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20,211,716 | 20,210,442 | 1 | 3 | 20,208,778 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wsxcde</author><text>Vaguely relevant: there&#x27;s reason to believe that the current Central American gang violence epidemic, which is driving the migrant crisis at the US&#x2F;Mexico border is also due to leaded gasoline. Central America didnt&#x27; eliminate leaded gasoline until the 2000s.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akie</author><text>Are you saying that inner city crime is by brain damage, rather than by living in desperate circumstances?</text></item><item><author>shereadsthenews</author><text>True, but there is recent evidence that is pretty much the gold standard for a perfect randomized experiment where they tracked children with high blood levels who did and did not receive interventions to lower it. Those receiving treatment committed violent crimes at a far lower rate than those who were exposed but had no intervention. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.aeaweb.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdfplus&#x2F;10.1257&#x2F;app.20160056" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.aeaweb.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdfplus&#x2F;10.1257&#x2F;app.20160056</a></text></item><item><author>NorthOf33rd</author><text>Lead pollution hypothesis is one of many plausible explanations and shouldn’t be presented as fact.</text></item><item><author>Gibbon1</author><text>I think demise of cities was due to being starved for capital, redlining, automobiles, and crime due to lead pollution.<p>Post war capital was invested in suburbs instead of urban cores which then decayed.<p>Redlining also meant urban areas inhabited by minorities were cut off from capital. Not only couldn&#x27;t minorities get loans, but even their often white landlords couldn&#x27;t.<p>Automobiles allowed workers to locate their families in cheap suburbs while sucking at the corporate teat in Urban Cities. At least until too many people spoiled a good thing as auto congestion built up.<p>Leaded gasoline caused brain damage which effected dense urban areas the most, resulting in high crime rates.<p>The last 40 years has seen a reversal of that at least for some urban cities. Capital is being invested in cities. Hard redlining is gone. Replaced by jacking minorities with exploitative loan products. Suburban congestion has made suburbs much less attractive. The decline of lead pollution means urban cities are again &#x27;safe&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; This was only made possible by enormous federal subsidies for returning soldiers and huge investments in public infrastructure by the federal government.<p>&gt; People ... couldn’t imagine returning to the city which continued to decline.<p>I begin to wonder whether the demise of the city was really caused by the government subsidies of the suburban lifestyle. It&#x27;s not that Levittown isn&#x27;t sustainable anymore, it&#x27;s that it never was, not on a long term scale. Low density living should be expensive because it is expensive. The government chose to invest in suburbs instead of the city. The city rotted without investment, exacerbating the problem.<p>It&#x27;s only the last couple decades as governments tightened their coffers that the suburbs have had to carry their own load- and they can&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Levittown</title><url>https://granolashotgun.com/2019/06/03/levittown/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scythe</author><text>Are you saying the rectangle’s area is caused by its length, rather than its width?</text><parent_chain><item><author>akie</author><text>Are you saying that inner city crime is by brain damage, rather than by living in desperate circumstances?</text></item><item><author>shereadsthenews</author><text>True, but there is recent evidence that is pretty much the gold standard for a perfect randomized experiment where they tracked children with high blood levels who did and did not receive interventions to lower it. Those receiving treatment committed violent crimes at a far lower rate than those who were exposed but had no intervention. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.aeaweb.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdfplus&#x2F;10.1257&#x2F;app.20160056" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.aeaweb.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdfplus&#x2F;10.1257&#x2F;app.20160056</a></text></item><item><author>NorthOf33rd</author><text>Lead pollution hypothesis is one of many plausible explanations and shouldn’t be presented as fact.</text></item><item><author>Gibbon1</author><text>I think demise of cities was due to being starved for capital, redlining, automobiles, and crime due to lead pollution.<p>Post war capital was invested in suburbs instead of urban cores which then decayed.<p>Redlining also meant urban areas inhabited by minorities were cut off from capital. Not only couldn&#x27;t minorities get loans, but even their often white landlords couldn&#x27;t.<p>Automobiles allowed workers to locate their families in cheap suburbs while sucking at the corporate teat in Urban Cities. At least until too many people spoiled a good thing as auto congestion built up.<p>Leaded gasoline caused brain damage which effected dense urban areas the most, resulting in high crime rates.<p>The last 40 years has seen a reversal of that at least for some urban cities. Capital is being invested in cities. Hard redlining is gone. Replaced by jacking minorities with exploitative loan products. Suburban congestion has made suburbs much less attractive. The decline of lead pollution means urban cities are again &#x27;safe&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; This was only made possible by enormous federal subsidies for returning soldiers and huge investments in public infrastructure by the federal government.<p>&gt; People ... couldn’t imagine returning to the city which continued to decline.<p>I begin to wonder whether the demise of the city was really caused by the government subsidies of the suburban lifestyle. It&#x27;s not that Levittown isn&#x27;t sustainable anymore, it&#x27;s that it never was, not on a long term scale. Low density living should be expensive because it is expensive. The government chose to invest in suburbs instead of the city. The city rotted without investment, exacerbating the problem.<p>It&#x27;s only the last couple decades as governments tightened their coffers that the suburbs have had to carry their own load- and they can&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Levittown</title><url>https://granolashotgun.com/2019/06/03/levittown/</url></story> |
38,802,712 | 38,802,677 | 1 | 2 | 38,802,152 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tadfisher</author><text>That&#x27;s true, but the term itself is archaic; at the time (early 19th century) the most widespread gaseous fuel was coal gas, also known as &quot;town gas&quot; because we piped it to urban homes for lighting. There&#x27;s not much need for the distinction anymore, plus &quot;methane&quot; aligns with the other trade names for other fossil gases (propane, butane).</text><parent_chain><item><author>zyl1n</author><text>What does natural gas have to do with greenwashing? It is naturally occurring gas; different from other hydrocarbon gas that is man-made.</text></item><item><author>globalnode</author><text>i agree, but i also dislike the term &quot;natural gas&quot; sure its natural just like everything in the universe is -- just a bit of greenwashing to go with our CO2 emissions</text></item><item><author>vinniepukh</author><text>I like the term “emissions-free”.<p>It keeps our eyes on the target - not emitting CO2 and other gasses to the atmosphere.<p>Other qualities like “renewablility” or “greenness” are cherries in the top. Nice to haves!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>40% of US electricity is now emissions-free</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>efnx</author><text>The argument is that humans are part of nature and therefore anything made by humans is still natural.<p>I tend to agree with this - there is a dichotomy here, but it is &quot;natural&quot; vs. &quot;supernatural&quot; - not &quot;natural&quot; vs &quot;synthetic&quot;. I think it would be fine if for most cases we simply said &quot;man-made&quot; vs &quot;not man-made&quot; as it succinctly describes the dichotomy we&#x27;re aiming for.<p>The &quot;greenwashing&quot; here is that you _could_ call anything that&#x27;s not a ghost or a god &quot;natural&quot; by a certain definition...</text><parent_chain><item><author>zyl1n</author><text>What does natural gas have to do with greenwashing? It is naturally occurring gas; different from other hydrocarbon gas that is man-made.</text></item><item><author>globalnode</author><text>i agree, but i also dislike the term &quot;natural gas&quot; sure its natural just like everything in the universe is -- just a bit of greenwashing to go with our CO2 emissions</text></item><item><author>vinniepukh</author><text>I like the term “emissions-free”.<p>It keeps our eyes on the target - not emitting CO2 and other gasses to the atmosphere.<p>Other qualities like “renewablility” or “greenness” are cherries in the top. Nice to haves!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>40% of US electricity is now emissions-free</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/</url></story> |
28,460,531 | 28,460,828 | 1 | 2 | 28,457,762 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jlokier</author><text>That&#x27;s because &quot;Web 3&quot; is more of a marketing term, whereas &quot;Web 2.0&quot; was a descriptive term coined for something that had already emerged in the preceding years from countless independent implementations, evolving together.<p>When &quot;Web 2.0&quot; was named, most of the techniques had been used for over a decade, and social networking side of it was well established too. Even &quot;AJAX&quot; was coined years after some sites were already using that technique, without that name.<p>Web 3 is an attempt to portray p2p, cryptocurrency, IPFS and similar types of networks as on an equal footing to the evolutionary changes that vaguely made up Web 2.0.<p>In particular, the name implies it&#x27;s &quot;the&quot; (singular) next version of the Web after 2.0.<p>But it&#x27;s too early to be sure of that. Most people aren&#x27;t using it, most sites aren&#x27;t using it either and don&#x27;t plan to. The real successor to Web 2.0 that things evolve to en masse might be quite different than Web 3 proponents are describing at the moment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>patwolf</author><text>I was around for web 2.0, and it felt like a substantial change over how the web worked previously. It was the first glimpse that the web was capable of replacing the desktop apps we were accustomed to, while simultaneously adding new capabilities that didn&#x27;t exist in desktop apps. There was a lot more to it, but to the casual user that was the most obvious difference.<p>This was the first thing I&#x27;ve read about web 3, so I didn&#x27;t need to grep my brain to find and remove any existing notions about it. As someone coming in late to the party, I agree that installing a browser extension seems like a deal breaker. Web 2.0 was about getting rid of browser extensions. It also sounds like web3 is missing a killer app. For web 2.0, Gmail and Google Maps and YouTube were all immediately useful to all web users. Web 3 doesn&#x27;t sound all that compelling to a lay person.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web3 is a stupid idea</title><url>https://timdaub.github.io/2020/09/08/web3/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>casi18</author><text>metamask has 10MM monthly active users, opensea at half the volume of ebay last month...<p>anecdotally, people seem to be moving to wallet connect smartphone wallets (eg rainbow) recently as they are nicer than browser extensions + you can use mobile websites&#x2F;apps with them. Metamask is a bit of a mess tbh.<p>I&#x27;ve been in the space for a few years now so i find it really hard imagining a non-cryptocurrency&#x2F;web3 internet at this point. It&#x27;s such a big part of my use of the internet at this point. Hanging out in various dao chats in discord from chess clubs to running gallery spaces, voting in snapshot is a daily activity. Its basically like being in wow guilds, but with a completely open-ended design space to play in.<p>Im not sure what people will be satisfied with as a killer app? what is the measure of success? it feels like its already here and successful to me. After a dull period of the internet feeling like it was disappearing under FAANG it feels alive and chaotic and fun again.</text><parent_chain><item><author>patwolf</author><text>I was around for web 2.0, and it felt like a substantial change over how the web worked previously. It was the first glimpse that the web was capable of replacing the desktop apps we were accustomed to, while simultaneously adding new capabilities that didn&#x27;t exist in desktop apps. There was a lot more to it, but to the casual user that was the most obvious difference.<p>This was the first thing I&#x27;ve read about web 3, so I didn&#x27;t need to grep my brain to find and remove any existing notions about it. As someone coming in late to the party, I agree that installing a browser extension seems like a deal breaker. Web 2.0 was about getting rid of browser extensions. It also sounds like web3 is missing a killer app. For web 2.0, Gmail and Google Maps and YouTube were all immediately useful to all web users. Web 3 doesn&#x27;t sound all that compelling to a lay person.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web3 is a stupid idea</title><url>https://timdaub.github.io/2020/09/08/web3/</url></story> |
15,863,176 | 15,862,262 | 1 | 2 | 15,861,136 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fasteddie</author><text>Similar to this, a few years back my then-roommates and I created a fake restaurant at our apartment, named after the nickname we gave to our kitchen. It was meant to be our own inside joke and we gave it a couple reviews ourselves.<p>The 4.5 star review caused us to get some walkup traffic, at which point we thought it was too real and canceled the experiment, although the page is still live if you link to it through our review history.<p>The best was a group of young 20 somethings who showed up and were really good-natured about the joke, so we invited them up for a beer and they dropped us a 5-star review.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frgtpsswrdlame</author><text>&gt;The representative adds that &quot;most fraudsters are only interested in trying to manipulate the rankings of real businesses&quot;, so the &quot;distinction between attempted fraud by a real business, as opposed to attempted fraud for a non-existent business, is important&quot;. To catch these people out, TripAdvisor uses &quot;state-of-the-art technology to identify suspicious review patterns&quot; and says, &quot;Our community too can report suspicious activity to us.&quot; They then quote a 2015 study that found &quot;93 percent of TripAdvisor users said they find the reviews they read to be accurate of the actual experience&quot;.<p>If TripAdvisor can&#x27;t catch out a restaurant which is entirely a farce how can they pretend they&#x27;re catching out real businesses who might be nudging their results up a bit?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor</url></story> |
32,033,944 | 32,033,868 | 1 | 3 | 32,032,913 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wernsey</author><text>If you&#x27;ll indulge me for a moment, I have a story to tell:<p>Many years ago, I had this idea of creating a documentation tool for my hobby projects that was based on Awk.<p>I liked Doxygen, but it was a bit heavy duty for a small C library with only a handful of functions. You could almost guarantee that Awk would be available on the system where you might be compiling the project, so you could just bundle the awk script with your sources, add two lines to your makefile and have HTML documentation ready to go.<p>Now I had never heard of Markdown at this time; It was before StackOverflow or GitHub was a thing (perhaps they existed, but I haven&#x27;t used them yet). Therefore my syntax was a crude markup scheme that was difficult to explain and didn&#x27;t always work correctly.<p>Skip forward a couple of years and I had the bright idea to rewrite the script to rather use a Markdown syntax. This ended up being one of those hobby projects that you never really finish, and it grew organically to include all sorts of Markdown features. The result of that effort is now on GitHub [1].<p>Where does Markdeep fit into all of this? Sometimes when I stumble upon a project on GitHub that I find interesting, I click on the author&#x27;s name to see what other repositories they have that looks interesting. One day I browsed GitHub like that and stumbled upon user r-lyeh&#x27;s `stddoc.c` file [2].<p>It is a C program that simply extracts the comments from your source file and appends the Markdeep tags to the end. If you save the result to a HTML file, you achieve the same result as my script, except the implementation is much much simpler.<p>I nearly fell off my chair when I realised that all the effort I put into my own script was basically made useless(*) by Markdeep. Instead of parsing the markdown, I could rather have had Markdeep do all the heavy lifting, and it comes with a bunch of very nice features that I doubt I&#x27;d ever be able to implement in my own script.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wernsey&#x2F;d.awk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wernsey&#x2F;d.awk</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;r-lyeh&#x2F;stddoc.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;r-lyeh&#x2F;stddoc.c</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Markdeep</title><url>https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asicsp</author><text>Past discussions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22348190" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22348190</a> <i>(360 points | 2020 | 108 comments)</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10402121" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10402121</a> <i>(256 points | 2015 | 78 comments)</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Markdeep</title><url>https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/</url></story> |
17,662,398 | 17,661,240 | 1 | 2 | 17,658,236 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justinwp</author><text>&gt;Pasture is basically the Bureau of Land Management’s default use for the vast swaths of federal land. It’s like “here is this land, you’re allowed to graze on it with a permit.” That doesn’t produce that many cows...<p>And yet it is an incredibly destructive use of land for so few cows. BLM land is often shrubby desert and is not able to cope with the impacts of the cows and remain a healthy ecosystem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The one third being used for cows is misleading. Pasture is basically the Bureau of Land Management’s default use for the vast swaths of federal land. It’s like “here is this land, you’re allowed to graze on it with a permit.” That doesn’t produce that many cows—it’s more about politics and the fact that much of the land is good for little else besides growing grass.<p>The real land use from growing meat comes from the land used to grow the corn that feeds the cows. In the article, that’s counted as agricultural land, not pasture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How America Uses Its Land</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>I think a better map would be to show how much land is in private hands versus held by Federal and State governments. I bet people would be shocked, see this article from 2016 [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;federal-land-ownership&#x2F;422637&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;federal...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The one third being used for cows is misleading. Pasture is basically the Bureau of Land Management’s default use for the vast swaths of federal land. It’s like “here is this land, you’re allowed to graze on it with a permit.” That doesn’t produce that many cows—it’s more about politics and the fact that much of the land is good for little else besides growing grass.<p>The real land use from growing meat comes from the land used to grow the corn that feeds the cows. In the article, that’s counted as agricultural land, not pasture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How America Uses Its Land</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/</url></story> |
21,032,626 | 21,031,684 | 1 | 2 | 21,012,637 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nitwit005</author><text>&gt; First, we should expect ordinary people to donate more to politics.<p>My mother donated once to some Democratic volunteer who came to her door. They hounded her for more donations. She got mailings, phone calls, multiple people at her door. She vowed never to give them another cent.<p>Perhaps an unusually bad experience, but generally you do get punished this way for donating. I emptied my grandmother&#x27;s mailbox when she became ill, and due to her charitable giving, it was absolutely crammed with political and charity mailings.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too Much Dark Money in Almonds</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in-almonds/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koboll</author><text>&gt;If everyone who cared about homelessness donated $100 to the problem, homelessness would be solved. Nobody does this, because they know that nobody else is going to do it, and their $100 is just going to feel like a tiny drop in the ocean that doesn’t change anything. People know that a single person can’t make a difference, so they don’t want to spend any money, so no money gets spent.<p>I wonder if something like the National Popular Vote compact could work here.<p>It works like this: state legislatures pass a law that says if enough states sign onto the compact to pass 270 electoral votes, their electors are automatically assigned to the winner of the popular vote. In this way, nothing changes and no one has to sacrifice anything until enough states agree to actually effect a change, and then they act together to effectively obviate the Electoral College.<p>Sure, if I donate $100 to a homelessness charity, it&#x27;ll feel like a drop in the bucket. But if some charity starts an initiative to take my credit card information and <i>only</i> charge it once enough people donate to end homelessness, I might be more inclined to do it. Either the threshold is reached and homelessness ends, or I get a feeling of altruistic pride for doing nothing. Everyone wins!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too Much Dark Money in Almonds</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in-almonds/</url></story> |
14,223,687 | 14,222,808 | 1 | 2 | 14,222,721 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucasmullens</author><text>Title should be changed to &quot;A PostgreSQL consultancy&#x27;s response to Uber [pdf]&quot;. Many people in this thread, including myself, assumed this was an official response by PostgreSQL.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A PostgreSQL response to Uber [pdf]</title><url>http://thebuild.com/presentations/uber-perconalive-2017.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>mamurphy</author><text>The use of graphics in this PDF&#x2F;slideshow was incredibly effective, more so than most articles I read.<p>The PDF lays out Uber&#x27;s statements, and either lay it over a real-world analogy (a road on a sinkhole for database corruption) or lay it over a picture that primes their response (like a picture of apples and oranges when they plan to respond that Uber is comparing different features of mysql to postgresql).<p>The use of the elephant picture to give &quot;elefacts&quot; (sort of a parody on politifacts, where they evaluate the truth of uber&#x27;s statements) is also great.<p>The images add humor and reinforce the content - great use of graphics!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A PostgreSQL response to Uber [pdf]</title><url>http://thebuild.com/presentations/uber-perconalive-2017.pdf</url></story> |
11,020,546 | 11,020,080 | 1 | 2 | 11,018,133 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeteo</author><text>&gt; The shortsightedness of this article [...] is breathtaking. [...] Celebrating Chinese buying more SUVs, the worst automotive fashion in the last two decades? Yeah, great.<p>Did we read the same article? There are many consequences for the oil crash. The article doesn&#x27;t claim to rank all consequences - it just reports on a BofA study about the size of the wealth transfer. It also cites an increase in Chinese SUV purchases. Since when is reporting on facts equivalent to &quot;celebrating&quot; them?</text><parent_chain><item><author>sveme</author><text>The shortsightedness of this article (and I guess business analysts in general) is breathtaking. Isolated, it might be positive for consumers, but any increase in the consumption of oil due to low prices should be feared. Celebrating Chinese buying more SUVs, the worst automotive fashion in the last two decades? Yeah, great.<p>We&#x27;ll pay for these short term wealth transfers with a further uptick in warming and a huge shock in the future when no one&#x27;s saving energy any more, renewable energy installations have come to a standstill and oil rapidly becomes more expensive again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oil Crash is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transfers in History</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-01/bofa-the-oil-crash-is-kicking-off-one-of-the-largest-wealth-transfers-in-human-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>oniMaker</author><text>If you are convinced of the latter point, then it&#x27;s a great opportunity for you to invest in oil and benefit from your own wealth transfer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sveme</author><text>The shortsightedness of this article (and I guess business analysts in general) is breathtaking. Isolated, it might be positive for consumers, but any increase in the consumption of oil due to low prices should be feared. Celebrating Chinese buying more SUVs, the worst automotive fashion in the last two decades? Yeah, great.<p>We&#x27;ll pay for these short term wealth transfers with a further uptick in warming and a huge shock in the future when no one&#x27;s saving energy any more, renewable energy installations have come to a standstill and oil rapidly becomes more expensive again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oil Crash is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transfers in History</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-01/bofa-the-oil-crash-is-kicking-off-one-of-the-largest-wealth-transfers-in-human-history</url></story> |
519,393 | 519,387 | 1 | 2 | 519,337 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryanwaggoner</author><text>Amazing story.<p>Read the story carefully. Note the incredible details of what that aircraft could do. Now read this line again:<p><i>By far, the most memorable flight occurred on Jan. 25, 1966.</i><p>This was more than four <i>decades</i> ago. Can you imagine what they're doing today? In some ways, it makes me angry, because I suspect that the military solved some engineering challenges decades ago that scientists are still wrestling with today.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight Test (in 1966)</title><url>http://www.alexisparkinn.com/sr-71_break-up.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>jwilliams</author><text>The SR-71 was an amazing piece of engineering.<p>The panels actually didn't line up - as they expanded when it got warm. So basically at take off the aerodynamics of the plane were shot - you had to fly for a bit for it to hit normal performance (it also meant it literally leaked until it got hot enough and sealed).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight Test (in 1966)</title><url>http://www.alexisparkinn.com/sr-71_break-up.htm</url></story> |
25,521,773 | 25,522,096 | 1 | 2 | 25,520,549 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>groundthrower</author><text>Used jwt for our web app before - changed to session cookies. To make jwt secure for web apps it feels like you are reinventing session authentication.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web Authentication Methods Compared</title><url>https://testdriven.io/blog/web-authentication-methods/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>franky47</author><text>Another interesting method, overkill for most applications but absolutely required for end-to-end encrypted apps where no password must be sent to the server (eg: password managers): the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol[1].<p>It&#x27;s a form of zero-knowledge proof-based verification that the password provided during account creation matches the one provided during an authentication challenge, all without transmitting the password at all. As a bonus, it also act as a key exchange on the client and server, that can be used for securing transmissions over untrusted channels (at the cost of having stateful connections).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Secure_Remote_Password_protocol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web Authentication Methods Compared</title><url>https://testdriven.io/blog/web-authentication-methods/</url></story> |
22,222,212 | 22,222,184 | 1 | 2 | 22,221,507 | 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>icebraining</author><text>Well, of course you can&#x27;t just switch to remote work overnight without any preparation, and expect everything to work well immediately! But, for example: how do you know those workers are treating it as a small vacation? You&#x27;re not there to see them either! Managers can do the same, they don&#x27;t need to know what the worker is doing instead of working; they can see the work is <i>not getting done</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hkai</author><text>I am currently soft-quarantined by my employer in Hong Kong because I recently visited Mainland China, and will be working from home for 14 days, along with many others.<p>It&#x27;s not going that well: from my subjective point of view, people seem to treat it as an extra vacation. They are often not online and will only complete a few small tasks per day, because there is no threat from the boss who sees that you are browsing facebook instead of working.<p>Even government employees are at home. Many people didn&#x27;t get their tax bill so they don&#x27;t need to pay tax for now. Sweet!<p>That experiment makes me think that perhaps work from home is optimal mostly for a small pool of highly motivated and talented individuals, such as the average person on HN who actually does feel more productive working from home. Outside of HN, work ethic could be different.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-forces-world-s-largest-work-from-home-experiment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>runawaybottle</author><text>There is one major requirement for remote work, it’s called deadlines. Give people a paycheck, some requirements, and deadlines and I promise you the work will find a way to get done. They can browse Facebook all they want.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hkai</author><text>I am currently soft-quarantined by my employer in Hong Kong because I recently visited Mainland China, and will be working from home for 14 days, along with many others.<p>It&#x27;s not going that well: from my subjective point of view, people seem to treat it as an extra vacation. They are often not online and will only complete a few small tasks per day, because there is no threat from the boss who sees that you are browsing facebook instead of working.<p>Even government employees are at home. Many people didn&#x27;t get their tax bill so they don&#x27;t need to pay tax for now. Sweet!<p>That experiment makes me think that perhaps work from home is optimal mostly for a small pool of highly motivated and talented individuals, such as the average person on HN who actually does feel more productive working from home. Outside of HN, work ethic could be different.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-forces-world-s-largest-work-from-home-experiment</url></story> |
9,243,557 | 9,243,118 | 1 | 3 | 9,242,836 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>icholy</author><text>Is it possible to &quot;backload&quot; changes?<p>&quot;Start the changefeed at timestamp `x`. Once it&#x27;s caught up to realtime, keep feeding me new ones&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Video Streaming with RethinkDB Changefeeds</title><url>https://github.com/AtnNn/rethinkdb-stream</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>StavrosK</author><text>I read the changefeeds post, but I don&#x27;t think I understood exactly what they&#x27;re for. Would clients be talking directly to the database, or would a persistent app worker block on database updates and then send this to the client?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Video Streaming with RethinkDB Changefeeds</title><url>https://github.com/AtnNn/rethinkdb-stream</url><text></text></story> |
23,933,503 | 23,933,629 | 1 | 2 | 23,932,323 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baron_harkonnen</author><text>&gt; all sorts of things you’d never pick up on working remotely.<p>When people say these things I seriously question if they&#x27;ve ever worked remote before. Yes if being remote makes you atypical for your workplace, then you&#x27;ll probably be left out. But if you&#x27;re working for a remote-first team the it&#x27;s completely different. Nearly all of my closest coworkers I&#x27;ve met have been at remote companies.<p>I have had tons of interesting conversations, brainstorming session and just generally fun discussion while remote.<p>Honestly, I have personally found the amount of more toxic conversations also drops when remote. The problem with in-office socialization is that you have to socialize with people you might not particularly like (working with people you don&#x27;t like is fine, but having to have conversations with them, go out for team drinks with them etc is another thing). This leads to generally more toxic behavior, since you have to put more energy into those social interactions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>The most productive workers barely scrape 50% productivity; however, idle, chat, socialization and other “wasteful” time isn’t wasted. You learn things about the needs of other groups, colleagues, the politics and all sorts of things you’d never pick up on working remotely.</text></item><item><author>danny_sf45</author><text>The only reason for me to not go back to the office is: fixed working hours. Sure, my contract says I have to work 40h&#x2F;week, but I just can&#x27;t. If I&#x27;m at the office, I would probably work (focused) around 4 or 5 hours. The rest is &quot;wasted&quot; with: chat with other coworkers (non-work related stuff), breaks... but I have to be there for 8 hours no matter what. At home, I can work those 4 or 5 hours (focused) and call it a day. I don&#x27;t have to pretend I&#x27;m working, I just close the laptop.<p>Same outcome (for the company), less (wasted) hours for me. This is impossible to achieve if one has to go to the office. (can you imagine entering at 9am and leaving at 2pm while telling everybody: &quot;hey, I cannot work anymore, I&#x27;m only able to work focused 5 hours per day. See you tomorrow!&quot;.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-results-realestate/who-still-needs-the-office-u-s-companies-start-cutting-space-idUSKCN24N2NL</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rightbyte</author><text>Political power play doesn&#x27;t work out as easily remotely. Social manipulations is harder. That is my observation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>The most productive workers barely scrape 50% productivity; however, idle, chat, socialization and other “wasteful” time isn’t wasted. You learn things about the needs of other groups, colleagues, the politics and all sorts of things you’d never pick up on working remotely.</text></item><item><author>danny_sf45</author><text>The only reason for me to not go back to the office is: fixed working hours. Sure, my contract says I have to work 40h&#x2F;week, but I just can&#x27;t. If I&#x27;m at the office, I would probably work (focused) around 4 or 5 hours. The rest is &quot;wasted&quot; with: chat with other coworkers (non-work related stuff), breaks... but I have to be there for 8 hours no matter what. At home, I can work those 4 or 5 hours (focused) and call it a day. I don&#x27;t have to pretend I&#x27;m working, I just close the laptop.<p>Same outcome (for the company), less (wasted) hours for me. This is impossible to achieve if one has to go to the office. (can you imagine entering at 9am and leaving at 2pm while telling everybody: &quot;hey, I cannot work anymore, I&#x27;m only able to work focused 5 hours per day. See you tomorrow!&quot;.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-results-realestate/who-still-needs-the-office-u-s-companies-start-cutting-space-idUSKCN24N2NL</url></story> |
7,973,869 | 7,973,934 | 1 | 2 | 7,973,634 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alex_MJ</author><text>As much as I hate Comcast and occasionally say prayers that a cement truck accidentally crashes into Tom Wheeler&#x27;s house, and I&#x27;d love to see a massive scandal here - these emails don&#x27;t seem incriminating at all.<p>A high level official got invited to a party, and declined because &quot;the rules folks over here tell me I can&#x27;t&quot;. They know each other (makes sense, they&#x27;re both working at a high level in the same industry) and they have people watching their backs to make sure they don&#x27;t do anything that can legally be considered corrupt (again, makes sense, shit&#x27;s a minefield and an ill-defined one at that. If I were in that position I would have people keeping an eye on that whether I was corrupt or pious as a lamb)<p>Am I missing something? I clicked on that link salivating for the political blood of Comcast executives and all I got was a polite grownup email version of &quot;sry bro can&#x27;t come, rules n shyt, sounds bumpin tho&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comcast executives appear to share cozy relationships with regulators</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jul/01/comcast-executives-share-cozy-relationships-regula/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adventured</author><text>The CEO of Comcast plays golf with the President. How much cozier can you get exactly?<p><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/obama-golfs-with-comcast-ceo-170524.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;obama-golfs-with...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comcast executives appear to share cozy relationships with regulators</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jul/01/comcast-executives-share-cozy-relationships-regula/</url></story> |
35,804,124 | 35,804,235 | 1 | 2 | 35,802,730 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giobox</author><text>A pattern I&#x27;ve observed at international companies who have done multiple layoffs in the past 12 months is that the European offices are rarely hit hard in wave 1 due to the additional statutory protections in many European countries.<p>However, that seems to fire the starting gun on the preparations needed to then carry out layoffs that require longer statutory processes in Europe, which then get included in the second or future wave of layoffs. Meta for example appeared to follow this pattern, and I&#x27;ve heard as much from people with direct knowledge of events.<p>This is Unity&#x27;s third round of layoffs this year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Probably not the main Copenhagen office as I expect Danish employee protection rights to be off the chart.</text></item><item><author>moosedev</author><text>The second half of the news, not mentioned in TFA, is that they are going to close around half of their offices worldwide &quot;in the coming years&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&#x2F;unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-closing-half-of-offices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&#x2F;unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-c...</a><p>No info on which offices might be at risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/unity-layoffs-company-to-cut-600-employees-or-8percent-of-its-workforce.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>mtzet</author><text>Off the charts? Compared to completely at will maybe. You generally have to pay 3 months severance + 1 month per 3 years of employment for a maximum of 6 months severance after 9 years of employment. That&#x27;s it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Probably not the main Copenhagen office as I expect Danish employee protection rights to be off the chart.</text></item><item><author>moosedev</author><text>The second half of the news, not mentioned in TFA, is that they are going to close around half of their offices worldwide &quot;in the coming years&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&#x2F;unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-closing-half-of-offices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&#x2F;unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-c...</a><p>No info on which offices might be at risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/unity-layoffs-company-to-cut-600-employees-or-8percent-of-its-workforce.html</url></story> |
27,116,846 | 27,116,503 | 1 | 2 | 27,115,809 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ulzeraj</author><text>IMO. There should be a market for:<p>- Dumb panels (not monitors). Perhaps stripped down recycled smart tvs.<p>- Smart tvs but with user replaceable firmware. Think OpenWRT for TVs. Maybe the same guy who does the dumb panels could sell those but with a raspberry pi in place of the logic board.<p>Of course a monitor solves these issues but these are normally smaller and more expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>So, if I buy a so called Smart-TV (not because I like it but because traditional ones are getting harder to find) but don&#x27;t set up it on my home network so it can&#x27;t phone home, it could scan around anyway and find other open devices more than willing to participate in my personal data exfiltration?
