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8,188,289 | 8,188,288 | 1 | 2 | 8,185,021 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelsbradley</author><text>In 1937, Pope Pius XI published a kind of &quot;review&quot; of the ideas in Mein Kampf and the actions of the Nazi Party. <i>Mit Brennender Sorge</i> (&quot;With Burning Anxiety&quot;) remains the only papal encyclical ever principally published in a language other than Latin. That is, the official edition was published in German and other translations were derived from the German rather than a Latin original. Apparently, the Pope&#x27;s harsh critique enraged Hitler.<p><a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_14031937_mit-brennender-sorge_en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vatican.va&#x2F;holy_father&#x2F;pius_xi&#x2F;encyclicals&#x2F;docume...</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_brennender_Sorge" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mit_brennender_Sorge</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/edit</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikeyouse</author><text>From a timing perspective, this was published in March, 1940. Some other noteworthy events with their dates:<p>* Germany invades Poland (September, 1939)<p>* Britain, France, Canada, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany (September, 1939)<p>* Soviets invade Poland, which is later split (October, 1939)<p>* Nazis begin euthanasia of ill and disabled in Germany (October, 1939)<p>* Soviets attack Finland (November, 1939)<p>So by the time Orwell published his review, it was clear Germany and the Soviets were mobilizing for war, but it was entirely unclear what would happen next.<p>In the next six months, Germany would invade Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands while beginning their blitz on Great Britain. The Soviets would take Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Mussolini would meet Hitler in Munich, declare war on France and Britain and Italian forces would take Greece and enter Egypt. The Tripartite Pact would be signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan to formalize their alliance.<p>It&#x27;s amazing to me how fast things moved during that time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/edit</url></story> |
5,667,808 | 5,667,861 | 1 | 3 | 5,667,606 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasonlotito</author><text>I noticed that as well. If anything, it earns my respect. It shows that Atlassian, and the developers behind their products, realize that everyone has different needs. That a single tool can't solve everything for everyone. I also think it means that the tools they do build will be better, because instead of trying to include the kitchen sink, each tool has an opinion on how to best achieve what it's trying to achieve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>terhechte</author><text>Atlassian, ironically, are the vendors of one of the best Git Gui tools for Mac OS X, 'SourceTree': <a href="http://sourcetreeapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://sourcetreeapp.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git? tig</title><url>http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brown9-2</author><text>To be fair, they acquired SourceTree in late 2011 and IIRC the app prior to the acquisition looked pretty similar to how it looks today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>terhechte</author><text>Atlassian, ironically, are the vendors of one of the best Git Gui tools for Mac OS X, 'SourceTree': <a href="http://sourcetreeapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://sourcetreeapp.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git? tig</title><url>http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/</url></story> |
14,640,529 | 14,639,730 | 1 | 2 | 14,638,843 | 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>dzink</author><text>Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but as a startup your metrics, learnings, and progress grows every single day, which means that applying early puts you at a disadvantage from your future self, let alone from competing companies, to get into one of those 400 interview spots. YC doesn&#x27;t have the time and resources to re-review 7000 applications over and over again. If you re-submit later in this application cycle, you may not get reviewed again (I&#x27;ve regretted submitting early in the past, after our updated video with co-founders, vs solo founder, didn&#x27;t get viewed at all.) Thus even with months of application time, it still makes sense for applicants to wait until the last moment to submit. Again, comment if you know more.<p>Is rolling admissions an idea worth trying out for YC - all teams start at the same time, but interviewing and admission decisions don&#x27;t have to?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apply to YC for the Winter 2018 funding cycle</title><url>http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wand3r</author><text>YC is great and am interested to see how their investment thesis progresses. It is an answer to Harvard&#x2F;Ivy league criticism that if the teaching methodologies were as good as the institutions claim; scaling them would be a net good. Conversely, they are competitive because they do not scale them and thus Ivy schools have a finite demand and the scarcity boosts the value.<p>I hope YC can continue to deliver value by raising batch levels and providing support to through their satellite offering. It is difficult to replicate; or if replication is the wrong word-- provide a service <i>consistent</i> with their brand and values-- via a distributed network with a remote team.<p>In many ways since it started, I think the Stripe Atlas program is a great way to address this issue and I can see it evolving into an investment model. I hope YC has the resources to scale their efforts. Scaling is hard; a mistake hurts their brand, credibility and their companies. Success broadens their Network, their portfolio and gives them a foothold in different markets and verticals.<p>Good luck; and sincerely thanks for pioneering this. It is much more brave than the ivy approach. YC believes-- with good reason-- in it&#x27;s mission and I&#x27;m glad they are willing to expand it&#x27;s breadth with this, non profit, hard science and funding research</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apply to YC for the Winter 2018 funding cycle</title><url>http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/</url></story> |
18,527,745 | 18,527,420 | 1 | 2 | 18,508,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sytse</author><text>If you want to keep everything up to date I recommend checking your diagrams in with your code. GitLab has support for plantUML <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.gitlab.com&#x2F;ee&#x2F;administration&#x2F;integration&#x2F;plantuml.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.gitlab.com&#x2F;ee&#x2F;administration&#x2F;integration&#x2F;plantu...</a> and Mermaid <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.gitlab.com&#x2F;ee&#x2F;user&#x2F;markdown.html#mermaid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.gitlab.com&#x2F;ee&#x2F;user&#x2F;markdown.html#mermaid</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Msurrow</author><text>Well, you need to use an architecture modelling tool to work [efficiently] with architecture models.<p>Here are some I know of:<p>Sparx’s Enterprice Architect<p>NoMagic’s MagicDraw<p>Qualiware<p>Achimate (the tool, not the standard)<p>There are surely more out there. I know both Sparx and MagicDraw have the possibility to write your own custom plugins for the tool. If you are in a big enough shop that will become very handy at some point. Qualiware have better publication options than the others, as far as I know, but not completely sure. The Archimate tool probably only supports the Archimate notation standard, where as the others support BPMN, UML, DMN etc. So I’d go for those, unless you are really heavy into TOGAF, then Archimate may make sense.<p>Edit: these are “big” tools that can do alot of differnet stuff and you wont ever need all of the features in one of them. But also means you need to dedicate some time to learn how to use it (alot more time than you needed to learn PP or Visio)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?</title><text>Despite having the &#x27;architect&#x27; title for about five years now, I still sit for hours in Visio &amp; Powerpoint to painstakingly drag boxes and lines around to describe systems.<p>While the system definitions themselves have arguably improved as my skill as an architect has increased, there&#x27;s been no such improvement in the speed or method I use to describe them. My visuals are perfunctory, powerpoint-fu is lacking, and the end result always has plenty of room for improvement. It then gets saved as PDF and shelved as an artefact that is disconnected from all the other architectures, and the system boundaries are inevitably out of date by the time the next person looks at it.<p>So much craft has been put into better languages, better compilers, and better IDEs for the software developer, I&#x27;m absolutely confused - where is the modern &#x27;IDE&#x27; for the Software Architect?</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>donjoe</author><text>To add to this: I highly recommend reading into INCOSE&#x27;s standards and recommendations on SysML.<p>Start by going through one of their last talks:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sdincose.org&#x2F;rsvpmaker&#x2F;state-of-sysml-2018-09-12&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sdincose.org&#x2F;rsvpmaker&#x2F;state-of-sysml-2018-09-12&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Msurrow</author><text>Well, you need to use an architecture modelling tool to work [efficiently] with architecture models.<p>Here are some I know of:<p>Sparx’s Enterprice Architect<p>NoMagic’s MagicDraw<p>Qualiware<p>Achimate (the tool, not the standard)<p>There are surely more out there. I know both Sparx and MagicDraw have the possibility to write your own custom plugins for the tool. If you are in a big enough shop that will become very handy at some point. Qualiware have better publication options than the others, as far as I know, but not completely sure. The Archimate tool probably only supports the Archimate notation standard, where as the others support BPMN, UML, DMN etc. So I’d go for those, unless you are really heavy into TOGAF, then Archimate may make sense.<p>Edit: these are “big” tools that can do alot of differnet stuff and you wont ever need all of the features in one of them. But also means you need to dedicate some time to learn how to use it (alot more time than you needed to learn PP or Visio)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?</title><text>Despite having the &#x27;architect&#x27; title for about five years now, I still sit for hours in Visio &amp; Powerpoint to painstakingly drag boxes and lines around to describe systems.<p>While the system definitions themselves have arguably improved as my skill as an architect has increased, there&#x27;s been no such improvement in the speed or method I use to describe them. My visuals are perfunctory, powerpoint-fu is lacking, and the end result always has plenty of room for improvement. It then gets saved as PDF and shelved as an artefact that is disconnected from all the other architectures, and the system boundaries are inevitably out of date by the time the next person looks at it.<p>So much craft has been put into better languages, better compilers, and better IDEs for the software developer, I&#x27;m absolutely confused - where is the modern &#x27;IDE&#x27; for the Software Architect?</text></story> |
38,050,683 | 38,048,990 | 1 | 3 | 38,044,997 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>Thanks for sharing this particular Feynman lecture. The treatment here, using what are basically the Peano postulates to derive the field properties of the real numbers and then the basic structure of secondary school mathematics, follows the treatment of Landau&#x27;s Grundlagen der Analysis (Foundations of Analysis), a concise book that Feynman was probably aware of as he presented his lecture. Feynman of course added a sense of excitement and wonder that makes this lecture charming to read. Such treatments of the foundations of secondary school mathematics are fairly commonplace in the better university textbooks of mathematics. I first learned of Landau&#x27;s book in a discussion of mathematics education in a Usenet newsgroup back in the 1990s, and bought the German edition on the recommendation of Michael Spivak&#x27;s famous textbook Calculus, which follows a similar approach (but starting from the field properties of real numbers taken as axioms). In those days, I&#x27;m pretty sure, the standard calculus textbook at Caltech, where Feynman taught, was Apostol&#x27;s textbook, which starts a little bit differently but also takes a theorem-proof approach.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maa.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;maa-reviews&#x2F;calculus-4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maa.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;maa-reviews&#x2F;calculus-4</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algebra</title><url>https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.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>lambdasquirrel</author><text>I think it&#x27;s worth revisiting elementary algebra, because the way most of us learned it in grade school doesn&#x27;t really do it justice.<p>With that said, we abandoned `ab = ba` because it&#x27;s not useful for e.g. linear algebra. Elementary algebra is a very specific (but very useful) mathematical &quot;DSL&quot; over the reals. It&#x27;s also not necessarily going to help you learn to reason about the kinds of abstractions you have whilst programming, per se, because we can&#x27;t reverse `a . b` to `b . a` when we code either.<p>Make no mistake, this is a knowledge for knowledge&#x27;s sake endeavor. A liberal arts of the STEM fields, if you will.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algebra</title><url>https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html</url></story> |
980,055 | 979,658 | 1 | 3 | 979,501 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>va_coder</author><text>The user refractedthought at reddit had the best explanation IMO:<p>Ok, I think the real losers in this discussion are the ones who fail to see both sides of the issue. We can cherry pick "refrence" definitions if we want, but really the nuts and bolts come down to this: Passing by value means that a copy of the parameter is made when the function is called and any changes to that variable will not be reflected outside of the function. Passing by reference means you pass a pointer to your data (and nothing more) so the function can dereference the parameter and affect data that exists outside of the function.<p>All non-primitives in Java are implicit pointers, so when you pass one of these into a function, you are passing a pointer (or reference) to data that exists outside of the function. However, the reference itself, as it exists inside the function, can be changed to point toward something else. Essentially, the implicit pointer is passed by value, and that value can be altered without affecting anything outside the function.<p>So technically yes, you could get away with calling this pass-by-value. However, the spirit of pass-by-reference is maintained for any part of the data that most people care about. The syntax is different from a pass-by-reference in C++, and there's a silly little trick you can do by changing the reference pointer (or silly trick you can't do by changing the pointer outside the function) but for all practical purposes you are doing the same thing.<p>In my opinion, if you want to insist that Java strictly follows pass-by-value, then I think it has ceased to be a relevant distinction.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java is pass-by-value, Dammit (and so are Ruby and Python, Dammit)</title><url>http://javadude.com/articles/passbyvalue.htm?repost</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>jganetsk</author><text><i>Can you write a traditional swap(a,b) method/function in the language?</i><p>What about languages that are immutable by default, like Haskell, OCaml, and Erlang? You can't write a swap function. Therefore, are they pass-by-value?<p>Actually, in OCaml, you can write the swap function.<p><pre><code> let swap a b =
let temp = !a in
a := !b;
b := temp
let x = ref 3 in
let y = ref 8 in
swap x y
</code></pre>
But now, you are passing references by value, as Java does. So maybe they are pass-by-value. But, when your language is immutable, pass-by-reference (whatever that would mean), doesn't effect the language semantics. They are pass-by-(it's-moot).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java is pass-by-value, Dammit (and so are Ruby and Python, Dammit)</title><url>http://javadude.com/articles/passbyvalue.htm?repost</url><text></text></story> |
25,671,079 | 25,671,071 | 1 | 2 | 25,669,864 | 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>mightytightywty</author><text>It&#x27;ll take some setting up, but matrix may suit your needs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;bridges&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;bridges&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>It&#x27;s about time someone made a unified messenger client that combines all these conversations and hides the detail of which service you are using to talk to friends.</text></item><item><author>pelasaco</author><text>if with Telegram &quot;the privacy, security, and governance story is not great though&quot;, why would you migrate from WhatsApp to Telegram in first place? I personally have all 3 (Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram) and use all three with different groups and scenarios.<p>For example:<p>- With my mom and grandmom: WhatsApp<p>- Group of friends from jiu-jitsu: WhatsApp<p>- Work Colleagues and friends working with Network Security: Signal<p>- Notifications from services that I run like weather station, waves forecast, how full my gym is right now, some other batch services that I have: Telegram<p>There is no reason to be radical here. We have options, and that&#x27;s great!</text></item><item><author>Lazare</author><text>Telegram is a great IM <i>experience</i>. The client is good, feature set is good, the stickers are amusing (if you&#x27;re into that kind of thing), the feature set is complete and everything is polished. Telegram is, I think, going to be one of the easier sells if you&#x27;re trying to convince non-technical users to switch from WhatsApp or FB Messenger.<p>The privacy, security, and governance story is not great though. If you care about such things, I think Signal wins hands down. And the UX is fine, just not quite as good as Telegram in my view.<p>(A third option not in your poll that might be worth evaluating is Wickr. I haven&#x27;t used it personally, but I&#x27;ve seen it come up in these sorts of discussions.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Poll: Switching from WhatsApp</title><text>So many choices, so much discussion. Looking for the &quot;Wisdom of the Crowd&quot; from the HN community. Other options in the comments would be welcome</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>pelasaco</author><text>I agree with you. However it won&#x27;t solve the problem of privacy regarding Facebook. Other issue that I see here, people want an unified messenger, with a great user experience, 100% secure, open-source, multi-platform, free (as in beer) and no monetization included. I&#x27;m sometimes shocked that here - hacker news - people underestimate the price of good software development, infrastructure and maintenance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>It&#x27;s about time someone made a unified messenger client that combines all these conversations and hides the detail of which service you are using to talk to friends.</text></item><item><author>pelasaco</author><text>if with Telegram &quot;the privacy, security, and governance story is not great though&quot;, why would you migrate from WhatsApp to Telegram in first place? I personally have all 3 (Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram) and use all three with different groups and scenarios.<p>For example:<p>- With my mom and grandmom: WhatsApp<p>- Group of friends from jiu-jitsu: WhatsApp<p>- Work Colleagues and friends working with Network Security: Signal<p>- Notifications from services that I run like weather station, waves forecast, how full my gym is right now, some other batch services that I have: Telegram<p>There is no reason to be radical here. We have options, and that&#x27;s great!</text></item><item><author>Lazare</author><text>Telegram is a great IM <i>experience</i>. The client is good, feature set is good, the stickers are amusing (if you&#x27;re into that kind of thing), the feature set is complete and everything is polished. Telegram is, I think, going to be one of the easier sells if you&#x27;re trying to convince non-technical users to switch from WhatsApp or FB Messenger.<p>The privacy, security, and governance story is not great though. If you care about such things, I think Signal wins hands down. And the UX is fine, just not quite as good as Telegram in my view.<p>(A third option not in your poll that might be worth evaluating is Wickr. I haven&#x27;t used it personally, but I&#x27;ve seen it come up in these sorts of discussions.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Poll: Switching from WhatsApp</title><text>So many choices, so much discussion. Looking for the &quot;Wisdom of the Crowd&quot; from the HN community. Other options in the comments would be welcome</text></story> |
6,198,287 | 6,198,275 | 1 | 2 | 6,197,912 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Udo</author><text>You&#x27;re implying that all this spying would be OK if it allowed us to catch a lot of criminals. I don&#x27;t think inefficiency is a good argument here, although for the moment it&#x27;s a safe position to have. There are no benefits that make it worth living in a surveillance state, even if they perfect it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DanBC</author><text>They have huge amounts of data. This is good, because now people can analyse it and see how effective the measures are. Spending all that money must have some tangible, measurable, benefit, right? So, show us. Show us how many people have been caught as a result of all this monitoring.<p>I don&#x27;t think the results are going to be impressive. See, for another example, the fingerprint collection at US airports.<p>&gt; <i>Collect it all</i><p>I wonder how many Americans know about the scheme to collect at airports the fingerprints of visitors to the US?<p>Here&#x27;s an article from 2008 (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/03/25/us-security-fingerprints-idUSN2538685320080325" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2008&#x2F;03&#x2F;25&#x2F;us-security-finger...</a>), submitted to HN here (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6196375" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6196375</a>)<p>&gt; The U.S. government has been collecting digital fingerprints and photographs of nearly all non-citizens aged 14 and up entering the country since 2004, officials said, in a Homeland Security program called US-VISIT, at a cost of $1.7 billion.<p>&gt; [...] On an average day, almost 14,400 international visitors undergo the fingerprinting process at Kennedy, officials said.<p>&gt; More than 2,000 criminal and visa fraud cases have been detected by the screening process, introduced in response to security concerns following the attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. officials said.<p>Roughly they&#x27;ve scanned fingerprints for 36,792,000 visitors (who may be repeat visitors), and caught more than 2,000 people. (Between 2001&#x2F;9&#x2F;11 and 2008&#x2F;9&#x2F;11.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The NSA is turning the Internet into a total surveillance system</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/11/nsa-internet-surveillance-email</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>But did they catch those people because of the fingerprints or would they have caught them in some other way.<p>And was the stated reason for installing this program in the first place that they were going after criminal and visa fraud cases and if so is the damage that those people would have incurred post their capture greater than the cost of the system?<p>Preferably substantially greater. I no longer visit the US in part because I refuse to be treated like a suspected criminal simply because I&#x27;m not an American. As a one man boycott it likely won&#x27;t have much effect but I suspect I&#x27;m not the only one doing this.<p>The TSA&#x2F;US Customs combo is the worst possible way to welcome a new visitor to your country.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DanBC</author><text>They have huge amounts of data. This is good, because now people can analyse it and see how effective the measures are. Spending all that money must have some tangible, measurable, benefit, right? So, show us. Show us how many people have been caught as a result of all this monitoring.<p>I don&#x27;t think the results are going to be impressive. See, for another example, the fingerprint collection at US airports.<p>&gt; <i>Collect it all</i><p>I wonder how many Americans know about the scheme to collect at airports the fingerprints of visitors to the US?<p>Here&#x27;s an article from 2008 (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/03/25/us-security-fingerprints-idUSN2538685320080325" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2008&#x2F;03&#x2F;25&#x2F;us-security-finger...</a>), submitted to HN here (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6196375" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6196375</a>)<p>&gt; The U.S. government has been collecting digital fingerprints and photographs of nearly all non-citizens aged 14 and up entering the country since 2004, officials said, in a Homeland Security program called US-VISIT, at a cost of $1.7 billion.<p>&gt; [...] On an average day, almost 14,400 international visitors undergo the fingerprinting process at Kennedy, officials said.<p>&gt; More than 2,000 criminal and visa fraud cases have been detected by the screening process, introduced in response to security concerns following the attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. officials said.<p>Roughly they&#x27;ve scanned fingerprints for 36,792,000 visitors (who may be repeat visitors), and caught more than 2,000 people. (Between 2001&#x2F;9&#x2F;11 and 2008&#x2F;9&#x2F;11.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The NSA is turning the Internet into a total surveillance system</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/11/nsa-internet-surveillance-email</url></story> |
10,761,938 | 10,761,478 | 1 | 3 | 10,751,827 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slapshot</author><text>I am close to somebody who has been strongly affected by depression. She has, in any material respect, a perfect life. She has food, clothes, a supportive family, a great job, plenty of money, etc. There is nothing &quot;wrong&quot; with her life.<p>But she suffers off-and-on depression. Not just &quot;I feel bad&quot; depression. Crippling, &quot;can&#x27;t get out of bed&quot; depression. Periodic suicidal ideation. Occasional suicide attempts.<p>She knows she has depression. She talks about it. And she wants to be done with it. She knows how she feels when her brain is &quot;in balance&quot; and how it feels when she&#x27;s depressed. One of these states is much more preferable to the other.<p>She&#x27;s tried drugs, ECT, talk therapy, etc. And, yes, she&#x27;s tried ketamine. Anything that will put her back to a state where she is able to get out of bed and function, and reduce the odds of her killing herself when she&#x27;s depressed.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are a lot of people who are depressed due to outside factors -- poverty, oppression, war, etc. But I can tell you quite certainly that there are people who have &quot;perfect&quot; lives who find themselves clinically depressed. And at least some of those people want to get back to a non-depressed state. This research helps them.<p>TL;DR: Not all people are depressed because their life sucks, nor is depression something that all people can &quot;cure&quot; by thinking harder or trying harder. Some people have a brain imbalance and would like to fix it so they can have a life. Literally.</text><parent_chain><item><author>astazangasta</author><text>I have been depressed a significant fraction of my adult life. I am also a biologist who abhors the medical description of this problem. I don&#x27;t even like the word &#x27;mental illness&#x27;. This shit is not an illness, its a normal response to a fucked up life! Can I get at least some acknowledgment of this fact?<p>The sine qua non for me was an issue of Nature a few years back that focused on depression, talked about how prevalent it is, how it is a &#x27;drain on productivity&#x27;, etc. Included therein was a graph of the worst affected populations, topping the list was Afghanistan. This passed without comment. How about: &#x27;hey, the cause of depression seems to be human misery, like war, unemployment, alienation, etc.&#x27;<p>But you can&#x27;t sell a fucking pill to cure war and alienation, so ...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/a-vaccine-for-depression</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>escape_goat</author><text>I have also been depressed for a significant fraction of my life, a period that spanned over two decades. In my case it was primarily caused by what was called &quot;anxiety&quot; until recently and is now generally called a &quot;stress disorder,&quot; but for most of that period the stress disorder was entirely cryptic; I had no idea that I was a particularly &#x27;anxious&#x27; or fearful person.<p>I can tell you that my condition eventually responded dramatically to medication, and that I would not be able to live the life I live now if it were not for that medication; furthermore, that because of the medication and my experience during the years I have been on it, I can look forwards to continuing to reduce my dependence on that medication.<p>Depression is indeed a normal response to ongoing helplessness and despair. I probably share your experience of depression in this regard, because the &#x27;depression&#x27; that I had been treated for for years was suddenly completely irrelevant the moment my brain finally responded to medication.<p>However, there are several things that this account leaves out. You can&#x27;t scoff and say that depression is just an normal response any more than people can scoff and say the reason you don&#x27;t want to take a shower is because you&#x27;re lazy. For one, as you know, depression can be very self-perpetuating. People come to believe things that keep them depressed, ruminating on their depressed state over and over again. People always see verification and never contradiction of their worldview, even though the entire world has somehow failed to just lay down and die over the course of many thousands of years, which is what it would do if that understanding of reality was valid. And people very definitely do encounter depression that does not have a proximate external cause to justify the response; many of those Afghanis, for instance, will suffer from the bleakest of depressions for many years after the wars in Afghanistan are ended. All of these things constitute a medical condition. If you don&#x27;t like the word &quot;illness&quot; because of how it makes you feel, I can sympathize. But that doesn&#x27;t invalidate the fact that depression is something that frequently does become a genuine medical problem and frequently does require a solution beyond the reach of the person suffering from it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>astazangasta</author><text>I have been depressed a significant fraction of my adult life. I am also a biologist who abhors the medical description of this problem. I don&#x27;t even like the word &#x27;mental illness&#x27;. This shit is not an illness, its a normal response to a fucked up life! Can I get at least some acknowledgment of this fact?<p>The sine qua non for me was an issue of Nature a few years back that focused on depression, talked about how prevalent it is, how it is a &#x27;drain on productivity&#x27;, etc. Included therein was a graph of the worst affected populations, topping the list was Afghanistan. This passed without comment. How about: &#x27;hey, the cause of depression seems to be human misery, like war, unemployment, alienation, etc.&#x27;<p>But you can&#x27;t sell a fucking pill to cure war and alienation, so ...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/a-vaccine-for-depression</url></story> |
35,644,098 | 35,643,921 | 1 | 2 | 35,643,049 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neel8986</author><text>&gt;&gt; Overall, I am not convinced this will be massively beneficial. I don&#x27;t trust Google&#x27;s ability to execute at scale in this area.<p>Yes the team which literally created transformer and almost all the important open research including Bert, T5, imagen, RLHF, ViT don&#x27;t have the ability to execute on AI &#x2F;s. Tell me one innovation OpenAI bought into the field. They are good at execution but i havent seen anything novel coming out of them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>A couple of thoughts:<p>- This does not seem unexpected. Google is panicked about losing the AI race and pushing resources into DeepMind is a logical step to mitigating those fears.<p>- Google has currently given ~300M to Anthropic and has a partnership with them. I assume Google continues to see potential in both avenues and won&#x27;t neglect one AI team for the other. I&#x27;m guessing that DeepMind will be their primary focus because of the numerous, real-world applications already at play.<p>- It&#x27;s tough for me to compare Google DeepMind to OpenAI GPT4. They seem to be very different approaches. Yet, they both have support for language and imagery. So, perhaps they aren&#x27;t that different afterall?<p>- Still waiting to hear more from Google on how they plan to leverage their novel PaLM architecture. The API for it was released a month ago, but, to my awareness, has yet to take the world by storm. (Q: Bard isn&#x27;t powered by PaLM, right?)<p>Overall, I am not convinced this will be massively beneficial. I don&#x27;t trust Google&#x27;s ability to execute at scale in this area. I trust DeepMind&#x27;s team and I trust Google&#x27;s research teams, but Google&#x27;s ability to execute and take products to market has been quite weak thus far. My gut says this action will hamstring DeepMind in bureaucracy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google DeepMind</title><url>https://www.deepmind.com/blog/announcing-google-deepmind</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jstx1</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s tough for me to compare Google DeepMind to OpenAI GPT4.<p>Is it tough because one of these is a newly merged and rebranded team and the other is a machine learning model?</text><parent_chain><item><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>A couple of thoughts:<p>- This does not seem unexpected. Google is panicked about losing the AI race and pushing resources into DeepMind is a logical step to mitigating those fears.<p>- Google has currently given ~300M to Anthropic and has a partnership with them. I assume Google continues to see potential in both avenues and won&#x27;t neglect one AI team for the other. I&#x27;m guessing that DeepMind will be their primary focus because of the numerous, real-world applications already at play.<p>- It&#x27;s tough for me to compare Google DeepMind to OpenAI GPT4. They seem to be very different approaches. Yet, they both have support for language and imagery. So, perhaps they aren&#x27;t that different afterall?<p>- Still waiting to hear more from Google on how they plan to leverage their novel PaLM architecture. The API for it was released a month ago, but, to my awareness, has yet to take the world by storm. (Q: Bard isn&#x27;t powered by PaLM, right?)<p>Overall, I am not convinced this will be massively beneficial. I don&#x27;t trust Google&#x27;s ability to execute at scale in this area. I trust DeepMind&#x27;s team and I trust Google&#x27;s research teams, but Google&#x27;s ability to execute and take products to market has been quite weak thus far. My gut says this action will hamstring DeepMind in bureaucracy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google DeepMind</title><url>https://www.deepmind.com/blog/announcing-google-deepmind</url></story> |
22,541,308 | 22,537,852 | 1 | 2 | 22,535,014 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>That was a CDC-imposed policy, to be clear.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;health-news&#x2F;after-missteps-cdc-says-its-coronavirus-test-kit-ready-primetime-n1145206" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;health-news&#x2F;after-missteps-cd...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisCinelli</author><text>Up to 1 week ago in California they did not let you test people that did not have contacts with people that were tested positive to COVID-19 or that have travelled in counties that have the virus.<p>I know a person in Menlo Park that the whole family &quot;had CODVID-19 symptoms&quot; (Stanford doctor&#x27;s word) and they were diagnosed with viral pneumonia but they were refused of being tested (after asking permission to the CDC) and sent home asked to be in &quot;isolation and do not tell anybody because it may spread panic.&quot; The first person to get it in the family was one of the child in school that started have symptoms at the end of Jan.<p>I supposed that they were not the only ones.<p>Even nurses dealing with patients were refused to be tested according to this video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DiqVCQv__pE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DiqVCQv__pE</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How coronavirus spread from patient zero in Seattle</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-09/how-coronavirus-spread-from-patient-zero-in-seattle</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChrisCinelli</author><text>I am not sure this is or was the policy nation wide but I have mixed feelings on how useful it may have been. I understand that more panic would make things worse in the hospitals in areas that were not prepared for massive outbreak but on the other side I wonder if somebody may have taken it a little light.<p>For example in the family of the person I know the youngest kid just cough a little for few days and never had a fever.<p>If a young child is the first person in a family being infected, you may think it is nothing serious and they may still send the kid to school.<p>It also did not help people making an informed decision about travelling in the area where supposedly only a handful of people had the virus.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisCinelli</author><text>Up to 1 week ago in California they did not let you test people that did not have contacts with people that were tested positive to COVID-19 or that have travelled in counties that have the virus.<p>I know a person in Menlo Park that the whole family &quot;had CODVID-19 symptoms&quot; (Stanford doctor&#x27;s word) and they were diagnosed with viral pneumonia but they were refused of being tested (after asking permission to the CDC) and sent home asked to be in &quot;isolation and do not tell anybody because it may spread panic.&quot; The first person to get it in the family was one of the child in school that started have symptoms at the end of Jan.<p>I supposed that they were not the only ones.<p>Even nurses dealing with patients were refused to be tested according to this video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DiqVCQv__pE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DiqVCQv__pE</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How coronavirus spread from patient zero in Seattle</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-09/how-coronavirus-spread-from-patient-zero-in-seattle</url></story> |
