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6,223,990 | 6,222,603 | 1 | 3 | 6,221,077 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kokotko</author><text>I think more and more Gen Y people in advanced European countries see owning a car as a failure - you are a fool for wasting money, when transportation can be done cheaply and also often for free. You are basically penalized for owning a car by high taxes, and for those few occassions in a year when you need a car (moving stuff) it&#x27;s easy enough to rent. Spending your life in traffic jams is just a plain fail.<p>Having to wear a nice suit is also a failure. I would never consider working anywhere where I have to wear a suit.<p>Edit: My overarching point being that attitudes are changing. The &#x27;American dream&#x27; doesn&#x27;t really apply anymore, and especially not everywhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>homosaur</author><text>100K is the point where you have the illusion of financial freedom because you can purchase a BMW, buy a nice home in a bland cul-de-sac with a bunch of nameless white dudes, and it&#x27;s not until you&#x27;re in your 40s and you&#x27;re in danger to losing the job to a robot or a whipper-snapper that you understand that kind of &quot;freedom&quot; is actually enslavement. You made the wrong choice because you wasted your life buying plastic.<p>I don&#x27;t make 100K but I did recently have what you might call a religious epiphany about my job, my finances, and freedom. Luckily for me, I have little debt and actually like my job a lot so I&#x27;m not the hole some folks are, God bless them all.<p>I just hope most of us aren&#x27;t Bukowski&#x27;s age when we realize we were building useless bullshit for useless people in order to buy useless plastic garbage. I know some of us are doing important work, but many of us are not.<p>Jeez, guys, we get one chance at this. Most people are destined to live anonymous lives so at the very least try to enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>orofino</author><text>I always kind of shake my head at this. On a board with many people making 100k+ per year, who are the &quot;societal overlords&quot; you&#x27;re referencing. Sure there are people that make much more than that, but anything beyond 80k allows a person to save quite a bit and &quot;quit&quot; the rat race earlier if they like.</text></item><item><author>VexXtreme</author><text>&gt; Hence the somewhat curious (and I think, very American) idea of the &quot;Golden Years&quot;. If you put your head down and work hard, taking no vacations, until you&#x27;re age 65, then you flip 180 degrees in the other direction and retire into a life of full-time leisure. So if you live long enough, it really won&#x27;t be a waste; you cash it in all at the end!<p>And this exact kind of thinking is what the societal overlords want you to subscribe to. Give them the best years of your life to get a degree of freedom later in your life, when the freedom won&#x27;t matter anymore anyway, cause you&#x27;ll be pissing in your diapers and be limited to a very small subset of things a healthy young person can do.<p>I see it this way: when you&#x27;re retired and old, the overall potential of what you can do with your life is much lower than that of when you were in your 20s and 30s. Why is that? Because an old person with the same amount of time and money can do much less with those resources than a young person.<p>When you live your life like a run off the mill robot, living your life according to a set of societal expectations and rules set by other people, what&#x27;s the point of such a life anyway?<p>PS. OP, I wasn&#x27;t addressing you, in case you feel I&#x27;ve attacked your point, I am just furthering it :)</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text>Hence the somewhat curious (and I think, very American) idea of the &quot;Golden Years&quot;. If you put your head down and work hard, taking no vacations, until you&#x27;re age 65, then you flip 180 degrees in the other direction and retire into a life of full-time leisure. So if you live long enough, it really won&#x27;t be a waste; you cash it in all at the end!<p>A Scandinavian psychologist somewhat recently proposed a typically Scandinavian reversal of this: he suggested people should work to age 80, but work proportionally less in all the years up to there. Basically redirect the pension system to subsidize more early-age vacation and less pension.<p>edit: <a href="http://cphpost.dk/business/researcher-advocates-25-hour-working-week-%E2%80%93-until-age-80" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cphpost.dk&#x2F;business&#x2F;researcher-advocates-25-hour-work...</a></text></item><item><author>blackhole</author><text>I feel like too many people get sucked into the idea of furthering their career, to the point that they forget to further their own life.<p>What is the point of existence if we never get around to experiencing it?<p><i>&quot;It&#x27;s not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.&quot; - Randy Pausch</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“People simply empty out”</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/people-simply-empty-out.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>reeses</author><text>I like this because Bukowski&#x27;s first purchases when he &quot;made it&quot; was a BMW and a house in a nice neighborhood.<p>I&#x27;d write more but, as you say, we only get one chance at this and we&#x27;re living in the best time ever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>homosaur</author><text>100K is the point where you have the illusion of financial freedom because you can purchase a BMW, buy a nice home in a bland cul-de-sac with a bunch of nameless white dudes, and it&#x27;s not until you&#x27;re in your 40s and you&#x27;re in danger to losing the job to a robot or a whipper-snapper that you understand that kind of &quot;freedom&quot; is actually enslavement. You made the wrong choice because you wasted your life buying plastic.<p>I don&#x27;t make 100K but I did recently have what you might call a religious epiphany about my job, my finances, and freedom. Luckily for me, I have little debt and actually like my job a lot so I&#x27;m not the hole some folks are, God bless them all.<p>I just hope most of us aren&#x27;t Bukowski&#x27;s age when we realize we were building useless bullshit for useless people in order to buy useless plastic garbage. I know some of us are doing important work, but many of us are not.<p>Jeez, guys, we get one chance at this. Most people are destined to live anonymous lives so at the very least try to enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>orofino</author><text>I always kind of shake my head at this. On a board with many people making 100k+ per year, who are the &quot;societal overlords&quot; you&#x27;re referencing. Sure there are people that make much more than that, but anything beyond 80k allows a person to save quite a bit and &quot;quit&quot; the rat race earlier if they like.</text></item><item><author>VexXtreme</author><text>&gt; Hence the somewhat curious (and I think, very American) idea of the &quot;Golden Years&quot;. If you put your head down and work hard, taking no vacations, until you&#x27;re age 65, then you flip 180 degrees in the other direction and retire into a life of full-time leisure. So if you live long enough, it really won&#x27;t be a waste; you cash it in all at the end!<p>And this exact kind of thinking is what the societal overlords want you to subscribe to. Give them the best years of your life to get a degree of freedom later in your life, when the freedom won&#x27;t matter anymore anyway, cause you&#x27;ll be pissing in your diapers and be limited to a very small subset of things a healthy young person can do.<p>I see it this way: when you&#x27;re retired and old, the overall potential of what you can do with your life is much lower than that of when you were in your 20s and 30s. Why is that? Because an old person with the same amount of time and money can do much less with those resources than a young person.<p>When you live your life like a run off the mill robot, living your life according to a set of societal expectations and rules set by other people, what&#x27;s the point of such a life anyway?<p>PS. OP, I wasn&#x27;t addressing you, in case you feel I&#x27;ve attacked your point, I am just furthering it :)</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text>Hence the somewhat curious (and I think, very American) idea of the &quot;Golden Years&quot;. If you put your head down and work hard, taking no vacations, until you&#x27;re age 65, then you flip 180 degrees in the other direction and retire into a life of full-time leisure. So if you live long enough, it really won&#x27;t be a waste; you cash it in all at the end!<p>A Scandinavian psychologist somewhat recently proposed a typically Scandinavian reversal of this: he suggested people should work to age 80, but work proportionally less in all the years up to there. Basically redirect the pension system to subsidize more early-age vacation and less pension.<p>edit: <a href="http://cphpost.dk/business/researcher-advocates-25-hour-working-week-%E2%80%93-until-age-80" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cphpost.dk&#x2F;business&#x2F;researcher-advocates-25-hour-work...</a></text></item><item><author>blackhole</author><text>I feel like too many people get sucked into the idea of furthering their career, to the point that they forget to further their own life.<p>What is the point of existence if we never get around to experiencing it?<p><i>&quot;It&#x27;s not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.&quot; - Randy Pausch</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“People simply empty out”</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/people-simply-empty-out.html</url></story> |
1,434,860 | 1,434,840 | 1 | 2 | 1,434,275 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomhoward</author><text>Speaking of "complete cultural ignorance", you might want to do a little research into South Africa's long, splendid history of singing at public events, which at the football at least, the vuvuzela has largely destroyed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>helium</author><text>More like: "How Tech-Savvy Westerners found a way to satisfy their complete cultural ignorance and inability to accept or understand cultures other than their own"</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>There's a cultural studies paper for anyone who wants it in software programmers versus throngs of Africans with 5 cent plastic noisemakers. "Subjugation By Software: How Tech-Savvy Westerners Wrote Africans Out Of The World Cup In Real Time" would pick up plenty of citations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Silence Vuvuzela Horns in World Cup Broadcasts</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-with-an-eq-filter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dantheman</author><text>And of course the follow up -- how long does something need to exist before cultural relativism kicks in. 20 years?<p>Originally made out of tin, the vuvuzela became popular in South Africa in the 1990s. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela#Use_outside_football_games" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela#Use_outside_football_g...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>helium</author><text>More like: "How Tech-Savvy Westerners found a way to satisfy their complete cultural ignorance and inability to accept or understand cultures other than their own"</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>There's a cultural studies paper for anyone who wants it in software programmers versus throngs of Africans with 5 cent plastic noisemakers. "Subjugation By Software: How Tech-Savvy Westerners Wrote Africans Out Of The World Cup In Real Time" would pick up plenty of citations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Silence Vuvuzela Horns in World Cup Broadcasts</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-with-an-eq-filter</url></story> |
35,861,476 | 35,859,671 | 1 | 3 | 35,852,192 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>If laws let companies do this, they will. Eventually unlocking your phone will look like a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Literacy_test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Literacy_test</a>. At 30 days, it has already passed the level of cancelling your subscription to The Economist and reached the obfuscation level of cancelling the average gym membership.<p>They&#x27;ll just keep testing the limits until their analytics tell them that only 23 people made it through the process in the last year, then they&#x27;ll shut it down for lack of use. Legally obligated, they&#x27;ll replace the process with a promise that if you mail a newly purchased device to the company, they&#x27;ll send you an unlocked version within about 3 months. Then, a year later, mail to that P.O. Box starts getting returned, and customer service claims that they&#x27;re not aware of any mail-in program. The representative claims, honestly, that &quot;we don&#x27;t sell unlocked phones.&quot; You get escalated to a supervisor, and insist that they&#x27;re legally required to unlock your phone. The supervisor apologizes to you, promises to get to the bottom of the training oversight that led to the escalation, and insists that you mail the device <i>directly to his office</i> and he will take care of you personally.<p>Only three people made it to the supervisor last year. Two of them never ended up sending in their phones, and for the one that did, the company accidentally sent another <i>locked</i> phone back and the customer failed to follow up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>j1elo</author><text>Xiaomi does the same (or at least did until my latest phone change i.e. around 3 years ago). You must unlock the bootloader before being able to install a custom recovery image such as TWRP, which itself is used to install custom ROMs.<p>This unlock involves: creating a user account in the Xiaomi services website, logging into that account from your phone&#x27;s system, then <i>having the phone logged in for at least 7 days</i>, then using a Windows software which sends a request for unlocking, which they will grant (at least in my experience).<p>The most outrageous part of all this process (apart from the fact that it exists at all) is the 7 days of usage with the phone logged in. If you attempt an unlock earlier than that, the software will say: &quot;You have to wait X days and Y hours before you can unlock this device.&quot;<p>EDIT: This Reddit wiki page explains the process. I&#x27;m flabbergasted that it actually takes <i>720 hours</i> aka 30 days:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Xiaomi&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;bootloader&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Xiaomi&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;bootloader&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>pbasista</author><text>&gt; connect the device to the Internet before they are allowed to install the operating system they want<p>Phoning home before undertaking such an activity takes away the ownership rights from the customers. They do not actually own these devices even after they have purchased them.<p>The reason is that an important part of their ownership rights, i.e. the freedom to use the software of their choice, has been withheld from them. With a <i>promise</i> that it will be given to them on request. Unless, of course, the manufacturer changes their mind.<p>Unfortunately, there are cases when the manufacturer did not even make such a promise and disabled bootloader unlocking permanently with no way of enabling it again. On Pixel phones.<p>This used to happen (and perhaps still happens) to some Pixel phones purchased in the USA from Verizon. They have been known [0] for disabling the bootloader unlocking and for giving their customers no way to enable it. Not even after phoning home.<p>Some people claim [1] that they paid someone from China to unlock their Pixel 1 phone remotely using some shady approach. I assume that someone with inside information from Google has leaked some software and instructions for doing so. It is unclear whether later Pixel phones sold by Verizon with locked bootloaders could be unlocked in a similar way.<p>As a result, it seems like the only way to have a chance at unlocking such Pixel phones, which have been made by a US company and purchased from a US carrier, is to pay someone in China and hope for the best. It has gotten that far.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-verizon-pixel-xl.3796030&#x2F;page-73" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-verizon-pixel-xl.3796030&#x2F;page-73#post-88299591" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled</title><url>https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=545</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>preisschild</author><text>Yeah, I bought a Pocophone F1 when it came out, expecting to instantly install LineageOS, but then I found out that I have to wait a full week and set up a Windows VM.<p>The phone per-se wasn&#x27;t bad, but that was my last purchase from Xiaomi.<p>Replaced the Pocophone with a Google Pixel 5A and I will stick to Google Pixel because GrapheneOS is great.</text><parent_chain><item><author>j1elo</author><text>Xiaomi does the same (or at least did until my latest phone change i.e. around 3 years ago). You must unlock the bootloader before being able to install a custom recovery image such as TWRP, which itself is used to install custom ROMs.<p>This unlock involves: creating a user account in the Xiaomi services website, logging into that account from your phone&#x27;s system, then <i>having the phone logged in for at least 7 days</i>, then using a Windows software which sends a request for unlocking, which they will grant (at least in my experience).<p>The most outrageous part of all this process (apart from the fact that it exists at all) is the 7 days of usage with the phone logged in. If you attempt an unlock earlier than that, the software will say: &quot;You have to wait X days and Y hours before you can unlock this device.&quot;<p>EDIT: This Reddit wiki page explains the process. I&#x27;m flabbergasted that it actually takes <i>720 hours</i> aka 30 days:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Xiaomi&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;bootloader&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Xiaomi&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;bootloader&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>pbasista</author><text>&gt; connect the device to the Internet before they are allowed to install the operating system they want<p>Phoning home before undertaking such an activity takes away the ownership rights from the customers. They do not actually own these devices even after they have purchased them.<p>The reason is that an important part of their ownership rights, i.e. the freedom to use the software of their choice, has been withheld from them. With a <i>promise</i> that it will be given to them on request. Unless, of course, the manufacturer changes their mind.<p>Unfortunately, there are cases when the manufacturer did not even make such a promise and disabled bootloader unlocking permanently with no way of enabling it again. On Pixel phones.<p>This used to happen (and perhaps still happens) to some Pixel phones purchased in the USA from Verizon. They have been known [0] for disabling the bootloader unlocking and for giving their customers no way to enable it. Not even after phoning home.<p>Some people claim [1] that they paid someone from China to unlock their Pixel 1 phone remotely using some shady approach. I assume that someone with inside information from Google has leaked some software and instructions for doing so. It is unclear whether later Pixel phones sold by Verizon with locked bootloaders could be unlocked in a similar way.<p>As a result, it seems like the only way to have a chance at unlocking such Pixel phones, which have been made by a US company and purchased from a US carrier, is to pay someone in China and hope for the best. It has gotten that far.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-verizon-pixel-xl.3796030&#x2F;page-73" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-verizon-pixel-xl.3796030&#x2F;page-73#post-88299591" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.xda-developers.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-unlock-bootloader-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled</title><url>https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=545</url></story> |
16,593,804 | 16,594,064 | 1 | 3 | 16,593,220 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xenostar</author><text>I&#x27;m looking forward to the next generation of VR headsets immensly. A lot of people have been quick to jump on the &quot;VR is already dead&quot; train, but having picked one up during Christmas this year, it&#x27;s obvious how much potential is there.<p>There are a few things that need to be accomplished before widespread adoption:<p>- Removal of wires. It restricts movement too much and removes immersion. The new HTC headset is a step toward this.<p>- Higher resolution screens. VR AMOLEDs like this are a step in the right direction.<p>- Prices for GPUs need to go down, and&#x2F;or a few more years are needed for average computers to be able to render high frame-rates without breaking the bank.<p>- Headsets need to be lighter and smaller.<p>- Removal of sensor placement the room. This will be harder to do, but cameras&#x2F;sensors built on the headsets themselves could potentially accomplish this.<p>The way I see it, we&#x27;re in the iPhone 1 stage of VR right now. Imagine the iPhone X version: lighter, smaller, higher resolution, more colors, higher frame-rate, less hassle. These are all inevitabilities, and at that point it will become much easier to adopt the technology. We&#x27;re also missing a true &quot;killer app&quot; that will get people to purchase a headset JUST for that. I think it will take some sort of truly massive MMO the likes of WoW to accomplish that.<p>The future is definitely exciting in this field. I hope hardware vendors don&#x27;t give up and can see the light at the end of the tunnel.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google and LG creates VR AMOLED 120 Hz at 5500 x 3000</title><url>https://www.blurbusters.com/google-and-lg-creates-vr-amoled-120-hz-at-5500x3000/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>naoru</author><text>Everyone says that a powerful GPU is needed to drive this thing, but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a must. Careful art direction based on current hardware limitations can produce nice-looking virtual worlds — not photorealistic, but still immersive and fun. Nintendo pulls this thing consistently.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google and LG creates VR AMOLED 120 Hz at 5500 x 3000</title><url>https://www.blurbusters.com/google-and-lg-creates-vr-amoled-120-hz-at-5500x3000/</url></story> |
446,195 | 445,804 | 1 | 2 | 445,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bayareaguy</author><text><i>Pick Arc if: You want a 100 year language and you’re willing to wait that long.</i><p>I know it was a cheap shot but I couldn't help but laugh when I got to that point in the article. The relative lack of activity on <a href="http://arclanguage.org/forum" rel="nofollow">http://arclanguage.org/forum</a> makes me think the best reason to choose Arc at this point is to run news.arc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Pick a Language</title><url>http://web.mac.com/jimbokun/iWeb/Site/Blog/AB35C167-7755-4113-938C-968F65256D76.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acangiano</author><text>It's opinionated, but this article serves as a good FAQ for people who might be asking what language should they learn.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Pick a Language</title><url>http://web.mac.com/jimbokun/iWeb/Site/Blog/AB35C167-7755-4113-938C-968F65256D76.html</url><text></text></story> |
10,734,020 | 10,733,939 | 1 | 2 | 10,733,436 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>latj</author><text>What you are describing is what existed before what we have now. A group of people working for an employer would try to negotiate for safer working conditions, better benefits, etc. The employer would take the list of demands, fire the person who handed him the list and say, &quot;I&#x27;m not giving you any of this shit and anyone who talks about it again gets fired too.&quot;<p>So people started organizing by trade. It made sense because workers of a common trade share experiences and grievances. If one particular employer treated its workers bad, that trade guild had more leverage by threatening work stoppage against other employers who could put pressure on the first employer.<p>Over time employers started to converge and grow in power. Now you have a company who employs thousands of people in multiple locations. To keep the balance in power, the unions converged and grew in power. You cant threaten to replace a union worker if everyone who does that job is in the union(1).<p>Now the unions are big enough to disrupt economies, sway elections, etc. They are large professional entities of lawyers, financial managers. They want everyone in the union for maximal leverage (ie fewer scabs, more dues) so they lobbied to affect the policies we have today.<p>The small voluntary no-admin-overhead organization you are describing is ideal, but its really unlikely to work. It would depend on the employer allowing it to happen.<p>I could say more here about the growing wealth gap, criminalization of poverty, and the quiet ongoing class war, and end with a Malcom X quote, &quot;Anytime you depend on your enemy for a job you&#x27;re in bad shape.&quot; But I dont feel like saying all that. ;)<p>1. robots</text><parent_chain><item><author>gburt</author><text>Can you share some of the arguments in favor of involuntary unions? (I&#x27;m even willing to invest some time digging if anyone has some pointers to potential sources of literature, I am genuinely interested.)<p>My personal experience has been that when I&#x27;ve been the so-called &quot;beneficiary&quot; of one, it has not actually benefited me and has often made for awkward scenarios where there is me and the counterparty (&quot;employer&quot;) and this weird semi-interested third-party regulating how we can interact, regardless of what is actually in my self-interest.<p>Just to be clear, I am all for collective bargaining in the sense of a bunch of (small) actors choosing to work together against an adversary. I would do this myself if I deemed it beneficial. I don&#x27;t understand why we would mandate that individuals had to be bound by the agreement whether they want to participate or not. I recognize that this is a common structure though.</text></item><item><author>RickHull</author><text>&gt; Note I&#x27;m not opposed to people&#x27;s freedom to unionize. In fact, it should not take an act of government to &quot;permit it&quot;, and people should do it if they want.<p>Everyone has the right to organize a voluntary union. What requires special legislated privilege are things like collective bargaining, which is not a normal component or outcome of voluntary negotiations.<p>Modern unions in the United States enjoy many legal privileges that were specifically lobbied for. It&#x27;s this type of privileged union which is being argued for, not a mere voluntary association under an impartial legal regime.</text></item><item><author>jngreenlee</author><text>This is going to lead to messy public arguments, at least in part driven by existing cab drivers that will be seeking rents from the successful upstarts.<p>I think this tactic was used before in other historically disrupted industries...the incumbents would push for unionization to keep inefficient players on life support, at the cost of the upstarts.<p>Note I&#x27;m not opposed to people&#x27;s freedom to unionize. In fact, it should not take an act of government to &quot;permit it&quot;, and people should do it if they want. It&#x27;s just the unintended consequences and manipulation of the move to unionize that are interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seattle Considers Measure to Let Uber and Lyft Drivers Unionize</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/technology/seattle-considers-measure-to-let-uber-and-lyft-drivers-unionize.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rverghes</author><text>It&#x27;s generally to prevent free-riding. Let&#x27;s say the union negotiates benefit X, and the company then provides benefit X to all employees including non-union employees. An example could be safety features that the union is pushing for. The non-union employees have benefited from the actions of the union without having to pay the cost.<p>To balance this, involuntary unionization usually requires a majority vote from the employees to unionize.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gburt</author><text>Can you share some of the arguments in favor of involuntary unions? (I&#x27;m even willing to invest some time digging if anyone has some pointers to potential sources of literature, I am genuinely interested.)<p>My personal experience has been that when I&#x27;ve been the so-called &quot;beneficiary&quot; of one, it has not actually benefited me and has often made for awkward scenarios where there is me and the counterparty (&quot;employer&quot;) and this weird semi-interested third-party regulating how we can interact, regardless of what is actually in my self-interest.<p>Just to be clear, I am all for collective bargaining in the sense of a bunch of (small) actors choosing to work together against an adversary. I would do this myself if I deemed it beneficial. I don&#x27;t understand why we would mandate that individuals had to be bound by the agreement whether they want to participate or not. I recognize that this is a common structure though.</text></item><item><author>RickHull</author><text>&gt; Note I&#x27;m not opposed to people&#x27;s freedom to unionize. In fact, it should not take an act of government to &quot;permit it&quot;, and people should do it if they want.<p>Everyone has the right to organize a voluntary union. What requires special legislated privilege are things like collective bargaining, which is not a normal component or outcome of voluntary negotiations.<p>Modern unions in the United States enjoy many legal privileges that were specifically lobbied for. It&#x27;s this type of privileged union which is being argued for, not a mere voluntary association under an impartial legal regime.</text></item><item><author>jngreenlee</author><text>This is going to lead to messy public arguments, at least in part driven by existing cab drivers that will be seeking rents from the successful upstarts.<p>I think this tactic was used before in other historically disrupted industries...the incumbents would push for unionization to keep inefficient players on life support, at the cost of the upstarts.<p>Note I&#x27;m not opposed to people&#x27;s freedom to unionize. In fact, it should not take an act of government to &quot;permit it&quot;, and people should do it if they want. It&#x27;s just the unintended consequences and manipulation of the move to unionize that are interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seattle Considers Measure to Let Uber and Lyft Drivers Unionize</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/technology/seattle-considers-measure-to-let-uber-and-lyft-drivers-unionize.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0</url></story> |
31,697,903 | 31,697,870 | 1 | 2 | 31,696,901 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>percentcer</author><text>I&#x27;m not the OP, but some personal examples:<p>- why is little-end &#x2F; big-end a thing?<p>- why is volatile memory called volatile? and why can&#x27;t we just keep that data around?<p>- what can a 64-bit computer do that a 32-bit computer can&#x27;t?<p>- what do people mean when they say &quot;code is data&quot;<p>- what&#x27;s an instruction, really?<p>- how did people program computers before they had screens?<p>- how did people program computers before they had keyboards?<p>- why is it called 2&#x27;s complement?<p>And others that I can&#x27;t recall right now. It&#x27;s a fantastic book and I recommend it to everyone who is the slightest bit interested in how computers work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unwind</author><text>Uh, as someone with too many years of programming behind me to imagine that, can you mention some concrete things that you found arbitrary or completely mysterious, and that the booked cleared up for you? Thanks.</text></item><item><author>scop</author><text>This book was absolutely essential when I was first sinking my teeth into software programming. Things that seemed either arbitrary or completely mysterious suddenly made sense now that I had a <i>contextual understanding of how computers worked</i>. Without having that knowledge, I think my career would have been vastly more difficult and frustrating.<p>While I understand many “get started programming” books&#x2F;tutorials put an emphasis on getting coding asap, I really had to stop and learn about <i>computers</i> before I could start coding in a well rounded way (and that’s coming from a WebDev, who doesn’t even have to deal with low-level stuff too often!).<p>Thank you Mr. Petzold!!!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Code” 2nd Edition</title><url>http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2022/06/Announcing-Code-2nd-Edition.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>scop</author><text>That&#x27;s a great question. I started out as a programmer having been a casual computer user through my childhood&#x2F;teenage years. I never took apart computers or ventured into how they worked. Thus, when I decided to pursue this as a career, I had a lot of catch up to do. Here&#x27;s a couple of things off the top of my head:<p>- The terminal was completely foreign to me. Why is it structured so? How are permissions set? Octal?!?!?!<p>- Why do I have to specify a type in a programming language?<p>- What&#x2F;why are all these special characters used in programming?!<p>- Why is a program structured in the way it is? What are the levels of abstraction working in a given program?<p>- What happens when I run&#x2F;compile my program?<p>I would also say that learning a little bit of C also really helped illuminate computers for me. Not only in the sense of <i>how</i> they work, but also why programs use their current syntax. For example, for developers who look at Javascript for the first time seeing parenthesis, colons, curly brackets, etc all make an initial sense: they seem familiar. However, to somebody first diving in all of these characters seem totally arbitrary! Having gained a sense of how computers worked and then a very basic introduction into low-level programming, suddenly these high level languages seem much less arbitrary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unwind</author><text>Uh, as someone with too many years of programming behind me to imagine that, can you mention some concrete things that you found arbitrary or completely mysterious, and that the booked cleared up for you? Thanks.</text></item><item><author>scop</author><text>This book was absolutely essential when I was first sinking my teeth into software programming. Things that seemed either arbitrary or completely mysterious suddenly made sense now that I had a <i>contextual understanding of how computers worked</i>. Without having that knowledge, I think my career would have been vastly more difficult and frustrating.<p>While I understand many “get started programming” books&#x2F;tutorials put an emphasis on getting coding asap, I really had to stop and learn about <i>computers</i> before I could start coding in a well rounded way (and that’s coming from a WebDev, who doesn’t even have to deal with low-level stuff too often!).<p>Thank you Mr. Petzold!!!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Code” 2nd Edition</title><url>http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2022/06/Announcing-Code-2nd-Edition.html</url></story> |
15,522,015 | 15,522,034 | 1 | 3 | 15,521,756 | train | <instructions>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>Seeing as the user&#x27;s main problem is their home directory was encrypted, the root doesn&#x27;t seem like it would make any difference...<p>Better would be easier ways to run browsers (and all applications) inside protected systems of some kind, so even if they are hacked they can&#x27;t touch anything outside their own cache directory, and creating downloaded files.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abrowne</author><text>Not trying to blame the user, just trying to understand: why would someone ever run a web browser as root? A text editor to edit system files, ok, but a browser?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux ransomware in the wild</title><url>https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060828.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>lstyls</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty common for noobs to do this when they have messed up permissions, because permissions errors magically go away.<p>The OP on the Gentoo thread seems more than competent enough to know how to fix permissions issues though, so I agree it&#x27;s a headscratcher.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abrowne</author><text>Not trying to blame the user, just trying to understand: why would someone ever run a web browser as root? A text editor to edit system files, ok, but a browser?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linux ransomware in the wild</title><url>https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060828.html</url></story> |
16,197,063 | 16,195,741 | 1 | 2 | 16,194,702 | train | <instructions>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>This is another way to do IoT wrong - collecting data but just displaying it.<p>The idea is to use CO₂ levels to control your HVAC system. The HVAC system should be able to draw fresh air from outside or recirculate air from inside, depending on CO₂ level. This is a standard option on modern HVAC systems, and there are standard sensors for it. Better systems sense temperature, CO₂, CO, humidity, and smoke. This is a huge win for rooms where the people load varies widely, such as hotel function rooms and classrooms. Such control systems save money, because, when nobody is using the room, they detect that CO₂ is low and cut down the ventilation rate. When the room fills up, the CO₂ level goes up, the fans speed up and the outside air intakes open until the CO₂ level comes down.[2] There are smart control units which manage heat, fans, vents, and air conditioning compressors. The hardware pays for itself in power consumption.<p>And yes, you can get this stuff Internet-enabled, although that&#x27;s mostly for remote maintenance. The HVAC works just fine without connectivity.<p>Surprisingly, this technology is a tough sell. Except for convention hotels. They get this. They&#x27;re in the competitive business of keeping large numbers of people comfortable and coming back. They have big rooms where the people load may go from zero to a thousand in minutes, and go back down an hour later. It&#x27;s a huge win for them.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airtesttechnologies.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;reference&#x2F;CO2SeqOfOperation.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airtesttechnologies.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;reference&#x2F;CO2SeqO...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buildingcontrols.honeywell.com&#x2F;literature&#x2F;Advanced_RTU_Retrofit_Solution_Program_Sell_Sheet-01-00041.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buildingcontrols.honeywell.com&#x2F;literature&#x2F;Advanced_R...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Low cost CO₂ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go</title><url>https://github.com/larsp/co2monitor</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Hasz</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in a hardware solution, I&#x27;ve used the MH-Z19 CO2 sensor to great results. It&#x27;s an NDIR (read:not electrochemical) sensor with a UART interface and temperature compensation. It will report up to 5000ppm and comes factory calibrated.<p>It&#x27;s also $20 in singles from China. Coupled with whatever microcontroller you want, it&#x27;s totally possible to have a distributed net of CO2 sensors for a low cost per node.<p>That being said, it&#x27;s a ton of work and this is an excellent solution with much quicker results.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Low cost CO₂ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go</title><url>https://github.com/larsp/co2monitor</url></story> |
19,228,717 | 19,225,976 | 1 | 3 | 19,224,542 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swoongoonz</author><text>100% agree. The thing nobody also remembers is that Silicon Valley was called SV because of it&#x27;s hardware&#x2F;manufacturing not really it&#x27;s software development. The software side of things flourished because of the existing hardware work that had already existed (semiconductors, parc lab arpanet, apple, oracle, atari).</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>One of the biggest lessons I&#x27;ve taken from New York&#x27;s approach is not to try and be the next Silicon Valley (as every community is trying to be). You can&#x27;t beat the Valley at its own game. That&#x27;s foolish.<p>Instead, look to what industries your community has long been successful in, and develop the tech to disrupt those industries before the Valley does.<p>NYC&#x27;s example was to focus tech on advertising, finance, and media -- the industries it has long dominated.<p>I&#x27;m from a small mining city in Canada (Sudbury, Ontario). I see the same desperate hope to become a tech center. But the best startups are the ones focused on areas where our community has traditionally held a significant leadership position: mining.<p>One such startup, and arguable our most successful one, is Minalytix. They develop software for analyzing mining and exploration data.<p>Another is Symboticware, which creates hardware and software to gather real-time data from machines on the ground and analyzing it back at the office.<p>Jannatec is focused on solving the challenges of getting quality wireless data in and out of complex underground mines (those many kilometers of hardrock don&#x27;t exactly make it easy).<p>TesMan is focused on mine safety. Dura21 works on better pipes. Hard-Line is tackling robotics. ClickMox does lidar. There are many others.<p>These are small but thriving startups. They&#x27;re not sexy. They&#x27;re not likely to be the next Facebook or Google. But they&#x27;re solving problems our community has long established itself as being experts at solving. It&#x27;s also transforming our economy from one being tied to a dwindling resource (easily accessible ore), to one that leads in mining operations around the world.<p>A lot of towns want to be the next SV. It&#x27;s not going to happen. Trying to be SV is to live in denial about what made SV successful in the first place.<p>But tackling a smaller niche in the wider tech space? Building on the resources, expertise, and reputation you already have? That&#x27;s a very doable approach and the field is wide open.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/technology/nyc-tech-startups.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>etblg</author><text>I think the most critical flaw in Sudbury&#x27;s plan, is that people would have to live in Sudbury (no offense)<p>It&#x27;s a small, cold, somewhat-remote city known for mining, and particularly for having an incredibly tall smokestack visible everywhere in town. You can fund startups, but who is going to move from other places to Sudbury?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>One of the biggest lessons I&#x27;ve taken from New York&#x27;s approach is not to try and be the next Silicon Valley (as every community is trying to be). You can&#x27;t beat the Valley at its own game. That&#x27;s foolish.<p>Instead, look to what industries your community has long been successful in, and develop the tech to disrupt those industries before the Valley does.<p>NYC&#x27;s example was to focus tech on advertising, finance, and media -- the industries it has long dominated.<p>I&#x27;m from a small mining city in Canada (Sudbury, Ontario). I see the same desperate hope to become a tech center. But the best startups are the ones focused on areas where our community has traditionally held a significant leadership position: mining.<p>One such startup, and arguable our most successful one, is Minalytix. They develop software for analyzing mining and exploration data.<p>Another is Symboticware, which creates hardware and software to gather real-time data from machines on the ground and analyzing it back at the office.<p>Jannatec is focused on solving the challenges of getting quality wireless data in and out of complex underground mines (those many kilometers of hardrock don&#x27;t exactly make it easy).<p>TesMan is focused on mine safety. Dura21 works on better pipes. Hard-Line is tackling robotics. ClickMox does lidar. There are many others.<p>These are small but thriving startups. They&#x27;re not sexy. They&#x27;re not likely to be the next Facebook or Google. But they&#x27;re solving problems our community has long established itself as being experts at solving. It&#x27;s also transforming our economy from one being tied to a dwindling resource (easily accessible ore), to one that leads in mining operations around the world.<p>A lot of towns want to be the next SV. It&#x27;s not going to happen. Trying to be SV is to live in denial about what made SV successful in the first place.<p>But tackling a smaller niche in the wider tech space? Building on the resources, expertise, and reputation you already have? That&#x27;s a very doable approach and the field is wide open.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/technology/nyc-tech-startups.html</url></story> |
