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3,581,611 | 3,580,269 | 1 | 3 | 3,579,207 | 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>ma2rten</author><text>You should not start with bootstrap in that case. I think especially in the beginning when you are learning CSS you should build something from scratch. Otherwise you have to learn both, CSS and how bootstrap is constructed.<p>CSS is not hard. I don't consider myself good at css, not at all, but give me a mockup and I can reproduce it, with a lot of Googling and trail-and-error. At least for me, though, what is really difficult is to make something from scratch without a mockup. It might be because I am not much of a visual thinker. I am a coder after all, not a designer. A professional designer might already have this mockup in her head. I don't.<p>So what I need to do is create the mockup in Photoshop first. There I can experiment, move stuff around, change colors, shadows, etc. When I am done, I reproduce it in css. I guess when you are either a very strong visual thinker or you are already very good at css, you don't need Photoshop. Otherwise I recommend you start with a mockup and then make a pixel-by-pixel reproduction of it. That way you can solely focus on the How, not the What. If you do that it's not hard at all, and you don't need a code academy for it. [That said I like the idea of a code academy for building a website from scratch for non-coders]</text><parent_chain><item><author>nhebb</author><text>I like the idea, and I hope it does well. But what I would pay money for is a series of lessons on how to customize bootstrap. The whole reason I'm using bootstrap for my site redesign is because:<p><pre><code> - I can't find off the shelf themes that meet my needs.
- I want to learn how to do it myself.
- I want a solid foundation to start with.
</code></pre>
A codecademy for CSS "cooking" with bootstrap would be great. A quick mover with good design skills could probably make a decent amount of money in a short period if they sold tutorials with focused content. <i>[I'm just throwing this out there in case someone wants to bite.]</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Themes for Bootstrap</title><url>http://wrapbootstrap.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>ctuite</author><text>Ok, well my series is focused on teaching developers how to create their own simple frameworks to suit specifics needs. It will also explain fundamental design principles using popular sites as examples of why their design works.<p>Anyway, I'm halway through making my series so I'm gonna launch that and if it's received well I'll probably do a bootstrap customisation series too.<p>Slightly controversial question, but how much would you be willing to pay for a series like this? I think I paid €80 for Michael Hartl's rails tutorial series and I was satisfied with that price.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nhebb</author><text>I like the idea, and I hope it does well. But what I would pay money for is a series of lessons on how to customize bootstrap. The whole reason I'm using bootstrap for my site redesign is because:<p><pre><code> - I can't find off the shelf themes that meet my needs.
- I want to learn how to do it myself.
- I want a solid foundation to start with.
</code></pre>
A codecademy for CSS "cooking" with bootstrap would be great. A quick mover with good design skills could probably make a decent amount of money in a short period if they sold tutorials with focused content. <i>[I'm just throwing this out there in case someone wants to bite.]</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Themes for Bootstrap</title><url>http://wrapbootstrap.com/</url></story> |
34,354,374 | 34,354,675 | 1 | 2 | 34,353,802 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>totalZero</author><text><p><pre><code> Despite good connectivity, some drivers can’t afford
to stay online all the time, said Jaime. According to
Jimena, about 98% of the train operators on her line
use WhatsApp on the job, but some will often run out
of data, which they must pay for out-of-pocket.
</code></pre>
Seems like WhatsApp isn&#x27;t the problem here, but rather the solution. They need better comms infrastructure and more funding for maintenance.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/mexico-metro-drivers-whatsapp-trains/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parabyl</author><text>A similar practice is common in South Africa in order to find out when the train is arriving (if at all). You&#x27;d have to ask the person at the ticket office to check the Whatsapp group for you (or if you&#x27;re friendly enough with them, to add you to the group) where the ticket officers at other stations along the line update when the train has passed them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2023/mexico-metro-drivers-whatsapp-trains/</url></story> |
13,722,228 | 13,720,972 | 1 | 2 | 13,718,752 | 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>masklinn</author><text>&gt; Some old IBM environments initialized fresh allocations to 0xDEADBEEF, which had the advantage that the result you got from using such memory would (usually) be obviously incorrect.<p>On BSDs, malloc.conf can still be configured to do that: on OpenBSD, junking (fills allocations with 0xdb and deallocations with 0xdf) is enabled by default on small allocations, &quot;J&quot; will enable it for all allocations. On FreeBSD, &quot;J&quot; will initialise all allocations with 0xa5 and deallocations with 0x5a.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amalcon</author><text>Some old IBM environments initialized fresh allocations to 0xDEADBEEF, which had the advantage that the result you got from using such memory would (usually) be obviously incorrect. The fact that it was done decades ago is pretty good evidence that it&#x27;s not about the actual initialization cost: these things cost a lot more back then.<p>What changed is the paged memory model: modern systems don&#x27;t actually tie an address to a page of physical RAM until the first time you try to use it (or something else on that page). Initializing the memory on malloc() would &quot;waste&quot; memory in some cases, where the allocation spans multiple pages and you don&#x27;t end up using the whole thing. Some software assumes this, and would use quite a bit of extra RAM if malloc() automatically wiped memory. It would also tend to chew through your CPU cache, which mattered less in the past because any nontrivial operation already did that.<p>I personally don&#x27;t think this is a good enough reason, but it is a little more than just a minor performance issue.<p>That all being said, while it would likely have helped slightly in this case, it would not solve the problem: active allocations would still be revealed.</text></item><item><author>infinity0</author><text> Could someone enlighten me on why malloc and free don&#x27;t automatically zero memory by default?<p>Someone pointed me to MALLOC_PERTURB_ and I&#x27;ve just run a few test programs with it set - including a stage1 GCC compile, which granted may not be the best test - and it really doesn&#x27;t dent performance by much. (edit: noticeably, <i>at all</i>, in fact)<p>People who prefer extreme performance over prudent security should be the ones forced to mess about with extra settings, anyway.</text></item><item><author>PuffinBlue</author><text>&gt; The infosec team worked to identify URIs in search engine caches that had leaked memory and get them purged. With the help of Google, Yahoo, Bing and others, we found 770 unique URIs that had been cached and which contained leaked memory. Those 770 unique URIs covered 161 unique domains. The leaked memory has been purged with the help of the search engines.<p>So I tried it too, and there&#x27;s still data cached there.<p>Am I misunderstanding something - that above statement must be wrong, surely?<p>They can&#x27;t have found everything even in the big search engines if it&#x27;s still showing up in Google&#x27;s cache, let alone the infinity other caches around the place.<p>EDIT: If the cloudflare team sees I see leaked credentials for these domains:<p>android-cdn-api.fitbit.com<p>iphone-cdn-client.fitbit.com<p>api-v2launch.trakt.tv</text></item><item><author>espadrine</author><text>It is far from over, too! Google Cache still has loads of sensitive information, a link away!<p>Look at this, click on the downward arrow, &quot;Cached&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=&quot;CF-Host-Origin-IP:&quot;+&quot;authorization:&quot;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=&quot;CF-Host-Origin-IP:&quot;+&quot;author...</a><p>(And then, in Google Cache, &quot;view source&quot;, search for &quot;authorization&quot;.)<p>(Various combinations of HTTP headers to search for yield more results.)</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Oh, my god.<p>Read the whole event log.<p>If you were behind Cloudflare and it was proxying sensitive data (the contents of HTTP POSTs, &amp;c), they&#x27;ve potentially been spraying it into caches all across the Internet; it was so bad that Tavis found it by accident just looking through Google search results.<p>The crazy thing here is that the Project Zero people were joking last night about a disclosure that was going to keep everyone at work late today. And, this morning, Google announced the SHA-1 collision, which everyone (including the insiders who leaked that the SHA-1 collision was coming) thought was the big announcement.<p>Nope. A SHA-1 collision, it turns out, is the <i>minor</i> security news of the day.<p>This is approximately as bad as it ever gets. A significant number of companies probably need to compose customer notifications; it&#x27;s, at this point, very difficult to rule out unauthorized disclosure of anything that traversed Cloudflare.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magnetic</author><text>&gt; What changed is the paged memory model: modern systems don&#x27;t actually tie an address to a page of physical RAM until the first time you try to use it (or something else on that page). Initializing the memory on malloc() would &quot;waste&quot; memory in some cases, where the allocation spans multiple pages and you don&#x27;t end up using the whole thing. Some software assumes this, and would use quite a bit of extra RAM if malloc() automatically wiped memory. It would also tend to chew through your CPU cache, which mattered less in the past because any nontrivial operation already did that.<p>Maybe an alternative approach is to simply mark the pages to be lazily zeroed out when attached, in the Page Table Entries of the MMU. They wouldn&#x27;t be zeroed out at the time of the call malloc(), but only when they are attached to a physical memory location (the first time you use it).</text><parent_chain><item><author>amalcon</author><text>Some old IBM environments initialized fresh allocations to 0xDEADBEEF, which had the advantage that the result you got from using such memory would (usually) be obviously incorrect. The fact that it was done decades ago is pretty good evidence that it&#x27;s not about the actual initialization cost: these things cost a lot more back then.<p>What changed is the paged memory model: modern systems don&#x27;t actually tie an address to a page of physical RAM until the first time you try to use it (or something else on that page). Initializing the memory on malloc() would &quot;waste&quot; memory in some cases, where the allocation spans multiple pages and you don&#x27;t end up using the whole thing. Some software assumes this, and would use quite a bit of extra RAM if malloc() automatically wiped memory. It would also tend to chew through your CPU cache, which mattered less in the past because any nontrivial operation already did that.<p>I personally don&#x27;t think this is a good enough reason, but it is a little more than just a minor performance issue.<p>That all being said, while it would likely have helped slightly in this case, it would not solve the problem: active allocations would still be revealed.</text></item><item><author>infinity0</author><text> Could someone enlighten me on why malloc and free don&#x27;t automatically zero memory by default?<p>Someone pointed me to MALLOC_PERTURB_ and I&#x27;ve just run a few test programs with it set - including a stage1 GCC compile, which granted may not be the best test - and it really doesn&#x27;t dent performance by much. (edit: noticeably, <i>at all</i>, in fact)<p>People who prefer extreme performance over prudent security should be the ones forced to mess about with extra settings, anyway.</text></item><item><author>PuffinBlue</author><text>&gt; The infosec team worked to identify URIs in search engine caches that had leaked memory and get them purged. With the help of Google, Yahoo, Bing and others, we found 770 unique URIs that had been cached and which contained leaked memory. Those 770 unique URIs covered 161 unique domains. The leaked memory has been purged with the help of the search engines.<p>So I tried it too, and there&#x27;s still data cached there.<p>Am I misunderstanding something - that above statement must be wrong, surely?<p>They can&#x27;t have found everything even in the big search engines if it&#x27;s still showing up in Google&#x27;s cache, let alone the infinity other caches around the place.<p>EDIT: If the cloudflare team sees I see leaked credentials for these domains:<p>android-cdn-api.fitbit.com<p>iphone-cdn-client.fitbit.com<p>api-v2launch.trakt.tv</text></item><item><author>espadrine</author><text>It is far from over, too! Google Cache still has loads of sensitive information, a link away!<p>Look at this, click on the downward arrow, &quot;Cached&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=&quot;CF-Host-Origin-IP:&quot;+&quot;authorization:&quot;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=&quot;CF-Host-Origin-IP:&quot;+&quot;author...</a><p>(And then, in Google Cache, &quot;view source&quot;, search for &quot;authorization&quot;.)<p>(Various combinations of HTTP headers to search for yield more results.)</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Oh, my god.<p>Read the whole event log.<p>If you were behind Cloudflare and it was proxying sensitive data (the contents of HTTP POSTs, &amp;c), they&#x27;ve potentially been spraying it into caches all across the Internet; it was so bad that Tavis found it by accident just looking through Google search results.<p>The crazy thing here is that the Project Zero people were joking last night about a disclosure that was going to keep everyone at work late today. And, this morning, Google announced the SHA-1 collision, which everyone (including the insiders who leaked that the SHA-1 collision was coming) thought was the big announcement.<p>Nope. A SHA-1 collision, it turns out, is the <i>minor</i> security news of the day.<p>This is approximately as bad as it ever gets. A significant number of companies probably need to compose customer notifications; it&#x27;s, at this point, very difficult to rule out unauthorized disclosure of anything that traversed Cloudflare.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139</url></story> |
39,639,889 | 39,639,581 | 1 | 3 | 39,639,253 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noirscape</author><text>The Epic case is a textbook example as to why the DMA is needed.<p>Especially since Apple has given one of the easiest examples of gatekeeper abuse just by doing this; I kinda expected them to not be this boneheaded but they&#x27;re really just going &quot;we personally don&#x27;t trust you, so piss off&quot; because of the US lawsuit. Like, that doesn&#x27;t fly anymore in the EU. Legally speaking, Apple has reached the size where regulators are recognizing that their gatekeeping has the potential to ruin the EUs free market and here we see that in action.<p>And mind - I don&#x27;t like Epic Games in the slightest. They still shouldn&#x27;t be gatekept from iOS because Apple personally dislikes them over the lawsuits.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thierry Breton: Under DMA, there is no room for threats by gatekeepers</title><url>https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1765793776692326891</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baq</author><text>IOW if you&#x27;re a developer in EU you can now voice your stance (whatever it might be) about whether companies have only duties to their shareholders (not an easy sell in this case anyway) or perhaps they have some duties to the society they provide services to and benefit from.<p>I have no opinion whether Epic was a good customer or not. &#x27;They were asking for it&#x27; sometimes isn&#x27;t enough... maybe?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thierry Breton: Under DMA, there is no room for threats by gatekeepers</title><url>https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1765793776692326891</url></story> |
9,332,157 | 9,331,843 | 1 | 2 | 9,331,688 | 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>makeitsuckless</author><text>Internet voting has two essential, unpatchable vulnerabilities: voters cannot vote anonymously and are exposed to external pressure.<p>That&#x27;s why we have voting booths: so people are guaranteed to be able to vote without someone looking over their shoulder (or pointing a gun at their heads).<p>If people cannot vote in total freedom and anonymity, it&#x27;s not a truly free and democratic vote.<p>We should stop trying to &quot;solve&quot; everything with technology. Some things should be &quot;hard&quot;, because it&#x27;s essential to get it right.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-south-wales-attacks-researchers-who-warned-internet-voting-vulnerabilities</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>espes</author><text>iVote in a nutshell:<p>&quot;The NSWEC believes that unfettered access to source code by the general public would not be in the best interest of the State&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elections.nsw.gov.au&#x2F;__data&#x2F;assets&#x2F;pdf_file&#x2F;0003&#x2F;125454&#x2F;iVote_Strategy_for_SGE_2015_Amendment_4_-_March_2015.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elections.nsw.gov.au&#x2F;__data&#x2F;assets&#x2F;pdf_file&#x2F;0003&#x2F;...</a>)<p>This apparently matters so much that it was specifically criminalised:<p>&quot;A person must not disclose to any other person any source code or other computer software that relates to technology assisted voting under the approved procedures, except in accordance with the approved procedures or in accordance with any arrangement entered into by the person with the Electoral Commissioner. Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both.&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.austlii.edu.au&#x2F;au&#x2F;legis&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;consol_act&#x2F;peaea1912382&#x2F;s120ag.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.austlii.edu.au&#x2F;au&#x2F;legis&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;consol_act&#x2F;peaea19123...</a>)<p>Oh, and the whole thing runs on custom javascript crypto: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvs.ivote.nsw.gov.au&#x2F;scy-libs&#x2F;crypto-lib.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvs.ivote.nsw.gov.au&#x2F;scy-libs&#x2F;crypto-lib.js</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-south-wales-attacks-researchers-who-warned-internet-voting-vulnerabilities</url></story> |
19,802,771 | 19,802,193 | 1 | 3 | 19,799,443 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iClaudiusX</author><text>Even a brand new, unlocked, $1000 Samsung Galaxy S10 comes riddled with adware and spyware, some of it unremovable:<p>&quot;There are apps from Flipboard and Spotify as well as a unremovable version of Facebook. McAfee Anti-virus is baked into the operating system as &quot;security,&quot; and the Samsung Gallery app wants to share my location with Foursquare. The storage management settings, which is just a simple file-cleanup app, is &quot;Powered by Qihoo 360,&quot; a Chinese security company. A caller-ID feature built into the phone app is provided by a company called &quot;Hiya.&quot;<p>Once you run through setup and connect to Wi-Fi, the phone spawns an undismissable &quot;Secure Wi-Fi&quot; notification, which, it turns out, is an ad for McAfee VPN subscription service. I tried blocking the notification—it&#x27;s not blockable—but it turns out you can open the advertisement, carefully consider subscribing to McAfee VPN, say &quot;No,&quot; and then it will go away. Cool.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;galaxy-s10-review-for-1000-samsung-needs-to-offer-a-more-complete-package&#x2F;2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;galaxy-s10-review-fo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>It works, too. This is partly why the iPhone was so popular, at first. It&#x27;s been so long now that probably everyone has forgotten, but before the iPhone, essentially every smartphone on the market was fully loaded with trialware, crapware, and often had hardware features locked out by software so that you could pay extra to unlock them.<p>I remember one particular phone that had four user-configurable hardware buttons, but Verizon had locked them down so that they <i>all</i> opened the Verizon ringtone store.<p>The iPhone was a breath of fresh air if only for its software.</text></item><item><author>cryptonector</author><text><p><pre><code> OEM: Let&#x27;s differentiate our otherwise
commodity hw product!
OEM: I know, let&#x27;s add value with bundled
software the customer can&#x27;t uninstall!
</code></pre>
Then the bundled software turns out to (inevitably) be useless vulnerable garbage. Inevitably because a) the customer doesn&#x27;t need it, b) it&#x27;s engineered with all the effort that normally goes into adware for captive audiences (i.e., _minimal_), which means it will be vulnerable.<p>Here&#x27;s an idea:<p><pre><code> OEM: Let&#x27;s differentiate our otherwise
commodity hw product!
OEM: Let&#x27;s add NO bundled software.
</code></pre>
That would be fantastic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers</title><url>https://d4stiny.github.io/Remote-Code-Execution-on-most-Dell-computers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cryptonector</author><text>Exactly. Doing better by your customers <i>is</i> a differentiator. It&#x27;s worked very well for Apple. Microsoft could easily take a consumer-friendly stance on OEMs preinstalling software. Microsoft please!</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>It works, too. This is partly why the iPhone was so popular, at first. It&#x27;s been so long now that probably everyone has forgotten, but before the iPhone, essentially every smartphone on the market was fully loaded with trialware, crapware, and often had hardware features locked out by software so that you could pay extra to unlock them.<p>I remember one particular phone that had four user-configurable hardware buttons, but Verizon had locked them down so that they <i>all</i> opened the Verizon ringtone store.<p>The iPhone was a breath of fresh air if only for its software.</text></item><item><author>cryptonector</author><text><p><pre><code> OEM: Let&#x27;s differentiate our otherwise
commodity hw product!
OEM: I know, let&#x27;s add value with bundled
software the customer can&#x27;t uninstall!
</code></pre>
Then the bundled software turns out to (inevitably) be useless vulnerable garbage. Inevitably because a) the customer doesn&#x27;t need it, b) it&#x27;s engineered with all the effort that normally goes into adware for captive audiences (i.e., _minimal_), which means it will be vulnerable.<p>Here&#x27;s an idea:<p><pre><code> OEM: Let&#x27;s differentiate our otherwise
commodity hw product!
OEM: Let&#x27;s add NO bundled software.
</code></pre>
That would be fantastic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers</title><url>https://d4stiny.github.io/Remote-Code-Execution-on-most-Dell-computers/</url></story> |
11,661,925 | 11,661,756 | 1 | 3 | 11,658,051 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>econnors</author><text>But it&#x27;s not the publishers process or business model that is causing the problem - it&#x27;s the process of filling ad space that is broken. Sure, you could pick one ad network and micro monitor it, but you wouldn&#x27;t make enough money to sustain quality content. CPM optimization is a requirement of the field if you&#x27;d like to profit enough to sustain quality journalism and not be the next you-wont-guess-the-top-10-craziest-things site.<p>Yes, I think publishers have a responsibility to monitor their ads and keep their users safe. But I still don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a black and white ethics situation. The exchanges and other ad providers need to fix their business model and not depend on publishers to filter the malware ads they&#x27;re sneaking onto their page.</text><parent_chain><item><author>devishard</author><text>&gt; At any one time, a publisher can be serving ads from a few exchanges, a few different private sellers, and custom built ads for brands. And these all are served in different combinations across several different ad units on multiple pages. And some of those ad sellers may be backfilling with other ad networks, or maybe the publisher is backfilling certain ads from the ad exchanges at certain CPM prices.<p>So, don&#x27;t do that.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not that simple.<p>It is absolutely that simple.<p>Your argument is basically, &quot;Their process is so complicated they can&#x27;t avoid serving up malware.&quot; But that&#x27;s not a justification for serving up malware. If your process is too complicated to avoid serving malware, then you need to simplify your process until you can avoid serving up malware.<p>You don&#x27;t get a free pass on ethics just because ethics are inconvenient for your business model.</text></item><item><author>econnors</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. At any one time, a publisher can be serving ads from a few exchanges, a few different private sellers, and custom built ads for brands. And these all are served in different combinations across several different ad units on multiple pages. And some of those ad sellers may be backfilling with other ad networks, or maybe the publisher is backfilling certain ads from the ad exchanges at certain CPM prices.<p>I&#x27;d liken it more to a hardware product being shipped with faulty materials when multiple manufacturers are involved and it&#x27;s extremely difficult to identify the responsible party. Sure, they&#x27;re responsible for the end product, but it&#x27;s not so black and white.</text></item><item><author>tomp</author><text>Of course they are malicious. They&#x27;re serving the high-profit ads, which obviously includes malware, where they could be serving low-profit, safe (but boring) ads.<p>That&#x27;s equivalent to pharmacists selling illegal drugs (heroin, cocaine) simply because they obviously make them more profits.</text></item><item><author>econnors</author><text>As noted other comments, this would only apply to the &#x2F;r&#x2F;technology subreddit. The general feedback is in favor of blocking these types of sites.<p>I&#x27;m pretty amazed at the current state of ads. With multiple ad exchanges, private sellers, and static brand deals, the entire serving process is a mess and users are paying for it. I don&#x27;t think publishing websites are being malicious; they&#x27;re incentived to make money and just haven&#x27;t figured out how to do it at a high enough margin while keeping users happy. I just think the entire internet ad industry is in shambles and nobody really knows a solution that makes everyone happy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4if65h/mod_announcement_were_considering_banning_all/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>It isn&#x27;t that simple, but it should be... This is a space ripe for &quot;safe networks&quot; and self-serve ad platforms to take hold.</text><parent_chain><item><author>devishard</author><text>&gt; At any one time, a publisher can be serving ads from a few exchanges, a few different private sellers, and custom built ads for brands. And these all are served in different combinations across several different ad units on multiple pages. And some of those ad sellers may be backfilling with other ad networks, or maybe the publisher is backfilling certain ads from the ad exchanges at certain CPM prices.<p>So, don&#x27;t do that.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not that simple.<p>It is absolutely that simple.<p>Your argument is basically, &quot;Their process is so complicated they can&#x27;t avoid serving up malware.&quot; But that&#x27;s not a justification for serving up malware. If your process is too complicated to avoid serving malware, then you need to simplify your process until you can avoid serving up malware.<p>You don&#x27;t get a free pass on ethics just because ethics are inconvenient for your business model.</text></item><item><author>econnors</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. At any one time, a publisher can be serving ads from a few exchanges, a few different private sellers, and custom built ads for brands. And these all are served in different combinations across several different ad units on multiple pages. And some of those ad sellers may be backfilling with other ad networks, or maybe the publisher is backfilling certain ads from the ad exchanges at certain CPM prices.<p>I&#x27;d liken it more to a hardware product being shipped with faulty materials when multiple manufacturers are involved and it&#x27;s extremely difficult to identify the responsible party. Sure, they&#x27;re responsible for the end product, but it&#x27;s not so black and white.</text></item><item><author>tomp</author><text>Of course they are malicious. They&#x27;re serving the high-profit ads, which obviously includes malware, where they could be serving low-profit, safe (but boring) ads.<p>That&#x27;s equivalent to pharmacists selling illegal drugs (heroin, cocaine) simply because they obviously make them more profits.</text></item><item><author>econnors</author><text>As noted other comments, this would only apply to the &#x2F;r&#x2F;technology subreddit. The general feedback is in favor of blocking these types of sites.<p>I&#x27;m pretty amazed at the current state of ads. With multiple ad exchanges, private sellers, and static brand deals, the entire serving process is a mess and users are paying for it. I don&#x27;t think publishing websites are being malicious; they&#x27;re incentived to make money and just haven&#x27;t figured out how to do it at a high enough margin while keeping users happy. I just think the entire internet ad industry is in shambles and nobody really knows a solution that makes everyone happy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4if65h/mod_announcement_were_considering_banning_all/</url></story> |
38,105,515 | 38,105,492 | 1 | 2 | 38,098,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonbarker87</author><text>It’s the bubble of very online people and start up culture who think tech people age out at 40. I know plenty of devs in theirs 50s, after that they just take early retirement since they’ve earned enough.<p>Most devs aren’t terminally online, they treat coding as a job not a lifestyle and for them it’s just like any other industry - so you don’t hear from them.<p>Also, some devs retire into SQL and DBA like work since you can basically make yourself unfireable if you want to coast out the last decade of your career.</text><parent_chain><item><author>manzanarama</author><text>Maybe I am naïve but I don&#x27;t get this age vibe really. I do backend java distributed system stuff for a large company. A lot of my peers and managers are &quot;older&quot; 40s and 50s with kids. A lot of the work is high collaborative and design focused. Maybe I am just in a bubble of an aging tech stack but it does seem like we are always using &quot;new&quot; (at least different) databases, caching, and network layers to stay somewhat current.<p>Its hard to imagine that 5,10,15 years of distributed systems and system design experience and knowledge along with domain knowledge and social skills will be all of a sudden be so irrelevant that it is worth phasing all of us &quot;old guys&quot; out for someone who happened to learn the newest programming language straight out of school.<p>We are constantly expected to learn the new stuff and will just a project assigned with a mandate &quot;okay this is to be done in spring boot, using this DB, this HTTP layer, etc...</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Similarly, my husband is a commercial pilot and is now starting to make more money than me in tech after his 10+ years of underpaid work and a high student loan debt load.<p>But, here&#x27;s the deal: he&#x27;s basically going to make top dollar until he&#x27;s 65. Meanwhile, I&#x27;ll likely be seen as a dinosaur in tech by that age and will be lucky to find work at all.<p>I imagine your wife will be seen the same way. She can comfortably work until retirement age, in an profession that sees experience as a positive thing, while you might be a pariah before you know it.<p>Yes, we make good money when we&#x27;re young in tech. But we age out much more quickly due to the bias common in our industry.</text></item><item><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>There is absolutely a shortage of doctors. AMA is unwilling to fix this and instead rely on a system that drives many to suicide.<p>My wife is a doctor. I’m a software engineer. While she now makes more than I do, it took nearly 10 years. That whole time, we were racking up tuition&#x2F;debt on tuition. Residency was demanding and severely underpaid.<p>Based on our math, we’ll be 25 to 30 years into our careers before her medical education with have a better ROI than my career choice. I didn’t even push for top-dollar jobs.<p>In other word, medical training had a huge opportunity cost. Even if you solve the bottleneck of residency placement, salaries need to offset the insane burden of training.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why doctors in America earn so much</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/10/31/why-doctors-in-america-earn-so-much</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>It&#x27;s still unfortunately common, because there are always young workers in the pipeline.<p>HP: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38043552">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38043552</a> (&quot;It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M settlement&quot;)<p>IBM: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diversityjobs.com&#x2F;career-advice&#x2F;team-building&#x2F;how-tech-giants-have-been-getting-away-with-age-discrimination&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diversityjobs.com&#x2F;career-advice&#x2F;team-building&#x2F;ho...</a> (Control-f &quot;Sources&quot;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;features.propublica.org&#x2F;ibm&#x2F;ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;features.propublica.org&#x2F;ibm&#x2F;ibm-age-discrimination-a...</a> (&quot;ProPublica: Cutting &#x27;Old Heads&#x27; at IBM&quot;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jackkelly&#x2F;2023&#x2F;02&#x2F;17&#x2F;prior-ageism-allegations-at-google-facebook-and-ibm-raise-concerns-about-older-workers-being-targeted-for-termination&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jackkelly&#x2F;2023&#x2F;02&#x2F;17&#x2F;prior-agei...</a> (&quot;Prior Ageism Allegations At Google, Facebook And IBM Raise Concerns About Older Workers Being Targeted For Termination&quot;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14932680">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14932680</a> (&quot;HN: Ageism is forcing many to look outside Silicon Valley&quot;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.orangecountyemploymentlawyersblog.com&#x2F;dfeh-90-age-discrimination-complaints-filed-against-tech-firms-since-2012&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.orangecountyemploymentlawyersblog.com&#x2F;dfeh-90-ag...</a> (&quot;DFEH: 90 Age Discrimination Complaints Filed Against Tech Firms Since 2012&quot;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>manzanarama</author><text>Maybe I am naïve but I don&#x27;t get this age vibe really. I do backend java distributed system stuff for a large company. A lot of my peers and managers are &quot;older&quot; 40s and 50s with kids. A lot of the work is high collaborative and design focused. Maybe I am just in a bubble of an aging tech stack but it does seem like we are always using &quot;new&quot; (at least different) databases, caching, and network layers to stay somewhat current.<p>Its hard to imagine that 5,10,15 years of distributed systems and system design experience and knowledge along with domain knowledge and social skills will be all of a sudden be so irrelevant that it is worth phasing all of us &quot;old guys&quot; out for someone who happened to learn the newest programming language straight out of school.<p>We are constantly expected to learn the new stuff and will just a project assigned with a mandate &quot;okay this is to be done in spring boot, using this DB, this HTTP layer, etc...</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Similarly, my husband is a commercial pilot and is now starting to make more money than me in tech after his 10+ years of underpaid work and a high student loan debt load.<p>But, here&#x27;s the deal: he&#x27;s basically going to make top dollar until he&#x27;s 65. Meanwhile, I&#x27;ll likely be seen as a dinosaur in tech by that age and will be lucky to find work at all.<p>I imagine your wife will be seen the same way. She can comfortably work until retirement age, in an profession that sees experience as a positive thing, while you might be a pariah before you know it.<p>Yes, we make good money when we&#x27;re young in tech. But we age out much more quickly due to the bias common in our industry.</text></item><item><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>There is absolutely a shortage of doctors. AMA is unwilling to fix this and instead rely on a system that drives many to suicide.<p>My wife is a doctor. I’m a software engineer. While she now makes more than I do, it took nearly 10 years. That whole time, we were racking up tuition&#x2F;debt on tuition. Residency was demanding and severely underpaid.<p>Based on our math, we’ll be 25 to 30 years into our careers before her medical education with have a better ROI than my career choice. I didn’t even push for top-dollar jobs.<p>In other word, medical training had a huge opportunity cost. Even if you solve the bottleneck of residency placement, salaries need to offset the insane burden of training.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why doctors in America earn so much</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/10/31/why-doctors-in-america-earn-so-much</url></story> |
4,117,648 | 4,117,631 | 1 | 2 | 4,117,417 | 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>drharris</author><text>Forgive potential ignorance here, but people often quote Joel Spolsky as saying things like: "...the trouble with using a lot of mediocre programmers instead of a couple of good ones is that no matter how long they strive, they will still produce something mediocre."<p>What really genius-level things has Fog Creek done? I remember demoing FogBugz, and it was marginally better than its competitors, but it was far from a complete game-changer. Trello is ok, but it's only marginally better than a whiteboard with post-it notes. None of these reinvent an industry, or provide something so outstanding that people rush toward it.<p>Don't get me wrong; I think Joel has a lot of good ideas in general, and Stack Exchange is indeed a game-changer. But as someone who continually talks about hiring "rock star programmers", I simply don't see a result that I'd consider "rock star" equivalent. But, maybe I'm missing something?<p>Edit: More than that, I don't even consider myself a rock star developer, just a normal developer who loves learning new things and getting a lot of stuff done. I'd be thrilled to work for a Google or Microsoft, but what would attract "rock star developers" to Fog Creek? Basically, are fancy chairs enough? Isn't the most attractive thing a super interesting problem domain?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Super-star programmers</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/06/super-star-programmers?fsrc=gn_ep</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forgotAgain</author><text>As I reached about half way through the article I got bored and my mind starting having stray thoughts<p>- god this is long. Isn't it ironic that a superstar programmer would have been bored by now and stopped reading.<p>- momentarily after that, I guess I just admitted that I'm not s superstar programmer.<p>- momentarily after that, I wonder if there are writers who can transmit ten times as much information using one tenth of the words.<p>- just now, I imagine magazines don't want superstar writers. That would diminish the amount of ad space they could sell.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Super-star programmers</title><url>http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/06/super-star-programmers?fsrc=gn_ep</url></story> |
28,176,891 | 28,167,680 | 1 | 2 | 28,166,236 | 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>Unit520</author><text>Slightly off-topic, but still anecdotal how far CGI has come, I recently showed my dad who hasn&#x27;t played any video games for at least 20 years this [0] video of the current MS Flight Simulator. It is produced in a documentary style, so there are no real cues to it being a game. After watching it together, my dad said: &quot;Yeah that&#x27;s a nice documentary about this difficult airport, but I thought you wanted to show me that new game?&quot;.
