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22,535,604 | 22,535,247 | 1 | 3 | 22,534,520 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atonse</author><text>The problem with SSO isn&#x27;t technical, but that most SaaS products I&#x27;ve seen only support SSO for their enterprise tiers.<p>Otherwise, thanks to many providers like Okta and others, SSO should really be a feature provided to smaller tiers nowadays.<p>We&#x27;re a small business (2 founders, 3 contractors), and we&#x27;d love to use SSO for everything. But we&#x27;re too small to afford enterprise tiers for things like Slack, Gitlab, etc.<p>Hopefully this trickles down eventually.<p>Update: I&#x27;d like to add that we provide a SaaS product as well, and have considered adding SSO to the enterprise tier but after much research we can&#x27;t really find a good reason to restrict it (apart from &quot;everyone else is doing it&quot;, and potential manual config).<p>But both SAML and OpenID connect have discovery protocols. Again, this CAN technically be self-configured by the right customer. But then, maybe the solution is to have a one-time config fee, rather than require a certain tier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bpicolo</author><text>&gt; manage access to probably ~100 services our employees use everyday<p>Is single sign-on an option, instead? Something like Okta is a much better experience for less technical users (and, well, engineers too) where possible, and also lets you trivially manage credentials access as people on&#x2F;off board (no need to rotate credentials if you&#x27;re worried folk may have written them down on paper somewhere with malicious intent). That said, it doesn&#x27;t help folk with personal credentials management, which can be useful for good security policy in addition.<p>1password is my favorite to have around for services that don&#x27;t support SSO. I like it so much I pay for a family account, even.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?</title><text>My company of ~25 people needs to manage access to probably ~100 services our employees use everyday and I assume some kind of password manager which I can centrally manage is the way to go.<p>I often hear things on here about products that claim to be secure but aren&#x27;t -- what password manager is considered reliable and secure? Which do you use?<p>Thank you!</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>blowski</author><text>Certainly for a company between 25 people, 1Password is great. As an added bonus, you can give staff a 1Password families account for free.<p>Not totally relevant to the question, but how well does it scale to enterprise? I found the need to create and manage individual access to vaults to be complicated, even at a few users. I can&#x27;t imagine how you&#x27;d manage 1000s of passwords accessed by combinations of 1000s of users, including third-parties, contractors, etc. Are there any better password management solutions in the enterprise space?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bpicolo</author><text>&gt; manage access to probably ~100 services our employees use everyday<p>Is single sign-on an option, instead? Something like Okta is a much better experience for less technical users (and, well, engineers too) where possible, and also lets you trivially manage credentials access as people on&#x2F;off board (no need to rotate credentials if you&#x27;re worried folk may have written them down on paper somewhere with malicious intent). That said, it doesn&#x27;t help folk with personal credentials management, which can be useful for good security policy in addition.<p>1password is my favorite to have around for services that don&#x27;t support SSO. I like it so much I pay for a family account, even.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?</title><text>My company of ~25 people needs to manage access to probably ~100 services our employees use everyday and I assume some kind of password manager which I can centrally manage is the way to go.<p>I often hear things on here about products that claim to be secure but aren&#x27;t -- what password manager is considered reliable and secure? Which do you use?<p>Thank you!</text></story> |
40,486,717 | 40,486,851 | 1 | 2 | 40,485,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thrance</author><text>Would it have been better if nuclear weapons had been developed by a private company whose board consisted entirely of lunatics?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ein0p</author><text>Nation state governments are responsible for the vast majority of deaths attributable to violence historically. Willingly entrusting them with a potentially world ending technology that they’re 100% certain to abuse is a moronic idea.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board</title><url>https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/26/ai-firms-mustnt-govern-themselves-say-ex-members-of-openais-board</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>0xfaded</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty much the idea, that governments have a monopoly on the use of force. The last 80 years have been unusually peaceful by historical standards. My guess is that the crumbling of governments will lead to more human deaths.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ein0p</author><text>Nation state governments are responsible for the vast majority of deaths attributable to violence historically. Willingly entrusting them with a potentially world ending technology that they’re 100% certain to abuse is a moronic idea.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board</title><url>https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/26/ai-firms-mustnt-govern-themselves-say-ex-members-of-openais-board</url></story> |
4,747,508 | 4,747,300 | 1 | 2 | 4,746,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brabram</author><text>"The greatest group of political scientists to ever congregate in one place and time" were probably the Athenians that, out of the same conclusions on human nature, concluded that if you want political equality for all, your political system must only allow small, non-renewable and other controlled mandates taken by randomly chosen citizens (yes, they have considered elected but have rejected it). The key point being that those randomly chosen people don't have the power, it the assembly of all the citizens that have the power.<p>And it's based on that that they have created the first (and only, for some people) democratic system ever. Ironically, the person that have created our current democratic system knew exactly this Athenian system but explicitly rejected it because it was ... democracy, and that is was a system were the people really has the power. It's only since Tocqueville has started to call it democracy that we think about it has democratic, Tocqueville who explicitly said that he wasn't afraid of election because people would vote what we told them to vote, something impossible in the Athenian system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>liber8</author><text>I find it amusing that almost every OP in this thread has cited the same quote as proof of NDT's arrogance, and then every response debates whether NDT is arrogant or voters stupid. All of this misses the actual ignorance of NDT's letter. The last half of that sentence is key:<p><i>As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.</i><p>NDT falls into the same trap as nearly everyone since the framers of the constitution. You're never going to elect the <i>right leaders</i>. They don't exist. The reason our government was set up the way it was, and not the way it exists now, was precisely because the greatest group of political scientists to ever congregate in one place and time realized that people are inherently flawed, weak, and susceptible to the intoxicating effects of power. <i>Because</i> you'll never have the "right leaders", you must structure the system to prevent abuse by the inevitable "wrong leaders" that will be elected.<p>NDT, like so many others, misses this point completely, even though nearly the entire letter pays lip service to the idea that the leaders are not the problem to focus on. While he's right, the solution won't appear even if he "enlightened the electorate" to Tysonian heights.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neil deGrasse Tyson: If I Were President...</title><url>http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2011/08/21/if-i-were-president</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bloaf</author><text>Certainly there are no perfect leaders, but if our government's structure is so perfect, then why does it matter which people are involved at all? The point is that who we elect matters, because if it didn't, there would be no point in electing anyone.<p>The real point I believe is closer to George Bernard Shaw's words "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." Having a good system is irrelevant if no one bothers to implement it, or if the electorate seeks to undermine it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>liber8</author><text>I find it amusing that almost every OP in this thread has cited the same quote as proof of NDT's arrogance, and then every response debates whether NDT is arrogant or voters stupid. All of this misses the actual ignorance of NDT's letter. The last half of that sentence is key:<p><i>As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.</i><p>NDT falls into the same trap as nearly everyone since the framers of the constitution. You're never going to elect the <i>right leaders</i>. They don't exist. The reason our government was set up the way it was, and not the way it exists now, was precisely because the greatest group of political scientists to ever congregate in one place and time realized that people are inherently flawed, weak, and susceptible to the intoxicating effects of power. <i>Because</i> you'll never have the "right leaders", you must structure the system to prevent abuse by the inevitable "wrong leaders" that will be elected.<p>NDT, like so many others, misses this point completely, even though nearly the entire letter pays lip service to the idea that the leaders are not the problem to focus on. While he's right, the solution won't appear even if he "enlightened the electorate" to Tysonian heights.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neil deGrasse Tyson: If I Were President...</title><url>http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2011/08/21/if-i-were-president</url></story> |
27,473,820 | 27,473,694 | 1 | 3 | 27,469,174 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dogman144</author><text>Trading floor is an entirely different environment from the majority of other open office concepts and related jobs out there.<p>It’s more akin to an SOC or other Ops centers, where the open floor and resulting info flow is crucial to the perma on-call nature of those work patterns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xwolfi</author><text>I work on a trading floor in a large investment bank in Hong Kong and I dont get what you dislike abt open floor. It&#x27;s so nice to just know what&#x27;s happening around you, have people rushing to you or you rushing to people, being able to yell or be yelled at.<p>Sure there are focus phases I d love to have less distractions in, but tbh sometimes your value lies in quick response to big problems rather than long concentration to solve small ones.<p>I worked in full height cubicles and sometimes you can spend 2 weeks without sharing something with a coworker to a point you end up having spent all you time on a silly assumption you discover made you overengineer something a dude sitting 10 meters away knew you could solve in 5 lines.<p>Maybe we both program different kind of software and maybe need different environments ?</text></item><item><author>tristor</author><text>I&#x27;ve been permanently remote since 2014 (with some regular office visits interspersed at a few employers along the way). My take is that working in an office is superior to working at home, so long as employees have short commutes and the office provides an environment which is conducive to productivity (e.g. private offices or well-made full height cubicles). In any other situation than that (e.g. open floor plan being the worst), remote work is massively more productive than time spent in office.<p>It does require a cultural shift in an organization, and I do find that companies that are half-remote&#x2F;half-onsite or some mixture tend to do significantly worse than companies that go all-in on remote or all-in on staying in the office because the mix always leads to remote folks being left out of important political nuances handled in the hallway and break-rooms.<p>I don&#x27;t see myself ever working for Amazon for a myriad of reasons (or most of the other FAANG companies for that matter), but I do think this issue is more complex in a large organization than many WFH advocates give it credit for. That said, I never intend to go back to an office other than for occasional visits for the remainder of my life&#x2F;career.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options</title><url>https://mynorthwest.com/2960761/amazon-offering-flexible-work-from-home-options-seattle-tech-companies/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codenesium</author><text>This sounds like hell. People rushing around and yelling?</text><parent_chain><item><author>xwolfi</author><text>I work on a trading floor in a large investment bank in Hong Kong and I dont get what you dislike abt open floor. It&#x27;s so nice to just know what&#x27;s happening around you, have people rushing to you or you rushing to people, being able to yell or be yelled at.<p>Sure there are focus phases I d love to have less distractions in, but tbh sometimes your value lies in quick response to big problems rather than long concentration to solve small ones.<p>I worked in full height cubicles and sometimes you can spend 2 weeks without sharing something with a coworker to a point you end up having spent all you time on a silly assumption you discover made you overengineer something a dude sitting 10 meters away knew you could solve in 5 lines.<p>Maybe we both program different kind of software and maybe need different environments ?</text></item><item><author>tristor</author><text>I&#x27;ve been permanently remote since 2014 (with some regular office visits interspersed at a few employers along the way). My take is that working in an office is superior to working at home, so long as employees have short commutes and the office provides an environment which is conducive to productivity (e.g. private offices or well-made full height cubicles). In any other situation than that (e.g. open floor plan being the worst), remote work is massively more productive than time spent in office.<p>It does require a cultural shift in an organization, and I do find that companies that are half-remote&#x2F;half-onsite or some mixture tend to do significantly worse than companies that go all-in on remote or all-in on staying in the office because the mix always leads to remote folks being left out of important political nuances handled in the hallway and break-rooms.<p>I don&#x27;t see myself ever working for Amazon for a myriad of reasons (or most of the other FAANG companies for that matter), but I do think this issue is more complex in a large organization than many WFH advocates give it credit for. That said, I never intend to go back to an office other than for occasional visits for the remainder of my life&#x2F;career.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options</title><url>https://mynorthwest.com/2960761/amazon-offering-flexible-work-from-home-options-seattle-tech-companies/</url></story> |
2,576,031 | 2,576,045 | 1 | 2 | 2,575,800 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eggbrain</author><text>I still don't understand the draw of Hulu Plus over something like Netflix or Amazon Prime (with its new video on demand servce). $8 a month to still have TV shows with ads in them? (and I swear they keep adding more advertisements to the shows each time I watch them). They do let you watch earlier seasons of shows, but that seems like Netflix would be a better option for that. So what's the real draw Gabriel has for subscribing?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Online services I pay for</title><url>http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/05/online-services-i-pay-for.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>roel_v</author><text>I've been asking around among the people I know lately, and I have yet to find someone who will pay for online services. Of course they're all 'regular' people, i.e. not working in the tech field, and with 'modal' incomes, so not always buying the latest gadgets (phones etc).<p>Of course there are plenty of businesses doing fine selling online services. It's just that it seems to be to an audience that I cannot find off line. Is it a European thing? It it possible to target the (mainstream) B2C market in Europe with online services yet? Anyone with experiences in this field?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Online services I pay for</title><url>http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/05/online-services-i-pay-for.html</url><text></text></story> |
12,433,280 | 12,432,135 | 1 | 3 | 12,431,248 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monksy</author><text>I wish that more personal projects were posted here on the site. It&#x27;s a bit tiresome to read about startups.</text><parent_chain><item><author>f-</author><text>Off-topic, but my personal work sometimes ends up on the front page, and I&#x27;m always amazed how much reposting there is on HN - probably more than on Reddit and similar sites. Say, here&#x27;s my stuff:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=lcamtuf.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=lcamtuf.blogspot.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=coredump.cx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=coredump.cx</a><p>The process seems quite random; sometimes, the same link is submitted four times and lingers at score 1, and then some random dude&#x27;s fifth attempt goes to #1. May be an interesting thing to graph (and get a #1 story on HN out of =).</text></item><item><author>0xmohit</author><text>Enlightenment always takes a while :)<p><pre><code> I later found a nice article documenting the entire system. It
also includes references to JohnTheRipper having a module for
this. Well, this was more fun.
</code></pre>
--<p>Wonder how many times are the same items posted: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=filippo.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=filippo.io</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password</title><url>https://blog.filippo.io/so-i-lost-my-openbsd-fde-password/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notaplumber</author><text>Thanks for helping people make better software.</text><parent_chain><item><author>f-</author><text>Off-topic, but my personal work sometimes ends up on the front page, and I&#x27;m always amazed how much reposting there is on HN - probably more than on Reddit and similar sites. Say, here&#x27;s my stuff:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=lcamtuf.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=lcamtuf.blogspot.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=coredump.cx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=coredump.cx</a><p>The process seems quite random; sometimes, the same link is submitted four times and lingers at score 1, and then some random dude&#x27;s fifth attempt goes to #1. May be an interesting thing to graph (and get a #1 story on HN out of =).</text></item><item><author>0xmohit</author><text>Enlightenment always takes a while :)<p><pre><code> I later found a nice article documenting the entire system. It
also includes references to JohnTheRipper having a module for
this. Well, this was more fun.
</code></pre>
--<p>Wonder how many times are the same items posted: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=filippo.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=filippo.io</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password</title><url>https://blog.filippo.io/so-i-lost-my-openbsd-fde-password/</url></story> |
4,770,757 | 4,770,742 | 1 | 2 | 4,770,659 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marvin</author><text>It this really true? I hope this doesn't count as a useless contribution, but paying 21 million dollars for a clock design on your mobile OS seems to me like complete insanity. For this price, you could literally hire multiple competent workers to do whatever you wanted for the rest of their working lives, and still have money left over.<p>It would be a lot more rational to just switch to a different clock design and pocket the money. 21 million is almost just a rounding error in Apple's accounting department, but it's still a ridiculous amount of money. I can't possibly believe that giving your users this specific design and not losing face due to backpedaling is worth this much.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For Clock Icon</title><url>http://mashable.com/2012/11/11/apple-licenses-clock-icon/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedmiston</author><text>Watching the motion of the real Swiss railway clocks [1] with its smoothness is quite soothing.<p>"It requires only about 58.5 seconds to circle the face, then the hand pauses briefly at the top of the clock. It starts a new rotation as soon as it receives the next minute impulse from the master clock." [2]<p>1: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIvKiDWDks" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIvKiDWDks</a>
2: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For Clock Icon</title><url>http://mashable.com/2012/11/11/apple-licenses-clock-icon/</url></story> |
24,514,002 | 24,513,772 | 1 | 3 | 24,503,153 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>The other major factor is fault tolerance. Software has bugs, and hardware breaks, but that&#x27;s accepted. Programmers in industry have invested a lot of time in routing around the problems. That buys time for human operators to get paged and fix things.<p>For every major outage that makes the news, there are thousands of smaller problems that users never notice because of CDNs, failover, graceful-ish service degradation, autoscaling and&#x2F;or overprovisioning, and fallbacks. Services can be reliable even when the software and hardware that backs them is not.<p>In other words, &quot;reliability&quot; is a property of the whole system, including the human operators, not just the code. The code can actually be pretty bad, yet the entire system can still be reliable in terms of being available and functional when the users want to use it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>It didn&#x27;t - but most errors are simply tolerated because imperfect automation still has absurd economy of scale, very few applications are on a regulated field or have a well-defined quality standard to meet, and unreliable software tends to at least fail consistently, so it&#x27;s still a win to diagnose and fix processes compared to humans making creative mistakes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gwern.net/docs/math/1996-hoare.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheUndead96</author><text>The phrase &quot;imperfect automation still has absurd economy of scale&quot; is more insightful than many full-length books.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>It didn&#x27;t - but most errors are simply tolerated because imperfect automation still has absurd economy of scale, very few applications are on a regulated field or have a well-defined quality standard to meet, and unreliable software tends to at least fail consistently, so it&#x27;s still a win to diagnose and fix processes compared to humans making creative mistakes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gwern.net/docs/math/1996-hoare.pdf</url></story> |
9,517,704 | 9,517,210 | 1 | 3 | 9,516,656 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neverartful</author><text>Contrary to the naysayers, I like seeing stuff like this. Why? Because it&#x27;s a simple, gentle introduction. It&#x27;s easily digestible for the newcomer. And it might be easy enough to encourage a newcomer to start building their own VM that goes on to be something real.<p>For those that criticize it and find faults with it -- I&#x27;m sure the author would consider pull requests. Or you could provide your own fork with all the improvements that you believe are necessary.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing a Virtual Machine in C</title><url>http://www.blog.felixangell.com/virtual-machine-in-c/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit disappointed - this VM doesn&#x27;t have instructions for looping or branching, nor does it really use the registers in any way. I was hoping to read a writeup that introduced some concepts that were used in real (non-toy) systems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing a Virtual Machine in C</title><url>http://www.blog.felixangell.com/virtual-machine-in-c/</url></story> |
25,999,238 | 25,999,177 | 1 | 3 | 25,999,071 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcelerier</author><text>&gt; Screen recording works with Gnome&#x27;s built in recorder.<p>okay, but what if I don&#x27;t like gnome ? e.g. I had to record a screencap of a bug of a software (that, uh, occurs only under wayland) so I went under weston and, well apparently there is also a screen capture tool but it is incompatible. On X11 I use simplescreenrecorder no matter the desktop (I mostly use i3wm or KDE Plasma depending on the circumstances).<p>Also what&#x27;s the way to set a different keymap, that would work for any wayland compositor ? `setxkbmap` used to work but doesn&#x27;t anymore and this is fairly frustrating and I really really don&#x27;t want to have to learn one command per compositor.<p>Moving windows (or even the mouse cursor) also feels absolutely <i>sluggish</i> on wayland, like the frame rate is halved.<p>X11 &#x2F; i3 : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamable.com&#x2F;fo8ixw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamable.com&#x2F;fo8ixw</a><p>weston-eglstream : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamable.com&#x2F;wmp6vy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamable.com&#x2F;wmp6vy</a><p>Also switching in&#x2F;out from a wayland tty apparently gets it stuck here.<p>etc etc... it&#x27;s just painful from start to end</text><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>This is completely the opposite of my experience. I&#x27;ve been running Wayland on Pop OS since last year and it has been great.<p>X11 had horrible tearing on external rotated screens - Wayland fixed that.<p>Colour temperature changing works.<p>Screensharing works just fine on Chrome and Firefox. I use it every day.<p>Screen recording works with Gnome&#x27;s built in recorder.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are a few esoteric bits which don&#x27;t work - but I&#x27;ve had nothing but success with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet</title><url>https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>izacus</author><text>Not to mention that mixed DPI screens work!<p>I&#x27;m using Ubuntu 20.04 on an XPS13 and can finally have different scaling factors between the internal HiDPI screen and external normal DPI screen without awful issues.</text><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>This is completely the opposite of my experience. I&#x27;ve been running Wayland on Pop OS since last year and it has been great.<p>X11 had horrible tearing on external rotated screens - Wayland fixed that.<p>Colour temperature changing works.<p>Screensharing works just fine on Chrome and Firefox. I use it every day.<p>Screen recording works with Gnome&#x27;s built in recorder.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are a few esoteric bits which don&#x27;t work - but I&#x27;ve had nothing but success with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet</title><url>https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277</url></story> |
3,872,678 | 3,872,160 | 1 | 3 | 3,872,068 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>I was initially confused - I thought this was going to be an OS implemented <i>in</i> Lua, but it's a Linux distribution which has special sandboxing for Lua: <a href="http://luaos.net/docs/manual.php#4" rel="nofollow">http://luaos.net/docs/manual.php#4</a>.<p>I've poked around a decent amount of the site, and I'm still not clear on what this is a solution to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lua OS - An operating system around Lua, developed by a former Google employee</title><url>http://luaos.net/</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>krelian</author><text>Looks like a very cool project but aren't we passed the phase where something like "developed by a former Google employee" needs to be added to add some faux prestige to the project?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lua OS - An operating system around Lua, developed by a former Google employee</title><url>http://luaos.net/</url><text></text></story> |
31,599,673 | 31,599,483 | 1 | 2 | 31,598,324 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robonerd</author><text>But if they&#x27;re moving away from commentary (progressive or otherwise), how are they going to fill their schedule with &quot;hard news&quot; while also not over-hyping? Lack of real news is the whole reason they started over-hyping and also why they pad out their schedule with commentary.<p>The announcement reads like <i>&quot;We&#x27;re going to have our cake, and eat it too.&quot;</i> Sounds great! But is that actually possible?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text><i>[Discovery CEO] Zaslav and mentor and investor John Malone have been public about their push to bring CNN back towards hard news coverage, and away from progressive commentary.</i><p>I had missed that. That&#x27;s very welcome - I hope they succeed. I imagine it could be very hard to pull this off after a ~decade of whatever CNN has been doing though.<p>More context: Discovery and WarnerMedia (former CNN parent company) merged back in April. The resulting entity &quot;Warner Bros. Discovery&quot; is led by David Zaslav, Discovery CEO since 2006.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/06/02/cnn-breaking-news-guidelines</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drstewart</author><text>Unfortunately, this seems to be something that will go the way of the JCPenney CEO removing the constant never-ending sales banners.<p>If this were a winning strategy, most organizations would be coalescing around it already. The question is whether CNN will be able to stay the course _despite_ the hits to revenue&#x2F;growth&#x2F;viewers they will take with this approach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text><i>[Discovery CEO] Zaslav and mentor and investor John Malone have been public about their push to bring CNN back towards hard news coverage, and away from progressive commentary.</i><p>I had missed that. That&#x27;s very welcome - I hope they succeed. I imagine it could be very hard to pull this off after a ~decade of whatever CNN has been doing though.<p>More context: Discovery and WarnerMedia (former CNN parent company) merged back in April. The resulting entity &quot;Warner Bros. Discovery&quot; is led by David Zaslav, Discovery CEO since 2006.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/06/02/cnn-breaking-news-guidelines</url></story> |
13,416,584 | 13,415,067 | 1 | 3 | 13,414,618 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>srum</author><text>The flip side of that is, if they are stronger than us, many would take it for granted that they would attempt to communicate with us, even though we&#x27;ve made no such attempt to do the same with species on our own planet.<p>Peter Gabriel has though tbf<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;petergabriel.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-interspecies-internet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;petergabriel.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-interspecies-internet&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the_interspecies_internet_an_idea_in_progress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the_interspecies_internet_an_idea_...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>zeroer</author><text>&gt; They are probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.<p>I&#x27;ve often thought that while we say we would want peaceful relationships with any aliens we might find, our history of interactions with &quot;alien&quot; life forms on Earth paints a different picture. I&#x27;m pretty sure if we meet alien life and it&#x27;s not stronger than us, somebody&#x27;s going to try to eat it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mind of an Octopus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MB_NEWS</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cema</author><text>True, at first. But then things may change.<p>On the other hand, they might want to eat us too, so be careful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zeroer</author><text>&gt; They are probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.<p>I&#x27;ve often thought that while we say we would want peaceful relationships with any aliens we might find, our history of interactions with &quot;alien&quot; life forms on Earth paints a different picture. I&#x27;m pretty sure if we meet alien life and it&#x27;s not stronger than us, somebody&#x27;s going to try to eat it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mind of an Octopus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MB_NEWS</url></story> |
23,811,030 | 23,810,960 | 1 | 2 | 23,807,554 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>9nGQluzmnq3M</author><text>Google is not a social media platform, and they aren&#x27;t even trying to be one anymore now that G+ has been scrapped.<p>Sure, they could be displaced by a better search engine, but that&#x27;s a whole different kettle of fish.</text><parent_chain><item><author>appleflaxen</author><text>How is that analysis different than myspace 15 years ago (or whenever)?<p>social media platforms are extremely durable until the next hot new thing comes along.<p>There is a new generation you need to engage every ~5 years or so, and they see facebook as the platform to talk with grandma.<p>FB made some genius acquisitions with instagram and whatsapp, but eventually they are going to fail to acquire the challenger, and when that happens the fall can be swift.</text></item><item><author>dannyw</author><text>I don&#x27;t see much merit in this thesis. Google and Facebook are the gatekeepers to attention. Taxes, regulation and antitrust action may reduce their gross margins, but where else is the value going to go?<p>As TikTok and other companies become more popular, you&#x27;ll see the US government more protective of FB and Google. An abusive duopoly with Western alignment is better than a social media monopoly from China. The continued rise of TikTok actually simultaneously reduces government&#x27;s will to act on big US tech.<p>Neither FB or Google are in China; so the Chinese government&#x27;s ability to hurt those companies are limited.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The growing short case on Facebook and Google</title><url>https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1281630456807452677</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>To say that Facebook replaced MySpace (and therefore, it could also happen to Facebook) is not exactly accurate. Or rather, not the full picture.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;rise-of-social-media" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;rise-of-social-media</a><p>Facebook surpassed MySpace in monthly user count by April 2008. MySpace hit its peak in December 2008. This wasn&#x27;t a &quot;migration&quot; from MySpace to Facebook. It was Facebook out growing MySpace.<p>But that doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it could happen again.<p>&quot;The percentage of US adults who use social media increased from 5% in 2005 to 79% in 2019.&quot;<p>Facebook grew at a time when social media usage was also growing. We don&#x27;t have a huge, untapped pool of users from which to fuel a &quot;Facebook killer&quot;. There was also a significant difference in how the sites we originally used, so there was interest from a lot of early users in using both.<p>My feeling is that any site that might eventually supplant Facebook as the dominant social media force would need to grow in an underserved market before expanding into the general market, and do it in such a way that Facebook doesn&#x27;t notice and come crush them first.<p>What strikes me is that the peak year for MySpace and the year Facebook surpassed it was also the year that smartphones started to take off. Facebook, being the far &quot;simpler&quot; site, would have been much more usable in early smartphone browsers. And smartphones were a huge part of the growth of social media. So it suggests that not only does a Facebook competitor need an untapped market to serve, it needs a platform on which it can create a significantly better experience than what Facebook can do.<p>Unfortunately, Facebook is ahead of the game on this issue. Why do you think they spend so much money on Oculus and VR? There are leaked memos from Zuckerberg that explicitly spell out this strategy. They are taking over the platform early to avoid ceding the space to a future competitor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>appleflaxen</author><text>How is that analysis different than myspace 15 years ago (or whenever)?<p>social media platforms are extremely durable until the next hot new thing comes along.<p>There is a new generation you need to engage every ~5 years or so, and they see facebook as the platform to talk with grandma.<p>FB made some genius acquisitions with instagram and whatsapp, but eventually they are going to fail to acquire the challenger, and when that happens the fall can be swift.</text></item><item><author>dannyw</author><text>I don&#x27;t see much merit in this thesis. Google and Facebook are the gatekeepers to attention. Taxes, regulation and antitrust action may reduce their gross margins, but where else is the value going to go?<p>As TikTok and other companies become more popular, you&#x27;ll see the US government more protective of FB and Google. An abusive duopoly with Western alignment is better than a social media monopoly from China. The continued rise of TikTok actually simultaneously reduces government&#x27;s will to act on big US tech.<p>Neither FB or Google are in China; so the Chinese government&#x27;s ability to hurt those companies are limited.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The growing short case on Facebook and Google</title><url>https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1281630456807452677</url></story> |
28,507,132 | 28,504,919 | 1 | 3 | 28,502,084 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>You can even do so without going near the speed of light if you build a very massive ship and utilize time dilation of gravity.<p>Arvin Ash has a cool video on this that is probably too complicated to describe in a HN comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PA66ah9b0U4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PA66ah9b0U4</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>redwood</author><text>I think a lot of people assume that this means you couldn&#x27;t go more than a few (~100) light-years in your lifetime... But this is not actually correct. Counter-intuitively you can theorically go any number of light-years (essentially) in your lifetime, as long as you are able to approach the speed of light because when you do so the distance is dilated and hence you&#x27;re covering far more ground within your reference frame (of course you&#x27;d be in the deep future from the perspective of anyone in our normal reference frame).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?</title><url>https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/why-cant-i-go-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-hints-from-electrodynamics/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wruza</author><text>Also, it doesn’t take too much acceleration to make that trip. Comfortable earthlike 1g (~ 10m&#x2F;s&#x2F;s) is enough to build up a decent speed in a very reasonable time. Energy is the issue though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redwood</author><text>I think a lot of people assume that this means you couldn&#x27;t go more than a few (~100) light-years in your lifetime... But this is not actually correct. Counter-intuitively you can theorically go any number of light-years (essentially) in your lifetime, as long as you are able to approach the speed of light because when you do so the distance is dilated and hence you&#x27;re covering far more ground within your reference frame (of course you&#x27;d be in the deep future from the perspective of anyone in our normal reference frame).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?</title><url>https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/why-cant-i-go-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-hints-from-electrodynamics/</url></story> |
26,077,366 | 26,077,327 | 1 | 2 | 26,074,289 | 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>unishark</author><text>&gt; Instead textbook writers seem to have this adversarial approach against readers, thinking they’ll “cheat themselves” if they look up solutions or attempt to verify their work.<p>I agree that worked problems make a text much more valuable and useful; even students in a class may spend a lot of time doing self-study. And for self-study, without worked problems the book is only useful as a reference while working problems from elsewhere. The author essentially agrees with this.<p>However, it&#x27;s not &quot;thinking&quot; students will cheat themselves, it&#x27;s knowing for a fact that many will. If you give homework that takes multiple hours each week, then for students who have gotten behind or don&#x27;t know the background they should, it will take multiples of that time. Many, if not most, simply won&#x27;t do it if there&#x27;s a shortcut handy. Challenging people to do more than they would on their own is necessarily adversarial.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkfjs</author><text>Not proving solutions to textbooks seems to be a common theme in mathematics and theoretical computer science. It makes it difficult for those outside of the traditional classroom to learn the material. Instead textbook writers seem to have this adversarial approach against readers, thinking they’ll “cheat themselves” if they look up solutions or attempt to verify their work. Experts make mistakes, beginners would presumably make even more mistakes. Without a feedback mechanism beginners can’t truly know whether their logic is impeccable or if they have a subtle error that they themselves cannot detect. They could easily fool themselves that they have correct understanding.<p>Due to that I will not recommend this current book to any colleagues.<p>If you want an example of a fellow hacker news member that did things right, check out
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshua.smcvt.edu&#x2F;linearalgebra&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshua.smcvt.edu&#x2F;linearalgebra&#x2F;</a><p>He provides solutions and lecture videos... this is truly a democratization approach to learning and a model that other academics should follow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms by Jeff Erickson</title><url>http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>charlescearl</author><text>Thanks for the reference. Another algorithms text -- though Haskell centric -- that provides solutions is Algorithm Design With Haskell [1]. The exhaustive Combinatorial Mathematics by Douglas West [2] provides hints at least. These are advanced texts though. Another source of solved problems are &quot;problems in&quot; books. Dover offers affordable titles like Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability [3]. There are other
