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14,303,520 | 14,303,501 | 1 | 3 | 14,299,482 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>captainjack2</author><text>I agree that discovery is way better with Spotify. I feel like Apple is still hoping people will continue to buy music.<p>Lately I&#x27;ve been using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jqbx.fm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jqbx.fm</a> . Which is a more a turntable.fm approach but hooks into your Spotify account so you can save things for later and DJ from your existing playlists. Definitely helped me discover a lot of new stuff I wouldn&#x27;t have found otherwise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abrongersma</author><text>Music discovery is the primary reason that I&#x27;ve moved away from Apple Music. It&#x27;s become difficult to explore their music catalog, almost as if it&#x27;s by design. I&#x27;ve made the move to Spotify and it&#x27;s been wonderful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected</title><url>https://medium.com/@jasonyuan/i-got-rejected-by-apple-music-so-i-redesigned-it-b7e2e4dc64bf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>penpapersw</author><text>Personally I&#x27;m both a nomad and a hoarder. About once a year I&#x27;ll go on a week long spree finding new music and creating new playlists. The rest of the year I just listen to all those playlists plus my old ones. Neither Apple Music nor Spotify have a workflow specifically designed for this. Am I that unusual?</text><parent_chain><item><author>abrongersma</author><text>Music discovery is the primary reason that I&#x27;ve moved away from Apple Music. It&#x27;s become difficult to explore their music catalog, almost as if it&#x27;s by design. I&#x27;ve made the move to Spotify and it&#x27;s been wonderful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected</title><url>https://medium.com/@jasonyuan/i-got-rejected-by-apple-music-so-i-redesigned-it-b7e2e4dc64bf</url></story> |
29,215,232 | 29,214,799 | 1 | 2 | 29,214,351 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>As more data comes out about Google, Apple, Amazon, one simple underlying thing becomes clear: a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace <i>while also being a participant</i>.<p>Apple&#x27;s App Store insider knowledge lets them discover popular apps, then boot them off the platform when they decide to compete. Amazon sees what products are successful and profitable, then makes knock-offs which they promote over the originals. And now, reading into this, Google is manipulating their ad markets using inside knowledge.<p>It&#x27;s all very profitable.<p>If we cannot trust large companies to <i>not</i> abuse this kind of power, then they should be prevented by law from playing both sides. This may result in the breakup of some very large companies, akin to the 1934 Air Mail Act that broke up Boeing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kaycebasques</author><text>&gt; The lawsuit also highlights Google&#x27;s use of a secret program dubbed &quot;Project Bernanke&quot; in 2013 that used bidding data to give its own ad-buying an advantage. For example, in a 2015 iteration of the program, Google allegedly dropped the second-highest bids from publishers&#x27; auctions, accumulated money into a pool and then spent that money to inflate only the bids belonging advertisers who used the company&#x27;s Google Ads. They otherwise would have likely lost the auctions, the states alleged.<p>Can someone rephrase this and possibly explain like I&#x27;m five? I&#x27;m not following the mechanics...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/</url></story> |
16,538,428 | 16,538,284 | 1 | 3 | 16,537,623 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diab0lic</author><text>I see the argument that cryptos reduce the grasp of oppressive regimes on here pretty frequently but the truth is that a) the null hypothesis (no effect) has yet to be rejected with any data and b) oppressive regimes are very good at eliminating or severely restricting internet access when it suits them.<p>A slight tangent -- you can&#x27;t just take two options and say we don&#x27;t have any data so we can&#x27;t judge. We have a prior: most things do not have an effect in this case.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ballenf</author><text>&gt; who have provided less than zero benefit or service to our society<p>Was following your argument up to that point. Making such a value judgment requires, in my opinion, a <i>lot</i> more data and deep analysis. Cryptocurrencies have the potential of loosening the grasp of oppressive regimes over their people. And it takes those other investors for the process to function.<p>But, the reality and therefore data is needed to judge whether these new currencies can deliver on that promise.<p>Edit: Want to clarify that I&#x27;m talking about *coin buyers&#x2F;sellers. Not scam ICO backers. Agree that those folks are scum with negative value to society. If the parent was mainly talking about ICO scams, then please ignore my response and apologies for the misinterpretation.</text></item><item><author>aje403</author><text>Of course they would have laughed in their face. Do you see Nasdaq trying to list Dogecoin? There is no ambiguity or uncertainty here - there is a big problem and they&#x27;re trying to reign it in with gloved hands before it becomes one and it turns into a big economic mess that the government will have to foot the bill to eventually clean up.<p>This site likes to complain about wealthy inequality - common people like your grandparents and uninformed but good hearted relatives are providing liquidity for a growing number of new millionaires and billionaires to exit imaginary money who have provided less than zero benefit or service to our society and are leaving the country to avoid tax payments and taking money out of our economy.</text></item><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>So if some anonymous person invents cryptocurrencies, at what point are you supposed to be considered securities? If the first exchange had gone to SEC to register as a securities exchange, would the SEC not have laughed in their face? The headline itself really captures the ambiguity and uncertainty of all of this: &quot;potentially unlawful&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/enforcement-tm-statement-potentially-unlawful-online-platforms-trading</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shmageggy</author><text>I fail to see how crypto-speculators making large sums of USD has anything to do with oppressive regimes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ballenf</author><text>&gt; who have provided less than zero benefit or service to our society<p>Was following your argument up to that point. Making such a value judgment requires, in my opinion, a <i>lot</i> more data and deep analysis. Cryptocurrencies have the potential of loosening the grasp of oppressive regimes over their people. And it takes those other investors for the process to function.<p>But, the reality and therefore data is needed to judge whether these new currencies can deliver on that promise.<p>Edit: Want to clarify that I&#x27;m talking about *coin buyers&#x2F;sellers. Not scam ICO backers. Agree that those folks are scum with negative value to society. If the parent was mainly talking about ICO scams, then please ignore my response and apologies for the misinterpretation.</text></item><item><author>aje403</author><text>Of course they would have laughed in their face. Do you see Nasdaq trying to list Dogecoin? There is no ambiguity or uncertainty here - there is a big problem and they&#x27;re trying to reign it in with gloved hands before it becomes one and it turns into a big economic mess that the government will have to foot the bill to eventually clean up.<p>This site likes to complain about wealthy inequality - common people like your grandparents and uninformed but good hearted relatives are providing liquidity for a growing number of new millionaires and billionaires to exit imaginary money who have provided less than zero benefit or service to our society and are leaving the country to avoid tax payments and taking money out of our economy.</text></item><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>So if some anonymous person invents cryptocurrencies, at what point are you supposed to be considered securities? If the first exchange had gone to SEC to register as a securities exchange, would the SEC not have laughed in their face? The headline itself really captures the ambiguity and uncertainty of all of this: &quot;potentially unlawful&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/enforcement-tm-statement-potentially-unlawful-online-platforms-trading</url></story> |
24,070,090 | 24,069,883 | 1 | 3 | 24,069,428 | 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>shawnz</author><text>Are you primarily a mac OS user? I am primarily a Windows user and when I occasionally have to use mac OS, I find myself regularly facing many seemingly inconsistent behaviors that really surprise me. I&#x27;m inclined to think it is a matter of familiarity more than anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>macOS isn&#x27;t exactly perfect, but I don&#x27;t know any other desktop operating system that comes even close to macOS in terms of polish and user experience.<p>I understand that Microsoft can&#x27;t just redesign Windows over night, but I also fail to understand why Windows isn&#x27;t better. Better as in more consistent and more responsive.<p>As much as I like to consider other operating systems, the reality is that I don&#x27;t want the hassle and macOS just works.</text></item><item><author>breakfastduck</author><text>Some people just greatly prefer using macOS over windows or linux and don&#x27;t want their entire computer experience to be windows just because they play games now and then.</text></item><item><author>blackhaz</author><text>Why bother with Mac? I&#x27;ve just built a Xeon E5-2640 using a Chinese X79 motherboard. NMVe, proper Radeon RX580 GPU - in an open build test bench frame. All in all, something like $250 on eBay for everything. Runs the games I like well and looks great on the table, especially with two big red LED fans in front. :-)</text></item><item><author>reimertz</author><text>I bought an EGPU 1.5 years ago with the idea of replacing my gaming computer with my MacBook Pro running Windows. But due to the limitations of Thunderbolt 3 and the throughput from my enclosure, I cannot get consistent frame rates which is critical for playing fast-paced competitive games like Apex legends. It really sucks and this point, my $1000 EGPU is currently acting as a fancy adapter + charger + enabling smooth scrolling when surfing the webz.<p>But I have been exploring the idea of converting my gaming computer to a Hackintosh instead. This looks very promising since I require stability and security.<p>I just wished there was a combination of above solutions; no need to compromise between stability and performance.<p>Finally, some might say; just buy a Mac Pro! Well, I cannot motivate $6000 Just because I want to game every now and then.. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh</title><url>https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg</url></story> | <instructions>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>Windows went down a six year long dead end with 8.x trying to be both a desktop and a phone&#x2F;tablet OS at the same time, while also doing it twice as fast as was actually feasible and without taking the time to think it through, in an attempt to catch up with iOS.<p>Windows 10 actually doesn&#x27;t seem too bad, except for the vestigial Metro crap. Power Shell looks interesting. They seem to have worked out what to do with .NET at last. WSL2 seems decent too so they finally seem to be back on a productive track.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>macOS isn&#x27;t exactly perfect, but I don&#x27;t know any other desktop operating system that comes even close to macOS in terms of polish and user experience.<p>I understand that Microsoft can&#x27;t just redesign Windows over night, but I also fail to understand why Windows isn&#x27;t better. Better as in more consistent and more responsive.<p>As much as I like to consider other operating systems, the reality is that I don&#x27;t want the hassle and macOS just works.</text></item><item><author>breakfastduck</author><text>Some people just greatly prefer using macOS over windows or linux and don&#x27;t want their entire computer experience to be windows just because they play games now and then.</text></item><item><author>blackhaz</author><text>Why bother with Mac? I&#x27;ve just built a Xeon E5-2640 using a Chinese X79 motherboard. NMVe, proper Radeon RX580 GPU - in an open build test bench frame. All in all, something like $250 on eBay for everything. Runs the games I like well and looks great on the table, especially with two big red LED fans in front. :-)</text></item><item><author>reimertz</author><text>I bought an EGPU 1.5 years ago with the idea of replacing my gaming computer with my MacBook Pro running Windows. But due to the limitations of Thunderbolt 3 and the throughput from my enclosure, I cannot get consistent frame rates which is critical for playing fast-paced competitive games like Apex legends. It really sucks and this point, my $1000 EGPU is currently acting as a fancy adapter + charger + enabling smooth scrolling when surfing the webz.<p>But I have been exploring the idea of converting my gaming computer to a Hackintosh instead. This looks very promising since I require stability and security.<p>I just wished there was a combination of above solutions; no need to compromise between stability and performance.<p>Finally, some might say; just buy a Mac Pro! Well, I cannot motivate $6000 Just because I want to game every now and then.. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh</title><url>https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg</url></story> |
14,960,243 | 14,960,037 | 1 | 2 | 14,959,186 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>A reuters story on how it works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-mazda-strategy-idUSKBN1AO0E7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-mazda-strategy-idUSKBN1AO...</a><p>So this is &#x27;gasoline&#x27; diesel. Or diesel without the NOx. Which, in theory, would give better fuel economy and possibly better torque. And it will ship in cars in the 2019 model year (so possibly as early as late next year).<p>To me, it sounds like a &quot;Don&#x27;t pass&quot;[1] bet on electric cars. Which they also are working with Toyota on electric cars so perhaps it is a fall back plan. It will be interesting to see how it fares. There are a lot of products that are built as the other side of an industry change bet. Sun created a workstation on the 68040 in case the SPARCStation didn&#x27;t meet expectations as an example.<p>[1] In the dice game Craps, the &quot;Don&#x27;t Pass&quot; bet is against the current player &#x27;winning.&#x27;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition</title><url>http://www2.mazda.com/en/publicity/release/2017/201708/170808a.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>Danihan</author><text>&gt;Compression ignition and a supercharger fitted to improve fuel economy together deliver unprecedented engine response and increase torque 10-30 percent over the current SKYACTIV-G gasoline engine.*3<p>Wow. I already have a 2016 Mazda 3 that gets around 40MPG (even though it&#x27;s not a hybrid) and it&#x27;s already pretty peppy.<p>Probably the best car I&#x27;ve owned, and I&#x27;ve owned several nice sports sedans. Getting 40MPG is too convenient when you make longer commutes, not to mention the thing cost ~20k at 0% APR. Blows any hybrid out of the water for total COO.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition</title><url>http://www2.mazda.com/en/publicity/release/2017/201708/170808a.html</url></story> |
34,457,809 | 34,457,135 | 1 | 2 | 34,451,051 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobinux</author><text>Haven&#x27;t you noticed how search results quality has changed let us say from 2007-2013 and comparing recent time period? I used to get the best information, websites, media material that I was looking from the rarest sources on the web, even probably rare to find given my geo location. Today I usually get information not by the quality, but from &quot;the biggest brands&quot; on the web. I was surprised that I didn&#x27;t find one specific forum in over 20 search pages, but then I had checked my bookmarks and the site was still running and functional and contained what I was exactly looking by the keywords and other possible search factors. These days I just feel I get the information sources that are the most advertised or well branded, but do not reflect the accuracy of what I&#x27;m looking for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>michaelgrosner2</author><text>I literally only hear that Google search is bad from HN. No one else in my daily life - my family, friends, people out at my gym or grocery store - ever complain that Google search is bad. In fact, Google is still the default for looking up information anywhere. It&#x27;s sentiments like this that make you realize how much of a bubble HN exists in.<p>OTOH, people have trouble using GMail, google home, or ban YouTube in their house for their kids. Next to no one uses Android, etc.</text></item><item><author>ifyoubuildit</author><text>&gt; Pivoting the company to be AI-first years ago led to groundbreaking advances across our businesses and the whole industry.<p>&gt; Thanks to those early investments, Google’s products are better than ever.<p>Does he really believe this?<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just biased towards the parts that are annoying and I end up missing the good parts, but search seems worse every day.<p>I worry about using google products for anything essential due to the risk of being locked out with no recourse, or the product being unceremoniously dumped after a year. Chat (whatever it&#x27;s being called that month) is always changing, and not for any benefit that I can see.<p>Their office suite is pretty impressive, but again I can&#x27;t trust that it (or my files) will be there when I need them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to reduce workforce by 12k</title><url>https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-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>gspetr</author><text>&gt;Next to no one uses Android<p>Wait, what?<p>Who&#x27;s in the bubble now?</text><parent_chain><item><author>michaelgrosner2</author><text>I literally only hear that Google search is bad from HN. No one else in my daily life - my family, friends, people out at my gym or grocery store - ever complain that Google search is bad. In fact, Google is still the default for looking up information anywhere. It&#x27;s sentiments like this that make you realize how much of a bubble HN exists in.<p>OTOH, people have trouble using GMail, google home, or ban YouTube in their house for their kids. Next to no one uses Android, etc.</text></item><item><author>ifyoubuildit</author><text>&gt; Pivoting the company to be AI-first years ago led to groundbreaking advances across our businesses and the whole industry.<p>&gt; Thanks to those early investments, Google’s products are better than ever.<p>Does he really believe this?<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just biased towards the parts that are annoying and I end up missing the good parts, but search seems worse every day.<p>I worry about using google products for anything essential due to the risk of being locked out with no recourse, or the product being unceremoniously dumped after a year. Chat (whatever it&#x27;s being called that month) is always changing, and not for any benefit that I can see.<p>Their office suite is pretty impressive, but again I can&#x27;t trust that it (or my files) will be there when I need them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to reduce workforce by 12k</title><url>https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/</url></story> |
24,153,181 | 24,152,608 | 1 | 3 | 24,152,352 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RonanTheGrey</author><text>I don&#x27;t find it particularly interesting to argue over whether Google and&#x2F;or Apple or Goople are monopolies&#x2F;duopolies.<p>I think however it is obvious that something has seriously pathologically gone wrong in the mobile software market and these two companies are behind it.<p>I also don&#x27;t think that appeals to &quot;is that legal&quot; are all that satisfying -- (Apple&#x27;s free speech lets them silence whoever they wish, of course) -- but does that seem <i>right</i> to you?<p>For problems like these I tend to start at the end and work backwards. What would we want an ideal ecosystem to look like? And working backwards, what policies, laws, and cultural rules were made in order to get there? What products were built, and&#x2F;or sold, in order to build that outcome?<p>Then we do those things.<p>I watch these conversations again and again devolve into whether these companies are monopolies, but I think that discussion is beside the point. <i>Is it right?</i>. Why do I only have 2 choices? Why do I get to choose only between Global Hoover or Comical Evil? And why if I choose one of them, do I give up <i>all choices that follow</i>?<p>Solving problems like these relies on establishing a common ground about what we want to see, and agreeing that what we see isn&#x27;t that. So -- what do we see wrong now, and what would we fix?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-games-oneplus-deal-google-play-store-lawsuit-lg</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>Reminds me of how Microsoft would make deals with OEMs to only sell PCs with Windows on them, and how that, among other things, was used against them in their antitrust suit 20 years ago.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-games-oneplus-deal-google-play-store-lawsuit-lg</url></story> |
7,701,023 | 7,700,962 | 1 | 3 | 7,700,546 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pflats</author><text>You kinda have to put it together, but the other author comes across to me as disingenuous and dismissive. Look at the edit log and the talk page together.<p>Wikipedian, 4&#x2F;19: Deletes <i>one new section</i> of the article that he disagrees with. Entire comment is: &quot; (-1,214) . . (→Typhoid Mary: not a super-spreader. she was an asymptomatic carrier; super-spreaders are symptomatic)&quot;<p>Student: 4&#x2F;19: &quot;There was dispute about whether or not asymptomatic carriers could be considered super-spreaders.&quot; Defends her position with un-Wikipedia-esque speech, reverts deletion.<p>Wikepedian: 4&#x2F;20 <i>Deletes every single thing the student contributed</i>. (This is where things go off the rails.)<p>Wikipedian: &quot;Also, I&#x27;m not aware of any &quot;dispute as to whether or not asymptomatic carriers should be considered super-spreaders&quot;, so perhaps you could also provide a source for that.&quot;<p>The source of the dispute is that he reverted her edit; of course it exists.<p>The student then comes back with a source to defend that Typhoid Mary is considered a super carrier by serious sources, and gets no response.<p>Further, if you look at what the editor excised, it was a sincere edit, well-sourced, and deserved at least a modicum of respect for trying to help his pet project.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fixermark</author><text>If I understand correctly, the &quot;Talk&quot; page on Wikipedia also has an archived edit history.<p>I&#x27;m looking at the most recent version [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Super-spreader" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Talk:Super-spreader</a>] and the revisions [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Super-spreader&amp;action=history" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Talk:Super-spreade...</a>], and I&#x27;m having a hard time seeing the bullying---it looks like an individual defending an edit, another individual defending the revert with explanation of what is missing, and the first individual adding additional data to clarify that the original edit isn&#x27;t &quot;original research.&quot;<p>Can someone help highlight the bullying for me? Is there a subsection of the Talk history that I&#x27;m missing &#x2F; can Talk history be deleted?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale</title><url>http://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/using-wikipedia-in-the-classroom-a-cautionary-tale/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Hermel</author><text>I think the problem are the reverts without specific explanations. As far as I see, the student corrected all the specific errors that were pointed out. Reverting an article of someone who put a lot of effort into creating it without giving a clear and specific explanation is frustrating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fixermark</author><text>If I understand correctly, the &quot;Talk&quot; page on Wikipedia also has an archived edit history.<p>I&#x27;m looking at the most recent version [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Super-spreader" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Talk:Super-spreader</a>] and the revisions [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Super-spreader&amp;action=history" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Talk:Super-spreade...</a>], and I&#x27;m having a hard time seeing the bullying---it looks like an individual defending an edit, another individual defending the revert with explanation of what is missing, and the first individual adding additional data to clarify that the original edit isn&#x27;t &quot;original research.&quot;<p>Can someone help highlight the bullying for me? Is there a subsection of the Talk history that I&#x27;m missing &#x2F; can Talk history be deleted?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale</title><url>http://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/using-wikipedia-in-the-classroom-a-cautionary-tale/</url></story> |
18,421,983 | 18,420,177 | 1 | 2 | 18,419,772 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>To answer my own question, other outlets have some extra bits of info:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unionleader.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;crime&#x2F;judge-orders-amazon-to-produce-recordings-from-echo-device-seized&#x2F;article_8927285e-b8ac-5997-a283-6c18d7ada0ab.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unionleader.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;crime&#x2F;judge-orders-amazon-to...</a><p>The Union-Leader quotes the district attorney&#x27;s request, which seems to have cognizance of how Echo works:<p>&gt; <i>On Oct. 30, Senior Assistant Attorney General Geoffrey Ward asked Houran to direct Amazon.com to produce any recordings made between Jan. 27 and Jan. 29, 2017, suggesting evidence of the crime of murder and&#x2F;or hindering apprehension of prosecution could be found on the device.</i><p>&gt; <i>“As part of the normal functioning of an Echo electronic device activated either intentionally or accidentally by ‘wake up words,’ audio recordings are made of the moment when the device is activated,” Ward wrote.</i><p>&gt; <i>“Specifically, when the Echo detects a ‘wake up word(s),’ the device begins audio recording through its integrated microphones, including recording the fraction of a second of audio before the ‘wake up word(s),’” Ward continued.</i><p>&gt; <i>The motion, which was made in lieu of an application for a search warrant, also asks for information identifying cellular devices that were paired to that smart speaker in that time period.</i><p>If there&#x27;s one thing these kinds of stories have effected in me, it&#x27;s the knowledge that I should scream &quot;Alexa!&quot; (or maybe Siri&#x2F;OK Google depending on which room) right before I get murdered in my own home.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>I know that this article itself doesn’t have much content but I’m interested in what the police are actually requesting, and what they end up getting. Do they assume&#x2F;suspect that Echo&#x2F;Amazon continuously records and logs audio, akin to a security camera? Or do they have evidence that Echo was actually activated around the time of the murders, or afterwards by the suspect himself?<p>I was also interested in this quote:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;I think most people probably don&#x27;t even realize that Alexa is taking account of what&#x27;s going on in your house, in addition to responding to your demands and commands,&quot; said Albert Scherr, a professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.</i><p>What is it that users don’t realize? Anecdotally, just about everyone I know who has refused to have an Echo do so because they believe Echo is doing far more surreptitious surveillance and analysis, i.e. not just listening for the trigger word. Though I’m sure most users don’t realize that when Alexa does trigger, she sends the audio to the Amazon mothership, which are then stored&#x2F;analyzed for an indefinite time. Though most people don’t realize the most basic things about data, like how when you friend someone on FB, FB actually stores a log of your friends, and any other kind of stated interaction, such as the users you’ve blocked</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder case</title><url>https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-judge-orders-amazon-to-give-echo-recordings-in-double-homicide-case/24893714</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nolok</author><text>I sincerely doubt people don&#x27;t realise that anything after the trigger is sent home, since a &quot;feature&quot; of alexa is that the app let you see each request you made, how alexa answered, and let them know if she got it wrong.<p>I think it&#x27;s more a case of &quot;don&#x27;t care&quot; &#x2F; &quot;don&#x27;t realize the risks&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>I know that this article itself doesn’t have much content but I’m interested in what the police are actually requesting, and what they end up getting. Do they assume&#x2F;suspect that Echo&#x2F;Amazon continuously records and logs audio, akin to a security camera? Or do they have evidence that Echo was actually activated around the time of the murders, or afterwards by the suspect himself?<p>I was also interested in this quote:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;I think most people probably don&#x27;t even realize that Alexa is taking account of what&#x27;s going on in your house, in addition to responding to your demands and commands,&quot; said Albert Scherr, a professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.</i><p>What is it that users don’t realize? Anecdotally, just about everyone I know who has refused to have an Echo do so because they believe Echo is doing far more surreptitious surveillance and analysis, i.e. not just listening for the trigger word. Though I’m sure most users don’t realize that when Alexa does trigger, she sends the audio to the Amazon mothership, which are then stored&#x2F;analyzed for an indefinite time. Though most people don’t realize the most basic things about data, like how when you friend someone on FB, FB actually stores a log of your friends, and any other kind of stated interaction, such as the users you’ve blocked</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder case</title><url>https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-judge-orders-amazon-to-give-echo-recordings-in-double-homicide-case/24893714</url></story> |
15,332,229 | 15,331,897 | 1 | 3 | 15,330,864 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twhb</author><text>Your JS knowledge appears to be severely outdated. Instead of the first you can now write:<p><pre><code> Object.assign(target, object1, objectN);
</code></pre>
The second:<p><pre><code> element.classList.add(className);
element.classList.contains(className);
</code></pre>
And the third has been fixed at a community level, as we&#x27;ve learned the value of API strictness, obviating such checks.<p>I don&#x27;t think anybody was against jQuery back when the alternative was helper functions, I certainly wasn&#x27;t. But that&#x27;s five years ago at this point. Modern JavaScript looks nothing like the code you posted, it&#x27;s actually been built up into a pretty good language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>batat</author><text>Yea, let&#x27;s bury jQuery again and make more &quot;helpers.js&quot; [1]<p><pre><code> export function extend(src) {
var obj, args = arguments
for (let i = 1; i &lt; args.length; ++i) {
if (obj = args[i]) {
for (let key in obj) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; check if this property of the source object could be overridden
if (isWritable(src, key))
src[key] = obj[key]
}
}
}
}
</code></pre>
or just add super-unique stuff to our classes [2]<p><pre><code> DragSelect.prototype.removeClass = function( element, classname ) {
var cn = element.className;
var rxp = new RegExp( classname + \&#x27;\\b\&#x27;, \&#x27;g\&#x27; );
cn = cn.replace( rxp, \&#x27;\&#x27; );
element.className = cn;
return element;
};
DragSelect.prototype.hasClass = function( element, classname ) {
var cn = element.className;
if( cn.indexOf( classname ) &gt; -1 ) { return true; }
else { return false; }
};
</code></pre>
or write tons of boilerplate code like<p><pre><code> if (typeof element === &#x27;string&#x27;) {
owner.element = document.querySelector(element);
} else {
owner.element = ((typeof element.length !== &#x27;undefined&#x27;) &amp;&amp; element.length &gt; 0) ? element[0] : element;
}
</code></pre>
(mmm, it&#x27;s so vanilla)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oncode&#x2F;handorgel&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;helpers.js#L56" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oncode&#x2F;handorgel&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;helpers....</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ThibaultJanBeyer&#x2F;DragSelect&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;DragSelect.js#L768" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ThibaultJanBeyer&#x2F;DragSelect&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;s...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PlainJS – Vanilla JavaScript Repository</title><url>https://plainjs.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>jlukic</author><text>These utility functions and shims are &quot;per&quot; component. This means that functions like extend will be repeated many times in different idiosyncratic code across app.<p>Imagine your app uses, modals, dropdowns, multiselects, search autocompletes, sliders, rich text areas etc. Instead of having one cached utility library upfront you have many hidden utility libraries scattered around each component, which makes it difficult to say clearly that jQuery is always larger.<p>The other issue is maintainability. When you&#x27;re working with third party components, hot-fixing an OS library can be fairly daunting if you need to also learn their own internal class structure, selector helpers, dom manip functions. Doing this in jQuery, it&#x27;s fairly easy to fork the codebase and plop in a .clone() or .append() to fix a stale issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>batat</author><text>Yea, let&#x27;s bury jQuery again and make more &quot;helpers.js&quot; [1]<p><pre><code> export function extend(src) {
var obj, args = arguments
for (let i = 1; i &lt; args.length; ++i) {
if (obj = args[i]) {
for (let key in obj) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; check if this property of the source object could be overridden
if (isWritable(src, key))
src[key] = obj[key]
}
}
}
}
</code></pre>
or just add super-unique stuff to our classes [2]<p><pre><code> DragSelect.prototype.removeClass = function( element, classname ) {
var cn = element.className;
var rxp = new RegExp( classname + \&#x27;\\b\&#x27;, \&#x27;g\&#x27; );
cn = cn.replace( rxp, \&#x27;\&#x27; );
element.className = cn;
return element;
};
DragSelect.prototype.hasClass = function( element, classname ) {
var cn = element.className;
if( cn.indexOf( classname ) &gt; -1 ) { return true; }
else { return false; }
};
</code></pre>
or write tons of boilerplate code like<p><pre><code> if (typeof element === &#x27;string&#x27;) {
owner.element = document.querySelector(element);
} else {
owner.element = ((typeof element.length !== &#x27;undefined&#x27;) &amp;&amp; element.length &gt; 0) ? element[0] : element;
}
</code></pre>
(mmm, it&#x27;s so vanilla)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oncode&#x2F;handorgel&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;helpers.js#L56" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oncode&#x2F;handorgel&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;helpers....</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ThibaultJanBeyer&#x2F;DragSelect&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;DragSelect.js#L768" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ThibaultJanBeyer&#x2F;DragSelect&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;s...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PlainJS – Vanilla JavaScript Repository</title><url>https://plainjs.com/</url></story> |
2,785,663 | 2,785,552 | 1 | 2 | 2,785,239 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>espeed</author><text>This article is by Armin Ronacher, the author of Flask. I use Flask for most of my projects because it's decoupled from the ORM and provides a clean way for you to use whatever database tool is right for the job.<p>But lately I have moved away from using the relational database as the primary datastore. When I do need a relational database, it's simple to use SQLAlchemy in Flask.<p>But I have been finding graph databases as a more elegant alternative to relational databases because you don't have to mess with tables or joins -- everything is explicitly joined.<p>Neo4j is one of the leading open-source graph databases, and it's pretty sweet -- it can store 32 billion nodes while doing 2 million traversals per second -- and you can use Gremlin with it (Gremlin is a graph query language, like SQL for graphs).<p>The graph-database world is starting to emerge, but most graph databases are Java based so non-JVM bindings are not always available.<p>However, there is a project called TinkerPop (<a href="http://www.tinkerpop.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tinkerpop.com</a>) that has made most of the open-source software stack for graph DBs. TinkerPop is the project that developed Gremlin and Blueprints, and it released a REST service called Rexster that is tied to Blueprints so it lets you connect to any Blueprints-enabled graph database, including Neo4j, OrientDB, Dex, OpenRDF, and an InfiniteGraph implementation is being released next month.<p>Because the graph-DB world lacked Python support, I decided to write a Python persistence framework that connects to Rexster so you can now use any of those graph DBs from Python, and binary bindings are in the works. The framework is called Bulbflow, and you can find out more about it out at <a href="http://bulbflow.com/overview" rel="nofollow">http://bulbflow.com/overview</a>.<p>In a few weeks I'm going to release Flask-based libraries that do authentication and authorization in a graph-DB way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SQLAlchemy and You</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/19/sqlachemy-and-you/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wulczer</author><text>SQLAlchemy supports multiple-column primary keys, Django ORM does not. What's more to think about?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SQLAlchemy and You</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/19/sqlachemy-and-you/</url></story> |
25,847,351 | 25,845,480 | 1 | 2 | 25,845,002 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hogliux</author><text>IMHO SOUL is a game changer in audio just like OpenGL&#x2F;Direct3D&#x2F;etc. was a game changer in the graphics world.<p>Think of all of the graphics technologies that were enabled by OpenGL&#x2F;Direct3D&#x2F;... and consider the equivalent for sound&#x2F;music.<p>The trend is clearly going into the direction of application-specific processors and a lot of hardware already has dedicated DSP chips for audio. It is high time that a standard language is proposed to access them in a unified way just like OpenGL did.<p>Full disclosure: I worked with Jules and Cesare at ROLI&#x2F;JUCE where Jules was my mentor and colleague. If anyone can pull this off, it’s them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: SOUL Language 1.0 – A platform for writing and running audio code</title><url>https://soul-lang.github.io/SOUL/docs/SOUL_V1_Release.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>rectang</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soul-lang.github.io&#x2F;SOUL&#x2F;docs&#x2F;SOUL_FAQ.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soul-lang.github.io&#x2F;SOUL&#x2F;docs&#x2F;SOUL_FAQ.html</a><p>&gt; <i>What is the licensing&#x2F;business model?</i><p>&gt; <i>Our intention is to make SOUL entirely free and unencumbered for developers to use. All our public source code is permissively (ISC) licensed. We’re currently keeping some of our secret sauce closed-source, but the EULA allows use of it freely to encourage its adoption in 3rd party hardware and software. Ultimately, we plan to commercialise SOUL by licensing back-end drivers and other IP for use by vendors who are building SOUL-compatible hardware products.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: SOUL Language 1.0 – A platform for writing and running audio code</title><url>https://soul-lang.github.io/SOUL/docs/SOUL_V1_Release.html</url></story> |
26,697,488 | 26,697,465 | 1 | 2 | 26,697,227 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pseudolus</author><text>Great article with a number of well-known references to biographies of Feynman. For those interested in Dirac, some excellent biographies have emerged over the years including: &quot;The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom&quot; and &quot;Dirac: A Scientific Biography &quot;. [0][1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B002LDM8QS&#x2F;ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B002LDM8QS&#x2F;ref=dbs_a_def_r...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Dirac-Scientific-Biography-Helge-Kragh&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0521380898&#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Dirac+a+scientific+biography&amp;qid=1617620520&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Dirac-Scientific-Biography-Helge-Krag...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When Feynman met Dirac (2020)</title><url>https://www.cantorsparadise.com/when-feynman-met-dirac-fe9cca0006df</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gerikson</author><text>I really need to re-read Gleick&#x27;s &quot;Genius&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When Feynman met Dirac (2020)</title><url>https://www.cantorsparadise.com/when-feynman-met-dirac-fe9cca0006df</url></story> |
