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19,048,878 | 19,048,068 | 1 | 3 | 19,046,475 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tiki</author><text>(On a much smaller scale) - I had a plasma ball toy as a kid, the kind you put your finger on and the electricity arcs to your finger. One day I broke the glass housing. Curious what would happen, I plugged it in - the radio in the kitchen AND the TV in the living room both simultaneously wouldn&#x27;t run when the broken plasma bulb was plugged in. I did this several times as a prank on unsuspecting family members and then the unit burned out&#x2F;wouldn&#x27;t turn on. I still don&#x27;t know how dangerous this was to do(if at all).</text><parent_chain><item><author>rbritton</author><text>Failing transformers can cause an incredible amount of RF noise. A couple years ago a failing fluorescent light ballast prevented my garage door opener remote from working until it finally gave out (this was when I discovered it as the cause), and it had enough residual power to maintain the interference for a while even after being turned off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Something mysterious is blocking car key fobs from working in an Alberta town</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carstairs-westview-co-op-grocery-car-key-fob-1.4999558</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patcheudor</author><text>Neon sign transformers are routinely the cause of such interference as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;unintentional_d.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;unintentional...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rbritton</author><text>Failing transformers can cause an incredible amount of RF noise. A couple years ago a failing fluorescent light ballast prevented my garage door opener remote from working until it finally gave out (this was when I discovered it as the cause), and it had enough residual power to maintain the interference for a while even after being turned off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Something mysterious is blocking car key fobs from working in an Alberta town</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carstairs-westview-co-op-grocery-car-key-fob-1.4999558</url></story> |
15,807,489 | 15,806,766 | 1 | 2 | 15,786,887 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvddgld</author><text>I used to use NoScript and am now more than happy with uBlock Origin in medium mode. The developer of uBlock Origin and uMatrix actually recommends against using them together now (for most people).<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;706xrr&#x2F;umatrix_vs_ublock_origin_medium_blocking_mode&#x2F;dn1goxr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;comments&#x2F;706xrr&#x2F;umatrix_vs_...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tombrossman</author><text>Long time NoScript user here, and I had to remove it today as it is completely broken and unusable. I cannot even get the preferences to open so I can export my whitelisted domains to uMatrix, which I&#x27;m testing as a replacement.<p>I would like to combine uBlock and uMatrix, but I&#x27;m not sure I can replicate the functionality I want. Your mention of dynamic filtering is interesting and I wonder if others are using it and can make a recommendation?<p>I need all JavaScript off by default (including first-party) and the ability to block both ad-serving domains and filters such as <i>&#x2F;ads&#x2F;</i> that work across all domains. Is this possible to do entirely within uBlock Origin?</text></item><item><author>KozmoNau7</author><text>This is why it is absolutely mandatory that any browser I use has Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin in dynamic mode with all 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frames blocked by default, in addition to the static block lists.<p>Dynamic mode is the somewhat hidden feature that makes uBlock Origin as powerful as NoScript, and more flexible when it comes to differentiating between whether to allow content from a domain globally, or only on specific sites.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dynamic-filtering:-quick-guide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dynamic-filtering:-qu...</a><p><i>Highly</i> recommended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42065650</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beckler</author><text>Looking at the uBlock dynamic filtering, it looks very similar to uMatrix. To block all scripts in uBlock, you&#x27;d probably want to block inline scripts, 1st party scripts, and 3rd party scripts with global rules which is possible with dynamic filtering.<p>However, if you&#x27;re using chrome, you should have the ability to disable it from the browser altogether.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tombrossman</author><text>Long time NoScript user here, and I had to remove it today as it is completely broken and unusable. I cannot even get the preferences to open so I can export my whitelisted domains to uMatrix, which I&#x27;m testing as a replacement.<p>I would like to combine uBlock and uMatrix, but I&#x27;m not sure I can replicate the functionality I want. Your mention of dynamic filtering is interesting and I wonder if others are using it and can make a recommendation?<p>I need all JavaScript off by default (including first-party) and the ability to block both ad-serving domains and filters such as <i>&#x2F;ads&#x2F;</i> that work across all domains. Is this possible to do entirely within uBlock Origin?</text></item><item><author>KozmoNau7</author><text>This is why it is absolutely mandatory that any browser I use has Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin in dynamic mode with all 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frames blocked by default, in addition to the static block lists.<p>Dynamic mode is the somewhat hidden feature that makes uBlock Origin as powerful as NoScript, and more flexible when it comes to differentiating between whether to allow content from a domain globally, or only on specific sites.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dynamic-filtering:-quick-guide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dynamic-filtering:-qu...</a><p><i>Highly</i> recommended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42065650</url></story> |
5,938,068 | 5,937,929 | 1 | 2 | 5,934,698 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tuacker</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking about why open forums tend to go eternal September and I&#x27;ve come to think it has a lot to do with how veteran users act.<p>In the early days of a site like this if a new user comes along and makes negative&#x2F;snarky comments which don&#x27;t fit the community it is pointed out, politely. Usually someone posts a reply friendly reminding that this sort of behavior is not welcome. This helps both the offender in question and lurkers to understand how to behave.<p>Then, at some point, people just snap. They&#x27;ve got enough, they don&#x27;t want to help new people any more. Even though it has always been like that. Obviously, as the site grows faster users stepping out of line happens more often.
So they start making &#x27;everything&#x27;s getting worse&#x27; posts. They are perpetuating the idea that all hope is lost.<p>So let me propose to try and tell people why they&#x27;re wrong instead of just making a global assertion, even if true. Next time anyone wants to make a post how &#x27;this community is getting worse and worse&#x27; instead try to salvage the discussion instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Sam was just telling me how much he regretted looking at this thread.<p>&quot;Oh, you should never read Hacker News comments about anything you write,&quot; I told him.<p>Whereupon it immediately struck me how strange and sad it was to be saying this, as the person who started HN.<p>Seriously, some of the comments on this thread are HN at its very worst: bitter, willful misinterpretations of what Sam is saying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advice for ambitious 19 year olds</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/advice-for-ambitious-19-year-olds</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>majani</author><text>I think a lot of the blowback Sam gets around here can actually be attributed to you presenting him as your &quot;favourite founder&quot; when its not apparent to the rest of us what makes him so great.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Sam was just telling me how much he regretted looking at this thread.<p>&quot;Oh, you should never read Hacker News comments about anything you write,&quot; I told him.<p>Whereupon it immediately struck me how strange and sad it was to be saying this, as the person who started HN.<p>Seriously, some of the comments on this thread are HN at its very worst: bitter, willful misinterpretations of what Sam is saying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advice for ambitious 19 year olds</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/advice-for-ambitious-19-year-olds</url></story> |
38,592,957 | 38,592,794 | 1 | 3 | 38,591,584 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yaantc</author><text>Thank you @tarsius! Couldn&#x27;t have said it better.<p>To add, I have issues with the attitude shown by the blog author.<p>If you use the development branch, you can&#x27;t raise hell when there&#x27;s a breaking change: it&#x27;s to be expected!<p>Then it&#x27;s fine to disagree on some change and discuss this. I read the email thread, and I do not see &quot;arrogance&quot;. Just strong disagreement. So yes, converging will take a bit of time... Calling publicly someone &quot;arrogant&quot; for not folding back to your view, and trying to raise the crowd (a good part of whom won&#x27;t read the thread to make their own opinion) looks like bullying to me.<p>Saying that his patch to make the change optional has been disregarded, when it was rejected because it not only made the change optional (that would have been OK, and a patch for this asked for) but removed other changes is not honest.<p>Lastly, pointing out one person to blame when the whole discussion is done with the Emacs maintainers in the loop is also a no-go in my book.<p>As a close to 30 years Emacs user, thank you to all its contributors! (and to Thierry, as long time Helm user) May their skin by thick, it&#x27;s unfortunately sometimes needed :-P</text><parent_chain><item><author>tarsius</author><text>When a breaking change is made on Emacs&#x27; development branch, whether intentionally or not, and some users voice concerns about that change, then the change isn&#x27;t reverted the minute those concerns are raised. The pros and cons are discussed, different solutions are implemented and improved, and finally a compromise is found.<p>Users raising their concern started three days ago. That&#x27;s not enough for this process to have concluded already.<p>Here&#x27;s a recent message by Eli (and the message he is responding to).<p><pre><code> &gt; I&#x27;m hoping the old behavior stays the default and the new behaviour
&gt; is what users can opt in with a variable.
&gt;
&gt; If that is what normally happens for much less disruptive changes,
&gt; why isn&#x27;t it happening for this deep impacting one?
Because the original discussion of these changes, between two people
who were interested and involved, indicated that the new behavior
makes much more sense than the old one. Now, that others chimed in
with the opposite views, we are still discussing what should be the
behavior, and once that is concluded, we can talk about the defaults.
</code></pre>
So I think this has been blown way out of proportion. IMO there are some serious issues in how Emacs is developed. I don&#x27;t have a solution but I think that us users&#x2F;package-maintainers thinking to ourselves &quot;gee there sure are a lot of stubborn people on emacs-devel, what&#x27;s wrong with them?&quot; and then the second a change is made that we strongly disagree with, we start behaving like the world is ending, that might be a problem. This is how maintainers get defensive (you might have noticed that in the projects that <i>you</i> maintain).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bad NEWS, Emacs</title><url>https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2023-12-10-bad-news.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>jbluepolarbear</author><text>That’s a bad process. The review of the feature should start before it’s merged into main branch, not after. It totally reasonable for people to be upset with a breaking feature in main branch without discussing it with the community at large. Changes merged in like this are how long standing tool lose community support.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tarsius</author><text>When a breaking change is made on Emacs&#x27; development branch, whether intentionally or not, and some users voice concerns about that change, then the change isn&#x27;t reverted the minute those concerns are raised. The pros and cons are discussed, different solutions are implemented and improved, and finally a compromise is found.<p>Users raising their concern started three days ago. That&#x27;s not enough for this process to have concluded already.<p>Here&#x27;s a recent message by Eli (and the message he is responding to).<p><pre><code> &gt; I&#x27;m hoping the old behavior stays the default and the new behaviour
&gt; is what users can opt in with a variable.
&gt;
&gt; If that is what normally happens for much less disruptive changes,
&gt; why isn&#x27;t it happening for this deep impacting one?
Because the original discussion of these changes, between two people
who were interested and involved, indicated that the new behavior
makes much more sense than the old one. Now, that others chimed in
with the opposite views, we are still discussing what should be the
behavior, and once that is concluded, we can talk about the defaults.
</code></pre>
So I think this has been blown way out of proportion. IMO there are some serious issues in how Emacs is developed. I don&#x27;t have a solution but I think that us users&#x2F;package-maintainers thinking to ourselves &quot;gee there sure are a lot of stubborn people on emacs-devel, what&#x27;s wrong with them?&quot; and then the second a change is made that we strongly disagree with, we start behaving like the world is ending, that might be a problem. This is how maintainers get defensive (you might have noticed that in the projects that <i>you</i> maintain).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bad NEWS, Emacs</title><url>https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2023-12-10-bad-news.html</url></story> |
31,381,538 | 31,380,404 | 1 | 2 | 31,379,722 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SmartestUnknown</author><text>God! I hope both WhiteHat Jr. and their parent company Byju&#x27;s crash and burn. They are crap companies which make poor and gullible parents enroll their kids in one of their programs for extortionate amount of money. If the parents cannot afford to pay all at once, they give a &quot;loan&quot; to the parents and collect a part of it each month even if the kids aren&#x27;t satisfied with the education that is being provided. Note that none of the kids in India use these apps as the only way to study. They attend regular schools and use these apps as an additional source. Byju&#x27;s employs 1000s of people whose only job is to go visit as many houses as they can and trick the parents into subscribing for their services by falsely claiming that the only way their kids can succeed is when their education is supplemented by these apps. Many innocent people who want to do all they can to make their kids&#x27; lives better fall into the trap and then keep paying the &quot;loan&quot; amount back which could be a substantial part of their monthly income.<p>Meta and Disney invested a lot of money into these companies and they use it to bully anyone who tries to bring these issues up by shutting down their YouTube channels and filing defamation law suits [1,2]. The entire online education industry is unregulated and resort to shitty antics to extort money. I don&#x27;t understand why these companies need to exist when we have other free and amazing resources online like Khan Academy which teach all topics to all ages of people.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepost.co.in&#x2F;news&#x2F;633&#x2F;whitehat-jr-lawsuit-pradeep-poonia-interview-and-unethical-tactics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepost.co.in&#x2F;news&#x2F;633&#x2F;whitehat-jr-lawsuit-pradeep-p...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;india&#x2F;search?q=pradeep+poonia&amp;restrict_sr=on&amp;include_over_18=on" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;india&#x2F;search?q=pradeep+poonia&amp;restr...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eight hundred employees resign after WhiteHat Jr asks them to work from office</title><url>https://inc42.com/buzz/exclusive-over-800-whitehat-jr-employees-resign-as-edtech-giant-asks-to-report-to-office/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghoomketu</author><text>For some background history whitehat jr has been accused of running misleading ads and shady marketing and also sueuing individuals for millions of dollars to keep their mouth shut.<p>To get more context please google &quot;pradeep poonia whitehat&quot; and you will get all the gory details, whatsapp chats, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eight hundred employees resign after WhiteHat Jr asks them to work from office</title><url>https://inc42.com/buzz/exclusive-over-800-whitehat-jr-employees-resign-as-edtech-giant-asks-to-report-to-office/</url></story> |
2,481,532 | 2,481,350 | 1 | 3 | 2,480,763 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josephruscio</author><text>I'm finding a lot of these articles about "surviving" the outage fairly frustrating. They generally boil down to a combination of the following:<p>1. "We use a multi-AZ strategy!" - This outage affected multiple AZ's concurrently. If you did not see downtime, this means you were fortunate to have at least one unaffected AZ. This is pure luck however, many sites with the same level of preparation had significant downtime. (Note: A multi-AZ strategy is sage and would have minimized your downtime, but does not warrant a survival claim in this case.)<p>2. "We aren't using EBS!" - Not a single article I've seen has claimed that they weren't using EBS because they feared a multi-day/multi-AZ outage. They weren't using it because it lacks predictable I/O performance in comparison to S3. You can't retroactively claim wisdom in the category of availability for this choice.<p>3. "We don't host component &#60;X&#62; on AWS!" - Taking this argument to it's logical end, any service that doesn't host on AWS could write one of these articles e.g. "We host on Rackspace so we didn't go down!"<p>In short, if you don't have a completely multi-region strategy (including your relational data-store) implemented purely on AWS, your blog post is decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio on this issue.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse</title><url>http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/24/how-smugmug-survived-the-amazonpocalypse/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cagenut</author><text>I think smugmug's cloud/colo hybrid is more likely to become the norm than the all-cloud dream of not having to deal with hardware anymore. When it comes to the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" aws wins. s3 for bulk storage, ec2 for asynchronous computing, cdn's for edge/delivery. But when it comes to your core data (meta data? the 64bit picture_id as opposed to the 2megabyte jpg) you just cannot beat raid10 ssd type colo'd setups right now.<p>Essentially I think we're going to be in an 80/20-ish cloud/colo sweet spot situation for years to come.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse</title><url>http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/24/how-smugmug-survived-the-amazonpocalypse/</url></story> |
3,622,626 | 3,622,454 | 1 | 2 | 3,622,222 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>splat</author><text>Actually, most major experiments in particle physics these days (including the OPERA experiment) avoid this sort of confirmation bias by being run "blind." The scientists write all of their data reduction pipelines before taking any actual data and test their pipelines on simulated data. When they are confident that their pipeline is running as expected they run the experiment, put the data through their pipeline and publish the result, no matter how unexpected it is.<p>As the OPERA result showed, it has the problem that if you don't understand everything in your experiment perfectly (which is difficult to do in a very large, complicated experiment) you run the risk of embarrassing yourself by making some obvious-in-retrospect mistake and publishing an obviously absurd result. But in the long run it's not so bad a price to pay to avoid the sort of confirmation bias that Feynman was talking about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pessimist</author><text>The real issue is that experiments that give "expected" results are not subject to this kind of scrutiny. Thus experiments are much less trustworthy than one would assume. It sometimes takes decades for errors in experiments to come out - eg. from "Surely your joking, Mr. Feynman":<p>Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.<p>Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of - this history - because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong - and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Faster-than-light neutrino result may have been due to bad connection</title><url>http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/breaking-news-error-undoes-faster.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>siglesias</author><text>What you describe is more or less what Lakatos coined the "Research Programme" after. [1]<p>In a nutshell, we know that science more or less progresses from one theory to another after the existing theory has been falsified (Popper), <i>but</i> this transition does not happen overnight, even after a falsifying result has been put forth. That is because science is really structured with a "hard core" hypothesis (say, in physics, that nothing moves faster than c), and various "auxiliary hypotheses" that <i>bear the brunt of criticism</i> before the core belief is attacked (say those that posit the integrity of the measurement instrument, for example). And that is all that is going on here. There are many, many theories that are going to be dismantled before physics transitions to something post-relativity. It's just the way the assumptions are structured.<p>While this may seem trivial, we see this playing out in the battle of classical against behavioral economics. Are the results of experimental psychology admissible in the criticism of certain economic models? Models don't claim to be perfect, after all...<p>1. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos#Research_programmes" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos#Research_programme...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pessimist</author><text>The real issue is that experiments that give "expected" results are not subject to this kind of scrutiny. Thus experiments are much less trustworthy than one would assume. It sometimes takes decades for errors in experiments to come out - eg. from "Surely your joking, Mr. Feynman":<p>Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.<p>Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of - this history - because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong - and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Faster-than-light neutrino result may have been due to bad connection</title><url>http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/breaking-news-error-undoes-faster.html</url></story> |
22,114,943 | 22,114,647 | 1 | 2 | 22,113,827 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fyfy18</author><text>&gt; dependency pathing is a pain in most other languages<p>This has been a solved problem in the Ruby community for nearly a decade thanks to bundler. When I first started writing Ruby it had all the same problems as other languages, there were various attempts to solve it (similar to virtualenvs) but nothing really worked properly. Then bundler came along, and even from early releases it had pretty much figured it out.<p>The way it works is by having a human generated manifest file with a list of libraries you think you need (Gemfile) and the tool will then fetch those libraries (they can be installed in a vendor directory or globally for the specific Ruby version). You don&#x27;t need to specify versions or deps (but can if required), as when the tool runs it will generate another manifest file (Gemfile.lock) which lists the versions of all libraries and their dependencies. Both files should be committed, so when you coworker checks out the project they know they have the exact same versions as you. There&#x27;s another command to list outdated libraries, and to upgrade all or a specific library later.<p>The tooling checks the versions of libraries on every execution (unlike npm or yarn) and spits out an error if your local versions don&#x27;t match the manifest. It automatically creates wrappers around binaries so you don&#x27;t need to prefix commands from other tooling. There&#x27;s built in support for installation in a deployment environment, so you don&#x27;t install testing libraries there.<p>Together with tools like rvm&#x2F;rbenv, it makes managing multiple Ruby versions and multiple projects, just work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudcity.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;how-bundler-works-a-history-of-ruby-dependency-management&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudcity.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;how-bundler-works-a...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kortex</author><text>When I first got into go, a few of the Go Opinions kinda rubbed me the wrong way.<p>- I have to source GOPATH in my rc files? Annoying.<p>- File paths are network URI&#x27;s? Ugly.<p>- I have to deal with every err != nil? Verbose.<p>But over time I&#x27;ve grown to love go more than almost any language (python is still bae, especially with type hints, and even then, it&#x27;s close).<p>- dependency pathing is a pain in most other languages. Singular source of truth is great (I&#x27;ve had virtualenvs leak and cmake do bizarre things when multiple libs are on the file tree)<p>- host&#x2F;paths are file&#x2F;paths. I love this pattern now. It&#x27;s just so obvious and natural.<p>- ok the err != nil still drives me nuts. But it drives me to write things in a way where I don&#x27;t need to deal with errors as much. Reduces fractal complexity and paths through the code. It also forces &quot;the buck stops here&quot; sort of pattern where you have some atrium which is resiliant and is where most errors bubble up to</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/01/21/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gtycomb</author><text>I am an average Go programmer, so I may not be deep into Go as you might be. However the mention of GOPATH catches my eye. All my issues with GOPATH went away for me when I started using the Go Modules: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.golang.org&#x2F;using-go-modules" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.golang.org&#x2F;using-go-modules</a>. Also Go&#x27;s approach to err is one the reasons I started gravitating to Go -- my old Go code is more readable because of the verbose (error as strings in my code) and hence easier to maintain. Go is a surprisingly practical language for distributed, system oriented, undertakings I&#x27;d say</text><parent_chain><item><author>kortex</author><text>When I first got into go, a few of the Go Opinions kinda rubbed me the wrong way.<p>- I have to source GOPATH in my rc files? Annoying.<p>- File paths are network URI&#x27;s? Ugly.<p>- I have to deal with every err != nil? Verbose.<p>But over time I&#x27;ve grown to love go more than almost any language (python is still bae, especially with type hints, and even then, it&#x27;s close).<p>- dependency pathing is a pain in most other languages. Singular source of truth is great (I&#x27;ve had virtualenvs leak and cmake do bizarre things when multiple libs are on the file tree)<p>- host&#x2F;paths are file&#x2F;paths. I love this pattern now. It&#x27;s just so obvious and natural.<p>- ok the err != nil still drives me nuts. But it drives me to write things in a way where I don&#x27;t need to deal with errors as much. Reduces fractal complexity and paths through the code. It also forces &quot;the buck stops here&quot; sort of pattern where you have some atrium which is resiliant and is where most errors bubble up to</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/01/21/</url></story> |
13,263,818 | 13,263,555 | 1 | 2 | 13,262,768 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arcanus</author><text>Missing the biggest triumph of 2016 by far: the victory by DeepMind&#x27;s machine learning algorith at Go over the greatest living human player.<p>At this time last year it was highly questionable if humans would ever lose to algorithms at games as complex as Go.<p>Now we have reason to be optimistic that an entire class of problems are amenable to solution through computation, and more evidence super-human synthetic intelligence is indeed possible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity</title><url>https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.x7y51rovg</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>So much of this list was about conservation and environmental issues that it was almost frustrating to filter it out.<p>I have nothing against these topics, but when you dominate your list with one theme and don&#x27;t address that theme in the lede, I reflexively assume the author is attempting to pull the wool over my eyes. There is almost certainly some sampling bias going on, at least.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity</title><url>https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.x7y51rovg</url></story> |
27,981,691 | 27,981,613 | 1 | 2 | 27,979,964 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thevagrant</author><text>1. An office with four walls, a door that can be closed is helpful but as a _minimum_ I&#x27;d also want:<p>2. Pristine bathrooms<p>3. Clean kitchen and good supply of tea&#x2F;coffee (with ample space for those to store or prepare their food hygenically).<p>The amount of places I&#x27;ve worked that can&#x27;t provide 2 and 3 is saddening. Nothing worse than being stuck in a dirty smelly place, hanging around to get points for presenteeism.<p>No I&#x27;m gonna get on a rant.<p>Why is it that my home network is superior to the crappy wifi at the office?<p>Why with my limited salary can I setup a better desk with much better screens &#x2F; computing equipment than my employer provides?</text><parent_chain><item><author>CephalopodMD</author><text>I just want my own office. That&#x27;s all. I&#x27;d be pretty okay with going in if I had my own office with 4 walls.<p>First job of my career, they told me I would have an office of my own. First day I come back do for full time (I had interned there too with my own office), they tell me they&#x27;re switching buildings to go open office in about a month&#x27;s time. I got a precious few weeks with a personal office, and then it was all gone. I hated this change of scenery mmediately, but I guess I got used to it after a few years.<p>Working from home took me back to that zen. I didn&#x27;t even know how much I missed it - how much I needed my own space to feel productive.<p>I&#x27;ve since changed jobs, and I kinda dread having to go to the open office nightmare once this is all over. The facilities are way nicer than my last job, but it&#x27;s still an open office.<p>Open. Office. As. Implemented. In. Our. Industry. Is. Stupid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/oosru6/i_went_to_the_office_for_the_first_time_i_fucking/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>100%<p>My organisation just opted into open area hot desks instead of offices. One day in there and interrutped about 5 times in 30 minutes by people who otherwise would have pinged me on slack and allowed me to reply in a manner more respectful of my workload. They see this as a big advantage of the open area &quot;instead of making meetings you can just go over and quickly chat to someone!&quot;<p>When you think about what software people do when they are most productive it is almost a deep trance-like state, I would compare it to meditation. Imagine proposing that people go and do their meditation out in the corridor where everybody is walking past and talking to each other, getting coffee and randomly interrupting you. It&#x27;s insane anybody ever thought it was a good idea.<p>Unfortunately closed offices are a huge status symbol now and asking for one is akin to declaring you think you&#x27;re more important than everyone else in the office.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CephalopodMD</author><text>I just want my own office. That&#x27;s all. I&#x27;d be pretty okay with going in if I had my own office with 4 walls.<p>First job of my career, they told me I would have an office of my own. First day I come back do for full time (I had interned there too with my own office), they tell me they&#x27;re switching buildings to go open office in about a month&#x27;s time. I got a precious few weeks with a personal office, and then it was all gone. I hated this change of scenery mmediately, but I guess I got used to it after a few years.<p>Working from home took me back to that zen. I didn&#x27;t even know how much I missed it - how much I needed my own space to feel productive.<p>I&#x27;ve since changed jobs, and I kinda dread having to go to the open office nightmare once this is all over. The facilities are way nicer than my last job, but it&#x27;s still an open office.<p>Open. Office. As. Implemented. In. Our. Industry. Is. Stupid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/oosru6/i_went_to_the_office_for_the_first_time_i_fucking/</url></story> |
32,295,876 | 32,295,865 | 1 | 2 | 32,295,674 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>From that thread, a viable replacement that managed to survive the Google onslaught:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;</a><p>Also from that thread, a Google engineer saying (out of context:) &quot;We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can&#x27;t do that, we&#x27;re letting you down.&quot;<p>How long before Google realizes that these casual shut-downs of side projects are harming their image tremendously?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Since this post is recording its death, here&#x27;s the HN post that recorded its birth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564</a><p>Edit: Another blog post from someone that noticed it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Timer is gone</title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>Top comment and reply in that thread:<p>&gt; Yet again I am reminded that my google is not necessarily the same as &#x27;your&#x27; google. Just like how &quot;define: something&quot; doesn&#x27;t show a dictionary definiton for me anymore, a functionality i used all the time. And now can&#x27;t be sure whether was actually removed, or just removed for me!<p>&gt; Google software engineer here. These gripes are legitimate. We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can&#x27;t do that, we&#x27;re letting you down.<p>Still a legitimate gripe nine years later, it seems...</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Since this post is recording its death, here&#x27;s the HN post that recorded its birth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564</a><p>Edit: Another blog post from someone that noticed it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Timer is gone</title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer</url></story> |
14,924,692 | 14,924,672 | 1 | 2 | 14,923,362 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cytzol</author><text>Thanks for the kudos! It&#x27;s absolutely mindboggling how many times I&#x27;ve decided to deviate from one of ls&#x27;s default settings -- certain that the old way was inferior and outdated, and that the new way will be obvious and immensely popular -- only to find people have no idea why I&#x27;m doing things this way! I need the colours to help me scan the output; if I don&#x27;t see human-readable units, I curse myself for forgetting the flag. But thousands of people don&#x27;t like this, and it&#x27;s usually a different set of features with each person, too. I would never have guessed I was so &#x27;out there&#x27;!<p>ls is one of the most entrenched pieces of software there is; this is freeing, in a way, because it provides a stable base for people to rely on, leaving exa free to experiment. Everyone who values stability and simplicity most of all won&#x27;t be switching from ls any time soon, which means I can push exa more in the direction I want it to go.<p>(Fun facts: very early releases of exa didn&#x27;t have a grid mode at all, just the long mode, because that was the only one I used. So there have been <i>some</i> concessions to popularity :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>_jal</author><text>It is great to scratch an itch and make something behave exactly as you want it to be - kudos.<p>That said, this is very much not for me. Default-colorized is something I emphatically do not want; defaulting to relative units, ditto. It it were me, the first thing I would do is get rid of &#x27;grid&#x27; display entirely - reading across just doesn&#x27;t work for me. Etc.<p>More prosaically, `ls` is sort of like breathing for me - I do it so much during the average day that I don&#x27;t even think about it. Can&#x27;t say I immediately know every one of the switches, but probably 10 or so variants I use daily are pure muscle memory, and less frequently used things (extended attributes, symlink-deref options, etc.) I can remember without the man page.<p>So in that sense, `ls` is well into the same category as vi for me - I&#x27;m so accustomed to whatever warts there may be that switching would be much more painful than any efficiency gain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exa, a modern replacement for ls</title><url>https://the.exa.website/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moxious</author><text>That muscle memory must have taken quite some time to develop. Here&#x27;s to a future where the legions of programmers coming down the pike don&#x27;t have to spend that investment to get the same or better result.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_jal</author><text>It is great to scratch an itch and make something behave exactly as you want it to be - kudos.<p>That said, this is very much not for me. Default-colorized is something I emphatically do not want; defaulting to relative units, ditto. It it were me, the first thing I would do is get rid of &#x27;grid&#x27; display entirely - reading across just doesn&#x27;t work for me. Etc.<p>More prosaically, `ls` is sort of like breathing for me - I do it so much during the average day that I don&#x27;t even think about it. Can&#x27;t say I immediately know every one of the switches, but probably 10 or so variants I use daily are pure muscle memory, and less frequently used things (extended attributes, symlink-deref options, etc.) I can remember without the man page.<p>So in that sense, `ls` is well into the same category as vi for me - I&#x27;m so accustomed to whatever warts there may be that switching would be much more painful than any efficiency gain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exa, a modern replacement for ls</title><url>https://the.exa.website/</url></story> |