20,515,673 | 20,515,848 | 1 | 2 | 20,514,833 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stilley2</author><text>I recently got a new job where the email is completely locked down (only accessible on a networked computer or via the awful outlook web interface). It&#x27;s been awesome not getting work emails on my phone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kpwags</author><text>This is certainly a very good reason to not put your work account on your personal phone, but my primary reason not to is that it&#x27;s my device and I pay for the service. If my company needs me to be available beyond my 9-5 workday, they can pay for it.<p>If there&#x27;s an emergency, they can always call, but I don&#x27;t like being &quot;always on&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/dont-put-your-work-email-on-your-personal-phone-ef7fef956c2f</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mti27</author><text>Exactly- if work doesn&#x27;t pay, they don&#x27;t get to play on my phone. I&#x27;d be willing to check work email sporadically, and it&#x27;s unfortunate that doing so in any capacity means allowing an unknown admin &quot;wipe my phone&quot; privileges. Companies don&#x27;t handle that stuff with any sort of finesse and mistakes happen. Ultimately email on a phone may be a moot point for software developers: We use more independent chat apps like Slack, no one worries about texting you, and it&#x27;s hard to do anything really more involved than messaging without opening your laptop (which probably is provided by work).</text><parent_chain><item><author>kpwags</author><text>This is certainly a very good reason to not put your work account on your personal phone, but my primary reason not to is that it&#x27;s my device and I pay for the service. If my company needs me to be available beyond my 9-5 workday, they can pay for it.<p>If there&#x27;s an emergency, they can always call, but I don&#x27;t like being &quot;always on&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/dont-put-your-work-email-on-your-personal-phone-ef7fef956c2f</url></story> |
10,823,172 | 10,821,784 | 1 | 2 | 10,821,493 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>modarts</author><text>Clojure is one of the most addictive languages I&#x27;ve ever worked in. I can see why so many people pick it up as something to build hobby projects with, it&#x27;s just so damn fun to write.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>This year, Clojure cemented itself as my favorite programming language, and I felt glad to be able to use it daily for my work, as it does take so much effort off the developer for little things, allowing one to concentrate more on big things.<p>However, it was also the year I learned that, while Clojure, as a dynamic typed language running on a VM, is the best of that class of languages, static system languages are still irreplaceable for so many other things. This was the year I realized that one language does not fit all, and that it is okay to have more than one favorite language. (And in my case, it is Clojure and C++ that I am now using equally, and with equal enjoyment, and for entirely different reasons).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clojure 2015 Year in Review</title><url>http://stuartsierra.com/2015/12/31/clojure-2015-year-in-review</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>s_kilk</author><text>&gt; This year, Clojure cemented itself as my favorite programming language...<p>Same. I&#x27;ve been playing with it for years, but I feel 2015 was the year Clojure(script) finally &quot;got there&quot;, and is definitely here to stay.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>This year, Clojure cemented itself as my favorite programming language, and I felt glad to be able to use it daily for my work, as it does take so much effort off the developer for little things, allowing one to concentrate more on big things.<p>However, it was also the year I learned that, while Clojure, as a dynamic typed language running on a VM, is the best of that class of languages, static system languages are still irreplaceable for so many other things. This was the year I realized that one language does not fit all, and that it is okay to have more than one favorite language. (And in my case, it is Clojure and C++ that I am now using equally, and with equal enjoyment, and for entirely different reasons).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clojure 2015 Year in Review</title><url>http://stuartsierra.com/2015/12/31/clojure-2015-year-in-review</url></story> |
3,120,991 | 3,120,686 | 1 | 2 | 3,120,050 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jxcole</author><text>Read the linked paper, it's actually very good. It looks like they used good science in testing this:<p>"From our study, we conclude that both our method and the light probe method are highly realistic, but that users can tell a real image apart from a synthetic image with probability higher than chance. However, even though users had no time restrictions, they still could not differentiate real images from both our method and the light probe method reliably."</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inserting Artificial Objects into Photographs</title><url>http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/10/cool-tech-demo-match-3d-models-into-archive-photos/</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>sp332</author><text>This is a great example of using humans for what humans are good at (interpreting photographs) and computers for what computers are good at (lots of light modelling).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inserting Artificial Objects into Photographs</title><url>http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/10/cool-tech-demo-match-3d-models-into-archive-photos/</url><text></text></story> |
39,986,904 | 39,871,561 | 1 | 2 | 39,867,551 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kristianp</author><text>It&#x27;s actually a 14.3B parameter model. It&#x27;s irritating that they don&#x27;t follow the convention of naming the model according to size. Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B is named for the 2.7B activated parameters. I guess it helps to obfuscate the size, given that it performs about as well as Mistral 7B.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Qwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters</title><url>https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-moe/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cchance</author><text>Silly question, but is it possible for something similar to MoE for diffusion models like Stable Diffusion &#x2F; DallE</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Qwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters</title><url>https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-moe/</url></story> |
40,779,848 | 40,779,476 | 1 | 3 | 40,770,358 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1-more</author><text>You&#x27;ve spent half of your highest salary on bags? Feels like a lot but I&#x27;m just some guy. What was the biggest bag balance you&#x27;ve had on the books? Or are you buying and flipping at most one or two at any time? When you make these trips, do you have a US buyer lined up beforehand or do you find them once you&#x27;re in the US?</text><parent_chain><item><author>GaryNumanVevo</author><text>Comparing a Hermes appointment to clicking &quot;buy&quot; on an NFT is hilarious. Nonetheless, I&#x27;ve gotten three appointments, have spent around 150k EUR on bags. So far I&#x27;ve made $30k after VAT and US duty. No idea why Paris original Hermes bags go for so much more in the states. If I have an appointment, I&#x27;ll fly round trip to Paris, buy the bags, and hold them until I go to the states. Great experience, very high class!</text></item><item><author>michael_vo</author><text>I went to a buy.<p>Hermes gives you 24 hours to go into the store and buy the item. Otherwise the bag goes to the next buyer on the rolodex.<p>Buyers call their friends and make it into an event. They’re literally giddy and excited to go. It’s like winning the lottery.<p>You’re ushered into a private room with nice couches, mirrors, a phone. You choose a scarf and wrap the scarf around the strap.<p>Buyers text their sales rep almost daily.<p>In a way it’s like a drop in the NFT space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The economics of the Birkin handbag</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/hermes-birkin-bag-investment-031c215c</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>How much value do these bags lose if you so little as touch them with an ungloved hand?</text><parent_chain><item><author>GaryNumanVevo</author><text>Comparing a Hermes appointment to clicking &quot;buy&quot; on an NFT is hilarious. Nonetheless, I&#x27;ve gotten three appointments, have spent around 150k EUR on bags. So far I&#x27;ve made $30k after VAT and US duty. No idea why Paris original Hermes bags go for so much more in the states. If I have an appointment, I&#x27;ll fly round trip to Paris, buy the bags, and hold them until I go to the states. Great experience, very high class!</text></item><item><author>michael_vo</author><text>I went to a buy.<p>Hermes gives you 24 hours to go into the store and buy the item. Otherwise the bag goes to the next buyer on the rolodex.<p>Buyers call their friends and make it into an event. They’re literally giddy and excited to go. It’s like winning the lottery.<p>You’re ushered into a private room with nice couches, mirrors, a phone. You choose a scarf and wrap the scarf around the strap.<p>Buyers text their sales rep almost daily.<p>In a way it’s like a drop in the NFT space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The economics of the Birkin handbag</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/hermes-birkin-bag-investment-031c215c</url></story> |
5,002,210 | 5,002,177 | 1 | 2 | 5,002,006 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PommeDeTerre</author><text>This smug attitude is something we've seen a lot from the Ruby, and especially the Rails, community, and it always burns them.<p>They had this attitude when it came to the maintainability of Ruby apps. They'd say that Ruby code was much more maintainable than Java code, for instance. Now that we've got some Ruby apps that are several years old, and that have been worked on by a number of different people, it has become quite apparent that Ruby code is much less maintainable, over the long term, than Java code is.<p>This same attitude was shown when it came to Ruby's performance. Many of us had serious misgivings about just how poorly it performed, and the suitability of Ruby on Rails for anything beyond simple sites. Then when some Ruby on Rails sites started facing moderate traffic, they basically collapsed. The answer from the Rails advocates was to "throw more hardware at it".<p>We even saw this same attitude when it came to this very issue. We'd heard about how Ruby on Rails is far more "secure" than alternatives. Yet that's proven not to be the case.<p>When Rubyists make claims, it's best to doubt what they're saying, and to question every single detail about it. They have given themselves a bad reputation for making incorrect statements.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This post is written very confidently. I am less confident than the author of this post that the likelihood of a generic exploit via application input (that is, not using forged cookies) is remote.<p>Wish there was more I could say right now. I'm not saying I have a curl command that exploits the vulnerability. I'd just be careful about making assumptions about this bug.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rails SQL injection vulnerability: here are the facts</title><url>http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulnerability-hold-your-horses-here-are-the-facts/#.UOV2h_j3Giw</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>Not disagreeing with you there. After all there's no way to prove that something doesn't exist. What's why I wrote that everyone should upgrade, just in case. :)<p>The goal of the article is not to defend Rails. It is to inform about the nature of the vulnerability and to replace the feeling of panic with rational thoughts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This post is written very confidently. I am less confident than the author of this post that the likelihood of a generic exploit via application input (that is, not using forged cookies) is remote.<p>Wish there was more I could say right now. I'm not saying I have a curl command that exploits the vulnerability. I'd just be careful about making assumptions about this bug.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rails SQL injection vulnerability: here are the facts</title><url>http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulnerability-hold-your-horses-here-are-the-facts/#.UOV2h_j3Giw</url></story> |
8,402,682 | 8,402,668 | 1 | 2 | 8,401,437 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>&gt; Has the human race produced 464,000 hours of video content?<p>Far more than that... YouTube alone claims &quot;100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute&quot;:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;yt&#x2F;press&#x2F;statistics.html</a><p>...which comes out to 144kh&#x2F;day. In other words, one of these discs would be enough to store ~3 days worth of contributions to YouTube. So a box of these discs, let&#x27;s say 1000 of them - which isn&#x27;t all that big (e.g. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neo-Aluminium-Storage-1000-sleeves/dp/B0010IIJ9U" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;Neo-Aluminium-Storage-1000-sleeves&#x2F;d...</a> ), could hold an archive of every single video that has ever been uploaded to YouTube.<p>I am now reminded of this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_UmWdcTrrc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y_UmWdcTrrc</a><p>Edit: got beaten to mentioning YouTube, but there&#x27;s many other video sharing sites on the Internet, and of course there are probably countless hours of one of the types of video the Internet is well known for: porn.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>&gt; more films than you could possibly watch in your lifetime<p>I was curious if this statement was true...<p>So assuming, 4.4 GB her HD film &amp; 2 hrs long each, you can fit roughly 232 films per TB or 232,000 films total (for 1000 TB), that&#x27;s 464,000 hours of HD content or 53 years (!) back to back.<p>So, yes, that statement is true. Now the next logical question: Has the human race produced 464,000 hours of video content?<p>Let&#x27;s assume there are around 100 cable channels showing content in HD video 24&#x2F;7 (with no overlap, there are more but a lot of duplication). That&#x27;s 2,400 hours of content a day, 876,000 hours a year or 101 years back-to-back worth of watchable content shown each year.<p>But realistically that will be at least 70% duplication (particularly looking at it over several years). So even if we just look at 24&#x2F;7 news and shopping channels which always produce original content, you&#x27;re still talking about easily 200,000+ hours&#x2F;year.</text></item><item><author>krrrh</author><text>If this is real and can be commercialized it could lead to some pretty devastating fallout for the entertainment industry. You&#x27;ve got to know that there are a few obsessive archivists out there with pretty comprehensive collections of films spread across rooms of RAID arrays. When they can start backing those collections up for friends onto a single disc, ie a single disc that has more films than you could possibly watch in your lifetime the entertainment industry is going to pine for the days when torrents eve the big problem.<p>The same goes for rogue librarians, or Google Books employees dumping entire libraries onto discs and leaking them out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Australian researcher has worked out how to store 1000TB on a CD</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20140309-26116.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>Someone</author><text><a href="https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;yt&#x2F;press&#x2F;statistics.html</a> claims <i>&quot;100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute&quot;</i><p>So, that would be 4,640 minutes or less than a week. Lower quality, and probably with (near) duplicates, but I guess it is safe to say we have that amount of video.<p>Another way to look at it: I expect we produce more content in unique wedding videos every year (at an hour each, that takes half a million weddings or a million people marrying. At an average of one marriage per life and a life expectancy of 75 year, that takes a population of 75 million people)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>&gt; more films than you could possibly watch in your lifetime<p>I was curious if this statement was true...<p>So assuming, 4.4 GB her HD film &amp; 2 hrs long each, you can fit roughly 232 films per TB or 232,000 films total (for 1000 TB), that&#x27;s 464,000 hours of HD content or 53 years (!) back to back.<p>So, yes, that statement is true. Now the next logical question: Has the human race produced 464,000 hours of video content?<p>Let&#x27;s assume there are around 100 cable channels showing content in HD video 24&#x2F;7 (with no overlap, there are more but a lot of duplication). That&#x27;s 2,400 hours of content a day, 876,000 hours a year or 101 years back-to-back worth of watchable content shown each year.<p>But realistically that will be at least 70% duplication (particularly looking at it over several years). So even if we just look at 24&#x2F;7 news and shopping channels which always produce original content, you&#x27;re still talking about easily 200,000+ hours&#x2F;year.</text></item><item><author>krrrh</author><text>If this is real and can be commercialized it could lead to some pretty devastating fallout for the entertainment industry. You&#x27;ve got to know that there are a few obsessive archivists out there with pretty comprehensive collections of films spread across rooms of RAID arrays. When they can start backing those collections up for friends onto a single disc, ie a single disc that has more films than you could possibly watch in your lifetime the entertainment industry is going to pine for the days when torrents eve the big problem.<p>The same goes for rogue librarians, or Google Books employees dumping entire libraries onto discs and leaking them out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Australian researcher has worked out how to store 1000TB on a CD</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20140309-26116.html</url></story> |
15,220,221 | 15,220,390 | 1 | 2 | 15,219,621 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flatline</author><text>I think it&#x27;s trivially obvious that they do?<p>The uncomfortable questions are whether people are genetically predisposed to, or naturally have a greater aptitude for, some particular interest, particularly on racial or gender lines. For many physical activities this is a settled question for gender, but that&#x27;s about all we know.<p>Even this alone is not necessarily controversial, the problem as we&#x27;ve seen time and again is that the reaults of such a study are taken as a basis for discrimination. If we could rigorously quantify and prove a statement like &quot;people of East Asian descent show a 2.3% greater aptitude for mathematics,&quot; it doesn&#x27;t mean that the Chinese guy sitting in front of you has any such aptitude. Historically the metrics by which we have attempted to measure such things have been deeply flawed and biased. I&#x27;m not sure it will ever be possible to make such assertions in any rigorous manner, the factors behind cognitive tasks are just too complex.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fatjokes</author><text>&gt; I guess my next question would be are genetically people that have genetic similarities more likely to have similar interests.<p>If that is the case, it would lead to the politically uncomfortable question of different genders or ethnic groups being more likely to have particular interests.</text></item><item><author>abra_kadabra</author><text>This is interesting as I&#x27;ve typically made friends along lines of interest. I guess my next question would be are genetically similar people more likely to have similar interests.<p>edit: corrected grammer</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Friends Are Genetically Similar (2014)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/friends_are_genetically_similar</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danans</author><text>The shared interest groups most people are involved in in their regular lives are far too small to make any extrapolation to the larger population.<p>Also, for many human traits (i.e height), the intra-population variation is much greater than the inter-population variance, especially when controlling for the effect of environment.<p>We have a tendency to anchor our biases on the extreme examples of any population when we form our biases, often through mediums like elite&#x2F;pro sports which select those at the extremes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fatjokes</author><text>&gt; I guess my next question would be are genetically people that have genetic similarities more likely to have similar interests.<p>If that is the case, it would lead to the politically uncomfortable question of different genders or ethnic groups being more likely to have particular interests.</text></item><item><author>abra_kadabra</author><text>This is interesting as I&#x27;ve typically made friends along lines of interest. I guess my next question would be are genetically similar people more likely to have similar interests.<p>edit: corrected grammer</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Friends Are Genetically Similar (2014)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/friends_are_genetically_similar</url></story> |
35,758,743 | 35,758,762 | 1 | 2 | 35,757,150 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quadrangle</author><text>Just Intonation and everything from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.xen.wiki&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.xen.wiki&#x2F;</a> and related, maybe some of the YouTube stuff from &quot;Hear Between the Lines&quot; is a good start for new accessible stuff.<p>Music cognition such as Sweet Anticipation by David Huron and everything like that… especially note Music and Memory by Bob Snyder which expresses everything <i>except</i> harmony in a style that avoids traditional notation, and Sounds of Music: Perception and Notation (out of print) by Gerald Eskalin who also wrote Lies My Music Teacher Told Me<p>For the most part, &quot;music theory&quot; amounts to music-notation-and-style-grammar because very little of it is actual theory (i.e. explanation) until you add real science which means music psychology (because notation patterns and physics patterns are not music, music is a mental experience).</text><parent_chain><item><author>vitaly-pavlenko</author><text>Author here. I&#x27;d love to hear from HN which resources to study music (theory) might I overlooked so far. Everything counts: from books and papers on theory to ear training exercises to YouTube videos. The higher is rarity*value, the better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Awesome Music Theory: books, links, videos, research, visuals, composition</title><url>https://github.com/vpavlenko/study-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>DavidPiper</author><text>Great to see 12tone and 8-bit Music Theory in the YouTube and Podcasts section!<p>I&#x27;d also recommend:<p>- Nahre Sol - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@NahreSol">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@NahreSol</a> (Composition, reinvention, exercises, more theory recently)<p>- David Bruce - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@DBruce">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@DBruce</a> (Composition techniques)<p>- Sideways - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@Sideways440">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@Sideways440</a> (Film and musical soundtrack analysis&#x2F;rants)<p>- Tantacrul - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@Tantacrul&#x2F;videos">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@Tantacrul&#x2F;videos</a> (Maybe. &quot;Music meets sociology&quot;?)<p>Those 6 channels plus r&#x2F;musictheory (pre-2018) are basically my entire Music Theory &#x2F; composition education. A quick note that r&#x2F;musictheory is not the same thing as it was back then. IIRC there was a big switch&#x2F;restart some years back, not sure what happened. Still a good Q&amp;A forum today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vitaly-pavlenko</author><text>Author here. I&#x27;d love to hear from HN which resources to study music (theory) might I overlooked so far. Everything counts: from books and papers on theory to ear training exercises to YouTube videos. The higher is rarity*value, the better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Awesome Music Theory: books, links, videos, research, visuals, composition</title><url>https://github.com/vpavlenko/study-music</url></story> |
39,379,017 | 39,378,318 | 1 | 3 | 39,366,542 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dotBen</author><text><i>&quot;to maximize shareholder value&quot;</i><p>You know, philosophically speaking, not every company has to do that. And before someone steps in and quotes &#x27;fiduciary responsibility for shareholder returns&#x27;, I&#x27;m a VC and I run a VC fund so I&#x27;m acutely aware.<p>Now, if you take venture funding then that&#x27;s a different story. But there are countless businesses - from small mom+pop to larger ones like Bob&#x27;s Red Mills - which are operating for higher purposes than just shareholder returns. See B Corps generally. And the world is better place for it. I tuck into a bowl of Bob&#x27;s oatmeal every morning and I&#x27;ll be fucked if I&#x27;m buying Great Mills or PepsiCo (Quaker Oats) big company shit.<p><i>&quot;he committed the cardinal sin of making the employees owners instead of fully capturing the excess capital of his means of production and offshoring production entirely to focus on branding&quot;</i><p>Many would say this was anything but a cardinal sin. Try reading fewer Ayn Rand books.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>In the defense of YC by modern neoliberalist definition bob was a terrible businessman. The company&#x27;s only worth 50 million, he ran up debts so large it required a partner to bail him out, the company never went public or sold to large agricultural interests to maximize shareholder value, and he committed the cardinal sin of making the employees owners instead of fully capturing the excess capital of his means of production and offshoring production entirely to focus on branding. he focused on an unprofitable cadre of niche markets.<p>Bob was a great guy though and a sterling example of a leader who really cared about his product and his customers.</text></item><item><author>billiam</author><text>For all you founders and YC aspirants who build companies to get rich as quickly as possible: think of what this man achieved and the lives that have been changed by creating something built to last. By not extracting maximum labor from employees and maximum cash for yourselves but by recognizing you matter less than you think to your company&#x27;s success and your employees matter more. I buy Bob&#x27;s Red Mills flour a few times a year and probably will for the rest of my life. TextPayMe, Loopt, Infogami, Memamp, Simmery- do we even remember what those first YC companies tried to do? Think about making things people will remember in a decade, or even 4.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/business/bob-moore-dead.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>diputsmonro</author><text>I think you&#x27;re making the same point, but just to make it more obvious - all of that is more an indictment of modern neoliberal business practices than it is of Bob&#x27;s Red Mill. Sustainability, efficiency (in terms of doing things right, rather than doing them quickly) and overall most benefit for the most humans is better than the get-rich-quick schemes that most startups have become.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>In the defense of YC by modern neoliberalist definition bob was a terrible businessman. The company&#x27;s only worth 50 million, he ran up debts so large it required a partner to bail him out, the company never went public or sold to large agricultural interests to maximize shareholder value, and he committed the cardinal sin of making the employees owners instead of fully capturing the excess capital of his means of production and offshoring production entirely to focus on branding. he focused on an unprofitable cadre of niche markets.<p>Bob was a great guy though and a sterling example of a leader who really cared about his product and his customers.</text></item><item><author>billiam</author><text>For all you founders and YC aspirants who build companies to get rich as quickly as possible: think of what this man achieved and the lives that have been changed by creating something built to last. By not extracting maximum labor from employees and maximum cash for yourselves but by recognizing you matter less than you think to your company&#x27;s success and your employees matter more. I buy Bob&#x27;s Red Mills flour a few times a year and probably will for the rest of my life. TextPayMe, Loopt, Infogami, Memamp, Simmery- do we even remember what those first YC companies tried to do? Think about making things people will remember in a decade, or even 4.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/business/bob-moore-dead.html</url></story> |
3,786,537 | 3,786,157 | 1 | 3 | 3,784,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eneveu</author><text>The idea of a dynamic Ruby-like language with C-like performance reminds me of Avi Bryant's talk "Bad Hackers Copy, Great Hackers Steal" : <a href="http://vimeo.com/4763707" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/4763707</a><p>He explains that dynamic languages are not inherently slow. It's their current implementation that's slow. Java is not fast thanks to static typing, it is fast thanks to the Hotspot VM, which builds upon the StrongTalk VM implementation.<p>Quote taken around the 13" mark (some trolling included ;) ): "Ruby has the dynamic part, and Java has the fast part. And this has led to this assumption that people have that the reason that Java is fast and Ruby is slow is because Java is static and Ruby is dynamic. And that's just not true, that's just a myth. Nothing about Java being fast has anything to do with it being static. It's simply that the papers that the Java people read were the ones that told you how to make it fast, and the papers that Matz read were the ones that told you how to make it usable."</text><parent_chain><item><author>nwienert</author><text>I'm actually especially interested in taking the [web server](<a href="https://github.com/chzyer/JuliaWebServer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chzyer/JuliaWebServer</a>) and building out a lean-and-mean MVC framework.<p>Though it's designed as a scientific language, their goals of having C-like speed and yet Ruby-like beauty make it the perfect target for such a project.<p>Anyone else interested in trying it out with me?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Julia, I Love You</title><url>http://www.r-bloggers.com/julia-i-love-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>minikomi</author><text>Have you considered building it on top of go? Or is it more of a "Julia seems cool I wonder if it's good for this" type idea? Just wondering, because I'm thinking of doing the same thing once I get familiar with the golang environment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nwienert</author><text>I'm actually especially interested in taking the [web server](<a href="https://github.com/chzyer/JuliaWebServer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chzyer/JuliaWebServer</a>) and building out a lean-and-mean MVC framework.<p>Though it's designed as a scientific language, their goals of having C-like speed and yet Ruby-like beauty make it the perfect target for such a project.<p>Anyone else interested in trying it out with me?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Julia, I Love You</title><url>http://www.r-bloggers.com/julia-i-love-you/</url></story> |
23,199,839 | 23,199,712 | 1 | 3 | 23,197,966 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krapp</author><text>Blockchain. No one said blockchain yet. We have to blockchain it. Blockchain it with cryptos.</text><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Well, if we want HN to follow best modern web practices, I recommend rewriting the whole thing with React&#x2F;Node.js using TypeScript. Then, we can get a proper CSS framework in place like Material that will really allow us to get everything looking really good. I can design a cool looking loading screen that says &quot;HN&quot; while the JS is loading in the background.</text></item><item><author>jimmyswimmy</author><text>Please, for God&#x27;s sake, don&#x27;t screw it up. I can keep up with news on this site from a 15 kb&#x2F;s shared satellite link when I&#x27;m out at sea. Except perhaps for the really big threads. I love the simple interface. It&#x27;s text, it&#x27;s simple, it&#x27;s readable, and when I hit the spacebar, it scrolls down a page. No fancy fonts, no javascript, no nothing. I love HN for its simplicity and speed. Thanks for maintaining a good engineering philosophy.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>Ok, you guys, this isn&#x27;t the first time we&#x27;ve heard this request (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=comments%3E0%20dark%20mode%20hn&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=story&amp;storyText=none" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a>). I&#x27;m willing to do it (edit: not to change the default! just to add the option). It&#x27;s just that any CSS issue that goes more than a quarter-inch deep is equally outside my expertise and my interest, so help would be welcome.<p>We can add CSS to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;news.css" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;news.css</a> for <i>prefers-color-scheme: dark</i>, but that leaves open the question of specifically what CSS to put in there. Anyone who wants to make a suggestion is welcome to. Post it in this thread so others can comment, or email it to [email protected]. I&#x27;ve roped Zain, YC&#x27;s designer, into helping with this, and we&#x27;ll come up with something.<p>p.s. If you&#x27;re inclined to post &quot;this is 2020, how come HN doesn&#x27;t $thing&quot;, remember our motto: move slowly and preserve things: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=by%3Adang%20%22move%20slowly%22%20%22preserve%20things%22&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a>. When I say slowly I mean slowly. This is also called alligator energy. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16442716" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16442716</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?</title><text>Of all places, HN should be dark mode by default, without any of us using a plugin or specific browser. I don&#x27;t want my eyes to burn when I&#x27;m browsing HN at night on my phone. Anyone?</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>blhack</author><text>Aw man that sounds really cool. I bet you’ll only need a team of 5 people to do it too.<p>What’s the tool chain manager look like for managing the build process manager?</text><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Well, if we want HN to follow best modern web practices, I recommend rewriting the whole thing with React&#x2F;Node.js using TypeScript. Then, we can get a proper CSS framework in place like Material that will really allow us to get everything looking really good. I can design a cool looking loading screen that says &quot;HN&quot; while the JS is loading in the background.</text></item><item><author>jimmyswimmy</author><text>Please, for God&#x27;s sake, don&#x27;t screw it up. I can keep up with news on this site from a 15 kb&#x2F;s shared satellite link when I&#x27;m out at sea. Except perhaps for the really big threads. I love the simple interface. It&#x27;s text, it&#x27;s simple, it&#x27;s readable, and when I hit the spacebar, it scrolls down a page. No fancy fonts, no javascript, no nothing. I love HN for its simplicity and speed. Thanks for maintaining a good engineering philosophy.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>Ok, you guys, this isn&#x27;t the first time we&#x27;ve heard this request (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=comments%3E0%20dark%20mode%20hn&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=story&amp;storyText=none" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a>). I&#x27;m willing to do it (edit: not to change the default! just to add the option). It&#x27;s just that any CSS issue that goes more than a quarter-inch deep is equally outside my expertise and my interest, so help would be welcome.<p>We can add CSS to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;news.css" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;news.css</a> for <i>prefers-color-scheme: dark</i>, but that leaves open the question of specifically what CSS to put in there. Anyone who wants to make a suggestion is welcome to. Post it in this thread so others can comment, or email it to [email protected]. I&#x27;ve roped Zain, YC&#x27;s designer, into helping with this, and we&#x27;ll come up with something.<p>p.s. If you&#x27;re inclined to post &quot;this is 2020, how come HN doesn&#x27;t $thing&quot;, remember our motto: move slowly and preserve things: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=by%3Adang%20%22move%20slowly%22%20%22preserve%20things%22&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a>. When I say slowly I mean slowly. This is also called alligator energy. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16442716" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16442716</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?</title><text>Of all places, HN should be dark mode by default, without any of us using a plugin or specific browser. I don&#x27;t want my eyes to burn when I&#x27;m browsing HN at night on my phone. Anyone?</text></story> |
5,505,858 | 5,504,999 | 1 | 2 | 5,504,404 | 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>realrocker</author><text>Very cool. But please don't use it. The de-facto architecture design proposed by the Android team is to use fragments for view separation. In my own app development workflow, I have not used multiple activity design for a really long time now. This is what you lose with external routing:
1. Better multiple screen size support: By housing all the fragments in one activity, you have control to hide/show/re-size fragments according to need since you have now have the fragment stack data in one activity. An external router doesn't make sense now, since the internal routing would still need to be handled by the activity. And if you write a router even for the internal stuff, then you need to address other concerns such as: backstack and bundles.
2. Single Top Activities: The Android app stack may have multiple instances of the same activity. When you route with a data path (user/id/1) which activity are you referring to? The Intent and PendingIntent classes have been developed over the years to face such weird idiosyncrasies of the platform.
3. Action Modes: The action mode api helps to create contextual actions. It gives you a nice separation of concern through callbacks. This glues the activity with fragments well. In two calls you setup a fragment and its contextual menus. With external routing you lose that or you handle it with more glue code.<p>I agree there are some cosmetic advantages through external routing, but develop any non-trivial Android app and you will find out, it's not always a good idea to fight the framework. In some cases maybe it is, for e.g this cool project: <a href="https://github.com/mitmel/SimpleContentProvider" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mitmel/SimpleContentProvider</a>.