classics like Combinatorial Problems and Exercises [4] or Proofs from the Book [5], all with solved exercises.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;books&#x2F;algorithm-design-with-haskell&#x2F;824BE0319E3762CE8BA5B1D91EEA3F52" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;books&#x2F;algorithm-design-with-h...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faculty.math.illinois.edu&#x2F;~west&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faculty.math.illinois.edu&#x2F;~west&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.doverpublications.com&#x2F;0486653552.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.doverpublications.com&#x2F;0486653552.html</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ams.org&#x2F;books&#x2F;chel&#x2F;361&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ams.org&#x2F;books&#x2F;chel&#x2F;361&#x2F;</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.springer.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;book&#x2F;9783642008566" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.springer.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;book&#x2F;9783642008566</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dkfjs</author><text>Not proving solutions to textbooks seems to be a common theme in mathematics and theoretical computer science. It makes it difficult for those outside of the traditional classroom to learn the material. Instead textbook writers seem to have this adversarial approach against readers, thinking they’ll “cheat themselves” if they look up solutions or attempt to verify their work. Experts make mistakes, beginners would presumably make even more mistakes. Without a feedback mechanism beginners can’t truly know whether their logic is impeccable or if they have a subtle error that they themselves cannot detect. They could easily fool themselves that they have correct understanding.<p>Due to that I will not recommend this current book to any colleagues.<p>If you want an example of a fellow hacker news member that did things right, check out
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshua.smcvt.edu&#x2F;linearalgebra&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshua.smcvt.edu&#x2F;linearalgebra&#x2F;</a><p>He provides solutions and lecture videos... this is truly a democratization approach to learning and a model that other academics should follow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms by Jeff Erickson</title><url>http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/</url></story> |
13,903,137 | 13,903,105 | 1 | 3 | 13,902,049 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1337biz</author><text>&gt; In fact I&#x27;m not sure sociology would still have its credibility intact if it were to have as many failures as economics have had just the latest 20 years or so.<p>We are here back at the fundamental mathification problem. Economists have understood that as long as their formulas look scientific enough, they can influence with their results policy makers et al.. Sociology rarely present their research in terms of the broad and universal truth as the economists do. So while Economists&#x27; results look rigorous on paper, reality still proves it often wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jahaja</author><text>I think you&#x27;re giving economics the benefit of the doubt while having a critical eye towards sociology when they&#x27;re not much different in regards to objectivity and being &quot;soft&quot; sciences. In fact I&#x27;m not sure sociology would still have its credibility intact if it were to have as many failures as economics have had just the latest 20 years or so. Somehow economics manages this, which leads me to the next point.<p>I&#x27;m surprised that you&#x27;re speaking with such certainty without mentioning the rather powerful relationship between economics and finance in a classical &quot;follow the money&quot; trail of thought.</text></item><item><author>trendia</author><text>Rather than ask the question, &quot;What if sociologists had influence?&quot;, the author should ask, &quot;What does sociology need to change as a discipline in order to earn influence?&quot;<p>The answer would be rigor. A huge problem with sociology is the dependence on the story. Unfortunately, since the sociologist is often a human with their own biases, they are going to see what they want to see.<p>For example, I purchased the Kindle version of the book the author recommends (&quot;Coming Up Short&quot;). I turned to the appendix, where the author describes her research methodology. And sure enough, the research involves open-ended questions (&quot;Walk me through a typical day at work.&quot; &quot;Is there a time you lost a job? Could you describe it?&quot;) that could lead the interviewee to respond in any way they want.<p>There are <i>many</i> problems with this, such as : 1) the interviewee may inadvertently invent convenient narratives that provide comfort but aren&#x27;t accurate, 2) the interviewer may mis-interpret the answers, etc.<p>How are we supposed to develop policy off of this? Sure, it&#x27;s a great starting point for <i>starting</i> research, but the narrative- or story-based approach should never be the <i>conclusion</i>.<p>This is why economics is so much more trusted. Although economics has flaws, and the study of econometrics can sometimes lead to incorrect conclusions, it at least uses objective data and metrics, which are less susceptible to error, providing a much more grounded approach to policy decisions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/upshot/what-if-sociologists-had-as-much-influence-as-economists.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>trendia</author><text>&gt; relationship between economics and finance in a classical &quot;follow the money&quot; trail of thought.<p>What specifically are you claiming?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jahaja</author><text>I think you&#x27;re giving economics the benefit of the doubt while having a critical eye towards sociology when they&#x27;re not much different in regards to objectivity and being &quot;soft&quot; sciences. In fact I&#x27;m not sure sociology would still have its credibility intact if it were to have as many failures as economics have had just the latest 20 years or so. Somehow economics manages this, which leads me to the next point.<p>I&#x27;m surprised that you&#x27;re speaking with such certainty without mentioning the rather powerful relationship between economics and finance in a classical &quot;follow the money&quot; trail of thought.</text></item><item><author>trendia</author><text>Rather than ask the question, &quot;What if sociologists had influence?&quot;, the author should ask, &quot;What does sociology need to change as a discipline in order to earn influence?&quot;<p>The answer would be rigor. A huge problem with sociology is the dependence on the story. Unfortunately, since the sociologist is often a human with their own biases, they are going to see what they want to see.<p>For example, I purchased the Kindle version of the book the author recommends (&quot;Coming Up Short&quot;). I turned to the appendix, where the author describes her research methodology. And sure enough, the research involves open-ended questions (&quot;Walk me through a typical day at work.&quot; &quot;Is there a time you lost a job? Could you describe it?&quot;) that could lead the interviewee to respond in any way they want.<p>There are <i>many</i> problems with this, such as : 1) the interviewee may inadvertently invent convenient narratives that provide comfort but aren&#x27;t accurate, 2) the interviewer may mis-interpret the answers, etc.<p>How are we supposed to develop policy off of this? Sure, it&#x27;s a great starting point for <i>starting</i> research, but the narrative- or story-based approach should never be the <i>conclusion</i>.<p>This is why economics is so much more trusted. Although economics has flaws, and the study of econometrics can sometimes lead to incorrect conclusions, it at least uses objective data and metrics, which are less susceptible to error, providing a much more grounded approach to policy decisions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/upshot/what-if-sociologists-had-as-much-influence-as-economists.html</url></story> |
23,750,415 | 23,749,668 | 1 | 3 | 23,748,199 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonw</author><text>If you want a really big competitive advantage, figure out how to hire great people who don&#x27;t interview well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview</title><url>https://fs.blog/2020/07/job-interviews/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zaheer</author><text>Related message for students &#x2F; new-grads: Find an internship. Internship interviews tend to be much easier as the stakes are lower. If you perform well during your internship (arguably easier &#x2F; more accurate indicator of success), the company will likely extend an offer. At big companies I&#x27;ve seen internship to offer rates exceed 30%.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview</title><url>https://fs.blog/2020/07/job-interviews/</url></story> |
40,176,485 | 40,173,405 | 1 | 3 | 40,172,161 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>The Rebel is a very interesting piece of work - you can randomly flip it open to any page and find tidbits like this:<p>&gt; &quot;When we are assured that tomorrow, in the natural order of events, will be better than today, we can enjoy ourselves in peace. Progress, paradoxically, can be used to justify conservatism. A draft drawn on confidence in the future, it allows the master to have a clear conscience. The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.&quot;<p>However, even after reading the book the notion of anarchism remains unclear. I couldn&#x27;t tell you how an anarchist would go about setting up a steel factory (or any other activity requiring highly coordinated human effort) in line with anarchist principles, for example.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/organise-camus-albert-and-the-anarchists</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reocha</author><text>I had no idea Albert Camus was an anarchist, I&#x27;ve read some of his work (The Myth of Sisyphus and The rebel) and it shouldn&#x27;t really surprise me to find out he is a socialist of some form.<p>Edit: If it isn&#x27;t clear Camus is a fantastic writer and you should definitely check out some of his work, and more articles from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libcom.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libcom.org&#x2F;</a> if you have the time!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/organise-camus-albert-and-the-anarchists</url></story> |
11,493,448 | 11,493,058 | 1 | 3 | 11,486,223 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greeneggs</author><text>&gt; Does the UC system need 500 administrators making &gt;$500k year each?<p>This statistic is incorrect. In 2014, there were 445 UC employees making &gt;$500K&#x2F;year each. This includes <i>everybody</i>, not just administrators.<p>You can get a list of them all here [1]. I didn&#x27;t go through the whole list, but from sampling a few random pages, I&#x27;d guess that there are &lt;20 administrators making &gt;$500K. They are mostly medical school professors, some athletic coaches, and, e.g., the Chief Investment Officer. There are also some CFOs and Executive Deans, and maybe I missed something, so feel free to correct me.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucannualwage.ucop.edu&#x2F;wage&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucannualwage.ucop.edu&#x2F;wage&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hardcandy</author><text>You&#x27;re missing the forest for the trees. What are &#x27;&#x27;the true costs of school&#x27;&#x27;? Someone who loves to teach sitting in a classroom teaching. It can be dirt cheap or it can be very expensive. Supply and demand sorts out the details. As more money flowed into the system, administration bloated and became its own entrenched interest group, with very little connection to actual education.[1] Does the UC system need 500 administrators making &gt;$500k year each?[2] As it stands, college for most of my friends was a 4 year social safari interrupted by infrequent periods of intense cramming in between high school and joining the work force. Do you think the average 18-21 year old at a state school is a scholar passionately indulging their love of learning? Almost all education is self education at the end of the day. As soon as we solve for the credentialing&#x2F;pedigree&#x2F;signaling problem, online education will destroy a huge amount of offline education and rightly so.<p>As for the mortgage interest deduction, how wouldn&#x27;t it boost housing prices? It effectively lowers the mortage rate by your marginal tax bracket which is close to 50% in California. So instead of a 3.5% 30 year rate I&#x27;m now below 2%. Cheaper money stimulates borrowing. It doesn&#x27;t matter how low NIMBYism pushes supply in the face of overwhelming demand, each individual still has a maximum price they can pay, and subsidized interest rates raise that price point.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reclaimuc.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;senior-administrators-now-officially.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reclaimuc.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;senior-administrators-...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;education&#x2F;la-me-uc-spending-20151011-story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;education&#x2F;la-me-uc-spending-201...</a></text></item><item><author>specialist</author><text><i>The way student loans were before...</i><p>No.<p>Tuition went up to compensate for the removal of state subsidizing tuition. Almost 1:1. In fact, with the removal of state support, we&#x27;re merely seeing the true costs of school for the first time.<p>Loans got nutty because of unnecessary privatization and deregulation. But rent seeking, so it was inevitable, right?<p>Once tuitions were nutty, parents demanded value for their dollar, begatting grade inflation and transmuting dorms into resort hotels, fueling continued rising costs.<p>Source: Worked in higher ed. This is common knowledge.<p>(I don&#x27;t know enough to explain the textbook racket. Collusion?)<p>--<p><i>mortgage interest deductions have a similarly terrible effect on housing...</i><p>No.<p>Scarcity caused by NIMBY land use policy is driving up housing costs. The fix is aggressive upzoning.<p>Source: Help friends who work on affordable housing policy. This is common knowledge.<p>--<p>In conclusion, yes, simplistic Freedom Markets (tm) explanations are seductive. But they&#x27;re also mostly wrong. Tuition and loans went bonkers when government pulled out of the business, allowing the predators to take over.</text></item><item><author>readams</author><text>Government-guaranteed loans are a fantastic way to force prices to spiral out of control. The way student loans were before income-based repayment, we&#x27;d have expected college cost to rise until it meets the lifetime expected benefit of college discounted to the present.<p>With income-based repayment, where your loan balance is forgiven after 20 years, there is no limit to how high it can go.<p>Government-subsidized mortages and mortgage interest deductions have a similarly terrible effect on housing, a basic good that government policy should try to make as cheap as possible. Instead, government policy is to make it as expensive as possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans</title><url>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-obama-is-forgiving-the-student-loans-of-nearly-400000-people-2016-04-12</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slg</author><text>According to you second link, the UC system has a budget of $27 billion. You could fire all those administrators making over $500k and you wouldn&#x27;t even save 1% of the annual budget. Is administrative bloat a problem? Sure. But blaming it for the tuition increases we have seen is like blaming the national debt on inefficiencies in the EPA.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hardcandy</author><text>You&#x27;re missing the forest for the trees. What are &#x27;&#x27;the true costs of school&#x27;&#x27;? Someone who loves to teach sitting in a classroom teaching. It can be dirt cheap or it can be very expensive. Supply and demand sorts out the details. As more money flowed into the system, administration bloated and became its own entrenched interest group, with very little connection to actual education.[1] Does the UC system need 500 administrators making &gt;$500k year each?[2] As it stands, college for most of my friends was a 4 year social safari interrupted by infrequent periods of intense cramming in between high school and joining the work force. Do you think the average 18-21 year old at a state school is a scholar passionately indulging their love of learning? Almost all education is self education at the end of the day. As soon as we solve for the credentialing&#x2F;pedigree&#x2F;signaling problem, online education will destroy a huge amount of offline education and rightly so.<p>As for the mortgage interest deduction, how wouldn&#x27;t it boost housing prices? It effectively lowers the mortage rate by your marginal tax bracket which is close to 50% in California. So instead of a 3.5% 30 year rate I&#x27;m now below 2%. Cheaper money stimulates borrowing. It doesn&#x27;t matter how low NIMBYism pushes supply in the face of overwhelming demand, each individual still has a maximum price they can pay, and subsidized interest rates raise that price point.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reclaimuc.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;senior-administrators-now-officially.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reclaimuc.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;senior-administrators-...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;education&#x2F;la-me-uc-spending-20151011-story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;education&#x2F;la-me-uc-spending-201...</a></text></item><item><author>specialist</author><text><i>The way student loans were before...</i><p>No.<p>Tuition went up to compensate for the removal of state subsidizing tuition. Almost 1:1. In fact, with the removal of state support, we&#x27;re merely seeing the true costs of school for the first time.<p>Loans got nutty because of unnecessary privatization and deregulation. But rent seeking, so it was inevitable, right?<p>Once tuitions were nutty, parents demanded value for their dollar, begatting grade inflation and transmuting dorms into resort hotels, fueling continued rising costs.<p>Source: Worked in higher ed. This is common knowledge.<p>(I don&#x27;t know enough to explain the textbook racket. Collusion?)<p>--<p><i>mortgage interest deductions have a similarly terrible effect on housing...</i><p>No.<p>Scarcity caused by NIMBY land use policy is driving up housing costs. The fix is aggressive upzoning.<p>Source: Help friends who work on affordable housing policy. This is common knowledge.<p>--<p>In conclusion, yes, simplistic Freedom Markets (tm) explanations are seductive. But they&#x27;re also mostly wrong. Tuition and loans went bonkers when government pulled out of the business, allowing the predators to take over.</text></item><item><author>readams</author><text>Government-guaranteed loans are a fantastic way to force prices to spiral out of control. The way student loans were before income-based repayment, we&#x27;d have expected college cost to rise until it meets the lifetime expected benefit of college discounted to the present.<p>With income-based repayment, where your loan balance is forgiven after 20 years, there is no limit to how high it can go.<p>Government-subsidized mortages and mortgage interest deductions have a similarly terrible effect on housing, a basic good that government policy should try to make as cheap as possible. Instead, government policy is to make it as expensive as possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans</title><url>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-obama-is-forgiving-the-student-loans-of-nearly-400000-people-2016-04-12</url></story> |
35,196,093 | 35,196,282 | 1 | 3 | 35,195,554 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; This is quite funny right, people get scared of FR so they pull their money at and run to daddy (JPM) who then proceeds to take that money and... put $5Bn uninsured into FR.<p>A $5B loss won&#x27;t collapse JPM, so this works OK. (And it wouldn&#x27;t be anywhere near $5B, either; they&#x27;d get a significant portion back even in the event of a FRB collapse.)<p>&gt; is that not only is this a level of co-ordination any normal industry would be barred from doing<p>This seems the <i>opposite</i> of anti-competitive behavior that gets cartels&#x2F;conspiracies in trouble.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>This is quite funny right, people get scared of FR so they pull their money at and run to daddy (JPM) who then proceeds to take that money and... put $5Bn uninsured into FR. What I really don&#x27;t understand though, is that not only is this a level of co-ordination any normal industry would be barred from doing, haven&#x27;t we essentially moved to a point where any reasonably large bank is now being gauranteed because we&#x27;re so scared of contagion? Doesn&#x27;t this basically make Banking a utility? There&#x27;s massively limited downside to running a bank now. Given that there&#x27;s now a capped downside to banking, wouldn&#x27;t it be logical at this point to cap upside? 100% taxation over some level of profits - since the obvious answer to a capped downside is to up your risk to increase profit?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big Banks Agree to Historic $30B Deposit Injection in First Republic</title><url>https://www.citigroup.com/global/news/press-release/2023/bank-of-america-citigroup-jpmorgan-chase-wells-fargo-goldman-sachs-morgan-stanley-bny-mellon-pnc-bank-state-street-truist-and-u-s-bank-to-make-uninsured-deposits-totaling-30-billion-into-first-republic-bank</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aaronontheweb</author><text>That $5b is definitely &quot;insured&quot; - the FDIC has all but nationalized US Bank deposits so long as there&#x27;s widespread liquidity issues under its &quot;systemic risk exception.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>This is quite funny right, people get scared of FR so they pull their money at and run to daddy (JPM) who then proceeds to take that money and... put $5Bn uninsured into FR. What I really don&#x27;t understand though, is that not only is this a level of co-ordination any normal industry would be barred from doing, haven&#x27;t we essentially moved to a point where any reasonably large bank is now being gauranteed because we&#x27;re so scared of contagion? Doesn&#x27;t this basically make Banking a utility? There&#x27;s massively limited downside to running a bank now. Given that there&#x27;s now a capped downside to banking, wouldn&#x27;t it be logical at this point to cap upside? 100% taxation over some level of profits - since the obvious answer to a capped downside is to up your risk to increase profit?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big Banks Agree to Historic $30B Deposit Injection in First Republic</title><url>https://www.citigroup.com/global/news/press-release/2023/bank-of-america-citigroup-jpmorgan-chase-wells-fargo-goldman-sachs-morgan-stanley-bny-mellon-pnc-bank-state-street-truist-and-u-s-bank-to-make-uninsured-deposits-totaling-30-billion-into-first-republic-bank</url></story> |
27,810,873 | 27,809,751 | 1 | 2 | 27,796,709 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; but commercializing new insights is absolutely one of the intended outcomes.<p>This is a recent idea, dating back to the late 70s and implemented through the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act. Before that research was research; development (and private research of course) was the province of business.<p>The Gradgrind mentality that all research must be commercialized has impoverished basic research; of what use is looking for gravity waves or new branches of mathematics (just look at the contortions university press offices go to to justify some new paper on quantum mechanics).<p>Speaking of which, QM is a perfect example of something that would have advanced very slowly had this attitude existed 150 years ago…yet it is at the heart of the semiconductor revolution!</text><parent_chain><item><author>MauranKilom</author><text>&gt; Consider, for example, the possibility that Alphabet decides to commercially exploit AlphaFold, for example — is it reasonable that they make profit off such a large body of research paid almost exclusively by the taxpayers? To what extent is the information created by publicly available research — made public, mind you, to stimulate further public research — belong to the public, and under what conditions could it be used in for-profit initiatives?<p>Maybe I have a wrong conception of what research is supposed to achieve, but commercializing new insights is <i>absolutely</i> one of the intended outcomes. One would sure hope that taxpayer money isn&#x27;t funneled into research to... just enable more research. At some point the public should tangibly benefit from it, which is not achieved by writing more papers.<p>This all notwithstanding the fact that DeepMind intends to make AlphaFold open source and available to the community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020)</title><url>https://www.blopig.com/blog/2020/12/casp14-what-google-deepminds-alphafold-2-really-achieved-and-what-it-means-for-protein-folding-biology-and-bioinformatics/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>This can be applied to anything, Google couldn’t have been founded without decades of public research into computer science that was itself built on thousands of years of human knowledge.<p>Everything we do is built on top of what came before.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MauranKilom</author><text>&gt; Consider, for example, the possibility that Alphabet decides to commercially exploit AlphaFold, for example — is it reasonable that they make profit off such a large body of research paid almost exclusively by the taxpayers? To what extent is the information created by publicly available research — made public, mind you, to stimulate further public research — belong to the public, and under what conditions could it be used in for-profit initiatives?<p>Maybe I have a wrong conception of what research is supposed to achieve, but commercializing new insights is <i>absolutely</i> one of the intended outcomes. One would sure hope that taxpayer money isn&#x27;t funneled into research to... just enable more research. At some point the public should tangibly benefit from it, which is not achieved by writing more papers.<p>This all notwithstanding the fact that DeepMind intends to make AlphaFold open source and available to the community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020)</title><url>https://www.blopig.com/blog/2020/12/casp14-what-google-deepminds-alphafold-2-really-achieved-and-what-it-means-for-protein-folding-biology-and-bioinformatics/</url></story> |
4,272,621 | 4,272,397 | 1 | 2 | 4,271,376 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>And now you've gotten lesson #1 on why F/OSS solutions have one huge advantage over their proprietary counterparts: If the original developers of a F/OSS app decide to drop it, you have choices. In the best case, another group of devs may simply fork the project and keep it going, or you ('you' in the general sense here) may choose to bring development in-house, or contract with a 3rd party to maintain and upgrade the app.<p>Now you might argue that some of those choices aren't <i>that</i> appealing, or that it's not guaranteed that someone else will pick up the app and run with it... but look at the scenarios with a closed-source, proprietary app: If the devs drop it, you're f%!#d, end of story.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rglover</author><text>A great point. But still no excuse to have their existing customers left behind. All of their customers (myself included) invested in the product because it was good, because it worked extremely well, and because it solved problems. I didn't invest in their work at Google. Where does that leave me?<p>The biggest concern I have with this is the same thing that happened to Tweetie: the one company that should have scooped it up did and then completely changed it into something that barely represented the existing app (and more or less dropped an interest in the desktop client).</text></item><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&#62; This is getting extremely frustrating. Sparrow is a fabulous email client both for iOS and Mac. I love and use both daily and this is fairly devastating. I was really looking forward to the products development, growth, and future releases. To read this announcement and hear that they won't be working on their apps but on Google projects is sad.<p>I think it's a matter of perspective. As someone who doesn't use and has no intention of ever using OS X or iOS, this is great news for me! I've been hearing a lot about Sparrow's revolutionary UI, but haven't benefited at all because they don't support Linux, Android, or Windows. Now, there's a very good chance that some of Sparrow's UI features will be incorporated into the Gmail web UI and into the Gmail apps for Android phones and tablets.</text></item><item><author>rglover</author><text>This is getting extremely frustrating. Sparrow is a fabulous email client both for iOS and Mac. I love and use both daily and this is fairly devastating. I was really looking forward to the products development, growth, and future releases. To read this announcement and hear that they won't be working on their apps but on <i>Google</i> projects is sad.<p>To bigger companies: chill out with the "acquihires." If anything, do what Facebook did with Instagram and keep them working on their product. It would be awesome to see the guts of Sparrow used in a Google branded Gmail client or similar (hopefully that happens, but I'm reluctant based on this statement).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sparrow acquired by Google</title><url>http://sprw.me/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>untog</author><text><i>All of their customers (myself included) invested</i><p>No you didn't. You bought. There was no investment, you should not expect a 'return'.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rglover</author><text>A great point. But still no excuse to have their existing customers left behind. All of their customers (myself included) invested in the product because it was good, because it worked extremely well, and because it solved problems. I didn't invest in their work at Google. Where does that leave me?<p>The biggest concern I have with this is the same thing that happened to Tweetie: the one company that should have scooped it up did and then completely changed it into something that barely represented the existing app (and more or less dropped an interest in the desktop client).</text></item><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&#62; This is getting extremely frustrating. Sparrow is a fabulous email client both for iOS and Mac. I love and use both daily and this is fairly devastating. I was really looking forward to the products development, growth, and future releases. To read this announcement and hear that they won't be working on their apps but on Google projects is sad.<p>I think it's a matter of perspective. As someone who doesn't use and has no intention of ever using OS X or iOS, this is great news for me! I've been hearing a lot about Sparrow's revolutionary UI, but haven't benefited at all because they don't support Linux, Android, or Windows. Now, there's a very good chance that some of Sparrow's UI features will be incorporated into the Gmail web UI and into the Gmail apps for Android phones and tablets.</text></item><item><author>rglover</author><text>This is getting extremely frustrating. Sparrow is a fabulous email client both for iOS and Mac. I love and use both daily and this is fairly devastating. I was really looking forward to the products development, growth, and future releases. To read this announcement and hear that they won't be working on their apps but on <i>Google</i> projects is sad.<p>To bigger companies: chill out with the "acquihires." If anything, do what Facebook did with Instagram and keep them working on their product. It would be awesome to see the guts of Sparrow used in a Google branded Gmail client or similar (hopefully that happens, but I'm reluctant based on this statement).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sparrow acquired by Google</title><url>http://sprw.me/</url></story> |
33,257,643 | 33,257,610 | 1 | 2 | 33,257,197 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pseudo0</author><text>Hopefully this works out for Hex-Rays, allowing them to invest more into developing IDA and expanding their low-cost product offerings. The general sentiment I have seen among people doing SRE is that IDA is rapidly losing market share to Ghidra. While it excels in some areas, the licenses are pricy even for tech employers, and entirely out of reach for students or colleges. It&#x27;s hard to convince an employer to fork out cash for IDA licenses when new employees are asking to use Ghidra, because that&#x27;s what they use at home and at school.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired</title><url>https://smartfinvc.com/news/smartfin-acquires-leading-cybersecurity-software-provider-hex-rays-together-with-sfpim-and-sriw/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stolen_biscuit</author><text>Does anyone know what impact if any the release of Ghidra had on Hex-Rays?<p>IDA never really accommodated to the hobbyist, so I wonder did it have any impact on the commercial side of things apart from the IDA Home release?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired</title><url>https://smartfinvc.com/news/smartfin-acquires-leading-cybersecurity-software-provider-hex-rays-together-with-sfpim-and-sriw/</url></story> |
5,050,903 | 5,050,949 | 1 | 3 | 5,050,811 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>From the webcache:
<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fsciencecitizen.org%2F%3Fp%3D219&#38;oq=cache%3A&#38;aqs=chrome.2.57j58j59l3j62.2860&#38;sourceid=chrome&#38;ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...</a><p>&#62;&#62;&#62;<p>Aaron was an activist, a champion, and a really smart guy who worked on things he really cared about. So much has been said about his life, his death, and his fight for research open access — and I’m glad to be part of this conversation. I’m very glad to have helped Eva Vivalt (@evavivalt) start the #pdftribute movement, to spread the word about putting academic papers online for #openaccess.<p>Late last night, I noticed that Eva was opening access to her papers online in tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz. I tweeted to some people I know in Silicon Valley, and to some friends of Aaron’s, and then Anonymous picked it up — and we’ve now had millions of impressions and over 500 tweets per hour.<p>This is something we can do for the memory of Aaron Swartz, and to lead the way toward more access to the scientific process for everyone. As Eva says:<p>Where will this go? Well, maybe someone can scrape the pdfs together into a repository. Maybe #pdftribute can be a pledge to avoid paywalls in the future. Maybe we can push journals for more change. JSTOR’s gradual opening has been heartening, but there is still more to do.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz</title><url>http://sciencecitizen.org/?p=219</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anonymouz</author><text>&#62; Late last night, I noticed that Eva was opening access to her papers online in tribute to the memory of Aaron Swartz.<p>That's good, but why didn't she offer them on her webpage before that? At least in the natural sciences, that is quite common now. The ArXiv is also a very popular option by now that is accepted by most journals.<p>For a few months now, started by a blog post of Timothy Gowers, a large group of researchers has been pushing for reform too, and in particular has been pressuring Elsevier into making their content more accessible: <a href="http://thecostofknowledge.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thecostofknowledge.com/</a> .</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz</title><url>http://sciencecitizen.org/?p=219</url></story> |
16,180,834 | 16,179,974 | 1 | 3 | 16,178,340 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>Hot location fixes are much faster than warm fixes, even with aGPS. Turning GPS off usually causes a substantial delay before you can start using a location-dependent app or feature, plus the manual effort of turning GPS back on. The delay is far greater if you&#x27;re in an urban canyon with high levels of multipath interference.<p>For a suburban user that occasionally uses driving directions, this delay probably isn&#x27;t an issue. For an urban user who is frequently using maps, location-based searches, ridesharing apps etc, it&#x27;s a total dealbreaker. If I&#x27;m the kind of person who often says &quot;OK Google, where&#x27;s the nearest coffee shop?&quot;, I don&#x27;t want to have to turn on GPS and wait for a location fix before I get a useful answer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>turc1656</author><text>Serious question for the HN community - why do you leave your GPS on&#x2F;activated by default? I have mine disabled unless I specifically need it for something, which is rare. Usually the only time I ever need GPS is for driving instructions. Otherwise, it&#x27;s off. GPS is also the biggest battery hog on the device. Why would you leave this on? Do you all use it far more frequently or was it something you never thought to shut off? I can&#x27;t think of one app I use that requires my location other than weather, in which case I just set the location(s) I want and can refresh at any time. But I generally get weather from a saved DuckDuckGo search - &quot;[zipcode] weather&quot; - stored as a bookmark and problem solved.<p>On a related note, Google has created a tool that allows you to see all the data they have on you (and delete it if you want). Because of the way I set up everything and my habits, they had virtually nothing on me. The only stuff I think were some chats from years and years ago and a few searches I did while not in incognito mode on my phone. I also don&#x27;t use any of their apps from their main product suite - no search, email, chat, drive, etc. And I never leave myself logged in to my account on anything. I don&#x27;t think this reduces my productivity or quality of life at all. In fact, quality of life is almost certainly improved.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/google-you-creepy-sonofabitch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>Geotagging of photos, reducing the time it takes to acquire your gps location when you need a map. These are reasonable reasons to have GPS running all the time. There are not reasons to upload these locations to a remote server outside of your control nor to log these locations on the device.</text><parent_chain><item><author>turc1656</author><text>Serious question for the HN community - why do you leave your GPS on&#x2F;activated by default? I have mine disabled unless I specifically need it for something, which is rare. Usually the only time I ever need GPS is for driving instructions. Otherwise, it&#x27;s off. GPS is also the biggest battery hog on the device. Why would you leave this on? Do you all use it far more frequently or was it something you never thought to shut off? I can&#x27;t think of one app I use that requires my location other than weather, in which case I just set the location(s) I want and can refresh at any time. But I generally get weather from a saved DuckDuckGo search - &quot;[zipcode] weather&quot; - stored as a bookmark and problem solved.<p>On a related note, Google has created a tool that allows you to see all the data they have on you (and delete it if you want). Because of the way I set up everything and my habits, they had virtually nothing on me. The only stuff I think were some chats from years and years ago and a few searches I did while not in incognito mode on my phone. I also don&#x27;t use any of their apps from their main product suite - no search, email, chat, drive, etc. And I never leave myself logged in to my account on anything. I don&#x27;t think this reduces my productivity or quality of life at all. In fact, quality of life is almost certainly improved.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/google-you-creepy-sonofabitch/</url></story> |
33,276,625 | 33,275,004 | 1 | 3 | 33,273,495 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>user3939382</author><text>So far I see everyone discussing search results. Recall that Amazon has been known to go to their competitor&#x27;s factories and produce identical products with their brand with an undercut price. In some cases they steal the design of and make crap versions of quality products that are selling well
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;04&#x2F;amazon-accused-of-copying-camera-gearmaker-peak-designs-top-selling-item-.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;04&#x2F;amazon-accused-of-copying-ca...</a><p>Only they know how many people and companies they&#x27;ve hurt doing this.<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned the whole company is ethically bankrupt and rotten to the core starting with Bezos and can disappear from the Earth.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon faces $1B lawsuit in UK for 'favouring its own products'</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-faces-1-bln-lawsuit-uk-favouring-its-own-products-2022-10-20/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>Amazon had about 460 billion dollars in revenue per as lazy a google as I could do.<p>This makes a billion dollar fine less than 0.25% of revenue.<p>Except Amazon has been doing this for years.<p>So a cost of doing business on the order of 0.1% at worst.<p>Or rounding error.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon faces $1B lawsuit in UK for 'favouring its own products'</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-faces-1-bln-lawsuit-uk-favouring-its-own-products-2022-10-20/</url></story> |
28,219,677 | 28,219,765 | 1 | 3 | 28,208,859 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eastbayjake</author><text>When I play the tech lead role, I try to view my job as the business&#x2F;PO&#x27;s &quot;counselor in the art of the possible.&quot; Two things that help in estimation:<p>1. Help your development team make explicit the assumptions in their estimate. This is part of bargaining scope instead of time -- when you make explicit that your estimate includes e.g., authentication and responsive design and reusable component development, your business stakeholders will sometimes say &quot;No no no we don&#x27;t need those things now, we only need X and Y&quot; and suddenly the team has a much more feasible effort in front of them.<p>2. Don&#x27;t argue beyond a certain point, occasionally resolve disputes by giving the story to the person with the lowest estimate. Sometimes it&#x27;s a learning experience for the developer who underestimated. Sometimes it&#x27;s a learning experience for the rest of team that overestimated. I have taken 1 point stories that the rest of the team swore would be an 8 point story, then used it as an opportunity to pair program with one of my developers to show my approach. (If the business wants an unstyled link to open an email message to your support address, that&#x27;s not a reflection of your skill as a developer -- you don&#x27;t need to solve for the full-function feedback popup modal with input validations and error states, it&#x27;s work you can do as iterative enhancements later, if ever at all.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tade0</author><text>&gt; Bargain scope, not time<p>I&#x27;ve started applying this and it&#x27;s amazing how well this works.<p>Of course sometimes it&#x27;s just not possible to reduce the scope any further, but the key point is that the stakeholders just want something, anything and as soon as possible at that.<p>You give them that and suddenly there&#x27;s much less pressure and you can focus on delivering the rest, or sometimes dropping it entirely because in hindsight it wasn&#x27;t that important.<p>There&#x27;s a similar phenomenon occuring when playing planning poker - often the estimate is not what anyone wanted, but the one that the most could agree on, which is usually way off. I thought of solving this by having a single transferable vote, but I hadn&#x27;t had a chance to play planning poker for over a year now, so I have no data on its effectiveness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014)</title><url>http://www.monkeyandcrow.com/blog/estimation_bargaining/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>This is also a good way to understand the priorities of the buyer or decision maker. Forcing someone to stack rank priorities in the scope negotiation separates must haves from nice to haves. This is even more important when you deal with Requirements By Committee.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tade0</author><text>&gt; Bargain scope, not time<p>I&#x27;ve started applying this and it&#x27;s amazing how well this works.<p>Of course sometimes it&#x27;s just not possible to reduce the scope any further, but the key point is that the stakeholders just want something, anything and as soon as possible at that.<p>You give them that and suddenly there&#x27;s much less pressure and you can focus on delivering the rest, or sometimes dropping it entirely because in hindsight it wasn&#x27;t that important.<p>There&#x27;s a similar phenomenon occuring when playing planning poker - often the estimate is not what anyone wanted, but the one that the most could agree on, which is usually way off. I thought of solving this by having a single transferable vote, but I hadn&#x27;t had a chance to play planning poker for over a year now, so I have no data on its effectiveness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (2014)</title><url>http://www.monkeyandcrow.com/blog/estimation_bargaining/</url></story> |
