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17,438,703 | 17,438,710 | 1 | 2 | 17,430,085 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>euske</author><text>As a taxpayer in Japan, I want the government to stop worrying about this inefficient calendar system and fully adopt the Western calendar everywhere.<p>That said, I read the people&#x27;s justifications are similar to those who favor the Fahrenheit system in the US. They say the scale is close to their everyday feel (under the current system, each era is roughly equivalent to one&#x27;s lifespan) than 4-digit numbers, and therefore more &quot;human&quot;. Their emotional attachment defies rationality.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Japanese Calendar’s Y2K Moment</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shawnste/2018/04/12/the-japanese-calendars-y2k-moment/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nandemo</author><text>Two things that are missing from the article:<p>1) because of this problem, the government is considering keeping Heisei for a while after the emperor steps down <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minhan.jp&#x2F;4599" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minhan.jp&#x2F;4599</a> (in Japanese)<p>2) the Japanese calendar (specifically the year) is used in some official documents and formalities, but in daily life people mostly use the Gregorian calendar. If you ask a bunch of Japanese people what Heisei year is now, I bet a significant percentage of them won&#x27;t remember. I&#x27;ve worked as a software engineer in Japan for over 10 years and I&#x27;ve never had to deal with Japanese calendar years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Japanese Calendar’s Y2K Moment</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shawnste/2018/04/12/the-japanese-calendars-y2k-moment/</url></story> |
24,405,263 | 24,404,145 | 1 | 3 | 24,403,566 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>floatingatoll</author><text>Does the spec sheet have <i>inaccurate</i> decibel and watts information provided, such that the drive being purchased has <i>inappropriate</i> noise (decibels) and thermal (watts used) properties when compared to the specifications printed for those specific properties? Or has everyone been taking for granted that &#x27;5400 rpm&#x27; is a shortcut for &#x27;cool and quiet&#x27; and is just now realizing that they should have been reading the actual &#x27;cool&#x27; and &#x27;quiet&#x27; specifications instead of using search keyword &#x27;5400&#x27; to stand in for that diligence?<p>I think Western Digital just made a year&#x27;s worth of profits off of people who don&#x27;t read spec sheets, and they have a plausible interpretation that would unfortunately will probably survive a court challenge. Western Digital has clearly taken the position that &#x27;5400 RPM&#x27; has always been a statement of disk I&#x2F;O performance, never a statement about other characteristics, and so by saying &#x27;5400 RPM Class&#x27; they only mean the drive&#x27;s I&#x2F;O performance, not any of those other secondary characteristics that led to the uproar we&#x27;re discussing.<p>Western Digital is in the wrong here — not for repricing &#x27;cool and quiet&#x27; drives, but for communication — and should have just openly said:<p>&quot;We&#x27;re ending production of quiet-cool 5400 RPM drives in our consumer product lines. If cost is of most concern to your installation, our consumer products will continue to meet your needs. If heat and noise are of most concern to your installation, our professional products with WhisperDrive(tm) will continue to meet your needs.&quot;<p>EDIT: I also think WD should be publishing thermal characteristics, not just &quot;watts used&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ha5u</author><text>The German-language forum that the article mentions has been doing some great detective work: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardwareluxx.de&#x2F;community&#x2F;threads&#x2F;crystaldiskinfo-zeigt-fakewert-an-alle-wd-my-book-8tb-drehen-anscheind-mit-7-200rpm.1235655&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardwareluxx.de&#x2F;community&#x2F;threads&#x2F;crystaldiskinf...</a><p>The conclusion on page 4 of the above thread:<p>&gt; Non-Pro RED = 5400rpm according to data sheet<p>&gt; Pro Red = 7200rpm according to data sheet<p>&gt; Internal both 7200rpm and 120Hz.<p>&gt; Apparently <i>all</i> WD &#x2F; HGST helium plates have real 7200rpm, no matter what it says.<p>Simply absurd, if true. Here, for example, is a screenshot of WD&#x27;s WD100EFAX store page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;HseW9Pa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;HseW9Pa</a><p>No mention of an RPM &quot;class&quot;. The spec sheet does refer to it as &quot;5400 RPM Class&quot;, but with no further description of what the term means: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.flixcar.com&#x2F;f360cdn&#x2F;Western_Digital-3805661149-eng_spec_data_sheet_2879-800002.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.flixcar.com&#x2F;f360cdn&#x2F;Western_Digital-3805661149...</a><p>What a world when you can&#x27;t even trust the spec sheet. What&#x27;s next, 10 watt class drives that pull 20 watts? 3-year class warranties?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/western-digital-is-trying-to-redefine-the-word-rpm/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdndkai</author><text>60 watt equivalent light bulb</text><parent_chain><item><author>ha5u</author><text>The German-language forum that the article mentions has been doing some great detective work: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardwareluxx.de&#x2F;community&#x2F;threads&#x2F;crystaldiskinfo-zeigt-fakewert-an-alle-wd-my-book-8tb-drehen-anscheind-mit-7-200rpm.1235655&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hardwareluxx.de&#x2F;community&#x2F;threads&#x2F;crystaldiskinf...</a><p>The conclusion on page 4 of the above thread:<p>&gt; Non-Pro RED = 5400rpm according to data sheet<p>&gt; Pro Red = 7200rpm according to data sheet<p>&gt; Internal both 7200rpm and 120Hz.<p>&gt; Apparently <i>all</i> WD &#x2F; HGST helium plates have real 7200rpm, no matter what it says.<p>Simply absurd, if true. Here, for example, is a screenshot of WD&#x27;s WD100EFAX store page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;HseW9Pa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;HseW9Pa</a><p>No mention of an RPM &quot;class&quot;. The spec sheet does refer to it as &quot;5400 RPM Class&quot;, but with no further description of what the term means: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.flixcar.com&#x2F;f360cdn&#x2F;Western_Digital-3805661149-eng_spec_data_sheet_2879-800002.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.flixcar.com&#x2F;f360cdn&#x2F;Western_Digital-3805661149...</a><p>What a world when you can&#x27;t even trust the spec sheet. What&#x27;s next, 10 watt class drives that pull 20 watts? 3-year class warranties?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/western-digital-is-trying-to-redefine-the-word-rpm/</url></story> |
34,466,108 | 34,464,496 | 1 | 2 | 34,463,677 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Maursault</author><text>&gt; Does anyone else hate the way it&#x27;s now a requirement to enter your password for an App store purchase?<p>As far as I know, it&#x27;s always been a requirement, though after entering once, you can install more apps without entering a password for a temporary period. It&#x27;s a good idea, too, since your AppleID is tied to your debit card or credit card, so if someone got a hold of your unlocked iDevice, if the AppleID password wasn&#x27;t required, they could install as many apps as your debit card or credit card will allow. That&#x27;s no good. Getting a refund for an AppStore App is near impossible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>Does anyone else hate the way it&#x27;s now a requirement to enter your password for an App store purchase?<p>What is the point of that? I recently upgraded my phone and I didn&#x27;t have this happen before?<p>What&#x27;s annoying for me is I use a very strong password, which is stored in my password safe, which isn&#x27;t compatible with this prompt, so I basically just stopped buying things from the App store, problem solved?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync</title><url>https://tidbits.com/2023/01/11/iphones-and-ipads-now-require-a-passcode-on-every-backup-sync/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>I half believe they do it to get everyone to remember their password since if you forget it, you can&#x27;t factory reset your device and it becomes unsellable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>Does anyone else hate the way it&#x27;s now a requirement to enter your password for an App store purchase?<p>What is the point of that? I recently upgraded my phone and I didn&#x27;t have this happen before?<p>What&#x27;s annoying for me is I use a very strong password, which is stored in my password safe, which isn&#x27;t compatible with this prompt, so I basically just stopped buying things from the App store, problem solved?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync</title><url>https://tidbits.com/2023/01/11/iphones-and-ipads-now-require-a-passcode-on-every-backup-sync/</url></story> |
17,406,867 | 17,406,576 | 1 | 2 | 17,399,884 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pilif</author><text><i>&gt; Is it reasonable to hate and avoid IPv6 for fears of further privacy erosion (easier tracking than with IPv4)?</i><p>no. If an ISP assigns you a dynamic prefix and the various machines in your network use any one of the various privacy features like temporary addresses then the only additional information you leak is some information about how many devices are in your LAN, but as the devices make up additional addresses, it&#x27;s very fuzzy.<p><i>&gt; With IPv4 my ISP has to shuffle IPs with every reconnect. With IPv6 you could get one IP for lifetime?</i><p>Your ISP can hand out a new prefix whenever you connect, or even while you are connected. Most of them do this by default.<p><i>&gt;While ISP that hand out a static IPv4 can exist, it&#x27;s much more unlikely, whereas with IPv6 it will become the norm.</i><p>it doesn&#x27;t look like it - at least here in Switzerland, all providers that do provide v6 addresses hand out dynamic prefixes by default and most don&#x27;t even offer the option of getting a static prefix.</text><parent_chain><item><author>singularity2001</author><text>Is it reasonable to hate and avoid IPv6 for fears of further privacy erosion (easier tracking than with IPv4)?<p>With IPv4 my ISP has to shuffle IPs with every reconnect. With IPv6 you could get one IP for lifetime?<p>While ISP that hand out a static IPv4 <i>can</i> exist, it&#x27;s much more unlikely, whereas with IPv6 it will become the norm.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Going IPv6 Only [pdf]</title><url>https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG73/1645/20180625_Lagerholm_T-Mobile_S_Journey_To_v1.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>icebraining</author><text>Are they that unlikely? My IPv4 is stable for months&#x2F;years, despite being &quot;dynamic&quot;. I don&#x27;t even run a dynamic DNS client, since it&#x27;s so rare that it actually changes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>singularity2001</author><text>Is it reasonable to hate and avoid IPv6 for fears of further privacy erosion (easier tracking than with IPv4)?<p>With IPv4 my ISP has to shuffle IPs with every reconnect. With IPv6 you could get one IP for lifetime?<p>While ISP that hand out a static IPv4 <i>can</i> exist, it&#x27;s much more unlikely, whereas with IPv6 it will become the norm.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Going IPv6 Only [pdf]</title><url>https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG73/1645/20180625_Lagerholm_T-Mobile_S_Journey_To_v1.pdf</url></story> |
26,443,656 | 26,443,730 | 1 | 2 | 26,443,025 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>&gt;does anyone know if there&#x27;s any caveats to &quot;recycling&quot; a laptop&#x27;s motherboard?<p>The biggest caveat in re-using old compute hardware IMO is power consumption, power-efficiency has been one consistent improvement in every new generation of computer chips. So, a new Raspberry Pi is <i>almost always as capable as your old hardware for HTPC but more power efficient.<p></i>Except maybe say extremely high quality video, say 8K 10 bit video.<p>&gt;Unfortunately, it possible that my attempt to fix a dead fan is what busted the header.<p>You can try passive heatsink or passing the fan thermal management to separate unit altogether like Corsair Commandar(I haven&#x27;t tried it).<p>You can also use your hardware for only GPGPU applications &amp; HW accel on GPU to reduce load on CPU e.g. Separate stream encoding machine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>d3nj4l</author><text>On the flipside, does anyone know if there&#x27;s any caveats to &quot;recycling&quot; a laptop&#x27;s motherboard? I&#x27;ve got a laptop that has awful thermals but decent hardware. One of the fans is dead, and I&#x27;ve attempted to replace it but I guess the header itself is busted.* The processor and GPU are just wasted in there as they throttle hard on basic workloads. So, I&#x27;ve been meaning to rip the board out and make an HTPC out of it. I&#x27;m not too experienced with electronics to know if there&#x27;s any issues I could run into, so I&#x27;ve been holding off on it. I would love to see if anyone else has done something like that.<p>* Unfortunately, it possible that my attempt to fix a dead fan is what busted the header. I&#x27;m not sure because the previous fan was dead and the new fan I put in didn&#x27;t spin, but that&#x27;s part of why I don&#x27;t feel comfortable just winging it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to convert your old laptop screen into an external monitor</title><url>https://www.slashdigit.com/convert-old-laptop-screen-external-monitor/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whymauri</author><text>I did this for my younger sister&#x27;s first computer. We didn&#x27;t have a lot of expendable cash, so I took my old laptop, stripped the motherblard out, mounted it on a makeshift open-air rig, and hooked it up to a second-hand monitor (laptop screen was irreparably broken). Served her well for three years or so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>d3nj4l</author><text>On the flipside, does anyone know if there&#x27;s any caveats to &quot;recycling&quot; a laptop&#x27;s motherboard? I&#x27;ve got a laptop that has awful thermals but decent hardware. One of the fans is dead, and I&#x27;ve attempted to replace it but I guess the header itself is busted.* The processor and GPU are just wasted in there as they throttle hard on basic workloads. So, I&#x27;ve been meaning to rip the board out and make an HTPC out of it. I&#x27;m not too experienced with electronics to know if there&#x27;s any issues I could run into, so I&#x27;ve been holding off on it. I would love to see if anyone else has done something like that.<p>* Unfortunately, it possible that my attempt to fix a dead fan is what busted the header. I&#x27;m not sure because the previous fan was dead and the new fan I put in didn&#x27;t spin, but that&#x27;s part of why I don&#x27;t feel comfortable just winging it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to convert your old laptop screen into an external monitor</title><url>https://www.slashdigit.com/convert-old-laptop-screen-external-monitor/</url></story> |
40,184,586 | 40,184,329 | 1 | 2 | 40,183,179 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cjpearson</author><text>It&#x27;s a different agency, but Matt Levine has written a fair amount on the SEC making a killing by fining banks when their employees use SMS or WhatsApp. It&#x27;s a similar story where conversations that might have been held at the water cooler, lunch, after-work beers or the golf course are now often done through text which according to SEC means different regulation applies.<p>&gt; From the perspective of the banks, I have argued, this is a novel expansion of the SEC’s authority. When the SEC created its rules on recordkeeping, it required banks to retain copies of their “inter-office memoranda,” but it was 1948 and those memoranda were produced with carbon paper; they were formal business records memorializing serious policies. In the 2020s, WhatsApp chats are, in large part, substitutes not for formal memoranda but for talking to someone in person. When I was a banker, I have written, “There were some mornings when I sent more than 100 inter-office memoranda, though like 20 of them would be ‘lol’ or ‘fml.’” In 1948, the SEC would not have dreamed of demanding a searchable archive of all of the informal chats held at a brokerage: That was not technologically feasible, and also did not seem to be the point of its rules. In 2022, it was feasible, and the SEC did demand it, and when the brokers were missing some chats they paid a billion dollars in fines.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I&#x27;ve never been a big fan of mandatory message retention. To me, it just seems like punishment for the literate. You don&#x27;t make people under litigation holds carry around a voice recorder all day, so you&#x27;re giving people an out; if they are a more talkative person than a writing person. Since writing is harder than talking, this has always felt awfully unfair.<p>As for the lack of messages in this case, they always say the coverup is worse than the crime, but if you don&#x27;t know what the crime is, how can you be so sure?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141801/ftc-amazon-antitrust-signal-ephemeral-messaging-evidence</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve never been a big fan of mandatory message retention<p>It&#x27;s the price of being publicly traded, which is born out of our lessons learned from the Enron scandal, and gave us incredibly simple SOX regulations, and decades of strange antipathy towards them.<p>&gt; it just seems like punishment for the literate.<p>Are you suggesting that companies are eschewing written communication for verbal communication as a means of bypassing this legislation? And that it&#x27;s unfair you have no similar bypass? That&#x27;s a pretty morally relative take.<p>&gt; but if you don&#x27;t know what the crime is, how can you be so sure?<p>You&#x27;ve precisely described _why_ the coverup is seen as worse than the crime.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I&#x27;ve never been a big fan of mandatory message retention. To me, it just seems like punishment for the literate. You don&#x27;t make people under litigation holds carry around a voice recorder all day, so you&#x27;re giving people an out; if they are a more talkative person than a writing person. Since writing is harder than talking, this has always felt awfully unfair.<p>As for the lack of messages in this case, they always say the coverup is worse than the crime, but if you don&#x27;t know what the crime is, how can you be so sure?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141801/ftc-amazon-antitrust-signal-ephemeral-messaging-evidence</url></story> |
13,095,126 | 13,094,820 | 1 | 2 | 13,094,317 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text><i>The &quot;maker revolution&quot;, such as it is, is driven by laser cutters. They&#x27;re accurate, fast, reliable, work on large sheets, and have no consumables.</i><p>We&#x27;re pushing 14 bar of 99.8% purity nitrogen through our 4kW fibre laser cutter to cut up to 12mm thick stainless steel.<p>Regular mild steel is reactive cut with 0.4 bar of oxygen and a trickle of nitrogen for lense cooling.<p>We go through 110 cubic meters of nitrogen on a slow week. We&#x27;ve got a 1400 litre liquid nitrogen bulk tank and 3500 litre liquid oxygen bulk tank.<p>If you bought a laser cutter earlier you probably have a CO2 laser so there&#x27;s another consumable.<p>And we&#x27;re getting slogged on lenses and protective glass windows. That&#x27;s how they get you, the long tail of proprietary parts. I need to find a cheaper supplier of parts, but do you really want to put aftermarket lenses in your bosses one million dollar laser cutter?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Makerbot&#x27;s big problem was that their machine sucks. Low-end 3D printers just aren&#x27;t very good. The weld bonds between layers of ABS filaments are too weak, and the objects break easily. They often break during building, just due to thermal expansion. 3D printing requires better temperature control of the process than Makerbot ever achieved.<p>TechShop used to have some MakerBots, but they&#x27;ve been replaced by better machines. Materials costs are too high, though; the Form I and Form II use a working fluid that costs $130&#x2F;liter. (This is a bit like the inkjet printer ink problem.) They also go through build tanks fairly fast; the working fluid in its solid form builds up at the bottom. But the build quality is excellent.<p>The &quot;maker revolution&quot;, such as it is, is driven by laser cutters. They&#x27;re accurate, fast, reliable, work on large sheets, and have no consumables.<p>The Next Big Thing is supposed to be desktop waterjet cutters. The Wazer, though, is apparently very slow, and may use more garnet per cut than the big waterjets. Wazer also glosses over the problem that waterjets generate a sludge composed of water, shattered garnet, and whatever you&#x27;re cutting. You have to pay to get rid of that stuff. Waterjet cutting is a good industrial process, but not office-ready.<p>(On a vaguely related note for maker types: does anyone know of a good low-cost surface mount reflow oven? The common low-end T962 has a big hot spot in the middle of the heating area and will scorch boards when used at lead-free solder temperatures. Yes, there are fixes, but I want something that works out of the box.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MakerBot's bold bet that 3D printers would become common</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-3d-printing-revolution-that-wasnt-60b000c3a3ed#.chdpvs3bi</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text><i>On a vaguely related note for maker types: does anyone know of a good low-cost surface mount reflow oven? The common low-end T962 has a big hot spot in the middle of the heating area and will scorch boards when used at lead-free solder temperatures. Yes, there are fixes, but I want something that works out of the box.</i><p>Out of the box? No, sadly not. But you may find this interesting nonetheless: a friend of mine took a Black and Decker convection oven, replaced the control electronics with his own PID setup, and created a reflow oven that works better than the T962 he had. If you&#x27;re willing to put in some elbow grease, you may find the DIY route appealing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Makerbot&#x27;s big problem was that their machine sucks. Low-end 3D printers just aren&#x27;t very good. The weld bonds between layers of ABS filaments are too weak, and the objects break easily. They often break during building, just due to thermal expansion. 3D printing requires better temperature control of the process than Makerbot ever achieved.<p>TechShop used to have some MakerBots, but they&#x27;ve been replaced by better machines. Materials costs are too high, though; the Form I and Form II use a working fluid that costs $130&#x2F;liter. (This is a bit like the inkjet printer ink problem.) They also go through build tanks fairly fast; the working fluid in its solid form builds up at the bottom. But the build quality is excellent.<p>The &quot;maker revolution&quot;, such as it is, is driven by laser cutters. They&#x27;re accurate, fast, reliable, work on large sheets, and have no consumables.<p>The Next Big Thing is supposed to be desktop waterjet cutters. The Wazer, though, is apparently very slow, and may use more garnet per cut than the big waterjets. Wazer also glosses over the problem that waterjets generate a sludge composed of water, shattered garnet, and whatever you&#x27;re cutting. You have to pay to get rid of that stuff. Waterjet cutting is a good industrial process, but not office-ready.<p>(On a vaguely related note for maker types: does anyone know of a good low-cost surface mount reflow oven? The common low-end T962 has a big hot spot in the middle of the heating area and will scorch boards when used at lead-free solder temperatures. Yes, there are fixes, but I want something that works out of the box.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MakerBot's bold bet that 3D printers would become common</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-3d-printing-revolution-that-wasnt-60b000c3a3ed#.chdpvs3bi</url></story> |
31,882,302 | 31,882,314 | 1 | 3 | 31,881,553 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nstom</author><text>Based on his name and the picture in the article, I assume the author is Dutch. We don’t have the distinction between underpasses and tunnels in our language and just call everything ‘tunnel’. It may have to do with the country being so flat that there are no mountains to tunnel through.<p>I can only think of a single real bicycle&#x2F;pedestrian tunnel, which is the Maastunnel in Rotterdam. Incidentally it is also one of the oldest tunnels in the country. It was recently renovated and is actually really pleasant to cycle through, because motorised traffic uses a separate tunnel tube.<p>As for turns in underpasses, at complex junctions or infrastructural elements it may be tempting to just make a small bend so that the underpass is cheaper to build or easier to fit in to the environment. Take these crossroads for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;21Yqj89WwyiiuZfD9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;21Yqj89WwyiiuZfD9</a>. If you look closely you will see a bicycle tunnel going underneath from the southwest to the northeast. This important connection for the residents southwest of the shopping center is relatively long and has a slight bend. This makes it feel dark and unsafe to the people who use it.<p>A better design can be found at this roundabout: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;TXuFjXj85huufc7m6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;TXuFjXj85huufc7m6</a>. Because the middle section is open, all of the individual underpasses are short and there is a lot of daylight, making cycling there safer and more pleasant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaclaz</author><text>The article is actually about underpasses, which are not &quot;tunnels&quot; but rather a bridge (or overpass) built on the &quot;other&quot; road.<p>Such &quot;tunnels&quot; are normally very short and straight, so I cannot understand the reference to turns in the article, a &quot;real&quot; tunnel is several tens of meters, more often hundreds or thousands meters long and very likely is not straight, though I doubt that they are the preferred hideout for mugglers aiming at cyclists.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cycling: Why Tunnels are Better than Bridges (2014)</title><url>https://www.notechmagazine.com/2014/09/cycling-why-tunnels-are-better-than-bridges.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>rmbyrro</author><text>Clarification: this is valid, useful criticism, not at all pendantry.<p>Usage of the &quot;tunnels&quot; word got me confused through the first half of the article, until it showed a photo of an underpassage in the Netherlands.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaclaz</author><text>The article is actually about underpasses, which are not &quot;tunnels&quot; but rather a bridge (or overpass) built on the &quot;other&quot; road.<p>Such &quot;tunnels&quot; are normally very short and straight, so I cannot understand the reference to turns in the article, a &quot;real&quot; tunnel is several tens of meters, more often hundreds or thousands meters long and very likely is not straight, though I doubt that they are the preferred hideout for mugglers aiming at cyclists.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cycling: Why Tunnels are Better than Bridges (2014)</title><url>https://www.notechmagazine.com/2014/09/cycling-why-tunnels-are-better-than-bridges.html</url></story> |
18,766,866 | 18,765,526 | 1 | 2 | 18,765,235 | train | <instructions>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>That is a super mature post whose content should be read by any language and&#x2F;or eco-system component (libraries, frameworks and so on) creators and maintainers.<p>I love the intentionally limited scope and the amount of thought that went into writing this, and I wished I had the clarity required to be able to do this. Especially the bit about &#x27;negative space&#x27; got my intention, that&#x27;s one tool I&#x27;m going to put in my toolbox to re-use. And there already is one example from a company whose founder I knew that made serious bank on just knowing what they were not, so this advice has applicability far outside of computer programming language design.<p>Thanks for posting this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth</title><url>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/263429.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>CJefferson</author><text>I can&#x27;t agree more with this. I am a long time c++ dev, been to c++ committee meetings. The language is too complicated and inconsistent, and that is now I believe unfixable. I believe no one understands it. New features keep arriving, but you still have to learn everything that came before, for older codebases.<p>For example, {} style initalisers were added to simplify and &quot;unify&quot; things. Except to make a vector of length 3 you still need to use the old style (3) notation. So now there is just one more thing to learn.<p>It is much easier to add &quot;one more thing&quot; to a language than it is to later take it out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth</title><url>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/263429.html</url></story> |
15,022,447 | 15,022,743 | 1 | 2 | 15,016,878 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bloaf</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;millionshort.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;millionshort.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hawski</author><text>I&#x27;m beginning to think that there is a niche for a peculiar kind of a search engine. A search engine for static almost-none to none JavaScript pages. It would penalize pages for ad-network usage.<p>I would really like to not have in search results most sites that try to monetize on my attention. I want raw facts and opinions. No click-bait to grab my attention or feed my internal cave man with rage. No ad-networks or data extraction operations. Just pages put there by people that want to share knowledge and ideas. I mostly find it on pages that lack ads and often are pure HTML - no CSS and no JS. At least in areas that interest me.<p>Maybe there is a place for a search engine that would index only pages like that? It certainly would be easier than competing with Google on indexing whole of the attention-whoring Internet.</text></item><item><author>addicted</author><text>Is it richer and deeper now?<p>Maybe at the fringes, but I feel that the internet today, with my emphasis being on the &quot;inter&quot; (different) &quot;net&quot; (networks) part of it, is far less deeper or richer than before. What we basically have reduced to are a bunch of siloed netowrks such as Facebook.<p>When I searched for something when Google first came out I got a mix of results from a variety of sites I had never heard about. Today it&#x27;s basically Wikipedia at the top, with results from the same list of about 3-4 sites depending on the topic of what I searched for.</text></item><item><author>CharlesDodgson</author><text>I miss the optimism of the early web, when you could create a simple web page, join a web ring and going online was an event.
It&#x27;s richer and deeper now, but the rawness and simpleness of it all was enjoyable and novel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paabgg/i-bought-a-book-about-the-internet-from-1994-and-none-of-the-links-worked</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zilian</author><text>I had that feeling of discovering Internet again when I used tor and surfed hidden websites for the first time and read beginner&#x27;s wikis, opinions pieces such as The Matrix, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hawski</author><text>I&#x27;m beginning to think that there is a niche for a peculiar kind of a search engine. A search engine for static almost-none to none JavaScript pages. It would penalize pages for ad-network usage.<p>I would really like to not have in search results most sites that try to monetize on my attention. I want raw facts and opinions. No click-bait to grab my attention or feed my internal cave man with rage. No ad-networks or data extraction operations. Just pages put there by people that want to share knowledge and ideas. I mostly find it on pages that lack ads and often are pure HTML - no CSS and no JS. At least in areas that interest me.<p>Maybe there is a place for a search engine that would index only pages like that? It certainly would be easier than competing with Google on indexing whole of the attention-whoring Internet.</text></item><item><author>addicted</author><text>Is it richer and deeper now?<p>Maybe at the fringes, but I feel that the internet today, with my emphasis being on the &quot;inter&quot; (different) &quot;net&quot; (networks) part of it, is far less deeper or richer than before. What we basically have reduced to are a bunch of siloed netowrks such as Facebook.<p>When I searched for something when Google first came out I got a mix of results from a variety of sites I had never heard about. Today it&#x27;s basically Wikipedia at the top, with results from the same list of about 3-4 sites depending on the topic of what I searched for.</text></item><item><author>CharlesDodgson</author><text>I miss the optimism of the early web, when you could create a simple web page, join a web ring and going online was an event.
