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22,538,394 | 22,538,389 | 1 | 3 | 22,538,144 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smeyer</author><text>Haven&#x27;t both Vanguard and Fidelity started supporting fractional shares? E.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fidelity.com&#x2F;trading&#x2F;fractional-shares" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fidelity.com&#x2F;trading&#x2F;fractional-shares</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>shanxS</author><text>As a small investor (investing around few thousand USD), how do I know which app to trust?
There is Robinhood and Stash for ETFs and Stocks and then there are robot-wealth mangers like WealthFront etc.<p>Should I always stick to big firms like Vanguard or Fidelity?
Thing I don&#x27;t like about firms like Vanguard and Fidelity is that you cannot buy fraction of a unit which Robinhood&#x2F;Stash allow you to do.<p>Any advice?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/robinhood-maxed-out-credit-line-last-month-amid-market-tumult</url></story> | <instructions>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-wu</author><text>Fidelity offers fractional shares now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fidelity.com&#x2F;trading&#x2F;fractional-shares" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fidelity.com&#x2F;trading&#x2F;fractional-shares</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>shanxS</author><text>As a small investor (investing around few thousand USD), how do I know which app to trust?
There is Robinhood and Stash for ETFs and Stocks and then there are robot-wealth mangers like WealthFront etc.<p>Should I always stick to big firms like Vanguard or Fidelity?
Thing I don&#x27;t like about firms like Vanguard and Fidelity is that you cannot buy fraction of a unit which Robinhood&#x2F;Stash allow you to do.<p>Any advice?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/robinhood-maxed-out-credit-line-last-month-amid-market-tumult</url></story> |
25,493,882 | 25,494,004 | 1 | 2 | 25,493,553 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>That&#x27;s why it is the richest company. In this world you are unlikely going to get rich by being honest and decent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akudha</author><text>8000 rupees per month, in Bangalore! At 160 hours, it comes to 5 rupees an hour. You can’t get even half a cup of tea for 5 bucks. This is the very definition of exploitation. These are people working for the richest company on the planet, by proxy :(<p>This is just depressing<p>Edit: it is 50 rupees per hour, not 5 (I need coffee). Leaving the error as is in the comment above.
The larger point still stands though</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/worker-protests-at-indian-iphone-factory-causes-up-to-7-million-in-damages/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>commonturtle</author><text>It&#x27;s quite a low wage, but not 5 rupees an hour: 8000 &#x2F; 160 = 50. 50 rupees an hour is probably a decent wage in a small town &#x2F; city in India, but would be a tough wage to live on in Bangalore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akudha</author><text>8000 rupees per month, in Bangalore! At 160 hours, it comes to 5 rupees an hour. You can’t get even half a cup of tea for 5 bucks. This is the very definition of exploitation. These are people working for the richest company on the planet, by proxy :(<p>This is just depressing<p>Edit: it is 50 rupees per hour, not 5 (I need coffee). Leaving the error as is in the comment above.
The larger point still stands though</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/worker-protests-at-indian-iphone-factory-causes-up-to-7-million-in-damages/</url></story> |
7,218,806 | 7,218,776 | 1 | 2 | 7,218,267 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmaster5</author><text>Per his blog, Fast.ly is now hosting the npm registry, so the money is not going for hosting. It&#x27;s to build some kind of sellout business.<p>Back in July he must&#x27;ve seen this coming because he switched the npm license from MIT to the more restrictive Artistic 2.0: <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/c32391b1efd70a861cebc77e0cc784a46af5de21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;npm&#x2F;npm&#x2F;commit&#x2F;c32391b1efd70a861cebc77e0c...</a><p>He&#x27;s already taken away the download numbers on npmjs.org, so maybe he intends to sell the &quot;analytics&quot; back to the community.<p>The guy calls himself a Supreme Emporer on his LinkedIn.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round</title><url>http://blog.npmjs.org/post/76320673650/funding</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>al2o3cr</author><text>One thing I&#x27;m a tad annoyed by - this deal was being put together simultaneously with the &quot;scalenpm&quot; crowdfunding drive. A shoutout to the supporters of that drive would have been nice...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round</title><url>http://blog.npmjs.org/post/76320673650/funding</url></story> |
28,503,166 | 28,502,855 | 1 | 2 | 28,502,484 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Newsgroup FAQs are a goldmine. I still find myself referring to the comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ repeatedly:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faqs.org&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;algorithms-faq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faqs.org&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;algorithms-faq&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions</title><url>http://c-faq.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>SavantIdiot</author><text>1.1. How should I decide which integer type to use?<p>Programmer: Hmmm, I think these three should be shorts and these 10 can fit in chars.<p>Modern compiler: Fuck that, you&#x27;re all 32-bits. I ain&#x27;t got time for unaligned memory access...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions</title><url>http://c-faq.com/</url></story> |
2,225,475 | 2,225,095 | 1 | 2 | 2,224,916 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acabal</author><text>I'm still not sure what the point of all this is. Any developer worth their salt already knows that IE9 is more or less a small step forward but still far short of what it needs to be and of what FF/Chrome have accomplished ages ago. Any non-technical user won't be reading this article and won't give a damn about IE vs. FF vs. Chrome, as long as their internets work.<p>Why keep up the pissing match? Who are they talking to?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IE9 vs. Firefox 4 (done in canvas)</title><url>http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/ie9_vs_fx4.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>dillon</author><text>This is why Developers hate IE, we have to make code specifically for that browser. I guess if you truly hate Microsoft, you wouldn't code it and just tell the user to download Firefox.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IE9 vs. Firefox 4 (done in canvas)</title><url>http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/ie9_vs_fx4.html</url></story> |
28,648,162 | 28,647,007 | 1 | 3 | 28,644,653 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>I don&#x27;t think startup job titles are worth much but they can be massive skill accelerators.<p>If you&#x27;re in the first 5 years of your career you&#x27;ll have more opportunity to learn more technologies at a small startup where everyone has to do everything than at a FAANG (especially compared to Google where you will only learn the Google internal stack).<p>You can leverage that into a much higher paying job in a way that you wouldn&#x27;t be able to leverage experience at a mid-level company.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clpm4j</author><text>I think the main advantage of working at a startup is when you&#x27;re relatively young and inexperienced - you&#x27;re being compensated in the experience and accelerated job titles that you can then leverage to ramp up your career by joining other companies or starting your own. Getting an exit is a cherry on top.</text></item><item><author>synergy20</author><text>Chatted with some early-stage-then-IPO-ed engineers yesterday, I asked &quot;aren&#x27;t your company IPO-ed and you should have retired?&quot;, the answer is, after multiple dilutions in rounds of fund raises, his options ended up worth just a few thousands, not useful at all.<p>There is no way the startup you have been working for will keep your interest a priority, and you never know if your share will reach zero in the process of multi-stage VC rounds.<p>Unless you&#x27;re the founders who will always be at the negotiation table for new rounds, I saw no point to work for startups, not at all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Understanding Startup Offers</title><url>https://withcompound.com/manual-company-equity/understanding-startup-offers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dhd415</author><text>In my experience, getting a FAANG job accelerates your career as well or better than titling up quickly in a startup. Having a FANG position on your resume is more of a known quantity for future potential employers than being promoted quickly in an unknown startup.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clpm4j</author><text>I think the main advantage of working at a startup is when you&#x27;re relatively young and inexperienced - you&#x27;re being compensated in the experience and accelerated job titles that you can then leverage to ramp up your career by joining other companies or starting your own. Getting an exit is a cherry on top.</text></item><item><author>synergy20</author><text>Chatted with some early-stage-then-IPO-ed engineers yesterday, I asked &quot;aren&#x27;t your company IPO-ed and you should have retired?&quot;, the answer is, after multiple dilutions in rounds of fund raises, his options ended up worth just a few thousands, not useful at all.<p>There is no way the startup you have been working for will keep your interest a priority, and you never know if your share will reach zero in the process of multi-stage VC rounds.<p>Unless you&#x27;re the founders who will always be at the negotiation table for new rounds, I saw no point to work for startups, not at all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Understanding Startup Offers</title><url>https://withcompound.com/manual-company-equity/understanding-startup-offers</url></story> |
7,002,214 | 7,001,730 | 1 | 3 | 7,001,227 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Theodores</author><text>I did this a few times when I was a student. A variant on this is to wedge a kitchen knife between the door frame and the door jamb. Sure some paint gets damaged but it gets you in...<p>Another use for the coke-bottle strip is with padlocks - simply push inside and it opens using the method you describe on most of them.<p>In fact there are so many ways to get round a lock that going to all of the trouble of picking it is rather quaint. Here are some common things that happen:<p>Emergency services - they go straight for the &#x27;Big Key&#x27; which is that battering ram we have all seen on TV.<p>Bicycle thieves - no interest in the lock. Bolt croppers cost less than a good lock and they are far quicker at getting the job done reliably.<p>Car thieves - break into the house and steal the keys.<p>Regular folk locked out of homes&#x2F;cars - call the locksmith or simply break some glass.<p>If you need to gain entry surreptitiously (and not damage a lock) it can be far easier to use social engineering to temporarily obtain keys, e.g. from an employer, then get them cut in a matter of minutes at some place around the corner.<p>Alternatively an impression can be made in &#x27;plasticine&#x27; or a photo taken. A friendly locksmith can sell you the blank, and, with some time with a needle file, a key made.<p>Although fun can be had picking locks, &#x27;in the wild&#x27; it rarely happens because brute force or a bit of Coke can is usually far more effective.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jheriko</author><text>A much cheaper and easier approach that works for most locks is to get a coke bottle and tear a strip out of it, then use it to do the &#x27;hollywood credit card trick&#x27;.<p>unlike a credit card it doesn&#x27;t snap or break very easily - the type of plastic will become softer when placed under pressure and is very flexible but strong - if you continue to force it in the right area it will work its way around hard corners and into tiny gaps until there is enough pressure to pop the bolt. when the bolt has an edge that is sloped towards you it will pop on the first push (the way i see most &#x27;yale style&#x27; locks fitted on doors that open inwards - i.e. most front doors)<p>it takes an exceptionally tightly fitted door frame to prohibit this (e.g. one with brushes or hermetic seals)<p>the one time i couldn&#x27;t break into my own home doing this was because there was a brush fitted down the side of the door - fortunately there was not one fitted in the letter box, so i found a long spanner at a nearby construction site and then spent the next four hours of my life whacking the mechanism from through the letterbox blindly until i caught the handle the right way and the door popped open...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lock Picking – A Basic Guide</title><url>https://www.hackthis.co.uk/articles/picking-locks-a-basic-guide</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sillysaurus2</author><text>You opened your door by putting something through your letterbox? That&#x27;s awesome. Did you catch the doorknob or the lock turner? Was the door handle flat instead of round, or...? Hard to imagine the logistics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jheriko</author><text>A much cheaper and easier approach that works for most locks is to get a coke bottle and tear a strip out of it, then use it to do the &#x27;hollywood credit card trick&#x27;.<p>unlike a credit card it doesn&#x27;t snap or break very easily - the type of plastic will become softer when placed under pressure and is very flexible but strong - if you continue to force it in the right area it will work its way around hard corners and into tiny gaps until there is enough pressure to pop the bolt. when the bolt has an edge that is sloped towards you it will pop on the first push (the way i see most &#x27;yale style&#x27; locks fitted on doors that open inwards - i.e. most front doors)<p>it takes an exceptionally tightly fitted door frame to prohibit this (e.g. one with brushes or hermetic seals)<p>the one time i couldn&#x27;t break into my own home doing this was because there was a brush fitted down the side of the door - fortunately there was not one fitted in the letter box, so i found a long spanner at a nearby construction site and then spent the next four hours of my life whacking the mechanism from through the letterbox blindly until i caught the handle the right way and the door popped open...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lock Picking – A Basic Guide</title><url>https://www.hackthis.co.uk/articles/picking-locks-a-basic-guide</url></story> |
11,590,299 | 11,589,713 | 1 | 3 | 11,589,373 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wbhart</author><text>Something has definitely gone wrong in either the study, the journalism, or with the person who wrote the headline. From the reporting here, there is nothing whatsoever that makes me believe the one minute of strenuous exertion had anything to do with the result.<p>Why on earth didn&#x27;t they have a control group that did 10 minutes of slow cycling instead of a bunch of couch potatoes that did nothing? For all we know, the people who actually turned up for the study regularly to do the actual rides walked far further to get to and from the study than the people who did nothing. And for all we know, 10 minutes of slow cycling has the same measurable effect as 45 minutes of cycling.<p>What on earth is wrong with medical science&#x2F;science journalism, that this is the end result of however many dollars of public money? Are they worried that if they actually do a really large, robust study that all future funding will have dried up?<p>Surely there is a massive public interest in such research. Why doesn&#x27;t someone just do the sodding research and find out once and for all?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mgberlin</author><text>The headline is clickbait. It&#x27;s a huge stretch to say that the volunteers engaged in 1 minute of hard exercise. The workout was:<p>&quot;[they] warmed up for two minutes on stationary bicycles, then pedaled as hard as possible for 20 seconds; rode at a very slow pace for two minutes, sprinted all-out again for 20 seconds; recovered with slow riding for another two minutes; pedaled all-out for a final 20 seconds; then cooled down for three minutes.&quot;<p>Sure, the exertions total to one minute, but the recovery periods and cooldown are a very important aspect of the workout. Muscles are still burning glucose and oxygen, clearing lactic acid, and generally doing all the things that exercise is good for during this time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Benefits of 1 Minute of All-Out Effort during Exercise</title><url>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/1-minute-of-all-out-exercise-may-equal-45-minutes-of-moderate-exertion/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>So it&#x27;s 10 minutes, where 9 minutes are slow riding.<p>The comparison group which achieved the same results did 45 min exercises.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mgberlin</author><text>The headline is clickbait. It&#x27;s a huge stretch to say that the volunteers engaged in 1 minute of hard exercise. The workout was:<p>&quot;[they] warmed up for two minutes on stationary bicycles, then pedaled as hard as possible for 20 seconds; rode at a very slow pace for two minutes, sprinted all-out again for 20 seconds; recovered with slow riding for another two minutes; pedaled all-out for a final 20 seconds; then cooled down for three minutes.&quot;<p>Sure, the exertions total to one minute, but the recovery periods and cooldown are a very important aspect of the workout. Muscles are still burning glucose and oxygen, clearing lactic acid, and generally doing all the things that exercise is good for during this time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Benefits of 1 Minute of All-Out Effort during Exercise</title><url>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/1-minute-of-all-out-exercise-may-equal-45-minutes-of-moderate-exertion/</url></story> |
30,955,048 | 30,954,924 | 1 | 3 | 30,949,048 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ls15</author><text>&gt; Why, then, do you subject yourself to it? I simply can&#x27;t understand why someone would go through the trouble of using nitter, constantly clearing cookies, or using browser extensions _just to use a service that is hostile to them_. Especially because you and I both know that these workarounds aren&#x27;t going to work forever, and soon enough you&#x27;ll be scrambling for another hole in the wall.<p>Network effects are real.<p>I only use Twitter to read posts that someone linked to. I would prefer these posts to be hosted elsewhere, but I have no control over that, just like I cannot control the messenger apps that others are using. I currently have three options for communicating online:<p>1) use the platform&#x2F;protocol that someone else picked, directly or through some other tool<p>2) convince them to use the platform&#x2F;protocol that I prefer<p>3) stop sharing content with that person<p>I think the only way out of this is regulation that breaks up walled gardens. Companies have no incentive to open up their gardens to competitors, so we may have to apply some force.<p>&gt; Cut the cord. You don&#x27;t need twitter. You don&#x27;t need reddit, which has been employing similar patterns recently. The internet exists beyond these walled gardens. Take some time to reflect on your relationship to this technology and the people&#x2F;ideas whose presence in your life&#x2F;mind is dependent on it.<p>The cost for that for many people is losing connections to friends, family and other contacts, unless their peers migrate at the same time. That Signal moment was a bit like that when many people moved from Whatsapp to Signal. My wife was finally able to get rid of Whatsapp without losing contacts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>goldtownjac</author><text>Lots of people in this thread complaining about user hostility and bad UX. I wholeheartedly agree. Twitter does not have your best interests at heart, and this ever-worsening dark pattern shows that very clearly.<p>Why, then, do you subject yourself to it? I simply can&#x27;t understand why someone would go through the trouble of using nitter, constantly clearing cookies, or using browser extensions _just to use a service that is hostile to them_. Especially because you and I both know that these workarounds aren&#x27;t going to work forever, and soon enough you&#x27;ll be scrambling for another hole in the wall.<p>Cut the cord. You don&#x27;t need twitter. You don&#x27;t need reddit, which has been employing similar patterns recently. The internet exists beyond these walled gardens. Take some time to reflect on your relationship to this technology and the people&#x2F;ideas whose presence in your life&#x2F;mind is dependent on it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter</title><url>https://annoying.technology/posts/e6901c0ea272f57d/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>More importantly, don&#x27;t let this happen again.<p>How many times does someone have to fall for the same scam before they deserve some of the blame?<p>Only support services that aren&#x27;t blatantly trying to buy their way into becoming a monopoly and abusing their locked in customers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>goldtownjac</author><text>Lots of people in this thread complaining about user hostility and bad UX. I wholeheartedly agree. Twitter does not have your best interests at heart, and this ever-worsening dark pattern shows that very clearly.<p>Why, then, do you subject yourself to it? I simply can&#x27;t understand why someone would go through the trouble of using nitter, constantly clearing cookies, or using browser extensions _just to use a service that is hostile to them_. Especially because you and I both know that these workarounds aren&#x27;t going to work forever, and soon enough you&#x27;ll be scrambling for another hole in the wall.<p>Cut the cord. You don&#x27;t need twitter. You don&#x27;t need reddit, which has been employing similar patterns recently. The internet exists beyond these walled gardens. Take some time to reflect on your relationship to this technology and the people&#x2F;ideas whose presence in your life&#x2F;mind is dependent on it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter</title><url>https://annoying.technology/posts/e6901c0ea272f57d/</url></story> |
26,706,820 | 26,706,661 | 1 | 2 | 26,706,187 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nerdbaggy</author><text>Seems that lots of people only think ADHD people have a hard time paying attention. If it was that simple I would be so happy. Here are just a few of the things I struggle with.<p>- Will power. People with ADHD struggle sooooo much with will power. It’s a constant struggle with everything in life and really wears you down.<p>- Constantly putting on a fake front pretending you don’t have ADHD.<p>- Rejection sensitivity<p>- Feeling inadequate, and unset at yourself for not being able to perform like peers<p>- Emotions swinging from happy to angry in a flash<p>- not being able to maintain friendships<p>- People thinking it’s not a real condition. Unless you have it you can’t even come close to understanding how much of a challenge every day is.<p>- Medication only helps with the attention issue for maybe 8 hours. It doesn’t help with the other 95% of the issues<p>This is by far the best what is it like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html</a> and here is the corresponding HN <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22129777" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22129777</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA approves new ADHD drug for children</title><url>https://www.axios.com/fda-approves-new-adhd-drug-for-children-d7bb24d4-7bf2-4a5e-a505-833ed57dee7a.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>PragmaticPulp</author><text>For anyone curious about the proposed mechanism of action, care of the Wikipedia page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Viloxazine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Viloxazine</a><p>&gt; Viloxazine, like imipramine, inhibited norepinephrine reuptake in the hearts of rats and mice; unlike imipramine, it did not block reuptake of norepinephrine in either the medullae or the hypothalami of rats. As for serotonin, while its reuptake inhibition was comparable to that of desipramine (i.e., very weak), viloxazine did potentiate serotonin-mediated brain functions in a manner similar to amitriptyline and imipramine, which are relatively potent inhibitors of serotonin reuptake.[11] Unlike any of the other drugs tested, it did not exhibit any anticholinergic effects.[11]<p>&gt; More recent research has found that the mechanism of action of viloxazine may be more complex than previously assumed.[12] It appears to act as a potent antagonist of 5-HT2B receptors and as a potent agonist of 5-HT2C receptors.[12] These actions may be involved in its effectiveness for ADHD.[12]<p>&gt; It has also been found to up-regulate GABAB receptors in the frontal cortex of rats.[13]<p>As always, a drug&#x27;s effects cannot be interpreted simply by looking at binding affinities. It&#x27;s important to focus on the actually human clinical trials. The binding affinities are interesting in the context of neuroscience and drug research, but less so for treatment decisions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA approves new ADHD drug for children</title><url>https://www.axios.com/fda-approves-new-adhd-drug-for-children-d7bb24d4-7bf2-4a5e-a505-833ed57dee7a.html</url></story> |
23,017,501 | 23,017,589 | 1 | 2 | 23,017,160 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kitd</author><text>As with a lot of things, it comes down to communication. Between teams, and between the services they write. Which is just another expression of Conway&#x27;s Law.<p>IIRC Fred Brooks pointed out that the # of bugs in a system correlates closely with the # of lines of communication within and between the teams. Joshua Bloch recommends in &quot;Effective Java&quot; that, if possible, 3 potential clients should participate in the design of an API, for the same reason. So a well-designed interface or OpenAPI spec is worth its weight in gold.<p>Ofc, &quot;microservices&quot; here means separate running instances available on a network. But monoliths can be &quot;service&quot;-oriented as well. OSGi was good for this in Java, but any system able to load shared objects or plugins dynamically can follow the same pattern. And the benefit is that, if your app hits the jackpot and needs to scale outwards, the service interfaces, ie the lines of communication, are already well-defined.<p>So, service-oriented monolith first, then microservices if needed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickcw</author><text>I think that the problem here was that they were fighting against Conway&#x27;s Law: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Conway%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Conway%27s_law</a><p>&gt; Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization&#x27;s communication structure.<p>I think microservices work well in organizations that are big enough to have a team per microservice. However if you&#x27;ve just split your monolith up and have the same team managing lots of microservices you&#x27;ve made a lot more work for the team without the organisational decoupling which are the real win of microservices.<p>In my experience it is really difficult to fight Conway&#x27;s law, you have to work with it and arrange your business accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/microservices-back-again/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Yeah, the problem with microservices is because the organisation structure is wrong. I’ve literally heard every excuse about microservices at this point. My architecture is better but it doesn’t have a snappy name; it’s called the smallest possible number of services that can be reasoned about and network partitions are NOT necessary to create bounded contexts in a codebase, often just a directory is FINE.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickcw</author><text>I think that the problem here was that they were fighting against Conway&#x27;s Law: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Conway%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Conway%27s_law</a><p>&gt; Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization&#x27;s communication structure.<p>I think microservices work well in organizations that are big enough to have a team per microservice. However if you&#x27;ve just split your monolith up and have the same team managing lots of microservices you&#x27;ve made a lot more work for the team without the organisational decoupling which are the real win of microservices.<p>In my experience it is really difficult to fight Conway&#x27;s law, you have to work with it and arrange your business accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/microservices-back-again/</url></story> |
17,991,253 | 17,990,553 | 1 | 2 | 17,989,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>I&#x27;m in exactly the same situation. The SE&#x27;s killer feature for me is that I can easily operate it with one hand. I commute on the NYC subway, and that means I have to be able to hold a handrail with one hand while using my phone with the other. I &quot;downgraded&quot; from an iPhone 6... because apps put controls everywhere on the screen, and I just couldn&#x27;t hold the phone and operate it with the same hand. (The thing was also very slippery; it never slipped out of my hands and got smashed, but I always felt it was inevitable.)<p>I am also not planning on upgrading. The iPhone X family looks great. Amazing screen. I don&#x27;t care about a home button or a headphone jack or whatever the improved battery life is. Until I can be guaranteed a seat on the subway, it&#x27;s all a net negative because I can&#x27;t actually interact with applications during my commute. (When I&#x27;m not commuting, I have a 32&quot; monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse which is WAY BETTER than a 6&quot; phone and my finger.)<p>(More honestly, I don&#x27;t see $1000 in value-add over my current phone. I don&#x27;t need the latest gadget to be happy... but if it makes me $1000 happier over its lifetime, sign me up.)<p>I feel like it&#x27;s a cultural thing. &quot;Designed by Apple in California&quot; where you just drive to work so a bigger phone is only a benefit (larger battery, easier-to-read text when you&#x27;re using the phone). But in NYC, small is a huge benefit, and it&#x27;s a shame that the transit-deprived West Coast tech companies don&#x27;t understand our use case here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RodgerTheGreat</author><text>I have an SE, and I like it. The size is nice, I like that it lays flat, I like that it has a headphone jack. Newer models don&#x27;t have compelling features my SE lacks, and take away things I like. I have no incentive to upgrade, and will likely explore other manufacturers when it eventually wears out.<p>I have an 11&quot; Macbook Air, and I love it. The size and weight is nice, the keyboard is great, the touchpad is precise, I love that it has MagSafe, and I consider the ability to plug in DisplayPort monitors and my USB-A devices a must-have. Newer laptop models don&#x27;t have compelling features my Air lacks, and take away things I like. I have no incentive to upgrade, and will definitely explore other manufacturers when it eventually wears out.<p>It&#x27;s frustrating when a company makes products that suit your needs well, and then changes its mind. I just don&#x27;t seem to be in Apple&#x27;s target market anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/14/the-iphone-se-was-the-best-phone-apple-ever-made-and-now-its-dead/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>happertiger</author><text>I had a 13 inch MacBook Pro 2016. Sold it. Went back to using my 2013 MacBook Pro. I have an iPhone 7 and I miss my headphone jack every day. The best phone I ever owned was the se.<p>Apple is happily going off in a nonsense direction where their products are less and less useful because they are less complete and therefore less “self reliant” as devices.<p>See that’s what people don’t articulate. It’s not that the design changes are bad. Some are great. It’s that the balance of great design and great utility is what made apple impossible to beat as a phone and a laptop, and <i>then there was the fact that they were seamlessly integrated</i> (something apple has still failed to fully exploit — their stuff could be mind blowing). This is what made the brand great, and I feel like people miss that part of the argument.<p>When you bought a 2013 MacBook Pro, you didn’t need to buy accessories because it had it all - hdmi, usb, etc. - and it was useful without any additional accessories and met or exceeded my needs in almost all circumstances. I didn’t need a dongle to present and I didn’t need a cable adapter to charge my phone. When I packed for a conference I would grab my laptop, a power supply (that I could trip over in hotel rooms while working with no worries and that neatly wrapped up), and an hdmi to dvi adapter in case the projector failed, but that was it. Now I feel like Apple has externalized <i>all of that utility</i> in an effort to boost margins or go thin, and it’s basically made the devices reliant on a host of adapters, both for phones and laptops (and actually the 2013 Mac pro was the same problem).<p>Apple needs to understand what made them great was that they weren’t the ultimate steak knife, they were the ultimate survival knife, and get back to building the most <i>useful, thought out and self-contained</i> devices like they used to. They had a sweet spot, but we’re going back to the Apple cube across all product lines again, and nobody wants that.<p>The pro computer failure and the move away from nerd needs to slab of glass has lost balance and is heading into design over substance. The pendulum needs some rebalancing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RodgerTheGreat</author><text>I have an SE, and I like it. The size is nice, I like that it lays flat, I like that it has a headphone jack. Newer models don&#x27;t have compelling features my SE lacks, and take away things I like. I have no incentive to upgrade, and will likely explore other manufacturers when it eventually wears out.<p>I have an 11&quot; Macbook Air, and I love it. The size and weight is nice, the keyboard is great, the touchpad is precise, I love that it has MagSafe, and I consider the ability to plug in DisplayPort monitors and my USB-A devices a must-have. Newer laptop models don&#x27;t have compelling features my Air lacks, and take away things I like. I have no incentive to upgrade, and will definitely explore other manufacturers when it eventually wears out.<p>It&#x27;s frustrating when a company makes products that suit your needs well, and then changes its mind. I just don&#x27;t seem to be in Apple&#x27;s target market anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/14/the-iphone-se-was-the-best-phone-apple-ever-made-and-now-its-dead/</url></story> |
33,246,452 | 33,246,070 | 1 | 3 | 33,244,767 | 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>incomingpain</author><text>The massive war with China has left obvious key issues in chip fabrication. The reason or whatever for the ongoing war with china doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>Similar factories are being built in Germany by Infineon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infineon.com&#x2F;cms&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-infineon&#x2F;press&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2021&#x2F;INFXX202109-098.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infineon.com&#x2F;cms&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-infineon&#x2F;press&#x2F;press-r...</a><p>Samsung in Texas: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;samsung-plans-17-billion-chip-plant-in-taylor-texas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;samsung-plans-17-...</a><p>Intel in Arizona: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;intel-is-spending-20-billion-to-build-two-new-chip-plants-in-arizona.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;intel-is-spending-20-billion...</a><p>Samsung&#x2F;SK in Korea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;south-korea-chip-semiconductor-samsung-hynix&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;south-korea-chip-semiconducto...</a><p>India is doing something with Risc-V: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pib.gov.in&#x2F;PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1820621" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pib.gov.in&#x2F;PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1820621</a><p>Overall, divestment from china seems to be the goal. But this many new factories being produced is going to overproduce chips and eliminate any profitability; but inexpensive chips like this will most likely create a boon to the economies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bouncycastle</author><text>Related: There is a massive TSMC factory being built in Japan right now. Take a look at the pictures, I&#x27;ve never seen this many cranes at one location:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhk.jp&#x2F;static&#x2F;assets&#x2F;images&#x2F;newblogposting&#x2F;ts&#x2F;7P5MRK4ZKV&#x2F;7P5MRK4ZKV-eyecatch_697317e9f77fa571256076ea98044823.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhk.jp&#x2F;static&#x2F;assets&#x2F;images&#x2F;newblogposting&#x2F;ts&#x2F;7P...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn-cw-english.cwg.tw&#x2F;ckeditor&#x2F;202205&#x2F;ckeditor-628ae91d19304.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn-cw-english.cwg.tw&#x2F;ckeditor&#x2F;202205&#x2F;ckeditor-628ae...</a><p>It looks like a forest of cranes...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/17/intel-and-the-15trn-chip-industry-meltdown</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adeptima</author><text>&quot;The plant will produce 22-nanometer and 28-nanometer chips to address strong global demand for speciality chip technologies, they said&quot;<p>I&#x27;m curious why not the latest - 3nm, 5nm</text><parent_chain><item><author>bouncycastle</author><text>Related: There is a massive TSMC factory being built in Japan right now. Take a look at the pictures, I&#x27;ve never seen this many cranes at one location:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhk.jp&#x2F;static&#x2F;assets&#x2F;images&#x2F;newblogposting&#x2F;ts&#x2F;7P5MRK4ZKV&#x2F;7P5MRK4ZKV-eyecatch_697317e9f77fa571256076ea98044823.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhk.jp&#x2F;static&#x2F;assets&#x2F;images&#x2F;newblogposting&#x2F;ts&#x2F;7P...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn-cw-english.cwg.tw&#x2F;ckeditor&#x2F;202205&#x2F;ckeditor-628ae91d19304.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn-cw-english.cwg.tw&#x2F;ckeditor&#x2F;202205&#x2F;ckeditor-628ae...</a><p>It looks like a forest of cranes...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/17/intel-and-the-15trn-chip-industry-meltdown</url></story> |
18,003,820 | 18,003,572 | 1 | 3 | 18,002,626 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blackhaz</author><text>Interesting. And I&#x27;ve recently moved to FreeBSD and let it imitate a Mac with Xfce, and I have graphics, Wi-Fi, black jack and hookers [1]. I never thought this level of imitation would be possible in the free world.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trafyx.com&#x2F;?p=2551" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trafyx.com&#x2F;?p=2551</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>peterwwillis</author><text>I really like WindowMaker and similar clones, but <i>(warning: ranting)</i> I partially abandoned it because of how absurd it is to try to run a Linux system without DBUS-native tooling, which mostly only exists in GUIs for specific window managers&#x2F;docks. Unless you&#x27;re using one of a few popular desktop environments, Linux is a shitshow of bad user interface (and even some of them like Ubuntu seem to lack functionality that used to exist). I&#x27;m probably moving to Windows soon just so I don&#x27;t have to spend <i>days</i> to get an affordable machine from 2 years ago to achieve basic hardware functionality like &quot;graphics&quot; and &quot;wifi&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcelerier</author><text>&gt; I partially abandoned it because of how absurd it is to try to run a Linux system without DBUS-native toolin<p>&gt; I&#x27;m probably moving to Windows soon<p>so when you migrate back to windows will you also go to services.msc and disable everything ? AFAIK windows won&#x27;t even let you disable its RPC broker.</text><parent_chain><item><author>peterwwillis</author><text>I really like WindowMaker and similar clones, but <i>(warning: ranting)</i> I partially abandoned it because of how absurd it is to try to run a Linux system without DBUS-native tooling, which mostly only exists in GUIs for specific window managers&#x2F;docks. Unless you&#x27;re using one of a few popular desktop environments, Linux is a shitshow of bad user interface (and even some of them like Ubuntu seem to lack functionality that used to exist). I&#x27;m probably moving to Windows soon just so I don&#x27;t have to spend <i>days</i> to get an affordable machine from 2 years ago to achieve basic hardware functionality like &quot;graphics&quot; and &quot;wifi&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace</url></story> |
29,745,664 | 29,745,531 | 1 | 2 | 29,743,785 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wahern</author><text>Drug coupons are common in the United States. AFAIU, they&#x27;re issued by the pharmaceutical companies, but as few people know about them (or how the pricing system is structured in general) it&#x27;s often doctors and pharmacies that seem to help broker their distribution. The coupon system permits pharmaceuticals and friendly politicians to deflect criticism about drug pricing strategies by providing plausible deniability regarding costs to the uninsured and underinsured.<p>I remember reading several years ago reports that drug companies were favoring coupon distribution to doctors according to how often doctors prescribed the issuer&#x27;s name-brand drugs instead of generics. That is, a doctor who prescribed a designer expensive drug, Foo, more often might get more coupons for name-brand but boring drug, Bar, for distribution to the doctor&#x27;s indigent patients. I don&#x27;t remember, however, if or which reforms were enacted as a result. Also, I&#x27;m not sure if it was nearly as big of an issue as actual kick-backs in the form of vacations, etc, which (AFAIU) were made illegal years ago. The opacity and overall baroqueness of the coupon system is precisely why there&#x27;s not much opportunity for doctors to <i>personally</i> benefit from the scheme, yet why it works well as a tool for pharmaceutical companies to maximize profits while staving off political reforms.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Drug_coupon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Drug_coupon</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Consultant32452</author><text>My kid recently needed a script. We had to go through a specialty pharmacy that ships directly to home because it apparently wasn&#x27;t carried in the pharmacies like CVS. The script was over $400.<p>Insurance denied the claim.<p>They &quot;applied a coupon&quot; and the price magically became $35.<p>In this one transaction there&#x27;s multiple layers of corruption most likely starting with the prescribing doctor.</text></item><item><author>tempestn</author><text>I expect the main difficulty this presents to hospitals isn&#x27;t that their customers will be informed, or even that their competitors will be advantaged, but that they will be unable to engage in price discrimination (charging different amounts to different customers, based on their willingness and ability to pay). Or at least, they&#x27;ll need to do so transparently.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hospitals still not fully complying with federal price-disclosure rules</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospital-price-public-biden-11640882507</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>The scary truth is that the prescribing doctor probably prescribed what they thought would best treat their patient&#x27;s condition, and access to that medication requires hundreds of dollars because the manufacturer can simply charge that much, so why not? Your insurer denied you, again, because they can, so why not? Manufacturers give coupons that bring down the cost of their medications by hundreds, even thousands of dollars, so they have something to point to when they&#x27;re accused of profiteering and exploitation. Your life and the lives of your family members depend on this system not fucking any of you over for a buck, despite fucking you over for a buck every step of the way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Consultant32452</author><text>My kid recently needed a script. We had to go through a specialty pharmacy that ships directly to home because it apparently wasn&#x27;t carried in the pharmacies like CVS. The script was over $400.<p>Insurance denied the claim.<p>They &quot;applied a coupon&quot; and the price magically became $35.<p>In this one transaction there&#x27;s multiple layers of corruption most likely starting with the prescribing doctor.</text></item><item><author>tempestn</author><text>I expect the main difficulty this presents to hospitals isn&#x27;t that their customers will be informed, or even that their competitors will be advantaged, but that they will be unable to engage in price discrimination (charging different amounts to different customers, based on their willingness and ability to pay). Or at least, they&#x27;ll need to do so transparently.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hospitals still not fully complying with federal price-disclosure rules</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospital-price-public-biden-11640882507</url></story> |
21,215,416 | 21,215,489 | 1 | 3 | 21,213,596 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DecayingOrganic</author><text>A neuroscientist (nate1212) on reddit offered the following reasons:<p><pre><code> - He just possibly infected his whole digestive system. Not just small intestine, but stomach
as well. Furthermore, AAV can potentially exhibit transcytosis through epithelial layers,
suggesting that it&#x27;s possible the virus infected more than just his digestive system.
