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24,284,403 | 24,284,075 | 1 | 3 | 24,283,893 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pimterry</author><text>&gt; We think that revoking certificates based on questionable data discredits the certification system.<p>It&#x27;s hard to dispute this imo. There are many good reasons certificates should be revoked, but the reasoning should be 100% public information, for both the vendor and users who may have trusted the original certificate.<p>I&#x27;m building a desktop app, and the process to even get a certificate is absurd. Each CA has their own wildly different processes, and seemingly answers to nobody. I changed cert providers recently after Digicert suddenly raised their prices 400% on a whim, and it took a huge number of changing requirements, phone calls, 3rd parties, and over a month to receive the new one, despite already having an existing verified &amp; still-valid signing certificate with all those details from an equally legitimate provider.<p>I&#x27;d kill to see a modern service a la Let&#x27;s Encrypt but for code signing. Something transparent, reliable, fast &amp; trusted cross-platform (I can dream). Verifying identity is a hard problem, but it&#x27;s really not _that_ hard a problem - there&#x27;s plenty of fintech services that can reliably do sufficient KYC for banking in 5 minutes with a few id details and video call.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Information on the revocation of WinRAR 5.91 digital certificate</title><url>https://www.rarlab.com/revoked591.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>cm2187</author><text>I would have incremented the version number so the likes of Chocolatey would pick it up and replace the version installed with a revoked certificate as part of a regular update.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Information on the revocation of WinRAR 5.91 digital certificate</title><url>https://www.rarlab.com/revoked591.html</url></story> |
7,504,300 | 7,504,298 | 1 | 2 | 7,503,143 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulannesley</author><text>I believe the “When you&#x27;re the good guy …“ quote by Michael German is sarcasm, or perhaps that&#x27;s the wrong word and he&#x27;s speaking from the point of view of Keith Alexander.<p>The article says German is at the Brennan Center for Justice, a civil liberties organization, and believes that Alexander&#x27;s world view &quot;reflects a career in the national security bubble&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcphilip</author><text>There are some real gems in that LAT piece that Greenwald labels as propaganda[1]:<p>&gt;What the Church and Pike committees found&quot; nearly 40 years ago was &quot;that people were doing things that were wrong. That&#x27;s not happening here,&quot; Alexander said.<p>The particular definition of wrong used by Alexander would be interesting to know.<p>&gt;&quot;When you&#x27;re the good guy and you&#x27;re on the side of truth and democracy and the American way, anything that is an impediment to you is naturally bad and needs to be overcome, even if it&#x27;s the law,&quot; German said.<p>Apparently the ability to have private communication digitally is one such annoying impediment.<p>&gt;Now, Russian ground commanders and Al Qaeda cell leaders are on notice that the NSA is nearly everywhere.<p>Those evil Russian ground commanders... One tip for the author of this piece: Snowden leaks enabling child pornographers to avoid surveillance would be a much more effective appeal to emotion than a topical example like renewed fears of Russian aggression that risk fading from the zeitgeist soon!<p>[1]<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-alexander-nsa-20140331,0,3369988,full.story#vcomment" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;nation&#x2F;la-na-alexander-nsa-20140331,0...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA blows its own top secret program in order to propagandize</title><url>https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/31/nsa-worlds-blows-top-secret-program/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yk</author><text>&gt; The particular definition of wrong used by Alexander would be interesting to know.<p>Probably the definition includes, &quot;found in a congressional report.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcphilip</author><text>There are some real gems in that LAT piece that Greenwald labels as propaganda[1]:<p>&gt;What the Church and Pike committees found&quot; nearly 40 years ago was &quot;that people were doing things that were wrong. That&#x27;s not happening here,&quot; Alexander said.<p>The particular definition of wrong used by Alexander would be interesting to know.<p>&gt;&quot;When you&#x27;re the good guy and you&#x27;re on the side of truth and democracy and the American way, anything that is an impediment to you is naturally bad and needs to be overcome, even if it&#x27;s the law,&quot; German said.<p>Apparently the ability to have private communication digitally is one such annoying impediment.<p>&gt;Now, Russian ground commanders and Al Qaeda cell leaders are on notice that the NSA is nearly everywhere.<p>Those evil Russian ground commanders... One tip for the author of this piece: Snowden leaks enabling child pornographers to avoid surveillance would be a much more effective appeal to emotion than a topical example like renewed fears of Russian aggression that risk fading from the zeitgeist soon!<p>[1]<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-alexander-nsa-20140331,0,3369988,full.story#vcomment" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;nation&#x2F;la-na-alexander-nsa-20140331,0...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA blows its own top secret program in order to propagandize</title><url>https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/31/nsa-worlds-blows-top-secret-program/</url></story> |
22,261,975 | 22,261,876 | 1 | 2 | 22,258,113 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>preommr</author><text>A company has to hire someone. So they&#x27;re forced to take the risk.<p>They don&#x27;t have to provide feedback, so they don&#x27;t have to take the risk if they don&#x27;t want to.<p>Don&#x27;t really think your comparison was fair.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ddelt</author><text>Hot take: you could hire someone who did absolutely well in the interview, and they could find a few weeks into the job that they loathe everyone, and go on a social media rampage.<p>What I’m getting at is, there will always be bad apples, or people who react in a way that damages your organization. But not providing useful feedback to people who ask for it simply because one person went crazy is punishing a lot more people because of that one. Who knows if all of their negative karma ends up being worse in the grand scheme of things?<p>I personally avoid applying to places that other engineers tell me to avoid because I trust their opinion more than I trust a company selling me the highlight reel in an interview. If a trusted engineer said he got a rejection in an interview, asked for feedback, and none was given, I’d avoid that place too.</text></item><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>One time we gave feedback on request and the candidate contested the feedback, then went out on a social media rampage. So yeah, we stopped after that. It only takes one bad candidate to make it not worth the effort.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nkingsy</author><text>This is a tried and true practice in dating, and it translates well to hiring, which is basically the same thing.<p>Most people, ESPECIALLY people who ask you for feedback, do not want feedback. They want to get in a fight with you.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t remember ghosting anyone personally in either setting, but it&#x27;s happened to me plenty. Getting upset about it just means you&#x27;re new to the experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ddelt</author><text>Hot take: you could hire someone who did absolutely well in the interview, and they could find a few weeks into the job that they loathe everyone, and go on a social media rampage.<p>What I’m getting at is, there will always be bad apples, or people who react in a way that damages your organization. But not providing useful feedback to people who ask for it simply because one person went crazy is punishing a lot more people because of that one. Who knows if all of their negative karma ends up being worse in the grand scheme of things?<p>I personally avoid applying to places that other engineers tell me to avoid because I trust their opinion more than I trust a company selling me the highlight reel in an interview. If a trusted engineer said he got a rejection in an interview, asked for feedback, and none was given, I’d avoid that place too.</text></item><item><author>kenhwang</author><text>One time we gave feedback on request and the candidate contested the feedback, then went out on a social media rampage. So yeah, we stopped after that. It only takes one bad candidate to make it not worth the effort.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/</url></story> |
33,864,520 | 33,864,554 | 1 | 2 | 33,863,563 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandgiant</author><text>It&#x27;s even more astonishing (depressing?) to me how little credit people give humans these days. If the consensus is that ChatGPT pretty much passes for a human, my definition of a human is very different from that of the consensus. At the very least I&#x27;d like my humans to exhibit even minimal capacity for emotional expression as well as consistency and honesty.<p>I can&#x27;t even believe I&#x27;m even spelling this out. What is the point of associating anything even remotely human with a chatbot like ChatGPT? I really don&#x27;t get it. What benefit do we get from this? If anything is confuses us in ways that makes it more difficult to understand and argue about AI specifically, and technology generally.<p>ChatGPT is being grossly misinterpreted, and it&#x27;s a shame, really, because it&#x27;s such a cool piece of software.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kristiandupont</author><text>It&#x27;s almost more astonishing to me to see reactions like yours. I showed it to a friend and she too was unimpressed because it gave answers in her field (finance) that were &quot;good, but sortof basic&quot;.<p>So we have here a chat bot that pretty much passes for a human and some people react with &quot;meh, it&#x27;s not a genius&quot;. It makes me think of Tim Urbans chart: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgs.search.brave.com&#x2F;YR7qt28AjhAeXSr_qvSmJubqIKJW5SghAh1p0XPjTGU&#x2F;rs:fit:1200:1124:1&#x2F;g:ce&#x2F;aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBp&#x2F;bmltZy5jb20vb3Jp&#x2F;Z2luYWxzLzNhLzdm&#x2F;Lzg3LzNhN2Y4NzA2&#x2F;M2MxOWVkNjUzZDYz&#x2F;ZTI5Mzg2OWE3MWJl&#x2F;LnBuZw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgs.search.brave.com&#x2F;YR7qt28AjhAeXSr_qvSmJubqIKJW5S...</a></text></item><item><author>codingdave</author><text>I could have said this on any ChatGPT post the last few days, but I&#x27;m simply not seeing the accuracy of it in such a way that anything is threatened.<p>ChatGPT is a plausible idiot. It gets just enough right, saying just enough words, to sound plausible and authoritative to anyone who doesn&#x27;t know the subject matter well. But it also gets enough wrong that you cannot rely on its accuracy, and if it is talking about a subject you know well it is sometimes laughable how wrong it is.<p>It is impressive. But not trustworthy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder</title><url>https://www.atomic14.com/2022/12/05/using-chatgpt-as-a-co-founder.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>indigochill</author><text>I like GPT-3 a lot, but there&#x27;s an important distinction between &quot;plausible conversation&quot; and &quot;trustworthy answers&quot;. ChatGPT is probably best in the world in the &quot;plausible conversation&quot; category.<p>But you might say ChatGPT is like talking to a human who actually knows nothing about finance but doesn&#x27;t let that stop them (and for that matter, if you wanted to anthropomorphize it, you could say part of the problem is ChatGPT literally &quot;believes&quot; everything it reads online - and you can easily make it &quot;believe&quot; anything through leading wording, which I think is a strong tool for strengthening the Turing test, since no human will respond that way). Sometimes they might luck into being correct, but you wouldn&#x27;t want to base any information on what they say.<p>On the other hand, if I actually wanted reliable finance advice, a scripted finance chatbot would still win because those answers are written by people who do know what they&#x27;re talking about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kristiandupont</author><text>It&#x27;s almost more astonishing to me to see reactions like yours. I showed it to a friend and she too was unimpressed because it gave answers in her field (finance) that were &quot;good, but sortof basic&quot;.<p>So we have here a chat bot that pretty much passes for a human and some people react with &quot;meh, it&#x27;s not a genius&quot;. It makes me think of Tim Urbans chart: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgs.search.brave.com&#x2F;YR7qt28AjhAeXSr_qvSmJubqIKJW5SghAh1p0XPjTGU&#x2F;rs:fit:1200:1124:1&#x2F;g:ce&#x2F;aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBp&#x2F;bmltZy5jb20vb3Jp&#x2F;Z2luYWxzLzNhLzdm&#x2F;Lzg3LzNhN2Y4NzA2&#x2F;M2MxOWVkNjUzZDYz&#x2F;ZTI5Mzg2OWE3MWJl&#x2F;LnBuZw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgs.search.brave.com&#x2F;YR7qt28AjhAeXSr_qvSmJubqIKJW5S...</a></text></item><item><author>codingdave</author><text>I could have said this on any ChatGPT post the last few days, but I&#x27;m simply not seeing the accuracy of it in such a way that anything is threatened.<p>ChatGPT is a plausible idiot. It gets just enough right, saying just enough words, to sound plausible and authoritative to anyone who doesn&#x27;t know the subject matter well. But it also gets enough wrong that you cannot rely on its accuracy, and if it is talking about a subject you know well it is sometimes laughable how wrong it is.<p>It is impressive. But not trustworthy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder</title><url>https://www.atomic14.com/2022/12/05/using-chatgpt-as-a-co-founder.html</url></story> |
37,638,500 | 37,638,481 | 1 | 3 | 37,636,841 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refibrillator</author><text>PSA: This is a read-modify-write pattern, thus it is not safe under concurrency unless a transaction isolation level of SERIALIZABLE is specified, or <i>some</i> locking mechanism is used (select for update etc).</text><parent_chain><item><author>matsemann</author><text>I&#x27;ve done even simpler without locks (as no transaction logic), where I select a row, and then try to update a field about it being taken. If 1 row is affected, it&#x27;s mine. If 0, someone else did it before me and I select a new row.<p>I&#x27;ve used this for tasks at big organizations without issue. No need for any special deployments or new infra. Just spin up a few worker threads in your app. Perhaps a thread to reset abandoned tasks. But in three years this never actually happened, as everything was contained in try&#x2F;catch that would add it back to the queue, and our java app was damn stable.</text></item><item><author>aduffy</author><text>For several projects I’ve opted for the even dumber approach, that works out of the box with every ORM&#x2F;Query DSL framework in every language: using a normal table with SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgcasts.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;the-skip-locked-feature-in-postgres-9-5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgcasts.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;the-skip-locked-feature-in-...</a><p>It’s not “web scale” but it easily extends to several thousand background jobs in my experience</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Choose Postgres queue technology</title><url>https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023-09-24-choose-postgres-queue-technology/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>valzam</author><text>The reason why you want to use skip locked is so that Postgres can automatically skip rows that are being concurrently accessed for updating the &quot;status&quot;. You are right, if you update a &quot;status&quot; field you don&#x27;t really need to worry about advisory locks and skipping rows that are locked but it still helps with performance if you have a decent amount of concurrent consumers polling the table.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matsemann</author><text>I&#x27;ve done even simpler without locks (as no transaction logic), where I select a row, and then try to update a field about it being taken. If 1 row is affected, it&#x27;s mine. If 0, someone else did it before me and I select a new row.<p>I&#x27;ve used this for tasks at big organizations without issue. No need for any special deployments or new infra. Just spin up a few worker threads in your app. Perhaps a thread to reset abandoned tasks. But in three years this never actually happened, as everything was contained in try&#x2F;catch that would add it back to the queue, and our java app was damn stable.</text></item><item><author>aduffy</author><text>For several projects I’ve opted for the even dumber approach, that works out of the box with every ORM&#x2F;Query DSL framework in every language: using a normal table with SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgcasts.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;the-skip-locked-feature-in-postgres-9-5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgcasts.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;the-skip-locked-feature-in-...</a><p>It’s not “web scale” but it easily extends to several thousand background jobs in my experience</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Choose Postgres queue technology</title><url>https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023-09-24-choose-postgres-queue-technology/</url></story> |
16,892,919 | 16,892,768 | 1 | 2 | 16,892,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jstimpfle</author><text>&gt; Scrum isn&#x27;t good or bad<p>I must have heard this at least a dozen times in the last months. OOP isn&#x27;t good or bad, Exceptions aren&#x27;t good or bad, Scrum isn&#x27;t good or bad. It makes me mad. Guys and girls! Software is not a contest in being liberal and tolerant. There are methods and techniques that are objectively better than others in reaching most of the goals that are important. You wouldn&#x27;t contest a F1 driver on a bicycle - not on a race track. And engineers who really know their stuff usually agree on how to build software in a given domain. I do not know of any success stories using Exceptions on Kernels or RDBMSs or even most server software. But I know people have tried, and even they agree it was a bad idea.<p>If you want to say Scrum isn&#x27;t good or bad, depending on how you tweak it so it sucks less, then I say it&#x27;s definitely bad. It&#x27;s not a solid method that helps you reliably reach your goals.<p>If you want to say Scrum isn&#x27;t good or bad unless metrics are defined (that doesn&#x27;t seem to be the case here), then you are right, but it&#x27;s a meaningless statement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>Scrum isn&#x27;t good or bad, but the way the OP (or their company) uses it seems to be a reflection of an inflexible culture.<p>For example, the OP argues how scrum strips engineers the autonomy they need to get the job done and how it&#x27;s super inflexible. When we did scrum with my team, the scrum master role was rotated among engineers, growing each of us significantly as professionals. We also made changes to the &quot;core&quot; of scrum after our retrospectives when we decided it was stuff that did not work for us. When management tried to use story points for tracking or forecasting we told them to forget about the whole thing. We added bugfixing sprints after we observed the bugs piling up.<p>I can go on - we made scrum work in an environment where we were empowered to do what makes sense. The crux of the post seems to be that OP has some very rigid management and devs cannot change the mindset.<p>Instead of complaining about scrum, I suggest the OP either try changing the culture from the team level. Or if it won&#x27;t work, just get out and work at a place where there is sane management who does not drink the rigid scrum kool-aid. Luckily, there are more and more places like that these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong</title><url>https://medium.com/@ard_adam/why-scrum-is-the-wrong-way-to-build-software-99d8994409e5</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codemac</author><text>&gt; Scrum isn&#x27;t good or bad.<p>There isn&#x27;t enough evidence-based science on what produces the best software -- but Scrum <i>can</i> be measured against other software practices, and should be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>Scrum isn&#x27;t good or bad, but the way the OP (or their company) uses it seems to be a reflection of an inflexible culture.<p>For example, the OP argues how scrum strips engineers the autonomy they need to get the job done and how it&#x27;s super inflexible. When we did scrum with my team, the scrum master role was rotated among engineers, growing each of us significantly as professionals. We also made changes to the &quot;core&quot; of scrum after our retrospectives when we decided it was stuff that did not work for us. When management tried to use story points for tracking or forecasting we told them to forget about the whole thing. We added bugfixing sprints after we observed the bugs piling up.<p>I can go on - we made scrum work in an environment where we were empowered to do what makes sense. The crux of the post seems to be that OP has some very rigid management and devs cannot change the mindset.<p>Instead of complaining about scrum, I suggest the OP either try changing the culture from the team level. Or if it won&#x27;t work, just get out and work at a place where there is sane management who does not drink the rigid scrum kool-aid. Luckily, there are more and more places like that these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong</title><url>https://medium.com/@ard_adam/why-scrum-is-the-wrong-way-to-build-software-99d8994409e5</url></story> |
40,703,566 | 40,703,329 | 1 | 3 | 40,703,176 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>surfingdino</author><text>It&#x27;s proof positive that there exists a generation of devs who have never seen a physical user interface made of buttons, knobs, or sliders. E for effort.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player</title><url>https://www.xatakaon.com/makers/a-developer-has-just-taken-the-concept-of-retro-to-a-new-level-by-creating-a-physical-winamp-player</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Well.... <i>sort</i> of. It&#x27;s WinAmp running on a touchscreen inside a box that looks like the Winamp window frame.<p>I was hoping for physical buttons and sliders.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player</title><url>https://www.xatakaon.com/makers/a-developer-has-just-taken-the-concept-of-retro-to-a-new-level-by-creating-a-physical-winamp-player</url></story> |
18,637,600 | 18,637,507 | 1 | 2 | 18,635,078 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nathell</author><text>Clojure (and EDN) has it in the form of tagged literals.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clojure.org&#x2F;reference&#x2F;reader#tagged_literals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clojure.org&#x2F;reference&#x2F;reader#tagged_literals</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sharpercoder</author><text>I&#x27;m very fond of small, specific and simple languages without sacrificing inherent complexity. For me, that includes IP adresses, UUIDs, timestamps, URIs, println formatting, et cetera.<p>It&#x27;s a shame though that we don&#x27;t represent them as such in the current state of affairs but choose to implement them separately in every language. Can we have a fast, universal, feature complete parser generator that is natively supported in our mainstream languages?<p>For instance, think adding an ANTLR grammar into a .NET project and then be able to just do `var ipAddress = ip&quot;127.0.0.1&quot;;` and get full editor support with that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Little Languages</title><url>https://www.maxhallinan.com/posts/2018/12/07/little-languages/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wcrichton</author><text>Typed literal macros [0] are a principled way of integrating these kinds of mini-languages into a bigger general-purpose language.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cyrus-&#x2F;relit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cyrus-&#x2F;relit</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sharpercoder</author><text>I&#x27;m very fond of small, specific and simple languages without sacrificing inherent complexity. For me, that includes IP adresses, UUIDs, timestamps, URIs, println formatting, et cetera.<p>It&#x27;s a shame though that we don&#x27;t represent them as such in the current state of affairs but choose to implement them separately in every language. Can we have a fast, universal, feature complete parser generator that is natively supported in our mainstream languages?<p>For instance, think adding an ANTLR grammar into a .NET project and then be able to just do `var ipAddress = ip&quot;127.0.0.1&quot;;` and get full editor support with that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Little Languages</title><url>https://www.maxhallinan.com/posts/2018/12/07/little-languages/</url></story> |
8,189,122 | 8,189,118 | 1 | 2 | 8,188,919 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Udo</author><text>As a European, I was surprised, too. But the key thing to remember here is that he pissed off some very influential people, so it&#x27;s likely they stuck him in a maximum security facility with a lot of hardened criminals and some instructions to make his life as difficult as possible. Which is par for the course when you&#x27;re an activist I guess, and a borderline-but-not-quite political prisoner. If you&#x27;re someone who gives the authorities a hard time, they&#x27;ll in turn give you a hard time, such is the nature of political corruption.<p>However, it&#x27;s important to keep in mind that his sentence is only 10 months, which may not even be served fully. Those months are going to be bad, but the guy will return to his normal life pretty soon. He&#x27;s a community hero, and financially taken care of, so there&#x27;s probably not a lot to be worried about in the mid to long term.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>That description does not live up to the image I had of Scandinavian prisons. Although I suppose an 8 month sentence will never be about rehabilitation and can only be used as punishment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder</title><url>http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marvin</author><text>It is probably a good idea to think twice before you believe a source that says our criminal justice system is all fun and joy. The Scandinavian system is good, but I still don&#x27;t think being in prison here is easy.<p>(Not to mention that Sunde is pretty close to being a political prisoner, if you consider the details of how the case was carried out).</text><parent_chain><item><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>That description does not live up to the image I had of Scandinavian prisons. Although I suppose an 8 month sentence will never be about rehabilitation and can only be used as punishment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder</title><url>http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/</url></story> |
11,974,692 | 11,974,193 | 1 | 3 | 11,973,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nom</author><text>The &#x27;green eye&#x27; card slot show in the video is actually designed like this in order to make it harder to hide a skimming device in the slot.<p>It doesn&#x27;t help though, ATM skimming is just so lucrative that they can easily spend a couple of thousand dollars on a skimming device. It pays for itself after less than a day of &#x27;deployment&#x27;.<p>Thats also the reason why removing a skimmer by yourself is always a _very very_ bad idea. There is a good chance that the owner of that device is very close. If its a non-wireless skimmer (like most of them are, only few have GSM or bluetooth) the criminal has to retrieve it to collect his loot. If he doesn&#x27;t, he&#x27;ll looses thousands of dollars. You might get stabbed for this. Better alert the authorities and let them handle it.<p>As somebody already mentioned, Brian Krebs has many very interesting posts about skimming technology, like this one about a similar skimming device:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;pro-grade-3d-printer-made-atm-skimmer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;pro-grade-3d-printer-made...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>white-flame</author><text>While I&#x27;ve seen skimmers that cover the entire front of the ATM, it boggles my mind that the credit card acceptor isn&#x27;t designed to be flush with the front face. That would make it much harder to plant an additional device on top without it looking more conspicuous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finding-atm-skimmer-pays-paranoid-benjamin-tedesco-gcih-pmp</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucb1e</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, but what does &quot;flush&quot; mean here? I only know it in the context of toilets and computer caches. (I&#x27;m not a native speaker.)<p>Looking it up, you might mean it glows in some color?</text><parent_chain><item><author>white-flame</author><text>While I&#x27;ve seen skimmers that cover the entire front of the ATM, it boggles my mind that the credit card acceptor isn&#x27;t designed to be flush with the front face. That would make it much harder to plant an additional device on top without it looking more conspicuous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finding-atm-skimmer-pays-paranoid-benjamin-tedesco-gcih-pmp</url></story> |
39,097,537 | 39,097,493 | 1 | 2 | 39,097,245 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eganist</author><text>It&#x27;s a decent severance package, honestly.<p>But, as usual,<p>&gt; As CEO, I’m accountable for the changes we’re making and where we’re headed in the future. So, I think it’s important for me to share how we got here and how the next few days will work.<p>I see no indication as to how Dylan will actually be held accountable for the decisions that ultimately led to this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Riot Games laying off 11%</title><url>https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2024-rioter-update</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anotherhue</author><text>&gt; Severance Pay — We’ll offer a minimum 6 months of salary,<p>Well that actually does make it seem like it was something they wanted to avoid.<p>I might need to eat my hat <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38957024">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38957024</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Riot Games laying off 11%</title><url>https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2024-rioter-update</url></story> |
27,524,006 | 27,523,410 | 1 | 2 | 27,520,496 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>Reading down below, it sounds like your crime didn’t really have individual victims. It cost all of us a little something in higher prices or fees or similar. In a case like that, I think it’s a lot easier to say that we as a society should forgive and forget.<p>There is another side of the coin. Having worked with some crime victims, there are a lot of crimes out there where it’s not just some diffuse, whole society damage. Everyone thinks of the big ones—homicides and rape—and yes, of course, those are the worst. But even “just” home burglary can leave people never feeling safe in their homes for the rest of their lives.<p>In cases where the victim never gets to move on with his or her life how much should we work towards making sure the victimizer can?</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshmn</author><text>As a former felon, I&#x27;ve learned first-hand the fallout from being named in crime stories. The AP has it right in that a lot of it isn&#x27;t realized by readers or society.<p>Upon being charged with crimes, I had to make my way through the court system. As a consequence of my actions, the courts punished me. Once I had showed that I was not a serial offender but instead someone who had moments of weakness, lost identity, and subsequently poor judgement, the courts let me go.<p>Once I paid my debts to the court — figuratively and literally — I was free to live my life without the government watching over my shoulder or further being a burden to my future. My dealings with them had a fixed amount of time attached to it. Once that time limit expired, I was free.<p>Society was far less kind, and hardly as forgiving.<p>No, I&#x27;m not talking about employment — I am and always have been very gainfully employed. No, I&#x27;m not talking about renting an apartment, or getting a loan, or opening a bank account.<p>I&#x27;m talking about new acquaintances.<p>As we have seen over the past 5 years, in the minds of many a website is a single source of truth. To a large number of people, simply having a website is enough to give confidence to the reader that what&#x27;s written is an absolute and authoritative source. It is only correct, completely unbiased, and contains 100% factual sourcing.<p>When there&#x27;s a webpage with dirty laundry on it, it rarely gets updated to say &quot;later, Judge Judy found suspect to be of good character, and they&#x27;ve since paid their debts to the court.&quot;<p>No, it just has absolute worst moment on repeat, leaving out all the context and any depth that goes into a legal proceeding. It&#x27;s entirely the worst part of a nightmare.<p>I&#x27;ve personally had a number of articles written in addition to a 15-second segment on the local evening news. Getting a call from a partner who is sobbing, &quot;my parents Googled you.&quot; is absolutely stomach-turning. Knowing my little sister had to go to school the day after the clip played next day was something I am more ashamed about than I can put into words. Thankfully she was too young for a cell phone and social media was still in its infancy.<p>My partner very privy to my dirty laundry. When they first learned of it they were actually surprised. It didn&#x27;t bother them though as they knew who I was as a person and that my days of making mistakes were behind me.<p>Their parents were less understanding. They didn&#x27;t know me like my partner did. They just saw a series of mugshots and some local news articles from mistakes I made as a young adult.<p>It wasn&#x27;t the first and it wasn&#x27;t the last time it happened, either.<p>I have always been transparent and forthcoming with mistakes I&#x27;ve made. I&#x27;m just as candid with friends as I am here on HN. Hell, my profile even says I&#x27;m a former felon!<p>One point does not make a pattern. Many minor crime stories are just a point. That point, on the internet, is a scar, and those who come across them out of curiosity, suspicion, or nosiness re-open the wound.<p>Since my bad decisions, I&#x27;ve had success in contacting the authors of the articles highlighting my worst-moment-kept-in-a-non-governmental-database asking if they&#x27;d consider removing their article. I mentioned I had completed probation and was doing something with my life, and that the article was hurting me and my relationships with people. They obliged.<p>Edit: This isn&#x27;t the first time I&#x27;ve mentioned I&#x27;m a felon in a comment. I&#x27;ve received a surprising number of emails over the years from other felons (or felons-to-be) asking &quot;how did you reintegrate into society?&quot; or &quot;do you have any advice?&quot;. If you&#x27;re one of them and reading this, you&#x27;re more than welcome drop me an email.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories</title><url>https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/why-were-no-longer-naming-suspects-in-minor-crime-stories</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abrookewood</author><text>Thanks for the insight, that was very well written and you&#x27;ve actually changed my opinion on this. Previously I would have been all in favour of long-lasting public criminal records, but it&#x27;s quite clear how they fail to adequately capture the larger story, or account for redemption of any kind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshmn</author><text>As a former felon, I&#x27;ve learned first-hand the fallout from being named in crime stories. The AP has it right in that a lot of it isn&#x27;t realized by readers or society.<p>Upon being charged with crimes, I had to make my way through the court system. As a consequence of my actions, the courts punished me. Once I had showed that I was not a serial offender but instead someone who had moments of weakness, lost identity, and subsequently poor judgement, the courts let me go.<p>Once I paid my debts to the court — figuratively and literally — I was free to live my life without the government watching over my shoulder or further being a burden to my future. My dealings with them had a fixed amount of time attached to it. Once that time limit expired, I was free.<p>Society was far less kind, and hardly as forgiving.<p>No, I&#x27;m not talking about employment — I am and always have been very gainfully employed. No, I&#x27;m not talking about renting an apartment, or getting a loan, or opening a bank account.<p>I&#x27;m talking about new acquaintances.<p>As we have seen over the past 5 years, in the minds of many a website is a single source of truth. To a large number of people, simply having a website is enough to give confidence to the reader that what&#x27;s written is an absolute and authoritative source. It is only correct, completely unbiased, and contains 100% factual sourcing.<p>When there&#x27;s a webpage with dirty laundry on it, it rarely gets updated to say &quot;later, Judge Judy found suspect to be of good character, and they&#x27;ve since paid their debts to the court.&quot;<p>No, it just has absolute worst moment on repeat, leaving out all the context and any depth that goes into a legal proceeding. It&#x27;s entirely the worst part of a nightmare.<p>I&#x27;ve personally had a number of articles written in addition to a 15-second segment on the local evening news. Getting a call from a partner who is sobbing, &quot;my parents Googled you.&quot; is absolutely stomach-turning. Knowing my little sister had to go to school the day after the clip played next day was something I am more ashamed about than I can put into words. Thankfully she was too young for a cell phone and social media was still in its infancy.<p>My partner very privy to my dirty laundry. When they first learned of it they were actually surprised. It didn&#x27;t bother them though as they knew who I was as a person and that my days of making mistakes were behind me.<p>Their parents were less understanding. They didn&#x27;t know me like my partner did. They just saw a series of mugshots and some local news articles from mistakes I made as a young adult.<p>It wasn&#x27;t the first and it wasn&#x27;t the last time it happened, either.<p>I have always been transparent and forthcoming with mistakes I&#x27;ve made. I&#x27;m just as candid with friends as I am here on HN. Hell, my profile even says I&#x27;m a former felon!<p>One point does not make a pattern. Many minor crime stories are just a point. That point, on the internet, is a scar, and those who come across them out of curiosity, suspicion, or nosiness re-open the wound.<p>Since my bad decisions, I&#x27;ve had success in contacting the authors of the articles highlighting my worst-moment-kept-in-a-non-governmental-database asking if they&#x27;d consider removing their article. I mentioned I had completed probation and was doing something with my life, and that the article was hurting me and my relationships with people. They obliged.<p>Edit: This isn&#x27;t the first time I&#x27;ve mentioned I&#x27;m a felon in a comment. I&#x27;ve received a surprising number of emails over the years from other felons (or felons-to-be) asking &quot;how did you reintegrate into society?&quot; or &quot;do you have any advice?&quot;. If you&#x27;re one of them and reading this, you&#x27;re more than welcome drop me an email.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories</title><url>https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/why-were-no-longer-naming-suspects-in-minor-crime-stories</url></story> |
33,692,524 | 33,692,319 | 1 | 3 | 33,688,913 | 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>cainxinth</author><text>Cults have common and shared warning signs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@zelphontheshelf&#x2F;10-signs-youre-probably-in-a-cult-1921eb5a3857" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@zelphontheshelf&#x2F;10-signs-youre-probably-...</a><p>1. The leader is the ultimate authority<p>2. The group suppresses skepticism<p>3. The group delegitimizes former members<p>4. The group is paranoid about the outside world<p>5. The group relies on shame cycles<p>6. The leader is above the law<p>7. The group uses “thought reform” methods<p>8. The group is elitist<p>9. There is no financial transparency<p>10. The group performs secret rites<p>Also, not all cults are religious. Some are tied to economic activity (MLMs are very culty, for example), and dysfunctional families often take on a cult-like atmosphere, with a charismatic and controlling parent backed by enablers as they abuse a scapegoat and dominate the family.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drewbug01</author><text>It’s an interesting piece, and I think it’s intended to be satirical (and done rather well).<p>But, I grew up in an <i>actual</i> cult. The comments here to the effect of “everything’s a cult” and “startups are cults” and “HN is a cult” - oh gosh. Nothing could be further from the truth. HN is not a cult, folks.<p>I’m glad people can make those jokes though, because I immediately know they didn’t experience what I did. They have never experienced the ongoing heartbreak of losing your entire <i>world</i> when you leave - your family, your friends, your job, your social life, your religion, your <i>everything</i>. People who get out don’t tend to make light of it.<p>In any case: know that there are actual cults in operation, and they do tremendous harm. The “everything’s a cult” stuff allows them to operate more freely these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult</title><url>https://labskausleben.bearblog.dev/youre-in-a-cult/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sirsinsalot</author><text>I think this is a really important point. We use lots of terms these days in ever more generic ways: cult, gaslighting, abuse, &quot;I&#x27;m a bit OCD&quot; ... each broader use of the language weakens the contexts where the language is more pointed.<p>Of course, context is everything and language is fluid, but think pieces that inadvertently soften words can also downgrade important intentions as a side-effect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drewbug01</author><text>It’s an interesting piece, and I think it’s intended to be satirical (and done rather well).<p>But, I grew up in an <i>actual</i> cult. The comments here to the effect of “everything’s a cult” and “startups are cults” and “HN is a cult” - oh gosh. Nothing could be further from the truth. HN is not a cult, folks.<p>I’m glad people can make those jokes though, because I immediately know they didn’t experience what I did. They have never experienced the ongoing heartbreak of losing your entire <i>world</i> when you leave - your family, your friends, your job, your social life, your religion, your <i>everything</i>. People who get out don’t tend to make light of it.<p>In any case: know that there are actual cults in operation, and they do tremendous harm. The “everything’s a cult” stuff allows them to operate more freely these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult</title><url>https://labskausleben.bearblog.dev/youre-in-a-cult/</url></story> |
37,104,440 | 37,104,122 | 1 | 2 | 37,102,610 | 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>version_five</author><text>It&#x27;s funny because it&#x27;s this, turning inward and waging war on ourselves after there wasn&#x27;t an obvious enemy anymore that&#x27;s responsible for the decline the upstream comment was talking about. Post WWII through the 90s saw massive increases in global standard of living, 2020&#x27;s the west has gone back to religious squabbles over absurd ideological things. <i>Watchmen</i> had a similar idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asu_thomas</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Finally! This is one of the few fission uses I&#x27;m genuinely excited about. Nuclear-thermal just makes so much sense for in-space propulsion of large vessels compared to chemical rockets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/nasa-seeks-to-launch-a-nuclear-powered-rocket-engine-in-four-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>zaptrem</author><text>Investment in space has historically led to a disproportionate return in economic growth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asu_thomas</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Finally! This is one of the few fission uses I&#x27;m genuinely excited about. Nuclear-thermal just makes so much sense for in-space propulsion of large vessels compared to chemical rockets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/nasa-seeks-to-launch-a-nuclear-powered-rocket-engine-in-four-years/</url></story> |
30,699,925 | 30,699,780 | 1 | 2 | 30,699,673 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coobird</author><text>It was two earthquakes -- one &quot;small&quot; one and another &quot;big&quot; one that followed about a minute later.<p>On TV, they were announcing the quake intensity of the first one and and there was a video feed of the Fukushima nuclear plant, as they usually do when there&#x27;s a strong quake in that area. A moment later, the feed was shaking violently -- I thought it was a replay of what was taken earlier, but it must have been the &quot;big&quot; one.<p>In Tokyo, we felt the secondary wave of the first overlapping with the primary of the second, so it was disorienting and scary. Although the quake intensity itself wasn&#x27;t serious in Tokyo.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magnitude 7.3 earthquake off the Coast of Fukushima Prefecture</title><url>https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20220316234055&lang=en</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sva_</author><text>Comparison: The 2011 earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0 - 9.1 (but it had a 7.2 foreshock 2 days before.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami#Earthquake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magnitude 7.3 earthquake off the Coast of Fukushima Prefecture</title><url>https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20220316234055&lang=en</url></story> |
13,245,254 | 13,245,215 | 1 | 2 | 13,244,337 | 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>perlgeek</author><text>As a long-time Perl developer, it&#x27;s kinda amusing that <i>this</i> is the new big Python feature now, when shells, awk, Perl, PHP and Ruby have had string interpolation for ages.<p>Yes, I know you can do more with format strings than plain interpolation, but that&#x27;s all that the basic examples show.<p>(Also: Perl has allowed underscores in number literals for ages).</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisshroba</author><text>I absolutely LOVE format strings. Whereas before, you had to format strings in one of these ways (among other more verbose ways):<p><pre><code> &quot;My name is {} and I am {} years old&quot;.format(name, age)
&quot;My name is %s and I am %s years old&quot; % (name, age)
&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old&quot;.format(name=name, age=age)
</code></pre>
Now, we can finally use f-strings, where anything in brackets is eval&#x27;ed, with the result subbed in:<p><pre><code> f&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.&quot;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python 3.6.0 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2016-December/717624.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>wyldfire</author><text>I would frequently use<p><pre><code> &quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old&quot;.format(**locals())
</code></pre>
... but I always felt a little guilty like this is some kind of dynamic-programming-on-steroids trick that I should use sparingly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisshroba</author><text>I absolutely LOVE format strings. Whereas before, you had to format strings in one of these ways (among other more verbose ways):<p><pre><code> &quot;My name is {} and I am {} years old&quot;.format(name, age)
&quot;My name is %s and I am %s years old&quot; % (name, age)
&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old&quot;.format(name=name, age=age)
</code></pre>
Now, we can finally use f-strings, where anything in brackets is eval&#x27;ed, with the result subbed in:<p><pre><code> f&quot;My name is {name} and I am {age} years old.&quot;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python 3.6.0 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2016-December/717624.html</url></story> |
30,911,662 | 30,911,207 | 1 | 3 | 30,908,084 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robocat</author><text>From beware cranks (1st link):<p><pre><code> The mathematical physicist John Baez proposed a “crackpot index”[1] [snip]
Mathematician Chris Caldwell was inspired by Baez’s list and devised a mathematical version. Some (lightly edited) examples from Caldwell’s list are
1 point for each word in all capital letters;
5 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous, logically inconsistent, or widely known to be false;
10 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction;
10 points for not knowing (or not using) standard mathematical notation;
10 points for expressing fear that your ideas will be stolen;
10 points for each new term you invent or use without properly defining it;
10 points for stating that your ideas are of great financial, theoretical, or spiritual value;
10 points for beginning the description of your work by saying how long you have been working on it;
10 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to established experts;
10 points for citing an impressive-sounding, but irrelevant, result;
20 points for naming something after yourself;
30 points for not knowing how or where to submit their major discovery for publication;
30 points for confusing examples or heuristics with mathematical proof;
40 points for claiming to have a “proof” of an important result but not knowing what established mathematicians have done on the problem.