It&#x27;s richer and deeper now, but the rawness and simpleness of it all was enjoyable and novel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paabgg/i-bought-a-book-about-the-internet-from-1994-and-none-of-the-links-worked</url></story> |
35,816,003 | 35,814,789 | 1 | 3 | 35,813,821 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jwilk</author><text>&gt; C++11 standardized a similar feature under the name decltype, so sadly we wound up with two names for a nearly identical feature.<p>If you wonder why:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-std.org&#x2F;JTC1&#x2F;SC22&#x2F;WG14&#x2F;www&#x2F;docs&#x2F;n2927.htm#existing-decltype" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open-std.org&#x2F;JTC1&#x2F;SC22&#x2F;WG14&#x2F;www&#x2F;docs&#x2F;n2927.htm#exist...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New C features in GCC 13</title><url>https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/04/new-c-features-gcc-13</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>plq</author><text>All quite reasonable additions to the language, kudos to the GCC team.<p>I&#x27;m &#x2F;very&#x2F; sad to see the unprototyped functions to go though -- that was my favourite way to catch newbies off-guard! Oh well ...<p>As for those who like to spend their Friday afternoon feeling sad about C++isms creeping into C: You are very late! You should have done that when GCC implemented ``__attribute__((cleanup))`` years^Wdecades ago.<p>edit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.gnu.org&#x2F;legacy-ml&#x2F;gcc&#x2F;2003-05&#x2F;msg00528.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.gnu.org&#x2F;legacy-ml&#x2F;gcc&#x2F;2003-05&#x2F;msg00528.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New C features in GCC 13</title><url>https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/04/new-c-features-gcc-13</url></story> |
32,738,790 | 32,738,748 | 1 | 2 | 32,737,596 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Carbon monoxide helps reduce iron oxide to iron [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chem.libretexts.org&#x2F;Bookshelves&#x2F;Inorganic_Chemistry&#x2F;Supplemental_Modules_and_Websites_(Inorganic_Chemistry)&#x2F;Descriptive_Chemistry&#x2F;Elements_Organized_by_Block&#x2F;3_d-Block_Elements&#x2F;1b_Properties_of_Transition_Metals&#x2F;Metallurgy&#x2F;The_Extraction_of_Iron&#x2F;Iron_Production" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chem.libretexts.org&#x2F;Bookshelves&#x2F;Inorganic_Chemistry&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>knodi123</author><text>&gt; to make, say, iron<p>? but iron is an element?</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>The carbon monoxide is possibly more valuable than the oxygen.<p>It&#x27;s a good feedstock for making hydrocarbons and petrochemicals and also as good a reducing agent as hydrogen for making metals. In fact you could use the CO to make, say, iron, producing CO2 which gets cycled back into the above reactor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA can now reliably produce a tree’s worth of oxygen on Mars</title><url>https://singularityhub.com/2022/09/04/nasa-says-it-can-now-reliably-produce-a-trees-worth-of-oxygen-on-mars/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>im3w1l</author><text>He means that you use carbon monoxide and iron-compound-rich mars dust to get elemental iron and carbon dioxide.</text><parent_chain><item><author>knodi123</author><text>&gt; to make, say, iron<p>? but iron is an element?</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>The carbon monoxide is possibly more valuable than the oxygen.<p>It&#x27;s a good feedstock for making hydrocarbons and petrochemicals and also as good a reducing agent as hydrogen for making metals. In fact you could use the CO to make, say, iron, producing CO2 which gets cycled back into the above reactor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA can now reliably produce a tree’s worth of oxygen on Mars</title><url>https://singularityhub.com/2022/09/04/nasa-says-it-can-now-reliably-produce-a-trees-worth-of-oxygen-on-mars/</url></story> |
19,393,290 | 19,393,593 | 1 | 3 | 19,391,476 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>&gt; I hate being outright dismissive but it sounds like an expensive html&#x2F;pdf form with a printer attached.<p>And I like it. The simpler the design, the better. Sometimes it takes a billion dollars and a couple of smart researchers to invent the &quot;obvious&quot; solution to a problem.<p>We&#x27;ve got butterfly ballots, confusing electronics-only machines, and a variety of bad standards as the basis of our current voting infrastructure. Telling everybody to use a damn PDF + printer would be a gross improvement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simongr3dal</author><text>I hate being outright dismissive but it sounds like an expensive html&#x2F;pdf form with a printer attached.<p>I do agree that the paper trail is a great thing. I&#x27;m not fundamentally against electronic voting, but I haven&#x27;t heard of a system that can really compete with the simplicity and verifiability of the immutablility you get from paper ballots inside ballot boxes being watched over by interested parties on all sides.</text></item><item><author>nathan_long</author><text>&gt; Kiniy said Galois will design two basic voting machine types. The first will be a ballot-marking device that uses a touch-screen for voters to make their selections. That system won’t tabulate votes. Instead it will print out a paper ballot marked with the voter’s choices, so voters can review them before depositing them into an optical-scan machine that tabulates the votes. Galois will bring this system to Def Con this year.<p>This sounds great: paper trail, no chance of &quot;hanging chads&quot; or bad handwriting, verifiable by the voter at the moment before scanning and hand-countable if necessary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw84q7/darpa-is-building-a-dollar10-million-open-source-secure-voting-system</url></story> | <instructions>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>The part I don&#x27;t like is the printer. They&#x27;re woefully unreliable devices. Having been an election judge, handling a bunch of flaky tech in polling places is the last thing the poll workers need. They have a lot to do already.<p>In MN, we use paper ballots with Scantron readers for excellent results. I&#x27;m not sure what problem this new system is supposed to solve that the Scantron model doesn&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simongr3dal</author><text>I hate being outright dismissive but it sounds like an expensive html&#x2F;pdf form with a printer attached.<p>I do agree that the paper trail is a great thing. I&#x27;m not fundamentally against electronic voting, but I haven&#x27;t heard of a system that can really compete with the simplicity and verifiability of the immutablility you get from paper ballots inside ballot boxes being watched over by interested parties on all sides.</text></item><item><author>nathan_long</author><text>&gt; Kiniy said Galois will design two basic voting machine types. The first will be a ballot-marking device that uses a touch-screen for voters to make their selections. That system won’t tabulate votes. Instead it will print out a paper ballot marked with the voter’s choices, so voters can review them before depositing them into an optical-scan machine that tabulates the votes. Galois will bring this system to Def Con this year.<p>This sounds great: paper trail, no chance of &quot;hanging chads&quot; or bad handwriting, verifiable by the voter at the moment before scanning and hand-countable if necessary.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw84q7/darpa-is-building-a-dollar10-million-open-source-secure-voting-system</url></story> |
30,668,030 | 30,667,803 | 1 | 3 | 30,667,022 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AngelOnFira</author><text>Great question! Core developer here, and I haven&#x27;t thought about this too much.<p>I think one benefit this gives us is on the artist contribution side. Being an art contributor on the project has a lot less overhead of being a formal &quot;artist&quot;, since you can quite easily make fauna or creatures or just concept art. We&#x27;ve seen lots of this in our blog posts!<p>But also, in terms of terrain itself, I think it allows us to really crank up how wild and wacky our procedural generation is, and still have a great looking world (unlike something higher-fidelity like No Man&#x27;s Sky). We do a lot of cool things under the hood; we have a full erosion system that creates the mountains out of the sea, a site system that places villages in places that make sense, and the ability to mash together shapes that then get &quot;rasterized&quot; into voxel houses. I don&#x27;t know how much of this would be possible and still look alright if we weren&#x27;t taking a voxel approach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qchris</author><text>I&#x27;m a little curious, is there a technical reason why voxel games are easier to build than non-voxel ones? The docs mention that all of the assets are community-contributed. Does making them voxel-based just drastically lower the skill theshold to make a contribution, vs. smoother ones in something like Blender? I guess I&#x27;m a little curious about the relative amounts of effort that would have been required to make this kind of game (procedurally-generated open world, I believe) using non-voxel assets and mechanics, since the existing set seems to be pretty fully-featured.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust</title><url>https://www.veloren.net/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Computeiful</author><text>I&#x27;ve always imagined that voxels are the pixel art of the 3D world. Much easier to create from both an aesthetic and development point of view. Hard discrete edges that fall along the XYZ planes are much easier to program for (think collision detection etc).</text><parent_chain><item><author>qchris</author><text>I&#x27;m a little curious, is there a technical reason why voxel games are easier to build than non-voxel ones? The docs mention that all of the assets are community-contributed. Does making them voxel-based just drastically lower the skill theshold to make a contribution, vs. smoother ones in something like Blender? I guess I&#x27;m a little curious about the relative amounts of effort that would have been required to make this kind of game (procedurally-generated open world, I believe) using non-voxel assets and mechanics, since the existing set seems to be pretty fully-featured.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust</title><url>https://www.veloren.net/</url></story> |
1,097,597 | 1,097,509 | 1 | 3 | 1,097,457 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>middayc</author><text>T.F.A. site getting hammered, copy/past<p>==No, you can’t do that with H.264==<p>A lot of commercial software comes with H.264 encoders and decoders, and some computers arrive with this software preinstalled. This leads a lot of people to believe that they can legally view and create H.264 videos for whatever purpose they like. Unfortunately for them, it ain’t so.<p>Maybe the best example comes from the Final Cut Pro license:<p><pre><code> To the extent that the Apple Software contains AVC encoding and/or &#62;decoding functionality, commercial use of H.264/AVC requires additional &#62;licensing and the following provision applies: THE AVC FUNCTIONALITY IN &#62;THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED HEREIN ONLY FOR THE PERSONAL AND NON-&#62;COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE &#62;WITH THE AVC STANDARD (“AVC VIDEO”) AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO &#62;THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON-&#62;COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND/OR AVC VIDEO THAT WAS OBTAINED FROM A &#62;VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. INFORMATION &#62;REGARDING OTHER USES AND LICENSES MAY BE OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA &#62;L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM.
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The text could hardly be clearer: you do not have a license for commercial use of H.264. Call it “Final Cut Pro Hobbyist”. Do you post videos on your website that has Google Adwords? Do you edit video on a consulting basis? Do you want to include a video in a package sent to your customers? Do your clients send you video clips as part of your business? Then you’re using the encoder or decoder for commercial purposes, in violation of the license.<p>Now, you might think “but I’m sticking with MPEG-4, or MPEG-2, so it’s not a problem for me”. No. It’s just as bad. Here’s the relevant section of the license:<p><pre><code> 1. MPEG-2 Notice. To the extent that the Apple Software contains MPEG-2 &#62;functionality, the following provision applies: ANY USE OF THIS PRODUCT &#62;OTHER THAN CONSUMER PERSONAL USE IN ANY MANNER THAT COMPLIES &#62;WITH THE MPEG-2 STANDARD FOR ENCODING VIDEO INFORMATION FOR &#62;PACKAGED MEDIA IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED WITHOUT A LICENSE UNDER &#62;APPLICABLE PATENTS IN THE MPEG-2 PATENT PORTFOLIO, WHICH LICENSE &#62;IS AVAILABLE FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C., 250 STEELE STREET, SUITE 300, &#62;DENVER, COLORADO 80206.
2. MPEG-4 Notice. This product is licensed under the MPEG-4 Systems &#62;Patent Portfolio License for encoding in compliance with the MPEG-4 &#62;Systems Standard, except that an additional license and payment of &#62;royalties are necessary for encoding in connection with (i) data stored or &#62;replicated in physical media which is paid for on a title by title basis and/or &#62;(ii) data which is paid for on a title by title basis and is transmitted to an &#62;end user for permanent storage and/or use. Such additional license may &#62;be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for additional &#62;details. This product is licensed under the MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio &#62;License for the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer for (i) &#62;encoding video in compliance with the MPEG-4 Visual Standard (“MPEG-4 &#62;Video”) and/or (ii) decoding MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a &#62;consumer engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity and/or was &#62;obtained from a video provider licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4 &#62;video. No license is granted or shall be implied for any other use. Additional &#62;information including that relating to promotional, internal and commercial &#62;uses and licensing may be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC.
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Noticing a pattern? You have a license to use their software, provided you don’t make any money, your friends are also all correctly licensed, and you only produce content that complies with the MPEG standard. Using video for a commercial purpose? Producing video that isn’t within MPEG’s parameters? Have friends who use unlicensed encoders like x264, ffmpeg, or xvid? Too bad.<p>This last thing is actually a particularly interesting point. If you encode a video using one of these (open-source) unlicensed encoders, you’re practicing patents without a license, and you can be sued. But hey, maybe you’re just a scofflaw. After all, it’s not like you’re making trouble for anyone else, right? Wrong. If you send a video to a friend who uses a licensed decoder, and they watch it, you’ve caused them to violate their own software license, so they can be sued too.<p>Oh, and in case you thought this was specific to Apple, here’s the matching piece from the Windows 7 Ultimate License:<p><pre><code> 1. NOTICE ABOUT THE H.264/AVC VISUAL STANDARD, THE VC-1 VIDEO &#62;STANDARD, THE MPEG-4 VISUAL STANDARD AND THE MPEG-2 VIDEO &#62;STANDARD. This software includes H.264/AVC, VC-1, MPEG-4 Part 2, and &#62;MPEG-2 visual compression technology. MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this &#62;notice: THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC, THE VC-1, THE MPEG-4 PART &#62;2 VISUAL, AND THE MPEG-2 VIDEO PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSES FOR THE &#62;PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (i) ENCODE &#62;VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ABOVE STANDARDS (“VIDEO &#62;STANDARDS”) AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC, VC-1, MPEG-4 PART 2 AND MPEG-2 &#62;VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND &#62;NON-COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY OR WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER &#62;LICENSED TO PROVIDE SUCH VIDEO. NONE OF THE LICENSES EXTEND TO &#62;ANY OTHER PRODUCT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH PRODUCT IS &#62;INCLUDED WITH THIS PRODUCT IN A SINGLE ARTICLE. NO LICENSE IS &#62;GRANTED OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL &#62;INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE &#62;WWW.MPEGLA.COM.
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Doesn’t seem so Ultimate to me.<p>My advice: use a codec that doesn’t need a license:<p><pre><code> Q. What is the license for Theora? Theora (and all associated technologies released by the Xiph.org &#62;Foundation) is released to the public via a BSD-style license. It is &#62;completely free for commercial or noncommercial use. That means that &#62;commercial developers may independently write Theora software which is &#62;compatible with the specification for no charge and without restrictions of &#62;any kind.</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No, you can't do that with H.264</title><url>http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/</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>edd</author><text>So in summary: be careful some software and technologies you use have licences that you should read.<p>If you are using any technology for commercial use you should probably be reading all licensing agreements and have your lawyers deal with anything that arises.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No, you can't do that with H.264</title><url>http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/</url><text></text></story> |
10,427,564 | 10,427,439 | 1 | 2 | 10,426,806 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>That is the obvious connection. The interesting part is does Redtube sue them for trademark infringement? Who gets the &quot;red&quot; and who gets the &quot;tube&quot; ? :-)<p>Frankly I&#x27;m surprised Google hasn&#x27;t preemptively gone after them for infringement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nefitty</author><text>Is it just me, or does this service sound way too similar to Redtube?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/youtube-red/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MichaelGG</author><text>Took me several re-reads to realise it wasn&#x27;t a paid Redtube subscription. The music part is what got me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nefitty</author><text>Is it just me, or does this service sound way too similar to Redtube?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/youtube-red/</url></story> |
17,069,512 | 17,069,322 | 1 | 2 | 17,045,777 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>While vaguely modern European ones generally do, American ones often don’t. I suspect this is down to the 120V power; with normal wiring you can only get about 2kW if not less, vs about 3 on a European system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>distances</author><text>Washing machines use cold water and heat it up themselves, so I don&#x27;t see the connection?</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>An interesting side effect here is that the house water heater has its own temperature control. For years people have been turning down the temperature setting on their water heaters to save energy, as a result the typical house water heater might be set to 60C (130F) and the washing machine was doing the best it could.</text></item><item><author>e12e</author><text>&gt; My sister Christy has an older top loader (not HE). She washed this laundry on hot and added the 1&#x2F;2 cup chlorine bleach directly to the wash water and it was very, very clean. She measured the temperature of her wash water when the tank filled up using her meat thermometer and it was 130 degrees F. She used Sam&#x27;s club detergent. Her laundry was perfectly clean (to the limits of my detection abilities).<p>So, 130F is just under 60C - what&#x27;s usually the minimum considered to kill bacteria. While I haven&#x27;t measured the actual temperature, my aging, second hand washer have three &quot;white&quot; programs: &quot;hot&quot; is 90 C, and there are two rated 60C. I&#x27;d never assume any of the other programs had a sterilising effect.<p>If &quot;hot&quot; is just 60C, and often not that - I can see a need to use bleach for some loads (or other means of killing off bacteria) if the norm is to use warm (not hot) water for washing.<p>Would be interesting to see similar test with just water (no soap, bleach) and a 90C degree program.<p>I&#x27;d guess the results would be &quot;dotted middleground&quot; like many of the test here.<p>Also would be nice to see how hanging in the sun would effect otherwise clean clothes (airborne bacteria vs uv death ray stand-off - might be meaningless without checking for <i>type</i> of bacteria).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?</title><url>http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Only very specific models of washers in the US actually heat up the water. Most just use water from the water heater.</text><parent_chain><item><author>distances</author><text>Washing machines use cold water and heat it up themselves, so I don&#x27;t see the connection?</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>An interesting side effect here is that the house water heater has its own temperature control. For years people have been turning down the temperature setting on their water heaters to save energy, as a result the typical house water heater might be set to 60C (130F) and the washing machine was doing the best it could.</text></item><item><author>e12e</author><text>&gt; My sister Christy has an older top loader (not HE). She washed this laundry on hot and added the 1&#x2F;2 cup chlorine bleach directly to the wash water and it was very, very clean. She measured the temperature of her wash water when the tank filled up using her meat thermometer and it was 130 degrees F. She used Sam&#x27;s club detergent. Her laundry was perfectly clean (to the limits of my detection abilities).<p>So, 130F is just under 60C - what&#x27;s usually the minimum considered to kill bacteria. While I haven&#x27;t measured the actual temperature, my aging, second hand washer have three &quot;white&quot; programs: &quot;hot&quot; is 90 C, and there are two rated 60C. I&#x27;d never assume any of the other programs had a sterilising effect.<p>If &quot;hot&quot; is just 60C, and often not that - I can see a need to use bleach for some loads (or other means of killing off bacteria) if the norm is to use warm (not hot) water for washing.<p>Would be interesting to see similar test with just water (no soap, bleach) and a 90C degree program.<p>I&#x27;d guess the results would be &quot;dotted middleground&quot; like many of the test here.<p>Also would be nice to see how hanging in the sun would effect otherwise clean clothes (airborne bacteria vs uv death ray stand-off - might be meaningless without checking for <i>type</i> of bacteria).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?</title><url>http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1</url></story> |
6,763,629 | 6,763,016 | 1 | 2 | 6,762,890 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>casca</author><text>Workaround:<p><pre><code> if ($request_uri ~ &quot; &quot;) {
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The issue is the handling of unescaped spaces. These are illegal but nginx accepts them. The workaround is to throw an error any time someone sends the invalid space.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)</title><url>http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000125.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>staunch</author><text>A better link: <a href="http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000125.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailman.nginx.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;nginx-announce&#x2F;2013&#x2F;00012...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)</title><url>http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000125.html</url></story> |
15,946,995 | 15,946,913 | 1 | 3 | 15,946,692 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>I think it&#x27;s interesting how ScummVM originally just supported the old LucasArts games and now it looks like it supports several versions of Sierra&#x27;s engines, the Zork engines, plus tons of obscure game engines here and there. It&#x27;s truly a great project that lets you play all those old classic CDs you have laying around without needing Doxbox.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ScummVM 2.0 released</title><url>http://www.scummvm.org/news/20171217/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lstyls</author><text>What are good ways to acquire these game ROMs legally?<p>A google search brings up a lot of not-completely-legit-looking sites, and I&#x27;d hate to give money to some pirate. These games are amazing and I&#x27;d love to support the authors if possible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ScummVM 2.0 released</title><url>http://www.scummvm.org/news/20171217/</url></story> |
30,192,814 | 30,192,775 | 1 | 2 | 30,191,729 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jorgeleo</author><text>I think that technically you met the objective: you did make a css statement to query a database. What you have to construct on the side so it works is a lesson to learn, but at the end there was a valid css line that will reach the db.<p>I think purist try to process the feeling by going on deflecting and denial, which is a personal reaction. A common one at that, but is not a popularity contest.<p>As for me, I am having a lot of fun seeing my coworkers cringe asking them the question. It is fun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>Author here. While it&#x27;s true that this depends on JS to work (because of the various new CSS Object Model APIs in the browser), I think there&#x27;s enough doubt about my technique here that I can submit this for YC2023 and make bank in maybe a decade or so.<p>After all, I remember what everyone said about Dropbox...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS</title><url>https://www.leemeichin.com/posts/yes-i-can-connect-to-a-db-in-css.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>anon_123g987</author><text>If you want to impress Hacker News, you have to write a browser in CSS, too, because currently your work depends on C++.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>Author here. While it&#x27;s true that this depends on JS to work (because of the various new CSS Object Model APIs in the browser), I think there&#x27;s enough doubt about my technique here that I can submit this for YC2023 and make bank in maybe a decade or so.<p>After all, I remember what everyone said about Dropbox...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS</title><url>https://www.leemeichin.com/posts/yes-i-can-connect-to-a-db-in-css.html</url></story> |
8,685,481 | 8,685,201 | 1 | 2 | 8,682,782 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>depoll</author><text>Welcome to the world of Barbershop music (one of my primary hobbies) ;) Unlike a piano, which must be tuned and which has a temperament that is fixed from chord to chord in a piece, the human voice can make minute adjustments to come as close as possible to those nice integer ratios (both in the fundamental and in the upper partials produced by their voices). When we do, we are rewarded with (sometimes screaming loud) overtones caused by the constructive interference between the sounds being produced by each of the four parts.<p>As this article points out, it&#x27;s mathematically impossible to perfectly tune some of these intervals, but depending on the relationships between the notes being sung, you can tune to one singer or the other. It takes a lot of practice and a good ear, but the resulting effect is pretty darned cool.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2014/11/30/the-saddest-thing-i-know-about-the-integers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sopooneo</author><text>I have never yet found anyone who agrees with me, but I believe the terminology around music theory is horrible. I mean that it is unnecessarily confusing. Most people that use it have no problem, but I believe they developed their overall understanding almost independent of the terminology, so now just use it as descriptive in its context, and do not at all notice how bad it is if you are trying to use the language as your first point in <i>comprehending</i> the underlying notions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2014/11/30/the-saddest-thing-i-know-about-the-integers/</url></story> |
37,102,630 | 37,102,807 | 1 | 3 | 37,100,503 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewmutz</author><text>Would Asahi linux on an apple laptop be the best Linux laptop experience these days for someone who prioritizes fanlessness?<p>It seems the other ARM option is the ThinkPad X13s, which presumably has lower performance.<p>Anyone have experience running linux on these machines and can compare the experience and hardware compatibility?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/fedora-asahi-remix/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>valianteffort</author><text>I have never used Fedora, I use Arch on my desktop and really enjoyed it on my macbook. It&#x27;s kind of sad the Arch developers didn&#x27;t want to put more effort into supporting alarm.<p>If Arch is totally dropped by Asahi team it&#x27;s unlikely I&#x27;ll continue using linux on my macbook at all. I just have better things to do than manage multiple distros.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/fedora-asahi-remix/</url></story> |
38,202,943 | 38,203,011 | 1 | 2 | 38,202,403 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lewispollard</author><text>As a UK citizen, I feel jaded and bitter about this topic, as the government have been pushing to &quot;ban encryption&quot; in one form or another for... it feels like decades now? And each time they&#x27;re advised against it or unable to get it into law, they draw up another proposal and try to sneak it in another way. It feels like one of these days, if they keep trying, they&#x27;ll manage get it past the experts&#x2F;lawyers somehow and it&#x27;ll doom our privacy for a long time. So in the writing, I don&#x27;t detect over-reaching self-righteousness or a lack of self-awareness - more, awareness of just how tiring and arduous this push for &quot;encryption bans&quot; is getting to everyone who understands the implications of it, and how frustrating it is to have to repeatedly deal with this kind of insidiousness in government.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>I always feel somewhat awkward reading blog articles like this.<p>While the author is certainly fighting a good cause, their writing style is very self-righteous and shows lack of self-awareness. Is it working in politics that makes one so jaded and fond of their own prose?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again</title><url>https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atoav</author><text>Everything sounds silly if you read it to yourself in a silly voice. The whole thing did not come across self righteous at all to me. Maybe it is because I follow the developments in net politics enough to know that the cynical undertones here are totally warranted.<p>Like in Germany, where the supreme court told the government <i>twice</i> that storing all communication data of their citicens without any cause or court order is totally illegal. Guess what: they try it again right now.<p>The UK government demonstrated in similar fashion that they are not just incompetent, but act with incompetent mallice. Acting above them is hard to avoid, because they make it very hard not to.<p>One could wonder why it is always the people fighting the good causes that have to act perfectly and self-aware, while the bad actors are given all the slack in the world constantly, while they lie, deceive and twist everything that comes in front of them. &quot;Oh you naive fool, you actually want to be GOOD? Let me find a hair in your soup to validate my own fatalistic position!&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>I always feel somewhat awkward reading blog articles like this.<p>While the author is certainly fighting a good cause, their writing style is very self-righteous and shows lack of self-awareness. Is it working in politics that makes one so jaded and fond of their own prose?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again</title><url>https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/</url></story> |
27,725,949 | 27,723,701 | 1 | 2 | 27,697,386 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WoodenChair</author><text>If you go through the entire article, you&#x27;ll find a link to a documentary that just came out about SJ&#x27;s love of Japanese art.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.nhk.or.jp&#x2F;nhkworld&#x2F;en&#x2F;special&#x2F;episode&#x2F;202101020030&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.nhk.or.jp&#x2F;nhkworld&#x2F;en&#x2F;special&#x2F;episode&#x2F;202101020...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs in Kyoto</title><url>https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1622/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neom</author><text>The Ryokan that they mention he always stayed at is apparently very good:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.annees-de-pelerinage.com&#x2F;tawaraya-ryokan-review-best-hotel-in-the-world&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.annees-de-pelerinage.com&#x2F;tawaraya-ryokan-review-...</a><p>&quot;Concierge service at the breakfast table is good, but the story goes on. On my way out one of the porters silently approached me and said: “Schwarze-sama, we checked the weather forecast and there will be rain this evening. So here is an umbrella to take along. Also, we took the liberty of reserving a table at that restaurant you wanted to go. Oh and last thing: here is a city plan for you where we already detailed down the way to Fushimi Inari.” It goes without saying that the guy responsible for my shoes already set out my hiking shoes and not one of my city or evening shoes. Even he knew of my plans.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs in Kyoto</title><url>https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1622/</url></story> |
18,610,847 | 18,610,804 | 1 | 3 | 18,608,658 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nathan_long</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn&#x27;t have done.<p>This isn&#x27;t true. Lots of companies wouldn&#x27;t steal users&#x27; call logs - eg, Mozilla, Signal, and plenty of boring, normal ones who make TODO list apps or whatever.<p>It also isn&#x27;t relevant. See how that argument flies in criminal court. &quot;Anybody else would have stolen that car.&quot;<p>What we see here (again) is that FB does nasty things and it&#x27;s in the public interest to stop them - along with &quot;any other company&quot; who does the same things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mahn</author><text>There&#x27;s nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn&#x27;t have done.<p>And for the record, Facebook did not &quot;share data with Cambridge Analytica for shady research purposes&quot;. A rogue third party developer created one of those shitty quiz apps for Facebook, and then proceed to get users to signup for it; several million did, which allowed said developer to harvest data thanks to the very permissive APIs that Facebook provided at the time. He then proceeded to sell this data to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has a responsibility in what happened there, but &quot;Facebook sold data to Cambridge Analytica&quot; is a widly misconstrued story.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>What&#x27;s really striking is how user-hostile this conversation is. Forget about whether the user wants to share their data or not - it&#x27;s all about what Facebook wants to do. In this case, that&#x27;s snuffing competition by denying access, in the case of Cambridge Analytica, it&#x27;s sharing data for purposes of shady data &quot;research&quot;.</text></item><item><author>tpush</author><text>Really interesting stuff in there.<p>&gt; Facebook email 24 January 2013<p>&gt; Justin Osofsky – ‘Twitter launched Vine today which lets you shoot multiple short video segments to make one single, 6-second video. As part of their NUX, you can find friends via FB. Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their friends API access today. We’ve prepared reactive PR, and I will let Jana know our decision.<p>&gt; MZ – ‘Yup, go for it.’</text></item><item><author>Trill-I-Am</author><text>Here is a direct link to the files themselves:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;commons-committees&#x2F;culture-media-and-sport&#x2F;Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;commons-committees&#x2F;cultu...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's seized files published by MPs</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deogeo</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn&#x27;t have done.<p>Dubious, but still good point. Meaning legislation to force companies to behave slightly less unethically is all the more direly needed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mahn</author><text>There&#x27;s nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn&#x27;t have done.<p>And for the record, Facebook did not &quot;share data with Cambridge Analytica for shady research purposes&quot;. A rogue third party developer created one of those shitty quiz apps for Facebook, and then proceed to get users to signup for it; several million did, which allowed said developer to harvest data thanks to the very permissive APIs that Facebook provided at the time. He then proceeded to sell this data to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has a responsibility in what happened there, but &quot;Facebook sold data to Cambridge Analytica&quot; is a widly misconstrued story.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>What&#x27;s really striking is how user-hostile this conversation is. Forget about whether the user wants to share their data or not - it&#x27;s all about what Facebook wants to do. In this case, that&#x27;s snuffing competition by denying access, in the case of Cambridge Analytica, it&#x27;s sharing data for purposes of shady data &quot;research&quot;.</text></item><item><author>tpush</author><text>Really interesting stuff in there.<p>&gt; Facebook email 24 January 2013<p>&gt; Justin Osofsky – ‘Twitter launched Vine today which lets you shoot multiple short video segments to make one single, 6-second video. As part of their NUX, you can find friends via FB. Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their friends API access today. We’ve prepared reactive PR, and I will let Jana know our decision.<p>&gt; MZ – ‘Yup, go for it.’</text></item><item><author>Trill-I-Am</author><text>Here is a direct link to the files themselves:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;commons-committees&#x2F;culture-media-and-sport&#x2F;Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;commons-committees&#x2F;cultu...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's seized files published by MPs</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695</url></story> |
28,208,537 | 28,208,392 | 1 | 2 | 28,208,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cosbgn</author><text>One theory is that they actually get so many cancers that they fight each other and never reach the stage where they would become harmful for the Elephant. A good video about this was made by Kurzgesagt – <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1AElONvi9WQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1AElONvi9WQ</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How elephants avoid cancer (2015)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18534</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ginko</author><text>Who added the question mark to the title and why? At least make it &quot;How do Elephants Avoid Cancer?&quot; so it&#x27;s a grammatically correct sentence.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How elephants avoid cancer (2015)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18534</url></story> |
31,452,353 | 31,452,418 | 1 | 2 | 31,426,838 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gen220</author><text>It should be understood that the british empire was at the peak of economic dependence on the raw material coming from the &quot;new world&quot; at the onset of the civil war; in particular, cotton exports for consumption by british textile mills [1].<p>&gt; By the late 1850s, cotton grown in the United States accounted for 77 percent of the 800 million pounds of cotton consumed in Britain. It also accounted for 90 percent of the 192 million pounds used in France, 60 percent of the 115 million pounds spun in the Zollverein, and 92 percent of the 102 million pounds manufactured in Russia.<p>One reason that there was support for the confederacy was the fear that the outcome of the war would lead to the end of access to abundant and cheap cotton (due to export duties, end of slavery, etc.).<p>One of the outcomes of the US Civil War was that the British Empire realized a need to &quot;diversify&quot; their sources, resulting in increasingly imperialistic behavior in India and Egypt, among others.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;empire-of-cotton&#x2F;383660&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;empire-...</a> the whole book is a fantastic peek behind the curtains of the history of global capital markets</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hayvok</author><text>The Civil War in America absolutely <i>dominated</i> the British national conversation, especially in the early years of the war. Politicians followed the conflict closely, and there were even several debates in Parliament over British policy toward the conflict.<p>Frequently discussed was a line that a lot of Americans would recognize today, of &quot;when should Britain get involved??&quot; because of the destructiveness of the conflict. Prime Minister Palmerston &amp; Foreign Secretary Russell spent a lot of time maneuvering and deflecting calls for Britain to get involved or pick a side.<p>A few other bits I found surprising when studying this topic—<p><pre><code> 1. Some British MPs were very pro-Confederate, and pushed for recognition of the Confederacy as a real country in Parliament.
2. British war correspondents were on the ground with both Union and Confederate armies, and sent regular dispatches to British newspapers.
3. British (and other European) officers regularly volunteered on *both* sides.
4. It was fashionable for a time in Britain to be pro-Confederate. Confederate propagandist networks *in* Britain brilliantly played down slavery and played up &quot;self-determination&quot;.
5. Britain nearly declared war on the Union (Trent affair), to the point that Royal Navy was just waiting for the go-signal to commence hostilities &amp; Britain sent thousands of additional troops to Canada.
6. There were *tons* of ironclads already in European fleets, there had just never been a fight between ironclads! Europeans watched the Monitor v. Merrimack battle &amp; adapted their fleets &amp; battle doctrines accordingly.
7. The British cabinet had a very serious, &quot;can we even win a war against the U.S. anymore?&quot; conversation at the end of the conflict, after witnessing the million-man army of the Union, the Richmond campaign, and growing effectiveness of the U.S. Navy.
8. Americans credit Seward as a brilliant Secretary of State during the conflict, but in Britain and France he was considered foolish, dangerous, and unpredictable—a lot of the tension between the Union and Europe can be laid at his feet.
9. Prussian military observers watched how the Union used railroads to move massive numbers of troops &amp; supplies around, and adopted a lot of the Union tactics to absolutely crush the French just a few years later. (Franco-Prussian war of 1870.) Seriously - there were European observers *all over the place*.
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Strongly recommend <i>A World on Fire: Britain&#x27;s Crucial Role in the American Civil War</i> by Amanda Foreman. Brilliant book, and a page-turner.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What did British officers think of the American civil war as it was happening?</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/war-words</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robonerd</author><text>&gt; <i>6. There were tons of ironclads already in European fleets, there had just never been a fight between ironclads! Europeans watched the Monitor v. Merrimack battle &amp; adapted their fleets &amp; battle doctrines accordingly.</i><p>These were very different sorts of ironclads. The British and French ironclads mostly resembled traditional ships, at least at first glance. They had steam engines but also retained their masts, and had broadside guns rather than turrets (except for the ill-fated HMS Captain..)<p>The American ironclads were more bizarre, superficially resembling submarines, and weren&#x27;t particularly seaworthy (unlike the European ironclads.) The USS Monitor in particular was a novel design; mastless and steam powered with an armored turret, a shallow draft and low freeboard (similar to earlier ironclad floating batteries, but a lot lower). European navies subsequently started building their own &#x27;monitors&#x27;.<p>The monitor class of ships were eventually pushed to the side by pre-dreadnought battleships that derived more from the traditional and seaworthy European ironclads than from monitors, with some lessons learned from monitors. See the HMS Devastation particularly; mastless and steam powered with armored turrets, but with a hull that was actually seaworthy unlike monitors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hayvok</author><text>The Civil War in America absolutely <i>dominated</i> the British national conversation, especially in the early years of the war. Politicians followed the conflict closely, and there were even several debates in Parliament over British policy toward the conflict.<p>Frequently discussed was a line that a lot of Americans would recognize today, of &quot;when should Britain get involved??&quot; because of the destructiveness of the conflict. Prime Minister Palmerston &amp; Foreign Secretary Russell spent a lot of time maneuvering and deflecting calls for Britain to get involved or pick a side.<p>A few other bits I found surprising when studying this topic—<p><pre><code> 1. Some British MPs were very pro-Confederate, and pushed for recognition of the Confederacy as a real country in Parliament.
2. British war correspondents were on the ground with both Union and Confederate armies, and sent regular dispatches to British newspapers.
3. British (and other European) officers regularly volunteered on *both* sides.
4. It was fashionable for a time in Britain to be pro-Confederate. Confederate propagandist networks *in* Britain brilliantly played down slavery and played up &quot;self-determination&quot;.
5. Britain nearly declared war on the Union (Trent affair), to the point that Royal Navy was just waiting for the go-signal to commence hostilities &amp; Britain sent thousands of additional troops to Canada.
6. There were *tons* of ironclads already in European fleets, there had just never been a fight between ironclads! Europeans watched the Monitor v. Merrimack battle &amp; adapted their fleets &amp; battle doctrines accordingly.
7. The British cabinet had a very serious, &quot;can we even win a war against the U.S. anymore?&quot; conversation at the end of the conflict, after witnessing the million-man army of the Union, the Richmond campaign, and growing effectiveness of the U.S. Navy.
8. Americans credit Seward as a brilliant Secretary of State during the conflict, but in Britain and France he was considered foolish, dangerous, and unpredictable—a lot of the tension between the Union and Europe can be laid at his feet.
