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7,666,141 | 7,665,844 | 1 | 2 | 7,665,690 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jholman</author><text>I agree with several already-existing comments that programming challenges do not help you become a better programmer (assuming that you&#x27;re hireable in the first place).<p>I will note, however, that they DO HELP with interviewing. The skillset is quite overlapping... artificial time-pressure, artificially contrived problems, cleverness is rewarded, etc. (But it&#x27;s not entirely the same, because programming contests don&#x27;t give points for half-working answers).<p>Also, IMO the best coding contest site is <a href="http://code.google.com/codejam/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;codejam&#x2F;</a>, because:<p>1) GCJ has unusually clear problem statements. UVa in particular is terrible for this.<p>2) GCJ supports EVERY programming language (unlike all others I know of except Project Euler)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Become a better programmer with programming challenges</title><url>http://macgyverdev.blogspot.com/2014/04/become-better-programmer-with.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>yodsanklai</author><text>Those programming challenges are certainly interesting and they make a great learning tool but they use a very specific set of skills. Usually, the difficult part is to find an algorithm that solves the problem within the given constraints. Implementation is comparatively straightforward.<p>To me, they are more &quot;problem solving contests&quot; than programming contests. The code is just there to validate the solution.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Become a better programmer with programming challenges</title><url>http://macgyverdev.blogspot.com/2014/04/become-better-programmer-with.html</url></story> |
6,938,515 | 6,938,063 | 1 | 3 | 6,936,085 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smenko</author><text>Oh really? And what makes one<p>Senior?
Lead?
VP?
C-level?
COO?
CEO?<p>Master?
Advanced?
Intermediate?
Junior?<p>Who decides that? What makes it objective? Can you dispute it if your boss happens to be a bitter idiot who is completely detached from reality? What happens if your boss and their boss have different views? What happens if you are a perfect employee, but you were a bit of dick at the last Christmas party? And what happens if you are very nice and social and everyone likes you, but you are not really much of a programmer?<p>This whole thing is BS. The only model that can possibly work is the scaffolder model - you get a worker for a job. If they&#x27;re shit they get sacked the net day. If they&#x27;re good, you have to pay them more to keep them from running away...</text><parent_chain><item><author>Arnor</author><text>Edit (add quote for clarity)
&gt; I see this openness at buffer essentially being a tool for management to deny raise requests, etc... with... If we do it for you, we have to do it for everybody...<p>More likely, the response would be along the lines of: &quot;You&#x27;ll get a raise when you qualify based on the criteria that have been clearly explained to you and the rest of the world.&quot;</text></item><item><author>davemel37</author><text>I had a boss bully his employees with fellow employee salary information. (i.e. bill took a pay cut because of the recessions, so should you...)<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, salary is a completely private matter that is no one elses business, and no good could possibly come from sharing it.<p>I see this openness at buffer essentially being a tool for management to deny raise requests, etc... with... If we do it for you, we have to do it for everybody... which is a just a BS excuse to not face the reality that every persons value and work situation is different, and should be treated differently.</text></item><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt the culture of hiding salaries was doing a significant disservice to employees. It creates a significant and largely artificial information disparity, giving a major market advantage to the employer. In turn, this makes the entire labor market less efficient for the employee.<p>This also makes the employer less accountable to the employees. The employer can easily pay somebody significantly more or less than they contribute, and the rest of the team cannot really say anything about this.<p>Now, there are some cultural reasons to do this--preventing jealousy, hiding inequality. But it really feels like a social band-aid, a temporary solution hiding the symptoms but not the underlying problem. Besides, everyone ends up having a reasonable guess as to who makes more and who makes less anyhow! The same dynamics develop, just with more uncertainty.<p>On the other hand, making salaries public takes these problems head-on. Inequality isn&#x27;t bad in and of itself; some is basically necessary. But hiding that fact doesn&#x27;t really help anyone. Instead, forcing people to see it head-on, deal with it and talk about it is probably a better solution.<p>I really applaud Buffer and the general movement towards transparency. I think it&#x27;s a very healthy cultural progression and hope it catches on more widely, so that people stop having knee-jerk reactions to salary information.<p>EDIT: As an interesting additional note, all salaries (beyond a token minimum) at Berkeley (and the whole UC system) are publicly available at <a href="http://ucpay.globl.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucpay.globl.org&#x2F;</a>.<p>I&#x27;ve looked up various professors at the ParLab (where I did some undergraduate research). The fact that their salaries range from ~120k to ~350k did not change my perspective of anyone and did not seem to affect the lab&#x27;s culture at all.<p>Essentially, I&#x27;d be perfectly happy to see this outside of public universities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer</title><url>http://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-including-our-transparent-formula-and-all-individual-salaries</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lhnz</author><text>Something which doesn&#x27;t seem clear to me is whether the team is able to properly evaluate the pay of their colleagues. Surely the people that are most friendly and fit most of the in-group traits of the group will benefit most? What about the creative and non socially-correct members that don&#x27;t fit in - should they move to different companies?<p>In general, I cast doubt on the idea that employees really know what&#x27;s important because of principle-agent problems and culture.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Arnor</author><text>Edit (add quote for clarity)
&gt; I see this openness at buffer essentially being a tool for management to deny raise requests, etc... with... If we do it for you, we have to do it for everybody...<p>More likely, the response would be along the lines of: &quot;You&#x27;ll get a raise when you qualify based on the criteria that have been clearly explained to you and the rest of the world.&quot;</text></item><item><author>davemel37</author><text>I had a boss bully his employees with fellow employee salary information. (i.e. bill took a pay cut because of the recessions, so should you...)<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, salary is a completely private matter that is no one elses business, and no good could possibly come from sharing it.<p>I see this openness at buffer essentially being a tool for management to deny raise requests, etc... with... If we do it for you, we have to do it for everybody... which is a just a BS excuse to not face the reality that every persons value and work situation is different, and should be treated differently.</text></item><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt the culture of hiding salaries was doing a significant disservice to employees. It creates a significant and largely artificial information disparity, giving a major market advantage to the employer. In turn, this makes the entire labor market less efficient for the employee.<p>This also makes the employer less accountable to the employees. The employer can easily pay somebody significantly more or less than they contribute, and the rest of the team cannot really say anything about this.<p>Now, there are some cultural reasons to do this--preventing jealousy, hiding inequality. But it really feels like a social band-aid, a temporary solution hiding the symptoms but not the underlying problem. Besides, everyone ends up having a reasonable guess as to who makes more and who makes less anyhow! The same dynamics develop, just with more uncertainty.<p>On the other hand, making salaries public takes these problems head-on. Inequality isn&#x27;t bad in and of itself; some is basically necessary. But hiding that fact doesn&#x27;t really help anyone. Instead, forcing people to see it head-on, deal with it and talk about it is probably a better solution.<p>I really applaud Buffer and the general movement towards transparency. I think it&#x27;s a very healthy cultural progression and hope it catches on more widely, so that people stop having knee-jerk reactions to salary information.<p>EDIT: As an interesting additional note, all salaries (beyond a token minimum) at Berkeley (and the whole UC system) are publicly available at <a href="http://ucpay.globl.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucpay.globl.org&#x2F;</a>.<p>I&#x27;ve looked up various professors at the ParLab (where I did some undergraduate research). The fact that their salaries range from ~120k to ~350k did not change my perspective of anyone and did not seem to affect the lab&#x27;s culture at all.<p>Essentially, I&#x27;d be perfectly happy to see this outside of public universities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer</title><url>http://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-including-our-transparent-formula-and-all-individual-salaries</url></story> |
11,942,315 | 11,940,907 | 1 | 3 | 11,938,876 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saltvedt</author><text>&quot;AI: A Modern Approach (...) authors, Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, devote significant space to AI dangers and Friendly AI in section 26.3, “The Ethics and Risks of Developing Artificial Intelligence.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intelligence.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;russell-and-norvig-on-friendly-ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intelligence.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;russell-and-norvig-on-fr...</a><p>In addition, there is the AI Open Letter, which is signed by many &quot;who actually works or has done serious research in ML&quot;, including Demis Hassabis and Yann LeCun. From the letter:<p>&quot;We recommend expanded research aimed at ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems are robust and beneficial: our AI systems must do what we want them to do. &quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;futureoflife.org&#x2F;ai-open-letter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;futureoflife.org&#x2F;ai-open-letter&#x2F;</a><p>Are the experts concerned about a &quot;Skynet scenario&quot;? No. But there is certainly genuine concern from the experts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>astanway</author><text>Almost no one who actually works or has done serious research in ML is genuinely concerned about &quot;malevolent AI&quot;. We are so, so, so far away from anything remotely close to that. Please stop trying to gin up fear and listen to the experts, who uniformly agree that this is not something to be concerned about.</text></item><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>I&#x27;m concerned that none of these goals involve AI safety. Instead all of their goals are nearly the exact opposite, of accelerating AI technology as much as possible.<p>Safety was one of the main goals they promoted when it was founded. 2 of the 4 authors listed have publicly spoken about their belief of AI as an existential risk.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that a game playing AI is going to take over the world. But it does demonstrate the risk - we still have no idea how to control such an AI. We can train it to get high scores. But it won&#x27;t want to do anything other than get high scores. And it will do whatever it takes to get the highest score possible, even if it means exploiting the game or hurting other players, or disobeying it&#x27;s masters.<p>Now imagine they succeed in making smarter AIs. And their research spawns new research, which inspires new research, etc. Perhaps over several decades we could have AIs that are a lot more formidable than being able to play Pac Man. But we may still not have made any progress on the ability to control them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI technical goals</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-technical-goals/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>The fact they aren&#x27;t concerned is exactly the problem. They should be. And in fact many are. See the SSC link posted below (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;22&#x2F;ai-researchers-on-ai-risk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;22&#x2F;ai-researchers-on-ai-ri...</a>), or this survey (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nickbostrom.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;survey.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nickbostrom.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;survey.pdf</a>). Certainly I am worried about it. There is far from &quot;uniform agreement&quot; that AI is safe. And appeals to authority would not comforting even if there was an authority to appeal to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>astanway</author><text>Almost no one who actually works or has done serious research in ML is genuinely concerned about &quot;malevolent AI&quot;. We are so, so, so far away from anything remotely close to that. Please stop trying to gin up fear and listen to the experts, who uniformly agree that this is not something to be concerned about.</text></item><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>I&#x27;m concerned that none of these goals involve AI safety. Instead all of their goals are nearly the exact opposite, of accelerating AI technology as much as possible.<p>Safety was one of the main goals they promoted when it was founded. 2 of the 4 authors listed have publicly spoken about their belief of AI as an existential risk.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that a game playing AI is going to take over the world. But it does demonstrate the risk - we still have no idea how to control such an AI. We can train it to get high scores. But it won&#x27;t want to do anything other than get high scores. And it will do whatever it takes to get the highest score possible, even if it means exploiting the game or hurting other players, or disobeying it&#x27;s masters.<p>Now imagine they succeed in making smarter AIs. And their research spawns new research, which inspires new research, etc. Perhaps over several decades we could have AIs that are a lot more formidable than being able to play Pac Man. But we may still not have made any progress on the ability to control them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI technical goals</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-technical-goals/</url></story> |
6,984,475 | 6,984,457 | 1 | 2 | 6,983,824 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anextio</author><text>Because objc_msgSend exists outside of the normal ABI and calling convention.<p>If you were to write it in C then unless you tore out the ASM generated by the compiler manually you&#x27;d have calls to objc_msgSend in the call stack in between every method call, and even still you&#x27;d probably emit a bunch of register spills and argument handling.<p>The thing is, calls to objc_msgSend are _set up_ at the call site as if it were a call to the class&#x27;s method&#x27;s function pointer. objc_msgSend is a small trampoline that sits between the call site and the method call, it&#x27;s not a proper function.<p>Besides, for something so small, getting a few good engineers (probably engineers who have a background in writing optimizing compilers) to hand-optimize the code and improve on it with new ideas every major release is probably the best option for everybody.<p>Consider also that objc_msgSend doesn&#x27;t exist on its own. objc_msgSend_stret handles methods that return a struct, which is a pain in the butt most of the time, and there&#x27;s also a bunch of hand-rolled variable-argument trampolines for dealing with ObjC blocks (IIRC the file is called a1a2_blocktramps.a, if you want to see something truly disturbing) that do things like calculating byte offsets and jumping to them based on how many arguments we have.<p>I&#x27;m going off on a tangent now but hopefully the point is made. These procedures are so far removed from normal function calls that writing them in C is not the best approach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taspeotis</author><text>Does anyone know if this function is actually written in asm? Case in point:<p><pre><code> The code was probably originally written for NeXT
by an engineer who was familiar with load-store
architectures like PowerPC but not so familiar with
register-memory architectures like x86 ... Those of
you who do know x86 better may be able to identify
some of the inefficiencies in this code
</code></pre>
Why wouldn&#x27;t&#x2F;couldn&#x27;t this function be written in C (are there any instructions that would need some non-portable intrinsics?) and leave it to an optimizing compiler to get the instructions right. Sure, sending messages is low-level and needs to be high performance but that, to me, doesn&#x27;t necessitate &quot;we have to do this by hand&quot; asm instead of C.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend</title><url>http://sealiesoftware.com/msg/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisdevereux</author><text>objc_msgSend would actually be impossible to implement in C.<p>Its role is to look up the function pointer that implements a method, then call that function pointer with the arguments passed to objc_msgSend, returning the result of the implementation.<p>Implementing objc_msgSend in asm guarantees that the argument &amp; return registers aren&#x27;t touched by the method lookup. Similarly to how ffi libraries and implementations of setjmp&#x2F;longjmp need to be implemented in asm, it operates at a lower level than C&#x27;s stack &amp; function abstractions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taspeotis</author><text>Does anyone know if this function is actually written in asm? Case in point:<p><pre><code> The code was probably originally written for NeXT
by an engineer who was familiar with load-store
architectures like PowerPC but not so familiar with
register-memory architectures like x86 ... Those of
you who do know x86 better may be able to identify
some of the inefficiencies in this code
</code></pre>
Why wouldn&#x27;t&#x2F;couldn&#x27;t this function be written in C (are there any instructions that would need some non-portable intrinsics?) and leave it to an optimizing compiler to get the instructions right. Sure, sending messages is low-level and needs to be high performance but that, to me, doesn&#x27;t necessitate &quot;we have to do this by hand&quot; asm instead of C.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend</title><url>http://sealiesoftware.com/msg/index.html</url></story> |
11,747,849 | 11,747,386 | 1 | 3 | 11,744,875 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>corin_</author><text>Record two minutes of ringing, so that depending on the type you record and the phone of the caller they either think it&#x27;s ringing normally or two minutes, or think it changed to a different sort of ringing and assume it&#x27;s some weird technical thing.<p>Related anecdote, I have a friend who lives in NYC who told me he recorded his voicemail to start with the beep (or beeps?) that sound like a network confirmation of a call hang up, and then his &quot;Please leave me a message&quot; message a couple of seconds later, so that automated dialers would be fooled into thinking the call was dead, and hang up rather than leave a message. I&#x27;m not familiar with American phone systems and am not sure if this is a story from the past (he&#x27;s certainly been hacking systems for longer than I&#x27;ve been alive) or if it&#x27;s still useful to this day (I&#x27;ll pay attention if I ever call and get his voicemail, but we don&#x27;t speak often).</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>Ok, that&#x27;s sort of workable ... EDIT: ok, actually not so much - if you are out of coverage area and your phone rings zero times and goes right to voicemail (that&#x27;s how it works with carriers in the US) then the caller calls you and goes right to silence, and presumably they retry 1-2-3x and get frustrated ... not even sure this is the right number, etc. Whereas if the phone just rang and rang and rang, at least it wouldn&#x27;t be a bizarre outcome for them ...<p>I would also like the ability to play a message, but then have no ability to leave a message.<p>The lame way to do this is to let your vm inbox fill up, and then everyone gets the &quot;the person you called is too stupid to figure out voicemail&quot; message.<p>What I would like is an option to play a message (&quot;hi you&#x27;ve reached so and so and here is my email address and have a nice day!&quot;) and then ... no beep ... no message ... nothing. Maybe just pause a bit and then a fast-busy.[1]<p>How can I do things like this ? I&#x27;ve been meaning for years to self-provide my own dial tone in the same way I self-provide my own email, but I just don&#x27;t have the time to get it all set up.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reorder_tone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reorder_tone</a></text></item><item><author>joshbaptiste</author><text>To get rid of VM notifications, I recorded 2 minute+ of silence as my VM greeting, zero VMs after that.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>Can I have <i>no voicemail</i> ?<p>That&#x27;s a feature I really want and it&#x27;s not easy to do.<p>If you configure a mobile phone line without voicemail, it will <i>not</i> just ring and ring and ring (as I hoped it would) - instead, the caller gets a message that &quot;the number you have dialed is not accepting calls at this time&quot; ... or some other message (depending on the carrier) that makes it sound like you don&#x27;t pay your phonebill or something.<p>I want my phone to ring and ring and ring until the caller gives up. I <i>think</i> I can do this with the twilio API, but man that&#x27;s a lot of work for something (seemingly) simple.<p>edit: this is the discussion I found that makes me think I could accomplish this with twilio: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;22410430&#x2F;twilio-respond-to-incoming-call-by-ringing-forever" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;22410430&#x2F;twilio-respond-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Charge, a phone company with features for nerds</title><url>https://charge.co/for-nerds</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usuallycharlie</author><text>You can use something like Vitelity vMobile which routes your cell phone as an extension to a PBX system&#x2F;SIP server. This gives you total and complete control of what happens on incoming and outbound calls. For example, you could have your cell phone number give an IVR menu, ring forever, play hold music, you&#x27;re only limited by your SIP server. This is the closest I&#x27;ve seen to providing your own dialtone.<p>I used it for a while and the only con---and it is a major con for me---is that, like most innovative or unique MVNOs, it&#x27;s riding on Sprint. And Sprint is <i>really</i> terrible, at least where I live, which made the service great, except that getting data to work often involved walking around in large circles til I was able to catch an LTE signal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>Ok, that&#x27;s sort of workable ... EDIT: ok, actually not so much - if you are out of coverage area and your phone rings zero times and goes right to voicemail (that&#x27;s how it works with carriers in the US) then the caller calls you and goes right to silence, and presumably they retry 1-2-3x and get frustrated ... not even sure this is the right number, etc. Whereas if the phone just rang and rang and rang, at least it wouldn&#x27;t be a bizarre outcome for them ...<p>I would also like the ability to play a message, but then have no ability to leave a message.<p>The lame way to do this is to let your vm inbox fill up, and then everyone gets the &quot;the person you called is too stupid to figure out voicemail&quot; message.<p>What I would like is an option to play a message (&quot;hi you&#x27;ve reached so and so and here is my email address and have a nice day!&quot;) and then ... no beep ... no message ... nothing. Maybe just pause a bit and then a fast-busy.[1]<p>How can I do things like this ? I&#x27;ve been meaning for years to self-provide my own dial tone in the same way I self-provide my own email, but I just don&#x27;t have the time to get it all set up.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reorder_tone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reorder_tone</a></text></item><item><author>joshbaptiste</author><text>To get rid of VM notifications, I recorded 2 minute+ of silence as my VM greeting, zero VMs after that.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>Can I have <i>no voicemail</i> ?<p>That&#x27;s a feature I really want and it&#x27;s not easy to do.<p>If you configure a mobile phone line without voicemail, it will <i>not</i> just ring and ring and ring (as I hoped it would) - instead, the caller gets a message that &quot;the number you have dialed is not accepting calls at this time&quot; ... or some other message (depending on the carrier) that makes it sound like you don&#x27;t pay your phonebill or something.<p>I want my phone to ring and ring and ring until the caller gives up. I <i>think</i> I can do this with the twilio API, but man that&#x27;s a lot of work for something (seemingly) simple.<p>edit: this is the discussion I found that makes me think I could accomplish this with twilio: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;22410430&#x2F;twilio-respond-to-incoming-call-by-ringing-forever" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;22410430&#x2F;twilio-respond-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Charge, a phone company with features for nerds</title><url>https://charge.co/for-nerds</url></story> |
8,976,717 | 8,976,529 | 1 | 3 | 8,975,812 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isaacdl</author><text>Exactly the same thing happens to me here in the midwest United States. If I search, for example, for &quot;fast food&quot;, especially on my phone, it tends to shift the entire map to some random city, state, or town (and sometimes country). It seems to have a particular affinity for the state of Alabama and also the western coast of Nigeria.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tazjin</author><text>Where I live (Stockholm) Google Maps has become completely useless at finding anything.<p>It used to be the case that you could search for the name of a store chain (e.g. Systembolaget - the state alcohol stores) and it would show some of their stores on a map around you, nowadays it picks some random one (never close to where you are) and displays that instead.<p>The same thing has started happening for lots of places that it used to find before, that are now seemingly just gone. In the meantime Apple Maps has been consistently improving and is now my go-to maps application on the phone.</text></item><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>Yeah, too bad Bing Maps search is a bad joke. Really<p>You have to specify if it&#x27;s a Address or a Place (if your initial search doesn&#x27;t work, which is pretty much always)</text></item><item><author>gcb0</author><text>nope. it is mostly because microsoft been offering those high quality aerial images for a long time on bing maps for free, but since nobody even know there is a bing map, it wasn&#x27;t a threat. now somehow google feel they are gaining market and decided to counter attack.</text></item><item><author>superdude</author><text>Years ago before I started at my current job some people had Google Earth (free) on their PCs. But then someone read an updated Terms of Use and determined that we actually needed to be using the paid version of Google Earth so many people had their copies removed from their PCs. Then around the time I started someone read an updated Terms of Use and it was determined that there was no problem using the regular version of Google Earth. So it became part of the standard build. Then about a year ago someone read another updated Terms of Use and determined that we were out of compliance and so we removed all copies of Google Earth from all computers. And then we purchased licenses for Google Earth Pro for only those users who really relied on it. For a yearly per-user fee. And now apparently we can install it for everyone once again. For free.<p>I wonder if Google realized that a lot of companies and government organizations were confused about licensing or ignorantly non-compliant or just gave up and tried some other program. I know in my department we already installed alternative software for most people. Although nothing is as nice or easy for exploring or creating KML files as Google Earth in my experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Earth Pro is now free</title><url>http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.html</url><text>... Has tools to measure 3D buildings and other locations, print high-resolution screenshots, view demographic and traffic layers, and even record your virtual trips.</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>GFischer</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s so bad in so many places I actually started a side project &#x2F; startup to provide that functionality :) .<p>We got to a proof-of-concept stage but it&#x27;s currently on hold (the other two cofounders quit&#x2F;don&#x27;t have time for it either), but I think it&#x27;s certainly a need that isn&#x27;t being serviced by Google.<p>My project is called EncontraloCerca, it&#x27;s supposed to be for Uruguay and Argentina first, but when we get to Stockholm I&#x27;ll let you know :) .</text><parent_chain><item><author>tazjin</author><text>Where I live (Stockholm) Google Maps has become completely useless at finding anything.<p>It used to be the case that you could search for the name of a store chain (e.g. Systembolaget - the state alcohol stores) and it would show some of their stores on a map around you, nowadays it picks some random one (never close to where you are) and displays that instead.<p>The same thing has started happening for lots of places that it used to find before, that are now seemingly just gone. In the meantime Apple Maps has been consistently improving and is now my go-to maps application on the phone.</text></item><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>Yeah, too bad Bing Maps search is a bad joke. Really<p>You have to specify if it&#x27;s a Address or a Place (if your initial search doesn&#x27;t work, which is pretty much always)</text></item><item><author>gcb0</author><text>nope. it is mostly because microsoft been offering those high quality aerial images for a long time on bing maps for free, but since nobody even know there is a bing map, it wasn&#x27;t a threat. now somehow google feel they are gaining market and decided to counter attack.</text></item><item><author>superdude</author><text>Years ago before I started at my current job some people had Google Earth (free) on their PCs. But then someone read an updated Terms of Use and determined that we actually needed to be using the paid version of Google Earth so many people had their copies removed from their PCs. Then around the time I started someone read an updated Terms of Use and it was determined that there was no problem using the regular version of Google Earth. So it became part of the standard build. Then about a year ago someone read another updated Terms of Use and determined that we were out of compliance and so we removed all copies of Google Earth from all computers. And then we purchased licenses for Google Earth Pro for only those users who really relied on it. For a yearly per-user fee. And now apparently we can install it for everyone once again. For free.<p>I wonder if Google realized that a lot of companies and government organizations were confused about licensing or ignorantly non-compliant or just gave up and tried some other program. I know in my department we already installed alternative software for most people. Although nothing is as nice or easy for exploring or creating KML files as Google Earth in my experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Earth Pro is now free</title><url>http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.html</url><text>... Has tools to measure 3D buildings and other locations, print high-resolution screenshots, view demographic and traffic layers, and even record your virtual trips.</text></story> |
19,536,001 | 19,536,088 | 1 | 2 | 19,535,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mordymoop</author><text>Are we still talking about this? Within months of the book’s release, readers had found many examples where his data selections had been incomplete. To the extent that the main points were invalidated or made far less convincing. When you include the full data in his analysis, the main conclusions are drawn into question. There are many very thorough blog posts by economists you can easily Google.<p>It’d be like if Origin of Species came out, but evolution was actually wrong, and Darwin had only seemed right at first because he left out the species that didn’t fit his model.<p>I don’t think Piketty did this on purpose, by the way. He just didn’t push hard enough on the data that he didn’t want to find fault with.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>This bit really struck me:<p>“Matthew Rognlie—then a doctoral student, now an assistant professor at Northwestern—took up that line in even greater detail in an article that eventually appeared in the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, to which he added that the rising capital-to-income ratio in Piketty’s data is disproportionately the result of the price appreciation of certain scarce stores of wealth, primarily housing and the land it sits on, not the quantity accumulation of productive capital that is the subject of the neoclassical theory of economic growth.”<p>I find that a compelling explanation because it fits with a bunch of the deep problems in the way urban development changed in the 20th century, which in turn have created the frustrating housing situation today.<p>It’s difficult to summarize this, but in short, modern zoning, the suburban development pattern, and auto dependency, create an economic vicious cycle which tends to polarize economic outcomes, where Places trend toward either the Bay Area or Detroit. (Some reading linked below)<p>This is most true in the US, but also to varying degrees in many other parts of the world.<p>In other words, if Rognlie’s quote is true, then it would mean Picketty’s observations are better explained by the bad housing and infrastructure policies of the last 80 years than by “r &gt; g”, and if that’s true then it completely changes what we should do about it.<p>Some expansion on the development pattern problems:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;portland-housing-prices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;portland-hous...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2018&#x2F;9&#x2F;17&#x2F;austins-codenext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2018&#x2F;9&#x2F;17&#x2F;austins-codene...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;the-growth-ponzi-scheme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;the-growth-ponzi-scheme</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder</url></story> |
6,415,227 | 6,415,216 | 1 | 2 | 6,414,354 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>It seems entirely possible to me that the van driver was actually taking the corner &quot;too slow&quot; (though I&#x27;d be taking it slow too based on blindness of the turn if I wasn&#x27;t used to that area) resulting in a situation where there was an obstacle in the bicyclist&#x27;s path that was difficult to avoid at the speed that she was travelling.<p>And yes, this would also mean that turn would be dangerous for other cars as well in this situation, but modern cars actually have a much easier time of safely breaking while curving and going downhill than a person on a bicycle would (way easier to crash the bike or slide it out) and the car would be further out to the left of the lane than a bike would.<p>Of course, this is all speculation, and this is a horrible tragedy no matter how it happened, but I think some people are calling for the van driver&#x27;s head way too early on this. And I say that as someone who does quite a lot of biking both mountain biking and on the roads.</text><parent_chain><item><author>enoch_r</author><text>The problem with this theory is that the speed limit on that road is 40. If she was traveling well under the speed limit but did not have time to stop for a turning car, then it seems to me that either a) the intersection is designed such that a vehicle traveling the speed limit will be unable to stop before colliding with a turning vehicle, or b) the driver turned after the bicyclist had turned the corner. Or, of course, a combination of the two--it may well be that the intersection is fairly dangerous for drivers as well (and some commenters have talked about previous accidents at the same intersection).</text></item><item><author>klochner</author><text>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m not trying to find fault either way, I was just curious.<p>Here&#x27;s her ride log from Strava over the same segment a week ago (you&#x27;ll need to log in to see details on the segment):<p><a href="http://www.strava.com/activities/81767720#1663862661" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strava.com&#x2F;activities&#x2F;81767720#1663862661</a><p>And here&#x27;s a screenshot - you can see her speed jump to 30mph just at the blind corner before Elk Tree road, and she accelerates past Elk Tree to 36mph:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/wd4sOjm.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;wd4sOjm.png</a><p>If she was going 30+ on a downhill (-6.5% grade), it&#x27;s possible the car was already turning when she hit the corner and she was unable to decelerate, maybe the pavement was wet. But it is about 300ft, so I would expect her to be able to brake in time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Amazon star exec killed in bike accident</title><url>http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/19/joy-covey-amazon/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klochner</author><text>I kind of agree with you (see my edits), but it is harder to decelerate on a bike than in a car, especially going downhill - you run the risk of going over the handlebars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>enoch_r</author><text>The problem with this theory is that the speed limit on that road is 40. If she was traveling well under the speed limit but did not have time to stop for a turning car, then it seems to me that either a) the intersection is designed such that a vehicle traveling the speed limit will be unable to stop before colliding with a turning vehicle, or b) the driver turned after the bicyclist had turned the corner. Or, of course, a combination of the two--it may well be that the intersection is fairly dangerous for drivers as well (and some commenters have talked about previous accidents at the same intersection).</text></item><item><author>klochner</author><text>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m not trying to find fault either way, I was just curious.<p>Here&#x27;s her ride log from Strava over the same segment a week ago (you&#x27;ll need to log in to see details on the segment):<p><a href="http://www.strava.com/activities/81767720#1663862661" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strava.com&#x2F;activities&#x2F;81767720#1663862661</a><p>And here&#x27;s a screenshot - you can see her speed jump to 30mph just at the blind corner before Elk Tree road, and she accelerates past Elk Tree to 36mph:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/wd4sOjm.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;wd4sOjm.png</a><p>If she was going 30+ on a downhill (-6.5% grade), it&#x27;s possible the car was already turning when she hit the corner and she was unable to decelerate, maybe the pavement was wet. But it is about 300ft, so I would expect her to be able to brake in time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Amazon star exec killed in bike accident</title><url>http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/19/joy-covey-amazon/</url></story> |
25,256,839 | 25,254,670 | 1 | 2 | 25,252,598 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Throwaway1771</author><text>Created an(other) ta account to post this...<p>You DO NOT need the Google Play spyware, or the Uber or Lyft spyware apps, in order to use Uber&#x2F;Lyft.<p>Most of these services, including Google Maps, have progressive webapps to be used right in a browser.<p>For additional security&#x2F;privacy, open these apps in a separate&#x2F;sand boxing browser.<p>For the truly careful, create a separate Android &quot;profile&quot; on the device for apps you don&#x27;t trust even with permissions locked up (the accounts feature is an excellent sandbox for security&#x2F;privacy).</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9d0291</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using a custom AOSP build with MicroG for a few months now and it actually works pretty well _if your goal is to avoid Google_.<p>What I mean by that is that if your goal is to use Android Pay, Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Fi etc. and somehow retain some level of privacy, MicroG isn&#x27;t going to help. It doesn&#x27;t fully implement _all_ of Play Services&#x27; APIs.<p>The point of MicroG is to make Android usable without having Play Services installed. With neither MicroG nor Play Services, many third-party apps fail to function. For example Lyft and Uber depend on the Play Services API for maps and many other apps depend on Google&#x27;s network location service. If you try to use these apps without some replacement, the apps complain and shut down. MicroG gives you a way around that.<p>I&#x27;m quite happy with my MicroG-based phone but I use:<p>- OSMAnd or the open-source equivalent of Maps.me for maps<p>- My country&#x27;s public transport app for public transit directions<p>- FairEmail for email<p>- Element for messaging<p>- Slide for Reddit<p>- Firefox for web browsing<p>And actively avoid all of Google&#x27;s apps and services (except the occasional search and YouTube).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space</title><url>https://microg.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>zingplex</author><text>For YouTube I&#x27;ve used NewPipe, which is absolutely fantastic (apart from occasional breakage due to API changes)</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9d0291</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using a custom AOSP build with MicroG for a few months now and it actually works pretty well _if your goal is to avoid Google_.<p>What I mean by that is that if your goal is to use Android Pay, Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Fi etc. and somehow retain some level of privacy, MicroG isn&#x27;t going to help. It doesn&#x27;t fully implement _all_ of Play Services&#x27; APIs.<p>The point of MicroG is to make Android usable without having Play Services installed. With neither MicroG nor Play Services, many third-party apps fail to function. For example Lyft and Uber depend on the Play Services API for maps and many other apps depend on Google&#x27;s network location service. If you try to use these apps without some replacement, the apps complain and shut down. MicroG gives you a way around that.<p>I&#x27;m quite happy with my MicroG-based phone but I use:<p>- OSMAnd or the open-source equivalent of Maps.me for maps<p>- My country&#x27;s public transport app for public transit directions<p>- FairEmail for email<p>- Element for messaging<p>- Slide for Reddit<p>- Firefox for web browsing<p>And actively avoid all of Google&#x27;s apps and services (except the occasional search and YouTube).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space</title><url>https://microg.org/</url></story> |
