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28,034,825 | 28,033,747 | 1 | 2 | 28,029,809 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>midrus</author><text>I followed a similar path.<p>Nowadays I just use the Notes app from my mac. I keep a primary note named &quot;daily&quot; where I write at the top the date and everything interesting for the day. If there is anything important enough I want to keep it for more days I move it to a separate note. If I realize I need something I did 3 weeks ago it is easy to find too. It syncs with my phone, works offline, and imposes as little structure as possible which is something I like for the reasons you explained.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bschne</author><text>My single biggest improvement in getting somewhat organized and productive so far has probably come from getting comfortable with some amount of chaos.<p>I used to try and set up the perfect system for my notes. I got caught in endless cycles of coming up with some structure, finding new tools, etc. — only to then barely ever write down anything because it never quite fit into any of the boxes I&#x27;d prepared.<p>I used to try out a new todo app every other month, enthusiastic that this time I&#x27;d find the system that would finally enable me to never let anything fall through the cracks.<p>I&#x27;d plan out the perfect pipeline of bookmark - triage - read&#x2F;watch&#x2F;listen so that I could stay on top of every great talk, article, interview or book anyone had ever created and shared with the world. You can probably guess what happened.<p>Then, for some reason, I just got more... relaxed? at some point. Have a thought? Just make a note, doesn&#x27;t matter if I&#x27;ll ever look at it again or it will still make sense in a week. Sometimes I go back and expand on things. Sometimes I event write something out of it. Most times I don&#x27;t and that&#x27;s fine. Find something cool? Just bookmark. Maybe I&#x27;ll look through them in a moment of boredom one day soon, maybe the never-ending influx of hot new content means I&#x27;ll never get around to it. Whatever. Want to or think I should do something? Make a task, don&#x27;t set a date, maybe I&#x27;ll get back to it, maybe it turns out I don&#x27;t want or need to do it ever. Got something you keep putting off? Maybe just delete it after the tenth time, it&#x27;ll come back to you if it&#x27;s worth it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Todo apps are meant for robots</title><url>https://blog.frantic.im/all/todo-apps-are-meant-for-robots/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iamtedd</author><text>Your comment reminded me about a passage from Red Dwarf:<p>In fact, it was now possible for Rimmer to revise solidly for three months and not learn anything at all.<p>The first week of study, he would always devote to the construction of a revision timetable. At school Rimmer was always at his happiest colouring in geography maps: under his loving hand, the ice-fields of Europa would be shaded a delicate blue, the subterranean silica deposits of Ganymede would be rendered, centimetre by painstaking centimetre, a bright and powerful yellow, and the regions of frozen methane on Pluto slowly became a luscious, inviting green. Up until the age of thirteen, he was constantly head of the class in geography. After this point, it became necessary to know and understand the subject, and Rimmer&#x27;s marks plunged to the murky depths of &#x27;F&#x27; for fail.<p>He brought his love of cartography to the making of revision timetables. Weeks of patient effort would be spent planning, designing and creating a revision timetable which, when finished, were minor works of art.<p>Every hour of every day was subdivided into different study periods, each labelled in his lovely, tiny copperplate hand; then painted over in watercolours, a different colour for each subject, the colours gradually becoming bolder and more urgent shades as the exam time approached. The effect was as if a myriad tiny rainbows had splintered and sprinkled across the poster-sized sheet of creamwove card.<p>The only problem was this: because the timetables often took seven or eight weeks, and sometimes more, to complete, by the time Rimmer had finished them the exam was almost on him. He&#x27;d then have to cram three months of astronavigation revision into a single week. Gripped by an almost deranging panic, he&#x27;d then decide to sacrifice the first two days of that final week to the making of another timetable. This time for someone who had to pack three months of revision into five days.<p>Because five days now had to accommodate three months&#x27; work, the first thing that had to go was sleep. To prepare for an unrelenting twenty-four hours a day sleep-free schedule, Rimmer would spend the whole of the first remaining day in bed – to be extra, ultra fresh, so he would be able to squeeze three whole months of revision into four short days.<p>Within an hour of getting up the next morning, he would feel inexplicably exhausted, and start early on his supply of Go-Double-Plus caffeine tablets. By lunchtime he&#x27;d overdose, and have to make the journey down to the ship&#x27;s medical unit for a sedative to help him calm down. The sedative usually sent him off to sleep, and he&#x27;d wake up the following morning with only three days left, and an anxiety that was so crippling he could scarcely move. A month of revision to be crammed into each day.<p>At this point he would start smoking. A lifelong non-smoker, he&#x27;d become a forty-a-day man. He&#x27;d spend the whole day pacing up and down his room, smoking three or four cigarettes at a time, stopping occasionally to stare at the titles in his bookcase, not knowing which one to read first, and popping twice the recommended dosage of dog-worming tablets, which he erroneously believed to contain amphetamine.<p>Realizing he was getting nowhere, he&#x27;d try to get rid of his soul-bending tension by treating himself to an evening in one of <i>Red Dwarf</i>&#x27;s quieter bars. There he would sit, in the plastic oak-beamed &#x27;Happy Astro&#x27; pub, nursing a small beer, grimly trying to be light-hearted and totally relaxed. Two small beers and three hours of stomach-knotting relaxation later, he would go back to his bunk and spend half the night awake, praying to a God he didn&#x27;t believe in for a miracle that couldn&#x27;t happen.<p>Two days to go, and ravaged by the combination of anxiety, nicotine, caffeine tablets, alcohol he wasn&#x27;t used to, dog-worming pills, and overall exhaustion, he would sleep in till mid-afternoon.<p>After a long scream, he would rationalize that the day was a total write-off, and the rest of the afternoon would be spent shopping for the three best alarm clocks money could buy. This would often take five or six hours, and he would arrive back at his sleeping quarters exhausted, but knowing he was fully prepared for the final day&#x27;s revision before his exam.<p>Waking at four-thirty in the morning, after exercising, showering and breakfasting, he would sit down to prepare a final, final revision table, which would condense three months of revision into twelve short hours. This done, he would give up and go back to bed. Maybe he didn&#x27;t know a single thing about astronavigation, but at least he&#x27;d be fresh for the exam the next day.<p>Which is why Rimmer failed exams.<p>--Grant Naylor, <i>Red Dwarf</i>, 1989</text><parent_chain><item><author>bschne</author><text>My single biggest improvement in getting somewhat organized and productive so far has probably come from getting comfortable with some amount of chaos.<p>I used to try and set up the perfect system for my notes. I got caught in endless cycles of coming up with some structure, finding new tools, etc. — only to then barely ever write down anything because it never quite fit into any of the boxes I&#x27;d prepared.<p>I used to try out a new todo app every other month, enthusiastic that this time I&#x27;d find the system that would finally enable me to never let anything fall through the cracks.<p>I&#x27;d plan out the perfect pipeline of bookmark - triage - read&#x2F;watch&#x2F;listen so that I could stay on top of every great talk, article, interview or book anyone had ever created and shared with the world. You can probably guess what happened.<p>Then, for some reason, I just got more... relaxed? at some point. Have a thought? Just make a note, doesn&#x27;t matter if I&#x27;ll ever look at it again or it will still make sense in a week. Sometimes I go back and expand on things. Sometimes I event write something out of it. Most times I don&#x27;t and that&#x27;s fine. Find something cool? Just bookmark. Maybe I&#x27;ll look through them in a moment of boredom one day soon, maybe the never-ending influx of hot new content means I&#x27;ll never get around to it. Whatever. Want to or think I should do something? Make a task, don&#x27;t set a date, maybe I&#x27;ll get back to it, maybe it turns out I don&#x27;t want or need to do it ever. Got something you keep putting off? Maybe just delete it after the tenth time, it&#x27;ll come back to you if it&#x27;s worth it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Todo apps are meant for robots</title><url>https://blog.frantic.im/all/todo-apps-are-meant-for-robots/</url></story> |
