to surround themselves with inspiration to get into their creative space.<p>I look at Leica as the cost of doing business for a designer. That is the way their brains work.<p>And lest programmers develop some superiority complex about their rationality ... I want to suggest that the success of the Go programming language is about aesthetics at this point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Leica T Review</title><url>http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/leica-t</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>I shoot a 5DMII with a variety of pricy glass. I&#x27;m not very good yet, but good enough for people to offer to pay me and to incorporate into the work we do at Venn. I&#x27;ve even been hired to do some video stuff by the CBC (web only, of course). I think most non-photographers can tell when a photo is &quot;pro&quot; but they have a harder time distinguishing how good things are at the top part of the photography spectrum.<p>For fun, I&#x27;ll sometimes go on &quot;photo walks&quot; around Toronto with my friend that owns a super pricey Leica and has been into photography for way longer than I have. The primary advantage he has beyond just being a better photographer than I am is that when he takes a street photo people don&#x27;t notice he is there until he already has the shot, whereas I look like a paparazzi.<p>I&#x27;ve lost so many shots because people see the militaristic look of my camera &#x2F; lens combination. It also can sometimes lead to arguments on the street over the finer points of the legality of photography in public in Canada. Whereas Leica cameras never really illicit this response.<p>Not that I&#x27;m ever going to shoot Leica, I find Canon&#x27;s cameras <i>much</i> more usable and ergonomically designed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheMagicHorsey</author><text>Having used a great many different cameras what I think about Leicas is that their primary advantage is the state of mind they create in the photographer, which isn&#x27;t really connected to any tangible usability in design, or engineering marvel in the camera performance.<p>Just the fact that some photographers know they have a Leica in their hand, makes them feel more liberated and ... how shall I say it ... &quot;photographery&quot;.<p>I think it cannot be denied that with a suitable picture style, you could shoot JPEGs on a 5D MkIII that look similar to what a Leica produces without processing. I bet you most people would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the JPEGs with their naked eye, and even fewer would be able to pick out which one was from the Leica, and which from the 5DMkIII.<p>Leicas remind me of French Wine. Everyone waxes poetic about them until they are asked to pick out the Leica photos from a lineup in a double blind test.<p>At that point everyone then says the Leica is about intangible things like &quot;superior UI&quot;.<p>In the end, I think the Leica is a brand first, and then a camera with certain characteristics next.<p>A camera made from a solid carved piece of aluminum is just damn attractive. But people feel the need to imbue the Leica with more qualities than it actually has, because maybe they feel embarrassed to have chosen the tool of their trade based on its looks, rather than its utility.<p>I for one think designers should not apologize for choosing a camera just because it looks good. Design is their whole trade, and they need to surround themselves with inspiration to get into their creative space.<p>I look at Leica as the cost of doing business for a designer. That is the way their brains work.<p>And lest programmers develop some superiority complex about their rationality ... I want to suggest that the success of the Go programming language is about aesthetics at this point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Leica T Review</title><url>http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/leica-t</url></story> |
23,724,223 | 23,724,256 | 1 | 2 | 23,720,174 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>I dont think this nitpicking achieves anything, his overall point stands - we have hundreds of military jets and pilots with fuck all to do (fortunately). How many intercepts are there, one every few months? It makes no material difference against the backdrop of training and eqipment used in a regular business as usual.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;Let&#x27;s face it if the pilots weren&#x27;t flying intercepts they&#x27;d need to be flying training missions<p>Is this really the case? Are there training missions 24&#x2F;7? If not, does flying an intercept cause a future training mission to be canceled?</text></item><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>Only on paper. Let&#x27;s face it if the pilots weren&#x27;t flying intercepts they&#x27;d need to be flying training missions. Anyway, the sunk cost of buying, maintaining and operating fighter jets is so high that the marginal cost of a mission is a bit of a wash.</text></item><item><author>newsbinator</author><text>&gt; triggering fighter intercepts<p>Also this costs tax money. Why spend the money on intercepts when you can ban the people causing the problems?</text></item><item><author>Jdam</author><text>If this doesn&#x27;t apply to the UK as well, it is not enough. I would like to see a flyover ban as well, as PIA flies through the EU to the UK.<p>I&#x27;m following the aviation industry closely and there are plenty of reports every now and then where PIA flights don&#x27;t respond on radio anymore, triggering fighter intercepts. It is assumed that those pilots are oftentimes either sleeping or just don&#x27;t bother because of their ego, which was built in their former careers as military pilots.<p>I don&#x27;t want to have PIA planes crashing into others or falling on my head.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-airlines-eu/eu-safety-agency-suspends-pakistani-airlines-european-authorisation-for-six-months-idUSKBN2412MT</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how the military work when it comes to currency requirements. For private and commercial pilots it&#x27;s certainly the case that they sometimes have to conduct flights (or at least, conduct specific procedures) purely for the sake of maintaining currency. I would be surprised if the same concept didn&#x27;t apply broadly.<p>It&#x27;s not quite as strong as because you flew that mission we are cancelling that training session, more because you flew that mission you don&#x27;t need be booked out on a training session.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;Let&#x27;s face it if the pilots weren&#x27;t flying intercepts they&#x27;d need to be flying training missions<p>Is this really the case? Are there training missions 24&#x2F;7? If not, does flying an intercept cause a future training mission to be canceled?</text></item><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>Only on paper. Let&#x27;s face it if the pilots weren&#x27;t flying intercepts they&#x27;d need to be flying training missions. Anyway, the sunk cost of buying, maintaining and operating fighter jets is so high that the marginal cost of a mission is a bit of a wash.</text></item><item><author>newsbinator</author><text>&gt; triggering fighter intercepts<p>Also this costs tax money. Why spend the money on intercepts when you can ban the people causing the problems?</text></item><item><author>Jdam</author><text>If this doesn&#x27;t apply to the UK as well, it is not enough. I would like to see a flyover ban as well, as PIA flies through the EU to the UK.<p>I&#x27;m following the aviation industry closely and there are plenty of reports every now and then where PIA flights don&#x27;t respond on radio anymore, triggering fighter intercepts. It is assumed that those pilots are oftentimes either sleeping or just don&#x27;t bother because of their ego, which was built in their former careers as military pilots.<p>I don&#x27;t want to have PIA planes crashing into others or falling on my head.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines' European authorisation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-airlines-eu/eu-safety-agency-suspends-pakistani-airlines-european-authorisation-for-six-months-idUSKBN2412MT</url></story> |
24,062,997 | 24,063,174 | 1 | 2 | 24,059,441 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ilyagr</author><text>&gt; every equation has one solution<p>So when you see the sun rising, cherish the moment, as it has never happened before and will never happen again.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dan-robertson</author><text>I recall learning the fundamental theorem of applied maths. The approximate phrasing is “in applied maths, if it looks right then it is” and a more precise phrasing is that “in applied maths, all reasonable series converge, all functions are continuous, differentiable and smooth almost everywhere, all limits (and integrals) exist, all sums or integrals commute, all Taylor series are good approximations, all of the silly well-behaved ness conditions of the theorems you want apply, and every equation has one solution”.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]</title><url>http://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/graphgeometry/papers/fundamental.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>itcrowd</author><text>Do you remember where you read it? It&#x27;s a nice and funny formulation but a quick attempt at googling didn&#x27;t bring this up for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dan-robertson</author><text>I recall learning the fundamental theorem of applied maths. The approximate phrasing is “in applied maths, if it looks right then it is” and a more precise phrasing is that “in applied maths, all reasonable series converge, all functions are continuous, differentiable and smooth almost everywhere, all limits (and integrals) exist, all sums or integrals commute, all Taylor series are good approximations, all of the silly well-behaved ness conditions of the theorems you want apply, and every equation has one solution”.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]</title><url>http://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/graphgeometry/papers/fundamental.pdf</url></story> |
26,946,597 | 26,946,909 | 1 | 2 | 26,945,694 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MrsPeaches</author><text>For anyone else who was intrigued by this, I found this helpful animation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vinylrecorder.com&#x2F;stereo.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vinylrecorder.com&#x2F;stereo.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Hfjfjdjfjceijfj</author><text>Stero channels aren&#x27;t encoded in the depth and radial axes. They&#x27;re encoded in the same plane, but rotated 45 degrees, so a mono record player (depth only) plays a balanced sum of each channel.<p>Edit: mono is radial only, not depth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)</title><url>https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>I always found this solution to be an incredibly clever and elegant way to encode stereo sound while maintaining backward compatibility.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hfjfjdjfjceijfj</author><text>Stero channels aren&#x27;t encoded in the depth and radial axes. They&#x27;re encoded in the same plane, but rotated 45 degrees, so a mono record player (depth only) plays a balanced sum of each channel.<p>Edit: mono is radial only, not depth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)</title><url>https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html</url></story> |
13,387,217 | 13,385,735 | 1 | 3 | 13,384,801 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cyphar</author><text>I discovered the vulnerability, and I&#x27;m not entirely sure that Trevor Jay fully understands the issue (though to be fair, the easiest way of exploiting it is using ptrace(2) which is blocked by most default security policies). You don&#x27;t need to use ptrace(2) or CAP_SYS_PTRACE to exploit the vulnerability.<p>You just need to have proc_fd_access_allowed(). I&#x27;ve not checked if ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS) calls into SELinux hooks (it probably does, and if it doesn&#x27;t then resolving further files probably does too) but neither seccomp profiles (unless you&#x27;re blocking open(2)) nor blocking CAP_SYS_PTRACE can help you here.<p>Now, the LXC exploit used ptrace in order to stop the process from closing its file descriptors. I&#x27;m not sure how you would reliably hit the race in this issue (something with SIGSTOP presumably?).<p>In any case, SUSE&#x27;s update has additional fixes which also fix the issue even when you give a container CAP_SYS_PTRACE (the released patch does _not_ protect containers that have CAP_SYS_PTRACE enabled). The patches will be merged upstream ASAP, but Docker didn&#x27;t want them in the patchset sent to its customers (preferring instead to update their vendored runC once they are merged upstream).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Docker: insecure opening of file-descriptor allows privilege escalation</title><url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409531</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geofft</author><text>Oh good, yet another vulnerability from the model of retroactively changing the execution environment of a process after it&#x27;s been created. We had a thread about setuid binaries a week ago, which is the most common case of this design: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13312722" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13312722</a><p>We would all be better off if we designed systems such that some helper process, already running with the right environment &#x2F; config &#x2F; privileges, spawns the process for you and proxies input&#x2F;output to your terminal.<p>And (as I mentioned in the other thread) this helper process could be literally sshd. Instead of having sudo, ssh root@localhost. No weird process trees with confusing things like effective UIDs. Instead of having runc exec, ssh root@container. No file descriptors get passed that aren&#x27;t explicitly forwarded over the SSH connection.<p>Patching sshd to run over UNIX sockets without encryption and to use getpeername() for authentication is left as an exercise to the reader.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Docker: insecure opening of file-descriptor allows privilege escalation</title><url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409531</url></story> |
20,974,804 | 20,974,781 | 1 | 2 | 20,974,384 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; Right now I can&#x27;t really see a killer app for AR, something that would make you super-human enough to want a layer of abstraction between you and the real world.<p>For me the key uses of AR technology would mostly have to do with abstracting input and output (mostly) away from the actual physical devices involved, which would benefit from UWB for certain cases but really wouldn&#x27;t hinge on it.<p>For a simple example: Sitting in an airline seat, and having a virtual &#x27;big screen&#x27; to watch a movie - but having it anchored to a certain relative position, so I can still look left and talk to a cabin stewart without removing AR glasses (and still have the film playing in my peripheral).<p>Another simple example would be providing a GPS &#x27;HUD&#x27; when driving, similar in result to physical devices you can currently get that project onto windshields. UWB stuff might benefit here by providing a reference point to anchor virtual objects to (e.g. saving a position and orientation relative to the physical chip in the car).</text><parent_chain><item><author>icanhackit</author><text>It feels like this is the key to unlocking useful AR [1] for low powered, lightweight headsets. If the heavy lifting for locating and interacting with objects in 4D space is done with UWB, you don&#x27;t need to do too much computational heavy-lifting - reducing bulk, increasing available space for batteries and reducing battery draw.<p>[1] Right now I can&#x27;t really see a killer app for AR, something that would make you super-human enough to want a layer of abstraction between you and the real world. However if I could remotely interact with objects through walls, like turning off a lamp in a bedroom or seeing where my wife is and opening up a audio chat with her so that we&#x27;re not yelling to hear each other, all of a sudden the trade off of having to charge and wear another device seems less annoying. All of a sudden you have powers not unlike a sorcerer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution?</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/09/the-u1-chip-in-the-iphone-11-is-the-beginning-of-an-ultra-wideband-revolution/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>Killer app: ambient information, especially face recognition. Think &quot;thought bubble&quot; information appearing over anything you might want to know about. I&#x27;m lousy with names, would be nice to see names over everyone I should know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icanhackit</author><text>It feels like this is the key to unlocking useful AR [1] for low powered, lightweight headsets. If the heavy lifting for locating and interacting with objects in 4D space is done with UWB, you don&#x27;t need to do too much computational heavy-lifting - reducing bulk, increasing available space for batteries and reducing battery draw.<p>[1] Right now I can&#x27;t really see a killer app for AR, something that would make you super-human enough to want a layer of abstraction between you and the real world. However if I could remotely interact with objects through walls, like turning off a lamp in a bedroom or seeing where my wife is and opening up a audio chat with her so that we&#x27;re not yelling to hear each other, all of a sudden the trade off of having to charge and wear another device seems less annoying. All of a sudden you have powers not unlike a sorcerer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution?</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/09/the-u1-chip-in-the-iphone-11-is-the-beginning-of-an-ultra-wideband-revolution/</url></story> |
41,482,949 | 41,482,036 | 1 | 2 | 41,481,682 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>GDB loses significant functionality when debugging binaries that lack debugging symbols</i><p>IMHO from experience with other debuggers, GDB is actually hostile to debugging at the Asm level, due to many perplexing design choices which may or may not be deliberate. Things like needing to add a superfluous asterisk when breakpointing on an address, the &quot;disassemble&quot; command not being able to do what it says and instead complaining about a lack of functions, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"Unstripping" binaries: Restoring debugging information in GDB with Pwndbg</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/09/06/unstripping-binaries-restoring-debugging-information-in-gdb-with-pwndbg/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robin_reala</author><text>I read “pwndgb” as Welsh for a good 5 seconds before realising which site I was on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"Unstripping" binaries: Restoring debugging information in GDB with Pwndbg</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/09/06/unstripping-binaries-restoring-debugging-information-in-gdb-with-pwndbg/</url></story> |
35,868,624 | 35,868,730 | 1 | 2 | 35,867,935 | train | <instructions>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>I think you misquoted. The actual meaning is weakness of will to act according to one&#x27;s better judgement.<p>From the wiki article &quot;&quot;lacking command&quot; or &quot;weakness&quot;, occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy) is a lack of self-control, or acting against one&#x27;s better judgment.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>adverbly</author><text>I&#x27;ve always liked &quot;akrasia&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Akrasia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Akrasia</a><p>&gt; Weakness of will to act against one&#x27;s own better judgement.<p>It&#x27;s everywhere in modern society, and I&#x27;d love to see it called out more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ancient Greek terms worth reviving</title><url>https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/12-ancient-greek-terms-that-should</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>setgree</author><text>Jon Elster’s ‘Ulysses and the Sirens’ is about akrasia, more or less; in situations where we know we are likely to act against our own best interests, how do we credibly commit ourselves to doing the right thing, like Ulysses binding himself to the mast? One of the best social science texts I ever read</text><parent_chain><item><author>adverbly</author><text>I&#x27;ve always liked &quot;akrasia&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Akrasia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Akrasia</a><p>&gt; Weakness of will to act against one&#x27;s own better judgement.<p>It&#x27;s everywhere in modern society, and I&#x27;d love to see it called out more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ancient Greek terms worth reviving</title><url>https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/12-ancient-greek-terms-that-should</url></story> |
24,862,479 | 24,862,742 | 1 | 2 | 24,861,623 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ThinkBeat</author><text>Take it from someone who has spent a few summers troubleshooting, fixing, flushing and cleaning soft serve ice cream machine. If they are not working one day do not go back there and buy ice cream.<p>There are few employees who are trained to maintain and clean those thing at McDonald&#x27;s.
If they get gross they usually just turn them off which cuts the cooling and then it gets very very nasty.<p>Getting a bellyache is the bear to hope for.<p>Disclaimer. I didn&#x27;t work for McDonald&#x27;s and it was two decades ago.<p>It still puke a little if I even see people eating it<p>3 hours I&#x27;m a closed kiosk at 31C cleaning out machines is a nightmare. The smell is horrible. But they didn&#x27;t allow opening the flaps and letting air conditioning since it would be optically and stinkwise off putting for customers</text><parent_chain><item><author>schoolornot</author><text>Not sure where this data is coming from but for months now I&#x27;ve been ordering ice cream through the McDonalds app only to find out when I get there that the machine is broken and that they can&#x27;t cancel or refund the order, which ultimately results in a stressful cash refund. It&#x27;s happened multiple times at various locations around Manhattan. Eventually I&#x27;ll just use this method to get 30-day cash loans on my credit card.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API</title><url>https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fma</author><text>Well if you keep doing this and your credit card gives like a 5% cash back on restaurant purchases...this is virtually free money?</text><parent_chain><item><author>schoolornot</author><text>Not sure where this data is coming from but for months now I&#x27;ve been ordering ice cream through the McDonalds app only to find out when I get there that the machine is broken and that they can&#x27;t cancel or refund the order, which ultimately results in a stressful cash refund. It&#x27;s happened multiple times at various locations around Manhattan. Eventually I&#x27;ll just use this method to get 30-day cash loans on my credit card.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API</title><url>https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319346264992026624</url></story> |
18,084,189 | 18,083,819 | 1 | 3 | 18,078,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scarecrowbob</author><text>I wonder if you&#x27;ll change your view on this as you age.<p>I&#x27;m 40. I&#x27;ve been through 2 divorces and 3 full-on professional careers (academics, music, and programming). I have a 17-year-old son.<p>Although I can probably think out the evolution of my &quot;software&quot;, it&#x27;s really hard to think of my current releases as having a whole lot of backwards compatibility with that 0.0.1 version. If I had to give it a number, I&#x27;d say I&#x27;m somewhere around release 6.4.3.<p>:D<p>Personally (and this is just my conclusions, not one I expect other folks to come to), my views and strategies for working with the world are so removed from 25-year-old me that I have little problem saying that I am almost not the same person.<p>Certainly, my &quot;software&quot; has so many revisions to essential functionality that it&#x27;s hardly recognizable as the same collection of code: there is very little overlap between how I reasoned about things when I was 25 and now, and I feel like that&#x27;s not just a matter of &quot;data&quot; aggregation. My conclusions is that the software isn&#x27;t, in fact, the same.<p>I feel like it&#x27;s more that I&#x27;ve fundamentally revised the software on a number of levels to the point where there are so many essential differences the identity isn&#x27;t even consistent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Fri21Sep</author><text>I disagree. I&#x27;ve been keeping a journal for more than 10 years (started when I was 14 and am 25 now), where I report important events and more importantly reflect on them, and also on general concepts. Reading old entries can be very enlightening.<p>What comes out of it is that events are the &quot;data&quot;, while personality&#x2F;identity is the &quot;software&quot;. The data is various, but the software is the same. The consistency of reasoning between now and then is incredible. When I read the setup of an old recounting, I start reacting to it while reading it from the point of view of my now-self, and then I see that the reflection of my old-self on this event to be very consistent with that. It&#x27;s naive, uninformed and a bit rebellious (probably because of teenagehood), and sometimes because of that it completely misses the point, but the direction of reflection is the same. It&#x27;s not alien, it makes sense.<p>We&#x27;re reacting to events by using our software on related data. The value of experience entirely lies in the data, which can sometimes create entire shifts in perspective, but the software is the same. If you read an old journal you&#x27;ll see that most reactions are the same, and for those which differ you can point out exactly what piece of data was missing in comparison to today&#x27;s perspective.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth</title><url>https://theconversation.com/the-real-you-is-a-myth-we-constantly-create-false-memories-to-achieve-the-identity-we-want-103253</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>Things you write down into your journal have already been under psychological screening mechanism described in the article.