- He did not determine an appropriate dose, and so he likely infected with a HUGE genetic
payload. Overexpression with AAV can kill infected cells, which means this man is risking
his digestive lining.
- Neither the promoter nor the encoded protein itself are human, potentially risking
(possibly severe) autoimmune reaction.
- There are few&#x2F;no long-term studies on effects of AAV integration and expression in humans.
There is indeed evidence that AAV increases risk of cancer, almost certainly in a dose-
dependent manner.
- AAVs could integrate randomly into your genome in low frequencies (0.1% to 1%), meaning that they could just by
chance disrupt a gene you really need to not get cancer.
</code></pre>
The person in the video also suggested &quot;trials for volunteers&quot; (on his reddit post), but immediately backtracked on that after he learned that people cannot legally consent to such experiments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0xffff2</author><text>You didn&#x27;t actually tell us why it&#x27;s irresponsible. Is there a real risk of them hurting anyone but themselves?</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>People who do this are usually irresponsible and don&#x27;t even know whether they&#x27;ve achieved their goal or not.<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;Just to make sure this is really clear because people have been angry about this ever being tested in more humans. This will not be used in humans again until significantly more testing is done and the manufacturing protocol is massively refined. This could mean years before another test is conducted. More tests will need to be done in animal models as well. Maybe we&#x27;ll do away with the viral aspect all together and completely overhaul the DNA. The reason this video was posted was because I want this to be an open source technology. If you have suggestions for how it can be improved, leave it in the comments.&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>I spent 20 years of my life working towards gene therapy and to see idiots do stuff like this (in an incompenent and unconvincing way) is so frustrating.</text></item><item><author>krick</author><text>Reminds me: this guy used gene therapy to cure himself of lactose intolerance quite a while ago. Not sure how common it actually is among biohackers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In a First, US Doctors Use Crispr Tool to Treat Patient with Genetic Disorder</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/29/744826505/sickle-cell-patient-reveals-why-she-is-volunteering-for-landmark-gene-editing-st</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>actually I think the biggest risk is that it will create the impression in people that gene therapy is easy and that a random person on the street can just inject something into them and cure a disease. every self-injecting biohacker I&#x27;ve ever seen basically doesn&#x27;t even know scientifically speaking whether they had the effect that they thought they did an experiment. contrast this to real gene therapy researchers who have to go through careful clinical trials and do a lot of statistics just to prove that they did what they said they did. the reason that we make them do that is because it&#x27;s all too easy to fool yourself things like placebo effects and self bias. legitimate researchers go to extensive lengths to demonstrate that the procedure they did did what they said they thought it was going to do and then it didn&#x27;t have side effects. none of the self biohackers have done that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0xffff2</author><text>You didn&#x27;t actually tell us why it&#x27;s irresponsible. Is there a real risk of them hurting anyone but themselves?</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>People who do this are usually irresponsible and don&#x27;t even know whether they&#x27;ve achieved their goal or not.<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;Just to make sure this is really clear because people have been angry about this ever being tested in more humans. This will not be used in humans again until significantly more testing is done and the manufacturing protocol is massively refined. This could mean years before another test is conducted. More tests will need to be done in animal models as well. Maybe we&#x27;ll do away with the viral aspect all together and completely overhaul the DNA. The reason this video was posted was because I want this to be an open source technology. If you have suggestions for how it can be improved, leave it in the comments.&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>I spent 20 years of my life working towards gene therapy and to see idiots do stuff like this (in an incompenent and unconvincing way) is so frustrating.</text></item><item><author>krick</author><text>Reminds me: this guy used gene therapy to cure himself of lactose intolerance quite a while ago. Not sure how common it actually is among biohackers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In a First, US Doctors Use Crispr Tool to Treat Patient with Genetic Disorder</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/29/744826505/sickle-cell-patient-reveals-why-she-is-volunteering-for-landmark-gene-editing-st</url></story> |
34,692,387 | 34,691,860 | 1 | 2 | 34,689,870 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zozbot234</author><text>&gt; It took me probably more like 1-2 months to really understand how to code in Rust. I do not think a typical team of JS&#x2F;Python devs would be productive in 3 weeks. I think it would be more like 3 months.<p>This is actually a very fast learning curve. Imagine a typical Python&#x2F;JS developer becoming proficient with real, production-quality C++ in 3 months? The very notion seems ludicrous to even think about. So the Rust folks are not wrong when they point out that Rust is about empowering developers and enabling higher quality software across the board.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bin_bash</author><text>As a counterpoint, I’m a senior engineer at FAANG with 15 professional YOE. I’ve mostly used scripting languages in my career though.<p>It took me probably more like 1-2 months to really understand how to code in Rust. I do not think a typical team of JS&#x2F;Python devs would be productive in 3 weeks. I think it would be more like 3 months. Developers with C++ experience seem to pick it up much quicker.<p>Also, at this point I’m pretty proficient in rust but I’m still far slower than I would be in a scripting language. So I don’t think anyone would ever reach “equally productive” unless they’re comparing themselves to another compiled language.<p>I like Rust, but it’s challenging, and it’s certainly not a language for rapid development.</text></item><item><author>yazaddaruvala</author><text>I feel like it took me 2 weekends to &quot;learn Rust&quot; enough to make feature changes, and another 2 weekends to really &quot;get it&quot; enough to build basic abstractions.<p>I feel like it would take another week or two to learn some of the UnsafeCell&#x2F;Pin&#x2F;Generators type stuff, but none of that is needed for 95%+ of Rust code.<p>I think if you and your team just started learning Rust week by week, you&#x27;d find in 3 weeks that you&#x27;re equally productive in Rust than your current languages. Especially given the code base already exists. Even just starting to learn Rust by writing tests (if there aren&#x27;t) would be sufficient to improve that system rather than wait to hire or re-write it.</text></item><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>The organization (gov.) I work for recently took over a product where the entire back-end was written in Rust. Basically the product was developed by a bunch of Rust enthusiasts in a R&amp;D group, and the product was wholly financed by gov. grants. When that money dried out, they were faced with either just shutting it down, or trying to sell or give the product away. Some higher-ups decided this could be a great internal tool, and got it for free.<p>The product works great, but the codebase is around 400k LOC of Rust, and we don&#x27;t have any budget to hire Rust developers. And when we had a budget in November, it was really hard to find anyone local (work requires a high security clearance, and remote is not possible for this kind of work due to said security issues).<p>So we&#x27;re kind of stuck with just keeping it around until better times, or just re-writing the entire back-end in something we know better. Not to sound like a downer, just an example of what Rust adaption could look like from the other side.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Adoption of Rust in Business</title><url>https://rustmagazine.org/issue-1/2022-review-the-adoption-of-rust-in-business/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LoganDark</author><text>&gt; It took me probably more like 1-2 months to really understand how to code in Rust. I do not think a typical team of JS&#x2F;Python devs would be productive in 3 weeks. I think it would be more like 3 months.<p>Our very first Rust project (to learn the language) was a path tracer that was done (fully functional) in 2 weeks. I doubt it would take a team 3 months to become productive in Rust. There&#x27;s always more to learn, but &quot;being productive&quot; is quite a low bar if they already know basic programming concepts.<p>With that said, &quot;typical JS&#x2F;Python devs&quot; might not even know said basic programming concepts, so maybe you&#x27;re talking about those? Regardless, 3 months is an extremely conservative estimate.<p>-Emily</text><parent_chain><item><author>bin_bash</author><text>As a counterpoint, I’m a senior engineer at FAANG with 15 professional YOE. I’ve mostly used scripting languages in my career though.<p>It took me probably more like 1-2 months to really understand how to code in Rust. I do not think a typical team of JS&#x2F;Python devs would be productive in 3 weeks. I think it would be more like 3 months. Developers with C++ experience seem to pick it up much quicker.<p>Also, at this point I’m pretty proficient in rust but I’m still far slower than I would be in a scripting language. So I don’t think anyone would ever reach “equally productive” unless they’re comparing themselves to another compiled language.<p>I like Rust, but it’s challenging, and it’s certainly not a language for rapid development.</text></item><item><author>yazaddaruvala</author><text>I feel like it took me 2 weekends to &quot;learn Rust&quot; enough to make feature changes, and another 2 weekends to really &quot;get it&quot; enough to build basic abstractions.<p>I feel like it would take another week or two to learn some of the UnsafeCell&#x2F;Pin&#x2F;Generators type stuff, but none of that is needed for 95%+ of Rust code.<p>I think if you and your team just started learning Rust week by week, you&#x27;d find in 3 weeks that you&#x27;re equally productive in Rust than your current languages. Especially given the code base already exists. Even just starting to learn Rust by writing tests (if there aren&#x27;t) would be sufficient to improve that system rather than wait to hire or re-write it.</text></item><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>The organization (gov.) I work for recently took over a product where the entire back-end was written in Rust. Basically the product was developed by a bunch of Rust enthusiasts in a R&amp;D group, and the product was wholly financed by gov. grants. When that money dried out, they were faced with either just shutting it down, or trying to sell or give the product away. Some higher-ups decided this could be a great internal tool, and got it for free.<p>The product works great, but the codebase is around 400k LOC of Rust, and we don&#x27;t have any budget to hire Rust developers. And when we had a budget in November, it was really hard to find anyone local (work requires a high security clearance, and remote is not possible for this kind of work due to said security issues).<p>So we&#x27;re kind of stuck with just keeping it around until better times, or just re-writing the entire back-end in something we know better. Not to sound like a downer, just an example of what Rust adaption could look like from the other side.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Adoption of Rust in Business</title><url>https://rustmagazine.org/issue-1/2022-review-the-adoption-of-rust-in-business/</url></story> |
38,323,446 | 38,321,117 | 1 | 3 | 38,320,686 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DylanSp</author><text>My favorite example of this is the Third Imperial Faberge egg. It was made in 1887, seized by the Soviets during the Russian Revolution, and apparently sold abroad. It ended up in a flea market in the US in 2004, when a scrap dealer bought it without knowing what it was. He wasn&#x27;t able to sell it for the price he wanted, so he kept it in his kitchen as decoration for several years. In 2012, he googled around and found an article about the missing egg, realized he probably had it, contacted a jeweler and Faberge expert, who flew out and found the egg sitting next to some cupcakes on the guy&#x27;s kitchen counter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;multimedia&#x2F;archive&#x2F;02855&#x2F;egg_2855547c.jpg?imwidth=350" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;multimedia&#x2F;archive&#x2F;02855&#x2F;egg_285...</a>.<p>This Telegraph article has more details: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;culture&#x2F;art&#x2F;art-news&#x2F;10706025&#x2F;The-20m-Faberge-egg-that-was-almost-sold-for-scrap.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;culture&#x2F;art&#x2F;art-news&#x2F;10706025&#x2F;Th...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Masterpiece was hanging above an elderly French woman's hot plate</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/forgotten-268-million-cimabue-painting-found-in-an-elderly-womans-home-heads-to-the-louvre-180983280/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gedy</author><text>It’s fascinating what older people have in their home sometimes. When we bought our home, the elderly lady we bought it from left a carved wooden panel on the wall. It was pretty, but we didn’t give it much notice. When I looked more closely at it a few years later, I saw it had a really old Wells Fargo shipping label on it, and after doing more digging, found that this had been displayed at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The shipping label was to that event.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Masterpiece was hanging above an elderly French woman's hot plate</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/forgotten-268-million-cimabue-painting-found-in-an-elderly-womans-home-heads-to-the-louvre-180983280/</url></story> |
34,148,138 | 34,148,147 | 1 | 2 | 34,142,030 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigtex</author><text>We knew in March 26, 2020 it was not the Spanish flu because the data from the cruise ship diamond princess came back and the cfr was 1.1%. This was a shipped filled with the most vulnerable, obese people over 65. We should have never closed schools or lockdown in the USA.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-020-00885-w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-020-00885-w</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoDave</author><text>Hindsight is 20&#x2F;20. We didn’t know anything about Covid in the early months and the CDC was following plans designed to counter something closer to the 1917 Spanish Flu.<p>We should all be grateful they scared the crap out of us. What if a variant started killing kids? What if a variant started killing 25-35 year olds?<p>Read history. That’s what happened when the Spanish Flu came around for a second swing.<p>It wasn’t about being accurate. It was intentionally about over-reacting because we just didn’t know enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Twitter moderated the Covid debate</title><url>https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ralusek</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry but this is nonsense. No clarity of hindsight is required to realize that the conversations regarding COVID were not good faith explorations of the facts or the risks. Decisions were made very crudely in order to determine the proper course of action, and virtually all necessary mechanisms for continuously evaluating what we knew or were doing were forcefully marginalized. If you were somebody genuinely interested in understanding the pandemic, you immediately found that virtually all the sane conversations you were looking for were taking place in the same fringes as the places where lunatic conspiracy theorists were, because they were the only places that tolerated any discussion whatsoever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoDave</author><text>Hindsight is 20&#x2F;20. We didn’t know anything about Covid in the early months and the CDC was following plans designed to counter something closer to the 1917 Spanish Flu.<p>We should all be grateful they scared the crap out of us. What if a variant started killing kids? What if a variant started killing 25-35 year olds?<p>Read history. That’s what happened when the Spanish Flu came around for a second swing.<p>It wasn’t about being accurate. It was intentionally about over-reacting because we just didn’t know enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Twitter moderated the Covid debate</title><url>https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate</url></story> |
21,504,728 | 21,502,775 | 1 | 3 | 21,481,852 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breadandcrumbel</author><text>saw this comment on Reddit:
&gt;They weren&#x27;t trapped for years. There was a ventilation pipe they were falling down from. That&#x27;s how they got down there. New ones kept falling in all the time, keeping their numbers high. They didn&#x27;t survive for years &quot;because cannibalism&quot; and there is no evidence that any individual ant survived for more than a short time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ants trapped for years in an old bunker</title><url>https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/list/1/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevinh</author><text>Previous discussion about the referenced 2016 paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12414676" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12414676</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ants trapped for years in an old bunker</title><url>https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/list/1/</url></story> |
21,137,657 | 21,137,174 | 1 | 3 | 21,136,663 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krn</author><text>&gt; I am surprised that reddit is on #13.<p>Reddit might be a #1 <i>project</i> out of all the startups ever funded by Y Combinator, but it&#x27;s unlikely to ever become a top 10 <i>company</i>.<p>Because as an ad business it can neither match Google at targeting audience by exact user intent, nor Facebook at targeting audience by exact user profile.<p>In fact, I see reddit more like Couchsurfing: a project which would do <i>much</i> better as a foundation rather than a corporation, based on the role it plays in the society.<p>At its essence, it&#x27;s a highly scalable CRUD application, which requires a simple user interface, respectful community moderation, and as little user tracking as possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>screye</author><text>I am surprised that reddit is on #13.<p>It&#x27;s alexa rank in US social media websites is #2 behind Facebook. Apart form their redesign shenanigans, people actually like the product they offer (in contrast to facebook) and they are still growing.<p>I wish Reddit stays in the kind of &quot;grey&quot; area where it never gets as &quot;official&quot; as twitter, despite the popularity. If anything, that might be entirely its appeal.<p>That predicament will eternally present a glass ceiling for reddit&#x27;s revenue, but as a consumer I&#x27;d rather see that than it going the full facebook -&gt; hyper growth above anything else approach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>I know twitter is a household name and everyone knows about it but is reddit really that far behind? My mom isnt using it yet but has probably been linked to it via twitter and facebook over the last year. Not to sound pretentious but there has been a huge shift in the site as it&#x27;s grown over the last couple of years. Most of the popular subreddits are just pointing out silly behavior on other websites or asking for the hivemind to weigh in on their personal life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>screye</author><text>I am surprised that reddit is on #13.<p>It&#x27;s alexa rank in US social media websites is #2 behind Facebook. Apart form their redesign shenanigans, people actually like the product they offer (in contrast to facebook) and they are still growing.<p>I wish Reddit stays in the kind of &quot;grey&quot; area where it never gets as &quot;official&quot; as twitter, despite the popularity. If anything, that might be entirely its appeal.<p>That predicament will eternally present a glass ceiling for reddit&#x27;s revenue, but as a consumer I&#x27;d rather see that than it going the full facebook -&gt; hyper growth above anything else approach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/</url></story> |
24,221,132 | 24,220,988 | 1 | 2 | 24,220,278 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jordanthoms</author><text>There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time:
&quot;Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time.&quot;<p>My pet theory wasn&#x27;t too popular but I&#x27;m going to stick with it :)<p>1- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20740997" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20740997</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gmail and Google Drive Outage</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cezart</author><text>The status from Google Cloud status page offers a bit more technical details of what happened:<p>&quot;We are experiencing an issue with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using node auto-provisioning becoming stuck during node version upgrades. Node auto-upgrades have been disabled temporarily.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gmail and Google Drive Outage</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status</url></story> |
19,079,078 | 19,015,721 | 1 | 3 | 19,013,069 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Fire-Dragon-DoL</author><text>Code Geass, Death Note, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Shingeki no Kyojin, No Game No Life, Steins; Gate (these are top notch)
Boku no Hero Academia (Season 1 and 2), Sword Art Online (first 13 episodes, maybe 25, but after that is terrible), Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Full Metal Panic (season 1, FUMOFFU, Season 2).
Psycho-Pass, Made in Abyss, Accel World, Ga-Rei Zero (these are just amazing, but not top)<p>Be careful with FUMOFFU, leads to death due to laughter<p>They cover a wide variety of range, not all of them might be of your taste. You also need to get used to some things that are Japanese culture in animes (their way of being fun, their way of being embarassed by stuff that is not in your culture and so on).<p>Insane plot (like REALLY incredible):
- Code Geass
- Death Note
- Steins; Gate
- Shingeki no Kyojin (not completed, season 4 coming soon)
- Made in Abyss (not completed, season 2 coming soon)<p>Epic (you feel hyped):
- Sword Art Online
- Full Metal Panic
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (this anime is amazing, but I recommend watching it only after you&#x27;ve watched quite a few animes. Rewatching it leads to improvement. It&#x27;s like when you try wine for the first time and it sucks, then it turns great)
- No Game No Life
- Boku No Hero Academia
- Accel World<p>Laugh:
- Full Metal Panic FUMOFFU (requires watching the season 1 first)<p>This list is purely based on my taste, but I watched over 200 animes (lot of bad stuff too, sadly), so for a beginner it&#x27;s a good baseline.<p>Good plot (not like the insane ones, still good):
- Psycho-Pass (AMAZING soundtrack)
- Ga-Rei Zero
- Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood</text><parent_chain><item><author>nojvek</author><text>Any good Anime you recommend ?<p>I loved Violet Evergreen. It was very well done as an animation. The others are “your lie in April”. That legit made me sob. I usually don’t get that emotional. (Although not a Netflix original).</text></item><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>And some of them are pretty damn good depending on your interest. Theres a few decent mecha ones at least. I am sure they will eventually land the rights to a solid winner. I do like the end result too lots of subs in different languages and I feel like they dub it in different languages too. The best of both worlds for any type of anime fan.</text></item><item><author>gh02t</author><text>Netflix has also been pushing anime&#x2F;anime-style originals. I think this is a pretty interesting strategy, anime is relatively cheap to produce and is niche but has a huge fanbase worldwide.</text></item><item><author>40acres</author><text>If you look closely enough you can see a clear trend regarding Netflix&#x27;s content strategy. They will continue to make movies like Bird Box, B-style movies and &quot;cult classics&quot; that they can draw big numbers to via their reach and marketing.<p>Oscar contenders like Roma and Beast of No Nation (a bit early for it&#x27;s time if you ask me).<p>Partnerships with foreign content makers to act as an international distributor (BBC produced, Golden Globe Winner, The Bodyguard for example).<p>Top quality original TV: The Crown for example, fueled by contracts with big name show-runners and writers to produce them (Shonda Rhymes).<p>And finally, high value syndication targets (Friends, Mad Men, The Office).<p>Netflix&#x27;s content allocation seems pretty clear, the next few years will be optimization at the margins.</text></item><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>My takeaway from Bird Box is that if Netflix wants to make any of their original content one of the most-watched media events of the year, they can do it, regardless of the quality of the content itself.<p>All it takes is for them to slip it in to people&#x27;s &quot;custom, curated&quot; lists at a higher frequency, and maybe do a little subtle social-media engineering on Reddit&#x2F;Facebook, and bam: instant box office smash of a derivative film with a 66% on Rotten Tomatoes.<p>That&#x27;s a huge &quot;flex&quot;. Big studios could pump hundreds of millions into a decent film and still have it flop. Netflix can take a B-movie and make it a sensation with relative ease. No wonder every game in town is trying to break into this model. Why invest millions on a potential flop when you can engineer one with 75% accuracy whenever you wish?<p>(though maybe I&#x27;m being just a bit too paranoid here. I have to admit some of the Bird Box magic stems from its intriguing concept. guerilla marketing doesn&#x27;t work so well if what you&#x27;re selling doesn&#x27;t seem too interesting)<p>edit: people are debating the idea of &quot;box office smash&quot; here. I didn&#x27;t use that phrase to emphasize direct earnings as a result of the film (which is &quot;free&quot; to watch if you pay for a subscription). The article addresses this:<p>&gt; Secondly, and relatedly, Netflix is counting on subscription revenue. To that end, producing a piece of content that 58% of its subscriber base viewed in a single month is by definition a triumph (and yes, worth ~$700 million).<p>The idea is that Netflix was able to coerce <i>more than half</i> of its subscribers to watch this film. That&#x27;s crazy. The result, as we see in the article, is a tidal-wave of Bird Box achieving near-meme status. How does that feel to someone who does not have a Netflix subscription? What big joke&#x2F;story are they missing out on? For only $14.99 a month, they can win social acceptance by being &quot;in the know&quot; of the current big thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix Flexes</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2019/netflix-flexes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway415415</author><text>Gantz: O is CGI but oh my... It&#x27;s amazing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nojvek</author><text>Any good Anime you recommend ?<p>I loved Violet Evergreen. It was very well done as an animation. The others are “your lie in April”. That legit made me sob. I usually don’t get that emotional. (Although not a Netflix original).</text></item><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>And some of them are pretty damn good depending on your interest. Theres a few decent mecha ones at least. I am sure they will eventually land the rights to a solid winner. I do like the end result too lots of subs in different languages and I feel like they dub it in different languages too. The best of both worlds for any type of anime fan.</text></item><item><author>gh02t</author><text>Netflix has also been pushing anime&#x2F;anime-style originals. I think this is a pretty interesting strategy, anime is relatively cheap to produce and is niche but has a huge fanbase worldwide.</text></item><item><author>40acres</author><text>If you look closely enough you can see a clear trend regarding Netflix&#x27;s content strategy. They will continue to make movies like Bird Box, B-style movies and &quot;cult classics&quot; that they can draw big numbers to via their reach and marketing.<p>Oscar contenders like Roma and Beast of No Nation (a bit early for it&#x27;s time if you ask me).<p>Partnerships with foreign content makers to act as an international distributor (BBC produced, Golden Globe Winner, The Bodyguard for example).<p>Top quality original TV: The Crown for example, fueled by contracts with big name show-runners and writers to produce them (Shonda Rhymes).<p>And finally, high value syndication targets (Friends, Mad Men, The Office).<p>Netflix&#x27;s content allocation seems pretty clear, the next few years will be optimization at the margins.</text></item><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>My takeaway from Bird Box is that if Netflix wants to make any of their original content one of the most-watched media events of the year, they can do it, regardless of the quality of the content itself.<p>All it takes is for them to slip it in to people&#x27;s &quot;custom, curated&quot; lists at a higher frequency, and maybe do a little subtle social-media engineering on Reddit&#x2F;Facebook, and bam: instant box office smash of a derivative film with a 66% on Rotten Tomatoes.<p>That&#x27;s a huge &quot;flex&quot;. Big studios could pump hundreds of millions into a decent film and still have it flop. Netflix can take a B-movie and make it a sensation with relative ease. No wonder every game in town is trying to break into this model. Why invest millions on a potential flop when you can engineer one with 75% accuracy whenever you wish?<p>(though maybe I&#x27;m being just a bit too paranoid here. I have to admit some of the Bird Box magic stems from its intriguing concept. guerilla marketing doesn&#x27;t work so well if what you&#x27;re selling doesn&#x27;t seem too interesting)<p>edit: people are debating the idea of &quot;box office smash&quot; here. I didn&#x27;t use that phrase to emphasize direct earnings as a result of the film (which is &quot;free&quot; to watch if you pay for a subscription). The article addresses this:<p>&gt; Secondly, and relatedly, Netflix is counting on subscription revenue. To that end, producing a piece of content that 58% of its subscriber base viewed in a single month is by definition a triumph (and yes, worth ~$700 million).<p>The idea is that Netflix was able to coerce <i>more than half</i> of its subscribers to watch this film. That&#x27;s crazy. The result, as we see in the article, is a tidal-wave of Bird Box achieving near-meme status. How does that feel to someone who does not have a Netflix subscription? What big joke&#x2F;story are they missing out on? For only $14.99 a month, they can win social acceptance by being &quot;in the know&quot; of the current big thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix Flexes</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2019/netflix-flexes/</url></story> |
18,823,311 | 18,823,010 | 1 | 2 | 18,818,511 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hanglow</author><text>Somebody launch the Journal of Low Hanging Fruits: an interdisciplinary journal where people from the research field A pick the low hang hanging fruits from research field B, using knowledge from A. And, conversely, people from B reply by showing those from A that their most cherished result should have been discovered earlier, because is a trivial application of an old technique from B.<p>In mathematics this happens all the time, but there is no dedicated place for this show.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xamuel</author><text>The paper mentions how Erdos accomplished so much while knowing relatively little machinery. This is, I think, a more general paradox of mathematical research, not limited to Erdos: it&#x27;s a mis-conception that to do important original mathematics you need to be lightyears out there. The reality is, there&#x27;s so much low-hanging fruit it&#x27;s almost silly. But if you want to make a career picking low-hanging fruit, you&#x27;d better be financially independent, because as the paper also points out, mathematical power brokers don&#x27;t appreciate low-hanging fruit-pickers!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Erdos Paradox</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11935</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>total_</author><text>The paper comes across as trivializing how much Erdos knew and more importantly understates his level of mathematics genius. Though, the author probably didn’t intend to and mentions how important his work is in today’s time period.<p>You probably don’t know anything about higher category theory, should I criticize you as a mathematician because you don’t know about it or don’t find it important?<p>Oh wait, you aren’t a mathematician, but you claim to be a software developer? Do you know anything about type theory? No, then how could you claim to be a software developer?<p>Are you a simply-minded programmer? Well, you must only solve low-hanging software problems! Wow! It is amazing how many software development problems you can solve with having such low skill knowledge in programming! That’s amazing!<p>But despite all of that, your work is still not considered deep and worthy of respect because you do not meet the standards of higher level theoretical computer science knowledge! But good for you despite that! Good job!<p>See how condescending that comes across?</text><parent_chain><item><author>xamuel</author><text>The paper mentions how Erdos accomplished so much while knowing relatively little machinery. This is, I think, a more general paradox of mathematical research, not limited to Erdos: it&#x27;s a mis-conception that to do important original mathematics you need to be lightyears out there. The reality is, there&#x27;s so much low-hanging fruit it&#x27;s almost silly. But if you want to make a career picking low-hanging fruit, you&#x27;d better be financially independent, because as the paper also points out, mathematical power brokers don&#x27;t appreciate low-hanging fruit-pickers!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Erdos Paradox</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11935</url></story> |
40,869,831 | 40,869,728 | 1 | 2 | 40,869,461 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>irq</author><text>&gt; I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones.<p>It&#x27;s not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Emphatically, Apple did not bring the first smartphone to market, not even close. They were, however, the first to popularize it beyond the field of nerds into the general public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; Apple: First &quot;smart phone&quot; but not the first personal computer<p>Was it the first smartphone? I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones. There were even apps, but everything was lot more locked down and a lot more expensive.</text></item><item><author>malfist</author><text>Let&#x27;s see:
Microsoft Windows: wasn&#x27;t close to the first OS<p>Microsoft Office: wasn&#x27;t close to the first office editing suite<p>Google: Wasn&#x27;t close to the first search engine<p>Facebook: Wasn&#x27;t close to the first social media website<p>Apple: ~~First &quot;smart phone&quot;~~ but not the first personal computer. Comments reminded me that it wasn&#x27;t the first smartphone<p>Netflix: Wasn&#x27;t close to the first video rental service.<p>Amazon: Wasn&#x27;t close to the first web store<p>None of the big five were first in their dominate categories. They were first to offer some gimmick (i.e., google was fast, netflix was by mail, no late fees), but not first categorically.<p>Though they certainly did benefit from learnings of those that came before them.</text></item><item><author>threeseed</author><text>&gt; Founders and company builders will continue to build in AI—and they will be more likely to succeed, because they will benefit both from lower costs and from learnings accrued during this period of experimentation<p>Highly debatable.<p>When we look back during the internet and mobile waves it is overwhelmingly the companies that came in after the hype cycle had died that have been enduring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI's $600B Question</title><url>https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>First modern smartphone (capacitive touch screen&#x2F;multi-touch&#x2F;form factor), but not first smartphone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; Apple: First &quot;smart phone&quot; but not the first personal computer<p>Was it the first smartphone? I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones. There were even apps, but everything was lot more locked down and a lot more expensive.</text></item><item><author>malfist</author><text>Let&#x27;s see:
Microsoft Windows: wasn&#x27;t close to the first OS<p>Microsoft Office: wasn&#x27;t close to the first office editing suite<p>Google: Wasn&#x27;t close to the first search engine<p>Facebook: Wasn&#x27;t close to the first social media website<p>Apple: ~~First &quot;smart phone&quot;~~ but not the first personal computer. Comments reminded me that it wasn&#x27;t the first smartphone<p>Netflix: Wasn&#x27;t close to the first video rental service.<p>Amazon: Wasn&#x27;t close to the first web store<p>None of the big five were first in their dominate categories. They were first to offer some gimmick (i.e., google was fast, netflix was by mail, no late fees), but not first categorically.<p>Though they certainly did benefit from learnings of those that came before them.</text></item><item><author>threeseed</author><text>&gt; Founders and company builders will continue to build in AI—and they will be more likely to succeed, because they will benefit both from lower costs and from learnings accrued during this period of experimentation<p>Highly debatable.<p>When we look back during the internet and mobile waves it is overwhelmingly the companies that came in after the hype cycle had died that have been enduring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI's $600B Question</title><url>https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/</url></story> |
20,665,136 | 20,664,091 | 1 | 2 | 20,663,459 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>macdice</author><text>The section on parallel joins is a bit out of date. Shameless plug: I&#x27;ve written and spoken about this subject extensively, if you are looking for more information, with further links and pointers to other blogs and academic papers.<p>Parallelism in PostgreSQL in general:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speakerdeck.com&#x2F;macdice&#x2F;parallelism-in-postgresql-11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speakerdeck.com&#x2F;macdice&#x2F;parallelism-in-postgresql-11</a><p>Deeper dives on hash joins:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write-skew.blogspot.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;parallel-hash-for-postgresql.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write-skew.blogspot.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;parallel-hash-for-po...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speakerdeck.com&#x2F;macdice&#x2F;hash-joins-past-present-and-future" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speakerdeck.com&#x2F;macdice&#x2F;hash-joins-past-present-and-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parallelism in PostgreSQL</title><url>https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/30/parallelism-in-postgresql/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nymonym</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why the performance benefits hit a limit with 10 workers on a 64-core machine. It doesn&#x27;t look like there should be too much communication complexity given largely disjoint workloads.<p>Are we hitting memory&#x2F;IO bottlenecks?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parallelism in PostgreSQL</title><url>https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/30/parallelism-in-postgresql/</url></story> |
8,306,404 | 8,306,369 | 1 | 3 | 8,305,935 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zrm</author><text>See also The International Journal of Proof-of-Concept Or Get The Fuck Out.<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Pocorgtfo00" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;Pocorgtfo00</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Pocorgtfo01" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;Pocorgtfo01</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Pocorgtfo02" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;Pocorgtfo02</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/pocorgtfo03" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;pocorgtfo03</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/pocorgtfo04" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;pocorgtfo04</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/pocorgtfo05" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;pocorgtfo05</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A JPEG that becomes a PNG after AES encryption and a PDF after 3DES decryption</title><url>https://code.google.com/p/corkami/source/detail?r=1906</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gear54rus</author><text>How in the hell does one discover that kind of thing? :) I don&#x27;t really know much about crypto and symmetric ciphers in general, but aren&#x27;t the odds of discovering something that converts from JPEG to PNG by applying AES extremely small? Let alone something that ALSO goes from JPEG to PDF by applying 3DES.<p>I presume there is some algorithm based on the nature of ciphers themselves?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A JPEG that becomes a PNG after AES encryption and a PDF after 3DES decryption</title><url>https://code.google.com/p/corkami/source/detail?r=1906</url></story> |
27,383,059 | 27,383,106 | 1 | 2 | 27,380,752 | 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>iab</author><text>Interesting comment about the XWB. The hype-driving is obviously necessary - nothing is ever more than ~5 years away, because that is the limit of VC&#x2F;consumer patience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qayxc</author><text>&gt; No, this isn’t normal at all.<p>Hm. Significant delays and missed timelines aren&#x27;t normal you say? Let&#x27;s see (aerospace only):<p>• all SpaceX projects so far (USA)<p>• Virgin Galactic&#x27;s space tourism plans (USA)<p>• Boeing&#x27;s 787 and 777X (USA)<p>• HAL&#x27;s Sukhoi-30-, Jaguar Darin III-, and Tejas LCA projects and production (India)<p>• BAE Systems Plc&#x2F;TAI TF-X project (UK&#x2F;Turkey)<p>• EADS&#x27;s MRH-90, Tiger, and A400M (EU)<p>• Airbus A380 (EU)<p>• Comac’s C919 project (China)<p>• ...<p>TBH, it&#x27;d be easier to list projects that actually finished on schedule and didn&#x27;t face significant delays, such as the Airbus A350XWB.<p>And most of the companies listed aren&#x27;t even money-starved start-ups that required investor attention and media hype. It&#x27;s almost as if developing, testing, and certifying cutting edge aerospace projects is kind of hard and just as easy to predict and schedule as large software projects...</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s to be expected - press releases focus on super-optimistic specs and timelines.<p>No, this isn’t normal at all. Some optimism is expected but promising commercial operation a couple years out when they weren’t even close to anything like it is simply lying.<p>We shouldn’t be giving companies a pass for this stuff</text></item><item><author>qayxc</author><text>That&#x27;s to be expected - press releases focus on super-optimistic specs and timelines.<p>After reality kicks in and unforeseen issues arise (remember 2020? me neither), plans need to be adjusted.<p>The scale model was initially expected to fly in 2018 even [1].<p>I expect further delays to be realistic as well. They either going to deliver sometime in the next decade or go bankrupt&#x2F;sold out within the next couple of years.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.wandr.me&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;false-hope-boom-supersonic-travel-2018&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.wandr.me&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;false-hope-boom-supersonic-tra...</a></text></item><item><author>aetherson</author><text>So I was interested in how well Boom was doing in keeping to its timeline, and found an article from two years ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;supersonic-passenger-jet-firm-raises-100-million-aims-for-2019-test-flights&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;supersonic-passenger...</a><p>Some side-by-side comparisons:<p>2019 article: &quot;Boom envisions its Overture airliner traveling at Mach 2.2.&quot; 2021 article: &quot;a plane that could fly at Mach 1.7&quot;<p>2019 article: &quot;Its planes could be ready for commercial service in the mid-2020s&quot;. 2021 article: &quot;It is targeting the start of passenger service in 2029.&quot;<p>The 2019 article also says that Boom is constructing a 1&#x2F;3rd scale version of Overture that could be making test flights later in 2019. This article from October 2020 says that the 1&#x2F;3rd scale vehicle was &quot;rolled out&quot; in 2020 and could be ready for test flights in Q3 2021. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;erictegler&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;boom-supersonics-one-third-scale-prototype-is-as-much-investment-vehicle-as-test-vehicle&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;erictegler&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;boom-supe...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/united-will-buy-15-ultrafast-airplanes-from-start-up-boom-supersonic.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>aaronblohowiak</author><text>Also the SLS and the JSF...</text><parent_chain><item><author>qayxc</author><text>&gt; No, this isn’t normal at all.<p>Hm. Significant delays and missed timelines aren&#x27;t normal you say? Let&#x27;s see (aerospace only):<p>• all SpaceX projects so far (USA)<p>• Virgin Galactic&#x27;s space tourism plans (USA)<p>• Boeing&#x27;s 787 and 777X (USA)<p>• HAL&#x27;s Sukhoi-30-, Jaguar Darin III-, and Tejas LCA projects and production (India)<p>• BAE Systems Plc&#x2F;TAI TF-X project (UK&#x2F;Turkey)<p>• EADS&#x27;s MRH-90, Tiger, and A400M (EU)<p>• Airbus A380 (EU)<p>• Comac’s C919 project (China)<p>• ...<p>TBH, it&#x27;d be easier to list projects that actually finished on schedule and didn&#x27;t face significant delays, such as the Airbus A350XWB.<p>And most of the companies listed aren&#x27;t even money-starved start-ups that required investor attention and media hype. It&#x27;s almost as if developing, testing, and certifying cutting edge aerospace projects is kind of hard and just as easy to predict and schedule as large software projects...</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s to be expected - press releases focus on super-optimistic specs and timelines.<p>No, this isn’t normal at all. Some optimism is expected but promising commercial operation a couple years out when they weren’t even close to anything like it is simply lying.<p>We shouldn’t be giving companies a pass for this stuff</text></item><item><author>qayxc</author><text>That&#x27;s to be expected - press releases focus on super-optimistic specs and timelines.<p>After reality kicks in and unforeseen issues arise (remember 2020? me neither), plans need to be adjusted.<p>The scale model was initially expected to fly in 2018 even [1].<p>I expect further delays to be realistic as well. They either going to deliver sometime in the next decade or go bankrupt&#x2F;sold out within the next couple of years.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.wandr.me&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;false-hope-boom-supersonic-travel-2018&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.wandr.me&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;false-hope-boom-supersonic-tra...</a></text></item><item><author>aetherson</author><text>So I was interested in how well Boom was doing in keeping to its timeline, and found an article from two years ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;supersonic-passenger-jet-firm-raises-100-million-aims-for-2019-test-flights&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;supersonic-passenger...</a><p>Some side-by-side comparisons:<p>2019 article: &quot;Boom envisions its Overture airliner traveling at Mach 2.2.&quot; 2021 article: &quot;a plane that could fly at Mach 1.7&quot;<p>2019 article: &quot;Its planes could be ready for commercial service in the mid-2020s&quot;. 2021 article: &quot;It is targeting the start of passenger service in 2029.&quot;<p>The 2019 article also says that Boom is constructing a 1&#x2F;3rd scale version of Overture that could be making test flights later in 2019. This article from October 2020 says that the 1&#x2F;3rd scale vehicle was &quot;rolled out&quot; in 2020 and could be ready for test flights in Q3 2021. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;erictegler&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;boom-supersonics-one-third-scale-prototype-is-as-much-investment-vehicle-as-test-vehicle&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;erictegler&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;boom-supe...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/united-will-buy-15-ultrafast-airplanes-from-start-up-boom-supersonic.html</url></story> |
4,373,495 | 4,373,444 | 1 | 2 | 4,372,985 | train | <instructions>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>&#62; and being distributed amongst the segregated tech startup community will prevent so many different types of people from using it<p>For what it's worth, when I joined Twitter it was also a tech ghetto. Kevin Rose, Leo Laporte, Guy Kawasaki, and Veronica Belmont were all in the top 10 most followed accounts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eoghan</author><text>The reason I think App.net is going to grow is NOT because it doesn't have ads or that the "users are not the product", etc. It's because the community it hosts will be so tightly grouped around a similar, passionate interest: tech startups. Requiring payment, being called "App.net" (they'll be tempted to change this), and being distributed via word of mouth amongst the segregated tech startup community, will prevent so many different types of people from using it. This is all a great thing and I bet there will be opportunities for other "Twitter for ________" ventures. Charging for a service like this that caters to a much smaller market makes it sustainable.<p>Congrats to Dalton and all involved. This is one of the most interesting and courageous internet projects in recent time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>App.net funded with $500,000.</title><url>https://join.app.net/?fully-funded</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jschlesser</author><text>I think how you concive it now is about spam free twitter or fb and thats what everybody is talking about. I dont think thats the real story. Imagine what you could do with real time syndication infrastructure with privacy and ownership controls built in. BP monitors, blood glucose monitors, runkeeper data, music listening streams, all kinds of data streams and a robust community of app builders to build all kinds of streaming and where desired sharing. If i dont want to see your spotify listens, i can turn that off, if i dont want you to see my health info but want to share with my doc, that can happen too. Go nuts, imagine the future without having to be forced to cram it into a timeline or public feed mined for ad relevance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eoghan</author><text>The reason I think App.net is going to grow is NOT because it doesn't have ads or that the "users are not the product", etc. It's because the community it hosts will be so tightly grouped around a similar, passionate interest: tech startups. Requiring payment, being called "App.net" (they'll be tempted to change this), and being distributed via word of mouth amongst the segregated tech startup community, will prevent so many different types of people from using it. This is all a great thing and I bet there will be opportunities for other "Twitter for ________" ventures. Charging for a service like this that caters to a much smaller market makes it sustainable.<p>Congrats to Dalton and all involved. This is one of the most interesting and courageous internet projects in recent time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>App.net funded with $500,000.</title><url>https://join.app.net/?fully-funded</url></story> |
22,608,227 | 22,607,410 | 1 | 2 | 22,602,019 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>surfsvammel</author><text>I think there is a more reasonable explanation why they are not testing you.
Simply because they wouldn’t do anything with that information anyway. If the test is positive they’ll send you home to quarantine telling you to call back if your fever worsens. If the test would show negative, they’d tell you, guess what; “please call back if your fever worsens, and stay in quarantine anyway”.<p>So the information doesn’t really matter.<p>In Sweden once they change tactics from trying to track each and every case, and who they might have gotten it from etc, to a a strategy more about just accepting that it’s spreading and trying to limit the spread in general, and protect the weak. Then they also stopped doing testing here.<p>Unless you are in a risk group, the test doesn’t really make a difference.</text><parent_chain><item><author>warabe</author><text>I live in Japan and I experience mild symptoms since last Wednesday but not sure if my symptom is due to Covid-19.
In Japan, You have meet two conditions to take a CPR test.<p>1. the symptoms with fever of 37.5 degrees or more continue for 4 days or more (for the eldery and those with underlying disease, &quot;4 days&quot; becomes &quot;2 days&quot;)<p>2. you have strong laxity (malaise) or breathlessness (dyspnea), or you have underlying diseases (diabetes, heart failure, respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease))<p>I don&#x27;t meet the first condition, so I was refused to take a test, but I still have chest tightness and consistent coughing. I wonder where the number &quot;37.5&quot; comes from, and 4 squeal days!?
If the article in question is true, these two conditions are totally meaningless.<p>So why is taking a PCR test so hard in Japan? Most people believe it is due to Olympic.
The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, still believes we can hold Olympic as planned at this point.
To that end, they want to hide the case of infection as possible. I feel strong anger towards my government since they care more about Olympic than human lives.<p>At this point, Olympic will be inevitably postponed. I hope my government is smart enough to loosen the conditions and let people to take PCR tests immediately…</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic</title><url>https://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina-e-ricerca/2020/03/16/news/coronavirus_studio_il_50-75_dei_casi_a_vo_sono_asintomatici_e_molto_contagiosi-251474302/?ref=RHPPTP-BH-I251454518-C12-P3-S2.4-T1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>netsharc</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it the case that most countries in the world don&#x27;t have enough tests, it seems only South Korea does. I live in Switzerland and they are also restricting tests to higher risk groups, and people with worse conditions (which is a bit grim, how dead do I need to be before I can get a test?)<p>Either it&#x27;s due to Olympics, or just logistics. Will the Olympics even happen if Japan is declared &quot;OK&quot; but many guest nations still have sick people?</text><parent_chain><item><author>warabe</author><text>I live in Japan and I experience mild symptoms since last Wednesday but not sure if my symptom is due to Covid-19.
In Japan, You have meet two conditions to take a CPR test.<p>1. the symptoms with fever of 37.5 degrees or more continue for 4 days or more (for the eldery and those with underlying disease, &quot;4 days&quot; becomes &quot;2 days&quot;)<p>2. you have strong laxity (malaise) or breathlessness (dyspnea), or you have underlying diseases (diabetes, heart failure, respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease))<p>I don&#x27;t meet the first condition, so I was refused to take a test, but I still have chest tightness and consistent coughing. I wonder where the number &quot;37.5&quot; comes from, and 4 squeal days!?
If the article in question is true, these two conditions are totally meaningless.<p>So why is taking a PCR test so hard in Japan? Most people believe it is due to Olympic.
The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, still believes we can hold Olympic as planned at this point.
To that end, they want to hide the case of infection as possible. I feel strong anger towards my government since they care more about Olympic than human lives.<p>At this point, Olympic will be inevitably postponed. I hope my government is smart enough to loosen the conditions and let people to take PCR tests immediately…</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic</title><url>https://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina-e-ricerca/2020/03/16/news/coronavirus_studio_il_50-75_dei_casi_a_vo_sono_asintomatici_e_molto_contagiosi-251474302/?ref=RHPPTP-BH-I251454518-C12-P3-S2.4-T1</url></story> |
14,181,608 | 14,181,615 | 1 | 2 | 14,180,761 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sharkjacobs</author><text>Apple needs to improve the image stabilization on live photos. I like live photos a lot now, but I had disabled them until I discovered Google&#x27;s Motion Stills app.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple releases a bit of code to let you put Live Photos on your sites</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/20/apple-releases-a-bit-of-code-to-let-you-put-live-photos-on-your-sites</url></story> | <instructions>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>Is this why Apple won&#x27;t allow WebM on iOS? It&#x27;s like they want to pull the web apart, stick it behind a private API, then sell it back to you piece by piece.<p>What is this even supposed to be beyond webm&#x2F;gifv anyways?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple releases a bit of code to let you put Live Photos on your sites</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/20/apple-releases-a-bit-of-code-to-let-you-put-live-photos-on-your-sites</url></story> |
41,719,715 | 41,719,029 | 1 | 2 | 41,715,762 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>Can&#x27;t speak for my own kids (yet), but personally I was able to hold my interest in math through my teens for 2 reasons:<p>1. I had some good teachers who showed (glimpses) of the how and why, not just the &quot;what&quot;, so it helped math feel like it made sense, rather than being just facts and calculating algorithms to memorize. One demo that left a particular impression on me was the teacher asking us to go around the unit circle in increments of 10 degrees and plot the ratio of the opposite side and hypotenuse of the inscribed right triangle. Watching the sine function -- until then some mysterious thing that just existed with no explanation or context -- materialize in front of me on graph paper was magical.<p>2. I was shown that math is <i>useful</i>. In another great high school demo, the teacher assigned every student a length, width, and height, to be cut from construction paper and taped together in a box. After we were done, we laid out all the boxes together and computed their volumes. Then the teacher worked through the calculus on the board to figure out the dimensions of the box with the highest possible volume, given that fixed amount of construction paper. That was a really big moment for me, because until then I &quot;hated&quot; math, being a silly waste of time messing around with numbers and shapes just for the sake of doing it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kreyenborgi</author><text>This was a surprisingly interesting and well-written article. I hope people read it and not just the comments here :-)<p>I&#x27;m unsure if it implies that &quot;lame school exercises&quot; are unnecessary or just not sufficient (I&#x27;ve recently read articles about how teaching &quot;insight&quot; without exercises is detrimental, though perhaps doing problems implies getting that repetition-work).<p>Does anyone have good experiences with keeping kids math-interested as they get into their teens? My kid used to enjoy math in school, and love talking about math problems (&quot;can you help me set up that triangle pyramid thing with the sums again&quot;), but now is seemingly disillusioned and finds the school exercises boring. Combine that with, well, teen-age, and I fear it&#x27;s going to be hard to get back the spark. Not that it <i>has</i> to come back, but I&#x27;d hate for the interest to turn into dislike due to lack of opportunities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Math from Three to Seven</title><url>https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-math-from-three-to-seven-by</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dan-robertson</author><text>I think the amount of approachable math content online is incredible. Some comments mention 3Blue1Brown on YouTube, which is good but can go on a bit and maybe be a bit advanced. I think Numberphile is great for having a lot of videos, each of which is pretty short, and which still show some small proof of some problem. There are also books of interesting mathematical tidbits or puzzles, eg the Martin Gardener or Ian Stewart books. I guess one other thing to say is that it probably helps for you to appear to be interested in the math things instead of you being interested in your kid doing what you want (ie looking at the math things)</text><parent_chain><item><author>kreyenborgi</author><text>This was a surprisingly interesting and well-written article. I hope people read it and not just the comments here :-)<p>I&#x27;m unsure if it implies that &quot;lame school exercises&quot; are unnecessary or just not sufficient (I&#x27;ve recently read articles about how teaching &quot;insight&quot; without exercises is detrimental, though perhaps doing problems implies getting that repetition-work).<p>Does anyone have good experiences with keeping kids math-interested as they get into their teens? My kid used to enjoy math in school, and love talking about math problems (&quot;can you help me set up that triangle pyramid thing with the sums again&quot;), but now is seemingly disillusioned and finds the school exercises boring. Combine that with, well, teen-age, and I fear it&#x27;s going to be hard to get back the spark. Not that it <i>has</i> to come back, but I&#x27;d hate for the interest to turn into dislike due to lack of opportunities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Math from Three to Seven</title><url>https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-math-from-three-to-seven-by</url></story> |
25,595,351 | 25,594,983 | 1 | 2 | 25,593,262 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joaorico</author><text>The new edition has been split in two parts. The pdf draft (921 pages) and python code [1] of the first part are now available. The table of contents of the second part is here [2].<p>From the preface:<p>&quot;By Spring 2020, my draft of the second edition had swollen to about 1600 pages, and I was still not
done. At this point, 3 major events happened. First, the COVID-19 pandemic struck, so I decided
to “pivot” so I could spend most of my time on COVID-19 modeling. Second, MIT Press told me
they could not publish a 1600 page book, and that I would need to split it into two volumes. Third,
I decided to recruit several colleagues to help me finish the last ∼ 15% of “missing content”. (See
acknowledgements below.)<p>The result is two new books, “Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction”, which you are
currently reading, and “Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics”, which is the sequel to
this book [Mur22].<p>Together these two books attempt to present a fairly broad coverage of the field
of ML c. 2020, using the same unifying lens of probabilistic modeling and Bayesian decision theory
that I used in the first book.
Most of the content from the first book has been reused, but it is now split fairly evenly between
the two new books. In addition, each book has lots of new material, covering some topics from deep
learning, but also advances in other parts of the field, such as generative models, variational inference
and reinforcement learning. To make the book more self-contained and useful for students, I have
also added some more background content, on topics such as optimization and linear algebra, that
was omitted from the first book due to lack of space.<p>Another major change is that nearly all of the software now uses Python instead of Matlab.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;probml&#x2F;pyprobml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;probml&#x2F;pyprobml</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;probml.github.io&#x2F;pml-book&#x2F;book2.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;probml.github.io&#x2F;pml-book&#x2F;book2.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction</title><url>https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.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>JHonaker</author><text>This is probably my favorite introductory machine learning book. The fact that he places almost everything in the language of graphical models is such a good common ground to build off.<p>This really sets you up to realize that there is (and should be) a lot more to doing a good job in machine learning than simply minimizing an objective function. The answers you get depend on the model you create as do the questions you can hope to answer.<p>I don&#x27;t see a clear list of differences between this new edition. Does anyone know what&#x27;s new?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction</title><url>https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html</url></story> |
37,429,303 | 37,422,945 | 1 | 2 | 37,422,106 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Matthias247</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any opinion on Bun itself. But as someone who is pretty experienced in running large scale services, I wouldn&#x27;t have a problem to use a tool that is marked as stable but internally built on top of unstable tools. As long as compilation is mostly deterministic (which is usually given for compilers), a good set of unit and integration tests should prove that the software is actually doing what its supposed to do and can be trusted with workloads. If those tests are not available, then even using a mature language might not provide a guarantee that the actual product is better.<p>Sure - the Bun developers might have a super hard time if Zig changes its syntax, library APIs or other things. But that would be a maintenance hassle for the Bun developers, and not necessarily for the Bun users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>j-pb</author><text>Despite the 1.0 release tag, given that it&#x27;s written in Zig, which is super duper Alpha, I&#x27;d trust it only as far as I can throw a floppy with its source code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bun 1.0 announcement [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsnCpESUEqM</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nifty_beaks</author><text>I completely forgot it was written in Zig. Thanks for the heads up. I completely agree, I don&#x27;t see how this can be labeled 1.0 release.</text><parent_chain><item><author>j-pb</author><text>Despite the 1.0 release tag, given that it&#x27;s written in Zig, which is super duper Alpha, I&#x27;d trust it only as far as I can throw a floppy with its source code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bun 1.0 announcement [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsnCpESUEqM</url></story> |
22,240,512 | 22,238,102 | 1 | 3 | 22,237,043 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>Previous discussion of this same result from 2 months ago, 141 points and 16 comments:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21771684" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21771684</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-batchelors-law-of-turbulence-20200204/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HenryKissinger</author><text>To any fluid physicist or mathematician here: Does this move us closer to a general solution for Navier-Stokes?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-batchelors-law-of-turbulence-20200204/</url></story> |
14,100,233 | 14,100,236 | 1 | 2 | 14,099,630 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>The subtext here is that customers don&#x27;t have any actual rights when dealing with a large corporation.</i><p>The problem is that people now believe that. In fact, lawsuits against big companies often are settled on very favorable terms for the customer. As the article points out, United violated their own contract of carriage and FAA regulations. This is going to cost them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zeteo</author><text>The subtext here is that customers don&#x27;t have any actual rights when dealing with a large corporation. The terms of service have become so lengthy and obscure that it&#x27;s virtually certain for a corporate lawyer to find some justification somewhere for almost anything. The corporate employees and the police both operate on this assumption. As a customer, your only recourse is to meekly accept whatever treatment is coming your way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Failure</title><url>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/united-passenger-removal-reporting-management-fail.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>kafkaesq</author><text><i>The subtext here is that customers don&#x27;t have any actual rights when dealing with a large corporation.</i><p>Well, no -- they just don&#x27;t have much <i>bargaining power</i>. Which is different.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zeteo</author><text>The subtext here is that customers don&#x27;t have any actual rights when dealing with a large corporation. The terms of service have become so lengthy and obscure that it&#x27;s virtually certain for a corporate lawyer to find some justification somewhere for almost anything. The corporate employees and the police both operate on this assumption. As a customer, your only recourse is to meekly accept whatever treatment is coming your way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Failure</title><url>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/united-passenger-removal-reporting-management-fail.html</url></story> |
1,058,749 | 1,058,652 | 1 | 2 | 1,058,578 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cnvogel</author><text>There are currently (to my knowledge) two working open-source/free-software implementations of the GSM stack.<p>OpenBTS (<a href="http://openbts.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://openbts.sourceforge.net/</a>) puts everything, beginning at the modulation/demodulation of the radio-frequency, into your PC and uses a USRP (<a href="http://www.ettus.com/products" rel="nofollow">http://www.ettus.com/products</a>) as the radio-frequency frontend (~$2000).<p>OpenBSC (<a href="http://openbsc.gnumonks.org" rel="nofollow">http://openbsc.gnumonks.org</a>) uses a different approach and starts implementing at the Abis-interface, which is what the Base Transceiver Station (the thing with the antennae...) connects to. Here you don't need the USRP but a surplus GSM BTS (currently around or a little less than $500/€500 and the necessary E1-interface (for the Abis-link) is $200/€200, afaik). OpenBSC has been successfully tested at <a href="https://wiki.har2009.org/page/GSM" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.har2009.org/page/GSM</a> and <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/GSM" rel="nofollow">http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/GSM</a> using officially allocated frequencies.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenBTS: Cheap, open source cellular network</title><url>http://openbts.sourceforge.net/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vaporstun</author><text>Looks very cool, excited about the possibilities, but my first thought was "FCC violation."<p>Did a quick Google search, looks like they did a test at Burning Man in 2008 and got local FCC approvals: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/297038/" rel="nofollow">http://lwn.net/Articles/297038/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenBTS: Cheap, open source cellular network</title><url>http://openbts.sourceforge.net/</url></story> |
31,358,129 | 31,358,382 | 1 | 3 | 31,356,525 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Elon is margin called by year end is roughly 40% according to option prices</i><p>The margin loans will almost certainly be replaced with outside equity prior to closing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fny</author><text>It maximizes his chance of survival either way.<p>The probability that Elon is margin called by year end is roughly 40% according to option prices.<p>- 60% chance you get fired either by Musk or investors if you don&#x27;t turn the ship.
- 40% chance you Musk is margin called and doesn&#x27;t take over, but still might be fired by investors or acquired by someone else who may in turn can him.</text></item><item><author>TameAntelope</author><text>You&#x27;re discounting the very real possibility that Parag is operating as if the deal will <i>not</i> go through, and is making large strategic decisions in anticipation of that being the case.<p>For Parag, I don&#x27;t see it &quot;burning his reputation&quot; at all, considering either a) he&#x27;s right and will face the tall task of helming a Twitter that continues to disappoint its investors or b) he&#x27;s wrong and it won&#x27;t be his problem when Elon fires him next year.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>So there&#x27;s two options right - the first is that Parag is for some reason making big strategic decisions about the direction of the company despite the fact that we all know he&#x27;ll be gone if the deal closes. Or he&#x27;s making big strategic changes at the behest of the acquirers before the deal closes.<p>Neither of these things seem particularly kosher moves to make. The question is how to figure out which one it is.<p>It would seem weird for Parag to be following Musk&#x27;s orders given how Musk has behaved. It also seems weird for Musk to already have the insight into the company to know specifically who to fire. There&#x27;s not much advantage to making these changes now.<p>On the other hand, going rogue and making big strategic decisions about the company really has the potential to burn Parag&#x27;s reputation for wherever he would move next.<p>I guess there&#x27;s a third option - that Musk has expressed a specific view, Parag has a different view, but that they both think that this move is necessary anyway so just got on and did it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/12/23068851/twitter-product-chief-kayvon-beykpour-bruce-falck-parag-agrawal</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Py-o7</author><text>&gt; The probability that Elon is margin called by year end is roughly 40% according to option prices.<p>The way tycoons frequently do this involves putting collars around a significant portion of the margined stock (and for a sizable position like this, the trade would flow through to option prices on tesla and the stock itself via delta hedging or whatever the trade desks are doing as part of the trade)</text><parent_chain><item><author>fny</author><text>It maximizes his chance of survival either way.<p>The probability that Elon is margin called by year end is roughly 40% according to option prices.<p>- 60% chance you get fired either by Musk or investors if you don&#x27;t turn the ship.