20,744,336 | 20,744,453 | 1 | 2 | 20,743,476 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MaximumYComb</author><text>I suspect there is a lot of cognitive dissonance involved. I remember having dinner with a developer who worked on pokie machines. He fully believed that there was nothing wrong with the machines and that people just needed to have self control. This is someone who&#x27;s job involved programming the highly addictive things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>i_feel_great</author><text>&gt;&gt;They have some brilliant marketing people working for them.<p>These people are not brilliant. They are utterly deceitful. To go along with this shit in this day and age is utterly contemptible. Imagine all the people and the planning and the brainstorming to come up with such a trick - how can any of them not feel really really bad and storm out of the room?<p>Oh yeah, profit.</text></item><item><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>Juul had this radio campaign that was made up of 2 spots one after the other. The 1st spot would give you the pluses of the product followed by the warnings and how it was not for kids. The second spot would imply that what you had heard about Juul&#x27;s minuses and warnings were false. They were not blatantly saying it but because of the way, the 2 spots were played one after the other you certainly got the idea. It was a bit surreal. It certainly minimized the minuses and warnings. In a way, it was brilliant since you could never prove that they were trying to undermind the warnings but it certainly had that effect. It&#x27;s a shame they were using it to promote their products rather than a product that is good for you.<p>They have some brilliant marketing people working for them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/juul-philip-morris-sued-under-racketeer-act-for-targeting-kids</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>point78</author><text>Brilliant and morally acceptable are definitely two different things</text><parent_chain><item><author>i_feel_great</author><text>&gt;&gt;They have some brilliant marketing people working for them.<p>These people are not brilliant. They are utterly deceitful. To go along with this shit in this day and age is utterly contemptible. Imagine all the people and the planning and the brainstorming to come up with such a trick - how can any of them not feel really really bad and storm out of the room?<p>Oh yeah, profit.</text></item><item><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>Juul had this radio campaign that was made up of 2 spots one after the other. The 1st spot would give you the pluses of the product followed by the warnings and how it was not for kids. The second spot would imply that what you had heard about Juul&#x27;s minuses and warnings were false. They were not blatantly saying it but because of the way, the 2 spots were played one after the other you certainly got the idea. It was a bit surreal. It certainly minimized the minuses and warnings. In a way, it was brilliant since you could never prove that they were trying to undermind the warnings but it certainly had that effect. It&#x27;s a shame they were using it to promote their products rather than a product that is good for you.<p>They have some brilliant marketing people working for them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/juul-philip-morris-sued-under-racketeer-act-for-targeting-kids</url></story> |
33,956,193 | 33,956,288 | 1 | 2 | 33,955,020 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>25 years or so ago, I worked on a tiny part of software for testing of what I think is a precursor for that mapping submersible. I did a two week project for Norwegian Defence Research Establishment to write software to let them relay scaled down real-time mapping data for debugging from the small boat tracking the submersible to land or a nearby bigger ship...<p>It was limited by wanting it to be cheap, so we used GSM data modems to transmit a 2400 bps stream of the map data, using a slight variation over z-modem to retransmit blocks on error, and code to reconnect and continue the transmission from the last successful block if we lost connection.<p>I&#x27;m sure that code was ditched many years ago, as it makes no sense with modern hotspots, but it was a fun project to work on, and I got to go out on the tracking boat when we tested it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Medieval ship found in Norway's biggest lake</title><url>https://sciencenorway.no/archaeoloy-medieval-history-ships/shipwreck-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-norways-largest-lake-possibly-700-years-old/2110769</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taude</author><text>Tangentially related to this article, but if you&#x27;re ever in Sweden, I recommend checking out the Vasa Museum [1]. It&#x27;s a 1600&#x27;s ship that was pulled off the sea floor.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vasamuseet.se&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vasamuseet.se&#x2F;en</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Medieval ship found in Norway's biggest lake</title><url>https://sciencenorway.no/archaeoloy-medieval-history-ships/shipwreck-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-norways-largest-lake-possibly-700-years-old/2110769</url></story> |
34,340,218 | 34,337,028 | 1 | 2 | 34,335,937 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>&gt; Objects, like sports cars, no matter how beautiful and rare, are there to be used and enjoyed, not hoarded and held in pristine captivity in fear of negative consequences.<p>I saw it more as, the Ferrari represented Cameron and his father&#x27;s damage relationship. Cameron was the way he was, because his father was the way he was, and Cameron knew the Ferrari meant a lot to his dad. Him smashing it was basically a self-destructive cry for help (in my eyes). I felt like the viewer is left knowing Cameron and his dad will &quot;work through something big&#x2F;transformative&quot; given the colossal impact the son (who the dad probably doesn&#x27;t really care for) smashing his prized possession (that he really cars for) would have.<p>Ferris Bueller&#x27;s Day Off - 1986<p>Fight Club - 1999<p>Doesn&#x27;t Fight Club have the same kind of &quot;life isn&#x27;t about possessions, step out of your comfort zone while you are still alive otherwise you&#x27;re wasting your life chasing Ikea furniture&quot; message?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nayroclade</author><text>There&#x27;s a moment in the car scene that I always remembered: When Cameron first starts kicking the Ferrari, Sloane instinctively steps forward to stop him, and Ferris holds her back. Ferris has been exulting about how incredible this car is all throughout the movie, but he doesn&#x27;t hesitate to let his friend trash it if that&#x27;s what he needs to do.<p>It&#x27;s a nice character moment, but it also speaks to what is, to me, the fundamental message of the film: Objects, like sports cars, no matter how beautiful and rare, are there to be used and enjoyed, not hoarded and held in pristine captivity in fear of negative consequences. And the single most beautiful and rare object you have is your own life. Don&#x27;t waste it paralysed by fear of what might go wrong, or stuck in a boring classroom or job.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)</title><url>https://www.vqronline.org/essay/john-hughes-goes-deep-unexpected-heaviosity-ferris-bueller%E2%80%99s-day</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fm2606</author><text>I genuinely wish I could read deeper into movies and book like this. Is this an inherent trait or one that can be learned? I wouldn&#x27;t even know how to begin to learn to do this.<p>I&#x27;ve always read books and watched movies for the simplistic entertainment value. Now as I grow older I&#x27;d like to get a deeper meaning &#x2F; inspection to enhance the entertainment value (if that makes sense).</text><parent_chain><item><author>nayroclade</author><text>There&#x27;s a moment in the car scene that I always remembered: When Cameron first starts kicking the Ferrari, Sloane instinctively steps forward to stop him, and Ferris holds her back. Ferris has been exulting about how incredible this car is all throughout the movie, but he doesn&#x27;t hesitate to let his friend trash it if that&#x27;s what he needs to do.<p>It&#x27;s a nice character moment, but it also speaks to what is, to me, the fundamental message of the film: Objects, like sports cars, no matter how beautiful and rare, are there to be used and enjoyed, not hoarded and held in pristine captivity in fear of negative consequences. And the single most beautiful and rare object you have is your own life. Don&#x27;t waste it paralysed by fear of what might go wrong, or stuck in a boring classroom or job.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)</title><url>https://www.vqronline.org/essay/john-hughes-goes-deep-unexpected-heaviosity-ferris-bueller%E2%80%99s-day</url></story> |
38,490,913 | 38,490,594 | 1 | 3 | 38,481,258 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petre</author><text>Booking.com hasn&#x27;t paid some hotelliers for months, so there you have it. It&#x27;s not comission fraud, it&#x27;s either loss mitigation or the very same scam that the article describes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2023&#x2F;oct&#x2F;01&#x2F;booking-com-hotel-fees-unpaid-millions-technical-issue" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2023&#x2F;oct&#x2F;01&#x2F;booking-com...</a><p>Having been scammed by booking.com car rentals myself, I see no surprises there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>isotopp</author><text>If you booked with Booking, and the hotel called you back, and told you they don&#x27;t use Booking any more, how do you imagine did they get the information needed to call you back and knew of the booking?<p>What you have here is commission fraud on behalf of the hotel against Booking.com, and if you call back Booking.com and tell them about it, they will set the hotel straight.<p>Or you get back to the hotel, tell them you understand how commission fraud works and if they are willing to split that commission (18%) half and half with you.</text></item><item><author>kubectl_h</author><text>Within the last few days I booked a hotel on Booking.com and then got a call the next day from the hotel saying they actually don&#x27;t use the Booking.com anymore (and that their account is inactive so they can&#x27;t log in) and that I needed to cancel the stay through booking.com (the booking was pay on arrival but I still entered a CC).<p>I re-booked with the hotel directly through their site (small independently owned hotel in a ski town). The whole process felt _shady_ but also it seems like the owner couldn&#x27;t find a way to get their Booking.com listing removed. I am regretting not using a virtual card number for the initial booking through Booking.com.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67583486</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kadoban</author><text>&gt; Or you get back to the hotel, tell them you understand how commission fraud works and if they are willing to split that commission (18%) half and half with you.<p>That sure sounds like a crime in itself, no?</text><parent_chain><item><author>isotopp</author><text>If you booked with Booking, and the hotel called you back, and told you they don&#x27;t use Booking any more, how do you imagine did they get the information needed to call you back and knew of the booking?<p>What you have here is commission fraud on behalf of the hotel against Booking.com, and if you call back Booking.com and tell them about it, they will set the hotel straight.<p>Or you get back to the hotel, tell them you understand how commission fraud works and if they are willing to split that commission (18%) half and half with you.</text></item><item><author>kubectl_h</author><text>Within the last few days I booked a hotel on Booking.com and then got a call the next day from the hotel saying they actually don&#x27;t use the Booking.com anymore (and that their account is inactive so they can&#x27;t log in) and that I needed to cancel the stay through booking.com (the booking was pay on arrival but I still entered a CC).<p>I re-booked with the hotel directly through their site (small independently owned hotel in a ski town). The whole process felt _shady_ but also it seems like the owner couldn&#x27;t find a way to get their Booking.com listing removed. I am regretting not using a virtual card number for the initial booking through Booking.com.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67583486</url></story> |
28,030,054 | 28,030,251 | 1 | 2 | 28,029,344 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>On the flip side - I tell recruiters immediately they have to AT LEAST match my current comp. Every single one of them so far has said they can&#x27;t even get close.<p>If you work at FAANG - your RSUs (most likely) have doubled in about a year. You could easily already be getting paid more than the max offer for the level above where you&#x27;re currently at.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dbish</author><text>Even if you think you’re well paid, now is the time to look around. I’ve had a lot of friends, mentees, and coworkers get huge bumps on total compensation even as relatively senior engineers and managers. Pay is jumping and companies aren’t doing a great job keeping that up for their people who have been around for a few years. As an employer, that should be the top worry, keep comp up, don’t lose your people because you’ve become complacent on pay and don’t understand that the market is changing right now</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-31/employers-bow-down-to-tech-workers-in-hottest-job-market</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmaunder</author><text>Exactly this. We just gave all our devs a significant raise - way above the norm, and way way earlier than we would. We&#x27;re acknowledging the reality of demand, scarcity and wage inflation. My co-founder (also my wife) and I immediately felt our blood pressure drop once we did that.<p>Market conditions are making it hard to retain and very hard to hire. We&#x27;ve done a bunch of other stuff to recruit - which I described in another comment here - and it&#x27;s making a huge difference. Employers who don&#x27;t respond to these market conditions are in for a rough ride.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dbish</author><text>Even if you think you’re well paid, now is the time to look around. I’ve had a lot of friends, mentees, and coworkers get huge bumps on total compensation even as relatively senior engineers and managers. Pay is jumping and companies aren’t doing a great job keeping that up for their people who have been around for a few years. As an employer, that should be the top worry, keep comp up, don’t lose your people because you’ve become complacent on pay and don’t understand that the market is changing right now</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-31/employers-bow-down-to-tech-workers-in-hottest-job-market</url></story> |
40,102,659 | 40,100,914 | 1 | 3 | 40,099,626 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Gosh, it&#x27;s telling that as early as 1983 (!) the inventors of the spreadsheet thought that spreadsheets were &#x27;done&#x27; and they needed to move to more important things. This is like Rickenbacker in 1938 deciding that electric guitars were &#x27;done&#x27; and moving to, I don&#x27;t know, Theremins or something.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My journey into personal computer software development in 1983</title><url>https://farrs.substack.com/p/my-journey-into-personal-computer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abraae</author><text>Say what you will about MS (and I said a lot when I worked at Lotus on the mainframe port of Lotus 1-2-3) but they knew what was important for success.<p>A spreadsheet on it&#x27;s own is a thing of technical beauty but for market domination you don&#x27;t want to keep pouring resources into that one product, you want a suite of complimentary products.<p>You want to be able to embed your spreadsheet into a document, into a slide presentation. You want cutting and pasting to work sensibly between products. You want consistency in the menus and layouts.<p>Bill Gates understood all of this from the beginning, the same as he understood that the strength of a PC operating system is not how reliable, memory safe and performant it is, it&#x27;s in how flashy it looks and how important the windows paradigm is.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My journey into personal computer software development in 1983</title><url>https://farrs.substack.com/p/my-journey-into-personal-computer</url></story> |
8,438,041 | 8,437,987 | 1 | 2 | 8,436,309 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>&gt; Putting commands and data inline is a recipe for disaster and a million command injection exploits. The Unix philosophy has broken the minds of generations of programmers. It leads them to doing things like concatenating strings to build SQL queries or doing IPC with ad-hoc regex-parsed protocols or using a couple of magical characters to indicate that the contents of a variable should be parsed and executed instead of just stored.<p>Yes! And then to compensate, they have to &quot;sanitize&quot; untrusted input to their systems. I had a meeting yesterday with a developer and a project manager at an organization that wants to work with my company to integrate one of our products with one of theirs. I mentioned the possibility of submitting some data in JSON format to a web API on their end, and the project manager asked about the risk of code injection attacks, by which he apparently meant SQL injection. I had to assure him, based on my knowledge of their tech stack (Node.js, CouchDB, and naturally, JSON) that code injection wouldn&#x27;t be an issue. My point is that the common abuses of strings by Unix and web developers have led to well-known and widely feared security vulnerabilities which just don&#x27;t exist in software that&#x27;s built on a foundation of properly structured data.<p>See also this classic by Glyph Lefkowitz:<p><a href="https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/06/data-in-garbage-out.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glyph.twistedmatrix.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;06&#x2F;data-in-garbage-out....</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>anon1385</author><text>Text isn&#x27;t the universal interface in Unix, byte streams are. You can quite happily send non-textual control characters and such around in Unix, or pipe data containing NULLs from one process to another. &#x27;Text&#x27; is a very seductive abstraction, but it&#x27;s one of the most brutal to work with once you start interacting with the real world and have to give up on ascii and deal with encodings and unicode and so on.<p>Putting commands and data inline is a recipe for disaster and a million command injection exploits. The Unix philosophy has broken the minds of generations of programmers. It leads them to doing things like concatenating strings to build SQL queries or doing IPC with ad-hoc regex-parsed protocols or using a couple of magical characters to indicate that the contents of a variable should be parsed and executed instead of just stored. Take a read of some of the earlier threads on HN about <i>Shellshock</i>, and you will find numerous people blaming Apache for not &quot;escaping&quot; the data it was putting in a shell variable. As if it even could.<p>Even Unix nerds have at least partially internalised the dangerousness of the paradigm -- &quot;don&#x27;t parse the output of ls&quot; and so on. The fact that the Unix paradigm (passing everything as strings with magical characters and escape sequences) is broken for the most fundamental computing tasks like working with file names ought to be a damning inditement of the paradigm. Sadly people merely parrot the rote learned lesson &quot;don&#x27;t parse ls because file names can&#x27;t be trusted&quot;, without thinking about all the other untrusted data they expose to unix shells all the time.<p>Just this week Yahoo got exploited. At first people thought it was <i>Shellshock</i>, but no, it was just a routine command injection vulnerability in their log processing shell scripts. A problem blighting just about every non-trivial shell script ever written.<p>The usual reply is &quot;don&#x27;t use shells with untrusted data&quot;. But auditing where any particular bit of data came from can be just about impossible once it has been across several systems through programmes written in a variety of languages, stored on a file system, read back and so on. The only sane solution is to never use shell scripts.<p>Like the C memory and integer model makes writing secure C code borderline impossible, the Unix &quot;single pipe of bytes that defaults to being commands&quot; paradigm makes writing secure shell scripts borderline impossible.<p>Unix needs to be taken out back and shot.</text></item><item><author>zorbo</author><text>Text is the universal interface. You can do things with it. You can strip it, cut it, transform it, send it to other places. Humans can read it, programs can read it, your printer can output it. It can be sent to web APIs, it can be stored anywhere. It&#x27;s compressible, can be colored and can be copy-pasted and is infinitely extendable. Thousands of protocols run over it.<p>The command line works with text. The command line remains the best interface I&#x27;ve ever used. It&#x27;s user friendly, composable and available everywhere. It&#x27;s easy to automate and easy to extend.<p>I wish the &quot;command line with pictures&quot; idea would just go away already. It adds nothing for the general public. I can already view pictures on remote machines with X forwarding.<p>Command line with pictures never made it, because there are ten competing standards. With text, everybody just agreed on ASCII and now Unicode&#x2F;UTF8. Text has hundreds of ugly clutches on top of it (Extended ASCII, ANSI, Escape codes, etc, etc). It still works. It&#x27;s still simple. It has its problems, but nowhere near as many problems as GUIs.<p>Those who don&#x27;t understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it... poorly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rich Command Shells</title><url>http://waywardmonkeys.org/2014/10/10/rich-command-shells/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jschwartzi</author><text>I would not be half as capable of troubleshooting in my work as I am if I couldn&#x27;t parse random byte strings on the command line. That alone is why I use Unix for embedded development. Powerful things are often dangerous. For instance, consider nuclear power, motor vehicles, rocket engines, medicine, plastics, et. al..<p>So how do you provide the same level of capability as C and UNIX but without mixing data and commands? Is there some alternative paradigm that is just as powerful but safe?</text><parent_chain><item><author>anon1385</author><text>Text isn&#x27;t the universal interface in Unix, byte streams are. You can quite happily send non-textual control characters and such around in Unix, or pipe data containing NULLs from one process to another. &#x27;Text&#x27; is a very seductive abstraction, but it&#x27;s one of the most brutal to work with once you start interacting with the real world and have to give up on ascii and deal with encodings and unicode and so on.<p>Putting commands and data inline is a recipe for disaster and a million command injection exploits. The Unix philosophy has broken the minds of generations of programmers. It leads them to doing things like concatenating strings to build SQL queries or doing IPC with ad-hoc regex-parsed protocols or using a couple of magical characters to indicate that the contents of a variable should be parsed and executed instead of just stored. Take a read of some of the earlier threads on HN about <i>Shellshock</i>, and you will find numerous people blaming Apache for not &quot;escaping&quot; the data it was putting in a shell variable. As if it even could.<p>Even Unix nerds have at least partially internalised the dangerousness of the paradigm -- &quot;don&#x27;t parse the output of ls&quot; and so on. The fact that the Unix paradigm (passing everything as strings with magical characters and escape sequences) is broken for the most fundamental computing tasks like working with file names ought to be a damning inditement of the paradigm. Sadly people merely parrot the rote learned lesson &quot;don&#x27;t parse ls because file names can&#x27;t be trusted&quot;, without thinking about all the other untrusted data they expose to unix shells all the time.<p>Just this week Yahoo got exploited. At first people thought it was <i>Shellshock</i>, but no, it was just a routine command injection vulnerability in their log processing shell scripts. A problem blighting just about every non-trivial shell script ever written.<p>The usual reply is &quot;don&#x27;t use shells with untrusted data&quot;. But auditing where any particular bit of data came from can be just about impossible once it has been across several systems through programmes written in a variety of languages, stored on a file system, read back and so on. The only sane solution is to never use shell scripts.<p>Like the C memory and integer model makes writing secure C code borderline impossible, the Unix &quot;single pipe of bytes that defaults to being commands&quot; paradigm makes writing secure shell scripts borderline impossible.<p>Unix needs to be taken out back and shot.</text></item><item><author>zorbo</author><text>Text is the universal interface. You can do things with it. You can strip it, cut it, transform it, send it to other places. Humans can read it, programs can read it, your printer can output it. It can be sent to web APIs, it can be stored anywhere. It&#x27;s compressible, can be colored and can be copy-pasted and is infinitely extendable. Thousands of protocols run over it.<p>The command line works with text. The command line remains the best interface I&#x27;ve ever used. It&#x27;s user friendly, composable and available everywhere. It&#x27;s easy to automate and easy to extend.<p>I wish the &quot;command line with pictures&quot; idea would just go away already. It adds nothing for the general public. I can already view pictures on remote machines with X forwarding.<p>Command line with pictures never made it, because there are ten competing standards. With text, everybody just agreed on ASCII and now Unicode&#x2F;UTF8. Text has hundreds of ugly clutches on top of it (Extended ASCII, ANSI, Escape codes, etc, etc). It still works. It&#x27;s still simple. It has its problems, but nowhere near as many problems as GUIs.<p>Those who don&#x27;t understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it... poorly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rich Command Shells</title><url>http://waywardmonkeys.org/2014/10/10/rich-command-shells/</url></story> |
7,850,803 | 7,850,860 | 1 | 3 | 7,850,613 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lawl</author><text>Spotify randomly deleted my offline library on android. Of course when I was traveling and didn&#x27;t have a data plan.
Canceled my premium subscription a month ago or so. This happened multiple times to me.<p>Yup I&#x27;m at the point again where maintaining my own library is more convinient again.
It&#x27;s exactly the DRM shit I won&#x27;t put up with.
Also spotify, rdio etc. Are <i>exactly</i> the same price with the same restrictions per plan (in .ch at least). Price cartel, oligopoly?</text><parent_chain><item><author>daGrevis</author><text>The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don&#x27;t think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening.<p>That aside, the app looks really polished and I&#x27;m glad it has Linux support backed in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music</title><url>http://gethiphop.net/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sudhirj</author><text>Only in the few first world countries that these services operate in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>daGrevis</author><text>The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don&#x27;t think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening.<p>That aside, the app looks really polished and I&#x27;m glad it has Linux support backed in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music</title><url>http://gethiphop.net/</url></story> |
35,037,376 | 35,035,709 | 1 | 3 | 35,032,506 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hesk</author><text>Took it up to 1 million feet, it took another 1.5 million feet to bleed off 4000mph upward acceleration, then turned the pointy end downwards and accelerated.<p><pre><code> Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth
Score: 1117.8 point crash
Speed: 9876.7mph
Angle: 177.3°
Time: 2101 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 9876.7mph
Max height: 2505688ft
Engine used: 3 times
Boosters used: 271 times
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehmorris.com&#x2F;lander&#x2F;</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>placatedmayhem</author><text>This feels like an achievement:<p><pre><code> Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth
Score: 190.2 point crash
Speed: 1612.3mph
Angle: 98.6°
Time: 220 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 1612.3mph
Max height: 4534ft
Engine used: 15 times
Boosters used: 129 times
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehmorris.com&#x2F;lander&#x2F;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game</title><url>https://ehmorris.com/lander/</url><text>I’ve been working on this game for the past few weeks. It’s written in plain JavaScript, mostly with canvas, with no dependencies.<p>The code is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ehmorris&#x2F;lunar-lander">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ehmorris&#x2F;lunar-lander</a></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>pmarreck</author><text>I just got:<p><pre><code> Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth
Score: 309.4 point crash
Speed: 2607.1mph
Angle: 176.2°
Time: 293 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 2607.1mph
Max height: 174828ft
Engine used: 6 times
Boosters used: 54 times
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehmorris.com&#x2F;lander&#x2F;
</code></pre>
lol (and now I see others have already beaten this...)</text><parent_chain><item><author>placatedmayhem</author><text>This feels like an achievement:<p><pre><code> Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth
Score: 190.2 point crash
Speed: 1612.3mph
Angle: 98.6°
Time: 220 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 1612.3mph
Max height: 4534ft
Engine used: 15 times
Boosters used: 129 times
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehmorris.com&#x2F;lander&#x2F;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game</title><url>https://ehmorris.com/lander/</url><text>I’ve been working on this game for the past few weeks. It’s written in plain JavaScript, mostly with canvas, with no dependencies.<p>The code is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ehmorris&#x2F;lunar-lander">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ehmorris&#x2F;lunar-lander</a></text></story> |
38,474,782 | 38,474,715 | 1 | 3 | 38,473,942 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CSSer</author><text>You might try Magnet. It&#x27;s $10 on the mac app store. I&#x27;ve had zero issues with it, and it has some problems sorted that other tools don&#x27;t or haven&#x27;t always, namely correctly tiling across monitors. I used to use Rectangle, which is open source and frankly pretty good but at the time I was using it had some warts. macOS&#x27; window management seems to not be entirely transparent. I don&#x27;t know all the details, but this is my workstation. I need(ed) this to work now, and if it&#x27;s a system that might change a bit over time or has some weird idiosyncrasies then I&#x27;m happily willing to pay a low one-time fee for a tool like this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xwowsersx</author><text>Funny to see this at the top of HN after just having uninstalled Yabai. I used Yabai for about 6 weeks. I was so thrilled about having a proper tiling window manager for Mac. I invested a lot of time setting up skhd and fine-tuning my configuration for the most intuitive hotkeys. The problem ultimately, however, is that Yabai just doesn&#x27;t work well enough. It&#x27;ll regularly just lose track of windows altogether, which requires restarting Yabai. This and other bugs happened frequently enough that it outweighed the benefits of Yabai. I&#x27;d be more than willing to try another tiling window manager on Mac if there&#x27;s one out there that truly works. Related, I started checking out Stage Manager and it&#x27;s pretty bad in my experience - obviously it&#x27;s the opposite of a keyboard driven TWM, but I&#x27;m willing to try anything that helps me maximize the limited screen space I have. I&#x27;m all ears if anyone has had better experiences with other tools on Mac.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS</title><url>https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>extr</author><text>Have you heard of Phoenix [1]? It seems relatively unknown but I actually found it to work better than Yabai in some ways. The gist is that it basically simulates a tiling wm and virtual desktops by internally tracking state. This also means it doesn&#x27;t suffer from window animation delays when you switch &quot;desktops&quot; (since &quot;desktops&quot; are just hiding&#x2F;unhiding windows). It&#x27;s also highly hackable&#x2F;extensible being written in JS. Spin2Win [2] is a config that&#x27;s worked well for me.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kasper&#x2F;phoenix">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kasper&#x2F;phoenix</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nik3daz&#x2F;spin2win">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nik3daz&#x2F;spin2win</a><p>That said, it seems there are no perfect solutions. At work where I can&#x27;t really be futzing around with window management config I basically just use Raycast + hotkeys and try to keep everything inside maximized application windows. This means using Arc browser (tabbed), iTerm (tabbed), VS Code (with native tabs), etc mapped to cmd+1, cmd+2, cmd+3...Not much &quot;tiling&quot; going on but at least everything is pretty keyboard friendly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xwowsersx</author><text>Funny to see this at the top of HN after just having uninstalled Yabai. I used Yabai for about 6 weeks. I was so thrilled about having a proper tiling window manager for Mac. I invested a lot of time setting up skhd and fine-tuning my configuration for the most intuitive hotkeys. The problem ultimately, however, is that Yabai just doesn&#x27;t work well enough. It&#x27;ll regularly just lose track of windows altogether, which requires restarting Yabai. This and other bugs happened frequently enough that it outweighed the benefits of Yabai. I&#x27;d be more than willing to try another tiling window manager on Mac if there&#x27;s one out there that truly works. Related, I started checking out Stage Manager and it&#x27;s pretty bad in my experience - obviously it&#x27;s the opposite of a keyboard driven TWM, but I&#x27;m willing to try anything that helps me maximize the limited screen space I have. I&#x27;m all ears if anyone has had better experiences with other tools on Mac.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS</title><url>https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai</url></story> |
22,535,376 | 22,533,821 | 1 | 3 | 22,533,251 | 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>zentiggr</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d like to live in a world where a virtuous feedback loop would lead to companies treating their employees better and better, but history says that&#x27;s not the world we live in.<p>This sort of comment always reminds me of the quintessential answer: &quot;That&#x27;s funny, I always thought the world is what we make of it.&quot;<p>If the only way we can &#x27;make consumers choose better&#x27; is to continually publish and broadcast the worst corporate behavior in order to spur these kinds of shifts, then so be it.<p>Scream loudly about WalMart subverting local government and historical societies to build a store within sight of Tenochtitlan.<p>Republish over and over about Amazon&#x27;s treatment of their fulfillment workers.<p>Shame them all until the baseline is as much better as we can make it, and keep pushing against the entropy.<p>That&#x27;s how we make the world better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>Given the source, I interpreted it as referring to how companies treat their employees (i.e. worker bees). The story suggests that, all other things being equal, consumers might gravitate towards companies with a reputation for treating their employees well. Mark, Barry, and Willy produce the same product at the same price, so how they treat their employees becomes how they differentiate themselves and win over consumers.<p>The problem is, all things are rarely equal and, if they are, businesses usually find ways of differentiating themselves that consumers care more about than happy employees. When Mark starts losing business to Barry, he&#x27;s going to cut his prices, spend more on advertising, etc.. Treating his bees poorly may actually help him squeeze more honey out of them at less cost, so Barry might not be able to match him without starting to mistreat his bees a little too. Willy&#x27;s costs are probably the highest of the three, but maybe he can use clever advertising to portray his product as a luxury item that&#x27;s somehow better than Barry&#x27;s or Mark&#x27;s, even if it&#x27;s identical. If that fails he&#x27;ll have to choose between happy bees and not going bankrupt.<p>I&#x27;d like to live in a world where a virtuous feedback loop would lead to companies treating their employees better and better, but history says that&#x27;s not the world we live in. We live in a world that has had to come up with labour unions when spirals of mistreatment and cost-cutting got out of hand. We live in a world where executive pay is going stratospheric while employee benefits are stagnant. Perhaps it would be a better world if people cared more about how companies treat their employees, but I honestly don&#x27;t see how you get people browsing Amazon to choose the honey that&#x27;s $2&#x2F;jar more just because it came from slightly happier bees.</text></item><item><author>D_Alex</author><text>This reads like some kind of allegory, but I really cannot tell for what... But taking it in the somewhat literal spirit: we have a good analogy in the market with free range eggs.<p>Here in Australia, &quot;free range&quot; hens must be kept at no more that 10,000 head&#x2F;hectare (or 1 sqm of land per hen). This is massively better than battery hens, which are kept at as low as... 0.03 sqm of cage&#x2F;hen. The animal welfare benefits are huge, battery hens have a truly horrible existence, to the point where I believe that it is immoral to farm them in this way.<p>But some producers are advertising lower stocking densities, some 6 sqm per hen and others even 10 sqm. They are charging a small premium for their eggs, and some people pay it, because they like the idea of animals being treated well.<p>So yes, many people are prepared to pay a bit extra for ethical treatment of animals. Even people (if that where the original post was pointing at).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/09/bzzz/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teapourer</author><text>I interpreted it a bit more broadly as a message about a company&#x27;s image in the media (though this may be influenced by how it is reputed to treat its workers).<p>I thought the author&#x27;s point was that if your company&#x27;s <i>only</i> value proposition is that you are &quot;less evil&quot; than some company B (but with virtually the same product), then your position is extremely vulnerable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>Given the source, I interpreted it as referring to how companies treat their employees (i.e. worker bees). The story suggests that, all other things being equal, consumers might gravitate towards companies with a reputation for treating their employees well. Mark, Barry, and Willy produce the same product at the same price, so how they treat their employees becomes how they differentiate themselves and win over consumers.<p>The problem is, all things are rarely equal and, if they are, businesses usually find ways of differentiating themselves that consumers care more about than happy employees. When Mark starts losing business to Barry, he&#x27;s going to cut his prices, spend more on advertising, etc.. Treating his bees poorly may actually help him squeeze more honey out of them at less cost, so Barry might not be able to match him without starting to mistreat his bees a little too. Willy&#x27;s costs are probably the highest of the three, but maybe he can use clever advertising to portray his product as a luxury item that&#x27;s somehow better than Barry&#x27;s or Mark&#x27;s, even if it&#x27;s identical. If that fails he&#x27;ll have to choose between happy bees and not going bankrupt.<p>I&#x27;d like to live in a world where a virtuous feedback loop would lead to companies treating their employees better and better, but history says that&#x27;s not the world we live in. We live in a world that has had to come up with labour unions when spirals of mistreatment and cost-cutting got out of hand. We live in a world where executive pay is going stratospheric while employee benefits are stagnant. Perhaps it would be a better world if people cared more about how companies treat their employees, but I honestly don&#x27;t see how you get people browsing Amazon to choose the honey that&#x27;s $2&#x2F;jar more just because it came from slightly happier bees.</text></item><item><author>D_Alex</author><text>This reads like some kind of allegory, but I really cannot tell for what... But taking it in the somewhat literal spirit: we have a good analogy in the market with free range eggs.<p>Here in Australia, &quot;free range&quot; hens must be kept at no more that 10,000 head&#x2F;hectare (or 1 sqm of land per hen). This is massively better than battery hens, which are kept at as low as... 0.03 sqm of cage&#x2F;hen. The animal welfare benefits are huge, battery hens have a truly horrible existence, to the point where I believe that it is immoral to farm them in this way.<p>But some producers are advertising lower stocking densities, some 6 sqm per hen and others even 10 sqm. They are charging a small premium for their eggs, and some people pay it, because they like the idea of animals being treated well.<p>So yes, many people are prepared to pay a bit extra for ethical treatment of animals. Even people (if that where the original post was pointing at).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/09/bzzz/</url></story> |
3,001,696 | 3,001,651 | 1 | 2 | 3,001,489 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robtoo</author><text>I can actually see a good argument for the API remaining read-only so that Google+ emphasises original content and <i>doesn't</i> just end up as a ghost-town full of content syndicated in from elsewhere and sending people off to another site to join in the real conversation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zdw</author><text>I will give a HUGE HUG to the first person to let me pull RSS feeds or a Twitter stream into G+.<p>(and I give great hugs)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google+ Platform</title><url>http://developers.google.com/+/</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patrickaljord</author><text>Your hug will have to wait because this API is read only.<p>More info here: <a href="https://plus.google.com/117377434815709898403/posts/53bL7RAhPxS" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/117377434815709898403/posts/53bL7RAh...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>zdw</author><text>I will give a HUGE HUG to the first person to let me pull RSS feeds or a Twitter stream into G+.<p>(and I give great hugs)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google+ Platform</title><url>http://developers.google.com/+/</url><text></text></story> |