18,871,294 | 18,871,302 | 1 | 2 | 18,859,202 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TACIXAT</author><text>The stuff listed as conventional advice, I&#x27;ve never seen anywhere. Mixpanel, the biggest player in the space says just focus on a few key metrics.<p>&gt;You should track “dozens of metrics” without fail.<p>&gt;You should A&#x2F;B test every variable.<p>The unconvential advice is exactly what you see on YC. Talk to customers.<p>&gt;All of the not-so-sexy tasks I was focusing on — actually engaging customers, implementing feedback and building a library of educational content — were building momentum.<p>Legit thought I was gonna read something about how they never talked to customers, attended conferences and founder meet ups, made a shit product and struck it big.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we achieve growth by ignoring conventional startup advice</title><url>https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-achieve-65-yoy-growth-by-ignoring-conventional-startup-advice-24a3eef619c1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>everythingswan</author><text>Jokes on you if you&#x27;re rolling your eyes as you open the article, as I was. It&#x27;s actually very practical advice on marketing for any company into revenue.<p>I frequently revisit the idea that you are a sum of what you do. For companies that are products, you should be product-centric with your time and resources. For service businesses, probably more focused on process and the people behind it since they are your product. It&#x27;s stressful dealing with the influx of pressure to be growth-hacky and growth-focused every day. It&#x27;s a pretty gross environment in digital marketing right now, especially in SaaS and eCommerce, and it&#x27;s no surprise that innovative or high quality companies discover the growth secrets: because they have great products!<p>Aside: I used to do more SEO and have used ahrefs a few times, more often using their competitors, but I still follow quite a few SEO&#x27;s on Twitter and via email: they all _love_ ahrefs. Stellar product and about within the last 7 days I saw a huge Twitter thread about how helpful their latest feature release is. I would say they&#x27;re living it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we achieve growth by ignoring conventional startup advice</title><url>https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-achieve-65-yoy-growth-by-ignoring-conventional-startup-advice-24a3eef619c1</url></story> |
16,094,422 | 16,094,280 | 1 | 2 | 16,094,088 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>In China, the government watches your every move. In the rest of the world, it&#x27;s your phone.<p>Edit: No, but wait because this is published in the Washington Post, the same Washington Post who was declaring &quot;No Pardon for Edward Snowden&quot; just last September [1]. If its editors are so appalled by surveillance, as we should all certainly be, why are they not as appalled about the mass surveillance used by their own government on their own fellow citizens?<p>_________________<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;edward-snowden-doesnt-deserve-a-pardon&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;17&#x2F;ec04d448-7c2e-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html?utm_term=.071591ae401f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;edward-snowden-doesn...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/01/07/feature/in-china-facial-recognition-is-sharp-end-of-a-drive-for-total-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>leggomylibro</author><text>&gt;a toilet roll dispenser at a public facility outside the Temple of Heaven in Beijing reportedly scans faces to keep people from stealing too much paper,<p>I have several questions:<p>1. Wait, am I stealing paper when I use a public restroom? Are those dispensers like the &#x27;take a penny, leave a penny&#x27; tills?<p>2. Is there an acceptable amount of stealing which the facial recognition limits, or does it alert the management any time that paper is dispensed and leave the judgement to human beings?<p>3. There are literally cameras in the stalls?<p>4. How long is its memory? If it shuts me down, can I simply wait for someone else to go in before resuming my theft?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/01/07/feature/in-china-facial-recognition-is-sharp-end-of-a-drive-for-total-surveillance/</url></story> |
11,500,838 | 11,499,375 | 1 | 2 | 11,498,672 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yes_or_gnome</author><text>At a previous job, the equivalent to this was `make babies` which would output the names of all the kids that were born to engineers. The unwritten rule was that you&#x27;d text someone the good news, and then, that person was to add the name to the list and create the commit. That would serve as the birth announcement to engineering.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GuiA</author><text>i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code.<p>i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee.<p>then the CEO fired all the best engineers, and I decided to leave shortly after because sometimes in life you gotta let go.<p>the company is still (miraculously) around these days, although all of the original engineers are long gone.<p>the humans.txt is still accessible on their domain as it was on my last day, with all the names of the founding team for the first ~2 years inscribed in there - looks like their newer engineers never stumbled upon it.<p>sometimes when i get nostalgic i like to hit that URL and look at it</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>google.com/humans.txt</title><url>http://www.google.com/humans.txt</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nxzero</author><text>&quot;Legacy Code&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>GuiA</author><text>i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code.<p>i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee.<p>then the CEO fired all the best engineers, and I decided to leave shortly after because sometimes in life you gotta let go.<p>the company is still (miraculously) around these days, although all of the original engineers are long gone.<p>the humans.txt is still accessible on their domain as it was on my last day, with all the names of the founding team for the first ~2 years inscribed in there - looks like their newer engineers never stumbled upon it.<p>sometimes when i get nostalgic i like to hit that URL and look at it</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>google.com/humans.txt</title><url>http://www.google.com/humans.txt</url></story> |
21,777,969 | 21,777,422 | 1 | 2 | 21,776,220 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickysielicki</author><text>My dad bought me an Anthlon64 machine for Christmas and we put it together. Not know much about anything, I remember being pissed off&#x2F;confused that I didn’t have Windows XP 64-bit in spite of having that Anthlon64 sticker on the front.<p>A few years later my brother was starting a web server to host a forum for the Digital TV switch-over focused on the Madison, WI market, shout-out and RIP madcityhd.com<p>Watching him setup Fedora on the box on the floor of his bedroom and using Compiz wobbly-windows was enough to hook me. I stole his install CD and nuked my drive (much to the irritation of my dad, who knew that I would be stealing one of his nights to reinstall Windows when I eventually realized could no longer play counter-strike), It was fun to see it come full-circle a year or two after I was ticked-off about my Anthlon64 not running a 64 bit operating system, when I started trying other distos and realized, “Hey, I can actually use the 64 bit one now!”<p>Fun times. I wonder how many kids got hooked on Linux by wobbly windows. I know that’s what brought me in, haha.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdsully</author><text>I remember being an early adopter of 64-bit Linux with my Athlon64 back in the day. Lots of stuff was broken and I got a lot of debate on whether it was any faster or worthwhile at all. It&#x27;s really cool to see the technology curve go full circle.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.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>gdxhyrd</author><text>Worthwhile? We had PAE for a long time, sure, but I think it was fairly obvious when the Athlon 64 appeared that 4GB was not going to cut it, given some people already had 1GB at home...</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdsully</author><text>I remember being an early adopter of 64-bit Linux with my Athlon64 back in the day. Lots of stuff was broken and I got a lot of debate on whether it was any faster or worthwhile at all. It&#x27;s really cool to see the technology curve go full circle.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.com/</url></story> |
18,597,109 | 18,596,325 | 1 | 3 | 18,595,025 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vorticalbox</author><text>You should be setting your server to set cors to allow all not disabling it in your browser.<p>This is what we do while running docker for local development with node.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cjcampbell</author><text>This can be helpful in development scenarios. I’m supporting a team that uses localstack to support local development against some AWS services. Unfortunately, the CORS settings for localstack break the development environment. With Chrome allowing them to disable from the command-line, I can provide a shortcut to launch with degraded security, no plugins, no user settings, etc. My only wish is that Chrome would make it more obvious that it’s running with these protections disabled.</text></item><item><author>sombremesa</author><text>I love using Firefox as my daily driver, and I can always pop open chrome if I really have to. What kind of life do you lead where your browser needs to have CORS constantly disabled?</text></item><item><author>dak1</author><text>I would love to use Firefox more for dev, but until it has a first class way to disable CORS, I can&#x27;t. &quot;CORS Everywhere&quot; is not sufficient (it alters responses, but does not actually disable CORS, which doesn&#x27;t cover all needs).<p>Chrome I can at least disable CORS via the command line, and Safari does it best by putting it in a Developer menu that I can easily toggle.<p>Firefox&#x27;s dev tools also seem to still be behind — I haven&#x27;t seen a good way to inspect WebSocket frames, for instance.<p>I would really prefer to use Firefox due to Mozzila&#x27;s stances on privacy, especially in contrast to Google; however, I have to use the tool that lets me actually get work done.</text></item><item><author>bjz_</author><text>Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox desktop market share now below 9%</title><url>https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22browser%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22browsersDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222017-12%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222018-11%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Why not just configure your server or a proxy to add the necessary headers that unlock CORS restrictions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cjcampbell</author><text>This can be helpful in development scenarios. I’m supporting a team that uses localstack to support local development against some AWS services. Unfortunately, the CORS settings for localstack break the development environment. With Chrome allowing them to disable from the command-line, I can provide a shortcut to launch with degraded security, no plugins, no user settings, etc. My only wish is that Chrome would make it more obvious that it’s running with these protections disabled.</text></item><item><author>sombremesa</author><text>I love using Firefox as my daily driver, and I can always pop open chrome if I really have to. What kind of life do you lead where your browser needs to have CORS constantly disabled?</text></item><item><author>dak1</author><text>I would love to use Firefox more for dev, but until it has a first class way to disable CORS, I can&#x27;t. &quot;CORS Everywhere&quot; is not sufficient (it alters responses, but does not actually disable CORS, which doesn&#x27;t cover all needs).<p>Chrome I can at least disable CORS via the command line, and Safari does it best by putting it in a Developer menu that I can easily toggle.<p>Firefox&#x27;s dev tools also seem to still be behind — I haven&#x27;t seen a good way to inspect WebSocket frames, for instance.<p>I would really prefer to use Firefox due to Mozzila&#x27;s stances on privacy, especially in contrast to Google; however, I have to use the tool that lets me actually get work done.</text></item><item><author>bjz_</author><text>Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox desktop market share now below 9%</title><url>https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22browser%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22browsersDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222017-12%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222018-11%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D</url></story> |
10,763,067 | 10,762,036 | 1 | 3 | 10,759,322 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ericson2314</author><text>I&#x27;ve always hated the mingti--serif comparison. Mingti looks too artificial and beholden to technology (woodblock printing) for that to hold up. And kaiti likewise is too caligraphic and human to fit the bill either. With both of those constrained by their orignal medium enough to count as skeuomorphism---call me out on bias as a western or non-mason, but serifs don&#x27;t evoke stone-inscribing as obviously to me---I was about to give up and say there is no serif analog.<p>But what font is this? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qzprod.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;yan-rad1.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qzprod.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;yan-rad1.png</a> (from the article), is definitely not JinXuan, and I think is the &quot;most serif&quot; Chinese font I&#x27;ve seen. It&#x27;s definitely a Kaiti first and foremost, which I consider a necessary traditionalism for this analogy. Yet, the general boxiness of the strokes, especially the cusps on the corner of the boxes&#x2F;kou3, defy the practicalities of brush-strokes (e.g.. harder to do tangency-breaks) and evoke the &quot;cuspiness&quot; of serifs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The long process of creating a Chinese font</title><url>http://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LiweiZ</author><text>How about comparing with Japanese font? I worked in branding in China. I was told many modern inspirations are from Japanese work. IMHO as a Chinese, they generally have much better taste for art in China.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The long process of creating a Chinese font</title><url>http://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font/</url></story> |
27,069,147 | 27,068,810 | 1 | 3 | 27,060,898 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notJim</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why traditional advertising should get a pass here. Traditional advertising finds whatever fears and insecurities you have and exploits them to sell you stuff. If you&#x27;re worried you&#x27;re not manly enough, better buy an $80k truck with at least a V-6. If you&#x27;re worried you&#x27;re not a good enough parent, better give your kids some sugary crap. Exploiting people&#x27;s psychology like this is also an overreach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drcongo</author><text>As the person who originally asked &quot;why&quot; I feel like I ought to respond, though much of it is covered by other comments. I used to work in more trad advertising, so my question wasn&#x27;t so much an objection to working in advertising itself, but specifically Google&#x27;s version of advertising, which I see as gross overreach into people&#x27;s personal lives.<p>In other comments people have mentioned YouTube subscriptions as being an alternative, it really isn&#x27;t - OK, you don&#x27;t see any adverts, but they&#x27;re still harvesting and selling you. That a privately owned corporation is allowed to read your messages and sell what they find to the highest bidder is vile and honestly makes me wonder how we got here.<p>I quit advertising after only a couple of years because it blackened my soul. If I was helping to harvest people&#x27;s personal lives for private profit I can only imagine it would have been worse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I Work on Ads</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-work-on-ads</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomComb</author><text>Only a couple of years to quit something that blackened your soul? A couple of years is a pretty common amount of time to remain in a job these days.<p>If I sound judgy there, note that you are condemning a lot of people. Not me, actually, but I still take issue because the basis of your condemnation doesn&#x27;t even make sense to me...<p>I think ads are a decent way to pay for a service and I prefer targeted ads to generic ads, especially since they are more effective (and if the idea is to pay for the service you are using, that is relevant).<p>So the issue is the data, and so the fact that Google has never sold or lost their user&#x27;s data - you seem to imply otherwise - is extremely relevant, and is why I&#x27;m OK with them storing my data. In this industry that is very rare, and yet you consider Google the worst - I&#x27;m having a hard time squaring that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drcongo</author><text>As the person who originally asked &quot;why&quot; I feel like I ought to respond, though much of it is covered by other comments. I used to work in more trad advertising, so my question wasn&#x27;t so much an objection to working in advertising itself, but specifically Google&#x27;s version of advertising, which I see as gross overreach into people&#x27;s personal lives.<p>In other comments people have mentioned YouTube subscriptions as being an alternative, it really isn&#x27;t - OK, you don&#x27;t see any adverts, but they&#x27;re still harvesting and selling you. That a privately owned corporation is allowed to read your messages and sell what they find to the highest bidder is vile and honestly makes me wonder how we got here.<p>I quit advertising after only a couple of years because it blackened my soul. If I was helping to harvest people&#x27;s personal lives for private profit I can only imagine it would have been worse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I Work on Ads</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-work-on-ads</url></story> |
903,572 | 903,381 | 1 | 2 | 902,999 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skolor</author><text>I'm not quite sure what exactly it is you would want from them. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=mashed+potatos" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?q=mashed+potatos</a> has a list of recipes for the query. Seems like exactly what you would respond to the question "What do you know about mashed potatos?" If I changes it to "mashed potatoes" like suggested, I get the rest of the results you mentioned. Again, this is exactly the kind of stuff you wanted.<p>Now, if you want something "quirky", why are you searching for a generic term? What kind of "useful" result do you want from a search on mashed potatoes? If you give them a crappy search query, they should be giving you as generic of results as possible.<p>One thing I've found is that if you are looking for something specific, don't search for something generic. If you wanted something "quirky", why didn't you do "mashed potatoes quirky"? Then you get a restaurant that features mashed potatoes heavily in their recipes, a carmelized onion mashed potato recipe, a mashed potatoes festival, several more "interesting" recipes, and a book called "Grinning in His Mashed Potatoes".<p>It sounds to me like the results have improved, not gotten worse, if you aren't getting a poem about mashed potatoes on the first page of search results for just "mashed potatoes".</text><parent_chain><item><author>joeyh</author><text>I've used google since it was google.stanford.edu, and it's clear to me the results have suffered. My feeling is that two of the problems are SEO and feedback effects of google's own popularity.<p>SEO: When you cut through all the BS, the entire goal here is to make a less good match come first. And it works (sorta). Just consider crap sites like Experts Exchange that we've only learned about because they pollute many searches.<p>Feedback effect: Thanks to google, less people do less collecting of good links. Why bother when you can google for it? So there's less good information for google to use in ranking links. Bear in mind that when google started, nearly every home page had a long list of links to all the pages that particular user liked and frequently used. I used to have one; I've long since deleted it; my blog has some outgoing links that I like, but relatively few. If I twittered, I'd probably post a lot of outgoing links, but of dubious value; there's no gardening of just the perfect page of 100 links going on anymore.<p>(I think this also partially explains why some (generally more specialized, so less effected by other things) results feel dated -- legacy links that are still hanging around from days when links were still used that way.)<p>Feedback effect: Thanks to google, ten sites tend to be more important than any other sites on any given topic. This results in certain sites becoming increasingly important. Wikipedia is the chief example here. Why is there only one Wikipedia and not a dozen? Chiefly because it's gotten all the google juice. If you want your wiki article on foo to show up in google, you naturally write it on Wikipedia, not Fooipedia. The result here is that all google searches feel increasingly the same -- of course Wikipedia is always in the top ten, or maybe something like Stack Overflow for a technical search.<p>----<p>So, these days, if I don't see something interesting in the top ten, I often click on the link to page 10 (or 20, or 100) of the results. Often more interesting. For example, google for "mashed potatos".<p>Top 10 results: "Perfect mashed potatoes" (SEO), allrecipies.com (always in top 10 for any recipe search), foodnetwork.com, Wikipedia, about.com, nytimes, etc. Pictures of mashed potatos. All generic and useless.<p>Page ten results: Dairy-free mashed potatoes. _Potato_ free mashed potatos! Caramelized Onion Horseradish Red Mashed Potatoes! A poem about eating them. At least marginally more interesting and quirky. What I would have expected out of google circa 1997.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?</title><text>Yesterday I was surprised to find myself trying Yahoo search because I couldn't get satisfactory search results in Google. It was the first time in years. I started thinking about this, and I realized that in the past few months I haven't been getting particularly good results from Google. I don't get spam or anything, but a lot of times I don't get useful results.<p>The thing is, I'm not sure if it's because I do a lot of very specialized stuff these days, or because the search quality really has gone down. Consider these two examples:<p>Search for "Linux asynchronous IO". You'll get a lot of articles, but most are four years old (which is an eternity in the Linux world). These results aren't very good - posix AIO is implemented in userspace threads, and io_submit and friends don't work in many cases. Which cases? Hard to tell - I couldn't find any information in the results no matter how long I searched. I couldn't find any benchmarks either.<p>Perhaps it's because there is no good info on this on the web (hard to believe). So let's try something else - search for "concurrent hashmap in C". After hours of searching and playing with keywords, I got almost no useful results (other than Intel's libs, but not too much info on that either). It's difficult to believe that there are no good implementations out there.<p>So, is it the specialized nature of my searches, or is it Google? What do you think?</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pfedor</author><text>The results from Experts Exchange are typically useful, but you have to scroll all the way down past the ads and other crap to see the actual answers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joeyh</author><text>I've used google since it was google.stanford.edu, and it's clear to me the results have suffered. My feeling is that two of the problems are SEO and feedback effects of google's own popularity.<p>SEO: When you cut through all the BS, the entire goal here is to make a less good match come first. And it works (sorta). Just consider crap sites like Experts Exchange that we've only learned about because they pollute many searches.<p>Feedback effect: Thanks to google, less people do less collecting of good links. Why bother when you can google for it? So there's less good information for google to use in ranking links. Bear in mind that when google started, nearly every home page had a long list of links to all the pages that particular user liked and frequently used. I used to have one; I've long since deleted it; my blog has some outgoing links that I like, but relatively few. If I twittered, I'd probably post a lot of outgoing links, but of dubious value; there's no gardening of just the perfect page of 100 links going on anymore.<p>(I think this also partially explains why some (generally more specialized, so less effected by other things) results feel dated -- legacy links that are still hanging around from days when links were still used that way.)<p>Feedback effect: Thanks to google, ten sites tend to be more important than any other sites on any given topic. This results in certain sites becoming increasingly important. Wikipedia is the chief example here. Why is there only one Wikipedia and not a dozen? Chiefly because it's gotten all the google juice. If you want your wiki article on foo to show up in google, you naturally write it on Wikipedia, not Fooipedia. The result here is that all google searches feel increasingly the same -- of course Wikipedia is always in the top ten, or maybe something like Stack Overflow for a technical search.<p>----<p>So, these days, if I don't see something interesting in the top ten, I often click on the link to page 10 (or 20, or 100) of the results. Often more interesting. For example, google for "mashed potatos".<p>Top 10 results: "Perfect mashed potatoes" (SEO), allrecipies.com (always in top 10 for any recipe search), foodnetwork.com, Wikipedia, about.com, nytimes, etc. Pictures of mashed potatos. All generic and useless.<p>Page ten results: Dairy-free mashed potatoes. _Potato_ free mashed potatos! Caramelized Onion Horseradish Red Mashed Potatoes! A poem about eating them. At least marginally more interesting and quirky. What I would have expected out of google circa 1997.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?</title><text>Yesterday I was surprised to find myself trying Yahoo search because I couldn't get satisfactory search results in Google. It was the first time in years. I started thinking about this, and I realized that in the past few months I haven't been getting particularly good results from Google. I don't get spam or anything, but a lot of times I don't get useful results.<p>The thing is, I'm not sure if it's because I do a lot of very specialized stuff these days, or because the search quality really has gone down. Consider these two examples:<p>Search for "Linux asynchronous IO". You'll get a lot of articles, but most are four years old (which is an eternity in the Linux world). These results aren't very good - posix AIO is implemented in userspace threads, and io_submit and friends don't work in many cases. Which cases? Hard to tell - I couldn't find any information in the results no matter how long I searched. I couldn't find any benchmarks either.<p>Perhaps it's because there is no good info on this on the web (hard to believe). So let's try something else - search for "concurrent hashmap in C". After hours of searching and playing with keywords, I got almost no useful results (other than Intel's libs, but not too much info on that either). It's difficult to believe that there are no good implementations out there.<p>So, is it the specialized nature of my searches, or is it Google? What do you think?</text></story> |
36,434,733 | 36,434,714 | 1 | 2 | 36,433,246 | 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>Projectiboga</author><text>Time for Zero Tolerance, if one of these do it seize it, and levy the robotaxi company and whomever built it with Huge Fines. Not &quot;oh that will just be another expense&quot;, make it that those fines pierce the corporate veil and get to the executives and the millionaire shareholders. And now that I think of it, if there are any passengers, arrest them. That way they can sue the RoboTaxi company too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rurp</author><text>The specific examples listed out in the article are egregious, causing real harm. The fire chief is right to be angry, if anything her response is too measured.<p>From the article:<p>- Running through yellow emergency tape and ignoring warning signs to enter a street strewn with storm-damaged electrical wires, then driving past emergency vehicles with some of those wires snarled around rooftop lidar sensors.<p>- Twice blocking firehouse driveways, requiring another firehouse to dispatch an ambulance to a medical emergency.<p>- Sitting motionless on a one-way street and forcing a firetruck to back up and take another route to a blazing building.<p>- Pulling up behind a firetruck that was flashing its emergency lights and parking there, interfering with firefighters unloading ladders.<p>- Entering an active fire scene, then parking with one of its tires on top of a fire hose.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-22/san-francisco-robotaxis-interfere-with-firetrucks-los-angeles-is-next</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whartung</author><text>There&#x27;s that scene from a TV show where the fire fighters are at a fire, and a car is in front of the fire hydrant. One of the characters calls out &quot;Car!&quot; and they then proceed to smash the windows, and route the fire hose through the car and connect it to the fire hydrant. Throughout the course of the incident, the hydrant leaks and fills the cars interior with water.<p>If only there was, perhaps, a similar effective, and cathartic response to these things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rurp</author><text>The specific examples listed out in the article are egregious, causing real harm. The fire chief is right to be angry, if anything her response is too measured.<p>From the article:<p>- Running through yellow emergency tape and ignoring warning signs to enter a street strewn with storm-damaged electrical wires, then driving past emergency vehicles with some of those wires snarled around rooftop lidar sensors.<p>- Twice blocking firehouse driveways, requiring another firehouse to dispatch an ambulance to a medical emergency.<p>- Sitting motionless on a one-way street and forcing a firetruck to back up and take another route to a blazing building.<p>- Pulling up behind a firetruck that was flashing its emergency lights and parking there, interfering with firefighters unloading ladders.<p>- Entering an active fire scene, then parking with one of its tires on top of a fire hose.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-22/san-francisco-robotaxis-interfere-with-firetrucks-los-angeles-is-next</url></story> |
21,152,137 | 21,151,639 | 1 | 2 | 21,149,744 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m not entirely sure how those four examples are supposedly invalidated by giving them a clever nickname.</i><p>They&#x27;re not. A number of horrible things <i>will</i> happen as a result of pervasive end to end encryption.<p><i>However.</i><p>You have to run the numbers here. On the one hand, perhaps a bit more crime, some of which horrible. On the other hand, the privacy of <i>everyone</i>.<p>It&#x27;s a hard sell. Just picture a politician on live television having to choose between having this cute little child being raped for years before they commit suicide (letting the perpetrators off the hook), or ramp up the surveillance a bit. Picture them choosing <i>rape</i>.<p>Nevermind the false dichotomy. The horrible fact is, the value of human life is not infinite. A mere inconvenience, suffered by enough people, is worth killing a few. Such situations rarely present themselves. (We rarely condone murder in the name of the betterment of humanity: some tried, didn&#x27;t go so well.) End to end encryption (and metadata hiding while we&#x27;re at it), is such a situation. The harm, though hard to perceive, is significant, affects everyone, and can potentially grow into full blown totalitarianism (possibly enforced by incentives rather than violent policing).<p>Preventing that is totally worth killing a few children… or at least spend resources on properly policing the problem, like going undercover.<p>Still, go say that on TV. I&#x27;m not even sure I&#x27;m safe writing it here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>I&#x27;m not entirely sure how those four examples are supposedly invalidated by giving them a clever nickname.<p>I&#x27;ll take the privacy side in most any discussion of privacy-vs-security, but categorically denying the possibility that some crimes could be aided by encryption seems a step to far.<p>It&#x27;s also bad PR strategy: anybody not already on your side will be put off by your apparent lack of reasoning skills.<p>Instead, acknowledge the possibility and show them <i>why</i> you consider the benefits outweighing the risks.</text></item><item><author>Kinnard</author><text>The Second Great CryptoWar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-second-great-crypto-war&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-second-great-crypto-war&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; &quot;The proponents of this process use fear tactics to win support, what the four cypherpunks dub &quot;The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and the War on Some Drugs.&quot; In other words, laws passed to go after child pornographers, terrorists, money launderers, and drug dealers end up chipping away at everyone&#x27;s privacy. The classic example is the PATRIOT Act, passed to prevent terrorism but soon used to expand wiretapping and National Security Letter powers in other contexts.&quot;</text></item><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety.<p>Oh, so you’re asking for more end-to-end encryption?<p>&gt; While the letter acknowledges that Facebook, which owns Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, captures 99% of child exploitation and terrorism-related content through its own systems, it also notes that &quot;mere numbers cannot capture the significance of the harm to children.&quot;<p>This is such a lazy argument :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kyboren</author><text>Some crimes can also be aided by whispered in-person conversation. Should we require all in-person conversation to be shouted near a government office?<p>The societal default used to be that substantially all conversations were inaccessible to the government except through testimony. Encryption does nothing to change the availability of information through testimony.<p>Previously, remote conspirators could collaborate through the post, and their conversations could only be accessed with a warrant specifically targeting those communicators. End-to-end encryption does little to change the availability of information in a targeted investigation; it just means it&#x27;s a little more difficult to access the information than entering a phone number into XKeyscore. Investigators can install malware on the device, or microphones and video cameras in the suspect&#x27;s home to hear or see what is being communicated.<p>Forbidding end-to-end encryption, in combination with our mass surveillance apparatus, changes the societal default to be that substantially all conversations are trivially and automatically accessible to the government.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>I&#x27;m not entirely sure how those four examples are supposedly invalidated by giving them a clever nickname.<p>I&#x27;ll take the privacy side in most any discussion of privacy-vs-security, but categorically denying the possibility that some crimes could be aided by encryption seems a step to far.<p>It&#x27;s also bad PR strategy: anybody not already on your side will be put off by your apparent lack of reasoning skills.<p>Instead, acknowledge the possibility and show them <i>why</i> you consider the benefits outweighing the risks.</text></item><item><author>Kinnard</author><text>The Second Great CryptoWar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-second-great-crypto-war&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-second-great-crypto-war&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; &quot;The proponents of this process use fear tactics to win support, what the four cypherpunks dub &quot;The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and the War on Some Drugs.&quot; In other words, laws passed to go after child pornographers, terrorists, money launderers, and drug dealers end up chipping away at everyone&#x27;s privacy. The classic example is the PATRIOT Act, passed to prevent terrorism but soon used to expand wiretapping and National Security Letter powers in other contexts.&quot;</text></item><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety.<p>Oh, so you’re asking for more end-to-end encryption?<p>&gt; While the letter acknowledges that Facebook, which owns Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, captures 99% of child exploitation and terrorism-related content through its own systems, it also notes that &quot;mere numbers cannot capture the significance of the harm to children.&quot;<p>This is such a lazy argument :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption</url></story> |
4,084,215 | 4,084,221 | 1 | 2 | 4,084,095 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gamache</author><text>It sure seems like she spent a long time thinking about how not to think about what to wear. My dressing habits can fit in a tweet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Funny to see what a female thinks of as "wearing the same thing every day". For most dudes I know, That's a lot of clothes to own.<p>I think I made it to age 30 without ever owning 3 pairs of pants at one time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear</title><url>http://blog.timoni.org/post/24619757935/why-i-wear-the-same-thing-every-day-and-what-i-wear</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frossie</author><text>Yeah, I was hoping more for a "Steve Jobs" approach. [I am female]<p>And frankly it is a bit confusing. Would you really wear a band t-shirt and a hoodie to a funeral?<p>[edit following comment below: I see, so it's "I wear the same thing ever day" for different values of the word "same"? I am somehow underwhelmed. ]</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Funny to see what a female thinks of as "wearing the same thing every day". For most dudes I know, That's a lot of clothes to own.<p>I think I made it to age 30 without ever owning 3 pairs of pants at one time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear</title><url>http://blog.timoni.org/post/24619757935/why-i-wear-the-same-thing-every-day-and-what-i-wear</url></story> |
8,248,686 | 8,248,524 | 1 | 2 | 8,247,731 | 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>yummybear</author><text>While 3D printers and great and there&#x27;s fantastic possibilities for their use ahead, I have a hard time seeing the printing of entire houses as one.<p>We already have great modular, mass-producable and cheap elements for assembling houses: Bricks and concrete slabs.<p>It&#x27;s possible to assemble the basic structure of a house in days with prefabricated elements.<p>Where I do see a need for 3D printers are in products that aren&#x27;t mass producable, items that need special fitting, items with a unique design.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man builds 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard</title><url>http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140826-minnesotan-world-first-3d-printed-concrete-castle-in-his-own-backyard.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>bruce511</author><text>The castle itself is pretty cool.<p>What I would be interested in are the numbers in terms of cost saving (when implemented at scale). The printer seems to replace some of the labour of building in say brick or wood, but of course the labor to build the walls is only one of the costs involved.<p>Consider the major cost areas; land, earthworks, foundations, structure materials, structure labour, windows and doors, plastering, plumbing, electrics, painting, bathrooms, kitchen, floors.<p>Clearly this optimizes one of the processes, and it may make construction timeless and if you like the finish you can avoid plastering etc, but given that you only save the labor, not the materials,I&#x27;m not sure what the eventual monetary saving would be.<p>Architecturally though it can do things your regular brickie probably can&#x27;t do - curves for example - so that may end up being the true value of the printer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man builds 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard</title><url>http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140826-minnesotan-world-first-3d-printed-concrete-castle-in-his-own-backyard.html</url></story> |
27,914,610 | 27,913,806 | 1 | 2 | 27,913,273 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>&gt;I am absolutely going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear<p>I sell video games and consoles for a living, and probably repair about 20-30 of them each month.<p>Based on my experience, the reasons that Microsoft don&#x27;t want you poking around in your Xbox when it&#x27;s under warranty are completely valid.<p>For any console that hasn&#x27;t been tampered with, the fault is almost always one of only two or three things that can be diagnosed nearly instantly and repaired in around 15-30 minutes with a near-100% success rate.<p>For a console that has been tampered with by an end-user, suddenly the list of things that could have gone wrong multiplies by an order of magnitude. The diagnostic procedure goes from a simple 1:1 mapping of symptom to fix to a broad tree of debugging steps. The total process can easily take multiple hours and end up nowhere, depending on how many YouTube videos and Reddit threads the previous owner followed blindly.<p>Of course, the consumer is not going to admit that they&#x27;re an idiot who transformed their console from a simple fix to something that&#x27;s beyond economic repair, so either Microsoft has to provide them with a brand new machine or they will face legal action&#x2F;scathing reviews online.<p>Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?</text><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even <i>close</i> to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.<p>Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am <i>absolutely</i> going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;businesspersons-guide-federal-warranty-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;bus...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>People have no idea how nasty serialization of parts is going to get if it isn&#x27;t stopped by new legislation. You&#x27;ll be lucky if you don&#x27;t have to buy your socks and shoes from the same vendor in 2030 :-(</text><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even <i>close</i> to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.<p>Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am <i>absolutely</i> going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;businesspersons-guide-federal-warranty-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;bus...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/</url></story> |
8,170,515 | 8,170,325 | 1 | 3 | 8,169,591 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>look_lookatme</author><text>Can you elaborate on the police reaction? Here are some quotes by the NYPD:<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;
“It appears to have no particular connections to terrorism or even to politics,” Miller said. “This may be somebody’s art project or even a statement.”<p>But police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the matter was serious nonetheless.