If the Amazon project succeeds, I would expect in a few months most home devices manufacturers, to partner to implement it so they have a way to circumvent users choices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Sidewalk</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>choeger</author><text>This.<p>That move is just one step further in removing control. They now have sealed devices that can have who knows what functions but are confined to the network. Next step is to have a concealed upstream. After that they will somehow get a legal mandate to force such devices on you (like the EU did with cars). Maybe they will use smoke detectors or &quot;emergency&quot; services. In the end, this <i>is exactly</i> like in 1984.</text><parent_chain><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>So, if I buy a so called Smart-TV (not because I like it but because traditional ones are getting harder to find) but don&#x27;t set up it on my home network so it can&#x27;t phone home, it could scan around anyway and find other open devices more than willing to participate in my personal data exfiltration?
If the Amazon project succeeds, I would expect in a few months most home devices manufacturers, to partner to implement it so they have a way to circumvent users choices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Sidewalk</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011</url></story> |
36,350,483 | 36,349,809 | 1 | 2 | 36,348,356 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eek2121</author><text>Yet I have to say this:<p>Diablo was more fun.<p>Diablo 2 is pretty great. My only complaints about it surround harder difficulties. Those of us with accessibility issues (like me with a gimped hand) found hell to be super challenging.<p>Diablo 3 sucked when it launched, however, right now, it is absolutely amazing. Blizzard has absolute gold with the tiered difficulty&#x2F;rift&#x2F;season design. Unsure why they didn&#x27;t improve upon it...<p>Diablo 4 has potential, but many of the great systems developed in 1-3 are gone.<p>What made previous diablo games great:<p>A fixed level&#x2F;difficulty system<p>Randomly generated levels<p>A way to measure yourself against both yourself and others.
Potential for multiple unique build paths for every class.
An awesome loot&#x2F;gear system that eventually makes you feel overpowered until you aren&#x27;t.<p>Diablo 4 has none of those.<p>Diablo 1-3 have some combination of those.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kosei</author><text>It was a different time:
“Condor plans to spend one year in the development of Diablo. Personnel will consist of: one designer, one chief programmer, 2 junior programmer, 2 art director&#x2F;artists, 1 illustrator&#x2F;sculptor, 3 pixel artists, and 1 sound FX person”<p>So, 11 people for a year for Diablo. Meanwhile Diablo 4 took 300+ people 6+ years. So over 150x the cost, not accounting for the fact that game developers are paid much more now as well. People pretend it’s the same industry but it’s evolved dramatically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.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>hourago</author><text>The results are also vastly different as the expectations, the number of platforms to support, the quality of the cut-scenes, ... and the revenue.<p>But there are still indie games developed with such small teams. So, that is still a viable possibility.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kosei</author><text>It was a different time:
“Condor plans to spend one year in the development of Diablo. Personnel will consist of: one designer, one chief programmer, 2 junior programmer, 2 art director&#x2F;artists, 1 illustrator&#x2F;sculptor, 3 pixel artists, and 1 sound FX person”<p>So, 11 people for a year for Diablo. Meanwhile Diablo 4 took 300+ people 6+ years. So over 150x the cost, not accounting for the fact that game developers are paid much more now as well. People pretend it’s the same industry but it’s evolved dramatically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.pdf</url></story> |
26,004,977 | 26,004,967 | 1 | 2 | 26,002,688 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>afavour</author><text>And then the hedge funds said they did indeed sell their short positions, but no-one believed them and the rise continues. There is no way the only losers will be hedge funds at this point, lots of retail investors will lose money.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Geee</author><text>No, they didn&#x27;t pitch it as a BTC or Tesla. Clearly you haven&#x27;t been following at all what is happening. The pitch was to cause a short squeeze and then selling when it happens. So that only losers would be the short selling hedge funds.</text></item><item><author>lm28469</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand how they successfully managed to make people think buying shares of a bankrupt company for $350 a pop was a good idea. They pitched it as the new BTC or TSLA but it really is just a text book example of pump and dump. They&#x27;re not &quot;owning wallstreet&quot;, at best they&#x27;re owning a few investors&#x2F;entities who took way to much risks, and that&#x27;s it. The smart ones bought their shares at $5 and sold last week at the peak, any one getting in from now is suffering from massive FOMO.<p>Ronbinhood &amp;co enabled this by gamifying trading, people are just one click away from betting their entire savings based on random social media posts amplified by mainstream media over coverage.<p>If you learn about something like this via mainstream medias or your friend who had no idea what trading was 2 days ago you can be 100% sure that you&#x27;re too late to the party<p>edit: ok, not bankrupt, but clearly not going in the right direction. Either way, not anywhere close to make investors rich quick<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;gamestop-out-of-business-in-digital-age&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;gamestop-out-of-business-in-digital-age...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;is-gamestop-going-out-of-business-dying&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;is-gamestop-going-out-of-business-dying...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;investing&#x2F;gamestop-store-closures&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;investing&#x2F;gamestop-store-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;gamestops-ultimate-destiny-buyout-or-bankruptcy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;gamestops-ultimate-destiny-buyout-or-ban...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l7bl3z/brokers_of_reddit_how_crazy_is_it_where_you_work/gl64yau/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>allenu</author><text>So the idea is everyone who buys late can sell high and jump off the ship at the same time? Maybe I&#x27;m missing something, but if a whole bunch of people offload a stock, wouldn&#x27;t that drive the price down, meaning a lot of people outside of the original short-sellers would still lose money?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Geee</author><text>No, they didn&#x27;t pitch it as a BTC or Tesla. Clearly you haven&#x27;t been following at all what is happening. The pitch was to cause a short squeeze and then selling when it happens. So that only losers would be the short selling hedge funds.</text></item><item><author>lm28469</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand how they successfully managed to make people think buying shares of a bankrupt company for $350 a pop was a good idea. They pitched it as the new BTC or TSLA but it really is just a text book example of pump and dump. They&#x27;re not &quot;owning wallstreet&quot;, at best they&#x27;re owning a few investors&#x2F;entities who took way to much risks, and that&#x27;s it. The smart ones bought their shares at $5 and sold last week at the peak, any one getting in from now is suffering from massive FOMO.<p>Ronbinhood &amp;co enabled this by gamifying trading, people are just one click away from betting their entire savings based on random social media posts amplified by mainstream media over coverage.<p>If you learn about something like this via mainstream medias or your friend who had no idea what trading was 2 days ago you can be 100% sure that you&#x27;re too late to the party<p>edit: ok, not bankrupt, but clearly not going in the right direction. Either way, not anywhere close to make investors rich quick<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;gamestop-out-of-business-in-digital-age&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;gamestop-out-of-business-in-digital-age...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;is-gamestop-going-out-of-business-dying&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;is-gamestop-going-out-of-business-dying...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;investing&#x2F;gamestop-store-closures&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;investing&#x2F;gamestop-store-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;gamestops-ultimate-destiny-buyout-or-bankruptcy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;gamestops-ultimate-destiny-buyout-or-ban...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l7bl3z/brokers_of_reddit_how_crazy_is_it_where_you_work/gl64yau/</url></story> |
15,599,689 | 15,599,475 | 1 | 3 | 15,597,049 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tijdreiziger</author><text>1. It doesn&#x27;t make any sense to allow yourself to risk spending more than you have<p>2. They&#x27;re more prone to abuse: if somebody gets hold of the numbers on your card (whether by a leak or hack or by old-fashioned pickpocketing), no further PIN, password or 2FA token is required<p>3. The only use for them is online spending outside Europe, and even then the number of websites that require them is rapidly shrinking (PayPal can work with bank accounts, and Stripe now supports SEPA direct debit and local payment methods such as SOFORT (Germany), iDEAL (Netherlands) and Bancontact (Belgium))<p>4. They cost money (see point 3, people don&#x27;t like paying for things they don&#x27;t use)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tehlike</author><text>I am always curious about why people don&#x27;t use credit cards more. Would you please explain your reason?</text></item><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>&gt; With the opening of this Mumbai region, Indian customers are now able to buy these services directly in Indian rupees.<p>Somewhat related: I was forced to switch to GCP for hosting my static website because of lack of payment options. AWS doesn&#x27;t allow you to prepay. The only way to settle your dues is using a credit card. My international debit card usually works everywhere but it didn&#x27;t in case of AWS. I never felt the need to get a credit card. I had to waste many hours in moving to GCP because there wasn&#x27;t a way I could use to pay.<p>It&#x27;s funny how I have failed often to buy something online because payment options are not international friendly. Latest in this case was New Yorker subscription. Every address combination I tried said the same thing: &quot;Address is invalid&quot;, even though I had ticked the option for International subscription. Support was hopeless and in the end, I had to go without it. It&#x27;s like I am saying, &quot;Shut up and take my money&quot; and people at the other end are tone-deaf to it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/GCP-arrives-in-India-with-launch-of-Mumbai-region.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>raverbashing</author><text>Credit cards are much less used outside of the US (one of the reasons is that the US banking system is Jurassic, but only one of the reasons)<p>Other reasons is limiting credit exposure&#x2F;can&#x27;t get credit for it<p>Debit cards work online in some places or you have a different way of paying</text><parent_chain><item><author>tehlike</author><text>I am always curious about why people don&#x27;t use credit cards more. Would you please explain your reason?</text></item><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>&gt; With the opening of this Mumbai region, Indian customers are now able to buy these services directly in Indian rupees.<p>Somewhat related: I was forced to switch to GCP for hosting my static website because of lack of payment options. AWS doesn&#x27;t allow you to prepay. The only way to settle your dues is using a credit card. My international debit card usually works everywhere but it didn&#x27;t in case of AWS. I never felt the need to get a credit card. I had to waste many hours in moving to GCP because there wasn&#x27;t a way I could use to pay.<p>It&#x27;s funny how I have failed often to buy something online because payment options are not international friendly. Latest in this case was New Yorker subscription. Every address combination I tried said the same thing: &quot;Address is invalid&quot;, even though I had ticked the option for International subscription. Support was hopeless and in the end, I had to go without it. It&#x27;s like I am saying, &quot;Shut up and take my money&quot; and people at the other end are tone-deaf to it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/GCP-arrives-in-India-with-launch-of-Mumbai-region.html</url></story> |
23,499,460 | 23,499,270 | 1 | 2 | 23,488,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>I truly don&#x27;t understand the problem here. Can you tell me what it is that makes these people dangerous and scary, but the similarly armed protestors who showed up at government buildings a month ago — or, frankly, the police — fine?</text><parent_chain><item><author>thu2111</author><text>But then there&#x27;s also this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&amp;name=...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&amp;name=...</a><p>I&#x27;ve not before seen a summer street festival where armed militias wearing bulletproof vests patrol the streets.</text></item><item><author>gabesk</author><text>I&#x27;m also about that far away and walked through there last night. It felt more like a summer street fair festival. I also took a few pictures. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;UN8RpwWS5TYAY5Nn7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;UN8RpwWS5TYAY5Nn7</a></text></item><item><author>pera</author><text>&gt; <i>The media coverage of it is WILD</i><p>I live 7 blocks away from &quot;the zone&quot; and can confirm, I have never in my life seen anything alike in this regard. The scale of the misinformation being spread in social networks and news media reached a level I couldn&#x27;t believe possible before. Seriously, it&#x27;s beyond absurd.<p>If anyone is interested, I have been taking some pictures of the ongoing protests (including a few of the zone): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;peramides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;peramides</a></text></item><item><author>conroy</author><text>A friend lives in Seattle and texted me today about his visit last night:<p>&gt; I was there last night and it&#x27;s such a cool pseudo utopian place<p>&gt; The media coverage of it is WILD<p>&gt; People on the internet are convinced it&#x27;s protected by armed guards and people are dying of hunger and instead its...like a music festival campground<p>&gt; There are speakers, musicians, art walls. I took a group pic for a bunch of black guys last night and they were so proud of what was built because they felt like they fought for it, which in a sense, they did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone</title><url>https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>latencyloser</author><text>That&#x27;s just a plate carrier, with no plates in it. It won&#x27;t stop a bullet, definitely not a rifle round. Maybe he has some soft armor jammed in there but doubtful based on the rest of his &quot;I bought this from the local gunstore 3 days ago setup.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>thu2111</author><text>But then there&#x27;s also this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&amp;name=...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&amp;name=...</a><p>I&#x27;ve not before seen a summer street festival where armed militias wearing bulletproof vests patrol the streets.</text></item><item><author>gabesk</author><text>I&#x27;m also about that far away and walked through there last night. It felt more like a summer street fair festival. I also took a few pictures. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;UN8RpwWS5TYAY5Nn7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;UN8RpwWS5TYAY5Nn7</a></text></item><item><author>pera</author><text>&gt; <i>The media coverage of it is WILD</i><p>I live 7 blocks away from &quot;the zone&quot; and can confirm, I have never in my life seen anything alike in this regard. The scale of the misinformation being spread in social networks and news media reached a level I couldn&#x27;t believe possible before. Seriously, it&#x27;s beyond absurd.<p>If anyone is interested, I have been taking some pictures of the ongoing protests (including a few of the zone): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;peramides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;peramides</a></text></item><item><author>conroy</author><text>A friend lives in Seattle and texted me today about his visit last night:<p>&gt; I was there last night and it&#x27;s such a cool pseudo utopian place<p>&gt; The media coverage of it is WILD<p>&gt; People on the internet are convinced it&#x27;s protected by armed guards and people are dying of hunger and instead its...like a music festival campground<p>&gt; There are speakers, musicians, art walls. I took a group pic for a bunch of black guys last night and they were so proud of what was built because they felt like they fought for it, which in a sense, they did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone</title><url>https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/</url></story> |
16,939,367 | 16,938,862 | 1 | 2 | 16,936,652 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pizza234</author><text>&gt; What I’ve long wondered is how women react in the real world now that they have all the power on dating apps<p>Women always had that specific kind of power in real world. When&#x2F;if you go to a party, observe the people who are alone, standing against a wall; they&#x27;re invariably men, without absolutely no exception. This says everything about power.<p>Having said that, bear in mind that this kind of power is only a (arguably small) part of relationships between the sexes. It says a lot, but it&#x27;s still a (small) part.<p>&gt; Why would they try to find a date in any other way?<p>Because the dating medium strongly correlates with the interest of the people involved. Not everybody&#x27;s looking for the Tinder type of relationship.<p>&quot;Before Tinder&quot;, one would just go to a nightclub. It&#x27;s exactly the same experience; and for the same reason, not everybody goes to nightclubs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baron816</author><text>What I’ve long wondered is how women react in the real world now that they have all the power on dating apps. Why would they try to find a date in any other way?<p>There were a few articles that came out a few years ago arguing that, no, dating apps were terrible for women because it makes men even more noncommittal with such easy access to dates. My hypothesis was that the women they interviewed for those pieces were all going after the same small group of elite men. Thus, ~3% of the whole male population is sleeping around with ~20% of the female population. Makes me wonder if polygamy is the natural course of things.</text></item><item><author>aphextron</author><text>I worked for $large_dating_site for a number of years. The real genius of Tinder was giving women the power. We came to the same realization as well: that no matter how bad you make the user experience for men, they will use the app endlessly if real women are there. Online dating business models are exclusively based around enticing men with sex, and giving women the power to choose precisely who they want.</text></item><item><author>laurieg</author><text>It is very informative to make a an online dating profile of the opposite gender. I&#x27;m a man, but when I made an account on tinder with a female friend&#x27;s pictures I was blown away by just how radically different the experience was.<p>Almost every person would match with me. Everyone would message me straight away. If I didn&#x27;t reply most would message again in a few hours. A few would get very angry&#x2F;upset that I didn&#x27;t reply.<p>I think Tinder is a real stroke of genius. All users, men and women, get given the same interface and the same choices. But of course things are not really equal. Men shotgun and women pick and choose. Tinder has essentially made Bumble, but they have plausible deniability. No need to enforce any rules about women messaging first when that emerges naturally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps</title><url>https://qz.com/1247382/online-dating-is-so-awful-that-people-are-paying-virtual-dating-assistants-to-impersonate-them/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chillacy</author><text>That&#x27;s historically the case: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;24&#x2F;women-men-dna-human-gene-pool" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;24&#x2F;women-men-dn...</a><p>The other implication of polygamy is that a lot of men simply didn&#x27;t have a chance to pass on their genes at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baron816</author><text>What I’ve long wondered is how women react in the real world now that they have all the power on dating apps. Why would they try to find a date in any other way?<p>There were a few articles that came out a few years ago arguing that, no, dating apps were terrible for women because it makes men even more noncommittal with such easy access to dates. My hypothesis was that the women they interviewed for those pieces were all going after the same small group of elite men. Thus, ~3% of the whole male population is sleeping around with ~20% of the female population. Makes me wonder if polygamy is the natural course of things.</text></item><item><author>aphextron</author><text>I worked for $large_dating_site for a number of years. The real genius of Tinder was giving women the power. We came to the same realization as well: that no matter how bad you make the user experience for men, they will use the app endlessly if real women are there. Online dating business models are exclusively based around enticing men with sex, and giving women the power to choose precisely who they want.</text></item><item><author>laurieg</author><text>It is very informative to make a an online dating profile of the opposite gender. I&#x27;m a man, but when I made an account on tinder with a female friend&#x27;s pictures I was blown away by just how radically different the experience was.<p>Almost every person would match with me. Everyone would message me straight away. If I didn&#x27;t reply most would message again in a few hours. A few would get very angry&#x2F;upset that I didn&#x27;t reply.<p>I think Tinder is a real stroke of genius. All users, men and women, get given the same interface and the same choices. But of course things are not really equal. Men shotgun and women pick and choose. Tinder has essentially made Bumble, but they have plausible deniability. No need to enforce any rules about women messaging first when that emerges naturally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps</title><url>https://qz.com/1247382/online-dating-is-so-awful-that-people-are-paying-virtual-dating-assistants-to-impersonate-them/</url></story> |
35,292,083 | 35,290,206 | 1 | 3 | 35,289,085 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>My conspiracy theory is that all of the &quot;we take security very seriously&quot; talk out of OpenAI has aligned with &quot;our AI is so advanced and powerful that we have to take these existential risks very seriously and we have to make sure it doesn&#x27;t turn evil.&quot; And OpenAI doesn&#x27;t seem very interested in security conversations that don&#x27;t feed into that narrative[0].<p>I think it&#x27;s (mostly) just propaganda. OpenAI focuses on dangers that make their AI seem more advanced than it is, and ignore dangers that don&#x27;t play well to the press (like clientside validation). I&#x27;m not even sure it&#x27;s standard &quot;we care about your security&quot; company talk, I think it&#x27;s mostly designed just to make people think of GPT as more cutting edge.<p>The &quot;GPT paid someone to solve a captcha&quot; release seems like pure publicity stunt to me, given that solving captchas by pretending to be blind is something other systems can already do without human help. But it played well in press releases.<p>----<p>[0]: To be fair, they have been focusing on alignment, but I honestly don&#x27;t think alignment is a security measure, I think it&#x27;s a general performance measure. We haven&#x27;t seen strong evidence that alignment can stop prompt injection attacks, so I think mostly OpenAI mostly just cares about the potential negative press from their AI randomly insulting people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; It is possible to use these unreleased plugins by setting up match-and-replace rules through an HTTP proxy. There are only client-side checks to validate that you have permission to use the plugins and they can be bypassed.<p>There’s no way I’m going to accept the intersection of “we take security very seriously” and implementing security checks purely client side. This and the recent title information leak are both canaries for how the rest of Open AI operates.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call</title><url>https://twitter.com/rez0__/status/1639259413553750021</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axg11</author><text>I don&#x27;t think _this_ is a security check. These are essentially unlisted plugins. They will be released&#x2F;approved and this is a way to allow some user to test the plugins (different client side software).</text><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; It is possible to use these unreleased plugins by setting up match-and-replace rules through an HTTP proxy. There are only client-side checks to validate that you have permission to use the plugins and they can be bypassed.<p>There’s no way I’m going to accept the intersection of “we take security very seriously” and implementing security checks purely client side. This and the recent title information leak are both canaries for how the rest of Open AI operates.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call</title><url>https://twitter.com/rez0__/status/1639259413553750021</url></story> |
22,097,984 | 22,097,798 | 1 | 2 | 22,095,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>netsharc</author><text>My final straw with airbnb was this article <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;43k7z3&#x2F;nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;43k7z3&#x2F;nationwide-fake-ho...</a>, so I went to their site and requested that my account be deleted.<p>Even on that article, the 2nd to last paragraph was:<p>&gt; Even after a month of digging through public records, scouring the internet for clues, repeatedly calling Airbnb and confronting the man who called himself Patrick, I can’t say I’ll be leaving the platform, either. Dealing with Airbnb’s easily exploitable and occasionally crazy-making system is still just a bit cheaper than renting a hotel.<p>With another platform offering rentals but taking a 30% cut, a trick I found was to google the address or name, often they&#x27;d be listed there as well. Then I&#x27;d call them and ask if they have a room, and if they could offer me a discount (I was travelling around Iceland, many people doing the ringroad would just show up in the afternoon&#x2F;evening and leave the next morning). Obviously this doesn&#x27;t work with anonymous airbnb providers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>virtuous_signal</author><text>A company can choose to ban you from their service for this. Uber eats, probably not an issue. But imagine the inconvenience of not having Uber for the rest of your life. Or worse, Airbnb which doesn’t even have a close competitor.<p>I would begrudgingly take the loss to continue having access to their marketplaces. These companies have notoriously terrible customer service and they don’t really have any reason to fix it.</text></item><item><author>mypalmike</author><text>If you have documentation of the double charge and of your attempts to get a refund, your credit card company will certainly do a chargeback and return your funds.</text></item><item><author>nucleardog</author><text>What scares me most about all these stories and personal experience, is it often seems the only way to get these actual issues resolved is to know someone that works at the company, or have enough of a platform on the internet that eventually the cost of the bad PR gets to be enough that someone notices and fixes it.<p>I don&#x27;t know anyone that works at Facebook&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Uber&#x2F;etc. When I have issues they just go unresolved. Uber Eats double-submitted my order after throwing up a bundle of internal server errors and literally my only recourse at this point is apparently to sue them to get my $26 back. (Which I&#x27;m seriously considering -- even if I don&#x27;t get my $26 back, it will certainly cost them more than $26 just to respond so at least the cosmic accounting will balance out.)<p>It would be really nice if there were companies to give my money to that <i>did</i> have some semblance of customer support that didn&#x27;t require making friends with the right people or curating a social media following.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Incarcerated and Facebook</title><url>https://medium.com/@callumprentice/incarcerated-facebook-ebfba8885ae3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Counterpoint: I did multiple chargebacks against these monkeys for very similar reasons and they haven&#x27;t banned my account yet, so maybe it works differently in the Europe or UK?</text><parent_chain><item><author>virtuous_signal</author><text>A company can choose to ban you from their service for this. Uber eats, probably not an issue. But imagine the inconvenience of not having Uber for the rest of your life. Or worse, Airbnb which doesn’t even have a close competitor.<p>I would begrudgingly take the loss to continue having access to their marketplaces. These companies have notoriously terrible customer service and they don’t really have any reason to fix it.</text></item><item><author>mypalmike</author><text>If you have documentation of the double charge and of your attempts to get a refund, your credit card company will certainly do a chargeback and return your funds.</text></item><item><author>nucleardog</author><text>What scares me most about all these stories and personal experience, is it often seems the only way to get these actual issues resolved is to know someone that works at the company, or have enough of a platform on the internet that eventually the cost of the bad PR gets to be enough that someone notices and fixes it.<p>I don&#x27;t know anyone that works at Facebook&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Uber&#x2F;etc. When I have issues they just go unresolved. Uber Eats double-submitted my order after throwing up a bundle of internal server errors and literally my only recourse at this point is apparently to sue them to get my $26 back. (Which I&#x27;m seriously considering -- even if I don&#x27;t get my $26 back, it will certainly cost them more than $26 just to respond so at least the cosmic accounting will balance out.)<p>It would be really nice if there were companies to give my money to that <i>did</i> have some semblance of customer support that didn&#x27;t require making friends with the right people or curating a social media following.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Incarcerated and Facebook</title><url>https://medium.com/@callumprentice/incarcerated-facebook-ebfba8885ae3</url></story> |
17,708,068 | 17,707,972 | 1 | 3 | 17,707,709 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bovermyer</author><text>This is the bit I&#x27;m most interested in:<p>&gt; WebAssembly got a new baseline compiler for much faster startup of complex websites with big WebAssembly modules (such as Google Earth and AutoCAD). Depending on the hardware we are seeing speedups of more than 10×. Stay tuned for more details in a separate blog post.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>V8 release v6.9</title><url>https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/08/v8-release-69.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>shawn</author><text><i>Built-in functions currently consume 700 KB in each Isolate (an Isolate roughly corresponds to a browser tab in Chrome). This is quite wasteful, and last year we began working on reducing this overhead. In V8 v6.4, we shipped lazy deserialization, ensuring that each Isolate only pays for the built-ins that it actually needs (but each Isolate still had its own copy).</i><p>Also known as Autoload. What’s old is new again... <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;elisp&#x2F;Autoload.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;elisp&#x2F;Aut...</a><p><i>Embedded built-ins go one step further. An embedded built-in is shared by all Isolates, and embedded into the binary itself instead of copied onto the JavaScript heap. This means that built-ins exist in memory only once regardless of how many Isolates are running, an especially useful property now that Site Isolation has been enabled by default.</i><p>Inb4 security vuln in a builtin is used to pivot across tabs or reveal state in other tabs. Like, say, a timing attack on regex exec to reveal whether the word “Facebook” appears in some other tab. &lt;&#x2F;baseless&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>V8 release v6.9</title><url>https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/08/v8-release-69.html</url></story> |
5,260,657 | 5,260,536 | 1 | 3 | 5,259,844 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdl</author><text>I think Google Chrome goes into the top-10 list of "software/systems/services which have improved real world Internet security the most" -- wide reach, moderate impact. Probably in the top 3.<p>(I still think ssh tops the list -- pretty narrowly focused, but SO MUCH BETTER than telnet, rlogin, etc., even kerberized telnet which didn't encrypt contents, only auth. And, like Chrome, it's not just most secure, it's <i>better</i> than the alternatives in every other way, so it got wide adoption for non-security reasons too.)<p>I guess https falls in there too, but probably the move to "SSL all traffic by default, at least if the user opts-in" is the reason, not the "https just the final form for credit card processing."<p>SSL also IMO deserves a 9 or 10 place for START-TLS in mail protocols like SMTP and IMAP.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NBC.com hacked, serving up Citadel malware</title><url>http://hitmanpro.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/nbc-com-hacked-serving-up-citadel-malware/</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>diminoten</author><text>It's cool that we have Google capable of on-the-fly warning users when malware is detected on a popular website.<p>You can complain a lot about Google's business model, but that's a damn valuable service. Probably saved a lot of computers today.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NBC.com hacked, serving up Citadel malware</title><url>http://hitmanpro.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/nbc-com-hacked-serving-up-citadel-malware/</url><text></text></story> |
23,081,726 | 23,078,411 | 1 | 3 | 23,078,123 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>liuliu</author><text>Updated to 3970x a few days ago. The performance has been good (llvm compiles around 5 minutes!) and it is stable (previous 2920x has soft lockups and have to workaround with idle=halt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.kernel.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=196683" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.kernel.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=196683</a>). Ubuntu 20.04 installed without much issue (other than NVIDIA driver, that&#x27;s a different story).<p>It is still rough though, mostly around the mobo. The Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme mobo doesn&#x27;t work out of the gate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;gigabyte&#x2F;comments&#x2F;enatk1&#x2F;gigabyte_trx40_designare_mobo_4gpu_d4_error&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;gigabyte&#x2F;comments&#x2F;enatk1&#x2F;gigabyte_t...</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;linuxquestions&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ankjfx&#x2F;intel_10g_nic_driver_issues&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;linuxquestions&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ankjfx&#x2F;inte...</a><p>Ubuntu 18.04 also has an issue with the dated kernel on 3970x: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Linux-Boot-Threadripper-Zen2MCE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Linux-Bo...</a> that can be workaround by mce=off. Due to combination of that and NVIDIA driver, I did 20.04, and it has been stable so far.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Best CPUs for Workstations</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/11891/best-cpus-for-workstations</url></story> | <instructions>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>Real high end options only. Apart from the 1920X, that is a steal right now, but the board it needs is not cheap, it&#x27;s a legacy platform, and Threadripper 1 did not work well for some workloads.<p>I&#x27;d not ignore Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9. If you can work with 128GB ram (and especially if you just want a regular strong system with the usual 16GB) 3700X, 3900X and 3950X are really strong processor and apart from the last one a lot cheaper. Most developers don&#x27;t even need to go that high, not even on a workstation, one based on the Ryzen 5 3600 would not be weak.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Best CPUs for Workstations</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/11891/best-cpus-for-workstations</url></story> |
13,796,368 | 13,796,252 | 1 | 2 | 13,796,012 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GavinMcG</author><text>This is an odd reading of the parent comment, since &quot;apart from that&quot; indicated that mathematical truths being built in <i>isn&#x27;t</i> what the commenter disagreed with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>So, the value of PI is a human invention? That&#x27;s hogwash.</text></item><item><author>FabHK</author><text>There is the ontological position that mathematical truths are &quot;out there&quot;, independent of us, and we are merely &quot;discovering&quot; them. As such, they&#x27;re eternal, and you could argue then that you &quot;touch immortality&quot;.<p>But apart from that, I find this sort of talk unhelpful. It&#x27;s a bit like Schopenhauer who thought that instrumental classical music gave access to the innermost truth of the universe (I&#x27;m paraphrasing from memory here) - what hogwash.<p>Lastly, the headline has not much to do with the article, has it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161020-science-math-education-survey/?code=3048</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cannonpr</author><text>Don&#x27;t you feel it&#x27;s a bit harsh to summarise the entire debate between idealism and realism as hogwash ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>So, the value of PI is a human invention? That&#x27;s hogwash.</text></item><item><author>FabHK</author><text>There is the ontological position that mathematical truths are &quot;out there&quot;, independent of us, and we are merely &quot;discovering&quot; them. As such, they&#x27;re eternal, and you could argue then that you &quot;touch immortality&quot;.<p>But apart from that, I find this sort of talk unhelpful. It&#x27;s a bit like Schopenhauer who thought that instrumental classical music gave access to the innermost truth of the universe (I&#x27;m paraphrasing from memory here) - what hogwash.<p>Lastly, the headline has not much to do with the article, has it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161020-science-math-education-survey/?code=3048</url></story> |
15,676,905 | 15,676,843 | 1 | 3 | 15,676,220 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Of course. As others here point out, the hypervolume inside an n-dimensional hypersphere grows as the nth power of a linear increase in radius. In high dimensions, tiny increases in radius cause hypervolume to grow by more than 100%. The concentration of hypervolume is always highest at the edge.[0]<p>The theoretical tools (and intuitions) we have today for making sense of the distribution of data, developed over the past three centuries, <i>break down</i> in high dimensions. The fact that in high dimensions Gaussian distributions are not &quot;clouds&quot; but actually &quot;soap bubbles&quot; is a perfect example of this breakdown. Can you imagine trying to model a cloud of high-dimensional points lying on or near a lower-dimensional manifold with soap bubbles?<p>If the data is not only high-dimensional but also non-linearly entangled, we don&#x27;t yet have &quot;mental tools&quot; for reasoning about it:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;intuitionmachine&#x2F;why-probability-theory-should-be-thrown-under-the-bus-36e5d69a34c9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;intuitionmachine&#x2F;why-probability-theory-s...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15620794" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15620794</a><p>[0] See kgwgk&#x27;s comment below.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles</title><url>http://www.inference.vc/high-dimensional-gaussian-distributions-are-soap-bubble/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smallnamespace</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the unsuitability of the high-dimensional Gaussian intimately related to the fact that for most realistic problem spaces, we actually believe there are really far fewer than the N &gt;&gt; 1 measured dimensions?<p>A uniform Gaussian presupposes that the variates are either linearly orthogonal, or all have the same linear interaction with each other (in the case of fixed positive correlation).<p>If your actual problem has dimension 20, but you&#x27;ve measured it with N dimensions, then that means there are strong interactions between your measured variates, and moreover the intervariate interactions do not have a single <i>fixed</i> interaction strength (like a single Gaussian correlation), but probably vary like a random matrix.<p>This might be related to the Tracy-Widom[1] distribution somehow. Perhaps the the distribution you use to replace the Gaussian should really be something like: first generate a random positive semi-definite matrix as C, then generate random data based on different random choices of C.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tracy%E2%80%93Widom_distribution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tracy%E2%80%93Widom_distributi...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gaussian Distributions Are Soap Bubbles</title><url>http://www.inference.vc/high-dimensional-gaussian-distributions-are-soap-bubble/</url></story> |
18,956,381 | 18,956,279 | 1 | 2 | 18,953,542 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MereInterest</author><text>I thought that Win7 had a good solution to that, with typing immediately doing a search within the start menu. Then, Win8 made it also search for files, destroying any utility of the search. If you want people to have muscle memory (e.g. WinKey + moz + enter to start Mozilla Firefox), then having severe lag on the search, and having the top result vary as a function of time (as more search results are found), is horrendous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>One huge problem with the start menu is that every company put a folder with their company name in there and you had to go inside to launch your program. Adobe-&gt;Photoshop, Microsoft-&gt;stuff.<p>I think the desktop designers should have made a fixed set of top level menus. Only show the non-empty ones, but at least make everyone put apps in them. I&#x27;d propose a set including: games, programming, engineering, design, media, office, entertainment, audio-visual, system tools.<p>I&#x27;d also suggest subcategories particularly for games. If there is only one category, or not that many programs total, it could omit the subcategary level when showing that menu.<p>Put users first and stop sticking your company names in their menus. Add a little structure and some reasonable heuristics. Done.<p>I think Linux distros could do this since they have packaging guidelines and huge software repositories.</text></item><item><author>sickcodebruh</author><text>Re: usability of the Start Menu...<p>When I used to do tech support, from Win 98 all the way through Win 7 days, I would consistently find that reasonably intelligent human adults had difficulty understanding the Start Menu. If something wasn’t on the first menu, they weren’t going to interact with it. It seemed like such a no-brainer to me — just expand the folders! — but a staggering number of people found it alien and never adapted. Even the idea of a right-click VS left is too much for many people.</text></item><item><author>alxlaz</author><text>Not just the icons, the entire user interface was excellent. You had:<p>- Clear indication of whether something was clickable or not, vs. everything flat and featureless<p>- Good contrast<p>- Normal-sized widgets which left enough room for content vs. the huge widgets we use today for some reason (it&#x27;s weird for me to say this, but Linux desktops are the worst offenders here). I get why they&#x27;re important on touch-enabled systems but that&#x27;s no reason to use them anywhere else.<p>- Useable scrollbars, no hamburger menus<p>- And -- although Windows-specific: the Start menu was something you could actually use.<p>The state of testing, examination and debates about user interfaces was also light years ahead of what we see today. I was genuinely fascinated about what my colleagues who did UI design were doing, and about the countless models they developed and metrics they used. If it was the same bikeshedding we see today, they sure as hell knew how to make it look like they were having a real debate...<p>I suspect the reason behind this drop in quality is largely economical. Fifteen years ago, you needed a great deal of understanding about perception, semiotics, about computer graphics, and a remarkable degree of mastery of your tools in order to produce an icon set. This made icons costly to develop, to a point where it was pretty hard to explain it to managers why you <i>need</i> to pay a real designer a heap of money for a real icon because, dude, just look at every other successful app on an OS X desktop!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)</title><url>https://alexmeub.com/old-windows-icons/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pantalaimon</author><text>Gnome 2 did this (and Mate still does), but I actually find it more confusing.<p>It&#x27;s sometimes not obvious which category a program belongs to, so you have to meticulously search all categories that could apply.
