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41,584,849 | 41,584,799 | 1 | 2 | 41,582,278 | 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>AlbertCory</author><text>Former tech advisor to Google Patent Litigation here.<p>The Ex Parte Reexamination is a fundamental tool for fighting against patent trolls:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reexamination" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reexamination</a><p>They <i>can</i> also be used by big companies to steal IP from small inventors. However, this is not why the backers of this bill are trying to limit them.<p>When a troll buys up a patent from the early 2000&#x27;s, they hope to stretch its claims, with the help of a patent-friendly judge, to cover some modern technology. Naturally, it&#x27;s the FAANG and other big companies they really want, but first they build up a war chest by settling with smaller fish.<p>Filing an IPR is a cheaper way than going to trial for challenging these bogus patents, and believe me, nearly all software patents are bogus. I busted lots of them, including this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;microsoft-patent-may-block-google-maps-in-germany&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;microsoft-patent-may-block-goo...</a><p>If you go to trial, it&#x27;s some unsophisticated jurors who decide if the patent is valid. For a reexam, it&#x27;s PTO people, who at least know what the law is.<p>So that&#x27;s why trolls want to get rid of reexams: to force companies to negotiate with them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/senate-vote-tomorrow-could-give-helping-hand-patent-trolls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dctoedt</author><text>Inactive patent lawyer here (these days my practice is in other areas).<p>1. This bill doesn&#x27;t appear to address <i>Alice&#x2F;Mayo</i> unpatentability under 35 USC § 101. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;118th-congress&#x2F;senate-bill&#x2F;2220&#x2F;text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;118th-congress&#x2F;senate-bill&#x2F;222...</a><p>2. My concern is that this bill seems to inappropriately raise the evidentiary bar for a patent challenger to prove invalidity in an <i>inter partes</i> review in the USPTO:<p>- Existing law, at 35 USC § 316(e) says a challenger in an IPR must prove invalidity by a preponderance of the evidence. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;35&#x2F;316" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;35&#x2F;316</a><p>(In a <i>court</i> challenge to validity, the Supreme Court has ruled that invalidity must be proved by clear and convincing evidence, the highest standard in civil litigation, just short of beyond a reasonable doubt.)<p>- Section 4 of this amendment, when it comes to issued claims, would raise the IPR challenger&#x27;s burden to clear and convincing evidence. For new claims, the challenger would <i>still</i> have the burden of proof, but by a preponderance.<p>Both standards are bad public policy, because in most cases a single, very-busy patent examiner is in effect making national industrial policy — and granting the patent applicant a nationwide monopoly on the claimed subject matter — all by his- or her lonesome after doing a prior-art search; the applicant must disclose material information known to him&#x2F;her but is under no obligation to do a search. That&#x27;s been the law for a long time.<p>It&#x27;d be as if a graduate school made a rule that a Ph.D. candidate <i>must</i> be issued the degree unless his (or her) dissertation committee does a literature search and shows that the candidate&#x27;s research wasn&#x27;t sufficiently novel. (As I understand it, every reputable Ph.D.-granting institution requires <i>the candidate</i> to do a literature search to demonstrate novelty.)<p>But of course it&#x27;s worse than that, because — unlike a new patent holder — a newly-minted Ph.D. can&#x27;t weaponize his- or her dissertation to try to &quot;extract&quot; royalties from other researchers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/senate-vote-tomorrow-could-give-helping-hand-patent-trolls</url></story> |
21,664,326 | 21,664,101 | 1 | 3 | 21,663,831 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m-i-l</author><text>This article is attempting to put an extremely positive spin (&quot;new law makes Germany &#x27;crypto[currency] heaven&#x27;&quot;, &quot;leads to institutional investors&quot;, &quot;major breakthrough&quot;, &quot;massive for adoption&quot;) on a government crackdown. To be expected given that decrypt.co is funded by ConsenSys, which was in turn founded by someone who had (in Feb 2018) an estimated &quot;net worth in cryptocurrency to be between one and five billion [US] dollars&quot;[0], so they have a vested interest in promoting cryptocurrencies. But why does this sort of advertising keep on cropping up on HN?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joseph_Lubin_(entrepreneur)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joseph_Lubin_(entrepreneur)</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://decrypt.co/12603/new-law-makes-germany-crypto-heaven</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>Seems they&#x27;re making all crypto exchanges not registered in Germany illegal for their citizens. I wonder what the punishment will be for a German who buys crypto from an unregistered exchange?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://decrypt.co/12603/new-law-makes-germany-crypto-heaven</url></story> |
9,745,703 | 9,745,644 | 1 | 2 | 9,745,252 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text><p><pre><code> SP: Two-thirds of the way into your novel,
Seveneves – in fact, on page 569 – you do
something kind of crazy. The story suddenly
skips ahead 5,000 years. What’s the idea here?
</code></pre>
It took me maybe a week to read the first 2&#x2F;3&#x27;s of the book, and about three weeks to read the last 1&#x2F;3. In many ways, these two parts feel like completely different books, one of which is significantly better than the other.<p>Also, I was occasionally distracted at the beginning when snippets of dialog from <i>Anathem</i> were reused in the form of exposition in <i>Seveneves</i>.<p>But, that said, I think the book is worth reading, especially the first 2&#x2F;3&#x27;s.<p>My personal, quick, rough ranking of Stephenson&#x27;s bibliography:<p><pre><code> * Anathem
* Snow Crash
* The Diamond Age
* Seveneves
* Cryptonomicon
* The Baroque Cycle
* Zodiac
* Reamde
* The Interface
* The Big U
</code></pre>
Haven&#x27;t Read<p><pre><code> * The Cobweb
* The Mongoliad</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Interview with Neal Stephenson</title><url>http://electricliterature.com/the-people-who-survive-an-interview-with-neal-stephenson-author-of-seveneves/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beambot</author><text>I still can&#x27;t believe he willingly worked at Intellectual Ventures -- largely considered the most egregious (successful?) patent troll. I still purchase, read, and enjoy each of his books... but I feel a small pang of guilt knowing that some of his ideas may have originated from a shady organization.<p>Neal, if you&#x27;re reading... perhaps you could shed some light and assuage our misgivings?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Interview with Neal Stephenson</title><url>http://electricliterature.com/the-people-who-survive-an-interview-with-neal-stephenson-author-of-seveneves/</url></story> |
7,724,945 | 7,724,855 | 1 | 2 | 7,723,484 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taejo</author><text>swaniferous (swan-bearing) =&#x2F;= swanivorous (swan-eating).</text><parent_chain><item><author>gweinberg</author><text>I felt the same way. It asks &quot;why don&#x27;t we eat swans any more?&quot; but as far as I can tell in the US we never did, and in fact the closest thing to an answer is just that we never got in the habit. I get the impression the excess swan problem in Michigan is a recent thing, probably a result of a decline of some swaniferous predator.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>That article is .. devoid of new information. It claims that we don&#x27;t eat swans (maybe? probably? I certainly never did.) but fails to provide even a hint of an answer. Unless I miss a hidden link for a page 2 or 3 that is a very long &quot;So we don&#x27;t eat a big bird, think about it&quot;, which is .. thought provoking if you&#x27;re feeling nice, lacking content if you&#x27;re not.<p>Jumping between vastly different regions doesn&#x27;t help either (&quot;Swans are the property of the crown in the UK, but a pest in Michigan.&quot; What??).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We don't eat swans</title><url>http://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/come/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qbrass</author><text>People buy them as a pond decoration, then turn them loose when they become aggressive as adults.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gweinberg</author><text>I felt the same way. It asks &quot;why don&#x27;t we eat swans any more?&quot; but as far as I can tell in the US we never did, and in fact the closest thing to an answer is just that we never got in the habit. I get the impression the excess swan problem in Michigan is a recent thing, probably a result of a decline of some swaniferous predator.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>That article is .. devoid of new information. It claims that we don&#x27;t eat swans (maybe? probably? I certainly never did.) but fails to provide even a hint of an answer. Unless I miss a hidden link for a page 2 or 3 that is a very long &quot;So we don&#x27;t eat a big bird, think about it&quot;, which is .. thought provoking if you&#x27;re feeling nice, lacking content if you&#x27;re not.<p>Jumping between vastly different regions doesn&#x27;t help either (&quot;Swans are the property of the crown in the UK, but a pest in Michigan.&quot; What??).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We don't eat swans</title><url>http://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/come/</url></story> |
30,179,085 | 30,177,946 | 1 | 2 | 30,177,033 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shawabawa3</author><text>&gt; the SEC investigated and even put out a report showing that the majority of that price movement was from non-short sellers (e.g. retail) and that as a proportion of volume, barely any of it was due to short sellers closing their positions.<p>That&#x27;s talking about the longer lasting effects (i.e. the reason GME stayed at $100+)<p>but from p26:<p>&gt; particularly during the earlier rise from January 22 to 27 the price of GME rose as the short interest decreased. Staff also observed discrete periods of sharp price increases during which accounts held by firms known to the staff to be covering short interest in GME were actively buying large volumes of GME shares, in some cases accounting for very significant portions of the net buying pressure during a period<p>The run up to $500 was almost certainly a short squeeze</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmydorry</author><text>It really lifts the veil on how little research goes into some of these articles when you see the reporting on a topic you have closely followed.<p>&gt;The stock, which peaked at $482.95 a share when hedge funds that had shorted GameStop were forced to buy at any price, has come back to earth. But it is still at about $112 a share, compared to less than $20 on Jan. 1, 2021.<p>This is a pretty basic error to make when the SEC investigated and even put out a report showing that the majority of that price movement was from non-short sellers (e.g. retail) and that as a proportion of volume, barely any of it was due to short sellers closing their positions.<p>The article also completely glossed over the fact that DFV was made fun of and derrided for taking such a large risk in GME. Especially when it was down (for a majority of the time since he started posting that position, if I recall corrected). It instead portrays him as making &quot;consistent returns&quot; and starting a movement to influence the price.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;staff-report-equity-options-market...</a> Page 28 if you want a nice graph to take a glance at.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet much richer</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/year-gamestop-champion-roaring-kitty-is-quiet-yet-much-richer-2022-02-02/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewclunn</author><text>That&#x27;s because the point of this article is &quot;Don&#x27;t trust these scam artists!&quot; because collective action motivated by hatred of elite rigging the system... is dangerous to those elite.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmydorry</author><text>It really lifts the veil on how little research goes into some of these articles when you see the reporting on a topic you have closely followed.<p>&gt;The stock, which peaked at $482.95 a share when hedge funds that had shorted GameStop were forced to buy at any price, has come back to earth. But it is still at about $112 a share, compared to less than $20 on Jan. 1, 2021.<p>This is a pretty basic error to make when the SEC investigated and even put out a report showing that the majority of that price movement was from non-short sellers (e.g. retail) and that as a proportion of volume, barely any of it was due to short sellers closing their positions.<p>The article also completely glossed over the fact that DFV was made fun of and derrided for taking such a large risk in GME. Especially when it was down (for a majority of the time since he started posting that position, if I recall corrected). It instead portrays him as making &quot;consistent returns&quot; and starting a movement to influence the price.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;staff-report-equity-options-market...</a> Page 28 if you want a nice graph to take a glance at.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet much richer</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/year-gamestop-champion-roaring-kitty-is-quiet-yet-much-richer-2022-02-02/</url></story> |
24,386,342 | 24,386,319 | 1 | 3 | 24,385,389 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>knome</author><text>Tim Sort, Hamming Codes, Huffman Coding, RSA keys, LZW encoding, Duff&#x27;s Device, Bloom Filter, Carmack&#x27;s Reverse, awk, linux, git. We have a lot of things named after those that discovered, invented or popularized a structure or technique. Certainly nowhere near as commonly as does mathematics, I will agree.<p>In CS, no doubt, we often end up on the other end, where a single term means different things in different contexts and beginners may get confused at our reuse of terminology. Often the reuse gives some metaphorical understanding to the newcomer, even if it largely leads them astray in the details.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ardit33</author><text>I Disagree with you, in Computer Science we have things like: &quot;Quick Sort&quot;, &quot;Merge Sort&quot;, &quot;Map&quot;, &quot;Hashtable&quot;, &quot;LRU&quot;, etc... etc...<p>They are much more descriptive and easy to remember, even though the Algorithms can be complex themselves. Event the name &quot;Boolean&quot;, could be changed to &quot;Conditional&quot;... and be even more readable. Also, Dijkstra algorithm can be generalized to &quot;Shortest Path Algorithm&quot; (there can be more than one).<p>Math, and physics to some degree, have become self-referential to the point that start becoming more esoteric magic black books to beginners...<p>While CS was born out of Math folks, and unfortunately has adopted some of the same esoteric symbolics, I hope Computer Science doesn&#x27;t follow that path on the long term, otherwise it will become divorced from day to day real life applications.<p>Let me give you a clear example:<p>Now, imagine if we called Double Linked Lists as &quot;Darombolo lists&quot;, or whoever invented it. (I made up that name), Double Linked List is very easy to visualize and remember. &quot;Giacomo Darombolo List&quot;, is not, and just adds to &#x27;must cram&#x2F;memorize&#x27; things to make things work.....<p>I personally don&#x27;t like &quot;cramming&quot; useless trivia in order to work in my field. I hope Computer Science divorces from Math, and takes its own path to more logical naming of things and less useless symbols used in it.<p>It is like the whole field suffers because the authors&#x27; Narcissism, that they must name things after them.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Hard disagree.<p>Once you get to the advanced levels of <i>any</i> field, terminology being &quot;accessible&quot; doesn&#x27;t really matter, but being precise <i>does</i>.<p>Areas like philosophy and law actually <i>suffer</i> in my opinion when they overload common words with uncommon meanings, or descend into weird disambiguations that depend on suffixes.<p>For example, in philosophy there&#x27;s &quot;contractarianism&quot; and &quot;contractualism&quot;, and trying to remember which is the general term and which refers to a specific theory drives me nuts. (If &quot;contractualism&quot; were just known as &quot;Scanlon&#x27;s theory&quot; it would be a lot easier.)<p>Naming things after their creator is actually super-helpful because it&#x27;s really easy to disambiguate, helps situate things historically, and once you&#x27;re at that level there often isn&#x27;t a single unique word or phrase that can easily encapsulate the idea anyways and isn&#x27;t easily confused with something else.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/why-mathematicians-should-stop-naming-things-after-each-other</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; in Computer Science we have things like: &quot;Quick Sort&quot;, &quot;Merge Sort&quot;, &quot;Map&quot;, &quot;Hashtable&quot;, &quot;LRU&quot;, etc... etc...<p>And in quicksort, we have Hoare’s and Lomuto’s partition schemes. Not that “quicksort” is actually particularly descriptive.<p>We also have Timsort.<p>&gt; Even the name &quot;Boolean&quot;, could be changed to &quot;Conditional&quot;... and be even more readable<p>Booleans aren&#x27;t conditionals, conditionals in crisp binary (or, as it is commonly known, “Boolean”) logic operate on booleans (conditionals in fuzzy or nonbinary crisp logics do not.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ardit33</author><text>I Disagree with you, in Computer Science we have things like: &quot;Quick Sort&quot;, &quot;Merge Sort&quot;, &quot;Map&quot;, &quot;Hashtable&quot;, &quot;LRU&quot;, etc... etc...<p>They are much more descriptive and easy to remember, even though the Algorithms can be complex themselves. Event the name &quot;Boolean&quot;, could be changed to &quot;Conditional&quot;... and be even more readable. Also, Dijkstra algorithm can be generalized to &quot;Shortest Path Algorithm&quot; (there can be more than one).<p>Math, and physics to some degree, have become self-referential to the point that start becoming more esoteric magic black books to beginners...<p>While CS was born out of Math folks, and unfortunately has adopted some of the same esoteric symbolics, I hope Computer Science doesn&#x27;t follow that path on the long term, otherwise it will become divorced from day to day real life applications.<p>Let me give you a clear example:<p>Now, imagine if we called Double Linked Lists as &quot;Darombolo lists&quot;, or whoever invented it. (I made up that name), Double Linked List is very easy to visualize and remember. &quot;Giacomo Darombolo List&quot;, is not, and just adds to &#x27;must cram&#x2F;memorize&#x27; things to make things work.....<p>I personally don&#x27;t like &quot;cramming&quot; useless trivia in order to work in my field. I hope Computer Science divorces from Math, and takes its own path to more logical naming of things and less useless symbols used in it.<p>It is like the whole field suffers because the authors&#x27; Narcissism, that they must name things after them.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Hard disagree.<p>Once you get to the advanced levels of <i>any</i> field, terminology being &quot;accessible&quot; doesn&#x27;t really matter, but being precise <i>does</i>.<p>Areas like philosophy and law actually <i>suffer</i> in my opinion when they overload common words with uncommon meanings, or descend into weird disambiguations that depend on suffixes.<p>For example, in philosophy there&#x27;s &quot;contractarianism&quot; and &quot;contractualism&quot;, and trying to remember which is the general term and which refers to a specific theory drives me nuts. (If &quot;contractualism&quot; were just known as &quot;Scanlon&#x27;s theory&quot; it would be a lot easier.)<p>Naming things after their creator is actually super-helpful because it&#x27;s really easy to disambiguate, helps situate things historically, and once you&#x27;re at that level there often isn&#x27;t a single unique word or phrase that can easily encapsulate the idea anyways and isn&#x27;t easily confused with something else.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/why-mathematicians-should-stop-naming-things-after-each-other</url></story> |
15,775,311 | 15,775,262 | 1 | 3 | 15,774,878 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doener</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15707800" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15707800</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux Runs All of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers</title><url>https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/linux-runs-all-of-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gbrown_</author><text>Whilst it seems it is possible for the compute nodes of a Blue Gene to run Linux [1], I doubt all of them are doing so in the Top 500 and that most still run IBM&#x27;s CNK.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redbooks.ibm.com&#x2F;redpapers&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;redp4453.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redbooks.ibm.com&#x2F;redpapers&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;redp4453.pdf</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux Runs All of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers</title><url>https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/linux-runs-all-of-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputers/</url></story> |
38,967,006 | 38,966,897 | 1 | 3 | 38,934,226 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Solstinox</author><text>Mathematica is probably one of the biggest and most complex commercially available applications that still has an artisanal&#x2F;craftsman made quality about it.<p>It’s something special. Maybe a bit of a relic in its distribution (not open source, not that SaaSy), but it’s so well thought out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mathematica 14</title><url>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/01/the-story-continues-announcing-version-14-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tempodox</author><text>Mathematica is what I thought a computer would be like before I could really use one: A tool for arithmetics and math. Instead we get text processing, kitten photos and porn videos. Not that I have anything against either of these, but it was still a mild shock to find that the `ln` command does not, by a long shot, compute the natural logarithm in Unix. OK, even Mathematica makes me alias `Ln` to `Log`. So much for the principle of least surprise. Still, given that you need extra software to make your computer actually compute, Mathematica is my tool of choice.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mathematica 14</title><url>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/01/the-story-continues-announcing-version-14-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/</url></story> |
19,775,279 | 19,774,807 | 1 | 3 | 19,772,608 | 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>neilv</author><text>(I don&#x27;t know about Lambda School specifically; just speaking of fields here.)<p>Any talk of transferring anything cultural from current software development practice to somewhere else important... makes me nervous, by default.<p>Right now, we have huge problems in software development practice, with both design&amp;implementation quality, and ethics.<p>You don&#x27;t want your medical device or bridge developed in any way like the majority of software right now. You don&#x27;t want your ER nurse to be smug about how smart they are, while they do shoddy work with fad tools and halfwitted cargo cult processes. You don&#x27;t want your doctor or lawyer selling you out to &#x27;analytics&#x27;, for starters, like almost every dotcom startup does.<p>As startups try to bring the greatness of Webrogramming to other areas, are they going to suddenly say, &quot;Oh, but <i>this</i> is actually an important area, unlike the information infrastructure of humanity, so <i>this one</i> we&#x27;ll do with more responsibility than obviously we have been.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lambda School wants to teach nursing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/lambda-an-online-school-wants-to-teach-nursing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MispelledToyota</author><text>During my time at Lambda School, seeing people&#x27;s quick arguments against it have drastically lowered my priors on how correct &quot;hot takes&quot; are likely to be in general. Sort of like reading a newspaper article about your area of expertise for the first time, and realizing how many inaccuracies all newspaper articles must have.<p>There are places for skepticism but the actual critiques made are shockingly wide of the mark in my opinion as someone who found the value proposition compelling.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lambda School wants to teach nursing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/lambda-an-online-school-wants-to-teach-nursing</url></story> |
33,800,922 | 33,800,556 | 1 | 2 | 33,798,708 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boris</author><text>&gt; superbly coherent design [...] NT is pretty neat, and I would dare say, beautiful in some places<p>Practically, though, it&#x27;s a shit show. My &quot;favorite&quot; is the inability to delete a file that is open by another process. Combine this with Windows Defender that scans every file that your application creates, and now you have no reliable way of deleting or moving your files.<p>As someone who works on a C&#x2F;C++ build toolchain and has to deal with Windows design decisions every day, I can tell you without any hesitation there is nothing coherent or beautiful about it. I don&#x27;t think even Microsoft believes this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elzbardico</author><text>NT is different from Unix, it is heavily inspired by VMS, which was the anti-Unix of its time.
The basic architectural metaphors are different, and the way you think about things is different.
It is more architectured and more opinionated, which may look like over-engineering for some and a superbly coherent design for others.
There are some pain points, of course, a lot of them related to the need to support code written for a completely different OS (MS-DOS + Windows non-nt), but overall, I think that the general architecture of NT is pretty neat, and I would dare say, beautiful in some places.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@bagder/109432034039353503</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>galangalalgol</author><text>One thing I have trouble with in windows is debugging problems. If say I plug in a usb device and nothing happens, I know what logs to look at, and they are verbose and if I don&#x27;t, I can search the internet and find five or six possible solutions depending on distro and age. In windows the search generally says &quot;download this malware and it will solve your problem&quot;, &quot;restore to a save point&quot; or &quot;grab your install media and start over&quot;. I would be surprised if there is a good way to do the same things, they just aren&#x27;t discoverable. When the device manager and services.msc show all is well, but it clearly isn&#x27;t, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much advice out there.<p>Edit: I liked vms fine, I don&#x27;t think this is inheritance from that, or even dos. I knew how to debug in dos, using debug.com even. I think it has something to do with the lack of expectations for a user to be able to debug a problem. Osx has abit of this, but sitting on a bsd saves it to some extent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elzbardico</author><text>NT is different from Unix, it is heavily inspired by VMS, which was the anti-Unix of its time.
The basic architectural metaphors are different, and the way you think about things is different.
It is more architectured and more opinionated, which may look like over-engineering for some and a superbly coherent design for others.
There are some pain points, of course, a lot of them related to the need to support code written for a completely different OS (MS-DOS + Windows non-nt), but overall, I think that the general architecture of NT is pretty neat, and I would dare say, beautiful in some places.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@bagder/109432034039353503</url></story> |
28,181,529 | 28,177,829 | 1 | 2 | 28,177,231 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>Also note that this particular research lab seems to be the only one that can find any link between aspartame and cancer, with many others finding none. Additionally, this is not new data but a reanalysis of existing data, and the rats in question were exposed to a quite high dose.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kiba</author><text>Note that it is in rodent. Aspartame hadn&#x27;t been confirmed as a carcinogenic agent in humans.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a good idea to subject to ourselves to drinking diet soda as a daily habit. It costs money, may or may not interfere with your blood sugar and the health of your gut microbiomes.<p>As a goal, I limit my intake of any sweet and&#x2F;or artifically sweetened drinks.<p>Instead of being a chronic diet coke drinker, I instead became a chronic drinker of water. Two or three cups of water is typically what I drink in a daily meal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042911/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>int0x2e</author><text>H2O all the way.
I used to drink a ton of coke everyday.