18,574,722 | 18,571,763 | 1 | 3 | 18,563,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kalleboo</author><text>I recently picked up my dream computer from 19 years ago - the PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;zhmi6cP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;zhmi6cP</a><p>It&#x27;s been great fun noodling around with, customizing the OS with Kaleidoscope schemes etc. Really love the classic MacOS. But it does bomb&#x2F;hard freeze a lot. Especially with network activity (one AppleTalk glitch and the whole thing just freezes up)<p>One of the main issues in actually using it is that the adoption of HTTPS and deprecation of old encryption methods has made all the browsers available (including Classzilla) completely useless. My solution has been to install Firefox in a VM on my NAS and connect to that through VNC or an X11 client (former is zippier, but the latter makes it feel more native)</text><parent_chain><item><author>asveikau</author><text>Came here to say this. Lack of memory protection and preemption was atrocious. But the UI was dead simple and a joy. I also used to like to pick apart things in ResEdit.</text></item><item><author>tambourine_man</author><text>I’m so glad there are people doing this kind of thing.<p>I have a sweet spot for classic Mac OS, something about its simplicity hasn’t been match since, but I can’t imagine the motivation for doing this beyond pure fun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacLua5.3: Classic MacOS port of Lua 5.3</title><url>https://github.com/SolraBizna/MacLua5.3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usermac</author><text>Forgot all about ResEdit until I read your post. Too much fun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asveikau</author><text>Came here to say this. Lack of memory protection and preemption was atrocious. But the UI was dead simple and a joy. I also used to like to pick apart things in ResEdit.</text></item><item><author>tambourine_man</author><text>I’m so glad there are people doing this kind of thing.<p>I have a sweet spot for classic Mac OS, something about its simplicity hasn’t been match since, but I can’t imagine the motivation for doing this beyond pure fun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacLua5.3: Classic MacOS port of Lua 5.3</title><url>https://github.com/SolraBizna/MacLua5.3</url></story> |
26,406,325 | 26,404,392 | 1 | 2 | 26,398,767 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>&gt; Within the Israeli cyberweapons industry, the totemic name is NSO Group. Its Pegasus technology can purportedly hack a phone without the target even clicking a link. It’s been used to track dissidents, activists, and journalists from Mexico to Morocco. Most infamously, according to a 2018 lawsuit, the Saudi government is alleged to have used Pegasus to hack the phone of a friend of Jamal Khashoggi’s in order to monitor the journalist before his murder.<p>&gt; Behind NSO Group, there are many more. Cellebrite offers services to reconstruct data deleted from devices. NSO’s sister company Circles sells the ability to locate a person’s physical location using only their phone number.<p>Terrifying stuff. All this makes me wonder: nowadays, how are citizens living under oppressive governments ever to conceivably organise any kind of resistance? Such pervasive and all-encompassing surveillance makes it impossible that any kind of opposition can ever be mounted, if citizens can be monitored everywhere at all times. Absolutely depressing stuff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-israels-lucrative-and-secretive-cybersurveillance-talent-pipeline/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>helge9210</author><text>&gt; In Israel, tech education can begin as early as middle school<p>Actual selection starts in kindergarden. Various games and activities that select for ability to follow and understand the rules and so on. Results from kindergarden define class distribution in elementary. At the second grade kids do kind of IQ test (0-100). Those who scored 92-95 get selected for one-day-a-week development program. Those with 95-100 get selected to special schools. Every half a year each teacher fills a summary on each kid. The summary is added to general evaluation.<p>By the time, they get to army, it&#x27;s known precisely which unit is the best fit mentally and physically.<p>Drawback of this system: if immigrant kid gets directly into high school without document trail, he is labeled as not smart. Goes directly to the Border Police. There is a special unit within the Border Policy for kids, who are smart and got there by mistake. In general border police are mentally challenged grunts unable to follow complex written instructions (anecdote: my collegue was treating in the field a border police soldier who lost an eye by shooting through the hole with label &quot;Do not shoot through this hole, you&#x27;ll lose an eye&quot;).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-israels-lucrative-and-secretive-cybersurveillance-talent-pipeline/</url></story> |
30,869,822 | 30,869,715 | 1 | 3 | 30,868,053 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmicah</author><text>This actually isn&#x27;t true, one example off the top of my head is that currently the black Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad all cost $20 more than their white counterparts: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;mac&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;mice-keyboards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;mac&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;mice-keyboards</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>newaccount74</author><text>Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but I think it&#x27;s the only time an Apple product cost more than the same configuration in another color. (Except for the Apple Watch, but they are made from different materials)<p>The Jet black glossy iPhone 7 wasn&#x27;t available in the cheapest configuration, but it cost the same as the other colors at the configurations it was available in.<p>I think the black glossy iPhone was one of the most beautiful phones Apple has built. It was the closest they got to a truly seamless, monolithic phone. And it didn&#x27;t have a stupid glass back that always breaks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the Black MacBook Cost More</title><url>https://512pixels.net/2022/03/why-the-black-macbook-cost-more/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tonyedgecombe</author><text>&gt;Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but I think it&#x27;s the only time an Apple product cost more than the same configuration in another color.<p>The space grey versions of the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse were more expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>newaccount74</author><text>Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but I think it&#x27;s the only time an Apple product cost more than the same configuration in another color. (Except for the Apple Watch, but they are made from different materials)<p>The Jet black glossy iPhone 7 wasn&#x27;t available in the cheapest configuration, but it cost the same as the other colors at the configurations it was available in.<p>I think the black glossy iPhone was one of the most beautiful phones Apple has built. It was the closest they got to a truly seamless, monolithic phone. And it didn&#x27;t have a stupid glass back that always breaks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the Black MacBook Cost More</title><url>https://512pixels.net/2022/03/why-the-black-macbook-cost-more/</url></story> |
30,224,700 | 30,224,436 | 1 | 3 | 30,223,801 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fourneau</author><text>Others have already highlighted that you can be vaccinated and anti-mandate, which is what many people are focusing on.<p>From a numbers perspective, 91.54% of Canadians 18+ have received at least one dose. 88.91% of 18+ have received two.<p>It&#x27;s &#x2F;possible&#x2F; that truckers are widely unvaccinated (perhaps they all subscribe to the same train of thought), but it&#x27;s unlikely.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>Even more stupid: Canadian media and Twitter users saying they are “fringe” because by a <i>poll</i> (totally no incentive to lie on those), 85% of truckers are vaccinated.<p>To which I say:<p>A. I bet more than 15% are unvaccinated because why answer honestly with Canada’s level of restrictions and penalties?<p>B. If it is actually 15%, that’s not fringe, and also that’s low enough that dropping the mandate should be reasonable (see all the countries who dropped restrictions at 75%-80% vaccination).</text></item><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Also keep in mind that in the backdrop of all this is the fact that our Prime Minister has called the protesters racists and misogynists. Probably inspiring someone who ran over some protesters in Winnipeg.<p>Canadian news and politicians are desperately trying to denounce the protesters while ignoring the fact that Canada has some of the harshest Covid restrictions in the world at the moment, while the US has hardly any and European nations are mostly moving to remove all restrictions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-trucking-go-idCAKBN2KA0H3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peteradio</author><text>It makes no sense to assume that these guys aren&#x27;t vaccinated anyway. They aren&#x27;t against the vaccine, they are against the mandate!</text><parent_chain><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>Even more stupid: Canadian media and Twitter users saying they are “fringe” because by a <i>poll</i> (totally no incentive to lie on those), 85% of truckers are vaccinated.<p>To which I say:<p>A. I bet more than 15% are unvaccinated because why answer honestly with Canada’s level of restrictions and penalties?<p>B. If it is actually 15%, that’s not fringe, and also that’s low enough that dropping the mandate should be reasonable (see all the countries who dropped restrictions at 75%-80% vaccination).</text></item><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Also keep in mind that in the backdrop of all this is the fact that our Prime Minister has called the protesters racists and misogynists. Probably inspiring someone who ran over some protesters in Winnipeg.<p>Canadian news and politicians are desperately trying to denounce the protesters while ignoring the fact that Canada has some of the harshest Covid restrictions in the world at the moment, while the US has hardly any and European nations are mostly moving to remove all restrictions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-trucking-go-idCAKBN2KA0H3</url></story> |
6,676,810 | 6,676,668 | 1 | 3 | 6,676,075 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChikkaChiChi</author><text>It&#x27;s a thinness issue.<p>If you want a removable battery you have to build a clip or latch system to allow the battery to be removable as well as a component shielding so that grubby little fingers don&#x27;t go in there gumming up the works. Finally, a removable battery will have different receptors on it to allow it to be more easily swapped by laymen as opposed to a ribbon cable which takes a bit more finesse.<p>You CAN replace the battery in these units..you just have to be better at your job than your grandmother replacing her cordless phone battery.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pearjuice</author><text>Can anyone shed light on why the battery cannot be replaced like back in the day with (smart)phones? This is a real deal breaker for me, especially with the very limited battery life you would at least expect that it would be easily replaceable. I don&#x27;t mind carrying an extra battery pack with me. At all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nexus 5 Teardown</title><url>http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5+Teardown/19016</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>highace</author><text>Would you mind carrying a portable battery about the same size as the phone that can recharge the phone via USB? (this is my solution)</text><parent_chain><item><author>pearjuice</author><text>Can anyone shed light on why the battery cannot be replaced like back in the day with (smart)phones? This is a real deal breaker for me, especially with the very limited battery life you would at least expect that it would be easily replaceable. I don&#x27;t mind carrying an extra battery pack with me. At all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nexus 5 Teardown</title><url>http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5+Teardown/19016</url></story> |
29,671,923 | 29,671,976 | 1 | 2 | 29,671,175 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ranguna</author><text>To save you a click:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;big-tech&#x2F;article&#x2F;3160670&#x2F;apache-log4j-bug-chinas-industry-ministry-pulls-support-alibaba-cloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;big-tech&#x2F;article&#x2F;3160670&#x2F;apache-lo...</a><p>The HN link links to a twitter post that links to the above link.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Alibaba researchers went rogue and disclosed Log4j now CCP is making Alibaba pay</title><url>https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1474275566572347393</url></story> | <instructions>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>A misleading and inflammatory dupe of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29658342" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29658342</a>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Alibaba researchers went rogue and disclosed Log4j now CCP is making Alibaba pay</title><url>https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1474275566572347393</url></story> |
17,214,481 | 17,212,829 | 1 | 3 | 17,211,283 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isostatic</author><text>Indeed. I occasionally write a webbased tool to deal with a specific task (say formatting some form of codec data, or a simple dashboard for a specific event, or a small config generator, or whatever), userbase is in the &lt;10 users (not concurrent) range, I don&#x27;t give a stuff about scaling. I care that the code is in a repo (git, svn, whatever), is versioned (deb, rpm, whatever), and deploys cleanly.<p>I could learn and use $latest_thing, and maybe it would be great. That will triple the time taken to develop, but whatever. However in a couple of years time when I come to need to write something else, $latest_thing will be old hat, and replaced by $shiny_and_new. Rather than having 10 years of nice simple code based on jquery, I get some based on Angular, some on React, some on Vue, some on Meteor, or whatever.<p>I&#x27;m not a programmer, I&#x27;m not a wireman, and I&#x27;m not a carpenter. I program in the same way I&#x27;ll run a network cable or get a screwdriver out, it&#x27;s a tool I can use to solve a specific task. I like tools that are the same, year in, year out.<p>That&#x27;s not to say the latest frameworks aren&#x27;t all great, if you&#x27;re building something for a million users and want to take advantage of shiny new features that&#x27;s great, but for those that aren&#x27;t, there&#x27;s still a place for boring old things in a large part of the computer industry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmaswell</author><text>Being used to jQuery, I really see no reason not to use it in new projects. I could learn all the new native equivalents, and even then still ending up doing more work than if I&#x27;d been using jQuery, just to save a little bit of page load time and filesize, but it would almost certainly not be worth it.</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>I don&#x27;t think JQuery ever got bad. It just got unnecessary, like you said. But it took a lot of work to convince people that it was unnecessary.<p>A charitable explanation of Sara&#x27;s tweet might be that, like with jQuery, it is becoming difficult to convince new developers that React may not be necessary for their next project.<p>The other comparative downside of JQuery was that components started to rely on it as a shared library, which meant developers suddenly needed to do dependency management. That is (usually) a bad idea. React absolutely does have that problem as well - probably to an even worse degree than jQuery widgets ever did.<p>This is kind of the same concern I have with Vue to be honest. I use Vue for prototyping and will probably use it in some final apps as well. But I&#x27;m probably not ever going to use a component that someone else has written if it relies on Vue.<p>IMO Lodash went the right direction with this. A component or library can depend on Lodash, pull in <i>just</i> the functions that they use for a final build, and then nobody else in the entire dev toolchain needs to know or care. No risk of conflicting dependencies, build size stays low, etc...<p>I kind of wonder if the problems Vue solves for me could be solved better by a smaller, lodash-style library instead of a framework.</text></item><item><author>superfrank</author><text>&gt; React is the new jQuery<p>Anyone who uses &quot;the new jQuery&quot; as some sort of insult (as it seems Sara did in her tweet) probably hasn&#x27;t been a developer for more than a few years or is just trying to sound smarter than they are by bashing an easy target.<p>The reason jQuery got so popular is that it made common tasks so much easier than anything else at the time. Anyone who was doing web development before jQuery knows what a godsend it was at the time. JQuery was a fantastic leap forward for development at the time it was released.<p>JQuery didn&#x27;t become bad, the rest of the development world caught up and made it unnecessary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React is the new jQuery</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/link/replacing-jquery-with-vue-js-no-build-step-necessary/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3131s</author><text>It irks me that Javascript didn&#x27;t just adopt the best parts of JQuery.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmaswell</author><text>Being used to jQuery, I really see no reason not to use it in new projects. I could learn all the new native equivalents, and even then still ending up doing more work than if I&#x27;d been using jQuery, just to save a little bit of page load time and filesize, but it would almost certainly not be worth it.</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>I don&#x27;t think JQuery ever got bad. It just got unnecessary, like you said. But it took a lot of work to convince people that it was unnecessary.<p>A charitable explanation of Sara&#x27;s tweet might be that, like with jQuery, it is becoming difficult to convince new developers that React may not be necessary for their next project.<p>The other comparative downside of JQuery was that components started to rely on it as a shared library, which meant developers suddenly needed to do dependency management. That is (usually) a bad idea. React absolutely does have that problem as well - probably to an even worse degree than jQuery widgets ever did.<p>This is kind of the same concern I have with Vue to be honest. I use Vue for prototyping and will probably use it in some final apps as well. But I&#x27;m probably not ever going to use a component that someone else has written if it relies on Vue.<p>IMO Lodash went the right direction with this. A component or library can depend on Lodash, pull in <i>just</i> the functions that they use for a final build, and then nobody else in the entire dev toolchain needs to know or care. No risk of conflicting dependencies, build size stays low, etc...<p>I kind of wonder if the problems Vue solves for me could be solved better by a smaller, lodash-style library instead of a framework.</text></item><item><author>superfrank</author><text>&gt; React is the new jQuery<p>Anyone who uses &quot;the new jQuery&quot; as some sort of insult (as it seems Sara did in her tweet) probably hasn&#x27;t been a developer for more than a few years or is just trying to sound smarter than they are by bashing an easy target.<p>The reason jQuery got so popular is that it made common tasks so much easier than anything else at the time. Anyone who was doing web development before jQuery knows what a godsend it was at the time. JQuery was a fantastic leap forward for development at the time it was released.<p>JQuery didn&#x27;t become bad, the rest of the development world caught up and made it unnecessary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React is the new jQuery</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/link/replacing-jquery-with-vue-js-no-build-step-necessary/</url></story> |
20,604,469 | 20,604,496 | 1 | 3 | 20,602,281 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dbaupp</author><text>In my experience, Option&#x2F;Optional&#x2F;Maybe of a type T comes up a lot less than the type T itself. That is, needing &quot;not a valid object&quot; is a rarer than only requiring objects that are always valid.<p>Those construction exactly exist so that you have to check for it. They force the programmer to think about the &quot;maybe invalid&quot; state, whereas built-in-null doesn&#x27;t prompt this (and, indeed, since might-be-null is the rare state, people often just assume they&#x27;re working with a valid instance of the type and don&#x27;t handle null at all).</text><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; Rust skips nulls &amp; statically disallows use of variables before initialization<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean you won&#x27;t need a &quot;not a valid object&quot; for a type. That&#x27;s why there all these Optional and Maybe constructions - you&#x27;re still checking for it.</text></item><item><author>__s</author><text>What? I don&#x27;t get why you&#x27;re saying &quot;you have to&quot;. Besides, with null you don&#x27;t necessarily get a segfault, in C you get undefined behavior<p>Rust skips nulls &amp; statically disallows use of variables before initialization</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>If you don&#x27;t have a null, then you have to set aside some value for the type as the default value. With null, you get a seg fault if you try and use it.<p>Without a null, you&#x27;ll need to create a special default value which performs the same function - giving an error if you try to use it.<p>Floating point values have NaN for this, UTF-8 code units have 0xFF. The D programming language uses NaN and 0xFF to default initialize these types. NaN is good because it is &quot;sticky&quot;, meaning if a result is computed that depended on a NaN, the result is NaN as well.<p>Some people complain about this, wanting floats to be 0.0 default initialized. But then it would be nearly impossible to tell if an unintended 0.0 crept into the calculation.<p>&gt; More like &quot;String and null&quot;<p>Null&#x27;s replacement, Maybe and Optional, still have the extra check.</text></item><item><author>_hardwaregeek</author><text>Non nullability is probably one of the most important concepts I&#x27;ve learned. People can talk your ear off about macros or about borrow checking or whatever cool feature is in their favorite languages. But non nullability isn&#x27;t a feature as much as the removal of a terrible one: types being automatically unifiable with null.<p>What does that mean? Well basically that every single (reference) type in most languages comes with an implicit &quot;and null&quot;. String in Java? More like &quot;String and null&quot;. Car object? Actually it&#x27;s &quot;Car and null&quot;.<p>Why is this a bad thing? Well null is a very specific type with a very specific meaning, but because it&#x27;s automatically included with every type, people end up using it for a bunch of situations where a different type or value would work. Let&#x27;s take a simple parser. A naive implementation, upon reaching the end of the string, might just return null. After all, nothing has been found. But that&#x27;s not a null value, that&#x27;s an EndOfString value! The moment you pass that value out of the context of the function, you need to remember that null means EndOfString. Or maybe the string you&#x27;re passing in is a null value in the first place. It&#x27;d be tempting to return out null, right? Except you&#x27;ve now lost information on whether the string itself was null, or if something happened in the parse function that caused it to return null.<p>That isn&#x27;t to say null is wholly evil. There&#x27;s certainly uses for null. But it&#x27;s often way better to contain its use with Option or Maybe, essentially wrappers that detail &quot;hey, this value could be null&quot;. These wrappers are <i></i>not<i></i> unifiable with regular values, which forces you to think about where values can and cannot be null.<p>I totally understand if language designers want to omit features that they deem unnecessary or overcomplicated. I get it if you want a language sans generics or sans macros. But I don&#x27;t understand keeping a feature that has caused far too much pain and encouraged far too many bad practices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Is Null? (2010)</title><url>http://wiki.c2.com/?WhatIsNull</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antonvs</author><text>&gt; That doesn&#x27;t mean you won&#x27;t need a &quot;not a valid object&quot; for a type.<p>This confuses two different concepts, and that confusion is precisely the problem with &quot;null&quot;.<p>Most <i>types</i> neither need, nor have, a &quot;not a valid object&quot; value. The &quot;not a valid object&quot; value is typically disjoint from the type.<p>Null can&#x27;t be used instead of some other type, as though it were that type. Instead, you have to perform a comparison to decide whether you&#x27;re dealing with null, or a value of the expected type.<p>The problem with null, in languages that have it, is the inability to statically prove that terms cannot be null.<p>This means null is a pervasive possibility that almost always has to be checked for, which is an unnecessary source of bugs. Strictly speaking, you always have to check for null, except in those cases where you can prove (informally, since the compiler doesn&#x27;t help with this) that you already did that.<p>&gt; That&#x27;s why there all these Optional and Maybe constructions - you&#x27;re still checking for it.<p>The point is that option types allow you to choose whether you want to allow non-values at a particular term. If you don&#x27;t - e.g. if a function returns a value not wrapped in an option type - then you&#x27;re statically guaranteed to be able to use that value without having to check for null.<p>The only place where you need option types are where you&#x27;re explicitly allowing for an optional value. And in that case, the option type helps because it statically disallows you from treating the value as though it were an instance of the underlying type.<p>So while it might seem like &quot;you&#x27;re still checking for it,&quot; there&#x27;s an important difference in the context of that check - the compiler will give you an error if you try to use the value without unwrapping the option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; Rust skips nulls &amp; statically disallows use of variables before initialization<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean you won&#x27;t need a &quot;not a valid object&quot; for a type. That&#x27;s why there all these Optional and Maybe constructions - you&#x27;re still checking for it.</text></item><item><author>__s</author><text>What? I don&#x27;t get why you&#x27;re saying &quot;you have to&quot;. Besides, with null you don&#x27;t necessarily get a segfault, in C you get undefined behavior<p>Rust skips nulls &amp; statically disallows use of variables before initialization</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>If you don&#x27;t have a null, then you have to set aside some value for the type as the default value. With null, you get a seg fault if you try and use it.<p>Without a null, you&#x27;ll need to create a special default value which performs the same function - giving an error if you try to use it.<p>Floating point values have NaN for this, UTF-8 code units have 0xFF. The D programming language uses NaN and 0xFF to default initialize these types. NaN is good because it is &quot;sticky&quot;, meaning if a result is computed that depended on a NaN, the result is NaN as well.<p>Some people complain about this, wanting floats to be 0.0 default initialized. But then it would be nearly impossible to tell if an unintended 0.0 crept into the calculation.<p>&gt; More like &quot;String and null&quot;<p>Null&#x27;s replacement, Maybe and Optional, still have the extra check.</text></item><item><author>_hardwaregeek</author><text>Non nullability is probably one of the most important concepts I&#x27;ve learned. People can talk your ear off about macros or about borrow checking or whatever cool feature is in their favorite languages. But non nullability isn&#x27;t a feature as much as the removal of a terrible one: types being automatically unifiable with null.<p>What does that mean? Well basically that every single (reference) type in most languages comes with an implicit &quot;and null&quot;. String in Java? More like &quot;String and null&quot;. Car object? Actually it&#x27;s &quot;Car and null&quot;.<p>Why is this a bad thing? Well null is a very specific type with a very specific meaning, but because it&#x27;s automatically included with every type, people end up using it for a bunch of situations where a different type or value would work. Let&#x27;s take a simple parser. A naive implementation, upon reaching the end of the string, might just return null. After all, nothing has been found. But that&#x27;s not a null value, that&#x27;s an EndOfString value! The moment you pass that value out of the context of the function, you need to remember that null means EndOfString. Or maybe the string you&#x27;re passing in is a null value in the first place. It&#x27;d be tempting to return out null, right? Except you&#x27;ve now lost information on whether the string itself was null, or if something happened in the parse function that caused it to return null.<p>That isn&#x27;t to say null is wholly evil. There&#x27;s certainly uses for null. But it&#x27;s often way better to contain its use with Option or Maybe, essentially wrappers that detail &quot;hey, this value could be null&quot;. These wrappers are <i></i>not<i></i> unifiable with regular values, which forces you to think about where values can and cannot be null.<p>I totally understand if language designers want to omit features that they deem unnecessary or overcomplicated. I get it if you want a language sans generics or sans macros. But I don&#x27;t understand keeping a feature that has caused far too much pain and encouraged far too many bad practices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Is Null? (2010)</title><url>http://wiki.c2.com/?WhatIsNull</url></story> |
28,517,224 | 28,517,184 | 1 | 2 | 28,515,457 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>YouTube isn&#x27;t a scrappy little startup with no resources left over after keeping the servers up and running 24-7. They absolutely have the talent, capital, and legal resources to innovate in this area and to assess things like public domain claims.<p>The concept of public domain resources is not a difficult one, you don&#x27;t need special legal training or advanced math to understand the idea that copyright expires and that works whose copyright has expired are free to all. <i>There is no mechanism to even assert public domain status on Youtube.</i><p>You have to wait and offer it as a defense if subjected to a copyright infringement claim, and the copyright infringement claim is presumed to be valid and the claimant is the first judge of the public domain assertion.<p>Youtube didn&#x27;t invent the system, but they are far from being helpless victims as you imply.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>The blame for YouTube’s copyright system is largely not YouTube, lest we forget the parties that actually benefit from it.<p>Sadly, it seems like it’s going to be the norm now. I recall hearing the EU wants to legally mandate the mechanism of Content ID, just another nail in the coffin for the open web really.</text></item><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>It&#x27;s really a pity there&#x27;s no way for people to sue Youtube for abuse of the commons. Many economists like to invoke the tragedy of the commons&#x27; as a justification for property rights (real, maritime, or intellectual) but they tend to sidle around the fact that it&#x27;s almost impossible for anyone to get legal standing to advocate on behalf of the commons.</text></item><item><author>jazzyjackson</author><text>This mentions something that has always irked me, YouTube trying to be informative about who the music is licensed by. For one, it&#x27;s completely useless on classical piano music because the Content ID algo finds similarity in a dozen different recordings. But even when there is one canonical recording, such as Rick Astley&#x27;s Never Gonna Give You Up, I&#x27;m informed that the music is licensed by:<p>(on behalf of Sony BMG Music UK); UMPI, Kobalt Music Publishing, LatinAutor, Warner Chappell, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - UMPG, SOLAR Music Rights Management, AMRA, UMPG Publishing, CMRRA, LatinAutorPerf, LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, and 15 Music Rights Societies<p>What is happening here? Does YouTube have legal arrangements with all of these bodies to make sure they get their penny per kiloview?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording</title><url>https://www.improbable.com/2021/09/13/youtube-the-ig-nobel-prizes-and-the-year-1914/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sc11</author><text>Thankfully said EU law includes a part that it&#x27;s forbidden to block content for copyright reasons if the copyright claim is invalid. It includes ways for NGOs and users to go after companies that overblock. How this will actually work in practice is unclear since it&#x27;s obviously an impossible requirement but some NGOs like the German GFF are already collecting cases and are looking to take legal action (see e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freiheitsrechte.org&#x2F;aufruf-illegale-sperrungen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freiheitsrechte.org&#x2F;aufruf-illegale-sperrungen&#x2F;</a> (in German))</text><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>The blame for YouTube’s copyright system is largely not YouTube, lest we forget the parties that actually benefit from it.<p>Sadly, it seems like it’s going to be the norm now. I recall hearing the EU wants to legally mandate the mechanism of Content ID, just another nail in the coffin for the open web really.</text></item><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>It&#x27;s really a pity there&#x27;s no way for people to sue Youtube for abuse of the commons. Many economists like to invoke the tragedy of the commons&#x27; as a justification for property rights (real, maritime, or intellectual) but they tend to sidle around the fact that it&#x27;s almost impossible for anyone to get legal standing to advocate on behalf of the commons.</text></item><item><author>jazzyjackson</author><text>This mentions something that has always irked me, YouTube trying to be informative about who the music is licensed by. For one, it&#x27;s completely useless on classical piano music because the Content ID algo finds similarity in a dozen different recordings. But even when there is one canonical recording, such as Rick Astley&#x27;s Never Gonna Give You Up, I&#x27;m informed that the music is licensed by:<p>(on behalf of Sony BMG Music UK); UMPI, Kobalt Music Publishing, LatinAutor, Warner Chappell, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - UMPG, SOLAR Music Rights Management, AMRA, UMPG Publishing, CMRRA, LatinAutorPerf, LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, and 15 Music Rights Societies<p>What is happening here? Does YouTube have legal arrangements with all of these bodies to make sure they get their penny per kiloview?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording</title><url>https://www.improbable.com/2021/09/13/youtube-the-ig-nobel-prizes-and-the-year-1914/</url></story> |
30,399,933 | 30,399,931 | 1 | 3 | 30,395,786 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>Mostly because it&#x27;s not clear that from-scratch rewrites produce better results. They can if the entire architecture needs to be different, but for many libraries it just devolves into an exercise in bikeshedding.<p>This is particularly true of the US government which, if you&#x27;ve seen their IT systems, is not going to be anyone sane&#x27;s first choice for doing from-scratch rewrites.</text><parent_chain><item><author>obblekk</author><text>Why don&#x27;t Apple &amp; Google spend a few billion dollars over a few years to rewrite their (non-crypto) unix stack from scratch? It seems like that would be an enduring competitive advantage, good for their users, and reduce future liabilities.<p>Every programming language can result in bugs, but some are worse&#x2F;more frequent&#x2F;harder to solve afterwards than others.<p>Better yet, why wasn&#x27;t &quot;rebuild commonly used standard libraries&quot; in the US Infrastructure bill last year? The government could pay programmers a lot, and pay whitehat pen-testers a lot (+ per bug discovered) and in a few years of iteration, we&#x27;d have incredibly hardened, durable software infrastructure that would benefit us for decades to come, in the public domain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Zero-click’ hacks are growing in popularity</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/-zero-click-hacks-by-nso-group-and-others-growing-in-popularity</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bo1024</author><text>I think to a large extent this is a mythical man-month thing. Beyond a small scale, you probably can&#x27;t improve or speed up operating system design by throwing money and person count at it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>obblekk</author><text>Why don&#x27;t Apple &amp; Google spend a few billion dollars over a few years to rewrite their (non-crypto) unix stack from scratch? It seems like that would be an enduring competitive advantage, good for their users, and reduce future liabilities.<p>Every programming language can result in bugs, but some are worse&#x2F;more frequent&#x2F;harder to solve afterwards than others.<p>Better yet, why wasn&#x27;t &quot;rebuild commonly used standard libraries&quot; in the US Infrastructure bill last year? The government could pay programmers a lot, and pay whitehat pen-testers a lot (+ per bug discovered) and in a few years of iteration, we&#x27;d have incredibly hardened, durable software infrastructure that would benefit us for decades to come, in the public domain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Zero-click’ hacks are growing in popularity</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/-zero-click-hacks-by-nso-group-and-others-growing-in-popularity</url></story> |
4,756,103 | 4,755,386 | 1 | 2 | 4,755,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nugget</author><text>Some of these comments confuse me. What do you expect an m&#38;a email to read like? Having been through a bunch of acquisitions, that email is par for the course, especially for a (presumably) smaller acquisition. You have an internal product sponsor who asks for basic financial info, asks for a price, has clearly laid out next steps and the process, and wants to start immediately. All positive for a first step. Some of the best corp dev guys I know have the worst grammar and email manners and to focus on that as a weakness is ridiculous...as long as they can approve a wire transfer, who cares? Some people are Youtube and have Eric layering sweet sugary syrup on their Pancakes whilst they discuss the beautiful synergies of a monster deal, but most of the time, the startup CEO is hustling it across the finish line.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio </title><url>http://www.berrebi.org/2012/11/07/the-email-i-received-from-google-in-2007-when-they-wanted-to-buy-zlio/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>citizens</author><text>&#62; "For the little story, Zlio, became blacklisted/sandboxed by Google 6 months after…. It killed the company…"<p>This is only speculation, but it looks like zlio.com was sandboxed/blacklisted because of rampant spamming. 4 out of the top 5 referring domains are porn sites (about 150k links).<p>Source:
<a href="http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/zlio.com" rel="nofollow">http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/zlio.c...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio </title><url>http://www.berrebi.org/2012/11/07/the-email-i-received-from-google-in-2007-when-they-wanted-to-buy-zlio/</url></story> |
8,460,866 | 8,459,836 | 1 | 2 | 8,458,865 | 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>ben0x539</author><text>This comment is totally on point and I&#x27;m immensely enjoying the frustrated reactions in the replies to it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anon3d3c928</author><text>using a throwaway account because ppl could easily find my twitter, my company, and harass me all day about this (and probably would).<p>GamerGate is very probably a hate group, with no other legitimate purpose. they&#x27;re known to send people into forums like this to argue politely and coherently that the &quot;movement&quot; is 100% legitimate. typically the person who comes onto a site like this, to argue in that manner, also makes virtiolic sexist and racist claims elsewhere, typically 8chan (previously 4chan - yes, these people are so fucked up that even 4chan banned them).<p>the specifics of the GamerGate swindle are very, very interesting for understanding how social media works, and can be misused.<p><a href="http://jezebel.com/gamergate-trolls-arent-ethics-crusaders-theyre-a-hate-1644984010" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jezebel.com&#x2F;gamergate-trolls-arent-ethics-crusaders-t...</a><p>TLDR: Rick Falkvinge&#x27;s book SwarmWise, plus a great deal of sophisticated and very malicious social engineering.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feminist video-games talk pulled after massacre threat</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29626809</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sb057</author><text>I think it should be noted that the article you linked to is published by Gawker Media, one of the companies at the center of this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anon3d3c928</author><text>using a throwaway account because ppl could easily find my twitter, my company, and harass me all day about this (and probably would).<p>GamerGate is very probably a hate group, with no other legitimate purpose. they&#x27;re known to send people into forums like this to argue politely and coherently that the &quot;movement&quot; is 100% legitimate. typically the person who comes onto a site like this, to argue in that manner, also makes virtiolic sexist and racist claims elsewhere, typically 8chan (previously 4chan - yes, these people are so fucked up that even 4chan banned them).<p>the specifics of the GamerGate swindle are very, very interesting for understanding how social media works, and can be misused.<p><a href="http://jezebel.com/gamergate-trolls-arent-ethics-crusaders-theyre-a-hate-1644984010" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jezebel.com&#x2F;gamergate-trolls-arent-ethics-crusaders-t...</a><p>TLDR: Rick Falkvinge&#x27;s book SwarmWise, plus a great deal of sophisticated and very malicious social engineering.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feminist video-games talk pulled after massacre threat</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29626809</url></story> |