And you&#x27;d only to that if you don&#x27;t exactly remember the program name in the first place, otherwise you would have had quicker ways to launch it.<p>Here the old windows way offers more &#x27;breadcrumbs&#x27; to find something.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>One huge problem with the start menu is that every company put a folder with their company name in there and you had to go inside to launch your program. Adobe-&gt;Photoshop, Microsoft-&gt;stuff.<p>I think the desktop designers should have made a fixed set of top level menus. Only show the non-empty ones, but at least make everyone put apps in them. I&#x27;d propose a set including: games, programming, engineering, design, media, office, entertainment, audio-visual, system tools.<p>I&#x27;d also suggest subcategories particularly for games. If there is only one category, or not that many programs total, it could omit the subcategary level when showing that menu.<p>Put users first and stop sticking your company names in their menus. Add a little structure and some reasonable heuristics. Done.<p>I think Linux distros could do this since they have packaging guidelines and huge software repositories.</text></item><item><author>sickcodebruh</author><text>Re: usability of the Start Menu...<p>When I used to do tech support, from Win 98 all the way through Win 7 days, I would consistently find that reasonably intelligent human adults had difficulty understanding the Start Menu. If something wasn’t on the first menu, they weren’t going to interact with it. It seemed like such a no-brainer to me — just expand the folders! — but a staggering number of people found it alien and never adapted. Even the idea of a right-click VS left is too much for many people.</text></item><item><author>alxlaz</author><text>Not just the icons, the entire user interface was excellent. You had:<p>- Clear indication of whether something was clickable or not, vs. everything flat and featureless<p>- Good contrast<p>- Normal-sized widgets which left enough room for content vs. the huge widgets we use today for some reason (it&#x27;s weird for me to say this, but Linux desktops are the worst offenders here). I get why they&#x27;re important on touch-enabled systems but that&#x27;s no reason to use them anywhere else.<p>- Useable scrollbars, no hamburger menus<p>- And -- although Windows-specific: the Start menu was something you could actually use.<p>The state of testing, examination and debates about user interfaces was also light years ahead of what we see today. I was genuinely fascinated about what my colleagues who did UI design were doing, and about the countless models they developed and metrics they used. If it was the same bikeshedding we see today, they sure as hell knew how to make it look like they were having a real debate...<p>I suspect the reason behind this drop in quality is largely economical. Fifteen years ago, you needed a great deal of understanding about perception, semiotics, about computer graphics, and a remarkable degree of mastery of your tools in order to produce an icon set. This made icons costly to develop, to a point where it was pretty hard to explain it to managers why you <i>need</i> to pay a real designer a heap of money for a real icon because, dude, just look at every other successful app on an OS X desktop!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)</title><url>https://alexmeub.com/old-windows-icons/</url></story> |
35,982,820 | 35,980,295 | 1 | 2 | 35,975,880 | 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>opportune</author><text>This problem solves itself, just stop bailing those homeowners out with firefighting that’s actually a net bad for the forest and any government funding to rebuild infrastructure or burnt homes.<p>The properties will become uninsurable and you can still live there as long as you can pay without insurance (and likely without a mortgage either).<p>We should not eminent domain this property, that’s a terrible incentive and precedent. I don’t want my tax money spent on bailing out a clearly unviable living arrangement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>retrocryptid</author><text>That would be extremely unpopular.<p>Say you bought a house in the suburbs. Everything&#x27;s fine. Then someone comes in and says &quot;Hey. We didn&#x27;t know there was a problem with the soil under your home, so we&#x27;re just going to come in one night and destroy it. And you don&#x27;t get to sell it or file an insurance claim. And we&#x27;re not going to compensate you for it. You just need to pay off your mortgage, even though we destroyed the house.&quot;<p>Changing zoning is a great idea, but alienating property owners from the value of their purchase is not.<p>The only solution I can think of is eminent domain, but it&#x27;s structurally a little more difficult in California than authoritarian states like Texas that just come in and grab your house to give it to the local baseball team. So you would have to pass the legislation in Sacramento to authorize the creation of a special district to manage the confiscation of property. Then you would have to approve the funds, cause this wouldn&#x27;t be an improvement district and you wouldn&#x27;t be funding the district from the tax on the property. Then you have do the confiscation, and sheesh, the San Lorenzo Valley is sort of the definition of &quot;weird deed restrictions.&quot; And once the state (or maybe the open space trust???) has the land, it has to pay for remediation so the soil doesn&#x27;t wash away and cause landslides that cover the road in three feet of mud. And you have to do all this before the next big rain event so the roads don&#x27;t completely wash away.<p>So... eminent domain isn&#x27;t a bad idea, per se. But it&#x27;s HARD.<p>(queue Jethro Tull&#x27;s &quot;Farm on the Freeway&quot;)</text></item><item><author>billiam</author><text>&gt;And what do you do for families whose homes were destroyed? Of the nearly 1500 structures destroyed, only a handful of building permits have been issued to rebuild.<p>You can&#x27;t let them rebuild in place. Your points are spot on (a new survey shows 1&#x2F;3 of Californians live in the urban&#x2F;wildland interface where wildfires will destroy most dwellings) and it requires new zoning, new fire legislation on fire insurance, and of course the ability of people to live in higher density through infill and careful planning. The cost of housing in the Bay Area is a closely related problem, but the bottom line is that we have to let fire move through the coastal redwoods every few decades, and that means we cannot build tinderbox houses right next to those groves.</text></item><item><author>retrocryptid</author><text>I think this page plays down the importance of fire to a healthy redwood ecosystem. The trees seem to depend on a fire running through every so often and burning out the scrub under the canopy.<p>Of course, this isn&#x27;t how old-world forests work so when European-Americans started building cabins en masse up in SLV in the 1920&#x27;s, they put them right next to large trees and we did everything we could to limit fire. While there are a limited number of structures in the park itself, almost 1500 structures were destroyed during the CZU fire in the adjacent communities. My old house was 10 miles away from the park and was across Big Basin Way and Boulder Creek from neighborhoods that were decimated. (TEN MILES from the park and they were still decimated.)<p>We can&#x27;t have the same type of design, with houses right next to trees. Once you have people living up there, the likelihood you can convince people to do a &quot;controlled&quot; burn gets pretty low. Then the fuel builds up for another 100 years and it destroys EVERYTHING in its path.<p>And what do you do for families whose homes were destroyed? Of the nearly 1500 structures destroyed, only a handful of building permits have been issued to rebuild.<p>This is a great article about how the forest survives fire, but the policy and politics behind how we got to the CZU fire are complex and sometimes pretty subtle.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The regenerating power of Big Basin’s redwoods</title><url>https://worldsensorium.com/the-regenerating-power-of-big-basins-redwoods/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lazide</author><text>Eh, the counties where this happened in likely couldn’t afford to eminent domain this problem away. It’s their tax base they’d be nuking!<p>If it was a legitimate problem, you’ve described what happens sometimes to folks buying homes. It’s a risk of ownership.<p>Could be sinkholes. Could be subsidence. Could be a toxic waste dump.<p>Lawsuits fly, etc.<p>However, long term it usually boils down to aligned incentives. If the people at risk had to pay for the risk (either by taxes or directly), they’d either move - or cover the costs and reap the good or bad consequences (including bankruptcy&#x2F;loss of assets).</text><parent_chain><item><author>retrocryptid</author><text>That would be extremely unpopular.<p>Say you bought a house in the suburbs. Everything&#x27;s fine. Then someone comes in and says &quot;Hey. We didn&#x27;t know there was a problem with the soil under your home, so we&#x27;re just going to come in one night and destroy it. And you don&#x27;t get to sell it or file an insurance claim. And we&#x27;re not going to compensate you for it. You just need to pay off your mortgage, even though we destroyed the house.&quot;<p>Changing zoning is a great idea, but alienating property owners from the value of their purchase is not.<p>The only solution I can think of is eminent domain, but it&#x27;s structurally a little more difficult in California than authoritarian states like Texas that just come in and grab your house to give it to the local baseball team. So you would have to pass the legislation in Sacramento to authorize the creation of a special district to manage the confiscation of property. Then you would have to approve the funds, cause this wouldn&#x27;t be an improvement district and you wouldn&#x27;t be funding the district from the tax on the property. Then you have do the confiscation, and sheesh, the San Lorenzo Valley is sort of the definition of &quot;weird deed restrictions.&quot; And once the state (or maybe the open space trust???) has the land, it has to pay for remediation so the soil doesn&#x27;t wash away and cause landslides that cover the road in three feet of mud. And you have to do all this before the next big rain event so the roads don&#x27;t completely wash away.<p>So... eminent domain isn&#x27;t a bad idea, per se. But it&#x27;s HARD.<p>(queue Jethro Tull&#x27;s &quot;Farm on the Freeway&quot;)</text></item><item><author>billiam</author><text>&gt;And what do you do for families whose homes were destroyed? Of the nearly 1500 structures destroyed, only a handful of building permits have been issued to rebuild.<p>You can&#x27;t let them rebuild in place. Your points are spot on (a new survey shows 1&#x2F;3 of Californians live in the urban&#x2F;wildland interface where wildfires will destroy most dwellings) and it requires new zoning, new fire legislation on fire insurance, and of course the ability of people to live in higher density through infill and careful planning. The cost of housing in the Bay Area is a closely related problem, but the bottom line is that we have to let fire move through the coastal redwoods every few decades, and that means we cannot build tinderbox houses right next to those groves.</text></item><item><author>retrocryptid</author><text>I think this page plays down the importance of fire to a healthy redwood ecosystem. The trees seem to depend on a fire running through every so often and burning out the scrub under the canopy.<p>Of course, this isn&#x27;t how old-world forests work so when European-Americans started building cabins en masse up in SLV in the 1920&#x27;s, they put them right next to large trees and we did everything we could to limit fire. While there are a limited number of structures in the park itself, almost 1500 structures were destroyed during the CZU fire in the adjacent communities. My old house was 10 miles away from the park and was across Big Basin Way and Boulder Creek from neighborhoods that were decimated. (TEN MILES from the park and they were still decimated.)<p>We can&#x27;t have the same type of design, with houses right next to trees. Once you have people living up there, the likelihood you can convince people to do a &quot;controlled&quot; burn gets pretty low. Then the fuel builds up for another 100 years and it destroys EVERYTHING in its path.<p>And what do you do for families whose homes were destroyed? Of the nearly 1500 structures destroyed, only a handful of building permits have been issued to rebuild.<p>This is a great article about how the forest survives fire, but the policy and politics behind how we got to the CZU fire are complex and sometimes pretty subtle.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The regenerating power of Big Basin’s redwoods</title><url>https://worldsensorium.com/the-regenerating-power-of-big-basins-redwoods/</url></story> |
3,258,807 | 3,258,579 | 1 | 3 | 3,258,293 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edw519</author><text>When it comes to efficiency/effectiveness, I prefer to focus on "Do" instead of "Don't".<p>Richard Hamming (from "You and Your Research"):<p><pre><code> 1. What are the most important problems in your field?
2. Are you working on one of them?
3. Why not?
</code></pre>
<a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html</a><p>Paul Graham's (from "Good and Bad Procrastination") generalization of Richard Hamming:<p>What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html</a><p>edw519's generalization of Paul Graham:<p>Work on the most important thing until it's not the most important thing any more.<p>I have developed this excellent/horrible habit of not being able to focus on very much of anything if there was something more important hanging over my head.<p>Excellent in keeping me from trivial pursuits. Horrible at meal time, bed time, other people time. I'm still a work in progress.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't. Waste. Time.</title><url>http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-waste-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>zacharycohn</author><text>Opened up HN. Saw this headline at #1. Posted this comment. Now I'm closing HN and going back to work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't. Waste. Time.</title><url>http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-waste-time</url></story> |
13,521,938 | 13,519,917 | 1 | 3 | 13,519,421 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>angry_octet</author><text>Because it is always possible you will fail your Tor discipline, I would add some defense-in-depth aspects, in case your browser is compromised and your network address is revealed.<p>- Use separate hardware. A cheap laptop and a cheap phone.<p>- Burn the receipt and chuck the packaging.<p>- Cash. Pay in cash.<p>- Buy from small stores with no CCTV, or better yet, from people like migrant workers.<p>- You can buy stored value cards (debit cards) without ID, and some you can load with cash at ATMs. (Also good to buy from travellers.)<p>- Once you have a debit card you can pay for data without going to a store.<p>- If you turn on your Wifi tethering and other devices are in range you have created an event in their logs. Just use a cable. If you must, change the SSID regularly and use Android 6 which has MAC randomisation. Never have any other SSIDs saved, especially not your home network.<p>- Turn the phone off when not in use. Removing the battery is advisable.<p>- Don&#x27;t connect to 3G near your home or work or where there is pervasive CCTV or not many people.<p>- If your commute is logged (via your cellphone, number plate recognition &#x2F; tolling, personally identified public transport like Oyster cards) then your location can be correlated against when your persona was online.<p>- It might seem that transmitting from different locations is a good idea. But not really, it gives a more unique history.<p>- Run Tor on the laptop. Run <i>nothing</i> on the phone, its just a radio.<p>- If you want to use Signal, get another burner phone.<p>- Invest in some numbered wafer seals or tamper bags. Keep your kit in them when cached.<p>- Don&#x27;t tell fibs to federal agents. Record all interactions with them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter Activist Security</title><url>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/twitter-activist-security-7c806bae9cb0#.881ljtvmr</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Perceptes</author><text>One comment and two questions:<p>I wish I had something important enough to say to be able to put this advice to use!<p>How important is the physical location you work from? Should you religiously avoid working out of a place that is associated with you, such as your home or office? Should you avoid places that are near where you live, and if so, how far should you go? Or is Tor sufficient for masking your physical location in all cases?<p>I&#x27;m very interested in how the grugq is able to have had such a public persona for so long and remain anonymous—including speaking at conferences in person, I understand. Obviously, he is an expert, but that doesn&#x27;t really explain _how_. He writes prolifically on Twitter and sometimes other mediums. How is this large body of content not subject to stylistic analysis? Information is known about him, such as where he lives and what he does for a living. That seems extremely revealing. How has he been able to speak at conferences, quite literally tying his physical identity to this anonymous persona, let alone traveling to the conference in the first place?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter Activist Security</title><url>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/twitter-activist-security-7c806bae9cb0#.881ljtvmr</url></story> |
34,925,070 | 34,924,881 | 1 | 2 | 34,924,654 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>I <i>really</i> like the arduino way of having a small amount of simple code that does something powerful on embedded hardware.<p>They do a good job of hiding complexity (their compiler supports all of C++20, yet it&#x27;s really rare to see anything more than a few basic classes).<p>For projects where I just want to make a thing that works, this is amazing compared to other toolchains.<p>I really hope rust can offer the same. Even a mediocre coder should be able to start from a blank file and, within 10 minutes, make something that tweets when the sun comes up.<p>So far, rust on esp32 is far from that... But hopefully they can get there!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust on Espressif chips – 2023 Roadmap</title><url>https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-24-02-2023/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antirez</author><text>As an alternative to C and now Rust, after developing for about a month, every day, a moderately large ESP32 project with MicroPython, I feel like suggesting it for most projects. I even wrote the driver of a chip connected to my devices (the sx1276 LoRa radio), and the experience has been very positive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust on Espressif chips – 2023 Roadmap</title><url>https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-24-02-2023/</url></story> |
7,919,817 | 7,919,764 | 1 | 3 | 7,919,677 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mootothemax</author><text><i>New or like-new designer shoes and handbags: Brands like Hugo Boss, Gucci, Nine West, Ralph Lauren</i><p>I wonder if eBay are potentially setting themselves up for a massive headache with this.<p>There is a quite staggering number of people who falsely believe that their counterfeit designer items are genuine.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EBay Valet</title><url>http://ebay.com/valet</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isomorphic</author><text>You can&#x27;t set your own price, and you only get a two-week run. On the other hand, you don&#x27;t have to deal with the cesspool that is being a seller on eBay.<p>I wonder how eBay will deal with the &quot;yes, please iPad to vacant lot near warehouse Miami&quot; folks, other than immediately transferring buyer&#x27;s funds without the possibility for reversal. If they did that for ordinary sellers, I&#x27;d quite happily ship my iPad to the sketchy address and go on my merry way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EBay Valet</title><url>http://ebay.com/valet</url></story> |
9,818,976 | 9,818,628 | 1 | 3 | 9,818,325 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ensorceled</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how often the defence story in these cases, &quot;He had a stellar, 15-year career with the DEA except for this one blip.&quot;, is accepted at face value. I imagine a smart, experienced, undercover DEA agent would be very difficult to catch breaking the law.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33364349</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DaveWalk</author><text>I had wondered what would happen to the DEA agent mentioned in the big Wired stories[0][1].<p>As a Bitcoin novice, I was left wondering: is it a common misconception that Bitcoin is anonymous? Or rather, just how easy is it to trace someone&#x27;s transactions if you know their wallet ID?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;silk-road-1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;silk-road-1&#x2F;</a>
[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;silk-road-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;silk-road-2&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33364349</url></story> |
13,688,680 | 13,688,110 | 1 | 3 | 13,687,507 | 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>amitp</author><text>Title&#x27;s misleading. A* is also 100x faster than A* ;) It depends a lot on the graph you give it.<p>JPS by itself (not JPS+ in this video) is notable for not requiring any precomputation to achieve some speedup.<p>If you&#x27;re willing to precompute some things, there are lots of other techniques available for unweighted grid maps. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.du.edu&#x2F;~sturtevant&#x2F;papers&#x2F;GPPC-2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.du.edu&#x2F;~sturtevant&#x2F;papers&#x2F;GPPC-2014.pdf</a> has an overview of techniques and some benchmarks that use real-world game maps (Baldur&#x27;s Gate, Dragon Age).<p>I believe the &quot;goal bounding&quot; from the video is called &quot;arc flags&quot; in the literature.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]</title><url>http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022094/JPS-Over-100x-Faster-than</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justinhj</author><text>Not to take anything away from the work but I think the title is misleading. A* is an optimal algorithm for graph search so you cannot make it 100x faster. What this does is make path finding faster by changing the structure of the graph.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]</title><url>http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022094/JPS-Over-100x-Faster-than</url></story> |
41,723,728 | 41,723,962 | 1 | 3 | 41,723,311 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwup238</author><text><i>&gt; &#x27;arm&#x2F;mil&#x27; --&gt; this class detects certain types of armored vehicles (very unreliable for now, don&#x27;t use it yet)</i><p>Living near a bunch of the military bases, this is what I really need. My suburban defense system keeps mistaking USPS trucks for APCs.<p>I haven’t received any mail for months.<p>Sidenote: what are the export restriction?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects</title><url>https://github.com/stephansturges/WALDO</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adontz</author><text>I wonder if these achievements are related to war in Ukraine. Do scientists suddenly receive more funding or something? Or it just happens?<p>Is there a non public version with very reliable arm&#x2F;mil? Is there a version which can reliably distinguish T-80 with and without Z?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects</title><url>https://github.com/stephansturges/WALDO</url></story> |
23,821,573 | 23,819,246 | 1 | 2 | 23,818,648 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>screye</author><text>&gt; Mukhesh Ambani who&#x27;s got a good connect with the current ruling Government<p>To be fair, Mukesh has got good connections everywhere. He is India&#x27;s most powerful person.<p>Amitabh and the Shahrukh (some of the world&#x27;s richest actors, both half billionaires) both volunteered as servers at his daughters wedding as a show of appreciation. If a man can command the most powerful of his country to such level of willful subservience, then every Govt. will try to curry favor with him.<p>I will add, that while his intentions might be entirely selfish, the pace at which Jio was able to bring affordable 4G to the whole country is incredibly empowering for rural &#x2F; small town India.<p>That being said, adding money to the pool of what is quickly becoming a monopoly is not a &quot;fund to digitize America&quot; as Pichai put it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>There&#x27;s been a recent surge in American companies investing in India primarily through Reliance Jio (owned by Mukhesh Ambani who&#x27;s got a good connect with the current ruling Government). It&#x27;s been spiking since the Anti-China sentiment led Buy and Use &#x27;Made in India&#x27; cries. Government has even asked eCom Flipkart and Amazon to display Country of Origin for each product.<p>With all these, This investment from Google seems another strategic move by an American company to say that we&#x27;re truly concerned about Indian growth. So that their development centers here or products made for India don&#x27;t get flagged as American.<p>Reference - Foxconn, Intel, Qualcomm, Facebook<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;apple-supplier-foxconn-to-invest-1-billion-in-india-sources&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;76931415.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;apple-sup...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;12&#x2F;qualcomm-to-invest-97-million-in-indias-reliance-jio-platforms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;12&#x2F;qualcomm-to-invest-97-mill...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;after-facebook-intel-invests-into-indias-largest-telecom-jio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;after-facebook-intel-invests-into-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to Invest $10B in India</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/13/google-to-invest-10-billion-in-india/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frequentnapper</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how it&#x27;s not alarming for Indians that one key person&#x2F;company connected to the govt is the sole beneficiary of incoming businesses into India.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>There&#x27;s been a recent surge in American companies investing in India primarily through Reliance Jio (owned by Mukhesh Ambani who&#x27;s got a good connect with the current ruling Government). It&#x27;s been spiking since the Anti-China sentiment led Buy and Use &#x27;Made in India&#x27; cries. Government has even asked eCom Flipkart and Amazon to display Country of Origin for each product.<p>With all these, This investment from Google seems another strategic move by an American company to say that we&#x27;re truly concerned about Indian growth. So that their development centers here or products made for India don&#x27;t get flagged as American.<p>Reference - Foxconn, Intel, Qualcomm, Facebook<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;apple-supplier-foxconn-to-invest-1-billion-in-india-sources&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;76931415.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;apple-sup...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;12&#x2F;qualcomm-to-invest-97-million-in-indias-reliance-jio-platforms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;12&#x2F;qualcomm-to-invest-97-mill...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;after-facebook-intel-invests-into-indias-largest-telecom-jio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;after-facebook-intel-invests-into-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to Invest $10B in India</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/13/google-to-invest-10-billion-in-india/</url></story> |
10,324,744 | 10,324,817 | 1 | 2 | 10,324,366 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>caseysoftware</author><text>That&#x27;s why we haven&#x27;t had anyone start smoking in decades..<p>Soda sales are down but obesity is still up, so the calories are coming from somewhere. If you believe the other common stories, we&#x27;re drinking the calories.<p>I&#x27;d wager they come from the rise of coffee-based beverages - which would not be considered soda - but I don&#x27;t have data to back that up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klenwell</author><text><i>When Mr. Nutter was fighting the soda tax battle, he kept a bottle of Mountain Dew and a container with 17 teaspoons of sugar — the amount in the bottle — on the table in the center of his office. It was a good “conversation piece,” he said, about the surprising number of calories in a typical soda.</i><p>I think this is key. Better information and transparency is having an effect. I&#x27;m glad to hear we&#x27;re approaching a point where the RDA for sugar will be listed on products just like fat, sodium, and potassium. I expect this will have a major impact on consumer behavior and industry behavior, much like calorie listings on fast food menus. It still requires government regulations, but instead of challenging First Amendment principles, it embraces them.<p>Most consumers aren&#x27;t idiots. But they&#x27;re aren&#x27;t scientists or academic researchers for the most part either. Bring them relevant, accurate information and they are capable of making rational choices. This article is encouraging evidence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Decline of ‘Big Soda’</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/upshot/soda-industry-struggles-as-consumer-tastes-change.html?_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hippich</author><text>I hope people will also lay down sugar amount of apple, bagel, etc food next to these coke&#x2F;dew&#x2F;etc bottles of soda drinks. =)<p>Thing is - most of products in US has label stating clearly amount of calories and major contributors. It is SUPER easy to find approximate amount to which you need to stick. But people still over do it two&#x2F;three&#x2F;more times.<p>As much as I hate it, I think only high food costs will work. Problem is - how to keep it high enough to prevent abuse, but at the same time, keep lower income people access to enough nutrients.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klenwell</author><text><i>When Mr. Nutter was fighting the soda tax battle, he kept a bottle of Mountain Dew and a container with 17 teaspoons of sugar — the amount in the bottle — on the table in the center of his office. It was a good “conversation piece,” he said, about the surprising number of calories in a typical soda.</i><p>I think this is key. Better information and transparency is having an effect. I&#x27;m glad to hear we&#x27;re approaching a point where the RDA for sugar will be listed on products just like fat, sodium, and potassium. I expect this will have a major impact on consumer behavior and industry behavior, much like calorie listings on fast food menus. It still requires government regulations, but instead of challenging First Amendment principles, it embraces them.<p>Most consumers aren&#x27;t idiots. But they&#x27;re aren&#x27;t scientists or academic researchers for the most part either. Bring them relevant, accurate information and they are capable of making rational choices. This article is encouraging evidence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Decline of ‘Big Soda’</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/upshot/soda-industry-struggles-as-consumer-tastes-change.html?_r=0</url></story> |
20,915,420 | 20,915,546 | 1 | 2 | 20,914,830 | 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>chillacy</author><text>A more accurate title is: suppliers break chinese labor law and apple&#x27;s internal standards in order to meet deadlines.<p>Apple does occasional audits, but what more can you do when the people you audit lie to you because they _want_ to work?<p>&gt; While overtime is allegedly often required, most workers want to work overtime to make more money, according to an anonymous diary written by a CLW investigator in the factory.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/apple-foxconn-broke-a-chinese-labor-law-for-iphone-production</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nurettin</author><text>Nobody is surprised about Foxconn breaking any kind of law. I worked with them directly at a customs agency&#x27;s software department. During our 6 month integration project, Foxconn caused the resignation of one senior developer and one software specialist. They basically wanted to use our systems to store their private data and gradually demanded that we act like their entire ERP &quot;OR NO DEAL&quot;. We ended up finally standing our ground and only did customs integrations and they built an actual IT team instead of using us as their own IT team.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/apple-foxconn-broke-a-chinese-labor-law-for-iphone-production</url></story> |
33,594,099 | 33,594,200 | 1 | 2 | 33,590,041 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shipman05</author><text>+1 to the background trick. Faces were pretty convincing, but the generated backgrounds all seemed to have a generic filler appearance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anotheraccount9</author><text>After 5 minutes, I got tired and started seeing some of the same pictures again. 100% right all the time. For me, the trick is to assess the background, ear shape, synthetic textile (if any), and skin conditions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Which face is real?</title><url>https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/index.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>404mm</author><text>Same but I focused on their expressions. Faces with expression “we are taking a picture of me” were fakes.<p>But that being said, all the pictures were insanely convincing and I picked fakes only because I knew I had to pick one and not because I knew one was fake.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anotheraccount9</author><text>After 5 minutes, I got tired and started seeing some of the same pictures again. 100% right all the time. For me, the trick is to assess the background, ear shape, synthetic textile (if any), and skin conditions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Which face is real?</title><url>https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/index.php</url></story> |
21,255,726 | 21,255,592 | 1 | 2 | 21,252,111 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>umeshunni</author><text>&gt; as they were not a wealthy country for hundreds of years before striking oil in the 60s.<p>I was surprised by that statement and had to look it up and it was, of course, false. Norway was a wealthy country back to the 1800s:
sources: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Jernfrost&#x2F;no-norway-was-not-a-poor-country-before-oil-was-discovered-b58dd365e5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Jernfrost&#x2F;no-norway-was-not-a-poor-count...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eh.net&#x2F;encyclopedia&#x2F;the-economic-history-of-norway&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eh.net&#x2F;encyclopedia&#x2F;the-economic-history-of-norway&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mogadsheu</author><text>Former Norway resident here, 3yrs.<p>Their lunch traditions are definitely basic, as they were not a wealthy country for hundreds of years before striking oil in the 60s.<p>The point to remember is that while the fare is basic, the quality is typically very good. Their cheese is extra creamy and nutritious, as is the bread. The same goes for the milk.<p>Many Europeans won’t drink the milk here in the States because the quality tends to be much lower, due to feed&#x2F;living conditions for livestock. Garbage in = garbage out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch</title><url>https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/7/20887473/norway-norwegian-lunch-sandwich-matpakke</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trhway</author><text>Absolutely. The quality of typical supermarket bread, bologna, cheese, butter in US is pretty low, so while it may look similar the taste and afterall feeling is really different.<p>A very typical and widespread cousin of the Norwegian sandwich from USSR&#x2F;Russia - &quot;buterbrod&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butterbrot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butterbrot</a> . Bread + butter topped with cheese or bologna or hard salami and chased down with black tea (hot, or at least warm, to make sure that the high fat content of the butter and the topping blooms into great taste, and it probably also helps digestion considering how good it feels :). Topped with cold smoked fatty fish (typically a red like salmon) or red or black caviar - great &quot;zakuska&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zakuski" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zakuski</a>) to chase down vodka or cognac.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mogadsheu</author><text>Former Norway resident here, 3yrs.<p>Their lunch traditions are definitely basic, as they were not a wealthy country for hundreds of years before striking oil in the 60s.<p>The point to remember is that while the fare is basic, the quality is typically very good. Their cheese is extra creamy and nutritious, as is the bread. The same goes for the milk.<p>Many Europeans won’t drink the milk here in the States because the quality tends to be much lower, due to feed&#x2F;living conditions for livestock. Garbage in = garbage out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch</title><url>https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/7/20887473/norway-norwegian-lunch-sandwich-matpakke</url></story> |