You don&#x27;t write down things that don&#x27;t seem relevant to you or things you don&#x27;t remember when writing it down. You are creating personal narrative and documenting it.<p>Another screening happens when you are reading your own journal. We are not objective readers and we add and remove things into what we read.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Fri21Sep</author><text>I disagree. I&#x27;ve been keeping a journal for more than 10 years (started when I was 14 and am 25 now), where I report important events and more importantly reflect on them, and also on general concepts. Reading old entries can be very enlightening.<p>What comes out of it is that events are the &quot;data&quot;, while personality&#x2F;identity is the &quot;software&quot;. The data is various, but the software is the same. The consistency of reasoning between now and then is incredible. When I read the setup of an old recounting, I start reacting to it while reading it from the point of view of my now-self, and then I see that the reflection of my old-self on this event to be very consistent with that. It&#x27;s naive, uninformed and a bit rebellious (probably because of teenagehood), and sometimes because of that it completely misses the point, but the direction of reflection is the same. It&#x27;s not alien, it makes sense.<p>We&#x27;re reacting to events by using our software on related data. The value of experience entirely lies in the data, which can sometimes create entire shifts in perspective, but the software is the same. If you read an old journal you&#x27;ll see that most reactions are the same, and for those which differ you can point out exactly what piece of data was missing in comparison to today&#x27;s perspective.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth</title><url>https://theconversation.com/the-real-you-is-a-myth-we-constantly-create-false-memories-to-achieve-the-identity-we-want-103253</url></story> |
27,184,283 | 27,183,772 | 1 | 2 | 27,182,244 | train | <instructions>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; `time go build -a`, so not very scientific.<p>A tool I have enjoyed using to make these measurements more accurate is hyperfine[0].<p>In general, the 3700X beating the M1 should be the expected result... it has double the number of high performance cores, several times as much TDP, and access to way more RAM and faster SSDs.<p>The fact that the M1 is able to be neck and neck with the 3700X is impressive, and the M1 definitely can achieve some unlikely victories. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see what happens with the M1X (or M2, whatever they label it).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sharkdp&#x2F;hyperfine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sharkdp&#x2F;hyperfine</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>omegabravo</author><text>I&#x27;ve done a side by side with my Ryzen 3700x compiling a Go project.<p>6 seconds on the Ryzen, vs 9 seconds on the M1 air.<p>`time go build -a`, so not very scientific. Could be attributed to the multicore performance of the Ryzen.<p>Starting applications on the M1 seems to have significant delays too, but I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s a Mac OSX thing. Overall it&#x27;s very impressive, I just don&#x27;t see the same lunch eating performance as everyone else.<p>The battery life and lack of fans is wonderful.<p>edit: Updated with the arm build on OSX. 16s -&gt; 9 seconds.</text></item><item><author>josephg</author><text>I did a side-by-side comparing with my friends&#x27; M1 macbook and my (more expensive, nearly brand new) ryzen 5800x workstation compiling rust. The ryzen was faster - but it was really close. And the macbook beats my ryzen chip in single threaded performance. For reference, the ryzen compiles ripgrep in 19.7 seconds.<p>The comparison is way too close given the ryzen workstation guzzles power, and the macbook is cheaper, portable and lasts 22 hours on a single charge. If Apple can keep their momentum going year over year with CPU improvements, they&#x27;ll be unstoppable. For now it looks like its not a question of if I&#x27;ll get one, but when.</text></item><item><author>kryps</author><text>It does not just feel faster, in many cases it <i>is</i> faster.<p>E.g. compiling Rust code is so much faster that it is not even funny. <i>cargo install -f ripgrep</i> takes 22 seconds on a Mac Book Air with M1, same on a hexacore 2020 Dell XPS 17 with 64GB RAM takes 34 seconds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ideamotor</author><text>I find M1 optimized apps load quickly while others vary. But what really varies is website load times. Sometimes instant, sometimes delayed.<p>All this said, there really is no comparison. I don’t even think about battery for the M1, I leave the charger at home, and it’s 100% cool and silent. It’s a giant leap for portable creative computing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>omegabravo</author><text>I&#x27;ve done a side by side with my Ryzen 3700x compiling a Go project.<p>6 seconds on the Ryzen, vs 9 seconds on the M1 air.<p>`time go build -a`, so not very scientific. Could be attributed to the multicore performance of the Ryzen.<p>Starting applications on the M1 seems to have significant delays too, but I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s a Mac OSX thing. Overall it&#x27;s very impressive, I just don&#x27;t see the same lunch eating performance as everyone else.<p>The battery life and lack of fans is wonderful.<p>edit: Updated with the arm build on OSX. 16s -&gt; 9 seconds.</text></item><item><author>josephg</author><text>I did a side-by-side comparing with my friends&#x27; M1 macbook and my (more expensive, nearly brand new) ryzen 5800x workstation compiling rust. The ryzen was faster - but it was really close. And the macbook beats my ryzen chip in single threaded performance. For reference, the ryzen compiles ripgrep in 19.7 seconds.<p>The comparison is way too close given the ryzen workstation guzzles power, and the macbook is cheaper, portable and lasts 22 hours on a single charge. If Apple can keep their momentum going year over year with CPU improvements, they&#x27;ll be unstoppable. For now it looks like its not a question of if I&#x27;ll get one, but when.</text></item><item><author>kryps</author><text>It does not just feel faster, in many cases it <i>is</i> faster.<p>E.g. compiling Rust code is so much faster that it is not even funny. <i>cargo install -f ripgrep</i> takes 22 seconds on a Mac Book Air with M1, same on a hexacore 2020 Dell XPS 17 with 64GB RAM takes 34 seconds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos/</url></story> |
25,703,856 | 25,702,781 | 1 | 2 | 25,701,144 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stinos</author><text>You make a very good point, but your post reads a bit too much like &#x27;wild bees are fine&#x27;. I think you know what follows, but just for completeness and for other readers: they aren&#x27;t, <i>at all</i>, just like insects in general (the numbers are so unbelievably insane I&#x27;m nog even going to look up the latest one but just say &#x27;70% decrease in the last couple of decades&#x27; and it will be ballpark correct, unfortunately). And unlike the domestic bees they cannot be bred (or at least not easily). Pesticides likely also play a role in there, small perhaps, habitat loss is estimated to be the main factor. Which mono-crops also is the key player in of course; not just because those fields are no habitat but also because upscaling leads to destroying the surroundings, and so on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>40four</author><text>I’m not really sure yet how I feel about this particular case of temporary emergency authorization (which is omitted from the title). I get the chemicals were banned for good reason, but in this case they are trying to prevent a whole commodity sector from collapsing. Tough situation to be in.<p>The larger issue to me is how warped the debate around saving bees and pollinators has become. I get very frustrated every time I read articles on this topic, because I feel like the way it is presented is very misleading.<p>It’s always presented in a way that makes it seem like these large farms are dependent on ‘wild’ bees and pollinators. They make it sound like the only thing that matters is our use of evil chemicals, and if you support their use the. You are a piece of shit who doesn’t care about the earth.<p>In reality, large commercial mono crop farms depend on bee keepers who provide their hives as a service. Their bees are the ones dying en mass, not wild bee populations. You’re not going to find many wild bees or anything else for that matter in these areas, the biome doesn’t support them.<p>Mono-croping as a practice is an environmental disaster just by it’s nature. There is no biodiversity by design. This in turn makes pests and diseases that harm the beehives brought in by beekeepers that much worse. Then of course, add large scale chemical application on top of that and we’ve created a huge mess.<p>So really, when you see these articles claiming huge percentages of bees dying, they aren’t wrong. They are just being purposefully misleading about <i>which</i> bees are dying. It is the bees brought in by the “Beekeepers as a service”, not wild bees.<p>As bad as that is, there is the good thing to remember. Those are ‘farmed’ bees. We can always farm more bees. That might be a hard challenge for the beekeepers, but it’s not the same thing as all the wild bees in the world dying and everyone starving to death. We need to stop confusing the topic with wild bees.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/09/pesticide-believed-kill-bees-authorised-use-england-eu-farmers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>I see your position, and I agree that the problem is more complex than just pesticides are bad, but it&#x27;s also more complex than saving sugar beets. If this were an invasive species (like murder hornets or malarial mosquitos) problem that could be stopped before it started or a temporary measure to prevent life and death (rather than wealth accumulation) for a significant number of people, I&#x27;d have more sympathy.<p>Application to sugar beets is expected to increase crop yields 13% on a non-critical crop, for a commodity (sugar) that can be easily imported. The virus problem won&#x27;t ever go away. So this just sounds like subsidizing a particular local agricultural industry, because it&#x27;s having a hard time competing right now. Will that ever change, why not choose bees or wildflowers over sugar beet farmers? Is it just because they can pay for lobbyists or positive news coverage?<p>Furthermore, it sounds an awful lot like the massive use of (the most advanced) anti-biotics in cattle feed lots to increase meat yield. That builds up immunity so that those last line of defense drugs are no longer useful to treat humans with deadly diseases. The key here is that there will be a state of permanent emergency where some new poison is always needed to keep profits at their previous artificially high level.<p>If the local industry can&#x27;t compete, and it&#x27;s not necessary other than for a small group&#x27;s continued profit, maybe it&#x27;s time to move on. The alternative is a possibly long term loss of pollinators (because the insecticide goes down streams) and the development of stronger&#x2F;larger reservoirs of mites, moths, molds that could permanently affect all pollinators in England.</text><parent_chain><item><author>40four</author><text>I’m not really sure yet how I feel about this particular case of temporary emergency authorization (which is omitted from the title). I get the chemicals were banned for good reason, but in this case they are trying to prevent a whole commodity sector from collapsing. Tough situation to be in.<p>The larger issue to me is how warped the debate around saving bees and pollinators has become. I get very frustrated every time I read articles on this topic, because I feel like the way it is presented is very misleading.<p>It’s always presented in a way that makes it seem like these large farms are dependent on ‘wild’ bees and pollinators. They make it sound like the only thing that matters is our use of evil chemicals, and if you support their use the. You are a piece of shit who doesn’t care about the earth.<p>In reality, large commercial mono crop farms depend on bee keepers who provide their hives as a service. Their bees are the ones dying en mass, not wild bee populations. You’re not going to find many wild bees or anything else for that matter in these areas, the biome doesn’t support them.<p>Mono-croping as a practice is an environmental disaster just by it’s nature. There is no biodiversity by design. This in turn makes pests and diseases that harm the beehives brought in by beekeepers that much worse. Then of course, add large scale chemical application on top of that and we’ve created a huge mess.<p>So really, when you see these articles claiming huge percentages of bees dying, they aren’t wrong. They are just being purposefully misleading about <i>which</i> bees are dying. It is the bees brought in by the “Beekeepers as a service”, not wild bees.<p>As bad as that is, there is the good thing to remember. Those are ‘farmed’ bees. We can always farm more bees. That might be a hard challenge for the beekeepers, but it’s not the same thing as all the wild bees in the world dying and everyone starving to death. We need to stop confusing the topic with wild bees.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/09/pesticide-believed-kill-bees-authorised-use-england-eu-farmers</url></story> |
22,299,218 | 22,298,686 | 1 | 2 | 22,298,030 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CaptArmchair</author><text>Here&#x27;s another tip for juniors: Avoid Golden Hammer syndrome.<p>Developers do deep work with a framework which ties them to a specific language and the accompanying ecosystem. So, what you see is the &quot;not invented here&quot; syndrome, and how already solved problems are tackled again in that specific ecosystem.<p>Many solstices ago, I was a PHP developer. If you&#x27;d ask me to split a 2.55 Gb CSV file in several CSV files as a one-off request, I would have fiddled with a PHP script, because that was my bread and butter. Probably would have taken something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;csv.thephpleague.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;csv.thephpleague.com&#x2F;</a> off the shelf to get the job done.<p>Well, no, you can do exactly that in a single line with tail, head, split and cat.<p>Since I moved away from PHP, I have come to find a new, deep respect for the already existing general purpose commands which are part of the Unix spec. And reflecting on my earlier work, I realize that I could have solved some challenges a lot quicker.<p>Now, this is not a stab at clean code or PHP. Both are valuable tools.<p>Rather, a big lesson for young developers is that the cleanest code out there... is the code you didn&#x27;t write at all, as you leverage what&#x27;s already there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a few arguments with junior developers about clean code. They want to hyper-abstract everything because that&#x27;s what they learned in school.<p>Then I point out that, if they just refactor to a single method that&#x27;s 20 lines, they can read it from beginning to end and it makes sense.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>There&#x27;s a difference between a super-experienced, super-senior developer &quot;keeping their code clean&quot; and a junior one doing the same thing.<p>Juniors just thrash around from one design pattern to the next, never really achieving anything other than learning what doesn&#x27;t work.<p>A much more experienced developer will have an understanding about what clean code looks and where it&#x27;s necessary. They will recognise when there is a huge amount of uncertainty, for example, so spend less time writing loads of fantastic code before they&#x27;ve firmed up the requirements.<p>So it really depends on the nature of the project and who you have on your team as to whether you need to worry about &#x27;clean code&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Economics of Clean Code</title><url>https://frederickvanbrabant.com/post/2020-02-07-the-economics-of-clean-code/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sunaurus</author><text>I assume what you&#x27;re arguing against is using small functions with descriptive names as documentation. If that&#x27;s the case, I think the term &quot;hyper-abstract&quot; is a massive overstatement.<p>In any case, I think the core issue is really how much faith you have in the proficiency of your teammates. If you can&#x27;t trust the developers in your team to actually only write functions that do what they say in the name (without nasty side-effects), then I can see why not having all the logic in front of you in one giant function can be annoying - you have to jump into all the definitions and manually double check to be sure what&#x27;s happening.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a few arguments with junior developers about clean code. They want to hyper-abstract everything because that&#x27;s what they learned in school.<p>Then I point out that, if they just refactor to a single method that&#x27;s 20 lines, they can read it from beginning to end and it makes sense.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>There&#x27;s a difference between a super-experienced, super-senior developer &quot;keeping their code clean&quot; and a junior one doing the same thing.<p>Juniors just thrash around from one design pattern to the next, never really achieving anything other than learning what doesn&#x27;t work.<p>A much more experienced developer will have an understanding about what clean code looks and where it&#x27;s necessary. They will recognise when there is a huge amount of uncertainty, for example, so spend less time writing loads of fantastic code before they&#x27;ve firmed up the requirements.<p>So it really depends on the nature of the project and who you have on your team as to whether you need to worry about &#x27;clean code&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Economics of Clean Code</title><url>https://frederickvanbrabant.com/post/2020-02-07-the-economics-of-clean-code/</url></story> |
36,237,854 | 36,237,902 | 1 | 3 | 36,229,782 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atxbcp</author><text>Just tried the first prompt with ChatGPT... : &quot;One kilogram of steel and two kilograms of feathers weigh the same. The weight of an object is determined by its mass, not the material it is made of. In this case, one kilogram is equal to two kilograms, so they have the same weight. However, it&#x27;s important to note that the volume or size of the objects may be different due to the difference in density between steel and feathers.&quot;
Okay...</text><parent_chain><item><author>drones</author><text>&gt; I’m not sure these types of prompt tricks are a good way of measuring logic<p>They are, you just have to be creative with it. And what they demonstrate is that all of these LLM&#x27;s can&#x27;t reason, they only know how to parrot back what they think you want.<p>&quot;What’s heavier, a kilogram of steel or two kilograms of one kilogram feathers?&quot;<p>GPT: A kilogram of steel is heavier than two kilograms of feathers.<p>&quot;Why is a kilogram of steel heavier than two kilograms of feathers?&quot;<p>GPT: This is because steel is a much denser material than feathers. Steel is made up of atoms that are much closer together than the atoms that make up feathers, making it heavier for its size.<p>Edit: This was with GPT 3.5</text></item><item><author>devjab</author><text>GPT seems to get improvements of trap questions when they reach social popularity. Even the free version of ChatGPT now knows that a kilogram of feathers weighs the same as a kilogram of lead, and it didn’t always know that.<p>I’m not sure these types of prompt tricks are a good way of measuring logic unless Google is also implementing these directly into Bard when the hilarious outputs reach enough traction on social media.<p>I do wonder how OpenAI fix these logical blunders.<p>My biggest issue with both isn’t that they fall into these traps though. It’s that I can get them to tell me long stories about what happens in Horus Heresy books that never actually happened. Whether the info comes from questionable sources or they are just making things up is sort of irrelevant to me, what “scares” me about those conversations is how true the answers sound, and if they are “lying” about the Horus Heresy then what else will they lie about? Don’t get me wrong, GPT now writes virtually all my JSDoc documentation and it continues to impress me when doing so, but I’m very reluctant to use it for actual information. Not only because of my time wasting conversations about the Horus Heresy but also because we’ve had it “invent” C# functions that had never existed in any version of .Net or C# when tasked to solve problems. I just mention the HH as an example because it’s fun to ask GPT why Magnus did nothing&#x2F;everything wrong during meetings.</text></item><item><author>underyx</author><text>Trying my favorite LLM prompt to benchmark reasoning, as I mentioned in a thread four weeks ago[0].<p>&gt; I&#x27;m playing assetto corsa competizione, and I need you to tell me how many liters of fuel to take in a race. The qualifying time was 2:04.317, the race is 20 minutes long, and the car uses 2.73 liters per lap.<p>The correct answer is around 29, which GPT-4 has always known, but Bard just gave me 163.8, 21, and 24.82 as answers across three drafts.<p>What&#x27;s even weirder is that Bard&#x27;s first draft output ten lines of (wrong) Python code to calculate the result, even though my prompt mentioned nothing coding related. I wonder how non-technical users will react to this behavior. Another interesting thing is that the code follows Google&#x27;s style guides.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bez_almighty</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t replicate your results with that query on GPT-4.<p>Prompt: What’s heavier, a kilogram of steel or two kilograms of one kilogram feathers?<p>GPT-4: Two kilograms of one-kilogram feathers are heavier than a kilogram of steel. Despite the misconception caused by the popular question about what&#x27;s heavier—a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers (they are equal)—in this case, you are comparing two kilograms of feathers to one kilogram of steel. Hence, the feathers weigh more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drones</author><text>&gt; I’m not sure these types of prompt tricks are a good way of measuring logic<p>They are, you just have to be creative with it. And what they demonstrate is that all of these LLM&#x27;s can&#x27;t reason, they only know how to parrot back what they think you want.<p>&quot;What’s heavier, a kilogram of steel or two kilograms of one kilogram feathers?&quot;<p>GPT: A kilogram of steel is heavier than two kilograms of feathers.<p>&quot;Why is a kilogram of steel heavier than two kilograms of feathers?&quot;<p>GPT: This is because steel is a much denser material than feathers. Steel is made up of atoms that are much closer together than the atoms that make up feathers, making it heavier for its size.<p>Edit: This was with GPT 3.5</text></item><item><author>devjab</author><text>GPT seems to get improvements of trap questions when they reach social popularity. Even the free version of ChatGPT now knows that a kilogram of feathers weighs the same as a kilogram of lead, and it didn’t always know that.<p>I’m not sure these types of prompt tricks are a good way of measuring logic unless Google is also implementing these directly into Bard when the hilarious outputs reach enough traction on social media.<p>I do wonder how OpenAI fix these logical blunders.<p>My biggest issue with both isn’t that they fall into these traps though. It’s that I can get them to tell me long stories about what happens in Horus Heresy books that never actually happened. Whether the info comes from questionable sources or they are just making things up is sort of irrelevant to me, what “scares” me about those conversations is how true the answers sound, and if they are “lying” about the Horus Heresy then what else will they lie about? Don’t get me wrong, GPT now writes virtually all my JSDoc documentation and it continues to impress me when doing so, but I’m very reluctant to use it for actual information. Not only because of my time wasting conversations about the Horus Heresy but also because we’ve had it “invent” C# functions that had never existed in any version of .Net or C# when tasked to solve problems. I just mention the HH as an example because it’s fun to ask GPT why Magnus did nothing&#x2F;everything wrong during meetings.</text></item><item><author>underyx</author><text>Trying my favorite LLM prompt to benchmark reasoning, as I mentioned in a thread four weeks ago[0].<p>&gt; I&#x27;m playing assetto corsa competizione, and I need you to tell me how many liters of fuel to take in a race. The qualifying time was 2:04.317, the race is 20 minutes long, and the car uses 2.73 liters per lap.<p>The correct answer is around 29, which GPT-4 has always known, but Bard just gave me 163.8, 21, and 24.82 as answers across three drafts.<p>What&#x27;s even weirder is that Bard&#x27;s first draft output ten lines of (wrong) Python code to calculate the result, even though my prompt mentioned nothing coding related. I wonder how non-technical users will react to this behavior. Another interesting thing is that the code follows Google&#x27;s style guides.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/</url></story> |
8,280,740 | 8,280,033 | 1 | 2 | 8,279,081 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>Why on earth would you rewrite ElasticSearch in Go ?<p>You would have woeful monitoring support compared to the huge array of tooling for JVM, an average GC implementation and almost zero integration with most enterprise applications e.g. Hadoop. All so what, you can go from one multinational (Oracle) to another (Google).</text><parent_chain><item><author>alrs</author><text>Wishful thinking: I hope this prefaces an Elasticsearch rewrite in Go. I&#x27;m happy to be rid of the JVM wherever I find it.<p>No hard feelings, but we just spent 20 years crowbaring Microsoft into irrelevance. It&#x27;s time to get started on Larry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bleve – A modern text indexing library for Go</title><url>https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justinsb</author><text>Presumably you just want to replace the _Oracle_ JVM? Does OpenJDK meet your needs? How about Dalvik &#x2F; ART or RoboVM?<p>I&#x27;d love to hear what you&#x27;re trying to achieve here ... I have often bemoaned the JVM, but have also found that it&#x27;s often better than many alternatives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alrs</author><text>Wishful thinking: I hope this prefaces an Elasticsearch rewrite in Go. I&#x27;m happy to be rid of the JVM wherever I find it.<p>No hard feelings, but we just spent 20 years crowbaring Microsoft into irrelevance. It&#x27;s time to get started on Larry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bleve – A modern text indexing library for Go</title><url>https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve</url></story> |
16,946,796 | 16,946,722 | 1 | 2 | 16,941,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m not being facetious, the bottleneck to individual human productivity is usually the human.</i><p>This too, is my realization, after a lot of introspection (and observing other people).<p>Sadly, I never learned discipline. Given the anxiety issues I&#x27;m struggling with since late-teen&#x2F;early-adulthood, I can see that my average performance is about 10% of my peak performance.<p>I hear discipline is trainable, but I wasn&#x27;t able to find something I could execute as an adult. I wish there was a training regimen with benefits that transfer to the rest of one&#x27;s life (and not just making someone better at executing the training tasks).</text><parent_chain><item><author>losteric</author><text>Discipline is the solution.<p>I&#x27;m not being facetious, the bottleneck to individual human productivity is usually the human. Over-planning and focusing on tangential problems are frequently just rationalizing away procrastination... &quot;maybe this mountain of work will take less effort with a better organization system&quot; - probably not.<p>These days I prefer using org-mode for notes, MoSCoW for triaging, and Omnifocus for execution. It took months to become proficient, but now getting in the zone is effortless.</text></item><item><author>edjroot</author><text>Same here, except my urge goes as far as <i>writing</i> to-do list tools (but obviously never actually getting to the point of having something usable). I guess it&#x27;s easier to blame current solutions for not having {insert essential feature I just came up with that would finally turn me into a productive individual} than actually working with what I have and focusing on what needs to be done.<p>I wonder if there is some kind of all-encompassing solution (software-based or whatever) that actually manages to conduct you into a so-called &quot;flow state&quot; in some way. I&#x27;ve tried automating things like blocking websites, turning the computer off at certain times and so on, but it always either feels too constraining (which just makes me disable everything after some time) or too &quot;manual&quot; (which I never have the discipline to maintain). And ultimately, it doesn&#x27;t really make me want to do the task any more than I would otherwise.</text></item><item><author>marban</author><text>My personal warning sign that I&#x27;m off track is whenever I feel the urge to <i>research</i> a new to-do list tool.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Structured Procrastination (1995)</title><url>http://www.structuredprocrastination.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>vinceguidry</author><text>Discipline is the solution, with the caveat that the mountain of work needs to actually be worth accomplishing. Procrastination is often the mind&#x27;s way of forcing you to consider your deeper priorities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>losteric</author><text>Discipline is the solution.<p>I&#x27;m not being facetious, the bottleneck to individual human productivity is usually the human. Over-planning and focusing on tangential problems are frequently just rationalizing away procrastination... &quot;maybe this mountain of work will take less effort with a better organization system&quot; - probably not.<p>These days I prefer using org-mode for notes, MoSCoW for triaging, and Omnifocus for execution. It took months to become proficient, but now getting in the zone is effortless.</text></item><item><author>edjroot</author><text>Same here, except my urge goes as far as <i>writing</i> to-do list tools (but obviously never actually getting to the point of having something usable). I guess it&#x27;s easier to blame current solutions for not having {insert essential feature I just came up with that would finally turn me into a productive individual} than actually working with what I have and focusing on what needs to be done.<p>I wonder if there is some kind of all-encompassing solution (software-based or whatever) that actually manages to conduct you into a so-called &quot;flow state&quot; in some way. I&#x27;ve tried automating things like blocking websites, turning the computer off at certain times and so on, but it always either feels too constraining (which just makes me disable everything after some time) or too &quot;manual&quot; (which I never have the discipline to maintain). And ultimately, it doesn&#x27;t really make me want to do the task any more than I would otherwise.</text></item><item><author>marban</author><text>My personal warning sign that I&#x27;m off track is whenever I feel the urge to <i>research</i> a new to-do list tool.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Structured Procrastination (1995)</title><url>http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/</url></story> |
22,094,162 | 22,090,944 | 1 | 2 | 22,090,358 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skohan</author><text>&gt; RoR is an extremely powerful tool<p>The issue I always had with Rails is that there would come a point where I would want to achieve something which wasn&#x27;t really in the &quot;blessed path&quot; of a Rails application, and then I would end up with something that felt like a hack to circumvent Rails&#x27; default behavior. That, or I would want to do something which is very simple conceptually, but I would have to add some unnecessary complexity and&#x2F;or ceremony around it to fit into Rails&#x27; interfaces.<p>Also I&#x27;m not a huge fan of the Rails&#x27; model of having everything from request handling to routing to DB access in one big framework. The needs of each application can be quite varied, and I&#x27;d rather plug whatever components together I want to for a given project than to be limited by some outer structure.<p>&gt; Ruby statements look more like natural language statements than those in other languages<p>The more I program, the more appreciative I am of a strict compiler. What I&#x27;ve always found with interpreted languages is, while they seem convenient at first, projects inevitably start to slow down under the accumulated &quot;squishiness&quot; due to lack of strictness. I find it&#x27;s pretty easy to get used to syntax, but there can be a lot of hidden &quot;gotchas&quot; in interpreted code which tend to outweigh any benefits.<p>Also as far as the natural-language-like syntax, I find that Swift offers a similar benefit, with the added benefit of strong compile-time checks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dlkf</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of comments of the form &quot;I tried getting into Ruby and it never clicked&quot; that I want to respond to.<p>I think that if you&#x27;re just writing a script to solve a math problem or automate a task, there isn&#x27;t really a strong argument as to whether you should use Ruby, Python, bash any other high level language. You should probably use whatever you&#x27;re most comfortable with.<p>But if you&#x27;re making an application with a database, RoR is an extremely powerful tool. And this isn&#x27;t just a case of Ruby having the best library (in the same way that Python has the best scientific computing library). It&#x27;s a case of the library functionality and the language playing together really well.<p>Ruby statements look more like natural language statements than those in other languages. This is a really helpful design choice when you&#x27;re building a crud application. In that context, you&#x27;re not thinking about X, Y, -Log(X + Y) or whatever.<p>You&#x27;re thinking about a <i>new customer</i>, or whether some old customer is a <i>member?</i> of some mailing list, etc<p>In a weird way, it&#x27;s similar to how Haskell users love the fact that statements in Haskell are mathematical truths. In the case of logic programming this is a handy feature to have. In the case of writing the business logic of a CRUD app, it&#x27;s handy if your statements look like natural language statements about the underlying real world objects whose representation you are reasoning about.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”</title><url>https://evrone.com/yukihiro-matsumoto-interview</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thrwaway69</author><text>I am starting to ignore syntax when I read code now. It doesn&#x27;t register in my mind most of the time unless I see a sudden paradigm shift or odd dependency behaviour(I think this causes me to snap more than language syntax. Dependencies don&#x27;t have clear code navigation guidelines, proper structure or docs than the language they are in).<p>From my perspective, choice of language matters very less compared to the number of experienced programmers you can get at x price. If there are more js developers, then that means you can hire more for less overall. Obviously things are more complicated.<p>If I want to write software that is going to be used for a long time, then I am going for strongly typed compiled language that will have certain percentage of developers 10 years later than focusing on how beautiful the language is syntactically or how it reasons well. Binaries are easy to distribute and can still be used after source code is no longer available for odd reasons. Anything trendy will get too many breaking changes or fixes.
Heck, having visible source code can be liability too in future. I may as well choose something that will be hard to decompile.
Not to mention the external dependencies that you will need to mirror or even maintain.<p>I think most businesses that are dependent on tech can be divided into short lived and very long lived ignoring certain type of software and industries.<p>For short lived businesses or customers, your stack shouldn&#x27;t matter much compared to the responsiveness of development. What incentive are there to provide quality software to companies that will live 5 years at best? (Note - quality here refers to ideal stack&#x2F;code that programmers expect. Eg - unnecessarily performant, kubernetified, micro architecture)<p>None.<p>For long term businesses, software is an ongoing cost. They can afford to renew their software every 10 years so why should you write something that is expandable, easy to migrate and another team to take over. Beside, their requirements change drastically over time. It will end up being a monolith.<p>I don&#x27;t have to work right now but if I ever do, I am gonna work on the interesting bits while hiring someone in a third world country to outsource parts that I don&#x27;t from my job.<p>I want to solve problems and reach goals. Syntax doesn&#x27;t provide enough value on its own in a general programming language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dlkf</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of comments of the form &quot;I tried getting into Ruby and it never clicked&quot; that I want to respond to.<p>I think that if you&#x27;re just writing a script to solve a math problem or automate a task, there isn&#x27;t really a strong argument as to whether you should use Ruby, Python, bash any other high level language. You should probably use whatever you&#x27;re most comfortable with.<p>But if you&#x27;re making an application with a database, RoR is an extremely powerful tool. And this isn&#x27;t just a case of Ruby having the best library (in the same way that Python has the best scientific computing library). It&#x27;s a case of the library functionality and the language playing together really well.<p>Ruby statements look more like natural language statements than those in other languages. This is a really helpful design choice when you&#x27;re building a crud application. In that context, you&#x27;re not thinking about X, Y, -Log(X + Y) or whatever.<p>You&#x27;re thinking about a <i>new customer</i>, or whether some old customer is a <i>member?</i> of some mailing list, etc<p>In a weird way, it&#x27;s similar to how Haskell users love the fact that statements in Haskell are mathematical truths. In the case of logic programming this is a handy feature to have. In the case of writing the business logic of a CRUD app, it&#x27;s handy if your statements look like natural language statements about the underlying real world objects whose representation you are reasoning about.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”</title><url>https://evrone.com/yukihiro-matsumoto-interview</url></story> |
40,262,493 | 40,262,546 | 1 | 2 | 40,262,190 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EMIRELADERO</author><text>This comment[1] provides a good explanation on why this analogy is absurd:<p>&gt; Chats at google by default have 24 hours of chat history. (That is, after 24 hours, the chat history is delelted.) You can opt in to having 30 days of chat history instead. And when under a legal hold, Google continues to delete chats in the 24 hour history mode, but will not delete chats in the 30 day history mode.<p>&gt; That is, Google&#x27;s theory here seems to be that if you have a policy to destroy certain letters and memos 24 hours after receiving or creating them, then you don&#x27;t need to stop doing that and preserve them even if under a court ordered legal hold. But if your policy is to destroy certain documents 30 days after creating them, then you must stop deleting them and retain them if ordered by a court.<p>&gt; Which is....a.....theory!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35587100">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35587100</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>edarchis</author><text>&quot;Google was accused of enacting a policy instructing employees to turn chat history off by default when discussing sensitive topics, including Google&#x27;s revenue-sharing and mobile application distribution agreements.&quot;<p>They didn&#x27;t ask employees to destroy evidence but to avoid retaining evidence in the first place. Not leaving sensitive information in logs, backups etc is quite reasonable, even if it would have been useful to justice here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/judge-mulls-sanctions-over-googles-shocking-destruction-of-internal-chats/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ruined</author><text>no.<p>they were under legal obligation to retain that evidence, and were lying in court and claiming that they were retaining that evidence.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.courtlistener.com&#x2F;recap&#x2F;gov.uscourts.dcd.223205&#x2F;gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.512.1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.courtlistener.com&#x2F;recap&#x2F;gov.uscourts.dcd.223...</a><p>&gt;All this time, Google falsely told the United States that Google had &quot;put a legal hold in place&quot; that &quot;suspends auto-deletion.&quot; Indeed, during the United States&#x27; investigation and the discovery phase of this litigation, Google repeatedly misrepresented its document preservation policies, which conveyed the false impression that the company was preserving all custodial chats. Not only did Google unequivocally assert during the investigation that its legal hold suspended auto-deletion, but Google continually failed to disclose—both to the United States and to the Court—its 24-hour auto-deletion policy. Instead, at every turn, Google reaffirmed that it was preserving and searching all potentially relevant written communications.</text><parent_chain><item><author>edarchis</author><text>&quot;Google was accused of enacting a policy instructing employees to turn chat history off by default when discussing sensitive topics, including Google&#x27;s revenue-sharing and mobile application distribution agreements.&quot;<p>They didn&#x27;t ask employees to destroy evidence but to avoid retaining evidence in the first place. Not leaving sensitive information in logs, backups etc is quite reasonable, even if it would have been useful to justice here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/judge-mulls-sanctions-over-googles-shocking-destruction-of-internal-chats/</url></story> |
6,472,344 | 6,469,367 | 1 | 2 | 6,468,521 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PaperclipTaken</author><text>I&#x27;m always cautious around claims of ADHD. My experiences have been that attention span works largely like muscle. If you practice focus and force yourself to get better at it, you notice improvements over time.<p>It has also been my observation that you can grow a tolerance to and dependence on ADHD medicine.<p>I support the author&#x27;s goal of finding some other solution that motivates him to practice his focus.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonlotito</author><text>This is just a friendly reminder that if you would describe yourself as a procrastinator, it might be something more. If you&#x27;ve always been one, if you want to do things, but can never do it, it could be a sign.<p>ADHD is a real problem, and has real solutions (and those solutions aren&#x27;t all addictive).<p>If you feel like you are always running behind, always trying to catch up. If anyone says you are a great developer, but that you&#x27;re always playing catch up, get checked. It can help change your life for the positive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Procrastination should be solved by lighting fires, not filling buckets</title><url>http://www.visakanv.com/blog/2013/09/0086-productivity-apps-fill-buckets-when-they-should-be-lighting-fires/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>visakanv</author><text>I think I do exhibit ADHD symptoms, but I don&#x27;t think I have it, or if I do, I don&#x27;t have it bad. I can get a little dramatic in my writing. I have been able to make some progress on some fronts, I&#x27;m just easily dissatisfied.<p>Thank you so much for your concern, though. What are the solutions you&#x27;re talking about? Do you mean medication? I think I&#x27;ll give myself a few months to try and work things out myself (I think it&#x27;s really just very, very bad habits entrenched throughout my adolescent years that I have to unlearn).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonlotito</author><text>This is just a friendly reminder that if you would describe yourself as a procrastinator, it might be something more. If you&#x27;ve always been one, if you want to do things, but can never do it, it could be a sign.<p>ADHD is a real problem, and has real solutions (and those solutions aren&#x27;t all addictive).<p>If you feel like you are always running behind, always trying to catch up. If anyone says you are a great developer, but that you&#x27;re always playing catch up, get checked. It can help change your life for the positive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Procrastination should be solved by lighting fires, not filling buckets</title><url>http://www.visakanv.com/blog/2013/09/0086-productivity-apps-fill-buckets-when-they-should-be-lighting-fires/</url></story> |
913,319 | 912,696 | 1 | 2 | 912,141 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Joynr</author><text>Peldi keeps impressing us with his carefully written and useful articles. I have followed his blog since he released his product and I am convinced he is a great role model for bootstrapped entrepreneurs.