35,348,069 | 35,343,492 | 1 | 2 | 35,342,056 | 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>brutusurp</author><text>Agree. &quot;Day 1&quot; is no more, as are those leadership principles.<p>My own divorce from Amazon retail was when 3rd party vendors had no control over Amazon binning fake goods alongside vendors&#x27; non-fakes goods. This ensured that reputation of 3rd party vendors would suffer. Where did the fake goods come from? Were they supplied by Amazon? Perhaps yes, actually.<p>It makes consumer anti-trust lawsuits [1][2] even more necessary, to ensure protections against monopolies.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;legal&#x2F;amazon-loses-bid-toss-consumer-antitrust-lawsuit-2023-03-27&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;legal&#x2F;amazon-loses-bid-toss-consumer...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;wallstreetbets&#x2F;comments&#x2F;11xyfem&#x2F;washington_prepares_for_war_with_amazon_on&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;wallstreetbets&#x2F;comments&#x2F;11xyfem&#x2F;was...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>There is a famous story about Customer Obsession and returns that I used to tell during training sessions for new Amazon employees- Customer Obsession 101, which I was a teacher for.<p>Jeff is in a call center for a day shadowing a customer support agent. A customer calls about a specific item and the CS agent is like &quot;They&#x27;re going to say it&#x27;s broken in this particular manner&quot; before the call even starts. Jeff later is like &quot;How did you know?&quot; and the agent says &quot;Because this is like the tenth time I&#x27;ve had calls about this&quot;. There was some problem in the warehouse that kept breaking the item in the same way, but what can a CS agent do about that? File a ticket that no one reads?<p>So Amazon introduced an &#x27;Andon button&#x27; that let CS agents stop sales of a given product if they keep seeing the same problem. Customer Obsession! Crazy idea to empower entry-level people to have such impact! Only Amazon would do something like that!<p>Anyways, that Amazon is dead, &quot;Day 1&quot; is long gone, and unless the item is a standard product of low value I personally do not shop there anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659868/amazon-returns-warning-product-reviews-tag-feature</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tylerrobinson</author><text>&gt; So Amazon introduced an &#x27;Andon button&#x27;<p>Maybe my brain is just having trouble parsing it, but what does “Andon” mean?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>There is a famous story about Customer Obsession and returns that I used to tell during training sessions for new Amazon employees- Customer Obsession 101, which I was a teacher for.<p>Jeff is in a call center for a day shadowing a customer support agent. A customer calls about a specific item and the CS agent is like &quot;They&#x27;re going to say it&#x27;s broken in this particular manner&quot; before the call even starts. Jeff later is like &quot;How did you know?&quot; and the agent says &quot;Because this is like the tenth time I&#x27;ve had calls about this&quot;. There was some problem in the warehouse that kept breaking the item in the same way, but what can a CS agent do about that? File a ticket that no one reads?<p>So Amazon introduced an &#x27;Andon button&#x27; that let CS agents stop sales of a given product if they keep seeing the same problem. Customer Obsession! Crazy idea to empower entry-level people to have such impact! Only Amazon would do something like that!<p>Anyways, that Amazon is dead, &quot;Day 1&quot; is long gone, and unless the item is a standard product of low value I personally do not shop there anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659868/amazon-returns-warning-product-reviews-tag-feature</url></story> |
28,076,900 | 28,077,138 | 1 | 2 | 28,073,920 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rabboRubble</author><text>the issue for me isn&#x27;t that a mistake was made, the issue is that the parties responsible for the mistake conspired in secret without official record to cover up their error, and left the man dumped in a homeless shelter with fifty cents.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>It is beyond me how people intelligent enough to hang around HN can pretend to have no understanding of how systems work.<p>The justice system mostly works (relative to what its designed to do and the system it evolved out of, which you might both disagree with, but let&#x27;s not complicate this). By the nature of what it handles (humans) and what you are (human) it will look abhorrently cruel when it fails. And, as with any system, it will definitely continue to fail as long as it is in place.<p>Assessing an acceptable failure rate is kinda hard – but realistically there has to be one or you will just have to do without any system at all.<p>So, more interestingly, the thing to look out for is whether a) there are institutions that report on system failures and b) we learn from those failures and correct them <i>at all</i>. As far as I can tell that generally happens in democratic countries.<p>The next thing to look at is the speed in which we do those corrections. Could they be quicker? Sure. However, it seems like democracies are a tad slow about everything to people everywhere. Or, put differently, we are all wired a little bit too impatiently for how our democracies are currently designed.<p>I feel that&#x27;s good thing, constantly scrutinising our systems, keeping them on their toes and improving as we go.</text></item><item><author>Causality1</author><text><i>Nevertheless, the officer insisted that Spriestersbach was actually Castleberry and took him to jail. He was fingerprinted and had his photo taken, generating records that could have been used to prove he wasn’t Castleberry, the Innocence Project asserts.</i><p>It&#x27;s beyond me how anyone has one iota of faith in the US judicial system anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RIMR</author><text>They failed him repeatedly. This wasn&#x27;t a one-time screwup, this was a systemic failure across multiple organizations.<p>And when they realized they had wronged this man, they did whatever they could to sweep it under the rug and avoid consequences, or reparations for their actions.<p>The system doesn&#x27;t just &quot;look abhorrently cruel&quot;, it IS abhorrently cruel, and this incident is a clear example of that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>It is beyond me how people intelligent enough to hang around HN can pretend to have no understanding of how systems work.<p>The justice system mostly works (relative to what its designed to do and the system it evolved out of, which you might both disagree with, but let&#x27;s not complicate this). By the nature of what it handles (humans) and what you are (human) it will look abhorrently cruel when it fails. And, as with any system, it will definitely continue to fail as long as it is in place.<p>Assessing an acceptable failure rate is kinda hard – but realistically there has to be one or you will just have to do without any system at all.<p>So, more interestingly, the thing to look out for is whether a) there are institutions that report on system failures and b) we learn from those failures and correct them <i>at all</i>. As far as I can tell that generally happens in democratic countries.<p>The next thing to look at is the speed in which we do those corrections. Could they be quicker? Sure. However, it seems like democracies are a tad slow about everything to people everywhere. Or, put differently, we are all wired a little bit too impatiently for how our democracies are currently designed.<p>I feel that&#x27;s good thing, constantly scrutinising our systems, keeping them on their toes and improving as we go.</text></item><item><author>Causality1</author><text><i>Nevertheless, the officer insisted that Spriestersbach was actually Castleberry and took him to jail. He was fingerprinted and had his photo taken, generating records that could have been used to prove he wasn’t Castleberry, the Innocence Project asserts.</i><p>It&#x27;s beyond me how anyone has one iota of faith in the US judicial system anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/</url></story> |
18,870,048 | 18,869,304 | 1 | 3 | 18,864,228 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idoubtit</author><text>In what sense are these theories a &quot;basis&quot; to NLP? Did they have any influence? Do they bring any practical contributions? I suspect a slight similarity between popular domains (Wittgenstein and NLP) was contrived into an article that seems very light on the W part.<p>The &quot;Wittgenstein’s theories&quot; that appear here is just that &quot;the meaning of a word is its use in the language&quot;. If such a plain concept was all of Wittgenstein’s theories, he would be long forgotten.<p>For centuries, dictionaries have presented words through one or several explanations as well as quotes and examples. 150 years ago, Émile Littré wrote a wonderful French dictionary that contains 80,000 words and about 300,000 literary quotes. He knew no word has a simple and permanent meaning, and that one needs to know many real world contexts to get a fine view on a word.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wittgenstein’s theories are the basis of all modern NLP</title><url>https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-and-philosophy-of-language-31c34c0796da</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akozak</author><text>Figuring out how to process context is important for NLP, no question.<p>But I think this is probably wrong on Wittgenstein. I&#x27;m pretty sure his entire point in the Philosophical Investigations was that &quot;meaning&quot; is exactly NOT probabilities of symbol co-occurrence, or just names of objects in the world. Symbols acquire meanings from their use by humans. Accounting for context in NLP via probabilities of occurrence might be useful in better reproducing language, but we should be careful not to say that this is the essence of meaning and language.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wittgenstein’s theories are the basis of all modern NLP</title><url>https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-and-philosophy-of-language-31c34c0796da</url></story> |
12,528,900 | 12,528,797 | 1 | 3 | 12,520,444 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andy_ppp</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ieb1lmm9xHk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ieb1lmm9xHk</a><p>This video of Timothy Gallwey teaching a woman how to play tennis. In 5 minutes.<p>The book is one of the best I&#x27;ve ever read (go get it now), it&#x27;s about mental focus, improvement by not trying and about not judging your results.<p>I was sitting in front of a really difficult problem earlier today but I kept persisting at it even though at points I got frustrated (&quot;I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;m smart enough to do this...&quot;) I managed to stop thinking for a bit and try again without understanding the code fully and it ended up working. I&#x27;m not saying being intuitive always works with programming but sometimes if you feel out of your depth it can really help push you through.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Inner Game of Everything: 1974 Tennis Book Is Still a Sensation</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/reeveswiedeman/the-inner-game-of-everything-why-is-a-four-decade-old-tennis?utm_term=.da0pmdxdZ#.pyDjVqyqN</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kranner</author><text>I read this book last year and saved some notes&#x2F;highlights. Here they are in case they are useful:<p>The Usual Way:<p>1. Criticise or judge past behaviour.<p>2. Tell yourself to change, instructing with verbal commands repeatedly.<p>3. Try hard. Make yourself do it right.<p>4. Critical judgement about results leading to repetition of process.<p>The Inner Game Way:<p>1. Non-judgmentally observe existing behaviour.<p>2. Ask yourself to change, programming with image and feel.<p>3. Let it happen!<p>4. Calm observation of results leading to continuing observation of process until behaviour is automatic.<p>Highlights:<p>- The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.<p>- … to value the art of relaxed concentration above all skills.<p>- Getting it together … involves: i. learning to program your Self 2 with images rather than instructing yourself with words. ii. learning to ‘trust thyself’ (Self 2) to do what you (Self 1) ask of it. iii. learning to see ‘non-judgementally’, i.e., to see what is happening rather than merely noticing how well or how badly it is happening.<p>- It is the initial act of judgment that provokes the thinking process.<p>- First the mind judges the event, then groups events, then identifies with the combined event, and finally judges itself. As a result … these self-judgments become self-fulfilling prophecies.<p>- Letting go of judgments does not mean ignoring errors. It simply means seeing events as they are and not adding anything to them. Judgment begins when an [event] is labelled ‘bad’ and … a reaction of anger, frustration or discouragement follows. Use descriptive but non-judgmental words to describe the events you see.<p>- The substitution of [positive thinking] for [negative thinking] may appear … to have short-range benefits, but … the honeymoon ends all too soon.<p>- Always look for approval and wanting to avoid disapproval, this subtle ego-mind sees a compliment as a potential criticism. [Its] reasons, “If the pro is pleased with one kind of performance, he will be displeased by the opposite. If he likes me for doing well, he will dislike me for not doing well.” The standard of good and bad [has] been established, and the inevitable result [is] divided concentration and ego-interference.<p>- Ending judgment means you neither add nor subtract from the facts before your eyes. Things appear as they are — undistorted. In this way, the mind becomes more calm.<p>- It is the mistrust of [the doing self by the thinking&#x2F;worrying self] which causes both the interference called ‘trying too hard’ and that of too much self-instruction.<p>- The more ‘important’ the point, the more [the thinking&#x2F;worrying self] will try to control the shot, and this is exactly when tightening up occurs. The results are almost always frustrating.<p>- The main job of Self 1, the conscious ego-mind, is to set goals, that is, to communicate to Self 2 what he wants from it and then to let Self 2 do it.<p>- In a tennis-playing society, Self 1 can assume an important role by frequently exposing Self 2 to models of high-caliber tennis.<p>- As Self 1 learns to let go, a growing confidence in the ability of Self 2 emerges.<p>- When one learns how to break a habit, it is a relatively simple matter to learn which ones to break.<p>- We all develop characteristic patterns of acting and thinking, and each such pattern exists because it serves a function. The time for change comes when we realize that the same function could be served in a better way.<p>- There is no need to fight old habits. Start new ones. It is the resisting of an old habit that puts you in that trench. Starting a new pattern is easy when done with childlike disregard for imagined difficulties. You can prove this to yourself by your own experience.<p>- Awareness of what is, without judgment, is relaxing, and is the best precondition for change.<p>- Concentration is not staring hard … or thinking hard about something. Concentration is fascination of mind.<p>- After I developed by practice some small ability to concentrate my mind, I discovered that concentration was not only a means to an end, but something of tremendous value in itself. As a result, instead of using concentration to help my tennis, I now use tennis as a means to further increase concentration.<p>- Simply focus on your breath, absorbing more and more conscious energy into the awareness of the experience of breathing. It may help to allow your hands to open as you inhale and to close as you exhale. Then ask your hands to open and close slightly less. Don’t force your fingers to do this; simply ask them and let them respond. If your mind begins to wander, bring it back gently to your breathing. As your mind stills and settles into a calm state, let yourself be alert to every split second of breathing and experience as fully as you can this state of relative quiet.<p>- There would be no problem with competition if one’s self-image were not at stake.<p>- Obstacles are a very necessary ingredient to this process of self-discovery.<p>- It is only against the big waves that he is required to use all his skill, all his courage and concentration to overcome; only then can he realize the true limits of his capacities.<p>- Normally, we tend to concentrate only when something we consider important is happening, but the player of the Inner Game recognises increasingly that all moments are important ones and worth paying attention to, for each moment can increase his understanding of himself and life.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Inner Game of Everything: 1974 Tennis Book Is Still a Sensation</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/reeveswiedeman/the-inner-game-of-everything-why-is-a-four-decade-old-tennis?utm_term=.da0pmdxdZ#.pyDjVqyqN</url></story> |
33,098,556 | 33,095,891 | 1 | 2 | 33,094,710 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>There is an 8080 emulator for the 6502 from back in the late 70s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pagetable.com&#x2F;?p=824" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pagetable.com&#x2F;?p=824</a><p>I wonder if this could be creatively incorporated to allow running 8080 CP&#x2F;M programs (albeit likely very, very slowly). I would imagine API calls could be forwarded up to the bare metal CP&#x2F;M OS.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cpm65: CP/M for the 6502</title><url>https://github.com/davidgiven/cpm65</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foodstances</author><text>David has a video series developing this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;hjalfi&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;hjalfi&#x2F;videos</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cpm65: CP/M for the 6502</title><url>https://github.com/davidgiven/cpm65</url></story> |
20,430,992 | 20,429,630 | 1 | 2 | 20,428,703 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m463</author><text>Many of my personal projects have only existed because of deadlines.<p>If you go to shows or conferences, showing or talking about something is the best way to <i>have</i> something, and the deadline focuses you like nothing else.<p>(that said, sometimes I wonder if I would have something much more polished with a last-minute magical 2-week reprieve)</text><parent_chain><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>This sounds like a great idea, can&#x27;t believe I didn&#x27;t see it earlier. Maybe I should adopt it for my personal projects (software, music, etc): pick a regular release schedule and stick to it, even if it means releasing less feature-rich stuff. Does anyone have experience with this approach?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the C++ standard ships every three years</title><url>https://herbsutter.com/2019/07/13/draft-faq-why-does-the-c-standard-ship-every-three-years/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aninteger</author><text>OpenBSD does (2 releases every year, approximately 6 months apart).</text><parent_chain><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>This sounds like a great idea, can&#x27;t believe I didn&#x27;t see it earlier. Maybe I should adopt it for my personal projects (software, music, etc): pick a regular release schedule and stick to it, even if it means releasing less feature-rich stuff. Does anyone have experience with this approach?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the C++ standard ships every three years</title><url>https://herbsutter.com/2019/07/13/draft-faq-why-does-the-c-standard-ship-every-three-years/</url></story> |
12,144,259 | 12,143,764 | 1 | 2 | 12,143,386 | 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>someone7x</author><text>I did a double take when I read Tim Armstrong as the new CEO.<p>I remember reading a scathing in-depth piece on him some time ago. Fired a guy in the middle of a meeting, shamed some employees that had delivery complications with their children. I was surprised he&#x27;s still around.<p>I suppose the new CEO will be as criticized and unloved as the old one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>It&#x27;s now being reported that Verizon and Yahoo are exclusively negotiating. That&#x27;s as close as anyone has gotten since Microsoft made an offer years ago.<p>Verizon is really doing a big transition with this acquisition and their AOL acquisition. They&#x27;ve acquired alot of valuable web space to put adds on&#x2F;monetize. This is a probably good news for Yahoo employee&#x27;s as Verizon then has a vested interest in keeping the company running and not splitting it up into pieces like a PE firm may be more inclined to do.<p>The one interesting thing I&#x27;ve heard is that Verizon isn&#x27;t interested in Yahoo&#x27;s patent portfolio, which means it could still be up for grabs.<p>Hopefully its bought by a Microsoft&#x2F;Google consortium and very liberally cross licensed rather than a private equity firm who will look to more aggressively monetize it.<p>I also heard that Tim Armstrong, formerly of Google with Mayer will lead the combined AOL&#x2F;Yahoo company, which means that Mayer probably isn&#x27;t coming along as part of this deal. I think most people expected this.<p>If this ends up going through for the reported 3.5 billion, then Verizon has bought a significant portion of traffic on the web for roughly 8 billion (AOL was acquired for 4.4 Billion).<p>This could end up looking like a very good acquisition in a few years!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verizon nears deal to acquire Yahoo</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-22/verizon-said-nearing-deal-to-buy-yahoo-beating-rival-bidders</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exhilaration</author><text><i>Hopefully its bought by a Microsoft&#x2F;Google consortium and very liberally cross licensed</i><p>I don&#x27;t think such a consortium exists, Microsoft and Google are usually on opposite sides. Microsoft (along with Apple&#x2F;RIM&#x2F;others) bought the Nortel patents in 2011 and sued Google, Samsung, Huawei, and others. Google bought Motorola and its patents the same year and sued Microsoft. Patents are weaponized as soon as these companies acquire them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>It&#x27;s now being reported that Verizon and Yahoo are exclusively negotiating. That&#x27;s as close as anyone has gotten since Microsoft made an offer years ago.<p>Verizon is really doing a big transition with this acquisition and their AOL acquisition. They&#x27;ve acquired alot of valuable web space to put adds on&#x2F;monetize. This is a probably good news for Yahoo employee&#x27;s as Verizon then has a vested interest in keeping the company running and not splitting it up into pieces like a PE firm may be more inclined to do.<p>The one interesting thing I&#x27;ve heard is that Verizon isn&#x27;t interested in Yahoo&#x27;s patent portfolio, which means it could still be up for grabs.<p>Hopefully its bought by a Microsoft&#x2F;Google consortium and very liberally cross licensed rather than a private equity firm who will look to more aggressively monetize it.<p>I also heard that Tim Armstrong, formerly of Google with Mayer will lead the combined AOL&#x2F;Yahoo company, which means that Mayer probably isn&#x27;t coming along as part of this deal. I think most people expected this.<p>If this ends up going through for the reported 3.5 billion, then Verizon has bought a significant portion of traffic on the web for roughly 8 billion (AOL was acquired for 4.4 Billion).<p>This could end up looking like a very good acquisition in a few years!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verizon nears deal to acquire Yahoo</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-22/verizon-said-nearing-deal-to-buy-yahoo-beating-rival-bidders</url></story> |
16,817,415 | 16,817,325 | 1 | 3 | 16,801,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rasz</author><text>Picture is not compressed, its hallucinated from vague memory of the real thing, a mere dream. Cars vanish, building change wall structure, even the license plate receives fake text absent from source materia.<p>Its a giant guesswork of what was there originally. Reminds me of Xerox scanners lying about scanned in numbers <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dkriesel.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dkriesel.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;0802_xerox-workcentres_...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Generative Adversarial Networks for Extreme Learned Image Compression</title><url>https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/aeirikur/extremecompression/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcheung</author><text>I&#x27;d be curious to see how different levels of quantization affect the image. From the paper it looks like the quantization is applied at the latent feature space. I wonder if it has similar effects like the celebrity GAN&#x27;s we have seen where interpolating in the latent space results in morphing from one face to another. Could be funny when compression doesn&#x27;t result in something blocky or distorted, but replacing objects with other objects that look similar to them.<p>This seems to be for static images, but this gets me wondering if an RNN can be used and have better motion prediction that other current &quot;hard coded&quot; solutions.<p>Also, the more specific the domain, the better the compression, since it can specialize. I&#x27;m wondering about the practical applications of this. Do we have different baselines that can be used for different use cases?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Generative Adversarial Networks for Extreme Learned Image Compression</title><url>https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/aeirikur/extremecompression/</url></story> |
20,632,541 | 20,632,119 | 1 | 2 | 20,629,567 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reimertz</author><text>I suggest people using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mbasic.facebook.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mbasic.facebook.com</a>.<p>Messages work, no JavaScript, less noise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>codeulike</author><text>I&#x27;ve noticed something sneaky about Facebook on my phone. I refuse to install their apps but I do use Facebook a bit so I use it via the phone Browser (in my case, Chrome on Android).<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that sometimes Facebook shows a fake &#x27;youve got a message&#x27; icon to try and trick you into installing their messenger app.<p>To re-produce this behaviour: (this works best if you dont get a lot of facebook messages. Also you need a phone with no facebook apps installed)<p>- On your desktop PC, use facebook to send a message to someone<p>- Then switch to your phone, using facebook in the browser<p>- After about an hour, the little speechbubble message icon at the top will go red, showing you&#x27;ve got a message<p>- If you click on this from a phone browser, it redirects you to install messenger. (normally, phone-browser facebook doesnt do messenger features)<p>- Instead of that, switch on &#x27;request desktop site&#x27; (not sure what iOS calls this option) to make your phone display the desktop version of facebook. And then you can (usually) read your messages in the browser<p>- But you will find that there is no new message, and the new message icon will no longer be lit up.<p>I&#x27;ve had this happen five or six times now - supposedly new messages have arrived but when you look there are none. It always happens about an hour after sending a message. I&#x27;m pretty convinced its deliberate behaviour on the phone browser version of facebook to get you to install their messenger app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-hit-by-apples-crackdown-on-messaging-feature?pu=hackernews8g0mjb&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Have you tried messenger.com from your browser?<p>Edit:<p>Just went on it. On a browser you have to enable desktop mode for login to show.<p>Also if you login this way and disable desktop mode it forces you out. If you reenable it renders the chat. Theres no reason the chat wouldnt work on Mobile desktop mode isnt using a different browser just lying to the web server and frontend JS.<p>Amazing. I already rarely use Facebook as it is. I might just outright stop since they are dying to infest your phone so badly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>codeulike</author><text>I&#x27;ve noticed something sneaky about Facebook on my phone. I refuse to install their apps but I do use Facebook a bit so I use it via the phone Browser (in my case, Chrome on Android).<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that sometimes Facebook shows a fake &#x27;youve got a message&#x27; icon to try and trick you into installing their messenger app.<p>To re-produce this behaviour: (this works best if you dont get a lot of facebook messages. Also you need a phone with no facebook apps installed)<p>- On your desktop PC, use facebook to send a message to someone<p>- Then switch to your phone, using facebook in the browser<p>- After about an hour, the little speechbubble message icon at the top will go red, showing you&#x27;ve got a message<p>- If you click on this from a phone browser, it redirects you to install messenger. (normally, phone-browser facebook doesnt do messenger features)<p>- Instead of that, switch on &#x27;request desktop site&#x27; (not sure what iOS calls this option) to make your phone display the desktop version of facebook. And then you can (usually) read your messages in the browser<p>- But you will find that there is no new message, and the new message icon will no longer be lit up.<p>I&#x27;ve had this happen five or six times now - supposedly new messages have arrived but when you look there are none. It always happens about an hour after sending a message. I&#x27;m pretty convinced its deliberate behaviour on the phone browser version of facebook to get you to install their messenger app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-hit-by-apples-crackdown-on-messaging-feature?pu=hackernews8g0mjb&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story> |
26,631,168 | 26,628,205 | 1 | 2 | 26,623,117 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IceWreck</author><text>Wow this is so cool. Sometimes, OpenVPN traffic is blocked using deep packet inspection and the likes. I use shadowsocks to access internet there but it requires additional server setup.<p>SSH Tunneling works with zero config so I use it as well, and rsp solves one of my major gripes with ssh tunnelling.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Snawoot</author><text>I used this feature pretty often, but it has one downside: all connections are multiplexed into single one which is not good for performance.<p>So I&#x27;ve implemented own client which decouples connections from each other: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Snawoot&#x2F;rsp#performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Snawoot&#x2F;rsp#performance</a><p>Basicly, you get working proxy with speed almost as native connection as soon as you have SSH access somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy</title><url>https://blog.gwlab.page/vpn-over-ssh-the-socks-proxy-8a8d7bdc7028</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ivan4th</author><text>Hmm, cool project. Making it work over MPTCP [1] could also make it a kind of replacement for shadowsocks [2] for the purpose of converting plain TCP to Multipath TCP, as it is used in OpenMPTCPRouter [3]. Shadowsocks is used for MPTCP proxying instead of plain socks exactly b&#x2F;c it uses separate connections for separate flows.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.multipath-tcp.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.multipath-tcp.org</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadowsocks.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadowsocks.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;index.html</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openmptcprouter.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openmptcprouter.com</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Snawoot</author><text>I used this feature pretty often, but it has one downside: all connections are multiplexed into single one which is not good for performance.<p>So I&#x27;ve implemented own client which decouples connections from each other: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Snawoot&#x2F;rsp#performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Snawoot&#x2F;rsp#performance</a><p>Basicly, you get working proxy with speed almost as native connection as soon as you have SSH access somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy</title><url>https://blog.gwlab.page/vpn-over-ssh-the-socks-proxy-8a8d7bdc7028</url></story> |
13,521,020 | 13,520,703 | 1 | 3 | 13,519,400 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>umberway</author><text>Jan 2016 interactive map of worldwide border walls and fences:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;graphicdetail&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;daily-chart-5" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;graphicdetail&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;daily-c...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>HugoDaniel</author><text>The market for border walls seems to be thriving</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Saudi Arabia builds 600-mile border wall equipped with Airbus radar and helipads</title><url>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11344116/Revealed-Saudi-Arabias-Great-Wall-to-keep-out-Isil.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>arethuza</author><text>&quot;Mr. President, we must not allow a wall gap!&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>HugoDaniel</author><text>The market for border walls seems to be thriving</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Saudi Arabia builds 600-mile border wall equipped with Airbus radar and helipads</title><url>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11344116/Revealed-Saudi-Arabias-Great-Wall-to-keep-out-Isil.html</url></story> |
19,752,608 | 19,752,789 | 1 | 2 | 19,750,610 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HeyLaughingBoy</author><text>I usually have a jar of bacon lard in the fridge mainly because i love to fry hot dogs in it. For other things (mainly pastry crusts), I&#x27;ve never had trouble finding lard in 1-lb blocks at the supermarket.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jperras</author><text>Whenever I cook bacon, I always cook it in the oven. In addition to keeping things relatively clean (as opposed to cooking on the stove top), it also makes collecting the rendered pork fat much easier – you just tip the baking sheet and trickle into whatever container you use.<p>In this way I accumulate lard with a mild smoke flavour and I use it for a variety of other things. It&#x27;s not enough to deep fry of course, but it&#x27;s enough to use a few spoonfuls here and there to add some flavoured fats that I would not be able to otherwise.</text></item><item><author>pjungwir</author><text>That&#x27;s funny, just the other day I needed some lard for a paté. I called around without luck and eventually bought suet from a specialty butcher and left it in the crock pot on low overnight.<p>Then I needed another half-pound and tried calling up the butcher at our local grocery store. He said he could set aside some suet for me, and I picked it up later that day. It was less than a dollar a pound. He said as long as I called in the morning he should have some for me, but otherwise they just tossed it.<p>When I was Googling for how to render lard, the recipe I landed on had a long story about how it was Canadian canola farmers who killed lard. I guess it&#x27;s always nice having someone to blame. :-)<p>Anyway I&#x27;m saving the paté for Sunday, so I can&#x27;t yet tell you how it turned out. :-)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Killed Lard? (2012)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/03/146356117/who-killed-lard</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>potta_coffee</author><text>I do the same and I cook anything that requires grease or oil with my saved up bacon fat - eggs, pancakes, etc. It&#x27;s wonderful. I&#x27;ve even used my bacon fat in chocolate chip cookies - amazing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jperras</author><text>Whenever I cook bacon, I always cook it in the oven. In addition to keeping things relatively clean (as opposed to cooking on the stove top), it also makes collecting the rendered pork fat much easier – you just tip the baking sheet and trickle into whatever container you use.<p>In this way I accumulate lard with a mild smoke flavour and I use it for a variety of other things. It&#x27;s not enough to deep fry of course, but it&#x27;s enough to use a few spoonfuls here and there to add some flavoured fats that I would not be able to otherwise.</text></item><item><author>pjungwir</author><text>That&#x27;s funny, just the other day I needed some lard for a paté. I called around without luck and eventually bought suet from a specialty butcher and left it in the crock pot on low overnight.<p>Then I needed another half-pound and tried calling up the butcher at our local grocery store. He said he could set aside some suet for me, and I picked it up later that day. It was less than a dollar a pound. He said as long as I called in the morning he should have some for me, but otherwise they just tossed it.<p>When I was Googling for how to render lard, the recipe I landed on had a long story about how it was Canadian canola farmers who killed lard. I guess it&#x27;s always nice having someone to blame. :-)<p>Anyway I&#x27;m saving the paté for Sunday, so I can&#x27;t yet tell you how it turned out. :-)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who Killed Lard? (2012)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/03/146356117/who-killed-lard</url></story> |
27,097,548 | 27,096,704 | 1 | 2 | 27,095,345 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>He might be a very effective marketer and manager, but he gets credit for so so much more than that. Like he singlehandedly made electric cars a thing. It&#x27;s the Great Man theory of history.<p>Even then, effective marketing are often lies, so why value effective marketing? Effective management is so often toxic, so why value effective management? As far as I can tell, he&#x27;s full of BS and his employees are treated poorly, so I really don&#x27;t care so much that he&#x27;s first to market.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_man_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_man_theory</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tailspin2019</author><text>My cognitive dissonance is strong when it comes to Elon. I have trouble sometimes reconciling the obvious flaws in his character on the one hand (though none of us are without flaws) and his extraordinary achievements on the other.<p>He can be a bit of a dick, yes. He exaggerates, yes.<p>He&#x27;s also in my view one of the most talented and inspirational entrepreneurs of our generation.<p>I don&#x27;t see how people can call him an outright fraud with a straight face when you look at what he <i>has</i> delivered through Tesla and SpaceX.<p>But he seems to elicit strong polarised opinions. And I get it. Lot&#x27;s of noise about FSD, his constantly slipping timelines etc.<p>I guess it depends what you choose to focus on.</text></item><item><author>nnamtr</author><text>Is his stuff really that good? I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that he has a strong tendency to exaggerate.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;5&#x2F;7&#x2F;22424592&#x2F;tesla-elon-musk-autopilot-dmv-fsd-exaggeration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;5&#x2F;7&#x2F;22424592&#x2F;tesla-elon-musk-a...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;johnbbrandon&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;13&#x2F;elon-musks-the-boring-company-is-starting-to-look-like-a-dumb-idea&#x2F;?sh=2e65b2d17562" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;johnbbrandon&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;13&#x2F;elon-mu...</a></text></item><item><author>totololo</author><text>I believe this article completely ignores the product side of the story.
Elon doesn&#x27;t pitch, he builds. His products are significantly better than market alternatives, with a steady momentum of improvement over time.
In the unofficial biography there&#x27;s the story of how Tesla pulled an unlikely funding from Daimler. The Daimler executives visiting Tesla were unimpressed, skeptical and bored to death by the PowerPoints. Then the Tesla team took them for a ride in the electrified Smart they had built in a hurry. All the executives stepped out of it with a smile. The check arrived later. It was about the product, not the &quot;save the earth&quot; narrative.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk, master promoter</title><url>https://keith404.medium.com/elon-musk-the-master-promoter-a-case-study-3b8eae65b8f7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whoisthemachine</author><text>He can be an impressive engineer and entrepreneur while also being a jerk. I think it&#x27;s ok to condemn his behaviors when they&#x27;re out of line while also admiring the progress him and his companies have made in the industries they&#x27;ve targeted.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tailspin2019</author><text>My cognitive dissonance is strong when it comes to Elon. I have trouble sometimes reconciling the obvious flaws in his character on the one hand (though none of us are without flaws) and his extraordinary achievements on the other.<p>He can be a bit of a dick, yes. He exaggerates, yes.<p>He&#x27;s also in my view one of the most talented and inspirational entrepreneurs of our generation.<p>I don&#x27;t see how people can call him an outright fraud with a straight face when you look at what he <i>has</i> delivered through Tesla and SpaceX.<p>But he seems to elicit strong polarised opinions. And I get it. Lot&#x27;s of noise about FSD, his constantly slipping timelines etc.<p>I guess it depends what you choose to focus on.</text></item><item><author>nnamtr</author><text>Is his stuff really that good? I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that he has a strong tendency to exaggerate.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;5&#x2F;7&#x2F;22424592&#x2F;tesla-elon-musk-autopilot-dmv-fsd-exaggeration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;5&#x2F;7&#x2F;22424592&#x2F;tesla-elon-musk-a...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;johnbbrandon&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;13&#x2F;elon-musks-the-boring-company-is-starting-to-look-like-a-dumb-idea&#x2F;?sh=2e65b2d17562" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;johnbbrandon&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;13&#x2F;elon-mu...</a></text></item><item><author>totololo</author><text>I believe this article completely ignores the product side of the story.
Elon doesn&#x27;t pitch, he builds. His products are significantly better than market alternatives, with a steady momentum of improvement over time.