- 40% chance you Musk is margin called and doesn&#x27;t take over, but still might be fired by investors or acquired by someone else who may in turn can him.</text></item><item><author>TameAntelope</author><text>You&#x27;re discounting the very real possibility that Parag is operating as if the deal will <i>not</i> go through, and is making large strategic decisions in anticipation of that being the case.<p>For Parag, I don&#x27;t see it &quot;burning his reputation&quot; at all, considering either a) he&#x27;s right and will face the tall task of helming a Twitter that continues to disappoint its investors or b) he&#x27;s wrong and it won&#x27;t be his problem when Elon fires him next year.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>So there&#x27;s two options right - the first is that Parag is for some reason making big strategic decisions about the direction of the company despite the fact that we all know he&#x27;ll be gone if the deal closes. Or he&#x27;s making big strategic changes at the behest of the acquirers before the deal closes.<p>Neither of these things seem particularly kosher moves to make. The question is how to figure out which one it is.<p>It would seem weird for Parag to be following Musk&#x27;s orders given how Musk has behaved. It also seems weird for Musk to already have the insight into the company to know specifically who to fire. There&#x27;s not much advantage to making these changes now.<p>On the other hand, going rogue and making big strategic decisions about the company really has the potential to burn Parag&#x27;s reputation for wherever he would move next.<p>I guess there&#x27;s a third option - that Musk has expressed a specific view, Parag has a different view, but that they both think that this move is necessary anyway so just got on and did it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/12/23068851/twitter-product-chief-kayvon-beykpour-bruce-falck-parag-agrawal</url></story> |
29,353,338 | 29,352,534 | 1 | 3 | 29,308,246 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ggm</author><text>I was shown it in 79. I didn&#x27;t &quot;get it&quot; I wound up using it in 81&#x2F;82 and got it immediately. Between the gap period I&#x27;d moved from having the thinnest understanding of what programming was, to completing a CS degree and working in systems management and networking. Once you have had to use a pre-UNIX JCL such as a TOPS-10 system, moving to a unix system was a clear step up. The Dec 10 was a fine machine. It was just harder to sequence discrete units of code into an outcome. The pipe, and a reasonably programmatic shell and related tools were the killer app moment.<p>VMS was good, but it was still sys$system:[thing]&#x2F;path arcane. And had complex database-like file abstractions which I am sure were a godsend to people in that space but IPC (using an abstraction called &quot;mailboxes&quot;) was a nightmare. VMS had file versioning, something I think UNIX missed on. ZFS snapshots do much the same at a whole of FS level. UNIX still won, because it was more logically consistent, and had pipes. BSD4.2 brought sockets which I still hate, but they worked inside the consistency model.<p>v7 is where I learned to type. BSD4.1 is where I learned to develop. I still have a fond memory for the v7 pdp11.<p>unix 32V had deep roots in v7, as did the York unix port of v7 to the Vax with VM extensions. I think by then, BSD made it clear where things were going. System III -&gt; System V were really aberrant, streams aside.<p>If Linux hadn&#x27;t emerged, I think the BSD fracture would have led naturally to something dominant in FreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD. But, they lost impetus to mind-share in the world of personal computers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why V7 Unix matters so much</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/V7WhyItMattersSoMuch</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eminence32</author><text>V7 was released in 1979. If you click on the first link in the article, you get to the wikipedia page on V7, and from there you have a screenshot[1] of what running `ls -l &#x2F;usr` looked like in a terminal<p>Two things stand out to me about this screenshot:<p>1. The output of `ls -l` is very very similar to what my 2021 debian+coreutils produces.<p>2. The contents of `&#x2F;usr` are not all that different either! Directories that are common to my system and this screenshot are: games, include, lib, src.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Version_7_Unix#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Version_7_Unix_SIMH_PDP11_Emulation_DMR.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Version_7_Unix#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Ver...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why V7 Unix matters so much</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/V7WhyItMattersSoMuch</url></story> |
36,327,811 | 36,327,396 | 1 | 3 | 36,326,706 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elcomet</author><text>They&#x27;re investing in the team, which I think is smarter than investing in an idea. Those people built llama at meta and flamingo&#x2F;chinchilla at deepmind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dopamean</author><text>&gt; It’s very early to talk about what Mistral is doing or will be doing — it’s only around a month old — but from what Mensch said, the plan is to build models using only publicly available data to avoid legal issues that some others have faced over training data, he said; users will be able to contribute their own datasets, too. Models and data sets will be open-sourced, as well.<p>Unless I missed it elsewhere in the article this part really glosses over something I have a hard time understanding. 113M seed round at a 240M valuation for a company that has no product yet and a plan to build something like something else that already exists. This feels insane to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France’s Mistral AI raises a $113M seed round to take on OpenAI</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/13/frances-mistral-ai-blows-in-with-a-113m-seed-round-at-a-260m-valuation-to-take-on-openai/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mach1ne</author><text>Maybe there’s enough money in Europe that investors who were anxious to join the AI train jumped the gun. Indeed the whole thing is sketchy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dopamean</author><text>&gt; It’s very early to talk about what Mistral is doing or will be doing — it’s only around a month old — but from what Mensch said, the plan is to build models using only publicly available data to avoid legal issues that some others have faced over training data, he said; users will be able to contribute their own datasets, too. Models and data sets will be open-sourced, as well.<p>Unless I missed it elsewhere in the article this part really glosses over something I have a hard time understanding. 113M seed round at a 240M valuation for a company that has no product yet and a plan to build something like something else that already exists. This feels insane to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France’s Mistral AI raises a $113M seed round to take on OpenAI</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/13/frances-mistral-ai-blows-in-with-a-113m-seed-round-at-a-260m-valuation-to-take-on-openai/</url></story> |
29,190,714 | 29,190,196 | 1 | 3 | 29,188,772 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enragedcacti</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, if we get into a car accident, we don&#x27;t get to ask the driver of the vehicle we&#x27;re colliding with to change their location, angle of impact, and speed, in order for the collision to comply with an IIHS, NHTSA, or *NCAP, test protocol.<p>I&#x27;m smitten with the stupid idea of teaching your self-driving car that when a crash can&#x27;t be avoided it should attempt to make the crash as close as possible to the nearest crash test protocol of the jurisdiction it&#x27;s operating in.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How do cars fare in crash tests they're not specifically optimized for? (2020)</title><url>https://danluu.com/car-safety/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ericpauley</author><text>&gt; All of those models scored Good on the driver side small overlap test, indicating that when Honda increased the safety on the driver&#x27;s side to score Good on the driver&#x27;s side test, they didn&#x27;t apply the same changes to the passenger side.<p>This is an especially concerning observation for Honda. I&#x27;m curious if there&#x27;s any more detail on this or if there&#x27;s a plausible reason aside from gaming the benchmarks (e.g., the positioning of firewall-forward components might naturally favor small-overlap protection on the driver&#x27;s side, or a steering-wheel mounted airbag would naturally perform better than dash-mounted).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How do cars fare in crash tests they're not specifically optimized for? (2020)</title><url>https://danluu.com/car-safety/</url></story> |
34,888,355 | 34,888,339 | 1 | 2 | 34,886,533 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>In Amazon&#x27;s case, it might not be theater.<p>Amazon owns around a dozen skyscrapers in downtown Seattle. Amazon has a massive number of employees in downtown Seattle, and whether those people are downtown or not makes a significant difference to the real estate values in downtown Seattle. Making their employees come into the office may in fact mean a significant financial reward to Amazon, but not because the employees are doing better work.<p>Also, Andrew Jassy specifically has a number of personal financial interests in the Seattle area, including the local hockey team and the nearby Key Arena. Keeping downtown expensive and full of people is in his personal interests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shmatt</author><text>The thing is, this becomes theater of working. Imagine commuting to the office 60-90 minutes each direction just to sit in a stuffy room and zoom<p>Want to talk collaboration and productivity? Let&#x27;s see if a company bans zoom for office days (but none will)<p>And im not even going to start on the complete waste of time of people in an open space talking non stop about their fantasy football draft. I haven&#x27;t heard those words in 3 years, it was nice that way</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazon-employees-push-ceo-andy-jassy-to-drop-return-to-office-mandate.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>potatolicious</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;Want to talk collaboration and productivity? Let&#x27;s see if a company bans zoom for office days (but none will)&quot;</i><p>This wouldn&#x27;t even be practicable - pretty much every BigTech company has offices spread all over the country, if not the world, and the odds are you work day-to-day with someone who sits nowhere near you.<p>If you are forced to come in <i>and</i> you weren&#x27;t allowed teleconferencing, you&#x27;d literally get nothing done.<p>The idea that you can staff whole teams of people (and their dependencies!) in a way that they&#x27;re all guaranteed to sit within a short walk of each other is straight-up madness. Beyond a certain scale this is quite impossible.<p>Heck, even in the same <i>city</i> this isn&#x27;t practicable. When I worked at Google we frequently had teams and their dependencies spread across building all over campus. Even if <i>everyone involved</i> sat in Mountain View, in an office, you still can&#x27;t get away from teleconferencing since it takes half an hour for someone to commute from their building to yours!</text><parent_chain><item><author>shmatt</author><text>The thing is, this becomes theater of working. Imagine commuting to the office 60-90 minutes each direction just to sit in a stuffy room and zoom<p>Want to talk collaboration and productivity? Let&#x27;s see if a company bans zoom for office days (but none will)<p>And im not even going to start on the complete waste of time of people in an open space talking non stop about their fantasy football draft. I haven&#x27;t heard those words in 3 years, it was nice that way</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazon-employees-push-ceo-andy-jassy-to-drop-return-to-office-mandate.html</url></story> |
8,254,311 | 8,254,226 | 1 | 3 | 8,253,979 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IvyMike</author><text>Funny enough, when the plants show up, in my experience it&#x27;s a bad sign. I have no proof this conversation happened at the last two places I worked... but I&#x27;m pretty sure it did happen.<p>Upper-level manager #1: &quot;The results of the employee morale survey are back. Morale is at an all time low. The employees feel that upper-level management is clueless, they are increasingly unable to do their jobs efficiently because of process and bureaucracy, and the raises we gave this year were below industry average.&quot;<p>Upper-level manager #2: &quot;I just googled &#x27;how to raise morale&#x27; and it said &#x27;plants&#x27;&quot;<p>Upper-level manager #1: &quot;Let&#x27;s do that!&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/31/plants-offices-workers-productive-minimalist-employees</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GFischer</author><text>I really hope they took the Hawthorne effect into account:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hawthorne_effect</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s the plants themselves which generated the positive change, or whether anything else (paintings, something personal&#x2F;warm) would have generated a similar response.<p>And while I rant about my awful working conditions, at least I don&#x27;t have my keyboard fixed into place !!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/31/plants-offices-workers-productive-minimalist-employees</url></story> |
5,960,790 | 5,959,032 | 1 | 2 | 5,957,294 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rogerbinns</author><text>Your editor does have a bearing on your skill as a developer. When I interview candidates, the question I ask is &quot;what is your favourite editor?&quot; I don&#x27;t actually care (much) what the answer is, but I do care that the developer periodically examines the tools they use a lot, and see if they can improve their productivity.<p>Editors do make a difference in your productivity - that is why people have favourites and why they have flamewars. That productivity matters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pvnick</author><text>I <i>love</i> Sublime Text. For a year or two I tried and tried to get behind vim, to no avail. I thought there must be something wrong with me, perhaps I&#x27;m not as smart as those other developers who sit there staring at several adjacent vim windows hitting cryptic key sequences as if the essence of vim were an extension of their mind (maybe it is?). I couldn&#x27;t do it.<p>Then I made the realization that the editor you use has no bearing on your skill as a developer (well, as long as you&#x27;re not using Notepad). I picked up Sublime, and my productivity shot up by an order of magnitude. It&#x27;s fun, supports every single language I&#x27;ve written in, and has a plugin out there for my favorite color scheme of all time, Tomorrow Night (previously it was Solarized Dark). With sublime I can code circles around my former vim-imprisoned self any day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sublime Text 3 Public Beta</title><url>http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-public-beta</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markbao</author><text>As a vim user, I feel as if the essence of vim <i>is an extension of my mind</i>. Much like riding a bicycle, I instinctively think &quot;select this line and the four lines below it and copy it&quot; as &quot;V4jy&quot; with little cognitive thought. Kind of cool from a cognitive science standpoint.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pvnick</author><text>I <i>love</i> Sublime Text. For a year or two I tried and tried to get behind vim, to no avail. I thought there must be something wrong with me, perhaps I&#x27;m not as smart as those other developers who sit there staring at several adjacent vim windows hitting cryptic key sequences as if the essence of vim were an extension of their mind (maybe it is?). I couldn&#x27;t do it.<p>Then I made the realization that the editor you use has no bearing on your skill as a developer (well, as long as you&#x27;re not using Notepad). I picked up Sublime, and my productivity shot up by an order of magnitude. It&#x27;s fun, supports every single language I&#x27;ve written in, and has a plugin out there for my favorite color scheme of all time, Tomorrow Night (previously it was Solarized Dark). With sublime I can code circles around my former vim-imprisoned self any day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sublime Text 3 Public Beta</title><url>http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-public-beta</url></story> |
29,929,118 | 29,927,410 | 1 | 2 | 29,905,630 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seadan83</author><text>I wish I could find the reference, one study showed that additional time spent estimating does not improve estimate accuracy. Only historical data regarding similar tasks were where estimates could be made accurately.<p>Example: How long will it take you to lean advanced physics? Even if I gave you a week, your estimate is likely worthless (maybe precise, but not accurate). To me this makes sense because you cannot know the unknown unknowns until you hit them (and throw in some of the journeyman fallacy)<p>Meanwhile, how long will it take to brush your teeth is easy to estimate. How long will it take to brush your teeth with a new electric toothbrush is also reasonable to estimate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>This article implies, but doesn&#x27;t come right out and say, something that I strongly suspect: that producing an accurate (or even close-to accurate) software project estimate is a time-consuming, unpredictable task. The question nobody seems to be examining is whether or not the cost of doing a large, expensive up-front analysis that might take an arbitrary amount of time is less than the cost of just doing it concurrently with the software development itself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Do We Know About Time Pressure in Software Development?</title><url>https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2021/05/09184214/1mLHZkBtQiI</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldcode</author><text>A lot of these articles assume the work being estimated will remain relevant during the estimated timeframe. My last (very large, not FAANG) employer started every project with a hard deadline, estimates were only used for budgeting not time, and then every project changed on a daily basis until it was obvious it would never ship by the deadline which was changed at the last minute. Every single project worked like this (note these projects were for us not external clients). I know of no theory of estimation that can account for continuous change unknown at the start.</text><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>This article implies, but doesn&#x27;t come right out and say, something that I strongly suspect: that producing an accurate (or even close-to accurate) software project estimate is a time-consuming, unpredictable task. The question nobody seems to be examining is whether or not the cost of doing a large, expensive up-front analysis that might take an arbitrary amount of time is less than the cost of just doing it concurrently with the software development itself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Do We Know About Time Pressure in Software Development?</title><url>https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2021/05/09184214/1mLHZkBtQiI</url></story> |
3,254,460 | 3,254,437 | 1 | 2 | 3,254,367 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danilocampos</author><text>The flawed premise here is that the networks will continue to matter.<p>They won't. Their days are numbered.<p>Building the future is hard and it's messy. Netflix has been taking it on the chin this year as they've passed through a really rough patch.<p>In the end, though, I'd put money on Netflix existing in 2020 before I would any given broadcast network. TV is dead.<p>Netflix is trying to redefine distribution. They're not going to win by placating the dinosaurs of distribution's past. If the Arrested Development deal works out, production companies may see that they have new options for financing their projects and might get better opportunities to reach an audience than they'd ever get on TV.<p>So it's simple: take the issue by the balls and control your destiny or bow and scrape before moronic suits who don't understand technology, hoping and praying that they won't change their minds each time a licensing deal expires.</text><parent_chain><item><author>angli</author><text>I loved Arrested Development, and I'm glad that it's coming back, but I'm not sure this is a good move for Netflix. If this idea picks up steam, Netflix becomes a competitor to the networks and their relationships get worse. Heaven knows they're tense enough already. It seems likely that others may pull their content, as Starz recently did, lessening Netflix's appeal. So yes, in the short run they'll gain subscribers, but I don't think this outweighs the major risks this poses in the long run.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming</title><url>http://netflixstreaming.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-arrested-development-netflix.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>mk</author><text>Or the producers of television see this as a way to not deal with the networks and still get their show distributed to people, and the networks find themselves without good television to put on the air.</text><parent_chain><item><author>angli</author><text>I loved Arrested Development, and I'm glad that it's coming back, but I'm not sure this is a good move for Netflix. If this idea picks up steam, Netflix becomes a competitor to the networks and their relationships get worse. Heaven knows they're tense enough already. It seems likely that others may pull their content, as Starz recently did, lessening Netflix's appeal. So yes, in the short run they'll gain subscribers, but I don't think this outweighs the major risks this poses in the long run.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming</title><url>http://netflixstreaming.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-arrested-development-netflix.html</url></story> |
22,304,213 | 22,304,125 | 1 | 3 | 22,300,414 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>satysin</author><text>Oh. My. God. YES!<p>I moved from the UK to [redacted] in 2018 (in part due to Brexit but that is a longer story) and dear god the banking systems here are utter shit.<p>I am with HSBC and I can&#x27;t even change the PIN on my debit card! Hell I couldn&#x27;t even get my card and cheque book (yes they still use cheques here!) delivered to my address as it was a temporary one so I had to collect it from my branch in person.<p>If I buy something on my card it takes at least <i>three</i> days before it is listed in the HSBC mobile app or web site.<p>I generally use cash so it isn&#x27;t a huge issue for me (check my post history for some explanation on why I mostly use cash) but god is banking frustrating here.<p>The only positive is that I do have an actual account manager (as in the same person) who I always deal with and he is <i>excellent</i> at sorting my problem. I have to say I do like that consistent human content. Obviously if it is an emergency I use their emergency line (lost card, etc) but for general inquiries that don&#x27;t require instant action my account manager is my go to.<p><i>(thank you for bringing this up I feel I needed this quick rant!)</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>alibarber</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently moved from the UK to another European country, and whilst I despise the way the politics is going back home - I&#x27;m amazed at how much better banking is back in the UK. It&#x27;s free to have an account and debit card, often with a modest free overdraft. And transfers are really instant. As in I can transfer from Barclays to Santander and by the time I&#x27;ve double-tapped between bank apps the money will be there cleared, at any time of day.<p>Here it&#x27;s &#x27;transfer before 2pm and we&#x27;ll send it the same _working_ day!!&#x27; And that&#x27;s once you&#x27;ve made your appointment a week out to open an account, and maybe received everything after a few weeks (if they like you that is)...<p>I got the impression that N26 was mainly to challenge the latter way of working. I didn&#x27;t understand what their offer was even for a free account that was better than even a &#x27;legacy&#x27; bank in the UK (and I&#x27;m not sure they even support direct debit - which would have made it useless for any super-cheap energy&#x2F;phone etc deals).<p>In all - yes Brexit sucks, yes they may have stayed in the UK without it (although I wouldn&#x27;t have expected them to introduce anything new), but I don&#x27;t think they can blame any lack of success in the UK on it.</text></item><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>Businesses pulling out of the UK based on the Brexit process is bad for the UK, and I&#x27;m sure this was indeed mainly motivated by N26&#x27;s need for a UK banking licence, which is a costly and difficult process to go through. However, it&#x27;s worth noting that they are pretty small in the UK (~200k users).<p>They&#x27;re very successful in Germany where banking is a very slow, difficult, manually run industry (from what I&#x27;ve heard), but in the UK we have generally very good banking infrastructure – payments are normally instant and free, and there&#x27;s a lot of consumer protection with things like the current account switching service guarantee.<p>Startups such as Monzo and Starling started in this great infrastructure and now offer relatively compelling products, while the incumbents are getting to grips with modern tech and doing better than many people realise.<p>N26 on the other hand just didn&#x27;t have a compelling offering. They charged for most&#x2F;all of their accounts (explicit charges for accounts in the UK are uncommon), they lacked features, and their marketing was unremarkable compared to the competition.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>N26 will be leaving the UK</title><url>https://n26.com/en-de/blog/leaving-uk-does-not-change-our-global-vision-to-transform-retail-banking-for-the-better</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cosmodisk</author><text>Some parts of the UK banking are good,some are bad, and some are outright fully fledged idiocy. In mainland Europe it varies a lot depending on a country, i.e. Scandinavian banks in Baltics are pure shit.I had some funny situations with banks since I moved in to the UK:
Barclays refused to open a bank account because the letter from the job centre( Confirmation of National Insurance Number application) had its logo in black and white instead of color.
Santander issued some random card that is even more limited than simple debit card.
Walked into Metro bank to pay a bill and asked how much it&#x27;d cost me- the guy&#x27;s jaw dropped on the floor and then he replied that it&#x27;s free( then my jaw dropped on the flor because that was undheard of for me).
A guy I used to know walked into a branch of Santander with his employment contract with Starbucks asking to open a bank account.They refused.Walked out and went to the nearest branch of the same bank- they opened an account immediately.
And the list goes on and on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alibarber</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently moved from the UK to another European country, and whilst I despise the way the politics is going back home - I&#x27;m amazed at how much better banking is back in the UK. It&#x27;s free to have an account and debit card, often with a modest free overdraft. And transfers are really instant. As in I can transfer from Barclays to Santander and by the time I&#x27;ve double-tapped between bank apps the money will be there cleared, at any time of day.<p>Here it&#x27;s &#x27;transfer before 2pm and we&#x27;ll send it the same _working_ day!!&#x27; And that&#x27;s once you&#x27;ve made your appointment a week out to open an account, and maybe received everything after a few weeks (if they like you that is)...<p>I got the impression that N26 was mainly to challenge the latter way of working. I didn&#x27;t understand what their offer was even for a free account that was better than even a &#x27;legacy&#x27; bank in the UK (and I&#x27;m not sure they even support direct debit - which would have made it useless for any super-cheap energy&#x2F;phone etc deals).<p>In all - yes Brexit sucks, yes they may have stayed in the UK without it (although I wouldn&#x27;t have expected them to introduce anything new), but I don&#x27;t think they can blame any lack of success in the UK on it.</text></item><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>Businesses pulling out of the UK based on the Brexit process is bad for the UK, and I&#x27;m sure this was indeed mainly motivated by N26&#x27;s need for a UK banking licence, which is a costly and difficult process to go through. However, it&#x27;s worth noting that they are pretty small in the UK (~200k users).<p>They&#x27;re very successful in Germany where banking is a very slow, difficult, manually run industry (from what I&#x27;ve heard), but in the UK we have generally very good banking infrastructure – payments are normally instant and free, and there&#x27;s a lot of consumer protection with things like the current account switching service guarantee.<p>Startups such as Monzo and Starling started in this great infrastructure and now offer relatively compelling products, while the incumbents are getting to grips with modern tech and doing better than many people realise.<p>N26 on the other hand just didn&#x27;t have a compelling offering. They charged for most&#x2F;all of their accounts (explicit charges for accounts in the UK are uncommon), they lacked features, and their marketing was unremarkable compared to the competition.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>N26 will be leaving the UK</title><url>https://n26.com/en-de/blog/leaving-uk-does-not-change-our-global-vision-to-transform-retail-banking-for-the-better</url></story> |
24,371,303 | 24,369,064 | 1 | 2 | 24,361,029 | 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>aahortwwy</author><text>Almost all of these sorts of behavioural issues (with the exception of the food-motivated ones) tend to disappear when you allow your cat the freedom to go outside whenever it wants. They&#x27;re not well suited to confinement and it always shows in their behavior. Sometimes they just get depressed and mopey, which a lot of people interpret as their cat &quot;not minding&quot; its confinement. Other times they try to relieve the soul-crushing boredom of their lives by knocking things over, yelling, or actively messing with you. Sure, you can &quot;train&quot; your cat not to engage in these behaviors (as other commenters note, however, they&#x27;re smart enough to realize you&#x27;re not always watching them) or you could just allow them access to the far more compelling activities that exist outdoors. They&#x27;ll even choose to do mundane stuff (lie in the sun, poop) outdoors nine times out of ten. They just prefer being out.<p>Reading some of the things people in this thread do to their cats made me sad, especially the people talking about techniques for preventing their cats from getting out the front door.[0] If you would never treat a human the way you treat your cat on a regular basis, that should give you pause. If it&#x27;s &quot;for their own good&quot; you made a selfish choice in pet ownership.<p>[0] An airlock system where the cat is required to sit perfectly still before you open the door? Don&#x27;t they do similar stuff in actual prisons?</text><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>It&#x27;s an alright list, but that&#x27;s some beginner level stuff. Where&#x27;s things like<p>-cat is obssessed with plastic bags whenever he wants attention and ends up wearing them like a cape trailing it through the house causing havoc.<p>-cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash<p>-wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises only to find the cat spiderman-ing up the screen on the window because some rats or something were outside<p>-on the note of two in the morning, that&#x27;s of course the cats favourite time to run around the house meowing on the top of his lungs, just because.<p>-if you have a cat and get a puppy, get ready for that puppy to start walking on window sills, the back of the couch, and even up on the coffee table even if it&#x27;s over 50lbs and clumsy as hell, cause the cat does it.<p>-Oh, you were 5 minutes late feeding the cat, well have fun with non stop fucking around for the rest of the day or night<p>-made some steak, fish, chicken, even salad...and turned your back for a second, well that cat&#x27;s gonna be all up in that, as a bonus, maybe he&#x27;ll knock it onto the ground so him and the dogs can feast.<p>But despite all this...and more, still love the furry little bastard.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coping with Cats</title><url>https://acesounderglass.com/2020/09/02/coping-with-cats/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bloodorange</author><text>Some of your complaints stem from the cat(s) not having learnt what is and is not acceptable. They love to manipulate things with their paws and naturally many will try to swipe&#x2F;push things and sometimes off ledges, shelves etc.<p>You can teach them that that is not acceptable and they will learn. It is even easier to discourage such things from a young age.<p>Also, it&#x27;s good to never give them your food and make them learn that they never get food from you at any time other than their feeding time (barring the occasional treat) and always only in their food bowls.<p>A lot of it is consistency and discipline. I&#x27;ve had multiple cats start the behaviour of swiping&#x2F;pushing things off surfaces but it wasn&#x27;t hard at all to curtail that. While I&#x27;ve raised a non-trivial number of them, I&#x27;ve never had a cat which considered that s&#x2F;he got food when humans are eating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>It&#x27;s an alright list, but that&#x27;s some beginner level stuff. Where&#x27;s things like<p>-cat is obssessed with plastic bags whenever he wants attention and ends up wearing them like a cape trailing it through the house causing havoc.<p>-cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash<p>-wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises only to find the cat spiderman-ing up the screen on the window because some rats or something were outside<p>-on the note of two in the morning, that&#x27;s of course the cats favourite time to run around the house meowing on the top of his lungs, just because.<p>-if you have a cat and get a puppy, get ready for that puppy to start walking on window sills, the back of the couch, and even up on the coffee table even if it&#x27;s over 50lbs and clumsy as hell, cause the cat does it.<p>-Oh, you were 5 minutes late feeding the cat, well have fun with non stop fucking around for the rest of the day or night<p>-made some steak, fish, chicken, even salad...and turned your back for a second, well that cat&#x27;s gonna be all up in that, as a bonus, maybe he&#x27;ll knock it onto the ground so him and the dogs can feast.<p>But despite all this...and more, still love the furry little bastard.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coping with Cats</title><url>https://acesounderglass.com/2020/09/02/coping-with-cats/</url></story> |
16,430,124 | 16,429,102 | 1 | 2 | 16,428,686 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>This is a good and well-written article, but it&#x27;s worth noting that I think many of the ideas here cut slightly against the grain of current Haskell best practices. Which is not to say any specific part is right, but for example the entire discussion on QuickCheck is hard to really make sense of and arbitrary is a famously good use of type classes.<p>Probably the most countercultural paragraph is the paragraph on recommending you make a fresh type rather than reuse an existing type. I think that you lose so many useful operations eschewing maybe for your uniquely named Maybe [1] that a type alias is probably a much better call there, and also captures what you meant more generically. Further, stuff like Maybe over a more specific instance works much better with valuable tools like Compose.<p>Similarly, the redundant constraint on Empty is the sort of thing that will only trip you up in the real world.<p>All in all, great article tho.<p>[1]: People underestimate the compiler cost of deriving instances. It adds up very fast if you derive lots of functors and foldables in your quest for unique names everywhere.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Notes About How I Write Haskell</title><url>https://blog.infinitenegativeutility.com/2017/12/some-notes-about-how-i-write-haskell</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ByzantineO6</author><text>From the earliest days, amateurs instruct computers, while professionals write executable stories. I loved reading the projection of this quip into Haskell.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Notes About How I Write Haskell</title><url>https://blog.infinitenegativeutility.com/2017/12/some-notes-about-how-i-write-haskell</url></story> |
15,674,290 | 15,673,876 | 1 | 3 | 15,673,471 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>Hanlon&#x27;s Razor : Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.<p>I think it totally applies here.<p>Not removing temporary files is a very common bug. As a developer, I&#x27;ve encountered it several times, sometimes I caused it, sometimes I fixed it, and I&#x27;ve seen it happen in other people software just as often. This is one of the reason I hate temporary files, they just don&#x27;t wan&#x27;t to be temporary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>Normally I&#x27;d call BS on a Company calling unauthorized collection of data a &#x27;minor&#x27; bug, but in this particular case, it seems likely that this is the case.<p>I say this because -- according to the company&#x27;s official response[1] -- the recordings were only created on the Android version and not the iOS version of their app.<p>They also state that the recording is only cached locally on the phone and not uploaded to their servers.<p>Leads me to think that it&#x27;s very likely their Android app programmer(s) wrote some test code to save the file, and forgot to delete it or conditionally hide it in their release version of the App. There&#x27;s no excuse for the sloppy programmer(s) if this was the case, I&#x27;m just saying the &#x27;bug&#x27; angle is a possibility, because the Company has also been very quick to fix it and release an updated version for the Andriod app.<p>One more thing, I wouldn&#x27;t call something like this a &#x27;minor&#x27; bug. Likely their PR team threw that word in.<p>&gt; Source: Lovense&#x27;s official account on Reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sex&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7bmi3i&#x2F;psa_lovense_remote_control_vibrator_app_recording&#x2F;dpm4050&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sex&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7bmi3i&#x2F;psa_lovense_rem...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally stored audio recordings</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/10/16634442/lovense-sex-toy-spy-surveillance</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loceng</author><text>In the technical sense it sounds like a minor bug in, in the other implications not so minor - perhaps another mistake on their part of not being more clear with language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>Normally I&#x27;d call BS on a Company calling unauthorized collection of data a &#x27;minor&#x27; bug, but in this particular case, it seems likely that this is the case.<p>I say this because -- according to the company&#x27;s official response[1] -- the recordings were only created on the Android version and not the iOS version of their app.<p>They also state that the recording is only cached locally on the phone and not uploaded to their servers.<p>Leads me to think that it&#x27;s very likely their Android app programmer(s) wrote some test code to save the file, and forgot to delete it or conditionally hide it in their release version of the App. There&#x27;s no excuse for the sloppy programmer(s) if this was the case, I&#x27;m just saying the &#x27;bug&#x27; angle is a possibility, because the Company has also been very quick to fix it and release an updated version for the Andriod app.<p>One more thing, I wouldn&#x27;t call something like this a &#x27;minor&#x27; bug. Likely their PR team threw that word in.<p>&gt; Source: Lovense&#x27;s official account on Reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sex&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7bmi3i&#x2F;psa_lovense_remote_control_vibrator_app_recording&#x2F;dpm4050&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sex&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7bmi3i&#x2F;psa_lovense_rem...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally stored audio recordings</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/10/16634442/lovense-sex-toy-spy-surveillance</url></story> |
23,372,537 | 23,372,392 | 1 | 2 | 23,361,531 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neonate</author><text>This is veering off topic but it&#x27;s too good not to link Mohammed Ali on the words &#x27;black&#x27; and &#x27;white&#x27;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;139167005" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;139167005</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ueDbCmG3iu4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ueDbCmG3iu4</a><p>He must have been doing those riffs a lot back then. What a master communicator and performer. He reminds me of Dylan&#x27;s comic side.<p>Coming back to the topic, if you watch that youtube link to the end, it&#x27;s interesting how different his recommendation is from &#x27;allowlist&#x27; and &#x27;blocklist&#x27;. He&#x27;s not suggesting that whiteness and blackness be taken out of words and replaced with awkward, prudish constructs that no one would otherwise use. Instead he wants positive use of &#x27;black&#x27; words: &quot;Rich dirt is black dirt, strong coffee is black coffee&quot;. It&#x27;s a different approach and he expresses it in such a simple and funny way. Of course this was of the moment in the late 60s (black pride).</text><parent_chain><item><author>flixic</author><text>&gt; In our technical work we use ‘allowlist’ and ‘blocklist’ instead of ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist.’ That’s because of the origin of these terms, with white being seen as ‘good’ and black being seen as ‘bad.’<p>This is one of these times where I&#x27;m confused about my own thinking, and am seeking advice &quot;what should I think?&quot;. I think &quot;allowlist&quot; and &quot;blocklist&quot; are actually clearer, but I also struggle to accept that white&#x2F;black, or light&#x2F;dark cannot be used as general symbols for good&#x2F;bad.<p>Edit: this reddit question and a lengthy answer talks about the &quot;origins&quot; -- they are not racial, and consistently meant allow&#x2F;block: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;866ynp&#x2F;what_are_the_origins_of_the_words_blacklist_and&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;866ynp&#x2F;what_...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tone of Voice Guide</title><url>https://monzo.com/tone-of-voice/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eat_veggies</author><text>Historically, white&#x2F;blacklist did not have racial origins, but history is always happening. The original intent of a word can be erased by its proximity to new taboos and new circumstances, and in this case, white&#x2F;black have been racialized.<p>See also: the disappearance of the words &quot;niggardly&quot; and &quot;feck&quot; from common English usage, or how Thais are uneasy using the word &quot;fuk&quot; (gourd, pumpkin) [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.tw&#x2F;10.1093&#x2F;oxfordhb&#x2F;9780198808190.013.10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.tw&#x2F;10.1093&#x2F;oxfordhb&#x2F;9780198808190.013.10</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>flixic</author><text>&gt; In our technical work we use ‘allowlist’ and ‘blocklist’ instead of ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist.’ That’s because of the origin of these terms, with white being seen as ‘good’ and black being seen as ‘bad.’<p>This is one of these times where I&#x27;m confused about my own thinking, and am seeking advice &quot;what should I think?&quot;. I think &quot;allowlist&quot; and &quot;blocklist&quot; are actually clearer, but I also struggle to accept that white&#x2F;black, or light&#x2F;dark cannot be used as general symbols for good&#x2F;bad.<p>Edit: this reddit question and a lengthy answer talks about the &quot;origins&quot; -- they are not racial, and consistently meant allow&#x2F;block: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;866ynp&#x2F;what_are_the_origins_of_the_words_blacklist_and&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;866ynp&#x2F;what_...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tone of Voice Guide</title><url>https://monzo.com/tone-of-voice/</url></story> |
22,238,330 | 22,237,168 | 1 | 3 | 22,235,756 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmcd</author><text>The other question is, what is your cloud provider going to intentionally do with your data without your consent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Everybody makes mistakes and nothing in the world is black and white.<p>The only question is, is your cloud provider less likely to make mistakes with your data than you are?<p>For most people, the answer is going to be orders of magnitude less likely.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>The usual argument for using &quot;cloud&quot; over managing your own files&#x2F;data is that it&#x27;s very hard to safely manage your own data without making mistakes (data loss, etc). However, this is an example of how companies like Google also make mistakes. Furthermore, when Google&#x2F;FB makes a mistake (like leaking your private data) they do it at a global scale.<p>I offboarded myself from all of Google&#x27;s services a while ago, but I also think &quot;cloud&quot; is dead, at least in the cases where the cloud service holds the encryption keys on my behalf. I don&#x27;t trust, and never will trust, any company to hold on to my data without either selling it to a third party or accidentally leaking it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November</title><url>https://ww.9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-photos-video-strangers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kaiyou</author><text>Just encrypt your data before putting it onto somebody else&#x27;s computer a.k.a. the cloud.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Everybody makes mistakes and nothing in the world is black and white.<p>The only question is, is your cloud provider less likely to make mistakes with your data than you are?<p>For most people, the answer is going to be orders of magnitude less likely.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>The usual argument for using &quot;cloud&quot; over managing your own files&#x2F;data is that it&#x27;s very hard to safely manage your own data without making mistakes (data loss, etc). However, this is an example of how companies like Google also make mistakes. Furthermore, when Google&#x2F;FB makes a mistake (like leaking your private data) they do it at a global scale.<p>I offboarded myself from all of Google&#x27;s services a while ago, but I also think &quot;cloud&quot; is dead, at least in the cases where the cloud service holds the encryption keys on my behalf. I don&#x27;t trust, and never will trust, any company to hold on to my data without either selling it to a third party or accidentally leaking it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November</title><url>https://ww.9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-photos-video-strangers/</url></story> |