1,350,193 | 1,350,159 | 1 | 2 | 1,350,021 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jsm386</author><text>If you want to read it yourself: <a href="http://wiscreenwritersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Social-Network-The-by-Aaron-Sorkin-May-28-2009.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://wiscreenwritersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/S...</a><p>All 162 pages.<p>edit: Ironic quote on page 62, which actually exists in the Harvard Crimson:<p><i>Zuckerberg said that he hoped the privacy options would help to restore his reputation following student outrage over facemash.com, a website he created in the fall semester.</i><p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register-for-new-facebook-website/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Make Things Much Worse</title><url>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2010/05/13/as-facebook-takes-a-beating-a-brutal-movie-is-set-to-make-things-much-worse.aspx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lr</author><text>Sorkin is a fantastic writer. Some of the best TV shows of the past 12 years (The West Wing, Studio 60, Sports Night) were written by Sorkin. When I first heard about Sorkin doing a Facebook movie I was dismayed. However, now, given all the things that are going on with Facebook, I think it shows he has an insight beyond most (this movie has been in the works for quite some time now).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Make Things Much Worse</title><url>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2010/05/13/as-facebook-takes-a-beating-a-brutal-movie-is-set-to-make-things-much-worse.aspx</url></story> |
1,570,124 | 1,569,985 | 1 | 3 | 1,568,993 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text>We're one of the companies that will hire people through the YCommonApp, and we don't care if you're on twitter, github, stackoverflow, have a blog or a website, and whether you've played with RoR, Django, Clojure, or some other flavor of the week technology. Being damn good at what you do is more than enough for us.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BrandonM</author><text>I feel a bit frustrated with the startup application process. The (very common) question, "List any links that will let us know who you are. For example, projects you've worked on or links to your GitHub, StackOverflow, Twitter, blog, website, etc." always seems to hold a lot of weight while being tangent to the work I would expect to be doing. I don't have a GitHub, I'm not a StackOverflow member, I'm not on Twitter, I don't have a blog, and I haven't had a website since graduating with my CS degree. That does not mean that I am not talented, smart, or motivated.<p>In my case, I like to interact personally with friends as opposed to digitally. I like to work on personal projects to satisfy my curiosity without being worried about later publishing them. And I'm not interesting/vain enough to warrant a blog, website, or Twitter presence. I like to work hard, "learn" hard (I do enjoy Hacker News), and play hard, and keeping up on the latest shiny-new-technology-web-presence-clique seems tangential to that.<p>My goal is to work for a few years in an interesting software development position on a smart team, getting paid a fair wage while providing the company with equal value in return. In those years, I would expect to learn (and contribute!) a lot while also paying off my debts and helping out my parents. After that, I would reëvaluate my goals and my career.<p>What frustrates me is that I feel like I have to jump through hoops just to get into the mix. I feel like I won't even be seriously considered unless I develop a few simple web tools built on RoR, promote them on a DJango website with a blog, host the source to the whole thing on GitHub, jump into the Twitter craze, and try to make useful contributions to FOSS and StackOverflow communities that are already saturated with great solutions. That seems like a lot of unimportant crap when all I really want to do is good work. If it takes me an extra day to learn RoR because your company uses it, that seems very small in the entire scheme of things.<p>I understand that I don't have a web-visible track record to point you to. I'm quite willing to work at an under-market rate for a few months until I'm up to speed and it is determined that I am a good fit. Is there anywhere interesting to work that is looking to hire somebody like me?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YCommonApp: Apply to 25+ YC-funded startups in under 10 minutes</title><url>http://ycommonapp.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>acgourley</author><text>I feel like younger start-ups in particular have the attitude: "If you don't have a trail of your own work, you're not extremely self directed, and we don't have the structure to manage you". And I think that's valid. If you still want to apply to these types of companies you should organize and show off the projects you've done on your own on a day to day basis.<p>That said, there are startups that have a more mature process. A necessary but insufficient condition is that they have hired a product manager or two. I know we'd get your application if you use this tool, but you should check out Loopt because it is a more mature startup. You can contact me directly if you have questions (check profile for contact).<p><a href="http://about.loopt.com/jobs/" rel="nofollow">http://about.loopt.com/jobs/</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>BrandonM</author><text>I feel a bit frustrated with the startup application process. The (very common) question, "List any links that will let us know who you are. For example, projects you've worked on or links to your GitHub, StackOverflow, Twitter, blog, website, etc." always seems to hold a lot of weight while being tangent to the work I would expect to be doing. I don't have a GitHub, I'm not a StackOverflow member, I'm not on Twitter, I don't have a blog, and I haven't had a website since graduating with my CS degree. That does not mean that I am not talented, smart, or motivated.<p>In my case, I like to interact personally with friends as opposed to digitally. I like to work on personal projects to satisfy my curiosity without being worried about later publishing them. And I'm not interesting/vain enough to warrant a blog, website, or Twitter presence. I like to work hard, "learn" hard (I do enjoy Hacker News), and play hard, and keeping up on the latest shiny-new-technology-web-presence-clique seems tangential to that.<p>My goal is to work for a few years in an interesting software development position on a smart team, getting paid a fair wage while providing the company with equal value in return. In those years, I would expect to learn (and contribute!) a lot while also paying off my debts and helping out my parents. After that, I would reëvaluate my goals and my career.<p>What frustrates me is that I feel like I have to jump through hoops just to get into the mix. I feel like I won't even be seriously considered unless I develop a few simple web tools built on RoR, promote them on a DJango website with a blog, host the source to the whole thing on GitHub, jump into the Twitter craze, and try to make useful contributions to FOSS and StackOverflow communities that are already saturated with great solutions. That seems like a lot of unimportant crap when all I really want to do is good work. If it takes me an extra day to learn RoR because your company uses it, that seems very small in the entire scheme of things.<p>I understand that I don't have a web-visible track record to point you to. I'm quite willing to work at an under-market rate for a few months until I'm up to speed and it is determined that I am a good fit. Is there anywhere interesting to work that is looking to hire somebody like me?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YCommonApp: Apply to 25+ YC-funded startups in under 10 minutes</title><url>http://ycommonapp.com</url></story> |
18,343,066 | 18,342,610 | 1 | 2 | 18,341,993 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Novashi</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s a mixture of incompetence, laziness, and poor management.<p>Don&#x27;t forget the constant, unrelenting pressure to keep up with trends or you&#x27;ll get summarily banned from ever having a developer job again. SPAs got trendy, so naturally everyone had to jump in on it when normal MVC applications work perfectly fine. There&#x27;s a bit of hyperbole in my previous sentences, but please don&#x27;t write off the endless articles and forum posts telling people to keep up with X technology because it does influence people.<p>Like seriously, we&#x27;re constantly prodding devs into technologies they don&#x27;t want to get comfortable with, then we&#x27;re suddenly surprised at the lack of competence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iamleppert</author><text>I love when people try to point the finger at a technology when in reality it is 100% the people who are using and implementing the technology. It&#x27;s their fault. 99% of developers I know who create terrible SPA&#x27;s have a long list of terrible things they&#x27;ve created. It&#x27;s a mixture of incompetence, laziness, and poor management.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Create your own dysfunctional single-page app</title><url>https://tinnedfruit.com/articles/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.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>jaggederest</author><text>It&#x27;s possible to create systems that are effectively impossible to use safely. I suspect that javascript on the web is a pretty well designed footgun, such that it&#x27;s the exception to find someone who can&#x27;t hurt themselves in their confusion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iamleppert</author><text>I love when people try to point the finger at a technology when in reality it is 100% the people who are using and implementing the technology. It&#x27;s their fault. 99% of developers I know who create terrible SPA&#x27;s have a long list of terrible things they&#x27;ve created. It&#x27;s a mixture of incompetence, laziness, and poor management.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Create your own dysfunctional single-page app</title><url>https://tinnedfruit.com/articles/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.html</url></story> |
11,376,601 | 11,376,636 | 1 | 3 | 11,374,839 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jxf</author><text>Certainly, but the point here is that it suppresses some opinions much more effectively than others.<p>If your opinion is already popular, you don&#x27;t have to be brave: you know it&#x27;s out there.<p>If your opinion is unpopular, knowing someone&#x27;s watching may silence it altogether.</text><parent_chain><item><author>USANEEDSHELP</author><text>Mass surveillance is meant to work against anybody and everybody</text></item><item><author>akerro</author><text>Mass surveillance was created to work against minorities:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McCarthyism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McCarthyism</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2013&#x2F;feb&#x2F;14&#x2F;canada-environmental-activism-threat" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2013&#x2F;feb&#x2F;14&#x2F;canada-en...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overland.org.au&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;surveillance-of-activists-is-about-to-get-much-much-worse&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overland.org.au&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;surveillance-of-activists-is...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;fbis-suicide-letter-dr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>guelo</author><text>That makes no sense. Why would mass surveillance be used against people that support the regime?</text><parent_chain><item><author>USANEEDSHELP</author><text>Mass surveillance is meant to work against anybody and everybody</text></item><item><author>akerro</author><text>Mass surveillance was created to work against minorities:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McCarthyism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McCarthyism</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2013&#x2F;feb&#x2F;14&#x2F;canada-environmental-activism-threat" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2013&#x2F;feb&#x2F;14&#x2F;canada-en...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overland.org.au&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;surveillance-of-activists-is-about-to-get-much-much-worse&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overland.org.au&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;surveillance-of-activists-is...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;fbis-suicide-letter-dr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/</url></story> |
24,256,563 | 24,256,191 | 1 | 2 | 24,256,000 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>holografix</author><text>Reality is that while China blocks Facebook, Google, etc and smartly props up their own clones, it’s “aghast” at the American protectionism and xenophobic behaviour.
How dare the Americans block a Chinese app?!
China is not a democracy. It’s not interested in fairness. China is playing the long game.
Just like the wars of the past were fought with little toy armies of a few thousand knights and noblemen marching into each other’s countries until someone decided to conscript their whole nation into battle, the West is fighting allowing China to pilfer its technology, wreak the environment, and compete with state backed organisations. Wanna compete with Huawei? Good luck sending in your company noblemen, China is sending their whole nation behind it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-stoked-washingtons-fears-about-tiktok-11598223133</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Firebrand</author><text>Sort of a Frankenstein’s monster situation Zuckerberg created for himself. He took Bytedance’s money so they could plaster TikTok ads all over Facebook and Instagram back in 2018.<p>TikTok pays its approved creators around $0.035 per 1,000 views. Maybe compete with that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-stoked-washingtons-fears-about-tiktok-11598223133</url></story> |
7,678,577 | 7,678,461 | 1 | 3 | 7,677,898 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drgath</author><text>&gt; I NEED TO EDIT URLs.<p>I&#x27;m using Canary with this option enabled, and all you have to do is click the domain box, then you can freely view, edit, and copy the URL.<p>All this update does is hide the path portion of the URL. That&#x27;s it, so IMO, this story is way overblown. Google isn&#x27;t removing the URL bar, they&#x27;re just acknowledging the fact that 99% of users don&#x27;t need to see 99% of the URLs they visit on a daily basis.<p>Why do Hacker News readers need to see a URL that looks like this?
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677031" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7677031</a><p>Why do users looking at Amazon Fire&#x27;s landing page need to see this?
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CX5P8FC/ref=amb_link_412650922_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=right-csm-1&amp;pf_rd_r=0DAD51W7AATA6WG081BY&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1786695002&amp;pf_rd_i=507846" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B00CX5P8FC&#x2F;ref=amb_link_412...</a><p>Why do EBay shoppers need to see this?
<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Garmin-nuvi-2555LMT-5-GPS-Navigation-System-with-Lifetime-Map-Traffic-Updates/310943209506?pt=GPS_Devices&amp;hash=item4865a8d822" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;Garmin-nuvi-2555LMT-5-GPS-Navigation...</a><p>They don&#x27;t. Just trim it down to the domain and call it good.<p>Oh, and it&#x27;s worth mentioning that to copy&#x2F;paste URLs, it&#x27;s still only one click away, because when you click the box, it auto-selects the entire URL.<p>Edit: As I review my post, in the context of this story I find it humorous that even Hacker News trims the URLs I pasted because of how obnoxious and unnecessary they are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>This may be the reason I stop using Chrome even though I was a member of the team for 5 years.<p>I NEED TO EDIT URLs. I need to copy and paste URLs. It was already annoying enough with it&#x27;s removing of the protocol because sometimes I make a typo, try to edit it and it messes up and removes the protocol forcing me to edit it a 3rd time only after it goes as searches for something.<p>Even as just a user I copy and paste URLs all day long. Into FB, into Twitter, into stackoverflow answers, into HN responses.<p>I don&#x27;t even see how this is better for Google. Links make up pagerank no? Links are what Google uses to be the best search engine. How is making it harder for people to copy and paste URLs good for Google?<p>I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m in the minority as a semi-webdev but dammit, don&#x27;t fix what isn&#x27;t broken. Or at least give those of us with different use cases a way to get shit done without getting in our way. Sure, this may or may not be better for my grandma but it&#x27;s not for me. I causes me frustration daily already. This is only going to make it anger inducing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Burying the URL</title><url>http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frozenport</author><text>Also gramma is gonna be sad when I give her a URL and she won&#x27;t know where it goes.<p>It is not clear if they are dumbing the web down for users or just to get people onto Google search.</text><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>This may be the reason I stop using Chrome even though I was a member of the team for 5 years.<p>I NEED TO EDIT URLs. I need to copy and paste URLs. It was already annoying enough with it&#x27;s removing of the protocol because sometimes I make a typo, try to edit it and it messes up and removes the protocol forcing me to edit it a 3rd time only after it goes as searches for something.<p>Even as just a user I copy and paste URLs all day long. Into FB, into Twitter, into stackoverflow answers, into HN responses.<p>I don&#x27;t even see how this is better for Google. Links make up pagerank no? Links are what Google uses to be the best search engine. How is making it harder for people to copy and paste URLs good for Google?<p>I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m in the minority as a semi-webdev but dammit, don&#x27;t fix what isn&#x27;t broken. Or at least give those of us with different use cases a way to get shit done without getting in our way. Sure, this may or may not be better for my grandma but it&#x27;s not for me. I causes me frustration daily already. This is only going to make it anger inducing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Burying the URL</title><url>http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/</url></story> |
7,934,807 | 7,934,470 | 1 | 3 | 7,934,177 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jal278</author><text>I don&#x27;t believe that the article&#x27;s criticism would be effective also against art (also, games can be art) -- striving to make something beautiful that illustrates the human condition or makes us feel something, is a non-trivial effort; art can galvanize us socially [0] [1] and can effect meaningful change.<p>While Yo may prove to have some value, the author&#x27;s post more speaks to how so many smart people are incentivized (by money) towards trivial ends; our economy seems often to reward trifles over things that benefit human well-being.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octopus:_A_Story_of_California" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Octopus:_A_Story_of_Califor...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>skywhopper</author><text>Unfortunately, this line of criticism works equally well about all games, art, haute cuisine, movies, national parks, and about 96% of our economy.<p>More importantly, it also works against articles that gripe about effort wasted on apps the author doesn&#x27;t care for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today</title><url>http://www.christophmccann.com/blog/2014/6/23/we-have-the-potential-to-solve-the-biggest-problems-of-today</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>angersock</author><text>All of your examples take a great deal more work than Yo.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skywhopper</author><text>Unfortunately, this line of criticism works equally well about all games, art, haute cuisine, movies, national parks, and about 96% of our economy.<p>More importantly, it also works against articles that gripe about effort wasted on apps the author doesn&#x27;t care for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today</title><url>http://www.christophmccann.com/blog/2014/6/23/we-have-the-potential-to-solve-the-biggest-problems-of-today</url></story> |
17,735,187 | 17,734,721 | 1 | 3 | 17,733,779 | 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>gregmac</author><text>Another threat model is the people who build the software and hardware. How do you ensure:<p>(1) The software is not doing anything nefarious<p>(2) The software toolchain is not modifying the software in (1) to cause it to do something nefarious<p>(3) The software loaded onto the machines is actually the software verified in (1) and compiled by the verified toolchain in (2)<p>(4) The machine doesn&#x27;t have any kind of hardware&#x2F;firmware-based defeat device to trick you into falsely confirming (3)<p>This is essentially the same problem as is outlined in Ken Thompson&#x27;s Reflections on Trusting Trust [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archive.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~ganger&#x2F;712.fall02&#x2F;papers&#x2F;p761-thompson.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archive.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~ganger&#x2F;712.fall02&#x2F;papers&#x2F;p7...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text>The threat model is corrupt election workers, who have unmonitored access to the machines.<p>And if you find problems after the winner is declared? “Only the losing side cares, and they’re just sore losers”<p>Or an adversary could not commit fraud, just trip the fraud alarms in areas their opponent is strong.<p>So it’s very, very difficult to secure.</text></item><item><author>d0lph</author><text>Is it really impossible though? I feel like we could eventually figure it out.</text></item><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the goal here is to secure the electronic voting systems; that&#x27;s impossible, and everyone knows it. The goal is to provide ammunition for getting them decertified.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hackers at convention to ferret out election system bugs</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-conference/hackers-at-convention-to-ferret-out-election-system-bugs-idUSKBN1KV0ZQ?il=0&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blacksmith_tb</author><text>I am also not optimistic, but all of those are also failings of traditional voting methods. So one could offer the standard defense of self-driving cars, &quot;it doesn&#x27;t need to be perfect, as long as it&#x27;s better&quot; (but it may never be better...)</text><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text>The threat model is corrupt election workers, who have unmonitored access to the machines.<p>And if you find problems after the winner is declared? “Only the losing side cares, and they’re just sore losers”<p>Or an adversary could not commit fraud, just trip the fraud alarms in areas their opponent is strong.<p>So it’s very, very difficult to secure.</text></item><item><author>d0lph</author><text>Is it really impossible though? I feel like we could eventually figure it out.</text></item><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the goal here is to secure the electronic voting systems; that&#x27;s impossible, and everyone knows it. The goal is to provide ammunition for getting them decertified.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hackers at convention to ferret out election system bugs</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-conference/hackers-at-convention-to-ferret-out-election-system-bugs-idUSKBN1KV0ZQ?il=0&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter</url></story> |
37,827,881 | 37,827,111 | 1 | 3 | 37,822,774 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mbreese</author><text>This seems to discuss roads and cities… not stairs in a tower. If the direction of the stairs was so important, why isn’t that mentioned?<p>Either is was very obvious to the authors (so not included), or not thought to be an important factor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stult</author><text>&gt; Of course the only way to win would be by pushing your enemy back down the stairs and then with whoever is left above you, retake the entire castle.<p>&gt; Yeah, that’s unlikely to work out.<p>&gt; Frankly, if you find yourself in this position the castle is probably already lost.<p>This argument directly contradicts the instructions of Vegetius, whose <i>De Re Militari</i> was *the* definitive military manual of the Middle Ages. Specifically, in book 4, he writes,<p>&gt; Innumerable instances are to be met with where the enemy were entirely cut in pieces, even after they had penetrated the body of the place: this certainly will happen, if the besieged continue in possession of the ramparts, towers, and highest parts of the city... The sole resource after a place is forced, either by day or night, is however to secure the ramparts, towers, and all the highest places, and to dispute every inch of ground with the enemy as they advance through the streets.<p>It&#x27;s hard to overstate how important Vegetius was to Medieval strategists, who treated his work practically as gospel and would generally try to follow its recommendations to the letter. So I seriously doubt any medieval strategist would have viewed the only conduit to the critical and decisive high ground positions as tactically irrelevant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage</title><url>https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2023/10/09/medieval-staircases-were-not-built-going-clockwise-for-the-defenders-advantage/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tao3300</author><text>Vegetius, pray tell what the scrying glass saith of yon fortification level?</text><parent_chain><item><author>stult</author><text>&gt; Of course the only way to win would be by pushing your enemy back down the stairs and then with whoever is left above you, retake the entire castle.<p>&gt; Yeah, that’s unlikely to work out.<p>&gt; Frankly, if you find yourself in this position the castle is probably already lost.<p>This argument directly contradicts the instructions of Vegetius, whose <i>De Re Militari</i> was *the* definitive military manual of the Middle Ages. Specifically, in book 4, he writes,<p>&gt; Innumerable instances are to be met with where the enemy were entirely cut in pieces, even after they had penetrated the body of the place: this certainly will happen, if the besieged continue in possession of the ramparts, towers, and highest parts of the city... The sole resource after a place is forced, either by day or night, is however to secure the ramparts, towers, and all the highest places, and to dispute every inch of ground with the enemy as they advance through the streets.<p>It&#x27;s hard to overstate how important Vegetius was to Medieval strategists, who treated his work practically as gospel and would generally try to follow its recommendations to the letter. So I seriously doubt any medieval strategist would have viewed the only conduit to the critical and decisive high ground positions as tactically irrelevant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage</title><url>https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2023/10/09/medieval-staircases-were-not-built-going-clockwise-for-the-defenders-advantage/</url></story> |
21,286,298 | 21,286,181 | 1 | 2 | 21,284,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>opportune</author><text>Also true for the Caltrain, coffee shops, and nicer restaurants between SF and SJ. And SFO, SJC, and SEA airports; I think I hear some salesman loudly talking about a deal almost every time I fly out of those places on weekdays.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mysterydip</author><text>This is well known but often ignored for convenience. Go to any restaurant in the DC area around lunchtime and you&#x27;d be amazed at what you can learn from the table next to you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/16/770368584/eat-drink-and-be-wary-ex-cia-officer-reveals-how-eateries-are-key-to-spycraft</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>openasocket</author><text>My fiance worked for a movie theater in the DC area for a while. Once she found, left on the floor, a packet for an Afghanistan diplomat program put on by the US State department. Big itinerary with lots of names, dates, contact information, not just for the various stops and talks but for the people selected for the program. Nothing classified or obviously sensitive, but I&#x27;m sure someone with the interest could run through those contacts and come to a lot of conclusions about the US&#x27;s foreign policy goals in the region. Or to follow these up-and-coming Afghanistan diplomats around on their trip to the US and maybe grab some blackmail.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mysterydip</author><text>This is well known but often ignored for convenience. Go to any restaurant in the DC area around lunchtime and you&#x27;d be amazed at what you can learn from the table next to you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/16/770368584/eat-drink-and-be-wary-ex-cia-officer-reveals-how-eateries-are-key-to-spycraft</url></story> |
6,007,504 | 6,006,731 | 1 | 2 | 6,006,323 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>&gt; Like when you hear how India was on track to become a major industrialized nation until the British decided to turn it into the world&#x27;s biggest piece of farmland.<p>British rule in India started in 1612. The industrial revolution started in Britain in 1760 at the earliest. India certainly suffered from british rule, but this is a stretch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how much a country can regress due to bullshit pulled by major powers. While I know that &quot;why can&#x27;t we all get along&quot; is a tired trope, it disappoints me that we can&#x27;t avoid completely halting a nation&#x27;s progress for 60 years almost.<p>Like when you hear how India was on track to become a major industrialized nation until the British decided to turn it into the world&#x27;s biggest piece of farmland.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/07/afghanistan-in-the-1950s-and-60s/100544/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OhHeyItsE</author><text>&gt;Like when you hear how India was on track to become a major industrialized nation until the British decided to turn it into the world&#x27;s biggest piece of farmland.<p>That&#x27;s quite a bomb you just threw there. Source?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how much a country can regress due to bullshit pulled by major powers. While I know that &quot;why can&#x27;t we all get along&quot; is a tired trope, it disappoints me that we can&#x27;t avoid completely halting a nation&#x27;s progress for 60 years almost.<p>Like when you hear how India was on track to become a major industrialized nation until the British decided to turn it into the world&#x27;s biggest piece of farmland.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/07/afghanistan-in-the-1950s-and-60s/100544/</url></story> |
40,538,424 | 40,538,122 | 1 | 2 | 40,536,860 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text><i>Companies integrating them into their offerings are not helping the public adopt the correct mental framing of these tools as &quot;plausible text generators&quot;</i><p>&quot;Not helping&quot; seems a wild understatement. &quot;Deceiving people into taking the wrong frame&quot; seems more accurate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>idle_zealot</author><text>The bad thing is that people still think LLMs can be trusted <i>at all</i>. Companies integrating them into their offerings are not helping the public adopt the correct mental framing of these tools as &quot;plausible text generators&quot;.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>This one is pretty bad. This guy found a fake Facebook customer support phone number in a Google search, then asked the Meta AI chat in Facebook Messenger if the number he found was a real Facebook help line... and Meta AI said that it was. There&#x27;s a screenshot of the chat in the article.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>The general public is getting lied to constantly. HN users have a bit more context to see through the bullshit but the marketing getting pushed in people is that these AI tools are super genius incredible world changing tools that make everyone 100x more productive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>idle_zealot</author><text>The bad thing is that people still think LLMs can be trusted <i>at all</i>. Companies integrating them into their offerings are not helping the public adopt the correct mental framing of these tools as &quot;plausible text generators&quot;.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>This one is pretty bad. This guy found a fake Facebook customer support phone number in a Google search, then asked the Meta AI chat in Facebook Messenger if the number he found was a real Facebook help line... and Meta AI said that it was. There&#x27;s a screenshot of the chat in the article.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581</url></story> |
40,282,650 | 40,282,472 | 1 | 2 | 40,281,139 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>Asyncio allows you to replace the event loop with an implementation of your own. For Temporal Python we represent workflows as a custom, durable asyncio event loops so things like asyncio.sleep are durable timers (i.e. code can resume on another machine, so you can sleep for weeks). Here is a post explaining how it&#x27;s done: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;temporal.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;durable-distributed-asyncio-event-loop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;temporal.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;durable-distributed-asyncio-event-l...</a>.<p>The biggest problem with asyncio is how easy&#x2F;common it is in Python to be able to block the asyncio thread with synchronous calls, gumming up the whole system. Python sorely needs a static analysis tool that can build a call graph to help detect if a known thread-blocking call is called directly or directly from an async def.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Python asyncio works: recreating it from scratch</title><url>https://jacobpadilla.com/articles/recreating-asyncio</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krackers</author><text>This seems to &quot;busy wait&quot; when sleeping, i.e. the event loop keeps running even if nothing is currently runnable. I remember reading about another toy implementation which handled it correctly (the way I believe it&#x27;s actually done in asyncio) by tracking the next-runnable times of a task in sorted order, and if nothing is currently runnable you can sleep the event loop. And then this was extended so that instead of just next-runnable depending on wall-clock time, the task could have a dependency on a socket or something, so that you can use select w&#x2F;timeout.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Python asyncio works: recreating it from scratch</title><url>https://jacobpadilla.com/articles/recreating-asyncio</url></story> |
39,214,267 | 39,214,082 | 1 | 3 | 39,213,180 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>ASML isn&#x27;t guarding profound insights revealed by the gods requiring some sort of eternal liver pecking sacrifice to obtain. If the EU plays hardball to too great an extent, other countries will replicate the research.<p>China will already have started their attempts. It isn&#x27;t crazy to expect them to achieve success single handedly. If all of Asia starts mucking in the EU will get crushed. The EU does not have a track record of staying ahead when they tangle with Asians for tech manufacturing supremacy.<p>The EU can&#x27;t parlay a temporary monopoly held by one manufacturing company into a useful strategic edge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>The EU is simply too scared to actually put it&#x27;s foot down.<p>If they really want to, they can just limit the export of ASML machines only to companies that have at least one of their fabs here in the EU.<p>But they won&#x27;t. In stead they will just handover €30 billion of public money to multinational corporations with market caps larger than the yearly GDP of some EU countries.<p>Edit: For clarity, I&#x27;m not suggesting banning the export of ALL machines to outside the EU. I&#x27;m just saying they could force companies to <i>also</i> have at least one big fab inside the EU, for geopolitical purposes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO</title><url>https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/eu-chip-goal-totally-unrealistic-2024-01/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattclarkdotnet</author><text>I’m all for a sound industrial policy, but comparing market cap to GDP isn’t helpful. Better to compare corporate revenue which is typically 5% or less of market cap for FAANG.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>The EU is simply too scared to actually put it&#x27;s foot down.<p>If they really want to, they can just limit the export of ASML machines only to companies that have at least one of their fabs here in the EU.<p>But they won&#x27;t. In stead they will just handover €30 billion of public money to multinational corporations with market caps larger than the yearly GDP of some EU countries.<p>Edit: For clarity, I&#x27;m not suggesting banning the export of ALL machines to outside the EU. I&#x27;m just saying they could force companies to <i>also</i> have at least one big fab inside the EU, for geopolitical purposes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO</title><url>https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/eu-chip-goal-totally-unrealistic-2024-01/</url></story> |
14,896,614 | 14,896,473 | 1 | 2 | 14,896,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kens</author><text>I looked at the paper and the data is kind of strange. Looking at figure 2, there are a bunch of cytokines that have a nice linear progression with increasing levels corresponding to increasing severity of disease. This seems like solid evidence that more cytokine = bad.<p>But if you compare with the controls, mild cases of ME&#x2F;CFS have <i>less</i> than the control, moderate cases have the same as controls, and severe cases have more. This kind of torpedoes any simple explanation of what&#x27;s going on. The authors discuss this in a kind of hand-wavy way that maybe ME&#x2F;CFS causes some down-regulation to start with and then the increasing trend is on top of that.<p>So, I&#x27;m not sure what to make of this. It seems useless as a test at this point: &quot;You have totally normal cytokine levels, indicating that you&#x27;re either healthy or have moderate ME&#x2F;CFS.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists Edge Closer To Lab Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/31/540565526/scientists-edge-closer-to-elusive-lab-test-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>propman</author><text>If someone comes to you with a whole lot of pain and loss of function, ignoring it and thinking it&#x27;s just in their head&#x2F;they just need to toughen up and get over it because nothing showed up in thier blood reports is something that is almost ubiquitous in the medical field today. I have a connective tissue disorder that was ignored for years because nothing showed up in my blood report and I looked healthy. There is a reason why people are dysfunctional and in pain and once I got a diagnosis from a very highly respected geneticist, every doctor believes you and then they start helping. Otherwise, many just brush you off or worse, perform a surgery and when you keep coming back due to little change in symptoms you get brushed off so you find another doctor, in their minds they successfully treated you and the same cycle continues until you find a doctor who listens and then the treatment essentially starts.<p>Glad to see CFS sufferers get some validation as they are ignored plenty of times, especially women sufferers.<p>Note: I would say 40% of my doctors (I&#x27;ve seen over 50) were not like this and about 20% were over the top amazing. Acccesible through phone or email anytime, personally call you after appointments and intermittently to check up, personally call other doctors to explain issues and follow up treatments, extra long appointments.<p>Basic message: if someone is in pain&#x2F;unhealthy there is a reason. Rarely it is psychological but that doesn&#x27;t mean they should not receive adequate treatment and that doesn&#x27;t mean you place them in that category unless you rule out plenty of other possibilities</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists Edge Closer To Lab Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/31/540565526/scientists-edge-closer-to-elusive-lab-test-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome</url></story> |
30,527,333 | 30,527,420 | 1 | 2 | 30,526,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arbuge</author><text>&gt; Should fighting continue into March, mechanized forces would have to deal with the infamous Rasputitsa, or thaw.”<p>That&#x27;s a key point. It does go to show that the Russians expected this to be a very short affair. I wonder if they have any real contingency plans for when that thaw sets in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>This is surprisingly detailed:<p>“ Weather: An invasion that begins in January or February would have the advantage of frozen ground to support the cross-country movement of a large mechanized force. It would also mean operating in conditions of freezing cold and limited visibility. January is usually the coldest and snowiest month of the year in Ukraine, averaging 8.5 hours of daylight during the month and increasing to 10 hours by February.8 This would put a premium on night fighting capabilities to keep an advance moving forward. Should fighting continue into March, mechanized forces would have to deal with the infamous Rasputitsa, or thaw.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia’s Possible Invasion of Ukraine</title><url>https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-possible-invasion-ukraine</url></story> | <instructions>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>Meanwhile social media has plenty of images of alleged Russian vehicles that have got stuck.<p>It&#x27;s not just ordinary squishy ground, the area between Belarus and Kyiv is the Pripyat marshes!</text><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>This is surprisingly detailed:<p>“ Weather: An invasion that begins in January or February would have the advantage of frozen ground to support the cross-country movement of a large mechanized force. It would also mean operating in conditions of freezing cold and limited visibility. January is usually the coldest and snowiest month of the year in Ukraine, averaging 8.5 hours of daylight during the month and increasing to 10 hours by February.8 This would put a premium on night fighting capabilities to keep an advance moving forward. Should fighting continue into March, mechanized forces would have to deal with the infamous Rasputitsa, or thaw.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia’s Possible Invasion of Ukraine</title><url>https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-possible-invasion-ukraine</url></story> |
30,578,659 | 30,575,688 | 1 | 2 | 30,575,527 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>A similar case of a forensic lab being a perjury factory was the Motherisk program in Ontario, which forged drug detection in hair samples to remove kids from custodial care. These systems are rotten.<p>In politics, you can see people who are corrupt like this getting rewarded with promotions for having taken one for the team. I see it in companies as well, where if you take on the risk from committing fraud, you can use it as leverage.