I started carrying a water bottle everywhere (and I do mean everywhere), and I take small sips very often. It&#x27;s a surprisingly easy habit to kick - grab a bottle and stick with it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kiba</author><text>Note that it is in rodent. Aspartame hadn&#x27;t been confirmed as a carcinogenic agent in humans.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a good idea to subject to ourselves to drinking diet soda as a daily habit. It costs money, may or may not interfere with your blood sugar and the health of your gut microbiomes.<p>As a goal, I limit my intake of any sweet and&#x2F;or artifically sweetened drinks.<p>Instead of being a chronic diet coke drinker, I instead became a chronic drinker of water. Two or three cups of water is typically what I drink in a daily meal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042911/</url></story> |
12,235,372 | 12,234,764 | 1 | 2 | 12,233,289 | 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>visarga</author><text>Andrej, thank you very much for making this site. I use it every day.<p>A problem: I think one of the most necessary things that are missing from arXiv.org is comments. People just come, read, and then take their discussions somewhere else, fragmented all around the net. Arxiv-Sanity already filters just the ML articles and does personalized feeds, maybe it could also be a place of discussion. I know it potentially leads to other complications (like moderation), but I really think readers would benefit from reviews, questions and answers.<p>The current ML related discussion sites (blogs, &#x2F;r&#x2F;machinelearning, G+, Twitter, StackExchange and YC) are often mixed with lots of noise. I&#x27;d like to read what researchers think.<p>Another suggestion: add links to code repositories, where they are available. Maybe some of your trusted users could be empowered with the right to add such links, if it&#x27;s too much work for a single person. If interesting discussions are reported on other pages on the internet, they could also be added to the article, to make them easier to find.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I wrote <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&#x2F;</a> (code is open source on github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver</a>) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It&#x27;s meant to be designed around modular views of lists of arxiv papers, each view supporting a use case. I&#x27;m always eager to hear feedback on how people use the site, what could be improved, or what other use cases could be added.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?</title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dspoka</author><text>For me getting alerted when there are new papers that cite papers that are relevant towards my current research topic would be ideal. Google scholars has alerts on authors and search queries but for me they don&#x27;t have enough recall.<p>Its much easier to tell when a paper is relevant for me if it happens to cite 3 of the commonly used datasets for my particular task.<p>btw I use arxiv-sanity, its pretty great, thanks a lot!</text><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I wrote <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&#x2F;</a> (code is open source on github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver</a>) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It&#x27;s meant to be designed around modular views of lists of arxiv papers, each view supporting a use case. I&#x27;m always eager to hear feedback on how people use the site, what could be improved, or what other use cases could be added.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?</title></story> |
41,130,332 | 41,127,431 | 1 | 2 | 41,126,944 | 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>AnotherGoodName</author><text>That happened many many times over with rsa!<p>The us government used to restrict export of long rsa keys. At one point much of the world was using 128bit rsa keys but Dixon method had everyone scrambling to use 512bit keys. Then the special number field drive had us all scrambling to use 1024bit keys and the general number field seive again had us scrambling to get to 2048bit keys.l and that really wasn’t that long ago relatively speaking.<p>Check out rsa encryption hardware from the 80s. They are really proud of some of the hardware that can do 512bits! (Useless today)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;rivest&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;Riv84.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;rivest&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;Riv84.pdf</a><p>The special and general number field seize complexity statements are a few constants in difference. Look at those constants. Do they seem to be some root limit to you? Is it really that unlikely that there’s not a way to reduce those further making even 2048bit keys useless?<p>You don’t need to ask “what would happen if RSA broke” because those of us who have been through this many times now can straight up tell you. You’ll be scrambling to once more bump up the key size and you’ll be auditing all the potential data leaked.</text><parent_chain><item><author>EMIRELADERO</author><text>This got me thinking.<p>Imagine this discovery led to a larger breakthrough on prime numbers that allowed easy factorization of large integers and effectively rendered public key cryptography such as RSA ineffective overnight, by allowing anyone with a consumer-grade CPU to crack any production-size key.<p>Does the industry have DR plans for this scenario? Can the big players quickly switch to a different, unbroken encryption system? While it would probably be a heavenly day for jailbreakers, console modders and other &quot;device freedom&quot; types generally, the overall impact would be disastrous and incalculable.<p>Does the industry simply not consider &quot;sudden number theory breakthrough&quot; a possible event?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/sensational-breakthrough-marks-step-toward-revealing-hidden-structure-prime-numbers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scrapheap</author><text>If someone found a way to easily factorize large integers easily on consumer grade hardware then it would be very painful as RSA is one of the big public key algorithms.<p>Before you start worrying about it though consider that RSA has held up for 47 years of active cryptanalysis so far - during which time many alternative algorithms have been suggested as being superior, only to be broken a short time later.<p>Also the push to switch to Elliptic-Curve algorithms has been more down to them being easier for computers to use to encrypt&#x2F;decrypt data.<p>Personally if I had to bet on which public key algorithm will still be around in 10 years time then I&#x27;d put my money on RSA.</text><parent_chain><item><author>EMIRELADERO</author><text>This got me thinking.<p>Imagine this discovery led to a larger breakthrough on prime numbers that allowed easy factorization of large integers and effectively rendered public key cryptography such as RSA ineffective overnight, by allowing anyone with a consumer-grade CPU to crack any production-size key.<p>Does the industry have DR plans for this scenario? Can the big players quickly switch to a different, unbroken encryption system? While it would probably be a heavenly day for jailbreakers, console modders and other &quot;device freedom&quot; types generally, the overall impact would be disastrous and incalculable.<p>Does the industry simply not consider &quot;sudden number theory breakthrough&quot; a possible event?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/sensational-breakthrough-marks-step-toward-revealing-hidden-structure-prime-numbers</url></story> |
14,974,572 | 14,974,291 | 1 | 3 | 14,973,424 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>i2shar</author><text>It is indeed disturbing. Why should a web page be able to detect if dev tools has been opened? Isn&#x27;t this a browser security issue?</text><parent_chain><item><author>yborg</author><text>I found this disturbing:<p>&quot;Chromium-based browsers are being “infested” by Instart Logic tech which works around blockers and worst, around browser privacy settings (they may start “infecting” Firefox eventually, but that is not happening now).&quot;<p>From his linked post:<p>&quot;Instart Logic will detect when the developer console opens, and cleanup everything then to hide what it does&quot;<p>Is this implemented via a CDN-delivered script? Why would Chromium-based browsers be more susceptible?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forapurpose</author><text>Also:<p>&gt; The purpose of Instart Logic technology is to disguise 3rd-party requests as 1st-party requests, thus bypassing content blockers, and even the ability of browsers to block 3rd-party cookies (because they are stored as 1st-party cookies):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBO-Extra&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sites-on-which-uBO-Extra-is-useful#instart-logic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBO-Extra&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sites-on-which-uBO...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>yborg</author><text>I found this disturbing:<p>&quot;Chromium-based browsers are being “infested” by Instart Logic tech which works around blockers and worst, around browser privacy settings (they may start “infecting” Firefox eventually, but that is not happening now).&quot;<p>From his linked post:<p>&quot;Instart Logic will detect when the developer console opens, and cleanup everything then to hide what it does&quot;<p>Is this implemented via a CDN-delivered script? Why would Chromium-based browsers be more susceptible?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story> |
19,096,965 | 19,096,712 | 1 | 2 | 19,095,849 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mentatseb</author><text>The tech story by NASA&#x27;s chief knowledge architect is more detailed on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkurio.us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-nasa-experiments-with-knowledge-discovery&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkurio.us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-nasa-experiments-with-knowledge...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neo4j.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;nasa-critical-data-knowledge-graph&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neo4j.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;nasa-critical-data-knowledge-graph&#x2F;</a>, with a presentation video on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vwJyU9vsfmU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vwJyU9vsfmU</a><p>Disclamer: Linkurious CEO here, the tool used to explore the Neo4j graph database used at NASA.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph</title><url>https://blog.nuclino.com/why-nasa-converted-its-lessons-learned-database-into-a-knowledge-graph</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rambojazz</author><text>I was hyped to read a cool article about NASA and tech, but this just reads like an advertising for a software that I&#x27;ve never heard of.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph</title><url>https://blog.nuclino.com/why-nasa-converted-its-lessons-learned-database-into-a-knowledge-graph</url></story> |
18,849,289 | 18,849,281 | 1 | 2 | 18,845,807 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dave7</author><text>It&#x27;s probably done enough damage to their reputation in your estimation to not matter, but please note these Linux problems are specific to the Raven Ridge APU [1] - not the case using a discrete AMD GPU, the open source drivers for which are by many accounts absolutely superb these days.<p>It&#x27;s a shame, I want a 2400G to replace my ageing A10 Trinity media box, will probably give it a try fairly soon expecting latest kernels have this solved by now...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;forum&#x2F;linux-graphics-x-org-drivers&#x2F;open-source-amd-linux&#x2F;1045801-is-there-any-kernel-on-which-raven-ridge-cpus-are-stable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;forum&#x2F;linux-graphics-x-org-d...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Jnr</author><text>I&#x27;m also sticking to Nvidia GTX 970 for now but would be nice to upgrade at some point. I was hopeful about AMD&#x27;s offering but after trying Ryzen 2400G APU on my Linux media box I am not going to touch new AMD hardware again with a ten foot pole any time soon. Their Linux drivers are a nightmare, freezing display all the time, requiring power cycling. Nvidia works nicely and I don&#x27;t really mind the bigger price tag.</text></item><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Have to wait for benchmarks to say anything definitive, but from the specs table it looks like performance is in the ballpark of the 1070. Same TFLOPS, faster memory clock but not as much memory, TDP is 10W higher.<p>At $350 that sounds like a tough sell over the 1070, which is finally down to $300 after rebate. Unless you&#x27;re really excited about the raytracing stuff.<p>I&#x27;m underwhelmed for 2.5 years of progress since the 1070 (mid 2016). Just sticking it out with my 970 until it dies, which will hopefully be until there&#x27;s something new worth upgrading to.<p>Maybe AMD has something more impressive up their sleeves in the mainstream price range.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13796/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2060-349-dollars-january-15th</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>opencl</author><text>Raven Ridge APUs in particular are terrible, every other piece of AMD hardware has very dramatically better Linux support than NVIDIA&#x27;s GPUs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jnr</author><text>I&#x27;m also sticking to Nvidia GTX 970 for now but would be nice to upgrade at some point. I was hopeful about AMD&#x27;s offering but after trying Ryzen 2400G APU on my Linux media box I am not going to touch new AMD hardware again with a ten foot pole any time soon. Their Linux drivers are a nightmare, freezing display all the time, requiring power cycling. Nvidia works nicely and I don&#x27;t really mind the bigger price tag.</text></item><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Have to wait for benchmarks to say anything definitive, but from the specs table it looks like performance is in the ballpark of the 1070. Same TFLOPS, faster memory clock but not as much memory, TDP is 10W higher.<p>At $350 that sounds like a tough sell over the 1070, which is finally down to $300 after rebate. Unless you&#x27;re really excited about the raytracing stuff.<p>I&#x27;m underwhelmed for 2.5 years of progress since the 1070 (mid 2016). Just sticking it out with my 970 until it dies, which will hopefully be until there&#x27;s something new worth upgrading to.<p>Maybe AMD has something more impressive up their sleeves in the mainstream price range.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13796/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2060-349-dollars-january-15th</url></story> |
18,802,186 | 18,802,206 | 1 | 2 | 18,795,274 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arkh</author><text>&gt; Blockchain is a decentralised ideal, but so is BitTorrent, so is Tor, and so on, to some significant extent.<p>So is internet. Most people use centralized services but no one prevents you from setting up your DNS servers, with your own domains, servers, website etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>boramalper</author><text>His points about blockchain are compelling but I disagree with “blockchain&#x2F;decentralisation” part. Blockchain is <i>a</i> decentralised ideal, but so is BitTorrent, so is Tor, and so on, to some significant extent. To say that decentralisation failed because blockchain failed ignores all the other technologies which are serving people well.<p>I think the distinction between “decentralised” (<i>i.e.</i> federated) and “distributed” is important (as decentralised is often used as an umbrella term to cover both).[0] There are tons of federated projects out there from Matrix to Mastodon, and there are initiatives to make federated networks more decentralised (such as the integration of Kademlia DHT in BitTorrent).<p>No need for pessimism I think. :)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;Jason_Hoelscher&#x2F;publication&#x2F;260480880&#x2F;figure&#x2F;download&#x2F;fig1&#x2F;AS:297257619476480@1447883147178&#x2F;Centralized-decentralized-and-distributed-network-models-by-Paul-Baran-1964-part-of-a.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;Jason_Hoelscher&#x2F;publica...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”</title><url>https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1079759096272818178</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reificator</author><text>On a semi-related note, I don&#x27;t know if torrents are successful outside of piracy.<p>In the last week or two I went back and downloaded all of my years worth of Humble Bundle ebooks&#x2F;videos. I downloaded the torrent versions as they were easier to track failures with and the HB store does limit simultaneous downloads.<p>I&#x27;m still wondering if I&#x27;m going to get an automated scaremail letter about using torrents from my ISP. I already received one for downloading Ubuntu years back, though IIRC that was a different provider.</text><parent_chain><item><author>boramalper</author><text>His points about blockchain are compelling but I disagree with “blockchain&#x2F;decentralisation” part. Blockchain is <i>a</i> decentralised ideal, but so is BitTorrent, so is Tor, and so on, to some significant extent. To say that decentralisation failed because blockchain failed ignores all the other technologies which are serving people well.<p>I think the distinction between “decentralised” (<i>i.e.</i> federated) and “distributed” is important (as decentralised is often used as an umbrella term to cover both).[0] There are tons of federated projects out there from Matrix to Mastodon, and there are initiatives to make federated networks more decentralised (such as the integration of Kademlia DHT in BitTorrent).<p>No need for pessimism I think. :)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;Jason_Hoelscher&#x2F;publication&#x2F;260480880&#x2F;figure&#x2F;download&#x2F;fig1&#x2F;AS:297257619476480@1447883147178&#x2F;Centralized-decentralized-and-distributed-network-models-by-Paul-Baran-1964-part-of-a.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;Jason_Hoelscher&#x2F;publica...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”</title><url>https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1079759096272818178</url></story> |
4,809,303 | 4,808,984 | 1 | 2 | 4,808,676 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sneak</author><text>Hi there - I'm the one who put up the $50k to bail weev out of jail.[1] (Otherwise he would have had to sit in Essex County Jail during these ~2 years since this started.)<p>There were some others in line to assist (I live in Europe), but they all feared various forms of retribution/harassment from the FBI/DoJ, so it fell to me (someone with comparatively little to lose, stateside). This only serves to underscore the truly chilling effects of these sorts of governmental abuses of power.<p>I also host his website, <a href="http://freeweev.info" rel="nofollow">http://freeweev.info</a>, where you can make donations to his case via both Paypal and Bitcoin. (He has various restrictions placed on his use of technology while out on bail.)<p>Please feel free to contact me directly if you have questions related to his case. Contact info can be found in my profile.<p>5539 AD00 DE4C 42F3 AFE1 1575 0524 43F4 DF2A 55C2<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/rabite/status/270668883172671489" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/rabite/status/270668883172671489</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jail Looms for Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507661/jail-looms-for-man-who-revealed-att-leaked-ipad-user-e-mails/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>driverdan</author><text>From my understanding all you had to do was pass the ICC-ID to a script on AT&#38;T's servers to get back the user data. I can see the court interpreting the ICC-ID as a form of access control since you'd have to guess them similarly to passwords.<p>What isn't quite clear to me is what they did with this data. It seems they reported the hole to AT&#38;T who then fixed it. That's good. It also seems they passed the data off to reporters, which may be bad for their case. It seems like they acted, at least mostly, responsibly.<p>Assuming the data was never released to the public I don't think they should be prosecuting Auernheimer. That said, it does seem like they have a case based on the wording of the law.<p>It's a very real possibility that he's facing jail time, especially when you consider the volume of data. He's charged with breaking 18 USC § 1028A (aggravated ID theft laws) which carries a mandatory minimum of 2 years. Federal judges have <i>some</i> control over this but generally stick with sentencing guidelines. He could fight it and win, get them to reduce the charges, or do some serious work for the gov and hope the judge goes easy on him.<p><i>Note: I was convicted of violating 18 USC § 1028A (among other laws) so I have personal experience with this law, sentencing guidelines, and judge discretion but IANAL.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jail Looms for Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507661/jail-looms-for-man-who-revealed-att-leaked-ipad-user-e-mails/</url></story> |
13,519,380 | 13,519,229 | 1 | 3 | 13,517,597 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sherincall</author><text>I like my solution better:<p>The list node contains a pointer and some data, most likely another pointer, or a primitive type, or a struct of primitive types. Which means, that on all modern systems, a list node is aligned to at least 16 bits, much more likely 32 bits. That means that the pointer to the node always has the last bit set to zero. So:<p><pre><code> bool containsCycle(node_t *root)
{
node_t *p = root;
bool ret = false;
if (!root) return false; &#x2F;&#x2F; Empty list
while (p-&gt;next &amp;&amp; !ret)
{
if ((uintptr_t)p-&gt;next &amp; 1)
{
ret = true;
break;
}
node_t *q = p-&gt;next;
p-&gt;next = (uintptr_t)p-&gt;next | 1;
p = q;
}
&#x2F;&#x2F; Reset all pointers
p = root;
while (p-&gt;next &amp;&amp; ((uintptr_t)p-&gt;next &amp; 1))
{
p-&gt;next = (uintptr_t)p-&gt;next &amp; ~1;
p = p-&gt;next;
}
return ret;
}
</code></pre>
:)</text><parent_chain><item><author>DDR0</author><text>Given the head of a linked list, how do you determine if it loops? eg, an l-shaped list is easy to determine - you simply process each element in the list until you find one without a subsequent element. But what if it&#x27;s a 9-shaped linked list? You&#x27;ll never run out of elements, so the best you could seem to do would be to store a reference to each element and check against all references to see if you&#x27;ve found a duplicate.<p>There&#x27;s a way to do it in O(1) space, though.<p>If you start off two runners in the list, and each &quot;step&quot; move one twice and the other only once, if there&#x27;s a loop they will eventually run into each other and be processing the same element. Simple, elegant, and nothing I&#x27;d have ever thought of. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?</title><text>Post any algorithms you think are cool, inventive, or useful.
PDF links or blog posts are appreciated.<p>My current favorite is SWIM.
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;~asdas&#x2F;research&#x2F;dsn02-swim.pdf</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>eps</author><text>This can also be used to determine the period of Linear Congruential PRNGs, i.e those in form of<p><pre><code> X(n+1) = (A * X(n) + B) mod C
</code></pre>
which happens to be what many stdlib versions of rand() are.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Linear_congruential_generator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Linear_congruential_generator</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>DDR0</author><text>Given the head of a linked list, how do you determine if it loops? eg, an l-shaped list is easy to determine - you simply process each element in the list until you find one without a subsequent element. But what if it&#x27;s a 9-shaped linked list? You&#x27;ll never run out of elements, so the best you could seem to do would be to store a reference to each element and check against all references to see if you&#x27;ve found a duplicate.<p>There&#x27;s a way to do it in O(1) space, though.<p>If you start off two runners in the list, and each &quot;step&quot; move one twice and the other only once, if there&#x27;s a loop they will eventually run into each other and be processing the same element. Simple, elegant, and nothing I&#x27;d have ever thought of. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?</title><text>Post any algorithms you think are cool, inventive, or useful.
PDF links or blog posts are appreciated.<p>My current favorite is SWIM.
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;~asdas&#x2F;research&#x2F;dsn02-swim.pdf</text></story> |
38,626,793 | 38,627,007 | 1 | 3 | 38,623,695 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fortydegrees</author><text>I have a similar story of accessing an internal JSON API for my own benefit.<p>I left my airpods in a car I rented using zipcar. I spoke to support etc but nothing had been handed in. I checked to see if the car was still where I left it so that I could re-hire and claim them, but it had been moved.<p>The app tells you the &#x27;name&#x27; of the car you rented which is used as an identifier. It also shows a map of where all available cars are. I sniffed the requests the app made to display this map, and was able to filter it by the car name. From this I was able to locate where the car I left my airpods in was. Was able to head there, unlock the car, and to my amazement the airpods were still there!</text><parent_chain><item><author>midgetjones</author><text>A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn&#x27;t always update the website regularly, and we&#x27;d find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we&#x27;d even seen them.<p>I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint and upsert the cat data into the database. Any new records would get posted to a twitter account (a free way to get notifications on my phone).<p>It worked beautifully, and when a black cat called &quot;Fluff&quot; popped up, we both knew he was the right one, and we were able to phone them and arrange a meeting before anyone else. Fast forward five years, and he&#x27;s sitting next to me on the sofa right now, purring away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?</title><text>Could be CLI, GUI, web, mobile, other. Asking out of interest. Thanks in advance to all.</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>teleforce</author><text>This a great example on the usefulness of data availability via JSON API.<p>If the data is read only it&#x27;s a GOOD thing especially for non-confidential data that are meant to be public, every government agency should open their public data like this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>midgetjones</author><text>A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn&#x27;t always update the website regularly, and we&#x27;d find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we&#x27;d even seen them.<p>I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint and upsert the cat data into the database. Any new records would get posted to a twitter account (a free way to get notifications on my phone).<p>It worked beautifully, and when a black cat called &quot;Fluff&quot; popped up, we both knew he was the right one, and we were able to phone them and arrange a meeting before anyone else. Fast forward five years, and he&#x27;s sitting next to me on the sofa right now, purring away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?</title><text>Could be CLI, GUI, web, mobile, other. Asking out of interest. Thanks in advance to all.</text></story> |
23,602,984 | 23,602,085 | 1 | 2 | 23,601,595 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SauciestGNU</author><text>I got one of these warnings, and I&#x27;ve narrowed down what I engaged with to a Hard Times article. Strange times when reddit finds satire too spicy for their site.</text><parent_chain><item><author>manfredo</author><text>Reddit admin message:<p>&gt; Your account has been suspended from for breaking the rules. Your account has been suspended for 3 day(s).<p>&gt;&gt; You recently upvoted a post or comment that was determined to be against our policies. Abusive content is not acceptable on Reddit nor is engaging with it. Please be thoughful about the content that you interact with.<p>Interestingly nothing in the Reddit policies seems to mention voting or engaging with content: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redditinc.com&#x2F;policies&#x2F;content-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redditinc.com&#x2F;policies&#x2F;content-policy</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/hddnml/the_warnings_have_changed_into_bannings/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abtom</author><text>This is super stupid. If they&#x27;re so against the content why allow it to exist in the first place?</text><parent_chain><item><author>manfredo</author><text>Reddit admin message:<p>&gt; Your account has been suspended from for breaking the rules. Your account has been suspended for 3 day(s).<p>&gt;&gt; You recently upvoted a post or comment that was determined to be against our policies. Abusive content is not acceptable on Reddit nor is engaging with it. Please be thoughful about the content that you interact with.<p>Interestingly nothing in the Reddit policies seems to mention voting or engaging with content: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redditinc.com&#x2F;policies&#x2F;content-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redditinc.com&#x2F;policies&#x2F;content-policy</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/hddnml/the_warnings_have_changed_into_bannings/</url></story> |
6,846,782 | 6,846,740 | 1 | 2 | 6,846,428 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stinkytaco</author><text>You seem to be contradicting yourself. Gaming doesn&#x27;t work on OS X because it has too small a user base, but Linux&#x27;s user base is much smaller. Playing on a Macbook is impossible (presumably for performance reasons?), but you talk about putting Linux on a 2002 PC for gaming. And Linux may or may not run on the latest generation hot stuff, depending on how much time you want to spend to get your newest graphics card working.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what potential you are talking about. If gaming doesn&#x27;t work on OS X, I can&#x27;t see it working on Linux.<p>As an aside, Linux gaming would seem to me to suffer the same fate as the Android market times about a billion. Too many possible variations and massive platform fragmentation. It sounds like a development nightmare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>terabytest</author><text>OS X is not a good platform for gaming. It has a significantly smaller user base of which only an even more significantly smaller are gamers. Playing on a MacBook (or at least on my MacBook) is impossible, and I wouldn&#x27;t buy an iMac for gaming.<p>On the other hand, you can put Linux on anything (for free!), from your mom&#x27;s 2002 pc to the latest generation hot stuff. This means there is indeed a potential, and somebody just has to set the foundation.</text></item><item><author>casca</author><text>It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that&#x27;s not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux.<p>Edit: Valve&#x27;s game list: <a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.valvesoftware.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Valve joins the Linux Foundation</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/04/valve-joins-linux-foundation-prepares-linux-powered-steam-os-steam-machines/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dimillian</author><text>You&#x27;ll be amazed on how it has changed. First, latest Macbook are kinda powerful on the GPU side, even with the integrated one, the Intel HD 5000 or Iris can run modern game at low&#x2F;med settings. While it&#x27;s shit for gamers who cares about graphics and performances, for any casual gamers it&#x27;s sufficient. My Macbook is my work machine but also my gaming machine.<p>The other things is about Wine, they&#x27;re working on accelerating the Direct3D driver, and OMG, it&#x27;s soooo fast now.
I&#x27;m running Skyrim on a custom Wine engine (1.7.1 with a patch from the D3D boost branch), on hight&#x2F;ultra settings on my Macbook Retina, It&#x27;s running at 80% of the Windows performance. And it&#x27;s only the beginning, it&#x27;s far from done.
I also have it running on a friend Macbook Air, it run at medium setting at a solid 30 FPS.<p>My point is that you can actually plays with Macbook nowadays.<p>Edit: The PR from codeweavers is relevant (Especially the part about the Command Stream).
<a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20131112/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeweavers.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;general&#x2F;press&#x2F;20131112&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>terabytest</author><text>OS X is not a good platform for gaming. It has a significantly smaller user base of which only an even more significantly smaller are gamers. Playing on a MacBook (or at least on my MacBook) is impossible, and I wouldn&#x27;t buy an iMac for gaming.<p>On the other hand, you can put Linux on anything (for free!), from your mom&#x27;s 2002 pc to the latest generation hot stuff. This means there is indeed a potential, and somebody just has to set the foundation.</text></item><item><author>casca</author><text>It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that&#x27;s not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux.<p>Edit: Valve&#x27;s game list: <a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.valvesoftware.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Valve joins the Linux Foundation</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/04/valve-joins-linux-foundation-prepares-linux-powered-steam-os-steam-machines/</url></story> |
16,317,609 | 16,317,600 | 1 | 2 | 16,312,501 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jws</author><text>Exciting fact: Similar jams happen in hot steel rolling mills too. The YouTube videos are just prettier: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DVZ1DY0r4y4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DVZ1DY0r4y4</a><p>In general the rolling mills call it a &quot;cobble&quot; when a whole or partial bit of steel escapes the rolling mill. Lots of exciting videos.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Paper Jams Persist</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams-persist</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zwieback</author><text>It&#x27;s even worse in our low-end inkjets, which are made of plastic parts and toy motors and are still expected to duplex-print on the cheapest crap paper imaginable. Our FW devs spend a lot of time perfecting the PID loops and mech sequences to make this happen. But do we get any thanks for that? Noooo...<p>Love that New Yorker article, though. I grew up reading this magazine in the 80s but drifted away. These great articles straddling tech and culture became too few and far between.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Paper Jams Persist</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams-persist</url></story> |
29,615,686 | 29,615,126 | 1 | 2 | 29,613,382 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alasano</author><text>You&#x27;re certainly a very inspiring person!<p>&quot;Professionally there is nothing special about me except that I really enjoy working&quot;<p>I think you may be underselling yourself a touch here ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Well, it is a workers market right now.<p>Professionally there is nothing special about me except that I really enjoy working, but for the last two remote jobs, the offer letter I received was more than what I verbally agreed on with HR. Since I am also 70 years old, I take this as good evidence of how pro-worker the job market is right now.<p>I offer free mentoring (see my web site) and always talk about the importance to having a beginner’s&#x2F;learner’s mind. I think that what companies want is: prioritizing the company’s interests, being flexible, and being observant looking for opportunities to improve the business. Fairly straightforward strategy.<p>Good luck reaching your financial goals&#x2F;salary number but also please remember money isn’t everything, and is much less important than our relationships with other people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job</title><text>From my experience most of the companies scouting for developers are trying to minimize costs and using the “fully remote” positions as a mean.<p>I almost never faced an HR ready to discuss salaries higher, than my current “above average” full-time salary in my region (~120-180k).<p>I wonder what should your CV look like and how should you approach the search for companies that can afford expensive developers no matter the geo.<p>If the goal is not worth the effort in the first place — what alternative scalable ways to increase senior programmer’s income can you recommend?<p>Scalable means more or less reproducible in finite timeframe without high risks like in “starting your own startup”.</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>sidcool</author><text>Mad respect for you sir. What advice would you give a 35 year old software engineer who&#x27;s worried about being obsolete in 10 years?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Well, it is a workers market right now.<p>Professionally there is nothing special about me except that I really enjoy working, but for the last two remote jobs, the offer letter I received was more than what I verbally agreed on with HR. Since I am also 70 years old, I take this as good evidence of how pro-worker the job market is right now.<p>I offer free mentoring (see my web site) and always talk about the importance to having a beginner’s&#x2F;learner’s mind. I think that what companies want is: prioritizing the company’s interests, being flexible, and being observant looking for opportunities to improve the business. Fairly straightforward strategy.<p>Good luck reaching your financial goals&#x2F;salary number but also please remember money isn’t everything, and is much less important than our relationships with other people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job</title><text>From my experience most of the companies scouting for developers are trying to minimize costs and using the “fully remote” positions as a mean.<p>I almost never faced an HR ready to discuss salaries higher, than my current “above average” full-time salary in my region (~120-180k).<p>I wonder what should your CV look like and how should you approach the search for companies that can afford expensive developers no matter the geo.<p>If the goal is not worth the effort in the first place — what alternative scalable ways to increase senior programmer’s income can you recommend?<p>Scalable means more or less reproducible in finite timeframe without high risks like in “starting your own startup”.</text></story> |
77,373 | 77,337 | 1 | 2 | 77,246 | 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>BitGeek</author><text>The plane analogy doesn't work because dual engine planes are more reliable than single engine planes... unlike founding teams, engine can't decide that they want to go in different directions and engines are not insecure, ego driven, or prone to misunderstanding each other. Nor do engines have investors coming in sowing dissent between them.<p>If you look at the empirical evidence, you will see that most successful companies are started by an individual. Now, of course, a successful company needs more than one person to be involved-- they need employees. And early employees can be very well rewarded and significant contributors to shaping the idea.<p>But leadership by consensus does not work, as anyone who has belonged to a high school club or organization knows. In a business environment, it is death- the founders never reach consensus and generally they constantly pull against each other, undermining each other and ultimately undermining the company. <p>Leadership by consensus is quite literally the absence of leadership.<p>When there is a leader, and that leader is capable, the company succeeds. <p>If you have a pair of people who work well together, then as you concede generally one of them will be the clear leader. Dividing the work and having each lead sections of the company is fine- if you know the person who you can do that with. But such people are generally quite rare.<p>Unfortunately, the advice that you must find a founder in order to start a company is bad advice-- in most cases this will lead to the company failing. There are, of course, examples of pairs of people who co-founded companies together and they are well known because they are the exception. But the vast majority of successful american enterprises are started by an individual with an idea and the dedication to pursue that idea. <p>Forming a company takes vision. It takes dedication and it takes certainty that there is something there- and opportunity to add value that has not already been seen and seized by other entities.<p>This is why leaders who start companies are far more likely to success than friends who decide to "do a startup" and "manage by consensus."<p>If you don't have a cofounder already- you shouldn't be looking for one. Hire some employees. <p>But you're far from screwed-- simply looking at the history of startups in America and you'll see that single men with vision are most often the ones who succeed.<p></text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>The fact that most plane crashes are due to engine failure doesn't mean planes shouldn't have engines.<p>All you have to do is look at the empirical evidence. Successful single-founder startups are so rare that they're famous on that account. <p>I'm not saying that having a cofounder is so important that you should take someone lame, or someone you don't know well. Maybe if you can't find a cofounder you're just screwed; I don't have enough data yet to say for sure. But someone going into a startup as a single founder should be aware they're doing something that, for whatever reason, rarely works.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Absolutely, DO NOT, get a co-founder!</title><text>
An oft lamented consern is the difficulty in finding a co-founder. Next to this is the regular discussion of what kind of founder to get, how to know you've got a good one... and all the possible problems that can happen when founders don't agree.<p>Well, I'm am old man at almost 40 and I've spent the last 18 years working for startups of less than 100 people, many of them successful, and almost all of them founded by more than one person-- and in almost all situations I knew at least one of the founders very well. <p>The number one thing that caused the unsuccessful companies to fail was fights between the co-founders. And the successful ones-- were ones where the co-founders were very harmonious, because they had worked together for <i>years</i> before founding the company (multiple instances of this.) Of course, there were also instances where co-founders had worked before and they still fought all the time.<p>A co-founder is not what you need, unless you already have one, and you have as good a relationship with them as the best relationship you've ever had with anyone in your life. If you KNOW you're not going to have a problem, then great.<p>But for most of you-- those who don't know others who are as entreprenurial or don't already know someone - and have known for quite awhile that they would be a good co-founder-- you should not get a cofounder.<p>I know that PG says you need a co-founder, but while his intentions are good he's slightly off the mark. Sure, its better to have more than one person in the company... and feel free to call your second thru fourth employees "co-founders" or give them "founders stock"... whatever.<p>But at the end of the day, if its your idea and you are the one who has decided to dedicate the next several years of your life to this project, then found the company and make everyone else who joins you an employee.<p>Employees can have good chunks of stock. But you gotta have the authority question out of the way. You have to be a good leader to run a company... and getting people in you don't know too well works much better when you both know they are employees (Even if they are called founders or whatever, how about "founding team" or "founding employees".) <p>Its better for you to have the ultimate say and make a few wrong decisions, than for you and your co-founders to be fighting.<p>Nobody will ever have as much passion for the idea than the originator, and genuinely visionary people understand their idea on a level and in a context that nobody else will ever... thus you have to lead. <p>Next to Venture Capitalist (who force companies to misallocate funds or go after longshots and abandon sure things), co-founders are the biggest reason companies fail. And actually its even worse- when you have co-founders VCs like to get involved and start manipulating things. <p>Every time I've seen one founder pushed out or marginalized in favor of other founders by the VC firm, the company has not lasted 9 months after that. <p>For an example of the success of a single founder with founderr employees--look at Amazon.com. Bezos is clearly the founder, and he got engineers in early, they got good stock, but they knew what they were. The company would be much different if these employees had thought they were equal with the guy who had the vision.<p>So, those who are desperately seeking a co-founder.... stop... employees are much easier to find anyway. And you can find ones who will take stock as compensation. (Just don't be stingy-- I once was in talks with a company who was building out the founding team and offered me %1 stock plus a serious pay cut... I turned them down-- why take the real risk of a pay cut when there's no equity upside?)<p>Anyway... think about it-- and don't be held up waiting for that founder... start pressing forward without one and when you need to build your team, bring people on who are ready to follow you... and when their egos are not involved, things will go much better.<p></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>neilk</author><text>The OP is saying that there should be a single person who has final authority. Is this incompatible with having multiple founders?<p>I can imagine a Kirk-Spock sort of startup, where one person excels at making decisions and doing the legwork, and another at providing information and skills.<p>I suppose, in practice, few people can trust someone else to make all the decisions, especially if it's their future on the line. What's your experience been?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>The fact that most plane crashes are due to engine failure doesn't mean planes shouldn't have engines.<p>All you have to do is look at the empirical evidence. Successful single-founder startups are so rare that they're famous on that account. <p>I'm not saying that having a cofounder is so important that you should take someone lame, or someone you don't know well. Maybe if you can't find a cofounder you're just screwed; I don't have enough data yet to say for sure. But someone going into a startup as a single founder should be aware they're doing something that, for whatever reason, rarely works.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Absolutely, DO NOT, get a co-founder!</title><text>
An oft lamented consern is the difficulty in finding a co-founder. Next to this is the regular discussion of what kind of founder to get, how to know you've got a good one... and all the possible problems that can happen when founders don't agree.<p>Well, I'm am old man at almost 40 and I've spent the last 18 years working for startups of less than 100 people, many of them successful, and almost all of them founded by more than one person-- and in almost all situations I knew at least one of the founders very well. <p>The number one thing that caused the unsuccessful companies to fail was fights between the co-founders. And the successful ones-- were ones where the co-founders were very harmonious, because they had worked together for <i>years</i> before founding the company (multiple instances of this.) Of course, there were also instances where co-founders had worked before and they still fought all the time.<p>A co-founder is not what you need, unless you already have one, and you have as good a relationship with them as the best relationship you've ever had with anyone in your life. If you KNOW you're not going to have a problem, then great.<p>But for most of you-- those who don't know others who are as entreprenurial or don't already know someone - and have known for quite awhile that they would be a good co-founder-- you should not get a cofounder.<p>I know that PG says you need a co-founder, but while his intentions are good he's slightly off the mark. Sure, its better to have more than one person in the company... and feel free to call your second thru fourth employees "co-founders" or give them "founders stock"... whatever.<p>But at the end of the day, if its your idea and you are the one who has decided to dedicate the next several years of your life to this project, then found the company and make everyone else who joins you an employee.<p>Employees can have good chunks of stock. But you gotta have the authority question out of the way. You have to be a good leader to run a company... and getting people in you don't know too well works much better when you both know they are employees (Even if they are called founders or whatever, how about "founding team" or "founding employees".) <p>Its better for you to have the ultimate say and make a few wrong decisions, than for you and your co-founders to be fighting.<p>Nobody will ever have as much passion for the idea than the originator, and genuinely visionary people understand their idea on a level and in a context that nobody else will ever... thus you have to lead. <p>Next to Venture Capitalist (who force companies to misallocate funds or go after longshots and abandon sure things), co-founders are the biggest reason companies fail. And actually its even worse- when you have co-founders VCs like to get involved and start manipulating things. <p>Every time I've seen one founder pushed out or marginalized in favor of other founders by the VC firm, the company has not lasted 9 months after that. <p>For an example of the success of a single founder with founderr employees--look at Amazon.com. Bezos is clearly the founder, and he got engineers in early, they got good stock, but they knew what they were. The company would be much different if these employees had thought they were equal with the guy who had the vision.<p>So, those who are desperately seeking a co-founder.... stop... employees are much easier to find anyway. And you can find ones who will take stock as compensation. (Just don't be stingy-- I once was in talks with a company who was building out the founding team and offered me %1 stock plus a serious pay cut... I turned them down-- why take the real risk of a pay cut when there's no equity upside?)<p>Anyway... think about it-- and don't be held up waiting for that founder... start pressing forward without one and when you need to build your team, bring people on who are ready to follow you... and when their egos are not involved, things will go much better.<p></text></story> |