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.ucr.edu&#x2F;home&#x2F;baez&#x2F;crackpot.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.ucr.edu&#x2F;home&#x2F;baez&#x2F;crackpot.html</a><p>Edit: The second link has a scanned advert at the end from 1983 for “The Science of Programming” by David Gries: the title of the book amuses me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>buescher</author><text>Most impressive: &quot;One of them might even publish a paper soon. Not a proposal for a theory of everything, mind you, but a new way to look at a known effect. A first step on a long journey.&quot; Hossenfelder must have the patience of Job and a deep teaching vocation.<p>If you are ever even around physics or math at all, you will see the crackpot letters. I was a little surprised engineers are largely unaware of the phenomenon and are shocked, for example, that anyone seriously tries to make perpetual motion machines at all.<p>Here&#x27;s a couple links about the mathematical equivalent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laphamsquarterly.org&#x2F;roundtable&#x2F;beware-cranks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laphamsquarterly.org&#x2F;roundtable&#x2F;beware-cranks</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mst.edu&#x2F;~lmhall&#x2F;whattodowhentrisectorcomes.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mst.edu&#x2F;~lmhall&#x2F;whattodowhentrisectorcomes.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me--<p>&quot;A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more careful to point out what is relevant information and what is artistic freedom. But the most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?&quot;<p>Of course, this writing often isn&#x27;t for the layperson, it&#x27;s for an audience who can tell the difference between diagram, artistic license, and metaphor, but even so, it&#x27;s good to think about, especially when communicating science to the general public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>more_corn</author><text>Remember when google offered that “ideas to save the planet” contest? I used to wade through those.<p>They fell into a couple easy categories. Perpetual motion machines, casual ideas that are obviously impractical, fundamentally failing to understand the subject area. Not a single one of them seemed new or useful.<p>Then again Nicola Tesla had some strange ideas. Turns out half of them were brilliant and the other half still seem weird. Efforts to demarcate crackpot and real might be approaching the problem from the wrong direction.<p>I like the author’s strategy of helping people gain the knowledge to understand what they’re trying to talk about. Teslas ideas about motion and flow as it pertains to physical health were weird but that doesn’t mean he was unable to learn about biology, had he spent time learning about it, maybe he’d have brought his ideas back to reality and contributed something interesting.<p>We should celebrate people for their curiosity, encourage them to gain the knowledge that has already been discovered and help them express their ideas in ways that others can relate to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>buescher</author><text>Most impressive: &quot;One of them might even publish a paper soon. Not a proposal for a theory of everything, mind you, but a new way to look at a known effect. A first step on a long journey.&quot; Hossenfelder must have the patience of Job and a deep teaching vocation.<p>If you are ever even around physics or math at all, you will see the crackpot letters. I was a little surprised engineers are largely unaware of the phenomenon and are shocked, for example, that anyone seriously tries to make perpetual motion machines at all.<p>Here&#x27;s a couple links about the mathematical equivalent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laphamsquarterly.org&#x2F;roundtable&#x2F;beware-cranks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laphamsquarterly.org&#x2F;roundtable&#x2F;beware-cranks</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mst.edu&#x2F;~lmhall&#x2F;whattodowhentrisectorcomes.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mst.edu&#x2F;~lmhall&#x2F;whattodowhentrisectorcomes.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me--<p>&quot;A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more careful to point out what is relevant information and what is artistic freedom. But the most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?&quot;<p>Of course, this writing often isn&#x27;t for the layperson, it&#x27;s for an audience who can tell the difference between diagram, artistic license, and metaphor, but even so, it&#x27;s good to think about, especially when communicating science to the general public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists</url></story> |
11,527,488 | 11,527,219 | 1 | 3 | 11,526,037 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>It could be cultural as well. I remember showing pictures of my childhood in Soviet Union to people in America and they&#x27;d comment how gloomy and sad everyone looked -- even at birthday parties. The thing is we weren&#x27;t gloomy and sad (well not all the time even though we were poor). We just didn&#x27;t smile in pictures. So not saying people are not scared and oppressed there. We know they are. But some of the reactions could be cultural as well not all due oppression.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tobbyb</author><text>Surreal and intriguing. There is a palpable sense of fear and unease on people&#x27;s faces, not a smile to be seen. A gloomy insight into a whole other world. And questions assumptions about human behavior.<p>Its frightening to think how easy it is to suppress a whole population for years and decades on end. The romantic image of courage, revolution and human freedom comes to naught here. Status quo, acceptance and survival seems to be the more natural human state.<p>There is the natural reluctance to put one&#x27;s head above. And for good reason, anyone foolish or brave enough to put their head above in this all knowing state will be put down swiftly, and perhaps brutally to be made an example of. How does change happen here?<p>Organizing anything in this state of pervasive surveillance is nearly impossible and should be a wake up call for those sleepwalking into one.<p>The only way we know from history is implosion of the prevailing power center or outside support motivated more by massive self interests than human freedom or kindness, compromising the road ahead.<p>Surveillance, secret courts and dubious processes are meekly accepted but change can become very difficult once these infrastructures are put in place, operational and at the complete discretion of whoever happens to be in power. A warning for all of us.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro</title><url>http://www.earthnutshell.com/stopping-all-stations-the-pyongyang-metro/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vonmoltke</author><text>&gt; There is the natural reluctance to put one&#x27;s head above. And for good reason, anyone foolish or brave enough to put their head above in this all knowing state will be put down swiftly, and perhaps brutally to be made an example of. How does change happen here?<p>&gt; Organizing anything in this state of pervasive surveillance is nearly impossible and should be a wake up call for those sleepwalking into one.<p>I saw this sentiment expressed by another poster yesterday and almost responded, but this seems like a much better context.<p>I, personally, agree that pervasive surveillance is a bad thing and that the power of government should be carefully restricted. That said, what is the path from &quot;pervasive surveillance&quot; to &quot;be[ing] put down swiftly, and perhaps brutally to be made an example of&quot;? North Korea&#x27;s state has the willingness and power to chop down those who stand up; how would one of the nations &quot;sleepwalking into [a state of pervasive surveillance]&quot; get away with it?<p>I can certainly see, and articulate, dangers involving minority targeting. Similarly, I can articulate the dangers of isolated cases of abuse of power. I cannot, however, articulate a path for a liberal Western nation to become North Korea (or even China) without delving into tinfoil hat territory.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tobbyb</author><text>Surreal and intriguing. There is a palpable sense of fear and unease on people&#x27;s faces, not a smile to be seen. A gloomy insight into a whole other world. And questions assumptions about human behavior.<p>Its frightening to think how easy it is to suppress a whole population for years and decades on end. The romantic image of courage, revolution and human freedom comes to naught here. Status quo, acceptance and survival seems to be the more natural human state.<p>There is the natural reluctance to put one&#x27;s head above. And for good reason, anyone foolish or brave enough to put their head above in this all knowing state will be put down swiftly, and perhaps brutally to be made an example of. How does change happen here?<p>Organizing anything in this state of pervasive surveillance is nearly impossible and should be a wake up call for those sleepwalking into one.<p>The only way we know from history is implosion of the prevailing power center or outside support motivated more by massive self interests than human freedom or kindness, compromising the road ahead.<p>Surveillance, secret courts and dubious processes are meekly accepted but change can become very difficult once these infrastructures are put in place, operational and at the complete discretion of whoever happens to be in power. A warning for all of us.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro</title><url>http://www.earthnutshell.com/stopping-all-stations-the-pyongyang-metro/</url></story> |
27,195,806 | 27,195,788 | 1 | 2 | 27,194,279 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pier25</author><text>Bitwarden is awesome. It&#x27;s my current password manager after I left 1P.<p>I spent hundreds into 1P before the subscription model, as their apps were expensive and got them on multiple OS and for family members.<p>Then Dropbox decided (rightfully) that you shouldn&#x27;t use your public folder to host websites, and 1P told their customers to either get a subscription or lose the online vault which is a critical feature of any password manager. They didn&#x27;t even have the decency to offer a free year of the subscription to their current paying customers.<p>It would have cost 1P pennies to just host the vaults on S3, but they decided to force their customers to switch to the subscription model if they wanted to have a feature they had already paid for and 1P had been advertising for years.<p>I will never give a single cent to 1P again.</text><parent_chain><item><author>progx</author><text>Bitwarden <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;</a><p>Has clients for all platforms, open source, self hosting or free plans and saas.<p>Waited long time for 1password for linux and switched last year to bitwarden.
Family Account for 6 Users ($40 per year)</text></item><item><author>bognition</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of 1Password. I&#x27;ve been paying for it for years. A few years ago I got my partner setup in a few minutes and now they have strong passwords everywhere. Its got great features for sharing vaults with other people so I&#x27;ve got password managers setup for the kids too. My partner and I both have personal vaults, we have a shared vault for financial stuff, and a shared vault for our media accounts (that we share with the kids too)<p>I get that people bristle about SaaS subscriptions in their personal life but the $60&#x2F;year it costs is well worth it. The research shows that strong passwords and limiting re-use is extremely effective at preventing account compromises and 1Password makes this dead simple.<p>The thing that finally made it an incredible app was when Apple finally allowed 3rd party password management in iOS.<p>Yes there might be better password managers out there and they might have better security. However show me an alternative with a UX that is simple enough for my 6 year old to use, that works on iOS, Android, MacOS, and now Linux.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1Password for Linux</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/welcoming-linux-to-the-1password-family/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bitlevel</author><text>Moving from 1Password to Bitwarden was the best thing I did.<p>Bitwarden enabled me to use it with Linux, Mac, Windows, Web, etc. _years_ before 1Password decided to join the party.<p>And there&#x27;s no subscription to speak of - just a premium &quot;extra features you may or may not want&quot; yearly payment, which works out _much_ cheaper.<p>Finally - all my passwords belong to me. Self hosted server means that I keep control, not some random cloud.</text><parent_chain><item><author>progx</author><text>Bitwarden <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;</a><p>Has clients for all platforms, open source, self hosting or free plans and saas.<p>Waited long time for 1password for linux and switched last year to bitwarden.
Family Account for 6 Users ($40 per year)</text></item><item><author>bognition</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of 1Password. I&#x27;ve been paying for it for years. A few years ago I got my partner setup in a few minutes and now they have strong passwords everywhere. Its got great features for sharing vaults with other people so I&#x27;ve got password managers setup for the kids too. My partner and I both have personal vaults, we have a shared vault for financial stuff, and a shared vault for our media accounts (that we share with the kids too)<p>I get that people bristle about SaaS subscriptions in their personal life but the $60&#x2F;year it costs is well worth it. The research shows that strong passwords and limiting re-use is extremely effective at preventing account compromises and 1Password makes this dead simple.<p>The thing that finally made it an incredible app was when Apple finally allowed 3rd party password management in iOS.<p>Yes there might be better password managers out there and they might have better security. However show me an alternative with a UX that is simple enough for my 6 year old to use, that works on iOS, Android, MacOS, and now Linux.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1Password for Linux</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/welcoming-linux-to-the-1password-family/</url></story> |
10,399,290 | 10,399,292 | 1 | 3 | 10,398,783 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ascorbic</author><text>Are you in the UK? If so, I&#x27;m seriously surprised this doesn&#x27;t ring true. To me it exactly matches my experience both as a contractor and as an employer.
As to who is being exploited here, it&#x27;s the whole IT industry. They are rent-seekers, pure and simple, and they leech off our industry. They may not be sending children down mines, but that doesn&#x27;t diminish the fact they are terrible companies and terrible people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbroshi</author><text>I will admit I did not make it through this entire article, but it really did not ring true to me at all--just sounded like an unsupported, hostile, angry rant.<p>&gt;&gt; “Fucked if we care” think the recruiters, “now grovel and be exploited”.
...
&gt;&gt; You’re meat to them, a resource to be packaged and sold and exploited.<p>Who&#x27;s being exploited here? I think he&#x27;s implying the programmers, but as someone who left academia for industry, I do not at all share that sentiment. When I think &quot;exploited&quot; I think of diamond miners in Africa or sex workers in Southeast Asia. I got my first job at a start-up through a recruiter, gained a ton of skills, later left, and now I have a very well-paying job at a place I love. People with technical skills are highly sought-after, and do quite well in my experience, whether or not they go through recruiters.<p>If a comment as irate, mean-spirited, and unsubstantiated as this blog post appeared in HN, it would get down-voted into oblivion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation</title><url>https://mocko.org.uk/b/2015/10/14/dont-feed-the-beast-the-great-tech-recruiter-infestation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>praptak</author><text>&gt; If a comment as irate, mean-spirited, and unsubstantiated as this blog post appeared in HN, it would get down-voted into oblivion.<p>Yet this article instead of getting flagged into oblivion got upvoted to #1 as of now. Could that be that HN readers&#x27; experience with recruiters mirrors the author&#x27;s experience?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbroshi</author><text>I will admit I did not make it through this entire article, but it really did not ring true to me at all--just sounded like an unsupported, hostile, angry rant.<p>&gt;&gt; “Fucked if we care” think the recruiters, “now grovel and be exploited”.
...
&gt;&gt; You’re meat to them, a resource to be packaged and sold and exploited.<p>Who&#x27;s being exploited here? I think he&#x27;s implying the programmers, but as someone who left academia for industry, I do not at all share that sentiment. When I think &quot;exploited&quot; I think of diamond miners in Africa or sex workers in Southeast Asia. I got my first job at a start-up through a recruiter, gained a ton of skills, later left, and now I have a very well-paying job at a place I love. People with technical skills are highly sought-after, and do quite well in my experience, whether or not they go through recruiters.<p>If a comment as irate, mean-spirited, and unsubstantiated as this blog post appeared in HN, it would get down-voted into oblivion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation</title><url>https://mocko.org.uk/b/2015/10/14/dont-feed-the-beast-the-great-tech-recruiter-infestation/</url></story> |
23,187,832 | 23,187,564 | 1 | 2 | 23,185,757 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmw_ng</author><text>To an engineer, nothing. These acquisitions are part of a coming war over hybrid&#x2F;on-prem dominance. Corporate VMware installations usually don&#x27;t mean just a few instances, but entire buildings. If you think of the mobile phone landscape prior to the iOS&#x2F;Android duopoly, that&#x27;s on-prem today<p>It might tickle you to learn of Project Pacific, an upcoming rewrite of VMware to run seamlessly on Kubernetes by default, with an upgrade path for existing installations</text><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Can you help me understand why this would be useful? What can be achieved with VMWare that can&#x27;t be done more efficiently with GCP (or AWS or Azure) native tools? The list of arcane product names makes me think this is for enterprises that already invested in VMWare products and just don&#x27;t want to own servers anymore.</text></item><item><author>throwaway265731</author><text>&gt; This partnership makes a ton of sense for both of them<p>GCP purchased CloudSimple who provides managed VMWare running on bare metal. This isn&#x27;t a solution co-developed between VMWare and GCP, nor is this a 1st party VMWare solution. I&#x27;m not even sure if this is running on GCE, or if its just a re-branding of CloudSimple as GCP VMWare Engine<p>VMWare Cloud on AWS was built by VMWare to run on AWS ec2 bare-metal instances, and is managed by VMWare themselves.<p>While similar, they are different.</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Funny how things evolve over time. When I was (2014-2016) VP&#x2F;CTO at vCloud Air, the cloud division of VMware, I spearheaded the partnership between VMware and GCP&#x2F;Google (which of course took a much larger team to be brought to life), certain that it was the only viable and meaningful partnership for VMware at the time.<p>When I left in early 2016, soon thereafter VMware ditched that partnership in favor of... IBM. No comment.<p>And now it&#x27;s 2020, IBM is far behind everyone else in the cloud, and VMware and Google are cranking along just fine. This partnership makes a ton of sense for both of them. AWS is eventually going to lose its &quot;monopoly&quot; over cloud (disclaimer: I was at AWS 2008-2014).<p>It gives me a good feeling. Especially for the very talented engineers that I met on both sides. Sometimes they have to put up with a ton of red tape and politics. At least this will make some of them smile.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-cloud-vmware-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>bg24</author><text>Most enterprise customers have huge VMware investment. It is much easier for these CIOs to move to cloud with same look and feel as VMware and single pane of glass. Save ton of time in onboarding and operational overhead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Can you help me understand why this would be useful? What can be achieved with VMWare that can&#x27;t be done more efficiently with GCP (or AWS or Azure) native tools? The list of arcane product names makes me think this is for enterprises that already invested in VMWare products and just don&#x27;t want to own servers anymore.</text></item><item><author>throwaway265731</author><text>&gt; This partnership makes a ton of sense for both of them<p>GCP purchased CloudSimple who provides managed VMWare running on bare metal. This isn&#x27;t a solution co-developed between VMWare and GCP, nor is this a 1st party VMWare solution. I&#x27;m not even sure if this is running on GCE, or if its just a re-branding of CloudSimple as GCP VMWare Engine<p>VMWare Cloud on AWS was built by VMWare to run on AWS ec2 bare-metal instances, and is managed by VMWare themselves.<p>While similar, they are different.</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Funny how things evolve over time. When I was (2014-2016) VP&#x2F;CTO at vCloud Air, the cloud division of VMware, I spearheaded the partnership between VMware and GCP&#x2F;Google (which of course took a much larger team to be brought to life), certain that it was the only viable and meaningful partnership for VMware at the time.<p>When I left in early 2016, soon thereafter VMware ditched that partnership in favor of... IBM. No comment.<p>And now it&#x27;s 2020, IBM is far behind everyone else in the cloud, and VMware and Google are cranking along just fine. This partnership makes a ton of sense for both of them. AWS is eventually going to lose its &quot;monopoly&quot; over cloud (disclaimer: I was at AWS 2008-2014).<p>It gives me a good feeling. Especially for the very talented engineers that I met on both sides. Sometimes they have to put up with a ton of red tape and politics. At least this will make some of them smile.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-cloud-vmware-engine</url></story> |
8,277,732 | 8,275,299 | 1 | 3 | 8,274,677 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prostoalex</author><text>&gt; We collectively need to get away from the idea that the only valid fiduciary duty for a for-profit organization is to make profit for their shareholders instead of creating value for humanity.<p>The idea is not new, and conglomerates have been around for quite a bit now, with most prominent example being Berkshire Hathaway. Take the profits of a textile company, reinvest them in a new line of business, take the profits from that line of business, reinvest it into a new one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text><i>With Amazon, Bezos is deferring that profit-producing, investor-rewarding day almost indefinitely into the future. This prompts the suggestion that Amazon is the world’s biggest ‘lifestyle business’ – Bezos is running it for fun, not to deliver economic returns to shareholders, at least not any time soon.</i><p>Sorry but that is ridiculous. Look at the stock price for Amazon. Anyone who has invested in Amazon has seen an amazing unprecedented ride upward, institutional benefiting the most.<p>I also take umbrage with the idea that Bezos is running Amazon for &quot;fun&quot; as though it is frivolous. Bezos seems to have a grand vision and that is not something that matches with the ridiculously short term and arguably irresponsible thinking of the vast majority of investors.<p>We collectively need to get away from the idea that the only valid fiduciary duty for a for-profit organization is to make profit for their shareholders instead of <i>creating value</i> for humanity.[1]<p>[1] This is refuting the broader point that Benedict Evans is making, and does not necessarily apply to Amazon perfectly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works</title><url>https://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why-it-works/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>At no point was anyone suggesting that the purpose of Amazon is to tickle Bezos&#x27; fancy, and it would require a painfully literal reading of the article in order to think that&#x27;s what the author was doing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text><i>With Amazon, Bezos is deferring that profit-producing, investor-rewarding day almost indefinitely into the future. This prompts the suggestion that Amazon is the world’s biggest ‘lifestyle business’ – Bezos is running it for fun, not to deliver economic returns to shareholders, at least not any time soon.</i><p>Sorry but that is ridiculous. Look at the stock price for Amazon. Anyone who has invested in Amazon has seen an amazing unprecedented ride upward, institutional benefiting the most.<p>I also take umbrage with the idea that Bezos is running Amazon for &quot;fun&quot; as though it is frivolous. Bezos seems to have a grand vision and that is not something that matches with the ridiculously short term and arguably irresponsible thinking of the vast majority of investors.<p>We collectively need to get away from the idea that the only valid fiduciary duty for a for-profit organization is to make profit for their shareholders instead of <i>creating value</i> for humanity.[1]<p>[1] This is refuting the broader point that Benedict Evans is making, and does not necessarily apply to Amazon perfectly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works</title><url>https://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why-it-works/</url></story> |
16,172,473 | 16,171,021 | 1 | 2 | 16,169,236 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>I&#x27;m nearly certain that this will not be the case. Once you reinvent everything that the DOM does, it&#x27;s highly unlikely you&#x27;ll end up faster than the DOM.<p>Everyone thinks that the rendering engines in browsers are easy to beat in terms of performance. I thought that too, until I implemented one. They are definitely beatable, but not <i>easily</i>, and certainly not with an architecture like that of Qt or GTK.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flavio81</author><text>&gt;JavaScript, without ever mentioning the limitations of wasm wrt. JS (no GC, no interaction with the DOM or with JS libraries besides numbers, etc.).<p>DOM will die as soon as the industry moves to one or two good GUI toolkits that run under Webassembly and are way faster to use than the cumbersome present combination of HTML+CSS+CSS preprocessor+JS libs.<p>Mark my words.</text></item><item><author>sjrd</author><text>Nice article.<p>Although, as always with articles on WebAssembly, it keeps repeating that wasm is faster than JavaScript, without ever mentioning the limitations of wasm wrt. JS (no GC, no interaction with the DOM or with JS libraries besides numbers, etc.). And that means there are zillions of developers who keep being misled in thinking stuff like &quot;Why don&#x27;t you compile to wasm to make your stuff faster?&quot;. That includes absurdities like &quot;We should write a compiler from JavaScript to wasm to make all our JS faster!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-faster-firefoxs-new-streaming-and-tiering-compiler/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kowdermeister</author><text>No, the DOM will stay for a long time, since CSS is actually a really great way to build UI-s.<p>Last time I checked C&#x2F;C++ based UI libraries even text selection was a problem. If there were a cross platform way to build UI-s as good and feature rich as a modern browser is now, then it will slowly die.<p>That&#x27;s the reason we have so many Electron based apps, because it makes UI building really simple.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flavio81</author><text>&gt;JavaScript, without ever mentioning the limitations of wasm wrt. JS (no GC, no interaction with the DOM or with JS libraries besides numbers, etc.).<p>DOM will die as soon as the industry moves to one or two good GUI toolkits that run under Webassembly and are way faster to use than the cumbersome present combination of HTML+CSS+CSS preprocessor+JS libs.<p>Mark my words.</text></item><item><author>sjrd</author><text>Nice article.<p>Although, as always with articles on WebAssembly, it keeps repeating that wasm is faster than JavaScript, without ever mentioning the limitations of wasm wrt. JS (no GC, no interaction with the DOM or with JS libraries besides numbers, etc.). And that means there are zillions of developers who keep being misled in thinking stuff like &quot;Why don&#x27;t you compile to wasm to make your stuff faster?&quot;. That includes absurdities like &quot;We should write a compiler from JavaScript to wasm to make all our JS faster!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-faster-firefoxs-new-streaming-and-tiering-compiler/</url></story> |
1,633,605 | 1,633,062 | 1 | 2 | 1,632,689 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hasenj</author><text>Linux may never be a factor on the desktop, but I think Ubuntu has a good chance.<p>Wait. Isn't Ubuntu just a Linux distro? Well, that depends on how you look at it.<p>Is FreeBSD a factor on the desktop? OS X is based on FreeBSD, but no one thinks of FreeBSD as "a competitor to windows", or "a user friendly OS".<p>Of course, Ubuntu to Linux is <i>not really</i> like OS X is to FreeBSD. Ubuntu didn't invent a new desktop, it's based on Debian and it uses GNOME (or Xfce or KDE). But there's still a point to make here.<p>While the open source community as a whole might fail at designing a great desktop experience, this limitation doesn't necessarily apply to Ubuntu. The design efforts there are lead by Canonical, and it's not horribly fragmented. It has so far produced some pretty decent results. See <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter</a> and <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD</a> as examples.<p>The desktop as a whole is not quite there yet, but it does stand a good chance, and it's already making a lot of strides.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paul Graham on trends for the future</title><url>http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2010/08/paul-graham-on-trends-for-the-future.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>patio11</author><text>I took the liberty of taking notes. Apologies in advance if my impressions did not capture what PG was trying to say -- I'm summarizing, not stenographing.<p>1) Innovation<p>We've still got it, including making things that are not just ways to waste time on the Internet. Evidence: sci-fi writers dramatically underestimate progress in our industry.<p>2) Biotech<p>Sexy like cleantech, but doesn't require government subsidies to make money. Also has competitive moat, because biotech is hard. (Don't worry, software still worthwhile, too).<p>3) Efficient markets<p>Free flow of information creates efficient markets where not possible before. Many of our startups do this, such as AirBnB, an efficient market in lodging. YC = "mass production techniques, applied to VC"<p>4) Measurement<p>"You make what you measure." Put a paper graph on the wall plotting your favorite metric. You'll optimize for it, celebrate improvements, and shoot yourself in the foot if you picked the wrong metric. Metrics show social customs are obsolete (like, e.g., display ads).<p>5) The United States<p>PG was born in England, is not "wild, jingoistic patriot", but still thinks reports of US's impending obsolescence are greatly exaggerated. The only thing that kills empires is when people can't make money by building stuff. Three ways this can happen:<p><pre><code> a) Bandits steal the money. (NYC)
b) Your government steals the money. ("The England that I escaped from.")
c) Other countries steal the money. (The Netherlands.)