There are numerous cases where I see managers telling subordinates to fudge data of all kinds, and the ones who don&#x27;t lie get managed out, and the ones who do lie get promoted. The tactic is to get someone to do something compromising or illegal on your behalf, so you can take credit for the outcome, but the person bullied into lying holds the risk. The only people who ever get persecuted or prosecuted are the ones who threaten to give away the game. The dynamic is covered in the concept of a Moral Maze (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;1983&#x2F;09&#x2F;moral-mazes-bureaucracy-and-managerial-work" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;1983&#x2F;09&#x2F;moral-mazes-bureaucracy-and-manageri...</a>).<p>You can&#x27;t fix corruption and adulteration. The only way out is to fork a new organization and create a gate that prevents the corruption from taking root in the new org, and even then I&#x27;ve seen it creep back. The alternative is to make grisly examples, but nobody has the stomach for that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal (2017)</title><url>https://whistleblowersblog.org/government-whistleblowers/intelligence-community-whistleblowers/dr-whitehurst-and-the-fbi-lab-scandal/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>I remember the report absolutely demolishing the veracity of most forensic practices coming out, but has the field changed at all since then? Are hair samples and such still commonly used as evidence?<p>My cynical side worries it&#x27;s only gotten worse, as CSI made the job &quot;sexy&quot; attracting a pool of people that would not be overly concerned with the science part of forensics in the first place.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal (2017)</title><url>https://whistleblowersblog.org/government-whistleblowers/intelligence-community-whistleblowers/dr-whitehurst-and-the-fbi-lab-scandal/</url></story> |
20,964,278 | 20,964,040 | 1 | 2 | 20,962,780 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riazrizvi</author><text>The difference in the grandmaster situation is that their extreme focus on chess completely displaces their hunger, hunger which needs real estate in your attention to be effective, just like any other felt sensation. And this focus lasts for the majority of the tournament, months.
This is different to most people. When you have an immersive job you can get in the zone for many hours of the day, but you do stop working, and your hunger returns.<p>The closest thing I ever experienced to what they are describing was when I played the game Civilization for the first time in ‘93. I was so obsessed I played it for three days straight, night and day, before I took my first nap. The fluid drained from body, I looked like a skeleton with black holes for eyes. I also did not eat, I remember literally running to the store to get a single can of coke otherwise I just drank water from the bathroom faucet because it was next to my room. Within five days I had easily lost a couple of pounds of bodyfat.<p>Having played chess competitively throughout school, it’s no surprise chess Grandmasters have this total level of focus in tournaments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>I did tests for weight loss. I found that you don&#x27;t lose weight until you sleep. (stay up all night and weigh your self repeatedly, in the morning, no loss, but after you sleep and wake, your weight goes back to &quot;morning weight&quot;)<p>I found that if you don&#x27;t sleep well, you don&#x27;t lose as much. If you eat too late before going to bed, you don&#x27;t lose as much.<p>If you adjust your diet (however you want is my experience) to always be hungry for around an hour before every meal, you will lose weight. (no exercise at all)<p>What these guys are doing seems to be actual &quot;work&quot;, I don&#x27;t think stress alone makes you lose weight. With the anecdotal data I have observed over the years &quot;stress eating&quot; is more common that &quot;stress based weight loss&quot;.<p>Maybe the activity that causes the stress directly relates to it&#x27;s effect? And not all stress is equal in this way? (tournament stress vs paying the bills stress)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving</title><url>https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>specialp</author><text>It is more of the effect of not eating or drinking for ~8 hours. 1 pint of water weighs around 500g. Also the average human exhales 1kg of CO2 a day which about a quarter of that is carbon weight. You will lose weight if you do not drink or eat for 8 hours awake. &quot;Morning weight&quot; == fasted and somewhat dehydrated weight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>I did tests for weight loss. I found that you don&#x27;t lose weight until you sleep. (stay up all night and weigh your self repeatedly, in the morning, no loss, but after you sleep and wake, your weight goes back to &quot;morning weight&quot;)<p>I found that if you don&#x27;t sleep well, you don&#x27;t lose as much. If you eat too late before going to bed, you don&#x27;t lose as much.<p>If you adjust your diet (however you want is my experience) to always be hungry for around an hour before every meal, you will lose weight. (no exercise at all)<p>What these guys are doing seems to be actual &quot;work&quot;, I don&#x27;t think stress alone makes you lose weight. With the anecdotal data I have observed over the years &quot;stress eating&quot; is more common that &quot;stress based weight loss&quot;.<p>Maybe the activity that causes the stress directly relates to it&#x27;s effect? And not all stress is equal in this way? (tournament stress vs paying the bills stress)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving</title><url>https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess</url></story> |
37,728,719 | 37,728,759 | 1 | 2 | 37,728,016 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; Well that world would suck immensely, with horrible integration between hardware and software like exists right now outside of the Apple world.<p>Why? The hardware people at companies like NVIDIA or Apple already <i>have to</i> write detailed documentation for their stuff anyway so that the software people can do their side.<p>Assuming they do a good enough job at writing documentation and testing their hardware, it should not be a problem for Linux developers to write appropriate drivers. Hell there are a very few select people able to write high quality drivers even with zero documentation (see Asahi Linux).<p>The only ones in trouble would be the vendors of crap SoCs who ship extremely buggy hardware and make up for the lack of QA in software quirks instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>askonomm</author><text>Well that world would suck immensely, with horrible integration between hardware and software like exists right now outside of the Apple world. Case in point: can you copy text on your phone, and paste in your computer (and vice versa), seamlessly as if it were the same device, without any configuration, hacks or programs needed? Things like that are amazing and I&#x27;d never give up. And I&#x27;m sure most people wouldn&#x27;t want to give this up either just because Linux fanboys want to.</text></item><item><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>They don&#x27;t necessarily have to: there&#x27;s another, more comprehensive hammer they (or the US for that matter) could use: disallow vertical integration.<p>Force hardware vendors to <i>only</i> sell hardware. If any software that can be changed remotely or by the user is off limits. Even firmware. Conversely, software vendors can <i>only</i> sell (or freely distribute) software. For vendors from abroad, don&#x27;t go extra-territorial, just force them to chose: either they only sell hardware in the EU, or they only sell software. Intel and microsoft would have no problem. NVDIA might complain very loudly. Apple would likely have to split itself.<p>Now the complicated part is how to define a company. We don&#x27;t want a single company to just split itself into 2 legal entities that work so closely together they might as well be the same company.<p>Do that, and you&#x27;ll get much better than device drivers for <i>one</i> free OS. You&#x27;ll get the necessary specs required to make it work on <i>all</i> OSes. Even better, the user-facing hardware interface will start to matter, and there will be some selection pressure to drive the more complex ones, or the non-standard ones, out of the market. (Won&#x27;t be ideal, I can see a particular over-complex architecture win out, similar to x86, but at least there won&#x27;t be that many left, so writing a driver for most devices will actually be possible).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working drivers for Linux?</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/16wv53f/could_the_eu_force_hardware_manufacturers_to_make/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>delta_p_delta_x</author><text>&gt; Case in point: can you copy text on your phone, and paste in your computer (and vice versa), seamlessly as if it were the same device, without any configuration, hacks or programs needed?<p>I am guessing that AirDrop, Sidecar, etc have absolutely nothing to do with hardware-software integration, and have ≥ Layer 3 implementations. KDE Connect and Microsoft My Phone are competitors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>askonomm</author><text>Well that world would suck immensely, with horrible integration between hardware and software like exists right now outside of the Apple world. Case in point: can you copy text on your phone, and paste in your computer (and vice versa), seamlessly as if it were the same device, without any configuration, hacks or programs needed? Things like that are amazing and I&#x27;d never give up. And I&#x27;m sure most people wouldn&#x27;t want to give this up either just because Linux fanboys want to.</text></item><item><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>They don&#x27;t necessarily have to: there&#x27;s another, more comprehensive hammer they (or the US for that matter) could use: disallow vertical integration.<p>Force hardware vendors to <i>only</i> sell hardware. If any software that can be changed remotely or by the user is off limits. Even firmware. Conversely, software vendors can <i>only</i> sell (or freely distribute) software. For vendors from abroad, don&#x27;t go extra-territorial, just force them to chose: either they only sell hardware in the EU, or they only sell software. Intel and microsoft would have no problem. NVDIA might complain very loudly. Apple would likely have to split itself.<p>Now the complicated part is how to define a company. We don&#x27;t want a single company to just split itself into 2 legal entities that work so closely together they might as well be the same company.<p>Do that, and you&#x27;ll get much better than device drivers for <i>one</i> free OS. You&#x27;ll get the necessary specs required to make it work on <i>all</i> OSes. Even better, the user-facing hardware interface will start to matter, and there will be some selection pressure to drive the more complex ones, or the non-standard ones, out of the market. (Won&#x27;t be ideal, I can see a particular over-complex architecture win out, similar to x86, but at least there won&#x27;t be that many left, so writing a driver for most devices will actually be possible).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working drivers for Linux?</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/16wv53f/could_the_eu_force_hardware_manufacturers_to_make/</url></story> |
20,259,305 | 20,255,851 | 1 | 2 | 20,254,416 | 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>Retric</author><text>Desalination is expensive so you don’t want to scale it. But as a sanity check.<p>Assuming you’re talking 70L per day, the worst case using desalination is about 20$ per year. So, at that useage level water is not really a long term issue.<p>It’s a corruption and distribution issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>After spending my first summer in Chennai this time after a decade living in the states, I wanted to point out some things:<p>1. Water crisis is bad but a good fraction of people (most of the upper and middle class) are getting by through exploitation of ground water. My guess would be half of the city still has usable ground water accessible through bore wells including where I live. However these Wells going dry is a common occurence. Someone is digging a deeper well every day in my street alone (no exaggeration). Heck, my house with 4 tenants is already exhausting it&#x27;s 5th borewell. The day these Wells collectively stop giving water is when things are going to get very interesting.<p>2. The government here doesn&#x27;t really consider water as an utility it&#x27;s actually responsible for. All the articles you see are mostly talking about <i>drinking</i> water. The pipe system in the city is barely capable of only providing drinking water to most people even if most of the water sources are full. It is everyone&#x27;s assumption that if you need more than a few tens of liters per day per person for things like showers that&#x27;s completely on you, not the government. This is not going to change anytime soon. The entire plumbing system is riddled with leaks everywhere and no metering. People have also built systems to abuse this plumbing (by using motors) so unless we get a sudden abundance of water this system cannot provide the water the city needs.<p>3. Most importantly, if ground water runs out, the city really doesn&#x27;t have any alternative for water in any developed country sense. No usable River for hundreds of miles and every river that CAN provide water originates in a different state and none of them are prepared to share their resources.<p>4. Chennai the city alone has more people than most Scandinavian countries. The desalination plants are not going to provide more than a few tens of liters per head even if their capacity multiplies by ten.<p>5. While there&#x27;s always blame on people here for wasting water, I&#x27;d argue that it&#x27;s outrageous. Even the worst offenders don&#x27;t waste that much water compared to any Western standards. My household is definitely in the lower quartiles of how much water we use but I estimate we use at best 50-70 liters of water per head per day including everything. Even if I don&#x27;t want to think like this, I subconsciously think twice before using the toilet (maybe if I hold it for a while I can go one less time?). People here should not be blamed for abusing water, water should be a basic necessity for our lives.<p>6. Just three years back this city literally drowned in a flood that was far worse than what happened in Houston.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chennai, India's sixth biggest city, has a water crisis</title><url>https://earther.gizmodo.com/why-chennai-indias-sixth-biggest-city-has-run-out-of-1835736767</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anovikov</author><text>Of course i have absolutely no idea of the real situation, but why the Palar river isn&#x27;t usable? Of course water from there will require proper treatment&#x2F;cleaning, but still? Not trying to argue, ofc you know what you are talking about, just to get a piece of education.<p>Let me guess, there are bacteria in it&#x27;s water which are too hard to filter out&#x2F;kill?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>After spending my first summer in Chennai this time after a decade living in the states, I wanted to point out some things:<p>1. Water crisis is bad but a good fraction of people (most of the upper and middle class) are getting by through exploitation of ground water. My guess would be half of the city still has usable ground water accessible through bore wells including where I live. However these Wells going dry is a common occurence. Someone is digging a deeper well every day in my street alone (no exaggeration). Heck, my house with 4 tenants is already exhausting it&#x27;s 5th borewell. The day these Wells collectively stop giving water is when things are going to get very interesting.<p>2. The government here doesn&#x27;t really consider water as an utility it&#x27;s actually responsible for. All the articles you see are mostly talking about <i>drinking</i> water. The pipe system in the city is barely capable of only providing drinking water to most people even if most of the water sources are full. It is everyone&#x27;s assumption that if you need more than a few tens of liters per day per person for things like showers that&#x27;s completely on you, not the government. This is not going to change anytime soon. The entire plumbing system is riddled with leaks everywhere and no metering. People have also built systems to abuse this plumbing (by using motors) so unless we get a sudden abundance of water this system cannot provide the water the city needs.<p>3. Most importantly, if ground water runs out, the city really doesn&#x27;t have any alternative for water in any developed country sense. No usable River for hundreds of miles and every river that CAN provide water originates in a different state and none of them are prepared to share their resources.<p>4. Chennai the city alone has more people than most Scandinavian countries. The desalination plants are not going to provide more than a few tens of liters per head even if their capacity multiplies by ten.<p>5. While there&#x27;s always blame on people here for wasting water, I&#x27;d argue that it&#x27;s outrageous. Even the worst offenders don&#x27;t waste that much water compared to any Western standards. My household is definitely in the lower quartiles of how much water we use but I estimate we use at best 50-70 liters of water per head per day including everything. Even if I don&#x27;t want to think like this, I subconsciously think twice before using the toilet (maybe if I hold it for a while I can go one less time?). People here should not be blamed for abusing water, water should be a basic necessity for our lives.<p>6. Just three years back this city literally drowned in a flood that was far worse than what happened in Houston.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chennai, India's sixth biggest city, has a water crisis</title><url>https://earther.gizmodo.com/why-chennai-indias-sixth-biggest-city-has-run-out-of-1835736767</url></story> |
36,937,995 | 36,936,136 | 1 | 2 | 36,934,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>I&#x27;ve wanted a more accessible combat flight simulator. Something like DCS or Falcon BMS with realistic flight physics, but more arcade controls (the aircraft should handle realistically, but I shouldn&#x27;t have to spend 20 minutes starting the aircraft and pushing simulated buttons and switches in the cockpit, even though I have a great appreciation for that level of detail).<p>I don&#x27;t want my aircraft to have 99 missiles, and 9999 machine gun rounds. I want to have 2 bombs and 4 air-to-air missiles, and I want to fly a tense 15 minute mission into and out of enemy territory. Battle Royal games have shown players are willing to go 5 or 10 minutes between combat if the tension and possibility of surprise combat is there, and have perma-death, give me that in an air combat game.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator</title><url>https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/LinuxAirCombat.htm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wiseowise</author><text>&gt; New: LAC is now available in a special, precompiled, optimized version for Valve Corporation&#x27;s fabulous &quot;Steam Deck&quot; portable gaming PC. All of the controls are configured by default for best use, and it&#x27;s easy to fly in LAC&#x27;s online, multi-player, server-based missions without ever needing a keyboard. Even voice comms among players are supported!<p>Perfect.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator</title><url>https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/LinuxAirCombat.htm</url></story> |
13,423,177 | 13,422,463 | 1 | 2 | 13,422,251 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gilgoomesh</author><text>I think synaesthesia is the wrong interpretation of this phenomenon.<p>I hear flashes like that as a soft rush of blood around my eardrum. I&#x27;m pretty sure it&#x27;s just the &quot;acoustic reflex&quot; (the muscles in my middle ear tightening in case there&#x27;s a loud sound incoming). Obviously there isn&#x27;t a loud noise here but like an involuntary blink, my body doesn&#x27;t know that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acoustic_reflex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acoustic_reflex</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/17/listen-with-your-eyes-one-in-five-of-us-may-hear-flashes-of-light-synaesthesia</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>travisl12</author><text>I&#x27;m actually the opposite. In that I see flashes of light when I hear sounds (when my eyes are closed in a dark place). Happens all the time when I&#x27;m laying in bed before I fall asleep at night.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/17/listen-with-your-eyes-one-in-five-of-us-may-hear-flashes-of-light-synaesthesia</url></story> |
15,553,708 | 15,553,734 | 1 | 2 | 15,552,992 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>If you are of the view that ideas are worthless and execution is all that matters, then there is no innovation anymore. Facebook can out-execute pretty much any small startup if they really wanted to go into a space.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vladislav</author><text>If Facebook easily replicating that same feature is enough to significantly hurt the smaller competitor, was it really innovation in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-aggressive-moves-on-startups-threaten-innovation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>I suppose you could have said similar things about Microsoft in the mid-90s when they would vapor-launch a product to wipe out a threat or soften up a buyout.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vladislav</author><text>If Facebook easily replicating that same feature is enough to significantly hurt the smaller competitor, was it really innovation in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-aggressive-moves-on-startups-threaten-innovation/</url></story> |
13,925,851 | 13,925,953 | 1 | 2 | 13,925,213 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>systems</author><text>Nice to see FB investing so much in OCaml, hope it is not just a phase like how they did with D<p>And I sure hope Parallel OCaml gets done<p>I believe I saw a video for Yaron Minsky (jane street, real world ocaml), where he said that two areas where ocaml can improve is parallelism and having a nice GUI Library</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JSCaml: A compile-time transformation from JavaScript to OCaml</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/JSCaml</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rubiquity</author><text>Pretty sweet if I understand that this is a front-end for the OCaml compiler! This means you could run your typed JS on OCaml&#x27;s runtime instead of Node.js. Granted, the availability of npm packages will be small since most of them aren&#x27;t typed by Flow but in theory you could use OCaml libraries?<p>Or you could just write Reason I suppose. :) There&#x27;s a crazy permutation of ways to write code that can run in a browser or server run time these days!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JSCaml: A compile-time transformation from JavaScript to OCaml</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/JSCaml</url></story> |
21,369,273 | 21,367,774 | 1 | 2 | 21,367,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Mach 5 at 28km and mach 6 at 70km are not all that different. Mach slows down with altitude. And specific altitude numbers dont matter much if you are aiming for orbit. All that really matters is horizontal velocity. The first stages of both schemes are relatively slow. Both get the bulk of thier orbital velocity from thier second stages.<p>SpaceX takes a very non-aggressive approach with its first stages. When they detach they arent moving nealy as fast as other rocket first stages. That is done so they dont slam back into the lower atmosphere but it means relying upon second&#x2F;third stages to do the horizontal work. By the raw physics, it isnt the most energy efficient approach. It is a compromise to facilitate recovery.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trhway</author><text>&gt;After shutting the inlet cone off at Mach 5.14, and at an altitude of 28.5 km, the system continues as a closed-cycle high-performance rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen from on-board fuel tanks<p>the benchmark of today - SpaceX - separates the first stage at Mach6-8 at 65-80km height. Thus, the SpaceX second stage has less delta-v to add and don&#x27;t have to carry all that weight - the SABRE would naturally be bigger than the 2nd stage for the same payload. The economical space related case of HOTOL&#x2F;SABRE single-stage-to-orbit pretty much disappeared for a foreseeable future when SpaceX started to recover the 1st stage. That not to say about suborbital flights SF-Shanghai though. Or even &quot;just&quot; hypersonic as SABRE tech seems to successfully deal with one of the major&#x2F;key obstacles for it (and that is huge, i&#x27;m in no way trying to dismiss their work). And one can see how SABRE can be used in some cases as a convenient 1st stage, i.e. by being able to launch from any big airport instead of only specially designed spaceports (such a 1st stage would probably be better than that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pegasus_(rocket)#Carrier_aircraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pegasus_(rocket)#Carrier_aircr...</a>).</text></item><item><author>nickpinkston</author><text>In case anyone was confused by the article&#x27;s description, here&#x27;s the Wikipedia:<p>&quot;SABRE (Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine) is a concept under development by Reaction Engines Limited for a hypersonic precooled hybrid air-breathing rocket engine. The engine is being designed to achieve single-stage-to-orbit capability, propelling the proposed Skylon spaceplane to low Earth orbit. SABRE is an evolution of Alan Bond&#x27;s series of liquid air cycle engine (LACE) and LACE-like designs that started in the early&#x2F;mid-1980s for the HOTOL project.<p>The design comprises a single combined cycle rocket engine with two modes of operation. The air-breathing mode combines a turbo-compressor with a lightweight air precooler positioned just behind the inlet cone. At high speeds this precooler cools the hot, ram-compressed air, which would otherwise reach a temperature that the engine could not withstand, leading to a very high pressure ratio within the engine. The compressed air is subsequently fed into the rocket combustion chamber where it is ignited along with stored liquid hydrogen. The high pressure ratio allows the engine to provide high thrust at very high speeds and altitudes. The low temperature of the air permits light alloy construction to be employed and allow a very lightweight engine—essential for reaching orbit. In addition, unlike the LACE concept, SABRE&#x27;s precooler does not liquefy the air, letting it run more efficiently.<p>After shutting the inlet cone off at Mach 5.14, and at an altitude of 28.5 km, the system continues as a closed-cycle high-performance rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen from on-board fuel tanks, potentially allowing a hybrid spaceplane concept like Skylon to reach orbital velocity after leaving the atmosphere on a steep climb.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SABRE_(rocket_engine)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SABRE_(rocket_engine)</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/143810/skylons-sabre-engine-passes-a-big-test/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SECProto</author><text>Imagine putting SABRE on the first stage though - the engines would be heavier, but using air instead of carrying oxygen, for the full burn of the first stage. The payload mass fraction would be dramatically higher without carrying the oxidizer mass on board.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trhway</author><text>&gt;After shutting the inlet cone off at Mach 5.14, and at an altitude of 28.5 km, the system continues as a closed-cycle high-performance rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen from on-board fuel tanks<p>the benchmark of today - SpaceX - separates the first stage at Mach6-8 at 65-80km height. Thus, the SpaceX second stage has less delta-v to add and don&#x27;t have to carry all that weight - the SABRE would naturally be bigger than the 2nd stage for the same payload. The economical space related case of HOTOL&#x2F;SABRE single-stage-to-orbit pretty much disappeared for a foreseeable future when SpaceX started to recover the 1st stage. That not to say about suborbital flights SF-Shanghai though. Or even &quot;just&quot; hypersonic as SABRE tech seems to successfully deal with one of the major&#x2F;key obstacles for it (and that is huge, i&#x27;m in no way trying to dismiss their work). And one can see how SABRE can be used in some cases as a convenient 1st stage, i.e. by being able to launch from any big airport instead of only specially designed spaceports (such a 1st stage would probably be better than that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pegasus_(rocket)#Carrier_aircraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pegasus_(rocket)#Carrier_aircr...</a>).</text></item><item><author>nickpinkston</author><text>In case anyone was confused by the article&#x27;s description, here&#x27;s the Wikipedia:<p>&quot;SABRE (Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine) is a concept under development by Reaction Engines Limited for a hypersonic precooled hybrid air-breathing rocket engine. The engine is being designed to achieve single-stage-to-orbit capability, propelling the proposed Skylon spaceplane to low Earth orbit. SABRE is an evolution of Alan Bond&#x27;s series of liquid air cycle engine (LACE) and LACE-like designs that started in the early&#x2F;mid-1980s for the HOTOL project.<p>The design comprises a single combined cycle rocket engine with two modes of operation. The air-breathing mode combines a turbo-compressor with a lightweight air precooler positioned just behind the inlet cone. At high speeds this precooler cools the hot, ram-compressed air, which would otherwise reach a temperature that the engine could not withstand, leading to a very high pressure ratio within the engine. The compressed air is subsequently fed into the rocket combustion chamber where it is ignited along with stored liquid hydrogen. The high pressure ratio allows the engine to provide high thrust at very high speeds and altitudes. The low temperature of the air permits light alloy construction to be employed and allow a very lightweight engine—essential for reaching orbit. In addition, unlike the LACE concept, SABRE&#x27;s precooler does not liquefy the air, letting it run more efficiently.<p>After shutting the inlet cone off at Mach 5.14, and at an altitude of 28.5 km, the system continues as a closed-cycle high-performance rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen from on-board fuel tanks, potentially allowing a hybrid spaceplane concept like Skylon to reach orbital velocity after leaving the atmosphere on a steep climb.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SABRE_(rocket_engine)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SABRE_(rocket_engine)</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/143810/skylons-sabre-engine-passes-a-big-test/</url></story> |