The thing I am most grateful for is that Peldi actually took the time to document the whole process all the way back when he still was working at Adobe and secretly planning to start his own business.
Just go back to his blog and check all the postings from 2008.. a great story. Good work and thanks for sharing how do you do run a great company!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tools we use for running our startup</title><url>http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2009/10/30/tools/</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>stuff4ben</author><text>I'd love to know the monthly cost for using all of those hosted tools. Sounds very expensive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tools we use for running our startup</title><url>http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2009/10/30/tools/</url><text></text></story> |
15,965,340 | 15,965,109 | 1 | 2 | 15,964,812 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>habosa</author><text>You&#x27;ll notice the entire Bitcoin community has changed tone. It used to be &quot;this is the currency of the future, down with cash&#x2F;Visa!&quot; but now you hear &quot;Bitcoin is not a currency, it&#x27;s a store of value&quot;.<p>The wild price swings, slow transactions, high fees, and loq merchant acceptance make it complete garbage as a currency. But as a store of value, none of those arguments apply. It only has to compete with gold bars, which are crappy in their own ways.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions</title><url>https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>45h34jh53k4j</author><text>This is referring to the minimum cost in fees for a transaction to get copied from the mempool to a block.
Only when a transaction is in a block is it a valid transfer of bitcoin.
Its nothing to do with trading or exchange rates or energy costs or fiat.<p>Bitcoin is working exactly the same as it has always, however now because of the backlog, transaction fees are very high.
In the order of Western Union + Visa Fees + Bank Wire fees all at the same time!<p>I made a very small transaction for a friend a week ago (~$50) and paid $2 USD in fees. That is not enough and the transaction will sit waiting until the backlog decreases, it may never clear.<p>Bitcoin is kind of broken right now.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions</title><url>https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions</url></story> |
6,806,655 | 6,805,835 | 1 | 2 | 6,805,374 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajross</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure &quot;intrinsically superior&quot; is the right way to think about this. If you were asked for a mechanism to get web clients to execute stuff &quot;fast&quot; that was generated from a traditional C-like compiler front end, you <i>surely</i> wouldn&#x27;t have designed asm.js. You&#x27;d probably have ended up with something more like the JVM or PNaCL.<p>It&#x27;s true that asm.js wins for compatibility, for obvious reasons. And that&#x27;s a powerful advantage. And it works in the same runtime that existing web apps do, which likewise a win; Java and especially NaCl have complicated interoperability paradigms. They are not just &quot;a faster web page&quot;, which is what 90% of developers really wanted to begin with.<p>That said, the remaining 10% really do want something more. They want to write targetted architecture-specific assembly, perhaps. They want access to syscall-level abstractions like threads and true sockets (buffer sizes, Nagle settings, timeouts, etc...). And asm.js has nothing for these people.<p>And despite its simlicity, asm.js is still mostly just a toy. It&#x27;s got one working compiler backend that isn&#x27;t packaged sanely anywhere. I&#x27;ve three times now decided to get serious and build emscripten from source, and three times given up -- it lags LLVM releases, it has glitchy behavior. Compare to clang and especially gcc which build robustly and cleanly everywhere and come with elaborate test suites. This isn&#x27;t a toolchain I&#x27;m about to start betting a company on, for sure.<p>Give it time. I like asm.js too. But it&#x27;s never going to be The Answer to remotely deployable &quot;native like&quot; code any more than Java was.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pvnick</author><text>Asm.js is intrinsically superior to native client (and yes, I do see them as competing technologies) and will inevitably push NaCl out of the market for one simple reason: even if the browser doesn&#x27;t explicitly optimize for asm.js, <i>the code will still run</i>. It may not be usably fast, but something will happen. As opposed to native client, where if your user base doesn&#x27;t support it you&#x27;re just dead in the water. And the trend so far is javascript getting faster and closer to native running code. Google <i>must</i> eventually build asm.js optimizations into Chrome. What&#x27;s their alternative strategy? Ignore asm.js and let Mozilla tout Firefox&#x27;s javascript engine as faster? NaCl&#x27;s writing is on the wall and Google knows it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/26/chrome-and-opera-optimize-for-mozilla-pioneered-asm-js/</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>pfraze</author><text>I think there&#x27;s room for both to exist. The strategies are hugely different and will depend on the performance payoff, but asm.js has the simplicity to make it happen while PNaCl has the resources of Google, and since resources is what PNaCl needs (docs, dev environments, marketing) then I can see both coming to maturity.<p>I was threatened by PNaCl for a while, until I realized that it integrates with Javascript through messaging. I think it could be a really solid complement to the Web platform.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pvnick</author><text>Asm.js is intrinsically superior to native client (and yes, I do see them as competing technologies) and will inevitably push NaCl out of the market for one simple reason: even if the browser doesn&#x27;t explicitly optimize for asm.js, <i>the code will still run</i>. It may not be usably fast, but something will happen. As opposed to native client, where if your user base doesn&#x27;t support it you&#x27;re just dead in the water. And the trend so far is javascript getting faster and closer to native running code. Google <i>must</i> eventually build asm.js optimizations into Chrome. What&#x27;s their alternative strategy? Ignore asm.js and let Mozilla tout Firefox&#x27;s javascript engine as faster? NaCl&#x27;s writing is on the wall and Google knows it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/26/chrome-and-opera-optimize-for-mozilla-pioneered-asm-js/</url><text></text></story> |
41,100,699 | 41,099,718 | 1 | 3 | 41,077,753 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexpotato</author><text>NASA has incredibly detailed records about every piece of their spacecraft down to things like:<p>- material used to make a bolt<p>- what the torque used to tighten the bolt was<p>- who tightened the blot<p>- when it was tightened<p>- etc<p>This allows them trace back through the history of each vehicle for debugging purposes.<p>They also applied this to the Space Shuttle software. This article from 1996 does an amazing job of describing the process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;28121&#x2F;they-write-right-stuff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;28121&#x2F;they-write-right-stuff</a><p>It&#x27;s interesting how modern some of the practices described are. Plus, some of the practices (E.g. the bug rate model), from my experience, only existed there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_zamorano_</author><text>So I suposse building an aircraft involves standard bolts, procedures, testing and much more standarized ways.<p>In contrast a spacecraft like the shuttle, faces much harsher conditions and, as not many of these were built, I expect more manual procedures and tinkering while building the thing.<p>In the end, it&#x27;s incredible these things didn&#x27;t crash more often.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>STS-93: We don’t need any more of those (2014)</title><url>https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/sts-93-we-dont-need-any-more-of-those/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>goodcanadian</author><text>That was part of the rationale behind the space shuttle in the first place. It was to create a space plane with aircraft-like operations in order to fine tune processes and technology to bring down the cost of space flight. Unfortunately, NASA never managed the operational cadence required, in part, because of the per-flight cost (which was, in turn, high, in part, because of the low flight cadence). It was a fine idea, but it didn&#x27;t work out so well in practice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_zamorano_</author><text>So I suposse building an aircraft involves standard bolts, procedures, testing and much more standarized ways.<p>In contrast a spacecraft like the shuttle, faces much harsher conditions and, as not many of these were built, I expect more manual procedures and tinkering while building the thing.<p>In the end, it&#x27;s incredible these things didn&#x27;t crash more often.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>STS-93: We don’t need any more of those (2014)</title><url>https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/sts-93-we-dont-need-any-more-of-those/</url></story> |
34,266,259 | 34,266,654 | 1 | 2 | 34,266,158 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>downrightmike</author><text>I disagree, this sounds _exactly_ like what the drug cartels have been doing in Mexico for years. They build their own network so they can bypass the government. It makes more sense that they are connecting their operations further up north given the amount of security upgrades that the USA has been doing recently.
One Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-specialreport&#x2F;special-report-drug-cartel-narco-antennas-make-life-dangerous-for-mexicos-cell-tower-repairmen-idUSKCN24G1DN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-s...</a><p>&quot;Crypto&quot; is just a buzzword that people who don&#x27;t understand tech jump to as a kneejerk reaction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RF_Enthusiast</author><text>SLC&#x27;s recreational trails manager says it might be related to cryptocurrency. This sounds like the Helium crypto network, which is an IoT network offering node owners payment in cryptocurrency, which has plummeted in value ($55.22 in Nov 2021, $1.73 today).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?</title><url>https://ksltv.com/516749/why-are-antennas-popping-up-all-over-the-foothills-salt-lake-city-seeks-to-solve-mystery/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FL410</author><text>It is almost definitely this. Plenty of discussion about exactly this thing if you look into the Helium subreddits&#x2F;discord etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RF_Enthusiast</author><text>SLC&#x27;s recreational trails manager says it might be related to cryptocurrency. This sounds like the Helium crypto network, which is an IoT network offering node owners payment in cryptocurrency, which has plummeted in value ($55.22 in Nov 2021, $1.73 today).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?</title><url>https://ksltv.com/516749/why-are-antennas-popping-up-all-over-the-foothills-salt-lake-city-seeks-to-solve-mystery/</url></story> |
24,952,408 | 24,952,480 | 1 | 2 | 24,952,136 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AaronNewcomer</author><text>This is silly. Lots of large companies use php for their internal applications. I built a php based backend for one of the largest sellers on amazon, in php. That company is approaching $1B in annual revenue.<p>Php allowed my team to move amazingly fast and deliver what the business needed very quickly. In e-commerce and dealing with Amazon specificity, rules and methods change monthly and you always have to be able to quickly pivot to remain competitive and I think php was a big factor in allowing this to happen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iainctduncan</author><text>I suspect this is driven by the fact that a boatload of small companies suddenly had to get their businesses online in a hurry. By number of websites and e-commcerce platforms for small businesses, PHP is massive. By amount of use in +$1M ARR established tech companies, it&#x27;s miniscule. Covid no doubt drove a lot more of the former this year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/2020s-fastest-rising-tech-jobs-programming-language-php-leads-the-way/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>Also, most tech companies have presumably stopped hiring junior developers. So if you just taught yourself how to code and want to get a job as a developer, doing WordPress or Magento for some family business might be your best option right now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iainctduncan</author><text>I suspect this is driven by the fact that a boatload of small companies suddenly had to get their businesses online in a hurry. By number of websites and e-commcerce platforms for small businesses, PHP is massive. By amount of use in +$1M ARR established tech companies, it&#x27;s miniscule. Covid no doubt drove a lot more of the former this year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/2020s-fastest-rising-tech-jobs-programming-language-php-leads-the-way/</url></story> |
8,010,765 | 8,010,885 | 1 | 2 | 8,010,572 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clarky07</author><text>I really hope you aren&#x27;t in the minority. I agree with you. I find it absurd that it&#x27;s a crime for 2 dating teenagers to be &quot;sexting&quot;. The worse part is when one is 18 and the other is 16 or 17 or something (depending on where you live laws are different). The things they be charged with is absurd. And then as a bonus they get to be on the sex predators database for the rest of their lives for having consensual sex with their significant others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jemaclus</author><text>I&#x27;m not really sure if I&#x27;m in the minority or not, but I really don&#x27;t see a crime happening here. Maybe you ground them and take away their phones, but, I mean, these kids are under the guardianship of their parents and are presumably in a relationship that both sets of parents have (at the very least) acknowledged. It&#x27;s not like he just sent her the video out of the blue with no warning.<p>I don&#x27;t see a crime here, when both parties are in a relationship and both consent to the transaction.<p>I dunno. Maybe I&#x27;m naive or something.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/07/09/in-sexting-case-manassas-city-police-want-to-photograph-teen-in-sexually-explicit-manner-lawyers-say/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>300bps</author><text>The strangest thing about this is that the boy is considered both the victim and the perpetrator of the crime.<p><i>The teen is facing two felony charges, for possession of child pornography and manufacturing child pornography</i><p>The only thing he&#x27;s being charged with is manufacturing and possessing pictures <i>of himself</i>. These laws obviously exist to protect children from predators and in this case, the district attorney is saying that he is both the child and the predator. It&#x27;s a preposterous (though not unprecedented) use of these laws.<p>It&#x27;s quite clear the the mother doesn&#x27;t approve of this relationship and she is using the law to clamp down on it. There may be something about the relationship that offends some people&#x27;s sensibilities (ex: interclass or interracial dating) which is providing the DA cover to do this nonsense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jemaclus</author><text>I&#x27;m not really sure if I&#x27;m in the minority or not, but I really don&#x27;t see a crime happening here. Maybe you ground them and take away their phones, but, I mean, these kids are under the guardianship of their parents and are presumably in a relationship that both sets of parents have (at the very least) acknowledged. It&#x27;s not like he just sent her the video out of the blue with no warning.<p>I don&#x27;t see a crime here, when both parties are in a relationship and both consent to the transaction.<p>I dunno. Maybe I&#x27;m naive or something.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/07/09/in-sexting-case-manassas-city-police-want-to-photograph-teen-in-sexually-explicit-manner-lawyers-say/</url></story> |
3,158,450 | 3,158,477 | 1 | 2 | 3,156,524 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pinko</author><text>I have no connection to ING Direct other than as a customer, but I love this feature and use it /all/ the time.<p>I just don't ever have to pay careful attention to my precise balance, since the interest on a day or two of being $50 "overdrawn" is trivial. And every now and then when some huge auto-bill hits or a check I forgot about gets cashed, it simply clears instead of creating a multi-hour hassle for me to clear up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcherm</author><text>I work for a US bank, "ING Direct". On our "checking" account (electronic payments preferred), our policy for overdrafts works like this: if you overdraw your account, we do NOT charge you an overdraft fee. Instead, we automatically turn it into a loan at typical unsecured lending rates (11.25% today: prime plus 8%). As soon as you deposit enough money to go back to a positive balance, we go back to paying interest on your balance.<p>I hate feeling like an advertisement for my employer, but I just don't understand why ALL banks can't work this way!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The $36 soda: Overdrafting in America</title><url>http://banksimple.com/blog/Banking/the-36-dollar-soda-overdrafting-in-america/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adestefan</author><text>A lot of banks have this option, but you need to ask about it when you open your account. I decline it since I'm well aware of my balance and would rather not have the open line of credit sitting on my credit report.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcherm</author><text>I work for a US bank, "ING Direct". On our "checking" account (electronic payments preferred), our policy for overdrafts works like this: if you overdraw your account, we do NOT charge you an overdraft fee. Instead, we automatically turn it into a loan at typical unsecured lending rates (11.25% today: prime plus 8%). As soon as you deposit enough money to go back to a positive balance, we go back to paying interest on your balance.<p>I hate feeling like an advertisement for my employer, but I just don't understand why ALL banks can't work this way!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The $36 soda: Overdrafting in America</title><url>http://banksimple.com/blog/Banking/the-36-dollar-soda-overdrafting-in-america/</url></story> |
6,007,571 | 6,007,452 | 1 | 3 | 6,007,316 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The article is methodologically misguided on a key point:<p>&gt; The history of the word &#x27;relevant&#x27; is key to understanding that passage. The Supreme Court in 1991 said things are &#x27;relevant&#x27; if there is a &#x27;reasonable possibility&#x27; that they will produce information related to the subject of the investigation. In criminal cases, courts previously have found that very large sets of information didn&#x27;t meet the relevance standard because significant portions—innocent people&#x27;s information—wouldn&#x27;t be pertinent.<p>As a general rule, words have to be interpreted in the context of the laws that use them, because the same word can have different connotations in different laws. To use a programming analogy, talking about what &quot;relevant&quot; means in the law is like talking about what &quot;num_files&quot; means in programming. You can get a very general idea from the text, but you don&#x27;t really know what the term means without looking at the rest of the source.<p>&quot;Relevant&quot; means different things in the law. The article cites the narrow definition used in criminal search cases, but the Patriot Act is about foreign intelligence, not criminal prosecutions. In the law of evidence, for example, &quot;relevant&quot; is extremely broad: anything that could change whether some material fact is more or less likely to be true. You can&#x27;t take the Supreme Court&#x27;s interpretation of &quot;relevant&quot; in one case and apply it to the interpretation of the Patriot Act, just as you can&#x27;t take a variable name in one program and assume it means the same thing in another program.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secret Court's Redefinition of 'Relevant' Empowered Vast NSA Data-Gathering</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323873904578571893758853344-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwODEwNDgyWj.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>jdp23</author><text>The sourcing is &quot;current and former administration and congressional officials&quot;. As with the New York Times article on the FISA Court&#x27;s secret body of law, it&#x27;s interesting to me that people are discussing this with the press. Are the current administration officials talking with permission?<p><i>In classified orders starting in the mid-2000s, the court accepted that &quot;relevant&quot; could be broadened to permit an entire database of records on millions of people, in contrast to a more conservative interpretation widely applied in criminal cases, in which only some of those records would likely be allowed, according to people familiar with the ruling....</i><p><i>Two senators on the Intelligence Committee, Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) and Mark Udall (D., Colo.), have argued repeatedly that there was a &quot;secret interpretation&quot; of the Patriot Act. The senators&#x27; offices tell the Journal that this new interpretation of the word &quot;relevant&quot; is what they meant.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secret Court's Redefinition of 'Relevant' Empowered Vast NSA Data-Gathering</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323873904578571893758853344-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwODEwNDgyWj.html</url></story> |
18,224,743 | 18,221,470 | 1 | 2 | 18,219,944 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chubs</author><text>I&#x27;m concerned that the many RISC-V projects seem to be stalling, I&#x27;d love to be convinced otherwise?<p>* It&#x27;s been almost 2 years since SiFive released their arduino-ish dev board and it hasn&#x27;t been updated, surely there are huge gains in 2 years in such a fledgling ecosystem? I feel this is important because this board seems the obvious entry point into the RISC-V ecosystem for enthusiasts.<p>* The &#x27;BOOM&#x27; processor which showed many efficiency gains doesn&#x27;t seem to be getting anywhere further than last time i checked on it which was perhaps a year or more ago. -edit- looking on their github releases, 2.1 was 6mo ago, and 2.1.1 was recent but shows minor changes, the project unfortunately looks stalled to me.<p>* LowRISC which has one or two of the RaspberryPi co-founders on board, which seems to be a good sign as far as &#x27;getting something out the door&#x27; - i can&#x27;t seem to see any output from their project?<p>Please prove me wrong, i&#x27;d like to get involved somehow but i have to be careful where I invest my time :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RISC-V: More Than a Core</title><url>https://semiengineering.com/risc-v-more-than-a-core/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lind5</author><text>While RISC-V continues to grow, there are still gaps that may limit where RISC-V is used in designs <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;semiengineering.com&#x2F;risc-v-inches-toward-the-center&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;semiengineering.com&#x2F;risc-v-inches-toward-the-center&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RISC-V: More Than a Core</title><url>https://semiengineering.com/risc-v-more-than-a-core/</url></story> |
40,272,774 | 40,272,272 | 1 | 2 | 40,267,639 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlecSchueler</author><text>In Germany they can&#x27;t publicly gather to protest Israel&#x27;s actions either, not legally anyway.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aljazeera.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;complete-censorship-germanys-palestinian-diaspora-fights-crackdown" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aljazeera.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;complete-censo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>guappa</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit ironic how we are constantly reminded that china isn&#x27;t a democracy because they have censorship, while we are free and democratic and don&#x27;t have censorship (except we do).<p>Italy is passing laws to be able to block websites within 30 minutes, without any oversight from any judge. (more details here, link in italian <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stop-piracy-shield.it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stop-piracy-shield.it&#x2F;</a>)</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>That&#x27;s correct and IMHO its the right thing to do when shooting begins because when people shoot each other this is no longer a discussion and the press is part of the warfare. Remember all the Russian media and social media accounts claiming that its American hysteria that they will invade Ukraine? They denied and mocked anyone who claimed that they will invade up until the tanks rolled in.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m critical of the Israeli government but I think it&#x27;s in their right to try to control information flow as they are in process of driving people from their homes and mass killing people in retaliation of a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of over thousand innocent people.<p>I really dislike glorification war and pretending that it has rules or honour or something like that. People are taking lives en masse and its more than normal to try to control the information flow when doing it.</text></item><item><author>angra_mainyu</author><text>Europe has done the same with Russia.<p>Also, I think a few other Arab countries like Egypt have blocked&#x2F;banned Al Jazeera.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>&quot;and block its websites.&quot; So this keeps Israelis from reading Al Jazeera.<p>Now that&#x27;s new. Israel started Internet censorship in 2017.[1] Initially it was limited to &quot;terror group websites, online illegal gambling, prostitution services, hard drug sales&quot;. At the time, &quot;due to warnings from rights groups that the law poses a slippery slope toward additional censorship, the final version of the legislation dictates that rights groups may appeal the decisions.&quot;<p>Then, in 2021, there was the &quot;Facebook bill&quot;, authorizing very broad censorship.[2] That does not seem to have passed. It was first proposed in 2016, almost passed in 2018 [3], tried in 2021, and tried again in 2022. It doesn&#x27;t seem to have passed.<p>But something new happened recently. Wikipedia has a note at Censorship in Israel: &quot;This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: New ban issued by the knesset on foreign media channels. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (April 2024)&quot;[4]
The Knesset gave the government the authority to ban foreign media on April 1, 2024.[5]<p>This isn&#x27;t just about preventing outside media from reporting from Israel. It keeps Israelis from viewing media the government doesn&#x27;t like. Haarez has good coverage.[6]<p>The US White House press secretary issued a weak statement condemning Israel&#x27;s action, but it was on April 1st and the costumed Easter Bunny overshadowed that statement.[7]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;to-tackle-online-crime-israel-approves-web-censorship-law&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;to-tackle-online-crime-israel-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;proposed-censorship-bill-more-intrusive-than-in-any-other-democracy-say-researchers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;proposed-censorship-bill-more-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;how-israel-nearly-destroyed-freedom-of-speech-online-without-even-knowing-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;how-israel-nearly-destroyed-fr...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Censorship_in_Israel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Censorship_in_Israel</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msn.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;israels-knesset-approves-law-allowing-government-to-shutter-foreign-broadcasters&#x2F;ar-BB1kTYDa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msn.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;israels-knesset-approve...</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;2024-05-05&#x2F;ty-article&#x2F;israeli-government-votes-unanimously-to-shut-down-al-jazeera-in-israel&#x2F;0000018f-4841-d91a-a5af-e9f5c8de0000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;2024-05-05&#x2F;ty-article&#x2F;is...</a><p>[7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;briefing-room&#x2F;press-briefings&#x2F;2024&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-54&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;briefing-room&#x2F;press-briefings&#x2F;202...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/05/israel-shuts-down-local-al-jazeera-offices-in-dark-day-for-the-media</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mda</author><text>One of them is 100 times more extensive. Ideal is to have none, but lets not pretend that magnitude and severity is not relevant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guappa</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit ironic how we are constantly reminded that china isn&#x27;t a democracy because they have censorship, while we are free and democratic and don&#x27;t have censorship (except we do).<p>Italy is passing laws to be able to block websites within 30 minutes, without any oversight from any judge. (more details here, link in italian <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stop-piracy-shield.it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stop-piracy-shield.it&#x2F;</a>)</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>That&#x27;s correct and IMHO its the right thing to do when shooting begins because when people shoot each other this is no longer a discussion and the press is part of the warfare. Remember all the Russian media and social media accounts claiming that its American hysteria that they will invade Ukraine? They denied and mocked anyone who claimed that they will invade up until the tanks rolled in.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m critical of the Israeli government but I think it&#x27;s in their right to try to control information flow as they are in process of driving people from their homes and mass killing people in retaliation of a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of over thousand innocent people.<p>I really dislike glorification war and pretending that it has rules or honour or something like that. People are taking lives en masse and its more than normal to try to control the information flow when doing it.</text></item><item><author>angra_mainyu</author><text>Europe has done the same with Russia.<p>Also, I think a few other Arab countries like Egypt have blocked&#x2F;banned Al Jazeera.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>&quot;and block its websites.&quot; So this keeps Israelis from reading Al Jazeera.<p>Now that&#x27;s new. Israel started Internet censorship in 2017.[1] Initially it was limited to &quot;terror group websites, online illegal gambling, prostitution services, hard drug sales&quot;. At the time, &quot;due to warnings from rights groups that the law poses a slippery slope toward additional censorship, the final version of the legislation dictates that rights groups may appeal the decisions.&quot;<p>Then, in 2021, there was the &quot;Facebook bill&quot;, authorizing very broad censorship.[2] That does not seem to have passed. It was first proposed in 2016, almost passed in 2018 [3], tried in 2021, and tried again in 2022. It doesn&#x27;t seem to have passed.<p>But something new happened recently. Wikipedia has a note at Censorship in Israel: &quot;This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: New ban issued by the knesset on foreign media channels. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (April 2024)&quot;[4]
The Knesset gave the government the authority to ban foreign media on April 1, 2024.[5]<p>This isn&#x27;t just about preventing outside media from reporting from Israel. It keeps Israelis from viewing media the government doesn&#x27;t like. Haarez has good coverage.[6]<p>The US White House press secretary issued a weak statement condemning Israel&#x27;s action, but it was on April 1st and the costumed Easter Bunny overshadowed that statement.[7]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;to-tackle-online-crime-israel-approves-web-censorship-law&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;to-tackle-online-crime-israel-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;proposed-censorship-bill-more-intrusive-than-in-any-other-democracy-say-researchers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;proposed-censorship-bill-more-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;how-israel-nearly-destroyed-freedom-of-speech-online-without-even-knowing-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;how-israel-nearly-destroyed-fr...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Censorship_in_Israel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Censorship_in_Israel</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msn.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;israels-knesset-approves-law-allowing-government-to-shutter-foreign-broadcasters&#x2F;ar-BB1kTYDa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msn.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;israels-knesset-approve...</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;2024-05-05&#x2F;ty-article&#x2F;israeli-government-votes-unanimously-to-shut-down-al-jazeera-in-israel&#x2F;0000018f-4841-d91a-a5af-e9f5c8de0000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;2024-05-05&#x2F;ty-article&#x2F;is...</a><p>[7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;briefing-room&#x2F;press-briefings&#x2F;2024&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-54&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;briefing-room&#x2F;press-briefings&#x2F;202...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/05/israel-shuts-down-local-al-jazeera-offices-in-dark-day-for-the-media</url></story> |
24,804,891 | 24,804,882 | 1 | 3 | 24,804,563 | train | <instructions>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>Good on Reuters for investigating and sharing this data. The jail system is a wreck and people with mental health issues do not have good outcomes in it.<p>I worked with these folks on the mental health side years ago and we avoided putting our people in King County Jail whenever at all possible for a lot of reasons. Support in the form of mental health professionals, other social workers, and basic training for the cops and corrections officers is severely lacking.<p>Some of my guys would be in and out of KCJ dozens of times for minor charges, which would interrupt what little treatment and stability they had, sometimes catastrophically. Between that and the ER visits they were probably costing the city and state tens of thousands a year. Considering how cheap housing was when we could find it and the incredibly powerful effect it had on their lives and outcomes, it felt like the system was robbing itself while making everyone worse off in the process. And Seattle is known for being a compassionate, responsive city for this stuff! How it must be in other places I can&#x27;t even imagine.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-deaths/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaomidi</author><text>This is absolutely fucking bonkers. Why are we literally fine with this? When are we going to draw the line?<p>Is this the bystander effect in the scale of an entire country? &quot;Oh I&#x27;m waiting for someone else to start taking action first&quot;<p>And then some people have the audacity to criticize people taking direct action while they&#x27;re living in their single family homes, completely oblivious to what&#x27;s happening to thousands of their country-people.<p>I&#x27;m disappointed in us.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-deaths/</url></story> |