19,107,050 | 19,107,261 | 1 | 3 | 19,106,772 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>I totally understand why big aircraft (A380, 747, etc) are disappearing commercially but I will miss them. Flying in a larger aircraft makes one feel less like cargo, in particularly for airlines that offer places to stretch your legs (e.g. &quot;bar&quot; seating, showers, staircases, etc).<p>I was always kind of secretly hoping large blimps would return. And we&#x27;d get to choose between 7 hours in a tiny metal tube with the seat-back of the person in front resting on your knees, or 24 hours on a slow blimp with a bed, the ability to walk around, and social areas. Kind of like a cruise ship in the sky.<p>An A380 feels kind of like Concord in that it really touched the imagination. I still hope to have a shower at 40,000 feet before they&#x27;re retired completely.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A380 cancellations by Qantas raise new questions about the superjumbo's future</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/business/qantas-airbus-a380/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woadwarrior01</author><text>I got upgraded from business class to first class on an Emirates A380 flight from Dubai to London a couple of years ago. Showering mid-flight was an experience I&#x27;d never forget! Especially, the gauge in the shower which goes down while the water&#x27;s running (Lasted about 8 minutes, IIRC) :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A380 cancellations by Qantas raise new questions about the superjumbo's future</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/business/qantas-airbus-a380/index.html</url></story> |
26,636,804 | 26,636,785 | 1 | 2 | 26,635,856 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exmadscientist</author><text>Though the article reasonably paints the &quot;conservative&quot; (in the small-c&#x2F;non-political usage) position as driven by &quot;science&quot; or at least fear of being &quot;anti-science&quot;, there is in fact nothing scientific about it. It&#x27;s just a plain appeal to authority.<p>In fact the &quot;hick&quot; position is the scientific one. If someone eats unrefrigerated pizza ten times without any Adverse Events, then in fact that&#x27;s an experiment providing (admittedly crude) scientific data that, in fact, the chance of an Adverse Event is no worse than ~10%. (Pedant note: quick, dirty, wrong calculation because the exact value doesn&#x27;t matter here.)<p>Science, the process, really does work. Even if many of those who practice it don&#x27;t look like TV or press release scientists. And even if many &quot;Real Scientists&quot; aren&#x27;t really anything of the sort.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Overnight Pizza and the Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines</title><url>https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/overnight-pizza-and-the-consistent</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hprotagonist</author><text>An old friend of mine has a saying: &quot;If you know why you&#x27;re not supposed to stick a fork into a toaster to get a piece of stuck toast out, you&#x27;re allowed to stick a fork into a toaster to get a piece of stuck toast out.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Overnight Pizza and the Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines</title><url>https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/overnight-pizza-and-the-consistent</url></story> |
40,411,216 | 40,410,469 | 1 | 2 | 40,408,515 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donavanm</author><text>Live has a _huge_ advantage in the storage side. In a purely &quot;live&quot; sense all of the content is temporally synchronised; every viewer is requesting approximately the same segments at the same time. Store the current chunks, and the last few minutes of seek time, in memory and put out on the wire to all of the viewers. Twitch talked about this a bit just before&#x2F;after the AMZN acquisition.<p>In a prerecorded video CDN managing that catalog is a PITA and does drive meaningful infrastructure cost. You need the &quot;right&quot; content to be in the correct location for low cost peering&#x2F;transit&#x2F;distribution, on the correct media for the total throughput:size, in the optimal number of encodings for efficient&#x2F;quality playback, etc. This job is a <i>lot</i> easier when the provider controls the catalog, and has a limited catalog size. See some of the OpenConnect talks where they&#x27;re &quot;preloading&quot; content offpeak to optimize IO allocation on the appliances. It was an absolute nightmare to try and manage with a many PB catalog with 3P content that service didnt control the release&#x2F;popularity of.<p>Edit: source, principal at AWS and was responsible for a lot of the prime video delivery once upon a time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing live video looks a lot different from a more static video site. I think encoding and storage are both quite expensive. You want to encode videos that are likely to be watched in the most efficient ways possible to reduce network bandwidth usage, and every video needs at least some encoding.<p>Based on some power laws etc., I would guess most videos have only a handful of views, so storing them forever and the cost to encode them initially is probably significant.</text></item><item><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this<p>The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.<p>Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin &#x2F; efficiency.<p>Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant<p>Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.<p>The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?</title><text>Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?<p>Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.<p>I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?<p>If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works?<p>ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency&#x2F;cost like running view count algorithms.</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>timr</author><text>Encoding and storage aren&#x27;t significant, relative to the bandwidth costs. Bandwidth is the high order bit.<p>The primary difference between live and static video is the bursts -- get to a certain scale as a static video provider, and you can roughly estimate your bandwidth 95th percentiles. But one big live event can blow you out of the water, and push you over into very expensive tiers that will kill your economics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing live video looks a lot different from a more static video site. I think encoding and storage are both quite expensive. You want to encode videos that are likely to be watched in the most efficient ways possible to reduce network bandwidth usage, and every video needs at least some encoding.<p>Based on some power laws etc., I would guess most videos have only a handful of views, so storing them forever and the cost to encode them initially is probably significant.</text></item><item><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this<p>The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.<p>Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin &#x2F; efficiency.<p>Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant<p>Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.<p>The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?</title><text>Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?<p>Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.<p>I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?<p>If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works?<p>ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency&#x2F;cost like running view count algorithms.</text></story> |
32,654,505 | 32,654,486 | 1 | 3 | 32,649,864 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeromegv</author><text>Is that supposed to be an advertisement for private healthcare? With insurances companies deciding based on profit margins? I&#x27;d say the government incentives are a lot more aligned to have their population healthy and productive, than the insurance company looking at how much you paid for your premium and how much the treatment is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>googlryas</author><text>A fairly straightforward answer is that the government&#x27;s goals are not necessarily aligned with your own. You, presumably, care very much about your own personal health. You also care about other people&#x27;s health, but you really, really care about your own health, and probably don&#x27;t want to die earlier than you need to.<p>The government, on the other hand, doesn&#x27;t generally care about individuals, and is working on a statistical level. A good government wants the population overall to be in good health, and has a budget within which it must operate. It may make more sense for the government to ignore your rare disease if detection&#x2F;treatment is expensive, and that money can be better used to save, say, 10 people with a more common disease.<p>Now, if the government was just providing health information, and individuals were on the hook for payment, this disconnect wouldn&#x27;t really exist. But if the government is also providing the healthcare services &quot;for free&quot; to individuals, then there is an incentive to downplay testing for rare or expensive to treat diseases due to the cost&#x2F;benefit ratio.</text></item><item><author>jjar</author><text>A better question might be: Why is the private sector responsible for providing accurate health information? As this article shows, the incentives for people running medical websites and the people reading them are not aligned. I&#x27;d say the UK NHS website and symptoms&#x2F;medications pages hit the nail on the head - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhs.uk&#x2F;conditions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhs.uk&#x2F;conditions&#x2F;</a>. It has no advertising and provides short, easily readable and actionable information on the majority of conditions and the correct way to use and take many different sorts of medication.<p>And crucially - if the information present is not sufficient, clear and obvious UI elements that direct the next best steps to get the help you need, whether that be ringing the non emergency helpline or immediately going to A&amp;E. (It&#x27;s been commented on before, but the new UK government sites are very consistently structured and open source their design systems <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;service-manual.nhs.uk&#x2F;design-system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;service-manual.nhs.uk&#x2F;design-system</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What would a “good” WebMD look like?</title><url>https://blog.tjcx.me/p/why-is-webmd-so-awful</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickff</author><text>The terse version of this is to say that the government would prefer you die cheaply rather than live at great expense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>googlryas</author><text>A fairly straightforward answer is that the government&#x27;s goals are not necessarily aligned with your own. You, presumably, care very much about your own personal health. You also care about other people&#x27;s health, but you really, really care about your own health, and probably don&#x27;t want to die earlier than you need to.<p>The government, on the other hand, doesn&#x27;t generally care about individuals, and is working on a statistical level. A good government wants the population overall to be in good health, and has a budget within which it must operate. It may make more sense for the government to ignore your rare disease if detection&#x2F;treatment is expensive, and that money can be better used to save, say, 10 people with a more common disease.<p>Now, if the government was just providing health information, and individuals were on the hook for payment, this disconnect wouldn&#x27;t really exist. But if the government is also providing the healthcare services &quot;for free&quot; to individuals, then there is an incentive to downplay testing for rare or expensive to treat diseases due to the cost&#x2F;benefit ratio.</text></item><item><author>jjar</author><text>A better question might be: Why is the private sector responsible for providing accurate health information? As this article shows, the incentives for people running medical websites and the people reading them are not aligned. I&#x27;d say the UK NHS website and symptoms&#x2F;medications pages hit the nail on the head - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhs.uk&#x2F;conditions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhs.uk&#x2F;conditions&#x2F;</a>. It has no advertising and provides short, easily readable and actionable information on the majority of conditions and the correct way to use and take many different sorts of medication.<p>And crucially - if the information present is not sufficient, clear and obvious UI elements that direct the next best steps to get the help you need, whether that be ringing the non emergency helpline or immediately going to A&amp;E. (It&#x27;s been commented on before, but the new UK government sites are very consistently structured and open source their design systems <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;service-manual.nhs.uk&#x2F;design-system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;service-manual.nhs.uk&#x2F;design-system</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What would a “good” WebMD look like?</title><url>https://blog.tjcx.me/p/why-is-webmd-so-awful</url></story> |
26,909,178 | 26,905,498 | 1 | 2 | 26,901,461 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PaulKeeble</author><text>A friend has a Thinkpad that if the battery is fully charged when the machine is turned on with the monitor out plugged in then the monitor works perfectly from the USB 3, if however the battery is not entirely full then the display gets no signal. It requires a reboot once the battery is completely full.<p>It is reliable in producing an image or not depending on battery status. I have no idea why though and neither does support, they haven&#x27;t fixed it for a year at this point so I doubt they ever will.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_nickwhite</author><text>I&#x27;m over IT for about 40 remote workers. One of the comments in this article rings so true about the pain of using USB-C to DisplayPort:<p>&quot;I hate my USB-C monitor ports that work is making me use. Sometimes when I plug the USB-Dock in, it works fine. Other times I get one of the two 1920×1080 monitors attached to turn on. Others, no monitors turn on, and I have to unplug it and plug it back in. Then it usually works.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s SUPER finicky and picky, pretty much across the board. I find this true for the PC&#x2F;Windows- macbook pros seems to work MUCH better, even with triple-2k monitors, but still not perfectly every time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019)</title><url>https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/05/19/explaining-4k-60hz-video-through-usb-c-hub/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nikanj</author><text>I have a macbook and I’m sad to report it’s just as finicky</text><parent_chain><item><author>_nickwhite</author><text>I&#x27;m over IT for about 40 remote workers. One of the comments in this article rings so true about the pain of using USB-C to DisplayPort:<p>&quot;I hate my USB-C monitor ports that work is making me use. Sometimes when I plug the USB-Dock in, it works fine. Other times I get one of the two 1920×1080 monitors attached to turn on. Others, no monitors turn on, and I have to unplug it and plug it back in. Then it usually works.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s SUPER finicky and picky, pretty much across the board. I find this true for the PC&#x2F;Windows- macbook pros seems to work MUCH better, even with triple-2k monitors, but still not perfectly every time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019)</title><url>https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/05/19/explaining-4k-60hz-video-through-usb-c-hub/</url></story> |
16,226,874 | 16,226,990 | 1 | 2 | 16,226,251 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LargeWu</author><text>The difference is that civilization is a comparatively new development, and nobody really knows how that&#x27;s going to fare in the face of all this. The human cost is likely to be staggering.</text><parent_chain><item><author>goatlover</author><text>No, the Earth has been a lot warmer and colder in the past. We&#x27;ve had massive volcanoes going off for thousands of years, we&#x27;ve had iceball earth, we&#x27;ve had crocodiles and palm trees in the arctic.<p>The Earth&#x27;s systems always balance out over the long run. We don&#x27;t stay trapped in ice ages or hot phases.</text></item><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Are there credible models that suggest Earth will turn into Venus or something? It would take a hell of a lot more to end humanity than it would take to &quot;merely&quot; hurt&#x2F;kill the most vulnerable segments of our population (which is what I thought the stakes were).</text></item><item><author>mr_overalls</author><text>The sad thing is that scientists have understood the risks of global warming for decades, and yet our civilization (maybe I&#x27;m just speaking for the US here) seems impotent to effectively coordinate a response to this slow-motion threat.<p>It could be our own Great Filter.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Filter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Filter</a></text></item><item><author>corpMaverick</author><text>It is not just a bomb that can blow the arctic. It can destroy all human civilization. And at this point, we may have lost any ability to do anything.<p>Edit:
Doom scale...<p>1 Inconvenient storms.<p>2 More frequent natural disasters.<p>3 Destroying coastal cities.<p>4 Causing hunger, wars and mass migrations.<p>5 Decimating human population.<p>6 Destroying human civilization.<p>7 Destroying all humans on earth.<p>8 Destroying all life on earth.<p>9 Destroying earth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575220206/is-there-a-ticking-time-bomb-under-the-arctic</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twostoned</author><text>There&#x27;s a really good George Carlin bit in one of his stand-ups about how the earth will be fine. Something along the lines of what you&#x27;re saying; earthquakes, volcanoes, solar flares, etc. She&#x27;s been around for a looong time folks. It&#x27;s humanity that might be in for a bad day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>goatlover</author><text>No, the Earth has been a lot warmer and colder in the past. We&#x27;ve had massive volcanoes going off for thousands of years, we&#x27;ve had iceball earth, we&#x27;ve had crocodiles and palm trees in the arctic.<p>The Earth&#x27;s systems always balance out over the long run. We don&#x27;t stay trapped in ice ages or hot phases.</text></item><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Are there credible models that suggest Earth will turn into Venus or something? It would take a hell of a lot more to end humanity than it would take to &quot;merely&quot; hurt&#x2F;kill the most vulnerable segments of our population (which is what I thought the stakes were).</text></item><item><author>mr_overalls</author><text>The sad thing is that scientists have understood the risks of global warming for decades, and yet our civilization (maybe I&#x27;m just speaking for the US here) seems impotent to effectively coordinate a response to this slow-motion threat.<p>It could be our own Great Filter.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Filter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Filter</a></text></item><item><author>corpMaverick</author><text>It is not just a bomb that can blow the arctic. It can destroy all human civilization. And at this point, we may have lost any ability to do anything.<p>Edit:
Doom scale...<p>1 Inconvenient storms.<p>2 More frequent natural disasters.<p>3 Destroying coastal cities.<p>4 Causing hunger, wars and mass migrations.<p>5 Decimating human population.<p>6 Destroying human civilization.<p>7 Destroying all humans on earth.<p>8 Destroying all life on earth.<p>9 Destroying earth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575220206/is-there-a-ticking-time-bomb-under-the-arctic</url></story> |
30,918,839 | 30,918,140 | 1 | 2 | 30,917,396 | 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>Barrera</author><text>&gt; Russian gas accounted for 55% of Germany&#x27;s gas imports in 2021 and 40% of its gas imports in the first quarter of 2022, Reuters reported. The country has pledged to end the use of Russian gas by 2024, the Habeck said in a March 25 press release.<p>Some in this thread have asked how Germany could be so foolish to tie its economic destiny to such a problematic country as Russia.<p>The answer seems to be &quot;one step at a time.&quot; And Germany is not unique.<p>Take the United States, for example, and its near total dependency on Chinese manufacturing for, well, just about everything. The US offshored manufacturing capacity hand-over-fist. In exchange the US got cheap goods (and low inflation), and continued supremacy of the dollar in world trade and as a reserve asset.<p>Both of those benefits are looking shakier by the week. Inflation is ripping higher, and the sanctions on Russia have prompted what some observers are calling Bretton Woods III, or a brand new economic order that minimizes the position of the US dollar.<p>But the worst part of all is the enormous leverage China has over the US. The US can protest human rights violations or even an attack on Taiwan, but any serious action taken against China will visit upon the US the same fate as Germany now faces. The brave threats can not be made good on because of an economic hole dug over the course of a generation or two.<p>The irony is that if you wind the clock back 25 years or so, this situation is the same in direction (although possibly not in magnitude) as policy makers wanted. Free trade was supposed to make conflicts more difficult because of mutual dependency. And it has worked. Just look at the disconnect between the saber-rattling German&#x2F;US rhetoric and the tepid German&#x2F;US actions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-seize-control-russia-natural-natural-gas-giant-gazprom-energy-2022-4</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lobochrome</author><text>They sold the company to new owners on Friday who then tried to liquidate it. Gazprom Germania is the counterpart to Gas dealers and utilities. It then has an intra-company agreement with Gazprom Russia.<p>If they had liquidated, those contracts would have been gone and the Gas dealers &amp; utilities would have had to renegotiate new contracts with Gazprom Russia. This would have allowed them to require payments in Rubles instead of Euros.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-seize-control-russia-natural-natural-gas-giant-gazprom-energy-2022-4</url></story> |
24,174,800 | 24,173,962 | 1 | 2 | 24,173,285 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>indolering</author><text>I really wish Opus would make it into wireless speakers and headphones. From what I&#x27;ve read, it might not be the most power-efficient format, however, and those tiny earbuds need to be &#x2F;really&#x2F; efficient.<p>But I also suspect that popular wireless codecs (i.e. Dolbly&#x27;s AptX, MPEG&#x27;s AAC, and Samsung&#x27;s Scalable) are powered by marketing fluff. I&#x27;d love an informed opinion :D</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opus Audio Codec – FAQ</title><url>https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=OpusFAQ</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lozf</author><text>The <i>only point</i> in lossy encoding is to <i>save space &#x2F; bandwidth</i>. Opus excels at getting good sound quality at lower bitrates.<p>If there&#x27;s a talk or lecture on Youtube that you&#x27;re about to grab, try the 50kbps Opus version and save your limited space for more important things, but you might need to remux from webm to an ogg container for compatibility.<p><pre><code> e.g. youtube-dl -f249 $URL --exec &#x27;ffmpeg -i {} -vn -c:a copy {}.ogg&#x27;</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opus Audio Codec – FAQ</title><url>https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=OpusFAQ</url></story> |
32,365,652 | 32,364,606 | 1 | 2 | 32,362,363 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmckeon</author><text>When LL Bean started, 90% of his boots were returned, and the purchases refunded - which gave Bean the opportunity to analyze how the boots had failed, redesign them, and send new boots to his dissatisfied customers. Apparent MVP failure becomes better engineering becomes marketing and research. Find out what your users&#x2F;customers want. sources: posted on the store wall in Freeport, and
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecmag.com&#x2F;section&#x2F;your-business&#x2F;lessons-learned-leon-leonwood-bean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecmag.com&#x2F;section&#x2F;your-business&#x2F;lessons-learned-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rmatt2000</author><text>The clothing company LL Bean dealt with this same sort of issue. It used to be that if you weren&#x27;t happy with a purchase, you could return any item you bought from Bean, at any time, for a full refund.<p>One day, the CEO of the company donated some of his old LL Bean clothing to a charity that accepts used clothing. One of the shirts he donated had his initials embroidered on it. In less than a month, that same shirt had been returned to Bean, stating the person was unsatisfied with his purchase, and requesting a full refund of the purchase price.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy</title><url>https://cyclingtips.com/2022/07/interview-silca-on-amazon-e-commerce-fraud-theft-returns/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>Walmart did something like this for many years. They were required to satisfy customers and would accept almost anything as a return to exchange.<p>Like LL Bean, the internet kinda ruined it and when the management turned over to newer people who didn’t share the commitment that the founder had, it went away.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rmatt2000</author><text>The clothing company LL Bean dealt with this same sort of issue. It used to be that if you weren&#x27;t happy with a purchase, you could return any item you bought from Bean, at any time, for a full refund.<p>One day, the CEO of the company donated some of his old LL Bean clothing to a charity that accepts used clothing. One of the shirts he donated had his initials embroidered on it. In less than a month, that same shirt had been returned to Bean, stating the person was unsatisfied with his purchase, and requesting a full refund of the purchase price.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy</title><url>https://cyclingtips.com/2022/07/interview-silca-on-amazon-e-commerce-fraud-theft-returns/</url></story> |
12,933,537 | 12,933,559 | 1 | 2 | 12,933,252 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vkou</author><text>The file&#x2F;syscall abstraction breaks down when we want to do something as simple as copy and pasting from a spreadsheet to a text editor. This is not a slide that should be surrounded by happy people!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A few drawings about Linux</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/11/10/a-few-drawings-about-linux/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_RPM</author><text>Comparing Windows to Linux. I find Linux much more simpler. Is this by design? Why does Windows seem much more complicated and complex? Compare the Windows API to Linux API.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A few drawings about Linux</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/11/10/a-few-drawings-about-linux/</url></story> |
9,665,560 | 9,665,736 | 1 | 2 | 9,664,983 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>More context on this project:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;red-cross" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;red-cross</a><p>After the first investigative story into their Hurricane Sandy response efforts [1], the Red Cross argued that how it spent its money was a &quot;trade secret&quot; [2]. It later stepped back from that position [3]. Later that year (Oct. 2014), ProPublica&#x2F;NPR published their first indepth story about Red Cross [4]; I haven&#x27;t read the entire project but I think the OP is the second big feature. And full disclosure: I used to work at PP but not on this project.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;long-after-sandy-red-cross-post-storm-spending-still-a-black-box&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;long-after-sandy-red-cross...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;red-cross-how-we-spent-sandy-money-is-a-trade-secret&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;red-cross-how-we-spent-san...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;red-cross-reverses-stance-on-sandy-spending-trade-secrets" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;red-cross-reverses-stance-...</a><p>[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-red-cross-secret-disaster&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-red-cross-secret-disas...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>The biggest revelation to me in that article, which I feel should be highlighted more, is that the Red Cross provides almost zero information about how it spends its money.<p>It refuses to provide more than very vague information about how the money was spent in Haiti (information like &quot;35% of $488 million on shelters&quot;), with no specific details about what projects they spent the money on, how those projects went etc.<p>When the author challenged the general counsel of the Red Cross to provide more detailed information (&quot;because clearly you must have it&quot;) he just gave her some evasive boilerplate spiel about having provided the summary information he&#x27;d provided already.<p>How can anyone donate to a charity that&#x27;s so stunningly opaque about how it spends its money?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Search of the Red Cross' $500M in Haiti Relief</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sopooneo</author><text>Could it be that actually getting things done in horrible environments requires interacting with, and paying off, some shady people? This is of course a charitable guess, but could it be that the Red Cross has made a decision to make morally questionable choices in the short term in support of the greater good, and they know they can&#x27;t publish such truths and continue to exist?</text><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>The biggest revelation to me in that article, which I feel should be highlighted more, is that the Red Cross provides almost zero information about how it spends its money.<p>It refuses to provide more than very vague information about how the money was spent in Haiti (information like &quot;35% of $488 million on shelters&quot;), with no specific details about what projects they spent the money on, how those projects went etc.<p>When the author challenged the general counsel of the Red Cross to provide more detailed information (&quot;because clearly you must have it&quot;) he just gave her some evasive boilerplate spiel about having provided the summary information he&#x27;d provided already.<p>How can anyone donate to a charity that&#x27;s so stunningly opaque about how it spends its money?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Search of the Red Cross' $500M in Haiti Relief</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief</url></story> |
20,732,911 | 20,732,983 | 1 | 2 | 20,732,438 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>Jacob Rees-Mogg&#x27;s father actually wrote a book called <i>&quot;The Sovereign Individual: The Coming Economic Revolution and How to Survive and Prosper in It&quot;</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;and does not reflect the preparations spearheaded by Johnson that are now underway.<p>All the more reason to be alarmed. The guy seems like a complete loose cannon - more likely to cause additional chaos that help.<p>Really starting to wonder whether this isn&#x27;t one big geopolitical campaign to short an entire country.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/18/752173091/leaked-brexit-document-depicts-government-fears-of-gridlock-food-shortages-unres</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimnotgym</author><text>How much could he have changed it in 3 weeks anyway?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;and does not reflect the preparations spearheaded by Johnson that are now underway.<p>All the more reason to be alarmed. The guy seems like a complete loose cannon - more likely to cause additional chaos that help.<p>Really starting to wonder whether this isn&#x27;t one big geopolitical campaign to short an entire country.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/18/752173091/leaked-brexit-document-depicts-government-fears-of-gridlock-food-shortages-unres</url></story> |
18,879,851 | 18,879,599 | 1 | 3 | 18,873,662 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>white-flame</author><text>This isn&#x27;t necessarily different for game development, but it&#x27;s different for Game Boy scale hardware, where there is no scheduler&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;OS&#x2F;anything. You manually have to halt the hardware if you don&#x27;t want the CPU to spin, and busy-loops were common on home computers &amp; mains-powered consoles of the same era.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anyfoo</author><text>I&#x27;m not too familiar with game development, is that unusual? It&#x27;s pretty natural in other forms of software development. In user space, you mostly wait on system calls (e.g. select, blocking read&#x2F;write, thread synchronization primitives), and in the kernel that usually translates to another process being scheduled. If there&#x27;s nothing to be scheduled, you hit the idle loop, which, roughly spoken, halts the core until the next interrupt. Sometimes you need to poll a device that does not signal completion with an interrupt, or some locks may actually spin (for a while at least) before sleeping, but, conceptually at least, I&#x27;d almost call those exceptions to a rule.</text></item><item><author>sneakernets</author><text>Game Boy development was interesting in that you were always coding with battery in mind. You couldn&#x27;t simply &quot;NOP&quot; your way through something, you had to &quot;HALT&quot;. So your game loop was always &quot;halt and wait for interrupt, do action, halt again&quot;.<p>Allegedly, if you didn&#x27;t do this, Nintendo would reject your game outright.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Making a Game Boy Game. Part 1: Getting Started</title><url>https://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/18/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phamilton</author><text>Run something like the original starcraft on modern hardware. It&#x27;ll use 100% of a cpu.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anyfoo</author><text>I&#x27;m not too familiar with game development, is that unusual? It&#x27;s pretty natural in other forms of software development. In user space, you mostly wait on system calls (e.g. select, blocking read&#x2F;write, thread synchronization primitives), and in the kernel that usually translates to another process being scheduled. If there&#x27;s nothing to be scheduled, you hit the idle loop, which, roughly spoken, halts the core until the next interrupt. Sometimes you need to poll a device that does not signal completion with an interrupt, or some locks may actually spin (for a while at least) before sleeping, but, conceptually at least, I&#x27;d almost call those exceptions to a rule.</text></item><item><author>sneakernets</author><text>Game Boy development was interesting in that you were always coding with battery in mind. You couldn&#x27;t simply &quot;NOP&quot; your way through something, you had to &quot;HALT&quot;. So your game loop was always &quot;halt and wait for interrupt, do action, halt again&quot;.<p>Allegedly, if you didn&#x27;t do this, Nintendo would reject your game outright.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Making a Game Boy Game. Part 1: Getting Started</title><url>https://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/18/</url></story> |