16,100,186 | 16,100,459 | 1 | 2 | 16,098,676 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pillowkusis</author><text>I think many companies aren’t promoting “diversity” to support an ideology, they do it because it has specific PR and legal outcomes that help their image. Companies with high diversity metrics get praised in the press. Companies with low diversity metrics get negative attention. Diversity metrics are also a solid defense in real courts and the court of public opinion when race&#x2F;gender&#x2F;sexual harassment claims come up.<p>I don’t know to what extent this is true, or even how to measure it, but it would help explain why “diversity” initiatives seems so illogical some times, which has perplexed me too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>manigandham</author><text>Diversity based on outward appearance is one of the most convoluted and ridiculous movements ever. We cannot spend decades trying to show that appearance is absolutely meaningless to talent, skills, and motivation, and then regress right back to it to show off &quot;diversity&quot;.<p>Also nobody ever seems to ask: diversity of <i>what</i> exactly? What&#x27;s the target? Life experience? There is no qualitative score for that, nor is any single person&#x27;s life more or less interesting and influential than anyone else.<p>The only thing we can objectively and accurately measure is merit, motivation, and results, and we should use those metrics alone for hiring and advancement, in addition to fighting subjective bias (like removing names and photos from resumes) and making sure there&#x27;s equivalent <i>opportunity</i> for anyone to try. After that, it would be best if just let people do what they want to do and move on.</text></item><item><author>dotnetisnotdead</author><text>Honestly, this whole thing is just ugly. I read what he wrote. It was (mostly) ugly but contained a lot of truth.<p>Before you downvote&#x2F;call me a Nazi, I&#x27;m a mixed race woman in tech.<p>I definitely see people hired just because of their minority status. I also see people hired who are minorities but also great at their job. It&#x27;s not a binary pattern. But those who are hired just because they are a POC or female, yet are terrible at their job stand out. People notice it, but few say it.<p>Our company recently hired a black woman as a &quot;Software Engineer&quot; who can&#x27;t write a SQL statement. She has a &quot;taken some tutorials&quot; level of programming skill as far as I have noticed and produces things very, very slow. People notice this, and it makes them angry. I&#x27;m sure the other engineers talk about this even more when I&#x27;m not in the room. Our boss is proud of how much he is &quot;making the team diverse&quot; yet it&#x27;s only going to cause problems for the team.<p>I like to think I was hired based on my skillset, not to improve the numbers. I&#x27;ve worked hard to get here. People likely forget or don&#x27;t care how &quot;diverse&quot; I am when I am working because I produce. And I fully support bringing in diverse candidates, it&#x27;s essential to get those viewpoints, so long as they are a qualified candidate to start with.<p>I do think that men and women are biologically different and, it likely does contribute to a lack of interest in tech from women. Almost all of the women from my social circle are smart, pragmatic, driven and successful yet have zero interest in a technical career. They excel in their given industries but ours they want no part of. I don&#x27;t believe intelligence is more prevalent in either gender, but I do believe there are some traits that shape who we are.<p>That&#x27;s something that&#x27;s rarely addressed, for fear of being ostracized.<p>As far as his &quot;conservative white male&quot; discrimination claims, I&#x27;ve seen that too. My boss specifically requested candidates that are not middle-aged white males. But it&#x27;s nowhere near the same level of discrimination that people of color or women have endured for decades. Perhaps the reason people don&#x27;t feel sorry for conservative white males is that if they are rejected by one company they can keep trying and will find an &quot;old school&quot; company that will hire them. We have not had that luxury, for blacks and women it was 100 nos for every 1 yes. It&#x27;s not that way for white guys, sorry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/james-damore-just-filed-a-class-action-lawsuit-against-google-saying-it-discriminates-against-white-male-conservatives/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hypersoar</author><text>I think you&#x27;re missing the point of the &quot;diversity movement&quot;. The point is that some classes, e.g. women and minorities face discrimination that&#x27;s baked into the selection process, even when they eventual selectors are not showing a preference. You might try to hire based only on &quot;merit, motivation, and results&quot;, but any measure of those things is going to be imperfect. If those measurements are themselves biased, then your selection will be biased, even if you didn&#x27;t want it to be. The goal of diversity policies is, in part, to break through and counteract those biases.<p>Jon Stewart gave a post-retirement interview in which he talked about this issue in the comedy world. He initially wrote off criticism of the lack of diversity in the writer&#x27;s room for The Daily Show, since he always told people that he was interested in hiring more women and minorities. He eventually realized that the channels along which people came to the job was already selecting for white males, and that more diverse hiring required rethinking those channels.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;p1H7KxPlbQw?t=42m32s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;p1H7KxPlbQw?t=42m32s</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>manigandham</author><text>Diversity based on outward appearance is one of the most convoluted and ridiculous movements ever. We cannot spend decades trying to show that appearance is absolutely meaningless to talent, skills, and motivation, and then regress right back to it to show off &quot;diversity&quot;.<p>Also nobody ever seems to ask: diversity of <i>what</i> exactly? What&#x27;s the target? Life experience? There is no qualitative score for that, nor is any single person&#x27;s life more or less interesting and influential than anyone else.<p>The only thing we can objectively and accurately measure is merit, motivation, and results, and we should use those metrics alone for hiring and advancement, in addition to fighting subjective bias (like removing names and photos from resumes) and making sure there&#x27;s equivalent <i>opportunity</i> for anyone to try. After that, it would be best if just let people do what they want to do and move on.</text></item><item><author>dotnetisnotdead</author><text>Honestly, this whole thing is just ugly. I read what he wrote. It was (mostly) ugly but contained a lot of truth.<p>Before you downvote&#x2F;call me a Nazi, I&#x27;m a mixed race woman in tech.<p>I definitely see people hired just because of their minority status. I also see people hired who are minorities but also great at their job. It&#x27;s not a binary pattern. But those who are hired just because they are a POC or female, yet are terrible at their job stand out. People notice it, but few say it.<p>Our company recently hired a black woman as a &quot;Software Engineer&quot; who can&#x27;t write a SQL statement. She has a &quot;taken some tutorials&quot; level of programming skill as far as I have noticed and produces things very, very slow. People notice this, and it makes them angry. I&#x27;m sure the other engineers talk about this even more when I&#x27;m not in the room. Our boss is proud of how much he is &quot;making the team diverse&quot; yet it&#x27;s only going to cause problems for the team.<p>I like to think I was hired based on my skillset, not to improve the numbers. I&#x27;ve worked hard to get here. People likely forget or don&#x27;t care how &quot;diverse&quot; I am when I am working because I produce. And I fully support bringing in diverse candidates, it&#x27;s essential to get those viewpoints, so long as they are a qualified candidate to start with.<p>I do think that men and women are biologically different and, it likely does contribute to a lack of interest in tech from women. Almost all of the women from my social circle are smart, pragmatic, driven and successful yet have zero interest in a technical career. They excel in their given industries but ours they want no part of. I don&#x27;t believe intelligence is more prevalent in either gender, but I do believe there are some traits that shape who we are.<p>That&#x27;s something that&#x27;s rarely addressed, for fear of being ostracized.<p>As far as his &quot;conservative white male&quot; discrimination claims, I&#x27;ve seen that too. My boss specifically requested candidates that are not middle-aged white males. But it&#x27;s nowhere near the same level of discrimination that people of color or women have endured for decades. Perhaps the reason people don&#x27;t feel sorry for conservative white males is that if they are rejected by one company they can keep trying and will find an &quot;old school&quot; company that will hire them. We have not had that luxury, for blacks and women it was 100 nos for every 1 yes. It&#x27;s not that way for white guys, sorry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/james-damore-just-filed-a-class-action-lawsuit-against-google-saying-it-discriminates-against-white-male-conservatives/</url></story> |
32,869,490 | 32,869,101 | 1 | 3 | 32,866,319 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Noumenon72</author><text>Leading with &quot;wonderful&quot; confused me a little. I was expecting &quot;X is a wonderful project. Here is a new project built on X.&quot; When introducing your own project, your subjective praise for it doesn&#x27;t add as much. I would drop the &quot;wonderful&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A framework for building Slack bots in Python</title><url>https://github.com/DonDebonair/slack-machine</url><text>I started building a couple of years ago because I found no easy existing solution to build Slack bots that can be composed from&#x2F;organized into plugins. Existing libraries like Bolt make it pretty easy to develop Slack bots, but hard to organize and scale the code base of your bot. I was also missing some crucial features such as scheduling actions for your bot. So I wrote my own framework!<p>I recently rewrote the complete framework to make use of asyncio and the newest Slack SDK<p>Let me know what you think!</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pbreit</author><text>Has anyone ever found a bot-generated message in Slack to be useful?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A framework for building Slack bots in Python</title><url>https://github.com/DonDebonair/slack-machine</url><text>I started building a couple of years ago because I found no easy existing solution to build Slack bots that can be composed from&#x2F;organized into plugins. Existing libraries like Bolt make it pretty easy to develop Slack bots, but hard to organize and scale the code base of your bot. I was also missing some crucial features such as scheduling actions for your bot. So I wrote my own framework!<p>I recently rewrote the complete framework to make use of asyncio and the newest Slack SDK<p>Let me know what you think!</text></story> |
12,053,159 | 12,052,347 | 1 | 3 | 12,051,442 | 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>mavelikara</author><text>Here are my impressions from having worked as a programer on an HFT system during 2009-2011.<p>When an HFT system makes money, some other person or system is loosing money i.e. it is a zero-sum game. And that person isn&#x27;t going to sit idle; they are going to analyze their mistake and up their game. The industry parlance for this is, I think, that the &quot;strategy dissipates into the market&quot;. This causes HFT systems to be always in active development.<p>Spotting a strategy and putting together a system to take advantage of it, and spotting where your system is losing money and fixing it - both these need to be done with quick turn around time.<p>Most strategies can be thought of as picking up nickels from in front of a on-coming train. Your best case &quot;win&quot; is a tiny amount of money; but your worst case &quot;loss&quot; is much much more money. The trick in HFT - the HF part - is to make these tiny wins over and over. But much actual money is involved, with very bad consequences should the program run into inopportune bugs.<p>All of these - constant development, time to market pressure, high reliability - give the impression that Java is a better language to code this HFT systems in than C or Fortran.</text><parent_chain><item><author>azeirah</author><text>If performance is THAT critical in HFT, why do they pick java as the starting language?<p>I understand that java is very fast, faster than most people believe, but does it beat hand-optimized assembly? Fortran? C?<p>Why Java?</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>If you are part of the HFT crowd who uses the JVM then you know who the author, Cliff Click, is.<p>His Blogs (former and current) are goldmines for high performance JVM information.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azulsystems.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;author&#x2F;cliff" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azulsystems.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;author&#x2F;cliff</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cliffc.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cliffc.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;</a><p>I had one CTO of a public HFT firm tell me that short of FPGA&#x27;s Azul&#x27;s pause-less GC (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azul.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;zing&#x2F;pgc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azul.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;zing&#x2F;pgc&#x2F;</a>) was the biggest performance win they&#x27;d had in the past few years, note: this was a few years ago.<p>EDIT: someone emailed asking for how HFT firms write their java code. I haven&#x27;t written java in 3 years so I&#x27;m probably not the best person to author a list but this is what I&#x27;d include:<p>In order of importance:<p>- Measure, measure, measure. Every HFT firm can tell you to the nanosecond, as much as that&#x27;s possible, what their time is from receiving a packet to when it&#x27;s replied to. Focus as much, if not more on the 95%, 99% times as the average time.<p>This time increasing is considered a bug in the same way that an app crashing due to user input is considered a bug, which is to say that you just don&#x27;t ship with this kind of bug.<p>- no GC&#x27;s, everything else starts to become less important if the GC is called every 30 seconds. Some guys will have only one GC call a day, which means you have a really large Eden GC space<p>- short call stacks, and no recursion<p>- one physical core per thread<p>- non locking data structures and use the one writer principle where possible<p>- don&#x27;t use the kernel if possible, ie solar flare Ethernet cards that have userland drivers<p>- cache friendly data structures<p>Watch this video:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iINk7x44MmM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iINk7x44MmM</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/2011_WhatDoesJVMDo.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>sandisk5</author><text>Because performance isn&#x27;t the only requirement and Java is fast enough.<p>Correctness, maintenance, extensibility, developer productivity, tooling, deployment, and recruiting are all also important.</text><parent_chain><item><author>azeirah</author><text>If performance is THAT critical in HFT, why do they pick java as the starting language?<p>I understand that java is very fast, faster than most people believe, but does it beat hand-optimized assembly? Fortran? C?<p>Why Java?</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>If you are part of the HFT crowd who uses the JVM then you know who the author, Cliff Click, is.<p>His Blogs (former and current) are goldmines for high performance JVM information.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azulsystems.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;author&#x2F;cliff" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azulsystems.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;author&#x2F;cliff</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cliffc.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cliffc.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;</a><p>I had one CTO of a public HFT firm tell me that short of FPGA&#x27;s Azul&#x27;s pause-less GC (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azul.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;zing&#x2F;pgc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azul.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;zing&#x2F;pgc&#x2F;</a>) was the biggest performance win they&#x27;d had in the past few years, note: this was a few years ago.<p>EDIT: someone emailed asking for how HFT firms write their java code. I haven&#x27;t written java in 3 years so I&#x27;m probably not the best person to author a list but this is what I&#x27;d include:<p>In order of importance:<p>- Measure, measure, measure. Every HFT firm can tell you to the nanosecond, as much as that&#x27;s possible, what their time is from receiving a packet to when it&#x27;s replied to. Focus as much, if not more on the 95%, 99% times as the average time.<p>This time increasing is considered a bug in the same way that an app crashing due to user input is considered a bug, which is to say that you just don&#x27;t ship with this kind of bug.<p>- no GC&#x27;s, everything else starts to become less important if the GC is called every 30 seconds. Some guys will have only one GC call a day, which means you have a really large Eden GC space<p>- short call stacks, and no recursion<p>- one physical core per thread<p>- non locking data structures and use the one writer principle where possible<p>- don&#x27;t use the kernel if possible, ie solar flare Ethernet cards that have userland drivers<p>- cache friendly data structures<p>Watch this video:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iINk7x44MmM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iINk7x44MmM</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/2011_WhatDoesJVMDo.pdf</url></story> |
27,655,483 | 27,655,724 | 1 | 2 | 27,654,787 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>I have been heavy dosing magnesium (glycinate, citrate) for years and am still a nervous wreck. Your mileage may vary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wincy</author><text>Interesting. I recently started using Magnesium Glycinate as a supplement and I feel it truly changed my life, not exaggerating. I’ve suffered from chronic general anxiety for most of my teens and adult life. Magnesium has completely cleared this up, things I thought were just part of my personality (being anxious and other associated things) were actually due to a chronic magnesium deficiency. I just have to make sure I get a decent amount of calcium in my diet (via canned mackerel mostly) to avoid muscle twitches from the magnesium.</text></item><item><author>esquivalience</author><text>From the source:
&quot;The high rate of magnesium deficiency now postulated [5,6,7,8] can be attributed in part to a steady decline in general magnesium content in cultivated fruits and vegetables, a reflection of the observed depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years [11,12,13]. A report to Congress was already sounding the alarm as far back as the 1930s, pointing out the paucity of magnesium, and other minerals, in certain produce [14].&quot;<p>The easiest of those references to link to is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ashs.org&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;view&#x2F;journals&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;44&#x2F;1&#x2F;article-p15.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ashs.org&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;view&#x2F;journals&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;44&#x2F;1...</a> :<p>&quot;Three kinds of evidence point toward declines of some nutrients in fruits and vegetables available in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1) early studies of fertilization found inverse relationships between crop yield and mineral concentrations—the widely cited “dilution effect”; 2) three recent studies of historical food composition data found apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in some minerals in groups of vegetables and perhaps fruits; one study also evaluated vitamins and protein with similar results; and 3) recent side-by-side plantings of low- and high-yield cultivars of broccoli and grains found consistently negative correlations between yield and concentrations of minerals and protein, a newly recognized genetic dilution effect. &quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lk0nga</author><text>The RDA on Magnesium is almost never there on multivitamin formulas and so should be added separatedly, I can&#x27;t really feel that (significantly) it helps for anxiety or jittery though, same goes for theanine, in fact theanine makes my jittery&#x2F;anxiety worse. Best for jittery&#x2F;anxiety is taurine, at around 2 grams per each 100mg of caffeine, YMMV.<p>I&#x27;ve noted overall anxiety got noteacible better when I added DHEA, I&#x27;d guess due to changes in the cortisol to DHEA ratio.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wincy</author><text>Interesting. I recently started using Magnesium Glycinate as a supplement and I feel it truly changed my life, not exaggerating. I’ve suffered from chronic general anxiety for most of my teens and adult life. Magnesium has completely cleared this up, things I thought were just part of my personality (being anxious and other associated things) were actually due to a chronic magnesium deficiency. I just have to make sure I get a decent amount of calcium in my diet (via canned mackerel mostly) to avoid muscle twitches from the magnesium.</text></item><item><author>esquivalience</author><text>From the source:
&quot;The high rate of magnesium deficiency now postulated [5,6,7,8] can be attributed in part to a steady decline in general magnesium content in cultivated fruits and vegetables, a reflection of the observed depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years [11,12,13]. A report to Congress was already sounding the alarm as far back as the 1930s, pointing out the paucity of magnesium, and other minerals, in certain produce [14].&quot;<p>The easiest of those references to link to is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ashs.org&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;view&#x2F;journals&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;44&#x2F;1&#x2F;article-p15.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ashs.org&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;view&#x2F;journals&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;44&#x2F;1...</a> :<p>&quot;Three kinds of evidence point toward declines of some nutrients in fruits and vegetables available in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1) early studies of fertilization found inverse relationships between crop yield and mineral concentrations—the widely cited “dilution effect”; 2) three recent studies of historical food composition data found apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in some minerals in groups of vegetables and perhaps fruits; one study also evaluated vitamins and protein with similar results; and 3) recent side-by-side plantings of low- and high-yield cultivars of broccoli and grains found consistently negative correlations between yield and concentrations of minerals and protein, a newly recognized genetic dilution effect. &quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/</url></story> |
22,546,582 | 22,544,620 | 1 | 2 | 22,544,261 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>Totally with you, except you need to choose your primary language carefully if you want it to scale up and down like that. Don&#x27;t expect people to write little command-line tools and one-off scripts in C or Java. You&#x27;ll see an apparent lack of tooling for little tasks, as people hoard their secret scripts. And it&#x27;s really important to get people to check code like that in, as then it will be subject to PRs where bugs will be spotted, documentation requested, and general awareness of the code&#x27;s existence raised.<p>Also, junior people will translate &quot;code I will never be able to check in anyway&quot; to &quot;perfect opportunity to play around with that new language I want to learn&quot; and then you&#x27;ve got them making the usual mistakes as noobs in that language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rho4</author><text>Story of my life. In my opinion the best tool for basically all jobs is usually the main programming language of your project &#x2F; team &#x2F; company. Everyone can read it, change it and run it. It can do everything. It has the best tooling support. The best IDE, which everyone has installed, licensed and knows how to operate. It is hopefully compile- and type safe. It is hopefully under source control. And hopefully a mainstream language, so you can find tons of help and resources online.<p>But for some reason, every f* new task is always first solved with some interpreted weakly typed scripting language, shell script or batch file, config file, xml programming, open source tool or web service. Unversioned, and with the weakest tool and team support imaginable. Probably a separate git repository with separate login credentials is created somewhere along the way as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FAQ of comp.lang.prolog is maintained as a Prolog source file</title><url>https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/faq/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>I feel your pain. For me the worse case of this is web dev, where there&#x27;s a different language for every task: html, CSS, javascript, SQL, your back-end language, XML, JSON, and so on.<p>But, Swi has my back on that, too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swi-prolog.org&#x2F;FAQ&#x2F;PrologLAMP.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swi-prolog.org&#x2F;FAQ&#x2F;PrologLAMP.txt</a><p><pre><code> Can I replace a LAMP stack with SWI-Prolog?
Yes, you can, and you&#x27;ll be happier for it.
LAMP is short for the following open source components to realise a web
server:
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP
In this picture, Linux provides the OS, Apache the web server, MySQL the
database and PHP server-side scripting facilities. In fact, most of these
components can be replaced. One can replace Linux with almost any other OS,
Apache with Nginx, MySQL with PostgreSQL. PHP is similar to ASP.
There are also larger replacements of this stack, such as Tomcat, which
replaces both Apache and PHP. Similar architectures are available for Python
(django), Ruby (Ruby on Rails) etc. As we will see below, this is the picture
into which SWI-Prolog fits.
The SWI-Prolog web framework
The SWI-Prolog web framework (obviously) does not replace the OS. It does
replace Apache, PHP and to some extent MySQL. We could refer to the stack as
LP (Linux Prolog). Below, we point at the various libraries that make up the
stack and relate them to the LAMP components they replace.
</code></pre>
You can&#x27;t quite replace html&#x2F;css&#x2F;js of course, since the browsers depend on them- but they can be embedded in Prolog easily. I believe the http library in my other comment here has facilities to do this.<p>Also- if you ever need to write a parser for some topsy-turvy ad-hoc markup language some third-party is using that you are forced to process, Prolog is probably the best language to do this, thanks to its Definite Clause Grammars notation that&#x27;s basically BNF, except that it&#x27;s not restricted to context-free grammars:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Definite_clause_grammar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Definite_clause_grammar</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rho4</author><text>Story of my life. In my opinion the best tool for basically all jobs is usually the main programming language of your project &#x2F; team &#x2F; company. Everyone can read it, change it and run it. It can do everything. It has the best tooling support. The best IDE, which everyone has installed, licensed and knows how to operate. It is hopefully compile- and type safe. It is hopefully under source control. And hopefully a mainstream language, so you can find tons of help and resources online.<p>But for some reason, every f* new task is always first solved with some interpreted weakly typed scripting language, shell script or batch file, config file, xml programming, open source tool or web service. Unversioned, and with the weakest tool and team support imaginable. Probably a separate git repository with separate login credentials is created somewhere along the way as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FAQ of comp.lang.prolog is maintained as a Prolog source file</title><url>https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/faq/</url></story> |
15,588,452 | 15,587,717 | 1 | 2 | 15,587,048 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>not_that_noob</author><text>This design-first approach is the hallmark of many successful products. It is the rare engineer who can say &quot;I had to change code that I had labored over&quot; with such equanimity. Excellent read!<p>&quot;The ability for Dan and I to work as a team was crucial. While he could&#x27;ve written the program, the fact that he wasn&#x27;t gave him the freedom to focus on what the program should do rather than how to do it. I could appreciate his reasons and would eventually accept that I had to change code that I had labored over. We were able to find ways to take advantage of the limited space available for the program in deciding what features to include or not include.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing VisiCalc (2003)</title><url>https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/apple2/implementingvisicalc.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>js2</author><text><i>If the user typed a character before the keyboard input buffer was emptied it would be lost.</i><p>Huh. I never noticed this. Then I recalled that my Apple ][ had a Videx Keyboard Enhancer. Turns out it provided an input buffer (besides providing upper&#x2F;lower case which is the primary reason we added it). Now I&#x27;m wondering how much latency the buffer added and whether it reduced my high score on Lode Runner.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing VisiCalc (2003)</title><url>https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/apple2/implementingvisicalc.html</url></story> |
32,768,455 | 32,763,976 | 1 | 2 | 32,746,922 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway2037</author><text>This was exactly my experience at Goldman Sachs. Sorry, I should be posting under a throw-away, but let&#x27;s be real for a moment. That place was nothing but a cult. Yes, they make lots of money, but you need to sell your soul. I never worked in a place with so many sheep (non-believers but scared to speak-up) <i>and</i> assholes (believers, only because they profit &#x2F; climb the corporate ladder) _at the same time_. Fortunately, I escaped after two years of that prison sentence. (The whole experience feels like Shawshank Redemption when I write about it now!) All the global investment banks where I have worked, Goldman had the fewest number of mid-career&#x2F;senior hires. The intern&#x2F;fresher pipeline was <i>so</i> deep. Now I understand why! They are so much easier to brain-wash.<p>Two stories stand out in my new hire training:<p>We had <i>multiple</i> &quot;partners&quot; (super senior, old-school MDs) tell us: &quot;At Goldman, there is not publically available org chart.&quot; Fucking dead wrong. I raised my hand at each of those bullshit meetings and said, &quot;I&#x27;m sorry, but this is incorrect. There is a website where you can view and search the org chart.&quot; (It was amazing -- no lie&#x2F;joke.) Each PMD was so &quot;surprised&quot; to learn this. Not sure if real, or encouraging people to do face-to-face networking.<p>Second, they showed all these weird propaganda videos about how Goldman is closely tied with the US gov&#x27;t, especially during World War 2. So weird, creepy, and out of date! Many senior partners leave Goldman and enter US politics. In American English, they call it &quot;the revolving door&quot; (between private industry and politics). Many democracies have this problem. But why celebrate it? Fuct! The whole thing felt so sleazy. Why is this important to non-US citizens? Many people looked bored and only read their mobile phones during these 90 minute(!) videos.</text><parent_chain><item><author>6stringmerc</author><text>A friend recently got what he thought was a great gig with an engineering firm - turned out it was more of a cult - rah rah sessions, after work bowling, softball - and they weren’t shy about shunning anybody who didn’t want all in right away.<p>He got bullied and saw others bullied too - we figure it’s why they prefer to intern pipeline and hire and retain - a lot easier to brainwash when young.<p>I mean it’s not a bad company, they do strong and good work - but acting like it’s the best place ever? Well, most of them have only worked there. We were like, offhand we’ve each had two better jobs than that one.[0] They used culture as a bait for lower pay too.<p>There’s something really disturbing about a company in 2022 wanting to act like a cult rather than accept the job market is turning more mercenary by the day. Oh well, their choice to fail.<p>[0] - Daniel Tosh “America #1” stand up bit for reference</text></item><item><author>jongjong</author><text>This seems to be a major epidemic nowadays. I suspect that mechanistic, meaningless, purely mimetic pursuit of success has some pretty negative consequences on society. I suspect it might explain why so many people are interested in engaging in politics (or company politics) and zero-sum value extraction schemes instead of just adding value... They&#x27;re not interested in the process at all, only in the outcome; financial success and social approval from authority figures.<p>Many people are spending most of their lives doing stuff that they don&#x27;t want to do, so of course they tend to look for shortcuts instead of trying to do things the right way. They have no intrinsic pride in the work they do; it&#x27;s all about status, money and power. As people have become more free in their personal lives, on the career-side, we&#x27;ve never been so constrained.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs</title><url>https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/excuse-me-but-why-are-you-eating</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jongjong</author><text>Having worked for many different tech companies, the concept of &#x27;cult companies&#x27; seems like a trend. Though I can&#x27;t say for sure if this is only affecting the tech industry or all industries.<p>One of my ex-colleagues was hired straight out of university by a company and he did not take a single holiday in 4 years because his boss would always try to make him feel guilty or would imply that there would likely be negative consequences for him as an employee.<p>After he eventually quit and changed companies, he had very low expectations and he couldn&#x27;t believe how much better that second company was... It was a startup so it wasn&#x27;t exactly low-stress by my standards; it goes to show how extreme the differences can be between companies that even a job which I considered challenging seemed like a walk in the park to him given what he had experienced before.</text><parent_chain><item><author>6stringmerc</author><text>A friend recently got what he thought was a great gig with an engineering firm - turned out it was more of a cult - rah rah sessions, after work bowling, softball - and they weren’t shy about shunning anybody who didn’t want all in right away.<p>He got bullied and saw others bullied too - we figure it’s why they prefer to intern pipeline and hire and retain - a lot easier to brainwash when young.<p>I mean it’s not a bad company, they do strong and good work - but acting like it’s the best place ever? Well, most of them have only worked there. We were like, offhand we’ve each had two better jobs than that one.[0] They used culture as a bait for lower pay too.<p>There’s something really disturbing about a company in 2022 wanting to act like a cult rather than accept the job market is turning more mercenary by the day. Oh well, their choice to fail.<p>[0] - Daniel Tosh “America #1” stand up bit for reference</text></item><item><author>jongjong</author><text>This seems to be a major epidemic nowadays. I suspect that mechanistic, meaningless, purely mimetic pursuit of success has some pretty negative consequences on society. I suspect it might explain why so many people are interested in engaging in politics (or company politics) and zero-sum value extraction schemes instead of just adding value... They&#x27;re not interested in the process at all, only in the outcome; financial success and social approval from authority figures.<p>Many people are spending most of their lives doing stuff that they don&#x27;t want to do, so of course they tend to look for shortcuts instead of trying to do things the right way. They have no intrinsic pride in the work they do; it&#x27;s all about status, money and power. As people have become more free in their personal lives, on the career-side, we&#x27;ve never been so constrained.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs</title><url>https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/excuse-me-but-why-are-you-eating</url></story> |
18,437,184 | 18,437,217 | 1 | 2 | 18,437,066 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raincom</author><text>Pseudonyms are good for joint contributions, position papers, summarizing&#x2F;expanding the available criticisms, fundamentally new research. Anything else get you get dox&#x27;ed: too many references to a set of authors can lead in the direction of one of this set being the author.<p>We are in a sad state where we can&#x27;t even discuss ideas.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46146766</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joemi</author><text>Now if we can just get around to fixing why we need such anonymity in an academic journal in the first place... It&#x27;s absurd that there&#x27;s such danger in saying something that doesn&#x27;t entirely align with either the left or the right (at least in the US). It feels quite a lot like McCarthyism to me (or what I imagine it was like at that time, since I&#x27;m not that old).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46146766</url></story> |
17,833,727 | 17,833,771 | 1 | 2 | 17,833,343 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forkerenok</author><text>Can anyone with background in law in some of EU member states share their take on enforceability of the DeWitt clause[0]?<p>I know it popped up quite a few times here, but very few commented on it in the context of EU.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;David_DeWitt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;David_DeWitt</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution</title><url>https://01.org/mcu-path-license-2018</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>A lawyer friend of mine one told me that his job was basically to try to see what he could sneak past the opposition&#x27;s (his sentiment, not mine) lawyers in their contracts. He explained contracts are like a running game of tag for lawyers. &quot;If they don&#x27;t read it, fuck &#x27;em&quot;.<p>He also said that all contracts are mutable. Just strike in red whatever you want, sign it, and send it back. If they don&#x27;t object (for whatever reason, including not expecting a non-lawyer to do such a thing and never reading your reply), you&#x27;ve won this round of tag.<p>Then mentioning that 9&#x2F;10 contract disputes get settled out of court meant the law didn&#x27;t really matter, it&#x27;s just what you can convince others about.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution</title><url>https://01.org/mcu-path-license-2018</url></story> |
23,346,733 | 23,346,662 | 1 | 2 | 23,340,887 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>As anecdote I don&#x27;t run the emulator since years, as I am not going to buy a last generation PC to keep running it at average speeds.<p>On all my PCs it is faster to build to device than having to deal with the emulator competing with Android Studio for hardware resources.<p>Not everyone has Google level budgets for hardware.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lfy_google</author><text>I&#x27;m on the emulator team; we&#x27;ve considered this route before, but the hard part about maintaining a simulator is that the contact surface with the host OS is much larger, making it so that we would essentially have to port the current year&#x27;s version of Android, with all java&#x2F;C userspace APIs, to all wanted host OSes. This would require much greater resources dedicated to this porting than we&#x27;re able to handle, and&#x2F;or we&#x27;d need to make the hard choice of only maintaining certain Android versions and skipping certain ones completely. It would also be very difficult to maintain fidelity.<p>With full virtualization, the contact surface is restricted to a few low level bits in the kernel along with a few HALs&#x2F;drivers that need to talk to the host for meaningful&#x2F;fast I&#x2F;O, like input&#x2F;network&#x2F;graphics, and everything else can be kept stock with no modification. This allows us to ship largely the same binaries that would go on a dedicated Android device and have it be able to run on windows&#x2F;macos&#x2F;linux easily, and it&#x27;s how we&#x27;ve been able to keep up with the pace of yearly Android releases.<p>Edit: Oh and note that we are totally aware of and bummed out by emulator&#x27;s increasing resource usage as android version bumps up, to the point we&#x27;re afraid that the next one will finally be the one that really needs all resources of a modern PC; as such, we&#x27;re looking into ways to minimize the cpu&#x2F;ram&#x2F;disk footprint of the system images, keeping only the bits that are actually needed for testing apps (with Google Play Services, and being better at maintaining&#x2F;promoting more stock AOSP images in the case where GMS isn&#x27;t needed)</text></item><item><author>matchbok</author><text>Did they build a real simulator yet, like iOS? Note, not an emulator, which does hardware stuff. A simulator, so we don&#x27;t have to use up our entire machine to run another operating system just to run a java app.<p>Or finally fix the activities and fragment mess?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android Studio 4.0</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/05/android-studio-4.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>airstrike</author><text>If we&#x27;re all throwing spaghetti at the wall here, what do I know, but maybe create an android-sdk OS that one may boot into and is heavily optimized for (speedy) android development?</text><parent_chain><item><author>lfy_google</author><text>I&#x27;m on the emulator team; we&#x27;ve considered this route before, but the hard part about maintaining a simulator is that the contact surface with the host OS is much larger, making it so that we would essentially have to port the current year&#x27;s version of Android, with all java&#x2F;C userspace APIs, to all wanted host OSes. This would require much greater resources dedicated to this porting than we&#x27;re able to handle, and&#x2F;or we&#x27;d need to make the hard choice of only maintaining certain Android versions and skipping certain ones completely. It would also be very difficult to maintain fidelity.<p>With full virtualization, the contact surface is restricted to a few low level bits in the kernel along with a few HALs&#x2F;drivers that need to talk to the host for meaningful&#x2F;fast I&#x2F;O, like input&#x2F;network&#x2F;graphics, and everything else can be kept stock with no modification. This allows us to ship largely the same binaries that would go on a dedicated Android device and have it be able to run on windows&#x2F;macos&#x2F;linux easily, and it&#x27;s how we&#x27;ve been able to keep up with the pace of yearly Android releases.<p>Edit: Oh and note that we are totally aware of and bummed out by emulator&#x27;s increasing resource usage as android version bumps up, to the point we&#x27;re afraid that the next one will finally be the one that really needs all resources of a modern PC; as such, we&#x27;re looking into ways to minimize the cpu&#x2F;ram&#x2F;disk footprint of the system images, keeping only the bits that are actually needed for testing apps (with Google Play Services, and being better at maintaining&#x2F;promoting more stock AOSP images in the case where GMS isn&#x27;t needed)</text></item><item><author>matchbok</author><text>Did they build a real simulator yet, like iOS? Note, not an emulator, which does hardware stuff. A simulator, so we don&#x27;t have to use up our entire machine to run another operating system just to run a java app.<p>Or finally fix the activities and fragment mess?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android Studio 4.0</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/05/android-studio-4.html</url></story> |
38,917,206 | 38,916,995 | 1 | 3 | 38,916,212 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ngruhn</author><text>These solvers really show that NP-hardness is no reason to give up. For example, they can solve surprisingly large Traveling Salesmen instances to proven optimality.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Solver Performance: 1989 vs. 2024</title><url>https://www.solvermax.com/blog/solver-performance-1989-vs-2024</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Epa095</author><text>A bit disappointed that there were no reimplementation and real benchmarking happening.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Solver Performance: 1989 vs. 2024</title><url>https://www.solvermax.com/blog/solver-performance-1989-vs-2024</url></story> |
15,136,238 | 15,135,905 | 1 | 2 | 15,135,780 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrhigat4</author><text>Android should really use a modern kernel. All the forking mess involved in Android updates is a terrible problem predicated by the lack of generic drivers on mobile devices.<p>Copperhead[0] has been working to apply security patches to the kernel for some time and PostMarketOS[1] has an eventual goal of using the mainline upstream kernel. Really pulling for PMOS.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copperhead.co&#x2F;android&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copperhead.co&#x2F;android&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postmarketos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postmarketos.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/hardening-kernel-in-android-oreo.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>limeblack</author><text>Glad we are making it more secure. On a side note I love that we now have <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;index.html</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;android-developers.googleblog.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;android-developers.googleblog.com&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a> (which redirects to blog.google without index.html because it appears to be the new site) which is slightly weird.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/hardening-kernel-in-android-oreo.html</url></story> |