In the unofficial biography there&#x27;s the story of how Tesla pulled an unlikely funding from Daimler. The Daimler executives visiting Tesla were unimpressed, skeptical and bored to death by the PowerPoints. Then the Tesla team took them for a ride in the electrified Smart they had built in a hurry. All the executives stepped out of it with a smile. The check arrived later. It was about the product, not the &quot;save the earth&quot; narrative.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk, master promoter</title><url>https://keith404.medium.com/elon-musk-the-master-promoter-a-case-study-3b8eae65b8f7</url></story> |
12,263,777 | 12,263,599 | 1 | 2 | 12,262,073 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>virtualwhys</author><text>Article is a total tour de force.<p>The OP has contributed so much to the Scala community; somehow he&#x27;s a Python + Coffeescript developer by day, and an absurdly prolific Scala library author in the evenings.<p>As for Scala.js, representing browser interactions in types is such a relief, and to have the entire Scala language available is almost too good to be true: client-server interop is <i>seamless</i>.<p>Really the only negative for me is the Scala collections library. Of the @100KB Hello World[1] generated blob half of that is Scala collections. There&#x27;s a small initial &quot;tax&quot; to pay basically, and thereafter size increase is on par with normal javascript.<p>[1] not totally true, vanilla Hello World is more like 40KB, but once you define a Scala collection then generated blob doubles in size.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js</title><url>http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/FromfirstprinciplesWhyIbetonScalajs.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>hongboz</author><text>For people who want to do typed functional programming on JS platform, there is another candidate: BuckleScript for OCaml:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloomberg.github.io&#x2F;bucklescript&#x2F;js-demo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloomberg.github.io&#x2F;bucklescript&#x2F;js-demo&#x2F;</a><p>The compiler is compiled into JS and native code.<p>It generates highly readable JS code and easier FFI.<p>It compiles super fast (generally 10~100 faster than Scala) and generates optimized code.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js</title><url>http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/FromfirstprinciplesWhyIbetonScalajs.html</url></story> |
14,646,699 | 14,646,740 | 1 | 2 | 14,646,247 | 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>fiedzia</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m curious what workloads wasm can improve<p>Those where you have a significant amount of computation. Image&#x2F;audio&#x2F;video processing, neural networks, text analysis, games fall there too. Generally, those things are not done in the browser currently, but wasm will change that, so I&#x27;d say it will rather open new doors then fix existing ones.</text><parent_chain><item><author>morley</author><text>The performance bottlenecks I mostly see as a frontend engineer are those related to the browser (execution speed, DOM manipulation, and painting). I&#x27;m curious what workloads wasm can improve, since I assume it&#x27;ll mostly deal with operations in memory. Maybe physics or graphics calculations in JS game engines?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Get Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack</title><url>https://medium.com/@ianjsikes/get-started-with-rust-webassembly-and-webpack-58d28e219635</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>withjive</author><text>While the DOM may always be slow, faster JS (ie. wasm) can provide faster calculations in pure javascript land and better efficiency (better memory management, similar to c++&#x2F;native stacks).<p>This is useful for optimizing DOM usage, such as using a virtual dom to avoid excessive real DOM access.<p>So while it does not attack the bottle necks directly, it will increase the overal perceivable performance of a webapp.</text><parent_chain><item><author>morley</author><text>The performance bottlenecks I mostly see as a frontend engineer are those related to the browser (execution speed, DOM manipulation, and painting). I&#x27;m curious what workloads wasm can improve, since I assume it&#x27;ll mostly deal with operations in memory. Maybe physics or graphics calculations in JS game engines?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Get Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack</title><url>https://medium.com/@ianjsikes/get-started-with-rust-webassembly-and-webpack-58d28e219635</url></story> |
11,083,969 | 11,083,607 | 1 | 2 | 11,083,337 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>Reminds me of this sweet paper<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;um&#x2F;people&#x2F;nick&#x2F;coqasm.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;um&#x2F;people&#x2F;nick&#x2F;coqasm.pd...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A MOS6502 assembler implemented as a Rust macro</title><url>https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=a18d697454f9261b28ff&amp;version=stable</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hathawsh</author><text>Very cool. As a Rust newbie I&#x27;d like to understand what&#x27;s going on here. Is this a &quot;procedural&quot; macro? Does Rust specifically target writing DSLs using its macro system? Can we expect macros like this to continue working for a long time? There&#x27;s a blog post that suggests possible changes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internals.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;the-future-of-syntax-extensions-and-macros&#x2F;2889" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internals.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;the-future-of-syntax-exten...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A MOS6502 assembler implemented as a Rust macro</title><url>https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=a18d697454f9261b28ff&amp;version=stable</url></story> |
36,250,664 | 36,248,992 | 1 | 2 | 36,246,440 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jstarfish</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not convinced wage growth in SE Asia is the primary reason the US manufacturing industry is deciding to reshore.<p>It&#x27;s not. This is disaster planning.<p>We&#x27;re being forced to bring production back home because we can&#x27;t keep outsourcing to a region subject to control by a potential adversary. If war breaks out with China, access to Taiwan for chips or Vietnam for socks is going to become difficult. Blockades will be immediate.<p>If this were about money, we&#x27;d move production to South America. That we&#x27;re keeping it this close to home after years of shopping everything globally suggests we&#x27;re building infrastructure for a supply chain that can&#x27;t be interfered with by foreign governments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wizofaus</author><text>Surely though there&#x27;s still plenty of places in the world that, on the basis of labour costs, it would be vastly cheaper to operate than in the US. On that basis I&#x27;m not convinced wage growth in SE Asia is the primary reason the US manufacturing industry is deciding to reshore. Is the same phenomenon occurring in other wealthy countries that haven&#x27;t put in place taxpayer funded incentives to do so?</text></item><item><author>FrustratedMonky</author><text>Exactly. The factories follow the Cheap Labor. From US to China, then it was China to Thailand&#x2F;SKorea, then from Thailand to India.<p>Probably don&#x27;t have chain correct, and it is different for different industries.<p>But there was definitely a progression of &#x27;local salary goes up&#x27;, &#x27;time to move to next cheapest country&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>alexose</author><text>Another important factor is that China&#x27;s workers make more money than they used to, especially relative to the West. There&#x27;s not as much of a cheap-labor-arbitrage opportunity as there was in the early 2000s.<p>Here&#x27;s a chart illustrating this point:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.insider.com&#x2F;532ccb18eab8eadc39f33da6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.insider.com&#x2F;532ccb18eab8eadc39f33da6</a></text></item><item><author>obblekk</author><text>&gt; The US has added around 800,000 jobs in manufacturing employment over the last two years, employing around 13 million workers<p>It&#x27;s too early to know, but if it turns out the solution to decades of economic misery for middle class blue collar workers was<p>1. 50% tariffs on China, and<p>2. $100B of subsidies to chip makers and green tech...<p>The reversal of Reaganomics we&#x27;re living through will become permanent for at least another generation, and for good reason. Maybe a good time to start a company selling to the government.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The US is building factories at a fast rate</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-building-factories-census-data-chips-act-inflation-reduction-act-2023-6</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobthepanda</author><text>Japan and Korea have plenty of domestic manufacturing. Europe also has some off shoring into the peripheral countries into its customs union.<p>The issues are generally that in the next largest potential cheap manufacturing sources (South Asia, SE Asia, Africa) they’re either not big enough or have extremely poor logistics and red tape. A big part of the East Asian miracles have been extensive infrastructure and bureaucratic emphasis on making exports as efficient as possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wizofaus</author><text>Surely though there&#x27;s still plenty of places in the world that, on the basis of labour costs, it would be vastly cheaper to operate than in the US. On that basis I&#x27;m not convinced wage growth in SE Asia is the primary reason the US manufacturing industry is deciding to reshore. Is the same phenomenon occurring in other wealthy countries that haven&#x27;t put in place taxpayer funded incentives to do so?</text></item><item><author>FrustratedMonky</author><text>Exactly. The factories follow the Cheap Labor. From US to China, then it was China to Thailand&#x2F;SKorea, then from Thailand to India.<p>Probably don&#x27;t have chain correct, and it is different for different industries.<p>But there was definitely a progression of &#x27;local salary goes up&#x27;, &#x27;time to move to next cheapest country&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>alexose</author><text>Another important factor is that China&#x27;s workers make more money than they used to, especially relative to the West. There&#x27;s not as much of a cheap-labor-arbitrage opportunity as there was in the early 2000s.<p>Here&#x27;s a chart illustrating this point:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.insider.com&#x2F;532ccb18eab8eadc39f33da6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.insider.com&#x2F;532ccb18eab8eadc39f33da6</a></text></item><item><author>obblekk</author><text>&gt; The US has added around 800,000 jobs in manufacturing employment over the last two years, employing around 13 million workers<p>It&#x27;s too early to know, but if it turns out the solution to decades of economic misery for middle class blue collar workers was<p>1. 50% tariffs on China, and<p>2. $100B of subsidies to chip makers and green tech...<p>The reversal of Reaganomics we&#x27;re living through will become permanent for at least another generation, and for good reason. Maybe a good time to start a company selling to the government.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The US is building factories at a fast rate</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-building-factories-census-data-chips-act-inflation-reduction-act-2023-6</url></story> |
40,735,417 | 40,735,391 | 1 | 2 | 40,729,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kqr</author><text>The issue with getting rich gambling is not knowing the probability, it&#x27;s getting other people to continue paying you when you win large amounts and&#x2F;or consistently.<p>Even in today&#x27;s professional gambling establishments (financial markets) big winners are often cut off in the name of stability.</text><parent_chain><item><author>julianeon</author><text>My premise for a time travel movie is very simple.<p>1. Buy a book on probability. Work through the practice exercises.<p>2. Time travel back to a time before the laws of probability were invented or taken seriously. Pre-1600&#x27;s would be a good guess.<p>3. Become a gambler.<p>4. With the riches that will soon be pouring into your pockets, acquire resources and transform history.</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>This would be a great prop for time travel scifi movie.<p>Protagonist travels to 1991 and tries to convince scientist to help him. When asked for a proof, shows Gray C90 Wristwatch. &quot;Our real computers are different, but I show you this because it does not pollute the timeline.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch</title><url>http://www.chrisfenton.com/1-25-scale-cray-c90-wristwatch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ponector</author><text>Gambling is not the way to get rich.<p>To get really rich you need to aquire people, their time and productivity. Instead of probability you need means to get people&#x27;s minds so with them you can conquer territories and establish kingdom to be really rich.</text><parent_chain><item><author>julianeon</author><text>My premise for a time travel movie is very simple.<p>1. Buy a book on probability. Work through the practice exercises.<p>2. Time travel back to a time before the laws of probability were invented or taken seriously. Pre-1600&#x27;s would be a good guess.<p>3. Become a gambler.<p>4. With the riches that will soon be pouring into your pockets, acquire resources and transform history.</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>This would be a great prop for time travel scifi movie.<p>Protagonist travels to 1991 and tries to convince scientist to help him. When asked for a proof, shows Gray C90 Wristwatch. &quot;Our real computers are different, but I show you this because it does not pollute the timeline.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch</title><url>http://www.chrisfenton.com/1-25-scale-cray-c90-wristwatch/</url></story> |
2,914,586 | 2,912,860 | 1 | 3 | 2,912,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kragen</author><text>&#62; Do you agree with my contention that there are always going to be some semantically wrong bits of code that cannot be automatically detected by the compiler, or that it is awkward to do so?<p>It seems to me that answering this question is more or less exactly "arguing whether Haskell’s typing beats Hungarian notation," although of course Haskell type systems aren’t the only possible alternative. For example, any number of templating systems in languages like Python use late-bound method calls and run-time type checks, instead of static typing, to avoid cross-site scripting errors.<p>The problem, to me, is that Hungarian notation (and other coding conventions) only helps you detect semantic errors in cases where the errors can be detected by shallow, local analysis — exactly the kinds of errors that can be detected automatically by a program, either at compile-time or run-time.<p>So, what do we do about the deeper errors? Well, I don't know. I don't think abandoning coding conventions is a solution — I still want the code I read to be written in a predictable style, so that the variation in it is semantically meaningful — but I don't think coding conventions can do a better job than software of detecting errors.<p>However, if I were trying to write a GUI on a 1-MIPS machine with 1 MiB of RAM in the late 1980s, it might work better to do a bunch of that checking by hand (with Hungarian) than to try to invent a better programming language that does the checking for me automatically.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>Folks, please do not fall into the simple error of arguing whether Haskell’s typing beats Hungarian notation. This would be bikeshedding. The safe/unsafe strings are given as an example, the larger point he is making is about using coding conventions to highlight potential semantic errors.<p>Every program is going to have some kind of semantic problem that cannot easily be fixed with compile-time analysis. Unsafe strings in web applications are merely one example for one class of programs written in one class of languages. If you grasp what he’s saying about coding conventions, ignore the example.<p>So to his actual point: Do you agree with my contention that there are always going to be some semantically wrong bits of code that cannot be automatically detected by the compiler, or that it is awkward to do so?<p>If so, do you think coding conventions help more than they hinder? In other words, do they increase code safety without imposing too much of a burden on readability?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Making Wrong Code Look Wrong</title><url>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.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>perlgeek</author><text>&#62; Every program is going to have some kind of semantic problem that cannot easily be fixed with compile-time analysis. Unsafe strings in web applications are merely one example for one class of programs written in one class of languages. If you grasp what he’s saying about coding conventions, ignore the example.<p>I disagree. If the example has a better solution (and in some other comment here I argue it does, though it's not at compile time), it's well worth looking if that solution could be transferred to other problem domains that could be used as examples instead.<p>The deeper issue is that naming conventions are a kind of automatism, and humans shouldn't be bothered with that, they are simply not very good with this type of automatism. For repetitive patterns, automated solutions should be used.<p>Advocating these repetitive type prefixes reminds me of the classical Design Patterns -- they might be the best option if you're stuck with one set of tools, but IMHO it's important to take a broader view and see if there are maybe other tools that can alleviate the need of such patterns. And indeed, in the case of the classical Design Patterns, there are. More powerful languages render some of them obsolete, or turn them into trivial 3 line solutions that you can hardly call "patterns" anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>Folks, please do not fall into the simple error of arguing whether Haskell’s typing beats Hungarian notation. This would be bikeshedding. The safe/unsafe strings are given as an example, the larger point he is making is about using coding conventions to highlight potential semantic errors.<p>Every program is going to have some kind of semantic problem that cannot easily be fixed with compile-time analysis. Unsafe strings in web applications are merely one example for one class of programs written in one class of languages. If you grasp what he’s saying about coding conventions, ignore the example.<p>So to his actual point: Do you agree with my contention that there are always going to be some semantically wrong bits of code that cannot be automatically detected by the compiler, or that it is awkward to do so?<p>If so, do you think coding conventions help more than they hinder? In other words, do they increase code safety without imposing too much of a burden on readability?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Making Wrong Code Look Wrong</title><url>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html</url></story> |
15,379,708 | 15,379,720 | 1 | 2 | 15,379,569 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xeromal</author><text>The strategy of the 3 people huddling into a circle was interesting. I&#x27;m impressed they came up with that on the fly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mexico's 7.2 Earthquake from a transit camera</title><url>https://twitter.com/webcamsdemexico/status/914050026208464896</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tsycho</author><text>Why did the guy in the car come out? Wouldn&#x27;t it be safer to stay in the car as protection against things falling on your head?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mexico's 7.2 Earthquake from a transit camera</title><url>https://twitter.com/webcamsdemexico/status/914050026208464896</url></story> |
16,754,505 | 16,754,042 | 1 | 3 | 16,753,347 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time<p>A move like this would definitely not win Linux any friends, because as it turns out the Linux Desktop really isn&#x27;t that great and you&#x27;d just be causing a huge headache for a lot of people. The gamers would be annoyed at having to deal with Linux&#x27;s bullshit, the Linux Destkop community would be annoyed at the huge influx of new users who don&#x27;t think &quot;try another distro&quot; (especially after the third distro), or &quot;write your own driver, it&#x27;s open source!&quot;, are acceptable solutions to their problems.<p>If Linux wants gamers there&#x27;s a simple (note: simple != easy) thing they have to do: make their platform attractive to gamers and game developers. So far they can&#x27;t manage either, the only reason gaming on Linux is even remotely viable is A) Valve coming in and saying &quot;Ok, since there&#x27;s no such thing as a standardized base system in Linux Desktop land, here&#x27;s a standardized base system for Steam you can target&quot;, and 2) the popularity of Android making engines like Unity and Unreal have Linux support, which allows devs to tack it on without too much extra effort.</text><parent_chain><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I feel like Valve has certainly been putting effort into Linux, but not <i>serious</i> effort.<p>They seem to be going low-moderate risk&#x2F;investment. Sure there&#x27;s progress, but then the Wine devs are moving pretty steadily too at the moment.<p>If Valve wants to really be serious:<p>- Offer incentives to Devs to support Linux&#x2F;Vulkan<p>- Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time<p>- develop and release new features for Linux first (maybe if GoG ever get the Galaxy client over to Linux Valve will get a kick in the pants to act...)<p>- Promote SteamOS and (maybe) Steam Machines, like at least some. Show Steam Machines as an &#x27;out-of-the-box Windows gaming replacement, not a console competitor.<p>- Fund Linux devs or take a lower cut from Linux releases<p>- Convince Adobe to release their suite on Linux! Push for&#x2F;fund official Unity and Unreal Engine Linux versions<p>- Offer the ability to natively launch games through Wine (and either use &#x27;community&#x27; environment files or require one exist, or have a link to WineHQ for help)<p>Be serious Valve, be genuine and get your flat structured &#x27;follow the shiny thing&#x27; company focused and determined.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines</title><url>https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=349e1d3fdcdc46d493b14572c866208a&uid=2862984859&nid=244+272699400</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeroxfe</author><text>&gt; I feel like Valve has certainly been putting effort into Linux, but not serious effort.<p>Wait, what? Valve has been making huge contributions to the large parts of the Linux ecosystem.<p>Of course they can do more -- anyone can, but patronizing them with &quot;be genuine&quot; and &quot;follow the shiny thing&quot; is really unnecessary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I feel like Valve has certainly been putting effort into Linux, but not <i>serious</i> effort.<p>They seem to be going low-moderate risk&#x2F;investment. Sure there&#x27;s progress, but then the Wine devs are moving pretty steadily too at the moment.<p>If Valve wants to really be serious:<p>- Offer incentives to Devs to support Linux&#x2F;Vulkan<p>- Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time<p>- develop and release new features for Linux first (maybe if GoG ever get the Galaxy client over to Linux Valve will get a kick in the pants to act...)<p>- Promote SteamOS and (maybe) Steam Machines, like at least some. Show Steam Machines as an &#x27;out-of-the-box Windows gaming replacement, not a console competitor.<p>- Fund Linux devs or take a lower cut from Linux releases<p>- Convince Adobe to release their suite on Linux! Push for&#x2F;fund official Unity and Unreal Engine Linux versions<p>- Offer the ability to natively launch games through Wine (and either use &#x27;community&#x27; environment files or require one exist, or have a link to WineHQ for help)<p>Be serious Valve, be genuine and get your flat structured &#x27;follow the shiny thing&#x27; company focused and determined.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines</title><url>https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=349e1d3fdcdc46d493b14572c866208a&uid=2862984859&nid=244+272699400</url></story> |
22,005,999 | 22,006,223 | 1 | 3 | 22,005,181 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gh123man</author><text>I am also not an expert in this space - but if I understand correctly the reason the linux Nvidia driver sucks so much is that it is not GPL&#x27;d (or open source at all).<p>There is little incentive for Nvidia to maintain a linux specific driver, but because it is closed source the community cannot improve&#x2F;fix it.<p>&gt; Why are all drivers expected to use the GPL?<p>I think the answer to this is: drivers are expect to use the GPL if they want to be mainlined and maintained - as Linus said: other than that you are &quot;on your own&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>&gt; And I&#x27;m not at all interested in some &quot;ZFS shim layer&quot; thing either<p>If there is no &quot;approved&quot; method for creating Linux drivers under licenses other than the GPL, that seems like a major problem that Linux should be working to address.<p>Expecting all Linux drivers to be GPL-licensed is unrealistic and just leads to crappy user experiences. nVidia is <i>never</i> going to release full-featured GPL&#x27;d drivers, and even corporative vendors sometimes have NDAs which preclude releasing open source drivers.<p>Linux is able to run proprietary userspace software. Even most open source zealots agree that this is necessary. Why are all drivers expected to use the GPL?<p>---<p>P.S. Never mind the fact that ZFS <i>is</i> open source, just not GPL compatible.<p>P.P.S. There&#x27;s a lot of technical underpinnings here that I&#x27;ll readily admit I don&#x27;t understand. If I speak out of ignorance, please feel free to correct me.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Here&#x27;s his reasoning:<p>&quot;honestly, there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself that says that yes, it&#x27;s ok to do so and treat the end result as GPL&#x27;d.<p>Other people think it can be ok to merge ZFS code into the kernel and that the module interface makes it ok, and that&#x27;s their decision. But considering Oracle&#x27;s litigious nature, and the questions over licensing, there&#x27;s no way I can feel safe in ever doing so.<p>And I&#x27;m not at all interested in some &quot;ZFS shim layer&quot; thing either that some people seem to think would isolate the two projects. That adds no value to our side, and given Oracle&#x27;s interface copyright suits (see Java), I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s any real licensing win either.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus: Don't Use ZFS</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189841</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cryptonector</author><text>ZFS is not really GPL-incompatible either, but it doesn&#x27;t matter. Between FUD and Oracle&#x27;s litigiousness, the end result is that there is no way to overcome the impression that it <i>is</i> GPL-incompatible.<p>But it is a problem that you can&#x27;t reliably have out-of-tree modules.<p>Also, Linus is wrong: there&#x27;s no reason that the ZoL project can&#x27;t keep the ZFS module in working order, with some lag relative to updates to the Linux mainline, so as long as you stay on supported kernels <i>and</i> the ZoL project remains alive, then <i>of course</i> you can use ZFS. And you should use ZFS because it&#x27;s awesome.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>&gt; And I&#x27;m not at all interested in some &quot;ZFS shim layer&quot; thing either<p>If there is no &quot;approved&quot; method for creating Linux drivers under licenses other than the GPL, that seems like a major problem that Linux should be working to address.<p>Expecting all Linux drivers to be GPL-licensed is unrealistic and just leads to crappy user experiences. nVidia is <i>never</i> going to release full-featured GPL&#x27;d drivers, and even corporative vendors sometimes have NDAs which preclude releasing open source drivers.<p>Linux is able to run proprietary userspace software. Even most open source zealots agree that this is necessary. Why are all drivers expected to use the GPL?<p>---<p>P.S. Never mind the fact that ZFS <i>is</i> open source, just not GPL compatible.<p>P.P.S. There&#x27;s a lot of technical underpinnings here that I&#x27;ll readily admit I don&#x27;t understand. If I speak out of ignorance, please feel free to correct me.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Here&#x27;s his reasoning:<p>&quot;honestly, there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself that says that yes, it&#x27;s ok to do so and treat the end result as GPL&#x27;d.<p>Other people think it can be ok to merge ZFS code into the kernel and that the module interface makes it ok, and that&#x27;s their decision. But considering Oracle&#x27;s litigious nature, and the questions over licensing, there&#x27;s no way I can feel safe in ever doing so.<p>And I&#x27;m not at all interested in some &quot;ZFS shim layer&quot; thing either that some people seem to think would isolate the two projects. That adds no value to our side, and given Oracle&#x27;s interface copyright suits (see Java), I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s any real licensing win either.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus: Don't Use ZFS</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189841</url></story> |
29,556,971 | 29,552,823 | 1 | 2 | 29,552,187 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kansface</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand this study. Why not compare the hospitalization&#x2F;fatality rates between _current_ omicron&#x2F;delta infections between similar cohorts?<p>Comparing to an earlier wave is hopelessly confounded on prior infections in the intervening time and similarly, on the most susceptible having already been killed off.<p>Maybe they did what I&#x27;m suggesting and its mostly just bad reporting?<p>edit from the summary :-&#x2F; :<p>Vaccine effectiveness:<p><pre><code> The two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination provides 70% protection against severe complications of COVID-19 requiring hospitalisation, and 33% protection against COVID-19 infection, during the current Omicron wave.
Reinfection risk: For individuals who have had COVID-19 previously, the risk of reinfection with Omicron is significantly higher, relative to prior variants.
Severity: The risk of hospital admission among adults diagnosed with COVID-19 is 29% lower for the Omicron variant infection compared to infections involving the D614G mutation in South Africa’s first wave in mid-2020, after adjusting for vaccination status
Children: Despite very low absolute incidence, preliminary data suggests that children have a 20% higher risk of hospital admission in Omicron-led fourth wave in South Africa, relative to the D614G-led first wave.</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>bognition</author><text>There are a few important bits here:<p>First: &quot;The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.&quot;<p>and second: &quot;At the same time, the vaccine may offer 70 percent protection against being hospitalized with omicron, the study found, describing that level of protection as “very good.”&quot;<p>Yes the vaccine does improve outcomes BUT the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated people is still lower with Omicron than previous variants.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>croes</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget this part:
&quot;South Africa has a quite high seroprevalence of prior infection, particularly after delta, and in some parts of South Africa up to 80 percent of people were exposed to previous infection&quot;<p>So it could simply be that the mild cases were previously infected, what happens to an unvaccinated without prior infection is a different story.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bognition</author><text>There are a few important bits here:<p>First: &quot;The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.&quot;<p>and second: &quot;At the same time, the vaccine may offer 70 percent protection against being hospitalized with omicron, the study found, describing that level of protection as “very good.”&quot;<p>Yes the vaccine does improve outcomes BUT the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated people is still lower with Omicron than previous variants.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus/</url></story> |
23,645,592 | 23,645,679 | 1 | 2 | 23,643,968 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vosper</author><text>&gt; - you cant use external monitors without the NVIDIA card enabled which requires a reboot. This is the single largest failing IMO and is more annoying than you&#x27;d think it is.<p>&gt; - you only get about an hour of battery life with the NVIDIA card enabled making it totally useless to keep on unless you plan on using this thing like a desktop all the time.<p>With these 2 caveats I&#x27;m surprised you still think it&#x27;s fine! I guess it depends on your work situation and pain tolerance. If I had to toggle graphics cards and reboot every time I detached or re-attached my laptop from&#x2F;to my desk-with-external-monitor setup... Well, I wouldn&#x27;t be happy about that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vikingcaffiene</author><text>I own one of these as my daily driver. Its... fine.<p>Pros<p>- dead simple to upgrade the hardware. I was able to get 32GB of RAM and 3 1TB hard drives installed with no hassle or voiding of warranty.<p>- its a beast of a machine when you spec it out capable of any workload you throw at it.<p>- linux support is 1st class (obvs)<p>- all aluminum chassis<p>- the display is nice even tho its only 1080p<p>- the keyboard key action is nice. I have a thinkpad for work and they are similar feel.<p>- PopOS is amazing.<p>- the backlit keyboard is cool<p>Cons<p>- you cant use external monitors without the NVIDIA card enabled which requires a reboot. This is the single largest failing IMO and is more annoying than you&#x27;d think it is.<p>- you only get about an hour of battery life with the NVIDIA card enabled making it totally useless to keep on unless you plan on using this thing like a desktop all the time.<p>- its a rebranded Clevo laptop and kinda ugly. It feels cheap to me despite the aluminum chassis.<p>- the keyboard layout is weird. The number pad is unnecessary.<p>- the speakers suck. Seriously. Like my headphones lying on my desk sound better<p>- web cam is crappy<p>- the screen itself feels flimsy<p>- I dual boot into windows and its a second rate experience there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New system76 laptop: Oryx Pro</title><url>https://system76.com/laptops/oryx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmontra</author><text>&gt; The number pad is unnecessary.<p>I&#x27;d pay a 100 Euro extra to remove the number pad and center the keyboard and the touchpad. Having to slide any laptop to the right is so annoying (the space bar must align with the center of the body, no matter what.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>vikingcaffiene</author><text>I own one of these as my daily driver. Its... fine.<p>Pros<p>- dead simple to upgrade the hardware. I was able to get 32GB of RAM and 3 1TB hard drives installed with no hassle or voiding of warranty.<p>- its a beast of a machine when you spec it out capable of any workload you throw at it.<p>- linux support is 1st class (obvs)<p>- all aluminum chassis<p>- the display is nice even tho its only 1080p<p>- the keyboard key action is nice. I have a thinkpad for work and they are similar feel.<p>- PopOS is amazing.<p>- the backlit keyboard is cool<p>Cons<p>- you cant use external monitors without the NVIDIA card enabled which requires a reboot. This is the single largest failing IMO and is more annoying than you&#x27;d think it is.<p>- you only get about an hour of battery life with the NVIDIA card enabled making it totally useless to keep on unless you plan on using this thing like a desktop all the time.<p>- its a rebranded Clevo laptop and kinda ugly. It feels cheap to me despite the aluminum chassis.<p>- the keyboard layout is weird. The number pad is unnecessary.<p>- the speakers suck. Seriously. Like my headphones lying on my desk sound better<p>- web cam is crappy<p>- the screen itself feels flimsy<p>- I dual boot into windows and its a second rate experience there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New system76 laptop: Oryx Pro</title><url>https://system76.com/laptops/oryx</url></story> |
12,239,226 | 12,239,082 | 1 | 2 | 12,238,411 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>One of my criteria for assessing a logic simulator is whether it can simulate something nontrivial like an entire CPU, so I was pleased to see there&#x27;s a 6502 here...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jdryg&#x2F;dls-schematics&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;6502" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jdryg&#x2F;dls-schematics&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;6502</a><p>...but it seems to be only a 6502-based system showing that you can use a 6502 as an opaque component, and isn&#x27;t actually simulating its logic with the siulator. On the other hand, the 4004 here is mostly the real deal:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jdryg&#x2F;dls-schematics&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;i4004" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jdryg&#x2F;dls-schematics&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;i4004</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DLS, the digital logic simulator game</title><url>https://makingartstudios.itch.io/dls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cottonseed</author><text>When I was a kid I played a game on the Apple ][ that years later I realized was secretly an introduction to digital design with propagation delay. In the game, little sparks&#x2F;pulses would travel down wires, and there were various objects (primitive elements) that would manipulate the pulses (and gates, or gates, delays, relays, etc.) If memory serves, each level had a set of pulses that needed to be generated to progress to the next level. I have no idea what it was called and I&#x27;ve looked for it occasionally without success. Anyone know what I&#x27;m talking about?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DLS, the digital logic simulator game</title><url>https://makingartstudios.itch.io/dls</url></story> |
5,957,608 | 5,957,714 | 1 | 3 | 5,957,364 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flexie</author><text>What is even worse is that the next president - who taught constitutional law for more than a decade - cannot see the problem with his government spying on everybody.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lawyers said Bush couldn’t spy on Americans. He did it anyway.</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/27/lawyers-said-bush-couldnt-spy-on-americans-he-did-it-anyway/?tid=rssfeed</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>grandalf</author><text>New strategy: Make it about Bush. Obama is at least as culpable b&#x2F;c he would have had a good excuse to raise a red flag about the improprieties upon taking office.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lawyers said Bush couldn’t spy on Americans. He did it anyway.</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/27/lawyers-said-bush-couldnt-spy-on-americans-he-did-it-anyway/?tid=rssfeed</url><text></text></story> |
7,723,115 | 7,722,212 | 1 | 2 | 7,721,096 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Perseids</author><text>&gt;&gt; Dynamic typing makes Python easier to use than C<p>&gt; Overall it is a higher-level language, whereas C is designed for maximum performance.<p>I agree with most of your points, but on this I think you are comparing apples to oranges. C is not designed for maximum performance, but as a system language and as such only as slim abstraction over assembler. As a <i>side effect</i> it allows for maximum performance. A more fair comparison (pretty much every widely used language is easier to use than C) would be C++ vs. Python, where in C++ most - if not all - of the higher level abstractions were explicitly designed not to worsen performance compared to low level code. And in my opinion Python is so much easier to use than C++ because it values simplicity and consistency more than efficiency.<p>For example the general loop constructions in Python which are possible because of nice generators and the wonderfully straightforward `yield` construction are unacceptable in C++ as they lack the flexibility to be as efficient as possible in every case.<p>The advantage of dynamic typing only becomes apparent in a third argumentative step; when you try build a language with consistent and efficient abstraction and you end up with something like Haskell whose type system complexity is huge entry barrier. That&#x27;s why <i>I</i> think dynamic typing is good for Python.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregwebs</author><text><p><pre><code> Dynamic typing makes Python easier to use than C
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I disagree with the implications. The main reasons Python is easier to use is independent of type system. Not having to manually manage memory, for example! Overall it is a higher-level language, whereas C is designed for maximum performance.<p>Dynamic typing is probably preferable to a 40 year old type system. But Python could be easier to use (catch bugs ahead of time!) and execute faster by adding a modern type system. Optional typing (like TypeScript or Facebook&#x27;s new PHP implemntation) would probably be appropriate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood</title><url>http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spittie</author><text>I&#x27;d love to see optional typing in Python, I wonder if there is any official reasons about why it never got introduced.<p>I very rarely change the type of a variable, so it would be essentially free speed and free speeds for me.<p>I actually wonder, do people use dynamic typing so often? I mean, it&#x27;s nice to do &quot;variable = int(variable)&quot; when I know that I&#x27;m getting an integer in a string, but that&#x27;s probably the only use case can I can think off that doesn&#x27;t just reuse variables for something else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregwebs</author><text><p><pre><code> Dynamic typing makes Python easier to use than C
</code></pre>
I disagree with the implications. The main reasons Python is easier to use is independent of type system. Not having to manually manage memory, for example! Overall it is a higher-level language, whereas C is designed for maximum performance.<p>Dynamic typing is probably preferable to a 40 year old type system. But Python could be easier to use (catch bugs ahead of time!) and execute faster by adding a modern type system. Optional typing (like TypeScript or Facebook&#x27;s new PHP implemntation) would probably be appropriate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood</title><url>http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/</url></story> |
7,224,035 | 7,224,129 | 1 | 3 | 7,223,196 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jebus989</author><text>So the press has picked up Wikipedia didn&#x27;t get involved but what actually happened was:<p>* Jimmy Wales posted on his talk page inviting discussion on the issue [0]<p>* There was support for having articles on the main page all be related in some way to the topic of mass surveillance [0]<p>* A handful of editors then made a subpage and began plans for a request for comment (RfC)... [1]<p>Then said handful of people made a series of bungles and strange decisions (like naming the proposal &quot;Surveillance awareness day&quot; instead of associating with the protest) and ultimately didn&#x27;t bring the RfC to the community for proper discussion.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_155#The_Day_We_Fight_Back" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&#x2F;Archive_...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Surveillance_awareness_day" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Surveillance_awarene...</a> (see history, talk page)<p>TL;DR Wikipedia didn&#x27;t decide not to get involved in the protest, 2 or 3 editors dawdled and made bad decisions until we ran out of time to discuss it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ItendToDisagree</author><text>The fact that Google&#x2F;Yahoo&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Wiki didn&#x27;t promote or get involved with this REALLY hurt the cause...<p>To many (read: The Majority) of people the above companies <i>are</i> the internet. In the same way the people who think this way used to think AOL <i>was</i> The Internet (Capitals important). It really is sad that this seems to be true and that a couple companies have so much influence on what the internet is and does. But it really did make it easy to downplay the whole thing by saying &quot;If it was so important why didn&#x27;t Google get involved?&quot;</text></item><item><author>spenvo</author><text>&quot;By late Tuesday, some 70,000 calls had been placed to legislators and roughly 150,000 people had sent their representatives an email.&quot;<p>What was to be expected? The offices of my Senators and Representatives were swamped all day with phone calls.<p>The author keeps paying lip-service to the comparison of this effort to SOPA&#x2F;PIPA --- which was entirely different. Those bills were a direct challenge to the internet as we knew it, and everyone (including the big players) moved in to participate. That protest was about two game-changing bills with votes on the floor (all other paths for success had failed - if you&#x27;re Google,Wikipedia, etc); this protest was about the status quo.<p>Our elected officials heard us today - from seemingly nowhere, that the <i>status quo</i> isn&#x27;t acceptable. The verbiage directly called the kettle black on the supposed &quot;FISA Reform Bill,&quot; reminding politicians that the powder is dry if head too far off course. And that (IMHO) makes a big statement.<p>I felt the post was unjustifiably negative[&#x2F;defeatist] with a link bait title and lame observations. It <i>would be great</i> to see Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. play a larger role and &quot;see the bigger picture&quot;-- especially given that companies like Microsoft have officially recognized dragnet surveillance as an &quot;advanced persistent threat.&quot; [0] Again, it would be great, but it can&#x27;t be <i>necessary</i>. We want their help, but we cannot <i>need</i> it.<p>PS - It&#x27;s defeatist to say the following: &quot;internet protests will never change anything in Washington.&quot;<p>&quot;The Powerbroker,&quot; a Pulitzer-Prize winning biography praised by Aaron Swartz [1], conveys the following two lessons with regards to affecting change in government: 1.) the only thing which matters (from the perspective of a common man) is raising the political stakes in every manner possible, forcing the issue into the court of public opinion where politicians must pick sides in a very public affair. 2.) The <i>other things</i> which matter are in conversations which you are not a part of. . . ... dig in. This is a minor skirmish in a long war (of attrition) against the Est..<p>[0] - <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/5/5177554/microsoft-plans-server-encryption-against-nsa-snooping" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;5&#x2F;5177554&#x2F;microsoft-plans-se...</a>