33,469,465 | 33,469,615 | 1 | 3 | 33,468,654 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>I mean, we know what happens when it&#x27;s possible. Us techies can handle it, but wave $20 in front of teens with no money and they&#x27;ll click through any warning or &quot;are you sure&quot; prompt they&#x27;re told to.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;facebook-project-atlas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;facebook-project-atlas&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>brink</author><text>&gt; Anyways, at least Google allows sideloading so devs can live without Google Play. When Apple pulls something like that we have no choice.<p>Being able to sideload apps is the single issue that has kept me on android my entire life. Not being able to install the apps that I want to install on my own phone is a no-negotiation deal breaker for me. I really wish Apple would loosen their white knuckle grip on their precious iOS devices so that I could have options, but they obviously don&#x27;t respect their users enough to give them that choice.</text></item><item><author>ameshkov</author><text>This is getting posted again and again and I don’t understand why.<p>There are no news here. Ad blockers were never allowed to Play store, here is the relevant policy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googleplay&#x2F;android-developer&#x2F;answer&#x2F;9888379?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=9877467#zippy=%2Cexamples-of-common-violations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googleplay&#x2F;android-developer&#x2F;answ...</a><p>This is exactly why AdGuard ad blocker is not distributed via play store. It was removed in 2014, we learned the lesson and see no reason in trying to abuse Google’s non-existent review process.<p>Interestingly enough, at first Google used a different rule, some vague stuff about interfering with networks. Later they reworked the rule and added ad blocking to examples of common violations.<p>Anyways, at least Google allows sideloading so devs can live without Google Play. When Apple pulls something like that we have no choice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy</title><url>https://community.blokada.org/t/google-to-remove-all-vpn-ad-blockers-that-don-t-comply/27586</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antonyh</author><text>Ironically, it was the walled garden that kept me on Apple for so long. Having at least the illusion that apps were safe and secure gave me some confidence that most of the apps are reasonably safe does remove stress and means I don&#x27;t have to vet things too closely. In truth there are nasties in the Apple world too, but I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s nowhere near as wild as installing random .apk files.<p>What made me leave Apple was for a real headphone socket, an SD card slot, and especially USB-C charging. Those were the non-negotiables for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brink</author><text>&gt; Anyways, at least Google allows sideloading so devs can live without Google Play. When Apple pulls something like that we have no choice.<p>Being able to sideload apps is the single issue that has kept me on android my entire life. Not being able to install the apps that I want to install on my own phone is a no-negotiation deal breaker for me. I really wish Apple would loosen their white knuckle grip on their precious iOS devices so that I could have options, but they obviously don&#x27;t respect their users enough to give them that choice.</text></item><item><author>ameshkov</author><text>This is getting posted again and again and I don’t understand why.<p>There are no news here. Ad blockers were never allowed to Play store, here is the relevant policy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googleplay&#x2F;android-developer&#x2F;answer&#x2F;9888379?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=9877467#zippy=%2Cexamples-of-common-violations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googleplay&#x2F;android-developer&#x2F;answ...</a><p>This is exactly why AdGuard ad blocker is not distributed via play store. It was removed in 2014, we learned the lesson and see no reason in trying to abuse Google’s non-existent review process.<p>Interestingly enough, at first Google used a different rule, some vague stuff about interfering with networks. Later they reworked the rule and added ad blocking to examples of common violations.<p>Anyways, at least Google allows sideloading so devs can live without Google Play. When Apple pulls something like that we have no choice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy</title><url>https://community.blokada.org/t/google-to-remove-all-vpn-ad-blockers-that-don-t-comply/27586</url></story> |
10,049,099 | 10,048,260 | 1 | 2 | 10,047,845 | 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>plg</author><text>The Economist is a prime example of how for-pay curated content can work and can work well to serve a market... a wide market.<p>Can you imagine, just imagine, how craptastic The Economist would be if it were &quot;free&quot; and all you had to do was endure curated advertisements?<p>PS I would pay extra if they would stop stapling in those cardboard subscription cards in the middle of the (print) issue.<p>PPS I feel the same way about the NY Times---worth paying for---although they have gone so broad recently that I&#x27;m worried they&#x27;re becoming unfocused, trying to appeal to too many at once.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21660919-only-second-time-our-history-ownership-economist-changes-new-chapter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rm999</author><text>&gt; Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times, which has had a non-controlling 50% stake in us since 1928, is selling. Three-fifths of those shares will go to an existing shareholder—Exor, the holding company of the Agnelli family. The rest will be bought back by our parent company, The Economist Group.<p>Phew, I was really worried they were selling to News Corp or something when I saw the headline. I&#x27;ve often thought of the Economist as the weekly version of FT, but the two are actually quite independent from each other (both in editorial control and legal control). Pearson had a 50% stake in the Economist but only 6&#x2F;13 board seats. And the Economist has been great about fiercely guarding its editorial independence.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21660919-only-second-time-our-history-ownership-economist-changes-new-chapter</url></story> |
17,848,055 | 17,847,845 | 1 | 3 | 17,847,359 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>endorphone</author><text>I also would deeply contest those number claims.<p>To speak specifically to the Android claims, this author does what so many others have done: Long after the hype has worn down (hype that including mainstream media attention) they eventually get around to an Android port and then report miserable Android sales.<p>Well, no kidding. I mean if it doesn&#x27;t have the word of mouth pitch, does this look compelling-<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.yourcompany.adarkroom&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.yourcompan...</a><p>It looks like a hello world app. And the com.yourcompany bit is telling.<p>We&#x27;ve seen this with a number of much more polished games as well: Release on iOS, get tonnes of press and attention, and then long after the hype has died down release something on Android. Do these people really think those users just sat waiting?</text><parent_chain><item><author>kumarm</author><text>&gt;&gt;A successful iOS game makes $4,000 annually (this goes for any app frankly). A successful Android game makes one seventh of that (one third at best)<p>Not true.<p>Source: I run a mobile apps company with popular apps on Android.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Surviving the App Store</title><url>https://github.com/amirrajan/survivingtheappstore</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>Can you elaborate? 1&#x2F;7th sounds like a stretch because App Store revenue is only double the Play Store revenue, but game revenue could only be equal if Android sells effectively no business software.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;apples-app-store-revenue-nearly-double-that-of-google-play-in-first-half-of-2018&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;apple...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kumarm</author><text>&gt;&gt;A successful iOS game makes $4,000 annually (this goes for any app frankly). A successful Android game makes one seventh of that (one third at best)<p>Not true.<p>Source: I run a mobile apps company with popular apps on Android.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Surviving the App Store</title><url>https://github.com/amirrajan/survivingtheappstore</url></story> |
22,399,157 | 22,393,691 | 1 | 2 | 22,390,878 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ivanhoe</author><text>What kills those products is not the bad code itself, it&#x27;s the side-effects piling up: added dev expanses, lagging behind the competition in adding new features, performance problems as app grows, etc. Badly written code is simply more expensive to maintain and improve. I guess it&#x27;s less of an issue if you have a very profitable product and&#x2F;or enterprise clients who are much more tolerable to things like the simplest customization taking weeks to finish, integrations that are complicated and cost thousands and thousands of dollars, etc. For startups and smaller businesses that are tight on dev budgets it&#x27;s much bigger of an issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JamesBarney</author><text>Woah my experience is completely different. I&#x27;ve never seen a product fail because of poor engineering practices. And I&#x27;ve seen plenty fail because of business issues.<p>I&#x27;ve worked mostly on enterprise software, many of which had awful code bases but we&#x27;re wildly profitable.</text></item><item><author>aero142</author><text>You picked the easiest strawmen out of his examples to knock down in short funtions and DRY. The other examples were, no QA, no code reviews, which are things that I have seen first hand, combined with the other complains, to code that is always in a half broken state. The code is very difficult to change so you spend all of your time on support cases. Re-writes have their own pitfalls. Ultimately, developer retention and hiring suffer because no one wants to work on these products. The institutional knowledge leaves through attrition and it takes too long for new developers to learn to be productive in the code base. Eventually the quality of the product declines until customers leave. So, even highly profitable products die because of poor engineering practices. There are certainly engineers that get caught up in know-it-all platitudes, but I&#x27;ve personally seen more profitable products fail because of poor engineering practices than good engineering practices fail because of poor business sense. YMMV, but in my experience, good engineering is more rare than good business ideas.</text></item><item><author>cle</author><text>It’s also illustrating that we engineers love to nitpick over stuff that ultimately doesn’t matter all that much. You know what’s way more important than short functions and programming platitudes like DRY? Understanding the business, system architecture, and how to deliver fast in the context of what’s already built.</text></item><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>Many of the points made in the article seem pertinent to me, however I think thinking in terms of discrete levels of seniority is counterproductive. I also think that there isn&#x27;t a single dimension of seniority that we should talk about.<p>To give a precise example, in my previous job we had very hierarchically senior people who understood the industry and the business side very well and of course knew the company&#x27;s platform very well. Oh the other hand, strictly in terms of technical competence I think they lacked a lot of the basic mental framework. Their code was atrocious (core code in classes of 1000+ lines with no documentation or tests, lots of copy-paste), their choice of technology and methodology parochial and antiquated (think Java 5-6, Ibatis in 2016 + a lot of in-house built stuff, no code reviews, no QA etc.).<p>This kind of people in some ways would rank as competent architects and in some other ways as fitting the good old adage &quot;20 years of experience - the same year repeated 20 times&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Levels of Seniority</title><url>https://roadmap.sh/guides/levels-of-seniority</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>My best bosses and I think every mentor I&#x27;ve ever had (some were both) talked about what they value, where they want us to be, instead of micromanaging us on how to get there.<p>Some business strategies are antagonistic to this sort of work, others are in effect the inverse (as in, doing the exact opposite).<p>I think the saddest &#x27;joke&#x27; I tell is that I watched our industry, during the XP era, look at the numbers and decide that most of our problems come in during the requirements phase, and then instead of tackling that problem, we spent the next twenty years making sure our side of the house was in order (didn&#x27;t work out that great, did it?).<p>Why did we do that? Did we think we were going to shame our business complements into doing better? Some of these positions actively seek out people who don&#x27;t experience shame the way the rest of us do.<p>In theory, XP&#x27;s theory in particular, fast iterations split up the business decisions over a long time, so the wreck happens in slow motion and more intervention, talking, and concrete examples are available to improve the quality of dialog.<p>Then Scrum gets co-opted by the business people, and now the business side does, indeed, have more time to think, and what have they done with that time? Found ways to give the developers <i>less</i> time to think. Oops.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JamesBarney</author><text>Woah my experience is completely different. I&#x27;ve never seen a product fail because of poor engineering practices. And I&#x27;ve seen plenty fail because of business issues.<p>I&#x27;ve worked mostly on enterprise software, many of which had awful code bases but we&#x27;re wildly profitable.</text></item><item><author>aero142</author><text>You picked the easiest strawmen out of his examples to knock down in short funtions and DRY. The other examples were, no QA, no code reviews, which are things that I have seen first hand, combined with the other complains, to code that is always in a half broken state. The code is very difficult to change so you spend all of your time on support cases. Re-writes have their own pitfalls. Ultimately, developer retention and hiring suffer because no one wants to work on these products. The institutional knowledge leaves through attrition and it takes too long for new developers to learn to be productive in the code base. Eventually the quality of the product declines until customers leave. So, even highly profitable products die because of poor engineering practices. There are certainly engineers that get caught up in know-it-all platitudes, but I&#x27;ve personally seen more profitable products fail because of poor engineering practices than good engineering practices fail because of poor business sense. YMMV, but in my experience, good engineering is more rare than good business ideas.</text></item><item><author>cle</author><text>It’s also illustrating that we engineers love to nitpick over stuff that ultimately doesn’t matter all that much. You know what’s way more important than short functions and programming platitudes like DRY? Understanding the business, system architecture, and how to deliver fast in the context of what’s already built.</text></item><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>Many of the points made in the article seem pertinent to me, however I think thinking in terms of discrete levels of seniority is counterproductive. I also think that there isn&#x27;t a single dimension of seniority that we should talk about.<p>To give a precise example, in my previous job we had very hierarchically senior people who understood the industry and the business side very well and of course knew the company&#x27;s platform very well. Oh the other hand, strictly in terms of technical competence I think they lacked a lot of the basic mental framework. Their code was atrocious (core code in classes of 1000+ lines with no documentation or tests, lots of copy-paste), their choice of technology and methodology parochial and antiquated (think Java 5-6, Ibatis in 2016 + a lot of in-house built stuff, no code reviews, no QA etc.).<p>This kind of people in some ways would rank as competent architects and in some other ways as fitting the good old adage &quot;20 years of experience - the same year repeated 20 times&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Levels of Seniority</title><url>https://roadmap.sh/guides/levels-of-seniority</url></story> |
13,616,377 | 13,616,603 | 1 | 2 | 13,615,424 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway2048</author><text>There is a difference between forcing what you believe to be right onto others via legal means, and wanting people to do the right thing because it is moral to do so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cr0sh</author><text>&gt; They took much more than they have given (which the source code licence allows them to do, even if it&#x27;s morally wrong).<p>I don&#x27;t want to start a flame war, but if the BSD license allows for them to do this, why is it morally wrong?<p>That is - how can you complain when the license explicitly allows for this? If you (not you personally, of course - but the OpenBSD project) didn&#x27;t want this to happen, then the license would need to be changed to prevent it.<p>Of course then, companies wouldn&#x27;t be as willing to use the code, as we tend to see with the GPL.<p>But if companies are just going to take the code, modify it, and not contribute the changes back (or contribute little back), where&#x27;s the loss by using another license?<p>If the loss is &quot;but the code then won&#x27;t be used in the greater ecosystem&quot;, why complain when it is?<p>Again - I&#x27;m not trying to cause a flame war; everybody has their license and needs. I&#x27;m just trying to understand why there is complaints when code isn&#x27;t contributed back under the BSD license, when it explicitly allows for this.<p>Furthermore, I am wondering if there is anything we can do about it, that doesn&#x27;t cause the kind of ire to rise when the GPL is invoked instead. Perhaps there isn&#x27;t a solution, but I&#x27;d love to hear ideas on the subject.</text></item><item><author>stsp</author><text>I won&#x27;t defend their demeaning public behaviour towards OpenBSD. I find it revolting.<p>But they did make one donation to this OpenBSD developer. They sent me 3 rcc-ve boards which I am still using for development: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvsweb.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvsweb&#x2F;www&#x2F;want.html#rev1.945" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvsweb.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvsweb&#x2F;www&#x2F;want.html#rev1....</a><p>They took much more than they have given (which the source code licence allows them to do, even if it&#x27;s morally wrong). Claiming they never gave anything at all is incorrect.</text></item><item><author>notaplumber</author><text>Netgate&#x2F;pfSense has been notoriously anti-community, with their own co-founder attacking other projects, including a recent fork called OPNSense.<p>They&#x27;ve also been very hostile towards the OpenBSD developers, and project. Despite the fact they&#x27;ve effectively built a business on OpenBSD innovations, like pf and CARP, even incorporating the name &#x27;pf&#x27; into their trademark having not contributed a bit of code.. n̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶d̶i̶m̶e̶ (but perhaps some hw).<p>But feel free to keep using it.. no need to take my word for it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;donations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;donations.html</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&#x2F;contributors.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&#x2F;contributors.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution</title><url>https://pfsense.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>brazzledazzle</author><text>Without offering an opinion about their behavior I want to point out that a compliance with a license or laws has nothing to do with morals or ethics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cr0sh</author><text>&gt; They took much more than they have given (which the source code licence allows them to do, even if it&#x27;s morally wrong).<p>I don&#x27;t want to start a flame war, but if the BSD license allows for them to do this, why is it morally wrong?<p>That is - how can you complain when the license explicitly allows for this? If you (not you personally, of course - but the OpenBSD project) didn&#x27;t want this to happen, then the license would need to be changed to prevent it.<p>Of course then, companies wouldn&#x27;t be as willing to use the code, as we tend to see with the GPL.<p>But if companies are just going to take the code, modify it, and not contribute the changes back (or contribute little back), where&#x27;s the loss by using another license?<p>If the loss is &quot;but the code then won&#x27;t be used in the greater ecosystem&quot;, why complain when it is?<p>Again - I&#x27;m not trying to cause a flame war; everybody has their license and needs. I&#x27;m just trying to understand why there is complaints when code isn&#x27;t contributed back under the BSD license, when it explicitly allows for this.<p>Furthermore, I am wondering if there is anything we can do about it, that doesn&#x27;t cause the kind of ire to rise when the GPL is invoked instead. Perhaps there isn&#x27;t a solution, but I&#x27;d love to hear ideas on the subject.</text></item><item><author>stsp</author><text>I won&#x27;t defend their demeaning public behaviour towards OpenBSD. I find it revolting.<p>But they did make one donation to this OpenBSD developer. They sent me 3 rcc-ve boards which I am still using for development: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvsweb.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvsweb&#x2F;www&#x2F;want.html#rev1.945" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvsweb.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvsweb&#x2F;www&#x2F;want.html#rev1....</a><p>They took much more than they have given (which the source code licence allows them to do, even if it&#x27;s morally wrong). Claiming they never gave anything at all is incorrect.</text></item><item><author>notaplumber</author><text>Netgate&#x2F;pfSense has been notoriously anti-community, with their own co-founder attacking other projects, including a recent fork called OPNSense.<p>They&#x27;ve also been very hostile towards the OpenBSD developers, and project. Despite the fact they&#x27;ve effectively built a business on OpenBSD innovations, like pf and CARP, even incorporating the name &#x27;pf&#x27; into their trademark having not contributed a bit of code.. n̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶d̶i̶m̶e̶ (but perhaps some hw).<p>But feel free to keep using it.. no need to take my word for it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;donations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;donations.html</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&#x2F;contributors.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&#x2F;contributors.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution</title><url>https://pfsense.org/</url></story> |
36,940,975 | 36,941,098 | 1 | 2 | 36,940,387 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>Slander and libel are criminal offences in the Netherlands. If a crime had been committed against someone, they should have the means to seek justice.<p>Normally, you wouldn&#x27;t need Facebook to disclose any names because Facebook isn&#x27;t anonymous 99% of the time. There are plenty of anonymous and pseudonymous forums that would be at risk and yes they too have to follow warrants should the court decide against them.<p>If Facebook wants to stay out of such cases, they should either leave the jurisdictions where such warrants are possible (so planet earth, probably) or they should enforce non-anonymous posts so plaintiffs can sue each other without involving a court warrant first.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trepanne</author><text>It is news to me that websites can so easily be coerced to fork over user data by private citizens prosecuting fairly petty civil actions. Is this about par for the course in European jurisprudence, or a high water mark for right to due process in the digital age?<p>The first order effects seem pretty benign, even salutary - but I’m not sure the court really thought through all the implications here.<p>Is the Dutch legal system inviting themselves to become a party to every single he said&#x2F;she said drama on Facebook?<p>What will Facebook need to do to extricate themselves from such an odious entanglement?</text></item><item><author>oldgradstudent</author><text>Why is it news that Meta has to answer to a subpoena issued by a court in a country they operate in legally?<p>I was under the impression that this is routine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user's identity</title><url>https://stackdiary.com/meta-forced-to-reveal-anonymous-facebook-users-identity/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mellosouls</author><text><i>fairly petty civil actions</i><p>If you&#x27;re the person having their reputation smeared by anonymous cowards it maybe doesn&#x27;t seem so &quot;petty&quot; as you dismiss.<p>This seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do; have the person slandering somebody anonymously brought into the light where there is a level playing field in which they can present their case.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trepanne</author><text>It is news to me that websites can so easily be coerced to fork over user data by private citizens prosecuting fairly petty civil actions. Is this about par for the course in European jurisprudence, or a high water mark for right to due process in the digital age?<p>The first order effects seem pretty benign, even salutary - but I’m not sure the court really thought through all the implications here.<p>Is the Dutch legal system inviting themselves to become a party to every single he said&#x2F;she said drama on Facebook?<p>What will Facebook need to do to extricate themselves from such an odious entanglement?</text></item><item><author>oldgradstudent</author><text>Why is it news that Meta has to answer to a subpoena issued by a court in a country they operate in legally?<p>I was under the impression that this is routine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user's identity</title><url>https://stackdiary.com/meta-forced-to-reveal-anonymous-facebook-users-identity/</url></story> |
20,627,862 | 20,627,248 | 1 | 2 | 20,626,740 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hairytrog</author><text>This is R&amp;D - not a commercial path.<p>These types of fusion projects are trying to prove the most basic piece of the puzzle: net energy generation. And it is a big problem, even for Commonwealth. I&#x27;ve heard that the magnets are underperforming by about a factor of 2 - and that&#x27;s 4 years into the project.<p>But commercialization is a lot more than just proving that the concept is physically possible. It was proven possible that man could walk on the moon, but it&#x27;s not a commercial activity 50 years in. Commercialization for nuclear energy systems means global deployment, mass manufacturing, lack of proliferation risk, extreme safety, etc. Fusion systems like Commonwealth&#x27;s do not meet any of these criteria. They are constantly generating radioactive waste because they have to breed their fuel and reprocess it on site.<p>To commercialize, you have to be able to deploy the technology in a significantly better way than traditional fission. These large fusion prototypes ($65B for ITER and $5B for Commonwealth based on their 2015 white paper, so probably 2-4x larger now) exacerbate traditional nuclear&#x27;s cost problems because they are construction projects that will last decades. Viable nuclear solutions will be factory manufactured rather than constructed.<p>For comments from MIT dissenter in 80s that stand true today: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;orcutt.net&#x2F;weblog&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;The-Trouble-With-Fusion_MIT_Tech_Review_1983.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;orcutt.net&#x2F;weblog&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;The-Trou...</a><p>For a review of fusion problems: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebulletin.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;iter-is-a-showcase-for-the-drawbacks-of-fusion-energy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebulletin.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;iter-is-a-showcase-for-the-d...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Commercial Path to Fusion</title><url>https://physicsworld.com/a/a-commercial-path-to-fusion/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>evdev</author><text>For a breakdown of the reasoning behind the project, if you haven&#x27;t already seen it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Commercial Path to Fusion</title><url>https://physicsworld.com/a/a-commercial-path-to-fusion/</url></story> |
15,363,934 | 15,363,416 | 1 | 2 | 15,362,418 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thebsdbox</author><text>As part of a competition before the last DockerCon I managed to get a container down to 69B<p>Details: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebsdbox.co.uk&#x2F;in-pursuit-of-a-tinier-binary-er&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebsdbox.co.uk&#x2F;in-pursuit-of-a-tinier-binary-er&#x2F;</a><p>Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;thebsdbox&#x2F;29e395299f89b52214b66269f5b33f7d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;thebsdbox&#x2F;29e395299f89b52214b66269f5...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A 1 KB Docker Container</title><url>https://blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2017/09/28/a-1-kb-docker-container.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>ffk</author><text>The smallest useful container I know of is 129B. It was created to test how many containers docker can spin up while reducing the overhead of what was in the container itself.<p>tianon&#x2F;sleeping-beauty latest 2e8193709fa7 6 months ago 129B<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tianon&#x2F;dockerfiles&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;sleeping-beauty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tianon&#x2F;dockerfiles&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;sleeping-b...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A 1 KB Docker Container</title><url>https://blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2017/09/28/a-1-kb-docker-container.html</url></story> |
14,214,373 | 14,213,060 | 1 | 2 | 14,212,054 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Applejinx</author><text>The trick is how much state you have to keep in your head. Something like Blender requires enormous state about even things like what key combinations mean in different contexts: it&#x27;s a poster child for impossibly demanding state requirements.<p>Something like the Flash pen tool is much simpler, but still absolutely requires you to maintain some state: clicking versus click-dragging, remembering not to close a shape by simply clicking on a control point without also dragging out Bezier points. There are expectations before you can begin to flow with the thing.<p>I&#x27;ve been working hard on this concept using a Minecraft mod (Snowball Madness: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airwindows.com&#x2F;snowball-madness&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airwindows.com&#x2F;snowball-madness&#x2F;</a> ) that suffered the same problem. I&#x27;d made countless &#x27;effects&#x27; so it was nearly impossible to remember what did what.<p>After a drastic functionality-culling process, I began rebuilding things in line with a concept: generalizing. If you can place a block above a snowball and it places the block where the snowball hits, that&#x27;s what it does, no exceptions. TNT used to spawn explosions just for silly fun, but it became &#x27;place TNT block&#x27; altering the type of silliness. Pickaxes used to dig large holes in rock (in some cases, leaving ores hanging) so all the other tools got similar treatments: axes vanishing wood logs, shovels vanishing dirt, hoes turning grass&#x2F;dirt into tilled farmland. Always trying to incorporate &#x27;cheaty&#x27; ways of doing things but predictably so.<p>It&#x27;s like the old Apple UI guidelines. The default expectation is that you can grope blindly towards a result and things do what you think they would do, allowing you to not think about the process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomxor</author><text>It is possible to simplify the interface by reducing the number of tools without necessarily removing functionality.<p>The idea is to identify large sets of tools that can be replaced with a handful of powerful combinable tools to perform the same tasks - this is not always easy but if done well can end up not only simplifying UI but providing more powerful, intuitive tools and reducing unnecessary learning.<p>I think Modo has done this fairly well in this regard for 3D modelling and animation (programs which tend to be notoriously full of thousands of discrete tools).<p>This is not limited to DAWs. 3D animation packages, photo editing and video editing packages all historically have this problem... They grow these discrete tools to a large number, it increases the UI complexity, inevitably resulting in tons of stuff hidden under context menus and usually heavily resorting to mode based interfaces.<p>I had hoped this concept would become popular so that things like Photoshop and Illustrator could be simplified.</text></item><item><author>ssharp</author><text>&quot;Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time.&quot;<p>How much can you simplify the interface and still make it do everything producers want to do? Garageband simplified the interface quite a bit compared to Logic, but even that can get complicated and ultimately isn&#x27;t as flexible as other DAWs.<p>I&#x27;ve been a fairly loyal user of Sonar and FL Studio for over a decade, largely out of habit because that&#x27;s what I used when I first started and don&#x27;t care to learn anything different. Especially with FL Studio, early versions of that were extremely simple. At it&#x27;s core, it&#x27;s still fairly simple, but allows you a lot of flexibility to do crazy things through automation.<p>Especially in EDM, the DAW has essentially become another instrument for creativity, so limiting that will limit the audience to those with lesser needs. I do think there is a big hole for a cross-platform DAW that&#x27;s at least halfway decent, so this is exciting to see!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design</title><url>https://github.com/peterrudenko/helio-workstation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bartread</author><text>I think this is an interesting idea, and sounds cool in principle, but the problem is that many users wouldn&#x27;t know how to combine components together to get the tools&#x2F;effects&#x2F;instruments they want, or wouldn&#x27;t want to bother to learn. The point being that all you might achieve with this approach is to substitute one type of complexity for another, and so you&#x27;d still alienate potential users. Maybe different potential users.<p>Depending on the market segment you&#x27;re after that might be OK though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomxor</author><text>It is possible to simplify the interface by reducing the number of tools without necessarily removing functionality.<p>The idea is to identify large sets of tools that can be replaced with a handful of powerful combinable tools to perform the same tasks - this is not always easy but if done well can end up not only simplifying UI but providing more powerful, intuitive tools and reducing unnecessary learning.<p>I think Modo has done this fairly well in this regard for 3D modelling and animation (programs which tend to be notoriously full of thousands of discrete tools).<p>This is not limited to DAWs. 3D animation packages, photo editing and video editing packages all historically have this problem... They grow these discrete tools to a large number, it increases the UI complexity, inevitably resulting in tons of stuff hidden under context menus and usually heavily resorting to mode based interfaces.<p>I had hoped this concept would become popular so that things like Photoshop and Illustrator could be simplified.</text></item><item><author>ssharp</author><text>&quot;Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time.&quot;<p>How much can you simplify the interface and still make it do everything producers want to do? Garageband simplified the interface quite a bit compared to Logic, but even that can get complicated and ultimately isn&#x27;t as flexible as other DAWs.<p>I&#x27;ve been a fairly loyal user of Sonar and FL Studio for over a decade, largely out of habit because that&#x27;s what I used when I first started and don&#x27;t care to learn anything different. Especially with FL Studio, early versions of that were extremely simple. At it&#x27;s core, it&#x27;s still fairly simple, but allows you a lot of flexibility to do crazy things through automation.<p>Especially in EDM, the DAW has essentially become another instrument for creativity, so limiting that will limit the audience to those with lesser needs. I do think there is a big hole for a cross-platform DAW that&#x27;s at least halfway decent, so this is exciting to see!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design</title><url>https://github.com/peterrudenko/helio-workstation</url></story> |