27,997,363 | 27,997,708 | 1 | 2 | 27,997,167 | 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>munificent</author><text>Author here! It feels amazing to have this done and live. I&#x27;m happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you&#x27;re curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog post about taking the web book and bringing it to print and ebook here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journal.stuffwithstuff.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;29&#x2F;640-pages-in-15-months&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journal.stuffwithstuff.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;29&#x2F;640-pages-in-15...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crafting Interpreters is available in print</title><url>http://craftinginterpreters.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>nightowl_games</author><text>Bob Nystrom&#x27;s writing is easily the most enjoyable technical writing I&#x27;ve come across. He has the same precision and humour that Scott Meyers brings to C++, but then with even more humor and far more interesting subject matter. I found his blog on my phone in the middle of the night one night, and enjoyably read hours of it instead of sleeping.<p>Keep writing, Bob!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crafting Interpreters is available in print</title><url>http://craftinginterpreters.com/</url></story> |
639,761 | 639,773 | 1 | 3 | 639,647 | train | <instructions>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's probably worth pointing out: you have the same problems if you're using CFB, OFB, or CTR mode (these are the "stream cipher" modes for DES/AES/whatever that encrypt one byte at a time). There's apocrypha about these modes not being vulnerable to the attack. Bad apocrypha:<p>Set up an encryptor:<p><pre><code> irb&#62; e = OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher.new('aes-256-ofb')
=&#62; #&#60;OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher:0x647100&#62;
irb&#62; e.key = "\x11" * 32
irb&#62; e.iv = "\x00" * 16
</code></pre>
A decryptor:<p><pre><code> irb&#62; d = OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher.new('aes-256-ofb')
=&#62; #&#60;OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher:0x647120&#62;
irb&#62; d.decrypt
irb&#62; d.key = "\x11" * 32
irb&#62; d.iv = "\x00" * 16
</code></pre>
Encrypt something:<p><pre><code> irb&#62; ciphertext = (e &#60;&#60; "A * 40")
=&#62; "a\255N\211XEn\001\347$\275)\311%Ht\2356\254m\b\234z\375\311\006\335\305F\231~\201\243\236\3628w\267\3454"
</code></pre>
Make an XOR mask:<p><pre><code> irb&#62; mask = ("187 she wrote".to_bignum ^ ("A" * 13).to_bignum).to_rawstring
=&#62; "pyva2)$a63.5$"
</code></pre>
XOR it into the ciphertext:<p><pre><code> irb&#62; new_ciphertext = (ciphertext.to_bignum ^ mask.to_bignum).to_rawstring
</code></pre>
NOW decrypt it:<p><pre><code> irb&#62; d &#60;&#60; nct
=&#62; "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA187 she wrote"</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong</title><url>http://www.matasano.com/log/1749/typing-the-letters-a-e-s-into-your-code-youre-doing-it-wrong/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smanek</author><text>I didn't buy the GPG/TLS thing before. After reading this I do. I just realized how completely out of my depth I am for crypto stuff. At least now I know ...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong</title><url>http://www.matasano.com/log/1749/typing-the-letters-a-e-s-into-your-code-youre-doing-it-wrong/</url></story> |
9,223,016 | 9,222,982 | 1 | 3 | 9,220,468 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zelphyr</author><text>I second this. Its something we can all take a lesson from. Unfortunately I see too FAR many programmers who model their persona&#x27;s after Kanye West.<p>I had the great fortune of meeting Steve Bourne, inventor of &#x2F;bin&#x2F;sh. If ever there was a guy who could accept any and all accolades it would be him. Instead he was most gracious and humble and spent all his time showing interest in our work as well as answering our questions about the invention of the shell and Unix.<p>Speaking of; did you know he was the first alpha tester of Unix? When Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie were writing it they would hand the magnetic tapes over to Steve Bourne and have him test it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>archagon</author><text>It&#x27;s refreshing how humble Carmack always sounds in his Twitter feed. I&#x27;ve found that old school game programmers tend to be hardline and a bit belligerent about their code; Carmack, on the other hand, often tweets about going against his better instincts and exploring new technologies. Not a lot of sarcasm or negativity at all. If only more people had Twitter streams as pleasant and informative as his!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577877590070919168</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>I think this has been a theme with him the past couple of years. He&#x27;s gone into Haskell territory, and has recently been an extremely vocal proponent of immutable structures (coming from the man behind some pretttty fast programs, that&#x27;s a nice cold shower for a lot of people), and generally higher-level thinking.<p>I think this is a consequence of a lot of these languages getting a lot nicer tooling recently, as well as other FP ideas being pulled into newer languages.</text><parent_chain><item><author>archagon</author><text>It&#x27;s refreshing how humble Carmack always sounds in his Twitter feed. I&#x27;ve found that old school game programmers tend to be hardline and a bit belligerent about their code; Carmack, on the other hand, often tweets about going against his better instincts and exploring new technologies. Not a lot of sarcasm or negativity at all. If only more people had Twitter streams as pleasant and informative as his!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577877590070919168</url></story> |
20,180,088 | 20,178,841 | 1 | 2 | 20,178,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>disordinary</author><text>In Aotearoa-New Zealand we set traps for introduced species like stoats, rats, possums, etc. that kill our endangered wildlife that evolved without natural predators.<p>The Kea which are very smart mountain parrots will go and disarm the traps in order to eat the bait. They&#x27;re smart enough to have figured out how to do this, and are one of just a handful of animals that habitually use tools, but are unfortunately too smart for their own good because their handiwork means there&#x27;s more predators for them.<p>But, some people don&#x27;t give animals enough credit. Mammals and especially primates are very, very close to Humans genetically. Animals are often very smart.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)</title><url>https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120719-young-gorillas-juvenile-traps-snares-rwanda-science-fossey/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hirundo</author><text>&gt; &quot;If we could get more of them doing it, it would be great,&quot; he joked. Karisoke&#x27;s Vecellio, though, said actively instructing the apes would be against the center&#x27;s ethos. &quot;No we can&#x27;t teach them,&quot; she said. &quot;We try as much as we can to not interfere with the gorillas. We don&#x27;t want to affect their natural behavior.&quot;<p>I would think that the main danger is in habituating the gorillas to humans, teaching them that we&#x27;re safe when we&#x27;re not. It may be better if any human interaction with them is aversive but not damaging, like pepper spray.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)</title><url>https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120719-young-gorillas-juvenile-traps-snares-rwanda-science-fossey/</url></story> |
26,547,837 | 26,547,931 | 1 | 3 | 26,545,162 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>offtop5</author><text>That&#x27;s horrible to hear, I was only able to get my first apartment in California since I could offer a double deposit.<p>Chicago on the other hand has fantastic housing supply and so many rules on security deposits, most buildings just don&#x27;t do it. Access to housing permeates every aspect of a culture, people are significantly nicer when they can afford a place to live.<p>Has your friend been able to get out of California ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>Interestingly, if landlords were allowed to use larger security deposits, some would choose to do this instead of raising the monthly rent. My friend is looking to rent out an ADU, and the first idea was to have a sizable security deposit in order to filter applicants who fully intended on paying rent from those who would be more likely to use the eviction moratorium.<p>But apparently California tightened the rules around security deposits in 2020, which actually exacerbates this problem. Landlords used to be able to ask for up to two month’s rent as a security deposit, but now they can only ask for one month&#x27;s rent.<p>This leads to upward pressure on rents, as landlords adjust the only lever they have left. I wonder if applicants can&#x2F;do offer to prepay several month&#x27;s rent, to signal that they are serious long-term tenants who have the ability and interest in paying rent (even if they legally could avoid payment).</text></item><item><author>outside1234</author><text>It is a huge risk right now to take on someone that is poor as a renter because of the moratorium. It is completely unsurprising to me that landlords have priced this risk factor in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why?</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/22/rents-rich-are-plummeting-rents-poor-are-rising-why/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>silvestrov</author><text>wow, that&#x27;s not much in case the apartment is damaged.<p>Denmark allows for 3 months deposit plus 3 months rents upfront, so you have to be able to come up with 6 months rent total to get an apartment.<p>(market here is very hot, so rental apartments have no problem getting 6 months rent)<p>When you &quot;quit&quot; living in the apartment, you can use the 3 months prepaid rent, so you don&#x27;t have to pay rent the last 3 months.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>Interestingly, if landlords were allowed to use larger security deposits, some would choose to do this instead of raising the monthly rent. My friend is looking to rent out an ADU, and the first idea was to have a sizable security deposit in order to filter applicants who fully intended on paying rent from those who would be more likely to use the eviction moratorium.<p>But apparently California tightened the rules around security deposits in 2020, which actually exacerbates this problem. Landlords used to be able to ask for up to two month’s rent as a security deposit, but now they can only ask for one month&#x27;s rent.<p>This leads to upward pressure on rents, as landlords adjust the only lever they have left. I wonder if applicants can&#x2F;do offer to prepay several month&#x27;s rent, to signal that they are serious long-term tenants who have the ability and interest in paying rent (even if they legally could avoid payment).</text></item><item><author>outside1234</author><text>It is a huge risk right now to take on someone that is poor as a renter because of the moratorium. It is completely unsurprising to me that landlords have priced this risk factor in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why?</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/22/rents-rich-are-plummeting-rents-poor-are-rising-why/</url></story> |
25,946,953 | 25,944,264 | 1 | 3 | 25,942,632 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fareesh</author><text>I remember watching a very strange segment on American news about a man who owns a mattress and pillow company who was banned from Twitter because he continuously expressed his disbelief in the legitimacy of the election result of 2020, and was organizing various events along this theme.<p>From what I recall the 2016 election was frequently attributed to some vague accusation of hacking from Russia but the same standard was not applied at the time, nor is it applied today. The people espousing this view were eventually proven inconclusive in all the different inquiries into the matter, and they were far more influential than a man who sells pillows.<p>There seems to be a very disproportionate level of enforcement towards offenders on the social media platforms, and this seems to stem from the personal politics of the people working there.<p>If the employees at these companies had the opposite politics, I am quite sure the rhetoric around this issue would be framed in terms of authoritarianism. Are you not allowed to criticize your government anymore in the USA? I find that to be quite incredible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colllectorof</author><text><i>&quot;After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of ideas, in the last few years the view has shifted dramatically—now it seems that almost no one is happy.&quot;</i><p>10 or 15 years ago people looked at web 1.0, saw many good communities and valuable conversations and said &quot;we need to protect free speech&quot;.<p>Today people looks at Twitter&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;YouTube&#x2F;Reddit, see mismanaged cesspools and declare that we need centralized speech control.<p>This is understandable, but highly reactionary and irrational. Speech control is facilitated by big tech at their own discretion. Advocating for more of it means you&#x27;re advocating for giving more power to the companies who fucked up the system in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)</title><url>https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-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>jrumbut</author><text>I look at it this way: 10-15 years ago many of us were complaining the web was being turned into TV.<p>I think that was basically right, and now social media is rediscovering the other things that made TV work, which is that you can&#x27;t just continually show the most upsetting&#x2F;titillating media 24&#x2F;7.<p>And with the benefit of hindsight, I don&#x27;t believe Twitter&#x2F;Facebook have the obligation to be the venue where we exercise our freedom of speech. They tried and it turned out they were very bad at it.<p>It&#x27;s time to move on and use those services for keeping in touch with old classmates or whatever they are good at and develop platforms that are good for holding serious conversations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colllectorof</author><text><i>&quot;After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of ideas, in the last few years the view has shifted dramatically—now it seems that almost no one is happy.&quot;</i><p>10 or 15 years ago people looked at web 1.0, saw many good communities and valuable conversations and said &quot;we need to protect free speech&quot;.<p>Today people looks at Twitter&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;YouTube&#x2F;Reddit, see mismanaged cesspools and declare that we need centralized speech control.<p>This is understandable, but highly reactionary and irrational. Speech control is facilitated by big tech at their own discretion. Advocating for more of it means you&#x27;re advocating for giving more power to the companies who fucked up the system in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)</title><url>https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech</url></story> |
37,462,949 | 37,463,092 | 1 | 3 | 37,457,208 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JohnBooty</author><text><p><pre><code> Over the years I have realized that some comments are
needed and useful. These days I add comments when there
is something particularly tricky, either with the
implementation, or in the domain.
</code></pre>
Ah, yes. Another convert. There are dozens of us. Dozens!!<p>Nothing makes me feel crazier than trying to get fellow engineers to comment their code. Code alone can only tell you the &quot;what.&quot; If the &quot;why&quot; is not obvious, comment it.<p><pre><code> Unit testing private methods.
</code></pre>
I am always dismayed by engineers who vote a hard and unyielding &quot;no&quot; on this issue.<p>I guess ideally your private methods should not be tested directly. If you work at an ideal shop doing ideal things under ideal conditions, please let me know if you are hiring.<p>In all or most of these cases the tests for private code will hopefully be somewhat temporary; perhaps think of them as scaffolding used during construction or renovation.<p>- For example, perhaps you have a good reason to write the private methods first and you would like to make sure they are sound before proceeding.<p>- Perhaps you have a division of labor due to a time crunch and you are writing the private methods while somebody simultaneously writes the public methods.<p>- Perhaps you are encountering some thorny preexisting code with no test coverage and you would like to just make sure things work.<p>- Perhaps the public methods are undergoing a lot of flux and you would like to make sure the private methods do not suffer regressions during this flux<p>- Sometimes it&#x27;s just <i>easier</i> to test private methods directly rather than indirectly via a public interface. Maybe this is a code smell, but also maybe you don&#x27;t have time for a full refactor.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I have changed my mind about in software development</title><url>https://henrikwarne.com/2023/09/10/what-i-have-changed-my-mind-about-in-software-development/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewstuart</author><text>&gt;&gt; I used to think that the names of the classes, methods and variables should be enough to understand what the program does. No comments should be needed. Over the years I have realized that some comments are needed and useful.<p>Comments are needed where there is more to the code than just reading it. Where there is some external reason WHY. Where it is written in a specific way for non-obvious reasons. Where there are pitfalls and dangers in changing the code. Where this specific approach is the result of fixing some problem and if you change it then you might be reintroducing a problem.<p>There&#x27;s lots of reasons to comment your code, but mostly I think code should be the documentation.<p>The fewer comments the better, because then developers who come later will see comments and thing &quot;this must be important because there is a comment here&quot;. Too many comments dilutes the value of comments.<p>When it really matters I start my comment with a couple of lines like this:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; LISTEN UP!!!
&#x2F;&#x2F; LISTEN UP!!!
</code></pre>
I have to say, it seems strange that the author EVER thought that no comments should ever be needed - that seems like a strange and dogmatic conclusion to have come to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I have changed my mind about in software development</title><url>https://henrikwarne.com/2023/09/10/what-i-have-changed-my-mind-about-in-software-development/</url></story> |
38,439,107 | 38,438,086 | 1 | 3 | 38,436,419 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>&gt; <i>Do people usually have the SQL language so well memorized that they can pull it out of their head on command? I swear to god I&#x27;m not the only engineer who regularly goes to the cheat sheet.</i><p>I think the key insight for you here is that there are many jobs where the <i>only</i> technical skill used is SQL. You probably <i>should</i> know this stuff like the back of your hand for such roles. Old, slow moving, large companies have <i>many</i> people doing this sort of work.<p>Contrast with a generic &quot;developer&quot; at some startup who uses SQL as only one part of much larger and more complex applications.<p>As a &quot;developer&quot; you have to deal with so much obscure syntax in your life (actual programming languages, shells, dockerfiles, kubernetes yaml, helm, god knows how many 3rd party APIs, ci&#x2F;cd definitions, other rando DSLs...) that you won&#x27;t be able to keep everything in working memory.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text><i>&gt;I have an engineer write some very basic manual SQL data mapping code.</i><p>Do people usually have the SQL language so well memorized that they can pull it out of their head on command? I swear to god I&#x27;m not the only engineer who regularly goes to the cheat sheet.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>&gt; VMWare has A LOT of fat to trim<p>Oh, VMware is the 2nd shortest job in my career, primarily for that reason.<p>I don&#x27;t want to say much in a public forum, but my best lesson from working at VMware is how to sniff out an incompetent engineer early in a job interview: I just ask coding questions that a VMWare engineer would get wrong.<p>For example:<p>I have an engineer write some very basic manual SQL data mapping code. If the candidate really pushes back, or just can&#x27;t figure it out, I move on.<p>I ask a question where the engineer should use an enum instead of a string. If the engineer uses an enum, I move on.</text></item><item><author>alephnerd</author><text>Broadcom&#x27;s strategy is to remove sustaining engineering or deprecate product lines with limited uptake by F1000 customers.<p>Also, VMWare has A LOT of fat to trim. I&#x27;ve worked closely with teams and alumni of Broadcom&#x2F;Avago, VMWare, CA Technologies, and Symantec, and honestly, the cuts Broadcom does are pretty reasonable.</text></item><item><author>rilindo</author><text>As a public cloud engineer, it feels like this is a mistake to cut deeply right when cloud repatriation is starting to be a thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/broadcom-vmware-layoffs-employees-face-job-cuts-acquisition-2023-11</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SoftTalker</author><text>As with any language, developers who use SQL a lot do memorize it. Maybe not every bit of it but all the commonly used bits. I used to write SQL and PL&#x2F;SQL every day at work and I got to the point where I rarely needed to consult the manual.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text><i>&gt;I have an engineer write some very basic manual SQL data mapping code.</i><p>Do people usually have the SQL language so well memorized that they can pull it out of their head on command? I swear to god I&#x27;m not the only engineer who regularly goes to the cheat sheet.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>&gt; VMWare has A LOT of fat to trim<p>Oh, VMware is the 2nd shortest job in my career, primarily for that reason.<p>I don&#x27;t want to say much in a public forum, but my best lesson from working at VMware is how to sniff out an incompetent engineer early in a job interview: I just ask coding questions that a VMWare engineer would get wrong.<p>For example:<p>I have an engineer write some very basic manual SQL data mapping code. If the candidate really pushes back, or just can&#x27;t figure it out, I move on.<p>I ask a question where the engineer should use an enum instead of a string. If the engineer uses an enum, I move on.</text></item><item><author>alephnerd</author><text>Broadcom&#x27;s strategy is to remove sustaining engineering or deprecate product lines with limited uptake by F1000 customers.<p>Also, VMWare has A LOT of fat to trim. I&#x27;ve worked closely with teams and alumni of Broadcom&#x2F;Avago, VMWare, CA Technologies, and Symantec, and honestly, the cuts Broadcom does are pretty reasonable.</text></item><item><author>rilindo</author><text>As a public cloud engineer, it feels like this is a mistake to cut deeply right when cloud repatriation is starting to be a thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/broadcom-vmware-layoffs-employees-face-job-cuts-acquisition-2023-11</url></story> |
1,726,081 | 1,725,730 | 1 | 2 | 1,725,586 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rubypay</author><text>Just saw this post about our startup, I'll clarify some things since some people seem interested.<p>RubyPay was a points based payment system for digital content that anyone could use. Points were bought for cash, and redeemable for cash. It was released because we wanted to generate some feedback on the model.<p>RubyPay was closed so quickly because we realized some problems, and didn't want any live transactions going through our system that we'd later have to refund. Among some of the problems were:<p>1) allowing anyone to sell content without a screening process for them or the content<p>2) allowing consumers to redeem the points for cash, which brought a whole new set of laws into play<p>3) not anticipating all of the ways that fraud could propagate through the system<p>We're currently working on the service to address these and other issues. We've also discussed the business further with lawyers, became PCI-DSS compliant, and are in the process of forming industry partnerships. As always thanks for the feedback (there was another discussion thread on HN too), it helped us quickly pivot and iterate on our model, and probably saved us tons of time and headaches.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thanks for the feedback. I've closed the service</title><url>http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.829697.9</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtigas</author><text>Can you imagine how much worse this could have been if they’d never posted this and simply plowed ahead?<p><i>Knowing when you’re in over your head</i> is crucial and it looks like they caught it early enough since they opened up the feedback thread. Hopefully they’ll take this, regroup, and have a bit more ground to stand on in the next phase or project.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thanks for the feedback. I've closed the service</title><url>http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.829697.9</url></story> |
38,571,492 | 38,571,664 | 1 | 2 | 38,570,110 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hedora</author><text>In the US, unions had a good year, but 43% pay raises in union contracts were mostly unheard of, so that part of the population probably isn&#x27;t keeping up.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if wages in the parts of the global population that&#x27;s currently industrializing (parts of China and India) went up by way more than 43% though.<p>One thing I&#x27;ve realized in recent years (thanks to silicon valley stock options): It&#x27;s not that hard to get into a &gt;99% income bracket for a year or two. You basically just need to participate in an IPO-style windfall, and maybe split it over two tax years. However, staying in that bracket is much harder; you need to have a windfall every year (so, be a successful VC) or be an executive.<p>For that reason, I&#x27;d be interested to see income percentile statistics broken out over a 10 year period vs. annually. Some people summarize this effect with the acronym HENRY (High Earner, Not Rich Yet).</text><parent_chain><item><author>thinkingtoilet</author><text>Did the wealth of the poorest people rise proportionally as well? I would bet not. We are an era of extreme wealth inequality and it&#x27;s clearly horrible for society.</text></item><item><author>walexander</author><text>And QQQ rose 47% this year. This does not seem surprising at all. The entire market went up in 2023.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-worlds-richest-families/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewmutz</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about wealth, but in terms of wages the poorest people in the US saw faster inflation-adjusted wage growth than any other income bracket:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epi.org&#x2F;publication&#x2F;swa-wages-2022&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epi.org&#x2F;publication&#x2F;swa-wages-2022&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>thinkingtoilet</author><text>Did the wealth of the poorest people rise proportionally as well? I would bet not. We are an era of extreme wealth inequality and it&#x27;s clearly horrible for society.</text></item><item><author>walexander</author><text>And QQQ rose 47% this year. This does not seem surprising at all. The entire market went up in 2023.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-worlds-richest-families/</url></story> |
27,218,738 | 27,216,873 | 1 | 3 | 27,215,477 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shadycuz</author><text>So Ansible is a Configuration as Code tool (CaC). You know for configuring your servers and network things.<p>Terraform is a Infrastructure as Code tool (IaC). Great at deploying the underlying raw resources.<p>Just like you can take a screw driver and use it as a hammer, punch or pry bar. You could also deploy infra with Ansible or configure servers with Terraform. I have done it, seen others do it and try my best to avoid it. You really want the best tool for the job but sometimes you need the best tool for the person&#x2F;situation. A air powered hammer is a really nice tool to have but if you are in a place where they don&#x27;t have compressed air, then a regular hammer will do and if the locals don&#x27;t have hammers, then find a rock. So sometimes we do weird things with our tools, is it useful? Possibly to the person at the time.<p>I don&#x27;t think Ansible is trying to fit into IaC. I think CaC and IaC are just a set of tools that are trying to fit into DevOps&#x2F;SRE.<p>A really nice approach I have built for clients over the years when deploying non-containerized applications is to use Packer with Ansible to build a image of the server. Then use Terraform to deploy the infra. Then comeback with Ansible to do runtime stuff like Security tools, enroll into monitoring and also deploy the running application if not already baked into the image.<p>If you are containerized then just switch out packer for docker.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I know Ansible has a huge number of fans but I am genuinely curious about the future. That is, I&#x27;ve been trying to figure out where ansible fits in the bigger picture of the modern trend towards IaC. Is it in conflict with that because of its semi-imperative nature? Or is what it does an essential piece of how IaC needs to work to do declarative infrastructure management? I see that for example you can use ansible within terraform. Do people really do that and is it useful? Or is it something you would only do if you have a lot of legacy infrastructure already configured via Ansible.<p>Curious on the general take here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ansible 4.0</title><url>https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/c/AeF2En1RGI8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbmsf</author><text>When I set up a product deployment system, I want:<p>1. IaC for the network, database, container definitions, and other cloud things. I use terraform here.
2. CI&#x2F;CD for the application software, which ultimately builds a container image from version control, tags it in some well-know way, and tells the container scheduler to redeploy. I tend to use CircleCI, but any CI solution will do.