“Needless to say, no matter what the motive was, that is a matter of concern,” Bratton said. “I am not particularly happy about the event, and have charged Commissioner Miller to conduct a full and thorough investigation into the circumstances.”<p>Miller emphasized that the white flag placement was not funny, and was not acceptable.
“We don’t take these things lightly, or as a joke, or as art, or within the realm of speech,” Miller said. “These are issues of trespass. They put themselves in danger. They put others in danger.”
&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>These don&#x27;t seem like unreasonable statements. It may seem interesting in the abstract, but I personally don&#x27;t care for any random persons crawling all over the Brooklyn Bridge consequence-free.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>The only thing embarrassing about this to the authorities is their reaction.<p>It ought to be apparent to anyone that providing perfect security is impossible, and that pretending we can is akin to a child sticking fingers in their ears and shouting &quot;la-la-la&quot;. I think it&#x27;s already clear that if we catch you doing terrorism you&#x27;ll never see the light of day again, so &quot;trying to send a strong message&quot; about pranks like this just makes us look weak and vulnerable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/arts/design/german-artists-say-they-put-white-flags-on-brooklyn-bridge.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>jobu</author><text>I was going to say the same thing, and this quote from one of them made me laugh: &quot;We really didn’t intend to embarrass the police.&quot;<p>The police did it to themselves. If they had blown it off as a waste of time and resources to investigate some prank, then they could&#x27;ve saved face and preserved the myth of the current &quot;security theatre&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>The only thing embarrassing about this to the authorities is their reaction.<p>It ought to be apparent to anyone that providing perfect security is impossible, and that pretending we can is akin to a child sticking fingers in their ears and shouting &quot;la-la-la&quot;. I think it&#x27;s already clear that if we catch you doing terrorism you&#x27;ll never see the light of day again, so &quot;trying to send a strong message&quot; about pranks like this just makes us look weak and vulnerable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/arts/design/german-artists-say-they-put-white-flags-on-brooklyn-bridge.html</url></story> |
41,675,377 | 41,674,341 | 1 | 2 | 41,672,599 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klenwell</author><text>I think my favorite Simpsons gag is the episode where Lisa enlists a scientist (voiced by Stephen Jay Gould) to run tests to debunk some angel bones that were found at a construction site.<p>In the middle of the episode, the scientist bicycles up to report, dramatically, that the tests &quot;were inconclusive&quot;.<p>In the end, it&#x27;s revealed that the bones were a fraud concocted by some mall developers to promote their new mall.<p>After this is revealed, Lisa asks the scientist about the tests. He shrugs:<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not going to lie to you, Lisa. I never ran the tests.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s funny on a few levels but what I find most amusing is that his incentive is left a mystery.</text><parent_chain><item><author>testfoobar</author><text>Similar - when I was younger, I would never have suspected that a scientist was committing fraud.<p>As I&#x27;ve gotten older, I understand that Charlie Munger&#x27;s observation &quot;“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.” is applicable everywhere - including science.<p>Academic scientists&#x27; careers are driven by publishing, citations and impact. Arguably some have figured how to game the system to advance their careers. Science be damned.</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>These sorts of articles raise so many thoughts and emotions in me. I was trained as a computational biologist with a little lab work and ran gels from time to time. Personally, I hated gels- they&#x27;re finicky, messy, ugly, and don&#x27;t really tell you very much. But molecular biology as a field runs on gels- it&#x27;s the priimary source of results for almost everything in molbio. I have seen more talks and papers that rested entirely a single image of a gel which is really just some dark bands.<p>At the same time, I was a failed scientist: my gels weren&#x27;t as interesting, or convincing compared to the ones done by the folks who went on to be more successful. At the time (20+ years ago) it didn&#x27;t occur to me that anybody would <i>intentionally</i> modify images of gels to promote the results they claimed, although I did assume that folks didn&#x27;t do a good job of organizing their data, and occasionally published papers that were wrong simply because they confused two images.<p>Would I have been more successful if fewer people (and I now believe this is a common occurrence) published fraudulent images of gels? Maybe, maybe not. But the more important thing is that everybody just went along with this. I participated in many journal clubs where folks would just flip to Figure 3, assume the gel was what the authors claimed, and proceed to agree with (or disagree with) the results and conclusions uncritically. Whereas I would spend a lot of time trying to understand what experiment was actually run, and what th e data showed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fraud, so much fraud</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fraud-so-much-fraud</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sitkack</author><text>If humanity is to mature, we should be an open book when it comes to incentives and build a world purposefully with all incentives aligned to the outcomes we collectively agree upon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;great-talks&#x2F;psychology-human-misjudgment&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;great-talks&#x2F;psychology-human-misjudgment&#x2F;</a><p>Charlie Munger&#x27;s Misjudgment #1: Incentive-caused Bias
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=h-2yIO8cnvw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=h-2yIO8cnvw</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;bias-incentives-reinforcement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;bias-incentives-reinforcement&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>testfoobar</author><text>Similar - when I was younger, I would never have suspected that a scientist was committing fraud.<p>As I&#x27;ve gotten older, I understand that Charlie Munger&#x27;s observation &quot;“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.” is applicable everywhere - including science.<p>Academic scientists&#x27; careers are driven by publishing, citations and impact. Arguably some have figured how to game the system to advance their careers. Science be damned.</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>These sorts of articles raise so many thoughts and emotions in me. I was trained as a computational biologist with a little lab work and ran gels from time to time. Personally, I hated gels- they&#x27;re finicky, messy, ugly, and don&#x27;t really tell you very much. But molecular biology as a field runs on gels- it&#x27;s the priimary source of results for almost everything in molbio. I have seen more talks and papers that rested entirely a single image of a gel which is really just some dark bands.<p>At the same time, I was a failed scientist: my gels weren&#x27;t as interesting, or convincing compared to the ones done by the folks who went on to be more successful. At the time (20+ years ago) it didn&#x27;t occur to me that anybody would <i>intentionally</i> modify images of gels to promote the results they claimed, although I did assume that folks didn&#x27;t do a good job of organizing their data, and occasionally published papers that were wrong simply because they confused two images.<p>Would I have been more successful if fewer people (and I now believe this is a common occurrence) published fraudulent images of gels? Maybe, maybe not. But the more important thing is that everybody just went along with this. I participated in many journal clubs where folks would just flip to Figure 3, assume the gel was what the authors claimed, and proceed to agree with (or disagree with) the results and conclusions uncritically. Whereas I would spend a lot of time trying to understand what experiment was actually run, and what th e data showed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fraud, so much fraud</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fraud-so-much-fraud</url></story> |
2,600,568 | 2,600,130 | 1 | 2 | 2,599,806 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kjksf</author><text>You're assuming that you're more likely to be right than other investors.<p>There's an adjective for that kind of thinking, which I won't use because in context of hn it would be downvote suicide.<p>And yes, I know you're THE pg, but other investors, like Fred Wilson, John Doerr or Marc Andreessen are also THE investors.<p>The argument that I would find more persuasive would be that YC can help because it's willing to take more risks on "out there" ideas due to dramatically lower investment in any one startup and higher number of startups it funds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>I can think of cases where startups have found no one to invest, and have ended up doing well. This is where something like YC can help, actually; we can tell people candidly whether we think it's the investors who are wrong, or the startup.</text></item><item><author>photon_off</author><text>I think there's something to be said about knowing when to fold, and not to view these nobody-believed-in-us-but-we-overcame edge cases as motivation to play a losing hand.<p>There will always be false negatives, ideas that are rejected by angels but which later become enormously successful. However, if the industry's finest angels are all passing, and you can literally find <i>nobody</i> to invest, it is probably a wise decision to give up. While angels are far from being 100% accurate in choosing what to invest in, overall they have to have <i>some</i> sense of what's a good idea in order to sustain themselves. If they're all passing, better off hitting the drawing board.</text></item><item><author>olivercameron</author><text>I think a lot of startups put too much weight on what an investor thinks of their idea. Airbnb is a prime example of carrying on in the face of rejection, even if people are saying "it's a stupid idea". I know a lot of founders who, after being told by many of the Valley's finest angels that their idea is no good, would just give up.<p>It just goes to show that you can create a $1 billion company, even if no one really gets it in the beginning, and in my eyes at least, they are actually justifying it (making a lot of money in a lot of different places).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/airbnb-has-arrived-raising-mega-round-at-a-1-billion-valuation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spicyj</author><text>Why are you more likely to be able to accurately judge a startup than other potential investors?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>I can think of cases where startups have found no one to invest, and have ended up doing well. This is where something like YC can help, actually; we can tell people candidly whether we think it's the investors who are wrong, or the startup.</text></item><item><author>photon_off</author><text>I think there's something to be said about knowing when to fold, and not to view these nobody-believed-in-us-but-we-overcame edge cases as motivation to play a losing hand.<p>There will always be false negatives, ideas that are rejected by angels but which later become enormously successful. However, if the industry's finest angels are all passing, and you can literally find <i>nobody</i> to invest, it is probably a wise decision to give up. While angels are far from being 100% accurate in choosing what to invest in, overall they have to have <i>some</i> sense of what's a good idea in order to sustain themselves. If they're all passing, better off hitting the drawing board.</text></item><item><author>olivercameron</author><text>I think a lot of startups put too much weight on what an investor thinks of their idea. Airbnb is a prime example of carrying on in the face of rejection, even if people are saying "it's a stupid idea". I know a lot of founders who, after being told by many of the Valley's finest angels that their idea is no good, would just give up.<p>It just goes to show that you can create a $1 billion company, even if no one really gets it in the beginning, and in my eyes at least, they are actually justifying it (making a lot of money in a lot of different places).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/airbnb-has-arrived-raising-mega-round-at-a-1-billion-valuation/</url></story> |
7,404,093 | 7,402,583 | 1 | 2 | 7,402,458 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>This is old news. The malware was discovered by someone on Reddit shortly after the release. I immediately contacted the ISP hosting the server used to retrieve stolen wallets and it was taken down. I doubt anyone lost any bitcoin. I&#x27;m really not sure why TC claims the malware was
&quot;discovered&quot; by these security researchers a couple days later.<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/200k30/the_tibannebackofficeexe_executab" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;200k30&#x2F;the_tibanneb...</a><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20152d/vpsbgeu_took_down_tibannebackofficeexe_malware/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;20152d&#x2F;vpsbgeu_took...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The “Stolen” Mt. Gox Data Contained Malware That Robbed Users Of Bitcoin</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/14/the-stolen-mt-gox-data-contained-malware-that-robbed-users-of-bitcoin/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smileyborg</author><text>I assume the people most likely to download the Mt. Gox data dump were ones who lost coins held by Mt. Gox. So this malware is likely preying on people who are already victims. Pretty cruel.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The “Stolen” Mt. Gox Data Contained Malware That Robbed Users Of Bitcoin</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/14/the-stolen-mt-gox-data-contained-malware-that-robbed-users-of-bitcoin/</url></story> |
24,787,055 | 24,786,891 | 1 | 2 | 24,785,357 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>panpanna</author><text>Yes, this instruction was removed in 64-bit arm for this very reason.<p>It has been replaced with LDP (load pair, i.e load two registers) which is not nearly as nice for software developers but made the life of the ARM designers much easier. For comparison:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elixir.bootlin.com&#x2F;linux&#x2F;v4.14.52&#x2F;source&#x2F;arch&#x2F;arm64&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;entry.S#L308" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elixir.bootlin.com&#x2F;linux&#x2F;v4.14.52&#x2F;source&#x2F;arch&#x2F;arm64&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elixir.bootlin.com&#x2F;linux&#x2F;v4.14.52&#x2F;source&#x2F;arch&#x2F;arm&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;entry-armv.S#L167" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elixir.bootlin.com&#x2F;linux&#x2F;v4.14.52&#x2F;source&#x2F;arch&#x2F;arm&#x2F;ke...</a><p>BUT, I don&#x27;t think we will see real benefits of this unless we remove aarch32 support from ARMv8.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesz</author><text>This instruction makes design of ARM CPUs harder.<p>As an example, consider page fault handling for a situation where part of access is valid and other part is not, especially for store operation. Or out-of-order execution. Or, for whatever sake, &quot;load multiple&quot; from PC (which is exposed to programmer in quite peculiar way) - you have to have it.<p>ARM is full of these quirks. I can see why they did that back in the day, but today or even 30 years ago these quirks are not a good decisions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction</title><url>https://keleshev.com/ldm-my-favorite-arm-instruction/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smallpipe</author><text>Very true, but that’s the classic 32b arch only, aarch64 is much cleaner. The next big A class CPUs will be aarch64 only.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesz</author><text>This instruction makes design of ARM CPUs harder.<p>As an example, consider page fault handling for a situation where part of access is valid and other part is not, especially for store operation. Or out-of-order execution. Or, for whatever sake, &quot;load multiple&quot; from PC (which is exposed to programmer in quite peculiar way) - you have to have it.<p>ARM is full of these quirks. I can see why they did that back in the day, but today or even 30 years ago these quirks are not a good decisions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction</title><url>https://keleshev.com/ldm-my-favorite-arm-instruction/</url></story> |
12,953,625 | 12,953,732 | 1 | 2 | 12,953,150 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brandur</author><text>I love 99% Invisible, but in my opinion this piece is far too generous to the actual SFMTA, who occasionally respond to the SFMTrA&#x27;s work reasonably (as covered in the article), but who usually just strip it wholesale, to the detriment of the safety of thousands of pedestrians and cyclists. For example, these markers on Folsom St helped improve safety considerably and were constructed in an incredibly professional way, but are now gone completely [1].<p>The group itself puts it best here [2]:<p>&gt; &quot;The SFMTA is glacially slow to install pedestrian and bicyclist safety infrastructure, yet was able to remove our simple safety improvements within a week,&quot; the group said in a statement sent to SFist. &quot;We call on SFMTA to immediately replace these pedestrian safety improvements with protection at or above the level installed by SFMTrA.&quot;<p>Everyone who walks or bikes in SF can atest to the truth of this statement firsthand. Progress _is_ being made, but it&#x27;s frustratingly slow.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfmtra.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-sfmta-removed-safety-infrastructure-on-folsom-st-and-they-need-an-email-from-you" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfmtra.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-sfmta-removed-safe...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfist.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;sfmta_says_street_safety_improvemen.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfist.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;sfmta_says_street_safety_improve...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastructure-permanent/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>I&#x27;m all for this kind of citizen action. They&#x27;re volunteering their own time to improve public safety. Kind of like how neighborhood watch groups can supplement police, these volunteers are supplementing departments of transportation. Of course it&#x27;d be even better if they could do it without breaking the law, but I doubt there are rules in place to permit citizens to do their own DIY infrastructure improvements.<p>Also, unlike what some commenters think, this doesn&#x27;t really go against democracy. The cities where these groups work have embraced Vision Zero at least on paper, so they&#x27;re generally for these sorts of improvements. Government just tends to move slowly, and they often have to deal with NIMBY groups that are more concerned with keeping as many parking spaces as possible in their neighborhood than public safety.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastructure-permanent/</url></story> |
34,930,451 | 34,927,016 | 1 | 2 | 34,926,688 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idlewords</author><text>It&#x27;s a funny accident of history that one company&#x27;s business model in 2023 is a combination of:<p>1. Large interactive language model<p>2. Wireless helmet for 3D equivalent of conference calls<p>3. Helping you keep track of which classmate from high school went bald<p>4. Birthday reminder service<p>5. Virtual currency intended to compete with the dollar<p>6. Running all school and church message boards in the US<p>7. World&#x27;s largest collection of food photography<p>8. Instant messaging</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta rolls out AI language model LLaMA</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launch-ai-language-model-llama-2023-02-24/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marban</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.facebook.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;large-language-model-llama-meta-ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.facebook.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;large-language-model-llama-meta...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta rolls out AI language model LLaMA</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launch-ai-language-model-llama-2023-02-24/</url></story> |
17,558,378 | 17,558,608 | 1 | 2 | 17,556,497 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>orf</author><text>No, they would be able to bundle their own entertainment system with their cars, but they would not be able to force <i>anyone else</i> who wants to use their engines in <i>their</i> cars to bundle the entertainment system as well, as a contractual precondition to be able to use those engines.<p>Of course the size of the company and the market dominance comes into play here. It&#x27;s not a monopoly if people can go elsewhere to get their engines, it is if there is only one realistic choice of supplier (Android).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>So it&#x27;s only against the law once the company becomes big enough?<p>If, for example, BMW _did_ become an extremely successful car manufacturer to the point where they were capturing &gt;80% of the market, would they suddenly no longer be allowed to bundle their own entertainment system with their cars?</text></item><item><author>Dayshine</author><text>&gt;And if we just go around clubbing everything coarsely, why does my BMW have a BMW entertainment system<p>Because BMW don&#x27;t have market dominance in either the car industry or the entertainment system industry. If they used dominance in one to affect the other, they would be in breach of that legislation.<p>&gt;This is absolutely not at all clear cut. It is incredibly nuanced<p>So how do you explain Google&#x27;s non-compliance when explicitly and clearly informed that they were in breach over two years ago?</text></item><item><author>endorphone</author><text><i>How is that not clearly breaching d?</i><p>They&#x27;re a part of the same suite of apps that provide the &quot;Android experience&quot; (Google experience, whatever -- the thing that most consumers think of when they consider Android). They manifestly have a <i>profound</i> connection with each other.<p>And let&#x27;s be clear here lest there be any confusion -- zero customers want a vendor to do anything different, and the only reason some vendors wanted to is because they could double dip: Pitch the Android experience and get the market inroads, while getting some Bing or whatever payola to &quot;force&quot; that on a consumer.<p>The same is true of the other claim-<p><i>Then they said &quot;You can&#x27;t use Google Play if you try to help develop any android forks.&quot;</i><p>Google&#x27;s argument, whether honest or not, is that if you need a consistent representation of the Android experience that you&#x27;re selling to consumers. If the GS8 has the full Android experience, but then the GS8P has the Android Fun Store and Bing Search, this can seriously dilute the market opinion of Android and cause consumer confusion.<p>This is absolutely not at all clear cut. It is incredibly nuanced. And if we just go around clubbing everything coarsely, why does my BMW have a BMW entertainment system? Why couldn&#x27;t I choose Alpine at the dealer? An entertainment system is not an engine, right? I don&#x27;t want to go down the road of absurd analogies, but if you&#x27;re seriously presenting the notion that this is clear cut, you are not really thinking about it much.<p>As an aside, Google has had the same policies regard their suite of apps since day 1 of Android. Since the very beginning. When iOS absolutely <i>dwarfed</i> it. When Blackberry reigned supreme. When I was hefting around my sad little HTC Dream and listening to the John Gruber&#x27;s tell us how doomed it was.</text></item><item><author>Dayshine</author><text>Let&#x27;s read the law: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;?uri=CELEX:12008E102&amp;from=EN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;?uri=CEL...</a><p>&gt;Article 102<p>&gt;Any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the internal market or in a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the internal market in so far as it may affect trade between Member States.<p>&gt;Such abuse may, in particular, consist in:<p>&gt;b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers<p>&gt;d)making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts<p>Ok, so, Google said &quot;You can&#x27;t use Google Play unless you force users to have Google Search installed&quot;.<p>How is that not <i></i>clearly<i></i> breaching d?<p>Then they said &quot;You can&#x27;t use Google Play if you try to help develop <i></i>any android forks<i></i>.&quot;<p>How is that not clearly breaching b?<p>&gt;but simply saying &quot;Surprise....enormous fine&quot; is ridiculous<p>They&#x27;ve had at least two years notice, so could have reduced their fine by complying when they were first warned. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;rapid&#x2F;press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;rapid&#x2F;press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm</a> The article literally warns about the exact things they&#x27;re still doing.</text></item><item><author>endorphone</author><text>This is a dangerous ruling that pushes the world further into the potential for trade wars by proxy.<p>Contrary to numerous posts-<p>-no, the law isn&#x27;t &quot;clear&quot;. This is an incredibly nuanced situation, and the notion that Google was just overtly flouting (ed: thx sjcsjc) the law is outright nonsense. Google has a huge litany of bad practices (I personally recently switched my daily driver to an iPhone for that reason), but simply saying &quot;Surprise....enormous fine&quot; is ridiculous.<p>-the fine is <i>enormous</i>. Various &quot;well it&#x27;s only a quarter&#x27;s earnings across all of Google&quot; are outrageous. Over 6 years Google spent a grand total of $1.1B in all expenses for Waymo, for instance. $5B is an enormous, enormous amount of money for any company.<p>I highly doubt this will be a &quot;pay it and forget it&quot; fine, but is going to ring across all multinationals as a warning.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case</title><url>http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4581_en.htm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the_watcher</author><text>I don&#x27;t love this ruling (and I probably disagree with it, but I haven&#x27;t read the whole decision or the laws in question yet, and as an American, am not 100% clear on EU precedent so I&#x27;m somewhat withholding judgment), but yes, in most cases, anti-monopoly laws only apply when a company becomes large enough. In the US, it&#x27;s actually explicit - monopolies can actually only exist if they are using their status to impact pricing&#x2F;consumer choice, which necessitates size.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>So it&#x27;s only against the law once the company becomes big enough?<p>If, for example, BMW _did_ become an extremely successful car manufacturer to the point where they were capturing &gt;80% of the market, would they suddenly no longer be allowed to bundle their own entertainment system with their cars?</text></item><item><author>Dayshine</author><text>&gt;And if we just go around clubbing everything coarsely, why does my BMW have a BMW entertainment system<p>Because BMW don&#x27;t have market dominance in either the car industry or the entertainment system industry. If they used dominance in one to affect the other, they would be in breach of that legislation.<p>&gt;This is absolutely not at all clear cut. It is incredibly nuanced<p>So how do you explain Google&#x27;s non-compliance when explicitly and clearly informed that they were in breach over two years ago?</text></item><item><author>endorphone</author><text><i>How is that not clearly breaching d?</i><p>They&#x27;re a part of the same suite of apps that provide the &quot;Android experience&quot; (Google experience, whatever -- the thing that most consumers think of when they consider Android). They manifestly have a <i>profound</i> connection with each other.<p>And let&#x27;s be clear here lest there be any confusion -- zero customers want a vendor to do anything different, and the only reason some vendors wanted to is because they could double dip: Pitch the Android experience and get the market inroads, while getting some Bing or whatever payola to &quot;force&quot; that on a consumer.<p>The same is true of the other claim-<p><i>Then they said &quot;You can&#x27;t use Google Play if you try to help develop any android forks.&quot;</i><p>Google&#x27;s argument, whether honest or not, is that if you need a consistent representation of the Android experience that you&#x27;re selling to consumers. If the GS8 has the full Android experience, but then the GS8P has the Android Fun Store and Bing Search, this can seriously dilute the market opinion of Android and cause consumer confusion.<p>This is absolutely not at all clear cut. It is incredibly nuanced. And if we just go around clubbing everything coarsely, why does my BMW have a BMW entertainment system? Why couldn&#x27;t I choose Alpine at the dealer? An entertainment system is not an engine, right? I don&#x27;t want to go down the road of absurd analogies, but if you&#x27;re seriously presenting the notion that this is clear cut, you are not really thinking about it much.<p>As an aside, Google has had the same policies regard their suite of apps since day 1 of Android. Since the very beginning. When iOS absolutely <i>dwarfed</i> it. When Blackberry reigned supreme. When I was hefting around my sad little HTC Dream and listening to the John Gruber&#x27;s tell us how doomed it was.</text></item><item><author>Dayshine</author><text>Let&#x27;s read the law: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;?uri=CELEX:12008E102&amp;from=EN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;?uri=CEL...</a><p>&gt;Article 102<p>&gt;Any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the internal market or in a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the internal market in so far as it may affect trade between Member States.<p>&gt;Such abuse may, in particular, consist in:<p>&gt;b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers<p>&gt;d)making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts<p>Ok, so, Google said &quot;You can&#x27;t use Google Play unless you force users to have Google Search installed&quot;.<p>How is that not <i></i>clearly<i></i> breaching d?<p>Then they said &quot;You can&#x27;t use Google Play if you try to help develop <i></i>any android forks<i></i>.&quot;<p>How is that not clearly breaching b?<p>&gt;but simply saying &quot;Surprise....enormous fine&quot; is ridiculous<p>They&#x27;ve had at least two years notice, so could have reduced their fine by complying when they were first warned. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;rapid&#x2F;press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;rapid&#x2F;press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm</a> The article literally warns about the exact things they&#x27;re still doing.</text></item><item><author>endorphone</author><text>This is a dangerous ruling that pushes the world further into the potential for trade wars by proxy.<p>Contrary to numerous posts-<p>-no, the law isn&#x27;t &quot;clear&quot;. This is an incredibly nuanced situation, and the notion that Google was just overtly flouting (ed: thx sjcsjc) the law is outright nonsense. Google has a huge litany of bad practices (I personally recently switched my daily driver to an iPhone for that reason), but simply saying &quot;Surprise....enormous fine&quot; is ridiculous.<p>-the fine is <i>enormous</i>. Various &quot;well it&#x27;s only a quarter&#x27;s earnings across all of Google&quot; are outrageous. Over 6 years Google spent a grand total of $1.1B in all expenses for Waymo, for instance. $5B is an enormous, enormous amount of money for any company.<p>I highly doubt this will be a &quot;pay it and forget it&quot; fine, but is going to ring across all multinationals as a warning.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case</title><url>http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4581_en.htm</url></story> |
11,030,928 | 11,028,476 | 1 | 2 | 11,025,618 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colin_mccabe</author><text>While I agree that Java has been one of the most stable and backwards-compatible languages out there (especially compared to things like Scala, which regularly breaks source and binary backwards compat), there are still rough edges. I am not the original poster, but I can speak for why JVM deployments take time on Hadoop (which I work on).<p>* In order to upgrade the JVM, <i>all</i> the software you run has to work with the new JVM. If there&#x27;s even one minor library that doesn&#x27;t work or is suboptimal, you can&#x27;t cut over. This is not an issue with Go because everything is compiled to an x86_64 binary there, whereas in Java everything is a jar file that must be run under (almost always a single) JVM.<p>* During a JVM version change, often Oracle removes or modifies non-public APIs that you need to achieve acceptable performance. For example, there is still no public way to free a DirectByteBuffer or create a FileChannel from a FileDescriptor, so you have to use the non-public APIs. Go almost never has this sort of problem since they tend to provide public APIs for everything you need, including platform-specific things.<p>* We run really big JVM heaps (&gt;100 GB), and so minor changes in the GC behavior or default settings can cause major issues. For example, JDK8 changed the defaults for many GC tunables. It takes weeks of work at least for us to validate that there are no significant regressions. This is an issue that I would expect Go to have as well since they are changing the GC.<p>* Enterprise customers are extremely risk-averse, and they&#x27;re not enthusiastic about deploying a new JVM. Operationally, they don&#x27;t see any upside, only downsides. Of course JVM upgrades have to happen eventually, but they usually happen when new software is rolling out as well. Oracle&#x27;s decision to stop shipping security updates for older JVM versions has &quot;helped&quot; in a sense by making the issue seem more urgent.<p>* Open source projects don&#x27;t like dropping support for users running older software. There is usually someone around to argue against dropping support for anything that rolled out within the last 5 years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kasey_junk</author><text>Can you speak to why you were behind latest on the JVM? I can think of less than a handful of breaking changes over the last 15 years. I&#x27;d say it was <i>more</i> stable than Go.</text></item><item><author>schmichael</author><text>At work (Lytics) 100% of our backend code has been in Go since the beginning over 3 years ago, so slide #6 highlights one of the most things with nearly every Go release:<p>&gt; Changes to the language: None<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talks.golang.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;state-of-go.slide#6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talks.golang.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;state-of-go.slide#6</a><p>We generally get our entire stack upgraded to the latest release within 1-3 months with little effort. It wouldn&#x27;t be much more work to be ready to upgrade on release day, but we haven&#x27;t found a reason to worry about it.<p>Go is such a breath of fresh air compared to past Java and Python jobs where production was usually at least a major release version behind the latest and there was extra effort spent getting everyone using the same implementation (Oracle Java v OpenJDK or Ubuntu&#x27;s Python v CentOS&#x27;s -- there are differences!).<p>Conservative releases aren&#x27;t a must-have for a language, but I do appreciate having one less operational headache to consider.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016</title><url>https://talks.golang.org/2016/state-of-go.slide#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>kyrra</author><text>Issues I&#x27;ve seen with JDK upgrades over the years (that I can think of right now):<p>* when &quot;enum&quot; keyword was added, if you had a variable named enum you had to rename it.<p>* If you use any of the sun.* packages you always ask for trouble on major upgrades.<p>* GC changes over the years can change how your program runs (latency changes, OOM issues). This probably applies to Go as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kasey_junk</author><text>Can you speak to why you were behind latest on the JVM? I can think of less than a handful of breaking changes over the last 15 years. I&#x27;d say it was <i>more</i> stable than Go.</text></item><item><author>schmichael</author><text>At work (Lytics) 100% of our backend code has been in Go since the beginning over 3 years ago, so slide #6 highlights one of the most things with nearly every Go release:<p>&gt; Changes to the language: None<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talks.golang.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;state-of-go.slide#6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talks.golang.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;state-of-go.slide#6</a><p>We generally get our entire stack upgraded to the latest release within 1-3 months with little effort. It wouldn&#x27;t be much more work to be ready to upgrade on release day, but we haven&#x27;t found a reason to worry about it.<p>Go is such a breath of fresh air compared to past Java and Python jobs where production was usually at least a major release version behind the latest and there was extra effort spent getting everyone using the same implementation (Oracle Java v OpenJDK or Ubuntu&#x27;s Python v CentOS&#x27;s -- there are differences!).<p>Conservative releases aren&#x27;t a must-have for a language, but I do appreciate having one less operational headache to consider.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016</title><url>https://talks.golang.org/2016/state-of-go.slide#1</url></story> |