You can imagine his face when I told him that we&#x27;ve in fact watched just that.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UtAF1I_H01w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UtAF1I_H01w</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>I can&#x27;t think of a time when I&#x27;ve been fooled by CGI (though, of course, I wouldn&#x27;t be aware of being fooled if I was, so it&#x27;s a catch-22).<p>I <i>really</i> hate when movies throw in a CGI character expecting it to come off as real. It pulls you out of the movie in a way that normal over-the-top action CGI doesn&#x27;t. I remember watching the recent Star Wars movies and being jerked out of the flow by CGI Princess Leah and some other characters (whoever the villainous old man was in that movie).<p>I&#x27;d be interested to see any videos of CGI faces that can fool experts.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>If you follow the &#x27;VFX artists react&#x27; series on YouTube you learn what give CGI humans away pretty easily. Getting CGI humans right is very difficult and few VFX houses, with decades of experience, get it right even with post processing, let alone doing it in real time.<p>CGI Jensen looks like he came out of a 2009 videogame. Nvidia may have the tech but you can tell it lacks the artistic supervision of a proper VFX house so the end result looks like something their engineers put together in a last minute crunch (which is probably what happened).</text></item><item><author>jstanley</author><text>I was going to comment something like &quot;yeah, yeah, everyone&#x27;s an expert, it&#x27;s easy to say you can spot the CGI once you&#x27;ve been told it&#x27;s there&quot;, but then I looked at the video and... wow, that really is a pretty weak showing!</text></item><item><author>nightcracker</author><text>The correct timestamp of the CGI is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&amp;t=3761s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&amp;t=3761s</a>. It&#x27;s only ~14 seconds of CGI.<p>And it&#x27;s a pretty weak showing. The stiff animation and bad lip sync immediately gives it away to me. And the fact that the CGI Huang is shown ~15 times smaller than the real one is very damning.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not clear exactly which part of the keynote speech features CGI Huang (which is what makes the replica so impressive), but if you jump to this part of the presentation you can see Huang magically disappear and his kitchen explode into multiple different 3D models.<p>So how much was Vice paid for this article?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nbpa/nvidia-reveals-its-ceo-was-computer-generated-in-keynote-speech</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aeolos</author><text>I get your point, but &quot;I can&#x27;t think of a time when I&#x27;ve been fooled by CGI&quot; is a tautology: you remember = you weren&#x27;t fooled. If you had been fooled, chances are you wouldn&#x27;t remember.<p>There are videos from CGI artists, e.g. Corridor Crew, that break down really good CGI, which is almost entirely invisible to the non-expert eye. That is in fact the best kind of CGI: the one that enhances reality so seamlessly that it&#x27;s almost impossible to pick apart. Quite entertaining and informative videos.</text><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>I can&#x27;t think of a time when I&#x27;ve been fooled by CGI (though, of course, I wouldn&#x27;t be aware of being fooled if I was, so it&#x27;s a catch-22).<p>I <i>really</i> hate when movies throw in a CGI character expecting it to come off as real. It pulls you out of the movie in a way that normal over-the-top action CGI doesn&#x27;t. I remember watching the recent Star Wars movies and being jerked out of the flow by CGI Princess Leah and some other characters (whoever the villainous old man was in that movie).<p>I&#x27;d be interested to see any videos of CGI faces that can fool experts.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>If you follow the &#x27;VFX artists react&#x27; series on YouTube you learn what give CGI humans away pretty easily. Getting CGI humans right is very difficult and few VFX houses, with decades of experience, get it right even with post processing, let alone doing it in real time.<p>CGI Jensen looks like he came out of a 2009 videogame. Nvidia may have the tech but you can tell it lacks the artistic supervision of a proper VFX house so the end result looks like something their engineers put together in a last minute crunch (which is probably what happened).</text></item><item><author>jstanley</author><text>I was going to comment something like &quot;yeah, yeah, everyone&#x27;s an expert, it&#x27;s easy to say you can spot the CGI once you&#x27;ve been told it&#x27;s there&quot;, but then I looked at the video and... wow, that really is a pretty weak showing!</text></item><item><author>nightcracker</author><text>The correct timestamp of the CGI is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&amp;t=3761s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&amp;t=3761s</a>. It&#x27;s only ~14 seconds of CGI.<p>And it&#x27;s a pretty weak showing. The stiff animation and bad lip sync immediately gives it away to me. And the fact that the CGI Huang is shown ~15 times smaller than the real one is very damning.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not clear exactly which part of the keynote speech features CGI Huang (which is what makes the replica so impressive), but if you jump to this part of the presentation you can see Huang magically disappear and his kitchen explode into multiple different 3D models.<p>So how much was Vice paid for this article?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nbpa/nvidia-reveals-its-ceo-was-computer-generated-in-keynote-speech</url></story> |
20,167,440 | 20,167,299 | 1 | 3 | 20,165,254 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rasz</author><text>Wanna guess how much first ever 60 MHz Pentium chip cost in 1993? How about first 90 MHz Pentium in 1994? First Pentium II in 1997? Price of fastest Athlon K7 in August 1999? All more than $750 despite 20 years of inflation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbov</author><text>Although it&#x27;s a &quot;consumer&quot; chip, at a pricetag of $750 its kind of a weird hybrid.</text></item><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>And it&#x27;s a consumer cheap, not really from the same league. Can&#x27;t wait to see what new Threadripper will offer.</text></item><item><author>tmd83</author><text>If that&#x27;s really true, a 16 core AMD having a higher performance than a 18 core intel processor at twice the price, that&#x27;s a fabulous news for all consumers. Hopefully that will stop both intel from setting absurd price for mid end processor and generally push the industry forward.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is the fastest processor on Geekbench</title><url>https://www.techquila.co.in/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-vs-intels-18-core-i9/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CBLT</author><text>It&#x27;s a halo product for their am4 platform. I&#x27;ve heard people recommend midrange Intel cpus over equivalent Amd parts because you could upgrade to a top-of-the-line cpu later on that platform, but you couldn&#x27;t go higher on Ryzen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbov</author><text>Although it&#x27;s a &quot;consumer&quot; chip, at a pricetag of $750 its kind of a weird hybrid.</text></item><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>And it&#x27;s a consumer cheap, not really from the same league. Can&#x27;t wait to see what new Threadripper will offer.</text></item><item><author>tmd83</author><text>If that&#x27;s really true, a 16 core AMD having a higher performance than a 18 core intel processor at twice the price, that&#x27;s a fabulous news for all consumers. Hopefully that will stop both intel from setting absurd price for mid end processor and generally push the industry forward.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is the fastest processor on Geekbench</title><url>https://www.techquila.co.in/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-vs-intels-18-core-i9/</url></story> |
11,789,819 | 11,789,804 | 1 | 3 | 11,789,169 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>near</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been in favor of all OpenBSD security enhancements I&#x27;ve seen, but I have to say, and please hear me out, this is an objectively terrible idea.<p>Yes, most programs should disallow W|X by default. But trying to banish the entire practice with a mount flag, knowing full well few people will go that far to run a W|X application, is bad practice. I&#x27;d rather see this as another specialty chmod flag ala SUID, SGID, etc. Or something along those lines. One shouldn&#x27;t have to enable filesystem-wide W|X just to run one application.<p>The thing is, when you actually <i>do</i> need W|X, there is no simple workaround. Many emulators and JITs <i>need</i> to be able to dynamically recompile instructions to native machine code to achieve acceptable performance (emulating a 3GHz processor is just not going to happen with an interpreter.) For a particularly busy dynamic recompiler, having to constantly call mprotect to toggle the page flags between W!X and X!W will impact performance too greatly, since that is a syscall requiring a kernel-level transition.<p>We also have app stores banning the use of this technique as well. This is a very troubling trend lately; it is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.<p>EDIT: tj responded to me on Twitter: &quot;the per-mountpoint idea is just an initial method; it&#x27;ll be refined as time goes on. i think per-binary w^x is in the pipeline.&quot; -- that will not only resolve my concerns, but in fact would be my ideal design to balance security and performance.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160527203200</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>This paper&#x27;s thesis is that W^X does not work, and not because of any of the reasons presented in this thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cseweb.ucsd.edu&#x2F;~hovav&#x2F;dist&#x2F;geometry.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cseweb.ucsd.edu&#x2F;~hovav&#x2F;dist&#x2F;geometry.pdf</a><p>The paper says that to bypass W^X protection, you can simply scan an executable for &quot;the instruction you want to use, followed by a RET&quot;. The paper calls these &quot;gadgets.&quot;<p>You can write any function you want by using these gadgets: simply call them. When you call a gadget, it executes the corresponding instruction, then returns. This allows you to write arbitrary functions, since real-world programs are large enough that they have a massive number of gadgets for you to choose from.<p>Can someone provide a counterargument?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160527203200</url></story> |
25,074,174 | 25,073,653 | 1 | 2 | 25,073,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aard</author><text>&gt; &quot;In a competitive market for development work and staff, paying people to learn from mistakes that have already been made by many others is an unaffordable luxury; an engineering approach, derived from evidence, is a lot more cost-effective than craft development.&quot;<p>I disagree with this characterization. Yet again, we developers are being told to just follow the program. That programming is not an artistic or craft endeavor that benefits from experience and intuition. It is like working in a factory where coders just bang out widgets on an assembly line. And the self-appointed thinkers will optimize the process for us.<p>What is at risk by not allowing developers to &quot;learn from mistakes&quot; is autonomy. Striping developers of their autonomy is the primary cause of poor performance, not an inability to execute so-called &quot;best practices&quot;<p>Attempts to codify the process of software development always fail, because coding is a design process not a manufacturing one. Developers do their jobs in many different ways, many of which are equally effective. There is more than one way to skin a cat -- especially in creative work.<p>&gt; &quot;The labour of the cognitariate is the means of production of software systems&quot;<p>This false assumption is at the base of the problem. The work of the compiler (or scp) are the means of software production. Coding is design. Once the design is complete, the results are compiled and copied to their target environments. In software, production is negligible. Which promotes the misconception that developers are producing software. In actuality they are designing software. The difference may seem subtle, but it is crucial.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence-based software engineering: book released</title><url>http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2020/11/08/evidence-based-software-engineering-book-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spekcular</author><text>I read the entirety of a draft of this once, about a year ago, when I was bored one night. I don&#x27;t want to be overly critical of someone&#x27;s book, so let me just say that:<p>A) I don&#x27;t understand why an entire elementary statistics pseudo-textbook is bolted on at the end, forming the entire back half of the text, and<p>B) the title interested me because it promised concrete information that would improve my own software development, and while I found many things in the first half of the book, I didn&#x27;t find this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence-based software engineering: book released</title><url>http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2020/11/08/evidence-based-software-engineering-book-released/</url></story> |
35,138,360 | 35,138,031 | 1 | 3 | 35,137,327 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nav_Panel</author><text>Buddy of mine has a $20k pair of monitors in a soundproofed room, and I was able to A&#x2F;B 320 vs lossless on that system only, and only on certain types of material. The difference was only evident in the very high frequencies, and I really had to focus to tell.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brianmcc</author><text>You certainly aren&#x27;t alone! I find 128kbps unlistenable but I A&#x2F;B tested 320 vs lossless and - nope, couldn&#x27;t tell the difference, even trying hard to do so.<p>I consider myself an enthusiast&#x2F;hobbyist, not an audiophile, and hold a pretty high level of scepticism about the truly devoted tbh.<p>That said I&#x27;ve never had the pleasure of listening to anything north of around the £10k mark, so I would love to be convinced of a genuine move-the-dial listening benefit of the really high end gear!</text></item><item><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt totally alone falling somewhere between hardcore audiophiles and the &#x27;norm,&#x27; which seems to feel a cell phone or cheap laptop speaker is as good as anything else for music. I really notice the difference between cheap crap, and say an older used brand name receiver with freestanding floor speakers, the kind of system you can find on craigslist for about $100. But I cannot notice a major difference between the $100 system, and say a $100k system (or whatever audiophiles spend). I also do notice a big difference between a 96Kbps MP3 and 320Kbps, but not between 320Kbps and lossless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)</title><url>https://www.audioasylum.com/messages/pcaudio/119979/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>10-15k (mostly in speakers) is around when you start experiencing strongly diminishing returns.<p>Some really nice floorstanding speakers though offer a jaw dropping improvement that’s measurable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brianmcc</author><text>You certainly aren&#x27;t alone! I find 128kbps unlistenable but I A&#x2F;B tested 320 vs lossless and - nope, couldn&#x27;t tell the difference, even trying hard to do so.<p>I consider myself an enthusiast&#x2F;hobbyist, not an audiophile, and hold a pretty high level of scepticism about the truly devoted tbh.<p>That said I&#x27;ve never had the pleasure of listening to anything north of around the £10k mark, so I would love to be convinced of a genuine move-the-dial listening benefit of the really high end gear!</text></item><item><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt totally alone falling somewhere between hardcore audiophiles and the &#x27;norm,&#x27; which seems to feel a cell phone or cheap laptop speaker is as good as anything else for music. I really notice the difference between cheap crap, and say an older used brand name receiver with freestanding floor speakers, the kind of system you can find on craigslist for about $100. But I cannot notice a major difference between the $100 system, and say a $100k system (or whatever audiophiles spend). I also do notice a big difference between a 96Kbps MP3 and 320Kbps, but not between 320Kbps and lossless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)</title><url>https://www.audioasylum.com/messages/pcaudio/119979/</url></story> |
12,783,081 | 12,783,014 | 1 | 2 | 12,782,412 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmcdiesel</author><text>The question is does this opinion comes from experience, or from assumption?<p>Having an Apple Watch now for about 6 months, I can say I love it, and none of those things (and I shared the same skepticism before buying one) have proven to be issues.<p>I don&#x27;t tend to look at my watch when I sleep - so that one&#x27;s easy, and when you charge the watch its in a mode that gives off a low-light time (nightstand mode, i think they call it). On top of that, it takes about an hour to charge, so often I end up charging it during my night time regiment, and by the time I go to bed, i COULD wear it (if i need to make sure I&#x27;m up early for something, i wear it so i get the vibration)<p>If you want a traditional watch, then get a traditional watch - comparing it to a traditional watch and holding to the same standards is not a position of common sense...</text><parent_chain><item><author>choward</author><text>The biggest issue for me with the &quot;smartwatch&quot; is that they don&#x27;t have feature parody with dumb watches. I&#x27;ve had many watches in the past and the battery lasts for years. I can also turn my wrist and see the time instantly. Who would have thought?<p>What I get now is some piece of crap that needs to be charged every night. So I basically have no features while I&#x27;m sleeping. I can&#x27;t just wake up in the middle of the night an instantly know what the time is.<p>As a battery saving measure, the time isn&#x27;t displayed until I turn my wrist and wait some obscene amount of time (around a second?). It also goes from being dark to being lit... so much for being discrete.<p>I wish they would stop calling these things &quot;watches&quot; just because they go on your wrist. I expect anything called a watch to have the features of a watch and be on my wrist pretty much all of the time. Call it a fitness tracker if it&#x27;s not meant to be worn 24&#x2F;7.<p>Let me know when battery life is within a couple of orders of magnitude of real watches, then maybe I&#x27;ll revisit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smartwatch sales are tanking</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/smartwatch-sales-are-tanking/?ncid=rss</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>I would say that most smartwatches are indeed a parody of real watches. They certainly do not have feature <i>parity</i> with their traditional competitors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>choward</author><text>The biggest issue for me with the &quot;smartwatch&quot; is that they don&#x27;t have feature parody with dumb watches. I&#x27;ve had many watches in the past and the battery lasts for years. I can also turn my wrist and see the time instantly. Who would have thought?<p>What I get now is some piece of crap that needs to be charged every night. So I basically have no features while I&#x27;m sleeping. I can&#x27;t just wake up in the middle of the night an instantly know what the time is.<p>As a battery saving measure, the time isn&#x27;t displayed until I turn my wrist and wait some obscene amount of time (around a second?). It also goes from being dark to being lit... so much for being discrete.<p>I wish they would stop calling these things &quot;watches&quot; just because they go on your wrist. I expect anything called a watch to have the features of a watch and be on my wrist pretty much all of the time. Call it a fitness tracker if it&#x27;s not meant to be worn 24&#x2F;7.<p>Let me know when battery life is within a couple of orders of magnitude of real watches, then maybe I&#x27;ll revisit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smartwatch sales are tanking</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/smartwatch-sales-are-tanking/?ncid=rss</url></story> |
32,241,246 | 32,241,223 | 1 | 3 | 32,238,167 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edm0nd</author><text>Use a reshipping services or just find a drop site you have mail access to and know that no one will be home when its likely to be delivered. In my carding days in the late 90s - early 00s, I would use houses being built that were not occupied yet or still under construction. Carded many Rolexes, Oakleys, and video games like Starcraft Brood War and The Sims this way lol.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cosentiyes</author><text>Is there a good way to receive the physical good without providing your address, though?</text></item><item><author>prophesi</author><text>Kind of surprised this hasn&#x27;t been mentioned yet, but it&#x27;s pretty commonplace to buy gift cards with cryptocurrencies. So there&#x27;s yet another layer of anonymity if you buy an Amazon gift card from a stranger&#x2F;service then use it for a physical Mullvad activation code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mullvad is now available on Amazon</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/7/26/mullvad-is-now-available-on-amazon-us-se/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>airdrop</author><text>You can create an Amazon account with a burner, fund it with a giftcard, and have the item shipped to an Amazon locker.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cosentiyes</author><text>Is there a good way to receive the physical good without providing your address, though?</text></item><item><author>prophesi</author><text>Kind of surprised this hasn&#x27;t been mentioned yet, but it&#x27;s pretty commonplace to buy gift cards with cryptocurrencies. So there&#x27;s yet another layer of anonymity if you buy an Amazon gift card from a stranger&#x2F;service then use it for a physical Mullvad activation code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mullvad is now available on Amazon</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/7/26/mullvad-is-now-available-on-amazon-us-se/</url></story> |
37,248,082 | 37,241,097 | 1 | 2 | 37,231,276 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chewmieser</author><text>Gift article (unlocked):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;21&#x2F;well&#x2F;live&#x2F;screen-apnea-breathing.html?unlocked_article_code=mIvtOKm2U1dHc9f22Aheo-XLKKnAN1BfH_COezJJDIEYshQVPd_SIIWtmLVpSGqXITsnB0VHaOEuRy2acKcFp9VhaZvcvYyno1CHpMCpH5TVu0tuJQ2ZWq96rv-3vqkDBpyhvraHOVJ2-5zBMQlJ8LRxBMOHjNqNz0ExfgAcZXziI4acfLoSIDKnjBW8HCoOpV-DLaFyiVknA5IC3Rii8Q1J6tUtlDbsFlVh4zaHUTAvYOL1aYrcoOcRCi2Xx2vFGxepu02-HyT4ZGtAzaw32iLSVy2sJ7xv3Y3BQTwpm4v0FJkZNvT3HvQfNn-9Q8OyNIbd65fs6U_YkQl6pbHurDhK&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;21&#x2F;well&#x2F;live&#x2F;screen-apnea-br...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Screen Apnea</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/well/live/screen-apnea-breathing.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>yamrzou</author><text>Related:<p><i>Are you breathing? Do you have email apnea? (2014)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36117879">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36117879</a> - May 2023 (33 comments)<p><i>Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30181560">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30181560</a> - Feb 2022 (125 comments)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Screen Apnea</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/well/live/screen-apnea-breathing.html</url></story> |
28,790,297 | 28,790,393 | 1 | 3 | 28,789,680 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AndyKelley</author><text>2021 update:<p>* The Zig Software Foundation now exists<p>* My total income including ZSF Salary, GitHub Sponsors, Patreon is now about 4000 USD per month. Legally, my ZSF salary is 160K per year, but I have been consistently donating it back to the org since frankly we just don&#x27;t have that much revenue at this point in time, and I&#x27;ve been prioritizing getting that money to other Zig contributors.<p>* The $150&#x2F;month to Rich Felker now comes from ZSF instead of my personal account.<p>* Zig 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0 have all been released. 0.9.0 is coming soon.<p>* I no longer really have an opinion about V; it&#x27;s been two years since I paid any attention to it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)</title><url>https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-project.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yboris</author><text>Consider joining <i>Giving What We Can</i> - an international community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to causes that they think are most <i>effective</i> at eliminating what they think are the world&#x27;s biggest problems. (I&#x27;m a proud member for 10 years).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.givingwhatwecan.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.givingwhatwecan.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)</title><url>https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-project.html</url></story> |
6,214,622 | 6,214,718 | 1 | 3 | 6,213,865 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nrivadeneira</author><text>I find that a hardcore workout works even better than alcohol. Not only do you get the same winding down effect in a short period of time (assuming you&#x27;re really killing yourself and working to exhaustion in the gym), but you get a lot of additional benefits along with it: better focus, improved health, boosted confidence, and improved body composition. You wake up the next morning feeling a lot better about yourself. My experience with alcohol is often the opposite.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bitops</author><text><i>&gt; booze enables workaholism, because of the fast unwind time</i><p>I think this is the key insight from the article. I went through a stressful period where I used alcohol to wind down quickly. But in reality it just made things worse because it numbed me up to the real reasons why I was stressed out. Sometimes though, we don&#x27;t want to look at the deeper issues (emotional&#x2F;psychological) for why we are unhappy, and booze provides some quick and effective relief.<p>I&#x27;ve recently gotten much healthier and it&#x27;s amazing to experience that the old adage about &quot;making a lifestyle change&quot; really is the core of it. All the different parts of your life have to hang together for the positive switch to happen. If you think of exercise and diet as a way to &quot;pay down the debt&quot; you&#x27;ll never get out from under whatever is holding you down.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>40 Days Without Booze</title><url>http://jdmoyer.com/2013/08/14/40-days-without-booze/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RougeFemme</author><text>Alcohol does help you wind down quickly, but, at least for me, it doesn&#x27;t help me stay wound down. Even if I have a couple of drinks and then go to sleep, I don&#x27;t stay asleep very long - a couple of hours at most. And when I wake up, I&#x27;m more &quot;wired&quot; than I would be after a typical 2-hour nap. Having said all that, I still enjoy an occasional drink and the &quot;slow&quot; unwind that comes with that. But nothing beats the &quot;lifestyle change&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bitops</author><text><i>&gt; booze enables workaholism, because of the fast unwind time</i><p>I think this is the key insight from the article. I went through a stressful period where I used alcohol to wind down quickly. But in reality it just made things worse because it numbed me up to the real reasons why I was stressed out. Sometimes though, we don&#x27;t want to look at the deeper issues (emotional&#x2F;psychological) for why we are unhappy, and booze provides some quick and effective relief.<p>I&#x27;ve recently gotten much healthier and it&#x27;s amazing to experience that the old adage about &quot;making a lifestyle change&quot; really is the core of it. All the different parts of your life have to hang together for the positive switch to happen. If you think of exercise and diet as a way to &quot;pay down the debt&quot; you&#x27;ll never get out from under whatever is holding you down.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>40 Days Without Booze</title><url>http://jdmoyer.com/2013/08/14/40-days-without-booze/</url></story> |
3,850,476 | 3,850,287 | 1 | 2 | 3,850,007 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mukaiji</author><text>While Zuckerberg is busy buying vanity smartphone photo-filters for a billion bucks, Elon Musk is busy putting America back in space.<p>Impact. Matters.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX's Dragon ship set for station visit</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17732480</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>waiwai933</author><text>I can't believe that the launch is scheduled for April 30th; in my mind, commercial spaceflight was at least another year away. Either way, if all goes well, I think this marks the beginning of yet another era, and the milestone is, quite frankly, amazing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX's Dragon ship set for station visit</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17732480</url><text></text></story> |
2,208,210 | 2,208,201 | 1 | 2 | 2,208,056 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>It may be harder than you expect to establish that you're not in a business related to your former employer, at least to the extent that you can quickly end a legal action; all I'm saying is, that legal safeguard may not be as helpful as you'd hope.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rst</author><text>This also varies somewhat by state; there's a law in California (Labor Code section 2870[1]) that bars employers from claiming work that an employee does "on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities or trade secret information" unless the invention relates directly to the employer's business. I'd still check with a lawyer, though, even if in California --- and if elsewhere, most states are a lot less generous.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&#38;group=02001-03000&#38;file=2870-2872" rel="nofollow">http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&#3...</a></text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Very often, yes. The boilerplate IP contracts provided by most law firms usually claims one of:<p>* All software development work you ever do while employed by the company.<p>* All software development work you do using in any way any resource of the company, from computer to network connection.<p>* All software development work you do related to the business of the company that employs you.<p>* All software development work you do that isn't explicitly listed in an exhibit of exceptions you, the employee, fill out.<p>Before you start asking how enforceable this stuff is, note that unlike with noncompetes (which usually aren't practically enforceable), the way <i>this</i> issue is going to come up is, you're going to try to start a company, and your first official act of business is going to be to start defending yourself against legal actions from your employer that will torpedo any chance you have of getting funding for the year or so it takes for those actions to resolve themselves.<p>So, 'grellas may chime in and say "don't worry about this", in which case ignore me, but I wouldn't dick around with this issue. If my IP contract precluded me from working on my next company project, I'd get a clarified official path to working on it from my employer, and leave if one wasn't provided.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?</title><url>http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-at-a-company-do-they-have-intellectual-property-rights-to-the-stu</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elai</author><text>There was also a similar clause in my washington employment contract. The law even states that the clause must be put in all contracts and still applies if it doesn't.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rst</author><text>This also varies somewhat by state; there's a law in California (Labor Code section 2870[1]) that bars employers from claiming work that an employee does "on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities or trade secret information" unless the invention relates directly to the employer's business. I'd still check with a lawyer, though, even if in California --- and if elsewhere, most states are a lot less generous.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&#38;group=02001-03000&#38;file=2870-2872" rel="nofollow">http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&#3...</a></text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Very often, yes. The boilerplate IP contracts provided by most law firms usually claims one of:<p>* All software development work you ever do while employed by the company.<p>* All software development work you do using in any way any resource of the company, from computer to network connection.<p>* All software development work you do related to the business of the company that employs you.<p>* All software development work you do that isn't explicitly listed in an exhibit of exceptions you, the employee, fill out.<p>Before you start asking how enforceable this stuff is, note that unlike with noncompetes (which usually aren't practically enforceable), the way <i>this</i> issue is going to come up is, you're going to try to start a company, and your first official act of business is going to be to start defending yourself against legal actions from your employer that will torpedo any chance you have of getting funding for the year or so it takes for those actions to resolve themselves.<p>So, 'grellas may chime in and say "don't worry about this", in which case ignore me, but I wouldn't dick around with this issue. If my IP contract precluded me from working on my next company project, I'd get a clarified official path to working on it from my employer, and leave if one wasn't provided.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?</title><url>http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-at-a-company-do-they-have-intellectual-property-rights-to-the-stu</url></story> |
22,383,695 | 22,383,731 | 1 | 2 | 22,382,618 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pxhb</author><text>One reason you might not find ‘inertial’ is because the only thing they have in common is a laser.<p>For ICF, a long-pulse laser is used like a hammer to heat and compress the material to fusion conditions.<p>This scheme, as far as I can tell, uses the large EM fields of a short-pulse laser to accelerate a ‘beam’ of ions into cold material to induce fusion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willis936</author><text>27 comments and not one hit of the word “inertial”! The line about not being thermonuclear and the description of the device in question (a sphere with lasers) points towards an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) device. Most of the fusion research eggs are in the thermonuclear basket, specifically magnetic confinement fusion. It is good to research a diverse set of approaches, but there are more engineering challenges to ICF reactors than there are to MCF reactors. Pulses on the order of 1-2 Hz requires a mechanical system that can cycle out the exhaust and replace the pellet in that time. Going to reactor scales also requires high load thermal cycles. MCF ain’t easy, and brings it’s own engineering challenges. The ones I always hear are things like wall materials and fuel recycling, but these are largely solved or in the process of being solved. The engineering challenge I see as the most difficult for MCF are related to steady state operation. Tokamaks have no way of being steady state. Stellarators do, but now the next problem is wall conditioning. Wall materials outgas in hot plasma. A lot. Like more than the fuel puffed in. The way this is handled in science machines is with glow discharges of various species: plasma just below the temperature to cause wall sputtering, coating the wall with carbon and boron for their absorptive properties, etc. No one’s run a steady state hot plasma before, so no one knows if these will be a non issue in reactors. Keeping the plasma clean may be a challenge to keep the plasma from terminating. Aside from that MCF is ready for prime time. It needs a big reactor for scaling laws to make it energy profitable (and potentially money profitable). We just need some very expensive test reactors to smooth out these issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?</title><url>https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anonsivalley652</author><text>It seems easy to conflate any or all approaches as fringe when no one&#x27;s done it yet, and especially if there are political and program-$ecurity concerns overriding doing what&#x27;s best, but some approaches scream magical thinking with unexplained reasoning more than others (like one or more cold fusion proposals in the early 1980&#x27;s). OTOH, it seems like ICF and tokamak are the officially-sanctioned dogma and all other approaches are discounted automatically.<p>Q0: Without bias from my opinion, how fringe or potentially legitimate does IEC seem?<p>Q1: Props to the article&#x27;s team that they invented some awesome lasers. Is there enough experimental data yet on their novel approach to backup their claims to justify funding a prototype? Would such a team be able to test this on a shoestring budget without spending millions?</text><parent_chain><item><author>willis936</author><text>27 comments and not one hit of the word “inertial”! The line about not being thermonuclear and the description of the device in question (a sphere with lasers) points towards an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) device. Most of the fusion research eggs are in the thermonuclear basket, specifically magnetic confinement fusion. It is good to research a diverse set of approaches, but there are more engineering challenges to ICF reactors than there are to MCF reactors. Pulses on the order of 1-2 Hz requires a mechanical system that can cycle out the exhaust and replace the pellet in that time. Going to reactor scales also requires high load thermal cycles. MCF ain’t easy, and brings it’s own engineering challenges. The ones I always hear are things like wall materials and fuel recycling, but these are largely solved or in the process of being solved. The engineering challenge I see as the most difficult for MCF are related to steady state operation. Tokamaks have no way of being steady state. Stellarators do, but now the next problem is wall conditioning. Wall materials outgas in hot plasma. A lot. Like more than the fuel puffed in. The way this is handled in science machines is with glow discharges of various species: plasma just below the temperature to cause wall sputtering, coating the wall with carbon and boron for their absorptive properties, etc. No one’s run a steady state hot plasma before, so no one knows if these will be a non issue in reactors. Keeping the plasma clean may be a challenge to keep the plasma from terminating. Aside from that MCF is ready for prime time. It needs a big reactor for scaling laws to make it energy profitable (and potentially money profitable). We just need some very expensive test reactors to smooth out these issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?</title><url>https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/</url></story> |
16,575,227 | 16,574,162 | 1 | 3 | 16,569,417 | 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>ZeroGravitas</author><text>One of the standard approaches to this these days seems to be the 3 star system.<p>So you can complete a level and progress, but also have motivation to back and do it better.<p>Then these stars can be blockers to accessing later stages, so you may have to have an average of 2 stars from 15 levels to get to the next stage (which may be visible and locked, or may show up a &#x27;surprise&#x27; reward later on in the game).<p>One particular game using this method Nintendo&#x27;s NES Remix also adds &quot;rainbow&quot; level if you do particularly well and I spent a while getting them all and enjoyed having that structure. I would guess this all takes a reasonable amount of effort to set up on the dev&#x27;s side though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>em3rgent0rdr</author><text>One thing I would like for the Zachtronics games is if the optimization mattered somehow other than just personal satisfaction. Such as you get achievements, special equipment, or get to unlock special stages for meeting certain optimization goals. Or since you are basically designing factories (or PCBs in the case of Shenzhen and TIS), maybe your creations earn profit based on their cost and efficiency? And maybe you have to earn enough profit to win the game, in which case would have to revisit less efficient designs to improve them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Works and Why: Opus Magnum</title><url>https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/27/what-works-and-why-opus-magnum/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erik</author><text>If you play Zachtronics games on Steam your best scores show up ranked against any Steam friends that have played the level. I&#x27;ve found trying to out optimize my friends pretty rewarding at times.</text><parent_chain><item><author>em3rgent0rdr</author><text>One thing I would like for the Zachtronics games is if the optimization mattered somehow other than just personal satisfaction. Such as you get achievements, special equipment, or get to unlock special stages for meeting certain optimization goals. Or since you are basically designing factories (or PCBs in the case of Shenzhen and TIS), maybe your creations earn profit based on their cost and efficiency? And maybe you have to earn enough profit to win the game, in which case would have to revisit less efficient designs to improve them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Works and Why: Opus Magnum</title><url>https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/27/what-works-and-why-opus-magnum/</url></story> |
34,192,399 | 34,192,233 | 1 | 2 | 34,191,650 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>&gt; I am sure people here need no instruction on how to find the appropriate person in the corporate structure to contact with their concern.<p>Sounds like you live in a different world from most of us. In our world, complaining loudly on the Internet, whipping up an outrage is often the only way out; there are daily examples on this very forum.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eisenstein</author><text>&gt; Southwest Airlines ticketing agents, cashiers at Nando’s Chicken, low-wage call center workers for Verizon overseas, become corporate sin eaters<p>This is why it is a good idea to be nice to the people you deal with on the front lines, and write a very politely worded letter to the head of the department at the company you are dealing with, and potentially letters to their boss, and their boss, etc. Mail it, if possible, as a follow-up to the email. I am sure people here need no instruction on how to find the appropriate person in the corporate structure to contact with their concern. These are the people who can get things done -- not just for you, but for everyone. Oh, don&#x27;t forget that if you have a 401k you may legitimately be a stockholder in the company, so you can mention that if true.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Consumers Against Workers</title><url>https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/southwest-airlines-christmas-meltdown</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>barbazoo</author><text>How would you go about finding out how to access the manager of some department within MegaCorp? All one can do these days is fill out some contact form and maybe someday getting an email from some noreply email address. I&#x27;m also chuckling at the thought of me mentioning that I&#x27;m a stock holder.