3. Configuration management for my container definitions, injecting environment variables for config&#x2F;secrets into the definition or runtime. I tend to use Ansible or Terraform here.<p>For me, the main criteria is whether the product has a large number of components with configuration that needs to reuse common structures. If I&#x27;m just deploying one or two components (e.g. your typical early-stage monolith), Terraform is fine. Bt if you have many users contributing to many components and want to provide higher-level tools, I vastly prefer using Ansible; you just have more control.<p>That is, I believe in Ansible as a tool for applying configuration from source control to some other system; I would no longer use it to provision cloud resources.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I know Ansible has a huge number of fans but I am genuinely curious about the future. That is, I&#x27;ve been trying to figure out where ansible fits in the bigger picture of the modern trend towards IaC. Is it in conflict with that because of its semi-imperative nature? Or is what it does an essential piece of how IaC needs to work to do declarative infrastructure management? I see that for example you can use ansible within terraform. Do people really do that and is it useful? Or is it something you would only do if you have a lot of legacy infrastructure already configured via Ansible.<p>Curious on the general take here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ansible 4.0</title><url>https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/c/AeF2En1RGI8</url></story> |
23,966,999 | 23,966,223 | 1 | 2 | 23,964,539 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmiller2</author><text>That&#x27;s quite a workload you&#x27;ve set for yourself. I honestly don&#x27;t know how my doctors do even the basic stuff I see them do, like seeing patients and charting. When you have to see 4+ patients in an hour (this is too many!), it would seem to me that charting would be one of the things that ends up going out the window.<p>I also find it interesting that you go so far as to repeat your licensing exams. Is this common among physicians as a whole? Having known a couple of med students personally, these exams were usually seen as a hurdle to be overcome and a source of stress, but, I suppose it might get easier after a few years of practice. On a related note, I find it hard to imagine that, say, lawyers would routinely re-sit the bar exam for funsies.<p>Regarding CME, isn&#x27;t that required to maintain licensure? Or, are you talking about courses above and beyond the minimum to keep your license?<p>And, BTW, I don&#x27;t know who you are, where you practice, or even what your specialty is, but you sound like the kind of person I&#x27;d like to have be my doctor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wittyreference</author><text>As a physician, I attend conferences, subscribe to online references, question banks, various journals, take ongoing CME, repeat licensing exams, and spend the equivalent of one workday a week reading those new materials, and try to spend a couple hours refreshing myself on materials outside of my specialty. This amounts to an extra un-reimbursed workday a week, and several thousand dollars a year.<p>When I worked in a place that offered CME&#x2F;conference reimbursement, it covered about 1-2K a year, depending on budgeting issues. In my current place, and for all independent or small practice physicians, that comes out of your own pocket.<p>This does not have any career benefit whatsoever; it’s done so as to be worthy of our patients’ trust.<p>I wouldn’t mind if it was at least partially reimbursed though. It’s an enormous chunk of change, and not for my benefit.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text><i>&gt;My own experience is that I need to devote about 20% of my time to keep up, if I&#x27;m doing it on an ongoing basis, or about 1-3 months every 2-5 years </i><p>And that&#x27;s the problem with software engineering vs other white collar careers. For example, my accountant friend is expected to be trained by their employer in the latest accounting practices and law frameworks and does&#x27;t devote 1-3 months per year of their personal time on open source accounting projects to learn the latest legal framework for fun, that would be crazy for him. Same for my friends in architecture, dentistry and law. Their employers pay them to learn and gather the expertise needed for their future in the firm.<p>Whereas, as a software engineer, very few companies(at least in Germany from my experience) will invest into their existing workforce to train them on the job for the future language&#x2F;framework they will plan to use and instead seek to let them go once their expertise is no longer valuable and hire someone already experienced in the needed stack then repeat the cycle several years&#x2F;decades down the road.<p>That&#x27;s why here you&#x27;re expected to transition to management as a career progression, as IC roles are not really valued at old age unless you&#x27;ve dedicated your free time to coding and I don&#x27;t know about you guys, but I&#x27;d prefer to spend my free time with my kids and exercising outdoors instead of coding to make myself employable in the latest stack.</text></item><item><author>woofie11</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked with two types of older engineers:<p>1) Ones who keep up their skills<p>2) Ones who don&#x27;t<p>The former are a treasure trove of knowledge and skills, and provide substantially more value than anyone junior ever could. Going through so many computing eras gives a higher-level way of thinking about abstraction, or understanding computer architectures. They&#x27;ve hand-tweaked assembly, C, Java, and when they&#x27;re now doing JavaScript or Python, they understand all the layers of metal underneath. They&#x27;ve gone through flow charts, structured, functional, object oriented, and all the variants there-of. They&#x27;ve written high-speed algorithms to draw lines with pixels, to ray trace, and are now coding GPGPUs.<p>The latter are liabilities, bringing in 1980-era best-practices. They&#x27;re working on some legacy BASIC or COBAL system from the seventies, and surprised they can&#x27;t find a new job when that&#x27;s upgraded and they&#x27;re downsized.<p>I&#x27;ve rarely seen #1 and #2 mix. They&#x27;re very different crowds, and in very different types of companies.<p>My own experience is that I need to devote about 20% of my time to keep up, if I&#x27;m doing it on an ongoing basis, or about 1-3 months every 2-5 years if I do occasional deep dives. Basically, I dive headlong into whatever is the newest, trendiest stack, and get a product out using that, deeply learning all the deep things behind it too. That&#x27;s what works for me. YMMV.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05847</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vageli</author><text>&gt; This does not have any career benefit whatsoever; it’s done so as to be worthy of our patients’ trust.<p>Keeping abreast of changes in the field and state of the art offer no benefits and is done solely for patients&#x27; trust?</text><parent_chain><item><author>wittyreference</author><text>As a physician, I attend conferences, subscribe to online references, question banks, various journals, take ongoing CME, repeat licensing exams, and spend the equivalent of one workday a week reading those new materials, and try to spend a couple hours refreshing myself on materials outside of my specialty. This amounts to an extra un-reimbursed workday a week, and several thousand dollars a year.<p>When I worked in a place that offered CME&#x2F;conference reimbursement, it covered about 1-2K a year, depending on budgeting issues. In my current place, and for all independent or small practice physicians, that comes out of your own pocket.<p>This does not have any career benefit whatsoever; it’s done so as to be worthy of our patients’ trust.<p>I wouldn’t mind if it was at least partially reimbursed though. It’s an enormous chunk of change, and not for my benefit.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text><i>&gt;My own experience is that I need to devote about 20% of my time to keep up, if I&#x27;m doing it on an ongoing basis, or about 1-3 months every 2-5 years </i><p>And that&#x27;s the problem with software engineering vs other white collar careers. For example, my accountant friend is expected to be trained by their employer in the latest accounting practices and law frameworks and does&#x27;t devote 1-3 months per year of their personal time on open source accounting projects to learn the latest legal framework for fun, that would be crazy for him. Same for my friends in architecture, dentistry and law. Their employers pay them to learn and gather the expertise needed for their future in the firm.<p>Whereas, as a software engineer, very few companies(at least in Germany from my experience) will invest into their existing workforce to train them on the job for the future language&#x2F;framework they will plan to use and instead seek to let them go once their expertise is no longer valuable and hire someone already experienced in the needed stack then repeat the cycle several years&#x2F;decades down the road.<p>That&#x27;s why here you&#x27;re expected to transition to management as a career progression, as IC roles are not really valued at old age unless you&#x27;ve dedicated your free time to coding and I don&#x27;t know about you guys, but I&#x27;d prefer to spend my free time with my kids and exercising outdoors instead of coding to make myself employable in the latest stack.</text></item><item><author>woofie11</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked with two types of older engineers:<p>1) Ones who keep up their skills<p>2) Ones who don&#x27;t<p>The former are a treasure trove of knowledge and skills, and provide substantially more value than anyone junior ever could. Going through so many computing eras gives a higher-level way of thinking about abstraction, or understanding computer architectures. They&#x27;ve hand-tweaked assembly, C, Java, and when they&#x27;re now doing JavaScript or Python, they understand all the layers of metal underneath. They&#x27;ve gone through flow charts, structured, functional, object oriented, and all the variants there-of. They&#x27;ve written high-speed algorithms to draw lines with pixels, to ray trace, and are now coding GPGPUs.<p>The latter are liabilities, bringing in 1980-era best-practices. They&#x27;re working on some legacy BASIC or COBAL system from the seventies, and surprised they can&#x27;t find a new job when that&#x27;s upgraded and they&#x27;re downsized.<p>I&#x27;ve rarely seen #1 and #2 mix. They&#x27;re very different crowds, and in very different types of companies.<p>My own experience is that I need to devote about 20% of my time to keep up, if I&#x27;m doing it on an ongoing basis, or about 1-3 months every 2-5 years if I do occasional deep dives. Basically, I dive headlong into whatever is the newest, trendiest stack, and get a product out using that, deeply learning all the deep things behind it too. That&#x27;s what works for me. YMMV.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05847</url></story> |
28,205,375 | 28,202,057 | 1 | 2 | 28,200,913 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>You know. I&#x27;ve never been interested in these e-ink notebooks where you can write on a digital screen that acts like paper. I&#x27;ve always felt that actual pen and paper were superior.<p>However, if you add some good spaced repetition software to one of these e-notebooks then I think you will have finally surpassed pen and paper for note taking.<p>I&#x27;m thinking of something like, you take a note on a page and then save it. A week later the page of notes you wrote is presented to you again and you can draw boxes around parts of the page and blur &#x2F; hide bits of text, etc; these then become your spaced repetition items. I&#x27;ve heard of studies showing that hand written notes are superior for memory, this is the best of both worlds, hand written and then automatic spaced repetition.<p>And how much easier is it to surrender your life to a spaced repetition algorithm when it is it&#x27;s own dedicated device? The idea of being able to memorize math, and other visual information, in addition to the usual written content (which is, again, better remembered if hand written) is so promising I&#x27;d happily pay hundreds of dollars for such a device.<p>I know there are some fairly hackable e-ink tables out there, has anyone done this?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)</title><url>https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djoldman</author><text>Free app based on the same idea:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.ankiweb.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.ankiweb.net&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ankitects&#x2F;anki-manual&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ankitects&#x2F;anki-manual&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)</title><url>https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/</url></story> |
2,470,006 | 2,469,999 | 1 | 2 | 2,469,838 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>guynamedloren</author><text>Indeed they are. Right before the issues began, I pushed a bad update to one of my Heroku apps, causing it to crash. A minute later I fixed the bug, re-pushed the git repo to Heroku... and nothing. I've been stuck with an error message on my website for hours. Unfortunate timing!</text><parent_chain><item><author>yuvadam</author><text>Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter.<p>EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1.<p>Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Web Services are down</title><url>http://status.aws.amazon.com/?a</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samratjp</author><text><a href="http://status.heroku.com/" rel="nofollow">http://status.heroku.com/</a> for those on Heroku</text><parent_chain><item><author>yuvadam</author><text>Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter.<p>EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1.<p>Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Web Services are down</title><url>http://status.aws.amazon.com/?a</url></story> |
24,934,263 | 24,934,240 | 1 | 2 | 24,933,583 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>&gt; shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals<p>Indeed there&#x27;s a huge glaring problem here: many of these malls have branded entrances (Shoppers Drug Mart, Best Buy, etc) through which a large portion of consumers walk into the mall, and these alleged decals are not present in those entrances. Here&#x27;s an example [1]. Frankly I don&#x27;t see said decals even in the non-branded entrances[2]<p>They&#x27;re going to have a very hard time convincing the commissioner that people were in fact aware of these decals AND any &quot;privay policy&quot; therein. A simple survey would easily show that people are completely clueless about it (anecdote: I used to frequent CF malls quite a bit when I was in Toronto and never saw anything of the sort, even despite being the type of person that might actually read random stuff posted at entrances).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@43.7788812,-79.3447734,3a,75y,148.54h,94.37t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5B1G-auvoo88FoFpyBxnBQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@43.7788812,-79.3447734,3a,75y,1...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@43.7789409,-79.3444783,3a,75y,186.41h,89.72t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjhm0Trt4WroYDcqQTdJgDw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@43.7789409,-79.3444783,3a,75y,1...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>strawberrypuree</author><text>&gt;The company also argued shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals it had placed on shopping mall entry doors that referred to Cadillac Fairview&#x27;s privacy policy.<p>Do <i>what</i> now? Physical spaces have privacy policies? We&#x27;re really sleepwalking into a dystopia. If you don&#x27;t like the privacy policy of your shopping mall, you&#x27;re free to shop... online, where they get even more behavioral data on you. Yikes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cadillac-fairview-5-million-images-1.5781735?cmp=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>vel0city</author><text>In Canada, do you even really have a right to privacy when in public spaces like a shopping mall? Is there even a legal expectation that there <i>aren&#x27;t</i> cameras doing this kind of thing all the time? In most places in the US I know there isn&#x27;t a right to privacy within a public space. If I as a shop owner put up security cameras in this same fashion in most of the US this wouldn&#x27;t be against the law. There&#x27;s no law preventing me from putting up cameras all along my home looking out into the street doing the same.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strawberrypuree</author><text>&gt;The company also argued shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals it had placed on shopping mall entry doors that referred to Cadillac Fairview&#x27;s privacy policy.<p>Do <i>what</i> now? Physical spaces have privacy policies? We&#x27;re really sleepwalking into a dystopia. If you don&#x27;t like the privacy policy of your shopping mall, you&#x27;re free to shop... online, where they get even more behavioral data on you. Yikes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cadillac-fairview-5-million-images-1.5781735?cmp=rss</url></story> |
18,615,867 | 18,615,831 | 1 | 2 | 18,614,923 | 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>Cookingboy</author><text>I was there when that happened. The whole rebranding&#x2F;transition of GTalk&#x2F;GChat was the result of some political muscle flex by Social and its army of PMs, then after Social lost its favorite child status Allo was born as a result, championed by another army of PMs, and I wonder if Duo had a similar story of birth.<p>&gt;Google could have been a major player in messaging if they had just stuck with GChat&#x2F;Google talk from the early Gmail days and kept investing in it.<p>That&#x27;s just not what Google was back then. It was all about PMs&#x2F;designers wanting to jump onto the shinest and newest projects and lots of politics were involved to win support&#x2F;attention&#x2F;resources from the top management.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jordanthoms</author><text>This is just an utter mess. Google keeps ignoring and trying to kill Hangouts (which should still be called GChat, that was an incredibly stupid rebrand), and building new products instead of investing in the one which actually has some potential.<p>Google could have been a major player in messaging if they had just stuck with GChat&#x2F;Google talk from the early Gmail days and kept investing in it. It was great on the early versions of Android! The failure here is entirely self imposed and a major indictment of their senior management team.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smt88</author><text>Want to know an even more stupid rebrand?<p>A totally new, half-baked <i>business</i> product called Hangouts Chat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jordanthoms</author><text>This is just an utter mess. Google keeps ignoring and trying to kill Hangouts (which should still be called GChat, that was an incredibly stupid rebrand), and building new products instead of investing in the one which actually has some potential.<p>Google could have been a major player in messaging if they had just stuck with GChat&#x2F;Google talk from the early Gmail days and kept investing in it. It was great on the early versions of Android! The failure here is entirely self imposed and a major indictment of their senior management team.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/</url></story> |
8,292,115 | 8,292,187 | 1 | 2 | 8,292,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>I&#x27;m building a dense network of atmosphere sensors using smartphones in order to build a more accurate weather model [1]. Android&#x27;s APIs allow us to access the raw data, but all of Apple&#x27;s marketing talks just about &quot;elevation&quot;. I&#x27;m hoping they give us access to the raw sensor, and not just elevation change.<p>Humanity ought to have a much better weather forecast than we have now, as we&#x27;re nearing 1B+ internet-connected barometers. Hopefully Apple&#x27;s sensors can add to this network!<p>[1]: <a href="http://pressurenet.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pressurenet.io</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dominotw</author><text>How is that going to be useful?</text></item><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>Biggest news for me: barometer!<p>Biggest question: Can we access it to read raw atmospheric pressure? There seems to be no documented API.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 6</title><url>https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Fuzzwah</author><text>I&#x27;m in a very small niche of users, but I&#x27;m a skydiver and have an app on my GS3 which tracks freefall speed:<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.platypii.baseline&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.platypii.b...</a><p>Having a barometer was a key feature I looked for in a phone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dominotw</author><text>How is that going to be useful?</text></item><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>Biggest news for me: barometer!<p>Biggest question: Can we access it to read raw atmospheric pressure? There seems to be no documented API.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 6</title><url>https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/</url></story> |
18,524,569 | 18,523,907 | 1 | 2 | 18,523,737 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bitewhite</author><text>This reminds me of a rap I wrote a while ago! I hadn&#x27;t shared it before but here it goes. It&#x27;s based on Eminem&#x27;s &#x27;Lose Yourself&#x27;:<p><pre><code> Yo</code></pre>
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy<p>There&#x27;s build errors already, his code is spaghetti<p>He&#x27;s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready<p>To start debugging, but he keeps forgettin&#x27;<p>The code he wrote down, has no comments at all<p>He starts to type, but more build errors are comin&#x27; out now<p>He&#x27;s choking, how, tabs and spaces are mixing now<p>The breakpoint runs out, null exception, blaow!<p>404, oh there goes code quality!<p>Oh, there goes overflow, he choked<p>He&#x27;s so mad, but won&#x27;t give up that easy? No<p>He won&#x27;t have it, he knows this whole repo&#x27;s a joke<p>It don&#x27;t matter,<p>All that&#x27;s left is to type in disgrace,<p>&#x27;git rebase&#x27;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming</title><text>Song URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac</a><p>Quick background on the project: I&#x27;m a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession&#x2F;industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.<p>Here is what I&#x27;m planning on for next steps. I&#x27;m always open to feedback!<p>1. Get something for Patrons (ordered stickers, will probably order mugs as well)<p>2. Paid ad on a popular Twitter account(s)<p>3. Rent a GoPro and shoot a music video for one of the existing songs (if you have any tips on recording, please let me know - I have done some music video editing but don&#x27;t know much about video cameras)</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>__s</author><text>So I&#x27;ll start the HN let&#x27;s-ignore-the-headline-and-discuss-the-topic-thread<p>For some reason my boss was mentioning that we should do pair programming (they don&#x27;t program). There&#x27;s only a handful of devs. Nothing really happening. Personally I prefer asynchronous interaction, so I&#x27;ve been pushing for code review. But two of my coworkers started pair programming &amp; both seemed to think it helped work through their issues. I&#x27;ve personally fallen into what might be called &quot;pair programming&quot; when pairing with a coworker who doesn&#x27;t know how to program but knows all the business logic for a task<p>How are people pair programming? Does it work better when it happens organically? Does it change how much time you spend printf debugging?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming</title><text>Song URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac</a><p>Quick background on the project: I&#x27;m a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession&#x2F;industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.<p>Here is what I&#x27;m planning on for next steps. I&#x27;m always open to feedback!<p>1. Get something for Patrons (ordered stickers, will probably order mugs as well)<p>2. Paid ad on a popular Twitter account(s)<p>3. Rent a GoPro and shoot a music video for one of the existing songs (if you have any tips on recording, please let me know - I have done some music video editing but don&#x27;t know much about video cameras)</text></story> |
32,296,221 | 32,295,991 | 1 | 3 | 32,295,674 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>It&#x27;s not even side projects!<p>The Google i18n font repo (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;googlei18n" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;googlei18n</a>) went private all of a sudden in the last few weeks and it broke my Yocto build (and hey boot2Qt team, if you&#x27;re listening, you&#x27;re broken too).<p>I&#x27;ve been steadfast in not adopting <i>any</i> of the Google toy side-projects (e.g. Brillo, Weave, Things, etc etc) but now I&#x27;m expanding that rule to anything and everything from them at all, including AOSP. It&#x27;s all quicksand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>From that thread, a viable replacement that managed to survive the Google onslaught:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;</a><p>Also from that thread, a Google engineer saying (out of context:) &quot;We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can&#x27;t do that, we&#x27;re letting you down.&quot;<p>How long before Google realizes that these casual shut-downs of side projects are harming their image tremendously?</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Since this post is recording its death, here&#x27;s the HN post that recorded its birth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564</a><p>Edit: Another blog post from someone that noticed it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Timer is gone</title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnebgd</author><text>When they have lost revenue enough quarters in a row that they have to shuffle and start doing business differently.<p>Until something big changes they reap record profits off our data and people continue to be the product while their customers continue to be the advertisers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>From that thread, a viable replacement that managed to survive the Google onslaught:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;</a><p>Also from that thread, a Google engineer saying (out of context:) &quot;We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can&#x27;t do that, we&#x27;re letting you down.&quot;<p>How long before Google realizes that these casual shut-downs of side projects are harming their image tremendously?</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Since this post is recording its death, here&#x27;s the HN post that recorded its birth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6429564</a><p>Edit: Another blog post from someone that noticed it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-timer.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Timer is gone</title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer</url></story> |
36,496,517 | 36,495,868 | 1 | 3 | 36,469,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>perlgeek</author><text>I think it hasn&#x27;t really been settled if pushing or pulling metrics is the anti-pattern, it seems to change every 5 to 10 years which one is currently hot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KaiserPro</author><text>The Way(tm) that I was taught&#x2F;experienced is as follows:<p>o Logs are there for ignoring. You need them precisely twice: once when you are developing, and once when the thing&#x27;s gone to shit, but they are never verbose enough when you need them.<p>o Using logs to derive metrics is an expensive fools errand pushed by splunk and the cloud equivalents(ie cloudwatch and the like). Its slow, inaccurate and horrendously expensive.<p>o using logs for monitoring is a fools errand. Its always too slow, and really really fucking brittle.<p>o metrics are king.<p>o pull model metrics is an antipattern<p>o Graphite + grafana is still actually quite good, although time resolution isn&#x27;t there.<p>o You need to raid your metrics stores<p>o We had a bunch of metrics servers in a raid 1, which were then in a raid 0 for performance, all behind loadbalancers and DNS Cnames with a really low TTL.<p>o Cloudwatch metrics are utterly shite<p>o Cloudwatch is actually entirely shit.<p>o tracing is great, and brilliant for performance monitoring.<p>o Xray from AWS is good, but only really for lambdas.<p>o tracing is fragile and doesn&#x27;t really plug and play end to end, unless you have the engineering discipline to enforce &quot;the one true&quot; tracing system <i>everywhere</i><p><i>but what do you monitor?</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;widgetsandshit.com&#x2F;teddziuba&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;monitoring-theory.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;widgetsandshit.com&#x2F;teddziuba&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;monitoring-theor...</a> this still is canonical.<p>In short, everything should have a minimum set of graphs, CPU, Memory, connections, upstream service response times hits per second and query time, at a minimum.<p>You can then aggregate those metrics into a &quot;service health&quot; gauge, where you set a minimum level of service (ie no response time greater than 600ms, and no 5xx&#x2F;4xx errors or similar) red == the service isn&#x27;t performing within spec, yellow == its close to being outside spec, green == its inside spec.<p>if you are running a monolith, then each subsection needs to have a &quot;gauge&quot;. for microservice people, every microservice. You can aggregate all those gauges into &quot;business services&quot; to make a dashboard that even CEOs can understand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Monitoring Is a Pain</title><url>https://matduggan.com/were-all-doing-metrics-wrong/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pnt12</author><text>I don&#x27;t know a lot about monitoring, why do you say pulling is an anti pattern?<p>My understanding is that with the push pattern you submit a metric when it&#x27;s available, with the pull pattern you make them available via an interface.<p>I&#x27;ve read the first is not as performant, as it leads to submitting lots of metrics. Although I can think of an alternative, which is storing them and pushing batches periodically?</text><parent_chain><item><author>KaiserPro</author><text>The Way(tm) that I was taught&#x2F;experienced is as follows:<p>o Logs are there for ignoring. You need them precisely twice: once when you are developing, and once when the thing&#x27;s gone to shit, but they are never verbose enough when you need them.<p>o Using logs to derive metrics is an expensive fools errand pushed by splunk and the cloud equivalents(ie cloudwatch and the like). Its slow, inaccurate and horrendously expensive.<p>o using logs for monitoring is a fools errand. Its always too slow, and really really fucking brittle.<p>o metrics are king.<p>o pull model metrics is an antipattern<p>o Graphite + grafana is still actually quite good, although time resolution isn&#x27;t there.<p>o You need to raid your metrics stores<p>o We had a bunch of metrics servers in a raid 1, which were then in a raid 0 for performance, all behind loadbalancers and DNS Cnames with a really low TTL.<p>o Cloudwatch metrics are utterly shite<p>o Cloudwatch is actually entirely shit.<p>o tracing is great, and brilliant for performance monitoring.<p>o Xray from AWS is good, but only really for lambdas.<p>o tracing is fragile and doesn&#x27;t really plug and play end to end, unless you have the engineering discipline to enforce &quot;the one true&quot; tracing system <i>everywhere</i><p><i>but what do you monitor?</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;widgetsandshit.com&#x2F;teddziuba&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;monitoring-theory.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;widgetsandshit.com&#x2F;teddziuba&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;monitoring-theor...</a> this still is canonical.<p>In short, everything should have a minimum set of graphs, CPU, Memory, connections, upstream service response times hits per second and query time, at a minimum.<p>You can then aggregate those metrics into a &quot;service health&quot; gauge, where you set a minimum level of service (ie no response time greater than 600ms, and no 5xx&#x2F;4xx errors or similar) red == the service isn&#x27;t performing within spec, yellow == its close to being outside spec, green == its inside spec.<p>if you are running a monolith, then each subsection needs to have a &quot;gauge&quot;. for microservice people, every microservice. You can aggregate all those gauges into &quot;business services&quot; to make a dashboard that even CEOs can understand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Monitoring Is a Pain</title><url>https://matduggan.com/were-all-doing-metrics-wrong/</url></story> |
17,846,442 | 17,846,245 | 1 | 2 | 17,845,963 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtmt</author><text>&gt; But the United States doesn&#x27;t offer any type of universal ID, which means private institutions and even the federal government itself have had to improvise.<p>Oh, please! No! No! No! India bulldozed a national identification number (called Aadhaar) on its residents and it has made more people vulnerable to many kinds of attacks, including phone number hijacking, draining people’s bank accounts, etc. To say that it’s been an unmitigated disaster would be an understatement. As with things related to government, the governing organization for Aadhaar, called UIDAI, always claims that it’s completely secure, while ignoring the fact that linking one number to everything in one’s life increases the attack surface and the severity of the threats.<p>So please research on the number of ways Aadhaar has failed, and is making some feeble attempts to recover, before getting into a “let’s create a new static number to identify people with instead of a phone number or SSN”. That’d just be changing the narrative without achieving anything.<p>Bottom line, it’s not the phone number that’s the problem, but having a unique and non-changing number and linking it to everything else (including one’s phone numbers).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/phone-numbers-indentification-authentication/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simmons</author><text>Bootstrapping identity is a very hard problem, and implementors can&#x27;t resist the easy path of piggy-backing on someone else&#x27;s identity or authentication system -- social security numbers, email addresses, telephone numbers, etc.<p>AT&amp;T is being sued by someone who lost $24M in cryptocurrency because someone decided to piggy-back authentication on AT&amp;T. While AT&amp;T should certainly be called out for having sloppy security, I can&#x27;t help but feel that they never really signed up for the job of protecting such a valuable asset. It&#x27;s like trying to protect Fort Knox with a consumer-grade padlock, then going after the padlock manufacturer when someone cuts it open.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/phone-numbers-indentification-authentication/</url></story> |
2,568,542 | 2,568,172 | 1 | 2 | 2,567,487 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BasilAwad</author><text>Man, that's great. I'm guessing the big clients would be news organizations. I would aggressive argue that this should be on their homepage as their updated news feed and then have the timeline move by the hour.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexkearns</author><text>I launched TikiToki Timeline Software (<a href="http://www.tiki-toki.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tiki-toki.com</a>) in March. It is currently making about $250 a month from subscribers. This month I have also sold a $1500 single timeline license. Hopefully more of them in the future!<p>I am currently operating TikiToki as a side project from my main business as a freelance web developer. Aim to go full time with TikiToki at start of July.<p>This will be a bit of a gamble, given that what I earn from subscribers via TikiToki for a full month is less than what I would earn in half a day as a freelance developer!<p>We do it for love as much as the money!<p>Edit:
If we want to go into detail, I should also add that I also earn about $80 a month from Adsense for a blog my wife and I run (<a href="http://www.casualgirlgamer.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.casualgirlgamer.com</a>) and about $25 a month via Big Fish's affiliates scheme. Peanuts really but it all adds up...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?</title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>designsourced</author><text>Beautiful timeline software is right. Great stuff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexkearns</author><text>I launched TikiToki Timeline Software (<a href="http://www.tiki-toki.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tiki-toki.com</a>) in March. It is currently making about $250 a month from subscribers. This month I have also sold a $1500 single timeline license. Hopefully more of them in the future!<p>I am currently operating TikiToki as a side project from my main business as a freelance web developer. Aim to go full time with TikiToki at start of July.<p>This will be a bit of a gamble, given that what I earn from subscribers via TikiToki for a full month is less than what I would earn in half a day as a freelance developer!<p>We do it for love as much as the money!<p>Edit:
If we want to go into detail, I should also add that I also earn about $80 a month from Adsense for a blog my wife and I run (<a href="http://www.casualgirlgamer.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.casualgirlgamer.com</a>) and about $25 a month via Big Fish's affiliates scheme. Peanuts really but it all adds up...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?</title></story> |
24,495,433 | 24,495,476 | 1 | 3 | 24,494,505 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>galadran</author><text>The associated paper [1] summarises the information revealed by Signal succinctly:<p><i>The Signal messenger is primarily focused on user privacy, and thus exposes almost no information about users through the contact discovery service. The only information available about registered users is their ability to receive voice and video calls. It is also possible to retrieve the encrypted profile picture of registered users through a separate API call,if they have set any. However, user name and avatar can only be decrypted if the user has consented to this explicitly for the user requesting the information and has exchanged at least one message with them.</i><p>So Signal comes out excellently from this, yet is mentioned in the title. However, the paper does find that Telegram reveals to the world, in real time, exactly how many Telegram users have a particular phone number in their address book...<p>Can we change the title from the (click baiting) university press release to one which more accurately reflects the content of the paper?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encrypto.de&#x2F;papers&#x2F;HWSDS21.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encrypto.de&#x2F;papers&#x2F;HWSDS21.pdf</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]</title><url>https://encrypto.de/papers/HWSDS21.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nbadg</author><text>I think it&#x27;s important to put this into context. They&#x27;re stating that a malicious user could crawl public info of other users, thereby building (over time) a behavioral model of those users. The theory that you could protect users from that by hashing phone numbers and using the hash for contact discovery, turns out not to be accurate, because there are few enough phone numbers in existence that you can just brute force the hash.<p>I do think it&#x27;s important for people using these kinds of services (and I&#x27;m one of them!) to understand their limitations, but I also kinda find this a bit self-evident, if you think about how contact discovery works. There&#x27;s simply no way around it (unless you stop using phone numbers to exchange contacts). So in the sense that studies like these help educate non-technical users of the technical limitations of services, this is great!<p>However, to say they &quot;threaten privacy&quot;... That feels like a gross mischaracterization of what&#x27;s going on here. Every social technology site, app, etc, has this problem, and it&#x27;s something that could be, to an extent, mitigated for (detection of scanning attempts, rate limiting, etc). Meanwhile, these are the apps that are bringing E2EE to the masses. It feels like missing the forest for the trees.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]</title><url>https://encrypto.de/papers/HWSDS21.pdf</url></story> |
36,449,742 | 36,449,547 | 1 | 2 | 36,427,385 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frakkingcylons</author><text>Also something that might be interesting: the developer has recently started releasing monthly economic reports [0], (for example, see the most recent one for May [1]). These cover:<p>- money supply (for each currency)<p>- production of fundamental ores, minerals, gases, liquids<p>- production of consumables (for your workforce)<p>- balances of the market makers (MM). For background, for a particular material&#x2F;commodity, a commodity exchange may have a MM that is basically the buyer&#x2F;seller of last resort, so the bid or ask offered by the MM will be relatively low (for bid) or relatively high (for ask). I don&#x27;t know the details well, but I think the devs introduce a MM if there isn&#x27;t a lot of organic demand&#x2F;supply for something (more seasoned players probably know this better). Anyway, so if you sell to the MM, the MM balance goes up. If you buy from the MM, their balance goes down. So an increase of the MM balance for say the Antares Initiative (one of the factions which operates a commodity exchange) can be interpreted as a lot of people had to sell to the MM, thus not a lot of player demand for that commodity.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;com.prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;economic-report" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;com.prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;economic-report</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;com.prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;default&#x2F;original&#x2F;2X&#x2F;2&#x2F;249a6a447f2d75caaad3856ae1aeec0c49c6d64c.jpeg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;com.prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;default&#x2F;original&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>frakkingcylons</author><text>More details: this game is an economic MMO. If a major player that used to produce a huge chunk of the supply of coffee suddenly decides to quit, then everyone in the market for coffee will notice. Fortunately, almost everyone needs coffee (it makes your production times faster), so ideally someone steps up to fill that supply because they know the demand is there.<p>Things take hours to do. Fly a ship from Deimos to the commodity exchange at Antares Station? That&#x27;s going to take 7 hours (like 7 _real_ hours). A smelter facility will take 10 real hours to smelt a batch of aluminum. You want to be a real good planner. Unless you like having to wait another day because you miscalculated the amount of flux needed to run your smelters, causing your aluminum production to run idle for half a day.<p>Where do you sell your goods? Well there&#x27;s six commodity exchanges spread across the galaxy which accept one of the four currencies used in the galaxy (and yes there&#x27;s FX markets). The bid&#x2F;ask for goods varies so you&#x27;ll want to decide where it may be optimal to sell (fuel isn&#x27;t free!). You don&#x27;t have to ship it yourself though, you can post a contract at your planet for someone else to ship your goods and deliver them within X days for a price.<p>This game is crazy. I have somehow ended up in a position where I now pay money to pretend to be a supply chain analyst and write my own ERP software. These are the scripts I use to run my company:<p>`csv.py` - converts exchange and inventory data to csvs<p>`production_line.py` - performs analysis of current production lines as described in `data&#x2F;production_lines.json`<p>`analysis_increment.py` - Based on current production lines, gives a list of next building&#x2F;recipe to invest sorted by ROI days<p>`analysis_multi_step.py` - Starting from current production lines, plots out the next several buildings&#x2F;recipes to invest in based on their ROI days<p>`analysis_supply.py` - Gives a per-planet supply breakdown including planned productionn lines if included<p>`analysis_vertical.py` - Given a material ticker, returns an analysis of production lines with varying degrees of vertical integration to produce the given material.<p>`analysis_arbitrage_trip.py` - Takes origin, destination, capital, profit threshold, mass, and volume. Will give a list of materials to buy at origin at ask prices which then must be sold ASAP at destination bid prices</text></item><item><author>Titan2189</author><text>A few months ago I&#x27;ve found this browser-based game which ditches the whole 3D game ui directly and allows you to do all your spreadsheet planning right there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel</title><url>https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/information-is-power-excel-release</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrbr</author><text>Huh, I had an idea recently to make an API-only game like that. Would let people build their own tools&#x2F;GUIs and go as crazy as they&#x27;d like with building their own AI to control their empire. Just feels <i>extremely</i> niche, even if it scratches my own gameplay itch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>frakkingcylons</author><text>More details: this game is an economic MMO. If a major player that used to produce a huge chunk of the supply of coffee suddenly decides to quit, then everyone in the market for coffee will notice. Fortunately, almost everyone needs coffee (it makes your production times faster), so ideally someone steps up to fill that supply because they know the demand is there.<p>Things take hours to do. Fly a ship from Deimos to the commodity exchange at Antares Station? That&#x27;s going to take 7 hours (like 7 _real_ hours). A smelter facility will take 10 real hours to smelt a batch of aluminum. You want to be a real good planner. Unless you like having to wait another day because you miscalculated the amount of flux needed to run your smelters, causing your aluminum production to run idle for half a day.<p>Where do you sell your goods? Well there&#x27;s six commodity exchanges spread across the galaxy which accept one of the four currencies used in the galaxy (and yes there&#x27;s FX markets). The bid&#x2F;ask for goods varies so you&#x27;ll want to decide where it may be optimal to sell (fuel isn&#x27;t free!). You don&#x27;t have to ship it yourself though, you can post a contract at your planet for someone else to ship your goods and deliver them within X days for a price.<p>This game is crazy. I have somehow ended up in a position where I now pay money to pretend to be a supply chain analyst and write my own ERP software. These are the scripts I use to run my company:<p>`csv.py` - converts exchange and inventory data to csvs<p>`production_line.py` - performs analysis of current production lines as described in `data&#x2F;production_lines.json`<p>`analysis_increment.py` - Based on current production lines, gives a list of next building&#x2F;recipe to invest sorted by ROI days<p>`analysis_multi_step.py` - Starting from current production lines, plots out the next several buildings&#x2F;recipes to invest in based on their ROI days<p>`analysis_supply.py` - Gives a per-planet supply breakdown including planned productionn lines if included<p>`analysis_vertical.py` - Given a material ticker, returns an analysis of production lines with varying degrees of vertical integration to produce the given material.<p>`analysis_arbitrage_trip.py` - Takes origin, destination, capital, profit threshold, mass, and volume. Will give a list of materials to buy at origin at ask prices which then must be sold ASAP at destination bid prices</text></item><item><author>Titan2189</author><text>A few months ago I&#x27;ve found this browser-based game which ditches the whole 3D game ui directly and allows you to do all your spreadsheet planning right there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel</title><url>https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/information-is-power-excel-release</url></story> |