25,194,601 | 25,194,342 | 1 | 2 | 25,193,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bleepblorp</author><text>Another way to describe the difference between Germany and India is that&#x27;s the difference between a rich society and a poor society that has (a few) rich people in it. This distinction also correlates with multiple factors of collective well-being, including life expectancy, and income inequality.<p>America made the choice in the 1980s, with the arrival of Reagan, to transition from being a rich society to being a poor society that has a fair number of rich people in it. Income inequality has deteriorated since then, the quality of public services&#x2F;public infrastructure has severely degraded, and social trust is rapidly eroding. It&#x27;s almost certainly too late to change course.</text><parent_chain><item><author>voodootrucker</author><text>Due to work, I spent:<p>- 3 months in Japan
- 3 Months in Germany
- 3 months in the US
- 3 months in India<p>The transition was alarming. I see bits of both Germany and India in the US. Unfortunately (having grown up in America) I see the trend as towards India. I don&#x27;t mean this as a cultural slight, but as a cultural observation. I&#x27;ve seen high-trust vs low-trust societies brought up many times on HN. Traffic was most pronounced. In Germany, they obeyed the rules to the extent they wouldn&#x27;t J-walk even if there was no traffic. In America, you&#x27;d look both ways then cross. In India might makes right, big cars get the right of way, pedestrians have to be aggressive and just make their way, eyeballing cars down with a death stare of determination.<p>Anyway all this is to say, it seems like there are two types of wealth:<p>- In India, you can found a startup, make money, buy a Ferrari, but that would be a terrible move because if you drive it anywhere on public roads you will go max 30kph, and it will get destroyed on the roads
- In Germany, you can have a modest Skoda and still hit 200 kph on their impeccable freeways with confidence that the person in the right lane will never, ever change lanes without a signal and mirror check<p>So, my personal take, and I realize that this is highly reductionist, but I hope, relevant is that there are two types of wealth:<p>1. a type where society is wealthy, and that translates into well being for the individual and the whole
2. a type where wealth is relative, and the wealthy take joy not in having an absolute sense of wealth (as in compared to a German), but as in &quot;my neighbor lives in a shack and I live in a gated tower high rise&quot;<p>I fear America is at a cross roads and will make a choice that makes us poor in a global sense.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>Which half made you happier?</text></item><item><author>TuringNYC</author><text>There really are two Americas - wealthy america and the rest of america. I&#x27;ll bet if you split America into two sets of counties, the graph would be much different -- one would be a super-outlier and the other a super-laggard.<p>I know this personally, as I&#x27;ve spent 21yrs of my life in one half, and another 20 in the other half.<p>I&#x27;ve also lived overseas for several years, and they also have stratas, but much less pronounced than here in the US.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?</title><url>https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddingus</author><text>I found your take thought provoking. HN is always a surprise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>voodootrucker</author><text>Due to work, I spent:<p>- 3 months in Japan
- 3 Months in Germany
- 3 months in the US
- 3 months in India<p>The transition was alarming. I see bits of both Germany and India in the US. Unfortunately (having grown up in America) I see the trend as towards India. I don&#x27;t mean this as a cultural slight, but as a cultural observation. I&#x27;ve seen high-trust vs low-trust societies brought up many times on HN. Traffic was most pronounced. In Germany, they obeyed the rules to the extent they wouldn&#x27;t J-walk even if there was no traffic. In America, you&#x27;d look both ways then cross. In India might makes right, big cars get the right of way, pedestrians have to be aggressive and just make their way, eyeballing cars down with a death stare of determination.<p>Anyway all this is to say, it seems like there are two types of wealth:<p>- In India, you can found a startup, make money, buy a Ferrari, but that would be a terrible move because if you drive it anywhere on public roads you will go max 30kph, and it will get destroyed on the roads
- In Germany, you can have a modest Skoda and still hit 200 kph on their impeccable freeways with confidence that the person in the right lane will never, ever change lanes without a signal and mirror check<p>So, my personal take, and I realize that this is highly reductionist, but I hope, relevant is that there are two types of wealth:<p>1. a type where society is wealthy, and that translates into well being for the individual and the whole
2. a type where wealth is relative, and the wealthy take joy not in having an absolute sense of wealth (as in compared to a German), but as in &quot;my neighbor lives in a shack and I live in a gated tower high rise&quot;<p>I fear America is at a cross roads and will make a choice that makes us poor in a global sense.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>Which half made you happier?</text></item><item><author>TuringNYC</author><text>There really are two Americas - wealthy america and the rest of america. I&#x27;ll bet if you split America into two sets of counties, the graph would be much different -- one would be a super-outlier and the other a super-laggard.<p>I know this personally, as I&#x27;ve spent 21yrs of my life in one half, and another 20 in the other half.<p>I&#x27;ve also lived overseas for several years, and they also have stratas, but much less pronounced than here in the US.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?</title><url>https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low</url></story> |
16,216,454 | 16,216,478 | 1 | 2 | 16,216,065 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>electrograv</author><text>When casual readers see results titled &quot;Bloomberg Innovation Index&quot; (myself included, a while ago), there&#x27;s a tendency due to brand reputation (Bloomberg!) to believe that this is some scientifically and statistically rigorous analysis of a well-defined &quot;innovation&quot; that can be trusted. This is dangerous, and IMO disappointing (I know, I was naive and optimistic) regarding the statistical credibility of many &quot;reputable&quot; sources.<p>In reality (as you describe), these are completely arbitrary human-designed heuristic scores with most likely no statistical significance.<p>I really wish we could qualify these &quot;rankings&quot; with a more honest term , like:<p><i>&quot;statistically useless, arbitrarily rated average of multiple human designed score scales, meant to loosely relate to some quality we want to measure, but in reality is more a game of politics and adversarial score optimization.&quot;</i><p>But that doesn&#x27;t have the same &#x27;ring&#x27; to it as &quot;top country rankings in innovation&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>What drags the US down most in these rankings is &quot;tertiary efficiency&quot;: roughly the fraction of people in grad school or with graduate degrees.<p>Ranking countries is a dodgy business, even more than ranking colleges. A different set of weights or ways of measuring things could give you totally different answers.<p>If you&#x27;re looking for a way to claim the rankings are biased, you might argue that this up-ranks countries that value credentials over actual innovation. Or you might claim that these days, an undergrad education is enough to go out in the world and innovate and that countries that send more students through grad school are wasting their time. Or you might claim that the US is a developed country with a developing country attached, which drags down the averages. And probably California, NY, MA and a few other states considered independently would rank highly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/south-korea-tops-global-innovation-ranking-again-as-u-s-falls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TimPC</author><text>These rankings need to account for mobility of high profile graduate students. For example some of the top CS programs in Canada have 50-75% of graduates leave for the US tech sector. Canada gets rewarded for it&#x27;s STEM grads who end up working for US companies in the US market while the US gets punished for it&#x27;s lower domestic STEM grad production. If the rest of the world is producing a fairly substantial number of educated people who work for US companies on US innovations does it make sense to say it&#x27;s less innovative? Sweden is #2 in Large part because there aren&#x27;t categories that measure Venture Capital Invested in Country or New Business Formation. Is it really the case that a few more net patents filed is more valuable to innovation than having companies like Dropbox, AirBnB and Stripe? (Feel free to pick your start-ups of choice here).</text><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>What drags the US down most in these rankings is &quot;tertiary efficiency&quot;: roughly the fraction of people in grad school or with graduate degrees.<p>Ranking countries is a dodgy business, even more than ranking colleges. A different set of weights or ways of measuring things could give you totally different answers.<p>If you&#x27;re looking for a way to claim the rankings are biased, you might argue that this up-ranks countries that value credentials over actual innovation. Or you might claim that these days, an undergrad education is enough to go out in the world and innovate and that countries that send more students through grad school are wasting their time. Or you might claim that the US is a developed country with a developing country attached, which drags down the averages. And probably California, NY, MA and a few other states considered independently would rank highly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/south-korea-tops-global-innovation-ranking-again-as-u-s-falls</url></story> |
14,429,110 | 14,429,146 | 1 | 2 | 14,428,229 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kkylin</author><text>More pictures: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;targetFamily&#x2F;Jupiter?subselect=Mission%3AJuno%3ATarget%3AJupiter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;targetFamily&#x2F;Jupiter?subse...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jupiter surprises scientists in Juno’s first flybys</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-juno-jupiter-surprises-20170525-story.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>wcdolphin</author><text>Im so impressed these scientists were so excited to be proven wrong. Such a pure and genuine interest in the pursuit of knowledge.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jupiter surprises scientists in Juno’s first flybys</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-juno-jupiter-surprises-20170525-story.html</url></story> |
27,521,699 | 27,515,099 | 1 | 2 | 27,514,005 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcthrowaway</author><text>I was on Adderall for roughly 10 years, and it really didn&#x27;t make me feel great. I tried taking larger doses when I was going through my &#x27;experiment with all the new drugs&#x27; phase in high school, and didn&#x27;t really get the euphoria I hear about. In general, Adderall in any dose makes me sweaty, smelly, and antisocial.<p>I hated taking it. Yet it would in fact improve my performance. For 3 years since my last filled prescription circa 2012 I had enough adderall to just take it whenever I felt like I &#x27;needed it&#x27;, which was rarely, because I hated taking it so much. Since I&#x27;ve run out, I do have issues with ADD still, but fortunately have been able to cope as an adult in my (now) 30s.<p>I do think having it on hand is really great for some people, but I don&#x27;t think &#x27;feeling great&#x27; is a unanimous experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>subroutine</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure which med you are on, but I&#x27;ve been on adderall for about 12 years. Started during 1st year of a phd program.<p>In my experience with adderall... everything initially good about this particular Rx eventually fades away. Amphetamine makes you feel great. At the beginning really, really, great. It certainly helped me focus on whatever was in front of me, whether it was math homework or an iphone game. It became very important to ensure the right thing(s) were in front of me before taking meds (e.g. homework textbook or open IDE; not, for example, wikipedia, or email, or HN). Not getting enough sleep was the most acute negative effect of the meds. The battle for sleep continues to this day. The meds do suppress my appetite - they still do. It didn&#x27;t help me lose as much weight as I&#x27;d hoped; turns out staring at a computer screen doesn&#x27;t require a ton of calories.<p>These days I take as little Rx as possible, and I feel a lot better. I attribute a portion of this mood improvement to using a treadmill desk, which I started using ~2 years ago. I walk about 15-20 miles a day, while working (coding&#x2F;writing&#x2F;etc). I feel like it helps me focus, because I am &quot;burning off&quot; pent-up ADHD restlessness while working. And probably most helpful of all, I&#x27;m tired at the end of the day, so I fall asleep much easier.</text></item><item><author>corobo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on medication for about a week now and I&#x27;ve not thought about offing myself once since starting. That seems dramatic but honestly that used to be the default go-to answer for any problem that couldn&#x27;t be resolved within a day or so. Seems a bit excessive of a response to problems now.. It really looks like my depression might be rooted in undiagnosed ADHD.<p>I can also if not properly focus on tasks at least <i>force</i> myself to finish whatever I&#x27;m working on before wandering off. I&#x27;m going to give it another week then ask for a bump on the dosage to see if that helps that one<p>Negatives:<p>Sweating a bunch, especially at night. Then again we are just about cruising into summer and in my old place I had aircon so that might be unrelated, but it is a possible side effect.<p>Appetite seems to have taken a hit too. While I am fully for that (I could lose a bit of weight no bother) I will keep an eye on it<p>Due to covid restrictions I&#x27;ve not been seen for talky therapy or anything yet, this is purely medicinal treatment currently but it&#x27;s been a MASSIVE positive move for me</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?</title><text>My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?<p>I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we&#x27;ve come up to the ADHD talk.<p>They want to run neurological tests, said I&#x27;m &#x27;twice exceptional&#x27; and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?</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>OkayPhysicist</author><text>With he sleep thing, I experienced the opposite. The ability to just lay down, decide to sleep, and sleep, combined with a bit of a chemical cue from the comedown really helped to regulate the insomnia I had struggled with since adolescence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>subroutine</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure which med you are on, but I&#x27;ve been on adderall for about 12 years. Started during 1st year of a phd program.<p>In my experience with adderall... everything initially good about this particular Rx eventually fades away. Amphetamine makes you feel great. At the beginning really, really, great. It certainly helped me focus on whatever was in front of me, whether it was math homework or an iphone game. It became very important to ensure the right thing(s) were in front of me before taking meds (e.g. homework textbook or open IDE; not, for example, wikipedia, or email, or HN). Not getting enough sleep was the most acute negative effect of the meds. The battle for sleep continues to this day. The meds do suppress my appetite - they still do. It didn&#x27;t help me lose as much weight as I&#x27;d hoped; turns out staring at a computer screen doesn&#x27;t require a ton of calories.<p>These days I take as little Rx as possible, and I feel a lot better. I attribute a portion of this mood improvement to using a treadmill desk, which I started using ~2 years ago. I walk about 15-20 miles a day, while working (coding&#x2F;writing&#x2F;etc). I feel like it helps me focus, because I am &quot;burning off&quot; pent-up ADHD restlessness while working. And probably most helpful of all, I&#x27;m tired at the end of the day, so I fall asleep much easier.</text></item><item><author>corobo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on medication for about a week now and I&#x27;ve not thought about offing myself once since starting. That seems dramatic but honestly that used to be the default go-to answer for any problem that couldn&#x27;t be resolved within a day or so. Seems a bit excessive of a response to problems now.. It really looks like my depression might be rooted in undiagnosed ADHD.<p>I can also if not properly focus on tasks at least <i>force</i> myself to finish whatever I&#x27;m working on before wandering off. I&#x27;m going to give it another week then ask for a bump on the dosage to see if that helps that one<p>Negatives:<p>Sweating a bunch, especially at night. Then again we are just about cruising into summer and in my old place I had aircon so that might be unrelated, but it is a possible side effect.<p>Appetite seems to have taken a hit too. While I am fully for that (I could lose a bit of weight no bother) I will keep an eye on it<p>Due to covid restrictions I&#x27;ve not been seen for talky therapy or anything yet, this is purely medicinal treatment currently but it&#x27;s been a MASSIVE positive move for me</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?</title><text>My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?<p>I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we&#x27;ve come up to the ADHD talk.<p>They want to run neurological tests, said I&#x27;m &#x27;twice exceptional&#x27; and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?</text></story> |
28,102,854 | 28,102,261 | 1 | 2 | 28,101,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abeppu</author><text>1. Even if you&#x27;re considering doing business in Russia, an over-broad request with insufficient context is unlikely to yield a result which is of any value. Russia is huge, and its history goes back to the 9th century. Asking for a report of its history and politics without saying anything about how the report would be used is absurd. &quot;Prepare a report on how Russian government contracts for software services are awarded&quot; is a prompt which might give you something useful. &quot;Summarize more the a millennia of history and politics in a giant country&quot; is not.<p>2. In the article linked in the comment above, this is given as a single example of a pattern of behavior of asking people to do things unrelated to their jobs. Surely we can understand that even if there were many examples, in this article only one could be mentioned due to space reasons. One might contrive a situation in which any single example, removed from its context, could be arguably a valid request. But if someone who worked with him observed this as a pattern rather than a single incident, doesn&#x27;t that have to be taken seriously? Esp in combination with the &quot;I crush people&quot; and the assertion that he would humiliate people in front of their colleagues? Between the possibilities of &quot;maybe there was a secret plan to work in Russia&quot; and &quot;maybe he asked for things out of personal interest disregarding people&#x27;s actual roles&quot; or &quot;maybe he had a dysfunctional need to demonstrate power over others by having them do bullshit &#x27;work&#x27;&quot;, I think the latter two are seem pretty plausible.<p>&gt; Suleyman would also sometimes ask employees to carry out tasks unrelated to their jobs or DeepMind&#x27;s work, two former employees said.<p>&gt; &quot;He would ask us to do personal things for him,&quot; one of these people said. &quot;He said, &#x27;I need you to write a briefing for me on Russian history and politics.&#x27; We knew it was absurd. We knew it was a waste of time. We had absolutely no work in Russia.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>&gt;We had absolutely no work in Russia.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t the point of such a high level briefing be because they&#x27;re tying to get work in Russia but don&#x27;t already have any? It&#x27;s rather common for employees to not know the details of the strategic plans of the executives until the execution starts.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I see a lot of people saying this seems not a big deal, or that his leadership deserved promotion.<p>It’s because this is a second order article. The original, most substantive source that I could find is quite thorough:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wqdkF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wqdkF</a><p>&gt; &quot;He would ask us to do personal things for him,&quot; one of these people said. &quot;He said, &#x27;I need you to write a briefing for me on Russian history and politics.&#x27; [...] We had absolutely no work in Russia.&quot;<p>I originally made a joke in a now-deleted comment, but then was slightly horrified to hear people excusing this behavior. So here’s a serious one: if you get locked into a prestigious institution under someone like this, run.<p>EDIT: I should have known this would turn into a sub thread about whether it’s ok to demand an AI researcher brief an executive on Russian political history.<p>Here’s another one: gossiping about firing someone across the entire office, before you fire them. This article says he did that. I recommend reading through it. I have to go move into our house now, so I can’t paste everything. Suffice to say, the behavior patterns were not productive.<p>I think people want to recognize DeepMind’s eventual success. Having worked under some effective YC founders vs some Suleyman types, I’ve learned that sometimes a startup can succeed in spite of flaws. And remember, DeepMind was bought by Google. At that point they were the anointed child. Their success wasn’t guaranteed, but it wasn’t as tenuous as pre-billions Google investment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him</title><url>https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2021/08/04/deepminds-cofounder-placed-leave-bullying-google-promoted</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MisterBastahrd</author><text>No.<p>Because when you&#x27;re as large as Google, you don&#x27;t ask your underlings to write book reports on things that are of strategic business importance. You go through the proper channels and get them to hire qualified people to cut through the bullshit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>&gt;We had absolutely no work in Russia.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t the point of such a high level briefing be because they&#x27;re tying to get work in Russia but don&#x27;t already have any? It&#x27;s rather common for employees to not know the details of the strategic plans of the executives until the execution starts.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I see a lot of people saying this seems not a big deal, or that his leadership deserved promotion.<p>It’s because this is a second order article. The original, most substantive source that I could find is quite thorough:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wqdkF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wqdkF</a><p>&gt; &quot;He would ask us to do personal things for him,&quot; one of these people said. &quot;He said, &#x27;I need you to write a briefing for me on Russian history and politics.&#x27; [...] We had absolutely no work in Russia.&quot;<p>I originally made a joke in a now-deleted comment, but then was slightly horrified to hear people excusing this behavior. So here’s a serious one: if you get locked into a prestigious institution under someone like this, run.<p>EDIT: I should have known this would turn into a sub thread about whether it’s ok to demand an AI researcher brief an executive on Russian political history.<p>Here’s another one: gossiping about firing someone across the entire office, before you fire them. This article says he did that. I recommend reading through it. I have to go move into our house now, so I can’t paste everything. Suffice to say, the behavior patterns were not productive.<p>I think people want to recognize DeepMind’s eventual success. Having worked under some effective YC founders vs some Suleyman types, I’ve learned that sometimes a startup can succeed in spite of flaws. And remember, DeepMind was bought by Google. At that point they were the anointed child. Their success wasn’t guaranteed, but it wasn’t as tenuous as pre-billions Google investment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him</title><url>https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2021/08/04/deepminds-cofounder-placed-leave-bullying-google-promoted</url></story> |
20,655,552 | 20,655,672 | 1 | 2 | 20,653,278 | 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>chowells</author><text>Ouch. That function is actually written in a pretty convoluted and redundant way.<p><pre><code> getSocketAPIPort :: Int -&gt; IO Int
getSocketAPIPort defaultPort = do
maybeEnvPort &lt;- lookupEnv &quot;socketPort&quot;
return . fromMaybe defaultPort $ maybeEnvPort &gt;&gt;= readMaybe
</code></pre>
That&#x27;s starting to border on over-terse, so you could expand the bind operator into do notation if you wanted to spread it out a bit further. On the other hand, it&#x27;s also starting to feel over-verbose, using do notation for only a single IO action. Maybe...<p><pre><code> getSocketAPIPort :: Int -&gt; IO Int
getSocketAPIPort defaultPort = fromMaybe defaultPort . (readMaybe =&lt;&lt;) &lt;$&gt; lookupEnv &quot;socketPort&quot;
</code></pre>
That might be going too far. But maybe it&#x27;s what I&#x27;d write. Just depends on how much I expect to make this more complicated in the future. This form has the simplest flow to read. I mean... it&#x27;s dense. Really dense. But it has the fewest total things going on, and it neatly divides into three interesting parts, easily understood in isolation, plumbed together with two common combinators. But it&#x27;s also pretty rigid in structure. If you ever want to add other sources for finding the port or change the priorities of them, that form would need to be totally rewritten, and probably would end up back in do notation.<p>But in every case, all the various return calls should be combined into one (or none, if you use fmap or &lt;$&gt;), and the fallback to the default should only be written once.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daenz</author><text>Haskell is dense. I&#x27;m picking it up now[0], so this project was very useful for me to see how some &quot;real world&quot; Haskell is written. But yes, take for example this function<p><pre><code> getSocketAPIPort :: Int -&gt; IO Int
getSocketAPIPort defaultPort = do
maybeEnvPort &lt;- lookupEnv &quot;socketPort&quot;
case maybeEnvPort of
Nothing -&gt; return defaultPort
Just port -&gt; maybe (return defaultPort) return (readMaybe port)
</code></pre>
It gets a port from an environment variable, if it can, otherwise a default port. Conceptually, this is easy to understand, but translating your understanding of that process to Haskell is not 1 to 1. For example, the last line alone:<p><pre><code> Just port -&gt; maybe (return defaultPort) return (readMaybe port)
</code></pre>
You have to understand Maybe (and failure contexts), you have to understand that &quot;return&quot; does not return from a function like typical imperative languages, instead it wraps a type in a Monad (in this case, the IO Monad), and you also have to understand that most of those things on that line, including the &quot;return&quot; function, are parameters to the &quot;maybe&quot; function.<p>There&#x27;s a lot to understand in terms of the underlying machinery of Haskell to be able to read its cryptic flow and syntax. But it is worth it imo.<p>0. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnyouahaskell.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnyouahaskell.com</a></text></item><item><author>w0utert</author><text>So, I know literally nothing about Haskell, and I would rate my knowledge of functional programming theory as &#x27;beginner&#x27; at best, but I still get baffled every time when reading Haskell code that implements anything other than something trivial like a fibonacci sequence. The poker server code looks extremely tidy and well engineered, so that can&#x27;t be the problem, but to me it&#x27;s utterly incomprehensible. It seems like every expression implements 20 different things at the same time, which makes it really hard to decode what is going on.<p>Is it just me, or is this typical for all non-trivial Haskell code? I don&#x27;t have any problems interpreting e.g. Clojure, or Javascript written in a functional style for that matter, but Haskell...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I built a poker site with Haskell</title><url>https://github.com/therewillbecode/haskell-poker</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrkeen</author><text>If you&#x27;ve wandered in from another language and are wondering what it might look like in a less terse language, here&#x27;s an attempt:<p><pre><code> static IO&lt;Integer&gt; getSocketApiPort(@NotNull final Integer defaultPort) {
return lookupEnv(&quot;socketPort&quot;)
.flatMap((Optional&lt;String&gt; maybeEnvPort) -&gt; {
if(!maybeEnvPort.isPresent()) {
return IO.of(defaultPort);
} else {
String strEnvPort = maybeEnvPort.get();
Optional&lt;Integer&gt; envPort = readMaybe(strEnvPort);
return IO.of(envPort.orElse(defaultPort));
}
});
}</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>daenz</author><text>Haskell is dense. I&#x27;m picking it up now[0], so this project was very useful for me to see how some &quot;real world&quot; Haskell is written. But yes, take for example this function<p><pre><code> getSocketAPIPort :: Int -&gt; IO Int
getSocketAPIPort defaultPort = do
maybeEnvPort &lt;- lookupEnv &quot;socketPort&quot;
case maybeEnvPort of
Nothing -&gt; return defaultPort
Just port -&gt; maybe (return defaultPort) return (readMaybe port)
</code></pre>
It gets a port from an environment variable, if it can, otherwise a default port. Conceptually, this is easy to understand, but translating your understanding of that process to Haskell is not 1 to 1. For example, the last line alone:<p><pre><code> Just port -&gt; maybe (return defaultPort) return (readMaybe port)
</code></pre>
You have to understand Maybe (and failure contexts), you have to understand that &quot;return&quot; does not return from a function like typical imperative languages, instead it wraps a type in a Monad (in this case, the IO Monad), and you also have to understand that most of those things on that line, including the &quot;return&quot; function, are parameters to the &quot;maybe&quot; function.<p>There&#x27;s a lot to understand in terms of the underlying machinery of Haskell to be able to read its cryptic flow and syntax. But it is worth it imo.<p>0. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnyouahaskell.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnyouahaskell.com</a></text></item><item><author>w0utert</author><text>So, I know literally nothing about Haskell, and I would rate my knowledge of functional programming theory as &#x27;beginner&#x27; at best, but I still get baffled every time when reading Haskell code that implements anything other than something trivial like a fibonacci sequence. The poker server code looks extremely tidy and well engineered, so that can&#x27;t be the problem, but to me it&#x27;s utterly incomprehensible. It seems like every expression implements 20 different things at the same time, which makes it really hard to decode what is going on.<p>Is it just me, or is this typical for all non-trivial Haskell code? I don&#x27;t have any problems interpreting e.g. Clojure, or Javascript written in a functional style for that matter, but Haskell...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I built a poker site with Haskell</title><url>https://github.com/therewillbecode/haskell-poker</url></story> |
8,790,148 | 8,789,072 | 1 | 2 | 8,788,747 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonpaul</author><text>It&#x27;s an exciting time to be a JavaScript developer for Bitcoin. There are a number of JavaScript libraries for Bitcoin. Here is a comprehensive list of alternatives to Bitcore:<p>- <a href="https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoinjs&#x2F;bitcoinjs-lib</a> (one of the best)<p>- <a href="https://github.com/indutny/bcoin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;indutny&#x2F;bcoin</a> (Indutny&#x27;s work is found throughout Node.js and is the basis of elliptic curve cryptography in Bitcore)<p>- <a href="https://github.com/ryanxcharles/fullnode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ryanxcharles&#x2F;fullnode</a> (ex-developer of Bitcore and now engineer at Reddit behind Reddit&#x27;s crypto currency initiative)<p>- <a href="http://cryptocoinjs.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptocoinjs.com&#x2F;</a> (disclosure: I started this one)<p>Here is an older article that I wrote about understanding how an Address is created (still valid, but using an older version of bitcoinjs-lib): <a href="http://procbits.com/2013/08/27/generating-a-bitcoin-address-with-javascript" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;procbits.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;generating-a-bitcoin-address-...</a><p>The cool thing is that you can use test Bitcoins without any risk to learn how to program for Bitcoin. Use these faucets: <a href="http://tpfaucet.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tpfaucet.appspot.com&#x2F;</a> and <a href="http://faucet.xeno-genesis.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;faucet.xeno-genesis.com&#x2F;</a><p>Here is a very simple wallet that I built to demonstrate how easy it is to build one: <a href="https://github.com/coinbolt/simple-wallet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coinbolt&#x2F;simple-wallet</a><p>Finally, an open source app to test the purchasing experience of Bitcoin: <a href="https://github.com/coinbolt/catshop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coinbolt&#x2F;catshop</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcore – A pure JavaScript Bitcoin API</title><url>http://bitcore.io</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PhrosTT</author><text>Looks awesome. Cryptocurrency development has seemed pretty intimidating to me but this is probably the going to be the push that gets me started supporting tip sharing features on my site.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcore – A pure JavaScript Bitcoin API</title><url>http://bitcore.io</url><text></text></story> |
22,865,636 | 22,865,532 | 1 | 3 | 22,861,129 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcv</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;the internet when he first conceived it, he thought it was a place that we would all leave the world and go to. Whereas in fact, it came here.&quot;</i><p>Somehow this reminds me of the difference between various editions of <i>Shadowrun</i>, a cyberpunk-fantasy rolepalying game in a dystopian near future where magic and dragons returned (though the magic is irrelevant to my point here).<p>In the earlier editions, from 1989 through the 1990s and early 2000s, the Matrix (their &#x27;internet&#x27;) was all virtual reality, and the &#x27;Decker&#x27; using it would disappear into that world and barely interact with the rest of the team.<p>In more recent editions, written after smartphones and wireless internet became common, <i>everything</i> was connected. Everything is connected to the Matrix. In combat, a Decker can hack the opponents&#x27; guns to disable them, for example. It&#x27;s not a world to disappear into; that world has come to the physical world and merged with it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/810570879/william-gibson-says-todays-internet-is-nothing-like-what-he-envisioned</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baryphonic</author><text>This article is odd. It gives a shallow treatment of the subject in the headline, and then takes a wild turn into talking about the 2016 election, his emotions around it and its hypothetical impact on a future climate change-induced apocalypse.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/810570879/william-gibson-says-todays-internet-is-nothing-like-what-he-envisioned</url></story> |
33,840,066 | 33,839,631 | 1 | 3 | 33,838,556 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>romellem</author><text>Did you read your own source?<p>The Biden team never asked Twitter staff to “handle” anything. They forwarded tweets that [violated twitter’s ToS][1], a Twitter staff member forwarded them for <i>review,</i> and at that point the reviewer said they “handled these.”<p>That’s what content moderation is supposed to do!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;parkebench&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598841731763810304" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;parkebench&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598841731763810304</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Dig1t</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598827602403160064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598827602403160064</a><p>Biden team asking Twitter to &quot;handle&quot; tweets they don&#x27;t like.