28,546,680 | 28,546,579 | 1 | 3 | 28,542,342 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>Schiller comes across as needy and with a very low confidence in their own product.</i><p>He was definitely neither in my experience, but in 2010 he <i>is</i> (justifiably?) paranoid about dependencies and competitors ganging up on them.<p>You probably don&#x27;t remember this era, but here&#x27;s a representative article from just a month before this email thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;microsoft-adobe-apple&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;microsoft-adobe-apple&#x2F;</a><p>This kind of paranoia became part of Apple&#x27;s DNA in the late 90s, when Microsoft asked Apple to &quot;knife the baby&quot;[1], when Adobe was threatening Apple with killing their Mac apps, etc.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;article&#x2F;Microsoft-Asked-Apple-to-Knife-the-Baby-Court-2980345.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;article&#x2F;Microsoft-Asked-Appl...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sorenjan</author><text>Schiller comes across as needy and with a very low confidence in their own product. Some other company shows that their product works equally well on both Android and iPhone, and his response is that it&#x27;s not fun to watch?<p>Also, this should be shown to everyone that says they prefer the Apple ecosystem because &quot;it just works&quot;. You really can&#x27;t get more user hostile than this, where you care more about extracting money from transactions that you&#x27;re not a part of than making life easier for your paying customers.<p>Apple let Amazon sell books using their own payment system because Amazon sold a lot of books on their own Kindle platform that Apple wanted users to be able to read on iPhones, but as soon as Apple&#x27;s platform was the biggest one they altered the deal to squeeze more money out of it. Like a monopoly would do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1438188756738191362/photo/1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Valkhyr</author><text>Frankly, anybody who thinks that Apple is out for anybody but themselves is living in a dream.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sorenjan</author><text>Schiller comes across as needy and with a very low confidence in their own product. Some other company shows that their product works equally well on both Android and iPhone, and his response is that it&#x27;s not fun to watch?<p>Also, this should be shown to everyone that says they prefer the Apple ecosystem because &quot;it just works&quot;. You really can&#x27;t get more user hostile than this, where you care more about extracting money from transactions that you&#x27;re not a part of than making life easier for your paying customers.<p>Apple let Amazon sell books using their own payment system because Amazon sold a lot of books on their own Kindle platform that Apple wanted users to be able to read on iPhones, but as soon as Apple&#x27;s platform was the biggest one they altered the deal to squeeze more money out of it. Like a monopoly would do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1438188756738191362/photo/1</url></story> |
33,234,048 | 33,233,867 | 1 | 3 | 33,233,246 | 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>CSMastermind</author><text>If I understand OP correctly then Uber is in fact making money, they just have some depreciating assets on their books.<p>It&#x27;s like if your net wealth went down this year because your 401k declined. That doesn&#x27;t mean that you&#x27;re broke or even poorly managing your finances.<p>You can have a positive cash flow (budgeting and living within your means) while still having your overall net worth decrease.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>As it turns out, if you ignore all of the ways it loses money, Uber makes money</text></item><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>One must understand that &quot;profit&quot; isn&#x27;t always as rosy as it may seem, and &quot;loss&quot; sometimes isn&#x27;t as bad. A company can show a lot of profit, but digging deep you&#x27;ll realize that most of it is stuck in receivables. This wasn&#x27;t really a bad year for Uber, they became Cash Flow Positive for the first time [1]. The reason for their loss was valuation decline of its stake in Didi and Grab [2].<p>&gt; The loss was due almost entirely to revaluation of its stakes in Grab and Didi in Asia and autonomous driving technology enterprise Aurora in the United States, the earnings report said.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;aftermarket&#x2F;uber-turns-cash-flow-positive-for-the-first-time&#x2F;93300552" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;aftermarket&#x2F;u...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gadgets360.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;news&#x2F;uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6-billion-grab-didi-aurora-2947840" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gadgets360.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;news&#x2F;uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Live Counter of Uber's Net Losses ($27B and Counting)</title><url>https://uberlosses.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>yywwbbn</author><text>Berkshire Hathaway suffered an 30+ billion loss just because Apple’s stock price declined.<p>Neither company is losing money and both are highly cashflow positive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>As it turns out, if you ignore all of the ways it loses money, Uber makes money</text></item><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>One must understand that &quot;profit&quot; isn&#x27;t always as rosy as it may seem, and &quot;loss&quot; sometimes isn&#x27;t as bad. A company can show a lot of profit, but digging deep you&#x27;ll realize that most of it is stuck in receivables. This wasn&#x27;t really a bad year for Uber, they became Cash Flow Positive for the first time [1]. The reason for their loss was valuation decline of its stake in Didi and Grab [2].<p>&gt; The loss was due almost entirely to revaluation of its stakes in Grab and Didi in Asia and autonomous driving technology enterprise Aurora in the United States, the earnings report said.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;aftermarket&#x2F;uber-turns-cash-flow-positive-for-the-first-time&#x2F;93300552" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;aftermarket&#x2F;u...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gadgets360.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;news&#x2F;uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6-billion-grab-didi-aurora-2947840" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gadgets360.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;news&#x2F;uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Live Counter of Uber's Net Losses ($27B and Counting)</title><url>https://uberlosses.com</url></story> |
25,705,401 | 25,705,500 | 1 | 3 | 25,705,209 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mushufasa</author><text>I didn&#x27;t realize this either, so I looked up her wikipedia page:<p>&quot;In 1993, Scott and Bezos were married, and in 1994, they both left D. E. Shaw, moved to Seattle, and started Amazon. Scott was one of Amazon&#x27;s first employees, and was heavily involved in Amazon&#x27;s early days, working on the company&#x27;s name, business plan, accounts and shipping early orders.[4][8] She also negotiated the company&#x27;s first freight contract.[8] When Amazon began to succeed, Scott took a less involved role in the business, preferring to focus on her family and literary career.[4]&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>woah</author><text>Co-founder? I wasn&#x27;t aware of that</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020</title><url>https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/384-ways-to-help-45d0b9ac6ad8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Darmody</author><text>Yes. She didn&#x27;t get the money only for being &quot;the wife&quot; as many people think.<p>She worked at Amazon and she is one of the people that made the company succeed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>woah</author><text>Co-founder? I wasn&#x27;t aware of that</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020</title><url>https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/384-ways-to-help-45d0b9ac6ad8</url></story> |
19,787,542 | 19,787,419 | 1 | 3 | 19,785,416 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sambe</author><text>Possibly should be labelled &quot;2018&quot; - I believe several courts including the UK High Court and the European Court of Human Rights have found against parts of the Investigatory Powers Act, in addition to ECJ findings in 2016. Practical consequences of that are.. unclear. I&#x27;d think the lack of safeguards in the Act is one of the reasons this has become standard practice.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)</title><url>https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/1700/new-report-reveals-uk-police-are-secretly-downloading-content-suspects-mobile</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ksajadi</author><text>When back in the early 00&#x27;s the UK wanted to introduce a picture ID card, there were huge protests across the country that resulted in the scheme being shelved indefinitely. It took the UK years to even introduce a picture driving license (you might have seen the &quot;counterpart&quot; old driving licenses which were in use until very recently. They were a single A4 sheet with no picture on it).<p>How ironic that despite the continued protests against picture ID cards based on privacy concerns, the UK is the most watched country based on the number of CCTV cameras per square mile, and now this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)</title><url>https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/1700/new-report-reveals-uk-police-are-secretly-downloading-content-suspects-mobile</url></story> |
12,148,983 | 12,148,873 | 1 | 2 | 12,148,596 | 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>unicornporn</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using it with friends and family for awhile on Android and macOS and it&#x27;s fantastic, in theory. It has however been plagued with lots of bugs. The calling functionality, which I&#x27;ve used a lot, often stalls at &quot;joining&quot; and then nothing happens. It&#x27;s not as polished or flawless as Telegram. It does not have a feature to compress video before sending for instance. But I can only expect that to change. Especially now, when anyone can write their own client.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deltaprotocol</author><text>I must say that my first impression is beyond positive.<p>One to one and group chats, group video and audio calls, GIF search built-in, doodles, the best implementation of photos in the message stream that I&#x27;ve seen, poking and playable Spotify and Soundcloud music by just sharing links? All with end-to-end encryption?<p>I have that &quot;too good to be true&quot; feeling but, still impressed. Just waiting for possible audits and more feedback from the security community.<p>Edit: It&#x27;s also Switzerland based, already supports Win10, MacOS, Web, Android and iOS, and to complete has the cleanest design I&#x27;ve seen in a messaging app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wire open-sourced</title><url>https://github.com/wireapp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Andrenid</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using it for a while just with 1 other friend who has it, and it&#x27;s without a doubt my favourite IM as far as interface&#x2F;functionality&#x2F;etc.<p>As usual it&#x27;s just the matter of getting other people to use it. Everyone I know just uses FB Messenger or Telegram now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deltaprotocol</author><text>I must say that my first impression is beyond positive.<p>One to one and group chats, group video and audio calls, GIF search built-in, doodles, the best implementation of photos in the message stream that I&#x27;ve seen, poking and playable Spotify and Soundcloud music by just sharing links? All with end-to-end encryption?<p>I have that &quot;too good to be true&quot; feeling but, still impressed. Just waiting for possible audits and more feedback from the security community.<p>Edit: It&#x27;s also Switzerland based, already supports Win10, MacOS, Web, Android and iOS, and to complete has the cleanest design I&#x27;ve seen in a messaging app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wire open-sourced</title><url>https://github.com/wireapp</url></story> |
29,079,677 | 29,079,679 | 1 | 2 | 29,079,404 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FemmeAndroid</author><text>No, unlike trademark law, copyright law does not require consistent enforcement to maintain. (Copyright law is the basis of the license.)<p>Also, stating a bias does not imply selective enforcement. I don’t think there are many examples of mastodon instances breaching the terms of the license, and certainly not at this scale.</text><parent_chain><item><author>usui</author><text>Does a history of enforcement help in cases like this? The article itself says that Truth Social is &quot;antithetical&quot; to Mastodon&#x27;s values, but that there&#x27;s nothing they can do about the usage of their software other than license violations. It sounds like they have a bias to enforce their license in this case.<p>If Mastodon has a weak history of enforcing their license to other organizations, does it weaken the case? I&#x27;m wondering if selective enforcement in the software-licensing world hurts the authority or credibility of a license, in the eyes of the law.<p>My wondering was somewhat inspired by the way Nintendo aggressively polices the appearance of its video game trademarks on places like YouTube and basically the rest of the internet. I hear an argument is that if they don&#x27;t aggressively enforce their trademark policing, their legal position wouldn&#x27;t be as strong if they want to pursue a big violation in the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code</title><url>https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cedilla</author><text>In general, you don&#x27;t have any obligation to enforce your rights.<p>There is the well-known exception of trademark law, but that&#x27;s in the nature of the matter. If PepsiCo sells Coca-Cola and the Coca-Cola company doesn&#x27;t react, then the trade mark obviously doesn&#x27;t allow customers to identify genuine Coca-Cola.</text><parent_chain><item><author>usui</author><text>Does a history of enforcement help in cases like this? The article itself says that Truth Social is &quot;antithetical&quot; to Mastodon&#x27;s values, but that there&#x27;s nothing they can do about the usage of their software other than license violations. It sounds like they have a bias to enforce their license in this case.<p>If Mastodon has a weak history of enforcing their license to other organizations, does it weaken the case? I&#x27;m wondering if selective enforcement in the software-licensing world hurts the authority or credibility of a license, in the eyes of the law.<p>My wondering was somewhat inspired by the way Nintendo aggressively polices the appearance of its video game trademarks on places like YouTube and basically the rest of the internet. I hear an argument is that if they don&#x27;t aggressively enforce their trademark policing, their legal position wouldn&#x27;t be as strong if they want to pursue a big violation in the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code</title><url>https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/</url></story> |
15,367,798 | 15,367,522 | 1 | 3 | 15,362,999 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>One thing you&#x27;re missing:<p>For a very high profile requirement - say, some kind of huge emergency - you could land the BFR <i>anywhere</i> there&#x27;s a solid surface the size of a soccer field. Zero infrastructure required.<p>Getting it out of there again would be difficult, but you could have a team of experts and a whole lot of material resources literally drop down from the sky anywhere on Earth in a matter of hours. Most of that duration would be spent loading the human and material cargo into the rocket.<p>We have no way of doing that currently.<p>P.S.: And if the emergency is big enough, you could drop the whole thing into the ocean near the shore and just jettison the passengers and cargo shortly before impact.<p>Rapid intervention anywhere on Earth. Literally.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drinchev</author><text>I think if we measure the travel time from door to door the benefits of the fast rocket shrink in a relation to where is located.<p>With airplanes this is solved, by the big infrastructure ( cities sometimes have even 2-3 airports ).<p>Where I live ( Berlin ) with a flight to NYC would look like :<p><pre><code> 1. City center -&gt; TXL - 20m
2. Check-in &#x2F; security - 30m ( no joke, the airport is small )
3. Flight - 9h 15m
4. Check-out &#x2F; luggage - 50m
5. EWR -&gt; City center - 50m
------------- TOTAL ---- 11h 25m
</code></pre>
This means that ( ignoring the BFR flight time, since it&#x27;s just minutes ) the time between you leave the city-center and entering the BFR should take less than 5 hours ( for Berlin ), otherwise you will not arrive faster than a plane.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX BFR [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulsutter</author><text>The Boring Company&#x27;s tunnels will get you to the spaceport at 200kph with no traffic or stoplights (or 1000kph if you&#x27;re coming from a distance)<p>&quot;Without tunnels, we will be in traffic hell forever&quot; -Elon Musk</text><parent_chain><item><author>drinchev</author><text>I think if we measure the travel time from door to door the benefits of the fast rocket shrink in a relation to where is located.<p>With airplanes this is solved, by the big infrastructure ( cities sometimes have even 2-3 airports ).<p>Where I live ( Berlin ) with a flight to NYC would look like :<p><pre><code> 1. City center -&gt; TXL - 20m
2. Check-in &#x2F; security - 30m ( no joke, the airport is small )
3. Flight - 9h 15m
4. Check-out &#x2F; luggage - 50m
5. EWR -&gt; City center - 50m
------------- TOTAL ---- 11h 25m
</code></pre>
This means that ( ignoring the BFR flight time, since it&#x27;s just minutes ) the time between you leave the city-center and entering the BFR should take less than 5 hours ( for Berlin ), otherwise you will not arrive faster than a plane.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX BFR [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0</url></story> |
11,618,395 | 11,618,382 | 1 | 2 | 11,617,945 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idoco</author><text>I disagree, and I can tell you from first hand experience that this is how a tank NBC protection system works - The crew cabin is pressurized with high flow of filtered air.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elbitsystems.com&#x2F;Elbitmain&#x2F;files&#x2F;Kinetics_NBC-CBRN.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elbitsystems.com&#x2F;Elbitmain&#x2F;files&#x2F;Kinetics_NBC-CBRN.pd...</a><p>[Edit - adding this]
I can also say, that this creates a very uncomfortable sensation in your ears while the cabin is being over-pressurized (about 2 minutes)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmlorenzetti</author><text><i>Bioweapon Defense Mode is not a marketing statement, it is real.</i><p>Their filter does a good job cleaning particles out of the cabin air. Good on them.<p>Nevertheless, calling it &quot;Bioweapon Defense Mode&quot; is clearly a prize bit of marketing. A system designed to protect against an external bioagent wouldn&#x27;t run huge amounts of outside air through the filter. That would just load the filter more quickly, impacting its performance (for chemical agents) and&#x2F;or its energy requirement (for particles). Instead, you would cut the outside air intake as much as you could get away with, in order to buy the occupants time to drive clear of the plume.<p>Since they claim that the car is responsible for the decrease in the particle concentration in the test chamber, they must be running a pretty high flow of ambient air through the system. Of course, the ambient concentration would decrease even without the car&#x27;s filter, due to particle deposition, and possibly due to losses in the sampling instrument. But then you only report those other loss rates if you&#x27;re interested in science, rather than in marketing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Putting the Tesla HEPA Filter and Bioweapon Defense Mode to the Test</title><url>https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/putting-tesla-hepa-filter-and-bioweapon-defense-mode-to-the-test</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobbles</author><text>I think the idea is though that the car air is already compromised. e.g. they have opened the doors to get into the car, then closed the doors and enabled the BDM.<p>It needs to filter the air from outside and get it into the car to quickly displace the air already inside the vehicle that is contaminated.<p>At the point where the air is clean though it would be a good idea to make the car it&#x27;s own little safe haven and allow the occupants to drive to safety (hell it could even drive itself to safety if it can sense when the air is safe again outside)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmlorenzetti</author><text><i>Bioweapon Defense Mode is not a marketing statement, it is real.</i><p>Their filter does a good job cleaning particles out of the cabin air. Good on them.<p>Nevertheless, calling it &quot;Bioweapon Defense Mode&quot; is clearly a prize bit of marketing. A system designed to protect against an external bioagent wouldn&#x27;t run huge amounts of outside air through the filter. That would just load the filter more quickly, impacting its performance (for chemical agents) and&#x2F;or its energy requirement (for particles). Instead, you would cut the outside air intake as much as you could get away with, in order to buy the occupants time to drive clear of the plume.<p>Since they claim that the car is responsible for the decrease in the particle concentration in the test chamber, they must be running a pretty high flow of ambient air through the system. Of course, the ambient concentration would decrease even without the car&#x27;s filter, due to particle deposition, and possibly due to losses in the sampling instrument. But then you only report those other loss rates if you&#x27;re interested in science, rather than in marketing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Putting the Tesla HEPA Filter and Bioweapon Defense Mode to the Test</title><url>https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/putting-tesla-hepa-filter-and-bioweapon-defense-mode-to-the-test</url></story> |
36,793,139 | 36,792,436 | 1 | 2 | 36,790,238 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the__alchemist</author><text>Embedded-HAL is interesting to me - in principle it&#x27;s a great concept; writing hardware-agnostic, portable code.<p>I don&#x27;t use it in my firmwares because:<p><pre><code> - All of the embedded-HAL libs I&#x27;ve found (eg drivers) have had notable limitations or ergonomics problems.
- It appears unsuitable for use with DMA, which I use for all runtime IO
- The APIs tend to be a mess due to heavy use of typestates</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>tadfisher</author><text>There&#x27;s also the simplicity of bare embedded in Rust, because you can mostly[1] use Cargo, depend on the right embedded_hal crates for your target, and be up and running with a hardware-backed async runtime and everything. Zephyr, Tock, Mynewt, etc. all have bespoke build&#x2F;deployment systems and driver ecosystems. That said, RTOS makes actually deploying working products much more realizable, so pick your poison.<p>1: I think you still need xargo&#x2F;cargo-xbuild for no-std embedded sysroots, but there may have been some upstream development on that front since I last played in this sandbox.</text></item><item><author>jvanderbot</author><text>I could be wrong, but isn&#x27;t every multi-task &#x2F; RTOS essentially supporting this? Wake up, check flags, do work if required.<p>Of course if you&#x27;re bare-metal programming, it might be nice to have a lightweight mechanism for this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asynchronous Rust on Cortex-M microcontrollers</title><url>https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/embedded-async-rust</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>junon</author><text>Building core&#x2F;std&#x2F;whatever using unstable flags and --target works for me these days. I can do everything with cargo and make it even more ergonomic with a toolchain file.<p>Now if Cargo had a way of producing multiple variants of the same project (e.g. different --targets with pre-set features) just with `cargo build` then things would be a lot better.<p>As of now, a Makefile is still needed to bring it all together.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tadfisher</author><text>There&#x27;s also the simplicity of bare embedded in Rust, because you can mostly[1] use Cargo, depend on the right embedded_hal crates for your target, and be up and running with a hardware-backed async runtime and everything. Zephyr, Tock, Mynewt, etc. all have bespoke build&#x2F;deployment systems and driver ecosystems. That said, RTOS makes actually deploying working products much more realizable, so pick your poison.<p>1: I think you still need xargo&#x2F;cargo-xbuild for no-std embedded sysroots, but there may have been some upstream development on that front since I last played in this sandbox.</text></item><item><author>jvanderbot</author><text>I could be wrong, but isn&#x27;t every multi-task &#x2F; RTOS essentially supporting this? Wake up, check flags, do work if required.<p>Of course if you&#x27;re bare-metal programming, it might be nice to have a lightweight mechanism for this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asynchronous Rust on Cortex-M microcontrollers</title><url>https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/embedded-async-rust</url></story> |
32,396,320 | 32,396,459 | 1 | 2 | 32,396,061 | 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>sweetheart</author><text>Unsurprisingly, we continue to learn that non-human animals are less foreign to us than previously thought.<p>The fact that human beings take a “all animals are savage, primitive machines until proven wrong” POV is genuinely tragic. Was it Descartes that posited the screams of a dog being flayed were merely its programming?<p>Being surprised that animals so different than us possibly dream is just another form of Descartes’ ridiculous thought.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spiders seem to have REM-like sleep and may even dream</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spiders-seem-to-have-rem-like-sleep-and-may-even-dream/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>towaway15463</author><text>I think pan-psycism was onto something. Not that atoms have consciousness but I think almost anything that is made up of complex cells or even a single cell has some form of consciousness and we are simply a very scaled version of that. Michael Levin has called attention to the remarkably complex and recognizable behaviour of single celled organisms, I think he’s right that there is a lot more processing going on inside a cell using all of that molecular machinery, much more than we ever dreamed possible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spiders seem to have REM-like sleep and may even dream</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spiders-seem-to-have-rem-like-sleep-and-may-even-dream/</url></story> |
11,486,980 | 11,486,911 | 1 | 2 | 11,486,786 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Scarblac</author><text>According to Wikipedia (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vi</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Emacs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Emacs</a>) both vi and Emacs are from 1976. 40 years this year!</text><parent_chain><item><author>pvinis</author><text>I have vim, neovim and emacs (and spacemacs) installed. Right now I&#x27;m trying to get into emacs a bit more.<p>What&#x27;s interesting to me, and the reason I try to keep up to date with the latest changes for all four editors, is that it&#x27;s been now, what, 25 years (?) since emacs and vim started &quot;competing&quot; and they still are. I guess we could be saying the same in 10 years about firefox and chrome, but it still is amazing in my opinion. It&#x27;s amazing that so much work has been done to vim and emacs, and so many changes, so many users using them for different things. And there is still no clear winner. I&#x27;m not trying to start a discussion about the strenghts and weaknesses of each. Just expressing my appreciation.<p>Thank you for your great work, to everyone involved with vim and emacs, and more recently neovim and spacemacs. You are awesome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vim 8.0 is coming</title><url>https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8.txt</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>I became an heavy Emacs user as I could not find the comfort of Borland IDEs in UNIX, as I started to use it.<p>Since I moved away from C++ into Java and .NET land, never felt the need to use them any longer.<p>And nowadays, with Qt Creator, Clion, xCode, AppCode and VS, I also don&#x27;t feel the need of them when I need to go back to C++.<p>It is very good to know the basics from plain Vi, because there are still commercial UNIX systems without GNU tools installed, just bare bones installations.<p>So for me the question is why there are still people that enjoy working as if their computers are using a 25 year old developer experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pvinis</author><text>I have vim, neovim and emacs (and spacemacs) installed. Right now I&#x27;m trying to get into emacs a bit more.<p>What&#x27;s interesting to me, and the reason I try to keep up to date with the latest changes for all four editors, is that it&#x27;s been now, what, 25 years (?) since emacs and vim started &quot;competing&quot; and they still are. I guess we could be saying the same in 10 years about firefox and chrome, but it still is amazing in my opinion. It&#x27;s amazing that so much work has been done to vim and emacs, and so many changes, so many users using them for different things. And there is still no clear winner. I&#x27;m not trying to start a discussion about the strenghts and weaknesses of each. Just expressing my appreciation.<p>Thank you for your great work, to everyone involved with vim and emacs, and more recently neovim and spacemacs. You are awesome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vim 8.0 is coming</title><url>https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8.txt</url></story> |
20,002,769 | 20,002,050 | 1 | 3 | 20,001,559 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcflibbles</author><text>I worked as a postman for a bit. I&#x27;d wake up at 0430, make a short commute, then sort letters into street&#x2F;house number order for something like 3 hours. After the first few days this became mindnumbingly dull. It was obvious 90% of what I was about to deliver would go straight in the bin so all this drudgery wad largely pointless. For a while I worked in a pretty rough area (by UK standards, admittedly nowhere in the UK is really that dangerous compared to much of the world), and on several occasions I was harassed by members of the public. Though later I worked in a much nicer area and people were nice to me.<p>I suspect the main thing about the story isn&#x27;t how great it is to be a mailman, but how great it is to be good at people. I work from home and live in quite a nice community, but I only know a handful of people. This is basically because unless I have a common interest with someone I don&#x27;t really have anything to say for myself. Clearly not something that afflicts Floyd!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow</title><url>https://twitter.com/Jennifer__Brett/status/1131298044010483712</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nemo1618</author><text>Stories like this make you question whether it&#x27;s worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow</title><url>https://twitter.com/Jennifer__Brett/status/1131298044010483712</url></story> |
27,914,726 | 27,914,907 | 1 | 3 | 27,913,273 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gchamonlive</author><text>&gt; Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?<p>Make opening their products accessible so that people can do it without damaging what they own. PCs are like that. Car parts have no such warranty stickers (that I am aware of).<p>Stickers are much more cultural than actually preventing damage. Furthermore, you can have stickers that decay over time and void your warranty without you even touching them (those nefarious apple humidity stickers for instance). It is entertaining to see Steve from gamer&#x27;s nexus bashing warranty stickers at every opportunity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AussieWog93</author><text>&gt;I am absolutely going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear<p>I sell video games and consoles for a living, and probably repair about 20-30 of them each month.<p>Based on my experience, the reasons that Microsoft don&#x27;t want you poking around in your Xbox when it&#x27;s under warranty are completely valid.<p>For any console that hasn&#x27;t been tampered with, the fault is almost always one of only two or three things that can be diagnosed nearly instantly and repaired in around 15-30 minutes with a near-100% success rate.<p>For a console that has been tampered with by an end-user, suddenly the list of things that could have gone wrong multiplies by an order of magnitude. The diagnostic procedure goes from a simple 1:1 mapping of symptom to fix to a broad tree of debugging steps. The total process can easily take multiple hours and end up nowhere, depending on how many YouTube videos and Reddit threads the previous owner followed blindly.<p>Of course, the consumer is not going to admit that they&#x27;re an idiot who transformed their console from a simple fix to something that&#x27;s beyond economic repair, so either Microsoft has to provide them with a brand new machine or they will face legal action&#x2F;scathing reviews online.<p>Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?</text></item><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even <i>close</i> to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.<p>Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am <i>absolutely</i> going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;businesspersons-guide-federal-warranty-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;bus...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>&gt;For any console that hasn&#x27;t been tampered with<p>Why shouldn&#x27;t I be able to &quot;tamper&quot; with something that I own?<p>If they weren&#x27;t so hostile to modification and repair, the failure rate of people trying to do things themselves would go down quite a lot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AussieWog93</author><text>&gt;I am absolutely going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear<p>I sell video games and consoles for a living, and probably repair about 20-30 of them each month.<p>Based on my experience, the reasons that Microsoft don&#x27;t want you poking around in your Xbox when it&#x27;s under warranty are completely valid.<p>For any console that hasn&#x27;t been tampered with, the fault is almost always one of only two or three things that can be diagnosed nearly instantly and repaired in around 15-30 minutes with a near-100% success rate.<p>For a console that has been tampered with by an end-user, suddenly the list of things that could have gone wrong multiplies by an order of magnitude. The diagnostic procedure goes from a simple 1:1 mapping of symptom to fix to a broad tree of debugging steps. The total process can easily take multiple hours and end up nowhere, depending on how many YouTube videos and Reddit threads the previous owner followed blindly.<p>Of course, the consumer is not going to admit that they&#x27;re an idiot who transformed their console from a simple fix to something that&#x27;s beyond economic repair, so either Microsoft has to provide them with a brand new machine or they will face legal action&#x2F;scathing reviews online.<p>Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?</text></item><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even <i>close</i> to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.<p>Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am <i>absolutely</i> going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;businesspersons-guide-federal-warranty-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;bus...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/</url></story> |
19,940,374 | 19,940,394 | 1 | 2 | 19,939,292 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tVoss42</author><text>As soon as they can use a mouse and keyboard or controller. Seriously though, there&#x27;s no mature themes in it at all, and if the gameplay is too difficult there&#x27;s always creative mode which is literally digital legos.<p>There&#x27;s also a multiplayer where they can connect to servers and play with other people. That&#x27;s where you might want to use some discretion, as the experience will vary from server to server.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsilence</author><text>What would be a sensible minimum age for minecraft?</text></item><item><author>saddestcatever</author><text>Minecraft is one of the few games that I think everyone should try. It&#x27;s not just &quot;another video game&quot;, but something quite unique. It hits a certain part of the brain in both &quot;creative expression&quot; and &quot;exploring the unknown&quot; that we exercise so rarely in day to day life (or in other games). It&#x27;s no wonder it really sticks with kids and becomes a way for them to express imagination. Make sure you sit down and try playing with them at some point, it&#x27;ll be a fun learning experience for everyone involved.</text></item><item><author>retube</author><text>My kids are obsessed. Literally everything they say to me starts with &quot;Daddy, on minecraft, ....&quot; It&#x27;s all they talk about, including with each other. They even act it out in playtime. Although as someone who has never played I basically understand nothing they are telling me.<p>It seems pretty creative tho, and they seem to be learning a lot from it, so not too bothered. That said they are limited to 1 hour per sat and sun.</text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>This reminds me of when I first discovered Minecraft in university. I was just going to play for a couple hours before bed, and I got sucked into the game-loop and before I knew it the sun was coming up. A few days later, I was walking toward the railroad crossing I often had to wait at between my house and campus, and just for a moment looked at those tracks and I seriously thought about where I should place the Minecraft blocks to build a bridge and avoid waiting for the train.<p>I decided to take a long break from Minecraft after that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Game: Minecraft Earth</title><url>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/new-game--minecraft-earth#</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Solo modes: whenever they can manipulate the interface.<p>Online&#x2F;shared server modes: when they understand the evils of the internet well enough to be safe.<p>Setup and admin a server yourself. Watch how they play. Dont let it get too big. A dozen or two per server. Dont let them play with thousands of total strangers. That always ends in tears.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsilence</author><text>What would be a sensible minimum age for minecraft?</text></item><item><author>saddestcatever</author><text>Minecraft is one of the few games that I think everyone should try. It&#x27;s not just &quot;another video game&quot;, but something quite unique. It hits a certain part of the brain in both &quot;creative expression&quot; and &quot;exploring the unknown&quot; that we exercise so rarely in day to day life (or in other games). It&#x27;s no wonder it really sticks with kids and becomes a way for them to express imagination. Make sure you sit down and try playing with them at some point, it&#x27;ll be a fun learning experience for everyone involved.</text></item><item><author>retube</author><text>My kids are obsessed. Literally everything they say to me starts with &quot;Daddy, on minecraft, ....&quot; It&#x27;s all they talk about, including with each other. They even act it out in playtime. Although as someone who has never played I basically understand nothing they are telling me.<p>It seems pretty creative tho, and they seem to be learning a lot from it, so not too bothered. That said they are limited to 1 hour per sat and sun.</text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>This reminds me of when I first discovered Minecraft in university. I was just going to play for a couple hours before bed, and I got sucked into the game-loop and before I knew it the sun was coming up. A few days later, I was walking toward the railroad crossing I often had to wait at between my house and campus, and just for a moment looked at those tracks and I seriously thought about where I should place the Minecraft blocks to build a bridge and avoid waiting for the train.<p>I decided to take a long break from Minecraft after that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Game: Minecraft Earth</title><url>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/new-game--minecraft-earth#</url></story> |
31,137,981 | 31,137,487 | 1 | 2 | 31,136,586 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sorenjan</author><text>One problem with relying on emulation is that Google has moved a lot of functionality from the open source Android layer to Google Play Services, and they obviously wont publish that on someone else&#x27;s platform.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;android&#x2F;guides&#x2F;overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;android&#x2F;guides&#x2F;overview</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nextos</author><text>Call me crazy, but I think there is room for a third platform.<p>Especially if this platform was bootstrapped in a smart way, for example with an emulation layer to be able to run applications from Android.<p>Or perhaps WebAssembly will make it viable to do more things from a (mobile) browser.<p>I really miss the N700-N9 series with Maemo and Meego. It was so elegant and simple.</text></item><item><author>lawl</author><text>It&#x27;s pick your poison. The only reason I&#x27;m still on android is because at least I can (still) have root there. I&#x27;m saying still because of safety net. But if apple let me have root, i&#x27;d probably prefer an Apple over Google.<p>Mobile phones and their user hostility is a cancer. I&#x27;m seriously considering using a full GNU&#x2F;Linux handheld for mobile things i can do in a browser, and keep an android phone for app garbage that I only turn on if I need to use a banking app or something.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&amp;T ran the promotion to get a free one.<p>I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me:
- Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in substantially older features and security patches.