1,627,387 | 1,627,433 | 1 | 2 | 1,626,965 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dandelany</author><text>I don't know that we're opposed to it in theory, it's just that every single implementation thus far has been terrifically bad. Making the code open source would go a long way, I think, as would establishing open working groups to establish security standards. I may be an optimist, but I do believe that theoretically (at least information-theoretically[1]), it can be done well.<p>[1] <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Information-theoretically+secure+voting&#38;hl=en&#38;as_sdt=0&#38;as_vis=1&#38;oi=scholart" rel="nofollow">http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Information-theoreticall...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>seldo</author><text>It is one of the curious facts of modern culture that the people who love technology the most also seem to be the most opposed to electronic voting.<p>I think it's because the people who most understand how computers work also understand that no data can be considered trustworthy if somebody else has been in possession of the hardware. Yet governments continue to trust the impossible promises of the people who make voting machines that their machines are secure, despite a continuous stream of demonstrations to the contrary, both intentional and accidental.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Install PAC-MAN on Sequoia voting machine w/o breaking tamper-evident seals</title><url>http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pacman/</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>jasonjei</author><text>I think the issue is the difficulty of auditing electronic votes. Computers and databases have made it so easy to forge data--just look at Bernie Madoff.<p>The best way to ameliorate these discomforts is to ensure that a list of eligible voters is made available every year (already available under the current system), as well as a list and sum total of those eligible that voted. We would need to assign every voter a UUID every time he votes, and provide the voter a printed receipt of the UUID and selected choices (if desired) on security paper (controlled stock of security paper with its own unique identifier to be accounted for), and publish all election results with the selected choices matched to a UUID on a website every year in CSV and HTML formats.<p>I'm sure there will always be ways to tamper the system. The key is that if every one is able to watch the system (like open source code auditing), the risk of discrepancies or error is minimized. The UUID will allow the voter to confirm that his choices match the recorded results.<p>If this system were implemented, it would be better than the status quo. The current system may seem better, but it's prone to human error (Scantrons not being scanned by an optical reader; hanging chads; etc).</text><parent_chain><item><author>seldo</author><text>It is one of the curious facts of modern culture that the people who love technology the most also seem to be the most opposed to electronic voting.<p>I think it's because the people who most understand how computers work also understand that no data can be considered trustworthy if somebody else has been in possession of the hardware. Yet governments continue to trust the impossible promises of the people who make voting machines that their machines are secure, despite a continuous stream of demonstrations to the contrary, both intentional and accidental.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Install PAC-MAN on Sequoia voting machine w/o breaking tamper-evident seals</title><url>http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pacman/</url><text></text></story> |
26,152,394 | 26,152,513 | 1 | 2 | 26,151,207 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vesinisa</author><text>It&#x27;s not a single HTML file though. On line 1211 jQuery is pulled, and on lines 57 and 64 an external font file is referenced.<p>I am not sure having everything in a single HTML file is any feat though. You can of course compress all your JS deps and CSS to a single HTML file, but it&#x27;s not very cache efficient if your content is dynamic on the HTTP level.<p>Targeting raw DOM without jQuery might be actually possible these days though, but they&#x27;re not doing it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ashdev</author><text>It&#x27;s impressive that it&#x27;s all in single HTML file. LocalStorage could be a limitation if you often clear your browser history though.<p>In the same spirit of Kanban, I had built an offline-first personal Kanban app - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brisqi.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brisqi.com</a><p>Initially I built it for myself but I decided to put it out there for folks who were looking for an offline Kanban app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage</title><url>https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oilbagz</author><text>Not-a-web-developer-question: Would it make sense to add a module that replicated the localStorage data &#x27;upstream&#x27; or somewhere, something like an rsync.net copy that could be sync&#x27;ed by the user before they blow the cache?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ashdev</author><text>It&#x27;s impressive that it&#x27;s all in single HTML file. LocalStorage could be a limitation if you often clear your browser history though.<p>In the same spirit of Kanban, I had built an offline-first personal Kanban app - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brisqi.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brisqi.com</a><p>Initially I built it for myself but I decided to put it out there for folks who were looking for an offline Kanban app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage</title><url>https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard</url></story> |
7,415,525 | 7,415,546 | 1 | 3 | 7,414,813 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gamegoblin</author><text>Hanging out on sites like this definitely doesn&#x27;t help. In every thread it seems like there is someone who is a perfect expert on whatever being discussed.<p>Need to diagnose a problem in a defunct modem using only an oscilloscope? Someone can. Strange behavior of the JVM? Oh, someone has implemented their own JVM on a 4kb machine as a hobby project.<p>Then you get username delineation and there is this idea of some abstract &quot;hacker&quot; of hackernews (or whatevertechsite.com) that can do everything with ease.<p>Because after seeing all that I think if I can&#x27;t debug modems with oscilloscopes or implement the JVM I&#x27;m behind and subpar.</text><parent_chain><item><author>agentultra</author><text>My theory is that &quot;burnout&quot; is a symptom of the endemic &quot;hero&quot; meme of our culture. Think about all the movies you&#x27;ve seen since the 1980s, the shows you&#x27;ve watched, the books you&#x27;ve read. Embedded in the majority of them is the simple idea that there&#x27;s something special inside you that can set you apart from everyone else. It whispers seductively to that part of your brain that lies to you about how important you are. Any story or idea that fills the need to feel different, special, and unique passes through our scrutiny without a second thought. We want to believe it&#x27;s true even as we examine our motivations for doing so because it&#x27;s hard wired into our brains.