This rubs me the wrong way, nobody in government should be telling Twitter to remove speech.</text></item><item><author>andreyk</author><text>It does not seem like this really exposed any new information - Twitter publicly justified its actions as being about its hacked data policy back when this all happened (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalreview.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;twitter-cites-hacked-materials-policy-to-justify-censorship-of-ny-post-hunter-biden-article&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalreview.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;twitter-cites-hacked-mat...</a>). All this shows is some internal disagreement as to whether that was the right call. By the way, Facebook also suppressed the news story citing its misinformation policy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oct&#x2F;15&#x2F;look-behind-ny-post-headline-about-joe-biden-and-u&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oct&#x2F;15&#x2F;look-behind-n...</a>).<p>It was already widely criticized at the time(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;variety.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;digital&#x2F;news&#x2F;twitter-files-blocked-ny-post-hunter-biden-censor-1235448481&#x2F;?sub_action=logged_in" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;variety.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;digital&#x2F;news&#x2F;twitter-files-blocked-...</a>):
&quot; Twitter subsequently reversed the decision, saying that it had updated its hacked-materials policy and would not retroactively apply it to the New York Post. Other news outlets, including the New York Times, have since reported that the laptop did in fact belong to Hunter Biden and the documents on it were authentic. Predictably, Twitter’s blocking of the Post became a rallying point for Republican politicians accusing the social network of censoring conservative viewpoints. &quot;<p>So... doesn&#x27;t seem like a big deal, this is just confirming what was already known?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Twitter Files</title><url>https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>&quot;Handle&quot; could be &quot;take down tweets on request of the Biden team without review&quot; or &quot;handle this request by the Biden team by considering our current policies and making an independent decision&quot;.<p>Neither would be terribly surprising to me, although for sure the first is more damning. But Taibbi hasn&#x27;t yet provided enough detail to know one way or another.<p>If it is just &quot;prioritize this support request by a VIP&quot; it&#x27;s not particularly damning or even scandalous, I would assume that would be the case at any social media company.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Dig1t</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598827602403160064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mtaibbi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1598827602403160064</a><p>Biden team asking Twitter to &quot;handle&quot; tweets they don&#x27;t like.
This rubs me the wrong way, nobody in government should be telling Twitter to remove speech.</text></item><item><author>andreyk</author><text>It does not seem like this really exposed any new information - Twitter publicly justified its actions as being about its hacked data policy back when this all happened (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalreview.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;twitter-cites-hacked-materials-policy-to-justify-censorship-of-ny-post-hunter-biden-article&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalreview.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;twitter-cites-hacked-mat...</a>). All this shows is some internal disagreement as to whether that was the right call. By the way, Facebook also suppressed the news story citing its misinformation policy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oct&#x2F;15&#x2F;look-behind-ny-post-headline-about-joe-biden-and-u&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oct&#x2F;15&#x2F;look-behind-n...</a>).<p>It was already widely criticized at the time(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;variety.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;digital&#x2F;news&#x2F;twitter-files-blocked-ny-post-hunter-biden-censor-1235448481&#x2F;?sub_action=logged_in" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;variety.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;digital&#x2F;news&#x2F;twitter-files-blocked-...</a>):
&quot; Twitter subsequently reversed the decision, saying that it had updated its hacked-materials policy and would not retroactively apply it to the New York Post. Other news outlets, including the New York Times, have since reported that the laptop did in fact belong to Hunter Biden and the documents on it were authentic. Predictably, Twitter’s blocking of the Post became a rallying point for Republican politicians accusing the social network of censoring conservative viewpoints. &quot;<p>So... doesn&#x27;t seem like a big deal, this is just confirming what was already known?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Twitter Files</title><url>https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394</url></story> |
17,459,357 | 17,458,066 | 1 | 2 | 17,457,633 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yminsky</author><text>That&#x27;s not the intended implication, and Jane Street has in no way taken over the show. Our PRs are discussed vigorously, just like everyone else&#x27;s, and they&#x27;re definitely not always accepted!<p>Indeed, one of the great things about the OCaml compiler development process is that the core team is highly skeptical, and does a good job of rejecting marginal changes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>weavie</author><text>When did Jane Street take over development of OCaml? I knew they were heavy users, but I thought it was INRIA that were the main developers. This post implies that JS are running the show now...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plans for OCaml 4.08</title><url>https://blog.janestreet.com/plans-for-ocaml-408/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tormeh</author><text>&gt;we in Jane Street’s Tools &amp; Compilers group have been planning what we want to work on for inclusion in OCaml 4.08<p>You&#x27;ll find similar phrasing among major contributors to Postgres.</text><parent_chain><item><author>weavie</author><text>When did Jane Street take over development of OCaml? I knew they were heavy users, but I thought it was INRIA that were the main developers. This post implies that JS are running the show now...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plans for OCaml 4.08</title><url>https://blog.janestreet.com/plans-for-ocaml-408/</url></story> |
16,552,770 | 16,552,686 | 1 | 2 | 16,551,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sean1708</author><text>Ah see what really bugs me is that most vim modes <i>do</i> try to be a complete vim mode (and the fact that they never succeed just adds insult to injury), they always try to be a vim emulator instead of providing vim-like keybindings that make sense in the context of the editor.<p>I do appreciate that I&#x27;m very much in the minority here though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>learc83</author><text>Vim has been a bit of a mixed blessing for me. I rarely actually use vim, but I use the keybindings <i>everywhere</i>.<p>It&#x27;s great because I can fairly comfortably move between most editors because most editors have a vim mode.<p>The downside is that most editors don&#x27;t have a complete vim mode, so it&#x27;s never 100%.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs</title><url>http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9861-emacs-1-ditching-a-bunch-of-stuff-and-moving-to-emacs-and-org-mode</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strkek</author><text>Bonus points for using vim mode on browser editors like CodeMirror or ACE, and then trying to delete a word via &lt;C-w&gt;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>learc83</author><text>Vim has been a bit of a mixed blessing for me. I rarely actually use vim, but I use the keybindings <i>everywhere</i>.<p>It&#x27;s great because I can fairly comfortably move between most editors because most editors have a vim mode.<p>The downside is that most editors don&#x27;t have a complete vim mode, so it&#x27;s never 100%.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs</title><url>http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9861-emacs-1-ditching-a-bunch-of-stuff-and-moving-to-emacs-and-org-mode</url></story> |
7,913,951 | 7,913,829 | 1 | 2 | 7,913,558 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IvyMike</author><text>I was unaware that drepper had left redhat (and glibc).<p>He&#x27;s now at Goldman Sachs.<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrichdrepper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;ulrichdrepper</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Debian is switching back to GLIBC</title><url>http://blog.aurel32.net/175</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>This seems like a very similar situation to egcs and gcc: a fork created because the original project proved too painful to work with, and folded back in after sorting out the project governance issues that caused the fork in the first place.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Debian is switching back to GLIBC</title><url>http://blog.aurel32.net/175</url></story> |
13,070,753 | 13,069,678 | 1 | 3 | 13,068,698 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beepboopbeep</author><text>One of the worst things that comes from the banning of drugs is the stigma attached to it in order to give reason to ban it. That stigma just doesn&#x27;t let go no matter what evidence is being presented.<p>Case in point are the incredible studies by the folks at Johns Hopkins on Psilocybin. They&#x27;re not feeding people hallucinogenic mushrooms, they&#x27;re giving them controlled doses of manufactured psilosybin. Incredible studies, very interesting in all ways, but the news headline is almost always some shitty pun or stupid jab about &#x27;shrooms or &quot;trippy&quot; or &quot;far out&quot; which immediately demeans the research in the readers mind.<p>This usually continues through the text. The author will describe the study, effects, results, etc. then punctuate it with some dumb line about it being groovy. Makes it embarassing to be associated with the results when we could be looking at some truly breakthrough approaches to therapy and who knows what else.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results (2015)</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>The more I read the more my belief is reinforced that the war on drugs has been a huge disservice to humanity in so many ways.<p>From the social problems caused by illegality and the restriction of decent pain relief for the dying to the brake put on valuable research like this.<p>All for what? Some sense of moral purity?<p>Humans societies fascinate and disgust me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results (2015)</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment</url></story> |
36,853,230 | 36,852,859 | 1 | 3 | 36,845,111 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>worrycue</author><text>Do you see other billionaires wasting time on “internet nonsense”? This guy bought a social media network and was on it 24&#x2F;7 before that.<p>Even Zuckerberg who made his fortune with social media seem to post less than him. I have never even heard of Bezos posting while Gates probably only post as PR for his foundation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johannes1234321</author><text>If your character is about chilling and hanging out it&#x27;s unlikely to be one a billionaire.<p>Most people getting into that group donthat by focussing their time on making money. This usually requires quite some dedication, which is a character trait you can&#x27;t simply replace for going to the beach.<p>There are exceptions, but it&#x27;s rare. And then there are the ones who got spoiled as a kid and were lucky with some decisions, like making some good real estate deals in Manhatten or finding the right partners to build some online payment service, who never learned about responsibility.</text></item><item><author>sanderjd</author><text>Why? I&#x27;d be hanging out with my loved ones in mountain cabins and beach houses. I truly cannot comprehend what makes these people want to spend their time and money on internet nonsense.</text></item><item><author>datavirtue</author><text>If I was a billionaire I would probably act like a spoiled 8th grader as well.</text></item><item><author>opjjf</author><text>Do you really have to wonder? I think it&#x27;s one of his episodes, just like the purchase of Twitter itself, where the too quickly decides on something and pushes it through.</text></item><item><author>Merad</author><text>That&#x27;s hilarious. I honestly wonder if Elon decided to do this change on Friday and had people rushing all weekend to push it out the door.</text></item><item><author>philk10</author><text>The Brand Toolkit page needs updating - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.twitter.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;who-we-are&#x2F;brand-toolkit" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.twitter.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;who-we-are&#x2F;brand-toolkit</a>
Not only does it still have the bird it says &quot;Our logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it. Take a moment to think about how you apply it and take a read of our Brand Guidelines for examples of how we like you to use it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/twitter-has-officially-changed-its-logo-to-x/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mach5</author><text>they are freaks poisoned by money and we should take it from them for the common good</text><parent_chain><item><author>johannes1234321</author><text>If your character is about chilling and hanging out it&#x27;s unlikely to be one a billionaire.<p>Most people getting into that group donthat by focussing their time on making money. This usually requires quite some dedication, which is a character trait you can&#x27;t simply replace for going to the beach.<p>There are exceptions, but it&#x27;s rare. And then there are the ones who got spoiled as a kid and were lucky with some decisions, like making some good real estate deals in Manhatten or finding the right partners to build some online payment service, who never learned about responsibility.</text></item><item><author>sanderjd</author><text>Why? I&#x27;d be hanging out with my loved ones in mountain cabins and beach houses. I truly cannot comprehend what makes these people want to spend their time and money on internet nonsense.</text></item><item><author>datavirtue</author><text>If I was a billionaire I would probably act like a spoiled 8th grader as well.</text></item><item><author>opjjf</author><text>Do you really have to wonder? I think it&#x27;s one of his episodes, just like the purchase of Twitter itself, where the too quickly decides on something and pushes it through.</text></item><item><author>Merad</author><text>That&#x27;s hilarious. I honestly wonder if Elon decided to do this change on Friday and had people rushing all weekend to push it out the door.</text></item><item><author>philk10</author><text>The Brand Toolkit page needs updating - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.twitter.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;who-we-are&#x2F;brand-toolkit" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.twitter.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;who-we-are&#x2F;brand-toolkit</a>
Not only does it still have the bird it says &quot;Our logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it. Take a moment to think about how you apply it and take a read of our Brand Guidelines for examples of how we like you to use it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/twitter-has-officially-changed-its-logo-to-x/</url></story> |
6,370,053 | 6,369,788 | 1 | 2 | 6,367,465 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axus</author><text>They use parallel reconstruction, creating pretexts to stop someone at the border&#x2F;driving. Then they fabricate a &quot;probable cause&quot; to to search without a warrant. It&#x27;s kind of like using privilege escalation to hack into a system, except no patch is ever made.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>The shoe I&#x27;m still waiting for is whether the FBI is willing to use the sworn affidavit of foreign intelligence people with access to American intelligence as grounds for warrants issued under the 4th amendment.<p>In plain English, if another country tells us which Americans to go after, do we issue warrants and actually go after them? I&#x27;d be willing to bet money that we do, but nobody will want to admit to it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>superuser2</author><text><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;dea-and-nsa-team-intel...</a><p>We already know they are using intelligence data to tip off police to invent reasons to stop cars (i.e. 2mph speeding ticket) and find drugs.<p>This would be trickier for warrant affidavits because (I believe) those become available to defense counsel during discovery. They could hide the identity of a confidential informant from defense counsel, but I believe the judge is entitled to verify the legitimacy of CIs and might do so if the defense claimed that the probable cause came from the NSA.<p>Local LEOs have already been caught phoning in &quot;anonymous tips&quot; to themselves&#x2F;their teams to create probable cause for surveillance already conducted. This was before and unrelated to the NSA revelations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>The shoe I&#x27;m still waiting for is whether the FBI is willing to use the sworn affidavit of foreign intelligence people with access to American intelligence as grounds for warrants issued under the 4th amendment.<p>In plain English, if another country tells us which Americans to go after, do we issue warrants and actually go after them? I&#x27;d be willing to bet money that we do, but nobody will want to admit to it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents</url></story> |
10,981,550 | 10,981,454 | 1 | 2 | 10,981,047 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kylemathews</author><text>Yeah, the last 100 years have sucked since the tractor was invented and I&#x27;ve been unable to find farm jobs.<p>You just beautifully summarized the &quot;Lump of Work fallacy&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lump_of_labour_fallacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lump_of_labour_fallacy</a><p>Yes, technology changes&#x2F;improvements causes transitions in the job market but as it turns out, human needs are endless and new jobs are created for displaced workers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bobby_9x</author><text>&quot;We should not be afraid of AI. Instead, we should hope for the amazing amount of good it will do in the world. It will saves lives by diagnosing diseases and driving us around more safely. It will enable breakthroughs by helping us find new planets and understand Earth&#x27;s climate. It will help in areas we haven&#x27;t even thought of today.&quot;<p>Zuckerberg isn&#x27;t afraid of AI because he already has more money than he will never need (or thousands of other people would need) in a lifetime. However, when AI gets good enough, it will make many jobs obsolete and they will not be replaced at a fast enough rate.<p>I use simple forms of automation at my own company. Instead of hiring 3 or 4 workers, I write software. I can&#x27;t imagine how many jobs will be replaced when AI gets to the point of near-human levels of learning.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building AI</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102620559534481</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rqebmm</author><text>Technology has always obsoleted jobs[0]. However, humans are unceasingly creative and find new things to do once tedious tasks are automated.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technological_unemployment#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technological_unemployment#His...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bobby_9x</author><text>&quot;We should not be afraid of AI. Instead, we should hope for the amazing amount of good it will do in the world. It will saves lives by diagnosing diseases and driving us around more safely. It will enable breakthroughs by helping us find new planets and understand Earth&#x27;s climate. It will help in areas we haven&#x27;t even thought of today.&quot;<p>Zuckerberg isn&#x27;t afraid of AI because he already has more money than he will never need (or thousands of other people would need) in a lifetime. However, when AI gets good enough, it will make many jobs obsolete and they will not be replaced at a fast enough rate.<p>I use simple forms of automation at my own company. Instead of hiring 3 or 4 workers, I write software. I can&#x27;t imagine how many jobs will be replaced when AI gets to the point of near-human levels of learning.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building AI</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102620559534481</url></story> |
38,184,807 | 38,184,764 | 1 | 2 | 38,183,454 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bmitc</author><text>I think it might actually be <i>easier</i> to inspect the BEAM over those other VMs. For one, it is much older and stable. And secondly, the BEAM has a lot of self-introspection features.<p>I highly recommend the talk <i>The Soul of Erlang and Elixir</i> by Sasa Juric which shows off the essence of the BEAM.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;JvBT4XBdoUE" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;JvBT4XBdoUE</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>Looks decent. I somehow missed the previous thousand discussions.<p>I’d love to hear from anyone running it in production.<p>I have always been BEAM-curious, but never felt comfortable running it in production, as it feels like a big black box, and I’m not confident that I’d be able to diagnose problems as readily as I can in .NET, Go, or Node. I’m not sure why I feel that way about BEAM.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM</title><url>https://gleam.run/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chii</author><text>&gt; I’m not sure why I feel that way about BEAM.<p>unfamiliarity? Plus the problem of &#x27;nobody ever got fired for running IBM&#x27; plaguing your work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>Looks decent. I somehow missed the previous thousand discussions.<p>I’d love to hear from anyone running it in production.<p>I have always been BEAM-curious, but never felt comfortable running it in production, as it feels like a big black box, and I’m not confident that I’d be able to diagnose problems as readily as I can in .NET, Go, or Node. I’m not sure why I feel that way about BEAM.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM</title><url>https://gleam.run/</url></story> |
7,956,694 | 7,956,446 | 1 | 2 | 7,955,093 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>t1m</author><text>I found the SSD discussion very useful. Bottom line is that deleting (or rewriting) data causes unpredictable and degraged write performance due to &quot;write amplification&quot;. Sticking to appends-only writes keeps things fast.<p>I certainly wouldn&#x27;t discourage anyone from watching the video. At least read the slides!<p><a href="http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-aar-2012/slides/MartinThompson_MythbustingModernHardwareToGainMechanicalSympathy.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gotocon.com&#x2F;dl&#x2F;goto-aar-2012&#x2F;slides&#x2F;MartinThompson_My...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>yvdriess</author><text>Are any of these a surprise to anyone here?<p>I am not asking this rhetorically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Busting Modern Hardware Myths (2013)</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/6/13/busting-4-modern-hardware-myths-are-memory-hdds-and-ssds-rea.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>p1esk</author><text>For me, the surprise was to learn that access time for L1 cache is 3 cycles. I thought it should be 1 cycle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yvdriess</author><text>Are any of these a surprise to anyone here?<p>I am not asking this rhetorically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Busting Modern Hardware Myths (2013)</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/6/13/busting-4-modern-hardware-myths-are-memory-hdds-and-ssds-rea.html?</url><text></text></story> |
2,634,925 | 2,634,766 | 1 | 2 | 2,634,683 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanielStraight</author><text>The "termination" one highlights a particularly absurd aspect of the EULA. You are supposed to do something specific on termination of the license, but they aren't required to tell you it's terminated?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Richard Dreyfuss' dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA</title><url>http://www.cnet.com/8301-30976_1-20068778-10348864.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peterwwillis</author><text>Can you imagine if companies did this regularly? If people actually "listened" to what they're agreeing to when they use common software? They might actually look for alternative software.<p>New idea: A table on Wikipedia of software and the rights you give up by using it, compared to Free software and the rights you retain.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Richard Dreyfuss' dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA</title><url>http://www.cnet.com/8301-30976_1-20068778-10348864.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave</url></story> |
34,489,511 | 34,489,822 | 1 | 2 | 34,487,944 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ketzu</author><text>I wonder if the set of undescribable numbers is well defined at all. It seems to run into the same problem as the &quot;minimum un-interesting number is interesting&quot; as a function chosing a number from that set would be a finite description of that number, removing it from the set. (This already happens if you could select a finite subset of those numbers, as finite numbers could be ordered and you could just select the minimum.)<p>edit: Hm... thinking about it. The finitely-many-symbols argument also only holds if you consider finitely many interpretations of those symbols and if there actually are only finitely many symbols.</text><parent_chain><item><author>boole1854</author><text>The argument here seems to rely on a natural language intuition, or perhaps even a physical or computational intuition, about what it mean to &quot;choose&quot; something from a collection.<p>However, remember that the axiom of choice is technically a statement about the <i>existence of certain functions</i>, specifically functions that map from any set of non-empty sets to elements of those sets. Whether or not the existence of those functions says something about the possibility of &quot;choosing&quot; is more of a terminological question about how to connect informal natural language to mathematics than it is a substantive mathematical question.<p>Turning to the mathematical question itself, it seems to me that the author&#x27;s intuitions fare poorly. The author argues that we apparently cannot &quot;choose&quot; an element from a set that contains only numbers that are not finitely describable. But the mathematical question is about the existence of a mapping function, and it seems that whether or not the numbers in each set are finitely describable is irrelevant to this question:<p>Consider the function <i>f(x) = x + 1</i>. This function is defined for all real numbers <i>x</i>. It maps each real number to another real number. Note that the domain of the function includes even those real numbers that are not finitely describable. The meaning of the function itself is nevertheless clear and the function is easy to write down. The fact that the domain of the function includes indescribable numbers is not relevant to the question of whether such a function exists mathematically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice</title><url>http://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/an-intutive-counterexample-to-axiom-of.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>kybernetikos</author><text>&gt; But the mathematical question is about the existence of a mapping function, and it seems that whether or not the numbers in each set are finitely describable is irrelevant to this question:<p>If it&#x27;s possible to construct the set at all, then there is by definition no function that can be described in a finite number of symbols that can select an element from the set (since if a finitely describable function can define a member of the set, it shouldn&#x27;t be in the set - you&#x27;d define the element as being the result of the function).<p>I don&#x27;t know what the scholarly view is on relying on functions that <i>cannot be defined in any human language, including mathematics</i>. I would intuitively lean towards not allowing them in proofs, but perhaps they&#x27;re useful mathematically?<p>Another interesting aspect - these are numbers, so presumably there is a smallest one, but identifying that is definitionally ruled out too, since &#x27;smallest element in the set of numbers indescribable in a finite sequence of symbols&#x27;, is itself a finite sequence of symbols.</text><parent_chain><item><author>boole1854</author><text>The argument here seems to rely on a natural language intuition, or perhaps even a physical or computational intuition, about what it mean to &quot;choose&quot; something from a collection.<p>However, remember that the axiom of choice is technically a statement about the <i>existence of certain functions</i>, specifically functions that map from any set of non-empty sets to elements of those sets. Whether or not the existence of those functions says something about the possibility of &quot;choosing&quot; is more of a terminological question about how to connect informal natural language to mathematics than it is a substantive mathematical question.<p>Turning to the mathematical question itself, it seems to me that the author&#x27;s intuitions fare poorly. The author argues that we apparently cannot &quot;choose&quot; an element from a set that contains only numbers that are not finitely describable. But the mathematical question is about the existence of a mapping function, and it seems that whether or not the numbers in each set are finitely describable is irrelevant to this question:<p>Consider the function <i>f(x) = x + 1</i>. This function is defined for all real numbers <i>x</i>. It maps each real number to another real number. Note that the domain of the function includes even those real numbers that are not finitely describable. The meaning of the function itself is nevertheless clear and the function is easy to write down. The fact that the domain of the function includes indescribable numbers is not relevant to the question of whether such a function exists mathematically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice</title><url>http://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/an-intutive-counterexample-to-axiom-of.html</url></story> |
25,792,901 | 25,792,992 | 1 | 3 | 25,788,229 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DCKing</author><text>&gt; Why not show off more legitimate ways of playing games on it?<p>While emulation gets a bad rap because of rampant piracy involved with it for most people, it&#x27;s the piracy that makes it illegitimate and not emulation itself. There&#x27;s nothing about emulation that requires piracy - e.g. Nintendo Switch Online has NES and SNES emulation without piracy. You <i>can</i> also dump cartridges [1] or buy legal ROMs [2] to play on this Odroid [3].<p>I understand the confusion, but please do be careful to speak about piracy when you mean to speak about piracy. Emulation is a technically interesting exercise that allows for the preservation and transformation of old video games.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.retrode.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.retrode.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesateliersphv.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;extracting-roms-from-sega-mega-drive-genesis-classics-bought-on-steam-on-linux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesateliersphv.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;extracting-roms-from-sega-mega-...</a><p>[3]: You might argue: &quot;but few people actually do this&quot;. And you&#x27;d be right. Piracy for old game systems is just far more convenient. But that still makes piracy piracy and emulation emulation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>imtringued</author><text>The hardware looks impressive but it worries me that the first photo is basically just showing off a bunch of emulators. Why not show off more legitimate ways of playing games on it? I personally have never used steam big picture mode but it feels like it would be a good fit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu</title><url>https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=41283</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>I agree— I have a PowKiddy RGB10 (knockoff of the previous generation, Odroid Go Advance), and it&#x27;s wildly capable hardware, but the only native ports are either games that have been open sourced (Quake, Doom series) or have modern SDL recreations. Even running DOSBox is dubious because so much software of that era (even stuff like point and click adventures) just assumed a keyboard would be present for occasional but critically-needed use such as inputting the name of your save file. It wasn&#x27;t until Steam Big Picture that there was any serious expectation of PC games being solely controllable from a gamepad. Basically you&#x27;re stuck making up per-title keyboard mappings, and that sucks.<p>Anyway, the marketplace issue is a bootstrapping problem. None of the companies making these are set up to support an ecosystem of legitimate software delivery, and now the culture that&#x27;s built up around them treats the availability of thousands of classic game ROMs as being part of the value proposition. So even if you were to try to start, it would be a challenge to break out of that and persuade owners of them not to pirate your lovingly ported indie games when they can play the entire SNES, Genesis, and GBA libraries for &quot;free&quot;.<p>One final barrier is that although some do, many of these devices don&#x27;t include internal wifi, I assume due to certification hassles. Instead a USB host port is included into which you plug a compact dongle. So this further complicates any delivery&#x2F;DRM schemes, if you have to provide a system image with support for many possible wireless dongles, and perhaps some kind of offline-transfer scheme for those without a dongle or who don&#x27;t want to use one.<p>All in all, it&#x27;s a tough nut to crack; I&#x27;m not surprised no one has tried. The closest thing is probably Panic&#x27;s Playdate, and they went with their own hardware, with much-reduced specs and a gimmicky crank, but at least having end-to-end control.</text><parent_chain><item><author>imtringued</author><text>The hardware looks impressive but it worries me that the first photo is basically just showing off a bunch of emulators. Why not show off more legitimate ways of playing games on it? I personally have never used steam big picture mode but it feels like it would be a good fit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu</title><url>https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=41283</url></story> |
2,794,242 | 2,793,567 | 1 | 2 | 2,793,227 | 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>raganwald</author><text>As someone who was deeply involved with Java a decade ago, I feel your pain over the "hijacking." In truth, that crowd would have hijacked anything that came their way, it is a dynamic strongly influenced by the BigCo culture, it isn't really a tool thing.<p>The moment you set up "throw it over the wall" processes where architects are rewarded for architecture and implementors are blamed for bugs, you are going down the road to something that looks like J2EE no matter where you start.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zeemonkee</author><text>I think a lot of the Java hate is because of the architecture astronauts who hijacked the language in the last decade - J2EE/EJB, the GoF, FactoryFactoryFactory shit and so on. I remember seeing the earlier versions of the servlet API and it was very elegant and well designed; unfortunately once the astronauts were through with it writing Java web apps became such a form of mental torture (Struts, anyone?) that even PHP was a welcome relief, let alone Rails. My hate for it came from having to use some shitty app server like WebSphere because the coding-averse CTO considered it a "standard".<p>Looking at more recent work such as the lovely Play framework and the influence of new JVM languages such as Clojure and Scala, it looks like things are improving in Java-land. It's still a bit dated and clunky compared to Ruby and Python (let alone Clojure/Scala or even Groovy) but it's not as bad as people make out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop hating Java</title><url>http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/07/stop-hating-java.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>mironathetin</author><text>... architecture astronauts who hijacked the language in the last decade - J2EE/EJB, the GoF ...<p>Thank you for writing this.