</code></pre>
Leading candidate for toppling US is China. PG seems skeptical.<p>6) Silicon Valley<p>Budget crisis in California is two sets of idiots playing chicken. You don't have to start in Valley, but it really, really helps.<p>7) Small companies<p>World is "higher resolution": stuff gets done but it doesn't require industrial empires anymore. Networked small organizations are more efficient. Economies of scale paper over all the other sins of large corporations, but nimbleness of small companies means little guys win.<p>8) Economic inequality<p>A network of small companies plus money not getting stolen will produce massive economic inequality. (Patrick notes: PG's essay on wealth creation is my favorite of all he has ever written. He has a convincing take on why massive economic inequality is a good thing, and it isn't based on trickle-down economics.) If your business model bets on increasing economic inequality, good for you.<p>9) Moore's Law<p>Computers getting better, but in uneven fashions (e.g. SSD, not "all components improve 2 years"). Programmers are lazy. Companies which enable programmers to be lazy (i.e. not change practices or working code to benefit from uneven improvements) and get automagic speed increases win.<p>10) Things On Screens<p>We spend a lot of time staring at screens. Wider population spending more time staring at screens. PG has a suntan from his monitor.<p>11) Server-based apps<p>(I missed this one.)<p>12) Super good customer service<p>Customers can switch easily, people are talking together more, so have such good customer service like it seems like a mistake. Customers can now participate in design of products in virtually real time.<p>13) Apparently frivolous stuff<p>Our startup founders use Facebook to talk to each other about work, not email. "Facebook has not found its monetization model yet", haha. This sort of adoption shows there is something really at work here. "It is surprisingly hard to do math that has no practical applications."<p>PG skipped Twitter. Can't get a good name on it, but it turns out Twitter is really useful as a "non-deterministic messaging protocol."<p>14) Programming languages<p>There will be a succession of new, popular languages. Use the next hot language. You can be the guy who writes the library for such-and-such. Server-based apps can now be cobbled together from multiple languages. "Super abstract languages, like the ones people successfully write applications in now, were once called 'scripting languages.'"<p>15) OSS<p>I can't name a company which did too much OSS. If no one has gone too far, we're probably not doing OSS enough yet.<p>16) Linux will never be a factor on the desktop<p>Limiting edge of OSS is design. Everyone thinks they are good at design. Most people are not good at design: look at the contents of their houses. What this means for the desktop: buy AAPL stock.<p>17) iPhone<p>iPhone is a big deal, and I'm bummed because Apple are jerks. There are two problems startups have that aren't their own faults: immigration and AppStore approvals. They're like something out of Kafka.<p>(Sidenote: We're not giving our startups too little money: they can all afford iPhones.)<p>Android will be crushed under Steve Jobs' heels, because Apple cares about the iPhone like Google cares about search.<p>iPhone (or something similar) will do for laptops what laptops did to desktop.<p>18) Design<p>Design is why the iPhone wins. 20 years ago, it would have been surprising to say American companies can beat Japanese companies in consumer electronics devices. Core competency moved from manufacturing to design after people got microprocessors to shoot themselves in the foot with. Plus, China commoditized manufacturing expertise.<p>19) Real Time Stuff<p>Web 2.0 doesn't mean anything. Real time does. Google Wave will actually be important, not just somebody's 20% project. It is like Google-branded Etherpad, and Etherpad is useful, so Wave will be a gamechanger. See also Twitter, useful in a way different than Wave. If you make the convex hull around Twitter/Wave, and see a space which is unoccupied, that is a worthwhile opportunity.<p>20) VC<p>VC won't go away because VCs need to give you money. They can make the terms arbitrarily better to put money in your pockets [Patrick notes: can't get 2 and 20 if you can't invest the money]. Great news for you, since [owners] will now have the market leverage. Expect better valuations and board control.<p>21) Founders<p>Founders will more and more have the upper hand. Investors have learned firing the founders is a bad play. More and more founders will be technical founders. Programmers can learn to do business: make something people want, charge them money for it.<p>There should be an O'Reilley book for business. It would be really short. "Make something people want, charge them money for it. Advanced: charge more money."<p>---<p>Trends Not To Bet On<p>1) Credentials granted by institutions<p>Admissions officers are terrible. Look at our applicants: college graduated from (and by implication, admitted to) does not predict success. Not surprising: colleges admissions are impersonal evaluation of 17 year olds based on criteria which can be successfully gamed for money. Credentials are an example of an illiquid market. (Pagerank for people would be nice -- our startup doing it didn't work out.)<p>2) Business school<p>B-school is West Point for industrial capitalism. It trains generals, not footsoldiers. Market now rewards people who can do stuff. The kind of people who would be good teachers own their own businesses, became rich, and now have no reason to teach B-school. Instead, we get folks who cannot do and are forced to teach.<p>3) Government<p>The people on the bridge changes, but the engine room is the same as always. There is an increasing disconnect between public and private sector: government and 1960s PG (Proctor &#38; Gamble, not the other PG) fit each other like gloves, and now government does not match startups/software/etc much. Folks want to work in electronic medical records: they're going to think bureaucracy is terribly slow.<p>4) Copyright<p>"Don't start a music starup unless one of your co-founders is Johnny Cochran." Expect a long, bloody fight that the content industry loses.<p>5) Restricted flow of information<p>Getting more liquid, faster.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paul Graham on trends for the future</title><url>http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2010/08/paul-graham-on-trends-for-the-future.html</url></story> |
16,815,119 | 16,815,185 | 1 | 3 | 16,813,823 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patcheudor</author><text>&gt;t&#x27;s a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred.<p>This needs far more discussion. I just don&#x27;t buy it. I don&#x27;t believe that you can have a car engaged in auto-drive mode and remain attentive. I think our psychology won&#x27;t allow it. When driving, I find that I must be engaged and on long trips I don&#x27;t even enable cruise control because taking the accelerator input away from me is enough to cause my mind to wander. If I&#x27;m not in control of the accelerator and steering while simultaneously focused on threats including friendly officers attempting to remind me of the speed limit I space out fairly quickly. In observing how others drive, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m alone. It&#x27;s part of our nature. So then, how is it that you can have a car driving for you while simultaneously being attentive? I believe they are so mutually exclusive as to make it ridiculous to claim that such a thing is possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tc</author><text>Tesla probably shouldn&#x27;t be saying anything about this at all, even just to avoid giving it more news cycles. But if they were going to say something, here&#x27;s what they should have said the first time.<p>----<p>We take great care in building our cars to save lives. Forty thousands Americans die on the roads each year. That&#x27;s a statistic. But even a single death of a Tesla driver or passenger is a tragedy. This has affected everyone on our team deeply, and our hearts go out to the family and friends of Walter Huang.<p>We&#x27;ve recovered data that indicates Autopilot was engaged at the time of the accident. The vehicle drove straight into the barrier. In the five seconds leading up to the crash, neither Autopilot nor the driver took any evasive action.<p>Our engineers are investigating why the car failed to detect or avoid the obstacle. Any lessons we can take from this tragedy will be deployed across our entire fleet of vehicles. Saving other lives is the best we can hope to take away from an event like this.<p>In that same spirit, we would like to remind all Tesla drivers that Autopilot is not a fully-autonomous driving system. It&#x27;s a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred. Just as with autopilots in aviation, while the tool does reduce workload, it&#x27;s critical to always stay attentive. The car cannot drive itself. It can help, but you have to do your job.<p>We do realize, however, that a system like Autopilot can lure people into a false sense of security. That&#x27;s one reason we are hard at work on the problem of fully autonomous driving. It will take a few years, but we look forward to some day making accidents like this a part of history.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash</title><url>http://abc7news.com/automotive/exclusive-tesla-issues-strongest-statement-yet-blaming-driver-for-deadly-crash/3325908/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dwolb</author><text>Tesla need to stop calling it &#x27;Autopilot&#x27;.<p>The name implies drivers don&#x27;t need to drive and is most likely a big reason drivers are lured into a false sense of security.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tc</author><text>Tesla probably shouldn&#x27;t be saying anything about this at all, even just to avoid giving it more news cycles. But if they were going to say something, here&#x27;s what they should have said the first time.<p>----<p>We take great care in building our cars to save lives. Forty thousands Americans die on the roads each year. That&#x27;s a statistic. But even a single death of a Tesla driver or passenger is a tragedy. This has affected everyone on our team deeply, and our hearts go out to the family and friends of Walter Huang.<p>We&#x27;ve recovered data that indicates Autopilot was engaged at the time of the accident. The vehicle drove straight into the barrier. In the five seconds leading up to the crash, neither Autopilot nor the driver took any evasive action.<p>Our engineers are investigating why the car failed to detect or avoid the obstacle. Any lessons we can take from this tragedy will be deployed across our entire fleet of vehicles. Saving other lives is the best we can hope to take away from an event like this.<p>In that same spirit, we would like to remind all Tesla drivers that Autopilot is not a fully-autonomous driving system. It&#x27;s a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred. Just as with autopilots in aviation, while the tool does reduce workload, it&#x27;s critical to always stay attentive. The car cannot drive itself. It can help, but you have to do your job.<p>We do realize, however, that a system like Autopilot can lure people into a false sense of security. That&#x27;s one reason we are hard at work on the problem of fully autonomous driving. It will take a few years, but we look forward to some day making accidents like this a part of history.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash</title><url>http://abc7news.com/automotive/exclusive-tesla-issues-strongest-statement-yet-blaming-driver-for-deadly-crash/3325908/</url></story> |
9,189,391 | 9,187,685 | 1 | 3 | 9,185,091 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>est</author><text>As a native Chinese speaker, this comes so natural.<p>pork = pig + meat<p>So the year of 2015 is the year of ram&#x2F;sheep&#x2F;goat, in Chinese they literally means<p>Ram = male ∪ caprinae<p>sheep = wool ∪ caprinae<p>goat = mountain ∪ caprinae<p>basically, word composition is pretty common in analytic language like Chinese, but kinda new idea in fusional languages like English.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors</title><url>http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-worth-a-thousand-vectors/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madcowherd</author><text>Wondering how this differs from the SemanticVectors package? Will have to look into word2vec further.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors</title><url>http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-worth-a-thousand-vectors/</url></story> |
23,865,443 | 23,865,258 | 1 | 2 | 23,864,265 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dwd</author><text>The same could be said for radio, whether Orson Wells &quot;Alien Invasion&quot; broadcast or the multitude of April 1st jokes that got out of hand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amatecha</author><text>It&#x27;s almost as if web services that let people post whatever they want at any time, vulnerable to whatever security flaws may be present, shouldn&#x27;t be used as a reliable source for up-to-the-minute information about literally anything important at all.</text></item><item><author>blisseyGo</author><text>I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was.<p>Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of &quot;Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured&quot; and erased $136 billion in equity market value:<p>Archive: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;8lCMV" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;8lCMV</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldviews&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;syrian-hackers-claim-ap-hack-that-tipped-stock-market-by-136-billion-is-it-terrorism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldviews&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;23...</a><p>This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies, started a war, potential for black mailing politicians and others etc.<p>This really needs to be looked at with much bigger eyes. This wasn&#x27;t just a bitcoin scam.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djmetzle</author><text>This.<p>We&#x27;ve entered a world where the lowest common denominator of information is being used as primary source for current events. That&#x27;s asinine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amatecha</author><text>It&#x27;s almost as if web services that let people post whatever they want at any time, vulnerable to whatever security flaws may be present, shouldn&#x27;t be used as a reliable source for up-to-the-minute information about literally anything important at all.</text></item><item><author>blisseyGo</author><text>I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was.<p>Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of &quot;Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured&quot; and erased $136 billion in equity market value:<p>Archive: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;8lCMV" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;8lCMV</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldviews&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;syrian-hackers-claim-ap-hack-that-tipped-stock-market-by-136-billion-is-it-terrorism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldviews&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;23...</a><p>This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies, started a war, potential for black mailing politicians and others etc.<p>This really needs to be looked at with much bigger eyes. This wasn&#x27;t just a bitcoin scam.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/</url></story> |
37,703,844 | 37,703,823 | 1 | 2 | 37,703,528 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>goda90</author><text>Politicians make up a tiny percentage of the population and babies haven&#x27;t stopped being born at any point, so there will always be a population under 65 from which to elect people. If voters over 65 feel left out because they can&#x27;t vote for someone their age bracket, I don&#x27;t know what to tell them except &quot;welcome to the party&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>Are age limits viable in our aging population? I think they may not work because it would exclude so many people and many voters will be aged as well? I think a low bar competency test would be more viable.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>Yes, and she&#x27;s not the only one who is (edit: was) serving without being functional[1]. We need to start talking about upper age limits for public office. I believe it&#x27;d require a constitutional amendment, but I expect there&#x27;s lots of support for it from all sides. I&#x27;d suggest 65 as a maximum age for being elected, which means one could serve to about age 71, for a six-year Senate term.<p>[1] This article is from six years ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.bostonglobe.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;science&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;congressional-pharmacy-has-reportedly-delivered-alzheimer-drugs-members-congress&#x2F;4K2HsLB7YqLXIFDFzyHQxM&#x2F;story.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.bostonglobe.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;science&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;congres...</a></text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>She was mentally unfit to serve for the last couple years. It was a travesty many countries seem to have no mental bar required to serve or even reasonable age limits (Feinstein was 90!) Any decision &quot;she&quot; was made in the last couple years was made by her aids and not her. This is not how democracy is supposed to work.<p>Details:<p>&gt; Four U.S. senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and the California Democratic member of Congress told The Chronicle in recent interviews that her memory is rapidly deteriorating. They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;article&#x2F;dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;article&#x2F;dianne-feinstei...</a><p>With our aging population, we need to figure out how to be inclusive of those who can contribute, while identifying those who can not. Hard age limits are likely becoming less desirable as the population ages - retirement at 55 will seem like a joke. But that doesn&#x27;t mean we should just accept people who are not with it in various positions of power.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dianne Feinstein has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-dead-senate.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>coldpie</author><text>Tests for public participation have a real, real bad history, and for good reason. Age is a simple and objective measure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>Are age limits viable in our aging population? I think they may not work because it would exclude so many people and many voters will be aged as well? I think a low bar competency test would be more viable.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>Yes, and she&#x27;s not the only one who is (edit: was) serving without being functional[1]. We need to start talking about upper age limits for public office. I believe it&#x27;d require a constitutional amendment, but I expect there&#x27;s lots of support for it from all sides. I&#x27;d suggest 65 as a maximum age for being elected, which means one could serve to about age 71, for a six-year Senate term.<p>[1] This article is from six years ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.bostonglobe.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;science&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;congressional-pharmacy-has-reportedly-delivered-alzheimer-drugs-members-congress&#x2F;4K2HsLB7YqLXIFDFzyHQxM&#x2F;story.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.bostonglobe.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;science&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;congres...</a></text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>She was mentally unfit to serve for the last couple years. It was a travesty many countries seem to have no mental bar required to serve or even reasonable age limits (Feinstein was 90!) Any decision &quot;she&quot; was made in the last couple years was made by her aids and not her. This is not how democracy is supposed to work.<p>Details:<p>&gt; Four U.S. senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and the California Democratic member of Congress told The Chronicle in recent interviews that her memory is rapidly deteriorating. They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;article&#x2F;dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;article&#x2F;dianne-feinstei...</a><p>With our aging population, we need to figure out how to be inclusive of those who can contribute, while identifying those who can not. Hard age limits are likely becoming less desirable as the population ages - retirement at 55 will seem like a joke. But that doesn&#x27;t mean we should just accept people who are not with it in various positions of power.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dianne Feinstein has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-dead-senate.html</url></story> |
13,224,468 | 13,224,456 | 1 | 2 | 13,222,733 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_m7bj</author><text>&gt;3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.<p>The goal highly specific. It is to make Internet advertising artificially expensive, and it is to make harvested data about users inaccurate.<p>There are no &quot;good guys&quot; on the other side. People shouldn&#x27;t track me, that one&#x27;s obvious, but they also shouldn&#x27;t advertise at me, ever.<p>Human attention is extremely valuable, by far the most expensive commodity on the planet. If advertising companies want my attention so damn bad, they can pay me ~$65000 a year for it, same as my employer does. Otherwise, they can piss off.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I&#x27;m out on this.<p>1. They say it&#x27;s legally not click fraud. To me it sounds like regular fraud: &quot;deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right&quot;. I&#x27;m not concerned with breaking the law I just don&#x27;t want to act in the spirit of it.<p>2. This could hurt small startups that are very carefully managing an ad budget. They say the market will adjust, but until it does small startups take a hit. People we know.<p>3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse</title><url>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freshhawk</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand #1, it&#x27;s obviously not click fraud but how is it regular fraud? They want to track my clicks in order to gather profiling information about my personality in order to better influence&#x2F;manipulate me. So now I use some technology to help me fuzz this information, I could do the same by clicking myself and browsing websites I dislike myself. Which would be boring and time consuming, hence the automation.<p>Where in the spirit of the law is the ability to surveil consumers reading choices in order to influence their spending enshrined? It just emerged when people realized that the information was valuable.<p>There were similar projects involving sharing customer loyalty card numbers for grocery stores, and I never saw the argument that sharing your card number with others was fraud.<p>I think you are seeing that if consumers protect themselves against this type of surveillance then the lazy (and cheap to measure) metric of clicks becomes a less effective metric for measuring advertising placement value. It exposes the fact that those measuring this were barely providing value to advertisers and publishers in the first place. That doesn&#x27;t make it fraud, that just inconveniences a large industry that pays a lot of bills. Those are very different things, both ethically and legally.<p>As to 3, this has clear objectives, they are apparently just much farther reaching than you are comfortable with or agree with. I get it, I worked in the online advertising ad network business for many years, however I never fooled myself that this business was anything other than an unethical anti-consumer endeavour. That&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t do it anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I&#x27;m out on this.<p>1. They say it&#x27;s legally not click fraud. To me it sounds like regular fraud: &quot;deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right&quot;. I&#x27;m not concerned with breaking the law I just don&#x27;t want to act in the spirit of it.<p>2. This could hurt small startups that are very carefully managing an ad budget. They say the market will adjust, but until it does small startups take a hit. People we know.<p>3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse</title><url>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam</url></story> |
39,582,668 | 39,582,664 | 1 | 3 | 39,582,512 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lukevp</author><text>I could’ve written this. My goal of 2024 is to remove all emails, alerts, notifications that don’t truly deserve my attention. And as I’ve started doing that, it feels like a never-ending hole.<p>What can we do about this? With e-mail, we can create temp inboxes and throw them away.<p>What about phone? Is there an IPV6 for phone where we could have billions of throwaway numbers and use them as we see fit? Introduce a new country code that has 32 digit phone numbers and if you don’t accept those numbers, you don’t get our business?<p>At this point all of my personal, business emails, and phone numbers have been bought and sold a million times, and there’s no recourse or penalty for people spamming them. What can we do about this? It’s oppressive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm going to keep opting out</title><url>https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/im-going-to-keep-opting-out/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>7thaccount</author><text>We live in an advertising hellscape now. The biggest crock of crap is being forced to watch an advertisement at the freaking gas station as I pump my gas. I&#x27;ll never voluntarily use those pumps ever again.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I'm going to keep opting out</title><url>https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/im-going-to-keep-opting-out/</url></story> |
23,296,310 | 23,296,241 | 1 | 3 | 23,295,989 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jtvjan</author><text>When you search for a file extension, almost always those useless sites pop up that are just advertisements for a ``driver manager&quot; or ``registry cleaner&quot;. The justsolve wiki[1] is a pretty good resource for file extensions, but it&#x27;s not popular enough yet to rank high in search results.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fileformats.archiveteam.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fileformats.archiveteam.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>Name and shame: my personal ones are cplusplus.com and w3schools.com.</text></item><item><author>davehcker</author><text>I wrote this because I was so annoyed by irrelevant low-quality search results for my queries on Google. For instance if I&#x27;m looking up for Python xyz topic, 99% of the times I am not interested in some &#x27;low-quality&#x27; content (based on my personal preferences) from website example.com.<p>The plugin maintains a persistent and customizable list of URLs (keywords) that are used as a &#x27;blacklist&#x27; for stripping results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs</title><url>https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Fucking quora!<p>For image search, fucking pinterest!</text><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>Name and shame: my personal ones are cplusplus.com and w3schools.com.</text></item><item><author>davehcker</author><text>I wrote this because I was so annoyed by irrelevant low-quality search results for my queries on Google. For instance if I&#x27;m looking up for Python xyz topic, 99% of the times I am not interested in some &#x27;low-quality&#x27; content (based on my personal preferences) from website example.com.<p>The plugin maintains a persistent and customizable list of URLs (keywords) that are used as a &#x27;blacklist&#x27; for stripping results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs</title><url>https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper</url></story> |
23,283,915 | 23,283,798 | 1 | 2 | 23,281,542 | 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>microtherion</author><text>This should probably carry a date stamp; my guess would be that it dates from 1990 or so.<p>Most of the advice is still good, but I would object to (3):<p>* Excessive casting can be a problem in itself, as it hides genuine type errors (e.g. you think you&#x27;re casting an int to long, but in reality the variable is a pointer)<p>* Casting NULL is pointless, as it&#x27;s already defined by the standard to be a pointer constant, compatible with all data pointers.<p>* Much of the language about &quot;prototypes&quot; (a.k.a. standard C) was justified at the time, but no longer reflects reality nowadays. It would have to be a very exotic platform that still uses a pre-ANSI C compiler.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)</title><url>https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.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>rgoulter</author><text>&gt; if thou thinkest ``it cannot happen to me&#x27;&#x27;, the gods shall surely punish thee for thy arrogance<p>This one is a universal experience. :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)</title><url>https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html</url></story> |
34,482,998 | 34,482,971 | 1 | 2 | 34,482,433 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amcraig</author><text>Oh my god, you made the Hapland games?
I spent hours of through high school playing them.
Wanted to say thanks for the great times!</text><parent_chain><item><author>rogual</author><text>A long time ago, I made some Flash games. I recently converted some of them away from Flash and released them together as a desktop game for modern computers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1458090&#x2F;Hapland_Trilogy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1458090&#x2F;Hapland_Trilogy&#x2F;</a><p>I am currently making more than $500 a month from this, although I don&#x27;t necessarily expect that to continue. Games are a crowded market. It was a fun project, though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell</title><text>Previously asked on:<p>2022 → <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29995152" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29995152</a><p>2021 → <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29667095" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29667095</a><p>2020 → <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24947167" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24947167</a></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eps</author><text>Holy smokes! What a massive time sink it was :) Brilliant little gems, absolutely brilliant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rogual</author><text>A long time ago, I made some Flash games. I recently converted some of them away from Flash and released them together as a desktop game for modern computers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1458090&#x2F;Hapland_Trilogy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1458090&#x2F;Hapland_Trilogy&#x2F;</a><p>I am currently making more than $500 a month from this, although I don&#x27;t necessarily expect that to continue. Games are a crowded market. It was a fun project, though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell</title><text>Previously asked on:<p>2022 → <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29995152" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29995152</a><p>2021 → <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29667095" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29667095</a><p>2020 → <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24947167" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24947167</a></text></story> |
5,897,978 | 5,897,827 | 1 | 3 | 5,897,452 | 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>weland</author><text>Dear God, it&#x27;s like I&#x27;m a kid again.<p>I didn&#x27;t grow up in the US; when I was a kid, we didn&#x27;t have this kind of interviews on TV. For one thing, most of the TV shows they aired was propaganda, and it was so utterly boring most of us didn&#x27;t bother. The newspapers, on the other hand, carried propaganda along with the news, so you kindda had to read it, too, if you were to know what&#x27;s happening. The smarter folks could even read between the lines.<p>This one struck the most sensible chord:<p>&gt; And what that does is that does not apply to any U.S. person. Has to be a foreign entity.<p>Entities. Not individuals, not groups, but entities. If you&#x27;re an American citizen, you&#x27;re cool. If you&#x27;re a foreign entity, you&#x27;re preeeetty much either a ladybug or a human, either way, it&#x27;s pretty much the same thing.<p>This was Communist speak for non-Communist (to be fair, it was the twisted kind of Soviet-inspired Communism). We had communist workers and teachers and housewives, but foreign elements. Our country had communist friends but the democratic entities weren&#x27;t that friendly.<p>This defensive depersonalization makes it very easy to strip away ethics. Butchering unarmed civilians sounds a lot more horrifying than annihilating non-combatant, but dangerous entities.<p>&gt; The — because — the — first of all, Charlie, the number of requests are surprisingly small… number one. Number two, folks don’t go with a query unless they’ve got a pretty good suspicion.<p>This sounds very much like the kind of conversation that, at some point, was taking place between Soviet representatives and representatives of various other subordinated, but somewhat nasty countries of the Soviet block.<p>It&#x27;s the kind of stuff that was handed out to us during the talks about the Warszaw pact. Is it true that the Soviet Union has supreme command of all troops and can invade any territory, even that of its allies? Well, no, I mean, it wouldn&#x27;t be an invasion. It&#x27;s a trade-off we have do for our freedom: should the Revolution be abandoned in any of the member countries, the allied countries should intervene to restore the right values. That is why the Soviet Union has to have representatives at all levels, must be informed of every decision. It&#x27;s one of those things we must concede for democracy -- we need to entrust our freedom to people who can protect it. Words like freedom, democracy, values and way of life were freely thrown in -- ours was the land of the brave and free, unlike that of the oppressed working-class friends living in imperialist, totalitarian states.<p>I shivered a bit when I read this.<p>Edit: BTW, just to practice my reading-between-the-lines muscle, my guess is that a) FISA hasn&#x27;t turned down any request yet and b) the requests were summarily &quot;reviewed&quot; and approved, through a short process that should give legal backing. In other words, FISA isn&#x27;t there to actually review the requests, it&#x27;s there simply in order to fill in the paperwork that&#x27;s needed in order to make the whole thing seem legitimate.<p>In the early days of the regime, we had something similar to this, too. The curious dudes submitted a request to a committee of representatives of the people -- the request was basically a form which said that the following people have highly suspicious activities that can be a threat to the security of our people, to the Revolution and the communist way of life we have so hardly fought for (actual fucking words!) and was recommended to be placed under surveillance. These were signed pretty much in bulk -- the representatives of the people usually signed a big list at the bottom. Later on, this was eventually dropped: complaining about paperwork was useless, and after a few years it became obvious complaining about paperwork was so dangerous that when it was no longer required, no one dared do anything about it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/in-first-nsa-interview-obama-cant-confirm-if-courts-ever-rejected-spying-requests/</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>malandrew</author><text>The question I want to see asked is:<p>&quot;Obama, in the course of your day, you and your staff probably interact with many foreign diplomats and other persons which this system is likely to classify as 51% likely to be foreign. On top of that, the content of those conversation, depending on the topic at hand, is likely to include words that would trigger an alert. With this in mind, do you think it is acceptable that those in the NSA, many of whom may have a differing political affiliation than you, can read any correspondence flagged for review? Furthermore, how can any member of congress operate from a position of equality if they cannot have confidence that their communications could fall into the hands of their compatriots across the aisle that may have a different agenda?&quot;<p>If the answer to those questions included a filter that excluded all members of the executive, legislative and judicial, the obvious follow up question would be, &quot;Why are members of congress allowed this right, but not the citizens of this country?&quot;<p>I would also take comments he made on the Wikileaks Manning trove and present them as counterpoints to any rebuttal he has. I don&#x27;t remember anything verbatim, but I remember him specifically addressing the importance of American diplomats being able to be secure in their communications to be able to carry out the roles for which they were appointed. This exact same argument can be applied to every single elected representative of the people and every official appointed by a duly elected representative.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/in-first-nsa-interview-obama-cant-confirm-if-courts-ever-rejected-spying-requests/</url><text></text></story> |
5,594,253 | 5,594,182 | 1 | 2 | 5,594,053 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steven2012</author><text>I'm as big a fan as anyone, having watched Futurama since day 1. I was lucky enough to randomly bump into Billy West at Comicon 2010 and nervously muttered how much I loved Futurama, and he was especially gracious, saying fans like me were the ones who brought it back.<p>That being said, I felt that the new episodes never captured the quality of the original run. They tried too hard at tugging at our heart strings and never really felt legitimate, unlike the episodes like "Luck of the Fryish", "Jurassic Bark", etc. I thought the last season was actually bad, and the plots never made any sense, so I guess it was about time for it to end its run.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Futurama Canceled Again</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/04/22/futurama_canceled_bad_news_everyone.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>Svip</author><text>To be technically correct - the best kind of correct - the show has only been cancelled twice. In fact, to be even _more_ technically correct, it hasn't actually been cancelled, just not renewed.<p>People tend to confuse the times after the films where there were no new episodes to show and none in production with a cancellation, because the films themselves did not bring the show back to television. That's like saying Arrested Development is cancelled after the film is released, because no new film or television episodes has been ordered.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Futurama Canceled Again</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/04/22/futurama_canceled_bad_news_everyone.html</url></story> |
35,350,333 | 35,349,848 | 1 | 2 | 35,349,500 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cameronh90</author><text>It&#x27;s not popular among the crowd here, but my favourite &quot;pretty ok&quot; language is C#. It&#x27;s not really the best at anything, but it&#x27;s pretty good for most use cases.<p>That being said, because there&#x27;s no one perfect language, it&#x27;s handy to have a few in your arsenal. As much as I like C#, I&#x27;d still reach for Python for any data or ML type use cases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eminence32</author><text>&gt; And you would only need Rust — while it excels in the lowest half of the stack, it’s pretty ok everywhere else too.<p>A younger me, in search of a new language to learn, would have been turned off by something that is only &quot;pretty ok&quot;<p>But 20 years later, something that is &quot;pretty ok&quot; is exactly what I&#x27;m looking for. My experience has been that finding the perfect language (or perfect anything) is futile, and all I want is something that let&#x27;s me solve my problems, don&#x27;t get in my way, and don&#x27;t really surprise me.<p>For a long while, python was my go-to &quot;pretty ok&quot; language, but eventually it stopped being &quot;pretty ok&quot; for me. Rust has now taken that spot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust Is a Scalable Language</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/03/28/rust-is-a-scalable-language.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>ldjkfkdsjnv</author><text>Python doesnt really scale to large code bases, and refactoring is very hard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eminence32</author><text>&gt; And you would only need Rust — while it excels in the lowest half of the stack, it’s pretty ok everywhere else too.<p>A younger me, in search of a new language to learn, would have been turned off by something that is only &quot;pretty ok&quot;<p>But 20 years later, something that is &quot;pretty ok&quot; is exactly what I&#x27;m looking for. My experience has been that finding the perfect language (or perfect anything) is futile, and all I want is something that let&#x27;s me solve my problems, don&#x27;t get in my way, and don&#x27;t really surprise me.<p>For a long while, python was my go-to &quot;pretty ok&quot; language, but eventually it stopped being &quot;pretty ok&quot; for me. Rust has now taken that spot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust Is a Scalable Language</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/03/28/rust-is-a-scalable-language.html</url></story> |
2,826,063 | 2,825,788 | 1 | 2 | 2,825,177 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breck</author><text>&#62; it's very clear that AirBnb are the primary, if not only, ones at fault here.<p>No. Some terrible human being who should be in jail is at fault here.<p>Airbnb and YC are all run by great people. Responding to a crisis like this is never easy. Responding to your <i>first</i> crisis like this is hardest of all.<p>I wouldn't blame Michael Arrington at all, either. I think he's done a great job at reporting this. But it's not his first rodeo, for some of the other people involved it is, and so I'm not surprised they've made some mistakes.<p>Also, in regard to the so called "coverup", it's totally natural when someone says bad things about you on the internet to ask them to take them down. That's not a "cover up". That's "being human". Imagine if someone posted a diatribe against one of your children. As a parent, wouldn't you want to get that taken down? Airbnb is these guys' baby.<p>I grew up in a political family and all the time my father and my family would get slammed in the paper and online. I used to have a knee jerk reaction and email people asking them to take things down. It hurts when people say shit about you, especially if you haven't developed <i>really</i> think skin. EJ is a great writer, so it makes the post that much more stinging. It shouldn't be taken down, but we shouldn't imagine Airbnb's asking for it to be taken down some nefarious "coverup". It's only human.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jellicle</author><text>Sounds to me like Paul Graham has made a fairly fundamental and common mistake, which is to say believing the AirBnb people when they reassure him that everything is under control and there's no fire here.<p>Paul, if you actually read the statements made by the CEO on news.ycombinator.com, it's <i>very clear</i> that AirBnb are the primary, if not only, ones at fault here.<p>I don't want to call Paul a liar, since it seems likely to me that he has just made a mistake of believing someone else. But he's putting his own reputation behind AirBnb, and AirBnb is lying. That's unwise.<p>Let me compare a different response that I'm familiar with. A friend of mine had her apartment destroyed in the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks. Insurance companies came and set up booths in Manhattan and were cutting checks left and right, without even SEEING the damage. My friend had a check in her hand on 9/13 if I recall correctly. She didn't get in to SEE her own apartment until a month later, and the insurance company didn't see it until much later than that.<p>As of today and yesterday, there are articles in newspapers across the land. There are phrases like "As of Friday afternoon, Airbnb had not returned calls from The [Washington] Post requesting comment." - that's a quote from a WashPost story, of course. One thing I know: when the Washington Post calls and a company has something good to say about themselves, they take the call (calls, actually).<p>It's apparent from the latest newspaper stories that AirBnb is now reacting in a cover-it-up fashion - they're trying to offer the woman a sum of money with the condition that she shut up. That's fine, I guess - very corporate of them.<p>But frankly I expected better. I guess I sort of expected that even if AirBnb was being dumb, that when the first article hit news.yc, that someone would call them and straighten them out. Instead it seems that PG, also, is blinded by "going to be as big as Ebay".</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How The Hell Is This My Fault?</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fault/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>true_religion</author><text>Air BNB is specifically <i>not</i> an insurrance company.<p>They technically have no obligation to pay in the case of <i>any</i> damage.<p>For them, the best possible course of action was to bury this case. However, now that it's come into the public light they're torn between (a) trying to re-iterate to everyone that they <i>do not have liability</i> and (b) trying to look good by doing the "Right Thing".<p>As a business owner, I feel for them. As a human being, I feel for her. I too am torn, and think that there is going to be no satisfactory resolution to this situation. Someone is not going to come away 'whole', and most likely it will be AirBNB.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jellicle</author><text>Sounds to me like Paul Graham has made a fairly fundamental and common mistake, which is to say believing the AirBnb people when they reassure him that everything is under control and there's no fire here.<p>Paul, if you actually read the statements made by the CEO on news.ycombinator.com, it's <i>very clear</i> that AirBnb are the primary, if not only, ones at fault here.<p>I don't want to call Paul a liar, since it seems likely to me that he has just made a mistake of believing someone else. But he's putting his own reputation behind AirBnb, and AirBnb is lying. That's unwise.<p>Let me compare a different response that I'm familiar with. A friend of mine had her apartment destroyed in the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks. Insurance companies came and set up booths in Manhattan and were cutting checks left and right, without even SEEING the damage. My friend had a check in her hand on 9/13 if I recall correctly. She didn't get in to SEE her own apartment until a month later, and the insurance company didn't see it until much later than that.<p>As of today and yesterday, there are articles in newspapers across the land. There are phrases like "As of Friday afternoon, Airbnb had not returned calls from The [Washington] Post requesting comment." - that's a quote from a WashPost story, of course. One thing I know: when the Washington Post calls and a company has something good to say about themselves, they take the call (calls, actually).<p>It's apparent from the latest newspaper stories that AirBnb is now reacting in a cover-it-up fashion - they're trying to offer the woman a sum of money with the condition that she shut up. That's fine, I guess - very corporate of them.<p>But frankly I expected better. I guess I sort of expected that even if AirBnb was being dumb, that when the first article hit news.yc, that someone would call them and straighten them out. Instead it seems that PG, also, is blinded by "going to be as big as Ebay".</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How The Hell Is This My Fault?</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fault/</url></story> |