- Privacy. iMessage’s encryption (though I stand by that it is gimmicky to only offer for iPhones, and I despise that) has a serious network effect. Apple is also far more transparent in what data they use, how they use it, etc.
- Ironically, price. At the time, the iPhone was cheaper than the equivalent Android phone.<p>The big downside is slower upgrades to the latest hardware features. Specifically, I am envious of the people who have 120 FPS phones, they’re beautiful. There is also a loss of customization, but truthfully I thought I’d miss it much more than I did. The fact that the iPhone “just works” is worth it to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years</title><url>https://stockapps.com/blog/android-loses-8-of-its-global-os-market-share-in-five-years/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>goosedragons</author><text>There doesn&#x27;t seem to be. Hell BB10 was basically what you describe and IIRC had a layer to let let devs submit Android apps into the Blackberry World from day one. It wasn&#x27;t enough and devs couldn&#x27;t even be bothered to do that. Later they partnered with Amazon and added the Amazon App Store and let users add their own Android apps. Still wasn&#x27;t enough. It was a great phone OS and hands down was the best at email&#x2F;messaging. Maybe a true FOSS community effort could carve out more of niche with this though.<p>Even Microsoft couldn&#x27;t make it work with barrels of cash. Granted they did make some huge mis-steps.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nextos</author><text>Call me crazy, but I think there is room for a third platform.<p>Especially if this platform was bootstrapped in a smart way, for example with an emulation layer to be able to run applications from Android.<p>Or perhaps WebAssembly will make it viable to do more things from a (mobile) browser.<p>I really miss the N700-N9 series with Maemo and Meego. It was so elegant and simple.</text></item><item><author>lawl</author><text>It&#x27;s pick your poison. The only reason I&#x27;m still on android is because at least I can (still) have root there. I&#x27;m saying still because of safety net. But if apple let me have root, i&#x27;d probably prefer an Apple over Google.<p>Mobile phones and their user hostility is a cancer. I&#x27;m seriously considering using a full GNU&#x2F;Linux handheld for mobile things i can do in a browser, and keep an android phone for app garbage that I only turn on if I need to use a banking app or something.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&amp;T ran the promotion to get a free one.<p>I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me:
- Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in substantially older features and security patches.
- Privacy. iMessage’s encryption (though I stand by that it is gimmicky to only offer for iPhones, and I despise that) has a serious network effect. Apple is also far more transparent in what data they use, how they use it, etc.
- Ironically, price. At the time, the iPhone was cheaper than the equivalent Android phone.<p>The big downside is slower upgrades to the latest hardware features. Specifically, I am envious of the people who have 120 FPS phones, they’re beautiful. There is also a loss of customization, but truthfully I thought I’d miss it much more than I did. The fact that the iPhone “just works” is worth it to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years</title><url>https://stockapps.com/blog/android-loses-8-of-its-global-os-market-share-in-five-years/</url></story> |
2,514,750 | 2,514,641 | 1 | 2 | 2,514,020 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tiles</author><text>The transparency with which Chrome did this was actually a problem for me. Google Docs/GMail did not work for months on my school's ethernet connection until I read about SPDY being implemented; sure enough, launching Chrome with SPDY disabled fixed the issue, and that requires a command line option. I wish Chrome were less transparent about this and added a few Preferences options, at least.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your Chrome browser might not be using HTTP anymore</title><url>http://www.igvita.com/2011/04/07/life-beyond-http-11-googles-spdy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Erwin</author><text>You can peek into your Chrome'ss current SPDY connections (and other interesting internals) in their internal pages:<p>chrome://net-internals/#events&#38;q=type:SPDY_SESSION%20is:active</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your Chrome browser might not be using HTTP anymore</title><url>http://www.igvita.com/2011/04/07/life-beyond-http-11-googles-spdy</url></story> |
16,427,337 | 16,427,259 | 1 | 2 | 16,427,003 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>Unfortunately Scotts Valley and Santa Cruz have anti-housing factions similar to everywhere else in the Bay Area, and the pro-housing faction is in earlier stages of organization than in the Bay Area. Scotts Valley City Council actually had a member say in open meeting that they don&#x27;t want &quot;those type of people&quot; living there, in reference to renters and presumably others without the means to buy a home. Santa Cruz is similarly non-inclusive, and both are extremely homogenous communities that tend to scare away the typical racial diversity seen in a tech company. Many people of color in tech I&#x27;ve met say they simply don&#x27;t feel welcome here like they do in the Bay Area.<p>Santa Cruz also has a green belt. But instead of encouraging density and all the environmental benefits of density, the aging political crew that enacted it now prefer sprawl, since they have their single family single story homes that continue to appreciate at astronomical rates. (At least until the homes are bought as tear-downs and replaced with single-family two story homes that extend to all corners of the property to maximize square footage.)<p>But if anybody can change attitudes, it&#x27;s probably Apple or Google.</text><parent_chain><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>(Dec 13, 2017) -<p>This is a great start. But I think we really need more like 100,000 new units built. Just to help reverse some of the astronomical housing prices.<p>I have no idea how a teacher would be able to live in SV and plan to have a family and everything else. At this rate, the housing costs are unsustainable. We wont be able to have a functioning city with all the needed staffing like teachers, nurses, sellers, etc.<p>I&#x27;m rather disappointed by lack of vision from SV and SV companies in this regard.<p>Apple has enough money that they could buy a huge block of land across the hills in Santa Cruz county. Build a large housing community of 10,000+ and hire the boring company to dig tunnel connecting that community to their new campus. Probably using autonomous electric shuttles.<p>That kind of housing project probably lessens the salary demands and I would imagine the project could not only pay for itself in 5-10 years, but it could also help increase Apple&#x27;s retention rate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)</title><url>https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/12/13/mountain-view-google-north-bayshore-approval.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>moonman272</author><text>It’s not the industries issue, it’s the NIMBYism that has been at the heart of the Bay Area for decades, especially the peninsula.</text><parent_chain><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>(Dec 13, 2017) -<p>This is a great start. But I think we really need more like 100,000 new units built. Just to help reverse some of the astronomical housing prices.<p>I have no idea how a teacher would be able to live in SV and plan to have a family and everything else. At this rate, the housing costs are unsustainable. We wont be able to have a functioning city with all the needed staffing like teachers, nurses, sellers, etc.<p>I&#x27;m rather disappointed by lack of vision from SV and SV companies in this regard.<p>Apple has enough money that they could buy a huge block of land across the hills in Santa Cruz county. Build a large housing community of 10,000+ and hire the boring company to dig tunnel connecting that community to their new campus. Probably using autonomous electric shuttles.<p>That kind of housing project probably lessens the salary demands and I would imagine the project could not only pay for itself in 5-10 years, but it could also help increase Apple&#x27;s retention rate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)</title><url>https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/12/13/mountain-view-google-north-bayshore-approval.html</url></story> |
23,616,085 | 23,616,430 | 1 | 3 | 23,615,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawaygh</author><text>Really, we should just enforce the <i>original intent</i> of the H1B.<p>1. Companies that import labor when they had a perfectly acceptable local candidate should face severe fines, and Justice should be given a real budget for running these investigations as a matter of course. And the burden of proof to demonstrate you needed to import labor should be pretty high. If you don&#x27;t do this, then H1B abuse will happen.<p>2. Companies should be forced to pay H1Bs <i>significantly above</i> prevailing wage, where &quot;prevailing wage&quot; is interpreted liberally instead of conservatively. H1Bs for software engineers making less than $200K (<i>maybe</i> 150K) in a major metro area is a pretty obvious violation of the intent of the H1B, imo.<p>NB: this will have the effect of making H1Bs a lot harder to get and keep. But I think this is the least evil of all possible worlds. In addition, we could also independently argue for increased immigration in general. But midskill immigration to fill jobs for which local qualified candidates exist should not be done through the H1B program. That&#x27;s not what it&#x27;s designed for, and that mismatch between program design and actual use is the source of a lot of H1B mistreatment.<p>I actually <i>don&#x27;t</i> believe that ending the tie to an employer will help. I mean, we should do it anyway, but the abuse will continue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>H1B visas provide employers every incentive to lie to import cheap talent and work them hard.<p>There are ways to meet the very real need to import the best brains from around the world. But H1B isn&#x27;t set up to do this very effectively.<p>Off the top of my head, a better option would be to allow immigration with a $60k bond to the government that has to be paid down at $1k&#x2F;month by the current employer. With the employee in question able to transfer jobs at any time with the bond transferring to the new employer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and bad for innovation</title><url>https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg/status/1275250038898212865</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>runawaybottle</author><text>It’s an artifact of colonialism that has been properly abstracted to fit the corporate interface, with a nice layering of cake to obfuscate reality.<p>I want no part of it.<p>Actually, no one one wants any part of it. The ones that take part in it are desperate.<p>I want no part in the desperation, it’s never good.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>H1B visas provide employers every incentive to lie to import cheap talent and work them hard.<p>There are ways to meet the very real need to import the best brains from around the world. But H1B isn&#x27;t set up to do this very effectively.<p>Off the top of my head, a better option would be to allow immigration with a $60k bond to the government that has to be paid down at $1k&#x2F;month by the current employer. With the employee in question able to transfer jobs at any time with the bond transferring to the new employer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and bad for innovation</title><url>https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg/status/1275250038898212865</url></story> |
27,507,917 | 27,507,886 | 1 | 2 | 27,507,088 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>The intuitive properties you expect from HTTP actually aren&#x27;t delivered and can&#x27;t be delivered, except over HTTPS.<p>A lot of people focus on the <i>confidentiality</i> element of TLS. &quot;Clearly I don&#x27;t need for it to be secret that I looked at the Wikipedia entry for Napoleon (the 1995 movie, not the famous guy)&quot;.<p>But TLS bundles together three things and if you need <i>any</i> of them you can&#x27;t have them with plain HTTP. You get confidentiality, but you also get integrity and authentication.<p>That means when you curl <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foo.example&#x2F;something" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foo.example&#x2F;something</a> we can promise you that the result is the resource <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foo.example&#x2F;something" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foo.example&#x2F;something</a> - maybe that&#x27;s not what you actually wanted, maybe it&#x27;s full of lies or worse, but it <i>is</i> what you asked for and it <i>is</i> what you get. With plain HTTP all bets are off, anybody can interpose and present anything else to you.<p>If it&#x27;s OK if you just get anything and not the article from Wikipedia, why even look at Wikipedia at all? You could make up whatever you want, it&#x27;s a black-and-white movie about a dog who ruled France and then went into space, and it was the #1 grossing movie in every country for six years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Love Let&#x27;s Encrypt, Like 1password, support&#x2F;use them both.<p>But I&#x27;m still unconvinced that every single one of those last remaining 15% of websites <i>must</i> be transitioned to HTTPS.<p>I have personal websites that are open, public, non-controversial, simple. I like that you can curl or wget them without mucking about with certs and that you can view them using anything and everything vaguely browsery ever made. I feel moving to HTTPS subtracts value, at least to me, and I&#x27;m the owner.<p>Not to get all grouchy old geezer, but I don&#x27;t feel <i>every</i> single public open simple textual website must be encrypted. Where am I wrong &#x2F; what am I missing? (While understanding there&#x27;s a mathematical <i>world of difference</i> between statements &quot;Most &#x2F; 99% of websites should be encrypted!&quot; and &quot;All &#x2F; 100% of websites should be encrypted!&quot; :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/supporting-lets-encrypt/</url></story> | <instructions>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>A fair question deserving a real answer, rather than downvotes.<p>1. HTTPS prevents ads&#x2F;trackers&#x2F;malware being injected into the page by unscrupulous ISPs. Man-in-the-middle attacks of this sort really have happened, [0] and remember that the browser itself may have exploitable security vulnerabilities.<p>2. Modern browsers will (rightly) warn users not to trust the site. This makes the site look bad.<p>3. Some fancy browser features are disabled if you use unencrypted HTTP. Likely irrelevant for a static site though.<p>4. Privacy matters. A medical website, or indeed Wikipedia, should prevent a snooping ISP from finding out you have been reading about an embarrassing condition. This is similar to the way librarians are extremely protective of their loan records [1]. Netflix use HTTPS for their streams, for the same reason (it does nothing to aid their DRM, it&#x27;s purely about privacy) [2].<p>5. Let&#x27;s turn the tables and ask why you <i>wouldn&#x27;t</i> use HTTPS for a public-facing web server. There are just 3 reasons:<p>* Reduced admin overhead not having to bother with certs<p>* It enables caching web proxies, which is only relevant if you&#x27;re running a serious distribution platform like Steam, or a Linux package-management repo [3]<p>* Better support for very old devices, such as old smartphones in the developing world<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doesmysiteneedhttps.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doesmysiteneedhttps.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;jan&#x2F;13&#x2F;us-library-records-purged-data-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;jan&#x2F;13&#x2F;us-library-r...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;it-wasnt-easy-but-netflix-will-soon-use-https-to-secure-video-streams&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;it-wa...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20200615045650&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whydoesaptnotusehttps.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20200615045650&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whydoesapt...</a><p>(Based on an old comment of mine at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22147858" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22147858</a> )</text><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Love Let&#x27;s Encrypt, Like 1password, support&#x2F;use them both.<p>But I&#x27;m still unconvinced that every single one of those last remaining 15% of websites <i>must</i> be transitioned to HTTPS.<p>I have personal websites that are open, public, non-controversial, simple. I like that you can curl or wget them without mucking about with certs and that you can view them using anything and everything vaguely browsery ever made. I feel moving to HTTPS subtracts value, at least to me, and I&#x27;m the owner.<p>Not to get all grouchy old geezer, but I don&#x27;t feel <i>every</i> single public open simple textual website must be encrypted. Where am I wrong &#x2F; what am I missing? (While understanding there&#x27;s a mathematical <i>world of difference</i> between statements &quot;Most &#x2F; 99% of websites should be encrypted!&quot; and &quot;All &#x2F; 100% of websites should be encrypted!&quot; :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/supporting-lets-encrypt/</url></story> |
14,995,708 | 14,995,577 | 1 | 3 | 14,994,512 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kapauldo</author><text>Decluttered <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;read.feedly.com&#x2F;html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Famp%2Farticles%2Fforever-young-tech-startups-like-hollywood-celebrities-fudge-their-age-1502461847&amp;theme=white&amp;size=medium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;read.feedly.com&#x2F;html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Companies play around with their origin stories</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/forever-young-tech-startups-like-hollywood-celebrities-fudge-their-age-1502461847</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sethbannon</author><text>&quot;Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” - Biz Stone</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Companies play around with their origin stories</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/forever-young-tech-startups-like-hollywood-celebrities-fudge-their-age-1502461847</url></story> |
39,315,980 | 39,314,318 | 1 | 2 | 39,314,189 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gmerc</author><text>Just enforcing the law. Happens all the time<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amp.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;may&#x2F;24&#x2F;google-offices-paris-raided-french-tax-authorities" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amp.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;may&#x2F;24&#x2F;google-of...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/tech/china-huawei-france-financial-investigation-intl-hnk/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WhyUVoteGarbage</author><text>Reuters&#x27; coverage is equally terse: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;french-authorities-searched-huawei-offices-over-financial-wrongdoings-reports-2024-02-08&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;french-authorities-search...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/tech/china-huawei-france-financial-investigation-intl-hnk/index.html</url></story> |
11,050,316 | 11,050,190 | 1 | 2 | 11,048,131 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peckrob</author><text>&gt; You obviously have never used Bitcoin.<p>One of the big problems with using bitcoin for something like this is you&#x27;re not just sending money. Your converting to a different currency, sending money, and converting it back. It would be akin to me wanting to send money to my Dad by converting it to Euro first, sending it, and him converting it back to USD. Neither of us have any interest or use for money in Euro or bitcoin. We both have&#x2F;need USD.<p>You also get the volatility of bitcoin. If I send $10 to my Dad in bitcoin, it might be $9 by the time he gets around to converting it to USD. Or $11. Bitcoin could plunge in value (for seemingly no reason that I can tell) and be worth $5. I have no way of knowing what the value of that will be for him when he gets it.<p>If I want to send my Dad $10 on PayPal, he gets $10. He gets it instantly in his PayPal account as $10. If he transfers it immediately to his bank, it&#x27;ll be $10. If he transfers it next week, it&#x27;ll still be $10. It&#x27;s guaranteed in value.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t know if this is still the case but dealing with bitcoin is a pain. If I want to buy bitcoin at Coinbase and I don&#x27;t have a credit card linked to my account (until recently, you couldn&#x27;t even use Mastercard), I have to wait a few days for my BTC to arrive, even though they are directly linked to my checking account. I have no idea what the value of my BTC will be when it finally arrives a few days later. I have to send it to my Dad, he has to sell it back to USD (at least at Coinbase, at a lesser rate than buying it). The value could change dramatically at any of those steps.<p>And if you want to add a card at Coinbase, yeah, that&#x27;s fun. When I added my card, my bank immediately kicked the attempted authorization out for fraud reasons. 10 minutes later my bank called me about it and I approved it, but the Coinbase told me I couldn&#x27;t try again for a week. So I had to wait another week before trying to add my Mastercard again.<p>Bitcoin has a lot of usability issues for non-tech people. And using it for a simple USD-&gt;USD money transfer is like using a jackhammer when you need a scalpel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hotcool</author><text><i>As simple as it seems, sending legitimate money from point A to point B could not possibly be any easier than with this service.</i><p>You obviously have never used Bitcoin.</text></item><item><author>MicroBerto</author><text>PayPal is more relevant than ever. As simple as it seems, sending legitimate money from point A to point B could not possibly be any easier than with this service.<p>Their invoicing system is ridiculously simple, nearly everyone I&#x27;m working with keeps cash in there or connected to it (or very worst, a credit card attached), it hooks up easily with FreshBooks, contractors like it since PayPal handles the 1099-K themselves, and it just works.<p>I see no reason to change. I just don&#x27;t keep an absurd amount of money in the account and I feel safe using it.</text></item><item><author>kintamanimatt</author><text>It&#x27;s an absolute egregious shame that PayPal, after more than a decade of problematic behavior, is still relevant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/paypal-starts-banning-vpn-and-smartdns-services-160205/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>For 99% of the population (which matters a great deal), Paypal is far easier, faster, and safer than bitcoin (which isn&#x27;t even a single entity to deal with but rather computer science theory put into a proof of concept).</text><parent_chain><item><author>hotcool</author><text><i>As simple as it seems, sending legitimate money from point A to point B could not possibly be any easier than with this service.</i><p>You obviously have never used Bitcoin.</text></item><item><author>MicroBerto</author><text>PayPal is more relevant than ever. As simple as it seems, sending legitimate money from point A to point B could not possibly be any easier than with this service.<p>Their invoicing system is ridiculously simple, nearly everyone I&#x27;m working with keeps cash in there or connected to it (or very worst, a credit card attached), it hooks up easily with FreshBooks, contractors like it since PayPal handles the 1099-K themselves, and it just works.<p>I see no reason to change. I just don&#x27;t keep an absurd amount of money in the account and I feel safe using it.</text></item><item><author>kintamanimatt</author><text>It&#x27;s an absolute egregious shame that PayPal, after more than a decade of problematic behavior, is still relevant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/paypal-starts-banning-vpn-and-smartdns-services-160205/</url></story> |
6,799,512 | 6,799,319 | 1 | 3 | 6,795,158 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avdd_</author><text><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokonoma" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tokonoma</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bcbrown</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, what would that nook space be used for?</text></item><item><author>twelvechairs</author><text>I&#x27;m an architect (of the building kind) who has worked across countries (though not Japan). I have to concur that one of the things which most frequently dictates what gets built is half-baked rules by mortgagers and financiers.<p>This article also conflates the &#x27;average&#x27; and the &#x27;architecture&#x27; (as seen on arch daily) which is very much atypical.Though even with the average there is a stronger actual interest in space than in the west (probably due to actual exposure of average people to different spaces). For instance, I remember looking at the website of a mass house-builder in Japan and the big item being advertised was a 1.5m (approx.) half-height &#x27;nook&#x27; space in your living room. This would never happen in the west (most people would think &#x27;whatever would I use that for?&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>kohsuke</author><text>A Japanese here. I think this article fell into the same trap that many other similar articles fell into. Namely, in trying to make the article interesting, it attributes more to the culture and psyche, ignoring more mandane logical reasons.<p>One of the primary reasons houses depreciate in value so rapidly in Japan is simply because that is the accounting rules. If you look at <a href="http://www1.m-net.ne.jp/k-web/genkasyokyaku/genka-tatemono.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.m-net.ne.jp&#x2F;k-web&#x2F;genkasyokyaku&#x2F;genka-tatemono.h...</a> (and I hope Google Translate translates it well), you see that the typical wooden houses (the kinds you see in California, where I live) depreciate competely in just 20 years in the eyes of tax agency. This has real effect on mortgage.<p>The rules around the market are different, too. For example, in California most houses are sold and bought as-is. In Japan, the seller is on the hook for up to an year for problems that weren&#x27;t discovered at the point of sale.<p>These differences depress the existing house market, and that is made up by the new house market, which in turn translates into a lot more new houses.<p>I find this report from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism highly educational. It comes with lots of numbers: <a href="http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001002572.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mlit.go.jp&#x2F;common&#x2F;001002572.pdf</a> more</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Japan Is Crazy About Housing</title><url>http://www.archdaily.com/450212/why-japan-is-crazy-about-housing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lovemenot</author><text>A shrine to a dead relative or a place for similar artefacts such as arranged cut flowers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bcbrown</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, what would that nook space be used for?</text></item><item><author>twelvechairs</author><text>I&#x27;m an architect (of the building kind) who has worked across countries (though not Japan). I have to concur that one of the things which most frequently dictates what gets built is half-baked rules by mortgagers and financiers.<p>This article also conflates the &#x27;average&#x27; and the &#x27;architecture&#x27; (as seen on arch daily) which is very much atypical.Though even with the average there is a stronger actual interest in space than in the west (probably due to actual exposure of average people to different spaces). For instance, I remember looking at the website of a mass house-builder in Japan and the big item being advertised was a 1.5m (approx.) half-height &#x27;nook&#x27; space in your living room. This would never happen in the west (most people would think &#x27;whatever would I use that for?&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>kohsuke</author><text>A Japanese here. I think this article fell into the same trap that many other similar articles fell into. Namely, in trying to make the article interesting, it attributes more to the culture and psyche, ignoring more mandane logical reasons.<p>One of the primary reasons houses depreciate in value so rapidly in Japan is simply because that is the accounting rules. If you look at <a href="http://www1.m-net.ne.jp/k-web/genkasyokyaku/genka-tatemono.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.m-net.ne.jp&#x2F;k-web&#x2F;genkasyokyaku&#x2F;genka-tatemono.h...</a> (and I hope Google Translate translates it well), you see that the typical wooden houses (the kinds you see in California, where I live) depreciate competely in just 20 years in the eyes of tax agency. This has real effect on mortgage.<p>The rules around the market are different, too. For example, in California most houses are sold and bought as-is. In Japan, the seller is on the hook for up to an year for problems that weren&#x27;t discovered at the point of sale.<p>These differences depress the existing house market, and that is made up by the new house market, which in turn translates into a lot more new houses.<p>I find this report from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism highly educational. It comes with lots of numbers: <a href="http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001002572.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mlit.go.jp&#x2F;common&#x2F;001002572.pdf</a> more</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Japan Is Crazy About Housing</title><url>http://www.archdaily.com/450212/why-japan-is-crazy-about-housing/</url></story> |
14,452,739 | 14,451,554 | 1 | 2 | 14,445,412 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alphonsegaston</author><text>In the McLaren video you linked, the uploader edited out his music and put in some other track. Here&#x27;s the link to his film with the original score:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=e_aSowDUUaY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=e_aSowDUUaY</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ssalazar</author><text>Oh wow.
I am days away from finishing a PhD thesis on sketching sound and music [1], and Daphne Oram figures highly into my background research.
A friend of mine built an iPhone app that emulates Oram&#x27;s system [2].<p>Another notable figure in the world of drawing music is Norman McLaren, who literally painted or drew directly on the soundtrack portion of his animated films.
The soundtrack for his film <i>Neighbors</i> [3], which won an academy award in 1952, was produced this way.
Theres a short documentary on his process here [4].<p>On the more avant-garde side, Iannis Xenakis had designed a computer-based system called the UPIC in the late 1970s in which you could directly draw waveforms and then direct their frequencies over time by drawing into a graphics tablet.
He used this to compose his piece <i>Mycenae Alpha</i> [5].<p>This page [6] has a really great run-down of optical synthesis in general, which includes a number of individuals and systems involved in directly drawing sound and music.
Some of the visual sound designs used in these systems are quite striking, for instance the variophone [7] or Yankovsky&#x27;s painted soundtracks [8].<p>[1] Demo of my research software here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Tdj5e82nPHQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Tdj5e82nPHQ</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;oramics&#x2F;id454505541?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;oramics&#x2F;id454505541?mt=8</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yztoaNakKok" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yztoaNakKok</a><p>[6] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels_historical.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels_historical.html</a><p>[7] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;vario3.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;vario3.jpg</a><p>[8] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;painted_soundtrack.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;painted_soundtrac...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The woman who could 'draw' music</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onirom</author><text>This is a very interesting way to draw music, lately i have done some experiments with something akin to the Russian ANS synthesizer which was a photoelectronic synthesizer where the sound spectrum was sketched onto glass disks, in my program all is driven by visuals produced by a GPU fragment shader, one can use a webcam as a texture to replicate something akin to the ANS workflow where you draw the sound spectrum although it is much less limited, one could also capture a painting software and feed their drawing in realtime.<p>The synthesizer is available here : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsynth.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsynth.com</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ssalazar</author><text>Oh wow.
I am days away from finishing a PhD thesis on sketching sound and music [1], and Daphne Oram figures highly into my background research.
A friend of mine built an iPhone app that emulates Oram&#x27;s system [2].<p>Another notable figure in the world of drawing music is Norman McLaren, who literally painted or drew directly on the soundtrack portion of his animated films.
The soundtrack for his film <i>Neighbors</i> [3], which won an academy award in 1952, was produced this way.
Theres a short documentary on his process here [4].<p>On the more avant-garde side, Iannis Xenakis had designed a computer-based system called the UPIC in the late 1970s in which you could directly draw waveforms and then direct their frequencies over time by drawing into a graphics tablet.
He used this to compose his piece <i>Mycenae Alpha</i> [5].<p>This page [6] has a really great run-down of optical synthesis in general, which includes a number of individuals and systems involved in directly drawing sound and music.