Java is already too verbose. Wiring an external router means
handling a lot of concerns yourself. Not cool.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Routable, an in-app URL router for iOS and Android</title><url>http://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/routable</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rogerbinns</author><text>What exactly is wrong with using Intents in Android? They would seem to be a far better mechanism for Android code, and also interoperate with the rest of the system (eg notifications).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Routable, an in-app URL router for iOS and Android</title><url>http://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/routable</url></story> |
23,107,004 | 23,103,023 | 1 | 3 | 23,102,430 | train | <instructions>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>(We&#x27;ve since changed the URL from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.zoom.us&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;07&#x2F;zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.zoom.us&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;07&#x2F;zoom-acquires-keyb...</a> to that one)</text><parent_chain><item><author>underyx</author><text>Keybase&#x27;s side of the announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;keybase-joins-zoom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;keybase-joins-zoom</a><p>&gt; What the Keybase team will be doing<p>&gt; Initially, our single top priority is helping to make Zoom even more secure. There are no specific plans for the Keybase app yet. Ultimately Keybase&#x27;s future is in Zoom&#x27;s hands, and we&#x27;ll see where that takes us. Of course, if anything changes about Keybase’s availability, our users will get plenty of notice.<p>&gt; So, our shortest-term directive is to significantly improve our security effectiveness, by working on a product that&#x27;s that much bigger than Keybase. We can&#x27;t be more specific than that, because we&#x27;re just diving in.<p>They&#x27;re not even making the usual &quot;Zoom is committed to keeping Keybase alive&quot; promise :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zoom Acquires Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swyx</author><text>is this an acquihire then?</text><parent_chain><item><author>underyx</author><text>Keybase&#x27;s side of the announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;keybase-joins-zoom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;keybase-joins-zoom</a><p>&gt; What the Keybase team will be doing<p>&gt; Initially, our single top priority is helping to make Zoom even more secure. There are no specific plans for the Keybase app yet. Ultimately Keybase&#x27;s future is in Zoom&#x27;s hands, and we&#x27;ll see where that takes us. Of course, if anything changes about Keybase’s availability, our users will get plenty of notice.<p>&gt; So, our shortest-term directive is to significantly improve our security effectiveness, by working on a product that&#x27;s that much bigger than Keybase. We can&#x27;t be more specific than that, because we&#x27;re just diving in.<p>They&#x27;re not even making the usual &quot;Zoom is committed to keeping Keybase alive&quot; promise :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zoom Acquires Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom</url></story> |
19,437,515 | 19,437,000 | 1 | 3 | 19,434,966 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pron</author><text>ZGC, included in JDK 11, has a 1ms average pause time and 4ms max on some demanding benchmarks, and they&#x27;re now targeting 1ms max pauses.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opsian.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;javas-new-zgc-is-very-exciting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opsian.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;javas-new-zgc-is-very-exciting&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>stefan_</author><text>Their lower end target is 10 ms. In a game, 16 ms is your entire time budget.</text></item><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>GC pauses have been one of the major barriers to using garbage collected (read: higher-level) languages for game development. This could open up the JVM for games, which could have some exciting implications.</text></item><item><author>azhenley</author><text>The most interesting new feature I think is the Shenandoah GC. The summary from [1]:<p>&quot;Add a new garbage collection (GC) algorithm named Shenandoah which reduces GC pause times by doing evacuation work concurrently with the running Java threads. Pause times with Shenandoah are independent of heap size, meaning you will have the same consistent pause times whether your heap is 200 MB or 200 GB.&quot;<p>The original algorithm was published in 2016 [2]. It consists of 4 phases: initial marking, concurrent marking, final marking, and concurrent compaction.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;189" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;189</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2972210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2972210</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java 12</title><url>https://jdk.java.net/12/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spricket</author><text>10 ms isn&#x27;t all that much. When games load in assets they&#x27;ll do various things like malloc huge chunks and you lose a few frames.<p>If GC only causes occasional (maybe every 2 minutes) loss of a frame or two it should be no problem. If you watch benchmark FPS traces that count every frame delay you&#x27;ll see that occasional stutters happen in basically every game.<p>Loss of a single frame just isn&#x27;t noticeable</text><parent_chain><item><author>stefan_</author><text>Their lower end target is 10 ms. In a game, 16 ms is your entire time budget.</text></item><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>GC pauses have been one of the major barriers to using garbage collected (read: higher-level) languages for game development. This could open up the JVM for games, which could have some exciting implications.</text></item><item><author>azhenley</author><text>The most interesting new feature I think is the Shenandoah GC. The summary from [1]:<p>&quot;Add a new garbage collection (GC) algorithm named Shenandoah which reduces GC pause times by doing evacuation work concurrently with the running Java threads. Pause times with Shenandoah are independent of heap size, meaning you will have the same consistent pause times whether your heap is 200 MB or 200 GB.&quot;<p>The original algorithm was published in 2016 [2]. It consists of 4 phases: initial marking, concurrent marking, final marking, and concurrent compaction.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;189" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;189</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2972210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2972210</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java 12</title><url>https://jdk.java.net/12/</url></story> |
18,883,324 | 18,883,321 | 1 | 2 | 18,879,957 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agurk</author><text>This is great as it doesn&#x27;t just explain the basics, it also shows how they are used in MP3 and JPEG files.<p>I always had a very vague &quot;throws away data that&#x27;s not perceived&quot; idea of how MP3 works. With the background from this I was able to really understand the wikipedia page and found this great Ars[0] article from 2007 to cement my understanding.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2007&#x2F;10&#x2F;the-audiofile-understanding-mp3-compression&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2007&#x2F;10&#x2F;the-audiofile-under...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms</title><url>http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/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>Waterluvian</author><text>This is incredible.<p>If I wanted to collect things like this to teach my kids, where do I look? How do we gather amazing resources like this in one spot?<p>I particularly love that it focuses on one topic and nails it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms</title><url>http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html</url></story> |
21,542,329 | 21,542,315 | 1 | 3 | 21,542,203 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ggm</author><text><i>(not a tay tay fan. not actually listening to much music these days, I can&#x27;t quite get Bach and Beefheart out of my head)</i><p>Normally I&#x27;m a &quot;the contract sets the limits&quot; person but in artist&#x27;s rights, an given the extent to which artists are both young, and exploited, and wind up in legally dubious relationships which then magify out and up, I think the intent should be &quot;what&#x27;s the right thing here, no matter what the contract says&quot;<p>And I think unless she received heinous amounts of fuck you money, and sold her rights for their current worth, unless she did that, if this is just normal A&amp;R nickel-and-diming, then they should be told to go away, and she should get to perform her songs.<p><i>&quot;you can&#x27;t perform your songs&quot;</i> is a very sad place to wind up. it does nobody any good.<p>She very possibly did receive heinous amounts of A&amp;R support but I would also believe a lot of leeching has been going on. The industry is a giant machine to suck revenue out of art and put it into tax efficient structures for other people.<p>They learned from masters: the movie industry. Who did those masters learn from? The Sheet music industry.<p>Pop will eat itself.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/taylor-swift/dont-know-what-else-to-do/10156631338812023/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhauer</author><text>For those who, like me, don&#x27;t visit the domain called facebook dot com: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;taylorswift13&#x2F;status&#x2F;1195123215657508867?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;taylorswift13&#x2F;status&#x2F;1195123215657508867...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/taylor-swift/dont-know-what-else-to-do/10156631338812023/</url></story> |
15,561,829 | 15,561,845 | 1 | 3 | 15,561,533 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iamthirsty</author><text>&gt; The National Weather Service Employees Organization, its labor union, said the lack of staff is taking a toll on forecasting operations and that the agency is “for the first time in its history teetering on the brink of failure.” Managers are being forced to scale back certain operations, and staff are stressed and overworked.<p>&gt; “It’s gotten so bad that we’re not going to be able to provide service that two years ago we were able to provide to public, emergency managers and media,” said Dan Sobien, the president of the union. “We’ve never been in that position before.”<p>It makes me deeply discouraged that something so vital to life in general is almost impossible to keep staffed (mostly because of a lack of funds), yet the military&#x27;s budget increased by $54 Billion this year — to a total of $639 Billion for FY2018.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Military_budget_of_the_United_States#Budget_request_for_FY2018" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Military_budget_of_the_United_...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/26/down-hundreds-of-staff-weather-service-teetering-on-the-brink-of-failure-labor-union-says/?utm_term=.28628bdad950</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timmaah</author><text>Why is the headline here missing &quot;labor union says&quot;<p>The actual Weather Service seems to think they are doing just fine.<p>“Let me state emphatically that we would never take an action that would jeopardize the services we provide to emergency managers and the public,” she said. “NWS is taking definitive steps to ensure the health and well-being of our employees through guidance to local managers on scheduling and flexibility.”</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/26/down-hundreds-of-staff-weather-service-teetering-on-the-brink-of-failure-labor-union-says/?utm_term=.28628bdad950</url></story> |
30,885,315 | 30,885,351 | 1 | 2 | 30,885,078 | train | <instructions>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>Releasing under a different name would have the opposite problem. No one would use it because they wouldn&#x27;t know that it was the MIT license with the attribution condition removed, even if that was exactly what they were looking for.<p>The 0- convention is also somewhat standard for this category of licenses (like 0BSD).</text><parent_chain><item><author>idealmedtech</author><text>[Disclaimer: not a lawyer, this is not legal advice]<p>I understand they&#x27;re trying to get rid of cascading attribution requirements for enterprise (which is part of the reason NIH syndrome became so prevalent!), BUT I really dislike this incarnation for two primary reasons:<p>1. It has conflicting branding. How is a newbie gonna know the difference? How many will misclick it because it sorts first, or because they don&#x27;t know it&#x27;s different than true MIT?<p>2. Some users may read 0 suffix as &quot;original&quot;, &quot;optimal&quot;, or &quot;first&quot; (0-index), further polluting the branding.<p>If they rereleased under another name these problems would be alleviated, but I don&#x27;t think their intentions are entirely altruistic here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT-0 License</title><url>https://github.com/aws/mit-0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>8note</author><text>Usually when I see 0 tagged on something, it&#x27;s actually chronologically after, but something more fundamental.<p>The 0th law of thermodynamics is the main example</text><parent_chain><item><author>idealmedtech</author><text>[Disclaimer: not a lawyer, this is not legal advice]<p>I understand they&#x27;re trying to get rid of cascading attribution requirements for enterprise (which is part of the reason NIH syndrome became so prevalent!), BUT I really dislike this incarnation for two primary reasons:<p>1. It has conflicting branding. How is a newbie gonna know the difference? How many will misclick it because it sorts first, or because they don&#x27;t know it&#x27;s different than true MIT?<p>2. Some users may read 0 suffix as &quot;original&quot;, &quot;optimal&quot;, or &quot;first&quot; (0-index), further polluting the branding.<p>If they rereleased under another name these problems would be alleviated, but I don&#x27;t think their intentions are entirely altruistic here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT-0 License</title><url>https://github.com/aws/mit-0</url></story> |
16,260,880 | 16,259,741 | 1 | 3 | 16,255,528 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I think &quot;does one need Bob&quot; is the wrong way to look at it.<p>Humans are narrative animals. Storytelling is a human universal. Done right, personas are a way we can engage our narrative capacity to help us in thinking through the complexities of a domain. (Done wrong, they let our preconceptions and prejudices erase the complexity of our domain.)<p>I&#x27;m not personally a huge fan of personas. Instead, I&#x27;m big on primary user research, where we spend a lot of time studying actual people, their lives, and how our products fit into them. But if the group of makers is large enough, you need some way to organize the insights from that into something convenient for discussion.<p>At my last startup we were working on something related to purchasing decisions. For us, the satisficer vs optimizer distinction was key. We did dozens of user interviews, and user testing each week.<p>We ended up with two main personas, one for the satisficer and one for the optimizer. It was handy to be able to talk about Bob vs Cate in terms of how each would react to a given design choice. By having specific imaginary people made it easier for us to put ourselves in their shoes, to talk about how the product fit into their lives.<p>We would also talk about specific real people (e.g., user test subjects, actual users) and about theoretical constructs. But having fictional archetypes was useful to us in thinking empathetically without getting bogged down in a specific person&#x27;s details.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BoorishBears</author><text>I know it’s just an example, but does one need Bob to come to that realization? If you say you’re building for mobile, you look at the strengths and weaknesses of input on mobile devices.<p>The biggest strength is precise finger movement. The biggest weakness is lack of tactile feedback.<p>That leads to the same conclusion without extraneous data.<p>I feel like personas are a way to force people to think critically about the end product. That’s not a bad thing, but just deciding to critically consider what your goal is before building something already goes a long way.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>When it&#x27;s just abstract information, especially information that has no basis in user research, it is worthless.<p>But I&#x27;ll give an example of where I&#x27;ve seen this be useful.<p>&gt; Bob is a marketing guy. He mostly uses his mobile for calls, but doesn&#x27;t have a headset. As a result, he can&#x27;t type quickly while on the phone, so any UI he needs to use while on the phone should be optimised for mouse clicks or single keypresses.<p>This came out of some actual user research and was the justification for spending time on a &#x27;point and click&#x27; friendly UI.</text></item><item><author>dhimes</author><text>OK but this is a 30 minute exercise: whom are we building this for?<p>I&#x27;ve seen talk about building personas where you try to specify all kinds of ancillary data about the personas: where they live, how many kids, etc.<p>I would love to hear about a time where the persona development led to a new insight <i>because it&#x27;s a persona</i>. Like: this person&#x27;s a parent-&gt; probably attends parent-teacher groups-&gt; voila! needs XXXX</text></item><item><author>michaelt</author><text><p><pre><code> it would make more sense to have
just one typical user,
</code></pre>
Some products have users with distinct - almost contradictory - requirements.<p>For example, some spreadsheet users want simple graphs with big numbers that will look good in presentations, and a simple UI they can use on their phone. Other spreadsheet users want to make complex graphs with labelled arrows, thousands of points, multiple different graphs with aligned axes, and things like that.<p>Multiple personas can be useful for expressing that fact - otherwise you&#x27;re stuck saying the just-one-user wants things to be simple and complicated at the same time.</text></item><item><author>bambax</author><text>In my former life as a consultant I came to very much dislike personas as implemented by ux designers.<p>Personas are a magnet for prejudice: they are based on the idea that clusters of people all behave the same (old people, young people, professionals, stay-at-home mothers, what have you).<p>This very idea is, I think, flawed. If we really need to sort people into groups, then we should use criteria based on what people are trying to achieve <i>right now</i>, not inherent characteristics that are supposed to influence&#x2F;define their behavior all of the time.<p>Therefore it would make more sense to have <i>just one</i> typical user, with different attitudes based on her -changing- goals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Personas Fail</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-personas-fail/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burkemw3</author><text>I think of Bob as a team communication tool. Hopefully, most people on the team are familiar with Bob. When I&#x27;m working with someone else on that critical thinking thing about the end product, I can ask &quot;What about Bob?&quot; and teammates know what I&#x27;m talking about. Bob is a mobile user might not be complex enough to warrant a persona. I think personas are more likely to be a useful tool as the number of user types&#x2F;goals increases.<p>Personas can also be a kind of checklist as a change is made, ensuring that the change makes sense (and doesn&#x27;t break) in the most common product scenarios.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BoorishBears</author><text>I know it’s just an example, but does one need Bob to come to that realization? If you say you’re building for mobile, you look at the strengths and weaknesses of input on mobile devices.<p>The biggest strength is precise finger movement. The biggest weakness is lack of tactile feedback.<p>That leads to the same conclusion without extraneous data.<p>I feel like personas are a way to force people to think critically about the end product. That’s not a bad thing, but just deciding to critically consider what your goal is before building something already goes a long way.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>When it&#x27;s just abstract information, especially information that has no basis in user research, it is worthless.<p>But I&#x27;ll give an example of where I&#x27;ve seen this be useful.<p>&gt; Bob is a marketing guy. He mostly uses his mobile for calls, but doesn&#x27;t have a headset. As a result, he can&#x27;t type quickly while on the phone, so any UI he needs to use while on the phone should be optimised for mouse clicks or single keypresses.<p>This came out of some actual user research and was the justification for spending time on a &#x27;point and click&#x27; friendly UI.</text></item><item><author>dhimes</author><text>OK but this is a 30 minute exercise: whom are we building this for?<p>I&#x27;ve seen talk about building personas where you try to specify all kinds of ancillary data about the personas: where they live, how many kids, etc.<p>I would love to hear about a time where the persona development led to a new insight <i>because it&#x27;s a persona</i>. Like: this person&#x27;s a parent-&gt; probably attends parent-teacher groups-&gt; voila! needs XXXX</text></item><item><author>michaelt</author><text><p><pre><code> it would make more sense to have
just one typical user,
</code></pre>
Some products have users with distinct - almost contradictory - requirements.<p>For example, some spreadsheet users want simple graphs with big numbers that will look good in presentations, and a simple UI they can use on their phone. Other spreadsheet users want to make complex graphs with labelled arrows, thousands of points, multiple different graphs with aligned axes, and things like that.<p>Multiple personas can be useful for expressing that fact - otherwise you&#x27;re stuck saying the just-one-user wants things to be simple and complicated at the same time.</text></item><item><author>bambax</author><text>In my former life as a consultant I came to very much dislike personas as implemented by ux designers.<p>Personas are a magnet for prejudice: they are based on the idea that clusters of people all behave the same (old people, young people, professionals, stay-at-home mothers, what have you).<p>This very idea is, I think, flawed. If we really need to sort people into groups, then we should use criteria based on what people are trying to achieve <i>right now</i>, not inherent characteristics that are supposed to influence&#x2F;define their behavior all of the time.<p>Therefore it would make more sense to have <i>just one</i> typical user, with different attitudes based on her -changing- goals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Personas Fail</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-personas-fail/</url></story> |
38,536,702 | 38,534,471 | 1 | 3 | 38,533,451 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>Always an enjoyable read from Doctorow.<p>Noticed this that stood out;<p>&gt; &quot;emotional (or financial) strain of knowing ...&quot;<p>As an astute observation about which few care to
&quot;psychologise&quot;. Namely, that beyond simple profit, the blind reason of
markets, and business just being business, there&#x27;s a lot of plain
bloody-minded egotism out there in the corporate world. There&#x27;s folks
who will destroy value and opportunity, not because it&#x27;s &quot;competitive&quot;
or &quot;necessary&quot;, but because it pleases them. And they throw their toys
out of the pram if anyone threatens their lunch or questions their
entitlement to have it.<p>We don&#x27;t acknowledge or talk enough about the &#x2F;emotional&#x2F; landscape in
the tech world. That is a serious blind-spot when you have people like
Musk and Bezos in the mix.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech</title><url>https://www.noemamag.com/freeing-ourselves-from-the-clutches-of-big-tech/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adolph</author><text>I much prefer Sivers&#x27; vision of tech independence[0] over Doctorow&#x27;s vision of a law-regulation for every problem. They aren&#x27;t necessarily incompatible with one another. Sivers is exit compared to Doctorow&#x27;s voice (in the Exit, Voice, and Loyalty framework[1]). However, I think what Doctorow advocates is more likely to result in regulatory-capture than people-power. I think that capture is more likely to result in a world with higher costs in choosing forms of exit.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sive.rs&#x2F;ti" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sive.rs&#x2F;ti</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech</title><url>https://www.noemamag.com/freeing-ourselves-from-the-clutches-of-big-tech/</url></story> |
13,579,574 | 13,578,537 | 1 | 3 | 13,577,486 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>I did a similar one for Stockholm but for the greater metro area rather than on street level, for the commute time <i>into</i> the city (When I was looking for a place to live outside). I
What I really wanted to do was find &quot;underpriced areas&quot; where commutes are faster than house prices indicate.<p>In this case I simply took a large number of addresses, ran them through the API for public transit for a random fixed workday (A tuesday morning 8 am commute) to a fixed central address. Then I plotted the times in a heatmap in the format Google maps uses and made a map overlay with the heat map.<p>It makes a nice spiral galaxy like map where the commuter train stations make little islands of short commute time far away from the city.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;commutemap.azurewebsites.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;commutemap.azurewebsites.net&#x2F;</a><p>(Static pic if you don&#x27;t want to zoom in it and eat my free azure bandwidth... <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prnt.sc&#x2F;e57bsc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prnt.sc&#x2F;e57bsc</a>). Thinking about it now the dang thing ended up being completely static so it should be possible to just host for free somewhere (github?) rather than cloud. Uses my msdn &quot;testing&quot; sub now...<p>Outcome: bought place in the orange&#x2F;red area and started working from home instead :)<p>Limitations: 1) target address is fixed, new target (e.g. new job location) needs a whole new map. But central stockholm is pretty small and walkable so this works pretty well if your office is central. 2) Interpolation between known points&#x2F;addresses uses no kind of path finding. It assumes you can walk e.g. 200m in a straight line from an address to the closest bus stop. That might not be what you want to do if it e.g. means crossing water...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Figuring out the best place to live in Helsinki</title><url>http://www.wanhala.net/post/156484186523/figuring-out-the-best-place-to-live-in-helsinki</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>juskrey</author><text>In this type of the task only payoff makes sense.
With 30B+ paths and additional f(x) of path and sum of paths, real life optimization is not really possible - I&#x27;ll bet in the middle of the night that some simple heuristics (e.g. proximity to one of the major transport hubs) will perform much much better. And city prices are likely already reflecting this, contrary to what author claims.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Figuring out the best place to live in Helsinki</title><url>http://www.wanhala.net/post/156484186523/figuring-out-the-best-place-to-live-in-helsinki</url></story> |
25,987,961 | 25,987,531 | 1 | 2 | 25,959,571 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gillesjacobs</author><text>The model description doesn&#x27;t label axes. The biggest faux-pas in data visualization, so let&#x27;s fix it:<p>X: Days between October 1951 to April 1954.<p>Y: City-wide electricity consumption (Megawatt-hours (?)) in increments of 5MWh.<p>Z: Half-hours in day.<p>Additional info on daily card:<p>- sunrise-sunset time.<p>- several fields for weather information.<p>- illumination.<p>- free form &quot;notable events&quot; annotated on card.<p>Unbelievable someone cut these cards by hand in half-hour, 5MWh increments. Together with keeping track of notable events related to electricity consumption, some administrator filled a full-time job generating this data.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)</title><url>https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8418916/three-dimensional-model-of-electricity-consumption-in-manchester-chart-graphic-document</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sleavey</author><text>Interesting to compare this to modern UK demand curves: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.publishing.service.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;system&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;attachment_data&#x2F;file&#x2F;295225&#x2F;Seasonal_variations_in_electricity_demand.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.publishing.service.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;...</a>.<p>There seem to be dips in the middle of the day in the 1954 data (lunch breaks), and pronounced peaks and drops at the start and end of the working day, suggesting that the demand was strongly dominated by industrial use. UK demand curves today don&#x27;t show this much - presumably because people still leave their office computers, servers, etc. on over lunch and overnight.<p>There&#x27;s also a smaller bump at 22h in the 1954 data and it&#x27;s still somewhat present today in the summer data. I can&#x27;t think of a good explanation for it. Perhaps street lighting, only visible as a second bump when they turn on only much later (summer) than the tapering off industrial demand? (An example of different demand types: those following fixed working hours and those following varying day&#x2F;night light hours).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)</title><url>https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8418916/three-dimensional-model-of-electricity-consumption-in-manchester-chart-graphic-document</url></story> |
35,444,667 | 35,444,974 | 1 | 2 | 35,441,997 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steveBK123</author><text>While not as extreme, many of the real-official birthdays straddle month end &#x2F; month starts.<p>In one case it kicked someones birthdate to a new calendar year and his pension kicks in a year later as a result.<p>They always joke the donkey was slow and cost him an extra year of work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>My dad is 4 years younger than his age on paper. He had no birth certificate when he was born and when he was finally being put in school, being home schooled so far, was able to answer questions like a 3rd grader. So the school decided to put him in 4th grade and just made up his birth year (dad&#x27;s family knew the date but that would make him ineligible for 4th grade).</text></item><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>Some stuff is less damning than it sounds for example - &quot;supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on the first of the month and days divisible by five&quot;<p>One of my parents comes from a poor rural area of Europe where well into the 60s, it was normal to have a &quot;real&quot; birthdate &amp; an &quot;official&quot; birthdate. This was because the government only issued birth certificates in the nearby city, and being poor &amp; rural, it took time to get there by bus, etc.<p>So I have aunts &amp; uncles with real-official birthdate deltas of up to 2 weeks.<p>I&#x27;d imagine that going back to 1900s or 1880s, when travel was more difficult, who knows. Further, it is possible that the office in some of these areas for registering births was only open certain days of month&#x2F;week, the further back you go, etc.<p>Maybe they only went into the city on market days when they had other business, on the first Monday of the following month.<p>Don&#x27;t discount superstition and people registering births on nearest special days like saints days, etc.<p>Some of these abnormalities get lost to time. Many of my family didn&#x27;t realize they had a real-official birthdate gap until 30+ years later when their mother told them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud (2020)</title><url>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adamc</author><text>My parents both started college in 1939 at the age of 16. Being promoted to grades beyond your age cohort was apparently not so uncommon then.</text><parent_chain><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>My dad is 4 years younger than his age on paper. He had no birth certificate when he was born and when he was finally being put in school, being home schooled so far, was able to answer questions like a 3rd grader. So the school decided to put him in 4th grade and just made up his birth year (dad&#x27;s family knew the date but that would make him ineligible for 4th grade).</text></item><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>Some stuff is less damning than it sounds for example - &quot;supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on the first of the month and days divisible by five&quot;<p>One of my parents comes from a poor rural area of Europe where well into the 60s, it was normal to have a &quot;real&quot; birthdate &amp; an &quot;official&quot; birthdate. This was because the government only issued birth certificates in the nearby city, and being poor &amp; rural, it took time to get there by bus, etc.<p>So I have aunts &amp; uncles with real-official birthdate deltas of up to 2 weeks.<p>I&#x27;d imagine that going back to 1900s or 1880s, when travel was more difficult, who knows. Further, it is possible that the office in some of these areas for registering births was only open certain days of month&#x2F;week, the further back you go, etc.<p>Maybe they only went into the city on market days when they had other business, on the first Monday of the following month.<p>Don&#x27;t discount superstition and people registering births on nearest special days like saints days, etc.<p>Some of these abnormalities get lost to time. Many of my family didn&#x27;t realize they had a real-official birthdate gap until 30+ years later when their mother told them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud (2020)</title><url>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v2</url></story> |
20,978,137 | 20,978,190 | 1 | 2 | 20,977,788 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leggomylibro</author><text>E-ink has fairly low refresh rates, and even though it uses no power at rest, it takes a lot of energy to refresh. &#x27;Battery life is good&#x27; has become a catechism, but it really depends on the use case.<p>I don&#x27;t have hard numbers, but if you need to update as frequently as every second, I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;d gain much over a low-brightness color display with a polarized window for sunlight viewing.<p>And battery life seems like the only major draw of e-ink, as long as they are limited to one or two colors and a full-screen refresh rate that your eyes can easily register.<p>People have tried to develop tricks to update faster and minimize how much of the display gets refreshed, but I&#x27;m not aware of many successes since a lot of it seems to require reverse engineering; the companies which produce the displays jealously guard any information about the refresh parameters and functionality as highly confidential IP, and the process appears to be heavily dependent on temperature.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xorcist</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t e-ink perfect here? A watch is perfectly usable in monochrome and is used in bright daylight which would favor high contrast and viewing angles. Plus battery life is good. Turns out there has been a few on the market but nobody really wanted them. Strange.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PineTime Is a $25 Smartwatch / Companion for PinePhone Linux Phone</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/15/pinetime-smartwatch-companion-pinephone/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roadbeats</author><text>I use Garmin Instinct with monochrome display. It has so many features, even a simple navigation system, and it’s battery goes 2 weeks. I love it.<p>I can’t understand why people want to have color, fancy screens on a watch. Do we need colors to see the time? A calendar notification? Heart rate ?<p>A watch should serve information without distracting, and most importantly, I should be able to go out without thinking about battery life of my watch. It should be reliable enough to carry it in the arm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xorcist</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t e-ink perfect here? A watch is perfectly usable in monochrome and is used in bright daylight which would favor high contrast and viewing angles. Plus battery life is good. Turns out there has been a few on the market but nobody really wanted them. Strange.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PineTime Is a $25 Smartwatch / Companion for PinePhone Linux Phone</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/15/pinetime-smartwatch-companion-pinephone/</url></story> |
8,579,802 | 8,579,665 | 1 | 3 | 8,579,280 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlyssaRowan</author><text>That&#x27;s broadly describing <i>one</i> possible class of attack. It looks more like a combination of attacks may have been used - traffic confirmation via timing of outages and packets is definitely a strong one, and that&#x27;s what GCHQ&#x27;s QUICKANT was gunning for; ONIONBREATH was targeted at hidden service enumeration and distinguishability, and Tor is seemingly not perfect at that. (I gather HSes were due for an overhaul anyway?)<p>Remember, Tor cannot comprehensively protect against a global passive attacker - which is what GCHQ, DSD, NSA, et al are trying to be, as well as every other kind of attacker of course. (Generally speaking, they try every possible angle at once.)<p>However, they have still not had much success to date identifying <i>users</i>, especially en masse. We&#x27;re talking here about highly-targeted attacks, combined with a few OPSEC fails.<p>(I still prefer garlic routing in general, but Tor has a huge advantage which has little to do with tech - a massive, diverse userbase to hide amongst.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>raquo</author><text>Am I understanding this correctly?<p>* Attacker has control of X number of tor nodes<p>* Attacker DDoS-es a hidden service, sending millions of requests to it<p>* Attacker hopes that at least one of these requests will be routed exclusively through their own tor nodes, thus revealing the IP address of the hidden service<p>That sounds neat. Is it a viable way to de-anonimize a hidden service?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logs of compromised Tor site released</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007731.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>deutronium</author><text>Is there actually anything you can do to prevent this kind of attack?<p>I&#x27;m assuming once your network is compromised to such an extent there is not much you can do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raquo</author><text>Am I understanding this correctly?<p>* Attacker has control of X number of tor nodes<p>* Attacker DDoS-es a hidden service, sending millions of requests to it<p>* Attacker hopes that at least one of these requests will be routed exclusively through their own tor nodes, thus revealing the IP address of the hidden service<p>That sounds neat. Is it a viable way to de-anonimize a hidden service?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logs of compromised Tor site released</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007731.html</url></story> |
8,139,992 | 8,139,796 | 1 | 3 | 8,137,841 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bachmeier</author><text>Is it really Scheme if it&#x27;s statically typed? I could see type hints or the like, but<p>&gt; Expressions like &#x27;(1 &quot;two&quot; three) will not pass the type checker. All lists must be monomorphic, i.e., a list of ints, or a list of bools, etc...<p>seems to me to be such a big change as to mean it&#x27;s not Scheme.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love the idea of statically-typed Scheme, and will look carefully at it. I just think it&#x27;s odd to claim it&#x27;s Scheme.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irken Language – A Scheme with parametric polymorphism</title><url>http://nightmare.com/rushing/irken/irken/lang.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>tel</author><text>Nice that they have both (row) polymorphic records and polymorphic variants... but weird that you only implicitly state the variables in data declarations---it outlaws phantoms!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irken Language – A Scheme with parametric polymorphism</title><url>http://nightmare.com/rushing/irken/irken/lang.html</url></story> |
29,533,053 | 29,533,126 | 1 | 2 | 29,532,046 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>Cheating in professional sports sometimes gets addressed by Congress, and that, too, is cheating in a game.<p>While I don’t think we should be putting cheaters in jail, I wish bans could stick harder, even across games. VAC does this to a certain extent, but only for some games. A shared database of cheaters that companies could use would be nice, but of course the sticking point is identity.<p>The current setup is a bit like if getting DUI’s only suspended your driver’s license in the particular town or stretch of highway where you got the DUI, and you were free to continue driving anywhere else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>Criminalizing cheating <i>in a game</i> is insanity and I am shocked and appalled that this idea has so many supportive comments here. Here in the civilized world we should only be criminalizing conduct that causes actual harm. Not conduct that causes occasional frustration. What’s next? Shall we send the slippery fingered Monopoly Banker to actual jail, too? We’re talking about a <i>game</i> FFS.</text></item><item><author>Permit</author><text>One thing that may surprise HN readers is the widespread support some of these tactics have among the gaming community. I distinctly remember Shroud (a popular Twitch streamer and former CS:GO professional) asking for this (for PUBG) in 2018. I remember Chocotaco (another popular Twitch streamer) voicing support for South Korean laws[1] that criminalize cheating in video games.<p>It&#x27;s harder to quantify support among typical players, but I imagine it&#x27;s much higher than we might expect. People <i>really</i> hate cheating in videogames.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamedeveloper.com&#x2F;console&#x2F;south-korea-cracks-down-on-cheaters-with-law-targeting-illicit-game-mods" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamedeveloper.com&#x2F;console&#x2F;south-korea-cracks-dow...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terms of Service: Monitoring and Anti-Cheat</title><url>https://www.riotgames.com/en/terms-of-service#id.j9yhwirgp1kr</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hellotomyrars</author><text>At the highest level of play, players who cheat to gain and advantage could be causing actual financial harm to others. The professional scenes of these games involve non-trivial amounts of money.<p>The sad thing is that in the professional scene you have a lot of players who are legitimately very good, but who still use the cheats to gain an edge.<p>The solutions to these problems are mercurial and at some point unless you get the players in one physical space with controlled&#x2F;organizer supplied hardware it’s impossible to keep things clean but it is a real problem and it has real consequences for players who compete at that level.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>Criminalizing cheating <i>in a game</i> is insanity and I am shocked and appalled that this idea has so many supportive comments here. Here in the civilized world we should only be criminalizing conduct that causes actual harm. Not conduct that causes occasional frustration. What’s next? Shall we send the slippery fingered Monopoly Banker to actual jail, too? We’re talking about a <i>game</i> FFS.</text></item><item><author>Permit</author><text>One thing that may surprise HN readers is the widespread support some of these tactics have among the gaming community. I distinctly remember Shroud (a popular Twitch streamer and former CS:GO professional) asking for this (for PUBG) in 2018. I remember Chocotaco (another popular Twitch streamer) voicing support for South Korean laws[1] that criminalize cheating in video games.<p>It&#x27;s harder to quantify support among typical players, but I imagine it&#x27;s much higher than we might expect. People <i>really</i> hate cheating in videogames.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamedeveloper.com&#x2F;console&#x2F;south-korea-cracks-down-on-cheaters-with-law-targeting-illicit-game-mods" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamedeveloper.com&#x2F;console&#x2F;south-korea-cracks-dow...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terms of Service: Monitoring and Anti-Cheat</title><url>https://www.riotgames.com/en/terms-of-service#id.j9yhwirgp1kr</url></story> |