25,124,513 | 25,123,362 | 1 | 3 | 25,121,705 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cashewchoo</author><text>I have a long history with Swing and as painful as it is to use sometimes (e.g. &quot;There are Swing developers with <i>low</i> pain tolerances?&quot;) it&#x27;s astonishing how <i>productive</i> Swing feels compared to React even so many years later. Maybe I&#x27;m just warped but GridBagLayout, while containing a certain base level of frustration, is O(1) for frustration. Whereas CSS are absolutely O(n) or worse. One of the best feelings in the world is replacing a complicated nesting of buggy BorderLayouts et al with one nice (slightly verbose) GridBagLayout that actually works.<p>In my imaginary company that I own where we all run linux laptops that are managed by puppet or something, I think we might make a strong case for building many internal tools in Swing.<p>The biggest hurdle I see nowadays to using Swing is all about distribution: both of the jvm and the program. Imo that&#x27;s really where the web won - certainly not because of its dev productivity. So it&#x27;s definitely a no-go for your actual software product.... but for internal tools where you have a lot more leverage over the environment, I think it looks extremely attractive.<p>Regarding JavaFX... Honestly, I really like it. I have a personal project that was originally in Swing and I ported it to JavaFX because HiDPI is in a lot better shape there (though I think Swing has since figured it out?). And it&#x27;s a lot better in many ways. I love-love-love using SceneBuilder for designing the view layer and the Observable pattern, I think, yields a lot of nice QOL&#x2F;verbosity-reducing things.<p>That said, I think it did have a slightly higher O() for frustration than Swing&#x27;s O(1). And I think the community, as a whole, just understands it less (less prior art etc).<p>So if someone said &quot;build a usable high-quality GUI asap or you die&quot; to me, I&#x27;d go to Swing immediately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grandinj</author><text>We build all our desktop products using Swing, and it works pretty well. Looks pretty native (if you want it to), is thoroughly battle-tested, reasonably performant, and has a bazillion open-source extras floating around (of varying quality).<p>If you need 3d, we drop into OpenGL and use that (e.g. when integrating WorldWind).<p>Sometimes I feel bad about how easy it is to write desktop UIs in Java - the API is stable, nobody keeps changing it under me, I don&#x27;t have to wonder what Microsoft is pushing this year, it is (mostly) easy to debug, has open source forms designers (Netbeans), etc, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Graphics for JVM</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/skija/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swiley</author><text>You would have thought after 40 years there would be some standard GUI toolkit all the major OSes would adopt but stuff like swing, html, and TCL&#x2F;tk are all we have...<p>and of course vt100 escape sequences for some reason.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grandinj</author><text>We build all our desktop products using Swing, and it works pretty well. Looks pretty native (if you want it to), is thoroughly battle-tested, reasonably performant, and has a bazillion open-source extras floating around (of varying quality).<p>If you need 3d, we drop into OpenGL and use that (e.g. when integrating WorldWind).<p>Sometimes I feel bad about how easy it is to write desktop UIs in Java - the API is stable, nobody keeps changing it under me, I don&#x27;t have to wonder what Microsoft is pushing this year, it is (mostly) easy to debug, has open source forms designers (Netbeans), etc, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Graphics for JVM</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/skija/</url></story> |
29,439,280 | 29,438,624 | 1 | 2 | 29,437,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Flashtoo</author><text>What happens in the Midwest that makes it a carbon sink? Growing crops that turn back into atmospheric CO2 within a couple of months would be carbon neutral at best.<p>&quot;The strong atmospheric sink in the agricultural region is consistent with the difference in the spatial distribution of agricultural production and product consumption: a strong atmospheric uptake by crops during the growing season in the Midwest states, while much of the release of carbon associated with consumption of agricultural products occurs in other regions, in the United States and abroad. It must thus be pointed out that this apparent atmospheric sink in the Midwest does not imply a long-term carbon sequestration&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;107&#x2F;43&#x2F;18348" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;107&#x2F;43&#x2F;18348</a> , Discussion</text><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if &quot;Mother Jones&quot; is a great source also -- &quot;to outrun climate change,&quot;<p>What does that mean exactly?<p>The greatest carbon sink in the world is the midwest during growing season. Would converting that into forests improve that? No.<p>Also, it&#x27;s not clear why they only grow at the given estimated rate. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s as simple as &quot;plant more trees&quot;.</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>It&#x27;s not fast enough. &quot;The average forest migrates at a rate of roughly 1,640 feet each year, but to outrun climate change, it must move approximately 9,800 to 16,000 feet—up to 10 times as fast.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;trees-forests-assisted-migration-fire-climate-joshua-redwoods-sequoia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;trees-forest...</a><p>[Edit 2: a more direct source for that number is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;academic.oup.com&#x2F;jof&#x2F;article&#x2F;111&#x2F;4&#x2F;287&#x2F;4599572" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;academic.oup.com&#x2F;jof&#x2F;article&#x2F;111&#x2F;4&#x2F;287&#x2F;4599572</a> ]<p>Edit: also, while the article only names one species of tree, it switches to using the term &quot;tree seed&quot; which I think covers more diversity. At least the linked project <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blm.gov&#x2F;programs&#x2F;natural-resources&#x2F;native-plant-communities&#x2F;native-plant-and-seed-material-development&#x2F;collection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blm.gov&#x2F;programs&#x2F;natural-resources&#x2F;native-plant-...</a> mentions diversity a lot, so they&#x27;re not aiming for a monoculture.</text></item><item><author>xipho</author><text>This seems like a short term fix prone to all the problems of mono-culture. First pine-beetle infestations brining in disease put all that hard-work to naught.<p>There is a natural progression to growing forests, how about protecting, and just staying off large swaths of land, using fire treatment and land management techniques as we understand them and let the land restore itself? Perhaps we have to think past 5-10 year windows and start to work at plans that think a minimum of 50 years out. Old-growth forests take easily that long, at minimum, to get started &quot;naturally&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To regrow forests the U.S. needs billions of seeds–and many more 'seed hunters'</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/to-regrow-forests-us-needs-billions-of-seeds-many-more-seed-hunters</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>I will not endorse Mother Jones. However, &quot;outrunning&quot; is straightforward. A forest can &quot;move&quot; a certain amount a year — it is not motion of individual trees, but new trees and plants can grow where there were none before.<p>If the extents of a forest are constrained by climate, and the boundaries of its climate zone moving at a speed which is slower than the trees can move, then the collection of organisms can meaningfully persist and be said to move north. If on the other hand the climate zones are moving too quickly, then sooner or later there will no longer exist a collection of trees and related organisms that functioned as this forest once did.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if &quot;Mother Jones&quot; is a great source also -- &quot;to outrun climate change,&quot;<p>What does that mean exactly?<p>The greatest carbon sink in the world is the midwest during growing season. Would converting that into forests improve that? No.<p>Also, it&#x27;s not clear why they only grow at the given estimated rate. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s as simple as &quot;plant more trees&quot;.</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>It&#x27;s not fast enough. &quot;The average forest migrates at a rate of roughly 1,640 feet each year, but to outrun climate change, it must move approximately 9,800 to 16,000 feet—up to 10 times as fast.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;trees-forests-assisted-migration-fire-climate-joshua-redwoods-sequoia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;trees-forest...</a><p>[Edit 2: a more direct source for that number is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;academic.oup.com&#x2F;jof&#x2F;article&#x2F;111&#x2F;4&#x2F;287&#x2F;4599572" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;academic.oup.com&#x2F;jof&#x2F;article&#x2F;111&#x2F;4&#x2F;287&#x2F;4599572</a> ]<p>Edit: also, while the article only names one species of tree, it switches to using the term &quot;tree seed&quot; which I think covers more diversity. At least the linked project <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blm.gov&#x2F;programs&#x2F;natural-resources&#x2F;native-plant-communities&#x2F;native-plant-and-seed-material-development&#x2F;collection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blm.gov&#x2F;programs&#x2F;natural-resources&#x2F;native-plant-...</a> mentions diversity a lot, so they&#x27;re not aiming for a monoculture.</text></item><item><author>xipho</author><text>This seems like a short term fix prone to all the problems of mono-culture. First pine-beetle infestations brining in disease put all that hard-work to naught.<p>There is a natural progression to growing forests, how about protecting, and just staying off large swaths of land, using fire treatment and land management techniques as we understand them and let the land restore itself? Perhaps we have to think past 5-10 year windows and start to work at plans that think a minimum of 50 years out. Old-growth forests take easily that long, at minimum, to get started &quot;naturally&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To regrow forests the U.S. needs billions of seeds–and many more 'seed hunters'</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/to-regrow-forests-us-needs-billions-of-seeds-many-more-seed-hunters</url></story> |
21,974,805 | 21,974,775 | 1 | 2 | 21,974,609 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rexf</author><text>Unintended purchases are a real issue. I&#x27;ve witnessed first hand how young kids tend to press anything on the screen without any thought. I saw them press and nearly purchase youtube&#x27;s &quot;Super Chat, a tool that lets you pay to pin comments on live streams&quot; without knowing what it was.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Some of the features that get disabled for &quot;children&#x27;s content&quot; are a bit surprising:<p>Playback in the Miniplayer<p>Save to playlist and Save to watch later<p>Likes and dislikes on YouTube Music<p>Donate buttons<p>I guess it&#x27;s hard to do these in a way that is compliant with the privacy rules, or they&#x27;re worried that kids will donate $1000 to their favorite Youtuber with Mom and Dad&#x27;s credit card? It will be interesting to see how good their machine learning is at identifying &quot;kid&#x27;s content&quot;. From reading the FTC page, the delineation seems a bit arbitrary. I suppose we&#x27;ll see if there&#x27;s a financial impact on Youtubers that are borderline (is someone playing a video game considered children&#x27;s content? What if the videogame is rated M? Will the tiebreaker be statistics about their actual viewers?)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube</title><url>https://youtube.googleblog.com/2020/01/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube.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>vageli</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the prevention of adding to a playlist. Now I can&#x27;t make a custom playlist of children&#x27;s content for my kid?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Some of the features that get disabled for &quot;children&#x27;s content&quot; are a bit surprising:<p>Playback in the Miniplayer<p>Save to playlist and Save to watch later<p>Likes and dislikes on YouTube Music<p>Donate buttons<p>I guess it&#x27;s hard to do these in a way that is compliant with the privacy rules, or they&#x27;re worried that kids will donate $1000 to their favorite Youtuber with Mom and Dad&#x27;s credit card? It will be interesting to see how good their machine learning is at identifying &quot;kid&#x27;s content&quot;. From reading the FTC page, the delineation seems a bit arbitrary. I suppose we&#x27;ll see if there&#x27;s a financial impact on Youtubers that are borderline (is someone playing a video game considered children&#x27;s content? What if the videogame is rated M? Will the tiebreaker be statistics about their actual viewers?)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube</title><url>https://youtube.googleblog.com/2020/01/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube.html</url></story> |
1,296,272 | 1,296,365 | 1 | 2 | 1,295,964 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rufo</author><text>Why didn't he do something reasonable, like turn it into the bartender or the police?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>What crime? The gent who found the phone called Apple repeatedly to give it back and was ignored.</text></item><item><author>bsiemon</author><text>Section 1070 California Evidence Code protects sources of information from discovery by the state. It does not protect evidence related to the commission of a crime.<p><a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=evid&#38;group=01001-02000&#38;file=1070" rel="nofollow">http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=evid&#...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Police raid Gizmodo editor's house</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/26/the-iphone-leak-gets-ugly-police-raid-gizmodo-editors-house-confiscate-computers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MWinther</author><text>Well, the only way we know that to have happened is via Gizmodo's account of what the guy who sold it to them said. I'm not saying he didn't, but we've hardly gotten irrefutable proof that it actually happened. It is, after all, in the guy's interest to make himself look like he was trying to return it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>What crime? The gent who found the phone called Apple repeatedly to give it back and was ignored.</text></item><item><author>bsiemon</author><text>Section 1070 California Evidence Code protects sources of information from discovery by the state. It does not protect evidence related to the commission of a crime.<p><a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=evid&#38;group=01001-02000&#38;file=1070" rel="nofollow">http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=evid&#...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Police raid Gizmodo editor's house</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/26/the-iphone-leak-gets-ugly-police-raid-gizmodo-editors-house-confiscate-computers/</url></story> |
37,704,052 | 37,703,143 | 1 | 3 | 37,702,095 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nottheengineer</author><text>There&#x27;s google, which is less infuriating to use than microsoft stuff from what I&#x27;ve heard. Microsoft, google and yahoo regularly block or delay mails from independents[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35380823">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35380823</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>etothepii</author><text>I think of our company as an &quot;indie&quot; startup and we use Office365 for email. There are a bunch of things that I hate about it but what are the plausible alternatives? Before we moved to O365 85%+ of our emails landed in spam folders.</text></item><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; I can’t for the life of me figure out how executives at big Fortune 500 move their workloads to Azure.<p>Almost every organisation already has a huge-ass contract with Microsoft for Windows, AD, Office, Teams, Exchange and whatnot, deeply integrated with their core IT. So if the organisation doesn&#x27;t already have AWS set up as a supplier, it&#x27;s usually easier to push for an existing supplier instead.</text></item><item><author>victor106</author><text>This issue is specific to Azure and Microsoft. I find AWS and GCP to be fine.<p>Microsoft has some of the worst security vulnerabilities and practices I have ever seen. I can’t for the life of me figure out how executives at big Fortune 500 move their workloads to Azure.<p>The only selling point Microsoft has for Azure in some domains is that Amazon is their competitor. I wish Amazon
just let AWS be it’s own thing.<p>I also hope that Microsoft step up their security game but at this point it’s kind of a lost cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted</title><url>https://graz.social/@publicvoit/111147782761723981</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andyferris</author><text>GSuite tends to work ok for email. There might be others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>etothepii</author><text>I think of our company as an &quot;indie&quot; startup and we use Office365 for email. There are a bunch of things that I hate about it but what are the plausible alternatives? Before we moved to O365 85%+ of our emails landed in spam folders.</text></item><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; I can’t for the life of me figure out how executives at big Fortune 500 move their workloads to Azure.<p>Almost every organisation already has a huge-ass contract with Microsoft for Windows, AD, Office, Teams, Exchange and whatnot, deeply integrated with their core IT. So if the organisation doesn&#x27;t already have AWS set up as a supplier, it&#x27;s usually easier to push for an existing supplier instead.</text></item><item><author>victor106</author><text>This issue is specific to Azure and Microsoft. I find AWS and GCP to be fine.<p>Microsoft has some of the worst security vulnerabilities and practices I have ever seen. I can’t for the life of me figure out how executives at big Fortune 500 move their workloads to Azure.<p>The only selling point Microsoft has for Azure in some domains is that Amazon is their competitor. I wish Amazon
just let AWS be it’s own thing.<p>I also hope that Microsoft step up their security game but at this point it’s kind of a lost cause.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted</title><url>https://graz.social/@publicvoit/111147782761723981</url></story> |
23,906,590 | 23,901,580 | 1 | 3 | 23,901,513 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>Has anyone actually tried this? Most of the comments seem to be about the licensing or the ui, i&#x27;m just curious how this holds up to ardour. This actually looks pretty awesome.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Highly automated digital audio workstation extensible in Guile</title><url>https://www.zrythm.org</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>majkinetor</author><text>FYI: Build and run it free, or pay for installer and to support development.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Highly automated digital audio workstation extensible in Guile</title><url>https://www.zrythm.org</url></story> |
27,863,830 | 27,863,762 | 1 | 2 | 27,858,032 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acituan</author><text>&gt; suggest that misinformation is some new phenomenon<p>Misinformation in this shape and form is a new phenomenon. And it is not just the scale;<p>- the number of agents that push their version of misinformation is at least an order of magnitude higher than ever, depending on the particular topic. So-called culture wars have so many different sides.<p>- technology not only scales misinformation, but it also <i>accelerates</i> it. The objective function of &quot;increased engagement&quot; meshes very well. Hard to grok, full fidelity facts don&#x27;t get shared or recommended as much as rage-baiting or bias-confirming material.<p>- technology can on-the-fly piece together material to conform to whatever bullshit you want to hear, I want to hear or the other guy wants to hear. As it is optimized to increase engagement, it can efficiently generate personalized micro-narratives, which is ultimately a reflection of our personal biases.<p>The problems is it gets harder and harder for these narratives to <i>converge</i>. More on that below.<p>&gt; If anything, what we&#x27;re seeing with the internet is a more true democracy with a wider range of opinions, less controlled by small groups of plutocrats<p>As mentioned, original thoughts don&#x27;t have the same propagation speed or reach as junk-infotainment, and you&#x27;re just as subject to the narrative-shaping powers of those &quot;plutocrats&quot; as ever. They just blend in better.<p>But the larger issue is that you can&#x27;t equivocate <i>mere plurality</i> with a functioning democracy. Ultimately there is a <i>single</i> reality, and even though we are in divergent positions due to having different entry points and framings, we should be - however little - converging in our narratives and understanding of that reality as time progresses.<p>But the opposite seems to be happening, we are getting dumber at scale, stuff makes less sense, institutional mistrust is at all-time-high. I am not putting this all on tech, but it certainly pours fuel on the fire of meaning-making crisis.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t take it for granted that we could survive this without it creating a larger crisis first.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>The bigger problem that I have with the idea that misinformation kills democracy is that it seems to suggest that misinformation is some new phenomenon or that the average person has been well informed throughout the history of western democracy.<p>Democracy thrived before the printing press. Democracy survived the invention of the printing press, which was mostly in the hands of magnates who could afford it. Democracy survived the invention of television and radio, which was (and still is) in the hands of a select few magnates. We build up terms like &quot;journalistic integrity&quot; and look at the past with rose colored glasses as if these mediums delivered pure objective truth.<p>If anything, what we&#x27;re seeing with the internet is a more true democracy with a wider range of opinions, less controlled by small groups of plutocrats. If you don&#x27;t like to see the death of that plutocracy, or you&#x27;re happy to see a new group of benevolent plutocrats come in to retake control the narrative, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you don&#x27;t really like democracy.</text></item><item><author>contravariant</author><text>There&#x27;s something fundamentally flawed about the idea that censorship in the name of preventing misinformation is protecting the foundation of democracy.<p>You cannot have true democracy if people cannot disagree with their governments, they must be able to disagree with <i>any</i> truth or opinion such a government might consider self-evident, just on the off chance they&#x27;re right.<p>I should at this point note that Google doesn&#x27;t directly claim to go quite <i>that</i> far in preventing misinformation, they mostly claim to disallow things that could harm the democractic <i>process</i> (e.g. telling people to vote at the wrong place, their candidate has died, etc.). At least that kind of information is usually agreed upon (if not there are bigger problems than mere misinformation), though they seem to try to include claims of voter-fraud, which is a bit dangerous.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I see a lot of comments misinterpreting this.<p>First, it&#x27;s not about private files, it&#x27;s about <i>distributing</i> content.<p>Google isn&#x27;t spying on your private files, but does scan them when you share them publicly. E.g. keep all the pirated movies you want on your Drive, and even give private access to friends, but the moment you make them <i>publicly</i> viewable Google scans them and limits access accordingly. So no, this isn&#x27;t applying to your private diary or privately shared documents.<p>And second, to those who claim absolute free speech with no limits -- notice that the two main categories here are related to <i>democracy</i> and <i>health</i>. All our legal protections ultimately depend on a democratic foundation -- undo that with misinformation and you don&#x27;t have anything anymore. Similarly, your rights don&#x27;t matter much if you&#x27;re dead. Companies aren&#x27;t allowed to advertise rat poison as medicine and neither are you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”</title><url>https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=%2Cmisleading-content</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shrimpx</author><text>What I’m seeing is a disintegration of the narrative, with a relatively small group of disinformation plutocrats bombarding minds at scale with conflicting positions.<p>A compassionate view of humanity would say that humans are basically accepting. This openness can then be abused by viral misinformation. We could take the view that humans should just be self protecting and if they got duped that’s on them. But IMO that’s a depressing view of the world, and tends toward something like mutually assured social destruction in the limit. We need to protect our shared narrative.<p>Also personally I find the view that “democracy prevailed before, it’ll continue to prevail somehow” deeply unsatisfying. Democracy is not built into nature. It has to be proactively maintained and refreshed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>The bigger problem that I have with the idea that misinformation kills democracy is that it seems to suggest that misinformation is some new phenomenon or that the average person has been well informed throughout the history of western democracy.<p>Democracy thrived before the printing press. Democracy survived the invention of the printing press, which was mostly in the hands of magnates who could afford it. Democracy survived the invention of television and radio, which was (and still is) in the hands of a select few magnates. We build up terms like &quot;journalistic integrity&quot; and look at the past with rose colored glasses as if these mediums delivered pure objective truth.<p>If anything, what we&#x27;re seeing with the internet is a more true democracy with a wider range of opinions, less controlled by small groups of plutocrats. If you don&#x27;t like to see the death of that plutocracy, or you&#x27;re happy to see a new group of benevolent plutocrats come in to retake control the narrative, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you don&#x27;t really like democracy.</text></item><item><author>contravariant</author><text>There&#x27;s something fundamentally flawed about the idea that censorship in the name of preventing misinformation is protecting the foundation of democracy.<p>You cannot have true democracy if people cannot disagree with their governments, they must be able to disagree with <i>any</i> truth or opinion such a government might consider self-evident, just on the off chance they&#x27;re right.<p>I should at this point note that Google doesn&#x27;t directly claim to go quite <i>that</i> far in preventing misinformation, they mostly claim to disallow things that could harm the democractic <i>process</i> (e.g. telling people to vote at the wrong place, their candidate has died, etc.). At least that kind of information is usually agreed upon (if not there are bigger problems than mere misinformation), though they seem to try to include claims of voter-fraud, which is a bit dangerous.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I see a lot of comments misinterpreting this.<p>First, it&#x27;s not about private files, it&#x27;s about <i>distributing</i> content.<p>Google isn&#x27;t spying on your private files, but does scan them when you share them publicly. E.g. keep all the pirated movies you want on your Drive, and even give private access to friends, but the moment you make them <i>publicly</i> viewable Google scans them and limits access accordingly. So no, this isn&#x27;t applying to your private diary or privately shared documents.<p>And second, to those who claim absolute free speech with no limits -- notice that the two main categories here are related to <i>democracy</i> and <i>health</i>. All our legal protections ultimately depend on a democratic foundation -- undo that with misinformation and you don&#x27;t have anything anymore. Similarly, your rights don&#x27;t matter much if you&#x27;re dead. Companies aren&#x27;t allowed to advertise rat poison as medicine and neither are you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”</title><url>https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=%2Cmisleading-content</url></story> |
5,828,526 | 5,826,615 | 1 | 2 | 5,825,158 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jholman</author><text>Some thoughts about the economics (and ethics) of games:<p><pre><code> * if a game isn't fun (to me), I shouldn't have to pay for it
* if a game is fun, I should pay for it
* generally, "better" games deserve more money (non-linear)
* ... but I'm skeptical that $500 is ever the right price (e.g. for every LoL champ)
* "time spent playing" is a half-assed proxy for "better"...
* ... but not if you rig your game mechanics around this proxy metric
* pay-to-win games are "bad" (personal subjective perspective)
* if I don't have to pay for a game, I probably won't (sorry!)
* if I'm paying per-month for the game, I feel artificial pressure to play it...
* ... and if I stop playing, I'll cancel
* ... so I can't casually pick it up 3 months later
* ... and I think maybe most people have a limited monthly-subscription budget
* games that have free options have better word-of-mouth marketing
</code></pre>
And a few observations derived from these:<p><pre><code> * gotta have a demo
* the demo needs to demonstrate the actual gameplay
* getting demo-length right is really hard
* if you have the infrastructure to charge $2/month, you've got options
</code></pre>
With all that in mind, here's what I would do (hopefully will do, one day):<p><pre><code> * lots of gameplay should be free
* where it makes sense, put roadblocks that players will hit after a while
* .... and then some more after some more while
* charge say $5 to get past each roadblock
* have say 5 total roadblocks
* to assuage cheapskates (5-years-ago me!), give alternatives to paying real money
* maybe crazy grinding?
* even better would be if you could find a way to give players credit-towards-roadblocks if they are helpful to the game community, or to game development
</code></pre>
Be up-front about all of this: "Early parts of the game are free! To feed my family I'll be charging progressively for access to the later parts of the game, but I'll never charge a given player more than $25" (or some other promise you are willing to keep)<p>---------<p>By the way, $20 is a lot for an indie game, especially up-front. The humblebundle this week includes ELEVEN games, including several great ones, and the "average price" (unlocks all 11 games) is around $6. So no, I will not pay $20 for your game, are you crazy? Instead I'll go buy the humblebundle for $10, give half of that to charity so I feel like a social justice crusader, throw away 54% of the games in the bundle, and STILL have dozens of hours of gameplay, and $10 in my pocket for the next humblebundle.<p>Yes, I'm a cheapskate. But this is the reality of the market at work. I'm not saying your game isn't "worth" $20. I bet your game is more fun than a movie-plus-snacks, and people pay $20 for that, right? But your game will be compared to games selling for $10 or less.<p>Man, I just realized I sound like I'm trying to talk you out of a career in game-dev, and that's not what I want (as a gamer).<p>---------<p>One more thought:<p>You said "(not necessarily more powerful, but rather more diverse)". Yeah, listen, when you play my Rock Paper Scissors online game, you get Rock for free, and pay for Paper and Scissors. They're not necessarily more powerful, just more diverse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>babuskov</author><text>I'm creating a strategy game right now and I'm facing this dilemma. I'd like to get $20 from each customer during game lifetime, but it seems that it would be easier to make it free to play and then charge for something in the game. And it's hard to charge for anything that would not make you advance in the game, otherwise it's cosmetics and you're not charging for the game, but almost the same as asking for a donation.<p>Most people would like to play for free. This model enables you to attract more users, which means a larger pool of potential customers. For example, would you pay $20 for my game (see link at the end), or would you rather play for free and then pay $1-$2 a month for some stuff that advances your gameplay?<p>BTW, in case you're interested the game should be out in a month. See gos.bigosaur.com/cards.html for more info.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>What really annoys me is when a game that might potentially interest me chooses to go the pay2win way.<p>For instance, tribes:ascend. I wanted to get into it but forums were full of people saying each time they released a paid upgrade the balance went FUBAR.<p>What annoys me the most is there's no way to do it "the old way" and pay a bigger sum of money <i>once</i> and get the full game without having to upgrade for every single new weapon. That's where you realize that the microtransaction model is a scam, because if you want to buy all the upgrades at once it would cost you several hundreds of dollars.<p>I wish they'd go back to the older model of freeware demo + one time buy full game. I remember buying Doom that way.</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text>I really hope this game model suffers the same kind of crash that felled the arcade business in the 80s. At some point I think people are going to collectively realize that they're being manipulated and burn out en masse.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash...</a><p>The overwhelming dominance of this kind of app in the app store has killed a lot of my enthusiasm for mobile, unfortunately. There are a lot of very interesting things you could do with a pocket computer that's always online and equipped with a bunch of sensors but nobody cares because if you're not playing these kinds of slimy games with the rest of the top 20 you might as well not exist in the store.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Clash of Clans earns $500,000 a day with in-app purchases</title><url>http://gyrovague.com/2013/06/05/time-is-money-how-clash-of-clans-earns-500000-a-day-with-in-app-purchases/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shardling</author><text>The Kingdom of Loathing's model seems to do pretty well. (And they've been at it for 10 years now, well before "free to play" was a thing.) You can pay for in-game items, but you can also buy them with in-game currency[1].<p>So you could let players pay to get the special items/upgrades <i>instantly</i>, but still let hardcore players get them without paying through some sort of grinding. So long as you don't have to exchange <i>too</i> much time to be maximally powerful without paying for the privilege, players don't seem to mind in practice. (You will get people loudly bitching about things no matter what you do -- this is the internet.) So: you make it so that players only have a few of the upgrades active at a time, then you can introduce new items in a regular stream without unbalancing things.<p>1. Well, in KoL you can only buy them from <i>other players</i> with regular currency. Unless your game plans to have a full fledged economy, I guess you'd want to sell them directly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>babuskov</author><text>I'm creating a strategy game right now and I'm facing this dilemma. I'd like to get $20 from each customer during game lifetime, but it seems that it would be easier to make it free to play and then charge for something in the game. And it's hard to charge for anything that would not make you advance in the game, otherwise it's cosmetics and you're not charging for the game, but almost the same as asking for a donation.<p>Most people would like to play for free. This model enables you to attract more users, which means a larger pool of potential customers. For example, would you pay $20 for my game (see link at the end), or would you rather play for free and then pay $1-$2 a month for some stuff that advances your gameplay?<p>BTW, in case you're interested the game should be out in a month. See gos.bigosaur.com/cards.html for more info.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>What really annoys me is when a game that might potentially interest me chooses to go the pay2win way.<p>For instance, tribes:ascend. I wanted to get into it but forums were full of people saying each time they released a paid upgrade the balance went FUBAR.<p>What annoys me the most is there's no way to do it "the old way" and pay a bigger sum of money <i>once</i> and get the full game without having to upgrade for every single new weapon. That's where you realize that the microtransaction model is a scam, because if you want to buy all the upgrades at once it would cost you several hundreds of dollars.<p>I wish they'd go back to the older model of freeware demo + one time buy full game. I remember buying Doom that way.</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text>I really hope this game model suffers the same kind of crash that felled the arcade business in the 80s. At some point I think people are going to collectively realize that they're being manipulated and burn out en masse.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash...</a><p>The overwhelming dominance of this kind of app in the app store has killed a lot of my enthusiasm for mobile, unfortunately. There are a lot of very interesting things you could do with a pocket computer that's always online and equipped with a bunch of sensors but nobody cares because if you're not playing these kinds of slimy games with the rest of the top 20 you might as well not exist in the store.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Clash of Clans earns $500,000 a day with in-app purchases</title><url>http://gyrovague.com/2013/06/05/time-is-money-how-clash-of-clans-earns-500000-a-day-with-in-app-purchases/</url></story> |
27,596,524 | 27,596,426 | 1 | 2 | 27,595,902 | 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>btilly</author><text>Read <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;3914586&#x2F;Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;3914586&#x2F;Googles-Ideol...</a>. Then read <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...</a> for what happened when a Google engineer wrote that.<p>Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with Damore, he was engaged in free speech. What he said is supported by a significant body of research and researchers. (And opposed by others - as it often the case on controversial topics.)<p>And yet, he was fired and made an example of. Anyone who publicly says that he had a point got shot down both within companies like Google, and on various discussion forums like this one.<p>I don&#x27;t know how or when we lost tolerance for free speech, both as an industry and as a society. But the Damore incident is when I realized that we have.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwkeep</author><text>When I worked at a FAANG, anti-censorship and pro free speech was normative. What happened? Why have we let a small number of intolerant activists scare us into silence?</text></item><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>&gt; For fear of losing a job, or of losing an admission to school, or of losing the right to live in the country of your birth, or merely of social ostracism, many of today&#x27;s best minds in so-called free, democratic states have stopped trying to say what they think and feel and have fallen silent.<p>There are a lot of topics I won’t touch any more, more every year. Accounts - can’t stay anonymous, ml systems working around the clock to identify posters. My social justice focused friends have it worse, their online “friends” attack them publicly over every single little thing. They go quiet or form a tiny invite only groups to hide after an attempt to do something good that backfired because their skin is the wrong colour or they aren’t trans. They have panic attacks over the guilt and stress</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Most Dangerous Censorship</title><url>https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/on-censorship-pt-1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tick_tock_tick</author><text>College&#x27;s changed; It used to be free speech focused with debates and exposure to a wide set of ideas being seen as critical to a well rounded education. Now you can&#x27;t even get vaguely controversial speakers on campus.<p>Tech workers tend to be younger so the more recent changes to the political views of colleges effect them first.<p>Hell famous comedians won&#x27;t even preform at college campuses anymore:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cheatsheet.com&#x2F;entertainment&#x2F;jerry-seinfeld-reveals-why-he-cant-perform-stand-up-comedy-on-college-campuses-they-dont-know-what-the-hell-theyre-talking-about.html&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cheatsheet.com&#x2F;entertainment&#x2F;jerry-seinfeld-reve...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>throwkeep</author><text>When I worked at a FAANG, anti-censorship and pro free speech was normative. What happened? Why have we let a small number of intolerant activists scare us into silence?</text></item><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>&gt; For fear of losing a job, or of losing an admission to school, or of losing the right to live in the country of your birth, or merely of social ostracism, many of today&#x27;s best minds in so-called free, democratic states have stopped trying to say what they think and feel and have fallen silent.<p>There are a lot of topics I won’t touch any more, more every year. Accounts - can’t stay anonymous, ml systems working around the clock to identify posters. My social justice focused friends have it worse, their online “friends” attack them publicly over every single little thing. They go quiet or form a tiny invite only groups to hide after an attempt to do something good that backfired because their skin is the wrong colour or they aren’t trans. They have panic attacks over the guilt and stress</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Most Dangerous Censorship</title><url>https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/on-censorship-pt-1</url></story> |
4,267,415 | 4,267,353 | 1 | 2 | 4,266,983 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seiji</author><text>It's hilarious to see the exact opposite happen: an 80 person company with a multi-page visio org chart, six departments, seven VPs, five pages of expense report rules and regulations, meetings scheduled to plan when to schedule other meetings, and nobody listens to the people who know what to do next because the visionary VC-installed-CEO is Touched By God and can't be questioned even as the company nose dives into obsolescence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Dove</author><text><i>pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. </i><p>Valve does that:<p><pre><code> How could a 300-person company not have any formal
management? My observation is that it takes new hires
about six months before they fully accept that no one is
going to tell them what to do, that no manager is going
to give them a review, that there is no such thing as a
promotion or a job title or even a fixed role (although
there are generous raises and bonuses based on value to
the company, as assessed by peers). That it is their
responsibility, and theirs alone, to allocate the most
valuable resource in the company – their time – by
figuring out what it is that they can do that is most
valuable for the company, and then to go do it. That if
they decide that they should be doing something
different, there’s no manager to convince to let them
go; they just move their desk to the new group (the
desks are on wheels, with computers attached) and start
in on the new thing. (Obviously they should choose a
good point at which to do this, and coordinate with both
groups, but that’s common sense, not a rule, and isn’t
enforced in any way.) That everyone on a project team is
an individual contributor, doing coding, artwork, level
design, music, and so on, including the leads; there is
no such thing as a pure management or architect or
designer role. That any part of the company can change
direction instantly at any time, because there are no
managers to cling to their people and their territory,
no reorgs to plan, no budgets to work around. That there
are things that Gabe badly wants the company to do that
aren’t happening, because no one has signed up to do
them.