9. Prussian military observers watched how the Union used railroads to move massive numbers of troops &amp; supplies around, and adopted a lot of the Union tactics to absolutely crush the French just a few years later. (Franco-Prussian war of 1870.) Seriously - there were European observers *all over the place*.
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Strongly recommend <i>A World on Fire: Britain&#x27;s Crucial Role in the American Civil War</i> by Amanda Foreman. Brilliant book, and a page-turner.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What did British officers think of the American civil war as it was happening?</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/war-words</url></story> |
40,310,970 | 40,310,638 | 1 | 2 | 40,310,170 | train | <instructions>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>The source also mentions that a batch of fall college kids also had their offers rescinded. IMO that is the bigger story to the tech community.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>This article is really about the layoffs, rather than the removal of the job postings. Obviously that&#x27;d be the case: what else is there to talk about other than that there were some job postings, but they aren&#x27;t there anymore?<p>It&#x27;s become pretty common to use job postings as a diagnostic or predictive source. I remember when I first noticed an article inferring that such-and-such a company must be developing such-and-such a type of video game, because they were hiring for people with particular technical skills which implied a certain development path. I thought &quot;oh, that&#x27;s clever, I never would have thought to monitor job boards to learn about the future, but it makes sense&quot;. Now that practice of reporting on hiring is just de rigeur across coverage of many different industries, I think.<p>I wonder if there will be some kind of response from companies, to try to hide or obfuscate such information—which may sometimes amount to a trade secret, or sometimes (as in this Tesla case) just a present kernel for bad publicity to form around. Maybe leaving up positions with no intention of filling them, or posting fake positions to send confusing signals to people watching you? They probably already do this, come to think of it.<p>The end result would be increased annoyance and frustration for people applying to those jobs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/tesla-hiring-freeze-job-postings-elon-musk-layoffs-1851464758</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spicybbq</author><text>The pattern seems to be that companies leave job postings up in order to conceal whether they are actually hiring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>This article is really about the layoffs, rather than the removal of the job postings. Obviously that&#x27;d be the case: what else is there to talk about other than that there were some job postings, but they aren&#x27;t there anymore?<p>It&#x27;s become pretty common to use job postings as a diagnostic or predictive source. I remember when I first noticed an article inferring that such-and-such a company must be developing such-and-such a type of video game, because they were hiring for people with particular technical skills which implied a certain development path. I thought &quot;oh, that&#x27;s clever, I never would have thought to monitor job boards to learn about the future, but it makes sense&quot;. Now that practice of reporting on hiring is just de rigeur across coverage of many different industries, I think.<p>I wonder if there will be some kind of response from companies, to try to hide or obfuscate such information—which may sometimes amount to a trade secret, or sometimes (as in this Tesla case) just a present kernel for bad publicity to form around. Maybe leaving up positions with no intention of filling them, or posting fake positions to send confusing signals to people watching you? They probably already do this, come to think of it.<p>The end result would be increased annoyance and frustration for people applying to those jobs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/tesla-hiring-freeze-job-postings-elon-musk-layoffs-1851464758</url></story> |
22,565,985 | 22,563,325 | 1 | 2 | 22,561,121 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nivertech</author><text><i>really really short things, it ends up being shorter than the names you would use, so you can just write the thing rather than your name for it</i><p>I inherited a kdb&#x2F;q codebase like this, the problem with it, is that when you making a change, you need to find all these little code snippets and change them.<p>You need to rely on TDD to make it work, and this doesn&#x27;t really scale to large projects.<p>Much better strategy if you don&#x27;t want to name functions, is to use their hash.<p>But still conventional approach of choosing meaningful (longer than 1-2 letter) identifiers and writing comments works much better.<p>Also the same expression in q can represent several different things, i.e. a symbol might be a name of the column in the table, a key in the dictionary, an enum, a string, a constant, a global variable, etc. Without naming it, after a week you will no longer remember the original meaning.<p>To add salt on injury - you are limited on the number of global constants (really variables) you can use, so it&#x27;s not always possible to name everything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>invalidOrTaken</author><text>A story, since in retrospect I think it&#x27;s worth telling.<p>Some years ago I was at the SF Clojure meetup. Arthur Whitney&#x27;s daughter worked at the sponsoring company, and he agreed to come tell us about K.<p>In retrospect, I don&#x27;t think we gave him the welcome he deserved. No one was rude or anything, but it seemed there was a disconnect: Arthur was keen to show off how <i>fast</i> K (and Kdb) was, over zillions and zillions of rows.<p>But the thing that the Clojurists were all searching for (that got them into Clojure in the first place) was <i>expressivity</i>. Is Clojure fast? I don&#x27;t know, generally the problems I face come down to avoiding balls of mud rather than performance bottlenecks. And I think that was true of most there.<p>So Arthur got something of an underwhelming reception. I remember someone asking &quot;Does K have the ability to self-modify, a la Lisp macros?&quot; When Arthur said no, you could see most people in the room just sort of mentally shrug and move on.<p>And this was too bad. Because recently I&#x27;ve been playing around with J (another APL descendant) and been very impressed by some expressivity&#x2F;readability benefits. Some small things that have very big effects on the codebase you actually end up with.<p>The first thing is the avoidance of abstraction. To use a Twitterism:<p>Broke: Just write your code and don&#x27;t divide it into functions, creating one long main method<p>Woke: Divide your code up, naming parts that get reused<p>Bespoke: If your code is made up of <i>really really short</i> things, it ends up being shorter than <i>the names you would use</i>, so you can just <i>write the thing</i> rather than your name for it. An analogy would be: there is no human-comprehensible way to communicate the idea of &quot;picosecond&quot; in less time than an actual picosecond.<p>The other thing I didn&#x27;t expect was the benefit of multiple dispatch being baked into e v e r y t h i n g. In Clojure I might write (map + a b) to add each index together; in J I could just write a+b.<p>This is neat stuff! Best practices for keeping complexity down in APL&#x27;s tend to be the <i>opposite</i> of what they are in other languages. Aaron Hsu gave a talk about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A</a><p>It&#x27;s too bad! Arthur came to tell us about speed---there&#x27;s a reason it&#x27;s used on giant datasets in <i>finance</i>, where performance translates directly into cash---but I wish we&#x27;d had the presence of mind to ask more about <i>experience</i> of writing K.<p>So, Arthur, if you&#x27;re reading this: Sorry everyone seemed kinda bored in SF a few years ago when you kindly came to present. We missed out!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>K Language (2011)</title><url>http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/k.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>idoh</author><text>I was at that meetup, and I do remember the Clojure crowd not being all that impressed. But it definitely came across that Arthur Whitney was a type of programming wizard. He had some offhand remark that he was running his laptop off of an OS he made with K, and was editing with an editor he made in K, but somehow what still working on getting a sound driver to work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>invalidOrTaken</author><text>A story, since in retrospect I think it&#x27;s worth telling.<p>Some years ago I was at the SF Clojure meetup. Arthur Whitney&#x27;s daughter worked at the sponsoring company, and he agreed to come tell us about K.<p>In retrospect, I don&#x27;t think we gave him the welcome he deserved. No one was rude or anything, but it seemed there was a disconnect: Arthur was keen to show off how <i>fast</i> K (and Kdb) was, over zillions and zillions of rows.<p>But the thing that the Clojurists were all searching for (that got them into Clojure in the first place) was <i>expressivity</i>. Is Clojure fast? I don&#x27;t know, generally the problems I face come down to avoiding balls of mud rather than performance bottlenecks. And I think that was true of most there.<p>So Arthur got something of an underwhelming reception. I remember someone asking &quot;Does K have the ability to self-modify, a la Lisp macros?&quot; When Arthur said no, you could see most people in the room just sort of mentally shrug and move on.<p>And this was too bad. Because recently I&#x27;ve been playing around with J (another APL descendant) and been very impressed by some expressivity&#x2F;readability benefits. Some small things that have very big effects on the codebase you actually end up with.<p>The first thing is the avoidance of abstraction. To use a Twitterism:<p>Broke: Just write your code and don&#x27;t divide it into functions, creating one long main method<p>Woke: Divide your code up, naming parts that get reused<p>Bespoke: If your code is made up of <i>really really short</i> things, it ends up being shorter than <i>the names you would use</i>, so you can just <i>write the thing</i> rather than your name for it. An analogy would be: there is no human-comprehensible way to communicate the idea of &quot;picosecond&quot; in less time than an actual picosecond.<p>The other thing I didn&#x27;t expect was the benefit of multiple dispatch being baked into e v e r y t h i n g. In Clojure I might write (map + a b) to add each index together; in J I could just write a+b.<p>This is neat stuff! Best practices for keeping complexity down in APL&#x27;s tend to be the <i>opposite</i> of what they are in other languages. Aaron Hsu gave a talk about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A</a><p>It&#x27;s too bad! Arthur came to tell us about speed---there&#x27;s a reason it&#x27;s used on giant datasets in <i>finance</i>, where performance translates directly into cash---but I wish we&#x27;d had the presence of mind to ask more about <i>experience</i> of writing K.<p>So, Arthur, if you&#x27;re reading this: Sorry everyone seemed kinda bored in SF a few years ago when you kindly came to present. We missed out!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>K Language (2011)</title><url>http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/k.html</url></story> |
40,800,291 | 40,799,639 | 1 | 3 | 40,752,728 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sktrdie</author><text>I think a large benefit to &quot;DB in browser&quot; is about the whole &quot;local-first&quot; software movement. A good overview is written here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlsync.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;stop-building-databases&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlsync.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;stop-building-databases&#x2F;</a><p>The essence of the approach is that a large majority of FE apps have constructed quite complex caching layers to improve performance over &quot;querying backend data&quot; - take a look at things like Next.js or React Query &lt;- as the post above mentions, they&#x27;re essentially rebuilding databases. So instead this approach just moves the db to the browser, along with a powerful syncing layer.<p>I think it&#x27;s an approach that deserves more attention, especially to improve DX where we end up writing a whole lot of database-related logic on clients. Mind as well then just use a database on the client as well</text><parent_chain><item><author>xnorswap</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand these &quot;DB in browser&quot; products.<p>If the data &quot;belongs&quot; to the server, why not send the query to the server and run it there?<p>If the data &quot;belongs&quot; on the client, why have it in database form, particularly a &quot;data-lake&quot; structured db, at all?<p>A lot of the benefits of such databases are their ability to optimise queries for improving performance in a context where the data can&#x27;t fit in memory (and possibly not even on single disks&#x2F;machines), as well as additional durability and atomicity improvements. If the data is small enough to be reasonable to send to a client, then it&#x27;s small enough to fit in memory, which means it&#x27;ll be fast to query no matter how you go about it.<p>The page says one advantage is &quot;Ad-hoc queries on data lakes&quot;, but isn&#x27;t that possible with the most basic form that simply sends a query to the database?<p>What am I failing to understand about this category of products?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?</title><url>https://motherduck.com/blog/olap-database-in-browser/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IMTDb</author><text>&gt; If the data &quot;belongs&quot; to the server, why not send the query to the server and run it there?<p>We could, but if the data size is not that huge, sending it <i>once</i> to the client and then letting the client perform the queries can be desirable. The tool works without internet access, the latent is much better, all results are coherent etc<p>&gt; If the data &quot;belongs&quot; on the client, why have it in database form, particularly a &quot;data-lake&quot; structured db, at all?<p>Just because it fits in memory doesn&#x27;t mean that the shape of the data does not matter. A data structure optimised for whatever query&#x2F;analysis you want to perform has a significant impact on how fast and efficiently you can perform those operations</text><parent_chain><item><author>xnorswap</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand these &quot;DB in browser&quot; products.<p>If the data &quot;belongs&quot; to the server, why not send the query to the server and run it there?<p>If the data &quot;belongs&quot; on the client, why have it in database form, particularly a &quot;data-lake&quot; structured db, at all?<p>A lot of the benefits of such databases are their ability to optimise queries for improving performance in a context where the data can&#x27;t fit in memory (and possibly not even on single disks&#x2F;machines), as well as additional durability and atomicity improvements. If the data is small enough to be reasonable to send to a client, then it&#x27;s small enough to fit in memory, which means it&#x27;ll be fast to query no matter how you go about it.<p>The page says one advantage is &quot;Ad-hoc queries on data lakes&quot;, but isn&#x27;t that possible with the most basic form that simply sends a query to the database?<p>What am I failing to understand about this category of products?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?</title><url>https://motherduck.com/blog/olap-database-in-browser/</url></story> |
30,078,534 | 30,075,183 | 1 | 2 | 30,074,185 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>t-writescode</author><text>&gt; Samsung has raised the bar by supporting its devices with 4 years of patches<p>For all its warts, Apple set the bar and Android as a whole has never really reached it. The 6S is still supported right now, right? And we&#x27;re on the 13?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>Honestly, Google needs really needs to do better. Samsung has raised the bar by supporting its devices with 4 years of patches: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;2&#x2F;22&#x2F;22295639&#x2F;samsung-galaxy-device-2019-four-years-security-updates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;2&#x2F;22&#x2F;22295639&#x2F;samsung-galaxy-d...</a>. And frankly, how hard&#x2F;expensive would it be to support these devices for <i>far</i> longer? Google is a massive company, and I see little reason why that can&#x27;t employ a team of devs backporting patches to older phones. Current versions of Windows and Linux run happily on decades-old hardware, so a phone should at least be able to get patches for known security issues for a decade. Dev resources would be far better spent on this than yet another hamfisted attempt to build a messenger app that they&#x27;ll kill in a couple years anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxpx/google-is-forcing-me-to-dump-a-perfectly-good-phone</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boudin</author><text>I really hope there would be some regulations enforcing a decade of software support, not just for the operating system but also to provide drivers for hardware. After that, having to continue providing support or provide the source code with a permissive license and documentation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>Honestly, Google needs really needs to do better. Samsung has raised the bar by supporting its devices with 4 years of patches: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;2&#x2F;22&#x2F;22295639&#x2F;samsung-galaxy-device-2019-four-years-security-updates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;2&#x2F;22&#x2F;22295639&#x2F;samsung-galaxy-d...</a>. And frankly, how hard&#x2F;expensive would it be to support these devices for <i>far</i> longer? Google is a massive company, and I see little reason why that can&#x27;t employ a team of devs backporting patches to older phones. Current versions of Windows and Linux run happily on decades-old hardware, so a phone should at least be able to get patches for known security issues for a decade. Dev resources would be far better spent on this than yet another hamfisted attempt to build a messenger app that they&#x27;ll kill in a couple years anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxpx/google-is-forcing-me-to-dump-a-perfectly-good-phone</url></story> |
12,309,407 | 12,309,262 | 1 | 2 | 12,307,448 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BenjaminTodd</author><text>Hey there - just adding to Rob&#x27;s comment:<p>I actually think automation makes it <i>more</i> important to gain strong skills rather than less, because it&#x27;s increasing inequality. It&#x27;s just you need to gain transferable skills that are resistant to automation. We go into much more detail here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;80000hours.org&#x2F;career-guide&#x2F;career-capital&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;80000hours.org&#x2F;career-guide&#x2F;career-capital&#x2F;</a><p>I also think it&#x27;s possible for everyone to take an empirical approach to their career to some degree, but it&#x27;s certainly true that it&#x27;s more important if you have more options.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cup</author><text>I think we really need to have a conversation on what &quot;right career&quot; actually means.<p>Case in point. I&#x27;m a scientist, working on drug delivery technology. I absolutely love research as a career. What I hate though is the poor pay, non-existant job security, irregular work life balance and cult of self-sacrifice.<p>In retrospect, could I go back 20 years and start again I would have pursued a career with greater job security and pay, less stress and more flexible working conditions. Such jobs include regional train driving, trades-crafts or administration to name a few (in my region).<p>These days I value less my career and more my free time with which I can pursue my hobbies.<p>Subnote: With the advances in automation I think we should also consider whether spending x0,000 hours to become great at a career is really important anymore. Is it ethical to tell someone to sacrifice huge swathes of their time&#x2F;life for a career that might not exist when they&#x27;re ready?<p>2nd Subnote: I want to expand my comment again after finishing the article. I think we need to bear in mind that theres a lot of unspoken assumptions in this guide. For instance, the assumption that theres time to explore possible careers or that one can even trial different careers. A lot of people I know from more difficult backgrounds never had the luxury to try things. They had to make money to support their family so they took what they could get. Alternatively, they never had exposure to other fields so didn&#x27;t know what was out there anyway. &quot;Finding the right career&quot; is in retrospect an extremely telling phrase about ones socioeconomic and political position.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence on how to find the right career</title><url>https://80000hours.org/career-guide/personal-fit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robertwiblin</author><text>Hi Cup - yes you&#x27;re right, what people are looking for in their career is complicated and varies by people.<p>This is part four of our career guide; the first article is all about what actually creates job satisfaction: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;80000hours.org&#x2F;career-guide&#x2F;job-satisfaction" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;80000hours.org&#x2F;career-guide&#x2F;job-satisfaction</a> . I think we say everything you said on your comment, and a lot more.<p>While people are varied, there are a few factors identified in the psychological literature that are highly predictive of overall job satisfaction and fulfillment for most of us. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>cup</author><text>I think we really need to have a conversation on what &quot;right career&quot; actually means.<p>Case in point. I&#x27;m a scientist, working on drug delivery technology. I absolutely love research as a career. What I hate though is the poor pay, non-existant job security, irregular work life balance and cult of self-sacrifice.<p>In retrospect, could I go back 20 years and start again I would have pursued a career with greater job security and pay, less stress and more flexible working conditions. Such jobs include regional train driving, trades-crafts or administration to name a few (in my region).<p>These days I value less my career and more my free time with which I can pursue my hobbies.<p>Subnote: With the advances in automation I think we should also consider whether spending x0,000 hours to become great at a career is really important anymore. Is it ethical to tell someone to sacrifice huge swathes of their time&#x2F;life for a career that might not exist when they&#x27;re ready?<p>2nd Subnote: I want to expand my comment again after finishing the article. I think we need to bear in mind that theres a lot of unspoken assumptions in this guide. For instance, the assumption that theres time to explore possible careers or that one can even trial different careers. A lot of people I know from more difficult backgrounds never had the luxury to try things. They had to make money to support their family so they took what they could get. Alternatively, they never had exposure to other fields so didn&#x27;t know what was out there anyway. &quot;Finding the right career&quot; is in retrospect an extremely telling phrase about ones socioeconomic and political position.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence on how to find the right career</title><url>https://80000hours.org/career-guide/personal-fit/</url></story> |
31,661,936 | 31,661,930 | 1 | 3 | 31,661,464 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prepend</author><text>Not law school grad here but my understanding of protected classes - sex, age, race, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status - is that it’s that particular characteristic, not the values of those classes.<p>I can’t fire someone for being male or female. It’s not ok to fire someone for being male, or white. It’s not like only some religions are protected, while others aren’t.<p>You may want to check into a rebate on that law school tuition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RappingBoomer</author><text>law school grad here--generic white males are not afforded the same protections as protected classes</text></item><item><author>yieldcrv</author><text>&gt; Employees who have historically been entrenched in the majority are also entitled to protection under laws that were intended to assure equal treatment for women and racial minorities.<p>To me this is obvious. A plain reading of EOCC employment discrimination regulations make this obvious.<p>The mere fact that this is deemed as &quot;novel&quot; or newsworthy or intriguing is a poor reflection of society itself. Fortunately the judges all understand it, even if this diverges so heavily from the general population (including employer&#x27;s) understanding of race and sex inclusion&#x2F;discrimination.<p>But it kind of reminds me of academia, when all the students get it wrong, then maybe its the teacher! Leaving everyone to their own devices to implement an abstract concept of DEI and Affirmative Action keeps leading to the same implementation flaws and polarizing resentment over and over and over again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/old-white-guy-can-move-forward-with-workplace-bias-suit-against-att-2022-06-07/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>preordained</author><text>What the hell is a &quot;generic&quot; white male? Imagine if this was used for other groups...it&#x27;s messed up</text><parent_chain><item><author>RappingBoomer</author><text>law school grad here--generic white males are not afforded the same protections as protected classes</text></item><item><author>yieldcrv</author><text>&gt; Employees who have historically been entrenched in the majority are also entitled to protection under laws that were intended to assure equal treatment for women and racial minorities.<p>To me this is obvious. A plain reading of EOCC employment discrimination regulations make this obvious.<p>The mere fact that this is deemed as &quot;novel&quot; or newsworthy or intriguing is a poor reflection of society itself. Fortunately the judges all understand it, even if this diverges so heavily from the general population (including employer&#x27;s) understanding of race and sex inclusion&#x2F;discrimination.<p>But it kind of reminds me of academia, when all the students get it wrong, then maybe its the teacher! Leaving everyone to their own devices to implement an abstract concept of DEI and Affirmative Action keeps leading to the same implementation flaws and polarizing resentment over and over and over again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/old-white-guy-can-move-forward-with-workplace-bias-suit-against-att-2022-06-07/</url></story> |
881,478 | 881,348 | 1 | 2 | 881,072 | 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>spudlyo</author><text>From the article:<p>"<i>The new Indilinx controller models, such as this Crucial 128 GB SSD, are just as fast as the X25-M. And, best of all, they're cheaper, while also offering a not-insubstantial bump to 128 GB of storage!</i>"<p>This kind of hand waving irritates me to no end. There are a ton of different ways of measuring i/o performance, and I'm sure the author knows this. To say that the Indilinx based SSD drives are "just as fast" as the Intel SSDs is simply not true. Let's take my favorite way of measuring drive performance, 4KB random write speed.<p>Intel: 5923 IOPS (23.1 MB/s)<p>Indilinx: 1275 IOPS (6.47 MB/s)<p>Source: <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535&#38;p=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535&#38;p=3</a><p>Granted this article is a few months old, perhaps the firmware for the Indilinx controller has gotten faster, or perhaps the Crucial 128GB drive uses a different Indilinx controller than the 'barefoot' model profiled in the article, but I doubt it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.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>boredguy8</author><text>If you're interested in a comprehensive review and understanding why the early drives had some problems, visit the extensive review by Anand Lal Shimpi over at AnandTech: <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531" rel="nofollow">http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531</a>. I liked their site before this review, but the detail and writing made me add their name to my 'weekly visit' list.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html</url></story> |
36,152,323 | 36,152,773 | 1 | 2 | 36,149,462 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrsig</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve lately thought that a package manager is as essential to a new language as a standard library. I would also add a LSP and standard code formatter to that list.<p>Agreed. Especially on a formatter. The number of code review comments it cuts out is incredibly time and energy saving.<p>&gt; It is a bit unfortunate because all of the above is a pretty tall order. We&#x27;re getting to the point that new languages are expected to boil the ocean by the time they reach 1.0<p>In order to get into production? yes. there are minimum requirements that must be met. those are higher now than in the past, because of lessons learned the hard way. those problems have been solved (for some value of solved) in existing ecosystems -- a new language wont change the need for them to be solved.<p>it shatters the dream of hacking up something on a weekend and having it turn into a hit success, but it also removes the case of hacking up something in 10 days and suffering the consequences for the next 30 years.<p>Until they have what you mentioned, the languages <i>aren&#x27;t</i> ready for large scale use -- they need to grow into it. They can be useful prior to that -- enthusiasts and early adopters can reap what benefits are provided. That adoption is what fuels the development of things like a standard code formatter.<p>edit: fixed omission of a unit of time after &#x27;30&#x27;</text><parent_chain><item><author>zoogeny</author><text>I&#x27;ve lately thought that a package manager is as essential to a new language as a standard library. I would also add a LSP and standard code formatter to that list.<p>It is a bit unfortunate because all of the above is a pretty tall order. We&#x27;re getting to the point that new languages are expected to boil the ocean by the time they reach 1.0</text></item><item><author>latch</author><text>I&#x27;ve now written a lot of zig code (http.zig, websocket.zig, log.zig, zuckdb.zig, etc.) I think Zig falls into an &quot;easy to learn, average&#x2F;hard to master&quot; category.<p>Some insiders underestimate the effort required for newcomers to build non-trivial things. I think this is because some of that complexity has to do with things like poor documentation, inconsistent stdlib, incompatible releases, slow release cycle, lack of package manager, etc. For an insider living and breathing Zig, not only aren&#x27;t these huge challenges, they aren&#x27;t really &quot;Zig&quot; - they are just transient growing pains. For someone getting started though, the current state of Zig is Zig.<p>I wish Zig had a polished package manager (there&#x27;s one in the current development branch, but you don&#x27;t as much use it as fight it). They could then move some of the less polished code into official experimental packages, helping to set expectations and maybe focus the development efforts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zig is hard but worth it</title><url>http://ratfactor.com/zig/hard</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnnyjeans</author><text>I disagree. I actively avoid languages that rely on package managers simply because they only give the illusion of being beneficial. It ends up being more boilerplate I have to learn to use an ecosystem, because they don&#x27;t actually solve dependency hell and now there&#x27;s a whole additional complicated tool with its own DSL I have to contend with in order to fix what&#x27;s broken (or even diagnose issues.)<p>The more peripheral crap I have to deal with to use your language, the less I&#x27;m likely to use it in the first place. I don&#x27;t need, want or care to learn yet another idiosyncratic fragile system. Finding source tarballs is a complete non-issue, and inevitably I&#x27;m going to have to manually build things anyways to figure out what erroneous assumption a library is making about the underlying system which is causing the build to fail or the runtime to crash, so the package manager just ends up being extra steps. Without fail, that has always been my experience with language package managers.<p>In the pursuit of making things simpler, we&#x27;re really just making them harder.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zoogeny</author><text>I&#x27;ve lately thought that a package manager is as essential to a new language as a standard library. I would also add a LSP and standard code formatter to that list.<p>It is a bit unfortunate because all of the above is a pretty tall order. We&#x27;re getting to the point that new languages are expected to boil the ocean by the time they reach 1.0</text></item><item><author>latch</author><text>I&#x27;ve now written a lot of zig code (http.zig, websocket.zig, log.zig, zuckdb.zig, etc.) I think Zig falls into an &quot;easy to learn, average&#x2F;hard to master&quot; category.<p>Some insiders underestimate the effort required for newcomers to build non-trivial things. I think this is because some of that complexity has to do with things like poor documentation, inconsistent stdlib, incompatible releases, slow release cycle, lack of package manager, etc. For an insider living and breathing Zig, not only aren&#x27;t these huge challenges, they aren&#x27;t really &quot;Zig&quot; - they are just transient growing pains. For someone getting started though, the current state of Zig is Zig.<p>I wish Zig had a polished package manager (there&#x27;s one in the current development branch, but you don&#x27;t as much use it as fight it). They could then move some of the less polished code into official experimental packages, helping to set expectations and maybe focus the development efforts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zig is hard but worth it</title><url>http://ratfactor.com/zig/hard</url></story> |
3,663,501 | 3,663,511 | 1 | 2 | 3,663,244 | train | <instructions>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><i>Most other programmers probably don't appreciate a "bro" constantly talking about his sexual conquests instead of interesting technical topics or hobbies.</i><p>Definitely. I can hardly imagine anything more off-putting. Alas, I have seen that kind of crude bragging in Hacker News comments every once in a while. The Hacker News readership skews young, so many of the participants here are still trying to establish long-term relationships. As someone who is approaching thirty years of marriage, I no longer have the preoccupation of finding the next girl--and I really never did, as I was looking for the ONE girl I could count on to be a good wife for a lifetime and a good mother for any children we happened to have. It has not escaped my notice that many Hacker News participants are still looking for ways to build a deep relationship with someone. I don't think bragging up one-night stands provides answers for the many readers here who have questions about that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DarkShikari</author><text>From Urban Dictionary:<p><i>brogrammer, n.: A programmer who breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat-boy: popped collars, bad beer, and calling everybody "bro". Despised by everyone, especially other programmers.<p>Ex: Oh my god, John is talking about football and chicks again. That guy is such a brogrammer.<p>See also: programmer, frat boy, bro, douchebag, developer</i><p>This is not a good stereotype to conjure up, even in some ironic-parody-hipster sense.<p>It isn't a joke, either; I've definitely seen programmers where I've worked who <i>really do</i> act like that -- and they are like toxin for introverted programmers. Most other programmers probably don't appreciate a "bro" constantly talking about his sexual conquests instead of interesting technical topics or hobbies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me.</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/call-yourself-brogrammer-then-get-hell.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>lizzard</author><text>Hipster irony that sounds and behaves exactly like actual misogyny, as far as I'm concerned, <i>is</i> actual misogyny.<p>A lot of bigotry and exclusionary behavior is couched in terms of being "just a joke".</text><parent_chain><item><author>DarkShikari</author><text>From Urban Dictionary:<p><i>brogrammer, n.: A programmer who breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat-boy: popped collars, bad beer, and calling everybody "bro". Despised by everyone, especially other programmers.<p>Ex: Oh my god, John is talking about football and chicks again. That guy is such a brogrammer.<p>See also: programmer, frat boy, bro, douchebag, developer</i><p>This is not a good stereotype to conjure up, even in some ironic-parody-hipster sense.<p>It isn't a joke, either; I've definitely seen programmers where I've worked who <i>really do</i> act like that -- and they are like toxin for introverted programmers. Most other programmers probably don't appreciate a "bro" constantly talking about his sexual conquests instead of interesting technical topics or hobbies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me.</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/call-yourself-brogrammer-then-get-hell.html</url></story> |