[1] - <a href="https://zolabooks.com/list/aaron-swartz-reading-list/1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zolabooks.com&#x2F;list&#x2F;aaron-swartz-reading-list&#x2F;1</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Day the Internet Didn’t Fight Back</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/the-day-the-internet-didnt-fight-back/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saalweachter</author><text>I <i>don&#x27;t like it</i> when corporations interject themselves into politics. This goes for companies that support my politics as well as companies which oppose them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ItendToDisagree</author><text>The fact that Google&#x2F;Yahoo&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Wiki didn&#x27;t promote or get involved with this REALLY hurt the cause...<p>To many (read: The Majority) of people the above companies <i>are</i> the internet. In the same way the people who think this way used to think AOL <i>was</i> The Internet (Capitals important). It really is sad that this seems to be true and that a couple companies have so much influence on what the internet is and does. But it really did make it easy to downplay the whole thing by saying &quot;If it was so important why didn&#x27;t Google get involved?&quot;</text></item><item><author>spenvo</author><text>&quot;By late Tuesday, some 70,000 calls had been placed to legislators and roughly 150,000 people had sent their representatives an email.&quot;<p>What was to be expected? The offices of my Senators and Representatives were swamped all day with phone calls.<p>The author keeps paying lip-service to the comparison of this effort to SOPA&#x2F;PIPA --- which was entirely different. Those bills were a direct challenge to the internet as we knew it, and everyone (including the big players) moved in to participate. That protest was about two game-changing bills with votes on the floor (all other paths for success had failed - if you&#x27;re Google,Wikipedia, etc); this protest was about the status quo.<p>Our elected officials heard us today - from seemingly nowhere, that the <i>status quo</i> isn&#x27;t acceptable. The verbiage directly called the kettle black on the supposed &quot;FISA Reform Bill,&quot; reminding politicians that the powder is dry if head too far off course. And that (IMHO) makes a big statement.<p>I felt the post was unjustifiably negative[&#x2F;defeatist] with a link bait title and lame observations. It <i>would be great</i> to see Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. play a larger role and &quot;see the bigger picture&quot;-- especially given that companies like Microsoft have officially recognized dragnet surveillance as an &quot;advanced persistent threat.&quot; [0] Again, it would be great, but it can&#x27;t be <i>necessary</i>. We want their help, but we cannot <i>need</i> it.<p>PS - It&#x27;s defeatist to say the following: &quot;internet protests will never change anything in Washington.&quot;<p>&quot;The Powerbroker,&quot; a Pulitzer-Prize winning biography praised by Aaron Swartz [1], conveys the following two lessons with regards to affecting change in government: 1.) the only thing which matters (from the perspective of a common man) is raising the political stakes in every manner possible, forcing the issue into the court of public opinion where politicians must pick sides in a very public affair. 2.) The <i>other things</i> which matter are in conversations which you are not a part of. . . ... dig in. This is a minor skirmish in a long war (of attrition) against the Est..<p>[0] - <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/5/5177554/microsoft-plans-server-encryption-against-nsa-snooping" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;5&#x2F;5177554&#x2F;microsoft-plans-se...</a>
[1] - <a href="https://zolabooks.com/list/aaron-swartz-reading-list/1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zolabooks.com&#x2F;list&#x2F;aaron-swartz-reading-list&#x2F;1</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Day the Internet Didn’t Fight Back</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/the-day-the-internet-didnt-fight-back/</url></story> |
13,177,005 | 13,177,253 | 1 | 3 | 13,173,832 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rybosome</author><text>Unfortunately climate change has become a shibboleth for political tribal affiliation. To be conservative (in the tribal sense) means holding disbelief in climate change. Note that I&#x27;m not exempting liberals from this sort of behavior, many liberals believe in the existence of climate change without having the slighest understanding of it because that&#x27;s what the rest of the tribe does. No amount of facts, exhortations, threats or pleas will make a difference now. Unless members of the conservative in-group change their minds and spread this message, its going to be a permanent fixture of the American worldview.<p>My hope is that the people most responsible for spreading doubt (e.g. fossil fuel lobbyists) live long enough to see the consequences, but this is unlikely. The most likely scenario is that the brunt of this problem will be borne by future generations, assuming we don&#x27;t get really unlucky and trigger an extinction event. :-(<p>God damn, what a fucked world we live in. I wish I had the comfort of disbelief these people have.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamesblonde</author><text>I am really shocked at the Americans here on HN. I have to say it straight out. In the rest of the western world, there is no debate about what&#x27;s happening. But even here on HN, with the high quality of debate, this thread has descended into discussion of whether global warming is real or not or a maybe even good thing. It&#x27;s real, it&#x27;s only americans who are sceptics. Please wake up, you&#x27;ve been brainwashed by your corrupt media (yes, I mean Fox News amongst others).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/13/505434080/scientists-report-the-arctic-is-melting-even-more-rapidly</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>c0nducktr</author><text>One thing (of many) that made me absolutely furious during the American presidential debates, is that climate change and the environment in general were not brought up at all. Not a single time. The people running the world will be the death of us all, putting a chase for profit over everything else. I&#x27;m mad as hell, but feel absolutely powerless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamesblonde</author><text>I am really shocked at the Americans here on HN. I have to say it straight out. In the rest of the western world, there is no debate about what&#x27;s happening. But even here on HN, with the high quality of debate, this thread has descended into discussion of whether global warming is real or not or a maybe even good thing. It&#x27;s real, it&#x27;s only americans who are sceptics. Please wake up, you&#x27;ve been brainwashed by your corrupt media (yes, I mean Fox News amongst others).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/13/505434080/scientists-report-the-arctic-is-melting-even-more-rapidly</url></story> |
24,463,079 | 24,462,101 | 1 | 2 | 24,461,365 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>The side effect of being busy and distracted is that they&#x27;re extremely thrifty with their attention, and sometimes their split-second subconscious decision not to look closely at something gets locked in and not reevaluated. About 70% of the IT support I do for my family goes like this:<p>Voice from the next room: &quot;Can you help me, dkarl? The computer won&#x27;t save my document.&quot;<p>Me, comfy in my chair: &quot;What does it say?&quot;<p>&quot;It&#x27;s doing something weird.&quot;<p>&quot;Weird how? What does it say?&quot;<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t know, I was just saving like I always do, and now there&#x27;s this window and it wants me to do something.&quot;<p>&quot;What is it asking you to do?&quot;<p>&quot;It wants me to click something? I don&#x27;t know, maybe it wants a password or it&#x27;s not going to do it because of iCloud or something? It&#x27;s been weird lately.&quot;<p>&quot;Okay. What are the words in the window where it wants you to click something?&quot;<p>&quot;It says... oh, it says there&#x27;s another file with this name already.&quot;<p>&quot;Okay, do you want me to come over there and help you find the other file and see what&#x27;s in it?&quot;<p>&quot;No, I can do it. Thank you!&quot;<p>I think one of the reasons I find computers relatively easy is that I compulsively read whatever you put in front of me. I always read cereal boxes when I was a kid, even the non-kid cereal boxes that were all about colon health and fiber. But even I get this blindness sometimes, especially when I&#x27;m writing code and running builds and tests and trying to work quickly and efficiently. I&#x27;ll get hung up on something for ten minutes where the answer is literally spelled out for me in front of my face.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sime2009</author><text>A better model for thinking of users is to realise that they are not stupid, just busy and distracted. From an app point of view you can count yourself lucky if you get even 10% of their attention at any given time.<p>Users aren&#x27;t thinking about your app when they use it.<p>That person in MSWord isn&#x27;t thinking about the ribbon bar. They are thinking about how to address that new prospective customer.<p>That person in Excel isn&#x27;t thinking about cells either. They are thinking about whether Robin in R&amp;D is going to get the figures for Q2 to them in time.<p>Users have tasks to concentrate on. They don&#x27;t have the attention left over to deal with your app&#x27;s crappy UI.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy</title><url>https://somehowmanage.com/2020/09/13/disrespectful-design-users-arent-stupid-or-lazy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jwr</author><text>&gt; A better model for thinking of users is to realise that they are not stupid, just busy and distracted.<p>I&#x27;d put it differently. Realize that your app is not the center of the world. Your users have things to do, and using your app is a small fraction of their life. Even though it might be your baby and you might be spending all of your waking ours thinking about your app, user perspective is different.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sime2009</author><text>A better model for thinking of users is to realise that they are not stupid, just busy and distracted. From an app point of view you can count yourself lucky if you get even 10% of their attention at any given time.<p>Users aren&#x27;t thinking about your app when they use it.<p>That person in MSWord isn&#x27;t thinking about the ribbon bar. They are thinking about how to address that new prospective customer.<p>That person in Excel isn&#x27;t thinking about cells either. They are thinking about whether Robin in R&amp;D is going to get the figures for Q2 to them in time.<p>Users have tasks to concentrate on. They don&#x27;t have the attention left over to deal with your app&#x27;s crappy UI.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy</title><url>https://somehowmanage.com/2020/09/13/disrespectful-design-users-arent-stupid-or-lazy/</url></story> |
3,664,956 | 3,665,044 | 1 | 3 | 3,664,400 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>Oddly, I don't feel that GitHub is being upfront with everything that's going on here. It appears to be a very complicated story, but it was presented in an entirely different manner. I recognize that it's difficult to present a coherent story when everything is playing out in real time on the web, but the blog posts seem to have shared just the wrong amount of information.</text><parent_chain><item><author>technoweenie</author><text>We suspended it after fixing the bug to make sure he didn't retain access to something he shouldn't. We rarely do this, but he wasn't upfront with everything he was doing on the site like people that disclose vulnerabilities responsibly.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>I have lost all trust in GitHub, and not because of the vulnerability, but because of their response. With their suspension of hamakov's account and deceptive blog post about the extent of the hole, GitHub has guaranteed that they won't be the first to know about the next vulnerability (and there's always another).<p>I've downgraded my paid account to a free account, and won't keep any non-public data on GitHub in the future. I had a similar response with my (non-paid) DropBox account. I guess I didn't rationally evaluate cloud resources, and have trusted far too many people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.</title><url>http://chrisacky.posterous.com/github-you-have-let-us-all-down</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tylermenezes</author><text>&#62; he wasn't upfront with everything he was doing on the site like people that disclose vulnerabilities responsibly<p>If he was, he wouldn't have really made his point, would he? There are a lot of other Ruby sites which have this sort of bug.<p>I actually do understand suspending his account, and I even kind of get the intentionally misleading communications (you have to keep the corporate customers happy, right?), but the new "white hat" policy thing is kind of silly, because that's clearly not what this was about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>technoweenie</author><text>We suspended it after fixing the bug to make sure he didn't retain access to something he shouldn't. We rarely do this, but he wasn't upfront with everything he was doing on the site like people that disclose vulnerabilities responsibly.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>I have lost all trust in GitHub, and not because of the vulnerability, but because of their response. With their suspension of hamakov's account and deceptive blog post about the extent of the hole, GitHub has guaranteed that they won't be the first to know about the next vulnerability (and there's always another).<p>I've downgraded my paid account to a free account, and won't keep any non-public data on GitHub in the future. I had a similar response with my (non-paid) DropBox account. I guess I didn't rationally evaluate cloud resources, and have trusted far too many people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.</title><url>http://chrisacky.posterous.com/github-you-have-let-us-all-down</url></story> |
12,455,009 | 12,455,279 | 1 | 2 | 12,453,535 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>I agree that what Norvig demonstrates here and in all of his notebooks is an ideal of how we use programming to explore (nevermind <i>implement</i>) concepts. But how do we get there without teaching people how to program, including syntax? I think everyone agrees that kids should be able to understand the themes of &quot;A Modest Proposal&quot; and perhaps even write with such depth, but they have to learn their ABCs and be compelled to write about what they ate for breakfast and other insignificant topics before they get to an adequate level.<p>I wish I could say that in my time of teaching, I&#x27;ve met people who could just get these things without actually writing code. But I think for most non-geniuses, including myself, it&#x27;s all too abstract until you know how to concretely write code yourself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t help but read this and think about all the &quot;coding&quot; initiatives I&#x27;ve seen in K-12 and shake my head.<p>What Norvig is doing is what we should be teaching. He is tackling this seemingly REALLY hard problem by thinking about it methodically, translating some intuition into code, carefully constructing an argument about how to solve it, and ways that it could be extended. This is what actual engineers look like.<p>Everything I&#x27;ve seen around &quot;coding&quot; though has become a masochistic exercise in teaching kids random syntax details and then calling them Coders and Geniuses and Computer Scientists when they successfully copy what the teacher showed them.<p>When you read Norvig&#x27;s code (big fan of his Sudoku one as well), you realize how the actual &quot;code&quot; is secondary in the sense that what it is really doing is expressing an idea. A very nunanced, elegant idea, but ultimately the product of doing some hard thinking and exploration on a problem domain.<p>If we taught kids to just think about problems in this way, ohh what a world it would be!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Write a Spelling Corrector</title><url>http://norvig.com/spell-correct.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>mack73</author><text>But what you should realize is that the person who wrote this beautiful piece of code is someone who is at the peak of their career, a thinker, an artist, and that it must be ok to not ever rise to his level, because this is close to a master-piece. Few of these geniuses become professors, is just a guess, because no matter how quirky you are you always get a job somewhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t help but read this and think about all the &quot;coding&quot; initiatives I&#x27;ve seen in K-12 and shake my head.<p>What Norvig is doing is what we should be teaching. He is tackling this seemingly REALLY hard problem by thinking about it methodically, translating some intuition into code, carefully constructing an argument about how to solve it, and ways that it could be extended. This is what actual engineers look like.<p>Everything I&#x27;ve seen around &quot;coding&quot; though has become a masochistic exercise in teaching kids random syntax details and then calling them Coders and Geniuses and Computer Scientists when they successfully copy what the teacher showed them.<p>When you read Norvig&#x27;s code (big fan of his Sudoku one as well), you realize how the actual &quot;code&quot; is secondary in the sense that what it is really doing is expressing an idea. A very nunanced, elegant idea, but ultimately the product of doing some hard thinking and exploration on a problem domain.<p>If we taught kids to just think about problems in this way, ohh what a world it would be!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Write a Spelling Corrector</title><url>http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html</url></story> |
22,846,370 | 22,846,237 | 1 | 2 | 22,844,723 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>martingoodson</author><text>Falsifying data is not being &#x27;fluffy&#x27;, it&#x27;s academic misconduct. You might not personally care about this but academic norms exist for a reason. Universities are trusted institutions precisely because they follow these norms.</text><parent_chain><item><author>knzhou</author><text>I&#x27;m tired of the endless posts over Why We Sleep. The book attempts to cover hundreds of studies in an accessible way, and it largely succeeds. It&#x27;s certainly fluffy at times (as are all popular books, by necessity), but if you didn&#x27;t like its message, nitpicking at minor points doesn&#x27;t refute the central thesis, and pretending it does is below the standards of even internet flame wars.<p>Like, this kind of exchange is exactly why academics try to avoid randos from the internet. They tend to seize on one point, declare victory, and refuse to change their minds. And when the academic doesn&#x27;t grovel in compliance, they declare academia to be a failure. As far as I&#x27;m concerned, UC Berkeley responded perfectly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sleep-a-tale-of-institutional-failure/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>The author of this post isn&#x27;t some rando from the internet. He&#x27;s a really big name in stats. He wrote the main textbooks for a couple topics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>knzhou</author><text>I&#x27;m tired of the endless posts over Why We Sleep. The book attempts to cover hundreds of studies in an accessible way, and it largely succeeds. It&#x27;s certainly fluffy at times (as are all popular books, by necessity), but if you didn&#x27;t like its message, nitpicking at minor points doesn&#x27;t refute the central thesis, and pretending it does is below the standards of even internet flame wars.<p>Like, this kind of exchange is exactly why academics try to avoid randos from the internet. They tend to seize on one point, declare victory, and refuse to change their minds. And when the academic doesn&#x27;t grovel in compliance, they declare academia to be a failure. As far as I&#x27;m concerned, UC Berkeley responded perfectly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sleep-a-tale-of-institutional-failure/</url></story> |
37,761,854 | 37,761,969 | 1 | 2 | 37,760,486 | 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>snvzz</author><text>It&#x27;d get thrown out as an alibi. But it&#x27;d be used as evidence for a crime.<p>That&#x27;s how it works with data: Against you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>extr</author><text>I&#x27;ve let Google track my location history for over 10 years now. On top of being incredibly useful (and fun) to remember where I was and when, I always imagined it would come in handy as an alibi if I was ever accused of a crime.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-28/google-user-data-is-police-s-top-shortcut-for-solving-crimes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hilbert42</author><text><i>&quot;I always imagined it would come in handy as an alibi if I was ever accused of a crime.&quot;</i><p>Yeah, right. But not if you&#x27;re in the zone swept up for questioning. See my comment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>extr</author><text>I&#x27;ve let Google track my location history for over 10 years now. On top of being incredibly useful (and fun) to remember where I was and when, I always imagined it would come in handy as an alibi if I was ever accused of a crime.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-28/google-user-data-is-police-s-top-shortcut-for-solving-crimes</url></story> |
29,136,447 | 29,136,573 | 1 | 2 | 29,135,713 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>n8cpdx</author><text>&gt; People aren&#x27;t going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac<p>I think people used to say this about Starbucks, where you might pay close to $8 for just the drink.<p>Fast food can probably save itself by going premium (as Starbucks did, although I don’t know if they are still considered premium) and raising prices and quality. McDonald’s has made that play in the past with the pivot to McCafé and the nicer restaurant design that is now predominant.<p>What may have to go away is the idea of fast food as something that is attainable for just about everyone. I remember when I was much younger and McDonald’s was a treat - we didn’t have much spare money but my parents could make McDonald’s happen occasionally.<p>Nowadays I’m totally price insensitive and happy to pay for DoorDash to deliver McDonald’s and tip handsomely. The people who don’t have software jobs or a similar tier probably can’t. Big business will be fine regardless, and if they can’t make it work, the leadership is not worthy of their overpriced MBAs.<p>I worry about the lower classes though. An under appreciated (for the wealthy HN reader) aspect of the relative success of American development is the broad accessibility of luxuries to the masses. Even the poor masses. If you (dear reader) don’t recognize a fast food meal as a luxury, you are blind to the real consequences of what is unfolding. I understand the desire to cater to labor, but ultimately there are far more consumers than laborers (by definition - all human laborers are also consumers). The grand economic experiment of yanking away the _one_ aspect of the American project (abundance) that has until now been continuing to succeed will have consequences. Not for me, but for the people you think of when you think of labor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>It&#x27;ll be interesting to watch this play out. As someone who eats way more fast food than he should(once a week on avg), I&#x27;ve noticed this big time.<p>I was in Savannah this summer and had to go to 3 different places to find one even serving. So many places had one employee taking orders and cooking, both. Even Chik Fil A only had 2 people working, and a 45 minute wait.<p>The BK near me, open til 12, has totally random hours, and is often closed by 7. The Arby&#x27;s is staffed by people who give food first and act weird when you stare because you need to pay still. Corporate? They don&#x27;t care. I&#x27;ve tried to contact BK twice about a gross overbilling - they just don&#x27;t care and don&#x27;t respond. The credit card company said they never even replied to their inquiries.<p>It&#x27;s all cheap food, and I don&#x27;t blame the workers at all. Fast food work is awful. I&#x27;m just curious how all of this is going to end. People aren&#x27;t going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac, and people aren&#x27;t going to work at McD for minimum wage.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The fast-food workers’ season of rebellion</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m just curious how all of this is going to end. People aren&#x27;t going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac, and people aren&#x27;t going to work at McD for minimum wage.</i><p>Research on the effect that raising minimum wages has on prices, specifically fast food prices, found that for every 10% increase in wages, some prices increase by 0.36% and other prices decrease[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.upjohn.org&#x2F;up_workingpapers&#x2F;260&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.upjohn.org&#x2F;up_workingpapers&#x2F;260&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>It&#x27;ll be interesting to watch this play out. As someone who eats way more fast food than he should(once a week on avg), I&#x27;ve noticed this big time.<p>I was in Savannah this summer and had to go to 3 different places to find one even serving. So many places had one employee taking orders and cooking, both. Even Chik Fil A only had 2 people working, and a 45 minute wait.<p>The BK near me, open til 12, has totally random hours, and is often closed by 7. The Arby&#x27;s is staffed by people who give food first and act weird when you stare because you need to pay still. Corporate? They don&#x27;t care. I&#x27;ve tried to contact BK twice about a gross overbilling - they just don&#x27;t care and don&#x27;t respond. The credit card company said they never even replied to their inquiries.<p>It&#x27;s all cheap food, and I don&#x27;t blame the workers at all. Fast food work is awful. I&#x27;m just curious how all of this is going to end. People aren&#x27;t going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac, and people aren&#x27;t going to work at McD for minimum wage.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The fast-food workers’ season of rebellion</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/</url></story> |
26,842,400 | 26,841,131 | 1 | 2 | 26,837,926 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>f6v</author><text>We’re just scratching the surface there. So many things can go wrong with the immune system that lead to inflammation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asadkn</author><text>Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let&#x27;s not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness.<p>Relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5476783&#x2F;#s2title" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5476783&#x2F;#s2titl...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andreygrehov</author><text>Curious – are there legitimate ways to measure stress?</text><parent_chain><item><author>asadkn</author><text>Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let&#x27;s not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness.<p>Relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5476783&#x2F;#s2title" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5476783&#x2F;#s2titl...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/</url></story> |
19,903,997 | 19,903,659 | 1 | 3 | 19,897,060 | 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>bluejellybean</author><text>Systems thinking is, by far, my favorite mode of thinking. It&#x27;s why I love programming, business, biology, mathematics, aerospace, etc... I&#x27;m convinced that being able to think about abstract systems fluidly is a core skill that separates the good from great in many fields and this is probably more so true in software. I really wish there were better resources for building up this skill set. I was gifted with a decent intuition for it and gained a lot from engineering courses, but I just haven&#x27;t found anything specific that I can point a junior engineer towards and say &quot;This, this is the essence of systems thinking!&quot;. The closest thing I&#x27;ve found is a lecture series on the space shuttle design[0], and while the series is fantastic, it doesn&#x27;t focus on the core idea of systems thinking. Does anyone have any useful resources or recommendations on the subject?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ocw.mit.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;aeronautics-and-astronautics&#x2F;16-885j-aircraft-systems-engineering-fall-2005&#x2F;video-lectures&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ocw.mit.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;aeronautics-and-astronautics&#x2F;16-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Systems thinking as important as ever for new coders</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/SystemsThinkingAsImportantAsEverForNewCoders.aspx</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>satyenr</author><text>Well said. I have come across candidates looking for engineering positions with a laundry list of fancy technologies they claim to have have worked on — yet can’t answer simplest questions about the fundamentals — way too often for my liking. There seems to be an inherent assumption that one just needs to be able to operate the newfangled technology of the day to be an engineer. Who needs to know about how network calls are made or the mechanics of spawning processes&#x2F;threads — there are libraries to abstract all that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Systems thinking as important as ever for new coders</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/SystemsThinkingAsImportantAsEverForNewCoders.aspx</url></story> |
6,709,314 | 6,708,969 | 1 | 2 | 6,708,664 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alabut</author><text>There&#x27;s an entire book about why you&#x27;re right and the OP&#x27;s approach is generally the wrong one, called <i>So Good They Can&#x27;t Ignore You</i>. The OP is exhibiting the classic &quot;passion mindset&quot; - you search your soul for your passions and if you plumb deep enough, you&#x27;ll magically unlock some cheat code in the world and people will start paying you.<p>The book is a light intro into the field of Self-Determination Theory and it&#x27;s filled with examples of people following their passion for 6 months before flaming out because no one will pay them for the thing they like to do.<p>Another way to put it is that making money takes practice just like playing the piano does. You&#x27;re probably not going to wake up one day and realize that an empty calendar is exactly what you need to learn how people will pay you for something that nobody told you to build.<p><a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1985-making-money-takes-practice-like-playing-the-piano-takes-practice" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;svn&#x2F;posts&#x2F;1985-making-money-takes-pract...</a><p><a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-business-advice-from-jason-fried.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inc.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;20110301&#x2F;making-money-small-busi...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>xwowsersx</author><text>I&#x27;m always interested in reading about how people have managed to gain some personal and financial independence. But I find it hard to relate to this article. I guess if you have the runway to just sit around and discover what it is you really want do, then cool. But there&#x27;s no real plan here, just &quot;oh maybe I&#x27;ll do freelancing too..yeah that sounds good.&quot; Maybe I&#x27;ve just been fortunate, but I&#x27;ve always worked in jobs where I feel I&#x27;m getting paid to learn skills that I know will be highly valuable whenever I decide to do something on my own. And I try to work on my own stuff, putting in 10-15 hours a week while still working a full-time job. I&#x27;d love to just leave my job, but I don&#x27;t see why setting aside some solid hours each week isn&#x27;t enough to get something off the ground. So, unless you&#x27;re absolutely miserable in your job you shouldn&#x27;t just leave it unless there&#x27;s actually some other &quot;thing&quot; you&#x27;re working on that actually requires your full-time attention. Again, maybe a lot of this post just reflects a sort of path of personal discovery, but it&#x27;s hard for me to relate to. To me, the lesson is more about finding a job that is fulfilling enough and still leaves you enough time to work on your other stuff with the hopes that your other projects can eventually become self-sustaining and lead you to greater personal and financial independence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I quit my job, and I'm excited about a more independent life</title><url>http://danielhough.co.uk/blog/unhuddled/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graeme</author><text>That&#x27;s a totally fine approach. That said, there&#x27;s something to be said for burning your bridges. Well, burning your ships, is the better but less known metaphor.<p>I left law school a couple of years ago with a lousy plan to post on American craigslist listings, advertising LSAT tutoring. American rates were far higher than what I could charge in Montreal, Canada.<p>That plan was a total failure. But I was determined not to go back on the path that I was on. I wrote blog posts about the LSAT, and stayed in touch with people in my field. Eventually, an opportunity to be listed on the major blog in the niche came up, and later a chance to write explanations for the LSAT in return for royalties. I also set up a relationship with a company to teach classes for them, something I could not have done if I had still been in school full time.<p>I&#x27;m still doing all the things I started in the first dismal 3-4 months after leaving school. I couldn&#x27;t be happier with how things worked out. If I had just tried it on the side, I never would have gotten so deep into things, and would have missed the opportunities I got. I HAD to find opportunities, because I had left myself no easy road back.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xwowsersx</author><text>I&#x27;m always interested in reading about how people have managed to gain some personal and financial independence. But I find it hard to relate to this article. I guess if you have the runway to just sit around and discover what it is you really want do, then cool. But there&#x27;s no real plan here, just &quot;oh maybe I&#x27;ll do freelancing too..yeah that sounds good.&quot; Maybe I&#x27;ve just been fortunate, but I&#x27;ve always worked in jobs where I feel I&#x27;m getting paid to learn skills that I know will be highly valuable whenever I decide to do something on my own. And I try to work on my own stuff, putting in 10-15 hours a week while still working a full-time job. I&#x27;d love to just leave my job, but I don&#x27;t see why setting aside some solid hours each week isn&#x27;t enough to get something off the ground. So, unless you&#x27;re absolutely miserable in your job you shouldn&#x27;t just leave it unless there&#x27;s actually some other &quot;thing&quot; you&#x27;re working on that actually requires your full-time attention. Again, maybe a lot of this post just reflects a sort of path of personal discovery, but it&#x27;s hard for me to relate to. To me, the lesson is more about finding a job that is fulfilling enough and still leaves you enough time to work on your other stuff with the hopes that your other projects can eventually become self-sustaining and lead you to greater personal and financial independence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I quit my job, and I'm excited about a more independent life</title><url>http://danielhough.co.uk/blog/unhuddled/</url></story> |
26,756,802 | 26,756,676 | 1 | 2 | 26,750,452 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChemSpider</author><text>Alina Chan seems at least equally qualified and disagrees:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Ayjchan&#x2F;status&#x2F;1374108473571557377" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Ayjchan&#x2F;status&#x2F;1374108473571557377</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jeduehr</author><text>Hi, I actually ended up responding below to point 3 in particular but I also respond to it in my original post. Very few, if any of these arguments are novel.<p>The reason you will find extremely few people with actual credentials in the science we&#x27;re discussing in these discussions is that working scientists don&#x27;t have the time or will to get into these debates with people who wouldn&#x27;t have the faintest idea how to actually conduct the research they&#x27;re criticizing.<p>That post I linked took like dozens and dozens of man hours to write, workshop, source, and edit.<p>And I wrote it so I could link it in situations like this, and not repeat myself dozens or hundreds of times.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m studying for the biggest exam of my professional life at the moment, and I&#x27;m procrastinating here because I find these discussions so horrifying.<p>This entire thread could be a valuable case study in the Dunning Krueger effect.<p>Not saying it&#x27;s not worth talking about, but rather that the amount of time and effort it takes to refute bullshit is several magnitudes more than the amount of effort it takes to create it.<p>In my case, that&#x27;s 10+ years studying viruses so people on the internet with no credentials can tell me I&#x27;m wrong.</text></item><item><author>rPlayer6554</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry man, but wouldn&#x27;t you be able to just reply directly if you feel inclined to disagree with the parent. I&#x27;m not saying HN is entitled to your opinion but it feels a little lazy and disrespectful to the parent to say &quot;you&#x27;re wrong&quot; then drop a link off site to a massive general summary of the situation in order to respond to a few specific points. Especially since point 3 has a source from a decently reputable news site with reputable sources.</text></item><item><author>jeduehr</author><text>Hi, I have a PhD in virology focused on emerging viruses, and a few months back I wrote a very lengthy and involved piece full of sources.<p>And in there, I describe exactly how wrong your point 1 is. And how misguided your point 3 is.<p>The post also won a &quot;best of r&#x2F;science 2020&quot; award!<p>You can find it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;science&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gk6y95&#x2F;covid19_did_not_come_from_the_wuhan_institute_of&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;science&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gk6y95&#x2F;covid19_did...</a></text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that:<p>1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. If such viruses were to escape the lab, they would appear &quot;natural&quot;<p>2. It&#x27;s not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak, because the US was itself funding gain of function research on novel coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL4 lab<p>3. Lab leaks happen more often than most people realize[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rPlayer6554</author><text>That&#x27;s fair if you don&#x27;t want to engage because you feel you don&#x27;t have time, but the spirit of the website is to have an open discussion. That means people will say wrong things. If you don&#x27;t have time to engage with that....it&#x27;s totally fine. But just saying I&#x27;m right and dropping a large read goes against the spirt of discussion. No one is forcing you to. If you wanted to just do a general response to everyone just make a comment on the main article with your link.<p>Good luck on your exam as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeduehr</author><text>Hi, I actually ended up responding below to point 3 in particular but I also respond to it in my original post. Very few, if any of these arguments are novel.<p>The reason you will find extremely few people with actual credentials in the science we&#x27;re discussing in these discussions is that working scientists don&#x27;t have the time or will to get into these debates with people who wouldn&#x27;t have the faintest idea how to actually conduct the research they&#x27;re criticizing.<p>That post I linked took like dozens and dozens of man hours to write, workshop, source, and edit.<p>And I wrote it so I could link it in situations like this, and not repeat myself dozens or hundreds of times.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m studying for the biggest exam of my professional life at the moment, and I&#x27;m procrastinating here because I find these discussions so horrifying.<p>This entire thread could be a valuable case study in the Dunning Krueger effect.<p>Not saying it&#x27;s not worth talking about, but rather that the amount of time and effort it takes to refute bullshit is several magnitudes more than the amount of effort it takes to create it.<p>In my case, that&#x27;s 10+ years studying viruses so people on the internet with no credentials can tell me I&#x27;m wrong.</text></item><item><author>rPlayer6554</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry man, but wouldn&#x27;t you be able to just reply directly if you feel inclined to disagree with the parent. I&#x27;m not saying HN is entitled to your opinion but it feels a little lazy and disrespectful to the parent to say &quot;you&#x27;re wrong&quot; then drop a link off site to a massive general summary of the situation in order to respond to a few specific points. Especially since point 3 has a source from a decently reputable news site with reputable sources.</text></item><item><author>jeduehr</author><text>Hi, I have a PhD in virology focused on emerging viruses, and a few months back I wrote a very lengthy and involved piece full of sources.<p>And in there, I describe exactly how wrong your point 1 is. And how misguided your point 3 is.<p>The post also won a &quot;best of r&#x2F;science 2020&quot; award!<p>You can find it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;science&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gk6y95&#x2F;covid19_did_not_come_from_the_wuhan_institute_of&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;science&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gk6y95&#x2F;covid19_did...</a></text></item><item><author>loveistheanswer</author><text>Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that:<p>1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. If such viruses were to escape the lab, they would appear &quot;natural&quot;<p>2. It&#x27;s not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak, because the US was itself funding gain of function research on novel coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL4 lab<p>3. Lab leaks happen more often than most people realize[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;future-perfect&#x2F;2019&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;18260669&#x2F;deadly...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavirus-leak-wuhan-lab-scientists-conspiracy/</url></story> |
26,725,761 | 26,725,379 | 1 | 3 | 26,724,237 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cshg</author><text>Signal&#x27;s by default e2e encrypted chats can be used across platforms, e.g. synced across desktop and mobile.