34,937,304 | 34,932,639 | 1 | 2 | 34,925,396 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Blackstrat</author><text>There is absolutely no reason to ever revise any books this way. If your delicate sensibilities are offended by the language, don&#x27;t read the books. Wokeness is a long walk down a short plank. It leads to tyranny. Read Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 while you still can. That&#x27;s the road we&#x27;re on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nineplay</author><text>I&#x27;m normally sympathetic to &#x27;wokeisms&#x27; but this sickens me. A lot of the value of reading is in learning to expand your mind, expand your perceptive. Take in the book, read it, make your own decisions on how to process it and how to feel about it. This is flat-out reducing stories so that nobody learns anything more than what they already know.<p>I&#x27;ve got plenty of issues with modern literature written to confirm the readers opinions rather than challenge them. Reducing books from the past to fit the same modern views just history-washing. Let us all naively believe that all authors in the past have our same identical values so we are never challenged to look beyond them.<p>It&#x27;s revolting and frightening. No one is ever going to learn anything outside of their narrow world view if this trend continues, and I have a bad feeling that it will. Who&#x27;s next? C.S. Lewis? Tolkien? I wouldn&#x27;t be a bit surprised.<p>I would truly be happier if these books got censored. Let them remain on the list of corrupting literature because at least then the bold reader can seek them out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64759118</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>schwartzworld</author><text>While I don&#x27;t agree with all the specifics of what terms they censored out, I do think there&#x27;s something to be said for updating outdated &#x2F; offensive terminology. Language changes, acceptable terminology changes. Kids books are chosen for kids by their parents. If research showed that parents didn&#x27;t want to buy their kids books with the word &quot;fat&quot;, doesn&#x27;t it make perfect sense to update it?<p>If Dahl was writing today, and his editor said they had to change some phrasing, of course he would have done it. The important thing is getting kids to read his marvelous stories, not insisting on some form of literary purity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nineplay</author><text>I&#x27;m normally sympathetic to &#x27;wokeisms&#x27; but this sickens me. A lot of the value of reading is in learning to expand your mind, expand your perceptive. Take in the book, read it, make your own decisions on how to process it and how to feel about it. This is flat-out reducing stories so that nobody learns anything more than what they already know.<p>I&#x27;ve got plenty of issues with modern literature written to confirm the readers opinions rather than challenge them. Reducing books from the past to fit the same modern views just history-washing. Let us all naively believe that all authors in the past have our same identical values so we are never challenged to look beyond them.<p>It&#x27;s revolting and frightening. No one is ever going to learn anything outside of their narrow world view if this trend continues, and I have a bad feeling that it will. Who&#x27;s next? C.S. Lewis? Tolkien? I wouldn&#x27;t be a bit surprised.<p>I would truly be happier if these books got censored. Let them remain on the list of corrupting literature because at least then the bold reader can seek them out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64759118</url></story> |
3,211,069 | 3,210,652 | 1 | 3 | 3,209,936 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rarrrrrr</author><text>(SpiderOak / Nimbus.io cofounder here)<p>In addition to supporting the founders personal ethics about software freedom, we feel an open source backend is important for just the sake of confidence.<p>Some people will want to purchase the minimum of 10 machines and host a Nimbus.io storage cluster themselves (and we are also making our hardware specs open source.) Other cloud storage providers may even do this. We hope a few people will consider the hosted option, paying Nimbus.io $0.06 per GB.<p>In any case, all of these are a win for us. We're already spending money every day to maintain a reliable storage backend for our encrypted Backup &#38; Sync business at SpiderOak.com. Nimbus.io is an evolution from that. Community involvement here is most welcome. :)<p>Aside from that, it's just a design we are excited to share. Every other distributed storage system I could find uses replication instead of parity. A system based on parity sacrifices latency but can deliver higher throughput on individual requests (at about 1/3 the cost.) There are use cases even outside of archival storage where this is attractive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Egregore</author><text>Yes, being opens source is motivation, because you can create your own cloud with your own hardware when you need it.<p>And it's additional assurance that you'll be able to deploy your system even if they go out of business.</text></item><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>Is being 100% open-source really the motivating factor to use this over S3? I would think the only factors vs using this over S3 would be price and reliability/performance.<p>I could care less if this is open source, if I'm going to offload my data to a 3rd party, open source or not and I'm worried about privacy I'm going to encrypt it. I honestly could care less what happens on the back-end, just commit to a data loss and reliability SLA and I'm happy.<p>If you can support my use case, or have reliable performance near 370k requests/sec (<a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-objects-370000-requestssecond-and-hiring.html" rel="nofollow">http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-obj...</a>) and be cheaper than S3 then we'll talk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3</title><url>https://nimbus.io/</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>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Its a leap that folks desiring cloud storage will want to host their own some day. I think its a little like "I want an open-source car, so when they switch back to horses, I'm ready!"</text><parent_chain><item><author>Egregore</author><text>Yes, being opens source is motivation, because you can create your own cloud with your own hardware when you need it.<p>And it's additional assurance that you'll be able to deploy your system even if they go out of business.</text></item><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>Is being 100% open-source really the motivating factor to use this over S3? I would think the only factors vs using this over S3 would be price and reliability/performance.<p>I could care less if this is open source, if I'm going to offload my data to a 3rd party, open source or not and I'm worried about privacy I'm going to encrypt it. I honestly could care less what happens on the back-end, just commit to a data loss and reliability SLA and I'm happy.<p>If you can support my use case, or have reliable performance near 370k requests/sec (<a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-objects-370000-requestssecond-and-hiring.html" rel="nofollow">http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-obj...</a>) and be cheaper than S3 then we'll talk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3</title><url>https://nimbus.io/</url><text></text></story> |
22,672,190 | 22,670,180 | 1 | 2 | 22,667,025 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>Killing of Parse definitely showed that Facebook didn&#x27;t want to be in PaaS&#x2F;IaaS. Now, there&#x27;s going to be severe trust issues with any PaaS&#x2F;IaaS with a Facebook branding.<p>Parse was ahead of its time, good Engineering, nice documentations and possible the first platform to make building backend&#x2F;database system for an app seamless. Even when Facebook killed it, they did a great job at open-sourcing the platform.[1]<p>I had migrated my existing services to open-source Parse and even built a stateless application with &gt;250,000 users with it few years back. But if I had to build the same backend now, I&#x27;ll probably do it with Go&#x2F;pgSQL instead of NodeJS&#x2F;MongoDB as in Parse.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parseplatform.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parseplatform.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nikhilsimha</author><text>Used to work at fb in an infra team.<p>Their abstraction for job scheduling (Tupperware) is about 5 years behind - something like Borg or EC2&#x2F;EMR. Something like that is a fundamental reason why fb can’t do cloud as it is right now.<p>Plus, the infra teams do operate like product - impact at all costs. Which to most management translates to short-term impact over technical quality.<p>It would be a true 180 in terms of eng culture if they could pull off a cloud platform. An example is how they bought Parse and killed it, while firebase at google is doing extremely well.<p>Having said all that, I think focusing on impact over technical quality is probably the right business decision for what they were trying to do at the time - drive engagement and revenue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?</title><url>https://interconnected.blog/why-is-facebook-not-in-the-cloud-business/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Yep, I have to agree. Facebook in some ways is incredibly ahead of the game, and in other ways, is <i>shockingly</i> behind - I was baffled when I started working there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nikhilsimha</author><text>Used to work at fb in an infra team.<p>Their abstraction for job scheduling (Tupperware) is about 5 years behind - something like Borg or EC2&#x2F;EMR. Something like that is a fundamental reason why fb can’t do cloud as it is right now.<p>Plus, the infra teams do operate like product - impact at all costs. Which to most management translates to short-term impact over technical quality.<p>It would be a true 180 in terms of eng culture if they could pull off a cloud platform. An example is how they bought Parse and killed it, while firebase at google is doing extremely well.<p>Having said all that, I think focusing on impact over technical quality is probably the right business decision for what they were trying to do at the time - drive engagement and revenue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?</title><url>https://interconnected.blog/why-is-facebook-not-in-the-cloud-business/</url></story> |
26,988,199 | 26,988,293 | 1 | 3 | 26,986,493 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlphaSite</author><text>I think this is more of an issue with people misusing CI systems, your gitlab-CI&#x2F;Jenkins&#x2F;concourse&#x2F;etc shouldn’t have any real logic in it, it’s just glue code.<p>Bazel&#x2F;Gradle&#x2F;Maven&#x2F;etc tend push you in the right direction, bash, etc dont.<p>Or to put it succinctly, you need both a build system and a CI system, they are not the same thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>octopoc</author><text>What I would really like to see is a CI system that lets me write a script in a language of my choice instead of defining a pipeline config file. That way I can run the pipeline locally, put breakpoints in, etc.<p>Nuke [1] gets close but there are still a lot of tasks that don&#x27;t have C# bindings, such as publishing build artifacts and uploading test results.<p>While I&#x27;m dreaming about my perfect CI, I&#x27;d also like the ability to download benchmark results from previous commits so that I can generate trend graphs and publish them in the build results.<p>To do this right the CI system would have to have an API using REST, GraphQL, gRPC or some such API format that generates clients in many languages. That way they don&#x27;t have to maintain bindings in every language.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuke.build&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuke.build&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write Gitlab CI Pipelines in Python Code</title><url>https://gitlab.com/dbsystel/gitlab-ci-python-library</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>Check out tekton CI (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tekton.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tekton.dev&#x2F;</a>), it&#x27;s a Kubernetes operator to run a CI pipeline that&#x27;s defined as commands running inside any container. Use any language, any commands, etc--as long as you can get a container image, you&#x27;re good to go. There&#x27;s a growing set of community created and curated actions to do common things too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tektoncd&#x2F;catalog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tektoncd&#x2F;catalog</a><p>Yeah you need a k8s cluster, but even a simple kind dev cluster that you spin up in 30 seconds with one command on your laptop will work.<p>I like it a lot because it enforces very little structure on you and doesn&#x27;t reinvent everything. Stuff like storage (either ephermeral or existing volumes), secrets, configuration, etc. are already modeled and supported by Kubernetes and tekton can use all of that natively. And since it&#x27;s all k8s native stuff you have all of the power of k8s, like its entire API for manipulating and managing execution, exposing services, etc. There is very little cognitive overhead or new things to learn once you know k8s.<p>If you&#x27;re really averse to k8s though, check out drone. It has a local execution mode that is similar and just runs whatever pipeline commands you want in docker containers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;drone&#x2F;drone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;drone&#x2F;drone</a> Batect is another even more minimal tool that&#x27;s effectively just a docker-based workflow system: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;batect&#x2F;batect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;batect&#x2F;batect</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>octopoc</author><text>What I would really like to see is a CI system that lets me write a script in a language of my choice instead of defining a pipeline config file. That way I can run the pipeline locally, put breakpoints in, etc.<p>Nuke [1] gets close but there are still a lot of tasks that don&#x27;t have C# bindings, such as publishing build artifacts and uploading test results.<p>While I&#x27;m dreaming about my perfect CI, I&#x27;d also like the ability to download benchmark results from previous commits so that I can generate trend graphs and publish them in the build results.<p>To do this right the CI system would have to have an API using REST, GraphQL, gRPC or some such API format that generates clients in many languages. That way they don&#x27;t have to maintain bindings in every language.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuke.build&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuke.build&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write Gitlab CI Pipelines in Python Code</title><url>https://gitlab.com/dbsystel/gitlab-ci-python-library</url></story> |
14,915,573 | 14,914,979 | 1 | 2 | 14,908,581 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwthisawayt</author><text>I think people forget that vc backed startups are profit and greed driven (like all free enterprises). We all like to drink the cool aid and think that a startup&#x27;s purpose is societal impact but really they are engineered to make $$$.<p>As such, it makes sense that people pour millions of dollars to target the 1%. They&#x27;ve got a shitload of more money than the rest of the country. Seriously, if you&#x27;ve got an product that every rich person wants but that no other person cares about, you will have vcs knocking on your door. We need to think of vcs as building cash machines, not as the money behind &quot;changing the world&quot;. Yes occasionally vcs fund companies like Google that have broader impact but that&#x27;s not their primary aim.<p>If we want more people building ventures that impact society we need to either
* change the funding model
* build bootstrap ventures
* build non profit ventures
* ask the government to step in (a socialist approach)<p>A good example are institutions like the Gates foundation and WHO eradicating polio in the last few years. Yeah it&#x27;s not sexy but organizations like that are making real societal impact.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>Probably an unpopular opinion, but when the startups receive $120,000,000 to make a juice machine that is only really accessible to the top 1 or 2% of the USA, it&#x27;s not a bad idea to give funding a reset and give people a reason to step back from trying to raise funds and more time to work on more innovative ideas. America has it&#x27;s fair of crises now, yet a good chunk of people have a smartphone. How can startups help people in the midwest and the coasts? Or what interesting things could be done given most of the world is online now? I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll see some cool ideas and another funding boom again with some cool new ideas soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seed funding slows in Silicon Valley</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venture-seedfunding-idUSKBN1AH31J</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pm90</author><text>Its not an unpopular opinion, but that Juicing thing was definitely an exception, not the norm.<p>As to why everyone is chasing unicorns, one of my friends who&#x27;s actively trying to get funding for his hardware startup sums it this way: VC&#x27;s would make more from 1 unicorn than 50 other mildly successful businesses, and the other 50 businesses would probably require just as much work as the unicorn.<p>Its a really fucked up calculus to be sure. I&#x27;m not sure what the solution is though. How do we encourage VC&#x27;s to invest in more meaningful startups?</text><parent_chain><item><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>Probably an unpopular opinion, but when the startups receive $120,000,000 to make a juice machine that is only really accessible to the top 1 or 2% of the USA, it&#x27;s not a bad idea to give funding a reset and give people a reason to step back from trying to raise funds and more time to work on more innovative ideas. America has it&#x27;s fair of crises now, yet a good chunk of people have a smartphone. How can startups help people in the midwest and the coasts? Or what interesting things could be done given most of the world is online now? I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll see some cool ideas and another funding boom again with some cool new ideas soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seed funding slows in Silicon Valley</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venture-seedfunding-idUSKBN1AH31J</url></story> |
14,740,194 | 14,739,650 | 1 | 2 | 14,737,118 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>almostarockstar</author><text>This is a great idea. My two cents:<p>1. An accounts system would be great so that I could just run ``python experiment.py | seashells u=almostarockstar p=hunter2`` or similar with keys, and then have a bookmark on my phone to view seashells.io&#x2F;u&#x2F;almostarockstar.<p>2. A self hosted &#x2F; open source option would be awesome.<p>3. A way to view other peoples public seashells urls would make this interesting.<p>4. Possible options to allow html output which could be paired with a css file attached to your account.<p>Can&#x27;t wait to set this up with my own experiments
(evolutionary computation).</text><parent_chain><item><author>anishathalye</author><text>Hi HN!<p>I made a service to enable me to easily monitor long-running experiments (e.g. training neural nets). I thought it would be generally useful, so I&#x27;m opening it up to the public. I&#x27;m curious to hear what you all think!<p>Read a little bit more about the motivation here, if you&#x27;re interested: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anishathalye.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;seashells&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anishathalye.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;seashells&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Seashells – Pipe output from CLI apps to the web in real time</title><url>https://seashells.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>swah</author><text>Super useful to keep checking the compile status when going out dancing :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>anishathalye</author><text>Hi HN!<p>I made a service to enable me to easily monitor long-running experiments (e.g. training neural nets). I thought it would be generally useful, so I&#x27;m opening it up to the public. I&#x27;m curious to hear what you all think!<p>Read a little bit more about the motivation here, if you&#x27;re interested: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anishathalye.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;seashells&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anishathalye.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;seashells&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Seashells – Pipe output from CLI apps to the web in real time</title><url>https://seashells.io/</url></story> |
27,756,253 | 27,752,838 | 1 | 2 | 27,752,790 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zauguin</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t less annoying Cookie Banners lead to significantly less data?<p>Or maybe asked differently: Is people giving actual informed consent to tracking actually a thing? I mean for most people I know, the reaction to such banners is one of:<p><pre><code> - opting out
- trying to opt out but being tricked by misleading design to press a &quot;opt in&quot; button
- trying to out out but failing and then &quot;opting in&quot; out of desperation
- people who encountered the previous situations before and &quot;opt in&quot; since they don&#x27;t have the time&#x2F;patience to work through the opt out dialogues and decide that tracking is &quot;the lesser evil&quot;
- Not understanding what this is about and just clicking anything to make it disappear
</code></pre>
I can&#x27;t remember anyone who ever really wanted to agree to such stuff. Of course I haven&#x27;t done any reliable research on this and it might just be my sampling bias, but I would expect any system which really gives people a choice to get <i>very</i> little positive responses. (On the other hand people are also trained to accept things like ToS without thinking at the end of the user journey, so maybe it works out fine...)<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I really like the idea and hope that it will be successful. I just don&#x27;t see users agreeing to this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Defeating Cookie Banners</title><url>https://transcend.io/blog/defeating-cookie-banners</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sephr</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m Eli, the lead engineer behind this project. We&#x27;re on a mission to put an end to cookie banners so we built a new kind of consent manager at Transcend to achieve this goal.
In this post, you can read about the process that went into building a secure firewall for our consent manager.<p>This product is currently in closed beta, so I am sure you may have many questions. I will try to answer any questions you have in the comments.<p>With Transcend Consent Manager, site owners can:<p>• Block, quarantine, &amp; replay tracking events cross-session or in-place (e.g. a same-session DOM mutation is replayed or a fetch() promise is resolved).<p>• Override requests to use alternative domains or enforce privacy rules on parameters, skipping the SDK. (e.g. we can automatically enforce Facebook&#x27;s LDU parameters, Google Consent Mode, Google Ads RDP, YouTube Privacy Enhanced Mode, etc. with no site changes)<p>• Privately sync consent &amp; quarantine data across a first-party set of hosts without data ever leaving the browser.<p>Most importantly, this enables sites to ask for consent later in the user journey, eliminating cookie banners.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Defeating Cookie Banners</title><url>https://transcend.io/blog/defeating-cookie-banners</url></story> |
11,230,648 | 11,230,048 | 1 | 2 | 11,229,517 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>That&#x27;s not really true. Tremendous effort has gone into making sandboxed programs. Otherwise any website that has JavaScript could take over your computer. The browser is basically a functioning sandboxed operating system.<p>There&#x27;s no reason that can&#x27;t be true of actual OSes. All programs could be sandboxed by default. But they just were designed under the assumption that all app makers would be good and no one would ever download and run malicious programs. Yeah, right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jszymborski</author><text>Am I wrong in thinking that this is sort of like worrying about leaving the kettle-on while you&#x27;re falling from a skyscraper?<p>Sure, if you have a rogue application on your computer, it can access the GUI of a program whose security is critical (e.g: a password manager), but even if all the GUI were isolated, you&#x27;ve still got a rogue program on your comp.<p>All the security posts I&#x27;ve ever read have pretty much told me that once you&#x27;re running a malicious program, then it&#x27;s game over, your system is owned by your adversary and the only good way to move on is to wipe the drives, and start fresh. Why then worry about GUI isolation? If the GUI is isolated, a rogue program can presumably uninstall your secure GUI server and replace it with another!<p>This blog mentions Qubes, which is cool and does mitigate the rogue program from what I understand, but anything short of isolating whole applications from each other at the hypervisor-level, is fussing about the wrong thing IMHO.<p>Then again, I&#x27;m not a security professional, so what I&#x27;ve said is likely all wrong...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011)</title><url>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.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>nickpsecurity</author><text>It depends on the nature of the attack and the attacker. Most attacks are rehashes of what black hats made available that are easy to counter with patches, a good configuration, or even sandboxing. Targeted attacks hit specific weaknesses in applications. Aside from detection, you can try to use tech to remove classes of weakness or (simpler) attempt to isolate each program giving it just enough privileges to do the job. Programs accepting input from untrusted, isolated programs check that input for sanity&#x2F;security. They raise an alarm if something is wrong.<p>QubesOS is in that category. It&#x27;s technically called a Multiple Single Levels (MSL) of security system. The isolation tries to keep problems in each VM.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jszymborski</author><text>Am I wrong in thinking that this is sort of like worrying about leaving the kettle-on while you&#x27;re falling from a skyscraper?<p>Sure, if you have a rogue application on your computer, it can access the GUI of a program whose security is critical (e.g: a password manager), but even if all the GUI were isolated, you&#x27;ve still got a rogue program on your comp.<p>All the security posts I&#x27;ve ever read have pretty much told me that once you&#x27;re running a malicious program, then it&#x27;s game over, your system is owned by your adversary and the only good way to move on is to wipe the drives, and start fresh. Why then worry about GUI isolation? If the GUI is isolated, a rogue program can presumably uninstall your secure GUI server and replace it with another!<p>This blog mentions Qubes, which is cool and does mitigate the rogue program from what I understand, but anything short of isolating whole applications from each other at the hypervisor-level, is fussing about the wrong thing IMHO.<p>Then again, I&#x27;m not a security professional, so what I&#x27;ve said is likely all wrong...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011)</title><url>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html</url></story> |
10,744,515 | 10,744,107 | 1 | 2 | 10,738,554 | 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>tenfingers</author><text>How does the current AMD driver fare in linux land?<p>Two years ago I was working on a large GL project, and basically the only workable drivers were either intel, or nvidia. With nvidia being <i>far</i> better off pretty much anything, from driver quality to debugging tools.<p>I&#x27;m using an HD4400 on my primary laptop, mostly to have a low-end system for performance tuning. While everybody says that intel should be one of the best supported OSS drivers (if not the only), the i915 driver constantly breaks with a million of little issues which are fixed in one release of the driver and broken again on the next. In the end, all these issues pop up in the wild, where I cannot even restrict users to a single driver version (because many times issues are chipset-specific).<p>Despite whatever I read here, over and over again, the nvidia driver has always been rock-solid for me, with intel being at least on par, and AMD being not even remotely comparable.<p>I had generally harder times with intel even, due to unpredictable gpu stalls. Even when it comes to power management, the latest i915 driver fails to come back from suspend.<p>I really want to switch to something <i>higher quality</i> and OSS, so I&#x27;m hoping AMD steps up the game.<p>I do not need another half-assed driver like i915.</text><parent_chain><item><author>herbst</author><text>Thats exactly why i buy AMD cards over Nvidia again and again. Who cares about super fancy graphics and yet another, 2% faster shader. Want i want is properly supported Hardware with working Open Source drivers from a company that has interest in its users hacking their own solutions, even when they get better than their properitary ones.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD's Answer to GameWorks: Open Source Tools, Graphics FX, Libraries and SDKs</title><url>http://wccftech.com/amds-answer-to-nvidias-gameworks-gpuopen-announced-open-source-tools-graphics-effects-and-libraries/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>creshal</author><text>And yet, 10 years ago the situation was exactly reversed, with ATi sabotaging early DirectX 9 to run worse on Nvidia cards, and ATi pushing a huge pile of proprietary solutions nobody ended up caring about – like TruForm (ATi brand tessellation) or Close-to-Metal (predecessor to Nvidia&#x27;s CUDA, only when that proved more successful did ATi switch to pushing OpenCL).<p>Brand loyalty is useless, because brands don&#x27;t care about consumers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>herbst</author><text>Thats exactly why i buy AMD cards over Nvidia again and again. Who cares about super fancy graphics and yet another, 2% faster shader. Want i want is properly supported Hardware with working Open Source drivers from a company that has interest in its users hacking their own solutions, even when they get better than their properitary ones.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD's Answer to GameWorks: Open Source Tools, Graphics FX, Libraries and SDKs</title><url>http://wccftech.com/amds-answer-to-nvidias-gameworks-gpuopen-announced-open-source-tools-graphics-effects-and-libraries/</url></story> |
16,987,395 | 16,987,419 | 1 | 2 | 16,987,210 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zapita</author><text>This is very useful, thank you.<p>One request I have (to anyone out there who is listening) is a checklist focused on common small business tools and workflows.<p>For example, if I use Google Analytics on my website, or I advertise on Facebook and use the Facebook tracking on my website, do I need to do anything to be compliant. Same question for Mailchimp mailing lists, Square payments, Shopify e-commerce, etc etc. I get these questions from friends and clients all the time, and I struggle to give them a clear answer. I&#x27;m sure specialized consultants could, but small businesses often can&#x27;t afford those.<p>Most of the resources I see are either aimed at larger companies, or tech startups. But the people most badly in need of guidance are neither.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GDPR compliance checklist</title><url>https://gdprchecklist.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>advisedwang</author><text>UI feedback: The &quot;Select your organisation&#x27;s role&quot; widget is confusing. The phrasing suggests you click on the the role you have, but then that gets un-hilighted suggesting I just removed it from the set of roles my organization has.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GDPR compliance checklist</title><url>https://gdprchecklist.io/</url></story> |
30,917,977 | 30,914,989 | 1 | 2 | 30,911,297 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>homo_ergaster</author><text>&gt; The lame social media posts from fellow tech workers about how things &quot;should&quot; be regulated gets tiresome. The real solution is to simply not work for them.<p>If you’re calling something a “real solution” it should have at least some chance of actually happening and solving the problem. Strong regulation from the government against union busting is both possible and effective (look at what FDR did if you want an example). Wishing individuals would live up to your standards of ethical behavior when they have no reason to (and may have personal&#x2F;family reasons that make them feel they need the paycheck) will not ever change anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grapeskin</author><text>The scariest thing isn&#x27;t that Amazon is a company worth nearly trillions and using that money to oppress workers to maintain their lead.<p>It&#x27;s that tech workers are happily applying to get a decent paycheck and crushing people under them, just to protect the company&#x27;s billions. Then they&#x27;ll post online about how happy they are to have been smart enough to save up to buy a lakefront home and retire at 45, and say people should follow their path in tech if they&#x27;re looking for a step up (after destroying the road behind them and making it easier to oppress workers), or worse, pretend to lament how hard it is for other people to follow their footsteps and how <i>something needs to be done</i>.<p>FAANG workers are really entering and sometimes fully into &quot;just following orders&quot; territory. The lame social media posts from fellow tech workers about how things &quot;should&quot; be regulated gets tiresome. The real solution is to simply not work for them.</text></item><item><author>uncomputation</author><text>&gt; The major goal of the program, Amazon’s head of worldwide consumer business, Dave Clark, said, was to reduce employee attrition by fostering happiness among workers — and also productivity. Shout-Outs would be part of a gamified rewards system in which employees are awarded virtual stars and badges for activities that “add direct business value,” documents state. At the meeting, Clark remarked that “some people are insane star collectors.”<p>Truly insane, there is nothing stranger (or more dystopian) than fiction after all. Rather than fix the system of working their employees to death (literally in the case of the tornado) or improving their conditions, Amazon tries to use virtual gold stars (not even physical stickers like kindergarten) as a band-aid. That list of banned words is right out of 1984 (as cliché as it is to reference at this point): ethics, fairness, freedom.<p>I cannot imagine anyone here seriously defending this unless you’re just looking to be a contrarian. This is not “par for the course” for manual labor jobs as some people are claiming. Most manual labor jobs do not restrict you from talking about ethics or justice with your coworkers or have even a need for some virtual gold stars beyond a little whiteboard in the building with number of sales, employee of the month, etc. The fact that these techniques won’t work for Amazon just shows that their laborers are really over-worked compared to the norm. Unfortunately, Amazon is able to use their massive resources and capital to pay just more than the local factory, packing gig, etc. so they have a stream of desperate people willing to take it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2022/04/04/amazon-union-living-wage-restrooms-chat-app/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Firmwarrior</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t say that coders as an industry are destroying the road behind us, since there isn&#x27;t really a road between &quot;warehouse worker&quot; and &quot;software engineer&quot;, unless someone has the knack for coding (in which case there&#x27;s a very clear and well-paved road within the company between those roles)<p>I think the best solution is to empower workers via unions or whatever else. It should be impossible for workers to get ground into dust by companies the way they do now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grapeskin</author><text>The scariest thing isn&#x27;t that Amazon is a company worth nearly trillions and using that money to oppress workers to maintain their lead.<p>It&#x27;s that tech workers are happily applying to get a decent paycheck and crushing people under them, just to protect the company&#x27;s billions. Then they&#x27;ll post online about how happy they are to have been smart enough to save up to buy a lakefront home and retire at 45, and say people should follow their path in tech if they&#x27;re looking for a step up (after destroying the road behind them and making it easier to oppress workers), or worse, pretend to lament how hard it is for other people to follow their footsteps and how <i>something needs to be done</i>.<p>FAANG workers are really entering and sometimes fully into &quot;just following orders&quot; territory. The lame social media posts from fellow tech workers about how things &quot;should&quot; be regulated gets tiresome. The real solution is to simply not work for them.</text></item><item><author>uncomputation</author><text>&gt; The major goal of the program, Amazon’s head of worldwide consumer business, Dave Clark, said, was to reduce employee attrition by fostering happiness among workers — and also productivity. Shout-Outs would be part of a gamified rewards system in which employees are awarded virtual stars and badges for activities that “add direct business value,” documents state. At the meeting, Clark remarked that “some people are insane star collectors.”<p>Truly insane, there is nothing stranger (or more dystopian) than fiction after all. Rather than fix the system of working their employees to death (literally in the case of the tornado) or improving their conditions, Amazon tries to use virtual gold stars (not even physical stickers like kindergarten) as a band-aid. That list of banned words is right out of 1984 (as cliché as it is to reference at this point): ethics, fairness, freedom.<p>I cannot imagine anyone here seriously defending this unless you’re just looking to be a contrarian. This is not “par for the course” for manual labor jobs as some people are claiming. Most manual labor jobs do not restrict you from talking about ethics or justice with your coworkers or have even a need for some virtual gold stars beyond a little whiteboard in the building with number of sales, employee of the month, etc. The fact that these techniques won’t work for Amazon just shows that their laborers are really over-worked compared to the norm. Unfortunately, Amazon is able to use their massive resources and capital to pay just more than the local factory, packing gig, etc. so they have a stream of desperate people willing to take it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2022/04/04/amazon-union-living-wage-restrooms-chat-app/</url></story> |
24,474,329 | 24,472,954 | 1 | 3 | 24,470,336 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zzamboni</author><text>Yes, with the org-download module (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abo-abo&#x2F;org-download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abo-abo&#x2F;org-download</a>). I have some additional configuration to paste a screenshot (asking for a filename) using a keybinding. Here is my config: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zzamboni&#x2F;dot-doom&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doom.org#capturing-images" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zzamboni&#x2F;dot-doom&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doom.org#ca...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tomerbd</author><text>Can you copy and paste an image into org mode? In many of my document&#x2F;notes I find that I to copy and paste images into my documents like I take a screenshot and then paste..</text></item><item><author>hpoe</author><text>Just want to throw out there I switched to emacs about 3 months ago after being a long time vimmer, one of the first things I was told was to check out org-mode as it was one of the greatest features of emacs.<p>I heartily agree, after about a month I now do all my document authoring, PDF, LaTex, HTML, personal wiki notes, all of it goes in .org files. It was low barrier to productivity, and not much more effort to turn org mode into a powerful idea and through organizer as well as documentation.<p>Beyond that I can author in org mode and then export to tex, to pdf, to html, to markdown to whatever I want using org mode.<p>If you are a long time vimmer do yourself a favor make the next tech you learn be org-mode in doom-emacs. It is insanely powerful and I will never go back.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Org-mode 9.4 is out. Can you help?</title><url>https://bzg.fr/en/org-mode-9.4-is-out-can-you-help.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>proxygeek</author><text>If you use it on Windows and have Itfanview installed, here&#x27;s is how you can do it to copy paste images from clipboard using C-c-s<p>(defun my-org-screenshot ()
&quot;Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in the
same directory as the org-buffer and insert a link to this file.&quot;
(interactive)
(setq screenshot_dir &quot;.\\images\\&quot;)
(setq tilde-buffer-filename
(replace-regexp-in-string &quot;&#x2F;&quot; &quot;\\&quot; (buffer-name) t t))
(setq filename
(concat
(make-temp-name
(concat screenshot_dir tilde-buffer-filename ;; attempt to make irfanview approach work
&quot;_&quot;
(format-time-string &quot;%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_&quot;)) ) &quot;.png&quot;))
(insert (concat &quot;[[file:&quot; filename &quot;]]&quot;))
(org-display-inline-images))<p>(global-set-key &quot;\C-cs&quot; &#x27;my-org-screenshot)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomerbd</author><text>Can you copy and paste an image into org mode? In many of my document&#x2F;notes I find that I to copy and paste images into my documents like I take a screenshot and then paste..</text></item><item><author>hpoe</author><text>Just want to throw out there I switched to emacs about 3 months ago after being a long time vimmer, one of the first things I was told was to check out org-mode as it was one of the greatest features of emacs.<p>I heartily agree, after about a month I now do all my document authoring, PDF, LaTex, HTML, personal wiki notes, all of it goes in .org files. It was low barrier to productivity, and not much more effort to turn org mode into a powerful idea and through organizer as well as documentation.<p>Beyond that I can author in org mode and then export to tex, to pdf, to html, to markdown to whatever I want using org mode.<p>If you are a long time vimmer do yourself a favor make the next tech you learn be org-mode in doom-emacs. It is insanely powerful and I will never go back.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Org-mode 9.4 is out. Can you help?</title><url>https://bzg.fr/en/org-mode-9.4-is-out-can-you-help.html</url></story> |
35,541,160 | 35,541,532 | 1 | 2 | 35,540,084 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nr2x</author><text>I’m currently setting up infrastructure for a startup and it’s been very interesting how the threat model of data loss and disaster recovery is no longer hardware failure: it’s account lock out.<p>I’ve got streaming replication of my core data going from one cloud company to other company as that way if one has some antifraud system go rogue on me I still have access.<p>As somebody who used to spend a lot of time thinking about drives breaking it’s an interesting shift.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Galaco</author><text>Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity.<p>The required either PayPal or passport. I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using this address; you can’t change the passport country). I am a British citizen living in Japan, and therefore hold a British passport; there was no way for me to provide a Japanese passport. I asked what I should do to comply, and they banned my account 6 hours later.<p>I can’t be the only one to experience this, can I?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/arm64-cloud/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nixass</author><text>&gt; The required either PayPal or passport<p>I had similar struggles with some non-IT service providers in Germany. They couldn&#x27;t fathom why I have non-German nationality, German address and driving license from third country.