<p>The problem is that this weakness is easily exploited. Writers, motivational speakers, game designers, poets... they&#x27;re all in the business of hacking our brains. We&#x27;ve been doing such a good job of it since the sixties that our popular culture is unconsciously driven by it.<p>And it manifests as burnout when it clashes with other popular memes like the Protestant Work Ethic. If you just put in a little elbow grease and work harder you will stand out. If you write that amazing library to make programmers&#x27; lives easier they will shower you with praise on the Internet and invite you to speak at conferences so that you may shower the masses with your brilliant message. Burnout happens when all of the rewards of those fantasies fail to materialize despite all of the effort and hard work you&#x27;ve put into chasing them.<p>Worked 60 - 80 hour weeks for the last six months and still got overlooked for that promotion? Burnout.<p>Put off investing time with your family in order to work on that semi-popular open source library and pimp it out at every conference you can submit a proposal to... and you STILL aren&#x27;t getting the accolades and recognition you deserve? Burnout.<p>My advice for avoiding burnout? Figure out where your desires and ambitions are coming from. Why do you want to work so hard for recognition? Why do you feel you need to be recognized? What&#x27;s so important about it? Start from there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Burnout</title><url>http://kristinn.ghost.io/burnout/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&quot;Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.&quot;<p>--temporarily-embarrassed millionaires who, I might add, all know that it is their &quot;destiny,&quot; their Heroic Tale to tell, to &quot;regain&quot; those millions through Hard Work, Grit and Stick-To-It-iveness. (But not Cunning. Cunning is for villains, like that guy who got the promotion instead of you.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>agentultra</author><text>My theory is that &quot;burnout&quot; is a symptom of the endemic &quot;hero&quot; meme of our culture. Think about all the movies you&#x27;ve seen since the 1980s, the shows you&#x27;ve watched, the books you&#x27;ve read. Embedded in the majority of them is the simple idea that there&#x27;s something special inside you that can set you apart from everyone else. It whispers seductively to that part of your brain that lies to you about how important you are. Any story or idea that fills the need to feel different, special, and unique passes through our scrutiny without a second thought. We want to believe it&#x27;s true even as we examine our motivations for doing so because it&#x27;s hard wired into our brains.<p>The problem is that this weakness is easily exploited. Writers, motivational speakers, game designers, poets... they&#x27;re all in the business of hacking our brains. We&#x27;ve been doing such a good job of it since the sixties that our popular culture is unconsciously driven by it.<p>And it manifests as burnout when it clashes with other popular memes like the Protestant Work Ethic. If you just put in a little elbow grease and work harder you will stand out. If you write that amazing library to make programmers&#x27; lives easier they will shower you with praise on the Internet and invite you to speak at conferences so that you may shower the masses with your brilliant message. Burnout happens when all of the rewards of those fantasies fail to materialize despite all of the effort and hard work you&#x27;ve put into chasing them.<p>Worked 60 - 80 hour weeks for the last six months and still got overlooked for that promotion? Burnout.<p>Put off investing time with your family in order to work on that semi-popular open source library and pimp it out at every conference you can submit a proposal to... and you STILL aren&#x27;t getting the accolades and recognition you deserve? Burnout.<p>My advice for avoiding burnout? Figure out where your desires and ambitions are coming from. Why do you want to work so hard for recognition? Why do you feel you need to be recognized? What&#x27;s so important about it? Start from there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Burnout</title><url>http://kristinn.ghost.io/burnout/</url></story> |
6,938,640 | 6,937,959 | 1 | 3 | 6,936,085 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>It creates a significant and largely artificial information disparity, giving a major market advantage to the employer.</i><p>Absolutely.<p>Having employees not discuss salary is all about the employer having more power&#x2F;control, and the employees having less.<p>I&#x27;ve always thought it&#x27;s a little like an adult giving candy to a child and then say &quot;Now, don&#x27;t tell anyone I gave you this!&quot;.<p>Why doesn&#x27;t the adult want anyone to know about the candy exchange? Because they benefit from keeping in concealed.<p>EDIT: I also think this is a generational thing. Everyone I know over 40 wouldn&#x27;t dare talk about their salary, or how much they paid for their house, etc. Everyone I know under 30 will happily talk about it to anyone and everyone. Give it a few more decades, and this will be the norm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt the culture of hiding salaries was doing a significant disservice to employees. It creates a significant and largely artificial information disparity, giving a major market advantage to the employer. In turn, this makes the entire labor market less efficient for the employee.<p>This also makes the employer less accountable to the employees. The employer can easily pay somebody significantly more or less than they contribute, and the rest of the team cannot really say anything about this.<p>Now, there are some cultural reasons to do this--preventing jealousy, hiding inequality. But it really feels like a social band-aid, a temporary solution hiding the symptoms but not the underlying problem. Besides, everyone ends up having a reasonable guess as to who makes more and who makes less anyhow! The same dynamics develop, just with more uncertainty.<p>On the other hand, making salaries public takes these problems head-on. Inequality isn&#x27;t bad in and of itself; some is basically necessary. But hiding that fact doesn&#x27;t really help anyone. Instead, forcing people to see it head-on, deal with it and talk about it is probably a better solution.<p>I really applaud Buffer and the general movement towards transparency. I think it&#x27;s a very healthy cultural progression and hope it catches on more widely, so that people stop having knee-jerk reactions to salary information.<p>EDIT: As an interesting additional note, all salaries (beyond a token minimum) at Berkeley (and the whole UC system) are publicly available at <a href="http://ucpay.globl.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucpay.globl.org&#x2F;</a>.<p>I&#x27;ve looked up various professors at the ParLab (where I did some undergraduate research). The fact that their salaries range from ~120k to ~350k did not change my perspective of anyone and did not seem to affect the lab&#x27;s culture at all.<p>Essentially, I&#x27;d be perfectly happy to see this outside of public universities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer</title><url>http://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-including-our-transparent-formula-and-all-individual-salaries</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davemel37</author><text>I had a boss bully his employees with fellow employee salary information. (i.e. bill took a pay cut because of the recessions, so should you...)<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, salary is a completely private matter that is no one elses business, and no good could possibly come from sharing it.<p>I see this openness at buffer essentially being a tool for management to deny raise requests, etc... with... If we do it for you, we have to do it for everybody... which is a just a BS excuse to not face the reality that every persons value and work situation is different, and should be treated differently.