36,895,026 | 36,894,339 | 1 | 3 | 36,891,642 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>annexrichmond</author><text>FWIW Our Audis (Q5, A6 allroad) have significantly better MPGs than the advertised ones<p>The Q5 advertises 28mlg on the highway but i consistently hit 30+ here<p>And the wagon hits 35mpg on the highway very often even though it only advertises 26. It actually turns off 2 of the 6 cylinders when it senses that it can.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dietsche</author><text>As a Tesla owner, I think the source of the confusion is the EPA range displayed in the HUD on the Tesla. We toggled ours to show the battery percentage, which is much more useful to us.<p>We&#x27;ve never owned a gas vehicle that met it&#x27;s EPA range and the Tesla is no different. No one takes EPA MPG * GALLONS of gas and expects it to be a real life estimate of range.<p>Wind resistance increases EXPONENTIALLY with speed. Drive a little over the speeds the EPA used to determine range, and the observed range will drop significantly as a percentage when compared to the EPA range for any vehicle.<p>If you do have a Tesla, you&#x27;ll quickly find out that the trip computer is very accurate. The worst I&#x27;ve seen is a cold January day in Wisconsin (-10F) while on a road trip with a head wind. In that scenario, the trip computer was off by 7% mostly due to the head wind. In the summer, it is spot on usually within 1 - 2%.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;ve never owned a gas vehicle that met it&#x27;s EPA range and the Tesla is no different. No one takes EPA MPG * GALLONS of gas and expects it to be a real life estimate of range.<p>Because gas stations are still far more common than fast chargers. We&#x27;ll get there with EV charging, but right now range does matter, especially if you routinely see half of what was advertised.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dietsche</author><text>As a Tesla owner, I think the source of the confusion is the EPA range displayed in the HUD on the Tesla. We toggled ours to show the battery percentage, which is much more useful to us.<p>We&#x27;ve never owned a gas vehicle that met it&#x27;s EPA range and the Tesla is no different. No one takes EPA MPG * GALLONS of gas and expects it to be a real life estimate of range.<p>Wind resistance increases EXPONENTIALLY with speed. Drive a little over the speeds the EPA used to determine range, and the observed range will drop significantly as a percentage when compared to the EPA range for any vehicle.<p>If you do have a Tesla, you&#x27;ll quickly find out that the trip computer is very accurate. The worst I&#x27;ve seen is a cold January day in Wisconsin (-10F) while on a road trip with a head wind. In that scenario, the trip computer was off by 7% mostly due to the head wind. In the summer, it is spot on usually within 1 - 2%.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/</url></story> |
33,536,348 | 33,535,491 | 1 | 2 | 33,529,838 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>What specific consequence would you expect him to bear? It&#x27;s not like there&#x27;s any meaningful financial consequence that he would actually feel. He ain&#x27;t gonna know what food insecurity or the specter of medical bankruptcy feels like. Should he impose some consequence on himself, like he only gets to spend $1 million on leisure over the next year?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mongol</author><text>Taking responsibility is more than just admitting reponsibility. It is also about bearing the consequences. Such as, if you broke something, you fix it. If you lost something, you pay up to replace it. Or similar. A manager usually can&#x27;t fix a problem themselves though. But unless they pay a cost for their mistakes, they are not really taking responsibility. Then they just pay lip service to the word.</text></item><item><author>miiiiiike</author><text>&gt; As always with these things, I wonder what taking responsibility actually means in practice.<p>Remember a few years ago when people were asking &quot;Why can&#x27;t people just say they made a mistake and own up to it instead of shifting blame?&quot; Now that people are taking responsibility for mistakes publicly the response is &quot;Yes, but what does that mean?&quot;<p>Taking responsibility means just that. It means saying you fucked up and not blaming others for your failures. It doesn&#x27;t mean that self immolation follows soon after.<p>I move on from bad breaks pretty quickly but there are few things that I&#x27;ve held on to. Things that still burn years later and all of them involve refusals to accept responsibility. Hearing someone say: &quot;Yep, it was me. I fucked you and I&#x27;m sorry. Here&#x27;s what I can offer.&quot; isn&#x27;t nothing.<p>Layoffs suck but the rate of hiring in big companies wasn&#x27;t sustainable. A correction is here. It&#x27;s temporary, but, it&#x27;s real.<p>If you&#x27;ve tried to hire outside of FAANG over the past decade you&#x27;d know one thing: FAANG is hoarding talent. Every developer I&#x27;ve really wanted to hold on to has gone to a big tech company.. I can&#x27;t blame them. But, here&#x27;s the thing, so have many of the contractors that I didn&#x27;t end up hiring for very good reasons.<p>These layoff messages, down to the structure and content, all sound the same because PR people follow best practices just like everyone else. You wouldn&#x27;t ask why all Redux or Angular apps use similar patterns.. They&#x27;re using patterns, that&#x27;s what patterns are for.</text></item><item><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>&gt; I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.<p>As always with these things, I wonder what taking responsibility actually means in practice.<p>Businesses usually try to find ways to correct for major failures in decision making. In the case of Zuck, given his ownership, does anything actually happen or change? I&#x27;m sure his net worth has been reduced by changes to Meta&#x27;s share price, but he was a multi-billionaire before and he still is now. Is that it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta lays off 11,000 people</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>musictubes</author><text>I dunno, think Zuck losing however may billions of dollars of net worth is a pretty stiff consequence. He didn’t have to take responsibility but did. He also literally paid for the consequences.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mongol</author><text>Taking responsibility is more than just admitting reponsibility. It is also about bearing the consequences. Such as, if you broke something, you fix it. If you lost something, you pay up to replace it. Or similar. A manager usually can&#x27;t fix a problem themselves though. But unless they pay a cost for their mistakes, they are not really taking responsibility. Then they just pay lip service to the word.</text></item><item><author>miiiiiike</author><text>&gt; As always with these things, I wonder what taking responsibility actually means in practice.<p>Remember a few years ago when people were asking &quot;Why can&#x27;t people just say they made a mistake and own up to it instead of shifting blame?&quot; Now that people are taking responsibility for mistakes publicly the response is &quot;Yes, but what does that mean?&quot;<p>Taking responsibility means just that. It means saying you fucked up and not blaming others for your failures. It doesn&#x27;t mean that self immolation follows soon after.<p>I move on from bad breaks pretty quickly but there are few things that I&#x27;ve held on to. Things that still burn years later and all of them involve refusals to accept responsibility. Hearing someone say: &quot;Yep, it was me. I fucked you and I&#x27;m sorry. Here&#x27;s what I can offer.&quot; isn&#x27;t nothing.<p>Layoffs suck but the rate of hiring in big companies wasn&#x27;t sustainable. A correction is here. It&#x27;s temporary, but, it&#x27;s real.<p>If you&#x27;ve tried to hire outside of FAANG over the past decade you&#x27;d know one thing: FAANG is hoarding talent. Every developer I&#x27;ve really wanted to hold on to has gone to a big tech company.. I can&#x27;t blame them. But, here&#x27;s the thing, so have many of the contractors that I didn&#x27;t end up hiring for very good reasons.<p>These layoff messages, down to the structure and content, all sound the same because PR people follow best practices just like everyone else. You wouldn&#x27;t ask why all Redux or Angular apps use similar patterns.. They&#x27;re using patterns, that&#x27;s what patterns are for.</text></item><item><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>&gt; I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.<p>As always with these things, I wonder what taking responsibility actually means in practice.<p>Businesses usually try to find ways to correct for major failures in decision making. In the case of Zuck, given his ownership, does anything actually happen or change? I&#x27;m sure his net worth has been reduced by changes to Meta&#x27;s share price, but he was a multi-billionaire before and he still is now. Is that it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta lays off 11,000 people</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/</url></story> |
20,538,547 | 20,538,426 | 1 | 2 | 20,538,158 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pizza</author><text>I recall reading a CNN scrolling ticker headline about the current European heatwave that said ~5% of European homes&#x2F;offices have AC.<p>The DOE says 3&#x2F;4 of American homes have AC, and furthermore, AC uses <i>6%</i> of all electricity generated in the United States, quite staggering imo and a lot more than I would have expected. Without AC, a lot of America would just be too unbearable to support some major communities.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;energysaver&#x2F;home-cooling-systems&#x2F;air-conditioning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;energysaver&#x2F;home-cooling-systems&#x2F;air-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-greeland-europe-ice-heat-record-1.5225980</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>IIRC there&#x27;s around 7m of sea level rise tied up in Greenland ice, and it&#x27;s already melting remarkably quickly. Now add the wildfires and it seems like it&#x27;s escalating dangerously out of control.<p>While a tipping point tips, government action is still conspicuously absent, and countries (well Russia and Canada mainly) are trying to nail their continental shelf claims in the Arctic for oil exploration.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-greeland-europe-ice-heat-record-1.5225980</url></story> |
13,728,933 | 13,727,689 | 1 | 3 | 13,726,395 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aidos</author><text>My wife is a speech and language therapist for under 5s and we have 2 children under 5 ourselves. There are so many techniques she uses without even thinking about it to encourage communication that, left on my own, I would never have known to use. For example, in the really early days, when a child said &quot;blah blah blah blah&quot; I would have been inclined to repeat it, but now I&#x27;ll say &quot;that&#x27;s right, an aeroplane!&quot; (Or whatever it is).<p>Parent-child interaction goes a really long way in child development and if you ever get the chance, it&#x27;s worth sitting in on a session (whether your child needs extra help or not). A large part of the work my wife does is around enabling parents to assist kids that need more input (through no fault of the parents themselves).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary development</title><url>http://wordbank.stanford.edu/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>Looks like the interactivity is running in R Shiny; and I&#x27;m hitting &quot;License Quota Reached&quot; errors.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary development</title><url>http://wordbank.stanford.edu/</url></story> |
24,857,749 | 24,857,928 | 1 | 2 | 24,854,201 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddxxdd</author><text>To make peace you must prepare for war. Also, it&#x27;s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zelienople</author><text>There is something terribly wrong with a species who, in the infancy of their space travel, spends so much time and effort considering the matter of making war in space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf]</title><url>https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/Reesman_PhysicsWarSpace_20201001.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>NikolaeVarius</author><text>Literally anything in space almost by definition is a weapon. Blame physics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zelienople</author><text>There is something terribly wrong with a species who, in the infancy of their space travel, spends so much time and effort considering the matter of making war in space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Engagements [pdf]</title><url>https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/Reesman_PhysicsWarSpace_20201001.pdf</url></story> |
32,880,217 | 32,880,331 | 1 | 2 | 32,878,560 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frereubu</author><text>I didn’t read this as a rebuttal, it’s pointing out the logical fallacies in the structure of the GP’s argument, so criticising it for not offering a rebuttal is slightly missing the point. They certainly aren’t saying that Uber drivers are in an identical situation to slaves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>VoodooJuJu</author><text>The grandparent deserves a good rebuttal, and I don&#x27;t think this is very good. This comment is effectively saying that the gig worker is in fact <i>not</i> a free agent by using analogies like slavery and indentured servitude, but these analogies don&#x27;t map well to the gig worker&#x27;s economic position.<p>I&#x27;m going to second the GP&#x27;s request for a convincing argument, as I&#x27;ve also yet to see one.</text></item><item><author>ep103</author><text>Its comments like this that have caused me to really lose faith in the quality of conversation on Hacker News.<p>By your logic above, an indentured servitude would count as a &quot;not being taken advantage of&quot; and by implication, reasonable moral form of employment.<p>Each of the following questions in your final paragraph are similarly shallow.<p>&gt; People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral?<p>This is a straw man argument to its core. No one is, or has suggested that all labor should be abolished unless it meets a utopian ideal.<p>&gt; Even if that&#x27;s the case<p>It is not the case<p>&gt; I&#x27;d like to see the argument that those people who chose and choose to work at uber have worse outcomes than they otherwise would<p>Interestingly, this is the same argument that was used in favor of slavery.</text></item><item><author>kryogen1c</author><text>I have yet to see a convincing argument, here on HN or elsewhere, about how these companies are taking advantage of workers.<p>Most of us are old enough to have seen these companies spring into existence, so here are the steps:<p>1) 100% of people are employed or unemployed. Uber (for example) doesn&#x27;t exist<p>2) uber starts existing, some previously unemployed people and some previously employed people start working for uber<p>3) those people that willingly took those jobs are being taken advantage of<p>What is the principal that justifies 3? People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral? Even if that&#x27;s the case, I&#x27;d like to see the argument that those people who chose and choose to work at uber have worse outcomes than they otherwise would.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/ftc-crack-down-companies-taking-advantage-gig-workers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jorvi</author><text>Gig work normalizes the loss of the overall labor protections &#x2F; amenities that were wrought so hard during the 19th and 20th century.<p>Here in The Netherlands flexible labor and temporary rental contracts were introduced last decade, they were meant to increase the fluidity of both markets and take up a small amount of overall contracts, but have started to dominate both of them. Being on either basically erodes any certainty you could have had as a foundation to build your life on.<p>Gig work is even worse than flexible contracts. Not only can you be ditched at any moment, in many ways you are considered self-employed which strips you of so many protections normally afforded to you. And whereas self-employed software developers (read: freelancers) are in an extremely powerful economic position, the usual gig worker has almost zero leverage. ‘Nuff said.</text><parent_chain><item><author>VoodooJuJu</author><text>The grandparent deserves a good rebuttal, and I don&#x27;t think this is very good. This comment is effectively saying that the gig worker is in fact <i>not</i> a free agent by using analogies like slavery and indentured servitude, but these analogies don&#x27;t map well to the gig worker&#x27;s economic position.<p>I&#x27;m going to second the GP&#x27;s request for a convincing argument, as I&#x27;ve also yet to see one.</text></item><item><author>ep103</author><text>Its comments like this that have caused me to really lose faith in the quality of conversation on Hacker News.<p>By your logic above, an indentured servitude would count as a &quot;not being taken advantage of&quot; and by implication, reasonable moral form of employment.<p>Each of the following questions in your final paragraph are similarly shallow.<p>&gt; People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral?<p>This is a straw man argument to its core. No one is, or has suggested that all labor should be abolished unless it meets a utopian ideal.<p>&gt; Even if that&#x27;s the case<p>It is not the case<p>&gt; I&#x27;d like to see the argument that those people who chose and choose to work at uber have worse outcomes than they otherwise would<p>Interestingly, this is the same argument that was used in favor of slavery.</text></item><item><author>kryogen1c</author><text>I have yet to see a convincing argument, here on HN or elsewhere, about how these companies are taking advantage of workers.<p>Most of us are old enough to have seen these companies spring into existence, so here are the steps:<p>1) 100% of people are employed or unemployed. Uber (for example) doesn&#x27;t exist<p>2) uber starts existing, some previously unemployed people and some previously employed people start working for uber<p>3) those people that willingly took those jobs are being taken advantage of<p>What is the principal that justifies 3? People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral? Even if that&#x27;s the case, I&#x27;d like to see the argument that those people who chose and choose to work at uber have worse outcomes than they otherwise would.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/ftc-crack-down-companies-taking-advantage-gig-workers</url></story> |
10,330,350 | 10,330,412 | 1 | 2 | 10,330,331 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rbolte</author><text>YouTransfer is a simple but elegant self-hosted file transfer &amp; sharing solution. It is an alternative to paid services like Dropbox and WeTransfer by offering similar features but without limitations, price plans and a lengthy privacy policy. You remain in control of your files.<p>Created to be installed behind the firewall on private servers, YouTransfer aims to empower organisations and individuals that wish to combine ease-to-use file transfer tooling with security and control.<p>You can watch a live demo at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.youtransfer.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.youtransfer.io</a><p>If you want to see it in action on your own environment, you can use the Docker image (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;remie&#x2F;youtransfer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;remie&#x2F;youtransfer&#x2F;</a>) or NPM package (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;youtransfer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;youtransfer</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing</title><url>http://www.youtransfer.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>dchest</author><text>If I read it correctly, this is how a file token is generated, which is supposed to be secure:<p><pre><code> file.id = md5(file.name + (Math.random() * 1000));
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First of all please do not use MD5 for anything anymore, it has known collisions. But you shouldn&#x27;t also use any hash functions here at all: just generate a long enough random token. Math.random is not a secure PRNG, use crypto.randomBytes in Node or window.crypto.getRandomValues in browsers.<p>PS And multiplication by 1000... is it just for fun?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing</title><url>http://www.youtransfer.io</url></story> |
2,746,544 | 2,746,450 | 1 | 3 | 2,746,360 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nbashaw</author><text>I debated in High School and College. I don't think you're giving competitive policy debate a fair treatment here.<p>On the surface it seems stupid to think that an un-refuted argument should be considered true. But arguments are evaluated that way in policy debates for a very specific reason -- the purpose of debate is not to discover the truth, it is to win an argument. That's the whole point of the activity. If you don't like it, you don't have to play.<p>That's actually the reason I quit during my sophomore year, but it doesn't make debate a worthless activity. Nothing taught me to work harder or think faster.<p>Debate is like working out. It's not real, so certain considerations go out the window. Under your logic, running on a treadmill is a bad idea because you're not actually going anywhere. But the point of debate isn't to discover the truth, it's to sharpen your understanding and wit.<p>Where debate goes wrong is when you stay in it too long. After a certain point the skills become harder and harder to transfer to other parts of your life. And a lot of the people in it, as you might be able to imagine, are pretty arrogant know-it-alls.<p>After I left debate, I had to re-socialize myself back into the world of normal people who don't argue with each other all day for fun. It sounds like I'm exaggerating, but all my friends were debaters and all my time was spent researching, debating, or arguing with them about literally everything. That's just how debaters tend to spend their free time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MaxGabriel</author><text>Ah, this isn't actually a student writing an essay, this is a high school policy debater. Their topic this year is space. If you aren't familiar with this activity, it has some pretty outrageous elements--300 wpm speed-reading, often surface-level analysis, and preference for gamesmanship over quality of argumentation. But if you put the right kind of work into it, you do learn alot.<p>The reason the student needs the source is that 'quals' are used to quickly legitimize a person's argument. In policy debate, unrefuted arguments are considered <i>true.</i> Thus, there's little time for intelligently evaluating what a person is saying, as long as they have 'quals' and you can get to the next piece of evidence ('cards'). The most outrageous argument from a PhD might be preferred in debate over a rational argument from an intelligent person, like Charlie Stross. edit: That's why he can't just say 'as Stross says...' like the commenters suggest. As an example, this past year my debate topic was mental health. I often cited Robert Whitaker, who is a finalist for the Pulitzer prize for psychiatric journalism, was the former director of publications at HMS, and has written two books on psychiatric medications. Yet, because he did not have an MD or PhD, debaters sneered at his qualifications, rather than evaluate his arguments.<p>I also find it highly likely that Stross's article is being used because of this paragraph "Historically, crossing oceans and setting up farmsteads on new lands conveniently stripped of indigenous inhabitants by disease has been a cost-effective proposition. But the scale factor involved in space travel is strongly counter-intuitive."<p>This is because debaters often don't respond to the other's policy proposition, but rather <i>kritik</i> their position by indicting the philosophical ideas behind it. For example, an affirmative debater might advocate colonizing a planet, and a negative debater could ignore this and talk about how the affirmative is really based on white-power dominance of other cultures, and thus they should lose.<p>My quals: debater in a different type of debate</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"Yes, but what are your credentials, Mr Stross?"</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/yes-but-what-are-your-credenti.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>tptacek</author><text>It sounds almost as if you're saying high schools now <i>teach</i> forum trolling.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MaxGabriel</author><text>Ah, this isn't actually a student writing an essay, this is a high school policy debater. Their topic this year is space. If you aren't familiar with this activity, it has some pretty outrageous elements--300 wpm speed-reading, often surface-level analysis, and preference for gamesmanship over quality of argumentation. But if you put the right kind of work into it, you do learn alot.<p>The reason the student needs the source is that 'quals' are used to quickly legitimize a person's argument. In policy debate, unrefuted arguments are considered <i>true.</i> Thus, there's little time for intelligently evaluating what a person is saying, as long as they have 'quals' and you can get to the next piece of evidence ('cards'). The most outrageous argument from a PhD might be preferred in debate over a rational argument from an intelligent person, like Charlie Stross. edit: That's why he can't just say 'as Stross says...' like the commenters suggest. As an example, this past year my debate topic was mental health. I often cited Robert Whitaker, who is a finalist for the Pulitzer prize for psychiatric journalism, was the former director of publications at HMS, and has written two books on psychiatric medications. Yet, because he did not have an MD or PhD, debaters sneered at his qualifications, rather than evaluate his arguments.<p>I also find it highly likely that Stross's article is being used because of this paragraph "Historically, crossing oceans and setting up farmsteads on new lands conveniently stripped of indigenous inhabitants by disease has been a cost-effective proposition. But the scale factor involved in space travel is strongly counter-intuitive."<p>This is because debaters often don't respond to the other's policy proposition, but rather <i>kritik</i> their position by indicting the philosophical ideas behind it. For example, an affirmative debater might advocate colonizing a planet, and a negative debater could ignore this and talk about how the affirmative is really based on white-power dominance of other cultures, and thus they should lose.<p>My quals: debater in a different type of debate</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"Yes, but what are your credentials, Mr Stross?"</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/yes-but-what-are-your-credenti.html</url></story> |
22,046,002 | 22,046,083 | 1 | 3 | 22,045,053 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kossnocorp</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that, but I would assume that just someone with @google.com or @uber.com signed up at the service ;-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>misiti3780</author><text>I have never heard of that service (looks pretty interesting actually), but at the bottom it says trust by Uber, Pinterest, Google, etc.<p>Does this mean these companies are outsourcing their graphics, mock ups, etc.?</text></item><item><author>kossnocorp</author><text>Thank you a lot, I got the illustrations on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;craftwork.design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;craftwork.design</a></text></item><item><author>gpickett00</author><text>I love that someone followed through and got it done. I bet a lot of people thought about it. I bet that there&#x27;s even someone seeing this right now pissed off that they didn&#x27;t finish first.<p>Great design. Where&#x27;d you get your little illustrations?</text></item><item><author>kossnocorp</author><text>Yesterday Paul Graham asked for an email diary service (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;paulg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1216714155731890176" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;paulg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1216714155731890176</a>):<p>&gt; Is there an easy way to build, or a startup that offers, something that will email you once a day asking &quot;What&#x27;s happening?&quot; and then accumulate the replies?<p>I did just that! Let me know what you think.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email</title><url>https://diaryemail.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>jkaptur</author><text>It&#x27;s common for companies to outsource work that&#x27;s more of a one-off &quot;project&quot; with a discrete deliverable than a continuously developed &quot;product&quot;, whether that work is coding, graphics, or anything else.<p>For example, even though Salesforce obviously has a lot of talented programmers on the payroll, I wouldn&#x27;t be at all surprised if the Dreamforce conference website is built by a separate firm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>misiti3780</author><text>I have never heard of that service (looks pretty interesting actually), but at the bottom it says trust by Uber, Pinterest, Google, etc.<p>Does this mean these companies are outsourcing their graphics, mock ups, etc.?</text></item><item><author>kossnocorp</author><text>Thank you a lot, I got the illustrations on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;craftwork.design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;craftwork.design</a></text></item><item><author>gpickett00</author><text>I love that someone followed through and got it done. I bet a lot of people thought about it. I bet that there&#x27;s even someone seeing this right now pissed off that they didn&#x27;t finish first.<p>Great design. Where&#x27;d you get your little illustrations?</text></item><item><author>kossnocorp</author><text>Yesterday Paul Graham asked for an email diary service (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;paulg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1216714155731890176" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;paulg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1216714155731890176</a>):<p>&gt; Is there an easy way to build, or a startup that offers, something that will email you once a day asking &quot;What&#x27;s happening?&quot; and then accumulate the replies?<p>I did just that! Let me know what you think.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email</title><url>https://diaryemail.com</url></story> |
6,003,427 | 6,003,308 | 1 | 3 | 6,001,843 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryanSrich</author><text>Well, &quot;like&quot; is a subjective term but for the most part people support it.<p>I hear all the time...&quot;It&#x27;s for the better. It allows the government to keep track of the bad guys and if I have to be inconvenienced a few times out of the year that I travel than so be it.&quot;<p>Or...&quot;All I use email for is work and talking with family. If they want to read that stuff they can, I have nothing to hide. If it helps keep me safe then I&#x27;m comfortable.&quot;<p>And the there&#x27;s...&quot;God forbid we have another 9&#x2F;11 because too many people are worried about what the government does. There are somethings the government has to do in secrete, there are things they have to lie to us about in order to keep us safe.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m 23 years old and I can&#x27;t tell you where this mentality came from. I know when I was growing up my father showed me how to grow my own food, hunt, use a gun in a respectful mannor and always doubt the government. He told me that violence never solved any of his problems and it&#x27;s doubtful it&#x27;d solve any of mine. He said in order for anyone to be safe they must have their freedom. The freedom to do whatever it is they seek to do. The government is only there to remove that freedom. They want to stifle your ambitions and control how you live.<p>I know I&#x27;m not alone but I&#x27;m afraid we are outnumbered.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smky80</author><text>They do not &quot;like&quot; it. It&#x27;s just that, to be very blunt, most people are basically peasants at heart. They&#x27;re going to go along with whatever the king says. Twenty years ago, on that side of the line on a map, the people believed in capitalism, while on the other side the people believed in communism. On this side of the line people believed in this god, on that side, they believe in that god.<p>It has nothing to do with some kind economists&#x27; &quot;rational utilization maximization&quot; function and everything to do with basically a &quot;k-nearest neighbours&quot; algorithm on their social graph for assigning beliefs.<p>And that is precisely why control of the media is so important.</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>Sadly, yes, it <i>is</i> the America that America wants, as far as I can tell.<p>I think this is where efforts to fight these problems fall down. They&#x27;re almost all based on the assumption that the populace doesn&#x27;t want this stuff to happen, but that the government pushes it through by abusing power, subverting democracy, etc.<p>But from what I see, this is not the case. Most Americans want this. Whether it&#x27;s gun-wielding maniacs, drug dealers, or international terrorist masterminds, they feel <i>unsafe</i>, and want the government to help. They <i>like</i> heavily-armed SWAT teams available at a moment&#x27;s notice. They <i>like</i> the government spying on every communication they can get their hands on. They <i>like</i> x-ray machines and body scanners in airports.<p>There is a sizable minority where sanity remains, but it is a <i>minority</i>. I think that efforts to fight these problems need to recognize this, and realize that you have to convince the <i>people</i> as your primary action. Fighting the government won&#x27;t help, because the people will insist that these things be done, as long as the majority feels this way.<p>No, I don&#x27;t know how....</text></item><item><author>Ovid</author><text>Is this really the America that America wants?<p>The article mentions one case where a judge refused to issue a search warrant for a narcotics investigation and instead the police brought representatives from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and raided the place with a swat team to conduct an alcohol inspection. What did they find?<p>Two sample bottles of beer that weren&#x27;t labeled as samples and a bottle of vodka in the office. The fourth circuit court of appeals upheld the search. According to the article: <i>So for now, in the Fourth Circuit, sending a SWAT team to make sure a bar’s beer is labeled correctly is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tsotha</author><text><i>They do not &quot;like&quot; it. It&#x27;s just that, to be very blunt, most people are basically peasants at heart. </i><p>I don&#x27;t see any reason to believe this is true. The problem is most people don&#x27;t have any contact with the police, and they&#x27;re using a mental model that&#x27;s about fifteen years out of date. They don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s happening out there. It&#x27;s hard to imagine, but most normal people still get their news from television.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smky80</author><text>They do not &quot;like&quot; it. It&#x27;s just that, to be very blunt, most people are basically peasants at heart. They&#x27;re going to go along with whatever the king says. Twenty years ago, on that side of the line on a map, the people believed in capitalism, while on the other side the people believed in communism. On this side of the line people believed in this god, on that side, they believe in that god.<p>It has nothing to do with some kind economists&#x27; &quot;rational utilization maximization&quot; function and everything to do with basically a &quot;k-nearest neighbours&quot; algorithm on their social graph for assigning beliefs.<p>And that is precisely why control of the media is so important.</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>Sadly, yes, it <i>is</i> the America that America wants, as far as I can tell.<p>I think this is where efforts to fight these problems fall down. They&#x27;re almost all based on the assumption that the populace doesn&#x27;t want this stuff to happen, but that the government pushes it through by abusing power, subverting democracy, etc.<p>But from what I see, this is not the case. Most Americans want this. Whether it&#x27;s gun-wielding maniacs, drug dealers, or international terrorist masterminds, they feel <i>unsafe</i>, and want the government to help. They <i>like</i> heavily-armed SWAT teams available at a moment&#x27;s notice. They <i>like</i> the government spying on every communication they can get their hands on. They <i>like</i> x-ray machines and body scanners in airports.<p>There is a sizable minority where sanity remains, but it is a <i>minority</i>. I think that efforts to fight these problems need to recognize this, and realize that you have to convince the <i>people</i> as your primary action. Fighting the government won&#x27;t help, because the people will insist that these things be done, as long as the majority feels this way.<p>No, I don&#x27;t know how....</text></item><item><author>Ovid</author><text>Is this really the America that America wants?<p>The article mentions one case where a judge refused to issue a search warrant for a narcotics investigation and instead the police brought representatives from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and raided the place with a swat team to conduct an alcohol inspection. What did they find?<p>Two sample bottles of beer that weren&#x27;t labeled as samples and a bottle of vodka in the office. The fourth circuit court of appeals upheld the search. According to the article: <i>So for now, in the Fourth Circuit, sending a SWAT team to make sure a bar’s beer is labeled correctly is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/</url></story> |