Passport, German address and driving license all have different address on them (all three being EU addresses).
It is apparently huge red flag in EU in 21st century.
Incredible</text><parent_chain><item><author>Galaco</author><text>Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity.<p>The required either PayPal or passport. I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using this address; you can’t change the passport country). I am a British citizen living in Japan, and therefore hold a British passport; there was no way for me to provide a Japanese passport. I asked what I should do to comply, and they banned my account 6 hours later.<p>I can’t be the only one to experience this, can I?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/arm64-cloud/</url></story> |
16,612,632 | 16,611,848 | 1 | 2 | 16,610,353 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sleavey</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to compare Stack Overflow to Quora, which was similarly great a few years ago and is now almost worthless, but in a different way. Stack Overflow suffers from militant moderators who close and delete reasonable submissions and answers due to draconian rules. Quora, meanwhile, has been taken over by spammers and idiots, and has lost any sense of trustworthiness. Just today I visited a discussion on Quora about WordPress plugins [1]. The top answer is an advertisement, the second gives an answer but offers no justification (and is also an advertisement), the third is probably an advertisement, and the fourth is again an answer without any justification. Repeat ad absurdum.<p>It&#x27;s weird that both sites&#x27; communities have made it difficult for old users to take part, but in completely different ways.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Which-is-the-best-WordPress-plugin-to-send-new-post-notification-to-subscribers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Which-is-the-best-WordPress-plugin-to-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>SCdF</author><text>I was in the beta of SO. I almost never interact with it anymore.<p>Asking a question on SO is a last resort to me, and I get a horrid sinking feeling in my gut when I feel forced to do so. The people[1] who are still active on it seem to be people who thrive on pedantry and whose goal is to find any potential flaw in your question and feel smart for pointing it out.<p>You begin to realise no one is actually reading your question in good faith, so you start getting defensive: filling your questions with disclaimers about how your example code is just an example[2], how you know there are other ways you could do it but you&#x27;re constrained toward this direction for various reasons[3], and so on and so forth, until you feel like you spend more time defensively shoring up your question from attacks than actually constructing the question in the first place[4]<p>I still read SO, but as someone who was around before it existed I don&#x27;t really feel like the quality of answers is any higher than the random forum posts of yore, it&#x27;s just that they&#x27;re all under the same URL now, and the same user interface.<p>Which I suppose is something.<p>[1] Not all people™, but definitely the general feeling tends this direction<p>[2] classic situation: you simplify your code to Foo and Bar levels to show the problem cleanly, so people chastise you for having a complex data structure &#x2F; worrying about performance &#x2F; whatever for such simple code<p>[3] e.g., &quot;How do I achieve X&quot; gets turned into people saying &quot;Why would you want to achieve X, that&#x27;s stupid&quot;<p>[4] This is not the same as researching the issue and trying as many things as you can think of, which is definitely helpful in any context of question asking</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stack Overflow Culture</title><url>https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2018/03/17/stack-overflow-culture/amp/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moberemk</author><text>I generally agree with all your points, but I also remember the forum posts and I find that SO has at least one big advantage over those: it&#x27;s really quick to pick out a good answer compared to a long thread. Just the fact that a) answers are clearly demarcated vs comments and b) the author can select a &quot;correct&quot; answer makes them way more skimmable than, say, a phpBB thread where every post looks the same.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SCdF</author><text>I was in the beta of SO. I almost never interact with it anymore.<p>Asking a question on SO is a last resort to me, and I get a horrid sinking feeling in my gut when I feel forced to do so. The people[1] who are still active on it seem to be people who thrive on pedantry and whose goal is to find any potential flaw in your question and feel smart for pointing it out.<p>You begin to realise no one is actually reading your question in good faith, so you start getting defensive: filling your questions with disclaimers about how your example code is just an example[2], how you know there are other ways you could do it but you&#x27;re constrained toward this direction for various reasons[3], and so on and so forth, until you feel like you spend more time defensively shoring up your question from attacks than actually constructing the question in the first place[4]<p>I still read SO, but as someone who was around before it existed I don&#x27;t really feel like the quality of answers is any higher than the random forum posts of yore, it&#x27;s just that they&#x27;re all under the same URL now, and the same user interface.<p>Which I suppose is something.<p>[1] Not all people™, but definitely the general feeling tends this direction<p>[2] classic situation: you simplify your code to Foo and Bar levels to show the problem cleanly, so people chastise you for having a complex data structure &#x2F; worrying about performance &#x2F; whatever for such simple code<p>[3] e.g., &quot;How do I achieve X&quot; gets turned into people saying &quot;Why would you want to achieve X, that&#x27;s stupid&quot;<p>[4] This is not the same as researching the issue and trying as many things as you can think of, which is definitely helpful in any context of question asking</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stack Overflow Culture</title><url>https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2018/03/17/stack-overflow-culture/amp/</url></story> |
18,520,844 | 18,520,370 | 1 | 2 | 18,519,901 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>niftich</author><text>While the &#x27;unintended consequences&#x27; story is powerful, the article undermines its credibility by suggesting at first that palm oil&#x27;s use in US biodiesel is a significant contributor to this clusterfuck, but only halfway through does it admit that US biodiesel is chiefly made with corn and soy, ostensibly leaving less of these oils for the US food industry -- forcing imports of other oils.<p>But the truth is even more complex: for the last two decades, US society has gone through a nutritional awakening about the risk of trans fats, and widespread phase-out of trans fats has occurred due to consumer demand and regulatory pressure. Trans fats are a hard-to-avoid byproduct of partial hydrogenation of unsaturated oils: a process you want in food manufacturing to convert a liquid oil to a solid shortening. Corn oil and soybean oil largely consist of unsaturated fats, so partial hydrogenation will turn a fair bit of product into trans fats. But palm oil and coconut oil are naturally high in saturated fats, which gives them desirable properties by natural means and without trans bonds.<p>This is the primary reason for US food manufacturing&#x27;s increased palm oil imports into the US: if widespread partial hydrogenation were still on the table, plentiful cottonseed oil could have been used instead. Crisco and Wesson were both early pioneers of hydrogenated cottonseed oil, but even today&#x27;s Crisco -- the archetypal hydrogenated shortening -- has been reformulated with palm oil and soybean oil.<p>Then there&#x27;s the matter of occasional palm oil boycotts in the US and Europe, protesting about food companies&#x27; use of palm oil from plantations that haven&#x27;t been certified sustainable. Other than the inherent fuzziness and conflict of interest about a trade group deciding what it means for clearcut-type agriculture to be &#x27;sustainable&#x27;, these protests unfortunately cause the average price of all palm oil to drop, leaving others whose priorities are different to buy them up on the cheap. For example, palm oil is widely used as a cooking oil in the Indian Subcontinent, because it&#x27;s cheap, is produced nearby (as opposed to in the Americas or Europe), and those countries have populations whose demand for simple cooking oils well outstrips their domestic supply.<p>There are many factors to this story: the ones investigated in the article, and others that I hope to have shown were missing. This shows that reality is sometimes maddeningly complex, different actors are frequently at odds, and one group&#x27;s good intentions rarely survive the realities and the intricacies the global economy and local situations on the ground where the rubber meets the road.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/magazine/palm-oil-borneo-climate-catastrophe.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>rory096</author><text>This is why taxing carbon is better policy than patchwork regulations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/magazine/palm-oil-borneo-climate-catastrophe.html</url></story> |
7,083,738 | 7,081,835 | 1 | 2 | 7,081,502 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>I achieve this by having multiple users in Chrome. My main user is signed into my google account and has no extensions installed and all plugins disabled, I only access gmail and google services with it.<p>My second user account is logged into basic services like HN, reddit, amazon and has only adblock and disconnect installed.<p>A third user is not logged in anywhere and has adblock and a half-dozen other extensions installed including UA switcher. No plugins installed and cookies + cache cleared every day.<p>4th user has all the anonimity extensions installed and has privoxy + tor set as the proxy<p>I use Facebook in a completely different browser again, YouTube and video watching in yet another and development in chromium.<p>7 or 8 different cookie stores, and a throwaway temp email account associated with the 3rd and 4th user for signing up to services.<p>Start out by creating a separate user for browsing sites and eventually develop your own way to split up your web browsing profiles.<p>This can get a bit messy when you try and access from tablet or mobikle , but I&#x27;d rather not have a single large profile and a huge exploit surface and sacrifice browsing history and remembering passwords.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yaakov34</author><text>Can we start a petition for Google to let us disable extensions on specific sites? After reading the last few stories about this, I am quite sure I don&#x27;t want any extensions whatsoever running in the same tab as my Gmail account. I think there is some extension that does this for you (turns off other extensions per site), but then we get into a &quot;who guards the guardians&quot; situation.<p>Not to mention we need better and finer grained permissions for extensions in general, now that we use so many web apps with crucial data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pasbesoin</author><text>Look into running separate sessions of your browser(s). Both Firefox and Google Chrome (or Chromium) allow you to do this, although the interfaces for doing so differ.<p>A simple way to do this is to use different brands of browser, e.g. Gmail in Chrome and everything else in Firefox. But... if you really prefer one browser over another, for <i>all</i> use, then the separate profiles thing works.<p>Note that in Chrome, this is now confused by the ability to change Google account log-ins. That is <i>not</i> a separate, browser-level profile with separate configuration.<p>Instead, you are looking for the command line invocation argument --user-data-dir (in *NIX, at least; IIRC the flag name may differ slightly in the Windows version).<p>For Firefox, there is the -p flag. IIRC, you have to combine it with another flag in order to ensure both that the profiles are running in separate invocations and that you can be prompted to choose what profile to use when you invoke Firefox.<p>Of course, you can create menu items &#x2F; icons for these invocations to make them &quot;clicky&quot; and avoid having to go to the command line and enter them each time, if you prefer.<p>P.S. Yes, this will help you less if you insist upon clicking directly on&#x2F;through links that are are e.g. mailed to you or, if you have Facebook in its own &quot;box&quot;, posted on Facebook.<p>From that perspective, having per site browser extension variability might still be useful. But then, you&#x27;re still looking at also controlling referer passing, cookies and other local data, etc., etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yaakov34</author><text>Can we start a petition for Google to let us disable extensions on specific sites? After reading the last few stories about this, I am quite sure I don&#x27;t want any extensions whatsoever running in the same tab as my Gmail account. I think there is some extension that does this for you (turns off other extensions per site), but then we get into a &quot;who guards the guardians&quot; situation.<p>Not to mention we need better and finer grained permissions for extensions in general, now that we use so many web apps with crucial data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/?</url></story> |
35,915,349 | 35,915,128 | 1 | 3 | 35,914,705 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bertil</author><text>EU privacy rules are not about the horrors of web-cookies. They require asking for informed consent when you do things that are invading privacies.<p>All the annoying cookie pop-ups are not mandated by the EU; they are a consequence of website operators choosing to use traffic data in a way that some users might disagree with. You can easily do without. You can, and many do, make them clear and informative.<p>Those laws would be imperialistic if a majority of citizens around the world, including a vast majority of American citizens, would not gladly demand the same protection when shown what websites do with their information.<p>This is not just about a frustrating cookie pop-up; this is about having legal options to prevent spammy telemarketers from scamming your elderly relatives. This is about mandating a way to tell ad platforms not to sell you prams after the death of your infant, or show gambling and alcohol ads to addicts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sclarisse</author><text>Look, you can have the laws protecting your citizens from the horrors of everyday web-cookies and the privacy nightmares of the surveillance industry all you like. You can make them as heavy handed as you want, threaten massive fines on worldwide revenue, go mad.<p>You just can’t have them and also simultaneously expect everyone is going to find it worthwhile to deal with you under such laws, such that you’re outraged when they don’t. Or, well, you can, but it’s either quite foolish of you, or it’s imperialistic.</text></item><item><author>gcatalfamo</author><text>Honestly, announcing public release in 180+ countries, and omitting that you are leaving out half of western civilization, it&#x27;s outright malignant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Bard blocks all European Union countries</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2023/05/11/google-bard-european-union/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>There&#x27;s this implicit embedded assumption that because it&#x27;s the EU we&#x27;re talking about and not some small developing nation <i>of course</i> you can&#x27;t just take your ball and decide not to play with them. But of course if you can make the finances work you can do just that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sclarisse</author><text>Look, you can have the laws protecting your citizens from the horrors of everyday web-cookies and the privacy nightmares of the surveillance industry all you like. You can make them as heavy handed as you want, threaten massive fines on worldwide revenue, go mad.<p>You just can’t have them and also simultaneously expect everyone is going to find it worthwhile to deal with you under such laws, such that you’re outraged when they don’t. Or, well, you can, but it’s either quite foolish of you, or it’s imperialistic.</text></item><item><author>gcatalfamo</author><text>Honestly, announcing public release in 180+ countries, and omitting that you are leaving out half of western civilization, it&#x27;s outright malignant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Bard blocks all European Union countries</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2023/05/11/google-bard-european-union/</url></story> |
28,990,779 | 28,990,428 | 1 | 3 | 28,988,281 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Traster</author><text>Well, I think &quot;can this be held in memory&quot; can be a stupid question. What I thought was more of a problem is:<p>&gt; And they were right to fail me for that: the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had.<p>Scale problems are <i>a</i> type of problem. They aren&#x27;t strictly more difficult than problems on a smaller scale. Being able to scale to thousands users&#x2F;cpus&#x2F;shards is a skill. Thinking your niche skills are solving the &quot;difficult&quot; problems and other skills are easier is not a good attitude.</text><parent_chain><item><author>missblit</author><text>&gt; I didn’t know the limit because it had been many years since I’d had a problem that could be solved with a DB small enough to be held in its entirety in memory. And they were right to fail me for that: the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had.<p>No way it&#x27;s &quot;right&quot; to fail an interviewee because they wondered outloud if a dataset can fit in memory. A candidate should be able to estimate the answer, but beyond that it&#x27;s trivia that can be researched as needed -- indeed even asking the question is a positive signal not a negative one (it&#x27;s not just people with &quot;google scale&quot; background who reach for over-complicated solutions).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I don’t know how to count that low</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/koGbEwgbfst2wCbzG/i-don-t-know-how-to-count-that-low</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zomglings</author><text>No one knows why they <i>actually</i> failed her on the interview. Have run many interviews, and it is very rarely the case that you fail a candidate for one technical slip up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>missblit</author><text>&gt; I didn’t know the limit because it had been many years since I’d had a problem that could be solved with a DB small enough to be held in its entirety in memory. And they were right to fail me for that: the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had.<p>No way it&#x27;s &quot;right&quot; to fail an interviewee because they wondered outloud if a dataset can fit in memory. A candidate should be able to estimate the answer, but beyond that it&#x27;s trivia that can be researched as needed -- indeed even asking the question is a positive signal not a negative one (it&#x27;s not just people with &quot;google scale&quot; background who reach for over-complicated solutions).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I don’t know how to count that low</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/koGbEwgbfst2wCbzG/i-don-t-know-how-to-count-that-low</url></story> |
20,369,987 | 20,369,193 | 1 | 2 | 20,367,613 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seieste</author><text>David Epstein&#x27;s book &quot;Range&quot; offers a different view of expert performance -- that it doesn&#x27;t work very well in domains with ambiguity (such as a hidden state), or when a variety of skills are required.<p>In other words, expert performance applies to piano and chess very well, but a diversity of backgrounds is more important for things like management or R&amp;D more broadly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance</title><url>https://acesounderglass.com/2019/06/21/epistemic-spot-check-the-role-of-deliberate-practice-in-the-acquisition-of-expert-performance/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimhefferon</author><text>Ericsson&#x27;s popular-market book <i>Peak</i> has much more than the paper (there are many citations in the back).<p>I remember in particular a duscussion about music students practicing for an optimum, or maybe maximum, number of hours per day. I&#x27;m in math and there are a number of people in math who also say four is the limit; a quick google found this for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theweek.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;696644&#x2F;why-should-work-4-hours-day-according-science" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theweek.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;696644&#x2F;why-should-work-4-hours-...</a>. FWIW.<p>Also well-konwn are the first two paragraphs of Littlewood&#x27;s Miscellany, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;docs&#x2F;math&#x2F;1986-littlewood-littlewoodsmiscellany.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;docs&#x2F;math&#x2F;1986-littlewood-littlewoodsm...</a>, p 189.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance</title><url>https://acesounderglass.com/2019/06/21/epistemic-spot-check-the-role-of-deliberate-practice-in-the-acquisition-of-expert-performance/</url></story> |
32,677,596 | 32,677,903 | 1 | 2 | 32,650,996 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BeefWellington</author><text>&gt; The recent evolution of JS frameworks has been really nice. Performance is basically getting identical to desktop.<p>It&#x27;s getting much much better but performance is only &quot;identical to desktop&quot; if you ignore anything about its resource usage or speed increases in processors over the past decades.<p>&gt; For people not following JS these might all seem like constantly reinventing past lessons, but there is a logical evolution happening here towards desktop-style performance and interactivity on the web. Or pure server-side performance but with full JS interactivity.<p>For people following JS these <i>are</i> examples of constantly relearning past lessons.