This feels very detached from reality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eisenstein</author><text>&gt; Southwest Airlines ticketing agents, cashiers at Nando’s Chicken, low-wage call center workers for Verizon overseas, become corporate sin eaters<p>This is why it is a good idea to be nice to the people you deal with on the front lines, and write a very politely worded letter to the head of the department at the company you are dealing with, and potentially letters to their boss, and their boss, etc. Mail it, if possible, as a follow-up to the email. I am sure people here need no instruction on how to find the appropriate person in the corporate structure to contact with their concern. These are the people who can get things done -- not just for you, but for everyone. Oh, don&#x27;t forget that if you have a 401k you may legitimately be a stockholder in the company, so you can mention that if true.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Consumers Against Workers</title><url>https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/southwest-airlines-christmas-meltdown</url></story> |
14,711,616 | 14,711,704 | 1 | 3 | 14,709,783 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>santaclaus</author><text>Well an underground volcano or something could inject energy into the system so you are probably ok, thermodynamically.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jfries</author><text>Ah the circular river. Very rare but useful to extract energy from.</text></item><item><author>dsmithatx</author><text>I immediately thought of Devil&#x27;s Kettle Falls reading this. I had to Google it and found that 4 months ago scientist have decided it flows back into itself. They have a plan to put a large amount of dye in during low water and see where it reconnects.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Undersea rivers we know little about</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170706-the-mystery-of-the-massive-deep-sea-rivers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>most rivers are circular - just that the upstream water flow is invisible, by virtue of being in water vapor form.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jfries</author><text>Ah the circular river. Very rare but useful to extract energy from.</text></item><item><author>dsmithatx</author><text>I immediately thought of Devil&#x27;s Kettle Falls reading this. I had to Google it and found that 4 months ago scientist have decided it flows back into itself. They have a plan to put a large amount of dye in during low water and see where it reconnects.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Undersea rivers we know little about</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170706-the-mystery-of-the-massive-deep-sea-rivers</url></story> |
17,743,050 | 17,743,074 | 1 | 2 | 17,742,624 | train | <instructions>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>One thing that I still miss from the system 7 area is an OS where the system folder is simple and accessible, with readable full text folders. Installing a driver was a simple as moving a single, self contained, extension file to the extensions folder. Uninstalling was moving it out. You could observe the full state of the system and manipulate it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser</title><url>https://archive.org/details/mac_MacOS_6.0.8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mambodog</author><text>For anyone who is interested in some technical background, I wrote about porting this emulator to browser a little while ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesfriend.com.au&#x2F;porting-pce-emulator-browser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesfriend.com.au&#x2F;porting-pce-emulator-browser</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser</title><url>https://archive.org/details/mac_MacOS_6.0.8</url></story> |
34,063,052 | 34,062,677 | 1 | 2 | 34,061,206 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>They didn&#x27;t seem to communicate to the author the critical bit of information then (i.e. &quot;we have no intent of actually building this to these requirements in 12 weeks&quot;). I get that there may be a business charade going on where impossible requirements and deadlines are juggled, but the key for the CTO here is not to simply pass that down to the team delivering, no matter how tempting that may be. His job is not only to get the deal, it&#x27;s also to protect a functioning team.<p>The result of failing to do so is a team fighting uphill to deliver an impossible goal. So long as the CTO&#x27;s <i>actual</i> plan is delivered to me, I have no problem with it. But too often the project evolves into negative pressure and &quot;crunch time&quot; to meet the impossible goal. Differences between actual goals and &quot;paper goals&quot; are blurred. If that&#x27;s what&#x27;s going to happen, I&#x27;d want no part of it. In fact, if the goals are sufficiently unrealistic I&#x27;d tell the CTO to clearly communicate with the customer what&#x27;s realistically achievable in 12 weeks, or find another developer (Yes this has been a successful approach for 20 years and counting).</text><parent_chain><item><author>2d8a875f-39a2-4</author><text>The CTO and CPO weren&#x27;t estimating the time to build the feature, they were estimating the number they needed to win the business. Successfully - job done by the C-suite.<p>The job of the author wasn&#x27;t to build the feature in the X weeks, it was to manage the customer while the project completed in whatever time it took. He was successful too, even though he doesn&#x27;t seem to realise that was his primary value-add.<p>The customer didn&#x27;t want or expect an X week delivery of specific scope, they wanted to sign on vague requirements that they could change as the project went along while keeping the vendor under pressure to deliver whatever thing they eventually found out that they wanted.<p>All of the hand-wringing in the article about estimation misses the point entirely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021)</title><url>https://mdalmijn.com/p/11-laws-of-software-estimation-for-complex-work</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimmySixDOF</author><text>Yes, all very true; and in some cases you may extend the client role motivation down further into their own organization to fund the project in the first place through a fractal of self similar patterns. Looked at from deep enough in the client organization - the contractor CTO&#x2F;CPO and the Client&#x27;s own PMO are all just &#x27;that project&#x27; and have the same commitment pressures.</text><parent_chain><item><author>2d8a875f-39a2-4</author><text>The CTO and CPO weren&#x27;t estimating the time to build the feature, they were estimating the number they needed to win the business. Successfully - job done by the C-suite.<p>The job of the author wasn&#x27;t to build the feature in the X weeks, it was to manage the customer while the project completed in whatever time it took. He was successful too, even though he doesn&#x27;t seem to realise that was his primary value-add.<p>The customer didn&#x27;t want or expect an X week delivery of specific scope, they wanted to sign on vague requirements that they could change as the project went along while keeping the vendor under pressure to deliver whatever thing they eventually found out that they wanted.<p>All of the hand-wringing in the article about estimation misses the point entirely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021)</title><url>https://mdalmijn.com/p/11-laws-of-software-estimation-for-complex-work</url></story> |
25,581,162 | 25,581,166 | 1 | 2 | 25,577,215 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcims</author><text>There are definitely phenotypical variations in humans that have health implications. To the extent that some of these are adaptive to region they may align with the rather poorly defined buckets we call ‘race’.<p>To GP’s point, lack of diversity in clinical trials can result in medicines that vary in efficacy and safety in the broader population. The ability to customize a therapy to an individual would help reduce the impact of this issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>axiosgunnar</author><text>Are you saying there are genetic differences between races?</text></item><item><author>programmarchy</author><text>Yeah, I’m actually very hopeful that mRNA medicine will be able to overcome issues like these in ways traditional vaccines couldn’t. For example, variations could be developed that are more effective for each racial group, rather than a one-size-fits all approach that may be biased. From there, perhaps even individuals who have autoimmune disease markers could have variants developed for them as well.</text></item><item><author>Exmoor</author><text>&gt; Presumably if a viral infection could trigger an autoimmune response in certain genetically predisposed groups, then so could a vaccine designed to mimic a virus.<p>This is true. Some of the extremely rare auto-immune issues that have impacted people who have been vaccinated for specific flu viruses in, IIRC, 1976 and 2009, were thought to occur at even higher rates and severity with people who contracted the virus. So, vaccination might impact you, but likely worse the the virus itself due to the greater amount of virus in your system.<p>I am not a scientist, but I would expect that the mRNA vaccines would have less of a chance of having an auto-immune reaction since they contain only one of the many proteins contained in the actual virus.</text></item><item><author>programmarchy</author><text>Do we really know this? Obviously the spike proteins are using an existing mechanism (ACE2) in our bodies to bind to cells. Of primary importance to both viruses and our reproductive system is the membrane fusion function for instance. We must also consider how our bodies developed in the first place; “RNA world” and “virus world” theories predict our genetics evolved from RNA-based processes or even a primordial graveyard of viral RNA.<p>We also don’t fully understand what causes autoimmune disease, but various environmental causes have been explored including bacterial and viral infections. Presumably if a viral infection could trigger an autoimmune response in certain genetically predisposed groups, then so could a vaccine designed to mimic a virus.<p>Unfortunately the incentives in our medical system are not designed to find cures for autoimmune diseases, although they are very much incentivized for palliative care, so progress has been painfully slow in understanding the deeper complexities of the immune system.</text></item><item><author>ch4s3</author><text>The viral spike proteins aren’t like other proteins the float around in your body, but the are like the proteins on other viruses. Your immune system also has a baroque system for determining which things in your body belong to you.</text></item><item><author>jcims</author><text>How do they ensure that antibodies for the spike protein don&#x27;t interfere with other processes in the body? E.g. if the spike protein bears a sufficient resemblance to part of another protein expressed by healthy human tissue, is there a risk of an immune response? Presumably the Phase 1 trial would sort that out for the most part, just wondering if there is any kind of ability to screen for that ahead of time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-00807-1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>panta</author><text>AFAIK there are no human races from a taxonomic point of view, all human beings belong to the same subspecies. There are of course genetic differences between individuals and ethnic groups though, otherwise we would be all identical twins (the point is not condemning the differences - differences are in general a good thing - the point is not attaching value judgements to the differences).</text><parent_chain><item><author>axiosgunnar</author><text>Are you saying there are genetic differences between races?</text></item><item><author>programmarchy</author><text>Yeah, I’m actually very hopeful that mRNA medicine will be able to overcome issues like these in ways traditional vaccines couldn’t. For example, variations could be developed that are more effective for each racial group, rather than a one-size-fits all approach that may be biased. From there, perhaps even individuals who have autoimmune disease markers could have variants developed for them as well.</text></item><item><author>Exmoor</author><text>&gt; Presumably if a viral infection could trigger an autoimmune response in certain genetically predisposed groups, then so could a vaccine designed to mimic a virus.<p>This is true. Some of the extremely rare auto-immune issues that have impacted people who have been vaccinated for specific flu viruses in, IIRC, 1976 and 2009, were thought to occur at even higher rates and severity with people who contracted the virus. So, vaccination might impact you, but likely worse the the virus itself due to the greater amount of virus in your system.<p>I am not a scientist, but I would expect that the mRNA vaccines would have less of a chance of having an auto-immune reaction since they contain only one of the many proteins contained in the actual virus.</text></item><item><author>programmarchy</author><text>Do we really know this? Obviously the spike proteins are using an existing mechanism (ACE2) in our bodies to bind to cells. Of primary importance to both viruses and our reproductive system is the membrane fusion function for instance. We must also consider how our bodies developed in the first place; “RNA world” and “virus world” theories predict our genetics evolved from RNA-based processes or even a primordial graveyard of viral RNA.<p>We also don’t fully understand what causes autoimmune disease, but various environmental causes have been explored including bacterial and viral infections. Presumably if a viral infection could trigger an autoimmune response in certain genetically predisposed groups, then so could a vaccine designed to mimic a virus.<p>Unfortunately the incentives in our medical system are not designed to find cures for autoimmune diseases, although they are very much incentivized for palliative care, so progress has been painfully slow in understanding the deeper complexities of the immune system.</text></item><item><author>ch4s3</author><text>The viral spike proteins aren’t like other proteins the float around in your body, but the are like the proteins on other viruses. Your immune system also has a baroque system for determining which things in your body belong to you.</text></item><item><author>jcims</author><text>How do they ensure that antibodies for the spike protein don&#x27;t interfere with other processes in the body? E.g. if the spike protein bears a sufficient resemblance to part of another protein expressed by healthy human tissue, is there a risk of an immune response? Presumably the Phase 1 trial would sort that out for the most part, just wondering if there is any kind of ability to screen for that ahead of time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-00807-1</url></story> |
10,969,499 | 10,968,681 | 1 | 2 | 10,968,306 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Then there are the Nest cameras, reporting everything you do to Google.<p><i>&quot;The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plate commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. but at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You have to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.</i>&quot; - &quot;1984&quot;, Orwell<p><i>&quot;Video and audio signals and data: When you enable the recording or streaming features of your Nest Cam, we may record and process video and&#x2F;or audio recordings from the device, subject to your configuration and settings. This may include capturing and emailing to you portions of this data as part of a notification or analyzing the data to identify motion or other events. We may process information from your Nest Cam so that we can send you alerts when something happens. In addition, if you have the recording features enabled, we will capture, process and retain video and audio data recordings from your device for the duration of your recording subscription period (for example, 10 or 30 days) and you will be able to access those recordings using the Services during that time.&quot;</i> - NestCam privacy policy, Google</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse-Engineering Google Nest Devices</title><url>http://experimental-platform.tumblr.com/post/137835649425/reverse-engineering-google-nest-devices</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pilif</author><text><i>&gt; with email and plaintext password</i><p>It&#x27;s totally reasonable to transmit a password in clear if it&#x27;s being transmitted inside of an SSL tunnel (which it is in this case).<p>Most if not all techniques that would allow for not transmitting the password in a server-decryptable fashion would require the password or a password equivalent to be stored in clear on the server.<p>In case of a breach, that would be devastating.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse-Engineering Google Nest Devices</title><url>http://experimental-platform.tumblr.com/post/137835649425/reverse-engineering-google-nest-devices</url></story> |
23,649,313 | 23,647,048 | 1 | 3 | 23,646,158 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>om2</author><text>Posting reply here for more visibility.<p>Folks who can reproduce the &quot;sketch&quot; --&gt; &quot;sketchers.com&quot; behavior or the &quot;realty.com&quot; --&gt; &quot;realtor.com&quot; behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number.<p>I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can&#x27;t reproduce either behavior myself. Any other examples of bogus&#x2F;unexpected autocomplete also welcome.<p>I looked at the FB# cited in the parent, but it doesn&#x27;t have a specific example or a sysdiagnose. Since may of these things only reproduce for some users, we need all the data we can get to resolve these issues.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you&#x27;d always go to some random thing from your history that&#x27;s barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type &quot;ptrace&quot; I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack Overflow question I clicked on two years ago that happened to have &quot;ptrace&quot; in its title). Now it&#x27;s randomly loading other websites <i>I have never been to</i> when I type search terms (I searched &quot;sketch&quot; the other day and it took me to &quot;sketchers.com&quot;). It&#x27;s WWDC week, so FB7333211 for the first one and another incoming once I can reproduce this reliably. Please fix your stuff, Apple.<p>Oh, while I&#x27;m here: trying to escape out of the autocomplete suggestion is also awful, it&#x27;s some sort of combination of ⎋ and ⌫ and the arrow keys until you can get the thing to not show up in the bar, and then you have to look very closely to make sure that it&#x27;s not going to send you to the Top Hit anyways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157161487396994&id=501751993</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>Reading through yours and the other comments here...I just can&#x27;t even understand...who came up with the idea of changing key word searches into autocompleting URLs? Personally, I still find the idea of a URL bar doubling as a search bar a bit disconcerting as it is. I expect specific behaviour from a URL bar. I type in an address and either it takes me to what I type or it can&#x27;t find it.<p>This behaviour everyone&#x27;s describing from safari would fill me with so much rage. That shit would drive me nuts. Having non existent addresses being interpreted as search queries is annoying enough, if my browser started deciding my searches were random web addresses I&#x27;d lose my shit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you&#x27;d always go to some random thing from your history that&#x27;s barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type &quot;ptrace&quot; I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack Overflow question I clicked on two years ago that happened to have &quot;ptrace&quot; in its title). Now it&#x27;s randomly loading other websites <i>I have never been to</i> when I type search terms (I searched &quot;sketch&quot; the other day and it took me to &quot;sketchers.com&quot;). It&#x27;s WWDC week, so FB7333211 for the first one and another incoming once I can reproduce this reliably. Please fix your stuff, Apple.<p>Oh, while I&#x27;m here: trying to escape out of the autocomplete suggestion is also awful, it&#x27;s some sort of combination of ⎋ and ⌫ and the arrow keys until you can get the thing to not show up in the bar, and then you have to look very closely to make sure that it&#x27;s not going to send you to the Top Hit anyways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157161487396994&id=501751993</url></story> |
3,226,001 | 3,225,961 | 1 | 2 | 3,225,911 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snotrockets</author><text>There's a famous anecdote about human unshredding: when the Iranian revolutionary took over the US embassy in 1979, they captured the shredded remains of secret documents. They took those shredding to the carpet weavers Iran is so famous of, who manually rewoven the shreds into the original documents (See <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Documents_seized_from_the_U.S._Embassy_in_Tehran/Shredded_Documents" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Documents_seized_from_the_U.S....</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder</title><url>http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/12651721845/instagram-engineering-challenge-the-unshredder</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>icki</author><text>Interestingly enough, DARPA is running a similar challenge (their prize is a lot better): <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/shredder_splash.aspx#Splash" rel="nofollow">http://www.darpa.mil/shredder_splash.aspx#Splash</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder</title><url>http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/12651721845/instagram-engineering-challenge-the-unshredder</url></story> |
25,124,384 | 25,123,696 | 1 | 2 | 25,121,416 | train | <instructions>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>&gt; You might as well ask how to unsend an email.<p>That is also a reasonable request.<p>I&#x27;m unable to fathom the notion that if a computer doesn&#x27;t work the way people want, the answer is for people to adapt to the computer. The whole point of computers is to do things for people.<p>With physical messages, unsending has at least partial support. Before the mailman picks up from my porch, I can grab a sent message any time. If you FedEx the envelope, you can cancel before delivery. With a university&#x27;s mail system, you can get the receiving department&#x27;s admin to return something even later in the chain. And of course, you can always tell a recipient, &quot;Hey, I sent you the wrong box, just send that back.&quot;<p>The reason email doesn&#x27;t support unsending is not some essential property of messaging. It&#x27;s just that at the time our email protocol was defined, both our hardware and software was pretty primitive, so we locked in a very primitive model of messaging. But note that more modern systems, like Slack and Facebook Messenger, happily let you unsend things. And consequently, they&#x27;re effectively replacing email for most users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thrwyoilarticle</author><text>+1. The very first question:<p>&gt;Oh, I just pushed a change. I really didn’t wanna push that, so how do I undo it?<p>Is a Github problem, not a git problem. You might as well ask how to unsend an email. If you don&#x27;t know what git push means, you shouldn&#x27;t be using it and are playing with intellectual property fire.<p>The conflation of Github with git is responsible for a lot of confusion. Having Github be your first interaction with git is a disaster.<p>Regardless, there&#x27;s no shortage of blog posts complaining about git being hard. But there is a shortage of effective, popular competitors. I think that, actually, many-chefs many-branch differential version control is just a hard problem and creating a simple model for it is much harder than complaining about git.</text></item><item><author>rakoo</author><text>&gt; I’ve used it since GitHub was in beta<p>This is the root of the author&#x27;s issue. As another commented, git is born in a world where computers are mostly offline, people are highly technical, and will spend a lot of time manually crafting the messages they will send to the numerous collaborators. It is an alone-first software. What the author wants (and exactly what I want as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25002318" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25002318</a>) is the complete opposite: a system that knows it&#x27;s connected to other people, where changes are instantly propagated and easily visible, where the differentiator between &quot;branches&quot; is not &quot;what computer does it reside on&quot; but &quot;who did it&quot;. That&#x27;s the model behind GitHub, after all.<p>git is complex because it&#x27;s working with a very complicated model that is not in line with what most people expect today. As I said in my other comment it seems that fossil works with that flow, but I haven&#x27;t tried it. However what is sure is that it doesn&#x27;t make sense to ask git to become what it fundamentally is not.<p>EDIT: There might be a solution with wrappers. When you look at git-annex assistant (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-annex.branchable.com&#x2F;assistant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-annex.branchable.com&#x2F;assistant&#x2F;</a>) you can see that the right amount of abstraction can provide something closer to what we expect... but at this point it&#x27;s not git anymore, so we might as well start from scratch.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git is too hard</title><url>https://changelog.com/posts/git-is-simply-too-hard</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>I don&#x27;t see what it&#x27;s got to do with github. I had the same need, and the same confusion solving it, before I had ever used github, when I used a locally hosted git server of some kind for my team.<p>Do you mean it&#x27;s a problem only if you are &quot;git push&#x27;ing&quot; to a remote shared by those working on a software project?<p>OK, maybe. Even before github, most projects I knew of using git used that method. You can suggest nobody should, and try to educate people in a completely distributed workflow if you want, I suppose. That&#x27;s not about github really.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thrwyoilarticle</author><text>+1. The very first question:<p>&gt;Oh, I just pushed a change. I really didn’t wanna push that, so how do I undo it?<p>Is a Github problem, not a git problem. You might as well ask how to unsend an email. If you don&#x27;t know what git push means, you shouldn&#x27;t be using it and are playing with intellectual property fire.<p>The conflation of Github with git is responsible for a lot of confusion. Having Github be your first interaction with git is a disaster.<p>Regardless, there&#x27;s no shortage of blog posts complaining about git being hard. But there is a shortage of effective, popular competitors. I think that, actually, many-chefs many-branch differential version control is just a hard problem and creating a simple model for it is much harder than complaining about git.</text></item><item><author>rakoo</author><text>&gt; I’ve used it since GitHub was in beta<p>This is the root of the author&#x27;s issue. As another commented, git is born in a world where computers are mostly offline, people are highly technical, and will spend a lot of time manually crafting the messages they will send to the numerous collaborators. It is an alone-first software. What the author wants (and exactly what I want as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25002318" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25002318</a>) is the complete opposite: a system that knows it&#x27;s connected to other people, where changes are instantly propagated and easily visible, where the differentiator between &quot;branches&quot; is not &quot;what computer does it reside on&quot; but &quot;who did it&quot;. That&#x27;s the model behind GitHub, after all.<p>git is complex because it&#x27;s working with a very complicated model that is not in line with what most people expect today. As I said in my other comment it seems that fossil works with that flow, but I haven&#x27;t tried it. However what is sure is that it doesn&#x27;t make sense to ask git to become what it fundamentally is not.<p>EDIT: There might be a solution with wrappers. When you look at git-annex assistant (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-annex.branchable.com&#x2F;assistant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-annex.branchable.com&#x2F;assistant&#x2F;</a>) you can see that the right amount of abstraction can provide something closer to what we expect... but at this point it&#x27;s not git anymore, so we might as well start from scratch.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git is too hard</title><url>https://changelog.com/posts/git-is-simply-too-hard</url></story> |
6,725,045 | 6,724,992 | 1 | 2 | 6,723,827 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulirish</author><text>There was a brief discussion about this code on Twitter a few weeks back and I asked for extra clarification from engineering. Erik Kay explained on that bug ticket [3] a bit more:<p>&quot;We don&#x27;t enable NaCl on the web at large because we don&#x27;t want to see a particular instruction set baked into the web. We enable it for apps that are in the Chrome Web Store (even hosted apps which are in the web) because it&#x27;s a place where over time we can get developers to migrate to PNaCl. For this whitelist, we have similar controls to what we have on the Chrome Web Store, and our goal is to eventually remove the need for it altogether.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>mwill</author><text>Throwing some more info here, this is the NaCl whitelist, looks like it was originally added Feb last year [1].
There&#x27;s a discussion on Chromium Code Reviews here [2], and an issue on the project itself here [3]<p>The original commit includes the comment &#x27;We should remove this code when PNaCl ships&#x27; which got removed somewhere along the way.<p>[1] <a href="http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/renderer/chrome_content_renderer_client.cc?revision=122709" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;src.chromium.org&#x2F;viewvc&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;src&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;rende...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://codereview.chromium.org/9368046" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codereview.chromium.org&#x2F;9368046</a><p>[3] <a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113668" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=113668</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google apps whitelist hardcoded into Chromium open source project</title><url>https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/chrome/renderer/chrome_content_renderer_client.cc&q=plus.google.com&sq=package:chromium&dr=C&l=830</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtrimpe</author><text>Does anybody know why (variations on copies of) leokun&#x27;s comment are automatically marked as dead?<p>The comment seems perfectly valid so I can&#x27;t figure out why that would happen...</text><parent_chain><item><author>mwill</author><text>Throwing some more info here, this is the NaCl whitelist, looks like it was originally added Feb last year [1].
There&#x27;s a discussion on Chromium Code Reviews here [2], and an issue on the project itself here [3]<p>The original commit includes the comment &#x27;We should remove this code when PNaCl ships&#x27; which got removed somewhere along the way.<p>[1] <a href="http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/renderer/chrome_content_renderer_client.cc?revision=122709" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;src.chromium.org&#x2F;viewvc&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;src&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;rende...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://codereview.chromium.org/9368046" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codereview.chromium.org&#x2F;9368046</a><p>[3] <a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113668" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=113668</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google apps whitelist hardcoded into Chromium open source project</title><url>https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/chrome/renderer/chrome_content_renderer_client.cc&q=plus.google.com&sq=package:chromium&dr=C&l=830</url></story> |
25,881,440 | 25,879,927 | 1 | 2 | 25,872,746 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sli</author><text>My city is building tons of new apartments clearly meant for commuters to the nearby big cities and exactly zero of them have EV chargers despite being the most expensive apartments in town. I&#x27;m not holding my breath that new construction will do this all that soon, either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slovette</author><text>I disagree with this. Retro installs maybe, yes. But new construction, which I consult heavily on, most of the developers I work with are motivated to install them. They’re revenue sources and attract the kind of tenants they want occupying their new building.<p>The answer to retro installs (which is always about money anyway) is to not force the hand of property owners, but make the install cost a no brainer with tax rebates and subsidies. Regulation in this regard would just cause negative effects I think, IF it ever passed a public vote (Cali maybe, but not much of the rest of the country).</text></item><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>A staggering amount of buildings are built to code, and nothing more. If code says that there needs to be 1.5 parking spaces per bedroom for the complex, and the complex has 80 bedrooms, you can bet there will be 120 parking spots.<p>Apartment managers will be dragged kicking and screaming into offering chargers for cars. The best way to get chargers into apartment buildings is going to be a local mandate that they have a charger per X units.</text></item><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>My problem is renting apartments. If you ask the strata or the building managers about charging points in the carpark, they look at you like you&#x27;re speaking Klingon.<p>This is true of even very recently completed buildings in well-off areas of relatively wealthy western countries. Heck, I just walked past <i>three</i> Teslas in my building&#x27;s car park, one of which is new and wasn&#x27;t there last week!<p>Do people... not plan ahead? Do architects not read the news? Are they from another planet where electricity delivery is not a problem that architects have to deal with in building design?<p>Mind you, I got the <i>exact same</i> dumbfounded stare from people when talking to cafe managers and gym owners about the impending COVID lockdowns back in February 2020: &quot;Lock...down...? You think so? Really? Here?&quot; (Don&#x27;t think IT is spared from this, I get the same vacant expression when I talk to network engineers about IPv4 exhaustion and the need for IPv6.)<p>On a more practical note, I have business idea that might interest the YC News crowd: The main problem raised by building managers I spoke to was that it was &quot;too hard&quot; to solve charge-back and the like. Wiring is &quot;easy&quot;, that&#x27;s just a matter of calling out contractor, but organising the billing of the tenant and then splitting the revenue between the various parties involved is more work for them than it is worth, because it is complex to set up but initially there may be only a couple of electric cars generating very little revenue. An &quot;electric charging billing&quot; cloud service that manages everything with low overheads might sell well...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/electric-vehicles-close-to-tipping-point-of-mass-adoption</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>topkai22</author><text>I agree it&#x27;s probably not so bad even for retrofits - 70% of housing in the US is SFH or a duplex (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoplease.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;census&#x2F;housing-statistics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoplease.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;census&#x2F;housing-statistics</a>). Getting a charging solution for those units seems achievable. I&#x27;m also willing to bet that multifamily housing is generally massively over represented in blue cities, which might be able to require&#x2F;incentives retrofits. That&#x27;s a huge marketable population to start buying electric vehicles and normalize them. I suspect that by the time there is significant used electric market there will also be enough market and political demand to figure out the multi-family situation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slovette</author><text>I disagree with this. Retro installs maybe, yes. But new construction, which I consult heavily on, most of the developers I work with are motivated to install them. They’re revenue sources and attract the kind of tenants they want occupying their new building.<p>The answer to retro installs (which is always about money anyway) is to not force the hand of property owners, but make the install cost a no brainer with tax rebates and subsidies. Regulation in this regard would just cause negative effects I think, IF it ever passed a public vote (Cali maybe, but not much of the rest of the country).</text></item><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>A staggering amount of buildings are built to code, and nothing more. If code says that there needs to be 1.5 parking spaces per bedroom for the complex, and the complex has 80 bedrooms, you can bet there will be 120 parking spots.<p>Apartment managers will be dragged kicking and screaming into offering chargers for cars. The best way to get chargers into apartment buildings is going to be a local mandate that they have a charger per X units.</text></item><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>My problem is renting apartments. If you ask the strata or the building managers about charging points in the carpark, they look at you like you&#x27;re speaking Klingon.<p>This is true of even very recently completed buildings in well-off areas of relatively wealthy western countries. Heck, I just walked past <i>three</i> Teslas in my building&#x27;s car park, one of which is new and wasn&#x27;t there last week!<p>Do people... not plan ahead? Do architects not read the news? Are they from another planet where electricity delivery is not a problem that architects have to deal with in building design?<p>Mind you, I got the <i>exact same</i> dumbfounded stare from people when talking to cafe managers and gym owners about the impending COVID lockdowns back in February 2020: &quot;Lock...down...? You think so? Really? Here?&quot; (Don&#x27;t think IT is spared from this, I get the same vacant expression when I talk to network engineers about IPv4 exhaustion and the need for IPv6.)<p>On a more practical note, I have business idea that might interest the YC News crowd: The main problem raised by building managers I spoke to was that it was &quot;too hard&quot; to solve charge-back and the like. Wiring is &quot;easy&quot;, that&#x27;s just a matter of calling out contractor, but organising the billing of the tenant and then splitting the revenue between the various parties involved is more work for them than it is worth, because it is complex to set up but initially there may be only a couple of electric cars generating very little revenue. An &quot;electric charging billing&quot; cloud service that manages everything with low overheads might sell well...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/electric-vehicles-close-to-tipping-point-of-mass-adoption</url></story> |
9,145,811 | 9,145,740 | 1 | 3 | 9,145,126 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>I read a lot about how employees get screwed over with stock options, so what we decided to do was to just give employees vesting stock straight up as a buy through.<p>Basically the way this works is that we give new employees an up front lump sum in the amount of how much it costs to purchase the shares of the company. The employee then purchases those shares from us in line with a vesting agreement. All warrants and conversions are exactly the same as the founders shares.<p>This means that they pay tax on this purchase as regular income rather than capital gains up front with the money we give them for it. This prevents a heavy tax bill at conversion and allows them to retain their vested shares regardless of if they work for us or not after the first 12 month vesting period.<p>We calculated that the up front taxes are magnitudes cheaper in the long run because the increased valuation will cover those differences handily and there is no waiting period like there is with capital gains tax.<p>In the end though our intention was to make a simple way for our employees to actually own the stock we give them as compensation and it not be something that they can lose or be restructured easily. If a VC or acquisition wanted to restructure that away for employees then they would be forced to restructure everyone&#x27;s, so we are all in.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you have startup stock options, check your option plan</title><url>http://blog.conspire.com/post/112700131803/if-you-have-startup-stock-options-check-your</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcdoug</author><text>Why worry about stock options at all? There is a spectrum of outcomes. On one end the startup flops, or is bought for so little that your share, even if paid out, is close to 0. On the other end you have Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Companies where 0.5% is worth quite a bit of money. The problem is that the majority fall in-between, where your stock options will be worth nothing, yet the company will sell for a decent amount of money.<p>So what you should do is value the stock options at 0. If you have the spare cash, buy them as early as you can, but don&#x27;t count them for anything. They are a lottery ticket that your company is the next Google and like any lottery ticket they are likely worth nothing. If the startup is offering to pay you half of what you&#x27;d make elsewhere, waving stock options at you telling you they&#x27;ll make you rich, consider if they just handed you a pile of lottery tickets and half a paycheck. If you&#x27;d still take it (maybe you really like the people, or want to work in this field), go for it. Otherwise, they are just trying to get your for a far cheaper price than you&#x27;d get elsewhere.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you have startup stock options, check your option plan</title><url>http://blog.conspire.com/post/112700131803/if-you-have-startup-stock-options-check-your</url></story> |
1,453,833 | 1,453,684 | 1 | 2 | 1,453,358 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimbokun</author><text>It is past time to start awarding prodigious damages against corporations who egregiously and willfully write unlawful provisions into their terms of use, consumer contracts, etc. etc.<p>Parsing and correctly interpreting pages upon pages of legalese presents an undue burden on a well functioning market economy. Corporations can slip clauses into agreements that can give them vast power over their customers who do not understand the full ramifications of what they are agreeing to. There is very little cost involved to the corporation that tries to get away with this. There is a very great cost to our society in tying up our court systems with stupid crap such as this.<p>The only solution is to make the cost of writing illegal provisions into contracts greater to the perpetrator than the potential reward. I know there will be unintended consequences to what I propose. But surely there must be a way to send a stronger signal to corporations who willfully push legal boundaries and seek to obfuscate exactly what it is that consumers are agreeing to?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It's Your Data, It's Your Bot: It's Not A Crime</title><url>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/its-your-data-its-your-bot-its-not-crime</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>riffer</author><text>I can't believe that Facebook is attempting to go after people through criminal law, rather than civil law.<p>Wasn't the CTO of Facebook just saying less than a week ago that : "users have complete control over their data, and as long as [the] user gives an application explicit consent, Facebook doesn't get in the way of the user using their data in your applications beyond basic protections like selling data to ad networks and other sleazy data collectors?" [1]<p>I sure hope I'm missing something here.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440154" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440154</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It's Your Data, It's Your Bot: It's Not A Crime</title><url>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/its-your-data-its-your-bot-its-not-crime</url><text></text></story> |
23,578,055 | 23,578,226 | 1 | 3 | 23,574,673 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>I&#x27;m on a forum that&#x27;s very outdoorsy (it&#x27;s for an outdoor hobby and most of the best locations to do it are in BFE) and this story hit there too. While there&#x27;s less ivory tower smugness, possibly a reflection of user demographics, McCandless is not exactly a popular figure over there either. It&#x27;s understandable for an amateur to be under-prepared because you don&#x27;t know what you don&#x27;t know. It&#x27;s understandable to be experienced and get into a crap situation because you planned to wing it and one of the variables you based your assumptions on changed. It&#x27;s much less forgivable to be an amateur and also plan on winging it. The dude knew he hadn&#x27;t lived in that environment before. He knew that he couldn&#x27;t get food the ways he was accustomed to. He tried to dodge the stupid tax but he was so flagrant about it that luck couldn&#x27;t justify not auditing him.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>You&#x27;re completely right to point this out, but this particular subject and individual seems to be a fulcrum for the sort of people who say things like, &quot;kids these days...&quot;.<p>The most common thing I hear, by far, from members of the public at search and rescue fundraisers is, &quot;why do you go to all that trouble for stupid people?&quot; It&#x27;s a question almost always delivered with the self-satisfied smugness of someone who has no idea that they&#x27;re already suffering the atrophying effects of not venturing outside of familiar territory often enough.<p>McCandless surely made mistakes and errors in judgement. He certainly underestimated what he was getting in to. In that, he has something in common with hundreds of thousands of casual hikers, mountain bikers, kayakers, and visitors to national parks every year. There are vanishingly few entries in the annual <i>Accidents of North American Mountaineering</i> where the people involved are unimpeachable in terms of their preparedness or skill. In almost every case, there&#x27;s <i>something</i> that someone could point to that the victim did wrong, and if not, then there&#x27;s always the fallback that they were dumb to be doing it to begin with.<p>If he hadn&#x27;t died, nobody would know his name. Statistics caught up to him. Statistics will catch a few other people every year while far more visitors to the same area will escape without consequence.<p>The dynamics of this subject on HN in particular are really sort of obvious, given that McCandless has come up at least half-a-dozen times on HN over the years, a site not known for its enthusiasm for the outdoors. The treatment here is often about as embarrassing as someone might imagine the topic of machine learning to be on a forum for mushroom pickers.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>These kind of hyperbolic statements don&#x27;t do much to educate, they&#x27;re over sensationalized.<p>&gt; <i>These quickly get in trouble and either die by bears, by drowning, by freezing or they are rescued by park rangers or other rescue personnel–but often, not before risking their lives and&#x2F;or spending a lot of government money on helicopters and overtime</i><p>Since 1992, only two people have died trying to reach the bus, they both drowned in the Tek (which was hard for me to cross, at 6 foot 2 and 185 lbs). One in 2010, and one last year.<p>As for the number of rescues:<p>&quot;The state carried out 15 bus-related search and rescue operations between 2009 and 2017, authorities say&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-53106441" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-53106441</a><p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I lived in the Yukon for 4 years. I&#x27;ve been bison hunting at -45C, I&#x27;ve spent months hunting, hiking and fishing all over the Yukon and a ton of time in Alaska too. I know what it takes.</text></item><item><author>EL_Loco</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting piece called &quot;Chris McCandless from an Alaska Park Ranger’s Perspective&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nmge.gmu.edu&#x2F;textandcommunity&#x2F;2006&#x2F;Peter_Christian_Response.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nmge.gmu.edu&#x2F;textandcommunity&#x2F;2006&#x2F;Peter_Christian_Re...</a><p>&quot;Some like McCandless, show up in Alaska, unprepared, unskilled and unwilling to take
the time to learn the skills they need to be successful. These quickly get in trouble and
either die by bears, by drowning, by freezing or they are rescued by park rangers or other
rescue personnel–but often, not before risking their lives and&#x2F;or spending a lot of
government money on helicopters and overtime.