8,105,965 | 8,105,862 | 1 | 2 | 8,104,161 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Stubb</author><text>Fun reading. As an aside, I&#x27;ve grown wary of data visualization tools tied too closely to a particular language. Each one is a little different, and while cranking out simple plots never takes much effort, making them look just so for presentation always involvers learning yet another low-level syntax. I&#x27;ve come back full circle to Gnuplot (<a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnuplot.info&#x2F;</a>), which I originally learned nearly twenty years ago while working on my Ph.D. It forces you to learn a shitty DSL, but you can get at Gnuplot from any environment that supports writing to text files and calling a sub-process. Plots are tweakable to your heart&#x27;s content, and it does a fair job with 3-D graphics. I&#x27;ve reused a surprising amount of code originally written to plot error-control code statistics from Octave into a Ruby project that analyzes wireless network performance. Pretty cool!<p>But if you need interactive 3-D plots (e.g., a wire frame that you can rotate), look elsewhere.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stuff that every programmer should know: Data Visualization</title><url>http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2014/06/stuff-that-every-programmer-should-know.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>marvin</author><text>Very nice overview. I am just in the final stages of a Masters thesis in data visualization, and this article gives a really good bird&#x27;s eye view of the field. The visualization field is really too broad that most programmers could be expected to know more than some key points, but given that vision is the highest-bandwidth sense, visual techniques are often given less credit than they deserve. As long as there needs to be a human in the loop, you need good visualizations if your data is more than trivial. D3 is probably good for its domain, but intuition tells me you&#x27;ll have a problem if you mainly use Javascript to handle a 20GB dataset. (I&#x27;m not dismissing this categorically; I am not very familiar with these tools).<p>Unfortunately, to my knowledge there aren&#x27;t any comprehensive textbooks that cover visualization from the ground up. We didn&#x27;t use a single textbook in my 2-year degree; all lectures were heavily based on research papers. Central topics if you want to read up on this is perception (which color scales should you use? how many parameters can you plausibly put in one plot?), different visualization techniques for different data (scatterplots, histograms, treemaps, horizon graphs, volume rendering, graph drawing with edge bundling, +++), interactivity and applications of basic techniques (Visual Analytics, Interactive Visual Analysis).<p>A multitude of scientific fields use different visualization tools, so it can be tricky to find the relevant material for whatever it is you&#x27;re working with. But in general, I think the data mining&#x2F;big data&#x2F;analytics fields could do very well with a bigger focus on visual techniques. If you get the right visualizations for your data, the truth often just jumps out of the screen. GPUs can let you work with multi-gigabyte datasets at interactive framerates, although I haven&#x27;t seen a lot of practical applications of this yet. Can also be used for non-spatial data, if you&#x27;re clever with CUDA or just use the shader data structures creatively. Would be interesting to hear if anyone in the industry uses this yet.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stuff that every programmer should know: Data Visualization</title><url>http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2014/06/stuff-that-every-programmer-should-know.html?</url></story> |
9,429,169 | 9,427,278 | 1 | 3 | 9,426,765 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>90% of everything is crap. And there&#x27;s no guarantee that the other 10% isn&#x27;t crap as well. I get it, we need the social dialogue, so that people know how and why it&#x27;s crap, but really the only way forward that doesn&#x27;t result in eternal loss of control of your efforts to sociopaths with no interest in your happiness or society&#x27;s well-being is to blaze your own path forward.<p>Academia is crap. Most jobs are crap. Most people do not make any dents in the universe. Most relationships end.<p>One should learn to recognize situations where irrationality is the norm. The easy one to spot is music. Way more people want to be musicians than the market for their output can bear. These market realities will dominate your life if you decide to become a musician. Doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t make it, just means that if you want a semblance of control over whether you&#x27;ll make it or not, you have to create that control yourself and you&#x27;ll have nobody to help you that can really help you because they have to deal with the market realities too. Even if you do make it you&#x27;ll be similarly powerless to change the realities.<p>Once you understand the dynamic you will immediately see the pattern everywhere. Film. Academia. Comedy. The Apple App Store. The dating market for very attractive women. People who want me to work on their websites or otherwise hire me. Silicon Valley. You have to deal with all the other assholes in the world who want the same thing you want, and there&#x27;s only so much of it to go around. The ones that succeed learn how to increase the demand for the services they want to provide. The ones that don&#x27;t bitch about how unfair everything is.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia (2013)</title><url>http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpwagner</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;I sometimes find it both funny and frightening that the majority
of the world’s academic research is actually being done by people
like me, who don’t even have a PhD degree. Many advisors, whom you
would expect to truly be pushing science forward with their decades
of experience, do surprisingly little and only appear to manage the
PhD students, who slave away on papers that their advisors then put
their names on as a sort of “fee” for having taken the time to read
the document...&quot;
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That&#x27;s a bit like saying: &quot;What&#x27;s so great about Henry Ford? He didn&#x27;t _build_ the damn cars.&quot;<p>It appears that the author&#x27;s definition of &quot;true science&quot; is akin to knowledge-that-needn&#x27;t-be-effectively-communicated-to-anyone, which, in my estimation, is not science at all.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia (2013)</title><url>http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/</url></story> |
30,689,142 | 30,686,403 | 1 | 3 | 30,684,594 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>I&#x27;m actually pretty optimistic about this - DigitalOcean does great work around docs and tutorial type sites. Half of the time when I search for things like, &quot;how to install nvm on Ubuntu 20.04&quot; a digital ocean article comes up, and it&#x27;s really well done.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you&#x27;ll frequently find Chris&#x27; original articles copypasta&#x27;d by &quot;content marketers&quot; anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of the 2000&#x27;s and 2010&#x27;s is behind us, as witnessed by css-tricks&#x27;s forum with contributions from other world-class experts having closed down last year or so. Could be worse than DO for sure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks</title><url>https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-is-joining-digitalocean/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>I&#x27;m kind of hoping the reverse happens, and the front end devs at Digital Ocean get some lessons in responsive design and browser compatibility. I love the Digital Ocean product, but their dashboard is just full of quirks that give me the impression that the devs there just test things out in Chrome at one window size and then peace-out for happy hour.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you&#x27;ll frequently find Chris&#x27; original articles copypasta&#x27;d by &quot;content marketers&quot; anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of the 2000&#x27;s and 2010&#x27;s is behind us, as witnessed by css-tricks&#x27;s forum with contributions from other world-class experts having closed down last year or so. Could be worse than DO for sure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks</title><url>https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-is-joining-digitalocean/</url></story> |
20,355,993 | 20,354,959 | 1 | 2 | 20,353,148 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (Core2Duo + 4GB of ram), I&#x27;ve added an SSD years ago, and it runs absolutely fine, I use it almost daily to browse the web. Even the battery still works(only for about an hour, but it does).</text><parent_chain><item><author>iamben</author><text>I&#x27;m still using my MBA from mid 2013. It&#x27;s a wonderful thing. Battery is &quot;replace soon&quot; but it&#x27;s mostly plugged in. It&#x27;s battered and bruised, but still fast enough. I&#x27;ve been debating a change for a while and figured at the start of the year I&#x27;d wait to see if they were going to ditch the bf keyboard if they release a new MBA. Super glad I waited, fingers crossed I get the same life out of the next one!<p>Say what you want about Apple and price, but I&#x27;ve had PCs since 1994 and the two Macs I&#x27;ve had have (usefully) outlasted every other machine by quite some margin - this one in particular. 6 years without formatting a Windows machine (I can&#x27;t talk for now, but especially back then) would be crazy.</text></item><item><author>FabHK</author><text>&gt; I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&#x27;s the worst computer I&#x27;ve ever owned.<p>Same here (well, I have the &quot;cheap&quot; one without the Touch Bar). Everything has been replaced at least once (on Apple Care, fortunately) except the bottom plate.<p>&gt; The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying<p>Same here. That MBA was a fine machine.</text></item><item><author>Perceptes</author><text>I desperately hope this is true. I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&#x27;s the worst computer I&#x27;ve ever owned. The keyboard has failed twice, and the Touch Bar is inferior to the old hardware keys in every way. I hate it. The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying and I couldn&#x27;t wait any more. Assuming this report is true, my only remaining worry is that they won&#x27;t offer a version of this new Pro without a Touch Bar, or that only a model with a smaller display will offer hardware function keys, like they&#x27;ve done in the past.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/04/kuo-new-keyboard-macbook-air-pro/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aloukissas</author><text>Best era ever, have the same one. For ~120 bucks you can get a fresh battery, too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iamben</author><text>I&#x27;m still using my MBA from mid 2013. It&#x27;s a wonderful thing. Battery is &quot;replace soon&quot; but it&#x27;s mostly plugged in. It&#x27;s battered and bruised, but still fast enough. I&#x27;ve been debating a change for a while and figured at the start of the year I&#x27;d wait to see if they were going to ditch the bf keyboard if they release a new MBA. Super glad I waited, fingers crossed I get the same life out of the next one!<p>Say what you want about Apple and price, but I&#x27;ve had PCs since 1994 and the two Macs I&#x27;ve had have (usefully) outlasted every other machine by quite some margin - this one in particular. 6 years without formatting a Windows machine (I can&#x27;t talk for now, but especially back then) would be crazy.</text></item><item><author>FabHK</author><text>&gt; I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&#x27;s the worst computer I&#x27;ve ever owned.<p>Same here (well, I have the &quot;cheap&quot; one without the Touch Bar). Everything has been replaced at least once (on Apple Care, fortunately) except the bottom plate.<p>&gt; The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying<p>Same here. That MBA was a fine machine.</text></item><item><author>Perceptes</author><text>I desperately hope this is true. I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&#x27;s the worst computer I&#x27;ve ever owned. The keyboard has failed twice, and the Touch Bar is inferior to the old hardware keys in every way. I hate it. The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying and I couldn&#x27;t wait any more. Assuming this report is true, my only remaining worry is that they won&#x27;t offer a version of this new Pro without a Touch Bar, or that only a model with a smaller display will offer hardware function keys, like they&#x27;ve done in the past.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/04/kuo-new-keyboard-macbook-air-pro/</url></story> |
14,077,962 | 14,076,488 | 1 | 3 | 14,075,230 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>futun</author><text>&gt; &quot;3. And that nobody involved really thought this was a serious issue, much less a crime.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure where that point came from. It&#x27;s not only a crime, it&#x27;s an extremely serious crime. What on Earth are you talking about?<p>LIBOR is a derivative of daily rate data which is shared between banks. It is not rigged centrally.<p>You can&#x27;t tell investors that the rate is based on a daily measurement of interbank risk, and then just go ahead and base that rate on something entirely different when it suits you. That&#x27;s called fraud.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lazare</author><text>It&#x27;s not really news; it&#x27;s always been clear that:<p>1. The Bank of England knew about the Libor rigging as it happened<p>2. And was, <i>at a minimum</i>, very happy with the results (given that it reduced the risk of bank runs imperiling the entire system)<p>3. And that nobody involved really thought this was a serious issue, much less a crime.<p>Putting the above together, it would be surprising if there wasn&#x27;t some pressure from the Bank of England to push Libor down; why wouldn&#x27;t they be doing that? In the circumstances, it would have practically been remiss of them to do otherwise.<p>Of course, it looks absolutely horrific now that we&#x27;ve decided that manipulating Libor is a serious issue that people should go to prison for!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Libor: Bank of England implicated in secret recording</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39548313</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blowski</author><text>If it was a good idea for everyone, why not do it explicitly and transparently?<p>Allowing (or even encouraging) a small group of people to secretly make a lot of money doesn&#x27;t seem like a fair way to run the economy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lazare</author><text>It&#x27;s not really news; it&#x27;s always been clear that:<p>1. The Bank of England knew about the Libor rigging as it happened<p>2. And was, <i>at a minimum</i>, very happy with the results (given that it reduced the risk of bank runs imperiling the entire system)<p>3. And that nobody involved really thought this was a serious issue, much less a crime.<p>Putting the above together, it would be surprising if there wasn&#x27;t some pressure from the Bank of England to push Libor down; why wouldn&#x27;t they be doing that? In the circumstances, it would have practically been remiss of them to do otherwise.<p>Of course, it looks absolutely horrific now that we&#x27;ve decided that manipulating Libor is a serious issue that people should go to prison for!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Libor: Bank of England implicated in secret recording</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39548313</url></story> |
13,210,244 | 13,210,175 | 1 | 2 | 13,208,986 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Illniyar</author><text>Logic in the Database has the following issues:<p>1. it doesn&#x27;t work well with source control<p>2. deployments, rollback, replication, synchornization - they don&#x27;t work very well with db procedures<p>3. unless you connect directly to the db, then you must have some logic on the serverside, usually you end up replicating logic from the db to the serverside<p>4. Databases languages (even advanced ones like PL&#x2F;SQL) are not expressive enough<p>5.It&#x27;s much easier to scale out the server then the database (and if you are using Oracle&#x2F;Sql-server etc... also cheaper), and you don&#x27;t want your database&#x27;s cpu to be clogged with logic code execution<p>6.Unit testing (or any testing) is extremely difficult<p>7.Debugging is hard and convoluted (also it doesn&#x27;t usually work inside your IDE)<p>and a whole lot more.<p>Nothing is absolute or completely obsolete, but it is considered a bad practice for a long time by most industry professionals.<p>As far as I know the most popular article about it is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;who-needs-stored-procedures-anyways&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;who-needs-stored-procedures-an...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>indexerror</author><text>Can you explain why you feel that &quot;do everything in the database&quot; is archaic? A lot of logic (especially authentication logic) can be put in the database only. Not to mention that I won&#x27;t trust anything that only has application level security, and nothing at database level to check&#x2F;limit it.</text></item><item><author>renolc</author><text>This is definitely true on both ends.<p>At a previous company, the tech influencers believed in the archaic &quot;do everything in the database.&quot; While we were technically using the .Net stack, we weren&#x27;t allowed to do any actual business logic in C#. Instead it had to all be done in MS-SQL procedures (or at least at much as possible with very little CLR glue).<p>Similarly at my current company, we had a product were the initial devs wanted to jump on the RXJS and Socket.io bandwagons. The only problem was the rest of the company was using standard REST endpoints and promises to do the same thing, so any new devs who joined that team suddenly had massive cognitive overhead they had to overcome. Any changes to the codebase we&#x27;re done by people who only half understood what they were doing, and so the complexity compounded. Thankfully, I was given the chance to rewrite the whole codebase to match what our other products looked like, so now the code is much more sane to work with.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>An even more egregious form of negative work is a developer who is stuck using out of date programming practices AND has a large amount of influence at a company.</i><p>At the other extreme is the developer who is so entranced by &quot;newer is better&quot; mentality that they rewrite everything in an attempt to conform to &quot;latest best practices&quot;, increasing complexity massively while introducing a bunch of bugs and huge dependencies no one ever actually needed. I&#x27;ve experienced that (and had to undo the mess) a few times.<p>Relatedly, just as there are &quot;10x&quot; developers, there are &quot;-10x&quot; as well --- it takes the average developer 10 times as long to fix as one of these takes to break.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work</title><url>http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2016/12/beware-of-developers-who-do-negative.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>renolc</author><text>Absolutely. SQL is great, and having the DB just give you the correct data from the get go is convenient. But in the case where complex logic is necessary, SQL is much more difficult for correct implementation than something more expressive.<p>You _could_ delve into cursors or long merge statements or what have you, but in business logic specifically, the code will be read and altered numerous times by several different people. In that case, a language made specifically for expressive statements is significantly easier to deal with. That&#x27;s not to say that I believe the opposite is true and that _everything_ should be done in programming space. I just think there is a better balance that can be achieved, and to default having everything in either category probably means you&#x27;re not balancing correctly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>indexerror</author><text>Can you explain why you feel that &quot;do everything in the database&quot; is archaic? A lot of logic (especially authentication logic) can be put in the database only. Not to mention that I won&#x27;t trust anything that only has application level security, and nothing at database level to check&#x2F;limit it.</text></item><item><author>renolc</author><text>This is definitely true on both ends.<p>At a previous company, the tech influencers believed in the archaic &quot;do everything in the database.&quot; While we were technically using the .Net stack, we weren&#x27;t allowed to do any actual business logic in C#. Instead it had to all be done in MS-SQL procedures (or at least at much as possible with very little CLR glue).<p>Similarly at my current company, we had a product were the initial devs wanted to jump on the RXJS and Socket.io bandwagons. The only problem was the rest of the company was using standard REST endpoints and promises to do the same thing, so any new devs who joined that team suddenly had massive cognitive overhead they had to overcome. Any changes to the codebase we&#x27;re done by people who only half understood what they were doing, and so the complexity compounded. Thankfully, I was given the chance to rewrite the whole codebase to match what our other products looked like, so now the code is much more sane to work with.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>An even more egregious form of negative work is a developer who is stuck using out of date programming practices AND has a large amount of influence at a company.</i><p>At the other extreme is the developer who is so entranced by &quot;newer is better&quot; mentality that they rewrite everything in an attempt to conform to &quot;latest best practices&quot;, increasing complexity massively while introducing a bunch of bugs and huge dependencies no one ever actually needed. I&#x27;ve experienced that (and had to undo the mess) a few times.<p>Relatedly, just as there are &quot;10x&quot; developers, there are &quot;-10x&quot; as well --- it takes the average developer 10 times as long to fix as one of these takes to break.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work</title><url>http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2016/12/beware-of-developers-who-do-negative.html</url></story> |
30,515,337 | 30,515,360 | 1 | 2 | 30,514,944 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>causi</author><text><i>The company is also believed to have bribed the terrorist group to allow it to use a fast route through ISIS territory that avoided government checkpoints.<p>The telco used sham contracts, inflated invoices, and falsified financial statements to funnel millions to ISIS and local power brokers, with millions still unaccounted for.</i><p>Oh damn. That&#x27;s going beyond just trying to maintain your infrastructure for the sake of the populace.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ericsson workers were kidnapped when telco sent them to negotiate with ISIS</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ericsson-workers-were-kidnapped-when-telco-sent-them-to-negotiate-with-isis/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thr0wawayf00</author><text>This is another reason I have reservations about the expansion of contract labor in the modern workforce. Far too often, it creates a conflict of interest between the contract company and contract hire.<p>Tangentially related but much more banal, I have a relative that works in the payment processing industry, overseeing an engineering team. One of his best employees was an overseas contractor that spent many years with the company, brought his family to the states and laid down roots. After 7-8 years with the company, his contracting firm wanted him to move to another company in another state where he could earn more. He didn&#x27;t want to go, but his contract stipulated that my relative&#x27;s company could not hire him under any circumstance, so his firm wound down his contract to essentially force him and his family to move. This was in a smaller city without a lot of other IT jobs, so he didn&#x27;t have many other options.<p>The fact that huge corporations have that kind of power over people makes me really uncomfortable and to see a huge telecom company use contractors to negotiate with terrorists doesn&#x27;t surprise me in the least.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ericsson workers were kidnapped when telco sent them to negotiate with ISIS</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ericsson-workers-were-kidnapped-when-telco-sent-them-to-negotiate-with-isis/</url></story> |
3,531,983 | 3,531,916 | 1 | 3 | 3,531,632 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jef_poskanzer</author><text>&#62;an attempt to get the issue seen by people at google<p>Yes, precisely. A lot of other folks have chimed in with similar stories. I think their process is broken and I would like to help them fix it, both for my own monetary enrichment and because I still like Google.</text><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>Google adsense support and appeals has always had problems, it seems if you're disabled your chances of getting any sort of support are non-existent and I assume this post is an attempt to get the issue seen by people at google (I hope it works).<p>On the topic of their "secret" detection, it doesn't work well. In 2007 when I was in high school an acquaintance had a web page with google adverts on, there was no content beyond what came with a free template he downloaded. Every day he would arrive at school, login to the computer system and click an advert on his website, he would then go home and do the same, he would also contact other people from school via instant messengers and have them do the same, it became some what of a ritual for him. He was making $100 per month from what I recall and this went on for a while. This is the sort of abuse that should be detected very easily; abuse from the same IPs with a set pattern and yet it never was... I have no confidence in a system that can't detect this sort of abuse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goodbye AdSense</title><url>http://acme.com/updates/archive/173.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>jonknee</author><text>School's not a bad place to do this sort of fraud since there is a lot of legitimate traffic on the same network. That said it should still be pretty simple to flag accounts that have had a majority of clicks from a very small set of IPs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>Google adsense support and appeals has always had problems, it seems if you're disabled your chances of getting any sort of support are non-existent and I assume this post is an attempt to get the issue seen by people at google (I hope it works).<p>On the topic of their "secret" detection, it doesn't work well. In 2007 when I was in high school an acquaintance had a web page with google adverts on, there was no content beyond what came with a free template he downloaded. Every day he would arrive at school, login to the computer system and click an advert on his website, he would then go home and do the same, he would also contact other people from school via instant messengers and have them do the same, it became some what of a ritual for him. He was making $100 per month from what I recall and this went on for a while. This is the sort of abuse that should be detected very easily; abuse from the same IPs with a set pattern and yet it never was... I have no confidence in a system that can't detect this sort of abuse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goodbye AdSense</title><url>http://acme.com/updates/archive/173.html</url></story> |
27,034,555 | 27,032,247 | 1 | 2 | 27,031,242 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcims</author><text>Right about that exact same time I commandeered an entire lab (30-40?) of SGI Indigo 2&#x27;s at Ohio State to do distributed raytracing. Wasn&#x27;t nearly as educational or diplomatic but I did have fun with it until I got shut down for essentially using twice the storage in my home directory as the entire rest of the class. Between that, usenet (of course) and trolling cuseeme reflectors all over the world from the odd smelling Mac lab, I didn&#x27;t get much studying done.<p>Good times.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elengyel</author><text>I&#x27;d like to clarify that my code was running only on machines that were otherwise idle. Not many people were in the lab late in the evenings. MPQS processing nodes could be added and removed dynamically, so if somebody needed a computer that was part of my cluster, they could just quit my program and everything would go back to normal.<p>Also, once the number theory professor learned of what I had implemented, he worked out an agreement with the lab manager to give me legitimate access to the machines. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class</title><url>https://twitter.com/EricLengyel/status/1389106103179378689</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone</author><text>&gt; I could enter that program in the system monitor, but I needed a way to run it.<p>The simple way: in that mini debugger, the ‘G’ command (for ‘Go’) takes an optional address and jumps to it. “G 40F6D8”, for example, continued execution at address 40F6D8.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elengyel</author><text>I&#x27;d like to clarify that my code was running only on machines that were otherwise idle. Not many people were in the lab late in the evenings. MPQS processing nodes could be added and removed dynamically, so if somebody needed a computer that was part of my cluster, they could just quit my program and everything would go back to normal.<p>Also, once the number theory professor learned of what I had implemented, he worked out an agreement with the lab manager to give me legitimate access to the machines. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class</title><url>https://twitter.com/EricLengyel/status/1389106103179378689</url></story> |
9,472,343 | 9,472,381 | 1 | 2 | 9,471,858 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zhoutong</author><text>It&#x27;s a hugely underpriced IPO in a bubble (Tech stocks average P&#x2F;E is over 100). +&#x2F;- 10% is the price limit in Chinese stock markets.<p>So rather than having a price jump, this stock continues going up with little volume, until the &quot;real market price&quot; is reached.<p>Edit: It&#x27;s oversubscribed by almost 300 times. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;idUSL3N0WI22B20150316?irpc=932" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;idUSL3N0WI22B20150316?irpc...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shenzhen-listed stock increases by 10% each day</title><url>https://www.google.com/finance?q=SHE%3A300431</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>appliance_guide</author><text>see this article for well-written explanation: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloombergview.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-01&#x2F;risky-debt-and-perfect-stocks" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloombergview.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-01&#x2F;risky-debt-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shenzhen-listed stock increases by 10% each day</title><url>https://www.google.com/finance?q=SHE%3A300431</url></story> |
35,572,616 | 35,571,829 | 1 | 3 | 35,571,481 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I was reading about a Buddhist ritual for self mummification. The final phase involved being voluntarily lowered into the ground in a lotus position until they die.<p>It’s quite amazing what the human mind can do. Especially when you’re crazy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sokushinbutsu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sokushinbutsu</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>The climber, a woman, spent those 500 days alone inside the cave <i>voluntarily</i>, as part of an experiment.<p>It takes a special kind of person to volunteer for that and follow through with it.<p>I don&#x27;t think I could stay alone in a cave for 100 days and emerge with my sanity intact, forget about 500.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spain-cave-500-days-beatriz-flamini-1.6810428</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>It reminded me of Michel Siffre, weird that there are no mentions of him in the article<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Michel_Siffre" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Michel_Siffre</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>The climber, a woman, spent those 500 days alone inside the cave <i>voluntarily</i>, as part of an experiment.<p>It takes a special kind of person to volunteer for that and follow through with it.<p>I don&#x27;t think I could stay alone in a cave for 100 days and emerge with my sanity intact, forget about 500.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spain-cave-500-days-beatriz-flamini-1.6810428</url></story> |
26,408,520 | 26,408,492 | 1 | 2 | 26,408,181 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josephg</author><text>I used to do some work with a software consulting firm. There was a ping pong table in the office, and while talking about rates, our CEO liked to offer clients a 15% discount on our services if they could beat Joe from accounting at ping pong. He did it as a bit of a running joke, and to see how people reacted to the offer.<p>What our clients didn&#x27;t know was that Joe was terrible at ping pong. But that didn&#x27;t matter - from memory he was only ever challenged once in the many years I was there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>This reminds me of an anecdote I read once, maybe in Liars Poker, about how lots of people applying to this hedge fund put &quot;Chess&quot; on their resume somewhere thinking it made them seem like a deep or strategic thinker. As it happened, at this hedge fund there worked a former Soviet master or grandmaster ranked player. And so, whenever interviewing any candidate who claimed great proficiency with chess on their resume, at the end of the interview they&#x27;d take the candidate to go play the master.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We created a fake language to root out resume liars</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10158154545285036/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mudita</author><text>So, as a bonus, the ones who were not lying about being good at chess were probably really happy about the chance to play a grandmaster! :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>This reminds me of an anecdote I read once, maybe in Liars Poker, about how lots of people applying to this hedge fund put &quot;Chess&quot; on their resume somewhere thinking it made them seem like a deep or strategic thinker. As it happened, at this hedge fund there worked a former Soviet master or grandmaster ranked player. And so, whenever interviewing any candidate who claimed great proficiency with chess on their resume, at the end of the interview they&#x27;d take the candidate to go play the master.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We created a fake language to root out resume liars</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10158154545285036/</url></story> |