24,585,944 | 24,585,897 | 1 | 2 | 24,585,478 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roomey</author><text>Honestly, incident management is hard. It is a different skill set to straight up SRE management, and all the training in the world won&#x27;t get you ready. Believe me it&#x27;s true in AWS too, true in a lot of places.<p>It&#x27;s complicated, and the human factor is massive in an unpredicted scenario.<p>I&#x27;m an IM myself, and regularly have to make the call regarding status updates, and also seen how other companies do it.<p>One of my favourites was a big it infra company sending a notification about an outage 6 hours after the event, after we opened and resolved a ticket with them. Was actually pretty useful but made me laugh all the same</text><parent_chain><item><author>maximilianroos</author><text>Why is the Google Status dashboard slower than HackerNews at reporting the downtime?<p>To get ahead of the cynics — it would not serve the least generous of Google&#x27;s objectives to be less than transparent about downtime — people figuring it out while the dashboard is green looks much worse.</text></item><item><author>coderintherye</author><text>Of course both dashboards show all green:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=status" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=status</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Services Experiencing Disruptions</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>memset</author><text>The time you mark the dashboard as “red” is when the clock starts ticking against your SLA and error budget.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maximilianroos</author><text>Why is the Google Status dashboard slower than HackerNews at reporting the downtime?<p>To get ahead of the cynics — it would not serve the least generous of Google&#x27;s objectives to be less than transparent about downtime — people figuring it out while the dashboard is green looks much worse.</text></item><item><author>coderintherye</author><text>Of course both dashboards show all green:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=status" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=status</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Services Experiencing Disruptions</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus</url></story> |
32,815,605 | 32,816,047 | 1 | 2 | 32,814,409 | 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>yamtaddle</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s probably true; schools are generally run for the benefit and convenience of teachers, not students.<p>This is, emphatically, not even close to true. If someone told you this, they were lying or just had no idea how schools work and were guessing.<p>&gt; early school start times which help teachers at the cost of students<p>A perfect example of how you&#x27;re veering away from reality with your faulty premise: teachers don&#x27;t like super-early starts, either! Except the coaches who like having plenty of time for long after-school practices with the sun still up. Parents of athletes may like it, too, just so only one end of their daily schedule changes when their kids&#x27; sports are in season (as opposed to having to get them in for an early practice, and pick them up late for a late practice, unable to use the school bus for either end). The justification given for keeping it is usually some combo of &quot;parents want it&quot; (<i>do</i> they? I&#x27;m a parent and I fucking don&#x27;t—but then I don&#x27;t have any high school athletes in my house yet) and, overriding all other concerns, school sports. Adjusting those schedules may also mean elementary kids start earlier so that the high schoolers can start later, because districts want to be able to stagger bus schedules so they need fewer busses—again, <i>not</i> because teachers are demanding it—which I guess maybe some parents don&#x27;t like (I&#x27;m a parent of elementary kids, and yeah, I&#x27;d like them there earlier and the high school kids later, reverse of how most districts do it, but maybe some parents do in fact want their elementary kids starting at 9 o&#x27;goddamn-clock when they&#x27;ve already burned 1-2 of their most alert hours for the day, and the high schoolers starting before 8:00, for some reason). It <i>is absolutely not</i> because teachers are demanding to start school before the sun&#x27;s even up in the Winter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickff</author><text>It&#x27;s probably true; schools are generally run for the benefit and convenience of teachers, not students. The former have a strong union with outsized influence on local elections, whereas the latter don&#x27;t even vote. The same incentives lead to early school start times which help teachers at the cost of students (particularly teenagers who generally have &#x27;later&#x27; circadian rhythms).</text></item><item><author>kayodelycaon</author><text>Tried this. Was not allowed to switch because it would cause an uneven class size. At least, that&#x27;s what I was told the policy was for.</text></item><item><author>onemoresoop</author><text>That one student should be able to switch to a different group. If all want to switch then there&#x27;s a problem with the instructor.<p>Let&#x27;s look at the opposite end of the spectrum. Student loves an instructor but is needlessly switched to someone new. My point though is that the flexibility to change or stay in the same group should exist.</text></item><item><author>lumost</author><text>This seems like a practice that would work for some students and hurt others. Some students may not do well with a particular teacher. Being stuck for years with that teacher is a disservice to the student.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years</title><url>https://www.newsnationnow.com/solutions/benefits-of-looping-kids-with-teachers-for-multiple-years/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>8note</author><text>My understanding is that schools are run for the convenience of administrators, who want metrics based performance to look at like butts in seats, test scores, cost per student, etc</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickff</author><text>It&#x27;s probably true; schools are generally run for the benefit and convenience of teachers, not students. The former have a strong union with outsized influence on local elections, whereas the latter don&#x27;t even vote. The same incentives lead to early school start times which help teachers at the cost of students (particularly teenagers who generally have &#x27;later&#x27; circadian rhythms).</text></item><item><author>kayodelycaon</author><text>Tried this. Was not allowed to switch because it would cause an uneven class size. At least, that&#x27;s what I was told the policy was for.</text></item><item><author>onemoresoop</author><text>That one student should be able to switch to a different group. If all want to switch then there&#x27;s a problem with the instructor.<p>Let&#x27;s look at the opposite end of the spectrum. Student loves an instructor but is needlessly switched to someone new. My point though is that the flexibility to change or stay in the same group should exist.</text></item><item><author>lumost</author><text>This seems like a practice that would work for some students and hurt others. Some students may not do well with a particular teacher. Being stuck for years with that teacher is a disservice to the student.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years</title><url>https://www.newsnationnow.com/solutions/benefits-of-looping-kids-with-teachers-for-multiple-years/</url></story> |
18,639,065 | 18,639,171 | 1 | 2 | 18,631,032 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markbnj</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t really, unless the founder has signed a stockholder&#x27;s agreement with other founders or investors specifying a vesting period. Under normal circumstances a founder or founders form a corp, put some cash&#x2F;equity in, sign a stockholders agreement specifying who owns how much, and from that moment the equity is wholly owned by the signatories to that agreement. Other agreements may come into play as the company seeks additional investment, etc., but I can tell you that at least 20 years ago when I did a startup + angel round + series A + B nobody at any time suggested that the equity I&#x27;d worked for the first four years should somehow be clawed back and then vested, and the conversation would not have gone well if they had.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beaner</author><text>Didn&#x27;t even realize founder&#x27;s equity vested. I thought since they created the company, they owned it since day 1.</text></item><item><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>What a strange perspective.<p>This piece seems to assume that founders of a company are just some kind of super-employee of the VC that are only going to be around so long as they are getting regular compensation.<p>That isn&#x27;t how it&#x27;s supposed to work. The founder has to believe they create the value. They don&#x27;t work to get grants of stock, they work to increase the value of the stock. They created all the stock in the first place!<p>If they think that they could just hire someone else to do their job and everything would just turn out the same then what the hell did they even found the company for in the first place?<p>The way VC is set up in the valley has warped peoples understanding of what a business even is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happens When a Founder Is Fully Vested?</title><url>https://avc.com/2018/11/what-happens-when-a-founder-is-fully-vested/</url></story> | <instructions>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>No. All operator equity vests. Any potential partner who demands unvested equity is one you should avoid. Vesting protects cofounders as much as it protects money investors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beaner</author><text>Didn&#x27;t even realize founder&#x27;s equity vested. I thought since they created the company, they owned it since day 1.</text></item><item><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>What a strange perspective.<p>This piece seems to assume that founders of a company are just some kind of super-employee of the VC that are only going to be around so long as they are getting regular compensation.<p>That isn&#x27;t how it&#x27;s supposed to work. The founder has to believe they create the value. They don&#x27;t work to get grants of stock, they work to increase the value of the stock. They created all the stock in the first place!<p>If they think that they could just hire someone else to do their job and everything would just turn out the same then what the hell did they even found the company for in the first place?<p>The way VC is set up in the valley has warped peoples understanding of what a business even is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happens When a Founder Is Fully Vested?</title><url>https://avc.com/2018/11/what-happens-when-a-founder-is-fully-vested/</url></story> |
18,845,377 | 18,844,155 | 1 | 2 | 18,843,544 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>I still don&#x27;t know what to make of this language. If anything, it sounds too easy, making me think &quot;what&#x27;s the catch?&quot; Is this a small programming cult or is it Czech wizardry obscured by a language barrier? Are there no highly visible Red projects because of shortcomings in the language and its community, or because the language is so potent, its users so empowered, that big libraries aren&#x27;t necessary?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019</title><url>https://www.red-lang.org/2019/01/full-steam-ahead.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>stesch</author><text>I&#x27;m I shallow if I stopped caring about this project after they started with all this crypto currency stuff?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019</title><url>https://www.red-lang.org/2019/01/full-steam-ahead.html</url></story> |
7,476,400 | 7,475,884 | 1 | 3 | 7,474,791 | train | <instructions>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>This is so obviously true that I found the tone of the post confusing. It&#x27;s similar to people&#x27;s reaction to the comparative threat of keeping their email on Google Mail or some random webmail provider that&#x27;s likely to lose their mail spool to SQL injection. I&#x27;m not arguing that the NSA threat isn&#x27;t worrisome; it is. But other threats are in fact even worse!</text><parent_chain><item><author>paul</author><text>Where there are security vulnerabilities, I&#x27;d rather it be the NSA exploiting them than someone else. The fact that Huawei support engineers have so much power is much more troubling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We may have witnessed a NSA "Shotgiant" TAO-like action</title><url>http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/03/we-may-have-witnessed-nsa-shotgiant-tao.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>Nacraile</author><text>I think it&#x27;s naive to assume that the NSA is the only entity that is likely to be able to exploit vulnerabilities. This is the crux of the controversy around NSA&#x27;s attacks on web security.<p>I only see a difference between an opaque, unaccountable organization in the USA and an opaque, unaccountable organization in China when I look through a nationalistic lens.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paul</author><text>Where there are security vulnerabilities, I&#x27;d rather it be the NSA exploiting them than someone else. The fact that Huawei support engineers have so much power is much more troubling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We may have witnessed a NSA "Shotgiant" TAO-like action</title><url>http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/03/we-may-have-witnessed-nsa-shotgiant-tao.html</url></story> |
25,006,314 | 25,005,825 | 1 | 3 | 25,003,574 | 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>_the_inflator</author><text>You got the point provided that you are concerned about code quality. This might be an area where a CTO lacks skills over time compared to his developers.<p>Becoming a CTO myself within an 80 developers area, I found it invaluable to code infrequently still. It is quite simple: better decisions, better products.<p>To me, non-coding CTOs or most CEOs that do not understand Computer Science, it seems that they try to learn a foreign language by sending in their assistant to attend classes.<p>I mean this quite literally. My team can communicate to me in other terms and a different language than they would have in a simplified ELI5&#x2F;KPI driven manner. And vice versa, I challenge them to think beyond day to day business.<p>It is not a lack of trust. It is about better understanding and better helping your team focus on the essential parts. And vice versa.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>I disagree completely.<p>Once you&#x27;re in a management role, let alone a CEO role, your job not to write software. You defer defer implementation and architecture completely to your team. Your job is to hire and build that team and set high-level company direction.<p>The more power you have over your co-implementors&#x27; careers -- and the more junior they are -- the less comfortable they are standing up to your architectural or technical decisions. This stifling of collaboration can cause you to make poor decisions you wouldn&#x27;t otherwise, and creates an uncomfortable dynamic.<p>This is why I don&#x27;t believe in TLM (&quot;tech lead manager&quot;) roles, also, fwiw.<p>Wanna code? Do it on your own time, Tobi! :)</text></item><item><author>verisimilitude</author><text>I can&#x27;t think of a better way to actually maintain a clear understanding of what&#x27;s going on at a place like Shopify.<p>Good memory: Lutke&#x27;s blog is responsible for a lightbulb moment of mine back in 2007, regarding cache invalidation. The post is long gone, but it was entitled &quot;The Secret to memcached&quot; -- the advice, which is incredibly obvious in retrospect but wasn&#x27;t to me at the time, is to manage cache invalidation by adding a unique ID to the cached asset, and letting the cache fill and expire items on its own. Going into it, I had assumed I should be removing cached items in the code that was utilizing the cache. I was ignorant. I still am, but less so about memcached. Thanks, Tobias!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify</title><url>https://changelog.com/podcast/416#transcript-45</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bertr4nd</author><text>I’ve only once worked under a manager who also coded, and I had extremely mixed feelings. On the one hand, he was a brilliant engineer who I learned a ton from, and who set a really solid technical direction for the team.<p>On the other hand, I was personally unhappy a lot of the time. On one occasion he pretty much tore apart one of my designs and I felt fairly humiliated (with reason, as a few other senior engineers confirmed in private conversations).<p>Did my design deserve to die horribly? I don’t know. The PR had already been accepted, but maybe the accepter was wrong. In any case it felt really crappy to be criticized so heavily by someone who in theory supports me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>I disagree completely.<p>Once you&#x27;re in a management role, let alone a CEO role, your job not to write software. You defer defer implementation and architecture completely to your team. Your job is to hire and build that team and set high-level company direction.<p>The more power you have over your co-implementors&#x27; careers -- and the more junior they are -- the less comfortable they are standing up to your architectural or technical decisions. This stifling of collaboration can cause you to make poor decisions you wouldn&#x27;t otherwise, and creates an uncomfortable dynamic.<p>This is why I don&#x27;t believe in TLM (&quot;tech lead manager&quot;) roles, also, fwiw.<p>Wanna code? Do it on your own time, Tobi! :)</text></item><item><author>verisimilitude</author><text>I can&#x27;t think of a better way to actually maintain a clear understanding of what&#x27;s going on at a place like Shopify.<p>Good memory: Lutke&#x27;s blog is responsible for a lightbulb moment of mine back in 2007, regarding cache invalidation. The post is long gone, but it was entitled &quot;The Secret to memcached&quot; -- the advice, which is incredibly obvious in retrospect but wasn&#x27;t to me at the time, is to manage cache invalidation by adding a unique ID to the cached asset, and letting the cache fill and expire items on its own. Going into it, I had assumed I should be removing cached items in the code that was utilizing the cache. I was ignorant. I still am, but less so about memcached. Thanks, Tobias!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify</title><url>https://changelog.com/podcast/416#transcript-45</url></story> |
11,227,857 | 11,227,635 | 1 | 2 | 11,227,481 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>generj</author><text>Elon confirms 1st stage did not get a good landing<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;705917924972736512" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;705917924972736512</a><p>Edit - text of tweet: &quot;Rocket landed hard on the droneship. Didn&#x27;t expect this one to work (v hot reentry), but next flight has a good chance.&quot;<p>Very impressive nonetheless. I am wondering if they had a loss of the drone ship?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX SES-9 Mission Live Webcast</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/webcast</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toufka</author><text>Rainbow-bars [NO SIGNAL] right when stage 1 was landing on the barge...<p>So suspenseful!<p>The last frame before video cut out <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;3HCnn7c.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;3HCnn7c.png</a><p>Edit - looks like stage 1 did <i>not</i> survive landing (this time).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MatthewBTravis&#x2F;status&#x2F;705908015711518720" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MatthewBTravis&#x2F;status&#x2F;705908015711518720</a><p>The Drone Ship says, &quot;Sorry guys :(&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TheDroneShip&#x2F;status&#x2F;705907706209693696" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TheDroneShip&#x2F;status&#x2F;705907706209693696</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX SES-9 Mission Live Webcast</title><url>http://www.spacex.com/webcast</url></story> |
24,234,194 | 24,234,120 | 1 | 2 | 24,232,801 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>q3k</author><text>Data transfers in SD cards are CRC checked.<p>In addition, the card will by default start in a 12.5MB&#x2F;s mode at 3.3v, which is 25MHz per lane. That&#x27;s not DC, but it&#x27;s definitely slow enough to run on some pretty dodgy wiring. It will only switch to higher speed modes if requested, and if it actually works (falling back to lower speeds otherwise).</text><parent_chain><item><author>castratikron</author><text>Oh, man. I&#x27;m surprised that card works at all with that wiring. High speed single ended signaling does not do well off-board. Have you done any kind of integrity testing, like writing a GB to the disk and then reading the checksum?<p>If anyone is looking to do this mod, at least consider using a shielded ribbon cable like so:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;LANMU-Extension-Flexible-Monoprice-Raspberry&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B01D9JIUU0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;LANMU-Extension-Flexible-Monoprice-Ra...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)</title><url>http://www.davisr.me/projects/remarkable-microsd/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reportingsjr</author><text>SD cards typical aren&#x27;t run on a very high speed bus. A couple of MHz is pretty typical and this sort of wiring is no problem at those speeds.<p>Definitely no need for a shielded cable either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>castratikron</author><text>Oh, man. I&#x27;m surprised that card works at all with that wiring. High speed single ended signaling does not do well off-board. Have you done any kind of integrity testing, like writing a GB to the disk and then reading the checksum?<p>If anyone is looking to do this mod, at least consider using a shielded ribbon cable like so:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;LANMU-Extension-Flexible-Monoprice-Raspberry&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B01D9JIUU0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;LANMU-Extension-Flexible-Monoprice-Ra...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ReMarkable MicroSD (2019)</title><url>http://www.davisr.me/projects/remarkable-microsd/</url></story> |
1,819,099 | 1,819,098 | 1 | 2 | 1,818,550 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ubernostrum</author><text>I use exactly one Java application on OS X. And that's Minecraft.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andreyf</author><text>I've used Macs for years, and I haven't seen a Java app I didn't hate. They're UI is never native and the UX is much slower than good webapp's?</text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Considering Java apps are banned from the Mac App Store, and there is currently no Oracle JDK for the Mac, I find it hard to call his comment decent. In the interest of not being inflamatory I refrain from calling it something else.</text></item><item><author>cubicle67</author><text>That's actually a fairly decent reply; far better than 'nope' or 'you're holding it wrong'</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Email from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X</title><url>http://flic.kr/p/8M3fPG</url><text>I just got a response from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X. Here it is.</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>robin_reala</author><text>Cyberduck generally gets hauled up at this point as an example of a good Java OSX application: <a href="http://cyberduck.ch/" rel="nofollow">http://cyberduck.ch/</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>andreyf</author><text>I've used Macs for years, and I haven't seen a Java app I didn't hate. They're UI is never native and the UX is much slower than good webapp's?</text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Considering Java apps are banned from the Mac App Store, and there is currently no Oracle JDK for the Mac, I find it hard to call his comment decent. In the interest of not being inflamatory I refrain from calling it something else.</text></item><item><author>cubicle67</author><text>That's actually a fairly decent reply; far better than 'nope' or 'you're holding it wrong'</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Email from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X</title><url>http://flic.kr/p/8M3fPG</url><text>I just got a response from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X. Here it is.</text></story> |
29,926,197 | 29,924,373 | 1 | 3 | 29,923,466 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the_only_law</author><text>I’ve straight up brought up my projects in an interview, only to be rid “we don’t care, we want to hear about your professional experience” (though not in those words)<p>It’s sucks because my professional experience is a bunch of droll bullshit. My projects tend to at least be interesting bullshit.<p>Note that the last time I heard this was in the context of a “tell me about a time” context regarding technical challenges. This wasn’t a case where they wanted to hear about my professional work because of non technical ability (think ability to ship under ever changing requirements, etc.) because they were equally unimpressed with that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chadash</author><text><i>&gt; I&#x27;ve had multiple people telling me that &quot;we saw people with fewer and less polished projects get jobs&quot;.</i><p>I have a few projects on github. NO... ONE... EVER... LOOKS. <i>Maybe</i> they will do a cursory glance, but I&#x27;ve never had anyone actually look through them in any detail.<p>Sure, if you created a library with some decent traction and have a good amount of stars, it might help. But for your average developer with personal projects, no one has the time to look at your code. Even for someone with a hit project, they are still probably just looking at your stars as a proxy for your ability to write production code and not your actual code. There is so much HN advice focusing on having projects to show people and I think it&#x27;s mostly bad advice.<p>Here&#x27;s my two cents:<p>1) Pay someone professional to look over your resume. If you aren&#x27;t getting interviews this might be a factor. It&#x27;ll cost you a few hundred dollars and may potentially earn back many many times that amount. Bonus: Have them look over your linkedin profile as well.<p>2) Find companies on linkedin that you&#x27;d potentially want to interview with. Send messages to developers there. This might required a paid linkedin account for a few months, but again, think of it as an investment. Have your resume on dropbox or similar and then include a URL with a link to your resume in there, since I don&#x27;t think linkedin allows attachments.<p>3) Interview, interview, interview. The interview process is very imperfect and it sucks. But every time you fail, go back and see where you went wrong. Eventually you will see that a lot of companies ask the same questions with small twists, so practice makes perfect here.<p>4) Don&#x27;t sweat it when you get rejected. Remember it&#x27;s a numbers game. More interviews == more chances to get an offer. You only need one job at a time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why are we accepting ageism in tech as something immutable?</title><text>This week alone I had 2 interviews with 2 different companies where in the first one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by &quot;why hire you over a younger graduate?&quot; (which isn&#x27;t the same as &quot;why hire you over someone smarter than you?&quot; because why even ask this). In the second one I was also asked for my age, followed by whether I plan to get married anytime soon.<p>I&#x27;m under the impression that the industry needs to learn to treat amateurs as amateurs regardless of their age. It feels like I&#x27;m not allowed to be an amateur professional simply because I&#x27;m over 30 years old. Instead of seeing people as &quot;a guy with 2 years of experience&quot; or &quot;a woman with 4 years of experience&quot; we see &quot;a 40 year old guy with 2 years of experience&quot; or &quot;a 34 year old woman with 4 years of experience&quot;.<p>It feels like there&#x27;s an implicit expectation of expertise in doing something that comes with my age. It&#x27;s almost as if I&#x27;m not allowed to learn and get good in something that I want, simply because I was late into &quot;the party&quot;, where party can be whatever but since I&#x27;m a web developer that&#x27;s what &quot;the party&quot; is.<p>I&#x27;ve had multiple people telling me that &quot;we saw people with fewer and less polished projects get jobs&quot;. I&#x27;ve been seeking for 8 months, I&#x27;m almost at the point where I might as well freelance to bypass the discrimination. I get barely any calls back, and the one interview that felt somewhat fair was because I had my former manager from a completely unrelated field introduce me to someone looking for web developers, and that didn&#x27;t worked out because they wanted me to learn their stack and build an assignment within a week, which failed gloriously.<p>Is there something that we can do so that people can just be amateurs regardless of age? I&#x27;m sure since we&#x27;re making SOME progress against sexism and racism we could somehow do something for ageism too, because I can&#x27;t blame Zuckerberg&#x27;s opinion anymore.</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>sibeliuss</author><text>It&#x27;s unfortunate about people not looking at Github more. Personally, I look in depth, but i&#x27;m not responsible for hiring. If I were, I most definitely would not have hired many of the people that we have hired where I work. There IS a flipside to this however: many of the best devs I&#x27;ve worked with have very little on Github, so its imperative to find a way to judge technical merit some other way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chadash</author><text><i>&gt; I&#x27;ve had multiple people telling me that &quot;we saw people with fewer and less polished projects get jobs&quot;.</i><p>I have a few projects on github. NO... ONE... EVER... LOOKS. <i>Maybe</i> they will do a cursory glance, but I&#x27;ve never had anyone actually look through them in any detail.<p>Sure, if you created a library with some decent traction and have a good amount of stars, it might help. But for your average developer with personal projects, no one has the time to look at your code. Even for someone with a hit project, they are still probably just looking at your stars as a proxy for your ability to write production code and not your actual code. There is so much HN advice focusing on having projects to show people and I think it&#x27;s mostly bad advice.<p>Here&#x27;s my two cents:<p>1) Pay someone professional to look over your resume. If you aren&#x27;t getting interviews this might be a factor. It&#x27;ll cost you a few hundred dollars and may potentially earn back many many times that amount. Bonus: Have them look over your linkedin profile as well.<p>2) Find companies on linkedin that you&#x27;d potentially want to interview with. Send messages to developers there. This might required a paid linkedin account for a few months, but again, think of it as an investment. Have your resume on dropbox or similar and then include a URL with a link to your resume in there, since I don&#x27;t think linkedin allows attachments.<p>3) Interview, interview, interview. The interview process is very imperfect and it sucks. But every time you fail, go back and see where you went wrong. Eventually you will see that a lot of companies ask the same questions with small twists, so practice makes perfect here.<p>4) Don&#x27;t sweat it when you get rejected. Remember it&#x27;s a numbers game. More interviews == more chances to get an offer. You only need one job at a time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why are we accepting ageism in tech as something immutable?</title><text>This week alone I had 2 interviews with 2 different companies where in the first one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by &quot;why hire you over a younger graduate?&quot; (which isn&#x27;t the same as &quot;why hire you over someone smarter than you?&quot; because why even ask this). In the second one I was also asked for my age, followed by whether I plan to get married anytime soon.<p>I&#x27;m under the impression that the industry needs to learn to treat amateurs as amateurs regardless of their age. It feels like I&#x27;m not allowed to be an amateur professional simply because I&#x27;m over 30 years old. Instead of seeing people as &quot;a guy with 2 years of experience&quot; or &quot;a woman with 4 years of experience&quot; we see &quot;a 40 year old guy with 2 years of experience&quot; or &quot;a 34 year old woman with 4 years of experience&quot;.<p>It feels like there&#x27;s an implicit expectation of expertise in doing something that comes with my age. It&#x27;s almost as if I&#x27;m not allowed to learn and get good in something that I want, simply because I was late into &quot;the party&quot;, where party can be whatever but since I&#x27;m a web developer that&#x27;s what &quot;the party&quot; is.<p>I&#x27;ve had multiple people telling me that &quot;we saw people with fewer and less polished projects get jobs&quot;. I&#x27;ve been seeking for 8 months, I&#x27;m almost at the point where I might as well freelance to bypass the discrimination. I get barely any calls back, and the one interview that felt somewhat fair was because I had my former manager from a completely unrelated field introduce me to someone looking for web developers, and that didn&#x27;t worked out because they wanted me to learn their stack and build an assignment within a week, which failed gloriously.<p>Is there something that we can do so that people can just be amateurs regardless of age? I&#x27;m sure since we&#x27;re making SOME progress against sexism and racism we could somehow do something for ageism too, because I can&#x27;t blame Zuckerberg&#x27;s opinion anymore.</text></story> |
11,189,861 | 11,189,056 | 1 | 3 | 11,158,377 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrob</author><text>The most readable font is the the font you&#x27;re most familiar with. Spencerian script is almost illegible to me, but for people who read it ever day it&#x27;s no problem. The same is true of blackletter scripts. No matter how ugly the font, people can adapt to it, and once they&#x27;ve adapted they&#x27;ll find it preferable.<p>If you really care about prioritizing the text, you should leave the typography to the client. I do not care about your brand. I do not care about your fancy typography tricks. I override all your font choices because I want every website to look identical. This means I never have to spend any unnecessary mental effort interpreting your typography. If you&#x27;re serious about typography you should respect your user&#x27;s choices and leave it to the default.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New Web Typography</title><url>https://robinrendle.com/essays/new-web-typography/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeffehobbs</author><text>What is it about fonts&#x2F;typography that engenders such wankery? I say this with love.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New Web Typography</title><url>https://robinrendle.com/essays/new-web-typography/</url></story> |
20,044,393 | 20,042,930 | 1 | 3 | 20,040,779 | 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>ww520</author><text>Appending log based file system has a lot of appeals. A lot of hard problems, like atomic write, become trivial. A log based FS shares similar properties as the transaction log in RDBMS, making consistency and recovery easy. Write performance is fantastic. With enough cache memory, read performance should be good, too. The only down-size is the performance hit when doing garbage collection. More research in this area would be helpful.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A way to do atomic writes</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/789600/101b40d06e0dfb80/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchrisa</author><text>One way modern distributed databases handle this is by assuming they can&#x27;t trust the disks. When you are writing to multiple datacenters it makes recovery from disk errors just another kind of chaos resilience. The Calvin protocol takes this to its logical conclusion by moving the write-ahead-log to a Raft-like distributed consensus algorithm, where commits to the log span the cluster: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fauna.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;consistency-without-clocks-faunadb-transaction-protocol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fauna.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;consistency-without-clocks-faunadb-tr...</a><p>I will add that the different flavors of fsync, and what they do (and don&#x27;t do), is always a source of entertainment in database engineering chat rooms.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A way to do atomic writes</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/789600/101b40d06e0dfb80/</url></story> |
10,445,914 | 10,443,295 | 1 | 2 | 10,442,431 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thetruthseeker1</author><text>Being Egotistical shouldn&#x27;t be conflated with being an Egotistical Asshole. Ego if used in the right way can be a powerful force for the better. America&#x27;s moonshot was a collective ego of an entire nation that led them to achieve it.<p>I watched an interview by Charlie Rose of Google&#x27;s operation guy called Lazlo, I thought it was a great interview. He said having intellectual humility is important (does not mean less ego), which is the curiosity to learn or accept if you were wrong. Ego I am not convinced is such a harmful thing, and lets not say it is harmful just because many software engineers being introverts have a confirmation bias against it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership</title><url>http://recode.net/2015/10/23/the-new-google-all-the-assholes-have-left/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simula67</author><text>&quot;Page was known as a tough manager inside the search giant, peppering his team with pointed questions and cutting (though usually accurate) observations. “He could come off as very harsh,” said one person who has had many encounters with Page over the years. “Until you realize it was more that he was completely lacking in EQ. I mean, zero.”&quot;<p>How is asking pointed questions and making cutting observations equate to being unsympathetic ? If you care about succeeding, this type of feedback is invaluable. If you don&#x27;t, then you are more likely going to use the &#x27;he is not very nice&#x27; card to get out doing any good work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership</title><url>http://recode.net/2015/10/23/the-new-google-all-the-assholes-have-left/</url></story> |
26,005,609 | 26,005,630 | 1 | 3 | 26,004,552 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jermaine_Jabi</author><text>The unified message centre has not yet been topped.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simo_dax</author><text>I&#x27;m one of those guys, I still use a Q10 (OS10 family) as my daily driver. I felt in love with its ux e.g. the hub which acts both as notification center and timeline, full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) and an app permission system which allowed you choose which one should be granted to the app (again, back in 2013! Android had to wait years before this was implemented)<p>Apps are scarce, many don&#x27;t work anymore due to obsolescence, but the main ones are there: I mantain a Twitter and a Twitch app, and keep updating them to follow Api changes. Spotify and Whatsapp can be used through the android layer, the native BB maps are still functional. Another nice guy on Crackberry mantains a youtube app.. I feel I can say that if you don&#x27;t have many requirements it&#x27;s still a solid phone, it can&#x27;t do much but what it does it does well.<p>Also, the privacy is unmatched</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People Keeping BlackBerry Alive</title><url>https://debugger.medium.com/meet-the-people-keeping-blackberry-alive-in-2021-d86ee9ae6634</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arch-ninja</author><text>Hello fellow q10 fan! Small question: if someone were to start a company to maintain q10 and q20 devices, how valuable would that be to you at a monthly subscription rate?<p>I do not want to see these devices fall into obsolescence, and they are simple&#x2F;old enough you could reverse-engineer the parts or get in touch with the asian companies who did some of the production runs for RIM.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simo_dax</author><text>I&#x27;m one of those guys, I still use a Q10 (OS10 family) as my daily driver. I felt in love with its ux e.g. the hub which acts both as notification center and timeline, full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) and an app permission system which allowed you choose which one should be granted to the app (again, back in 2013! Android had to wait years before this was implemented)<p>Apps are scarce, many don&#x27;t work anymore due to obsolescence, but the main ones are there: I mantain a Twitter and a Twitch app, and keep updating them to follow Api changes. Spotify and Whatsapp can be used through the android layer, the native BB maps are still functional. Another nice guy on Crackberry mantains a youtube app.. I feel I can say that if you don&#x27;t have many requirements it&#x27;s still a solid phone, it can&#x27;t do much but what it does it does well.<p>Also, the privacy is unmatched</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People Keeping BlackBerry Alive</title><url>https://debugger.medium.com/meet-the-people-keeping-blackberry-alive-in-2021-d86ee9ae6634</url></story> |
5,835,177 | 5,835,013 | 1 | 2 | 5,834,933 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>There's plenty of anger to go around, but my understanding is that it's more productive to direct your efforts at legislators who approved the bad laws and the executives who take full opportunity to abuse them -- and not the judges who have a narrow role in this whole saga.<p>For example, if you live in California, perhaps you could call Dianne Feinstein, who when asked about this program today said, "It's called protecting America."</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Petition to impeach Judge Roger Vinson for authorizing NSA Verizon surveillance</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/impeach-federal-judge-roger-vinson-authorizing-warrantless-nsa-surveillance-millions-americans-phone/sKFwyNP8</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>pseingatl</author><text>A bill of impeachment has to be filed in the House of Representatives. The White House has nothing to do with this.