30,575,747 | 30,575,721 | 1 | 3 | 30,575,291 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;Then it would maybe just be a matter of time until they also closed down access to Spotify in Russia. But it would at least be a statement, saving the face of Daniel Ek.<p>Okay, so the author&#x27;s idea of bravery is to pull a meaningless PR stunt that does nothing for Russians but instead saves the face of the company&#x27;s CEO in the eyes of anglosphere online bloggers? For once an actual instance of behavior where the overused &#x27;virtue signaling&#x27; phrase makes sense.<p>The smart move for companies is to comply with these laws to a superficial extent while silently keeping as much dissident content online as possible and staying off the radar of regulators.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spotify made a cowardly choice: to submit to the Kremlin</title><url>https://copyriot.se/2022/03/05/spotify-made-a-cowardly-choice-to-submit-to-the-kremlin-rather-than-to-support-russian-dissenters/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>There is nothing bold about halting trade with Russia right now; as far as can be told there is a great deal of social and political support for anyone making such a choice.<p>To be honest, companies making emotional decisions is more concerning to me. It is reasonable and to be encouraged if businesses want to be a moral-less dumb pipe. Spotify is not equipped to make geopolitical judgements about what is and isn&#x27;t a just war or propaganda &amp; can achieve nothing against the Russian military. If they just stick to following the law that is fine. If something is required of them then the military leadership can ask them to do it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spotify made a cowardly choice: to submit to the Kremlin</title><url>https://copyriot.se/2022/03/05/spotify-made-a-cowardly-choice-to-submit-to-the-kremlin-rather-than-to-support-russian-dissenters/</url></story> |
16,050,239 | 16,049,984 | 1 | 2 | 16,048,347 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ace17</author><text>&gt; ... micro level unit testing, driven by people like Uncle Bob.<p>&quot;The structure of your tests should not be a mirror of the structure of your code. The fact that you have a class named X should not automatically imply that you have a test class named XTest.&quot;<p>&quot;The structure of the tests must not reflect the structure of the production code, because that much coupling makes the system fragile and obstructs refactoring. Rather, the structure of the tests must be independently designed so as to minimize the coupling to the production code.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cleancoder.com&#x2F;uncle-bob&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;03&#x2F;TestContravariance.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cleancoder.com&#x2F;uncle-bob&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;03&#x2F;TestContrava...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>discreteevent</author><text>&quot;consider instead writing higher level tests that each each test more of the code.&quot;<p>I really like the way they keep repeating this as the answer to so many questions. To me it reads as a softly softly approach to weaning people off what appears to be a mania for micro level unit testing, driven by people like Uncle Bob.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Questions to ask yourself when writing tests</title><url>https://charemza.name/blog/posts/methodologies/testing/questions-to-ask-yourself-when-writing-tests/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seanwilson</author><text>The argument I get against this is that when a higher level test fails, it&#x27;s harder to locate the lines of code that broke the test unlike when you have lots of unit tests. I don&#x27;t find this convincing though. Most of the time it&#x27;s going to be pretty obvious looking at what lines of code have changed since the last working commit. Lots of projects get by without any tests at all as well. I&#x27;m not saying to skip testing completely but it comes as a cost and you need to be practical at weighing up how much time to put into it vs how much time you&#x27;re going to save. Writing unit tests for everything takes time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>discreteevent</author><text>&quot;consider instead writing higher level tests that each each test more of the code.&quot;<p>I really like the way they keep repeating this as the answer to so many questions. To me it reads as a softly softly approach to weaning people off what appears to be a mania for micro level unit testing, driven by people like Uncle Bob.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Questions to ask yourself when writing tests</title><url>https://charemza.name/blog/posts/methodologies/testing/questions-to-ask-yourself-when-writing-tests/</url></story> |
6,824,831 | 6,824,884 | 1 | 2 | 6,824,685 | 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>LeafStorm</author><text>&gt; On the one hand, it seems ridiculous (absurd, perhaps) to fire someone over a pronoun -- but to characterize it that way would be a gross oversimplification: it&#x27;s not the use of the gendered pronoun that&#x27;s at issue (that&#x27;s just sloppy), but rather the insistence that pronouns should in fact be gendered. To me, that insistence can only come from one place: that gender—specifically, masculinity—is inextricably linked to software, and that&#x27;s not an attitude that Joyent tolerates.<p>They&#x27;re not opposing the use of the word &quot;he,&quot; they&#x27;re opposing him saying &quot;no, go away, I don&#x27;t see any reason someone could take offense&quot; when the issue was pointed out instead of &quot;thanks for the patch.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>&gt; while Isaac is a Joyent employee, Ben is not—and if he had been, he wouldn&#x27;t be as of this morning: to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered would constitute a fireable offense for me and for Joyent.<p>Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy? And how do you square it with calling someone an asshole in the next paragraph? That passes as professionalism and empathy at Joyent?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Power of a Pronoun</title><url>http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>na85</author><text>It&#x27;s not so crazy if you put down your pitchfork for a sec.<p>1) Every employee is an ambassador of your company&#x27;s brand, and Tech already has a sexism problem to begin with.<p>2) It&#x27;s not about the pronoun so much as it&#x27;s about Ben <i>re-rejecting</i> a patch that Isaac, the project lead, had already accepted, solely on the grounds of pronoun genders.<p>#2 really has no other explanation than sexism; and when his behaviour is conducted in public on the internet, where the &quot;Joyent employs bigots&quot; meme has potential to go viral, that&#x27;d be cause for concern for any employer.<p>Now, I like to think that had Ben been a Joyent employee the author of this pieces would have had a standard &quot;we have concerns with your conduct&quot; meeting with Ben before reaching for the banhammer but we don&#x27;t really have any way of knowing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>&gt; while Isaac is a Joyent employee, Ben is not—and if he had been, he wouldn&#x27;t be as of this morning: to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered would constitute a fireable offense for me and for Joyent.<p>Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy? And how do you square it with calling someone an asshole in the next paragraph? That passes as professionalism and empathy at Joyent?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Power of a Pronoun</title><url>http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun</url></story> |
11,122,830 | 11,121,817 | 1 | 2 | 11,120,249 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcw303</author><text>Australia has cloned the great American dream as well. When I lived in Sydney, real estate was all anybody ever talked about. Are you renting? Oh, too bad. Got to get on the property ladder, y&#x27;know. Yeah, my commute&#x27;s about an hour and a half, if there&#x27;s no trouble on the M5. I toughed it out on an oppressive mortage for thirty years out in the sticks, why can&#x27;t you? Kids these days want it all. etc, etc.<p>Coming to Tokyo was great. Sure, people still ask where you live, but the proximity to the train station is more important than how many bedrooms&#x2F;entertainment centers are in your McMansion. The only time I&#x27;ve been asked if I own or rent is when relatives came to stay. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s the after effect of the property bubble bursting, because the cheap construction materials means housing stock is not built to last, because good inner city locations are still too expensive to buy (despite said bubble bursting) so everyone rents, or just a culture that does not place much social cachet on property ownership. But it suits me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lowglow</author><text>I&#x27;ve sorta turned my back on the standard american dream. Racing to new areas of growth, working to build someone else&#x27;s dream, getting paid well immediately for performance, paying high rent, etc to afford the image of success, and making friends that participate in this same high ambition culture. Instead of making markets, markets start making you. All the rules, and &quot;norms&quot; we&#x27;ve collected around ourselves to participate are just foolish.<p>I ended up just buying and crashing in a van, exiting that mode of being, and am much happier because of it. Now I get to save money, research and build what I want when I want, and generally am very much less stressed. I&#x27;m no longer beholden to a landlord, or feel like I must participate in activities that just serve to entertain but not enlighten. I can spend the day at the beach just reading if I wish.<p>You start to look at time as something that you can control again, and you start seeing how much life truly is a gift, and that life itself should be nurtured and cherished. There is also a sense of independence and DIY that comes along with the lifestyle that feels like I&#x27;m leveling up in good ways.<p>Will this mode change for me? Sure. Change is inevitable. But for now I&#x27;ve found more peace and focus than I have in a long time. I&#x27;m now able to concentrate on longer stretches of time that hold bigger ideas, and then asking myself how I might use that time to start refocusing my energy making new markets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Rise of Renting in the U.S</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/02/the-rise-of-renting-in-the-us/462948/?platform=hootsuite</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taurath</author><text>This is a big generational thing. My brother and I have been there as our parents moved us out to the country to buy a big house, my dad work his life away for a bigco only to be laid off 3 years before his retirement, and now they sit in their house with a lot of stuff and very few hobbies and not much of a social group. We&#x27;ve seen how far striving can take you, and the real cost of the sacrifices you make for possessions. Both of us orient ourselves towards experiences over possessions. He and his wife are joining the peace corps and I am working on my skillset to become a remote contractor so I can travel (while saving up as much as I can living with roommates).</text><parent_chain><item><author>lowglow</author><text>I&#x27;ve sorta turned my back on the standard american dream. Racing to new areas of growth, working to build someone else&#x27;s dream, getting paid well immediately for performance, paying high rent, etc to afford the image of success, and making friends that participate in this same high ambition culture. Instead of making markets, markets start making you. All the rules, and &quot;norms&quot; we&#x27;ve collected around ourselves to participate are just foolish.<p>I ended up just buying and crashing in a van, exiting that mode of being, and am much happier because of it. Now I get to save money, research and build what I want when I want, and generally am very much less stressed. I&#x27;m no longer beholden to a landlord, or feel like I must participate in activities that just serve to entertain but not enlighten. I can spend the day at the beach just reading if I wish.<p>You start to look at time as something that you can control again, and you start seeing how much life truly is a gift, and that life itself should be nurtured and cherished. There is also a sense of independence and DIY that comes along with the lifestyle that feels like I&#x27;m leveling up in good ways.<p>Will this mode change for me? Sure. Change is inevitable. But for now I&#x27;ve found more peace and focus than I have in a long time. I&#x27;m now able to concentrate on longer stretches of time that hold bigger ideas, and then asking myself how I might use that time to start refocusing my energy making new markets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Rise of Renting in the U.S</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/02/the-rise-of-renting-in-the-us/462948/?platform=hootsuite</url></story> |
23,286,378 | 23,284,060 | 1 | 2 | 23,270,334 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greggman3</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to find the first reference of each idea.<p>I remember some picture floating around showing Star Trek as inspiration for cellphones, tablets, augmented displays, video calling<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;originals&#x2F;15&#x2F;26&#x2F;e5&#x2F;1526e5f6cfd6c2beb010bb1cc67f51e5.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;originals&#x2F;15&#x2F;26&#x2F;e5&#x2F;1526e5f6cfd6c2beb010...</a><p>but the creators were not aware all of those things existed long before.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;RtyUYoR.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;RtyUYoR.png</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions</title><url>http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/ctnlistPubDate.asp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>analog31</author><text>While the patent system has its flaws, one good concept is that a patent requires not only an idea, but a credible recipe for reducing the idea to practice. As such, few of the ideas in science fiction are actual inventions.<p>At the workplace, someone will often suggest something at a meeting, or to a subordinate, and claim &quot;credit&quot; for it later on. My rule of thumb is that credit goes to the person who actually made it happen, because that person had to work out whether it was feasible or not. Ideas are a dime a dozen.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions</title><url>http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/ctnlistPubDate.asp</url></story> |
11,925,352 | 11,924,068 | 1 | 3 | 11,922,740 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooks</author><text>We obviously don&#x27;t hang around the same people&#x2F;age group. There is always at least one person in my circle of friends that needs a charger.<p>Obviously 90% of the time a phone could be used (though I don&#x27;t agree it&#x27;s faster than credit card tap, roughly the same speed) and a card can be used as backup, but it makes ditching a credit card completely not really an option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nacs</author><text>How is this an issue? Most people don&#x27;t have issues keeping their phone&#x27;s out of water or keeping it charged.</text></item><item><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text><i>It seems to me that these alternatives (Chip &amp; sign, chip and pin, carrying a credit card at all) all compete poorly with the &quot;tap my phone to pay&quot; offerings.</i><p>Cards are waterproof, and don&#x27;t require being charged.</text></item><item><author>kylecordes</author><text>It seems to me that these alternatives (Chip &amp; sign, chip and pin, carrying a credit card at all) all compete poorly with the &quot;tap my phone to pay&quot; offerings. I use the latter whenever and wherever it is offered. As I understand it offers greater security than any of the above, and more importantly (life is short) it is much faster. (Though there is one wrinkle. Most point-of-sale systems process phone payments with just the tap. A few of them seem to instead treat it as equivalent to a swipe, and then launch you into a legacy multistep handshake thereafter.)<p>For reasons I don&#x27;t understand, the credit card makers have spent many years bringing the new chip cards to market, they include much higher technology than ever offered before, yet the payment process takes much longer. Of course these few seconds don&#x27;t matter that much per transaction, but think it might be enough to actually make a meaningful difference in staffing levels and line lengths at big stores in December.<p>I do understand the fees though. The credit card brands and banks have worked themselves, through years of diligent effort, into a business where they can impose a kind of &quot;tax&quot; of 3% on most of the retail economy across the entire US. This is obviously of immense economic value to them, and they will work very hard at every level to maintain it for as long as possible. On the other hand, paying these companies a 3% tax on every retail transaction is... rather surprising in the grand scheme of things, and seems unlikely to persist for that much longer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/home-depot-u-s-credit-card-firms-slow-to-upgrade-security-1466000734</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text>Well it would probably push me back to cash. I don&#x27;t bring my phone if I&#x27;m going to be wet, or theres a chance of it getting damaged (swimming, moshpits) but I still might want or need to buy something. I also find it a chore to keep my phone charged all day, and will regularly have it die, and leave it somewhere to be charged while I go out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nacs</author><text>How is this an issue? Most people don&#x27;t have issues keeping their phone&#x27;s out of water or keeping it charged.</text></item><item><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text><i>It seems to me that these alternatives (Chip &amp; sign, chip and pin, carrying a credit card at all) all compete poorly with the &quot;tap my phone to pay&quot; offerings.</i><p>Cards are waterproof, and don&#x27;t require being charged.</text></item><item><author>kylecordes</author><text>It seems to me that these alternatives (Chip &amp; sign, chip and pin, carrying a credit card at all) all compete poorly with the &quot;tap my phone to pay&quot; offerings. I use the latter whenever and wherever it is offered. As I understand it offers greater security than any of the above, and more importantly (life is short) it is much faster. (Though there is one wrinkle. Most point-of-sale systems process phone payments with just the tap. A few of them seem to instead treat it as equivalent to a swipe, and then launch you into a legacy multistep handshake thereafter.)<p>For reasons I don&#x27;t understand, the credit card makers have spent many years bringing the new chip cards to market, they include much higher technology than ever offered before, yet the payment process takes much longer. Of course these few seconds don&#x27;t matter that much per transaction, but think it might be enough to actually make a meaningful difference in staffing levels and line lengths at big stores in December.<p>I do understand the fees though. The credit card brands and banks have worked themselves, through years of diligent effort, into a business where they can impose a kind of &quot;tax&quot; of 3% on most of the retail economy across the entire US. This is obviously of immense economic value to them, and they will work very hard at every level to maintain it for as long as possible. On the other hand, paying these companies a 3% tax on every retail transaction is... rather surprising in the grand scheme of things, and seems unlikely to persist for that much longer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/home-depot-u-s-credit-card-firms-slow-to-upgrade-security-1466000734</url></story> |
40,687,146 | 40,685,827 | 1 | 2 | 40,684,901 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>The lie group&#x2F;lie algebra correspondence is one of the coolest things i wish i’d been taught in school. It’s the exponential and log map in the article, but in a super reusable setting.<p>You take some totally abstract thing you want to work with[0], say 3D rotations, but totally avoiding any details of specific coordinates that might get you into trouble. That’s the lie group.<p>Then you can derive representations of it in coordinates that behave nicely. This is called the corresponding lie algebra. Then for free you get a way to go back and forth between the coordinates and the abstract thing[1], and ways to compose them and stuff. Turns out that this is the exponential map and the log map talked about in the article. What’s even cooler is that you can then compose them on either side, the abstract side or the coordinate side in a way that plays nicely. You get interpolation and averaging and all that in a fairly sensible way too in most cases you’ll deal with as an engineer. And best of all, when you can phrase your problem as a combination of lie groups, you can just google for what their algebras are and get lots of work for free that would be tons of time to do yourself.<p>[0] the thing has to be something with a notion of smooth change, plus a bit more structure it probably has.<p>[1] going back and forth has some ‘connected components’ issues sometimes, but that’s just another reason it’s great to piggyback on known results.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)</title><url>http://thenumb.at/Exponential-Rotations/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tmiku</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a long work week and it&#x27;s almost over and using the sliders to rotate this cow is exactly what I needed. I feel serene. Thank you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)</title><url>http://thenumb.at/Exponential-Rotations/</url></story> |
13,182,106 | 13,181,600 | 1 | 2 | 13,180,973 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notyourwork</author><text>I give bad ratings any time a driver acts like this. I have no problem with that and if Uber wants to stop servicing me because I handed a bad driver a bad rating, I am ok with that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>detaro</author><text>oh, then I misunderstood. Would still be curious how passengers actually act in these cases, since &quot;I don&#x27;t want to give a bad rating&quot; seems to be a big thing.</text></item><item><author>jacobolus</author><text>I don’t have Uber installed on my phone. I mostly walk or take the bus&#x2F;subway. This is just my observations as a pedestrian.</text></item><item><author>detaro</author><text>Curious, have you reported those things to uber&#x2F;given appropriately bad ratings? (Uber always claims the rating system should filter unsafe actors out quickly)</text></item><item><author>jacobolus</author><text>If it uses Uber drivers for training, heaven help us: I’ve seen illegal U-turns, constant double parking, reversing down 1-way streets, moving right turns through red lights, sudden stops, speeding 25+ mph over the legal limit, lane changes in intersections, lots of turning without signals, lack of proper yielding to obvious pedestrians, cyclists nearly side-swiped, etc. (Some subset of) Uber drivers are one of the worst hazards on the road.</text></item><item><author>scarmig</author><text>Maybe it learned a bit too much from San Francisco drivers?</text></item><item><author>stuckagain</author><text>Self-driving Uber car blows red signal at crosswalk in SF:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-ordered-to-stop-self-driving-vehicle-service-in-san-francisco/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>surfmike</author><text>Why wouldn&#x27;t you want to give a bad rating for bad driving?<p>I almost always give 5 stars, but with the notable exception being distracted or aggressive drivers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>detaro</author><text>oh, then I misunderstood. Would still be curious how passengers actually act in these cases, since &quot;I don&#x27;t want to give a bad rating&quot; seems to be a big thing.</text></item><item><author>jacobolus</author><text>I don’t have Uber installed on my phone. I mostly walk or take the bus&#x2F;subway. This is just my observations as a pedestrian.</text></item><item><author>detaro</author><text>Curious, have you reported those things to uber&#x2F;given appropriately bad ratings? (Uber always claims the rating system should filter unsafe actors out quickly)</text></item><item><author>jacobolus</author><text>If it uses Uber drivers for training, heaven help us: I’ve seen illegal U-turns, constant double parking, reversing down 1-way streets, moving right turns through red lights, sudden stops, speeding 25+ mph over the legal limit, lane changes in intersections, lots of turning without signals, lack of proper yielding to obvious pedestrians, cyclists nearly side-swiped, etc. (Some subset of) Uber drivers are one of the worst hazards on the road.</text></item><item><author>scarmig</author><text>Maybe it learned a bit too much from San Francisco drivers?</text></item><item><author>stuckagain</author><text>Self-driving Uber car blows red signal at crosswalk in SF:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-ordered-to-stop-self-driving-vehicle-service-in-san-francisco/</url></story> |
25,645,451 | 25,645,509 | 1 | 2 | 25,644,964 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amingilani</author><text>Quick note: Google&#x27;s Advanced Protection program disallows sideloading apps, so you can&#x27;t install F-droid.<p>Edit: Note that the Advanced Protection program is opt-in for users that require the highest degree of security Google can offer. Regular users won&#x27;t be impacted by this.<p>Edit: proof <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;yktPNIc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;yktPNIc</a><p>Edit 2: see @haunter&#x27;s comment for a link to the change announcement</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Termux no longer updated on Google Play</title><url>https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux_Google_Play</url></story> | <instructions>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>The GitHub discussion is significantly more informative and carries a lot of thinking behind the changes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;termux&#x2F;termux-app&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;termux&#x2F;termux-app&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1072</a><p>IMO a better link than a short paragraph on Wiki.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Termux no longer updated on Google Play</title><url>https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux_Google_Play</url></story> |
31,243,030 | 31,235,417 | 1 | 3 | 31,235,109 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Brian_K_White</author><text>I do not recommend this. Use Kicad.<p>It&#x27;s not an on-ramp, it&#x27;s a time-wasting distraction detour from your actual on-ramp.<p>Every minute you spend figuring out how to do something in fritzing is a minute you could have spent figuring out the same thing in kicad, which you will end up doing eventually <i>anyway</i>, I promise you, garanteed. All this gets you is some badly designed boards and wasted time.<p>There are gobs of youtube videos for the absolute beginner which takes care of taking you from zero to simple pcb in a few minutes. Then you figure out a lot of other details as you encounter needs for them over time.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be kicad either. If you don&#x27;t mind a commercial proprietary product, Eagle is fine too. It&#x27;s workflow is a little different but not bad. In fact it&#x27;s an industry standard at a low level.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool</title><url>https://fritzing.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>There was an interesting discussion on their &quot;download&quot; button a few years ago.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21530891" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21530891</a><p>Original article has disappeared but is on archive.org:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20210615211240&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bowero.nl&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;13&#x2F;how-fritzing-is-killing-itself&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20210615211240&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bowero.nl...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool</title><url>https://fritzing.org/</url></story> |
30,670,093 | 30,669,831 | 1 | 2 | 30,666,849 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atoav</author><text>One datapoint: Color manipulation or color grading in film is mostly done using Blackmagic Davinci Resolve (runs under Linux, can also edit, mix sound etc, worth checking out).<p>Davinci is a nose based software as well (for the color part). The advantage is of course that you can easily copy graphs, parts of graphs or nodes from one picture to another. In a professional setting that means you can create one calibration node for your camera, one node to adjust differences between different pictures, one to use a certain look etc. You can combine masks from multiple nodes, do parallel color correction etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>numlock86</author><text>As someone who uses Blender for (GPU accelerated) node-based image manipulation (along with all the other things it brings to the table, like video editing etc.), what are the benefits of dedicated node-based image editors like this one? Serious question, not a rant. I am genuinely curious.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cascade: Open-source Node-based image editor with GPU-acceleration</title><url>https://github.com/ttddee/Cascade</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VladimirGolovin</author><text>Not having to redo the entire chain of image operations from scratch if you mess up one step. The ability to reuse the chain of operations on a different image. The ability to tune &#x2F; tweak the settings of each step without having to repeat the entire chain manually from the start. The ability to edit the chain of operations if you don&#x27;t like the result, without having to re-execute the chain manually.<p>And, lastly, node-based systems can be incredibly fun, if done right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>numlock86</author><text>As someone who uses Blender for (GPU accelerated) node-based image manipulation (along with all the other things it brings to the table, like video editing etc.), what are the benefits of dedicated node-based image editors like this one? Serious question, not a rant. I am genuinely curious.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cascade: Open-source Node-based image editor with GPU-acceleration</title><url>https://github.com/ttddee/Cascade</url></story> |
31,839,332 | 31,831,493 | 1 | 3 | 31,824,877 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ttymck</author><text>Monolith looks awesome! I love the name -- I too am embracing and championing the &quot;monolith-first&quot; approach.<p>You&#x27;ve given me some inspiration for my own starter-kit built on FastAPI (trying to capture the magic of Django): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmkontra&#x2F;fastapi-fullstack-boilerplate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmkontra&#x2F;fastapi-fullstack-boilerplate</a><p>I hope to follow along with your progress and perhaps share ideas&#x2F;compare notes! Cheers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradgessler</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see folks building frameworks on top of frameworks. I&#x27;ve started to look into full stack starter-kit frameworks that goes beyond the admin panel and here&#x27;s what&#x27;s out there these days.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bullettrain.co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bullettrain.co</a> - Opensource, $0&#x2F;year<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jumpstartrails.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jumpstartrails.com</a> - Opencore, $249&#x2F;year<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bootrails.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bootrails.com</a> - Closed source, ~$83&#x2F;year<p>I&#x27;ve even started to piece on together for my own projects at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocketshipio&#x2F;monolith" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocketshipio&#x2F;monolith</a>, which will be open source, $0, and MIT licensed.<p>Some of the libraries I&#x27;m noticing that seem &quot;settled&quot; include:<p>* Devise for authentication<p>* Pundit for authorization<p>I started to piece on together for my own projects at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocketshipio&#x2F;monolith" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocketshipio&#x2F;monolith</a>, which will be open source, $0, and MIT licensed.<p>I&#x27;m hoping enough people converge around any one of these products where we end up with something as high quality as Rails. If the community agrees on how users, authorization, subscriptions, etc. should be modeled, it opens up the door for a set of APIs and plugins that will make creating SaaS products even easier.<p>My thinking on the economics of this is the Opencore stuff will be a race to the bottom in terms of pricing towards free or a nominal fee (I guess $250&#x2F;year is that). What will end up costing money is tech support. I do see an ecosystem of third-party services that integrate with SaaS kits emerging, such as rapid ways to deploy, analytics services, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster</title><url>https://avohq.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_bz2r</author><text>Years ago there was a site called prelang that tried to create a framework framework. It was incredibly cool, but I think it became abandoned.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;prelang#prelang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;prelang#prelang</a><p>previously on HN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7985162" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7985162</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bradgessler</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see folks building frameworks on top of frameworks. I&#x27;ve started to look into full stack starter-kit frameworks that goes beyond the admin panel and here&#x27;s what&#x27;s out there these days.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bullettrain.co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bullettrain.co</a> - Opensource, $0&#x2F;year<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jumpstartrails.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jumpstartrails.com</a> - Opencore, $249&#x2F;year<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bootrails.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bootrails.com</a> - Closed source, ~$83&#x2F;year<p>I&#x27;ve even started to piece on together for my own projects at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocketshipio&#x2F;monolith" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocketshipio&#x2F;monolith</a>, which will be open source, $0, and MIT licensed.<p>Some of the libraries I&#x27;m noticing that seem &quot;settled&quot; include:<p>* Devise for authentication<p>* Pundit for authorization<p>I started to piece on together for my own projects at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocketshipio&#x2F;monolith" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocketshipio&#x2F;monolith</a>, which will be open source, $0, and MIT licensed.<p>I&#x27;m hoping enough people converge around any one of these products where we end up with something as high quality as Rails. If the community agrees on how users, authorization, subscriptions, etc. should be modeled, it opens up the door for a set of APIs and plugins that will make creating SaaS products even easier.<p>My thinking on the economics of this is the Opencore stuff will be a race to the bottom in terms of pricing towards free or a nominal fee (I guess $250&#x2F;year is that). What will end up costing money is tech support. I do see an ecosystem of third-party services that integrate with SaaS kits emerging, such as rapid ways to deploy, analytics services, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster</title><url>https://avohq.io/</url></story> |
25,717,476 | 25,717,539 | 1 | 2 | 25,715,781 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nycticorax</author><text>Not sure where you&#x27;re writing from, but it&#x27;s very common in the US. This article (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thekitchn.com&#x2F;why-you-should-almost-never-use-the-self-cleaning-function-of-your-oven-175110" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thekitchn.com&#x2F;why-you-should-almost-never-use-th...</a>) quotes someone who works for an appliance store in Cincinnati who says it&#x27;s difficult to sell an oven without that feature. And as others have said, every oven I have every owned (or that my parents owned when I was around and capable of forming memories) has been self-cleaning.<p>Maybe it sounds fancier than it is? Is not like it has a little robot that cleans the oven. It&#x27;s just a mode where the oven can get the internal temperature very high (up to 1000 degrees F according to that article) that just incinerates any organic material stuck to the oven walls.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>Yes, if you happen to own an oven that has this feature. It&#x27;s not exactly common.<p>Edit: because of course I triggered a storm. Maybe it&#x27;s common elsewhere. I&#x27;ve lived in few EU countries, rented then owned a few houses, exactly only one of them had an oven with the self cleaning(by heating up to like 500C) feature, I don&#x27;t think we ever used it. When we bought our current oven none of the ones we looked at had that function. A fancy Candy we looked at had a function where it cleans itself with steam(where you fill up a provided container with water and then it heats it up to fill the oven with steam and in theory that softens the gunk. No idea if that actually works).<p>If it&#x27;s common where you live, then my apologies for this comment.</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text><i>Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.</i><p>Actually, if you throw it in the oven and set it to self-clean it&#x27;ll strip the seasoning right off. I&#x27;ve done it with my cast iron pan before. Washes completely clean and ends up gun-metal grey; a non-oxidized pure iron surface. This is a great way to start over with the seasoning process if you&#x27;re unhappy with it.</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>Also, without washing, you end up with rough spots of non-sticky partially-polymerized bits. Wash it with soap and a scrub brush. Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.<p>For proof of this, check out your aluminum baking sheets. If they’ve been used, they’re almost certainly covered in a shiny black substance that’s a complete pain in the ass to remove, even with abrasives. That’s essentially what’s on your cast iron.</text></item><item><author>war1025</author><text>As someone who owns more cast iron than is reasonable, I just wanted to go a step beyond upvoting this and acknowledge in writing that this is the correct view of things.<p>You want oil soaked into the metal. This idea that you are trying to build a non-stick surface on top of the metal is just adding extra work that isn&#x27;t needed.<p>Wash with soap, dry of the stove top, put in some oil (I use peanut), then take a paper towel and rub the oil around over everything and at the end the metal should look shiny but there shouldn&#x27;t be any pooled oil left anywhere.<p>If you are cooking something that doesn&#x27;t leave a residue or strong flavor, you can skip the washing all together and just leave it there to cook with next time.<p>If you try to go the whole &quot;never wash this&quot; route, you end up with unhappy results going from cooking something with onions and garlic to cooking something more neutral flavored. No one wants onion flavored pancakes.</text></item><item><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>You really shouldn&#x27;t buy a special oil just got seasoning your cast iron and carbon steel. It&#x27;s not necessary. Pick an oil with a high smoke point, a neutral taste, and plenty of easy availability. That&#x27;s often peanut. Avocado is great if you&#x27;re fancy.<p>Keep a squirt bottle of oil on hand and make sure you&#x27;re using enough. Using soap to clean your pans will make maintaining your seasoning easier, as you use less effort to clean them. See this if you&#x27;re skeptical: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-truth-about-cast-iron.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-truth-about-cast-iro...</a><p>I had friends dedicate years to flax seed oil. They&#x27;re not happy about it, as they&#x27;ve got flaking to deal with. I also had friends disbelieve me that soap was okay, and they&#x27;ve mostly come around after hearing me swear by it for years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)</title><url>http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chipsa</author><text>Mine doesn&#x27;t, but that&#x27;s because it&#x27;s too fancy, and has a special coating on the inside that&#x27;s supposed to make stuff just come off. Freaking Whirlpool. It doesn&#x27;t work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>Yes, if you happen to own an oven that has this feature. It&#x27;s not exactly common.<p>Edit: because of course I triggered a storm. Maybe it&#x27;s common elsewhere. I&#x27;ve lived in few EU countries, rented then owned a few houses, exactly only one of them had an oven with the self cleaning(by heating up to like 500C) feature, I don&#x27;t think we ever used it. When we bought our current oven none of the ones we looked at had that function. A fancy Candy we looked at had a function where it cleans itself with steam(where you fill up a provided container with water and then it heats it up to fill the oven with steam and in theory that softens the gunk. No idea if that actually works).<p>If it&#x27;s common where you live, then my apologies for this comment.</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text><i>Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.</i><p>Actually, if you throw it in the oven and set it to self-clean it&#x27;ll strip the seasoning right off. I&#x27;ve done it with my cast iron pan before. Washes completely clean and ends up gun-metal grey; a non-oxidized pure iron surface. This is a great way to start over with the seasoning process if you&#x27;re unhappy with it.</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>Also, without washing, you end up with rough spots of non-sticky partially-polymerized bits. Wash it with soap and a scrub brush. Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.<p>For proof of this, check out your aluminum baking sheets. If they’ve been used, they’re almost certainly covered in a shiny black substance that’s a complete pain in the ass to remove, even with abrasives. That’s essentially what’s on your cast iron.</text></item><item><author>war1025</author><text>As someone who owns more cast iron than is reasonable, I just wanted to go a step beyond upvoting this and acknowledge in writing that this is the correct view of things.<p>You want oil soaked into the metal. This idea that you are trying to build a non-stick surface on top of the metal is just adding extra work that isn&#x27;t needed.<p>Wash with soap, dry of the stove top, put in some oil (I use peanut), then take a paper towel and rub the oil around over everything and at the end the metal should look shiny but there shouldn&#x27;t be any pooled oil left anywhere.<p>If you are cooking something that doesn&#x27;t leave a residue or strong flavor, you can skip the washing all together and just leave it there to cook with next time.<p>If you try to go the whole &quot;never wash this&quot; route, you end up with unhappy results going from cooking something with onions and garlic to cooking something more neutral flavored. No one wants onion flavored pancakes.</text></item><item><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>You really shouldn&#x27;t buy a special oil just got seasoning your cast iron and carbon steel. It&#x27;s not necessary. Pick an oil with a high smoke point, a neutral taste, and plenty of easy availability. That&#x27;s often peanut. Avocado is great if you&#x27;re fancy.<p>Keep a squirt bottle of oil on hand and make sure you&#x27;re using enough. Using soap to clean your pans will make maintaining your seasoning easier, as you use less effort to clean them. See this if you&#x27;re skeptical: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-truth-about-cast-iron.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-truth-about-cast-iro...</a><p>I had friends dedicate years to flax seed oil. They&#x27;re not happy about it, as they&#x27;ve got flaking to deal with. I also had friends disbelieve me that soap was okay, and they&#x27;ve mostly come around after hearing me swear by it for years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)</title><url>http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/</url></story> |
38,206,501 | 38,206,096 | 1 | 2 | 38,204,872 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tech_ken</author><text>I&#x27;ve replaced the battery once and the wifi card twice, the second time in SFO at a cafe table with some random screwdriver I stole from the office. The internal layout is SO easy to open up and put back together, and all the parts and instructions for repair are posted on their website (and are super easy to navigate!). Idk why you would say &quot;farce&quot; but that seems extremely strong. I guess it&#x27;s kind of inconvenient that they didn&#x27;t fix the laptop you broke in a timespan you liked, but that&#x27;s got nothing to do with the thing&#x27;s &quot;repairability&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>camjohnson26</author><text>It’s a nice computer but calling it “repairable” is a farce, and System76’s customer support is unfortunately woefully inadequate.<p>I have one of these and spilled a drink on my keyboard, getting it replaced was $300 of parts and labor, but the worst thing was it took almost 2 months pressuring their support reps to actually complete the process and they would frequently just not respond to messages, or ignore information I provided or clarified.<p>Pop_OS! is really nice to be fair. I’ve also had issues with build quality. My Gazelle’s screen stopped working when the computer ran out of power and had a bent wire when I opened it up. Again they wanted hundreds of dollars to fix it, even though it was clearly a manufacturing defect. When they sent the computer back the chassis was cracked.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop</title><url>https://www.wired.com/review/system-76-lemur-pro-laptop/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>Counterpoint: my keyboard on my lemur pro died and they shipped me a new part in like 2 days and I had it swapped in 40 mins.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partofthething.com&#x2F;thoughts&#x2F;replacing-the-keyboard-on-my-2020-system76-lemur-pro-lemp9-laptop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partofthething.com&#x2F;thoughts&#x2F;replacing-the-keyboard-o...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>camjohnson26</author><text>It’s a nice computer but calling it “repairable” is a farce, and System76’s customer support is unfortunately woefully inadequate.<p>I have one of these and spilled a drink on my keyboard, getting it replaced was $300 of parts and labor, but the worst thing was it took almost 2 months pressuring their support reps to actually complete the process and they would frequently just not respond to messages, or ignore information I provided or clarified.<p>Pop_OS! is really nice to be fair. I’ve also had issues with build quality. My Gazelle’s screen stopped working when the computer ran out of power and had a bent wire when I opened it up. Again they wanted hundreds of dollars to fix it, even though it was clearly a manufacturing defect. When they sent the computer back the chassis was cracked.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop</title><url>https://www.wired.com/review/system-76-lemur-pro-laptop/</url></story> |
37,273,484 | 37,272,771 | 1 | 3 | 37,246,610 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JimDabell</author><text>I’m a bit lost here – what is this? I see a bunch of boxes for activities like getting a group of people to do their favourite stretches in a circle, or throwing paper balls into a bin. What does this have to do with design? I think I’m missing the point. The headline “Supporting the development of inclusive innovations” doesn’t really say anything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Universal Design Guide Playbook</title><url>https://universaldesignguide.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>sherjilozair</author><text>So this is why my previous company had taken us to a retreat where we tried to brainstorm how to build AGI using post-it notes. We were given 5 minutes and then someone did a crude clustering and picked the biggest cluster.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Universal Design Guide Playbook</title><url>https://universaldesignguide.com/</url></story> |