Telegram&#x27;s secret chats are only available on the device where you initiated them. That&#x27;s a major disadvantage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skrowl</author><text>Telegram is just so much more usable than Signal.<p>The perceived advantage of Signal over Telegram is LITERALLY not having an option for a cloud-synced chat and ONLY having end to end encrypted chats. That&#x27;s all.<p>You give up of usability to get that advantage. Explain to your mom why she has to give up Telegram to get basically the same functionality as Telegram secret chats.<p>Signals crypto is used by Facebook and was sponsored by the US Govt. Before you believe &quot;OMG Telegram crypto is bad!&quot; FUD, do 15 minutes of research.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>I definitely agree with the article that it felt a bit like a betrayal. I&#x27;ve pushed some friends and family to use it over Telegram despite significant usability issue, and now I see that instead of implementing some IMO basic features like proper message sync and easy backup when you get a new phone, they prefer to implement a... micropayment system? Based on some niche altcoin which doesn&#x27;t even exist on mainstream exchanges?<p>It goes beyond the usual issue with cryptocurrencies. Let&#x27;s assume that they integrated with Bitcoin or Litecoin or some &quot;mainstream&quot; CC, would it still be a good idea? You can already send wallet addresses over signal if you care to do it.<p>I&#x27;m willing to give the Signal devs the benefit of the doubt and assume that they meant well and aren&#x27;t actively trying to benefit from the move (even though I&#x27;m not completely dismissing this possibility) but at the very least it&#x27;s just showcases a very strange way to lead the project and prioritize issues. I can think of a dozen things out of the top that would do more to drive Signal adoption than integrating with some &quot;literally what?&quot; cryptocoin.<p>This is going to drive the adoption of this niche cryptocoin, it&#x27;s not going to do anything at all for Signal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Et Tu, Signal?</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.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>approxim8ion</author><text>That&#x27;s a big advantage, and a very important one. But definitely, that and the superior crypto is what keeps me on the app. Telegram is in a whole different level when it comes to usability and refinement.<p>&gt;Signals crypto is used by Facebook and was sponsored by the US Govt<p>Funny that you&#x27;re talking about FUD.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skrowl</author><text>Telegram is just so much more usable than Signal.<p>The perceived advantage of Signal over Telegram is LITERALLY not having an option for a cloud-synced chat and ONLY having end to end encrypted chats. That&#x27;s all.<p>You give up of usability to get that advantage. Explain to your mom why she has to give up Telegram to get basically the same functionality as Telegram secret chats.<p>Signals crypto is used by Facebook and was sponsored by the US Govt. Before you believe &quot;OMG Telegram crypto is bad!&quot; FUD, do 15 minutes of research.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>I definitely agree with the article that it felt a bit like a betrayal. I&#x27;ve pushed some friends and family to use it over Telegram despite significant usability issue, and now I see that instead of implementing some IMO basic features like proper message sync and easy backup when you get a new phone, they prefer to implement a... micropayment system? Based on some niche altcoin which doesn&#x27;t even exist on mainstream exchanges?<p>It goes beyond the usual issue with cryptocurrencies. Let&#x27;s assume that they integrated with Bitcoin or Litecoin or some &quot;mainstream&quot; CC, would it still be a good idea? You can already send wallet addresses over signal if you care to do it.<p>I&#x27;m willing to give the Signal devs the benefit of the doubt and assume that they meant well and aren&#x27;t actively trying to benefit from the move (even though I&#x27;m not completely dismissing this possibility) but at the very least it&#x27;s just showcases a very strange way to lead the project and prioritize issues. I can think of a dozen things out of the top that would do more to drive Signal adoption than integrating with some &quot;literally what?&quot; cryptocoin.<p>This is going to drive the adoption of this niche cryptocoin, it&#x27;s not going to do anything at all for Signal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Et Tu, Signal?</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html</url></story> |
19,554,005 | 19,553,437 | 1 | 3 | 19,552,221 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vernie</author><text>I&#x27;ve always had a terrible experience using Evernote across multiple devices. Editing a note on mobile seemed like a surefire way to get a merge conflict. I believe I also experienced a mysterious disappearance of a large chunk of my notes.<p>I just opened for Evernote for the first time in years and it looks like all my notes are now duplicated for some reason. Awesome.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sgt</author><text>Due to some weird bug in Evernote, I lost about 10% of all my notes. Some of them critical. This happened about a year ago, and I never found out the actual cause. I think it was some kind of bug triggered by the combination of syncing from&#x2F;to the mobile app and the desktop app. But I completely stopped trusting Evernote after this and stopped using it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Evernote failed to realize its potential</title><url>https://usefyi.com/evernote-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>irrational</author><text>This has happened to me as well. Not just entire notes, but even while I am typing it will have a synching hickup and delete everything I have written and rollback to the previous synching state. It is really really bad at synching.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sgt</author><text>Due to some weird bug in Evernote, I lost about 10% of all my notes. Some of them critical. This happened about a year ago, and I never found out the actual cause. I think it was some kind of bug triggered by the combination of syncing from&#x2F;to the mobile app and the desktop app. But I completely stopped trusting Evernote after this and stopped using it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Evernote failed to realize its potential</title><url>https://usefyi.com/evernote-history</url></story> |
13,940,501 | 13,939,997 | 1 | 2 | 13,938,749 | 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>GlennS</author><text>Geoffrey of Monmouth&#x27;s History of the Kings of Britain makes similar claims for Scythian ancestry, <i>and</i> that the Scythians were in turn refugees from Troy.<p>He also claimed that ancient Britons laid seige to Rome.<p>Pretty funny how his bullshit survived and was repeated through the centuries.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arethuza</author><text>Speaking of Scythia - somewhat bizarrely Scottish legends claim that the Scots were originally from there!<p><i>&quot;They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today.&quot;</i><p>Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.</text></item><item><author>empath75</author><text>The Fall of Rome podcast had a really interesting episode on The Huns:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.soundcloud.com&#x2F;fallofromepodcast&#x2F;fall-of-rome-episode-9-attila-and-the-empire-of-the-huns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.soundcloud.com&#x2F;fallofromepodcast&#x2F;fall-of-rome-epis...</a><p>He makes the argument that in the later Roman Empire, the Huns treated the Roman Empire as either a vassal or a buffer state to their own empire. They demanded tribute from them and even forced the romans to chase down and return refugees. It&#x27;s really interesting to look at the Roman Empire from a hun-centered point of view-- just one more border state along a small section of a vast empire.<p>They seem to have been one of a long series of steppe empires with the same basic organization-- from the Scythians to the Mongols.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones tell a different story</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/22/ancient-romans-depicted-huns-as-barbarians-their-bones-tell-a-different-story/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tacomonstrous</author><text>It&#x27;s not an unreasonable legend. Conventional wisdom is that all Indo-Europeans sprang from the steppes of Central Asia. Having it mentioned in a 14th century declaration is pretty fascinating!</text><parent_chain><item><author>arethuza</author><text>Speaking of Scythia - somewhat bizarrely Scottish legends claim that the Scots were originally from there!<p><i>&quot;They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today.&quot;</i><p>Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.</text></item><item><author>empath75</author><text>The Fall of Rome podcast had a really interesting episode on The Huns:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.soundcloud.com&#x2F;fallofromepodcast&#x2F;fall-of-rome-episode-9-attila-and-the-empire-of-the-huns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.soundcloud.com&#x2F;fallofromepodcast&#x2F;fall-of-rome-epis...</a><p>He makes the argument that in the later Roman Empire, the Huns treated the Roman Empire as either a vassal or a buffer state to their own empire. They demanded tribute from them and even forced the romans to chase down and return refugees. It&#x27;s really interesting to look at the Roman Empire from a hun-centered point of view-- just one more border state along a small section of a vast empire.<p>They seem to have been one of a long series of steppe empires with the same basic organization-- from the Scythians to the Mongols.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones tell a different story</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/22/ancient-romans-depicted-huns-as-barbarians-their-bones-tell-a-different-story/</url></story> |
14,567,027 | 14,566,999 | 1 | 2 | 14,566,173 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sliken</author><text>A staple of sci-fi has been a pair of boxes with quantum entangled particles inside allowing FTL communications once the boxes travel (sub-FTL) to their destination.<p>By my understanding that&#x27;s impossible, although I always wondered if you could coordinate FTL, by detecting when a particle was no longer entangled.<p>Can someone with the background comment?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprecedented distance</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-shatters-ldquo-spooky-action-at-a-distance-rdquo-record-preps-for-quantum-internet/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Illniyar</author><text>I thought quantum entanglement is the idea that two quantum particles separated by distance will behave the same at the same time regardless od distance.<p>Why is sending photons over distances a verification of quantum entanglement?<p>Can someone elaborate on what this is?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprecedented distance</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-shatters-ldquo-spooky-action-at-a-distance-rdquo-record-preps-for-quantum-internet/</url></story> |
12,345,799 | 12,345,616 | 1 | 2 | 12,344,589 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>We don&#x27;t yet know how many of those are being overdiagnosed - we don&#x27;t yet know the limits of the spectrum. There&#x27;s a lot of opinion on both sides, which is never helpful.<p>I can say that I wish I had had 30 more years on amphetamines, the difference has been marked. For the first time <i>in my life</i> the engine wasn&#x27;t misfiring. If it were certain to take a decade or more of my remaining life, I&#x27;d continue fully aware. I still drift, but I think that&#x27;s more because I have the habits. For me it&#x27;ll still be a lifelong process to try and correct the bad habits and thought patterns reinforced throughout the first half of my life. Others will be less clear beneficiaries of treatment or better served in other ways.<p>I think diagnosing and treating toddlers and 7 year olds is appalling - better to try and manage it, or look into causative factors like poor home environment and such. A more Scandinavian approach to school may help more (The UK would benefit from this too). A good proportion will grow out of it. That comes back to wider <i>real</i> awareness though especially with first contact - teachers and GPs etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>panglott</author><text>The thing is, diagnosis rates in the U.S. are something like 3-4 times as high as in most countries in Europe, which are themselves 3-4 times as high as a country like France, which is averse to ADHD diagnoses. The main treatment for ADHD is lifelong maintenance of powerful amphetamines, when we have no idea what the long-term consequences of that would be, nor what proportion of children would normally develop out of the ADHD spectrum with time.<p>Overdiagnosis at that rate means that millions of children are being given amphetamines, when they shouldn&#x27;t be!</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>As someone in my 5th decade, with lifelong ADHD (though given my age it did not exist in my youth, and was only diagnosed relatively recently), I&#x27;m wary of backing away from treatments until we actually do have real viable alternatives.<p>It took far too long to get ADHD widely recognised, and even now it&#x27;s often more likely to be received with humour than real recognition. Much more research, especially on other possible treatments and therapies, is needed before we turn too zealously against the only treatment actually shown to work. We have a long history of over diagnosing and overdoing pretty much everything.<p>I&#x27;ve only ever managed it with limited success. There&#x27;s little doubt that the <i>drugs can work.</i> Despite some evidence of over-diagnosis and over-prescription there are many people who have had their prospects transformed as a result. I suggest the ADHD label is being significantly over applied because real awareness, even in the medical profession, is still abysmal. Doctors don&#x27;t have time to look at home circumstances, or parents and other factors that might affect behaviour. Awareness coming from some TV comedy skit however is high.<p>I don&#x27;t actually care that we don&#x27;t yet have full understanding of how the drugs work, or that OMG they&#x27;re amphetamines. I <i>often</i> wonder how things may have turned out differently for me had I encountered more GP awareness and less ridicule, or even earlier self-awareness or teen diagnosis and treatment.<p>If we are too successful &quot;exposing big pharma&quot; and overdiagnosis in the minds of GPs and the public, lives will be ruined once again. Let&#x27;s not throw the baby out with the bathwater here rather than seek wider understanding.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Overselling A.D.H.D.</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/books/review/adhd-nation-alan-schwarz.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>scottmf</author><text>&gt;we have no idea what the long-term consequences of that would be<p>Perhaps <i>you</i> have no idea, but we actually have a pretty good idea from 80 years of stimulant medication usage.<p>Do you have data suggesting negative consequences of decades of stimulant usage?<p>No? Then it&#x27;s surely the best decision to ignore this FUD and continue treating people <i>of all ages</i> with stimulants which have been shown to be safe in such low doses.<p>Particularly when we have evidence suggesting <i>not medicating</i> is dangerous, as I mentioned in my other comments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>panglott</author><text>The thing is, diagnosis rates in the U.S. are something like 3-4 times as high as in most countries in Europe, which are themselves 3-4 times as high as a country like France, which is averse to ADHD diagnoses. The main treatment for ADHD is lifelong maintenance of powerful amphetamines, when we have no idea what the long-term consequences of that would be, nor what proportion of children would normally develop out of the ADHD spectrum with time.<p>Overdiagnosis at that rate means that millions of children are being given amphetamines, when they shouldn&#x27;t be!</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>As someone in my 5th decade, with lifelong ADHD (though given my age it did not exist in my youth, and was only diagnosed relatively recently), I&#x27;m wary of backing away from treatments until we actually do have real viable alternatives.<p>It took far too long to get ADHD widely recognised, and even now it&#x27;s often more likely to be received with humour than real recognition. Much more research, especially on other possible treatments and therapies, is needed before we turn too zealously against the only treatment actually shown to work. We have a long history of over diagnosing and overdoing pretty much everything.<p>I&#x27;ve only ever managed it with limited success. There&#x27;s little doubt that the <i>drugs can work.</i> Despite some evidence of over-diagnosis and over-prescription there are many people who have had their prospects transformed as a result. I suggest the ADHD label is being significantly over applied because real awareness, even in the medical profession, is still abysmal. Doctors don&#x27;t have time to look at home circumstances, or parents and other factors that might affect behaviour. Awareness coming from some TV comedy skit however is high.<p>I don&#x27;t actually care that we don&#x27;t yet have full understanding of how the drugs work, or that OMG they&#x27;re amphetamines. I <i>often</i> wonder how things may have turned out differently for me had I encountered more GP awareness and less ridicule, or even earlier self-awareness or teen diagnosis and treatment.<p>If we are too successful &quot;exposing big pharma&quot; and overdiagnosis in the minds of GPs and the public, lives will be ruined once again. Let&#x27;s not throw the baby out with the bathwater here rather than seek wider understanding.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Overselling A.D.H.D.</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/books/review/adhd-nation-alan-schwarz.html</url></story> |
4,644,582 | 4,644,380 | 1 | 3 | 4,644,227 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dsr_</author><text>How many secretaries do you see on _Mad Men_?<p>The big boss might have two. Everyone is who is anyone has his own. You are clearly a junior manager if you share a secretary. Only the peons type.<p>This changed. It changed slowly. For years, senior people did not type their own email, or even read it on a screen. A secretary would print it out, and the exec would dictate, live or to a recorded, any responses. Did the exec know how to type? No. Why should he? Having a keyboard is a sign that you don't have any power.<p>Long nails indicate that you don't do manual work. High heels mean you don't walk long distances. An expensive watch means you can afford one -- it tells the time about as accurately and about as reliably as a mid-priced or cheap watch.<p>How does it change? Very simply: when the people who are high-status do a certain thing, people who want to be like them copy it. When technical entrepreneurs became rich, people copied them. Do successful Wall Streeters carry Blackberries? Everybody else did, too.<p>Status, yes. And sexism, too: typing is women's work. Low status.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/why-the-first-laptop-had-such-a-hard-time-catching-on-hint-sexism/262220/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forgottenpaswrd</author><text>More than sexism it is statusism.<p>I could understand secretaries instantaneously loosing respect if they see their bosses typing with one finger.<p>It happened to me with one operator of a lathe when he discovered I had no idea or cared how to program it because I was "engineer"(I had other work to do). I had to study the thing on a weekend for regaining the respect from those people on my team.<p>Imagine being in the war and your life depends on a person(e.g a sergeant) and the only thing you know about this person is that he is incompetent on what you know to do well... not good.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/why-the-first-laptop-had-such-a-hard-time-catching-on-hint-sexism/262220/</url></story> |
31,139,813 | 31,137,443 | 1 | 3 | 31,136,586 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adoxyz</author><text>I switched from Google to Apple after being in the Google ecosystem since the early days of Android. I had pretty much every single Nexus, Pixel, and a variety of Samsung devices. But Google&#x27;s lack of support, half-assed one-foot in one-foot out, and lack of support made me switch to Apple about 3 years ago and I&#x27;ve never been happier.<p>Apple&#x27;s ecosystem, while it doesn&#x27;t offer as much, is a much superior and polished experience. iMessage works great, integration with Apple Watch is top notch, and the whole ecosystem is very fine-tuned. There are still a bunch of things to complain about, for sure, but overall comparing the two is a night and day difference.<p>I&#x27;ve slowly started phasing out all my Google products.. and not by choice either. Had Google Nest and Nest Secure for over 3 years until Google decided to just cancel Nest Secure all-together. Google Home devices are increasingly being less and less effective. Google just can&#x27;t seem to commit to anything longer than 2-3 years and I&#x27;m sick of it. I&#x27;d much rather deal with getting features much later but thoroughly thought out, then half-assed and cancelled in 2 years. I will say the one thing I do miss is native Google Assistant, Siri is complete ass in comparison.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>Long time Google fanboy here, and I&#x27;m honestly a hair&#x27;s breadth away from buying an iphone 13.<p>I have had nexus&#x2F;pixels phones since the gnex. I have evangelized android to for almost as long. I did ground work for google by pushing people into google&#x27;s services. I have a day 1 pixel 6 pro. I pay for cloud storage and yt premium.<p>But to me google is just falling apart. I feel like they have lost their technology drive in order to pursue ideological ones. Their tech has become all half-assed with poor&#x2F;no support. I cannot trust anything they make to be supported in the future anymore. RCS is still a disaster, my one friend on Fi with a pixel 5a still cannot get it working and Google&#x2F;Fi has pretty said &quot;We don&#x27;t know&quot;.<p>I do not like Apple, but after almost 20 years a Google fanboy, I&#x27;m starting to like Google even less. So much so that I&#x27;ll have to eat lots of shame from the many iphone people who questioned my android love for years.<p>*If anyone can convince me otherwise, please do*. I feel like the best thing that could happen is disposing of Sundar and getting someone who can refocus google on being a tech company devoted to making the best tech products.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&amp;T ran the promotion to get a free one.<p>I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me:
- Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in substantially older features and security patches.
- Privacy. iMessage’s encryption (though I stand by that it is gimmicky to only offer for iPhones, and I despise that) has a serious network effect. Apple is also far more transparent in what data they use, how they use it, etc.
- Ironically, price. At the time, the iPhone was cheaper than the equivalent Android phone.<p>The big downside is slower upgrades to the latest hardware features. Specifically, I am envious of the people who have 120 FPS phones, they’re beautiful. There is also a loss of customization, but truthfully I thought I’d miss it much more than I did. The fact that the iPhone “just works” is worth it to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years</title><url>https://stockapps.com/blog/android-loses-8-of-its-global-os-market-share-in-five-years/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>x0x0</author><text>The security upgrades situation on Google is intolerable.<p>I finally have a phone (3axl) that didn&#x27;t die in a couple years from accidents &#x2F; abuse &#x2F; going to the gym in my pocket, and Google is eol-ing it because they&#x27;ve cut off security upgrades.<p>My next phone will be an iphone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>Long time Google fanboy here, and I&#x27;m honestly a hair&#x27;s breadth away from buying an iphone 13.<p>I have had nexus&#x2F;pixels phones since the gnex. I have evangelized android to for almost as long. I did ground work for google by pushing people into google&#x27;s services. I have a day 1 pixel 6 pro. I pay for cloud storage and yt premium.<p>But to me google is just falling apart. I feel like they have lost their technology drive in order to pursue ideological ones. Their tech has become all half-assed with poor&#x2F;no support. I cannot trust anything they make to be supported in the future anymore. RCS is still a disaster, my one friend on Fi with a pixel 5a still cannot get it working and Google&#x2F;Fi has pretty said &quot;We don&#x27;t know&quot;.<p>I do not like Apple, but after almost 20 years a Google fanboy, I&#x27;m starting to like Google even less. So much so that I&#x27;ll have to eat lots of shame from the many iphone people who questioned my android love for years.<p>*If anyone can convince me otherwise, please do*. I feel like the best thing that could happen is disposing of Sundar and getting someone who can refocus google on being a tech company devoted to making the best tech products.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>I’m not surprised. I used Android devoutly, had a Galaxy S4, then an S8 when that started showing its age. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 when AT&amp;T ran the promotion to get a free one.<p>I wanted to keep liking Android. The amount of time I spent arguing vehemently that Android was superior made the switch hard, but several factors came into play for me:
- Extremely slow and fragmented upgrade of OS. This resulted in substantially older features and security patches.
- Privacy. iMessage’s encryption (though I stand by that it is gimmicky to only offer for iPhones, and I despise that) has a serious network effect. Apple is also far more transparent in what data they use, how they use it, etc.
- Ironically, price. At the time, the iPhone was cheaper than the equivalent Android phone.<p>The big downside is slower upgrades to the latest hardware features. Specifically, I am envious of the people who have 120 FPS phones, they’re beautiful. There is also a loss of customization, but truthfully I thought I’d miss it much more than I did. The fact that the iPhone “just works” is worth it to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years</title><url>https://stockapps.com/blog/android-loses-8-of-its-global-os-market-share-in-five-years/</url></story> |
13,571,874 | 13,570,115 | 1 | 2 | 13,566,110 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jkn</author><text>This a pretty magical solution.<p>- Backward compatible. No API change.<p>- Naive, idiomatic and wrong use of the API automatically becomes naive, idiomatic and correct: Existing code that was using wall-clock time will now be using monotonic time when it should, and only when it should [1]<p>- No change to the memory footprint on 64-bit systems<p>- No change to the range of representable dates [2]<p>&quot;No API change&quot; means if for some reason it turns out to be a bad idea, they can still revert it and stay backward compatible (though of course, the documentation will mention how monotonic times are used to calculate better time differences and that would no longer be true after a revert).<p>Very impressed with the extensive survey of existing code which didn&#x27;t find a single case where the change would cause an issue.<p>[1] Except when a user got out of their way to calculate a time difference in a non-idiomatic way.<p>[2] The range is only restricted when monotonic time information is present, which cannot sensibly be the case outside the restricted range.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Proposal: Monotonic Elapsed Time Measurements in Go</title><url>https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12914-monotonic.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>knodi</author><text>Well written and an excellent in-depth break down of the problem and solution(s). Would have expect nothing but excellence from Russ Cox.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Proposal: Monotonic Elapsed Time Measurements in Go</title><url>https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12914-monotonic.md</url></story> |
13,892,348 | 13,892,413 | 1 | 2 | 13,891,949 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vhold</author><text>It wouldn&#x27;t surprise me in the least if the Nintendo Classic is a device made out of the opportunity of some really cheap discontinued parts that were being totally liquidated and that&#x27;s why they can&#x27;t just easily increase manufacturing.<p>Edit: or possibly it was made out of a surplus of unused parts from other products.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dcw303</author><text>Good. I&#x27;m getting sick of walking into Bic Camera and asking the same question when I already know what the (disappointing) answer is going to be.<p>I get that they&#x27;re a typical conservative Japanese company, they don&#x27;t want to screw up inventory, blah blah blah, but it&#x27;s getting annoying.<p>And slightly off topic, does anyone know what is up with the NES classic &#x2F; Famicom mini? As far as I can tell that thing never restocked after launch.<p>You can see how it looks like Nintendo is majorly shooting themselves in the foot with these slow launches.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-double-production-of-switch-console-1489728545</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>verytrivial</author><text>Counterargument: Would Nintendo still exist today if it had speculatively doubled&#x2F;trebled production of Wii U?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dcw303</author><text>Good. I&#x27;m getting sick of walking into Bic Camera and asking the same question when I already know what the (disappointing) answer is going to be.<p>I get that they&#x27;re a typical conservative Japanese company, they don&#x27;t want to screw up inventory, blah blah blah, but it&#x27;s getting annoying.<p>And slightly off topic, does anyone know what is up with the NES classic &#x2F; Famicom mini? As far as I can tell that thing never restocked after launch.<p>You can see how it looks like Nintendo is majorly shooting themselves in the foot with these slow launches.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-double-production-of-switch-console-1489728545</url></story> |
25,621,228 | 25,621,092 | 1 | 3 | 25,620,372 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vesinisa</author><text>Relatedly, I had my Android phone set to the en-US locale. I noticed Calendar was showing 2020 had 52 weeks and all week numbers of 2021 were off by one. I changed to en-UK locale and the issue got resolved.<p>Which begs the question: what on Earth week numbering system the en-US locale was using? I am not aware of any US-specific week numbering system, so it would seem logical for the en-US locale to use the ISO system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unilynx</author><text>&gt; In talking to another person in the industry dealing with the issue, they noted that technically 2020 had 53 weeks, and this is the 53rd week. As such, the suspect Sony data file issue might actually be tied to that complexity.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t be surprised<p>On a positive note, this is the first year in a row of 4 where I <i>didn&#x27;t</i> see CI errors related to the year currently being 2021 but the &#x27;week-year&#x27; still being 2020.<p>(Did find one recent test that hardcoded 2020 instead of just taking the current year though, but at least that doesn&#x27;t take any further investigation)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices</title><url>https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/gps-accuracy-impacting-devices.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>dingaling</author><text>If Sony are doing anything other than just relaying the current almanac then they&#x27;re doing something wrong:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.navcen.uscg.gov&#x2F;?pageName=gpsAlmanacs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.navcen.uscg.gov&#x2F;?pageName=gpsAlmanacs</a><p>So it&#x27;s more likely to be something related to the software implementation rather than the data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>unilynx</author><text>&gt; In talking to another person in the industry dealing with the issue, they noted that technically 2020 had 53 weeks, and this is the 53rd week. As such, the suspect Sony data file issue might actually be tied to that complexity.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t be surprised<p>On a positive note, this is the first year in a row of 4 where I <i>didn&#x27;t</i> see CI errors related to the year currently being 2021 but the &#x27;week-year&#x27; still being 2020.<p>(Did find one recent test that hardcoded 2020 instead of just taking the current year though, but at least that doesn&#x27;t take any further investigation)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices</title><url>https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/gps-accuracy-impacting-devices.html</url></story> |
16,149,532 | 16,149,427 | 1 | 2 | 16,148,395 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Using google, the first name for &quot;+comedian +technology + enthusiasts&quot; was Stephen Fry. Searching on &quot;+comedian +technology +engineer&quot; don&#x27;t seem to give much of anything, except for engineer <i>turned</i> comedian which is not what we are talking about.<p>I did the same by replacing technology with robot, but the only hit with a comedian in it was a article about Simone Giertz.<p>It seems like the difference between robot enthusiasts and robot engineer is dependent on how they are being used. A robot theater show is engineered. A comedian uses a robot prop and thus get called enthusiasts. If that pattern is true then a magician using robots would also not be called engineer, regardless of gender.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cantrip</author><text>I guess I&#x27;ve just never considered a college degree a prerequisite for professional respect.<p>Even if you do think that way, and you consider her as completely an entertainer with robotics as her medium, is she a robotics hobbyist?<p>Are all professional rock musicians just guitar enthusiasts?<p>My suspicion is that she is called so simply because of her gender, and that a male &quot;entertainer&quot;, college drop out or not, would be called an engineer.</text></item><item><author>computerex</author><text>&gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics<p>To be honest, I can&#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and &quot;robot enthusiast&quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></item><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and the article says she&#x27;s a &quot;robot enthusiast&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&quot;Dr Brian May, professional astrophysicist, is also a guitar hobbyist who builds his own instruments&quot;<p>(joke explanation for HN: this description is technically accurate but nobody would call the guitarist from Queen a &quot;hobbyist&quot;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>cantrip</author><text>I guess I&#x27;ve just never considered a college degree a prerequisite for professional respect.<p>Even if you do think that way, and you consider her as completely an entertainer with robotics as her medium, is she a robotics hobbyist?<p>Are all professional rock musicians just guitar enthusiasts?<p>My suspicion is that she is called so simply because of her gender, and that a male &quot;entertainer&quot;, college drop out or not, would be called an engineer.</text></item><item><author>computerex</author><text>&gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics<p>To be honest, I can&#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and &quot;robot enthusiast&quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></item><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &quot;robotics hobbyist&quot; and the article says she&#x27;s a &quot;robot enthusiast&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story> |
22,842,990 | 22,842,694 | 1 | 3 | 22,842,383 | train | <instructions>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>The pattern maker who got the stripes to match in both dimensions probably used a textile CAD program to do it. There&#x27;s software for this. High end: [1] Low end: [2]<p>&quot;Pattern Design Software (PDS) 3D -- A set of 3D tools that display virtual samples in an innovative 3D digital environment that allows you to fashion your garment and make quick alterations at the click of a button, powered by photorealistic rendering for a true-to-life visualization.&quot;<p>&quot;Inspect simulated cloth using a tension map to view the exact value of tension, distance, and stretch...&quot;<p>These tools are also used for clothing for characters in games, movies, and virtual worlds. Marvelous Designer is often used for Second Life clothing.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;optitex.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;optitex.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marvelousdesigner.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marvelousdesigner.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005)</title><url>https://fashion-incubator.com/sleeve_cap_ease_is_bogus/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw7</author><text>I still have no idea what a &quot;sleeve cap ease&quot; is, but reading that post is fascinatingly esoteric.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005)</title><url>https://fashion-incubator.com/sleeve_cap_ease_is_bogus/</url></story> |
6,631,844 | 6,630,643 | 1 | 3 | 6,629,292 | 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>digitalboss</author><text>Full screen&#x27;d this beast and jammed out, bass line is thickkkkk.<p>Works perfect on Version 30.0.1599.101 Chrome.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5R4GFbXPvY" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=W5R4GFbXPvY</a><p>edit: added link to OfficialTrapCity</text><parent_chain><item><author>JacksonGariety</author><text>I did some experimenting to make particles dance to the beat of music if anyone is interested:<p><a href="http://trapcity.tv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trapcity.tv</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Particle effects in JavaScript</title><url>http://liveweave.com/TcZrXF</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>Sir_Cmpwn</author><text>Small annoyance - can you also add a means to click as an alternative to drag+drop?<p>EDIT: This is pretty damn cool. Could I convince you to submit a pull request with something similar to MediaCrush[1]? We host audio files [2] and this would be a nice addition.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MediaCrush&#x2F;MediaCrush</a>
[2] <a href="https://mediacru.sh/p3Yo3dDHZrmo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediacru.sh&#x2F;p3Yo3dDHZrmo</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>JacksonGariety</author><text>I did some experimenting to make particles dance to the beat of music if anyone is interested:<p><a href="http://trapcity.tv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trapcity.tv</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Particle effects in JavaScript</title><url>http://liveweave.com/TcZrXF</url><text></text></story> |
15,018,290 | 15,017,730 | 1 | 3 | 15,017,126 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cpr</author><text>Great to know about them.<p>But their web site says $7.50&#x2F;minute for subtitling, $1 for transcriptions.<p>Still may be quite reasonable to extend video reach that much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlexMuir</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why everyone wouldn&#x27;t subtitle their content. I used rev.com and it costs $1 per minute and the results are great. So to subtitle three hours cost $240. With many non-native English speakers as customers it is a no-brainer.<p>It&#x27;s good to hear this too, because the text in that box originally said &#x27;Filmed in 4K&#x27; and I only changed it to &#x27;Fully subtitled&#x27; at the last moment.</text></item><item><author>burntwater</author><text>As a hearing-impaired person, I just wanted to thank you for clearly mentioning that it&#x27;s subtitled. That shows it&#x27;s more than just an afterthought, and seals the deal for me!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine</title><url>https://www.howacarworks.com/engine</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bitJericho</author><text>They probably should. It seems to be required by law (in the US) in a lot of situations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlexMuir</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why everyone wouldn&#x27;t subtitle their content. I used rev.com and it costs $1 per minute and the results are great. So to subtitle three hours cost $240. With many non-native English speakers as customers it is a no-brainer.<p>It&#x27;s good to hear this too, because the text in that box originally said &#x27;Filmed in 4K&#x27; and I only changed it to &#x27;Fully subtitled&#x27; at the last moment.</text></item><item><author>burntwater</author><text>As a hearing-impaired person, I just wanted to thank you for clearly mentioning that it&#x27;s subtitled. That shows it&#x27;s more than just an afterthought, and seals the deal for me!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine</title><url>https://www.howacarworks.com/engine</url></story> |
30,858,881 | 30,859,037 | 1 | 3 | 30,858,202 | 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>techsupporter</author><text>&gt; With explanation in abstract that its easier to buy meth than pseudoephedrine.<p>People may laugh at this, as they should since it is an absurd situation, but this isn&#x27;t entirely wrong.<p>Neither my wife or I drive and during the pandemic she gave up her license after getting an appointment at the DOL was difficult. Both of us carry US passport cards as our ID.<p>This has resulted in several situations where we&#x27;ve been turned down for purchasing restricted items like alcohol or drugs containing pseudoephedrine, particularly the latter, because a passport card can&#x27;t be scanned by the usual point of sale systems. There are a couple of places in Seattle that are happy to accept a passport card but even at them it&#x27;s sometimes been dependent on who is working the counter that day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p_l</author><text>The lack of availability of proper pseudoephedrine in USA led to situation where there are papers describing how to turn <i>methamphetamine</i> into pseudoephedrine, not the other way around.<p>With explanation in abstract that its easier to buy meth than pseudoephedrine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Uselessness of Phenylephrine</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenylephrine</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reincarnate0x14</author><text>It would be interesting to see if there were any reliable stats on how many, if any, people were caught by the ID check laws trying to manufacture from pseudoephedrine, because even at the height of the meth panic that engendered the laws something like 95% of pseudoephedrine outside of a handful of high-risk areas was very obviously not being used for any illegal purposes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p_l</author><text>The lack of availability of proper pseudoephedrine in USA led to situation where there are papers describing how to turn <i>methamphetamine</i> into pseudoephedrine, not the other way around.<p>With explanation in abstract that its easier to buy meth than pseudoephedrine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Uselessness of Phenylephrine</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenylephrine</url></story> |
28,066,092 | 28,066,274 | 1 | 3 | 28,049,959 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timr</author><text>Thank you for providing an excellent example of the fear-based reasoning surrounding &quot;cases&quot;. I understand that you are scared, but is incorrect to imply that my opinion comes from a lack of understanding of what you&#x27;re talking about.<p>&gt; Why is this so hard for people to understand?<p>I understand your argument, but I <i>disagree</i> with you, based on a long education in this area, a deep understanding of the data, and personal experience.<p>&gt; A virus doesn&#x27;t just enter your body, and quietly go away.<p>Some do not. This one does.<p>&gt; In MANY cases, it can have a lasting effect on your underlying health and wellness.<p>In <i>some</i>, rare cases, we see examples of post-viral syndromes. We have seen these for many different viruses.<p>&gt; I am vaccinated. I have friends who are vaccinated, and have still gotten COVID. One of them still doesn&#x27;t have their sense of taste and smell back, after nearly 3 weeks post symptoms.<p>Again, lingering symptoms following an illness are not unknown. Every time I get a head cold, I typically develop a cough that lasts &gt; 3 weeks. By ~all current evidentiary standards for &quot;long covid&quot;, I have had &quot;long cold&quot;.<p>Similarly, my grandmother lost her sense of smell to a head cold when I was a child. She never got it back, entirely. Sad, but not something that we took extraordinary societal interventions to prevent.<p>&gt; They describe being brain fog, and tiredness that they didn&#x27;t have before, as well as an &quot;itch&quot; in their lungs when exercising that they didn&#x27;t have before.<p>Neither of these are objectively defined. I have an &quot;itch&quot; in my lungs, right now (probably allergies). I have never had Covid. When I don&#x27;t sleep well (which is often, thanks to the state of our society), I have trouble focusing. Is that &quot;brain fog&quot;?<p>Point being: some people are going to have after-effects from infection. That&#x27;s unfortunate, but it&#x27;s not unknown, and the virus <i>isn&#x27;t going away</i>. If the choice is to completely up-end our society to prevent people from ever getting sick again, then I&#x27;m strongly opposed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>&gt; We should be reacting rationally to rates of hospitalization and deaths -- and right now, those are barely changed in NYC,<p>No. No. No. No. No.<p>Why is this so hard for people to understand? A virus doesn&#x27;t just enter your body, and quietly go away. In MANY cases, it can have a lasting effect on your underlying health and wellness. This isn&#x27;t a point of question, it&#x27;s a known FACT that is all too often left out of the discussion entirely.<p>I am vaccinated. I have friends who are vaccinated, and have still gotten COVID. One of them still doesn&#x27;t have their sense of taste and smell back, after nearly 3 weeks post symptoms. They describe being brain fog, and tiredness that they didn&#x27;t have before, as well as an &quot;itch&quot; in their lungs when exercising that they didn&#x27;t have before.<p>There&#x27;s absolutely no reason to say things like &quot;hysterical fixation on cases&quot;. Bringing cases down means LESS LIVES LOST and less HEALTH lost.</text></item><item><author>timr</author><text>I am pro-vaccine (and fully vaccinated), but I don&#x27;t support this policy at all.<p>I don&#x27;t believe this will have much of a net effect on vaccination rate, I believe it will disproportionately negatively impact poor and minority populations in NYC who <i>already</i> have a bad&#x2F;mistrustful relationship with health care and government, and it is obviously a huge new governmental intrusion into our daily lives. It might well lead to anger and violence (as similar moves have across Europe).<p>These are my opinions, but I think the strongest arguments against it are facts: if you are fully vaccinated, <i>you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2</i>. And literally anyone who wants a vaccine can get one. Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a <i>choice</i>.<p>This policy comes from an almost hysterical fixation on &quot;cases&quot;, which are not a metric of any meaning. SARS-CoV2 is not going away. We should be reacting rationally to rates of hospitalization and deaths -- and right now, those are barely changed in NYC, thanks to the very high vaccination rate amongst the vulnerable population:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;doh&#x2F;covid&#x2F;covid-19-data-trends.page" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;doh&#x2F;covid&#x2F;covid-19-data-trends.pag...</a><p>One can certainly argue that there exist small groups of people for whom the vaccine is not perfect protection. This is true, but it&#x27;s no different than <i>all other viruses</i>, which have threatened immunocompromised people forever. We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals. So while I empathize with them, this still seems like over-reach to me.</text></item><item><author>alecst</author><text>Pretty dismal discussion in here at the time of writing. Largely complaints about tyranny. Makes me sad that we can&#x27;t have a calm discussion about the merits of the policy.<p>From what I can tell, you might be opposed to this policy if:<p>1. You have fears about getting a vaccine, moreso than for coronavirus. If this is you, do you prefer a mask mandate? And if so, how do you enforce this in a restaurant, where anyone eating takes off their mask right away?<p>2. You have fears about the privacy implications. If so, what are those fears? Perhaps your vaccination status can lead people to make inferences about your health?<p>3. You are not particularly concerned about the community spread of coronavirus (and the implications of that)<p>There aren&#x27;t a lot of choices. You can 1) avoid high-risk areas and escape infection&#x2F;spreading disease, in which case, this policy doesn&#x27;t really directly affect you. Or 2) you can take your chances with coronavirus, which you will get sooner or later, and spread it. Or 3) you can &quot;take your chances&quot; with the vaccine which, statistically and biologically, is safer than getting coronavirus and reduces spread.<p>This policy allows people to choose from 1) and 3) but not 2), which is in all ways the worst decision. Unless, of course, you think that the vaccine is more dangerous than coronavirus. And then I don&#x27;t really know what to say.<p>(lightly edited for clarification)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings</title><url>https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/nyc-to-mandate-proof-of-vaccination-for-many-indoor-settings/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trhway</author><text>&gt;I am vaccinated. I have friends who are vaccinated, and have still gotten COVID.<p>vaccinated people get covid and spread it like unvaccinated[1]. Then what is the point of vaccination mandate? I really don&#x27;t understand.<p>Add to that that since May CDC stopped counting breakthrough cases which don&#x27;t result in hospitalizations.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;cdc-study-shows-74percent-of-people-infected-in-massachusetts-covid-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;cdc-study-shows-74percent-of...</a><p>&quot;About three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts Covid-19 outbreak were fully vaccinated, according to new data published Friday by the CDC.<p>The new data, published in the U.S. agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people. &quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>&gt; We should be reacting rationally to rates of hospitalization and deaths -- and right now, those are barely changed in NYC,<p>No. No. No. No. No.<p>Why is this so hard for people to understand? A virus doesn&#x27;t just enter your body, and quietly go away. In MANY cases, it can have a lasting effect on your underlying health and wellness. This isn&#x27;t a point of question, it&#x27;s a known FACT that is all too often left out of the discussion entirely.<p>I am vaccinated. I have friends who are vaccinated, and have still gotten COVID. One of them still doesn&#x27;t have their sense of taste and smell back, after nearly 3 weeks post symptoms. They describe being brain fog, and tiredness that they didn&#x27;t have before, as well as an &quot;itch&quot; in their lungs when exercising that they didn&#x27;t have before.<p>There&#x27;s absolutely no reason to say things like &quot;hysterical fixation on cases&quot;. Bringing cases down means LESS LIVES LOST and less HEALTH lost.</text></item><item><author>timr</author><text>I am pro-vaccine (and fully vaccinated), but I don&#x27;t support this policy at all.<p>I don&#x27;t believe this will have much of a net effect on vaccination rate, I believe it will disproportionately negatively impact poor and minority populations in NYC who <i>already</i> have a bad&#x2F;mistrustful relationship with health care and government, and it is obviously a huge new governmental intrusion into our daily lives. It might well lead to anger and violence (as similar moves have across Europe).<p>These are my opinions, but I think the strongest arguments against it are facts: if you are fully vaccinated, <i>you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2</i>. And literally anyone who wants a vaccine can get one. Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a <i>choice</i>.<p>This policy comes from an almost hysterical fixation on &quot;cases&quot;, which are not a metric of any meaning. SARS-CoV2 is not going away. We should be reacting rationally to rates of hospitalization and deaths -- and right now, those are barely changed in NYC, thanks to the very high vaccination rate amongst the vulnerable population:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;doh&#x2F;covid&#x2F;covid-19-data-trends.page" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;doh&#x2F;covid&#x2F;covid-19-data-trends.pag...</a><p>One can certainly argue that there exist small groups of people for whom the vaccine is not perfect protection. This is true, but it&#x27;s no different than <i>all other viruses</i>, which have threatened immunocompromised people forever. We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals. So while I empathize with them, this still seems like over-reach to me.</text></item><item><author>alecst</author><text>Pretty dismal discussion in here at the time of writing. Largely complaints about tyranny. Makes me sad that we can&#x27;t have a calm discussion about the merits of the policy.<p>From what I can tell, you might be opposed to this policy if:<p>1. You have fears about getting a vaccine, moreso than for coronavirus. If this is you, do you prefer a mask mandate? And if so, how do you enforce this in a restaurant, where anyone eating takes off their mask right away?<p>2. You have fears about the privacy implications. If so, what are those fears? Perhaps your vaccination status can lead people to make inferences about your health?<p>3. You are not particularly concerned about the community spread of coronavirus (and the implications of that)<p>There aren&#x27;t a lot of choices. You can 1) avoid high-risk areas and escape infection&#x2F;spreading disease, in which case, this policy doesn&#x27;t really directly affect you. Or 2) you can take your chances with coronavirus, which you will get sooner or later, and spread it. Or 3) you can &quot;take your chances&quot; with the vaccine which, statistically and biologically, is safer than getting coronavirus and reduces spread.<p>This policy allows people to choose from 1) and 3) but not 2), which is in all ways the worst decision. Unless, of course, you think that the vaccine is more dangerous than coronavirus. And then I don&#x27;t really know what to say.<p>(lightly edited for clarification)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings</title><url>https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/nyc-to-mandate-proof-of-vaccination-for-many-indoor-settings/</url></story> |
11,906,990 | 11,907,006 | 1 | 3 | 11,906,598 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text><i>&quot;The main difference between today and 1999 is that digital products are actually generating value in people&#x27;s lifes. Please don&#x27;t compare pets.com to WhatsApp&quot;</i><p>Not all the tech companies that were hot in 1999 were like pets.com. Google and Amazon were amazing new things back then, and other companies like Dell, Sun and Qualcomm were also high fliers on the NASDAQ. (I&#x27;m old enough to have been an investor in 1999.)<p>I think the most significant difference between the 1999 bubble and today&#x27;s situation is that today, many of the companies with astronomical valuations are not public. For example, if Uber&#x27;s valuation tanks, some employees and some rich investors will unfortunately lose money, but most people will see little effect - if you have a 401-K invested in an S&amp;P 500 index fund, you won&#x27;t care too much. And the big public tech companies that are making money, like Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook, probably won&#x27;t be affected much if all venture backed companies disappeared tomorrow (except that their labor market would be flooded with developers). The NASDAQ might take a dip, but it won&#x27;t be like 1999.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baristaGeek</author><text>For those of us who are young enough (30 or less) to not have witnessed the internet bubble at a conscious age, we might be tricked to think that we&#x27;re in a bubble due to certain indicators. The NASDAQ index, the valuation prices, the money poured into venture capital, etc.<p>To those of you like me I recommend you to read about what was happening in 95-99. The panorama was crazy, and today&#x27;s context doesn&#x27;t compare to the one of those days.<p>At the end, if the macroeconomic environment changes, who cares? Yes, paying attention to the macro is important and that may even imply changes in strategy, but should you not start a startup because there&#x27;s a bubble? Even worse, should you (person who hasn&#x27;t built anything but criticizes everyone who builds something) try to convince your friends not to start startups because we&#x27;re in a bubble?<p>The main difference between today and 1999 is that digital products are actually generating value in people&#x27;s lifes. Please don&#x27;t compare pets.com to WhatsApp</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'We're in a Bubble'</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/were-in-a-bubble</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>overcast</author><text>No, let&#x27;s compare it to nonsense like SnapChat being valued at $16 billion. Pets.com generated value, PetSmart&#x27;s $400+ million a year profit can attest to that market. Their issue was horrendous mismanagement of funds, and shipping stuff for more than it was selling. The biggest issue with companies then was going public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baristaGeek</author><text>For those of us who are young enough (30 or less) to not have witnessed the internet bubble at a conscious age, we might be tricked to think that we&#x27;re in a bubble due to certain indicators. The NASDAQ index, the valuation prices, the money poured into venture capital, etc.<p>To those of you like me I recommend you to read about what was happening in 95-99. The panorama was crazy, and today&#x27;s context doesn&#x27;t compare to the one of those days.<p>At the end, if the macroeconomic environment changes, who cares? Yes, paying attention to the macro is important and that may even imply changes in strategy, but should you not start a startup because there&#x27;s a bubble? Even worse, should you (person who hasn&#x27;t built anything but criticizes everyone who builds something) try to convince your friends not to start startups because we&#x27;re in a bubble?<p>The main difference between today and 1999 is that digital products are actually generating value in people&#x27;s lifes. Please don&#x27;t compare pets.com to WhatsApp</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'We're in a Bubble'</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/were-in-a-bubble</url></story> |
14,868,475 | 14,868,733 | 1 | 2 | 14,861,205 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Pulcinella</author><text>The &quot;fertilizing many eggs and then picking the genetically &#x27;best&#x27; ones&quot; is literally a plot point in Gattaca.<p>&quot;This child is still you, just the best of you.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know if the &quot;economic competitiveness&quot; part will be a comforting argument if this ever comes to pass. What I mean is, it won&#x27;t been seen as &quot;look at how our economy could grow if we do this.&quot; That economy would just be viewed as the new standard. This technology will be seen as &quot;do this or you will be left behind.&quot; I fear it will be coercive and alienating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pcnonpc</author><text>From an interview with Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist:<p>&quot;Q: What does that mean in human language?