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt the culture of hiding salaries was doing a significant disservice to employees. It creates a significant and largely artificial information disparity, giving a major market advantage to the employer. In turn, this makes the entire labor market less efficient for the employee.<p>This also makes the employer less accountable to the employees. The employer can easily pay somebody significantly more or less than they contribute, and the rest of the team cannot really say anything about this.<p>Now, there are some cultural reasons to do this--preventing jealousy, hiding inequality. But it really feels like a social band-aid, a temporary solution hiding the symptoms but not the underlying problem. Besides, everyone ends up having a reasonable guess as to who makes more and who makes less anyhow! The same dynamics develop, just with more uncertainty.<p>On the other hand, making salaries public takes these problems head-on. Inequality isn&#x27;t bad in and of itself; some is basically necessary. But hiding that fact doesn&#x27;t really help anyone. Instead, forcing people to see it head-on, deal with it and talk about it is probably a better solution.<p>I really applaud Buffer and the general movement towards transparency. I think it&#x27;s a very healthy cultural progression and hope it catches on more widely, so that people stop having knee-jerk reactions to salary information.<p>EDIT: As an interesting additional note, all salaries (beyond a token minimum) at Berkeley (and the whole UC system) are publicly available at <a href="http://ucpay.globl.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucpay.globl.org&#x2F;</a>.<p>I&#x27;ve looked up various professors at the ParLab (where I did some undergraduate research). The fact that their salaries range from ~120k to ~350k did not change my perspective of anyone and did not seem to affect the lab&#x27;s culture at all.<p>Essentially, I&#x27;d be perfectly happy to see this outside of public universities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer</title><url>http://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-including-our-transparent-formula-and-all-individual-salaries</url></story> |
41,122,746 | 41,119,515 | 1 | 2 | 41,108,662 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>In case the author reads this: please explicitly cite all of Nystrom&#x27;s figures. A link is not enough.<p>Even with a citation, I&#x27;m not quite comfortable just reusing someone else&#x27;s figures so many times when they&#x27;re doing so much heavy lifting. But an explicit citation is the minimum.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection</title><url>https://www.tunglevo.com/note/crafting-interpreters-with-rust-on-garbage-collection/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jlewallen</author><text>Crafting Interpreters is such an amazing work.<p>There&#x27;s at least one other Rust implementation of lox that I know of (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tdp2110&#x2F;crafting-interpreters-rs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tdp2110&#x2F;crafting-interpreters-rs</a>) (no unsafe)<p>It&#x27;s always interesting to see how different people approach the problems in their own language or relative isolation. I agree with others here, the real value of the original work lies in avoiding copy and paste.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection</title><url>https://www.tunglevo.com/note/crafting-interpreters-with-rust-on-garbage-collection/</url></story> |
31,750,507 | 31,750,449 | 1 | 2 | 31,749,863 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Teandw</author><text>The issue with those promises is that they&#x27;re pretty much empty promises because while they are true at their core, they don&#x27;t hold much basis in reality for every day use.<p>&quot;P2P money&#x2F;value transfer, no banks, no intermediary =&gt; delivered;&quot;<p>At it&#x27;s core, yes. For any sort of adoption&#x2F;usage ability for the &#x27;average day person&#x27;, there will always be a requirement for some sort of intermediary company.<p>&quot;nobody owns Bitcoin network =&gt; delivered;&quot;<p>At it&#x27;s core, yes. However, having no &#x27;owner&#x27; is rather meaningless as governments can regulate it and decide how Bitcoin is used; which has the same effects&#x2F;problems as an &#x27;owner&#x27;.<p>&quot;no government with no amount of regulation can stop a transaction from happening&quot;<p>At it&#x27;s core, yes. However, again, this is pretty much meaningless because they can make it illegal for a transaction to happen or they can make transactions allowed but under their rules.<p>- everybody can take a part in Bitcoin network, you don&#x27;t need anyone permission to join (ie. oppressive government)<p>At it&#x27;s core, yes. But again it&#x27;s not based on reality of life. If an oppressive government outlawed bitcoin, you wouldn&#x27;t be able to take part in the Bitcoin network unless you wanted to break the law. Bitcoin would be on its knees if the only people that could use it were purely illegal users. (compared to its current situation)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mirzap</author><text>I&#x27;m not quite sure where did the author found those &quot;cryptocurrency promises&quot;. Bitcoin&#x27;s promises from the start are straightforward:<p>- P2P money&#x2F;value transfer, no banks, no intermediary =&gt; delivered;<p>- nobody owns Bitcoin network =&gt; delivered;<p>- no government with no amount of regulation can stop a transaction from happening =&gt; delivered;<p>- everybody can take a part in Bitcoin network, you don&#x27;t need anyone permission to join (ie. oppressive government) =&gt; delivered;<p>All currency systems are based on faith and trust. USD value comes from faith and trust in US government. If that trust is breached or lost, and it will eventually like with every empire before US, USD will collapse. With Bitcoin is similar. As long are there people who believe in those principles and promises I mentioned above, Bitcoin will have value. Bitcoin will live. And I think those are universal principles of freedom, which will outlive most (if not all) currencies and empires existing today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cryptocurrencies Have Broken Almost All of Their Major Promises</title><url>https://ruky.me/2022/06/14/cryptocurrencies-have-broken-almost-all-of-their-major-promises/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>&gt;- P2P money&#x2F;value transfer, no banks, no intermediary =&gt; delivered;<p>Except I need an exhange to get the coins and turn the coins into usable currency<p>&gt;nobody owns Bitcoin network =&gt; delivered;<p>Meh, the biggest investors are still in control in practice.<p>&gt;- no government with no amount of regulation can stop a transaction from happening =&gt; delivered;<p>Yet they can claim taxes on transactions, seize funds, stop you from exhanging the funds into usable currency. But yeah they can&#x27;t stop the transaction itself, which is also true of cash, except cash isn&#x27;t also completely traceable.<p>&gt;- everybody can take a part in Bitcoin network, you don&#x27;t need anyone permission to join (ie. oppressive government) =&gt; delivered;<p>Last time I bought some bitcoin I had to scan my passport just to buy it on an exchange.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mirzap</author><text>I&#x27;m not quite sure where did the author found those &quot;cryptocurrency promises&quot;. Bitcoin&#x27;s promises from the start are straightforward:<p>- P2P money&#x2F;value transfer, no banks, no intermediary =&gt; delivered;<p>- nobody owns Bitcoin network =&gt; delivered;<p>- no government with no amount of regulation can stop a transaction from happening =&gt; delivered;<p>- everybody can take a part in Bitcoin network, you don&#x27;t need anyone permission to join (ie. oppressive government) =&gt; delivered;<p>All currency systems are based on faith and trust. USD value comes from faith and trust in US government. If that trust is breached or lost, and it will eventually like with every empire before US, USD will collapse. With Bitcoin is similar. As long are there people who believe in those principles and promises I mentioned above, Bitcoin will have value. Bitcoin will live. And I think those are universal principles of freedom, which will outlive most (if not all) currencies and empires existing today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cryptocurrencies Have Broken Almost All of Their Major Promises</title><url>https://ruky.me/2022/06/14/cryptocurrencies-have-broken-almost-all-of-their-major-promises/</url></story> |