When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did
wasn’t even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic and inconsiderate. First off, he spent
very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail
without even a map of the area. If he had a good map he could have walked out of his
predicament using one of several routes that could have been successful.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53106441</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>&gt;In almost every case, there&#x27;s something that someone could point to that the victim did wrong<p>In fact, with many accidents, it&#x27;s often a matter of compounding mistakes. (The victim didn&#x27;t have a lot of experience, went out in worsening weather, lost the trail, and didn&#x27;t have the gear to survive overnight.)<p>On the other hand, it&#x27;s easy to identify &quot;mistakes&quot; in retrospect. Someone got caught in an avalanche so they &quot;clearly&quot; shouldn&#x27;t have been somewhere that they could get caught in an avalanche--even if the danger was just moderate and the danger in that particular area is often moderate.<p>Which also speaks to your statistics comment of course. There are various levels of danger to many activities and you can reasonably reduce your chances of something going wrong but not eliminate them.<p>And, also of course, many people who don&#x27;t participate in many of those activities see them as unreasonably dangerous. And, depending upon their political views, may think rescuing mountain climbers or even winter hikers as a waste of societal resources.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>You&#x27;re completely right to point this out, but this particular subject and individual seems to be a fulcrum for the sort of people who say things like, &quot;kids these days...&quot;.<p>The most common thing I hear, by far, from members of the public at search and rescue fundraisers is, &quot;why do you go to all that trouble for stupid people?&quot; It&#x27;s a question almost always delivered with the self-satisfied smugness of someone who has no idea that they&#x27;re already suffering the atrophying effects of not venturing outside of familiar territory often enough.<p>McCandless surely made mistakes and errors in judgement. He certainly underestimated what he was getting in to. In that, he has something in common with hundreds of thousands of casual hikers, mountain bikers, kayakers, and visitors to national parks every year. There are vanishingly few entries in the annual <i>Accidents of North American Mountaineering</i> where the people involved are unimpeachable in terms of their preparedness or skill. In almost every case, there&#x27;s <i>something</i> that someone could point to that the victim did wrong, and if not, then there&#x27;s always the fallback that they were dumb to be doing it to begin with.<p>If he hadn&#x27;t died, nobody would know his name. Statistics caught up to him. Statistics will catch a few other people every year while far more visitors to the same area will escape without consequence.<p>The dynamics of this subject on HN in particular are really sort of obvious, given that McCandless has come up at least half-a-dozen times on HN over the years, a site not known for its enthusiasm for the outdoors. The treatment here is often about as embarrassing as someone might imagine the topic of machine learning to be on a forum for mushroom pickers.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>These kind of hyperbolic statements don&#x27;t do much to educate, they&#x27;re over sensationalized.<p>&gt; <i>These quickly get in trouble and either die by bears, by drowning, by freezing or they are rescued by park rangers or other rescue personnel–but often, not before risking their lives and&#x2F;or spending a lot of government money on helicopters and overtime</i><p>Since 1992, only two people have died trying to reach the bus, they both drowned in the Tek (which was hard for me to cross, at 6 foot 2 and 185 lbs). One in 2010, and one last year.<p>As for the number of rescues:<p>&quot;The state carried out 15 bus-related search and rescue operations between 2009 and 2017, authorities say&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-53106441" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-53106441</a><p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I lived in the Yukon for 4 years. I&#x27;ve been bison hunting at -45C, I&#x27;ve spent months hunting, hiking and fishing all over the Yukon and a ton of time in Alaska too. I know what it takes.</text></item><item><author>EL_Loco</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting piece called &quot;Chris McCandless from an Alaska Park Ranger’s Perspective&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nmge.gmu.edu&#x2F;textandcommunity&#x2F;2006&#x2F;Peter_Christian_Response.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nmge.gmu.edu&#x2F;textandcommunity&#x2F;2006&#x2F;Peter_Christian_Re...</a><p>&quot;Some like McCandless, show up in Alaska, unprepared, unskilled and unwilling to take
the time to learn the skills they need to be successful. These quickly get in trouble and
either die by bears, by drowning, by freezing or they are rescued by park rangers or other
rescue personnel–but often, not before risking their lives and&#x2F;or spending a lot of
government money on helicopters and overtime.
When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did
wasn’t even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic and inconsiderate. First off, he spent
very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail
without even a map of the area. If he had a good map he could have walked out of his
predicament using one of several routes that could have been successful.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53106441</url></story> |
35,835,509 | 35,835,073 | 1 | 3 | 35,833,163 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boosteri</author><text>That&#x27;s their mobile layout in general. In their view they must have improved UX immensely since no mobile person has needed help&#x2F;support since introduction of infinite scrolling</text><parent_chain><item><author>cleansingfire</author><text>Assuming the bottom is even accesible! I believe it&#x27;s somewhere in the Amazon ios app where I see a promise of a useful footer that is always pushed off the page by infinitely scrolling things they&#x27;re pushing at me instead.</text></item><item><author>dinkleberg</author><text>Using a footer as a replacement for a nav bar is ridiculous. Which requires more interaction? Clicking a button to see available actions or scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page (and making the bold assumption that you happen to know that the menu is at the bottom)?<p>If you’ve got sufficient space at the top of your page to show your nav items, especially for larger window sizes, just show them instead of hiding them away behind a menu. But if you have limited space, like on mobile, a hamburger menu is a fine solution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The core problem with hamburger menus</title><url>https://bt.ht/hamburgers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshspankit</author><text>I literally showed that to someone the other day as an example of nonsense ways to build UIs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cleansingfire</author><text>Assuming the bottom is even accesible! I believe it&#x27;s somewhere in the Amazon ios app where I see a promise of a useful footer that is always pushed off the page by infinitely scrolling things they&#x27;re pushing at me instead.</text></item><item><author>dinkleberg</author><text>Using a footer as a replacement for a nav bar is ridiculous. Which requires more interaction? Clicking a button to see available actions or scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page (and making the bold assumption that you happen to know that the menu is at the bottom)?<p>If you’ve got sufficient space at the top of your page to show your nav items, especially for larger window sizes, just show them instead of hiding them away behind a menu. But if you have limited space, like on mobile, a hamburger menu is a fine solution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The core problem with hamburger menus</title><url>https://bt.ht/hamburgers/</url></story> |
20,797,229 | 20,796,205 | 1 | 3 | 20,796,143 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zbjornson</author><text>By far the best part of the article:<p>&gt; The United States military when trying to avoid divulging information gives reporters briefings with 25 minutes of intentionally dull PowerPoint presentations and 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone who is still awake. The presentations are called hypnotizing chickens.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chicken Hypnotism</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_hypnotism</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>luc4sdreyer</author><text>In this demonstration, the rooster doesn&#x27;t even mind having its leg pulled and prodded. I wonder how much discomfort it will endure before snapping out of it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mQ_Up5UdwG0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mQ_Up5UdwG0</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chicken Hypnotism</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_hypnotism</url></story> |
18,020,064 | 18,019,772 | 1 | 2 | 18,019,260 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rudedogg</author><text>&gt; Writing Slack as a native app would be a massive pain.<p>If it was allowed I&#x27;d write the native macOS app for them. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;d pay off selling it for $5 or $10 in the Mac App Store</text><parent_chain><item><author>benbristow</author><text>If it makes for easier programming, yes.<p>Writing Slack as a native app would be a massive pain. Especially due to all the web-like features it has, the fact that it&#x27;s one codebase (mainly) for desktop and web.<p>They also have to support Windows, Linux, Mac and mobile. Not an easy task</text></item><item><author>comboy</author><text>do you really though</text></item><item><author>stefan_</author><text>I want to work at a company like that, where I can just blame the &quot;stack&quot; we&#x27;re using and shrug my shoulders.</text></item><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>I really hope whatever the NativeWindow changes are allow Slack to finally stop rendering when the app goes to the background. My battery has been killed a couple times by the Slack renderer using ~30% cpu playing gifs while the app isn&#x27;t visible, and their support says its because they don&#x27;t have a notification hook for minimizing</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electron 3.0.0</title><url>https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-3-0</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>Razengan</author><text>There are more complex apps with native versions for multiple platforms, by smaller companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>benbristow</author><text>If it makes for easier programming, yes.<p>Writing Slack as a native app would be a massive pain. Especially due to all the web-like features it has, the fact that it&#x27;s one codebase (mainly) for desktop and web.<p>They also have to support Windows, Linux, Mac and mobile. Not an easy task</text></item><item><author>comboy</author><text>do you really though</text></item><item><author>stefan_</author><text>I want to work at a company like that, where I can just blame the &quot;stack&quot; we&#x27;re using and shrug my shoulders.</text></item><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>I really hope whatever the NativeWindow changes are allow Slack to finally stop rendering when the app goes to the background. My battery has been killed a couple times by the Slack renderer using ~30% cpu playing gifs while the app isn&#x27;t visible, and their support says its because they don&#x27;t have a notification hook for minimizing</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electron 3.0.0</title><url>https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-3-0</url></story> |
39,586,226 | 39,585,867 | 1 | 3 | 39,583,064 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>In 1993, at the end of the Cold War, Secretary of Defense William Perry [0] summoned contractors to a dinner meeting, now called &#x27;The Last Supper&#x27;. Unlike the original Last Supper, this one was the last (or the beginning of the end) for most of the guests: Perry told them that, having no more peer enemies, the US didn&#x27;t need most of them. They would have to consolidate dramatically. At the end of the 1990s, 107 defense contractors had consolidated to five.<p>That was efficient and a good choice for the situation. Against a peer foe like the Soviet Union, you need lots of extra capacity to supply needs during a war when everything is consumed quickly, from ships to bullets. From the end of the Cold War until recently, that was unnecessary. The Taliban, Iraq, Serbia, Libya, etc. were not going to require so many munitions that there would be a crisis; they weren&#x27;t going to sink any destroyers or shoot down any planes.<p>China is a &#x27;near-peer&#x27; threat. As Russia&#x27;s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated, the capability of all of NATO - with combined economies maybe 30x Russia&#x27;s - to manufacture supplies for Ukraine is insufficient. A war with China could be much larger; the US needs far more capacity.<p>Another, more critical reason is that some weaknesses are escalatory - they encourage escalation by the enemy. Chinese leaders, seeing the US lacks that capacity, are incentivised to escalate peace to conflict, conflict to war, a small war to a large war. Escalation is the bane of international relations - it is systemic and often cannot be controlled, leading to catastrophes that nobody wants but nobody can stop. Any professional foreign policy carefully constructs situations that are systemically de-escalatory.<p>(As an example, the US Space Force is changing from using a few expensive super-satellites to using very many cheap ones, in large part because having a few super-satellites is escalatory - it incentivizes an enemy to conduct a surprise attack, because they can knock out a large amount of capability at once.)<p>[0] OT: also a mathematics Ph.D. Do such people still rise to leadership in government? Or are they all maximizing click-thru for SV companies?</text><parent_chain><item><author>giantg2</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t make much sense to revive shipbuilding in the US when you&#x27;d have to import the steel. We still wouldn&#x27;t be competitive on cost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. seeks to revive idled shipyards with help of Japan, South Korea</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/U.S.-seeks-to-revive-idled-shipyards-with-help-of-Japan-South-Korea</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ijidak</author><text>National security is my guess.<p>The inability to build ships at scale doesn&#x27;t bode well during today&#x27;s return to cold war &#x2F; inter-war geopolitics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>giantg2</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t make much sense to revive shipbuilding in the US when you&#x27;d have to import the steel. We still wouldn&#x27;t be competitive on cost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. seeks to revive idled shipyards with help of Japan, South Korea</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/U.S.-seeks-to-revive-idled-shipyards-with-help-of-Japan-South-Korea</url></story> |
24,062,925 | 24,063,114 | 1 | 2 | 24,059,980 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drivebycomment</author><text>It looks like the main reason the ads price for therapy went up is the extra competition - that COVID making the therapy market from in-person to virtual creates the supply to be not constrained by distance, which means suppliers have to compete across greater pool of suppliers, including therapists from cheaper cost of living areas. This naturally creates a downward pressure for the average price, and of course firms like BetterHelp show up to take advantage of this price differential - i.e. they are doing an arbitrage.<p>So this comes down to therapists living in expensive areas complaining about competition from therapists from cheaper areas. Given there are still people who need&#x2F;want local therapy, there will be a new price equilibrium but most likely it will be lower than before. No amount of complaining about Google or ads or arbitrage like BetterHelp will make the price stay as before. Nothing much to see here - this looks mostly like a market adapting to a new changed market condition.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/google-s-search-monopoly-complicates-a-mental-health-crisis</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text>As I understand it, the problem here has little to do with Google. The problem is that the transition to telehealth means that therapists are now competing directly with large national mental healthare providers like BetterHealth and Talkspace mentioned in the article. Those big companies have deeper advertising pockets.<p>If you want to break up companies to make it easier for independent therapists, those are the ones to break up. Google is just the marketplace.<p>This is like blaming the sidewalk or the interstate highway system when Wal-Mart causes your local mom and pop store to shut down. Google isn&#x27;t driving her prices up, <i>competition</i> is.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google’s search monopoly complicates a mental health crisis</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/google-s-search-monopoly-complicates-a-mental-health-crisis</url></story> |
31,269,878 | 31,263,555 | 1 | 3 | 31,260,061 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ornornor</author><text>&gt; a 45 Drives unraid server<p>You run this at home? How’s your power bill? And why so many drives?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dawnerd</author><text>Listing the docker images. All this is hosted on a 45 Drives unraid server.<p>adguard&#x2F;adguardhome - Blocks ads on devices that don&#x27;t support ad block extensions<p>charlocharlie&#x2F;epicgames-freegames - Bot that will automatically &quot;purchase&quot; free games from the epic game store. I have it setup to telegram me a link to enter the captcha.<p>chuckmacdev&#x2F;adrfinder - Checks for Disney dining reservations and emails a link to reserve<p>fusengine&#x2F;apaxy - Decent web file browser<p>linuxserver&#x2F;*arr - ya&#x27;ll know why :)<p>linuxserver&#x2F;smokeping - Really useful to troubleshoot network issues<p>plexinc&#x2F;pms-docker - I want to switch to jellyfin but I have so much data in Plex now it&#x27;ll probably be a huge pain<p>jlesage&#x2F;nginx-proxy-manager - I&#x27;m lazy and hate setting up reverse proxies<p>jlesage&#x2F;qdirstat - Pretty useful when dealing with a server that has as much data as mine does<p>adolfintel&#x2F;speedtest - Good for troubleshooting networks that might preferentially give speedtest.net better speeds, also good for internal network testing<p>linuxserver&#x2F;sabnzbd - Obvious<p>haugene&#x2F;transmission-openvpn - I don&#x27;t feel comfortable downloading any torrent unless it goes through a vpn</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What are your most used self-hosted applications?</title><url>https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xen2xen1</author><text>A few of these look pretty good, thanks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dawnerd</author><text>Listing the docker images. All this is hosted on a 45 Drives unraid server.<p>adguard&#x2F;adguardhome - Blocks ads on devices that don&#x27;t support ad block extensions<p>charlocharlie&#x2F;epicgames-freegames - Bot that will automatically &quot;purchase&quot; free games from the epic game store. I have it setup to telegram me a link to enter the captcha.<p>chuckmacdev&#x2F;adrfinder - Checks for Disney dining reservations and emails a link to reserve<p>fusengine&#x2F;apaxy - Decent web file browser<p>linuxserver&#x2F;*arr - ya&#x27;ll know why :)<p>linuxserver&#x2F;smokeping - Really useful to troubleshoot network issues<p>plexinc&#x2F;pms-docker - I want to switch to jellyfin but I have so much data in Plex now it&#x27;ll probably be a huge pain<p>jlesage&#x2F;nginx-proxy-manager - I&#x27;m lazy and hate setting up reverse proxies<p>jlesage&#x2F;qdirstat - Pretty useful when dealing with a server that has as much data as mine does<p>adolfintel&#x2F;speedtest - Good for troubleshooting networks that might preferentially give speedtest.net better speeds, also good for internal network testing<p>linuxserver&#x2F;sabnzbd - Obvious<p>haugene&#x2F;transmission-openvpn - I don&#x27;t feel comfortable downloading any torrent unless it goes through a vpn</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What are your most used self-hosted applications?</title><url>https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/</url></story> |
30,939,991 | 30,939,937 | 1 | 2 | 30,937,201 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>We used to have UnrealScript and 9&#x2F;10 our designers still reached for Kismet instead.<p>Lua is great and I&#x27;m a huge proponent of it but different tools are meant for different use cases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jay_kyburz</author><text>I think you are only a huge fan of blueprints because they is no alternatives in Unreal. I think if you could compare an Unreal Lua integration to Blueprints you would reach for Lua every time.<p>Everything you wrote is just as true for a well written text program, and untrue for badly written blueprint spaghetti!</text></item><item><author>oneoff786</author><text>I’m a huge fan of blueprints. A few things it does well:<p>* makes the engine api very discoverable, which is huge. It’s a step above intellisense and auto complete. The api is likely the reason it’s so dominate in games. It’s the bulk of game programming. Visual programming isn’t very good for coding new things from scratch.<p>* let’s you read code and clearly follow execution from start to finish.<p>* let’s you visually document concepts with collapsed nodes, and colored containers and what not. Good blueprints are literally written as long form pseudo code, with double clicks to see actual implementation.<p>* concepts like const functions are just conceptually clearer. Const functions have no execution pin. They (should) have no side effects. Just a calculation. The engine doesn’t enforce this I don’t think but it’s close…<p>What it explicitly does not do is allow you to code games without knowing how to code. Countless beginners just die on the first steps. You still need to understand object oriented design and basic coding concepts to do well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?</title><text>Why is visual programming so popular for game programming compared to other domains?<p>For example Unreal Blueprints<p>What is it about them that makes it so popular?</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>beebmam</author><text>There certainly are alternatives in Unreal. You can implement everything (and far more) in C++ without ever needing to use blueprints.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jay_kyburz</author><text>I think you are only a huge fan of blueprints because they is no alternatives in Unreal. I think if you could compare an Unreal Lua integration to Blueprints you would reach for Lua every time.<p>Everything you wrote is just as true for a well written text program, and untrue for badly written blueprint spaghetti!</text></item><item><author>oneoff786</author><text>I’m a huge fan of blueprints. A few things it does well:<p>* makes the engine api very discoverable, which is huge. It’s a step above intellisense and auto complete. The api is likely the reason it’s so dominate in games. It’s the bulk of game programming. Visual programming isn’t very good for coding new things from scratch.<p>* let’s you read code and clearly follow execution from start to finish.<p>* let’s you visually document concepts with collapsed nodes, and colored containers and what not. Good blueprints are literally written as long form pseudo code, with double clicks to see actual implementation.<p>* concepts like const functions are just conceptually clearer. Const functions have no execution pin. They (should) have no side effects. Just a calculation. The engine doesn’t enforce this I don’t think but it’s close…<p>What it explicitly does not do is allow you to code games without knowing how to code. Countless beginners just die on the first steps. You still need to understand object oriented design and basic coding concepts to do well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?</title><text>Why is visual programming so popular for game programming compared to other domains?<p>For example Unreal Blueprints<p>What is it about them that makes it so popular?</text></story> |
11,776,057 | 11,776,062 | 1 | 2 | 11,774,099 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&gt; I am Chinese and I would respectfully disagree that cheating is some part of Chinese culture.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what it takes for something to be considered part of a culture, but academic cheating is very widespread in China to the point that there can be strong resistance to local or regional efforts to curb it on the grounds that this will put those who are prevented from cheating at an unfair disadvantage due to the widespread cheating by those outside their region [1].<p>There&#x27;s also a plagiarism problem in China, and cultural factors are a major reason for this [2]. More on the scientific plagiarism and fraud problems in China: [3] [4] [5] [6]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;china&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;heres-the-quote-that-sums-up-chinas-huge-problem-of-cheating-in-schools&#x2F;277108&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;china&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;heres-the-q...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;03&#x2F;138937778&#x2F;plagiarism-plague-hinders-chinas-scientific-ambition" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;03&#x2F;138937778&#x2F;plagiarism-plague-hi...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;chinas-scientific-credibility-marred-wrongdoing-top-medical-journal-says-1877209" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;chinas-scientific-credibility-marred-...</a><p>[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;china&#x2F;21586845-flawed-system-judging-research-leading-academic-fraud-looks-good-paper" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;china&#x2F;21586845-flawed-system-j...</a><p>[5] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;copycat-papers-flag-continuing-headache-china" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;copycat-papers-flag-c...</a><p>[6] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;world&#x2F;asia&#x2F;07fraud.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;world&#x2F;asia&#x2F;07fraud.html?pa...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>&gt; Chinese students cheat because cheating is part of Chinese culture. Go to China and you&#x27;ll be shocked at how little people care about others in public, or society at large.<p>I am Chinese and I would respectfully disagree that cheating is some part of Chinese culture. The only example you gave was basically the bystander effect in action, which you then ascribe to... cheating somehow? Moral depravity of millions of people?<p>Chinese callousness towards strangers is shocking. Wait till you see what some us politicians have to say about foreigners!</text></item><item><author>Snargorf</author><text>Non-Chinese students also have those same problems, but they don&#x27;t cheat like the Chinese.<p>Chinese students cheat because cheating is part of Chinese culture. Go to China and you&#x27;ll be shocked at how little people care about others in public, or society at large.<p>This is a place where bystanders will watch cars swerve wildly around an open manhole cover over and over, nearly getting in accidents, doing nothing to help. When the Westerner comes by and closes the manhole cover, the Chinese are surprised. They&#x27;d never consider doing anything like that, because - what&#x27;s in it for them?<p>This is a country where people pay others to go to prison for them. If they clip a child with their car, they&#x27;ll deliberately run over the child again and again to make sure he dies and doesn&#x27;t create hospital bills.<p>I was never more staggered by rampant, blatant cheating, plagiarism or dishonesty than when I spent a semester studying in a university there. For someone raised in the West, Chinese callousness and dishonesty towards strangers is unbelievable until you experience it.</text></item><item><author>kirrent</author><text>Australia is also a popular destination for Chinese students and sees high rates of cheating for many of the same reasons as those given in the article. Poor language skills allowed by lax student visa requirements, isolation, and the high penalties for failing a course when your family is paying full price creates desperation.<p>4 corners did a pretty good story on it and the smh investigation into MyMaster was also pretty good. Even if you can&#x27;t get the video on 4 corners, the transcript is available.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;4corners&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;4217741.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;4corners&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;4217741.ht...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smh.com.au&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;mymaster-essay-cheating-scandal-more-than-70-university-students-face-suspension-20150312-1425oe.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smh.com.au&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;mymaster-essay-cheating-scandal-mo...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way into and through US colleges</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-cheating-iowa/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>corv</author><text>Having also spent time at a Chinese university and seen rampant cheating of Chinese students in my home country I must respectfully disagree with you.<p>Currently there is a major lack of ethical behavior in mainland China. Hong Kong and Singapore are nothing like this.<p>I sincerely hope that China will become aware of the issue and be able to improve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>&gt; Chinese students cheat because cheating is part of Chinese culture. Go to China and you&#x27;ll be shocked at how little people care about others in public, or society at large.<p>I am Chinese and I would respectfully disagree that cheating is some part of Chinese culture. The only example you gave was basically the bystander effect in action, which you then ascribe to... cheating somehow? Moral depravity of millions of people?<p>Chinese callousness towards strangers is shocking. Wait till you see what some us politicians have to say about foreigners!</text></item><item><author>Snargorf</author><text>Non-Chinese students also have those same problems, but they don&#x27;t cheat like the Chinese.<p>Chinese students cheat because cheating is part of Chinese culture. Go to China and you&#x27;ll be shocked at how little people care about others in public, or society at large.<p>This is a place where bystanders will watch cars swerve wildly around an open manhole cover over and over, nearly getting in accidents, doing nothing to help. When the Westerner comes by and closes the manhole cover, the Chinese are surprised. They&#x27;d never consider doing anything like that, because - what&#x27;s in it for them?<p>This is a country where people pay others to go to prison for them. If they clip a child with their car, they&#x27;ll deliberately run over the child again and again to make sure he dies and doesn&#x27;t create hospital bills.<p>I was never more staggered by rampant, blatant cheating, plagiarism or dishonesty than when I spent a semester studying in a university there. For someone raised in the West, Chinese callousness and dishonesty towards strangers is unbelievable until you experience it.</text></item><item><author>kirrent</author><text>Australia is also a popular destination for Chinese students and sees high rates of cheating for many of the same reasons as those given in the article. Poor language skills allowed by lax student visa requirements, isolation, and the high penalties for failing a course when your family is paying full price creates desperation.<p>4 corners did a pretty good story on it and the smh investigation into MyMaster was also pretty good. Even if you can&#x27;t get the video on 4 corners, the transcript is available.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;4corners&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;4217741.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;4corners&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;4217741.ht...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smh.com.au&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;mymaster-essay-cheating-scandal-more-than-70-university-students-face-suspension-20150312-1425oe.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smh.com.au&#x2F;nsw&#x2F;mymaster-essay-cheating-scandal-mo...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way into and through US colleges</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-cheating-iowa/</url></story> |
3,205,198 | 3,205,210 | 1 | 2 | 3,204,857 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pilif</author><text>In my opinion, there is but one feature that a database really must have: whatever data I write into it, if I don't delete it, I want to read it back - unaltered (preferably without needing at least three machines, but I'm willing to compromise)<p>Software that cannot provide this single feature just isn't something I would call database.<p>If it's unsafe default configurations or just bugs. I don't care.<p>Between these two articles over the weekend and some from earlier, personally, I don't trust MongoDB to still have that feature and as such, it needs much more than one article with a strongly worded title to convince me otherwise.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder: MongoDB is fine</title><url>http://blog.slyphon.com/post/12435929063/go-cry-on-somebody-elses-shoulder-mongodb-is-fine</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>The author would have us believe that it's unfair to pick on any piece of software because it "all sucks." They'd also have us believe that complaining about your data disappearing in MongoDB is an unfair criticism, and then takes the logical leap that judging the destruction of data and buggy software somehow has something to do with your own ability to create backups. Generally speaking the people who have been burned by MongoDB have survived by the fact that <i>they had backups</i>. This has nothing to do with the fact that their database nuked their data and that this is unacceptable if it happens due to careless engineering or poor defaults.<p>Edit: To be fair, if MongoDB was advertised as a "fault-intolerate, ephemeral database that is fast as heck but subject to failure and data loss, so do not put mission critical information in it" then all bets would be off. But we know that's never going to happen.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder: MongoDB is fine</title><url>http://blog.slyphon.com/post/12435929063/go-cry-on-somebody-elses-shoulder-mongodb-is-fine</url></story> |
10,595,919 | 10,595,516 | 1 | 3 | 10,595,181 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>envy2</author><text>Meanwhile, Telegram&#x27;s cofounder Pavel Durov wrote about the Paris attacks on Instagram yesterday:<p>&quot;I think the French government is as responsible as ISIS for this, because it is their policies and carelessness which eventually led to the tragedy. They take money away from hardworking people of France with outrageously high taxes and spend them on waging useless wars in the Middle East and on creating parasitic social paradise for North African immigrants. It is a disgrace to see Paris in the hands of shortsighted socialists who ruin this beautiful place. I hope they and their policies go away forever and this city will once again shine in its full glory – safe, rich and beautiful.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;-MrPWGr7aL&#x2F;?taken-by=durov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;-MrPWGr7aL&#x2F;?taken-by=durov</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telegram bans public ISIS channels</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/19/founder-of-app-used-by-isis-once-said-we-shouldnt-feel-guilty-on-wednesday-he-banned-their-accounts/?hpid=hp_no-name_morning-mix-story-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cantagi</author><text>Alarmist article. Telegram is banning ISIS&#x27;s public channels, not snooping on and censoring their private communications. That is moderation of a public facing platform which isn&#x27;t an invasion of privacy and doesn&#x27;t necessarily compromise Telegram&#x27;s security.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telegram bans public ISIS channels</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/19/founder-of-app-used-by-isis-once-said-we-shouldnt-feel-guilty-on-wednesday-he-banned-their-accounts/?hpid=hp_no-name_morning-mix-story-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory</url></story> |
20,323,374 | 20,322,717 | 1 | 2 | 20,320,576 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>treerock</author><text>&gt; get a few interns<p>Pretty much agree, but not sure Internships are the best way to do it. Expecting people to work for no pay means you only get those that can afford to work for no pay.<p>I remember an article on HN from few years ago, about the German apprentice system. Paid work, coupled with college education.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tobi.lutke.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;news&#x2F;11280301-the-apprentice-programmer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tobi.lutke.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;news&#x2F;11280301-the-apprentice-pr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5314268" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5314268</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>When I started, I was an intern. I was lucky to live in a day where not every metrics were used to rate someone&#x27;s productivity. So employees had time for me. Time to help me learn, and figure out stuff.<p>As I wasn&#x27;t paid, I had low pressure to deliver good things. That said I was trying really hard to bring a net positive.<p>I miss the days where having interns was a common thing. We&#x27;d give them the repetitive boring jobs but they&#x27;d also get real experience and see _how_ things were done. Later they&#x27;d be trusted to do just about anything.<p>Now it&#x27;s all &#x27;senior&#x27;. Every job is looking for a heavy-hitter rockstar superman. Even if it&#x27;s wrapped into this joly &#x27;hey we&#x27;re cool and kinda awesome too, woowee us!&#x27; - they&#x27;re still wanting to find senior mad-scientists.<p>I contract myself out to large&#x2F;small businesses, all sorts of industries, big pay jobs. Number of interns: 0.<p>The net result is I see plenty of &#x27;senior engineers&#x27; hired who I wouldn&#x27;t call senior. They&#x27;ve got 5 years experience, 2 of them were writing tests, and they&#x27;re &#x27;senior&#x27;?<p>Do the future a favour, get a few interns. They&#x27;ll keep you young!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes</title><url>https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/06/30/mentoring-you-are-worthwhile/#.XRkm4GAtLuU.hackernews</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Writing good tests is not easy. It&#x27;s an important skill that not everybody has. In some industries, where you write safety critical software, you actually need <i>more</i> experience before you are allowed to work unsupervised as a tester. The testers I&#x27;ve worked with also had a say in the design of the software and were allowed to veto architectural decisions for being too hard to test.<p>So please don&#x27;t look down on people writing tests. Quality assurance is what makes software suck less.</text><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>When I started, I was an intern. I was lucky to live in a day where not every metrics were used to rate someone&#x27;s productivity. So employees had time for me. Time to help me learn, and figure out stuff.<p>As I wasn&#x27;t paid, I had low pressure to deliver good things. That said I was trying really hard to bring a net positive.<p>I miss the days where having interns was a common thing. We&#x27;d give them the repetitive boring jobs but they&#x27;d also get real experience and see _how_ things were done. Later they&#x27;d be trusted to do just about anything.<p>Now it&#x27;s all &#x27;senior&#x27;. Every job is looking for a heavy-hitter rockstar superman. Even if it&#x27;s wrapped into this joly &#x27;hey we&#x27;re cool and kinda awesome too, woowee us!&#x27; - they&#x27;re still wanting to find senior mad-scientists.<p>I contract myself out to large&#x2F;small businesses, all sorts of industries, big pay jobs. Number of interns: 0.<p>The net result is I see plenty of &#x27;senior engineers&#x27; hired who I wouldn&#x27;t call senior. They&#x27;ve got 5 years experience, 2 of them were writing tests, and they&#x27;re &#x27;senior&#x27;?<p>Do the future a favour, get a few interns. They&#x27;ll keep you young!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes</title><url>https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/06/30/mentoring-you-are-worthwhile/#.XRkm4GAtLuU.hackernews</url></story> |
39,462,605 | 39,462,774 | 1 | 2 | 39,462,253 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; The rally has also been supported by a weaker yen, which has shed about 6% against the dollar so far this year and seems on track to drop to to 33-year lows touched late last year.<p>We just got back from Tokyo and the prices for everything were crazy low. Ordered a bunch of sushi at a mall sushi place in Kyoto for what it would cost for Chipotle in DC. It was a huge shock when we flew back through SF and paid $13 each for a taco truck burrito in Millbrae.<p>The Japanese folks I’ve spoken to are pretty grumbly about the weak yen, though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/japans-nikkei-hits-all-time-high-on-reforms-robust-corporate-earnings.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>SCAQTony</author><text>Their economy is still not doing well. The sole reason that the NIKKEI is storming it is that banks only offer negative interest rates on bank deposits. Thus, the NIKKEI is the only real option left.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.focus-economics.com&#x2F;country-indicator&#x2F;japan&#x2F;interest-rate&#x2F;#:~:text=Interest%20Rate%20forecasts%20and%20outlook%20for%20Japan&amp;text=The%20BOJ%20Policy%20Rate%20ended,3.50%25%20at%20end%2D2022" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.focus-economics.com&#x2F;country-indicator&#x2F;japan&#x2F;inte...</a>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/japans-nikkei-hits-all-time-high-on-reforms-robust-corporate-earnings.html</url></story> |