Some of the visual sound designs used in these systems are quite striking, for instance the variophone [7] or Yankovsky&#x27;s painted soundtracks [8].<p>[1] Demo of my research software here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Tdj5e82nPHQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Tdj5e82nPHQ</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;oramics&#x2F;id454505541?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;oramics&#x2F;id454505541?mt=8</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yztoaNakKok" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yztoaNakKok</a><p>[6] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels_historical.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels_historical.html</a><p>[7] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;vario3.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;vario3.jpg</a><p>[8] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;painted_soundtrack.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;painted_soundtrac...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The woman who could 'draw' music</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music</url></story> |
25,653,298 | 25,652,684 | 1 | 2 | 25,651,942 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dane-pgp</author><text>It&#x27;s great that this contest has been running for so long and still produces interesting new approaches, but I wish there were more work being done in the field of <i>underhanded</i> code contests, e.g. [0].<p>One area of technology that seems to have continued the work of discovering underhanded techniques is the realm of cryptocurrency, specifically the &quot;Solidity Underhanded Contest&quot;. The results for 2020 are here[1], which links to (spoiler alert) a great trick on line 65 here[2] (select the line character by character with a mouse to reveal it).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Underhanded_C_Contest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Underhanded_C_Contest</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.soliditylang.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;solidity-underhanded-contest-winners&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.soliditylang.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;solidity-underhande...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;solidity-underhanded-contest&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;submissions_2020&#x2F;submission11_RobertMCForster&#x2F;contracts&#x2F;TimelockUpgrade.sol#L65" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;solidity-underhanded-contest&#x2F;blo...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>27th International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners published</title><url>https://www.ioccc.org/2020/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Stevvo</author><text>The winning entry is very creative!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ioccc.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;carlini&#x2F;prog.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ioccc.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;carlini&#x2F;prog.c</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>27th International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners published</title><url>https://www.ioccc.org/2020/</url></story> |
36,498,350 | 36,496,901 | 1 | 3 | 36,493,422 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I almost did it in 2008ish. Back then my country had a severe electricity crises, and in the summer we would get alternately one hour of electricity and one hour of blackout.<p>So I had to try and break the LFS build into one hour chunks. Though I got through quite a bit, unfortunately, there were some multihour build steps and I never got lucky enough with multihour electricity, till I finally lost interest.<p>I did learn quite a bit from reading the manual though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Daegalus</author><text>I did LFS back when I was a pre-teen&#x2F;teen. So late 90s, early 00s. And while I agree to an extent that it doesn&#x27;t give you much day-to-day stuff, it really makes you more comfortable with operating systems and linux especially.<p>Nowadays, I am a devops&#x2F;infrastructure engineer, and I can say LFS is a core foundational experience that has let me be better at my job. I know deeper inner workings of a Linux distro and that strong foundation helps. Yes there is so much more to learn but having LFS in your back pocket of lifetime experiences is great.<p>I also think its a 1 and done kind of thing. I don&#x27;t see a huge benefit of doing it again. Maybe for fun, in a VM while waiting for other things to finish. It is also much faster nowadays. Back when I did it, I had a 1ghz, 256gb ram machine, it took me days. I could probably go through it in a day casually with modern computing, and especially since I have a threadripper machine, sending 64 threads at the make commands im sure will get my 1 BU to be a very small number.<p>If you have a child that is interested in computers, tech, programming, etc. I highly encourage this activity. Could be a fun bonding activity too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Built Linux from Scratch</title><url>https://thesloth.me/posts/5/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lrvick</author><text>IMO a secure server is an immutable appliance. I still build Linux from scratch most weeks as a core part of my job.<p>Bare bones hardened kernel + shim init + target application are all you need, and will be your highest security&#x2F;reliability systems.<p>And yeah, threadrippers are a must.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Daegalus</author><text>I did LFS back when I was a pre-teen&#x2F;teen. So late 90s, early 00s. And while I agree to an extent that it doesn&#x27;t give you much day-to-day stuff, it really makes you more comfortable with operating systems and linux especially.<p>Nowadays, I am a devops&#x2F;infrastructure engineer, and I can say LFS is a core foundational experience that has let me be better at my job. I know deeper inner workings of a Linux distro and that strong foundation helps. Yes there is so much more to learn but having LFS in your back pocket of lifetime experiences is great.<p>I also think its a 1 and done kind of thing. I don&#x27;t see a huge benefit of doing it again. Maybe for fun, in a VM while waiting for other things to finish. It is also much faster nowadays. Back when I did it, I had a 1ghz, 256gb ram machine, it took me days. I could probably go through it in a day casually with modern computing, and especially since I have a threadripper machine, sending 64 threads at the make commands im sure will get my 1 BU to be a very small number.<p>If you have a child that is interested in computers, tech, programming, etc. I highly encourage this activity. Could be a fun bonding activity too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Built Linux from Scratch</title><url>https://thesloth.me/posts/5/</url></story> |
33,867,701 | 33,867,930 | 1 | 2 | 33,866,084 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burritas</author><text>I really wish we could buy a new car these days without some insane infotainment system. I don&#x27;t even want a screen or backup cam. I know DOT requires a backup cam, but they cause more trouble than they&#x27;re worth and are there largely to compensate for the beefier pylons they also require now (less likely to get crushed if you roll, but more likely to get in an accident from reduced visibility).<p>I&#x27;ve owned or rented about four cars of different make and different software bases that would occasionally freeze up when you switch out of reverse into forward, but the cam would still be up, preventing you from accessing important car functions (and distracting the driver).<p>I&#x27;ve had to look up how to reset infotainment systems on youtube because it just wouldn&#x27;t turn on at all.<p>There was also a report of an infotainment system which would glitch out if a radio broadcasted certain characters in their station or track info, causing it to stay stuck on that radio station, even across reboots (IIRC this was traced to an ancient js lib, I may be wrong though). How much help do you think the car manufacturer offered? It was likely asymptotic with 0.<p>But even if infotainment systems didn&#x27;t suck for all these reasons, I still wouldn&#x27;t want one. They seriously just suck ass by their very nature. Just give me a vehicle.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cops can extract data from 10k different car models’ infotainment systems</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/12/01/10000-cars-can-be-data-raided-by-police-ice-cbp-love-it/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>squarefoot</author><text>So let me the one asking the inevitable question: short of buying a 1987 van with the environmental impact of a refinery, what are new or reasonably recent brand&#x2F;models whose electronics can be hacked to the point every non essential system can be turned off, when not physically removed, without any hindrance for normal driving operations?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cops can extract data from 10k different car models’ infotainment systems</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/12/01/10000-cars-can-be-data-raided-by-police-ice-cbp-love-it/</url></story> |
36,762,448 | 36,762,688 | 1 | 2 | 36,760,469 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>&gt; but there&#x27;s also an extraordinarily low level of discussion. I was shocked when I clicked on the first review and realized it was a review - &quot;oh, huh, when did it come out?&quot;<p>You are commenting on an article in the Verge for a movie which has only been released in Japan and won’t be out in the USA for months. This article is one of many in most western publications. A lot can be said about this movie but having a low level of discussion is definitely not one of them.<p>What’s the point of a marketing campaign when you have so much organic reach?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gwern</author><text>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how the box office does. It&#x27;s been a while since _The Wind Rises_ and Miyazaki is more beloved than ever and all 3 reviews I&#x27;ve read thus far seem highly positive (and certainly more positive than _The Wind Rises_), but there&#x27;s also an extraordinarily low level of discussion. I was shocked when I clicked on the first review and realized it was a review - &quot;oh, huh, when did it come out?&quot;<p>The justification offered about &#x27;people being tired of marketing&#x27; sounds absurd, and more like they are finding excuses to skip work because they are old &amp; exhausted, and another step in winding down Ghibli. I expect lower box office than it deserves; even Hayao Miyazaki can&#x27;t release a movie with zero marketing and expect no effect...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23797349/how-do-you-live-review-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>&gt; even Hayao Miyazaki can&#x27;t release a movie with zero marketing and expect no effect<p>At Hayao Miyazaki level, having no marketing IS a very clear PR move. The article states it clearly, it&#x27;s adding mystery to the movie. Everyone knows that it&#x27;s not going to be a bad movie since it&#x27;s a Ghibli one, but also no one knows what it is about so everyone is impatient to go watch it and discover all that mystery.<p>Since the opposite is true, I&#x27;ve lost interest in movies when the trailer revealed way too much, I can see this as a clear move in the opposite direction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gwern</author><text>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how the box office does. It&#x27;s been a while since _The Wind Rises_ and Miyazaki is more beloved than ever and all 3 reviews I&#x27;ve read thus far seem highly positive (and certainly more positive than _The Wind Rises_), but there&#x27;s also an extraordinarily low level of discussion. I was shocked when I clicked on the first review and realized it was a review - &quot;oh, huh, when did it come out?&quot;<p>The justification offered about &#x27;people being tired of marketing&#x27; sounds absurd, and more like they are finding excuses to skip work because they are old &amp; exhausted, and another step in winding down Ghibli. I expect lower box office than it deserves; even Hayao Miyazaki can&#x27;t release a movie with zero marketing and expect no effect...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23797349/how-do-you-live-review-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki</url></story> |
15,332,630 | 15,332,659 | 1 | 2 | 15,328,744 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scardine</author><text>This line of ethical questioning is behind the plot of Anthony Burgess&#x27;s 1962 novel &quot;A Clockwork Orange&quot;. The main character Alex is subject of an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals but the method is flawed and leads to unfair consequences for him.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wallace_f</author><text>tl;dr the thesis is that addiction is a learning process of reinforcing behavior-&gt;reward understanding. Targeted magnetic pulses look to be capable of altering the chemistry of the neural pathways where this understanding lives.<p>The article also notes how increasingly more behaviors are treated as addictions. Korea provides government subsidized gaming addiction treatment, which I think is interesting to consider if we are physically altering destructive behavioral patterns to reprogram people
Where will the limits be? Might a workaholic be treated? What about junk food, smart phones? An adolescent with a history of getting kicks out of tormenting others? Fanatical racists or nationalists?<p>On another note, there are other theories about addiction to supplement this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits</title><url>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/the-addicted-brain/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>Perhaps the line is quite blurry between addiction on one hand, and the general modifications that take place in the brain as part of the processes we call learning or even evolution on the other hand. Perhaps addiction is just those mechanisms gone awry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wallace_f</author><text>tl;dr the thesis is that addiction is a learning process of reinforcing behavior-&gt;reward understanding. Targeted magnetic pulses look to be capable of altering the chemistry of the neural pathways where this understanding lives.<p>The article also notes how increasingly more behaviors are treated as addictions. Korea provides government subsidized gaming addiction treatment, which I think is interesting to consider if we are physically altering destructive behavioral patterns to reprogram people
Where will the limits be? Might a workaholic be treated? What about junk food, smart phones? An adolescent with a history of getting kicks out of tormenting others? Fanatical racists or nationalists?<p>On another note, there are other theories about addiction to supplement this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits</title><url>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/the-addicted-brain/</url></story> |
8,803,169 | 8,803,141 | 1 | 2 | 8,802,676 | 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>cllns</author><text>For an example of what can go wrong: the &#x27;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#x27; HD Remaster has a few ruined shots.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7385261/buffy-ruined" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;7385261&#x2F;buffy-ruined</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Wire in HD</title><url>http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>edit&#x2F;correction: As [leehro](<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803190" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8803190</a>) has pointed out, Amazon has a widescreen version but not necessarily the the new HBOGO one:<p>---<p>I&#x27;ve re-watched &quot;The Wire&quot; about 3 to 4 times already...the new HD release is already on Amazon Prime Instant Video and I don&#x27;t think I would&#x27;ve noticed if the news hadn&#x27;t been posted. On The Wire subreddit, someone posted a few more comparisons:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/TheWire/comments/2qgs9e/the_wire_remastered_hd_vs_sd_comparison/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;TheWire&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2qgs9e&#x2F;the_wire_rem...</a><p>If you&#x27;re new to The Wire, I suggest watching the HD versions first, in spite of Simon&#x27;s compelling arguments to the contrary. The Wire just has so many disorienting things about it to new watchers -- the barrage of police lingo, the high number of black to white characters, the 90s-era technological timeframe -- that the 4:3 ratio&#x27;s fidelity isn&#x27;t worth the mental bias you might have that associates 4:3 with &quot;cheap&quot; or &quot;old&quot;...the show can already be difficult for people to get into.<p>Speaking of the r&#x2F;TheWire subreddit...a year ago, a sound editor did a Q&amp;A...if you&#x27;re interested about the minutiae of the show, and curious about the technical details of sound mixing is done...it&#x27;s one of the best things I&#x27;ve ever read about the show:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/TheWire/comments/1qn6ff/i_was_a_sound_editor_on_the_wire_every_episode/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;TheWire&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1qn6ff&#x2F;i_was_a_soun...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Wire in HD</title><url>http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/</url></story> |
12,446,683 | 12,446,661 | 1 | 2 | 12,445,994 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philliphaydon</author><text>The port is data and charge. So I recon it&#x27;s only a matter of time before there&#x27;s a split plug for charge and audio.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LordHumungous</author><text>The other thing about that though- you can&#x27;t listen to your headphones or hook up aux speakers while your phone is charging.</text></item><item><author>tajen</author><text>&gt; Tons of headphones obsoleted.<p>They do provide the lightening-to-jack adapter in the box for free.</text></item><item><author>acomjean</author><text>I can&#x27;t get over the headphone jack either.<p>Another dongle to loose. Tons of headphones obsoleted. Can&#x27;t charge while listening. Laggy audio. more batteries in the world. They&#x27;re ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? I work in a lab and a phone with headphones is standard equipment on the commute and work (for at least part of the day).<p>I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it. If only iOS devices were made by other manufacturers... (I know I know....)<p>on the plus side minimum memory had been bumped.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>I still can&#x27;t get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more convenient and dependable than wireless headphones for most people in most situations. Maybe that changes soon or maybe AirPods solve this for iOS users (they by design can&#x27;t be a universal solution) but I can&#x27;t help but feel that Apple is jumping the gun on dropping the jack. Although as an iPhone user, I hope I&#x27;m wrong.<p>Side note, I think it is hilarious that Apple can&#x27;t get the AirPods to ship at the same time as the iPhone. Anyone who buys the new phone on release is going to be stuck with the crappy lightning headphones for at least a month and a half.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 7</title><url>http://www.apple.com/iPhone7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tobtoh</author><text>Or being on long (support) conference calls whilst keeping your phone charged.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LordHumungous</author><text>The other thing about that though- you can&#x27;t listen to your headphones or hook up aux speakers while your phone is charging.</text></item><item><author>tajen</author><text>&gt; Tons of headphones obsoleted.<p>They do provide the lightening-to-jack adapter in the box for free.</text></item><item><author>acomjean</author><text>I can&#x27;t get over the headphone jack either.<p>Another dongle to loose. Tons of headphones obsoleted. Can&#x27;t charge while listening. Laggy audio. more batteries in the world. They&#x27;re ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? I work in a lab and a phone with headphones is standard equipment on the commute and work (for at least part of the day).<p>I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it. If only iOS devices were made by other manufacturers... (I know I know....)<p>on the plus side minimum memory had been bumped.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>I still can&#x27;t get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more convenient and dependable than wireless headphones for most people in most situations. Maybe that changes soon or maybe AirPods solve this for iOS users (they by design can&#x27;t be a universal solution) but I can&#x27;t help but feel that Apple is jumping the gun on dropping the jack. Although as an iPhone user, I hope I&#x27;m wrong.<p>Side note, I think it is hilarious that Apple can&#x27;t get the AirPods to ship at the same time as the iPhone. Anyone who buys the new phone on release is going to be stuck with the crappy lightning headphones for at least a month and a half.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 7</title><url>http://www.apple.com/iPhone7</url></story> |
21,553,688 | 21,553,192 | 1 | 3 | 21,534,990 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usgroup</author><text>I very much like that people like Tao are famous. It’s relatively good for the intellectual spirit and hopefully it inspires others.<p>However this fixation with his “extraordinary capacity”, scores, medals and accolades; I wish we could skip it.<p>Let’s talk about the awesome work and why it’s awesome. Let’s play through some of it: I’m relatively sure most people know nothing more about Tao than “he’s a genius”. What’s the point of that?<p>I think we’d be better off if we took the time to understand great work and let our appreciation of great people live through that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mind of a Mathematician</title><url>https://paw.princeton.edu/article/mind-mathematician</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jun8</author><text>Tao&#x27;s <i>Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective</i> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Solving-Mathematical-Problems-Personal-Perspective&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0199205604" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Solving-Mathematical-Problems-Persona...</a>) mentioned here is an excellent book that provides keys to mathematical approach to problems and is now a classic ranking there with Polya&#x27;s <i>How to Solve It</i>.<p>One thing the article doesn&#x27;t touch on is Tao&#x27;s prominence in massively collaborative math research through his blog (latest such work from there was discussed on HN a day ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21542054" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21542054</a>). This new approach, first proposed by Tom Gowers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gowers.wordpress.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;01&#x2F;27&#x2F;is-massively-collaborative-mathematics-possible&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gowers.wordpress.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;01&#x2F;27&#x2F;is-massively-collabo...</a>) in 2009 has successfully solved a number of open problems in the past ten years (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polymathprojects.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;ten-years-of-polymath&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polymathprojects.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;ten-years-of-polymat...</a>).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mind of a Mathematician</title><url>https://paw.princeton.edu/article/mind-mathematician</url></story> |
35,226,148 | 35,226,331 | 1 | 2 | 35,223,759 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Ha, I was about to release something similar to this as my first ever open-source project. Beaten by a day. And, frankly, this is better than mine.<p>Congrats to npiv.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Chatblade – A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT</title><url>https://github.com/npiv/chatblade</url><text>integrate chatGPT into your scripts or terminal work. Supports piping text, saving prompts, estimating costs, and some basic json&#x2F;yaml extraction.<p>I&#x27;ve added some elaborate examples on the readme of how to use it with pictures, that may provide a better overview.</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>1xdevloper</author><text>I&#x27;m building something similar[1] but for the web. Imagine creating your own command palette&#x2F;context menu for any web page. ChatGPT really opened up a lot of mind blowing possibilities and the speed of innovation in this space makes me both excited and anxious.<p>Now if the Chrome store stops taking 3-4 days to approve an update, that&#x27;d be great!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sublimegpt.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sublimegpt.com</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Chatblade – A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT</title><url>https://github.com/npiv/chatblade</url><text>integrate chatGPT into your scripts or terminal work. Supports piping text, saving prompts, estimating costs, and some basic json&#x2F;yaml extraction.<p>I&#x27;ve added some elaborate examples on the readme of how to use it with pictures, that may provide a better overview.</text></story> |
17,219,063 | 17,218,031 | 1 | 3 | 17,217,210 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WJW</author><text>There are some properly large companies like github and shopify that run a large rails stack, it seems to work out pretty well for them. At my current workplace we have some streaming servers pushing about 15 gigabyte&#x2F;second at peak load and the ruby processes easily saturate the available bandwidth on the EC2 instances. Like you say, the slowness of Ruby is greatly exaggerated. Sure we could rewrite the whole thing in Go&#x2F;C++&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;etc, but it would not work any better and the gain of using 10% CPU instead of 20 is not really relevant since it&#x27;s the NIC that is the bottleneck.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fyfy18</author><text>I’d say the slowness of Ruby is really over exaggerated. For most web applications it’s good enough, and the speed of development (how fast you can ship) almost always outweighs any costs from it being slow.<p>You can always replace the endpoints that are slow with something written in a more performant language like Golang or Erlang later.<p>I’ve worked on all sorts of applications from corporate CRUD to mobile billing gateways written in Ruby (usually Rails), and in very few cases has Ruby itself been the bottleneck.</text></item><item><author>nooyurrsdey</author><text>For some reason people seem to constant doubt Ruby-ists and Rails Devs.<p>I completely get that other languages have huge benefits over Ruby. Golang being compiled or Java running anywhere, etc... And ruby is slow, totally understood.<p>But if youre talking about getting a functioning webapp up and running <i>quickly</i>... no way anyone is beating a Rails dev in setting one up. The piping and scaffolding are all built in and the gem ecosystem (for web apps specifically) is so well maintained and robust that you can drop it in to your app and get a functioning product with ease.<p>I know that&#x27;s a loaded statement bc Rails becomes not so great in other cases like building speedy backend jobs. But for a small user-facing web app it&#x27;s hands down the best.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?</title><text>I am still frustrated with the amount of incidental complexity required whenever I want to do this. My latest attempt was to use a Digital Ocean droplet with Django pre-installed. I guess the biggest issue there was setting up something so that I could easily deploy my local version to the droplet (ended up using git&#x2F;Github), and ensuring those two environments were in sync. I looked into Docker in some detail about a year ago, and I think it&#x27;s the only pretty good solution for this I&#x27;ve come across—but there&#x27;s a steep up front cost in learning&#x2F;setup etc. (or so it seems).<p>What services and technologies do you use when you&#x27;d like to quickly build a web app which may never be more than a prototype, but may also turn into something real? A big aspect of what I&#x27;m wondering is about automatically setting something up for keeping local&#x2F;production environments in sync, quickly deploying to production, and not having to mess with a bunch of server configuration things, user accounts, security, etc.</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>technion</author><text>I think the rise of Mastodon is really pouring some hot water on that meme. Lots of really small VPSs are running some fairly big instances. Although I&#x27;m only personally using one of them, it&#x27;s very fast, and the general view is that isn&#x27;t unusual.<p>I get that it won&#x27;t hit Twitter scale but that matches the majority of &quot;how do I build a prototype&quot; use cases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fyfy18</author><text>I’d say the slowness of Ruby is really over exaggerated. For most web applications it’s good enough, and the speed of development (how fast you can ship) almost always outweighs any costs from it being slow.<p>You can always replace the endpoints that are slow with something written in a more performant language like Golang or Erlang later.<p>I’ve worked on all sorts of applications from corporate CRUD to mobile billing gateways written in Ruby (usually Rails), and in very few cases has Ruby itself been the bottleneck.</text></item><item><author>nooyurrsdey</author><text>For some reason people seem to constant doubt Ruby-ists and Rails Devs.<p>I completely get that other languages have huge benefits over Ruby. Golang being compiled or Java running anywhere, etc... And ruby is slow, totally understood.<p>But if youre talking about getting a functioning webapp up and running <i>quickly</i>... no way anyone is beating a Rails dev in setting one up. The piping and scaffolding are all built in and the gem ecosystem (for web apps specifically) is so well maintained and robust that you can drop it in to your app and get a functioning product with ease.<p>I know that&#x27;s a loaded statement bc Rails becomes not so great in other cases like building speedy backend jobs. But for a small user-facing web app it&#x27;s hands down the best.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?</title><text>I am still frustrated with the amount of incidental complexity required whenever I want to do this. My latest attempt was to use a Digital Ocean droplet with Django pre-installed. I guess the biggest issue there was setting up something so that I could easily deploy my local version to the droplet (ended up using git&#x2F;Github), and ensuring those two environments were in sync. I looked into Docker in some detail about a year ago, and I think it&#x27;s the only pretty good solution for this I&#x27;ve come across—but there&#x27;s a steep up front cost in learning&#x2F;setup etc. (or so it seems).<p>What services and technologies do you use when you&#x27;d like to quickly build a web app which may never be more than a prototype, but may also turn into something real? A big aspect of what I&#x27;m wondering is about automatically setting something up for keeping local&#x2F;production environments in sync, quickly deploying to production, and not having to mess with a bunch of server configuration things, user accounts, security, etc.</text></story> |
16,199,925 | 16,199,960 | 1 | 3 | 16,199,593 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawayjava</author><text>Sorry, but I think that this view is both obviously wrong and actively harmful. It&#x27;s an example of where going with textbook definitions actually <i>obfuscates</i> reality.<p>Highly compensated managers are taking a share of profit, often quite literally (look at how VP and above positions are compensated). But always indirectly -- you can&#x27;t tell me a 7-8 figure salary &quot;isn&#x27;t a share of profit&quot;. That&#x27;s obvious BS. And if my own compensation is a share of profit in the same sense (which, a port of it literally is), then my observation that non-engineers get 99% of that share is still accurate.<p>Anyways, and much more importantly, this is pretty tangential to my original point. The point is that if I&#x27;m an engineer at a large firm, it is NOT my job to do the MBA thing. The entire premise of a firm is that the author of this post is wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; getting 99% of the profits?<p>Profits by definition are calculated after labor costs are deducted, so employees get 0% of the profits in salary.<p>However, take a look at your company&#x27;s accounts and see how much of the gross revenue is paid out as wages and salary. It&#x27;ll be a big chunk. There&#x27;s your share.</text></item><item><author>throwawayjava</author><text><i>&gt; This is why I struggle with scenarios where people discuss pay and work without considering value.</i><p>Counter-point: firms exist.<p>If I&#x27;m the one figuring out how to create value, why the hell are the C suite, middle managers, and investors getting 99% of the profits?<p>So no, in the context of a large firm, it&#x27;s definitely <i>NOT</i> an engineer&#x27;s job to figure out how their skills align with market demand. And that&#x27;s the <i>whole damn point</i> of a firm.<p>Now, this may be reasonable advice if I want to maximize by income. But maybe my goal is to maximize income <i>under the constraint</i> that &quot;my excellent engineering&quot; is the primary consideration in my performance evaluations. And there&#x27;s nothing wrong with that; people trade income for all sorts of things. Telling someone not to make that trade-off is like chiding them for buying an expensive latte or sending their kids to an expensive private school. It&#x27;s not your money, so it&#x27;s none of your business.<p>edit: And, furthermore, the success of large firms and the high compensation available at those firms suggest that the author&#x27;s advice might actually be actively harmful. As an engineer, you might actually be better off ignoring engineering-value alignment because you might be better off simply executing well within a well-oiled machine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from</title><url>https://lianza.org/blog/2018/01/21/fellow-engineers-this-is-where-your-money-comes-from/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>angersock</author><text>Who drives the better cars, has better vacations, and better real-estate?</text><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; getting 99% of the profits?<p>Profits by definition are calculated after labor costs are deducted, so employees get 0% of the profits in salary.<p>However, take a look at your company&#x27;s accounts and see how much of the gross revenue is paid out as wages and salary. It&#x27;ll be a big chunk. There&#x27;s your share.</text></item><item><author>throwawayjava</author><text><i>&gt; This is why I struggle with scenarios where people discuss pay and work without considering value.</i><p>Counter-point: firms exist.<p>If I&#x27;m the one figuring out how to create value, why the hell are the C suite, middle managers, and investors getting 99% of the profits?<p>So no, in the context of a large firm, it&#x27;s definitely <i>NOT</i> an engineer&#x27;s job to figure out how their skills align with market demand. And that&#x27;s the <i>whole damn point</i> of a firm.<p>Now, this may be reasonable advice if I want to maximize by income. But maybe my goal is to maximize income <i>under the constraint</i> that &quot;my excellent engineering&quot; is the primary consideration in my performance evaluations. And there&#x27;s nothing wrong with that; people trade income for all sorts of things. Telling someone not to make that trade-off is like chiding them for buying an expensive latte or sending their kids to an expensive private school. It&#x27;s not your money, so it&#x27;s none of your business.<p>edit: And, furthermore, the success of large firms and the high compensation available at those firms suggest that the author&#x27;s advice might actually be actively harmful. As an engineer, you might actually be better off ignoring engineering-value alignment because you might be better off simply executing well within a well-oiled machine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from</title><url>https://lianza.org/blog/2018/01/21/fellow-engineers-this-is-where-your-money-comes-from/</url></story> |
27,493,659 | 27,493,154 | 1 | 2 | 27,492,616 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>treis</author><text>&gt; there really are not a lot of real world use cases.<p>It&#x27;s effectively just one. To make illegal transactions. That&#x27;s a long list of things: drugs, hiding wealth, evading currency controls, extortion, and so on. Otherwise, existing currency and transfer mechanisms are more or less available and convenient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>I find crypto super interesting and have dipped my toes in with some small real money just to force myself to try out different products.<p>That said, so far, almost 10 years in, there really are not a lot of real world use cases. Sure there are glorified POCs of things that could potentially lead in the direction of real world use cases.<p>But most of these products&#x2F;tokens are just extremely meta. Tokens you get paid&#x2F;pay for when you trade&#x2F;borrow&#x2F;lend&#x2F;invest&#x2F;stake your other tokens. Derivative tokens which allow you to get exposure to underlying tokenX on chainY.<p>The transactions are slow, or fast.. cheap or expensive, good luck understanding which in advance.<p>It doesn&#x27;t feel like we are any closer to normal people using it for normal real world transactions&#x2F;finance.<p>Right now it just feels like pump&amp;dump&#x2F;frontrunning&#x2F;private placement games on each new token before it hits mainstream, completely nothing to do with what the alleged business behind that token is supposed to be doing or its prospects of success. It&#x27;s just a game of getting hold of difficult to acquire tokens before they hit the more normie venues like Binance, Coinbase, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I have zero faith in crypto venture capitalists</title><url>https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/06/12/why-i-have-zero-faith-in-crypto-venture-capitalists/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>borrowcheckfml</author><text>I think of it like this. Various tokens give you certain types of exposures with different risk profiles. Yields are so high because of the risk.<p>This really isn&#x27;t so different from the centralized financial system where we have built complex structures (exotic derivatives, structured products, etc) to give you certain types of exposures. The difference is that DeFi is globally accessible and permissionless.<p>Even if DeFi never moves beyond these &quot;financial speculation&quot; use cases, if it replaces what&#x27;s currently centralized in government-regulated financial markets, that&#x27;s a multi-trillion dollar opportunity.<p>I&#x27;m doubtful we&#x27;ll see any retail use cases or mass option beyond speculation soon, just like your average retail user does not buy exotic derivatives. That doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not useful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>I find crypto super interesting and have dipped my toes in with some small real money just to force myself to try out different products.<p>That said, so far, almost 10 years in, there really are not a lot of real world use cases. Sure there are glorified POCs of things that could potentially lead in the direction of real world use cases.<p>But most of these products&#x2F;tokens are just extremely meta. Tokens you get paid&#x2F;pay for when you trade&#x2F;borrow&#x2F;lend&#x2F;invest&#x2F;stake your other tokens. Derivative tokens which allow you to get exposure to underlying tokenX on chainY.<p>The transactions are slow, or fast.. cheap or expensive, good luck understanding which in advance.<p>It doesn&#x27;t feel like we are any closer to normal people using it for normal real world transactions&#x2F;finance.<p>Right now it just feels like pump&amp;dump&#x2F;frontrunning&#x2F;private placement games on each new token before it hits mainstream, completely nothing to do with what the alleged business behind that token is supposed to be doing or its prospects of success. It&#x27;s just a game of getting hold of difficult to acquire tokens before they hit the more normie venues like Binance, Coinbase, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I have zero faith in crypto venture capitalists</title><url>https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/06/12/why-i-have-zero-faith-in-crypto-venture-capitalists/</url></story> |
21,993,233 | 21,993,546 | 1 | 3 | 21,991,632 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>The noise cancelling changes <i>everything</i>.<p>It just makes dealing with incessant city noise so much more manageable.<p>You don&#x27;t even have to be listening to music.<p>But if you are listening to music, you hear it so much more clearly and can use a lower volume.<p>From a quality of life perspective, if you commute by foot&#x2F;subway&#x2F;bus, they&#x27;re so so worth it.<p>(Yes there were noise-cancelling headphones before, but always bulky or with wires. With AirPods, they&#x27;re just effortless to bring+wear.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>habosa</author><text>In San Francisco (so at the center of the bubble) I&#x27;ve been shocked by the adoption of the AirPods pro. I see them everywhere now and they&#x27;ve only been out for two months or so. Add the regular AirPods in and they&#x27;re downright ubiquitous.<p>These are $250 headphones. I&#x27;ve loved music all my life and I used to get weird looks from people when I told them I was spending $150-200 on nice earbuds with better sound quality. For about a decade everyone was pretty happy with the white iPod headphones that came in the box.<p>Thinking back I guess Beats opened the floodgates of &quot;normal people having expensive headphones&quot; and also &quot;headphones as fashion&quot; and then AirPods came in and added a whole convenience layer on top which seems to be driving people to buy in droves.<p>So yeah, Apple&#x27;s raking it in. Guess I shouldn&#x27;t be surprised.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue</title><url>https://twitter.com/neilcybart/status/1214867813464236032</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmode</author><text>I am not someone who spend a lot of money on audio hardware, but plunked $150 for AirPods. The product is just so good, and there is no way I can go back to a wired headset now. In fact I hate talking on my phone without AirPods in general now</text><parent_chain><item><author>habosa</author><text>In San Francisco (so at the center of the bubble) I&#x27;ve been shocked by the adoption of the AirPods pro. I see them everywhere now and they&#x27;ve only been out for two months or so. Add the regular AirPods in and they&#x27;re downright ubiquitous.<p>These are $250 headphones. I&#x27;ve loved music all my life and I used to get weird looks from people when I told them I was spending $150-200 on nice earbuds with better sound quality. For about a decade everyone was pretty happy with the white iPod headphones that came in the box.<p>Thinking back I guess Beats opened the floodgates of &quot;normal people having expensive headphones&quot; and also &quot;headphones as fashion&quot; and then AirPods came in and added a whole convenience layer on top which seems to be driving people to buy in droves.<p>So yeah, Apple&#x27;s raking it in. Guess I shouldn&#x27;t be surprised.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue</title><url>https://twitter.com/neilcybart/status/1214867813464236032</url></story> |