8,487,790 | 8,487,410 | 1 | 2 | 8,487,142 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Karunamon</author><text>Now? No, not really, just avoid GNOME.<p>In the future? Yeah, probably.<p>This wouldn&#x27;t be an issue if the systemd people weren&#x27;t notoriously hard to get along with. Really, I think all of the reasons why systemd attracts hate can be boiled down to this. Nobody wants a standard init system that&#x27;s <i>overtly hostile</i> to bug reports and reasonable changes.<p>Say what you want about upstart and sysvinit, but I don&#x27;t recall a point where the maintainers of it were told off for hijacking kernel flags...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Avoiding systemd isn't hard</title><url>http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.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>namarkiv</author><text>On gentoo, we have virtual&#x2F;service-manager[0], that allows you to use openrc&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;runit&#x2F;daemontools.<p>[0] <a href="http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/virtual/service-manager/service-manager-0.ebuild?revision=1.6&amp;view=markup" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sources.gentoo.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;viewvc.cgi&#x2F;gentoo-x86&#x2F;virt...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Avoiding systemd isn't hard</title><url>http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html</url></story> |
3,915,800 | 3,915,843 | 1 | 3 | 3,915,479 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Or instead of engaging in conspiracy theores with zero proof we should look at whats going on here rationally. Skype is really unacceptable in any corporate environment. I don't want a random PC on my network to be a superpeer and suddenly use my 50mbps connection routing calls to the world. Run skype for a couple of mins, fire up tcpview, and watch calls come in and out. Not only is this a waste of my resources it also provides a shit experience of dropped calls, sudden drops in quality, and connection issues. The P2P model for video and talk is suboptimal and MS knows their real customers (IT managers and IT buyers) aren't going to go for this.<p>I have yet to get high quality video to work on skype, even between two clients each with 10+ mbps lines. MS knows this is a problem.<p>More than likely Skype will be for SMB and residential use and high end enterprise will continue to use Lync or alternatives. This is a welcome move as it legitimizes Skype for many.</text><parent_chain><item><author>revelation</author><text>Let me just make this very clear: you don't go from zero operating cost to multiple millions of hardware and colo space to do the very same thing, in a move so transparent that it needs security researchers to dig into your program to find out it has happened at all.<p>I guess Skype (by extension, Microsoft) is growing interested in what people are speaking about. To get hold of that data you need to route it through your own network, at significant processing and bandwidth cost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradleyland</author><text>That's one possible explanation, and I think there's a healthy amount of skepticism required when analyzing moves like this, but it's not the only explanation.<p>Keep in mind that a large part of Microsoft's business is in the enterprise, and voice is a <i>huge</i> application product for enterprise customers. Exchange has always had some form of voice integration. I haven't used it in years (since back when H.323 was big), so I don't know the current state of affairs, but it is just as plausible that Microsoft is moving to a more traditional client-server structure in a bid to win the mindshare of enerprise purchasers. I'm particularly attached to this explanation because of my insight in to the telecom industry.<p>Telcos don't want to sell dumb pipes to customers, because dumb pipes are a commodity. Selling a TDM PRI with 23 voice channels is something anyone can do. Carriers are pushing customers away from these products in to SIP offerings that can integrate with customer applications because these products have high exit costs. I can swap out PRIs three times a year without much trouble. Changing application integration is far more expensive. This creates room for higher margins.<p>Here's the thing: with Skype, Microsoft can enter this space. I don't know exactly how Skype does it, but they manage to deliver a great VoIP product without any infrastructure considerations (network design, QoS, backhaul constraints). I've used SIP carriers who deliver a router with preconfigured QoS that can't call quality as good as Skype.<p>I'm not suggesting there's magic here or anything, but Skype's product is damned good. If Microsoft were to integrate Skype in to Exchange, that would give them a customer endpoint that could take advantage of a network designed for voice. Exchange could keep intra-office calls local (like a PBX) and segregated on their on VLAN, while aggregating outside voice traffic on separate network interfaces, much like traditional TDM and SIP based PBX systems. This would check all the right boxes for enterprise voice managers. I'm also willing to bet this would push Skype voice quality over the threshold from end-user novelty to enterprise infrastructure.<p>There are far too many positive business reasons from a straight forward product standpoint to jump straight to the "this lets them mine customer data" viewpoint.</text><parent_chain><item><author>revelation</author><text>Let me just make this very clear: you don't go from zero operating cost to multiple millions of hardware and colo space to do the very same thing, in a move so transparent that it needs security researchers to dig into your program to find out it has happened at all.<p>I guess Skype (by extension, Microsoft) is growing interested in what people are speaking about. To get hold of that data you need to route it through your own network, at significant processing and bandwidth cost.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft.ars</url></story> |
24,502,764 | 24,501,719 | 1 | 2 | 24,500,214 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>st_goliath</author><text>This is the same person who had a blog post on the front page ~2 months back, rambling about a JavaScript scroll bar issue, the fact that an ISP could block entry node traffic, and a few other things along those lines (&quot;omg, 0 day!&quot;):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23929312" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23929312</a><p>Both blog posts probably ended up on the front page and got quite a bit of attention because the words &quot;0 day&quot; and &quot;tor&quot; were used in close proximity, something the author is apparently very fond of doing (the posts are part of a series titled &quot;Tor 0day&quot;).</text><parent_chain><item><author>lilboiluvr69</author><text>Interesting article, but I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s titled &#x27;0-day&#x27; when he references a research paper from 2012.<p>&quot;Although these are old, they are classified as zero-day attacks because there is no solution.&quot;<p>They are?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses</title><url>https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/896-Tor-0day-Finding-IP-Addresses.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>wp381640</author><text>Here is a technique that is used to uncover hidden services:<p>1. purchase VPS products at a bunch of providers who accept bitcoin &#x2F; crypto<p>2. ddos your target<p>3. see if you notice any of your hosted boxes go down<p>4. once you know the provider pop them (they&#x27;re usually running some shitty WHMCS or similar homebrew solution, old Cpanel, etc. etc. and they&#x27;re almost always resellers and amateurs) and move laterally to your target<p>When the feds do it against online drug markets (and they have been for years) they have the bonus of having decent network insight &#x2F; view by working with backbone providers<p>There is just no way to hide multi-Gb of traffic</text><parent_chain><item><author>lilboiluvr69</author><text>Interesting article, but I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s titled &#x27;0-day&#x27; when he references a research paper from 2012.<p>&quot;Although these are old, they are classified as zero-day attacks because there is no solution.&quot;<p>They are?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses</title><url>https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/896-Tor-0day-Finding-IP-Addresses.html</url></story> |
9,101,469 | 9,101,366 | 1 | 3 | 9,100,846 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnward</author><text>At the very top &quot;A FREE EMAIL COURSE FROM THE CREATIVE CLASS&quot;<p>And at the very bottom: &quot;FULL DISCLOSURE: THERE&#x27;S A PAID COURSE ABOUT FREELANCING OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS COURSE.&quot;<p>I fail to see anything wrong with that. They are giving away something for free in hopes they can sell something else. Nothing wrong with that at all. They are even disclosing that before you join the list, which most people don&#x27;t. I guess you may not see that before joining but I see no harm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>This has a <i>horrible</i> vibe of all of these guides on how to get rich quickly, that a company would mail you for $19.99. Everything, beginning from having to supply an email address to be sent the first lesson,to cheesy &quot;testimonials&quot; like &quot;now I can pay my bills 3 months in advance!&quot; reeks of some sort of scam.<p>At the very top &quot;A FREE EMAIL COURSE FROM THE CREATIVE CLASS&quot;<p>And at the very bottom:
&quot;FULL DISCLOSURE: THERE&#x27;S A PAID COURSE ABOUT FREELANCING OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS COURSE.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The freelancer's guide to good jobs and great pay</title><url>http://thecreativeclass.io/guide/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frandroid</author><text>It&#x27;s not a scam, it&#x27;s the freemium model.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>This has a <i>horrible</i> vibe of all of these guides on how to get rich quickly, that a company would mail you for $19.99. Everything, beginning from having to supply an email address to be sent the first lesson,to cheesy &quot;testimonials&quot; like &quot;now I can pay my bills 3 months in advance!&quot; reeks of some sort of scam.<p>At the very top &quot;A FREE EMAIL COURSE FROM THE CREATIVE CLASS&quot;<p>And at the very bottom:
&quot;FULL DISCLOSURE: THERE&#x27;S A PAID COURSE ABOUT FREELANCING OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS COURSE.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The freelancer's guide to good jobs and great pay</title><url>http://thecreativeclass.io/guide/</url></story> |
36,739,806 | 36,739,612 | 1 | 2 | 36,737,721 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ayewo</author><text>Does anyone remember Clubhouse? Clubhouse the social audio app at clubhouse.com ?<p>The sudden popularity of clubhouse.com overshadowed
clubhouse.io forcing the latter to rename to shortcut.com.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shortcut.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;clubhouses-name-is-now-shortcut#" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shortcut.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;clubhouses-name-is-now-shortcu...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/15/threads-a-slack-alternative-completely-unrelated-to-instagram-has-seen-downloads-surge/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ec109685</author><text>Reminds me of how the $ZOOM stock kept shooting up whenever ZM was in the news: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;securityboulevard.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;investors-buy-up-the-wrong-zoom&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;securityboulevard.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;investors-buy-up-the-w...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/15/threads-a-slack-alternative-completely-unrelated-to-instagram-has-seen-downloads-surge/</url></story> |
13,904,850 | 13,903,760 | 1 | 3 | 13,902,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alphonsegaston</author><text>I think it&#x27;s great that he&#x27;s doing this, but I can&#x27;t help but think how these kind of stories follow this weird American pattern of social problems being the hobby of the wealthy and&#x2F;or an opportunity for cleverness. Why are we so fond of these narratives?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineer Converts Van into Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless</title><url>http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Apple-Engineer-Converts-Used-Van-Into-Mobile-Laundromat-Offers-Free-Loads-to-Homeless-416489533.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>angry_octet</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016-07-01&#x2F;orange-sky-laundry-search-for-australians-making-a-difference&#x2F;7557536" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016-07-01&#x2F;orange-sky-laundry-sea...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineer Converts Van into Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless</title><url>http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Apple-Engineer-Converts-Used-Van-Into-Mobile-Laundromat-Offers-Free-Loads-to-Homeless-416489533.html</url></story> |
34,189,374 | 34,189,375 | 1 | 3 | 34,186,886 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dtnewman</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; <i>June 2022 comes, and the orders for this retailer start coming in from the distributor. This coffee was shipping to five distribution centers so we were receiving multiple orders. The orders were large but we thought we could handle it. Then the orders kept coming, spread apart by days.</i><p>So it sounds like they had an initial agreement for 6000 units, but the actual purchase orders were coming in piecemeal.<p>There&#x27;s no question that these business owners made some stupid mistakes and probably failed to read the fine-print. On the other hand, when you are a small business looking to grow, you learn as you go along. And oftentimes you have about zero leverage with a multi-billion dollar distributor or a supermarket. You can&#x27;t really ask them to change their legal terms from their boilerplate language because fuck if they are going to get their lawyers involved to change boilerplate documents at the request of a new manufacturer fulfilling a tiny order [1]. So you sign anyway and hope for the best.<p>[1] Reminds me of my friend who got a lucrative job offer from a large investment bank out of college, but wanted to adjust the terms in the non-compete section of their contract (something you hear suggested a lot by people here on HN). They literally laughed at him when he suggested it and said something sarcastic along the lines of &quot;yeah, let&#x27;s phone our legal team and tell them that the first year analyst wants a personalized job contract&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>Others have pointed this out, but no one has actually done the math yet, so...<p>6000 &quot;units&quot; for $250,000 is $41&#x2F;unit. At wholesale. For a product that retails for $16&#x2F;bag.<p>It is just inconceivable that no one noticed this discrepancy. This is not a &quot;grift&quot; by the distributor, this is an elementary and obvious fuckup by the producer.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s so elementary and obvious that it would not surprise me a bit if this whole thing turns out to be a publicity stunt that succeeded spectacularly well, at least for a little while, because once the cat is out of the bag all the people who bought that coffee will realize that they are the ones who got played.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]</title><url>https://www.modest.coffee/2022/12/how-we-got-grifted/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phphphphp</author><text>the units weren’t purchased, though, it was an order. If we take them at their word that they worked with a broker, then there’s numerous ways this could have happened. For example, the broker could have said “they’ll pay you $x per bag and they need 6,000 units” which would explain the discrepancy. After all, the order was for “units” but what’s ultimately being sold is bags — so there is some translation happening somewhere.<p>The businesses entire pitch is ethics, it would be batshit crazy to try and run such a gambit when ethics is core to their business.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>Others have pointed this out, but no one has actually done the math yet, so...<p>6000 &quot;units&quot; for $250,000 is $41&#x2F;unit. At wholesale. For a product that retails for $16&#x2F;bag.<p>It is just inconceivable that no one noticed this discrepancy. This is not a &quot;grift&quot; by the distributor, this is an elementary and obvious fuckup by the producer.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s so elementary and obvious that it would not surprise me a bit if this whole thing turns out to be a publicity stunt that succeeded spectacularly well, at least for a little while, because once the cat is out of the bag all the people who bought that coffee will realize that they are the ones who got played.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]</title><url>https://www.modest.coffee/2022/12/how-we-got-grifted/</url></story> |
13,853,185 | 13,852,043 | 1 | 2 | 13,846,887 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greggman</author><text>First off let me say I&#x27;m 100% for this tech because IMO there&#x27;s no way to stop progress. You can&#x27;t control 7+ billion people.<p>That said, the first thing that came to my mind when they mentioned putting the CRISPR engine in new cells so they make more of the same and spread kind of like a virus... They mentioned they tried it and it worked first time. So, unless I&#x27;m missing something, it&#x27;s only a short matter of time before some disgruntled person could try to destroy the world&#x27;s food supply or cause many other large scale issues.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s harder than it sounds but it just seemed like a crazy amount of power for any one person with access to the tech to have. And, unlike nukes there&#x27;s really no way to prevent this power from getting stronger, easier, and more accessible. Nukes you need the fuel. This you mostly just need the knowledge.<p>Sorry I&#x27;m not suggesting any course of action. It&#x27;s just I believe we won&#x27;t make it past The Great Filter because as tech progresses it gets easier and easier for a single person to destroy the world. Embedding the CRISPR engine so it spreads seemed like a step in that direction.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Update: CRISPR</title><url>http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jwcrux</author><text>This podcast mentions that only testing against non-viable embryos has been done. It&#x27;s worth noting that just the other day, the results of the first testing against viable human embryos was released [0].<p>Also, I thought it was interesting when they talked about &quot;who would turn down the ability to remove diseases for $x?&quot; My answer would be people who simply don&#x27;t have that kind of money.<p>This makes things complicated.<p>I&#x27;m not even close to an expert in this area, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s too far a stretch to consider that having technology like this where you can theoretically pick and choose &quot;add ons&quot; for set prices would lead to class divides that are clearly visible when these add ons stop being just internal changes and start including exterior traits.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2123973-first-results-of-crispr-gene-editing-of-normal-embryos-released" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2123973-first-results-o...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Update: CRISPR</title><url>http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/</url></story> |
11,052,924 | 11,052,737 | 1 | 3 | 11,047,133 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>To be fair, whilst I can see the case for arguing that the Gulf War and other MENA victories were pretty hollow from a strategic point of view, and intervention in the Balkans was too late to prevent genocide, I can&#x27;t see how US intervention in (eg) Panama or Grenada can be classed as anything other than a strategic victory. Just because US involvement was unpopular with the UN doesn&#x27;t mean they didn&#x27;t achieve what they wanted in the short and long term at relatively little cost.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paganel</author><text>The only war which has been strategically won by the US after WW2 was the Cold War, and possible a tie in the Korean War. It&#x27;s a f.ucking huge win, don&#x27;t get me wrong, but this puts into perspective the huge US military budget which has been consumed in countless other wars with almost nothing to show for it.<p>And, as an anecdote, as a guy how grew up in Eastern Europe in the 1980s things like Michael Jackson&#x27;s music or Coca Cola bottles had a lot more lasting effect on &quot;winning&quot; the Cold War for the US then the nuclear warheads from North Dakota or the Nimitz-class carriers. Too bad that know-how has not been translated into trying to &quot;win&quot; over the hearts and minds of the Arab people.</text></item><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>This is sure to be confusing to many, as a majority of Americans believe the US won the war on Vietnam, or won it but were forced to declare defeat by Congress.<p>The VC won fair and square against the occupying and invading forces, and despite all the doom predictions of the time, they appear to still be a functioning state.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side</title><url>http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/another-vietnam-photography/#TBVXB4fMGkqN</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rottyguy</author><text>How many wars have there been since ww2 for the US?</text><parent_chain><item><author>paganel</author><text>The only war which has been strategically won by the US after WW2 was the Cold War, and possible a tie in the Korean War. It&#x27;s a f.ucking huge win, don&#x27;t get me wrong, but this puts into perspective the huge US military budget which has been consumed in countless other wars with almost nothing to show for it.<p>And, as an anecdote, as a guy how grew up in Eastern Europe in the 1980s things like Michael Jackson&#x27;s music or Coca Cola bottles had a lot more lasting effect on &quot;winning&quot; the Cold War for the US then the nuclear warheads from North Dakota or the Nimitz-class carriers. Too bad that know-how has not been translated into trying to &quot;win&quot; over the hearts and minds of the Arab people.</text></item><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>This is sure to be confusing to many, as a majority of Americans believe the US won the war on Vietnam, or won it but were forced to declare defeat by Congress.<p>The VC won fair and square against the occupying and invading forces, and despite all the doom predictions of the time, they appear to still be a functioning state.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side</title><url>http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/another-vietnam-photography/#TBVXB4fMGkqN</url></story> |
14,521,207 | 14,521,164 | 1 | 2 | 14,520,085 | 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>fijal</author><text>in short - funding. If we can find someone who wants fast numpy AND fast python under the same hood, we can combine the approaches of cpyext and numpypy and make it fast. The project is just too big to do on spare time. I&#x27;ve been trying to find some funding for that for quite a while, but I haven&#x27;t been able to find any sizable backer just yet.<p>Cheers,
Maciej Fijalkowski</text><parent_chain><item><author>boultonmark</author><text>I have a question and then a general vent<p>1. Does anyone know the latest update on NumPyPy? PyPy for me is just not a usable proposition because I heavily use Numpy (and Scipy et al). So I am forced to use slow Python + fast Numpy or slow Numpy + fast Python. Very saddening. The C-Extension is just so off the pace, NumPyPy was meant to solve that quandry.<p>And I know some smart Alec will trot out the usual &#x27;downshift into C&#x27; line that everyone (including Guido) use as the final goto solution for performance but that is simply a disgrace in 2017. Even JavaScript is fast. Why can I not choose to write Python and it be fast?? And yet Python 3 is getting slower. Don&#x27;t agree?
Look at these benchmarks of Python heaps written in Python (not using the C based builtin heapq) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MikeMirzayanov&#x2F;binary-heap-benchmark" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MikeMirzayanov&#x2F;binary-heap-benchmark</a> Python generally is off the pace but Python 3 is about twice as slow as 2 and miles off JavaScript.<p>But PyPy is proof that Python can be fast. It makes quote&#x2F;unquote &quot;Pure Python&quot; within striking distance of Go and and when I run that test suit on PyPy, its similar to the Node.js score. Why does this matter?
Because I want to write bloody Python not C.<p>And it is so tantalisingly close - look at a blog post like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dnshane.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;benchmarking-python-heaps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dnshane.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;benchmarking-python...</a> The performance of the Fibonacci Heap that someone wrote in quote&#x2F;unquote &quot;Pure Python&quot;, when run in CPython can never compete with HeapQ (the C based builtin lib), but on PyPy it can. Fast code written in Python. So what are the problems holding back PyPy? I think possibly money and number of devs working on stuff. Javascript had Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Apple in a browser war + loads of open source input.<p>But is the biggest stumbling block not Guido himself and the core Python devs? Do they just philosophically not agree with PyPy or is it just disinterest?<p>Well whatever it is, it is heart-breaking to want to write fast code in my favourite language and leverage all its power including Numpy&#x2F;Scipy etc and not be able to. And yes my use-case is perhaps quite unique, a very CPU intensive service that ideally computes and returns a real-time calculation (that includes 500k function calls) in 10-50ms.<p>But getting fast Numpy in the PyPy mix (i.e all the speed of the JIT + no worse Numpy) would be a HUGE step forward for me in PyPy adoption. What is the latest? How can I help?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PyPy v5.8 released</title><url>https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/06/pypy-v58-released.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>orf</author><text>Newsflash: code like this[1] will never be fast in CPython, and if you write a lot of code like that and are sad when it&#x27;s slow then you need a different language, especially if you expect it to be as fast as a JIT compiled language like js on v8. Or use something like Cython.<p>That benchmark is pretty meaningless anyway, IMO. Here are some halfway decent, official and up to date benchmarks comparing python 2 and python 3[2].<p>Python 3 is slower in some areas, noticilby startup time, but it&#x27;s not all doom and gloom. It&#x27;s faster in a lot of places. And productivity is hard to benchmark, but IMO py3 is way better in the area.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MikeMirzayanov&#x2F;binary-heap-benchmark&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;python3&#x2F;heap.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MikeMirzayanov&#x2F;binary-heap-benchmark&#x2F;blob...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speed.python.org&#x2F;comparison&#x2F;?exe=12%2BL%2B3.6%2C12%2BL%2B2.7&amp;ben=616%2C617%2C618%2C619%2C620%2C621%2C622%2C623%2C624%2C625%2C626%2C627%2C628%2C629%2C630%2C631%2C632%2C680%2C633%2C634%2C635%2C636%2C637%2C638%2C639%2C640%2C641%2C642%2C643%2C644%2C645%2C646%2C647%2C648%2C681%2C649%2C650%2C651%2C652%2C653%2C654%2C655%2C656%2C657%2C658%2C659%2C660%2C661%2C682%2C662%2C663%2C664%2C665%2C666%2C667%2C669%2C668%2C670%2C671%2C672%2C673%2C674%2C675%2C678%2C677%2C676%2C679&amp;env=1&amp;hor=true&amp;bas=none&amp;chart=normal+bars" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speed.python.org&#x2F;comparison&#x2F;?exe=12%2BL%2B3.6%2C12%2...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>boultonmark</author><text>I have a question and then a general vent<p>1. Does anyone know the latest update on NumPyPy? PyPy for me is just not a usable proposition because I heavily use Numpy (and Scipy et al). So I am forced to use slow Python + fast Numpy or slow Numpy + fast Python. Very saddening. The C-Extension is just so off the pace, NumPyPy was meant to solve that quandry.<p>And I know some smart Alec will trot out the usual &#x27;downshift into C&#x27; line that everyone (including Guido) use as the final goto solution for performance but that is simply a disgrace in 2017. Even JavaScript is fast. Why can I not choose to write Python and it be fast?? And yet Python 3 is getting slower. Don&#x27;t agree?
Look at these benchmarks of Python heaps written in Python (not using the C based builtin heapq) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MikeMirzayanov&#x2F;binary-heap-benchmark" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MikeMirzayanov&#x2F;binary-heap-benchmark</a> Python generally is off the pace but Python 3 is about twice as slow as 2 and miles off JavaScript.<p>But PyPy is proof that Python can be fast. It makes quote&#x2F;unquote &quot;Pure Python&quot; within striking distance of Go and and when I run that test suit on PyPy, its similar to the Node.js score. Why does this matter?
Because I want to write bloody Python not C.<p>And it is so tantalisingly close - look at a blog post like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dnshane.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;benchmarking-python-heaps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dnshane.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;benchmarking-python...</a> The performance of the Fibonacci Heap that someone wrote in quote&#x2F;unquote &quot;Pure Python&quot;, when run in CPython can never compete with HeapQ (the C based builtin lib), but on PyPy it can. Fast code written in Python. So what are the problems holding back PyPy? I think possibly money and number of devs working on stuff. Javascript had Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Apple in a browser war + loads of open source input.<p>But is the biggest stumbling block not Guido himself and the core Python devs? Do they just philosophically not agree with PyPy or is it just disinterest?<p>Well whatever it is, it is heart-breaking to want to write fast code in my favourite language and leverage all its power including Numpy&#x2F;Scipy etc and not be able to. And yes my use-case is perhaps quite unique, a very CPU intensive service that ideally computes and returns a real-time calculation (that includes 500k function calls) in 10-50ms.<p>But getting fast Numpy in the PyPy mix (i.e all the speed of the JIT + no worse Numpy) would be a HUGE step forward for me in PyPy adoption. What is the latest? How can I help?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PyPy v5.8 released</title><url>https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/06/pypy-v58-released.html</url></story> |
16,205,154 | 16,205,224 | 1 | 2 | 16,204,662 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Theodores</author><text>I think the bigger danger is from groupthink expectation that the coin markets follow a boom-bust on an annual basis due to the Chinese New Year. They see now as a good time to pick up cheap coin from Asia. They expect to be 3x up in the Autumn and to ride a wild ride up next Christmas to come crashing down in the Chinese New Year.<p>These people believe there are only so many coins and that it is these coins that have value, regardless of how much they are worth in USD. For them it is how well their coin compares to bitcoin that matters. They think they can ride out any crash as they are &#x27;bound&#x27; to be 10x up next year as more people start using crypto to store their wealth.<p>I do not believe that most people giving bad advice on coin are deliberately giving bad advice or aware that their advice is founded on poor information, fear and greed.<p>In this environment there is a frenzy to get in on the next ICO so scammers don&#x27;t have to try very hard to scam.<p>I can see that a bitcoin miner has put together a business model and with that some risk management. They calculate the ROI and hopefully they get the numbers right and profit after paying off the kit.<p>However, I do not believe most coin &#x27;investors&#x27; are doing risk management properly, they are like a herd of naive day traders from the 1990&#x27;s losing their savings but getting ever more coin, thinking they are up because one of their coins is up against bitcoin.<p>It is not so much the scammers but the echo chamber and the FOMO that is the problem here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scammers Using Fake News to Screw with Bitcoin Investors</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/heres-how-scammers-are-using-fake-news-to-screw-with-bitcoin?utm_term=.hudE0Br1Z1#.buz6Np54A4</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ravenstine</author><text>These are really old scams – it&#x27;s just that they&#x27;re now being applied to a different market.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scammers Using Fake News to Screw with Bitcoin Investors</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/heres-how-scammers-are-using-fake-news-to-screw-with-bitcoin?utm_term=.hudE0Br1Z1#.buz6Np54A4</url></story> |
38,635,381 | 38,631,487 | 1 | 2 | 38,629,763 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zanni</author><text>Hawaii has a &quot;no billboards&quot; law [0] (as do Maine, Vermont and Alaska). I think this is a cleaner, better statement than &quot;ad-free city,&quot; which is obviously far overstating the case <i>and</i> paradoxically doesn&#x27;t even ban billboards (they&#x27;re still allowed for non-corporate advertising).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;movingtokona.com&#x2F;why-there-are-no-billboards-in-hawaii&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;movingtokona.com&#x2F;why-there-are-no-billboards-in-hawa...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sunday_serif</author><text>Not so long ago, I was traveling around Switzerland. During my time in the country, there was always something just a little off, and I couldn’t place what it was.<p>Was it cleaner? Was the architecture just very modernist? Did it have something to do with the season?<p>Eventually, I realized that the difference I was noticing between Switzerland and California (my home state) was that there was simply much less advertising in the physical spaces of cities.<p>I am not sure if this is a result of some legislature there or if it is just a result of the way the Swiss think about visual design and advertising.<p>But I absolutely loved it. It was so refreshing to see the beauty of a city block without being bombarded by advertisements.<p>It really lets the character of a city shine through.<p>LA, SF and Sac seem to be on the opposite end of the spectrum… practically the only thing you notice are the billboards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adfree Cities</title><url>https://adfreecities.org.uk/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>secretsatan</author><text>Geneva narrowly rejected banning billboards recently.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swissinfo.ch&#x2F;eng&#x2F;politics&#x2F;geneva-throws-out-ban-on-commercial-adverts-in-streets&#x2F;48353784#" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swissinfo.ch&#x2F;eng&#x2F;politics&#x2F;geneva-throws-out-ban-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sunday_serif</author><text>Not so long ago, I was traveling around Switzerland. During my time in the country, there was always something just a little off, and I couldn’t place what it was.<p>Was it cleaner? Was the architecture just very modernist? Did it have something to do with the season?<p>Eventually, I realized that the difference I was noticing between Switzerland and California (my home state) was that there was simply much less advertising in the physical spaces of cities.<p>I am not sure if this is a result of some legislature there or if it is just a result of the way the Swiss think about visual design and advertising.<p>But I absolutely loved it. It was so refreshing to see the beauty of a city block without being bombarded by advertisements.<p>It really lets the character of a city shine through.<p>LA, SF and Sac seem to be on the opposite end of the spectrum… practically the only thing you notice are the billboards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adfree Cities</title><url>https://adfreecities.org.uk/</url></story> |
17,614,957 | 17,614,831 | 1 | 2 | 17,614,578 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thermodynthrway</author><text>All satellite nagivation systems are trivially jammable. They use DSSS to spread out codes and resist jamming but signal levels are still so weak at the surface it&#x27;s trivial to block.<p>Most phones are compatible with GPS(US) +Galileo(Europe)+Glonass(Russia). Most of them also report which constellation the locks are from. GPS status and toolbox on android is a fun way to see what you&#x27;re connected to.<p>What we need, and will probably get soon, is inertial guidance based on laser ring or fibre optic gyros in mobiles. You get a location fix every week or so and it starts out much more accurate than gps.<p>The US system was first by maybe a decade or more so support is nearly universal. The other systems are largely copycat, purposely compatible with existing GPS receivers.<p>That&#x27;s why it seems like we&#x27;re relying on the US for GPS, they invented it and had a full constellation in orbit before anyone else even thought of it.<p>Of course we&#x27;re on the internet which was also invented by the US govt so I&#x27;m not so surprised why
&quot;the backups for this backbone of the global economy have to be American&quot; in reference to GPS at least</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpatokal</author><text>Apparently Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou don&#x27;t count, because the backups for this backbone of the <i>global</i> economy have to be American?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GLONASS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GLONASS</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galileo_(satellite_navigation)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galileo_(satellite_navigation)</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_System" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...</a><p>I do wonder how many of these are supported by common hardware like mobile phones, anybody have a pointer to a compatibility list? I know the Chinese government had been prodding its manufacturers to add BeiDou support pretty hard.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/the-world-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidcuddeback</author><text>&gt; <i>I do wonder how many of these are supported by common hardware like mobile phones, anybody have a pointer to a compatibility list?</i><p>iPhone X specs list &quot;GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS&quot; [1]. I&#x27;m pretty sure they&#x27;ve supported multiple GNSS systems for a few generations.<p>I know I&#x27;ve seen several GNSS modules from u-blox that support multiple GNSS systems as well. One example, NEO-M8, supports &quot;BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, GPS &#x2F; QZSS.&quot; [2]<p>I know I&#x27;ve also seen several cheap GPS modules that are GPS-only, so multiple GNSS support isn&#x27;t ubiquitous, but it&#x27;s probably ahead of IPv6 adoption.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;iphone-x&#x2F;specs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;iphone-x&#x2F;specs&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.u-blox.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;product&#x2F;neo-m8-series" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.u-blox.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;product&#x2F;neo-m8-series</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jpatokal</author><text>Apparently Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou don&#x27;t count, because the backups for this backbone of the <i>global</i> economy have to be American?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GLONASS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GLONASS</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galileo_(satellite_navigation)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galileo_(satellite_navigation)</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_System" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...</a><p>I do wonder how many of these are supported by common hardware like mobile phones, anybody have a pointer to a compatibility list? I know the Chinese government had been prodding its manufacturers to add BeiDou support pretty hard.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/the-world-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan</url></story> |
6,384,573 | 6,384,128 | 1 | 2 | 6,382,963 | 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>greenyoda</author><text>It&#x27;s possible that installing malware on a machine could be legal if the police have a warrant to wiretap that specific machine. However, in this case, they indiscriminately pushed malware to thousands of users on that site, many of whom were probably not doing anything illegal. So how does this not violate the Fourth Amendment?<p>The Fourth Amendment says: &quot;No Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.&quot;[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>belorn</author><text>The use of malware in police enforcement is truly a unique event in society. At what other point in history has police distributed a completly illegal tool onto unsuspected and non-targeted civilians? It feels like a total unexplored area of liability laws, so I look with excitement to when the first lawsuit starts.<p>Some people have compared malware with guns. This is to me a very bad comparison, since guns actually have legal usage like hunting or self defense.<p>A better example would be a under cover cop, selling real drugs to real people with the intent to impress a local drug cartel. It has to my knowledge never happen, but it would be interesting to know if the cop could be held liable if someone dies from a overdose from those drugs.<p>Let say that a police virus spreads out of control, and infects millions of computers. What if this specific firefox exploit get copied by a botnet, and is used to execute credit card stealing software on unsuspected users. How liable can the police become when millions of people are effected? I really have no clue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/</url><text>&quot;It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors.&quot; ...</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>pkinsky</author><text>The government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>belorn</author><text>The use of malware in police enforcement is truly a unique event in society. At what other point in history has police distributed a completly illegal tool onto unsuspected and non-targeted civilians? It feels like a total unexplored area of liability laws, so I look with excitement to when the first lawsuit starts.<p>Some people have compared malware with guns. This is to me a very bad comparison, since guns actually have legal usage like hunting or self defense.<p>A better example would be a under cover cop, selling real drugs to real people with the intent to impress a local drug cartel. It has to my knowledge never happen, but it would be interesting to know if the cop could be held liable if someone dies from a overdose from those drugs.<p>Let say that a police virus spreads out of control, and infects millions of computers. What if this specific firefox exploit get copied by a botnet, and is used to execute credit card stealing software on unsuspected users. How liable can the police become when millions of people are effected? I really have no clue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/</url><text>&quot;It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors.&quot; ...</text></story> |
21,029,995 | 21,027,961 | 1 | 2 | 21,024,941 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>l0b0</author><text>I use Time Keeping Sucks (TKS), because it&#x27;s a great little command line tool[0], Vim format, web UI[1] and more written by some very talented colleagues and lots of people (myself included) use it daily at work. It&#x27;s built to interface with the time tracking system at work, but could probably easily be generalized to work with any similar API.<p>(You might find my Python stub[2] if you search for the name. It&#x27;s really just a development setup based on other work, to maybe use the ideas from the original Perl implementation and hopefully involve a wider community.)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;debian.catalyst.net.nz&#x2F;catalyst&#x2F;dists&#x2F;stable&#x2F;catalyst&#x2F;binary-amd64&#x2F;tks_1.0.32_all.deb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;debian.catalyst.net.nz&#x2F;catalyst&#x2F;dists&#x2F;stable&#x2F;catalys...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;grantm&#x2F;tksweb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;grantm&#x2F;tksweb</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;victor-engmark&#x2F;tks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;victor-engmark&#x2F;tks&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>fceruti</author><text>What tools do you use for time&#x2F;project tracking?</text></item><item><author>neuland</author><text>I work remotely and have recently taken on a bunch of responsibility with two non-profit orgs. And I&#x27;ve found my time getting crunched between everything. So, I&#x27;ve started detailed time tracking to make sure that I don&#x27;t slip on work hours, especially since it&#x27;s not 9-5.<p>I don&#x27;t submit it to anyone, it&#x27;s just for myself. And, it turned out that I wasn&#x27;t slipping at all. But, the peace of mind of being able to prove it to myself was good. A nice side effect is seeing which projects or types of activities take up my time.<p>Other accountability things I&#x27;ve been doing lately is writing more comments, documentation, and focusing on writing code that is easy for others to jump into (well structured modules, one-click dev setup, automated deploys, etc). That is, even on projects for myself or where I&#x27;m likely to be the only person ever to touch it. It is good practice to get into and it does help a lot when you&#x27;re coming back to something after 6 months.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?</title><text>Hi HN,<p>lately I realized I&#x27;m struggeling to keep myself accountable, mainly for work I am the main stakeholder in.<p>When working &quot;after spec&quot; or together with someone else on the same code, I can to stick to it and deliver quality I&#x27;m satisfied with.