</code></pre>
<a href="http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-and-what-im-doing-2/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...</a></text></item><item><author>pwny</author><text>I'm honestly wondering why we value management so much. It might be my lack of corporate experience but I have a lot of trouble seeing most management positions as important (in fact, my general feeling is that they're a hindrance most often than not).<p>Do companies really go down in flames if no one is there to try and measure, through various ineffective ways, the quality of other people's work (often in a field they don't even understand)?<p>Would a bunch of engineers really sit there doing nothing if they didn't have a manager to report to? Is said manager more apt at taking decisions than they are?<p>I'm curious and also pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. At least to try.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec'</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81017</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>Valve has an amazing culture, but I'm not sure it would scale to a 50,000 person company. Valve seems to operate as a tribe and there's a limit on how huge those can get.<p>Microsoft seems to be run like a prison camp.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Dove</author><text><i>pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. </i><p>Valve does that:<p><pre><code> How could a 300-person company not have any formal
management? My observation is that it takes new hires
about six months before they fully accept that no one is
going to tell them what to do, that no manager is going
to give them a review, that there is no such thing as a
promotion or a job title or even a fixed role (although
there are generous raises and bonuses based on value to
the company, as assessed by peers). That it is their
responsibility, and theirs alone, to allocate the most
valuable resource in the company – their time – by
figuring out what it is that they can do that is most
valuable for the company, and then to go do it. That if
they decide that they should be doing something
different, there’s no manager to convince to let them
go; they just move their desk to the new group (the
desks are on wheels, with computers attached) and start
in on the new thing. (Obviously they should choose a
good point at which to do this, and coordinate with both
groups, but that’s common sense, not a rule, and isn’t
enforced in any way.) That everyone on a project team is
an individual contributor, doing coding, artwork, level
design, music, and so on, including the leads; there is
no such thing as a pure management or architect or
designer role. That any part of the company can change
direction instantly at any time, because there are no
managers to cling to their people and their territory,
no reorgs to plan, no budgets to work around. That there
are things that Gabe badly wants the company to do that
aren’t happening, because no one has signed up to do
them.
</code></pre>
<a href="http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-and-what-im-doing-2/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...</a></text></item><item><author>pwny</author><text>I'm honestly wondering why we value management so much. It might be my lack of corporate experience but I have a lot of trouble seeing most management positions as important (in fact, my general feeling is that they're a hindrance most often than not).<p>Do companies really go down in flames if no one is there to try and measure, through various ineffective ways, the quality of other people's work (often in a field they don't even understand)?<p>Would a bunch of engineers really sit there doing nothing if they didn't have a manager to report to? Is said manager more apt at taking decisions than they are?<p>I'm curious and also pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. At least to try.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec'</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81017</url></story> |
21,404,314 | 21,404,007 | 1 | 2 | 21,402,563 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p4bl0</author><text>First we do not agree on free education. I believe that&#x27;s a good thing.<p>Now, what Macron&#x27;s government did wrong with research and higher education is: literally everything they did about it. The switch to high tuition as you said (especially given that it was <i>only for foreigners</i>, which I consider racist, and anyway the Conseil Constitutionnel recently found this measure unconstitutional). Parcoursup was a very bad decision: it is poorly designed, it is much worse than the previous system for university admissions for obvious algorithmic reasons that my undergrad students can spot (but that Villani apparently can&#x27;t?), and it also does not solve the actual problem which is the lack of universities and professors. There is also the way they force universities to merge by making funding conditional to merger, this comes at high cost for no clear benefits (except for <i>maybe</i> jumping a _few_ places in the Shanghai university ranking, which is pure bullshit). There is the way they decided to fund public research: almost exclusively via calls for project, which is a very very inefficient wqy of distributing money as everyone has to work for month to make application and less than 10% of applicants are actually funded so more than 90% of all this work is done for next to nothing, and in addition to that the money is very badly distributed with very rich man that have so much money they don&#x27;t even know how to spend it and a majority of labs where it becomes difficult to do any research at all. Their funding policy also force universities to cut there spending which is mostly salaries, meaning not replacing professors who retires for example, which means even less professors while there is more and more students (and that was forseeable, they all were born around two decades ago and have been through primary and middle and high school, we saw them coming). I could continue but I&#x27;m on my mobile phone so I will stop there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>&quot;dommageable&quot; is &quot;damaging&quot;, for anyone who couldn&#x27;t guess.<p>Can you go into detail about what his party has voted for that&#x27;s so bad for higher education and research?<p>I consider myself pretty academia-friendly, and there&#x27;s a lot of things I&#x27;d vote for that most people would consider damaging to higher education and research.<p>For example, I think free college for everyone is a terrible idea. Most people consider that heresy.</text></item><item><author>p4bl0</author><text>He is already an elected representative in the French parliament, being part of the current government&#x27;s majority. His political party and the government have already passed several laws that are very damaging to research and higher education (among other things, but these two topics Villani actually knows something about, and he should care a bit given his background). He has never said anything publicly about it, or only to support the government. I see this behavior as proof that he doesn&#x27;t care at all about being a mathematician (well, except when it gives him credit he doesn&#x27;t deserve), so he should just be considered another random politician, and he&#x27;s not even a good one.<p>Edit: fixed &quot;dommageable&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/73c7a6a6-ee57-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>syrusakbary</author><text>&gt; For example, I think free college for everyone is a terrible idea. Most people consider that heresy.<p>A terrible idea from what perspective? I&#x27;d love to hear more! (I&#x27;m on the other side of the spectrum)</text><parent_chain><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>&quot;dommageable&quot; is &quot;damaging&quot;, for anyone who couldn&#x27;t guess.<p>Can you go into detail about what his party has voted for that&#x27;s so bad for higher education and research?<p>I consider myself pretty academia-friendly, and there&#x27;s a lot of things I&#x27;d vote for that most people would consider damaging to higher education and research.<p>For example, I think free college for everyone is a terrible idea. Most people consider that heresy.</text></item><item><author>p4bl0</author><text>He is already an elected representative in the French parliament, being part of the current government&#x27;s majority. His political party and the government have already passed several laws that are very damaging to research and higher education (among other things, but these two topics Villani actually knows something about, and he should care a bit given his background). He has never said anything publicly about it, or only to support the government. I see this behavior as proof that he doesn&#x27;t care at all about being a mathematician (well, except when it gives him credit he doesn&#x27;t deserve), so he should just be considered another random politician, and he&#x27;s not even a good one.<p>Edit: fixed &quot;dommageable&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/73c7a6a6-ee57-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195</url></story> |
12,371,468 | 12,371,155 | 1 | 3 | 12,371,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheDong</author><text>It&#x27;s a joke.<p>It&#x27;s a joke basically saying &quot;First, there was B, and it looked like this. Then, there was C, and it looked like this. Finally, there was Go, a new evolution of our work&quot;.<p>The git dates were clearly faked and created entirely for the purpose of this joke.<p>If you wanna know how to edit dates, this blog does a slightly better job than the `git-commit` man page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexpeattie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;working-with-dates-in-git#change-history-amending-and-editing-dates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexpeattie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;working-with-dates-in-git#chang...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bigstumpy</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it. According to the github history there was a hello world commit in 1972, conversion to C in 1974, conversion to ansi-c in 1988, then the next commit was the first go specification in 2008.<p>Git was written in 2005.<p>What did these hello world commits have to do with go? Why are they in the git history?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go's first commit</title><url>https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>christophersu</author><text>&gt; According to the github history there was a hello world commit in 1972<p>&gt; Git was written in 2005.<p>Not sure about this specific case, but it isn&#x27;t uncommon to migrate from another version control system (e.g. Subversion) to Git while maintaining the past history.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bigstumpy</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it. According to the github history there was a hello world commit in 1972, conversion to C in 1974, conversion to ansi-c in 1988, then the next commit was the first go specification in 2008.<p>Git was written in 2005.<p>What did these hello world commits have to do with go? Why are they in the git history?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go's first commit</title><url>https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8</url></story> |
18,569,235 | 18,567,984 | 1 | 3 | 18,566,929 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PurpleBoxDragon</author><text>These are just some of the reasons patents are fundamentally broken and the patent system as a whole should be scrapped. Another big issue is that, like most any law, enforcing it costs significant money, and that cost scales depending upon who your opponent is. The cost for a little guy to enforce a patent claim against google is vastly out of proportion to the cost of google to enforce a patent claim against a little guy. This means that the patent system ends up being another form of regulatory capture used to squash competition. If we just removed patents, major corporations would be just as free as today to steal from the little guys, but at least they couldn&#x27;t then weaponize their patents to crush the original inventors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zawerf</author><text>She worded that way too diplomatically.<p>What google did here is one of the evilest things you can do.<p>They are taking open research and trying to close it off. Research that they didn&#x27;t even contribute to! Research that they didn&#x27;t need patent rights for because it&#x27;s already free for them to use. But they can&#x27;t allow anyone after them to have the same privilege can they?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview</title><url>https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paul7986</author><text>Google ATAP did similar to me as I noted above...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18567672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18567672</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>zawerf</author><text>She worded that way too diplomatically.<p>What google did here is one of the evilest things you can do.<p>They are taking open research and trying to close it off. Research that they didn&#x27;t even contribute to! Research that they didn&#x27;t need patent rights for because it&#x27;s already free for them to use. But they can&#x27;t allow anyone after them to have the same privilege can they?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview</title><url>https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea</url></story> |
10,687,443 | 10,686,890 | 1 | 3 | 10,684,343 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>I&#x27;d like to set up several of these LPRs along the highway that I travel regularly, compile a listing of license plate numbers of law enforcement vehicles (such as the unmarked police cruisers that like to travel it, pull drivers over, and ticket them), have those automatically mapped in a mobile application that&#x27;s free for everyone to use, and see just how much law enforcment would like it then.<p>What&#x27;s good for the goose ...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open-source license plate reader</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/new-open-source-license-plate-reader-software-lets-you-make-your-own-hot-list/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>finnn</author><text>Actual software available at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openalpr&#x2F;openalpr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openalpr&#x2F;openalpr</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open-source license plate reader</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/new-open-source-license-plate-reader-software-lets-you-make-your-own-hot-list/</url></story> |
24,023,461 | 24,023,384 | 1 | 3 | 24,022,751 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xoa</author><text>The issue of cheating is genuinely valid one, but so is being able to use the hardware with a variety of software. And in this case, are you sure open APIs are actually in conflict? &quot;Open&quot; doesn&#x27;t have to mean &quot;forgeable&quot;, wouldn&#x27;t it be possible to have a fully open and documented bike API that also cryptographicly signed output? Software could choose to not care about the signature and just run off the API directly, or to require a signature from a specific set of manufacturer keys, or for that matter both (why not support both casual groups and competitive ones depending on what users want?). Obviously for hardcore competitive types it&#x27;d still come down to the security and gameability of the hardware itself, and even if it was fairly solid it&#x27;d <i>still</i> mostly be about discouraging lazy cheaters, since as far as home use goes nothing stops someone from attaching an electric motor or something if they really want to screw with things.<p>But I don&#x27;t think full open APIs any software can use in this case precludes getting as much security as is possible to get out of the software&#x2F;electronics side of things. And full open APIs would be super useful for longevity, variety of use, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>soared</author><text>Open apis pretty much ruin honest competition, leaderboards, live races, etc. People already game metrics on their pelotons to get top 10 in races, and I don’t think companies want to deal with that on a larger scale.<p>It’s a great idea, but I don’t think it’s always the right idea.</text></item><item><author>noodlesUK</author><text>It’s a shame that more exercise bikes don’t have open APIs. Zwift is an absolutely awesome way of keeping in shape if you like cycling, but the barrier to entry is that you need to own a bike and a bike trainer that are both pretty expensive. Maker projects like this one always make me happy, because it’s repurposing an old piece of equipment to function just as well as a new one. Next step would be adding smart controls to the resistance ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newsclues</author><text>Closed systems are unhackable or cheat proof?<p>I don’t think so</text><parent_chain><item><author>soared</author><text>Open apis pretty much ruin honest competition, leaderboards, live races, etc. People already game metrics on their pelotons to get top 10 in races, and I don’t think companies want to deal with that on a larger scale.<p>It’s a great idea, but I don’t think it’s always the right idea.</text></item><item><author>noodlesUK</author><text>It’s a shame that more exercise bikes don’t have open APIs. Zwift is an absolutely awesome way of keeping in shape if you like cycling, but the barrier to entry is that you need to own a bike and a bike trainer that are both pretty expensive. Maker projects like this one always make me happy, because it’s repurposing an old piece of equipment to function just as well as a new one. Next step would be adding smart controls to the resistance ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi/</url></story> |
30,984,024 | 30,983,864 | 1 | 3 | 30,983,274 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grapeskin</author><text>The absolute best thing about leaving the US several years ago is the <i>silence.</i><p>I can go to bed every night knowing some random guy won&#x27;t decide 3 AM on a Wednesday morning is the best day to crank up the bass to max and start a party. I can sleep knowing some old guy isn&#x27;t going to compensate for his masculinity by revving up his modded motorcycle at 4:30 AM everyday. I can sleep knowing people aren&#x27;t going to start screaming and fighting in the middle of the street at 11:30 PM and again at 7 AM, even in a nice neighborhood. I can relax and not have to hear someone blasting the action movies and advertisements from their TV from 6 AM to 10 PM every single day. I can take a bus and not be surrounded by people shouting at someone on speakerphone, and needing to repeat their every statement several times because 5 other people are doing the same thing.<p>And yeah. People who blast music while outside, especially in natural parks, are assholes without exception. I like that I can hike here and it&#x27;s absolute silence, every single time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tayo42</author><text>I had this &quot;conversation&quot; with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn&#x27;t be so angry? I guess this study supports that.<p>The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the loudest ice cream truck idles for hours for some reason here, rancheras and bass from cars, instruments being practiced, the leaf blowers are horrible. it really sucks. and it feels like no one cares, but it feels so stressful, like physically too.<p>and out doors is being ruined too. mostly by portable music.<p>What i really dont understand is people identifying with being loud. i spent a couple weeks in puerto rico and was surprised that some people seemed to be loud on purpose.</text></item><item><author>shados</author><text>Not only do people not care, they actively push down and belittle people who do. They&#x27;ll say it&#x27;s just something that&#x27;s notmaly and anyone trying to change it should move.<p>Most source of noise pollution wouldnt be that hard to fix. Society just doesn&#x27;t want to.</text></item><item><author>drstewart</author><text>This is one of the things I struggle with the most in life. I feel like most people don&#x27;t seem to care about noise pollution and zero care is put into designing living spaces or cities to minimize it. I&#x27;ve moved into apartments and nearly cried because I realized that there was some noise pollution that wasn&#x27;t apparent when I visited it (e.g. a water boiler that ran constantly at night, road noise during the day, etc) and would have to deal with it for a year.<p>One of the few countries I&#x27;ve been to that takes noise pollution seriously is Switzerland. A beautifully peaceful and quiet country.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)</title><url>https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2021/how-noise-pollution-affects-heart-health</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lom</author><text>I can’t speak about puerto rico, but in another latin american country i’ve spent a lot of time in it’s very common for every small store to have a loudspeaker and blast (imo shitty) music from 10 to 5. That isn’t even bad compared to the many discos right next to each other than play music as loud as possible to not be dwarfed by their neighbor.<p>Whenever I’m in a Western city I’m grateful for how much more quiet it is (relatively anyways), even with greater density and size.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tayo42</author><text>I had this &quot;conversation&quot; with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn&#x27;t be so angry? I guess this study supports that.<p>The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the loudest ice cream truck idles for hours for some reason here, rancheras and bass from cars, instruments being practiced, the leaf blowers are horrible. it really sucks. and it feels like no one cares, but it feels so stressful, like physically too.<p>and out doors is being ruined too. mostly by portable music.<p>What i really dont understand is people identifying with being loud. i spent a couple weeks in puerto rico and was surprised that some people seemed to be loud on purpose.</text></item><item><author>shados</author><text>Not only do people not care, they actively push down and belittle people who do. They&#x27;ll say it&#x27;s just something that&#x27;s notmaly and anyone trying to change it should move.<p>Most source of noise pollution wouldnt be that hard to fix. Society just doesn&#x27;t want to.</text></item><item><author>drstewart</author><text>This is one of the things I struggle with the most in life. I feel like most people don&#x27;t seem to care about noise pollution and zero care is put into designing living spaces or cities to minimize it. I&#x27;ve moved into apartments and nearly cried because I realized that there was some noise pollution that wasn&#x27;t apparent when I visited it (e.g. a water boiler that ran constantly at night, road noise during the day, etc) and would have to deal with it for a year.<p>One of the few countries I&#x27;ve been to that takes noise pollution seriously is Switzerland. A beautifully peaceful and quiet country.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)</title><url>https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2021/how-noise-pollution-affects-heart-health</url></story> |
1,969,867 | 1,969,833 | 1 | 2 | 1,969,320 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scootklein</author><text>I disagree - the title is spot on. Groupon's monthly revenue isn't directly related to the personal finances of the founders. The point of the post is to show that a founder's bank going from 5m to 500m doesn't have as much of an effect as it does from 10k to 5m (or 500m).<p>5m to 500m is actually so inconsequential that they willingly turned down a lucrative acquisition in order to go it alone and make their impact as they see fit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flyosity</author><text>The title of the entry put me off to the overall premise, which, I think, even the author may have missed.<p>Basically, the article should've been titled "It All Changes When The Startup Is Making A Lot Of Cash". Supposedly Groupon is making nearly $2 billion a year in revenue. The decision to turn down an acquisition has more to do with "we're a real company making a TON of cash and we don't need to sell" than the founder thinking about their legacy.<p>What's the point of an exit? Mostly it's to get a gigantic payday. If your startup-turned-cash-machine is already making a ton of cash every month, the founders are already getting a payday... all the time.<p>If you're already making FU money from the revenues of your business and someone offers you more of it, the benefit of the FU money is you can say FU to the offer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It All Changes When the Founder Drives a Porsche</title><url>http://learntoduck.com/startups/it-all-changes-when-the-founder-drives-a-porsche</url></story> | <instructions>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>One of my surprisingly life lessons from 2010: "revenue makes money less attractive" is true at numbers much, much smaller than 6 billion, too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flyosity</author><text>The title of the entry put me off to the overall premise, which, I think, even the author may have missed.<p>Basically, the article should've been titled "It All Changes When The Startup Is Making A Lot Of Cash". Supposedly Groupon is making nearly $2 billion a year in revenue. The decision to turn down an acquisition has more to do with "we're a real company making a TON of cash and we don't need to sell" than the founder thinking about their legacy.<p>What's the point of an exit? Mostly it's to get a gigantic payday. If your startup-turned-cash-machine is already making a ton of cash every month, the founders are already getting a payday... all the time.<p>If you're already making FU money from the revenues of your business and someone offers you more of it, the benefit of the FU money is you can say FU to the offer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It All Changes When the Founder Drives a Porsche</title><url>http://learntoduck.com/startups/it-all-changes-when-the-founder-drives-a-porsche</url></story> |
6,334,022 | 6,332,772 | 1 | 3 | 6,332,385 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcampbell1</author><text>Direct injection implies the fuel is injected at the top of compression stroke, but the animation shows the fuel being added during the intake stroke. This is just an inaccurate drawing showing the injector attached to the cylinder rather than the intake manifold.<p>Interestingly, this could be a drawing of a ultra modern gas direct injection system running in classic mode. Ford&#x27;s EcoTech will, under certain conditions, operate like this picture, though I am sure that is not what the author had in mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sitharus</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that the engine illustrated is a gasoline direct injection engine, which are fairly common on new cars but historically not so.<p>Until the early 2000s most fuel injected gasoline engines were multi-point injection - the fuel was injected in to the incoming air stream immediately before the cylinder, and before that indirect injection which injected where the carburettor was.<p>Then there are carburettor engines.<p>Most diesel engines have been direct injection for many decades now, due to the behaviour of the fuel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How a Car Engine Works</title><url>http://jacoboneal.com/car-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>elnate</author><text>The other difference is Diesel engines ignite the fuel by compressing it rather than with a spark.<p>(Also Diesel is the engine type not the fuel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Diesel_engine</a>)</text><parent_chain><item><author>sitharus</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that the engine illustrated is a gasoline direct injection engine, which are fairly common on new cars but historically not so.<p>Until the early 2000s most fuel injected gasoline engines were multi-point injection - the fuel was injected in to the incoming air stream immediately before the cylinder, and before that indirect injection which injected where the carburettor was.<p>Then there are carburettor engines.<p>Most diesel engines have been direct injection for many decades now, due to the behaviour of the fuel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How a Car Engine Works</title><url>http://jacoboneal.com/car-engine/</url></story> |
4,528,857 | 4,528,516 | 1 | 2 | 4,528,246 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmahemoff</author><text>This looks good. Does it keep history? I think one of the benefits of web-based systems like HipChat and Campfire is you can log in and see the previous conversation even if you weren't there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thedjpetersen</author><text>Grove inspired me to make an open source alternative: Subway <a href="https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway</a> . And while it is far from perfect it is a start towards opening up IRC to teams.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Grove.io shutting down</title><url>https://grove.io/blog/grove-shutting-down-october-13</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twodayslate</author><text>Awesome project! I am super impressed. Great work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thedjpetersen</author><text>Grove inspired me to make an open source alternative: Subway <a href="https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway</a> . And while it is far from perfect it is a start towards opening up IRC to teams.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Grove.io shutting down</title><url>https://grove.io/blog/grove-shutting-down-october-13</url></story> |
6,076,752 | 6,076,644 | 1 | 3 | 6,076,142 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>conroy</author><text>Instead of just watching lectures, I&#x27;d suggest taking one of the many available math courses:<p>Coursera (23 courses) <a href="https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&amp;lngs=en&amp;cats=math" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;courses?orderby=upcoming&amp;lngs=en&amp;ca...</a><p>Udacity (5 courses) <a href="https://www.udacity.com/courses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udacity.com&#x2F;courses</a><p>edX (10 courses) <a href="https://www.edx.org/course-list/allschools/math/allcourses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edx.org&#x2F;course-list&#x2F;allschools&#x2F;math&#x2F;allcourses</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free</title><url>http://mathoverflow.net/questions/54430/video-lectures-of-mathematics-courses-available-online-for-free</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dbpokorny</author><text>A general point: learning higher mathematics is still quite difficult today, in part because there is a chasm between how easy it is for a computer to give feedback when a student learns programming vs. how difficult it is for a computer to give feedback when a student learns math. (In particular the proof-checking part) Sadly, there is little incentive for anyone to develop innovative teaching methods for, say, potential theory in the complex plane or group representations in probability and statistics because these are not considered &quot;useful&quot; beyond the academic realm and industry niches...<p>If any enterprising hackers happen to read this comment, please know that there is a small but devoted community of amateur mathematicians who would be overjoyed at the opportunity to spend some of their free time learning esoteric branches of higher math with help from the computer, if only the right tools were available...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free</title><url>http://mathoverflow.net/questions/54430/video-lectures-of-mathematics-courses-available-online-for-free</url></story> |
34,458,685 | 34,458,835 | 1 | 2 | 34,457,663 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prottog</author><text>To put in other units: a rise from previous targets of $58&#x2F;MWh to $89&#x2F;MWh, more than 50%, not including a $30&#x2F;MWh subsidy (so the true cost is actually $119&#x2F;MWh).<p>To be fair, it says the cost increases are mainly due to the rise in construction material prices as well as financing costs; nothing inherent to nuclear power or the novel technology itself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>NuScale recently announced large cost increases at the project with UAMPS. The cost per unit of capacity is now on par with the new reactors at Vogtle (~$20&#x2F;W). This is outside the range at which the project could be competitive.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieefa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-released-nuscale-small-modular-reactor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieefa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-r...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design</title><url>https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-small-modular-reactor-design</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gene-h</author><text>And the article notes that the cost increases were due to factors such as the price of steel and steel fabrication increasing. Perhaps the cost of building new reactors like Vogtle has gone up similarly?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>NuScale recently announced large cost increases at the project with UAMPS. The cost per unit of capacity is now on par with the new reactors at Vogtle (~$20&#x2F;W). This is outside the range at which the project could be competitive.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieefa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-released-nuscale-small-modular-reactor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieefa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-r...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design</title><url>https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-small-modular-reactor-design</url></story> |
11,622,954 | 11,621,955 | 1 | 3 | 11,621,504 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>The original announcement is discussed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11617945" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11617945</a>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla’s bioweapon mode is a stroke of genius for developing markets</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/02/tesla-bioweapon-mode-for-whiffy-cities/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kosmic_k</author><text>I originally thought the bioweapon mode was a gimmick. Now that I think about China, India, and the air quality common there I feel that Tesla really is onto something very clever here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla’s bioweapon mode is a stroke of genius for developing markets</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/02/tesla-bioweapon-mode-for-whiffy-cities/</url></story> |
15,363,056 | 15,359,001 | 1 | 3 | 15,358,446 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vbernat</author><text>The article and the comments here lack a bit of context. At the time where tickets were starting to be deployed (around 2011), ECDH ciphers were not in use and PFS was therefore quite expensive (and therefore, almost never used). Around the same time, the move from 1024-bit certificates to 2048-bit certificates were making TLS difficult to deploy at scale for everyone except Google.<p>Session tickets were primarily a mechanism to help to reduce to load of TLS connections. The reduced latency is a happy side-effect. At the time, it was already well-known that this would negatively impact PFS (something I already mention in my own blog article about session tickets in 2011).<p>Moreover, many seem to build a scenario where session tickets are recovered by an attacker but not the private keys. Usually, session tickets are in memory only and private keys are persisted. This makes those tickets more unlikely to be recovered by anyone unless you get access to a running web server. In this case, you have far more serious trouble than those tickets (even if the attacker still cannot decode past recorded data).<p>Even today, TLS handshakes are quite expensive, both for the server and the clients. Using session tickets (with rotated keys) still outweigh the downsides of not using them. That&#x27;s why every major site are using them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TLS 1.2 Session Tickets</title><url>https://blog.filippo.io/we-need-to-talk-about-session-tickets/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tonyztan</author><text>&gt; An attacker with the STEK doesn&#x27;t need to wait until session resumption is attempted. Session Tickets containing the current session keys are sent at the beginning of every connection that merely supports Session Tickets. In plaintext on the wire, ready to be decrypted with the STEK, fully bypassing Diffie-Hellman.<p>I found this flaw to be the scariest, by far. It means that a connection with &quot;forward secrecy&quot; gives up this property as soon as it begins.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TLS 1.2 Session Tickets</title><url>https://blog.filippo.io/we-need-to-talk-about-session-tickets/</url></story> |
22,391,058 | 22,388,579 | 1 | 3 | 22,385,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>That may be why there is so much emphasis placed on dev frameworks like React, because you can get JS programmers right out of BootCamp onboarded fairly quickly (and cheaply).<p>Also, there is a great deal of emphasis placed on process. If you will have new people taking over the code all the time, you should have a fairly strict requirement for patterns like MVVM and VIPER, and require new hires to be able to adapt to these quickly.<p>The Japanese had a similar structure, because they rotate engineers around every couple of years. The engineers stay with the company forever, but they change jobs frequently.<p>That means that it&#x27;s very important to have a strict policy of heavily-documented, inflexible process, and you can have vast legacy codebases that people are afraid to change. If you can farm a lot of that out to a dependency framework, then it becomes S.E.P. (Somebody Else&#x27;s Problem).<p>I&#x27;m not a huge fan of this approach, but many companies seem to feel it works.<p>There was a company called Taligent that took this to extremes. I read their style guide (I spent a great deal of time researching how other people did development -it made me quite the cynic). They had the strictest, most convoluted structure I&#x27;ve ever encountered.<p>Taligent eventually collapsed under its own weight. The idea was to only have Architects be creative, making line programmers little more than data entry. Programmers couldn&#x27;t do stuff like create new classes without getting permission from an Architect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>I think economically it may make sense to hire fresh people for less money, burn them out and then have them leave soon. This may be one reason for ageism .</text></item><item><author>andrekandre</author><text>&gt; I had a manager at a startup tell me that conventional management assumes that engineers will only stay at a company for 18 months, so they really pile on the stress<p>which is ironic, because isn’t that why people stay less and less longer at a company (can’t stand the slog)?</text></item><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I was a development manager for years, for a Japanese company.<p>The Japanese are type A++ (at least, in Tokyo). They are masters at applying stress across the Pacific.<p>As a manager, it was my job to insulate my team from the stress, and I often took the hit for telling my bosses that I wasn&#x27;t going to push my people harder than they already were working.<p>It seemed to work out in the end. When they finally rolled up my team, I had been managing it for 25 years, and the person with the least seniority in my team had a decade with the company.<p>It&#x27;s a whole different world, out there, now. I had a manager at a startup tell me that conventional management assumes that engineers will only stay at a company for 18 months, so they really pile on the stress.<p>I can&#x27;t even imagine that. There were a lot of downsides to working with the corporation that I worked for, but they treated us all with a great deal of respect, and made it possible for me to keep valuable, senior-level C++ developers for decades; despite rather sub-optimal pay, and a not-so-thrilling work environment.</text></item><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>It seems a lot of these experiments are a success. But after a while somebody gets greedy and thinks “we get good productivity at 32 hours. I wonder how much more we could get at 40 hours?” And soon you are back at the old schedule.<p>Something similar happened at my company. For once a project was ahead of schedule. So instead of thinking that the system worked well and keep working in relaxed manner management decided to “pull in” the deadline and suddenly the project was a death march again.<p>For some people it’s hard to accept that relaxed people are productive. They want to see stress and overtime or they will think that people are underperforming.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More bosses give four-day workweek a try</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OccamsMirror</author><text>Absolute bullshit, but the metrics being gathered are all askew. When you&#x27;ve already fucked your productivity with bad management, what difference does a high turnover rate have?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>I think economically it may make sense to hire fresh people for less money, burn them out and then have them leave soon. This may be one reason for ageism .</text></item><item><author>andrekandre</author><text>&gt; I had a manager at a startup tell me that conventional management assumes that engineers will only stay at a company for 18 months, so they really pile on the stress<p>which is ironic, because isn’t that why people stay less and less longer at a company (can’t stand the slog)?</text></item><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I was a development manager for years, for a Japanese company.<p>The Japanese are type A++ (at least, in Tokyo). They are masters at applying stress across the Pacific.<p>As a manager, it was my job to insulate my team from the stress, and I often took the hit for telling my bosses that I wasn&#x27;t going to push my people harder than they already were working.<p>It seemed to work out in the end. When they finally rolled up my team, I had been managing it for 25 years, and the person with the least seniority in my team had a decade with the company.<p>It&#x27;s a whole different world, out there, now. I had a manager at a startup tell me that conventional management assumes that engineers will only stay at a company for 18 months, so they really pile on the stress.<p>I can&#x27;t even imagine that. There were a lot of downsides to working with the corporation that I worked for, but they treated us all with a great deal of respect, and made it possible for me to keep valuable, senior-level C++ developers for decades; despite rather sub-optimal pay, and a not-so-thrilling work environment.</text></item><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>It seems a lot of these experiments are a success. But after a while somebody gets greedy and thinks “we get good productivity at 32 hours. I wonder how much more we could get at 40 hours?” And soon you are back at the old schedule.<p>Something similar happened at my company. For once a project was ahead of schedule. So instead of thinking that the system worked well and keep working in relaxed manner management decided to “pull in” the deadline and suddenly the project was a death march again.<p>For some people it’s hard to accept that relaxed people are productive. They want to see stress and overtime or they will think that people are underperforming.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More bosses give four-day workweek a try</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try</url></story> |