6,924,262 | 6,922,530 | 1 | 3 | 6,921,828 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zsombor</author><text>Whilst thanks to lack of choice JavaScript is so important on the browser side, I would hope the Node infatuation would eventually pass where you do have a choice. Async calls in Node are done via explicit passing of closures. Callbacks, Promises etc all look bad compared to simple sequential instructions like:<p><pre><code> credentials := NewCredentials(token)
User.findByName(credentials.userName)
</code></pre>
The above is in Go, and it is just as fast if not more. Whilst all requests are on their own goroutines, the runtime will schedule them using the same efficient async io that does not need to be made visible as in JavaScript.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeswin</author><text>Broader adoption of JS on the server will only begin after ES6 generators land in Node. Due to the complexity of async code, writing JS on the server is not easy for the average team.<p>As of now, you could use Promises but it is still kind of messy without generators. Here is a simple example:<p><pre><code> #Without generators
Credentials.get({ token })
.then (credentials) =&gt;
User.get({ username: credentials.username })
#With generators
credentials = yield Credentials.get({ token })
User.get({ username: credentials.username })
</code></pre>
We use FaceBook&#x27;s regenerator project to compile ES6 features down to Node&#x27;s currently supported Javascript features. If you don&#x27;t want to use the --harmony flag, you should really try it out. <a href="https://github.com/facebook/regenerator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;regenerator</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript Promises: There and back again</title><url>http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/#!</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>camus2</author><text>Good but can you yield from the global scope? if not you still need to write at least a function.<p>The hardest stuff in JS is that :<p><pre><code> function F(){throw &quot;error&quot;}
try{setTimeout(F,1000)}catch(error){ console.log(&quot;error&quot;)}
</code></pre>
we cant catch async errors outside the async callback , will generators fix this ? ( by the way , that&#x27;s why you should never throw any error yourself in js ).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeswin</author><text>Broader adoption of JS on the server will only begin after ES6 generators land in Node. Due to the complexity of async code, writing JS on the server is not easy for the average team.<p>As of now, you could use Promises but it is still kind of messy without generators. Here is a simple example:<p><pre><code> #Without generators
Credentials.get({ token })
.then (credentials) =&gt;
User.get({ username: credentials.username })
#With generators
credentials = yield Credentials.get({ token })
User.get({ username: credentials.username })
</code></pre>
We use FaceBook&#x27;s regenerator project to compile ES6 features down to Node&#x27;s currently supported Javascript features. If you don&#x27;t want to use the --harmony flag, you should really try it out. <a href="https://github.com/facebook/regenerator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;regenerator</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript Promises: There and back again</title><url>http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/#!</url></story> |
4,112,243 | 4,112,236 | 1 | 3 | 4,111,894 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jashkenas</author><text>Whoa there nellie. Complexity ahoy.<p>Why would you want to have a view that dumps out its HTML as a string? If a string of HTML is all you want, don't use a view, just use a template.<p>But putting that aside for a second ... for this particular example, how about this:<p><pre><code> render: -&#62;
this.$el.html JST["table_view_template"]()
tbody = this.$el('tbody')
for person in this.collection.models
view = new TableRowView model: person
tbody.append view.render().el
</code></pre>
... or if you were in earnest about only needing the raw HTML from the sub-view, how about just rendering the row templates within the table template, making your render function as simple as this:<p><pre><code> render: -&#62;
this.$el.html this.template people: this.collection</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Backbone.js views done right</title><url>http://blog.gaslightsoftware.com/post/24538291598/backbone-js-views-done-the-right-way?utm_medium=hackernews</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcromartie</author><text>This is getting way too many votes for what amounts to bad advice. I think you should keep subview rendering methods out of your templates (i.e. keep your templates "dumb"). You can just create placeholder elements in the template, and then pass the placeholder element to the subview constructor. Or you can just append a list of collection-based subviews to a single container element.<p>You should be able to write Backbone apps without resorting to stuff like $("#row_#{@model.id}")<p>And for an example, here's a gist <a href="https://gist.github.com/2931491" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/2931491</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Backbone.js views done right</title><url>http://blog.gaslightsoftware.com/post/24538291598/backbone-js-views-done-the-right-way?utm_medium=hackernews</url><text></text></story> |
6,290,402 | 6,290,130 | 1 | 2 | 6,289,770 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mintplant</author><text>Binaries? Libraries? Let&#x27;s stick &#x27;em in `&#x2F;usr`! Oh, but where do user files go? I know, `&#x2F;home`! What about all this other stuff? Eh, `&#x2F;etc` will do. Unless it won&#x27;t, in which case `&#x2F;var` is the obvious solution. Or maybe even `&#x2F;opt`, if we&#x27;re feeling especially hip today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhauer</author><text>Amusing, but the standard Unix file system is nothing to be too proud of. I&#x27;d very much like to see a file system layout re-imagined for the 2010s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders</title><url>http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fiatpandas</author><text>Check out GoboLinux&#x27;s file system structure:<p><a href="http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=at_a_glance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gobolinux.org&#x2F;index.php?page=at_a_glance</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bhauer</author><text>Amusing, but the standard Unix file system is nothing to be too proud of. I&#x27;d very much like to see a file system layout re-imagined for the 2010s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders</title><url>http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp</url></story> |
19,873,949 | 19,873,398 | 1 | 3 | 19,872,928 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmode</author><text>It is hilarious people think &quot;money will run out&quot; and CA is mismanaged. CA has a $30bn rainy day fund. It is incredibly managed. We have protected our shorelines, our mountains, our nature while other states have sold them off to the highest bidder. Our legislators pioneered equal rights and made LGBT mainstream in American politics. We pioneered action against climate change and kick started incentives towards alternative fuel, solar, and wind energy. We have the most generous healthcare coverage in America. We have the most generous welfare in America. We have invested billions in public transportation. We have the most upwardly mobile population. We pioneered recreational marijuana, and decriminalizing drugs. We are leading the revolution against mass incarceration. We have some of the most generous policies that are pro-women, starting from abortion to parental leaves. And we have the #1 economy in the world. That&#x27;s quite mismanagement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>It&#x27;s not just SF. The whole state of CA is woefully mismanaged. They just have enough money to smooth over much of the stupid stuff. When the money runs out (next recession?) they are gonna get hit really really hard (and they deserve it, stupid should hurt).</text></item><item><author>kenneth</author><text>San Francisco is one of the most mismanaged major cities in the world and it&#x27;s on such a negative trajectory. It&#x27;s blessed with an incredibly successful homegrown tech industry, but there&#x27;s only so much that can do to hide the underlying disfunction and the cracks are starting to show.<p>As a VC in San Francisco, I&#x27;ve recently given up my residence here, and am increasingly looking outward for tech and culture. I see many of my peers doing the same, moving east, south, or out of the country entirely.<p>It&#x27;s bittersweet. I used to love San Francisco, but have recently entirely lost faith in it ever getting better. I&#x27;ve given up. And honestly, I feel a weight lifted from not having to care and constantly deal with the frustration anymore. There&#x27;s so much tech &amp; entrepreneurship worth promoting outside of SF, and it&#x27;s so often overlooked.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco proposes “IPO tax” on eve of Uber offering</title><url>https://www.axios.com/san-francisco-proposes-ipo-tax-uber-lyft-63d1d608-0819-44ab-860b-066371b08038.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>seanmcdirmid</author><text>People have been saying that about California for more than 150 years (when the gold runs out, SF will turn into a ghost town, you’ll see!).</text><parent_chain><item><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>It&#x27;s not just SF. The whole state of CA is woefully mismanaged. They just have enough money to smooth over much of the stupid stuff. When the money runs out (next recession?) they are gonna get hit really really hard (and they deserve it, stupid should hurt).</text></item><item><author>kenneth</author><text>San Francisco is one of the most mismanaged major cities in the world and it&#x27;s on such a negative trajectory. It&#x27;s blessed with an incredibly successful homegrown tech industry, but there&#x27;s only so much that can do to hide the underlying disfunction and the cracks are starting to show.<p>As a VC in San Francisco, I&#x27;ve recently given up my residence here, and am increasingly looking outward for tech and culture. I see many of my peers doing the same, moving east, south, or out of the country entirely.<p>It&#x27;s bittersweet. I used to love San Francisco, but have recently entirely lost faith in it ever getting better. I&#x27;ve given up. And honestly, I feel a weight lifted from not having to care and constantly deal with the frustration anymore. There&#x27;s so much tech &amp; entrepreneurship worth promoting outside of SF, and it&#x27;s so often overlooked.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>San Francisco proposes “IPO tax” on eve of Uber offering</title><url>https://www.axios.com/san-francisco-proposes-ipo-tax-uber-lyft-63d1d608-0819-44ab-860b-066371b08038.html</url></story> |
21,375,553 | 21,375,279 | 1 | 2 | 21,373,487 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>&gt; Interesting, that TSMC still used such ancient node in 2013.<p>I guess for these type of products, where the wafers is not what costs (the 6502 is ~3.5k transistors), but overheads of dealing with small runs and packaging or investing in upgrades...<p>Anyone looking for large quantities of 6502-compatible cores presumably are mostly licensing cores to embed into something else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lnsru</author><text>Price is a bit high, but factory lead time of 1 week is amazing! Also very interesting Product Change Notification: “0.6μm process currently being used at TSMC”. Interesting, that TSMC still used such ancient node in 2013.</text></item><item><author>spectramax</author><text>You can still buy them from WDC, part #W65C02S: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mouser.com&#x2F;ProductDetail&#x2F;Western-Design-Center-WDC&#x2F;W65C02S6TPG-14?qs=sGAEpiMZZMvu0Nwh4cA1wSNu7hWmGrIdvYIw7nZ2DMI%3D" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mouser.com&#x2F;ProductDetail&#x2F;Western-Design-Center-W...</a></text></item><item><author>wmil</author><text>What&#x27;s really interesting is how long 6502 variants lasted. They mentioned the NES, but the SNES also used a 16 bit variant similar to what the Apple IIgs used.<p>Starting in 1995 Nintendo included the SA1 chip in some cartridges, which was a 6502 variant running at a little over 10Mhz.<p>I actually think that Nintendo could have come out with a SNES Pro CD system in the mid 90s by including SA1 and SuperFX2 chips and having 4MB of RAM.<p>CD based systems with sprite &amp; tile based hardware seem to have all failed due to lack of RAM. Just too memory hungry, especially once you start increasing the number of colours. The Neo Geo hardware (Motorola 68k &amp; Z80) was able to produce hits after 2000 by using giant, expensive, cartridges.<p>They could have kept a 6502 based system going as a budget system (keeping the N64 as their &quot;cadilac&quot; system) until 2000.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Story of the Team Behind the 6502</title><url>https://www.team6502.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>mschuster91</author><text>Sure, the node is ancient, but the factory is long ago written off which means that (aside from energy, materials and labor expenses) all income is pure profit. As long as there are enough orders to cover the expenses plus a couple percent of profit margin, it makes sense to continue operating that factory.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lnsru</author><text>Price is a bit high, but factory lead time of 1 week is amazing! Also very interesting Product Change Notification: “0.6μm process currently being used at TSMC”. Interesting, that TSMC still used such ancient node in 2013.</text></item><item><author>spectramax</author><text>You can still buy them from WDC, part #W65C02S: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mouser.com&#x2F;ProductDetail&#x2F;Western-Design-Center-WDC&#x2F;W65C02S6TPG-14?qs=sGAEpiMZZMvu0Nwh4cA1wSNu7hWmGrIdvYIw7nZ2DMI%3D" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mouser.com&#x2F;ProductDetail&#x2F;Western-Design-Center-W...</a></text></item><item><author>wmil</author><text>What&#x27;s really interesting is how long 6502 variants lasted. They mentioned the NES, but the SNES also used a 16 bit variant similar to what the Apple IIgs used.<p>Starting in 1995 Nintendo included the SA1 chip in some cartridges, which was a 6502 variant running at a little over 10Mhz.<p>I actually think that Nintendo could have come out with a SNES Pro CD system in the mid 90s by including SA1 and SuperFX2 chips and having 4MB of RAM.<p>CD based systems with sprite &amp; tile based hardware seem to have all failed due to lack of RAM. Just too memory hungry, especially once you start increasing the number of colours. The Neo Geo hardware (Motorola 68k &amp; Z80) was able to produce hits after 2000 by using giant, expensive, cartridges.<p>They could have kept a 6502 based system going as a budget system (keeping the N64 as their &quot;cadilac&quot; system) until 2000.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Story of the Team Behind the 6502</title><url>https://www.team6502.org/</url></story> |
32,660,534 | 32,660,563 | 1 | 2 | 32,654,734 | 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>V__</author><text>&gt; he became increasingly frustrated over the years that this was not done.<p>This may be true, but I think it&#x27;s more likely that he doesn&#x27;t care about it at all. He is an opportunist, and back then the best opportunity was to criticize the U.S. and Europe by insisting on international law. Today, he is saying Europe is a fascist Nazi oppressor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danbruc</author><text>From your link [1].<p><i>He [Putin] became briefly close to President George W Bush - who even claimed to have glimpsed Putin&#x27;s soul - until the Iraq War drove them apart. In Iraq, Putin insisted that international law must be upheld - no invasion could be allowed without approval from the United Nations Security Council, and that approval was not forthcoming.</i><p>This is also Putin and it is not singular. If you listen to his speeches, he often demands that international laws and treaties should be upheld and he became increasingly frustrated over the years that this was not done. Maybe you can argue that this was his only option out of a position of weakness, but never the less he did this.<p>Putin wanting to recapture and rebuild a past empire is a very new narrative without much supporting evidence over all those years.</text></item><item><author>rixrax</author><text>But the dissolution of soviet union is not over yet. You can see this nowhere as clearly as in russias attack on Ukraine[0] where imperialistic russians that dream of restoring the glory and borders of soviet union[1] are waging their genocidal war. Meanwhile they are using hunger[2] and energy as their weapons against the rest of the world[3].<p>If the russians are not stopped in Ukraine, then there is no reason to believe that they wouldn&#x27;t rinse and repeat in Baltic states, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and all other now independent former russian states. Including Alaska[4], should opportunity represent itself.<p>To truly secure Gorbachevs place in history, world must decisively say no to the russians agressions in Ukraine, and help Ukraine deliver a humiliating defeat to the russians and the dissolution of soviet union reach it&#x27;s logical conclusion by stripping russia and their dreams off of any status as military, or world power.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;europe&#x2F;live-news&#x2F;russia-ukraine-war-news-08-30-22&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;europe&#x2F;live-news&#x2F;russia-ukraine-war-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-26769481" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-26769481</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theweek.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;russia&#x2F;957367&#x2F;russia-uses-hunger-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-ukraine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theweek.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;russia&#x2F;957367&#x2F;russ...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlanticcouncil.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;ukrainealert&#x2F;putins-energy-weapon-europe-must-be-ready-for-russian-gas-blackmail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlanticcouncil.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;ukrainealert&#x2F;putins-en...</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;does-russia-want-alaska-back&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;does-russia-want-alas...</a></text></item><item><author>idlewords</author><text>Gorbachev secured his place in history by what he <i>didn&#x27;t</i> do. While never endorsing the end of the eastern bloc, he made it clear beginning in the late 1980&#x27;s that unlike his predecessors, he would not oppose democratic reforms in Eastern Europe by force. To general astonishment, he kept this promise, and with the regrettable exception of Lithuania this commitment to not repeating the crimes of his predecessors is Gorbachev&#x27;s greatest legacy. In 1988 you would have been hard pressed to find anyone who could imagine the mostly peaceful collapse of the Eastern Bloc, but Gorbachev had the moral courage to accept this once unimaginable consequence of his policy and to see it through.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mikhail Gorbachev has died</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/mikhail-gorbachev-who-ended-cold-war-dies-aged-92-agencies-2022-08-30/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theelous3</author><text>So when putin claims casus belli over another nation&#x27;s land due to previous ownership a whole bunch of times, you just disregard it because of something he _didn&#x27;t_ say years ago?<p>The tactic of &quot;rules for thee but not for me&quot; is as old as time. The implication that putin wants russia to actually be held to the same standards as he is trying to get other nations held to - all the while fomenting war on his borders and ignoring eight bajillion commitments and treaties - is laughable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danbruc</author><text>From your link [1].<p><i>He [Putin] became briefly close to President George W Bush - who even claimed to have glimpsed Putin&#x27;s soul - until the Iraq War drove them apart. In Iraq, Putin insisted that international law must be upheld - no invasion could be allowed without approval from the United Nations Security Council, and that approval was not forthcoming.</i><p>This is also Putin and it is not singular. If you listen to his speeches, he often demands that international laws and treaties should be upheld and he became increasingly frustrated over the years that this was not done. Maybe you can argue that this was his only option out of a position of weakness, but never the less he did this.<p>Putin wanting to recapture and rebuild a past empire is a very new narrative without much supporting evidence over all those years.</text></item><item><author>rixrax</author><text>But the dissolution of soviet union is not over yet. You can see this nowhere as clearly as in russias attack on Ukraine[0] where imperialistic russians that dream of restoring the glory and borders of soviet union[1] are waging their genocidal war. Meanwhile they are using hunger[2] and energy as their weapons against the rest of the world[3].<p>If the russians are not stopped in Ukraine, then there is no reason to believe that they wouldn&#x27;t rinse and repeat in Baltic states, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and all other now independent former russian states. Including Alaska[4], should opportunity represent itself.<p>To truly secure Gorbachevs place in history, world must decisively say no to the russians agressions in Ukraine, and help Ukraine deliver a humiliating defeat to the russians and the dissolution of soviet union reach it&#x27;s logical conclusion by stripping russia and their dreams off of any status as military, or world power.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;europe&#x2F;live-news&#x2F;russia-ukraine-war-news-08-30-22&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;europe&#x2F;live-news&#x2F;russia-ukraine-war-...</a>
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[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theweek.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;russia&#x2F;957367&#x2F;russia-uses-hunger-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-ukraine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theweek.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;russia&#x2F;957367&#x2F;russ...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlanticcouncil.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;ukrainealert&#x2F;putins-energy-weapon-europe-must-be-ready-for-russian-gas-blackmail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlanticcouncil.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;ukrainealert&#x2F;putins-en...</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;does-russia-want-alaska-back&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;does-russia-want-alas...</a></text></item><item><author>idlewords</author><text>Gorbachev secured his place in history by what he <i>didn&#x27;t</i> do. While never endorsing the end of the eastern bloc, he made it clear beginning in the late 1980&#x27;s that unlike his predecessors, he would not oppose democratic reforms in Eastern Europe by force. To general astonishment, he kept this promise, and with the regrettable exception of Lithuania this commitment to not repeating the crimes of his predecessors is Gorbachev&#x27;s greatest legacy. In 1988 you would have been hard pressed to find anyone who could imagine the mostly peaceful collapse of the Eastern Bloc, but Gorbachev had the moral courage to accept this once unimaginable consequence of his policy and to see it through.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mikhail Gorbachev has died</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/mikhail-gorbachev-who-ended-cold-war-dies-aged-92-agencies-2022-08-30/</url></story> |
32,294,431 | 32,293,731 | 1 | 2 | 32,291,822 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bedatadriven</author><text>The VDom was never intended as a performance optimization over direct dom manipulation.<p>It is a tool to make functional reactive programming style _almost_ as performant as direct dom manipulation.<p>The comparison that&#x27;s relevant here is, how long does it take to repaint the view if I recompute the view as a function of my state every time my state changes?<p>Compared to rebuilding the dom tree on every change, using a vdoms and diffing offer a huge speedup.<p>Using jquery&#x2F;vanilla js to update thr dom in an adhoc fashion in response to user input (when the user clicks &quot;next&quot;, then add a class to this dom element, remove this other element from this other random place...) has always had faster runtime, it&#x27;s just more likely to be coded wrong.<p>FRP is an abstraction that makes writing and reasoning about correct UIs easier. Vdom is a technique that makes this abstraction practical.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_the_inflator</author><text>The virtual DOM idea is nowadays a myth. It stems from the time when Facebook was still a Web App and was running on IE8 and IE6.<p>It was a decent idea to optimize for these browsers and FB&#x27;s nature of featuring hundreds of comments etc. that could be updated somewhere outside your view port and cascade nevertheless into repaints and reflows. Remember the FB feed?<p>I also worked on virtual DOM optimizations back then for these IEs, but have long since abandoned optimizations. I take it with Svelte: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svelte.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svelte.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead</a><p>Also Google sheets results show overall, that DOM is faster than any virtual DOM, so why produce overhead? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;millionjs.org&#x2F;benchmarks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;millionjs.org&#x2F;benchmarks</a><p>Virtual DOMs are a thing that people long time ago forgot why and for what technology it was invented. Then came Google Chrome and their optimizations.<p>For benchmarks, I think this is still the best around: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krausest.github.io&#x2F;js-framework-benchmark&#x2F;current.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krausest.github.io&#x2F;js-framework-benchmark&#x2F;current.ht...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast</title><url>https://millionjs.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>toxicFork</author><text>It feels nicer to use functional components with declarative state than set dom attributes imperatively.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_the_inflator</author><text>The virtual DOM idea is nowadays a myth. It stems from the time when Facebook was still a Web App and was running on IE8 and IE6.<p>It was a decent idea to optimize for these browsers and FB&#x27;s nature of featuring hundreds of comments etc. that could be updated somewhere outside your view port and cascade nevertheless into repaints and reflows. Remember the FB feed?<p>I also worked on virtual DOM optimizations back then for these IEs, but have long since abandoned optimizations. I take it with Svelte: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svelte.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svelte.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead</a><p>Also Google sheets results show overall, that DOM is faster than any virtual DOM, so why produce overhead? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;millionjs.org&#x2F;benchmarks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;millionjs.org&#x2F;benchmarks</a><p>Virtual DOMs are a thing that people long time ago forgot why and for what technology it was invented. Then came Google Chrome and their optimizations.<p>For benchmarks, I think this is still the best around: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krausest.github.io&#x2F;js-framework-benchmark&#x2F;current.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krausest.github.io&#x2F;js-framework-benchmark&#x2F;current.ht...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast</title><url>https://millionjs.org/</url></story> |
24,920,085 | 24,920,014 | 1 | 3 | 24,917,132 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sirsar</author><text>LA has an order of magnitude more population than is required for functioning public transit. But you&#x27;re right they don&#x27;t have the density.<p>The key is to realize <i>the cars themselves killed density</i>.<p>Parking lots, parking spaces, and extra lanes all conspire to push humans and human spaces further apart. This then makes walking less feasible, cars more required, and more space required to accommodate those cars in a feedback loop.<p>Taller buildings are not required for density, far from it. Look at Somerville, MA, where just about nothing is higher than 3 stories, yet they fit almost 20,000 people into a square mile -- and they like it. What they <i>don&#x27;t</i> fit is 20,000 parking spaces, and that makes all the difference.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>The fundamental prerequisite for functional mass transit is a high population density. That&#x27;s why it works in NYC and doesn&#x27;t work in Los Angeles.<p>But that means it&#x27;s not just a matter of building mass transit. First you have to build taller buildings.<p>And even then there are going to be places where it&#x27;s just not happening. It doesn&#x27;t matter how you change the zoning, nobody is going to build skyscrapers in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming.</text></item><item><author>Kaze404</author><text>I have a feeling I&#x27;ll be down voted to hell for this, but self driving cars always felt like going the complete wrong direction for me. Aside from small personal satisfaction to the few that will be able to afford them, how is revolving our infrastructure and culture around them any better than simply investing in public transportation by making it a more feasible option for people?<p>I&#x27;m not in the US, and while the public transportation system here is far from perfect, I&#x27;ve managed to get by this far without a car and don&#x27;t plan on buying one anytime soon. I much prefer a future where this is improved compared to one I have to fork tens of thousands of USD for a chromatic death machine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The self-driving car is a red herring</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/the-self_driving-car-is-a-red-herring</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atharris</author><text>The rest of the world is rife with small, rural towns that nevertheless have great public transit systems, or at least ones that are more effective than what we see in the US. The major difference is that these places are willing to invest in the public sphere, and they&#x27;re by and large willing to permit construction that is not car-centric (i.e., no parking minima to subsidize drivers).</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>The fundamental prerequisite for functional mass transit is a high population density. That&#x27;s why it works in NYC and doesn&#x27;t work in Los Angeles.<p>But that means it&#x27;s not just a matter of building mass transit. First you have to build taller buildings.<p>And even then there are going to be places where it&#x27;s just not happening. It doesn&#x27;t matter how you change the zoning, nobody is going to build skyscrapers in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming.</text></item><item><author>Kaze404</author><text>I have a feeling I&#x27;ll be down voted to hell for this, but self driving cars always felt like going the complete wrong direction for me. Aside from small personal satisfaction to the few that will be able to afford them, how is revolving our infrastructure and culture around them any better than simply investing in public transportation by making it a more feasible option for people?<p>I&#x27;m not in the US, and while the public transportation system here is far from perfect, I&#x27;ve managed to get by this far without a car and don&#x27;t plan on buying one anytime soon. I much prefer a future where this is improved compared to one I have to fork tens of thousands of USD for a chromatic death machine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The self-driving car is a red herring</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/the-self_driving-car-is-a-red-herring</url></story> |
8,678,916 | 8,678,931 | 1 | 2 | 8,678,847 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gilgoomesh</author><text>If we take this article at face-value (that Google is as big as it is because of its monopoly in search) a related question is immediately raised: why is Google&#x27;s search engine a monopoly?<p>If the monopoly is due to superior technology, why are Google able to write a better search engine and maintain this search engine lead?<p>If the monopoly is due to other effects (buying favored search-engine status in Safari, Firefox and pushing Chrome&#x2F;Android) why don&#x27;t the browsers have all the power?<p>I guess I agree with the article that Google&#x27;s power is search-engine derived but there&#x27;s more to the source of that monopoly than I think the article discusses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eric Schmidt's book is wrong about how Google works</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/30/why-eric-schmidt-doesnt-know-how-google-works/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fivedogit</author><text>&gt; the authors are confusing causation and correlation... they are all consequences of Google’s success. For example the authors write: “Their plan for creating that great search engine... Hire as many talented software engineers as possible, and give them freedom.” Well, this worked because the search was already successful enough to fund that freedom.<p>This is the key point and the clickbait-y headline notwithstanding, it&#x27;s a very valid point. People look at Google and say &quot;wow they have super-smart engineers and let them work on whatever they want with 20% of their time&quot; and tons and tons of products sprung up all over the place.<p>But after a while, management seemed to back off of that philosophy quite a bit. In 2011, Google killed off many of its less successful projects, including Google Labs, and I read in some nook or cranny of the Internet that the 20% time has been quietly deemphasized over a number of years.<p>So the idea that you can just hire smart people and magic will happen, though often copied and lionized, is not all it&#x27;s cracked up to be. &lt;Insert quip about monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare here.&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eric Schmidt's book is wrong about how Google works</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/30/why-eric-schmidt-doesnt-know-how-google-works/</url></story> |
11,514,115 | 11,512,754 | 1 | 2 | 11,512,058 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PostOnce</author><text>This game is legally free at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;ultima_4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;ultima_4</a><p>it comes in a preconfigured dosbox<p>Ultima is to this day the single most impactful RPG ever made in terms of its influence on future games, it seems nothing new has been done since, almost.<p>Ultima 6&#x27;s keyword-based dialogue is in my opinion superior to today&#x27;s dialogue trees, some of the keywords would be highlighted in the conversation, but some you would have to come up with on your own from your adventures.<p>Ultima 7 has a much more detailed world than even the modern Elder Scrolls games, its breathtaking how full that world is; Elder Scrolls is still playing catch up almost 30 years later, insane!<p>Ultima Underworld was also tremendously groundbreaking, it&#x27;s real, texture-mapped 3D (in 1992!) and does all the things you&#x27;d expect from a modern RPG, which is why I am excited that &quot;the band is back together&quot;, so to speak, making Underworld Ascendant (no Ultima branding, Underworld was originally not an Ultima game, but was rebranded and reworked for marketing reasons)<p>I could ramble for hours about these old games. But I&#x27;ll stop here, go and play, people. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>StanislavPetrov</author><text>As an older person and an avid player of Ultima I - V this article is really interesting. Its fascinating to, some 30 years later, get a peek behind the curtain. My personal opinion is that Ultima IV was the pinnacle of computer gaming. Ultima III was supremely entertaining and Ultima V was more polished and still a very enjoyable game, but Ultima IV was absolutely groundbreaking in injecting ethos into an RPG. For any of the younger HN readers who don&#x27;t mind archaic graphics, I highly recommend checking out Ultima IV.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Road to Ultima V</title><url>http://www.filfre.net/2016/02/the-road-to-v/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phodo</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t agree more! If I recall, by the time I encountered Ultima IV, I had gone through dozens and dozens of games on Atari, Apple, and other platforms. I had even tried Wizardry (but although a D&amp;D fan, it did not immerse me as much as the Ultimas). With the exception of the Infocom games, mostly Zork, Enchanter, Spellbreaker, nothing came even close to Ultima IV around that era, in terms of immersion and fun. I remember writing down in a notebook, every single town, and every conversation in each of those towns, for later reference, probably my first discovery of the power of analytical thinking as a kid. Ultima V was also great, but I think mostly due to the fact that it was a sequel to U4 and carried on much of the same sense of imagination, excitement and wonder. I played Akalabeth first (from a zip-lock bag), U4, U3, U2, U5 then rest of series.</text><parent_chain><item><author>StanislavPetrov</author><text>As an older person and an avid player of Ultima I - V this article is really interesting. Its fascinating to, some 30 years later, get a peek behind the curtain. My personal opinion is that Ultima IV was the pinnacle of computer gaming. Ultima III was supremely entertaining and Ultima V was more polished and still a very enjoyable game, but Ultima IV was absolutely groundbreaking in injecting ethos into an RPG. For any of the younger HN readers who don&#x27;t mind archaic graphics, I highly recommend checking out Ultima IV.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Road to Ultima V</title><url>http://www.filfre.net/2016/02/the-road-to-v/</url></story> |
34,542,611 | 34,541,309 | 1 | 3 | 34,539,669 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>On the one hand, what&#x27;s being alleged doesn&#x27;t actually sound...particularly bad? I don&#x27;t see any obvious ethical concerns, and if it&#x27;s against French law then that should be litigated in court, not on a blog post.<p>But on the other hand, the evidence presented to support these allegations seems awfully weak. For example, to make the claims work the author flags a list of people as being on &quot;Team France&quot; merely because they are French nationals, or in one case, merely because they happen to be on another board <i>with</i> someone who is a French national?<p>Weird, messy fights for control of public companies happens all the time; this doesn&#x27;t even sound particularly interesting, even if the wildest claims being made are true.<p>Not sure if the author is just <i>extremely</i> naive, know there&#x27;s nothing going on here but is trying to manufacture a controvery, or is just bad at writing and left out some key information. Whatever the case, I&#x27;m just left confused why I&#x27;m meant to care.<p>(Also, I&#x27;m more familiar with US finance. Maybe this really <i>is</i> unusual in France? Because poison pill provisions and standstill agreements and such are routine in the US. As are boards with power over things like, eg, issuing more shares.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France's largest semiconductor company got nationalized in plain sight (2022)</title><url>https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/how-frances-largest-semiconductor</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pr337h4m</author><text>There&#x27;s no real evidence of the French state nationalizing Soitec.<p>&gt;Last is Team France. With the exception of Francoise Chombar, they are all French Nationals. I put Francoise Chombar on Team France because she shares a board with Eric Meurice at Umicore, so I assume she’s on his team.<p>How exactly are these directors &quot;Team France?&quot; There&#x27;s no reason to believe that they are agents of the French government just because they&#x27;re French nationals.<p>&gt;All of the board actions in conjunction means that this was likely premeditated by the controlling shareholders - the state of France - to further control Soitec.<p>Bpifrance and CEA are state-owned, but the free float is 61%, not to mention BlackRock&#x27;s 8% stake. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be anything stopping the shareholders who make up the free float from voting out the board or accepting a tender offer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France's largest semiconductor company got nationalized in plain sight (2022)</title><url>https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/how-frances-largest-semiconductor</url></story> |
23,677,297 | 23,675,762 | 1 | 2 | 23,674,012 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blauditore</author><text>To be honest, I think it was not that bad from a usability point-of-view, agnostic of history. People were just not used to a full-screen, search-focused start menu.