4,872,383 | 4,872,521 | 1 | 2 | 4,871,854 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>guyzero</author><text>Waterloo was a MSFT poaching ground when I was an undergrad in 1992... well before RIM was even on the scene. Macleans magazine has consistently ranked it the best engineering school in Canada. They've been winning ACM programming contests since the math building had the dinosaur pit (<a href="http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cs/redroom/" rel="nofollow">http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cs/redroom/</a>).<p>As for campus being ugly... hey, you can't have everything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>otoburb</author><text>My understanding is that Waterloo has been a Microsoft and RIM software talent poaching ground for over a decade. The Waterloo Engineering and CS programs are known for their extremely high quality and rigour.<p>The recent string of higher profile alumni successes reinforces this reputation and serves as a beacon for Canadian high-school graduate intake. Now if only they would do something about the concrete jungle they call their campus :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon</title><url>http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/news/facebook-hackathon</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stevenameyer</author><text>While Waterloo has been a talent poaching ground for Microsoft and RIM for a while, and more recently for Google, Facebook and the likes. The thing i think that really gets overlooked is the startup community in the area.<p>With an incubator residence on campus (<a href="http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/" rel="nofollow">http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/</a>)<p>Another new incubator in the region (<a href="http://hyperdrive.communitech.ca/#applyNow" rel="nofollow">http://hyperdrive.communitech.ca/#applyNow</a>)<p>An organization dedicated to helping startups in the are (<a href="https://www.communitech.ca/" rel="nofollow">https://www.communitech.ca/</a>)<p>The recent successes of companies like BufferBox and Kik, have showed that startups can succeed and thrive in the area.</text><parent_chain><item><author>otoburb</author><text>My understanding is that Waterloo has been a Microsoft and RIM software talent poaching ground for over a decade. The Waterloo Engineering and CS programs are known for their extremely high quality and rigour.<p>The recent string of higher profile alumni successes reinforces this reputation and serves as a beacon for Canadian high-school graduate intake. Now if only they would do something about the concrete jungle they call their campus :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon</title><url>http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/news/facebook-hackathon</url></story> |
36,287,983 | 36,286,532 | 1 | 3 | 36,285,640 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>The thing that surprised me the most is there’s no mention of what makes a better product for the user. It’s all business strategy and scheming to build a silo. I hope regulators obliterate the platform owners.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shmerl</author><text><i>&gt; So, for example If Adobe comes in with an app that links to new web apps that they promote we need to allow that &quot;app store&quot; in, even worse Google could come up with an app that runs all their 3rd party Chrome web apps and we would need to allow that in too! I don&#x27;t see why we want to do that. All these apps won&#x27;t be native, they won&#x27;t have a relationship or license with us, we won&#x27;t review them, they won&#x27;t use our APIs or tools, they won&#x27;t use our stores, etc.</i><p>What a horror - someone won&#x27;t be using Apple APIs and tools.<p>This perfectly shows how Apple&#x27;s ban on other browser engines and all similar restrictions in general are not about security or any other bogus excuses they like to present, but about being anti-competitive lock-in control freaks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)</title><url>https://www.techemails.com/p/apple-execs-on-facebook</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>astrange</author><text>If other browsers were allowed Chrome would become an all-platform monopoly and there would no longer be real web standards.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shmerl</author><text><i>&gt; So, for example If Adobe comes in with an app that links to new web apps that they promote we need to allow that &quot;app store&quot; in, even worse Google could come up with an app that runs all their 3rd party Chrome web apps and we would need to allow that in too! I don&#x27;t see why we want to do that. All these apps won&#x27;t be native, they won&#x27;t have a relationship or license with us, we won&#x27;t review them, they won&#x27;t use our APIs or tools, they won&#x27;t use our stores, etc.</i><p>What a horror - someone won&#x27;t be using Apple APIs and tools.<p>This perfectly shows how Apple&#x27;s ban on other browser engines and all similar restrictions in general are not about security or any other bogus excuses they like to present, but about being anti-competitive lock-in control freaks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)</title><url>https://www.techemails.com/p/apple-execs-on-facebook</url></story> |
24,512,337 | 24,512,034 | 1 | 2 | 24,501,511 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jofer</author><text>Don&#x27;t underestimate the impact this has on getting funding or even just tenure&#x2F;etc recognition for working on numpy. I&#x27;m in industry these days, but coming from the academic side, it&#x27;s _really_ hard to get recognized for building the underlying infrastructure that tons of people use. I&#x27;ve built and maintained libraries that are used in a ton of publications, but was always told my work was &quot;utterly and completely useless&quot;. It was also always unpublishable, as methods are never publishable in my field. Numpy has (obviously) vastly more respect and impact than my work, but the general problem remains.<p>Articles like this are a _huge_ deal for that reason. It&#x27;s an immense delayed recognition for over a decade of work from a lot of folks.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Array Programming with NumPy</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2649-2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>westurner</author><text>Looks like there&#x27;s a new citation for NumPy in town.<p>&quot;Citing packages in the SciPy ecosystem&quot; lists the existing citations for SciPy, NumPy, scikits, and other -Py things:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scipy.org&#x2F;citing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scipy.org&#x2F;citing.html</a>
( source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scipy&#x2F;scipy.org&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;www&#x2F;citing.rst" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scipy&#x2F;scipy.org&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;www&#x2F;citing.rs...</a> )<p>A better way to cite requisite software might involve referencing a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;schema.org&#x2F;SoftwareApplication" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;schema.org&#x2F;SoftwareApplication</a> record in JSON-LD, RDFa, or Microdata; for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24489651" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24489651</a><p>But there&#x27;s as of yet no way to publish JSON-LD, RDFa, or Microdata Linked Data from LaTeX with <i>Computer Modern</i>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Array Programming with NumPy</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2649-2</url></story> |
16,078,756 | 16,078,740 | 1 | 2 | 16,077,638 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krapp</author><text>&gt;I really don&#x27;t understand this feeling that humans need to be modest or that describing ourselves as special is wrong. We are special.<p>To simply state that humans are best adapted at certain traits is true, but humans have tended to think of themselves as &quot;special&quot; in that &quot;we&#x27;re not even animals, but beings made in the image of God and given divine right to conquer Nature and do with it what we will.&quot; That anthropocentric bias has led to a multitude of evils and scientific falsehoods, and that&#x27;s what needs to be corrected. It&#x27;s got nothing to do with misanthropy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>meri_dian</author><text>In each of those categories we&#x27;re far and away the best. I really don&#x27;t understand this feeling that humans need to be modest or that describing ourselves as special is wrong. We are special.<p>I think among some people that are frustrated with the human world for whatever - either personal or abstract - reason, there&#x27;s a feeling of misanthropy that colors their thinking, and so they try to belittle humanity.</text></item><item><author>taneq</author><text>So we&#x27;re not the only:<p>- tool-using animal<p>- fire-using animal<p>- language-using animal<p>- animal which domesticates other animals<p>- animal which builds complex structures<p>Aha! I know! We&#x27;re the only animal which continually comes up with reasons why we&#x27;re special.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia</title><url>http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2993/0278-0771-37.4.700</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>The point of this, I think, is that we justify our behavior towards animals on the belief that they are not &quot;the same&quot; as us. That is, that they aren&#x27;t beings capable of the same rich experiences of the world that we are and, therefore, their suffering is less important than ours. This same sort of rationalization has been used throughout history to justify similar behavior towards other human beings.<p>Evidence is increasingly showing us that the qualities we believed differentiated us from animals, that made our lives more worthy of respect, aren&#x27;t actually unique to us.<p>If you&#x27;re going to come back at that with &quot;we&#x27;re better at these things than they are&quot;, then that philosophy suggests again that there are lesser classes of human being as well, the ones that aren&#x27;t as good as others at whatever metric you happen to be using.<p>It is natural that we seek to justify behavior on which our living standards are dependent, but that doesn&#x27;t make our reasoning sound.</text><parent_chain><item><author>meri_dian</author><text>In each of those categories we&#x27;re far and away the best. I really don&#x27;t understand this feeling that humans need to be modest or that describing ourselves as special is wrong. We are special.<p>I think among some people that are frustrated with the human world for whatever - either personal or abstract - reason, there&#x27;s a feeling of misanthropy that colors their thinking, and so they try to belittle humanity.</text></item><item><author>taneq</author><text>So we&#x27;re not the only:<p>- tool-using animal<p>- fire-using animal<p>- language-using animal<p>- animal which domesticates other animals<p>- animal which builds complex structures<p>Aha! I know! We&#x27;re the only animal which continually comes up with reasons why we&#x27;re special.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia</title><url>http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2993/0278-0771-37.4.700</url></story> |
22,537,846 | 22,537,212 | 1 | 2 | 22,536,437 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frausto</author><text>I&#x27;ve struggled with this quite a bit in my own life. I find the &quot;No Zero&quot; mentality to work well for me. Treat every weekday as a &quot;No Zero&quot; day. What does that mean? It means if my goal is to go to the gym, even if I literally walk into the gym, do a pushup, and leave, that counts. It&#x27;s more than Zero. Consistent non-zero days eventually help break me out of my depression. And when I miss a day... well forgive myself and keep going.<p>All easier said than done of course, and sometimes a no-zero goal is just to get out of bed... but it has helped me.<p>For anyone interested I got the idea from here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;getdisciplined&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1q96b5&#x2F;i_just_dont_care_about_myself&#x2F;cdah4af&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;getdisciplined&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1q96b5&#x2F;i_ju...</a>
The style and language of the post are not really my cup of tea, but the ideas behind it have really helped me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>One of the biggest force multipliers in overcoming depression is accepting that you <i>can</i> modulate your condition by taking small, deliberate actions.<p>It&#x27;s also one of the most difficult and delicate ideas to communicate to a depressed person. Depression notoriously clouds peoples&#x27; judgment and makes simple tasks seem impossible. Depression also encourages a lot of binary thinking, where people tend to give up because they can&#x27;t achieve the optimal solution and can&#x27;t imagine anything in between optimal and complete failure. And most importantly, depressed people almost never want to hear someone else telling them that they should <i>do</i> something to change their own condition. If you&#x27;ve ever been through a depressive episode, you&#x27;ll understand how unpalatable this idea is if it&#x27;s not delivered carefully. Be careful to not make depressed people feel even worse about their condition.<p>For example, I&#x27;ve known several depressed people who spiraled deeper into depression when they could no longer perform their regular 60 minute gym sessions multiple times per week. It took a while for them to accept that a 5-minute walk around the block is better than no exercise at all. From there, they could push to 10 minute walks on good days, then 20 minutes, then 30 minutes, and eventually work their way back up to gym visits. Taking those tiny steps is a great way to re-learn that you can accomplish things, and it&#x27;s a great to way to see gradual progress in yourself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tips for the depressed</title><url>https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tips-for-the-depressed/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cgriswald</author><text>For me, doing those small things did seem impossible and even when I managed to achieve it, I didn&#x27;t feel the reward. There didn&#x27;t seem any point in making the bed if I felt the same whether the bed was made or not. Eventually I reached a mental place where I could turn that around: If it doesn&#x27;t make a difference in how I feel, why <i>not</i> make the bed? I had to more or less take it on faith that eventually the rewards would come, and they did. Anyone out there dealing with this: Keep fighting, but don&#x27;t kick yourself if you have a set back. You wouldn&#x27;t kick someone else when they&#x27;re down, so don&#x27;t do that to yourself.<p>Edit: Just want to plug Allie Brosh here. This comic is maybe the best description I&#x27;ve ever read on how depression is experienced: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;depression-part-two.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;depression-par...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>One of the biggest force multipliers in overcoming depression is accepting that you <i>can</i> modulate your condition by taking small, deliberate actions.<p>It&#x27;s also one of the most difficult and delicate ideas to communicate to a depressed person. Depression notoriously clouds peoples&#x27; judgment and makes simple tasks seem impossible. Depression also encourages a lot of binary thinking, where people tend to give up because they can&#x27;t achieve the optimal solution and can&#x27;t imagine anything in between optimal and complete failure. And most importantly, depressed people almost never want to hear someone else telling them that they should <i>do</i> something to change their own condition. If you&#x27;ve ever been through a depressive episode, you&#x27;ll understand how unpalatable this idea is if it&#x27;s not delivered carefully. Be careful to not make depressed people feel even worse about their condition.<p>For example, I&#x27;ve known several depressed people who spiraled deeper into depression when they could no longer perform their regular 60 minute gym sessions multiple times per week. It took a while for them to accept that a 5-minute walk around the block is better than no exercise at all. From there, they could push to 10 minute walks on good days, then 20 minutes, then 30 minutes, and eventually work their way back up to gym visits. Taking those tiny steps is a great way to re-learn that you can accomplish things, and it&#x27;s a great to way to see gradual progress in yourself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tips for the depressed</title><url>https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tips-for-the-depressed/</url></story> |
23,700,918 | 23,700,756 | 1 | 2 | 23,700,283 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rockslide</author><text>Trading has continued hours ago, probably even before this article was even published.<p>In a first statement, they blamed algo-traders which created (and within milliseconds deleted) a ton of pointless orders, like buying Wirecard for 0,05EUR (which is ~1&#x2F;100th of the current price). Yes, they explicitly called out orders on Wirecard. So basically... Denial of Service by bot-traders.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German stock trading platform Xetra down, all securities affected</title><url>https://thestarphoenix.com/pmn/business-pmn/german-stock-trading-platform-xetra-down-all-securities-affected/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ysleepy</author><text>Really interested in reading a technical post-mortem for that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German stock trading platform Xetra down, all securities affected</title><url>https://thestarphoenix.com/pmn/business-pmn/german-stock-trading-platform-xetra-down-all-securities-affected/</url></story> |
18,318,798 | 18,318,592 | 1 | 3 | 18,316,917 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aasasd</author><text>I&#x27;d just like to confirm that if you&#x27;re noticing the sedentary lifestyle worsening your health, you&#x27;ll want to get out of it asap. Muscles do wither away from disuse, and hence they stop supporting your posture (for which they are surprisingly important). On top of that, you lose the muscular memory for proper posture and movement, and become constantly hunched instead. Then chronic cramps (tenseness) set in, blocking blood flow and causing nerve stress, which feeds back into the poor posture. Basically it&#x27;s a cluster failure of factors feeding into each other.<p>And it&#x27;s not only posture—if you just browse through topics on general health on Wikipedia (i.e. not acute diseases), you&#x27;ll notice they&#x27;re pretty much all linked to exercise. E.g. anti-inflammatory function is linked to muscle work. And of course, you see articles every week saying brain health is dependent on exercise.<p>Instead of a chiropractor, you might want to consult a physical therapist who can recommend daily exercise and regime for the back. E.g. Nordic walking with sticks, which puts load on upper back and shoulder muscles.<p>I don&#x27;t know how others live with just walks to and from work, but for myself I highly doubt that even a couple hours of exercise could offset being propped at the desk for the rest of the day.<p>For the work hours, you could look into contract work (freelancing), where you could choose your hours and set the rate instead of being locked into the terms of your job. But of course, other considerations also apply.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>I do wonder if the answer to my back pain is a lifestyle where I am simply moving my body more. As an engineer I mostly “get stuff done” at a desk. Both my work desk and now my home desk are motorized adjustable height desks, but still being so sedentary seems to the root cause of my slowly declining physical shape. My lower back hurts regularly and now my neck has been hurting again. I used to go to a chiropractor and I’m considering starting up again.<p>But the root of it is that I’m not active. I used to ride my bike, run, and lift weights and I weighed 40 pounds less than I do now. But I’ve found some personal projects to work on that I’m so passionate about I’ve wanted to stay inside on evenings and weekends to make progress. Really, I just struggle with a day job that perpetuates our capitalist system, and try to make up for it by doing good open source work when I’m at home.<p>But I wish it was more common to work fewer hours in tech. I’m happy to be paid proportionally but I want a job where it’s okay to work 20 hours a week at a high tech pay rate.<p>I think if I did that, I might get out more. Or maybe I need to find a lower paying job that lets me work on my passions during the day. Then in the evenings I could go play basketball or do night hikes or something.<p>Has anyone pulled either of these off? More specifically has anyone pulled this off in the SF Bay Area?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-different-way-to-relieve-years-of-back-pain/2018/09/27/f3e663f4-b505-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>az123zaz</author><text>How about looking for a day job that has a quality gym in the building where you can workout and shower during the day?<p>I&#x27;m sure you can find this in SF tech. During your interview process, just make it clear that you value being able to exercise during the day.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be crazy stuff, even just walking on a treadmill, running, or stretching. It&#x27;s more important to build the habit of doing anything than doing something crazy.<p>There is strong evidence that exercise improves learning and memory (personally I feel it improves focus as well) so in my opinion, you don&#x27;t &quot;lose&quot; this time as you are more effective the rest of the day [0]<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kurzweilai.net&#x2F;how-exercise-improves-memory" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kurzweilai.net&#x2F;how-exercise-improves-memory</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>I do wonder if the answer to my back pain is a lifestyle where I am simply moving my body more. As an engineer I mostly “get stuff done” at a desk. Both my work desk and now my home desk are motorized adjustable height desks, but still being so sedentary seems to the root cause of my slowly declining physical shape. My lower back hurts regularly and now my neck has been hurting again. I used to go to a chiropractor and I’m considering starting up again.<p>But the root of it is that I’m not active. I used to ride my bike, run, and lift weights and I weighed 40 pounds less than I do now. But I’ve found some personal projects to work on that I’m so passionate about I’ve wanted to stay inside on evenings and weekends to make progress. Really, I just struggle with a day job that perpetuates our capitalist system, and try to make up for it by doing good open source work when I’m at home.<p>But I wish it was more common to work fewer hours in tech. I’m happy to be paid proportionally but I want a job where it’s okay to work 20 hours a week at a high tech pay rate.<p>I think if I did that, I might get out more. Or maybe I need to find a lower paying job that lets me work on my passions during the day. Then in the evenings I could go play basketball or do night hikes or something.<p>Has anyone pulled either of these off? More specifically has anyone pulled this off in the SF Bay Area?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-different-way-to-relieve-years-of-back-pain/2018/09/27/f3e663f4-b505-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html</url></story> |
17,695,834 | 17,695,622 | 1 | 3 | 17,693,426 | train | <instructions>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>The reduction to absurdity is tests that essentially parse the code they&#x27;re testing and assert the AST.<p>Any unit test should really be from the point of view of checking what the code <i>does</i>, as opposed to checking what code was <i>written</i>.<p>Structural tests by definition don&#x27;t check what the code does - they&#x27;re way to parse the code and check the AST is structured a certain way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unit testing anti-patterns: Structural Inspection</title><url>https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2016/07/21/unit-testing-anti-patterns-structural-inspection/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slaymaker1907</author><text>Kind of specific, but I find that in the React world, Enzyme is worse than useless for the same reasons as mentioned in this article. The tests you end up writing just verify your XML (which generally has little to no value). Even if there is some tricky logic which needs testing, you can pretty much always just refactor your code a little bit and just use standard unit tests.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unit testing anti-patterns: Structural Inspection</title><url>https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2016/07/21/unit-testing-anti-patterns-structural-inspection/</url></story> |
21,502,646 | 21,501,491 | 1 | 2 | 21,500,153 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzs</author><text>A bit of searching failed to turn up anything on how the simulation was done. I&#x27;m curious if it was all digital, like a modern simulator, or if it included analog simulation.<p>It was built by Link, which had been building flight simulators since 1929 [1], so certainly had extensive experience with analog simulators.<p>According to Wikipedia&#x27;s article on analog computers [2],<p>&gt; Analog computers were widely used in scientific and industrial applications even after the advent of digital computers, because at the time they were typically much faster, but they started to become obsolete as early as the 1950s and 1960s, although remained in use in some specific applications, such as aircraft flight simulators, the flight computer in aircraft, and for teaching control systems in universities. More complex applications, such as aircraft flight simulators and synthetic aperture radar, remained the domain of analog computing (and hybrid computing) well into the 1980s, since digital computers were insufficient for the task<p>It sounds like the &#x27;60s, then, were well before digital flight simulators were common.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Link_Trainer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Link_Trainer</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Analog_computer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Analog_computer</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ta1234567890</author><text>&gt; The next day, our flight profile was duplicated on the SR-71 flight simulator at Beale AFB, Calif. The outcome was identical. Steps were immediately taken to prevent a recurrence of our accident.<p>Wow! Super impressive that they could simulate that. Didn&#x27;t know that was possible, especially in 1966.<p>Is there any current simulation software (available to the public &#x2F; off the shelf) in which you could accurately simulate something like the situation from the story?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When His SR-71 Blackbird Disintegrated, This Pilot Free Fell from Space</title><url>http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-free-fell-space-lived-tell/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zarriak</author><text>I&#x27;m going to have to guess that CFD simulation above mach 1 that is good is probably not something that is publicly available but from reading RUAG&#x27;s website they use open source software[1]. From my experience with CFD in F1 the main issue you have with CFD is correlation but maybe driving a car around a track is harder to simulate than going really fast in &quot;clean&quot; air.<p>This reason is what leads me to think that it is a major issue and is why both China and the United States started going into mach 5+ with autonomous craft to gather data for correlation.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aerodynamics.ruag.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;aerodynamics&#x2F;simulation-analysis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aerodynamics.ruag.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;aerodynamics&#x2F;simulation-ana...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ta1234567890</author><text>&gt; The next day, our flight profile was duplicated on the SR-71 flight simulator at Beale AFB, Calif. The outcome was identical. Steps were immediately taken to prevent a recurrence of our accident.<p>Wow! Super impressive that they could simulate that. Didn&#x27;t know that was possible, especially in 1966.<p>Is there any current simulation software (available to the public &#x2F; off the shelf) in which you could accurately simulate something like the situation from the story?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When His SR-71 Blackbird Disintegrated, This Pilot Free Fell from Space</title><url>http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-free-fell-space-lived-tell/</url></story> |
41,531,078 | 41,530,410 | 1 | 3 | 41,526,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josefresco</author><text>You&#x27;re certainly not alone in resisting hearing aids. My dad just got some from Costco (most affordable) and really likes them. He probably waited 5-10 years too long.<p>My father-in-law however doesn&#x27;t like hearing aids because he feels they amplify things he doesn&#x27;t want to hear. Granted he&#x27;s never been fitted to actual hearing aids. I understand his concern, but he&#x27;s told me multiple times his hearing loss leaves him isolated during conversation. He told me one night that he has a lot to say, but can&#x27;t hear so he spends a lot of time just smiling. It makes me sad that his pride (and stubbornness?) is causing him this stress.</text><parent_chain><item><author>car</author><text>With the AirPods now officially becoming hearing aids, it will hopefully reduce the stigma and attitude towards hearing aids and allow many more people to realize how bad their hearing actually is.<p>I have been wearing hearing aids for a few years now (Phonak). I&#x27;ve also used the AirPods Pro with the accessibility audiogram feature (basically making them hearing aids), which is really good and has also been around for a few years. I&#x27;m very glad, that Apple has made this official and even gotten FDA approval.<p>When I started to loose my hearing a decade ago, for a long time I refused to wear hearing aids, probably due to the perceived stigma. Even though it made life harder and harder -- imagine work meetings with a mumbling boss or me accusing my family to intentionally whisper -- it took years to change my mind. In hindsight I should have gotten hearing aids years sooner.<p>My &#x27;real&#x27; hearing aids are nothing short of a technological marvel. They are tiny and run for a few days on zinc-air batteries (312&#x2F;Costco but made by Varta), while providing all-day BT streaming. Btw, funny how most hearing aid brands come from Denmark. In contrast, the AirPods run out after a few hours and are also destined to become landfill due to their built in battery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software</title><url>https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-over-counter-hearing-aid-software</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AshamedCaptain</author><text>Note also phonaks are traditionally a couple thousand euros a piece while even the most expensive airpods are still around 300 the pair. Certainly the phonaks are impressively small, lasting, good quality, and imperceptible, but is the almost 10x price markup justified?<p>The biggest problem with hearing aids (and doctors&#x2F;calibrators&#x2F;whatever) is that they are ridiculously expensive... the attitude&#x2F;stigma much less so. (And in any case airpods are about the opposite of &quot;imperceptible&quot; so I fail to see any appeal other than the price)</text><parent_chain><item><author>car</author><text>With the AirPods now officially becoming hearing aids, it will hopefully reduce the stigma and attitude towards hearing aids and allow many more people to realize how bad their hearing actually is.<p>I have been wearing hearing aids for a few years now (Phonak). I&#x27;ve also used the AirPods Pro with the accessibility audiogram feature (basically making them hearing aids), which is really good and has also been around for a few years. I&#x27;m very glad, that Apple has made this official and even gotten FDA approval.<p>When I started to loose my hearing a decade ago, for a long time I refused to wear hearing aids, probably due to the perceived stigma. Even though it made life harder and harder -- imagine work meetings with a mumbling boss or me accusing my family to intentionally whisper -- it took years to change my mind. In hindsight I should have gotten hearing aids years sooner.<p>My &#x27;real&#x27; hearing aids are nothing short of a technological marvel. They are tiny and run for a few days on zinc-air batteries (312&#x2F;Costco but made by Varta), while providing all-day BT streaming. Btw, funny how most hearing aid brands come from Denmark. In contrast, the AirPods run out after a few hours and are also destined to become landfill due to their built in battery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software</title><url>https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-over-counter-hearing-aid-software</url></story> |
33,962,937 | 33,959,823 | 1 | 2 | 33,954,547 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burntwater</author><text>I can promise that airplane mode does not fully disable the cellular radio, at least not on Samsung phones. Repeating a comment above: I can verify they do in fact receive data - I worked an immersive art project that had 100 Samsung cell phones that were in airplane mode, and we found out the hard and noisy way that they were still able to receive emergency and AMBER alerts (U.S. alerts that notify of potential child abductions).</text><parent_chain><item><author>kornhole</author><text>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grapheneos.org&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grapheneos.org&#x2F;faq</a>:
&quot;Connecting to your carrier&#x27;s network inherently depends on you identifying yourself to it and anyone able to obtain administrative access. Activating airplane mode will fully disable the cellular radio transmit and receive capabilities, which will prevent your phone from being reached from the cellular network and stop your carrier (and anyone impersonating them to you) from tracking the device via the cellular radio. The baseband implements other functionality such as Wi-Fi and GPS functionality, but each of these components is separately sandboxed on the baseband and independent of each other. Enabling airplane mode disables the cellular radio, but Wi-Fi can be re-enabled and used without activating the cellular radio again. This allows using the device as a Wi-Fi only device.&quot;<p>When I am at home, I am WIFI only. When I am out, WIFI &amp; bluetooth are off. This takes some discipline at first but then just becomes habit. I know the spot on my commute home where I switch my settings.</text></item><item><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Your location data. Tower associations can still happen with data &quot;off&quot;, since there&#x27;s plenty of &quot;listen&quot; components. All your home wifi connections are well Geo-located, thanks to other Android users picking up the ESSID as they walk &#x2F; ride &#x2F; drive past your house. Your shopping &#x2F; outings? Forget it, fully known.<p>VPNs hide the content of connections, at least from MITM &#x2F; eavesdroppers, but server-side data scrapes are quite effective at figuring out who you are (or what your phone is ... see below). Nothing really does a good job of hiding the fact that you are connected to a VPN except TOR, and where that connection originates (e.g., your wifi network, which is well Geo-located, remember?). And de-anonymization of VPN connections to identify downstream connections are possible, IIRC. Details about your phone are well recorded (MAC, SID, etc)<p>And always remember, your phone can be implicated based on location data, which will implicate you once it&#x27;s discovered you own the phone. And that&#x27;s as simple as looking up the SIM purchase &#x2F; use.</text></item><item><author>kornhole</author><text>I rotate burner SIM&#x27;s. I never make calls with the SIM. Instead I use jmp.chat if I need to use OTA calls or SMS. I am in airplane mode 99% of the time and use WIFI instead of cellular. I never activate cellular near my home. I am always connected to VPN so that the traffic cannot be analyzed. My phone is anonymous without any identifiers. I think all this mitigates the baseband attacks, but tell me if I am missing something.</text></item><item><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>Wait until your learn what a country or local government&#x2F;police can do remotely to the baseband firmware of your phone with a court order...<p>10-20 years ago the FBI was regularly remotely programming firmware to listen in and record cell phone microphones to capture conversations of suspects. IIRC a mafia case hinged on data gathered in this way so it is not some abstract theoretical or crackpot theory (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as...</a>).<p>It&#x27;s only gotten worse as phones have gotten more capable. You don&#x27;t own squat about the device in your pocket at all times.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on</title><text>My wife is currently in Germany and had cell broadcast warnings disabled on her Android 11 device. Apparently, the local carrier she uses turns them back on remotely. She gets notified of this. &quot;Settings changed by carrier.&quot;<p>(1) Were you aware that carriers can remotely override your settings like this?
(2) Any strategies to keep something like this from happening besides rooting the device?
(3) How do you feel about this type of remote control by a third party?<p>I must say I strongly dislike losing control over my own device. It feels dystopian to me.<p>I also couldn&#x27;t find any mention of this particular power of carriers apart from one lonely Reddit post about someone trying to turn off Amber alerts [1].<p>----------------
EDIT: Additional info for clarity:<p>The settings I am referring to are under &quot;Apps &amp; notifications&quot;&#x2F;&quot;Wireless emergency alerts&quot;. They are about controlling whether to and which alerts one wants to receive on their phone.<p>It&#x27;s an unlocked Android One device. The carrier seems to be able to remotely change these settings (see the referenced Reddit post as well), which I would never expect. It seems to be because of the SIM the phone uses and the network it connects to. No user-controlled software change like updates.<p>----------------<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;GooglePixel&#x2F;comments&#x2F;zebvs4&#x2F;settings_changed_by_carrier&#x2F;</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>MengerSponge</author><text>BTW habitually switching at the same time and place is terrible opsec. It leaks a ton of information.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kornhole</author><text>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grapheneos.org&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grapheneos.org&#x2F;faq</a>:
&quot;Connecting to your carrier&#x27;s network inherently depends on you identifying yourself to it and anyone able to obtain administrative access. Activating airplane mode will fully disable the cellular radio transmit and receive capabilities, which will prevent your phone from being reached from the cellular network and stop your carrier (and anyone impersonating them to you) from tracking the device via the cellular radio. The baseband implements other functionality such as Wi-Fi and GPS functionality, but each of these components is separately sandboxed on the baseband and independent of each other. Enabling airplane mode disables the cellular radio, but Wi-Fi can be re-enabled and used without activating the cellular radio again. This allows using the device as a Wi-Fi only device.&quot;<p>When I am at home, I am WIFI only. When I am out, WIFI &amp; bluetooth are off. This takes some discipline at first but then just becomes habit. I know the spot on my commute home where I switch my settings.</text></item><item><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Your location data. Tower associations can still happen with data &quot;off&quot;, since there&#x27;s plenty of &quot;listen&quot; components. All your home wifi connections are well Geo-located, thanks to other Android users picking up the ESSID as they walk &#x2F; ride &#x2F; drive past your house. Your shopping &#x2F; outings? Forget it, fully known.<p>VPNs hide the content of connections, at least from MITM &#x2F; eavesdroppers, but server-side data scrapes are quite effective at figuring out who you are (or what your phone is ... see below). Nothing really does a good job of hiding the fact that you are connected to a VPN except TOR, and where that connection originates (e.g., your wifi network, which is well Geo-located, remember?). And de-anonymization of VPN connections to identify downstream connections are possible, IIRC. Details about your phone are well recorded (MAC, SID, etc)<p>And always remember, your phone can be implicated based on location data, which will implicate you once it&#x27;s discovered you own the phone. And that&#x27;s as simple as looking up the SIM purchase &#x2F; use.</text></item><item><author>kornhole</author><text>I rotate burner SIM&#x27;s. I never make calls with the SIM. Instead I use jmp.chat if I need to use OTA calls or SMS. I am in airplane mode 99% of the time and use WIFI instead of cellular. I never activate cellular near my home. I am always connected to VPN so that the traffic cannot be analyzed. My phone is anonymous without any identifiers. I think all this mitigates the baseband attacks, but tell me if I am missing something.</text></item><item><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>Wait until your learn what a country or local government&#x2F;police can do remotely to the baseband firmware of your phone with a court order...<p>10-20 years ago the FBI was regularly remotely programming firmware to listen in and record cell phone microphones to capture conversations of suspects. IIRC a mafia case hinged on data gathered in this way so it is not some abstract theoretical or crackpot theory (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as...</a>).<p>It&#x27;s only gotten worse as phones have gotten more capable. You don&#x27;t own squat about the device in your pocket at all times.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on</title><text>My wife is currently in Germany and had cell broadcast warnings disabled on her Android 11 device. Apparently, the local carrier she uses turns them back on remotely. She gets notified of this. &quot;Settings changed by carrier.&quot;<p>(1) Were you aware that carriers can remotely override your settings like this?
(2) Any strategies to keep something like this from happening besides rooting the device?