38,181,257 | 38,181,084 | 1 | 3 | 38,180,197 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>criddell</author><text>They came to an agreement with Snowden and should honor that. We might want to see the rest, but I think long term it’s better for leakers to know journalists are trustworthy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>garciasn</author><text>&gt; Why was only 1% of the documents published, in the end? “The documents are not like the WikiLeaks ones from the US state department, which were written by diplomats and, for the most part, easily understandable,” said Ewen MacAskill. “The Snowden files are largely technical, with lots of codewords and jargon that is hard to decipher. There are pages and pages of that which the public would not be interested in. There are also documents that relate to operational matters. Snowden said from the start he wanted us to report on issues related to mass surveillance, not operational matters. So we stuck to that.”<p>Ignoring the operational limitation requirement (of which there is no way it&#x27;s 99% vs 1%), a capable public can make this determination; we do not need journalists doing it for us. I am uninterested in the journalistic value of these documents; I am interested in the public value of potentially knowing the content of those documents and how the government is surveilling us and&#x2F;or abusing their authority.<p>&gt;“The bottom line is that Snowden is facing charges under the Espionage Act. If he was ever to return to the US and face trial, the documents could be used against him.<p>Snowden knew this when he leaked the documents and he now resides, ironically, in one of the most surveilled countries in the world. He believed he was acting in the best interests on the public and is it NOT the job of journalists to protect a known source entity; they are to protect unknown sources.<p>Release MORE of the files, your profits and&#x2F;or biased concerns for the journalistic value of the information shared be dammed. There is WAY more at stake.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published</title><url>https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366554957/Why-only-1-of-the-Snowden-Archive-will-ever-be-published</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saulpw</author><text>&gt; a capable public can make this determination<p>The public is not capable, either technically nor emotionally nor politically.</text><parent_chain><item><author>garciasn</author><text>&gt; Why was only 1% of the documents published, in the end? “The documents are not like the WikiLeaks ones from the US state department, which were written by diplomats and, for the most part, easily understandable,” said Ewen MacAskill. “The Snowden files are largely technical, with lots of codewords and jargon that is hard to decipher. There are pages and pages of that which the public would not be interested in. There are also documents that relate to operational matters. Snowden said from the start he wanted us to report on issues related to mass surveillance, not operational matters. So we stuck to that.”<p>Ignoring the operational limitation requirement (of which there is no way it&#x27;s 99% vs 1%), a capable public can make this determination; we do not need journalists doing it for us. I am uninterested in the journalistic value of these documents; I am interested in the public value of potentially knowing the content of those documents and how the government is surveilling us and&#x2F;or abusing their authority.<p>&gt;“The bottom line is that Snowden is facing charges under the Espionage Act. If he was ever to return to the US and face trial, the documents could be used against him.<p>Snowden knew this when he leaked the documents and he now resides, ironically, in one of the most surveilled countries in the world. He believed he was acting in the best interests on the public and is it NOT the job of journalists to protect a known source entity; they are to protect unknown sources.<p>Release MORE of the files, your profits and&#x2F;or biased concerns for the journalistic value of the information shared be dammed. There is WAY more at stake.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published</title><url>https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366554957/Why-only-1-of-the-Snowden-Archive-will-ever-be-published</url></story> |
32,091,500 | 32,089,332 | 1 | 3 | 32,089,013 | 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>elif</author><text>FSD beta tester here. I think they are minimum 3 years away from anything exciting beta.. but the localization, mapping, and visualization are not the reason. I don&#x27;t think LIDAR would contribute substantially to improvement.<p>The fundamental flaws are in the decision-making being based upon 10-30 second feature memory, ignoring features outright, and only depending on visible road features instead of persisted map data.<p>For instance, near my house there&#x27;s an intersection where it will try to use a turn-only lane with a red arrow when it&#x27;s trying to go straight thru a light. 100% of the time. Even if I&#x27;m in the correct lane with no traffic around.<p>That&#x27;s because the turn arrow on the ground is worn off. It is not a perception problem, it is<p>a) ignoring the obvious red turn arrow signal&#x27;s significance for lane selection deliberately
b) makes no attempt to persist or consult map data for &#x27;which lanes go where&#x27;
c) it completely disregards painted lines on the ground in the &quot;no drive here&quot; striping.<p>Also one block from my house, FSD will stay still indefinitely waiting for trash cans (displayed as trash cans) to clear the leftmost lane so that it will turn left.<p>None of the failures I encounter are due to lack of perception.</text><parent_chain><item><author>camjohnson26</author><text>Tesla has bet the company on robotaxis, but their vision only tech stack doesn’t seem capable of solving it, which is a problem because Tesla has repeatedly promised FSD is right around the corner, or less than a year away. It’s hard to believe Karpathy would step down if he felt they were close to solving the problem anytime soon.<p>This announcement comes after a 4 month sabbatical where Karpathy said he wanted to take some time off to “sharpen my technical edge,” which makes it sound like this is the result of frustration with the technical approach instead of burnout.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla</title><url>https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1547332300186066944</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>impulser_</author><text>Yeah, but Google&#x27;s vision + lidar tech also doesn&#x27;t seem any better at solving it either. They have been working on this problem the longest and they aren&#x27;t even confident enough to produce a product with it. Google is probably the leader in AI and AI research. They are also the leader in data and mapping. They have billions of cash to play with. Yet it seem like they haven&#x27;t gotten any closer at solving this problem as well.<p>They are just going about it better but not trying to selling it.<p>Any reason why everyone seems to be stuck on this problem?</text><parent_chain><item><author>camjohnson26</author><text>Tesla has bet the company on robotaxis, but their vision only tech stack doesn’t seem capable of solving it, which is a problem because Tesla has repeatedly promised FSD is right around the corner, or less than a year away. It’s hard to believe Karpathy would step down if he felt they were close to solving the problem anytime soon.<p>This announcement comes after a 4 month sabbatical where Karpathy said he wanted to take some time off to “sharpen my technical edge,” which makes it sound like this is the result of frustration with the technical approach instead of burnout.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla</title><url>https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1547332300186066944</url></story> |
20,764,461 | 20,763,351 | 1 | 2 | 20,761,449 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mantap</author><text>Python&#x27;s standard library is where things go to die because of the terrible adhoc versioning system (the module name <i>is</i> the version number) and dynamic typing means they are afraid to change anything. But even then it&#x27;s still better than having no standard library at all.<p>The advantage of a standard library is that you only need to learn one API instead of a dozen different APIs for doing the same thing, which means you can develop a degree of mastery over it. It also reduces the friction for using better abstractions. e.g. Every professional Python programmer knows defaultdict, whereas I rarely see that data structure used in other programming languages, it&#x27;s too much of a leap to install a dependency to save a few if statements, but it all adds up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>burntsushi</author><text>Opinions on this are a dime a dozen. You often see the reverse of it too, for example, you might have heard that &quot;Python&#x27;s standard library is where things go to die.&quot; You could just as easily call that a &quot;terrible error.&quot; The fact that Python&#x27;s standard library has an HTTP client in it, for example, doesn&#x27;t stop everyone from using requests (and, consequently, urllib3) for all their HTTP client needs. So despite the fact the standard library provides a lot of the same <i>functionality</i> as a third party dependency, folks are <i>still</i> using the third party dependency.<p>I think the size of the standard library is just one of possibly many contributing factors that leads to a large number of dependencies. I think a part of it is culture, but another part of it is that the tooling _enables_ it. It&#x27;s so incredibly easy to write some code, push it to crates.io and let everyone else use it. That&#x27;s generally a good thing, but it winds up creating this spiral where there&#x27;s almost no backpressure _against_ including a dependency in a project. This means there&#x27;s very little standing in the way of letting the fullest expression of DRY run wild. There are some notable examples in the NPM ecosystem where it reaches ridiculous levels. But putting the extremes aside, there&#x27;s a ton of grey area and it can be pretty difficult to convince someone to write a bit more code when something else might work off the shelf. (And I mean this in the most charitable way possible. I find myself in that situation.)<p>I do hope we can turn the Rust ecosystem around and stop regularly having dependency trees with hundreds of crates, but it&#x27;s going to be a long and difficult road. For example, not everyone even agrees with my perspective that this is actually a bad thing.</text></item><item><author>ajxs</author><text>At the risk of being slightly tangential, I&#x27;ve been sorely wanting to air this particular grievance with Rust for some time. It&#x27;s somewhat related, since the author mentions their package system. Its package ecosystem isn&#x27;t nearly in the horrible state that node&#x27;s is, but having a package system shouldn&#x27;t be a substitute for designing a useful standard library for a language. I think that the attraction to &#x27;small languages&#x27; is very much misplaced. If I can&#x27;t get through Rust&#x27;s official documentation without being recommended the use of third party packages for basic functionality (getopt, interfacing with static libraries... Etc) then the designers have made a terrible error.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughts on Rust bloat</title><url>https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/2019/08/21/rust-bloat.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>raphlinus</author><text>In my post, I specifically call on proc-macro support (syn and quote) plus rand (not all of rand though, just the &quot;give me a random number&quot; functionality that comprises 99% of the use cases but 10% of the implementation complexity) to be added to the Rust standard library. But I feel these are particularly justified because they&#x27;re already present, just not accessible. Overall, I think Rust&#x27;s &quot;batteries not included&quot; approach is a good tradeoff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>burntsushi</author><text>Opinions on this are a dime a dozen. You often see the reverse of it too, for example, you might have heard that &quot;Python&#x27;s standard library is where things go to die.&quot; You could just as easily call that a &quot;terrible error.&quot; The fact that Python&#x27;s standard library has an HTTP client in it, for example, doesn&#x27;t stop everyone from using requests (and, consequently, urllib3) for all their HTTP client needs. So despite the fact the standard library provides a lot of the same <i>functionality</i> as a third party dependency, folks are <i>still</i> using the third party dependency.<p>I think the size of the standard library is just one of possibly many contributing factors that leads to a large number of dependencies. I think a part of it is culture, but another part of it is that the tooling _enables_ it. It&#x27;s so incredibly easy to write some code, push it to crates.io and let everyone else use it. That&#x27;s generally a good thing, but it winds up creating this spiral where there&#x27;s almost no backpressure _against_ including a dependency in a project. This means there&#x27;s very little standing in the way of letting the fullest expression of DRY run wild. There are some notable examples in the NPM ecosystem where it reaches ridiculous levels. But putting the extremes aside, there&#x27;s a ton of grey area and it can be pretty difficult to convince someone to write a bit more code when something else might work off the shelf. (And I mean this in the most charitable way possible. I find myself in that situation.)<p>I do hope we can turn the Rust ecosystem around and stop regularly having dependency trees with hundreds of crates, but it&#x27;s going to be a long and difficult road. For example, not everyone even agrees with my perspective that this is actually a bad thing.</text></item><item><author>ajxs</author><text>At the risk of being slightly tangential, I&#x27;ve been sorely wanting to air this particular grievance with Rust for some time. It&#x27;s somewhat related, since the author mentions their package system. Its package ecosystem isn&#x27;t nearly in the horrible state that node&#x27;s is, but having a package system shouldn&#x27;t be a substitute for designing a useful standard library for a language. I think that the attraction to &#x27;small languages&#x27; is very much misplaced. If I can&#x27;t get through Rust&#x27;s official documentation without being recommended the use of third party packages for basic functionality (getopt, interfacing with static libraries... Etc) then the designers have made a terrible error.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughts on Rust bloat</title><url>https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/2019/08/21/rust-bloat.html</url></story> |
5,752,567 | 5,751,783 | 1 | 3 | 5,751,329 | train | <instructions>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>I worked in RedWest a few years ago. People were fired, more than one, because they were caught bringing in -roller luggage- multiple times a week to fill with varying drinks. It was only noticed and a problem because Catering noticed they were needing to refill those fridges more than twice as much (and there were four commercial sliding glass door fridges) - so a group of people were taking multiple fridges a week home. That's probably in the order of a couple of thousand dollars a week.<p>-That- was the problem. Not people like me who might grab a can of Talking Rain as we left the office for the commute home.<p>So when the smuggling ""problem"" amounted to thousands of dollars a week of goods going missing from one building/floor alone, then yes, they drew attention to it.<p>As for his other points:<p>- Microsoft has its own inhouse printing departments. It was hardly a project in itself to arrange for a small plastic sign to be made and glued.<p>- Yes, Catering has people whose salaried, 40 hour a week job is to handle the logistics of food ordering, and predict supply and demand. People like this are needed when you have upwards of 50,000 people working in your facility.<p>- a $100,000/year theft problem is worthy of most people's attention. If you're stealing multiple commercial fridges-worth of soda a week, it's not even that you're taking it home - you're almost certainly reselling it. So it's not even a perk, it's a commercial gain. Maybe I should have been raiding the Office Supplies and selling them, a la Dilbert.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmduke</author><text>This reminds me of a great blog post, <i>Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook</i> by Philip Su (<a href="http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebook/" rel="nofollow">http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebo...</a>):<p><i>We used to get Dove Bars and beers all the time. It felt like free food was on offer at least once a week, usually with a pretense of some small milestone to celebrate. Why did we cut stuff like this? (I know the boring fiscal reasons why. I’m asking the deeper why, as in, “Was it worth the savings? Is Microsoft better now that we’ve cut these costs?”)<p>One day, a sign appeared on a soda fridge in RedWest saying something to the effect of, “Did you know that drinks cost Microsoft [ed: millions of dollars] a year? Sodas are your perk at work. Don’t bring them home.” This depressed me on too many levels to enumerate, but I’ll toss out a few:<p>- Someone had enough time to get these signs professionally printed and affixed to our fridges.<p>- It was someone’s salaried, 40-hour-a-week job to do things like this.<p>- Someone thought soda smuggling was a big enough “problem” at Microsoft to draw attention to it.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)</title><url>http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%E2%80%93-soda%E2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>malexw</author><text>That's how the free pop at RIM ended. The story I heard is that Mike L saw an employee loading flats of coke into the trunk of their car one day, and the free pop ended shortly after that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmduke</author><text>This reminds me of a great blog post, <i>Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook</i> by Philip Su (<a href="http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebook/" rel="nofollow">http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebo...</a>):<p><i>We used to get Dove Bars and beers all the time. It felt like free food was on offer at least once a week, usually with a pretense of some small milestone to celebrate. Why did we cut stuff like this? (I know the boring fiscal reasons why. I’m asking the deeper why, as in, “Was it worth the savings? Is Microsoft better now that we’ve cut these costs?”)<p>One day, a sign appeared on a soda fridge in RedWest saying something to the effect of, “Did you know that drinks cost Microsoft [ed: millions of dollars] a year? Sodas are your perk at work. Don’t bring them home.” This depressed me on too many levels to enumerate, but I’ll toss out a few:<p>- Someone had enough time to get these signs professionally printed and affixed to our fridges.<p>- It was someone’s salaried, 40-hour-a-week job to do things like this.<p>- Someone thought soda smuggling was a big enough “problem” at Microsoft to draw attention to it.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)</title><url>http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%E2%80%93-soda%E2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/</url></story> |
1,347,427 | 1,347,053 | 1 | 2 | 1,347,011 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kilimanjaro</author><text>Here, check your browsers:<p><a href="http://mylittlehacks.appspot.com/html5" rel="nofollow">http://mylittlehacks.appspot.com/html5</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything in HTML5</title><url>http://diveintohtml5.org/everything.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>mbenjaminsmith</author><text>Excuse my ignorance, what's the !! for?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything in HTML5</title><url>http://diveintohtml5.org/everything.html</url><text></text></story> |
29,309,466 | 29,309,634 | 1 | 2 | 29,306,829 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text><i>The cryptography engineers will be happier the sooner they let this go and find some new slang for themselves.</i><p>This reminds me of Michael Bolton in Office Space being angry at the musician with the same name.<p>&quot;Why should I change? He&#x27;s the one who sucks!&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qI1NfFExOSo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qI1NfFExOSo</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>There are t-shirts, stickers, pins and mugs with &quot;crypto means cryptography&quot; printed on them. This linguistic squabble is so well established that it has merch. But I can&#x27;t begrudge publications getting an easy bit of writing out.<p>This fight is over. You knew it was over the second time you were talking to someone you didn&#x27;t know well, were about to use the term &quot;crypto&quot;, and paused to check in your head how they&#x27;d interpret the word. &quot;Crypto&quot; means &quot;cryptocurrency&quot;, not &quot;cryptography&quot;.<p>We shouldn&#x27;t be surprised: there&#x27;s orders of magnitude more people interested in get-rich-quick schemes than in abstract algebra.<p>The cryptography engineers will be happier the sooner they let this go and find some new slang for themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cryptographers are not happy with how you’re using the word ‘crypto’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/18/crypto-cryptocurrency-cryptographers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munch117</author><text>The &quot;crypto&quot; part of the word &quot;cryptocurrency&quot; is short for &quot;cryptography&quot;.<p>If instead &quot;crypto&quot; is short for &quot;cryptocurrency&quot;, then it would follow that &quot;cryptocurrency&quot; is short for &quot;cryptocurrencycurrency&quot;, which is short for &quot;cryptocurrencycurrencycurrency&quot;, which is short for &quot;cryptocurrencycurrencycurrencycurrency&quot; etc.<p>I&#x27;m just going to stick with &quot;crypto&quot; being short for &quot;cryptography&quot;, with an added mental note that the short form is ambiguous. I guess I just don&#x27;t have the patience to see an infinite recursion through to the end.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>There are t-shirts, stickers, pins and mugs with &quot;crypto means cryptography&quot; printed on them. This linguistic squabble is so well established that it has merch. But I can&#x27;t begrudge publications getting an easy bit of writing out.<p>This fight is over. You knew it was over the second time you were talking to someone you didn&#x27;t know well, were about to use the term &quot;crypto&quot;, and paused to check in your head how they&#x27;d interpret the word. &quot;Crypto&quot; means &quot;cryptocurrency&quot;, not &quot;cryptography&quot;.<p>We shouldn&#x27;t be surprised: there&#x27;s orders of magnitude more people interested in get-rich-quick schemes than in abstract algebra.<p>The cryptography engineers will be happier the sooner they let this go and find some new slang for themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cryptographers are not happy with how you’re using the word ‘crypto’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/18/crypto-cryptocurrency-cryptographers</url></story> |
23,006,578 | 23,006,231 | 1 | 3 | 23,005,820 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tcd</author><text>&gt; nobody came to any harm or suffered any detrimental effects as a result of this breach<p>Who gets to decide what &quot;harm&quot; is or whether anyone suffered &quot;detrimental effects&quot;? Surveillance is so common and normalized they don&#x27;t consider the act of collecting so much information itself as a &quot;detrimental harm&quot;.<p>What if that harm only presented itself years down the line? Maybe a creepy stalker who can synthesize mulitple data sets to reconstruct a person&#x27;s movements or possibly use it against them some way (scammers and fraudsters are increasingly using all these leaked datasets to create a more accurate profile of an individual for more sophisticated attacks&#x2F;targeting. Your name&#x2F;address&#x2F;mobile number must not and can not be considered PII since it&#x27;s already been leaked probably ten&#x27;s of times by now).<p>That&#x27;s an incredibly shortsighted comment to try and justify developing a system with not even the most basic of security considerations.<p>I honestly just wish those same people were jailed for 50 years as a result, we&#x27;d see a LOT more consideration in the future if they were held personally liable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>9M logs of Brits' road journeys spill from number-plate camera dashboard</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/28/anpr_sheffield_council/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asplake</author><text>I live close enough to Sheffield to be caught by this. Hope that both South Yorkshire Police and the City council get some serious flak for this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>9M logs of Brits' road journeys spill from number-plate camera dashboard</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/28/anpr_sheffield_council/</url></story> |
30,219,233 | 30,218,562 | 1 | 2 | 30,213,110 | 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>stavros</author><text>Same with all organic content. It&#x27;s just all bullshit SEO spam now, I haven&#x27;t landed on some dude&#x27;s blog in ages, and some dude&#x27;s blog is my favorite part of the web.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Same with Sheldon Brown’s website on bicycle maintenance. Much of the information on his site is still the best resource on the internet but instead Google would rather serve irrelevant results that show ads.</text></item><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>I&#x27;m still bitter that they&#x27;ve deprioritized results from SongMeanings.net in favor of garbage like Genius. The former is one of the only sources for lyrics from smaller acts, especially from the 90&#x27;s to early 2010&#x27;s. Since it&#x27;s from the pre-Web 2.0 era, it&#x27;s disappeared from Google&#x27;s search results.</text></item><item><author>tomatofrank</author><text>Last night I watched a YouTube video that had a song in the background that I hadn&#x27;t heard but really liked. I pulled up Shazam but it didn&#x27;t recognize the song, so I took to Google. I entered the lyric and added the search terms &quot;lyrics&quot; and &quot;r&amp;b&quot; at the end. Google returned 4 YouTube videos to songs that didn&#x27;t contain the lyric, a link to a Boyz II Men song on Genius that didn&#x27;t contain the lyric (good job Google, you know an R&amp;B band), a link to peterbe.com to find a song by lyrics, and a bunch of other useless links. I clicked on to page 2, which hilariously presented 3 of the 4 YouTube videos that were on page 1.<p>I was immediately turned off, so I pulled up DuckDuckGo and Bing, entered the same exact query, and both engines returned the song I was looking for in the first result. I laughed out loud.<p>I then thought to myself, &quot;I wonder how many pages I would have had to flip through in Google to find this result.&quot; Eventually, I found it. It was the 68th result on page 7.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads</title><url>https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1489480845979095040</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hetspookjee</author><text>It’s only a matter of time till it gets ripped and hosted on another ad filled website like all the fake stack overflow websites these days. So at least the material is not lost.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Same with Sheldon Brown’s website on bicycle maintenance. Much of the information on his site is still the best resource on the internet but instead Google would rather serve irrelevant results that show ads.</text></item><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>I&#x27;m still bitter that they&#x27;ve deprioritized results from SongMeanings.net in favor of garbage like Genius. The former is one of the only sources for lyrics from smaller acts, especially from the 90&#x27;s to early 2010&#x27;s. Since it&#x27;s from the pre-Web 2.0 era, it&#x27;s disappeared from Google&#x27;s search results.</text></item><item><author>tomatofrank</author><text>Last night I watched a YouTube video that had a song in the background that I hadn&#x27;t heard but really liked. I pulled up Shazam but it didn&#x27;t recognize the song, so I took to Google. I entered the lyric and added the search terms &quot;lyrics&quot; and &quot;r&amp;b&quot; at the end. Google returned 4 YouTube videos to songs that didn&#x27;t contain the lyric, a link to a Boyz II Men song on Genius that didn&#x27;t contain the lyric (good job Google, you know an R&amp;B band), a link to peterbe.com to find a song by lyrics, and a bunch of other useless links. I clicked on to page 2, which hilariously presented 3 of the 4 YouTube videos that were on page 1.<p>I was immediately turned off, so I pulled up DuckDuckGo and Bing, entered the same exact query, and both engines returned the song I was looking for in the first result. I laughed out loud.<p>I then thought to myself, &quot;I wonder how many pages I would have had to flip through in Google to find this result.&quot; Eventually, I found it. It was the 68th result on page 7.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads</title><url>https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1489480845979095040</url></story> |
10,167,240 | 10,167,252 | 1 | 2 | 10,165,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Locke1689</author><text>Roslyn needs cross-platform MSBuild to build itself for every platform (without Mono). Same with corefx.<p>So even if you&#x27;re currently using or thinking about using .NET xplat and don&#x27;t have any plans to use MSBuild, this move is necessary for us working on .NET to get xplat builds working.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Are there really that many people building .NET projects on non-Windows systems? It&#x27;s been my experience that companies that are using .NET are pretty much full Windows everywhere.</text></item><item><author>plorkyeran</author><text>I doubt that anyone would choose it for other stacks, but this means that you don&#x27;t need a separate build system for building your existing .NET project on non-Windows.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>I used to work at a mostly-Microsoft shop and I cannot fathom why anyone would want to deal with MSBuild for other platforms. There are so many better alternatives. And as bad as MSBuild is for building .NET stuff, at least it&#x27;s the right tool for that job. Trying to shoehorn it into some other stack entirely, which you know is just going to cause even more pain? No. Just no.</text></item><item><author>cptnbob</author><text>Now I can hate every moment of its existence on more than one platform!<p>Having dealt with it for years, it&#x27;s unadulterated pain and bad performance and nothing else.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/09/03/msbuild-is-going-cross-platform-with-net-core.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>code_sterling</author><text>I&#x27;ll definitely be. I live in the nix terminal, and that&#x27;s where the tools work best for web development. But the current day job is C# apps. I dream of hacking code legitimately in a nix.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Are there really that many people building .NET projects on non-Windows systems? It&#x27;s been my experience that companies that are using .NET are pretty much full Windows everywhere.</text></item><item><author>plorkyeran</author><text>I doubt that anyone would choose it for other stacks, but this means that you don&#x27;t need a separate build system for building your existing .NET project on non-Windows.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>I used to work at a mostly-Microsoft shop and I cannot fathom why anyone would want to deal with MSBuild for other platforms. There are so many better alternatives. And as bad as MSBuild is for building .NET stuff, at least it&#x27;s the right tool for that job. Trying to shoehorn it into some other stack entirely, which you know is just going to cause even more pain? No. Just no.</text></item><item><author>cptnbob</author><text>Now I can hate every moment of its existence on more than one platform!<p>Having dealt with it for years, it&#x27;s unadulterated pain and bad performance and nothing else.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/09/03/msbuild-is-going-cross-platform-with-net-core.aspx</url></story> |
28,075,345 | 28,075,600 | 1 | 2 | 28,074,527 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>indymike</author><text>&gt; Linux version (foolish demand I know)<p>I&#x27;ll buy all three Affinity apps again with a Linux or Proton version. I lug around a Mac just so I can run Affinity Designer&#x2F;Photo&#x2F;Publisher and click OK in Xcode (or some other trivial can&#x27;t-be-automated thing) from time to time. Incidentally, I do pay for quite a bit of Linux software (JetBrains, WingIDE, DaVinci Resolve)... and that is before counting all the games that I&#x27;ll be buying via Steam now that I can run via Proton. Yes, I&#x27;m probably in the minority in the Linux world, but Linux (KDE desktop) is easily the most productive for me and great software is actually worth paying for. Plus, the current direction towards total lockdown of MS and Apple is going to create a lot more users just like me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JustFinishedBSG</author><text>I&#x27;ll join the other poster in asking for a Linux version (foolish demand I know) or at <i>least</i> making it possible to run Affinity on Proton&#x2F;Wine.<p>Also, please for the love of God implement paragraph wide justification. Without it Publisher is a toy (in my opinion) and not implementing it is unacceptably amateurish when it has been implemented, and open source, since 1981 [1].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eprg.org&#x2F;G53DOC&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;knuth-plass-breaking.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eprg.org&#x2F;G53DOC&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;knuth-plass-breaking.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Affinity 1.10</title><url>https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/latest-update/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blue_rog</author><text>Thank you for the reference for &quot;Breaking Paragraphs into Lines&quot;. I attempted to implement something like this (quite naively) a few years ago; to read something in detail makes me realize the impressive lengths people go to in order to do something as &#x27;simple&#x27; as breaking paragraphs into lines and further realize how little I appreciate &#x27;tiny&#x27; things like this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JustFinishedBSG</author><text>I&#x27;ll join the other poster in asking for a Linux version (foolish demand I know) or at <i>least</i> making it possible to run Affinity on Proton&#x2F;Wine.<p>Also, please for the love of God implement paragraph wide justification. Without it Publisher is a toy (in my opinion) and not implementing it is unacceptably amateurish when it has been implemented, and open source, since 1981 [1].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eprg.org&#x2F;G53DOC&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;knuth-plass-breaking.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eprg.org&#x2F;G53DOC&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;knuth-plass-breaking.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Affinity 1.10</title><url>https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/latest-update/</url></story> |
26,085,972 | 26,085,005 | 1 | 3 | 26,084,739 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>helge9210</author><text>Colleague of mine was working on research of vision system of a spitting fish. The fish hunts by spitting water at insects sitting on the leaves above the water surface. What they found out that &quot;firing solution&quot; is formed in the retina and passed to the brain to initiate the spit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turtle visual cortex is non-retinotopic</title><url>https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/365papers/141/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>killjoywashere</author><text>My experience with turtles is confined to reef diving.<p>Turtles are unusual in that they are extremely tolerant of hypoxia. It may be that they have adapted to a relatively shallow network that doesn&#x27;t parse much, but is pretty good at extracting the most meaningful features (oxygen&#x2F;energy efficiency favored over information efficiency)<p>I wonder if this patterns persists for other reptiles.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turtle visual cortex is non-retinotopic</title><url>https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/365papers/141/</url></story> |
36,087,236 | 36,086,968 | 1 | 2 | 36,082,180 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;One of my fundamental rules of system design is when people keep doing it wrong, the people are right and your system or idea is wrong.&quot;</i><p>Digital desire paths? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Desire_path" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Desire_path</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>&quot;One of my fundamental rules of system design is when people keep doing it wrong, the people are right and your system or idea is wrong.&quot;<p>excellent, and in hilarious contrast with the responses in this thread...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/OnHTMLViaStringTemplates</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>betenoire</author><text>I learned this concept hiking with a ranger when I was young. I caught myself about to cut the corner of the trail. I jokingly shamed myself for the thought, and he says,&quot;that&#x27;s a sign we designed it wrong here&quot;. He went on to explain that they do watch hikers for how they got it wrong in that sense</text><parent_chain><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>&quot;One of my fundamental rules of system design is when people keep doing it wrong, the people are right and your system or idea is wrong.&quot;<p>excellent, and in hilarious contrast with the responses in this thread...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/OnHTMLViaStringTemplates</url></story> |
33,014,274 | 33,014,115 | 1 | 2 | 33,009,625 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shireboy</author><text>If you want to converse with me, first define your terms - Voltaire<p>I was taught that Gilgamesh wasn’t the first written work of literature, but the first written work of epic story. I don’t know if this is true, but many of the other works cited are biographies, proverbs, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bananarchist</author><text>It sounds like the disagreement here is over the definition of literature. I generally regard wiktionary&#x27;s fourth entry (high fiction) to be its definition, whereas this seems somewhere between that and the second (collected creative writing of a culture). I was shaking my head at most of the examples given. Now I see we are operating from two different foundations.<p>Maybe this is why so many arguments open with the cliche &quot;Webster defines...&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ is not the oldest surviving work of literature</title><url>https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/09/22/no-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-is-not-the-oldest-surviving-work-of-literature/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nottorp</author><text>Yeah, most of that list is life advice and religious texts. Then what comes is ... proto Ghilgamesh.<p>On the other hand, apparently self improvement books are older than the first fiction :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bananarchist</author><text>It sounds like the disagreement here is over the definition of literature. I generally regard wiktionary&#x27;s fourth entry (high fiction) to be its definition, whereas this seems somewhere between that and the second (collected creative writing of a culture). I was shaking my head at most of the examples given. Now I see we are operating from two different foundations.<p>Maybe this is why so many arguments open with the cliche &quot;Webster defines...&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ is not the oldest surviving work of literature</title><url>https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/09/22/no-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-is-not-the-oldest-surviving-work-of-literature/</url></story> |
18,570,896 | 18,570,801 | 1 | 2 | 18,570,646 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tcoff91</author><text>You are completely discounting the subjective experience of driving different cars. Some cars are just flat-out much more enjoyable to drive. When people are spending significant portions of their lives driving, getting more enjoyment or comfort out of that time matters to people.<p>It&#x27;s completely rational to want to enjoy your time driving a vehicle if you spend a lot of time in the car. Driving a chevy cobalt is just awful compared to driving a higher quality vehicle.<p>You&#x27;re also far more likely to be able to avoid an accident when you have better handling and more powerful brakes. Even horsepower&#x2F;torque can be a safety feature for certain accident avoidance situations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>The car market in its&#x27; totality has always struck me as being irrational.<p>It takes a large amount of number crunching to determine that an old small Japanese car has the cheapest TCO.<p>The same follows across the categories (e.g. the article&#x27;s specific focus on sedans).<p>A whole bunch of mid-market brands seemingly exist for no reason other than for some groups of not-wealthy people to waste money in an attempt to impress other groups of not-wealthy people.<p>e.g. the German cars which seem to exist as some sort of indicator that someone can afford to burn money maintaining a depreciating asset.<p>It&#x27;s basically the (non-smart) watch market, right. You wear a Casio-level watch if you don&#x27;t care, a Rolex-level watch if you&#x27;re signalling, and other stuff is basically an enthusiast market.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sedans Aren’t Dead, American Sedans Are</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-29/chevrolet-sedans-suffer-while-toyota-and-honda-hang-on</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rock_hard</author><text>Well, this assumes that it’s all about TCO or status.<p>But have you ever driven a Mercedes, BMW, Porsche or Audi? The driving expierence is superior to everything else! Tesla gets close...but I can’t think of any other brand that does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>The car market in its&#x27; totality has always struck me as being irrational.<p>It takes a large amount of number crunching to determine that an old small Japanese car has the cheapest TCO.<p>The same follows across the categories (e.g. the article&#x27;s specific focus on sedans).<p>A whole bunch of mid-market brands seemingly exist for no reason other than for some groups of not-wealthy people to waste money in an attempt to impress other groups of not-wealthy people.<p>e.g. the German cars which seem to exist as some sort of indicator that someone can afford to burn money maintaining a depreciating asset.<p>It&#x27;s basically the (non-smart) watch market, right. You wear a Casio-level watch if you don&#x27;t care, a Rolex-level watch if you&#x27;re signalling, and other stuff is basically an enthusiast market.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sedans Aren’t Dead, American Sedans Are</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-29/chevrolet-sedans-suffer-while-toyota-and-honda-hang-on</url></story> |