This petition is a waste of time. If you're upset, try to convince your Congressman.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Petition to impeach Judge Roger Vinson for authorizing NSA Verizon surveillance</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/impeach-federal-judge-roger-vinson-authorizing-warrantless-nsa-surveillance-millions-americans-phone/sKFwyNP8</url><text></text></story> |
16,260,234 | 16,260,262 | 1 | 2 | 16,249,975 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt;It is no accident that the young and the old are generally more satisfied with life than those in middle age.<p>I was sitting in my car looking at a stop sign the other day, and all of the sudden it started shaking uncontrollably. Immediately I knew it must be a child shaking it, as there was simply no other possibility. No other person would just stand there and shake a street sign for no purpose beyond its&#x27; own sake. There is no benefit, no reward, no ultimate reasoning beyond &#x27;I want to shake this street sign&quot;. As I looked down, I was right, and the kid was grinning like crazy.<p>We lose the ability to think like that as adults. It&#x27;s not even that we <i>have</i> the thought and then consciously decide against it; we&#x27;re incapable of even conceiving it. To just &#x27;play&#x27; in life. And I think it&#x27;s the most important aspect of our humanity. It is the very genesis of all our innovative and creative ideas, yet we treat it as something to be expelled in the process of &quot;growing up&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/how-schopenhauers-thought-can-illuminate-a-midlife-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>o2348diuu</author><text>This piece hits close to home, as it&#x27;s really clear to me I am going through a midlife crisis and have interesting parallels and contrasts with the author in terms of my career and next steps.<p>What seems to me to be the heart of this piece is the telic-atelic distinction, which seems useful and deserving of more attention. There&#x27;s some parallels, it seems, between the telic-atelic distinction on the one hand, and the distinction between more stereotypical &quot;western&quot; goal-oriented notions of success or happiness, and recent foci of mindfulness and other things having a kind of Buddhist bent. To me the telic-atelic distinction seems useful if for no other reason than to provide an additional historical and philosophical context to something gaining in the public consciousness. The atelic ideal seems similar to the mindfulness goals, but framed differently, in terms of types of rewards.<p>For me, although useful, I&#x27;m not sure this explains all of the midlife crisis. Maybe a big chunk, but for me personally at least I&#x27;d say more of it is about feeling like I took a wrong turn with certain choices, and feeling like there&#x27;s no way to get out of it due to the limits of lifespan and sociocultural failings (e.g., stereotypes about age, gender, and profession, and ability to change, etc.). For me it&#x27;s been less about asking &quot;is this all there is?&quot; and more like feeling like I&#x27;ve come to the conclusion that my vocation is a fraud, or that I&#x27;m not a good fit, and that humans in general are far more flawed and darker than I realized. There were similar feelings about other things in my early adulthood, but I always felt I could change my life, improve things, and move to something else; the difference is now, I feel like the change is more substantial due to the costs and investments involved, and I feel like societal stereotypes and failings make it harder. There&#x27;s also the limitations of lifespan which are very real and make things difficult.<p>I feel profoundly disappointed in life and people, in the sense of being wronged, not in the sense of being bored. I don&#x27;t want to feel this way, but am not sure how to get out of it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/how-schopenhauers-thought-can-illuminate-a-midlife-crisis</url></story> |
20,752,723 | 20,752,424 | 1 | 2 | 20,741,358 | 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>ergothus</author><text>I love sci-fi and grew up devouring as much as I could.<p>But honestly, reading the older sci-fi is painful when it comes to gender portrayals. When Heinlein represents some of the better portrayals, you know you have issues. Even the more liberal representations feel ham-fisted and vapid. It&#x27;s enough that I&#x27;ve grown very leery of anything before the 90s, which is a shame because there&#x27;s a lot of important stuff before then...but reading it pokes the wounds of too many sexist&#x2F;racist older relatives (plus &quot;is this what I&#x27;ll seem like by the standards of a few decades in the future?&quot;) to let me enjoy the stories.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available online (2017)</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/14/15970710/galaxy-science-fiction-magazine-online-free-reading-archive</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Thread from 2017: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14994630" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14994630</a><p>From 2016, including the grandson of the founder: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11185490" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11185490</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available online (2017)</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/14/15970710/galaxy-science-fiction-magazine-online-free-reading-archive</url></story> |
20,360,637 | 20,360,282 | 1 | 2 | 20,352,824 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnomewascool</author><text>For the lazy, the doi is 10.1038&#x2F;s41586-019-1335-8 if you want to add it to your bibliographies. Obviously, don&#x27;t use the doi for any illegal purposes, such as getting around the paywall.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from scientific literature</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1335-8</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>solarist</author><text>An article about the paper by the first author <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;using-unsupervised-machine-learning-to-uncover-hidden-scientific-knowledge-6a3689e1c78d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;towardsdatascience.com&#x2F;using-unsupervised-machine-le...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from scientific literature</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1335-8</url></story> |
29,961,385 | 29,960,492 | 1 | 3 | 29,943,881 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leetrout</author><text>I LOVE this frame of mind and I love this statement but it is usually only used in the negative alignment of expectations: don&#x27;t take critique personally.<p>No disagreement. But let&#x27;s get pedantic:<p>The umbrella &quot;you are not your code&quot; would dismiss improvement as well. And praise.<p>Ok, so I am not my code. But if I don&#x27;t learn from my mistakes my code will not improve.<p>I... I... I...<p>Anyway, I much prefer to reframe it this way:<p>Programming is a very intimate experience.<p>The same as creating art. It is the manifestation of your thoughts and opinions, small and large, put out in to the world. So sure, don&#x27;t be offended by critique. But also remember to extend some grace when doing a review.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mkl95</author><text>I agree with all of it. I find commandment 2 to be the most enlightening one.<p>&gt; You are not your code. Remember that the entire point of a review is to find problems, and problems will be found. Don’t take it personally when one is uncovered.<p>In my career, I have had to deal with other senior developers who would throw tantrums whenever I pointed out something problematic about their code.<p>Over the years, there&#x27;s something all those people seem to have in common - they are stuck in an endless loop of making mistakes and refusing to learn from them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (2012)</title><url>http://blog.stephenwyattbush.com/2012/04/07/dad-and-the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hutzlibu</author><text>&quot;Over the years, there&#x27;s something all those people seem to have in common - they are stuck in an endless loop of making mistakes and refusing to learn from them.&quot;<p>I feel this sadly describes many partnerships, as well as great parts of society and humanity as its whole. But I am optimistic, that this can change, without a big catastrophic event needed for people to wake up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mkl95</author><text>I agree with all of it. I find commandment 2 to be the most enlightening one.<p>&gt; You are not your code. Remember that the entire point of a review is to find problems, and problems will be found. Don’t take it personally when one is uncovered.<p>In my career, I have had to deal with other senior developers who would throw tantrums whenever I pointed out something problematic about their code.<p>Over the years, there&#x27;s something all those people seem to have in common - they are stuck in an endless loop of making mistakes and refusing to learn from them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (2012)</title><url>http://blog.stephenwyattbush.com/2012/04/07/dad-and-the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming</url></story> |
26,885,330 | 26,885,142 | 1 | 3 | 26,883,645 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Alternatively, it&#x27;s Tetris with bits of a minimal OS mixed in, just enough to support it, which is not unlike what a lot of OSs in embedded systems are like.<p>A lot of software was written in this format several decades ago, including many games:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Self-booting_disk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Self-booting_disk</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_PC_booter_games" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_PC_booter_games</a><p>I think the boundaries are quite fuzzy; while something like the mask-ROM firmware in a 4-function calculator or microwave would probably not be called an OS by the majority of people, how about a router running Linux, or the RTOS used in a car&#x27;s ECU? Moving up from there, DOS is clearly in the realm of an actual OS, then we have the locked-down mobile devices, and at the far end are the general-purpose PCs running Windows, Linux, macOS, and such.<p>Even at the &quot;small end&quot;, a microcontroller running a firmware containing a single infinite loop that does stuff with the peripherals seems unlikely to classify as an OS; but what if you start adding dynamic memory allocation, coroutines&#x2F;cooperative multithreads, filesystem code, etc.?</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>This is cool, but I think it&#x27;s misleading to call it an operating system. It&#x27;s Tetris that runs <i>without</i> an operating system, which is to say, on bare metal, old school. Writing programs that run on bare metal is a cool and worthwhile thing to do, but calling any such program an &quot;operating system&quot; is confusing.<p>This probably sounds like I&#x27;m picking a nit, but I think it matters for the sake of newbies just starting to climb the learning curve and trying to understand what an &quot;operating system&quot; actually <i>is</i>. IMHO, the <i>defining characteristic</i> of an operating system is that it provides an environment in which to run other programs, ones that are not part of the operating system, and which may not even exist at the time that the operating system starts to run.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris</title><url>https://github.com/jdah/tetris-os</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skissane</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it is essential that there be a clear boundary between an OS and programs.<p>For example, you can have a Smalltalk-based OS, written in Smalltalk. The OS components are simply Smalltalk classes and methods. Your programs&#x2F;utilities&#x2F;applications would also be Smalltalk classes and methods. There needn&#x27;t be any clear boundary between the classes&#x2F;methods that belong to the OS and those that belong to programs&#x2F;applications&#x2F;utilities.<p>If you look at library operating systems, the operating system is just a library which you link into your application. Such an operating system can only run one program, and you have to rebuild the operating system whenever you want to change the single program it runs. Still, I think library operating systems count as operating systems. This Tetris implementation isn&#x27;t using a library operating system, but you could refactor the code into two parts – the Tetris game, and generic OS services, and the later would constitute a library operating system. If you look at its source files, only about seven of them (main.c, music.[ch], sound.[ch], speaker.[ch]) actually implement the game. The other 23 source files are generic OS services.
So I&#x27;d say that, even if this isn&#x27;t an operating system as a whole, it contains an OS within itself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>This is cool, but I think it&#x27;s misleading to call it an operating system. It&#x27;s Tetris that runs <i>without</i> an operating system, which is to say, on bare metal, old school. Writing programs that run on bare metal is a cool and worthwhile thing to do, but calling any such program an &quot;operating system&quot; is confusing.<p>This probably sounds like I&#x27;m picking a nit, but I think it matters for the sake of newbies just starting to climb the learning curve and trying to understand what an &quot;operating system&quot; actually <i>is</i>. IMHO, the <i>defining characteristic</i> of an operating system is that it provides an environment in which to run other programs, ones that are not part of the operating system, and which may not even exist at the time that the operating system starts to run.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris</title><url>https://github.com/jdah/tetris-os</url></story> |
34,141,218 | 34,141,029 | 1 | 2 | 34,140,096 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kelamir</author><text>Thank you too! With the war in my country, we&#x27;re barely meeting ends, and couldn&#x27;t prepare for Christmas. I wasn&#x27;t sure about asking for help, but we&#x27;ve been struggling for a while, and even the holidays weren&#x27;t looking to be any cheer for us. Although I doubted that we deserved it - there are many people who have it much worse, forced out of their houses, - I still reached out. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s right of me to do so, but I surely am glad to see my family having better holidays.<p>I feel depressed about life, following news, and the world feels ever more grim. Just two days ago I found out that a developer of one of my favorite games &quot;Stalker Clear Sky&quot;, died in Bakhmut, fighting on the front lines... And there are suicide drones and rockets flying by my location occasionally. We have regular electricity shutdowns.<p>But this helps. We&#x27;ve bought Christmas presents for my brother, got food to last the days, and we&#x27;ll have a good celebration for New Year, what with a cake, meat and other foods of value. It&#x27;s a kindness that makes me feel better about the world and people out there.<p>Thanks :))</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Thank You</title><text>On Christmas Eve I made a post trying to ensure that all of our fellow users were at the very least safe and fed over the holiday weekend.<p>Thanks to your help, I was able to distribute to over 40 people&#x2F;families nearly $8000 worth of food, hotels and cash.<p>I will try to ensure we do this type of thing more often; while I was surprised by the level of need in the community, I was even more impressed by the desire to help fix it.<p>Thank you everyone.</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>oars</author><text>In my mind, I have an image that the median HN user works at a startup or FAANG company, getting paid a generous salary and living comfortably enough to not need to worry about these basic needs.<p>Thank you for highlighting that there are others out there who down on their luck (to put it mildly), with many things out of control. For example, the user who posted from Ukraine really struck a chord with me. Who would&#x27;ve thought last Christmas that this one would be so different for Ukrainians?<p>What you have done is amazing. HN is truly a fantastic community. I wish everyone a wonderful and happy holidays.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Thank You</title><text>On Christmas Eve I made a post trying to ensure that all of our fellow users were at the very least safe and fed over the holiday weekend.<p>Thanks to your help, I was able to distribute to over 40 people&#x2F;families nearly $8000 worth of food, hotels and cash.<p>I will try to ensure we do this type of thing more often; while I was surprised by the level of need in the community, I was even more impressed by the desire to help fix it.<p>Thank you everyone.</text></story> |
29,272,573 | 29,272,607 | 1 | 3 | 29,272,000 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedsanders</author><text>Sounds like when you teach a neural network chess, it ends up learning many of the same concepts that we do.<p>To me, this is a great illustration that superhuman intelligence is not magic. When a superhuman AI plays chess, the moves usually make sense to an expert. And even if they don&#x27;t immediately make sense, they usually make sense once the expert plays out some lines to see what happens. Superhuman AIs have crushed humans at chess not by discovering new, wildly counterintuitive openings that dumb humans missed (it actually plays many of the same openings). Rather, it just does what humans do - win pieces, keep your king safe, attack, gain space, restrict your opponent&#x27;s moves - but better and more consistently.<p>This paper builds on that concept and finds that not only are a superhuman AI&#x27;s moves usually understandable by experts, but even some of the superhuman AI&#x27;s internal representations are understandable by experts (!).<p>In the 5th century BCE, Greek philosophers thought the Earth was a sphere. Although they were eventually improved upon by Newton&#x27;s ellipsoid, they still had arrived at the right concept. And here I think we see the same thing: although a superhuman AI &#x27;understands&#x27; chess better than human experts, its understanding still builds upon the same concepts.<p>Thinking broadly, like, suppose we invent some superhuman AGI for $100B in 2100. And then we ask it how to optimize our paperclip production. I don&#x27;t think its recommendations will be magic. Paperclip production is a fairly well understood problem: you bring in some metal, you reshape it, you send it out. It&#x27;s probably gonna have much of the same advice we&#x27;ve already figured out: invest in good equipment, take advantage of economies of scale, choose cheap but effective metals, put factories near sources of energy and labor and raw materials, ship out paperclips in a hierarchical network with caches along the way to supply unanticipated demand, etc. Like, an AGI&#x27;s suggestions may well be better than a management consultant&#x27;s, but it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s going to wave a magic wand and flip the laws of physics. Rather, I expect it to win within the same frameworks we&#x27;ve developed, but by doing things better and more consistently than humans.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero</title><url>https://en.chessbase.com/post/acquisition-of-chess-knowledge-in-alphazero</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a_shovel</author><text>The sci-fi trope that aliens or superintelligent AIs will have thought processes completely different and incomprehensible to humans is probably not true.<p>If the aliens live in our universe, evolved on a planet with limited resources, need food, breathe, etc., then they&#x27;ll likely have a lot in common with Earth animals psychologically. If the AI is tasked with doing something that humans also do, then its tactics will be at least recognizable to an expert in that field. Moreso in well-understood systems such as chess.<p>Is it really plausible that an advanced chess AI&#x27;s tactics would have no concept of threats or king safety? The same tactics apply to it as do to us.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero</title><url>https://en.chessbase.com/post/acquisition-of-chess-knowledge-in-alphazero</url></story> |
11,803,179 | 11,803,320 | 1 | 2 | 11,802,636 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>julian37</author><text>I&#x27;m not aware of any tools out of the box, but you could trivially build your example regex from a Trie which is also easy to construct.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Trie#Algorithms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Trie#Algorithms</a><p>I&#x27;m not so sure it would take up much less space though, if you take gzip compression into account. See for example here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;closure-compiler&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FAQ#closure-compiler-inlined-all-my-strings-which-made-my-code-size-bigger-why-did-it-do-that" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;closure-compiler&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FAQ#closure-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>Somewhat off topic, but is there a &quot;regex alternation optimizer&quot; out there? And would something like that be worth it?<p>I&#x27;ve looked through some textmate-style syntax highlighting packages (used in sublime and in github&#x27;s atom and probably others), and most of them need big (or somewhat big) sets of alternations for a bunch of keywords, and more often than not they are just set up as a list of full keywords with no thought to order or size.<p>Combining them into something like the below should theoretically be faster while also taking up less space (which is important in web libraries), and I feel like it wouldn&#x27;t even be all that difficult.<p><pre><code> de(bugger|cimal|clare|f(ault|er)?|init|l(egate|ete)?)
</code></pre>
Is there something out there which can do this, and would it even be worth it or is this something best left to the JIT&#x2F;optimizer of the regex engine?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microlight.js, a code highlighting library</title><url>https://asvd.github.io/microlight/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hk__2</author><text>Frak [1] does something like that and was written with syntax higlighters in mind.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noprompt&#x2F;frak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noprompt&#x2F;frak</a><p>edit: typo</text><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>Somewhat off topic, but is there a &quot;regex alternation optimizer&quot; out there? And would something like that be worth it?<p>I&#x27;ve looked through some textmate-style syntax highlighting packages (used in sublime and in github&#x27;s atom and probably others), and most of them need big (or somewhat big) sets of alternations for a bunch of keywords, and more often than not they are just set up as a list of full keywords with no thought to order or size.<p>Combining them into something like the below should theoretically be faster while also taking up less space (which is important in web libraries), and I feel like it wouldn&#x27;t even be all that difficult.<p><pre><code> de(bugger|cimal|clare|f(ault|er)?|init|l(egate|ete)?)
</code></pre>
Is there something out there which can do this, and would it even be worth it or is this something best left to the JIT&#x2F;optimizer of the regex engine?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microlight.js, a code highlighting library</title><url>https://asvd.github.io/microlight/</url></story> |
29,803,786 | 29,801,524 | 1 | 2 | 29,797,334 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>helloworld11</author><text>What an absurd posture. HN is full of people endlessly harping about the shitty quality of free, ad supported SEO-rigged mill content that sucks, but then a site that allows often hard working creators to ask for very modest donations so that you can view their material is labeled as &quot;exclusive&quot; and implicitly elitist. The people who try to make some money on Patreon don&#x27;t owe any special favors to children without credit cards or to people in other countries without applicable payment methods at their disposal. They owe themselves a living, and their sponsors a decent presentation, nothing more. There are still plenty of free alternatives out there, instead of harping about one person hoping to earn some money for all the work they put into their videos&#x2F;creativity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dghughes</author><text>Patreon has gone from helpful support by a few to an exclusive club.</text></item><item><author>jaggederest</author><text>All of his videos are behind a Patreon paywall these days, as far as I can tell. He&#x27;s still working on the Antikythera mechanism, it&#x27;s just only visible to patrons.</text></item><item><author>phcreery</author><text>This series is so good but it is unfinished with the last video being uploaded 5 years ago. I want for Chris to finish it so badly.</text></item><item><author>krastanov</author><text>This very talented machinist (Clickspring&#x27;s Chris) is recreating the device using tools from that age on their YouTube channel <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RXv4_jDU2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to...</a><p>It is an amazing playlist.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ancient-greek-astronomical-calculation-machine-reveals-new-secrets/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wombatmobile</author><text>&gt; an exclusive club<p>The club is affordable. What makes it exclusive is the intellectual alignment required to unlock the value of the information. Not everyone has that. If you have it, consider joining the club while you are still alive so you can enjoy the benefits of membership and fraternity with people like you. After that brief period expires, the club will be truly exclusive for a long time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dghughes</author><text>Patreon has gone from helpful support by a few to an exclusive club.</text></item><item><author>jaggederest</author><text>All of his videos are behind a Patreon paywall these days, as far as I can tell. He&#x27;s still working on the Antikythera mechanism, it&#x27;s just only visible to patrons.</text></item><item><author>phcreery</author><text>This series is so good but it is unfinished with the last video being uploaded 5 years ago. I want for Chris to finish it so badly.</text></item><item><author>krastanov</author><text>This very talented machinist (Clickspring&#x27;s Chris) is recreating the device using tools from that age on their YouTube channel <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RXv4_jDU2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to...</a><p>It is an amazing playlist.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ancient-greek-astronomical-calculation-machine-reveals-new-secrets/</url></story> |
34,575,370 | 34,574,011 | 1 | 2 | 34,560,399 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>techdragon</author><text>The biggest problem is going to be if it got embedded in a tire. The hope is that it’s “just on the side of the road”. But there’s a very real possibility that this could get picked up by someone’s car, wedged into the tire tread, and sit in their garage slowly exposing them and&#x2F;or their family if the garage is used for anything else. Or any other car related exposure scenarios such as part time rideshare driver or work vehicles. And it could spend some time
Slowly getting its surface chipped and abraded by regular driving wear, spreading out the risk… which could be good or bad depending on how large the pieces are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BetterGeiger</author><text>Radiation detection is my specialty. This source is Cs-137, few hundred mCi. It&#x27;s easy to detect within a few seconds at distances of a few tens of meters or more with professional detection equipment if there is direct line of sight.<p>If it was knocked off the road, though, the question will be if it fell into a crack or other such place because then the radiation is somewhat shielded and it would take much more measuring time to identify it.<p>I suspect if a few passes with vehicle-mounted detectors don&#x27;t find it then some drones with detectors traveling along the sides of the road would be a good next step. If a critter moved it or ate it then it&#x27;s probably gone forever. At a distance of 1 meter the dose rate from that source is already not extremely hazardous unless a person were exposed for an extended period of time (like a full day or two). Getting closer, like putting it directly against your torso, would mean serious health effects in a matter of minutes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/world/australia/australia-radioactive-capsule.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>Bluecobra</author><text>&gt; Getting closer, like putting it directly against your torso, would mean serious health effects in a matter of minutes.<p>Let’s hope that some random person doesn’t find it and turn it into a necklace or something. The TNG episode “Thine Own Self” comes to mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BetterGeiger</author><text>Radiation detection is my specialty. This source is Cs-137, few hundred mCi. It&#x27;s easy to detect within a few seconds at distances of a few tens of meters or more with professional detection equipment if there is direct line of sight.<p>If it was knocked off the road, though, the question will be if it fell into a crack or other such place because then the radiation is somewhat shielded and it would take much more measuring time to identify it.<p>I suspect if a few passes with vehicle-mounted detectors don&#x27;t find it then some drones with detectors traveling along the sides of the road would be a good next step. If a critter moved it or ate it then it&#x27;s probably gone forever. At a distance of 1 meter the dose rate from that source is already not extremely hazardous unless a person were exposed for an extended period of time (like a full day or two). Getting closer, like putting it directly against your torso, would mean serious health effects in a matter of minutes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/world/australia/australia-radioactive-capsule.html</url></story> |
40,207,533 | 40,207,124 | 1 | 2 | 40,206,752 | 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>wolf550e</author><text>The page is the result of this exchange on Twitter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gorilla0513&#x2F;status&#x2F;1784756577465200740" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gorilla0513&#x2F;status&#x2F;1784756577465200740</a><p>I was surprised to receive a reply from you, the author. Thank you :)
Since I&#x27;m a novice with both compilers and databases, could you tell me what the advantages and disadvantages are of using a VM with SQLite?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DRichardHipp&#x2F;status&#x2F;1784783482788413491" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DRichardHipp&#x2F;status&#x2F;1784783482788413491</a><p>It is difficult to summarize the advantages and disadvantages of byte-code versus AST for SQL in a tweet. I need to write a new page on this topic for the SQLite documentation. Please remind me if something does not appear in about a week.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why SQLite Uses Bytecode</title><url>https://sqlite.org/draft/whybytecode.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>userbinator</author><text><i>The problem of rendering a tree-of-objects as a table is sufficiently difficult that nobody does it, as far as I know. Hence, no tree-of-objects database engine provides the level of detail in their &quot;EXPLAIN&quot; output that SQLite provides.</i><p>I believe Microsoft SQL Server uses an object tree internally, and yet its query plan output is a table:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;sql&#x2F;t-sql&#x2F;statements&#x2F;set-showplan-all-transact-sql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;sql&#x2F;t-sql&#x2F;statements&#x2F;set-s...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why SQLite Uses Bytecode</title><url>https://sqlite.org/draft/whybytecode.html</url></story> |
23,940,265 | 23,939,534 | 1 | 3 | 23,938,620 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dencodev</author><text>I think those all pale in comparison to the freedoms lost from the Patriot Act. Complete and total government surveillance. Gag orders that make it illegal for you to disclose that your business is being forced to comply with surveillance. Government bullying when you try to build systems that are surveillance proof (Apple said to reverse course on end to end encrypted iCloud earlier this year due to government pressure). Not to mention extrajudicial killings of American citizens.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dstroot</author><text>&gt; ... can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?<p>Expanding this question: can a country where the government lies to its citizens, and withholds information from the press, and actively seeks to discredit news sources critical of it be considered a democracy?<p>If citizens cannot be informed they cannot make rational, democratic decisions.</text></item><item><author>throwaway-34512</author><text>To put this in context: for imagine the largest, and one of the last remaining independent news site in a country where most of the media is centrally controlled. Criticism of the government in that media is unknown. This site is read by close to half of the online population. The government is clearly irritated by this.<p>This site was Index, in Hungary. The editorial board resigning is a response of the takeover attempt from government sources.<p>Going forward, the largest, independent news outlet accessible to Hungarians will like be the Guardian and the New York Times.<p>If this was happening in an autocratic country, we’d just shrug. But this happening in an EU country, in a democracy.<p>The question begs itself: can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign</title><url>https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rocqua</author><text>Such a country can be considered a democracy, as long as the government isn&#x27;t too successful in suppressing information and the press. Especially if, in the end, the citizens vote that government out of power.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dstroot</author><text>&gt; ... can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?<p>Expanding this question: can a country where the government lies to its citizens, and withholds information from the press, and actively seeks to discredit news sources critical of it be considered a democracy?<p>If citizens cannot be informed they cannot make rational, democratic decisions.</text></item><item><author>throwaway-34512</author><text>To put this in context: for imagine the largest, and one of the last remaining independent news site in a country where most of the media is centrally controlled. Criticism of the government in that media is unknown. This site is read by close to half of the online population. The government is clearly irritated by this.<p>This site was Index, in Hungary. The editorial board resigning is a response of the takeover attempt from government sources.<p>Going forward, the largest, independent news outlet accessible to Hungarians will like be the Guardian and the New York Times.<p>If this was happening in an autocratic country, we’d just shrug. But this happening in an EU country, in a democracy.<p>The question begs itself: can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign</title><url>https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/</url></story> |
33,734,443 | 33,733,163 | 1 | 2 | 33,729,345 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philsnow</author><text>&gt; if I&#x27;m searching &quot;bakery&quot; on my mobile phone I probably want the ones around me<p>And yet for me, even in google maps on my iphone, when I search for bakery, the first one is almost always one that&#x27;s ~40 miles away, and the closest one is almost always the second in the list. The rest of the list is definitely not sorted descending by distance. If I&#x27;ve searched for a _particular_ ABC bakery, I get other bakeries commingled in the list even if I know damn well there are other ABC bakeries closer than those.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nolok</author><text>This makes perfect sense product wise, if I&#x27;m searching &quot;bakery&quot; on my mobile phone I probably want the ones around me and not the generic location-agnostic google search of it, just like I would if I was searching on map. Matter of fact, this is actually something I do a couple times a month, search then clic the maps tab to see localized results then from them click the website result to find their webpage.<p>As a techie I hate any direct change to the user-agnostic absolute search, but as a user I get it.</text></item><item><author>dpryden</author><text>I recall from my time in Google Geo years ago that the idea of integrating Search and Maps was a big part of the &quot;New Maps&quot; release that happened around 2014. The rumor I heard was that someone (possibly even Larry himself) wanted to be able to have interactive maps directly on the search results page, so that the navigation from a search query to a map wouldn&#x27;t involve even a page reload. So the big Maps frontend rewrite actually ended up merging MFE into GWS, the web search frontend server. I recall seeing maps hosted at google.com&#x2F;maps around that time, but I don&#x27;t know if that was ever launched fully or if it was just an experiment.<p>In any case, though, my understanding is that the technical capacity for this has existed for nearly 10 years now, just behind a configuration setting. So it&#x27;s possible that this change is just a code cleanup. It&#x27;s also possible that someone is trying to increase the percentage of searches that have location information, that doesn&#x27;t seem terribly far-fetched either, and I can imagine lots of ways people could try to rationalize it as actually benefiting users. (Whether it actually does benefit users is of course debatable.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps</title><url>https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amluto</author><text>Somehow DuckDuckGo has taken this to absurd extremes. Almost any search that doesn’t get many natural hits shows branches of my local government toward the bottom of the first page of results.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nolok</author><text>This makes perfect sense product wise, if I&#x27;m searching &quot;bakery&quot; on my mobile phone I probably want the ones around me and not the generic location-agnostic google search of it, just like I would if I was searching on map. Matter of fact, this is actually something I do a couple times a month, search then clic the maps tab to see localized results then from them click the website result to find their webpage.<p>As a techie I hate any direct change to the user-agnostic absolute search, but as a user I get it.</text></item><item><author>dpryden</author><text>I recall from my time in Google Geo years ago that the idea of integrating Search and Maps was a big part of the &quot;New Maps&quot; release that happened around 2014. The rumor I heard was that someone (possibly even Larry himself) wanted to be able to have interactive maps directly on the search results page, so that the navigation from a search query to a map wouldn&#x27;t involve even a page reload. So the big Maps frontend rewrite actually ended up merging MFE into GWS, the web search frontend server. I recall seeing maps hosted at google.com&#x2F;maps around that time, but I don&#x27;t know if that was ever launched fully or if it was just an experiment.<p>In any case, though, my understanding is that the technical capacity for this has existed for nearly 10 years now, just behind a configuration setting. So it&#x27;s possible that this change is just a code cleanup. It&#x27;s also possible that someone is trying to increase the percentage of searches that have location information, that doesn&#x27;t seem terribly far-fetched either, and I can imagine lots of ways people could try to rationalize it as actually benefiting users. (Whether it actually does benefit users is of course debatable.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps</title><url>https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google</url></story> |
9,916,882 | 9,916,886 | 1 | 2 | 9,916,585 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unklefolk</author><text>I would be interested to hear other folks experience with TypeScript. We have move virtually all of the project I work on over to TypeScript but I am not seeing metrics improve (less bugs, quicker to fix etc). Gripes include lots of boilerplate TypeScript being generated and another learning curve for new starters (nearly everyone knows JS).<p>What are other folks experiences? Has it helped or hindered?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing TypeScript 1.5</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/07/20/announcing-typescript-1-5.aspx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moonchrome</author><text>I think the critical point for TypeScript will be 1.6 with async&#x2F;await - at this point it goes from &quot;nice I have types now&quot; to &quot;OK this solves most of my problems with JS&quot;.<p>Looking forward to Angular 2 and TS 1.6</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing TypeScript 1.5</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/07/20/announcing-typescript-1-5.aspx</url></story> |
39,880,341 | 39,746,585 | 1 | 3 | 39,742,114 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scubbo</author><text>There&#x27;s a typo in their Kubernetes installation docs (`ingress.host` referenced, when in fact that variable is `ingress.appHost`), and the link to the Contribution Guide here[0] 404&#x27;s. Not exactly inspiring confidence :P<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.plane.so&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;home#contributing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.plane.so&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;home#contributing</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lionkor</author><text>Ive had great success with Kanboard, but at BeamMP we use plane[0], self-hosted. Apart from the lack of github integration, it does the job for our small team.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plane.so&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plane.so&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted</title><url>https://github.com/plankanban/planka</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>remram</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;makeplane&#x2F;plane">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;makeplane&#x2F;plane</a>, AGPL</text><parent_chain><item><author>lionkor</author><text>Ive had great success with Kanboard, but at BeamMP we use plane[0], self-hosted. Apart from the lack of github integration, it does the job for our small team.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plane.so&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plane.so&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted</title><url>https://github.com/plankanban/planka</url></story> |
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