33,500,361 | 33,500,109 | 1 | 2 | 33,496,246 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Arguably, Stanford is a venture capital and real estate firm which operates a school on the side for the tax exemption. Back in the early 1990s, Stanford split off their endowment and land operations into a separate company, the Stanford Management Company. That worked out very well. They had startup money in Cisco, Yahoo, Google... Over time, the SMC tail came to wag the SU dog.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hermitian909</author><text>Stanford and other top institutions can&#x27;t really be compared to other schools, students fees are <i>not</i> how these institutions make money. There are massive business arms tying in to fortune 500s, political think tanks, government institutions, etc. It&#x27;s a whole different game for schools at this level.<p>To understand administrative bloat in the US it&#x27;s much more instructive to look somewhere like University of Idaho where the business of charging students for services rendered is the main game in town. It&#x27;s there you can see how administrative services have drastically ballooned costs for just the education.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Stanford has now reached the point that they recently built an <i>entire 35-acre campus just for administrators.</i>[1] This is completely separate from the main campus and miles away.<p><i>&quot;The campus provides workspace for about 2,700 employees (including three of the university’s eight vice presidents) working in critical areas such as the School of Medicine administration, libraries and archives, business affairs, human resources, development and Land, Buildings &amp; Real Estate. Stanford will be the city’s third-largest employer in Redwood City.&quot;</i><p>Amenities:<p>* Cardinal Café -- Located on the first floor of Cardinal Hall, serving globally- and regionally-inspired cuisine for breakfast and lunch.<p>* Recreation &amp; Wellness Center -- The 28,000 square foot facility includes a six-lane rooftop pool, indoor basketball court, state-of-the-art fitness equipment, locker rooms, showers and an outdoor fitness courtyard.<p>* Stanford Transportation<p>* Digital Media Production Studio<p>* Wellness and Lactation Rooms<p>* Dry Cleaning<p>* Pine Cone Children&#x27;s Center<p>* Stanford Catering &amp; Conferences<p>* Stanford Federal Credit Union<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodcity.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodcity.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable</title><url>https://quillette.com/2022/11/02/bloated-college-administration-is-making-education-unaffordable/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ohnonotyouagain</author><text>Also, the top institutions also offer substantial need-based aid, so the top-line tuition number is really only applicable to households with income over ~$200-$250K. At Harvard a family with $150K income will pay $15K, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;college.harvard.edu&#x2F;guides&#x2F;financial-aid-fact-sheet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;college.harvard.edu&#x2F;guides&#x2F;financial-aid-fact-sheet</a> I think this is typical across the Ivies. That&#x27;s basically in-state tuition at UMass <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umass.edu&#x2F;admissions&#x2F;undergraduate-admissions&#x2F;costs-aid&#x2F;cost-attend" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umass.edu&#x2F;admissions&#x2F;undergraduate-admissions&#x2F;co...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Hermitian909</author><text>Stanford and other top institutions can&#x27;t really be compared to other schools, students fees are <i>not</i> how these institutions make money. There are massive business arms tying in to fortune 500s, political think tanks, government institutions, etc. It&#x27;s a whole different game for schools at this level.<p>To understand administrative bloat in the US it&#x27;s much more instructive to look somewhere like University of Idaho where the business of charging students for services rendered is the main game in town. It&#x27;s there you can see how administrative services have drastically ballooned costs for just the education.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Stanford has now reached the point that they recently built an <i>entire 35-acre campus just for administrators.</i>[1] This is completely separate from the main campus and miles away.<p><i>&quot;The campus provides workspace for about 2,700 employees (including three of the university’s eight vice presidents) working in critical areas such as the School of Medicine administration, libraries and archives, business affairs, human resources, development and Land, Buildings &amp; Real Estate. Stanford will be the city’s third-largest employer in Redwood City.&quot;</i><p>Amenities:<p>* Cardinal Café -- Located on the first floor of Cardinal Hall, serving globally- and regionally-inspired cuisine for breakfast and lunch.<p>* Recreation &amp; Wellness Center -- The 28,000 square foot facility includes a six-lane rooftop pool, indoor basketball court, state-of-the-art fitness equipment, locker rooms, showers and an outdoor fitness courtyard.<p>* Stanford Transportation<p>* Digital Media Production Studio<p>* Wellness and Lactation Rooms<p>* Dry Cleaning<p>* Pine Cone Children&#x27;s Center<p>* Stanford Catering &amp; Conferences<p>* Stanford Federal Credit Union<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodcity.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodcity.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable</title><url>https://quillette.com/2022/11/02/bloated-college-administration-is-making-education-unaffordable/</url></story> |
13,457,278 | 13,456,443 | 1 | 3 | 13,456,353 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>I was curious, so I did the math.<p>Total worldwide carbon production is 38.2 billion tons per year. Cost to sequester a ton of carbon is between $30 and $150, depending on who you ask and how you do it. Let&#x27;s assume a middle of the road price of $90&#x2F;ton. That&#x27;s $3.438 trillion a year, or about $478 per person. This is roughly equal to the US yearly federal spending, or 3% of the world GDP.<p>If you somehow pooled together all the world&#x27;s billionaires and got them to contribute their annual income (roughly $600 billion a year, averaging the past 7 years) to the effort, you could eliminate roughly 20% of carbon produced in the world every year.<p>-------------------------<p>Suddenly, it becomes crystal clear why finding new sequestration methods is incredibly important: if you can get the cost from $160 to $10 per ton, then suddenly all you&#x27;d need would be a coalition of half the world&#x27;s billionaires to stop the main cause of global warming.<p>Additionally, it&#x27;s important that people realize that CO2 production is in tons of CO2 per year. Tree offsets are a one-time deal, since when trees die they release CO2, and when new ones are born they absorb that CO2 again. After they&#x27;ve been planted, forests are generally carbon neutral. That&#x27;s why we can&#x27;t &quot;just plant trees&quot;: we&#x27;d have to be continuously planting new trees. The Earth is only 8% arable land, much of which already has stuff on it, or is undesirable for one reason or another. We&#x27;d run out of space pretty fast. Trees are good for other reasons: preventing climate change (different from global warming), preserving species diversity, being nice to look at, etc etc.<p>-------------------------<p>Mostly off-topic: when I was looking at estimates of land size, apparently the amount the US has shrunk from 2007 to 2015 (14,000 km2; went from 9,161,120 km2 to 9,147,420 km2) [0] is roughly equivalent to half the area of the Netherlands. Wow.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;AG.LND.TOTL.K2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;AG.LND.TOTL.K2</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turning CO2 to Stone</title><url>http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/6839.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>VeejayRampay</author><text>It&#x27;s nice that we&#x27;re looking to alternative ways to capture and store atmospheric CO2, but at time it also does look like we&#x27;re working too hard to replicate a system that does that already (and has for a long time): plants.<p>Or does it mean that the time of planting trees and preserving forests is over now and we have to do it another (most often less efficient) way?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turning CO2 to Stone</title><url>http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/6839.html</url></story> |
16,586,833 | 16,586,698 | 1 | 3 | 16,585,892 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>As with anything there is the way in which something is offered and the way in which it is consumed. I have encountered <i>many</i> people who have internalized &quot;fake it&quot; to mean &quot;pretend that you are hitting all your milestones and you executing against your plan&quot;. These folks see this as a way to keep the questions of why they <i>aren&#x27;t</i> actually doing all of that at bay because later when they are &quot;making it&quot; those questions will be irrelevant.<p>For example you lie about how your marketing efforts are reaching customers who are signing up in droves while you use mechanical turk and other techniques to make the observable metrics go up. At some point your visibility reaches the point where you actually <i>are</i> reaching your customers and so you can stop doing the shady stuff. By doing this you avoid the inefficiency of the whole &quot;we aren&#x27;t sure you can do this&quot; discussion which helps no one.<p>On the outside, one clean narrative, traction and growth from day 1, now a multi-million (or billion) dollar business. Or as my Grandfather would say, all yummy sausage and no discussion at all about what not-yummy things are in there too.<p>Everyone should believe in themselves. That is just a given, if you don&#x27;t (or can&#x27;t) then you won&#x27;t reach your expectation. There isn&#x27;t any &quot;faking&quot; there as far as I can see (unless it is suppressing your own doubts about the effort).</text><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text>&quot;Fake it til you make it&quot; generally refers to acting like you believe in yourself even if you&#x27;re filled with self-doubt. Not actual fraud.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Ok, this is the money line in that press release for me:<p><i>“The charges against Theranos, Holmes, and Balwani make clear that there is no exemption from the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws simply because a company is non-public, development-stage, or the subject of exuberant media attention.”</i><p>For all those entrepreneurs are trying to &quot;fake it until you make it&quot; be aware that the SEC considers your strategy both fraudulent and they feel they have the jurisdiction to prosecute you. And while I doubt the SEC is going to go after every CEO that raised a Series A on a pitch deck that was pure fantasy, the people who participated in the round might bring them in if it served their purposes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matte_black</author><text>You can believe in yourself without faking anything, and it’s healthy to do so.<p>Faking it implies you want to give others the impression you’re already a big shot, and it dilutes out the accomplishments of people who <i>actually</i> made it.<p>The downside should be that if you’re faking it and you don’t make it, your shame should be relentless and brutal, and no one should ever take you seriously again. Also, even if you make it you will feel alone and empty in your success, because everyone will have long thought you already “made it” and you have to continue hiding your true story. There is no one to celebrate with except those who are also in on it.<p>Where as if you would have just been humble and true to where you currently are, people have headroom to express sympathy and support should you encounter a setback.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text>&quot;Fake it til you make it&quot; generally refers to acting like you believe in yourself even if you&#x27;re filled with self-doubt. Not actual fraud.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Ok, this is the money line in that press release for me:<p><i>“The charges against Theranos, Holmes, and Balwani make clear that there is no exemption from the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws simply because a company is non-public, development-stage, or the subject of exuberant media attention.”</i><p>For all those entrepreneurs are trying to &quot;fake it until you make it&quot; be aware that the SEC considers your strategy both fraudulent and they feel they have the jurisdiction to prosecute you. And while I doubt the SEC is going to go after every CEO that raised a Series A on a pitch deck that was pure fantasy, the people who participated in the round might bring them in if it served their purposes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41</url></story> |
33,639,816 | 33,638,359 | 1 | 3 | 33,637,092 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>This affects the way you write code, too.<p>I was writing something in Rust and I wanted to create a new boxed object.<p><pre><code> Box::new(...)
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Boom! Program crashes. The object I’m putting in the heap is too large for the stack. Rustc does this by instantiating the object on the stack, and then copying it to the box. I don’t really want to fuss with nightly or stuff like Box::new_uninit just to deal with this. C++ has both regular `new` and placement `new`, both of which put objects in memory which is already allocated. I had assumed that the Rust compiler could optimize out a move, since that’s such a prominent feature in C++ compilers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Rust stack-efficient yet?</title><url>https://arewestackefficientyet.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>kibwen</author><text>Prior discussion with the author on Reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;yw57mj&#x2F;are_we_stack_efficient_yet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;yw57mj&#x2F;are_we_stack_e...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Rust stack-efficient yet?</title><url>https://arewestackefficientyet.com/</url></story> |
35,246,141 | 35,246,446 | 1 | 2 | 35,245,626 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>I&#x27;d also add that the almost all standardized tests are designed for introductory material across millions of people. That kind of information is likely to be highly represented in the training corpus. Whereas most jobs require highly specialized domain knowledge that&#x27;s probably not well represented in the corpus, and probably too expansive to fit into the context window.<p>Therefore standardized tests are probably &quot;easy mode&quot; for GPT, and we shouldn&#x27;t over-generalize its performance there to its ability to actually add economic value in actually economically useful jobs. Fine-tuning is maybe a possibility, but its expensive and fragile, and I don&#x27;t think its likely that every single job is going to get a fine-tuned version of GPT.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thwayunion</author><text>Absolutely correct.<p>We already know this is about self-driving cars. Passing a driver&#x27;s test was already possible in 2015 or so, but SDCs clearly aren&#x27;t ready for L5 deployment even today.<p>There are also a lot of excellent examples of failure modes in object detection benchmarks.<p>Tests, such as driver&#x27;s tests or standardized exams, are designed for humans. They make a lot of entirely implicit assumptions about failure modes and gaps in knowledge that are uniquely human. Automated systems work differently. They don&#x27;t fail in the same way that humans fail, and therefore need different benchmarks.<p>Designing good benchmarks that probe GPT systems for common failure modes and weaknesses is actually quite difficult. Much more difficult than designing or training these systems, IME.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question</title><url>https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-benchmarks</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>On topic of the driver&#x27;s test analogy: I&#x27;ve known people who have passed the test and still said, &quot;I&#x27;m don&#x27;t yet feel ready to drive during rush hour or in downtown Toronto.&quot; And then at some point in the future they then recognize that they are ready and wade into trickier situations.<p>I wonder how self-aware these systems can be? Could ChatGPT be expected to say things like, &quot;I can pass a state bar exam but I&#x27;m not ready to be a lawyer because...&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>thwayunion</author><text>Absolutely correct.<p>We already know this is about self-driving cars. Passing a driver&#x27;s test was already possible in 2015 or so, but SDCs clearly aren&#x27;t ready for L5 deployment even today.<p>There are also a lot of excellent examples of failure modes in object detection benchmarks.<p>Tests, such as driver&#x27;s tests or standardized exams, are designed for humans. They make a lot of entirely implicit assumptions about failure modes and gaps in knowledge that are uniquely human. Automated systems work differently. They don&#x27;t fail in the same way that humans fail, and therefore need different benchmarks.<p>Designing good benchmarks that probe GPT systems for common failure modes and weaknesses is actually quite difficult. Much more difficult than designing or training these systems, IME.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question</title><url>https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-benchmarks</url></story> |
22,800,050 | 22,800,034 | 1 | 3 | 22,799,407 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taneq</author><text>This sounds like a great system on face value, but it also adds a perverse incentive for insurers to drive <i>up</i> repair costs (and hence their premiums) in order to increase their own revenue. I&#x27;ve heard this effect put forward as one reason that the U.S. medical system&#x27;s prices are so overinflated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>surge</author><text>It&#x27;s worth mentioning some states have caps on how much insurance can make, in other words if they&#x27;re not absorbing a base amount of risk, they have to give the money back because people are paying too much to insure against something where the risk is low. I&#x27;ve gotten checks back from auto insurance before where they made too much money that year due to lack of payouts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some auto insurers are sending refunds to customers as crash rate falls</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/828187071/some-auto-insurers-are-sending-refunds-to-customers-as-crash-rate-falls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>briandear</author><text>There is more nuance. It’s actually because an insurance company is required to pay a certain percentage of premiums out for claims. In health insurance, there is the “80&#x2F;20” rule where at least 80% of premiums are required to be paid as claims. Auto&#x2F;property has similar rules set by relevant state insurance commissions.<p>If claim volume drops, they means they don’t get to necessarily keep the extra “profit.” I am not familiar with the rules around auto (I used to be a disaster home&#x2F;property claims adjuster,) but I suspect auto rules are similar. It isn’t about risk being reduced, but more about claims payouts being projected less than the premium rates have accounted for. Insurance companies actually want lower rates — it means they sell more insurance which further deepens the risk pool.</text><parent_chain><item><author>surge</author><text>It&#x27;s worth mentioning some states have caps on how much insurance can make, in other words if they&#x27;re not absorbing a base amount of risk, they have to give the money back because people are paying too much to insure against something where the risk is low. I&#x27;ve gotten checks back from auto insurance before where they made too much money that year due to lack of payouts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some auto insurers are sending refunds to customers as crash rate falls</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/828187071/some-auto-insurers-are-sending-refunds-to-customers-as-crash-rate-falls</url></story> |
1,991,827 | 1,991,156 | 1 | 3 | 1,991,122 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jnoller</author><text>No, it's not dead, and I'm sad that this is sitting at the front page, because it's so misleading.<p>The fact is, it's stalled (<a href="https://www.google.com/buzz/bcannon/bZDN1jNZ3uC/Is-this-finally-going-to-push-CPython-into-the" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/buzz/bcannon/bZDN1jNZ3uC/Is-this-fina...</a>) - <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/" rel="nofollow">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/</a> was accepted. This means that a branch was made with the intent of merging US into Py3k. Unfortunately, this proved to be a greater task then originally planned. Stalled != Dead.<p>To quote Collin:
"<i>Unladen Swallow is stalled because merging the code into the py3k-jit branch plain sucks: lots of new compatibility work to be done, lots of corners we had to un-cut, lots of drudge and suffering. It doesn't help that Google is full of far more interesting and influential projects.</i>"<p>So add in the fact that the resources Google had "assigned" to the project got moved/reassigned onto something else, and what you have is a very stalled project. Collin has stated that they hope(d) that other python-core devs would/will step up to help, but everyone is pretty tapped out as it is.<p>I'm as disappointed as anyone that it's stalled - given it's compatibility with C extensions, potential speedups and future potential, it has been one of the projects I've had the most hope for.<p>That said, PyPy is also coming along; when they hit 2.7 compatibility and they have drop-in replacement capability, the ecosystem will be <i>very</i> interesting. Competition in the interpreter space is <i>good</i>, and I feel that Unladen's aggressiveness helped spur/move PyPy along.<p>That said Unladen (in my mind) remains the CPython interpreter's best way of moving into the future. It still has the most promise for <i>that</i> code base.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unladen Swallow is dead</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/msg/bd4e6f935c23252a</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>cawhitworth</author><text>Reading the thread, it seems there's still an intention to roll the JIT into py3k at some point, but the project devs don't have the time and the community doesn't seem to have the inclination to take over the work. I think calling it dead might be overstating things slightly.<p>Or, seeing as this is Python we're talking about: It's not dead, it's just resting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unladen Swallow is dead</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/msg/bd4e6f935c23252a</url><text></text></story> |
7,978,840 | 7,978,686 | 1 | 3 | 7,978,118 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magicalist</author><text>The Guardian reported[1] that they were at least considering a notice at the bottom of a search result page that had a result removed, like they do with DMCA requests.<p>If that&#x27;s the case, hopefully they can do what they do with DMCA notices, and link to a copy of the actual takedown request (which would include a link or links to what was taken down). ChillingEffects.org could start a new section for right to be forgotten requests.<p>On the other hand, reprinting DMCA takedown notices is protected by the First Amendment in the US, but reprinting right to be forgotten requests may be frowned upon by EU courts.<p>Edit: according the newer Guardian piece that thegregjones posted above, there is a warning[2], but just a &quot;Learn more&quot; link, no link to the actual removal request.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/08/google-search-results-indicate-right-to-be-forgotten-censorship" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2014&#x2F;jun&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-sea...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrYpLOwIgAE8pF0.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;BrYpLOwIgAE8pF0.jpg</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>natosaichek</author><text>I like that they told the author that his article would no longer be viewable.<p>If that&#x27;s the case, and the &#x27;removal&#x27; is not secret, then they could (should?) totally make available a separate database of articles that people have asked to be removed.<p>Basically, the original article may be old (or theoretically irrelevant) but the fact that someone asked for it to be removed is very new and not at all irrelevant. It would be awesome to see this as the Streisand effect writ large - everything that people want to see buried actually gets a new surge of attention.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why has Google cast me into oblivion?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28130581</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>Presumably he can then reissue the article. That for Google is a different instance and recent content making it outside the auspices of the EU law?</text><parent_chain><item><author>natosaichek</author><text>I like that they told the author that his article would no longer be viewable.<p>If that&#x27;s the case, and the &#x27;removal&#x27; is not secret, then they could (should?) totally make available a separate database of articles that people have asked to be removed.<p>Basically, the original article may be old (or theoretically irrelevant) but the fact that someone asked for it to be removed is very new and not at all irrelevant. It would be awesome to see this as the Streisand effect writ large - everything that people want to see buried actually gets a new surge of attention.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why has Google cast me into oblivion?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28130581</url></story> |
2,319,935 | 2,319,585 | 1 | 2 | 2,319,333 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdaniel</author><text>I likely will not be surprised by whatever they release. I will be <i>genuinely</i> surprised if anything comes of it. This news strikes me in the same way as a headline proclaiming "US Congress is beholden to special interests" or such.<p>I guess it's good in that we will have something concrete to which one can refer when trying to convince the friends and family to join a credit union.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anonymous To Release Documents Proving BOA Committed Fraud on Monday</title><url>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/12/955682/-Anonymous-To-Release-Document-Proving-BOA-Committed-Fraud-on-Monday</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>evo_9</author><text>Thank you Anon, you may be freedoms last hope. Wish I was joking.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anonymous To Release Documents Proving BOA Committed Fraud on Monday</title><url>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/12/955682/-Anonymous-To-Release-Document-Proving-BOA-Committed-Fraud-on-Monday</url></story> |
29,886,524 | 29,886,460 | 1 | 3 | 29,885,644 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PostOnce</author><text>More money isn&#x27;t just new subscriptions, it&#x27;s also revenue from existing subscriptions (which can be cancelled any time).<p>By this logic, platforms will never need new content ever in order to keep existing subscribers happy.<p>It&#x27;s not just new subscriptions, it&#x27;s also retention: do people stay subscribed to platform X because movies like The Matrix Resurrections are on the platform?<p>It&#x27;d be rather hard to measure for a single film, it&#x27;s the aggregate of platform content that dictates retention, I would think.<p>If the answer is yes, then the platforms will continue to pay companies like WB to film &quot;box office bombs&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LegitShady</author><text>Do they suddenly make more money streaming? Do you have any evidence people joined a streaming platform to watch it?<p>This thing bombed everywhere. People with existing subscriptions watching it doesn&#x27;t make it any. More profitable to Warner Bros</text></item><item><author>Latty</author><text>Quoting box office sales while ignoring the fact this was released simultaneously for streaming really doesn&#x27;t tell the full story.</text></item><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>Any reason to believe that this is an instance of Hollywood Accounting? At a glance, wikipedia says the film cost $190m, which seems reasonable for a film like this, and only received $124.5m in box office sales. Conversely, wikipedia lists Harry Potter OotP as a &quot;150–200 million&quot; budget on $942m in box office sales.<p>It&#x27;s certainly possible this is a case of Hollywood Accounting, but is there any particular reason we think it is, vs just a film losing a lot of money normally?</text></item><item><author>romwell</author><text>Uh huh. Sure.<p>There&#x27;s a reason they call it Hollywood Accounting[1].<p>Not that Warner Brothers is new to this game either:<p>&gt;A Warner Bros. receipt was leaked online, showing that the hugely successful movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ended up with a $167 million loss on paper after grossing nearly $1 billion.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hollywood_accounting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hollywood_accounting</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M</title><url>https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/the-matrix-resurrections-estimated-to-lose-warner-bros-100-million/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lilyball</author><text>They had a deal for home streaming simultaneously with the box office release. This means that yes it is highly likely that far more people streamed this movie than movies that do theater-exclusive releases.<p>And people with existing subscriptions don’t matter, because Warner Bros isn’t getting subscription money directly, they’re getting money from deals with subscription services.<p>Edit: HBO is owned by Warner. So even if they don’t do accounting such that HBO pays Warner but just track subscription revenue directly, it still doesn’t matter. Retaining subscribers is hugely important, not just getting brand new subscriptions. It does make it a lot harder to compare box office receipts though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LegitShady</author><text>Do they suddenly make more money streaming? Do you have any evidence people joined a streaming platform to watch it?<p>This thing bombed everywhere. People with existing subscriptions watching it doesn&#x27;t make it any. More profitable to Warner Bros</text></item><item><author>Latty</author><text>Quoting box office sales while ignoring the fact this was released simultaneously for streaming really doesn&#x27;t tell the full story.</text></item><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>Any reason to believe that this is an instance of Hollywood Accounting? At a glance, wikipedia says the film cost $190m, which seems reasonable for a film like this, and only received $124.5m in box office sales. Conversely, wikipedia lists Harry Potter OotP as a &quot;150–200 million&quot; budget on $942m in box office sales.<p>It&#x27;s certainly possible this is a case of Hollywood Accounting, but is there any particular reason we think it is, vs just a film losing a lot of money normally?</text></item><item><author>romwell</author><text>Uh huh. Sure.<p>There&#x27;s a reason they call it Hollywood Accounting[1].<p>Not that Warner Brothers is new to this game either:<p>&gt;A Warner Bros. receipt was leaked online, showing that the hugely successful movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ended up with a $167 million loss on paper after grossing nearly $1 billion.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hollywood_accounting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hollywood_accounting</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M</title><url>https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/the-matrix-resurrections-estimated-to-lose-warner-bros-100-million/</url></story> |
20,401,736 | 20,399,652 | 1 | 2 | 20,399,555 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buildbuildbuild</author><text>Fun. If you want PCIe on a SBC without the soldering, I highly recommend perusing Hackerboards. I&#x27;m very happy with my RockPi 4 (4GB RAM, PCIe, USB 3, 6 cores), which I discovered through their excellent database.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerboards.com&#x2F;search_boarddb.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerboards.com&#x2F;search_boarddb.php</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4</title><url>http://mloduchowski.com/en/blog/raspberry-pi-4-b-pci-express/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jonnax</author><text>That&#x27;s really cool. I&#x27;m curious, would it be possible to use a modern GPU (running at 1x) on an ARM based board?<p>Would the open source drivers that are part of the Kernel work out the box on ARM?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4</title><url>http://mloduchowski.com/en/blog/raspberry-pi-4-b-pci-express/</url></story> |
38,767,166 | 38,766,999 | 1 | 3 | 38,766,178 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rollcat</author><text>A&#x2F;B boot is old, good, and proven, but what do you do when you have dozens of separate microcontrollers, each governing a semi-independent subsystem, all running their own software that needs its own updates? It would make sense from safety&#x2F;reliability PoV when a crash&#x2F;bug in a slightly less critical system (like adjusting mirrors) does not affect a slightly more critical system (like indicators). What do you do when updating only one of the components fails? Do you rollback everything? Do you continue with the rest?<p>Just to be clear, I&#x27;m firmly in the &quot;less smart = more reliable&quot; camp, but even a SoC resembles a distributed system nowadays, and this architecture has its merits. The GPU on my M1 Mac crashed, rebooted itself, and all I saw was 1-2s of glitched graphics - no application noticed. Of course ideally GPUs wouldn&#x27;t crash, but the same could be said of cars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onetimeuse92304</author><text>Some 20 years ago I was asked to prepare OS distribution with OTA upgrade capability for some PoS system.<p>I think I prepared two system partitions and a custom MBR which would alternate the system partition on every start (uses one bit of non-volatile memory to alternate selection of partitions on each boot).<p>When the system starts, it does self-test. If it fails the self-test it just restarts. If it succeeds -- it writes the result on its partition and then looks at the other partition. If the other partition did not succeed the test, it reports the fact back to HQ and overwrites it with the current system.<p>The upgrade procedure is extremely simple -- the current system writes to the other partition, then restarts. If the upgrade is interrupted at any point in time, the other system will know it was interrupted and will just restart immediately. In any case, after two restarts we are back to the system that initiated the upgrade and if it checks the other system did not start and self-tested successfully, it can redo the upgrade as many time as we want and you still have a working system.<p>Could it be done better? Probably it could. It took me one day to think up and implement.<p>I would think Ford could do it better (Edited: yes, not a Tesla)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven</title><url>https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1739387245034139692</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kirby64</author><text>This is a Ford Mach-E, not a Tesla.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onetimeuse92304</author><text>Some 20 years ago I was asked to prepare OS distribution with OTA upgrade capability for some PoS system.<p>I think I prepared two system partitions and a custom MBR which would alternate the system partition on every start (uses one bit of non-volatile memory to alternate selection of partitions on each boot).<p>When the system starts, it does self-test. If it fails the self-test it just restarts. If it succeeds -- it writes the result on its partition and then looks at the other partition. If the other partition did not succeed the test, it reports the fact back to HQ and overwrites it with the current system.<p>The upgrade procedure is extremely simple -- the current system writes to the other partition, then restarts. If the upgrade is interrupted at any point in time, the other system will know it was interrupted and will just restart immediately. In any case, after two restarts we are back to the system that initiated the upgrade and if it checks the other system did not start and self-tested successfully, it can redo the upgrade as many time as we want and you still have a working system.<p>Could it be done better? Probably it could. It took me one day to think up and implement.<p>I would think Ford could do it better (Edited: yes, not a Tesla)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven</title><url>https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1739387245034139692</url></story> |
41,082,733 | 41,081,523 | 1 | 3 | 41,080,904 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GrantMoyer</author><text>In my opinion, plotting chromaticity on a Cartesian grid — by far the most common way — is pretty misleading, since chromaticity diagrams use barycentric coordinates (and to be clear, I blame the institution, not the author). The effect is that the shape of the gamut looks skewed, but only because of how it&#x27;s plotted; the weird skewedness of a typical XYZ chromaticity diagram doesn&#x27;t represent anything real about the data.<p>Instead, a chromaticity diagram is better thought of as a 2D planar slice of a 3D color space, specifically the slice through all three standard unit vectors. From this conception, it&#x27;s much more natural to plot a chromaticity diagram in an equilateral triangle, such as the diagram at [1]. A plot in a triangle makes it clear, for instance, that the full color gamut in XYZ space isn&#x27;t some arbitrary, weird, squished shape, but instead was intentionally chosen in a way that fills the positive octant pretty well given the constraints of human vision.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;777501&#x2F;why-is-the-visible-light-spectrum-different-to-a-hue-wheel&#x2F;777566#777566" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;777501&#x2F;why-is-th...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?</title><url>https://jlongster.com/why-chromaticity-shape</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hoherd</author><text>Here&#x27;s another really interesting exploration of color spaces <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericportis.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2024&#x2F;okay-color-spaces&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericportis.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2024&#x2F;okay-color-spaces&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?</title><url>https://jlongster.com/why-chromaticity-shape</url></story> |
15,707,293 | 15,704,087 | 1 | 2 | 15,703,187 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>littlestymaar</author><text>&gt; Either politicians are stupid, or more likely, they know that &quot;homeowner policy&quot; like this can make them and their other rich buddies even richer.<p>It&#x27;s not a malice vs idiocy situation, actually there is a third explaination : economy needs a growing money supply to work properly (and the money creation need to compensate the economic growth AND the reduction of money velocity[1]). But since the late seventies, money creation is only possible through the banking system via credit. That&#x27;s why central banks reduces interest rates to stimulate economy, because you need to create money to enable economic growth. To get out of the rising housing prices trap, we need another money creation mechanism, but many people are affraid of the old ones (state-controlled monetary creation) and a lot of people (bankers, homeowners) have a lot to lose if we changed the system.<p>[1]: this is the failure of the monetarist view from the seventies, which predicted a constant money velocity, in fact we&#x27;ve had a declining one for the last four decades.</text><parent_chain><item><author>opportune</author><text>I think a strong housing market may be the result of lack of productive capital, but I think it has more to do with supply and demand. Most average people pay for a house using a mortgage payment, so when buying a house, they&#x27;ll be looking for a house that has an affordable mortgage payment.<p>Let&#x27;s say Joe wants to spend &#x2F; can afford a $1000&#x2F;month mortgage payment. If interest rates are 5% and the maximum mortgage period is 30 years, Joe can afford to buy a house worth $190,000. However, if interest rates go down to 2% and Joe can now take a 40 year mortgage, Joe can now buy a house worth about $330,000. Great for Joe! The only problem is that housing supply is relatively inelastic, so the supply of housing didn&#x27;t magically increase overnight. When Joe buys a house, he&#x27;s essentially bidding against a bunch of other people for that house. If those other people&#x27;s mortgage payments were affected the same way, then the actual effect is that what was once a house worth $190,000 is now worth $330,000.<p>This sounds like a problem out of an Econ 101 exercise. Either politicians are stupid, or more likely, they know that &quot;homeowner policy&quot; like this can make them and their other rich buddies even richer.</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Totally agree. It seems one of the factors that helped the US until the 90s was that housing was affordable so people could move around easily. A &quot;strong&quot; housing market seems to indicate that there are no productive places for investing and no wage growth so people need to gamble on houses to rise instead.</text></item><item><author>opportune</author><text>When will we learn that a &quot;strong&quot; housing market is not necessarily a good thing? High housing prices are great for those who already owned houses but terrible for everyone else (e.g. the entire generations born after prices became inflated). Not to mention people are greedy and will over leverage themselves when interest rates are good. No country should let the &quot;landed gentry&quot; hold them hostage over interest rates or tax policy so that their assets - many of which they do not even actually own - can appreciate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Country's Currency</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-14/sweden-s-housing-shock-hits-krona-leaving-riksbank-few-choices</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gustomaximus</author><text>Homes are important to people and they tend to buy as good as they can afford. When employment is stable and interest rates are low people will spend more because they can and feel safe doing so.<p>Early movers purchase a higher grade of home than they could have previously. Eventually this shifts the market as a whole as income distribution remains stable. Then people buy the same house they would have previously at a higher price. Now nothing has changed and people are more in debt as the cycle returns to normal, if it ever does.<p>Plus the whole investor (foreign and domestic) vs owner occupier discussions we are seeing plenty of...</text><parent_chain><item><author>opportune</author><text>I think a strong housing market may be the result of lack of productive capital, but I think it has more to do with supply and demand. Most average people pay for a house using a mortgage payment, so when buying a house, they&#x27;ll be looking for a house that has an affordable mortgage payment.<p>Let&#x27;s say Joe wants to spend &#x2F; can afford a $1000&#x2F;month mortgage payment. If interest rates are 5% and the maximum mortgage period is 30 years, Joe can afford to buy a house worth $190,000. However, if interest rates go down to 2% and Joe can now take a 40 year mortgage, Joe can now buy a house worth about $330,000. Great for Joe! The only problem is that housing supply is relatively inelastic, so the supply of housing didn&#x27;t magically increase overnight. When Joe buys a house, he&#x27;s essentially bidding against a bunch of other people for that house. If those other people&#x27;s mortgage payments were affected the same way, then the actual effect is that what was once a house worth $190,000 is now worth $330,000.<p>This sounds like a problem out of an Econ 101 exercise. Either politicians are stupid, or more likely, they know that &quot;homeowner policy&quot; like this can make them and their other rich buddies even richer.</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Totally agree. It seems one of the factors that helped the US until the 90s was that housing was affordable so people could move around easily. A &quot;strong&quot; housing market seems to indicate that there are no productive places for investing and no wage growth so people need to gamble on houses to rise instead.</text></item><item><author>opportune</author><text>When will we learn that a &quot;strong&quot; housing market is not necessarily a good thing? High housing prices are great for those who already owned houses but terrible for everyone else (e.g. the entire generations born after prices became inflated). Not to mention people are greedy and will over leverage themselves when interest rates are good. No country should let the &quot;landed gentry&quot; hold them hostage over interest rates or tax policy so that their assets - many of which they do not even actually own - can appreciate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Country's Currency</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-14/sweden-s-housing-shock-hits-krona-leaving-riksbank-few-choices</url></story> |