When I first read the GoF Design Pattern Book I thought "this is the reason, why the code in my project is bloated,
unmaintainable and shitty".</text><parent_chain><item><author>zeemonkee</author><text>I think a lot of the Java hate is because of the architecture astronauts who hijacked the language in the last decade - J2EE/EJB, the GoF, FactoryFactoryFactory shit and so on. I remember seeing the earlier versions of the servlet API and it was very elegant and well designed; unfortunately once the astronauts were through with it writing Java web apps became such a form of mental torture (Struts, anyone?) that even PHP was a welcome relief, let alone Rails. My hate for it came from having to use some shitty app server like WebSphere because the coding-averse CTO considered it a "standard".<p>Looking at more recent work such as the lovely Play framework and the influence of new JVM languages such as Clojure and Scala, it looks like things are improving in Java-land. It's still a bit dated and clunky compared to Ruby and Python (let alone Clojure/Scala or even Groovy) but it's not as bad as people make out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop hating Java</title><url>http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/07/stop-hating-java.html</url></story> |
19,245,841 | 19,245,487 | 1 | 2 | 19,241,283 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notacoward</author><text>The examples don&#x27;t seem to illustrate software <i>rot</i> at all. Rather, I&#x27;d say they illustrate software <i>ossification</i>. Over time, each example became more rigid and hard to change because things that should have been modularized and isolated in one place instead became idioms pervading the entire codebase. (The &quot;should have&quot; is arguable, I know. There&#x27;s a broader point about idioms vs. modules that deserves its own blog post.) Rot would be when a program works less and less over time because its external dependencies vanish or change and the program itself stops adapting.<p>Software that is merely <i>rotten</i> can often be saved, with varying levels of effort and skill. Software that is <i>ossified</i> often needs to be replaced.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Rot (2017)</title><url>https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/02/28/software-rot/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>&quot;Chrome was written from scratch in far less time than it has taken Firefox to change.&quot;<p>This doesn&#x27;t line up with my understanding of the history of Chrome. I thought Chrome was based on WebKit, therefor definitely not from scratch.<p>Edit: this post references lifting components from WebKit and Firefox in the initial version, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;09&#x2F;fresh-take-on-browser.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;09&#x2F;fresh-take-on-browse...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Rot (2017)</title><url>https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/02/28/software-rot/</url></story> |
15,651,377 | 15,651,347 | 1 | 2 | 15,651,058 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxhallinan</author><text>I agree that companies are incentivized to pay the least amount of taxes just as they are incentivized to optimize their operating costs in general. I don&#x27;t think that this letter denies that Apple has a rational reason for avoiding taxes. And I agree that this problem is best fixed by making tax avoidance structurally impossible. Pressuring market actors to voluntarily take actions they are not incentivized to take is not a reliable solution.<p>But, Tim Cook himself has framed Apple&#x27;s tax practices in moral&#x2F;ethical terms. In doing so, Tim Cook began a discussion about the moral&#x2F;ethical quality of Apple&#x27;s tax practices. This letter takes part in that conversation. The letter contributes to that conversation by making the very valid point that the moral quality of Apple&#x27;s tax practices is very poor, according to Tim Cook&#x27;s own standards. Regardless of the right solution to the problem, this was something that needed to be stated publicly and was stated well in this letter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wjnc</author><text>Dear Herr Krach, thank you for your letter.<p>I think you misunderstand how business works.<p>Apple is a profit seeking corporation. Profits we make, we hope to distribute to our shareholders. Paying taxes is an obligation with which we comply, both to the letter and in spirit. We meet such obligations, but not nilly-willy. Our shareholders would not look kindly upon executives who pay more taxes than necessary.<p>Avoidance of taxes is not illegal. We even enlist the help of tax offices in many countries, like the Netherlands, Ireland and perhaps some countries internationally deemed &#x27;tax havens&#x27;. We pay what through mutual understanding with tax offices worldwide is necessary.<p>If you conclude that you find tax evasion a problem, this would be a political problem, not one of enterprise. No enterprise would knowingly pay to much and no construct of &#x27;corporate social responsibility&#x27; could make paying too much alright. We should seek to minimize cost, and we do.<p>Governments should fix tax evasion, not corporations. It&#x27;s not my role to point out the obvious, but if you find the VAT customers pay on our products insufficient and were hoping on a larger slice of our &#x27;foreign income&#x27;: fix your tax code.<p>Kind regards,
TC ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook</title><url>https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/dear-tim-cook-e322998/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Dear Tim,<p>You don&#x27;t understand how shares work. Shareholders can only benefit from shares in two ways: through speculation about the share price or through dividends. I&#x27;m kind of disappointed that I&#x27;d have to explain to a man of your stature that money that Apple parks abroad will not benefit the shareholders except in the most indirect ways.<p>If Apple brought home their overseas funds then it would benefit the US and Apple shareholders in general in two ways:<p>The taxes paid would go towards infrastructure, education, health care and other items that benefit all people in our society, and by extension also to us shareholders.<p>Money left over could be used to pay dividends to shareholders or to do tech acquisitions or long term investments in Apple projects which would benefit the shareholders in a more direct fashion.<p>Having money parked abroad waiting for a tax amnesty that may never happen does not have these positive effects and essentially ties up a lot of Apple capital in ways that are not beneficial to anybody except for the banks that get to lend this money out at prime rates while not paying Apple much of anything.<p>best regards</text><parent_chain><item><author>wjnc</author><text>Dear Herr Krach, thank you for your letter.<p>I think you misunderstand how business works.<p>Apple is a profit seeking corporation. Profits we make, we hope to distribute to our shareholders. Paying taxes is an obligation with which we comply, both to the letter and in spirit. We meet such obligations, but not nilly-willy. Our shareholders would not look kindly upon executives who pay more taxes than necessary.<p>Avoidance of taxes is not illegal. We even enlist the help of tax offices in many countries, like the Netherlands, Ireland and perhaps some countries internationally deemed &#x27;tax havens&#x27;. We pay what through mutual understanding with tax offices worldwide is necessary.<p>If you conclude that you find tax evasion a problem, this would be a political problem, not one of enterprise. No enterprise would knowingly pay to much and no construct of &#x27;corporate social responsibility&#x27; could make paying too much alright. We should seek to minimize cost, and we do.<p>Governments should fix tax evasion, not corporations. It&#x27;s not my role to point out the obvious, but if you find the VAT customers pay on our products insufficient and were hoping on a larger slice of our &#x27;foreign income&#x27;: fix your tax code.<p>Kind regards,
TC ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook</title><url>https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/dear-tim-cook-e322998/</url></story> |
22,563,139 | 22,563,048 | 1 | 2 | 22,561,933 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fbonetti</author><text>That’s basically what I’m doing, except with a 3 unit building in Michigan. In an average month, the two AirBnB units bring in 3-4x the mortgage in revenue. Not enough to retire of course, but it’s a nice side hustle.<p>That being said, our bookings been hit pretty hard by the coronavirus. We’ve hade multiple cancellations recently, and the month of April is basically wide open. We usually have an occupancy rate for 85%. I think we’ll be lucky to have 50% of the next couple months.</text><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I have a friend who got into hosting AirBnbs pretty early. Bought a 4 unit place in a rough part of Toronto that was still pretty close to downtown and lived in one of the units while he AirBnbed out the other three. Occasionally he&#x27;d go on a trip and AirBnb out his own unit.<p>It was enough money for him to cover his mortgage and not have to work if he watched his spending. He&#x27;s bleeding money now and it started about two months ago. This virus is going to hammer leveraged AirBnb hosts for a while and I think we&#x27;ll start to see a wave of AirBnb bankruptcies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/airbnb-s-loss-nearly-doubles-in-fourth-quarter-before-virus-hit</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cvhashim</author><text>Same person ? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mattlundy33&#x2F;status&#x2F;1237772778465636352?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mattlundy33&#x2F;status&#x2F;1237772778465636352?s...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I have a friend who got into hosting AirBnbs pretty early. Bought a 4 unit place in a rough part of Toronto that was still pretty close to downtown and lived in one of the units while he AirBnbed out the other three. Occasionally he&#x27;d go on a trip and AirBnb out his own unit.<p>It was enough money for him to cover his mortgage and not have to work if he watched his spending. He&#x27;s bleeding money now and it started about two months ago. This virus is going to hammer leveraged AirBnb hosts for a while and I think we&#x27;ll start to see a wave of AirBnb bankruptcies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/airbnb-s-loss-nearly-doubles-in-fourth-quarter-before-virus-hit</url></story> |
3,831,984 | 3,832,044 | 1 | 2 | 3,831,357 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NyxWulf</author><text>I've been through the process of litigating a contract in court. Not fun, but definitely was an exquisite education in the school of hard knocks.<p>Lawyers throw all kinds of language into a contract, that doesn't mean the intent was there. Vague, unfair, or overly broad language that was not clearly understood by both parties tends to get reduced, removed, or modified in accordance with what both parties reasonably understood to be the intent. So if they tried to get overly sneaky and do something where the basically version says X, but the full clause says we do X,Y,Z, then the courts may very well rule the implied intent was X but Y and Z were not implied and agreed to.<p>If they understand what they are doing, and plan to strictly abide by the basically section, this is a fantastic idea. If they at some point decide they want to get sneaky and put something in the detailed version that is not covered in the "basically" section, they may well find themselves in a world of trouble if it comes to court.<p>My experience was a company trying to sue me, despite them breaching the contract. The judge took a dim view of the crazy clauses in there and was pretty sharp with them. I expect the same thing would happen here. A normal user would probably abide by the "basically" section and the courts would <i>probably</i> take that interpretation. Of course YMMV.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icebraining</author><text>As much as I think Terms of Service documents are broken, I don't like these supposed simplifications, because invariably they simplify too much.<p>For example, in the real ToS, there's this clause:<p><pre><code> The license granted to 500px includes the right to use your Content fully
or partially for promotional reasons and to distribute and redistribute your
Content to other parties, web-sites, applications, and other entities (...)
</code></pre>
This is, in my opinion, an important clause that does not appear in the simplified version of the text.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>500px Terms of Service</title><url>http://500px.com/terms</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>screwt</author><text>I second this. Compare this 'basic':<p><pre><code> ... and we will develop more features and services in the future
</code></pre>
to the actual TOS:<p><pre><code> ... 500px reserves the right to suspend or discontinue
the availability ... or remove any Content ... without
prior notice. 500px may also ... restrict your access to
parts of or all of the Site and the Services without notice
</code></pre>
(multiple ellipses for brevity)<p>To my mind that's a pretty big omission, and makes me distrustful of hte rest of the "basic" terms.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icebraining</author><text>As much as I think Terms of Service documents are broken, I don't like these supposed simplifications, because invariably they simplify too much.<p>For example, in the real ToS, there's this clause:<p><pre><code> The license granted to 500px includes the right to use your Content fully
or partially for promotional reasons and to distribute and redistribute your
Content to other parties, web-sites, applications, and other entities (...)
</code></pre>
This is, in my opinion, an important clause that does not appear in the simplified version of the text.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>500px Terms of Service</title><url>http://500px.com/terms</url></story> |
36,752,060 | 36,751,073 | 1 | 2 | 36,746,014 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Paul-Craft</author><text>&gt; The core issue here is reviewer saying “if you change this, you also have to fix other pending issues in codebase”.<p>I don&#x27;t agree. IMO, the worst issue being displayed here is that of the &quot;6 days to change 1 line of code,&quot; almost half of them elapsed <i>before an engineer ever looked at the issue.</i> If this is such a high priority issue that the company would &quot;need&quot; (scare quotes intentional) to do a layoff if it&#x27;s not implemented soon, those 2-3 days before anyone looked at it should never have happened. And that is apparently what passes for &quot;the fast track&quot; in this development process.<p>And then there&#x27;s the 2 days at the <i>end</i> of this 6 day period where it looks like nothing happened, because the test plan was deemed insufficient.<p>&quot;If you change this, you also have to fix other pending issues&quot; only took up 2 hours here. There are at least 2 or 3 other things I could fill in here that I&#x27;d flag as core issues with this process before I&#x27;d even <i>think</i> about dealing with this part of the process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nojvek</author><text>The core issue here is reviewer saying “if you change this, you also have to fix other pending issues in codebase”.<p>That should be the point of push back “Great feedback, and appreciate the direction to improve code quality, however the implications of changing Y means we need X, Y, Z approval and it will many days. I am making a tech debt task with what you described and will be done in a follow up PR based on priority and bandwidth.<p>Let’s focus on what it would take to get this surgical PR out.”<p>The biggest lesson I learned is to make focused PRs, and learn to pushback when reviewer asks for a scope creep. Mostly other engineers have been pragmatic.<p>It’s unrelated to number of lines as you can reformat while codebase but not change anything logically, or change some feature flags which could have a huge impact. But ONE FOCUSED CHANGE AT A TIME</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)</title><url>https://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>figassis</author><text>Usually I avoid making any improvement that is not directly related to the tasks at hand. Even adding a missing semicolon risks bringing this to the attention of an overzealous reviewer that will then make me follow a rabbit hole of legacy fixes.<p>I’d rather create issues silently so I don’t forget instead of even adding a FIXME or TODO. I think this part of reviews is broken. Resolving tech debt should not be a requirement for completing a task, it should be planned.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nojvek</author><text>The core issue here is reviewer saying “if you change this, you also have to fix other pending issues in codebase”.<p>That should be the point of push back “Great feedback, and appreciate the direction to improve code quality, however the implications of changing Y means we need X, Y, Z approval and it will many days. I am making a tech debt task with what you described and will be done in a follow up PR based on priority and bandwidth.<p>Let’s focus on what it would take to get this surgical PR out.”<p>The biggest lesson I learned is to make focused PRs, and learn to pushback when reviewer asks for a scope creep. Mostly other engineers have been pragmatic.<p>It’s unrelated to number of lines as you can reformat while codebase but not change anything logically, or change some feature flags which could have a huge impact. But ONE FOCUSED CHANGE AT A TIME</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)</title><url>https://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code</url></story> |
41,751,605 | 41,750,912 | 1 | 2 | 41,750,470 | 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>hedora</author><text>I’ve been unlucky enough to have good reason to sue a few times in the last few years.<p>The courts are essentially inaccessible to 99% of the population. You can go to small claims court where the limit for damages is $12,500 in California (less than a half year’s rent around here), or you can hire a lawyer and pay $50-100K minimum before the trial even starts (on both sides).<p>The upshot is that I’m out around $100K (spread across a few different incidents) with absolutely no legal recourse.<p>Anyway, more access to the courts (and faster&#x2F;more painful rejection of nuisance suits) would go a long way to fixing our legal system.<p>It would also be good if private individuals could directly press criminal charges.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>If suing became an ultra-easy one-click activity, I can see two things coming: 1. maybe that would force us to shape up our tort laws a little so that not everything under the sun was actionable and 2. maybe people and companies would stop misbehaving so much because they knew there was no longer a burden to suing them. A combination of 1 and 2 sound like a great outcome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare</title><url>https://hbr.org/2024/10/gen-ai-makes-legal-action-cheap-and-companies-need-to-prepare</url></story> | <instructions>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>&gt; everything under the sun was actionable<p>Not everything (in the US at least) is actionable, but you still need someone to review each suit and determine whether or not to throw it out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>If suing became an ultra-easy one-click activity, I can see two things coming: 1. maybe that would force us to shape up our tort laws a little so that not everything under the sun was actionable and 2. maybe people and companies would stop misbehaving so much because they knew there was no longer a burden to suing them. A combination of 1 and 2 sound like a great outcome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare</title><url>https://hbr.org/2024/10/gen-ai-makes-legal-action-cheap-and-companies-need-to-prepare</url></story> |
10,001,218 | 10,001,050 | 1 | 3 | 10,000,341 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DigitalSea</author><text>I am super stoked they now have a Firefox compatible version. The React team have been working very hard and it shows. I&#x27;ve been working with React for about a year now, building an application using React Native and the libraries and tools are absolutely solid, something other libraries and frameworks are definitely missing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New React DevTools Beta</title><url>http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/08/03/new-react-devtools-beta.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>VeryVito</author><text>This is really nice, and it&#x27;s great to see a non-Chrome version, too (working great in Firefox so far). Chrome often gets all the love (and is a great choice) for new dev tool extensions, but many of our clients -- for one reason or another -- can&#x27;t&#x2F;won&#x27;t use Google&#x27;s browser on intranet-based solutions. It&#x27;s nice to be able to test&#x2F;debug on more than one browser (Some of us still have to party like it&#x27;s 1999).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New React DevTools Beta</title><url>http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/08/03/new-react-devtools-beta.html</url><text></text></story> |
28,433,504 | 28,433,510 | 1 | 2 | 28,433,217 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fabiospampinato</author><text>I maintain an alternative to jQuery called Cash [0], this looks cool! If you are interested in joining forces OP it&#x27;d be cool to have this capability in Cash itself. IMO that&#x27;d be the best of both world because this feature is cool and useful, and Cash&#x27;s methods are most probably closer to jQuery&#x27;s, better tested and there are more of them available (76 vs 44).<p>For example, your `on` method [1]:<p>- Doesn&#x27;t support event delegation.<p>- Doesn&#x27;t support event namespaces.<p>- Doesn&#x27;t support receiving an argument mapping events to callbacks like jQuery also can.<p>- It seems to have subtle bugs, like the way the events string is split makes so that double consecutive spaces in it (which can happen as a result of a typo) will result in listening to the empty string event. Basically: &#x27;foo bar&#x27;.split ( &#x27; &#x27; ) =&gt; [&#x27;foo&#x27;, &#x27;&#x27;, &#x27;bar&#x27;] (there are two spaces between foo and bar).<p>The `on` method we are using in Cash [2] is a lot more convoluted than that. On one hand it requires more bytes, but on the other the chances of it behaving exactly like jQuery&#x27;s are much higher. In fact we can also run jQuery&#x27;s test suite with Cash to spot issues.<p>Feel free to ping me if you are interested in joining forces.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fabiospampinato&#x2F;cash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fabiospampinato&#x2F;cash</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sachinchoolur&#x2F;replace-jquery#on" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sachinchoolur&#x2F;replace-jquery#on</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fabiospampinato&#x2F;cash&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;events&#x2F;on.ts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fabiospampinato&#x2F;cash&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;even...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Auto-generate vanilla JavaScript alternatives for jQuery methods</title><url>https://github.com/sachinchoolur/replace-jquery</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>Vanilla JS refers to Javascript that uses native browser methods instead of relying on a library. This is just replacing jQuery with another library constructed on the fly, but there are already minimal and modern alternatives with the jQuery API like zepto and cash.<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fabiospampinato&#x2F;cash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fabiospampinato&#x2F;cash</a> 2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;madrobby&#x2F;zepto" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;madrobby&#x2F;zepto</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Auto-generate vanilla JavaScript alternatives for jQuery methods</title><url>https://github.com/sachinchoolur/replace-jquery</url></story> |
16,089,317 | 16,089,043 | 1 | 2 | 16,088,622 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sigsergv</author><text>This articly is quite hard to read and follow. I have some background in math but can&#x27;t follow the logic in the article because author is constantly jumping from one topic to anonther. Artificial “questions” from imaginary layman are not helping, instead they confuse and dilute attention.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Homotopy Type Theory and Higher Inductive Types</title><url>http://www.science4all.org/article/homotopy-type-theory/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>auggierose</author><text>I really wish somebody could explain the Univalence axiom to me. Without assuming that I know category theory or algebraic topology. You know, just like you can explain the axioms of set theory pretty easily. I mean, if it is a foundation, there should be an easy way to explain it. And not in metaphors, please, but in a precise way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Homotopy Type Theory and Higher Inductive Types</title><url>http://www.science4all.org/article/homotopy-type-theory/</url></story> |
24,786,321 | 24,782,958 | 1 | 3 | 24,781,453 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kstenerud</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t really look much different from how Japan has always operated:<p>1. Have a set of trusted high level people and reward loyalty above all else.<p>2. Have an army of collective, group-minded people who will buy into and follow your creed. (From the article: “We only have people in the group who share our vision. But if you don’t share the vision, please go somewhere else.”, which is similar to The Sony Way and Toyota&#x27;s approach in the 70s, all the way back to the daimyo in the middle ages).<p>3. Give your army the feeling that you&#x27;ll take care of them for life.<p>4. Find out what the competition is doing and copy them, only better. (From the article: For example, rivals must be monitored daily, and when one differentiates itself in the market, a GMO company must match it within a day or two).<p>5. Have mantras, rituals, etc to keep an air of mysticism to the leadership and their cause.<p>This has been Japan&#x27;s MO since medieval times, and it works in Japan because that&#x27;s part of the personality of their country. Every other country has its own personality, and thus its own optimal way of doing things. Sometimes it gives them an international edge, sometimes it doesn&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-14/how-gmo-s-masatoshi-kumagai-once-a-high-school-dropout-runs-102-companies</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; GMO is a conglomerate for the internet era, dominating large parts of Japan’s web infrastructure<p>Japan&#x27;s web infrastructure is also where NTT, KDDI and Rakuten play in Japan. All of them are horrible companies, if anyone looks at how their services work and operate. The West can rest easy, Japan&#x27;s online giants represent no threat to anyone.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-14/how-gmo-s-masatoshi-kumagai-once-a-high-school-dropout-runs-102-companies</url></story> |
40,578,471 | 40,578,469 | 1 | 2 | 40,577,894 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>Security aside, I&#x27;m genuinely unsure what problem Recall is even meant to solve.<p>Like most AI products and features announced over the past 18 months, it feels like a bunch of product people got into a meeting where they looked at the capabilities of the latest OpenAI model and then started spitballing feature ideas based not on user needs but on what GPTs can do. &quot;Oh, these models can do OCR... why don&#x27;t we screenshot everything that a user has ever done, OCR it, and make it searchable!&quot;<p>I&#x27;m genuinely interested to know if there are use cases that people see for this beyond the obvious retroactive infostealing on a grand scale. What would you do with this feature if you had it?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TotalRecall: Extracts and displays data from the Windows 11 Recall feature</title><url>https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cientifico</author><text>If an intruder gets into my local account, I&#x27;m far more worried about them stealing my cookies or accessing company IP than my browser history.<p>With cookies and browser access, they could get into my emails, family photos, bank accounts, and even read desktop notifications from my phone&#x27;s SMSs.<p>For developers, the real risk lies in the variety of dependencies our apps have, which could get compromised.<p>So, this isn&#x27;t really news. There are also tools to access all your iMessage history from a Mac, for example.<p>I believe the feature is really useful, and for sure you can turn it off.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TotalRecall: Extracts and displays data from the Windows 11 Recall feature</title><url>https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall</url></story> |
25,060,531 | 25,060,503 | 1 | 3 | 25,059,984 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hguant</author><text>In the US at least, stockpiling antibiotics is a little tricky - kind of hard to find a doctor who will just write you a prescription for cipro &quot;just in case.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>If I had a dollar for every disaster prepper I&#x27;ve seen in the USA that has many thousands of rounds of ammunition, and none of the following:<p>a) water purification equipment with supplies&#x2F;filter changes good for 6+ months of continuous use<p>b) a stockpile of the most common antibiotics and medical supplies (essentially what you could get spending $700 on a comprehensive first aid kit plus $300-400 of drugs that will require periodic replacement as they expire).<p>c) knowledge or tools and supplies related to implementing off grid photovoltaic or wind power systems, but lots of gasoline or diesel generators.<p>d) $400 goose down sleeping bags, 4-season camping equipment, but they do have lots of tactical clothing and accessories, plate carriers, dropleg holsters and such</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disaster prepping is mainstream again</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/11/disaster-prepping-was-once-an-american-pastime-today-its-mainstream-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>throwaway0a5e</author><text>They&#x27;re prepping for different disasters than you want them to prep for.<p>When there&#x27;s a disaster and there&#x27;s no police to call having guns and ammo you can trade off is likely far better than gold bars, solar panels, etc because everyone without guns and ammo is gonna be wanting enough to keep themselves safe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>If I had a dollar for every disaster prepper I&#x27;ve seen in the USA that has many thousands of rounds of ammunition, and none of the following:<p>a) water purification equipment with supplies&#x2F;filter changes good for 6+ months of continuous use<p>b) a stockpile of the most common antibiotics and medical supplies (essentially what you could get spending $700 on a comprehensive first aid kit plus $300-400 of drugs that will require periodic replacement as they expire).<p>c) knowledge or tools and supplies related to implementing off grid photovoltaic or wind power systems, but lots of gasoline or diesel generators.<p>d) $400 goose down sleeping bags, 4-season camping equipment, but they do have lots of tactical clothing and accessories, plate carriers, dropleg holsters and such</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disaster prepping is mainstream again</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/11/disaster-prepping-was-once-an-american-pastime-today-its-mainstream-again/</url></story> |
40,679,036 | 40,678,041 | 1 | 2 | 40,676,408 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnnyanmac</author><text>&gt;there&#x27;d be a lot more money in people&#x27;s pockets if they didn&#x27;t have to get bureaucrats to agree on what they should be working to support.<p>people who say this need to remember what makes the most money vs. what are the actual most necessary goods for basic civilization. Sadly, most people would not fund the electric company to keep their lights on as they throw thousands at sport merchandise, including a new TV that they cannot power on.<p>There&#x27;s definitely tons of corruption, but we do need someone with a wider scope to budget for the &quot;boring&quot; stuff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>You could make the same theoretical argument against most taxes though. If it were possible to unwind corporate taxes through raw political connections it&#x27;d have happened by now for example. Or capital gains tax in its entirety.<p>That is actually a great theoretical argument against taxes generally by the way - there&#x27;d be a lot more money in people&#x27;s pockets if they didn&#x27;t have to get bureaucrats to agree on what they should be working to support.</text></item><item><author>at_compile_time</author><text>One limitation I have not seen discussed is LVT&#x27;s self-defeating nature, and it&#x27;s an important one to figure out if land value taxes are to succeed in practice.<p>An upside and downside of LVT, depending on your perspective, is that the imposition of a LVT would seriously lower land values. The inverse is also true: removing an established LVT carries a significant upside for the affected landowners. Property that had been acquired for cheap under a LVT would be freed of its shackles and allowed to appreciate again. Some of this would be immediate, as thousands of dollars in taxes shift away from land and back onto labour, enterprise, and commerce, and some of it would be gradual as people resume buying land because land value always goes up (which causes land values to go up). This creates a powerful incentive to undo any progress that a LVT campaign might accomplish.<p>I doubt that anything short of a revolution would be able to overpower the wealthy landowning class who like their unearned rents and inflated asset values very much thank you, but you don&#x27;t just need to beat them once, you need to be able to hold their political, economic, and intellectual influence at bay permanently or we end up right back where we started in a matter of years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)</title><url>https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/land-value-tax-in-online-games-and</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; If it were possible to unwind corporate taxes through raw political connections it&#x27;d have happened by now for example. Or capital gains tax in its entirety.<p>But this has more or less been done for the most powerful, e.g. corporate income tax exists but Apple doesn&#x27;t pay it, capital gains tax exists but is deferred until you sell the shares and then rich people don&#x27;t do that. So then Rockefellers don&#x27;t pay the tax, but <i>you</i> do as an ordinary peon who has a good run messing around on Robinhood, or when you start making withdrawals from your IRA. Meanwhile we can&#x27;t get rid of the tax which now only applies to the middle class because people claim that you&#x27;re trying to give a tax cut to the billionaires who aren&#x27;t actually paying it.<p>&gt; there&#x27;d be a lot more money in people&#x27;s pockets if they didn&#x27;t have to get bureaucrats to agree on what they should be working to support.<p>It&#x27;s really an argument for tax <i>simplification</i>.<p>As far as I can tell the way tax policy works is that rich people hire lawyers and PR firms to cast the forms of taxation they would actually have to pay as regressive (e.g. consumption taxes, because you can&#x27;t register the Rolls Royce without paying the tax and you can&#x27;t sell into the jurisdiction without collecting VAT) and the forms they can avoid through shell games and accounting tricks as The One True Way To Tax The Rich (e.g. &quot;profit&quot; taxes, because profit is fuzzy around the edges and has high inter-region liquidity), which the rich then weasel out of and leave only the middle class paying the tax.</text><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>You could make the same theoretical argument against most taxes though. If it were possible to unwind corporate taxes through raw political connections it&#x27;d have happened by now for example. Or capital gains tax in its entirety.<p>That is actually a great theoretical argument against taxes generally by the way - there&#x27;d be a lot more money in people&#x27;s pockets if they didn&#x27;t have to get bureaucrats to agree on what they should be working to support.</text></item><item><author>at_compile_time</author><text>One limitation I have not seen discussed is LVT&#x27;s self-defeating nature, and it&#x27;s an important one to figure out if land value taxes are to succeed in practice.<p>An upside and downside of LVT, depending on your perspective, is that the imposition of a LVT would seriously lower land values. The inverse is also true: removing an established LVT carries a significant upside for the affected landowners. Property that had been acquired for cheap under a LVT would be freed of its shackles and allowed to appreciate again. Some of this would be immediate, as thousands of dollars in taxes shift away from land and back onto labour, enterprise, and commerce, and some of it would be gradual as people resume buying land because land value always goes up (which causes land values to go up). This creates a powerful incentive to undo any progress that a LVT campaign might accomplish.<p>I doubt that anything short of a revolution would be able to overpower the wealthy landowning class who like their unearned rents and inflated asset values very much thank you, but you don&#x27;t just need to beat them once, you need to be able to hold their political, economic, and intellectual influence at bay permanently or we end up right back where we started in a matter of years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)</title><url>https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/land-value-tax-in-online-games-and</url></story> |
18,832,427 | 18,831,537 | 1 | 2 | 18,831,331 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; Even Attorney General Eric Holder got involved in the government’s obstruction of discovery in the case, signing what appears to have been a perjured affidavit falsely claiming that he had personal knowledge that disclosing the status or reasons for Dr. Ibrahim’s blacklisting (i.e. the fact that an FBI agent had made a mistake), “could reasonably be expected to cause significant harm to the national security.”<p>The attorney general, knowing full well that the entire case was based on the government screwing up, perjures himself by claiming that letting anyone know why this happened would cause harm to national security. This is the danger of secrecy in law. When you can claim something must be kept secret with no burden of proof, you let government&#x27;s hide embarrassments.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No-fly list trial: Court awards fees on government attorneys’ bad faith</title><url>https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/01/03/plaintiff-in-first-no-fly-trial-wins-another-appeal-on-attorneys-fees-and-government-lawyers-bad-faith/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nagrom</author><text>In case anyone else is confused, the term &quot;en banc&quot; refers to a case which is heard before <i>all</i> the judges on the bench for that court, rather than just one. En banc hearings are generally made in cases deemed of extreme importance. As such, this is a fairly strong finding.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No-fly list trial: Court awards fees on government attorneys’ bad faith</title><url>https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/01/03/plaintiff-in-first-no-fly-trial-wins-another-appeal-on-attorneys-fees-and-government-lawyers-bad-faith/</url></story> |
2,817,912 | 2,817,770 | 1 | 2 | 2,817,090 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dkokelley</author><text>I was home schooled, and I wish there was a Khan Academy when I was growing up. We did use something similar with DVDs and an electronic blackboard.<p>All in all, it worked out well for me, and I would encourage you to stick with home schooling. If you can, find a private school that allows home study. That way, you can get group field trips and sports activities while staying in control of your child's educational growth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sequoia</author><text>I'm a parent of two who does NOT plan on putting his kids in public school because I think they won't be served well there (plan on "home schooling"). My 5yo uses Khan Academy and it seems to be great. Finally, I basically hate most aspects of public school.<p>That said, I get sick of everyone piling on public school whenever something like this comes up. Public school is set to the following task: "take <i></i>everyone<i></i>, <i></i>everywhere<i></i>, all across the country, and bring them to the same level of proficiency across the board, with tightly limited funding and regardless of outside factors." Someone comes along and finds a tool that works on a teeny tiny cohort then climbs on their pedestal and declares their system better than public schools.<p>Personally, I think public schools are being set to an (almost?) impossible task. What the reviewer said in that article about "slow them down please" is obviously abhorrent, but the "They have a monopoly! They're monopolists!" chatter is silly, in my opinion. First of all they don't have a monopoly (for those who can afford it: private charter homeschooling etc.). Secondly, they are just trying to do their best to meet their goals <i>with what they have</i>. It's selfish, yes, but having students at more or less the same level of competency makes it easier for them to do the task to which they've been set.<p>When I was in school, the teacher would often say "Sequoia, that's a great question, but it's a bit advanced and I've got 30 other students here. I can't spend a lot of time answering advanced questions when half the class is struggling with basic concepts." That was annoying and I'm not going to send my kids to public school in part because of it, but I didn't rail against the teacher for being a selfish monopolist. S/he was just doing his/her best given the circumstances and requirements: often times public schools are doing the same.<p>EDIT: an article that informs my thinking here: <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/?pagination=false" rel="nofollow">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-ch...</a> Great article, whether you've seen <i>Waiting for Superman</i> (hit piece "documentary" about why public schools suck and charter schools are the answer) or not.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’</title><url>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/could-you-modify-it-to-stop-students-from-becoming-this-advanced/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klenwell</author><text>Well put.<p><i>Finally, I basically hate most aspects of public school.</i><p>I was ready to agree with this. But then I reflected. What I really hated were my rotten peers (and, to an extent, my rotten self) from around the start of junior high to the end of high school. They weren't horrible, mind you. Just middle-of-the-distribution-curve kids, with the inevitable psychopath or two. I don't think privatization is going to filter that out.<p>And I rather liked my public community colleges and universities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sequoia</author><text>I'm a parent of two who does NOT plan on putting his kids in public school because I think they won't be served well there (plan on "home schooling"). My 5yo uses Khan Academy and it seems to be great. Finally, I basically hate most aspects of public school.<p>That said, I get sick of everyone piling on public school whenever something like this comes up. Public school is set to the following task: "take <i></i>everyone<i></i>, <i></i>everywhere<i></i>, all across the country, and bring them to the same level of proficiency across the board, with tightly limited funding and regardless of outside factors." Someone comes along and finds a tool that works on a teeny tiny cohort then climbs on their pedestal and declares their system better than public schools.<p>Personally, I think public schools are being set to an (almost?) impossible task. What the reviewer said in that article about "slow them down please" is obviously abhorrent, but the "They have a monopoly! They're monopolists!" chatter is silly, in my opinion. First of all they don't have a monopoly (for those who can afford it: private charter homeschooling etc.). Secondly, they are just trying to do their best to meet their goals <i>with what they have</i>. It's selfish, yes, but having students at more or less the same level of competency makes it easier for them to do the task to which they've been set.<p>When I was in school, the teacher would often say "Sequoia, that's a great question, but it's a bit advanced and I've got 30 other students here. I can't spend a lot of time answering advanced questions when half the class is struggling with basic concepts." That was annoying and I'm not going to send my kids to public school in part because of it, but I didn't rail against the teacher for being a selfish monopolist. S/he was just doing his/her best given the circumstances and requirements: often times public schools are doing the same.<p>EDIT: an article that informs my thinking here: <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/?pagination=false" rel="nofollow">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-ch...</a> Great article, whether you've seen <i>Waiting for Superman</i> (hit piece "documentary" about why public schools suck and charter schools are the answer) or not.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’</title><url>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/could-you-modify-it-to-stop-students-from-becoming-this-advanced/</url></story> |
33,966,508 | 33,966,199 | 1 | 2 | 33,965,966 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>berjin</author><text>I empathise with the comments about copycats.