21,277,986 | 21,277,146 | 1 | 3 | 21,274,511 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>overgard</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard this hypothesis a lot, but there&#x27;s something that bothers me about it.<p>If you&#x27;ve ever been passionate about something, something that&#x27;s hard and takes a lot of effort and practice to become good at, would you really let microaggressions stop you from doing that thing? I mean, being a programmer is not exactly a high status thing for white males either. If I tell people I&#x27;m a programmer, I generally am competing with the perception that I am socially awkward. People assume I&#x27;m like some Big Bang Theory character until I prove otherwise. I don&#x27;t <i>like</i> that stereotype, but it never stopped me from learning to code, or even was a thought that crossed my mind.<p>Also, how many other industries are or have been actively hostile towards women and still have plenty of females in it? Show business is an obvious example.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that things can&#x27;t or shouldn&#x27;t be improved, but I feel like the argument that goes &quot;well the nerds are making women uncomfortable&quot; is just a cartoon with very little evidence other than anecdotes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>When people go and talk to women who started out in the tech pipeline but left, many say that the reasons they left are that they felt unwelcome in some way: they were harassed, under-valued, talked over, stalked, underpaid, etc.<p>Too many women choose to leave not because they didn&#x27;t like the work, but because they didn&#x27;t like all the bullshit they were implicitly asked to put up with, in order to do the work.<p>If very few women expressed these sentiments; if the tech workforce pipeline was a safe and fulfilling place for everyone, then at that point, I think it&#x27;s fair to question whether 50&#x2F;50 should be the goal. But we&#x27;re not nearly at that point, and IMO it is counterproductive to talk like we are. For now, the numbers imbalance is a simple and obvious way to measure and talk about the cultural factors that exclude women (or certain ethnicities, or backgrounds) from equal participation in this industry.<p>One reason 50&#x2F;50 makes a fine straw goal is that there is no obvious reason that men should be more successful than women in the tech industry. It&#x27;s not like the NFL, where well-understood human sexual dimorphism is relevant. Women were heavily involved in the early days of computing and built some of the early foundations of the field, like the first compiler.</text></item><item><author>legostormtroopr</author><text>&gt; We can’t improve without discussion, and it’s unfortunate that these type of issues are so divisive.<p>Except Cancel Culture is making it that these can&#x27;t be discussed without complete agreement.<p>Take for example, &quot;Women in Tech&quot;, personally I don&#x27;t see underrepresentation of women in tech as a problem that can be or should be &#x27;solved&#x27;. For the better part of 15 years, there has been a massive movement to encourage women in STEM. There are hundreds of Women in Tech meetups, scholarships, Womens only courses... yet the numbers have barely budged in more than 10 years. Personally, it looks like in aggregate it will be difficult to get 50&#x2F;50 representation of women and men in tech. To make it clear, we should definitely support everyone who is in tech, and make it an inclusive environment, but the continued push for 50&#x2F;50 isn&#x27;t going to happen so perhaps its not worth the huge money sink it is.<p>At the last place I worked that opinion was flat out branded &quot;sexist&quot;, and if you didn&#x27;t vocally agree with every women in tech initiative people asked why.<p>So I would say the ability to speak openly about politics was shut down long ago, and not by the people you think.</text></item><item><author>ProfessorLayton</author><text>Without trying to be inflammatory in any manner, I will say that it takes a certain level of privilege to say one shouldn’t discuss politics at work.<p>If you disagree I’m happy to discuss this viewpoint rather than being downvoted to oblivion.<p>Lots of issues are deemed “political”, but imagine you fall into one of the marginalized groups:<p>— lgbt: Don’t discuss the possibility about being fired for your sexuality because it’s too political.<p>— Women in tech: Nope, let’s not go there, too political.<p>— Underrepresented minorities in tech: Sorry it’s a pipeline problem, don’t bring politics into this.<p>— Education: Too political to discuss the fact that schools are trying to balance their admissions in the face of very uneven opportunities amongst their applicants. Never mind the fact that school admissions were never fair to begin with.<p>We can’t improve without discussion, and it’s unfortunate that these type of issues are so divisive.<p>Again, If you disagree I’d love to understand your viewpoint as to why.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nimitz14</author><text>&gt; When people go and talk to women who started out in the tech pipeline but left, many say that the reasons they left are that they felt unwelcome in some way: they were harassed, under-valued, talked over, stalked, underpaid, etc.<p>That &quot;many&quot; sounds anecdotal. Since we&#x27;re doing that: In my experience woman don&#x27;t go into tech because they enjoy other, more social, jobs more.<p>&gt; One reason 50&#x2F;50 makes a fine straw goal is that there is no obvious reason that men should be more successful than women in the tech industry. It&#x27;s not like the NFL, where well-understood human sexual dimorphism is relevant. Women were heavily involved in the early days of computing and built some of the early foundations of the field, like the first compiler.<p>There is an obvious reason. Autism-like traits are more prevalent in men.</text><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>When people go and talk to women who started out in the tech pipeline but left, many say that the reasons they left are that they felt unwelcome in some way: they were harassed, under-valued, talked over, stalked, underpaid, etc.<p>Too many women choose to leave not because they didn&#x27;t like the work, but because they didn&#x27;t like all the bullshit they were implicitly asked to put up with, in order to do the work.<p>If very few women expressed these sentiments; if the tech workforce pipeline was a safe and fulfilling place for everyone, then at that point, I think it&#x27;s fair to question whether 50&#x2F;50 should be the goal. But we&#x27;re not nearly at that point, and IMO it is counterproductive to talk like we are. For now, the numbers imbalance is a simple and obvious way to measure and talk about the cultural factors that exclude women (or certain ethnicities, or backgrounds) from equal participation in this industry.<p>One reason 50&#x2F;50 makes a fine straw goal is that there is no obvious reason that men should be more successful than women in the tech industry. It&#x27;s not like the NFL, where well-understood human sexual dimorphism is relevant. Women were heavily involved in the early days of computing and built some of the early foundations of the field, like the first compiler.</text></item><item><author>legostormtroopr</author><text>&gt; We can’t improve without discussion, and it’s unfortunate that these type of issues are so divisive.<p>Except Cancel Culture is making it that these can&#x27;t be discussed without complete agreement.<p>Take for example, &quot;Women in Tech&quot;, personally I don&#x27;t see underrepresentation of women in tech as a problem that can be or should be &#x27;solved&#x27;. For the better part of 15 years, there has been a massive movement to encourage women in STEM. There are hundreds of Women in Tech meetups, scholarships, Womens only courses... yet the numbers have barely budged in more than 10 years. Personally, it looks like in aggregate it will be difficult to get 50&#x2F;50 representation of women and men in tech. To make it clear, we should definitely support everyone who is in tech, and make it an inclusive environment, but the continued push for 50&#x2F;50 isn&#x27;t going to happen so perhaps its not worth the huge money sink it is.<p>At the last place I worked that opinion was flat out branded &quot;sexist&quot;, and if you didn&#x27;t vocally agree with every women in tech initiative people asked why.<p>So I would say the ability to speak openly about politics was shut down long ago, and not by the people you think.</text></item><item><author>ProfessorLayton</author><text>Without trying to be inflammatory in any manner, I will say that it takes a certain level of privilege to say one shouldn’t discuss politics at work.<p>If you disagree I’m happy to discuss this viewpoint rather than being downvoted to oblivion.<p>Lots of issues are deemed “political”, but imagine you fall into one of the marginalized groups:<p>— lgbt: Don’t discuss the possibility about being fired for your sexuality because it’s too political.<p>— Women in tech: Nope, let’s not go there, too political.<p>— Underrepresented minorities in tech: Sorry it’s a pipeline problem, don’t bring politics into this.<p>— Education: Too political to discuss the fact that schools are trying to balance their admissions in the face of very uneven opportunities amongst their applicants. Never mind the fact that school admissions were never fair to begin with.<p>We can’t improve without discussion, and it’s unfortunate that these type of issues are so divisive.<p>Again, If you disagree I’d love to understand your viewpoint as to why.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/</url></story> |
21,127,751 | 21,124,620 | 1 | 3 | 21,112,403 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dhekir</author><text>I used to walk around taking pictures and memorizing some key points to later upload the data from JOSM, but it was very time-consuming and a lot of time was spent matching the aerial view with my street-level pictures.<p>So I started trying to use Vespucci from my Android, but it&#x27;s interface is really sophisticated and not ideal for &quot;lightweight&quot; work, such as adding POIs (when the streets, paths and shapes are already in place).<p>I also liked a lot Street Complete, but it does not allow _adding_ new POIs, just completing existing ones.<p>Finally, a Frenchman developed OSM Go! (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=fr.dogeo.osmgo&amp;hl=en_US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=fr.dogeo.osmgo...</a>, open source on Github, but not yet available on F-Droid), which is the sweet spot for me: not as powerful as Vespucci, but much easier to use for adding&#x2F;updating POIs. It has recently been translated into English, and though the UI is not perfect, it greatly improved the ease of contribution.<p>So now I am much more inclined to, when walking around somewhere with incomplete mapping, simply stop for a few seconds, add some missing data (wheelchair accessibility, opening hours, or a minor POI such as drinking water or even trash basket), and keep on walking. No extra homework required!<p>The amount of effort the community devotes to such apps and to OSM in general is incredible and contagious!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My OpenStreetMap Workflow: Mapping the Village of Marmari, Evia</title><url>https://code.mendhak.com/openstreetmap-workflow-marmari/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lukeqsee</author><text>I recently attended the State of the Map conference (OSM&#x27;s annual, global conference), and that inspired me to start improving the map around my area. I discovered a lot of small details I assumed would have already been mapped. There&#x27;s a lot left to do, even in a fairly well-covered area of the world.<p>This helped me plan better for when I go out mapping—all of the apps are slightly wonky to use, so you have to develop your own custom flow to be efficient.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My OpenStreetMap Workflow: Mapping the Village of Marmari, Evia</title><url>https://code.mendhak.com/openstreetmap-workflow-marmari/</url></story> |
11,717,994 | 11,717,568 | 1 | 3 | 11,713,000 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tonyarkles</author><text>I forget which interview I was listening to about doing LSD research but I remember the gist of the quote: &quot;We tried doing double-blind studies, but 15 minutes into the experiment we realized it was pointless. The people who were given LSD... they knew they&#x27;d been given the real stuff, the scientists knew very obviously who&#x27;d been given the real stuff... There&#x27;s no way to give someone LSD and not have everyone in the room know what&#x27;s going on.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>zimbu668</author><text>Roland Griffiths at John&#x27;s Hopkins is trying to do proper research on psilocybin, i.e. with control groups. Although it&#x27;s kind of hard since the effects of psilocybin are rather noticeable.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tedmed.com&#x2F;speakers&#x2F;show?id=526372" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tedmed.com&#x2F;speakers&#x2F;show?id=526372</a><p>Just in case anyone here hasn&#x27;t already seen this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1462&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1462&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>exelius</author><text>From personal experience in my youth, I can definitely say that psychedelics (mushrooms in particular) can help you think in different ways that make your problems seem trivial and imminently solvable. Those changed patterns of thought seem like a revelation at the time -- like the clouds opened and an answer came down from the sky. So I&#x27;m not at all surprised with this.<p>That said, this study had only 12 participants with no control group -- so it&#x27;s hard to draw any meaningful conclusions. But as a canary study, it says that there might be something here, so further, more rigorous studies are warranted.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magic mushrooms found to lift severe depression in clinical trial</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/17/magic-mushrooms-lift-severe-depression-in-clinical-trial</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>Not every medical procedure can or has to undergo double blind testing with control groups.<p>Pretty much any treatment that has very aggressive effects is usually done without it.<p>Even treatments that can be tested using a control group are quite often tested without it if you can isolate your metrics well enough.<p>But technically you can still use a control group for psychoactive drugs because in every trial the first rule is not to give the test subjects any information about possible effects or side effects in order not introduce bias, you also quite often isolate the subjects from each other completely.<p>I&#x27;m also not sure if the dose that is given in this case is even high enough to induce hallucinations in the first place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zimbu668</author><text>Roland Griffiths at John&#x27;s Hopkins is trying to do proper research on psilocybin, i.e. with control groups. Although it&#x27;s kind of hard since the effects of psilocybin are rather noticeable.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tedmed.com&#x2F;speakers&#x2F;show?id=526372" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tedmed.com&#x2F;speakers&#x2F;show?id=526372</a><p>Just in case anyone here hasn&#x27;t already seen this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1462&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1462&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>exelius</author><text>From personal experience in my youth, I can definitely say that psychedelics (mushrooms in particular) can help you think in different ways that make your problems seem trivial and imminently solvable. Those changed patterns of thought seem like a revelation at the time -- like the clouds opened and an answer came down from the sky. So I&#x27;m not at all surprised with this.<p>That said, this study had only 12 participants with no control group -- so it&#x27;s hard to draw any meaningful conclusions. But as a canary study, it says that there might be something here, so further, more rigorous studies are warranted.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magic mushrooms found to lift severe depression in clinical trial</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/17/magic-mushrooms-lift-severe-depression-in-clinical-trial</url></story> |
1,968,976 | 1,968,360 | 1 | 2 | 1,968,171 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smackay</author><text>I think this approach has some rather nice features:<p>1. There is no need to try and break a task down into smaller steps before entering it into the list. When you come to work on it you probably have had a chance to think about it some more and it will be obvious if there are any sub-tasks.<p>2. There is no schedule and the granularity is (inifinitely) variable. This helps avoid needless analysis or planning.<p>3. Garbage-colletion. If you perform a task that invalidates some easlier items on your lists the dismissal process should catch that without having to review or re-analyse the complete list looking for dependencies.<p>So for a system that is appears free-form and light on rules it actually has some substance. The only issue I can see is one that asimjalis commented on where one task can take too much time. I think that then it is appropriate to wind up the pomodoro.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Autofocus System - Get Everything Done</title><url>http://www.markforster.net/autofocus-system/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>naradaellis</author><text>I've been using this for a year and a bit now. Its stuck for me because it is light on rules I think. No other system has been as successful for me at harnessing structured procrastination.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Autofocus System - Get Everything Done</title><url>http://www.markforster.net/autofocus-system/</url></story> |
4,908,576 | 4,907,208 | 1 | 2 | 4,906,842 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qdot76367</author><text>As someone who's been on emacs the better part of a decade now, I find your opinion adorable and invite you to wrestle my editor/ide/im client/mail client/friend/lover from my cold, dead, RSI'd fingers.<p>As someone who's always worked alone, I also find your opinion adorable, and will code socially when someone manages to hack their way into my ultra secure coding vault. Which I admittedly let people into for pairing. Sometimes.<p>Collaborative doesn't necessarily mean synchronous. We learned this building the real time building system in second life. Sometimes you just want to sit in your corner and know no one else is gonna come in, and not having that ability cuts off a huge portion of people who just don't work well in that circumstance. It's awesome to work offline, alone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dysoco</author><text>Github is slowly turning into an IDE for the web.<p>In my opinion: In a couple of years we will not use Emacs or Visual Studio or anything like that: Most of programming will be done socially in Github via small changes directly from the website, from hundreds of people... it'd simplify the process of collaborative programming a lot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Welcome to a New Gist</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1276-welcome-to-a-new-gist</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pyre</author><text><p><pre><code> &#62; Most of programming will be done socially [...] via
&#62; small changes [...] from hundreds of people
</code></pre>
This seems a little extreme. I'd venture that right now 'most of programming' is private code, or small side projects/toy code (i.e. single-developer projects).</text><parent_chain><item><author>dysoco</author><text>Github is slowly turning into an IDE for the web.<p>In my opinion: In a couple of years we will not use Emacs or Visual Studio or anything like that: Most of programming will be done socially in Github via small changes directly from the website, from hundreds of people... it'd simplify the process of collaborative programming a lot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Welcome to a New Gist</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1276-welcome-to-a-new-gist</url></story> |
10,914,747 | 10,914,447 | 1 | 2 | 10,909,909 | 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>sebcat</author><text>FWIW, __int128 and the optimizations mentioned works in clang too, my guess is that the author just runs an old version.<p><pre><code> #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
int main() {
FILE *fp;
__int128 v=1234;
fp = fopen(&quot;foo12&quot;, &quot;w&quot;);
fwrite(&amp;v, sizeof(v), 1, fp);
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}
</code></pre>
with -O2 -march=native -ffinite-math-only -fno-math-errno, for clang 3.5.0, linux&#x2F;amd64, gives me:<p><pre><code> 4005d0: 53 push %rbx
4005d1: 48 83 ec 10 sub $0x10,%rsp
4005d5: 48 c7 44 24 08 00 00 movq $0x0,0x8(%rsp)
4005dc: 00 00
4005de: 48 c7 04 24 d2 04 00 movq $0x4d2,(%rsp)
4005e5: 00
4005e6: bf b0 06 40 00 mov $0x4006b0,%edi
4005eb: be b6 06 40 00 mov $0x4006b6,%esi
4005f0: e8 bb fe ff ff callq 4004b0 &lt;fopen@plt&gt;
4005f5: 48 89 c3 mov %rax,%rbx
4005f8: 48 8d 3c 24 lea (%rsp),%rdi
4005fc: be 10 00 00 00 mov $0x10,%esi
400601: ba 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%edx
400606: 48 89 d9 mov %rbx,%rcx
400609: e8 b2 fe ff ff callq 4004c0 &lt;fwrite@plt&gt;
40060e: 48 89 df mov %rbx,%rdi
400611: e8 6a fe ff ff callq 400480 &lt;fclose@plt&gt;
400616: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
400618: 48 83 c4 10 add $0x10,%rsp
40061c: 5b pop %rbx
40061d: c3 retq
40061e: 66 90 xchg %ax,%ax</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Optimization story: Switching from GMP to gcc's __int128 reduced run time by 95%</title><url>https://www.nu42.com/2016/01/excellent-optimization-story.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>soldergenie</author><text>I ran into the need for this recently, except for a program written in Java... I really wish the JVM had a 128 bit data type (or at least a muldiv function, in which muldiv(a, b, c) = a<i>b&#x2F;c, but the intermediate a</i>b result can exceed 64 bits.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Optimization story: Switching from GMP to gcc's __int128 reduced run time by 95%</title><url>https://www.nu42.com/2016/01/excellent-optimization-story.html</url></story> |
6,665,625 | 6,665,190 | 1 | 3 | 6,664,572 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nether</author><text>I doubt a pretty girl would have so many employees bending over backward to help her if they were all women. You&#x27;re kidding yourself if you think a female-dominated industry wouldn&#x27;t have handled her more appropriately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Amadou</author><text>There was a comment in the story that I think is misleading - <i>Attractive women can open locked doors in the male-dominated IT industry.</i> Attractive women can do that in <i>any</i> industry, it doesn&#x27;t need to be male dominated. Men are stupid that way (if we weren&#x27;t stupid that way birth rates would probably be 1&#x2F;100th of what they are now), you only need a handful of men to have a good probability of finding at least one who is thinking with more than one brain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency</title><url>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/03/fake-femme-fatale-dupes-it-guys-at-us-government-agency/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>detcader</author><text>I think the point was that _because_ men dominate the computer industry, you will have an easier time targeting IT systems for exploitation with this method.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Amadou</author><text>There was a comment in the story that I think is misleading - <i>Attractive women can open locked doors in the male-dominated IT industry.</i> Attractive women can do that in <i>any</i> industry, it doesn&#x27;t need to be male dominated. Men are stupid that way (if we weren&#x27;t stupid that way birth rates would probably be 1&#x2F;100th of what they are now), you only need a handful of men to have a good probability of finding at least one who is thinking with more than one brain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency</title><url>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/03/fake-femme-fatale-dupes-it-guys-at-us-government-agency/</url></story> |
9,741,226 | 9,741,266 | 1 | 2 | 9,738,893 | train | <instructions>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>The day (or month, or year) you want to send a probe to Pluto and the day you want to send one to Mercury, not to mention the direction, are going to be totally different, and aren&#x27;t easy to schedule — you might have a 3-day window to be sure something can get to Saturn, since you&#x27;re relying on a gravity assist from Mars and a configuration of the planets that only happens every couple decades. Also, even if such a thing could be organized, there&#x27;s simply no way the budget will support 10 missions launching at once. They have to be tracked, developed, and funded separately for a lot of really good reasons. Stuff that&#x27;s shared (launch vehicles, software) can be co-developed but each mission has wildly different timelines and requirements.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Achshar</author><text>But what&#x27;s stopping us from making exact copies of this probe&#x2F;sat (say... 10) and launching them all at once?<p>Or at an interval of say 6 months a piece? That way we will have low cost since the r&amp;d will be basically 0 for all the extra models and we get 10x the data and larger time span of coverage. Plus we won&#x27;t be putting all our eggs in the same basket.</text></item><item><author>devindotcom</author><text>Boy, where to start. First of all the conditions around various planets and bodies are very different. Jupiter for example is oozing with ugly radiation so we can&#x27;t just put a &quot;stock&quot; probe into orbit around Europa, it would fry.<p>Second, these missions aren&#x27;t actually that frequent. It takes months or years for a spacecraft to arrive at its destination, and its design had to be finalized and tested rigorously years before its launch. That means by the time we even get a close up picture of Ceres, for example, the science of spacecraft building will have advanced by several years and we now can include new sensors and improve fuel efficiency and so on.<p>Third, what do you think science is? Taking photos and readings. That is a huge, huge part of basic science, especially when it comes to astrophysics, astrogeology, astrochemistry, and so on. Landing on a planet provides further opportunities to take photos and readings, but it&#x27;s phenomenally difficult to do.<p>Finally, if you are bored by cutting-edge space travel and the study of distant worlds that may hold the possibility of life... I don&#x27;t even know. I&#x27;m mystified by your perspective on the universe we live in.</text></item><item><author>jdhawk</author><text>I know there is a very good reason for this, but it seems like we&#x27;re sending a lot of satellites to these moons and planets to perform VERY similar missions. Orbit around, take photos and readings.<p>Why are we creating a new spacecraft every time this happens? Why are they not &quot;mass producing&quot; the same generic exploration sat, with a generally useful set of features, then slightly modifying it for any specifics?<p>Launch in 2020&#x27;s? snooze. Just launch the same sat from the last mission and start getting data now.</text></item><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>This is great news. I can&#x27;t wait for this mission.<p>&gt; If proven to exist, this global ocean could hold more than twice as much water as Earth.<p>I really wish we were past the &quot;is there water there&quot; stage and onto the &quot;Lets drop a submarine and see what&#x27;s down there&quot; stage. I imagine getting through 15 miles of ice might be a wee challenging.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>All Systems Go for NASA's Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/all-systems-go-for-nasas-mission-to-jupiter-moon-europa</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>billyhoffman</author><text>Because of budget.<p>The closest thing to what you are describing that NASA has done recently was sending 2 rovers to Mars at the same time (Spirit and Opportunity). It cost nearly $1B dollars in 2003 money to do it [1].<p>Nasa&#x27;s entire budget for 2015 is $17.5B<p>In contrast, NASA only spent a further ~$130M keeping the rovers going for the last decade. R&amp;D, as well as getting stuff into space, is incredibly expensive.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mars_Exploration_Rover" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mars_Exploration_Rover</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Achshar</author><text>But what&#x27;s stopping us from making exact copies of this probe&#x2F;sat (say... 10) and launching them all at once?<p>Or at an interval of say 6 months a piece? That way we will have low cost since the r&amp;d will be basically 0 for all the extra models and we get 10x the data and larger time span of coverage. Plus we won&#x27;t be putting all our eggs in the same basket.</text></item><item><author>devindotcom</author><text>Boy, where to start. First of all the conditions around various planets and bodies are very different. Jupiter for example is oozing with ugly radiation so we can&#x27;t just put a &quot;stock&quot; probe into orbit around Europa, it would fry.<p>Second, these missions aren&#x27;t actually that frequent. It takes months or years for a spacecraft to arrive at its destination, and its design had to be finalized and tested rigorously years before its launch. That means by the time we even get a close up picture of Ceres, for example, the science of spacecraft building will have advanced by several years and we now can include new sensors and improve fuel efficiency and so on.<p>Third, what do you think science is? Taking photos and readings. That is a huge, huge part of basic science, especially when it comes to astrophysics, astrogeology, astrochemistry, and so on. Landing on a planet provides further opportunities to take photos and readings, but it&#x27;s phenomenally difficult to do.<p>Finally, if you are bored by cutting-edge space travel and the study of distant worlds that may hold the possibility of life... I don&#x27;t even know. I&#x27;m mystified by your perspective on the universe we live in.</text></item><item><author>jdhawk</author><text>I know there is a very good reason for this, but it seems like we&#x27;re sending a lot of satellites to these moons and planets to perform VERY similar missions. Orbit around, take photos and readings.<p>Why are we creating a new spacecraft every time this happens? Why are they not &quot;mass producing&quot; the same generic exploration sat, with a generally useful set of features, then slightly modifying it for any specifics?<p>Launch in 2020&#x27;s? snooze. Just launch the same sat from the last mission and start getting data now.</text></item><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>This is great news. I can&#x27;t wait for this mission.<p>&gt; If proven to exist, this global ocean could hold more than twice as much water as Earth.<p>I really wish we were past the &quot;is there water there&quot; stage and onto the &quot;Lets drop a submarine and see what&#x27;s down there&quot; stage. I imagine getting through 15 miles of ice might be a wee challenging.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>All Systems Go for NASA's Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/all-systems-go-for-nasas-mission-to-jupiter-moon-europa</url></story> |
1,352,179 | 1,352,042 | 1 | 2 | 1,351,917 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mnemonicsloth</author><text>I think this looks a lot more prescient than it really is.<p>Searls says that whatever Jobs created at Apple would be: original, innovative, exclusive, expensive, [beautiful], maybe influenced by other software tycoons, and minimally influenced by developers. He's right on all counts. It's a good picture of Steve Jobs.<p>What's missing? Searls didn't say one word about the likelihood that Steve Jobs would be <i>successful</i>, and that success is what makes him something other than Just Another Malignant Narcissist CEO.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (1997)</title><url>http://www.scripting.com/davenet/stories/DocSearlsonSteveJobs.html</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>pohl</author><text>"To Steve, clones are the drag of the ordinary on the innovative. All that crap about cloners not sharing the cost of R&#38;D is just rationalization. Steve puts enormous value on the engines of innovation. Killing off the cloners just eliminates a drag on his own R&#38;D,..."<p>Repace clones with middleware when you read this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (1997)</title><url>http://www.scripting.com/davenet/stories/DocSearlsonSteveJobs.html</url><text></text></story> |