11,065,831 | 11,065,765 | 1 | 2 | 11,065,251 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloisant</author><text>I think what he is saying is that it&#x27;s easy for him to buy a commercial licence for Open Source software (even if the licence doesn&#x27;t grant him any additional right or service) but donations are legally harder to pay before tax.<p>I think it boils down to the fact that you can have business expenses, you deduce that from your revenue and it&#x27;s all good, but other than that if you want to get money out of your company (salaries, dividends, etc.) you&#x27;re being taxed.<p>I guess the tax office wouldn&#x27;t want you to just &quot;donate&quot; money from your company to get it out without paying taxes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Legally not allowed? You can donate to anybody you please I would think.<p>Anyway I&#x27;m all for using software you pay for, because it has a higher probability of being around next year. One person donating a responsible amount is not going to guarantee that. Its a start I guess.</text></item><item><author>dkyc</author><text>I think this comment by patio11 is very relevant here:<p><i>&quot;We don&#x27;t donate to OSS software which we use, because we&#x27;re legally not allowed to.<p>I routinely send key projects, particularly smaller projects, a request to quote me a commercial license of their project, with the explanation that I would accept a quote of $1,000 and that the commercial license can be their existing OSS license plus an invoice. My books suggest we&#x27;ve spent $3k on this in 2015. My bookkeeper, accountant, and the IRS&#x2F;NTA are united on this issue: they don&#x27;t care whether a software license is OSS or not. A $1k invoice is a $1k invoice; as a software company, I have virtually carte blanche to expense any software I think is reasonably required, and I think our OSS is reasonably required.<p>I would do this more often if OSS projects made it easier for me to do so. Getting me to pay $1,000 for software is easy; committing me to doing lots of admin work over the course of a week is less easy. Take a look at what e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sidekiq.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sidekiq.org&#x2F;</a> , which is an OSS project with a commercial model, does. Two clicks gets me to a credit card form. If I actually used Sidekiq, Mike would have had my credit card on file the day that form went up.&quot;</i><p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10863939" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10863939</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment</title><url>https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/feb/04/funding-testimonial-divio/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; Legally not allowed? You can donate to anybody you please I would think.<p>The point patio11 makes here is that as a company things are not so easy:<p>&gt; Both countries are very lenient with regards to necessary business expenses (必須経費 over here). Neither particularly likes arbitrary money moving out of the company; that smacks of unreported income.<p>(&quot;unreported income&quot; here means money paid to an employee but not reported as income). With a proper invoice and line item, all the boxes are checked and a random audit won&#x27;t fall on the company like a ton of bricks.<p>Even if the system handles company donations, that tends to be more complex both internally and externally than a &quot;software license&quot; line item, and thus to have way more overhead and to be way more likely to be refused.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Legally not allowed? You can donate to anybody you please I would think.<p>Anyway I&#x27;m all for using software you pay for, because it has a higher probability of being around next year. One person donating a responsible amount is not going to guarantee that. Its a start I guess.</text></item><item><author>dkyc</author><text>I think this comment by patio11 is very relevant here:<p><i>&quot;We don&#x27;t donate to OSS software which we use, because we&#x27;re legally not allowed to.<p>I routinely send key projects, particularly smaller projects, a request to quote me a commercial license of their project, with the explanation that I would accept a quote of $1,000 and that the commercial license can be their existing OSS license plus an invoice. My books suggest we&#x27;ve spent $3k on this in 2015. My bookkeeper, accountant, and the IRS&#x2F;NTA are united on this issue: they don&#x27;t care whether a software license is OSS or not. A $1k invoice is a $1k invoice; as a software company, I have virtually carte blanche to expense any software I think is reasonably required, and I think our OSS is reasonably required.<p>I would do this more often if OSS projects made it easier for me to do so. Getting me to pay $1,000 for software is easy; committing me to doing lots of admin work over the course of a week is less easy. Take a look at what e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sidekiq.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sidekiq.org&#x2F;</a> , which is an OSS project with a commercial model, does. Two clicks gets me to a credit card form. If I actually used Sidekiq, Mike would have had my credit card on file the day that form went up.&quot;</i><p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10863939" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10863939</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment</title><url>https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/feb/04/funding-testimonial-divio/</url></story> |
23,697,219 | 23,697,162 | 1 | 3 | 23,693,407 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>They&#x27;re maybe trying to use the same law that Locast[1] is: there&#x27;s a specific carve-out in the law about rebroadcasting for nonprofits: &quot;an exception in U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 111) for retransmission of television programming by non-profits without charge or any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage (besides the costs needed to cover the operations and maintenance of the retransmitter), which was originally intended to cover over-the-air translator stations&quot; [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.locast.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.locast.org</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Locast#Legal_challenge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Locast#Legal_challenge</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I&#x27;m no lawyer, but it doesn&#x27;t exactly seem legal. Streaming free local network broadcasts was definitively ruled as illegal by the Supreme Court in 2014 -- remember that was Aereo&#x27;s entire business model. [1]<p>It seems like the Stanford service is trying to justify themselves by being an academic study and limiting to 500 concurrent participants... but it&#x27;s telling they don&#x27;t list any legal justification on the site, and merely generically claim:<p>&gt; <i>Stanford respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe your copyright has been violated on a Stanford site, please notify [email protected] and give notice as stated under Reporting of Alleged Copyright Infringement.</i> [2]<p>I&#x27;m honestly shocked this ever passed Stanford legal review. Maybe it never did?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aereo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aereo</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&#x2F;terms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&#x2F;terms&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>keithwinstein</author><text>ObShameless reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu</a> remains free of charge.<p>The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC&#x2F;CBS&#x2F;ABC&#x2F;PBS&#x2F;FOX&#x2F;CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it&#x27;s essentially a big A&#x2F;B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We&#x27;re now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY</a><p>The content is... well, it&#x27;s U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it&#x27;s free (for people inside the U.S.).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Plough_Jogger</author><text>An interesting aspect of Aereo&#x27;s model is that they attempted to circumvent these regulations by leasing each customer an individual antenna which they could access remotely. They maintained &quot;antenna farms&quot; full of tiny antennas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I&#x27;m no lawyer, but it doesn&#x27;t exactly seem legal. Streaming free local network broadcasts was definitively ruled as illegal by the Supreme Court in 2014 -- remember that was Aereo&#x27;s entire business model. [1]<p>It seems like the Stanford service is trying to justify themselves by being an academic study and limiting to 500 concurrent participants... but it&#x27;s telling they don&#x27;t list any legal justification on the site, and merely generically claim:<p>&gt; <i>Stanford respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe your copyright has been violated on a Stanford site, please notify [email protected] and give notice as stated under Reporting of Alleged Copyright Infringement.</i> [2]<p>I&#x27;m honestly shocked this ever passed Stanford legal review. Maybe it never did?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aereo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aereo</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&#x2F;terms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&#x2F;terms&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>keithwinstein</author><text>ObShameless reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu</a> remains free of charge.<p>The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC&#x2F;CBS&#x2F;ABC&#x2F;PBS&#x2F;FOX&#x2F;CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it&#x27;s essentially a big A&#x2F;B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We&#x27;re now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY</a><p>The content is... well, it&#x27;s U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it&#x27;s free (for people inside the U.S.).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels</url></story> |
6,946,204 | 6,946,074 | 1 | 3 | 6,945,734 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mg74</author><text>Volume 1: <a href="http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu&#x2F;I_toc.html</a>
Volume 2: <a href="http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu&#x2F;II_toc.html</a>
Volume 3: <a href="http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu&#x2F;III_toc.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II</title><url>http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.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>sillysaurus2</author><text>This one in particular is quite good: <a href="http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_06.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu&#x2F;I_06.html</a><p>Further study: <a href="http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.refsmmat.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II</title><url>http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html</url></story> |
26,680,998 | 26,680,238 | 1 | 3 | 26,678,700 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>collsni</author><text>Illegal is a pretty strong word. We need more rights not stipulation on everything we do.<p>Just realize what you&#x27;re asking for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reader_mode</author><text>I was mostly ambivalent about crypto - it seemed like a lot of speculation but I liked some scenarios it enabled (mostly scenarios where traditional payment was not practical for w&#x2F;e reason).<p>But seeing the HW situation, energy burn, scammers, infra hijacking, etc. there are so many negatives I&#x27;m more and more in favour of making it illegal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure</title><url>https://therecord.media/github-investigating-crypto-mining-campaign-abusing-its-server-infrastructure/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dgellow</author><text>If that&#x27;s your critic then Proof-of-Work is the issue, not crypto currencies in general. There are multiple Proof-of-Stake implementations already in production (still very young though), each with its set of properties (see Cardano, Algorand, Tezos, Polkadot, Harmony, etc).</text><parent_chain><item><author>reader_mode</author><text>I was mostly ambivalent about crypto - it seemed like a lot of speculation but I liked some scenarios it enabled (mostly scenarios where traditional payment was not practical for w&#x2F;e reason).<p>But seeing the HW situation, energy burn, scammers, infra hijacking, etc. there are so many negatives I&#x27;m more and more in favour of making it illegal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure</title><url>https://therecord.media/github-investigating-crypto-mining-campaign-abusing-its-server-infrastructure/</url></story> |
35,029,146 | 35,028,755 | 1 | 3 | 35,024,129 | 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>dmd</author><text>&gt; which means they&#x27;re live when the switch is off<p>For anyone else confused by this - it&#x27;s a British thing. In America, all outlets are live all the time. British outlets have a switch per-outlet, built in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nly</author><text>I moved in to a newly renovated Victorian house here in England in December, which we bought from a property developer.<p>It was completely rewired, with everything signed off and certified by a qualified electrician, as per legal requirements.<p>Most properties in the UK have common earth&#x2F;ground and neutral wiring (they&#x27;re the same wire, the &quot;earth&quot; just bypasses your main board... there&#x27;s no earth spike).<p>Anyway, I bought a socket tester after noticing an outlet or two didn&#x27;t work. Went around and tested the whole house... half of the 30 electrical outlets in the house were defective, and at least 4 were wired incorrectly such that they were live on the neutral pin (which means they&#x27;re live when the switch is off). Some had earthing issues. Fortunately the RCBO&#x27;s work as advertised.<p>Don&#x27;t risk your life with this stuff, test it all yourself. A tester will cost you $10</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is there a voltage on my HDMI and coaxial cables?</title><url>https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/268070/why-is-there-a-voltage-on-my-hdmi-and-coaxial-cables</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tblt</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen houses with ground bonded to the copper water&#x2F;gas pipes...and upon further inspection they were supplied with plastic piping outside of their property boundary. Yikes.<p>My understanding is that neutral goes to ground at the substation</text><parent_chain><item><author>nly</author><text>I moved in to a newly renovated Victorian house here in England in December, which we bought from a property developer.<p>It was completely rewired, with everything signed off and certified by a qualified electrician, as per legal requirements.<p>Most properties in the UK have common earth&#x2F;ground and neutral wiring (they&#x27;re the same wire, the &quot;earth&quot; just bypasses your main board... there&#x27;s no earth spike).<p>Anyway, I bought a socket tester after noticing an outlet or two didn&#x27;t work. Went around and tested the whole house... half of the 30 electrical outlets in the house were defective, and at least 4 were wired incorrectly such that they were live on the neutral pin (which means they&#x27;re live when the switch is off). Some had earthing issues. Fortunately the RCBO&#x27;s work as advertised.<p>Don&#x27;t risk your life with this stuff, test it all yourself. A tester will cost you $10</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is there a voltage on my HDMI and coaxial cables?</title><url>https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/268070/why-is-there-a-voltage-on-my-hdmi-and-coaxial-cables</url></story> |
2,767,021 | 2,766,961 | 1 | 2 | 2,766,775 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>a few more gotcha's:<p>* when storing a UTC timestamp and you need to get a datetime object back in order to add dates or do some calcualtions, make sure you use datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(), eg.<p><pre><code> &#62;&#62;&#62; datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1310727758.472)
datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 15, 11, 2, 38, 472000)
</code></pre>
* python timestamps are longs and represent time in seconds. in Javascript it is the number of milliseconds since epoch, so you need to divide/multiple by 1000 depending on which way you are going. for eg.<p><pre><code> &#62; new Date().valueOf()
1310728084389
&#62;&#62;&#62; datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1310728084389)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "&#60;stdin&#62;", line 1, in &#60;module&#62;
ValueError: year is out of range
&#62;&#62;&#62; datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1310728084389 / 1000)
datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 15, 11, 8, 4)
</code></pre>
* always set your server to UTC, always use the utc* functions (eg. utctimetuple, utcfromtimestamp, utctime etc.), store as a long, and when passing back to the client send the current UTC timestamp as well rather than relying on the client system clock, which is frequently wrong. You can also use:<p><a href="http://json-time.appspot.com/time.json?tz=UTC" rel="nofollow">http://json-time.appspot.com/time.json?tz=UTC</a><p>or implement something similar. I resorted to always outputting the current UTC time into a javascript variable and using that to calibrate the local computer time (again, never trusting client time)<p>* never use time.time() to get a timestamp back because it will munge the value and re-add tz info<p>* in Javascript, to go from your server-provided UTC timestamp to a local date object that you can then work with, use:<p><pre><code> &#62; new Date(1310728084 * 1000).toUTCString()
"Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:08:04 GMT"
</code></pre>
* If you are providing an API or a feed, please include a UTC timestamp in the output - parsing all the different date formats and timestamp info and attempting to work out when something happen (such as when a post was published) is a real pain in the ass. store the timezone in a sep field called 'utc_offset' or similar</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dealing with Timezones in Python </title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/15/eppur-si-muove/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grovulent</author><text>So I've been coding for about a year and a half now and had to learn all this the hard way. Which isn't a bad thing at all.<p>It's little stuff like this that really makes it true that you should try to build an app or two like a blog-n-whatnot so that one's ignorance of these issues can be exposed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dealing with Timezones in Python </title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/15/eppur-si-muove/</url></story> |
7,356,145 | 7,355,359 | 1 | 3 | 7,354,985 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pbnjay</author><text>I&#x27;d certainly be interested in knowing what the heck &quot;select features&quot; might be, and what exactly I can do with a development license for GH products... but it&#x27;s really hard to see whats in it for me with such an uninformative marketing page.<p>I&#x27;m not yet making money off of my github integration, so I can&#x27;t justify jumping to a paid plan just to see what this is all about...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The GitHub Developer Program</title><url>http://developer.github.com/program/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonchalance</author><text>&gt; In order to register for the developer program, you must be on a paid plan.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The GitHub Developer Program</title><url>http://developer.github.com/program/</url></story> |
35,524,605 | 35,523,582 | 1 | 3 | 35,522,642 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gavinhoward</author><text>Shameless plug, but my development environment [1] may be close to what you&#x27;re looking for. (There&#x27;s pictures!)<p>A couple of details have changed since that post. The only one that you might care about is that I now have <i>two</i> tmux panes with gdb-dashboard. This is meant to use space better. One pane has all of the variables and nothing else. The other has everything else.<p>If you care about that, I&#x27;ll tell you how to do it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinhoward.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;my-development-environment-and-how-i-got-there&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinhoward.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;my-development-environment-a...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>DixieDev</author><text>Anyone got other useful tools for debugging within (neo)vim? Just seamlessly putting down breakpoints, stepping through code execution, and getting a fully fledged debugging UI experience (a la Visual Studio or Remedy BG)? This is possibly the only thing I miss from developing on Windows, and it&#x27;s a shame!<p>EDIT: I specified &#x27;within vim&#x27; but actually I&#x27;d be down for standalone Linux app recommendations too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination</title><url>https://github.com/vlopes11/rrust.nvim</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidkunz</author><text>I use nvim-dap[1] in combination with jester[2] (by me) to run and debug Jest tests in my project, it works perfectly.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mfussenegger&#x2F;nvim-dap">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mfussenegger&#x2F;nvim-dap</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;David-Kunz&#x2F;jester">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;David-Kunz&#x2F;jester</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>DixieDev</author><text>Anyone got other useful tools for debugging within (neo)vim? Just seamlessly putting down breakpoints, stepping through code execution, and getting a fully fledged debugging UI experience (a la Visual Studio or Remedy BG)? This is possibly the only thing I miss from developing on Windows, and it&#x27;s a shame!<p>EDIT: I specified &#x27;within vim&#x27; but actually I&#x27;d be down for standalone Linux app recommendations too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination</title><url>https://github.com/vlopes11/rrust.nvim</url></story> |
28,325,960 | 28,325,964 | 1 | 2 | 28,325,629 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonh</author><text>They&#x27;ve swallowed an ideological fallacy that simply working your pants off for long hours means you will win. The USSR had the same disease, if they just worked their people 20% harder than the west did then they would inevitably be more productive and economically &#x27;win&#x27;. It&#x27;s variation of the lump of labour fallacy.<p>Don&#x27;t fall for it. It&#x27;s thinking like this that leads to managers optimising for the wrong metrics. Hours worked is clearly the wrong metric. Companies don&#x27;t exist to simply employ workers for long hours, and thinking that way leads you down the wrong path right from the start. You need to look at where the value actually comes from, and this is sometimes subtle and not at all obvious.<p>Here&#x27;s a challenge. A taxi driver in London earns about 4x what a taxi driver in Beijing does, in objective international value terms. Why? What factors might lead to that difference? If your value system can&#x27;t answer that question, then it&#x27;s wrong. They do quite legitimately earn 4x as much because the work they are doing is worth 4x as much, and there must be a reason.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_cramer</author><text>I once had a chinese colleague who came to europe for a few years. She always thought we were lazy for working so short and every argument i brought up about mental health and work efficiency was met with a: &quot;but it works for us&quot;.<p>What i did not understand back then is the absolute replaceability of personel in the chinese market. You work long and hard or tomorrow someone else does it.<p>Not only is this a big reason of the economical prowess of china in my opinion, i fear that this work-ethic will come back sooner or later to europe to &quot;stay competitive&quot;.<p>In the face of bankcruptcy or market pressure... managers tend to make irrational and&#x2F;or unethical decisions. And they will find a way to circumvent the laws.
I am also sure that chinese companies will find a way to circumvent the 996 ruling here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-authorities-say-overtime-996-policy-is-illegal-2021-08-27/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>&gt;What i did not understand back then is the absolute replaceability of personel in the chinese market. You work long and hard or tomorrow someone else does it.<p>That&#x27;s rapidly changing as the birthrate is falling and the population is ageing. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.populationpyramid.net&#x2F;china&#x2F;2020&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.populationpyramid.net&#x2F;china&#x2F;2020&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>the_cramer</author><text>I once had a chinese colleague who came to europe for a few years. She always thought we were lazy for working so short and every argument i brought up about mental health and work efficiency was met with a: &quot;but it works for us&quot;.<p>What i did not understand back then is the absolute replaceability of personel in the chinese market. You work long and hard or tomorrow someone else does it.<p>Not only is this a big reason of the economical prowess of china in my opinion, i fear that this work-ethic will come back sooner or later to europe to &quot;stay competitive&quot;.<p>In the face of bankcruptcy or market pressure... managers tend to make irrational and&#x2F;or unethical decisions. And they will find a way to circumvent the laws.
I am also sure that chinese companies will find a way to circumvent the 996 ruling here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-authorities-say-overtime-996-policy-is-illegal-2021-08-27/</url></story> |
26,137,002 | 26,136,871 | 1 | 3 | 26,122,712 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&gt; But read up further, and make educated decisions. Don&#x27;t just listen to &quot;experts&quot; blindly.<p>I don&#x27;t see that being very practical. The average person simply isn&#x27;t qualified to read scientific literature and draw their own conclusions. I doubt I&#x27;d be able to make much sense of a research paper on virology or epidemiology, despite that I consider myself scientifically literate in the general sense.<p>The answer is to have credible communicators of science. The best way to do that is with credible institutions. If the assumption is that this is impossible, the game is already lost.<p>&gt; the Surgeon General and even Fauci, told people that masks don&#x27;t work. That infuriated me and they instantly lost credibility with me. And it caused a split in Americans where too many believed that masks didn&#x27;t work, even after they changed their tune. It was absolutely unnecessary to lie and it killed people.<p>Broadly agree, although I think anti-mask sentiments are due to mindless partisanship rather than listening to Fauci&#x27;s early lie.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jennyyang</author><text>Sometimes, the &quot;science&quot; is wrong. Everything from low-fat diets, to high sodium diets, to DDT, to MSG. Many of the things that we have literally been indoctrinated with have been fully wrong.<p>Most recently, when the government, most especially the Surgeon General and even Fauci, told people that masks don&#x27;t work. That infuriated me and they instantly lost credibility with me. And it caused a split in Americans where too many believed that masks didn&#x27;t work, even after they changed their tune. It was absolutely unnecessary to lie and it killed people.<p>So read the science. Listen to the science. But read up further, and make educated decisions. Don&#x27;t just listen to &quot;experts&quot; blindly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated</title><url>https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redisman</author><text>Science is always wrong to begin with and it gets close to a correct answer with iteration. It’s actually not at all a solved problem how to communicate “science” to the public. Your comment is a perfect example of one of these annoying fallacies I see around covid messaging. Don’t you think they “changed their tune” because they got better data that showed that masks are helpful? You seem mad that they couldn’t conjure clinical data in early 2020 that showed that masks cut the transmission by X%</text><parent_chain><item><author>jennyyang</author><text>Sometimes, the &quot;science&quot; is wrong. Everything from low-fat diets, to high sodium diets, to DDT, to MSG. Many of the things that we have literally been indoctrinated with have been fully wrong.<p>Most recently, when the government, most especially the Surgeon General and even Fauci, told people that masks don&#x27;t work. That infuriated me and they instantly lost credibility with me. And it caused a split in Americans where too many believed that masks didn&#x27;t work, even after they changed their tune. It was absolutely unnecessary to lie and it killed people.<p>So read the science. Listen to the science. But read up further, and make educated decisions. Don&#x27;t just listen to &quot;experts&quot; blindly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated</title><url>https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/</url></story> |
32,116,346 | 32,113,056 | 1 | 3 | 32,109,760 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmyeet</author><text>The other 4 Earth Lagrange points are unsuitable for various reasons:<p>L1: between the Sun and the Earth. The Sun reflecting off the Earth would interfere with instruments.<p>L3: This is suitable for positioning but impractical because of distance from a communication and perspective.<p>L4 &amp; L5: these are unsuitable because they&#x27;re <i>stable</i>. Distance is an issue too. Why are stable Lagrange points unsuitable? Because things tend to collect there. Over the eons a whole bunch of crap has built up there and will continue to do so. That&#x27;s not what you want when dealing with sensitive instuments.<p>Now you could say that you could orbit L4 or L5 like JWST orbits L2 and that&#x27;s true but you still expend energy for stationkeeping. At L2 you spend energy to stay around the L2 point. At L4 and L5 you spend energy to avoid falling into the Lagrange point.<p>According to [1][2] it&#x27;s more expensive (in delta-V terms) to get to L4&#x2F;L5 than L2 but not hugely so.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;27010&#x2F;how-does-the-delta-v-to-reach-and-orbit-l4-and-l5-compare-to-entering-orbit-arou" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;27010&#x2F;how-does-the...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;57463&#x2F;what-is-the-delta-v-required-for-insertion-to-sun-earth-l2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;57463&#x2F;what-is-the-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>The obvious number to make is 5; currently we only have one at L2. What about L1, L3, L4 and L5?</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait for JWST 2.0, but we&#x27;re only talking about JWST #2. We&#x27;re not talking about upgrades, just another copy. I mean, it should be easy, right? It&#x27;s in the cloud so to speak, so just spin up another instance and push to a different region. No problemo.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure you&#x27;re correct.<p>Consider fabbing chips. Fabs spend an awful lot of time verifying the produced chips. I&#x27;ve seen estimates that verification cost exceeds fabrication cost.<p>How much of the development cost of JWST 2.0 would be spent on verification? I honestly don&#x27;t know but I would guess it&#x27;s high.<p>Another factor: part of making a production process is predicated on how many you&#x27;d build. We had a process for making Saturn-V rockets based on the number of Apollo missions we planned for. If you then up and decide you need 500 Saturn-Vs you might have to go through a whole new process for something that will scale that high.<p>Yet another factor: the launch vehicle. If you decide to do JWST 2.0 in 10 years, what launch vehicle will you use? The same one might not exist so the new mission will have to be designed for what is available.<p>And another: materials science changes. We don&#x27;t make the same materials that we did 50+ years ago for good reasons but those materials are a key part of the design of something like Saturn-V.<p>So I imagine JWST 2.0 would be cheaper but 90% cheaper? I&#x27;m not convinced.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>A while back I raised a bit of a furor here saying that a duplicate could be made and launched at a tenth of the cost. A lot of people said I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;m talking about, that little money would be saved.<p>But it seems patently obvious. After all, 10 technologies don&#x27;t have to be reinvented. No research would need to be redone. No test rigs would need to be redesigned and duplicated. And on and on.<p>The most bizarre argument against building a duplicate was there wouldn&#x27;t be anything extra worth looking at. Yet I watched the NOVA episode on the scope last night, and everywhere they look where we thought there was &quot;nothing&quot; turns out to be crammed with 10,000 galaxies and stars.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>The cost of launch is relatively low, meaning several hundred million out of a a $15-20B budget.<p>But a given launch system is deeply intertwined with designing the mission. The size, the weight and the mass distribution.<p>Moving parts are a nightmare for reliability. Every moving part is something that can cease up and go wrong. It&#x27;s a motor that can fail and gears that can get jammed.<p>JWST has two key components that involve a lot of moving parts:<p>1. The mirror. Hubble was smaller enough to be deployed fully constructed in the Space Shuttle so didn&#x27;t have to deploy in space. JWST&#x27;s mirror is 3-4x larger an there&#x27;s no current launch vehicle that could launch it fully assembled. That&#x27;s why you have all the beryllium hex mirrors that had to deploy the mirror once in orbit. These motors, actuators, assemblies, etc need to be <i>incredibly</i> precise and reliable; and<p>2. The heat shield. JWST has to be incredibly cold to operate (5K IIRC). The only way to get rid of heat in space is to radiate it away. The heat shield separates JWST from the Sun, the Earth and Moon (each of which reflect enough light to interfere with operations). The shield is several layers and it&#x27;s large, like tennis-court sized. Obviously this too had to be deployed in space.<p>There were like 10 technologies for JWST that had to be invented to make the mission possible. That&#x27;s less than ideal. It adds to the cost, the complexity and the timelines.<p>In hindsight it probably would&#x27;ve been worth having a stepping stone between Hubble and JWST that proved some of these technologies in a cheaper and less risky way, probably with a smaller mirror. But here we are.</text></item><item><author>derekp7</author><text>Question -- Is the cost of projects such as Webb so high because of high launch costs, which in turn has a cascade effect on limiting the the projects that get launched to space, and therefore requiring that they be built to higher specifications because you only get one shot at it? If so, then will the lower cost of space access from future vehicle development (such as Star Ship, and others that may follow) make projects such as future James Webb scopes and deep space probes much cheaper, if they know they can easily launch replacements and iterate the designs? Or is this just fantasy at this moment? I haven&#x27;t really found much other than speculation comments (such as mine), but would like to see a professional&#x27;s opinion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, reluctantly</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/science/greg-robinson-webb-telescope-nasa.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>amluto</author><text>L3 may have some challenges with its Earth uplink, and we wouldn’t be able to see a satellite there very easily. L3, L4, and L5 might need separate shielding from the Earth and the sun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>The obvious number to make is 5; currently we only have one at L2. What about L1, L3, L4 and L5?</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait for JWST 2.0, but we&#x27;re only talking about JWST #2. We&#x27;re not talking about upgrades, just another copy. I mean, it should be easy, right? It&#x27;s in the cloud so to speak, so just spin up another instance and push to a different region. No problemo.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure you&#x27;re correct.<p>Consider fabbing chips. Fabs spend an awful lot of time verifying the produced chips. I&#x27;ve seen estimates that verification cost exceeds fabrication cost.<p>How much of the development cost of JWST 2.0 would be spent on verification? I honestly don&#x27;t know but I would guess it&#x27;s high.<p>Another factor: part of making a production process is predicated on how many you&#x27;d build. We had a process for making Saturn-V rockets based on the number of Apollo missions we planned for. If you then up and decide you need 500 Saturn-Vs you might have to go through a whole new process for something that will scale that high.<p>Yet another factor: the launch vehicle. If you decide to do JWST 2.0 in 10 years, what launch vehicle will you use? The same one might not exist so the new mission will have to be designed for what is available.<p>And another: materials science changes. We don&#x27;t make the same materials that we did 50+ years ago for good reasons but those materials are a key part of the design of something like Saturn-V.<p>So I imagine JWST 2.0 would be cheaper but 90% cheaper? I&#x27;m not convinced.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>A while back I raised a bit of a furor here saying that a duplicate could be made and launched at a tenth of the cost. A lot of people said I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;m talking about, that little money would be saved.<p>But it seems patently obvious. After all, 10 technologies don&#x27;t have to be reinvented. No research would need to be redone. No test rigs would need to be redesigned and duplicated. And on and on.<p>The most bizarre argument against building a duplicate was there wouldn&#x27;t be anything extra worth looking at. Yet I watched the NOVA episode on the scope last night, and everywhere they look where we thought there was &quot;nothing&quot; turns out to be crammed with 10,000 galaxies and stars.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>The cost of launch is relatively low, meaning several hundred million out of a a $15-20B budget.<p>But a given launch system is deeply intertwined with designing the mission. The size, the weight and the mass distribution.<p>Moving parts are a nightmare for reliability. Every moving part is something that can cease up and go wrong. It&#x27;s a motor that can fail and gears that can get jammed.<p>JWST has two key components that involve a lot of moving parts:<p>1. The mirror. Hubble was smaller enough to be deployed fully constructed in the Space Shuttle so didn&#x27;t have to deploy in space. JWST&#x27;s mirror is 3-4x larger an there&#x27;s no current launch vehicle that could launch it fully assembled. That&#x27;s why you have all the beryllium hex mirrors that had to deploy the mirror once in orbit. These motors, actuators, assemblies, etc need to be <i>incredibly</i> precise and reliable; and<p>2. The heat shield. JWST has to be incredibly cold to operate (5K IIRC). The only way to get rid of heat in space is to radiate it away. The heat shield separates JWST from the Sun, the Earth and Moon (each of which reflect enough light to interfere with operations). The shield is several layers and it&#x27;s large, like tennis-court sized. Obviously this too had to be deployed in space.<p>There were like 10 technologies for JWST that had to be invented to make the mission possible. That&#x27;s less than ideal. It adds to the cost, the complexity and the timelines.<p>In hindsight it probably would&#x27;ve been worth having a stepping stone between Hubble and JWST that proved some of these technologies in a cheaper and less risky way, probably with a smaller mirror. But here we are.</text></item><item><author>derekp7</author><text>Question -- Is the cost of projects such as Webb so high because of high launch costs, which in turn has a cascade effect on limiting the the projects that get launched to space, and therefore requiring that they be built to higher specifications because you only get one shot at it? If so, then will the lower cost of space access from future vehicle development (such as Star Ship, and others that may follow) make projects such as future James Webb scopes and deep space probes much cheaper, if they know they can easily launch replacements and iterate the designs? Or is this just fantasy at this moment? I haven&#x27;t really found much other than speculation comments (such as mine), but would like to see a professional&#x27;s opinion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, reluctantly</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/science/greg-robinson-webb-telescope-nasa.html</url></story> |
26,482,752 | 26,476,040 | 1 | 2 | 26,475,596 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Voloskaya</author><text>&quot;The GPU maker seemed confident that its restrictions couldn’t be defeated, even claiming it wasn’t just a driver holding back performance. “It’s not just a driver thing,” said Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia’s head of communications, last month. “There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter.”&quot;[1]<p>Funny how it turned out to just be a driver thing.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;3&#x2F;16&#x2F;22333544&#x2F;nvidia-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-rate-limit-unlock-driver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;3&#x2F;16&#x2F;22333544&#x2F;nvidia-rtx-3060-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Mining Restrictions Have Been Broken</title><url>https://videocardz.com/newz/pc-watch-geforce-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-restrictions-have-been-broken</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ccmcarey</author><text>There&#x27;s also the fact that a few days ago Nvidia released a signed driver that disabled the restrictions [1] _by accident_. But now that the signed driver is out, anyone can just revert to that at any time and mine whatever they want.<p>Fantastic failure to a flawed endeavour.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;3&#x2F;16&#x2F;22333544&#x2F;nvidia-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-rate-limit-unlock-driver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;3&#x2F;16&#x2F;22333544&#x2F;nvidia-rtx-3060-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Mining Restrictions Have Been Broken</title><url>https://videocardz.com/newz/pc-watch-geforce-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-restrictions-have-been-broken</url></story> |
5,319,770 | 5,319,875 | 1 | 2 | 5,319,577 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cushman</author><text>If he just got off the phone with the White House, I'd imagine he has a pretty good idea of what their response was. Your cynicism is a big part of the reason it's so hard to change things around here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>I hate to break it to you, but their response was effectively: "we agree with you but we respect the process that brought us to this fucked-up state and look forward to continuing to work with congress".<p>Petitions don't have any effect other than getting a response that's designed to get you to stop complaining from a false sense of achievement. In that sense, they work perfectly.</text></item><item><author>sinak</author><text>Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.<p>When I originally posted this to HN at <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020</a> there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of "petitions don't have any effect". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.<p>Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.<p>Sign up at <a href="http://fixthedmca.org" rel="nofollow">http://fixthedmca.org</a> - should be launching the site tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7?update</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzisc</author><text>Well, I'd argue that cynical responses like these are the most detrimental response of all.<p>Pessimism is not realism. Getting the full verbal support of a second-term lame-duck administration with nothing to lose is not a negligible achievement. Some progress != no progress. You're right that petitions have limited scope and effect, but in successful efforts like these, they can generate publicity and political momentum, giving ammunition and gravitas to Congressmen who would co-sponsor legislation. At the very least it is a step in the right direction.<p>The system is broken, but sitting back and needlessly berating those who would try to take small steps to achieve small goals is hardly an acceptable response. It's calculus; if you integrate a positive attitude over a large enough population of believers, you can effect large-scale change. If you integrate so-called "cynical realism" over the same intelligent population, you create a self-fulfilling prophecy of defeatism which is nothing to pat yourself on the back about, either. I applaud sinak's achievement and I hope that this conversation shifts to what steps need to be taken next.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>I hate to break it to you, but their response was effectively: "we agree with you but we respect the process that brought us to this fucked-up state and look forward to continuing to work with congress".<p>Petitions don't have any effect other than getting a response that's designed to get you to stop complaining from a false sense of achievement. In that sense, they work perfectly.</text></item><item><author>sinak</author><text>Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.<p>When I originally posted this to HN at <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020</a> there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of "petitions don't have any effect". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.<p>Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.<p>Sign up at <a href="http://fixthedmca.org" rel="nofollow">http://fixthedmca.org</a> - should be launching the site tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7?update</url></story> |
14,056,488 | 14,055,695 | 1 | 3 | 14,054,785 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spaceflunky</author><text>Two things are are wrong with your statement:<p>1.) The government has made no request to impede upon the speech of the account owner, nor has the gov asked to shut it down the account. The gov asked for the account holder identity because they suspect (with reason) that someone is impersonating a federal agent through the account.<p>2.) Twitter invoked &quot;free speech&quot; to deny a reasonable request from the government. Right or not, I am mocking Twitter for acting like &quot;champion of free speech&quot; on one hand and then shutting down what they deem as &quot;hate speech&quot; (which the ACLU explicitly protects as free speech) on the other hand. Twitter can reinstate Milo&#x27;s account at any time, yet they don&#x27;t.<p>3.) We have just as much evidence to believe that the account holder is a fake federal employee as we do to believe they are real.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AbrahamParangi</author><text>There&#x27;s an incredibly important difference between a corporation exercising its power to control speech on its platform and the US Federal Government exercising powers <i>not granted to it by the laws of the United States</i> to control speech in general.</text></item><item><author>spaceflunky</author><text>&gt;&quot;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.&quot; If we believe in the free America, this should be what we should all fight for, if we want to keep America for the reason it became great in the first place.<p>We&#x27;re talking about the same Twitter that shut down Milo Yiannopolis&#x27; account because Twitter didn&#x27;t like what he was saying?</text></item><item><author>hyolyeng</author><text>This is truly terrifying. The fact that the US government will pursue this kind of action, potentially exposing and punishing criticizers of the government -- seems like this is how dictatorships&#x2F;autocracy&#x2F;totalitarianism start.<p>&quot;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.&quot; If we believe in the free America, this should be what we should all fight for, if we want to keep America for the reason it became great in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>While this is an important distinction, corporate censorship <i>is</i> a real social problem when the corporations control the platforms most people use to speak.<p>A circumstance where a single entity controls the conversations of billions is unparalleled, and our practices need to be re-evaluated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AbrahamParangi</author><text>There&#x27;s an incredibly important difference between a corporation exercising its power to control speech on its platform and the US Federal Government exercising powers <i>not granted to it by the laws of the United States</i> to control speech in general.</text></item><item><author>spaceflunky</author><text>&gt;&quot;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.&quot; If we believe in the free America, this should be what we should all fight for, if we want to keep America for the reason it became great in the first place.<p>We&#x27;re talking about the same Twitter that shut down Milo Yiannopolis&#x27; account because Twitter didn&#x27;t like what he was saying?</text></item><item><author>hyolyeng</author><text>This is truly terrifying. The fact that the US government will pursue this kind of action, potentially exposing and punishing criticizers of the government -- seems like this is how dictatorships&#x2F;autocracy&#x2F;totalitarianism start.<p>&quot;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.&quot; If we believe in the free America, this should be what we should all fight for, if we want to keep America for the reason it became great in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH</url></story> |
5,508,306 | 5,508,291 | 1 | 3 | 5,508,061 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nilkn</author><text>The original website for Space Jam (the movie with Michael Jordan) is still up:<p><a href="http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm</a><p>Not quite as bad as the OP's link, but still--that was a high-profile professionally designed site in 1996.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_xhok</author><text>I'm 17; was the internet ever actually this bad? That spinning "HOT" gif next to "Buttons" is giving me cancer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Geocities Bootstrap Theme</title><url>http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eurleif</author><text>&#62;was the internet ever actually this bad?<p>Yes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_xhok</author><text>I'm 17; was the internet ever actually this bad? That spinning "HOT" gif next to "Buttons" is giving me cancer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Geocities Bootstrap Theme</title><url>http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap</url></story> |
9,086,936 | 9,086,568 | 1 | 2 | 9,086,475 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cperciva</author><text><i>that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat</i><p>Tarsnap sometimes has &quot;problem customers&quot;, but I have yet to see one who is <i>trying</i> to be a problem. It&#x27;s not really the customer&#x27;s fault if they don&#x27;t know how to install a compiler, think that uploading 100 GB over a 512 kbps cable modem will only take a few hours, or can&#x27;t figure out how to enter a valid tar command (cue xkcd).<p>I do my best to help such customers, which usually involves refunding their money and pointing them in the direction of dropbox, spideroak, or duplicity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spiritplumber</author><text>Bad: I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Good: On something I like to do.<p>Bad: Have to keep most customers happy.