(3) How do you feel about this type of remote control by a third party?<p>I must say I strongly dislike losing control over my own device. It feels dystopian to me.<p>I also couldn&#x27;t find any mention of this particular power of carriers apart from one lonely Reddit post about someone trying to turn off Amber alerts [1].<p>----------------
EDIT: Additional info for clarity:<p>The settings I am referring to are under &quot;Apps &amp; notifications&quot;&#x2F;&quot;Wireless emergency alerts&quot;. They are about controlling whether to and which alerts one wants to receive on their phone.<p>It&#x27;s an unlocked Android One device. The carrier seems to be able to remotely change these settings (see the referenced Reddit post as well), which I would never expect. It seems to be because of the SIM the phone uses and the network it connects to. No user-controlled software change like updates.<p>----------------<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;GooglePixel&#x2F;comments&#x2F;zebvs4&#x2F;settings_changed_by_carrier&#x2F;</text></story> |
36,884,288 | 36,884,331 | 1 | 2 | 36,881,808 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akjssdk</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the actual proposed superconductivity mechanism is the relevant part of this paper. It is much easier to prove that this is superconducting than to prove why. And in a sense it is a bit less relevant. Although developing a working theory for room temperature is also probably worth a Nobel prize, so I am willing to bet some theorists are also running to their blackboards as we speak.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>This is an extremely useful summarization of the original paper.<p>&gt; The authors believe that the modified&#x2F;strained structure of their material creates a large number of “quantum wells” between particular lead atoms and the adjacent oxygens of the phosphate groups bound to them, in effect making a two-dimensional “electron gas”. They propose that electron tunneling between these quantum wells, which are between 3.7 and 6.5 Ångstroms apart, is the superconducting mechanism. I am not enough of a solid-state physicist to judge this proposal, but the authors are making a detailed mechanistic claim that is subject to experimental proof, which is very good to see, and and they adduce a good deal of data to back it up (x-ray diffraction, EPR, and more). And they demonstrate the behaviors that a superconductor should have, such as the Meissner effect (expulsion of a magnetic field), sudden resistivity changes at a critical temperature (bizarrely high though that is in this case), current-voltage (I-V) plots at different temperatures and under different magnetic field strengths, etc. If these data reproduce, the superconductivity of this material seems beyond doubt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpmattia</author><text>&gt; <i>They propose that electron tunneling between these quantum wells, which are between 3.7 and 6.5 Ångstroms apart, is the superconducting mechanism.</i><p>That is a very strange explanation. As someone who has done a decent amount of solid-state physics work, I would expect the explanation to involve a mechanism for pairing of electrons. Mere tunneling between quantum wells has been a staple since the &quot;metamaterials&quot; of the 80s and 90s.<p>That said, the measured curves do not lie, and I haven&#x27;t kept up with the field. So I&#x27;m all ears (and very much hoping the superconducting revolution is upon us!)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>This is an extremely useful summarization of the original paper.<p>&gt; The authors believe that the modified&#x2F;strained structure of their material creates a large number of “quantum wells” between particular lead atoms and the adjacent oxygens of the phosphate groups bound to them, in effect making a two-dimensional “electron gas”. They propose that electron tunneling between these quantum wells, which are between 3.7 and 6.5 Ångstroms apart, is the superconducting mechanism. I am not enough of a solid-state physicist to judge this proposal, but the authors are making a detailed mechanistic claim that is subject to experimental proof, which is very good to see, and and they adduce a good deal of data to back it up (x-ray diffraction, EPR, and more). And they demonstrate the behaviors that a superconductor should have, such as the Meissner effect (expulsion of a magnetic field), sudden resistivity changes at a critical temperature (bizarrely high though that is in this case), current-voltage (I-V) plots at different temperatures and under different magnetic field strengths, etc. If these data reproduce, the superconductivity of this material seems beyond doubt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news</url></story> |
38,573,370 | 38,573,722 | 1 | 2 | 38,545,522 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kmill</author><text>I helped a very little with the formalization (I filled in some trivial algebraic manipulations, and I was there for some Lean technical support).<p>It&#x27;s exciting to see how quickly the work was done, but it&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that a top mathematician leading a formalization effort is very exciting, so he could very easily scramble a team of around 20 experienced Lean users.<p>There aren&#x27;t enough experienced Lean users to go around yet for any old project, so Gowers&#x27;s point about ease of use is an important one.<p>Something that was necessary for the success of this was years of development that had already been done for both Lean and mathlib. It&#x27;s reassuring that mathlib is being developed in such a way that new mathematics can be formalized using it. Like usual though, there was plenty missing. I think this drove a few thousand more lines of general probability theory development.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>The maths goes over my head, but this paragraph was very interesting:<p>&gt; Tao then kicked off an effort to formalize the proof in Lean, a programming language that helps mathematicians verify theorems. In just a few weeks, that effort succeeded. Early Tuesday morning of December 5, Tao announced that Lean had proved the conjecture without any “sorrys” — the standard statement that appears when the computer can’t verify a certain step. This is the highest-profile use of such verification tools since 2021, and marks an inflection point in the ways mathematicians write proofs in terms a computer can understand. If these tools become easy enough for mathematicians to use, they might be able to substitute for the often prolonged and onerous peer review process, said Gowers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-team-of-math-proves-a-critical-link-between-addition-and-sets-20231206/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spadufed</author><text>If anybody&#x27;s interested in learning more about Lean, he&#x27;s been posting his experiences with the project over at @[email protected]</text><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>The maths goes over my head, but this paragraph was very interesting:<p>&gt; Tao then kicked off an effort to formalize the proof in Lean, a programming language that helps mathematicians verify theorems. In just a few weeks, that effort succeeded. Early Tuesday morning of December 5, Tao announced that Lean had proved the conjecture without any “sorrys” — the standard statement that appears when the computer can’t verify a certain step. This is the highest-profile use of such verification tools since 2021, and marks an inflection point in the ways mathematicians write proofs in terms a computer can understand. If these tools become easy enough for mathematicians to use, they might be able to substitute for the often prolonged and onerous peer review process, said Gowers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-team-of-math-proves-a-critical-link-between-addition-and-sets-20231206/</url></story> |
36,787,699 | 36,787,710 | 1 | 2 | 36,785,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>I&#x27;d like to clarify a little here: There&#x27;s an ISO certifiation in here - but it&#x27;s not an ISO standard for the language.<p>Essentially, the ISO 26262 certification mostly verifies that the compiler <i>release process</i> conforms to a certain standard. It does not create an ISO standard for rust, not does it aim to. At part of the certification process we had to write a spec for the rust language, but it is a descriptive spec of how certain aspects of the rust language behave for one specific release of the compiler.<p>The certification builds on this to ensure that tests catch deviations between spec and implementation, known problems are documented etc. So rust as a language is unaffected, as is the rust project. The spec is open source and might be useful to others, you can find it at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spec.ferrocene.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spec.ferrocene.dev&#x2F;</a><p>The target sectors for ISO 26262 and related industrial certification are clearly sectors that require such certification: automotive, medical, etc.<p>Ferrocene itself however, is not only the ISO certified downstream of the rust compiler, it also offers for example long term support and tracking of known issues which the rust project does not provide. This is also important for certain applications that do not strictly require certifications.<p>Disclosure: I&#x27;m one of the founders of Ferrous Systems, but I&#x27;m only involved in the Ferrocene project on a moderately high level, so forgive minor technical inaccuracies :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>insanitybit</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ferrous-systems.com&#x2F;ferrocene&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ferrous-systems.com&#x2F;ferrocene&#x2F;</a><p>This link contains more information.<p>I guess some sectors care about having a compiler that conforms to some sort of ISO standards. This doesn&#x27;t really tell me what that means but I know that I&#x27;m not the target.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Decade of Rust, and Announcing Ferrocene</title><url>https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/a-decade-of-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>andrewl-hn</author><text>Usually, it means that there&#x27;s a whole lot of paperwork done to say &quot;This specific version of the compiler can run on that specific combination of hardware&quot; with extra things like &quot;if you try to do A, B, or C it will break this or that way, so don&#x27;t do it&quot;.<p>Note that it doesn&#x27;t have to be a separate version with patches - it may as well be a recent stable release of Rust. But the paperwork has to be created just fro this release. And these standards require a team to spend months and months documenting everything. That&#x27;s why having it all done by a vendor like Ferrous Systems is attractive: once the work is done adapting it to some other &quot;compiler version + hardware&quot; combination will take a lot less time.<p>There was an audio interview where Ferrous people talked about it <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rustacean-station.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;067-quentin-ochem-florian-gilcher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rustacean-station.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;067-quentin-ochem-flor...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>insanitybit</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ferrous-systems.com&#x2F;ferrocene&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ferrous-systems.com&#x2F;ferrocene&#x2F;</a><p>This link contains more information.<p>I guess some sectors care about having a compiler that conforms to some sort of ISO standards. This doesn&#x27;t really tell me what that means but I know that I&#x27;m not the target.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Decade of Rust, and Announcing Ferrocene</title><url>https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/a-decade-of-rust/</url></story> |
37,844,039 | 37,844,030 | 1 | 2 | 37,843,578 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reisse</author><text>&gt; not-interested in having a full Western-life experience (which necessitates having a car)<p>American life experience, you mean? It&#x27;s totally OK to live in Stockholm, as well as in many other cities in Europe, without a car. Besides, you make it sound like EVs are more expensive than ICE cars. They surely are, but the difference is not that much and subsidies cover a part of it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paganel</author><text>I see they went with the &quot;think of the children&quot;:<p>&gt; The study found that children who grow up on roads in the capital with particularly high emissions have worse-than-average lung capacity when compared to other children, from as early as six months old.<p>This will only accelerate the move to the suburbs of the families having children themselves and who can&#x27;t yet afford an EV, leaving the cities themselves (as I suspect similar moves will be applied elsewhere here in Europe) to young people without kids, to immigrant people with kids but not-interested in having a full Western-life experience (which necessitates having a car) and to the &quot;pied-a-terres&quot; of the few upper-middle class people who will afford to have EVs (who will also own property in the suburbs, for that matter).</text></item><item><author>teddyh</author><text>Another article in English: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.se&#x2F;20231010&#x2F;stockholm-to-ban-petrol-and-diesel-cars-in-city-centre" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.se&#x2F;20231010&#x2F;stockholm-to-ban-petrol-and...</a>&gt;<p>Maps here: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svt.se&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;lokalt&#x2F;stockholm&#x2F;bensin-och-dieseldrivna-bilar-forbjuds-i-centrala-stockholm--an4nkd" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svt.se&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;lokalt&#x2F;stockholm&#x2F;bensin-och-diese...</a>&gt; and here: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dn.se&#x2F;sverige&#x2F;bensin-och-dieselbilar-forbjuds-i-stockholms-innerstad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dn.se&#x2F;sverige&#x2F;bensin-och-dieselbilar-forbjuds-i-...</a>&gt;. Note that the area is comparatively <i>tiny</i>; 180 000m² according to some articles, closer to 200 000m² according to my measurements – but in any case smaller than 50 acres.<p>OpenStreetMap link to the same area as the map, so you can zoom out and see the scales involved: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#map=16&#x2F;59.33461&#x2F;18.06944" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#map=16&#x2F;59.33461&#x2F;18.06944</a>&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/11/stockholm-ban-petrol-and-diesel-cars-city-centre-2025-swedish-capital-pollution</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>f6v</author><text>How does Western life experience necessitate a car? Big cities don’t require a car at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paganel</author><text>I see they went with the &quot;think of the children&quot;:<p>&gt; The study found that children who grow up on roads in the capital with particularly high emissions have worse-than-average lung capacity when compared to other children, from as early as six months old.<p>This will only accelerate the move to the suburbs of the families having children themselves and who can&#x27;t yet afford an EV, leaving the cities themselves (as I suspect similar moves will be applied elsewhere here in Europe) to young people without kids, to immigrant people with kids but not-interested in having a full Western-life experience (which necessitates having a car) and to the &quot;pied-a-terres&quot; of the few upper-middle class people who will afford to have EVs (who will also own property in the suburbs, for that matter).</text></item><item><author>teddyh</author><text>Another article in English: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.se&#x2F;20231010&#x2F;stockholm-to-ban-petrol-and-diesel-cars-in-city-centre" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.se&#x2F;20231010&#x2F;stockholm-to-ban-petrol-and...</a>&gt;<p>Maps here: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svt.se&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;lokalt&#x2F;stockholm&#x2F;bensin-och-dieseldrivna-bilar-forbjuds-i-centrala-stockholm--an4nkd" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svt.se&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;lokalt&#x2F;stockholm&#x2F;bensin-och-diese...</a>&gt; and here: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dn.se&#x2F;sverige&#x2F;bensin-och-dieselbilar-forbjuds-i-stockholms-innerstad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dn.se&#x2F;sverige&#x2F;bensin-och-dieselbilar-forbjuds-i-...</a>&gt;. Note that the area is comparatively <i>tiny</i>; 180 000m² according to some articles, closer to 200 000m² according to my measurements – but in any case smaller than 50 acres.<p>OpenStreetMap link to the same area as the map, so you can zoom out and see the scales involved: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#map=16&#x2F;59.33461&#x2F;18.06944" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#map=16&#x2F;59.33461&#x2F;18.06944</a>&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/11/stockholm-ban-petrol-and-diesel-cars-city-centre-2025-swedish-capital-pollution</url></story> |
23,829,882 | 23,829,111 | 1 | 2 | 23,828,475 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>espadrine</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;d gladly pay 5k for a robot that can auto-organize my stuff around the house</i><p>The main equation for general-use household robots is: can it beat human fares?<p>A good weekly cleaner (4 hours) is about €22&#x2F;h in Paris, or €4.5k&#x2F;year.<p>Let’s say your robot lives 4 years, similar to your computer (which seems fair, since it is one, and an abused one at that). Since you amortize its price over 4 years, its initial cost must be below €18.3k ($21k) with human-quality-parity.<p>Personally, though, I would bet on dedicated, single-purpose robots, working together through wireless communication. Simpler to build, less costly, easier to replace. One small wheeled quadcopter for cleaning surfaces, one wheeled laundry box to carry it to the washing machine, one arm attached to the washing machine to put it in, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spyckie2</author><text>Things it can&#x27;t do:<p>- go up stairs<p>- get up after a fall &#x2F; reset itself<p>- pick up heavy objects<p>- precise motion (so no cooking)<p>- interact with buttons or touch screens (so laundry might be hard)<p>The one use case I think it might be worth it is if the robot can take a room full of toys and return everything back to where it belongs. Kind of like a one click, reset this room. If it can help me keep organized and clean around the house that would be a big win. Also, if it can help me detect which clothes are still wearable and which I should probably wash, that&#x27;d be nice.<p>I&#x27;d gladly pay 5k for a robot that can auto-organize my stuff around the house, even if it involves a lot of customization and setup. Imagine leaving your groceries next to the fridge and coming back to a perfectly organized fridge. Or letting your kids play in the play room and then the robot comes in and puts all the toys back. Or if you just tend to leave stuff out (throw your clothes on the floor or forget to return stuff), the robot can put it back.<p>I think that&#x27;s a legit use case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/hello-robots-stretch-mobile-manipulator</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mosselman</author><text>Or you could teach your kids to clean up their toys themselves. Make it a fun game for example.<p>Set an example by putting away your own groceries as soon as you put them in the kitchen. Boom 5k saved.<p>Maybe they will grow up to not be the type of person who leaves all of their crap on the table of the university table after they are done studying.<p>To be clear: I am not shifting on you as a parent. I am making fun of owning robots to do the specific things you mentioned. Obviously if you are immobile in some sense it would be great to have a cleaning robot</text><parent_chain><item><author>spyckie2</author><text>Things it can&#x27;t do:<p>- go up stairs<p>- get up after a fall &#x2F; reset itself<p>- pick up heavy objects<p>- precise motion (so no cooking)<p>- interact with buttons or touch screens (so laundry might be hard)<p>The one use case I think it might be worth it is if the robot can take a room full of toys and return everything back to where it belongs. Kind of like a one click, reset this room. If it can help me keep organized and clean around the house that would be a big win. Also, if it can help me detect which clothes are still wearable and which I should probably wash, that&#x27;d be nice.<p>I&#x27;d gladly pay 5k for a robot that can auto-organize my stuff around the house, even if it involves a lot of customization and setup. Imagine leaving your groceries next to the fridge and coming back to a perfectly organized fridge. Or letting your kids play in the play room and then the robot comes in and puts all the toys back. Or if you just tend to leave stuff out (throw your clothes on the floor or forget to return stuff), the robot can put it back.<p>I think that&#x27;s a legit use case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/hello-robots-stretch-mobile-manipulator</url></story> |
38,522,114 | 38,519,144 | 1 | 3 | 38,518,473 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ayberk</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s the tool honestly. I&#x27;ve recently switched teams and I&#x27;m in the process of getting java readability. The whole experience so far has been much worse than getting my C++ readability. I even get &quot;nit&quot; comments on the code I haven&#x27;t changed. I have had multiple comments where reviewer basically &quot;preferred&quot; one style over another. It&#x27;s been still mostly helpful, but I&#x27;ve had my share of frustration.<p>C++ readability was a much, much better experience. All the comments were about actually making the code better, eg, &quot;use THIS_MACRO() instead of THAT_MACRO(), because go&#x2F;...&quot;.<p>I guess I think it&#x27;s much more about the reviewer, and based on my anecdotal experience, the language :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dontreact</author><text>I generally like the tool.<p>When your code review tool is really nice one unexpected negative is that it can create a culture of nitpicking. Sometimes it’s not worth arguing over small details like variable naming but the tool makes it really easy for things to head in that direction.<p>Sometimes variable naming isn’t a small detail. But sometimes it is and it’s a waste of everyone’s time to argue about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)</title><url>https://engineercodex.substack.com/p/how-google-takes-the-pain-out-of</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheBlight</author><text>Excessive subjective feedback can be soul-crushing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dontreact</author><text>I generally like the tool.<p>When your code review tool is really nice one unexpected negative is that it can create a culture of nitpicking. Sometimes it’s not worth arguing over small details like variable naming but the tool makes it really easy for things to head in that direction.<p>Sometimes variable naming isn’t a small detail. But sometimes it is and it’s a waste of everyone’s time to argue about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)</title><url>https://engineercodex.substack.com/p/how-google-takes-the-pain-out-of</url></story> |
11,372,542 | 11,372,053 | 1 | 3 | 11,370,189 | 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>unabst</author><text>I call this the &quot;abstraction paradox&quot;.<p>There is no way that an abstraction can fully equate what it abstracts. &quot;Apple&quot; could never equal a real apple. But abstraction allows us to think about real apples. In science, all theories and models are abstractions. Hence, they are always approximations, and can be invalidated or nullified with edge cases that can indeed be backed by evidence.<p>But the opposite is also true. If a theory is based on evidence, then it will always be an approximation of the truth to some degree. Hence, there will always be hard evidence that validates the theory also -- ideally the evidence the theory is based on.<p>The ultimate test is application. If a theory or model has purpose, as in, has a use, then the value of that theory can be measured by its consequences. Otherwise, frankly, academics arguing over what has no consequence will have no consequence outside the circles of those who argue over it. I sense &quot;fuck nuance&quot; as a message to them.<p>We still use Newtonian mechanics where objects are big and slow enough. But we also use general relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, etc, where more accuracy is required. So we already know theories have limits and degrade with constraints, and we switch theories.<p>This is true of EVERY THEORY. And that is the abstraction paradox.<p>If you&#x27;re arguing over someone <i>just</i> to prove them wrong, congratulations, you&#x27;ve just proved you&#x27;re completely redundant. So fuck you. (in the spirit of the author)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fuck Nuance [pdf]</title><url>http://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>This article is a truly fantastic critique of how modern social sciences (besides economics) are carried out and publicized in modern society. Any critique one dislikes - typically &quot;your theory predicts X which is false&quot; - can be dismissed by &quot;nuance&quot;, &quot;things are more complicated&quot;, &quot;that&#x27;s different in unspecified way&quot;, etc.<p>In statistical terms, these dismissals are little more than a call for overfitting - if I can arbitrarily add more dimensions to a theory, I can make it fit any data set.<p>This is a fantastic article that can be applied in so many places.<p>In applied social sciences this critique is far easier to work around. &quot;Yeah, my theory is pretty one-dimensional and does lack nuance. My code is in $REPO - feel free to run an experiment and see if your multidimensional theory generates any alpha over mine.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fuck Nuance [pdf]</title><url>http://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf</url></story> |
7,280,793 | 7,279,142 | 1 | 2 | 7,278,198 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>meritt</author><text>I&#x27;d advise against modifying that numerical ID. Recent history shows this is a punishable offense (hacking!) under the lovely CFAA and supported by the incompetent judicial system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sparkman55</author><text>There is some practical relevance to software development here. One shouldn&#x27;t expose sequential IDs (a.k.a. serial numbers) to the public for anything non-public.<p>I see this Hacker News post has a numerical ID in the URL, for example; I can estimate the size of Hacker News given enough of these numbers... More directly, I can modify that numerical ID to crawl Hacker News.<p>Many sites do this; it&#x27;s generally better to generate a (random or hashed or generated from a natural key) &#x27;slug&#x27; to use as the key instead. For example, Amazon generates a unique, non-sequential, 10-digit alphanumeric string for each item in their catalog.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German tank problem</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frik</author><text>For example Facebook exposed the internal user-id, Mark Zuckerberg: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;profile.php?id=4</a><p>Other sites like Pastebin use a sequential ID too, but the convert number to another base (like from base 10 to base 43). It&#x27;s shorter too. (I haven&#x27;t found the link to the related stackoverflow discussion)</text><parent_chain><item><author>sparkman55</author><text>There is some practical relevance to software development here. One shouldn&#x27;t expose sequential IDs (a.k.a. serial numbers) to the public for anything non-public.<p>I see this Hacker News post has a numerical ID in the URL, for example; I can estimate the size of Hacker News given enough of these numbers... More directly, I can modify that numerical ID to crawl Hacker News.<p>Many sites do this; it&#x27;s generally better to generate a (random or hashed or generated from a natural key) &#x27;slug&#x27; to use as the key instead. For example, Amazon generates a unique, non-sequential, 10-digit alphanumeric string for each item in their catalog.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German tank problem</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem</url></story> |
18,862,667 | 18,862,720 | 1 | 2 | 18,862,069 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tolmasky</author><text>It’s not attention to detail, it’s vision. There’s no <i>purpose</i> to these devices. Sometimes it seems like there’s too much attention to arbitrary details. For example, the thinness and speed of the iPad, but to what end?<p>The original iPhone was rather underpowered even at the time for what it tried to do, but it was so crazy focused and the vision of what it would allow you to do so exciting, that you were willing to look past it. It didn’t matter that it didn’t have 3G or the best camera. Now we’re in literally the opposite scenario, devices ridiculously overpowered that we wish we could figure out something to do with. Best chip, best camera, best number to write on the back of the box. Boring.<p>As an aside, I am increasingly certain that the sad truth of the iPad <i>today</i> is that a majority of sales are probably the cheaper models used as Envoy terminals, POS devices, and conference room check-ins. If I count iPad’s I see day to day, it’s incredibly lopsided to these uses. What a waste.<p>With Steve, you could draw a straight line from the original Mac to the iPad. You could see one relentless mission to tame unusable hardware into a friendly machine <i>through</i> software. You could <i>imagine</i> Steve wanting something like an iPad even with the original Mac.<p>What’s the narrative of the hodge-podge of devices we have now? Vague speeches about “health” and “AR”, always troublingly highly reliant on the hope others will make use of these technologies. Apple used to lead by example, the first party software set the bar for what others should do. Nowadays there’s just the hope that Adobe bringing Photoshop to the iPad will breathe new life into it. Meanwhile, <i>Apple has not released a new flagship app for the iPad since its original release with iWork and Garageband</i>. It’s been 8 years! Apple can’t figure out a single new app that can take our breath away? If they’ve run out of ideas of how this thing can be used, it doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beforedawn</author><text>OT: Tim Cook&#x2F;Apple is on the wrong track. The entire line-up of a product company is fundamentally flawed and heading to nowhere:<p>Today was the first time, I saw the new iPad Pro in action in a shopping mall nearby. It was a lazy Tuesday evening and I was in shopping mood. The first thing I did was running Sun Spider in Safari. Not an up-to-date benchmark but still a good indicator for performance. This thing reached insane 119ms. Without having any noisy fans and a battery that runs for days. Then, there is a buttersmooth 120hz screen, also the first time I saw a hi-fps screen live and it&#x27;s so nice. All packed in some slick enclosure, thinner and lighter than any Surface Microsoft ever made.<p>I would have bought this device without thinking (this is what malls are for after all) and I really don&#x27;t care if it&#x27;s 1,000, 2,000 or even 3,000 bucks.<p>But tell me--what should I do with an iPad Pro? The OS is not just crippled but utterly useless for any real use case. You don&#x27;t have to be a pro.<p>I could work via SSH on a remote server, nah I can&#x27;t test properly without the major browser being installed or at least Safari&#x27;s dev tool. Maybe some mockups with Affinity Designer? It has the most responsive digitizer, so c&#x27;mon. Nope, the files are so big and exchange to my desktop goes always through a slow cloud, this feels like going back in time and juggling floppy disks. Maybe some Word? No, I prefer full-fledged Word. Contracts are too important to fiddle them together on a subpar Word, I don&#x27;t open Word for fun, I make or lose money with contracts. If I used this device the entire day I would also eventually get RSI from moving my hand up and down all the time (there is no Vimium for Safari).<p>This is what I mean, Tim Cook does not have this obsession with details like Jobs had. Let me not start with Macbooks, non-existing Mac Pros or odd, LG-branded screens. Steve thought all features to the end. Tim doesn&#x27;t and ships one half-baken product after another.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Exclusive-Apple-tells-suppliers-to-produce-10-fewer-new-iPhones</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaabe</author><text>I think you’re on to the core of the problem. Apple is a software company that build its own hardware because it had to.<p>But for the past decade, they haven’t really made any interesting software. iOS is great for iPhones, it’s not great for a laptop replacement. I think OS&#x2F;x would be a much better fit for the iPad Pro, but perhaps something completely new would be even better? I think the surface book shows us just why that is by the way. If I didn’t personally find windows so terrible, I would leave Apple for one of those in a heartbeat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beforedawn</author><text>OT: Tim Cook&#x2F;Apple is on the wrong track. The entire line-up of a product company is fundamentally flawed and heading to nowhere:<p>Today was the first time, I saw the new iPad Pro in action in a shopping mall nearby. It was a lazy Tuesday evening and I was in shopping mood. The first thing I did was running Sun Spider in Safari. Not an up-to-date benchmark but still a good indicator for performance. This thing reached insane 119ms. Without having any noisy fans and a battery that runs for days. Then, there is a buttersmooth 120hz screen, also the first time I saw a hi-fps screen live and it&#x27;s so nice. All packed in some slick enclosure, thinner and lighter than any Surface Microsoft ever made.<p>I would have bought this device without thinking (this is what malls are for after all) and I really don&#x27;t care if it&#x27;s 1,000, 2,000 or even 3,000 bucks.<p>But tell me--what should I do with an iPad Pro? The OS is not just crippled but utterly useless for any real use case. You don&#x27;t have to be a pro.<p>I could work via SSH on a remote server, nah I can&#x27;t test properly without the major browser being installed or at least Safari&#x27;s dev tool. Maybe some mockups with Affinity Designer? It has the most responsive digitizer, so c&#x27;mon. Nope, the files are so big and exchange to my desktop goes always through a slow cloud, this feels like going back in time and juggling floppy disks. Maybe some Word? No, I prefer full-fledged Word. Contracts are too important to fiddle them together on a subpar Word, I don&#x27;t open Word for fun, I make or lose money with contracts. If I used this device the entire day I would also eventually get RSI from moving my hand up and down all the time (there is no Vimium for Safari).<p>This is what I mean, Tim Cook does not have this obsession with details like Jobs had. Let me not start with Macbooks, non-existing Mac Pros or odd, LG-branded screens. Steve thought all features to the end. Tim doesn&#x27;t and ships one half-baken product after another.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Exclusive-Apple-tells-suppliers-to-produce-10-fewer-new-iPhones</url></story> |
32,695,860 | 32,695,588 | 1 | 2 | 32,694,753 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>The reason is $$$<p>Unfortunately, USB has more features than USB manufactures want to support. So, the end result is a bunch of those features are optional. That complicates everything. Is this a USB-C cable that can support PD 3.1? Who knows! Because, not all USB-C cables NEED to support PD 3.1, some of them just need to transmit data at USB 2.0 speeds. Those can be made super cheap.<p>This is especially bad when talking about things like devices. Sure, every device now-a-days has the USB-C connector, but does your phone really need to be capable of doing 80gbps on that port? Nope, so it&#x27;s optional. (and would be sold, rightly so, as a power saving measure).<p>Every USB feature has a fast, cheap, low power tradeoff going on and the standard allows for you to mix and match features to your heart&#x27;s content.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Is there a reason (other than design by committee) that USB is so complicated? You need to have the right kinds of connectors, cables, and device support. The speeds you get vary for any number of reasons. Why didn&#x27;t someone just say &quot;all the cables are fast and charge good and if you want slow or bad, use old USB&quot;? It seems we&#x27;ve found the worst possible situation, where consumers don&#x27;t understand what they need or can use or why, and instead of making it easier, we get the second version of the fourth version which has multiple versions that all do different things under different circumstances.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps</title><url>https://www.angstronomics.com/p/usb4-v2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sharikous</author><text>Certified Thunderbolt 4 called are available and the fastest and most compatible you can get.<p>Expensive but reliable.<p>I don&#x27;t understand all this hate for USB. Sure the labeling could be better but having a standard that is basically back compatible all the way to the nineties and now a single multipurpose port for charging&#x2F;storage&#x2F;displays&#x2F;devices is a nice feat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Is there a reason (other than design by committee) that USB is so complicated? You need to have the right kinds of connectors, cables, and device support. The speeds you get vary for any number of reasons. Why didn&#x27;t someone just say &quot;all the cables are fast and charge good and if you want slow or bad, use old USB&quot;? It seems we&#x27;ve found the worst possible situation, where consumers don&#x27;t understand what they need or can use or why, and instead of making it easier, we get the second version of the fourth version which has multiple versions that all do different things under different circumstances.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps</title><url>https://www.angstronomics.com/p/usb4-v2</url></story> |
3,125,077 | 3,125,110 | 1 | 3 | 3,125,004 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeafStorm</author><text>Of course, now the question is: what are they going to do with this $250M? The only new feature that has really come out of Dropbox recently is the API, and even that has been in development for some time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-raises-250m-in-funding-boasts-45-million-users/</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>revorad</author><text>Congrats guys! I'm really pleased with Dropbox's success. It gives me encouragement to stay focused on solving unsexy but fundamental problems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-raises-250m-in-funding-boasts-45-million-users/</url><text></text></story> |
1,686,624 | 1,686,643 | 1 | 2 | 1,686,361 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tumult</author><text>The Twitter people continuously surprise me with their incompetence.<p>And yet, we keep using the service. Hrm.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers</title><url>http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/09/dear-twitter/</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>carson</author><text>The easy answer to this is to just stop developing for their platform.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers</title><url>http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/09/dear-twitter/</url><text></text></story> |
4,179,079 | 4,178,421 | 1 | 2 | 4,178,161 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>csmeder</author><text>Simple solution for tech savvy users. All system prompts should include a photo of a user selected image. If the incorrect image is displayed you know its a scam.<p>For example when I install Windows 8 or Mountain lion one of the first prompts I must address is:<p><pre><code> "Please choose an image to help you identify
valid system prompts"
</code></pre>
The user is then presented 10 images (a tiger, a house, a moose, etc) from a library of 10,000 images.<p><pre><code> "The user decides to use an image of a tiger"
</code></pre>
Next time a user gets a system prompt if the system prompt doesn't have the picture of a tiger they know its a fake prompt.<p>See site key: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiteKey" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiteKey</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If malware authors ever learn how to spell we're all screwed</title><url>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IfMalwareAuthorsEverLearnHowToSpellWereAllScrewedTheComingHTML5MalwareApocalypse.aspx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>Probably an instance of this?<p><i>[T]he obvious giveaways are used as a pre-qualifier, to ensure with the least possible effort that the ONLY people who respond to the scammers' initial mass mailings (and therefore have to be brought along individually during the later stages) are the absolutely most gullible, ignorant, susceptible, suckers they can find.</i><p><a href="http://www.quora.com/Scams/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-broken-English/answer/David-S-Rose" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/Scams/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-br...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If malware authors ever learn how to spell we're all screwed</title><url>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IfMalwareAuthorsEverLearnHowToSpellWereAllScrewedTheComingHTML5MalwareApocalypse.aspx</url></story> |
13,568,505 | 13,568,625 | 1 | 2 | 13,568,397 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jayjay71</author><text>This article is wrong. The output <i>per employee</i> changed to 250%. So by reducing the staff to 10%, the total output is roughly 25% compared to what it was before.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;monetarywatch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;chinese-factory-replaces-90-human-workers-robots-sees-250-production-increase&#x2F;?doing_wp_cron=1486169062.9302580356597900390625" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;monetarywatch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;chinese-factory-replaces-90...</a><p>edit: added original source courtesy of dmoy
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.people.cn&#x2F;n&#x2F;2015&#x2F;0715&#x2F;c90000-8920747.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.people.cn&#x2F;n&#x2F;2015&#x2F;0715&#x2F;c90000-8920747.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First unmanned factory takes shape in Dongguan City (2015)</title><url>http://en.people.cn/n/2015/0715/c90000-8920747.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>dmoy</author><text>This should probably have a [2015] in the title and maybe point to at least the English language people&#x27;s daily source:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.people.cn&#x2F;n&#x2F;2015&#x2F;0715&#x2F;c90000-8920747.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.people.cn&#x2F;n&#x2F;2015&#x2F;0715&#x2F;c90000-8920747.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First unmanned factory takes shape in Dongguan City (2015)</title><url>http://en.people.cn/n/2015/0715/c90000-8920747.html</url></story> |