17,514,390 | 17,514,529 | 1 | 2 | 17,513,828 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvtrn</author><text>&gt;while also looking seriously into the feasibility of switching to PCs running Linux if they don&#x27;t get their act together.<p>This is ultimately what I ended up having to do; not really by choice. My 2015 MBP was stolen, considered looking for a refurb model but found myself test driving an HP Spectre x360-a minute with the keyboard, another few minutes Googling linux driver support on my phone and some other specs. I was walking out the door with the new purchase 15 minutes later.<p>It&#x27;s been a couple of days now, I still haven&#x27;t gotten around to throwing *nix at it, but for a majority of purposes WSL is getting me by pretty nicely enough. A few days of getting a fresh Windows installation and ridding myself of all that retail bloatware, I&#x27;m actually not having a bad time with Windows 10 given it&#x27;s the first time I&#x27;ve dailied a windows machine since XPSP1.<p>That&#x27;s how far I&#x27;m going to avoid the new mbp because key input means that much to me-given how much time I spend in text fields, but this is a really enjoyable machine so far. After 3 years though my eyes definitely got used to the retina display, and this screen just can&#x27;t match the color variation or the deep darks-then again it also may be the high gloss touch screen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>&gt; The niche developer&#x2F;macrumors posters will never be happy regardless of what Apple does.<p>Haven&#x27;t done a survey, but quite a few folks I know who work at Mac shops report that their employers have been steering clear of the new MacBooks and just trying to keep the older models they already have alive, while also looking seriously into the feasibility of switching to PCs running Linux if they don&#x27;t get their act together.<p>Making the keyboard reliable would help, but that touchbar is also a legitimate ergonomic concern for anyone who uses software that requires you to be banging on F-keys all day.</text></item><item><author>r0fl</author><text>They didn&#x27;t do that because it is not what most people want. Apple has to make changes that will sell more laptops to the masses to maximize shareholder value.<p>The niche developer&#x2F;macrumors posters will never be happy regardless of what Apple does. Better to focus on the 90% of customers who buy products and make up 10% of the complaints then to focus on the 10% of customers who make up 90% of the complaints.</text></item><item><author>no1youknowz</author><text>&gt; The new keyboard has the same dimensions and look as its two predecessors, but the keys feel just a little bit different. They&#x27;re quieter, for one thing. They have a softer, less click-y feel that is a little closer to the pre-2016 models&#x27; chiclet keys. We found the new keyboard to be a little nicer to type on, but it&#x27;s not a radical difference. It&#x27;s unlikely to convert the detractors, but it&#x27;s a welcome iteration for those who liked or didn&#x27;t mind the previous butterfly keyboards.<p>I&#x27;m going to wait a year, maybe 18 months for feedback before I consider upgrading. Why they couldn&#x27;t grab a 2012-2015 model and upgrade the guts? No touchbar, smaller touchpad than the newer macbooks, but updated specs? Call it Macbook Developer... We build the software for the &quot;Pros&quot; after all.<p>I just don&#x27;t get it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-updates-macbook-pro-with-faster-performance-and-new-features-for-pros/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigpeopleareold</author><text>Maybe 2019 will be the year of the Linux desktop? :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>&gt; The niche developer&#x2F;macrumors posters will never be happy regardless of what Apple does.<p>Haven&#x27;t done a survey, but quite a few folks I know who work at Mac shops report that their employers have been steering clear of the new MacBooks and just trying to keep the older models they already have alive, while also looking seriously into the feasibility of switching to PCs running Linux if they don&#x27;t get their act together.<p>Making the keyboard reliable would help, but that touchbar is also a legitimate ergonomic concern for anyone who uses software that requires you to be banging on F-keys all day.</text></item><item><author>r0fl</author><text>They didn&#x27;t do that because it is not what most people want. Apple has to make changes that will sell more laptops to the masses to maximize shareholder value.<p>The niche developer&#x2F;macrumors posters will never be happy regardless of what Apple does. Better to focus on the 90% of customers who buy products and make up 10% of the complaints then to focus on the 10% of customers who make up 90% of the complaints.</text></item><item><author>no1youknowz</author><text>&gt; The new keyboard has the same dimensions and look as its two predecessors, but the keys feel just a little bit different. They&#x27;re quieter, for one thing. They have a softer, less click-y feel that is a little closer to the pre-2016 models&#x27; chiclet keys. We found the new keyboard to be a little nicer to type on, but it&#x27;s not a radical difference. It&#x27;s unlikely to convert the detractors, but it&#x27;s a welcome iteration for those who liked or didn&#x27;t mind the previous butterfly keyboards.<p>I&#x27;m going to wait a year, maybe 18 months for feedback before I consider upgrading. Why they couldn&#x27;t grab a 2012-2015 model and upgrade the guts? No touchbar, smaller touchpad than the newer macbooks, but updated specs? Call it Macbook Developer... We build the software for the &quot;Pros&quot; after all.<p>I just don&#x27;t get it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-updates-macbook-pro-with-faster-performance-and-new-features-for-pros/</url></story> |
33,891,851 | 33,891,417 | 1 | 2 | 33,890,098 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>padjo</author><text>Rather than cheat the system to get the project done you probably need to let the project be late and then explain that it was late because IT dragged their feet on app approval. That will make it pretty clear to the powers that be that this needs to be fixed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bboygravity</author><text>&gt; Realistically, how often do you need to install brand-new non-standard software?<p>Almost every day. Sometimes multiple times a day in case of a new project &#x2F; new embedded hardware (toolchain) &#x2F; new devkit to &quot;quickly test&quot; &#x2F; tight deadlines, etc.<p>&gt; If it is a regular occurrence then you need a process by which you can request it and the IT team can assess how they manage it.<p>There isn&#x27;t. It has been attempted to get such a process multiple times over the past years. With and without escalation to higher ups all the way up to the CEO. The IT team promises they&#x27;ll speed things up, but a software approval for 1 app still takes at least 3 months. Now what?<p>I&#x27;ll tell you now what: employees and contractors alike just start using their own fully unlocked (perhaps badly updated) machines out of desperation and transfer files to and from locked-down company machines using email or onedrive or whatever other means possible.<p>Maybe better companies exist?</text></item><item><author>edent</author><text>It requires two things.<p>Firstly, an IT team which works <i>with</i> users rather than against users. That might be as simple as adding all the &quot;core&quot; apps to MDM to ensure they always get patched regularly.<p>Secondly, it requires a development team to realise that just because they&#x27;re good at programming computers it doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;re good at administering them. Yes, it sucks that you&#x27;re not allowed to install bonzibuddy.exe from Limewire. But your needs aren&#x27;t more important than protecting the integrity of the network and company.<p>Realistically, how often do you need to install brand-new non-standard software? If it is a regular occurrence then you need a process by which you can request it and the IT team can assess how they manage it.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Related question about this, with apologies if this is a dumb question. For small to mid size tech companies (say small startups to 1000 employees), what are the general recommended IT procedures to ensure <i>application</i> software like this is updated across the company?<p>That is, every company I&#x27;ve worked at has had some form of device management software on their laptops, but that software only ensured that the OS and some specific &quot;managed applications&quot; were always patched. For developers, though, we never had fully &quot;locked down&quot; machines because they made our job so much more difficult (that is, more than other departments we&#x27;d often be installing and running new software).<p>In that case, are there some specific corporate controls to ensure nobody is running an unpatched VSCode, beyond messaging all engineers and saying &quot;you better make sure your VSCode installation is updated, or else...&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VSCode remote code execution advisory</title><url>https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-pw56-c55x-cm9m</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>octodog</author><text>I work at a bank and I can tell you that nobody is emailing or sharing files to their personal devices. Doing so would have you fired on the spot.<p>At my workplace apps are whitelisted and it&#x27;s honestly not a big deal. Very rarely do I find myself in a situation where I can&#x27;t access the tools that I need.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bboygravity</author><text>&gt; Realistically, how often do you need to install brand-new non-standard software?<p>Almost every day. Sometimes multiple times a day in case of a new project &#x2F; new embedded hardware (toolchain) &#x2F; new devkit to &quot;quickly test&quot; &#x2F; tight deadlines, etc.<p>&gt; If it is a regular occurrence then you need a process by which you can request it and the IT team can assess how they manage it.<p>There isn&#x27;t. It has been attempted to get such a process multiple times over the past years. With and without escalation to higher ups all the way up to the CEO. The IT team promises they&#x27;ll speed things up, but a software approval for 1 app still takes at least 3 months. Now what?<p>I&#x27;ll tell you now what: employees and contractors alike just start using their own fully unlocked (perhaps badly updated) machines out of desperation and transfer files to and from locked-down company machines using email or onedrive or whatever other means possible.<p>Maybe better companies exist?</text></item><item><author>edent</author><text>It requires two things.<p>Firstly, an IT team which works <i>with</i> users rather than against users. That might be as simple as adding all the &quot;core&quot; apps to MDM to ensure they always get patched regularly.<p>Secondly, it requires a development team to realise that just because they&#x27;re good at programming computers it doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;re good at administering them. Yes, it sucks that you&#x27;re not allowed to install bonzibuddy.exe from Limewire. But your needs aren&#x27;t more important than protecting the integrity of the network and company.<p>Realistically, how often do you need to install brand-new non-standard software? If it is a regular occurrence then you need a process by which you can request it and the IT team can assess how they manage it.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Related question about this, with apologies if this is a dumb question. For small to mid size tech companies (say small startups to 1000 employees), what are the general recommended IT procedures to ensure <i>application</i> software like this is updated across the company?<p>That is, every company I&#x27;ve worked at has had some form of device management software on their laptops, but that software only ensured that the OS and some specific &quot;managed applications&quot; were always patched. For developers, though, we never had fully &quot;locked down&quot; machines because they made our job so much more difficult (that is, more than other departments we&#x27;d often be installing and running new software).<p>In that case, are there some specific corporate controls to ensure nobody is running an unpatched VSCode, beyond messaging all engineers and saying &quot;you better make sure your VSCode installation is updated, or else...&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VSCode remote code execution advisory</title><url>https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-pw56-c55x-cm9m</url></story> |
23,997,892 | 23,996,550 | 1 | 2 | 23,985,817 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frobozz</author><text>You missed this bit:<p>&gt; after a bit of an ear bashing<p>If someone from my old employer calls and asks me politely for a bit of help with something I know well, I&#x27;d help.<p>If they call to yell at me about how I left behind a fragile system or how I left them in the lurch by quitting, the correct response is to tell them to get fucked, if they then ask for help after that, the correct response is to tell them to go fuck themselves.<p>Normalising that kind of abusive behaviour is not going to improve the lives of the co-workers you left behind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I would help. The people who are suffering the most are your former coworkers. Presumably friends. Definitely people you may work with in the future.<p>I&#x27;d rather be known as the guy who helps than the guy who is rude about consulting rates.</text></item><item><author>wheelerwj</author><text>&gt; after a bit of an ear bashing<p>you actually helped them? Hang up, charge your emergency hour consultant rates, and tell them you&#x27;re available once they sign the agreement.</text></item><item><author>DoubleGlazing</author><text>A few years ago I left the company I was was working for. We had an internal doc wiki that hardly anyone used. I was one of the ones who did and I would document code changes and things like how to setup a dev environment and to list known gotchas.<p>During my final week when I was doing code handover I sent an email around the company pointing out that the wiki would answer most of the questions they might have about the apps I worked on.<p>Three months later my phone starts ringing. I was in a new job so I didn&#x27;t answer, but they kept ringing. Then they started calling my wife as she was listed as my next of kin. My wife also didn&#x27;t answer as she was with a client. After a few hours, my wife picks up the call and texts me that my previous employer was desperate to speak to me. So I called them during break and after a bit of an ear bashing I was informed their whole warehouse system was down and all business had stopped.<p>After a bit of diagnosis I realised that they had fallen for the first gotcha I listed in my docs, they deployed the wrong DB driver. I asked why they didn&#x27;t read the docs. They responded &quot;what docs?&quot;. I explained that I sent an email round before I left with guidance on the app. Rather than apologise they berated me for not doing more to alert people to the existence of the information. It was that attitude that contributed to me wanting to leave the company in the first place.<p>I think the moral is that no matter how good your docs, some people will always ignore them even when the world is collapsing around them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual</title><url>https://blog.nuclino.com/brown-m-ms-or-why-no-one-s-reading-the-manual</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>learnstats2</author><text>Alternatively: Help your co-workers and friends by normalising getting paid for real work outside of what is contracted.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I would help. The people who are suffering the most are your former coworkers. Presumably friends. Definitely people you may work with in the future.<p>I&#x27;d rather be known as the guy who helps than the guy who is rude about consulting rates.</text></item><item><author>wheelerwj</author><text>&gt; after a bit of an ear bashing<p>you actually helped them? Hang up, charge your emergency hour consultant rates, and tell them you&#x27;re available once they sign the agreement.</text></item><item><author>DoubleGlazing</author><text>A few years ago I left the company I was was working for. We had an internal doc wiki that hardly anyone used. I was one of the ones who did and I would document code changes and things like how to setup a dev environment and to list known gotchas.<p>During my final week when I was doing code handover I sent an email around the company pointing out that the wiki would answer most of the questions they might have about the apps I worked on.<p>Three months later my phone starts ringing. I was in a new job so I didn&#x27;t answer, but they kept ringing. Then they started calling my wife as she was listed as my next of kin. My wife also didn&#x27;t answer as she was with a client. After a few hours, my wife picks up the call and texts me that my previous employer was desperate to speak to me. So I called them during break and after a bit of an ear bashing I was informed their whole warehouse system was down and all business had stopped.<p>After a bit of diagnosis I realised that they had fallen for the first gotcha I listed in my docs, they deployed the wrong DB driver. I asked why they didn&#x27;t read the docs. They responded &quot;what docs?&quot;. I explained that I sent an email round before I left with guidance on the app. Rather than apologise they berated me for not doing more to alert people to the existence of the information. It was that attitude that contributed to me wanting to leave the company in the first place.<p>I think the moral is that no matter how good your docs, some people will always ignore them even when the world is collapsing around them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual</title><url>https://blog.nuclino.com/brown-m-ms-or-why-no-one-s-reading-the-manual</url></story> |
16,798,659 | 16,798,693 | 1 | 3 | 16,797,958 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taurath</author><text>I have a pretty large group of generally geek-oriented friends across most of the western US, and tracking their migration patterns has been fascinating - we&#x27;re basically all 1980&#x27;s-born millennials.<p>In the 2000&#x27;s was when we met, those who had grown up there and those who were moving were in the same age group. Only about 40% were college educated or in tech&#x2F;programming oriented roles. Of those, a small amount has ridden the wave to prosperity. Most moved to Seattle (if looking for a career&#x2F;home&#x2F;etc), or Portland (if they pass the weird-test). There&#x27;s been a steady trickle out of the Bay for anyone not in tech for the past decade, and now I think only 10% of them still remain. Now they&#x27;re going to Colorado rather than Seattle, and a few more to Portland. Those that are currently missing the wave in Seattle are looking at moving to Colorado.<p>I have no idea which area is gonna be next - Colorado is now seen as the last &quot;cool&quot; place thats &quot;affordable&quot; and liberal (sorry screaming Coloradan&#x27;s, you&#x27;re next).<p>Personally, I just can&#x27;t believe its gone on this long - the pressure release valve that I thought would be released from the bay every year for the last decade hasn&#x27;t fully let go. Career or being able to afford a house seem to be mutually exclusive ideas if you&#x27;re not in programming. This is creating a rather nomadic culture within my friend groups... welp, this area is too expensive, might as well move onto the next. Very few are putting down roots.<p>I wonder what this all will look like when we look back 20 years hence - was it really a bubble, or the creation of a permanent Elysium style class divide between those that had the capital (or took the risks) early, and those who didn&#x27;t start out as well (or were conservative in leveraging themselves)? Every day it feels like I&#x27;m leading more towards the latter.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-09/home-values-are-rising-by-800-a-day-in-san-jose</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nradov</author><text>Peter Thiel claims that the majority of capital poured into Silicon Valley startups ends up flowing to landlords.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;expensive-san-francisco&#x2F;article&#x2F;peter-thiel-silicon-valley-capital-landlords-12759450.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;expensive-san-francisco&#x2F;article&#x2F;peter...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-09/home-values-are-rising-by-800-a-day-in-san-jose</url></story> |
29,951,239 | 29,950,944 | 1 | 2 | 29,950,152 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mkdirp</author><text>Terminal is the only thing that maps ctrl+shift+c&#x2F;v to copy&#x2F;paste because ctrl+c&#x2F;v conflicts with signals. I&#x27;ve never come across any other program that maps something that isn&#x27;t ctrl+c&#x2F;v to copy&#x2F;paste.<p>MacOS is able to keep this consistent because ctrl+c&#x2F;v isn&#x27;t mapped to copy&#x2F;paste, and instead command+c&#x2F;v is. If you really want, Linux is perfectly capable of mapping Super+c&#x2F;v to copy&#x2F;paste. You would probably only need to do this in your terminal emulator and your DE.</text><parent_chain><item><author>somenewaccount1</author><text>Lol. I came here to say the only thing that matters is that copy and paste in Linux is &#x27;cntrl+shift+c&#x27;. You can try changing it, but your still fucked in most terminals, and then you end up with two key combos depending on context. It&#x27;s a nightmare, and I&#x27;m really glad you have the top comment. Clearly I&#x27;m not alone.</text></item><item><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked &amp; reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs.<p>I&#x27;ve been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I&#x27;ve hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time it used to before spending days and days fiddling with a bunch of different flavors of remapping at nearly every layer of the system.<p>If I&#x27;m ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I&#x27;m just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6<p>I&#x27;m going to give Pop_Os a try, but I suspect I&#x27;m going to run into the same problems I always do. The trouble with Linux as a desktop for me isn&#x27;t weather it&#x27;s beautiful or not. The problem is how disintegrated everything is and the thousand papercuts ways in which it works.<p>That said, I absolutely consider it basically an incredible miracle that the experience is as good as it is, frankly. So, I keep at it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switching from macOS to Pop_OS</title><url>https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>I think MacOS got something right by using its Command key for &quot;desktop-wide&quot; shortcuts that aren&#x27;t specific to one application, (kind of) leaving Ctrl and Alt for applications.<p>I generally try to follow this pattern when possible.<p>But I really do wish that it was easier to get a consistent look and feel on Linux, including key bindings.</text><parent_chain><item><author>somenewaccount1</author><text>Lol. I came here to say the only thing that matters is that copy and paste in Linux is &#x27;cntrl+shift+c&#x27;. You can try changing it, but your still fucked in most terminals, and then you end up with two key combos depending on context. It&#x27;s a nightmare, and I&#x27;m really glad you have the top comment. Clearly I&#x27;m not alone.</text></item><item><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked &amp; reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs.<p>I&#x27;ve been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I&#x27;ve hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time it used to before spending days and days fiddling with a bunch of different flavors of remapping at nearly every layer of the system.<p>If I&#x27;m ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I&#x27;m just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6<p>I&#x27;m going to give Pop_Os a try, but I suspect I&#x27;m going to run into the same problems I always do. The trouble with Linux as a desktop for me isn&#x27;t weather it&#x27;s beautiful or not. The problem is how disintegrated everything is and the thousand papercuts ways in which it works.<p>That said, I absolutely consider it basically an incredible miracle that the experience is as good as it is, frankly. So, I keep at it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switching from macOS to Pop_OS</title><url>https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/</url></story> |
22,009,734 | 22,009,528 | 1 | 3 | 22,008,566 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>While I&#x27;m quite close to your opinion and I&#x27;m not much of a believer in intellectual property either, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s incoherent to support the two stances you mention.<p>There is an important difference between the paper publishing market and the others, which is that scientific publishing is 100% extortive. It provides no value at all.<p>Let&#x27;s leave aside for a moment the argument that so-called piracy not necessarily decreases sales - remember I&#x27;m not really advocating for copyright laws, just defending the coherence of the opinions of the people you are mentioning, who probably think that it does. From that standpoint, if everyone stopped paying for movies, Hollywood would close and no movies (except for hobbyist movies) would be made. If everyone stopped paying for music, music would still be made but no one would make a living from it. The same with books, etc. So in those fields, there is a causal relationship between not paying and the field itself being impacted, as well as the income of people that are doing honest work.<p>On the other hand, if everyone stopped paying for papers, nothing relevant would happen - in fact, mainly only good things would happen! The people who actually do the work of publishing and reviewing the papers aren&#x27;t being paid anyway. We would post them to public repositories and move on. The quality of science wouldn&#x27;t suffer at all. The accessibility of science would improve (everyone would be able to access papers without paying). The only ones that would suffer would be publishers that are doing largely an evil thing (restricting the access to scientific knowledge - it&#x27;s hard to actually argue that they are providing access, as publis repositories already do that for free) and if they closed, it would be a net positive for science. Thus, and to sum up, it&#x27;s really hard to defend paying scientific publishers, even if you generally believe in IP and copyright, because the whole market is a huge net negative for society, which is not true (or at least, not commonly believed to be true) of most other IP markets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>I personally adore Sci-Hub and Libgen but that&#x27;s because such is my personal alignment - I believe no such concept as &quot;intellectual property&quot; should exist and right (which, from my point of view, is unlimited sharing of what is usually copyrighted in this case) is more important than legal.<p>To support my stance I can cite the German phenomenon (many attribute it&#x27;s 19th century industrial growth to unconstrained knowledge distribution made possible by lack of copyright laws) and the biblical &quot;miracle of the five loaves and two fishes&quot; where Jesus replicated five loaves and two fishes to feed a lot of people (today copyright advocates would say replicating bread this way meant &quot;stealing&quot; from the baker). And the fact I then buy a legal paper copy whenever I read a pirated ebook if I liked it while the lack of a pirated copy availability would never cause me to buy a legal copy (countrary to the concept of lost profit copyright advocates use).<p>At the same time I was initially surprised about the fact the scientific society is openly speaking pro-SciHub and pro-LibGen: most of the same people would generally say piracy is bad both because it&#x27;s &quot;stealing&quot; from the copyright holders and because it means breaking a law. They would condemn using cracked apps, sharing movies and ignoring licenses, I have met quite a number of professors who would surely expel me from the university if I had scanned an expensive textbook and shared it with other students, yet they magically support SciHub. I find this phenomenon curious.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)</title><url>https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/02/19/the-unstoppable-rise-of-sci-hub-how-does-a-new-generation-of-researchers-perceive-sci-hub/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>&gt; <i>I have met quite a number of professors who would surely expel me from the university if I had scanned an expensive textbook and shared it with other students, yet they magically support SciHub.</i><p>That&#x27;s because textbooks is a scam the professors are in on and profit off.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>I personally adore Sci-Hub and Libgen but that&#x27;s because such is my personal alignment - I believe no such concept as &quot;intellectual property&quot; should exist and right (which, from my point of view, is unlimited sharing of what is usually copyrighted in this case) is more important than legal.<p>To support my stance I can cite the German phenomenon (many attribute it&#x27;s 19th century industrial growth to unconstrained knowledge distribution made possible by lack of copyright laws) and the biblical &quot;miracle of the five loaves and two fishes&quot; where Jesus replicated five loaves and two fishes to feed a lot of people (today copyright advocates would say replicating bread this way meant &quot;stealing&quot; from the baker). And the fact I then buy a legal paper copy whenever I read a pirated ebook if I liked it while the lack of a pirated copy availability would never cause me to buy a legal copy (countrary to the concept of lost profit copyright advocates use).<p>At the same time I was initially surprised about the fact the scientific society is openly speaking pro-SciHub and pro-LibGen: most of the same people would generally say piracy is bad both because it&#x27;s &quot;stealing&quot; from the copyright holders and because it means breaking a law. They would condemn using cracked apps, sharing movies and ignoring licenses, I have met quite a number of professors who would surely expel me from the university if I had scanned an expensive textbook and shared it with other students, yet they magically support SciHub. I find this phenomenon curious.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)</title><url>https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/02/19/the-unstoppable-rise-of-sci-hub-how-does-a-new-generation-of-researchers-perceive-sci-hub/</url></story> |
29,408,857 | 29,408,919 | 1 | 3 | 29,408,341 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>I always found it fascinating the grade-A executable names which imagemagick was able to claim in the global namespace:<p><pre><code> imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;animate
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;compare
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;composite
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;conjure
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;convert
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;display
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;identify
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;import
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;mogrify
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;montage
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;stream</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing</title><url>https://imagemagick.org/script/index.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>dkuder</author><text>There are 634 CVE Records that match your search.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=imagemagick" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvekey.cgi?keyword=imagemagick</a><p>There have been a number of zero days.<p>My entire interaction with Imagemagick has been removing it. Often with great difficulty because there is some odd dependency.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing</title><url>https://imagemagick.org/script/index.php</url></story> |
31,770,144 | 31,770,423 | 1 | 2 | 31,769,294 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>&gt; If you hold up a sign with, say, a multiplication, a CPU will produce the result before light reaches a person a few metres away.<p>The latency on multiplication (register input to register output) is 5-clock ticks, and many computers are 4GHz or 5GHz these days.<p>5-clock cycles at 5GHz is 1ns, which is 30-centimeters of light travel.<p>If we include L1 cache read and L1 cache write, IIRC its 4 clock cycles for read + 4 more for the write. So 13 clock ticks, which is almost 70 centimeters.<p>------------<p>DDR4 read and L1 cache write will add 50 nanoseconds (~250 cycles) of delay, and we&#x27;re up to 13 meters.<p>And now you know why cache exists, otherwise computers will be waiting on DDR4 RAM all day, rather than doing work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>forinti</author><text>On a 3GHz CPU, one clock cycle is enough time for light to travel only 10cm.<p>If you hold up a sign with, say, a multiplication, a CPU will produce the result before light reaches a person a few metres away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The computers are fast, but you don't know it</title><url>http://shvbsle.in/computers-are-fast-but-you-dont-know-it-p1/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>generalizations</author><text>I ran across an animation once that showed graphically the time it takes light to travel between the planets and the sun. It&#x27;s weird, but light doesn&#x27;t seem that fast anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>forinti</author><text>On a 3GHz CPU, one clock cycle is enough time for light to travel only 10cm.<p>If you hold up a sign with, say, a multiplication, a CPU will produce the result before light reaches a person a few metres away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The computers are fast, but you don't know it</title><url>http://shvbsle.in/computers-are-fast-but-you-dont-know-it-p1/</url></story> |
41,338,682 | 41,338,608 | 1 | 3 | 41,337,356 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AstroJetson</author><text>Well since microflash has jumped ahead, let me also jump in.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fx.hot.page&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fx.hot.page&#x2F;</a> has some of the web components on it. While the slinky one is silly fun, the gallery one is very cool. Looks like it&#x27;s light weight and easy to use. I was impressed by the annotated source code page where you explain in detail what is going on. While jumping, swirling, multicolored text is your mission, your forte is the documentation you&#x27;ve written. Nice job.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WebBurnout</author><text>Hey, I&#x27;m Tim and I created Hot Page. This is a long-time side project that I&#x27;m now bootstrapping with the help of a couple of friends. The idea is to take the convenience of a drag-and-drop editor (Squarespace, Wix, etc), but never lose the connection to the basic building blocks of web pages: HTML elements, CSS rules, etc. The advent of Web Components makes this a really powerful model.<p>Although I&#x27;m of course pleasantly surprised to see this on the front page of HN, I was planning on waiting a few months to post it myself because we are working on some ways to make the editor much more powerful. We have a long roadmap of new features like:<p>* more ways to edit CSS properties visually (without losing the 1:1 connection to the CSS generated)<p>* inline CSS (style attribute) editor for elements that let&#x27;s you use :hover and media queries<p>* a library of code &quot;snippets&quot; that lives in the left panel along side the basic elements<p>* tighter integration with web components<p>* integrating VS code language servers for accurate auto completion everywhere<p>* and a whole lot more.<p>I&#x27;m a long time lurker on HN and have long loved the community here. All of your thoughts and feedback are greatly appreciated, especially on our marketing because that is proving to be a real challenge. AMA<p>edit: roadmap</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hot Page – a graphical site builder</title><url>https://hot.page/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>microflash</author><text>Sorry for spoiling your planned launch on HN. I stumbled across it by accident (such are serendipities on web), thought it was cool and fat fingered it here. Looking forward to things coming in future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WebBurnout</author><text>Hey, I&#x27;m Tim and I created Hot Page. This is a long-time side project that I&#x27;m now bootstrapping with the help of a couple of friends. The idea is to take the convenience of a drag-and-drop editor (Squarespace, Wix, etc), but never lose the connection to the basic building blocks of web pages: HTML elements, CSS rules, etc. The advent of Web Components makes this a really powerful model.<p>Although I&#x27;m of course pleasantly surprised to see this on the front page of HN, I was planning on waiting a few months to post it myself because we are working on some ways to make the editor much more powerful. We have a long roadmap of new features like:<p>* more ways to edit CSS properties visually (without losing the 1:1 connection to the CSS generated)<p>* inline CSS (style attribute) editor for elements that let&#x27;s you use :hover and media queries<p>* a library of code &quot;snippets&quot; that lives in the left panel along side the basic elements<p>* tighter integration with web components<p>* integrating VS code language servers for accurate auto completion everywhere<p>* and a whole lot more.<p>I&#x27;m a long time lurker on HN and have long loved the community here. All of your thoughts and feedback are greatly appreciated, especially on our marketing because that is proving to be a real challenge. AMA<p>edit: roadmap</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hot Page – a graphical site builder</title><url>https://hot.page/</url></story> |