13,607,909 | 13,608,183 | 1 | 2 | 13,607,105 | train | <instructions>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>We got two spaniels (years apart) from the same breeder. Both died suffering of a number of abnormalities that became pronounced when they got older.<p>Later we found that the breeder was forced to stop altogether because the dogs were so consistently damned.<p>I can still hear what I can only describe as &quot;screaming&quot; by our first spaniel the night she came home after an emergency operation. She had to be let go that night. Nothing in my life has haunted me the same way. That was it for dogs for me. I have two wonderful cuddly cats and I&#x27;m delighted by how genetically unremarkable they are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>weavie</author><text>Not just Pugs. I had a German Shepherd. Beautiful dog, but everyone who I met who had had a German Shepherd in the past told me their dog had to be put down around 10 years of age due to their back legs failing.<p>Our dog didn&#x27;t even make it to 10. She died of heart failure at 7. According to the vet this is another common problem with the breed.<p>I well never get a pure breed again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pugs are anatomical disasters. Vets must speak out–even if it’s bad for business</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/22/pugs-anatomical-disasters-vets-must-speak-out-even-bad-business</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lightedman</author><text>Your &quot;German Shepherd&quot; today is nothing like the purebreeds from the WWII era. They were bred afterwards for looks, nothing else. The inherent intelligence remained and was left unchanged, everything else was selectively bred, so you get to enjoy cardiac failure and hip dysplasia as a result.</text><parent_chain><item><author>weavie</author><text>Not just Pugs. I had a German Shepherd. Beautiful dog, but everyone who I met who had had a German Shepherd in the past told me their dog had to be put down around 10 years of age due to their back legs failing.<p>Our dog didn&#x27;t even make it to 10. She died of heart failure at 7. According to the vet this is another common problem with the breed.<p>I well never get a pure breed again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pugs are anatomical disasters. Vets must speak out–even if it’s bad for business</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/22/pugs-anatomical-disasters-vets-must-speak-out-even-bad-business</url></story> |
22,292,525 | 22,292,161 | 1 | 3 | 22,288,862 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marta_morena</author><text>This sounds fishy. He probably pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal, so law enforcement has a scapegoat and some meaningless &quot;media success&quot; in exchange for him getting a drastically reduced sentencing. They always do that, threaten people with insane penalties if they don&#x27;t accept so shitty plea deal and if you are not super certain that you can win, you will likely accept that one, just because it seems &quot;safer&quot;.<p>There are a LOT of cases like this, just most of them don&#x27;t gain this publicity. Actually, 95% of court cases never reach court because of this. Innocent people plead guilty because they don&#x27;t have the wealth and resources to win in court. USA is a shithole when it comes to law enforcement. Medieval and sad. Land of the free (as long as you are rich, that is).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615163/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-but-how-was-he-caught/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ohmygodel</author><text>Running a hosting server for onion services, as was done in this case, is a terrible idea. It greatly increases the risk of deanonymization. The question is less how this hosting service was discovered and more how it ever stayed up long enough to become so notorious. Here&#x27;s why:<p>1. Each hidden service chooses a &quot;guard&quot; relay to serve as the first hop for all connections.<p>2. A server running multiple hidden services has a guard for each of them. Each new guard is another chance to choose a guard run by the adversary.<p>3. An adversary running a fraction p of the guards (by bandwidth) has a probability p of being chosen by a given hidden service. A hosting service with k hidden services is exposed to k guards and thus has ~kp probability of chosen an adversary&#x27;s guard. With, say, 50 hidden services, an adversary with only 2% of guards has nearly 100% chance of being chosen by one of those 50 hidden services.<p>4. The adversary can tell when it is chosen as a guard by connecting to the hidden service as a client and looking for a circuit with the same pattern of communication as observed at the client. Bauer at el. [0] showed a long time ago this worked even using only the circuit construction times.<p>5. The adversary&#x27;s guard can observe the hidden service&#x27;s IP directly.<p>The risk of deanonymization with onion services in general (i.e. even not using an onion hosting service) is significant against an adversary with some resources and time. Getting 1% of guard bandwidth probably costs &lt;$500&#x2F;month using IP transit providers (e.g. relay 8ac97a37 currently has 0.3% guard probability with only ~750Mbps [1]). And every month or so a new guard is chosen, yielding another chance to choose an adversarial guard. Not to mention the risk of choosing a guard that isn&#x27;t inherently malicious but is subject to legal compulsion in a given jurisdiction (discovering the guard of a hidden service has always been and remains quite feasible with little time or money, as demonstrated by Øverlier and Syverson [2]).<p>[0] &quot;Low-Resource Routing Attacks Against Tor&quot; by Kevin Bauer, Damon McCoy, Dirk Grunwald, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Douglas Sicker. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2007), Washington, DC, USA, October 2007.<p>[1] &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metrics.torproject.org&#x2F;rs.html#details&#x2F;014E24C0CD21D2B9829E841D5EC1D3C415F866BF&gt;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metrics.torproject.org&#x2F;rs.html#details&#x2F;014E24C0CD21D...</a><p>[2] &quot;Locating Hidden Servers&quot; by Lasse Øverlier and Paul Syverson. In the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2006.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615163/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-but-how-was-he-caught/</url></story> |
31,479,288 | 31,476,736 | 1 | 2 | 31,474,506 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Another reason why they needed to be light is that the harness was not invented until around 500 AD. Therefore those horses were pushing on a bar which was literally cutting their windpipes off. This severely limited the poor beast&#x27;s strength.<p>We can tell when the harness was invented because horse drawn carts suddenly double in size. It&#x27;s amazing how much more work a horse can do when it can breathe!</text><parent_chain><item><author>natch</author><text>Fascinating, but the author missed a couple of the most interesting aspects of the chariot.<p>Number one, wheels. The ancient war chariot is a prime early example of how the adage that you should not reinvent the wheel is poor advice. Chariot builders had to reinvent (so to speak) and hone and advance the wheel greatly for use in chariots, because the wheels needed to be robust and light to an extent that wheels had never been before.<p>And why did the wheels need to be so light? That brings us to the second interesting thing that the author didn’t mention, which is the fact that horses of the time were smaller, not having yet been bred up to the size needed for rideability in battle. Therefore, instead, horses were used to pull chariots. And the chariots had to be light to make them nimble, and because the horses (and mules in some cases, sure, but that is neither here nor there) were not the huge steeds that we have today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is This a Tank?