14,607,998 | 14,607,494 | 1 | 2 | 14,600,799 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>db48x</author><text>This is abuse of power in these books, sometimes even quite blatant. Player of Games has probably the best example, since it has blackmail and extortion of a Culture citizen by an AI, with the help of a ship&#x27;s Mind. Not to mention cheating at a board game.<p>That said, the Culture does seem like it would be a nice place to live, over all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>marvin</author><text>Also, there is absolutely no abuse of power in Banks&#x27; society. This would certainly be a problem in a fully-automated capitalist society. I think Banks is a great inspiration, but it is not a world we will get by default. It needs active political effort.</text></item><item><author>seer</author><text>I think iain bank&#x27;s &quot;the culture&quot; novels explore this future in depth quite well. I will not spoil it but the basic idea is &quot;games&quot; - people will just be able to play all the games they want and compete with one anoher without the need to survive.</text></item><item><author>savanaly</author><text>I agree with this for the most part. There is a real human need though, and not one that makes a lot of rational sense, but a need nonetheless, to <i>be needed</i>. And for a lot of people in that world you described it wouldn&#x27;t be met. It&#x27;s kind of perverse right, because people don&#x27;t want you to artificially create need for them (it wouldn&#x27;t be fun to receive your basic income in compensation for digging and then filling in a big hole), they want it to be a genuine need for their talents. And unfortunately although we evolved that yearning to be helpful, we also evolved the ability to automate away most of the tasks that would have stimulated that.</text></item><item><author>guimarin</author><text>We should not be employing people in jobs that can be automated. We should try and automate everything. We should develop technologies, processes, and abilities so that everyone can learn new things. The people that want to learn will be incredibly leveraged and provide a ton of value to society. Those who don&#x27;t want to learn should be given enough for basic subsistence. A stipend which covers food, shelter, clothing, catastrophic healthcare, reasonable water access, and unlimited data. I would also push that all humans can be close to nature in some way, be it a park or otherwise. We have the technology to do this. Instead we have protectionism and fear.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/how-just-14-people-make-500-000-tons-of-steel-a-year-in-austria</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Banks&#x27; society is explicitly post-ownership; it&#x27;s fully-automated luxury anarcho-cyberism. It relies entirely on benevolent near-omnipotent AI.<p>Banks himself was distinctly anti-capitalist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>marvin</author><text>Also, there is absolutely no abuse of power in Banks&#x27; society. This would certainly be a problem in a fully-automated capitalist society. I think Banks is a great inspiration, but it is not a world we will get by default. It needs active political effort.</text></item><item><author>seer</author><text>I think iain bank&#x27;s &quot;the culture&quot; novels explore this future in depth quite well. I will not spoil it but the basic idea is &quot;games&quot; - people will just be able to play all the games they want and compete with one anoher without the need to survive.</text></item><item><author>savanaly</author><text>I agree with this for the most part. There is a real human need though, and not one that makes a lot of rational sense, but a need nonetheless, to <i>be needed</i>. And for a lot of people in that world you described it wouldn&#x27;t be met. It&#x27;s kind of perverse right, because people don&#x27;t want you to artificially create need for them (it wouldn&#x27;t be fun to receive your basic income in compensation for digging and then filling in a big hole), they want it to be a genuine need for their talents. And unfortunately although we evolved that yearning to be helpful, we also evolved the ability to automate away most of the tasks that would have stimulated that.</text></item><item><author>guimarin</author><text>We should not be employing people in jobs that can be automated. We should try and automate everything. We should develop technologies, processes, and abilities so that everyone can learn new things. The people that want to learn will be incredibly leveraged and provide a ton of value to society. Those who don&#x27;t want to learn should be given enough for basic subsistence. A stipend which covers food, shelter, clothing, catastrophic healthcare, reasonable water access, and unlimited data. I would also push that all humans can be close to nature in some way, be it a park or otherwise. We have the technology to do this. Instead we have protectionism and fear.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/how-just-14-people-make-500-000-tons-of-steel-a-year-in-austria</url></story> |
41,091,457 | 41,091,447 | 1 | 3 | 41,089,558 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlotOfReading</author><text>How do unions make shitty employees unfireable? From what I&#x27;ve seen, collective bargaining agreements usually mandate two things:<p>1. Documentation of &#x27;just cause&#x27; for firing. Unlike standard at-will, you need a real reason to fire someone like poor performance.<p>2. You need to follow the specified disciplinary process.<p>This is just a formalized, bureaucratic version of the process that any legitimate termination for performance is going to follow anyway, so I&#x27;m not sure how it&#x27;s a huge change.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zpalmtree</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>giraffe_lady</author><text>If you were living off that money maybe you wouldn&#x27;t find it so decent. Maybe you&#x27;d want a union idk unless you have some non-financial reason not to that you haven&#x27;t mentioned here. I trust their perception of their needs more than I trust your perception of it.</text></item><item><author>guywithahat</author><text>This is a single retail location in Maryland. There&#x27;s probably a reason they let them unionize without a lot of fighting, and I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s because they will shut the store down if the union becomes a problem.<p>I know this site is pretty pro-union, but if I were them I would not have wanted to unionize at all. Apple has decent salaries for what it is, and it&#x27;s probably cheaper to close the store than hire a McKinsey consultant to renegotiate union contracts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>margalabargala</author><text>This is like saying business owners hurt people by ignoring regulations, and governments decrease lifespan by killing their citizens. Or that internet commenters weaken society by telling lies.<p>These things have all happened, but they aren&#x27;t inherent qualities of those actors, and the fact that some actors have done those things doesn&#x27;t mean the organizational category should be discarded.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zpalmtree</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>giraffe_lady</author><text>If you were living off that money maybe you wouldn&#x27;t find it so decent. Maybe you&#x27;d want a union idk unless you have some non-financial reason not to that you haven&#x27;t mentioned here. I trust their perception of their needs more than I trust your perception of it.</text></item><item><author>guywithahat</author><text>This is a single retail location in Maryland. There&#x27;s probably a reason they let them unionize without a lot of fighting, and I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s because they will shut the store down if the union becomes a problem.<p>I know this site is pretty pro-union, but if I were them I would not have wanted to unionize at all. Apple has decent salaries for what it is, and it&#x27;s probably cheaper to close the store than hire a McKinsey consultant to renegotiate union contracts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5</url></story> |
41,284,899 | 41,284,666 | 1 | 3 | 41,284,409 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lws803</author><text>100% this should never be an excuse to push for a faster outcome. I have to admit though, as a personal mental exercise, this has saved me countless of hours from going down the rabbit hole of over-engineering. Some problems just need a simple solution, sometimes even without any changes to code.</text><parent_chain><item><author>from-nibly</author><text>&gt; &quot;gun to your head, you have to finish in 24 hours, what do you do?&quot;<p>PSA: if you are a project manager &#x2F; owner or some other similar position you do not get to ask this. This is a personal educational excercise not a way to get stuff done faster.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms we develop software by</title><url>https://grantslatton.com/software-pathfinding</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>&quot;gun to your head&quot; is maybe not appropriate for work, but the exercise is good for cutting to the core of a task when necessary. It&#x27;s really the same question as what is the minimum viable product.</text><parent_chain><item><author>from-nibly</author><text>&gt; &quot;gun to your head, you have to finish in 24 hours, what do you do?&quot;<p>PSA: if you are a project manager &#x2F; owner or some other similar position you do not get to ask this. This is a personal educational excercise not a way to get stuff done faster.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms we develop software by</title><url>https://grantslatton.com/software-pathfinding</url></story> |
23,396,907 | 23,396,917 | 1 | 3 | 23,395,923 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>season2episode3</author><text>&gt; At the end of the day your computer is no different from an expensive space heater. Might as well mine some crypto with it.<p>Or, you know, you could just turn the computer off while you&#x27;re not actively using it. It saves you money and does a small little good thing for the environment too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trixie_</author><text>&#x27;Bitcoin is the product of hashpower. The industry wouldn’t exist without incentivizing miners to continuously invest in hardware and burning electricity to augment Bitcoin network’s settlement assurance&#x27;<p>I think this is a common misconception. People don&#x27;t need to continually invest in mining hardware to keep it going. The entire Bitcoin network could technically be run off a single Rasberry Pi. The network hash rate is only so high because the ROI is there, but without it, people would still be mining.<p>Case in point, there are plenty of long forgotten altcoins out there that people are mining just for fun. At the end of the day your computer is no different from an expensive space heater. Might as well mine some crypto with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem</title><url>https://www.aniccaresearch.tech/blog/bitcoin-minings-three-body-problem</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brian_cloutier</author><text>I haven&#x27;t read the article, but I believe it will say something like, the continual investment is necessary in order for the transactions to be irreversible (settlement assurance). I&#x27;m sure there are some forgotten altcoins out there still chugging along, but it probably does not take much money to hire sufficient hash power to double-spend those alts, or even re-write their history.<p>For as long as bitcoin miners fight, tooth and nail, to hash incrementally more efficiently than their competitors, it will be prohibitively expensive for most actors to reverse transactions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trixie_</author><text>&#x27;Bitcoin is the product of hashpower. The industry wouldn’t exist without incentivizing miners to continuously invest in hardware and burning electricity to augment Bitcoin network’s settlement assurance&#x27;<p>I think this is a common misconception. People don&#x27;t need to continually invest in mining hardware to keep it going. The entire Bitcoin network could technically be run off a single Rasberry Pi. The network hash rate is only so high because the ROI is there, but without it, people would still be mining.<p>Case in point, there are plenty of long forgotten altcoins out there that people are mining just for fun. At the end of the day your computer is no different from an expensive space heater. Might as well mine some crypto with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem</title><url>https://www.aniccaresearch.tech/blog/bitcoin-minings-three-body-problem</url></story> |
27,431,645 | 27,431,325 | 1 | 3 | 27,430,050 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stratosgear</author><text>This brings back memories. I was an international student from Greece at the University of San Francisco, that fall, and I was present at a CS presentation that took place at the time (I&#x27;m not sure if it was Phill or not, but definitely one of the original authors). At the end of the presentation there was a pile of floppies that you could get a copy of the software. I got one along with my other classmates.<p>Unfortunately, I was approached a couple of days later and asked to return the floppy back. My status as an international student did not allow me to have a copy ( arms, munitions export rules, whatever). I felt really upset about it, since I was the only one asked to give my floppy back. I might still have a copy of the floppy in a box in the attic somewhere.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PGP Marks 30th Anniversary</title><url>https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/PGP_30th/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dale_glass</author><text>It&#x27;s very unfortunate PGP&#x2F;GPG hasn&#x27;t kept up with the times. Today it has two significant issues:<p>1. The needed trust model has changed significantly.
2. It&#x27;s not reusable enough.<p>1. The original PGP mostly dealt with direct person-to-person relationships. Alice and Bob needed to safely communicate. Perhaps Bob could vouch for Carol. But that was the intended model: closely related groups, with maybe a person trusted to act as an introducer. Today our needs are different, and we need to securely communicate with people we never met, or to verify their signatures. Any Linux system contains thousands of packages, which were worked on by many thousands of developers, one may need to communicate with securely at some point. Eg, I want to verify the GPG signature on the Tor browser, but I never met anyone on the team, and how do I know who knows the team?<p>My personal network actually extends very far. I did the FOSDEM key signing party several times, so my theoretical reach is enormous. But it can only be achived by hacking around GPG&#x27;s trust model. I need to figure out by hand a path between me and Tor, download the keys, and manually tell GPG I trust each key&#x27;s signature. This isn&#x27;t convenient, user friendly, not as safe as it could be.<p>2. GPG is unfortunately stuck in the &quot;Unix Philosophy&quot; era, where you&#x27;re supposed to just invoke the binary and parse its text output. I believe this crippled GPG&#x27;s adoption, because it&#x27;s <i>slow</i>. GPG has to do the whole startup, reading its key databases and so on every single time. Back when GPG support was introduced into KMail many years ago this added a very noticeable delay to viewing any signed message.<p>And it&#x27;s sadly still the case. The world badly needs a GPG library, that allows one to skip those startup costs, and to avoid the whole intended model of ~&#x2F;.gnupg and just let a program do things like interpret in-memory data for any conceivable purpose. This is still badly lacking.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PGP Marks 30th Anniversary</title><url>https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/PGP_30th/</url></story> |
38,517,485 | 38,517,074 | 1 | 2 | 38,512,793 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markkitti</author><text>I thought that notebook based development and package based development were diametrically opposed in the past, but Pluto.jl notebooks have changed my mind about this.<p>A Pluto.jl notebook is a human readable Julia source file. The Pluto.jl package is itself developed via Pluto.jl notebooks.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fonsp&#x2F;Pluto.jl">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fonsp&#x2F;Pluto.jl</a><p>Also, the VSCode Julia plugin tooling has really expanded in functionality and usability for me in the past year. The integrated debugging took some work to setup, but is fast enough to drop into a local frame.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;languages&#x2F;julia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;languages&#x2F;julia</a><p>Julia is the first language I have achieved full life cycle integration between exploratory code to sharable package. It even runs quite well on my Android. 2023 is the first year I was able to solve a differential equation or render a 3D surface from a calculated mesh with the hardware in my pocket.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jampekka</author><text>C++ is pain, numpy is pain if you need a loop, numba and cython are pain if you need any more complex data structures.<p>Sadly Julia is pain too if you don&#x27;t do REPL&#x2F;notebook (which you shouldn&#x27;t). Julia has the design to solve the two language problem but not the implementation. And will probably never have because Julia community refuses to see this as a problem.</text></item><item><author>fnands</author><text>Cool! Writing math-heavy code in Julia is such a pleasure. C++ is a pain, numpy is alright but Julia just makes sense. I really wish I could use it for my day-job.<p>Back when I was on ATLAS we mostly did things in C++. If I never have to do another matrix multiplication in C++ again it will be too soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03675</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qsort</author><text>I&#x27;m starting to think that the two language problem is not really solvable at the language level. Maybe it is, but there&#x27;s a significant friction.<p>High level naturally pushes you towards abstract types, GC, not caring about allocation, do what I mean not what I said.<p>Low level naturally pushes you towards concrete types, deterministic mallocs, do what I said not what I mean.<p>e.g. do I want integers like Python or integers like C? Yes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jampekka</author><text>C++ is pain, numpy is pain if you need a loop, numba and cython are pain if you need any more complex data structures.<p>Sadly Julia is pain too if you don&#x27;t do REPL&#x2F;notebook (which you shouldn&#x27;t). Julia has the design to solve the two language problem but not the implementation. And will probably never have because Julia community refuses to see this as a problem.</text></item><item><author>fnands</author><text>Cool! Writing math-heavy code in Julia is such a pleasure. C++ is a pain, numpy is alright but Julia just makes sense. I really wish I could use it for my day-job.<p>Back when I was on ATLAS we mostly did things in C++. If I never have to do another matrix multiplication in C++ again it will be too soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03675</url></story> |
24,019,873 | 24,019,208 | 1 | 2 | 24,016,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>The short answer is that he can&#x27;t. The president has no power to ban TikTok. The president also has no control over how the app is distributed or its connectivity. He can say whatever he wants, and he can strongarm the agencies he has some control over (like the FCC), but there&#x27;s simply no mechanism by which a ban can be enforced, legal or technical. Unless Google and Apple decide to voluntarily remove it from their app stores and forcibly remove existing downloads, it&#x27;s not going away, and neither company is going to do that without a legal battle. There&#x27;s no one who even has the authority to demand it, though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Twisell</author><text>Not US citizen here. Can someone explain how in a democracy the chief executive can singlehandedly decide to ban a media only a few month before elections?<p>I can&#x27;t make any sense of that, it seems wrong at so many levels...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/trump-says-he-will-ban-tiktok-through-executive-action-as-soon-as-saturday.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>JanSt</author><text>It‘s a question of distribution power. If the power is granted to the executive branch, they can do it. It‘s part of decisions on their own country. I consider it much more questionable to exert power over allied countries to stop extraterritorial infrastructure projects (i.e. Nordstream 2), because the US wants to sell fracking gas to europe. I‘m sure that using such power will lead to losing it long-term and former allies for mutual profit will grow apart.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Twisell</author><text>Not US citizen here. Can someone explain how in a democracy the chief executive can singlehandedly decide to ban a media only a few month before elections?<p>I can&#x27;t make any sense of that, it seems wrong at so many levels...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/trump-says-he-will-ban-tiktok-through-executive-action-as-soon-as-saturday.html</url></story> |
35,312,909 | 35,312,451 | 1 | 2 | 35,311,293 | 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>shp0ngle</author><text>My only experience with GNUStep is that 10 years ago, as a student, I needed to port a random CLI Cocoa app (that a different student wrote to learn Cocoa) to GNUStep.<p>There was a weird bug that took me forever to debug… and in the end, it was caused by some horrible bug in some map structure (NSDictionary? I think?) where a NSString unicode key did not map to the same value every time. Quite basic stuff. (It worked fine on Mac.)<p>As a student I didn’t really know how to report bugs, so I didn’t; I just wondered how did nobody catch it until now; but I just thought that probably nobody really uses GNUStep so that’s why.<p>It’s just anecdotal and I don’t really have access to the code anymore so I cannot tell you the details. (the original code was far from perfect too, maybe it was some unicode weirdness.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNUstep compatibility with macOS Catalina almost complete</title><url>https://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2023/03/compatibility-project-almost-complete.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>badsectoracula</author><text>I wonder if GNUstep is going to follow in Apple&#x27;s backwards compatibility breakage or they&#x27;ll try and keep existing programs working.<p>Free Pascal and Lazarus devs also implement a language and API originally defined by some big company in the past and in general try to implement the new stuff Delphi adds, but they also try to avoid breaking existing code. In Free Pascal this is done by using compiler directives in the source code to opt-in for the Delphi stuff whereas in Lazarus they only implement things that do not break existing code - either way you can have code that works with both Delphi and FPC since they&#x27;re 90% compatible but you need to use IFDEFs for that that last 10%.<p>Even though i&#x27;m using Window Maker and thus GNUstep apps would feel right at home (for the most part), i haven&#x27;t actually bothered to look into it because Apple has a bad history with breaking existing applications (i got an iMac in 2009 and pretty much every single Mac OS X &#x2F; macOS update broke some application that previously worked fine - until macOS itself stopped supporting my iMac) and GNUstep&#x27;s &quot;we&#x27;re not implementing NextStep anymore, now we&#x27;re doing Cocoa&quot; stance gives me an impression of &quot;we&#x27;re going to break your apps just like Apple does&quot;.<p>(of course that is one reason, another is that when i tried some programs made with it years ago there were major glitches and bugs like the text editor widget locking up the entire program - admittedly that was years ago and it probably has been fixed but it did give me a bad impression since the project was already more than a decade old by then and already in a state where barely any developers worked with&#x2F;on it)<p>Basically, what i wonder is, if i make a Linux binary today that links <i>only</i> against glibc and the GNUstep libraries (including the ObjC runtime), will it work in 10 years[0] even if it uses some API that in the meanwhile Apple decided to change or it&#x27;ll break? Ignoring of course breakage forced on the project from outside forces they could do nothing about (e.g. for some unfathomable reason the C ABI itself changing or everyone switching to RISC-V with all x86 CPUs blowing up at the same time and every x86 emulator out there suddenly losing both its source code and any existing binaries).<p>I get the impression with ObjC having a very &quot;dynamic&quot; nature it should be possible to do that.<p>[0] obviously if it works in 10 years it&#x27;ll also work in 20 years since in 20 years a binary made 10 years from now will still rely on the libraries being backwards compatible - the 10 years was an example to give a sense of scale</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNUstep compatibility with macOS Catalina almost complete</title><url>https://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2023/03/compatibility-project-almost-complete.html</url></story> |
33,150,634 | 33,150,242 | 1 | 2 | 33,148,697 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregdoesit</author><text>When I did a deepdive on Facebook ~5 months ago (&quot;Inside the Facebook Engineering Culture&quot;), I confirmed with people inside the company the company having ~75,000 global employees, ~32,000 working in tech.<p>While I can&#x27;t answer the question &quot;what does the company need them all for&quot;, consider that the company&#x27;s products are used by ~3.6B people every month, meaning they have about one full-time employee for every ~45,000 users.<p>Compare this with Google (one employee for every ~29,000 users) or Twitter (one employee for every ~52,000 users). The ballpark is similar, and shows the trend of it being harder to have fewer employees per thousand users (Twitter is much smaller than Meta, and Google twice the size in employee count while reached ~20% more monthly users).<p>The company generated ~$117B in revenue in 2021, which is ~$1.46M per employee. Profits per employee (net income divided by employee count) was ~$480K&#x2F;employee.<p>There will, naturally be a cost of revenue, cost of customer support (even if not all of it in-house).<p>Also worth considering that Meta is composed like several companies: Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Messenger, Reality Labs and several smaller&#x2F;larger bets operating pretty independently.<p>I&#x27;d flip your question around: what if Meta had fewer employees, what would it mean? It would mean:<p>1. Increasing their profitability even further<p>2. Likely less support for current customers, and less of an ability to invest in forward-looking initiatives<p>I&#x27;m sure shareholders of Meta would be happy with #1. For #2, short-term shareholders would be happy to see all of this go. Long-term shareholders would likely realize there would be a cost to cutting down on customer support and R&amp;D and I would not expect them to support this, given the very high profits Meta already has.<p>All in all, I find it remarkable that the company can operate with such revenue and profit numbers, and I suspect they are already deliberately hiring employees more conservatively, to keep up this profitability rate.<p>As a side comment, I have my thoughts on how non-applicable the linked article is for software engineers at Meta, as discussed in this comment [1] on this thread.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33150495" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33150495</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>That means that Facebook currently has 80 k employees. What exactly does it need them all for?<p>There are significant global engineering companies that do real things that benefit the world in concrete ways that have roughly that number of people, including their R&amp;D departments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/12000-facebook-employees-15-of-its-workforce-may-lose-jobs-amid-quiet-layoffs-report/articleshow/94676235.cms</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>&gt; that do real things that benefit the world in concrete ways<p>Spend more time talking to average people.<p>They will tell you that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are pretty important to them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>That means that Facebook currently has 80 k employees. What exactly does it need them all for?<p>There are significant global engineering companies that do real things that benefit the world in concrete ways that have roughly that number of people, including their R&amp;D departments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/12000-facebook-employees-15-of-its-workforce-may-lose-jobs-amid-quiet-layoffs-report/articleshow/94676235.cms</url></story> |
24,671,581 | 24,671,722 | 1 | 3 | 24,671,463 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24650634" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24650634</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H&M Hit with Record-Breaking GDPR Fine over Illegal Employee Surveillance</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2020/10/02/hm-hit-with-record-breaking-gdpr-fine-over-illegal-employee-surveillance/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrkwse</author><text>Worth noting that while it&#x27;s the largest fine from the German regulator, it&#x27;s only the fourth highest across Europe. The UK&#x27;s ICO have issued fines of ~€205m and ~€110m to British Airways and Marriott Intl. respectively, while France&#x27;s CNIL have fined Google €50m. H&amp;M were only fined ~€35m.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H&M Hit with Record-Breaking GDPR Fine over Illegal Employee Surveillance</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2020/10/02/hm-hit-with-record-breaking-gdpr-fine-over-illegal-employee-surveillance/</url></story> |
28,615,543 | 28,614,713 | 1 | 2 | 28,614,197 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davewritescode</author><text>Shake down is a completely unfair characterization of what&#x27;s happening here. Facebook is being sued because they&#x27;re alleged to be damaging their shareholders in three ways.<p>1. They&#x27;re using corporate funds to protect Zuckerberg personally.<p>2. They&#x27;re in violation of an FTC Consent Decree relating to Cambridge Analytica which poses a material risk to shareholders as there are financial penalties for violating the agreement.<p>3. They&#x27;re misleading Government and Customers about what data they&#x27;re collecting and how they&#x27;re protecting it, which opens them up to more lawsuits and further puts shareholders at risk.<p>Running a public company is a two-way street. If you want access to public financing and the ability to shield individuals from personal financial&#x2F;legal risk, you need to abide by certain rules relating to reporting and transparency.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to be transparent, you don&#x27;t have to IPO.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willvarfar</author><text>Can someone please sum up the wider context? What is happening to FB and what lawsuits are in play? Is this a civil case or a criminal case? Can Zuckerberg and co face jail time? Or is this just routine cost-of-business some-state-shaking-down pay-fine-and-carry-on for FB?<p>From a layman picking up occasional news, it feels like states and countries and even investors often shake down the big tech companies, using court cases to extract money from tech companies for arbitrary perceived transgressions but really the money just goes to some unaffected government to fund other purposes and that these states and investors and things just take it in turns to demand money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs. Facebook in Delaware</title><url>https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1440304941428473857</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tarsinge</author><text>Using the tech company label as if it was a random startup is not really relevant given the place Facebook has in our societies. Also it&#x27;s not 00&#x27;s &quot;don&#x27;t be evil&quot; anymore, governments should absolutely shake down ad tech IMHO.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willvarfar</author><text>Can someone please sum up the wider context? What is happening to FB and what lawsuits are in play? Is this a civil case or a criminal case? Can Zuckerberg and co face jail time? Or is this just routine cost-of-business some-state-shaking-down pay-fine-and-carry-on for FB?<p>From a layman picking up occasional news, it feels like states and countries and even investors often shake down the big tech companies, using court cases to extract money from tech companies for arbitrary perceived transgressions but really the money just goes to some unaffected government to fund other purposes and that these states and investors and things just take it in turns to demand money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs. Facebook in Delaware</title><url>https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1440304941428473857</url></story> |
5,369,274 | 5,368,870 | 1 | 2 | 5,368,475 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anon1385</author><text>A year ago the average total transfer was something like 937kB and now it's 1311kB, at least according to these stats: <a href="http://httparchive.org/trends.php#bytesTotal&#38;reqTotal" rel="nofollow">http://httparchive.org/trends.php#bytesTotal&#38;reqTotal</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pkorzeniewski</author><text>What strikes me most is how websites are visually getting more and more minimalistic and at the same time they're loading and working slower. For example The New York Times [1] layout is as simple as possible (basically text only with some images), but it loads 20 JS files, 13 CSS files, makes ~200 requests and uses ~14 MB of memory on load.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5</title><url>http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>STRML</author><text>It's hard to believe that a site with that kind of traffic &#38; resources hasn't even bothered to concatenate and minify its JS &#38; CSS. Most of the JS files still have comments. Bizarre. They should know better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkorzeniewski</author><text>What strikes me most is how websites are visually getting more and more minimalistic and at the same time they're loading and working slower. For example The New York Times [1] layout is as simple as possible (basically text only with some images), but it loads 20 JS files, 13 CSS files, makes ~200 requests and uses ~14 MB of memory on load.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5</title><url>http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5</url></story> |
33,343,895 | 33,342,856 | 1 | 2 | 33,340,782 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rurounijones</author><text>&gt; I will never understand the reason for Cucumber to exist<p>In a previous company I had one use-case that I thought cucumber helped out a lot at.<p>We were writing software that would be vigourously tested and approved by a customer who didn&#x27;t have any technical knowledge. Their initial plan was the &quot;Excel sheet of death&quot; test case management system with really fuzzily named tests.<p>I convinced them to write Cucumber tests, which turned out to be around 100, using the very explit syntax that then got called stupid by the cucumber devs and moved to the &quot;training-wheels&quot; gem. I never expressed what we were doing as cucumber tests. I just told them &quot;Write them like this and it is easy to understand&quot; and they agreed and did so, then they were signed off by our project team and them.<p>After that I then automated them our side so that we could run them quickly and easily in our pipeline while the customer could still use the tests for their tedious manual user acceptance testing at the end.<p>It worked out quite well. The customer never knew we automated the tests our side, they were just thrilled that something like 99% tests passed first-time and the 1% that didn&#x27;t were down to interpretation differences.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abracadabra_</author><text>I will never understand the reason for Cucumber to exist. As you say, it just introduces unnecessary complexity for no reason.<p>If you can&#x27;t code, you shouldn&#x27;t be writing automated tests. Most of the &quot;benefits&quot; of Cucumber can be gained by using a good reporting framework. I like to use Serenity as I love its reports.</text></item><item><author>lvncelot</author><text>I am less than lukewarm on those sort of &quot;Natural-Language-Like&quot; DSLs that seem to mostly come out of the QA space.<p>When I worked together with a QA team for automated testing, they used Cucumber, which uses Gherkin as an english-but-not-really DSL. Now the idea is obviously, that someone who doesn&#x27;t know how to code can still describe and read test scenarios. But what ended up happening eventually is that I spent a lot of time writing code to support different Gherkin expressions, but then had to take over writing the Gherkin expressions as well, because even though Gherkin -looks- like english, it still behaves like a programming language. In the end, it would&#x27;ve been much easier for me to just write the tests in a programming language from the start, instead of using an abstraction layer that turned out to serve no purpose.<p>What I took away from that frustrating experience is that a lot of people think that learning to code is learning a syntax of a programming language, and if you could just do away with that pesky syntax, everybody could code. But, obviously, the syntax ist just the initial barrier, and actually coding is crystallizing and formulating intent - something which programming languages are much better at than natural languages.<p>But for some reason, this low&#x2F;no-code idea never seems to die down, especially in some spaces, and I have the feeling I&#x27;m just missing something here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robot Framework: generic open source automation framework</title><url>https://robotframework.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>bluGill</author><text>The fact that gherkin can be be turned into an automated test is a side effect. The real purpose is to get non-programmers to put their requirements in a rigorous form so that programs can implement the spec and know it will do what is intended.<p>I have never seen it work in practice, but that what it is supposed to be about. If your managers are not looking at the gherkin and making suggestions then there is no point in doing it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abracadabra_</author><text>I will never understand the reason for Cucumber to exist. As you say, it just introduces unnecessary complexity for no reason.<p>If you can&#x27;t code, you shouldn&#x27;t be writing automated tests. Most of the &quot;benefits&quot; of Cucumber can be gained by using a good reporting framework. I like to use Serenity as I love its reports.</text></item><item><author>lvncelot</author><text>I am less than lukewarm on those sort of &quot;Natural-Language-Like&quot; DSLs that seem to mostly come out of the QA space.<p>When I worked together with a QA team for automated testing, they used Cucumber, which uses Gherkin as an english-but-not-really DSL. Now the idea is obviously, that someone who doesn&#x27;t know how to code can still describe and read test scenarios. But what ended up happening eventually is that I spent a lot of time writing code to support different Gherkin expressions, but then had to take over writing the Gherkin expressions as well, because even though Gherkin -looks- like english, it still behaves like a programming language. In the end, it would&#x27;ve been much easier for me to just write the tests in a programming language from the start, instead of using an abstraction layer that turned out to serve no purpose.<p>What I took away from that frustrating experience is that a lot of people think that learning to code is learning a syntax of a programming language, and if you could just do away with that pesky syntax, everybody could code. But, obviously, the syntax ist just the initial barrier, and actually coding is crystallizing and formulating intent - something which programming languages are much better at than natural languages.<p>But for some reason, this low&#x2F;no-code idea never seems to die down, especially in some spaces, and I have the feeling I&#x27;m just missing something here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robot Framework: generic open source automation framework</title><url>https://robotframework.org/</url></story> |
12,395,947 | 12,395,423 | 1 | 2 | 12,395,330 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>It is really interesting to see that this is a very &#x27;ordinary&#x27; commercial geostationary launch customer, and not a government funded research satellite. This is oversimplified, but traditionally, rockets that are in beta test mode are tested like:<p>1) static pad tests&#x2F;firings of engines<p>2) all-up launch of the full rocket, carrying a boilerplate satellite with some instrumentation, maybe some cubesats or low cost small R&amp;D satellites tagging along<p>3) one or two launches of government science payloads, or government-funded weather satellites, something like that<p>4) commercial launches begin</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falcon 9 Rocket</title><url>http://www.ses.com/4233325/news/2016/22407810</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kilroy123</author><text>I wonder if they&#x27;ll really save money right away doing this. I imagine they&#x27;ll spend a lot on inspections and getting things 100% right.<p>Either way, it&#x27;s an amazing achievement.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falcon 9 Rocket</title><url>http://www.ses.com/4233325/news/2016/22407810</url></story> |
31,326,789 | 31,325,336 | 1 | 2 | 31,292,593 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>martincmartin</author><text>What are some other games where spreadsheets help? I&#x27;ll start:<p>- Kerbal Space Program. Figuring out the sizes of different stages, how many solid boosters to add, etc.<p>- Factorio. Ratios of different factories, mostly for creating science packs.<p>- Cookie Clicker. Figuring out what to buy to get the best marginal cookies per dollar.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/eve-onlines-ms-excel-partnership-makes-spreadsheets-in-space-official/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>UweSchmidt</author><text>Anyone on here plays this game? Is it worth it?<p>Dropping everything in life for that one perfect game will always be a temptation... ;)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/eve-onlines-ms-excel-partnership-makes-spreadsheets-in-space-official/</url></story> |
21,825,427 | 21,822,530 | 1 | 2 | 21,806,142 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jojo2000</author><text>The old vision (brain = neurons =&gt; memories, rest of the body = organs which execute single or multiple functions, synchronized by the brain) is slowly fading away.<p>We have a lot of active neurons in the digestive system, which is in fact a second brain.<p>Same can be said for the heart which contains an autonomous neuronal system to control the cardiac function independently if need be.<p>Notions of distributed systems apply : redundancy, parallelism, coordinated autonomous systems, synchronization.<p>So why wouldn&#x27;t memory storage be distributed too ?<p>Why wouldn&#x27;t some memories stored in organs be retained after transplantation ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyri_kai_psomi</author><text>Small aside about memory in humans: I am reminded of a story told during a lecture of a transplant recipient receiving a heart transplant and was interviewed after the successful surgery about what they would like to eat now that they had a new heart (previously, was on a really restricted diet due to heart condition).<p>The person responded with &quot;Kentucky fried chicken&quot; on a whim.<p>It was later explained that they don&#x27;t know why they felt compelled to say KFC since they never been to one in their life. Later on, they find information about the donor and how they died (motorcycle accident -- be safe on your bikes please kids). The donor was a pretty husky guy, and loved Kentucky fried chicken.<p>Now could have this just been sheer coincidence or chance? Most likely. Is this scientifically verifiable? Of course not, not with current means. But for some reason I&#x27;ve always had a strange suspicion that there was more to memory than just storage in our brains, but that they are also somehow part of us as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/memories-can-be-injected-and-survive-amputation-and-metamorphosis</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Acquiring memories and personalities through organ transplants is a somewhat known urban legend and a fiction trope, but AFAIK the only thing you can transmit through a transplant that&#x27;s been verifiably demonstrated is pathogens.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyri_kai_psomi</author><text>Small aside about memory in humans: I am reminded of a story told during a lecture of a transplant recipient receiving a heart transplant and was interviewed after the successful surgery about what they would like to eat now that they had a new heart (previously, was on a really restricted diet due to heart condition).<p>The person responded with &quot;Kentucky fried chicken&quot; on a whim.<p>It was later explained that they don&#x27;t know why they felt compelled to say KFC since they never been to one in their life. Later on, they find information about the donor and how they died (motorcycle accident -- be safe on your bikes please kids). The donor was a pretty husky guy, and loved Kentucky fried chicken.<p>Now could have this just been sheer coincidence or chance? Most likely. Is this scientifically verifiable? Of course not, not with current means. But for some reason I&#x27;ve always had a strange suspicion that there was more to memory than just storage in our brains, but that they are also somehow part of us as well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/memories-can-be-injected-and-survive-amputation-and-metamorphosis</url></story> |
38,529,088 | 38,516,558 | 1 | 3 | 38,512,793 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alifatisk</author><text>Okey, I gotta mention this feeling I&#x27;ve had in my chest for a while.<p>A couple of years ago, when I was so faschinated by different programming languages, I stumpled upon Julia. I don&#x27;t exactly remember how but I think I was scrolling through a list of programming languages that looked interesting so I could write &quot;Hello, world&quot; in it.<p>So I stumpled upon Julia, knowing nothing about it and downloaded it.