Good: Can tell that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat, to go fuck himself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Founders, what's your lifestyle like?</title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Numberwang</author><text>&quot;Can tell that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat, to go fuck himself.&quot;<p>Working in customer support I can tell that you Sir, are living the dream.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spiritplumber</author><text>Bad: I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Good: On something I like to do.<p>Bad: Have to keep most customers happy.
Good: Can tell that one customer who is genuinely being an asshat, to go fuck himself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Founders, what's your lifestyle like?</title></story> |
24,568,627 | 24,568,762 | 1 | 2 | 24,566,972 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nkoren</author><text>You still have to spin up the planet. An earth-like atomosphere would freeze solid on the dark side, and air from the light side would be rushing into the dark side, where it would freeze, until the light side was stripped of its atmosphere too. So the atmosphere would just be a mobile ice cap on the far side, rotating around the planet once per year, with the only gaseous atmosphere being a small, constantly-moving region of sublimation at the terminator betwen the light and dark sides.<p>Make the atmosphere thick enough to not freeze on the far side, and it&#x27;ll be absolutely boiling on the near side. The slow rotation means that there is no happy medium: either you&#x27;ve got an atmosphere freezing solid, or you&#x27;re cooking half the planet at any given moment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I love this idea, but there is something missing: nitrogen. You need to extract some of that from Venus as well, and bring it with you.<p>But if you really want to have fun with terraforming you should make Venus earth-like. I suggest an exciting starting point: build a solar shade at the Lagrange point and block the sun. That would eliminate most of the hard problems with Venus temporarily while we did whatever work is needed to get it spruced up. CO2 freezes to dry ice below -80C or so. You could let through just enough sunlight to get the atmosphere at a pressure humans can survive- then all we need is warm clothes and an oxygen tank.<p>Once Venus is in that state, the problem is simpler- how to get all the carbon and oxygen separated so that the carbon stays in some kind of solid form.<p>Oh, and we&#x27;ll want to go get a load of hydrogen, likely from Jupiter, to mix with that Oxygen to form water. Your fleet of transports moving CO2 to Mars needs to make a detour on the way back.<p>Edit: fixed a word and also lol, just start with building a planet-sized solar shade, says some a-hole on the internet.</text></item><item><author>Teever</author><text>I&#x27;ve wondered about the feasibility of transporting the abundant CO2 in the Venus atmosphere to Mars for the purposes of terraforming both planets at the same time.<p>It&#x27;s been a while since I&#x27;ve done the the envelope math but if I recall correctly there is more than sufficient CO2 on Venus to provide an atmosphere for Mars the issue is just transportation.<p>The last time I thought about it I considered some sort of massive floating solar powered comet builder that would cool the atmosphere into large chunks of dry ice that could then be wrapped in a metal sabot so that the comet could be accelerated to mars via a mass driver.<p>As with everything in space and terraforming the key is scale so the equipment used would need to built in situ out of carbon from the Venusian atmosphere.<p>We are of course still a ways away from mastering self replicating carbon based engineering but the idea of terraforming both planets at the same time is neat to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mars Problems vs. Venus Problems</title><url>http://interconnected.org/home/2020/09/23/venus</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CapitalistCartr</author><text>If you can build a planetary solar shade, engineer blue-green algae to survive the harsh conditions, and as soon as the temp on any part of the planet drops to survivable, seed the algae. It&#x27;ll explode, sucking up the carbon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I love this idea, but there is something missing: nitrogen. You need to extract some of that from Venus as well, and bring it with you.<p>But if you really want to have fun with terraforming you should make Venus earth-like. I suggest an exciting starting point: build a solar shade at the Lagrange point and block the sun. That would eliminate most of the hard problems with Venus temporarily while we did whatever work is needed to get it spruced up. CO2 freezes to dry ice below -80C or so. You could let through just enough sunlight to get the atmosphere at a pressure humans can survive- then all we need is warm clothes and an oxygen tank.<p>Once Venus is in that state, the problem is simpler- how to get all the carbon and oxygen separated so that the carbon stays in some kind of solid form.<p>Oh, and we&#x27;ll want to go get a load of hydrogen, likely from Jupiter, to mix with that Oxygen to form water. Your fleet of transports moving CO2 to Mars needs to make a detour on the way back.<p>Edit: fixed a word and also lol, just start with building a planet-sized solar shade, says some a-hole on the internet.</text></item><item><author>Teever</author><text>I&#x27;ve wondered about the feasibility of transporting the abundant CO2 in the Venus atmosphere to Mars for the purposes of terraforming both planets at the same time.<p>It&#x27;s been a while since I&#x27;ve done the the envelope math but if I recall correctly there is more than sufficient CO2 on Venus to provide an atmosphere for Mars the issue is just transportation.<p>The last time I thought about it I considered some sort of massive floating solar powered comet builder that would cool the atmosphere into large chunks of dry ice that could then be wrapped in a metal sabot so that the comet could be accelerated to mars via a mass driver.<p>As with everything in space and terraforming the key is scale so the equipment used would need to built in situ out of carbon from the Venusian atmosphere.<p>We are of course still a ways away from mastering self replicating carbon based engineering but the idea of terraforming both planets at the same time is neat to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mars Problems vs. Venus Problems</title><url>http://interconnected.org/home/2020/09/23/venus</url></story> |
34,196,068 | 34,194,444 | 1 | 2 | 34,170,525 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>butlerm</author><text>There are many types of corporations beyond those organized for profit. Non-profit corporations typically have different governance structures. Both types are restricted to pursue the aims and purposes described in their articles of incorporation. Labor unions are a good example of a non-profit corporation for example, as are credit unions, and most charitable organizations.<p>Friedman&#x27;s point is not so easily dispensed with by calling him names. He is arguing that a corporation that is formed for the purpose of generating profits for its shareholders is most effective when it focuses on that and then the dividends and capital gains generated for the shareholders can more effectively be applied by them to charitable enterprises as they see fit. That is not an excuse for a corporation to rape and pillage the countryside, break any law, or behave in an objectively unethical manner.<p>It merely means a corporation should pursue the aims for which it was formed and is legally restricted to, and especially not be hijacked to pursue interests that its members or shareholders would not support. The latter is basically a form of theft, although the loss of focus usually takes milder forms.</text><parent_chain><item><author>college_physics</author><text>Every such event reminds me of that celebrated fraud of an academic who argued that corporations exist to maximize profit within the applicable legal framework and that it is how things should be.<p>The fact that corporate entities actively shape the legal framework to suit narrow interests that frequently undermine collective welfware somehow escaped him.<p>When intellectual dishonesty and amoral behavior reach such systemic levels society crosses boiling points</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGBB-717AI</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adlpz</author><text>Very well said. I believe in the ideals of individual initiative and market economy as means to achieve a better world for everybody, but when externalities and systemic inefficiencies are ignored and frameworks to deal with them are shaped by the same entities that are supposed to be ruled by said frameworks, the whole system corrupts and devolves into a machine that only benefits the few, while keeping the facade of legitimacy, which makes it doubly dangerous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>college_physics</author><text>Every such event reminds me of that celebrated fraud of an academic who argued that corporations exist to maximize profit within the applicable legal framework and that it is how things should be.<p>The fact that corporate entities actively shape the legal framework to suit narrow interests that frequently undermine collective welfware somehow escaped him.<p>When intellectual dishonesty and amoral behavior reach such systemic levels society crosses boiling points</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGBB-717AI</url></story> |
16,859,097 | 16,858,647 | 1 | 2 | 16,856,090 | 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>rkibbe</author><text>Google Domains includes private registration - no additional cost. The service is simple with transparent (although not the best) pricing. Have a few domains there now. And yes, I&#x27;m aware that Google and privacy are strange bedfellows in the same sentence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lunatic666</author><text>Most of the whois hiding services cost money, so if I get this “service” for free now, I don’t have much sympathy with the whois guys.<p>If it’s about contacting people, they could make the abuse@ or webmaster@ address mandatory, then you can separate it from your normal email accounts, because the majority will be spam anyway.</text></item><item><author>ckastner</author><text>Note that since the issue is GDPR compliance, this should only be a problem for registrants who are natural persons. So if Whois data were only collected and published for corporations, there shouldn&#x27;t be a problem.<p>I always felt uncomfortable having to submit my personal data, specifically: my address and phone number, and for it to be published like that (regarding domains where Whois protection services are not allowed). I can understand the motivation for this with regards to corporations and organizations, but what benefit is there with regards to natural persons?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/14/whois_icann_gdpr_europe/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amaccuish</author><text>Or offer an anonimiser service in place of your email, which just redirects to your actual email. Not everyone hosts email on their domain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Lunatic666</author><text>Most of the whois hiding services cost money, so if I get this “service” for free now, I don’t have much sympathy with the whois guys.<p>If it’s about contacting people, they could make the abuse@ or webmaster@ address mandatory, then you can separate it from your normal email accounts, because the majority will be spam anyway.</text></item><item><author>ckastner</author><text>Note that since the issue is GDPR compliance, this should only be a problem for registrants who are natural persons. So if Whois data were only collected and published for corporations, there shouldn&#x27;t be a problem.<p>I always felt uncomfortable having to submit my personal data, specifically: my address and phone number, and for it to be published like that (regarding domains where Whois protection services are not allowed). I can understand the motivation for this with regards to corporations and organizations, but what benefit is there with regards to natural persons?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/14/whois_icann_gdpr_europe/</url></story> |
15,200,641 | 15,200,240 | 1 | 2 | 15,199,776 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Clubber</author><text>Public defender offices are funded by the state and they are terribly under funded.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abajournal.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;article&#x2F;the_gideon_revolution" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abajournal.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;article&#x2F;the_gideon_revolu...</a><p><i>Because not much political upside to helping criminal defendants exists, many jurisdictions end up with a perennial funding problem ... In both cases, the committee heard about extreme funding shortfalls, excessive caseloads and insufficient pay.<p>After years of cuts, his budget was down from $9 million to about $6 million, and he had just eight investigators for 21,000 cases per year.<p>This matters because the majority of defendants—a 2014 study put it at 80 percent—use some kind of indigent defense. That means most Americans charged with a crime are at risk of bad outcomes partly caused by the quality of representation that they can afford.</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>superjustice</author><text>I often think there should be a superhero archangel comic character that is a ruthless defender of justice. I don&#x27;t understand the mentality of prosecutors, nor the judges, public defenders and others who are also complacent in an evil system.<p>I have had three encounters with law enforcement, the first ended in similar fashion to this story. I was charged with a crime I didn&#x27;t commit which happened to occur on video.<p>After 18-months, and threats of serious felony charges, I refused to accept a plea. I asked my lawyer if it was illegal to plead guilty to a crime I didn&#x27;t commit and he said it was.<p>The prosecutor then says, &quot;the state moves to drop the case citing lack of evidence&quot;. Again, the crime (theft) was recorded on videotape and two other guys I didn&#x27;t know clearly stole the items involved. I won but the court wouldn&#x27;t actually let me win.<p>Another time I was caught in an unfortunate incident where a security guard pushed me into a street. I was tackled, tasered, later choked, threatened to be killed and then powerslammed head first on concrete by Detective of the Year, Glenn A. Ritchie, of the Broward County Sheriff&#x27;s Office.<p>Ritchie charged me with non-violent misdemeanors and then a day later, alleged felonies in a contradictory and clearly false 2nd police report. I spent 34-days in jail until the charges were non-filed but not until the felony was refiled as a misdemeanor, sent to the wrong address, resulting in a still standing capias warrant for my arrest.<p>The system is flawed. People who work in the courts, especially in major cities, are not to be celebreated but derided. It&#x27;s an insane system of high bails, boilerplate plea deals and cold indifference.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/what-does-an-innocent-man-have-to-do-alford-plea-guilty</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>epmaybe</author><text>A mentor of mine who used to work for a government agency once told me something that I hadn&#x27;t really appreciated until recently. To paraphrase, sometimes the best way to change a system that is flawed is to work from within. It&#x27;s harder, sure, since it takes time to get enough power to make effective change, but it&#x27;s an idea nonetheless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superjustice</author><text>I often think there should be a superhero archangel comic character that is a ruthless defender of justice. I don&#x27;t understand the mentality of prosecutors, nor the judges, public defenders and others who are also complacent in an evil system.<p>I have had three encounters with law enforcement, the first ended in similar fashion to this story. I was charged with a crime I didn&#x27;t commit which happened to occur on video.<p>After 18-months, and threats of serious felony charges, I refused to accept a plea. I asked my lawyer if it was illegal to plead guilty to a crime I didn&#x27;t commit and he said it was.<p>The prosecutor then says, &quot;the state moves to drop the case citing lack of evidence&quot;. Again, the crime (theft) was recorded on videotape and two other guys I didn&#x27;t know clearly stole the items involved. I won but the court wouldn&#x27;t actually let me win.<p>Another time I was caught in an unfortunate incident where a security guard pushed me into a street. I was tackled, tasered, later choked, threatened to be killed and then powerslammed head first on concrete by Detective of the Year, Glenn A. Ritchie, of the Broward County Sheriff&#x27;s Office.<p>Ritchie charged me with non-violent misdemeanors and then a day later, alleged felonies in a contradictory and clearly false 2nd police report. I spent 34-days in jail until the charges were non-filed but not until the felony was refiled as a misdemeanor, sent to the wrong address, resulting in a still standing capias warrant for my arrest.<p>The system is flawed. People who work in the courts, especially in major cities, are not to be celebreated but derided. It&#x27;s an insane system of high bails, boilerplate plea deals and cold indifference.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/what-does-an-innocent-man-have-to-do-alford-plea-guilty</url></story> |
19,089,650 | 19,086,005 | 1 | 2 | 19,085,530 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text>I fish on occasion, though at my skill level it&#x27;s probably better described as &quot;being disappointed next to water&quot;. I&#x27;m usually going for perch or bluegill. People typically throw them in a cooler of ice while still alive, or put them on a stringer, a line run through their mouth and out the gill so that can sort of still somewhat swim around and live until the fisherman is ready to go home.<p>Both of those seem pretty unpleasant to me. I tried putting them in a cooler on ice the first time and they flopped around for hours. They were still moving when I went to clean them later. If you watch videos of people cleaning fish, you&#x27;ll see they are often still moving even while the fish is being filleted. When I was a kid, I once saw someone cut the fillets off a fish and toss the &quot;carcass&quot; back in the water where it proceeded to try to swim away.<p>The last time I went fishing, I tried the first step of ike jime where you spike the brain. I used a little pocket knife and poked it between the eyes. It took a few tries to find the right spot, but once I did, I do think it was more humane. The gills flare and the fish stiffens for a second and then immediately after it has clearly shuffled off its mortal coil.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it improves the taste, but it seems kinder to me than letting it beat itself senseless in a pile of ice or flail around in the water with a line running through its throat.<p>For anyone who thinks this comment is brutal or unpleasant, I would really recommend spending some time fishing or hunting if you eat meat. It&#x27;s important to have a real tactile understanding of what it means to take an animal from the wild and turn it into food. It&#x27;s up to you to decide if you think that people <i>should or shouldn&#x27;t</i> do it, but, either way, I think it is a real learning experience to understand what that choice entails.<p>Also, I think we tend to live lives increasingly removed from the physical, tactile, natural world. Fishing is a good way to reconnect with nature and with your <i>own</i> nature as an animal, a predator that eats other animals.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish</title><url>https://guide.michelin.com/sg/dining-out/what-is-ike-jime/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>batbomb</author><text>This is probably a better overview for the HN crowd:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cookingissues.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;ike-jime&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cookingissues.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;ike-jime&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish</title><url>https://guide.michelin.com/sg/dining-out/what-is-ike-jime/news</url></story> |
19,291,723 | 19,291,717 | 1 | 3 | 19,291,458 | 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>pgeorgi</author><text>The &quot;gov app tracking women&quot; angle is a PR stunt by international advocacy groups and it points at the wrong problem.<p>The app provides various official services, among them a digitized version of the &quot;yellow sheet&quot; a legal guardian has to fill out for a woman to be able to leave the country. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rt.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;women-tracking-saudi-arabia-359&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rt.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;women-tracking-saudi-arabia-359&#x2F;</a> from 2012 describes this particular system, the app apparently integrates it with more digital services).<p>The alternative isn&#x27;t freedom of movement, it&#x27;s having to get a signature on paper and potentially personal appearance of the legal guardian, which is harder to get (this includes: forge) than a button click on a website. As a remedy for that reduced trust in the system, it sends an SMS - to the very same device.<p>There are activists in Saudi Arabia (see for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;monaeltahawy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1095360734798721025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;monaeltahawy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1095360734798721025</a>) who see value in that type of app because the degree of automation it brings makes it easier to leave the country without supervision (e.g. by stealing the legal guardian&#x27;s phone).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove government app tracking women</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-refuses-to-remove-saudi-govt-app-that-tracks-women-2019-3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>q3k</author><text>Interesting comments in the Play Store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=sa.gov.moi&amp;hl=en&amp;showAllReviews=true" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=sa.gov.moi&amp;hl=...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove government app tracking women</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-refuses-to-remove-saudi-govt-app-that-tracks-women-2019-3</url></story> |
1,119,341 | 1,119,363 | 1 | 2 | 1,119,184 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Groxx</author><text><i>...most of these are good people, and many of them have accomplished more in their lives than many of the denigrating commenters ever will.</i><p>While true, I'll still be prejudiced against people that leave comments like (#14):<p><i>wtf is this bullshttttttttttt all about. can i get n plzzzzzzzzz</i><p>and I'll actively argue that many who spell <i>and act</i> this poorly in public are probably at least as much of a detriment to society as they are a boon. Most of those smart-but-not-tech-savvy people can at least communicate properly.<p>edit: the comment prejudice applies to bashers too. Poor behavior is poor behavior.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>My current primary business is IT consulting, which really means that I spend most of my time working face-to-face with people that have trouble with computers and technology in general.<p>So, this kind of behavior isn't news to me. In fact, I've tried often to convince the tech-savvy that <i>most</i> users have problems like this, and I've never been all that successful. The RWW "Facebook login" is great from this standpoint, because suddenly a bunch of web programmers have gotten this glimpse of the world outside their bubble, and have collectively gone, "Oh."<p>Now let's talk about the <i>kind</i> of people these people are. I've noticed a number of comments about their illiteracy, or implying that they must not be paying attention. While there might be a kernel of truth to that, I'd like you to know that most of these are good people, and many of them have accomplished more in their lives than many of the denigrating commenters ever will.<p>For example, one of my clients is an aesthetician that runs a relatively high-tech place. Her angle comes from surviving cancer, and advocating healthier products for people looking for that kind of stuff. She runs a busy brick-and-mortar shop, bootstrapped it from the ground up, works obscene amounts of hours, has one kid in college abroad in Japan, and another kid finishing high school soon. She's a hell of a woman.<p>But, she's totally lost on Facebook. Someone told her she should do it, so she is, and we're helping her. She can't manage her email list, and has trouble doing mail merges, so we help her with that too. When a computer puts an error up on the screen, she doesn't read it, analyze it, research it, figure it out; she simply concludes that the computer has had a problem, and she needs help with it.<p>She's certainly not dumb, but you wouldn't know it by her computer skills.<p>My weakness is cooking. I'm a reasonably competent programmer, literate, and I can fix cars, etc., but I'm a laughably terrible cook.<p>More than likely, everyone here has at least one subject which is so alien, so foreign, that they just won't "get" it, no matter how simple it becomes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/02/11/facebook-login</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>I'm a terrible cook, but if I was baking a cake, and used laundry detergent instead of flour (I mean, they're both white and powdery...) I'd absolutely deserve any comments about my (lack-of) intelligence.<p>The "News results for facebook login" section on Google is very clearly marked, with, umm, well theres a picture, and a bit of indentation? In this case, I must lay some blame on Google for putting laundry detergent in paper sack with an off-blue stripe rather similar to one flour comes in.<p>Google could improve the situation by having the news results be in a more clearly marked section, perhaps with a different background color and a solid outline.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>My current primary business is IT consulting, which really means that I spend most of my time working face-to-face with people that have trouble with computers and technology in general.<p>So, this kind of behavior isn't news to me. In fact, I've tried often to convince the tech-savvy that <i>most</i> users have problems like this, and I've never been all that successful. The RWW "Facebook login" is great from this standpoint, because suddenly a bunch of web programmers have gotten this glimpse of the world outside their bubble, and have collectively gone, "Oh."<p>Now let's talk about the <i>kind</i> of people these people are. I've noticed a number of comments about their illiteracy, or implying that they must not be paying attention. While there might be a kernel of truth to that, I'd like you to know that most of these are good people, and many of them have accomplished more in their lives than many of the denigrating commenters ever will.<p>For example, one of my clients is an aesthetician that runs a relatively high-tech place. Her angle comes from surviving cancer, and advocating healthier products for people looking for that kind of stuff. She runs a busy brick-and-mortar shop, bootstrapped it from the ground up, works obscene amounts of hours, has one kid in college abroad in Japan, and another kid finishing high school soon. She's a hell of a woman.<p>But, she's totally lost on Facebook. Someone told her she should do it, so she is, and we're helping her. She can't manage her email list, and has trouble doing mail merges, so we help her with that too. When a computer puts an error up on the screen, she doesn't read it, analyze it, research it, figure it out; she simply concludes that the computer has had a problem, and she needs help with it.<p>She's certainly not dumb, but you wouldn't know it by her computer skills.<p>My weakness is cooking. I'm a reasonably competent programmer, literate, and I can fix cars, etc., but I'm a laughably terrible cook.<p>More than likely, everyone here has at least one subject which is so alien, so foreign, that they just won't "get" it, no matter how simple it becomes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/02/11/facebook-login</url></story> |
3,607,708 | 3,607,224 | 1 | 2 | 3,606,801 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moreati</author><text>The target has been reached. Two noteworthy comments from the post, in the order I saw them.<p>"I'm the MD of Bytemark Hosting in the UK, and noticed that you'd asked for donations for a CyanogenMod build farm. We have a few machines that would meet your requirements (or can easily upgrade a couple) and increasing numbers of our staff think it is a very cool project. [...] Please email me - matthew(at)bytemark.co.uk - and let us know what your ideal systems would be."
-- <a href="http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help#comment-442742735" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help#...</a><p>"Thank you all! The goal has been reached after 8 hours!!! You guys rock! [...] For those of you who volunteered hardware/servers, should the donation drive prove to be insufficient, we ask that you post your email or other contact info in the comments."