22,949,770 | 22,948,685 | 1 | 2 | 22,945,741 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KhoomeiK</author><text>Can&#x27;t say much about recent history, but the deep archaeological past of India (&gt;~5kya) is difficult to study in part because of the environmental conditions. The heat and humidity make preservation of artifacts over long periods of time nearly impossible, meaning that even though the Gangetic plain was one of the most populated regions on the planet for millennia in the past, there&#x27;s minimal trace of this civilization left. Ancient tools, shelters, and human remains just decompose in that type of climate rather than being preserved like in the deserts of the Middle East or the cold regions of Northern China and Europe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>c54</author><text>Why hasn’t Indian history been better researched as you say? Curious about this.</text></item><item><author>TriNetra</author><text>Indian history hasn&#x27;t been well researched because of various reasons. However, recent efforts are pushing back continuous settlement dates by multi-thousand of years. For instance: Varanasi is in above wiki link with 1200 BC as inhabited since. However [0] pushes it back to at least 4500 BC.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;kolkata&#x2F;Varanasi-is-as-old-as-Indus-valley-civilization-finds-IIT-KGP-study&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;51146196.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;kolkata&#x2F;Varanasi-is...</a><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; The results that have come from a detailed geo-exploration (exploration conducted through GPS technology) conducted by seven IIT-Kgp departments, tracing the different stages through which civilization progressed, and how Varanasi has been able to maintain continuity as a living civilization, unlike comparable seats of human settlement in the world. The researchers have dug 100-metre-deep boring holes all over Varanasi to conclude that there is evidence of continuous settlement at least till 2000BC. There are enough indications that by the time the data collection is over, there would be enough to prove that this date can be pushed back to about 4500BC.The oldest part of this civilisation has been traced to the Gomati Sangam area of Varanasi, as indicated by the underground layers that have already been tested.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of oldest continuously inhabited cities</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riazrizvi</author><text>It’s often because of political influence campaigns that history is actually destroyed, and in such periods there is no appetite for objective historical research. If you are a Muslim ruler trying to convert your subjects and the Sun Worshippers are leading a resistance then destroying their 700 year old temple that reinforces their identity is a no brainer.<p>This type of thing is widespread throughout the world [1] so there’s no reason to doubt it has a much longer history than records can follow.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_destroyed_heritage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_destroyed_heritage</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>c54</author><text>Why hasn’t Indian history been better researched as you say? Curious about this.</text></item><item><author>TriNetra</author><text>Indian history hasn&#x27;t been well researched because of various reasons. However, recent efforts are pushing back continuous settlement dates by multi-thousand of years. For instance: Varanasi is in above wiki link with 1200 BC as inhabited since. However [0] pushes it back to at least 4500 BC.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;kolkata&#x2F;Varanasi-is-as-old-as-Indus-valley-civilization-finds-IIT-KGP-study&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;51146196.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;kolkata&#x2F;Varanasi-is...</a><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; The results that have come from a detailed geo-exploration (exploration conducted through GPS technology) conducted by seven IIT-Kgp departments, tracing the different stages through which civilization progressed, and how Varanasi has been able to maintain continuity as a living civilization, unlike comparable seats of human settlement in the world. The researchers have dug 100-metre-deep boring holes all over Varanasi to conclude that there is evidence of continuous settlement at least till 2000BC. There are enough indications that by the time the data collection is over, there would be enough to prove that this date can be pushed back to about 4500BC.The oldest part of this civilisation has been traced to the Gomati Sangam area of Varanasi, as indicated by the underground layers that have already been tested.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of oldest continuously inhabited cities</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities</url></story> |
4,496,895 | 4,496,919 | 1 | 3 | 4,496,588 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevinconroy</author><text>Great write up and +1 kudos to author for diving into the details.<p>For the mere mortals out there looking to make their GIF, JPEG, and PNG images smaller (and websites faster), I highly recommend ImageOptim (<a href="http://imageoptim.com/" rel="nofollow">http://imageoptim.com/</a>). This Mac-only tool combines all of the libraries below to compress your images down to the (nearly if not the) smallest, cross-system compatible size.<p>If you're Mac based, try this:<p>* ImageOptim <a href="http://imageoptim.com/" rel="nofollow">http://imageoptim.com/</a><p>If you're Linux based, try these:<p>* PNGOut - <a href="http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm</a><p>* advpng - <a href="http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advpng.html" rel="nofollow">http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advpng.html</a><p>* pngcrush - <a href="http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/" rel="nofollow">http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/</a><p>* optipng - <a href="http://optipng.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://optipng.sourceforge.net/</a><p>* jpegoptim - <a href="http://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html</a><p>* gifsicle - <a href="http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Tiniest GIF Ever</title><url>http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ever</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elsamuko</author><text>If anyone is interested, I did the same with TIFF:
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3773355" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3773355</a><p>The peculiarity in this example is, that the image's content is the whole tiff itself.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Tiniest GIF Ever</title><url>http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ever</url></story> |
13,197,019 | 13,197,112 | 1 | 2 | 13,194,074 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beat</author><text>Another way to put it is that the 25 year old thinks all the shiny new technologies are <i>important</i>. The 50 year old knows better.<p>I&#x27;m 51. Many, maybe most of the tech that&#x27;s fundamental to my career didn&#x27;t even exist when my career started. Only Unix and SQL have been constants. http was a lab experiment. The Mosaic browser didn&#x27;t exist yet. Java? Ruby? NoSQL? Whatever.<p>If you need to learn a tech to solve a problem, you learn a tech. It&#x27;s not hard.<p>What I find <i>interesting</i> isn&#x27;t new technologies. It&#x27;s new <i>problems</i>, problems that didn&#x27;t exist before (often because they&#x27;re the result of new tech), or problems that could not be addressed before (due to limits of computational power or data access).</text><parent_chain><item><author>DougN7</author><text>&gt; It is absolutely ageist to assume that a 50 yr old is going to have more trouble staying current than a 30 yr old.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I agree with that. When I was 25, I was all over every new technology that came out. I was the expert in my group. I&#x27;m now pushing 50. The latest tech isn&#x27;t nearly as interesting. And honestly, I&#x27;m getting tired of chasing it. My energy level has dropped a bit. Physically I&#x27;m not in as good a shape (though still quite healthy). The effects of age are very real.</text></item><item><author>judahmeek</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not just technology stacks - even the methodologies in this industry seem to undergo radical changes every few years (for better or worse).<p>If this is the case, then when someone entered the workforce has absolutely no relevance. What is relevant is staying current. It is absolutely ageist to assume that a 50 yr old is going to have more trouble staying current than a 30 yr old.<p>&gt; How confident are we that the web and mobile development that most of HN does today will be big in 2035? I&#x27;m not very confident at all. But how do I recognize when to jump ship?<p>Thankfully, these days we have data scientists who examine trends in framework and methodology assimilation for fun and publicity. We have metrics like GitHub stars, Stackoverflow questions, and Google Trends to clue us in on the popularity and profitability of new ways of doing things.</text></item><item><author>skwirl</author><text>&gt;I look at the skillset between when I was 25 and now (30) and it&#x27;s astounding. I can&#x27;t imagine what the difference between 50 and 25 will be.<p>I completely agree (I&#x27;m 32), but what is worrying is the possibility of a fundamental shift that doesn&#x27;t occur within individual companies but rather manifests itself as a new industry of sorts, and then a slow decline of the industry we&#x27;re in right now - a paradigm shift, for a lack of a better term. That one is harder to detect until it&#x27;s blatantly obvious, at which point the early practitioners in the new industry are now the senior engineers and newly minted college graduates are overwhelmingly starting their career in the new industry. Developers in the old industry have to cling on to whatever jobs are left or start over.<p>My uncle is a good example of this - he&#x27;s in his 50s and has spent most of his career working in what are now ancient IBM technology stacks (ever hear of RPG?) He saw object oriented programming as snake oil and a passing fad. When there were finally no jobs left near him for working in this IBM stack, he begrudgingly learned Java&#x2F;C#&#x2F;JavaScript&#x2F;SQL and took a major pay&#x2F;prestige cut basically starting over.<p>It&#x27;s not just technology stacks - even the methodologies in this industry seem to undergo radical changes every few years (for better or worse). What experience ends up transferring to the new industry? Soft skills, perhaps, but lots of people outside either the old or new industry have good soft skills experience, so what do you bring to the table that they don&#x27;t?<p>This isn&#x27;t an &quot;age problem.&quot; It&#x27;s something deeper than that. If my uncle had jumped ship from his IBM world and into e-commerce in the 90s, which he was perfectly capable of doing, he would probably be a senior leader somewhere right now. But how could he have known? When the .com bubble burst, he probably felt vindicated in his decision to stay put.<p>How confident are we that the web and mobile development that most of HN does today will be big in 2035? I&#x27;m not very confident at all. But how do I recognize when to jump ship?<p>edit: grammar</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>I look at the skillset between when I was 25 and now (30) and it&#x27;s astounding. I can&#x27;t imagine what the difference between 50 and 25 will be.<p>If you&#x27;re hiring 40-60 year olds you cannot simply hire a 25 year old and get an &quot;acceptable tradeoff of competency&quot; unless you didn&#x27;t need anything close to that competency in the first place.<p>Also if you&#x27;re 50 and are relying on a new job&#x27;s retirement program you&#x27;re probably in for a rude awakening about when you can retire. That should be pretty close to set by that point. If it&#x27;s not, the difference between matching 4% or 3%, or 75% match v. 100% is not going to be shaving more than a few months off your working career.<p>&gt; <i>They have less primary &amp; secondary education relevant to today&#x27;s enterprise issues.</i><p>I&#x27;m pretty knowledgeable about paid search and social but I don&#x27;t think my Political Science degree has anything to do with that. To imply that someone&#x27;s age precludes them from understanding paid search, mobile advertising, or social is the very definition of ageism.</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>If you take a survey of hiring managers they will point to three primary reasons that candidates 40 - 60 have a harder time finding jobs:<p>1) They are typically more expensive than &quot;market&quot; for the same role a younger person can fulfill at acceptable tradeoff of competency - higher salaries, higher related costs like healthcare for a family, expectations around retirement programs, etc.<p>2) They are less flexible - they are less willing to relocate, they have kids to pick up instead of &quot;beer hour bonding&quot;, unwilling to run the same 60 hour gauntlet that a 25 year old can etc.<p>3) They have less primary &amp; secondary education relevant to today&#x27;s enterprise issues. In the specific case of &quot;marketers&quot; - like TryOldster is pitching - the best people will learn anything, but anybody over 50 years old spent their professional training + formative 20s thinking about television, radio, and print - not paid search, mobile advertising, and social.<p>That we&#x27;re at the top of HN again with another &quot;hire older people&quot; post (recently we saw OldGeekJobs) demonstrates there&#x27;s a huge unmet need within this cohort.<p>I don&#x27;t think a job-board is the right solution to this problem because the pitch on TryOldster does nothing to alleviate the three principal concerns.<p>My unasked, probably asinine business advice would be to turn this flow of traffic into a training &#x2F; education platform where you can VALIDATE and address the very real, foundational concerns of hiring managers around this cohort, and suddenly you&#x27;ve got a machine that can get motivated people trained and placed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Hire an Oldster</title><url>http://tryoldster.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>rhizome</author><text>I&#x27;m your age, and I think a good example of what you&#x27;re talking about is javascript frameworks. Younger programmers might dissect each one and suss out the details like any of us might have done with CONFIG.SYS, but as an older programmer they all seem essentially similar and as far as professional skills go I can probably either just choose one or wait until the dominant one shakes out. This of course is aided by my sense&#x2F;prediction&#x2F;bigotry that JS frameworks are following Hotelling&#x27;s Law.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DougN7</author><text>&gt; It is absolutely ageist to assume that a 50 yr old is going to have more trouble staying current than a 30 yr old.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I agree with that. When I was 25, I was all over every new technology that came out. I was the expert in my group. I&#x27;m now pushing 50. The latest tech isn&#x27;t nearly as interesting. And honestly, I&#x27;m getting tired of chasing it. My energy level has dropped a bit. Physically I&#x27;m not in as good a shape (though still quite healthy). The effects of age are very real.</text></item><item><author>judahmeek</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not just technology stacks - even the methodologies in this industry seem to undergo radical changes every few years (for better or worse).<p>If this is the case, then when someone entered the workforce has absolutely no relevance. What is relevant is staying current. It is absolutely ageist to assume that a 50 yr old is going to have more trouble staying current than a 30 yr old.<p>&gt; How confident are we that the web and mobile development that most of HN does today will be big in 2035? I&#x27;m not very confident at all. But how do I recognize when to jump ship?<p>Thankfully, these days we have data scientists who examine trends in framework and methodology assimilation for fun and publicity. We have metrics like GitHub stars, Stackoverflow questions, and Google Trends to clue us in on the popularity and profitability of new ways of doing things.</text></item><item><author>skwirl</author><text>&gt;I look at the skillset between when I was 25 and now (30) and it&#x27;s astounding. I can&#x27;t imagine what the difference between 50 and 25 will be.<p>I completely agree (I&#x27;m 32), but what is worrying is the possibility of a fundamental shift that doesn&#x27;t occur within individual companies but rather manifests itself as a new industry of sorts, and then a slow decline of the industry we&#x27;re in right now - a paradigm shift, for a lack of a better term. That one is harder to detect until it&#x27;s blatantly obvious, at which point the early practitioners in the new industry are now the senior engineers and newly minted college graduates are overwhelmingly starting their career in the new industry. Developers in the old industry have to cling on to whatever jobs are left or start over.<p>My uncle is a good example of this - he&#x27;s in his 50s and has spent most of his career working in what are now ancient IBM technology stacks (ever hear of RPG?) He saw object oriented programming as snake oil and a passing fad. When there were finally no jobs left near him for working in this IBM stack, he begrudgingly learned Java&#x2F;C#&#x2F;JavaScript&#x2F;SQL and took a major pay&#x2F;prestige cut basically starting over.<p>It&#x27;s not just technology stacks - even the methodologies in this industry seem to undergo radical changes every few years (for better or worse). What experience ends up transferring to the new industry? Soft skills, perhaps, but lots of people outside either the old or new industry have good soft skills experience, so what do you bring to the table that they don&#x27;t?<p>This isn&#x27;t an &quot;age problem.&quot; It&#x27;s something deeper than that. If my uncle had jumped ship from his IBM world and into e-commerce in the 90s, which he was perfectly capable of doing, he would probably be a senior leader somewhere right now. But how could he have known? When the .com bubble burst, he probably felt vindicated in his decision to stay put.<p>How confident are we that the web and mobile development that most of HN does today will be big in 2035? I&#x27;m not very confident at all. But how do I recognize when to jump ship?<p>edit: grammar</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>I look at the skillset between when I was 25 and now (30) and it&#x27;s astounding. I can&#x27;t imagine what the difference between 50 and 25 will be.<p>If you&#x27;re hiring 40-60 year olds you cannot simply hire a 25 year old and get an &quot;acceptable tradeoff of competency&quot; unless you didn&#x27;t need anything close to that competency in the first place.<p>Also if you&#x27;re 50 and are relying on a new job&#x27;s retirement program you&#x27;re probably in for a rude awakening about when you can retire. That should be pretty close to set by that point. If it&#x27;s not, the difference between matching 4% or 3%, or 75% match v. 100% is not going to be shaving more than a few months off your working career.<p>&gt; <i>They have less primary &amp; secondary education relevant to today&#x27;s enterprise issues.</i><p>I&#x27;m pretty knowledgeable about paid search and social but I don&#x27;t think my Political Science degree has anything to do with that. To imply that someone&#x27;s age precludes them from understanding paid search, mobile advertising, or social is the very definition of ageism.</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>If you take a survey of hiring managers they will point to three primary reasons that candidates 40 - 60 have a harder time finding jobs:<p>1) They are typically more expensive than &quot;market&quot; for the same role a younger person can fulfill at acceptable tradeoff of competency - higher salaries, higher related costs like healthcare for a family, expectations around retirement programs, etc.<p>2) They are less flexible - they are less willing to relocate, they have kids to pick up instead of &quot;beer hour bonding&quot;, unwilling to run the same 60 hour gauntlet that a 25 year old can etc.<p>3) They have less primary &amp; secondary education relevant to today&#x27;s enterprise issues. In the specific case of &quot;marketers&quot; - like TryOldster is pitching - the best people will learn anything, but anybody over 50 years old spent their professional training + formative 20s thinking about television, radio, and print - not paid search, mobile advertising, and social.<p>That we&#x27;re at the top of HN again with another &quot;hire older people&quot; post (recently we saw OldGeekJobs) demonstrates there&#x27;s a huge unmet need within this cohort.<p>I don&#x27;t think a job-board is the right solution to this problem because the pitch on TryOldster does nothing to alleviate the three principal concerns.<p>My unasked, probably asinine business advice would be to turn this flow of traffic into a training &#x2F; education platform where you can VALIDATE and address the very real, foundational concerns of hiring managers around this cohort, and suddenly you&#x27;ve got a machine that can get motivated people trained and placed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Hire an Oldster</title><url>http://tryoldster.com/</url></story> |
4,086,758 | 4,086,478 | 1 | 3 | 4,086,251 | 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>btbuilder</author><text>You can apply for a green card at any time while on an H1B as it is a dual intent visa (i.e. they don't think its a problem if you tell them you want to stay permanently unlike E2). A shell company is highly unlikely to get an H1B petition approved<p>How quickly/successful you are with your GC application depends on whether you can qualify for EB2 or have to go through EB3. EB3 is backed up for years. EB2 is current (therefore around 12 months wait) if you are not from india and china but you need to have a masters or 5 years of provable experience (letters from previous employers) in an area that the petitioning company cannot find an American will the same skills.<p>The E-2 can be a bit of a trap IMHO. If your business fails or you sell it, you have to leave the US. This might seem reasonable until you consider someone might run a small company for years, build a family, settle, and then have to leave because of economic downturn or because they sell their company. I don't know how easy it would be for someone to move from owning/running a company under E-2 to H1B employee of a new owner.<p>tl;dr? There is no clear path from E-2 to green card.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ahsanhilal</author><text>So I have gone through this problem personally and it is a HUGE pain. There are only two specified categories of business visas in which enterpreneurs could apply. One is E-2 Investment visa and the other is the EB-5. So as such there is no Entrepreneurship visa is the USA. For the visas above you need to show substantial investment in the US economy which could be anywhere between 50k to 100k for E-2, and over 500k for EB-5, depending on the business.<p>I got the E-2 visa based on my first company I started and by the time I applied we already had paying customers and orders. I expedited my application and the approval for E-2 came in exactly 15 days.<p>So its not undoable if you can muster up some money from outside the US. However, if you can only raise from inside the US you are hugely disadvantaged. The other hack to this would be to form a company and apply for an H-1 based on the company, which is hard to get. Once you are on H-1 you can apply for a green card after a certain time period (I think it is 5 years or so but not sure)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visas for entrepreneurs</title><url>http://www.economist.com/node/21556636</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dm8</author><text>Could you please elaborate on how did you expedite your application and got your visa in 15 days (if you dont mind). I know couple of my friends who'll be looking for visa sometime soon hence asking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ahsanhilal</author><text>So I have gone through this problem personally and it is a HUGE pain. There are only two specified categories of business visas in which enterpreneurs could apply. One is E-2 Investment visa and the other is the EB-5. So as such there is no Entrepreneurship visa is the USA. For the visas above you need to show substantial investment in the US economy which could be anywhere between 50k to 100k for E-2, and over 500k for EB-5, depending on the business.<p>I got the E-2 visa based on my first company I started and by the time I applied we already had paying customers and orders. I expedited my application and the approval for E-2 came in exactly 15 days.<p>So its not undoable if you can muster up some money from outside the US. However, if you can only raise from inside the US you are hugely disadvantaged. The other hack to this would be to form a company and apply for an H-1 based on the company, which is hard to get. Once you are on H-1 you can apply for a green card after a certain time period (I think it is 5 years or so but not sure)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visas for entrepreneurs</title><url>http://www.economist.com/node/21556636</url></story> |
11,529,941 | 11,530,070 | 1 | 2 | 11,529,472 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>squidlogic</author><text>Wow, I knew Cisco helped with the GFW, but didn&#x27;t know they made a module specifically designed to find and capture Falun Gong participants[0].<p>Thats ... pretty messed up.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;113_second_amended_complaint_does_v._cisco_9.18.13.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;113_second_amended_comp...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-dodge-responsibility-facilitating-human-rights-abuses-export</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abpavel</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget that China has a &quot;50-cent army&quot;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfa.org&#x2F;english&#x2F;news&#x2F;china&#x2F;propaganda-03122014184948.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfa.org&#x2F;english&#x2F;news&#x2F;china&#x2F;propaganda-03122014184...</a>
And the &quot;Citizen Score&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;free-future&#x2F;chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;free-future&#x2F;chinas-nightmarish-cit...</a><p>Which is aking of FB&#x2F;GOOG collecting metadata of your activities and having &quot;paid likes&quot;, but being used in a more specific and direct way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-dodge-responsibility-facilitating-human-rights-abuses-export</url></story> |
22,057,090 | 22,057,095 | 1 | 2 | 22,055,341 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>valand</author><text>I would have gladly shown it to you, but almost all my code is proprietary<p>Here&#x27;s a small example:<p>```<p>function fetchCurrentWeather(){
return fetch(...)
.catch(() =&gt; ({ error: new NetworkError(), value: null})
.then(res =&gt; res.json())
.then(maybeWeather =&gt; Weather.is(maybeWeather) ? { value: maybeWeather, error: null} : { error: new DecodeError(), value: null})
.catch(() =&gt; ({ error: new DecodeError(), value: null}))
}<p>&#x2F;&#x2F; And then you use it somewhere in you react app<p>async initialFetch(){
try {
if (this.state.isLoading) return;
this.setState({ isLoading: true, weather: null, error: null });
this.setState({
weather: await fetchCurrentWeather().then(reault =&gt; {
if (result.error) throw result.error;
return result.value;
})
});
} catch (error) {
this.setState({ error })
} finally {
this.setState({ isLoading: false });
}
}<p>render(){
return (
&lt;div&gt;
{this.state.isLoading &amp;&amp; ...}
{this.state.weather &amp;&amp; ...}
{this.state.error &amp;&amp; ...}
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
)
}<p>```</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkdbejwi383</author><text>I&#x27;m interested in the way you describe handling errors here. Do you have any real world examples you can point me to? Thanks</text></item><item><author>valand</author><text>Guaranteed almost 100% type soundness!!! Non TypeScript user will hate this.<p>Config it to maximum strictness!<p>Add in runtime type checks
Parse, don&#x27;t validate <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;parse-don-t-validate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;parse-don-t-va...</a><p>Bring type to business logic, e.g.<p>RegisteredUser { userId: number, email: string }<p>AnonymousUser { userId: number, email: null }<p>User = RegisteredUser | AnonymousUser<p>Handle errors ala Rust,<p>Return errors&#x2F;errortype rather than throws<p>Utilize structure to determine result, e.g.<p>Failure { error: Error, value: null }<p>Success&lt;T&gt; { error: null, value: T }<p>It is worth it. My experience with TypeScript is a whole lot different.<p>Conspiracy theory inducing facts:<p>- LogRocket&#x27;s main use is monitoring bugs in browser application<p>- Airbnb is LogRocket&#x27;s customer</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Problems with TypeScript</title><url>https://blog.logrocket.com/is-typescript-worth-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>aecorredor</author><text>Check out the chapter on handling errors in the book “Programming TypeScript”, it gives a solid pattern for achieving something very close to Rust’s Option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkdbejwi383</author><text>I&#x27;m interested in the way you describe handling errors here. Do you have any real world examples you can point me to? Thanks</text></item><item><author>valand</author><text>Guaranteed almost 100% type soundness!!! Non TypeScript user will hate this.<p>Config it to maximum strictness!<p>Add in runtime type checks
Parse, don&#x27;t validate <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;parse-don-t-validate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;parse-don-t-va...</a><p>Bring type to business logic, e.g.<p>RegisteredUser { userId: number, email: string }<p>AnonymousUser { userId: number, email: null }<p>User = RegisteredUser | AnonymousUser<p>Handle errors ala Rust,<p>Return errors&#x2F;errortype rather than throws<p>Utilize structure to determine result, e.g.<p>Failure { error: Error, value: null }<p>Success&lt;T&gt; { error: null, value: T }<p>It is worth it. My experience with TypeScript is a whole lot different.<p>Conspiracy theory inducing facts:<p>- LogRocket&#x27;s main use is monitoring bugs in browser application<p>- Airbnb is LogRocket&#x27;s customer</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Problems with TypeScript</title><url>https://blog.logrocket.com/is-typescript-worth-it/</url></story> |
4,990,292 | 4,990,286 | 1 | 2 | 4,989,579 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gav</author><text>To add some extra emphasis to wazoox's point, RAID-6 is always a better choice than RAID-5.<p>If you're willing take a capacity hit for improved write performance, RAID-1+0 is great. Though you can only survive two disks failing if they are in different pairs.<p>You should also not look at RAID as infallible, if the data is important it should be mirrored in multiple locations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wazoox</author><text>Using RAID-5 is the primary error here. RAID-5 (or single parity RAID of any kind) is <i>obsolete</i>, period. The story here doesn't ring true to me to be honest; I'm currently herding several hundred multi-terabytes servers, and multiple drive failures appear in one and only case: when using Seagate Barracuda ES2 1TB or WD desktop class drives. These are the two very problematic setups. In all other cases, use RAID-6 and all will be well.<p>I'd add that current "enhanced format" drives are tremendously better than most older drives. If your drive is a 1 or 2 TB old (512B sectors) drive, use it only for backup or whatever menial use for unimportant data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How multi-disk failures happen</title><url>http://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2012/12/how-multi-disk-failures-happen.shtml</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ologn</author><text>Yes. The decision to use RAID5 instead of RAIDs 1, 10 or 0+1 shows a decision to cut costs. With mirroring, the mirror drives would take over when a disk failed.<p>Also, only one hot spare is in the set. Another cost saving.<p>Yet another decision - RAID5 across 7 disks plus a hot spare. Instead of say across 6 disks or 5 disks. You have two more chances for a disk to go bust and will have to be rebuilt from parity.<p>What if the disks are OK but the server host adapter card gets fried? Or the cable between the server and array? Some disk arrays allow for redundant access to the array, and some OS's can handle that failover.<p>Before I read the article, I thought it might discuss heat. Excessive heat is usually the cause when disk arrays start melting down one after another. Usually the meltdown happens in an on-site server closet/room which was never properly set up for having servers running 24/7. Usually the straw which breaks the back is a combination of more equipment added, and hot summer days. Then portable ACs are purchased to temporarily mitigate things, but if their condensation water deposits are not regularly dumped, they stop helping. This situation occurs more than you would imagine, luckily I have not been the one who had to deal with this for every time I have seen it (although sometimes I have). Usually the servers are non-production ones which don't make the cut to go into the data center.<p>The heat problem happens in data centers as well, believe it or not. A cheap thermometer is worth buying if you sense too much heat around your servers. Usually the heat problem is less bad, but the general data center temperature is a few degrees higher than what it should be, and this leads to more equipment failure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wazoox</author><text>Using RAID-5 is the primary error here. RAID-5 (or single parity RAID of any kind) is <i>obsolete</i>, period. The story here doesn't ring true to me to be honest; I'm currently herding several hundred multi-terabytes servers, and multiple drive failures appear in one and only case: when using Seagate Barracuda ES2 1TB or WD desktop class drives. These are the two very problematic setups. In all other cases, use RAID-6 and all will be well.<p>I'd add that current "enhanced format" drives are tremendously better than most older drives. If your drive is a 1 or 2 TB old (512B sectors) drive, use it only for backup or whatever menial use for unimportant data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How multi-disk failures happen</title><url>http://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2012/12/how-multi-disk-failures-happen.shtml</url></story> |
18,630,486 | 18,628,089 | 1 | 2 | 18,628,072 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mbell</author><text>I&#x27;m not a physicist, just an interested bystander but some of these arguments don&#x27;t seem to hold water to me:<p>&gt; There’s a more general point to be made here. The primary reason that we use dark matter and dark energy to explain cosmological observations is that they are simple.<p>&gt; A creation term is basically a magic fix by which you can explain everything and anything.<p>Dark matter is an unknown &#x27;substance&#x27; that interacts only through gravity (weakly) and must have a very specific and complex distribution in the universe to &#x27;work&#x27;. That strikes me as neither &#x27;simple&#x27; nor much different than tossing a constant into an equation to make it work. Similarly Dark Energy is an unknown form of energy that in uniformly distributed through the universe, which to me is just a fancy way of saying &quot;we added a constant to make it work&quot;. In both cases I don&#x27;t see how either are implicitly better than adding a &#x27;creation term&#x27;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-negative-masses-have-not.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>benwr</author><text>This is a critical response to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18609375" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18609375</a> ; in the comments is a response by Jamie Farnes, the author of the paper, and a rebuttal by the blog&#x27;s author.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-negative-masses-have-not.html</url></story> |
28,442,394 | 28,441,942 | 1 | 2 | 28,438,595 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>azalemeth</author><text>I thought this too -- in fact the contents of this site are about the level of what good 16-year-olds learn in my country. I&#x27;d love to read an accessible &#x27;intermediate&#x27; introduction to abstract algebra.<p>Something I&#x27;ve inferred -- and would love to be corrected on -- is that in the US there&#x27;s a relatively well-defined course implied by the words &quot;calculus&quot; or &quot;algebra&quot;. I can guess what they are, but I&#x27;m not certain, and it seems to change!</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexdowad</author><text>When a book is titled &quot;Algebra&quot;, it&#x27;s always a bit ambiguous whether that means &quot;high school algebra&quot; or &quot;abstract algebra&quot;. I clicked on this link thinking it was about group&#x2F;field&#x2F;ring&#x2F;etc theory and wondering what an &#x27;intermediate&#x27; treatment of those topics would look like.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intermediate Algebra</title><url>https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_intermediate-algebra/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>gxs</author><text>I have Artin’s Algebra on my bookshelf, most people who see it always tell me they took it in high school. I’m always impressed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexdowad</author><text>When a book is titled &quot;Algebra&quot;, it&#x27;s always a bit ambiguous whether that means &quot;high school algebra&quot; or &quot;abstract algebra&quot;. I clicked on this link thinking it was about group&#x2F;field&#x2F;ring&#x2F;etc theory and wondering what an &#x27;intermediate&#x27; treatment of those topics would look like.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intermediate Algebra</title><url>https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_intermediate-algebra/index.html</url></story> |
37,088,511 | 37,088,202 | 1 | 3 | 37,063,184 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&gt; If a therapist isn&#x27;t willing to work with you in the first couple of sessions to create a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound plan for your therapy, you should be very wary.<p>I have a friend who&#x27;s been in therapy for over a decade, due to debilitating anxiety from childhood trauma.<p>Went many years to first before switching to second, same story. I asked &quot;well have you gotten any tasks or tools to help you deal with it?&quot; multiple times, always same answer: &quot;No&quot;.<p>Third time lucky it seems. Now seeing a therapist which comes with concrete suggestions and tasks. Things have improved. It&#x27;s not a trivial problem to solve, but at least there&#x27;s change now.<p>edit: You may ask, why stay with the therapists that didn&#x27;t help? Anxiety... didn&#x27;t want to upset the therapists by suggesting it wasn&#x27;t helping.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>Nearly all of the clinical benefits of psychotherapy are delivered in the first few sessions. Some studies suggest an <i>inverse</i> correlation between duration and effect size - people in long-term therapy may have worse outcomes than people who complete a short course of therapy.<p>Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for most common mental health problems, but if you&#x27;re going to therapy for more than 12-18 weeks, you&#x27;re doing something other than treating a mental illness. You&#x27;re likely getting something out of it otherwise you&#x27;d stop going, but that thing isn&#x27;t improving your mental health in any meaningful way and may be actively causing harm.<p>I&#x27;d strongly encourage people to try psychotherapy if they&#x27;re experiencing psychological distress, but I&#x27;d also strongly advise them to go in with a clear sense of what they&#x27;d like to achieve. If a therapist isn&#x27;t willing to work with you in the first couple of sessions to create a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound plan for your therapy, you should be very wary. Therapists who advocate an open-ended approach that eschews goal-setting and objective outcomes in favour of a nebulous sense of &quot;insight&quot; or &quot;growth&quot; aren&#x27;t delivering evidence-based care and aren&#x27;t acting in the interests of their clients.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;journals&#x2F;the-british-journal-of-psychiatry&#x2F;article&#x2F;duration-of-psychotherapy-has-little-association-with-outcome&#x2F;CD51BB442A15328952834A5B1FCE7DD0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;journals&#x2F;the-british-journal-...</a></text></item><item><author>foxfired</author><text>I hesitate to comment on these threads, because no one wants to take the risk of saying anything adverse. &quot;What if I say something bad about therapy? would this cause someone else not to see a therapist and end up dying?&quot;<p>But I will say this. As people are becoming more lonely in a crowd, as they can&#x27;t silence the noise in an empty home, as they can&#x27;t find someone to listen to them even when they surrender, therapy will be the only outlet. You often see the cases in japan where people rent friends.<p>It&#x27;s not that therapy is bad (it&#x27;s pure luck if you find the right therapist), it&#x27;s that there was a solution for the problems it is trying to solve. A community. And the friends that come with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious</title><url>https://ava.substack.com/p/therapy-as-a-way-of-aligning-with</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>Good therapists don’t schedule constant weekly checkins for folks who don’t need it. I’ve had times when my therapist said check in after 4 months to see if things are fine.<p>Therapy works for people who need a lot of help to barely get to normal. It also helps a lot for people who would typically be classified as just fine, but they still want to become better people. I’m in that category. I hope none of us believe we are already the best we can ever be, there’s always room for improvement. If that’s the case, why wouldn’t you want to continue working with a professional to try and figure out how that can happen?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>Nearly all of the clinical benefits of psychotherapy are delivered in the first few sessions. Some studies suggest an <i>inverse</i> correlation between duration and effect size - people in long-term therapy may have worse outcomes than people who complete a short course of therapy.<p>Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for most common mental health problems, but if you&#x27;re going to therapy for more than 12-18 weeks, you&#x27;re doing something other than treating a mental illness. You&#x27;re likely getting something out of it otherwise you&#x27;d stop going, but that thing isn&#x27;t improving your mental health in any meaningful way and may be actively causing harm.<p>I&#x27;d strongly encourage people to try psychotherapy if they&#x27;re experiencing psychological distress, but I&#x27;d also strongly advise them to go in with a clear sense of what they&#x27;d like to achieve. If a therapist isn&#x27;t willing to work with you in the first couple of sessions to create a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound plan for your therapy, you should be very wary. Therapists who advocate an open-ended approach that eschews goal-setting and objective outcomes in favour of a nebulous sense of &quot;insight&quot; or &quot;growth&quot; aren&#x27;t delivering evidence-based care and aren&#x27;t acting in the interests of their clients.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;journals&#x2F;the-british-journal-of-psychiatry&#x2F;article&#x2F;duration-of-psychotherapy-has-little-association-with-outcome&#x2F;CD51BB442A15328952834A5B1FCE7DD0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;journals&#x2F;the-british-journal-...</a></text></item><item><author>foxfired</author><text>I hesitate to comment on these threads, because no one wants to take the risk of saying anything adverse. &quot;What if I say something bad about therapy? would this cause someone else not to see a therapist and end up dying?&quot;<p>But I will say this. As people are becoming more lonely in a crowd, as they can&#x27;t silence the noise in an empty home, as they can&#x27;t find someone to listen to them even when they surrender, therapy will be the only outlet. You often see the cases in japan where people rent friends.<p>It&#x27;s not that therapy is bad (it&#x27;s pure luck if you find the right therapist), it&#x27;s that there was a solution for the problems it is trying to solve. A community. And the friends that come with it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious</title><url>https://ava.substack.com/p/therapy-as-a-way-of-aligning-with</url></story> |
20,685,807 | 20,685,911 | 1 | 2 | 20,683,495 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnode</author><text>Case law has further defined &quot;cruel and unusual punishment&quot;. The Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia established that punishment must not: &quot;by its severity be degrading to human dignity&quot;, &quot;a severe punishment that is obviously inflicted in wholly arbitrary fashion,&quot; &quot;a severe punishment that is clearly and totally rejected throughout society,&quot; or &quot;a severe punishment that is patently unnecessary.&quot;