A: Any given couple could potentially have several eggs fertilized in the lab with the dad’s sperm and the mom’s eggs. Then you can test multiple embryos and analyze which one’s going to be the smartest. That kid would belong to that couple as if they had it naturally, but it would be the smartest a couple would be able to produce if they had 100 kids. It’s not genetic engineering or adding new genes, it’s the genes that couples already have.<p>Q: And over the course of several generations you’re able to exponentially multiply the population’s intelligence.
A: Right. Even if it only boosts the average kid by five IQ points, that’s a huge difference in terms of economic productivity, the competitiveness of the country, how many patents they get, how their businesses are run, and how innovative their economy is.<p>Q: How does Western research in genetics compare to China’s?
A: We’re pretty far behind. We have the same technical capabilities, the same statistical capabilities to analyze the data, but they’re collecting the data on a much larger scale and seem to be capable of transforming the scientific findings into government policy and consumer genetic testing much more easily than we are. Technically and scientifically we could be doing this, but we’re not.<p>Q: Why not?
A: We have ideological biases that say, “Well, this could be troubling, we shouldn’t be meddling with nature, we shouldn’t be meddling with God.” I just attended a debate in New York a few weeks ago about whether or not we should outlaw genetic engineering in babies and the audience was pretty split. In China, 95 percent of an audience would say, “Obviously you should make babies genetically healthier, happier, and brighter!” There’s a big cultural difference.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;5gw8vn&#x2F;chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a-massive-genetic-engineering-program" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;5gw8vn&#x2F;chinas-taking-over...</a></text></item><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen most of these arguments for and against gene editing before, but the fact of the matter is that it will come down to the economic competitiveness of nations, as always.<p>What concerns me in the long term is that gene editing will cause human genomes to converge to a single gold standard with proven mental and physical benefits, thereby reducing our species&#x27; genetic diversity and leaving us more vulnerable to a mass extinction event. A &quot;zero day exploit&quot; that everyone missed in the popular new cancer-fighting edit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Human Embryos Edited in U.S</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608350/first-human-embryos-edited-in-us/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>I&#x27;d be against for two reasons<p>1) life isn&#x27;t about being smart, far from that (that&#x27;s national emergent feedback, and I often despise nations as a concept)<p>2) being smart isn&#x27;t even needed, a culture of sharing and listening would be enough to uplift life by many points. A culture of recognizing ego and letting him shut down then appreciate everything as a whole. Most brains can do this, if people can pass this down.<p>I regularly remember how everything was beautiful before, even with flaws and limits.. a race for optimization, especially driven by national interest isn&#x27;t something I&#x27;d like to see.<p>ps: I&#x27;d even say, &quot;intelligence&quot; is an emergency mode for our brains, and cultivating it was a normal response, but it&#x27;s not supposed to be our main mode</text><parent_chain><item><author>pcnonpc</author><text>From an interview with Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist:<p>&quot;Q: What does that mean in human language?
A: Any given couple could potentially have several eggs fertilized in the lab with the dad’s sperm and the mom’s eggs. Then you can test multiple embryos and analyze which one’s going to be the smartest. That kid would belong to that couple as if they had it naturally, but it would be the smartest a couple would be able to produce if they had 100 kids. It’s not genetic engineering or adding new genes, it’s the genes that couples already have.<p>Q: And over the course of several generations you’re able to exponentially multiply the population’s intelligence.
A: Right. Even if it only boosts the average kid by five IQ points, that’s a huge difference in terms of economic productivity, the competitiveness of the country, how many patents they get, how their businesses are run, and how innovative their economy is.<p>Q: How does Western research in genetics compare to China’s?
A: We’re pretty far behind. We have the same technical capabilities, the same statistical capabilities to analyze the data, but they’re collecting the data on a much larger scale and seem to be capable of transforming the scientific findings into government policy and consumer genetic testing much more easily than we are. Technically and scientifically we could be doing this, but we’re not.<p>Q: Why not?
A: We have ideological biases that say, “Well, this could be troubling, we shouldn’t be meddling with nature, we shouldn’t be meddling with God.” I just attended a debate in New York a few weeks ago about whether or not we should outlaw genetic engineering in babies and the audience was pretty split. In China, 95 percent of an audience would say, “Obviously you should make babies genetically healthier, happier, and brighter!” There’s a big cultural difference.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;5gw8vn&#x2F;chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a-massive-genetic-engineering-program" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;5gw8vn&#x2F;chinas-taking-over...</a></text></item><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen most of these arguments for and against gene editing before, but the fact of the matter is that it will come down to the economic competitiveness of nations, as always.<p>What concerns me in the long term is that gene editing will cause human genomes to converge to a single gold standard with proven mental and physical benefits, thereby reducing our species&#x27; genetic diversity and leaving us more vulnerable to a mass extinction event. A &quot;zero day exploit&quot; that everyone missed in the popular new cancer-fighting edit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Human Embryos Edited in U.S</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608350/first-human-embryos-edited-in-us/</url></story> |
34,628,947 | 34,627,414 | 1 | 3 | 34,622,699 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Veen</author><text>What&#x27;s as worrying, judging by the comments here and in that GitHub thread, is that there is no correlation between technical ability and ethical understanding. Perhaps naively, I&#x27;d have thought someone intelligent enough to develop a technology like this would also be intelligent enough to understand the complex ethical issues it raises. It seems, unfortunately, that there is no such correlation.<p>In fact, anecdotally, it seems the people with the technical ability are <i>least</i> likely to have a nuanced understanding of the ethical impact of their work (or, more optimistically, it&#x27;s only people with the conjunction of technical ability and ethical idiocy who would work on this, and we&#x27;re not seeing all the capable people who choose not to).<p>Also, what&#x27;s with all the people in this thread coming up with implausible edge cases in which deep fake tech could be used ethically to justify a technology that will very obviously be used unethically in the vast majority of cases? It&#x27;s almost useless for anything except deception—it is intrinsically deceptive. All the &#x27;yeah but cars kill people so should we ban all cars?&#x27; comments miss the obvious point that cars are extremely useful, so we accept the relatively small negatives. The ethical balance is the other way around for deep fake tech. It&#x27;s almost entirely harmful, with some small use cases that might arguably be valuable to someone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>Again and again I am astonished that people without ethics exist, that they are confident in what they are doing and that they appear to be completely unable to reflect upon their actions. They just don&#x27;t care and appear to be proud of it.<p>If this is used to scam old people out of their belongings then you really have to question your actions and imho bear some responsibility. Was it worth it? Do the positive uses outweigh their negatives? They use examples of misuse of technology as if that would free them of any guilt. As if previous errors would allow them to do anything because greater mistakes were made.<p>You are not, of course, completely responsible for the actions others take but if you create something you have to keep in mind bad actors exist. You can&#x27;t just close your eyes if your actions lead to a strictly worse world. Old people scammed out of their savings are real people and it is real pain. I can&#x27;t imagine the desperation and the helplessness following that. It really makes me angry how someone can ignore so much pain and not even engage in an argument whether it&#x27;s the right thing to do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop developing this technology</title><url>https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive/issues/41</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mihaic</author><text>Agree, I&#x27;ve come to believe that social ethics is something that needs to be indoctrinated from an early age, otherwise it can&#x27;t naturally be developed in many people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>Again and again I am astonished that people without ethics exist, that they are confident in what they are doing and that they appear to be completely unable to reflect upon their actions. They just don&#x27;t care and appear to be proud of it.<p>If this is used to scam old people out of their belongings then you really have to question your actions and imho bear some responsibility. Was it worth it? Do the positive uses outweigh their negatives? They use examples of misuse of technology as if that would free them of any guilt. As if previous errors would allow them to do anything because greater mistakes were made.<p>You are not, of course, completely responsible for the actions others take but if you create something you have to keep in mind bad actors exist. You can&#x27;t just close your eyes if your actions lead to a strictly worse world. Old people scammed out of their savings are real people and it is real pain. I can&#x27;t imagine the desperation and the helplessness following that. It really makes me angry how someone can ignore so much pain and not even engage in an argument whether it&#x27;s the right thing to do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop developing this technology</title><url>https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive/issues/41</url></story> |
8,040,831 | 8,040,576 | 1 | 2 | 8,040,540 | 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>IvyMike</author><text>I seem to remember that the original satellites (which were the first highly accurate clocks in orbit) had a hedge--if the effects of general relativity turned out to not be correct the system could drop that part of the correction. But I&#x27;m on janky hotel internet right now so I can&#x27;t find a reference.<p>Edit: The comment from jcr is correct--this was not in GPS, but in an earlier system. <a href="http://www.leapsecond.com/history/Ashby-Relativity.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leapsecond.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;Ashby-Relativity.htm</a><p>&gt; At the time of launch of the first NTS-2 satellite (June 1977), which contained the first Cesium clock to be placed in orbit, there were some who doubted that relativistic effects were real. A frequency synthesizer was built into the satellite clock system so that after launch, if in fact the rate of the clock in its final orbit was that predicted by GR, then the synthesizer could be turned on bringing the clock to the coordinate rate necessary for operation. The atomic clock was first operated for about 20 days to measure its clock rate before turning on the synthesizer. The frequency measured during that interval was +442.5 parts in 1012 faster than clocks on the ground; if left uncorrected this would have resulted in timing errors of about 38,000 nanoseconds per day. The difference between predicted and measured values of the frequency shift was only 3.97 parts in 1012, well within the accuracy capabilities of the orbiting clock. This then gave about a 1% validation of the combined motional and gravitational shifts for a clock at 4.2 earth radii.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPS and Relativity</title><url>http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.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>rzimmerman</author><text>GPS receivers also have to correct for things like light traveling slower through plasma in the ionosphere. Receivers on the ground actually solve for their positions in 4 dimensions (they need to solve for time!). GPS is so cool.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPS and Relativity</title><url>http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html#</url></story> |
7,765,799 | 7,765,520 | 1 | 2 | 7,765,455 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nullc</author><text>It&#x27;s a little disappointing to see how much ZeroCash is hyped compared to Bytecoin (<a href="https://bytecoin.org/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bytecoin.org&#x2F;</a>), since the former is still vaporware while the latter is something real that you can go use right now.<p>While the CRS ZK-SNARK stuff used for ZeroCash is very exciting technology, the cryptographic assumptions are very new and kinda sketchy. The fact that there is a trusted initialization is unfortunate, especially since compromise of the initialization results in unbounded and undetectable inflation (well I suppose you can detect it once a single altruist ends up with more coins than ought to exist!). ... though it has implications which go far beyond transaction anonymity.<p>The Bytecoin approach is based on much simpler cryptography— a schnorr ring signature in the curve25519 group. The anonymity it provides is theoretically more limited— sort of like a CoinJoin where even ofline people or even already spent coins can be joined with you—, but because it doesn&#x27;t required gigabytes of signing keys or tens of seconds of computation to sign it might be more anonymous in practice just due to being easier to use. (Oh yea, and did I mention, it&#x27;s already in use so at the moment it&#x27;s infinitely more private! :) )<p>So far all of these anonymous systems have a number of interesting limitations in common. For example, none of them support any kind of pruning so a verifying node has state that grows forever— as compared to Bitcoin where if you&#x27;re just verifying new blocks (as opposed to helping initialize new peers) you can forget the old state... e.g. right now a Bitcoin full verifier technically only needs about 300MBytes of storage. So this privacy stuff comes at a rather extreme cost. I&#x27;ve suggested some ways to improve this (basically expiring old coins), but they reduce the anonymity set and have some usability tradeoffs.<p>In any case, it&#x27;s certantly better to see things like ZeroCash and Bytecoin being worked on... I&#x27;m really skeptical about the wisdom of splitting up the crypto-currency adoption network effect just to introduce some new transaction features. But certantly doing it with substantive new features is way better than just-another-worthless-clone. ... especially when there is running code and not merely a whitepaper. :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.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>rdl</author><text>This is, for me, the single most interesting thing in the Bitcoin&#x2F;Blockchain world.<p>I love the idea of Cryptocurrencies in general (and got interested in computers, cryptography, security, and cypherpunks around the same time in ~1992), but without something which makes every transaction unlinkable, and thus preserves fungibility of the currency, I find things like Bitcoin a step back from Chaumian blinded tokens. There&#x27;s the potential for coin validation in regular bitcoin, and once there&#x27;s technical potential, it can become mandated. Once that happens, even if it starts for something &quot;nice&quot; like preventing large thefts, it can turn into censorship.<p><i>With</i> zerocash, I could see blockchain-based anonymous systems coexisting for low-throughput, high-persistence systems mainly going to blockchain tech, and high-throughput, non-inherent-decentralized systems doing their own Chaumian blinded token currencies. And &quot;currencies&quot; not just being used for human payments, but lots of forms of resource allocation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf</url></story> |
40,483,907 | 40,483,401 | 1 | 2 | 40,466,814 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smeej</author><text>I think it&#x27;s central to the story that it was highly unusual. My dad couldn&#x27;t believe I could do that, so it doesn&#x27;t surprise me that you can&#x27;t either. Many children aren&#x27;t speaking clearly at 3, much less reasoning about what is likely to be in another person&#x27;s mind. I do remember he reacted by growing cold, which surprised me because I thought it was a great cool new thing I had discovered. But as I said, I didn&#x27;t interpret at the time. I only realized why he reacted so differently from how adult me would react to a 3-year-old today because I know so much more about him now.<p>I was an unusual little kid--and a girl, not a boy, though that&#x27;s not terribly relevant to the story. Not really sure what else to tell you. I don&#x27;t think I progressed intellectually any <i>farther</i> than most people do, but I did progress <i>faster,</i> which was especially noticeable when I was young. I have the handwritten list my mom made of the 100 words I could use correctly by my first birthday. My earliest vivid memory is of my 2nd birthday party. For all I know, I may also have been very close to turning 4 at the time this story took place, but I know my being 3 contributed to his unease, and I know I was reading at 3. It&#x27;s not a brag. Being an unusual little kid (honestly I usually just say &quot;weird&quot;) just added another perspective to the parent comment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dingnuts</author><text>I feel like this story of a memory reimagined by an adult from the perspective of himself as a very precocious three year old sounds more like projection of the OP&#x27;s current relationship with their father back onto a childhood memory mixed with arrogance and a desire to brag about how smart they are online for attention.<p>It&#x27;s downright unbelievable to me that anyone would have this detailed of a memory of when they were three, or that a three year old could detect subtle and repressed jealousy for intelligence -- if such an emotion was expressed and not imagined by the child in the first place -- and additionally the emotion allegedly detected is extremely advanced for a toddler to understand.<p>Unless the OP is thirteen. That would explain the arrogance and being able to remember being three so well.</text></item><item><author>lukan</author><text>&quot;With a fear in his eyes that I only later discovered came from the fact that his own sense of safety depended on being the smartest person in the room, he said, &quot;You&#x27;re only 3. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re supposed to know how to do that yet.&quot;&quot;<p>I feel like that episode describes most of common education. In theory outstanding excellence is wanted, in reality often not so much, as this causes problems. Better teach them how to stay in line.</text></item><item><author>smeej</author><text>This makes me wonder about what turned out to be a pivotal moment in my early life. It was the day I first realized other people have their own minds, and that I could predict with some degree of accuracy what was in them.<p>My dad wrote the numbers 1 through 4 on a piece of paper, then asked me to pick one, but not tell him which I&#x27;d chosen. Once I had it, he said, &quot;You picked 3, didn&#x27;t you?&quot; I was dumbfounded. &quot;How did you do that??&quot;<p>&quot;Most people don&#x27;t like to be out on the edges. It makes them uncomfortable. So they don&#x27;t pick 1 or 4. And most people, like you, are right-handed, so they pick 3 over 2.&quot;<p>&quot;OK, OK, do it again.&quot; (This was the moment a flash of magic happened in my head.)<p>&quot;You picked 1 this time, didn&#x27;t you?&quot;<p>&quot;No, I picked 3 again because I knew you would think I would pick 1 this time.&quot;<p>With a fear in his eyes that I only later discovered came from the fact that his own sense of safety depended on being the smartest person in the room, he said, &quot;You&#x27;re only 3. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re supposed to know how to do that yet.&quot;<p>But here&#x27;s the other thing--I <i>was</i> literate when I was 3. Nobody really knows how I picked it up, but one day I told my mom it was my turn to read the stories, and I&#x27;ve been reading fluently ever since. I&#x27;ve been told I read differently than most people even now (blocks of text rather than individual letters or words), but I was definitely reading.<p>I&#x27;ve never associated the two events before, nor that maybe I was only able to do one because of the other, but it makes sense of the fact that other kids didn&#x27;t really start to seem reasonable or thoughtful until 1st or 2nd grade. They lived in these imaginary worlds where things didn&#x27;t have to make sense. It seemed like a lot of fun, but I had trouble joining them there. I always assumed both skills just correlated with age, not that one might facilitate the other.<p>My story obviously doesn&#x27;t prove anything, but you&#x27;ve given me an interesting thing to think about today!</text></item><item><author>kqr</author><text>James Gleick in <i>The Information</i> also describes cases of the effect of traditional literacy on complexity&#x2F;abstraction of thought.<p>He claims that literacy is nearly a prerequisite for things like zeroth-order logical reasoning and understanding of abstract shapes. Two examples he gives:<p>- Some illiterate people are told that all bears in the north are white, that Greenland is a country in the north, then they are asked what colours bears in Greenland have. They answer, &quot;Different regions have differently coloured bears. I haven&#x27;t been to Greenland. But I have seen a brown bear.&quot;<p>I would have said, &quot;Based on the information you gave me, I would guess white.&quot;<p>- When shown a rectangle and asked what shape it is some illiterate answer things like &quot;a door&quot; or &quot;a playing card&quot; but struggle to find things doors and playing cards have in common.<p>I go to the abstract shapes immediately when I&#x27;m shown drawings by my son. It&#x27;s almost at a point where it feels like my logical&#x2F;abstract reasoning stands in the way of creativity.<p>----<p>But I don&#x27;t know how much this is personality (I happen to have a knack for logical&#x2F;abstract reasoning and I happened to learn to read when I was very young) and how much is an effect of reading. After all, anthropologists are great at the concrete rather than abstract, but maybe they get lots of training in it. I&#x27;ve also heard the Japanese are better at it.<p>TFA clearly postulates it has more to do with the kind of vocabulary, or maybe it&#x27;s on an increasing scale with more language.</text></item><item><author>atum47</author><text>This reminded me of a story my professor once told us back in college. I was studying sign language and she is deaf. She told us growing up in the old days they didn&#x27;t had specialized schools for deaf people (since they could read?!) so she attended regular school and was not doing ok. She struggled a lot until she finally got the attention that she needed from a teacher who was able to instruct her in sign language (which believe you or not is Brazil&#x27;s second official language). Before that she told us she was not able to have complex thoughts. She didn&#x27;t know her father had a name, for instance. She thought his &quot;name&quot; was daddy. She is a brilliant woman and I&#x27;m glad I attended her class and also, that she was able to find someone who helped her, growing up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)</title><url>http://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-helen-keller-on-her.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>lukan</author><text>&quot;or that a three year old could detect subtle and repressed jealousy for intelligence&quot;<p>He did not claim that. He claimed he interpreted it later like this.<p>Apart from that, there might be projection, but I know that I have some very clear memories from being 3 as well. Now I obviously do not know, how far my memory matches reality. But I would not just dismiss the story. Many people are insecure about their intelligence. And when there is an actual intelligent beeing - the common reaction of the crowd is not cheering, when the smart person is so stupid to show he is smarter than the crowd.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dingnuts</author><text>I feel like this story of a memory reimagined by an adult from the perspective of himself as a very precocious three year old sounds more like projection of the OP&#x27;s current relationship with their father back onto a childhood memory mixed with arrogance and a desire to brag about how smart they are online for attention.<p>It&#x27;s downright unbelievable to me that anyone would have this detailed of a memory of when they were three, or that a three year old could detect subtle and repressed jealousy for intelligence -- if such an emotion was expressed and not imagined by the child in the first place -- and additionally the emotion allegedly detected is extremely advanced for a toddler to understand.<p>Unless the OP is thirteen. That would explain the arrogance and being able to remember being three so well.</text></item><item><author>lukan</author><text>&quot;With a fear in his eyes that I only later discovered came from the fact that his own sense of safety depended on being the smartest person in the room, he said, &quot;You&#x27;re only 3. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re supposed to know how to do that yet.&quot;&quot;<p>I feel like that episode describes most of common education. In theory outstanding excellence is wanted, in reality often not so much, as this causes problems. Better teach them how to stay in line.</text></item><item><author>smeej</author><text>This makes me wonder about what turned out to be a pivotal moment in my early life. It was the day I first realized other people have their own minds, and that I could predict with some degree of accuracy what was in them.<p>My dad wrote the numbers 1 through 4 on a piece of paper, then asked me to pick one, but not tell him which I&#x27;d chosen. Once I had it, he said, &quot;You picked 3, didn&#x27;t you?&quot; I was dumbfounded. &quot;How did you do that??&quot;<p>&quot;Most people don&#x27;t like to be out on the edges. It makes them uncomfortable. So they don&#x27;t pick 1 or 4. And most people, like you, are right-handed, so they pick 3 over 2.&quot;<p>&quot;OK, OK, do it again.&quot; (This was the moment a flash of magic happened in my head.)<p>&quot;You picked 1 this time, didn&#x27;t you?&quot;<p>&quot;No, I picked 3 again because I knew you would think I would pick 1 this time.&quot;<p>With a fear in his eyes that I only later discovered came from the fact that his own sense of safety depended on being the smartest person in the room, he said, &quot;You&#x27;re only 3. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re supposed to know how to do that yet.&quot;<p>But here&#x27;s the other thing--I <i>was</i> literate when I was 3. Nobody really knows how I picked it up, but one day I told my mom it was my turn to read the stories, and I&#x27;ve been reading fluently ever since. I&#x27;ve been told I read differently than most people even now (blocks of text rather than individual letters or words), but I was definitely reading.<p>I&#x27;ve never associated the two events before, nor that maybe I was only able to do one because of the other, but it makes sense of the fact that other kids didn&#x27;t really start to seem reasonable or thoughtful until 1st or 2nd grade. They lived in these imaginary worlds where things didn&#x27;t have to make sense. It seemed like a lot of fun, but I had trouble joining them there. I always assumed both skills just correlated with age, not that one might facilitate the other.<p>My story obviously doesn&#x27;t prove anything, but you&#x27;ve given me an interesting thing to think about today!</text></item><item><author>kqr</author><text>James Gleick in <i>The Information</i> also describes cases of the effect of traditional literacy on complexity&#x2F;abstraction of thought.<p>He claims that literacy is nearly a prerequisite for things like zeroth-order logical reasoning and understanding of abstract shapes. Two examples he gives:<p>- Some illiterate people are told that all bears in the north are white, that Greenland is a country in the north, then they are asked what colours bears in Greenland have. They answer, &quot;Different regions have differently coloured bears. I haven&#x27;t been to Greenland. But I have seen a brown bear.&quot;<p>I would have said, &quot;Based on the information you gave me, I would guess white.&quot;<p>- When shown a rectangle and asked what shape it is some illiterate answer things like &quot;a door&quot; or &quot;a playing card&quot; but struggle to find things doors and playing cards have in common.<p>I go to the abstract shapes immediately when I&#x27;m shown drawings by my son. It&#x27;s almost at a point where it feels like my logical&#x2F;abstract reasoning stands in the way of creativity.<p>----<p>But I don&#x27;t know how much this is personality (I happen to have a knack for logical&#x2F;abstract reasoning and I happened to learn to read when I was very young) and how much is an effect of reading. After all, anthropologists are great at the concrete rather than abstract, but maybe they get lots of training in it. I&#x27;ve also heard the Japanese are better at it.<p>TFA clearly postulates it has more to do with the kind of vocabulary, or maybe it&#x27;s on an increasing scale with more language.</text></item><item><author>atum47</author><text>This reminded me of a story my professor once told us back in college. I was studying sign language and she is deaf. She told us growing up in the old days they didn&#x27;t had specialized schools for deaf people (since they could read?!) so she attended regular school and was not doing ok. She struggled a lot until she finally got the attention that she needed from a teacher who was able to instruct her in sign language (which believe you or not is Brazil&#x27;s second official language). Before that she told us she was not able to have complex thoughts. She didn&#x27;t know her father had a name, for instance. She thought his &quot;name&quot; was daddy. She is a brilliant woman and I&#x27;m glad I attended her class and also, that she was able to find someone who helped her, growing up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)</title><url>http://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-helen-keller-on-her.html</url></story> |
3,506,361 | 3,506,152 | 1 | 3 | 3,505,853 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jtbigwoo</author><text><i>I'm kind of busy actually making things.</i><p>Union Square Ventures is not looking for someone who likes to make things. They're looking for someone who likes networking and getting noticed. Or to put it another way, they're looking for someone who can find someone else who's making things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>enjo</author><text>Not to mention that I don't hae a twitter account, linked in profile of note, or really any meaningful web presence. I'm kind of busy actually <i>making</i> things.</text></item><item><author>droithomme</author><text>It's funny how the answer to not getting enough interest from qualified candidates is to make it more troublesome and time consuming to apply so that only unemployed people will bother.<p>It's often heard that 3 page CVs are an abomination since no one has time to trawl through all that. But now, doing a video interview just to apply is OK to require, at least according to this article.<p>Where I work, CVs with cover letters are fine, links to web presences are fine, if someone wants to send a DVD or link to a private youtube exhortation that's also fine. Whatever works for the candidate we'll look at it.<p>It can be tedious to sort through all these CVs, assuming your company is able to get any relevant applications at all. But that's the price of acquiring talented people. Hiring someone for a creative job like development is as tricky as selecting a spouse to get married. It's a long term commitment that will affect both of you profoundly. It's not the same as buying a pound of hamburger.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No More Résumés, Say Some Firms</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577173031991814896.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>But pretty much anything anybody makes these days has a web presence. In the case of most hobby projects, there are at least pictures on flickr. Commercial projects have web presences. For me, I could say "I did version 1.0 of the software for this: <a href="http://www.lumenera.com/products/surveillance-cameras/le175ca.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.lumenera.com/products/surveillance-cameras/le175c...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>enjo</author><text>Not to mention that I don't hae a twitter account, linked in profile of note, or really any meaningful web presence. I'm kind of busy actually <i>making</i> things.</text></item><item><author>droithomme</author><text>It's funny how the answer to not getting enough interest from qualified candidates is to make it more troublesome and time consuming to apply so that only unemployed people will bother.<p>It's often heard that 3 page CVs are an abomination since no one has time to trawl through all that. But now, doing a video interview just to apply is OK to require, at least according to this article.<p>Where I work, CVs with cover letters are fine, links to web presences are fine, if someone wants to send a DVD or link to a private youtube exhortation that's also fine. Whatever works for the candidate we'll look at it.<p>It can be tedious to sort through all these CVs, assuming your company is able to get any relevant applications at all. But that's the price of acquiring talented people. Hiring someone for a creative job like development is as tricky as selecting a spouse to get married. It's a long term commitment that will affect both of you profoundly. It's not the same as buying a pound of hamburger.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No More Résumés, Say Some Firms</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577173031991814896.html</url><text></text></story> |
37,498,004 | 37,497,816 | 1 | 3 | 37,497,199 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kirby64</author><text>Actual Bluetooth is slow, 1.5Mbit or so, depending on the implementation. You wouldn&#x27;t transfer large amounts of data that way. Maybe a photo, or smallish files. But, as the other poster noted, Airdrop uses Wi-Fi direct now so it&#x27;s at wifi speeds.<p>Modern Wi-Fi 6 (what is in the new iPhones, even in the older iPhones) is theoretically much faster. Gigabit+ speeds. In practice, you can expect similar or faster speeds vs. USB2 over Wi-Fi. If it&#x27;s ad-hoc from iPhone to iPhone, it should be much closer to theoretical max since they will be in close proximity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Genuine question: How does USB 2.0 compare to Bluetooth (Airdrop) and wifi (assume local network or ad hoc, not icloud or internet) speeds on the 15 line?<p>EDIT: TIL more about the underlying mechanics of Airdrop than I thought I would, appreciate the lesson.</text></item><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Weird take. Who cares about data transfer speeds? Lots of people. Many parts of the world dont have the same cell service coverage or wifi stability you may have.</text></item><item><author>ryaneager</author><text>Honestly, who cares? Does anyone even transfers data via USB from their phone anymore? It’s been 4-5 years since I’ve done that. It’s all in synced via iCloud now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/apple-finally-put-usb-c-in-the-new-iphone-but-its-inexplicably-limited-to-23-year-old-usb-20-speeds/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kamcma</author><text>AirDrop only uses Bluetooth for handshake and configuration. Data is then transferred over Wi-Fi Direct.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Genuine question: How does USB 2.0 compare to Bluetooth (Airdrop) and wifi (assume local network or ad hoc, not icloud or internet) speeds on the 15 line?<p>EDIT: TIL more about the underlying mechanics of Airdrop than I thought I would, appreciate the lesson.</text></item><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Weird take. Who cares about data transfer speeds? Lots of people. Many parts of the world dont have the same cell service coverage or wifi stability you may have.</text></item><item><author>ryaneager</author><text>Honestly, who cares? Does anyone even transfers data via USB from their phone anymore? It’s been 4-5 years since I’ve done that. It’s all in synced via iCloud now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/apple-finally-put-usb-c-in-the-new-iphone-but-its-inexplicably-limited-to-23-year-old-usb-20-speeds/</url></story> |
20,910,593 | 20,910,420 | 1 | 2 | 20,909,939 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kortex</author><text>I found it extremely helpful. The sheer emphasis of the reply made me very curious why the idea of using regex on xml is so bonkers.<p>- I will never forget that regex can&#x27;t parse XHTML<p>- the reason being, regex is insufficiently powerful<p>- when I first saw this post, I knew little about regex under the hood, this sent me down a wiki hole of FSMs, pushdown automata and turing machines<p>- this misconception is apparently common enough to be madness-inducing to those that know better<p>- use a hecking xml parser instead<p>It almost reminds me of a Bill Nye sketch. Teaching through a bit of non-sequitur and absurdism.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hk__2</author><text>It’s a famous post on StackOverflow, but I don’t find it particularly helpful.</text></item><item><author>abraCadabstrax</author><text>Perhaps the most epic reply I have ever seen on SO.</text></item><item><author>gamache</author><text>I believe Zalgo has the answer to this, via an equivalent question. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1732348&#x2F;regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1732348&#x2F;regex-match-open...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/172303/is-there-a-regular-expression-to-detect-a-valid-regular-expression</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stfwn</author><text>If you were looking for the reason why a regex cannot parse HTML, it is because HTML has matching nested tags and regex parsers are finite state machines (FSM).<p>What this means is that a regex parser is like a goldfish. It only knows about the state it is currently in (what it just read) and which possible states it may transition to (what is legally allowed to come next). The fish never remembers where it was before; there is no option to have the legality of a transition depend on what it read _before_ the current state. But this memory function is a requirement to recursively match opening tags to their closing tags - you need to keep a stack of opening stacks somewhere in order to then cross off their closing tags in reverse order. So regex cannot parse HTML.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hk__2</author><text>It’s a famous post on StackOverflow, but I don’t find it particularly helpful.</text></item><item><author>abraCadabstrax</author><text>Perhaps the most epic reply I have ever seen on SO.</text></item><item><author>gamache</author><text>I believe Zalgo has the answer to this, via an equivalent question. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1732348&#x2F;regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1732348&#x2F;regex-match-open...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/172303/is-there-a-regular-expression-to-detect-a-valid-regular-expression</url></story> |
17,557,134 | 17,555,746 | 1 | 2 | 17,554,902 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this is sad or funny but my $350 Chromebook[1] that I modified to run Linux happily runs large Docker based Rails apps and has overall been a great development laptop for the last 2+ years. It has a 1080p IPS panel, a keyboard that I like more than my workstation, a real SSD and it weighs under 3 pounds.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickjanetakis.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;transform-a-toshiba-chromebook-cb35-into-a-linux-development-environment-with-galliumos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickjanetakis.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;transform-a-toshiba-chromeboo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>I have a Dell XPS 15 (2017) and the thermals are really bad. I saw constant throttling in my kernel logs and the laptop sometimes slowed to a crawl when compiling, running a ton of docker containers, using Light Table or even just having a ton of browser tabs open.<p>I finally ditched it a few weeks ago, finally replacing it with a Ryzen 7 desktop.<p>I&#x27;ll admit my XPS 15 was a factory refurbished model, so maybe I just got a lemon. It got so hot the battery is now swelling and it popped out the trackpad (I think there might be a recall; or if not take it in since that&#x27;s gotta be under warranty).<p>My current laptop is a HP Spectre. It&#x27;s thicker than the XPS, but I think it&#x27;s got a much better cooling solution and preforms better. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d recommend a Dell XPS again.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>In fairness, Lee criticized the Dell XPS 15&#x27;s thermals in a video a couple of days ago. Of course, he also posted a video last week about how he was starting to hate Apple products.<p>If you watch a lot of his videos, you&#x27;ll notice that he almost always talks about thermals, so it&#x27;s not surprising to see him focus on that aspect of the MBP.</text></item><item><author>lebrad</author><text>Dave Lee&#x27;s youtube video is a withering takedown, presented dispassionately.<p>His argument is such a slam dunk that the article concludes with stunned disbelief, speculating that maybe there&#x27;s &quot;something wrong with the MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip that Lee received&quot;.<p>Yes there&#x27;s something wrong with it, that was the exact point of his video. Do people really think he just got a lemon?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/17/core-i9-chip-macbook-pro-throttling/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eropple</author><text>YMMV, but in addition to a dodgy (manufacturer defect) and oddly designed (strangely shaped modifier keys) keyboard, my HP Spectre got <i>really hot</i> under comparatively minor load.</text><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>I have a Dell XPS 15 (2017) and the thermals are really bad. I saw constant throttling in my kernel logs and the laptop sometimes slowed to a crawl when compiling, running a ton of docker containers, using Light Table or even just having a ton of browser tabs open.<p>I finally ditched it a few weeks ago, finally replacing it with a Ryzen 7 desktop.<p>I&#x27;ll admit my XPS 15 was a factory refurbished model, so maybe I just got a lemon. It got so hot the battery is now swelling and it popped out the trackpad (I think there might be a recall; or if not take it in since that&#x27;s gotta be under warranty).<p>My current laptop is a HP Spectre. It&#x27;s thicker than the XPS, but I think it&#x27;s got a much better cooling solution and preforms better. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d recommend a Dell XPS again.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>In fairness, Lee criticized the Dell XPS 15&#x27;s thermals in a video a couple of days ago. Of course, he also posted a video last week about how he was starting to hate Apple products.<p>If you watch a lot of his videos, you&#x27;ll notice that he almost always talks about thermals, so it&#x27;s not surprising to see him focus on that aspect of the MBP.</text></item><item><author>lebrad</author><text>Dave Lee&#x27;s youtube video is a withering takedown, presented dispassionately.<p>His argument is such a slam dunk that the article concludes with stunned disbelief, speculating that maybe there&#x27;s &quot;something wrong with the MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip that Lee received&quot;.<p>Yes there&#x27;s something wrong with it, that was the exact point of his video. Do people really think he just got a lemon?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/17/core-i9-chip-macbook-pro-throttling/</url></story> |
18,983,711 | 18,983,326 | 1 | 3 | 18,981,492 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>13of40</author><text>&gt; It would be nice if there was a mainstream, built-in way to password-protect a file that you could share with someone else<p>This is going to sound really ghetto, but if you zip up some files, drag and drop the zip archive into a (modern) Word document, then pick File-&gt;Info-&gt;Protect Document-&gt;Encrypt With Password, you end up with a shareable file with decent encryption. IIRC, key generation is done with 500,000 rounds of SHA512 (which takes about 0.8 seconds on a contemporary CPU) and the encryption is 256-bit AES.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is getting a lot of play today on Twitter but it&#x27;s not all that consequential in the normal setting of a ZIP file.<p>The flaw they&#x27;re pointing out is that 7z&#x27;s AES encryptor has a 64-bit IV (half the block size) --- not itself a vulnerability <i>in block ciphers</i> --- and uses a predictable RNG to generate the IV (for simplicity, just call it &quot;time and pid&quot;). 7z uses AES in CBC mode.<p>In CBC, you want IVs to be unpredictable; if you can predict an IV <i>and</i> you control some of the plaintext, you can in some cases make predictions about secret data that follows your controlled plaintext (this is an &quot;adaptive chosen plaintext&quot; attack).<p>This doesn&#x27;t really come up in 7z&#x27;s usage model; you&#x27;re supposing someone integrates 7z with their own application, which, on-demand, encrypts attacker-controlled data with a secret suffix and puts it somewhere the same attacker can see the resulting ciphertext. Don&#x27;t do this. In fact, if you&#x27;re using ZIP archives in your application, don&#x27;t use ZIP&#x27;s AES at all; encrypt yourself with a modern mode. ZIP AES isn&#x27;t meaningfully authenticated.<p>Having said all that: for the normal usage of an encrypted ZIP, this doesn&#x27;t really matter at all.<p>It&#x27;s a good finding, though! Cheers to anyone who takes the time to look at the underlying code for any popular cryptography. I hope they keep it up.<p>A more important PSA: unless you&#x27;re absolutely sure otherwise, you should always assume any ZIP program you&#x27;re using doesn&#x27;t actually encrypt password-protected ZIPs. It&#x27;s just as likely that it&#x27;s using the old, broken PKWARE cipher, which is dispiritingly common due to backwards-compat concerns. It would be nice if there was a mainstream, built-in way to password-protect a file that you could share with someone else (or just stick on a thumb drive), but ZIP encryption isn&#x27;t it.<p>Pentesters sometimes go out of their way to use 7z because it actually does encrypt with a real cipher. And, I guess for what we&#x27;re doing with it, 7z is fine. But it&#x27;s sad that it&#x27;s the best common denominator we have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>7-zip broken password random number generator</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1087848040583626753.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>anyfoo</author><text>Coupled with the very simplistic and predictable passwords often encountered in passworded (avoiding the word &quot;encrypted&quot;) ZIPs, I often have the impression that the intention is more to add an explicit human step to open the ZIP. So, making it (less) accessible to crawlers, or give a non-malicious recipient a moment to think whether they want&#x2F;need&#x2F;should extract this.<p>Often the password comes in the same mail or website, after all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is getting a lot of play today on Twitter but it&#x27;s not all that consequential in the normal setting of a ZIP file.<p>The flaw they&#x27;re pointing out is that 7z&#x27;s AES encryptor has a 64-bit IV (half the block size) --- not itself a vulnerability <i>in block ciphers</i> --- and uses a predictable RNG to generate the IV (for simplicity, just call it &quot;time and pid&quot;). 7z uses AES in CBC mode.<p>In CBC, you want IVs to be unpredictable; if you can predict an IV <i>and</i> you control some of the plaintext, you can in some cases make predictions about secret data that follows your controlled plaintext (this is an &quot;adaptive chosen plaintext&quot; attack).<p>This doesn&#x27;t really come up in 7z&#x27;s usage model; you&#x27;re supposing someone integrates 7z with their own application, which, on-demand, encrypts attacker-controlled data with a secret suffix and puts it somewhere the same attacker can see the resulting ciphertext. Don&#x27;t do this. In fact, if you&#x27;re using ZIP archives in your application, don&#x27;t use ZIP&#x27;s AES at all; encrypt yourself with a modern mode. ZIP AES isn&#x27;t meaningfully authenticated.<p>Having said all that: for the normal usage of an encrypted ZIP, this doesn&#x27;t really matter at all.<p>It&#x27;s a good finding, though! Cheers to anyone who takes the time to look at the underlying code for any popular cryptography. I hope they keep it up.<p>A more important PSA: unless you&#x27;re absolutely sure otherwise, you should always assume any ZIP program you&#x27;re using doesn&#x27;t actually encrypt password-protected ZIPs. It&#x27;s just as likely that it&#x27;s using the old, broken PKWARE cipher, which is dispiritingly common due to backwards-compat concerns. It would be nice if there was a mainstream, built-in way to password-protect a file that you could share with someone else (or just stick on a thumb drive), but ZIP encryption isn&#x27;t it.<p>Pentesters sometimes go out of their way to use 7z because it actually does encrypt with a real cipher. And, I guess for what we&#x27;re doing with it, 7z is fine. But it&#x27;s sad that it&#x27;s the best common denominator we have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>7-zip broken password random number generator</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1087848040583626753.html</url></story> |