-- <a href="http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help#comment-442909002" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help#...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CyanogenMod Needs Your Help</title><url>http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ivanbernat</author><text>I have a special kind of hate for (custom skinned BS company versions of) Android, and back when my Galaxy S crashed and burned, CM was here to bring it back from the dead. While I don't own an Android at the moment, I'll definitely donate.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CyanogenMod Needs Your Help</title><url>http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-needs-your-help</url></story> |
26,395,616 | 26,395,693 | 1 | 3 | 26,393,171 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freddie_mercury</author><text>Any solution that relies on &quot;let&#x27;s just make humans beings better&quot; is basically doomed to failure and little more than hand wringing and virtue signalling.<p>Cars have been pervasive for over a century and virtually none of the actual improvements in safety have come from &quot;hoping humans do better&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spike021</author><text>&gt;The rear-ending problem will be solved as automatic emergency braking becomes standard on cars. Already, it&#x27;s shipping on almost all high-end cars and 70-80% of midrange cars. There&#x27;s a US auto industry goal of it being standard by 2022. That&#x27;s probably the main feature needed for self-driving cars to coexist with human-driven cars.<p>I really wish we could just enforce proper education of being observant.<p>Most times when I hear about people getting rear-ended it&#x27;s because the driver behind them was looking at their phone or otherwise distracted. We shouldn&#x27;t invent features that allow that to continue.<p>On the other hand, I think this is fine in some rare cases, like maybe an accident or some other incident happens up ahead, a driver stomps their brakes, and then the person behind them who doesn&#x27;t know what&#x27;s happened doesn&#x27;t stop soon enough. But even for the latter case, you could argue that the DMV says to keep enough distance where in most cases you should be able to still come to a stop with barely a moment&#x27;s notice as long as you&#x27;re paying enough attention. Of course, most people don&#x27;t leave that much space much, if ever.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>You can read the California DMV&#x27;s set of autonomous vehicle accident reports.[1] Almost all the Waymo reports are &quot;vehicle was entering intersection, detected cross traffic, stopped, was rear-ended by human driver&quot;. There&#x27;s one Waymo report where someone ran a stop sign and hit them.<p>The rear-ending problem will be solved as automatic emergency braking becomes standard on cars. Already, it&#x27;s shipping on almost all high-end cars and 70-80% of midrange cars. There&#x27;s a US auto industry goal of it being standard by 2022. That&#x27;s probably the main feature needed for self-driving cars to coexist with human-driven cars.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;autonomous-vehicles&#x2F;autonomous-vehicle-collision-reports&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;auto...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Replaying real life: how the Waymo Driver avoids fatal human crashes</title><url>https://blog.waymo.com/2021/03/replaying-real-life.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>T-hawk</author><text>That last point isn&#x27;t a &quot;you could argue&quot; or &quot;most cases&quot;, it&#x27;s literally the law. Rear-ending is always the rear car&#x27;s fault and it&#x27;s always their responsibility to leave enough space and time to react and stop safely.<p>If the lead car braked when there was no reason or danger, that driver might also be cited for recklessness or some such, but a rear-end collision is always an error by the rear driver.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spike021</author><text>&gt;The rear-ending problem will be solved as automatic emergency braking becomes standard on cars. Already, it&#x27;s shipping on almost all high-end cars and 70-80% of midrange cars. There&#x27;s a US auto industry goal of it being standard by 2022. That&#x27;s probably the main feature needed for self-driving cars to coexist with human-driven cars.<p>I really wish we could just enforce proper education of being observant.<p>Most times when I hear about people getting rear-ended it&#x27;s because the driver behind them was looking at their phone or otherwise distracted. We shouldn&#x27;t invent features that allow that to continue.<p>On the other hand, I think this is fine in some rare cases, like maybe an accident or some other incident happens up ahead, a driver stomps their brakes, and then the person behind them who doesn&#x27;t know what&#x27;s happened doesn&#x27;t stop soon enough. But even for the latter case, you could argue that the DMV says to keep enough distance where in most cases you should be able to still come to a stop with barely a moment&#x27;s notice as long as you&#x27;re paying enough attention. Of course, most people don&#x27;t leave that much space much, if ever.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>You can read the California DMV&#x27;s set of autonomous vehicle accident reports.[1] Almost all the Waymo reports are &quot;vehicle was entering intersection, detected cross traffic, stopped, was rear-ended by human driver&quot;. There&#x27;s one Waymo report where someone ran a stop sign and hit them.<p>The rear-ending problem will be solved as automatic emergency braking becomes standard on cars. Already, it&#x27;s shipping on almost all high-end cars and 70-80% of midrange cars. There&#x27;s a US auto industry goal of it being standard by 2022. That&#x27;s probably the main feature needed for self-driving cars to coexist with human-driven cars.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;autonomous-vehicles&#x2F;autonomous-vehicle-collision-reports&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;auto...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Replaying real life: how the Waymo Driver avoids fatal human crashes</title><url>https://blog.waymo.com/2021/03/replaying-real-life.html</url></story> |
21,185,996 | 21,185,012 | 1 | 2 | 21,183,207 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>I&#x27;ve just checked which 32-bit apps I have (system information&#x2F;software&#x2F;applications if you wonder) and turns out if I upgrade I lose:<p>- My scanner support (they have new version, which is insanely buggy and can&#x27;t even detect my scanner properly)<p>- All my games (literally every single one of them turns out to be 32-bit) - I don&#x27;t play that much but still, would be a shame to lose all of them<p>- Postal label printing app (no idea if they have an update, need to check)<p>- App supporting my stand-alone disk array (not using it too much though)<p>- My niche learning apps (pretty old, from small providers, not sure if they&#x27;d ever be updated)<p>Much more than I expected, given that I don&#x27;t have any exotic stuff like music instruments, specialized equipment, etc. So I personally probably would hold off upgrading as long as I can.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on the beta for a while. I&#x27;m sort of surprised that they actually released with the state it is currently in. Most things work, but my CPU still spikes for no reason running some OS process or another.<p>Also, clicking on a dropdown box in a web browser (Safari, Chrome, or Firefox) after the computer has been asleep for a while freezes the whole computer for about 10 seconds.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but that feels like a showstopper.<p>The whole 32&#x2F;64 bit thing doesn&#x27;t seem too bad, although I&#x27;ve had to use Pages instead of Word and can&#x27;t use Adobe products anymore and have had to switch to open source alternatives, but I don&#x27;t use those products very much so it wasn&#x27;t a huge deal for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>macOS Catalina</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/10/macos-catalina-is-available-today/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>e40</author><text>As a long-time macOS user, I don&#x27;t upgrade to a new version until x.y.5. I&#x27;ve just had too many issues over the years, with stability and application compatibility. Of course, for development, I install it into a VM right after release.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on the beta for a while. I&#x27;m sort of surprised that they actually released with the state it is currently in. Most things work, but my CPU still spikes for no reason running some OS process or another.<p>Also, clicking on a dropdown box in a web browser (Safari, Chrome, or Firefox) after the computer has been asleep for a while freezes the whole computer for about 10 seconds.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but that feels like a showstopper.<p>The whole 32&#x2F;64 bit thing doesn&#x27;t seem too bad, although I&#x27;ve had to use Pages instead of Word and can&#x27;t use Adobe products anymore and have had to switch to open source alternatives, but I don&#x27;t use those products very much so it wasn&#x27;t a huge deal for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>macOS Catalina</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/10/macos-catalina-is-available-today/</url></story> |
30,476,958 | 30,476,948 | 1 | 3 | 30,476,621 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qnsi</author><text>Something interesting I guess most people don&#x27;t know, the pro-ukrainian mobilisations in Poland (I can only speak about Poland) is amazing. My FB wall is full of people providing their apartments for free, giving jobs etc. There is over 100 cars long queue at a border willing to transport Ukrainians escaping war where they want. They can travel by train for free in Poland.<p>Now not so good tidbit. Just few months ago we had a lot of people lured into Belarus by Lukashenko trying to come to Europe. Poland treated them really really poorly. Catching them after crossing border and pushing them back. The society was split among pro-refugees and anti. The political parties almost all focused on &quot;protecting our border&quot;.<p>I was afraid that this natalist sentiment might repeat, even though Ukrainians are one of the closest people to Poland. I am very happy to note I haven&#x27;t heard anyone speaking against refugees from Ukraine, not on twitter not on facebook not by far-right parties, altough I am sure some people are silent about their opinions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees</title><url>https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2022-02-25/portugal-identifying-job-opportunities-for-refugees/65478</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Portugal is such an awesome country. I love going there and wouldn&#x27;t mind staying there a bit longer at some point.<p>More countries should do this; Germany and my home country the Netherlands in particular. I live in Berlin currently as a foreigner (perfect place for that). Lots of people from all over eastern Europe live here, lots of companies here outsource all over eastern Europe, lots of people that I know either come from or have friends&#x2F;family from the Ukraine. Also, about 200k people of Russian origin live here that chose to move here after the wall fell. And I assume quite a few Ukranians.<p>I remember meeting refugees from the former Yugoslavia in the nineties. I think 25 years later, a lot of those people did pretty well. I actually visited Bosnia for work last summer and met a guy that went to school in Munich. Likewise a lot of Syrian refugees that ended up in Germany seem to be doing OK. Quite a few ended up here in Berlin. In times of war, people are generally grateful if you accommodate them; even if it isn&#x27;t always with open arms.<p>It&#x27;s usually the smart, free thinkers that need to flee. Incidentally those are also people likely to find a way to make it in life; start businesses; or otherwise be generally successful.<p>The US is full of such people that emigrated there after various wars in the last century. Now is not a time to be xenophobic about this sort of thing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees</title><url>https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2022-02-25/portugal-identifying-job-opportunities-for-refugees/65478</url></story> |
18,085,902 | 18,085,135 | 1 | 2 | 18,083,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text> I respect your willingness to engage in conversation like you have here. I&#x27;m trying to remember there are humans on the other side of the keyboard.<p>I really do think it is questionable to reject a community&#x27;s use of an otherwise almost universally free logo, and permit them on the site.<p>I&#x27;m one to recognize that in every discussion about everything, &quot;there is a line somewhere&quot; and the debate is where the line is. My belief is that guns are on a defendable side of the line, and you didn&#x27;t.<p>I believe if firearms are so morally wrong that reddit doesn&#x27;t want associated with it, then it would be most consistent to quarantine the sub to make clear how morally opposed reddit is to legal, responsible firearms ownership. At the end of the day, though, it is about money. You figured out you could piss off the gun owners, but not enough for them to leave the platform, while placating the anti-firearms protesters.<p>So it goes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I kinda knew this would come up. The gun thing was my call. I&#x27;m the one who approved the use of the logo on a lower receiver.<p>I consider it one of the worst decisions I ever made.<p>Yes, it was legal, but it caused a huge controversy and made the controversy even worse when we had to pull it back.<p>The balancing act with allowing fan art is that one group of fans hates the work of another group of fans, you have to make a moral decision as to which group is &quot;right&quot;, and it&#x27;s always the wrong decision to some people.<p>In that case we should have predicted the controversy and said no from the beginning.</text></item><item><author>unethical_ban</author><text>Politically controversial yet completely legal things, like weapons parts, were not only banned on manufacturing, but as a logo on the subreddit[1]. Meanwhile, a federally illegal, in different ways controversial activity such as marijuana consumption is permitted[2]. It&#x27;s the right of the company, but there is certainly bias in the use of the logo, and not all fans of reddit are welcome.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;bAOhi#tY6JS4l" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;bAOhi#tY6JS4l</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;trees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;trees&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Back in the day, early on in Reddit&#x27;s life, people started making fan art of the Reddit alien, and some cases they started making products with their creations and then giving them away. We pretty much just let that go. Then someone started selling their products with their fan art, just to make their costs back. At that point we had a decision to make. Do we shut down all the fan art, or do we do something about it?<p>The decision we came to was that our fans are what make us, so we asked our lawyers to write up a licensing agreement for us that we could use with all the fans. It included provisions for profit sharing so that people could even make a profit off their fan art, as long as they cut us in for a small percentage and got our permission first. And that&#x27;s how we ended up things like a complete reddit bike kit. [0][1]<p>After that, it was easier for us to license stuff than it was to try and shut it down, not to mention the right thing to do. I&#x27;m sad that CBS couldn&#x27;t come to the same conclusion.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;AEPJh.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;AEPJh.jpg</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;bicycling&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2je6z2&#x2F;2015_reddit_kit_start_your_design_engines&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;bicycling&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2je6z2&#x2F;2015_redd...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/cbs-shuts-down-stage-9-a-fan-made-recreation-of-the-uss-enterprise-180927/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Thanks for this posting, it&#x27;s always good to see people looking back on their decisions and being willing to admit a mistake in public.<p>To the other posters I would say it&#x27;s not a &quot;double&quot; standard but a &quot;standard&quot;; there are some things that Reddit is happy to be associated with and some that it isn&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I kinda knew this would come up. The gun thing was my call. I&#x27;m the one who approved the use of the logo on a lower receiver.<p>I consider it one of the worst decisions I ever made.<p>Yes, it was legal, but it caused a huge controversy and made the controversy even worse when we had to pull it back.<p>The balancing act with allowing fan art is that one group of fans hates the work of another group of fans, you have to make a moral decision as to which group is &quot;right&quot;, and it&#x27;s always the wrong decision to some people.<p>In that case we should have predicted the controversy and said no from the beginning.</text></item><item><author>unethical_ban</author><text>Politically controversial yet completely legal things, like weapons parts, were not only banned on manufacturing, but as a logo on the subreddit[1]. Meanwhile, a federally illegal, in different ways controversial activity such as marijuana consumption is permitted[2]. It&#x27;s the right of the company, but there is certainly bias in the use of the logo, and not all fans of reddit are welcome.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;bAOhi#tY6JS4l" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;bAOhi#tY6JS4l</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;trees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;trees&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Back in the day, early on in Reddit&#x27;s life, people started making fan art of the Reddit alien, and some cases they started making products with their creations and then giving them away. We pretty much just let that go. Then someone started selling their products with their fan art, just to make their costs back. At that point we had a decision to make. Do we shut down all the fan art, or do we do something about it?<p>The decision we came to was that our fans are what make us, so we asked our lawyers to write up a licensing agreement for us that we could use with all the fans. It included provisions for profit sharing so that people could even make a profit off their fan art, as long as they cut us in for a small percentage and got our permission first. And that&#x27;s how we ended up things like a complete reddit bike kit. [0][1]<p>After that, it was easier for us to license stuff than it was to try and shut it down, not to mention the right thing to do. I&#x27;m sad that CBS couldn&#x27;t come to the same conclusion.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;AEPJh.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;AEPJh.jpg</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;bicycling&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2je6z2&#x2F;2015_reddit_kit_start_your_design_engines&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;bicycling&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2je6z2&#x2F;2015_redd...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/cbs-shuts-down-stage-9-a-fan-made-recreation-of-the-uss-enterprise-180927/</url></story> |
32,544,129 | 32,544,006 | 1 | 3 | 32,496,381 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arboghast</author><text>I started taking 3g of pharmaceutical grade fish oil about 1 year ago with 5000IUs vitamin D and 120mcg of K2 MK-7. I don’t “feel” anything but my Garmin is clear that my RHR and VO2max have greatly improved, and yet that’s on 5-6h sleep per night. I’m also definitely less sick.<p>Now question remains, which of those is responsible for this?</text><parent_chain><item><author>vocram</author><text>I wish I could perceive some kind of even minuscule cause-effect for any of the supplements I take, barring caffeine</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.lookgreatnaked.com/articles/omega-3_fatty_acids_and_exercise.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>DantesKite</author><text>That reminds me of how people who wear WHOOP watches stop drinking alcohol as much because they noticed the impact it had on their cardio.<p>Would be interesting if you could reliably measure certain health metrics beyond heart rate over time.<p>I bet that would get people to take or avoid certain things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vocram</author><text>I wish I could perceive some kind of even minuscule cause-effect for any of the supplements I take, barring caffeine</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.lookgreatnaked.com/articles/omega-3_fatty_acids_and_exercise.pdf</url></story> |
5,564,328 | 5,559,816 | 1 | 3 | 5,557,647 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cardine</author><text>I would say that I have.<p>It's a B2B product that has a couple substantial value adds over the competition. I created the MVP and got a core group of people in a paid beta. There were tons of bugs, but because of the unique value add I offered everyone was more than willing to put up for it and pay for it (and they knew they would get locked in at beta pricing for when it improved).<p>I was then able to quickly and easily iterate fixes and improvements, based on my vision as well as what I heard from my paying customers.<p>So on launch day I was already profitable, I knew what my users wanted, all the major bugs were completely sorted out, and I had ~100 paying beta users (all of whom were referred directly by me or by word of mouth through a beta user) who felt like they had a vested interest in the success of the product who helped me reach a critical mass.<p>With that being said I don't consider my company to be a lean startup (I hate labels like that), and I didn't set out to do a lean startup, but a lot of what I did is consistent with the lean startup approach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nashequilibrium</author><text>The problem I have is that everyone can rap the lean startup principles but when you ask who has successfully implemented lean startup, nobody says yes. How many people do you guys personally know that have successfully implemented lean startup?</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Yes, yes, yes.<p>There are so many things they did that are obviously wrong from the Lean Startup perspective. And then he goes and blames the Lean Startup material, rather than their understanding of it.<p>For example, his notion that product management is supposed to be casual and erratic is not what the Lean Startup approach suggests. The essence of the approach is in <i>proving</i> that customers really need something before you invest in it. It's a disciplined, data-driven approach. But he says they built half-assed features that nobody needed, and somehow blames that on the Lean Startup stuff.<p>Also, he preaches about controlling expense. The word "Lean" in "Lean Startup" comes from Lean Manufacturing, the heart of which is relentlessly discovering and eliminating waste. How in the world did he get from that to being free-spending and wasteful?<p>And then this makes me crazy: "By this stage, Lean Startup theory told us we should be scaling up." No. No, no, no, no, no. No! The Lean Startup theory is that you start scaling if and only if you have achieved product-market fit and have a sustainable way to deliver. He described nothing to suggest they were close to product-market fit. Indeed he says they were limping.<p>Or his sudden too-late realization that software quality is important. The Lean Startup stuff is basically Extreme Programming plus Customer Development plus some Lean philosophy. Extreme Programming is one of the most quality-focused methods. At my Lean Startup, we had high unit test coverage, strong acceptance tests, lots of code review, and very high quality. 18 months ago I gave a talk on how quality practices were vital when using the Lean Startup approach:<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/24843552" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/24843552</a><p>And it's not like I was the first, or even the 10th person to talk about this. Rather than blaming the Lean Startup approach, he should blame his poor understanding, and his cargo-cult adoption of various rituals he apparently couldn't fathom.</text></item><item><author>thesash</author><text>I'd like to suggest that all the lessons learned here are <i>precisely</i> what Lean Startup teaches-- with techniques that are meant to prevent you from spending two years in a death spiral.<p>Segue to edit of my standard rant on this subject: (originally posted on: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429906" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429906</a>)<p>MVP != half assed, cheap, shitty product. It is exactly what it says: a minimum viable product, key word being viable. An MVP for a mission critical application or a cutting edge piece of research isn't going to be cheap or easy, because it needs to be viable.<p>Because of the name, many people make the assumption that doing a Lean Startup means not taking the time or money necessary to execute properly, this is not the case. Lean means conserving capital by focusing on iteration until you each product market fit, and only then ramping up sales or marketing, but again, if you're cracking a new market, untested technology, or going up against mature competition, even that phase of conserving capital and focusing in product may require a lot of capital.<p>Your product, when released to customers, needs to be usable, and needs to scratch an itch for them, otherwise it is inherently not viable. That's why customer development is so essential, it prevents you from making the worst mistake possible-- building a robust product no one wants. Even if you have the best product idea in the world, the only way to know if the features you add are having a positive impact is to measure the behavior of real, live, human users.<p>That being said, it's still your responsibility to stay relentlessly focused in your core value proposition. You can't build every feature you're customers ask for, <i>only the ones that make sense for your product</i>.<p>What we're seeing now is the lean startup backlash where people use the terms but don't really take the time to understand what they mean,.<p>The Lean startup movement is a powerful set of lessons that can empower entrepreneurs and save us from wasting our time and effort building the wrong things and chasing the wrong metrics, but I guess some of the lessons just have to be learned painfully through experience (it was certainly true for me).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup </title><url>http://wordsting.com/copywriter-blog/fat-startup-learn-the-lessons-of-my-failed-lean-startup</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codyZ</author><text>Talking about business, entrepreneurship is fun. Doing it is another. Separates the Men from the boys.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nashequilibrium</author><text>The problem I have is that everyone can rap the lean startup principles but when you ask who has successfully implemented lean startup, nobody says yes. How many people do you guys personally know that have successfully implemented lean startup?</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Yes, yes, yes.<p>There are so many things they did that are obviously wrong from the Lean Startup perspective. And then he goes and blames the Lean Startup material, rather than their understanding of it.<p>For example, his notion that product management is supposed to be casual and erratic is not what the Lean Startup approach suggests. The essence of the approach is in <i>proving</i> that customers really need something before you invest in it. It's a disciplined, data-driven approach. But he says they built half-assed features that nobody needed, and somehow blames that on the Lean Startup stuff.<p>Also, he preaches about controlling expense. The word "Lean" in "Lean Startup" comes from Lean Manufacturing, the heart of which is relentlessly discovering and eliminating waste. How in the world did he get from that to being free-spending and wasteful?<p>And then this makes me crazy: "By this stage, Lean Startup theory told us we should be scaling up." No. No, no, no, no, no. No! The Lean Startup theory is that you start scaling if and only if you have achieved product-market fit and have a sustainable way to deliver. He described nothing to suggest they were close to product-market fit. Indeed he says they were limping.<p>Or his sudden too-late realization that software quality is important. The Lean Startup stuff is basically Extreme Programming plus Customer Development plus some Lean philosophy. Extreme Programming is one of the most quality-focused methods. At my Lean Startup, we had high unit test coverage, strong acceptance tests, lots of code review, and very high quality. 18 months ago I gave a talk on how quality practices were vital when using the Lean Startup approach:<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/24843552" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/24843552</a><p>And it's not like I was the first, or even the 10th person to talk about this. Rather than blaming the Lean Startup approach, he should blame his poor understanding, and his cargo-cult adoption of various rituals he apparently couldn't fathom.</text></item><item><author>thesash</author><text>I'd like to suggest that all the lessons learned here are <i>precisely</i> what Lean Startup teaches-- with techniques that are meant to prevent you from spending two years in a death spiral.<p>Segue to edit of my standard rant on this subject: (originally posted on: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429906" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429906</a>)<p>MVP != half assed, cheap, shitty product. It is exactly what it says: a minimum viable product, key word being viable. An MVP for a mission critical application or a cutting edge piece of research isn't going to be cheap or easy, because it needs to be viable.<p>Because of the name, many people make the assumption that doing a Lean Startup means not taking the time or money necessary to execute properly, this is not the case. Lean means conserving capital by focusing on iteration until you each product market fit, and only then ramping up sales or marketing, but again, if you're cracking a new market, untested technology, or going up against mature competition, even that phase of conserving capital and focusing in product may require a lot of capital.<p>Your product, when released to customers, needs to be usable, and needs to scratch an itch for them, otherwise it is inherently not viable. That's why customer development is so essential, it prevents you from making the worst mistake possible-- building a robust product no one wants. Even if you have the best product idea in the world, the only way to know if the features you add are having a positive impact is to measure the behavior of real, live, human users.<p>That being said, it's still your responsibility to stay relentlessly focused in your core value proposition. You can't build every feature you're customers ask for, <i>only the ones that make sense for your product</i>.<p>What we're seeing now is the lean startup backlash where people use the terms but don't really take the time to understand what they mean,.<p>The Lean startup movement is a powerful set of lessons that can empower entrepreneurs and save us from wasting our time and effort building the wrong things and chasing the wrong metrics, but I guess some of the lessons just have to be learned painfully through experience (it was certainly true for me).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup </title><url>http://wordsting.com/copywriter-blog/fat-startup-learn-the-lessons-of-my-failed-lean-startup</url></story> |
9,753,587 | 9,752,949 | 1 | 2 | 9,751,989 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Too</author><text>The same is happening with real estate, people have started to post apartments <i>&quot;soon for sale&quot;</i> without any starting price or fixed bidding time, years before they are ready to move, just in case some crazy guy happens to drop by and put a bid that is higher than the actual market value. The cost of advertising to a wide audience has simply dropped so much that you can constantly keep fishing even though you don&#x27;t have anything actually ready, and to beat the competition everybody has to do it, its just a race to the bottom. MVPs are also a good anlogy to this, present a half working website just to see if people are interested and if enough are you can continue with development.</text><parent_chain><item><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>I think another interpretation is that it&#x27;s become easier for companies to keep jobs &quot;open&quot; and collecting applicants without really having to put in effort to find people. Or, to put it another way, the idea of an &quot;open job&quot; has become meaningless, if it was ever meaningful in the first place.<p>As a metaphor, we can imagine many people wanting to buy apples, but not being willing to pay the 1$ the supermarket will charge. They could create an &quot;apple opening&quot;, posting on an apple selling site looking for people who are willing to sell them apples with certain qualities for a given price that depends on the individual, for example 5 cents. Then, we could poll consumers to see how many have apple openings. Perhaps we could find millions of such unfilled openings, but would this tell us anything about trends in the quality of apples or actual apple consumption?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is it taking longer and longer to fill open jobs?</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8815561/job-vacancy-duration</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hebdo</author><text>A relevant read: Whaddaya Mean, You Can&#x27;t Find Programmers?
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000050.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000050.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>I think another interpretation is that it&#x27;s become easier for companies to keep jobs &quot;open&quot; and collecting applicants without really having to put in effort to find people. Or, to put it another way, the idea of an &quot;open job&quot; has become meaningless, if it was ever meaningful in the first place.<p>As a metaphor, we can imagine many people wanting to buy apples, but not being willing to pay the 1$ the supermarket will charge. They could create an &quot;apple opening&quot;, posting on an apple selling site looking for people who are willing to sell them apples with certain qualities for a given price that depends on the individual, for example 5 cents. Then, we could poll consumers to see how many have apple openings. Perhaps we could find millions of such unfilled openings, but would this tell us anything about trends in the quality of apples or actual apple consumption?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is it taking longer and longer to fill open jobs?</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8815561/job-vacancy-duration</url></story> |
27,296,257 | 27,296,493 | 1 | 3 | 27,295,320 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Syonyk</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s the perfect combination of justifying vicious behavior while also absolving themselves of responsibility.</i><p>And Twitter&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;YouTube just grin, raking in the advertising dollars from &quot;engagement.&quot; The more people &quot;engaged&quot; in the activity, the better!<p>I don&#x27;t think the concept of social media is fundamentally evil. It&#x27;s dangerous, certainly, but I don&#x27;t think the core concept <i>must</i> be evil.<p>Public &quot;social media companies,&quot; driven to improve revenue from injecting advertising into streams consisting of repackaging other people&#x27;s content? Those seem to reliably turn evil.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>The most disturbing and insidious sentiment of online mobs is claiming that the targets are &quot;just being held accountable&quot;. Or that such people are just experiencing &quot;consequences&quot;. I really can&#x27;t express just how cold and bloodthirsty such statements seem to be. It&#x27;s the perfect combination of justifying vicious behavior while also absolving themselves of responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life after an internet mob attack</title><url>https://pasquale.cool/internet-mob</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Whenever the talk of “consequences” starts, I’m reminded of a quote:<p>“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.” —Idi Amin</text><parent_chain><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>The most disturbing and insidious sentiment of online mobs is claiming that the targets are &quot;just being held accountable&quot;. Or that such people are just experiencing &quot;consequences&quot;. I really can&#x27;t express just how cold and bloodthirsty such statements seem to be. It&#x27;s the perfect combination of justifying vicious behavior while also absolving themselves of responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life after an internet mob attack</title><url>https://pasquale.cool/internet-mob</url></story> |
34,412,613 | 34,411,508 | 1 | 2 | 34,410,879 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robocaptain</author><text>I believe the original author of most of this content was Brian Walker, creator of brogue, which uses Dijkstra maps to great effect. In my opinion, brogue is the greatest &#x27;modern&#x27; traditional roguelike.<p>latest &#x27;community&#x27; version: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmewett&#x2F;BrogueCE">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmewett&#x2F;BrogueCE</a><p>reddit community with seeded contests: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;brogueforum&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;brogueforum&#x2F;</a><p>original game: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;broguegame&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;broguegame&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dijkstra Maps Visualized</title><url>http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Dijkstra_Maps_Visualized</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fileeditview</author><text>Seems like this was hugged to death by HN.<p>Web Archive link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230107220815&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roguebasin.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Dijkstra_Maps_Visualized" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230107220815&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rogueb...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dijkstra Maps Visualized</title><url>http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Dijkstra_Maps_Visualized</url></story> |
20,830,410 | 20,829,712 | 1 | 2 | 20,829,144 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>papermachete</author><text>If I am going to plaster extra asserts and predicates in my code, why not just use a logic programming language or something like SPARK&#x2F;TLA+ anyway? Not looking for an argument, just asking a question.<p>I&#x27;ve tried replacing asserts with Mercury code in my C++ pet projects. Felt much easier to insert my thots into the source.<p>By the way, what do you guys think of predicate-based formal verification? I think overall, C++ Concepts are checked for object class compatibility via a logic engine, since Concepts are predicates.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write Fuzzable Code</title><url>https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1687</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sriram_sun</author><text>What&#x27;s a good tutorial for fuzzing? I work with many code bases in my consulting, none of which have come close to being &quot;fuzzed&quot;. I&#x27;ve googled around and the learning curve is steeper than expected. I am approaching it like learning a new unit-test framework. Perhaps that&#x27;s wrong? Is it like integrating a code coverage tool or memory analysis like valgrind? This article seems like a bunch of high-level entreaties to go fuzz etc. maybe I missed something.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write Fuzzable Code</title><url>https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1687</url></story> |
39,850,174 | 39,850,171 | 1 | 2 | 39,849,727 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Businesses have always been for putting food on the table of their proprietors. We&#x27;ve got a few more levels of abstraction now, but the fundamental is the same.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jorvi</author><text>&gt; NB that &quot;returning money to the shareholders&quot; is ultimately what companies are for<p>You have absorbed modern market brokenthink.<p>Companies are for creating goods or services to sell to other parties. They existed long before the idea of shareholders. Following your logic, companies pre-VOC had no existing purpose.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&quot;Stock buybacks are a form of stock manipulation&quot; - not really, they&#x27;re a means of returning money to the shareholders while bypassing taxes on dividends.<p>(Not an expert on the US tax system as I&#x27;m a Brit, but it seems that the tax treatment of dividends depends on how long the stock is held, and can be taxed at income tax rates, while stock buybacks result in inflating the stock value which is always CGT. Not sure what the tax treatment is for institutional investors?)<p>NB that &quot;returning money to the shareholders&quot; is ultimately what companies are <i>for</i>, and we should completely expect them to do this because without it investors wouldn&#x27;t invest in the first place. It&#x27;s infinite zero-dividend growth that&#x27;s weird (Amazon).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?</title><url>https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intel-subsidy-chips-act-stock-buyback</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gtirloni</author><text><i>&gt; Companies are for creating goods or services to sell to other parties</i><p>Out of autruism? If not, it&#x27;s to make money for owners. Shareholders are sort of owners thus to make money for shareholders.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jorvi</author><text>&gt; NB that &quot;returning money to the shareholders&quot; is ultimately what companies are for<p>You have absorbed modern market brokenthink.<p>Companies are for creating goods or services to sell to other parties. They existed long before the idea of shareholders. Following your logic, companies pre-VOC had no existing purpose.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&quot;Stock buybacks are a form of stock manipulation&quot; - not really, they&#x27;re a means of returning money to the shareholders while bypassing taxes on dividends.<p>(Not an expert on the US tax system as I&#x27;m a Brit, but it seems that the tax treatment of dividends depends on how long the stock is held, and can be taxed at income tax rates, while stock buybacks result in inflating the stock value which is always CGT. Not sure what the tax treatment is for institutional investors?)<p>NB that &quot;returning money to the shareholders&quot; is ultimately what companies are <i>for</i>, and we should completely expect them to do this because without it investors wouldn&#x27;t invest in the first place. It&#x27;s infinite zero-dividend growth that&#x27;s weird (Amazon).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?</title><url>https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intel-subsidy-chips-act-stock-buyback</url></story> |
12,601,564 | 12,601,556 | 1 | 3 | 12,600,790 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaytaylor</author><text>I&#x27;m feeling confused.. like I&#x27;ve seen this in the past [0] [1] [2] but had no idea the project was affiliated with Facebook. Oh wait, I was thinking of envdb [3].. and meanwhile envdb is renamed to Kolide [4] and is targeting &quot;osquery command and control&quot;.<p><pre><code> Infinite loop detected.
Program aborted.