3,386,784 | 3,386,744 | 1 | 3 | 3,386,667 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sounds</author><text>This is hilarious!<p>More translations that might make your day:<p>&#62; In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.<p>Translation: we said some pretty stupid things yesterday.<p>&#62; Go Daddy ... worked with federal lawmakers for months ... legislation first introduced some three years ago ... entire Internet community ... ensure the integrity of the Internet<p>Translation: we've been neck-deep in this legislation, and will be pushing the next version of this bill too. Seized domains would have been a de facto transfer to Go Daddy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drx</author><text><i>&#62; In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.</i><p><i>&#62; "Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future," Jones said.</i><p>Translation: we got caught this time, but will not hesitate to do it again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA</title><url>http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=378&isc=smtwsup</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fedxc</author><text>Agree. They changed their mind because they were threaten. It's not an honest communication, they are just trying to avoid losing money/business.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drx</author><text><i>&#62; In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.</i><p><i>&#62; "Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future," Jones said.</i><p>Translation: we got caught this time, but will not hesitate to do it again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA</title><url>http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=378&isc=smtwsup</url></story> |
30,649,108 | 30,645,404 | 1 | 2 | 30,640,846 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bscphil</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting how the simulated view makes errors in the terrain data obvious. The view from Santa Cruz island (off the coast of California) is almost completely obscured by single-pointed errors in the height map along the coast that didn&#x27;t get cleaned from the data: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caltopo.com&#x2F;view#ll=34.0505,-119.8665&amp;e=30&amp;t=n&amp;z=3&amp;c=15.45,10.37" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caltopo.com&#x2F;view#ll=34.0505,-119.8665&amp;e=30&amp;t=n&amp;z=3&amp;c...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>scott113341</author><text>If you thing this is cool, also check out CalTopo (my favorite mapping software for backpacking):<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caltopo.com&#x2F;map.html#ll=40.10094,-105.61557&amp;z=15&amp;b=mbh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caltopo.com&#x2F;map.html#ll=40.10094,-105.61557&amp;z=15&amp;b=m...</a><p>- Right click and select &quot;Simulated View&quot;<p>- Change to &quot;WireImagery&quot; in the upper right</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth</title><url>https://www.heywhatsthat.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nathancahill</author><text>I also love CalTopo, and this is a really cool feature. But once you switch to WireImagery, FATMAP gets you the same thing (but better).</text><parent_chain><item><author>scott113341</author><text>If you thing this is cool, also check out CalTopo (my favorite mapping software for backpacking):<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caltopo.com&#x2F;map.html#ll=40.10094,-105.61557&amp;z=15&amp;b=mbh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caltopo.com&#x2F;map.html#ll=40.10094,-105.61557&amp;z=15&amp;b=m...</a><p>- Right click and select &quot;Simulated View&quot;<p>- Change to &quot;WireImagery&quot; in the upper right</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth</title><url>https://www.heywhatsthat.com/</url></story> |
18,561,285 | 18,561,424 | 1 | 3 | 18,560,580 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>huehehue</author><text>They only need enough of an analysis to get a catchy article heading. Every day it&#x27;s either &quot;millennials are rich&quot; or &quot;millennials are poor&quot;.<p>Millennials are poor: ~10% have $15k saved up
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;a-growing-percentage-of-millennials-have-absolutely-nothing-saved.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;a-growing-percentage-of-mill...</a><p>Millennials are rich: ~47% have $15k saved up
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;personal-finance&#x2F;article&#x2F;Millennials-saving-more-salary-savings-generation-12522722.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;personal-finance&#x2F;article&#x2F;Millennials-...</a><p>Avoid articles that stereotype <i>any</i> generation, because they&#x27;re garbage that distort the truth to push agendas and generate clicks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>I think the term &quot;poorer&quot;, and the monetary analysis done here, is too high level to extract real meaning.<p>The average young person&#x2F;couple that I know are able to do and buy far more than their parents (e.g. eat out, order takeaway, take holidays, go to bars, buy things for hobbies, buy clothes, ...).<p>They just don&#x27;t own property and have no path that leads there.<p>In some sense you could say that they have higher incomes whilst having lower wealth, but that doesn&#x27;t really capture it.<p>Housing just went bonkers which makes retirement impossible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/fed-says-millennials-are-just-like-their-parents-only-poorer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>One of the things I&#x27;ve been contemplating is how student debt is a retirement issue. Especially with Social Security in a bind with all of the Baby Boomer retirements it&#x27;s really important for people to take charge of their retirement early, but they can&#x27;t if they are saddled with school debt. It adds up in a hurry too.<p>Assumption:
Average student loan debt in the US is $25,000 with a 6.8% interest rate, with a 10 year repayment plan. Graduation age is 21 and retirement age is 65. Market return rate is 7%.<p>If you took that student loan money and instead invested it in the market after the 10 year loan period you would have $49,673. Leave it in the account until retirement and it grows to $495,642.<p>Of course half a million bucks won&#x27;t be worth as much in 2062, but the difference between having the loan and not is substantial. This is one of those cases where subsidies up front can save a whole lot of money in the long run.</text><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>I think the term &quot;poorer&quot;, and the monetary analysis done here, is too high level to extract real meaning.<p>The average young person&#x2F;couple that I know are able to do and buy far more than their parents (e.g. eat out, order takeaway, take holidays, go to bars, buy things for hobbies, buy clothes, ...).<p>They just don&#x27;t own property and have no path that leads there.<p>In some sense you could say that they have higher incomes whilst having lower wealth, but that doesn&#x27;t really capture it.<p>Housing just went bonkers which makes retirement impossible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/fed-says-millennials-are-just-like-their-parents-only-poorer</url></story> |
25,841,779 | 25,835,478 | 1 | 2 | 25,833,716 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerrya</author><text>&quot;The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic- books survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn&#x27;t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jf22</author><text>I believe 1984 was about the government rewriting reality and not private industry.</text></item><item><author>slowhand09</author><text>When your DNS provider removes your record...<p>When your cellular connection becomes an app...<p>When your contact list is removed or hidden...<p>When your text app is locked...<p>When your ISP kills your account...<p>When your webhost provider deletes your site and&#x2F;or content...<p>When they selectively track your location and post it to political groups they support...<p>When your car GPS stops navigating.<p>When your car won&#x27;t start to support a suggested lockdown they support...<p>When your cable channel drops all &quot;opposing&quot; news media...<p>How much of Orwell&#x27;s 1984 do you want?</text></item><item><author>philg_jr</author><text>I mean, you could just open up your favorite web browser and go to any website you&#x27;d like. Why is the lack of an app on the App Store or Play such a major hindrance? Well, I know why it is, because most people have been conditioned to associate every service with an app. But really, it shouldn&#x27;t be a major roadblock.<p>Also, not totally related this this article, but I also don&#x27;t understand why Parler didn&#x27;t have a backup DR plan. All of the major cloud platforms have outages. What is stopping them from renting a few racks, or cages of racks, in a datacenter with multiple Tier1 peers? Sounds like they didn&#x27;t plan very well honestly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear</title><url>https://puri.sm/posts/parler-tricks-making-software-disappear/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gagege</author><text>Whichever one of the two is the biggest bully doesn&#x27;t matter, in reality they can both act like Big Brother. I think CS Lewis&#x27; N.I.C.E from That Hideous Strength is more true to life than 1984.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jf22</author><text>I believe 1984 was about the government rewriting reality and not private industry.</text></item><item><author>slowhand09</author><text>When your DNS provider removes your record...<p>When your cellular connection becomes an app...<p>When your contact list is removed or hidden...<p>When your text app is locked...<p>When your ISP kills your account...<p>When your webhost provider deletes your site and&#x2F;or content...<p>When they selectively track your location and post it to political groups they support...<p>When your car GPS stops navigating.<p>When your car won&#x27;t start to support a suggested lockdown they support...<p>When your cable channel drops all &quot;opposing&quot; news media...<p>How much of Orwell&#x27;s 1984 do you want?</text></item><item><author>philg_jr</author><text>I mean, you could just open up your favorite web browser and go to any website you&#x27;d like. Why is the lack of an app on the App Store or Play such a major hindrance? Well, I know why it is, because most people have been conditioned to associate every service with an app. But really, it shouldn&#x27;t be a major roadblock.<p>Also, not totally related this this article, but I also don&#x27;t understand why Parler didn&#x27;t have a backup DR plan. All of the major cloud platforms have outages. What is stopping them from renting a few racks, or cages of racks, in a datacenter with multiple Tier1 peers? Sounds like they didn&#x27;t plan very well honestly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear</title><url>https://puri.sm/posts/parler-tricks-making-software-disappear/</url></story> |
18,999,185 | 18,999,208 | 1 | 3 | 18,998,810 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brianwawok</author><text>Many are offering loans of 10%+ APR. That is helpful, but maybe not a great situation for many people that have no savings to need the loan.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sremani</author><text>If you got to any bank website at least the ones I bank with, there is a flashing notice on the front page, if I were a federal worker who needs assistance due to shut down. I am sure, certain workers have easy ways than others but to say that at least some banks have not stepped up is incorrect.</text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>Bearing in mind that ~40% of american&#x27;s could not come up with $400 to cover emergencies, this is going to become more prevalent in the next few days &#x2F; weeks as people will simply not be able to afford gas to get to their unpaid work. I read an article today discussing how TSA workers in HI are living in their cars in the airport parking lot as they cannot afford to commute. The FBI just cancelled its internship program due to the shutdown.<p>An administration official recommended that all those affected simply take out loans but unfortunately banks don&#x27;t lend to people without an income nor to those who have recent delinquencies on their credit due to no income.<p>I feel very bad for these real people being affected by political showmanship.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47006907</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peteey</author><text>You are giving credit where it isn&#x27;t due. Are these loans conditional on a good credit score?</text><parent_chain><item><author>sremani</author><text>If you got to any bank website at least the ones I bank with, there is a flashing notice on the front page, if I were a federal worker who needs assistance due to shut down. I am sure, certain workers have easy ways than others but to say that at least some banks have not stepped up is incorrect.</text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>Bearing in mind that ~40% of american&#x27;s could not come up with $400 to cover emergencies, this is going to become more prevalent in the next few days &#x2F; weeks as people will simply not be able to afford gas to get to their unpaid work. I read an article today discussing how TSA workers in HI are living in their cars in the airport parking lot as they cannot afford to commute. The FBI just cancelled its internship program due to the shutdown.<p>An administration official recommended that all those affected simply take out loans but unfortunately banks don&#x27;t lend to people without an income nor to those who have recent delinquencies on their credit due to no income.<p>I feel very bad for these real people being affected by political showmanship.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47006907</url></story> |
18,277,392 | 18,276,971 | 1 | 3 | 18,273,305 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newnewpdro</author><text>I came very close to ordering this, as I still use an x61s for most of my hacking due to the ideal physical form factor and classic compact keyboard w&#x2F;trackpoint.<p>One major problem I have is the rather old SXGA+ screen used in the mod has a CCFL edgelight, and the last time I did an LED conversion on a modded SXGA+ x61s the visual results were not great - certainly nothing close to what is had on modern LED backlit displays.<p>The other issue is getting quality replacement batteries for these old thinkpads. Aftermarket ones tend to suck and OEM ones are either counterfeit or very old stock in my experience.<p>Furthermore, while this particular laptop strikes an exceptional balance of size&#x2F;weight and usability with a great keyboard, there are some singificant flaws in the chassis design. Every single x61s I&#x27;ve had (there have been many now) has cracked in two places through normal usage:<p>1. The left edge of the palm rest immediately adjacent to the near keyboard edge above the pccard slot. There is a stress riser there due to the unsupported palm rest flexing above the card slot cavity. It&#x27;s just a matter of time before it cracks from fatigue.<p>2. The top edge of the last CPU fan vent grill. The screen hinge is nearby and the cyclic strain of opening and closing the display eventually breaks the chassis at this thin spot - another stress riser caused by the CPU fan exhaust vent. Once the crack is formed, the area visibly deforms whenever moving the screen.<p>For the most part those chassis flaws seem to be largely cosmetic, but the crack near the hinge does seem to be allowing new and probably increasing levels of flex causing strain on other components which may fail later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lqet</author><text>Last year, I decided to build an X62 (Thinkpad X61 or X60 with custom hardware) after reading about it here [1]. Shipment of the modification kit (some plastic parts + a new mainboard) took 2 months from China to Germany. It took me a while to find a brand-new screen as a replacement for the original 1024x786 screen (which has to be modified, including some minor metal-working).<p>After roughly a year of heavy daily use, I must say that this is the best laptop I have owned in my life (including previous Thinkpads R60, T510 and and T460s). The size is just perfect. With the new hardware, it is incredibly light-weight. The 4:3 screen is something I have been missing for a long time on my laptops, and the classic Thinkpad keyboard is just a million times better than the new model. The quality of the original X61 chassis is also very good, and it looks just great.<p>Overall, the laptop cost me roughly 1000 EUR and around 20 hours of work. This includes 32 GB of RAM, a brand new 100 GB SSD and a brand new replacement screen I bought at Alibaba. I started with a broken X61 I bought for around 40 EUR on eBay, on which I replaced the new Lenovo &quot;ThinkPad&quot; logo with the original IBM ThinkPad logo that was still used on the X60.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geoff.greer.fm&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;thinkpad-x62&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geoff.greer.fm&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;thinkpad-x62&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How IBM’s ThinkPad Became a Design Icon (2017)</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90145427/how-ibms-thinkpad-became-a-design-icon</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>The one problem I have, rational or not, is just how worn out those laptops look over time. The plastic gets all shiny and worn down and the thing just starts looking greasy.<p>That&#x27;s probably the only thing I miss from my older macbook.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lqet</author><text>Last year, I decided to build an X62 (Thinkpad X61 or X60 with custom hardware) after reading about it here [1]. Shipment of the modification kit (some plastic parts + a new mainboard) took 2 months from China to Germany. It took me a while to find a brand-new screen as a replacement for the original 1024x786 screen (which has to be modified, including some minor metal-working).<p>After roughly a year of heavy daily use, I must say that this is the best laptop I have owned in my life (including previous Thinkpads R60, T510 and and T460s). The size is just perfect. With the new hardware, it is incredibly light-weight. The 4:3 screen is something I have been missing for a long time on my laptops, and the classic Thinkpad keyboard is just a million times better than the new model. The quality of the original X61 chassis is also very good, and it looks just great.<p>Overall, the laptop cost me roughly 1000 EUR and around 20 hours of work. This includes 32 GB of RAM, a brand new 100 GB SSD and a brand new replacement screen I bought at Alibaba. I started with a broken X61 I bought for around 40 EUR on eBay, on which I replaced the new Lenovo &quot;ThinkPad&quot; logo with the original IBM ThinkPad logo that was still used on the X60.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geoff.greer.fm&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;thinkpad-x62&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geoff.greer.fm&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;thinkpad-x62&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How IBM’s ThinkPad Became a Design Icon (2017)</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90145427/how-ibms-thinkpad-became-a-design-icon</url></story> |
16,350,983 | 16,350,947 | 1 | 2 | 16,344,571 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlexB138</author><text>I wrote this in response to someone asking about other Stoic writings who, in the interim, deleted their response, so I&#x27;ll post it as a stand-alone response:<p>I&#x27;m an avid reader of Stoic philosophy, to the point I would say it&#x27;s a central pillar of my life. I would strongly advocate anyone interested in Stoicism not read these recent texts first, or, if I&#x27;m honest, really at all. I get that they&#x27;re trying to making it approachable, but I feel that in an attempt to modernize the message they really lose most of it. One of the beautiful things about Stoicism is that the ancient philosophers were very mindful of speaking plainly, and their texts are extremely approachable. Epictetus&#x27; Enchiridion is very easy to parse and is packed full of very practical knowledge. It is one hundred percent the place to start. Following that, read Seneca&#x27;s letters to Lucilius, which are titled either Moral Letters to Lucilius or Letters from a Stoic. These are very straight forward teachings in very direct language.<p>Beyond that there&#x27;s a whole canon of writing. The only extant writing from Stoic philosophers are from Epictetus and Seneca. There are fragments from Musonius Rufus, and a small handful from the very ancients like Chrysippus and Zeno. There are writings about Stoicism by Marcus Aurelius, a very famous follower but not a teacher himself, and by Cicero, though he also wrote against the philosophy in other places. Marcus Aurelius&#x27; writings are very approachable and often recommended.<p>There are a few modern academic writings I would suggest to someone who has read the ancient sources, specifically the papers by A.A. Long. If you absolutely must have a modern book about the school, I&#x27;ll contradict my earlier statement and say that William B. Irvine&#x27;s A Guide to the Good Life is one exception.<p>I love Stoicism and am happy to talk about it at length. Anyone who is interested can feel free to contact me about it, my email is in my profile.<p>Ad fontes!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/study-death-always</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bkohlmann</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently started participating in Funeral Honors Details as a Navy Reservist.<p>We fold the flag, present it to the next of kin, play taps, and provide an honorable exit for anybody who has served.<p>It&#x27;s been the most meaningful part of my 14 years of military service - which included a combat deployment.<p>Simply walking through the cemetery before the service is profound. All that remains of a life time of stories is usually just a name and a date. It&#x27;s humbling to reflect that within 100 years (at the very very most), I too will be there...and some random stranger may come across my grave.<p>Death makes life all the more meaningful for me. Engaging with mourning families at least monthly helps me cherish my moments doing the things I love all the more.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/study-death-always</url></story> |
18,145,264 | 18,145,338 | 1 | 2 | 18,136,681 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taigeair</author><text>Rome2rio did a new version for 2016 in the same style, which is juxtaposed to the 1914 version to show how travel times have changed. It was big on Reddit a couple years ago:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3ztqqr&#x2F;a_2016_version_of_the_1914_isochronic_londonworld&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3ztqqr&#x2F;a_2...</a><p>Since Rome2rio had no interest in selling it, I licensed it and have it for sale on my website:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wellingtonstravel.com&#x2F;isochronic-map.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wellingtonstravel.com&#x2F;isochronic-map.html</a><p>I&#x27;d love to sell the original one too but couldn&#x27;t determine the copyright owner and get a high quality version of it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (2015)</title><url>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/What-travelling-was-like-100-years-ago/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mncharity</author><text>An isochronic map of the Roman Empire: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbis.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbis.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a> (path: &quot;About&quot; popup &gt; &quot;Gallery&quot;) Sigh.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (2015)</title><url>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/What-travelling-was-like-100-years-ago/</url></story> |
19,947,243 | 19,946,981 | 1 | 3 | 19,946,664 | 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>xoa</author><text>&gt;<i>I&#x27;m curious whether you feel the same way about windows, which kill hundreds of millions of birds each year.</i><p>I do feel the same way, which is why I take steps to remediate it on all of my windows duh. I put up screens on many windows year round (higher light pass through meshes like UltraVue make this much less of an impact on views vs older ones, and the tech could improve farther), ultraviolet decals&#x2F;solutions (also lower view impact, they look milky clear to humans but strongly reflect UV which most birds can see, though since they&#x27;re chemical they must be refreshed), golden spiderweb decals on some higher windows, etc. On new buildings thought can be put into materials, how the windows face vs light and surrounding environments, and so on as well. There are plenty of remediation steps available even for existing structures though and yes those steps should be taken.<p>You casting this as some zero-sum game is confusing regardless, because even if no steps were possible for windows rather then many, why the heck would you suggest that meant we shouldn&#x27;t encourage what action could be taken?</text><parent_chain><item><author>leetcrew</author><text>I&#x27;m curious whether you feel the same way about windows, which kill <i>hundreds</i> of millions of birds each year. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;national&#x2F;health-science&#x2F;stop-blaming-cats-as-many-as-988-million-birds-die-annually-in-window-collisions&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;9837fe80-8866-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;national&#x2F;health-science&#x2F;stop-...</a></text></item><item><author>ak39</author><text>This article and the pics of the dead birds broke my heart. :-(<p>I can’t understand any human not pausing to think twice and to find alternatives when faced with such horrendous death of innocent creatures. Yeah it’s cheap and efficient but it kills millions of birds. Find another way! I don’t want your fancy olives if you don’t care about what you’re doing to the birds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean</title><url>https://www.birdguides.com/news/millions-of-birds-vacuumed-to-death-annually-in-mediterranean/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dictum</author><text>I was fascinated when I learned that many universities have discussion groups within their Biology&#x2F;Natural Sciences&#x2F;Ornithology departments dedicated to identifying and cataloging dead birds, and most of their urban finds died from colliding with windows.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leetcrew</author><text>I&#x27;m curious whether you feel the same way about windows, which kill <i>hundreds</i> of millions of birds each year. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;national&#x2F;health-science&#x2F;stop-blaming-cats-as-many-as-988-million-birds-die-annually-in-window-collisions&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;03&#x2F;9837fe80-8866-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;national&#x2F;health-science&#x2F;stop-...</a></text></item><item><author>ak39</author><text>This article and the pics of the dead birds broke my heart. :-(<p>I can’t understand any human not pausing to think twice and to find alternatives when faced with such horrendous death of innocent creatures. Yeah it’s cheap and efficient but it kills millions of birds. Find another way! I don’t want your fancy olives if you don’t care about what you’re doing to the birds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean</title><url>https://www.birdguides.com/news/millions-of-birds-vacuumed-to-death-annually-in-mediterranean/</url></story> |
6,274,498 | 6,274,253 | 1 | 3 | 6,273,692 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavpanchekha</author><text>It is written to a prior version of the Common Lisp standard, and with a very old-fashioned style. You&#x27;ll see calls like (REPLACA pair val) instead of (SETF (CAR pair) val) and so on. That will irk you if you are a Common Lisp hacker already. If you&#x27;re not, just keep in mind that good CL style results in somewhat prettier code than that in On Lisp.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yonaguska</author><text>I&#x27;ve been meaning to read this for quite some time, but I&#x27;ve been told that the idioms and coding style is outdated, or not very good. This isn&#x27;t going to stop me, but I&#x27;d like to know from some experienced lispers what problems I might encounter. Especially as I&#x27;m pretty inexperienced myself. I definitely won&#x27;t know what to look for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Lisp</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.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>nonrecursive</author><text>The book uses common lisp, so you&#x27;ll need to know how to read that. Otherwise I think you should be fine. It&#x27;s not a book about idioms or coding styles, but about thinking in lisp. If the code examples are confusing, it&#x27;ll be because you&#x27;re not sure what something means in common lisp or because you&#x27;re learning new ideas, not because the code is poorly written. So, if you treat it as a book of ideas as opposed to &quot;teach yourself x language in 24 hours&quot;, you should be OK :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>yonaguska</author><text>I&#x27;ve been meaning to read this for quite some time, but I&#x27;ve been told that the idioms and coding style is outdated, or not very good. This isn&#x27;t going to stop me, but I&#x27;d like to know from some experienced lispers what problems I might encounter. Especially as I&#x27;m pretty inexperienced myself. I definitely won&#x27;t know what to look for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Lisp</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html</url></story> |
16,213,033 | 16,212,488 | 1 | 3 | 16,208,832 | 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>TulliusCicero</author><text>Even in big cities American urban design tends to strongly favor cars and ignore pedestrians. Here in Germany, any decent sized intersection will have pedestrian islands, often multiple islands just for a single side. In the states, these are relatively uncommon.<p>Or look at where the stoplights are. In Germany, they&#x27;re set back such that it&#x27;s impossible for a driver to go into the crosswalk and still see the light. This naturally encourages drivers to respect the crosswalk. Not so in the US, unfortunately.<p>I could go on and on, but really almost all American streets are hostile to anything that&#x27;s not a car.</text><parent_chain><item><author>avs733</author><text>I, and several of my friends when I used to live in Phoenix, were big walkers. Its evening? go for a walk around the neighborhood. Walk to work, even though it was like 1.5 miles...just...walk.<p>Each of us were stopped at least once by police for being suspicious...near as I can tell (we were all &gt;middle class white people) all that was suspicious was us walking on sidewalks. Outside of the biggest cities America is actively antagonistic towards walkers. My sincere belief is because of the assumption that they are poor and should be judged.</text></item><item><author>virmundi</author><text>Out of curiosity, why give up your license? It&#x27;s a great ID. You don&#x27;t have to use it. I know plenty of people with licenses to carry concealed, but don&#x27;t.<p>To you point about car dependence, not using one is humiliating, at least for me. I live about .25 miles from my office. I walk daily to and from (twice). I feel, and have seen, people look at me like I&#x27;m poor. It is a foreign concept to many that walking or biking might be better (especially in Florida where on those rare 30 degrees nights, me, a Hoosier, is right at home, but right now it&#x27;s a balmy 68).</text></item><item><author>dundercoder</author><text>I’m 36, live in the suburbs, and in recent years have gone (legally) blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa. Voluntarily giving up my license was one of the hardest and most important decisions I’ve made. There is literally 0 public transportation here. Not even Uber or Lyft have come around.<p>America’s sprawl and dependence on cars is incredible. It wasn’t until I spent time in London, Oxford, and Paris that I could recognize how much everything here is built around the idea of owning a car.<p>So now my wife has to give rides to our four kids, AND me, and there’s literally nothing I can do about it except petition for better transit, and pray self-driving cars get here faster.<p>Being dependent on rides feels like being 15 again. It’s humiliating being picked up from a job interview in a parking lot with 200+ cars.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/6/12/8768827/seniors-aging-car-driving</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crottypeter</author><text>This is very telling<p>even though it was like 1.5 miles...<p>It should be the other way round &quot;People drive to stuff, even though it&#x27;s only 1.5 miles&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>avs733</author><text>I, and several of my friends when I used to live in Phoenix, were big walkers. Its evening? go for a walk around the neighborhood. Walk to work, even though it was like 1.5 miles...just...walk.<p>Each of us were stopped at least once by police for being suspicious...near as I can tell (we were all &gt;middle class white people) all that was suspicious was us walking on sidewalks. Outside of the biggest cities America is actively antagonistic towards walkers. My sincere belief is because of the assumption that they are poor and should be judged.</text></item><item><author>virmundi</author><text>Out of curiosity, why give up your license? It&#x27;s a great ID. You don&#x27;t have to use it. I know plenty of people with licenses to carry concealed, but don&#x27;t.<p>To you point about car dependence, not using one is humiliating, at least for me. I live about .25 miles from my office. I walk daily to and from (twice). I feel, and have seen, people look at me like I&#x27;m poor. It is a foreign concept to many that walking or biking might be better (especially in Florida where on those rare 30 degrees nights, me, a Hoosier, is right at home, but right now it&#x27;s a balmy 68).</text></item><item><author>dundercoder</author><text>I’m 36, live in the suburbs, and in recent years have gone (legally) blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa. Voluntarily giving up my license was one of the hardest and most important decisions I’ve made. There is literally 0 public transportation here. Not even Uber or Lyft have come around.<p>America’s sprawl and dependence on cars is incredible. It wasn’t until I spent time in London, Oxford, and Paris that I could recognize how much everything here is built around the idea of owning a car.<p>So now my wife has to give rides to our four kids, AND me, and there’s literally nothing I can do about it except petition for better transit, and pray self-driving cars get here faster.<p>Being dependent on rides feels like being 15 again. It’s humiliating being picked up from a job interview in a parking lot with 200+ cars.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/6/12/8768827/seniors-aging-car-driving</url></story> |
38,883,818 | 38,883,946 | 1 | 2 | 38,883,213 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddek</author><text>German trains wishing to enter Switzerland need to wait at the border so the DB’s, err, _erratic_ scheduling doesn’t perturb the much more rigorous Swiss system.<p>My experience of German trains is one train arriving on time, to find my connection is delayed, but actually leaving earlier because the same train 1h before was 54 minutes late and I could get that instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eigenket</author><text>In my opinion the main &quot;low hanging fruit&quot; Europe has with trains are international birders, especially if they&#x27;re trying to compete with flying.<p>Trains in Poland work great, trains in Germany work pretty well but every train I&#x27;ve taken between Poland and Germany has been delayed. The standard thing is that while you&#x27;re in Poland they claim the delay is because of previous delays in Germany and while you&#x27;re in Germany they blame delays from Poland.<p>If you&#x27;re trying to do something more advanced like get across Germany to Belgium or France &amp; eventually the UK the it gets quite annoying.</text></item><item><author>k__</author><text>Trains are pretty awesome, especially in small Europe. Flying always comes with security hassle. A train is just: get in&#x2F;get out.<p>If Europe would just spent more money on infrastructure.<p>We have trains in Germany that can do 350km&#x2F;h but I&#x27;ve yet to ride one that goes faster than 200, probably because the rails aren&#x27;t what they&#x27;re used to be.<p>Then we have the Germany Ticket. A 50€&#x2F;month subscription to all regional trains (not the fast ones). Which removes the hassle of dealing with local subway and bus companies.<p>But the trains are often late, which sucks, especially if you want to ride in the evening.<p>If Europe could get on Japan&#x27;s level, that would be a dream.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/travel/europe-new-trains.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>enaaem</author><text>Just built a separate international network, with its own separate system and tracks. The way Japan handles complexity is through redundancy. Japan runs both really old trains, hyper modern high speed rail and everything in between. Each system runs on separate tracks, are from different companies, and are not interconnected.<p>This can be a lesson on how to run complex systems in general.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eigenket</author><text>In my opinion the main &quot;low hanging fruit&quot; Europe has with trains are international birders, especially if they&#x27;re trying to compete with flying.<p>Trains in Poland work great, trains in Germany work pretty well but every train I&#x27;ve taken between Poland and Germany has been delayed. The standard thing is that while you&#x27;re in Poland they claim the delay is because of previous delays in Germany and while you&#x27;re in Germany they blame delays from Poland.<p>If you&#x27;re trying to do something more advanced like get across Germany to Belgium or France &amp; eventually the UK the it gets quite annoying.</text></item><item><author>k__</author><text>Trains are pretty awesome, especially in small Europe. Flying always comes with security hassle. A train is just: get in&#x2F;get out.<p>If Europe would just spent more money on infrastructure.<p>We have trains in Germany that can do 350km&#x2F;h but I&#x27;ve yet to ride one that goes faster than 200, probably because the rails aren&#x27;t what they&#x27;re used to be.<p>Then we have the Germany Ticket. A 50€&#x2F;month subscription to all regional trains (not the fast ones). Which removes the hassle of dealing with local subway and bus companies.<p>But the trains are often late, which sucks, especially if you want to ride in the evening.<p>If Europe could get on Japan&#x27;s level, that would be a dream.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/travel/europe-new-trains.html</url></story> |
19,645,263 | 19,645,326 | 1 | 3 | 19,644,967 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>Frankly, I hope YouTube (and Google in general) dramatically overdo it with the censorship, &quot;curation&quot;, and deplatforming of &quot;irresponsible&quot; content, purely so that it forces an independent, non-corporate model to be developed.<p>Having one company be the sole gatekeeper for the overwhelming majority of the web&#x27;s video content is <i>not</i> a solution.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/to-answer-critics-youtube-tries-a-new-metric-responsibility</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>legohead</author><text>These companies focusing so much on algorithms, when the best solution is to simply use actual humans.<p>I&#x27;ve done a fair amount of work on trying to detect and deal with spammers, fraudulent activity and such. <i>Nothing</i> beats a human eye.<p>My most successful approach has been to filter out the super obvious stuff, then send the rest to a queue that is kept an eye on by humans. A small staff can easily fight back against bullshit. Yes, YouTube is orders of magnitude above what I&#x27;ve dealt with, but I&#x27;m sure their smart engineers can filter out the majority of stuff.<p>It&#x27;s painfully obvious that YouTube lacks human eyes on things. That, or they lack direction and empowerment of their employees.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/to-answer-critics-youtube-tries-a-new-metric-responsibility</url></story> |