18,778,889 | 18,775,317 | 1 | 3 | 18,768,909 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ngrilly</author><text>I did the math too after reading your comment and got the same result: on average, with 1,000,000 ULIDs per second, I&#x27;ll wait 50 million years before hitting the first collision.<p>Here is the Python code I used:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ngrilly&#x2F;565bd27f4ad63244f72578844bca5f17" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ngrilly&#x2F;565bd27f4ad63244f72578844bca...</a><p>But I&#x27;m curious to know how you computed this?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bearmcbearsly</author><text>&gt; No you cannot, unless you&#x27;re running a single threaded server process on a single machine. What you can do is _gamble_ that you probably won&#x27;t have a collision<p>This seems like a pointless distinction.<p>If I did the math right, you can generate 1,000,000 ULIDs per second (1000 per millisecond) for around 50 million years before you can expect to hit your first collision.<p>I don&#x27;t know about you, but I&#x27;m pretty sure any system I build won&#x27;t be running 50 million years from now. Not to mention that the timestamp portion of the ULID will overflow in a mere 9000 years.</text></item><item><author>munk-a</author><text>&gt; First, the main benefit of ULID is that you can generate the IDs within your own software rather than rely on the database. We can queue them or even reference them before they land in the database. The traditional roundtrip has been eliminated.<p>No you cannot, unless you&#x27;re running a single threaded server process on a single machine. What you can do is _gamble_ that you probably won&#x27;t have a collision, which is the same thing you could do with regular UUIDs and you&#x27;d be (nearly) guaranteed to never hit a conflict with UUID4 (or probably UUID1&#x2F;2 if you trusted your mac address uniqueness).<p>You may find this gamble acceptable and many people do, but you should be aware that pre-generation of UUIDs on independent systems without coordination is not a solvable problem - all attempts to do so rely on the extreme unlikelihood of a collusion to feel good about it or use some coordinated information (like a guaranteed unique mac address).<p>(Again, if it&#x27;s good enough for you, right on - but it isn&#x27;t theoretically safe)</text></item><item><author>brdd</author><text>We have used ULIDs in production for over a year now-- and have generated millions of these.<p>First, the main benefit of ULID is that you can generate the IDs within your own software rather than rely on the database. We can queue them or even reference them before they land in the database. The traditional roundtrip has been eliminated.<p>Secondly, being able to sort ULIDs is a nice plus, although not that big of a deal. It makes it relatively easy to shard or partition databases, and it provides a convenient sort if you&#x27;re not looking for extreme accuracy.<p>ULIDs are also shorter and slightly more user friendly than UUIDs.<p>In some circumstances we found the actual implementations to be slightly lacking. For example, the JS library for ULID once returned a 25 character string rather than the standard 26 characters, causing a big ruckus that we had to manually resolve.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier</title><url>https://github.com/ulid/spec</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yen223</author><text>Does your math rely on perfect entropy on machines you don&#x27;t control?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bearmcbearsly</author><text>&gt; No you cannot, unless you&#x27;re running a single threaded server process on a single machine. What you can do is _gamble_ that you probably won&#x27;t have a collision<p>This seems like a pointless distinction.<p>If I did the math right, you can generate 1,000,000 ULIDs per second (1000 per millisecond) for around 50 million years before you can expect to hit your first collision.<p>I don&#x27;t know about you, but I&#x27;m pretty sure any system I build won&#x27;t be running 50 million years from now. Not to mention that the timestamp portion of the ULID will overflow in a mere 9000 years.</text></item><item><author>munk-a</author><text>&gt; First, the main benefit of ULID is that you can generate the IDs within your own software rather than rely on the database. We can queue them or even reference them before they land in the database. The traditional roundtrip has been eliminated.<p>No you cannot, unless you&#x27;re running a single threaded server process on a single machine. What you can do is _gamble_ that you probably won&#x27;t have a collision, which is the same thing you could do with regular UUIDs and you&#x27;d be (nearly) guaranteed to never hit a conflict with UUID4 (or probably UUID1&#x2F;2 if you trusted your mac address uniqueness).<p>You may find this gamble acceptable and many people do, but you should be aware that pre-generation of UUIDs on independent systems without coordination is not a solvable problem - all attempts to do so rely on the extreme unlikelihood of a collusion to feel good about it or use some coordinated information (like a guaranteed unique mac address).<p>(Again, if it&#x27;s good enough for you, right on - but it isn&#x27;t theoretically safe)</text></item><item><author>brdd</author><text>We have used ULIDs in production for over a year now-- and have generated millions of these.<p>First, the main benefit of ULID is that you can generate the IDs within your own software rather than rely on the database. We can queue them or even reference them before they land in the database. The traditional roundtrip has been eliminated.<p>Secondly, being able to sort ULIDs is a nice plus, although not that big of a deal. It makes it relatively easy to shard or partition databases, and it provides a convenient sort if you&#x27;re not looking for extreme accuracy.<p>ULIDs are also shorter and slightly more user friendly than UUIDs.<p>In some circumstances we found the actual implementations to be slightly lacking. For example, the JS library for ULID once returned a 25 character string rather than the standard 26 characters, causing a big ruckus that we had to manually resolve.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier</title><url>https://github.com/ulid/spec</url></story> |
33,481,895 | 33,479,710 | 1 | 2 | 33,479,160 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justincormack</author><text>Leica M lenses are not ideal for this size sensor, hence the reducing lens. 16mm cine lenses are C-mount and work nicely, maybe 8mm&#x2F;super 8 D-mount not tried, it all depends on the sensor size you use and focal length you want.<p>I use Mokose UVC webcam <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mokose.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;hd-cameras" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mokose.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;hd-cameras</a> with vintage 16mm cine lenses, there are some nice lenses available.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pieca: A Raspberry Pi Camera System for Leica M Mount Lenses</title><url>https://teaandtechtime.com/pieca-a-raspberry-pi-camera-system-for-leica-m-mount-lenses/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nmstoker</author><text>The project shows serious dedication, it&#x27;s impressive.<p>When they become more widely available would be interesting to consider upgrading to something like the 64mp Arducam:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arducam.com&#x2F;64mp-ultra-high-res-camera-raspberry-pi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arducam.com&#x2F;64mp-ultra-high-res-camera-raspberry...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pieca: A Raspberry Pi Camera System for Leica M Mount Lenses</title><url>https://teaandtechtime.com/pieca-a-raspberry-pi-camera-system-for-leica-m-mount-lenses/</url></story> |
8,429,034 | 8,429,030 | 1 | 3 | 8,428,632 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>I hate to make this kind of argument but it isn&#x27;t hard:<p>If a hacker gets access to this golden key, they can use data gleaned from your child&#x27;s phone to stalk or hurt them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>panarky</author><text>The Powers that Be are conducting a coordinated disinformation campaign to keep and expand their backdoor access by scaring the bejesus out of the public.<p><i>Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile.</i><p>What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy involving innocent kids and a bombing &#x2F; school shooting &#x2F; kidnapping &#x2F; pedophile?<p>Your arguments will be swept away by a tsunami of grief, hatred and blind patriotism. Is it possible to make an equally emotional argument in favor of the freedom to be secure?<p>Secure information deserves the same prestige and protection as the Four Freedoms.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Four_Freedoms</a></text></item><item><author>malgorithms</author><text>Author of the post here. (Thanks, Jeremy.)<p>There are many details I avoided in the essay that people will get sidetracked on. Such as whether Apple is actually doing it right or not. This is discussed and speculated on elsewhere. And right now I&#x27;m far more worried about a world in which they&#x27;re legally prevented from trying. When the FBI starts talking about our kids getting kidnapped, I think bills start getting drafted.<p>There are tangents I think HN would&#x27;ve cared about, but which would&#x27;ve been a distraction. For related controversy, Keybase - which I work on - lets users symmetrically encrypt their asymmetric keys, and store that data on our servers. We also let you do crypto in JS. Many hate this! Many love it! But I want to be legally allowed to write this kind of software and release it without a backdoor.<p>It&#x27;s hard enough when we all fight about implementation details and security vs. convenience. It&#x27;ll be a real crap show when we know for <i>certain</i> that security has lost. I&#x27;ll go program video games or something. Or just play them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VLM</author><text>&quot;What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy&quot;<p>The topic changes but the story never does. We still have rock music, teenagers, acid, dungeons and dragons, hippies, video games, atheism, firearms, meth, Islam, gays, texting while driving, basically all the good things in life, and we&#x27;ll always have thousands of things in the future that are not cool with the conformist old people and will be blamed for everything bad whenever possible, and aside from a lot of journalist click bait nobody will really care.</text><parent_chain><item><author>panarky</author><text>The Powers that Be are conducting a coordinated disinformation campaign to keep and expand their backdoor access by scaring the bejesus out of the public.<p><i>Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile.</i><p>What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy involving innocent kids and a bombing &#x2F; school shooting &#x2F; kidnapping &#x2F; pedophile?<p>Your arguments will be swept away by a tsunami of grief, hatred and blind patriotism. Is it possible to make an equally emotional argument in favor of the freedom to be secure?<p>Secure information deserves the same prestige and protection as the Four Freedoms.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Four_Freedoms</a></text></item><item><author>malgorithms</author><text>Author of the post here. (Thanks, Jeremy.)<p>There are many details I avoided in the essay that people will get sidetracked on. Such as whether Apple is actually doing it right or not. This is discussed and speculated on elsewhere. And right now I&#x27;m far more worried about a world in which they&#x27;re legally prevented from trying. When the FBI starts talking about our kids getting kidnapped, I think bills start getting drafted.<p>There are tangents I think HN would&#x27;ve cared about, but which would&#x27;ve been a distraction. For related controversy, Keybase - which I work on - lets users symmetrically encrypt their asymmetric keys, and store that data on our servers. We also let you do crypto in JS. Many hate this! Many love it! But I want to be legally allowed to write this kind of software and release it without a backdoor.<p>It&#x27;s hard enough when we all fight about implementation details and security vs. convenience. It&#x27;ll be a real crap show when we know for <i>certain</i> that security has lost. I&#x27;ll go program video games or something. Or just play them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key</url></story> |
9,759,598 | 9,759,371 | 1 | 3 | 9,758,969 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andybak</author><text>The great thing about the Django Admin is that - because it was actually part of the Django itself - there is a whole ecosystem of extensions, add-ons, skins etc for it.<p>Any attempts to replace it for Django would have an uphill struggle for that reason alone.<p>This is one side-effect of an opinionated framework - the provision of a default choice facilitates cooperation and prevents fragmentation.<p>(We recently picked up a Pyramid project and I was rather surprised how big the impact was of the extra choice. Simply in terms of searching for answers to questions - we often had to find an answer from someone who was using the same combination of parts that we were using. And figuring out how to do x often fell into the gaps in the docs between two components and was therefore harder to figure out)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is Flask-Admin?</title><url>http://mrjoes.github.io/2015/06/17/flask-admin-120.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>petejansson</author><text>From the documentation at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;flask-admin.readthedocs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;flask-admin.readthedocs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a><p>Flask-Admin is a batteries-included, simple-to-use Flask extension that lets you add admin interfaces to Flask applications. It is inspired by the django-admin package, but implemented in such a way that the developer has total control of the look, feel and functionality of the resulting application.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is Flask-Admin?</title><url>http://mrjoes.github.io/2015/06/17/flask-admin-120.html</url></story> |
31,950,107 | 31,948,348 | 1 | 2 | 31,945,618 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text>This is one of the main reasons I was happy to leave the game industry after eight years of doing it.<p>Working incredibly hard to build a product served to a group of people that are often hurtful emotionally stunted man-children is just a deeply demoralizing experience.<p>Obviously, many gamers aren&#x27;t like that. But a fucking whole lot of them are, and they are extremely vocal, and it doesn&#x27;t take many of them to suck the joy out of the job.<p>Imagine a bar where every time you walked in the door a half dozen dudes invariably turned around on their barstools and told you your clothes look like shit, your face is disgusting, you hair style is stupid, you smell like trash and, you should just fucking kill yourself now. How often would you want to go there?<p>Unfortunately, I think games themselves often encourage this mentality. Most games are about making the player feel empowered inside a virtual universe that exists purely for their own exploitation and satisfaction. The whole point of playing games is to get an escape from the consequences of our actions.<p>People that are strongly drawn to that or spend too much time in that mindset are basically training themselves for a toxic mindset when it comes to interacting with actual humans.<p>I think a lot about this talk by Max Kreminski: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TvlZinAvpwg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TvlZinAvpwg</a><p>In there, if I remember right, he refers to many games as &quot;entitlement simulators&quot;, which is a profound truth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chomp</author><text>Gamers are the most entitled consumer group I&#x27;ve ever seen. It&#x27;s astounding. Someone wants to create something, and there&#x27;s just so much hate and negativity on something that people didn&#x27;t even pay for.<p>I&#x27;ve seen it on HN also. Someone creates a thing, and then people pour out of the woodwork to lump horrible criticism. No one is asking for blind praise for what they create, but surely there&#x27;s a middle ground between blind praise and mob bullying?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“The joy of sharing has been driven from me“</title><url>https://grumpygamer.com/rtmi_trailer#1656548734</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zac23or</author><text>&gt; Gamers are the most entitled consumer group I&#x27;ve ever seen<p>True, but Some open source communities are good candidates for &quot;most entitled consumers&quot;.<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve seen it on HN also
I will ever remember the launch of Dropbox here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8863" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8863</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>chomp</author><text>Gamers are the most entitled consumer group I&#x27;ve ever seen. It&#x27;s astounding. Someone wants to create something, and there&#x27;s just so much hate and negativity on something that people didn&#x27;t even pay for.<p>I&#x27;ve seen it on HN also. Someone creates a thing, and then people pour out of the woodwork to lump horrible criticism. No one is asking for blind praise for what they create, but surely there&#x27;s a middle ground between blind praise and mob bullying?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“The joy of sharing has been driven from me“</title><url>https://grumpygamer.com/rtmi_trailer#1656548734</url></story> |
23,390,631 | 23,390,282 | 1 | 2 | 23,388,406 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>modernerd</author><text>I understand abstaining from a platform on principle.<p>But it&#x27;s pretty simple to opt-out of non-essential telemetry because so many people complained about it in Windows 10:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowscentral.com&#x2F;how-view-and-manage-diagnostic-data-windows-10-april-2018-update" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowscentral.com&#x2F;how-view-and-manage-diagnosti...</a><p>I set telemetry to &#x27;basic&#x27; which means I&#x27;m comfortable with essential system data being sent in return for my system gaining updates and security patches.<p>Microsoft does a better job than many about explaining what data it collects, why it collects it, and how to disable collection where possible across its products:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;privacy.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;privacy.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;</a><p>Last year it started explaining which telemetry in Windows 10 is required (system data for updates&#x2F;security) and which is optional (usage data to shape product direction) in a way that&#x27;s largely free from legalese:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;help&#x2F;4468236&#x2F;diagnostics-feedback-and-privacy-in-windows-10-microsoft-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;help&#x2F;4468236&#x2F;diagnostics...</a><p>There are definitely Windows users who are “being ignorant about this topic” but that&#x27;s not true of everyone. For me it&#x27;s a combination of understanding what is sent, why it&#x27;s sent, and how to control what&#x27;s sent. That info used to be a lot harder to find so I&#x27;d say things are improving.<p>Reflecting on my own risk profile, seeing first-hand how much telemetry can benefit product teams, and learning about how the Windows update process works at a global scale (the “essential” telemetry class informs partial&#x2F;phased roll-outs) also helped temper my initial reaction against telemetry being included at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blub</author><text>On paper Windows is good. In practice the telemetry and the story behind its introduction and how they handled communication means that I won&#x27;t consider Windows as a primary OS candidate until there&#x27;s a CEO change at least.<p>It&#x27;s disappointing to see so many being ignorant about this topic.</text></item><item><author>modernerd</author><text>The XPS 17 will be my next “MacBook”.<p>It should be out this month and it ticks all the boxes for me (great screen, supposedly good cooling, user-replaceable SSD&#x2F;RAM, acceptable weight and size for a 17&quot; laptop).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;13&#x2F;21257006&#x2F;dell-xps-17-15-redesign-specs-features-update-2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;13&#x2F;21257006&#x2F;dell-xps-17-15-r...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XyRUWM_LOPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XyRUWM_LOPQ</a><p>I&#x27;ve been trying Windows again after ~20 years on Macs (via a borrowed Lenovo Carbon X1 and then a second-hand XPS 15) and — unlike the author here — I&#x27;m surprised how much better it has gotten.<p>Having fully expected to buy a Windows laptop and just run Linux on it, I&#x27;m happy enough with the general Windows experience and the new WSL2&#x2F;Windows Terminal&#x2F;VS Code improvements that switching full-time makes sense for me.<p>The perks for me over macOS are the widely increased hardware choice, improved repairability&#x2F;upgradeability, access to Windows-only software&#x2F;games, better default desktop environment (window snapping&#x2F;management, keyboard shortcuts for apps in the taskbar), and being able to boot real Linux images within ~1 second and work out of them comfortably.<p>The perks for me over Linux are the ability to run Adobe and other Windows apps, lower manual maintenance, fewer rabbit holes (I used Arch for about a year and found I was personally prone to exploring Arch instead of doing pet projects), better general integration with video cards, authentication hardware (fingerprint sensors&#x2F;Windows Hello), projectors&#x2F;external monitors, as well as a generally better experience with power management, wake-from-sleep, and connecting&#x2F;reconnecting to Wi-Fi.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it</title><url>https://cfenollosa.com/blog/seven-years-later-i-bought-a-new-macbook-for-the-first-time-i-dont-love-it.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>alpaca128</author><text>I completely agree. Also the automatic updates which potentially just close an open session including unsaved files is not something that helps trust. Windows has become less transparent and much more controlling, actively ignoring or overriding user preferences, and I don&#x27;t know why I should use a software like that, not to mention pay for the &quot;privilege&quot; of being messed with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blub</author><text>On paper Windows is good. In practice the telemetry and the story behind its introduction and how they handled communication means that I won&#x27;t consider Windows as a primary OS candidate until there&#x27;s a CEO change at least.<p>It&#x27;s disappointing to see so many being ignorant about this topic.</text></item><item><author>modernerd</author><text>The XPS 17 will be my next “MacBook”.<p>It should be out this month and it ticks all the boxes for me (great screen, supposedly good cooling, user-replaceable SSD&#x2F;RAM, acceptable weight and size for a 17&quot; laptop).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;13&#x2F;21257006&#x2F;dell-xps-17-15-redesign-specs-features-update-2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;13&#x2F;21257006&#x2F;dell-xps-17-15-r...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XyRUWM_LOPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XyRUWM_LOPQ</a><p>I&#x27;ve been trying Windows again after ~20 years on Macs (via a borrowed Lenovo Carbon X1 and then a second-hand XPS 15) and — unlike the author here — I&#x27;m surprised how much better it has gotten.<p>Having fully expected to buy a Windows laptop and just run Linux on it, I&#x27;m happy enough with the general Windows experience and the new WSL2&#x2F;Windows Terminal&#x2F;VS Code improvements that switching full-time makes sense for me.<p>The perks for me over macOS are the widely increased hardware choice, improved repairability&#x2F;upgradeability, access to Windows-only software&#x2F;games, better default desktop environment (window snapping&#x2F;management, keyboard shortcuts for apps in the taskbar), and being able to boot real Linux images within ~1 second and work out of them comfortably.<p>The perks for me over Linux are the ability to run Adobe and other Windows apps, lower manual maintenance, fewer rabbit holes (I used Arch for about a year and found I was personally prone to exploring Arch instead of doing pet projects), better general integration with video cards, authentication hardware (fingerprint sensors&#x2F;Windows Hello), projectors&#x2F;external monitors, as well as a generally better experience with power management, wake-from-sleep, and connecting&#x2F;reconnecting to Wi-Fi.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it</title><url>https://cfenollosa.com/blog/seven-years-later-i-bought-a-new-macbook-for-the-first-time-i-dont-love-it.html</url></story> |
32,612,000 | 32,611,738 | 1 | 3 | 32,611,247 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mediaman</author><text>I&#x27;m a partner in a factory and I believe this is an incredibly important area, and the requirements are fairly different than normal &quot;just put it on Confluence&quot; workplaces, in a way that most tech people don&#x27;t understand and usually completely miss the mark when they&#x27;re doing product dev.<p>- Your team is out on the floor. Their hands have grease on them. Using tablets sounds great until you&#x27;re trying to use it with a glove on it, or your hands are dirty, and it&#x27;s hard to get grease off tablets. But they need the info out on the floor. Also, it can be noisy on the floor.<p>- The team tends to be very visual. They don&#x27;t like tapping on computers a lot. Literacy ranges from pretty good to kinda OK. Sometimes they refuse to get (or wear) reading glasses for whatever personal reason.<p>- They&#x27;re working on proprietary hardware, but technicians with the right knowledge are not nearby to come in and look at it. You really need to be able to see the issues visually. Sometimes even hear them. AR might be interesting here. (I spend $10k to fly a tech out for a few days to look at a machine. The bigger issue is that I lose $10k a day from one machine being down, and a tech might not be available to fly out for a week.)<p>- Predictive maintenance. The fancy sensors and whatnot mostly don&#x27;t work. Tech people try it in a clean, quiet office and it works, and they can raise money on it from clueless VCs, so money keeps getting set on fire with smart AI machine learning magic motor sensor companies.<p>- Preventative maintenance. How to schedule, how to verify it was done, how to check whether it revealed an issue that needs a follow-up. Getting people to do it, and verify it was done, can be a challenge, but there are huge returns to preventative maintenance (for example: checking gearbox oil levels, verifying lubrication line function, checking valve temperatures.)<p>- Diagnosing machine problems. Using prior problem documentation helps team members see most likely issues. But many of these people don&#x27;t really want to sort through a database of prior similar issues because they &quot;know&quot; what the problem is. How do you provide this information to them in a way that feels more approachable to them?<p>I could go on forever. Manufacturing is an interesting environment because downtime is usually hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars of hard cost per hour, depending on the operation, and they will spend quite a bit of money to stop it from going down, but culturally there&#x27;s a vast gulf between the white collar SF tech bros and what actually happens in manufacturing plants, so innovation tends to be more limited.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dragostudor</author><text>My thoughts exactly. Knowledge transfer in manufacturing &#x2F; industrial environments is something that I&#x27;m working on.<p>- Language models &#x2F; NLP applications for processing large amount of technical text data (SOP, documentation, technical data, machine text logs, voice to text, video data processing for speeding up corrective action, training, onboarding and highlighting areas of improvement &#x2F; bottlenecks), digitising documents and extracting failure reasons &#x2F; equipment names &#x2F; spare parts &#x2F; processes involved and making associations between them for pareto analysis, better search or process improvement recommendations<p>- Recommending the next steps to fix something &#x2F; remote intervention &#x2F; do something etc. Lowering the expertise threshold required for technicians, electricians, mechanics or reliability engineers to be effective.<p>- Enabling operators to become data scientists by enabling to train AI models via their day to day activities &#x2F; analysis. Building better UX in general and providing simple tools that even a toddler could use.<p>- Autonomous factory use-cases &#x2F; supply chain automation.<p>Would love to discuss with people who find these things exciting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?</title><text>In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?</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>vavooom</author><text><i>Lowering the expertise threshold required for technicians, electricians, mechanics or reliability engineers to be effective.</i><p>This is a really interesting application I hadn&#x27;t considered before. Having lots of blue-collar family, helping new members of the trades upskill fast would take a considerable load off that workforce.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dragostudor</author><text>My thoughts exactly. Knowledge transfer in manufacturing &#x2F; industrial environments is something that I&#x27;m working on.<p>- Language models &#x2F; NLP applications for processing large amount of technical text data (SOP, documentation, technical data, machine text logs, voice to text, video data processing for speeding up corrective action, training, onboarding and highlighting areas of improvement &#x2F; bottlenecks), digitising documents and extracting failure reasons &#x2F; equipment names &#x2F; spare parts &#x2F; processes involved and making associations between them for pareto analysis, better search or process improvement recommendations<p>- Recommending the next steps to fix something &#x2F; remote intervention &#x2F; do something etc. Lowering the expertise threshold required for technicians, electricians, mechanics or reliability engineers to be effective.<p>- Enabling operators to become data scientists by enabling to train AI models via their day to day activities &#x2F; analysis. Building better UX in general and providing simple tools that even a toddler could use.<p>- Autonomous factory use-cases &#x2F; supply chain automation.<p>Would love to discuss with people who find these things exciting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?</title><text>In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?</text></story> |
26,903,309 | 26,903,262 | 1 | 3 | 26,901,540 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avs733</author><text>There should be research to support this argument. Has anyone found evidence for or against? Otherwise the claim here seems aspirational rather than useful.<p>I know that the history of stadium deals, for example, this claim is nearly universally made to support incentivizing sports teams - and the evidence nearly universally shows it to be false.<p>&quot;In every case, the conclusions are the same. A new sports facility has an extremely small (perhaps even negative) effect on overall economic activity and employment. No recent facility appears to have earned anything approaching a reasonable return on investment. No recent facility has been self-financing in terms of its impact on net tax revenues. Regardless of whether the unit of analysis is a local neighborhood, a city, or an entire metropolitan area, the economic benefits of sports facilities are de minimus.&quot; [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;sports-jobs-taxes-are-new-stadiums-worth-the-cost&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;sports-jobs-taxes-are-new...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>danhak</author><text>They’re not really “giving up” anything if they attract a business that otherwise wouldn’t be there at all.<p>It’s still a net gain to have a major employer in your locale, along with all the other economic benefits and tax revenue that entails.</text></item><item><author>altendo</author><text>I am always struck at the amount that states and municipalities are willing to write off in order to attract companies. On one hand, I understand that companies want to take the best deal, but on the other hand, at times local governments are willing to give up so much money in tax revenue. I remember reading about the competitions for Google Fiber and Amazon&#x27;s second HQ - it felt absurd the amount cities and states were willing to drop, financially speaking.<p>I&#x27;m glad this one has been renegotiated (especially seeing that the proposed plant never happened), but I&#x27;d like to see these deals be more level-headed before they get to this point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Foxconn</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/wisconsin-drastically-scales-back-politically-charged-deal-with-foxconn/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>34679</author><text>They&#x27;re giving up fairness and equality- equal treatment under the law. If the entire state wasn&#x27;t completely devoid of any entities looking to compete in that space, it probably is now. Anyone making LCD panels in Wisconsin suddenly has a $80,000,000 greater financial gap from their largest competitor. If the lower taxes are good for creating jobs at a net gain to the local economy, then the lower rate should be applied equally among all similarly taxed entities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danhak</author><text>They’re not really “giving up” anything if they attract a business that otherwise wouldn’t be there at all.<p>It’s still a net gain to have a major employer in your locale, along with all the other economic benefits and tax revenue that entails.</text></item><item><author>altendo</author><text>I am always struck at the amount that states and municipalities are willing to write off in order to attract companies. On one hand, I understand that companies want to take the best deal, but on the other hand, at times local governments are willing to give up so much money in tax revenue. I remember reading about the competitions for Google Fiber and Amazon&#x27;s second HQ - it felt absurd the amount cities and states were willing to drop, financially speaking.<p>I&#x27;m glad this one has been renegotiated (especially seeing that the proposed plant never happened), but I&#x27;d like to see these deals be more level-headed before they get to this point.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Foxconn</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/wisconsin-drastically-scales-back-politically-charged-deal-with-foxconn/</url></story> |
32,369,337 | 32,368,779 | 1 | 2 | 32,366,759 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>It depends on the kind of application and scale. Consider a large and complex application like Discord or Figma. Past a certain point, it&#x27;s hard for anyone to know how every single detail works.<p>You should probably be comfortable enough to work with both ends of the spectrum, but specialization allows you to do a much deeper dive into complex subjects.<p>A backend engineer probably has a much deeper understanding of every little nuance of their prefered database. A great backend engineer can make sure that you&#x27;re getting near-optimal performance from every important query.<p>A frontend engineer probably knows about various UX techniques along with how to avoid unecessary reflows and repaints. A great frontend engineer can implement a UI toolkit as well as advanced techniques such as windowing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>breckenedge</author><text>I get specialization, but are there any other good reasons to divide product teams between frontend and backend? I guess it also helps establish patterns and contracts, but I think those are only helpful above a critical mass that I haven’t reached in my career yet.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Whether it was the intention or not, I find GraphQL solved a fascinating problem: it let front end developers move faster by greatly decoupling their data needs from the backend developers.<p>Backend developers describe the data model, expose it via graphql. Front end developers, often ones who never met those backend developers, can see the data model and just use it. They can change what they&#x27;re querying on the fly, get more or less as they see fit.<p>It lets everyone move faster.<p>But as a backend developer, I actually fucking hate it, myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GraphQL kinda sucks</title><text>Graphql is great, but is totally over hyped. This is probably more of a rant or a frustrated dev outburst.<p>but beginner to mid level developers are lead down the path of USE GRAPHQL especially on youtube... and this is just unfair and wrong.<p>The good:<p>- It makes working with describing the data you want easy<p>- It can save you bandwidth. Get what you ask for and no more<p>- It makes documentation for data consumers easy<p>- It can make subscription easier for you to use<p>- Can let you federate API calls<p>The bad<p>- It is actually a pain to use, depending on the backend you are using you&#x27;ll have to manage<p>two or more type systems if there are no code first generates in your language<p>- It doesn&#x27;t support map&#x2F;tables&#x2F;dictionaries. This is actually huge. I get that there might be<p>some pattern where you don&#x27;t want to allow this but for the majority of situations working with json api&#x27;s you&#x27;ll end up with a {[key: string] : T} somewhere<p>- No clear path for Api versioning you&#x27;ll end up with MyQueryV1.01 MyQueryV1.02 MyQueryV1.03<p>Don&#x27;t use Graphql unless you&#x27;re managing a solution&#x2F;problem set that facebook intended graphql for<p>Invest your time in a simpler solution then running to GraphQL first<p>thanks for reading my ted talk<p>please any senior dev&#x27;s drop your wise words so that any new dev&#x27;s can avoid tarpits</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>dasil003</author><text>The reason is to scale teams. It’s not the only way to do it—you can also have vertical teams—but it’s a common one because frontend and backend have different technical considerations. The downside is the product can lose cohesion as developers get tunnel vision. Of course all big teams suffer from a version of that problem depending how the lines are drawn.</text><parent_chain><item><author>breckenedge</author><text>I get specialization, but are there any other good reasons to divide product teams between frontend and backend? I guess it also helps establish patterns and contracts, but I think those are only helpful above a critical mass that I haven’t reached in my career yet.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Whether it was the intention or not, I find GraphQL solved a fascinating problem: it let front end developers move faster by greatly decoupling their data needs from the backend developers.<p>Backend developers describe the data model, expose it via graphql. Front end developers, often ones who never met those backend developers, can see the data model and just use it. They can change what they&#x27;re querying on the fly, get more or less as they see fit.<p>It lets everyone move faster.<p>But as a backend developer, I actually fucking hate it, myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GraphQL kinda sucks</title><text>Graphql is great, but is totally over hyped. This is probably more of a rant or a frustrated dev outburst.<p>but beginner to mid level developers are lead down the path of USE GRAPHQL especially on youtube... and this is just unfair and wrong.<p>The good:<p>- It makes working with describing the data you want easy<p>- It can save you bandwidth. Get what you ask for and no more<p>- It makes documentation for data consumers easy<p>- It can make subscription easier for you to use<p>- Can let you federate API calls<p>The bad<p>- It is actually a pain to use, depending on the backend you are using you&#x27;ll have to manage<p>two or more type systems if there are no code first generates in your language<p>- It doesn&#x27;t support map&#x2F;tables&#x2F;dictionaries. This is actually huge. I get that there might be<p>some pattern where you don&#x27;t want to allow this but for the majority of situations working with json api&#x27;s you&#x27;ll end up with a {[key: string] : T} somewhere<p>- No clear path for Api versioning you&#x27;ll end up with MyQueryV1.01 MyQueryV1.02 MyQueryV1.03<p>Don&#x27;t use Graphql unless you&#x27;re managing a solution&#x2F;problem set that facebook intended graphql for<p>Invest your time in a simpler solution then running to GraphQL first<p>thanks for reading my ted talk<p>please any senior dev&#x27;s drop your wise words so that any new dev&#x27;s can avoid tarpits</text></story> |
15,930,372 | 15,930,385 | 1 | 2 | 15,924,794 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>No, in person voter fraud is well studied and considered so uncommon that it is a red herring. If it were truly considered a problem then mail in ballots would require some proof that the correct person voted. That&#x27;s the low hanging fruit for vulnerability of voting, why isn&#x27;t it fixed? You can&#x27;t even catch the perpetrator! Because rural voters who support them would scream, they don&#x27;t care about fixing the gaping security hole.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;16767426&#x2F;alabama-voter-suppression-senate-moore-jones" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;16767426&#x2F;...</a><p>1) has identity politics has been shown to be such a loser for republicans?