At the time the language was still very young, but I remember thinking to myself that this language has a lot of potential, it promises something we actually need, like being dynamic yet high performance.<p>I&#x27;ve slowly been following Julias progress overtime and damn, it is growing rapidly and gained a lot of attention! I&#x27;m happy because it deserves it.<p>I&#x27;ve been working with Matlab again and I&#x27;m thinking about giving Julia another shot, this is also because Apache Octave was a disaster for me.<p>The end.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03675</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnands</author><text>Cool! Writing math-heavy code in Julia is such a pleasure. C++ is a pain, numpy is alright but Julia just makes sense. I really wish I could use it for my day-job.<p>Back when I was on ATLAS we mostly did things in C++. If I never have to do another matrix multiplication in C++ again it will be too soon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03675</url></story> |
23,764,988 | 23,765,093 | 1 | 3 | 23,761,058 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jlmorton</author><text>&gt; Containing and minimizing the effects of a pandemic is just one aspect of what we might call a civilized attitude towards human life. Conversely, not doing so is uncivilized and I might add immoral and irresponsible.<p>The reality is that everyone is prepared to allow others to die for their own convenience. I intentionally phrased that harshly, but it is indisputably true. In the US, 70,000 people died from the influenza season of 2018-2019. We could have sharply reduced that through quarantine measures. But no one wants to do that.<p>Once you accept that everyone is prepared to allow others to die preventable deaths for their own convenience, then all you are talking about is a matter of degree. It can&#x27;t be immoral to believe 1 death is okay, but 2 is wrong. That&#x27;s just an opinion. The only difference between believing 70,000 is okay, and 700,000 is not is a gut feeling about how much preventable death is worth it to maintain our living standards.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>&gt; In an average year, 13&#x2F;1000 Swedes die anyway.<p>Yes, people die. That&#x27;s true of all countries and all times. What we might call civilized societies have however strived to reduce those numbers as much as possible. This was done by trying to avoid violence, improving lifestyles and developing better medical techniques in order to prevent or repair diseases and injuries.<p>Containing and minimizing the effects of a pandemic is just one aspect of what we might call a civilized attitude towards human life. Conversely, not doing so is uncivilized and I might add immoral and irresponsible.<p>&gt; there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively &quot;lost&quot; a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime<p>This almost doesn&#x27;t merit a reply. A few months of not going to festivals and the cinema is by no measure a catastrophe. It&#x27;s not fun, but suggesting that your right to fun should trump others&#x27; right to life is, again, uncivilized, immoral and irresponsible.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>In an average year, 13&#x2F;1000 Swedes die <i>anyway</i>.<p>Considering COVID has closed many of life&#x27;s fun things, there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively &quot;lost&quot; a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime. By stating open, Sweden might decrease life expectancy in years, but increase it in terms of &#x27;things achieved in a lifetime&#x27;</text></item><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>This is an important observation. In the Netherlands, where I live, I&#x27;ve had a number of people look at me with great surprise and mistrust when I mentioned that the Dutch have done a terrible job with this epidemic. The Guardian plots show that the Netherlands is one of the worst when it comes to under-reporting.<p>This is not to say however that the Swedes have done a good job. While their numbers are credible, their magnitude is still unacceptably large: 0.5&#x2F;1000 Swedes have so far died of the corona virus.</text></item><item><author>bjourne</author><text>You have to look at the excess deaths figures. That is, how many usually dies from January to June in a normal year and compare that to how many extra that died in 2020. For Sweden the excess deaths almost exactly matches the number of Covid deaths, give or take 10%.<p>That is not the case for many other countries. For example, the UK had almost twice the number of excess deaths as Covid deaths in a few weeks in April. That indicates that Covid deaths were under reported in the UK. There are also some indications that Covid deaths have been under reported in other countries.<p>In other words, comparing countries by their Covid deaths&#x2F;capita rates is meaningless. The statistics are likely completely wrong because different countries use different definitions of &quot;Covid deaths&quot; and different reporting procedures.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;may&#x2F;29&#x2F;excess-deaths-uk-has-one-highest-levels-europe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;may&#x2F;29...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.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>austhrow743</author><text>&gt;What we might call civilized societies have however strived to reduce those numbers as much as possible<p>Unless you&#x27;re claiming that no civilised society exists, that&#x27;s not true at all. A civilisation built around minimising death as much as possible would look very differently to any that currently exists.<p>Resources are always a trade off. People working at those festivals and cinemas could have went in to medical care pre corona virus. People building festival stages and cinemas could have been building hospitals. If festivals and cinemas didn&#x27;t exist then that would be less driving and less road deaths.<p>At some level festivals and cinemas existing is putting some peoples fun over others right to life, corona virus or no.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>&gt; In an average year, 13&#x2F;1000 Swedes die anyway.<p>Yes, people die. That&#x27;s true of all countries and all times. What we might call civilized societies have however strived to reduce those numbers as much as possible. This was done by trying to avoid violence, improving lifestyles and developing better medical techniques in order to prevent or repair diseases and injuries.<p>Containing and minimizing the effects of a pandemic is just one aspect of what we might call a civilized attitude towards human life. Conversely, not doing so is uncivilized and I might add immoral and irresponsible.<p>&gt; there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively &quot;lost&quot; a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime<p>This almost doesn&#x27;t merit a reply. A few months of not going to festivals and the cinema is by no measure a catastrophe. It&#x27;s not fun, but suggesting that your right to fun should trump others&#x27; right to life is, again, uncivilized, immoral and irresponsible.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>In an average year, 13&#x2F;1000 Swedes die <i>anyway</i>.<p>Considering COVID has closed many of life&#x27;s fun things, there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively &quot;lost&quot; a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime. By stating open, Sweden might decrease life expectancy in years, but increase it in terms of &#x27;things achieved in a lifetime&#x27;</text></item><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>This is an important observation. In the Netherlands, where I live, I&#x27;ve had a number of people look at me with great surprise and mistrust when I mentioned that the Dutch have done a terrible job with this epidemic. The Guardian plots show that the Netherlands is one of the worst when it comes to under-reporting.<p>This is not to say however that the Swedes have done a good job. While their numbers are credible, their magnitude is still unacceptably large: 0.5&#x2F;1000 Swedes have so far died of the corona virus.</text></item><item><author>bjourne</author><text>You have to look at the excess deaths figures. That is, how many usually dies from January to June in a normal year and compare that to how many extra that died in 2020. For Sweden the excess deaths almost exactly matches the number of Covid deaths, give or take 10%.<p>That is not the case for many other countries. For example, the UK had almost twice the number of excess deaths as Covid deaths in a few weeks in April. That indicates that Covid deaths were under reported in the UK. There are also some indications that Covid deaths have been under reported in other countries.<p>In other words, comparing countries by their Covid deaths&#x2F;capita rates is meaningless. The statistics are likely completely wrong because different countries use different definitions of &quot;Covid deaths&quot; and different reporting procedures.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;may&#x2F;29&#x2F;excess-deaths-uk-has-one-highest-levels-europe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;may&#x2F;29...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html</url></story> |
35,658,780 | 35,655,885 | 1 | 3 | 35,654,574 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fsckboy</author><text>&quot;get-a-byte, get-a-byte, get-a-byte, byte, byte&quot; - Dave Cutler <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;14150&#x2F;how-should-we-interpret-dave-cutlers-criticism-of-unix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;14150&#x2F;how...</a><p>&gt;<i>Windows I&#x2F;O weirdness. You really don&#x27;t realize how strange it is until you</i><p>&quot;can I get a wut... WUT?&quot; - Developers, Developers, Developers<p>====<p>it&#x27;s just hard for people today to understand what a revolution stdin and stdout was, full 8 bit but sticking with ASCII as much as possible. There was nothing about it that limited Unices from having whatever performant I&#x2F;O underneath, but it gave programmers at the terminal the ability to get a lot done right from the command line.<p>The web itself is an extension of stdin and stdout, and the subsequent encrusting of simple HTTP&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;<i>et al</i> standards with layer upon layer of goop that calls for binary blobs can be seen as the invasion of Cutlerian-like mentalities. It&#x27;s sad that linux so successfully took over that all the people who we were happy to let use IIS and ASP and ActiveX had to come over to this side with their ideas. No idea of which is bad, but which together are incoherent.<p>client server FTW, bring it back</text><parent_chain><item><author>softfalcon</author><text>After years of working exclusively on Windows, I took a job that required me to build file management, except now, on macOS and Linux (along with Windows).<p>All I can say is, this article is the tip of the ice berg on Windows I&#x2F;O weirdness. You really don&#x27;t realize how strange it is until you are actively comparing it to an equivalent implementation on the two other competing operating systems day-to-day.<p>Each of them has their quirks, but I think Windows takes the cake for &quot;out there&quot; hacks you can do to get things running. I sometimes like to ponder what the business case behind all of them was, then I Google it and find the real reasons are wilder than most ideas I can imagine.<p>Fun stuff!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The weird world of Windows file paths</title><url>https://www.fileside.app/blog/2023-03-17_windows-file-paths/</url></story> | <instructions>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>&gt; All I can say is, this article is the tip of the ice berg on Windows I&#x2F;O weirdness. You really don&#x27;t realize how strange it is until<p>In one way it is beautiful. &quot;Laid cards lies&quot;, you know. Don&#x27;t mess with the user for your conception of Agile Clean Extreme Code (tm). Each stupid design decision is forever.<p>Windows .bat files win the awfulness and quirkyness contest with sh with a razor thin margin. And both are awesome.</text><parent_chain><item><author>softfalcon</author><text>After years of working exclusively on Windows, I took a job that required me to build file management, except now, on macOS and Linux (along with Windows).<p>All I can say is, this article is the tip of the ice berg on Windows I&#x2F;O weirdness. You really don&#x27;t realize how strange it is until you are actively comparing it to an equivalent implementation on the two other competing operating systems day-to-day.<p>Each of them has their quirks, but I think Windows takes the cake for &quot;out there&quot; hacks you can do to get things running. I sometimes like to ponder what the business case behind all of them was, then I Google it and find the real reasons are wilder than most ideas I can imagine.<p>Fun stuff!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The weird world of Windows file paths</title><url>https://www.fileside.app/blog/2023-03-17_windows-file-paths/</url></story> |
36,525,050 | 36,523,810 | 1 | 2 | 36,519,030 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EMM_386</author><text>&gt; There is an algorithm for everything in aviation<p>This is how I got my commercial pilot&#x27;s license, and I&#x27;m a senior software engineer.<p>It just &quot;clicked&quot; with my brain to follow specific procedures (&quot;algorithms&quot;) for absolutely everything. Checklists, strict rules, &quot;flows&quot;, handling emergencies. It all felt natural to me.<p>They will throw random stuff at you during checkrides. Pull the power back on one of the engines right after takeoff saying it failed, fail instruments that you were using to navigate, blindfold you (&quot;foggles&quot;) and put you almost upside down and then say &quot;recover!&quot;.<p>But you have everything so ingrained in your mind by that point that it&#x27;s almost robotic. You just look at the inputs (almost upside down, engine #2 is gone, no attitude indicator, whatever it is) and know what the output is supposed to be (roll to unload Gs, lower the nose, full power, check the standby AI, etc).<p>I happen to work well when there are strict rules and procedures. If this, then that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ipnon</author><text>There is an algorithm for everything in aviation. If you suspect your landing gear is not functional, you typically fly by a tower and have them make visual confirmation. Then you have another algorithm (they call them procedures) for how to land without gear. The airport likewise has a checklist of everything to do in this case. All of these procedures are hard won, the NTSB uses every hull failure and fatal accident to analyze what went wrong and how to create a better procedure.</text></item><item><author>Tepix</author><text>Did they know in advance that they were having problems?<p>Edit:<p>Answer: Yes<p><i>... the crew initiated a go around due to a unsafe nose gear indication, climbed to 4000 feet and entered a hold to work the checklists. After working the checklists the crew declared emergency and requested emergency services on stand by. The aircraft performed a low approach to runway 36L, positioned for another approach to runway 36L and landed without nose gear extended at 08:54L (12:54Z) about 12 minutes after the second go around and about 30 minutes after the first go around.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear</title><url>https://www.wbtv.com/2023/06/28/plane-lands-charlotte-douglas-international-airport-after-dealing-with-mechanical-issues/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>And when there is not a tower nearby, you, uhh... find a way. My buddy was flying into one of the many uncontrolled airports in NorCal, and there was a guy in a single-engine retractable gear circling the airport. When Buddy made his downwind call, the Guy radioed &quot;Hey I&#x27;m not getting any indication whether my gear is down or not, can you fly by me and tell me if it&#x27;s down?&quot; It was down, so Guy ended up attempting the landing with a bit more confidence than he started out with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ipnon</author><text>There is an algorithm for everything in aviation. If you suspect your landing gear is not functional, you typically fly by a tower and have them make visual confirmation. Then you have another algorithm (they call them procedures) for how to land without gear. The airport likewise has a checklist of everything to do in this case. All of these procedures are hard won, the NTSB uses every hull failure and fatal accident to analyze what went wrong and how to create a better procedure.</text></item><item><author>Tepix</author><text>Did they know in advance that they were having problems?<p>Edit:<p>Answer: Yes<p><i>... the crew initiated a go around due to a unsafe nose gear indication, climbed to 4000 feet and entered a hold to work the checklists. After working the checklists the crew declared emergency and requested emergency services on stand by. The aircraft performed a low approach to runway 36L, positioned for another approach to runway 36L and landed without nose gear extended at 08:54L (12:54Z) about 12 minutes after the second go around and about 30 minutes after the first go around.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear</title><url>https://www.wbtv.com/2023/06/28/plane-lands-charlotte-douglas-international-airport-after-dealing-with-mechanical-issues/</url></story> |
9,695,398 | 9,695,411 | 1 | 2 | 9,694,874 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joelgrus</author><text><i>Do those who support Curtis appearing at the talk refrain from posting out of fear of career repercussion?</i><p>No and yes. I have been pretty vocal about it on Twitter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;joelgrus&#x2F;status&#x2F;606474432509394944" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;joelgrus&#x2F;status&#x2F;606474432509394944</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;joelgrus&#x2F;status&#x2F;606673594198794240" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;joelgrus&#x2F;status&#x2F;606673594198794240</a><p>but I&#x27;ve also been sitting on a 75%-written blog post that I&#x27;m hesitant to actually post.<p>Not because of <i>career</i> repercussions (I have never had an employer who really gave a shit what I write about in my spare time) but because of <i>conference</i> repercussions.<p>I am promoting a book, and to that end I am scheduled to speak at various conferences and meetups. And I worry that the mob would somehow try to get <i>me</i> uninvited. It&#x27;s not like there&#x27;s an actual policy that Yarvin violated that I can be confident I&#x27;m on the right side of.<p>So I am torn between my natural inclination to say exactly what I think, and the more practical takeaway of &quot;don&#x27;t write or have written anything that might anger the mob&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text>In case you were wondering what Curtis&#x27;s talk might have been about (and whether it would have held any technical merit) this page has a link to Clark&#x27;s earlier introduction to Urbit: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;popehat.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulcans-why-urbit-matters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;popehat.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulcans-...</a><p>The &quot;Exit, voice, and loyalty&quot; terminology might seem odd if you don&#x27;t know it&#x27;s origins. It&#x27;s from 1970 book by economist A. O. Hirschman that&#x27;s coming back in popularity: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty</a>. Hirschman gives an 1978 intro&#x2F;postscript in his own words here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;homepages.wmich.edu&#x2F;~plambert&#x2F;comp&#x2F;hirschman.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;homepages.wmich.edu&#x2F;~plambert&#x2F;comp&#x2F;hirschman.pdf</a><p>I&#x27;m surprised by apparent predominance of support here on HN for Strangeloop&#x27;s position. While clearly legal, it&#x27;s strikes me as a terrible precedent to require speakers on technical topics to pass a political litmus test. I&#x27;d be interested to know the actual direction that the sentiment lies. Do those who support Curtis appearing at the talk (wisely?) refrain from posting out of (legitimate?) fear of career repercussion? Or am I (comfortable speaking because I&#x27;m largely outside the industry) in the minority?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis Yarvin)</title><url>http://popehat.com/2015/06/10/two-kinds-of-freedom-of-speech-or-strangeloop-vs-curtis-yarvin/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>d9h549f34w6</author><text>I for one support Curtis on this issue, but tend not to post here on the subject except under an alternate username. I do this because I do in fact fear the &quot;social justice&quot; crowd and their ability to mess with people and their careers when they don&#x27;t follow the party line.<p>If I were to hazard a guess, I think I&#x27;m not alone in this and I think you&#x27;re not in a minority (or at least a small one). The recent HN stories seem to get a good number of &quot;silent upvotes&quot; before anyone steps into the fray to add a comment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text>In case you were wondering what Curtis&#x27;s talk might have been about (and whether it would have held any technical merit) this page has a link to Clark&#x27;s earlier introduction to Urbit: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;popehat.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulcans-why-urbit-matters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;popehat.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulcans-...</a><p>The &quot;Exit, voice, and loyalty&quot; terminology might seem odd if you don&#x27;t know it&#x27;s origins. It&#x27;s from 1970 book by economist A. O. Hirschman that&#x27;s coming back in popularity: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty</a>. Hirschman gives an 1978 intro&#x2F;postscript in his own words here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;homepages.wmich.edu&#x2F;~plambert&#x2F;comp&#x2F;hirschman.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;homepages.wmich.edu&#x2F;~plambert&#x2F;comp&#x2F;hirschman.pdf</a><p>I&#x27;m surprised by apparent predominance of support here on HN for Strangeloop&#x27;s position. While clearly legal, it&#x27;s strikes me as a terrible precedent to require speakers on technical topics to pass a political litmus test. I&#x27;d be interested to know the actual direction that the sentiment lies. Do those who support Curtis appearing at the talk (wisely?) refrain from posting out of (legitimate?) fear of career repercussion? Or am I (comfortable speaking because I&#x27;m largely outside the industry) in the minority?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis Yarvin)</title><url>http://popehat.com/2015/06/10/two-kinds-of-freedom-of-speech-or-strangeloop-vs-curtis-yarvin/</url></story> |
24,663,918 | 24,663,909 | 1 | 2 | 24,662,626 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snake_plissken</author><text>Along the lines of this article, there&#x27;s the dilemma&#x2F;contradiction faced by modern globalisation in that money can move much faster and more freely than labor. In previous iterations (late 1700s, 1800s and the first few decades of the 1900s) labor and money moved at basically the same speed: as an investor, your capital (gold&#x2F;silver, then whatever money instrument replaced it) took the same boat&#x2F;train&#x2F;carriage as labor. This had a moderating effect, and the system was able to almost always equalize itself in terms of trade and investments flows.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog</title><url>https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/82847</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdnahas</author><text>Ideally, global savings would go to help industrialize poor countries. However, investors are usually scared that they will not get their money back. Either because of corruption or &quot;nationalization&quot;. Thus, investors are likely to choose a less productive use in a country with strong rules to reward investment.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog</title><url>https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/82847</url></story> |
14,909,286 | 14,907,327 | 1 | 2 | 14,905,043 | 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>Gehinnn</author><text>When I discussed my discovery with a friend of mine who is doing his PhD, he was not really excited about it and once I showed him the features of TypeScripts typesystem, he immediately explained me why it has to be turing complete.
So in theory, this result is nothing new and nothing &quot;newsworthy&quot;.<p>However, even being myself a CS student close to finishing my BA degree and stronlgy interested in CS theory, I didn&#x27;t know that result and I couldn&#x27;t imagine how powerful TS&#x27;s typesystem is. So, there actually are a lot of people who underestimate the power of typescripts typesystem completely and who could write even safer code if they knew about it.<p>I don&#x27;t know exactly anymore how I &quot;rediscovered&quot; this turing-completeness-property, but at that time I was developing a &quot;fully&quot; typed SQL builder as an alternative to knex (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hediet&#x2F;ts-typed-sql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hediet&#x2F;ts-typed-sql</a>) and did some research on how to make certain SQL constructs typesafe in TypeScript.