I&#x27;m not sure how anyone could reliably expect 100+ms round-trip time (on a good connection) to offer the same experience as something local but I think what it actually means is that the people writing JS-based software haven&#x27;t actually used a native desktop app for years and have done mostly web-based things.<p>You could be forgiven it since HTML&#x2F;JS as a user interface design language appears to have taken over completely, to the point where even the most popular code editors are now web browser-based.<p>Seriously though, go load up any natively compiled app on your OS of choice and compare the speed of it doing any given task to what you get out of web-based versions, electron versions, etc. There isn&#x27;t a comparison.<p>My griping aside, I recognize JS as a language is here to stay and it&#x27;s important to stay on top of its developments and improvements.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>The recent evolution of JS frameworks has been really nice. Performance is basically getting identical to desktop.<p>The three recent developments I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>- &quot;Islands&quot; in Deno <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fresh.deno.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fresh.deno.dev&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remix.run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remix.run&#x2F;</a> where only small isolated parts get hydrated, instead of the whole page<p>- Using <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linear.app" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linear.app</a> style data-flows ala Replicache (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicache.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicache.dev&#x2F;</a>) where JSON data is preloaded for all sub-links and stored offline-first like a desktop app, so clicking on anything loads immediately w&#x2F;o waiting for network requests to finish<p>- Now with &#x27;resumability&#x27; where the server-side framework was built with client hydration in mind and delivers the bare minimum event&#x2F;DOM data necessary to make the page interactive (instead of just being a glorified HTML cache load before the usual JS activates)<p>For people not following JS these might all seem like constantly reinventing past lessons, but there is a logical evolution happening here towards desktop-style performance and interactivity on the web. Or pure server-side performance but with full JS interactivity.<p>The next set of frameworks is going to be as big of an evolution the way Angular&#x2F;Backbone-&gt;React&#x2F;Vue was ~8yrs ago. But it&#x27;s going to require new backend server frameworks, not just a new client framework. There&#x27;s probably a big opportunity for the project that can combine this stuff properly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/javascript-hydration-is-a-workaround-not-a-solution/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doix</author><text>The things you have listed minimize the impact of network latency, they don&#x27;t affect the rendering performance which is still a big deal. Apps that need to render large amounts of data still kind of suck, you&#x27;ll see many apps &quot;virtualize&quot; things. So rather than having 10,000 elements, you have however many fit in your viewport + N and as you scroll they get reused. The tearing hurts my soul.<p>Compare the scrolling in Excel 97 + Windows NT to Google Sheets&#x2F;Office 365. It&#x27;s night and day. The webapps that render everything with WebGL do preform better, but then you have non-native widgets.<p>I hope this problem gets solved one day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>The recent evolution of JS frameworks has been really nice. Performance is basically getting identical to desktop.<p>The three recent developments I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>- &quot;Islands&quot; in Deno <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fresh.deno.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fresh.deno.dev&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remix.run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;remix.run&#x2F;</a> where only small isolated parts get hydrated, instead of the whole page<p>- Using <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linear.app" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;linear.app</a> style data-flows ala Replicache (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicache.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replicache.dev&#x2F;</a>) where JSON data is preloaded for all sub-links and stored offline-first like a desktop app, so clicking on anything loads immediately w&#x2F;o waiting for network requests to finish<p>- Now with &#x27;resumability&#x27; where the server-side framework was built with client hydration in mind and delivers the bare minimum event&#x2F;DOM data necessary to make the page interactive (instead of just being a glorified HTML cache load before the usual JS activates)<p>For people not following JS these might all seem like constantly reinventing past lessons, but there is a logical evolution happening here towards desktop-style performance and interactivity on the web. Or pure server-side performance but with full JS interactivity.<p>The next set of frameworks is going to be as big of an evolution the way Angular&#x2F;Backbone-&gt;React&#x2F;Vue was ~8yrs ago. But it&#x27;s going to require new backend server frameworks, not just a new client framework. There&#x27;s probably a big opportunity for the project that can combine this stuff properly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/javascript-hydration-is-a-workaround-not-a-solution/</url></story> |
2,717,046 | 2,716,823 | 1 | 2 | 2,716,623 | 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>robryan</author><text>With this and other keyword spy like tools I always wonder whether they are at any time likely to get blocked by google. Do you guys have any assurance from google that what you are doing is allowed?</text><parent_chain><item><author>il</author><text>I'm one of the founders of MixRank (we're in the YC S11 batch). If you guys have any questions you can post them here or send them to the email in my profile.<p>The part that TechCrunch left out was that the idea for MixRank started as an Offer HN post(remember those?) where 150 startups asked me for marketing advice:
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163</a><p>I realized that I was giving the same basic suggestions over and over again, and wanted to productize and mass produce strategies for building successful paid traffic campaigns- which usually involves doing market research and figuring out what's currently working in the marketplace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Want To See Which Ads Perform Best? MixRank (YC S11) Is A Spy Tool For AdSense</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/want-to-see-which-ads-perform-best-yc-backed-mixrank-is-a-spy-tool-for-adsense/</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>callmeed</author><text>How do we know you won't get AcquHired and shut down the service down like AdGrok?<p>Yes, I'm being snarky but all these talent acquisitions erode my trust that startups are in this for the long haul. Why give you my time or data if you won't be here in 9 months?</text><parent_chain><item><author>il</author><text>I'm one of the founders of MixRank (we're in the YC S11 batch). If you guys have any questions you can post them here or send them to the email in my profile.<p>The part that TechCrunch left out was that the idea for MixRank started as an Offer HN post(remember those?) where 150 startups asked me for marketing advice:
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163</a><p>I realized that I was giving the same basic suggestions over and over again, and wanted to productize and mass produce strategies for building successful paid traffic campaigns- which usually involves doing market research and figuring out what's currently working in the marketplace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Want To See Which Ads Perform Best? MixRank (YC S11) Is A Spy Tool For AdSense</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/want-to-see-which-ads-perform-best-yc-backed-mixrank-is-a-spy-tool-for-adsense/</url><text></text></story> |
6,869,291 | 6,869,289 | 1 | 2 | 6,868,845 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>I seem to remember that he didn&#x27;t exactly start from zero, but had some idea prior to that and simply learned more about Java. Just sayin&#x27;, because I think it makes it even better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>achille</author><text>Judge Alsup is incredible! You may remember he&#x27;s the judge that learned to code during the Oracle v. Google trial<p>&gt; <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57445082-94/judge-william-alsup-master-of-the-court-and-java/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.cnet.com&#x2F;8301-1035_3-57445082-94&#x2F;judge-william-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“No-fly” trial: Closing arguments</title><url>http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/12/07/no-fly-trial-day-5-part-1-closing-arguments/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzm</author><text>I think credible is more accurate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>achille</author><text>Judge Alsup is incredible! You may remember he&#x27;s the judge that learned to code during the Oracle v. Google trial<p>&gt; <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57445082-94/judge-william-alsup-master-of-the-court-and-java/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.cnet.com&#x2F;8301-1035_3-57445082-94&#x2F;judge-william-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“No-fly” trial: Closing arguments</title><url>http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/12/07/no-fly-trial-day-5-part-1-closing-arguments/</url></story> |
25,277,463 | 25,277,282 | 1 | 2 | 25,276,803 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>omginternets</author><text>I sometimes get called a luddite, but I am honestly quite pessimistic about lab-grown meat. It seems like not that long ago we thought to &quot;hack&quot; unsaturated fats in order to give them a buttery texture. Fast-forward 20 years and it turns out biological systems are unimaginably complex, and trans-fats are quite probably inflammatory agents and carcinogens.<p>There&#x27;s always some risk in innovation, but it seems like synthetic nutrition is an absolute minefield. It&#x27;s not just the raw complexity of the field, either. It&#x27;s also that much of nutrition is junk science, even in the peer-reviewed literature.<p>On a more conspirational note, I also can&#x27;t help but to notice that the agro-dietary industry is a pretty low-margin business. It seems like driving up profit margins requires convincing people that existing foods are somehow unsuitable, and that &quot;innovative&quot; products are therefore needed. I think vegan and ecological sensibilities are being instrumentalized to this end.<p>In any case: this anonymous internet stranger plans on skipping the lab-meat fad.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parsimo2010</author><text>I will be interested to see how this scales over time. Most of the world doesn&#x27;t really care if their meat is cruelty-free (not enough to pay extra for it), but I think they&#x27;ll move to lab grown meat if it has other benefits. Conventional livestock farming takes a lot of work to ensure that the food supply is safe (sanitation and testing), and I assume that lab grown meat has a natural advantage in this area. I would love if lab grown meat had a guarantee of less bacteria so I could cook my meat less. I would also love it if lab grown meat had customizable texture and fat content. That&#x27;s stuff I&#x27;d pay extra money to have. Once the premium products see wide distribution I assume that a cheaper grade will become available.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time</url></story> |
36,885,344 | 36,885,312 | 1 | 3 | 36,879,991 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>OK, great example, so I&#x27;ll explain why a smart contract couldn&#x27;t work here at all.<p>So, to start, going to be clear I&#x27;m using your specific example of &quot;escrowing funds on purchase of a piece of real estate (and I mean actual, real, real estate)&quot;. Simple enough. But, at the end of the day, who is to say &quot;the keys you gave me are really the keys to the house you said you sold me&quot;? That is, there needs to be some way to import to the smart contract ecosystem &quot;yes, these are the keys to the house he sold me, and yes, the seller is the unencumbered title holder of this house&quot;. There is no real way to do that without some sort of oracle, and then you&#x27;ve just moved the problem back a step (i.e. you need to trust the oracle).<p>I happen to think title insurance is vastly overpriced in many states, but that&#x27;s not the same thing as thinking that title companies (who normally do escrow in the US) don&#x27;t serve a very important purpose. Most importantly, they ensure the seller is the actual title holder. And I can hear the crypto fans saying &quot;Well, if you just held that title on a blockchain, there would be no ambiguity about who owns it.&quot; But that just pretends that all the real world examples don&#x27;t exist, like a contractor who puts a lien on a house because he claims he wasn&#x27;t paid. Also, in the real world, if someone steals the key to your house, it&#x27;s not usually that hard to evict them and change your locks. In the crypto world it&#x27;s &quot;sorry, finders keepers&quot;.<p>So again, this simple example just falls apart on further inspection. Very happy to hear why any of the rationale I&#x27;ve given above is not correct.</text><parent_chain><item><author>photonthug</author><text>Escrow is the simple thing. Suppose you want to buy a house or a car, and you show up with a bag of money and someone else shows up with a set of keys. How to proceed without the transaction requiring trust between people who don&#x27;t know each other? If you physically get the car&#x2F;house&#x2F;keys, what guarantees that title was transferred as expected? Depending on the cash volume and the jurisdiction, there is basically no established mechanism for doing this peer-to-peer. If you&#x27;re &quot;lucky&quot; then you see a whole industry of middle-men created around trying to solve &#x2F;skim on this, which then increases the costs of transaction (say realtors or car dealerships). If you&#x27;re unlucky, then there&#x27;s simply no way to have a trust-free transaction, and you just weigh the risk and take it or leave it.<p>This does seem solvable, right? Because there&#x27;s only a few APIs (bank transfers, title queries) that are involved in a fully automatic escrow. Such escrow could be provided as a free service by the government, or it might be pay-per-use (and simply cost less than markup from dealerships&#x2F;realtors).</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Wish I could upvote this more.<p>I&#x27;m a reasonably intelligent person. My job requires me to learn complex technical details about a bunch of different domains - it may take me a while to grok it all, but I usually can once I do my research.<p>The thing that is striking to me whenever smart contracts come up is how <i>extremely rare</i> it is to be just presented with a simple, understandable, real-world use case that is an improvement over existing alternatives. Instead, so often you get:<p>1. Long missives about how the technology is really cool, but that completely sidestep the original question: show me a simple example of what a smart contract is used for.<p>2. Lots of examples <i>that are only relevant to crypto in the first place</i> (i.e. just speculating on valuation movements in crypto). What I mean by this is that the purpose of finance (at least the intended purpose) should be to provide capital for <i>real</i> goods and services. Pretty much all of the smart contract examples I&#x27;ve seen are just, for example, triggers related to the prices of a bunch of different tokens.<p>I would honestly be thrilled if someone could just give a simple example of someone actually using this stuff in the real world.<p>OK, please commence all the &quot;HN just always hates on crypto&quot; non-responses... (this last sentence is sarcasm but also born out of frustration of getting straightforward answers in this domain).</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>Can someone give me a good use case (even better if you&#x27;re doing it yourself) for a smart contract?<p>What is anyone doing with them that they find really handy?<p>I&#x27;ve never been able to understand how it gets used &#x2F; why you would use smart contracts. I&#x27;ve googled and read... still don&#x27;t grok it.<p>I&#x27;ve seen so many &quot;benefits&quot; listed, but none make sense to me as far as the process you go through and how it works out in the end. Often it&#x27;s described as a magic thing that eliminates the use of &quot;intermediaries&quot; and so on. I suppose that is true but you only get to that by going through all the complexity of from making sure someone writes a good contract &#x2F; getting folks from the outside to review and validate it and so on. I&#x27;m not sure that saved a lot in the end.<p>Much like a most things blockchain I find these ideas (not bad ones) and then the practical usage ... much less than ideal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smart Contract Security Field Guide</title><url>https://scsfg.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>duxup</author><text>One theory I have about all this is that doing deals with zero trust is that ... people don&#x27;t want to do that ... and no matter what you do there&#x27;s going to be this whole process around these transactions to provide some assurances and so on. On the surface all this title company stuff is silly and it is, unless there&#x27;s a real problem with the title and then you want it.<p>These are human problems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>photonthug</author><text>Escrow is the simple thing. Suppose you want to buy a house or a car, and you show up with a bag of money and someone else shows up with a set of keys. How to proceed without the transaction requiring trust between people who don&#x27;t know each other? If you physically get the car&#x2F;house&#x2F;keys, what guarantees that title was transferred as expected? Depending on the cash volume and the jurisdiction, there is basically no established mechanism for doing this peer-to-peer. If you&#x27;re &quot;lucky&quot; then you see a whole industry of middle-men created around trying to solve &#x2F;skim on this, which then increases the costs of transaction (say realtors or car dealerships). If you&#x27;re unlucky, then there&#x27;s simply no way to have a trust-free transaction, and you just weigh the risk and take it or leave it.<p>This does seem solvable, right? Because there&#x27;s only a few APIs (bank transfers, title queries) that are involved in a fully automatic escrow. Such escrow could be provided as a free service by the government, or it might be pay-per-use (and simply cost less than markup from dealerships&#x2F;realtors).</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Wish I could upvote this more.<p>I&#x27;m a reasonably intelligent person. My job requires me to learn complex technical details about a bunch of different domains - it may take me a while to grok it all, but I usually can once I do my research.<p>The thing that is striking to me whenever smart contracts come up is how <i>extremely rare</i> it is to be just presented with a simple, understandable, real-world use case that is an improvement over existing alternatives. Instead, so often you get:<p>1. Long missives about how the technology is really cool, but that completely sidestep the original question: show me a simple example of what a smart contract is used for.<p>2. Lots of examples <i>that are only relevant to crypto in the first place</i> (i.e. just speculating on valuation movements in crypto). What I mean by this is that the purpose of finance (at least the intended purpose) should be to provide capital for <i>real</i> goods and services. Pretty much all of the smart contract examples I&#x27;ve seen are just, for example, triggers related to the prices of a bunch of different tokens.<p>I would honestly be thrilled if someone could just give a simple example of someone actually using this stuff in the real world.<p>OK, please commence all the &quot;HN just always hates on crypto&quot; non-responses... (this last sentence is sarcasm but also born out of frustration of getting straightforward answers in this domain).</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>Can someone give me a good use case (even better if you&#x27;re doing it yourself) for a smart contract?<p>What is anyone doing with them that they find really handy?<p>I&#x27;ve never been able to understand how it gets used &#x2F; why you would use smart contracts. I&#x27;ve googled and read... still don&#x27;t grok it.<p>I&#x27;ve seen so many &quot;benefits&quot; listed, but none make sense to me as far as the process you go through and how it works out in the end. Often it&#x27;s described as a magic thing that eliminates the use of &quot;intermediaries&quot; and so on. I suppose that is true but you only get to that by going through all the complexity of from making sure someone writes a good contract &#x2F; getting folks from the outside to review and validate it and so on. I&#x27;m not sure that saved a lot in the end.<p>Much like a most things blockchain I find these ideas (not bad ones) and then the practical usage ... much less than ideal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smart Contract Security Field Guide</title><url>https://scsfg.io/</url></story> |
12,565,500 | 12,564,393 | 1 | 2 | 12,563,852 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sippeangelo</author><text>My biggest problem with this is when the images auto-replacing your text emotes convey a completely different expression, and you have no control over it.<p>Skype is the worst offender, where for example the &quot;:3&quot; cat-face gets replaced by an image of a whole cat, without a face at all. If you disable this &quot;feature&quot; in your options, it&#x27;s only disabled on YOUR end. The receiving client will still convert your text into images, so now you have NO clue at all how the receiving party interprets your expressions.<p>Telegram does this RIGHT, where the conversion is done BEFORE your message is sent. If you disable it on your end, the receiver will only receive the text you intended.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jgw</author><text>It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol&#x27; ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There&#x27;s something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph.<p>I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened.<p>Tangentially-related, I can&#x27;t fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed</title><url>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cholantesh</author><text>Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jgw</author><text>It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol&#x27; ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There&#x27;s something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph.<p>I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened.<p>Tangentially-related, I can&#x27;t fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed</title><url>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm</url></story> |
19,851,679 | 19,850,848 | 1 | 3 | 19,850,071 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boomskats</author><text>Every time TimescaleDB is brought up, I feel the need to point people to their shadily worded proprietary licence[0], and pg_partman[1].<p>Do the same benchmarks against a pg_partman managed partitioned db and you&#x27;ll get the exact same performance. We do, at least - 150k or so metrics per second, 10 columns per metric.<p>Not trying to crap on the TimescaleDB guys, I&#x27;ve found a lot of their writeups extremely useful and can totally see how their commercially supported product fits. However, I like to see pg_partman at least mentioned somewhere in the article&#x2F;comments. It&#x27;s awesome and does the same job.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timescale&#x2F;timescaledb&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;LICENSE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timescale&#x2F;timescaledb&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;LICENSE</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pgpartman&#x2F;pg_partman" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pgpartman&#x2F;pg_partman</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB</title><url>https://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-time-series-data-and-timescaledb/6642/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>linsomniac</author><text>Experiences with Zabbix? I tried it back around a decade ago and wanted to like it, but didn&#x27;t find it very reliable. And now the details are escaping me. I ended up sticking with Nagios and Opsview. Around 5 years ago I switched to a templated Icinga2 config and have been pretty happy with that, but it&#x27;s pretty low level.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB</title><url>https://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-time-series-data-and-timescaledb/6642/</url></story> |
27,689,423 | 27,689,187 | 1 | 3 | 27,688,090 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>WARC can record and replay single-page apps, but it struggles with knowing where a &quot;page&quot; begins and ends.<p>There was a time when I was furious with the web going to hell and I investigated the possibility of &quot;web without browsers&quot; that started with making a WARC capture of page and putting pages through extensive filtering and classification before the user sees anything.<p>With interactive capturing you can push a button to indicate that a page is done &quot;loading&quot; but with automated capturing you can&#x27;t really know that the page is done or that you got a good capture. That ended the project right there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uniqueuid</author><text>By the way, the technical side of this is very interesting. If you look at the tools mentioned (the wayback machine, but also perma.cc and other archival solutions), almost all of them rely on a single semi-modern tech stack that produces WARCs (web archives - ISO - ISO 28500:2017 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iipc.github.io&#x2F;warc-specifications&#x2F;specifications&#x2F;warc-format&#x2F;warc-1.1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iipc.github.io&#x2F;warc-specifications&#x2F;specifications&#x2F;wa...</a>).<p>The main crawler still seems to be heritrix3 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internetarchive&#x2F;heritrix3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internetarchive&#x2F;heritrix3</a>), but there&#x27;s a great little ecosystem with tools such as webrecorder and warcprox.<p>Still, I&#x27;ve read through the code of these tools and am feeling that they are failing in the face of the modern web with single page apps, mobile phone apps and walled gardens. Even newer iterations with browser automation are getting increasingly throttled and blocked and excluded from walled gardens.<p>Perhaps the time has come for a coordinated, decentralized but omnipresent approach to archival.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Honestly, it would be a better use of surplus resources than crypto mining.<p>If only there are a way to algorithmically tie a proof of work for a new cryptocurrency to archival of the internet in a way that wouldn&#x27;t be easily gamed (by people archiving easy to access content or highly redundant archival of trivia).</text><parent_chain><item><author>uniqueuid</author><text>By the way, the technical side of this is very interesting. If you look at the tools mentioned (the wayback machine, but also perma.cc and other archival solutions), almost all of them rely on a single semi-modern tech stack that produces WARCs (web archives - ISO - ISO 28500:2017 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iipc.github.io&#x2F;warc-specifications&#x2F;specifications&#x2F;warc-format&#x2F;warc-1.1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iipc.github.io&#x2F;warc-specifications&#x2F;specifications&#x2F;wa...</a>).<p>The main crawler still seems to be heritrix3 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internetarchive&#x2F;heritrix3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internetarchive&#x2F;heritrix3</a>), but there&#x27;s a great little ecosystem with tools such as webrecorder and warcprox.<p>Still, I&#x27;ve read through the code of these tools and am feeling that they are failing in the face of the modern web with single page apps, mobile phone apps and walled gardens. Even newer iterations with browser automation are getting increasingly throttled and blocked and excluded from walled gardens.<p>Perhaps the time has come for a coordinated, decentralized but omnipresent approach to archival.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/</url></story> |
2,498,976 | 2,498,906 | 1 | 2 | 2,498,755 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jameskilton</author><text>What makes this project even more incredible is the fact that it's written in C# under .NET 4.0 using IronRuby for the parser.<p>Yes it says Mono is supported, but why? Windows is the least run environment for <i>either</i> of these languages (Ruby / PHP). Were I to guess, I'd say this was a dare that it couldn't be done, and if that's the case, then hats off to the owner for doing it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fructose: compile Ruby into PHP</title><url>http://www.fructoselang.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aphyr</author><text>Upvoting for sheer perversity.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fructose: compile Ruby into PHP</title><url>http://www.fructoselang.org/</url></story> |
10,913,205 | 10,913,196 | 1 | 3 | 10,912,880 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timonovici</author><text>How would heavily armed citizenry help solve the problem? Are you going to put a hole in the head of the officer who takes your cash out of your car? Won&#x27;t that lead to anarchy or civil war, eventually? Maybe...consider changing the law, eh?</text><parent_chain><item><author>balls187</author><text>John Oliver had a great piece on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks</a><p>In the US, where the constitution expressly prohibits it: that your property is seized w&#x2F;o due process is complete and utter garbage.<p>By no means am I a right-wing&#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manachar</author><text>It does go through a process, which at this point is considered constitutional, or more properly worded, has yet to be ruled unconstitutional in court.<p>Civil forfeiture was a highly successful tool to combat organized crime and grew enormously in the 80s with Reagan&#x27;s odious war on drugs. It basically solves the problem of illicitly used money being able to free people the government wanted wanted to stop.<p>As a tool for dismantling organized crime, it was effective, useful, and generally seemed basically fair and as such seemed to survive court review.<p>Then came the war on drugs and a dose of right-wing anti-tax thinking.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s now possible for a drug dealer to serve time in a forfeiture-financed prison after being arrested by agents driving a forfeiture-provided automobile while working in a forfeiture-funded sting operation.&quot; — Reagan attorney general Richard Thornburgh in 1989.<p>It was specifically designed to help fund agencies in a way that replaced tax revenue. Starting at roughly this same time period most government agencies at all levels became cash-strapped in various ways. This meant some agencies have turned to civil forfeiture to create revenue.<p>It&#x27;s clearly a bad incentive and needs to be reined in and reformulated to ensure rights are being respected.<p>BTW, a heavily armed citizenry is precisely why local police departments advocate for more and more militarized equipment. They&#x27;ll call them gang members and drug dealers, but they are heavily armed citizenry nonetheless. Armed citizens won&#x27;t solve any part of this problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>balls187</author><text>John Oliver had a great piece on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks</a><p>In the US, where the constitution expressly prohibits it: that your property is seized w&#x2F;o due process is complete and utter garbage.<p>By no means am I a right-wing&#x2F;vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/</url></story> |
21,972,231 | 21,972,435 | 1 | 3 | 21,970,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>entangledqubit</author><text>Does anyone know whether eye safety is de facto maintained when your eye is being continuously bombarded by the 100+ scanning lasers being emitted from each of the 100 cars in the vicinity of an intersection? I&#x27;m on board with the case with a handful of lasers scanning by quickly but the energy may really start to add up in certain plausible future scenarios.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view</title><url>https://ouster.com/blog/128-channel-lidar-sensors-long-range-and-ultra-wide-view/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kensai</author><text>Am surprised no one yet cited Elon saying &quot;this is fool&#x27;s errand&quot; because of price, complexity, etc. I think LIDAR will improve significantly the safety of vehicles (autonomous or not) because it can definitely see better and deeper, even in damning weather conditions (rain, fog, haze).<p>Alas, the price of these devices has to come down at least one order of magnitude. Maybe even two. Still, I am really thankful that other companies (since Tesla has no interest in it) are considering and further developing LIDAR.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view</title><url>https://ouster.com/blog/128-channel-lidar-sensors-long-range-and-ultra-wide-view/</url></story> |
26,560,336 | 26,560,382 | 1 | 3 | 26,558,939 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>It can use as much as 15W under heavy load, but most of my Pi 4-based projects seem to idle around 3-5W.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;Because I want to leave this on 24&#x2F;7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.<p>But the Pi4 can use as much as 15W, it has left the realm of &quot;low powered&quot; devices long time ago.<p>I have a very old(2013) HP workstation that I use as a NAS, with a 2nd gen i5, and when running it uses 20W of power, measured by myself.</text></item><item><author>gkfasdfasdf</author><text>Can somebody please just make a NUC-type device that I can purchase as a unit with the following included:<p><pre><code> Rasberry PI 8GB + WiFi + Bluetooth
NVMe &gt;= 128gb
Power supply appropriate for PI+NVMe (3.5A perhaps?)
Case with appropriate cooling
Ubuntu &gt;= 20.04
</code></pre>
I would pay up to $200 USD for such a product. Why not an intel NUC? Because I want to leave this on 24&#x2F;7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.<p>Yes I can build it myself, but shopping for, gathering all the parts etc is time consuming and I&#x27;d rather be writing my apps etc to run on the device instead...<p>EDIT: formatting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-can-boot-nvme-ssds-now</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Decabytes</author><text>In the video linked below at 6:55 he says the PI can consume up to 10 watts at peak. Referencing the Raspberry pi documentation^1 it says that the PI 4 consumes 600mA of power at typical bare board consumption. Looking at intel Ark^2 for a i5 sandy bridge shows a TDP of 95W. So it has the capability of pulling far more watts. Sure the Intel computer is much more powerful than the PI 4, but just as your computer is only using 20 watts of power in a NAS setting, the pi will probably be pulling far less than 10watts, especially when idling. So while not the lowest power you can get, still an incredible amount ratio for performance to power. I suspect that for a pi4 running 24&#x2F;7 with cron jobs, the wattage will be far lower than what an older intel CPU would pull, but this is just a theory, I&#x27;d have to have the parts myself to test it out<p>1.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;raspberrypi&#x2F;power&#x2F;README.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;raspberry...</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;www&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;ark&#x2F;products&#x2F;52207&#x2F;intel-core-i5-2400-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;www&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;ark&#x2F;products&#x2F;52207&#x2F;i...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;Because I want to leave this on 24&#x2F;7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.<p>But the Pi4 can use as much as 15W, it has left the realm of &quot;low powered&quot; devices long time ago.<p>I have a very old(2013) HP workstation that I use as a NAS, with a 2nd gen i5, and when running it uses 20W of power, measured by myself.</text></item><item><author>gkfasdfasdf</author><text>Can somebody please just make a NUC-type device that I can purchase as a unit with the following included:<p><pre><code> Rasberry PI 8GB + WiFi + Bluetooth
NVMe &gt;= 128gb
Power supply appropriate for PI+NVMe (3.5A perhaps?)
Case with appropriate cooling
Ubuntu &gt;= 20.04
</code></pre>
I would pay up to $200 USD for such a product. Why not an intel NUC? Because I want to leave this on 24&#x2F;7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.<p>Yes I can build it myself, but shopping for, gathering all the parts etc is time consuming and I&#x27;d rather be writing my apps etc to run on the device instead...<p>EDIT: formatting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-can-boot-nvme-ssds-now</url></story> |
27,844,602 | 27,844,675 | 1 | 3 | 27,843,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scandox</author><text>You are harmed by the drug trade. You live in a society where a totally unregulated industry allows bad people to get very rich and exercise illegitimate power through violence and corruption.<p>You live in a society where young people become addicts and rob and harm the people they love and then die prematurely.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the-dude</author><text>As a Dutch citizen I am bit worried about what they will do to obtain an alternative income stream. I am not really harmed by the drug trade.<p>I would be harmed by robberies on the street or in the home.</text></item><item><author>s_dev</author><text>Hopefully this has a &#x27;Veronica Guerin&#x27; effect.<p>An Irish crime reporter was killed for being too curious by drug bosses. The subsequent Garda investigation was so intense and far reaching that it&#x27;s estimated the the drug operations lost huge money over the coming years -- the Irish state implemented news laws and even the creation of &#x27;Criminal Assets Bureau&#x27; came from Veronicas death.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Veronica_Guerin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Veronica_Guerin</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-crime-reporter-de-vries-dies-after-being-shot-rtl-news-2021-07-15/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trentnix</author><text><i>I am not really harmed by the drug trade. I would be harmed by robberies on the street or in the home.</i><p>The latter comes packaged with the former.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the-dude</author><text>As a Dutch citizen I am bit worried about what they will do to obtain an alternative income stream. I am not really harmed by the drug trade.<p>I would be harmed by robberies on the street or in the home.</text></item><item><author>s_dev</author><text>Hopefully this has a &#x27;Veronica Guerin&#x27; effect.<p>An Irish crime reporter was killed for being too curious by drug bosses. The subsequent Garda investigation was so intense and far reaching that it&#x27;s estimated the the drug operations lost huge money over the coming years -- the Irish state implemented news laws and even the creation of &#x27;Criminal Assets Bureau&#x27; came from Veronicas death.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Veronica_Guerin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Veronica_Guerin</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-crime-reporter-de-vries-dies-after-being-shot-rtl-news-2021-07-15/</url></story> |
15,714,528 | 15,714,526 | 1 | 2 | 15,713,511 | 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>c2h5oh</author><text>It&#x27;s a clusterfuck of epic proportions.<p>Let&#x27;s say you use Amazon Fulfilment (FBA):<p>1. Does just storing goods in a state establish tax nexus in that state? Most states claim it does, but it hasn&#x27;t been tested in court.<p>2. Assuming it does, Amazon keeps moving your goods between warehouses - how do you keep track which states do you have nexus in and need to have a business license in?<p>3. Assuming you figured it out, in some places you need to register per county, not per state (I believe it was 10+ registrations in one state, can&#x27;t remember which). With all the locations with Amazon warehouses you&#x27;re looking at 25+ licences. Possibly 40+.<p>4. Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re willing to handle the 40+ business licences you&#x27;re supposedly required to hold, you have to file 40+ tax returns with different deadlines, make 40 payments and keep track of law changes. Also you have to pay to get a business license and often you have to pay to keep it active every year.<p>5. Add being a foreign seller (let&#x27;s say Canadian):<p>- out of all the states with Amazon warehouses only 2 will accept a non-us business address when registering for a business license. The others either don&#x27;t allow you to select a country, require you to select a US state or only accept The One True Zipcode Format.<p>- taxes you remit using ACH will also routinely explode due to a non-US address on your US bank account.<p>- sure, you can file a paper registration (usually at 3+ times the registration fee), unless the state only accepts a XFA PDF form that generates a scannable code. One DOR representative told me the only way I&#x27;m getting a licence in that case is if I show up in person.<p>- government issued photo id is sometimes required. Guess which government often is the only one that exists ;-)<p>By comparison in EU you collect VAT per destination country, remit it to your local tax office indicating where it should go and forget about the whole thing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/technology/amazon-sales-tax.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>maaaats</author><text>&gt; <i>(...) from the millions of independent merchants who sell products through Amazon’s website</i><p>It may make Amazon of lot of money, but it has become increasingly frustrating to try to buy products through Amazon. Get thousands of hits on a search. Mostly the same crap through a thousand dropshippers. Used to shop through Amazon because it was consistent and easy. Now it&#x27;s like shopping on Ebay.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/technology/amazon-sales-tax.html</url></story> |
26,754,137 | 26,753,079 | 1 | 3 | 26,750,452 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bukhmanizer</author><text>My personal feelings are that all 3 are possible, but approximately 0.0001% of people will actually consider the likelihood of each one, but rather, most will choose whichever one is most convenient and comfortable to believe in.<p>Of course as an Asian person, whatever people believe in will have a direct impact on me. I remember after 9&#x2F;11, the amount of awful things that were said and done to the Sikh population in my city. It didn’t matter they had literally nothing to do with the attacks. People were angry and wanted someone to blame.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eightysixfour</author><text>I feel like people are doing a poor job distinguishing between &quot;engineered&quot; and &quot;leaked.&quot;<p>There is, from my understanding, reasonable evidence to conclude the virus was not engineered from the perspective of &quot;we took genes from one virus and moved them to this virus,&quot; but there&#x27;s no evidence disproving the idea that it was the result of gain of function research.<p>My personal feeling is that these statements are true:<p>* The virus is unlikely to have been engineered (in the way I described above) and leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was the result of gain of function research and it leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was a natural research sample and it leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was introduced by an animal&#x2F;person who traveled to the wet market.<p>Some of these are more likely than others, and an individual&#x27;s own calibration for what is likely or unlikely will probably come into play more than evidence in the short term and possibly long term as well. I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.</text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that:<p>1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. If such viruses were to escape the lab, they would appear &quot;natural&quot;<p>2. It&#x27;s not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak, because the US was itself funding gain of function research on novel coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL4 lab<p>3. Lab leaks happen more often than most people realize[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>I like this presentation of evidence. Rarely do you see such a short acknowledgement that there are multiple contradictory theories, each having some evidence, and making no attempt to pick which theory is correct.<p>Sometimes its wrong to present &quot;both sides&quot; like that. Like pretending the evidence against the moon landings is equal to the evidence for the moon landings. But if you&#x27;re going to be wrong, this is probably the best kind of wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eightysixfour</author><text>I feel like people are doing a poor job distinguishing between &quot;engineered&quot; and &quot;leaked.&quot;<p>There is, from my understanding, reasonable evidence to conclude the virus was not engineered from the perspective of &quot;we took genes from one virus and moved them to this virus,&quot; but there&#x27;s no evidence disproving the idea that it was the result of gain of function research.<p>My personal feeling is that these statements are true:<p>* The virus is unlikely to have been engineered (in the way I described above) and leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was the result of gain of function research and it leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was a natural research sample and it leaked.<p>* There is circumstantial evidence the virus was introduced by an animal&#x2F;person who traveled to the wet market.<p>Some of these are more likely than others, and an individual&#x27;s own calibration for what is likely or unlikely will probably come into play more than evidence in the short term and possibly long term as well. I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though.</text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that:<p>1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. If such viruses were to escape the lab, they would appear &quot;natural&quot;<p>2. It&#x27;s not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak, because the US was itself funding gain of function research on novel coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL4 lab<p>3. Lab leaks happen more often than most people realize[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/</url></story> |