A similar thing happened with Vista, people were overwhelmed with the wildly different UI. The next version was then a slightly milder version of it, and at the same time people had gotten used to it a bit, so most were happy with Windows 7 and are now happy with Windows 10.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to see how strongly change-averse most people are when it comes to those things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nolok</author><text>You mean before windows tried to be designed as a a tablet OS while being on desktop for 8.0, failed on both as easily predicted, and then refused to admit the mistake ever since beside the one mandatory change of adding a normal start button &#x2F; menu back?<p>That full screen start view was one hell of an abomination....</text></item><item><author>MrBuddyCasino</author><text>Back when the system settings could be reached with less clicks, were organised in a logical way and didn&#x27;t use most of the screen as white-space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows98 Running in the Browser</title><url>https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>That tablet interface also made it to the server version - which probably had the <i>worst</i> windows interface ever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nolok</author><text>You mean before windows tried to be designed as a a tablet OS while being on desktop for 8.0, failed on both as easily predicted, and then refused to admit the mistake ever since beside the one mandatory change of adding a normal start button &#x2F; menu back?<p>That full screen start view was one hell of an abomination....</text></item><item><author>MrBuddyCasino</author><text>Back when the system settings could be reached with less clicks, were organised in a logical way and didn&#x27;t use most of the screen as white-space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows98 Running in the Browser</title><url>https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98</url></story> |
27,196,023 | 27,196,237 | 1 | 2 | 27,193,922 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giantrobot</author><text>A desktop runs a lot of low priority processes. The efficiency cores can be given all those processes. This means some low priority thread will get scheduled on a performance core and bust the cache.<p>There&#x27;s also plenty of time where the system has low intensity use or is idle. The efficiency cores let things like receiving notifications or checking e-mail happen for very little power draw. Fans only need to run during intense use and the system can be quiet the rest of the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>988747</author><text>So why put efficiency cores in the desktop processor at all?</text></item><item><author>oneeach</author><text>Consider the use cases. The Mac Pro is a desktop, always plugged in and used for the power. The M1 is on a laptop running on a battery where efficiency is more important to improve the battery life.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>It says the split for performance versus efficiency cores will be:<p>- 20 total, 16 high performance, 4 efficiency<p>- 40 total, 32 high performance, 8 efficiency<p>Which is kind of interesting given that the 8 core M1 is split half&#x2F;half at 4 high performance, 4 efficiency.<p>Sounds like perhaps MacOS doesn&#x27;t typically have more than 4 cores worth of low-priority work, regardless of the system size&#x2F;workload?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-readies-macbook-pro-macbook-air-revamps-with-faster-chips</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>As has been mentioned elsewhere, devoting some cores to background tasks and reserving the others for higher-priority stuff also makes the system feel more responsive.<p>See, for example, this article from yesterday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eclecticlight.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;17&#x2F;how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eclecticlight.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;17&#x2F;how-m1-macs-feel-faster-...</a><p>Long story short, segregating background work from foreground work means that Spotlight indexing won&#x27;t cause the UI to become sluggish. I&#x27;m guessing it also tends to be more cache-friendly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>988747</author><text>So why put efficiency cores in the desktop processor at all?</text></item><item><author>oneeach</author><text>Consider the use cases. The Mac Pro is a desktop, always plugged in and used for the power. The M1 is on a laptop running on a battery where efficiency is more important to improve the battery life.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>It says the split for performance versus efficiency cores will be:<p>- 20 total, 16 high performance, 4 efficiency<p>- 40 total, 32 high performance, 8 efficiency<p>Which is kind of interesting given that the 8 core M1 is split half&#x2F;half at 4 high performance, 4 efficiency.<p>Sounds like perhaps MacOS doesn&#x27;t typically have more than 4 cores worth of low-priority work, regardless of the system size&#x2F;workload?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-readies-macbook-pro-macbook-air-revamps-with-faster-chips</url></story> |
29,397,702 | 29,397,374 | 1 | 2 | 29,394,605 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teeray</author><text>They are giving you a core and a RAN (Radio Access Network). The RAN uses “lightly licensed spectrum,” (CBRS in the US), which I believe is supported in newer iPhones.<p>That’s enough to make bars appear on your phone. What’s missing is the IMS, which adds traditional calling, voicemail, SMS, etc. However, FaceTime, iMessage, etc. will all work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taf2</author><text>I&#x27;m still kinda of confused... does that mean we could say get a simcard and make voice calls via this network? insert sim card into mobile phone android&#x2F;iphone and make phone calls?</text></item><item><author>laserbeam</author><text>It seems everyone here is confused. Here&#x27;s the official FAQ, and it has 0 marketing garbage.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;private5g&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;private5g&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;</a><p>There&#x27;s no &quot;telecom as a service&quot;, and there&#x27;s no &quot;5g can be split into multiple networks&quot; nonsense.<p>Amazon is just selling 5g access points and hardware (just like you would install wifi), and rents you a private connection for that hardware to AWS, and management of that network from AWS. Basically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Private 5G</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/private5g/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laserbeam</author><text>Unsure. But private LTE is already a thing where you can install your own towers onprem and configure your devices to connect to those towers instead of the ones of your standard AT&amp;T provider (or whatever). I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s any magic voodoo involved. I assume there&#x27;s a way to configure 5G capable devices to connect to some local physical network you set up at a factory.<p>I don&#x27;t expect this is for telephony, but rather a faster (I guess it&#x27;s faster...) wifi. But who knows. Maybe if you install your own telephony servers or whatever you could call people on that network. Unsure anyone would care about that unrealistic usecase.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taf2</author><text>I&#x27;m still kinda of confused... does that mean we could say get a simcard and make voice calls via this network? insert sim card into mobile phone android&#x2F;iphone and make phone calls?</text></item><item><author>laserbeam</author><text>It seems everyone here is confused. Here&#x27;s the official FAQ, and it has 0 marketing garbage.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;private5g&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;private5g&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;</a><p>There&#x27;s no &quot;telecom as a service&quot;, and there&#x27;s no &quot;5g can be split into multiple networks&quot; nonsense.<p>Amazon is just selling 5g access points and hardware (just like you would install wifi), and rents you a private connection for that hardware to AWS, and management of that network from AWS. Basically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Private 5G</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/private5g/</url></story> |
18,787,219 | 18,786,603 | 1 | 3 | 18,781,264 | train | <instructions>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>I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m being naieve, but could we just get rid of billing altogether if we nationalize the health care system? I have to recount an anecdote. My mom was hiking in a foreign country, and got injured. She hobbled to the next town, and found a clinic. They treated her and were ready to let her go. She said:<p>Q: Okay, how do I pay?<p>A: You don&#x27;t <i>pay</i> for health care.<p>Q: I&#x27;m American. I&#x27;m not part of your health care system.<p>A: That&#x27;s all well and good, but we have no way of knowing how much to charge you, how to take your money, or where to send it. Have a nice vacation.<p>The clinic probably maintained some accounting records, but they simply had no billing system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oomkiller</author><text>Unfortunately the problem is much greater than engineers not understanding doctors and other clinical staff, in my experience. For startups that want to sell to health systems and similar-sized&#x2F;larger entities (really this is the minimum size that can work for most startups, practice sales usually have more friction than value), you unfortunately have to focus on the buyer, which is very rarely someone who is &quot;in the trenches.&quot; Best case scenario, having software that is compelling to the end users can help you get your foot in the door early on, but actual adoption will only happen if you can convince the business stakeholders of your value.<p>In the US healthcare system, clinicians and the business often have opposing objectives and values. This is starting to change with value based care becoming more popular, but it&#x27;s still all about providing what the business wants, it just happens to align with the clinicians more these days. You&#x27;ll still need to support IE9 due to that botched Vista upgrade, build out a custom EMR integration, and deliver whatever random feature the sales folks promised (can you automatically fax things?) before you can move on to the features that the clinicians actually want.<p>The system itself is how we ended up with billing-driven documentation EHRs like Epic. Paradoxically, due to massive adoption, I think Epic and Cerner are some of the only places where real innovation could happen. I think even huge companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google will have a hard time breaking into the space, no matter how much cash they throw at it. For them, the only answer is to go fully vertical like Kaiser-Permanente, but I doubt they have the stomach for this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/27/doctors-are-asking-technologists-from-google-to-shadow-them-before-they-build-medical-apps-.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>bm98</author><text>Standards like SMART-on-FHIR [1] and CDS Hooks [2] have the potential to allow innovation developed outside of Epic and Cerner inside of those products. Both of those vendors even have &quot;App Stores&quot; [3] [4]. So far, though, there aren&#x27;t a lot of apps in these stores, and none of my doctors (all of whom work for large academic medical centers and use Epic) have access to any third-party apps - so I do wonder whether the vendors (or their customers) may be putting up roadblocks that are slowing adoption.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.smarthealthit.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.smarthealthit.org&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cds-hooks.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cds-hooks.org&#x2F;</a> [3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apporchard.epic.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apporchard.epic.com&#x2F;</a> [4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.cerner.com&#x2F;apps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.cerner.com&#x2F;apps</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>oomkiller</author><text>Unfortunately the problem is much greater than engineers not understanding doctors and other clinical staff, in my experience. For startups that want to sell to health systems and similar-sized&#x2F;larger entities (really this is the minimum size that can work for most startups, practice sales usually have more friction than value), you unfortunately have to focus on the buyer, which is very rarely someone who is &quot;in the trenches.&quot; Best case scenario, having software that is compelling to the end users can help you get your foot in the door early on, but actual adoption will only happen if you can convince the business stakeholders of your value.<p>In the US healthcare system, clinicians and the business often have opposing objectives and values. This is starting to change with value based care becoming more popular, but it&#x27;s still all about providing what the business wants, it just happens to align with the clinicians more these days. You&#x27;ll still need to support IE9 due to that botched Vista upgrade, build out a custom EMR integration, and deliver whatever random feature the sales folks promised (can you automatically fax things?) before you can move on to the features that the clinicians actually want.<p>The system itself is how we ended up with billing-driven documentation EHRs like Epic. Paradoxically, due to massive adoption, I think Epic and Cerner are some of the only places where real innovation could happen. I think even huge companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google will have a hard time breaking into the space, no matter how much cash they throw at it. For them, the only answer is to go fully vertical like Kaiser-Permanente, but I doubt they have the stomach for this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/27/doctors-are-asking-technologists-from-google-to-shadow-them-before-they-build-medical-apps-.html</url></story> |
10,406,770 | 10,406,798 | 1 | 3 | 10,406,253 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scholia</author><text>Did anybody actually read the story?<p>The key observation is that a study published in Nature <i>&quot;found a correlation between child brain structure and family income. Simply put, family income is correlated with children’s brain surface area, especially among poor children. More money, bigger-brained kids.&quot;</i><p>This is supported by the Cherokee study: when the families became a bit better off ($4,000 a year) the kids did better when they grew up.<p>So it&#x27;s missing the point to argue about how grown-ups might (or might not) &quot;waste&quot; money and whether cash is better than other forms of welfare. The point is that bringing up children in poverty creates a worse outcome for society as a whole.<p>The fact is that $4,000 a year for 20 years is a very small amount compared with the cost of US police, courts, and prisons. If a poor kid grows up, gets a job and pays taxes, that&#x27;s a massive win <i>for society</i> compared with the same kid growing up in the sort of deprivation that leads to a life of crime and jail.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Findings from War on Poverty: Just Give Cash</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-09/new-findings-from-war-on-poverty-just-give-cash</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zerebubuth</author><text>Many of these studies appear to be variations on the form &quot;We selected some people, gave them some money and told them we&#x27;d be back to check up on how they were doing.&quot; I wonder if there&#x27;s a significant effect from the expectation that being part of the study will improve one&#x27;s life. Perhaps receiving attention from authority figures (PhD or MD), and potentially their judgement, might alter behaviour in similar ways to the &quot;honesty box&quot; experiment [1].<p>It seems like there might also be some bias in selection - presumably one has to consent (in writing) to be part of a long-term study. Perhaps this encourages participants to think of the future and might influences decision-making away from short-term goals and towards &quot;investment&quot; uses of the money rather than ephemeral ones.<p>I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing the results of their differential experiment, and whether there&#x27;s as much difference between the $333 and $20 groups as there is between the $20 group and the &quot;$0 group&quot; of the general population.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;2&#x2F;3&#x2F;412" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;2&#x2F;3&#x2F;412</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Findings from War on Poverty: Just Give Cash</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-09/new-findings-from-war-on-poverty-just-give-cash</url></story> |
36,465,195 | 36,462,245 | 1 | 2 | 36,455,843 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sheepscreek</author><text>While I appreciate this perspective, it can’t happen in isolation. You were enabled to be successful. Someone understood that you can’t be 100% of both in your role, and set clear expectations with your peers, directs, a level and two above.<p>Many startups have inexperienced first time leaders at the top who are still running on pure adrenaline. They work unsustainably (not realizing that yet) and create such expectations for everyone else.<p>You’re constantly pushing beyond 100% in peace time. Now imagine war time. It gets bad - toxic even.</text><parent_chain><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>I&#x27;m in a &#x27;TL&#x27; role and my current schedule is:<p>* quick dog walk&#x2F;sunlight<p>* meetings<p>* dog walk&#x2F;sunlight&#x2F;lunch&#x2F;exercise<p>* focus work<p>* dog walk<p>* personal development&#x2F;curiosity&#x2F;light work<p>* dinner&#x2F;etc<p>I actually really enjoy breaking up the day with walks and exercise. I usually try to have at least one day with no meetings for two focus blocks but I found there is definitely diminishing returns there. I think ideally I&#x27;d do the meetings in the afternoon but the timezones involved prevent that. I&#x27;m not the highest-volume IC but I&#x27;m reasonably good at identifying high-value targets since I have a lot more context so in the one focus block a day I can do some damage. If it&#x27;s a bigger project I might just try to start it&#x2F;find the shape of it and then shop it around to get it on the appropriate teams roadmaps.<p>It&#x27;s pretty crazy to me that the people making most of the resourcing decisions in companies were maybe once technical but haven&#x27;t actually pushed a line of code in years so that muscle has atrophied and this leads to a complete lack of nuance in decision making. So I definitely think you need at least few &#x27;blended&#x27; roles who keep their technical chops a bit honed but still participate in the &#x27;command&#x27;&#x2F;resourcing discussions (but of course I&#x27;m biased).</text></item><item><author>solatic</author><text>This is the problem with &quot;Tech Lead&quot; positions in many startups, i.e. ones where the team leader (managerial role) is expected to also shoulder many IC responsibilities (maker role). You end up either being a good team leader and a bad IC, a good IC and a bad team leader, or doing something unsustainable like being a good team leader from 9 AM - 5 PM and then filling in IC work until 9 PM.<p>Please - just don&#x27;t hire for this position to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (2009)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.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>blowski</author><text>I try to fix non-urgent bugs or make small DX improvements in the code. It forces me to understand pains in the CI&#x2F;CD, the codebases in general, but I can drop it for an unplanned meeting without causing problems. I also run toy side-projects outside work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>I&#x27;m in a &#x27;TL&#x27; role and my current schedule is:<p>* quick dog walk&#x2F;sunlight<p>* meetings<p>* dog walk&#x2F;sunlight&#x2F;lunch&#x2F;exercise<p>* focus work<p>* dog walk<p>* personal development&#x2F;curiosity&#x2F;light work<p>* dinner&#x2F;etc<p>I actually really enjoy breaking up the day with walks and exercise. I usually try to have at least one day with no meetings for two focus blocks but I found there is definitely diminishing returns there. I think ideally I&#x27;d do the meetings in the afternoon but the timezones involved prevent that. I&#x27;m not the highest-volume IC but I&#x27;m reasonably good at identifying high-value targets since I have a lot more context so in the one focus block a day I can do some damage. If it&#x27;s a bigger project I might just try to start it&#x2F;find the shape of it and then shop it around to get it on the appropriate teams roadmaps.<p>It&#x27;s pretty crazy to me that the people making most of the resourcing decisions in companies were maybe once technical but haven&#x27;t actually pushed a line of code in years so that muscle has atrophied and this leads to a complete lack of nuance in decision making. So I definitely think you need at least few &#x27;blended&#x27; roles who keep their technical chops a bit honed but still participate in the &#x27;command&#x27;&#x2F;resourcing discussions (but of course I&#x27;m biased).</text></item><item><author>solatic</author><text>This is the problem with &quot;Tech Lead&quot; positions in many startups, i.e. ones where the team leader (managerial role) is expected to also shoulder many IC responsibilities (maker role). You end up either being a good team leader and a bad IC, a good IC and a bad team leader, or doing something unsustainable like being a good team leader from 9 AM - 5 PM and then filling in IC work until 9 PM.<p>Please - just don&#x27;t hire for this position to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (2009)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html</url></story> |
28,395,292 | 28,395,105 | 1 | 2 | 28,394,068 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danieldk</author><text>Nice article that explains product quantization very well, thanks!<p>PQ is really a nice compression technique. I implemented PQ and Optimized PQ [1] a while back in our word embedding package for Rust:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;finalfusion&#x2F;finalfusion-rust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;finalfusion&#x2F;finalfusion-rust&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;finalfusion&#x2F;reductive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;finalfusion&#x2F;reductive&#x2F;</a><p>Particularly Optimized PQ was effective in reducing vector sizes ~10 times with virtually no reconstruction loss. This made it much easier to ship models (no more 3GB embedding matrix with a neural net that is just a few megabytes large).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kaiminghe.com&#x2F;publications&#x2F;pami13opq.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kaiminghe.com&#x2F;publications&#x2F;pami13opq.pdf</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Product Quantization: Compressing high-dimensional vectors</title><url>https://www.pinecone.io/learn/product-quantization/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>q_andrew</author><text>Having a passing knowledge of how ML works, I always wondered how these algorithms can use such dense data structures -- it makes a lot more sense now that I know they can be compressed and still searchable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Product Quantization: Compressing high-dimensional vectors</title><url>https://www.pinecone.io/learn/product-quantization/</url></story> |
34,066,485 | 34,064,928 | 1 | 3 | 34,064,191 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>&gt; – The online browser-based system was telemetry and JS heavy, replacing a far leaner page<p>I remember one of those banks using the &quot;leaner&quot; page also had heavy telemetry turned on at some point. I type very fast, so I noticed that when I was entering my user id, it was lagging heavily. Then I turned on developer tools only to see that they were logging all keystrokes to analytics. Including username and password. At first I thought I got a virus or something, but these appeared to be legit scripts from the bank.
So I decided to not use that bank account for a while.
I wonder why would they turn something like that on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>I have a bank account with TSB and got compensation as a result of this mix-up.<p>Some rather personal experiences of the fiasco:<p>– Rather pointlessly, the website changed from being mostly static to entirely written in a very JS-heavy, &quot;dynamic&quot; way. I still can&#x27;t use it in my normal browser (FF) with its extensions because it relies heavily upon CORS requests and referrer information that my somewhat privacy-paranoid extensions block.<p>– This was introduced at the time of the switchover, and until that point the IT system used looked identical between Lloyds, TSB and Halifax &#x2F; BOS systems (I have accounts with some of those)<p>– The online browser-based system was telemetry and JS heavy, replacing a far leaner page<p>– I was unable to log in during the time of the fiasco, mostly due to 403 errors or timeouts. Often the page would just hang as an async request wasn&#x27;t answered.<p>– Once I did manage to log in, I was amazed to see another person&#x27;s account details (!!!), replete with (their) name and statement.<p>– I was unable to use online banking to pay bills or check my balance – I could see someone else&#x27;s account in detail but was too honest to do anything with that knowledge. I can&#x27;t remember if my card stopped working but I was effectively forced to make other arrangements for quite an extended period of time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64036529</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usr1106</author><text>As a privacy-aware user, when making a contract with a bank (or buying a flight ticket or whatever) you should get assertions that their web site meets certain quality standards so you can use your browser to access the account or actually check in.<p>Paper did not have those incompatibility problems...<p>However, from the BBC article I conclude that even customers with a default browser could not necessarily use their account<p>Edit: Forgotten not added.</text><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>I have a bank account with TSB and got compensation as a result of this mix-up.<p>Some rather personal experiences of the fiasco:<p>– Rather pointlessly, the website changed from being mostly static to entirely written in a very JS-heavy, &quot;dynamic&quot; way. I still can&#x27;t use it in my normal browser (FF) with its extensions because it relies heavily upon CORS requests and referrer information that my somewhat privacy-paranoid extensions block.<p>– This was introduced at the time of the switchover, and until that point the IT system used looked identical between Lloyds, TSB and Halifax &#x2F; BOS systems (I have accounts with some of those)<p>– The online browser-based system was telemetry and JS heavy, replacing a far leaner page<p>– I was unable to log in during the time of the fiasco, mostly due to 403 errors or timeouts. Often the page would just hang as an async request wasn&#x27;t answered.<p>– Once I did manage to log in, I was amazed to see another person&#x27;s account details (!!!), replete with (their) name and statement.<p>– I was unable to use online banking to pay bills or check my balance – I could see someone else&#x27;s account in detail but was too honest to do anything with that knowledge. I can&#x27;t remember if my card stopped working but I was effectively forced to make other arrangements for quite an extended period of time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64036529</url></story> |
26,038,143 | 26,037,273 | 1 | 3 | 26,036,695 | 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>cashewchoo</author><text>I recently completed a &quot;software pilgrimage&quot;, as I decided to call it in explaining to friends why I did it, of writing my own DNS recursive resolver. I decided to implement it purely from RFC 1034&#x2F;1035, with no library code aside from TCP and UDP sockets and a JSON config parser, those kinds of things. No library help for anything relating to the RFC. It&#x27;s part of a homelab-focused DNS solution that I plan to release under the AGPLv3 once I dogfood it for a while. Basically &quot;DNS for impatient homelabbers&#x2F;SMB&#x27;s who don&#x27;t want to have to learn how to write zonefiles and don&#x27;t want some crazy enterprise omnibus thing either&quot;.<p>Anyway, in the process of doing this and putting it in my DHCP config and seeing the traffic from two smart TVs of different brands, my RIPE atlas probe, various phones and laptops, smart thermostat, etc etc, I&#x27;ve noticed that there is a TON of &quot;garbage&quot; dns requests. Like, the chart [the article] shows - where about 70% of queries result in a name error - that totally meshes with what I see on a much smaller scale. Right now, prometheus tells me that since last restart (which was about a week ago at this point?), I&#x27;ve answered 80437 queries with NO_ERROR, 52014 with NAME_ERROR, and 242 with SERVER_FAILURE (funnily enough, when spot checking these, 8.8.8.8 also SERVER_FAILUREs these same requests - usually devices with presumably-buggy dns libraries not correctly specifying lengths of variable-length fields).<p>It really surprised my initial suspicions that so many DNS requests would be coming up with what I was originally considering to be an error condition. But I guess sometimes the absence of a DNS record is just as meaningful as the presence.<p>Incidentally, I also noticed these chromium dns requests, and they had me worried for a bit because I wondered if they were malware trying to exploit some kind of vuln in dns servers. Took a bit of googling to figure it out. I do think they make up a decent % of the name errors I see, though I hadn&#x27;t gotten around to having prometheus split them out to measure.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_dns_traffic_drop/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CivBase</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised 60 billion DNS queries is only 41% of the daily norm. With a billion people between the US and Europe alone - the vast majority of which use the world wide web directly multiple times a day (nevermind other online services) - and the amount of domains a typical website loads resources from, I figured daily DNS queries would have broken into the trillions by now.<p>I suppose that&#x27;s probably thanks to caching, dedicated apps for many websites, and most users sticking to a relatively small selection of websites.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_dns_traffic_drop/</url></story> |
16,896,672 | 16,896,723 | 1 | 3 | 16,896,275 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Robotbeat</author><text>This is true. But a key point: Tesla doesn&#x27;t actually have to beat state of the art in automation to be profitable. Their cars are already great, electric cars are simpler, they&#x27;ve streamlined the sales process in a way that already gives them at least 10% greater cost advantage if everything else is equivalent (while also eliminating a major pain point for consumers).<p>But it goes beyond just the fact that technology has advanced: Tesla is willing to pursue alternative approaches where others have long stopped (and this is a point the author of this article makes later on). The fact that Tesla doesn&#x27;t have the conservative culture of other car makers means that they&#x27;ll make mistakes like this, but also that they&#x27;ll find new solutions (or recognize existing solutions in similar fields that haven&#x27;t become industry standard) whereas others would not.<p>You cannot automate EXISTING car designs much. And Model 3 does make improvements, but in many ways is built similar. It&#x27;s like trying to automate soldering components by hand. Automation of electronics required a change in the fundamental way electronics were built. Through-hole is hard to automate but relatively easy to build by hand. Surface mount is simple to automate and ultimately better in several ways, but is super annoying to build by hand. Tesla needs to find the surface mount of car manufacturing. And I think they&#x27;re trying.<p>Something particularly hard to automate for automobiles is the wire harness. There are many degrees of freedom; it&#x27;s kind of like tying your shoe: easy for humans, hard for machines. The Model 3 uses less wire than the Model S&#x2F;X, but only by a factor of 2 or so. Model Y, on the other hand, is supposed to use like an order of magnitude less. This is like optimizing a circuit board for automation by only using a few through-hole components, relying mostly on surface mount.<p>So Tesla is going to have to continually redesign their vehicles to be more and more amenable to automation. They can&#x27;t do this as a step function, and Musk has realized that now. (This is another good point the author makes.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>sjwright</author><text>I agree entirely with the sentiment of the article, and I think Elon and Tesla are hopelessly deluding themselves with belief in their superior engineering and product design. But...<p>Just because a few companies failed at factory automation in 1980 doesn&#x27;t mean it couldn&#x27;t succeed in 2018. It&#x27;s patently absurd to knock Tesla for trying it again in the era of ultra-high resolution cameras and advanced machine learning algorithms.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/experts-say-tesla-has-repeated-car-industry-mistakes-from-the-1980s/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>talltimtom</author><text>The failure isn’t in trying to automate. The failure is in expecting automating everything to go perfectly and therefore making the line troublesome to carry out when specific automated sub tasks fail.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sjwright</author><text>I agree entirely with the sentiment of the article, and I think Elon and Tesla are hopelessly deluding themselves with belief in their superior engineering and product design. But...<p>Just because a few companies failed at factory automation in 1980 doesn&#x27;t mean it couldn&#x27;t succeed in 2018. It&#x27;s patently absurd to knock Tesla for trying it again in the era of ultra-high resolution cameras and advanced machine learning algorithms.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/experts-say-tesla-has-repeated-car-industry-mistakes-from-the-1980s/</url></story> |
34,647,124 | 34,643,803 | 1 | 3 | 34,598,851 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MountainMan1312</author><text>&quot;Designated screen time&quot; makes my stomach curl. That&#x27;s a surefire way to make sure a kid who has interest never develops any skills and resents you for ruining a career opportunity later down the road (I know from experience).<p>I find it odd that most people in this thread are equating &quot;screen time&quot; to &quot;watching videos&quot;. My parents were like that, they never understood that mucking around in OSes and writing crappy software is a totally different thing from watching YouTube videos about eggs.<p>I think you should modify your limits on screen time. Make limits on mindless entertainment kind of screen time, not on productive learning screen time. I&#x27;d consider it abusive to force your kid off the computer when they&#x27;re in the middle of configuring a kernel &quot;for their own good&quot;.<p>Like I said, I know from experience. I feel like I&#x27;m a decade behind because my parents thought I was &quot;playing&quot; on the computer instead of learning valuable professional skills which is what I Was doing. I doubt you&#x27;re actually that kind of person, but to a point they were suspicious of my attempts to learn those things. They thought I was up to no good because I wasn&#x27;t mindlessly glued to YouTube or whatever they do on their computers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>furyg3</author><text>Curation is key and there need to be better tools. I strongly limit my kid&#x27;s screen time, and was pleasantly surprised by the PBS kids video app (and to some extent the games app). I felt very comfortable leaving her alone with that at the designated screen times, as most programs had at least <i>some</i> educational component... or at least had some generic but positive moral lessons. And (key!) she gets personal choice in what she watches, out of a curated garden.<p>As she&#x27;s gotten older these programs are not cutting it, though, and she is asking for Netflix more and more. The problem is that the vast majority of kids shows are just garbage. Basically the equivalent of sitcoms or (worse) dramas about girls being cliquey or mean or whatever. I&#x27;m looking for another garden with a wide variety of bigger kid shows that have some positive qualities to them.<p>Sure, there are great programs on there, but I wish I could pre-select those programs and give her a selection out of them. Netflix lets me set age limits and <i>block</i> programs, but I&#x27;d rather spend some time selecting 20-30 shows&#x2F;movies that allows her to feel free while still giving me some control</text></item><item><author>OscarTheGrinch</author><text>As a parent, screen time vs no screen time is a fine line that we have to continually renegotiate.<p>Screens can be great, there is so much good information out there that can enrich our lives. I wouldn&#x27;t go the &quot;no screens ever&quot; route because that&#x27;s just being a luddite, robbing them of the change to experience, and acquire expertise in, the digital world that they will be interacting with for the rest of their lives.<p>However, I am not letting my kid roam the internet, there be dragons. In particular YouTube&#x27;s recommendation algorithm, even in their YouTube kids app, seems to default to serving up horrible brain melting crap instead of anything pedagogical. I am against kids content that is designed solely to entrance and keep them sitting still, it&#x27;s the equivalent of digital candy floss. For example, the whole &quot;surprise egg&quot; trend, which basically is a video version of the lootbox &#x2F; Deal Or No Deal, mechanic, is some of the most popular and recommended videos to children on youtube.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;results?sp=mAEB&amp;search_query=surprise+egg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;results?sp=mAEB&amp;search_query=surpris...</a><p>All three of the frist vids we were served by YouTube kids were surprise egg videos. Hard uninstall.<p>Curating content and setting limits on screen time is your job as a parent in this era. We cannot outsource this responsibility to companies and AIs because there is simply no way an algorithm find the stuff that is just right for your child.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube has become the world's nanny</title><url>https://qz.com/youtube-has-become-the-worlds-nanny-1850047610</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rhino369</author><text>I use Plex and just only input shows I want my kids to watch. It&#x27;s more work, but allows me to have a garden. It&#x27;s probably not Kosher legally for me to be pirating shows, but I&#x27;m only doing shows that I have access to via Netflix, Amazon, HBO etc. So morally, I feel I&#x27;m justified.</text><parent_chain><item><author>furyg3</author><text>Curation is key and there need to be better tools. I strongly limit my kid&#x27;s screen time, and was pleasantly surprised by the PBS kids video app (and to some extent the games app). I felt very comfortable leaving her alone with that at the designated screen times, as most programs had at least <i>some</i> educational component... or at least had some generic but positive moral lessons. And (key!) she gets personal choice in what she watches, out of a curated garden.<p>As she&#x27;s gotten older these programs are not cutting it, though, and she is asking for Netflix more and more. The problem is that the vast majority of kids shows are just garbage. Basically the equivalent of sitcoms or (worse) dramas about girls being cliquey or mean or whatever. I&#x27;m looking for another garden with a wide variety of bigger kid shows that have some positive qualities to them.<p>Sure, there are great programs on there, but I wish I could pre-select those programs and give her a selection out of them. Netflix lets me set age limits and <i>block</i> programs, but I&#x27;d rather spend some time selecting 20-30 shows&#x2F;movies that allows her to feel free while still giving me some control</text></item><item><author>OscarTheGrinch</author><text>As a parent, screen time vs no screen time is a fine line that we have to continually renegotiate.<p>Screens can be great, there is so much good information out there that can enrich our lives. I wouldn&#x27;t go the &quot;no screens ever&quot; route because that&#x27;s just being a luddite, robbing them of the change to experience, and acquire expertise in, the digital world that they will be interacting with for the rest of their lives.<p>However, I am not letting my kid roam the internet, there be dragons. In particular YouTube&#x27;s recommendation algorithm, even in their YouTube kids app, seems to default to serving up horrible brain melting crap instead of anything pedagogical. I am against kids content that is designed solely to entrance and keep them sitting still, it&#x27;s the equivalent of digital candy floss. For example, the whole &quot;surprise egg&quot; trend, which basically is a video version of the lootbox &#x2F; Deal Or No Deal, mechanic, is some of the most popular and recommended videos to children on youtube.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;results?sp=mAEB&amp;search_query=surprise+egg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;results?sp=mAEB&amp;search_query=surpris...</a><p>All three of the frist vids we were served by YouTube kids were surprise egg videos. Hard uninstall.<p>Curating content and setting limits on screen time is your job as a parent in this era. We cannot outsource this responsibility to companies and AIs because there is simply no way an algorithm find the stuff that is just right for your child.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube has become the world's nanny</title><url>https://qz.com/youtube-has-become-the-worlds-nanny-1850047610</url></story> |
30,757,800 | 30,753,841 | 1 | 2 | 30,748,959 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a-dub</author><text>&gt; In the end it was just toxic and people were turned off. You don&#x27;t want to end up in a long conversation every time there&#x27;s something to negotiate. It also makes everyone think you&#x27;re going to be difficult.<p>this. i&#x27;ve been turned off by people when i&#x27;ve seen them push crazy contracts and generally have always believed that mutually beneficial relationships are based on both parties looking out for each other&#x27;s best interests.<p>you should never have to haggle over money in any serious deal, having to do so is what they call a &quot;big giant glowing red flag.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>A hundred times this.<p>A guy I worked with figured out that you can negotiate everything, and did. He&#x27;d get pissed off at the bank charging him an overdraft fee and sit in the telephone queue to get his £20 back.<p>He took a cab on a business trip to Dubai, and the cabbie kept the meter going while filling up. He argued it and got the equivalent of 50p off.<p>He&#x27;d negotiate agreements with brokers and negotiate absolutely everything.<p>He pushed really hard on the partnership agreement.<p>In the end it was just toxic and people were turned off. You don&#x27;t want to end up in a long conversation every time there&#x27;s something to negotiate. It also makes everyone think you&#x27;re going to be difficult.</text></item><item><author>muzani</author><text>Be warned that people are reciprocal. I had a business partner who would negotiate <i>everything</i>. We found that luck would turn against us. There would suddenly be added processes and bureaucracy. Partners backed out on verbal promises. People were turning down job offers or sleeping on the job. A banner we bought didn&#x27;t include the banner stand because it wasn&#x27;t &quot;included in the price&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;re generous to others, they may be generous to you. If you&#x27;re cheap with others, they will definitely be cheap with you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Did you know you can negotiate price on many things?</title><text>I learned this late in life, but I came to realize that for anything you buy from a small business or from someone on commission, you can negotiate.<p>After reading about it on Reddit, I‘ve shown up to hotels and gotten 40% off initial price.<p>At Guitar Center, you can negotiate the price of guitars.<p>I’ve seen people negotiate a round of shots in NYC.<p>The world exists out there at a discount if you’re willing to ask for it.</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>giantg2</author><text>Well, the cabbie leaving the meter running while filling up is more standing up for yourself and not being taken advantage of. That&#x27;s a task that should have taken place before picking up a fare (that they wouldn&#x27;t normally be compensated for that time).</text><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>A hundred times this.<p>A guy I worked with figured out that you can negotiate everything, and did. He&#x27;d get pissed off at the bank charging him an overdraft fee and sit in the telephone queue to get his £20 back.<p>He took a cab on a business trip to Dubai, and the cabbie kept the meter going while filling up. He argued it and got the equivalent of 50p off.<p>He&#x27;d negotiate agreements with brokers and negotiate absolutely everything.<p>He pushed really hard on the partnership agreement.<p>In the end it was just toxic and people were turned off. You don&#x27;t want to end up in a long conversation every time there&#x27;s something to negotiate. It also makes everyone think you&#x27;re going to be difficult.</text></item><item><author>muzani</author><text>Be warned that people are reciprocal. I had a business partner who would negotiate <i>everything</i>. We found that luck would turn against us. There would suddenly be added processes and bureaucracy. Partners backed out on verbal promises. People were turning down job offers or sleeping on the job. A banner we bought didn&#x27;t include the banner stand because it wasn&#x27;t &quot;included in the price&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;re generous to others, they may be generous to you. If you&#x27;re cheap with others, they will definitely be cheap with you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Did you know you can negotiate price on many things?</title><text>I learned this late in life, but I came to realize that for anything you buy from a small business or from someone on commission, you can negotiate.<p>After reading about it on Reddit, I‘ve shown up to hotels and gotten 40% off initial price.<p>At Guitar Center, you can negotiate the price of guitars.<p>I’ve seen people negotiate a round of shots in NYC.<p>The world exists out there at a discount if you’re willing to ask for it.</text></story> |
35,650,782 | 35,650,686 | 1 | 2 | 35,649,935 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theK</author><text>I’m afraid these bans get systematically sabotaged by well funded ice lobby groups.<p>Just look at what happened to the EU’s ice ban for personal vehicles.<p>Spoiler: while new gasoline burning cars are technically banned after 2035 it will be completely legal to sell new gasoline burning cars by labelling them e-fuel only…</text><parent_chain><item><author>Akronymus</author><text>You may not have a choice in the matter as more and more countries are thinking of&#x2F;implementing ICE bans in the near future.</text></item><item><author>baq</author><text>My plan to buy an EV in the next five years may be realistic after all. Happy!</text></item><item><author>bagels</author><text>&quot;CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh&#x2F;kg which it says will go into mass production this year&quot;<p>This is a lot more credible than most of the battery stories, because CATL is already producing a ton of batteries, lending them some credibility.<p>This is a little under 2x the density of current batteries.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg</title><url>https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmikeff</author><text>Not banning per se, just stopping sales of new.