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[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;osquery&#x2F;osquery-python" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;osquery&#x2F;osquery-python</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encrypted.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+osquery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encrypted.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinato...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8528460" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8528460</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9324717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9324717</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kolide&#x2F;kolide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kolide&#x2F;kolide</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing osquery for Windows</title><url>https://m.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/introducing-osquery-for-windows/1775110322729111/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheAnimus</author><text>This is quite nice to see, when I first heard about osquery, I thought &quot;cool WMI (well WQL) for Linux&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing osquery for Windows</title><url>https://m.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/introducing-osquery-for-windows/1775110322729111/</url></story> |
29,669,787 | 29,665,812 | 1 | 2 | 29,660,883 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>Compiling to another language is always going to be very slow, and very frustrating, because one&#x27;s expressiveness is limited to the expressiveness of the target language.<p>(Yes, I know, because C++ is Turing Complete, anything is expressible, but it&#x27;s a matter of efficiency.)<p>For example, what if the language needed exceptions to work in a different way than the target does?<p>And these days, one can easily use existing backends like the Digital Mars one (Boost Licensed!), the Gnu one or the LLVM one. Why punish yourself by emitting code in another language? Natalie already requires gcc or clang anyway.<p>I could never have gotten D to work if it emitted C code as output.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Natalie: An early-stage Ruby implementation that compiles to C++</title><url>https://github.com/seven1m/natalie</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adamrt</author><text>Andreas Kling (of SerenityOS) recently did a Natalie contribution video that I found interesting. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b4PZgvPYkP4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b4PZgvPYkP4</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Natalie: An early-stage Ruby implementation that compiles to C++</title><url>https://github.com/seven1m/natalie</url></story> |
36,967,395 | 36,966,361 | 1 | 3 | 36,965,836 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucasyvas</author><text>If Valve has a polished SteamOS distribution for general hardware by the time Windows 10 goes EOL that would be very, very awesome. It would need to be as good of an experience regardless of your video card choice, but I&#x27;d for sure opt to install it over Windows 11 in that case.<p>It&#x27;s not perfect but it&#x27;s pretty good and I only use my desktop as a small media server and for games anyway.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steam on Linux Usage Spikes to Nearly 2% in July, More Than Apple macOS</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Stats-July-2023</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sylens</author><text>Feel like this is mostly Steam Deck usage but I would be pretty tempted to use a desktop build of SteamOS on a well supported device (like say, a Framework 16 one day)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steam on Linux Usage Spikes to Nearly 2% in July, More Than Apple macOS</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Stats-July-2023</url></story> |
27,448,200 | 27,447,215 | 1 | 3 | 27,446,156 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deeblering4</author><text>I highly recommend scheduling a regular mbsync job to keep a local copy of your emails in sync with the imap server.<p>With this it&#x27;s easy to pick up and move to a different provider or recover from outages, account closure, etc.<p>If you couple this with your own domain your email will be very portable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know</title><url>https://fastmail.blog/legal-policy/russia-blocking-fastmail-to-customers-living-in-russia/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mulander</author><text>The article touches on new signups being blocked, what happens to the current paying users in the region? Are they also blocked? How is fastmail helping them move&#x2F;supporting them in this situation?<p>I am a fastmail customer in a different region (Poland). I am however looking closely at this as who knows, maybe I will be on the receiving end in the future?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know</title><url>https://fastmail.blog/legal-policy/russia-blocking-fastmail-to-customers-living-in-russia/</url></story> |
31,780,520 | 31,777,268 | 1 | 2 | 31,776,873 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>I have just used this trick to package Node.js as a Python package [0], so you can just do:<p><pre><code> pip install nodejs-bin
</code></pre>
to install it.<p>This works particularly well in combination with Python virtual environments (or docker), it will allow you to have a specific version of Node for a particular project without additional tooling. Just add &quot;nodejs-bin&quot; to your requirements.txt.<p>You can also add it as an optional dependency on another Python package. That&#x27;s my plan with the full stack Python&#x2F;Django&#x2F;Apline.js framework I&#x27;m building (Tetra[1]), that way users will be able to optional do this to setup the full project including Node.js:<p><pre><code> pip install tetraframework[full]
</code></pre>
The framework uses esbuild, and will use PostCSS. It was either package them with the framework (including Node.js), or create a way to easily install Node.js for Python developers using the tools they are most used to.<p>It&#x27;s brand new, I have only packed Node.js v16 so far. Once I&#x27;m happy there are no show stopping issues the plan is to release wheels for current+LTS Node.js versions as they come out.<p>Developer UX is my number one priority and removing the need for two toolchains is an important part of that.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;nodejs-bin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;nodejs-bin&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tetraframework.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tetraframework.com</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bundling binary tools in Python wheels</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/23/bundling-binary-tools-in-python-wheels/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ssl232</author><text>The Python wheel &quot;ecosystem&quot; is rather nice these days. You can create platform wheels and bundle in shared objects and binaries compiled for those platforms, automated by tools like auditwheel (Linux) and delocate-wheel (OSX). These tools even rewrite the wheel&#x27;s manifest and update the shared object RPATH values and mangle the names to ensure they don&#x27;t get clobbered by stuff in the system library path. The auditwheel tool converts a &quot;linux&quot; wheel into a &quot;manylinux&quot; wheel which is guaranteed by the spec to run on certain minimum Linux kernels.<p>Wheels are merely zips with a different extension, so worst case for projects where these automation tools fail you you can do it yourself. You simply need to be careful to update the manifest and make sure shared objects are loaded in the correct order.<p>On the user side, a `pip install` should automatically grab the relevant platform wheel from pypi.org, or, if there is not one available, fall back to trying to compile from source. With PEP 517 this all happens in a reproduceable, isolated build environment so if you manage to get it building on your CI pipeline it is likely to work on the end user&#x27;s machine.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what the state of wheels on Windows is these days. Is it possible to bundle DLLs in Windows wheels and have it &quot;just work&quot; the way it does for (most) Linux distros and OSX?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bundling binary tools in Python wheels</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/23/bundling-binary-tools-in-python-wheels/</url></story> |
35,325,794 | 35,325,840 | 1 | 2 | 35,323,121 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bityard</author><text>My experience with drivers on Linux and Windows has been just about the exact opposite from yours somehow.<p>On Windows, you sometimes cannot even install the OS without hunting down the right drivers for some piece of hardware like the RAID controller, if you can even find them. Most drivers are authored by the hardware vendors whose main competency may not be writing kernel code, so driver quality tends to be extremely variable. The result is often drivers that just don&#x27;t work well (which can look like a hardware issue, e.g. lack of performance) or crash the whole system.<p>Not all Linux drivers are bug-free or feature-complete of course, but they tend to be reasonable or high quality due to the fact that they are written by and&#x2F;or reviewed by the kernel community. Since all the drivers come with the kernel, the user generally has to do nothing to make their hardware work, it just does right out of the box.<p>(Notable exceptions here are vendors of certain video cards and wifi chips who refuse to either write Linux drivers or supply the information needed to write them. So you do have to be somewhat careful to avoid those vendors when purchasing hardware.)<p>I&#x27;m not a heavy gamer but my understanding is that a surprising number of popular games run just fine on Linux, thanks in part to the WINE community and the efforts of Valve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GuB-42</author><text>As a mostly Linux user, I disagree. You simply can&#x27;t replace Windows with Linux, at least not in the near future. Here is a page which summarize Linux shortcomings on the desktop: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itvision.altervista.org&#x2F;why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itvision.altervista.org&#x2F;why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...</a><p>One reason I think Linux (the kernel) would be a poor fit as a Windows replacement is the lack of a stable driver ABI. Linux is a monolithic kernel and all the drivers are expected to be part of it. It is a model that works because it fully embraces open source and community driven development. But not all manufacturers want that, first because they may not want to, open their code, or maybe they can&#x27;t due to licensing arguments. It also means they need to invest significant resources into getting their code accepted by the community. The Windows driver model drove its rich hardware ecosystem. And if you think switching to a Linux driver model is going to be better, more free, think again, because we already have that with Android. Manufacturers fork the kernel and don&#x27;t give much back to the community, just having them comply with the GPL is a struggle, and hardware support besides what is built into the phone is extremely limited, and because they don&#x27;t work with the community, support for what&#x27;s in the phone isn&#x27;t carried on for more than a couple of years.<p>And Windows really strong point is backwards compatibility. For example, I still use the &quot;free&quot; Photoshop CS2, 20 years later, works perfectly fine as a binary, I can run stuff that dates back from the 3.11 era, though as I understand it, it is mostly emulation at this point. This is part of the reason people use Windows. Microsoft tried to start clean with Windows RT, it was a failure. Apple can get away with it because they have complete control over their ecosystem, not Microsoft.<p>Also, games.</text></item><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I’ve wondered for a bit if there’s a future where Windows turns into A Linux distribution with some extra tools and runtimes for legacy executables. Microsoft has some really expensive software it has to maintain. Office is also maintained on multiple platforms, but it feels like Windows is starting to be a drag on the company - lots of resources for not a lot of income. As wild as it would be, offloading a lot of dev to the OSS community would free up resources to differentiate their product.</text></item><item><author>jgaa</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t want anything, any type of news being pushed by my OS.<p>Then, how is Microsoft supposed to properly track your interests and sell that information to their &quot;partners&quot;?<p>It&#x27;s been a long time since Microsoft made an operating system. What they make today is basically a spyware-platform where you can run applications if you are really disciplined and persistent. I don&#x27;t understand how people keep up with it.<p>I&#x27;ve used Linux on my desktops and laptops for decades now.</text></item><item><author>PrimeMcFly</author><text>I don&#x27;t want <i>anything</i>, any type of news being pushed by my OS. It simply isn&#x27;t it&#x27;s job. Maybe, as an option or optional add-on, but not the way MS does it.<p>I use 10 now, as locked down and &#x27;fixed&#x27; as I was able to make it (custom ISO via NTLite with a bunch of crap removed and some fixes steamrolled in), but really I look forward to ditching it altogether - which is a shame. For all the MS hate in the OSS community, I always thought Windows did a lot of stuff well (when it was good at least).<p>The telemetry, changing things for the sake of changing things and forced crap constantly being added is enough. I&#x27;m so in love with awesomewm at this point, and the fact that I can customize and program <i>every</i> part of my UI, allowing me to have something absolutely perfect and tailor made.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-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>headsoup</author><text>Games are minor issue now, to the point I buy new games on Steam without even checking compatibility, because they just work (or have the same problems Windows does anyway).<p>Windows&#x27; strong point is basically some large software vendors just don&#x27;t support Linux (Photoshop, finance software, etc). And of course corporate. For the day to day &#x27;casual&#x27; user Linux is every bit as good. But, much as we all had to &#x27;learn&#x27; Windows when we started using it, so there will be at least a little learning required for Linux.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GuB-42</author><text>As a mostly Linux user, I disagree. You simply can&#x27;t replace Windows with Linux, at least not in the near future. Here is a page which summarize Linux shortcomings on the desktop: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itvision.altervista.org&#x2F;why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itvision.altervista.org&#x2F;why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...</a><p>One reason I think Linux (the kernel) would be a poor fit as a Windows replacement is the lack of a stable driver ABI. Linux is a monolithic kernel and all the drivers are expected to be part of it. It is a model that works because it fully embraces open source and community driven development. But not all manufacturers want that, first because they may not want to, open their code, or maybe they can&#x27;t due to licensing arguments. It also means they need to invest significant resources into getting their code accepted by the community. The Windows driver model drove its rich hardware ecosystem. And if you think switching to a Linux driver model is going to be better, more free, think again, because we already have that with Android. Manufacturers fork the kernel and don&#x27;t give much back to the community, just having them comply with the GPL is a struggle, and hardware support besides what is built into the phone is extremely limited, and because they don&#x27;t work with the community, support for what&#x27;s in the phone isn&#x27;t carried on for more than a couple of years.<p>And Windows really strong point is backwards compatibility. For example, I still use the &quot;free&quot; Photoshop CS2, 20 years later, works perfectly fine as a binary, I can run stuff that dates back from the 3.11 era, though as I understand it, it is mostly emulation at this point. This is part of the reason people use Windows. Microsoft tried to start clean with Windows RT, it was a failure. Apple can get away with it because they have complete control over their ecosystem, not Microsoft.<p>Also, games.</text></item><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I’ve wondered for a bit if there’s a future where Windows turns into A Linux distribution with some extra tools and runtimes for legacy executables. Microsoft has some really expensive software it has to maintain. Office is also maintained on multiple platforms, but it feels like Windows is starting to be a drag on the company - lots of resources for not a lot of income. As wild as it would be, offloading a lot of dev to the OSS community would free up resources to differentiate their product.</text></item><item><author>jgaa</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t want anything, any type of news being pushed by my OS.<p>Then, how is Microsoft supposed to properly track your interests and sell that information to their &quot;partners&quot;?<p>It&#x27;s been a long time since Microsoft made an operating system. What they make today is basically a spyware-platform where you can run applications if you are really disciplined and persistent. I don&#x27;t understand how people keep up with it.<p>I&#x27;ve used Linux on my desktops and laptops for decades now.</text></item><item><author>PrimeMcFly</author><text>I don&#x27;t want <i>anything</i>, any type of news being pushed by my OS. It simply isn&#x27;t it&#x27;s job. Maybe, as an option or optional add-on, but not the way MS does it.<p>I use 10 now, as locked down and &#x27;fixed&#x27; as I was able to make it (custom ISO via NTLite with a bunch of crap removed and some fixes steamrolled in), but really I look forward to ditching it altogether - which is a shame. For all the MS hate in the OSS community, I always thought Windows did a lot of stuff well (when it was good at least).<p>The telemetry, changing things for the sake of changing things and forced crap constantly being added is enough. I&#x27;m so in love with awesomewm at this point, and the fact that I can customize and program <i>every</i> part of my UI, allowing me to have something absolutely perfect and tailor made.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-news</url></story> |
17,750,058 | 17,749,156 | 1 | 2 | 17,747,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rotdhizon</author><text>Okay hardly anyone on this thread of 84 comments is even discussing the article. Half the comments are just people going back and forth about the Vegas shooting.<p>What this hotel(s) did was unacceptable. I hope some lawsuits come out of it for the more egregious violations. No one was worried about some hackers going off the deep end, this was a heavy handed display of power over guests. I&#x27;m surprised none of the intruders had guns drawn on them. These were unidentifiable goons seemingly breaking into rooms. DEFCON is the most important security event of the year, I do hope there is a boycott after this event and all of these hotels are blacklisted by the security community.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Heavy-handed security searches of hotel rooms at Defcon/Black Hat</title><url>https://www.secjuice.com/defcon-hotel-security-fiasco</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jarym</author><text>In most hotels I&#x27;ve been to in more volatile parts of the world they just search bags on entry to the property - which would seem an easier and more thorough approach. If security are so concerned why aren&#x27;t they doing that here?<p>If hotel security forced their way into my room in any property I stay at at I&#x27;d be checking out immediately and would be doing a credit card charge back on any charges.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Heavy-handed security searches of hotel rooms at Defcon/Black Hat</title><url>https://www.secjuice.com/defcon-hotel-security-fiasco</url></story> |
13,793,023 | 13,792,169 | 1 | 3 | 13,790,954 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sampo</author><text>&gt; the impossibly large scale of our universe<p>The other planets are far away, other solar systems are far away, and the galaxy is huge.<p>But after that, the neighboring galaxies are surprisingly close. If we take 150k light years to be the diameter of Milky Way, and Andromeda is 2500k light years away, the distance between galaxies is less than 20 times the diameter of our galaxy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rackforms</author><text>Neat! My favorite way to show the impossibly large scale of our universe: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spaceengine.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spaceengine.org&#x2F;</a>. Set your speed to 10 light years <i>per second</i> and watch the Andromeda galaxy just sit there.<p>Also fun to see how slow even the speed of light is. Start at the sun and head for earth. Once you reach Earth marvel at how fast you had been going.<p>Head towards Jupiter and, once again, marvel at how impossibly slow your going compared to even the nearest background stars.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system</title><url>http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.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>Freaky</author><text>Playing with its zoom function is fun (Page Up&#x2F;Down&#x2F;Home). You can basically reproduce the Hubble Deep Field with it by bumping up the galaxy magnitude limit (F8) and zooming in until the indicator in the lower right reads around 2&#x27;30&quot;.<p>And of course you can click on a galaxy and fly to it with a press of the g key. Watching thousands of galaxies zip by like stars in Star Trek is pretty mindboggling (also note that high warp is somewhere around 20 AU&#x2F;sec using the TNG scale...)<p>Example I made a few days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;xyZe8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;xyZe8</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rackforms</author><text>Neat! My favorite way to show the impossibly large scale of our universe: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spaceengine.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spaceengine.org&#x2F;</a>. Set your speed to 10 light years <i>per second</i> and watch the Andromeda galaxy just sit there.<p>Also fun to see how slow even the speed of light is. Start at the sun and head for earth. Once you reach Earth marvel at how fast you had been going.<p>Head towards Jupiter and, once again, marvel at how impossibly slow your going compared to even the nearest background stars.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system</title><url>http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html</url></story> |
9,092,556 | 9,092,515 | 1 | 2 | 9,092,246 | 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>AndrewKemendo</author><text><i>Everyone is totally winging it all the time. Confident people are just better at hiding it.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think people really understand how true this is. I think we all might feel it, but to really believe that [insert name] doesn&#x27;t really know what is going on is a revelation.<p>To wit, whenever given the opportunity to talk with someone who is or was in a large powerful role (Fmr Undersecretary of the Navy two weeks ago for example) I always ask them how confident they were, that what they were doing was the right choice, or how much they felt in control of a particular action&#x2F;decision.<p>Across the board they all say they feel like they have very little control and are just doing the best with what they have.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lkesteloot</author><text>Practice is the key to getting better at everything. Ignore the concept of innate talent or gift. People who are good are good because they spent a lot of time practicing.<p>People who practice a lot usually do so because they’re interested in it. It’s not hard or homework for them. If there’s a gift, it’s the gift of interest.<p>Artists copy a lot. They don’t come up with stuff clear out of their heads. They look at a lot of things, keep a lot of references, and blend ideas together.<p>Most people who are famous are so not because they’re good, but because they’ve worked hard to become famous. It was important to them, so they did what it took to become famous. Being good at something is a small part of that, small enough that famous people aren’t usually all that good. Their time was better spent becoming famous. (This is the biggest lesson from this list. It basically implies that you can ignore people who have blogs and podcasts. Seek out the unknown experts in your field.)<p>Don’t make decisions based on money. Don’t stay at a job because the shares might be worth something, or because the company might get acquired. These things rarely happen and you can’t get your time back.<p>Everyone is totally winging it all the time. Confident people are just better at hiding it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before you turned 40?</title><text>So I&#x27;ve noticed a few posts over time where users have asked similiar questions but at younger age brackets (18, 20, 25 mainly).<p>I&#x27;m slightly more interested in further down the road. I know HNs user base might be skewed to the younger crowd but I&#x27;m sure there are a number of 40+ year olds who can impart their wisdom.<p>Thanks.</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>mortenjorck</author><text>My favorite example of someone gradually working their way from rank amateur to accomplished professional through sheer volume of dedicated practice has to be the cartoonist Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade. Over the span of about ten years, you see his art style transform from what would pass for an average college newspaper comic into the richly expressive vision of a master illustrator.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lkesteloot</author><text>Practice is the key to getting better at everything. Ignore the concept of innate talent or gift. People who are good are good because they spent a lot of time practicing.<p>People who practice a lot usually do so because they’re interested in it. It’s not hard or homework for them. If there’s a gift, it’s the gift of interest.<p>Artists copy a lot. They don’t come up with stuff clear out of their heads. They look at a lot of things, keep a lot of references, and blend ideas together.<p>Most people who are famous are so not because they’re good, but because they’ve worked hard to become famous. It was important to them, so they did what it took to become famous. Being good at something is a small part of that, small enough that famous people aren’t usually all that good. Their time was better spent becoming famous. (This is the biggest lesson from this list. It basically implies that you can ignore people who have blogs and podcasts. Seek out the unknown experts in your field.)<p>Don’t make decisions based on money. Don’t stay at a job because the shares might be worth something, or because the company might get acquired. These things rarely happen and you can’t get your time back.<p>Everyone is totally winging it all the time. Confident people are just better at hiding it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before you turned 40?</title><text>So I&#x27;ve noticed a few posts over time where users have asked similiar questions but at younger age brackets (18, 20, 25 mainly).<p>I&#x27;m slightly more interested in further down the road. I know HNs user base might be skewed to the younger crowd but I&#x27;m sure there are a number of 40+ year olds who can impart their wisdom.<p>Thanks.</text></story> |
35,320,137 | 35,318,670 | 1 | 2 | 35,317,589 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; the only one that was fine from the start was 10.6 Snow Leopard<p>Snow Leopard had a bug where using the guest account would wipe the data from the main account.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattkevan</author><text>As someone who’s used macOS since the early betas I really don’t understand this perpetual meme that the early versions were so good and it’s all locked-down rubbish now. Seems more like faulty memory mixed with a general tendency to think that everything was better ‘back in my day’.<p>Every version had its bugs at release and were mostly fixed after a few point releases. If I recall, the only one that was fine from the start was 10.6 Snow Leopard, and that was only because 10.5 Leper was so bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux is Making Apple Great Again</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/linux-is-making-apple-great-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>pram</author><text>I’ve long assumed it’s because it also coincidentally lines up with the Intel Macs, and especially the MacBook Air. Which was probably a lot of people’s first Mac ever. It was definitely an upgrade over Leopard.<p>I had started using OSX with Jaguar on my G4 PowerBook and Snow Leopard doesn’t stand out in my mind. I liked Lion more because it had full disk encryption and AirDrop.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattkevan</author><text>As someone who’s used macOS since the early betas I really don’t understand this perpetual meme that the early versions were so good and it’s all locked-down rubbish now. Seems more like faulty memory mixed with a general tendency to think that everything was better ‘back in my day’.<p>Every version had its bugs at release and were mostly fixed after a few point releases. If I recall, the only one that was fine from the start was 10.6 Snow Leopard, and that was only because 10.5 Leper was so bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux is Making Apple Great Again</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/linux-is-making-apple-great-again/</url></story> |
37,311,453 | 37,302,986 | 1 | 3 | 37,284,764 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>In the realm of political donations, municipal politics is so often forgotten about, but is in control of some of the lowest hanging fruit for carbon reduction in cities.<p>Almost the entirety of carbon emissions in cities comes from 1) home heating and 2) transportation, both of which could be significantly impacted by city policy from environmentalist municipal politicians.<p>For example:<p>* separated bike lanes (incredibly cheap in the grand scheme of things)<p>* pedestrianization of public spaces<p>* legalizing relatively denser apartment buildings everywhere.<p>* public transit improvements<p>All work to take CO2 emitting cars off the road<p>Political movement toward bans on gas for home heating (already occurring in many places) a further way to reduce CO2 emissions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SamBam</author><text>If you had $5000 that you wanted to use to fight climate change, and you wanted to have it have a bigger multiplying effect than your own personal consumption (install heat pumps, get electric car, etc.), where <i>would</i> you put that, given that most carbon credits seem to be scams?<p>That is, what&#x27;s the least-scammy carbon credit, and&#x2F;or place of concrete change?<p>Places I donate to, but wonder how much the effect of each is:<p>* Climate charities focused on legislation (EarthJustice, Clean Air Task Force, EDF, NRDC)<p>* Direct CO2 removal (Climeworks). Seems like a drop in the bucket, but feel like this tech needs to grow.<p>* Goldstandard.org Carbon Credits. May be just as scammy, but appears to be direct gifts to green energy projects in developing world. (Of course, maybe they would have gotten the money anyway.)<p>What are other people&#x27;s thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/study-carbon-offsets-arent-doing-their-job-overstate-impact/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VintageCool</author><text>Donate to aspiring Democrats running for state legislatures in blues states with red State Legislatures or split governments.<p>&gt; Back in 2019, [David Roberts] wrote for Vox that there is one weird trick states can use to ensure good climate and energy policy. That trick is: giving Democrats full control of the government. It has worked in California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Massachusetts, New York, Hawaii — the list goes on.<p>&gt; The 2022 midterm elections brought Democrats full control — with trifectas of both houses of the legislature and the governor&#x27;s office — in four new M states: Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Minnesota.<p>&gt; Does the one weird trick still work? Well, you’ll never guess what happened in Minnesota last week.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volts.wtf&#x2F;p&#x2F;minnesota-sets-out-for-net-zero-emissions#details" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volts.wtf&#x2F;p&#x2F;minnesota-sets-out-for-net-zero-emis...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>SamBam</author><text>If you had $5000 that you wanted to use to fight climate change, and you wanted to have it have a bigger multiplying effect than your own personal consumption (install heat pumps, get electric car, etc.), where <i>would</i> you put that, given that most carbon credits seem to be scams?<p>That is, what&#x27;s the least-scammy carbon credit, and&#x2F;or place of concrete change?<p>Places I donate to, but wonder how much the effect of each is:<p>* Climate charities focused on legislation (EarthJustice, Clean Air Task Force, EDF, NRDC)<p>* Direct CO2 removal (Climeworks). Seems like a drop in the bucket, but feel like this tech needs to grow.<p>* Goldstandard.org Carbon Credits. May be just as scammy, but appears to be direct gifts to green energy projects in developing world. (Of course, maybe they would have gotten the money anyway.)<p>What are other people&#x27;s thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/study-carbon-offsets-arent-doing-their-job-overstate-impact/</url></story> |
6,172,326 | 6,172,299 | 1 | 2 | 6,172,110 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DamnYuppie</author><text>I believe that a society needs the ability to forget the transgressions of people. This gives us the ability as individuals to grow, otherwise we will be narrowly cast into a role that will determined by actions years ago or in our youth.<p>I know many will overreact and bring out extreme examples of murder or serious violent crimes. Yet that is not what those who are utilizing these tools are going after and prosecuting. They are generally minor or petty crimes, at least that I have read about so far. It seems like an overzealous us of a tool for perfunctory government twerps to feel empowered and make a case for their continued existence...not at all beneficial in the short or long term</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joseflavio</author><text>There are at least 3 scary factors in this.
1 - What will be next crime that is big enough that justify using this? File sharing? Drinking in public? Jaywalking? Driving above the speed limit?
2 - The data is collected forever! Our current law system is not just in a situation which the prosecutors can dig your past to find problems! Imagine you do some graffiti (ok, I know it is vandalism) to express your indignation, now, if you are <i>ideologically</i> an enemy of the state, they can dig for crimes your whole life...!