41,232,410 | 41,229,411 | 1 | 2 | 41,206,168 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noddingham</author><text>That&#x27;s simply not true. I&#x27;ve stayed at PH, TI, and the Venetian over the last 3 years for conferences and personal travel, I pass on housekeeping the whole week, and there have been no security checks like you describe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Since the festival shooting Vegas hotels have a policy of entering every room every 24 hours. If you skip housekeeping, they get suspicious and then they send security to check on you.<p>Some clever hackers figured out how to use the phone system to make them think housekeeping had been there[0], so now they do inspections when BlackHat&#x2F;DefCon is in town because they don&#x27;t trust their own tracking systems.<p>[0] One of the hotels had housekeeping dial *5 on the room phone when they entered the room to clean, and then *5 again when they left. So some hackers would put out their &quot;do not clean&quot; sign and then just dial *5 twice 10 minutes apart so no one would get suspicious.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees</title><url>https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/invasion-of-privacy-hotel-room-inspections-confuse-hacker-convention-attendees-3121350/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Shank</author><text>I think your post contradicts itself. It sounds like they &quot;do inspections&quot; every day of the year.<p>&gt; Since the festival shooting Vegas hotels have a policy of entering every room every 24 hours<p>&gt; so now they do inspections when BlackHat&#x2F;DefCon is in town because they don&#x27;t trust their own tracking systems<p>What&#x27;s the difference between these two statements? It sounds to me like the only point is that they have a manual ledger to track inspections, which is probably for the best, given that any would-be domestic terrorist would surely know how to use Google and find this information too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Since the festival shooting Vegas hotels have a policy of entering every room every 24 hours. If you skip housekeeping, they get suspicious and then they send security to check on you.<p>Some clever hackers figured out how to use the phone system to make them think housekeeping had been there[0], so now they do inspections when BlackHat&#x2F;DefCon is in town because they don&#x27;t trust their own tracking systems.<p>[0] One of the hotels had housekeeping dial *5 on the room phone when they entered the room to clean, and then *5 again when they left. So some hackers would put out their &quot;do not clean&quot; sign and then just dial *5 twice 10 minutes apart so no one would get suspicious.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees</title><url>https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/invasion-of-privacy-hotel-room-inspections-confuse-hacker-convention-attendees-3121350/</url></story> |
25,021,699 | 25,021,010 | 1 | 2 | 25,017,167 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gao8a</author><text>This might not be for you, and not for me either.<p>But it&#x27;s for the 13 y&#x2F;o me that was figuring out how to use alcohol 120% to burn the latest games or fix my computer from all the viruses I got downloading movies and music at that time from p2p.<p>And if it wasn&#x27;t for that pursuit that led to many other skills and opportunities, I know a lot of us wouldn&#x27;t be in the financial situations we are in right now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdifrgechd</author><text>I just want to mention that what I like about Spotify is I dont have to bother figuring this kind of thing out, because it provides music I want to listen to at a price that is completely reasonable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client</title><url>https://gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism/spotifykeydumper</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fuzzy2</author><text>&gt; it provides music I want to listen to at a price that is completely reasonable.<p>Until it doesn&#x27;t<p>I use Spotify a lot. Maybe too much. And disappearing music is a real plague. Now it&#x27;s there, now it&#x27;s not. Why? Licensing perhaps, who knows.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdifrgechd</author><text>I just want to mention that what I like about Spotify is I dont have to bother figuring this kind of thing out, because it provides music I want to listen to at a price that is completely reasonable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client</title><url>https://gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism/spotifykeydumper</url></story> |
10,846,723 | 10,846,711 | 1 | 2 | 10,846,317 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oavdeev</author><text>Stock Ubuntu needs SR-IOV driver to get to the actual bandwidth limit on ec2, it makes a lot of difference. We routinely get to ~2 Gbps down from S3 with that setup (using largest instance types).<p>edit: Gbps not GBps</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage</title><url>http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-performance.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>lowbloodsugar</author><text>If you are pulling large files from S3 we have found that they can be sped up by requesting multiple ranges simultaneously. It is easy to hit 5Gb&#x2F;s or 10Gb&#x2F;s on instances with the necessary bandwidth, accessing a single file, or multiple files. We have not encountered a limit on S3 itself. YMMV.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage</title><url>http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-performance.html</url></story> |
5,004,181 | 5,003,023 | 1 | 2 | 5,001,830 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>I've had to resolve merge conflicts with pbxproj files and xib files, and while it's not pretty, it's not a good enough reason to eschew interface builder. There's a reason that toolset is still around since the NeXTStep days: it's powerful. It gets a lot of giggles from people who are less experienced with Cocoa / iOS, and think that programmatically defined UI is for 'real' coders. In my experience, the amount of time you save wiring-up an app with interface builder is significant. With the editor assistant screen open, you can even drag UI element outlets directly to your code, and it will automatically insert your property declarations (and same with method actions). The idea that I'm going to grok someone else's UI code at a glance -- the same way I would looking at a visual document -- is absurd. Does interface builder fit every situation? Absolutely not. But for the vast majority of apps, you'll get your rapid prototype finished more quickly if you use the tools, and then you can tweak from there.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Behind enemy lines: 3 months as an iOS developer at Google</title><url>http://www.splinter.com.au/2012/12/26/behind-enemy-lines-google/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidjgraph</author><text>Am I the only one thinking that this contract was probably bound under an NDA, and that making such a post is generally bad practice leaving employment/a contract (regardless of whether there's an NDA).<p>I know nothing ultra-secret is given away, but if I were looking for a contractor, I'd be concerned that such a person might perform a post-mortem on my company after leaving as well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Behind enemy lines: 3 months as an iOS developer at Google</title><url>http://www.splinter.com.au/2012/12/26/behind-enemy-lines-google/</url></story> |
3,006,149 | 3,005,773 | 1 | 3 | 3,005,535 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sriramk</author><text>Honestly, I find this article ridiculous and borderline offensive. I would love if the author would come talk to a few of us and maybe take a tour of the place and see what makes this place work.<p>I work at Yahoo, joined a few months ago, run engineering management for a couple of teams working on high-performance cloud stuff very core to the way Yahoo works. I find the engineers sharp and smart, the technology problems fascinating (insane scale/perf requirements) and in general, look forward to getting up and driving to Sunnyvale every morning.<p>None of that is going to change unless something really dramatic happens.<p>P.S We're hiring. :) If any of you want to work on a platform serving a ridiculous (and I do mean ridiculous) number of requests and users, hacking on cutting-edge distributed programming work, send me email (address on my profile).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yahoo employees: Get out now before the vultures descend</title><url>http://www.itworld.com/software/204139/now-would-be-excellent-time-yahoo-employees-jump-ship</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>bryanlarsen</author><text>If vultures are descending, I would think it would be better to wait. The bidding war will temporarily bump up your stock price &#38; options, giving you a better time to sell them. Then the vultures will offer buy-outs to encourage employees to leave. I doubt the vultures will be overly generous in their buy-outs but it can still amount to a substantial amount of cash if you've been there a while.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yahoo employees: Get out now before the vultures descend</title><url>http://www.itworld.com/software/204139/now-would-be-excellent-time-yahoo-employees-jump-ship</url><text></text></story> |
24,601,775 | 24,600,814 | 1 | 3 | 24,600,397 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>merricksb</author><text>From the style&#x2F;content of the credits, it looks like another variant of a concept that has already been posted twice here in just the past few months.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24431132" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24431132</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23985825" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23985825</a><p>The credits can be seen&#x2F;compared here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;landemy.netlify.app&#x2F;credits.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;landemy.netlify.app&#x2F;credits.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rainbowhunt.com&#x2F;credits.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rainbowhunt.com&#x2F;credits.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work</title><url>https://landemy.netlify.app/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aflag</author><text>I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it&#x27;s someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work</title><url>https://landemy.netlify.app/</url></story> |
32,082,162 | 32,082,435 | 1 | 2 | 32,078,518 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cederfjard</author><text>Multiple people have already said this, but I&#x27;ll ask just for the sake of it: Are you aware that Elon forewent his due diligence by simply skipping that part and going straight to signing the deal?<p>That means that Twitter DOES NOT have the responsibility that you claim. Sure, you may think that according to a certain moral framework they do, but in the context of this deal, which is what the thread is about and what the people you are responding to are talking about, it is irrelevant.<p>I might add as well as a counter to your accusations of &quot;Musk-hate rage&quot;, that perhaps it&#x27;s you who&#x27;s suffering from Twitter-hate rage with a dash of Musk-fanboyism, and that it&#x27;s Elon who&#x27;s twisting the truth for his own gain rather than Twitter. Could that not be the case?<p>Lastly, it&#x27;s not a &quot;non-response&quot;. Twitter has continuously provided Musk with the data he&#x27;s asked for, he just keeps asking for more. Also, even if you ridicule the idea, some data is simply _not_ appropriate nor necessary to share before a sale. Otherwise you could find out any trade secret from anyone simply by making an offer and then reneging on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>boffinAudio</author><text>Lets put it this way - say I have a company that makes cars, and I tell you - a potential investor of more than a billion dollars - that I have shipped a million cars this year and you should give me money on the basis of that revenue, are you an idiot if you don&#x27;t ask to see the actual receipts that show that I have actually, indeed, shipped a million cars this year?<p>Yes, I think you would be, and anyone who has given you money to spend on this act, should think so too .. Trust, but verify: This is a pretty basic business rule.<p>Twitter has a responsibility to demonstrate that the trust they expect in their own estimations of their own market value, is actually verifiable - and with an issue of humans&#x2F;bots ratio, they should surely be willing to be as open and honest as possible about this issue.<p>Twitters core value, the basis of their own estimation of the value of their stock, is entirely derived from the actual # of human eyeballs they have attached to their systems.<p>If those eyeballs are really just blind sockets on the outside of a software-based bot, then Twitter is factually lying about how many humans it has in its system. This would be <i>essential</i> for any buyer to know beforehand, and I really am astonished at the efforts you are going to justify this omission on Twitters&#x27; part.<p>The bot to human ratio is a KEY factor to understand in correctly evaluating Twitters real value - how anyone can argue that Twitter don&#x27;t have the responsibility to demonstrate the accuracy of their estimation of market value, especially in the HN environment, is beyond me.<p>Perhaps the Musk-hate rage is blinding you to the rationality of Musks&#x27; request. &quot;Hey, you say you are worth this much because &lt;blah&gt;, please show me that &lt;blah&gt; is actually a truthful and accurate estimation ..&quot; - this is not at all an unreasonable request.<p>Twitter board executives DO have the responsibility of answering the claim that their user group is a certain percentage human.<p>The fact that they haven&#x27;t done this easily and openly is telling, in and of itself - and I would wager that most making the claim that they don&#x27;t have a responsibility of being honest about the number of users in their system, are in fact engaged themselves in deceit and dishonesty on the issue of &quot;actual users&quot; versus &quot;pretend users&quot;. How else can you justify the non-response?<p>Twitter should be able to easily answer the question: bot to human ratio? It is fundamental to their core purpose as a business to know the answer to this question. The fact that they can&#x27;t, and are instead engaging in an anti-Musk agitprop campaign, is very, very telling ...</text></item><item><author>CogitoCogito</author><text>&gt; It demonstrates that Twitter is inflating their value and lying to their shareholders. Whats so hard to understand about that?<p>No it doesn&#x27;t. Twitter not handing over its bot data demonstrates...that Twitter is not handing over its bot data. Does Musk have actual _evidence_ that Twitter is inflating its value and lying to its shareholders? You do understand that &quot;Twitter not handing over its bot data&quot; isn&#x27;t evidence.<p>Anyway if the question of handing over &quot;the bot data&quot; data is irrelevant to Twitter&#x27;s claims, then it doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s handed over. The legitimacy of those claims would then be unaffected by the bot data itself.</text></item><item><author>boffinAudio</author><text>It demonstrates that Twitter is inflating their value and lying to their shareholders. Whats so hard to understand about that?</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Twitter didn’t hand over the bot data and will have to do so in court to prove its point.<p>Even if that was true (and none of Twitter’s legal claims require the bot data to prove), so what?</text></item><item><author>zackees</author><text>As Musk stated on Twitter, Twitter didn’t hand over the bot data and will have to do so in court to prove its point.<p>I see Musk walking paying nothing, or else a settlement with twitter at a lower price.</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>Even recognizing that any one sides filings present an incomplete story, Musk’s <i>public</i> actions alone combined with the terms of the contract as related in the Twitter suit look pretty bad for Musk. Unless he’s got some other line of attack much stronger than the ones he has been publicly previewing, I don’t see how he prevails here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter Sues Elon Musk</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/twitter-sues-elon-musk</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Lets put it this way - say I have a company that makes cars, and I tell you - a potential investor of more than a billion dollars - that I have shipped a million cars this year and you should give me money on the basis of that revenue, are you an idiot if you don&#x27;t ask to see the actual receipts that show that I have actually, indeed, shipped a million cars this year?<p>Yes, if you agreed to, for a slightly different but more relevant example, buy a social media company where there was some doubt about the degree to which it&#x27;s claimed user base was actually bots for $44 billion dollars, of which you were personally on the hook for $33 billion in cash with the rest financed, you would be an idiot if you also agreed to waive due diligence as part of that agreement without first having satisfied yourself on the real user numbers.<p>But you having been an idiot and signed that agreement, the fact that the agreement required the social media company to provide you information reasonably necessary to help you complete the acquisition would not give you a right to data who&#x27;s only purpose would be to allow you to perform the due diligence you had waived.<p>As much as the bot data may arguably be relevant to the due diligence any sane investor would perform before such an acquisition—an argument you do a valiant job of presenting—it is not something that there is any reasonable argument that Twitter has an obligation to provide in this case, because Musk was so desperate to get Twitter to sign that he agreed to waive due diligence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>boffinAudio</author><text>Lets put it this way - say I have a company that makes cars, and I tell you - a potential investor of more than a billion dollars - that I have shipped a million cars this year and you should give me money on the basis of that revenue, are you an idiot if you don&#x27;t ask to see the actual receipts that show that I have actually, indeed, shipped a million cars this year?<p>Yes, I think you would be, and anyone who has given you money to spend on this act, should think so too .. Trust, but verify: This is a pretty basic business rule.<p>Twitter has a responsibility to demonstrate that the trust they expect in their own estimations of their own market value, is actually verifiable - and with an issue of humans&#x2F;bots ratio, they should surely be willing to be as open and honest as possible about this issue.<p>Twitters core value, the basis of their own estimation of the value of their stock, is entirely derived from the actual # of human eyeballs they have attached to their systems.<p>If those eyeballs are really just blind sockets on the outside of a software-based bot, then Twitter is factually lying about how many humans it has in its system. This would be <i>essential</i> for any buyer to know beforehand, and I really am astonished at the efforts you are going to justify this omission on Twitters&#x27; part.<p>The bot to human ratio is a KEY factor to understand in correctly evaluating Twitters real value - how anyone can argue that Twitter don&#x27;t have the responsibility to demonstrate the accuracy of their estimation of market value, especially in the HN environment, is beyond me.<p>Perhaps the Musk-hate rage is blinding you to the rationality of Musks&#x27; request. &quot;Hey, you say you are worth this much because &lt;blah&gt;, please show me that &lt;blah&gt; is actually a truthful and accurate estimation ..&quot; - this is not at all an unreasonable request.<p>Twitter board executives DO have the responsibility of answering the claim that their user group is a certain percentage human.<p>The fact that they haven&#x27;t done this easily and openly is telling, in and of itself - and I would wager that most making the claim that they don&#x27;t have a responsibility of being honest about the number of users in their system, are in fact engaged themselves in deceit and dishonesty on the issue of &quot;actual users&quot; versus &quot;pretend users&quot;. How else can you justify the non-response?<p>Twitter should be able to easily answer the question: bot to human ratio? It is fundamental to their core purpose as a business to know the answer to this question. The fact that they can&#x27;t, and are instead engaging in an anti-Musk agitprop campaign, is very, very telling ...</text></item><item><author>CogitoCogito</author><text>&gt; It demonstrates that Twitter is inflating their value and lying to their shareholders. Whats so hard to understand about that?<p>No it doesn&#x27;t. Twitter not handing over its bot data demonstrates...that Twitter is not handing over its bot data. Does Musk have actual _evidence_ that Twitter is inflating its value and lying to its shareholders? You do understand that &quot;Twitter not handing over its bot data&quot; isn&#x27;t evidence.<p>Anyway if the question of handing over &quot;the bot data&quot; data is irrelevant to Twitter&#x27;s claims, then it doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s handed over. The legitimacy of those claims would then be unaffected by the bot data itself.</text></item><item><author>boffinAudio</author><text>It demonstrates that Twitter is inflating their value and lying to their shareholders. Whats so hard to understand about that?</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Twitter didn’t hand over the bot data and will have to do so in court to prove its point.<p>Even if that was true (and none of Twitter’s legal claims require the bot data to prove), so what?</text></item><item><author>zackees</author><text>As Musk stated on Twitter, Twitter didn’t hand over the bot data and will have to do so in court to prove its point.<p>I see Musk walking paying nothing, or else a settlement with twitter at a lower price.</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>Even recognizing that any one sides filings present an incomplete story, Musk’s <i>public</i> actions alone combined with the terms of the contract as related in the Twitter suit look pretty bad for Musk. Unless he’s got some other line of attack much stronger than the ones he has been publicly previewing, I don’t see how he prevails here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter Sues Elon Musk</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/twitter-sues-elon-musk</url></story> |
18,455,144 | 18,454,485 | 1 | 3 | 18,453,550 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhauer</author><text>I see this as nothing more than a fun poke by Mozilla at the overwhelming majority of the technology industry—those who treat privacy as a nuisance at best and as a non-event at worst. Mozilla are giving people like myself the fun of clicking on the Amazon Echo or Google Home and voting &quot;Super creepy,&quot; chuckling to ourselves about our virtuousness before closing the tab in Firefox.<p>I doubt they expect this page to be used by many laypeople. Maybe a few techies will toss a link out to their families as a rough crowdsourced assessment of the degree to which some popular devices respect user privacy. The inclusion of several nearly-unknown high-privacy options seems to be a reminder that there are alternatives; probably more difficult to use or less capable, but alternatives to the mainstream data-harvesting devices you see routinely advertised.<p>I think it&#x27;s lighthearted fun intended to illustrate Mozilla&#x27;s mission of being advocates for privacy, to a degree that we have become unfamiliar as a society in the age of everything-as-a-service.<p>Yeah, there are probably some inaccuracies. But frankly, unless you&#x27;re selling a device that allows you to run the services on your own host using open source software (the way Mozilla does [1]), it&#x27;s fair game to say that it&#x27;s <i>possible</i> you are not sufficiently respecting user privacy. How can we as users be sure if all we can measure is that, indeed, the device sends data off-network to the &quot;cloud?&quot;<p>If you genuinely respect user privacy, you should allow a user to wholly own the data in the most pure form possible: they never send it to you.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla-services" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla-services</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and security</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>closetohome</author><text>I don&#x27;t see the purpose of this page. It&#x27;s not a guide, it&#x27;s a poll. Why would I base my decisions about personal privacy on the uninformed opinions of a bunch of random people?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and security</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/</url></story> |
15,153,969 | 15,152,763 | 1 | 3 | 15,151,773 | 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>aleyan</author><text>&gt; Even now, engineers are not held in anywhere near the same regard in China as they are in the West.<p>I have to respectfully disagree with the author on the esteem of engineers in China versus the West. I am not Chinese, nor an expert on their culture, but I do live in the West so I understand half of the equation.<p>Current President of China, Xi Jinping was educated as a chemical engineer[1]. His predecessor Hu Jintao was a hydroelectric engineer[2]. His predecessor Jiang Zemin was an electrical engineer[3].<p>Compare that with recent American presidents like Obama (JD), Bush(MBA), Clinton(JD), Bush Sr(BA in Econ), Reagan (BA in Econ). These are only a few points, but seems to me it is in China where engineers rise to the highest echelons of power. We have lawyers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xi_Jinping#Early_life_and_education" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xi_Jinping#Early_life_and_educ...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hu_Jintao#Early_life" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hu_Jintao#Early_life</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jiang_Zemin#Background_and_ascendancy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jiang_Zemin#Background_and_asc...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2017/08/30/lu-bans-axe-and-working-with-your-chinese-suppliers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>booleandilemma</author><text><i>Since we are on the topic of idiom, this one rings true: “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down”. Unless you’re the boss of the company you rarely stand to profit from problem solving or creative thinking — and usually speaking up will be detrimental to you in some way.</i><p>Are American companies that different? The few places I&#x27;ve worked software engineers didn&#x27;t get bonuses, only the people in sales did. Software engineers are seen as a resource.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2017/08/30/lu-bans-axe-and-working-with-your-chinese-suppliers/</url></story> |
19,085,046 | 19,084,330 | 1 | 2 | 19,070,172 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t understand what justifies Pijul&#x27;s existence.<p>The argument basically is: Darcs is better at the fundamentals than git is, and the reason for its lack of popularity is that it implemented those fundamentals inefficiently leading to exponential time use in some cases.<p>So the justification is that some people want Darcs fundamentals but with the speed of git. Now: <i>if you don&#x27;t buy that Darcs does anything fundamentally better than git</i> then obviously you also won&#x27;t allow it as an argument for why Pijul is needed. But it <i>is</i> the argument.<p>The pijul manual starts with a &quot;Why pijul&quot; that describes why the more complex patch theory is an advantage.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org&#x2F;manual&#x2F;why_pijul.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org&#x2F;manual&#x2F;why_pijul.html</a><p>it outlines an example &quot;bad merge&quot; scenario where patches theoretic system gets it right and git does not.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&#x2F;%7Ezooko&#x2F;badmerge&#x2F;simple.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&#x2F;%7Ezooko&#x2F;badmerge&#x2F;simple.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>arghwhat</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what justifies Pijul&#x27;s existence. While I agree that Git is a complicated monster that takes ages to learn how to use for most people, Pijul does not seem to solve any problems with Git. Instead, it has many problems that Git solves. From a user-perspective, it doesn&#x27;t even seem like there&#x27;s much of a difference, despite the (annoying) choice of alternate command verbs (i.e. &quot;record&quot; rather than &quot;add&#x2F;commit&quot;).<p>It doesn&#x27;t really seem like the authors fully understand Git, and what problems it solves.<p>&gt; [...] in Git each commit is related to a parent [...] But in Pijul there&#x27;s no timeline and branches are just sets of patches.<p>To me, that makes Pijul much, <i>much</i> less capable as a version control system. In Git, knowing the commit ID means that you know the <i>full source tree state</i> with the certainty being equal to the risk of a commit ID hash collision.<p>With just individual, unrelated patches applied in sequence, you have no such guarantee, and no knowledge of the current state of the repository.<p>Of course, you could add a seperate state tracking system allowing ID&#x27;s to point to an immutable and unique set of patches in a certain sequence, but doing so just means that you have now implemented features identical to Git, with just a different internal representation (i.e. irrelevant differences for the user).<p>&gt; [...] And push those changes in whatever order we want<p>You can do the same in Git (see interactive rebase, cherry-picking, similar). It rewrites the commit IDs in order to maintain the previously mentioned property of representing the state of the repository, but that&#x27;s an implementation detail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pijul for Git users</title><url>https://nest.pijul.com/tae/pijul-for-git-users</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomp</author><text>Pijul is based on a different (and much more advanced) algorithm than Git. That doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s the perfect tool - just as Git is better than SVN (even though they&#x27;re based on the same underlying algorithms), Pijul might be the &quot;SVN-like&quot; tool waiting for its own Git...<p>Edit: having said that, Git isn&#x27;t perfect either, I&#x27;m keeping my fingers crossed for an even better tool!</text><parent_chain><item><author>arghwhat</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what justifies Pijul&#x27;s existence. While I agree that Git is a complicated monster that takes ages to learn how to use for most people, Pijul does not seem to solve any problems with Git. Instead, it has many problems that Git solves. From a user-perspective, it doesn&#x27;t even seem like there&#x27;s much of a difference, despite the (annoying) choice of alternate command verbs (i.e. &quot;record&quot; rather than &quot;add&#x2F;commit&quot;).<p>It doesn&#x27;t really seem like the authors fully understand Git, and what problems it solves.<p>&gt; [...] in Git each commit is related to a parent [...] But in Pijul there&#x27;s no timeline and branches are just sets of patches.<p>To me, that makes Pijul much, <i>much</i> less capable as a version control system. In Git, knowing the commit ID means that you know the <i>full source tree state</i> with the certainty being equal to the risk of a commit ID hash collision.<p>With just individual, unrelated patches applied in sequence, you have no such guarantee, and no knowledge of the current state of the repository.<p>Of course, you could add a seperate state tracking system allowing ID&#x27;s to point to an immutable and unique set of patches in a certain sequence, but doing so just means that you have now implemented features identical to Git, with just a different internal representation (i.e. irrelevant differences for the user).<p>&gt; [...] And push those changes in whatever order we want<p>You can do the same in Git (see interactive rebase, cherry-picking, similar). It rewrites the commit IDs in order to maintain the previously mentioned property of representing the state of the repository, but that&#x27;s an implementation detail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pijul for Git users</title><url>https://nest.pijul.com/tae/pijul-for-git-users</url></story> |
40,999,252 | 40,998,727 | 1 | 3 | 40,992,982 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>&gt; <i>Tables aren&#x27;t even deprecated. IMO you&#x27;re better off keeping the tables than transforming it into &lt;div&gt; soup.</i><p>I wonder if any notable sites still use tables even for complicated things such as, say, nested comment threads?</text><parent_chain><item><author>recursive</author><text>Tables aren&#x27;t even deprecated. IMO you&#x27;re better off keeping the tables than transforming it into &lt;div&gt; soup. 20 years ago you&#x27;d hear it shouted from the rooftops: &quot;Tables for layout are not semantic!&quot;. Guess what? &lt;div&gt;s are never semantic. Just use tables if it suits you.</text></item><item><author>freedomben</author><text>I know you&#x27;re not entirely serious, but we really had it good and largely figured out with tables. It&#x27;s probably because using tables for layouts was my native language, but I still sometimes have to mentally translate divs into a table in my mind to picture what is happening, and when default types are change (like block to inline, etc) it sometimes breaks my brain and I have to fallback to experimentation to get what I want. Slight disclaimer though: I&#x27;m a backend&#x2F;infra guy so don&#x27;t do frontend very often.</text></item><item><author>cronin101</author><text>Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it with flexbox!</text></item><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>Totally agree with you. Not a front end dev myself, and I have multiple variations of &quot;how do i center a div&quot; in my search history, haha. With varying degrees of angry expletives added to the query.</text></item><item><author>nathell</author><text><p><pre><code> &lt;body background=&quot;animals.jpg&quot;&gt;
&lt;center&gt;
</code></pre>
Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website</title><url>https://naya.lol</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peebeebee</author><text>Counterpoint: no semantics is better than wrong semantics. If a screenreader thinks your layout is a (data)table, it makes your visually impaired users sad.</text><parent_chain><item><author>recursive</author><text>Tables aren&#x27;t even deprecated. IMO you&#x27;re better off keeping the tables than transforming it into &lt;div&gt; soup. 20 years ago you&#x27;d hear it shouted from the rooftops: &quot;Tables for layout are not semantic!&quot;. Guess what? &lt;div&gt;s are never semantic. Just use tables if it suits you.</text></item><item><author>freedomben</author><text>I know you&#x27;re not entirely serious, but we really had it good and largely figured out with tables. It&#x27;s probably because using tables for layouts was my native language, but I still sometimes have to mentally translate divs into a table in my mind to picture what is happening, and when default types are change (like block to inline, etc) it sometimes breaks my brain and I have to fallback to experimentation to get what I want. Slight disclaimer though: I&#x27;m a backend&#x2F;infra guy so don&#x27;t do frontend very often.</text></item><item><author>cronin101</author><text>Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it with flexbox!</text></item><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>Totally agree with you. Not a front end dev myself, and I have multiple variations of &quot;how do i center a div&quot; in my search history, haha. With varying degrees of angry expletives added to the query.</text></item><item><author>nathell</author><text><p><pre><code> &lt;body background=&quot;animals.jpg&quot;&gt;
&lt;center&gt;
</code></pre>
Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website</title><url>https://naya.lol</url></story> |
15,253,500 | 15,252,042 | 1 | 2 | 15,251,891 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>InSaneDarwin</author><text>Hey, this is Cliff aka InSaneDarwin from PureDarwin Project we have a vm that is coming along nicely if anyone has seen our home page(<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.puredarwin.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.puredarwin.org</a>). We are looking for some help with our own ACPI&#x2F;Platform Expert and so I&#x2F;OKit Drivers if you guys are looking for some fun come join us.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacOS 10.12.6 Source</title><url>https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-10126.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>KZeillmann</author><text>I don&#x27;t follow Apple open source, so I have a lot of questions: What parts of MacOS are open source, and which are not? How is it licensed? Why is this on their website rather than GitHub?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacOS 10.12.6 Source</title><url>https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-10126.html</url></story> |
13,838,176 | 13,838,102 | 1 | 3 | 13,837,781 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>This is a rationalization and you know it.<p>There are tons of other people who also think side project is a way to learn something new, yet they ship.<p>Also there are tons of startups that started out as side projects. Facebook did.<p>You have no excuse. Stop lying to yourself because it&#x27;s not doing yourself any good. The only reason you&#x27;re not releasing your side projects to the world is because you are afraid of criticism.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine ever shipping a side project. That&#x27;s not why I build them. If I ever got to the point in my life where I do want my own company, a side project is not the way I want to go about it. Companies take a lot of work, that work has to be understood, then delegated and shared.<p>The technology aspect is really only 10% of it. Sure, it&#x27;s the essential 0-to-1 kicker that gets you going, but once that&#x27;s done you still have to find product-market fit. That quickly assumes second-job status and can wreck your personal life. I&#x27;ve seen it happen.<p>A side project means you&#x27;re taking all that on yourself without any help or real guidance. Not having that help means that when you finally do ship your side project, it&#x27;s probably not going to achieve the kind of rapid growth you need to make scaling up possible.<p>And you really need rapid growth in order for working on a startup of your own creation to beat out having a reasonably-decent job. And if you don&#x27;t have a reasonably-decent job, it&#x27;s way easier to switch jobs &#x2F; industries than it is to build out your own company.<p>What I want out of a side project is the kind of deliberate practice that is often lacking in my real job. Also to chase down random mind hares that seize my interest.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to never complete anything</title><url>http://ewanvalentine.io/how-to-never-complete-anything/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onli</author><text>&gt; <i>And you really need rapid growth in order for working on a startup of your own creation to beat out having a reasonably-decent job</i><p>I disagree. You only need to get the income you want with the work you are willing to invest. Depending on what you do and what you need, that can mean that scaling up is not required at all.<p>Bootstrapping a business out of a side project is a thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine ever shipping a side project. That&#x27;s not why I build them. If I ever got to the point in my life where I do want my own company, a side project is not the way I want to go about it. Companies take a lot of work, that work has to be understood, then delegated and shared.<p>The technology aspect is really only 10% of it. Sure, it&#x27;s the essential 0-to-1 kicker that gets you going, but once that&#x27;s done you still have to find product-market fit. That quickly assumes second-job status and can wreck your personal life. I&#x27;ve seen it happen.<p>A side project means you&#x27;re taking all that on yourself without any help or real guidance. Not having that help means that when you finally do ship your side project, it&#x27;s probably not going to achieve the kind of rapid growth you need to make scaling up possible.<p>And you really need rapid growth in order for working on a startup of your own creation to beat out having a reasonably-decent job. And if you don&#x27;t have a reasonably-decent job, it&#x27;s way easier to switch jobs &#x2F; industries than it is to build out your own company.<p>What I want out of a side project is the kind of deliberate practice that is often lacking in my real job. Also to chase down random mind hares that seize my interest.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to never complete anything</title><url>http://ewanvalentine.io/how-to-never-complete-anything/</url></story> |
20,556,233 | 20,555,183 | 1 | 2 | 20,541,446 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bufferoverflow</author><text>We have multijunction cells with 47.1% efficiency (as of June 20th).<p>Other than the price, what&#x27;s the significance of single-junction 50% efficiency?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:CellPVeff(rev190702).pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:CellPVeff(rev190702).pdf</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dwighttk</author><text>&quot;For the past 15 years, the efficiency of converting heat into electricity with thermovoltaics has been stalled at 23 percent. But a groundbreaking physical insight has allowed researchers to raise this efficiency to 29 percent. Using a novel design, the researchers are now aiming to reach 50 percent efficiency in the near future by applying well-established scientific concepts.&quot;<p>^interesting part, the drone stuff is just click-bait</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine</title><url>https://techxplore.com/news/2019-07-drones-days-photovoltaic.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>flanbiscuit</author><text>left out the actual science part of this interesting part:<p>&gt; According to Yablonovitch, this finding builds on work that he and students published in 2011, which found that the key to boosting solar cell efficiency was not by absorbing more photons (light) but emitting them. By adding a highly reflective mirror on the back of a photovoltaic cell, they broke efficiency records at the time and have continued to do so with subsequent research.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dwighttk</author><text>&quot;For the past 15 years, the efficiency of converting heat into electricity with thermovoltaics has been stalled at 23 percent. But a groundbreaking physical insight has allowed researchers to raise this efficiency to 29 percent. Using a novel design, the researchers are now aiming to reach 50 percent efficiency in the near future by applying well-established scientific concepts.&quot;<p>^interesting part, the drone stuff is just click-bait</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine</title><url>https://techxplore.com/news/2019-07-drones-days-photovoltaic.html</url></story> |
41,117,718 | 41,117,832 | 1 | 3 | 41,116,813 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lutusp</author><text>Here&#x27;s a better copy of this classic Richard Feynman address, rendered in text instead of graphics (meaning it can be copied in whole or in part), without any advertising: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calteches.library.caltech.edu&#x2F;51&#x2F;2&#x2F;CargoCult.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calteches.library.caltech.edu&#x2F;51&#x2F;2&#x2F;CargoCult.htm</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cargo Cult Science (1974)</title><url>https://fermatslibrary.com/s/cargo-cult-science</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wolframhempel</author><text>I love this article as it speaks to one of the most overlooked aspects of modern life: There are a lot of fundamental things that we take for granted and practice every day - a lot of things with lots of experts and powerful institutions around them - that simply do not work.<p>And once you have such a thing, and you&#x27;ve build your reputation, your power base, your institution around it, it is absolutely paramount to carry on with it, deepen it, and extend it - regardless of whether it works or not.<p>But continuing the thing that doesn&#x27;t work doesn&#x27;t require some malicious intent or ulterior motive. Quite often, it&#x27;s just a question of &quot;well, what else would we do?&quot;. And the answer to that is often &quot;nothing&quot; - or &quot;we don&#x27;t know&quot; - so it&#x27;s better to do something and feel like we have agency and are doing something about it than just carrying on with our lives.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cargo Cult Science (1974)</title><url>https://fermatslibrary.com/s/cargo-cult-science</url></story> |
2,414,054 | 2,414,097 | 1 | 2 | 2,413,926 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnthedebs</author><text>I haven't developed on iOS but I remember reading someplace that when an app is loading it can display an image of what it looked like when the user most recently left it, in order to give the appearance of loading more quickly. I think it was one of Marco Arment's blog posts, but his site isn't available right now.<p>Anyway I also don't have an iPhone 4, but FaceTime for OS X shows the camera view whenever it's on so that you can see yourself whenever starting a call. I imagine FaceTime for iOS does something similar.<p>If you combine those two things, you get one possible explanation for what's going on. One that's pretty benign, but should probably still be avoided because it obviously spooks users. Oh, and it should probably be at the API level so that the last thing an app saves is <i>never</i> camera data.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Creepy iPhone bug: front facing camera takes pictures by itself.</title><url>http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2792410&tstart=0</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>mattyohe</author><text>While I can't consistently reproduce this issue, I was able to get FaceTime to show up with some random image of myself in the preview of my FaceTime call.<p>Basically:
1. Open the camera app and flip the camera to yourself.
2. Close the camera app, and call yourself on your Mac's FaceTime app.
3. The image that showed up was of me frozen, from just a few moments prior when I flipped the camera around.<p>When I first saw this post, I attempted to call a friend, and saw exactly what that first poster in Apple discussions saw, a black screen.<p>After rebooting it's all "fine" now. (I'm running 4.3.1)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Creepy iPhone bug: front facing camera takes pictures by itself.</title><url>http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2792410&tstart=0</url><text></text></story> |
20,160,566 | 20,158,877 | 1 | 2 | 20,156,815 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmor</author><text>Erica is an incredible founder who worked on Bitnami&#x2F;Bitrock for 14 years. I’m lucky enough to have invested in her at Demo Day, have her as my partner at XFactor Ventures and as my friend. She is going to be phenomenal in this role, she is so deserving of this win and Microsoft is very lucky!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/github-hires-former-bitnami-co-founder-erica-brescia-as-coo/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawaythat1</author><text>Didn&#x27;t bitnami get acquired less than a month ago? How come the co-founder moves out so quickly? Was it an acqui-hire? Atleast <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitnami.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitnami.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h...</a> talks about doubling down and what not but the co-founder has moved on already?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/github-hires-former-bitnami-co-founder-erica-brescia-as-coo/</url></story> |
24,165,225 | 24,159,689 | 1 | 2 | 24,156,813 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greatgib</author><text>I just had a look at the financial documents for Mozilla, and I have to say that, for an organisation that promote transparency, their financial info are quite opaque, minimally detailed, and secretive.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foundation.mozilla.org&#x2F;fr&#x2F;about&#x2F;public-records&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foundation.mozilla.org&#x2F;fr&#x2F;about&#x2F;public-records&#x2F;</a><p>Conveniently for them and curiously, they are only publishing the &quot;consolidated&quot; statements for the Moz Foundation.<p>But, for example, it looks like that the individual statements for the Mozilla Corp are never published or disclosed.