So there will still be plenty of used ICE cars knocking around for a good few years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Akronymus</author><text>You may not have a choice in the matter as more and more countries are thinking of&#x2F;implementing ICE bans in the near future.</text></item><item><author>baq</author><text>My plan to buy an EV in the next five years may be realistic after all. Happy!</text></item><item><author>bagels</author><text>&quot;CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh&#x2F;kg which it says will go into mass production this year&quot;<p>This is a lot more credible than most of the battery stories, because CATL is already producing a ton of batteries, lending them some credibility.<p>This is a little under 2x the density of current batteries.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg</title><url>https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/</url></story> |
30,192,123 | 30,192,395 | 1 | 2 | 30,190,216 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Regardless of whether it puts people or jobs at risk, I don&#x27;t believe society should be paying this advertising tax (in the form of time wasted being interrupted by ads, consuming garbage misleading content that&#x27;s only there to generate an ad impression such as chumboxes&#x2F;Taboola&#x2F;Outbrain, the privacy violations, etc) just so that a relative minority can have a job.<p>Otherwise, you could also argue that illegal things such as violence or theft also enable people to have &quot;jobs&quot; in countries where law enforcement doesn&#x27;t or can&#x27;t crack down on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Ignoring the ethics of the adverting for now and looking at the <i>advertisers</i> using Facebook, particularly the many small business that use the platform. This $10B hit in revenue is directly down to a reduction in ad spend, which directly hits revenues.<p>Assuming an estimated ROAS of about 6-10x then this equates to advertisers seeing a <i>$60B to $100B reduction in sales</i> via Facebook. Many of these advertises will not be moving this budget elsewhere, they will just be seeing reduced sales.<p>So, I&#x27;m all for criticism of online advertising ethics, particularly targeted at Facebook. But please remember they are an important part of the larger online economy which supports business that employ people. Please remember the people at the bottom of the chain here who have (and will continue to) seen a material impact on their business, income or employment due to these (and the inevitable further) changes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10B revenue hit this year</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.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>boh</author><text>Please remember that any resistance to the loss of your privacy might lose people money. Let&#x27;s not also forget to use basic manipulation and reference poor little small businesses in our example to make people sympathetic.<p>I guess if unethical behavior is used persistently enough, it&#x27;ll be normalized and we can start talking about how important it is to keep doing it (and oh yeah the little guy, think about the little guy--especially over any general societal goals)</text><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Ignoring the ethics of the adverting for now and looking at the <i>advertisers</i> using Facebook, particularly the many small business that use the platform. This $10B hit in revenue is directly down to a reduction in ad spend, which directly hits revenues.<p>Assuming an estimated ROAS of about 6-10x then this equates to advertisers seeing a <i>$60B to $100B reduction in sales</i> via Facebook. Many of these advertises will not be moving this budget elsewhere, they will just be seeing reduced sales.<p>So, I&#x27;m all for criticism of online advertising ethics, particularly targeted at Facebook. But please remember they are an important part of the larger online economy which supports business that employ people. Please remember the people at the bottom of the chain here who have (and will continue to) seen a material impact on their business, income or employment due to these (and the inevitable further) changes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10B revenue hit this year</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.html</url></story> |
37,585,369 | 37,585,141 | 1 | 2 | 37,584,224 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hajile</author><text>Not everyone has teams of perfect developers given all the time they want to make their perfect frontend app. Most of us deal with average teams where half the devs are at or below par while managing very tight deadlines. The spaghetti from everything in the whole system mutating always comes back to bite.<p>You call signals an &quot;implementation detail&quot;, but if someone doesn&#x27;t know that&#x27;s what they are, then they&#x27;ll wind up doing very bad things. This means they either aren&#x27;t just an implementation detail or they are a hyper-leaky abstraction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rich_harris</author><text>Yes, Vue and Solid — like Knockout — use a dependency tracking mechanism. Back in the day it was called `ko.observable`, nowadays we call them signals.<p>That&#x27;s the part Knockout was right about. It&#x27;s absolutely true that you can mishandle them and create a spaghetti mess, _if your design allows it_. Svelte 5 doesn&#x27;t — it uses signals as an implementation detail, but in a way that prevents the sorts of headaches you&#x27;re describing.<p>Signals and observables (e.g. RxJS) are related but separate concepts. The framework world is converging on signals as the appropriate mechanism for conveying reactivity — even Angular (which has historically been most closely tied to RxJS) is moving in this direction. I promise you it&#x27;s not just a mass delusion.</text></item><item><author>satvikpendem</author><text>This is basically what Vue and Solid do, no? Same sort of state and derive&#x2F;computed variables, it seems like.<p>Also, I will never understand why people like reactive signals. The article even quotes &quot;Knockout being right all along&quot; which, no, reactivity and two way data binding creating a spaghetti mess of changes affecting other changes all over the place unless you&#x27;re really careful is why React was made in the first place, to have only one way data binding and to re-render the entire page in a smart way. React will soon get its own compiler as well which will made regenerating the DOM even more efficient.<p>It&#x27;s like every other framework is slowly rediscovering why React made the decisions it made. I am assuming it&#x27;s because the users who are making these frameworks now have not used or do not remember the times where &quot;signals&quot; were called observables, or the usage of Rx libraries, and how having too many of these would cause you to lose your mind debugging the intricate webs you inadvertently spun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Svelte 5: Runes</title><url>https://svelte.dev/blog/runes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisco255</author><text>&gt; create a spaghetti mess, _if your design allows it_. Svelte 5 doesn&#x27;t — it uses signals as an implementation detail, but in a way that prevents the sorts of headaches you&#x27;re describing.<p>Care to elaborate or do you have a link to a blog post explaining further?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rich_harris</author><text>Yes, Vue and Solid — like Knockout — use a dependency tracking mechanism. Back in the day it was called `ko.observable`, nowadays we call them signals.<p>That&#x27;s the part Knockout was right about. It&#x27;s absolutely true that you can mishandle them and create a spaghetti mess, _if your design allows it_. Svelte 5 doesn&#x27;t — it uses signals as an implementation detail, but in a way that prevents the sorts of headaches you&#x27;re describing.<p>Signals and observables (e.g. RxJS) are related but separate concepts. The framework world is converging on signals as the appropriate mechanism for conveying reactivity — even Angular (which has historically been most closely tied to RxJS) is moving in this direction. I promise you it&#x27;s not just a mass delusion.</text></item><item><author>satvikpendem</author><text>This is basically what Vue and Solid do, no? Same sort of state and derive&#x2F;computed variables, it seems like.<p>Also, I will never understand why people like reactive signals. The article even quotes &quot;Knockout being right all along&quot; which, no, reactivity and two way data binding creating a spaghetti mess of changes affecting other changes all over the place unless you&#x27;re really careful is why React was made in the first place, to have only one way data binding and to re-render the entire page in a smart way. React will soon get its own compiler as well which will made regenerating the DOM even more efficient.<p>It&#x27;s like every other framework is slowly rediscovering why React made the decisions it made. I am assuming it&#x27;s because the users who are making these frameworks now have not used or do not remember the times where &quot;signals&quot; were called observables, or the usage of Rx libraries, and how having too many of these would cause you to lose your mind debugging the intricate webs you inadvertently spun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Svelte 5: Runes</title><url>https://svelte.dev/blog/runes</url></story> |
36,310,807 | 36,310,930 | 1 | 3 | 36,309,291 | 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>DannyBee</author><text>&quot;The social issue continues in that people want some quick and easy to understand number, because they and their company also cannot process in a short time if these security vulns are substantial or not.<p>&quot;<p>Uh, none of this explains why they re-score the vulnerabilities themselves, ignoring the vendor scores and deciding they know best, when they seem to know ... nothing.<p>Which if you read through the links, you&#x27;ll see is one of the main complaints, and something they document here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;general&#x2F;FAQ-Sections&#x2F;CVE-FAQs#faqLink9" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;general&#x2F;FAQ-Sections&#x2F;CVE-FAQs#faqLink9</a><p>Their take is basically &quot;we get to do this and if it&#x27;s wrong it&#x27;s your problem to get us to correct us&quot;.<p>That doesn&#x27;t make any sense.<p>As my child&#x27;s kindergarten teacher once asked a student: &quot;Do you think if everyone decided to do that, it would turn out okay?&quot;<p>NVD and CVE teams will simply never have the expertise or time or information necessary to actually re-score these things correctly. You&#x27;ll also note that despite claiming they score things based on publicly available information, and that othres must do the same, they cite absolutely no sources to Daniel to defend their scoring.<p>They light themselves on fire, generate smoke and noise that others have to deal with, and then complain that it&#x27;s the job of others to put it out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eugenekolo</author><text>It&#x27;s a social and economic problem.<p>The NVD and CVE teams are very low staffed, with people who get a large amount of reports every day. There is no way they can process each report as thoroughly as people want them to while reporting the security issues as fast as possible. I can understand the frustration, but there should be some consideration for these facts.<p>The social issue continues in that people want some quick and easy to understand number, because they and their company also cannot process in a short time if these security vulns are substantial or not.<p>Then there&#x27;s gaming of the system where products with bugs do not want to be exposed as insecure, so they will try to lower the scores assigned to them. Then there&#x27;s pentesters who want to get high scoring bugs for bounties and clout, and they will try to raise the scores...<p>All this ends up where the scores mean very little, but it&#x27;s the best we have. I&#x27;ve seen vulns with a 9+ that are clearly not exploitable, and ones that are 6-7 which are powerful easily exploitable primitives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NVD Damage Continued</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/06/12/nvd-damage-continued/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brohee</author><text>They could have a tiered system where at least things that have <i>deployments in the billions</i> get a special treatment. Holidays can be cancelled, releases rescheduled over a bad enough vulnerability in a sufficiently common software. Miscoring a vulnerability makes a thing that is supposed to be good, by promoting a more secure ecosystem, end up being actually bad, wasting resources that could have been spent on solving actual issue. Not even speaking about the lowered trust in NVD...</text><parent_chain><item><author>eugenekolo</author><text>It&#x27;s a social and economic problem.<p>The NVD and CVE teams are very low staffed, with people who get a large amount of reports every day. There is no way they can process each report as thoroughly as people want them to while reporting the security issues as fast as possible. I can understand the frustration, but there should be some consideration for these facts.<p>The social issue continues in that people want some quick and easy to understand number, because they and their company also cannot process in a short time if these security vulns are substantial or not.<p>Then there&#x27;s gaming of the system where products with bugs do not want to be exposed as insecure, so they will try to lower the scores assigned to them. Then there&#x27;s pentesters who want to get high scoring bugs for bounties and clout, and they will try to raise the scores...<p>All this ends up where the scores mean very little, but it&#x27;s the best we have. I&#x27;ve seen vulns with a 9+ that are clearly not exploitable, and ones that are 6-7 which are powerful easily exploitable primitives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NVD Damage Continued</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/06/12/nvd-damage-continued/</url></story> |
41,742,126 | 41,738,666 | 1 | 2 | 41,736,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theamk</author><text>Heh, my work has a firewall policy: any activity towards TOR servers flags an alert and makes security contact you. If you don&#x27;t confirm it was by design, they&#x27;ll start full scale &quot;computer compromised&quot; procedure. (And if you do confirm it it was by design, then they&#x27;ll ask you to change that design if possible :) )<p>I thought it was overly paranoid, but it seems that would have really helped in this case.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers</title><url>https://www.aquasec.com/blog/perfctl-a-stealthy-malware-targeting-millions-of-linux-servers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PhilipRoman</author><text>A lot of focus on the malware itself, but not so much on the misconfigurations and vulnerabilities which enable it. Would love to see that list. Other than that, the evasion techniques look pretty traditional.<p>And of course the privilege escalation is done by a polkit vulnerability...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers</title><url>https://www.aquasec.com/blog/perfctl-a-stealthy-malware-targeting-millions-of-linux-servers/</url></story> |
34,014,448 | 34,014,511 | 1 | 2 | 34,014,408 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Robin_Message</author><text>Absolutely insane that they would do this. It&#x27;s like they thought &quot;what&#x27;s the most obvious anti-trust violation we could implement in a day using existing code?&quot; and then did.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63999452</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>t0mas88</author><text>I hope they took the Streisand effect into account... Tech users know Mastodon, others are now going to Google it based on mainstream media headlines. Big mistake.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63999452</url></story> |
3,264,628 | 3,264,065 | 1 | 2 | 3,263,767 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asmala</author><text>I think we need to differentiate between different types of wandering here. I think we can agree that letting our minds roam looking for creative solutions and creative questions is a good think. But it's less useful to have our minds stuck in a loop ("Peanut butter or jam? PB or J?" ad infinitum).<p>Anecdotal evidence based on four years of active meditation would in my case seem to indicate that the jittery loopiness lessens while the capacity for creative wandering increases.<p>I would conjencture that our minds are over-stimulated and hence unable settle down to make room for the truly novel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>The real question is whether it's a good thing to stop "mind wandering" when it hasn't reached the level of disorder. From the perspective of evolution, it almost certainly has a purpose. Paul Graham pointed out that its probably useful for problem solving:<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html</a><p>I wonder if it would be good to have the ability to better focus one's self when one's mind is wandering into unproductive subjects (e.g. agonizing over an ex) without necessarily getting to the point where your default mode has been changed so much as to prevent insights in the shower (and instead being deeply aware of the hot water).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation</title><url>http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-tuning-brains-benefit-meditation.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>aik</author><text>I've pondered the same thing. However, personally from meditation I feel I have greater focus, a clearer mind, and less stress (or a much better handle on stress), which I couldn't imagine being without today. Concerning shower-insights -- I find myself having less mind wandering in the shower, and instead more deliberate focused insights.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>The real question is whether it's a good thing to stop "mind wandering" when it hasn't reached the level of disorder. From the perspective of evolution, it almost certainly has a purpose. Paul Graham pointed out that its probably useful for problem solving:<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html</a><p>I wonder if it would be good to have the ability to better focus one's self when one's mind is wandering into unproductive subjects (e.g. agonizing over an ex) without necessarily getting to the point where your default mode has been changed so much as to prevent insights in the shower (and instead being deeply aware of the hot water).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation</title><url>http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-tuning-brains-benefit-meditation.html</url></story> |
1,605,170 | 1,605,114 | 1 | 3 | 1,604,583 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pwim</author><text>In your example:<p><pre><code> * there are about 100 families within a mile or so of you
* they need to spend an hour or so to drive into the city
* they can already barely afford a car and "to keep the lights on"
</code></pre>
To me, this screams out for car-pooling, or some other shared transportation solution, as it would be better for the environment and cheaper for them.<p>Also, economies are complex systems. If low income people can't afford to commute into the city, the jobs wouldn't disappear, as the work wouldn't disappear. So someone closer who was previously unemployed might get the job. Or in response to the shortage of workers, the wages of these jobs might be raised.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I know I'm being downvoted for political reasons, but this seems a clear-cut case where you can reason your way around here.<p>Please explain. Let's use my circumstances for an example.<p>I live an hour from any city. I do well enough financially, so parking taxes will not effect me one way or the other (neither would a gasoline tax). Within an mile of where I live, there are probably another 100 families. Most of them do not do so well. I live in a very rural and poor area. One family I know is a single mom and teenage daughter. While their housing is provided by family, each of them makes minimum wage and have to drive to the city to work. They barely keep one car running and the lights on at home.<p>Now I believe you are saying we should tax them for parking in the city. Then give everybody the money back from the tax. Perhaps at the end of the year when they file their taxes.<p>This would be devastating to these folks. Sure, you'd cut down on car use, but at what cost? For every middle-income person who took a few less trips, how many low-income people did you just kick out of work?<p>Did I understand that correctly? And please, no "but those folks are living the wrong way!" comments. These people are living as best as they can. One social engineering event per conversation, please. The point is to defend, explain, or analyze the article in question. The essay seemed to me to be the kind of pontificating that looks good from the ivory tower living in the city, but has very limited real application to the rest of the country, aside from hurting people for a noble cause.</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>It would be far more efficient to implement the tax and give the money directly back to everyone. At which point you would see people using that money for other things, which would let you reclaim parking spaces for other uses, and or build more based on supply and demand.<p>PS: I pay to park most places around me, and I take slightly fewer trips because of this. The net effect of which is I spend less money on my car and buy more stuff when I do go out.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I hate to rain on anybody's parade, but this is awful tripe. (I hope I couched that diplomatically enough)<p>Most of America is rural. Having an open space for your mode of travel has been de rigeur since the days people rode horses around. Most poor people, really poor people, can barely afford a car and the mandatory insurance now. Jacking up gas and parking taxes has terrible consequences to theses folks. No matter how precious the goal you are trying to accomplish.<p>Look, I'd love a world without gasoline-powered cars, but when it's an hour to town, I'm going to be going in <i>something</i>. And that something is going to need to park somewhere.<p>I increasingly see a vast difference between urbanites and suburbanites/rural America. It's a shame they seem at cross-purposes so much. The United States is simply nowhere near as dense as Europe is, where things like this <i></i><i>might</i><i></i> make more sense.<p>EDIT: Just to be clear that I am directly addressing the author's point: The fact that the cost of land (and to society) for free parking has risen over the last few decades is not germane. Everything has risen in cost. Providing parking for others has always been a cost of having a residence or doing business in the city. I see nothing new in this article except a new look at those costs. The reason for them hasn't changed at all. Nor their justification.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free Parking Comes at a Price</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/business/economy/15view.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>sprout</author><text>What do you mean by<p>&#62;One social engineering event per conversation, please.<p>Wasn't the central 'event' of the article social engineering?<p>The central point of the article seemed to be the assertion that people who are that poor and should not be living so far from their place of employ would be better off if we did this. Yes, they would lose their jobs if they stayed where they are.<p>But the taxes on parking would discourage borderline-poor from owning cars in the city, which in turn would bring down housing costs in the city, making it possible for your neighbors to live more cheaply and healthfully by biking/busing to their now nearby job.<p>Yes, there would be hardship involved. But the alternative is waiting until fossil fuels rise to such a cost that they can't afford to drive to the city anyway. We've then destroyed their chance of earning a livelihood by chasing their short-term comfort.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I know I'm being downvoted for political reasons, but this seems a clear-cut case where you can reason your way around here.<p>Please explain. Let's use my circumstances for an example.<p>I live an hour from any city. I do well enough financially, so parking taxes will not effect me one way or the other (neither would a gasoline tax). Within an mile of where I live, there are probably another 100 families. Most of them do not do so well. I live in a very rural and poor area. One family I know is a single mom and teenage daughter. While their housing is provided by family, each of them makes minimum wage and have to drive to the city to work. They barely keep one car running and the lights on at home.<p>Now I believe you are saying we should tax them for parking in the city. Then give everybody the money back from the tax. Perhaps at the end of the year when they file their taxes.<p>This would be devastating to these folks. Sure, you'd cut down on car use, but at what cost? For every middle-income person who took a few less trips, how many low-income people did you just kick out of work?<p>Did I understand that correctly? And please, no "but those folks are living the wrong way!" comments. These people are living as best as they can. One social engineering event per conversation, please. The point is to defend, explain, or analyze the article in question. The essay seemed to me to be the kind of pontificating that looks good from the ivory tower living in the city, but has very limited real application to the rest of the country, aside from hurting people for a noble cause.</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>It would be far more efficient to implement the tax and give the money directly back to everyone. At which point you would see people using that money for other things, which would let you reclaim parking spaces for other uses, and or build more based on supply and demand.<p>PS: I pay to park most places around me, and I take slightly fewer trips because of this. The net effect of which is I spend less money on my car and buy more stuff when I do go out.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I hate to rain on anybody's parade, but this is awful tripe. (I hope I couched that diplomatically enough)<p>Most of America is rural. Having an open space for your mode of travel has been de rigeur since the days people rode horses around. Most poor people, really poor people, can barely afford a car and the mandatory insurance now. Jacking up gas and parking taxes has terrible consequences to theses folks. No matter how precious the goal you are trying to accomplish.<p>Look, I'd love a world without gasoline-powered cars, but when it's an hour to town, I'm going to be going in <i>something</i>. And that something is going to need to park somewhere.<p>I increasingly see a vast difference between urbanites and suburbanites/rural America. It's a shame they seem at cross-purposes so much. The United States is simply nowhere near as dense as Europe is, where things like this <i></i><i>might</i><i></i> make more sense.<p>EDIT: Just to be clear that I am directly addressing the author's point: The fact that the cost of land (and to society) for free parking has risen over the last few decades is not germane. Everything has risen in cost. Providing parking for others has always been a cost of having a residence or doing business in the city. I see nothing new in this article except a new look at those costs. The reason for them hasn't changed at all. Nor their justification.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free Parking Comes at a Price</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/business/economy/15view.html</url></story> |
16,814,397 | 16,814,531 | 1 | 2 | 16,813,659 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lumberjack</author><text>Equifax may have your bank statements, and whatever sensitive numbers they can collect, but they do not literally have have your inner thoughts, in the same way that Facebook and Google have.<p>That is an important distinction.<p>Surveillance like this is harmful, either way. Not just the leaks, but the actual data gathering itself should be criticized. Why is it that during the Equifax leak nobody criticized the data gathering in the first place? It was all about the leak. In this case I am glad that the data gathering is being put into question.<p>But anyway, my main point is that they are collecting different sets of private data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TravelTechGuy</author><text>Just one question, following Zuckeberg&#x27;s congress show-and-dance: are the next CEOs to be called in front of the committee the ones from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion?<p>Because the way I see it, they&#x27;re collecting millions of &quot;shadow profiles&quot;, with no consent, no remedy, no removal procedures. Furthermore, they sell that data to 3rd parties at will.<p>I&#x27;d also look into a possible connection between one of these and Facebook. I imagine if someone crosses your social profile with actual credit records, real name, address, car, etc. then you have nothing private left to protect save the thoughts in your head.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EquallyJust</author><text>You <i>can</i> opt out of interest based ads&#x2F;shadow profiles without having to be a Facebook user by visiting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;ads&#x2F;settings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;ads&#x2F;settings</a>.<p>It&#x27;s just not very well publicized.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TravelTechGuy</author><text>Just one question, following Zuckeberg&#x27;s congress show-and-dance: are the next CEOs to be called in front of the committee the ones from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion?<p>Because the way I see it, they&#x27;re collecting millions of &quot;shadow profiles&quot;, with no consent, no remedy, no removal procedures. Furthermore, they sell that data to 3rd parties at will.<p>I&#x27;d also look into a possible connection between one of these and Facebook. I imagine if someone crosses your social profile with actual credit records, real name, address, car, etc. then you have nothing private left to protect save the thoughts in your head.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/</url></story> |
6,131,676 | 6,131,485 | 1 | 3 | 6,131,136 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>This is not the first time Samsung has been caught in a disgusting lie:<p><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/52274-samsung-admits-to-posting-fake-user-reviews-on-the-web.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techspot.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;52274-samsung-admits-to-posting...</a><p>I don&#x27;t understand why people keep buying this company&#x27;s god damn products. I mean, holy <i>shit</i>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/7187/looking-at-cpugpu-benchmark-optimizations-galaxy-s-4</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>It&#x27;s so sad to see this kind of stuff. It&#x27;s not like the Galaxy S4 is a slow device. It reminds me of Nokia used a fake video [1] to sell the Lumia 920, which was supposed to have a pretty good camera. It just ends up being an unfortunate distraction that causes people to mistrust you.<p>Ars is right that this isn&#x27;t new. I remember ATI being caught in the Quake&#x2F;Quack thing [2] a dozen years ago.<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3294545/nokias-pureview-ads-are-fraudulent" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;9&#x2F;5&#x2F;3294545&#x2F;nokias-pureview-ads...</a><p>[2] - <a href="http://www.hardocp.com/article/2001/10/23/optimizing_or_cheating_radeon_8500_drivers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardocp.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2001&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;optimizing_or_chea...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/7187/looking-at-cpugpu-benchmark-optimizations-galaxy-s-4</url></story> |
37,660,271 | 37,660,587 | 1 | 3 | 37,658,319 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlanYx</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, World Book still publishes the print version of their encyclopedia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>&gt; The tendency of a lot of the population to prioritise quick and vapid answers over researching and thinking for themselves isn&#x27;t helping either.<p>This makes no sense... how do they &quot;research researching and thinking for themselves&quot; without the internet? Encyclopædia Britannica stopped publishing in 2010.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This happened not long ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37368243">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37368243</a><p>We were already in the &quot;post-truth&quot; world, and AI is just going to drive us further down that path.<p>The tendency of a lot of the population to prioritise quick and vapid answers over researching and thinking for themselves isn&#x27;t helping either.<p>That said, I&#x27;m not sure why whether eggs can be melted is a popular question. Is that a meme?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer</title><url>https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yoyohello13</author><text>My strategy is to find at least 3 unrelated sources that agree before I start believing. Although it seems like that strategy may also be insufficient soon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>&gt; The tendency of a lot of the population to prioritise quick and vapid answers over researching and thinking for themselves isn&#x27;t helping either.<p>This makes no sense... how do they &quot;research researching and thinking for themselves&quot; without the internet? Encyclopædia Britannica stopped publishing in 2010.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This happened not long ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37368243">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37368243</a><p>We were already in the &quot;post-truth&quot; world, and AI is just going to drive us further down that path.<p>The tendency of a lot of the population to prioritise quick and vapid answers over researching and thinking for themselves isn&#x27;t helping either.<p>That said, I&#x27;m not sure why whether eggs can be melted is a popular question. Is that a meme?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer</title><url>https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780</url></story> |
4,709,839 | 4,709,855 | 1 | 2 | 4,709,698 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alex_r</author><text>As a current zynga contractor who is losing his job there next Friday, I have to admit I have mixed feelings about this.<p>Firstly, I don't see the employees being let go as victims, most are getting 3 months severance. Secondly, I don't think there is any real evil going on by Zynga; they accidentally hired more people than they can afford, it sucks as I'm one of them, but I fundamentally agree with the notion of at-will employment in the US.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anonymous Is Going After Zynga For Mistreating Employees</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/28/anonymous-is-going-after-zynga-for-mistreating-employees-and-is-prepared-to-leak-documents/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m0nastic</author><text>I would be shocked if this isn't actually just a post-rationalization for previously completed hacking activity (which has been the majority of their previous M.O.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anonymous Is Going After Zynga For Mistreating Employees</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/28/anonymous-is-going-after-zynga-for-mistreating-employees-and-is-prepared-to-leak-documents/</url></story> |
32,483,185 | 32,483,573 | 1 | 2 | 32,482,007 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paxys</author><text>&gt; I had some friends adopt English names to get from under their caste names. So quite a few Johnsons, Smiths, Matthews, Pauls out there.<p>There is an interesting history behind this. When Christian missionaries first arrived in India to spread their religion (in the late 1700s&#x2F;1800s) they were initially unable to make much progress, but then found success among lower caste Indians by promising them a life of equality. So the vast majority of Christian converts in India are from these castes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yardie</author><text>I&#x27;m not Indian American my origins are Caribbean but I have some Indian origins and can offer a few answers from my experience.<p>&gt; Is this something that comes up in conversation among Indians?<p>It starts casually with &quot;where are you from?&quot; and the questions get more invasive.<p>&gt; Do names tend to correlate to you caste?<p>In India, yes it does family name is derived from caste. I had some friends adopt English names to get from under their caste names. So quite a few Johnsons, Smiths, Matthews, Pauls out there.</text></item><item><author>FactolSarin</author><text>Out of curiosity, for Indians working in America, how hard is it to hide your caste or pretend to be of another caste altogether?<p>Is this something that comes up in conversation among Indians? Do names tend to correlate to you caste? And if so, do people change them as a way of hiding their family caste?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-becomes-first-tech-giant-to-explicitly-ban-caste-discrimination-trains-managers-on-indian-caste-system-1988183-2022-08-15</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>NB: &quot;where are you from?&quot; is a question your HR training should already explicitly tell people not to ask candidates. I&#x27;m not in HR or management and I still make sure to mention it to new hires before doing my first interview alongside them. National origin is a protected class. Even within the US , &quot;where are you from?&quot; can proxy for a protected class. Race, mostly, or possibly religion.<p>It&#x27;s also a question that&#x27;s very easy to ask in good faith while making small talk, which makes it noticeably dangerous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yardie</author><text>I&#x27;m not Indian American my origins are Caribbean but I have some Indian origins and can offer a few answers from my experience.<p>&gt; Is this something that comes up in conversation among Indians?<p>It starts casually with &quot;where are you from?&quot; and the questions get more invasive.<p>&gt; Do names tend to correlate to you caste?<p>In India, yes it does family name is derived from caste. I had some friends adopt English names to get from under their caste names. So quite a few Johnsons, Smiths, Matthews, Pauls out there.</text></item><item><author>FactolSarin</author><text>Out of curiosity, for Indians working in America, how hard is it to hide your caste or pretend to be of another caste altogether?<p>Is this something that comes up in conversation among Indians? Do names tend to correlate to you caste? And if so, do people change them as a way of hiding their family caste?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-becomes-first-tech-giant-to-explicitly-ban-caste-discrimination-trains-managers-on-indian-caste-system-1988183-2022-08-15</url></story> |
37,067,927 | 37,068,208 | 1 | 2 | 37,067,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jph</author><text>The matching syntax looks really good to me:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; Java 21
if (obj instanceof Point(int x, int y)) {
System.out.println(x+y);
}
&#x2F;&#x2F; Older Java
if (obj instanceof Point p) {
int x = p.x();
int y = p.y();
System.out.println(x+y);
}</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java 21: What’s New?</title><url>https://www.loicmathieu.fr/wordpress/en/informatique/java-21-quoi-de-neuf/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>&gt; Java collections don’t have a type representing an ordered sequence of elements, Java 21 fills this gap by introducing the SequencedCollection, SequencedSet and SequencedMap interfaces. These interfaces provide methods for adding, modifying or deleting elements at the beginning or end of the collection, as well as for iterating over a collection in reverse order.<p>That sounds like a deque, and it&#x27;s been in Java for a long time. (No set or map implementations though.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;java&#x2F;javase&#x2F;18&#x2F;docs&#x2F;api&#x2F;java.base&#x2F;java&#x2F;util&#x2F;Deque.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;java&#x2F;javase&#x2F;18&#x2F;docs&#x2F;api&#x2F;java.base...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java 21: What’s New?</title><url>https://www.loicmathieu.fr/wordpress/en/informatique/java-21-quoi-de-neuf/</url></story> |
19,450,346 | 19,449,617 | 1 | 2 | 19,449,279 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ludwigvan</author><text>So both of these routers are written by Ryan Florence? Interesting, what was the reason behind this? Freedom to experiment in one repo while keeping the other stable?</text><parent_chain><item><author>anurag</author><text>We migrated from React Router to Reach Router (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reach.tech&#x2F;router" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reach.tech&#x2F;router</a>) and found it to be better in a few ways:<p>* Built-in focus management.<p>* Smaller library size.<p>* Implicit route matching that Just Works.<p>* More comprehensive docs with live examples.<p>Migration was easy. Highly recommended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React Router v5</title><url>https://reacttraining.com/blog/react-router-v5/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geewee</author><text>We did the same thing, then migrated back to React-Router. We had issues getting relative urls and redirects to work, examples were hard to come by, and generally the experience was just poorer than React-Router.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anurag</author><text>We migrated from React Router to Reach Router (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reach.tech&#x2F;router" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reach.tech&#x2F;router</a>) and found it to be better in a few ways:<p>* Built-in focus management.<p>* Smaller library size.<p>* Implicit route matching that Just Works.<p>* More comprehensive docs with live examples.<p>Migration was easy. Highly recommended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React Router v5</title><url>https://reacttraining.com/blog/react-router-v5/</url></story> |
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