For example, one thing I needed, was a type RecordTypeToJson&lt;T&gt; which could recursively transform a sql record type T to a proper json type: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hediet&#x2F;ts-typed-sql&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;AST&#x2F;Types.ts#L68" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hediet&#x2F;ts-typed-sql&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;AST&#x2F;T...</a><p>Without the devices discovered in the TC-proof I wouldn&#x27;t have been able to implement that particular type. And once I recognized the power of TS, I found some other useful devices, e.g. how to use overloading to report custom error messages for invalid types (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hediet&#x2F;ts-typed-sql&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;AST&#x2F;Queries&#x2F;SelectQuery.ts#L89" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hediet&#x2F;ts-typed-sql&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;AST&#x2F;Q...</a>) or how to track whether more than one column is selected (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hediet&#x2F;ts-typed-sql&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;AST&#x2F;Queries&#x2F;SelectQuery.ts#L57" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hediet&#x2F;ts-typed-sql&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;AST&#x2F;Q...</a>).<p>I hope that these ideas inspire other libraries as well!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TypeScripts Type System Is Turing Complete</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lopatin</author><text>Gotta mention Shen here, the language with an intentionally Turing complete type system. You can write your types as Horn clauses.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shenlanguage.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shenlanguage.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TypeScripts Type System Is Turing Complete</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833</url></story> |
8,862,525 | 8,861,724 | 1 | 3 | 8,861,265 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andor436</author><text>I once recovered a stolen car with ping.<p>It was 2002 (2003?), and we had just launched Zipcar in New York. Being a naive start-up we had perhaps not the most stringent security measures in place to prevent fraud and theft. Sure enough, a couple of weeks in and one of our cars went missing. Calls to the member went unreturned, and it became clear that the member was not who they claimed to be and had no intention of returning the car.<p>At the time Zipcar was using the mobile analog CDPD network for vehicle communications, which had a top speed of something like 19.2k&#x2F;s and cost us around $1&#x2F;month per KB of data. However, it also had a limited number of data channels, and since it used the old AMPS network broadcast in the 800 - 900 MHz range. I happened to have an amateur radio license and a radio that was able to receive in that band.<p>Since we were still in contact with the missing car we knew it hadn&#x27;t been chopped (yet) and I figured we might be able to use some sort of radio direction finding technique to locate the car. My friend and fellow engineer Carl was able to reprogram the firmware of our embedded electronics to tell us which cell tower the car was in contact with, and with that we could look up the FCC id in their database to find the tower&#x27;s street address.<p>So my boss Roy and I hopped into his car and drove to Long Island. We drove up to the tower, and I leaned out the window of his minivan with a yagi antenna and my radio (set to scan the 40 or so CDPD channels.) We asked Carl (back in Boston) to start pinging the car. To the radio this sounded like a half-second burst of static, but since it was very regular it was also very easy to identify. Sure enough, after driving around for a few minutes we picked up the signal. <i>pffft</i> <i>pffft</i> <i>pffft</i><p>We drove around the tower in a wide circle until the signal was the strongest, got out to scan the area, then used the new bearing to reduce the circle. Eventually we ended up in the parking lot of the Long Island railroad. There in the back corner was our car, luckily unscathed and none the worse for wear.<p>Ping rocks.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The best ping story I've ever heard</title><url>http://www.askapache.com/hacking/ping-unix-darpa-muuss.html#ping_story_Ive_heard</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>caractacus</author><text><a href="http://bash.org/?5273" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bash.org&#x2F;?5273</a><p>Surely most people reading this will know the quote linked without having to even click it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The best ping story I've ever heard</title><url>http://www.askapache.com/hacking/ping-unix-darpa-muuss.html#ping_story_Ive_heard</url><text></text></story> |
6,290,675 | 6,290,480 | 1 | 3 | 6,289,770 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bodyfour</author><text>&gt; to force software to support spaces in paths<p>And yet the platform where it&#x27;s hardest to support spaces in paths is... windows!<p>On UNIX the process-creation API (execve) explicitly takes an array of arguments. There really aren&#x27;t any special characters as far as the API is concerned (except \0): what you pass to execve will be the same as what the new process sees in main()<p>In windows, CreateProcessW() just is given a command line with space-separated argument names. Then the CRT in the new process will split that back up before main() is called. To be sure to get the arguments you want in main() you need to carefully quote the parameter you pass to CreateProcess using the exact rules that the CRT will use to unquote them -- in my experience this wasn&#x27;t well documented, either.<p>Worse, since that splitting is the responsibility of the new process, programs can skip the CRT and do it themselves. If they don&#x27;t follow exactly the same rules the CRT does things break if you try to send an argument with an escaped metacharacter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>plorkyeran</author><text>All of the names it makes fun of have perfectly sensible explanations.<p>&quot;Program Files&quot; and &quot;Documents and Settings&quot; have spaces to force software to support spaces in paths.<p>system32 for the Win32 version of system makes perfect sense. 64-bit Windows continues to use the Win32 API, and renaming system32 would have broken compatibility with dumb programs that hardcoded the name. SysWOW64 is the system32 directory for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit. WOW64 is perhaps an overly cutesy name, but it&#x27;s actually fairly descriptive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders</title><url>http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ciniglio</author><text>WoW isn&#x27;t meant to be cutesy (which I think you hinted at, but to be explicit for others), it stands for Windows on Windows, which is the compatibility layer between different architectures (first 16 on 32, and now 32 on 64).<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Windows_on_Windows</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>plorkyeran</author><text>All of the names it makes fun of have perfectly sensible explanations.<p>&quot;Program Files&quot; and &quot;Documents and Settings&quot; have spaces to force software to support spaces in paths.<p>system32 for the Win32 version of system makes perfect sense. 64-bit Windows continues to use the Win32 API, and renaming system32 would have broken compatibility with dumb programs that hardcoded the name. SysWOW64 is the system32 directory for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit. WOW64 is perhaps an overly cutesy name, but it&#x27;s actually fairly descriptive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders</title><url>http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp</url></story> |
3,754,290 | 3,754,215 | 1 | 2 | 3,753,680 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cletus</author><text>&#62; What I learned when I came of age was that I am a Starter.<p>The more accurate way to put this is "I am not a Finisher". The argument here is that starting and finishing are two equally valuable skills that are somehow equivalent.<p>A "Starter" is a fairweather friend. It's easy to start things. Most people like starting things. Note this is different from networking and so forth, which is really a separate skill altogether.<p>Employers, business partners and investors will look at what you've finished and don't care what you've started. When something is 80% done or when times are tough or it's time to soldier on and run the last mile of the marathon, nobody wants the guy around who says "well, I started, that's my skill but I'm done now, I suggest you find a Finisher".<p>Not being a Finisher isn't a different skill--it's a character flaw.</text><parent_chain><item><author>peteforde</author><text>My father is an engineer, and he always taught me that there's no such thing as a good job half completed. The problem with his perspective is that it is uni-dimensional, and with good reason: if you half-build a bridge, people are going to be sad. He's an engineer and he's got to finish the bridge.<p>However, my father didn't decide that a bridge was required, nor did he choose the ideal location for the bridge based on urban planning and geographic surveys. And let's be clear — he's not going to be out in the rain, assembling raw materials into a structure either. His job would start with the design and continue with the project plan, and possibly end as a consultant or one of a team of over-seers. He's not finishing the bridge, but his role was necessary to get the project from where it was to where it needed to be when someone else would take over.<p>Technical projects are often the same. I'm generalizing, but you see a lot of supporting evidence which suggests that you have your visionary, your architect, your builder and your "last 10%"-ers. One person can be all of these things, but almost never all at once on the same project.<p>What I learned when I came of age was that I am a Starter. I have good ideas and the ability to rally others to a cause. I've evolved the ability to network and communicate. I've forgiven myself for not being a Finisher, because there are lots of people that hate starting and love to finish. There are loads of people who will never start and hate finishing, but they are the core team during the middle.<p>I suggest that you stop seeing your inclinations as a problem and start thanking your lucky stars that you have a regular flow of potentially great ideas. The main skill you need to develop is your ability to kill off the bad ones early so that you can focus your passion and evangelism on the winners.<p>Chances are, if you got bored it wasn't going to turn out well anyhow. Listen to what your subconscious is trying to tell you.<p><a href="http://www.humblepied.com/jessica-hische/" rel="nofollow">http://www.humblepied.com/jessica-hische/</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Always a starter, never a finisher.</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/116594037963311275379/posts/5c1Y78Luymg</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnfn</author><text>&#62; Chances are, if you got bored it wasn't going to turn out well anyhow. Listen to what your subconscious is trying to tell you.<p>I agree with most of this post, but I disagree with this sentence. It's very, very easy to trick yourself into believing that a great idea that you're working on is not actually interesting. The problem is that you've been working with the idea so much that you no longer are seeing the thing you're making with fresh eyes.<p>I know this because it's happened to me over and over again. My most salient example was when I was working on a game a few years ago. I got a month (this was during high school, so development times weren't that long :)) into development and started thinking it was crap, no one was going to like it - things like that. Normally, I would just stop and work on another idea, but this time I did something a bit unusual - I posted the game and asked for feedback from the game community. This was the turning point. They said that it was great, I should keep working on it, and they'd love to play it when it was done.<p>I finished it. It turned out to be my most successful game, ever. It netted hundreds of thousands of views. It's been on dozens of websites. And to think that I was completely bored and uninterested with it weeks before I finished.<p>Incidentally, I think this raises a great way of getting good at finishing: <i>show your unfinished work to other people.</i> If it's good, they'll love it, and the self-confidence boost you'll get from that can carry you further. And if they hate it, well, maybe you should be working on something else after all :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>peteforde</author><text>My father is an engineer, and he always taught me that there's no such thing as a good job half completed. The problem with his perspective is that it is uni-dimensional, and with good reason: if you half-build a bridge, people are going to be sad. He's an engineer and he's got to finish the bridge.<p>However, my father didn't decide that a bridge was required, nor did he choose the ideal location for the bridge based on urban planning and geographic surveys. And let's be clear — he's not going to be out in the rain, assembling raw materials into a structure either. His job would start with the design and continue with the project plan, and possibly end as a consultant or one of a team of over-seers. He's not finishing the bridge, but his role was necessary to get the project from where it was to where it needed to be when someone else would take over.<p>Technical projects are often the same. I'm generalizing, but you see a lot of supporting evidence which suggests that you have your visionary, your architect, your builder and your "last 10%"-ers. One person can be all of these things, but almost never all at once on the same project.<p>What I learned when I came of age was that I am a Starter. I have good ideas and the ability to rally others to a cause. I've evolved the ability to network and communicate. I've forgiven myself for not being a Finisher, because there are lots of people that hate starting and love to finish. There are loads of people who will never start and hate finishing, but they are the core team during the middle.<p>I suggest that you stop seeing your inclinations as a problem and start thanking your lucky stars that you have a regular flow of potentially great ideas. The main skill you need to develop is your ability to kill off the bad ones early so that you can focus your passion and evangelism on the winners.<p>Chances are, if you got bored it wasn't going to turn out well anyhow. Listen to what your subconscious is trying to tell you.<p><a href="http://www.humblepied.com/jessica-hische/" rel="nofollow">http://www.humblepied.com/jessica-hische/</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Always a starter, never a finisher.</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/116594037963311275379/posts/5c1Y78Luymg</url></story> |
14,658,584 | 14,658,518 | 1 | 2 | 14,657,061 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; it might be only a matter of time before a court somewhere rules in the favor of a person found innocent who is suing to keep as many details of a particular murder off the Internet<p>Which in the context of &quot;murders of unarmed civilians by law enforcement and subsequent acquittals&quot; sounds bad, because it&#x27;s possibly against your concept of justice, but what about the other end of the spectrum, where baseless claims are leveled on a person and this is high in many search results, or people are defamed through libel and the jurisdiction doesn&#x27;t allow allow for a legal remedy?<p>I mean, if I seed the internet with 20 SEO optimized sites about how you&#x27;re a murdering rapist, should Google&#x27;s right to keep that in results be defended? Freedom of speech is complicated, and <i>not absolute</i> in the United States. We have laws for libel and slander to prevent just this sort of thing, and I don&#x27;t usually see those being called a bad idea. Perhaps that should be an indication that this issue isn&#x27;t as black and white as it&#x27;s often portrayed, and deserves a more moderate, considered solution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>escapetech</author><text>This wouldn&#x27;t be the first time a government is requiring Google to modify their search results. This case parallels the &quot;right to be forgotten&quot; cases brought against them by the EU several years ago. There is a reason that civil liberties and human rights organizations like the ACLU are concerned about this precedent.<p>In the US, with the murders of unarmed civilians by law enforcement and subsequent acquittals occurring at an alarming rate with increasing public outrage, it might be only a matter of time before a court somewhere rules in the favor of a person found innocent who is suing to keep as many details of a particular murder off the Internet on the grounds that his or her constitutional rights being violated (i.e inability to find employment, friendship, etc), and companies such as Google being forced to comply with the court&#x27;s rulings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from searches</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-ruling-1.4181322</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>People in the US are not &quot;found innocent,&quot; they are presumed innocent and found &quot;not guilty.&quot;<p>If someone is found &quot;not guilty&quot; of murder then legally that person has not committed murder, and understandably and justifiably would not want Google (or anyone else) to portray otherwise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>escapetech</author><text>This wouldn&#x27;t be the first time a government is requiring Google to modify their search results. This case parallels the &quot;right to be forgotten&quot; cases brought against them by the EU several years ago. There is a reason that civil liberties and human rights organizations like the ACLU are concerned about this precedent.<p>In the US, with the murders of unarmed civilians by law enforcement and subsequent acquittals occurring at an alarming rate with increasing public outrage, it might be only a matter of time before a court somewhere rules in the favor of a person found innocent who is suing to keep as many details of a particular murder off the Internet on the grounds that his or her constitutional rights being violated (i.e inability to find employment, friendship, etc), and companies such as Google being forced to comply with the court&#x27;s rulings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from searches</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-ruling-1.4181322</url></story> |
19,355,519 | 19,354,881 | 1 | 2 | 19,353,644 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Have you ever been somewhere where the water coming from the tap isn’t clean enough to drink? It’s very dangerous, even if you drink bottled water. When we used visit family in Bangladesh in the 1990s, we’d bring along a ton of Evian. Not only would we drink it, but the kids would take sponge baths with it, because you definitely should not shower in water you wouldn’t drink. But every time one of the kids would still get sick, because it’s hard to avoid: washing your hands in tap water, eating from dishes washed in tap water, eating fruits or vegetables rinsed in tap water, etc.<p>The only household uses you could use a lower grade of tap water for would be toilets and clothes washing (and then only if you run the clothes on a hot cycle).</text><parent_chain><item><author>rb808</author><text>I&#x27;m starting to think that bottled drinking water is a simpler and more efficient method that getting people to drink tap water. It seems crazy that every drop from the tap is high quality water good enough to drink - when 99.9% of it is not used for drinking. Perhaps its more efficient just to deliver drinking water to everyone in office cooler type bottles, and lower our standards for the water system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One-fourth of Americans drink water from systems that don’t meet standards</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/03/drinking-water-safety-in-united-sates-can-be-fixed/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ericd</author><text>Do you want to wash yourself or the surfaces in your house with with water you wouldn’t drink?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rb808</author><text>I&#x27;m starting to think that bottled drinking water is a simpler and more efficient method that getting people to drink tap water. It seems crazy that every drop from the tap is high quality water good enough to drink - when 99.9% of it is not used for drinking. Perhaps its more efficient just to deliver drinking water to everyone in office cooler type bottles, and lower our standards for the water system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One-fourth of Americans drink water from systems that don’t meet standards</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/03/drinking-water-safety-in-united-sates-can-be-fixed/</url></story> |
12,161,826 | 12,161,811 | 1 | 3 | 12,160,709 | 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>mindcrime</author><text><i>That falls flat when you consider that lower middle class people have access to much greater things than upper middle class people and rich people did 50 years ago.</i><p>To be fair, if you&#x27;re the guy losing your job <i>today</i>, you probably don&#x27;t care much about the idea that you might be better off twenty years down the road, or that society in general might be richer in 20 or 50 years. You care about putting food on the table <i>now</i>.<p>Even if you look at things like re-skilling and the creation of new jobs that results from technology, you&#x27;re still looking at a potential gap in employment and income where you might starve to death, when you look at this at the individual level. In that regard, it&#x27;s hard to say that people are <i>wrong</i> to oppose certain kinds of changes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>&gt;That such technological innovation also created wealth was poor consolation for the workers getting the short end of the stick<p>That falls flat when you consider that lower middle class people have access to much greater things than upper middle class people and rich people did 50 years ago.</text></item><item><author>manachar</author><text>That would be helpful. It&#x27;s not always easy to know which innovation is actually a net benefit.<p>Leaded gasoline was a superior fuel in many respects but was clearly a fraudulent mistake (it was sold with false assurances of safety).<p>Even the original Luddites were not wrong in their original critiques - the technological innovations of machined industrialization did indeed replace workers and enrich employers. (That such technological innovation also created wealth was poor consolation for the workers getting the short end of the stick).<p>Chemical warfare was horrible enough to have military strategists more than willing to agree to ban its usage.<p>New is not universally a good. In fact, every change has benefits and detriments that will be unequally distributed. History has also shown a tendency for the detriments to be mostly felt by the poor and disenfranchised.<p>It seems fair to be cautious about the new.</text></item><item><author>crusso</author><text><i>In hindsight, opposition to innovations such as mechanical farm equipment or recorded music may seem ludicrous.</i><p>How about if the article talked about the problems with the people who rapidly embraced once &quot;nifty and new&quot; ideas like taking x-rays of feet at shoe stores, using Fen-Phen for weight loss, getting on airplanes in the early days of flying, etc.?<p>What the article ignores completely is the notion of idea survival bias. The article goes through pains to cast reluctance to adopt new ideas as being a defective mode of thinking by not talking about the risk model for the adoption of new ideas.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Humans once opposed coffee and refrigeration: why we often hate new stuff</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/07/21/humans-once-opposed-coffee-and-refrigeration-heres-why-we-often-hate-new-stuff/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dota_fanatic</author><text>Exactly! Poor people have access to clean plentiful water, cheap, nutritious, and tasty food, very affordable housing to own near numerous options for fulfilling income, plentiful education options, medical safety nets, lots of PTO, ethical insurance programs, brain dead simple non-volatile long-term savings programs, and traffic congestion is all but extinct; I mean the list just goes on and on with how much nicer poor people have it these days compared to rich people of 50 years ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>&gt;That such technological innovation also created wealth was poor consolation for the workers getting the short end of the stick<p>That falls flat when you consider that lower middle class people have access to much greater things than upper middle class people and rich people did 50 years ago.</text></item><item><author>manachar</author><text>That would be helpful. It&#x27;s not always easy to know which innovation is actually a net benefit.<p>Leaded gasoline was a superior fuel in many respects but was clearly a fraudulent mistake (it was sold with false assurances of safety).<p>Even the original Luddites were not wrong in their original critiques - the technological innovations of machined industrialization did indeed replace workers and enrich employers. (That such technological innovation also created wealth was poor consolation for the workers getting the short end of the stick).<p>Chemical warfare was horrible enough to have military strategists more than willing to agree to ban its usage.<p>New is not universally a good. In fact, every change has benefits and detriments that will be unequally distributed. History has also shown a tendency for the detriments to be mostly felt by the poor and disenfranchised.<p>It seems fair to be cautious about the new.</text></item><item><author>crusso</author><text><i>In hindsight, opposition to innovations such as mechanical farm equipment or recorded music may seem ludicrous.</i><p>How about if the article talked about the problems with the people who rapidly embraced once &quot;nifty and new&quot; ideas like taking x-rays of feet at shoe stores, using Fen-Phen for weight loss, getting on airplanes in the early days of flying, etc.?<p>What the article ignores completely is the notion of idea survival bias. The article goes through pains to cast reluctance to adopt new ideas as being a defective mode of thinking by not talking about the risk model for the adoption of new ideas.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Humans once opposed coffee and refrigeration: why we often hate new stuff</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/07/21/humans-once-opposed-coffee-and-refrigeration-heres-why-we-often-hate-new-stuff/</url></story> |
8,243,212 | 8,243,079 | 1 | 2 | 8,242,982 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qnr</author><text>I blame Satoshi for choosing the unfortunate word &quot;mining&quot; as the name of the technical process that confirms bitcoin transactions. I feel it is responsible for a big part of the scammy reputation Bitcoin has today.<p>If only it was called something like &quot;transaction security auditing&quot; or &quot;ledger integrity verification&quot; so that people would take it more seriously for what it really is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CatsoCatsoCatso</author><text>This just strikes me as a colossal waste of energy &amp; time. I understand that there may be good profit in doing it, but that doesn&#x27;t shirk off any of my feelings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside One of the World's Largest Bitcoin Mines</title><url>http://www.thecoinsman.com/2014/08/bitcoin/inside-one-worlds-largest-bitcoin-mines/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxmcd</author><text>More inefficient than producing and maintaining paper currency? Than mining actual gold?<p>They really are just throwing tons of electricity and hardware at &quot;nothing&quot;, but if this kind of activity helps replace the current inefficient systems of currency, then I&#x27;m all for it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CatsoCatsoCatso</author><text>This just strikes me as a colossal waste of energy &amp; time. I understand that there may be good profit in doing it, but that doesn&#x27;t shirk off any of my feelings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside One of the World's Largest Bitcoin Mines</title><url>http://www.thecoinsman.com/2014/08/bitcoin/inside-one-worlds-largest-bitcoin-mines/</url></story> |
23,343,214 | 23,342,546 | 1 | 3 | 23,338,119 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jorams</author><text>I agree with most of the article you link, but there&#x27;s one thing I don&#x27;t understand: The article quickly dismisses the obvious fix for recursive iterability, to make strings be composed of &quot;characters&quot;:<p>&gt; And an obvious &quot;fix&quot; for this is worse than the original problem: Common Lisp says that strings are composed of characters, a totally different type, which doesn&#x27;t implement the same methods and has to be handled specially. It&#x27;s really annoying.<p>It seems to me this contradicts most of what the article says. Sure, strings are rarely collections, so they should not be iterable by default. But the final solution offered admits that sometimes they are, and then you want to be able to iterate over <i>something</i>. For most instances of <i>something</i>, It does not make sense for the individual &quot;elements&quot; to be strings. Bytes are clearly not strings, code points are clearly not strings, grapheme clusters are clearly not strings. Each of those will provide very different methods, because they are very different things. Only after that point (words, sentences, etc.) does the idea of the element being the same type start making sense again.<p>Clearly the concept of a &quot;character&quot; is too ambiguous, and there is no clear &quot;default&quot; for what it should mean, but the idea of a string consisting of some kind of element that is not string appears obviously correct.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tln</author><text>Sometimes I wish that python strings weren&#x27;t directly iterable...<p>this article sums it up better than I ever could <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xanthir.com&#x2F;b4wJ1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xanthir.com&#x2F;b4wJ1</a><p>...then str.strip and variants could be cleanly and logically extended to allow this functionality, because passing a string and a sequence of strings would be distinguishable.<p>Alas, clean and logical function design can be hard to do late in a languages life.<p>PEP 593 and PEP 585 are clean and logical... glad to see that :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The PEPs of Python 3.9</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/819853/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>Strings being it stable can cause problems, and another commenter has pointed out that Swift handles it well.<p>However I think strings being iterable is one of the core ergonomics in the language and basic types of Python that make it so nice for many applications. Scripting, scraping, data cleanup, data science, even basic web development, all benefit hugely from little features like this. Without this sort of thing Python would be a different language with different uses.<p>While I normally like safety and types, I’m personally happy with things like this because it fits with Pythons strengths.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tln</author><text>Sometimes I wish that python strings weren&#x27;t directly iterable...<p>this article sums it up better than I ever could <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xanthir.com&#x2F;b4wJ1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xanthir.com&#x2F;b4wJ1</a><p>...then str.strip and variants could be cleanly and logically extended to allow this functionality, because passing a string and a sequence of strings would be distinguishable.<p>Alas, clean and logical function design can be hard to do late in a languages life.<p>PEP 593 and PEP 585 are clean and logical... glad to see that :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The PEPs of Python 3.9</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/819853/</url></story> |
6,870,405 | 6,870,323 | 1 | 3 | 6,870,078 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avar</author><text>The libertarian and anti-government sentiments aren&#x27;t saying that we shouldn&#x27;t be all in this together, but that we shouldn&#x27;t be <i>forced</i> to be all in this together. That difference is what the entire argument is about.<p>Few people are saying saying &quot;let&#x27;s not do this&quot; for some value of &quot;this&quot;, they&#x27;re saying &quot;let&#x27;s not <i>force everyone</i> to do this&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s a very profound difference, it&#x27;s why having the government make anything its business anywhere in the world is always controversial.</text><parent_chain><item><author>majika</author><text>This is a remarkably sensible speech.<p><i>The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing; the idea that the market is going to heed all of the human concerns and still maximise profit is juvenile. It&#x27;s a juvenile notion and it&#x27;s still being argued in my country passionately and we&#x27;re going down the tubes. And it terrifies me because I&#x27;m astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice. Are we all in this together or are we all not?</i><p>I see a lot of libertarian and anti-government sentiments expressed on HN. People like to construct arguments like &quot;more government vs. less&quot;, &quot;higher taxes vs. lower&quot;, &quot;less regulation vs. more&quot;, but those debates are missing the forest for the trees. The question - and only question - should be what David Simon asks: are we all in this together or are we not?<p>To me, the answer is blindingly obvious. It&#x27;s demonstrated by what societies are flourishing - with high economic and social equality, healthy democratic government, protected personal liberties, well-cared-for populaces, and resilient economies - and what societies aren&#x27;t.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nordic_model</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mchusma</author><text>I think it was a good speech, but because it was so emotional, and not rational. In fact, he was dismissive of any arguments as anything other than his own. To call all other forms of thought juvenile, and simply say &quot;we are either together or not&quot; sounds like the content of a great political speech, not a well articulated debate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>majika</author><text>This is a remarkably sensible speech.<p><i>The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing; the idea that the market is going to heed all of the human concerns and still maximise profit is juvenile. It&#x27;s a juvenile notion and it&#x27;s still being argued in my country passionately and we&#x27;re going down the tubes. And it terrifies me because I&#x27;m astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice. Are we all in this together or are we all not?</i><p>I see a lot of libertarian and anti-government sentiments expressed on HN. People like to construct arguments like &quot;more government vs. less&quot;, &quot;higher taxes vs. lower&quot;, &quot;less regulation vs. more&quot;, but those debates are missing the forest for the trees. The question - and only question - should be what David Simon asks: are we all in this together or are we not?<p>To me, the answer is blindingly obvious. It&#x27;s demonstrated by what societies are flourishing - with high economic and social equality, healthy democratic government, protected personal liberties, well-cared-for populaces, and resilient economies - and what societies aren&#x27;t.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nordic_model</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire</url></story> |
34,308,314 | 34,305,606 | 1 | 2 | 34,301,768 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moviuro</author><text>To make use of one different key per host, you can use some ssh_config(5) magic[0]:<p><pre><code> IdentityFile ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;keys&#x2F;%h
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See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.popho.be&#x2F;ssh-keys.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.popho.be&#x2F;ssh-keys.html</a> , discussed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32510475" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32510475</a><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man.openbsd.org&#x2F;ssh_config.5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man.openbsd.org&#x2F;ssh_config.5</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ssh whoami.filippo.io</title><url>https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/whoami-updated/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>C4K3</author><text>I learned about this when I encountered a server with an aggressive fail2ban that wouldn&#x27;t let me log in because I had too many ssh keys. It apparently counted every wrong key as an auth attempt, so it blocked me before my ssh client tried the right key. Since then I&#x27;ve used
IdentitiesOnly=yes</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ssh whoami.filippo.io</title><url>https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/whoami-updated/</url></story> |
6,954,336 | 6,953,985 | 1 | 3 | 6,953,770 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>&gt; I propose that twenty thousand people ought to be enough for any company.<p>This seems foolish.<p>Better tell McDonalds, IBM, Target, HP, GE, Pepsi, Coke, Home Depo, and Berkshire Hathaway they are now too big to fail.<p>Oh and dont&#x27; forget google, they have more than 20,000 employees, better break them up.<p>Actually why not just look down this list to see just how foolish your 20,000 person proposal would be:<p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/performers/companies/biggest/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;magazines&#x2F;fortune&#x2F;fortune500&#x2F;2012&#x2F;perfo...</a><p>Note that by the time you get to company 49 they still employ more than 126,000 people.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> Sorry I guess my point wasn&#x27;t clear. My point is that employee size is a very poor measure of a company being &quot;too big to fail&quot;.<p>Let me lay it out like this. Consider a fictitious burger company with 20,000 employees. With 50 states it can only employ 400 people in each state. If it went bankrupt it&#x27;s very hard to see how this is &quot;too big to fail&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzwinck</author><text>Too big to fail is too big. Would it really be so bad if we simply outlawed companies exceeding a certain number of employees? HSBC recently had about a quarter of a million people, which is just insane. When things get that big, nobody fully understands what is going on anymore, even at a basic level, and it does become plausible that terrible actions are taken with literally no one to blame, either because nobody is sure where the blame lies, or because the would-be accusers are scared of the systemic risk (which these days is very real).<p>I propose that twenty thousand people ought to be enough for any company. Having more, smaller firms will improve the job market for individuals, reduce the burden of mega-powerful interests in government acting against the population as a whole, and provide more genuine opportunities for real leadership to a greater number of people.<p>A gradual phase-in could be used, say max 500K employees by 2020, 200K by 2025, 100K by 2030, 50K by 2035, and 20K by 2040. And no funny business: one person cannot have a controlling interest in companies whose employee counts exceed the limit in aggregate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title> Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sz4kerto</author><text>This is not a good approach. There are companies with extremely high number of employeees, but no real systemic risk, etc., especially in manufacturing (see Foxconn) and among large conglomerates (Siemens). Correlatedness (and leverageÖ must be dealt with, not merely company size.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzwinck</author><text>Too big to fail is too big. Would it really be so bad if we simply outlawed companies exceeding a certain number of employees? HSBC recently had about a quarter of a million people, which is just insane. When things get that big, nobody fully understands what is going on anymore, even at a basic level, and it does become plausible that terrible actions are taken with literally no one to blame, either because nobody is sure where the blame lies, or because the would-be accusers are scared of the systemic risk (which these days is very real).<p>I propose that twenty thousand people ought to be enough for any company. Having more, smaller firms will improve the job market for individuals, reduce the burden of mega-powerful interests in government acting against the population as a whole, and provide more genuine opportunities for real leadership to a greater number of people.<p>A gradual phase-in could be used, say max 500K employees by 2020, 200K by 2025, 100K by 2030, 50K by 2035, and 20K by 2040. And no funny business: one person cannot have a controlling interest in companies whose employee counts exceed the limit in aggregate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title> Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213</url></story> |
12,430,341 | 12,430,376 | 1 | 3 | 12,428,925 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;Just because Tesla is overpriced for hipsters doesn&#x27;t mean you can compare it to other cars in the price bracket.</i><p>Well, your prescription doesn&#x27;t change the fact that magazine journalists, video bloggers, and prospective buyers <i>do</i> in fact compare them <i>because</i> they are roughly in the same price bracket.[1]<p>It might be possible that most Tesla buyers are only:<p>1) wealthy Prius owners who want to upgrade to something bigger and more technologically advanced and would never consider Mercedes S-Class<p>2) eco-green consumers who would only bicycle to work or hail Uber&#x2F;Lyft if car travel was necessary and would never consider Mercedes S-Class<p>But based on forum discussions where prospective buyers test drove both and chose one or the other, it seems like there is a population of owners who seriously considered both cars. (Same type of comparison goes for BMW&#x2F;Audi.)<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=tesla+&quot;model+s&quot;+vs+mercedes+s550" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=tesla+&quot;model+s&quot;+vs+mercedes+...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>If you compare a Model S to a S-class Mercedes, you have never driven a S-class or be driven around in one. Just because Tesla is overpriced for hipsters doesn&#x27;t mean you can compare it to other cars in the price bracket.</text></item><item><author>codeulike</author><text><i>&gt; their sales are unchanged or even increasing since 2012 when the Model S was launched.</i><p>You need to look at 2014&#x2F;2015 really, which is when the Model S started being produced in decent numbers.<p>The Model S outsold most other &#x27;large luxury&#x27; vehicles in the US in 2015, including the Audi A7 and A8 combined, and the BMW 6 and 7 series combined, and the Mercedez S-class.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gas2.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;15&#x2F;tesla-model-s-outsells-mercedes-bmw-audi-and-porsche-in-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gas2.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;15&#x2F;tesla-model-s-outsells-mercedes-b...</a><p>edit: re: rates of change: Model S sales increased 50% during 2015, Audi A7,A8, BMW 6,7 Mercedez S all down 5% or more.</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>The money quote:<p>&gt; &quot;I wish we had put that car on the road and not Tesla,&quot; confided a senior engineer at Porsche. &quot;We have to earn money at the end of the day though.&quot;<p>The article also talks about &quot;how will the German brands win back customers from Tesla?&quot;, but really, if you look at cars like the Mercedes S-class, BMW 7 series or the Audi A8, their sales are unchanged or even increasing since 2012 when the Model S was launched. Audi has been setting record sales numbers in the US, which is Tesla&#x27;s biggest market, for five years straight. So it&#x27;s a bit hard to argue Tesla has taken many of their customers.<p>Maybe most Tesla drivers were never petrolheads in the first place, and drove a boring station wagon before the Model S came along?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants</title><url>http://www.autonews.com/article/20160905/OEM05/309059949/tesla-envy-grips-germanys-giants</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PietdeVries</author><text>There is price, and there is cost...<p>Living in the Netherlands, the price of a Tesla is around 100.000 euros. However, if I can lease the thing, the actual cost (due to tax benefit, etc) drops like a rock to a level that compares to a small, cheap car. For full electric cars you hardly pay taxes because the government wants to stimulate this clean way of transportation.<p>Now comparing to a Mercedes with a similar price is wrong, simply because the Mercedes with a similar price is costing much, much more in day to day operation: more tax (heavy car = high tax), no green car, so more taxes).<p>I believe that at least for the Netherlands, most hybrid or full-electric cars are driven by people that have a company car. We just love tax refunds. We hate the hassle of charging, so many hybrid cars in 2015 (Mitsubishi Outlander is a good example) were driven on petrol - not electricity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>If you compare a Model S to a S-class Mercedes, you have never driven a S-class or be driven around in one. Just because Tesla is overpriced for hipsters doesn&#x27;t mean you can compare it to other cars in the price bracket.</text></item><item><author>codeulike</author><text><i>&gt; their sales are unchanged or even increasing since 2012 when the Model S was launched.</i><p>You need to look at 2014&#x2F;2015 really, which is when the Model S started being produced in decent numbers.<p>The Model S outsold most other &#x27;large luxury&#x27; vehicles in the US in 2015, including the Audi A7 and A8 combined, and the BMW 6 and 7 series combined, and the Mercedez S-class.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gas2.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;15&#x2F;tesla-model-s-outsells-mercedes-bmw-audi-and-porsche-in-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gas2.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;15&#x2F;tesla-model-s-outsells-mercedes-b...</a><p>edit: re: rates of change: Model S sales increased 50% during 2015, Audi A7,A8, BMW 6,7 Mercedez S all down 5% or more.</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>The money quote:<p>&gt; &quot;I wish we had put that car on the road and not Tesla,&quot; confided a senior engineer at Porsche. &quot;We have to earn money at the end of the day though.&quot;<p>The article also talks about &quot;how will the German brands win back customers from Tesla?&quot;, but really, if you look at cars like the Mercedes S-class, BMW 7 series or the Audi A8, their sales are unchanged or even increasing since 2012 when the Model S was launched. Audi has been setting record sales numbers in the US, which is Tesla&#x27;s biggest market, for five years straight. So it&#x27;s a bit hard to argue Tesla has taken many of their customers.<p>Maybe most Tesla drivers were never petrolheads in the first place, and drove a boring station wagon before the Model S came along?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants</title><url>http://www.autonews.com/article/20160905/OEM05/309059949/tesla-envy-grips-germanys-giants</url></story> |
37,337,421 | 37,334,099 | 1 | 3 | 37,333,195 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakear</author><text>I made something sorta like that specific to recipe videos. Basically converts recipe into an idiomatic format (inlines ingredients, detects and renders timers) and links each step in the recipe to its timestamp in the video for easy indexing while you&#x27;re busy in the kitchen. (I spent too much time trying to scrub to that one spot where &quot;how it&#x27;s supposed to look&quot; is shown while busy making it look that way)<p>See example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rexipie.com&#x2F;watch?v=JiJXdoTjw8M" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rexipie.com&#x2F;watch?v=JiJXdoTjw8M</a><p>Just s&#x2F;youtube&#x2F;rexipie&#x2F; in any recipe video URL.<p>(full disclosure the step&#x2F;transcript linking is paid-only as it requires a GPT-4 call, everything else is available to demo on free tier)</text><parent_chain><item><author>nicd</author><text>It would be really neat if after pulling the captions, an LLM was used to reword the content into an idiomatic &quot;blogpost&quot; (since speech is typically different than writing). Using LLMs, we could even choose the level of summarization and the output tone!<p>As someone who strongly prefers reading to watching instructional videos, I&#x27;d pay for this service :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Youtube2Webpage: Create Websites with Text from Videos</title><url>https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>column</author><text>You can absolutely already do what you describe with GPT-4 plugins (Plus membership required). Using VoxScript and Video Insight :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.openai.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;229e3ac8-3924-48e4-abd5-35bcb241ee99" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.openai.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;229e3ac8-3924-48e4-abd5-35bcb2...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nicd</author><text>It would be really neat if after pulling the captions, an LLM was used to reword the content into an idiomatic &quot;blogpost&quot; (since speech is typically different than writing). Using LLMs, we could even choose the level of summarization and the output tone!<p>As someone who strongly prefers reading to watching instructional videos, I&#x27;d pay for this service :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Youtube2Webpage: Create Websites with Text from Videos</title><url>https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage</url></story> |
6,709,006 | 6,708,654 | 1 | 3 | 6,708,467 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aferreira</author><text>One thing that I like about Android is that developers can choose to minimally style buttons and similar UI elements and these differences will be applied to whatever the base <i>device</i> theme is.<p>This means that users will get a consistent user experience throughout various applications and won&#x27;t have to run around trying to figure out what&#x27;s a button and what&#x27;s a text input.<p>Sadly, this project essentially destroys all of that work and something tells me it won&#x27;t work correctly on the most customized devices (like the old Motorola RAZR running 2.3 for example).<p>Nice idea but I don&#x27;t think it makes much sense in it&#x27;s current state.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android Bootstrap</title><url>https://github.com/Bearded-Hen/Android-Bootstrap</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>Gnewt</author><text>Why would one implement this instead of using Android&#x27;s builtin widgets? Android apps have always felt better to me when they use the UI recommended in the Android style guide.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android Bootstrap</title><url>https://github.com/Bearded-Hen/Android-Bootstrap</url><text></text></story> |
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