11,225,994 | 11,225,977 | 1 | 3 | 11,224,381 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>Don&#x27;t overthink it. Have water available at your desk. When it&#x27;s empty, refill it.<p>Make it easy to drink automatically. Your body knows when it feels like having a sip, if that doesn&#x27;t involve breaking your mental flow, you will have the sip. Simple as that.<p>There&#x27;s a world of difference between being dehydrated and a bit thirsty. Try going to the beach for a day and forgetting to bring any water. You&#x27;ll know the difference in a few hours.<p>The fun part is that you&#x27;ll feel tired all day and all of next day too. I&#x27;ve done this way too often in various combinations (roadtrips, plane flights, marathon runs, surfing and forgetting to bring water, etc.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>Is there solid research around water intake? Are there clear thresholds for the amount of water to experience the health benefits? Is 8 cups a day backed up by any research? What exactly are the health benefits?<p>I&#x27;ve always thought that my body should be able to tell me when it needs more water and I shouldn&#x27;t need to force down extra water.</text></item><item><author>chishaku</author><text>Get good sleep and drink water.<p>Two of the simplest pieces of advice that can go a really long way for your mental and physical health.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Poor Sleep Gives You the Munchies, Study Says</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/science/sleep-eating-craving-food.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=4&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F03%2F05%2Fscience%2Fsleep-eating-craving-food.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>rmcpherson</author><text>You&#x27;re right. No research has shown that, for otherwise healthy people, drinking water beyond what your body tells you to drink has any health effects. Hydration also does not have to come from water to be effective. The 8 cups a day rule is a myth. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;no-you-do-not-have-to-drink-8-glasses-of-water-a-day.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;no-you-do-not-have-...</a>, links to research in the article)</text><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>Is there solid research around water intake? Are there clear thresholds for the amount of water to experience the health benefits? Is 8 cups a day backed up by any research? What exactly are the health benefits?<p>I&#x27;ve always thought that my body should be able to tell me when it needs more water and I shouldn&#x27;t need to force down extra water.</text></item><item><author>chishaku</author><text>Get good sleep and drink water.<p>Two of the simplest pieces of advice that can go a really long way for your mental and physical health.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Poor Sleep Gives You the Munchies, Study Says</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/science/sleep-eating-craving-food.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=4&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F03%2F05%2Fscience%2Fsleep-eating-craving-food.html&eventName=Watching-article-click</url></story> |
2,145,845 | 2,145,826 | 1 | 2 | 2,145,649 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Aren't there plenty of sexual terms that are already "censored" in the instant suggestions database? That hasn't affected anything so I doubt this will have any large scale impact on file sharing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dholowiski</author><text>It should be noted that despite the headline - Google is not censoring any search terms. They're just not allowing certain words in the search auto-complete. A controversial move to be sure, but something they've done with other words since the introduction of search auto complete</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-censoring-bittorrent-rapidshare-and-more-110126/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&utm_content=Google+Reader</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>Once upon a time, a frog lived in a pool of water. One day, the water began to slowly grow hot…</text><parent_chain><item><author>dholowiski</author><text>It should be noted that despite the headline - Google is not censoring any search terms. They're just not allowing certain words in the search auto-complete. A controversial move to be sure, but something they've done with other words since the introduction of search auto complete</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-censoring-bittorrent-rapidshare-and-more-110126/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&utm_content=Google+Reader</url></story> |
20,714,293 | 20,714,381 | 1 | 2 | 20,710,467 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>Also known as Chesterton’s Fence: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>Next installment: how flipping an innocuous switch introduced a subtle bug that was silent for years and cost us millions.<p>You can’t just flip that switch, run <i>”a client to post the JSON to that instance”</i>, see that test <i>“worked just fine”</i>, and call it a day.<p>The POST might just store it, for later processing to wreak havoc (say by ignoring a value that isn’t in the expected place in the JSON), or only rarely seen JSONs might cause problems, or it might ‘only’ break the yearly run, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Order of the JSON</title><url>https://blog.almaer.com/the-order-of-the-json/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dtech</author><text>How do you justify ever changing anything with that attitude?<p>This change made parsing more lenient which is generally considered fine [1] and made the software actually follow the spec, since it specifies object entries are unordered.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robustness_principle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robustness_principle</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>Next installment: how flipping an innocuous switch introduced a subtle bug that was silent for years and cost us millions.<p>You can’t just flip that switch, run <i>”a client to post the JSON to that instance”</i>, see that test <i>“worked just fine”</i>, and call it a day.<p>The POST might just store it, for later processing to wreak havoc (say by ignoring a value that isn’t in the expected place in the JSON), or only rarely seen JSONs might cause problems, or it might ‘only’ break the yearly run, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Order of the JSON</title><url>https://blog.almaer.com/the-order-of-the-json/</url></story> |
15,148,614 | 15,148,565 | 1 | 2 | 15,147,606 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>numbsafari</author><text>The job of a mentor is often simply to listen, and to help the mentee hold themselves accountable.<p>If you&#x27;ve been successful in your career, in spite of what you perceive as personal limitations, I bet you have the humility to be a good listener and an empathetic motivator.<p>Honestly, if you look at most professional mentors and coaches, especially in sports, they aren&#x27;t &quot;the best&quot; in their field. They are people who know enough to understand the problems and life experiences people in that field face and are networked in the field and able to help connect folks with each other.<p>Take a look at the GROW model for a good approach to working with mentees in fields you don&#x27;t consider yourself to be an expert in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shubb</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t feel confident to mentor anyone on anything. I&#x27;d feel like a total fraud.<p>This can&#x27;t be uncommon.<p>When I was a developer, I either felt like what I was doing could be done by a smart highschooler (probably better than I was doing it) because it was straight forward, or like I was figuring things out as I went along (because it was hard).<p>Now I do less development and more business analysis &#x2F; architecture, I feel like I&#x27;m talking to a lot of far smarter people, and probably look smarter than I am because I&#x27;m echoing better informed peoples opinions back and forth.<p>All I could advise someone starting out in tech is to remember that no one really knows what they are doing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?</title><text>Do you do any mentoring outside of work? If so, how did you get started?</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>woodrowbarlow</author><text>of course it isn&#x27;t uncommon. in fact, it&#x27;s so common it has a name: imposter syndrome. mentoring is probably a good way to kick that self-doubt, because it will make you realize how much you have to offer.<p>if you&#x27;re happy in your new role, good for you! but to any developers experiencing imposter syndrome: there will always be people who seem smarter than you, and there will (hopefully!) always be jobs that are a struggle. it doesn&#x27;t mean you&#x27;re a fraud. use them both as resources to become one of those people who seem smarter than you. then find new people who seem smarter than you and repeat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shubb</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t feel confident to mentor anyone on anything. I&#x27;d feel like a total fraud.<p>This can&#x27;t be uncommon.<p>When I was a developer, I either felt like what I was doing could be done by a smart highschooler (probably better than I was doing it) because it was straight forward, or like I was figuring things out as I went along (because it was hard).<p>Now I do less development and more business analysis &#x2F; architecture, I feel like I&#x27;m talking to a lot of far smarter people, and probably look smarter than I am because I&#x27;m echoing better informed peoples opinions back and forth.<p>All I could advise someone starting out in tech is to remember that no one really knows what they are doing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?</title><text>Do you do any mentoring outside of work? If so, how did you get started?</text></story> |
38,434,477 | 38,432,300 | 1 | 2 | 38,430,974 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crowcroft</author><text>When it comes to consultancies&#x2F;agencies this is basically put forward as a feature, not a bug. If you&#x27;re doing a multi million dollar project of course you would want to bring in &#x27;experts&#x27; with &#x27;prior experience in the problem space&#x27;.<p>My experience of it is in advertising, look at something like GroupM. They intentionally make a set of agencies to act as different front doors into the group so they can make it look like there are no conflicts of interest. Then once work comes in the door it all gets serviced by the same shared resources. The &#x27;front door&#x27; agencies of course promote as a centre of excellence with deep expertise etc. but you really don&#x27;t need to read between the lines very much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>srvmshr</author><text>Without sounding controversial and having peers in Infosys&#x2F;TCS since college days, I can attest that leaking design &amp; implementation decisions between projects is very common in consultancies. I have personally privy to one such story where choices made in one healthcare giant&#x27;s systems were &quot;modified&#x2F;adapted&quot; to another. IP issues galore, these should be red flags but sneak under the radar being a consultancy</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/24/tata_210m_code_theft/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neuronic</author><text>To contextualize this, in my experience this doesn&#x27;t happen as a result of some malicious conspiracy but rather as a natural outcome of working with various projects and exchanging with colleagues in various projects.<p>For the consultancy it boils down to not reinventing the wheel, learning from others and sharing knowledge about what works and what doesn&#x27;t. Typically, what is shared are anonymized generic design or cases and not actual code or design files though.<p>Of course what is knowledge sharing and efficiency for consultants might simply boil down to IP theft for the affected companies. My question is rather how much of it is natural human social interaction and collaboration if you put dozens of people from dozens of projects into one room talking about a similar problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>srvmshr</author><text>Without sounding controversial and having peers in Infosys&#x2F;TCS since college days, I can attest that leaking design &amp; implementation decisions between projects is very common in consultancies. I have personally privy to one such story where choices made in one healthcare giant&#x27;s systems were &quot;modified&#x2F;adapted&quot; to another. IP issues galore, these should be red flags but sneak under the radar being a consultancy</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/24/tata_210m_code_theft/</url></story> |
15,973,057 | 15,973,028 | 1 | 2 | 15,972,593 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcrites</author><text>&gt; Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn?<p>Not always. Some abstractions are designed to make it easier to solve hard problems correctly (than without the abstraction).<p>For example, consider Rust&#x27;s memory model. Many people criticize that model as difficult to learn. By comparison, you might argue that C&#x27;s memory model is simpler to learn. Yet, the C approach to allocating, using, and freeing memory is highly error-prone. C programs historically have frequently had mistakes such as use-after-free errors, or buffer under&#x2F;overflow&#x2F;reuse errors. The high-profile OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability was an example of a weakness in C&#x27;s memory model and memory handling abstractions [1].<p>Rust&#x27;s memory model may be more difficult to learn than C&#x27;s, but once learned, they are abstractions that provide an advantage in building correct software, by ruling out certain classes of mistakes. (GC in languages like C# and Java and Go can also prevent these mistakes, but comes with a runtime cost. Rust aims to provide zero-cost abstractions.)<p>Building correct async IO programs using kernel abstractions is difficult for similar reasons as it&#x27;s difficult to write correct programs with C&#x27;s memory model. It&#x27;s especially difficult if you want the async IO program to be portable across multiple OS&#x2F;kernels. I have not used Tokio, but I would guess that its Rust-powered abstractions will make it difficult or impossible to leak memory or sockets, or to fail to handle error cases that might arise handling async IO.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartbleed-bug.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartble...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kindfellow92</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, Tokio is notoriously difficult to learn due to its sophisticated abstractions.<p>Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn? Something about the idea of “complex abstractions” seems wrong.<p>(Edit: this is not a criticism of Tokio, it’s a criticism of the OP’s characterization of “sophisticated abstractions” which IMO should reduce complexity)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's async I/O framework</title><url>https://cafbit.com/post/tokio_internals/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tatterdemalion</author><text>There are various criticisms of tokio, coming from different directions. Some have to do with the fact that some abstractions in the futures ecosystem are leaky today and that makes them less easy to use than they could be (though they won&#x27;t always be leaky[]). But others have to do with understanding the internal implementation of these abstractions - people who feel they must understand how their library works internally before using it.<p>Of course, schedulers are just complicated. Most of the time you don&#x27;t think about how complicated your scheduler is, because its either an OS primitive in the kernel or a language primitive in your language&#x27;s runtime. But since tokio is a library - and modular - it gets criticism for being complex that in my opinion is unfair.<p>[] To be more concrete: a future is essentially a state machine representing the stack state at any yield point; it can&#x27;t (currently) contain lightweight references into itself because they&#x27;d be invalidated when the future is move around. This means using borrowing in futures programs is often infeasible today. Solutions are in the works.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kindfellow92</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, Tokio is notoriously difficult to learn due to its sophisticated abstractions.<p>Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn? Something about the idea of “complex abstractions” seems wrong.<p>(Edit: this is not a criticism of Tokio, it’s a criticism of the OP’s characterization of “sophisticated abstractions” which IMO should reduce complexity)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's async I/O framework</title><url>https://cafbit.com/post/tokio_internals/</url></story> |
16,731,393 | 16,731,360 | 1 | 2 | 16,727,568 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>femto</author><text>In the physical world there&#x27;s no such thing as a system with preconditions that can &quot;work perfectly&quot;. There will always be a boundary region where is is hard to say whether the precondition is present and the system is unpredictable.<p>What we really mean when we say a system is reliable&#x2F;perfect is that the conditions which can cause failure are so rare that they can be neglected. Any system that depends on things that are inside normal experience: rain, day&#x2F;night, errant pedestrians, earthquakes, and so on can never be trusted to act reliably&#x2F;perfectly. A &quot;reliable&quot; system might be excused for messing up under conditions such as meteor strikes or falling space stations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stale2002</author><text>Well, so level 3 can be safe under certain conditions and still be world changing.<p>For example, imagine a self driving truck that works perfectly, but only during the day, on highways, when it is not raining.<p>Such a system would still put millions out of work, as firing half of the truck drivers is possible if something works when it is sunny, on the highway.</text></item><item><author>snaily</author><text>Also known as the &quot;Level 3 is inherently unsafe&quot; argument. Waymo noticed this back in 2012: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;driverless.wonderhowto.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;waymo-was-right-why-every-car-maker-should-skip-level-3-0178497&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;driverless.wonderhowto.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;waymo-was-right-why-...</a></text></item><item><author>twblalock</author><text>This isn&#x27;t just about Uber -- all semi-autonomous cars are going to have this problem. The people behind the wheel will become distracted, increasingly so as the technology becomes better and they need to intervene less and less often. Even people who are trained to pay attention while testing self-driving cars become distracted, so we can assume the general public will become distracted too.<p>The only viable autonomous cars are ones that will never require human intervention, because humans aren&#x27;t able to intervene effectively and may make situations worse as they snap out of a distracted state. But we can&#x27;t get to full autonomy without first testing the technology, and no artificial test conditions could replicate the complexity of the real world. Society will either learn to accept some avoidable deaths during the testing phase or will ban the technology. I suspect a few more incidents will result in a ban, and we will not have fully autonomous cars for a very long time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Uber Backup Driver: 'We Saw This Coming'</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/03/former-uber-backup-driver-we-saw-this-coming/556427/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>Truck drivers do a lot more than just drive trucks: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;will-truckers-automated-comments.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;wil...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>stale2002</author><text>Well, so level 3 can be safe under certain conditions and still be world changing.<p>For example, imagine a self driving truck that works perfectly, but only during the day, on highways, when it is not raining.<p>Such a system would still put millions out of work, as firing half of the truck drivers is possible if something works when it is sunny, on the highway.</text></item><item><author>snaily</author><text>Also known as the &quot;Level 3 is inherently unsafe&quot; argument. Waymo noticed this back in 2012: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;driverless.wonderhowto.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;waymo-was-right-why-every-car-maker-should-skip-level-3-0178497&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;driverless.wonderhowto.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;waymo-was-right-why-...</a></text></item><item><author>twblalock</author><text>This isn&#x27;t just about Uber -- all semi-autonomous cars are going to have this problem. The people behind the wheel will become distracted, increasingly so as the technology becomes better and they need to intervene less and less often. Even people who are trained to pay attention while testing self-driving cars become distracted, so we can assume the general public will become distracted too.<p>The only viable autonomous cars are ones that will never require human intervention, because humans aren&#x27;t able to intervene effectively and may make situations worse as they snap out of a distracted state. But we can&#x27;t get to full autonomy without first testing the technology, and no artificial test conditions could replicate the complexity of the real world. Society will either learn to accept some avoidable deaths during the testing phase or will ban the technology. I suspect a few more incidents will result in a ban, and we will not have fully autonomous cars for a very long time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Uber Backup Driver: 'We Saw This Coming'</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/03/former-uber-backup-driver-we-saw-this-coming/556427/</url></story> |
31,541,956 | 31,541,612 | 1 | 2 | 31,538,482 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cassepipe</author><text>It gets much better when you disable search suggestions then you only have results from your browsing history&#x2F;bookmarks. And in the end if you get no results you just launch a search anyways.<p>There was a way to configure the relative weight of boomarks&#x2F;history but I can&#x27;t find it anymore.<p>Also worthy of notice, if you start with * in the search bar you only get bookmarks results and with ^ you get history results. Finally % is for tabs (on synced devices too) !</text><parent_chain><item><author>cdrini</author><text>One unique Firefox feature I love that I don&#x27;t see talked about often is how awesome Firefox&#x27;s address bar suggestions are. I can type just a snippet of a URL or a web page title and it&#x27;ll instantly show me all matching URLs I&#x27;ve visited, whether on my desktop or on my phone. It&#x27;s become my primary second brain for finding Google docs, or articles I&#x27;ve read, or GitHub issues. It&#x27;s usually only a few characters before it finds exactly what I want.<p>Eg I type in &quot;Ed&quot;? It shows the URL to my &quot;editions in solr&quot; GitHub issues I&#x27;ve been working on recently. I vaguely recall an article I read months ago on CSS grid? I type &quot;grid guide&quot; and bam it&#x27;s the first suggestion. The spreadsheet I made about user languages? &quot;sheets lang&quot;. That vague API I can never remember the parameters to? Just type &quot;&#x2F;query.json?&quot; And I get all my previous requests as examples!<p>I find Chrome&#x27;s address bar has been way less reliable and much more frequently just gives me Google autocomplete suggestions -- even when I know that I visited a URL recently that should match!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/704687/8-reasons-to-ditch-chrome-and-switch-to-firefox.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>throw10920</author><text>To add to this, my experience has been that Chrome&#x27;s address bar does only matching on whole &quot;fragments&quot; of URLs - that is, if I visited a URL with &#x2F;foobarbaz&#x2F; in the name, Firefox will match that with &quot;bar&quot; while Chrome won&#x27;t - which is pretty terrible behavior.<p>And then there&#x27;s the bookmarks mess, lack of tree-style tabs, and crippled ad-blocker API.<p>As an <i>information management tool</i>, Firefox is light-years ahead of Chrome.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cdrini</author><text>One unique Firefox feature I love that I don&#x27;t see talked about often is how awesome Firefox&#x27;s address bar suggestions are. I can type just a snippet of a URL or a web page title and it&#x27;ll instantly show me all matching URLs I&#x27;ve visited, whether on my desktop or on my phone. It&#x27;s become my primary second brain for finding Google docs, or articles I&#x27;ve read, or GitHub issues. It&#x27;s usually only a few characters before it finds exactly what I want.<p>Eg I type in &quot;Ed&quot;? It shows the URL to my &quot;editions in solr&quot; GitHub issues I&#x27;ve been working on recently. I vaguely recall an article I read months ago on CSS grid? I type &quot;grid guide&quot; and bam it&#x27;s the first suggestion. The spreadsheet I made about user languages? &quot;sheets lang&quot;. That vague API I can never remember the parameters to? Just type &quot;&#x2F;query.json?&quot; And I get all my previous requests as examples!<p>I find Chrome&#x27;s address bar has been way less reliable and much more frequently just gives me Google autocomplete suggestions -- even when I know that I visited a URL recently that should match!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/704687/8-reasons-to-ditch-chrome-and-switch-to-firefox.html</url></story> |
24,281,795 | 24,281,803 | 1 | 3 | 24,281,195 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rzwitserloot</author><text>That should itself be rather telling. TDD is extremely well known, in my experience. I bet if I stuck a microphone under the nose of random passersby at any development convention [1], 90%+ will be able to tell me what &#x27;TDD&#x27; is short for, and even if they don&#x27;t, they&#x27;ll have heard of the concept at least. Hell, I bet most would tell me they &#x27;aspire to do it&#x27;.<p>And yet, more or less nobody does.<p>So either it is next to impossible to begin doing it (seems like a bizarre conclusion), or, perhaps more likely, nobody wants to do it, and the few dev teams that do manage to do this have not managed to turn that into a competitive advantage. Which makes the value of TDD rather questionable based on simple evidence.<p>To explain this observed behaviour that TDD is clearly not a competitive advantage[2], I can name a million pet theories. But without going into any of those, the sheer fact that it&#x27;s __this__ rare in practice says a lot, no?<p>[1] I mostly go to java related ones, maybe it&#x27;s less well known amongst other communities.<p>[2] What other explanation is there? Clearly not &#x27;ah, but, TDD is brand new and you have to give it some time for teams to get familiar with it, and for the concept to percolate through, maybe wait for tooling support to catch up&#x27; - TDD&#x27;s quite an old concept!</text><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Sadly, in this day and age of development and the need to constantly ship things, TDD has been dead for a long time. In my 12 year career, I have heard lots of people talk about test-driven development, but I&#x27;ve never seen it in a workplace (at least none I&#x27;ve worked at).<p>On my own personal projects I have dabbled with TDD and I&#x27;ve seen the benefits it can provide, but it does make even simple programming tasks take a lot longer. Sadly, companies these days (especially during the pandemic) can no longer afford the luxury of development taking longer, even if it does mean the end result will most likely be cleaner and have less bugs. The company I work for see shipping potentially buggy code and fixing it as bugs are reported as an acceptable development practice.<p>With the advent of automated builds and deployment processes, it is way too easy to quickly ship code and roll back bad releases or push out emergency patches. Things don&#x27;t have to be perfect the first or second time around. The optics to non-technical executives seeing code go out and features released are a lot better than seeing things take longer to develop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is TDD Dead? (2014)</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ceedan</author><text>I treat it like a tool. I use TDD when I encounter a problem that is complex enough that I cannot consider or remember all of the possible inputs&#x2F;outputs during development. Getting all of those dumped into a test is the best way to reduce cognitive load.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Sadly, in this day and age of development and the need to constantly ship things, TDD has been dead for a long time. In my 12 year career, I have heard lots of people talk about test-driven development, but I&#x27;ve never seen it in a workplace (at least none I&#x27;ve worked at).<p>On my own personal projects I have dabbled with TDD and I&#x27;ve seen the benefits it can provide, but it does make even simple programming tasks take a lot longer. Sadly, companies these days (especially during the pandemic) can no longer afford the luxury of development taking longer, even if it does mean the end result will most likely be cleaner and have less bugs. The company I work for see shipping potentially buggy code and fixing it as bugs are reported as an acceptable development practice.<p>With the advent of automated builds and deployment processes, it is way too easy to quickly ship code and roll back bad releases or push out emergency patches. Things don&#x27;t have to be perfect the first or second time around. The optics to non-technical executives seeing code go out and features released are a lot better than seeing things take longer to develop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is TDD Dead? (2014)</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/</url></story> |
41,560,262 | 41,560,318 | 1 | 3 | 41,558,554 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mykowebhn</author><text>Yours is a heartfelt, sincere take on a successful 21st century career in tech, but I feel it is so one-sided.<p>Yes, you seem to have benefitted greatly, but your examples of efficiency and availability are flawed. For example:<p>&quot;apps on phones that can know my tastes and preferences&quot;: I don&#x27;t see any benefits. When Youtube recommends for the billionth time a stupid soccer short because I previously watched one soccer short, I want to scream. Also, privacy or lack thereof.<p>&quot;hailing a cab virtually&quot;: made possible due to full-time workers who have none of the benefits of full-time workers, in other words, exploitation.<p>&quot;a bonkers level of selection of goods to all consumers&quot;: One word that encapsulates the other side of your &quot;bonkers level of selection&quot;--Temu.<p>&quot;low friction same-day delivery&quot;: Made possible due to our reliance on fossil fuels<p>&quot;far greater access to online services including education and financing&quot;: I&#x27;m not sure about the financing part. Education? Yeah, if I want to learn about something like video-editing. But I could&#x27;ve bought a book on that in the past and probably learned it much more in depth. If I wanted to learn something like German Idealism, not so much.<p>I think your pocket book has benefitted immensely, but all of the other benefits don&#x27;t seem like benefits to me on a macro level. But kudos to you for doing so well and believing the world partakes in your good fortune.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colmmacc</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked at Amazon (and AWS) for over 16 years and have made many friends, and it&#x27;s how I met my wife. What&#x27;s always kept me here is that it&#x27;s been fun the whole time, with meaningful problems and opportunities that move the needle for so many customers.<p>So many modern experiences that are built into our improved quality of lives; apps on phones that can know my tastes and preferences, hailing a cab virtually, a bonkers level of selection of goods to all consumers, low friction same-day delivery, far greater access to online services including education and financing, just wouldn&#x27;t exist (or at least not as quickly) if weren&#x27;t able to cut down so many old-school structures and replace them with much more efficient and available alternatives. Getting to create a transformation in digital infrastructure and logistics at that level is just nuts. And there&#x27;s still plenty to do. The money is great too; a far better result for me financially than the startups I worked at.<p>But all that said; Amazon isn&#x27;t for everyone. It&#x27;s probably not for most people. I don&#x27;t mean that in the &quot;Amazon only hires the best&quot; sense. That&#x27;s true, but so do the other big tech companies. It&#x27;s more that you have to be a particular combination of driven and outcome focused with a relentless tolerance or even insatiable need for urgency, hard work, and trade-offs.<p>If that resonated, and you have an opportunity to join Amazon towards the middle or advanced stages of your career; definitely try to do it. I interviewed several times at Amazon to get in. But if you are at the earlier stages of your career; choose your team and manager very carefully and care a bit less about the company you join. That will make a bigger difference.</text></item><item><author>pknomad</author><text>Genuine question for the folks over at Amazon:
What is the value of working at Amazon (or even just AWS) these days? Every now and then I get a ring from a recruiter gauging my interest and sometimes I get the itch to just to go through the process so that I can have a FAANG in my resume.<p>I&#x27;ve heard from others that Amazon could be an amazing place to work, citing fantastic colleagues and work opportunities. But then again, Amazon doesn&#x27;t claim monopoly on those and one has to assume the risk of working for a place that churns people out and has upper-level management that are hostile to IC&#x27;s needs&#x2F;wants.<p>Perhaps a better question is - if one can get an offer at other FAANGs and the equivalents... is there a reason to choose Amazon over others?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazon-jassy-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week.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>red-iron-pine</author><text>&gt; <i>But all that said; Amazon isn&#x27;t for everyone. It&#x27;s probably not for most people. I don&#x27;t mean that in the &quot;Amazon only hires the best&quot; sense. That&#x27;s true, but so do the other big tech companies. It&#x27;s more that you have to be a particular combination of driven and outcome focused with a relentless tolerance or even insatiable need for urgency, hard work, and trade-offs.</i><p>aka &quot;its a wall to wall hustle that will never get better, and when it comes to trade-offs, you&#x27;re the one making them&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>colmmacc</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked at Amazon (and AWS) for over 16 years and have made many friends, and it&#x27;s how I met my wife. What&#x27;s always kept me here is that it&#x27;s been fun the whole time, with meaningful problems and opportunities that move the needle for so many customers.<p>So many modern experiences that are built into our improved quality of lives; apps on phones that can know my tastes and preferences, hailing a cab virtually, a bonkers level of selection of goods to all consumers, low friction same-day delivery, far greater access to online services including education and financing, just wouldn&#x27;t exist (or at least not as quickly) if weren&#x27;t able to cut down so many old-school structures and replace them with much more efficient and available alternatives. Getting to create a transformation in digital infrastructure and logistics at that level is just nuts. And there&#x27;s still plenty to do. The money is great too; a far better result for me financially than the startups I worked at.<p>But all that said; Amazon isn&#x27;t for everyone. It&#x27;s probably not for most people. I don&#x27;t mean that in the &quot;Amazon only hires the best&quot; sense. That&#x27;s true, but so do the other big tech companies. It&#x27;s more that you have to be a particular combination of driven and outcome focused with a relentless tolerance or even insatiable need for urgency, hard work, and trade-offs.<p>If that resonated, and you have an opportunity to join Amazon towards the middle or advanced stages of your career; definitely try to do it. I interviewed several times at Amazon to get in. But if you are at the earlier stages of your career; choose your team and manager very carefully and care a bit less about the company you join. That will make a bigger difference.</text></item><item><author>pknomad</author><text>Genuine question for the folks over at Amazon:
What is the value of working at Amazon (or even just AWS) these days? Every now and then I get a ring from a recruiter gauging my interest and sometimes I get the itch to just to go through the process so that I can have a FAANG in my resume.<p>I&#x27;ve heard from others that Amazon could be an amazing place to work, citing fantastic colleagues and work opportunities. But then again, Amazon doesn&#x27;t claim monopoly on those and one has to assume the risk of working for a place that churns people out and has upper-level management that are hostile to IC&#x27;s needs&#x2F;wants.<p>Perhaps a better question is - if one can get an offer at other FAANGs and the equivalents... is there a reason to choose Amazon over others?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazon-jassy-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week.html</url></story> |
26,611,082 | 26,611,072 | 1 | 2 | 26,608,770 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>Europe is full of atheist Catholics. It’s a pretty cool system.<p>You get the holidays and culture, nice set of shared stories and a shared common sense. Thinking any of it is factually accurate or that god is a thing or being that actually exists is almost considered weird.<p>In Slovenia (where I’m from), for example, about 70% of the population identifies as Catholic, but only 25% say there might be a god. Another 30% say there’s probably some sort of greater spirit, but not necessarily god.<p>The American version always seemed odd to me. Believing that stuff in the Bible is factually true, not just fables with lessons ... that’s weird.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hallway_monitor</author><text>I&#x27;m considering joining a church almost exclusively for the social aspect. Christianity does teach some good lessons and taking my kids would be a net positive.<p>I wonder how many people who attend church and identify as Christian hold similar views to mine: overall it&#x27;s a pretty good system but very few stories in the Bible are historically accurate.</text></item><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>Good point.<p>The social aspect seems to be the biggest motivating factor for what makes people either join or leave a religion.<p>People often choose to stop a belief because of the failings of their parents, spiritual leader, etc without thought to their direct relationship with their deity and the belief system itself.<p>- In other words, if you are Catholic and your priest was a criminal does that mean the next logical step is to become an atheist?<p>- If you’re an atheist and science says that the inherent beauty of laws of the universe means that it is a possibility that our world was engineered by powerful being(s) does that mean you should jump your belief all the way to creationism?</text></item><item><author>slfnflctd</author><text>I studied theology for a few years before giving up religion entirely. The most disappointing aspect of &#x27;modern&#x27; Christianity to me is how few of its supposed adherents have bothered to consciously choose a system and learn more about it, or even try to understand the one(s) they were brought up with.<p>The trend seems to be that people first decide what&#x27;s most personally appealing to believe, then label themselves whatever fits with their in-group, with almost no attempt to connect the two. From a philosophical perspective, there is a lot of reinventing the wheel (poorly) going on, and very little recognition that carefully thought out frameworks which considered every possible angle and relentlessly sought internal logical consistency have existed for hundreds of years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Religious fervour is migrating into politics</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/03/27/religious-fervour-is-migrating-into-politics</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulryanrogers</author><text>&gt; ...taking my kids would be a net positive.<p>Being raised in the church and briefly having taught kids there, please don&#x27;t do this. Even in progressive churches the lessons they risk being exposed to will teach lazy thinking: trust in authority, testimony above hard evidence, etc. At worst they may be taught to hate or despise themselves, others, or natural desires.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hallway_monitor</author><text>I&#x27;m considering joining a church almost exclusively for the social aspect. Christianity does teach some good lessons and taking my kids would be a net positive.<p>I wonder how many people who attend church and identify as Christian hold similar views to mine: overall it&#x27;s a pretty good system but very few stories in the Bible are historically accurate.</text></item><item><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>Good point.<p>The social aspect seems to be the biggest motivating factor for what makes people either join or leave a religion.<p>People often choose to stop a belief because of the failings of their parents, spiritual leader, etc without thought to their direct relationship with their deity and the belief system itself.<p>- In other words, if you are Catholic and your priest was a criminal does that mean the next logical step is to become an atheist?<p>- If you’re an atheist and science says that the inherent beauty of laws of the universe means that it is a possibility that our world was engineered by powerful being(s) does that mean you should jump your belief all the way to creationism?</text></item><item><author>slfnflctd</author><text>I studied theology for a few years before giving up religion entirely. The most disappointing aspect of &#x27;modern&#x27; Christianity to me is how few of its supposed adherents have bothered to consciously choose a system and learn more about it, or even try to understand the one(s) they were brought up with.<p>The trend seems to be that people first decide what&#x27;s most personally appealing to believe, then label themselves whatever fits with their in-group, with almost no attempt to connect the two. From a philosophical perspective, there is a lot of reinventing the wheel (poorly) going on, and very little recognition that carefully thought out frameworks which considered every possible angle and relentlessly sought internal logical consistency have existed for hundreds of years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Religious fervour is migrating into politics</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/03/27/religious-fervour-is-migrating-into-politics</url></story> |
2,009,616 | 2,009,463 | 1 | 2 | 2,009,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>delano</author><text>This is great news! I'm particularly interested in these changes:<p>* Sorted sets are now less memory hungry.<p>* Now write operations work against keys with an EXPIRE set! Imagine the possibilities.<p>I use Redis for many, many things. In fact, I realized the other day that without it, I probably wouldn't still be bootstrapping. Not because I couldn't use something else, but because <i>I wouldn't enjoy the work nearly as much</i>. Starting a company is a long, arduous road and finding joy in the work is really important.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redis 2.2.0 RC1 is out</title><url>http://antirez.com/post/redis-2.2.0-rc1-is-out.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>beagledude</author><text>Redis is one of the best pieces of software I've used in the past few years. I use it so many ways in production it's loco. Having flexible data structures besides (string)k, (string)v is a huge boost.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redis 2.2.0 RC1 is out</title><url>http://antirez.com/post/redis-2.2.0-rc1-is-out.html</url><text></text></story> |
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