</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2022/05/13/collections-ancient-tanks-chariots-scythed-chariots-and-carroballistae/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>automatic6131</author><text>&gt; The ancient war chariot is a prime early example of how the adage that you should not reinvent the wheel is poor advice<p>I&#x27;d imagine that &quot;reinventing the wheel&quot; is much better advice 5000 years ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>natch</author><text>Fascinating, but the author missed a couple of the most interesting aspects of the chariot.<p>Number one, wheels. The ancient war chariot is a prime early example of how the adage that you should not reinvent the wheel is poor advice. Chariot builders had to reinvent (so to speak) and hone and advance the wheel greatly for use in chariots, because the wheels needed to be robust and light to an extent that wheels had never been before.<p>And why did the wheels need to be so light? That brings us to the second interesting thing that the author didn’t mention, which is the fact that horses of the time were smaller, not having yet been bred up to the size needed for rideability in battle. Therefore, instead, horses were used to pull chariots. And the chariots had to be light to make them nimble, and because the horses (and mules in some cases, sure, but that is neither here nor there) were not the huge steeds that we have today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is This a Tank?</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2022/05/13/collections-ancient-tanks-chariots-scythed-chariots-and-carroballistae/</url></story> |
27,502,299 | 27,501,682 | 1 | 3 | 27,500,872 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>counterfeit &#x2F;= fake.<p>A fake chip is a chip that isn&#x27;t physically what it claims to be. It will not work properly. A counterfeit chip is one that was not made under appropriate licenses. It might be exactly the same as the legit chips. It might even come from the same factory line that makes the legit chips and have been tested right alongside legit chips. The only difference between a counterfeit and legit chip can be a line in a contract on a computer thousands of miles away from the physical object with absolutely no physical imperfections. If you are using a computer, or any other complex machine, chances are that at least some tiny corner of it wasn&#x27;t made in 100% accordance with IP laws.<p>If an article wants to talk about &quot;fake&quot; chips then talk about fake chips. Don&#x27;t go on about counterfeit chips and violations of intellectual property laws. Show me the chips that are not doing the jobs they are supposed to do.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The global chip shortage is creating a new problem: More fake components</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-global-chip-shortage-is-creating-a-new-problem-more-fake-components-as-fraudsters-cash-in/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laydn</author><text>We were quoted $40 for a $4 STM32 microcontroller, by a component broker. Due to our desperate need, we caved in and paid for the 10x price and our only hope at this point is that the parts will be genuine. Sigh.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The global chip shortage is creating a new problem: More fake components</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-global-chip-shortage-is-creating-a-new-problem-more-fake-components-as-fraudsters-cash-in/</url></story> |
15,126,809 | 15,125,940 | 1 | 2 | 15,124,809 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RivieraKid</author><text>Having developed for Android for many years and for iOS&#x2F;Swift for over half a year, here&#x27;s a bunch of random thoughts:<p>Developing for iOS&#x2F;Swift is a more pleasant experience, the APIs are simpler and more well-thought. But it&#x27;s not a huge difference.<p>Android Studio is a better (but uglier) IDE, but not by as much as people say.<p>Android&#x27;s Activity and Fragment APIs is a horrible joke. I mean, Google is supposed to have these super smart devs, how could they design this mess?<p>Creating UI in iOS sucks. Specifically, Auto Layout and Interface Builder. I usually use Fb&#x27;s Yoga, it&#x27;s not ideal, but less of a pain.<p>Swift is one of the best-designed languages out there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sidlls</author><text>Occasionally I&#x27;ll write an app for my kids or wife. Every time I&#x27;m thoroughly impressed by the Apple development ecosystem and thoroughly disgusted by Google&#x27;s for Android.<p>This is no different. The Android development process is painful (the most verbose, cruft and boilerplate filled Java), cumbersome to organize and build (Gradle is terrible, and buggy) and debug (the integration with Studio is just clunky). About the only thing Google does better is testing releases through the developer console.<p>It&#x27;s nice to see them finally providing something similar to ARKit. I just wish they&#x27;d work on all the other things that make Android development a horrible experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/arcore-augmented-reality-android-scale/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prophesi</author><text>Eh, they&#x27;ve both got their pros and cons.<p>iOS:<p>+ Swift<p>+ Less screen sizes to worry about<p>+ Less iOS versions to worry about<p>+ XCode is much lighter on resources<p>- Mac only<p>- XCode might crash every now and then<p>- Probably need an iOS device, as the simulator is very slow<p>- $100&#x2F;yr developer fee<p>Android:<p>+ Kotlin<p>+ Studio runs everywhere<p>+ No developer fee<p>+ More stable IDE<p>+ Decent emulation<p>- Countless screen sizes to worry about<p>- Lots of Android versions to worry about<p>- $25 developer account fee<p>- Android Studio is resource heavy<p>- NDK requires lots of JNI boilerplate<p>Though, with all of this AR stuff, I&#x27;d just go the Unity&#x2F;Unreal route, as it will probably be very game-y and such.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sidlls</author><text>Occasionally I&#x27;ll write an app for my kids or wife. Every time I&#x27;m thoroughly impressed by the Apple development ecosystem and thoroughly disgusted by Google&#x27;s for Android.<p>This is no different. The Android development process is painful (the most verbose, cruft and boilerplate filled Java), cumbersome to organize and build (Gradle is terrible, and buggy) and debug (the integration with Studio is just clunky). About the only thing Google does better is testing releases through the developer console.<p>It&#x27;s nice to see them finally providing something similar to ARKit. I just wish they&#x27;d work on all the other things that make Android development a horrible experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/arcore-augmented-reality-android-scale/</url></story> |
31,470,691 | 31,467,777 | 1 | 2 | 31,466,885 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PhilippGille</author><text>&gt; - A note-taking tool that allows me to organize notes in a graph with links between them (like a wiki), not as files and folders in a tree, which enforces the invariant that every note is transitively reachable from some &quot;root&quot; (by following links) so I never lose a note.<p>There is a class of note taking apps that&#x27;s becoming increasingly popular (at least I perceive it that way) that does this. They store notes in local Markdown files, and when you link between pages, they can build and render a graph based on them. For example:<p>- Obsidian: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obsidian.md&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obsidian.md&#x2F;</a><p>- Logseq: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logseq.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logseq.com&#x2F;</a><p>- Joplin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joplinapp.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joplinapp.org&#x2F;</a> (not sure if it&#x27;s built-in, but there&#x27;s a plugin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;treymo&#x2F;joplin-link-graph" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;treymo&#x2F;joplin-link-graph</a>)</text><parent_chain><item><author>stepchowfun</author><text>- A build system &#x2F; package manager like Nix [1] but with a better user experience &#x2F; more straightforward command-line tooling.