But as soon as I work for myself my standards, quality and even goals start going down hill. Short term I&#x27;m okay with less and sloppy work, and after a while I regrett no doing a better job.<p>Do you guys have ideas, techniques etc. to deal with this behaviour?</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>leetrout</author><text>I am a fan of rescuetime.com<p>I set up separate accounts on my machine for personal, work, sideprojects and log in to those accounts when I am working or when I want to veg out and play minecraft. Couple this with an invasive tracker like rescuetime and I can have HN and reddit blocked on my work-related user accounts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fceruti</author><text>What tools do you use for time&#x2F;project tracking?</text></item><item><author>neuland</author><text>I work remotely and have recently taken on a bunch of responsibility with two non-profit orgs. And I&#x27;ve found my time getting crunched between everything. So, I&#x27;ve started detailed time tracking to make sure that I don&#x27;t slip on work hours, especially since it&#x27;s not 9-5.<p>I don&#x27;t submit it to anyone, it&#x27;s just for myself. And, it turned out that I wasn&#x27;t slipping at all. But, the peace of mind of being able to prove it to myself was good. A nice side effect is seeing which projects or types of activities take up my time.<p>Other accountability things I&#x27;ve been doing lately is writing more comments, documentation, and focusing on writing code that is easy for others to jump into (well structured modules, one-click dev setup, automated deploys, etc). That is, even on projects for myself or where I&#x27;m likely to be the only person ever to touch it. It is good practice to get into and it does help a lot when you&#x27;re coming back to something after 6 months.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?</title><text>Hi HN,<p>lately I realized I&#x27;m struggeling to keep myself accountable, mainly for work I am the main stakeholder in.<p>When working &quot;after spec&quot; or together with someone else on the same code, I can to stick to it and deliver quality I&#x27;m satisfied with.
But as soon as I work for myself my standards, quality and even goals start going down hill. Short term I&#x27;m okay with less and sloppy work, and after a while I regrett no doing a better job.<p>Do you guys have ideas, techniques etc. to deal with this behaviour?</text></story> |
35,626,797 | 35,626,844 | 1 | 2 | 35,626,015 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Hackbraten</author><text>1Password’s new UI does just that.
I enter some text into a field quickly, hit Tab, then watch some of the trailing characters (or the entire field content) disappear.
This keeps occurring and disgusting me to no end.</text><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; Since the rise of cloud applications and electron based applications I&#x27;m back at writing faster than the application can process my input. And I&#x27;m not a fast typist.<p>If the application you&#x27;re using (the one(s) you&#x27;re referring to when you say &quot;cloud applications&quot;) is sending the key input to the backend and waits to render it client-side until it received a response, it&#x27;s doing something horribly wrong and if that&#x27;s how they write things, you probably want to avoid that for a multitude of reasons. Please name and shame though, so others can avoid it too :)<p>Same goes for Electron-based applications, there is no reason they&#x27;d block showing the text you inputted, and if they just use &lt;input&#x2F;&gt; without doing anything egregious, you really shouldn&#x27;t be able to type faster than characters appearing on the screen, something is really, really wrong then, and I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s because of Electron.</text></item><item><author>croes</author><text>He is not talking about offline applications but online applications with offline functionality.<p>Since the rise of cloud applications and electron based applications I&#x27;m back at writing faster than the application can process my input.
And I&#x27;m not a fast typist.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Offline is just online with extreme latency</title><url>https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/offline-is-online-with-extreme-latency/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doix</author><text>&gt; If the application you&#x27;re using (the one(s) you&#x27;re referring to when you say &quot;cloud applications&quot;) is sending the key input to the backend and waits to render it client-side until it received a response<p>I&#x27;m 99% sure nobody does that, that would be insane :D.<p>It&#x27;s most likely caused by React and the use of controlled input components without thinking about performance. If your input sets it&#x27;s value from React state, then you&#x27;re updating the state on every keypress and re-rendering the component. In the most simple case, it&#x27;s probably fine. But depending on your component hierarchy, it&#x27;s pretty easy to end up in situation with over 50ms of typing latency.</text><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; Since the rise of cloud applications and electron based applications I&#x27;m back at writing faster than the application can process my input. And I&#x27;m not a fast typist.<p>If the application you&#x27;re using (the one(s) you&#x27;re referring to when you say &quot;cloud applications&quot;) is sending the key input to the backend and waits to render it client-side until it received a response, it&#x27;s doing something horribly wrong and if that&#x27;s how they write things, you probably want to avoid that for a multitude of reasons. Please name and shame though, so others can avoid it too :)<p>Same goes for Electron-based applications, there is no reason they&#x27;d block showing the text you inputted, and if they just use &lt;input&#x2F;&gt; without doing anything egregious, you really shouldn&#x27;t be able to type faster than characters appearing on the screen, something is really, really wrong then, and I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s because of Electron.</text></item><item><author>croes</author><text>He is not talking about offline applications but online applications with offline functionality.<p>Since the rise of cloud applications and electron based applications I&#x27;m back at writing faster than the application can process my input.
And I&#x27;m not a fast typist.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Offline is just online with extreme latency</title><url>https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/offline-is-online-with-extreme-latency/</url></story> |
27,527,457 | 27,524,926 | 1 | 3 | 27,524,107 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>Another down side is, you don&#x27;t want to do this if you&#x27;re in the swampy south. You&#x27;ll bring in all the humidity and that will cause all sorts of problems. Also, you bring in any dust, pollen, etc that may be lingering.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DavidPeiffer</author><text>I&#x27;d suggest people research whole house fans. They mount in the ceiling on your top level and suck air from your open windows into the attic.<p>We had one growing up in Iowa. Despite upper 70&#x27;s to mid 80&#x27;s much of May, June, and July, we were able to avoid running the air conditioner by sucking in the 50-60 degree air overnight and closing up the windows during the day. By late July and August, it was time to use the air conditioner.<p>The fans can typically rotate all the air in a house every handful of minutes, and the breeze helps sweat evaporate, immensely helping comfort. Their cost is typically a couple hundred dollars, but you can spend up to ~1,200 for a quiet, high volume model.<p>I&#x27;m looking to install one in my house. The downside I&#x27;m trying to work through is, should a fire break out, I want the fan to turn off. I haven&#x27;t found a COTS system to do this and integrate with the hardwired smoke detectors.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shortage of air conditioner parts expected this summer</title><url>https://www.kswo.com/2021/05/28/shortage-of-air-conditioner-parts-expected-this-summer/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>c_o_n_v_e_x</author><text>You need a smoke detector that provides dry contacts&#x2F;relay output and some minimal wiring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DavidPeiffer</author><text>I&#x27;d suggest people research whole house fans. They mount in the ceiling on your top level and suck air from your open windows into the attic.<p>We had one growing up in Iowa. Despite upper 70&#x27;s to mid 80&#x27;s much of May, June, and July, we were able to avoid running the air conditioner by sucking in the 50-60 degree air overnight and closing up the windows during the day. By late July and August, it was time to use the air conditioner.<p>The fans can typically rotate all the air in a house every handful of minutes, and the breeze helps sweat evaporate, immensely helping comfort. Their cost is typically a couple hundred dollars, but you can spend up to ~1,200 for a quiet, high volume model.<p>I&#x27;m looking to install one in my house. The downside I&#x27;m trying to work through is, should a fire break out, I want the fan to turn off. I haven&#x27;t found a COTS system to do this and integrate with the hardwired smoke detectors.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shortage of air conditioner parts expected this summer</title><url>https://www.kswo.com/2021/05/28/shortage-of-air-conditioner-parts-expected-this-summer/</url></story> |
33,834,694 | 33,834,995 | 1 | 3 | 33,833,017 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burnished</author><text>That’s the point - they have to pay the costs themselves, so if it turns out something isn’t important enough to be shipped at the ‘real price’ (including these externalities) then customers won’t pay for it. Instead of now, where everyone pays for it, and the real price is obfuscated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xil3</author><text>Right, and who do you think will pay for this new tax? It&#x27;s definitely not the importers and exporters - it&#x27;s the end customers, because everything will go up in price. They&#x27;re not going to absorb those fees.<p>The only ones making money here is the EU governments imposing this.</text></item><item><author>cube2222</author><text>As a European, I&#x27;m so happy about this.<p>A system where emitters can ignore the actual cost of their externalities and push them down onto society at large to handle (through taxes) is broken.<p>This should also result in more funding around anything green tech related, when you actually have to pay the full price of the currently-used alternatives.<p>Ideally, there&#x27;d be a market with buyers (capturers) and sellers (emitters) (with a negative price, so cash flows from seller to buyer, obviously) for carbon emissions where the price depends on the actual underlying cost of capture, but that will hopefully come in the future, when carbon capture is commercially viable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Europe makes shipping vessels pay for carbon emissions</title><url>https://www.maxinomics.com/blog/europe-makes-shipping-vessels-pay-for-carbon-emissions</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cube2222</author><text>&gt; Right, and who do you think will pay for this new tax?<p>Consumers, of course, but not indirectly, with such a diluted notion of responsibility as it is now (by paying for externalities through general taxes). It will be priced into the products, as it should be.<p>This way products that are &quot;greener&quot; will be cheaper and people will have an incentive to buy them.<p>I have no problem with companies profiting off of the products they sell, or end customers paying for the actual cost of the product. It&#x27;s just that a market without externalities having a price tag isn&#x27;t a well-designed &quot;free market&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xil3</author><text>Right, and who do you think will pay for this new tax? It&#x27;s definitely not the importers and exporters - it&#x27;s the end customers, because everything will go up in price. They&#x27;re not going to absorb those fees.<p>The only ones making money here is the EU governments imposing this.</text></item><item><author>cube2222</author><text>As a European, I&#x27;m so happy about this.<p>A system where emitters can ignore the actual cost of their externalities and push them down onto society at large to handle (through taxes) is broken.<p>This should also result in more funding around anything green tech related, when you actually have to pay the full price of the currently-used alternatives.<p>Ideally, there&#x27;d be a market with buyers (capturers) and sellers (emitters) (with a negative price, so cash flows from seller to buyer, obviously) for carbon emissions where the price depends on the actual underlying cost of capture, but that will hopefully come in the future, when carbon capture is commercially viable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Europe makes shipping vessels pay for carbon emissions</title><url>https://www.maxinomics.com/blog/europe-makes-shipping-vessels-pay-for-carbon-emissions</url></story> |
16,095,792 | 16,094,778 | 1 | 2 | 16,094,037 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>The reason this list exists is to discourage phrases that are, among other things, misunderstood. So your argument that people don&#x27;t understand the reference simply strengthens the case against using the phrase.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>&gt; Gold standard. In the domains of psychological and psychiatric assessment, there are precious few, if any, genuine &quot;gold standards.&quot; Essentially all measures, even those with high levels of validity for their intended purposes, are necessarily fallible indicators of their respective constructs.<p>The reason we refer to double blind trials as being the &quot;gold standard&quot; isn&#x27;t to imply that they have some level of validity, but because they were popularized by Harry Gold.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522609/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FalcorTheDog</author><text>Do you have a source for that? Whether he popularized them or not, that&#x27;s not where the expression comes from.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>&gt; Gold standard. In the domains of psychological and psychiatric assessment, there are precious few, if any, genuine &quot;gold standards.&quot; Essentially all measures, even those with high levels of validity for their intended purposes, are necessarily fallible indicators of their respective constructs.<p>The reason we refer to double blind trials as being the &quot;gold standard&quot; isn&#x27;t to imply that they have some level of validity, but because they were popularized by Harry Gold.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522609/</url></story> |
16,109,212 | 16,109,183 | 1 | 3 | 16,108,912 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>There are P2P systems already, plus you can run an IRC server locally. But you don&#x27;t.<p>Using a service like slack has downsides, as you are seeing now, but running your own service or using P2P has other downsides that we have deemed are even worse.<p>Maintenance, lack of client support, network access requirements, lack of features, etc.<p>Obviously right now the downsides of a central service is front and center, but we can&#x27;t ignore the downsides of the alternatives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>diggan</author><text>When things like this happen, I start thinking how much we got some things wrong, especially things like chat.<p>Here I sit, with my colleagues, connected to the same network, with the same application open, but we cannot write to each other, because some backend server in the US have a problem.<p>How in the world could this not have been fixed yet? Our internet backbone addiction is seriously crippling us when things go sour. Not thinking specifically about Slack, but other more mission-critical tools that just... stops working because they cannot ask the time from their backend server.<p>We seriously need P2P systems (without blockchains please) that can be used by normal applications to solve issues like this. Offline and local network communication should be obligatory today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slack is down</title><url>https://status.slack.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>Sodman</author><text>I&#x27;ll still take a cloud service with rare outages over an on-premise solution that I need to manage, host, and maintain myself any day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>diggan</author><text>When things like this happen, I start thinking how much we got some things wrong, especially things like chat.<p>Here I sit, with my colleagues, connected to the same network, with the same application open, but we cannot write to each other, because some backend server in the US have a problem.<p>How in the world could this not have been fixed yet? Our internet backbone addiction is seriously crippling us when things go sour. Not thinking specifically about Slack, but other more mission-critical tools that just... stops working because they cannot ask the time from their backend server.<p>We seriously need P2P systems (without blockchains please) that can be used by normal applications to solve issues like this. Offline and local network communication should be obligatory today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slack is down</title><url>https://status.slack.com/</url></story> |
2,082,955 | 2,082,693 | 1 | 2 | 2,082,505 | 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>jbk</author><text>Disclaimer: VideoLAN Chairman and lead VLC developer here.<p>I've written the most important analysis on the matter <a href="http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-November/077457.html" rel="nofollow">http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-Novembe...</a> and <a href="http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-December/078262.html" rel="nofollow">http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-Decembe...</a><p>Some VLC developers (for Mac mainly), with the company Applidium, have ported VLC on iOS. Applidium published it on the store, for free.<p>Some developer complained (quite lately, btw...) afterwards and quoted a FSF analysis. Their analysis was totally wrong (spoke about redistribution), and based on old version of AppStore terms.<p>After my remarks about changes of the AppStore terms that made this analysis obsolete and wrong, they shifted their criticism onto another part, which was the "usage" part of the ToS. They complained that the terms did not allow all uses, especially commercial ones.<p>Indeed, one part could be interpreted in different ways. Therefore, I've mailed Apple Copyright Agent for explanation, twice. Once in November, once in December...<p>Apple has refused to answer, to explain or to help in any matter. They then decided to pull the Application unilaterally from the AppStore.<p>Of course, they are allowed to do that, and noone can complain, but this is yet another push from Apple against VLC, that adds to the very long list of past issues. It just makes me think Apple doesn't really want competition...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store</title><url>http://planet.videolan.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>sanxiyn</author><text>It seems that this is the best analysis for now.
<a href="http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-November/077457.html" rel="nofollow">http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-Novembe...</a><p>Apple changed App Store terms. Previously:<p>The Usage Rules shall govern your rights with respect to the Products, in addition to any other terms or rules that may have been established between you and another party<p>Now:<p>...unless the App Store Product is covered by a valid end user license agreement entered into between you and the licensor of the App Store Product (the "Licensor"), in which case the Licensor's end user license agreement will apply<p>So either GPLv2 is a valid end user license agreement, or if it isn't, one just needs some out-of-bound mechanism that users and developers agree on GPLv2.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store</title><url>http://planet.videolan.org/</url></story> |
24,284,383 | 24,284,720 | 1 | 2 | 24,269,848 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>liability</author><text>The premise of Boom Technologies is that the intensity of the sonic boom can be managed by creating an aircraft with a sufficiently clever shape. I don&#x27;t know exactly how that&#x27;s meant to work, but it&#x27;s this premise that they hope to demonstrate with the small-scale XB-1 in 2021.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dhosek</author><text>Nobody seems to be talking about the sonic boom issue. People often assume that the sonic boom is a single event that happens when the plain exceeds the speed of sound, but rather its a continuous event that happens at supersonic speed which is why the Concord was used only for transatlantic service. A supersonic plane would not be practical for any overland route.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sonic_boom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sonic_boom</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/boom-supersonic-xb-1-2021-130025910.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>bananabreakfast</author><text>Almost all of the research on sonic booms and their effect on residential noise levels was done in the 1950s.<p>Our knowledge of transonic aerodynamics and aircraft design have improved considerably sense then and much of the &quot;common&quot; knowledge that sonic booms will shatter windows and disrupt everyday life as a plane flies overhead at cruising altitude are very much outdated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dhosek</author><text>Nobody seems to be talking about the sonic boom issue. People often assume that the sonic boom is a single event that happens when the plain exceeds the speed of sound, but rather its a continuous event that happens at supersonic speed which is why the Concord was used only for transatlantic service. A supersonic plane would not be practical for any overland route.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sonic_boom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sonic_boom</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/boom-supersonic-xb-1-2021-130025910.html</url></story> |
22,848,778 | 22,848,265 | 1 | 2 | 22,832,884 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>I have a really hard time finding books on Korean companies, methods, or up-to-date planning; particularly on Samsung, Hyundai, LG or new fields like biotech&#x2F;renewable; and preferably written by Korean journalists or academics. On the other hand there&#x27;s a lot you can find written about American or Japanese companies like Taiichi Ohno on Toyota, John Bogle on Vanguard, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, etc. I get that this is primarily a matter of 1) impact and 2) population. But Hyundai, LG and Samsung are major international companies now.<p>The few books on Korean companies I&#x27;ve read, written by Americans, have been terribly pithy and missing a lot of actual history. I will still give Samsung Rising a read though.<p>But if you have worked with Korean companies before and have any recommendations for good histories of companies or methods, I&#x27;d love to get them. Biographies are a little more common and a little less interesting to me. Over biographies I&#x27;d prefer up to date recommendations on the Korean economy and planning. Most of the books out there were written in the 90s&#x2F;00s.<p>Edit: recommendations don&#x27;t have to be in English, Korean is fine.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216092/samsung-rising-book-interview-geoffrey-cain</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcr910303</author><text>Okay, as a Korean, I would just like to chime in and say that Samsung is much more than a smartphone&#x2F;digital gadget company. It’s a very big company.<p>It not only produces displays and semiconductors, it also makes home appliances, it builds apartments, it runs hotels, it runs hospitals, it issues credit cards and runs insurance, etc... which means that the Galaxy Note 7 crisis is pretty much nothing to that gigantic company.<p>Also, keep in mind that a lot of Koreans (including myself) doesn’t think Samsung positive — it’s hard to get unbiased opinions about Samsung (whether it’s positive or not). So if you’re reading this, please take it with a grain of salt.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216092/samsung-rising-book-interview-geoffrey-cain</url></story> |
41,366,415 | 41,366,580 | 1 | 2 | 41,366,064 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>badcppdev</author><text>LZ Dark Matter experiment page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lz.lbl.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lz.lbl.gov&#x2F;</a><p>Way better press release with lots of cool pictures: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&#x2F;2024&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;lz-experiment-sets-new-record-in-search-for-dark-matter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&#x2F;2024&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;lz-experiment-sets-new...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mppm</author><text>By the way, apart from the fact that dark matter predictions have been contradicted by increasingly sensitive experiments over and over and over, there is another inconvenient piece of observational evidence: An analysis of stellar velocities at the edge of the Milky Way, published last year [1] shows that they are &quot;Keplerian&quot;, i.e. following classical behavior without the influence of any purported dark matter. So either the Milky Way is anomalously dark matter deficient (how very convenient :), or maybe the discrepancy that dark matter was invented to explain will simply disappear when more accurate astronomical data including the fainter stars becomes available.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-milky-way-may-be-missing-a-trillion-suns-worth-of-mass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-milky-way-may...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz</url></story> |
33,856,022 | 33,856,036 | 1 | 2 | 33,854,638 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>guiambros</author><text>Last night I entered the page-long instructions for Advent of Code day 4, and it spewed out perfectly readable code and solved it on the first try [1]. And we&#x27;re not talking about a common algorithm that has been solved many times before, but a convoluted story that is full of &quot;<i>elves cleaning up overlapping sections of the camp</i>&quot; (!), and ChatGPT was still able to understand it, write the code to solve it, and even <i>explain how it works</i>.<p>It&#x27;s nothing short of a phenomenal milestone.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GuiAmbros&#x2F;status&#x2F;1599282083838296064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;GuiAmbros&#x2F;status&#x2F;1599282083838296064</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Ye I signed up and tried some queries. It was quite scary.<p>&quot;Write a function that sorts the elements of a c string backwards, in C.&quot;
&quot;Add a flag to the sort function which makes it sort the string forward.&quot;
&quot;Could you write a endian swap function for double argument in PIC assembler?&quot;
&quot;Could you write a binary sort in PIC 8-bit assembler&quot;
&quot;Write a Javascript function that prints the day of the week together with some Chinese words of wisdom.&quot;<p>It had no problem doing any one those. I ran them all, except the assembler ones.<p>The question is how good it is to process larger chunks of code and makes changes to it.<p>People thinking about becoming programmers might need to rethink their plans if this one improves ...<p>EDIT:
Oh dear. I introduced bugs in its sort code and it found them and explained what they did.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>I&#x27;m sure this line of logic is very comforting, but frankly, this comfort disappears quickly when you actually <i>use</i> ChatGPT. What you find is that you can interact with it in a quite natural way, and it is able to synthesize and iterate at a level that feels easily on par with a moderately skilled human software engineer. I know it&#x27;s uncomfortable, but it doesn&#x27;t even matter if the machine is &quot;non-intelligent.&quot; Nobody gives a damn. What matters is what you can do with it, and every iteration of GPT the goal posts keep moving further, but this time it&#x27;s really difficult to deny: you really, really can describe a program at a high level and ChatGPT can implement it. You can point out an error and it can fix it. Hell, you can feed it compiler errors.<p>Is it literally as good as a human software engineer? No, but it&#x27;s also better too. I doubt ChatGPT could debug as effectively as a veteran software engineer (... In fairness, most humans can&#x27;t either.) It can debug pretty decently, but there&#x27;s still work there. That said, the breadth of knowledge encoded in a language model is stunning. I&#x27;m pretty sure you can&#x27;t just regurgitate an implementation of the discrete cosine transform in Rust without at least pulling up Wikipedia, but ChatGPT can, because well. It doesn&#x27;t have to pull it up.<p>I still don&#x27;t think ChatGPT is ready to replace human programmers. It may be a long time before we have general enough intelligence to replace knowledge work meaningfully with AI. However, if you think it&#x27;s not happening ever, because machines are not &quot;intelligent&quot; based on some set of goal posts, I&#x27;ve got bad news: that&#x27;s not part of the job listing.<p>It&#x27;s easy to laugh at MSN publishing articles written by GPT; that&#x27;s just stupid. However, at some level you have to admit that the input to ChatGPT is almost as high level as directives from project managers, and the output is almost low level enough to simply input directly into source control. That leaves very little to the imagination for how this could quickly spiral out of control.</text></item><item><author>dkjaudyeqooe</author><text>I guess we can look forward to weeks of &quot;Show HN: $X created by ChatGPT&quot; but people should be cautioned not to read to much into these results. Always remember that almost all of what is being presented here is the work of humans, regurgitated by a very much non-intelligent machine, despite its name. It&#x27;s basically:<p>Human creation -&gt; ChatGPT -&gt; Human query -&gt; Human interpretation<p>The last bit, the interpretation, is particularly important. Just like we&#x27;re predisposed to seeing faces everywhere, we&#x27;re predisposed to seeing meaning, and perhaps &quot;intelligence&quot;, everywhere. In this case the meaning is very convincing since it comes from other humans, diced and sliced, but is merely presenting ourselves to ourselves in an interactive way, using our style of discourse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT</title><url>https://github.com/vrescobar/chatGPT-python-elm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexeldeib</author><text>I tried higher level problems: write an http server in rust using warp and postgres, with endpoint for get users and put user.<p>9 compile errors, some due to cargo.toml issues (it only generated main.rs). But mostly worked.<p>The post we’re discussing is also pretty impressive, a working lexer&#x2F;parser</text><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Ye I signed up and tried some queries. It was quite scary.<p>&quot;Write a function that sorts the elements of a c string backwards, in C.&quot;
&quot;Add a flag to the sort function which makes it sort the string forward.&quot;
&quot;Could you write a endian swap function for double argument in PIC assembler?&quot;
&quot;Could you write a binary sort in PIC 8-bit assembler&quot;
&quot;Write a Javascript function that prints the day of the week together with some Chinese words of wisdom.&quot;<p>It had no problem doing any one those. I ran them all, except the assembler ones.<p>The question is how good it is to process larger chunks of code and makes changes to it.<p>People thinking about becoming programmers might need to rethink their plans if this one improves ...<p>EDIT:
Oh dear. I introduced bugs in its sort code and it found them and explained what they did.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>I&#x27;m sure this line of logic is very comforting, but frankly, this comfort disappears quickly when you actually <i>use</i> ChatGPT. What you find is that you can interact with it in a quite natural way, and it is able to synthesize and iterate at a level that feels easily on par with a moderately skilled human software engineer. I know it&#x27;s uncomfortable, but it doesn&#x27;t even matter if the machine is &quot;non-intelligent.&quot; Nobody gives a damn. What matters is what you can do with it, and every iteration of GPT the goal posts keep moving further, but this time it&#x27;s really difficult to deny: you really, really can describe a program at a high level and ChatGPT can implement it. You can point out an error and it can fix it. Hell, you can feed it compiler errors.<p>Is it literally as good as a human software engineer? No, but it&#x27;s also better too. I doubt ChatGPT could debug as effectively as a veteran software engineer (... In fairness, most humans can&#x27;t either.) It can debug pretty decently, but there&#x27;s still work there. That said, the breadth of knowledge encoded in a language model is stunning. I&#x27;m pretty sure you can&#x27;t just regurgitate an implementation of the discrete cosine transform in Rust without at least pulling up Wikipedia, but ChatGPT can, because well. It doesn&#x27;t have to pull it up.<p>I still don&#x27;t think ChatGPT is ready to replace human programmers. It may be a long time before we have general enough intelligence to replace knowledge work meaningfully with AI. However, if you think it&#x27;s not happening ever, because machines are not &quot;intelligent&quot; based on some set of goal posts, I&#x27;ve got bad news: that&#x27;s not part of the job listing.<p>It&#x27;s easy to laugh at MSN publishing articles written by GPT; that&#x27;s just stupid. However, at some level you have to admit that the input to ChatGPT is almost as high level as directives from project managers, and the output is almost low level enough to simply input directly into source control. That leaves very little to the imagination for how this could quickly spiral out of control.</text></item><item><author>dkjaudyeqooe</author><text>I guess we can look forward to weeks of &quot;Show HN: $X created by ChatGPT&quot; but people should be cautioned not to read to much into these results. Always remember that almost all of what is being presented here is the work of humans, regurgitated by a very much non-intelligent machine, despite its name. It&#x27;s basically:<p>Human creation -&gt; ChatGPT -&gt; Human query -&gt; Human interpretation<p>The last bit, the interpretation, is particularly important. Just like we&#x27;re predisposed to seeing faces everywhere, we&#x27;re predisposed to seeing meaning, and perhaps &quot;intelligence&quot;, everywhere. In this case the meaning is very convincing since it comes from other humans, diced and sliced, but is merely presenting ourselves to ourselves in an interactive way, using our style of discourse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT</title><url>https://github.com/vrescobar/chatGPT-python-elm</url></story> |
41,033,457 | 41,031,000 | 1 | 2 | 40,987,123 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Agentlien</author><text>This makes so much sense to me!<p>I once ended up using a similar approach for a small project at work[0]. It&#x27;s a tool for cleaning up automatically generated shader files to make them easier to read and optimize. It works entirely by running a series of regex replacements in succession. I very quickly found that picking the order of these passes allowed me to create a lot more opportunities for improvements because I could make more assumptions about the form and patterns of the code. It also really helped that the original generated code was very formulaic.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Agentlien&#x2F;ShaderCleanup">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Agentlien&#x2F;ShaderCleanup</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pizlonator</author><text>Canonical forms, smart stuff, a lot of hardcoding.<p>Canonical forms are the really important part. Simple example: there are multiple ways a program might say “X * 2”. You could shift left by 1. You could multiple by 2. You could add X to itself. The idea of canonical forms is that in one pass, the compiler will pattern match all the ways you can do this and reduce all of them to the same canonical form - say, left shift by 1. Then, subsequent passes that want to catch more complex uses of that construct only have to look for one version of it (left shift 1) and not all three.<p>Here’s a more complex case. Ternary expressions in C and if-else statements have the same representation in llvm IR generated by clang: basic blocks and branches. There are multiple ways of representing the data flow (could use allocas and stores&#x2F;loads or SSA data flow) but both the sroa and mem2reg passes will canonicalize to SSA. And, last I checked llvm says that the preferred canonical form of a if-then-else is a select (I.e. conditional move) whenever the two are equivalent. So, no matter what you use to write the equivalent of std::min - macros, templates, whatever, coding style don’t matter - you will end up eventually with a select instruction whose predicate is a comparison. Then - if your CPU supports doing min in a single instruction, it’s trivial for the instruction selector to just look for that kind of select. This happens not because every way of writing min is hardcoded, but because multiple rounds of canonicalization (clang using basic blocks and branches for both if&#x2F;else and ternaries, sroa and mem2reg preferring SSA, and if conversion preferring select) gets you there.<p>A lot of this is hardcoding, but it’s not the boring “hardcode everything” kind of approach, but rather, it’s about using multiple phases that each produce increasingly canonical code that makes subsequent pattern matching simpler.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?</title><url>https://langdev.stackexchange.com/questions/3942/what-are-the-ways-compilers-recognize-complex-patterns</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dartos</author><text>So you hardcode canonical forms to simplify them down to a common form so that you only need to hardcode one kind of form for the next pass?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pizlonator</author><text>Canonical forms, smart stuff, a lot of hardcoding.<p>Canonical forms are the really important part. Simple example: there are multiple ways a program might say “X * 2”. You could shift left by 1. You could multiple by 2. You could add X to itself. The idea of canonical forms is that in one pass, the compiler will pattern match all the ways you can do this and reduce all of them to the same canonical form - say, left shift by 1. Then, subsequent passes that want to catch more complex uses of that construct only have to look for one version of it (left shift 1) and not all three.<p>Here’s a more complex case. Ternary expressions in C and if-else statements have the same representation in llvm IR generated by clang: basic blocks and branches. There are multiple ways of representing the data flow (could use allocas and stores&#x2F;loads or SSA data flow) but both the sroa and mem2reg passes will canonicalize to SSA. And, last I checked llvm says that the preferred canonical form of a if-then-else is a select (I.e. conditional move) whenever the two are equivalent. So, no matter what you use to write the equivalent of std::min - macros, templates, whatever, coding style don’t matter - you will end up eventually with a select instruction whose predicate is a comparison. Then - if your CPU supports doing min in a single instruction, it’s trivial for the instruction selector to just look for that kind of select. This happens not because every way of writing min is hardcoded, but because multiple rounds of canonicalization (clang using basic blocks and branches for both if&#x2F;else and ternaries, sroa and mem2reg preferring SSA, and if conversion preferring select) gets you there.<p>A lot of this is hardcoding, but it’s not the boring “hardcode everything” kind of approach, but rather, it’s about using multiple phases that each produce increasingly canonical code that makes subsequent pattern matching simpler.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?</title><url>https://langdev.stackexchange.com/questions/3942/what-are-the-ways-compilers-recognize-complex-patterns</url></story> |