11,066,874 | 11,066,783 | 1 | 3 | 11,065,933 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antirez</author><text>From Martin post: &quot;However, the storage server remembers that it has already processed a write with a higher token number (34), and so it rejects the request with token 33.&quot;<p>This is not eventual consistency, this is refusing any new write with ID &lt; past_ID, which requires linearizability.<p>Second, about eventual consistency, the Token ID even when increasing may not be casually related with the work performed while the lock is hold. if you need just a <i>random</i> order when there are concurrent accesses, you can lexically order the random token IDs, for what is worth.<p>Compare &amp; Swap: could you argument that? If you want to avoid races in a read-modify-write scenario, you can set the token, do your work, and only write if the token is still the same, so that if your write succeed is because the state of the shared resource is still the same to when you started operating on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>carllerche</author><text>This response is incorrect at a very fundamental level.<p>First, Antirez claims that requiring the &quot;materialization&quot; store to be able to tie break with a monotonically increasing token requires linearization? This is completely false. The monotonically increasing token allows for eventual consistency. That&#x27;s the entire point of it. It&#x27;s monotonically increasing.<p>For anyone who claims that once you have coordination (locking) in your system you already lost is completely ignoring the research coming out of BOOM (Berkeley Orders of Magnitude). You can design your system to push the coordination out to the edge and way from your &quot;choke points&quot; and use these monotonically increasing tokens to keep your bottlenecks coordination free.<p>Secondly, Antirez&#x27;s argument that you can use a compare &amp; swap in a transactional storage layer is also wrong. This is not possible to write safely.<p>I&#x27;m not even going to touch his argument that using system clocks in a distributed locking algorithm is safe...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Redlock Safe? Reply to Redlock Analysis</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/101</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvirsky</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not even going to touch his argument that using system clocks in a distributed locking algorithm is safe...<p>Please do</text><parent_chain><item><author>carllerche</author><text>This response is incorrect at a very fundamental level.<p>First, Antirez claims that requiring the &quot;materialization&quot; store to be able to tie break with a monotonically increasing token requires linearization? This is completely false. The monotonically increasing token allows for eventual consistency. That&#x27;s the entire point of it. It&#x27;s monotonically increasing.<p>For anyone who claims that once you have coordination (locking) in your system you already lost is completely ignoring the research coming out of BOOM (Berkeley Orders of Magnitude). You can design your system to push the coordination out to the edge and way from your &quot;choke points&quot; and use these monotonically increasing tokens to keep your bottlenecks coordination free.<p>Secondly, Antirez&#x27;s argument that you can use a compare &amp; swap in a transactional storage layer is also wrong. This is not possible to write safely.<p>I&#x27;m not even going to touch his argument that using system clocks in a distributed locking algorithm is safe...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Redlock Safe? Reply to Redlock Analysis</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/101</url></story> |
38,914,578 | 38,914,663 | 1 | 3 | 38,912,497 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>Only if you pretend that the CEOs job is purely for raising money.<p>Nominally, CEOs are supposed to run the company and help brew the culture that makes that company productive.<p>We&#x27;ve grown a bunch of celebrity CEOs because people stopped caring about how companies worked over the last 10 years of low interest rates. But now that it&#x27;s harder to raise money, it&#x27;s time to see these guys run the companies they built.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>This is a genuine question... isn&#x27;t that his job?<p>For a public company, the CEO has to be a public CEO. Everyone takes on a different persona (some sell themselves as business geniuses, others as creative geniuses, and others as someone you wanna grab a beer with). Some really like it, and some do it begrudgingly. But at the end of the day, you can&#x27;t be the same CEO of a public company as you were when you were private.<p>I&#x27;ve never known Jeff to hobnob with celebrities, travel in luxury or abandon his company. I&#x27;m not sure he&#x27;s a &quot;celebrity CEO&quot; as much as he just became a public one, although I don&#x27;t know him personally.<p>(FWIW, this is the reason I&#x27;d never want to go public. I personally don&#x27;t like the system, but that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not how the system works.)</text></item><item><author>throwaway_108</author><text>It&#x27;s also why George Hu left Twilio.<p>Because Jeff wanted to be a celebrity CEO, and it was to the detriment of the company.<p>All of Twilio&#x27;s growth (as a public company) happened on George&#x27;s watch.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a coincidence that well after George left, on Jeff&#x27;s watch - they had to do 3 different layoff for a total of ~24% of their entire public company being let go.<p>Note: former senior level Twilio employee, posted anonymous for obvious reasons.</text></item><item><author>shakes</author><text>I worked at Twilio for nearly 10 years and it&#x27;s hard to overstate what a gift it was to work there and see Jeff operate as CEO up-close.<p>He created an environment where (at our best) we could have fun doing work that had a real impact, and we could it with people we enjoyed doing the work with. He pushed us to be creative to authentically empower and inspire developers. Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let&#x27;s try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!<p>And Jeff would always be spending time with developer tools and Twilio&#x27;s products himself, to the point that he could live code at the drop of a hat to show off what we&#x27;d been working on. This meant his own understanding of developers and their problems never ceased to amaze me.<p>But more than all of that, he was a rare CEO that led with empathy, humility and care.<p>Thank you, jeffiel. We can&#x27;t wait to see what you build next.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twilio-ceo-lawson-steps-down-after-bruising-activist-battles.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>pmontra</author><text>I don&#x27;t know the right answer here, but there are thousands of public companies. If every CEO has to be a celebrity, meaning that everybody knows them and which company they are the CEO of, it&#x27;s going to end up like for actors: tier one world superstars, tier two stars, then people you don&#x27;t hear much about, then people you read their names sometimes in the closing credits, otherwise they are only random faces on screen.<p>If that&#x27;s the case, the top layers of the system have space for so many CEOs. Some won&#x27;t even care to be there, they&#x27;ll just do their job and take the salary plus bonuses.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>This is a genuine question... isn&#x27;t that his job?<p>For a public company, the CEO has to be a public CEO. Everyone takes on a different persona (some sell themselves as business geniuses, others as creative geniuses, and others as someone you wanna grab a beer with). Some really like it, and some do it begrudgingly. But at the end of the day, you can&#x27;t be the same CEO of a public company as you were when you were private.<p>I&#x27;ve never known Jeff to hobnob with celebrities, travel in luxury or abandon his company. I&#x27;m not sure he&#x27;s a &quot;celebrity CEO&quot; as much as he just became a public one, although I don&#x27;t know him personally.<p>(FWIW, this is the reason I&#x27;d never want to go public. I personally don&#x27;t like the system, but that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not how the system works.)</text></item><item><author>throwaway_108</author><text>It&#x27;s also why George Hu left Twilio.<p>Because Jeff wanted to be a celebrity CEO, and it was to the detriment of the company.<p>All of Twilio&#x27;s growth (as a public company) happened on George&#x27;s watch.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a coincidence that well after George left, on Jeff&#x27;s watch - they had to do 3 different layoff for a total of ~24% of their entire public company being let go.<p>Note: former senior level Twilio employee, posted anonymous for obvious reasons.</text></item><item><author>shakes</author><text>I worked at Twilio for nearly 10 years and it&#x27;s hard to overstate what a gift it was to work there and see Jeff operate as CEO up-close.<p>He created an environment where (at our best) we could have fun doing work that had a real impact, and we could it with people we enjoyed doing the work with. He pushed us to be creative to authentically empower and inspire developers. Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let&#x27;s try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!<p>And Jeff would always be spending time with developer tools and Twilio&#x27;s products himself, to the point that he could live code at the drop of a hat to show off what we&#x27;d been working on. This meant his own understanding of developers and their problems never ceased to amaze me.<p>But more than all of that, he was a rare CEO that led with empathy, humility and care.<p>Thank you, jeffiel. We can&#x27;t wait to see what you build next.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twilio-ceo-lawson-steps-down-after-bruising-activist-battles.html</url></story> |
12,164,258 | 12,161,459 | 1 | 3 | 12,159,507 | 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>imurray</author><text>If you mainly care about prediction, rather than inspecting the fitted parameters, a lot of this detail is usually overkill.<p>To generalize well, it&#x27;s almost always a good idea to have some sort of regularization, such as penalizing the sum of the square of the parameters. The extra term in the cost function will usually make the naive &quot;normal equations&quot; approach work fine, and give much the same predictions as fancy pivoted QR approaches. On my machine it&#x27;s also a lot faster (the ball-park is ~~10x faster for large systems).<p>I&#x27;m glad R has super-solid robust GLM implementations. And unless you&#x27;re fitting <i>many</i> models, you should probably just use such a library routine. However, I wish more tutorials and textbooks would spend more time on the reasons for numerical stability, and when one should care, rather than pushing that detail off into a trail of citations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Generalized linear models, abridged</title><url>http://bwlewis.github.io/GLM/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AtheMathmo</author><text>This is a great post! I tried implementing my own GLMs [1] a short while ago. But I ran into a lot of trouble with numerical instability and had a hard time tracking down ways to solve these edge cases.<p>Hopefully with this as a resource I&#x27;ll be able to make some more progress on it!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AtheMathmo&#x2F;rusty-machine&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;learning&#x2F;glm.rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AtheMathmo&#x2F;rusty-machine&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Generalized linear models, abridged</title><url>http://bwlewis.github.io/GLM/</url></story> |
22,031,998 | 22,031,588 | 1 | 2 | 22,024,758 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ridiculous_fish</author><text>This is pretty exciting if real:<p>&gt; Bytecode&#x2F;opcodes are translated into more efficient &quot;operations&quot; during a compilation pass, generating pages of meta-machine code<p>WASM compiled to a novel bytecode format aimed at efficient interpretation.<p>&gt; Commonly occurring sequences of operations can can also be optimized into a &quot;fused&quot; operation.<p>Peephole optimizations producing fused opcodes, makes sense.<p>&gt; In M3&#x2F;Wasm, the stack machine model is translated into a more direct and efficient &quot;register file&quot; approach<p>WASM translated to register-based bytecode. That&#x27;s awesome!<p>&gt; Since operations all have a standardized signature and arguments are tail-call passed through to the next, the M3 &quot;virtual&quot; machine registers end up mapping directly to real CPU registers.<p>This is some black magic, if it works!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in C</title><url>https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>Why is an interpreter desirable when JIT compilers create significantly faster code? Is this primarily about embedded use?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in C</title><url>https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3</url></story> |
11,233,673 | 11,233,480 | 1 | 3 | 11,233,016 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dwc</author><text>I&#x27;ve struggled with this myself. A while back, due to linkage from here and other sites, I had used up my free allotment of free nytimes stories and thought, &quot;hey, let me see if I can pay a bit to raise the limit, because I&#x27;m willing to pay a bit for journalism.&quot; So I checked out their subscription plans and could find nothing even remotely close to worthwhile for me.<p>There were disconnects between how they viewed subscriptions vs. what I wanted:<p>* They offered access to all of their content for a price that would have been fair if I would be reading some significant fraction of it. But I wanted to raise my cap from X stories&#x2F;month to 2X stories per month and have it cost something reasonable. Or something close, like 5X stories. They need to get over the idea that the way people read news today is by going to a single site and reading through a fair amount of it, like people used to do with a physical newspaper.<p>* The subscriptions were for what I&#x27;d call &quot;odd&quot; time periods like 6 weeks. WAT. Why not 5 or 7 weeks, or multiples of 10 days? What happens when my 6 weeks is up? I start getting renewal emails? Quit messing around and quote a recurring monthly rate with discount for longer commitments.<p>Anyway, I went there intending to give them some money even though I only occasionally go over the free limit, and left without signing up, slightly bewildered.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mahranch</author><text>&gt; I want high quality content, and I&#x27;m willing to pay for it.<p>Now if only the other billions of people on this planet felt the same way.<p>That&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t like this sentence. Every time the topic of ads come up here or on reddit, people always say &quot;I&#x27;d pay for high quality content&quot;. And it gets upvoted, dozens of children comments of people agreeing with them, and everyone pats themselves on the back for such an easy and obvious solution.<p>Unfortunately, that&#x27;s simply not the reality we live in. The vast majority (95% or more) of internet users would rather have their content subsidized by ads than have to pay. This has been proven time and time again by the countless subscription model failures over the last decade. Sure, some sites have found success, but those that do are the extremely rare exceptions, not the rule. And <i>none</i> have found fantastic success. How many subscription model websites are in the top 10? Top 100? Top 1000?<p>Subscription models just don&#x27;t work. Nuff said, really. There&#x27;s 10+ years of data to back it up.</text></item><item><author>ollysb</author><text>I want high quality content, and I&#x27;m willing to pay for it. Wired recently starting blocking ad-blockers, with an offer of $4&#x2F;month for access. I decided it was time to start putting my money where my mouth is.<p>I&#x27;m tired of low quality content, I want to be supporting serious, intelligent journalism that goes a bit further than the click-bait we&#x27;re stuck with at the moment. Even the content traditional newspapers are putting out online has become vapid, they need to start shooting for the standards they used to and become comfortable with charging for it.<p>I&#x27;ve got £50&#x2F;month waiting for quality content. Maybe not everyone does? But then again plenty of people were happy&#x2F;able to pay for their daily newspaper. It feels like there&#x27;s a gaping hole in the market at the moment, I&#x27;m hopeful that we&#x27;re seeing the start of the return to journalism.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There are no acceptable ads</title><url>https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads#wrapper</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>girvo</author><text>&gt; Subscription models just don&#x27;t work<p>I&#x27;m not disagreeing with you, but that still doesn&#x27;t refute the argument that you&#x27;re selling your audience to someone else without their consent (and before you say &quot;then don&#x27;t use the site&quot;, you don&#x27;t get to choose whether or not you&#x27;re exposed to the given sites ads until you go on it, in which case it&#x27;s already too late. Unless, of course, you use an ad-blocker -- which is why I&#x27;m of the opinion that people should use ad-blockers, but I disagree with the article in that I feel there can be cases of responsible, acceptable advertising. Things aren&#x27;t so black and white, from either side)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mahranch</author><text>&gt; I want high quality content, and I&#x27;m willing to pay for it.<p>Now if only the other billions of people on this planet felt the same way.<p>That&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t like this sentence. Every time the topic of ads come up here or on reddit, people always say &quot;I&#x27;d pay for high quality content&quot;. And it gets upvoted, dozens of children comments of people agreeing with them, and everyone pats themselves on the back for such an easy and obvious solution.<p>Unfortunately, that&#x27;s simply not the reality we live in. The vast majority (95% or more) of internet users would rather have their content subsidized by ads than have to pay. This has been proven time and time again by the countless subscription model failures over the last decade. Sure, some sites have found success, but those that do are the extremely rare exceptions, not the rule. And <i>none</i> have found fantastic success. How many subscription model websites are in the top 10? Top 100? Top 1000?<p>Subscription models just don&#x27;t work. Nuff said, really. There&#x27;s 10+ years of data to back it up.</text></item><item><author>ollysb</author><text>I want high quality content, and I&#x27;m willing to pay for it. Wired recently starting blocking ad-blockers, with an offer of $4&#x2F;month for access. I decided it was time to start putting my money where my mouth is.<p>I&#x27;m tired of low quality content, I want to be supporting serious, intelligent journalism that goes a bit further than the click-bait we&#x27;re stuck with at the moment. Even the content traditional newspapers are putting out online has become vapid, they need to start shooting for the standards they used to and become comfortable with charging for it.<p>I&#x27;ve got £50&#x2F;month waiting for quality content. Maybe not everyone does? But then again plenty of people were happy&#x2F;able to pay for their daily newspaper. It feels like there&#x27;s a gaping hole in the market at the moment, I&#x27;m hopeful that we&#x27;re seeing the start of the return to journalism.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There are no acceptable ads</title><url>https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads#wrapper</url></story> |
11,895,645 | 11,895,208 | 1 | 2 | 11,894,393 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slezakattack</author><text>I programmed Haskell professionally for about a year and a half. My last company has been trying to hire Haskell engineers for over 2 years and we&#x27;ve only managed to hire at least 2. &quot;Hiring Haskell developers is not hard&quot;, is extremely subjective and naive to say the least. Obviously, YMMV, but the front-end devs that the last company was hiring was running laps around the Haskell team. Honestly, finding a Haskell engineer is not always a winner either. I&#x27;ve found that the ones we hired are very smart but not very decent engineers (i.e. defining requirements, shipping a product on time, understand tradeoffs, etc.).<p>There were quite a few things about Haskell that I truly love and miss, such as the type system, but the tradeoffs just weren&#x27;t worth it to me and I honestly don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s mature enough to be considered &quot;enterprise ready&quot;. Aside from the learning curve, there were several bugs in one of the Haskell libraries that caused frequent outages (until we were able to pinpoint what was wrong), lazy evaluation caused excessive memory bloat when used incorrectly, and my all-time favorite: needing to switch on profiling in order to get stack traces (this is suppose to change in future GHC versions) which defeated the whole purpose of &quot;haskell is fast&quot;. I don&#x27;t know, perhaps we were using Haskell wrong. From a business perspective, it just wasn&#x27;t making that much sense given how difficult it was to hire, getting engineers excited to learn it, and having the features needed to monitor a production system.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Four months with Haskell</title><url>https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2016/06/12/four-months-with-haskell/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p4wnc6</author><text>I fall in a weird bucket: very advanced understanding of some other languages and good work experience, education, etc., but even though I love Haskell and practice it all the time, I think I am just somewhere on the boundary between beginner and intermediate, and even with focused daily effort I would remain on that boundary for a long time before there is a phase transition to solid intermediate.<p>Because of this, the only kinds of FP shops that would hire me want to hire me at a junior or low-paying level, but my market value in lots of other skill areas (machine learning, Python, database stuff, etc.) is much higher, so I&#x27;m not willing to take a salary anywhere close to what they think fits the position.<p>As a result, even though I would love to get industry experience with functional programming, there is a market wage energy barrier preventing me from considering it. I was burned once early in my career with malarkey about how you should accept a lower salary for some alleged other benefit (like cool functional programming, or working with a team of awesome people, or getting in on the ground floor on something, etc.) -- I won&#x27;t make that mistake again.<p>So I basically had to learn to divorce myself from real world Haskell practically just as soon as I learned how much I really love it.<p>Plus, and this should not be discounted, the professional tooling with Haskell is still extremely immature with lots of esoteric corners duct taped together in unsatisfying ways. It&#x27;s getting better, but if you work with Haskell for real there are likely to be as many, if not many more, extremely frustrating painpoints of the language tooling as with any other language, enough to amortize away all the warm fuzzy happiness you&#x27;d get from the status effects of being able to say you do pure functional programming for a job.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Four months with Haskell</title><url>https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2016/06/12/four-months-with-haskell/</url></story> |
8,881,252 | 8,881,182 | 1 | 3 | 8,878,754 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jseliger</author><text><i>manages via the fame of its name [. . .] What I experienced was less heinous but had the same elements- misrepresentation, name dropping</i><p>I think the original author should name everyone involved. I understand why he didn&#x27;t, but people can only get away with this shit because they do it anonymously and no one talks to each other.<p>This is a much less extreme example, but years ago my former landlord threatened to kill me over a small claims court case (<a href="http://jakeseliger.com/2010/08/28/dont-rent-an-apartment-from-navid-abedian-in-tucson-arizona-or-how-i-learned-to-be-wary-of-lawsuits" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakeseliger.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;08&#x2F;28&#x2F;dont-rent-an-apartment-fro...</a> if you&#x27;re curious) and I wrote a post about what happened using his real name. Perhaps not surprisingly, since then I&#x27;ve gotten two emails thanking me for the story—one from someone who&#x27;d rented from him and had a bad experience and one from someone who avoided him.<p>In general it&#x27;s a good idea to keep non-public conversations non-public, but when the people starting those conversations rely on them in order to do nasty stuff the principle should no longer apply.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MCRed</author><text>For a period I was heavily recruited by google. Their recruiters tried a great many variations of attempts to trick me into interviewing for a job. It seems weird that they would do this, because pretty soon, it would become obvious that it was a job interview and nothing more. Maybe there are a lot of talented engineers out there who are doing startups but aren&#x27;t really committed to them and google manages via the fame of its name and wearing them down to convince them to give up and become employees.<p>I agree with this article&#x27;s characterization of it as a scam, as they are pretending to be something they are not. This is manipulative and dishonest. What I experienced was less heinous but had the same elements- misrepresentation, name dropping, attempts at emotional manipulation with tone and timing (the first call being so dead, then enthusiastic in the second- very &quot;HR recruiter&quot;, not corp dev.)<p>Worse, once I&#x27;d eventually figure out what was going on, and put one of them off of me, a few weeks later another would show up, with another variation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development</title><url>https://medium.com/@WhatALongHandle/hi-its-google-corporate-development-d0c77fd69191</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ovulator</author><text>&quot;What&#x27;s wrong with this country? Can&#x27;t a man walk down the street without being offered a job!?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>MCRed</author><text>For a period I was heavily recruited by google. Their recruiters tried a great many variations of attempts to trick me into interviewing for a job. It seems weird that they would do this, because pretty soon, it would become obvious that it was a job interview and nothing more. Maybe there are a lot of talented engineers out there who are doing startups but aren&#x27;t really committed to them and google manages via the fame of its name and wearing them down to convince them to give up and become employees.<p>I agree with this article&#x27;s characterization of it as a scam, as they are pretending to be something they are not. This is manipulative and dishonest. What I experienced was less heinous but had the same elements- misrepresentation, name dropping, attempts at emotional manipulation with tone and timing (the first call being so dead, then enthusiastic in the second- very &quot;HR recruiter&quot;, not corp dev.)<p>Worse, once I&#x27;d eventually figure out what was going on, and put one of them off of me, a few weeks later another would show up, with another variation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development</title><url>https://medium.com/@WhatALongHandle/hi-its-google-corporate-development-d0c77fd69191</url></story> |
15,854,178 | 15,853,904 | 1 | 2 | 15,852,950 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>escapologybb</author><text>I may have posted this same sentiment on the other threads on this topic so please feel free to ignore.<p>I see some confusion as to why anybody would want these devices in the houses whatsoever and would like to offer an answer:<p>Quadriplegia.<p>Imagine walking into your house one day and all of the keys had been taken off your keyboard, every light switch is smooth, all of the doorknobs have disappeared, the controls on your stereo have disappeared and every other switch, lever and&#x2F;or physical method of interacting with your devices had disappeared. That was what it was like to be me as a quadriplegic Geek.<p>Then came the Amazon Echo and its ilk. The Echo coupled with Home Assistant[1] has absolutely revolutionised my life and enabled me to do all of the things above that I wasn&#x27;t able to do before. It&#x27;s a pretty compelling reason for me.<p>Am I worried about my privacy? Absolutely. Am I any more worried about the Amazon Echo than I am about the microphone in my iPhone, television, MacBook Pro, iMac and weirdly my fridge? Nope.<p>As others have pointed out it&#x27;s a trade-off, I could be completely private and not be able to do anything or I could accept this somewhat Faustian bargain and be able to control almost every aspect of my house. Crappy situation to be in, but there is.<p>There are a few open source alternatives coming through which keep everything within the wire, but until they get traction enough to be out interact with all my other devices I can&#x27;t use them. Which sucks.<p>Anyway, hopefully this comment was helpful and am available to answer questions on any topic other than physics. I&#x27;m rubbish at physics. :-)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home-assistant.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home-assistant.io&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Alexa, are you listening?</title><url>https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/alexa-are-you-listening</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jnwatson</author><text>Leaving debug pads is not a vulnerability that most people care about. Expecting physical tamper resistance is unnecessary for regular appliances.<p>Even if the debug pads weren&#x27;t available, one could replace the flash, or use a scanning electron microscope to modify bits in the main microprocessor. This isn&#x27;t a smart card.<p>Here&#x27;s a vulnerability that almost every device has: an attacker with physical access can replace the device with an identical looking device. The new device might even have explosives!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Alexa, are you listening?</title><url>https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/alexa-are-you-listening</url></story> |
27,754,374 | 27,754,328 | 1 | 2 | 27,753,444 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>I agree. I got started with a CU because their service is <i>so</i> much better than any bank I&#x27;ve dealt with. There are nearly no service charges for normal things. I have access to a cooperative no-charge ATM network with about 30,000 locations. I can get in-person service from credit unions I don&#x27;t even belong to thanks to a large partnership network.<p>A few years ago, we needed to buy another car. I filled out the loan application on my CU&#x27;s website. Someone from the CU called me an hour later to tell me the APR and maximum loan amount, and to recommend a list of local dealerships that other members had good experiences with. The car salesperson did the usual &quot;let me see if we can get you a better financing deal!&quot; sort of thing, and when we showed him our loan paperwork, he stopped: &quot;I&#x27;ve never seen an interest rate that low. I can&#x27;t beat it. That&#x27;s amazing.&quot;<p>I love my credit union and I can&#x27;t imagine a plausible scenario where I&#x27;d ever go back to using a bank.</text><parent_chain><item><author>syshum</author><text>People like this should be using credit unions, not banks.<p>Credit Unions where created to service customers that would not profitable for a normal bank, many decades ago I was one of those customers... Still today, even though my financial situation is far better, refuse to put any of my money in bank after the treatment I received from them. I have been with my current credit union for 20+ years, I love them, every loan I have gotten from auto to mortgage in the last 15 years is also run through a credit union...<p>Credit Unions is where it is at, people need to be educated to use them</text></item><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>&gt; The sudden account closures have put financially vulnerable customers under stress.<p>Of course they have. It&#x27;s no accident that accounts like these are <i>heavily</i> marketed to people with terms like &quot;faster access to YOUR money&quot; and &quot;virtually no fees&quot; and &quot;manage YOUR MONEY from anywhere, down to the penny!&quot; These companies are targeting people for whom every single dollar is of vital importance.<p>To then yank the accounts right as a large deposit from a government agency lands is malfeasance, or at least immoral.<p>The vast majority of us who post on this site have plenty of money, or at least credit, in reserve so that even losing $10,000 worth of deposit isn&#x27;t crippling. It&#x27;s bad, for sure, but it&#x27;s not &quot;I&#x27;m homeless starting tomorrow&quot; bad. We are not the target market for apps-that-should-be-proper-banks like Chime.<p>&gt; She was directed to a passage in the company’s account agreement that states, “Chime and&#x2F;or Bank may suspend, freeze, or close your Account for any reason with or without notice”<p>Yup, sounds about right. And of course there&#x27;s a binding arbitration agreement, requiring all arbitration actions to be on an individual basis.<p>So customers can be turned away with no reason, no recourse, no private right of action against the offending company, and no ability to group together to push back on a larger foe.<p>This is, no pardon requested, fucking bullshit. I loathe that we&#x27;ve gotten so deep into contracts of adhesion and abstractions between supplying company and supplier and third-party relationships and &quot;oh it&#x27;s someone else&#x27;s problem&quot; and automated customer handling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chime has been suddenly closing accounts, not returning customers’ money</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/chime</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>techsupporter</author><text>Sure, but consider the marketing. Opening an account at a credit union requires:<p>- Knowing the credit union exists and which ones someone can join (not all of them are &quot;anyone in [region]&quot;)<p>- Going to the credit union during business hours (no mean feat; several of the credit unions around me have shorter hours on Friday and three hours on Saturday)<p>- Qualifying for an account, and not just membership. Lots of credit unions pull Chexsystems--credit reports for checking accounts--and a report from the traditional Big Three and having poor credit will be a bar to an account (something that the ProPublica article points out as a reason people use Chime).<p>Those steps even presuppose that you find a credit union that, itself, isn&#x27;t abusive. I was a member of one that was outright terrible and had miserable fees, but I had to stick with them for a year longer than needed because of a bankruptcy. There&#x27;s nothing endemic to a credit union that requires it to be a &quot;nice&quot; entity, just that their structure makes it more probable.<p>And it all comes down to how many of us on this site are financially savvy or at least have a better understanding of the pros&#x2F;cons of how banks and credit unions and &quot;fintech apps&quot; work. The people being targeted by the marketing for Chime are less likely to have that same set of information, and are winding up abused as a result.</text><parent_chain><item><author>syshum</author><text>People like this should be using credit unions, not banks.<p>Credit Unions where created to service customers that would not profitable for a normal bank, many decades ago I was one of those customers... Still today, even though my financial situation is far better, refuse to put any of my money in bank after the treatment I received from them. I have been with my current credit union for 20+ years, I love them, every loan I have gotten from auto to mortgage in the last 15 years is also run through a credit union...<p>Credit Unions is where it is at, people need to be educated to use them</text></item><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>&gt; The sudden account closures have put financially vulnerable customers under stress.<p>Of course they have. It&#x27;s no accident that accounts like these are <i>heavily</i> marketed to people with terms like &quot;faster access to YOUR money&quot; and &quot;virtually no fees&quot; and &quot;manage YOUR MONEY from anywhere, down to the penny!&quot; These companies are targeting people for whom every single dollar is of vital importance.<p>To then yank the accounts right as a large deposit from a government agency lands is malfeasance, or at least immoral.<p>The vast majority of us who post on this site have plenty of money, or at least credit, in reserve so that even losing $10,000 worth of deposit isn&#x27;t crippling. It&#x27;s bad, for sure, but it&#x27;s not &quot;I&#x27;m homeless starting tomorrow&quot; bad. We are not the target market for apps-that-should-be-proper-banks like Chime.<p>&gt; She was directed to a passage in the company’s account agreement that states, “Chime and&#x2F;or Bank may suspend, freeze, or close your Account for any reason with or without notice”<p>Yup, sounds about right. And of course there&#x27;s a binding arbitration agreement, requiring all arbitration actions to be on an individual basis.<p>So customers can be turned away with no reason, no recourse, no private right of action against the offending company, and no ability to group together to push back on a larger foe.<p>This is, no pardon requested, fucking bullshit. I loathe that we&#x27;ve gotten so deep into contracts of adhesion and abstractions between supplying company and supplier and third-party relationships and &quot;oh it&#x27;s someone else&#x27;s problem&quot; and automated customer handling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chime has been suddenly closing accounts, not returning customers’ money</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/chime</url></story> |