2) since more people voted for Hillary than Trump, is &quot;universal&quot; loathing actually a problem for presidential candidates?<p>Roy Jones won 6&#x2F;7 districts and lost the popular vote. Pretty much the definition of gerrymandering,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;wonk&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;13&#x2F;how-doug-jones-lost-in-nearly-every-congressional-district-but-still-won-the-state&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;wonk&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;13&#x2F;how-d...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mcantelon</author><text>&gt;Targeted voter suppression campaigns have prevented people from voting who would have tipped the scales in favor of Democrats.<p>And the Democrats have spun reasonable measures, such as requiring some sort of identification to vote, as &quot;suppression&quot;, possibly so those who aren&#x27;t citizens can vote. Who cheats more? Who knows.<p>The low-hanging fruit for the Democrats is, however:<p>1) Prioritize lower&#x2F;middle class economic concerns over progressive identity politics<p>2) Push the DNC not to scuttle candidates, like Bernie, that people don&#x27;t universally loathe<p>If those two things get done, the Democrats have a good chance going forward. Otherwise, who knows.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>1. voters did not elect a Republican government. <i>Gerrymandering has given Republicans wins in many places where Democrats would have won in any other universe. </i>Likely rigged electronic voting machines that have no audit trail have given Republicans votes they would not have had. *Targeted voter suppression campaigns have prevented people from voting who would have tipped the scales in favor of Democrats.<p>2. Republicans (and many Democrats) do not &quot;under-regulate&quot;. They regulate in favor of paying corporations. Those regulations are not all typical visible regulations; many are special provisions or loopholes. That is not laissez-faire.<p>3. Since you re-iterate, I re-iterate. Republicans are not a party of deregulation. They are a party that supports monopolistic, bully-capitalist behaviors.<p>The only real solution for the US is that it suffer a slow decline in global and economic relevance until it becomes desperate for a change in behavior. Only then will the shit be flushed out of the government and campaign finance rules put in place to prevent another corrupt government that serves a very limited few people at the cost of 330million others.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The voters elected a Republican government. That a Republican-led FCC would err on the side of under-regulating telecommunications companies is about the least surprising outcome you can imagine. Anybody who told you that lobbying the FCC was going to make a difference here was, whether they meant to or not, selling a bill of goods.<p>As someone who respects but mostly profoundly disagrees with principled Republican laissez-faire regulatory strategy (at least, once we got past 1991 or so), it is more than a little aggravating to see us as a community winding ourselves in knots over market-based regulation of telecom at the same time as the (largely unprincipled) Republican congress is putting the finishing strokes --- literally in ball-point pen --- on a catastrophically stupid tax bill that threatens universal access to health insurance, not just for those dependent on Medicare but on startup founders as well.<p>If you care deeply about this issue, stop pretending like filling out forms and putting banners ads is going to persuade Republican regulators to act like Democrats. &quot;Net Neutrality&quot; isn&#x27;t my personal issue --- I worked at ISPs, have backbone engineer friends, and candidly: I think this issue is silly. But if it&#x27;s yours... sigh... fine.<p>But do it right: get out there, to your nearest seriously threatened D districts or to the nearest plausibly flippable R district (the suburbs are great for this), open up your damn wallets, and donate.<p>The FCC may very well be right that it&#x27;s not their job to impose our dream portfolio of rules on Verizon (certainly, a lot of the rules people are claiming NN provided were fanciful). It doesn&#x27;t matter how dreamlike the rules are: Congress can almost certainly enact a law, which the FCC can&#x27;t revoke.<p>But otherwise, be clear-eyed: elections have consequences. We elected the party of deregulation. Take the bad with whatever the good is, and work to flip the House back.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.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>Latty</author><text>Requiring ID often is voter suppression. Democrats repeatedly offer to support these requirements if ID is free and easy to obtain. Of course, republicans often actively work against that. In 2015 in Alabama, DMVs in predominantly black (and therefore democrat) areas were going to be closed closed by republicans in power, making it harder to obtain ID for democrats. Republicans have repeatedly been caught talking about how voter ID law is pushed only for partisan advantage. Is it really surprising the democrats are wary?<p>Yes, voter ID requirements, while not necessary by any metric I can see, sound reasonable, but they are being abused as a tool for suppression. If republicans truly care, they just need to include law that enforces free and easy access to ID for everyone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcantelon</author><text>&gt;Targeted voter suppression campaigns have prevented people from voting who would have tipped the scales in favor of Democrats.<p>And the Democrats have spun reasonable measures, such as requiring some sort of identification to vote, as &quot;suppression&quot;, possibly so those who aren&#x27;t citizens can vote. Who cheats more? Who knows.<p>The low-hanging fruit for the Democrats is, however:<p>1) Prioritize lower&#x2F;middle class economic concerns over progressive identity politics<p>2) Push the DNC not to scuttle candidates, like Bernie, that people don&#x27;t universally loathe<p>If those two things get done, the Democrats have a good chance going forward. Otherwise, who knows.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>1. voters did not elect a Republican government. <i>Gerrymandering has given Republicans wins in many places where Democrats would have won in any other universe. </i>Likely rigged electronic voting machines that have no audit trail have given Republicans votes they would not have had. *Targeted voter suppression campaigns have prevented people from voting who would have tipped the scales in favor of Democrats.<p>2. Republicans (and many Democrats) do not &quot;under-regulate&quot;. They regulate in favor of paying corporations. Those regulations are not all typical visible regulations; many are special provisions or loopholes. That is not laissez-faire.<p>3. Since you re-iterate, I re-iterate. Republicans are not a party of deregulation. They are a party that supports monopolistic, bully-capitalist behaviors.<p>The only real solution for the US is that it suffer a slow decline in global and economic relevance until it becomes desperate for a change in behavior. Only then will the shit be flushed out of the government and campaign finance rules put in place to prevent another corrupt government that serves a very limited few people at the cost of 330million others.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The voters elected a Republican government. That a Republican-led FCC would err on the side of under-regulating telecommunications companies is about the least surprising outcome you can imagine. Anybody who told you that lobbying the FCC was going to make a difference here was, whether they meant to or not, selling a bill of goods.<p>As someone who respects but mostly profoundly disagrees with principled Republican laissez-faire regulatory strategy (at least, once we got past 1991 or so), it is more than a little aggravating to see us as a community winding ourselves in knots over market-based regulation of telecom at the same time as the (largely unprincipled) Republican congress is putting the finishing strokes --- literally in ball-point pen --- on a catastrophically stupid tax bill that threatens universal access to health insurance, not just for those dependent on Medicare but on startup founders as well.<p>If you care deeply about this issue, stop pretending like filling out forms and putting banners ads is going to persuade Republican regulators to act like Democrats. &quot;Net Neutrality&quot; isn&#x27;t my personal issue --- I worked at ISPs, have backbone engineer friends, and candidly: I think this issue is silly. But if it&#x27;s yours... sigh... fine.<p>But do it right: get out there, to your nearest seriously threatened D districts or to the nearest plausibly flippable R district (the suburbs are great for this), open up your damn wallets, and donate.<p>The FCC may very well be right that it&#x27;s not their job to impose our dream portfolio of rules on Verizon (certainly, a lot of the rules people are claiming NN provided were fanciful). It doesn&#x27;t matter how dreamlike the rules are: Congress can almost certainly enact a law, which the FCC can&#x27;t revoke.<p>But otherwise, be clear-eyed: elections have consequences. We elected the party of deregulation. Take the bad with whatever the good is, and work to flip the House back.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html</url></story> |
29,084,487 | 29,083,764 | 1 | 3 | 29,082,060 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asdff</author><text>There&#x27;s a pragmatic reason too for that. You work more efficiently when you work with your friends imo vs rigid or unagreeable personalities. You show up excited to work and contribute and share ideas vs wanting to get out of there and watching the clock tick slowly all day. I&#x27;d say the friend effect is able to elevate people who have &#x27;mediocre&#x27; skills on paper to be efficient enough and start learning at a rate that sees them performing well above their qualifications. There is definitely a performance advantage towards feeling engaged and focused.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbacic</author><text>&gt; Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>I think this is dangerous ground to thread. I don&#x27;t like to work with assholes any more than the next guy and I&#x27;d certainly prefer working with people I personally like but that kind of thinking opens doors to all kinds of abuse; from favoritism (I like him, therefore he gets a pass when somebody else might not), through promotions (what does giving a promotion to somebody likeable over somebody more competent do to morale?) to plain fuckarounditis (playing career games rather than what&#x27;s good for the business, wasting company resources on petty political games).<p>I mean, I get it - it&#x27;s human nature. But something feels off when we&#x27;re justifying our simian prejudices in an environment where we&#x27;re supposed to prioritize somebody else&#x27;s satisfaction (whoever is paying us) but instead we do what we feel is best for us personally, using a fairly emotional and error prone system of judgment (I don&#x27;t care if this guy sucks, I like him because he&#x27;s my friend).</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Roger Sterling of Mad Men said it best [1]:<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if anyone&#x27;s ever told you that half the time this business comes down to &#x27;I don&#x27;t like that guy.&#x27;<p>In all my years of working, this is probably the most important thing you can learn. Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>It&#x27;s also why the perennial &quot;hiring is broken&quot; posts and threads miss the point completely: really they&#x27;re just trying to find someone they like. It&#x27;s what &quot;culture fit&quot; really means. And people like people like themselves. This is part of what can lead to unlawful discrimination.<p>Trustworthiness is an interesting one as it seems to be hard to define but some people just have it and some don&#x27;t. This has been studied and can have a profound effect on, say, criminal sentencing [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;423600926&#x2F;in-court-your-face-could-determine-your-fate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;4236009...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Loughla</author><text>I agree with you, 100%. &#x27;Culture fit&#x27;, in my experience, leads to discrimination and in- and out-group thinking.<p>That being said; a challenge to your statements:<p>&gt;[. . .] instead we do what we feel is best for us personally, using a fairly emotional and error prone system of judgment [. . .].<p>My experience has shown that a very cohesive team who like and appreciate each other, but is made of middle-ability individuals is much, much more productive to my measure as the boss than a team comprised of high-ability, but un-cohesive (non-cohesive?) individuals.<p>Soft skills and the ability to work well together without judgment are both wildly important. In a team of antagonists, it is difficult, if not impossible, to feel comfortable enough to take chances.<p>Not sure what the challenge is in that statement, but it&#x27;s in there somewhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbacic</author><text>&gt; Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>I think this is dangerous ground to thread. I don&#x27;t like to work with assholes any more than the next guy and I&#x27;d certainly prefer working with people I personally like but that kind of thinking opens doors to all kinds of abuse; from favoritism (I like him, therefore he gets a pass when somebody else might not), through promotions (what does giving a promotion to somebody likeable over somebody more competent do to morale?) to plain fuckarounditis (playing career games rather than what&#x27;s good for the business, wasting company resources on petty political games).<p>I mean, I get it - it&#x27;s human nature. But something feels off when we&#x27;re justifying our simian prejudices in an environment where we&#x27;re supposed to prioritize somebody else&#x27;s satisfaction (whoever is paying us) but instead we do what we feel is best for us personally, using a fairly emotional and error prone system of judgment (I don&#x27;t care if this guy sucks, I like him because he&#x27;s my friend).</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Roger Sterling of Mad Men said it best [1]:<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if anyone&#x27;s ever told you that half the time this business comes down to &#x27;I don&#x27;t like that guy.&#x27;<p>In all my years of working, this is probably the most important thing you can learn. Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>It&#x27;s also why the perennial &quot;hiring is broken&quot; posts and threads miss the point completely: really they&#x27;re just trying to find someone they like. It&#x27;s what &quot;culture fit&quot; really means. And people like people like themselves. This is part of what can lead to unlawful discrimination.<p>Trustworthiness is an interesting one as it seems to be hard to define but some people just have it and some don&#x27;t. This has been studied and can have a profound effect on, say, criminal sentencing [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;423600926&#x2F;in-court-your-face-could-determine-your-fate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;4236009...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency</url></story> |
34,838,152 | 34,831,024 | 1 | 2 | 34,805,583 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msrenee</author><text>Because apparently that doesn&#x27;t count and they still have to prevent cross-contamination.<p>&gt;Some companies include statements on labels that say a food “may contain” a certain product or that the food is “produced in a facility” that also uses certain allergens. However, such statements are voluntary, not required, according to the FDA, and they do not absolve the company of requirements to prevent cross-contamination.<p>Basically the options are redo your production process so that there are no traces of sesame or add enough to put it on the ingredients list.</text><parent_chain><item><author>conro1108</author><text>I don’t understand. Why would the suppliers change the recipe to _add_ sesame? Is it not just that they accepted the “may contain sesame” label instead of removing (or proving the lack of) sesame?</text></item><item><author>mhb</author><text>New label law has unintended effect: Sesame in more foods<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc846f2a19d87b03440848f1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34830917" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34830917</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>All the Buns Are Blank</title><url>https://onefoottsunami.com/2023/02/15/all-the-buns-are-blank/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>plorkyeran</author><text>You aren&#x27;t allowed to put things on the ingredients list which aren&#x27;t actually in the food, and the new regulation doesn&#x27;t let they say that there _might_ be sesame.</text><parent_chain><item><author>conro1108</author><text>I don’t understand. Why would the suppliers change the recipe to _add_ sesame? Is it not just that they accepted the “may contain sesame” label instead of removing (or proving the lack of) sesame?</text></item><item><author>mhb</author><text>New label law has unintended effect: Sesame in more foods<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc846f2a19d87b03440848f1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34830917" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34830917</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>All the Buns Are Blank</title><url>https://onefoottsunami.com/2023/02/15/all-the-buns-are-blank/</url></story> |
8,839,030 | 8,838,821 | 1 | 2 | 8,838,712 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>Now this is very interesting!<p>There are plenty of compiler writing tutorials for conservative, imperative programming languages with a straightforward static type system (like C).<p>I did study a little bit of compilers for functional languages from Simon Peyton-Jones&#x27; old book &quot;The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages&quot; [0]. It predates the Haskell programming language and uses a contemporary research language called Miranda as the target as well as the &quot;host&quot; language.<p>... which brings me to another topic: Monads. The SPJ book has a few chapters on implementing a Hindley-Milner -style type inference algorithm. It&#x27;s written in Miranda without any Monads and uses a clever trick for coming up with unique temporary type names. There&#x27;s an infinite list of integers [0..], which is &quot;split&quot; when traversing the syntax tree so that the left branch of the recursion tree gets the even numbers and the right branch gets the odd numbers.<p>The method works fine and is indeed very clever but try comparing that code to the same algorithm re-implemented (by me) with Monads (State and Error monads + transformer) [1]. The original algorithm is rather long and hard to follow (because lists of unique integers are passed to all functions).<p>I had a blast writing this algorithm, and I wanted to share it. It&#x27;s been a few years since I last worked with it. It was my first non-trivial use of monads and I really like how it turned out in the end.<p>[0] <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;um&#x2F;people&#x2F;simonpj&#x2F;papers...</a>
[1] <a href="https://github.com/rikusalminen/funfun/blob/master/FunFun/TypeChecker.hs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rikusalminen&#x2F;funfun&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;FunFun&#x2F;Ty...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles</title><url>http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tenslisi</author><text>It looks like the author of this (Stephen Diehl) is looking for a job in Boston. Maybe HN can help him out?<p><a href="https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/538494839189700608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;smdiehl&#x2F;status&#x2F;538494839189700608</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles</title><url>http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/</url></story> |
15,388,757 | 15,387,991 | 1 | 2 | 15,383,574 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>Meta: that page is impossible to read for me on Firefox mobile - if I pinch zoom, or scroll, and move left or right slightly Google &quot;helpfully&quot; send me to a different page.<p>How many millions did Google spend optimising the code that makes that page useless for anyone who wants to zoom in on mobile? Man, that, wow, I can&#x27;t express how terrible that is, Google, really!?<p>Edit: they have a &quot;web version&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;behind-masq-yet-more-dns-and-dhcp.html?m=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;behind-masq-yet-more...</a>) without that massive UX bug, where instead you can&#x27;t scroll to see the table. smh</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Behind the Masq: Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2017/10/behind-masq-yet-more-dns-and-dhcp.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>lol768</author><text>So were these vulnerabilities present, and missed by Cure53&#x27;s audit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;f&#x2F;f7&#x2F;Dnsmasq-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;f&#x2F;f7&#x2F;Dnsmasq-report.pdf</a>)?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Behind the Masq: Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2017/10/behind-masq-yet-more-dns-and-dhcp.html</url></story> |
3,888,442 | 3,888,353 | 1 | 3 | 3,888,114 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>b0rsuk</author><text>"I would use Linux only, but I like game X and Y." is incredibly common attitude among people who use dual boot. I'm not making this up, the phrase pops up very often on various forums, especially in context of linux ports for newly announced games.<p>You don't see many complaints about GIMP being inadequate (and with the recent news that will be the end of GIMP complaints), or OpenOffice/LibreOffice incompatibility. Yes, once in a while someone has issues with very tricky/advanced spreadsheet or text document, but with minimum goodwill on the part of the creator it can be worked around.<p>Gaming is really the last bastion of Windows. I predict a surge in Linux popularity once Steam is ported, bypassing OSX. And once that happens you are going to see pressure to use it in workplace. Game developers will be releasing Linux versions much more often, like in the old days of OpenGL. Really, there are many people who <i>want</i> to use Linux but hold out because of games.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danssig</author><text>That is interesting news, but turn the OS market upside down? You can't be serious.</text></item><item><author>qxcv</author><text>Looks like this is going to be reality, Phoronix just published the promised article[0] which basically claims that Valve have ported L4D/Source over to Linux already! Exciting news indeed, AAA-titles for Linux could turn the desktop OS market upside down.<p>[0]: <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&#38;item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&#38;num=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&#38;item=valve...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973484/valve-is-developing-steam-for-linux-says-michael-larabel-of-phoronix</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onli</author><text>Why not? Missing games are the last and only "serious" issue of Linux. Well, maybe apart from Adobes product. But that's quite seriuos: Not being able to play normal and modern games is why I have Windows installed, and it's why i couldn't convince my nonexisting kids to use linux solely.<p>More Games means more user means more games (means better gpu-driver). It's a really old theory, and i think it's one that is sound, that linux somehow has to start the spirale and end the issue of having not enough user for games and therefor not enough games for users. Steam with some Valve-games could change that indeed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danssig</author><text>That is interesting news, but turn the OS market upside down? You can't be serious.</text></item><item><author>qxcv</author><text>Looks like this is going to be reality, Phoronix just published the promised article[0] which basically claims that Valve have ported L4D/Source over to Linux already! Exciting news indeed, AAA-titles for Linux could turn the desktop OS market upside down.<p>[0]: <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&#38;item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&#38;num=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&#38;item=valve...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973484/valve-is-developing-steam-for-linux-says-michael-larabel-of-phoronix</url></story> |
18,076,116 | 18,075,314 | 1 | 3 | 18,074,572 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>&gt; does not require the individual instances to have perfect connectivity and perfect trust all the time.<p>The blockchain does not solve the trust issue in this scenario.<p>Blockchains only work there is a verify unit entirely enclosed in the system - including the origins of any &quot;unit&quot; on the system.<p>* Bitcoin&#x2F;Ethereum&#x2F;etc - &quot;coins&quot; are a completely digital concept fully enclosed by the system. &quot;coins&quot; are generated in a predictable, consensus based manner with consensus based means of exchanging their value.<p>* Distributed Filesharing - &quot;files&quot; are stored in encrypted in a verifiable manner. I have an identity (or multiple identities) on the system which I can use to verify the source. Trust does become a factor in something like Civil where credibility is attached to a trust that an author actually published something.<p>* Food - involves a physical good that cannot be verified by the &quot;blockchain&quot;. I can verify that SOME item went through a certain set of checkpoints. I can possibly verify that the SAME item went through a certain set of checkpoints. I cannot however verify the authenticity of any item before entering into the system. I have to rely on a middle-man (e.g. Walmart, Kroger, Whole Foods, etc) to verify authenticity at the origin point. They also have to implement safe guards that ensure goods cannot be tampered with between checkpoints. That relies on trusting the middleman to have appropriate safeguards in place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bayesian_horse</author><text>As I understand it, a blockchain is a decentralized database which does not require the individual instances to have perfect connectivity and perfect trust all the time.<p>I can see why that would be something worth doing in a food chain. To trace, for example, a particular load of soy beans to a customer eating a steak, there are a couple of completely autonomous companies&#x2F;sole proprietors involved. From the original soy farmer, through feed production (maybe multiple factories because the soy is processed and later mixed with other ingredients), feed distributors and transporters, to the cattle farm. Again the individual animal can change hands multiple times, for example a bull calf can be fed soy based milk exchangers at a dairy farm where it was born, then be sold to a farm that raises it to market (with pigs there can be three different farmers from piglet to market maturity), then to the slaughterhouse, the meat goes to food processors and then into a distribution channel.<p>Easily a dozen or two separate legal entities. I can see why it could be hard to connect each of them to a central database reliably may be tricky.</text></item><item><author>code4tee</author><text>IBM is quietly brushing its Watson mess under the carpet and now they’re trying to focus on blockchain. However this is just as substanceless and full of marketing fluff as Watson was.<p>There’s nothing being done here that couldn’t or shouldn’t just be handled with a traditional database. Having IBM “run it” also sort of defeats the whole decentralized aspect of blockchain technologies.<p>You don’t need “blockchain” to track where your produce came from. This is just a marketing play through and though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain</title><url>https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/09/24/walmart-requires-lettuce-spinach-suppliers-to-join-blockchain/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stinky613</author><text>But everyone involved is entering the information into the same IBM software front-end (&quot;Food Trust&quot;)... So all players involved are using the same front-end and the same back-end, and only Walmart &amp; IBM have the ability to change anything. How does a blockchain benefit anyone (other than IBM) in this situation?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bayesian_horse</author><text>As I understand it, a blockchain is a decentralized database which does not require the individual instances to have perfect connectivity and perfect trust all the time.<p>I can see why that would be something worth doing in a food chain. To trace, for example, a particular load of soy beans to a customer eating a steak, there are a couple of completely autonomous companies&#x2F;sole proprietors involved. From the original soy farmer, through feed production (maybe multiple factories because the soy is processed and later mixed with other ingredients), feed distributors and transporters, to the cattle farm. Again the individual animal can change hands multiple times, for example a bull calf can be fed soy based milk exchangers at a dairy farm where it was born, then be sold to a farm that raises it to market (with pigs there can be three different farmers from piglet to market maturity), then to the slaughterhouse, the meat goes to food processors and then into a distribution channel.<p>Easily a dozen or two separate legal entities. I can see why it could be hard to connect each of them to a central database reliably may be tricky.</text></item><item><author>code4tee</author><text>IBM is quietly brushing its Watson mess under the carpet and now they’re trying to focus on blockchain. However this is just as substanceless and full of marketing fluff as Watson was.<p>There’s nothing being done here that couldn’t or shouldn’t just be handled with a traditional database. Having IBM “run it” also sort of defeats the whole decentralized aspect of blockchain technologies.<p>You don’t need “blockchain” to track where your produce came from. This is just a marketing play through and though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain</title><url>https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/09/24/walmart-requires-lettuce-spinach-suppliers-to-join-blockchain/</url></story> |
10,852,007 | 10,852,043 | 1 | 2 | 10,851,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aresant</author><text>I literally feel sorry for you, not in an unfriendly way, that you haven&#x27;t seen the right demo yet and can&#x27;t share the insane excitement that I have for this technology.<p>This is the FIRST consumer release! This is the Palm Pilot 1 of VR.<p>Yes most of the content right now is mediocre but there are some mindblowing experiences too.<p>For instance Elite Dangerous + DK2 + Motion Sim.<p>It literally feels like you are piloting a craft in outer space.<p>Here&#x27;s a demo - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pqr8ee7GORY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pqr8ee7GORY</a><p>I have a similar rig and I literally have to fight off the skeptics &#x2F; marginally interested after they try it.<p>The &quot;strap on a clumsy&quot; headset part is going to go away quickly. Every sensor in there is being miniaturized by the day. Magic Leap (and others) are using tricks to project imagery directly onto your retina. The form factor will wind up wireless, probably look similar to google glass.<p>Oculus + 3D audio + input + eventual tactical is going to completely blur the lines of reality in ways we can&#x27;t yet imagine - gaming, training, social interaction, SEX, therapy, etc, etc - it&#x27;s all going to be different in 10 years because of VR.<p>I believe that being a student of VR at this point, which I believe will be the top mechanism to consume content in the future, is akin to being an early iphone dev.<p>Plus gave me a good excuse to order the CV1 :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>I think the biggest risk to adoption is real-world interest.<p>I get that VR is a fun tech, and has some potentially cool possibilities. But to me and seemingly many other people, it&#x27;s just not that interesting. I don&#x27;t know why, maybe I&#x27;m not geek enough, but I just have zero interest. And frankly it feels kind of like a gimmick. I&#x27;m especially averse to the idea of strapping on a clumsy headset every time I want to use it.<p>In fact, I wish Carmack and Newell would stop messing around with it and go back to producing quality games.<p>Downvote away</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order</title><url>https://shop.oculus.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>thescriptkiddie</author><text>Have you tried VR? It sounds like either you haven&#x27;t, or you did and had a shitty experience - because it wasn&#x27;t until very recently that VR was even remotely usable. You should give the Oculus a shot when you have a chance. Sure, the headset is annoying to put on. But once you&#x27;ve spent a few hours in a high-quality VR experience, games on a normal monitor just feel clumsy and claustrophobic.<p>Carmack and Newell <i>are</i> going back to producing quality games. Those two have been in semi-retirement for years now, and VR is the thing that finally got them excited to make things again. Those two have been dreaming about VR gaming since the day multiplayer was added to Doom.<p>Also, the trolls still haven&#x27;t figured out how to downvote here. Don&#x27;t tip them off.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>I think the biggest risk to adoption is real-world interest.<p>I get that VR is a fun tech, and has some potentially cool possibilities. But to me and seemingly many other people, it&#x27;s just not that interesting. I don&#x27;t know why, maybe I&#x27;m not geek enough, but I just have zero interest. And frankly it feels kind of like a gimmick. I&#x27;m especially averse to the idea of strapping on a clumsy headset every time I want to use it.<p>In fact, I wish Carmack and Newell would stop messing around with it and go back to producing quality games.<p>Downvote away</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order</title><url>https://shop.oculus.com/</url></story> |
38,817,127 | 38,706,505 | 1 | 3 | 38,694,004 | 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>k__</author><text>WhatsApp it is in Germany.<p>Nevertheless, I saw multiple discussions (from non-technical people) about using signal or telegram in the last years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tomte</author><text>Most people don&#x27;t have friends on other continents. At least for Germany I can confidently say that there is nothing (except rounding error) besides WhatsApp. No matter the demographic.<p>I have never experienced a debate which messenger to use, and I have joined about twelve study-related group chats over the last two years. Same for personal messages. Some people have Signal or Telegram installed. After two or three messages for the novelty factor, everybody is back on WhatsApp. Because that app is open all the time.</text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>But it&#x27;s not &#x27;everyone&#x27;, it&#x27;s just grandma. Auntie is using Viber. Grandpa from the other side is using google hangouts (chat? something). And your cousin is using telegram.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.similarweb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;research&#x2F;market-research&#x2F;worldwide-messaging-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.similarweb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;research&#x2F;market-research&#x2F;wor...</a> Just look at the map of most popular messengers worldwide, it&#x27;s not just one.</text></item><item><author>danbruc</author><text>You are not switching away from WhatsApp because that is what everyone is using, not because it would be harder to use Signal.</text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>&gt; And because it is easy to switch, everyone will be using the best<p>But it&#x27;s not easy to switch.<p>E-mail was easy to switch &quot;back then&quot;, when you didn&#x27;t have a bunch of accounts tied to them. IRC was easy to switch, because most of the servers were interconnected into a few large networks, and all the clients used the same protocol.<p>And now? Your grandma only knows how to use whatsapp? Well, you&#x27;re not switching away from that, and facebook is getting all your data.</text></item><item><author>danbruc</author><text>Nobody cares about [de]centralization, for more than 99 % of all internet users it does not matter whether the internet is the internet or a single server sitting in someone&#x27;s basement. They want to use services - chat, write mails, watch videos, have a website, buy stuff, sell stuff - not run infrastructure of any kind. So nobody is going to have their own servers, they will all use existing services. And because it is easy to switch, everyone will be using the best - for some definition of best, could be easy to use, cheap, functional, ... - service and everyone else will go out of business. That also makes the internet simpler, there is one place for one kind of service and everyone else will also be there. And this does not only apply to end-users, the move of IT into the cloud is fundamentally the same thing, nobody wants to run the infrastructure.<p>You can maybe argue that everyone has their preferences wrong and they are hurting themselves in the long run, but good luck fighting that battle.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RFC 9518 – What can internet standards do about centralisation?</title><url>https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/12/19/standards-and-centralization</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sureglymop</author><text>I have friends in different continents and the three main messengers I need to communicate are WhatsApp, Telegram and WeChat. Then most people also would like to use Instagram Direct Messages but I don&#x27;t have an account there.