7,369,615 | 7,369,480 | 1 | 2 | 7,369,333 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdl</author><text>This looks pretty cool as an idea.<p>The pseudonyms and cartoons for all the developers is somewhat concerning, as a naturally suspicious person. I&#x27;ve been happy when I funded game projects by known successful teams (UberEnt, Garriott), but I&#x27;d be reluctant to fund someone who didn&#x27;t have a track record or a real identity.<p>(I just noticed if you dig into their FB page and such, you see stills from French TV interviews they did, so it&#x27;s a bit less concerning, but still bad marketing IMO.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg</title><url>http://thepicrain.com/planets%C2%B3-an-open-world-voxel-based-rpg/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CrazedGeek</author><text>Website: <a href="http://www.planets-cube.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.planets-cube.com&#x2F;</a><p>Kickstarter: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1247991467/planets3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;1247991467&#x2F;planets3</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg</title><url>http://thepicrain.com/planets%C2%B3-an-open-world-voxel-based-rpg/</url></story> |
15,714,777 | 15,714,294 | 1 | 3 | 15,713,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quotemstr</author><text>The concept of &quot;nuclear winter&quot; is a great example of science gone wrong. As it turns out, the original 1980s report vastly overestimated the amount of combustible fuel in cities and inaccurately estimated both modern nuclear weapon yield and blast size. Nuclear war would <i>not</i> create firestorms capable of injecting soot into the stratosphere and would <i>not</i> cause years-long crop failures. Nuclear war is, in fact, quite survivable.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skeptoid.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;4244" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skeptoid.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;4244</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;475037b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;475037b</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-many-nukes-would-it-take-to-cause-a-minor-nuclear-winter-What-about-a-moderate-one&#x2F;answer&#x2F;Allen-E-Hall-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-many-nukes-would-it-take-to-cause-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-carl-sagan-warned-world-about-nuclear-winter-180967198/?no-ist</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>I find it weird that scientists get crap from other scientists for speaking publicly. Simple jealousy doesn&#x27;t explain the vehemence.<p>As for the politics of the issue, mutual assured destruction has been the working theory since Eisenhower. Those who think strategic nuclear war is winnable, as well as the SDI nutters, are threats to that stability.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-carl-sagan-warned-world-about-nuclear-winter-180967198/?no-ist</url></story> |
10,751,905 | 10,751,886 | 1 | 3 | 10,751,234 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Udik</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s not for a sore knee. Is there anything more unapproved than an irreversible disease that destroys your mind in the space of a few years? It&#x27;s not like cancer, from which you might be cured, or at least with which you can have a meaningful life until your eventual death. It is a slow motion process of erasure that is well on its way at the moment of the first diagnosis. Taking the wrong medicine could shorten your brain&#x27;s life of how much, a year perhaps? Still worth trying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>carbocation</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to me that people are willing to experiment with an unapproved chemical that provides no proven benefit in humans, yet aren&#x27;t willing to use human-proven therapies with known benefits such as statins.</text></item><item><author>wrong_internet</author><text>Pretty sure Alzheimer&#x27;s isn&#x27;t good for you, either.<p>I&#x27;d take any health risks over dementia, personally, and I&#x27;m sure most would, too. Looking forward to the FDA blocking this on &quot;safety&quot; grounds.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Wow, you can buy some EPPS (the chemical in the article) here for £39.20?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sigmaaldrich.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;product&#x2F;sigma&#x2F;54465?lang=en&amp;region=GB" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sigmaaldrich.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;product&#x2F;sigma&#x2F;54465?lang...</a><p>Looks interesting research but I&#x27;m sure this stuff probably can&#x27;t be that good for you!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice</title><url>http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151208/ncomms9997/full/ncomms9997.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>leoedin</author><text>Presumably these &quot;people&quot; you speak of are actually different people (unless you have evidence of the parent choosing not to use statins?)<p>People tend to vary wildly in choices and opinions. Who knew!?</text><parent_chain><item><author>carbocation</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to me that people are willing to experiment with an unapproved chemical that provides no proven benefit in humans, yet aren&#x27;t willing to use human-proven therapies with known benefits such as statins.</text></item><item><author>wrong_internet</author><text>Pretty sure Alzheimer&#x27;s isn&#x27;t good for you, either.<p>I&#x27;d take any health risks over dementia, personally, and I&#x27;m sure most would, too. Looking forward to the FDA blocking this on &quot;safety&quot; grounds.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Wow, you can buy some EPPS (the chemical in the article) here for £39.20?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sigmaaldrich.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;product&#x2F;sigma&#x2F;54465?lang=en&amp;region=GB" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sigmaaldrich.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;product&#x2F;sigma&#x2F;54465?lang...</a><p>Looks interesting research but I&#x27;m sure this stuff probably can&#x27;t be that good for you!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice</title><url>http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151208/ncomms9997/full/ncomms9997.html</url></story> |
18,507,397 | 18,507,457 | 1 | 3 | 18,500,075 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wingspar</author><text>A pdf version
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cia.gov&#x2F;library&#x2F;center-for-the-study-of-intelligence&#x2F;csi-publications&#x2F;books-and-monographs&#x2F;psychology-of-intelligence-analysis&#x2F;PsychofIntelNew.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cia.gov&#x2F;library&#x2F;center-for-the-study-of-intellig...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thinking About Thinking (1999)</title><url>https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art4.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>abalone</author><text>Here&#x27;s a fun image. I totally fell for it the first time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cia.gov&#x2F;library&#x2F;center-for-the-study-of-intelligence&#x2F;csi-publications&#x2F;books-and-monographs&#x2F;psychology-of-intelligence-analysis&#x2F;fig1.gif&#x2F;image.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cia.gov&#x2F;library&#x2F;center-for-the-study-of-intellig...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thinking About Thinking (1999)</title><url>https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art4.html</url></story> |
21,167,843 | 21,167,792 | 1 | 2 | 21,164,014 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hrktb</author><text>Doesn’t it also display warnings, cleaning and maintenance messages ?<p>All coffee machines I’ve seen with any kind of screen made extensive use of it for messaging purposes. It is a lot more useful than some led blinking twice for cleaning and three times when there’s no water in the tank.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>My biggest pet peeve is all sorts of appliance manufacturers sticking touchscreen displays everywhere.<p>The coffee machine in my office has a touchscreen display. It only dispenses 4 things - lattes, cappuccinos, black coffee, and espressos.<p>Why does this have to be a touchscreen? It could have easily been more usable buttons.<p>But I guess you can&#x27;t charge a $100 premium for buttons</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>Except we live in a world where YouTube videos are interrupted by photogenic hipsters selling sunglasses made of titanium and hand cut, old school soap.<p>Recreating this toaster is exactly the kind of thing I hope that set gets around to.<p>Plus, there are toasters that cost more than my tablet which don’t have this feature. If you can make a toaster that infuriatingly stupidly expensive and sell it, you can sure as hell afford to make a workalike [of] this mechanism.</text></item><item><author>tompccs</author><text>There&#x27;s a simple reason why this toaster was discontinued, and that&#x27;s because it can&#x27;t be made from commodity components which are used by all toaster manufacturers, as well as in a variety of other domestic appliances.<p>Plus, assembly looks quite intricate and probably highly manual.<p>It&#x27;s beautiful, sure, but go and buy a toaster today and see how much premium people are willing to pay for a designer brand with no functional advantage.<p>Sadly toasters all work &quot;well enough&quot;. This is a textbook example of great engineering being trumped by globalised economics and fickle consumers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>Probably cheaper to localise.<p>Rather than having to do X front panels, you just put all localisation data in a config file and be done with it.<p>And yes, I would much prefer actual pushbuttons.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>My biggest pet peeve is all sorts of appliance manufacturers sticking touchscreen displays everywhere.<p>The coffee machine in my office has a touchscreen display. It only dispenses 4 things - lattes, cappuccinos, black coffee, and espressos.<p>Why does this have to be a touchscreen? It could have easily been more usable buttons.<p>But I guess you can&#x27;t charge a $100 premium for buttons</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>Except we live in a world where YouTube videos are interrupted by photogenic hipsters selling sunglasses made of titanium and hand cut, old school soap.<p>Recreating this toaster is exactly the kind of thing I hope that set gets around to.<p>Plus, there are toasters that cost more than my tablet which don’t have this feature. If you can make a toaster that infuriatingly stupidly expensive and sell it, you can sure as hell afford to make a workalike [of] this mechanism.</text></item><item><author>tompccs</author><text>There&#x27;s a simple reason why this toaster was discontinued, and that&#x27;s because it can&#x27;t be made from commodity components which are used by all toaster manufacturers, as well as in a variety of other domestic appliances.<p>Plus, assembly looks quite intricate and probably highly manual.<p>It&#x27;s beautiful, sure, but go and buy a toaster today and see how much premium people are willing to pay for a designer brand with no functional advantage.<p>Sadly toasters all work &quot;well enough&quot;. This is a textbook example of great engineering being trumped by globalised economics and fickle consumers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y</url></story> |
4,847,330 | 4,847,332 | 1 | 3 | 4,847,010 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>For anybody that's been paying attention in the last 20 years, the collegiate funnel to success is broken in the technology/startup sector.<p>I'm not dismissing the role of <i>education</i>, however. Education is vastly important. A formal education with an expensive stamp on it? Not so much.<p>Continuing my discussion of the startup/technology sector, there was a time when a great degree would get you into places where you worked with awesome folks doing hugely important jobs. Over time, more awesome folks and hugely important jobs existed separate from that great degree. We've now reached a point where having that great degree many times is counter-indicative of performance ability, so it becomes kind of a social club.<p>I hate to say it, but for run-of-the-mill high technology jobs where you interact heavily with a business customer and make some magic happen? I view deep dives in college as a warning sign that you might be validating yourself against a model that has little practical impact in the larger world.<p>I really hated to admit that, because I deeply love education. But dang it, I believe the tables are flipped. You are more likely to get great help in the startup/technology sector from some 20-year-old who knows everything about technology from his personal passions than you are from a 25-year-old with a Master's degree from an Ivy League institution. And in terms of organizations, it's a big red flag as far as productivity goes for those places with tight controls over collegiate applicant. Unless you're building the next LHC. Whenever I see some job that's a straight technology job that has "and a masters degree in CS" <i>without</i> the following "or equivalent experience"? I'm thinking this isn't a place I want to be associated with. They have no idea what they are doing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Myth of American Meritocracy</title><url>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/</url></story> | <instructions>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>One thing he mentions in passing is that the Ivy League process is built on looking for "future leaders".<p>There's not really a test for such qualities. I mean, you can try, but it's very difficult to see how someone performs in trying circumstances until you put them there.<p>In <i>Thinking, Fast and Slow</i> (which I'm sure many of HNers have read), Kahneman gives an anecdote about his time working for the Israeli Defence Force. The IDF wanted a way to identify who should be put through officer training, and they turned to a team of psychologists to develop a testing program.<p>Kahneman and his colleagues came up with a series of scenario-based tests. Some problem would be posed to a group of soldiers ("move this log over the top of this wall"). The group would be observed and notes taken.<p>One thing that the psychologists watched for was spontaneous leadership. Who in the group took charge? Surely such a soldier was bound to command!<p>The problem is that, upon reviewing the performance of their selections, Kahneman and his colleagues found that their candidates did no better -- either in training or in the field -- than candidates chosen by other means. Simply seeing the "obvious" leadership qualities of a particular individual in a highly artificial situation is a basically useless predictor of actual outcomes.<p>It's satisfying noise.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Myth of American Meritocracy</title><url>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/</url></story> |
35,567,782 | 35,567,263 | 1 | 2 | 35,564,013 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>southernplaces7</author><text>Nothing about current AI models profoundly challenges the unknowns of what makes consciousness work in any mystery-resolving way. People who confuse plainly programmed algorithmic systems like GPT 4 or Midjourney with the still unresolved issues of sentience as we know it so far are drinking far too much of the current batch of AI punch. Sadly, it&#x27;s a sentiment I see all too often on HN, a site in which i&#x27;d assume most readers and commentators would be a bit more skeptical-minded about these things. It&#x27;s almost funny, considering how much hate this site tends to throw at things like crypto, to see so much of the wide-eyed opposite with the latest AI craze.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MrScruff</author><text>Obviously AI academics are uniquely challenged by the &#x27;scaling is (nearly) everything&#x27; reality, but I feel like a lot of the mixed emotions being expressed towards the latest results are also because we&#x27;re actually seeing the mystery of self starting to unravel. Like any good mystery, the fun was in the build up and as we move towards a resolution there&#x27;s a bitter sweet aspect to the slightly mundane reality of it &#x27;merely&#x27; being an emergent property of large networks. Of course, any rational person might have expected this given how the one working example came into existence. In general it all looks like a pretty resounding endorsement of the David Chalmers position to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06035</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hakuseki</author><text>&gt; Like any good mystery, the fun was in the build up and as we move towards a resolution there&#x27;s a bitter sweet aspect to the slightly mundane reality of it &#x27;merely&#x27; being an emergent property of large networks.<p>I would disagree with this description. An &quot;emergent property of large networks&quot; would be something that just appears when you wire together a large network.<p>To get intelligent behavior, it&#x27;s not sufficient to wire together a large neural network. You also need to use an optimizer to train it on a large data set.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MrScruff</author><text>Obviously AI academics are uniquely challenged by the &#x27;scaling is (nearly) everything&#x27; reality, but I feel like a lot of the mixed emotions being expressed towards the latest results are also because we&#x27;re actually seeing the mystery of self starting to unravel. Like any good mystery, the fun was in the build up and as we move towards a resolution there&#x27;s a bitter sweet aspect to the slightly mundane reality of it &#x27;merely&#x27; being an emergent property of large networks. Of course, any rational person might have expected this given how the one working example came into existence. In general it all looks like a pretty resounding endorsement of the David Chalmers position to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06035</url></story> |
12,007,767 | 12,007,518 | 1 | 2 | 12,006,957 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>I work for a &#x27;big online old media company&#x27; and can offer some insight for all of this. First up, I strongly believe our industry has dug ourselves into the hole and really fucked itself over. Daily I use an adblocker to make the internet faster and easier to use (which is ironic because I&#x27;m the one who implemented the &#x27;plz disable adblocker&#x27; banner on our site and i see it every single day <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;xQza4fS.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;xQza4fS.png</a>)<p>Problems with self hosting:<p>- It&#x27;s super duper hard to change the status quo. For them, the current solution &#x27;works fine&#x27;, once they fight the supposed evil that ad blockers are. Trust me, I fight for this sort of stuff and they just don&#x27;t understand things the way we do.<p>- You can&#x27;t do as much or sell ads for as much. You can charge more if you know more data about your visitors and can sell the ads to clients under the impression that it&#x27;ll reach the exact demographic they&#x27;re looking for.<p>- For some companies, it&#x27;s already too much of a chore to have an in-house dev team to manage the content website. Have to have _people_ manage all these self hosted ads is not appealing to these companies. Very similar to AWS vs self-hosting<p>- An image is less interactive, so you can&#x27;t sell it for as much. Those big fancy ads that are interactive are sold more many many more times the price as just a single jpg more.<p>- If you&#x27;re &#x27;lucky&#x27; to work in a media org big enough to have a sales team, even they don&#x27;t sell out every single ad placement all the time - there&#x27;s a big tailed on these states they still want to monetise and ad networks helps them do that.<p>That aside, things are changing. Everything on our site happens over HTTPS, which is a plus. We do win &#x27;arguments&#x27; to move things in-house and not served from an ads network, where appropriate. We have an in-house &#x27;studio team&#x27; who creates custom campaigns and creatives for clients, and they&#x27;re almost entirely self hosted.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Puts</author><text>It&#x27;s strange that the most simple and elegant solution to ad-blocking, self hosted ads are not considered by anyone. Magazines and papers have always done this in print. Yes there is overhead, because you have to handle the content manually and it&#x27;s hard, even tough not impossible to measure impressions. But with print it&#x27;s always been this way and now the media industry wants to both have the cake and eat it, because they don&#x27;t want to handle ads but they want the revenue.<p>And maybe I should clarify, how does self-hosted ads solve the problem?<p>- It&#x27;s hard to block ads on the same domain as the main content.<p>- Just loading an image with an ad is not as much of an performance hit as javascript loaded tracking ads and thus should not annoy users as much.<p>- More secure, because you can not hack one single ad service and distribute mallware to thousands of sites. Besides, the solution is less complex, and complexity always leads to bad security.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers</title><url>http://www.cjr.org/opinion/ad_blockers_malware_new_york_times.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mjevans</author><text>Ads really need to be put on a diet.<p>* Either a &#x2F;static&#x2F; image or colored text<p>* Normalized (re-packed, stripped of all other data, etc)<p>* Vetted by a human somewhere to not be &#x27;misleading in appearance&#x27; (not checking facts, but making sure that it doesn&#x27;t look like a download button or anything else not obviously an ad)<p>* Based on the content of the context and nothing else (you can bake them statically based on the story and&#x2F;or comments thread on the page)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Puts</author><text>It&#x27;s strange that the most simple and elegant solution to ad-blocking, self hosted ads are not considered by anyone. Magazines and papers have always done this in print. Yes there is overhead, because you have to handle the content manually and it&#x27;s hard, even tough not impossible to measure impressions. But with print it&#x27;s always been this way and now the media industry wants to both have the cake and eat it, because they don&#x27;t want to handle ads but they want the revenue.<p>And maybe I should clarify, how does self-hosted ads solve the problem?<p>- It&#x27;s hard to block ads on the same domain as the main content.<p>- Just loading an image with an ad is not as much of an performance hit as javascript loaded tracking ads and thus should not annoy users as much.<p>- More secure, because you can not hack one single ad service and distribute mallware to thousands of sites. Besides, the solution is less complex, and complexity always leads to bad security.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers</title><url>http://www.cjr.org/opinion/ad_blockers_malware_new_york_times.php</url></story> |
27,898,306 | 27,898,166 | 1 | 2 | 27,896,541 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antisol</author><text>I&#x27;d just like to add to this that ftp is a relatively simple protocol, not particularly complicated to implement. It&#x27;s not a constantly fluctuating standard that requires a team of 50 developers to keep pace with. Supporting FTP isn&#x27;t some big technical challenge. The code has been there in the firefox codebase for nearly 20 years now, running just fine. All you need to do to continue to support ftp is nothing at all. If having the small amount of code to do FTP support in there is making your job really hard, that would seem to indicate to me that you&#x27;re not very good at your job.<p>I also find the incredibly vague and nonspecific &quot;but security!&quot; scaremongering language to be quite hyperbolic, a repeat of the borderline lies mozilla peddled when they decided to dump xul for webextensions.<p>It seems to me that the removal of features like this amounts to &quot;I don&#x27;t use&#x2F;understand it, therefore I&#x27;m going to assume it&#x27;s not useful to anybody&quot;.<p>Of course, Mozilla being out of touch with its user base is hardly news, so this comes as no surprise at all to me.<p><i>(While I&#x27;m talking about browsers and particularly mozilla, I&#x27;d just like to take a moment to congratulate them on finally getting their market share down below that of edge. They&#x27;ve been working hard at driving firefox into the ground for a long time now, and I&#x27;m sure they must be feeling very proud to have finally achieved this important milestone in their seemingly unending quest to achieve that holy grail of 0 users. So I&#x27;d just like to say: Nice work, Mozilla!)</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>FTP has been related to web browsing since the beginning of the web 31 years ago. For maybe a decade (the first third of the web so far), <i>most</i> of the WWW was on FTP servers—not just most software downloads, but also most HTML pages. Web browsers are a <i>much better</i> interface to FTP servers than dedicated FTP clients, because you can click a link on an HTML page (either a statically generated directory, possibly on the FTP server itself, or a dynamically generated search result page) and get the file from the FTP server.<p>There are a few people commenting with nonsense like this:<p>&gt; <i>You can configure Firefox to open &quot;ftp:&#x2F;&#x2F;&quot; links with the client of your choice. This is a non-issue.</i><p>That&#x27;s absolutely useless if the client of your choice can&#x27;t render HTML and the ftp:&#x2F;&#x2F; link is to an HTML file.<p>The fundamental idea of the WWW project was that it provided a <i>universal</i>, <i>uniform</i> interface to all the information on the internet, <i>regardless of protocol</i>. This move amounts to Firefox abandoning that vision. Abandoning Gopher was maybe reasonable—there just aren&#x27;t that many Gopher servers out there—but FTP is still a widely used protocol.<p>More broadly, this is a tradeoff between the traditional vision of the WWW as a vast library, in which human knowledge accumulates over time and becomes accessible to all, and the strip-mall vision of the WWW as a means to sell people things they don&#x27;t need. This move amounts to burning down a wing of the library (or, at least, its card catalog) because it wasn&#x27;t profitable enough. Or because people keep getting mugged there, I guess.<p>This kind of intentional functionality regression is precisely the kind of thing I use free software to avoid.</text></item><item><author>acabal</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand all the negativity around this. People complained when Firefox added Pocket, in part because they took a browser extension and made it a feature that was ostensibly unrelated to web browsing. Now they&#x27;re taking an old feature that&#x27;s <i>definitely</i> not related to web browsing and removing it, and people are still complaining?<p>Firefox can&#x27;t be everything. It should focus on being a great browser and not a great browser and also great FTP client, or a great browser and also a great feed reader, or a great browser and also a great mail client. People using FTP can use a dedicated client, of which there are plenty on every platform, and people who don&#x27;t use FTP (i.e. the vast, vast majority of web browser users) won&#x27;t even notice.<p>A modern web browser is probably some of the most complex software humanity has invented yet, besides a full-scale OS. Taking a maintenance burden that&#x27;s unrelated to the core browser product of a struggling NFP should be welcomed with a sigh of relief.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/07/20/stopping-ftp-support-in-firefox-90/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>Firefox didn&#x27;t support directly opening and rendering HTML files via ftp:&#x2F;&#x2F; URLs anyways, it&#x27;d just download them like a normal FTP client. I can&#x27;t even remember the last browser I used that supported that. You can&#x27;t kill what has been dead for decades already.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>FTP has been related to web browsing since the beginning of the web 31 years ago. For maybe a decade (the first third of the web so far), <i>most</i> of the WWW was on FTP servers—not just most software downloads, but also most HTML pages. Web browsers are a <i>much better</i> interface to FTP servers than dedicated FTP clients, because you can click a link on an HTML page (either a statically generated directory, possibly on the FTP server itself, or a dynamically generated search result page) and get the file from the FTP server.<p>There are a few people commenting with nonsense like this:<p>&gt; <i>You can configure Firefox to open &quot;ftp:&#x2F;&#x2F;&quot; links with the client of your choice. This is a non-issue.</i><p>That&#x27;s absolutely useless if the client of your choice can&#x27;t render HTML and the ftp:&#x2F;&#x2F; link is to an HTML file.<p>The fundamental idea of the WWW project was that it provided a <i>universal</i>, <i>uniform</i> interface to all the information on the internet, <i>regardless of protocol</i>. This move amounts to Firefox abandoning that vision. Abandoning Gopher was maybe reasonable—there just aren&#x27;t that many Gopher servers out there—but FTP is still a widely used protocol.<p>More broadly, this is a tradeoff between the traditional vision of the WWW as a vast library, in which human knowledge accumulates over time and becomes accessible to all, and the strip-mall vision of the WWW as a means to sell people things they don&#x27;t need. This move amounts to burning down a wing of the library (or, at least, its card catalog) because it wasn&#x27;t profitable enough. Or because people keep getting mugged there, I guess.<p>This kind of intentional functionality regression is precisely the kind of thing I use free software to avoid.</text></item><item><author>acabal</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand all the negativity around this. People complained when Firefox added Pocket, in part because they took a browser extension and made it a feature that was ostensibly unrelated to web browsing. Now they&#x27;re taking an old feature that&#x27;s <i>definitely</i> not related to web browsing and removing it, and people are still complaining?<p>Firefox can&#x27;t be everything. It should focus on being a great browser and not a great browser and also great FTP client, or a great browser and also a great feed reader, or a great browser and also a great mail client. People using FTP can use a dedicated client, of which there are plenty on every platform, and people who don&#x27;t use FTP (i.e. the vast, vast majority of web browser users) won&#x27;t even notice.<p>A modern web browser is probably some of the most complex software humanity has invented yet, besides a full-scale OS. Taking a maintenance burden that&#x27;s unrelated to the core browser product of a struggling NFP should be welcomed with a sigh of relief.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/07/20/stopping-ftp-support-in-firefox-90/</url></story> |
35,857,862 | 35,858,000 | 1 | 2 | 35,857,295 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Seattle3503</author><text>Something that I found interesting moving into the financial sector is that some individuals at the bank can be held personally liable for bad decisions. For example, top compliance officers at a bank can be held liable if it later turns out terrorists (or the like) were able to bypass bank controls. This is supposed to engender good risk management around compliance risk.<p>If we can do it for compliance officers, why not for CEOs? The average citizen is more likely to be harmed by financial collapse than a terrorist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>&gt; Charlie Munger, the Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman and Buffett’s right-hand man, echoed his concerns, telling the meeting: “I don’t think having a bunch of bankers, all of whom are trying to get rich, leads to good things. I think bankers should be more like an engineer, avoiding trouble rather than trying to get rich … It’s a contradiction in values.”<p>It&#x27;s a good comparison. Engineers can be personally liable if they are negligent in their jobs. Why not bankers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US banking crisis: Warren Buffett says bosses should face ‘punishment’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/07/us-banking-crisis-warren-buffett-says-bosses-should-face-punishment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spamizbad</author><text>Engineering is significantly more intellectually rigorous than banking and finance. I&#x27;m not trying to say bankers a dumb or anything - far from it. They&#x27;re quite smart, and they know their industry well, but engineering enjoys the privilege of sitting on top of &quot;hard science&quot; and mathematic whereas banking has... economics?<p>Imagine the field of engineering in a world where science still debated whether the world was flat or round, or whether empiricism was even worth the trouble in physical sciences (and if you felt strongly one way or another you were considered an ideologue) -- that&#x27;s where economics is today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>&gt; Charlie Munger, the Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman and Buffett’s right-hand man, echoed his concerns, telling the meeting: “I don’t think having a bunch of bankers, all of whom are trying to get rich, leads to good things. I think bankers should be more like an engineer, avoiding trouble rather than trying to get rich … It’s a contradiction in values.”<p>It&#x27;s a good comparison. Engineers can be personally liable if they are negligent in their jobs. Why not bankers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US banking crisis: Warren Buffett says bosses should face ‘punishment’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/07/us-banking-crisis-warren-buffett-says-bosses-should-face-punishment</url></story> |
23,792,348 | 23,791,576 | 1 | 2 | 23,791,139 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text>I work in this industry and generally agree with your assessment.<p>However a few things, the general industry perspective went like this:<p>1. David Katzenberg and Meg Whitman were creating a consumer service targeting a demographic they don&#x27;t fit in a field they&#x27;ve not worked in. (Consumer apps for a younger demographic)<p>2. They got 1.8 Billion in funding. For fuck&#x27;s sake you should get one breakout hit piece of content from that. (Note Apple is struggling a bit with this one too). With the funding, hype and content they&#x27;ve spent on the expectations are going to be pretty damn astronomical, they brought high expectations on themselves.<p>3. Their entire premise was based on this concept of quick bites of content. With an almost 2 billion dollar war chest the right thing to do would have been to test this theory maybe? Roll out a single show first, backfilled with some news? Get some feedback maybe?<p>Quibi is led by some serious heavy hitters, so its not spoken much out loud but I think a lot of folks in the industry felt this play was based mostly on hubris and now there&#x27;s a certain sense of schadenfreude as they start to flail.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ObsoleteNerd</author><text>8% is not a terrible conversion rate at all, and they’ve only just started. I’m not a Quibi user and have no vested interest in them either way but this is the third different article I’ve seen in the last week or 2 talking about how terrible they’re doing and now they’re about to crash and burn, because of an 8% conversion?<p>Comparing them to Disney is ridiculous too, it’s Disney! With multiple generations obsessed with their library and people literally counting down the days until their launch, they got a 10% conversion... but 8% is horrible and the end of Quibi?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/8/21318060/quibi-subscriber-count-free-trial-paying-users-conversion-rate</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>The recent major articles about Quibi being a disaster are not been about conversion rate, but about its huge costs combined with questionable proposition (which was particularly affected by quarantine life changes), and its poor performance on app store charts:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vulture.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;is-anyone-watching-quibi.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vulture.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;is-anyone-watching-quibi.htm...</a><p>&gt; <i>As of early July, over 5 million phones had downloaded the Quibi app. Of those, 1.5 million had registered to use it, and this was with Quibi offering a three-month free trial and doing saturation marketing. (When it paused the marketing during the Black Lives Matter protests, Quibi’s App Store ranking fell to No. 1,477.) In light of its disappointing user numbers, Quibi’s advertisers have reportedly asked to renegotiate their deals. The company was forced to go into capital-conservation mode. Executives took a 10 percent pay cut.</i><p>Also, 8% does not sound like a good conversion rate for the entertainment industry, even ignoring the disparity between subscription revenue and the hundreds of millions already spent for content:<p>&gt; *Meanwhile, the 90-day free trials will begin expiring this month. The industry conversion rate from a free trial to a paid subscription hovers below 33 percent. According to research firm Parks Associates, if that holds true for Quibi, it could mean less than 500,000 people would be watching a network that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on brand-new premium content.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ObsoleteNerd</author><text>8% is not a terrible conversion rate at all, and they’ve only just started. I’m not a Quibi user and have no vested interest in them either way but this is the third different article I’ve seen in the last week or 2 talking about how terrible they’re doing and now they’re about to crash and burn, because of an 8% conversion?<p>Comparing them to Disney is ridiculous too, it’s Disney! With multiple generations obsessed with their library and people literally counting down the days until their launch, they got a 10% conversion... but 8% is horrible and the end of Quibi?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/8/21318060/quibi-subscriber-count-free-trial-paying-users-conversion-rate</url></story> |
14,527,490 | 14,525,935 | 1 | 3 | 14,524,636 | 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>pflats</author><text>I hate these articles. They give people a lot more hope than they probably should.<p>Keytruda&#x2F;pembrolizumab is not new. It&#x27;s the same drug that Jimmy Carter famously took for his melanoma. It and Opdivo&#x2F;nivolumab are PD-1 inhibitors that are amazing developments in treating late-stage cancer that doesn&#x27;t respond to chemotherapy.<p>They&#x27;re also not the miracle that news articles like to breathlessly push. This one does a decent job of pointing out that this is the first time a drug has been approved to treat cancer based on its genetic profile, rather than the type of cancer. That&#x27;s an awesome development!<p>But then you get language like this:<p>&quot;All carried genetic mutations that disrupted the ability of cells to fix damaged DNA. And all were enrolled in a trial of a drug that helps the immune system attack tumors.<p>The results, published on Thursday in the journal Science, are so striking that the Food and Drug Administration already has approved the drug, pembrolizumab, brand name Keytruda, for patients whose cancers arise from the same genetic abnormality.&quot;<p>Compared to the abstract:<p>&quot;Objective radiographic responses were observed in 53% of patients and complete responses were achieved in 21% of patients.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s around the 30% success rate these drugs usually have. They&#x27;re great, and they can change your life - if you&#x27;re one of the lucky ones. If you have a family member that needs this treatment, I hope it works.<p>But it&#x27;s a lot of money and a lot of hope for a treatment with some rough side effects that for the average patient will either do nothing or give them a few more months to live.<p>It&#x27;s a development, a great one, but the reports really need to rein in their enthusiasm. I&#x27;d be curious to see the entire statements the doctors in the article made, because I imagine they were more tempered than the selected quotations imply.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cancer Drug Proves to Be Effective Against Multiple Tumors</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/health/cancer-drug-keytruda-tumors.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=none&state=standard&contentPlacement=19&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F06%2F08%2Fhealth%2Fcancer-drug-keytruda-tumors.html&eventName=Watching-article-click</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hentrep</author><text>This is a great move toward biomarker-driven, tumor-site agnostic targeted therapies in oncology. I attended ASCO 2017 last week, where LOXO showcased data from larotrectinib in a variety of adult and pediatric indications with Trk-fusions. The waterfall plot is fairly impressive, and I&#x27;d be shocked if this drug was not the next to be approved across cancers based on biomarker status alone. A decent summary about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;endpts.com&#x2F;loxo-takes-center-stage-at-asco-with-its-groundbreaking-shot-at-a-biomarker-based-cancer-drug-approval&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;endpts.com&#x2F;loxo-takes-center-stage-at-asco-with-its-...</a>
Company presentation here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loxooncology.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;Hyman_Larotrectinib_ASCO_2017_FINAL.PDF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loxooncology.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;Hyman_Larotr...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cancer Drug Proves to Be Effective Against Multiple Tumors</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/health/cancer-drug-keytruda-tumors.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=none&state=standard&contentPlacement=19&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F06%2F08%2Fhealth%2Fcancer-drug-keytruda-tumors.html&eventName=Watching-article-click</url></story> |
37,249,864 | 37,250,136 | 1 | 3 | 37,249,110 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gspencley</author><text>This. Apart from not wanting to be tethered to my phone 24&#x2F;7, I don&#x27;t like that it is a single point of failure. It has replaced our wallets and then some. The most terrifying prospect to me is governments that want to switch to digital IDs. No thanks. I don&#x27;t need to lose access to existence just because my battery died or I forgot my phone at home.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abwizz</author><text>no turn it around<p>your phone just broke&#x2F;stolen&#x2F;lost, do you forfeit your right to enter these places and use their services some of which might be &quot;essential&quot;?</text></item><item><author>rattlesnakedave</author><text>This has not been my experience. Paying for admission to museums&#x2F;sporting events I apple pay from safari on my phone then am presented with a QR or a pass to add to my apple wallet. It&#x27;s really nice and I much prefer it to standing in line.</text></item><item><author>strict9</author><text>Seeing more of this at museums and institutions as well which is really disheartening.<p>Gone are the days where you could pay at the door. Now you must go to their website and fill out a long string of forms and manually type in your credit card number, all so you can get a QR code and wait even longer to enter.<p>Or go to a restaurant and use your phone to scan a QR code to read their PDF menu on your phone.<p>Once a refuge from always-connected society, restaurants and museums now require it and I&#x27;m finding myself not returning to these places.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/20/no-app-no-entry-how-the-digital-world-is-failing-the-non-tech-savvy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Karunamon</author><text>I see it as similar to what happens when your credit card gets messed up or won&#x27;t read anymore. It&#x27;s a similar level of inconvenience.<p>That said, I have found it easier to replace a phone on short notice than a card. Banks seem to want to do everything through the mail, where I can walk into any carriers store and walk out with a replacement device the same day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abwizz</author><text>no turn it around<p>your phone just broke&#x2F;stolen&#x2F;lost, do you forfeit your right to enter these places and use their services some of which might be &quot;essential&quot;?</text></item><item><author>rattlesnakedave</author><text>This has not been my experience. Paying for admission to museums&#x2F;sporting events I apple pay from safari on my phone then am presented with a QR or a pass to add to my apple wallet. It&#x27;s really nice and I much prefer it to standing in line.</text></item><item><author>strict9</author><text>Seeing more of this at museums and institutions as well which is really disheartening.<p>Gone are the days where you could pay at the door. Now you must go to their website and fill out a long string of forms and manually type in your credit card number, all so you can get a QR code and wait even longer to enter.<p>Or go to a restaurant and use your phone to scan a QR code to read their PDF menu on your phone.<p>Once a refuge from always-connected society, restaurants and museums now require it and I&#x27;m finding myself not returning to these places.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/20/no-app-no-entry-how-the-digital-world-is-failing-the-non-tech-savvy</url></story> |
39,932,526 | 39,932,602 | 1 | 3 | 39,928,913 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>They didn’t believe in advertising either, but I’m getting alot of it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjulius</author><text>&gt;PR more than anything.<p>Tesla doesn&#x27;t believe in PR[1].<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-department-manipulating-public-opinion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-dep...</a></text></item><item><author>ado__dev</author><text>PR more than anything. Tesla growth story is pretty much over, many people turned off the brand for a multitude of reasons (Musk, terrible service, price, lack of innovation, more EV competition). So if anything a good opportunity for Tesla to win some PR, potentially expand partnership, sell more cars.<p>Now they get more bad news &quot;rental company dumps Tesla because of XYZ&quot;, the used market took a big hit as well pissing off existing owners, and I feel like this pushes newer buyers even more away.</text></item><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>In what way would that have benefited Tesla more than the current situation?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation</i><p>I&#x27;m surprised Tesla and Hertz couldn&#x27;t work out a deal, <i>e.g.</i> reimbursement or a large discount on additional purchases that would wipe out the accounting charge. Rental vehicles are a sales channel for new vehicles. And every Hertz Tesla being dumped on the secondary market is new-vehicle profit Tesla could have booked.</text></item><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>The article posits charging as the problem but that&#x27;s not actually true.<p>The issue was twofold:
1. Repair cost and parts availability. Fleet damage was more expensive to repair and took longer. That means more of the fleet is offline at any given time and cost to operate is a bit higher.
2. Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation. The cars resale value dropped faster than they anticipated.<p>Car and RV rental companies have this problem. People don&#x27;t want to rent ragged out vehicles. In the case of RVs units for rental are built extra cheap so they don&#x27;t last anyway. The model is get more in rent then you lose in depreciation then dump the vehicle. In the case of RVs they often turnover the entire fleet yearly.<p>The real killer was no doubt depreciation. That breaks the whole rental car model.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-03/hertz-htz-selling-electric-cars-ends-its-failed-tesla-bet</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FireBeyond</author><text>LOL. Tesla believes heavily in PR, Musk just doesn&#x27;t believe in PR departments.<p>That&#x27;s why if you&#x27;re involved in a Tesla accident, even a fatal one, Tesla will have no hesitation holding a press conference, pulling vehicle telemetry, to make sure that (rightly or wrongly) blame goes to you as the driver and not Tesla.<p>They&#x27;ll make statements like &quot;Autopilot wasn&#x27;t to blame here. The vehicle had warned the driver of his inattentiveness&quot;, and the Tesla fans will nod their heads, reassured.<p>What will later come out will be that Autopilot was active, and that while a driver attention (steering wheel) warning had occurred on the fateful trip, it had happened ONCE, and that that one time was EIGHTEEN MINUTES prior to the collision.<p>But there won&#x27;t be a press conference to correct those details.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjulius</author><text>&gt;PR more than anything.<p>Tesla doesn&#x27;t believe in PR[1].<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-department-manipulating-public-opinion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-dep...</a></text></item><item><author>ado__dev</author><text>PR more than anything. Tesla growth story is pretty much over, many people turned off the brand for a multitude of reasons (Musk, terrible service, price, lack of innovation, more EV competition). So if anything a good opportunity for Tesla to win some PR, potentially expand partnership, sell more cars.<p>Now they get more bad news &quot;rental company dumps Tesla because of XYZ&quot;, the used market took a big hit as well pissing off existing owners, and I feel like this pushes newer buyers even more away.</text></item><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>In what way would that have benefited Tesla more than the current situation?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation</i><p>I&#x27;m surprised Tesla and Hertz couldn&#x27;t work out a deal, <i>e.g.</i> reimbursement or a large discount on additional purchases that would wipe out the accounting charge. Rental vehicles are a sales channel for new vehicles. And every Hertz Tesla being dumped on the secondary market is new-vehicle profit Tesla could have booked.</text></item><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>The article posits charging as the problem but that&#x27;s not actually true.<p>The issue was twofold:
1. Repair cost and parts availability. Fleet damage was more expensive to repair and took longer. That means more of the fleet is offline at any given time and cost to operate is a bit higher.
2. Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation. The cars resale value dropped faster than they anticipated.<p>Car and RV rental companies have this problem. People don&#x27;t want to rent ragged out vehicles. In the case of RVs units for rental are built extra cheap so they don&#x27;t last anyway. The model is get more in rent then you lose in depreciation then dump the vehicle. In the case of RVs they often turnover the entire fleet yearly.<p>The real killer was no doubt depreciation. That breaks the whole rental car model.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-03/hertz-htz-selling-electric-cars-ends-its-failed-tesla-bet</url></story> |
11,845,292 | 11,843,177 | 1 | 2 | 11,842,799 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thinkloop</author><text>&gt; &quot;Figures like this show that cancer is not only extremely pervasive, but also becoming more and more common. But why will so many people develop the disease at some point in their lives?&quot;<p>You&#x27;re right, the article did a bit of trickery here conflating general human evolution, with the main point of the article about cancer&#x27;s isolated evolution within the host. The line that attempts to support this follows:<p>&quot;Large and complicated animals like humans [aka lots of &#x27;evolution&#x27;] are vulnerable to cancer precisely because they are large and complicated&quot;.<p>This claim is not supported by the article, and not the main point - but it&#x27;s also just part of the intro and doesn&#x27;t take away much either, chalk it up to journalistic creativity.<p>&gt; &quot;The fact that tumours are constantly changing their genetic makeup is one of the reasons why cancers are so hard to &quot;kill&quot;<p>That&#x27;s what tfa is all about. In summary:<p>- cancers reproduce&#x2F;evolve within a host optimizing against the body&#x27;s defenses as well as the treatments we provide<p>- our treatments are effective at first, but since the cancer keeps evolving, they are all eventually rendered useless<p>- if the evolution is the problem, what if we try stopping that?<p>And that&#x27;s what they&#x27;re studying:<p>- find the specific meds that stop a particular cancer by giving them to the patient and seeing if it kills it<p>- as soon as u find them, stop giving them, so that the cancer doesn&#x27;t go into hyper evolution against them<p>- let the cancer grow fat and lazy suffocating itself with a high-proportion of easily killable cells<p>- re-apply the medicine in full force to kill the whole thing</text><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>These two paragraphs don&#x27;t follow:<p>&quot;Figures like this show that cancer is not only extremely pervasive, but also becoming more and more common. But why will so many people develop the disease at some point in their lives?&quot;<p>&quot;The fact that tumours are constantly changing their genetic makeup is one of the reasons why cancers are so hard to &quot;kill&quot;.<p>The article&#x27;s faulty reasoning seems to imply that cancer is more and more common because of evolution. The scientist&#x27;s work is examining the evolution of a cancer&#x27;s cells since its initial genesis in the patient. Unless cancer is transmissible between individuals, there is no on-going evolution in cancer that is making it more efficient across the pathology of multiple patients. Thus, this doesn&#x27;t add much to our knowledge of why cancer is more and more common.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How cancer was created by evolution</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160601-is-cancer-inevitable</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddebernardy</author><text>The article addresses why it&#x27;s more and more common. Specifically, it suggests our cells haven&#x27;t evolved to live that long, so if you&#x27;re older than 40, then at some point or another your cells will mutate - which may or may not get the attention of your immune system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>These two paragraphs don&#x27;t follow:<p>&quot;Figures like this show that cancer is not only extremely pervasive, but also becoming more and more common. But why will so many people develop the disease at some point in their lives?&quot;<p>&quot;The fact that tumours are constantly changing their genetic makeup is one of the reasons why cancers are so hard to &quot;kill&quot;.<p>The article&#x27;s faulty reasoning seems to imply that cancer is more and more common because of evolution. The scientist&#x27;s work is examining the evolution of a cancer&#x27;s cells since its initial genesis in the patient. Unless cancer is transmissible between individuals, there is no on-going evolution in cancer that is making it more efficient across the pathology of multiple patients. Thus, this doesn&#x27;t add much to our knowledge of why cancer is more and more common.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How cancer was created by evolution</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160601-is-cancer-inevitable</url></story> |
32,380,682 | 32,380,461 | 1 | 2 | 32,379,764 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>A proper carbon tax would only increase flight costs by about 8%, since there&#x27;s lots of other costs than fuel.<p>People don&#x27;t seem to believe that though. Because a carbon tax high enough to make your flight cast 8% more, would totally destroy the fossil fuel industry, as everyone would suddenly have a financial incentive to burn less of it, and there&#x27;s alternatives for almost all uses. And so, a measure that would kill the fossil fuel industry, and not really bother any other industry, is portrayed as an impossible dream because the fossil fuel industry has a lot of money and power.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing</title><url>https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/04/offsetting-greenwashing-carbon-emissions</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Comevius</author><text>The problem with climate change is that it creates a reality distortion field. Anyone who would honestly try to think about it would give up on life, so instead we have this fake optimism accompanied by fake solutions, basically a fantasy not unlike Harry Potter. Those 2 billion new cars aren&#x27;t going to help the environment, which is already on the fritz, but if they are electric that means we are on the right path to the unicorn to come and fix everything. Which is great because then we don&#x27;t have to change our way of life.<p>Meanwhile the world is less organized than ever.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing</title><url>https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/04/offsetting-greenwashing-carbon-emissions</url></story> |
14,072,468 | 14,072,520 | 1 | 2 | 14,072,166 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>srean</author><text>For gcc-4.3 this was a no contest, clang was clearly better. However, gcc has made up a lot of ground over the years, to the point that I now consider gcc&#x27;s template based error messaes better. It is very difficult to keep personal judgement and tastes out of the equation so ymmv.<p>If the error message of one is not very illuminating I often try the other compiler on the same piece of code. It is a good practice anyway and I should be doing more of that.<p>One claim that everyone will stand by is that the competition between the two has been a huge help.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Bino</author><text>If you compare (gcc7 and latest clang), how much in pair is gcc with clang in terms of compilation warnings? (One of the most valuable tool of a compiler). I&#x27;m really happy they are moving in the same direction; I&#x27;ve been worried about gcc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GCC 7 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes</title><url>https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.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>lorenzhs</author><text>They&#x27;re both very good now. Sometimes the error messages of one are clearer than the other&#x27;s, sometimes it&#x27;s the other way around. If I don&#x27;t immediately find the cause in a long templatey error, I&#x27;ll just check the other compiler&#x27;s message. Having both messages can be surprisingly helpful :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Bino</author><text>If you compare (gcc7 and latest clang), how much in pair is gcc with clang in terms of compilation warnings? (One of the most valuable tool of a compiler). I&#x27;m really happy they are moving in the same direction; I&#x27;ve been worried about gcc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GCC 7 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes</title><url>https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html</url></story> |
7,251,024 | 7,251,006 | 1 | 2 | 7,250,996 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>On the more prosaic end of the scale:<p>Bingo Card Creator, circa early 2007: <a href="http://www.bingocardcreator.com/old-site/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bingocardcreator.com&#x2F;old-site&#x2F;index.htm</a><p>It doesn&#x27;t exactly scream &quot;This will certainly sell a quarter million of software, allow you to quit your day job, and fund your software business.&quot;<p>You&#x27;d find similar things floating around if you were to look at the early history of most companies which are widely idolized in our space. Nobody ships perfection on day 1. Luckily, customers are happy to pay for imperfect things.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Early screenshots of Twitter ('06), Facebook ('05), and Tumblr ('07)</title><url>http://imgur.com/a/Sg8y7#0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>panabee</author><text>Initially, it doesn&#x27;t matter how your product looks if people want it. It would be cool to see early screenshots of other popular services like LinkedIn and Dropbox. Proper credit goes to reddit user, cmdrNacho, as the link was found here: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1y1f3n/if_you_could_give_yourself_one_piece_of_advice/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;startups&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1y1f3n&#x2F;if_you_coul...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Early screenshots of Twitter ('06), Facebook ('05), and Tumblr ('07)</title><url>http://imgur.com/a/Sg8y7#0</url></story> |
7,962,323 | 7,962,082 | 1 | 2 | 7,961,948 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scottc</author><text>It needs to be mentioned, if not for comments here then at least the comments on his own blog, that the author was not someone who simply dabbled in .NET and is trying to bash it for the sake of bashing something. The author, Johnathan Oliver (no, not that one), is an absolute authority on distributed architecture and created what became one of the biggest open-source projects in .NET (<a href="https://github.com/NEventStore/NEventStore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NEventStore&#x2F;NEventStore</a> - originally joliver&#x2F;eventstore).<p>His work had a significant impact on my adoption of CQRS and Event Sourcing, patterns that are becoming very popular in Java, Scala, .NET, and to my surprise, Node. I&#x27;ve been happily programming in python for the last year and happy to see CQRS is starting to get more recognition in the community. I&#x27;m going to do what I can to help build its momentum, but it certainly doesn&#x27;t have the same adoption compared to the .NET community.<p>So, when someone who has done so much work in the framework starts to question it, I will certainly give their opinion some thought instead of firing a retort:<p>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s OK to rant but at least get your facts straight. The rest of your rant looks quite foolish as well. For example, firing up a Windows VM is rather fast if you try it in Azure.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I Left the .NET Framework</title><url>http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/why-i-left-dot-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>com2kid</author><text>Some really good criticisms, but I do wonder how long ago this developer left .NET.<p>.NET is now heavily async based. WPF may have started it years ago, but async has been a keyword in the language for quite awhile! (I haven&#x27;t used a proper lock in ages. Event queues are where it is at! Or pick your favorite paradigm, heck the framework comes with thread pools built in that it&#x27;ll juggle for you!)<p>In regards to .csproj and .sln files, they serve the same purpose as make files. .csproj files (and .*proj files in general) are incredibly powerful, you do not even need to use Visual Studio with them. They interact with MSBuild to do some insanely extensible things.<p>That said, merging .sln files is horrible, the bloody file format has an element that is a count of project element nodes in that same solution file, if two people try to check in a new project to a solution at the same time, the project count field gets corrupted and life gets seriously un-fun. :( The SLN file has a number of other issues as well, ugh! But .csproj files are pretty nifty, no worse than any other makefile replacement.<p>As for Visual Studio, I run it just fine on my Ultrabook! Huge project, it works well. Not perfect, but good enough. VS2013 fixed some very blatent threading bugs that VS2012 had in its UI (oops!) and things are generally snappier now.<p>Oh and VS support for git has been around for awhile. :) TFS also has really good git support, it has been improving with every version and it is now at a really good place.<p>All in all though, some very good points of criticism! No programming language ecosystem is perfect! (Disclaimer: I m mostly use .NET for client apps, I haven&#x27;t done server .NET stuff since 2.0!)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I Left the .NET Framework</title><url>http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/why-i-left-dot-net</url></story> |
5,920,940 | 5,920,938 | 1 | 3 | 5,920,530 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text><i>How, in short, is this shit valid under the U.S. Bill of Rights? I’d really like someone to explain that to me. With a straight face. Preferably without making me want to punch them in the process.</i><p>Well, he&#x27;s going to want to punch me, but here&#x27;s what I think(?) the answer is:<p>(a) He&#x27;s not a US person, but instead a well-known citizen of Iceland, living abroad, and is thus not protected by the Fourth Amendment, at least to the extent that anything in the Fourth Amendment conflicts with any interest of the US.<p>(b) He&#x27;s a person of interest in the investigation of one of the most significant leaks of national security information in US history.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Confirmed Assumptions or, Not Trusting Google is a Good Idea</title><url>http://anarchism.is/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnosis</author><text>Google is spyware.<p>This has been obvious for a long time.<p>Most other &quot;free&quot; web services aren&#x27;t much better.<p>It&#x27;s sad that it&#x27;s taken so long for people to start realizing and caring about this, but better late than never.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Confirmed Assumptions or, Not Trusting Google is a Good Idea</title><url>http://anarchism.is/</url></story> |
9,960,076 | 9,959,977 | 1 | 3 | 9,959,451 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>They&#x27;re far and away the most convenient payment method in the US, both for customers and merchants.<p>They work globally, for values of &quot;globally&quot; which include &quot;most parts of the first world which you, as someone in the middle or upper middle class, are likely to find yourself in.&quot; You can take a wee little bit of plastic issued by a small bank in central Japan and buy dinner in Prague or take a cab in Portland.<p>They are the cheapest way to access short-term credit, which is an astoundingly useful thing to have available. Poor folks in the US pay through the nose for it; middle class folks pay an amount between &quot;It&#x27;s literally a we-pay-you-to-access-it situation&quot; and &quot;A relatively modest APR in the teens, which -- in real terms -- means you can borrow $2k for an unanticipated expense without anyone judging you and it will cost you ~$25 a month.&quot; (Examples of unanticipated expenses can include medical expenses, car repairs which are necessary to continue one&#x27;s employment, responding to sudden family emergencies like e.g. a parent&#x27;s stroke while you&#x27;re a student living in another state, etc.)<p>A credit card amounts to a no-haggling 1% discount on all your spending.<p>They create an instant, durable record of all spending, which is very useful for e.g. businesses or individuals who are attempting to budget better.<p><i>Why would anyone ever want debt?</i><p>I get the mindset behind this; I was terrified of debt growing up, for family&#x2F;cultural reasons. I&#x27;ve matured a bit in my relationship with debt as a businessman. $100 in interest is not morally different than $100 in SaaS expenses. If it allows you to grow the business faster than you would be able to from your cash flow, than it&#x27;s not a particularly difficult decision to borrow.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>can somebody explain why we have credit cards to me? Where I live it&#x27;s kinda uncommon and I can&#x27;t even get one as a student. And I never saw the need for one either as we can just pay everything with direct bank transfers. And yes you can undo bank transfers.<p>I just don&#x27;t get the obsession? Why would anyone ever want debt? We have money to pay for stuff, why not use your money instead?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/technology/stripe-digital-payments-start-up-raises-new-funding-and-partners-with-visa.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>ghshephard</author><text>If you do business travel, and rack up $20k+&#x2F;month expenses (raises hand), credit cards are invaluable. I certainly don&#x27;t want to be extending my company $20K. It was <i>impossible</i> for me to have that much money just sitting around when I was in my 20s, particularly if it took a bit of time for the company to pay me back.<p>From the perspective of a company with hundreds of employees each spending $20k&#x2F;month - this is effectively a $2mm+ interest free 30 day loan from the credit card company.<p>Credit Cards take all the fraud risk. If someone fraudulently uses my credit card number, I am not on the hook for any charges. In Canada, at least, the consumer takes the fraud risk for a debit card. (Actually, for Chip+Pin Credit cards, last time I checked, they were trying to get consumers to take the fraud risk as well - not sure if that went through).<p>Lots of hotels want a credit card, not cash, when you are checking in. Some of then <i>require</i> a credit card, both for reservation, and your stay. I believe that the vast majority of car-rentals require credit cards.<p>Credit cards in the United States are an effective mechanism for young people to jump start their FICO score, which is important if they ever want to get a loan to purchase a home, (I&#x27;m presuming you see the advantage of buying a home with Debt).<p>Credit Cards, between points and various plans, provide 1-2% cash back on your purchases.<p>I can load my Credit Card onto my iPhone. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s possible to do that with a Debit Card.<p>Here in Singapore, OCBC will give me an extra 1% on my savings account with their bank (up to $60K - so, $600&#x2F;year) if I spend $1000&#x2F;month on my credit card. (And 1% cash back on said card for all expenses.)<p>With that said - different places have different culture. Here in Singapore, Lots of Taxi&#x27;s (all of them?) won&#x27;t take Visa Credit cards, and around half of them won&#x27;t take any credit cards. Lots of places (all the hawkers that I&#x27;ve run into) are cash only. In West-Coast Canada, Debit-Cards seem to be pretty popular.<p>But, Net-Net, outside of some of those use cases - I totally agree with you. I don&#x27;t really see the fascination with credit cards either, particularly now that Visa+Debit cards+Chip+Pin+Smart Phones seem to offer a lot of the advantages of Credit Cards.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>can somebody explain why we have credit cards to me? Where I live it&#x27;s kinda uncommon and I can&#x27;t even get one as a student. And I never saw the need for one either as we can just pay everything with direct bank transfers. And yes you can undo bank transfers.<p>I just don&#x27;t get the obsession? Why would anyone ever want debt? We have money to pay for stuff, why not use your money instead?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/technology/stripe-digital-payments-start-up-raises-new-funding-and-partners-with-visa.html</url></story> |
27,901,921 | 27,901,030 | 1 | 2 | 27,894,735 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geokon</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to have complex build&#x2F;test setups with deep directory structures, I&#x27;m really happy this stuff exists and is being enhanced, but the flexibility kinda adds a barrier to getting started. It&#x27;s also important to be able to just drop into a REPL, load some libraries and go.<p>I think the coolest thing in the pipeline is going to be `add-libs`: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideclojure.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;add-lib&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideclojure.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;add-lib&#x2F;</a><p>I made a little orgmode literate demo that is selfcontained (no deps.edn) and even produces some inline SVG <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geokon-gh.github.io&#x2F;literate-clojure.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geokon-gh.github.io&#x2F;literate-clojure.html</a><p>I hope this gets added into `core` and single file Clojure programs become a norm. Right now you still need to add tools.deps.alpha into your default user deps.ends for things to work. If this stuff gets into core you could finally send someone a file&#x2F;gist and they could run it directly. I think that&#x27;d really improve the Clojure ecosystem. You can imagine sharing one-file issues&#x2F;demos&#x2F;examples and people don&#x27;t need to reproduce your local setup or clone a whole repo</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clojure builds as an amalgamation of orthogonal parts</title><url>http://blog.fogus.me/2021/07/20/clojure-builds-as-an-amalgamation-of-orthogonal-parts/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fungiblecog</author><text>What all the critics miss is that Lein is &quot;Easy&quot; but tools.deps, tools.build are &quot;Simple&quot;. Rich wants all of clojure to be built from simple orthogonal parts that compose together. Ideally a multi-purpose tool like leiningen should be built on top of those simple parts. Other tools can re-use those parts in different ways. With Leiningen - its a great tool but it&#x27;s a complex thing that you take on an all-or-nothing basis.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clojure builds as an amalgamation of orthogonal parts</title><url>http://blog.fogus.me/2021/07/20/clojure-builds-as-an-amalgamation-of-orthogonal-parts/</url></story> |
35,166,313 | 35,166,224 | 1 | 2 | 35,165,640 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>account42</author><text>&gt; So it&#x27;s also what real people actually want to use in browsers.<p>I am a real person and I don&#x27;t want this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AshleysBrain</author><text>I agree - the File System Access API with full integration with local files and folders is essential for desktop web apps. Ours[1] supports File System Access for saving and opening projects in Chromium-based browsers, and our stats show a full 65% of users save that way. So it&#x27;s also what real people actually want to use in browsers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construct.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construct.net</a></text></item><item><author>ar9av</author><text>I, on the other hand, am actually annoyed that Mozilla doesn&#x27;t support the File System Access API. I understand that there are security concerns that need to be evaluated more, but the API has to explicitly request for user permissions anyways and has to re-request user permissions when the tab is closed. I&#x27;d much rather live in a world where I can briefly use a web app to do some task than be forced to install a myriad of native desktop apps that have unsandboxed and unpermissioned access to everything on my system.<p>Origin private file system access seems cool, albeit a half measure. Seems like a better alternative than putting blobs into IndexedDB.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_Access_API</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tgv</author><text>I&#x27;m basically against the browser getting too much access, so what is missing in Firefox 111 for your use case? Is it just less convenient for end-users?</text><parent_chain><item><author>AshleysBrain</author><text>I agree - the File System Access API with full integration with local files and folders is essential for desktop web apps. Ours[1] supports File System Access for saving and opening projects in Chromium-based browsers, and our stats show a full 65% of users save that way. So it&#x27;s also what real people actually want to use in browsers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construct.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construct.net</a></text></item><item><author>ar9av</author><text>I, on the other hand, am actually annoyed that Mozilla doesn&#x27;t support the File System Access API. I understand that there are security concerns that need to be evaluated more, but the API has to explicitly request for user permissions anyways and has to re-request user permissions when the tab is closed. I&#x27;d much rather live in a world where I can briefly use a web app to do some task than be forced to install a myriad of native desktop apps that have unsandboxed and unpermissioned access to everything on my system.<p>Origin private file system access seems cool, albeit a half measure. Seems like a better alternative than putting blobs into IndexedDB.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_Access_API</url></story> |
27,156,415 | 27,156,121 | 1 | 2 | 27,155,497 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>&gt; seem to point to ransomware activities being far more coordinated and &quot;business-like&quot; than they often get credit for.<p>This is a business that actually provides better support than a regular business.<p>From conversations with friends in the Infragard side of this, and the agencies that collaborate, they have 24&#x2F;7 English support available before and after payment, as well as decryption remote support if you can&#x27;t get your files decrypted... there are also instances of refunds if they can&#x27;t decrypt your files due to technical issues.<p>Unlike regular businesses, support is a sales channel since it&#x27;s the way to ensure you get paid so a lot of resources go to support activities in these &quot;organizations&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>g_p</author><text>&gt; The REvil representative said its program was introducing new restrictions on the kinds of organizations that affiliates could hold for ransom, and that henceforth it would be forbidden to attack those in the “social sector” (defined as healthcare and educational institutions) and organizations in the “gov-sector” (state) of any country. Affiliates also will be required to get approval before infecting victims.<p>Statements like this seem to point to ransomware activities being far more coordinated and &quot;business-like&quot; than they often get credit for.<p>I do wonder if ransomware is (in a strange way) a(n illegal) free-market response to what is perceived to be an under-valuation of tech skills - aggrieved people who can carry out attacks and gain access to deploy ransomware are likely to be able to earn more through this route, even factoring in their &quot;risk of being caught&quot;.<p>If a market correction occurs (ransomware becomes a real fear, organisations rapidly start to value security skills more and pay &quot;megabucks&quot; for the skills and hire them at-scale), the risk&#x2F;reward of being caught starts to mean access brokers reduce in number, and the compensation reaches a free market equilibrium (accounting for the &quot;getting caught&quot; risk of criminal activity).<p>A lot of the time I still see people trying to hire entry-level people into live&#x2F; operational security roles, without the experience they&#x27;d need. I wonder if this is partly due to a desire to cut costs, rather than accept the need to pay rock-star compensation?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/darkside-ransomware-gang-quits-after-servers-bitcoin-stash-seized/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yebyen</author><text>When I heard that this pipeline company started advertising a job opening for CyberSecurity Advisor in the last few days, and heard today the ransom of about $5 million was paid, my first reaction was to say &quot;I bet the salary for that position is a lot less than $5 million, and I bet the budget for that department will be less, too...&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>g_p</author><text>&gt; The REvil representative said its program was introducing new restrictions on the kinds of organizations that affiliates could hold for ransom, and that henceforth it would be forbidden to attack those in the “social sector” (defined as healthcare and educational institutions) and organizations in the “gov-sector” (state) of any country. Affiliates also will be required to get approval before infecting victims.<p>Statements like this seem to point to ransomware activities being far more coordinated and &quot;business-like&quot; than they often get credit for.<p>I do wonder if ransomware is (in a strange way) a(n illegal) free-market response to what is perceived to be an under-valuation of tech skills - aggrieved people who can carry out attacks and gain access to deploy ransomware are likely to be able to earn more through this route, even factoring in their &quot;risk of being caught&quot;.<p>If a market correction occurs (ransomware becomes a real fear, organisations rapidly start to value security skills more and pay &quot;megabucks&quot; for the skills and hire them at-scale), the risk&#x2F;reward of being caught starts to mean access brokers reduce in number, and the compensation reaches a free market equilibrium (accounting for the &quot;getting caught&quot; risk of criminal activity).<p>A lot of the time I still see people trying to hire entry-level people into live&#x2F; operational security roles, without the experience they&#x27;d need. I wonder if this is partly due to a desire to cut costs, rather than accept the need to pay rock-star compensation?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/darkside-ransomware-gang-quits-after-servers-bitcoin-stash-seized/</url></story> |
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