severe punishment that is patently unnecessary.<p>I think it would be difficult to argue that any of Michael Cicconetti&#x27;s creative punishments are &quot;severe&quot;. Conversely, they appear to be relatively lenient compared to orthodox punishments. Additionally, the punishments are arguably the opposite of arbitrary, being designed to match the specifics of the crimes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>The first thing this brings to mind:<p>&gt; Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United...</a><p>The article on Judge Cicconetti doesn&#x27;t mention how many of his alternative punishments have been challenged on appeal (or if that&#x27;s even an option).<p>Let&#x27;s say a judge wants to do something similar, but in a more malevolent way supported by the local community. What checks the power of this judge other than an appeal through the court system?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Michael Cicconetti</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cicconetti</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paggle</author><text>Courts have ruled that punishment must be both cruel AND unusual to qualify. These sentences are unusual but not cruel. Prison may be cruel but is not unusual.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>The first thing this brings to mind:<p>&gt; Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United...</a><p>The article on Judge Cicconetti doesn&#x27;t mention how many of his alternative punishments have been challenged on appeal (or if that&#x27;s even an option).<p>Let&#x27;s say a judge wants to do something similar, but in a more malevolent way supported by the local community. What checks the power of this judge other than an appeal through the court system?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Michael Cicconetti</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cicconetti</url></story> |
19,807,531 | 19,807,644 | 1 | 2 | 19,806,818 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tosser0001</author><text>It would be interesting to calculate how much better wages are given country of origin. What I mean is, there are currently about 28 million immigrants living in the U.S. with about 1.2 million arriving every year (both documented and undocumented.)<p>According to statistics, 30% of new immigrants have no high school diploma, so while the average wage is low, it&#x27;s probably much higher than they would be getting in their native country (otherwise, presumably, many woudn&#x27;t have left in the first place.)<p>This may be putting pressure on wage growth for native-born Americans but overall growth as a whole may be stronger than it looks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>&gt;&gt; The median wage for workers with some college education but no four-year degree is $835 per week, about 10 percent less than it was at the turn of the century, after inflation<p>This is a crazy sentence if you think about it. For a significant part of society wages did not only stagnate, they dropped. I don&#x27;t think the trend will reverse any time soon. If the wages of another profecion rose 10 percent and were equal before, we would see a 22 percent difference (which is a lot!).<p>Since this is the trend for all workers with some college education but without a four year degree, i think it&#x27;s a dire situation for those people. There&#x27;s no easy way out (the article suggesst moving!).<p>The suggestion in the article may be smart on an individual level, but it could lead to a further segregation between sucessfull and not sucessfull regions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where the Good Jobs Are</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/good-jobs-no-college-degrees.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>rayiner</author><text>The statistic isn’t useful standing alone. The turn of the century was two decades ago, and college attendance rates have changed substantially. I can’t find a statistic for “some college,” but the percentage of people who have completed college increased from 20% to 30% from 2000 to 2015. The group of people who have “some college” in 2019 is much broader than the same group in 2000.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>&gt;&gt; The median wage for workers with some college education but no four-year degree is $835 per week, about 10 percent less than it was at the turn of the century, after inflation<p>This is a crazy sentence if you think about it. For a significant part of society wages did not only stagnate, they dropped. I don&#x27;t think the trend will reverse any time soon. If the wages of another profecion rose 10 percent and were equal before, we would see a 22 percent difference (which is a lot!).<p>Since this is the trend for all workers with some college education but without a four year degree, i think it&#x27;s a dire situation for those people. There&#x27;s no easy way out (the article suggesst moving!).<p>The suggestion in the article may be smart on an individual level, but it could lead to a further segregation between sucessfull and not sucessfull regions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where the Good Jobs Are</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/good-jobs-no-college-degrees.html</url></story> |
40,234,049 | 40,230,650 | 1 | 3 | 40,230,558 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sham1</author><text>The way the GNOME Project has evolved over the years is just sad. The development ethos seems to be further and further away from the spirit of Free software.<p>The project does comply with the &quot;letter of the law&quot; when it comes to Free software. That is, the project does give the users their four essential freedoms of running the programs as they wish, freedom to study the programs, redistribute, and modify. But at least IMO this is necessary but not sufficient for &quot;proper&quot; Free software.<p>At least to me there is still stuff that is required for something to be Free software, even if you technically fulfill the definition. The &quot;spirit of the law&quot; of Free software to complement the &quot;letter of the law&quot;. One of these is that you can act in the Free software ecosystem as a productive and good faith actor. In this case, the GNOME Project has decided to unilaterally break the FDO icon theme standard, and for what? Because they want to have the Adwaita icons as a &quot;Private UI icon set for GNOME core apps&quot;? This is not okay.<p>One must ask if this change truly helps empower the users in their use of the software and their computers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps</title><url>https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cullmann</author><text>:( given the KDE developers (and other devs) did spend a lot time to ensure the applications they create work not just in their personal favorite desktop environment, this is all rather unfortunate, as it is now like it is in a released distro...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps</title><url>https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/</url></story> |
6,432,957 | 6,433,044 | 1 | 2 | 6,432,654 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Fairfax Financial is run by Prem Watsa, a cautious, methodical, &quot;value&quot; investor who has compounded Fairfax&#x27;s book value by nearly 23%&#x2F;year over the past <i>27 years</i>.[1] (Fairfax&#x27;s stock price has gained 19%&#x2F;year over the same three-decade period.) His approach and track record are similar to those of Warren Buffett earlier in his career -- i.e., not someone one should normally bet against.<p>If Fairfax is offering to pay $4.7 billion to acquire RIM, Mr. Watsa somehow must have convinced himself that the value of RIM&#x27;s business exceeds $4.7 billion by a large margin.<p>However, to me Blackberry looks like a dying platform suffering from <i>anti-network effects</i> (that is, fewer and fewer people use it, so fewer and fewer people want or need to use it). I don&#x27;t understand how he gets comfortable with that number.<p>--<p>[1] See page 8 of Fairfax&#x27;s last annual letter to shareholders: <a href="http://www.fairfax.ca/files/Letter%20to%20Shareholders%20from%20Annual%20Report%202012%20FINAL_v001_o7033s.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fairfax.ca&#x2F;files&#x2F;Letter%20to%20Shareholders%20fro...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fairfax-strikes-47-billion-deal-to-buy-blackberry/article14470689/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Fairfax Financial Holdings (TSX: FFH) is an $8.3 billion property and casualty insurance company. They are an acquisitive bunch, having spent $4.7 billion on deals since 2011 (37% of their enterprise value as of 30 June 2013 or 57% of their market capitalisation as of today). <i>All</i> their acquisitions since 1997 have been in the banking, insurance or shipping&#x2F;transportation spaces, with the exceptions of EFI Global (environmental services).<p>Their CEO, Prem Watsa, is a value investor. Fairfax&#x27;s IRR is around 20% - this means Blackberry needs to yield about $840 million in cash a year to tread water. That seems unlikely. Instead, I think we will see a spin-off of the handset business and patent portfolio with a retention of the cash-flow generating service business.<p>What&#x27;s the service business worth? It made $3.2 billion annualised the last quarter (Q2 FY 2014), $3.9 billion in FY 2013, and $4.1 billion in FY 2012. Let&#x27;s assume it keeps declining at 8% a year. Let&#x27;s further assume it can return at least the entire company&#x27;s FY 2013 40% gross margin. Guess what 40% of $2.9 billion declining at 8% annually and discounted at 20% is worth over the next 10 years? $4.7 billion. Thus, <i>if</i> decline can be maintained at no more than 8% while margins are maintained at 40% and the cost of capital capped at 20%, the handset business, patent portfolio, and any terminal value after 2023 are freebies.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fairfax-strikes-47-billion-deal-to-buy-blackberry/article14470689/</url></story> |
11,385,822 | 11,385,881 | 1 | 2 | 11,385,287 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vmorgulis</author><text>&quot;It uses openCV and a library of reference screenshots (with areas of interest selected to allow openQA to ignore things we don’t care about) which we call ‘needles’ ...&quot;<p>OpenQA is a fascinating project. The tests are written in perl and I think the OpenCV magical stuff is around the &quot;check_screen()&quot; function.<p>For example, a test for Firefox:<p><pre><code> x11_start_program(&quot;firefox https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html5test.com&#x2F;index.html&quot;, 6, {valid =&gt; 1});
# makes firefox as default browser
if (check_screen(&#x27;firefox_default_browser&#x27;)) {
assert_and_click &#x27;firefox_default_browser_yes&#x27;;
}
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;os-autoinst&#x2F;os-autoinst-distri-opensuse&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;tests&#x2F;x11&#x2F;firefox.pm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;os-autoinst&#x2F;os-autoinst-distri-opensuse&#x2F;b...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why You Should Use Tumbleweed</title><url>http://rootco.de/2016-03-28-why-use-tumbleweed/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wjoe</author><text>This does all sound quite compelling. Somehow OpenSUSE has fallen under my radar, I&#x27;ve been an Arch user for a few years, and Gentoo user before that, and I&#x27;d only ever be interested in rolling distros, but I wasn&#x27;t aware that OpenSUSE had Tumbleweed for this.<p>I did find dependency conflicts all too common on Gentoo, and keeping the system up to date was a frequent struggle. I&#x27;ve not had any major issues with Arch recently, and any that occur are usually fixed by doing a full system upgrade, but they do occur from time to time. I&#x27;d be interested to see how SUSE differs.<p>One thing I&#x27;ve noticed when doing a quick bit of reading on your Wiki - it sounds like you can&#x27;t update Nvidia drivers from the package manager in Tumbleweed, and it has to be done manually. It also sounds like this process has to be done any time you update the kernel or X. This sounds like quite a pain - manually installing the nvidia drivers isn&#x27;t exactly complex, but it&#x27;s a number of manual steps that I&#x27;d rather not have to go through outside of the package manager every time I do a system update. Am I missing something here, or is this the case?<p>It also sounds like it supports installing with sysvinit rather than systemd, which is a rarity these days, and might appeal to some people.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why You Should Use Tumbleweed</title><url>http://rootco.de/2016-03-28-why-use-tumbleweed/</url></story> |
32,698,270 | 32,698,054 | 1 | 3 | 32,697,619 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dreampen</author><text>Creator of pornpen.ai here, looks like this discussion is ramping up again! Wanted to respond to some of the points made here and in the article.<p>The grotesque images: Simply put, the model is not good enough yet. This will improve over time as the models get better.<p>Diversity&#x2F;male gaze&#x2F;heteronormative: Generating men and other genders did not yield very high quality results unfortunately, so I didn&#x27;t include it in the initial launch. I am also manually fine tuning the prompts, so it was easier to pick one category (women) and go with it. I hope to expand this in the future.<p>Sex workers: I do agree with the quote in the article that this will not replace sex workers (at least for now) in the same way that I don&#x27;t think dalle&#x2F;midjourney&#x2F;stable diffusion will replace illustrators. In the future, I believe this technology could create a new category of sex worker that can generate content without using their own body (similar to VTubers).<p>It&#x27;s harder to say what will happen in the future though. If these models keep improving at this pace, I think these types of discussions will be more important. Let me know if you have any questions!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI is getting better at generating porn</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/02/ai-is-getting-better-at-generating-porn-we-might-not-be-prepared-for-the-consequences/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vlovich123</author><text>&gt; But it’s still depressing how both the options and defaults replicate a very heteronormative and male gaze<p>I don’t understand this particular aspect of fretting. Do the people making such comments think this won’t be applied eventually to all sexual preferences? Given that heteronormative male gaze drives the vast majority of porn consumption, doesn’t seem surprising that that’s where this kind of thing starts at first.<p>The bigger concern to me by far is revenge porn and use by children and that has nothing to do with gender.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI is getting better at generating porn</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/02/ai-is-getting-better-at-generating-porn-we-might-not-be-prepared-for-the-consequences/</url></story> |
18,407,953 | 18,408,191 | 1 | 2 | 18,407,188 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Wait, does the Air actually have more ports than the MacBook? What&#x27;s going on? I thought the MacBook replaced the air, an the MacBook pro is a merger of the MacBook and MacBook pro?<p>Have the MacBook and MacBook air &quot;switched&quot;?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Air 2018 Teardown</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Retina+2018+Teardown/115201</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>js2</author><text>&gt; <i>Soldered, non-serviceable, non-upgradeable storage and RAM is a serious bummer on a $1,200+ laptop.</i><p>I don&#x27;t mind the RAM. There&#x27;s only two options upfront: 8GB and 16GB and I know what I need. The non-serviceable storage however, even with the Thunderbolt 3 ports for external storage (because who wants external storage on a laptop), is a bummer.<p>I just recently upgraded an 11&quot; Air from 128 GB SSD to 1 TB SSD. It seems that storage demands only go up over time; that&#x27;s much less so the case with RAM or CPU these days.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Air 2018 Teardown</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Retina+2018+Teardown/115201</url></story> |
36,407,228 | 36,407,129 | 1 | 2 | 36,401,863 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hosh</author><text>First, feed lots are a blight. Feed lots are not the only way to raise livestock.<p>Second, there is very much a way to manage water while ranching — the main thing is to have the herds help you maintain healthy soil (which retains and regulates surface water), rather than destroying it like in feed lots. You make sure you can move them to a different section of the land.<p>Third, livestock and crops can co-exist onsite, and there are mutually beneficial processes between the two. Most farmers and ranchers do one or the other. Combined with notill and letting limited grazing on fallow land, what would be toxic runoffs from manure turns into adding fertilizer back into fallow lands.<p>Fourth, price of meat should reflect the added cost. People keep using feedlots because they want meat factories and cheap meat.<p>Solutions already exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Interesting lack of discussion around animal agriculture in these comments. Closest convo we get is about alfalfa for horse food.<p>Hmm, wouldn’t want to address the elephant in the room though.</text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard almonds need a lot of water, but I think the biggest culprit is exported alfalfa.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2022&#x2F;sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;colorado-drought-water-alfalfa-farmers-conservation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2022&#x2F;sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;colorado...</a></text></item><item><author>Kalium</author><text>&gt; Of course without agriculture we&#x27;d all starve to death, so banning farming is no solution.<p>You&#x27;re absolutely right.<p>Yet, much like the &quot;No Farms No Food&quot; bumper-sticker slogan, there&#x27;s some rhetorical sleight of hand going on here. Those stickers are correct in a general sense, but the slogan is rarely deployed in a general sense. It&#x27;s generally used to defend uneconomical farming in environmentally questionable places.<p>Similarly, you&#x27;re completely correct in every single way that we need agriculture and banning it is not a solution. However, there&#x27;s perhaps a substantial difference between banning all agriculture everywhere and matching the agriculture in a location to the resources available to support it. If there&#x27;s inadequate water or sun to grow crops that need lots of both, perhaps that location is not the best for those crops.<p>Agriculture is essential for human survival. It&#x27;s possible that growing almonds in areas with sharply limited and poorly managed water is less than essential for human survival.</text></item><item><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>Absolutely true. Without agriculture, there would be plenty of water for residential uses. Of course without agriculture we&#x27;d all starve to death, so banning farming is no solution.<p>But one thing we can and should do immediately is stop (effectively) exporting huge amounts of water from Arizona to Saudi Arabia for free. That&#x27;s very low-hanging fruit.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;saudi-company-fondomonte-arizona-ground-water-crop-alfalfa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;saudi-company-fondomonte-arizon...</a></text></item><item><author>lucidguppy</author><text>This stuff is good - but it&#x27;s penny wise.<p>Agriculture is outright wasteful of water. California agriculture consumes 80% of the state&#x27;s water.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;water.ca.gov&#x2F;Programs&#x2F;Water-Use-And-Efficiency&#x2F;Agricultural-Water-Use-Efficiency" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;water.ca.gov&#x2F;Programs&#x2F;Water-Use-And-Efficiency&#x2F;Agric...</a><p>Its an environmental equivalent of Amdahl&#x27;s law - spending so much effort to make a small portion of the water use efficient when we can work far less to make agriculture more efficient. Of course its all because of lobbying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/features/on-site-distributed-premise-graywater-blackwater-recycling</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jarebear6expepj</author><text>Luckily horses do not _need_ alfalfa. Farmers love growing alfalfa because if you give it sun and water in the right setting you can get damn near 14 cuts off a field of it in one year. This by comparison puts a grass hay field or even a nice neutral horse feed, Timothy grass, to shame. Alfalfa is a nutrient dense power bar that is given to horses kept in boxes. I would argue a happy horse would have a range of grassland to graze on, vs compressed cubes or squares of dense, sugary alfalfa that is replacing a normal ration.<p>tldr: alfalfa is an unnatural food for unnaturally kept horses<p>source: have horses on range land.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Interesting lack of discussion around animal agriculture in these comments. Closest convo we get is about alfalfa for horse food.<p>Hmm, wouldn’t want to address the elephant in the room though.</text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard almonds need a lot of water, but I think the biggest culprit is exported alfalfa.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2022&#x2F;sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;colorado-drought-water-alfalfa-farmers-conservation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2022&#x2F;sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;colorado...</a></text></item><item><author>Kalium</author><text>&gt; Of course without agriculture we&#x27;d all starve to death, so banning farming is no solution.<p>You&#x27;re absolutely right.<p>Yet, much like the &quot;No Farms No Food&quot; bumper-sticker slogan, there&#x27;s some rhetorical sleight of hand going on here. Those stickers are correct in a general sense, but the slogan is rarely deployed in a general sense. It&#x27;s generally used to defend uneconomical farming in environmentally questionable places.<p>Similarly, you&#x27;re completely correct in every single way that we need agriculture and banning it is not a solution. However, there&#x27;s perhaps a substantial difference between banning all agriculture everywhere and matching the agriculture in a location to the resources available to support it. If there&#x27;s inadequate water or sun to grow crops that need lots of both, perhaps that location is not the best for those crops.<p>Agriculture is essential for human survival. It&#x27;s possible that growing almonds in areas with sharply limited and poorly managed water is less than essential for human survival.</text></item><item><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>Absolutely true. Without agriculture, there would be plenty of water for residential uses. Of course without agriculture we&#x27;d all starve to death, so banning farming is no solution.<p>But one thing we can and should do immediately is stop (effectively) exporting huge amounts of water from Arizona to Saudi Arabia for free. That&#x27;s very low-hanging fruit.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;saudi-company-fondomonte-arizona-ground-water-crop-alfalfa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;saudi-company-fondomonte-arizon...</a></text></item><item><author>lucidguppy</author><text>This stuff is good - but it&#x27;s penny wise.<p>Agriculture is outright wasteful of water. California agriculture consumes 80% of the state&#x27;s water.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;water.ca.gov&#x2F;Programs&#x2F;Water-Use-And-Efficiency&#x2F;Agricultural-Water-Use-Efficiency" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;water.ca.gov&#x2F;Programs&#x2F;Water-Use-And-Efficiency&#x2F;Agric...</a><p>Its an environmental equivalent of Amdahl&#x27;s law - spending so much effort to make a small portion of the water use efficient when we can work far less to make agriculture more efficient. Of course its all because of lobbying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/features/on-site-distributed-premise-graywater-blackwater-recycling</url></story> |
26,882,768 | 26,882,682 | 1 | 2 | 26,882,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigyikes</author><text>I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point.<p>You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong.<p>If they’re changing course there might be hope yet.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”</title><url>https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/16080</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quesera</author><text>I approve.<p>No one asked me, but if they had, I&#x27;d have opined that the pre-cuting of your nomenclature is usually the result of too much time spent thinking about branding and not enough time building features.<p>Note that &quot;tweet&quot; was spawned organically by the community, and Twitter did not adopt the word formally for a couple years after it was in popular use.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mastodon Renaming “Toots” to “Posts”</title><url>https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/16080</url></story> |
26,933,482 | 26,933,021 | 1 | 3 | 26,932,144 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Seriously. It&#x27;s well past time that Congress passes a law explicitly to that effect -- if you lose access to purchased content, whether because your account was terminated or the content was removed, you get 100% refunded. End of story. Any TOS to the contrary are invalid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Diggsey</author><text>IMO it wouldn&#x27;t matter if they&#x27;d used the word &quot;Rent&quot; or &quot;Licence&quot; instead: it would still be unreasonable. Account termination is entirely at Apple&#x27;s discretion, meaning the term of your &quot;rental&quot; is not known when you actually pay for the content.<p>For most people the term will be &quot;forever&quot;, so that is the expectation.<p>It&#x27;s simple: if apple want to terminate your account, they need to refund you for any content you lose access to as a result of that termination.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-its-definition-of-the-word-buy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>Apple can just rent you their entire catalogue similar to Apple Arcade or Music, then nobody would say you own the entire selection, just like it’d be absurd to say you own Netflix forever.<p>In the Netflix case it’s be even more difficult to argue since Netflix doesn’t own the IP and the catalogue is ever shifting. I’m afraid the future is rental at least because the consumer is no longer technically prepared to own and manage their own digital catalogue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Diggsey</author><text>IMO it wouldn&#x27;t matter if they&#x27;d used the word &quot;Rent&quot; or &quot;Licence&quot; instead: it would still be unreasonable. Account termination is entirely at Apple&#x27;s discretion, meaning the term of your &quot;rental&quot; is not known when you actually pay for the content.<p>For most people the term will be &quot;forever&quot;, so that is the expectation.<p>It&#x27;s simple: if apple want to terminate your account, they need to refund you for any content you lose access to as a result of that termination.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-its-definition-of-the-word-buy/</url></story> |
24,037,281 | 24,037,276 | 1 | 3 | 24,036,132 | 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>2mol</author><text>So this is cool, and can serve as a good cheatsheet for beginners.<p>However, the question where I struggled the most: how the hell do I set up a secure Postgres instance on some cloud VM or server? (I _really_ love those 2.50 bucks per month instances)<p>I spent a fair amount of time reading up on it, but it&#x27;s still really easy to make a mistake in your `pg_hba.conf` or somehwere else. I remember disabling password based login, and just authenticating over SSH, and my server still got compromised after a day or two. 100% my fault - I think it was related to `COPY FROM&#x2F;TO` being able to run arbitrary commands because I didn&#x27;t understand that `postgres` is regarded as a superuser by the database.<p>I&#x27;ve been using managed services like Heroku Postgres and RDS ever since.<p>Point is: it would be of huge value to have a clear (but complete) overview of how to configure a Postgres instance so that it&#x27;s secure in the basic sense. If that isn&#x27;t possible (or very hard) then please let&#x27;s collectively tell beginners to just use managed instances.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL beginner guide</title><url>https://knowledgepill.it/posts/postgresql-basics-guide/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>autotune</author><text>Can anyone recommend an “advanced” PG guide? I’m looking to learn all the ins and outs of Postgres.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL beginner guide</title><url>https://knowledgepill.it/posts/postgresql-basics-guide/</url></story> |
30,517,635 | 30,515,737 | 1 | 2 | 30,515,097 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>&gt; there are many parts of IRL poker that... truly suck. Play is slower than what you would like, and, if you play &quot;correctly&quot;, the ratio of hands you are playing to time you are waiting for shuffling,dealing,etc. is quite obnoxious.<p>The point of poker with friends isn&#x27;t to grind out hands with an optimal strategy as quickly as possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>The feedback so far is pretty negative, but I think folks that poo poo these virtual office environments fail to channel the PG heuristic of &quot;what is this the [ancient tech version of something that is now ubiquitous] of?&quot; when thinking about these spaces.<p>As a substitute for the collaboration tools we now have, these are unquestionably terrible. But for those of you that can, I&#x27;d highly recommend checking out PokerStars VR before then diving into your opinion of virtual work environments.<p>If you&#x27;ve ever played poker with friends, you&#x27;ll quickly realize that there are many parts of IRL poker that... truly suck. Play is slower than what you would like, and, if you play &quot;correctly&quot;, the ratio of hands you are playing to time you are waiting for shuffling,dealing,etc. is quite obnoxious. There are pain points, even though overall it is super fun to play poker with friends.<p>Pokerstars, to my mind, did a masterful job in faithfully recreating poker in the virtual world, but then augmenting it by taking advantage of the VR tech. There&#x27;s still a table, there&#x27;s still a deck, the rules are the same, etc. But, because of the medium, the game goes... MUCH faster. Therefore, you get to play more hands, which is more fun. Also, yes, you might still wait around for hands, but now you get all sorts of virtual sidegames or dumb tchotchkis you can play with on your table, which is fun. Your environment can be any one of really incredible settings that help set the mood for a poker night, which is probably nicer than your mom&#x27;s basement. Etc, etc, etc.<p>My point is, poker is a pretty mundane game from an IRL perspective, yet I fundamentally believe that had I the option to invite 5 friends over to play poker in my house versus getting the same 5 friends to meet me in the VR room, that we&#x27;d have far more fun in the VR room. This before the fact that the friction of getting together physically is now erased, so chances are we might even get to play more often. This works, however, because it isn&#x27;t a perfect analogy to the real world poker; rather, because its virtual, there are enough different things that help make it better to an extent that it beats its real world counterpart (at least for me).<p>All of this stuff is pretty nascent and I agree that there&#x27;s lots of crap there, but there will be something unquestionably brilliant about inhabiting virtual spaces with folks where you can bend some laws of physics to make mundane things (like meetings) work a little bit better than they do IRL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla Hubs</title><url>https://hubs.mozilla.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>Miraste</author><text>This is a good point. I don&#x27;t agree that PokerStars VR is better than real life and won&#x27;t be until the tech can replicate details like facial expressions, but the concept of eliminating unnecessary pain points is sound. It reminds me of the gradual removal of the old skeumorphic designs in iOS. However, Mozilla Hubs isn&#x27;t doing any of that. I can&#x27;t find a single advantage it has over any other collaboration software, frankly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>The feedback so far is pretty negative, but I think folks that poo poo these virtual office environments fail to channel the PG heuristic of &quot;what is this the [ancient tech version of something that is now ubiquitous] of?&quot; when thinking about these spaces.<p>As a substitute for the collaboration tools we now have, these are unquestionably terrible. But for those of you that can, I&#x27;d highly recommend checking out PokerStars VR before then diving into your opinion of virtual work environments.<p>If you&#x27;ve ever played poker with friends, you&#x27;ll quickly realize that there are many parts of IRL poker that... truly suck. Play is slower than what you would like, and, if you play &quot;correctly&quot;, the ratio of hands you are playing to time you are waiting for shuffling,dealing,etc. is quite obnoxious. There are pain points, even though overall it is super fun to play poker with friends.<p>Pokerstars, to my mind, did a masterful job in faithfully recreating poker in the virtual world, but then augmenting it by taking advantage of the VR tech. There&#x27;s still a table, there&#x27;s still a deck, the rules are the same, etc. But, because of the medium, the game goes... MUCH faster. Therefore, you get to play more hands, which is more fun. Also, yes, you might still wait around for hands, but now you get all sorts of virtual sidegames or dumb tchotchkis you can play with on your table, which is fun. Your environment can be any one of really incredible settings that help set the mood for a poker night, which is probably nicer than your mom&#x27;s basement. Etc, etc, etc.<p>My point is, poker is a pretty mundane game from an IRL perspective, yet I fundamentally believe that had I the option to invite 5 friends over to play poker in my house versus getting the same 5 friends to meet me in the VR room, that we&#x27;d have far more fun in the VR room. This before the fact that the friction of getting together physically is now erased, so chances are we might even get to play more often. This works, however, because it isn&#x27;t a perfect analogy to the real world poker; rather, because its virtual, there are enough different things that help make it better to an extent that it beats its real world counterpart (at least for me).<p>All of this stuff is pretty nascent and I agree that there&#x27;s lots of crap there, but there will be something unquestionably brilliant about inhabiting virtual spaces with folks where you can bend some laws of physics to make mundane things (like meetings) work a little bit better than they do IRL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla Hubs</title><url>https://hubs.mozilla.com/</url></story> |
4,709,870 | 4,709,772 | 1 | 2 | 4,709,055 | train | <instructions>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>Seriously -- I am <i>dying</i> to get some kind of good, nuanced study on this.<p>On the one side, defending long-form copy ads are David Ogilvy (probably popularly considered to be the greatest advertising genius ever, and who rigorously statistically tested all his methods), and today, companies like Apple.<p>On the other side, are lots of Web 2.0 A/B testing results that basically say, shorter is better.<p>Now, I'm sure there are times when each are right. But I've never heard anyone explain <i>when</i> long-form is better vs <i>when</i> short-form is better, and when each performs worse.<p>Is it high-end products (long copy) vs low-end products (short copy)? Is it "experience" products vs "utility" products? Is it left-brain vs right-brain consumers? Is it impulse buys vs researched buys? I could invent a million ideas, but I want proof, not hypotheses.<p>I am positively desperate for some kind of researched and statistically backed-up explanation that figures out the factors on both sides!</text><parent_chain><item><author>ef4</author><text>The first item, long single page designs, has <i>always</i> been a favorite of skilled marketers. It goes back even to pre-web snailmail marketing.<p>In comparison tests, longer copy almost always wins. You keep offering more and more reasons to buy, and you keep converting more and more readers.<p>This relates to one of the basic observations about selling: people don't like to change their minds. They won't spontaneously go from "no" to "yes". But if you offer a new piece of information, they can change their mind without admitting they were "wrong" before. Every new piece of information, or new story, is another opportunity for them to get to "yes".<p>Obviously, the copy also needs to be <i>good</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web Design Trends</title><url>http://weavora.com/blog/2012/10/21/web-design-trends-we-love</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>&#62; <i>In comparison tests, longer copy almost always wins.</i><p>Really? I'd love to see A/B results somewhere of this, as it doesn't agree with my experience. Maybe it depends on industry. Or, maybe sufficiently good copy beats out shorter designs, but most people just can't generate that kind of copy. (Though it sounds like we're getting to a New True Scotsman a bit.)<p>When my start-up did an A/B test of our homepage, we found less content won out. Also 37 signals did their series on optimization, and had strong results[1] that shorter beat out long form, too.<p>[1] <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-testing-part-3-final" rel="nofollow">http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ef4</author><text>The first item, long single page designs, has <i>always</i> been a favorite of skilled marketers. It goes back even to pre-web snailmail marketing.<p>In comparison tests, longer copy almost always wins. You keep offering more and more reasons to buy, and you keep converting more and more readers.<p>This relates to one of the basic observations about selling: people don't like to change their minds. They won't spontaneously go from "no" to "yes". But if you offer a new piece of information, they can change their mind without admitting they were "wrong" before. Every new piece of information, or new story, is another opportunity for them to get to "yes".<p>Obviously, the copy also needs to be <i>good</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web Design Trends</title><url>http://weavora.com/blog/2012/10/21/web-design-trends-we-love</url></story> |
7,826,999 | 7,826,485 | 1 | 2 | 7,826,338 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wazoox</author><text>Then you have the problem of selling it. Some people I know made a piece of software that literally destroys half (or more) the jobs among broadcast TV operators. They regularly got shown the door harshly because they presented the solution to the wrong person: either someone who&#x27;d lose his job in the process, or someone who&#x27;d lose half the team under her orders and therefore her power in the company.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to get business ideas – remove steps</title><url>http://ninjasandrobots.com/how-to-get-business-ideas-remove-steps/</url></story> | <instructions>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>Having worked in an incubator space and constantly overhearing aspiring entrepreneurs&#x27; wildly impractical proposals...I&#x27;ve always wondered why it isn&#x27;t just <i>common sense</i> that you heed the advice mentioned in another article currently on HN&#x27;s front page:<p><a href="http://fridriksson.tumblr.com/post/86584610871/a-startup-postmortem-with-a-happy-ending-in-thailand" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fridriksson.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;86584610871&#x2F;a-startup-pos...</a><p>&gt; <i>But our biggest self realization was that we were not users of our own product. We didn’t obsess over it and we didn’t love it. We loved the idea of it. That hurt.</i><p>In a way, the OP is just another re-phrasing of this...if you know the steps of a process pretty well, it&#x27;s because you&#x27;re an active user. You know what steps are worth removing, and as an active user, you can maintain a tight feedback loop informing you whether the cost of removing those steps are worth it. And, as a cherry on top, you&#x27;re actively making something you <i>already</i> do more enjoyable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to get business ideas – remove steps</title><url>http://ninjasandrobots.com/how-to-get-business-ideas-remove-steps/</url></story> |
4,302,175 | 4,301,707 | 1 | 3 | 4,301,492 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>learc83</author><text>Personally, I don't support same sex marriage, bug legally I see no real reason to ban it. However, I'd prefer the government who represents me, not endorse a practice I don't support.<p>My solution for years has been for the government to get out of the marriage business entirely. Marriage should be a purely religious ceremony, and we can establish something like a civil union contract law to handle issues like joint ownership of property, child custody, and inheritance.<p>That way anyone, gay, straight, or polygamist can get the legal benefits of marriage, and they can find a religious institution willing to conduct the religious ceremony.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bezos pledges $2.6M to support same sex marriage</title><url>https://mashable.com/2012/07/27/bezos-same-sex-marriage/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zirro</author><text>As someone who isn't entirely familiar with this concept of pledging money for or against laws (I'm not from the US), I wonder: Where does this money go? Essentially, it sounds like you are buying the opinion of the people. Is it through advertising, or "bribes" to important individuals with power?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bezos pledges $2.6M to support same sex marriage</title><url>https://mashable.com/2012/07/27/bezos-same-sex-marriage/</url></story> |
12,554,033 | 12,554,115 | 1 | 2 | 12,553,591 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jasper_</author><text>Tracks I&#x27;ve done and suggested to friends and colleagues as learning experiences:<p>* Compression (lossless, lossy, image, audio, texture, video)<p>* Languages (bytecode interpreter, AST interpreter, parser&#x2F;lexer for a simple language, simple JIT, understanding instruction scheduling)<p>* DSP programming (writing programs for fast, branchless math)<p>* Comfort with binary and binary formats (start with packfiles .zip&#x2F;.tar, move onto reverse engineering simple formats for e.g. games)<p>* Understanding the difference between RAM and address spaces (e.g. understanding virtual memory, mmap, memory-mapped IO, dynamic linking, the VDSO, page faulting, shared memory)<p>* Device drivers (easier on Linux, understanding userspace&#x2F;kernel interaction, ioctls, how hardware and registers work, how to read spec sheets and hardware manuals)<p>* Graphics (modern software rasterizer that&#x27;s not scanline-based, understanding 3D and projective transforms, GPU programming and shaders, basic lighting (reflection and illumination) models, what &quot;GPU memory&quot; is, what scanout is, how full scenes are accumulated all along the stack)<p>I could go heavily into depth for any one of these. Ask me questions if you&#x27;re interested! They&#x27;re all fun and I always have more to learn.<p>Also, the longer you get into any given track, the more you realize they all connect in the end.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>Also: a software rasterizer.<p>Most people refuse to write one because it&#x27;s so easy not to. Why bother?<p>It will make you a better coder for the rest of your life.<p>Let&#x27;s make a list of &quot;power projects&quot; like this. A bytecode interpreter, a software rasterizer... What else?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter</title><url>http://gpfault.net/posts/most-important-project.txt.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>shermanyo</author><text>A basic game engine! I was exposed to so many concepts over time, building on a code base I understood from the ground up.