People in eastern Europe largely use Telegram and people in China use WeChat. Everyone else mostly WhatsApp. I don&#x27;t exactly know how it is in the US though, perhaps iMessage is more popular there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tomte</author><text>Most people don&#x27;t have friends on other continents. At least for Germany I can confidently say that there is nothing (except rounding error) besides WhatsApp. No matter the demographic.<p>I have never experienced a debate which messenger to use, and I have joined about twelve study-related group chats over the last two years. Same for personal messages. Some people have Signal or Telegram installed. After two or three messages for the novelty factor, everybody is back on WhatsApp. Because that app is open all the time.</text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>But it&#x27;s not &#x27;everyone&#x27;, it&#x27;s just grandma. Auntie is using Viber. Grandpa from the other side is using google hangouts (chat? something). And your cousin is using telegram.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.similarweb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;research&#x2F;market-research&#x2F;worldwide-messaging-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.similarweb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;research&#x2F;market-research&#x2F;wor...</a> Just look at the map of most popular messengers worldwide, it&#x27;s not just one.</text></item><item><author>danbruc</author><text>You are not switching away from WhatsApp because that is what everyone is using, not because it would be harder to use Signal.</text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>&gt; And because it is easy to switch, everyone will be using the best<p>But it&#x27;s not easy to switch.<p>E-mail was easy to switch &quot;back then&quot;, when you didn&#x27;t have a bunch of accounts tied to them. IRC was easy to switch, because most of the servers were interconnected into a few large networks, and all the clients used the same protocol.<p>And now? Your grandma only knows how to use whatsapp? Well, you&#x27;re not switching away from that, and facebook is getting all your data.</text></item><item><author>danbruc</author><text>Nobody cares about [de]centralization, for more than 99 % of all internet users it does not matter whether the internet is the internet or a single server sitting in someone&#x27;s basement. They want to use services - chat, write mails, watch videos, have a website, buy stuff, sell stuff - not run infrastructure of any kind. So nobody is going to have their own servers, they will all use existing services. And because it is easy to switch, everyone will be using the best - for some definition of best, could be easy to use, cheap, functional, ... - service and everyone else will go out of business. That also makes the internet simpler, there is one place for one kind of service and everyone else will also be there. And this does not only apply to end-users, the move of IT into the cloud is fundamentally the same thing, nobody wants to run the infrastructure.<p>You can maybe argue that everyone has their preferences wrong and they are hurting themselves in the long run, but good luck fighting that battle.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RFC 9518 – What can internet standards do about centralisation?</title><url>https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/12/19/standards-and-centralization</url></story> |
33,118,370 | 33,117,172 | 1 | 3 | 33,116,940 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbm</author><text>During the real estate bubble of the 70s and 80s in Japan, there was a type of Real Estate property that involved selling small parcels of land in forests that had no roads coming to them. This was called 原野商法, and in an era with a serious real estate bubble and before Google Maps existed, there were many people who were conned by these ads - and not for small amounts of money.<p>Now, many years later, many people are still hanging onto the properties and are unable to unload them as they cannot conceive that their holdings are worthless. The shady RE companies sold their information (or passed it along within their &#x27;organization&#x27;) and the land purchasers are now preyed upon again; this time, by scammers who claim they can sell the property (but require a ~$3000 payment in advance).<p>This PDF is the crypto equivalent of that forest land buyers list, and everyone on it can look forward to being preyed upon for the rest of their life.<p>(Here is a great video about the whole sordid thing, Japanese only though <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TPzTDRmtozc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TPzTDRmtozc</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Celsius exposes the names of all customers</title><url>https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/celsius-exposes-the-names-of-all-customers-and-their-recent-transactions-in-court-filing--including-their-execs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dereg</author><text>This is burying the lede here, which is that you can correlate the transactions to on-chain data to dox customer addresses and transactions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Celsius exposes the names of all customers</title><url>https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/celsius-exposes-the-names-of-all-customers-and-their-recent-transactions-in-court-filing--including-their-execs</url></story> |
19,480,660 | 19,480,602 | 1 | 2 | 19,479,636 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>Selling a new small phone is a market problem for Apple.<p>The form factor inherently makes it less expensive to manufacture. Bigger screens cost more etc. Which creates a pricing problem for them.<p>If they price it like a small phone (i.e. lower price) they cannibalize sales of larger phones with higher total margins, and lose money. If they price it with the same total margin as the larger phones, it&#x27;d still be the lowest priced current generation phone in their lineup, but would then compare very poorly on price to similar spec Android phones, which makes their brand look overpriced (as opposed to premium).<p>About the only way it would make sense is to make it a premium product. Give it the fastest available processor etc. so it can justify a premium price despite the size. But that&#x27;s a difficult engineering problem. A faster processor uses more power and generates more heat, but smaller phones have less room for a big battery and less surface area to dissipate heat. And finding a solution for that is extra hard because what it needs is an advantage relative to larger phones, but if you improve performance per watt or battery density in general then the same improvement can go into the larger phone too and you still have no relative advantage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>I’m going to add to the dogpile here and add: I am really not sure how I can vote with my wallet more than I currently do.<p>I had a 5S; upgraded to a 6S and spent a year with it, but I really hated the size of the phone and realised that small phones were entirely gone by the end of my time with the 6S.<p>I tried Android for a while but it was Samsung’s Android and was not for me, I was frustrated and annoyed after every interaction with my phone. After a year of that I went and got an iPhone SE. I’m still very happy with my choice. (Although my AirPods sometimes cut out and I think its due to the size of my Bluetooth antennae)<p>I buy a fair amount of Apple stuff, I’m on the highest iCloud storage tier, I have AirPods, Mac Pro’s, MacBook Pro’s etc; if they have &#x2F;any&#x2F; customer profiling at all they must realise that I certainly have the means to “upgrade” but doggedly refuse to do so.<p>When I picked this phone up I bought apple care for as long as I could. I will attempt to extend Apple care on this phone (or buy a new SE if it’s available) before support on this expires.<p>How else can I show my support to the small phone factor?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/clearance</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>The same is going to happen for Apple&#x27;s &quot;Professional&quot; Macbooks.<p>2015 I think was the last year they made a decent Macbook? Since then it&#x27;s been the touch bar (annoying but functional but potentially useful) and an absolute shit-show of a keyboard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>I’m going to add to the dogpile here and add: I am really not sure how I can vote with my wallet more than I currently do.<p>I had a 5S; upgraded to a 6S and spent a year with it, but I really hated the size of the phone and realised that small phones were entirely gone by the end of my time with the 6S.<p>I tried Android for a while but it was Samsung’s Android and was not for me, I was frustrated and annoyed after every interaction with my phone. After a year of that I went and got an iPhone SE. I’m still very happy with my choice. (Although my AirPods sometimes cut out and I think its due to the size of my Bluetooth antennae)<p>I buy a fair amount of Apple stuff, I’m on the highest iCloud storage tier, I have AirPods, Mac Pro’s, MacBook Pro’s etc; if they have &#x2F;any&#x2F; customer profiling at all they must realise that I certainly have the means to “upgrade” but doggedly refuse to do so.<p>When I picked this phone up I bought apple care for as long as I could. I will attempt to extend Apple care on this phone (or buy a new SE if it’s available) before support on this expires.<p>How else can I show my support to the small phone factor?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/clearance</url></story> |
19,897,816 | 19,897,602 | 1 | 2 | 19,897,250 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>filleokus</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;d need a economic&#x2F;cultural revolution at a global scale. Everything has to scale down, no more ICE, not more plastic, no more food imported from the other side of the world, reduce meat consumption, reduce traveling &amp;c.<p>This is a sentiment that rubs me the wrong way. I totally agree that we, at a global scale, need to drastically reduce our carbon footprint. And these reductions will have changes to our society. But many of the suggestions of those currently engaged in the cultural revolution are either focusing on small problems (like not buying food in plastic containers) or have complicated unintended consequences (like buying locally grown foods).<p>Shipping stuff on large boats is incredibly efficient per kg&#x2F;km. It&#x27;s not unlikely that I emit more Co2 driving my car to&#x2F;from the grocery store than the emissions from shipping all the things I purchase to the store itself.<p>We should focus on things like stopping the burning of fossil fule for electricity generation and carbon natural land based transportation long before we almost religiously ban plastic straws.<p>I don&#x27;t think the best way forward to actually solving this problem is engaging in some almost Protestant self hatred and punishment, trying to make the transition as impactful on our lives as possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lm28469</author><text>Because it&#x27;s much easier to deny something that big than to take care of it. We&#x27;d need a economic&#x2F;cultural revolution at a global scale. Everything has to scale down, no more ICE, not more plastic, no more food imported from the other side of the world, reduce meat consumption, reduce traveling &amp;c.<p>The current system is based on unlimited and exponential growth, everything else is considered a failure. An unlimited growth in a finite environment isn&#x27;t possible, it&#x27;s called instability.<p>The second problem is that many people convince themselves that &quot;Science&quot; will save us, that we&#x27;ll terraform Mars or that shifting to electric cars will be enough, but that&#x27;s too little, too late. Even if we&#x27;d hit our ecological goals, and we&#x27;re not, we&#x27;d be far from fixing the problem. We don&#x27;t need to slow down, we need a complete paradigm shift. It&#x27;s like when you move form a basic 40sq meter flat to a fancy 250sq meter house, going back is very hard.</text></item><item><author>Avalaxy</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is why this is so controversial. I clicked on a link in the article, leading to this article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;new-study-shows-human-development-is-destroying-the-planet-at-an-unprecedented-rate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;new-study-shows-human-deve...</a>. The comment on it is extremely dismissive about climate change. I see this on pretty much every news website nowadays. First of all I don&#x27;t see how man-made climate change is even controversial with the amount of evidence we have, but furthermore I don&#x27;t see why we shouldn&#x27;t transition to renewable energy asap anyway. Even if climate change would be a hoax (which it is not), then why would it be a bad thing to make changes to prevent it from happening anyway? Why would it be a bad thing to get rid of air pollution? Why would it be a bad thing to switch to an energy source that doesn&#x27;t run out in ~20 years simply because it isn&#x27;t renewable?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/12/co2-in-the-atmosphere-just-exceeded-415-parts-per-million-for-the-first-time-in-human-history/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crispinb</author><text><i>An unlimited growth in a finite environment isn&#x27;t possible</i><p>Even limited &#x27;growth&#x27; has not actually happened. It&#x27;s a fiction. The physical reality is that complex sustainable evolved systems have been broken down to feed simpler crude unsustainable techological ones. There&#x27;s no &#x27;growth&#x27; to be seen - just an increase in planetary entropy. This is somewhat masked on a short-term &amp; local scale because of the remarkable resilience of the evolved systems. But as those systems collapse, which now seems inevitable, the fictional nature of &#x27;economic growth&#x27; will become very evident indeed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lm28469</author><text>Because it&#x27;s much easier to deny something that big than to take care of it. We&#x27;d need a economic&#x2F;cultural revolution at a global scale. Everything has to scale down, no more ICE, not more plastic, no more food imported from the other side of the world, reduce meat consumption, reduce traveling &amp;c.<p>The current system is based on unlimited and exponential growth, everything else is considered a failure. An unlimited growth in a finite environment isn&#x27;t possible, it&#x27;s called instability.<p>The second problem is that many people convince themselves that &quot;Science&quot; will save us, that we&#x27;ll terraform Mars or that shifting to electric cars will be enough, but that&#x27;s too little, too late. Even if we&#x27;d hit our ecological goals, and we&#x27;re not, we&#x27;d be far from fixing the problem. We don&#x27;t need to slow down, we need a complete paradigm shift. It&#x27;s like when you move form a basic 40sq meter flat to a fancy 250sq meter house, going back is very hard.</text></item><item><author>Avalaxy</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is why this is so controversial. I clicked on a link in the article, leading to this article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;new-study-shows-human-development-is-destroying-the-planet-at-an-unprecedented-rate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;new-study-shows-human-deve...</a>. The comment on it is extremely dismissive about climate change. I see this on pretty much every news website nowadays. First of all I don&#x27;t see how man-made climate change is even controversial with the amount of evidence we have, but furthermore I don&#x27;t see why we shouldn&#x27;t transition to renewable energy asap anyway. Even if climate change would be a hoax (which it is not), then why would it be a bad thing to make changes to prevent it from happening anyway? Why would it be a bad thing to get rid of air pollution? Why would it be a bad thing to switch to an energy source that doesn&#x27;t run out in ~20 years simply because it isn&#x27;t renewable?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/12/co2-in-the-atmosphere-just-exceeded-415-parts-per-million-for-the-first-time-in-human-history/</url></story> |
30,955,148 | 30,955,151 | 1 | 2 | 30,953,634 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>The scp <i>protocol</i> is being removed, but the scp <i>command</i> you find convenient isn&#x27;t going anywhere. So that convenience ought not to change, except that now the quoting does what you probably expect, because it&#x27;s just a local command and so nothing weird is happening.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raspyberr</author><text>What&#x27;s actually a convenient way of transferring files across a network if scp is being removed?<p>Update: Thanks for the replies. I should&#x27;ve done a bit of extra research about scp first. Guess this is an example of Cunningham&#x27;s Law.</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>I like how they do new side effect of improvement with downsides. We can get used to this, and then they can deprecate scp&#x2F;rcp in a future release.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenSSH 9.0</title><url>https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.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>perbu</author><text>I&#x27;m somewhat of an old fart, but rsync(1) has worked well for me. It integrates well with ssh on both sides, using ssh channels to execute the binary on the server side and transporting data nicely back and forth.<p>It isn&#x27;t suited for millions of files, but neither is scp.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raspyberr</author><text>What&#x27;s actually a convenient way of transferring files across a network if scp is being removed?<p>Update: Thanks for the replies. I should&#x27;ve done a bit of extra research about scp first. Guess this is an example of Cunningham&#x27;s Law.</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>I like how they do new side effect of improvement with downsides. We can get used to this, and then they can deprecate scp&#x2F;rcp in a future release.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenSSH 9.0</title><url>https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html</url></story> |
12,124,810 | 12,120,233 | 1 | 2 | 12,118,593 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tboyd47</author><text>You are correct. I&#x27;ve come to see it as one of many psychological responses of developers to work they feel is beneath their skillset. People with advanced computer science backgrounds often end up in web development just that&#x27;s where the jobs are, and most of the work is not in solving difficult problems. Mostly, you are just pulling data out of a database and displaying it in HTML. The thought of doing that for your entire career as a programmer is intolerable to some people, so they concoct any ingenious scheme they can to rise above it. For some people, this results in an obsession with writing modular code they can re-use. Another response is to delve into obscure, hyper-intellectual programming languages. Another is to become obsessed with markers of system robustness like availability and concurrency to the point where all of your decisions as a programmer optimize for those. I&#x27;ve seen all of these (and been guilty of some of them).<p>The interesting bit is that these people are often very eloquent and convincing in making others believe that they have an objectively better way to program, and that this is THE way to advance in the field, and not just some elaborate game created to stave off boredom. Never mind the fact that you&#x27;re still just doing things like validating phone numbers and moving buttons slightly to the right. This is nothing less than the future of computer science!<p>So you end up with a herd effect where greener or less-capable developers follow these &quot;thought leaders&quot; blindly, resulting in the fragmentation we&#x27;re in now. I find it interesting how &quot;Five Whys&quot; has made its way into dev culture as a line of questioning for business requirements, but never for tech requirements. &quot;It&#x27;s getting more and more popular every day,&quot; or, &quot;It&#x27;s going to look great on your resume,&quot; is often the end of the discussion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Falkon1313</author><text>In my early days of programming, things began with realizing that I could use this wonderfully powerful system to solve problems (almost any problem you could model!) and create things (almost anything you could want to simulate!). I just had to figure out how to model the domain problem logically in a useful way, or what aspects of something to simulate, and how to allow the user to interact with it.<p>That soon changed. In learning about programming, one can&#x27;t help but to come across the writings of those preaching the gospel of the holy virtues of &#x27;reusable code&#x27;. Modular code, libraries, object-oriented code, design patterns, frameworks, plugins, APIs, services, stacks and toolchains!<p>So programming is now largely about resolving a ton of dependency issues and getting scores of different modules, frameworks, libraries, APIs, etc. to play nicely with each other. Instead of using our brainpower to understand and model the domain problems that are ostensibly the reason for our software, we&#x27;re using it trying to figure out how the heck to glom together all this generic abstract code and modify the output to vaguely resemble something in the domain, in a way that won&#x27;t perform so horrendously that customers immediately give up on it.<p>We write hooks, overrides, and underrides to throw out the work that the reusable code is doing and get it to do what we want (more-or-less). We write translation and adaptation and bridge layers to convert the data structures used by one module to those used by another (and vice-versa) and eventually to something roughly approximating the domain data. We set up elaborate clusters of interdependent modules, submodules, plugins for our plugins, all on top of a generic framework that wasn&#x27;t even designed with the domain in mind.<p>As a profession, we&#x27;ve gone way too overboard trying to do everything with reusable code. This is why it can take several hours to do something as simple as change a link (and that can completely break something seemingly-unrelated elsewhere in the system). And it&#x27;s kind of amusing that we&#x27;re now adding layers of complexity to manage the layers of complexity.<p>I want to get back to focusing on building logical models that fit the domain, solving problems, and simulating things. For that we need a new doctrine of vertical development that doesn&#x27;t just religiously say &quot;Throw another layer of indirection and generic abstraction on it! Yay reusable code!&quot; as a sacred solution for everything. Sure, code reuse can be good, but let&#x27;s be sensible about it, not kid-in-a-candy-store crazy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated</title><url>http://en.arguman.org/web-programming-is-getting-unnecessarily-complicated</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marklgr</author><text>Reusable code, frameworks or plugins are fine, the problem is their cambrian explosion since now anyone can jump in and publish some JavaScript or Go code, especially with the micro-stuff trend. So we end up with zillions of projects competing for traction, and we move from one new cool and shiny thing to the next, for all (micro-)components of the stack.<p>This is the often-forgotten cost of competition (for all its merits) as opposed to cooperation: it wastes time and energy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Falkon1313</author><text>In my early days of programming, things began with realizing that I could use this wonderfully powerful system to solve problems (almost any problem you could model!) and create things (almost anything you could want to simulate!). I just had to figure out how to model the domain problem logically in a useful way, or what aspects of something to simulate, and how to allow the user to interact with it.<p>That soon changed. In learning about programming, one can&#x27;t help but to come across the writings of those preaching the gospel of the holy virtues of &#x27;reusable code&#x27;. Modular code, libraries, object-oriented code, design patterns, frameworks, plugins, APIs, services, stacks and toolchains!<p>So programming is now largely about resolving a ton of dependency issues and getting scores of different modules, frameworks, libraries, APIs, etc. to play nicely with each other. Instead of using our brainpower to understand and model the domain problems that are ostensibly the reason for our software, we&#x27;re using it trying to figure out how the heck to glom together all this generic abstract code and modify the output to vaguely resemble something in the domain, in a way that won&#x27;t perform so horrendously that customers immediately give up on it.<p>We write hooks, overrides, and underrides to throw out the work that the reusable code is doing and get it to do what we want (more-or-less). We write translation and adaptation and bridge layers to convert the data structures used by one module to those used by another (and vice-versa) and eventually to something roughly approximating the domain data. We set up elaborate clusters of interdependent modules, submodules, plugins for our plugins, all on top of a generic framework that wasn&#x27;t even designed with the domain in mind.<p>As a profession, we&#x27;ve gone way too overboard trying to do everything with reusable code. This is why it can take several hours to do something as simple as change a link (and that can completely break something seemingly-unrelated elsewhere in the system). And it&#x27;s kind of amusing that we&#x27;re now adding layers of complexity to manage the layers of complexity.<p>I want to get back to focusing on building logical models that fit the domain, solving problems, and simulating things. For that we need a new doctrine of vertical development that doesn&#x27;t just religiously say &quot;Throw another layer of indirection and generic abstraction on it! Yay reusable code!&quot; as a sacred solution for everything. Sure, code reuse can be good, but let&#x27;s be sensible about it, not kid-in-a-candy-store crazy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web Programming Is Getting Unnecessarily Complicated</title><url>http://en.arguman.org/web-programming-is-getting-unnecessarily-complicated</url></story> |
34,108,829 | 34,108,196 | 1 | 2 | 34,105,063 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>retrac</author><text>Sign languages are not coded speech. They are languages with their own grammar and vocabulary. For example, American SL is descended from Old French Sign Language and is partially understandable by French SL speakers today, while British SL is completely different, not in the same language family. It is even possible to write sign language. it is done like with spoken language. The most basic components, akin to phonemes in spoken language, are a closed set, assigning a symbol to each allows lossless transcription. Mostly used by linguists; but there are some books in ASL.<p>Deaf people who speak sign language natively approach English as a second language. And it is hard to learn a spoken language when deaf. English literacy rates among ASL native speakers are rather low.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve wondered... when politicians give speeches they often have some hand gesturing from a sign language interpreter standing next to them. But I&#x27;ve never understood why this is better than subtitles. If you&#x27;re deaf then wouldn&#x27;t you rather read text than follow sign language?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BBC Subtitle Guidelines</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/forproducts/guides/subtitles/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>Think about how you learn to read - you &#x27;sound out&#x27; words, turning letters into sounds to match them to a pronunciation to figure out what word is represented.<p>Now imagine trying to learn how to do that when you have <i>never heard any words spoken out loud</i>.<p>People who are deaf from birth often have a lot of difficulty with spelling and reading, because both skills are closely connected to saying and hearing words. Connecting written words to lip movements (which is kind of the closest thing to &#x27;phonics&#x27; for a deaf person) is lossy - the letter-to-lip connections are fuzzier than letter-to-sound, and lip-to-letter is very ambiguous.<p>Subtitles are great for people who are confident and comfortable readers - say, people who have become deaf due to age - but for some deaf people following subtitles can be like asking someone who&#x27;s dyslexic to quickly read a sentence out loud.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve wondered... when politicians give speeches they often have some hand gesturing from a sign language interpreter standing next to them. But I&#x27;ve never understood why this is better than subtitles. If you&#x27;re deaf then wouldn&#x27;t you rather read text than follow sign language?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BBC Subtitle Guidelines</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/forproducts/guides/subtitles/</url></story> |
37,674,960 | 37,672,706 | 1 | 2 | 37,670,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whartung</author><text>I’ll share this anecdote told by a friend of mine.<p>He was on a team building a Modula-2 compiler for OS&#x2F;2, and his group was working on the debugger.<p>At some point a debugger becomes feature complete enough that you can use the debugger to ... debug the debugger.<p>But this was OS&#x2F;2 which has true multiple processes (unlike it’s contemporary Windows 3.1). So you could, naturally, run the debugger in one process and attached it to another process which, just so happens to be another instance of the debugger.<p>As with all things, while doing this they encountered bugs in the debugger that, well, needed to be debugged.<p>He said there was a certain epiphany when they realized, because of the multi process nature of OS&#x2F;2, that they could debug the debugger debugging the debugger.<p>I would imagine this took a bit of focus. Turn away for a moment and probably really messes with your head.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints</title><url>https://www.timdbg.com/posts/writing-a-debugger-from-scratch-part-5/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekidd</author><text>This is a great series!<p>I noticed that the author was using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hydro-project&#x2F;rust-sitter">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hydro-project&#x2F;rust-sitter</a> as a parser. Which is based on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tree-sitter.github.io&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tree-sitter.github.io&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;</a>. I&#x27;ve been hearing about Tree-sitter a lot recently, so I dug into it.<p>Tree-sitter is a tool for generating fast, incremental parsers. In particular, the algorithm is suited towards writing &quot;language servers&quot; for IDEs, which re-parse code incrementally as the user works. These kinds of incremental parsers have historically been a huge problem. It looks like Tree-sitter is an enormous practical advance in this area.<p>And discovering that there&#x27;s a way to use Tree-sitter from Rust is <i>fantastic</i>. From the post:<p><pre><code> #[rust_sitter::language]
pub enum EvalExpr {
Number(
#[rust_sitter::leaf(
pattern = r&quot;(\d+|0x[0-9a-fA-F]+)&quot;,
transform = parse_int
)]
u64
),
Symbol(
#[rust_sitter::leaf(
pattern = r&quot;(([a-zA-Z0-9_@#.]+!)?[a-zA-Z0-9_@#.]+)&quot;,
transform = parse_sym
)]
String
),
&#x2F;&#x2F; ...
</code></pre>
Getting easy access to fast, incremental parsing is a huge win. And Tree-Sitter has support for being used from a huge list of languages, not just Rust.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints</title><url>https://www.timdbg.com/posts/writing-a-debugger-from-scratch-part-5/</url></story> |
14,648,997 | 14,647,607 | 1 | 2 | 14,643,429 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Fezzik</author><text>After seeing this I am committed to re-subscribing to National Geographic when I get home. It is pricey, but I would hate to see this publication go out of print. It has inspired so many people for decades. Sure, it could be replaced, but it is one of the great pillars of the publication world. Shame on me for not doing so sooner.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deepest Dive Under Antarctica</title><url>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/under-antarctica-frozen-beauty-exotic-creatures-penguins/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danielvf</author><text>This is well worth your time. The photographs are other worldly.<p>I never knew seawater could be so clear. At first I assumed the must have been using photoshop to make some of these landscapes.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deepest Dive Under Antarctica</title><url>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/under-antarctica-frozen-beauty-exotic-creatures-penguins/</url></story> |
4,278,865 | 4,278,564 | 1 | 2 | 4,278,142 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>user49598</author><text>On a somewhat related note, as far as animals go, jelly fish are nuts. I mean they're barely animals at all. From wikipedia: "Most jellyfish do not have specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems." and, "Jellyfish have no brain nor central nervous system". No brain? I mean come on. Jelly fish are floating piles of goo with absolutely no purpose or delight in life other than being floating piles of goo. It's made weirder by how big some of them get, "Jellyfish range from about one millimeter in bell height and diameter to nearly two meters in bell height and diameter; the tentacles and mouth parts usually extend beyond this bell dimension." Giant brainless animals roam the ocean looking to sting and absorb prey without ever really knowing they're even doing it. They're pretty much ocean zombies.<p>They're nuts, and are a great example of how evolution cares about nothing but survival.<p>[1]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Artificial jellyfish made from silicone and rat muscle (video)</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046</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>arturadib</author><text>&#62; <i>We built an animal</i><p>No they didn't. They built a sheet of biological material that pulsates when placed in an electrical field. Animals reproduce, and hence adapt and evolve.<p>It's a neat gadget, but let's not get too carried away.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Artificial jellyfish made from silicone and rat muscle (video)</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells-1.11046</url><text></text></story> |
36,944,208 | 36,943,405 | 1 | 2 | 36,940,916 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>This always fascinating to see a person that maintains a ton of package, knowing full well that there is no way that they actively use all that software themselves. At the same time there are millions of us that just expects a package to be available, but never think to offer to at least help maintain a something. Frequently it&#x27;s not even that hard, sure there are a few specialized packages which require more skills, but packaging up a Python library is something most of us could easily do.<p>Generally all of us needs to be better at pitching in where we can and not be depended on a few people overworking themselves.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The most prolific packager for Alpine Linux is stepping away</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-Prolific-Packager</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derealized</author><text>I&#x27;ve been in this situation at a couple of companies. Very prolific in the first year, only to burn out.<p>At my new job, I&#x27;m taking it easy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The most prolific packager for Alpine Linux is stepping away</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-Prolific-Packager</url></story> |
15,956,883 | 15,956,199 | 1 | 2 | 15,956,056 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>md224</author><text>A general observation about online comments: when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy &amp; simple way to do so. If your blog has a comments section, that&#x27;s great, but what about all the other platforms that people discuss things on? (Twitter and Reddit [and of course HN!] come to mind.)<p>I would love to see a comments system that provided insight into commentary occurring across the web. Is there a good reason why online discourse is still fragmented?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving from Disqus to Schnack</title><url>https://blog.webkid.io/moving-from-disqus-to-schnack/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cyberdog</author><text>So in order to use this, you need to host a new Node app and SQLite database on your server. Also, things like spam control are now back on you.<p>So why not just use a CMS or blog engine which supports traditional server-side comments? I suppose there is a case if you&#x27;re hosting static HTML pages but still want them to be commentable, but how many people are doing that? I don&#x27;t get the use case for this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving from Disqus to Schnack</title><url>https://blog.webkid.io/moving-from-disqus-to-schnack/</url></story> |
855,301 | 855,347 | 1 | 3 | 855,062 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seiji</author><text>&#60;useless but informative gripe&#62;<p>An actual engineer would know bandwidth isn't something measured in bits per second.<p>Technically, bandwidth is the width of a band of frequencies. For example, the bandwidth between 3 GHz and 4 GHz is 1 GHz. The bandwidth of an 802.11 channel is 22 MHz.<p>Obviously it's a lost cause trying to stop everyone from using "bandwidth" to mean throughput or a data rate. Don't get me started on people using bandwidth to mean how much work they can handle either: "I don't have the bandwidth to handle another project, you better give it to somebody else."<p>&#60;/useless but informative gripe&#62;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth</title><url>http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/10/a_engineers_gui.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>pyre</author><text>Why is he using 1460 as the packet size? He says that it's 1500 minus the packet overhead, but I've always seen MTU as 1492 (I could be recalling incorrectly here). In any case, MTU changes as you travel over various networks with various settings, using various technologies (ethernet,wireless,fiber,etc).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth</title><url>http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/10/a_engineers_gui.html</url></story> |
12,846,510 | 12,846,614 | 1 | 2 | 12,846,089 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaas</author><text>That&#x27;s where we&#x27;d like to see things go as well. Same for Apache. -Josh, head of Let&#x27;s Encrypt</text><parent_chain><item><author>StavrosK</author><text>All the Let&#x27;s Encrypt automation I want to see is:<p>sudo service nginx start<p>And nginx gets&#x2F;renews certificates automatically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Let's Automate Let's Encrypt</title><url>https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lets-automate-lets-encrypt</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vertex-four</author><text>Caddy, another web server, does this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>StavrosK</author><text>All the Let&#x27;s Encrypt automation I want to see is:<p>sudo service nginx start<p>And nginx gets&#x2F;renews certificates automatically.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Let's Automate Let's Encrypt</title><url>https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lets-automate-lets-encrypt</url></story> |
3,536,423 | 3,536,495 | 1 | 3 | 3,536,313 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>I think most MBAs are looking to work for a large company, climb the ladder and so on. The training focuses on that -- it's not called a Masters in Business <i>Administration</i> for the heck of it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies</title><url>http://blog.identified.com/2012/01/new-identified-research-reveals-engineers-far-more-likely-than-mbas-to-build-and-run-companies.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>mathattack</author><text>I'm not sure they're doing good stats...<p>A better first question is, "What % of advanced degree engineers become founders?" and "What % of MBAs become founders?"<p>From there you can go on to questions of size and success.<p>As listed, the answer tells us nothing. For all we know there are 30x as many engineers as MBAs. Or vice versa. The conclusion could be the same as stated too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies</title><url>http://blog.identified.com/2012/01/new-identified-research-reveals-engineers-far-more-likely-than-mbas-to-build-and-run-companies.html</url></story> |
13,693,342 | 13,693,439 | 1 | 2 | 13,692,758 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dtran</author><text>I highly recommend Two Scoops of Django and have recommended to every engineer at my company. The one caveat would be that the newest edition is for Django 1.8, so it&#x27;d be good to check against the docs periodically if anything looks off. Off the top of my head, the main thing I&#x27;d keep an eye out for would be changes to Class-Based Views like permissions mixins, although if I remember correctly, most of those changes were just moving things in django-braces to Django core.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pmulv</author><text>This is a bit off topic, but can anyone suggest a decent Django tutorial? I&#x27;ve just recently learned python, and would like to build a few projects using Django. I completed Django&#x27;s official tutorial[1], but when it came time for me to actually start building something, I found I didn&#x27;t really understand what was going on. I should mention I&#x27;m inexperienced in both web application development and python in general.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.djangoproject.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;1.10&#x2F;intro&#x2F;tutorial01&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.djangoproject.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;1.10&#x2F;intro&#x2F;tutorial01&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Django 1.11 beta 1 released</title><url>https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/feb/20/django-111-beta-1-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rainloft</author><text>I really dig MDN&#x27;s tutorial: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Learn&#x2F;Server-side&#x2F;Django" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Learn&#x2F;Server-side&#x2F;D...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pmulv</author><text>This is a bit off topic, but can anyone suggest a decent Django tutorial? I&#x27;ve just recently learned python, and would like to build a few projects using Django. I completed Django&#x27;s official tutorial[1], but when it came time for me to actually start building something, I found I didn&#x27;t really understand what was going on. I should mention I&#x27;m inexperienced in both web application development and python in general.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.djangoproject.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;1.10&#x2F;intro&#x2F;tutorial01&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.djangoproject.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;1.10&#x2F;intro&#x2F;tutorial01&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Django 1.11 beta 1 released</title><url>https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/feb/20/django-111-beta-1-released/</url></story> |
12,209,001 | 12,208,974 | 1 | 3 | 12,208,486 | 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>daemin</author><text>You can actually have Windows logged in with a local account (normal old school account) and use the store with a different Live account.<p>But yes, I am quite annoyed by them requiring that I use online credentials to log in to a physical computer. I prefer to separate the two authentication mechanisms.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>And people wonder why some of us haven&#x27;t upgraded from Windows 7.<p>Win10 tries <i>really hard</i> to make you log into your desktop with your Live Account credentials - you can&#x27;t use the store without this. Whereas if it were just leaking a local login it would be much less critical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8 and Above</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2016/08/02/microsoft-live-account-credentials-leaking-from-windows-8-and-above/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fraqed</author><text>There is an option when you install an app to only use your Live Account for that app. This way you can still have a local account and use store apps.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lifehacker.com&#x2F;install-windows-10-store-apps-without-switching-to-a-mi-1723075610" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lifehacker.com&#x2F;install-windows-10-store-apps-without-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>And people wonder why some of us haven&#x27;t upgraded from Windows 7.<p>Win10 tries <i>really hard</i> to make you log into your desktop with your Live Account credentials - you can&#x27;t use the store without this. Whereas if it were just leaking a local login it would be much less critical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8 and Above</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2016/08/02/microsoft-live-account-credentials-leaking-from-windows-8-and-above/</url></story> |
25,357,623 | 25,357,428 | 1 | 2 | 25,343,356 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>So I noticed that video input is notably unchecked on the current list of features[0]. Looking back at all the hassle that it has always been in Processing and OpenFrameworks (p5.js is lucky to have a browser do the heavy lifting here) this doesn&#x27;t surprise me, so kudos to Nannou for taking the time to try and figure this out properly.<p>Still, do you have any idea on what the progress is in that department?<p>Does the Rust ecosystem provide specific alternatives for individual set-ups? For example, in my case I only care about video capture for Linux. I see that there is a v4l crate out there, as well as something for ffmpeg[1][2]. Is that easy to combine with Nannou? I have zero experience with Rust but if this is not too much hassle I might give it a shot.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;guide.nannou.cc&#x2F;why_nannou.html#goals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;guide.nannou.cc&#x2F;why_nannou.html#goals</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;v4l" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;v4l</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;ffmpeg-next" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;ffmpeg-next</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>modernerd</author><text>Nannou is great! I tried it and found that:<p>1. The initial setup and build time is perhaps a little long or complex for use in classrooms&#x2F;workshops but it&#x27;s fine for personal&#x2F;professional use.<p>2. Rust&#x27;s build time might not feel like a natural fit for creative coding. Even though initial build times are long (~3 minutes on an 8-core 2019 MBP), rebuilds are fast enough to create a short feedback loop. It&#x27;s not as fluid as dynamic languages like Clojure&#x2F;JavaScript, but it&#x27;s good enough.<p>3. It&#x27;s a nice way to learn Rust.<p>4. MacTuiTui is worth following for their Nannou sketches: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;mactuitui&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;mactuitui&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nannou – A Creative Coding Framework for Rust</title><url>https://nannou.cc/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MacTuitui</author><text>I was wondering why the sudden spike in followers...
I&#x27;m also on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MacTuitui" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MacTuitui</a> if you prefer.<p>As for the direct points (note that I am _not_ part of nannou&#x27;s team, just one _heavy_ user):<p>1. That&#x27;s sadly true, it&#x27;s been a long time issue (not only nannou&#x27;s problem to be fair, it&#x27;s shared by all rust projects at the moment): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nannou-org&#x2F;nannou&#x2F;issues&#x2F;178" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nannou-org&#x2F;nannou&#x2F;issues&#x2F;178</a><p>2. If you were following my talk at GitHub universe yesterday where I was livecoding (archive will be up &quot;soon&quot;), the rebuilds are fast enough I don&#x27;t really care (simple stuff are &lt;3s for me, even my latest dailies where I have heaps of extra stuff are averaging &lt;6s rebuild time). The compiler (via lsp) catches most bugs beforehand, so I would say it is not very much an issue at this point. Using a cargo cache will make things far easier as well.<p>3. Exactly why I started using nannou (coming from using processing via scala)!<p>As for the &quot;why nannou?&quot;, and sorry for being nerdy, but nannou is the only framework I know of that does color right: you are working &quot;naturally&quot; in LinSrgb with float16 precision per channel (if that does not speak to you, just look for gamma correction and go down the rabbit hole). The blending of color is exceptional if you&#x27;re into that sort of things (I am: see for example in HQ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;superrare.co&#x2F;artwork-v2&#x2F;road-to-nowhere-12621" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;superrare.co&#x2F;artwork-v2&#x2F;road-to-nowhere-12621</a> )<p>Nannou is also focused towards the future: there&#x27;s been a couple of major backend rewrites from opengl to vulkan then webgpu (without any issues for the end-user if you were using the core nannou api functions): you get to play with the latest toys and finally you get access to your whole GPU. No need to stay in a OpenGL-centric state based workflow (that does not make any sense since years)! I&#x27;ve been able to run crazy compute shaders passes while making my own render pipelines _on top of what nannou does_. It&#x27;s crazy powerful.