40,255,192 | 40,251,069 | 1 | 3 | 40,217,554 | 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>teleforce</author><text>Shannon is the closest equivalent to Einstein in contribution but for engineering fields.<p>He pioneered several foundational research in the engineering field including communication entropy, cryptography, chess engine, robotic intelligence, digital boolean, LLM and modern AI in general. An outstanding engineer, or engineer&#x27;s engineer in a true sense of word.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ImageXav</author><text>If anyone is on the fence about reading this, or worried about their ability to comprehend the content, I would tell you to go ahead and give it a chance. Shannon&#x27;s writing is remarkably lucid and transparent. The jargon is minimal, and his exposition is fantastic.<p>As many other commentators has mentioned, it is impressive that such an approachable paper would lay the foundations for a whole field. I actually find that many subsequent textbooks seem to obfuscate the simplicity of the idea of entropy.<p>Two examples from the paper really stuck with me. In one, he discusses the importance of spaces for encoding language, something which I had never really considered before. In the second, he discusses how it is the redundancy of language that allows for crosswords, and that a less redundant language would make it harder to design these (unless we started making them 3D!). It made me think more deeply about communication as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf]</title><url>https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.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>jessriedel</author><text>Agreed. This is one of the all time great papers in that it both launched an entire field (information theory) and remains very accessible and pedagogical. A true gem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ImageXav</author><text>If anyone is on the fence about reading this, or worried about their ability to comprehend the content, I would tell you to go ahead and give it a chance. Shannon&#x27;s writing is remarkably lucid and transparent. The jargon is minimal, and his exposition is fantastic.<p>As many other commentators has mentioned, it is impressive that such an approachable paper would lay the foundations for a whole field. I actually find that many subsequent textbooks seem to obfuscate the simplicity of the idea of entropy.<p>Two examples from the paper really stuck with me. In one, he discusses the importance of spaces for encoding language, something which I had never really considered before. In the second, he discusses how it is the redundancy of language that allows for crosswords, and that a less redundant language would make it harder to design these (unless we started making them 3D!). It made me think more deeply about communication as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf]</title><url>https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf</url></story> |
16,085,774 | 16,085,447 | 1 | 3 | 16,084,404 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sverige</author><text>It&#x27;s not just OpenBSD. For example, here&#x27;s an interesting comment from Matt Dillon&#x27;s commit to DragonflyBSD to mitigate Meltdown [1]:<p>&gt; I should note that we kernel programmers have spent decades trying to reduce system call overheads, so to be sure, we are all pretty pissed off at Intel right now. Intel&#x27;s press releases have also been HIGHLY DECEPTIVE. In particular, they are starting to talk up &#x27;microcode updates&#x27;, but those are mitigations for the Spectre bug, not for the Meltdown bug. Spectre is another bug, far more difficult to exploit than Meltdown, which leaks information from other processes or the kernel based on those other processes or kernel doing speculative reads and executions which are partially managed by the originating user process. Spectre does NOT involve a protection domain violation like Meltdown, so the Meltdown
mitigation cannot mitigate Spectre.<p>&gt; These bugs (both Meltdown and Spectre) really have to be fixed in the CPUs themselves. Meltdown is the 1000 pound gorilla. I won&#x27;t be buying any new Intel chips that require the mitigation. I&#x27;m really pissed off at Intel.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.dragonflybsd.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;users&#x2F;2018-January&#x2F;313758.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.dragonflybsd.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;users&#x2F;2018-January&#x2F;3...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>DougN7</author><text>I don’t understand the Intel hate. It’s not like their engineers are dumb or lazy. This exploit is very hard to imagine before now. And it’s there because chip makers were trying to wring out more performance. It’s unfortunate if anythig.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck”</title><url>https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=151521435721902&w=2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madez</author><text>Well, there is the ME for one, an omnipotent, mandatory backdoor. Then there are _many_ undocumented opcodes. What does 0f0d00 do? What 0f78c0? What dbe0? I can continue for a very long time. These are just some known unknowns. If you still need more reasons, they are uncooperative when it comes to certain other firmware blobs.<p>If you are open to arguments, there are many good reasons to take a negative stance towards Intel.<p>Fun fact: I sent an overview of unknown instructions in compressed text form to a gmail address, and Google rejected it citing potentially malicious content.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DougN7</author><text>I don’t understand the Intel hate. It’s not like their engineers are dumb or lazy. This exploit is very hard to imagine before now. And it’s there because chip makers were trying to wring out more performance. It’s unfortunate if anythig.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck”</title><url>https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=151521435721902&w=2</url></story> |
31,380,162 | 31,380,145 | 1 | 2 | 31,378,415 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>Eh, I&#x27;ve lived in small towns and major cities. One isn&#x27;t categorically better than the other, they&#x27;re just different. Your values align better with city life, but that doesn&#x27;t make other cultures inferior (nor are you superior to the people who prefer them). I certainly appreciate the diversity of larger cities and small towns certainly aren&#x27;t for me, but I can also appreciate having a functional municipal government, low crime rates, low poverty rates, dramatically less antisocial behavior, strong values &#x2F; decency &#x2F; civility, a simpler way of life, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior<p>In small town USA, the local culture usually is inferior. The local culture tends to be very monoculture. It&#x27;s the larger cities where the culture tends to be more diverse. Getting out of small town into the nearest larger town opened me up to a hell of a lot more than the people that never left. However, even in that larger town, it&#x27;s still limited. Yes, I eventually went to the west coast to have even more multi-cultural experience. Later, I even got to finally start travelling internationally to expand that multi-cultural experience further.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s a broad brush to paint with, but my local culture 100% was inferior, but I imagine it&#x27;s not unique</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.</i><p>Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it&#x27;s probably Paris and London that draws both French&#x2F;British and foreigners.<p>Frank Sinatra had a song called <i>New York, New York</i> and one of the lines is &quot;If I can make it there, I&#x27;ll make it anywhere.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.<p>It&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Success in Canada means moving to America</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-success-in-canada-means-moving-to-america/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cinntaile</author><text>Small town culture is a thing in Europe as well! I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s inferior but it&#x27;s certainly different from the culture in a bigger city.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior<p>In small town USA, the local culture usually is inferior. The local culture tends to be very monoculture. It&#x27;s the larger cities where the culture tends to be more diverse. Getting out of small town into the nearest larger town opened me up to a hell of a lot more than the people that never left. However, even in that larger town, it&#x27;s still limited. Yes, I eventually went to the west coast to have even more multi-cultural experience. Later, I even got to finally start travelling internationally to expand that multi-cultural experience further.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s a broad brush to paint with, but my local culture 100% was inferior, but I imagine it&#x27;s not unique</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.</i><p>Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it&#x27;s probably Paris and London that draws both French&#x2F;British and foreigners.<p>Frank Sinatra had a song called <i>New York, New York</i> and one of the lines is &quot;If I can make it there, I&#x27;ll make it anywhere.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.<p>It&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that&#x27;s where so much of our popular media originates and is set.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Success in Canada means moving to America</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-success-in-canada-means-moving-to-america/</url></story> |
26,124,980 | 26,125,009 | 1 | 2 | 26,124,054 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brabel</author><text>This is great for Kotlin! But I need to make an observation about Google...<p>They&#x27;re also co-founders of the Rust Foundation[1], the major member of the select group of companies at the table at WHATWG[2] (which amongst other things decide on the future of web technologies, including JavaScript) due to their browser&#x27;s market share, and a &quot;visionary sponsor&quot; of the Python Foundation[3].<p>They also develop a few programming languages themselves, like Go and Dart (not to mention their polemic Java implementation), besides their own OS (Android, Fuchsia).<p>A company as large as Google is kind of expected to be using every technology in existence, but I still find it interesting how they&#x27;re also making sure they also play a major role in the evoluation of such technologies by being part of any Foundation that might have any relevance whatsoever (if not via their own languages, at least by exerting influence on everything).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foundation.rust-lang.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2021-02-08-hello-world&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foundation.rust-lang.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2021-02-08-hello-worl...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;WHATWG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;WHATWG</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26121937" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26121937</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Kotlin Foundation</title><url>https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-foundation.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>lokedhs</author><text>I started using Java in the 90&#x27;s and worked for Sun back in the day, so I have a reasonable amount of experience with it.<p>Kotlin is a much better Java, and these days if I need to use the JVM, I will use Kotlin.<p>However, I do feel that there is a huge missed opportunity in making something that is not just a better Java, but a better language. Kotlin has a lot of annoying limitations, almost all of which are there because the JVM doesn&#x27;t allow better implementations using first-class JVM functionality.<p>One of my favourite examples is multimethods which would be an amazing improvement. However, the JVM can&#x27;t do dynamic dispatch on multiple arguments, so Kotlin will never get it. Sure, if they implement it, calling Kotlin from Java would be more complicated, but that really shouldn&#x27;t restrict how the language evolves.<p>Another thing I&#x27;d like to see changed is better support for DSL&#x27;s. Some nice stuff has been done with the limited facilities that are available, but it always seems like I&#x27;m fighting the language when making DSL&#x27;s. As someone who writes a lot of Lisp, I&#x27;d really like to see a macro system.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Kotlin Foundation</title><url>https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-foundation.html</url></story> |
11,397,142 | 11,396,940 | 1 | 3 | 11,396,718 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SCdF</author><text>I&#x27;m really beginning to wonder where the ad-blocking wars are going to leave us.<p>If I ran some kind of online content, and it was clear the majority of my money was made in advertising, and that the majority of my money was being eroded by ad blockers, I feel like the natural next step is to fill your content with ads that are simply not blockable.<p>I&#x27;ve started seeing this with YouTube videos, where people quickly (or not so quickly) plug audible at the start of their videos. I have no doubt that &quot;native&quot; advertising is becoming both more frequent and more insidious (because obvious native advertising doesn&#x27;t work as well as non-obvious).<p>I have to be honest: I&#x27;m not really a fan of this future. I think the right future is either a) paid content (which very few people will go for) or b) ad-supported content, but those ads aren&#x27;t evil animated audible malware vector infected boxes of non-relevance. This leaves a chance that the content will actually <i>be</i> content, and not some headphone review that you&#x27;re entirely unsure who has paid for the existence of.<p>Perhaps instead of having massive blocklists with the occasional white-listed website, there should be some kind of automated sin-binning, where websites (and ad agencies) that have proven to behave themselves (non-animated, relevant, safe advertisements) are allowed through while dodgy scum gets blocked for N months or until they have a proven amount of time where they have shown themselves to be safe.<p>This doesn&#x27;t solve the whole &quot;I don&#x27;t want people tracking me&quot; thing. I&#x27;m not really sure how to solve that. I don&#x27;t see how you can. I see the future for that being more and more walled gardens so you can be tracked server side, which is also entirely undesirable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta</title><url>http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/03/opera-built-ad-blocking-now-beta/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>Microsoft is also adding adblocking to Edge, which makes you wonder if the sites that rely on ads for finance their operation is designing a &quot;Plan B&quot;. Granted it&#x27;s not the two biggest browsers, and Google isn&#x27;t likely to add ad blocking to Chrome, but still the it must make some sites rethink their business plan.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta</title><url>http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/03/opera-built-ad-blocking-now-beta/</url></story> |
33,192,023 | 33,181,684 | 1 | 3 | 33,177,101 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ilc</author><text>It isn&#x27;t free, you price it in day 1. There&#x27;s a reason thsoe firms pay absurdly high.<p>Also: Boundaries still apply. When on-call, you deal with being on-call.<p>For a small firm, 24x7x265 on-call happens, but if you are getting called constantly, it is up to you to get the quality issue and toil fixed.<p>For a large firm, if I&#x27;m put on 24x7x365 call, I&#x27;d be asking for a LARGE premium.<p>If it is once every 5+ weeks, that&#x27;s supporting prod. You do your week in the rotation... But that doesn&#x27;t mean you are working hard that week. If anything I&#x27;d shorten my hours while on-call, so I have the energy to respond to an emergency.<p>Life is a marathon. Not a sprint.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FeistySkink</author><text>Unfortunately being on-call 24x7 is the base expectation at big companies, from my experience. And since most people seem to go along with it, standing up to it leads to you being bullied out.<p>Edit: and being on-call just means free overtime.</text></item><item><author>ilc</author><text>My most recent boss, who was DAMN good, got his shit done etc... taught me one very important life lesson.<p>Stop at the end of the day. Pick a time, or a number of hours you&#x27;ll work... and stop.<p>Close the laptop for work use, and that&#x27;s that.<p>Pick it up tomorrow. Have a boundary.<p>Yes, I really like my current company. But that small boundary of stopping my day&#x27;s work every day. Not carrying my work like a cross... Makes it so when things swing to and fro at work, my head is much more level. Even if you are on a roll and in the flow... consider closing the laptop when you lose your current flow.<p>Then go do something else! Play a video game, knit a sweater, take a walk, fly a kite, hug someone you love...<p>That&#x27;s your time. Use it and enjoy it!<p>If you feel guilty, remember... Rest is critical to performance. The sooner you realize this, the happier you will be at work, and outside of work.<p>Source: Engineer of 25+ years, who has seen many things... And many stupid things :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love</title><url>https://www.justworktogether.com/blog/this-is-what-it-feels-like</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parker_mountain</author><text>&gt; being on-call 24x7 is the base expectation at big companies, from my experience<p>Your experience is atypical.<p>&gt; standing up to it leads to you being bullied out<p>Make them try.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FeistySkink</author><text>Unfortunately being on-call 24x7 is the base expectation at big companies, from my experience. And since most people seem to go along with it, standing up to it leads to you being bullied out.<p>Edit: and being on-call just means free overtime.</text></item><item><author>ilc</author><text>My most recent boss, who was DAMN good, got his shit done etc... taught me one very important life lesson.<p>Stop at the end of the day. Pick a time, or a number of hours you&#x27;ll work... and stop.<p>Close the laptop for work use, and that&#x27;s that.<p>Pick it up tomorrow. Have a boundary.<p>Yes, I really like my current company. But that small boundary of stopping my day&#x27;s work every day. Not carrying my work like a cross... Makes it so when things swing to and fro at work, my head is much more level. Even if you are on a roll and in the flow... consider closing the laptop when you lose your current flow.<p>Then go do something else! Play a video game, knit a sweater, take a walk, fly a kite, hug someone you love...<p>That&#x27;s your time. Use it and enjoy it!<p>If you feel guilty, remember... Rest is critical to performance. The sooner you realize this, the happier you will be at work, and outside of work.<p>Source: Engineer of 25+ years, who has seen many things... And many stupid things :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love</title><url>https://www.justworktogether.com/blog/this-is-what-it-feels-like</url></story> |
33,997,971 | 33,998,199 | 1 | 2 | 33,995,968 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asmor</author><text>Ah, Beier&#x27;s project.<p>Director of the one and only known insitute to make trans people in Germany going through TSG (80&#x27;s law to allow for name change &#x2F; gender marker change) take a <i>visual</i> pedophile test. (Why? I&#x27;m presuming he just likes to acrew more data, no other reason in particular)<p>I listened to a few public talks and... let&#x27;s say I have some red flags I&#x27;d raise.<p>If all you have is a hammer...</text><parent_chain><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>It is a legitimate defense strategy - and one that actually has valid points, at least for stuff like anime &quot;CSAM&quot;. IMO, societies should focus more on preventing the <i>creation</i> of real-life CSAM:<p>- teach children <i>from a young age</i> in an appropriate way about sex including what the names of genitalia are, so that in a court examination you don&#x27;t have to argue about what &quot;down there&quot; means, and consent. <i>Children can only report abuse if they have a third party telling them that what they experience is not normal</i>.<p>- provide infrastructure for potential pedophiles to get help. In Germany, we have the campaign &quot;Kein Täter werden&quot; since 2005 and oh boy, that was a mess to get started due to the (justified) public stigma against pedophiles, but it ended up preventing thousands of crimes [1].<p>- for the US: ban home-schooling and force all children through the public or accredited private school system so that (religious) cults can&#x27;t go and indoctrinate young children into being breeding mares or abuse them with virtual impunity<p>- provide teachers with enough resources (time and training) that they can spot signs of abuse (and not just sexual, but also physical and emotional!) early on<p>- provide get-help infrastructure nationwide: anonymous phone help lines, &quot;safe houses&quot; for people of all genders and ages attempting to flee domestic violence and sexual abuse, easy and equitable access to restraining orders, provide CPS with enough financial and staff resources to do their job properly...<p>Unfortunately, the first three measures are highly politically charged and so won&#x27;t pass, and the last one is expensive so it won&#x27;t pass either, and as a result children all over the country end up being abused with no way of getting help or worse, not even <i>knowing</i> that they could get help.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kein_T%C3%A4ter_werden#Ergebnisse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kein_T%C3%A4ter_werden#Ergebni...</a></text></item><item><author>asmor</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;d probably ignore the child porn allegations - that&#x27;s a common way to smear folks.<p>&#x27;Schulte referred to the child pornography he was accused of possessing as a &quot;victimless crime&quot;&#x27;.<p>Yeah, I&#x27;m not sure why you&#x27;d defend yourself like that in such a situation.</text></item><item><author>drewcoo</author><text>He was known to be edgy, anger easily, and tended toward crackpot behavior.<p>From all outward appearances, the CIA wants to break him. This would not seem unusual for them.<p>Wikipedia has a barebones overview. I&#x27;d probably ignore the child porn allegations - that&#x27;s a common way to smear folks.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joshua_Schulte" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joshua_Schulte</a></text></item><item><author>themodelplumber</author><text>Let&#x27;s say all the charges on that page are true, and on the other side, take even half the allegations in his letter seriously...still, why are we treating a prisoner like this? Is it helping something?</text></item><item><author>zppln</author><text>Seems like it&#x27;s supposedly written by this guy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joshua_Schulte" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joshua_Schulte</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker</title><url>https://twitter.com/vickio96064997/status/1603051469040762881</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>willcipriano</author><text>I think you&#x27;ll find more pedophiles in the public school system than the home. Biological fathers have very low incidence rates of child molestation and households have limited numbers of people in them. On the other hand you have a building where it is known that lots of children attend daily and is full of people who self selected for whatever reason to be around someone elses kids all day.<p>My high school pulled two pedophiles out over the last three years alone. During my time there I witnessed a lot of behavior that went right up against the line of what is acceptable by people in adult hindsight probably shouldn&#x27;t have had access to children.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>It is a legitimate defense strategy - and one that actually has valid points, at least for stuff like anime &quot;CSAM&quot;. IMO, societies should focus more on preventing the <i>creation</i> of real-life CSAM:<p>- teach children <i>from a young age</i> in an appropriate way about sex including what the names of genitalia are, so that in a court examination you don&#x27;t have to argue about what &quot;down there&quot; means, and consent. <i>Children can only report abuse if they have a third party telling them that what they experience is not normal</i>.<p>- provide infrastructure for potential pedophiles to get help. In Germany, we have the campaign &quot;Kein Täter werden&quot; since 2005 and oh boy, that was a mess to get started due to the (justified) public stigma against pedophiles, but it ended up preventing thousands of crimes [1].<p>- for the US: ban home-schooling and force all children through the public or accredited private school system so that (religious) cults can&#x27;t go and indoctrinate young children into being breeding mares or abuse them with virtual impunity<p>- provide teachers with enough resources (time and training) that they can spot signs of abuse (and not just sexual, but also physical and emotional!) early on<p>- provide get-help infrastructure nationwide: anonymous phone help lines, &quot;safe houses&quot; for people of all genders and ages attempting to flee domestic violence and sexual abuse, easy and equitable access to restraining orders, provide CPS with enough financial and staff resources to do their job properly...<p>Unfortunately, the first three measures are highly politically charged and so won&#x27;t pass, and the last one is expensive so it won&#x27;t pass either, and as a result children all over the country end up being abused with no way of getting help or worse, not even <i>knowing</i> that they could get help.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kein_T%C3%A4ter_werden#Ergebnisse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kein_T%C3%A4ter_werden#Ergebni...</a></text></item><item><author>asmor</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;d probably ignore the child porn allegations - that&#x27;s a common way to smear folks.<p>&#x27;Schulte referred to the child pornography he was accused of possessing as a &quot;victimless crime&quot;&#x27;.<p>Yeah, I&#x27;m not sure why you&#x27;d defend yourself like that in such a situation.</text></item><item><author>drewcoo</author><text>He was known to be edgy, anger easily, and tended toward crackpot behavior.<p>From all outward appearances, the CIA wants to break him. This would not seem unusual for them.<p>Wikipedia has a barebones overview. I&#x27;d probably ignore the child porn allegations - that&#x27;s a common way to smear folks.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joshua_Schulte" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joshua_Schulte</a></text></item><item><author>themodelplumber</author><text>Let&#x27;s say all the charges on that page are true, and on the other side, take even half the allegations in his letter seriously...still, why are we treating a prisoner like this? Is it helping something?</text></item><item><author>zppln</author><text>Seems like it&#x27;s supposedly written by this guy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joshua_Schulte" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joshua_Schulte</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker</title><url>https://twitter.com/vickio96064997/status/1603051469040762881</url></story> |
31,189,240 | 31,188,441 | 1 | 2 | 31,180,379 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maccolgan</author><text>I use SES just for delivering emails while hosting the emails myself. Feels like an optimal solution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>azinman2</author><text>My issue with fast mail et all is storage is so unnecessarily expensive. I have many gigs of email that I don’t want to lose, but I also don’t want to pay many tens of dollars&#x2F;month to host it.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Yup. Spam is the root problem. With an enormous amount of complexity between that and the mail admin&#x27;s day to day experience.<p>I hosted my own mail for more than 20 years. A couple years back I just got tired of trying to solve deliverability puzzles, plus the fears that deliverability issues generate. (E.g., &quot;Did that potential employer get my email about the job?&quot;) Especially since some of the puzzles are not solvable, like why GMail does what it does. I even had friends at Google, and I still couldn&#x27;t find out why GMail occasionally didn&#x27;t like my server. And arguably, that&#x27;s the right choice for them, as the more spammers know about how they work, the worse it is for Google staff and GMail users.<p>For me, switching to Fastmail hosting was a big win. It&#x27;s not like I&#x27;m out of technical challenges to solve, but I get to apply that to things where the upside is greater than, &quot;The thing everybody expects to work still works.&quot;</text></item><item><author>zcdziura</author><text>The problem is that spam was&#x2F;is so bad that extreme measures were taken to curb it. There are all kinds of invisible forces that you abutt that can be difficult to figure out, such as IP blacklists and the like. And even if you set everything up properly and host your email with a responsible host, Microsoft will still mark your mail as spam.<p>I host my own email server with Vultr on an OpenBSD VM using OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, relaying all outbound mail through SMTP2Go (their free tier more than meets my needs). I have all of the necessary DNS entries set to mark my mail as legit, and I sign all outgoing mail using strong 2048-bit RSA keys. Thus far, I&#x27;m able to send mail and not have it marked as spam (at least to everyone that I&#x27;ve corresponded with thus far). It was a lot of work to get to that point, but not terrible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?</title><text>I can host my own Mastodon server, or all kinds of other novelty &#x2F; fun things which don&#x27;t seem easily decentralized.<p>Email feels like one of the most decentralized internet concepts, and ironically it&#x27;s seemingly the one thing I <i>can&#x27;t</i> self-host unless, from what I&#x27;ve heard, I enjoy being permanently marked as spam &#x2F; blacklisted. What&#x27;s going on? How do we fix this?</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>selcuka</author><text>&gt; I have many gigs of email
&gt; don’t want to pay many tens of dollars&#x2F;month<p>How many gigs? It appears that the 100GB plan is only $9&#x2F;mo.</text><parent_chain><item><author>azinman2</author><text>My issue with fast mail et all is storage is so unnecessarily expensive. I have many gigs of email that I don’t want to lose, but I also don’t want to pay many tens of dollars&#x2F;month to host it.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Yup. Spam is the root problem. With an enormous amount of complexity between that and the mail admin&#x27;s day to day experience.<p>I hosted my own mail for more than 20 years. A couple years back I just got tired of trying to solve deliverability puzzles, plus the fears that deliverability issues generate. (E.g., &quot;Did that potential employer get my email about the job?&quot;) Especially since some of the puzzles are not solvable, like why GMail does what it does. I even had friends at Google, and I still couldn&#x27;t find out why GMail occasionally didn&#x27;t like my server. And arguably, that&#x27;s the right choice for them, as the more spammers know about how they work, the worse it is for Google staff and GMail users.<p>For me, switching to Fastmail hosting was a big win. It&#x27;s not like I&#x27;m out of technical challenges to solve, but I get to apply that to things where the upside is greater than, &quot;The thing everybody expects to work still works.&quot;</text></item><item><author>zcdziura</author><text>The problem is that spam was&#x2F;is so bad that extreme measures were taken to curb it. There are all kinds of invisible forces that you abutt that can be difficult to figure out, such as IP blacklists and the like. And even if you set everything up properly and host your email with a responsible host, Microsoft will still mark your mail as spam.<p>I host my own email server with Vultr on an OpenBSD VM using OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, relaying all outbound mail through SMTP2Go (their free tier more than meets my needs). I have all of the necessary DNS entries set to mark my mail as legit, and I sign all outgoing mail using strong 2048-bit RSA keys. Thus far, I&#x27;m able to send mail and not have it marked as spam (at least to everyone that I&#x27;ve corresponded with thus far). It was a lot of work to get to that point, but not terrible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?</title><text>I can host my own Mastodon server, or all kinds of other novelty &#x2F; fun things which don&#x27;t seem easily decentralized.<p>Email feels like one of the most decentralized internet concepts, and ironically it&#x27;s seemingly the one thing I <i>can&#x27;t</i> self-host unless, from what I&#x27;ve heard, I enjoy being permanently marked as spam &#x2F; blacklisted. What&#x27;s going on? How do we fix this?</text></story> |
10,955,504 | 10,955,477 | 1 | 3 | 10,955,363 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danieltillett</author><text>This is a very good reason to avoid markets like this unless you are the most well funded. In some markets there just isn&#x27;t a first mover advantage.<p>The question is how much of a monopoly uber can build once they shift to profit extraction. There is little evidence that their customers are sticky against a new competetor willing to accept a lower rate of return.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The alternative is becoming profitable as soon as possible. Then you get run over by someone with better access to capital who can absorb losses. Example: Sidecar.[1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;20&#x2F;sidecar-we-failed-because-uber-is-willing-to-win-at-any-cost&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;20&#x2F;sidecar-we-failed-because-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advice for companies with less than 1 year of runway</title><url>http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/01/advice-startups-running-out-of-money/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bitsweet</author><text>UBER has sustained growth and momentum which provides access to capital so they can to pay win at the moment. The OP&#x27;s article is contextual to a startup running out of cash (e.g. &lt; 2 months) which happens because the startup hasn&#x27;t sustained growth and investors are no longer interested.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The alternative is becoming profitable as soon as possible. Then you get run over by someone with better access to capital who can absorb losses. Example: Sidecar.[1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;20&#x2F;sidecar-we-failed-because-uber-is-willing-to-win-at-any-cost&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;20&#x2F;sidecar-we-failed-because-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advice for companies with less than 1 year of runway</title><url>http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/01/advice-startups-running-out-of-money/</url></story> |
24,621,768 | 24,621,838 | 1 | 3 | 24,621,350 | 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>eel</author><text>&gt; On January 15, 2018, Bohra used her work computer to search Google for “AMZN.”<p>How does the SEC know this? Is it most likely browser history? Google account history? Corporate monitoring software?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-228</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Whymess</author><text>“The older I get the more I realize how many kinds of smart there are. There are a lot of kinds of smart. There are a lot of kinds of stupid, too.”<p>– Jeff Bezos</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-228</url></story> |
1,954,078 | 1,954,038 | 1 | 2 | 1,953,834 | 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>RiderOfGiraffes</author><text>Direct link to a PDF:<p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/578454/3932344-40-Sleep-Hacks-The-Geeks-Guide-to-Optimizing-Sleep.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/578454/3932344-40-Sleep-Hacks-The-Ge...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sleep hacks</title><url>http://download.cnet.com/40-Sleep-Hacks-Geek-s-Guide-to-Optimizing-Sleep/3000-2129_4-10864038.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>cturner</author><text>Hurrah! Thank you fellow scribd-loather. I flagged the other article out of disgust but was annoyed as the topic interests me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sleep hacks</title><url>http://download.cnet.com/40-Sleep-Hacks-Geek-s-Guide-to-Optimizing-Sleep/3000-2129_4-10864038.html</url></story> |
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