It was the first time my code (c++ no less!) felt completely deterministic, that I understood every piece of data down to the byte level, heap&#x2F;stack&#x2F;gpu locality at any point of execution, and especially the lifecycle and memory management.<p>If anyone is interested in creating an indie&#x2F;hobby game engine, I&#x27;d recommend the following:<p>- game loop with independent render FPS and a constant simulation tick delta (otherwise it runs non-deterministic due to floating point)
- &quot;entities, components, systems&quot; architecture (ECS)
- data-driven content (load level and game object data from JSON or similar, and programmatically build your scene)
- basic event or messaging system<p>Honestly, I can&#x27;t think of a field that covers as wide a range of CS topics at the depth I&#x27;ve seen in lower level game development.<p>If you focus on understanding and implementing the popular patterns and algorithms recommended by the indie community, its not the most daunting of projects. There&#x27;s so much great information, and a few good books that break down and walk through a working implementation you can build on once you understand it from the ground up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>Also: a software rasterizer.<p>Most people refuse to write one because it&#x27;s so easy not to. Why bother?<p>It will make you a better coder for the rest of your life.<p>Let&#x27;s make a list of &quot;power projects&quot; like this. A bytecode interpreter, a software rasterizer... What else?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter</title><url>http://gpfault.net/posts/most-important-project.txt.html</url></story> |
31,550,992 | 31,550,993 | 1 | 2 | 31,549,237 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spicybright</author><text>It&#x27;s like saying &quot;Regulations against dumping garbage into oceans can make it very competitors to gain traction for incumbents.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>DANK_YACHT</author><text>&gt; Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents<p>This is an oft repeated argument that makes no sense. The point of privacy legislation is not to increase competition. The point is to increase privacy. The government has other legislative tools to increase competition should it wish to do so.</text></item><item><author>indymike</author><text>Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents, so there is active lobbying to get regulatory barriers to competition in play. At the same time, far too much money is being made to allow laws and regulations to kill revenues... so it gets complicated. The easy way is to just say you are all for privacy, and then oppose it at every turn.<p>Another issue is this: breaking some of these privacy laws both in force and proposed, is really quite easy to do - as easy as a misconfigured logger or a developer including the wrong field in a query.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/27/big_tech_privacy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hhw</author><text>I think the point he was trying to make is that big tech can use privacy regulations to keep out new competitors, rather than encourage them, as compliance with privacy regulations can create a higher barrier to entry</text><parent_chain><item><author>DANK_YACHT</author><text>&gt; Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents<p>This is an oft repeated argument that makes no sense. The point of privacy legislation is not to increase competition. The point is to increase privacy. The government has other legislative tools to increase competition should it wish to do so.</text></item><item><author>indymike</author><text>Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents, so there is active lobbying to get regulatory barriers to competition in play. At the same time, far too much money is being made to allow laws and regulations to kill revenues... so it gets complicated. The easy way is to just say you are all for privacy, and then oppose it at every turn.<p>Another issue is this: breaking some of these privacy laws both in force and proposed, is really quite easy to do - as easy as a misconfigured logger or a developer including the wrong field in a query.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/27/big_tech_privacy/</url></story> |
40,973,513 | 40,971,879 | 1 | 3 | 40,970,560 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Willish42</author><text>The fact that &quot;worth their weight in cold&quot; typically means in the single-digit millions is <i>fascinating</i> to me (though I doubt I&#x27;ll be able to get there myself, maybe someday). I looked it up though and I think this is undercounting the current value of gold per ounce&#x2F;lb&#x2F;etc.<p>5320814 &#x2F; 180 &#x2F; 16 = ~1847.5<p>Per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apmex.com&#x2F;gold-price" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apmex.com&#x2F;gold-price</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goldprice.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goldprice.org&#x2F;</a>, current value is north of $2400 &#x2F; oz. It was around $1800 in 2020. That growth for _gold_ of all things (up 71% in the last 5 years) is crazy to me.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that anyone with a ski house that expensive probably has a net worth well over twice the price of that ski house. I guess it&#x27;s time to start learning CUDA!</text><parent_chain><item><author>gaogao</author><text>Engineers who are really, really good at CUDA are worth their weight in gold, so there&#x27;s more projects for them than they have time. Worth their weight in gold isn&#x27;t figurative here – the one I know has a ski house more expensive than 180 lbs of gold (~$5,320,814).</text></item><item><author>bootsmann</author><text>Don’t most orgs that are deep enough to run custom cuda kernels have dedicated engineers for this stuff. I can’t imagine a person who can write raw cuda not being able to handle things more difficult than pip install.</text></item><item><author>currymj</author><text>if you&#x27;re talking about building anything, that is already too hard for ML researchers.<p>you have to be able to pip install something and just have it work, reasonably fast, without crashing, and also it has to not interfere with 100 other weird poorly maintained ML library dependencies.</text></item><item><author>eslaught</author><text>Are you aware of HIP? It&#x27;s officially supported and, for code that avoids obscure features of CUDA like inline PTX, it&#x27;s pretty much a find-and-replace to get a working build:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ROCm&#x2F;HIP">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ROCm&#x2F;HIP</a><p>Don&#x27;t believe me? Include this at the top of your CUDA code, build with hipcc, and see what happens:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;StanfordLegion&#x2F;legion&#x2F;-&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;runtime&#x2F;hip_cuda_compat&#x2F;hip_cuda.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;StanfordLegion&#x2F;legion&#x2F;-&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;runti...</a><p>It&#x27;s incomplete because I&#x27;m lazy but you can see most things are just a single #ifdef away in the implementation.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>A lot of people think AMD should support these translation layers but I think it&#x27;s a bad idea. CUDA is not designed to be vendor agnostic and Nvidia can make things arbitrarily difficult both technically and legally. For example I think it would be against the license agreement of cuDNN or cuBLAS to run them on this. So those and other Nvidia libraries would become part of the API boundary that AMD would need to reimplement and support.<p>Chasing bug-for-bug compatibility is a fool&#x27;s errand. The important users of CUDA are open source. AMD can implement support directly in the upstream projects like pytorch or llama.cpp. And once support is there it can be maintained by the community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs</title><url>https://docs.scale-lang.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>eigenvalue</author><text>That’s pretty funny. Good test of value across the millennia. I wonder if the best aqueduct engineers during the peak of Ancient Rome’s power had villas worth their body weight in gold.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gaogao</author><text>Engineers who are really, really good at CUDA are worth their weight in gold, so there&#x27;s more projects for them than they have time. Worth their weight in gold isn&#x27;t figurative here – the one I know has a ski house more expensive than 180 lbs of gold (~$5,320,814).</text></item><item><author>bootsmann</author><text>Don’t most orgs that are deep enough to run custom cuda kernels have dedicated engineers for this stuff. I can’t imagine a person who can write raw cuda not being able to handle things more difficult than pip install.</text></item><item><author>currymj</author><text>if you&#x27;re talking about building anything, that is already too hard for ML researchers.<p>you have to be able to pip install something and just have it work, reasonably fast, without crashing, and also it has to not interfere with 100 other weird poorly maintained ML library dependencies.</text></item><item><author>eslaught</author><text>Are you aware of HIP? It&#x27;s officially supported and, for code that avoids obscure features of CUDA like inline PTX, it&#x27;s pretty much a find-and-replace to get a working build:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ROCm&#x2F;HIP">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ROCm&#x2F;HIP</a><p>Don&#x27;t believe me? Include this at the top of your CUDA code, build with hipcc, and see what happens:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;StanfordLegion&#x2F;legion&#x2F;-&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;runtime&#x2F;hip_cuda_compat&#x2F;hip_cuda.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;StanfordLegion&#x2F;legion&#x2F;-&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;runti...</a><p>It&#x27;s incomplete because I&#x27;m lazy but you can see most things are just a single #ifdef away in the implementation.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>A lot of people think AMD should support these translation layers but I think it&#x27;s a bad idea. CUDA is not designed to be vendor agnostic and Nvidia can make things arbitrarily difficult both technically and legally. For example I think it would be against the license agreement of cuDNN or cuBLAS to run them on this. So those and other Nvidia libraries would become part of the API boundary that AMD would need to reimplement and support.<p>Chasing bug-for-bug compatibility is a fool&#x27;s errand. The important users of CUDA are open source. AMD can implement support directly in the upstream projects like pytorch or llama.cpp. And once support is there it can be maintained by the community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs</title><url>https://docs.scale-lang.com/</url></story> |
8,489,827 | 8,489,124 | 1 | 2 | 8,488,714 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pc2g4d</author><text>Fruit juice may be good for your telomeres, but there are plenty of other reasons to be suspicious of it---&quot;bro-science&quot; it is not. For example, Google &quot;fruit juice and obesity&quot; or see <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea/2012/03/09/shout-it-from-the-rooftops-juice-is-not-natural/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.plos.org&#x2F;obesitypanacea&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;09&#x2F;shout-it-fro...</a><p>And besides, who says a &quot;bro&quot; can&#x27;t science? ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>The key results from the paper:<p><pre><code> After adjustment for sociodemographic and health-related
characteristics, sugar-sweetened soda consumption was
associated with shorter telomeres (b = –0.010; 95%
confidence interval [CI] = −0.020, −0.001; P = .04).
Consumption of 100% fruit juice was marginally associated
with longer telomeres (b = 0.016; 95% CI = −0.000, 0.033;
P = .05). No significant associations were observed between
consumption of diet sodas or noncarbonated SSBs and
telomere length.
</code></pre>
Shortened telomeres are one way to measure genetic &#x27;age&#x27;. So they saw &#x27;aging&#x27; with sugar-sweetened soda, the opposite with fruit juice, and no significant difference with diet sodas or non-carbonated sugary sodas.<p>The study was pretty substantial with ~5,300 participants with no history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes. It&#x27;s nice to have another datapoint against some of the bro-sciencey &quot;Fruit juice has as much sugar as soda&quot; arguments.<p><i>Late Edit:</i><p>Here&#x27;s a pretty good summary of telomere aging:<p><a href="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/chromosomes/telomeres/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.genetics.utah.edu&#x2F;content&#x2F;chromosomes&#x2F;telomeres...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking</title><url>http://time.com/3513875/soda-may-age-you-as-much-as-smoking/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danielki</author><text>Did they describe how they controlled for behavioral habits? It seems like, as a group, the type of people who would drink large amounts of sugary soda would be less likely to make healthy behavioral choices in other aspects of their life, compared to people who drink fruit juice or diet soda. This could also explain the disparity between soda and non-carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages<p>This study doesn&#x27;t seem to show that soda ages you (as the article states), but instead that sugary soda consumption indicates a tendency towards other activities&#x2F;habits that may prematurely age you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>The key results from the paper:<p><pre><code> After adjustment for sociodemographic and health-related
characteristics, sugar-sweetened soda consumption was
associated with shorter telomeres (b = –0.010; 95%
confidence interval [CI] = −0.020, −0.001; P = .04).
Consumption of 100% fruit juice was marginally associated
with longer telomeres (b = 0.016; 95% CI = −0.000, 0.033;
P = .05). No significant associations were observed between
consumption of diet sodas or noncarbonated SSBs and
telomere length.
</code></pre>
Shortened telomeres are one way to measure genetic &#x27;age&#x27;. So they saw &#x27;aging&#x27; with sugar-sweetened soda, the opposite with fruit juice, and no significant difference with diet sodas or non-carbonated sugary sodas.<p>The study was pretty substantial with ~5,300 participants with no history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes. It&#x27;s nice to have another datapoint against some of the bro-sciencey &quot;Fruit juice has as much sugar as soda&quot; arguments.<p><i>Late Edit:</i><p>Here&#x27;s a pretty good summary of telomere aging:<p><a href="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/chromosomes/telomeres/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.genetics.utah.edu&#x2F;content&#x2F;chromosomes&#x2F;telomeres...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking</title><url>http://time.com/3513875/soda-may-age-you-as-much-as-smoking/</url></story> |
17,821,387 | 17,821,113 | 1 | 2 | 17,820,626 | 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>086421357909764</author><text>It&#x27;s actually suprising that people think they&#x27;re not &quot;normal&quot; computers. I provisioned a few of them and they&#x27;re little beasts. Most in use are I7, 16-32gb ram, Dual NVME. The Skulltrail nucs are extremely powerfull and on the lower end the atom based units are solid too. I also ran a nuc in my car for a while, mostly stumbling radio &#x2F; wifi spectrum as I drove around, but it was perfect with its relatively low power requirements.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>NUCs are surprisingly well-built little machines. I have one in my car, and I give them my absolute seal of approval. I&#x27;ve heard of people running little VMware clusters on them too.</text></item><item><author>timdorr</author><text>If you want to see the actual hardware used at the restaurant, check out the previous blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@cfatechblog&#x2F;bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at-chick-fil-a-scale-7b0607bd3541" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@cfatechblog&#x2F;bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...</a><p>Spoiler: It&#x27;s a stack of Intel NUCs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A</title><url>https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-computing-at-chick-fil-a-7d67242675e2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gbear605</author><text>What is it running in your car?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>NUCs are surprisingly well-built little machines. I have one in my car, and I give them my absolute seal of approval. I&#x27;ve heard of people running little VMware clusters on them too.</text></item><item><author>timdorr</author><text>If you want to see the actual hardware used at the restaurant, check out the previous blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@cfatechblog&#x2F;bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at-chick-fil-a-scale-7b0607bd3541" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@cfatechblog&#x2F;bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...</a><p>Spoiler: It&#x27;s a stack of Intel NUCs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A</title><url>https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-computing-at-chick-fil-a-7d67242675e2</url></story> |
35,360,008 | 35,358,826 | 1 | 2 | 35,340,083 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I think it&#x27;s more that you always have a bunch of other things competing for your attention on the internet so there&#x27;s no incentive to read things you once wanted to read.<p>Even an article you just opened in a tab competes with scavenging for more info on HN&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;Twitter. I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s evidence that the articles are just worthless.<p>Once, when the internet was out for a few days, I realized that iOS saves your reading list items for offline reading and I was glad to have it. All sorts of interesting articles that I curated. I now work through the reading queue on flights.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rcme</author><text>Yes. Most information is truly worthless.</text></item><item><author>faeyanpiraat</author><text>I actually solved this without an app. I realized I had around 10k &quot;read later&quot; items in my bookmarks folder in Chrome, and I simply deleted all of them.</text></item><item><author>bueno</author><text>I’m the developer of an iOS and iPadOS app that I think is relevant here. My app Ephemera is a simple read-later application that places expiration dates on every link you add. If you don’t read the article in time, it disappears forever.<p>The app isn’t for everyone, but if you are buried under the torrent of information you “think” you should read, I have found that Ephemera helps me focus and actually read more.<p>You can find the app here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deadpan.io&#x2F;ephemera&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deadpan.io&#x2F;ephemera&#x2F;</a><p>I’d love for Hacker News to check it out!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket</title><url>https://www.oliverburkeman.com/river</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fruit2020</author><text>Not worthless, but too much. Life is short, you need focus</text><parent_chain><item><author>rcme</author><text>Yes. Most information is truly worthless.</text></item><item><author>faeyanpiraat</author><text>I actually solved this without an app. I realized I had around 10k &quot;read later&quot; items in my bookmarks folder in Chrome, and I simply deleted all of them.</text></item><item><author>bueno</author><text>I’m the developer of an iOS and iPadOS app that I think is relevant here. My app Ephemera is a simple read-later application that places expiration dates on every link you add. If you don’t read the article in time, it disappears forever.<p>The app isn’t for everyone, but if you are buried under the torrent of information you “think” you should read, I have found that Ephemera helps me focus and actually read more.<p>You can find the app here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deadpan.io&#x2F;ephemera&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deadpan.io&#x2F;ephemera&#x2F;</a><p>I’d love for Hacker News to check it out!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket</title><url>https://www.oliverburkeman.com/river</url></story> |
39,408,516 | 39,408,499 | 1 | 2 | 39,405,547 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>svara</author><text>It&#x27;s way more than hundreds of millions, it&#x27;s now well over a billion and most of it by a large margin goes into failed programs. Though it does seem to be getting better (or getting worse more slowly?) recently.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.nature.com&#x2F;lw1024&#x2F;magazine-assets&#x2F;d41573-020-00059-3&#x2F;d41573-020-00059-3_17934800.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.nature.com&#x2F;lw1024&#x2F;magazine-assets&#x2F;d41573-020-0...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eroom%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eroom%27s_law</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>blackbear_</author><text>It is true that pharma companies take advantage of publicly funded research, but from there to brining a new drug on the market it takes further 10&#x2F;15 years and 100s million dollars of R&amp;D. A large portion of the cost comes from the fact that most of these projects prove infeasible and are abandoned during development or later during trials.<p>The vast majority of this effort remains unpublished, so I am not sure that the article you cite supports your argument. Most of the research mentioned in that article talks about possible associations between target and disease, which is just the earliest step of drug development.</text></item><item><author>monkburger</author><text>Big Pharma&#x27;s profits are a result of taxpayer funded research via the NIH and others for drug discovery.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ineteconomics.org&#x2F;perspectives&#x2F;blog&#x2F;us-tax-dollars-funded-every-new-pharmaceutical-in-the-last-decade" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ineteconomics.org&#x2F;perspectives&#x2F;blog&#x2F;us-tax-dolla...</a><p>Big Pharma has a very powerful lobbying arm that is against Medicare negotiating down prices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/big-pharma-spends-billions-more-on-executives-and-stockholders-than-on-rd/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>passwordoops</author><text>Forest for the trees. The main point of the main article still holds true:<p>Big Pharma (and Big Everything, really) consistently spends more on executive compensation and shareholders than R&amp;D. And to the commenters&#x27; point, maybe if they put more of that in R&amp;D, we&#x27;d have more promising and successful targets</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackbear_</author><text>It is true that pharma companies take advantage of publicly funded research, but from there to brining a new drug on the market it takes further 10&#x2F;15 years and 100s million dollars of R&amp;D. A large portion of the cost comes from the fact that most of these projects prove infeasible and are abandoned during development or later during trials.<p>The vast majority of this effort remains unpublished, so I am not sure that the article you cite supports your argument. Most of the research mentioned in that article talks about possible associations between target and disease, which is just the earliest step of drug development.</text></item><item><author>monkburger</author><text>Big Pharma&#x27;s profits are a result of taxpayer funded research via the NIH and others for drug discovery.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ineteconomics.org&#x2F;perspectives&#x2F;blog&#x2F;us-tax-dollars-funded-every-new-pharmaceutical-in-the-last-decade" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ineteconomics.org&#x2F;perspectives&#x2F;blog&#x2F;us-tax-dolla...</a><p>Big Pharma has a very powerful lobbying arm that is against Medicare negotiating down prices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/big-pharma-spends-billions-more-on-executives-and-stockholders-than-on-rd/</url></story> |
34,802,525 | 34,802,533 | 1 | 2 | 34,801,735 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>And not just that...<p>I&#x27;d mention ukraine, but even in peace time, there can be huge power outages in relatively large areas (as in US, more than one in the recent years), where point of sale terminals stop working, there is no internet connection to process the transaction, but exchanging a few bills, for whatever you need always works, even in the dark.<p>Also privacy... Want to buy a huge buttplug from a &quot;Huge buttplug store ltd.&quot;, but your government could collapse in a few years and the new one might not like people (especially guys) using huge buttplugs? With cash, there&#x27;s nothing to trace... with cards, the government can get a list of names in few seconds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nhchris</author><text>It&#x27;s more than just fees and surveillance. It means you need permission for each transaction. Permission to buy a loaf of bread, a taxi ride, a train ticket. And even Canada does things such as freeze protester&#x27;s bank accounts without trial. Let&#x27;s not make it <i>that</i> easy for them, shall we?</text></item><item><author>traspler</author><text>I&#x27;m Swiss and try to be as cashless as possible but I can absolutely understand people &amp; businesses opposing a completely cashless future under the assumption that the current situation remains.
The fees associated with the current system are exorbitant. Credit cards, as expected, have a pretty high fee of like 2.5% or more for the accepting business and the new Visa&#x2F;Mastercard debit cards that they force on everyone have even more egregious fees of CHF 0.5 to 0.95 + 1.5% per transaction. Twint (our digital payment app) also has ~1.5% in fees per transaction and the business case of Twint is to farm as much payment data of the customers as possible for analysis and offers&#x2F;ads.
I do like the convenience of cashless but the cost in fees for businesses and the increased interest in exploiting my transaction history for an ads business sours this a bit for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/swiss-vote-preventing-cashless-society-pressure-group-says-2023-02-06/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>There are other options than the credit&#x2F;debit card model.<p>NFC secure area base locally stored accounts are a pretty good compromise for instance. The account is locally encrypted, anonymous, with a ceiling on the max charge. You’ll pay for bread with no latency, and will only hit the network at charge time and&#x2F;or if you need to for backup.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nhchris</author><text>It&#x27;s more than just fees and surveillance. It means you need permission for each transaction. Permission to buy a loaf of bread, a taxi ride, a train ticket. And even Canada does things such as freeze protester&#x27;s bank accounts without trial. Let&#x27;s not make it <i>that</i> easy for them, shall we?</text></item><item><author>traspler</author><text>I&#x27;m Swiss and try to be as cashless as possible but I can absolutely understand people &amp; businesses opposing a completely cashless future under the assumption that the current situation remains.
The fees associated with the current system are exorbitant. Credit cards, as expected, have a pretty high fee of like 2.5% or more for the accepting business and the new Visa&#x2F;Mastercard debit cards that they force on everyone have even more egregious fees of CHF 0.5 to 0.95 + 1.5% per transaction. Twint (our digital payment app) also has ~1.5% in fees per transaction and the business case of Twint is to farm as much payment data of the customers as possible for analysis and offers&#x2F;ads.
I do like the convenience of cashless but the cost in fees for businesses and the increased interest in exploiting my transaction history for an ads business sours this a bit for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/swiss-vote-preventing-cashless-society-pressure-group-says-2023-02-06/</url></story> |
29,776,714 | 29,776,779 | 1 | 2 | 29,777,048 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stathibus</author><text>The same way you build talent in any other organization - give people money, tell them this is their job, and put them in the same &quot;room&quot; as people who also have this job but have been doing it longer.<p>Or are you asking how we create more people who will do this in their free time?</text><parent_chain><item><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>A question that I&#x27;ve been mulling over: How do we create more people like this? Better documentation? A... &quot;brief guide to the entire kernel&quot; blog series? Aggressively pushing GSoC project mentoring?</text></item><item><author>RustyRussell</author><text>Ingo Molnar was always one of my favourite scary kernel devs. This kind of massive rewrite was always a key strength of OG devs, who were prepared to tackle maintenance tasks beyond the limits of mortal sanity. The result of such ongoing struggles is why the Linux kernel still works after decades of active development, despite radical changing requirements.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/[email protected]/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pa7ch</author><text>In my experience, big and important rewrites only can happen after someone has been maintaining a code base a long time and they can spend many months or years mulling over simplifying architectural changes not just for change. Often for company software at least I was frustrated with the pace that they shuffle you around projects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>A question that I&#x27;ve been mulling over: How do we create more people like this? Better documentation? A... &quot;brief guide to the entire kernel&quot; blog series? Aggressively pushing GSoC project mentoring?</text></item><item><author>RustyRussell</author><text>Ingo Molnar was always one of my favourite scary kernel devs. This kind of massive rewrite was always a key strength of OG devs, who were prepared to tackle maintenance tasks beyond the limits of mortal sanity. The result of such ongoing struggles is why the Linux kernel still works after decades of active development, despite radical changing requirements.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/[email protected]/</url></story> |
32,540,497 | 32,540,578 | 1 | 3 | 32,539,762 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kergonath</author><text>&gt; I have a hard time seeing how this doesn&#x27;t end in anti-trust tears for both of them<p>In Apple’s case, I hope antitrust action comes before they stray too far and whilst their interests are still aligned with mine. I don’t want them to make <i>any</i> money from advertising, because then they have a conflict of interest and their pro-privacy arguments fall flat.<p>(Google is too far down that path for me to trust them in the future. Anti-privacy is also their core business, whereas Apple primarily makes money from selling devices).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Sounds like they&#x27;re copying google with their desire to get rid of cookies &#x2F; FLOC etc.<p>Strong privacy stance on privacy for others (and in media)...but very quiet on 1st party inhouse ability to connect the dots.<p>I have a hard time seeing how this doesn&#x27;t end in anti-trust tears for both of them</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple is building an ad empire as its iPhone privacy crackdown weakens rivals</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/08/21/apple-advertising-privacy-tracking-iphone</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parasubvert</author><text>The anti-trust is a bit of an odd one. A few possibilities
- do Google and Apple wind up controlling the online ad market?
Or
- does the ad market shrink because Apple exploits it less? (Killing an industry isn’t anti-competitive per se)<p>Another angle is that captive audiences will be steered to other Google or Apple products. But debatably this only becomes anti-trust worthy when Google and Apple will start to buy more businesses in non-core areas eg. To compete with Amazon as the everything store.<p>Microsoft is definitely doing this with gaming, buying up many huge game properties.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Sounds like they&#x27;re copying google with their desire to get rid of cookies &#x2F; FLOC etc.<p>Strong privacy stance on privacy for others (and in media)...but very quiet on 1st party inhouse ability to connect the dots.<p>I have a hard time seeing how this doesn&#x27;t end in anti-trust tears for both of them</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple is building an ad empire as its iPhone privacy crackdown weakens rivals</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/08/21/apple-advertising-privacy-tracking-iphone</url></story> |
38,145,140 | 38,143,531 | 1 | 2 | 38,139,687 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saltcured</author><text>The first &quot;portable&quot; GPS receiver I ever saw was during a tour of a relative&#x27;s military base in the mid to late 1980s.<p>It was mounted in a travel case where the lid removed exposed the control panel. I want to say it was about the size of a shoe box. Similar in length and height to one of those hinged metal ammunition cans, but wider if I remember correctly. It seemed hefty enough to have a lead-acid battery inside, but they did not give details.<p>You set it on the ground and waited minutes for a fix. Then it just displayed numeric grid coordinates of your location with segmented digit display cells somewhat like a 1970s calculator.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>The original GPS receivers in the late 80s and early 90s did not have maps. And they used LCD screens. The one I owned by Lowrance required 6 AA batteries. Not AAA. Not rechargeable. Optional power through a cigarette-auto cable, but that&#x27;s not helpful when on foot. It burned through batteries like crazy.<p>I owned this one:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20231104153749&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;retro-gps.info&#x2F;photos&#x2F;files&#x2F;page2-1023-full.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20231104153749&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;retro-gps....</a> (Lowrance GlobalNav Sport) 160 x 160 pixel display. It weighed 2 pounds with batteries.<p>It provided latitude, longitude, and heading.<p>Thought I would use it hiking but it was just too big to be anything but a toy. You inserted a cartridge, specific to your geographic area, if you wanted it to display names of towns&#x2F;cities (data on the cartridges):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;314936082464" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;314936082464</a><p>It did have &quot;waypoints&quot; (lat&#x2F;long bookmarks, essentially) that allowed you to plot a line as you traveled. It could tell you how far you were to different waypoints you&#x27;d previously entered. IIRC, it had a serial connection for waypoint download to a PC. People tried sharing waypoint series -- &quot;routes&quot; -- but it just never really had much success as I recall. It was just too cumbersome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993</title><url>https://mastodon.sdf.org/@keelan/111349948124943603</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lm411</author><text>That Lowrance is a monster. Pretty cool though.<p>My first GPS receiver was an old Magellan. I can&#x27;t recall the model, but mid 90s, very basic features. Eventually after turning it on it would get a fix, and give you coordinates &#x2F; speed &#x2F; bearing. No names of towns or anything like that though it did have support for some number of waypoints.<p>I typically used it for multi week hikes through the rockies where I was navigating primarily with topo maps &amp; compass, and about once a day I&#x27;d turn on the GPSr to validate my location. It was too much of a pig on batteries to use it any more often, but, it was a reasonable size for hiking.<p>Totally different world vs the Garmin GPSMap 66i I currently use, but, I&#x27;d probably trust the old Magellan more than I do 66i on week&#x2F;longer excursions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>The original GPS receivers in the late 80s and early 90s did not have maps. And they used LCD screens. The one I owned by Lowrance required 6 AA batteries. Not AAA. Not rechargeable. Optional power through a cigarette-auto cable, but that&#x27;s not helpful when on foot. It burned through batteries like crazy.<p>I owned this one:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20231104153749&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;retro-gps.info&#x2F;photos&#x2F;files&#x2F;page2-1023-full.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20231104153749&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;retro-gps....</a> (Lowrance GlobalNav Sport) 160 x 160 pixel display. It weighed 2 pounds with batteries.<p>It provided latitude, longitude, and heading.<p>Thought I would use it hiking but it was just too big to be anything but a toy. You inserted a cartridge, specific to your geographic area, if you wanted it to display names of towns&#x2F;cities (data on the cartridges):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;314936082464" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;314936082464</a><p>It did have &quot;waypoints&quot; (lat&#x2F;long bookmarks, essentially) that allowed you to plot a line as you traveled. It could tell you how far you were to different waypoints you&#x27;d previously entered. IIRC, it had a serial connection for waypoint download to a PC. People tried sharing waypoint series -- &quot;routes&quot; -- but it just never really had much success as I recall. It was just too cumbersome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993</title><url>https://mastodon.sdf.org/@keelan/111349948124943603</url></story> |
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