<p>- A dependently typed programming language like Coq [2] (or Agda, Idris, Lean, etc.) that is sufficiently approachable to gain enough mindshare that companies start adopting it for mission-critical work.<p>- A version control system which scales to petabytes or more. Something that I could put large video files in without thinking twice about it. Something a large company could use for their monorepo—or even their data warehouse.<p>- A note-taking tool that allows me to organize notes in a graph with links between them (like a wiki), not as files and folders in a tree, which enforces the invariant that every note is transitively reachable from some &quot;root&quot; (by following links) so I never lose a note.<p>- Something like Toast [3] but which is also designed for running services in production, not just local development and continuous integration. A unified way to run code in dev, test, and prod environments. A new k8s.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.inria.fr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.inria.fr&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stepchowfun&#x2F;toast" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stepchowfun&#x2F;toast</a> (shameless plug)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?</title><text>My passion is writing developer tools. I like the feedback you get and the way it shapes the work.<p>It&#x27;s cool when you can build software and someone runs it on their own data just a short while later and has a direct line of communication to you, providing a tight feedback loop.<p>I quit my job a few months ago and in a few months I&#x27;ll have to find a new one. I thought I&#x27;d see if anybody had any ideas for tools they wanted to see written that lined up with my interests and that I could try my hand at, to see if I could make a go of working on dev tools for myself before going back into the job market.</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>tazjin</author><text>&gt; - A build system &#x2F; package manager like Nix [1] but with a better user experience &#x2F; more straightforward command-line tooling.<p>Working on it :)<p>&gt; - A version control system which scales to petabytes or more. Something that I could put large video files in without thinking twice about it. Something a large company could use for their monorepo—or even their data warehouse.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookexperimental&#x2F;eden" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookexperimental&#x2F;eden</a><p>&gt; A note-taking tool that allows me to organize notes in a graph with links between them<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.orgroam.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.orgroam.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>stepchowfun</author><text>- A build system &#x2F; package manager like Nix [1] but with a better user experience &#x2F; more straightforward command-line tooling.<p>- A dependently typed programming language like Coq [2] (or Agda, Idris, Lean, etc.) that is sufficiently approachable to gain enough mindshare that companies start adopting it for mission-critical work.<p>- A version control system which scales to petabytes or more. Something that I could put large video files in without thinking twice about it. Something a large company could use for their monorepo—or even their data warehouse.<p>- A note-taking tool that allows me to organize notes in a graph with links between them (like a wiki), not as files and folders in a tree, which enforces the invariant that every note is transitively reachable from some &quot;root&quot; (by following links) so I never lose a note.<p>- Something like Toast [3] but which is also designed for running services in production, not just local development and continuous integration. A unified way to run code in dev, test, and prod environments. A new k8s.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.inria.fr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.inria.fr&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stepchowfun&#x2F;toast" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stepchowfun&#x2F;toast</a> (shameless plug)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?</title><text>My passion is writing developer tools. I like the feedback you get and the way it shapes the work.<p>It&#x27;s cool when you can build software and someone runs it on their own data just a short while later and has a direct line of communication to you, providing a tight feedback loop.<p>I quit my job a few months ago and in a few months I&#x27;ll have to find a new one. I thought I&#x27;d see if anybody had any ideas for tools they wanted to see written that lined up with my interests and that I could try my hand at, to see if I could make a go of working on dev tools for myself before going back into the job market.</text></story> |
18,856,676 | 18,856,592 | 1 | 3 | 18,855,029 | 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>packet_nerd</author><text>I find ads in general, and particularly audio ones, to be a super annoying cognitive burden. I have to interrupt my train of thought and consciously block the message they&#x27;re trying to pipe into my brain.<p>I&#x27;m happy to pay for things if its low friction and reasonably priced, but will never accept being advertised to (in any form really, but especially audio and video ads).<p>An audio adblocker seems like a great thing, and I&#x27;m excited about this. If enough of us use it, hopefully we can force creators to abandon ads and find a model where they work for us, not the ad companies.<p>I wish there was a way to block billboards too. Back when google was making google glass, I thought it&#x27;d be possible to block out billboard advertisements someday.. to bad that didn&#x27;t work. Or, just move to a state that bans them, I guess.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brucemoose</author><text>This makes me wonder, what are other viable revenue sources for content creators besides ads?<p>Personally I don&#x27;t mind listening to a few ads on a podcast because I assume it is helping the creator cover their living expenses so that they may continue creating content that I enjoy. And spoken ads (hopefully) are not tracking me, although I suppose there are ways to overlay inaudible tones that other devices can pick up, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Designing an audio adblocker</title><url>https://www.adblockradio.com/blog/2018/11/15/designing-audio-ad-block-radio-podcast/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jniedrauer</author><text>&gt; what are other viable revenue sources for content creators besides ads?<p>I don&#x27;t mind paying content creators directly. I do mind allowing them to commodify parts of my mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brucemoose</author><text>This makes me wonder, what are other viable revenue sources for content creators besides ads?<p>Personally I don&#x27;t mind listening to a few ads on a podcast because I assume it is helping the creator cover their living expenses so that they may continue creating content that I enjoy. And spoken ads (hopefully) are not tracking me, although I suppose there are ways to overlay inaudible tones that other devices can pick up, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Designing an audio adblocker</title><url>https://www.adblockradio.com/blog/2018/11/15/designing-audio-ad-block-radio-podcast/</url></story> |