That is very annoying as it is the main &quot;entity&quot; of the organization.<p>There is also no details about the split of costs and revenues associated with each main projects &#x2F; services products &#x2F; groups that are worked on for a given year.<p>So, for example, no one can have a clear idea of how much money is spent on dev, marketing or administration of Firefox versus Pocket versus VPN versus charities versus fellowships, etc...<p>If you look at the content of the limited financial documents, you can even have the impression that the foundation has no interest for the development of Firefox itself, and that they are just interested by it as a cash cow that generates (with the search deals) huge funds to give to whatever charities that Mozilla leaders are interested in.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walterbell</author><text>Thunderbird is funded by users. There is currently no way to donate directly to Firefox separately of Mozilla general fund.<p>Can initial steps be taken to financially firewall Firefox development from the rest of Mozilla, as Thunderbird has done successfully? Start by moving the web standards advocacy brain trust to the separate org. Ask users to donate&#x2F;subscribe. Begin the transition now, don&#x27;t wait for the next negotiation with Alphabet&#x2F;Google.<p>As donations grow, more Firefox teams can move to the independent legal org.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/</url></story> |
13,616,099 | 13,615,879 | 1 | 3 | 13,614,507 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freyr</author><text>You&#x27;re comparing the average salary of <i>all</i> H-1B jobs (developer, accountant, analyst, etc.) to the salary of a developer. Instead, look at the average salaries for H-1B software engineers in 2016:<p>Facebook @ Menlo Park: $152k<p>Google @ Mountain View: $130k<p>Apple @ Cupertino: $154k<p>Amazon @ Seattle: $124k<p>Microsoft @ Redmond: $120<p>So comparing base salary alone, these companies are definitely not underpaying their H-1B hires.<p>To see salaries for yourself, you can go here and filter by year to see the latest data:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bpay.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;cities&#x2F;Menlo%20Park-CA&#x2F;job-titles&#x2F;Software%20Engineer&#x2F;salaries" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bpay.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;cities&#x2F;Menlo%20Park-CA&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>loph</author><text>This one sentence says it all:<p>&quot;The Economist found that between 2012 and 2015 the three biggest Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys—submitted over 150,000 visa applications for positions that paid a median salary of $69,500. In contrast, America’s five biggest tech firms—Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft—submitted just 31,000 applications, and proposed to pay their workers a median salary of $117,000.&quot;<p><i>None</i> of those salaries listed are competitive with what a non-H1B (read citizen or permanent resident) would earn. Indeed.com quotes the average SD salary in Seattle (think Amazon and Microsoft) as 126,000 and San Francisco at 134,000. Companies sponsoring H1B need to be held to the letter of the law -- the salaries must be competitive. The demand for H1B visas would fall if the imported labor was paid fairly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21716630-not-good-argument-against-them-h-1b-visas-do-mainly-go-indian-outsourcing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>untog</author><text>&gt; None of those salaries listed are competitive with what a non-H1B (read citizen or permanent resident) would earn. Indeed.com quotes the average SD salary in Seattle (think Amazon and Microsoft) as 126,000 and San Francisco at 134,000.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that comparison works fully. I don&#x27;t think the ages of the average H1B applicant are made public, but a great many are college graduates - IIRC, a foreign citizen who graduates from a US university is given a one year visa, but has to find their own way after that. So H1Bs represent a lot of people at the start of their careers, wheras the average you&#x27;ve found represents all developers.<p>One clear improvement would be to allow university graduates to stay in the US much more easily. We&#x27;ve just spent an awful lot of time educating them to a US standard after all - why not keep them?</text><parent_chain><item><author>loph</author><text>This one sentence says it all:<p>&quot;The Economist found that between 2012 and 2015 the three biggest Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys—submitted over 150,000 visa applications for positions that paid a median salary of $69,500. In contrast, America’s five biggest tech firms—Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft—submitted just 31,000 applications, and proposed to pay their workers a median salary of $117,000.&quot;<p><i>None</i> of those salaries listed are competitive with what a non-H1B (read citizen or permanent resident) would earn. Indeed.com quotes the average SD salary in Seattle (think Amazon and Microsoft) as 126,000 and San Francisco at 134,000. Companies sponsoring H1B need to be held to the letter of the law -- the salaries must be competitive. The demand for H1B visas would fall if the imported labor was paid fairly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21716630-not-good-argument-against-them-h-1b-visas-do-mainly-go-indian-outsourcing</url></story> |
37,776,534 | 37,775,628 | 1 | 3 | 37,775,073 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; If they weren&#x27;t, Delta would say so, since it makes them look better. That they won&#x27;t say means the parts were used in service.</i><p>I tend to take that sort of cynical view too, though there is a more generous explanation that could be¹ possible: they haven&#x27;t absolutely finished checking yet, and don&#x27;t want to say something that they later need to correct. That could look worse than being vague to start with.<p>--<p>[1] caveat: I know little of their parts tracking systems, I don&#x27;t know how likely it is that a more definitive answer cannot be given that quickly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yellow_lead</author><text>&gt; Delta would not say if the engines with the fraudulently documented parts had been on planes while they were in service.<p>If they weren&#x27;t, Delta would say so, since it makes them look better. That they won&#x27;t say means the parts were used in service.<p>&gt; None of Delta’s aircraft are currently flying with unapproved parts, and the discovery hasn’t affected flight operations<p>How do they know? Even these fake parts were not detected by Delta but &quot;were detected during engine work by an unnamed third party.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/10/03/delta-fourth-major-us-airline-fake-jet-aircraft-engine-parts-forged-airworthiness-documents-uk-company-aog/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tjoff</author><text>&gt; <i>That they won&#x27;t say means the parts were used in service.</i><p>Or they don&#x27;t know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yellow_lead</author><text>&gt; Delta would not say if the engines with the fraudulently documented parts had been on planes while they were in service.<p>If they weren&#x27;t, Delta would say so, since it makes them look better. That they won&#x27;t say means the parts were used in service.<p>&gt; None of Delta’s aircraft are currently flying with unapproved parts, and the discovery hasn’t affected flight operations<p>How do they know? Even these fake parts were not detected by Delta but &quot;were detected during engine work by an unnamed third party.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/10/03/delta-fourth-major-us-airline-fake-jet-aircraft-engine-parts-forged-airworthiness-documents-uk-company-aog/</url></story> |
31,553,636 | 31,552,453 | 1 | 2 | 31,549,238 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>para_parolu</author><text>I have another point of view as a non-pro user. The leas thing my router is doing the better. I want my router software be as simple as possible to reduce possible bugs. Plus I want it to put all cpu time onto processing packets.
I would consider using pihole like functionality if it’s baked in firmware. But definitely don’t want to install extra software.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ferminaut</author><text>I know some folks are anti Ubiquiti Unifi on here, but you can run pihole (along with a bunch of other stuff) right on a UDM&#x2F;UDM-Pro. IMO it makes the most sense to run this on the router, and you can run it in a docker container. If you&#x27;re looking for a fun hour or two project, check out:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;boostchicken-dev&#x2F;udm-utilities&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;run-pihole" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;boostchicken-dev&#x2F;udm-utilities&#x2F;tree&#x2F;maste...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster</title><url>https://brianchristner.io/how-a-single-raspberry-pi-made-my-home-network-faster/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>goodburb</author><text>For OpenWRT users, I managed to easily get it working with LXC.
Sources are in &quot;SmoothWAN&quot; project at Github.
OpenWRT natively supports LXC now.
Shortcut: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TalalMash&#x2F;smoothwan-feeds&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;piholeconf&#x2F;net&#x2F;usr&#x2F;lib&#x2F;piholeconf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TalalMash&#x2F;smoothwan-feeds&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;pihol...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ferminaut</author><text>I know some folks are anti Ubiquiti Unifi on here, but you can run pihole (along with a bunch of other stuff) right on a UDM&#x2F;UDM-Pro. IMO it makes the most sense to run this on the router, and you can run it in a docker container. If you&#x27;re looking for a fun hour or two project, check out:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;boostchicken-dev&#x2F;udm-utilities&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;run-pihole" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;boostchicken-dev&#x2F;udm-utilities&#x2F;tree&#x2F;maste...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster</title><url>https://brianchristner.io/how-a-single-raspberry-pi-made-my-home-network-faster/</url></story> |
2,644,430 | 2,644,418 | 1 | 3 | 2,644,338 | train | <instructions>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>There's no practical limit to the number of static sites you can host on a 64MB VPS. There is a limit to the amount of traffic that a 64MB VPS can serve, but if you want to host 10,000 low-traffic sites then by all means go ahead.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS</title><url>http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddrager</author><text>Why not just 18... why not 48 or 128 or 1024? Questions like this are always loaded. First of all:<p>- This assumes the end user is familiar with command line usage. The typical consumer of VPSes aren't, in my experience, and rely on something like cPanel to do all administration. Which is why you can't really run on 64MB.<p>- The site itself doesn't take up RAM, just disk space. If you have 1024 static sites the only thing taking up ram is the configuration of the sites sitting in Apache's memory. As long as there isn't a lot of traffic on the site, it doesn't really matter how many there are.<p>- You could have 1 static site that has a medium amount of traffic and it would bring the 64MB instance to its knees as soon as you have more than a few concurrent connections.<p>Anyway, from this hoster's experience, when I get a question like "What can I run on a 64MB VPS" the easy answer is "Not much" because usually the type of person that wants to spend $3/mo on 64MB VPS instead of $7/mo for a 1GB VPS doesn't really have their priorities in place.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS</title><url>http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/</url></story> |
15,580,179 | 15,580,202 | 1 | 2 | 15,579,592 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gghh</author><text>These slides are from the talk given at the Open Source Summit (formerly known as LinuxCon) last week in Prague. The abstract given at the talk page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osseu17.sched.com&#x2F;event&#x2F;ByYt&#x2F;replace-your-exploit-ridden-firmware-with-linux-ronald-minnich-google" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osseu17.sched.com&#x2F;event&#x2F;ByYt&#x2F;replace-your-exploit-ri...</a> is<p><i>With the WikiLeaks release of the vault7 material, the security of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware used in most PCs and laptops is once again a concern. UEFI is a proprietary and closed-source operating system, with a codebase almost as large as the Linux kernel, that runs when the system is powered on and continues to run after it boots the OS (hence its designation as a “Ring -2 hypervisor&quot;). It is a great place to hide exploits since it never stops running, and these exploits are undetectable by kernels and programs.</i><p><i>Our answer to this is NERF (Non-Extensible Reduced Firmware), an open source software system developed at Google to replace almost all of UEFI firmware with a tiny Linux kernel and initramfs. The initramfs file system contains an init and command line utilities from the u-root project (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;u-root.tk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;u-root.tk&#x2F;</a>), which are written in the Go language.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Replacing exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux kernel [pdf]</title><url>https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20with%20Linux.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>Dunedan</author><text>Ever since I read that Intels UEFI reference implementation has a comparable complexity to the Linux kernel[1] I thought it&#x27;s absolut nuts to have something with such a complexity just to set up the hardware for another operation system. And that&#x27;s just UEFI and not even touching ME and other stuff.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mjg59.dreamwidth.org&#x2F;10014.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mjg59.dreamwidth.org&#x2F;10014.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Replacing exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux kernel [pdf]</title><url>https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20with%20Linux.pdf</url></story> |
19,641,506 | 19,641,465 | 1 | 2 | 19,640,374 | 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>jonas21</author><text>It seems that Amazon grew its annual sales by around $50 billion from 2017 to 2018 for a growth rate of &quot;only&quot; 19% (compared with 24% the year before). I&#x27;m not exactly concerned for them.<p>&gt; <i>In 2018, Amazon’s nearly $300 billion in GMV was about a 19 percent jump from the prior year. That was notably slower than the rates of increase of 24 percent and 27 percent, respectively, in 2017 and 2016.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/jeff-bezos-just-confirmed-amazon-s-growth-is-slowing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>I think the poor management of 3rd party sellers is at least part of it. I&#x27;ve had several bad experiences with slow shipping, &quot;out of stock&quot; after the sale, items very much not as described, counterfeits, etc. And crazy bad support from those sellers...English bad enough that I couldn&#x27;t understand the response.<p>I now only buy a very specific subset of what I used to buy there.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/jeff-bezos-just-confirmed-amazon-s-growth-is-slowing</url></story> |
19,405,609 | 19,405,632 | 1 | 3 | 19,392,673 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>musicale</author><text>What&#x27;s puzzling is that the IRS seems to calculate your taxes anyway; if there&#x27;s a disparity, then they send you a correction a few weeks later.<p>Why can&#x27;t they do this beforehand so you have the option of just clicking &quot;OK&quot; and being done with it?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Simulacra</author><text>Any business that has a captive or semi-captive market is going to do all is can to dissuade others from participating in the market. It&#x27;s the basis for most licensure laws.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing</url></story> |
9,620,877 | 9,620,089 | 1 | 3 | 9,619,702 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>soggypenny</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s beautiful. However, looks like there&#x27;s no form validation on the email submit. I just submitted &quot;r&quot; as an email address.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshmn</author><text>I&#x27;ve found myself more interested in Stripe&#x27;s UI&#x2F;UX than the product itself.<p>Not that the product isn&#x27;t anything less than mint, it&#x27;s just that their front-end developers are so amazing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android Pay is coming</title><url>https://stripe.com/android-pay</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gwintrob</author><text>The form highlight animation is sexy!</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshmn</author><text>I&#x27;ve found myself more interested in Stripe&#x27;s UI&#x2F;UX than the product itself.<p>Not that the product isn&#x27;t anything less than mint, it&#x27;s just that their front-end developers are so amazing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android Pay is coming</title><url>https://stripe.com/android-pay</url></story> |
32,335,209 | 32,335,129 | 1 | 2 | 32,334,552 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>The books were worth tens of thousands of dollars (sold individually on the second-hand book market, after being carefully catalogued etc.), but nobody interested in buying books happened to be at the auction and the auctioneer set a $1 minimum bid because he didn’t know anything about books and was more interested in disposing of the books than making money from the sale. The auction house could surely get significantly more for their books if they knew the right venue to sell them (somewhere frequented by used booksellers), but I guess it wasn’t worth their trouble to figure out where that might be.<p>This is sort of like the time I went to a car auction as a kid and some college students bought a lightly used stretch limo in perfect working order for (the minimum bid of) $100.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>&gt; He looked around at the faces in the crowd and said, “I’m opening the bidding at one dollar.” I about shit myself. I bid the $1 immediately to get things rolling. Well, after I bid, he looked around and said, “Once, twice, sold that man there for $1.” I just laughed… and wondered how the Hell I was going to get this pallet home and what I was going to do with all those books.<p>&gt; When I asked the auctioneer afterwards why he’d let it go so cheaply, he said, “Did you see anyone trampling you to get in a bid?” I said no, I didn’t. His reply, with a smirk on his face, was, “Gotta’ know your audience in this job.”<p>&gt; Well, needless to say, I got the books home and spent a few years going through them and selling some, giving some away, etc. However, that’s not the point of this story. The point was finding things in books. So, with that in mind…<p>Dude goes to an auction and finds books. Nobody bids on the books. Dude is amazed that the auctioneer is willing to sell him something nobody wants for a low price. Dude spends years going through those books.<p>I&#x27;m happy for this guy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?</title><url>https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-strangest-thing-you-ever-found-in-a-book/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>Your summary is kinda accurate, but I can&#x27;t help but feel that you&#x27;ve missed the point completely.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>&gt; He looked around at the faces in the crowd and said, “I’m opening the bidding at one dollar.” I about shit myself. I bid the $1 immediately to get things rolling. Well, after I bid, he looked around and said, “Once, twice, sold that man there for $1.” I just laughed… and wondered how the Hell I was going to get this pallet home and what I was going to do with all those books.<p>&gt; When I asked the auctioneer afterwards why he’d let it go so cheaply, he said, “Did you see anyone trampling you to get in a bid?” I said no, I didn’t. His reply, with a smirk on his face, was, “Gotta’ know your audience in this job.”<p>&gt; Well, needless to say, I got the books home and spent a few years going through them and selling some, giving some away, etc. However, that’s not the point of this story. The point was finding things in books. So, with that in mind…<p>Dude goes to an auction and finds books. Nobody bids on the books. Dude is amazed that the auctioneer is willing to sell him something nobody wants for a low price. Dude spends years going through those books.<p>I&#x27;m happy for this guy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?</title><url>https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-strangest-thing-you-ever-found-in-a-book/</url></story> |
17,151,448 | 17,150,438 | 1 | 2 | 17,147,404 | 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>liquidgecka</author><text>That was a period when the only people talking outside the company were the ones not trying to fix things inside of the company.<p>Twitter never had dedicated machines for individual users. Its just not how the infra ever worked (at least until I left). Requests landed on random boxes behind load balancers, those boxes talked to pools of memcache or mysql, etc. At no point was there ever &quot;racks&quot; or &quot;machines&quot; dedicated to specific individuals like the article claims.<p>That being said, some users created crazy hot shards when specific tweets went absolutely madhouse, especially Beiber and those like him.<p>Random twitter internals tidbit: We had a unit of measurement called a &quot;MJ&quot;. Its the number of tweets per second that we had when the rumors of Michael Jacksons death were circling. It basically overloaded the system and had us running around on fire. It was 465 tweets a second. Within a year we had crossed a line where we never were below that number again. Hence &quot;we are at about 12 MJ&#x27;s&quot; was jokingly used to compare &quot;hair on fire&quot; to every day a couple of years later. =)</text><parent_chain><item><author>molecule</author><text>2010: &quot;At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;5632095&#x2F;justin-bieber-has-dedicated-servers-at-twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;5632095&#x2F;justin-bieber-has-dedicated-serv...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only-one-celebrity-could-tweet-at-a-time</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>firebones</author><text>But, but, but...why does Twitter have so many engineers? I could write Twitter in a weekend!<p>--95% of anti-TWTR posters circa 2010-2016.</text><parent_chain><item><author>molecule</author><text>2010: &quot;At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;5632095&#x2F;justin-bieber-has-dedicated-servers-at-twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;5632095&#x2F;justin-bieber-has-dedicated-serv...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only-one-celebrity-could-tweet-at-a-time</url></story> |
1,943,777 | 1,943,109 | 1 | 2 | 1,942,909 | 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>timtadh</author><text>Currently testing a CPU intensive algorithm I need for my current research project. Hoping it will save me some time. When I am done I will post the results!<p>[Edit:]<p>Pretty good so far!<p><pre><code> ~/stuff/Programming/faultire/src/
hendersont@glycineportable src $ time pypy sleepytree/test_metricspace.py
.......
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 7 tests in 39.621s
OK
real 0m39.675s
user 0m39.150s
sys 0m0.170s
~/stuff/Programming/faultire/src/
hendersont@glycineportable src $ time python sleepytree/test_metricspace.py
.......
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 7 tests in 69.442s
OK
real 1m9.483s
user 1m8.970s
sys 0m0.110s</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PyPy 1.4: Ouroboros in practice</title><url>http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/11/pypy-14-ouroboros-in-practice.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>orangecat</author><text>Interesting and promising. PyPy 1.4:<p><pre><code> &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62; t1 = time.time(); a=[x*x for x in xrange(1000000)]; time.time()-t1
0.38609600067138672
&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62; t1 = time.time(); a=[x*x+math.sin(x/1000000.) for x in xrange(1000000)]; time.time()-t1
0.42182803153991699
</code></pre>
Python 2.7:<p><pre><code> &#62;&#62;&#62; t1 = time.time(); a=[x*x for x in xrange(1000000)]; time.time()-t1
0.25005197525024414
&#62;&#62;&#62; t1 = time.time(); a=[x*x+math.sin(x/1000000.) for x in xrange(1000000)]; time.time()-t1
0.6075689792633057
</code></pre>
Both running in 64-bit on a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo. It looks like PyPy's JIT has some fixed overhead, but can heavily optimize operations once it gets going.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PyPy 1.4: Ouroboros in practice</title><url>http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/11/pypy-14-ouroboros-in-practice.html</url></story> |
5,845,493 | 5,845,361 | 1 | 3 | 5,845,272 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flexie</author><text>Whereas we in the EU have our own dubious surveillance programmes, at least they are made by governments we can overthrow ourselves.<p>Also, European governments mostly grant us basic human rights, have no secret overseas prisons, no death penalty for &quot;treason&quot;, no decade long imprisonments for whistle blowing or hacking, no secret military tribunals, no recent record of torture, almost no drones, small military, tiny intelligence budgets etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US surveillance revelations deepen European fears</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/europe-surveillance-prism-idUSL5N0EJ31S20130607</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>BjoernKW</author><text>While I appreciate this statement I doubt that Germany and the EU is fundamentally different from the US in that matter.<p>Sure, in Germany recently we&#x27;ve been quite successful in fending off planned legislation that would&#x27;ve allowed massive privacy intrusions but in general the political establishment over here isn&#x27;t exactly a champion of civil liberties either.<p>Besides, I&#x27;m certain both German and EU administrative bodies closely cooperate with the US on intelligence matters and would more than gladly accept sharing those findings.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US surveillance revelations deepen European fears</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/europe-surveillance-prism-idUSL5N0EJ31S20130607</url><text></text></story> |
35,086,099 | 35,085,810 | 1 | 2 | 35,077,742 | 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>tekla</author><text>Only someone who hasnt welded would think this is something amyone wants.<p>Welding is a very &quot;real world&quot; activity. Cleaning things properly takes a non insigificant amount of time and you really need to get a feel for the materials.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I&#x27;d imagine this tool is meant for welding schools who want to be able to do something like:<p>1) Pull intro classes out of their shop to increase capacity
2) Reduce costs associated with power&#x2F;gas&#x2F;metal&#x2F;etc.
3) Give people a taste of what welding is like without having to do safety training</text></item><item><author>binarymax</author><text>I suck at welding. I have a tig welder, and I’m not good at it. I’ve taken a short course, but it’s not enough.<p>As someone who needs more education and practice, I don’t understand how this can help. Like, isn’t the only way to learn how to weld actually welding? Can a simulation be good enough? I have my doubts.<p>Sure this can simulate holding stuff and what would happen in some conditions.<p>I doubt this makes a big difference because the things that screw up welding isn’t just the motion. It’s the prep and cleanliness of the material, the shape and cleanliness of the tungsten rod, the position of the rod in the cup, the downdraft, and all kinds of crazy details that I don’t think can be simulated and these things need to be hard won by real practice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Augmented Reality Welding System</title><url>https://www.millerwelds.com/equipment/training-solutions/training-equipment/mobilearc-augmented-reality-welding-system-m90560</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>I think that if you made people &quot;get good&quot; on the simulator before they touched the real thing they&#x27;d get better at the real thing much faster&#x2F;cheaper.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I&#x27;d imagine this tool is meant for welding schools who want to be able to do something like:<p>1) Pull intro classes out of their shop to increase capacity
2) Reduce costs associated with power&#x2F;gas&#x2F;metal&#x2F;etc.
3) Give people a taste of what welding is like without having to do safety training</text></item><item><author>binarymax</author><text>I suck at welding. I have a tig welder, and I’m not good at it. I’ve taken a short course, but it’s not enough.<p>As someone who needs more education and practice, I don’t understand how this can help. Like, isn’t the only way to learn how to weld actually welding? Can a simulation be good enough? I have my doubts.<p>Sure this can simulate holding stuff and what would happen in some conditions.<p>I doubt this makes a big difference because the things that screw up welding isn’t just the motion. It’s the prep and cleanliness of the material, the shape and cleanliness of the tungsten rod, the position of the rod in the cup, the downdraft, and all kinds of crazy details that I don’t think can be simulated and these things need to be hard won by real practice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Augmented Reality Welding System</title><url>https://www.millerwelds.com/equipment/training-solutions/training-equipment/mobilearc-augmented-reality-welding-system-m90560</url></story> |
37,761,296 | 37,761,319 | 1 | 3 | 37,761,045 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lovehashbrowns</author><text>I agree with this. Just getting to talk to a human is a massive effort in the hiring process. Before that it’s create an account on workday, have it automatically fill in the form with a pdf resume but it doesn’t change anything because I still have to go through it and make sure everything is correct, decide if I want to put effort into writing a cover letter, fill in all the manual questionnaires like “why do you want to work for us?” that I’m comfortable with, wait 2+ weeks for the automated rejection email, repeat!<p>This is also precious coming from an industry that uses automated emails for rejection. Yeah you don’t want to write 80 personalized rejection emails (probably way more) aaaand we don’t want to write 80 (or more) cover letters. I feel that’s pretty fair.<p>Also isn’t this the industry that uses keywords to automatically detect “good” resumes and skips the resumes that don’t have those keywords?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nullptr_deref</author><text>I am sorry to play the role of devil&#x27;s advocate.<p>The hiring industry put up with ridiculous requirements on the engineers. There is such a disconnect between the requirements on job post and actual job. As a result, all entry level people are forced to apply to 300-400 jobs at least. And you are all looking for programmers. If one thing I know is most of them are having a heck of fun creating their automated system.<p>I know it&#x27;s annoying to you but it is equally annoying to us. I hope the upper management learns something out of this. Compile a presentation and show it to upper management. If they don&#x27;t do something, expect more weird stuffs down the line.<p>I think your upper management will force your senior engineers to come with a filter and we will come with ways to bypass the filter. The race to the bottom is on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job applications (whoishiring threads)</title><text>Via yesterday&#x27;s whoishiring thread, I received more than 70 emails. A good percentage of them (nearly half of them) came with unedited AI-generated cover letters.<p>Please don&#x27;t do this. I spend time going through the resume, the various links in it, and then responding to everyone who applied. But this time, with so much AI-generated verbiage I simply don&#x27;t want to.<p>I understand non-native speakers of English wanting to use AI. But frankly, just saying &quot;here&#x27;s my resume (and github&#x2F;blog&#x2F;publications etc)&quot; is better than ChatGPT content. Writing longer emails creates an obligation for us (at the hiring end), and when it&#x27;s AI-generated you&#x27;re just wasting our time. If there&#x27;s a distinct AI-generated tone to the email, I&#x27;m inclined to not consider the application.</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>WirelessGigabit</author><text>Not just engineers. My wife recently went through this. Application after application, each expecting a cover letter, as to why my wife is the ideal candidate, and how she would be a great fit in the company.<p>It&#x27;s an absolute waste of time.<p>Then when you get through the first filter, you need to do x aptitude tests and a degrading personality test.<p>And only THEN, when you understand how those tests work and get to get a perfect score, then you might get an email to set up a phone call.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nullptr_deref</author><text>I am sorry to play the role of devil&#x27;s advocate.<p>The hiring industry put up with ridiculous requirements on the engineers. There is such a disconnect between the requirements on job post and actual job. As a result, all entry level people are forced to apply to 300-400 jobs at least. And you are all looking for programmers. If one thing I know is most of them are having a heck of fun creating their automated system.<p>I know it&#x27;s annoying to you but it is equally annoying to us. I hope the upper management learns something out of this. Compile a presentation and show it to upper management. If they don&#x27;t do something, expect more weird stuffs down the line.<p>I think your upper management will force your senior engineers to come with a filter and we will come with ways to bypass the filter. The race to the bottom is on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job applications (whoishiring threads)</title><text>Via yesterday&#x27;s whoishiring thread, I received more than 70 emails. A good percentage of them (nearly half of them) came with unedited AI-generated cover letters.<p>Please don&#x27;t do this. I spend time going through the resume, the various links in it, and then responding to everyone who applied. But this time, with so much AI-generated verbiage I simply don&#x27;t want to.<p>I understand non-native speakers of English wanting to use AI. But frankly, just saying &quot;here&#x27;s my resume (and github&#x2F;blog&#x2F;publications etc)&quot; is better than ChatGPT content. Writing longer emails creates an obligation for us (at the hiring end), and when it&#x27;s AI-generated you&#x27;re just wasting our time. If there&#x27;s a distinct AI-generated tone to the email, I&#x27;m inclined to not consider the application.</text></story> |
17,674,110 | 17,672,469 | 1 | 2 | 17,671,478 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>segmondy</author><text>&quot;seem so..awkward&quot;? Sure because you don&#x27;t understand prolog. it&#x27;s very easy to implement languages.<p>Look how simple I can compile down to asm code in 35 lines of pure prolog code.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;segmond&#x2F;PrologThingz&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;clause_and_effect&#x2F;compilation&#x2F;cg_flatten.pl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;segmond&#x2F;PrologThingz&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;clause_a...</a><p><pre><code> &#x2F;*
c := 1;
r := 1;
while c &lt; n do
(c := c + 1;
r := r * c)
*&#x2F;
program(1, (
assign(c,1);
assign(r,1);
while((c &lt; n),
(assign(c, c+1);
assign(r, r*c))))).