I made a web game and initially put it up on github pages. It was inspired by a similar web game which had been abandoned and I wanted to add features etc so I re-created it from scratch.<p>Within a week it was cloned and put up on a nice domain with a different logo and the copycat was impersonating me on social media and ranking quite well on Google. It&#x27;s no longer open source. The copy cat site now has adverts up and links to a network of copycat web games. Many copy cat sites are now embedding my site proxied (to avoid CORS) and surrounded with adverts. These sites rank really well on Google because the copy cat sites link to each other. The game is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redactle-unlimited.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redactle-unlimited.com</a> if you want to check it out. I haven&#x27;t made a life changing amount from donations but it actually might be a significant amount for people in poorer economies.<p>The bottom line is that you need to have a moat by having a trusted brand or database&#x2F;codebase that can&#x27;t be imitated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Farewell, Building in Public</title><url>https://www.coryzue.com/writing/building-in-private/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buf</author><text>I build in public and think about these two things often.<p>As an indie dev, I make around $800k per year on my two saas companies.<p>Copycats: There have been some, but the saas companies that I&#x27;ve build have such a hard cold start problem (they&#x27;re social marketplaces), that all the ones I&#x27;ve seen pop-up flatline. If you have a product that has no moat, sure, don&#x27;t build in public.<p>Bragging: In fact, it&#x27;s the opposite. When I post something, and the comments start rolling in, it&#x27;s only then that I realize mistakes I&#x27;ve made or things I could&#x27;ve done better.<p>---<p>I think building in public is still a decent way to build an audience and to get free insights.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Farewell, Building in Public</title><url>https://www.coryzue.com/writing/building-in-private/</url></story> |
20,636,930 | 20,636,903 | 1 | 2 | 20,636,152 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>The writeup says that Lowe was installed as CEO by the company that bought MoviePass, Helios &amp; Matheson Analytics, and that the shift down to the $10 price point was the brainstorm of H&amp;M&#x27;s own CEO, Ted Matheson.<p>Put yourself in Matheson&#x27;s (presumably quite expensive) shoes for a moment. You&#x27;re in the process of acquiring this company, MoviePass, and you have some Big Ideas™ for it. Who would you want to have sitting in that company&#x27;s CEO chair? Not an independent-minded entrepreneur who&#x27;s full of ideas of their own, that&#x27;s for sure. No, what you&#x27;d want is a yes-man, an amiable non-entity who can be counted on to do what you tell them to do while otherwise staying out of your way and letting you play with your new toy.<p>It&#x27;s not uncommon for wealthy people to have a few people like this in their entourage, people whose job is to fill a chair so as to prevent someone who could cause the rich guy trouble from filling it instead. It&#x27;s a job whose only requirements are that you get along with the Big Guy and are willing to unquestioningly do anything he tells you to. In other words, it requires all the business savvy of a block of cheese. But it definitely pays well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>&gt;Lowe&#x27;s happy-go-lucky persona marked a shift from the all-business Spikes, whom he had replaced in the company hierarchy as CEO. On the rare occasions Lowe made it into the office, staff would need almost an entire day to get him up to speed. His general attitude, as one source described, was, &#x27;Well, what do you think we should do?&#x27;<p>How do people like this make it so far in their careers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MoviePass Worked Out Great</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/moviepass-worked-out-great</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bumby</author><text>I agree in the context of not being in the office when his team needs guidance, this is bad.<p>But asking &quot;what do you think we should do?&quot; shouldn&#x27;t be lambasted as an indicator of incompetence. In my experience, leaders who feel like they should have all the answers are the most incompetent ones.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>&gt;Lowe&#x27;s happy-go-lucky persona marked a shift from the all-business Spikes, whom he had replaced in the company hierarchy as CEO. On the rare occasions Lowe made it into the office, staff would need almost an entire day to get him up to speed. His general attitude, as one source described, was, &#x27;Well, what do you think we should do?&#x27;<p>How do people like this make it so far in their careers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MoviePass Worked Out Great</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/moviepass-worked-out-great</url></story> |
26,480,940 | 26,481,287 | 1 | 3 | 26,477,999 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>Kubernetes is so much more than most people should want or need. It&#x27;s far too complicated and heavyweight for smaller or simpler deployments. In AWS, most people should use ECS&#x2F;Fargate instead. There are other competing container environments as well. Your point still stands; Docker popularized containerization and are in danger of becoming irrelevant because they ceded the container execution environment to others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>filleokus</author><text>It feels like Docker (Inc) is becoming less and less &quot;relevant&quot; for each year that passes. At least from my perspective, they led the popularisation of containerisation and the whole cattle-not-pets approach of deploying apps. They created big and long lasting change in the industry.<p>But they seem to have lost the production environment race to Kubernetes, at least for now. They are the biggest player in the dev-machine market, but more alternatives are popping up making it even harder to monetise. And containerd isn&#x27;t a part of Docker (Inc) any more.<p>They do have Docker Hub, and its privileged position as the default registry of all Docker installs. But I don&#x27;t really see why paying (i.e enterprise) customers would pick Docker Hub over their friendly neighbourhood cloud provider registry where they already have contracts.<p>Will Docker start rate limiting the public free repos even harder? Maybe making big orgs pay for the privilege of being hosted in the default docker registry? Charging to have the images &quot;verified&quot;?<p>Anyways, I hope Docker find some viable business model, it would be sad to see them fail commercially after arguably succeeding in changing the (devops) world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Docker Raises $23M</title><url>https://www.docker.com/press-release/Docker-Series-B</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anandrm</author><text>IMO docker did an amazing paradigm shift of many apps from heavy weight VMs to Micro Services,lot in CI&#x2F;CD etc .. But all of them dnt make sense without an orchestration platform . Just like how a standalone VM does not make any commercial sense. This has been a question for long time about their revenue model. I guess they did try with compose , swarm , etc but the space was already taken by Kubernetes . I dnt know docker as company would be profitable ..</text><parent_chain><item><author>filleokus</author><text>It feels like Docker (Inc) is becoming less and less &quot;relevant&quot; for each year that passes. At least from my perspective, they led the popularisation of containerisation and the whole cattle-not-pets approach of deploying apps. They created big and long lasting change in the industry.<p>But they seem to have lost the production environment race to Kubernetes, at least for now. They are the biggest player in the dev-machine market, but more alternatives are popping up making it even harder to monetise. And containerd isn&#x27;t a part of Docker (Inc) any more.<p>They do have Docker Hub, and its privileged position as the default registry of all Docker installs. But I don&#x27;t really see why paying (i.e enterprise) customers would pick Docker Hub over their friendly neighbourhood cloud provider registry where they already have contracts.<p>Will Docker start rate limiting the public free repos even harder? Maybe making big orgs pay for the privilege of being hosted in the default docker registry? Charging to have the images &quot;verified&quot;?<p>Anyways, I hope Docker find some viable business model, it would be sad to see them fail commercially after arguably succeeding in changing the (devops) world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Docker Raises $23M</title><url>https://www.docker.com/press-release/Docker-Series-B</url></story> |
7,274,522 | 7,274,180 | 1 | 2 | 7,273,037 | 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>glesica</author><text>To me, the problem with this argument is that there is, in fact, no connection between what is best for society and what is profitable. In theory, there should be, but it isn&#x27;t an intrinsic thing, it&#x27;s created deliberately and must be maintained.<p>When you have the money, you make the rules. That sums up the problem. Markets are not magical creatures, they exist within the context of social rules and norms. Selling human beings was once seen as rather profitable. Then society decided that selling human beings was wrong, even though it was profitable. You clearly understand this, we banned slavery, we didn&#x27;t just ban investing in slavery-related businesses.<p>What I think you are missing is that there are a ton of things that are between &quot;good for society&quot; and something along the lines of slavery that is clearly a bad thing. The problem with these middle &quot;bads&quot; is that they aren&#x27;t bad enough to be universally and energetically rejected.<p>This means that there is plenty of room for people with money to get these things made legal, or kept legal, and it is these things that often seem to be more profitable than other, more socially beneficial, activities (possibly because fewer people are morally willing and able to do them). I think of this sort of thing as &quot;meta-competition&quot; because it is competition among those with money to most efficiently turn their money into influence and power that can be used to allow them to make even more money.<p>As long as money can be converted to power, you can&#x27;t assume, as you have done, that whatever is legal is socially beneficial (or at least not socially destructive).</text><parent_chain><item><author>randyrand</author><text>&gt;on making more money. Not making society better. Not allocating capital effectively.<p>The simple flaw in your argument is that you assume that these things are usually mutually exclusive. In fact, it is typically the opposite; they usually are one in the same. The things that are &quot;best&quot; for society also tend to make the most money. People pay for things because they want (or need [2])them, because it makes their lives better [1]. To extend this to investments, smart investments are investments to companies who will eventually make money, because their products are worth buying.<p>Investing money is an incredibly rewarding but very risky activity. Smart investments will make upwards of 100x ROI, bad ones will lose every penny. Having smart investors is an imperative to maximizing the usefulness of money. Just look at Solyndra ;)<p>1. since people are having trouble understanding how to interpret this sentence let me clarify. &quot;Better&quot; is completely subjective. For the purpose of making buying decisions, &quot;better&quot; is whatever the person making this buying decision defines as &quot;better&quot; for them. All in all the point of &quot;better&quot; not really being &quot;better&quot; is irrelevant (as it the distinction between want and need). If you want to make the argument that investors are investing in companies that actually make our lives <i>worse</i>, then the solution is typically banning those companies and products directly, not banning investments to those companies.<p>2. thanks to &#x2F;u&#x2F;revscat (yes I know this is not reddit)</text></item><item><author>soup10</author><text>&quot;Those who work in banking, venture capital, and other financial firms are in charge of allocating the economy’s investment resources. They decide, in a decentralized and competitive way, which companies and industries will shrink and which will grow. It makes sense that a nation would allocate many of its most talented and thus highly compensated individuals to the task.&quot;<p>The simple flaw with this idea is that wall street is squarely focused on making more money. Not making society better. Not allocating capital effectively. Not even on creating wealth(which is distinct from money). The single guiding equation for all deals and transactions is &quot;how can we make as much money as possible with as little risk as possible and also stay out of jail&quot;.<p>That wall street occasionally invests in companies that actually do create wealth and allocate capital to the betterment of society is more a case of broken clock sometimes being right.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule</title><url>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jare</author><text>&gt; The things that are &quot;best&quot; for society also tend to make the most money. People pay for things because they want them, because it makes their lives better<p>The things that make the most money are the things most desired by the people with the most money to spend. That group of people can only be equated with &quot;Society&quot; if that group of people does in fact form the majority of the society. That&#x27;s why a large middle class is so important, and why growing differences in income are so threatening.</text><parent_chain><item><author>randyrand</author><text>&gt;on making more money. Not making society better. Not allocating capital effectively.<p>The simple flaw in your argument is that you assume that these things are usually mutually exclusive. In fact, it is typically the opposite; they usually are one in the same. The things that are &quot;best&quot; for society also tend to make the most money. People pay for things because they want (or need [2])them, because it makes their lives better [1]. To extend this to investments, smart investments are investments to companies who will eventually make money, because their products are worth buying.<p>Investing money is an incredibly rewarding but very risky activity. Smart investments will make upwards of 100x ROI, bad ones will lose every penny. Having smart investors is an imperative to maximizing the usefulness of money. Just look at Solyndra ;)<p>1. since people are having trouble understanding how to interpret this sentence let me clarify. &quot;Better&quot; is completely subjective. For the purpose of making buying decisions, &quot;better&quot; is whatever the person making this buying decision defines as &quot;better&quot; for them. All in all the point of &quot;better&quot; not really being &quot;better&quot; is irrelevant (as it the distinction between want and need). If you want to make the argument that investors are investing in companies that actually make our lives <i>worse</i>, then the solution is typically banning those companies and products directly, not banning investments to those companies.<p>2. thanks to &#x2F;u&#x2F;revscat (yes I know this is not reddit)</text></item><item><author>soup10</author><text>&quot;Those who work in banking, venture capital, and other financial firms are in charge of allocating the economy’s investment resources. They decide, in a decentralized and competitive way, which companies and industries will shrink and which will grow. It makes sense that a nation would allocate many of its most talented and thus highly compensated individuals to the task.&quot;<p>The simple flaw with this idea is that wall street is squarely focused on making more money. Not making society better. Not allocating capital effectively. Not even on creating wealth(which is distinct from money). The single guiding equation for all deals and transactions is &quot;how can we make as much money as possible with as little risk as possible and also stay out of jail&quot;.<p>That wall street occasionally invests in companies that actually do create wealth and allocate capital to the betterment of society is more a case of broken clock sometimes being right.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule</title><url>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-2</url></story> |
12,951,856 | 12,950,808 | 1 | 3 | 12,950,343 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uiri</author><text>This is really old news. These kinds of attacks have been well documented for over a decade.[1] An ICMP type 3 code 3 or type 3 code 2 packet MUST be treated the same as a TCP Reset packet (per RFCs). You can also do blind performance degradation attacks with ICMP type 4 or type 3 code 4 packets. Thankfully, ICMP type 4 has been deprecated for a while now so those packets can be safely ignored.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gont.com.ar&#x2F;drafts&#x2F;icmp-attacks-against-tcp.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gont.com.ar&#x2F;drafts&#x2F;icmp-attacks-against-tcp.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blacknurse – Low bandwidth ICMP firewall attack</title><url>http://blacknurse.dk/</url></story> | <instructions>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>To be honest I&#x27;ve always been pretty amazed that the web doesn&#x27;t fall apart much more easily than it actually does.<p>The fact is that most sites work only with some kind of caching in front of them at any scale; my guess would be on a site by site basis there will be a slow performing piece of code somewhere that can be exploited with low resources on the part of the attacker.<p>In a lot of cases, simply creating a session a couple of 100000 in a short enough space of time, would be enough to overload the majority of sites...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blacknurse – Low bandwidth ICMP firewall attack</title><url>http://blacknurse.dk/</url></story> |
15,467,631 | 15,467,567 | 1 | 3 | 15,464,486 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>I&#x27;ve been (idly) looking for something like this just in the past couple of weeks, though I wasn&#x27;t exactly sure what I wanted it to look like. I really like the visualization of service connections, great job!<p>I was playing with d3js to build a Sankey diagram, but it wasn&#x27;t quite right -- this is pretty much what I was going for but hadn&#x27;t quite pictured yet.<p>Ultimately, I am actually trying to build a dashboard to put up on a monitor on the wall with this information, but also overlay status (instance health, versions, etc). I guess it could sort of be done using sever-side image generation, so long as ETag caching is working properly, and you only regenerate the image if anything has actually changed.<p>I may give this a shot at some point, but before I do, anyone have ideas on how to get this result using javascript running in browser?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse proxy grapher</title><url>https://paranoidbeavers.ca/rev-proxy-grapher.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>luxpsycho</author><text>Feature request: donate button &#x2F; address for postards.<p>Will try this out as soon as I have a spare minute! Fantastic! :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse proxy grapher</title><url>https://paranoidbeavers.ca/rev-proxy-grapher.html</url></story> |
29,765,927 | 29,765,885 | 1 | 2 | 29,765,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>etempleton</author><text>It will be interesting to see if this changes anything on my next visit to the hospital. When my child was born we asked in advance both insurance and the hospital for a cost estimate. No one could provide one. We were then proceeded to be sent bills from various parties for over a year. We had no idea if we were to pay it, insurance was to pay it, if we had already paid it and there was an accounting error. Each bill was as vague as the next with only the company name to go off of. The whole thing is&#x2F;was perposterous. Can the hospital not act as a mediary and collate all of the charges on a single line itemed bill? Because that is how everything else in the world works.<p>From what I can gather.there is some sinister game hospitals and medical insurance play, but you would think that, oh, I don’t know, it would save time and money for them both to just come up with some agreed upon pricing and save some administrator overhead.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Many surprise medical bills are now illegal</title><url>https://www.axios.com/surprise-medical-bills-illegal-doctors-insurers-faac35a7-a2db-4555-a172-7de5f4c3cc54.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>kelnos</author><text>This is truly a great improvement, but not including ground ambulances in this is messed up. And reeks of a special-interest lobbying group pushing for it.<p>This also really bothers me:<p>&gt; <i>Out-of-network doctors also must inform patients about what their care might cost, and they may ask patients to sign a form that waives their protections. (Be leery of signing this, consumer rights experts say.)</i><p>It&#x27;s a very weak law when you can still sign away your rights to someone who has the stronger end of a power&#x2F;information imbalance. Emergency care is supposed to be covered by this law, but if you&#x27;re in bad shape and show up at the ER, you might sign anything just to get care.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Many surprise medical bills are now illegal</title><url>https://www.axios.com/surprise-medical-bills-illegal-doctors-insurers-faac35a7-a2db-4555-a172-7de5f4c3cc54.html</url></story> |
19,536,001 | 19,535,892 | 1 | 3 | 19,535,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mordymoop</author><text>Are we still talking about this? Within months of the book’s release, readers had found many examples where his data selections had been incomplete. To the extent that the main points were invalidated or made far less convincing. When you include the full data in his analysis, the main conclusions are drawn into question. There are many very thorough blog posts by economists you can easily Google.<p>It’d be like if Origin of Species came out, but evolution was actually wrong, and Darwin had only seemed right at first because he left out the species that didn’t fit his model.<p>I don’t think Piketty did this on purpose, by the way. He just didn’t push hard enough on the data that he didn’t want to find fault with.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atdrummond</author><text>Arguably, as with Nancy MacLean, it is his continued refusal to acknowledge or address methodological (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercatus.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;Warshawsky-Piketty-v2.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercatus.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;Warshawsky-Piketty-v2....</a>) and data (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;pikettys-data-reliable.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;pi...</a>) errors.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder</url></story> |
16,765,785 | 16,765,895 | 1 | 2 | 16,764,716 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pg_bot</author><text>IMO the toothpaste is already out of the tube on this one. We already live in a world where strong encryption exists, and is accessible to the common developer. The DOJ does not get to live in the world that it wants to. I understand this will make their lives more difficult, however I do not care. Currently they are in the &quot;anger and bargaining&quot; stage of grief, I hope they realize that &quot;going dark&quot; isn&#x27;t really that bad.</text><parent_chain><item><author>natch</author><text>&gt;any system that is designed to allow law enforcement agencies all across the country to expeditiously decrypt devices pursuant to court order will be enormously complex, raising the likelihood of serious flaws in implementation.<p>Generally I agree with the EFF but I always find this particular argument specious.<p>If someone were to design such a system but without flaws in its implementation, would EFF be OK with that? I don&#x27;t think so, because those agencies are rife with bad actors. A perfect system, in the hands of bad actors, is already a problem.<p>The problem at the outset is with the context of use. Yes there are other problems that would follow on because the system would not be technically perfect, but even before that, the flawed context of giving these tools to bad actors should not be overlooked. Setting up such a system, <i>perfect or not</i> is a bad idea, period. Yes it will be imperfect but even if you buy into the mistaken idea that it can be made perfect, the context of use, in agencies with bad actors, is already broken even before the imperfections allow exploits by agency outsiders.<p>No, we don&#x27;t have to assume that the agencies are staffed with only good people. Not even for the sake of argument, and not even for the sake of a polite white paper from the EFF.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/fbi-could-have-gotten-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone-leadership-didnt-say</url></story> | <instructions>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>Any system with &quot;exceptional&quot;&#x2F;whatever they want to call it this week access mechanisms inherently reduces the security of the system, even your hypothetical flawless system. This is because attackers rationally go for the weakest link, which becomes whatever policy mechanisms gate access to the panty-sniffer mechanism.<p>We&#x27;ve seen a constant stream of stories of folks with access to surveillance mechanisms abusing them. Guards being creepy with cameras, NSA analysts stalking lovers, cops stalking lots of people.<p>And that&#x27;s just what leaks out to the press.<p>Any sensible analysis of this sort of thing has to include the inevitability of abuse. If it doesn&#x27;t include mechanisms for detecting, punishing and <i>alerting the victim</i>, then the priorities are made quite clear, and are a giant middle finger to the notion of personal autonomy for anyone without special legal status.<p>Enjoy your freedom responsibly, citizen-unit. Or else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>natch</author><text>&gt;any system that is designed to allow law enforcement agencies all across the country to expeditiously decrypt devices pursuant to court order will be enormously complex, raising the likelihood of serious flaws in implementation.<p>Generally I agree with the EFF but I always find this particular argument specious.<p>If someone were to design such a system but without flaws in its implementation, would EFF be OK with that? I don&#x27;t think so, because those agencies are rife with bad actors. A perfect system, in the hands of bad actors, is already a problem.<p>The problem at the outset is with the context of use. Yes there are other problems that would follow on because the system would not be technically perfect, but even before that, the flawed context of giving these tools to bad actors should not be overlooked. Setting up such a system, <i>perfect or not</i> is a bad idea, period. Yes it will be imperfect but even if you buy into the mistaken idea that it can be made perfect, the context of use, in agencies with bad actors, is already broken even before the imperfections allow exploits by agency outsiders.<p>No, we don&#x27;t have to assume that the agencies are staffed with only good people. Not even for the sake of argument, and not even for the sake of a polite white paper from the EFF.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/fbi-could-have-gotten-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone-leadership-didnt-say</url></story> |
24,614,621 | 24,614,364 | 1 | 2 | 24,610,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DTolm</author><text>I have used VkFFT to create GPU version of a magnetic simulation software Spirit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DTolm&#x2F;spirit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DTolm&#x2F;spirit</a>).
Except for FFT it also has a lot of general linear algebra routines, like efficient GPU reduce&#x2F;scan and system solvers, like CG, LBFGS, VP, Runge-Kutta and Depondt. This version of Spirit is faster than CUDA based software that has been out and updated for ~6 years due to the fact that I have full control over all the code I use. You might want to check the discussions on reddit for this project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ilcw2f&#x2F;p_vulkan_as_an_alternative_to_cuda_in_scientific&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ilcw2f&#x2F;p_v...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;il9sar&#x2F;vulkan_as_an_alternative_to_cuda_in_scientific&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;il9sar&#x2F;vulkan_...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>slavik81</author><text>What are the common applications for these sorts of GPU-accelerated FFTs? We mostly just solved problems analytically in undergrad, and the little bit of naive coding we did seemed pretty fast. I feel like this must be used for problems I would have learned about in grad school, if I had continued in electrical engineering.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library</title><url>https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Reelin</author><text>Likely any HPC application that has an FFT somewhere in its pipeline and is otherwise amenable to being run on a GPU.<p>Fluid flow, heat transfer, and other such physical phenomena that you might want to simulate.<p>Phase correlation in image processing is another example. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phase_correlation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phase_correlation</a>)<p>MD simulations rely on FFT but I&#x27;m not sure how much is typically (or can be) done on the GPU. For example, NAMD employs cuFFT on the GPU in some cases. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aip.scitation.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1063&#x2F;5.0014475" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aip.scitation.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1063&#x2F;5.0014475</a>)</text><parent_chain><item><author>slavik81</author><text>What are the common applications for these sorts of GPU-accelerated FFTs? We mostly just solved problems analytically in undergrad, and the little bit of naive coding we did seemed pretty fast. I feel like this must be used for problems I would have learned about in grad school, if I had continued in electrical engineering.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library</title><url>https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT</url></story> |
38,361,188 | 38,360,044 | 1 | 2 | 38,358,032 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>udev4096</author><text>How is this different than ollama (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmorganca&#x2F;ollama">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmorganca&#x2F;ollama</a>)? I would argue it&#x27;s even simpler to run LLMs locally with ollama</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Getting Started with Mistral-7b-Instruct-v0.1</title><url>https://www.secondstate.io/articles/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1/</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>politelemon</author><text>Mistral have created a docker image which hosts their model in vllm. Vllm creates an openai like http API interface.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.mistral.ai&#x2F;quickstart&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.mistral.ai&#x2F;quickstart&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Getting Started with Mistral-7b-Instruct-v0.1</title><url>https://www.secondstate.io/articles/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1/</url></story> |
18,147,717 | 18,147,594 | 1 | 3 | 18,147,329 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lmm</author><text>The gaming press is more press than gaming; they&#x27;re often people with writing degrees who are disproportionately fond of &quot;literary&quot; games compared to the buying public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aikah</author><text>Sometimes you simply got to let the data speak for themselves:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2tR4WVX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2tR4WVX</a><p>It&#x27;s so strange how the prestige around the brand was not correlated to the sells numbers. It so strange how their demise was so unexpected by the press and gaming communities when the writing was on the wall long ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The tragic end of Telltale Games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/4/17934166/telltale-games-studio-closed-layoffs-end-the-walking-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>Fragoel2</author><text>Apparently making the same game over and over (with different intellectual property to tie it up) does not pay off.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aikah</author><text>Sometimes you simply got to let the data speak for themselves:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2tR4WVX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2tR4WVX</a><p>It&#x27;s so strange how the prestige around the brand was not correlated to the sells numbers. It so strange how their demise was so unexpected by the press and gaming communities when the writing was on the wall long ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The tragic end of Telltale Games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/4/17934166/telltale-games-studio-closed-layoffs-end-the-walking-dead</url></story> |
7,528,556 | 7,528,193 | 1 | 2 | 7,527,685 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>What is interesting is that people don&#x27;t even know they have a complex about money until they get &quot;rich.&quot; I&#x27;ve watched many people, perhaps a hundred, go from &quot;working to pay the bills&quot; to &quot;holy crap I can pay all my current and possibly my future bills with the money I now have.&quot; That doesn&#x27;t include the guy who lived in our neighborhood and won the CA lottery one year.<p>It affects people in ways they don&#x27;t expect. If its sudden (like lottery winning or sudden IPO surge) it can be difficult to process. But it is an important thing to realize that one <i>is</i> processing an exceptional event. Like having a loved one die or a spouse suddenly divorcing you.<p>Not everyone feels &quot;guilty&quot;, not everyone feels &quot;smug.&quot; A lot of millionaires and billionaires in the Bay Area are outwardly unchanged. But the bottom line is that the emotion comes from the cognitive dissonance between values and reality. What do you value? What is reality?<p>One woman I knew at Google was massively conflicted when she started work at Google. She always felt that she would help the homeless folks she saw, if she had more money than she needed. Upon becoming rich (on Google stock value), now she found that she wanted to save the money she had for her future kids education and needs. Was she a bad person? Before? After? Do your kids hate you if you give away their college education to the local foodbank? Do your peers hate you because you could close the current food gap at the foodbank and you don&#x27;t?<p>When people tell me they wish they were rich, I tell them to be careful what they wish for.<p>Edited for clarity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>refurb</author><text>Interesting and well written article.<p>I think the issue that causes a lot of this emotion around money is the fact that we as a society like to think that the harder you work, the more money you make.<p>It&#x27;s obviously not a true statement at all.<p>When you come into a lot of money for relatively little effort (the comparison of the kid vs. the mother), you start to feel like you don&#x27;t deserve it at all.<p>&quot;Why do I get $1M for a few months work when my mom gets $20K&#x2F;yr for busting her ass?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires</title><url>http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/04/the-guilt-of-the-video-game-millionaires.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>throwawaymsft</author><text>The (untrue) corollary is that if you don&#x27;t have money, it must be because you aren&#x27;t worthy (i.e., aren&#x27;t working hard, aren&#x27;t skilled, etc.).<p>Our not-so-logical brain jumps to strange conclusions and I think there&#x27;s subconscious tension at play.</text><parent_chain><item><author>refurb</author><text>Interesting and well written article.<p>I think the issue that causes a lot of this emotion around money is the fact that we as a society like to think that the harder you work, the more money you make.<p>It&#x27;s obviously not a true statement at all.<p>When you come into a lot of money for relatively little effort (the comparison of the kid vs. the mother), you start to feel like you don&#x27;t deserve it at all.<p>&quot;Why do I get $1M for a few months work when my mom gets $20K&#x2F;yr for busting her ass?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires</title><url>http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/04/the-guilt-of-the-video-game-millionaires.html</url></story> |
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