Also I have to say the team behind nannou has been wonderful in dealing with my requests over the last two years, and they always provided help when I needed (to be honest, I chose nannou <i>because</i> the team was in Australia, and as I am in Japan, it made communication easy). Huge thanks to them. Have a look at the github issues to see how nice the team is.<p>And with cargo, I&#x27;m confident (not <i>very</i> confident, mind you, but optimistically confident) that I&#x27;ll be able to get the thing building again in a few years.<p>So if your interest peaked a bit, please try it, if you have any questions, join the matrix chat and ask away!</text><parent_chain><item><author>modernerd</author><text>Nannou is great! I tried it and found that:<p>1. The initial setup and build time is perhaps a little long or complex for use in classrooms&#x2F;workshops but it&#x27;s fine for personal&#x2F;professional use.<p>2. Rust&#x27;s build time might not feel like a natural fit for creative coding. Even though initial build times are long (~3 minutes on an 8-core 2019 MBP), rebuilds are fast enough to create a short feedback loop. It&#x27;s not as fluid as dynamic languages like Clojure&#x2F;JavaScript, but it&#x27;s good enough.<p>3. It&#x27;s a nice way to learn Rust.<p>4. MacTuiTui is worth following for their Nannou sketches: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;mactuitui&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;mactuitui&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nannou – A Creative Coding Framework for Rust</title><url>https://nannou.cc/</url></story> |
37,082,590 | 37,080,053 | 1 | 2 | 37,049,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;To do this, a switch needs to physically disconnect the utility meter from the main loads panel ... this is the hard part.<p>It doesn&#x27;t need to be.<p>You can just use a physical interlock and toggle between utility breaker and (any input you want) breaker.<p>You can do this on an integrated meter panel.<p>This is a dead-simple configuration that you can comprehend - and verify - with your own eyes.<p>The lock-out switch is NEC compliant, utility approved, etc.:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Generator-Interlock-Compatible-Homeline-SD200SA&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0BZCHNM3Y&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Generator-Interlock-Compatible-Homeli...</a><p>Yes, you do lose all power for a second or two but ... so much simpler and comprehensible than an ATX solution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>s_tec</author><text>I recently installed an Enphase home backup system as a DIY project (crazy, I know). The biggest problem with any home-backup system is moving the loads onto their own sub-panel. When the utility goes down, power needs to flow into the home, but <i>not</i> to the rest of the neighborhood. To do this, a switch needs to physically disconnect the utility meter from the main loads panel. If this isn&#x27;t possible (such as when the meter is integrated into the panel), all the loads need to move to a sub-panel. This is the hard part.<p>Once the meter and main panel are separate, the various backup solutions become pretty similar. The disconnect switch installs between the two, with the solar and battery attached. Sometimes the disconnect switch + solar + battery are all in one unit (like the Bluetti EP900), while sometimes the solar inverter, battery, and switch are all separate units (like Tesla or Enphase). The Tesla switch and battery are sleek &amp; glossy, but the inverters are ugly. The Enphase stuff isn&#x27;t quite as shiny, but at least the boxes look consistent.<p>Performance-wise, the systems seem pretty similar as well. Most systems are around $10K for 10KWh of capacity, with somewhere around 6-9 KW of peak discharge rate. I imagine these prices will drop a lot over the next decades. If the battery becomes obsolete, just install a different system. Once the home is correctly wired, swapping the storage system should be pretty straightforward.</text></item><item><author>rndmize</author><text>This is something I&#x27;ve been curious&#x2F;interested in for a long time, so its good to see that somewhere out there (random Pacific islands aside), there&#x27;s communities making it work.<p>Some rough numbers I did a month or two ago - Tesla offers a megapack that has 3.9 MWh at a cost of $2.4m. &quot;In 2021, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. home was 10,632 kilowatt-hours (kWh). Or about 886 kWh per month.&quot; That&#x27;s about 30 kWh per day; my community has 45 houses, so use of 1.35 MWh in total, so a megapack will provide power for 3 days for the community at a cost of ~50k per house. Probably not worth it and I&#x27;d expect 3 days to be overkill. But a community that was double our size will have a cost of about 25k per unit for 1.5 days of power - which doesn&#x27;t sound too bad to me.<p>Another thing I&#x27;ve found interesting is Anker seems to be getting into the home power business - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anker.com&#x2F;anker-solix&#x2F;home-energy-solutions?ref=anker-solix-brand" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anker.com&#x2F;anker-solix&#x2F;home-energy-solutions?ref=...</a> - which I&#x27;m hopeful about, since it doesn&#x27;t seem like anyone except Tesla has been able to make something that feels simple&#x2F;easy&#x2F;attractive. Every time I&#x27;ve look at Powerwall alternatives I&#x27;m been unimpressed by the offerings; maybe Anker can deliver.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/realestate/microgrid-solar-power-energy.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>bombcar</author><text>You don&#x27;t move the loads to the sub panel. You make a new main panel, move the feed to that, and turn the old main panel into a sub panel. Much easier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>s_tec</author><text>I recently installed an Enphase home backup system as a DIY project (crazy, I know). The biggest problem with any home-backup system is moving the loads onto their own sub-panel. When the utility goes down, power needs to flow into the home, but <i>not</i> to the rest of the neighborhood. To do this, a switch needs to physically disconnect the utility meter from the main loads panel. If this isn&#x27;t possible (such as when the meter is integrated into the panel), all the loads need to move to a sub-panel. This is the hard part.<p>Once the meter and main panel are separate, the various backup solutions become pretty similar. The disconnect switch installs between the two, with the solar and battery attached. Sometimes the disconnect switch + solar + battery are all in one unit (like the Bluetti EP900), while sometimes the solar inverter, battery, and switch are all separate units (like Tesla or Enphase). The Tesla switch and battery are sleek &amp; glossy, but the inverters are ugly. The Enphase stuff isn&#x27;t quite as shiny, but at least the boxes look consistent.<p>Performance-wise, the systems seem pretty similar as well. Most systems are around $10K for 10KWh of capacity, with somewhere around 6-9 KW of peak discharge rate. I imagine these prices will drop a lot over the next decades. If the battery becomes obsolete, just install a different system. Once the home is correctly wired, swapping the storage system should be pretty straightforward.</text></item><item><author>rndmize</author><text>This is something I&#x27;ve been curious&#x2F;interested in for a long time, so its good to see that somewhere out there (random Pacific islands aside), there&#x27;s communities making it work.<p>Some rough numbers I did a month or two ago - Tesla offers a megapack that has 3.9 MWh at a cost of $2.4m. &quot;In 2021, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. home was 10,632 kilowatt-hours (kWh). Or about 886 kWh per month.&quot; That&#x27;s about 30 kWh per day; my community has 45 houses, so use of 1.35 MWh in total, so a megapack will provide power for 3 days for the community at a cost of ~50k per house. Probably not worth it and I&#x27;d expect 3 days to be overkill. But a community that was double our size will have a cost of about 25k per unit for 1.5 days of power - which doesn&#x27;t sound too bad to me.<p>Another thing I&#x27;ve found interesting is Anker seems to be getting into the home power business - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anker.com&#x2F;anker-solix&#x2F;home-energy-solutions?ref=anker-solix-brand" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anker.com&#x2F;anker-solix&#x2F;home-energy-solutions?ref=...</a> - which I&#x27;m hopeful about, since it doesn&#x27;t seem like anyone except Tesla has been able to make something that feels simple&#x2F;easy&#x2F;attractive. Every time I&#x27;ve look at Powerwall alternatives I&#x27;m been unimpressed by the offerings; maybe Anker can deliver.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/realestate/microgrid-solar-power-energy.html</url></story> |
10,109,875 | 10,109,731 | 1 | 2 | 10,109,381 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CJefferson</author><text>How do we &quot;think for ourselves&quot;? Come up with independant reasoning?<p>Lots of things are highly non-obvious. Vitamins weren&#x27;t discovered until the 20th century. Many baby&#x27;s lives are improved by their mothers taking folic acid. I would never guess how few calories there are in things like raspberries or strawberries without having been told about it.<p>Certainly there is lots of terrible health advice, and it&#x27;s a major issue, telling people to &quot;only read good advice&quot; seems like the worst advice I&#x27;ve ever heard -- obviously we would all only read the good advice if we knew what that was!</text><parent_chain><item><author>mangeletti</author><text>Without any disrespect to the author, why don&#x27;t we all just start thinking for ourselves when it comes to our health, rather than being told contradictory information every 3 years by mainstream media?<p>One minute it&#x27;s best to eat ice cream for breakfast; the next minute we shouldn&#x27;t eat any carbs at all; then we should start drinking red wine every day; then more water; then less water, etc. It&#x27;s as if we&#x27;re just a big experiment or some sort of inside joke to the mainstream media.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/upshot/no-you-do-not-have-to-drink-8-glasses-of-water-a-day.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>Are we all experts who are capable of thinking for ourselves (&quot;thinking for ourselves&quot; seems to equal: inspecting the primary literature, or review literature, and coming to a conclusion)? No, we&#x27;re not.<p>Thinking for yourself is untenable- we need scientists who are experts in analyzing data to provide specific suggestions, and disseminate those in the media. Unfortunately, there is little consequence to reporting false conclusions, or inaccurate health data, so I don&#x27;t see any change forthcoming.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mangeletti</author><text>Without any disrespect to the author, why don&#x27;t we all just start thinking for ourselves when it comes to our health, rather than being told contradictory information every 3 years by mainstream media?<p>One minute it&#x27;s best to eat ice cream for breakfast; the next minute we shouldn&#x27;t eat any carbs at all; then we should start drinking red wine every day; then more water; then less water, etc. It&#x27;s as if we&#x27;re just a big experiment or some sort of inside joke to the mainstream media.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/upshot/no-you-do-not-have-to-drink-8-glasses-of-water-a-day.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1</url></story> |
38,509,096 | 38,508,556 | 1 | 3 | 38,507,964 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmillar</author><text>My TLDW:
He&#x27;s (not so) indirectly critical of Space X&#x27;s Starship program and tribal groupthink. He may be &quot;scared&quot; of NASA because he&#x27;s calling out one of their giant Artemis contracts.<p>Some longer takeaways:<p>- Simplify. We went to the moon 50+ years ago, but we are reinventing the wheel in some significant ways in Artemis. Why? We are supposedly going to the moon in two years, but we have never attempted a cryogenic refuel in orbit (this seems like a biggie).<p>- Communicate a lot. Why aren&#x27;t people talking about the seemingly giant increase in complexity to accomplish the <i>same</i> mission we had in the 60s (land on the moon)? People need to have safe&#x2F;comfortable way to raise questions and concerns.<p>- Have many layers of redundancy. Apollo had 6-7 backup procedures for what to do if they couldn&#x27;t launch the lander off the moon.<p>- Test. small tests, big tests, real tests, skin-in-the-game tests. Some tests can be eliminated by simplifying or, in the case of big systems&#x2F;tests, doing small tests on the riskiest components.<p>- Humans have ingrained biases. Will be situations astronauts haven&#x27;t experienced where their instincts may be wrong.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I was scared To say this to NASA (But I said it anyway) – Smarter Every Day</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unsupp0rted</author><text>He seems really worried about offending people and hurting his relationships with NASA execs.<p>I wonder if NASA people are more prickly, less, or the same in terms of taking negative feedback as compared to programmers and hackers.<p>I suspect since we spend all day with compilers telling us we made silly errors, we&#x27;re a bit more inured to criticism than the general public.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I was scared To say this to NASA (But I said it anyway) – Smarter Every Day</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU</url></story> |
13,296,000 | 13,295,878 | 1 | 2 | 13,295,657 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>byuu</author><text>My employer&#x2F;provider (Blue Cross) offered a $100 discount on insurance premiums in return for me taking a vial of my own blood and mailing it off to them for testing.<p>Although I am in (mostly) good physical shape, I found it beyond creepy and refused to do it. But I worry about them increasing the discount in the future. It&#x27;ll be harder to say no when it&#x27;s $1000, or $2000. And let&#x27;s be real: it&#x27;s not a discount, it&#x27;s a penalty for when you don&#x27;t do what you&#x27;re told.<p>And given how my insurance doesn&#x27;t even cover a 30-minute ER visit without sending me a bill in the mail for $1700, it&#x27;s hardly even worth having insurance at all. At least at my age.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking</title><url>https://backchannel.com/be-healthy-or-else-how-corporations-became-obsessed-with-fitness-tracking-b0c019faff8d#.wes4gmn96</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pliny</author><text>&gt;If he chooses not to participate in the program, Abrams must pay an extra $50 per month toward his premium.<p>Is he paying $50 more for not participating, or getting a $50 discount for participating?<p>If it&#x27;s the latter (Anthem insurance doesn&#x27;t change their premiums, but now rewards people for using preventative medicine), then how could anyone object? It really is a win-win, and people who don&#x27;t want to participate are no worse off.<p>But, if Anthem Insurance aren&#x27;t trying to motivate healthier behavior, but only trying to identify people who are already trying to become healthier (or stay healthy) and lower their premiums in order to remain more competitive, then it&#x27;s the former. Workers are being penalized because P(Not trying to be healthy | Doesn&#x27;t participate in the wellness program) is greater than P(Not trying to be healthy).<p>What this actually means: The trying-to-be-healthy population are no longer subsidizing the not-trying-to-be-healthy population. I don&#x27;t know if this is a bad outcome, I remember hearing an interview with Cathy O&#x27;Neil (the author) where she applies the same rhetoric and logic to loan approval and to criminal sentencing, in both cases she ignores the fact that going from the status quo (in this case, one where wellness programs exist) to her preferred reality (in this case, one where wellness programs do not exist) tends to take a lot of innocent people who are winners in the status quo (in this case, people who try to stay healthy, and enjoy lower premiums) and makes them into losers (since now they have to pay the same premiums as people who don&#x27;t use preventative medicine).<p>&gt; Except, as it happens, this regimen already exists and it’s called humiliation and fat-shaming. Have someone tell you you’re overweight, or pay a major fine.<p>I&#x27;m not overweight, so maybe I don&#x27;t have the right perspective on this, but how terrible could &quot;having a doctor tell you that you&#x27;re overweight&quot; be? Like, the only context I can understand this quote is that &quot;Have someone tell you you&#x27;re overweight&quot; is some sort of grievous injury, and not just trivially inconvenient.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking</title><url>https://backchannel.com/be-healthy-or-else-how-corporations-became-obsessed-with-fitness-tracking-b0c019faff8d#.wes4gmn96</url></story> |
2,187,962 | 2,186,721 | 1 | 2 | 2,186,502 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LoonyPandora</author><text>Schemes like this multiplication technique are fascinating, the patterns one can see are beautiful. The fact they are not taught in schools is scandalous. Their use is actively discouraged.<p>My Dad bought me a book about the Trachtenberg System of Basic Mathematics[1] when I was a kid, it had all sorts of funky new ways to solve maths problems just like this. My primary school hated it, they marked me down for not showing my working and doing it the wrong way. I was brilliant at maths mainly because of this book, but didn't get the extra marks for doing it the "right" way.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russian peasant multiplication</title><url>http://everything2.com/title/Russian+peasant+multiplication</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jkap</author><text>I used this a lot while writing a 16bit math system for the NES. A similar trick to this is Egyptian Division (<a href="http://everything2.com/title/Egyptian+division" rel="nofollow">http://everything2.com/title/Egyptian+division</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russian peasant multiplication</title><url>http://everything2.com/title/Russian+peasant+multiplication</url></story> |
15,400,971 | 15,399,208 | 1 | 2 | 15,399,132 | 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>nsthorat</author><text>deeplearn.js author here...<p>We do <i>not</i> send <i>any</i> webcam &#x2F; audio data back to a server, all of the computation is totally client side. The storage API requests are just downloading weights of a pretrained model.<p>We&#x27;re thinking about releasing a blog post explaining the technical details of this project, would people be interested?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Teachable Machine: Teach a machine using your camera, live in the browser</title><url>https://www.blog.google/topics/machine-learning/now-anyone-can-explore-machine-learning-no-coding-required/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>celim307</author><text>Pretty neat! Good overview without overwhelming right off the bat. Would be cool if they showed off common pitfalls like over fitting, or even segued into general statistics!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Teachable Machine: Teach a machine using your camera, live in the browser</title><url>https://www.blog.google/topics/machine-learning/now-anyone-can-explore-machine-learning-no-coding-required/</url></story> |
6,199,113 | 6,195,290 | 1 | 2 | 6,189,371 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>I still don&#x27;t see how setting security rules would prevent cheating. I would love to know how to fix this issue as I&#x27;m making a similar MMO game with Firebase.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikelehen</author><text>There was a time when that was true, but these days you can easily do those sorts of things using Firebase security rules: <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/security-rules.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firebase.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;security&#x2F;security-rules.html</a></text></item><item><author>Rhapso</author><text>well, you are exposing the database at the javascript level. If it is javascript then you can mess with it in your browser via the developer console. So if you are using firebase via javascript your application is fundamentally insecure. You cannot even put serverside sanity checks like &quot;this person should not ask for this value&quot; or &quot;nobody should have a string for a score&quot; because of firebase&#x27;s limitations.</text></item><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I love Firebase but these kind of security holes make me hesitant to use it for anything serious. Is it even possible to prevent without adding an extra server layer?</text></item><item><author>Rhapso</author><text>Yup. You can set your score to a string and it just puts the latest as highest. You can also manually rename yourself. Are all firebase apps this vulnerable?<p>edit* I left a message in the high score box for anybody looking for something proofy</text></item><item><author>AsymetricCom</author><text>The leaderboard is already hacked.</text></item><item><author>jaredsohn</author><text>The 404 page now shows MMO Asteroids. After the game came out last year, I forked it to create MMO Spacewar (<a href="http://www.mmospacewar.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mmospacewar.com</a>) where the rules were adjusted to be more like the iconic game (user now has a single life but also an energy bar, new warp command, and movement, shooting and getting hit costs energy but you regain energy over time) and additional improvements were made (you cannot get killed right after spawning, fixed sound effects, and users can choose the instance via a hashtag URL.)<p>The fork also lets you create asteroids and spaceships (added back from the original one-player version of the game), although at the moment they are not shared among clients so other players may be confused at what you&#x27;re shooting at or is killing you.<p>One interesting aspect of this is that while developing I originally had my client playing on the MMO Asteroids Firebase table which in effect made this a cheat client (it can warp, not instantly killed). But it is a slightly more ethical cheat client in that the player still can be killed, the total amount of mobility is limited, and you only get one ship so instead of pure cheating it is like adding another spaceship class to MMO Asteroids.<p>Edit: I didn&#x27;t have a lot of people to playtest with, so I&#x27;m not sure how much fun this actually is. My early observation is that it might be too hard to kill people and that you tend to have the best luck if your opponent moves around a bunch to deplete their energy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firebase 404</title><url>https://www.firebase.com/404.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>Rhapso</author><text>Aha! My only use of firebase was writing a chat application for fun back at their launch marketing push. This is good to see, and I think I might go play with it more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikelehen</author><text>There was a time when that was true, but these days you can easily do those sorts of things using Firebase security rules: <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/security-rules.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firebase.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;security&#x2F;security-rules.html</a></text></item><item><author>Rhapso</author><text>well, you are exposing the database at the javascript level. If it is javascript then you can mess with it in your browser via the developer console. So if you are using firebase via javascript your application is fundamentally insecure. You cannot even put serverside sanity checks like &quot;this person should not ask for this value&quot; or &quot;nobody should have a string for a score&quot; because of firebase&#x27;s limitations.</text></item><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I love Firebase but these kind of security holes make me hesitant to use it for anything serious. Is it even possible to prevent without adding an extra server layer?</text></item><item><author>Rhapso</author><text>Yup. You can set your score to a string and it just puts the latest as highest. You can also manually rename yourself. Are all firebase apps this vulnerable?<p>edit* I left a message in the high score box for anybody looking for something proofy</text></item><item><author>AsymetricCom</author><text>The leaderboard is already hacked.</text></item><item><author>jaredsohn</author><text>The 404 page now shows MMO Asteroids. After the game came out last year, I forked it to create MMO Spacewar (<a href="http://www.mmospacewar.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mmospacewar.com</a>) where the rules were adjusted to be more like the iconic game (user now has a single life but also an energy bar, new warp command, and movement, shooting and getting hit costs energy but you regain energy over time) and additional improvements were made (you cannot get killed right after spawning, fixed sound effects, and users can choose the instance via a hashtag URL.)<p>The fork also lets you create asteroids and spaceships (added back from the original one-player version of the game), although at the moment they are not shared among clients so other players may be confused at what you&#x27;re shooting at or is killing you.<p>One interesting aspect of this is that while developing I originally had my client playing on the MMO Asteroids Firebase table which in effect made this a cheat client (it can warp, not instantly killed). But it is a slightly more ethical cheat client in that the player still can be killed, the total amount of mobility is limited, and you only get one ship so instead of pure cheating it is like adding another spaceship class to MMO Asteroids.<p>Edit: I didn&#x27;t have a lot of people to playtest with, so I&#x27;m not sure how much fun this actually is. My early observation is that it might be too hard to kill people and that you tend to have the best luck if your opponent moves around a bunch to deplete their energy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firebase 404</title><url>https://www.firebase.com/404.html</url></story> |
38,683,084 | 38,682,930 | 1 | 3 | 38,681,353 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmix</author><text>The previous iteration of Twitter under @jack already learned this lesson. Once you say yes to stuff beyond warrants&#x2F;criminally illegal stuff it&#x27;s just an ever increasing set of demands until it&#x27;s borderline automatic between gov requests-&gt;deletions. With low level agencies sending lists of a 1000 tweets to be flagged or accounts with tenuous connections to current bad thing (ie Russia) to be banned etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Apparently the dissemination of illegal content refers to the October 7th videos of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel that galvanized American support for Israel [0].<p>I personally don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s in people&#x27;s interest to have this kind of thing hidden from them and I really dislike the EU for attempting to censor this.<p>Musk is really under a lot of financial pressure and it might be a losing battle to try to fight the EU over this in court. To be honest, I hope he is able to pull out from the EU without cratering the company, but he is now being pulled into lawfare with multiple actors across the globe so Twitter might have no choice but to accept is role as a conduit of censorship for state-level actors.<p><pre><code> [0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;prestonjbyrne&#x2F;status&#x2F;1736707341070860689</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-opens-proceedings-against-x-over-its-efforts-combat-information-manipulation-2023-12-18/</url></story> | <instructions>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>One can think anything about the particular line-drawing about what is and what isn&#x27;t something X should moderate. By operating in the EU they do agree to the DSA though. And no one is saying that the content in question is or isn&#x27;t something that twitter has handled incorrectly. All that&#x27;s happening is that there is an investigation into it. There really isn&#x27;t much to talk about (yet).</text><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Apparently the dissemination of illegal content refers to the October 7th videos of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel that galvanized American support for Israel [0].<p>I personally don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s in people&#x27;s interest to have this kind of thing hidden from them and I really dislike the EU for attempting to censor this.<p>Musk is really under a lot of financial pressure and it might be a losing battle to try to fight the EU over this in court. To be honest, I hope he is able to pull out from the EU without cratering the company, but he is now being pulled into lawfare with multiple actors across the globe so Twitter might have no choice but to accept is role as a conduit of censorship for state-level actors.<p><pre><code> [0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;prestonjbyrne&#x2F;status&#x2F;1736707341070860689</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-opens-proceedings-against-x-over-its-efforts-combat-information-manipulation-2023-12-18/</url></story> |
19,191,605 | 19,191,673 | 1 | 2 | 19,191,241 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sverigevader</author><text>On my machine Google translate seems to &quot;boot-loop&quot; that site because of the cookie settings so I&#x27;ll just do this:<p>Files were stored on a server using HTTPS but requiring no credentials. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;188.92.248.19:443&#x2F;medicall&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;188.92.248.19:443&#x2F;medicall&#x2F;</a>
Part of the calls were saved as .mp3s with the customers phone number as file name.
CEO when confronted wouldn&#x27;t believe it and hung up when the reporter asked if he could play one of the tapes.<p>The articles states that the server was a NAS (nas.applion.se).<p>All files have been available since 2013.<p>When calling 1177, there&#x27;s no need to identify yourself with your personal identity number. You can if you want to if your medical history is of significance to your call.<p>Source: Am swede and this article... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computersweden.idg.se&#x2F;2.2683&#x2F;1.714787&#x2F;inspelade-samtal-1177-vardguiden-oskyddade-internet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computersweden.idg.se&#x2F;2.2683&#x2F;1.714787&#x2F;inspelade-samt...</a><p>And I want you guys to hear it from me before you hear it on the streets... I once called 1177 wanting to order a new pair of knees because one of mine hurt. The nurse who answered had a good laugh.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden</title><url>https://mobile.twitter.com/mikko/status/1097510234220826624?s=21</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>testplzignore</author><text>There are quite a few hosts responding on port 80 in the 188.92.248.0&#x2F;21 subnet, including versions of httpd and php over a decade old. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if there are more things unsecured. Yikes.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden</title><url>https://mobile.twitter.com/mikko/status/1097510234220826624?s=21</url></story> |
6,685,559 | 6,685,585 | 1 | 3 | 6,684,314 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simias</author><text>You&#x27;re being downvoted because you don&#x27;t back your facts up with any source. You&#x27;re not contributing anything to the discussion. It&#x27;s like saying &quot;of course the moon landing is&#x2F;isn&#x27;t a hoax, I don&#x27;t think anyone sane ever thought otherwise considering the circumstances...&quot;.<p>It says nothing. Stating something as a fact doesn&#x27;t make it a fact.<p>For the record I have absolutely no agenda here and I must say I have absolutely no opinion on the subject at hand (nor do I think it belongs on the frontpage of HN, but that&#x27;s an other subject).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Of course Yasser Arafat was killed. I don&#x27;t think anyone sane ever thought otherwise considering the circumstances... Same goes for Slobodan Milosevic... There likely are others, but they don&#x27;t come to mind at the moment.<p>Love the anonymous downvote for saying something unpopular politically, but more than likely factually correct.<p>Dangerous political prisoners&#x2F;personalities dying in mysterious circumstances at opportune times is not coincidence. The US reign death from above via remote controlled drones and this isn&#x27;t contested, yet thinking that very suspicious deaths at expedient times are likely assassinations is some crazy conspiracy theory...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/killing-arafat/swiss-forensic-report-arafat-death-201311671255163780.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>anigbrowl</author><text>This is crazy thinking. Famous people do typically have access to better medical care, through personal wealth or the goodwill of their supporters, but you seem to think that power&#x2F;celebrity confers immunity from disease and misadventure. It lowers the risk, is all.<p>This does not mean I disagree with the findings of this report, not least because I haven&#x27;t read it yet. It&#x27;s entirely plausible that Arafat could have been murdered...but considering that he was a thorn in Israel&#x27;s side for around <i>40 years</i>, you&#x27;re in no position to talk about him dying at an opportune time. I&#x27;m sure there were people who wanted to assassinate him over the last several decades. For the last 2 years of his life he was effectively under house arrest by the Israeli army, so why wait 2? Is there something terribly unusual about 75-year old men dying? Hardly. It&#x27;s certainly possible that he was assassinated, but by your logic we should also be investigating the death of counterculture icon Lou Reed, who was a mere 71.<p>Also it&#x27;s rain, not reign.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Of course Yasser Arafat was killed. I don&#x27;t think anyone sane ever thought otherwise considering the circumstances... Same goes for Slobodan Milosevic... There likely are others, but they don&#x27;t come to mind at the moment.<p>Love the anonymous downvote for saying something unpopular politically, but more than likely factually correct.<p>Dangerous political prisoners&#x2F;personalities dying in mysterious circumstances at opportune times is not coincidence. The US reign death from above via remote controlled drones and this isn&#x27;t contested, yet thinking that very suspicious deaths at expedient times are likely assassinations is some crazy conspiracy theory...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/killing-arafat/swiss-forensic-report-arafat-death-201311671255163780.html</url></story> |
14,151,343 | 14,151,064 | 1 | 2 | 14,150,854 | 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>apostacy</author><text>That&#x27;s too bad. I think universities should make these resources that they&#x27;ve been granted available to students and researchers.<p>Last time I was at the MIT media lab for a conference, I was able to get an unfirewalled external ip address from their wireless network. It was amazing. I briefly streamed live audio of a talk via shoutcast, but of course, nobody uses that stuff anymore. It really makes you ponder what a cloudless internet would be like.<p>A little over a year ago, my university gave up their generous range of IP addresses. You could plug in ethernet, and not just get an internet routable IP (albeit firewalled from incoming traffic from the internet), you would even be assigned a subdomain off of the school&#x27;s .edu domain. It was great. Students ran servers in their dorms. Clubs ran servers. Some professors ran servers. Even though you couldn&#x27;t listen on a socket for incoming traffic from the internet by default, it was unfirewalled internally. I had to briefly live in student housing, and I was able to connect to my server via the school&#x27;s http proxy via corkscrew. There were so many cool uses for it. Students were encouraged to run web servers if they needed hosting. It was also much faster[1]<p>I think CMU still provides fairly decent network services.<p>It was an insanely useful utility provided to students, and any serious engineering school should do it.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.speedtest.net&#x2F;result&#x2F;4339921583.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.speedtest.net&#x2F;result&#x2F;4339921583.png</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT no longer owns 18.0.0.0/8</title><url>https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-18-0-0-0-0.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>payne92</author><text>My how things change. At one point in the late 90s, I had an entire MIT Class C subnet at my house.<p>Now, I&#x27;ve got 5 static IPs from Verizon FiOS on some ancient grandfathered plan. Years ago, they &quot;changed&quot; the addresses, prompting me to ask, &quot;what part of &#x27;static&#x27; is not clear?&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT no longer owns 18.0.0.0/8</title><url>https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-18-0-0-0-0.html</url></story> |
41,508,679 | 41,508,120 | 1 | 2 | 41,487,749 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>llm_trw</author><text>To summarize: The people who ruined native GUIs moved to HTML pages. After ruining HTML pages they are now moving to terminals.<p>In this very thread we&#x27;re seeing people say &quot;Well sure, but why not add ...&quot;.<p>The reason why the CLI is good is because it _can&#x27;t_ do most things people want it to do. Which means you have to think when making an application.<p>Please, if you&#x27;re one of the people &#x27;modernizing&#x27; the terminal stop and think why the terminal is valuable. Don&#x27;t make it into another of the long line of UIs which have been destroyed by modern developers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Modern CLI Renaissance</title><url>https://gabevenberg.com/posts/cli-renaissance/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cyberax</author><text>The stale field of terminals is also getting new developments. My particular favorite is Kitty input protocol that allows terminals to use such 21-st century functionality as accurate key press reporting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sw.kovidgoyal.net&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;keyboard-protocol&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sw.kovidgoyal.net&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;keyboard-protocol&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Modern CLI Renaissance</title><url>https://gabevenberg.com/posts/cli-renaissance/</url></story> |
8,737,620 | 8,737,628 | 1 | 2 | 8,737,292 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moskie</author><text>Small complaint (about an otherwise very good article):<p>&gt; Eric Garner ... guilty only of selling single cigarettes<p>The cops involved <i>suspected</i> this, but I don&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s known that he is guilty of this. Especially in a legal sense: he did not live to see a trial.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement system</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21636033-united-states-needs-overhaul-its-law-enforcement-system-americas-police-trial</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joesmo</author><text>How about also ending grand juries altogether (or at least in cases of potential homicide)? It&#x27;s obvious that the people on the grand juries are not qualified to asses anything and it&#x27;s an archaic system not employed by any other country (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Grand_jury</a>).<p>In addition, the prosecutors&#x27; powers need to be curtailed. Such crimes should always be charged, regardless of what the prosecutor wants. If there is doubt, bring in an outside prosecutor like the article suggests.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement system</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21636033-united-states-needs-overhaul-its-law-enforcement-system-americas-police-trial</url></story> |
34,509,809 | 34,508,977 | 1 | 3 | 34,505,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blululu</author><text>This policy is a bit outside of the Overton window, but caning really does seem more humane and effective than the nightmare of American prisons (I would take 3 strokes from a cane (will scar and you can&#x27;t sit down for a few weeks) over 6 months in prison). It&#x27;s not just the crowded brutality that we subject people to in prison but the painful fact that once you are out you are ruined. Caning is quick and convincing. The punishment is administered and the convict can get on with their life and keep their job, their house and their family. From a conditioning standpoint I would also suspect that the severe bout of physical pain is a more effective tool than a few years of psychological torture.</text><parent_chain><item><author>squokko</author><text>Prison creates absolute animals. We shouldn&#x27;t put people in prison unless they&#x27;re going to be there for their entire lives. Singapore-style caning is probably much better for both the convict and the broader society -- take the incorrigible violent criminals and lock them up for life without parole, and cane the rest.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I feel like the prison system is the victim of perverse incentives.<p>The goal given to them is &quot;house this person securely for a specific length of time <i>at the lowest cost possible</i>&quot;. They are rewarded for cutting costs.<p>But the total cost <i>we</i> pay is the cost to imprison this person the second and third time when they re-offend. It&#x27;s the policing costs when they&#x27;re homeless because they can&#x27;t find housing or get a job. It&#x27;s the health care costs they can never pay for when all of the above inevitably leads to further problems.<p>To reduce the lifetime cost of this person on society (financially and otherwise) we should be incentivising prisons to actually rehabilitate.<p>But we won&#x27;t, because our society is largely based on Calvinist nonsense that says there are &quot;bad people&quot; and we should celebrate those people having bad things happen to them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2023/01/23/nyc-jail-rikers-mail-surveillance-securus/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>choward</author><text>Pretty sure they still receive prison sentences in Singapore in addition to caning.</text><parent_chain><item><author>squokko</author><text>Prison creates absolute animals. We shouldn&#x27;t put people in prison unless they&#x27;re going to be there for their entire lives. Singapore-style caning is probably much better for both the convict and the broader society -- take the incorrigible violent criminals and lock them up for life without parole, and cane the rest.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>I feel like the prison system is the victim of perverse incentives.<p>The goal given to them is &quot;house this person securely for a specific length of time <i>at the lowest cost possible</i>&quot;. They are rewarded for cutting costs.<p>But the total cost <i>we</i> pay is the cost to imprison this person the second and third time when they re-offend. It&#x27;s the policing costs when they&#x27;re homeless because they can&#x27;t find housing or get a job. It&#x27;s the health care costs they can never pay for when all of the above inevitably leads to further problems.<p>To reduce the lifetime cost of this person on society (financially and otherwise) we should be incentivising prisons to actually rehabilitate.<p>But we won&#x27;t, because our society is largely based on Calvinist nonsense that says there are &quot;bad people&quot; and we should celebrate those people having bad things happen to them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2023/01/23/nyc-jail-rikers-mail-surveillance-securus/</url></story> |
21,987,202 | 21,984,734 | 1 | 2 | 21,981,158 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ball_of_lint</author><text>To me, pipe feels far more intuitive than callbacks as a way to write complex queries. Using it right away might make the first few examples much easier to read.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cube2222</author><text>Hey, author here.