41,021,051 | 41,016,529 | 1 | 3 | 41,015,731 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&gt; Pay toilets are banned across many states but there has been absolutely no work put into replacing them with public, free toilets. Nobody is willing to pay to maintain these<p>They&#x27;ll be willing to maintain them as soon as we start to demand that they do. Right now, our government is more concerned with funneling tax money into their own pockets and those of their &quot;friends&quot; than they are about providing services to the people. If we put a stop to that, there would be more than enough money available to maintain public toilets.<p>We see the same thing happening with every other public amenity and accommodation that used to be commonplace. Drinking fountains and public pools are disappearing, public parks and playgrounds go underfunded&#x2F;neglected, and the public spaces that remain are increasingly filled with hostile architecture.<p>The Committee To End Pay Toilets did a great thing for this country. You can be certain that if they hadn&#x27;t worked to stop the greedy people who wanted to profit from the necessity of our own basic bodily functions back then, today we would still have people priced out of being able to use a bathroom in public while the rest of us would still be stuck paying $10 to use the facilities only without also getting the sugared coffee to help expedite the process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>In the US, we have the Committee To End Pay Toilets In America to thank for this state of affairs. It was an organization started as a joke back in the seventies, when pay toilets were very common in public spaces; it succeeded all too well. Pay toilets are banned across many states but there has been absolutely no work put into replacing them with public, free toilets. Nobody is willing to pay to maintain these, so if you can’t pay the much higher tax of going into a coffee shop and buying a $10 drink, you are largely fucked. Large banks of pay toilets in places like bus stations, where everyone can take a dump for the minuscule cost of a coin, are long gone.<p>IF you look sufficiently affluent, you can slip into a hotel or a department store (assuming your city’s downtown still has those) and take a free dump in some pretty luxurious surroundings. But if you’re at a point where that $10 drink for bathroom access is a big stretch then you’re probably not going to make it through there without a run-in with security.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_in_America" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe</title><url>https://psyche.co/ideas/public-toilets-are-vanishing-and-thats-a-civic-catastrophe</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshuanapoli</author><text>The situation varies from state to state. In Florida, many businesses are required to have public restrooms. So you should be able to do your business without being coerced into buying that $10 drink.</text><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>In the US, we have the Committee To End Pay Toilets In America to thank for this state of affairs. It was an organization started as a joke back in the seventies, when pay toilets were very common in public spaces; it succeeded all too well. Pay toilets are banned across many states but there has been absolutely no work put into replacing them with public, free toilets. Nobody is willing to pay to maintain these, so if you can’t pay the much higher tax of going into a coffee shop and buying a $10 drink, you are largely fucked. Large banks of pay toilets in places like bus stations, where everyone can take a dump for the minuscule cost of a coin, are long gone.<p>IF you look sufficiently affluent, you can slip into a hotel or a department store (assuming your city’s downtown still has those) and take a free dump in some pretty luxurious surroundings. But if you’re at a point where that $10 drink for bathroom access is a big stretch then you’re probably not going to make it through there without a run-in with security.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_in_America" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe</title><url>https://psyche.co/ideas/public-toilets-are-vanishing-and-thats-a-civic-catastrophe</url></story> |
38,058,425 | 38,057,499 | 1 | 3 | 38,056,854 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cyberax</author><text>A general rule, when you find a &quot;beautiful work&quot;, it usually is trying to sell you a story that seriously lacks in historical detail. There are exceptions, but they are rare.<p>Regarding bison, it&#x27;s likely that the final blow was not from overhunting, but from habitat encroachment that constrained their migratory patterns. This in turn started an epidemic of tick-borne disease, that resulted in a total collapse of their population within just 2 years (1881-1883).<p>There&#x27;s a really nice overview article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0190052818300087" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S019005281...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jen729w</author><text>John Williams’ <i>Butcher’s Crossing</i> is an incredible story about buffalo hunters. If half of it is true it’s tragic. The sheer numbers; the depth of destruction for the profit of a hide. It boggles the mind that we did this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butcher&#x27;s_Crossing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butcher&#x27;s_Crossing</a><p>(Off-topic, but Williams is best known for <i>Stoner</i>, a truly beautiful work that you should read immediately if you haven’t already.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo</title><url>https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/10/25/ken-burns-chronicles-the-sad-fate-of-the-american-buffalo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>block_dagger</author><text>One of thousands of species homo sapiens has slaughtered mindlessly. We’re real special.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jen729w</author><text>John Williams’ <i>Butcher’s Crossing</i> is an incredible story about buffalo hunters. If half of it is true it’s tragic. The sheer numbers; the depth of destruction for the profit of a hide. It boggles the mind that we did this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butcher&#x27;s_Crossing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butcher&#x27;s_Crossing</a><p>(Off-topic, but Williams is best known for <i>Stoner</i>, a truly beautiful work that you should read immediately if you haven’t already.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo</title><url>https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/10/25/ken-burns-chronicles-the-sad-fate-of-the-american-buffalo</url></story> |
25,596,617 | 25,595,421 | 1 | 3 | 25,594,171 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>I think it&#x27;s excellent that this item does get some love from HN, clearly some people share my interest in the combination of amazing technology (the ISS), amazing technology (the photos), amazing craft (taking the photos), and the interest in orbital mechanics, etc.<p>I am saddened to see that the submission has been flagged, as evidenced by the sudden plummeting in the ranking:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solipsys.co.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;25594171.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solipsys.co.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;25594171.png</a><p>Screenshot from here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrankings.info&#x2F;25594171&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrankings.info&#x2F;25594171&#x2F;</a><p>I know people&#x27;s interests vary, and that&#x27;s partly what makes HN interesting to me, but flagging this item seems at odds with the HN ethos of appreciating excellent work and amazing technology.<p>But there we go. It hit first place for a bit, so that affirms my belief that I do share interest and taste with at least some of the HN crowd.<p>Meanwhile, here&#x27;s wishing everyone a Happy Perihelion.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Photographer Catches the ISS Crossing the Sun and Moon</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2020/11/05/photographer-catches-the-iss-crossing-the-sun-and-moon-from-his-backyard/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ordu</author><text>I never thought about Sun to be so fluffy. Moon is cold and rigid, it is well known fact. But I never wanted to lick Sun before.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Photographer Catches the ISS Crossing the Sun and Moon</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2020/11/05/photographer-catches-the-iss-crossing-the-sun-and-moon-from-his-backyard/</url></story> |
20,184,091 | 20,184,143 | 1 | 2 | 20,183,001 | train | <instructions>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>This SSC piece has influenced a lot of my thinking. Christopher Hitchens wrote about &quot;the narcissism of small differences,&quot; concept as well.<p>There was another post on HN recently about a summary of Rene Girard, who extended this idea (&quot;mimetic violence&quot; in his style) with the inevitability of scapegoating neutral parties as an alternative to war. The rationalist community that SSC has represented may be walking right into that scapegoat role because they are viewed as compromised by the extreme right, and as a gateway drug by the extreme left.<p>I would argue critics like figures associated with the so-called, &quot;intellectual dark web,&quot; are being scapegoated by social media platforms for precisely the reasons Girard describes for picking scapegoats. There is no point in tracking down the worst extremists because they don&#x27;t have enough political traction to represent &quot;something being done,&quot; but popular, relatively moderate critics are sufficiently high profile figures to make an example of in the hope that it provides some defusing catharsis.<p>I couldn&#x27;t say how much predictive power that model has. Either de-platforming &quot;works&quot; because it delays sectarian conflict, or it delegitimizes discourse altogether and just accelerates it. We&#x27;re going to find out anyway, and it appears we indeed live in interesting times.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014)</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>Star Slate Codex is the only &quot;armchair philosophy&quot; site I read. I really love it.<p>Every time I click a link to some of the author&#x27;s inspiration sources, or read the comments even, I&#x27;m appalled at how complicated and unattractive the writing is there. The contrast to Alexander&#x27;s writing is simply so stark. I simply find myself giving up after a few paragraphs.<p>I recently read his enormous and lovely &quot;Mediations on Moloch&quot; essay, and was amazed by how hard I found it to follow the Nick Bostrom citations. I mean this is a famous bestseller philosopher. Is Bostrom&#x27;s writing so bad, or is Alexander&#x27;s writing simply so good?<p>This article is one of my favourites. I love how, like many of his articles, he doesn&#x27;t actually change my mind about anything (at least not to my knowledge), but he does help me express, verbally, an itch that I had about something for a long time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014)</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/</url></story> |
5,102,218 | 5,101,741 | 1 | 2 | 5,100,679 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mark_integerdsv</author><text>If you fail to see the danger that a tool with the ability to search a network for such things as "Islamic men interested in other men, living in Tehran," a tool that can then display their place of work or other contact details (that they may have willingly ((yet unwittingly)) entered), in the hands of bullies, bigots or oppressive regimes then personally I feel you are similarly limited in your world experience to what the grandparent poster is accusing Zuckerberg of being.<p>Basically, it's one of two things:<p>1.) such incredible naiveté that, frankly: you require supervision<p>2.) such hideous cynicism, so deeply felt, that it represents, to my sensibilities, a form of evil<p>This thing is dangerous. The people to whom it poses danger are the ones least likely even to comprehend the danger imposed upon them.<p>I cannot see how you could defend such a thing.<p>BTW: decrying the state of HN when you feel personally ill at ease with the general feeling of the community is poor form and a very strong indicator of butthurt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>achompas</author><text><i>Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassing, and at worst, dangerous, for whoever is in the system.</i><p>What does this even mean? The "dumb algorithm" here will (a) take a user's query and (b) search that user's friends and public profiles for hits on that query. What's next: shouting about the robots taking over? Lamenting about how we're all losing our humanity and man weren't things better back in the old days?<p>I'm really disappointed this is the top comment on HN's top post. Users identified by Graph Search have public accounts and have <i>willingly entered personal information into Facebook.</i> We go thorough this song-and-dance every year: FB updates security policies, everyone is up in arms, then -- gasp! -- everyone updates their security settings. Facebook has a clear transaction with users: build a profile, get sold as eyeballs to advertisers. If you don't like it, then quit.<p>"With great power comes great responsibility," indeed. People have received numerous warnings about Facebook and privacy, and yet they've chosen to share personal information with everyone they know. At this point the user is responsible for choosing to participate or drop out. Meanwhile, every third HN post includes a commenter, wagging their finger, reminding us in a nasally, know-it-all voice that we're not the customer if we're not paying.<p>Is Graph Search really that shocking to you--to anyone on HN? Why the hell is anyone up in arms about this in 2013, given what we know about social networks?</text></item><item><author>GuiA</author><text>With great power comes great responsibility.<p>Companies such as Facebook and the like undoubtedly draw great power from their "social graph"; however, human interactions are subtle, complex, multifaceted and often contradictory.<p>Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassing, and at worst, dangerous, for whoever is in the system.<p>I don't think it's a matter of doing things the right way or fixing them- trying to put human relationships in a computer system will never reproduce the human experience (however, you may make marketers very happy). The best you can do is complete certain very focused subsets of it in an interesting way.<p>Zuckerberg's views on privacy and openness are laughable, and to be completely expected from someone of his background and world experience. If you think about who the average Facebook employee is, you'd realize that you probably wouldn't want them to be in charge of designing a system meant to model the intricacies of human interaction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Actual Facebook Graph Searches</title><url>http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.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>joe_the_user</author><text>"Is Graph Search really that shocking to you--to anyone on HN?"<p>Are serial killers who actually <i>kill people</i> really shocking to people? Well, the answer to that question depends a lot on how much you let its framing determine your thinking, right?<p>Sure, I too, personally, don't share <i>anything</i> personally identifying on FB, in violation of FB and G+'s TOS BTW. But all those naive people, they walked through the door, they didn't see the samurai behind the door and pow, what do they expect? They won't be play in the Seven Samurai now. Why should we Samurai give a heck about them morons? Well, there are some reasons, starting with the fact that we have personal relations, with non-Samurai.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai</a><p>"Again we are defeated," Kambei muses. "The winners are those farmers. Not us."</text><parent_chain><item><author>achompas</author><text><i>Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassing, and at worst, dangerous, for whoever is in the system.</i><p>What does this even mean? The "dumb algorithm" here will (a) take a user's query and (b) search that user's friends and public profiles for hits on that query. What's next: shouting about the robots taking over? Lamenting about how we're all losing our humanity and man weren't things better back in the old days?<p>I'm really disappointed this is the top comment on HN's top post. Users identified by Graph Search have public accounts and have <i>willingly entered personal information into Facebook.</i> We go thorough this song-and-dance every year: FB updates security policies, everyone is up in arms, then -- gasp! -- everyone updates their security settings. Facebook has a clear transaction with users: build a profile, get sold as eyeballs to advertisers. If you don't like it, then quit.<p>"With great power comes great responsibility," indeed. People have received numerous warnings about Facebook and privacy, and yet they've chosen to share personal information with everyone they know. At this point the user is responsible for choosing to participate or drop out. Meanwhile, every third HN post includes a commenter, wagging their finger, reminding us in a nasally, know-it-all voice that we're not the customer if we're not paying.<p>Is Graph Search really that shocking to you--to anyone on HN? Why the hell is anyone up in arms about this in 2013, given what we know about social networks?</text></item><item><author>GuiA</author><text>With great power comes great responsibility.<p>Companies such as Facebook and the like undoubtedly draw great power from their "social graph"; however, human interactions are subtle, complex, multifaceted and often contradictory.<p>Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassing, and at worst, dangerous, for whoever is in the system.<p>I don't think it's a matter of doing things the right way or fixing them- trying to put human relationships in a computer system will never reproduce the human experience (however, you may make marketers very happy). The best you can do is complete certain very focused subsets of it in an interesting way.<p>Zuckerberg's views on privacy and openness are laughable, and to be completely expected from someone of his background and world experience. If you think about who the average Facebook employee is, you'd realize that you probably wouldn't want them to be in charge of designing a system meant to model the intricacies of human interaction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Actual Facebook Graph Searches</title><url>http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/</url></story> |
13,664,934 | 13,663,378 | 1 | 2 | 13,662,165 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>__jal</author><text>About 10 years ago, when I learned about the EURion Constellation[1], I made a T-shirt with the pattern on it. It sort-of worked - a photo taken at the right distance would frequently cause a copy machine to refuse to copy it. It was twitchy, though.<p>At the time, I was thinking of posing for my DMV photo with it on, because I thought it was interesting and kinda funny. Failed to do so and never resumed the experiment.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EURion_constellation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EURion_constellation</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>I wonder if such &quot;patterns&quot; could find use in clothing or as bumper stickers. I can envision this sort of thing taking off as a counter-culture, or anti-technology social weapon. It certainly wouldn&#x27;t be hard to produce and iterate on.<p>I imagine it would be hard to enforce, let alone legislate against subtle visual cues that trigger machine vision signals.<p>Interesting times lie ahead...</text></item><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>&quot;attackers could target autonomous vehicles by using stickers or paint to create an adversarial stop sign that the vehicle would interpret as a &#x27;yield&#x27; or other sign&quot;<p>yeah, this article needs to go to the top of HN and stay there for a while</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/adversarial-example-research/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rhcom2</author><text>People have been using a similar idea to counter facial recognition.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvdazzle.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvdazzle.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>I wonder if such &quot;patterns&quot; could find use in clothing or as bumper stickers. I can envision this sort of thing taking off as a counter-culture, or anti-technology social weapon. It certainly wouldn&#x27;t be hard to produce and iterate on.<p>I imagine it would be hard to enforce, let alone legislate against subtle visual cues that trigger machine vision signals.<p>Interesting times lie ahead...</text></item><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>&quot;attackers could target autonomous vehicles by using stickers or paint to create an adversarial stop sign that the vehicle would interpret as a &#x27;yield&#x27; or other sign&quot;<p>yeah, this article needs to go to the top of HN and stay there for a while</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/adversarial-example-research/</url></story> |
29,670,158 | 29,670,326 | 1 | 2 | 29,667,208 | 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>mulmen</author><text>Wait, <i>what</i>? You... start your car in neutral? Like... with the clutch out? I have never actually tried that. I will have to experiment next time I am in my car.<p>On the other hand my 1990 Honda motorcycle <i>must</i> be in neutral to start (there is no clutch position switch) and I don&#x27;t use the clutch there. Very handy because people love to sit on it for selfies when I park it and they tend to jam it into gear while crawling on it. I assume it is in neutral (I always park that way) and if I hit the starter in gear it would shoot across the street. Thinking about it I suppose that protects me from bumping the starter while riding as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>perryizgr8</author><text>&gt; Its a stick shift so remote start is pointless since someone has to press the clutch in.<p>I have driven stick shift cars my whole life, and never encountered one where I had to press in the clutch to start the engine.</text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>So Ive bought two cars this year, a 2013 Kia and a 2022 Subaru BRZ.<p>On the Kia, the first day I used it the radio just froze up. I had to get a tooth pick to push the hidden reboot button. Every time I start the car the volume on the radio is deafening even though I turned it off at a low volume. It also attempts to download my music off my phone even though Im using spotify. Every time. There are firmware updates... if you have the 2014 model. The worst thing it did is randomly dial 911 when my phone was connected despite absolutely nothing having happened.<p>My BRZ has a more modern setup, that absolutely does not work with apple car play. I had it working for ten minutes and then it just randomly stopped. This is a brand new car and a brand new phone. Also replacement keys are absurdly expensive in order to provide me the benefit of... not turning a key? Its a stick shift so remote start is pointless since someone has to press the clutch in.<p>Im basically better off with the aux port.<p>Yes the internal engine electronics are nice but my experience with anything in the cabin is that it quickly becomes trash. The thing that annoys me is that when I inevitably have to replace these things, Im certain its going to be incredibly overpriced and I will have used like zero of its broken features.<p>The car I used to have, a 2013 FRS... perfect. Very basic stereo. All analog guages. Nothing went wrong ever.</text></item><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>My impression is most of the electronic stuff added to cars went for the better (literally lifes saved)<p>Electronic injection control, ABS, suspension control, tire pressure sensors, near objects detection, backing monitor, automatic climate control etc.<p>The buggy stuff stands out while the careful done part doesn’t get much attention, as usual (and I think it should be so, we’re supposed to use as naturally as possible)<p>PS: most 20 years old cars are death traps compared to current cars, I’m not sure it’s a good advice to push people to keep using them for that long.</text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>To be honest, I kind of just hate having computers and wireless stuff built into cars in general. My experience is it&#x27;s always buggy, and after two or three years it&#x27;s mostly obsolete. Admittedly I am a dinosaur, I just bought a new car and it&#x27;s a stick shift, but I feel like a decent car will last you 15-20 years and how many of you are using 20 year old computers?<p>Also the cell connection seems problematic. Like, 4 years ago I bought my uncle a phone, and I just got notice that I have to upgrade him because t-mobiles 3g is going away. How many of my cars fancy connected features will work in 4 years?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/43636/toyota-reviewing-key-fob-remote-start-subscription-plan-after-massive-blowback</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>to11mtm</author><text>Really?<p>Every stick car I&#x27;ve owned (2.5 Saturns, 1 Subaru) has had some sort of interlock switch set up such that if the clutch pedal was not pressed in, turning the ignition would do nothing, whether or not the Car is in gear.</text><parent_chain><item><author>perryizgr8</author><text>&gt; Its a stick shift so remote start is pointless since someone has to press the clutch in.<p>I have driven stick shift cars my whole life, and never encountered one where I had to press in the clutch to start the engine.</text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>So Ive bought two cars this year, a 2013 Kia and a 2022 Subaru BRZ.<p>On the Kia, the first day I used it the radio just froze up. I had to get a tooth pick to push the hidden reboot button. Every time I start the car the volume on the radio is deafening even though I turned it off at a low volume. It also attempts to download my music off my phone even though Im using spotify. Every time. There are firmware updates... if you have the 2014 model. The worst thing it did is randomly dial 911 when my phone was connected despite absolutely nothing having happened.<p>My BRZ has a more modern setup, that absolutely does not work with apple car play. I had it working for ten minutes and then it just randomly stopped. This is a brand new car and a brand new phone. Also replacement keys are absurdly expensive in order to provide me the benefit of... not turning a key? Its a stick shift so remote start is pointless since someone has to press the clutch in.<p>Im basically better off with the aux port.<p>Yes the internal engine electronics are nice but my experience with anything in the cabin is that it quickly becomes trash. The thing that annoys me is that when I inevitably have to replace these things, Im certain its going to be incredibly overpriced and I will have used like zero of its broken features.<p>The car I used to have, a 2013 FRS... perfect. Very basic stereo. All analog guages. Nothing went wrong ever.</text></item><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>My impression is most of the electronic stuff added to cars went for the better (literally lifes saved)<p>Electronic injection control, ABS, suspension control, tire pressure sensors, near objects detection, backing monitor, automatic climate control etc.<p>The buggy stuff stands out while the careful done part doesn’t get much attention, as usual (and I think it should be so, we’re supposed to use as naturally as possible)<p>PS: most 20 years old cars are death traps compared to current cars, I’m not sure it’s a good advice to push people to keep using them for that long.</text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>To be honest, I kind of just hate having computers and wireless stuff built into cars in general. My experience is it&#x27;s always buggy, and after two or three years it&#x27;s mostly obsolete. Admittedly I am a dinosaur, I just bought a new car and it&#x27;s a stick shift, but I feel like a decent car will last you 15-20 years and how many of you are using 20 year old computers?<p>Also the cell connection seems problematic. Like, 4 years ago I bought my uncle a phone, and I just got notice that I have to upgrade him because t-mobiles 3g is going away. How many of my cars fancy connected features will work in 4 years?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/43636/toyota-reviewing-key-fob-remote-start-subscription-plan-after-massive-blowback</url></story> |
870,426 | 870,256 | 1 | 2 | 870,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NathanKP</author><text>Finally the day I have been waiting for! I can't stand the multiple windows, especially on the Mac OS X version in which one initial click is required to focus the window and a second to click a button or begin using a tool.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp</title><url>http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/first-pictures-of-single-window-gimp.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Isn't it interesting how the many-windows paradigm has come and gone? Desktop software for the first ~15 years of personal computing was full screen, single "window" for any given task. And then, for the past fifteen years or so, we've been dealing with the increased complexity of many-windowed interfaces. Seems strange that nobody noticed that some of the changes that windowing systems brought were negative until a whole new generation of developers came along and reinvented the single window model.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp</title><url>http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/first-pictures-of-single-window-gimp.html</url><text></text></story> |
17,600,037 | 17,600,161 | 1 | 3 | 17,599,087 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>okket</author><text>Rules of the macroscopic world do not apply to the subatomic (or even molecular) world. There are no two identical elephants in the world. On the other hand, you will have a hard time to tell two electrons or even two molecules of the same configuration apart from another.<p>A total empty region, void of any atoms etc., still contains &#x27;quantum noise&#x27; and thus virtual particles. The world, the universe as we know it so far has become inconceivable without this observation, known as the uncertainty principle.<p>I find the argument quite convincing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mannykannot</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the dual argument about zero, for which the impossibility of a completely empty region of spacetime is given as an example. That may be so, but a region empty of countable things like atoms seems physically conceivable. I am writing from a room containing zero elephants.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The physics of infinity</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0238-1.epdf?shared_access_token=nhIyZJldj4QzWZs7LvZIttRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PMOaEWTfe0Iq_Ol3Eo9bd6Lh9xyPK-ya44kxWDxYi4IQo2Zqj-Ymd6yZVANNbW9FXmT1HwoVMnEtM00qpXT48gLDqpQXX3mvS3gRH22aRhLs-Cf_4dd6NkVcLZZP3rPbg%3D</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>&gt; region empty of countable things like atoms seems physically conceivable<p>As far as I know this is not physically conceivable, if physically conceivable means physical laws as we understand them.<p>Quantum vacuum state, or zero-point field is not completely void empty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mannykannot</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the dual argument about zero, for which the impossibility of a completely empty region of spacetime is given as an example. That may be so, but a region empty of countable things like atoms seems physically conceivable. I am writing from a room containing zero elephants.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The physics of infinity</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0238-1.epdf?shared_access_token=nhIyZJldj4QzWZs7LvZIttRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PMOaEWTfe0Iq_Ol3Eo9bd6Lh9xyPK-ya44kxWDxYi4IQo2Zqj-Ymd6yZVANNbW9FXmT1HwoVMnEtM00qpXT48gLDqpQXX3mvS3gRH22aRhLs-Cf_4dd6NkVcLZZP3rPbg%3D</url></story> |
20,340,006 | 20,339,252 | 1 | 2 | 20,337,231 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>Honestly, seems like a big waste of time to me. Generating the code wouldn&#x27;t be free, so you pay for that. IO, generally, is fairly expensive, so you are now weighing the costs of IO against the savings in instructions&#x2F;reduced branches. So where are the savings? OS level mutexes?<p>Basically all of the modern CPUs are going to do a really good job at optimizing away most of the checks cooked into the code Modern CPUs are really good at seeing &quot;99% of the time, you take this branch&quot; and &quot;these 8 instructions can be ran at the same time&quot;.<p>What they can&#x27;t optimize away is accessing data off CPU. The speed of light is a killer here. In the best case, you are talking about ~1000 cycles if you hit main memory and way more if you talk to the disk (even an SSD). You can run down a ton of branches and run a bunch of code in the period of time you sit around waiting for data to arrive.<p>This wasn&#x27;t true in 1992 when CPUs ran in the Mhz. But we are long past that phase.<p>About the only place this would seem to be applicable is in embedded systems looking to squeeze out performance while decreasing power usage. Otherwise, feels like a waste for anything with a Rasberry pi CPU.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s Time for a Modern Synthesis Kernel</title><url>https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1676</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>Neat! My main side project takes exactly the same base idea, that we need a synthesis v2.<p>The big question is &quot;what have we learned in the past thirty years of OS design that&#x27;s applicable?&quot; Capabilities are amazing in this context is the big one; if you squint synthesis quajects and capability objects line up in semantics pretty well. I&#x27;d argue that xok would be a lot cleaner if they had a central VM concept instead of the three or so seperate kernel VMs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s Time for a Modern Synthesis Kernel</title><url>https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1676</url></story> |
13,915,838 | 13,915,765 | 1 | 3 | 13,915,348 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teslabox</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; Rockefeller upheld the family’s philanthropic tradition, giving away more than $900 million during his lifetime. In 1940, he joined the board of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, established in 1901 by his grandfather, and a decade later succeeded his father as board chairman, serving for 25 years.<p>Rich people don&#x27;t give money away no-strings-attached, they channel it for their purposes. This &quot;institute for medical research&quot; - now Rockefeller University - was their way of guiding the development of medicine into a profitable industry for &quot;investors&quot;.<p>&quot;The first director of laboratories was Simon Flexner&quot; [1]
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rockefeller_University" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rockefeller_University</a><p>Simon Flexner&#x27;s younger brother was Abraham Flexner, who helped the medical guild reduce the number of medical schools [2], thereby making sure that there&#x27;s always been a shortage of doctors.<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flexner_Report" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flexner_Report</a><p>The Osteopathic profession was the only group that was organized enough to survive the Medical Guild&#x27;s purge of non-Rockefeller-approved approaches to medicine. Today D.O.s are more likely to take up Primary Care, where doctors take time to get to know their patients and figure out what&#x27;s actually causing their complaints. See <i>The Heroism of Incremental Care,</i> [3] for example.<p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-heroism-of-incremental-care" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-heroism-of-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kolanos</author><text>&quot;Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as &#x27;internationalists&#x27; and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- One World, if you will. If that&#x27;s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.&quot;<p>- David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David Rockefeller has died</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/david-rockefeller-banker-philanthropist-heir-dies-at-101</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mbateman</author><text>The still-timely passage continues:<p>&quot;The anti-Rockefeller focus of these otherwise incompatible political positions owes much to Populism. &#x27;Populists&#x27; believe in conspiracies and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world&#x27;s economy. ... Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted in our active international role during the past half-century.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>kolanos</author><text>&quot;Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as &#x27;internationalists&#x27; and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- One World, if you will. If that&#x27;s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.&quot;<p>- David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David Rockefeller has died</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/david-rockefeller-banker-philanthropist-heir-dies-at-101</url></story> |