13,887,652 | 13,887,662 | 1 | 2 | 13,887,428 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bdhess</author><text>Previous HN thread on this topic:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12519761" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12519761</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them</title><url>https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bmcusick</author><text>While I understand wanting to make things available to the deaf, making them unavailable to everyone else is nuts. It&#x27;s crazy that the law put UC Berkeley in the position of having to choose between bearing the expense of close-captioning all these videos, and taking them down.<p>How is society improved by taking them down?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them</title><url>https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued</url></story> |
32,839,111 | 32,838,452 | 1 | 2 | 32,837,800 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brtkdotse</author><text>They&#x27;re alive and well in Northern Europe at least. I&#x27;d say a majority of contracting work is done through them since they somehow get exclusivity deals with big clients like H&amp;M, Scania, SAAB and the like. They charge around 5-15% (almost always 10% though) of every invoice.<p>Before you balk at the number, consider that during my almost 5 years as a solo contractor I&#x27;ve spent _zero_ hours doing sales. None. When I want a new assignment I send one email and within a week or two I have a 6 month contract.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>One thing that makes me sad, is the old &quot;contract agent&quot; seems to have gone the way of the dodo.<p>I clearly remember these folks. They acted in almost exactly the same way as literary or artist agents; searching out opportunities for their clients, and setting up interviews, etc. As a hiring manager, I dealt with them frequently, and had friends that used them.<p>They used to make a lot of money, because they would charge a percentage of the rate they negotiated for you.<p>Nowadays, it looks like they have been replaced by &quot;race to the bottom&quot; sites, like Upwork, or these contract companies, that hire you at a fairly low rate, and shop you out for very high rates. You get to &quot;enjoy&quot; the crappy treatment most companies give to contractors, but at rates lower than the employees that sit next to you, shooting spitballs at you.<p>I encountered this, when working with recruiters, after leaving my last company. The ones that didn&#x27;t immediately hang up on me, after finding out I was older, started trying to lowball me into being one of their contract shop employees. They would <i>love</i> telling me that I shouldn&#x27;t ask for too much, &quot;because of my age,&quot; before &quot;generously&quot; mentioning that they happen to have a contract shop that would be willing to do me the <i>huge</i> favor of &quot;throwing some work at me.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a real slime-pit, these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Where are the good platforms for contract work?</title><text>I&#x27;ve been looking for contract work for the past couple months, and it&#x27;s been dire. All the job boards are looking for full time employees, and on Hacker News the only recommendation is Toptal.<p>Is there really no other platform for decently paid contract work that&#x27;s not a complete race to the bottom? I find I&#x27;m close to having to abandon 10 years of consulting because I have no idea where to find anything else than full-time employment.<p>The other two job boards I&#x27;ve been keeping an eye on are mostly about React and other frontend roles, with offers few and far between. Linkedin is similarly dire for contract work.<p>Is Toptal the only option for someone with 16 years experience that wouldn&#x27;t want to work for peanuts? Or just going back to being an employee?<p>(In case anyone&#x27;s reading that&#x27;s looking for a senior Elixir&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;Go engineer&#x2F;sysadmin, resume&#x27;s in my profile. I&#x27;m based in London.)<p>EDIT: excellent responses so far, thanks. I like how many are suggesting going through recruiters, while the common motif on other similar posts is to avoid LinkedIn. I&#x27;ve started cleaning up my Linkedin profile this week, and I already have a dozen recruiters setting up appointments with me. I will try and explicitly request contract jobs with them.</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>thr0wawayf00</author><text>&gt; Nowadays, it looks like they have been replaced by &quot;race to the bottom&quot; sites, like Upwork, or these contract companies, that hire you at a fairly low rate, and shop you out for very high rates.<p>I can&#x27;t help but feel like these platforms are like Uber for programmers: devoid of all meaningful professional contact and ultimately the commodification of programming as a job. The power dynamic has shifted to give most of the power to the buyer. Sad times indeed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>One thing that makes me sad, is the old &quot;contract agent&quot; seems to have gone the way of the dodo.<p>I clearly remember these folks. They acted in almost exactly the same way as literary or artist agents; searching out opportunities for their clients, and setting up interviews, etc. As a hiring manager, I dealt with them frequently, and had friends that used them.<p>They used to make a lot of money, because they would charge a percentage of the rate they negotiated for you.<p>Nowadays, it looks like they have been replaced by &quot;race to the bottom&quot; sites, like Upwork, or these contract companies, that hire you at a fairly low rate, and shop you out for very high rates. You get to &quot;enjoy&quot; the crappy treatment most companies give to contractors, but at rates lower than the employees that sit next to you, shooting spitballs at you.<p>I encountered this, when working with recruiters, after leaving my last company. The ones that didn&#x27;t immediately hang up on me, after finding out I was older, started trying to lowball me into being one of their contract shop employees. They would <i>love</i> telling me that I shouldn&#x27;t ask for too much, &quot;because of my age,&quot; before &quot;generously&quot; mentioning that they happen to have a contract shop that would be willing to do me the <i>huge</i> favor of &quot;throwing some work at me.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a real slime-pit, these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Where are the good platforms for contract work?</title><text>I&#x27;ve been looking for contract work for the past couple months, and it&#x27;s been dire. All the job boards are looking for full time employees, and on Hacker News the only recommendation is Toptal.<p>Is there really no other platform for decently paid contract work that&#x27;s not a complete race to the bottom? I find I&#x27;m close to having to abandon 10 years of consulting because I have no idea where to find anything else than full-time employment.<p>The other two job boards I&#x27;ve been keeping an eye on are mostly about React and other frontend roles, with offers few and far between. Linkedin is similarly dire for contract work.<p>Is Toptal the only option for someone with 16 years experience that wouldn&#x27;t want to work for peanuts? Or just going back to being an employee?<p>(In case anyone&#x27;s reading that&#x27;s looking for a senior Elixir&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;Go engineer&#x2F;sysadmin, resume&#x27;s in my profile. I&#x27;m based in London.)<p>EDIT: excellent responses so far, thanks. I like how many are suggesting going through recruiters, while the common motif on other similar posts is to avoid LinkedIn. I&#x27;ve started cleaning up my Linkedin profile this week, and I already have a dozen recruiters setting up appointments with me. I will try and explicitly request contract jobs with them.</text></story> |
32,218,309 | 32,218,422 | 1 | 2 | 32,216,700 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cheriot</author><text>&gt; Things that exist in most modern clouds are being reinvented in K8s.<p>My more optimistic view is that vendor specific APIs are being standardized. Initial implementations have their issues, but as more people use them the cloud vendors will improve their offering.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daenz</author><text>I&#x27;m going to post my unsolicited opinion about K8s here, as an SWE+SRE who used it heavily for about 1.5 years on GCP.<p>It&#x27;s a very cool system. I completely understand why people half-jokingly call it a &quot;distributed operating system.&quot; It does a lot of things related to the lifecycles of various state (secrets, storage, config, deployments, etc).<p>However, I believe it goes way too far into putting infrastructure into non-cloud-managed state machines. Things that exist in most modern clouds are being <i>reinvented</i> in K8s. What&#x27;s more, is that K8s objects are being created as interfaces to the underlying cloud objects. So you now have 2 layers of abstractions, each with their own quirks. It&#x27;s too much.<p>Not to mention that IaC for K8s is extremely immature. This will improve, yes, for some definition of &quot;improve.&quot; But if you&#x27;ve ever written Helm charts that integrate with Terraform, you&#x27;ll know about all the spinning plates you have to keep balanced.<p>It&#x27;s not a system I see sustaining into the long term future. Google may continue to use and support it forever, but afaik, they are the most invested in its success. Other cloud platforms, like AWS, seem to be focusing on not re-inventing all of their cloud offerings in K8s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kubernetes for Developers Who Know How to Develop</title><url>https://blog.ali.dev/engineering/2022/01/13/k8s-for-developers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>osigurdson</author><text>&gt;&gt; Things that exist in most modern clouds are being reinvented in K8s<p>The market wants cloud computing to be a commodity. I expect it will get what it wants via k8s or some other technology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daenz</author><text>I&#x27;m going to post my unsolicited opinion about K8s here, as an SWE+SRE who used it heavily for about 1.5 years on GCP.<p>It&#x27;s a very cool system. I completely understand why people half-jokingly call it a &quot;distributed operating system.&quot; It does a lot of things related to the lifecycles of various state (secrets, storage, config, deployments, etc).<p>However, I believe it goes way too far into putting infrastructure into non-cloud-managed state machines. Things that exist in most modern clouds are being <i>reinvented</i> in K8s. What&#x27;s more, is that K8s objects are being created as interfaces to the underlying cloud objects. So you now have 2 layers of abstractions, each with their own quirks. It&#x27;s too much.<p>Not to mention that IaC for K8s is extremely immature. This will improve, yes, for some definition of &quot;improve.&quot; But if you&#x27;ve ever written Helm charts that integrate with Terraform, you&#x27;ll know about all the spinning plates you have to keep balanced.<p>It&#x27;s not a system I see sustaining into the long term future. Google may continue to use and support it forever, but afaik, they are the most invested in its success. Other cloud platforms, like AWS, seem to be focusing on not re-inventing all of their cloud offerings in K8s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kubernetes for Developers Who Know How to Develop</title><url>https://blog.ali.dev/engineering/2022/01/13/k8s-for-developers/</url></story> |
15,818,086 | 15,818,216 | 1 | 2 | 15,816,964 | 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>bob_theslob646</author><text>Is that really the idea? Do you know how large the ride hailing market is?<p>I am almost positive the point of subsidizing the price of the rides is to get you addicted&#x2F; build up a habit or get you comfortable using the service.<p>I think they are aware of the competition and are comfortable owning 60+% versus trying to get 80%+.<p>Their revenue is growing which is still wild despite bad press.<p>&gt;Unfortunately their competitors have found a variety of ways to keep from being dragged down<p>Not a bad point but it is highly dependent on the market. In the US, Uber is 4x Lyft in market share.<p>A common problem drivers cite is that Lyft pays better, but the volume of Uber riders is much much larger.<p>I am not a fan of Uber, just extremely bitter at poor journalism, hence , I stopped reading at the first paragraph.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ihsw2</author><text>The idea is to drag the entire ride hailing industry underwater long enough to drown out competitors, and the trick is to do this without drowning themselves in the process.<p>This is the nature of &quot;predatory&quot; pricing.<p>There is something to be said for volume and if a couple competitors die in the process then Uber&#x27;s volume can only go up. Unfortunately their competitors have found a variety of ways to keep from being dragged down (eg: regulatory support of municipal taxi orgs) or ways to keep oxygen expenditure stable (eg: controlled expenditures through higher pricing and &quot;friendlier&quot; demeanor).</text></item><item><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>Yeah I am really perplexed with Uber&#x27;s business model. They can&#x27;t survive much longer and they can&#x27;t keep getting injections of cash to stay alive, can they? It&#x27;s rumored they&#x27;ll IPO in 2019, if I remember correctly, which means they have to somehow survive until then to at least reach that stage.<p>Are they planning to raise prices? Cut employees? What are they planning on doing here?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Uber had $6.6bn on hand at the end of June [1]. That means they are down to $5.1bn.<p>Absent cost-cutting, that implies a 9 to 12 month runway. Even if SoftBank injects $1bn, that could only mean a few months’ runway. A large fine in the Waymo case [2] could literally bankrupt them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cash-at-a-rate-of-2-billion-a-year&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cas...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-trial.html?referer=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/uber-s-third-quarter-loss-is-said-to-widen-to-1-46-billion</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Even if they manage to kill their competition -- and I&#x27;m not expecting they will -- I don&#x27;t understand what their endgame is. I don&#x27;t see what their moat is. Ridesharing companies are not hard or expensive to start. They&#x27;ll have a hard time extracting monopoly rents, and there isn&#x27;t much of an economy of scale they can reap.<p>And once autonomous cars become part of the picture, I think they&#x27;re in an even worse position. Suddenly they&#x27;re not competing just against would-be moguls. Now they&#x27;re up against the car companies, who have strong brands, deep pockets, and the ability to make cars at cost. Imagine, for example, BMW extending their leasing business to on-demand car use. We also have existing car rental companies that will be eager to get in on the action. And that&#x27;s not counting the zillion other outfits with strong brands and a taste for expansion. Apple, for example. Virgin. Amazon.<p>I just don&#x27;t see how this ends well for them. At best, I think 10 years from now they&#x27;ll be the next Groupon: the hot startup everybody everybody loved but now nobody talks much about and is trading at a fraction of their peak valuation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ihsw2</author><text>The idea is to drag the entire ride hailing industry underwater long enough to drown out competitors, and the trick is to do this without drowning themselves in the process.<p>This is the nature of &quot;predatory&quot; pricing.<p>There is something to be said for volume and if a couple competitors die in the process then Uber&#x27;s volume can only go up. Unfortunately their competitors have found a variety of ways to keep from being dragged down (eg: regulatory support of municipal taxi orgs) or ways to keep oxygen expenditure stable (eg: controlled expenditures through higher pricing and &quot;friendlier&quot; demeanor).</text></item><item><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>Yeah I am really perplexed with Uber&#x27;s business model. They can&#x27;t survive much longer and they can&#x27;t keep getting injections of cash to stay alive, can they? It&#x27;s rumored they&#x27;ll IPO in 2019, if I remember correctly, which means they have to somehow survive until then to at least reach that stage.<p>Are they planning to raise prices? Cut employees? What are they planning on doing here?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Uber had $6.6bn on hand at the end of June [1]. That means they are down to $5.1bn.<p>Absent cost-cutting, that implies a 9 to 12 month runway. Even if SoftBank injects $1bn, that could only mean a few months’ runway. A large fine in the Waymo case [2] could literally bankrupt them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cash-at-a-rate-of-2-billion-a-year&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cas...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-trial.html?referer=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/uber-s-third-quarter-loss-is-said-to-widen-to-1-46-billion</url></story> |
39,956,878 | 39,955,907 | 1 | 2 | 39,953,207 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>solarkraft</author><text>&gt; &quot;But I want and can maintain it, can I take it over?&quot; Let me put it plain and simple: No! I don&#x27;t know you, I don&#x27;t trust you! Fork it and carry on!<p>They learned a good lesson from the liblzma situation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PiVPN v4.6.0: The End</title><url>https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn/releases/tag/v4.6.0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>This really goes to show you how valuable a good experience &#x2F; API is.<p>PiVPN is so easy to use. You run 1 command and pass in the name of the config to generate and you&#x27;re done. Now you can take that config and use it client side.<p>I&#x27;ve used it on Debian servers (not a Raspberry Pi) and it&#x27;s been flawless to onboard a bunch of folks into using a VPN (work related).<p>IMO there&#x27;s no way this project will fail, someone will fork it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PiVPN v4.6.0: The End</title><url>https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn/releases/tag/v4.6.0</url></story> |
34,917,295 | 34,916,272 | 1 | 2 | 34,912,300 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koolba</author><text>Even better than a canned audio file would be machine generated music. Otherwise you could detect that the “same” song is being transmitted with slightly different bits.<p>Or you could have an extremely long audio file so the repeat situation doesn’t occur.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unwind</author><text>Today (but perhaps slightly less in 2016, not sure) you could easily imagine a microcontroller (or FPGA) with a microphone that bugs you, but encodes that audio (using steganography) onto a canned audio file of elevator music, and then sends the result over the network &quot;in the open&quot;.<p>To a casual observer snooping the relevant network, it would probably (as here) look as elevator music, but to the intended recipient who can decode the steganography, it would be a covert listening device.</text></item><item><author>blueberrychpstx</author><text>okay this is way over my head - but this would have to be steganography hiding in the audio file that could only be run by someone like OP, detecting; downloading; etc the udp data, right?</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text><i>&gt; But what was this audio? Was this a sneakily placed bug that listened to me? [...] I can’t believe I spent time for this. It’s just elevator music.</i><p>Joke&#x27;s on you, it&#x27;s a bug listening to you in your room while using steganography to merely appear to be elevator music!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)</title><url>https://www.gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sublinear</author><text>&gt; to the intended recipient who can decode the steganography<p>Not just decode, but also decrypt.<p>You&#x27;d probably want to encrypt not just for the secrecy, but so that the noise introduced by the steganography doesn&#x27;t seem so suspicious.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unwind</author><text>Today (but perhaps slightly less in 2016, not sure) you could easily imagine a microcontroller (or FPGA) with a microphone that bugs you, but encodes that audio (using steganography) onto a canned audio file of elevator music, and then sends the result over the network &quot;in the open&quot;.<p>To a casual observer snooping the relevant network, it would probably (as here) look as elevator music, but to the intended recipient who can decode the steganography, it would be a covert listening device.</text></item><item><author>blueberrychpstx</author><text>okay this is way over my head - but this would have to be steganography hiding in the audio file that could only be run by someone like OP, detecting; downloading; etc the udp data, right?</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text><i>&gt; But what was this audio? Was this a sneakily placed bug that listened to me? [...] I can’t believe I spent time for this. It’s just elevator music.</i><p>Joke&#x27;s on you, it&#x27;s a bug listening to you in your room while using steganography to merely appear to be elevator music!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)</title><url>https://www.gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music/</url></story> |
24,442,876 | 24,442,680 | 1 | 3 | 24,442,294 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a similar project that reads your db schema and generates a Go REST API and a TypeScript&#x2F;React web interface. (The code-generation is language agnostic so at some point I&#x27;d like to add at least a Java REST API as well.) It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.<p>Unlike PostgREST&#x2F;Hasura and some other dynamic tools you can &quot;eject&quot; at this point if you&#x27;d like and continue on development without the generator in a language you already know. But I&#x27;m working on exposing Lua-based hooks you could carry across whatever backend language you choose to generate and avoid the need to eject.<p>It has builtin support for paginated bulk GET requests with filtering, sorting, limiting. Built-in support for bcrypt-password authentication and optional SQL filters specified in configuration for authorization of particular endpoints based on session and request metadata.<p>Still very much a work in progress but the goal is to push the envelope on application boilerplate.<p>Screenshots are of the example&#x2F;notes project in the repo.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dbcore.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dbcore.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eatonphil&#x2F;dbcore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eatonphil&#x2F;dbcore</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query</title><url>https://octoproject.github.io/octo-cli/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Glyptodon</author><text>One of the things that&#x27;s not obvious to me about things like this (and other similar tools) is where&#x2F;how scopes&#x2F;limitations&#x2F;permissions are handled. I assume they either are or can be, I just never see it spelled out clearly. What am I missing?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query</title><url>https://octoproject.github.io/octo-cli/</url></story> |
38,637,276 | 38,635,317 | 1 | 2 | 38,632,250 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>Growing up in Kansas and having stood on a roof watching a tornado go through the other side of town, as well as walking through the aftermath of the 91 andover tornado (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=s_D4TyZxHO0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=s_D4TyZxHO0</a>) that went less than a mile past my friends house, I strongly disagree.<p>We get severe storm warnings, but there&#x27;s so many storms in tornado alley to be honest people get fatigue over them and mostly ignore other than maybe changing plans for a bbq. We in no way have some days ahead warning that this severe thunderstorm, out of the several dozen each season, is going to be one that launches a tornado vs a variety of over outcomes.<p>As far as knowing when a tornado actually forms, yes we can see some indications of rotation or a funnel &quot;hook&quot; on radar but they&#x27;re also ambiguous with many, many false positives. The most reliable way to know a tornado has formed remains eye witnesses calling it in. We have basically no ability to do something like even a 15 minute warning confident there will actually be a tornado forming.<p>Please don&#x27;t blame people for &quot;not paying attention&quot; for something that is not even remotely as clear cut as you&#x27;re portraying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&quot;They rarely have much warning, but it is often enough to save lives.&quot;<p>I really wish this trope would go away. If you live in an area prone to tornadoes and you &quot;have no warning&quot;, then you&#x27;re just not paying attention. We know tornadoes exist. We know where they tend to frequently occur. The local weather stations in those areas are pretty damn good with warnings. We know days ahead of time that the conditions will be right for potential activity. We can now see potential tornadoes before they are formed. We can track their paths with neighborhood cross street precision.<p>Nevermind the fact that there&#x27;s a pretty good indicator when the sky turns dark and the weather changes. Thunder and lightning and wind are essentially the knocking on the door. It&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s a sunny day and a tornado just pops out of the sky to say hello.<p>To say no warning just means they are not paying attention. I don&#x27;t know what the tornado activity is like where the BBC is from, but it is woefully out of date.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Low-frequency sound can reveal that a tornado is on its way</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231212-the-sound-that-warns-a-tornado-is-coming</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tkahnoski</author><text>Watches are common, indicators are common, warnings tend to be very last minute.<p>I consider myself a very weather aware person living near the edge of tornado alley in Dallas, I get all the alerts, generally keep a strong watch on radar development and storm arrival times (hail is just as much as a concern as tornadoes).<p>In general if there is a detection of a rotation or a strong hail core on radar, emergency sirens will go on near the affected area. Sometimes it just happens too fast, so if there is another method like the article sounds to detect a strong potential a tornado is forming it will absolutely reduce casualties.<p>As an example I lived through in October 2019. There was one hour between a Tornado Watch being issued and when the EF2&#x2F;EF3 hit the ground. Watches generally last a long time and cover a large area so they aren&#x27;t particularly helpful to me other than to indicate to &#x27;check the radar on the regular&#x27;.<p>Because I was already glued to my phone I saw the warning right away, I was able to text friends that lived a few minutes from the tornado touchdown point that there was a tornado right next to them. Their sirens hadn&#x27;t gone off yet, by the time they had taken shelter they heard the sirens and the wind kicking up right after. They got off light on damage compared to the rest of their neighborhood but I can&#x27;t imagine someone out walking their dog or running an errand and then only having 1 or 2 minutes to find shelter. I&#x27;m still amazed this thing didn&#x27;t cause more injuries particularly in the early minutes when the news crews and meteorologist were playing catch up.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tornado_outbreak_of_October_20%E2%80%9322,_2019#North_Dallas%E2%80%93Richardson,_Texas" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tornado_outbreak_of_October_20...</a><p>Maybe this tech would have helped give a clearer indicator versus the usual approach of waiting to see something on radar or manually spotting it. Or maybe some storms will just form too fast to have any useful indicators.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&quot;They rarely have much warning, but it is often enough to save lives.&quot;<p>I really wish this trope would go away. If you live in an area prone to tornadoes and you &quot;have no warning&quot;, then you&#x27;re just not paying attention. We know tornadoes exist. We know where they tend to frequently occur. The local weather stations in those areas are pretty damn good with warnings. We know days ahead of time that the conditions will be right for potential activity. We can now see potential tornadoes before they are formed. We can track their paths with neighborhood cross street precision.<p>Nevermind the fact that there&#x27;s a pretty good indicator when the sky turns dark and the weather changes. Thunder and lightning and wind are essentially the knocking on the door. It&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s a sunny day and a tornado just pops out of the sky to say hello.<p>To say no warning just means they are not paying attention. I don&#x27;t know what the tornado activity is like where the BBC is from, but it is woefully out of date.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Low-frequency sound can reveal that a tornado is on its way</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231212-the-sound-that-warns-a-tornado-is-coming</url></story> |
1,450,861 | 1,449,889 | 1 | 2 | 1,449,688 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>Just a quick semi-meta comment: if you have a comment which you put a lot of time into and which resonated with people, strongly consider blowing it up into a blog post. It may be irrational, but the perceived authority of 500 words wrapped in an attractive Wordpress template murders the perceived authority of 500 words appearing at the third level of indentation on this page.<p>I like to think that I've written some fairly useful stuff here over the last year or so. To the best of my knowledge, none of my comments has ever gone to Slashdot and the New York Times, but the comment that I turned into a blog post about programmers and names just did.<p>Your own blog is also a little easier to cite in resume-type situations. (Hypothetically assuming I were to seek funding, I have at least one HN comment that I'd point to to say "Read this, it is strongly indicative of the future success of the business you are about to invest in", and that is a little quirky.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years</title><url>http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/how-to-become-a-millionaire-in-three-years/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pragmatic</author><text>Are you in fact a millionaire?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years</title><url>http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/how-to-become-a-millionaire-in-three-years/</url></story> |
41,559,020 | 41,556,562 | 1 | 3 | 41,551,084 | 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>331c8c71</author><text>Maybe walking will work for me when I am older but it is not intense enough now. Cycling seems to be perfect as the scenery changes much faster and there is more opportunity to challenge myself (;</text><parent_chain><item><author>InDubioProRubio</author><text>? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into &quot;finding&quot; modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home.<p>All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish.<p>If you have a problem you need to solve, but don&#x27;t know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the problem every day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nothing: Simply Do Nothing</title><url>https://usenothing.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>I like to go for a run or a bike ride.<p>On a walk, you can still carry and even use a phone, listen to a podcast or music, or have a conversation. When you&#x27;re doing a workout, you might wear a watch, but otherwise it&#x27;s a time when you can&#x27;t really get distracted or interrupted by anything, you just move, observe, and think.</text><parent_chain><item><author>InDubioProRubio</author><text>? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into &quot;finding&quot; modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home.<p>All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish.<p>If you have a problem you need to solve, but don&#x27;t know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the problem every day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nothing: Simply Do Nothing</title><url>https://usenothing.com/</url></story> |
14,859,362 | 14,859,113 | 1 | 3 | 14,859,043 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tiffanyh</author><text>I wonder what impact this will have on open source software (OSS).<p>OSS can&#x27;t afford to pay people to look for bugs and improve the overall software. But commercial companies can.<p>I wonder if there will exist a date&#x2F;time in the future where closed-source software, because of these bug bounties, will yield better (less buggy) software vs OSS.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing the Windows Bounty Program</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/07/26/announcing-the-windows-bounty-program/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strictnein</author><text> &gt; If a researcher reports a qualifying vulnerability already found internally by Microsoft, a payment will be made to the first finder at a maximum of 10% of the highest amount they could’ve received (example: $1,500 for a RCE in Edge, $25,000 for RCE in Hyper-V)<p>Wow. I guess this kind of functions as hush money? To make sure they don&#x27;t reveal the issue before MS patches it. But still, this seems like a good move.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing the Windows Bounty Program</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/07/26/announcing-the-windows-bounty-program/</url></story> |
35,289,229 | 35,288,271 | 1 | 2 | 35,286,544 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nrp</author><text>We’ve been very deliberate about making this not a traditional gaming laptop, but a laptop that can be configured with enough performance to play intense games. You can configure it without the Graphics Module and have a high-performance 16” notebook with reconfigurable input and easy repairability and upgradeabilty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dakial1</author><text>I wonder if there is a market for a framework gaming laptop. Really hope there is.<p>Also, on another note, I&#x27;ve read this engadget article about how other companies tried to build an upgradeable laptop and failed but I see Framework as a different kind of beast for one simple reason. This is their only value proposition, they don&#x27;t have an alternative.
In a very &quot;Innovator&#x27;s Dilemma&quot; kind of. way, Dell and other big manufacturers have their main lines with higher margins and&#x2F;or volume that really drives their attention and money, so any new innovation that takes more than 1 to 3 years to mature gets cut pretty fast. For Framework is kind a kind of &quot;burn the ships&quot; moment, they don&#x27;t have anything else to turn to, so they have to keep pushing. I really hope they shine (and don&#x27;t get acquired)!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Framework Laptop 16</title><url>https://frame.work/fr/fr/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-16</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>afavour</author><text>I’d be surprised if there was a market for a Framework laptop dedicated to gaming but I am really intrigued by a Framework laptop that <i>can</i> game.<p>I use my laptop for my work software engineering but since the pandemic have gotten back into gaming a little. I’m on an old Xbox and it’s showing its age but I don’t game enough to justify buying a whole gaming PC. If I can plug a GPU into my work machine and play some games? Now that’s compelling. The fact that it wouldn’t have all the cringey “gamer” decorations you see on the average gaming laptop would be a bonus too.<p>(all that said a Steam Deck is probably still the more compelling purchase for me in that regard, I’ve been eyeing one for a while)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dakial1</author><text>I wonder if there is a market for a framework gaming laptop. Really hope there is.<p>Also, on another note, I&#x27;ve read this engadget article about how other companies tried to build an upgradeable laptop and failed but I see Framework as a different kind of beast for one simple reason. This is their only value proposition, they don&#x27;t have an alternative.