Christmas Eve, 22 pm, after having eaten with my family, I was browsing HN (because what else could you be doing then), and stumbled upon this comment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21860107" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21860107</a><p>It inspired me to create an alternative to jq with more of a Lispy syntax, as I think the original is awesome but also fairly cryptic for anything more advanced than single field selection.<p>Overall it was a fun few-day project, and was also very educational in terms of writing a parser in Go. (I used goyacc before in the sql parser of OctoSQL[1], however, that one is copied from vitess, so I’ve never built one from scratch, only customised an existing one. It’s really pleasant overall and the code is very simple, so I encourage you to take a look[2].<p>I&#x27;d love to hear any feedback, comments or potential improvements you can think of.<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cube2222&#x2F;octosql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cube2222&#x2F;octosql</a><p>[2]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cube2222&#x2F;jql&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;jql&#x2F;parser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cube2222&#x2F;jql&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;jql&#x2F;parser</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/cube2222/jql</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yamafaktory</author><text>Hi, awesome work! Love the idea of using S-expression for the query syntax! Funny fact: we share the same project name - even though the core language and the query syntax are different - see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yamafaktory&#x2F;jql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yamafaktory&#x2F;jql</a>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cube2222</author><text>Hey, author here.
Christmas Eve, 22 pm, after having eaten with my family, I was browsing HN (because what else could you be doing then), and stumbled upon this comment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21860107" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21860107</a><p>It inspired me to create an alternative to jq with more of a Lispy syntax, as I think the original is awesome but also fairly cryptic for anything more advanced than single field selection.<p>Overall it was a fun few-day project, and was also very educational in terms of writing a parser in Go. (I used goyacc before in the sql parser of OctoSQL[1], however, that one is copied from vitess, so I’ve never built one from scratch, only customised an existing one. It’s really pleasant overall and the code is very simple, so I encourage you to take a look[2].<p>I&#x27;d love to hear any feedback, comments or potential improvements you can think of.<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cube2222&#x2F;octosql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cube2222&#x2F;octosql</a><p>[2]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cube2222&#x2F;jql&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;jql&#x2F;parser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cube2222&#x2F;jql&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;jql&#x2F;parser</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/cube2222/jql</url></story> |
16,129,950 | 16,129,952 | 1 | 3 | 16,129,401 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jp555</author><text>Are clicks the majority of revenue for FB? An ad unit that fills a users screen for a few second as they scroll throughout the day every day is super super valuable to brand advertising. I think that’s ~$450 billion of the total ~$500 billion total annual global ad spend.<p>To me browsing the fb feed is a lot like like flipping through tv channels used to be. Brand advertising loved that too.<p>I’d think the More people browse their feeds the more valuable their ad unit becomes to brand advertisers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>I very much hope this isn&#x27;t just words. The core problem, IMO, is that content that makes us angry, anxious or jealous is a much better driver of clicks than content that makes us happy. I&#x27;m sure Facebook knows this. If they <i>really</i> mean it, they&#x27;ll accept that they will make less money as a result of this change. It would be the right decision in the long term, but the short term will hurt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/facebook-news-feed.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>briandear</author><text>&gt; that content that makes us angry, anxious or jealous is a much better driver of clicks than content that makes us happy<p>Not for me. I&#x27;ve all but abandoned Facebook because I was tired of being angry all the time. It&#x27;s a wasteland of political hysterics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>I very much hope this isn&#x27;t just words. The core problem, IMO, is that content that makes us angry, anxious or jealous is a much better driver of clicks than content that makes us happy. I&#x27;m sure Facebook knows this. If they <i>really</i> mean it, they&#x27;ll accept that they will make less money as a result of this change. It would be the right decision in the long term, but the short term will hurt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/facebook-news-feed.html</url></story> |
9,171,178 | 9,169,467 | 1 | 2 | 9,168,531 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>j2kun</author><text>I&#x27;m a mathematics graduate student with (basically) a degree in CS, and I see programmers claim this all the time. They seem to think that if they can make a tool that allows them to read calculus textbooks or machine learning textbooks more easily, this tool will obviously be useful for all mathematicians everywhere. I disagree.<p>If you want to seriously address this issue, you need to make sure it works for the mathematicians who work at the most abstract levels of the hierarchy. Mathematics as a language is primarily about communicating an idea from one human to another. The problem here is that pure mathematicians want and need to bend type rules for the sake of communication. There are implicit equivalences of types all over the place. For example, a homotopy is a smooth map (between more than one kind of space depending on your preference), but it is also a statement of equality between two things, <i>and</i> it is a commutative diagram involving infinite sequences of objects and operators which is defined in contexts where smooth maps do not exist. Whether or not these different things can be used in the same place depends not on the type of the definition but the greater context of the paper.<p>Moreover, not all variables have definitions you can annotate. Sometimes the definitions are assumed to exist for the sake of contradiction, sometimes they are the unique limit of some crazy sequence that takes a page to write down. Sometimes they are defined by properties they have, so they don&#x27;t represent a single object but a family of objects (or maybe it is a single object, who knows?)<p>I&#x27;m not saying better math documents are impossible. I&#x27;m saying that most programmers who claim that we need a better way to do it don&#x27;t appreciate the depth and complexity of the problem.<p>I think probably a better solution is to augment a public repository of papers (such as arXiv) by allowing readers to add inline annotations explaining concepts, fixing bugs, etc. The real tragedy is that once a person figures out what the hell is going on in a poorly written paper, they have no way to bring their insight to anyone reading the same document in the same place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>We really need a better way to represent math in documents. TeX&#x2F;LaTex is all about putting ink on paper in a pretty way; it doesn&#x27;t know anything about the math.<p>As with programming languages, the first question is what each variable is, and what its type and definition are. You should be able to mouse over variables in textbooks and see that information. You should be able to see formulas fully parenthesized if you want. (The machine learning people are terrible about inventing new operators and not telling the reader what their precedence is.)<p>Mathematica notebooks come close to this. But books and papers on math are not usually published that way. MathML was a step in the right direction but didn&#x27;t catch on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lint for Math</title><url>https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/lint-for-math/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtallis</author><text>The problem is that there are actually several components needed: the semantic markup language, an input method no less efficient than LaTeX, and the math-lint itself. LaTeX is not semantic. MathML is just too verbose to type in the raw. The syntax used by theorem-proving software tends to be both esoteric and a bit too verbose (in addition to requiring the statements themselves to be extremely verbose).<p>I&#x27;m not sure that <i>any</i> plaintext markup can be sufficiently compact, semantic, and still resemble the handwritten syntax. That means we&#x27;ll probably have to come up with a more interactive input method that is a bit more WYSIWYG in nature and has some auto-complete and automatic parenthesizing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>We really need a better way to represent math in documents. TeX&#x2F;LaTex is all about putting ink on paper in a pretty way; it doesn&#x27;t know anything about the math.<p>As with programming languages, the first question is what each variable is, and what its type and definition are. You should be able to mouse over variables in textbooks and see that information. You should be able to see formulas fully parenthesized if you want. (The machine learning people are terrible about inventing new operators and not telling the reader what their precedence is.)<p>Mathematica notebooks come close to this. But books and papers on math are not usually published that way. MathML was a step in the right direction but didn&#x27;t catch on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lint for Math</title><url>https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/lint-for-math/</url></story> |
32,693,726 | 32,692,612 | 1 | 3 | 32,690,937 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>From a European perspective, it is simply crazy that 1.6M workers [0] failed to unionize so far.<p>Not that Unions are simply great and effective - unions bring their own set of problems. But a company this large shouldn&#x27;t have been able to fight unionization for so long.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;234488&#x2F;number-of-amazon-employees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;234488&#x2F;number-of-amazon-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/02/alu_victory_amazon_union/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>metadat</author><text>I wonder how Amazon views this internally. Is it a &quot;failure&quot;, resulting from an $AMZN corp employee or group being ineffective at their &quot;job&quot; to ensure worker unionization is suppressed and not achieved?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/02/alu_victory_amazon_union/</url></story> |
5,889,354 | 5,888,772 | 1 | 3 | 5,888,393 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikegagnon</author><text>&gt; If you install this extension, you might actually be making yourself MORE bound to crappy terms of service, since you will not be able to make the case that obviously you didn&#x27;t read them terms and therefore should not be held to some non-standard provision.<p>I estimate the likelihood of me ending up in court over a TOS violation extremely low. In the history of the Web, how many times has a consumer been the recipient of a lawsuit over a TOS violation?<p>However, the likelihood is very high that I will encounter TOS provisions on the Web that are objectionable to me. I would like to know what these provisions are, even if I am forced to click accept because I want to use the service anyway.<p>I am not a fan of maintaining ignorance for the sake of plausible deniability.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johnnygoods</author><text>Be wary of installing this extension, and this is why:<p>It&#x27;s not lost on the legal world that no one reads Terms of Service. As a result, TOS are rarely enforceable in court, except inasmuch as they comply with broad industry standards.<p>However, compliance requirements are much MORE strict for parties who demonstrably should be aware of their legal obligations. Lawyers, for example, can&#x27;t really argue that they didn&#x27;t read a legal document they executed because of the manner in which it was delivered (in an inscrutable TOS doc, at the entrance to an amusement park, etc).<p>If you install this extension, you might actually be making yourself MORE bound to crappy terms of service, since you will not be able to make the case that obviously you didn&#x27;t read them terms and therefore should not be held to some non-standard provision.<p>The reviews&#x2F;ratings provided by tosdr.org are awesome, and I hope you guys continue this project, but I, for one, will be covering my ass and not installing this extension.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terms of Service; Didn't Read</title><url>http://tosdr.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>Even by stating that you wont be installing the extension to cover your ass, you clearly know you should be reading the terms of service...</text><parent_chain><item><author>johnnygoods</author><text>Be wary of installing this extension, and this is why:<p>It&#x27;s not lost on the legal world that no one reads Terms of Service. As a result, TOS are rarely enforceable in court, except inasmuch as they comply with broad industry standards.<p>However, compliance requirements are much MORE strict for parties who demonstrably should be aware of their legal obligations. Lawyers, for example, can&#x27;t really argue that they didn&#x27;t read a legal document they executed because of the manner in which it was delivered (in an inscrutable TOS doc, at the entrance to an amusement park, etc).<p>If you install this extension, you might actually be making yourself MORE bound to crappy terms of service, since you will not be able to make the case that obviously you didn&#x27;t read them terms and therefore should not be held to some non-standard provision.<p>The reviews&#x2F;ratings provided by tosdr.org are awesome, and I hope you guys continue this project, but I, for one, will be covering my ass and not installing this extension.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terms of Service; Didn't Read</title><url>http://tosdr.org/</url></story> |
24,860,373 | 24,860,713 | 1 | 2 | 24,859,673 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tinus_hn</author><text>The big question is what Russia has to gain from this. Is it just to troll the US?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-security-snowden-russia-int-idUSKBN2771Q3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ciarannolan</author><text>If granted a pardon by the current or future US president, is there any chance that Russia will not let him return home?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-security-snowden-russia-int-idUSKBN2771Q3</url></story> |
13,001,266 | 13,001,062 | 1 | 3 | 13,000,089 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryao</author><text>I am not surprised. Just about every consumer electronic device in China can be assumed to be backdoored. Laptops are backdoored too:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techworm.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-to-have-a-bios-level-backdoor.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techworm.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-...</a><p>Even the ISP provided routers are backdoored:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computersolutions.cn&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;hacking-shanghai-telecoms-e8-wifiepon-fibre-modem&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computersolutions.cn&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;hacking-shangha...</a><p>Some of the obvious backdoors are easy to circumvent. e.g. If a Linux distribution is your operating system of choice, you automatically bypass that Lenovo backdoor.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Second Chinese Firm in a Week Found Hiding Backdoor in Android Devices</title><url>http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/second-chinese-firm-in-a-week-found-hiding-backdoor-in-firmware-of-android-devices/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Details are missing.<p>If a device downloads updates over a non-secured channel, it doesn&#x27;t automatically mean that it will <i>execute</i> the update unconditionally. For example, a package might be signed with vendor&#x27;s key, the public part of which is shipped with the device. If the sig is missing or invalid, the device will discard the package.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Second Chinese Firm in a Week Found Hiding Backdoor in Android Devices</title><url>http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/second-chinese-firm-in-a-week-found-hiding-backdoor-in-firmware-of-android-devices/</url></story> |
7,551,346 | 7,551,050 | 1 | 3 | 7,550,668 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnvschmitt</author><text>Mixed feelings on this. It tends to expand the recent meme of &quot;Everyone&#x27;s a contractor, nobody&#x27;s an employee&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s no minimum wage or other worker protections if you sign contracts for services.<p>The social contract is never signed, &amp; it&#x27;s getting abandoned more &amp; more.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber Rush</title><url>http://blog.uber.com/RUSH</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inthewoods</author><text>I&#x27;m wondering how big this market is - when I was growing up in NYC bike messengers were everywhere. And if you were an architect (like my stepfather), then there was a constant need to ship around drawings et al. But the messenger business seems to have largely disappeared - still there, but much, much smaller than when my brother was on the bike. Hasn&#x27;t the digital age really ended the need for a lot of this? I&#x27;m guessing that there is a market need here or else Uber wouldn&#x27;t be pursuing - but I do have to wonder. I agree with others, though, that they should get their business billing situation settled.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber Rush</title><url>http://blog.uber.com/RUSH</url></story> |
2,293,727 | 2,293,339 | 1 | 3 | 2,293,202 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>An item that is not in the list of 7 and of vital importance to open source projects is the "ease of forking".<p>I've spoken to a couple different Open Source app maintainers who have basically said: GitHub made our community of contributors better by making it so easy to fork smaller portions of the codebase.<p>Where before they would basically just take abuse about issue/features (Why don't you support Markdown instead of direct HTML entry in your CMS, or whatever). Now they can just say "fork off" and have whoever complains maintain a separate codebase with their custom additions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Github has changed the open source world</title><url>http://honza.ca/2011/03/7-ways-github-has-changed-the-open-source-world/</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>duck</author><text>8. Get people using Git (and more generally, get more people using version control for their projects)<p>9. Made it popular to post more than just projects (off hand I'm thinking about dot/config files)<p>10. Make it easier to actually provide patches to open source projects</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Github has changed the open source world</title><url>http://honza.ca/2011/03/7-ways-github-has-changed-the-open-source-world/</url><text></text></story> |
30,841,001 | 30,840,784 | 1 | 2 | 30,840,214 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grumbel</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s possible to check for yourself that your vote was actually counted and not ignored.<p>That&#x27;s a bug, not a feature. The point of not doing that with paper voting is that it makes selling your vote difficult, as nobody else can verify what you voted for. You on the other side know that you put the ballot in the box and can stay around to see if the votes in the box get accurately counted.<p>With electronic voting you lose that. You either have to blindly trust the system or by allowing vote verification make it easy for others to sell the votes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>charcircuit</author><text>Electronic voting systems using zero knowledge proofs are superior to paper votes because it&#x27;s possible to check for yourself that your vote was actually counted and not ignored.<p>Paper voting is extremely expensive to scale compared to a website that lets you vote. Everyone could get a notification on their phone when they are asked to vote on something as opposed to having to fill out paper and send it somewhere to be counted.</text></item><item><author>danuker</author><text>I am not familiar with Debian&#x27;s practices, but electronic voting can&#x27;t work for a nation because:<p>- centralization (there must be a central, corruptible place where the voters are authenticated or the votes are counted)<p>- software is untrustable: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.win.tue.nl&#x2F;%7Eaeb&#x2F;linux&#x2F;hh&#x2F;thompson&#x2F;trust.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.win.tue.nl&#x2F;%7Eaeb&#x2F;linux&#x2F;hh&#x2F;thompson&#x2F;trust.html</a><p>The USA has had a Diebold voting scandal. Other countries are using a paper-based voting process which can be supervised by third parties.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Premier_Election_Solutions#Security_and_concealment_issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Premier_Election_Solutions#Sec...</a><p>Relevant watching: Tom Scott: Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs</a><p>One possible solution could be ZCash ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;585.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;585.pdf</a> ) but it has had its own problems ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;zcash-team-reveals-it-fixed-a-catastrophic-coin-counterfeiting-bug" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;zcash-team-reveals-it-fixed-a-catas...</a> ).</text></item><item><author>the_lonely_road</author><text>Apparently by a single vote and the legitimacy of the vote is in question due to some technicality I didn&#x27;t care to reread until I understood. What I don&#x27;t understand is why the project is NOT already secret voting? Do not most free democratic countries practice &#x27;secret ballot&#x27; voting specifically because not doing so caused all kinds of problems like voter intimidation? I googled the first three that came to mind (france uk, usa) and they all seem to do so.<p>Anyone associated with the Debian project have any insight on why voting is not secret and&#x2F;or any other large os projects doing the same that could chime in?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Debian decides to allow secret votes</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/889444/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qsort</author><text>Paper voting ensures privacy and voter verification, something even the best electronic solutions can&#x27;t properly handle. No thanks, I can actually show up and vote once every few years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>charcircuit</author><text>Electronic voting systems using zero knowledge proofs are superior to paper votes because it&#x27;s possible to check for yourself that your vote was actually counted and not ignored.<p>Paper voting is extremely expensive to scale compared to a website that lets you vote. Everyone could get a notification on their phone when they are asked to vote on something as opposed to having to fill out paper and send it somewhere to be counted.</text></item><item><author>danuker</author><text>I am not familiar with Debian&#x27;s practices, but electronic voting can&#x27;t work for a nation because:<p>- centralization (there must be a central, corruptible place where the voters are authenticated or the votes are counted)<p>- software is untrustable: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.win.tue.nl&#x2F;%7Eaeb&#x2F;linux&#x2F;hh&#x2F;thompson&#x2F;trust.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.win.tue.nl&#x2F;%7Eaeb&#x2F;linux&#x2F;hh&#x2F;thompson&#x2F;trust.html</a><p>The USA has had a Diebold voting scandal. Other countries are using a paper-based voting process which can be supervised by third parties.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Premier_Election_Solutions#Security_and_concealment_issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Premier_Election_Solutions#Sec...</a><p>Relevant watching: Tom Scott: Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs</a><p>One possible solution could be ZCash ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;585.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;585.pdf</a> ) but it has had its own problems ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;zcash-team-reveals-it-fixed-a-catastrophic-coin-counterfeiting-bug" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;zcash-team-reveals-it-fixed-a-catas...</a> ).</text></item><item><author>the_lonely_road</author><text>Apparently by a single vote and the legitimacy of the vote is in question due to some technicality I didn&#x27;t care to reread until I understood. What I don&#x27;t understand is why the project is NOT already secret voting? Do not most free democratic countries practice &#x27;secret ballot&#x27; voting specifically because not doing so caused all kinds of problems like voter intimidation? I googled the first three that came to mind (france uk, usa) and they all seem to do so.<p>Anyone associated with the Debian project have any insight on why voting is not secret and&#x2F;or any other large os projects doing the same that could chime in?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Debian decides to allow secret votes</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/889444/</url></story> |
9,403,084 | 9,403,020 | 1 | 2 | 9,402,744 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rplst8</author><text>Getting rid of these older analog radio technologies is short-sighted unless there is a real compelling and complete replacement already cheap and widely available.<p>FM (and AM) radio are great technologies. Just because they are &quot;old&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean there is something better.<p>In the US, Internet streaming (of existing stations), digital HD radio, and XM satellite rarely achieves a fidelity that equals FM (when the FM reception is clear). All of them suffer from unpleasant distortion. FM is not without it&#x27;s warts, but the &quot;errors&quot; are less distracting IMO. They also all suffer from binary operation. They either work or they don&#x27;t. FM fails somewhat gracefully in that the signal just gets noisier the further from the source you are.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Norway to switch off FM in 2017</title><url>http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asgeirn</author><text>This switch-off is not without controversy:<p>- The initial requirement was for at least of 50% of radio listening to be DAB before January 1st, 2015. This requirement was changed in 2011 to &quot;digital listening&quot;, including streaming radio over Internet and DVB-T in the statistic. The actual percentage for listening over DAB is not published individually.<p>- 25% of new cars sold do not support DAB. Cars in Norway have an average lifespan of 10.5 years.<p>- The majority of road tunnels do not support DAB, and will not support DAB before the FM network is switched off.<p>This last point means using radio to contact drivers in case of emergency won&#x27;t be possible at all, because:<p>1. The 20% of cars using DAB will not be able to receive anything while inside the tunnel.<p>2. The 80% of cars not using DAB won&#x27;t have their radio switched on, as there is no reception.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Norway to switch off FM in 2017</title><url>http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/</url></story> |
32,282,751 | 32,282,372 | 1 | 3 | 32,281,446 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>An alternative to the corporation is the chaord. This is an idea that went nowhere. Except that Visa International was a chaord. A chaord is useful when you have a shared resource that&#x27;s needed by competing entities. That&#x27;s exactly what Visa International was set up to be. It&#x27;s an operator of a data network and a standards body. It doesn&#x27;t issue cards. It doesn&#x27;t handle money. It just transmits transaction data between point of sale, merchant&#x27;s bank, and card issuer&#x27;s bank. It&#x27;s in the interests of all the banks involved that it work well, be a neutral party, and not cost too much. A chaord is useful when you have something that&#x27;s a natural monopoly, but the customers don&#x27;t want it charging monopoly rents. It&#x27;s not idealistic. It&#x27;s a practical solution to that class of problems.<p>Dee Hock, an executive of a minor bank, set this up. The big banks wanted someone relatively neutral in charge of the Visa system. (He died just two weeks ago, I just found out.)
His optimistic book, &quot;Birth of the Chaordic Age&quot;, is still available.<p>There used to be a &quot;chaord&quot; article on Wikipedia, but it was merged into Dee Hock&#x27;s article after Visa became an ordinary corporation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build Unix, Not Uber</title><url>https://thesephist.com/posts/legacy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abathur</author><text>At the risk of saying something dumb and meta... it&#x27;s ideas all the way down (for a really long time now).<p>The individual corporations are ideas, and then of course there&#x27;s the idea of the corporation itself. As the post notes, corporations only work because of other ideas about property rights and scarcity. But more fundamentally they only work because they&#x27;re an idea quite a few people already believe in.<p>I&#x27;m a little fuzzy on the level at which the post means &quot;autonomous ideas&quot; will steer society--do they mean autonomous ideas like Unix? Or autonomous ideas like governments and corporations and pope-less religions?<p>I think the post helps draw a latent curiosity out of me that I probably wouldn&#x27;t have put quite like this, but: <i>can</i> we better identify and allocate resources towards good ideas that don&#x27;t make market sense?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build Unix, Not Uber</title><url>https://thesephist.com/posts/legacy/</url></story> |
36,136,228 | 36,136,064 | 1 | 2 | 36,129,594 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mark_and_sweep</author><text>The biggest issue, in my experience, has always been its performance. Perhaps I have only worked in organisations that have completely misconfigured their Jira instances or the servers are underpowered, but even with the Atlassian Cloud, I am used to waiting 10 seconds to move a ticket from one column to another. Or add a ticket to the backlog, click the backlog, ticket isn&#x27;t there yet, refresh the backlog, it&#x27;s there. Add a ticket to the sprint, click the sprint view, ticket isn&#x27;t there. Refresh the sprint view, it&#x27;s there. This sh*t. Every day. Is driving me insane.<p>I don&#x27;t want the perfect tool, just one that isn&#x27;t horrendous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bipson</author><text>The Problem with Jira is not that it&#x27;s dumb or too sophisticated.<p>The first problem is that everyone, even in the same team or org, needs something different from it. Sometimes it is even single individuals needing one particular thing one time, and the same day for another workflow or view another thing. It is when Jira caters to the wrong use case for you <i>right now</i> where the a lot of frustration arises.<p>In a similar vein, it wants to cater devs, coaches, POs, business people, customers and all of them over various orgs with drastically different workflows. Serving everyone equally must lead to a mediocre experience. You will always miss something, while there is so much stuff you don&#x27;t need or want and you have to work around.<p>Arguably, this has become better a lot in the last 10 years, but you will always long for &quot;something better&quot;.<p>But the most painful issue is that in some orgs Jira <i>is</i> the workflow, instead of supporting it and staying in the background. At some point people are only sending around ticket links, commenting on tickets, requesting people monitoring their queues. This creates overhead, redirection and Jira becomes a distraction you need to handle.<p>As a result Jira becomes a proxy for all the things going wrong with your daily work and a problem of its own.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira</title><url>https://github.com/makeplane/plane</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zelphirkalt</author><text>Catering to many different kinds of people explains some of the bad stuff, but it does not explain, why seemingly every single Atlassian product including Jira sucks at parsing Markdown or supporting Markdown well. In the big picture maybe some things suffer from catering to too many audiences, but in the small, it is just lack of good engineering. Basically any markdown parser you can install at no cost and even with pushover license for any popular programming language works better than what they cobbled together. Is it a case of some &quot;senior&quot; person sitting somewhere sheltering their brain child?<p>Also they seem to be immune to feedback, which they wanted to collect in Confluence, using some popups.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bipson</author><text>The Problem with Jira is not that it&#x27;s dumb or too sophisticated.<p>The first problem is that everyone, even in the same team or org, needs something different from it. Sometimes it is even single individuals needing one particular thing one time, and the same day for another workflow or view another thing. It is when Jira caters to the wrong use case for you <i>right now</i> where the a lot of frustration arises.<p>In a similar vein, it wants to cater devs, coaches, POs, business people, customers and all of them over various orgs with drastically different workflows. Serving everyone equally must lead to a mediocre experience. You will always miss something, while there is so much stuff you don&#x27;t need or want and you have to work around.<p>Arguably, this has become better a lot in the last 10 years, but you will always long for &quot;something better&quot;.<p>But the most painful issue is that in some orgs Jira <i>is</i> the workflow, instead of supporting it and staying in the background. At some point people are only sending around ticket links, commenting on tickets, requesting people monitoring their queues. This creates overhead, redirection and Jira becomes a distraction you need to handle.<p>As a result Jira becomes a proxy for all the things going wrong with your daily work and a problem of its own.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira</title><url>https://github.com/makeplane/plane</url></story> |
29,709,593 | 29,709,674 | 1 | 2 | 29,709,315 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saurik</author><text>The entire premise of protecting people from &quot;their own reactions to test results&quot; is so horribly infuriating :(.<p>The context that is missing here, which I am super curious about: Is this article written to send to a court or some legislative body? Is it maybe the moral equivalent of an amicus brief? Is this &quot;merely&quot; detailed research that might be cited by someone else in such an argument? Is there any real organized opposition at all to the FDA doing this that one can attach themselves to?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FDA's Restrictive Regulation of Home-Testing Devices (2017)</title><url>https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3914&context=dlj</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zackify</author><text>Interesting seeing an article about this.<p>Just this week I was looking to get a continuous glucose monitor. I’ve heard it can really prevent diabetes and help you understand what foods spike your levels.<p>The fda won’t allow anyone to get these if they aren’t already diabetic.<p>There’s so many ways we aren’t “free” in this country to do what we want with our bodies.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FDA's Restrictive Regulation of Home-Testing Devices (2017)</title><url>https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3914&context=dlj</url></story> |
34,247,191 | 34,247,019 | 1 | 2 | 34,243,709 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>Unfortunately, the price will go down pushing the supply&#x2F;demand curve out, and we&#x27;ll get ever more garbage. Some of it will be dangerous or addictive to susceptible portions of society, mostly just boring and stupid to the rest of us.<p>Wait for first kid who dies trying an AI generated &quot;challenge&quot; or the first violent mob killing caused by AI generated outrage porn. AI generated video porn may look like triple breasted whores of Eroticon6 today, but with sufficient influencer content (playground videos) and porn (dungeon) footage, I suspect you can generate more than enough novel and relevant (child S&amp;M) porn for everyone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkarl</author><text>&gt; You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven&#x27;t seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably dull informational articles for every longtail keyword combination under the sun.<p>&gt; Marketers, influencers, and growth hackers will set up OpenAI → Zapier pipelines that auto-publish a relentless and impossibly banal stream of LinkedIn #MotivationMonday posts, “engaging” tweet threads, Facebook outrage monologues, and corporate blog posts.<p>I think there&#x27;s a bright side if people can&#x27;t compete with machines on stuff like that. People shouldn&#x27;t be doing that shit. It&#x27;s bad for them. When somebody makes a living (or thinks they&#x27;re making a living, or hopes to make a living) pumping out bullshit motivational quotes, carefully constructed outrage takes, or purportedly expert content about topics they know nothing about, it&#x27;s the spiritual equivalent of them doing backbreaking work breathing in toxic dust and fumes.<p>We can hate them for choosing to pollute the world with that kind of work, but they&#x27;re still human beings being tortured in a mental coal mine. Even if they choose it over meaningful work like teaching, nursing, or working in a restaurant. Even if they choose it for shallow, greedy reasons. Even if they choose it because they prefer lying and cheating over honest work. No matter why they&#x27;re doing it and whose fault it is, they&#x27;re still human beings being wasted and ruined for no good reason.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The expanding dark forest and generative AI</title><url>https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thenerdhead</author><text>Most of the people you describe have little to no moral compass. Most of the time they are above the accepted morals of society (a very Nietzsche perspective). These are the marketers of the world who encourage you to &quot;pollute the web&quot; and the media manipulators whose secrets are to &quot;con the conmen&quot;. The reality is, they make more money than any of us and sleep just fine every night because they know that nobody seeks honesty or reality anymore. The more unbelievable of headlines and articles, the more it warps our compass.<p>No sane person doing this will push reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkarl</author><text>&gt; You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven&#x27;t seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably dull informational articles for every longtail keyword combination under the sun.<p>&gt; Marketers, influencers, and growth hackers will set up OpenAI → Zapier pipelines that auto-publish a relentless and impossibly banal stream of LinkedIn #MotivationMonday posts, “engaging” tweet threads, Facebook outrage monologues, and corporate blog posts.<p>I think there&#x27;s a bright side if people can&#x27;t compete with machines on stuff like that. People shouldn&#x27;t be doing that shit. It&#x27;s bad for them. When somebody makes a living (or thinks they&#x27;re making a living, or hopes to make a living) pumping out bullshit motivational quotes, carefully constructed outrage takes, or purportedly expert content about topics they know nothing about, it&#x27;s the spiritual equivalent of them doing backbreaking work breathing in toxic dust and fumes.<p>We can hate them for choosing to pollute the world with that kind of work, but they&#x27;re still human beings being tortured in a mental coal mine. Even if they choose it over meaningful work like teaching, nursing, or working in a restaurant. Even if they choose it for shallow, greedy reasons. Even if they choose it because they prefer lying and cheating over honest work. No matter why they&#x27;re doing it and whose fault it is, they&#x27;re still human beings being wasted and ruined for no good reason.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The expanding dark forest and generative AI</title><url>https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest</url></story> |
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