6,612,899 | 6,612,877 | 1 | 3 | 6,611,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nicholas_C</author><text>&gt;I wish my biggest problem was being forced to stay in Hawaii.<p>I don&#x27;t think Hawaii is as great to live in as it is to visit. Cost of living sucks, traffic sucks, traveling anywhere to visit relatives or another state&#x2F;country requires flying. All of Hawaii only has a population of 1.4M. The metro population of Honolulu is 953,207. The state itself is just a little bit larger than New Jersey if you add the area of all the islands. Sure, the weather is great, but living in Hawaii for the rest of my life is not something I want to do.<p>Now imagine being trapped there until you die because you&#x27;re on a tenure track.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>&gt; One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii<p>Wow. No offense, but I can&#x27;t imagine this guy with a real job. The self-entitlement is insane. I really think there&#x27;s a forest for the tree problem with a lot of academics. The few I know get massive entitlements, days off, benefits, etc. I work in IT, worry about layoffs, get minimal holidays, have on-call, and generally get treated like an idiot savant because no one likes techies and techies go against the corporate &#x27;sales guy&#x27; culture that dominates so many companies.<p>I wish my biggest problem was being forced to stay in Hawaii. On top of it, I went to some pretty good schools and honestly half my professors were loathesome misanthropes. I can&#x27;t imagine where they would fit elsewhere. They&#x27;d be destroyed in corporate culture in a new york minute.<p>Perhaps I am suffering from a &#x27;grass is greener&#x27; mentality, but sometimes it helps, i think, to remember where you came from and what you have. Some problems are real and others just aren&#x27;t.<p>I really wonder if the real issue is the ease that someone can enter many phd programs. With massive private&#x2F;public loans and universities hungry for money, we might have long ago hit a tipping point of being too generous and letting a lot of people in who otherwise would have been unacceptable for phd programs, especially in the humanities. Of the academics I know, maybe one is a stellar thinker, the rest are just upper-middle class milquetoasts who wanted an easy life.</text></item><item><author>mililani</author><text>My wife is in academia. Although, not in the ivory towers. She&#x27;s at a community college in California, and she&#x27;s both on the tenured faculty track and administration as a program director. So, her experiences may not speak entirely to this article.<p>There are lots of problems inherent with academia that most people thinking about this field are not really thinking about. The biggest problem, I think, is that for most 99% of all professors, once they are tenured, they are LOCKED down geographically. And, that sucks. My wife and I have one foot out the door all the time. We go where the jobs are. But, now that she&#x27;s on the tenure track, we wonder if this is where we&#x27;ll lay down and die. It&#x27;s pretty sad, when I think about it. You hear about it time and time again from so much of these guys. One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii and how his wife divorced him because of it. He had a page up here:<p><a href="http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~lee/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.hawaii.edu&#x2F;~lee&#x2F;</a><p>But, apparently, after some time he decided to take down the more controversial stuff. The index.html page to his ramblings are down. Anyways, that&#x27;s a huge problem for academics. And, I thought about it, and I think the biggest problem is the whole tenure thing. I think it should be abolished. Professors should be able to move to new institutions without worrying about that entire process, and they should be paid a better wage because of it. It should be like any other free market enterprise we have nowadays. And, Universities should also be able to get rid of dead weight. I&#x27;ve had some professors in the past who just gave up on research and life. For example, said professor mentioned above. He gave up on math research because the University kept screwing them over on pay. He retired with only 17 publications under his name. My other friend who is now a tenured math professor at a 4 year college has 17 publications at just 37 years of age. My other friend who has been teaching for about 10 years now has only 2 publications: his math Ph.D. dissertation, and a one page paper that probably isn&#x27;t worth the paper it&#x27;s printed on. Anyways, I think it&#x27;s high time tenure is made obsolete. It gives professors more latitude to move, probably better pay, and more incentive to do research or teach better. It also gives schools and students the opportunity to get better teachers and lose the dead weight.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/24/quitting_academic_jobs_professor_zachary_ernst_and_other_leaving_tenure.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>saraid216</author><text>Being in Hawaii isn&#x27;t automatically a happy fun lifestyle. It&#x27;s a popular tourist destination, but it&#x27;s still just a place like any other.<p>And it&#x27;s a pretty shitty place when your spouse leaves you because you can&#x27;t go with them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>&gt; One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii<p>Wow. No offense, but I can&#x27;t imagine this guy with a real job. The self-entitlement is insane. I really think there&#x27;s a forest for the tree problem with a lot of academics. The few I know get massive entitlements, days off, benefits, etc. I work in IT, worry about layoffs, get minimal holidays, have on-call, and generally get treated like an idiot savant because no one likes techies and techies go against the corporate &#x27;sales guy&#x27; culture that dominates so many companies.<p>I wish my biggest problem was being forced to stay in Hawaii. On top of it, I went to some pretty good schools and honestly half my professors were loathesome misanthropes. I can&#x27;t imagine where they would fit elsewhere. They&#x27;d be destroyed in corporate culture in a new york minute.<p>Perhaps I am suffering from a &#x27;grass is greener&#x27; mentality, but sometimes it helps, i think, to remember where you came from and what you have. Some problems are real and others just aren&#x27;t.<p>I really wonder if the real issue is the ease that someone can enter many phd programs. With massive private&#x2F;public loans and universities hungry for money, we might have long ago hit a tipping point of being too generous and letting a lot of people in who otherwise would have been unacceptable for phd programs, especially in the humanities. Of the academics I know, maybe one is a stellar thinker, the rest are just upper-middle class milquetoasts who wanted an easy life.</text></item><item><author>mililani</author><text>My wife is in academia. Although, not in the ivory towers. She&#x27;s at a community college in California, and she&#x27;s both on the tenured faculty track and administration as a program director. So, her experiences may not speak entirely to this article.<p>There are lots of problems inherent with academia that most people thinking about this field are not really thinking about. The biggest problem, I think, is that for most 99% of all professors, once they are tenured, they are LOCKED down geographically. And, that sucks. My wife and I have one foot out the door all the time. We go where the jobs are. But, now that she&#x27;s on the tenure track, we wonder if this is where we&#x27;ll lay down and die. It&#x27;s pretty sad, when I think about it. You hear about it time and time again from so much of these guys. One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii and how his wife divorced him because of it. He had a page up here:<p><a href="http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~lee/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.hawaii.edu&#x2F;~lee&#x2F;</a><p>But, apparently, after some time he decided to take down the more controversial stuff. The index.html page to his ramblings are down. Anyways, that&#x27;s a huge problem for academics. And, I thought about it, and I think the biggest problem is the whole tenure thing. I think it should be abolished. Professors should be able to move to new institutions without worrying about that entire process, and they should be paid a better wage because of it. It should be like any other free market enterprise we have nowadays. And, Universities should also be able to get rid of dead weight. I&#x27;ve had some professors in the past who just gave up on research and life. For example, said professor mentioned above. He gave up on math research because the University kept screwing them over on pay. He retired with only 17 publications under his name. My other friend who is now a tenured math professor at a 4 year college has 17 publications at just 37 years of age. My other friend who has been teaching for about 10 years now has only 2 publications: his math Ph.D. dissertation, and a one page paper that probably isn&#x27;t worth the paper it&#x27;s printed on. Anyways, I think it&#x27;s high time tenure is made obsolete. It gives professors more latitude to move, probably better pay, and more incentive to do research or teach better. It also gives schools and students the opportunity to get better teachers and lose the dead weight.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/24/quitting_academic_jobs_professor_zachary_ernst_and_other_leaving_tenure.html</url></story> |
33,161,070 | 33,160,306 | 1 | 2 | 33,158,947 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>poirot2</author><text>Glad this worked out for you, well done.<p>For anyone else who’s drinking at this level (a litre a day of vodka) please don’t quit cold turkey without seeing a doctor. It genuinely can be lethal. There are temporary medications that dramatically mitigate that risk.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cassonmars</author><text>I used to put away a liter of vodka a night. I kept it up for years, accumulating a solid decade of heavy drinking. I was miserable. It was souring my relationship. The stress from work, personal life, and declining mental state of course made me feel even more compelled to drink. I was becoming a shell of my former self, and my dreams were becoming strictly that.<p>I had a confluence of events that changed my course:<p>1. I attended a tech conference where someone I personally knew who had went through rehab was hosting and speaking, and he was filled with a vivacity I hadn’t seen from him before.<p>2. My spouse gave me an ultimatum to quit or he’d be out the door. It wasn’t the first time he had said this, but I had a feeling it was probably going to be the last.<p>3. My progression in life was stalling. I couldn’t keep up commitments anymore, and I was starting to feel like I had already passed my peak.<p>So I quit. Cold Turkey. It was a dangerous, stupid thing to do, but I knew if I tried to taper off, I’d just slide back. The withdrawals were nightmarish, and I was lucky I didn’t die from it. But I pulled through, and then started to do some heavy soul searching for why I ever picked up the bottle — what was I escaping from? And I found those answers, and got to work — A real kind of personal work that most people will never have to put into themselves.<p>Since then, I have been a cofounder, jumped multiple levels in my career, and have been working towards several academic publications, on top of drastically improving my personal life. It’s been nearly five years since I put down the bottle. And every day I choose to never pick it up again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?</title><text>I enjoy the act of drinking - literally having a drink, or the feeling right after a drink. I hate how I feel an hour later, the foggy head feeling. I have a hard time saying no to a drink if everyone else is having a drink, I have done it before and am not afraid of what they think, more so, I enjoy having a drink, but I really don’t want to any more. I think it is something I would be better off without, completely but just can’t seem to get there.<p>I don’t buy it for weeks at a time, then cave and have a 12 pack in a weekend and feel like garbage most of the time.<p>Any tips on cutting out something completely and how to get out of just hating yourself when you fail?</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>ffwacom</author><text>Amazing.<p>I’m coming up on my second year sobriety anniversary, if it’s not too personal could you talk more about this:<p>“A real kind of personal work that most people will never have to put into themselves”?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cassonmars</author><text>I used to put away a liter of vodka a night. I kept it up for years, accumulating a solid decade of heavy drinking. I was miserable. It was souring my relationship. The stress from work, personal life, and declining mental state of course made me feel even more compelled to drink. I was becoming a shell of my former self, and my dreams were becoming strictly that.<p>I had a confluence of events that changed my course:<p>1. I attended a tech conference where someone I personally knew who had went through rehab was hosting and speaking, and he was filled with a vivacity I hadn’t seen from him before.<p>2. My spouse gave me an ultimatum to quit or he’d be out the door. It wasn’t the first time he had said this, but I had a feeling it was probably going to be the last.<p>3. My progression in life was stalling. I couldn’t keep up commitments anymore, and I was starting to feel like I had already passed my peak.<p>So I quit. Cold Turkey. It was a dangerous, stupid thing to do, but I knew if I tried to taper off, I’d just slide back. The withdrawals were nightmarish, and I was lucky I didn’t die from it. But I pulled through, and then started to do some heavy soul searching for why I ever picked up the bottle — what was I escaping from? And I found those answers, and got to work — A real kind of personal work that most people will never have to put into themselves.<p>Since then, I have been a cofounder, jumped multiple levels in my career, and have been working towards several academic publications, on top of drastically improving my personal life. It’s been nearly five years since I put down the bottle. And every day I choose to never pick it up again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?</title><text>I enjoy the act of drinking - literally having a drink, or the feeling right after a drink. I hate how I feel an hour later, the foggy head feeling. I have a hard time saying no to a drink if everyone else is having a drink, I have done it before and am not afraid of what they think, more so, I enjoy having a drink, but I really don’t want to any more. I think it is something I would be better off without, completely but just can’t seem to get there.<p>I don’t buy it for weeks at a time, then cave and have a 12 pack in a weekend and feel like garbage most of the time.<p>Any tips on cutting out something completely and how to get out of just hating yourself when you fail?</text></story> |
2,286,686 | 2,286,482 | 1 | 2 | 2,286,260 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raganwald</author><text>I've already commented on this subject:<p><a href="https://raganwald.posterous.com/the-freedom-to-eat-pizza" rel="nofollow">https://raganwald.posterous.com/the-freedom-to-eat-pizza</a><p>The tl;dr is where I say "Cry me a fucking river." When will people learn? A closed, proprietary system is a closed, proprietary system.<p>Marco is arguing that the Massah is being too rough on the sharecroppers, he's beating them inconsistently and in ways they couldn't reasonably predict. Let me see if I understand: These poor indentured servants built a business around what they perceived as a loophole in Apple's iOS terms. Their plan was to make millions of dollars off their "free" iOS apps while Apple got nothing. Then Apple shook them down for 30%.<p>Well I couldn't have predicted exactly <i>how</i> Apple would react, but I don't imagine anyone ought to be surprised that they did <i>something</i>. They're the landlord. That's what landlords do: They extract rents from the sharecroppers, and if rents aren't enough they kick the sharecroppers out and take over the land for themselves.<p>You can bitch and whine, you can figure out how to make money while Apple tolerates your presence, or you can stop building on proprietary platforms. Arguing that Apple is illogical or ought to be smarter or is shooting itself in the foot... A waste of electrons. Does Apple look like the kind of company that takes our advice on how to run a business? If it listened to people like us, it would be selling Windows PCs right now.<p>iOS and Kindles and Java and everything else controlled by a profit-seeking corporation are all the same things to developers. Of course Apple markets your work to end users and pretends you're happy with your cut of the two billion dollars in app store revenue. That's like a dating site marketing you to other users.<p>The bottom line is this: If you are developing for a proprietary system, you aren't in the business, <i>you are the business</i>. Trying to argue that Apple's proprietary system ought to be less closed or more free or have more pixie dust than Amazon's is wishful thinking. If you develop for <i>any</i> of these proprietary platforms, you are a sharecropper. You work at the landlord's pleasure to improve the land he owns.<p>Period.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Rare Disagreement</title><url>http://www.marco.org/3627726252</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>jonknee</author><text>&#62; So why aren’t those who are criticizing Apple for taking a 30 percent cut of subscription revenue criticizing Amazon? My theory: everyone understands, intuitively, that the Kindle is a closed proprietary platform; but many people view iOS (incorrectly) as a platform like the Mac or Windows, where third parties are free to do what they want.<p>This seems like laziness or intentional dishonesty on Gruber's part. There are huge differences between the two. The biggest being Amazon doesn't have a Kindle app ecosystem so there isn't the [huge] problem of requiring a subscription option (which is the real issue--charge 90% if you want, it just becomes unfair when you require me to use it). Amazon also funds the delivery of the content to the subscriber, which considering it's often over 3G can be considerable.<p>In the current state of things if you are a publisher with an iOS app, Apple changed the rules to either require you to cough up 30% of your business or stop being a publisher. Also, you get the joy of delivering all content, that's not included in your 30% vig.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Rare Disagreement</title><url>http://www.marco.org/3627726252</url><text></text></story> |
25,502,480 | 25,502,274 | 1 | 2 | 25,497,772 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Except, the difference is mostly a stereotype that isn&#x27;t held up by the data. In France, 70% of commuters travel by car and only 3% by cycling.[1]<p>That&#x27;s less car-centric than America for sure. But Americans have a misguided notion that all Europeans live in quaint pedestrian-friendly town centers that look like Prague or Copenhagen. Mostly because we tend to spend our European tourism in the dense centers of the capital cities.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transportenvironment.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;increase-paris-cycle-lanes-leads-dramatic-rise-bike-commuting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transportenvironment.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;increase-paris-cyc...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>teloli</author><text>Oh man, am I glad to be European. Walk to the bar, cycle to work, take the tram if it rains. American cities built for cars are just so sad.</text></item><item><author>twblalock</author><text>There were quite a few other factors that led to the decline of streetcars: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy#Other_factors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Motors_streetcar_consp...</a><p>One of the biggest is that people actually like living in suburbs, and they could afford to do so after WWII.<p>The promise of the suburbs is a detached house, with some private outdoor space like a back yard, in a quiet area: essentially what the rich had always preferred and been able to afford. That lifestyle became broadly available to the middle classes after WWII. It&#x27;s hard to blame people for wanting that.<p>People still like living in suburbs. They still like owning cars. They still vote against new transit projects for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason is that they don&#x27;t want to pay taxes to support a system they would not use themselves.<p>So I just don&#x27;t buy the idea that the National City Lines conspiracy caused our current automotive culture. I think we would have ended up with the same car culture anyway, because huge numbers of people wanted to live in the suburbs.</text></item><item><author>imglorp</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget..<p>4. Auto makers conspired to kill or cripple mass transit.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brooklynrail.net&#x2F;NationalCityLinesConspiracy.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brooklynrail.net&#x2F;NationalCityLinesConspiracy.html</a></text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>We in the US do an absolutely <i>horrific</i> job of recognizing and compensating for the externalities of our automotive culture. The criminalization of jaywalking is one major aspect, but also consider:<p>1. The construction of highways through poor (read: minority) urban areas, causing mass respiratory disease and premature deaths[1].<p>2. Allocation of free public space (car parking) to drivers, effectively subsidizing (disproportionately suburban) commuters at the expense of residents.<p>3. A general culture of entitlement to the road among motorists, resulting in tens of thousands of pedestrian and cyclist injuries a year with virtually no legal (beyond costly civil) recourse.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;nyregion&#x2F;29asthma.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;nyregion&#x2F;29asthma.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime</title><url>https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/12/21/jaywalking-decriminalization-is-coming-to-virginia-100-years-after-the-auto-industry-helped-make-it-a-crime/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Razengan</author><text>Some Japanese cities seem to be pretty good for that too. Apparently even very young children can safely take the bus, train or bike to school by themselves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>teloli</author><text>Oh man, am I glad to be European. Walk to the bar, cycle to work, take the tram if it rains. American cities built for cars are just so sad.</text></item><item><author>twblalock</author><text>There were quite a few other factors that led to the decline of streetcars: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy#Other_factors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Motors_streetcar_consp...</a><p>One of the biggest is that people actually like living in suburbs, and they could afford to do so after WWII.<p>The promise of the suburbs is a detached house, with some private outdoor space like a back yard, in a quiet area: essentially what the rich had always preferred and been able to afford. That lifestyle became broadly available to the middle classes after WWII. It&#x27;s hard to blame people for wanting that.<p>People still like living in suburbs. They still like owning cars. They still vote against new transit projects for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason is that they don&#x27;t want to pay taxes to support a system they would not use themselves.<p>So I just don&#x27;t buy the idea that the National City Lines conspiracy caused our current automotive culture. I think we would have ended up with the same car culture anyway, because huge numbers of people wanted to live in the suburbs.</text></item><item><author>imglorp</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget..<p>4. Auto makers conspired to kill or cripple mass transit.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brooklynrail.net&#x2F;NationalCityLinesConspiracy.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brooklynrail.net&#x2F;NationalCityLinesConspiracy.html</a></text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>We in the US do an absolutely <i>horrific</i> job of recognizing and compensating for the externalities of our automotive culture. The criminalization of jaywalking is one major aspect, but also consider:<p>1. The construction of highways through poor (read: minority) urban areas, causing mass respiratory disease and premature deaths[1].<p>2. Allocation of free public space (car parking) to drivers, effectively subsidizing (disproportionately suburban) commuters at the expense of residents.<p>3. A general culture of entitlement to the road among motorists, resulting in tens of thousands of pedestrian and cyclist injuries a year with virtually no legal (beyond costly civil) recourse.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;nyregion&#x2F;29asthma.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;nyregion&#x2F;29asthma.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime</title><url>https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/12/21/jaywalking-decriminalization-is-coming-to-virginia-100-years-after-the-auto-industry-helped-make-it-a-crime/</url></story> |
37,943,169 | 37,943,495 | 1 | 2 | 37,942,114 | 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>hannob</author><text>&gt; RowHammer and the other speculative execution are really interesting attacks, but have they ever actually been used in the wild yet?<p>It&#x27;s a question I&#x27;ve been asking myself for many highly publicized vulns. I once made this table:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hannob&#x2F;vulns">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hannob&#x2F;vulns</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>RowHammer and the other speculative execution are really interesting attacks, but have they ever actually been used in the wild yet? I can&#x27;t seem to find anything that says yes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27318960">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27318960</a><p>2 years ago someone asked and it looks like the answer was &quot;nope&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csoonline.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;573715&#x2F;rowhammer-memory-attacks-close-in-on-the-real-world.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csoonline.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;573715&#x2F;rowhammer-memory-at...</a><p>3 years ago they were &quot;closer&quot;<p>I couldn&#x27;t seem to find anything that said they&#x27;re known to be successfully exploited yet. My understanding (which is shallow at best) makes me think they&#x27;re still really tough to use in a real world attack.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There's a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/theres-a-new-way-to-flip-bits-in-dram-and-it-works-against-the-latest-defenses/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>denton-scratch</author><text>&gt; and the other speculative execution<p>I don&#x27;t think RowHammer is a speculative execution attack, is it? I thought Spectre and Meltdown were the best-known examples of SE attacks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>RowHammer and the other speculative execution are really interesting attacks, but have they ever actually been used in the wild yet? I can&#x27;t seem to find anything that says yes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27318960">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27318960</a><p>2 years ago someone asked and it looks like the answer was &quot;nope&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csoonline.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;573715&#x2F;rowhammer-memory-attacks-close-in-on-the-real-world.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csoonline.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;573715&#x2F;rowhammer-memory-at...</a><p>3 years ago they were &quot;closer&quot;<p>I couldn&#x27;t seem to find anything that said they&#x27;re known to be successfully exploited yet. My understanding (which is shallow at best) makes me think they&#x27;re still really tough to use in a real world attack.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There's a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/theres-a-new-way-to-flip-bits-in-dram-and-it-works-against-the-latest-defenses/</url></story> |
20,232,036 | 20,231,934 | 1 | 2 | 20,231,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>emerongi</author><text>We have a few hives and honestly it&#x27;s just fun watching those guys work. Every single bee has a very small role, but in unison the operation that these dudes run is absolutely amazing. And spotting the queen is fun every time.<p>It&#x27;s also amazing how different &quot;races&quot; of bees act completely different. We have a few hives with very calm bees, they never sting - I can operate on these hives with no protection. We also have hives with very aggressive bees who start stinging on even the slightest disturbance. They also differ in the way they collect nectar - the calm bees are a bit lazier and take their time, building up their honeycombs over time, whereas the aggressive ones send out a massive fleet of bees to collect absolutely everything there is out there early in spring. The aggressive ones also like to attack the calmer ones and steal their honey. Assholes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>calypso</author><text>My uncle just started a small bee colony on his property. This will help his garden, the surrounding gardens, and the area as a whole. My work also has a few hives on each of our buildings rooftops.<p>So some people care but a larger majority do not. As humans we, especially in the west, don&#x27;t care about a problem until it&#x27;s too late. who cares about the bees when we have the latest iPhone Xr+ Max ultra</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/06/19/733761393/more-bad-buzz-for-bees-record-numbers-of-honey-bee-colonies-died-last-winter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fredley</author><text>Worse, some people wear their lack of caring as a badge of pride. See &#x27;rolling coal&#x27;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>calypso</author><text>My uncle just started a small bee colony on his property. This will help his garden, the surrounding gardens, and the area as a whole. My work also has a few hives on each of our buildings rooftops.<p>So some people care but a larger majority do not. As humans we, especially in the west, don&#x27;t care about a problem until it&#x27;s too late. who cares about the bees when we have the latest iPhone Xr+ Max ultra</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/06/19/733761393/more-bad-buzz-for-bees-record-numbers-of-honey-bee-colonies-died-last-winter</url></story> |
36,865,906 | 36,864,849 | 1 | 3 | 36,862,494 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonfw</author><text>The constitution was a set of principles meant to extend beyond the times they were written in.<p>As flawed as the founding fathers were, they were probably smart enough to understand that the nature of the threats the country would face were likely to evolve over time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WeylandYutani</author><text>The US militia that everyone talks about in relation to the 2nd amendment weren&#x27;t meant to protect the US from Canada. It was in response to a feared slave uprising from within.</text></item><item><author>bamfly</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppies got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.
&gt; “Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”<p>Veering offtopic a little, but your comment reminded me, hilariously, that after Stay-At-Home was mandated, my older, &quot;prepper&quot; friends and acquaintances were generally the first to crack and start complaining on Facebook about unfair it was that they were expected to just stay home in their bunkers and not go to bars and shop for their khakis. So much for the rugged self-reliance they loved to crow about!<p>I can imagine the Internet Anarchists behaving the same way. They&#x27;ll be, in reality, the first to sign up for the AmazoGoogoMetaAppleInternet so they can keep posting to Social Media and doing their online shopping.</text></item><item><author>Jolter</author><text>Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppers got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.<p>“Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”<p>In both cases, this attitude has the problem that they ignore the vast majority of people who would suffer under the new order. Very few people would find their way out of the corporate walled gardens and into the free information superhighway.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>This might be where the internet really gets forked, as it&#x27;s been predicted over and over since the &#x27;90s.<p>On one side, we&#x27;ll have a &quot;clean&quot;, authority-sanctioned &quot;corpweb&quot;, where everyone is ID&#x27;ed to the wazoo; on the other, a more casual &quot;greynet&quot; galaxy of porn and decentralized communities will likely emerge, once all tinkerers get pushed out of corpnet. It could be an interesting opportunity to reboot a few long-lost dreams.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed</title><url>https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hgsgm</author><text>Source?<p>There were other powers on North America.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WeylandYutani</author><text>The US militia that everyone talks about in relation to the 2nd amendment weren&#x27;t meant to protect the US from Canada. It was in response to a feared slave uprising from within.</text></item><item><author>bamfly</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppies got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.
&gt; “Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”<p>Veering offtopic a little, but your comment reminded me, hilariously, that after Stay-At-Home was mandated, my older, &quot;prepper&quot; friends and acquaintances were generally the first to crack and start complaining on Facebook about unfair it was that they were expected to just stay home in their bunkers and not go to bars and shop for their khakis. So much for the rugged self-reliance they loved to crow about!<p>I can imagine the Internet Anarchists behaving the same way. They&#x27;ll be, in reality, the first to sign up for the AmazoGoogoMetaAppleInternet so they can keep posting to Social Media and doing their online shopping.</text></item><item><author>Jolter</author><text>Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppers got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.<p>“Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”<p>In both cases, this attitude has the problem that they ignore the vast majority of people who would suffer under the new order. Very few people would find their way out of the corporate walled gardens and into the free information superhighway.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>This might be where the internet really gets forked, as it&#x27;s been predicted over and over since the &#x27;90s.<p>On one side, we&#x27;ll have a &quot;clean&quot;, authority-sanctioned &quot;corpweb&quot;, where everyone is ID&#x27;ed to the wazoo; on the other, a more casual &quot;greynet&quot; galaxy of porn and decentralized communities will likely emerge, once all tinkerers get pushed out of corpnet. It could be an interesting opportunity to reboot a few long-lost dreams.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed</title><url>https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/</url></story> |
32,516,106 | 32,515,378 | 1 | 2 | 32,514,846 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foresto</author><text>I would love this, or something like it, but I don&#x27;t think it can happen until hosting is effectively free and managing it is dead easy.<p>Not everyone has access to a $100 server, reliable power, and unmetered internet, let alone the knowledge and time to be their own sysadmin.<p>What if organizations in a position to do so, from mobile phone operators to ISPs to public libraries, provided some basic level of content hosting with standardized content management APIs? People with the means and motivation could host their own, but most people wouldn&#x27;t have to. Perhaps that could pave the way for universal front-end tools and independence from the social media giants?<p>Related: It looks like someone is trying to address the issue by layering a social media experience atop an existing distributed messaging system (Matrix): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kombuchaprivacy.com&#x2F;circles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kombuchaprivacy.com&#x2F;circles&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>It would be nice if we could evacuate walled-garden social media platforms and return to individual websites&#x2F;blogs + RSS. RSS clients that empower the user to follow, sort, filter, and control their &quot;news feed&quot; of content from individual websites&#x2F;blogs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To Hell with Facebook (2021)</title><url>https://www.damninteresting.com/to-hell-with-facebook/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>I like your use of the word &quot;evacuate&quot;.<p>Recently I came upon the the phrase &quot;cloud repatriation&quot;, which seemed
a fresh angle on a word that&#x27;s fallen on hard times.<p>Evacuate! Yes we need a Dunkirk for those helpless souls left on the
beaches of Facebook. The idea that they&#x27;re going to swim, one by one,
back the safety of personal web pages is silly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>It would be nice if we could evacuate walled-garden social media platforms and return to individual websites&#x2F;blogs + RSS. RSS clients that empower the user to follow, sort, filter, and control their &quot;news feed&quot; of content from individual websites&#x2F;blogs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To Hell with Facebook (2021)</title><url>https://www.damninteresting.com/to-hell-with-facebook/</url></story> |
8,380,588 | 8,380,149 | 1 | 2 | 8,379,571 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>Although the article makes no mention of them, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson&#x27;s research on conceptual metaphor[0] seems to be intricately tied to this, somehow. I recently read two books by them: <i>Metaphors We Live By</i> (see Peter Norvig&#x27;s description here[1]), and <i>Philosophy In The Flesh</i>[2] and found the ideas in them on how humans use metaphors to make sese of things very interesting and intuitive. It actually left me wondering when and how AI would use these insights.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Conceptual_metaphor</a><p>[1] <a href="http://norvig.com/mwlb.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;norvig.com&#x2F;mwlb.html</a> - because it stays focused on language it manages to make a clear and convincing case<p>[2] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lakoff-philosophy.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;first&#x2F;l&#x2F;lakoff-philosophy.html</a> - by comparison a flawed but nonetheless good read. I agree with the critiques laid out this review: <a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/871/review_of_lakoff_johnson_philosophy_in_the_flesh/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;871&#x2F;review_of_lakoff_johnson_philoso...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly</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>skybrian</author><text>I found some slides [1] explaining how this works.<p>A less poetic example of privileged information: if you&#x27;re training on time-series information, you can include events from the future in the training examples, even though they won&#x27;t be available while making predictions in production.<p>Apparently this helps the machine learning algorithm find the outlying data points when the data isn&#x27;t linearly separable.<p>[1] <a href="http://web.mit.edu/zoya/www/SVM+.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;zoya&#x2F;www&#x2F;SVM+.pdf</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly</url><text></text></story> |
33,466,242 | 33,461,406 | 1 | 3 | 33,460,970 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>I like my ebooks drm free too.<p>Oreilly books had drm free copies you could buy. Some good deals (buy 2 get 2 free) They moved to a drm based subscription model, but because the books I bought were drm free I still can access them!<p>Manning still does this. (Thoug they embed your email address in the pages of the pdfs you download. I’m ok with that). They market drm free as a feature, and I look there first when looking for tech books.<p>“What is Manning&#x27;s DRM policy? What security restrictions are enabled on the PDF eBooks? Can I print, copy and paste, etc?<p>Manning eBooks are DRM-free. We do personalize each eBook with a license stamp in the footer of the PDF. There are no print or copy &amp; paste restrictions on the PDF eBooks. You can also download your eBook as many times as you want, and put it on as many devices as you wish.”</text><parent_chain><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>Purchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe&#x27;s shitty app, you can&#x27;t share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow.<p>I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service</title><url>http://3lib.net/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>night-rider</author><text>&gt; I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!<p>Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites. They really don&#x27;t want books easily disseminated DRM free on warez sites. Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how &#x27;fast&#x27; you are at reading. Welcome to 1984.</text><parent_chain><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>Purchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe&#x27;s shitty app, you can&#x27;t share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow.<p>I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service</title><url>http://3lib.net/</url></story> |
40,091,641 | 40,090,445 | 1 | 2 | 40,088,106 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seydor</author><text>AI safety is moralism of the boring kind, not even some new moral philosophy. AFAIK Dennett did not hold strong moral positions , let alone moralist, so i feel he was orthogonal to it</text><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>Can&#x27;t say I met or knew him, but his essays in &quot;The Mind&#x27;s I&quot; and &quot;Brainstorms&quot; are what got me to pursue tech as a teenager in the early 90s. Along with Hofstader, his ideas were foundational to hacker culture. What a time to go, where there has been a kind of cog.sci winter for the last 20 years, but the last year of LLMs has forced philosophy of mind back into the public consciousness. Though largely today under the guise of &quot;AI Safety&quot; and &quot;alignment,&quot; Dennet&#x27;s articulations form the tools we&#x27;re going to be using to reason about ethics as they relate to these things we think of as minds - and regarding how we relate to these things that increasingly resemble other minds. Without too much lionizing (even though he has, however, just died), it would be hard to say that new ideas in philosophy as a whole have had more impact in a lifetime or more than that.<p>A lot of very clever people disagreed strongly with him. However, since not one of them could deny they were shaped by the forces they opposed, those controversies became the shape of his own huge and formidable influence. I&#x27;m sure he would want to be remembered for something else, and I have the sense sentimentality was not his thing at all, but his popularization the term &quot;deepity,&quot; was in the character of many of his ideas, where once you had been exposed to one, it yielded a perspective you could afterwards not unsee.<p>I hope an afterlife may provide some of the surprise and delight he brought to so many in this one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daniel Dennett has died</title><url>https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fsckboy</author><text>I&#x27;m afraid an afterlife would not leave Dennett in good humor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>Can&#x27;t say I met or knew him, but his essays in &quot;The Mind&#x27;s I&quot; and &quot;Brainstorms&quot; are what got me to pursue tech as a teenager in the early 90s. Along with Hofstader, his ideas were foundational to hacker culture. What a time to go, where there has been a kind of cog.sci winter for the last 20 years, but the last year of LLMs has forced philosophy of mind back into the public consciousness. Though largely today under the guise of &quot;AI Safety&quot; and &quot;alignment,&quot; Dennet&#x27;s articulations form the tools we&#x27;re going to be using to reason about ethics as they relate to these things we think of as minds - and regarding how we relate to these things that increasingly resemble other minds. Without too much lionizing (even though he has, however, just died), it would be hard to say that new ideas in philosophy as a whole have had more impact in a lifetime or more than that.<p>A lot of very clever people disagreed strongly with him. However, since not one of them could deny they were shaped by the forces they opposed, those controversies became the shape of his own huge and formidable influence. I&#x27;m sure he would want to be remembered for something else, and I have the sense sentimentality was not his thing at all, but his popularization the term &quot;deepity,&quot; was in the character of many of his ideas, where once you had been exposed to one, it yielded a perspective you could afterwards not unsee.<p>I hope an afterlife may provide some of the surprise and delight he brought to so many in this one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daniel Dennett has died</title><url>https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/</url></story> |
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