3 - The collected data can be used to prosecute you but it can not be used to innocent you.<p>edit: spelling</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering</url></story> |
3,704,958 | 3,704,417 | 1 | 2 | 3,703,760 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Highly, highly recommend hilock-mode for browsing code; hilock does ad-hoc syntax highlighting, so, as you read code and notice patterns, you write regexes for them and let Emacs spot them for you.<p>This turned out to be so useful for code reviews (we do a lot of those) that I "ported" it to a web app that lets us set hilocks that follow us from buffer to buffer (along with xrefs, class/method/fn definition sites, bookmarks, and a lot of other junk).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Efficiently Browsing Text or Code (esp. with Emacs)</title><url>http://www.kirubakaran.com/articles/efficiently-browsing-text-or-code.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>wladimir</author><text>It's 2012 and we're still navigating source code, which is effectively a nested graph structure, using grep and simple keyword queries.<p>No (reverse) call trees, no high-level views, no help on how data propagates through the program. We could do so much better, especially in static languages. Sometimes it seems like reverse engineering tools that work without source code (such as IDA) do a better job of cross-referencing than tools that have the actual source code.<p>Is there any good/usable point and click code browser / code comprehension tool these days? Or is the state of the art of 1998 still that of today?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Efficiently Browsing Text or Code (esp. with Emacs)</title><url>http://www.kirubakaran.com/articles/efficiently-browsing-text-or-code.html</url></story> |
6,713,276 | 6,712,304 | 1 | 3 | 6,710,232 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>After reading through the entire thread, I can see where your misunderstanding arises.<p>You are referring only to the payment of <i>vested</i> pension benefits. In this regard, you are correct--ERISA generally requires companies to fully fund vested pension benefits. Pension plan payments for vested benefits are not &quot;pre-funding payments&quot; since the liability has already accrued. A &quot;pre-funding payment&quot; would be a payment for pension benefits for which the liability has not yet arisen, i.e., for unvested pension benefits.<p>That is what is significant about the USPS--it is required to pre-fund its pension liabilities for its current and past employees, <i>including for those benefits that have not yet vested</i> and which would, absent the specific Congressional mandate not be required to be funded under ERISA.<p>The USPS is not required to prefund pensions for employees it hasn&#x27;t hired yet, but you&#x27;re the only one on the thread arguing that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text><i>So where does the $6B loss come from? It turns out that the overwhelming chunk of USPS expenses are due to a 2006 Congressional mandate that forces the agency to prepay for 75 years of benefits.</i><p>So do all private sector businesses. You can&#x27;t promise employees $X in future benefits without putting $X into a pension fund. This requirement is uncommon in government, which is why many municipalities have unfunded pension obligations, but it&#x27;s completely reasonable. The scary fact is that we only require the USPS to do this.<p>You are also misrepresenting the 75 year time horizon. The USPS is required to make the following (wildly oversimplified) spreadsheet:<p><pre><code> year #living employees # earned costs&#x2F;employee
2014 1000000 50000
2015 900000 51000
etc
</code></pre>
The pension fund needs to have SUM(column B x column C) dollars in it (again, wildly oversimplified - it&#x27;s actually the Present Value of Future Benefits). The 75 year requirement means the spreadsheet must have 75 rows. This prevents the fund from cheating by cutting off the calculation early and failing to account for payments they promised to make. Changing 75 years to 100 years wouldn&#x27;t change anything.<p>The number &quot;earned costs&#x2F;employee&quot; is the fraction of the pension costs that have already vested. I.e., if the employee has earned a pension of $100&#x2F;month so far, but will have earned a pension of $5000&#x2F;month at retirement, their earned costs are $100&#x2F;month, not $5000&#x2F;month.<p>This is the same calculation that ERISA requires of all private sector companies.<p>(Certain grandfathered companies in the private sector are also allowed to escape ERISA, and this will be a problem if any of them go out of business.)</text></item><item><author>jxf</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; The Amazon contract will be a much-needed financial boost to the Postal Service, which continues to bleed red ink as more Americans eschew &quot;snail mail&quot; in favor of email, instant messaging and social networks. The agency, which said it expects to lose around $6 billion this year, has been closing locations and has proposed ceasing Saturday delivery of many items to cut costs.<p>But the USPS is, operationally speaking, profitable; it makes about $400M in operating profit per year. So where does the $6B loss come from? It turns out that the overwhelming chunk of USPS expenses are due to a 2006 Congressional mandate that forces the agency to prepay for <i>75 years</i> of benefits.<p>In other words, Congress believes that a hypothetical 30-year-old USPS employee&#x27;s benefit costs need to be fully covered at current levels for 75 years, when the employee would then be 105. Likewise, a retiring 60-year-old USPS employee&#x27;s pension benefits need to be fully covered for 75 years out -- when the retiree would then be 135 years old.<p>So, if USPS wants to hire, say, a new mail carrier whose benefits are worth (say) $20,000&#x2F;year, they must immediately pay $1.5M into the fund (it&#x27;s actually higher than that because there is a discount factor applied to account for interest and rising health care costs). Imagine if your startup or small business were held to the same requirements, and any reasonable person can see this is insanity.<p>Here&#x27;s a WaPo article covering the problem in more detail:<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/02/08/mandate-pushed-postal-service-into-the-red-for-first-quarter/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;federal-eye&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;0...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304868404579190091121691258-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwMDExNDAyWj</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>It should be noted that post-ERISA, the preferred alternative to promising $X in future benefits without putting $X into a fund is to put in $X, but then get the money back on the backend when some private equity company takes the company through bankruptcy to reduce its pension liabilities. Private sector pension plans are overall in much better shape than public sector ones, but that&#x27;s not saying all that much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text><i>So where does the $6B loss come from? It turns out that the overwhelming chunk of USPS expenses are due to a 2006 Congressional mandate that forces the agency to prepay for 75 years of benefits.</i><p>So do all private sector businesses. You can&#x27;t promise employees $X in future benefits without putting $X into a pension fund. This requirement is uncommon in government, which is why many municipalities have unfunded pension obligations, but it&#x27;s completely reasonable. The scary fact is that we only require the USPS to do this.<p>You are also misrepresenting the 75 year time horizon. The USPS is required to make the following (wildly oversimplified) spreadsheet:<p><pre><code> year #living employees # earned costs&#x2F;employee
2014 1000000 50000
2015 900000 51000
etc
</code></pre>
The pension fund needs to have SUM(column B x column C) dollars in it (again, wildly oversimplified - it&#x27;s actually the Present Value of Future Benefits). The 75 year requirement means the spreadsheet must have 75 rows. This prevents the fund from cheating by cutting off the calculation early and failing to account for payments they promised to make. Changing 75 years to 100 years wouldn&#x27;t change anything.<p>The number &quot;earned costs&#x2F;employee&quot; is the fraction of the pension costs that have already vested. I.e., if the employee has earned a pension of $100&#x2F;month so far, but will have earned a pension of $5000&#x2F;month at retirement, their earned costs are $100&#x2F;month, not $5000&#x2F;month.<p>This is the same calculation that ERISA requires of all private sector companies.<p>(Certain grandfathered companies in the private sector are also allowed to escape ERISA, and this will be a problem if any of them go out of business.)</text></item><item><author>jxf</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; The Amazon contract will be a much-needed financial boost to the Postal Service, which continues to bleed red ink as more Americans eschew &quot;snail mail&quot; in favor of email, instant messaging and social networks. The agency, which said it expects to lose around $6 billion this year, has been closing locations and has proposed ceasing Saturday delivery of many items to cut costs.<p>But the USPS is, operationally speaking, profitable; it makes about $400M in operating profit per year. So where does the $6B loss come from? It turns out that the overwhelming chunk of USPS expenses are due to a 2006 Congressional mandate that forces the agency to prepay for <i>75 years</i> of benefits.<p>In other words, Congress believes that a hypothetical 30-year-old USPS employee&#x27;s benefit costs need to be fully covered at current levels for 75 years, when the employee would then be 105. Likewise, a retiring 60-year-old USPS employee&#x27;s pension benefits need to be fully covered for 75 years out -- when the retiree would then be 135 years old.<p>So, if USPS wants to hire, say, a new mail carrier whose benefits are worth (say) $20,000&#x2F;year, they must immediately pay $1.5M into the fund (it&#x27;s actually higher than that because there is a discount factor applied to account for interest and rising health care costs). Imagine if your startup or small business were held to the same requirements, and any reasonable person can see this is insanity.<p>Here&#x27;s a WaPo article covering the problem in more detail:<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/02/08/mandate-pushed-postal-service-into-the-red-for-first-quarter/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;federal-eye&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;0...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon to Begin Sunday Deliveries, With Post Office's Help</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304868404579190091121691258-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwMDExNDAyWj</url></story> |
35,250,893 | 35,250,762 | 1 | 2 | 35,246,139 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Some very strange responses in this sub-thread.<p>When the agreement was signed no one was even able to imagine their work being used for AI. As far as they knew they were signing a standard distribution agreement with one particular rights outlet, while reserving all other rights for more general use. If anyone had asked about automated use in AI it&#x27;s very likely the answer would have been a clear &quot;No.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s predatory and very possibly unlawful to assume the original agreement wording grants that right automatically.<p>The existence of contract wording does not automatically imply the validity of that wording. Contracts can always be ruled excessive, predatory, and unlawful no matter what they say or who signed them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>&gt; Assuming they have been paid<p>That is the question we are asking, yes. Based on the reading of the contributor agreement it sounds like Adobe doesn’t have to pay a cent to the creators to train models on their work.<p>Does that sound fair to you?</text></item><item><author>unreal37</author><text>Nobody owes creators who have been paid fully for their work &quot;extra&quot; compensation just because AI is involved. Assuming they have been paid, the work belongs to Adobe.</text></item><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>I am definitely glad to see attention being paid to ethical sourcing of training images but I am curious: did the people who made all those stock images get paid for their work being used for training? Did they check a box that explicitly said &quot;Adobe can train an AI on my work&quot;? Or is there a little clause lurking in the Adobe Stock agreement that says this can be done without even a single purchase happening?</text></item><item><author>mesh</author><text>&gt;That is, these companies are largely not doing the hard part, which is creating and training these models in the first place.<p>fyi, for Adobe Firefly, we are training or models. From the FAQ:<p>&quot;What was the training data for Firefly?<p>Firefly was trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content, where copyright has expired.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firefly.adobe.com&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firefly.adobe.com&#x2F;faq</a><p>(I work for Adobe)</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think you&#x27;re missing a fundamental reason: adding AI functionality into products is simply easier.<p>That is, these companies are largely <i>not</i> doing the hard part, which is creating and training these models in the first place. The examples you gave of of cloud and iPhone have both huge capital barriers to entry, and in iPhones case other phone companies just didn&#x27;t have the unique design talent combination of Jobs and Ive.</text></item><item><author>dopeboy</author><text>What this reinforces is that unlike with previous big innovations (cloud, iphone, etc), incumbents will not sit on their laurels with the AI wave. They are aggressively integrating it into their products which (1) provides a relatively cheap step function upgrade and (2) keeps the barrier high for startups to use AI as their wedge.<p>I attribute the speed at which incumbents are integrating AI into their products to a couple things:<p>* Whereas AI was a hand-wavey marketing term in the past, it&#x27;s now the real deal and provides actual value to the end user.<p>* The technology and DX with integrating w&#x2F;products from OpenAPI, SD, is good.<p>* AI and LLMs are capturing a lot of attention right now (as seen easily by how often they pop up on HN these days). It&#x27;s in the zeigeist so you get a marketing boost for free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator</title><url>https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.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>stale2002</author><text>And I am sure that you use your computer for work, to make money, and yet you based on the reading of the contributor agreement it sounds like [The computer buyer&#x2F;you] doesn’t have to pay a cent to the [computer creator] for all the money you make using that computer.<p>Does that sound fair to you?<p>See how stupid that sounds?</text><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>&gt; Assuming they have been paid<p>That is the question we are asking, yes. Based on the reading of the contributor agreement it sounds like Adobe doesn’t have to pay a cent to the creators to train models on their work.<p>Does that sound fair to you?</text></item><item><author>unreal37</author><text>Nobody owes creators who have been paid fully for their work &quot;extra&quot; compensation just because AI is involved. Assuming they have been paid, the work belongs to Adobe.</text></item><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>I am definitely glad to see attention being paid to ethical sourcing of training images but I am curious: did the people who made all those stock images get paid for their work being used for training? Did they check a box that explicitly said &quot;Adobe can train an AI on my work&quot;? Or is there a little clause lurking in the Adobe Stock agreement that says this can be done without even a single purchase happening?</text></item><item><author>mesh</author><text>&gt;That is, these companies are largely not doing the hard part, which is creating and training these models in the first place.<p>fyi, for Adobe Firefly, we are training or models. From the FAQ:<p>&quot;What was the training data for Firefly?<p>Firefly was trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content, where copyright has expired.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firefly.adobe.com&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firefly.adobe.com&#x2F;faq</a><p>(I work for Adobe)</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think you&#x27;re missing a fundamental reason: adding AI functionality into products is simply easier.<p>That is, these companies are largely <i>not</i> doing the hard part, which is creating and training these models in the first place. The examples you gave of of cloud and iPhone have both huge capital barriers to entry, and in iPhones case other phone companies just didn&#x27;t have the unique design talent combination of Jobs and Ive.</text></item><item><author>dopeboy</author><text>What this reinforces is that unlike with previous big innovations (cloud, iphone, etc), incumbents will not sit on their laurels with the AI wave. They are aggressively integrating it into their products which (1) provides a relatively cheap step function upgrade and (2) keeps the barrier high for startups to use AI as their wedge.<p>I attribute the speed at which incumbents are integrating AI into their products to a couple things:<p>* Whereas AI was a hand-wavey marketing term in the past, it&#x27;s now the real deal and provides actual value to the end user.<p>* The technology and DX with integrating w&#x2F;products from OpenAPI, SD, is good.<p>* AI and LLMs are capturing a lot of attention right now (as seen easily by how often they pop up on HN these days). It&#x27;s in the zeigeist so you get a marketing boost for free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator</title><url>https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html</url></story> |
10,128,443 | 10,128,259 | 1 | 3 | 10,127,971 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>emn13</author><text>The methodology is questionable on several fronts:<p>- you can&#x27;t use the load event to compare advert-heavy vs. advert-free load times. The load event does <i>not</i> fire when the page is usable by the viewer, it fires when every last request is done, in particular even requests fired from various advert iframes. However, those requests may not impact page usability. The load event may even never fire - any offscreen 1px spacer gif that times out will cause that! I don&#x27;t think there is a built-in event for &quot;done-enough&quot;, but the load event is certainly misleading.<p>- opening the developer tools causes various side-effects; those can cause the page to load more slowly than usual. You shouldn&#x27;t benchmark with developer tools open (unless you&#x27;re explicitly targeting usage with devtools open...)<p>- comparing load times across browsers as reported by the browsers themselves <i>may</i> be valid, but it&#x27;s not obvious. You definitely want to check that carefully.<p>- Measuring &quot;peak&quot; CPU usage is almost meaningless without considering how long the CPU is used.<p>- Measuring the chrome extension process CPU usage and memory usage isn&#x27;t very helpful, because running this kind of extension causes CPU usage and memory usage in every content tab. Both of these statistics for chrome in this use-case are meaningless. You&#x27;d need to measure the memory usage and CPU-time of the entire chrome process tree to get meaningful results. Even in Firefox without e10s it&#x27;s not valid to measure just the main process CPU and memory usage because plugins are in separate processes (and things like flash or h264 decoding can definitely use CPU and memory).<p>The only thing this page really makes a decent case for is that Chrome loads pages faster than Firefox - but even there, it&#x27;s not clear we&#x27;re dealing with an apples-to-apples comparison.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ad Blocking Extensions Tested for Performance</title><url>https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-performance/view-all/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aidos</author><text>So it looks like about 1&#x2F;4 of the time spent loading a page these days is spent on the page and the remaining 3&#x2F;4 are waiting for ad networks. There&#x27;s got to be an opportunity there.<p>I previously worked at a digital agency and one of my final projects was building the website for a large TV channel. At one point I had to have a meeting with the ad network to go through the integration.<p>The technical people involved didn&#x27;t know anything about how their products worked or the implications of integrating them. No idea if they were blocking or async.<p>At one point I was trying to understand what, if any, changes I might need to make to handle their ads that did full background take overs. &quot;No no no, it&#x27;s an <i>expanding mpu</i>&quot; - sure, fine, what does that even mean!?<p>(Don&#x27;t get me started on having to swap using js for switching images in the gallery for using individual pages because the onmiture page tracking numbers were the metric that everything was measured by for selling ad space)<p>&#x2F;rant<p>You&#x27;d think with all the smart people that have put their minds to ads on the internet, there would be lightning fast, targeted ads that actually worked by now.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ad Blocking Extensions Tested for Performance</title><url>https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-performance/view-all/</url></story> |
16,433,793 | 16,433,636 | 1 | 2 | 16,433,312 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_raaq</author><text>EX Denver developer here. Colorado Native. Now an Austin Dev (I&#x27;m a senior &#x2F; lead android dev) I can safely say that the job market in Denver is terrible. Yes you can find work, but the company culture are terrible. I found myself with brogrammers that had 0 engineering style hobbies or being asked to work 60 hours every week. There are a few gems.. But the Jobs you want, aren&#x27;t hiring mobile devs because their offices are start up size. IE Uber, google, github. Those are all Boulder offices anyways, not Denver. In Denver you will get mostly Banks, and dinos like Comast &#x2F; Aol. Sure some will get offers at Pivotal or Workday. But after that you aren&#x27;t going to like what you can get.<p>Seriously the drug use is pretty Rampant in Denver too. Not a turn off to all, but given the places I did work, you wouldn&#x27;t expect it. Texas is so much better. The job I have is so much better, My coworkers are actually nerdy. Honestly. Sorry I just have to laugh at the idea that desert is a great place to look for work.<p>Here in Austin we can&#x27;t even find android devs to apply. Denver I interviewed maybe 20 and found most to be just okay.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Engineer Looking for a Job</title><url>https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/austin-denver-and-detroit-are-good-places-to-be-a-software-engineer-looking-for-a-job</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>padobson</author><text>Detroit engineer here.<p>There may be a lot of openings around here as Detroit industry continues to modernize and the startup scene matures, but salaries are still lagging.<p>Some of the large companies (autos, insurance, etc) will occasionally offer higher-paying gigs, but competition is fierce and interviewing (like everywhere) is a crap shoot.<p>I&#x27;m currently contracting remotely with a company in the Los Angeles area, and I don&#x27;t expect I&#x27;ll be leaving remote work anytime soon. I expect my clients will be in LA, SF, and NY for the rest of my career.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Engineer Looking for a Job</title><url>https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/austin-denver-and-detroit-are-good-places-to-be-a-software-engineer-looking-for-a-job</url></story> |
20,196,995 | 20,196,738 | 1 | 2 | 20,196,271 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pimmen</author><text>I live on the other side of the world, but this still strikes a deep chord with me.<p>I&#x27;m Swedish, born and raised in Gothenburg. After the Umbrella protests in 2014 five people connected to the Causeway Bay Books store in Hong Kong disappeared. One of them is a naturalized Swedish citizen, his daughter was raised in my home town. He is now imprisoned and can&#x27;t communicate with his daughter, or with the Swedish authorities. Angela Gui, his daughter, is continuing on the struggle for his release to the extent she can, being only 21 when her father disappeared.<p>All these arguments about &quot;leave China be&quot; or &quot;this isn&#x27;t the West&#x27;s problem&quot; just don&#x27;t make any sense to me. This is a small world, whether we like it or not, and letting authoritarian stuff like this extradition treaty to a dictatorship slide is condoning it and before you know it your citizenship, constitutional rights and passport which you thought would keep you safe doesn&#x27;t work anymore and you get snatched from a street for something you&#x27;ve said. Your family can only cry themselves to sleep over it from the feeling of powerlessness.<p>We don&#x27;t have to go into hypotheticals about what will happen if China gets more power to persecute people of Hong Kong. In Sweden, we already know what they&#x27;ve done with the limited power they hold now.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>About 2M People Rally in Hong Kong Weekend Protests</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-16/protests-swell-as-hong-kong-rejects-leader-s-compromise</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>potatofarmer45</author><text>So my HK team had the week off to protest. Luckily I didn&#x27;t get any calls at 2am to bail anyone out of jail.<p>This result- where the government backed down, was not expected by anyone. Ever since the Beijing-picked government stared down the Umbrella Protests in 2014, it&#x27;s been a death by a thousand cuts to Hong Kong&#x27;s autonomy.<p>After talking to a friend who works for one of the pro-Beijing parties, it turns out the biggest fear for the Chinese authorities wasn&#x27;t related to HK at all, but Taiwan. China has spent so much resources to promote friendly candidates for office in Taiwan and this HK debacle has instead emboldened the incumbent president of Taiwan, who is not at all friendly towards Beijing. In fact, she won her party primary and is now well positioned for the elections next year. As it turns out, as important as HK is, Taiwan is more important to Beijing and anything that provides fodder for Taiwan&#x27;s independence leaning party is not allowed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>About 2M People Rally in Hong Kong Weekend Protests</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-16/protests-swell-as-hong-kong-rejects-leader-s-compromise</url></story> |
8,494,436 | 8,493,273 | 1 | 2 | 8,492,269 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nkurz</author><text>IBM has solid documentation of more of the Power8 details here: <a href="http://www.setphaserstostun.org/power8/POWER8_UM_external_22APR2014_pub.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.setphaserstostun.org&#x2F;power8&#x2F;POWER8_UM_external_22...</a><p>Going only by specs, it seems that in many other cases each Power8 core has about 2-4x the resources of a Haswell core:<p><pre><code> 64KB vs 32KB L1D
512KB vs 64KB L2
8MB vs 2.5MB L3
16 vs 10(?) outstanding L1 requests
8 vs 4 instructions issued per cycle
2 vs 1 stores per cycle (or 4 vs 2 loads if no stores)
3 vs 4&#x2F;5 cycle L1 latency for 64-bit data
5 vs 6&#x2F;7 cycle L1 latency for vector data
2048 vs 512 TLB entries (integrated with huge pages)
</code></pre>
Specs that aren&#x27;t higher than Haswell are usually the same --- skimming, I haven&#x27;t found any that are lower. This makes me think that a 4xSMT or 8xSMT Power8 core will probably be about equivalent to a 2xSMT (hyperthreaded) Haswell core. Dedicated core operation (non-hyperthreaded) will vary more based on workload, but likely be 1x to 2x in favor of Power8.
But these are guesses based on written specs -- I&#x27;m eager to see more real benchmarks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_yy2Di</author><text>How does POWER8 compare to x86, e.g. Haswell? Just skimming some of the architecture details...<p>* 4x hardware threads per core (8-way SMT vs. 2)<p>* 1&#x2F;4th FP throughput per core (8 SP flops&#x2F;cycle vs. 32)<p>* 3x bandwidth to RAM (230 GB&#x2F;s vs. 68) [edit: updated for Haswell-EP]<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8#Specifications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;POWER8#Specifications</a><p><a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1153.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redbooks.ibm.com&#x2F;abstracts&#x2F;tips1153.html</a><p>What is it good for?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Erlang and IBM Power8 in the cloud: super-high single-system parallelism</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-October/081407.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>jedbrown</author><text>&gt; 9x bandwidth to RAM (230 GB&#x2F;s vs. 25.6)<p>Haswell-EP supports 4 DDR4-2133 channels, or 68 GB&#x2F;s (theoretical). TDP on POWER8 is almost double and it&#x27;s much more expensive, so we should think about it as having perhaps double the DRAM bandwidth (still excellent).<p>Note that POWER8 gets this bandwidth through many more channels, which favors the use of many memory streams. This has been the case historically, with POWER favoring data structures that result in many streams, while the same transformation has been catastrophic for memory performance on Blue Gene&#x27;s PPC, with its limited prefetch engine and small number of outstanding memory requests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_yy2Di</author><text>How does POWER8 compare to x86, e.g. Haswell? Just skimming some of the architecture details...<p>* 4x hardware threads per core (8-way SMT vs. 2)<p>* 1&#x2F;4th FP throughput per core (8 SP flops&#x2F;cycle vs. 32)<p>* 3x bandwidth to RAM (230 GB&#x2F;s vs. 68) [edit: updated for Haswell-EP]<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8#Specifications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;POWER8#Specifications</a><p><a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1153.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redbooks.ibm.com&#x2F;abstracts&#x2F;tips1153.html</a><p>What is it good for?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Erlang and IBM Power8 in the cloud: super-high single-system parallelism</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-October/081407.html</url></story> |
18,885,420 | 18,884,456 | 1 | 2 | 18,883,598 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wbhart</author><text>The title and the article are severely misleading. One can easily try the method described in the article and find that empirically, it doesn&#x27;t work for large numbers. That implies that no one is seriously taking such a naive approach. You don&#x27;t need a mathematical proof either way to know this.<p>But even so, the paper doesn&#x27;t show that all polynomials are irreducible. It doesn&#x27;t even show most are, just ones of a very special form (with 0 and 1 coefficients, randomly chosen in a certain way). Therefore, the paper doesn&#x27;t rule out other kinds of polynomials, even if this were a serious approach.<p>Furthermore, even if the paper showed that all kinds of polynomials were almost always irreducible, that wouldn&#x27;t rule out the existence of a very clever algorithm for writing the integers as values of polynomials that aren&#x27;t irreducible.<p>Consider the following analogy: there are exceedingly many possible prime factors of 6000 digit numbers; far too many to practically test them all one after the other. I can produce a mathematical proof that shows that I&#x27;ll never test primality of a 6000 digit number by trying all possible prime factors in order. But that doesn&#x27;t prevent the existence of algorithms that can quite quickly tell you whether the number is prime or composite (such algorithms actually exist). Just because something looks hard or it can be proven that some naive approach is computationally infeasible, doesn&#x27;t mean there isn&#x27;t a very clever algorithm that makes it easy.<p>The authors of the actual math paper really asked for any unwanted attention they get from this news article, though. They actually give the integer factorisation problem as a motivation in their paper!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mathematicians Seal Loophole to Breaking RSA Encryption</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-seal-back-door-to-breaking-rsa-encryption-20181217/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>segfaultbuserr</author><text>This is the actual paper.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1810.13360" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1810.13360</a><p>It&#x27;s worth noticing that Riemann Hypothesis is assumed in the proof, as I layman, I think it means the proof merely gives us more <i>confidence</i> about the difficulty of integer factorization. But integer factorization itself still remains an open question.<p>&gt; <i>Abstract. We consider random polynomials with independent identically distributed coefficients with a fixed law. Assuming the Riemann hypothesis for Dedekind zeta functions, we prove that such polynomials are irreducible and their Galois groups contain the alternating group with high probability as the degree goes to infinity. This settles a conjecture of Odlyzko and Poonen conditionally on RH for Dedekind zeta functions.</i><p>Page 2, <i>Section 1.1, Motivation</i> has a summary.<p>&gt; <i>Beyond its intrinsic interest, the problem of irreducibility of random polynomials of high degree is motivated by some other problems, which we now briefly discuss. It is believed to be computationally difficult to determine the prime factorization of integers. On the other hand, polynomial time algorithms are known for computing the factorization of polynomials in Z[x]. Given an integer N ∈ Z_{&gt;0}, we can write it as N=P(2) for a unique polynomial P with 0,1-coefficients. By computing the factorization of P in Z[x] and evaluating the factors at 2, we can obtain a factorization of N.</i><p>&gt; <i>The only weakness of this approach is that the polynomial P may be irreducible and thus the factorization of N obtained may be trivial. The problem we study in this paper thus asks for the probability that this procedure returns only a trivial factorization. Therefore, it is desirable to have results, such as those of this paper, proving that this probability converges to 1 very fast. We will discuss our method in Section 1.3. The method links the problem of irreducibility of random polynomials with mixing times of certain Markov chains, which are &quot;mod p&quot; analogues of the Bernoulli convolutions we had studied in earlier work.</i><p>&gt; <i>In this paper, we use results available for the Markov chains to study random polynomials, but this can be reversed. In particular, in a forthcoming paper, we will use the results of this paper to obtain new results about the Markov chains. Our results on irreducibility assume the Riemann hypothesis for Dedekind zeta functions, or at least some information on the zeros. In our last theorem, Theorem 7, we show that conversely irreducibility of random polynomials has (modest) implications about the zeros of Dedekind zeta functions.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mathematicians Seal Loophole to Breaking RSA Encryption</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-seal-back-door-to-breaking-rsa-encryption-20181217/</url></story> |
27,235,578 | 27,234,003 | 1 | 2 | 27,233,073 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maccard</author><text>I live in Scotland, and the process here is the seller has to undertake a survey with someone who is accredited. In practice this means that the same 3-4 firms end up doing most of the surveys. It&#x27;s not just some ranodmer saying &quot;yeah, looks good mate&quot;.<p>&gt; In the US this only costs a few hundred dollars for a typical house, which is a tiny fraction of the overall transaction price.<p>You know what&#x27;s even better than _only_ a couple of hundred dollars? The seller paying it once.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>That&#x27;s not sane, it&#x27;s crazy! As a buyer why would I trust a surveyor selected by the seller? I would rather pay inspector myself for an independent opinion. In the US this only costs a few hundred dollars for a typical house, which is a tiny fraction of the overall transaction price.</text></item><item><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>In sane countries the seller must comission a survey and provide it to the buyer. The UK system where each buyer comissions a survey is absurd.<p>I do not understand how the mortgage helps you - you are still paying for it, and if the survey uncovers issues, you either take mortgage on a house with problems, or you are out of pocket.<p>If you pull out, and next house you view has issues too, you have to take it because at some poijt you run out of money</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;With housing (in UK) there is no competition on quality because the seller doesn&#x27;t have to disclose any problems with the house. If it falls of a cliff the minute you sign on the dotted line, it&#x27;s your problem.<p>I&#x27;m in the UK and that&#x27;s absolutely not true. If you think the owner knew about the problem and purposefully omitted telling you, then you definitely have a court case and any law firm worth their salt will win this. I bought a house recently and the documents the sellers had to fill out for the solicitors very clearly say there are are no known issues with this house, so if that&#x27;s a lie then the sale can be rendered null and void.<p>&gt;&gt;You have to pay for the surveyor to find out any issues the house might have, and that means you can only view a few houses before you&#x27;ve paid the house price in survey fees.<p>I&#x27;ve had a few mortgages so far and I&#x27;m yet to find a bank not willing to cover the cost of a full survey, as the bank also wants to know the house they are securing the loan against is actually worth the money.</text></item><item><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>A competitive market would enable me to sort by salary and benefits and apply for the best job.<p>However companies don&#x27;t want to compete on salary, and potentialy drive them up - they want maximum leverage. They get more leverage if process is obscure, so that you only agree salary late in the process and for the applicant, pulling out is risky.<p>The market is not really free - its being manipulated by one side.<p>Similarly with healthcare you don&#x27;t know how much you will be charged upfront, so there is no competition on price.<p>With housing (in UK) there is no competition on quality because the seller doesn&#x27;t have to disclose any problems with the house. If it falls of a cliff the minute you sign on the dotted line, it&#x27;s your problem.<p>You have to pay for the surveyor to find out any issues the house might have, and that means you can only view a few houses before you&#x27;ve paid the house price in survey fees.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/nh7s8f/but_not_in_colorado/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>For the same reason you trust an auditor and accountant hired by Tesla to produce quartely earnings report - they are on the hook if they lie.<p>Surely you do not hire an independant accountant every time you buy stocks?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>That&#x27;s not sane, it&#x27;s crazy! As a buyer why would I trust a surveyor selected by the seller? I would rather pay inspector myself for an independent opinion. In the US this only costs a few hundred dollars for a typical house, which is a tiny fraction of the overall transaction price.</text></item><item><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>In sane countries the seller must comission a survey and provide it to the buyer. The UK system where each buyer comissions a survey is absurd.<p>I do not understand how the mortgage helps you - you are still paying for it, and if the survey uncovers issues, you either take mortgage on a house with problems, or you are out of pocket.<p>If you pull out, and next house you view has issues too, you have to take it because at some poijt you run out of money</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;With housing (in UK) there is no competition on quality because the seller doesn&#x27;t have to disclose any problems with the house. If it falls of a cliff the minute you sign on the dotted line, it&#x27;s your problem.<p>I&#x27;m in the UK and that&#x27;s absolutely not true. If you think the owner knew about the problem and purposefully omitted telling you, then you definitely have a court case and any law firm worth their salt will win this. I bought a house recently and the documents the sellers had to fill out for the solicitors very clearly say there are are no known issues with this house, so if that&#x27;s a lie then the sale can be rendered null and void.<p>&gt;&gt;You have to pay for the surveyor to find out any issues the house might have, and that means you can only view a few houses before you&#x27;ve paid the house price in survey fees.<p>I&#x27;ve had a few mortgages so far and I&#x27;m yet to find a bank not willing to cover the cost of a full survey, as the bank also wants to know the house they are securing the loan against is actually worth the money.</text></item><item><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>A competitive market would enable me to sort by salary and benefits and apply for the best job.<p>However companies don&#x27;t want to compete on salary, and potentialy drive them up - they want maximum leverage. They get more leverage if process is obscure, so that you only agree salary late in the process and for the applicant, pulling out is risky.<p>The market is not really free - its being manipulated by one side.<p>Similarly with healthcare you don&#x27;t know how much you will be charged upfront, so there is no competition on price.<p>With housing (in UK) there is no competition on quality because the seller doesn&#x27;t have to disclose any problems with the house. If it falls of a cliff the minute you sign on the dotted line, it&#x27;s your problem.<p>You have to pay for the surveyor to find out any issues the house might have, and that means you can only view a few houses before you&#x27;ve paid the house price in survey fees.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/nh7s8f/but_not_in_colorado/</url></story> |
16,747,958 | 16,747,977 | 1 | 3 | 16,746,149 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cgb223</author><text>&gt; She is politically engaged, having contributed $120,000 to Democrat campaigns in 2016. Her book tours have taken on the feel of someone sounding out campaign themes.<p>Having worked in politics in DC I can tell you that this is a very small amount of money to donate for someone who&#x27;s politically motivated or interested in running<p>Book tours often act like campaign tours, especially when your book is promoting a certain attitude or culture (Lean In)<p>If this is the only evidence of a political run the author has, I wouldn&#x27;t hold your breath for a 2020 run.<p>Plus its The Hill, which is a very politically focused news source in general, so that probably was just added to make it a little more interesting for its reader-base</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The invisibility of Sheryl Sandberg</title><url>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/381404-the-infuriating-invisibility-of-sheryl-sandberg</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>psyc</author><text>Sandberg comes across to me like a bad actor in the video (in the Hollywood &#x2F; stage sense) and I mean more than usual &#x2F; more than I expect even from an executive. I could barely watch it, it oozed inauthenticity so badly. Not too sympathetic on the gut level.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The invisibility of Sheryl Sandberg</title><url>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/381404-the-infuriating-invisibility-of-sheryl-sandberg</url></story> |
23,257,108 | 23,257,151 | 1 | 3 | 23,243,646 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>I’m not sure I’d call this “kawaii,” as that has a particular (and often cringey) connotation.</i><p>Kawaii is great within the culture it created it (and not cringey, in fact, cringey is a cringey neologism applied to everything these days).<p>But this is definitely not Kawaii - doesn&#x27;t have any major kawaii characteristics as known. Cute in some way != kawaii (which might mean &quot;cute&quot; etymologically, but refers to a specific aesthetic).<p>Your description &quot;middle school pamphlets aimed at teaching kids about sociology&quot; is spot on (at least concerning the human-like figures and color tones).</text><parent_chain><item><author>everdrive</author><text>I’m not sure I’d call this “kawaii,” as that has a particular (and often cringey) connotation.<p>But, there is something deeply unappealing about this style. I’m not sure I can even describe it properly. It just reminds me of the most boring parts of my childhood: the aesthetic of dentist office waiting rooms, and middle school pamphlets aimed at teaching kids about sociology.<p>My past association with this sort of aesthetic is so innoffensively boring, I almost can’t even stand to look at it. And, as and adult, it no longer strikes me as just boring, but also insidious in the way that all marketing is insidious: it promises one thing, and behind the marketing is something else. A pleasant and inoffensive advertisement is in actuality just a regular old business who wants your money. There’s (usually) nothing evil the business, but of course the feeling portrayed by the marketing is a lie.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Kawaiization of Product Design</title><url>https://vanschneider.com/the-kawaiization-of-product-design</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ulrikrasmussen</author><text>Completely agree. When I see a web page with this style, I just know that I&#x27;ll have to dig really deep to find any concrete information about what the tech is <i>actually</i> about. There might be a link with the caption &quot;how X works&quot;, but it will almost certainly take me to a simplified list of superficial features along the lines of &quot;achieves 20% more goodness&quot; instead of telling me anything about how the product actually functions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>everdrive</author><text>I’m not sure I’d call this “kawaii,” as that has a particular (and often cringey) connotation.<p>But, there is something deeply unappealing about this style. I’m not sure I can even describe it properly. It just reminds me of the most boring parts of my childhood: the aesthetic of dentist office waiting rooms, and middle school pamphlets aimed at teaching kids about sociology.<p>My past association with this sort of aesthetic is so innoffensively boring, I almost can’t even stand to look at it. And, as and adult, it no longer strikes me as just boring, but also insidious in the way that all marketing is insidious: it promises one thing, and behind the marketing is something else. A pleasant and inoffensive advertisement is in actuality just a regular old business who wants your money. There’s (usually) nothing evil the business, but of course the feeling portrayed by the marketing is a lie.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Kawaiization of Product Design</title><url>https://vanschneider.com/the-kawaiization-of-product-design</url></story> |
26,153,885 | 26,152,889 | 1 | 2 | 26,151,207 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MayeulC</author><text>For shared use and remote storage, I&#x27;d consider using CRDTs like yjs [1] for instance.<p>Should be pretty easy, local-first, and allow synchronous as well as asynchronous collaboration and syncing. Even p2p over LAN, webrtc or whatever (I&#x27;m unsure how to do local peer discovery in a web browser, on the desktop you&#x27;d simply use link-local multicast&#x2F;avahi (DNS-SD)).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yjs&#x2F;yjs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yjs&#x2F;yjs</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>apankrat</author><text>This is mine.<p>It is something I wrote for my own use after looking at all existing options and finding them not to my liking. This is pretty much a weekend hack, it is from 2019 and it&#x27;s still close to what I need. When I have time I plan to improve keyboard support, add color tags and archiving of completed items. It will also be redone to not use localStorage and to support a remote storage option. Shared use (with 2+ instances working with the same copy of the data) is also something that I&#x27;d like to do, but that&#x27;s on a back burner.<p>The Show HN post from 2019 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20077177" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20077177</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage</title><url>https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gorbypark</author><text>Although it&#x27;s tough to use &quot;raw&quot; git from a browser (it is possible, but probably out of scope to include an entire Javascript git client), it would be neat if you could use the git(hub&#x2F;lab&#x2F;etc) API as a remote storage option. It would allow for rolling back pretty easily. I&#x27;m thinking each board could be it&#x27;s own directory, and each item could be a .md file. The naming scheme could probably be related to the position of each board&#x27;s index. Ie: gitrepo&#x2F;0&#x2F;0.md could be the first item of the first board.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apankrat</author><text>This is mine.<p>It is something I wrote for my own use after looking at all existing options and finding them not to my liking. This is pretty much a weekend hack, it is from 2019 and it&#x27;s still close to what I need. When I have time I plan to improve keyboard support, add color tags and archiving of completed items. It will also be redone to not use localStorage and to support a remote storage option. Shared use (with 2+ instances working with the same copy of the data) is also something that I&#x27;d like to do, but that&#x27;s on a back burner.<p>The Show HN post from 2019 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20077177" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20077177</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage</title><url>https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard</url></story> |
31,165,189 | 31,163,108 | 1 | 2 | 31,162,070 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cersa8</author><text>Props to Hetzner for having this properly integrated with the option for multiple (at least three in my case) hardware keys.<p>For whatever reason, quite often you can only register a single device (looking at you AWS Root account). The only way around this is by setting up your backup keys with the same OTP private key and use the Yubico Authenticator app to generate the TOTP.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebAuthn Browser Support</title><url>https://developers.yubico.com/WebAuthn/WebAuthn_Browser_Support/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mawise</author><text>It looks like Firefox might be finally taking this seriously -- I&#x27;ve been tracking the open item for touch ID support which is also lacking and they upgraded the priority a few days ago.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1536482" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1536482</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebAuthn Browser Support</title><url>https://developers.yubico.com/WebAuthn/WebAuthn_Browser_Support/</url></story> |
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