?- compile(1).
movc(1,r(1))
stm(r(1),c)
movc(1,r(1))
stm(r(1),r)
label(_G3638)
movm(c,r(1))
movm(n,r(2))
cmp(1,2)
bge(1)
movm(c,r(1))
movc(1,r(2))
add(r(2),r(1))
stm(r(1),c)
movm(r,r(1))
movm(c,r(2))
mul(r(2),r(1))
stm(r(1),r)
br(_G3638)
label(1)</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>ryanianian</author><text>I&#x27;m always surprised and delighted to see so many &quot;first implementations&quot; of languages in prolog. It was described to me in college as &quot;just a novelty&quot; but in fact it&#x27;s used extensively in the JVM internals [1] and apparently is the starting-point impl for other languages.<p>But prolog still seems so..awkward. I wonder why langs like Haskell or OCaml aren&#x27;t more de-facto for these purposes; they seem to have similar expressive power for parser&#x2F;grammar things and with less inside-out paradigms (imho).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;javase&#x2F;specs&#x2F;jvms&#x2F;se8&#x2F;jvms8.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;javase&#x2F;specs&#x2F;jvms&#x2F;se8&#x2F;jvms8.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler</title><url>http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>The &quot;inside out&quot; paradigm of Prolog is what it is good for. Try to write complex procedural programs and you will be driven to insanity by the cuts, using logical failure to express procedural success, etc.<p>The original sin of conventional programming languages is that we write a sequence of operations that happen one after another in time. Thus we find concurrency, dealing with asynchronous events, and reacting effectively to the environment difficult.<p>Prolog makes writing simple parsers simple. Certain kinds of search problems are easy to solve, and some kinds of operations (say involving transitive closure) can be defined in two or three lines of Prolog that hopefully you could implement in 50 lines in a more normal language after looking at an algorithms book.<p>There has been a huge amount of research and commercial implementation of things that are like Prolog but different, for instance having built-in satisfaction solving, combinatorical optimization, etc. Prolog is backwards-chaining (finds rules to justify a conclusion) but other engines are forward chaining like Drools, the Jena Rules Engine, IBM iLog.<p>I would love to see this approach get more popular.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryanianian</author><text>I&#x27;m always surprised and delighted to see so many &quot;first implementations&quot; of languages in prolog. It was described to me in college as &quot;just a novelty&quot; but in fact it&#x27;s used extensively in the JVM internals [1] and apparently is the starting-point impl for other languages.<p>But prolog still seems so..awkward. I wonder why langs like Haskell or OCaml aren&#x27;t more de-facto for these purposes; they seem to have similar expressive power for parser&#x2F;grammar things and with less inside-out paradigms (imho).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;javase&#x2F;specs&#x2F;jvms&#x2F;se8&#x2F;jvms8.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;javase&#x2F;specs&#x2F;jvms&#x2F;se8&#x2F;jvms8.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler</title><url>http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/</url></story> |
6,703,115 | 6,702,908 | 1 | 2 | 6,702,535 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>He invented a real (specific) product with prototypes and everything, licensed that product to a real manufacturer who then made it, gained lots of money, and then stiffed him on the payment they promised.<p>Trolls would have produced no toy at all, for anyone, kept the whole process a secret, and then sued every child who ever flung water at another at a birthday party.<p>&quot;Its the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.&quot; You know it when you see it.<p>Edit: Just for clarity, its the direction the arrow points. Lonnie Johnson created a product and then went out and sought a company to <i>start</i> producing it. Trolls do it backwards, they go out and find companies that are <i>already</i> producing it and then threaten them with forcing them to <i>stop</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rdw</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting to me about this story in light of current events is that Johnson Research and Development Co., seems in many ways like an NPE. He doesn&#x27;t make products directly, he simply licenses the patents to other companies that do make the products, and sometimes sues them.<p>Obviously, he&#x27;s not a patent troll, but what&#x27;s the bright line between what he does and what a patent troll does? This is a critical question in the patent troll discussion, because it is absolutely the case that every Intellectual Ventures, Lodsys, and Rockstar thinks of themselves as being innovative inventors like Lonnie Johnson. They&#x27;ll hold independent inventors like him up whenever legislation is proposed and say that it&#x27;ll hurt good old-fashioned American invention, and maybe they&#x27;ll even be right.<p>It&#x27;s critical that there be a clear division there, or else reform will never go through, or worse, end up hurting actual inventors. How can that line be drawn?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro</title><url>http://www.ajc.com/news/business/super-soaker-creator-awarded-729m-from-hasbro/nbjmm/#!</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>etler</author><text>In this case it seems to be entirely a royalty dispute, and has nothing to do with the patent. Hasbro properly licensed the product, the just didn&#x27;t properly pay out the royalties.<p>Also, the patent reform bill[1] that was featured not so long ago isn&#x27;t about holding companies, it&#x27;s about making the trolling process harder. One of the provisions is requiring the &quot;real party of interest&quot; to be exposed in the litigation, so a shell company litigating on behalf of microsoft would have to get microsoft involved with it. The other big thing has to do with validity and pleading. In many cases the lawsuits are brought about without any valid claim, and are just used as a harassment tactic to get small companies to pay up their fee instead of going through an expensive and painful legal process. Under the bill, the discovery process is halted until the patent is interpreted, and it forces the patent holder to be more specific about which claims are actually at issue.<p>None of the things put in that bill seem like they would affect the likes Johnson, had this case even been about patents, as he has legitimate and valid patents, and he himself is the real party of interest.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/current-legislative-proposals-patent-reform#ia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;current-legislative-proposals-pat...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rdw</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting to me about this story in light of current events is that Johnson Research and Development Co., seems in many ways like an NPE. He doesn&#x27;t make products directly, he simply licenses the patents to other companies that do make the products, and sometimes sues them.<p>Obviously, he&#x27;s not a patent troll, but what&#x27;s the bright line between what he does and what a patent troll does? This is a critical question in the patent troll discussion, because it is absolutely the case that every Intellectual Ventures, Lodsys, and Rockstar thinks of themselves as being innovative inventors like Lonnie Johnson. They&#x27;ll hold independent inventors like him up whenever legislation is proposed and say that it&#x27;ll hurt good old-fashioned American invention, and maybe they&#x27;ll even be right.<p>It&#x27;s critical that there be a clear division there, or else reform will never go through, or worse, end up hurting actual inventors. How can that line be drawn?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro</title><url>http://www.ajc.com/news/business/super-soaker-creator-awarded-729m-from-hasbro/nbjmm/#!</url></story> |
27,391,131 | 27,390,823 | 1 | 3 | 27,388,587 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ordiman85</author><text>These videos [1] were published by a number of tabloids such as The Daily Mail [2] and The Sun [3]. I also remember that a very popular french TV show (Quotidien [4]) published them as well.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;people-collapsing-coronavirus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;people-collapsing-coronavi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-7923981&#x2F;Coronavirus-Disturbing-videos-claim-people-collapsing-Wuhan.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-7923981&#x2F;Coronavirus...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;10808633&#x2F;coronavirus-wuhan-zombieland&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;10808633&#x2F;coronavirus-wuhan-zom...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.liberation.fr&#x2F;checknews&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;les-videos-diffusees-par-quotidien-sur-wuhan-sont-elles-authentiques_1776386&#x2F;?outputType=amp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.liberation.fr&#x2F;checknews&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;les-videos-di...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>justicezyx</author><text>&gt; Does no one else remember the videos out of China with people laying dead in the streets, falling over as they walked, convulsing behind the steering wheels of cars?<p>Could you provide a link? I never saw such video on YouTube.</text></item><item><author>SV_BubbleTime</author><text>Does no one else remember the videos out of China with people laying dead in the streets, falling over as they walked, convulsing behind the steering wheels of cars? Who paid for all that acting, scenes, and filming and then have it presented as “news”?<p>CCP owns Hong Kong, that was over in 1997, the only surprising thing about HK is that China waited this long to make it better known. Now... <i>The country of</i> Taiwan on the other hand, it’s going to be a bit more tense there for some time.<p>EDIT: Added links from Jan, most videos have been removed but the articles and screenshots are there. The one I specifically wanted was removed from YouTube and I can’t find it, showed a guy being checked by a PPE marshmallow then nearly immediately going into spasms in his car.<p>EDIT2: To whoever might have been upset at my thoughts on Taiwan; I updated it with some italics for you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-7923981&#x2F;Coronavirus-Disturbing-videos-claim-people-collapsing-Wuhan.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-7923981&#x2F;Coronavirus...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.sg&#x2F;china-virusnew-videos-wuhan-show-coronavirus-infected-people-dying-streets-supermarkets-trains-38543" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.sg&#x2F;china-virusnew-videos-wuhan-show-coro...</a><p>Here is snopes with an eye roll worthy fact check
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;people-collapsing-coronavirus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;people-collapsing-coronavi...</a>
“Unproven” ok, thanks for that guys.</text></item><item><author>frickenhamster</author><text>China supported this in a psyop. Remember when they tried repeatedly to push the origin of the virus to Italy?
I&#x27;m ethnically Chinese, so I&#x27;m in contact with a lot of mainlanders. The brainwashing is very effective. Even if most mainlanders know that their state media is bogus, and that Xi is a dictator, they&#x27;ll take it deeply personally when you say anything that threatens the whole China # 1 narrative. All they had to do was hire a few shitposters, feed a few media narratives and the US fights with itself over stuff like anti-china, racists etc, while the CCP takes over Hong Kong.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>The other astonishing things is the sudden about face by the media. I&#x27;m glad they allowed themselves the liberty of looking at alternative origins. But... they were SO adamant and complicit in any discussion about alternative theories being shut down under the guise of conspiracy, Trumpism, anti-China, etc. (These are the same people who have no qualms about attributing anything to Russia even if evidence is thin, so it&#x27;s clear there is hypocrisy involved).<p>Edit: It looks like Twitter is suspending the account of the Fauci email leaker(s). So the MoT is still on it.</text></item><item><author>bartart</author><text>This is the most shocking article I have ever read in my life. I&#x27;d ask everyone to please read it because it is incredible.<p>One thing I did not realize is that US researchers who conducted gain of function research tried to downplay and discredit the possibility of the virus originating from the wuhan lab. There was an anti-lab theory Lancet statement signed by scientists, and &quot;Daszak had not only signed but organized the influential Lancet statement, with the intention of concealing his role and creating the impression of scientific unanimity.&quot;<p>Plus there&#x27;s all the stuff about the miners shoveling bat poop for weeks and then dying of coronaviruses, and the Wuhan institute collecting and doing gain of function research on these similar-to-SARS samples. And then several of the lab&#x27;s gain of function researchers became ill in late 2019. And there&#x27;s the weird renaming of samples to hide the unmatched closeness of the mine samples and covid. This is just the absolute surface of the article. There&#x27;s too much to list here<p>Edit: here&#x27;s another amazement for the list: &quot;Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories.&quot; And the article says &quot;BSL-2 [is] roughly as secure as an American dentist’s office.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins</title><url>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins</url></story> | <instructions>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 can confirm the videos existed. Saw them when they were posted, back in Jan 2020. They were never on youtube, though, that I&#x27;m aware of.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justicezyx</author><text>&gt; Does no one else remember the videos out of China with people laying dead in the streets, falling over as they walked, convulsing behind the steering wheels of cars?<p>Could you provide a link? I never saw such video on YouTube.</text></item><item><author>SV_BubbleTime</author><text>Does no one else remember the videos out of China with people laying dead in the streets, falling over as they walked, convulsing behind the steering wheels of cars? Who paid for all that acting, scenes, and filming and then have it presented as “news”?<p>CCP owns Hong Kong, that was over in 1997, the only surprising thing about HK is that China waited this long to make it better known. Now... <i>The country of</i> Taiwan on the other hand, it’s going to be a bit more tense there for some time.<p>EDIT: Added links from Jan, most videos have been removed but the articles and screenshots are there. The one I specifically wanted was removed from YouTube and I can’t find it, showed a guy being checked by a PPE marshmallow then nearly immediately going into spasms in his car.<p>EDIT2: To whoever might have been upset at my thoughts on Taiwan; I updated it with some italics for you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-7923981&#x2F;Coronavirus-Disturbing-videos-claim-people-collapsing-Wuhan.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-7923981&#x2F;Coronavirus...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.sg&#x2F;china-virusnew-videos-wuhan-show-coronavirus-infected-people-dying-streets-supermarkets-trains-38543" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.sg&#x2F;china-virusnew-videos-wuhan-show-coro...</a><p>Here is snopes with an eye roll worthy fact check
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;people-collapsing-coronavirus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;people-collapsing-coronavi...</a>
“Unproven” ok, thanks for that guys.</text></item><item><author>frickenhamster</author><text>China supported this in a psyop. Remember when they tried repeatedly to push the origin of the virus to Italy?
I&#x27;m ethnically Chinese, so I&#x27;m in contact with a lot of mainlanders. The brainwashing is very effective. Even if most mainlanders know that their state media is bogus, and that Xi is a dictator, they&#x27;ll take it deeply personally when you say anything that threatens the whole China # 1 narrative. All they had to do was hire a few shitposters, feed a few media narratives and the US fights with itself over stuff like anti-china, racists etc, while the CCP takes over Hong Kong.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>The other astonishing things is the sudden about face by the media. I&#x27;m glad they allowed themselves the liberty of looking at alternative origins. But... they were SO adamant and complicit in any discussion about alternative theories being shut down under the guise of conspiracy, Trumpism, anti-China, etc. (These are the same people who have no qualms about attributing anything to Russia even if evidence is thin, so it&#x27;s clear there is hypocrisy involved).<p>Edit: It looks like Twitter is suspending the account of the Fauci email leaker(s). So the MoT is still on it.</text></item><item><author>bartart</author><text>This is the most shocking article I have ever read in my life. I&#x27;d ask everyone to please read it because it is incredible.<p>One thing I did not realize is that US researchers who conducted gain of function research tried to downplay and discredit the possibility of the virus originating from the wuhan lab. There was an anti-lab theory Lancet statement signed by scientists, and &quot;Daszak had not only signed but organized the influential Lancet statement, with the intention of concealing his role and creating the impression of scientific unanimity.&quot;<p>Plus there&#x27;s all the stuff about the miners shoveling bat poop for weeks and then dying of coronaviruses, and the Wuhan institute collecting and doing gain of function research on these similar-to-SARS samples. And then several of the lab&#x27;s gain of function researchers became ill in late 2019. And there&#x27;s the weird renaming of samples to hide the unmatched closeness of the mine samples and covid. This is just the absolute surface of the article. There&#x27;s too much to list here<p>Edit: here&#x27;s another amazement for the list: &quot;Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories.&quot; And the article says &quot;BSL-2 [is] roughly as secure as an American dentist’s office.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins</title><url>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins</url></story> |
36,058,173 | 36,058,100 | 1 | 3 | 36,057,388 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edgyquant</author><text>We have to start creating criminal penalties for this stuff. We wouldn’t let someone go around knocking on doors, the same door everyday and sometimes multiple times, attempting to scam people.<p>At this point the phone system is unusable. If my doctors office needs to call me they’re SOL because I’m not answering a number I don’t know.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/call-states-sue-telecom-company-billions-robocalls-99553597</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>criddell</author><text>I average around 3 robocalls each weekday. They are annoying and it&#x27;s made me set my phone to not ring when I&#x27;m at work.<p>Do you do anything other than hang up when you get a robocall?<p>Sometimes when I do answer a robocall I just ask them to hold on for a second while I get a pen and something to write on then I set the phone down and go back to work. They rarely stay on the line for more than 10 seconds and one Medicaid scammer calls often enough that he recognizes my voice and will tell me to fuck off and then hangs up immediately.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/call-states-sue-telecom-company-billions-robocalls-99553597</url></story> |
28,870,576 | 28,870,859 | 1 | 3 | 28,869,030 | 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>jonnybgood</author><text>&gt; To me pantheism just seems like a misapplied psychological need. People have a (understandable) revulsion against seeing the universe as mechanic, or random, or &#x27;cold&#x27; or what have you, and pantheism not unlike Gaia type theories are comforting.<p>Pantheism is nothing more than seeing the universe, or nature, as god. What you’re reading is one particular flavor of pantheism. A pantheist can also view god, or universe, or nature, as cold and mechanical as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;For one thing, it manages to create a profound metaphysical intimacy with God without denying His transcendence.<p>this kind of thinking which I often see when people express pantheistic views is exactly what turns me away from it. It&#x27;s just as much of an anthropomorphization as the article accuses traditional conceptions of God of.<p>I guess you can think that the universe is in some vague sense conscious, although I don&#x27;t think the arguments for that are great either, but to jump from this to thinking one can experience &#x27;intimacy&#x27; with it (and explicitly not &quot;him&quot;) is I think already making mistakes. One can experience intimacy while being in nature but not &#x27;with nature&#x27;, Intimacy is a human emotion, &#x27;nature&#x27; does not empathize back.<p>To me pantheism just seems like a misapplied psychological need. People have a (understandable) revulsion against seeing the universe as mechanic, or random, or &#x27;cold&#x27; or what have you, and pantheism not unlike Gaia type theories are comforting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?</title><url>https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/spinozas-religion-clare-carlisle-god-einstein-philosophy-religion-review</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>I agree that &quot;I believe X because it makes me feel Y&quot; isn&#x27;t a good argument. But it&#x27;s also not a good argument to say &quot;you believe X because it makes you feel Y.&quot; We could apply that, fallaciously, in any direction.<p>For example, I could say &quot;you believe in pantheism because you find it comforting,&quot; or &quot;you believe in materialism because it makes you feel like a strong, tough-minded person who does need that fuzzy comforting stuff.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;For one thing, it manages to create a profound metaphysical intimacy with God without denying His transcendence.<p>this kind of thinking which I often see when people express pantheistic views is exactly what turns me away from it. It&#x27;s just as much of an anthropomorphization as the article accuses traditional conceptions of God of.<p>I guess you can think that the universe is in some vague sense conscious, although I don&#x27;t think the arguments for that are great either, but to jump from this to thinking one can experience &#x27;intimacy&#x27; with it (and explicitly not &quot;him&quot;) is I think already making mistakes. One can experience intimacy while being in nature but not &#x27;with nature&#x27;, Intimacy is a human emotion, &#x27;nature&#x27; does not empathize back.<p>To me pantheism just seems like a misapplied psychological need. People have a (understandable) revulsion against seeing the universe as mechanic, or random, or &#x27;cold&#x27; or what have you, and pantheism not unlike Gaia type theories are comforting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?</title><url>https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/spinozas-religion-clare-carlisle-god-einstein-philosophy-religion-review</url></story> |
32,476,401 | 32,474,025 | 1 | 3 | 32,472,412 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; These attacks are sophisticated and are capable of bypassing TOTP or mobile-app-based MFA.<p>To be honest, I wish people would stop parroting that these attacks were &quot;sophisticated&quot;. In my opinion, I&#x27;d call something like Pegasus spyware &quot;sophisticated&quot;. I don&#x27;t think these attacks were that sophisticated at all - they were just standard issue, MITM attacks using targeted text messages - and they just took advantage of what is always the weakest link in security: people. I think of myself as a general middle-of-the-road software developer but I think I could have easily replicated this attack myself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamespwilliams</author><text>The attack Twilio suffered is almost identical to the recent attack against Cloudflare: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks&#x2F;</a> (even down the wording of the text messages, which are nearly identical). Cloudflare’s use of security keys prevented the attackers getting access to any accounts in that case.<p>These attacks are sophisticated and are capable of bypassing TOTP or mobile-app-based MFA. If this is widespread, I’d be surprised if we didn’t see a massive influx of breaches soon. The vast majority of companies are not well defended against this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know</title><url>https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saurik</author><text>The way that Cloudflare attack was working out sounds similar in nature to the way MailChimp was attacked a few months ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;hackers-breach-mailchimps-internal-tools-to-target-crypto-customers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;hackers-breac...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jamespwilliams</author><text>The attack Twilio suffered is almost identical to the recent attack against Cloudflare: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks&#x2F;</a> (even down the wording of the text messages, which are nearly identical). Cloudflare’s use of security keys prevented the attackers getting access to any accounts in that case.<p>These attacks are sophisticated and are capable of bypassing TOTP or mobile-app-based MFA. If this is widespread, I’d be surprised if we didn’t see a massive influx of breaches soon. The vast majority of companies are not well defended against this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know</title><url>https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242</url></story> |
39,799,377 | 39,798,519 | 1 | 3 | 39,796,216 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jl6</author><text>It’s a spectacularly poorly worded graphic, but in case you’re wondering, it’s about alleged abuse of modern slavery protections to artificially delay deportation, not a threat to enslave people:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonslibrary.parliament.uk&#x2F;research-briefings&#x2F;cbp-9744&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonslibrary.parliament.uk&#x2F;research-briefings&#x2F;cbp-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Britain’s current government can be alarmingly Scarfolk-like at times. Take this graphic tweeted by the Prime Minister:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RishiSunak&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633158789103747072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RishiSunak&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633158789103747072</a><p>“If you come to the UK illegally you will be DENIED access to the UK’s modern slavery system”<p>Put that in a 70s typeface and slightly weathered poster appearance and it’s pure Scarfolk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visiting Scarfolk, the most spectacular dystopia of the 1970s (2016)</title><url>https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/visiting-scarfolk/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thriftwy</author><text>&quot;Modern slavery system&quot; is hilarious, but even more worrying is claim that one might ever lose the modern society&#x27;s protrection against being enslaved under some conditions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Britain’s current government can be alarmingly Scarfolk-like at times. Take this graphic tweeted by the Prime Minister:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RishiSunak&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633158789103747072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RishiSunak&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633158789103747072</a><p>“If you come to the UK illegally you will be DENIED access to the UK’s modern slavery system”<p>Put that in a 70s typeface and slightly weathered poster appearance and it’s pure Scarfolk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visiting Scarfolk, the most spectacular dystopia of the 1970s (2016)</title><url>https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/visiting-scarfolk/</url></story> |
15,564,454 | 15,564,539 | 1 | 2 | 15,560,067 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>welder</author><text>Open sourcing your cloud GraphQL database... bold move! After seeing your Graphcool admin console I&#x27;m sold, and this means I can run it locally now.<p>Also on Product Hunt today: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;graphcool-framework" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;graphcool-framework</a><p>Question: How do we sync schema changes between dev environment and production? As of right now, this just means we can see the well-designed Graphcool backend and don&#x27;t have to worry about getting locked into a cloud offering, but it needs schema migrations to use in dev environments.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing the Graphcool Framework</title><url>https://blog.graph.cool/introducing-the-graphcool-framework-d9edab2a7816</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>schickling</author><text>Hi everyone, co-founder of Graphcool here!<p>We couldn&#x27;t be more excited to take this big step forward by open-sourcing the Graphcool Framework. This means you can now:<p>* Run Graphcool locally (also works offline)<p>* Deploy a Graphcool cluster to your own servers&#x2F;cloud<p>* Get involved in the development of the framework on GitHub<p>We can&#x27;t wait to see what you will be building and look forward to your feedback!
(Here is a 5 min demo video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xmri5pNR9-Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xmri5pNR9-Y</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing the Graphcool Framework</title><url>https://blog.graph.cool/introducing-the-graphcool-framework-d9edab2a7816</url></story> |
8,657,721 | 8,657,825 | 1 | 2 | 8,657,454 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chime</author><text>Invariant to scale and rotation in JS on mobile? That&#x27;s fantastic! I just tested the Red Laser native app on my phone and it can handle scale&#x2F;rotation too. But I never thought about rotation for the Red Laser app and always tried to align it properly between the [ ] brackets.<p>I think apps that support scale&#x2F;rotation should not show [ ] brackets but instead a central red +. Haven&#x27;t dug deeply into how barcode_locator.js in your repo works but with the expectation that the barcode will be in the middle, you might be able to slightly optimize your code to start the location detection from the middle and expand outwards.<p>It appears you are breaking the image into smaller &#x27;patches&#x27; and looping through those to look for chunks of a barcode. Even if the algorithm is resolution independent, you might be able to exit the loop 50-60% earlier if you detect from the middle and go out in a spiral. In other words, the order in which you iterate the loop can make a difference.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: QuaggaJS, a barcode scanner written in JavaScript</title><url>http://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tubelite</author><text>This is great news.<p>I just wrote a QRcode-reader Django widget to be used on a mobile browser, using the LazarSoft library (<a href="https://github.com/LazarSoft/jsqrcode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LazarSoft&#x2F;jsqrcode</a>). The library worked great, but the HTML5 bits turned out to be surprisingly painful. Camera selection works differently in different browsers - Android Chrome has an API, Firefox throws up a selection dialog every time. Mobile Chrome doesn&#x27;t let you emit audio unless it is in the context of a UI interaction (desktop Chrome does!)<p>Worst of all: poor autofocus. I tried multiple Android devices (Nexus 4, Moto G v2, Nexus 5) and in all cases, autofocus on getUserMedia() worked indifferently or not at all, especially close up. In contrast, native barcode&#x2F;QRcode reader apps on the same devices did much better, snapping to focus very quickly.<p>I wonder if you faced something similar?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: QuaggaJS, a barcode scanner written in JavaScript</title><url>http://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/</url></story> |
33,725,712 | 33,725,454 | 1 | 3 | 33,722,282 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&gt; <i>The Steam brand and mindshare is second to none in my experience.</i><p>They&#x27;ve certainly come a long way. I remember when they first tied the release of CounterStrike to installing Steam (CS 1.6, 2002), and that was not received well. Online auth was spotty. People were not happy about having this extra software hogging their memory.<p>But Valve steadily improved it, and made a worthwhile value proposition.<p>It&#x27;s worth comparing to Microsoft&#x27;s incredibly clumsy and ill-fated &quot;Games For Windows Live&quot;. At a macro level, why couldn&#x27;t they repeat Valve&#x27;s success? I suppose it&#x27;s a management problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>firecall</author><text>The Steam brand and mindshare is second to none in my experience.<p>My tweener kids will preference Steam over all other platforms.
They would rather buy&#x2F;re-buy, or pay more for a game on Steam than use another game launcher.<p>Their are games that are free to play with Xbox game pass, but they would rather buy and play them under Steam.<p>They have negative views on Epic, Ubisoft and so on. Blizzard&#x2F;Battle.net aren&#x27;t even on their radar.<p>They are mostly indifferent to MS&#x2F;Xbox Store.<p>With Steam, the brand respect they have is five-stars!</text></item><item><author>zamalek</author><text>I watched a talk by GabeN <i>years</i> ago, where he explained his business philosophy (which also had to do with his exit from Microsoft). It was strikingly simple: treat your customers well. Supporting Linux is treating his customers well (even if the majority of customers don&#x27;t understand that... yet).</text></item><item><author>manchmalscott</author><text>Valve&#x27;s continual focus on Linux (SteamOS 1.0 was released <i>eight</i> years ago) is honestly incredible, Proton even sometimes works better than native Linux builds. Truly nobody else (in the gaming space) is doing it like Valve are. I saw a talk[1] from a KDE dev talking about features Valve sponsored to be added to KDE Plasma and it&#x27;s things that are useful for everyone outside the context of the steam deck.<p>The only thing that doesn&#x27;t really work I&#x27;ve noticed is when games have an online component, whether it&#x27;s like easy anti cheat which I&#x27;ve heard <i>should</i> be just flipping a switch to enable but I haven&#x27;t seen anyone actually do that, or some weirdness happening with whatever the new Microsoft Flight Simulator is doing that makes it seemingly a 50&#x2F;50 coin toss as to whether it&#x27;ll run with the exact same settings.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a0gEIeFgDX0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a0gEIeFgDX0</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Valve Introduces Proton Next</title><url>https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/valve-introduces-proton-next/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>denkmoon</author><text>I&#x27;m the same, as a 30-something. Steam is so much better and Gabe has fostered my undying loyalty. He&#x27;d have to shoot my dog to stop me using Steam.</text><parent_chain><item><author>firecall</author><text>The Steam brand and mindshare is second to none in my experience.<p>My tweener kids will preference Steam over all other platforms.
They would rather buy&#x2F;re-buy, or pay more for a game on Steam than use another game launcher.<p>Their are games that are free to play with Xbox game pass, but they would rather buy and play them under Steam.<p>They have negative views on Epic, Ubisoft and so on. Blizzard&#x2F;Battle.net aren&#x27;t even on their radar.<p>They are mostly indifferent to MS&#x2F;Xbox Store.<p>With Steam, the brand respect they have is five-stars!</text></item><item><author>zamalek</author><text>I watched a talk by GabeN <i>years</i> ago, where he explained his business philosophy (which also had to do with his exit from Microsoft). It was strikingly simple: treat your customers well. Supporting Linux is treating his customers well (even if the majority of customers don&#x27;t understand that... yet).</text></item><item><author>manchmalscott</author><text>Valve&#x27;s continual focus on Linux (SteamOS 1.0 was released <i>eight</i> years ago) is honestly incredible, Proton even sometimes works better than native Linux builds. Truly nobody else (in the gaming space) is doing it like Valve are. I saw a talk[1] from a KDE dev talking about features Valve sponsored to be added to KDE Plasma and it&#x27;s things that are useful for everyone outside the context of the steam deck.<p>The only thing that doesn&#x27;t really work I&#x27;ve noticed is when games have an online component, whether it&#x27;s like easy anti cheat which I&#x27;ve heard <i>should</i> be just flipping a switch to enable but I haven&#x27;t seen anyone actually do that, or some weirdness happening with whatever the new Microsoft Flight Simulator is doing that makes it seemingly a 50&#x2F;50 coin toss as to whether it&#x27;ll run with the exact same settings.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a0gEIeFgDX0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a0gEIeFgDX0</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Valve Introduces Proton Next</title><url>https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/valve-introduces-proton-next/</url></story> |
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