In a very &quot;Innovator&#x27;s Dilemma&quot; kind of. way, Dell and other big manufacturers have their main lines with higher margins and&#x2F;or volume that really drives their attention and money, so any new innovation that takes more than 1 to 3 years to mature gets cut pretty fast. For Framework is kind a kind of &quot;burn the ships&quot; moment, they don&#x27;t have anything else to turn to, so they have to keep pushing. I really hope they shine (and don&#x27;t get acquired)!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Framework Laptop 16</title><url>https://frame.work/fr/fr/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-16</url></story> |
3,079,639 | 3,079,614 | 1 | 2 | 3,079,567 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tpatke</author><text>For those of you who haven't heard about this, CNN has a bit more facts in it's coverage:
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/06/politics/occupy-wall-street/index.html?hpt=ibu_c2" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/06/politics/occupy-wall-stree...</a><p>The full impact of the greek default hasn't hit yet and it is not unreasonable to expect that Italy or Spain may default next. People have already started leaderless protests. Meanwhile - it's pretty easy to make money on the way down assuming you have it to begin with.<p>It is not hard to predict some pretty big changes in the next few years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Occupying Wall Street</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/10/wall-street-york-police-bridge</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>jeffool</author><text>A wonderful article, though I think what's often unsaid in regards to the occupation is their commonality; they all feel that their voices, despite what it is that they're calling out for individually, are being ignored, despite being larger in number. Little is as frustrating as silence in the face of effort.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Occupying Wall Street</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/10/wall-street-york-police-bridge</url><text></text></story> |
20,607,171 | 20,607,088 | 1 | 2 | 20,606,080 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amelius</author><text>That&#x27;s not the salary he wants, it&#x27;s his salary at the time of writing of the CV. His desired salary is listed as &quot;open&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>Pay attention to the $15K salary he wants- that&#x27;s about $75K in today&#x27;s money. Not much has changed,even though companies nowadays make many tons more money from the dev work...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bill Gates Resume (1974)</title><url>https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/104645467-BillGatesearlyresume.jpg?v=1529475934</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codeulike</author><text>This is the CV of an 18&#x2F;19 year old, don&#x27;t forget. In context this CV would have screamed &#x27;whizz-kid&#x27; at anyone that saw it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>Pay attention to the $15K salary he wants- that&#x27;s about $75K in today&#x27;s money. Not much has changed,even though companies nowadays make many tons more money from the dev work...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bill Gates Resume (1974)</title><url>https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/104645467-BillGatesearlyresume.jpg?v=1529475934</url></story> |
32,940,035 | 32,939,727 | 1 | 2 | 32,938,589 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woeh</author><text>I was pleased to see recently that a couple of different brands at my local DIY store had interoperable batteries. I bought a small lawnmower which now uses the same battery as a cordless drill from another brand. The brands that joined are listed on their marketing site[0].<p>Edit: One of the companies has a slightly less obnoxious website which also lists brands[1]<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.powerforall-alliance.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;#technology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.powerforall-alliance.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;#technology</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gardena.com&#x2F;int&#x2F;products&#x2F;powerforall&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gardena.com&#x2F;int&#x2F;products&#x2F;powerforall&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Normille</author><text>Cool. The EU does have its [many!] faults. But they have a pretty good track record when it comes to consumer rights and consumer choice. Next up I&#x27;d like to see them do the same for the plethora of incompatible cordless power-tool systems out there as they did with insisting all mobile phones standardise on a USB connector.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/google-loses-appeal-eu-antitrust-ruling</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fatboy</author><text>I think that&#x27;s a bit trickier. If Makita or whoever was forced to change their batteries, anyone with a big catalogue of their tools would be pretty miffed.<p>Also, I&#x27;ve mentioned this on hn before, there is already the Cordless Alliance, which does exactly this.<p>Sadly, there&#x27;s only a couple of useful-in-a-mainstream-sense brands in there: Mafell and Metabo. The rest are very niche.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Normille</author><text>Cool. The EU does have its [many!] faults. But they have a pretty good track record when it comes to consumer rights and consumer choice. Next up I&#x27;d like to see them do the same for the plethora of incompatible cordless power-tool systems out there as they did with insisting all mobile phones standardise on a USB connector.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/google-loses-appeal-eu-antitrust-ruling</url></story> |
16,977,379 | 16,977,347 | 1 | 3 | 16,977,035 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>There&#x27;s some serious mental gymnastics going on here to justify that the US spends 2x the next country per capita on health care expenditure and still doesn&#x27;t manage to pay for all its citizens. Especially when the federal government has already taken all its worst customers (the old) and thrown them into a socialized pool (medicare) without anyone to balance out the risk.<p>Wasn&#x27;t there a writeup recently that wealth distribution isn&#x27;t materially distinguishable from luck? [1] Your argument that the healthy&#x2F;rich subsidize the poor&#x2F;sick is tantamount to saying the unlucky should fend for themselves. That&#x27;s an easy argument to make if you&#x27;re lucky. Your luck may turn at any moment, and then if it does, you&#x27;re SOL.<p>Further, if the moral argument falls flat for you, the self-centered argument is that if someone is too poor to get their horrifyingly contagious disease treated until its too late and it spreads to you, you&#x27;re still sick, and you may still die, cover or no cover. It&#x27;s why the fire department is socialized -- if the fire spreads to your house, it still burns does it not?<p>Especially as you argue you&#x27;re not particularly well off necessary, you should be the strongest advocate for yourself, and therefore, for socialized medicine.<p>The world is moving there -- at least towards a two-tier system -- and this argument is on the wrong side of history.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;610395&#x2F;if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;610395&#x2F;if-youre-so-smart-...</a><p>[EDIT] I also wanted to throw in there the self-centered argument for socialized higher education. If you believe in the value of a college education, then you believe it will increase the productivity of that individual. A more productive individual makes your country more competitive, boosts GDP, moves the markets higher relative to that of other countries. This in turn benefits the wealthy who likely hold equities. Speculative, of course, but the argument seems consistent to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ordinaryperson</author><text>Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.<p>Morally, caring for the sick seems like the right thing to do, but it&#x27;s like when I hear Bernie Sanders call for &quot;free college education&quot;: he doesn&#x27;t mean free, he means the wealthy subsidizing it for others.<p>Universal health care implies just distributed costs, but the focus should be on bringing down costs so the payments don&#x27;t have to be so astronomical.<p>For example:<p>-Nurses could do a lot of things doctors do now, and for a lot less money, but MDs refuse to cede any authority.<p>-Medicare should be allowed to negotiate drug prices.<p>-Hospitals should pre-publish costs upfront before you accept care rather than saddle you with 100K in bills later on.<p>All of these things would help bring down cost but for political reasons we don&#x27;t do them. Instead it&#x27;s just about making wealthy people (which, for the record, I am not) pay more to cover for it.<p>Even if caring for the sick is just it shouldn&#x27;t be accomplished just by a wealth transfer (to be fair, the ACA had some provisions to bring down the cost of care, but not nearly enough).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits</title><url>https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21740873-argument-universal-health-care-clear-getting-there-difficult-says-john</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&gt; Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.<p>You might have a point if the US system didn&#x27;t cost taxpayers more for worse care. The US government pays more per capita for health care than other systems, but doesn&#x27;t provide universal coverage.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ons.gov.uk&#x2F;peoplepopulationandcommunity&#x2F;healthandsocialcare&#x2F;healthcaresystem&#x2F;articles&#x2F;howdoesukhealthcarespendingcompareinternationally&#x2F;2016-11-01" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ons.gov.uk&#x2F;peoplepopulationandcommunity&#x2F;healthan...</a><p>Universal coverage provides more levers to control costs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ordinaryperson</author><text>Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.<p>Morally, caring for the sick seems like the right thing to do, but it&#x27;s like when I hear Bernie Sanders call for &quot;free college education&quot;: he doesn&#x27;t mean free, he means the wealthy subsidizing it for others.<p>Universal health care implies just distributed costs, but the focus should be on bringing down costs so the payments don&#x27;t have to be so astronomical.<p>For example:<p>-Nurses could do a lot of things doctors do now, and for a lot less money, but MDs refuse to cede any authority.<p>-Medicare should be allowed to negotiate drug prices.<p>-Hospitals should pre-publish costs upfront before you accept care rather than saddle you with 100K in bills later on.<p>All of these things would help bring down cost but for political reasons we don&#x27;t do them. Instead it&#x27;s just about making wealthy people (which, for the record, I am not) pay more to cover for it.<p>Even if caring for the sick is just it shouldn&#x27;t be accomplished just by a wealth transfer (to be fair, the ACA had some provisions to bring down the cost of care, but not nearly enough).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits</title><url>https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21740873-argument-universal-health-care-clear-getting-there-difficult-says-john</url></story> |
33,192,270 | 33,190,355 | 1 | 2 | 33,174,996 | 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>chrsig</author><text>This is a good primer on the subject.<p>One of the major projects I maintain at $work is an apache module, which has given me so much grief because of the fact that it gets dynamically loaded (and then unloaded, and then reloaded)<p>It&#x27;s been very enlightening, but there&#x27;s no shortage of frustration.<p>One major points is that a dynamically loaded library can have undefined symbols that are found (or not!) at runtime. This can introduce a lot of trouble when trying to make a test binary. Especially in apache&#x27;s case, since any of the `ap_` symbols are only compiled into the executable, and aren&#x27;t available as a static or shared library.<p>In that situation, the only recourse that I&#x27;m aware of is to supply your own implementations of those functions that get compiled into the test binary (<i>not</i> the dynamic library under test, since that will create a collision when it&#x27;s loaded)<p>Another thing to consider is that linux&#x2F;elf shared libraries can be either dynamically loaded or dynamically linked. This is not true on all platforms, so it&#x27;s not advisable to lean into it if portability matters.<p>I recommend reading the ld.so manpage[0] -- in particular it outlines many environment variables to control the runtime linker. Notably, LD_DEBUG can be a life saver.<p>Lastly, I&#x27;ll also warn against using any global&#x2F;static memory in a dynamically loaded library. It can be unloaded&#x2F;reloaded, and that can create a lot of havoc, especially if a pointer to that memory gets saved somewhere that survives the unload, and then is accessible after the library gets reloaded.<p>libprotobuf is a major victim of these types of issues - which is why (or a major contributor) to why the libprotobuf-lite library exists.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man8&#x2F;ld.so.8.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man8&#x2F;ld.so.8.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries</title><url>https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-dynamic-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>ghotli</author><text>I have to care about this sort of thing at great length in my current work. Targeting hundreds of linux &#x2F; embedded environments. I picked up a tip or two and in general this is a very well written overview of the moving pieces I wish I&#x27;d found when I first had to dig into this domain</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries</title><url>https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-dynamic-libraries/</url></story> |
18,710,745 | 18,710,441 | 1 | 3 | 18,708,221 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dgacmu</author><text>Vanguard&#x27;s AUM grew by about 1 trillion last year. This hypothetical 100M is 1&#x2F;3rd of a day of that - and one almost certainly doesn&#x27;t move all of it in a single day. Nor is one likely to keep all of it in a single fund. Once you have a bog-standard stocks&#x2F;bonds&#x2F;cash&#x2F;maybe RE split, 100M isn&#x27;t moving the market. I think you&#x27;re off by an order of magnitude.<p>Where you&#x27;re right, of course, is that 100M justifies considerably greater attention to the money management. But the biggest focus is tax efficiency, not the micro details of the market.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>To be fair, when you have $100 Million, the goal of the game is not &quot;growth&quot;, but holding onto that money.<p>$100 million isn&#x27;t much different from $108 Million (8% gains over the year)... or even $500 Million. In both cases, its still more than enough money to live on for the rest of your life. The S&amp;P 500 has dropped 50% in the past (ie: 2008), and it doesn&#x27;t make sense to risk that much money on that.<p>You can&#x27;t use bank accounts: FDIC insurance only covers $200k per bank. You&#x27;d literally need 5000 different bank accounts to hold $100 Million safely. So what do you put it into?<p>Answer: things that don&#x27;t grow as quickly as an S&amp;P500 fund. Things that are safer: municipal bonds, international (German, Japan) bonds to hedge the dollar, and US Bonds. Maybe some high-quality corporate debt, like Apple&#x27;s debt, and maybe a real-estate project or two.<p>All of which probably returns less than the stock market. But your $100 Million will still be there in the next crisis. That&#x27;s not necessarily true for an S&amp;P500 fund.<p>------------<p>Finally, the average volume of Vanguard Total Market ETF is only ~3-million (at a price of ~130 or so). Which means that Vanguard Total Market ETF only has ~$300 Million changed each day.<p>If you pump $100 Million into an ETF with only $300 Million worth of daily average volume, what do you think will happen? You&#x27;ll over-centralize the price and get a bad deal. Its not easy to move $100 Million, even into a major fund like Vanguard&#x27;s Total Market ETF, without a manager.<p>At $100 Million+ size portfolios, you need to start thinking of Dark Pools of Liquidity (ie: somewhat hiding the order book). So that when you execute the buy order, the wolves of Wall Street won&#x27;t own you.<p>$100 Million+ accounts don&#x27;t work the same as a normal account. Pump that into the market in one day, and the price will rise dramatically. Sell that in one day, and the price will drop dramatically (losing a % of your value on both legs of the transaction). Having an expert guide you, so that you can minimize Bid&#x2F;Ask issues, is essential.</text></item><item><author>misiti3780</author><text>to back this up, read the expose in the economist this week about family offices and how they all divesting from hedgefunds because the fees are ridiculous and they are doing no better than the S&amp;P, usually worse when you take into account the onerous fees those mgrs are charging.</text></item><item><author>AznHisoka</author><text>One of the best kept secrets in the hedge fund&#x2F;financial industry is that most people really dont have a clue what they are doing. Sure they make bold predictions, appear on CNBC and use industry jargon. But at the end of the day, they arent much better than you or me at managing large amounts of money.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>I mean, given how hard cryptocurrencies crashed this year is it really a surprise? The only way for him to make money would probably have been to short everything continuously but seeing how irrational and easily manipulated the cryptocurrency market has been in the past that seems rather foolish.<p>Given his pedigree you&#x27;d think he&#x27;d know better than to bet on something that&#x27;s 99% pure unbridled speculation and 1% actual technology. It&#x27;s like knowingly investing in a Ponzi scheme, what did you expect?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Novogratz's Crypto Trading Desk Lost $136M in Nine Months</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-28/novogratz-s-crypto-trading-desk-lost-136-million-in-nine-months</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>module0000</author><text>Other side of the coin here..you can take that 1 million USD and dump it in a single order into the ES - you won&#x27;t move it more than 1, 2, or <i>maybe</i> 3 ticks. This assumes you are using full day margin rates - if you are using overnight rates, you won&#x27;t move it a single tick. Securities and ETF&#x27;s are amateur hour for real sums of money. You&#x27;ll need hundreds of millions, or billions, to move markets with the depth of the ES, ZB, TN, and other commodity futures.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>To be fair, when you have $100 Million, the goal of the game is not &quot;growth&quot;, but holding onto that money.<p>$100 million isn&#x27;t much different from $108 Million (8% gains over the year)... or even $500 Million. In both cases, its still more than enough money to live on for the rest of your life. The S&amp;P 500 has dropped 50% in the past (ie: 2008), and it doesn&#x27;t make sense to risk that much money on that.<p>You can&#x27;t use bank accounts: FDIC insurance only covers $200k per bank. You&#x27;d literally need 5000 different bank accounts to hold $100 Million safely. So what do you put it into?<p>Answer: things that don&#x27;t grow as quickly as an S&amp;P500 fund. Things that are safer: municipal bonds, international (German, Japan) bonds to hedge the dollar, and US Bonds. Maybe some high-quality corporate debt, like Apple&#x27;s debt, and maybe a real-estate project or two.<p>All of which probably returns less than the stock market. But your $100 Million will still be there in the next crisis. That&#x27;s not necessarily true for an S&amp;P500 fund.<p>------------<p>Finally, the average volume of Vanguard Total Market ETF is only ~3-million (at a price of ~130 or so). Which means that Vanguard Total Market ETF only has ~$300 Million changed each day.<p>If you pump $100 Million into an ETF with only $300 Million worth of daily average volume, what do you think will happen? You&#x27;ll over-centralize the price and get a bad deal. Its not easy to move $100 Million, even into a major fund like Vanguard&#x27;s Total Market ETF, without a manager.<p>At $100 Million+ size portfolios, you need to start thinking of Dark Pools of Liquidity (ie: somewhat hiding the order book). So that when you execute the buy order, the wolves of Wall Street won&#x27;t own you.<p>$100 Million+ accounts don&#x27;t work the same as a normal account. Pump that into the market in one day, and the price will rise dramatically. Sell that in one day, and the price will drop dramatically (losing a % of your value on both legs of the transaction). Having an expert guide you, so that you can minimize Bid&#x2F;Ask issues, is essential.</text></item><item><author>misiti3780</author><text>to back this up, read the expose in the economist this week about family offices and how they all divesting from hedgefunds because the fees are ridiculous and they are doing no better than the S&amp;P, usually worse when you take into account the onerous fees those mgrs are charging.</text></item><item><author>AznHisoka</author><text>One of the best kept secrets in the hedge fund&#x2F;financial industry is that most people really dont have a clue what they are doing. Sure they make bold predictions, appear on CNBC and use industry jargon. But at the end of the day, they arent much better than you or me at managing large amounts of money.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>I mean, given how hard cryptocurrencies crashed this year is it really a surprise? The only way for him to make money would probably have been to short everything continuously but seeing how irrational and easily manipulated the cryptocurrency market has been in the past that seems rather foolish.<p>Given his pedigree you&#x27;d think he&#x27;d know better than to bet on something that&#x27;s 99% pure unbridled speculation and 1% actual technology. It&#x27;s like knowingly investing in a Ponzi scheme, what did you expect?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Novogratz's Crypto Trading Desk Lost $136M in Nine Months</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-28/novogratz-s-crypto-trading-desk-lost-136-million-in-nine-months</url></story> |
21,694,654 | 21,692,149 | 1 | 3 | 21,679,112 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcl</author><text>Reminds me of a curiosity seen during a tour of the historic Filoli mansion: An appliance that cooks food by running mains power through it. Apparently someone in the early 20th century thought this was a good idea. I don&#x27;t remember the exact food it was used for -- maybe hotdogs, or bacon?<p>(Seen here, on the counter:) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;originals&#x2F;a0&#x2F;f7&#x2F;35&#x2F;a0f7352484c9426ea188f63fb42d38b9.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;originals&#x2F;a0&#x2F;f7&#x2F;35&#x2F;a0f7352484c9426ea188...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat."</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/that-time-benjamin-franklin-tried-and-failed-to-electrocute-a-turkey/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twic</author><text>Poultry-related hazardous experimentation also did for Sir Francis Bacon:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;the-strange-case-of-sir-francis-bacon-and-the-frozen-chicken&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;the-stran...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat."</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/that-time-benjamin-franklin-tried-and-failed-to-electrocute-a-turkey/</url></story> |
26,839,274 | 26,839,271 | 1 | 2 | 26,838,959 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmccue</author><text>If anyone else is looking for the link to said action, it appears to be <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalrights.ie&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalrights.ie&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56772772</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CrazyCatDog</author><text>Ironically, Ireland might be the most capable nation of reigning in big-tech given their preferred tax status and their subsequent mind-blowing profits residing there beyond the reach of the US feds—for now at least!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Privacy group is preparing a case to the Irish courts over Facebook data leak</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56772772</url></story> |
26,939,870 | 26,939,812 | 1 | 2 | 26,939,177 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>captn3m0</author><text>Twitter fought a court battle on this in India just a few months ago[a], [b]. The government even threatened Twitter Execs with jail time[0], [1].<p>Making this worse are the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (the “Intermediary Rules”)[3]. Among the many issues, they increase obligations on large social media platforms (above 5e5 users), enforce government takedowns within 36 hours, enable mandatory social media verification, enforce algorithmic (AI-driven) censorship and change intermediary liability to criminal. IFF has gotten one victory against these in court[2], but there&#x27;s a long way to go.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;india-threatens-twitter-with-penalties-if-it-doesnt-block-accounts-11612364787" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;india-threatens-twitter-with-pe...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;pranavdixit&#x2F;india-threatens-twitter-jail" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;pranavdixit&#x2F;india-threa...</a><p>[a]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;twitter-restricts-over-a-dozen-high-profile-accounts-in-india-following-legal-demand&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;twitter-restricts-over-a-d...</a><p>[b]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;india-sends-warning-to-twitter-over-lifting-block-on-accounts-and-noncompliance-of-order&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;india-sends-warning-to-twi...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internetfreedom.in&#x2F;intermediaries-rules-2021&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internetfreedom.in&#x2F;intermediaries-rules-2021&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internetfreedom.in&#x2F;kerala-hc-grants-a-stay-of-the-operation-of-part-iii-of-the-intermediaries-rules-2021-to-livelaw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internetfreedom.in&#x2F;kerala-hc-grants-a-stay-of-the-op...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wtmt</author><text>Note that these tweets are only hidden for anyone in India (not removed from Twitter) since these do not violate Twitter’s terms but are being forced off the platform by a government order. I wish Twitter would put up a better fight on this, but Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook have been on the receiving end of criticism and threats by the central government, and it looks like Twitter chooses its battles to ensure its own survival first. What else can we expect from social networks anyway?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government</title><url>https://thewire.in/tech/as-covid-19-crisis-deepens-twitter-takes-down-tweets-criticising-modi-government</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paxys</author><text>How is Twitter going to fight exactly? They can be banned nationwide (and local employees can face charges) with one order from the central government, and no court can help them. Same happened to TikTok last year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wtmt</author><text>Note that these tweets are only hidden for anyone in India (not removed from Twitter) since these do not violate Twitter’s terms but are being forced off the platform by a government order. I wish Twitter would put up a better fight on this, but Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook have been on the receiving end of criticism and threats by the central government, and it looks like Twitter chooses its battles to ensure its own survival first. What else can we expect from social networks anyway?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government</title><url>https://thewire.in/tech/as-covid-19-crisis-deepens-twitter-takes-down-tweets-criticising-modi-government</url></story> |
31,694,498 | 31,694,018 | 1 | 2 | 31,692,267 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erokar</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Tailwind on many projects at work for about a year now. I do not like it.<p>Tailwind seemingly affords an easy way of writing inline styles, but it 1) clutters the HTML, 2) leads to repetition and makes people break the DRY principle (yes, you should extract to components, but people don&#x27;t always do that), 3) uses names that can be similar but are not identical to CSS properties and feels like a bad abstraction.<p>If you use something like Svelte, where you can write local CSS within a component I fail the see the benefit of Tailwind. For me Tailwind is the most ill-conceived frontend tech I&#x27;ve had to use in later years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>halotrope</author><text>There is only two kinds of people. The ones that don&#x27;t like Tailwind and the ones that have used it.<p>I know it is conceptually &quot;wrong&quot; and a bunch of well crafted CSS classes would be more elegant. In the end it works, works really well and makes collaboration dead simple. Commonly used groups of classes can either be aliased by @apply or used in a (react) component.
I used CSS way before Tailwind was a thing and in hindsight I created a lot of utility classes that resembled a weakly-structured, somewhat incomplete version of Tailwind.<p>It might be a bit verbose, it might be easy to abuse but it works damn well.
On top of that there are some design guardrails built in that really help with the consistency of e.g spacing, colors and fonts.
Easy to achieve good looking results without risking stuff always looking the same like with Bootstrap or Material.<p>It is a bit like Github Copilot. The only way to &quot;get&quot; it is to try it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Play with TailwindCSS in the Browser</title><url>https://play.tailwindcss.com</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kanonieer</author><text>&gt; There is only two kinds of people. The ones that don&#x27;t like Tailwind and the ones that have used it.<p>I know a lot of people who have tried but didn&#x27;t like Tailwind. I think most people like it on a greenfield project, but that number drops off when they go back to a Tailwind project after some time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>halotrope</author><text>There is only two kinds of people. The ones that don&#x27;t like Tailwind and the ones that have used it.<p>I know it is conceptually &quot;wrong&quot; and a bunch of well crafted CSS classes would be more elegant. In the end it works, works really well and makes collaboration dead simple. Commonly used groups of classes can either be aliased by @apply or used in a (react) component.
I used CSS way before Tailwind was a thing and in hindsight I created a lot of utility classes that resembled a weakly-structured, somewhat incomplete version of Tailwind.<p>It might be a bit verbose, it might be easy to abuse but it works damn well.
On top of that there are some design guardrails built in that really help with the consistency of e.g spacing, colors and fonts.
Easy to achieve good looking results without risking stuff always looking the same like with Bootstrap or Material.<p>It is a bit like Github Copilot. The only way to &quot;get&quot; it is to try it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Play with TailwindCSS in the Browser</title><url>https://play.tailwindcss.com</url></story> |
17,163,357 | 17,162,661 | 1 | 3 | 17,162,000 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jlarocco</author><text>I&#x27;d be willing to bet your &quot;small number&quot; of white listed websites is actually a lot more than you think. Turning off Javascript breaks a ton of sites, IME.<p>Same thing with cookies.<p>On a side note, web developers have gotten really lazy at feature checking. In the IE days they&#x27;d at least have a banner saying their page wasn&#x27;t going to work because it required IE or Netscape. Browsing with cookies turned off nowadays, I hit one or two sites a day that won&#x27;t even display and then often get stuck in infinite redirect loop.<p>Even white listing sites to use cookies is a PITA. Outlook for Office65, for example, requires white listing cookies from 3 or 4 domains, and due to the way it redirects, I had to dig around in Chrome&#x27;s page inspector to even find out what those domains are. And of course the page itself gives no indication of why it&#x27;s not loading, it just flashes between empty pages forever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dman</author><text>If you liked the effect of installing an adblocker give disabling Javascript a try. (You can selectively whitelist a small number of websites). Did this a couple of years back and the difference is astounding.</text></item><item><author>wlll</author><text>The day I added an ad blocker (Adblock Plus, Ghostery and uBlock origin) was the day my CPU fans stopped spinning almost constantly, my battery life improved, web pages loaded faster and were more responsive.<p>My experience of the web is about a thousand times better than it used to be.<p>I will remove all these when the ad companies and websites start to behave themselves, which will be never.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB</title><url>https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/1000166112615714816?s=19</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>I have been doing that for a long time but with the use of javascript framework &amp; SPA for pretty much any website, including the least appropriate applications like blogs, I kind of had to capitulate in the name of convenience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dman</author><text>If you liked the effect of installing an adblocker give disabling Javascript a try. (You can selectively whitelist a small number of websites). Did this a couple of years back and the difference is astounding.</text></item><item><author>wlll</author><text>The day I added an ad blocker (Adblock Plus, Ghostery and uBlock origin) was the day my CPU fans stopped spinning almost constantly, my battery life improved, web pages loaded faster and were more responsive.<p>My experience of the web is about a thousand times better than it used to be.<p>I will remove all these when the ad companies and websites start to behave themselves, which will be never.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB</title><url>https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/1000166112615714816?s=19</url></story> |
10,165,168 | 10,164,649 | 1 | 2 | 10,164,417 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dframe</author><text>I have a serious question : If google uses a person&#x27;s search results internally to determine that they are a person of interest for hiring, whose to say they aren&#x27;t using a similar process to strip Intellectual property from searches as it relates to projects they are working on?<p>i.e : They are internally working on self driving cars and, in particular, are looking for ways to integrate algorithm &#x27;X&#x27; in their solution. So, google decides to setup a special filter for searches related to certain profiles that search for &#x27;X and self driving ....Results get fed to the group conducting the work. In effect, allowing them to internally see what &#x27;profiles of interest&#x27; are up to as it relates to Google&#x27;s flagged area of interest.<p>It would appear that this could easily be made &#x27;legal&#x27; under the premise that the individuals are anonymized. However, it does give google a unique advantage in being able to see &#x27;what everyone is up to&#x27;.<p>The fact that they are already using people&#x27;s specialized searches for flagging them for interviewing makes me strongly believe they are already internally snagging people&#x27;s searches&#x2F;clicked links to give them advantage on projects.<p>I think everyone should take a pause and consider the implications of this as they are quite damning.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job</title><url>http://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>x00gler123</author><text>So first of all this is not &quot;a secret&quot; at all and you don&#x27;t need to be &quot;special&quot; to do it. And of course you don&#x27;t get targeted personally but they do an automated&#x2F;anonymous match on your search history. It&#x27;s just one of many inbound HR&#x2F;recruiting funnels and it was featured in an internal newsletter that went out to all of Eng some time ago.<p>Second, they tell every applicant that openly discussing the interview process (esp blogging about it) will get you disqualified&#x2F;blacklisted from any future positions at google. So if you have posted this before your first day and didn&#x27;t discuss it with your recruiter&#x2F;hr person at the G, it was probably not a very smart move.<p>PS: It really isn&#x27;t too hard to get into their interview process. If you create a github account and push some code one of their recruiters will probably approach you after a while. You can also just send them your CV and I am pretty sure you get the same process&#x2F;treatment as anybody else.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job</title><url>http://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job</url></story> |
11,375,763 | 11,375,771 | 1 | 2 | 11,375,598 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mariodiana</author><text>Given the audience, and the accepted notion that Apple, as a business, wants people to buy their hardware, isn&#x27;t Schiller&#x27;s comment meant as something of a joke?<p>This is what&#x27;s wrong with the Internet! The reaction reminds me of Madeleine Albright&#x27;s comment about there being &quot;a special place in Hell for women who don&#x27;t support other women,&quot; a comment she made at a Hillary Clinton function. Apparently, Ms. Albright has been making this comment at the end of speeches for years. Do you know why? Because in the context it&#x27;s funny. It&#x27;s funny because it&#x27;s exaggerated, quasi-ridiculous thing to say. But, the last time she said it, at the Clinton rally, people in the Twitterverse -- or whatever we&#x27;re calling it -- took offense and went crazy.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but both Albright&#x27;s comment and Schiller&#x27;s comment are benign jokes. The Internet manufactures outrage.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hey Apple, a Five-Year-Old Computer Isn’t ‘Sad’</title><url>http://ifixit.org/blog/7998/sad-apple/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nextos</author><text>I own a 5-year-old MacBook Air 11, which has run only Linux since day 1 (and it does an admirable job at it, unlike other Macs, but that&#x27;s not relevant here).<p>So for all practical purposes this is a PC with an Apple logo. It it is really snappy, silent, and battery lasts approximately 5 hours. There&#x27;s nothing sad about it.<p>Sad is having to trash fine hardware because its manufacturer won&#x27;t release updates. Sad is having new versions of OSes running slower and slower. Sad is planned obsolescence.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hey Apple, a Five-Year-Old Computer Isn’t ‘Sad’</title><url>http://ifixit.org/blog/7998/sad-apple/</url></story> |
37,496,989 | 37,496,519 | 1 | 2 | 37,492,752 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>it is, and the french are kinda catering to the wackos by letting them tinker with the EU&#x2F;FCC standards. unsurprisingly when you place the phones closer than normal, you get a higher measurement, and if you do not adjust the absorption limits then wow, it&#x27;s over the limit! scary!<p>but there&#x27;s no particular reason to think that this new, effectively lower absorption limit correlates to any particular health risk, or that it&#x27;s a relevant threshold for absorption now that you&#x27;ve moved the phone closer.<p>the fact of the matter is, if there was some major absorption risk from phones, we&#x27;d have seen an abrupt spike in cancer rates in the 2000s when like 90% of the population suddenly started carrying a phone against their body for 16 hours a day. The world’s greatest (and ethical!) A&#x2F;B test lol.<p>The evidence is already in, just from weight of mass public usage. At least at these frequencies and transmit powers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lagrange77</author><text>I thought this whole EM radiation fear was bogus. How does it even interact with the body? There are obviously no neutrons flying around..</text></item><item><author>paulmd</author><text>Worth noting that this is due to the French regulators applying the same SAR absorption standard as the rest of the EU but at a closer distance. Obviously radiation follows the inverse square law so this means you absorb more radiation in France ;)<p>Even despite this reduced allowable emission the iPhone is barely out of compliance, they will need to reduce power less than 10% or simply get another few millimeters farther away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation</title><url>https://www.anfr.fr/liste-actualites/actualite/temporary-withdrawal-from-the-market-of-the-iphone-12-for-non-compliance-with-eu-regulation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>I believe the concern is that non-ionizing radiation can still warm tissues, and depending on the frequency, these can be deeper than what normal sunlight or IR radiation would reach.<p>Whether a few milliwats of that type of warming are actually cause for concern I don&#x27;t know, but even if it&#x27;s bogus, that doesn&#x27;t mean that regulators will not be enforcing legal maximums anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lagrange77</author><text>I thought this whole EM radiation fear was bogus. How does it even interact with the body? There are obviously no neutrons flying around..</text></item><item><author>paulmd</author><text>Worth noting that this is due to the French regulators applying the same SAR absorption standard as the rest of the EU but at a closer distance. Obviously radiation follows the inverse square law so this means you absorb more radiation in France ;)<p>Even despite this reduced allowable emission the iPhone is barely out of compliance, they will need to reduce power less than 10% or simply get another few millimeters farther away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation</title><url>https://www.anfr.fr/liste-actualites/actualite/temporary-withdrawal-from-the-market-of-the-iphone-12-for-non-compliance-with-eu-regulation</url></story> |
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