24,928,813 | 24,928,907 | 1 | 2 | 24,928,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jkilpatr</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a war crime to attack hospitals and the risks of escalation for nation state actors are not aligned with their incentives.<p>The primary point of nation-state cybercrime is that individual citizens have not yet established at any large scale if they would support a physical response to a cyber attack.<p>If you have a physical attack political leadership can be pretty sure the people will support them in retaliating.<p>But with cybercrime, without big pictures on the TV of death and destruction that support does not seem to exist. Combine this with an opposing party willing to capitalize on public doubt and inaction is a political certainty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>Within the past 24 hours at least 5 ransomware attacks[0][1] happened on US hospitals.<p>Apart from timing, the attacks don&#x27;t seem to originate from the same source (which is leading speculation about potential coordination and premature attribution - at least in my social media bubble).<p>&quot;It would be the season to launch politically motivated attacks (so close to election)&quot; is a weak argument because:<p>It&#x27;s a war crime to attack hospitals and the risks of escalation for nation state actors are not aligned with their incentives.<p>Assuming it&#x27;s only financially motivated (crime groups) but with coordination (because timing): Very unlikely because criminal gangs lend themselves poorly to orchestration &#x2F; coordination.<p>A combination of political+criminal (local political actor financing crime groups)? Occam&#x27;s razor cuts deep here.<p>Assume the human brain primed to recognize patterns is a weakness and apply Hanlon&#x27;s razor. Then the &quot;Timing&quot; is just coincidence and cause is horrible healthcare IT.<p>The combination of the pandemic, a politically charged climate (elections), technical-debt in healthcare, premature cyber-attribution, could create a perfect storm.<p>The real lede buried among social media cyber fear-mongering: Discussion wouldn&#x27;t take place if systems had been patched.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;uuallan&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321477875648942086" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;uuallan&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321477875648942086</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;ColdHandsMD&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321227783968796674" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;ColdHandsMD&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321227783968796674</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;whitequark&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321625126841032705" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;whitequark&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321625126841032705</a><p>see also CISA advisory (pdf) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us-cert.cisa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;publications&#x2F;AA20-302A_Ransomware%20_Activity_Targeting_the_Healthcare_and_Public_Health_Sector.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us-cert.cisa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;publications&#x2F;AA...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oregon hospital shuts down computer system after ransomware attack</title><url>https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/oregon-hospital-shuts-down-computer-system-after-ransomware-attack-4-notes.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>simias</author><text>Do all 5 attacks share some common vector? If so it could be that some zero-day or vulnerable target list has been shared within the past few days on some seedy underbelly of the darknet and a few opportunists decided to act on it?</text><parent_chain><item><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>Within the past 24 hours at least 5 ransomware attacks[0][1] happened on US hospitals.<p>Apart from timing, the attacks don&#x27;t seem to originate from the same source (which is leading speculation about potential coordination and premature attribution - at least in my social media bubble).<p>&quot;It would be the season to launch politically motivated attacks (so close to election)&quot; is a weak argument because:<p>It&#x27;s a war crime to attack hospitals and the risks of escalation for nation state actors are not aligned with their incentives.<p>Assuming it&#x27;s only financially motivated (crime groups) but with coordination (because timing): Very unlikely because criminal gangs lend themselves poorly to orchestration &#x2F; coordination.<p>A combination of political+criminal (local political actor financing crime groups)? Occam&#x27;s razor cuts deep here.<p>Assume the human brain primed to recognize patterns is a weakness and apply Hanlon&#x27;s razor. Then the &quot;Timing&quot; is just coincidence and cause is horrible healthcare IT.<p>The combination of the pandemic, a politically charged climate (elections), technical-debt in healthcare, premature cyber-attribution, could create a perfect storm.<p>The real lede buried among social media cyber fear-mongering: Discussion wouldn&#x27;t take place if systems had been patched.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;uuallan&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321477875648942086" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;uuallan&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321477875648942086</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;ColdHandsMD&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321227783968796674" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;ColdHandsMD&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321227783968796674</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;whitequark&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321625126841032705" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;whitequark&#x2F;status&#x2F;1321625126841032705</a><p>see also CISA advisory (pdf) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us-cert.cisa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;publications&#x2F;AA20-302A_Ransomware%20_Activity_Targeting_the_Healthcare_and_Public_Health_Sector.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us-cert.cisa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;publications&#x2F;AA...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oregon hospital shuts down computer system after ransomware attack</title><url>https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/oregon-hospital-shuts-down-computer-system-after-ransomware-attack-4-notes.html</url></story> |
27,504,879 | 27,504,899 | 1 | 2 | 27,501,805 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mLuby</author><text>Honestly I thought you were way off base and that the number of criminals would be orders of magnitude higher than infosec workers, but apparently I&#x27;m wrong.<p>&quot;in 2020, there were 1.8 million people in prison&quot; [1]<p>&quot;[in 2019,] the country’s total employed cybersecurity workforce is just 716,000&quot; [2]<p>&quot;There are about 465,000 open positions in cybersecurity nationwide as of May 2021&quot; [3]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easyreadernews.com&#x2F;why-are-so-many-americans-in-prison-in-2021&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easyreadernews.com&#x2F;why-are-so-many-americans-in-pris...</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;cybersecurity-workforce-gap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;cybersecurity-workforce-gap</a>
[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;cybersecurity-job-openings-united-states&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;cybersecurity-job-openings-unit...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>runarberg</author><text>Out of curiosity. Why do you mention the latter group (people with good information opsec) is tiny when the former group (criminals) is probably an order of magnitude smaller?</text></item><item><author>ska</author><text>&gt; such a law does nothing against proper criminals.<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound right to me; The intersection between criminals and people with good information opsec is tiny(mostly because the latter category is tiny anyway).<p>I agree the law is problematic, but not for that reason.</text></item><item><author>choeger</author><text>Interestingly, such a law does nothing against proper criminals. People that know they have incriminating evidence will either not carry it on their phones or uses some form of steganography to hide it perfectly. In the worst case, they will have some form of wipe-me passphrase that cleans the device before unlocking.<p>Normal people, on the other hand, do not have these kind of (mental, time) resources. They will be forced to unlock their phones and <i>something</i> incriminating (for instance regarding &quot;hate speech&quot; or &quot;intellectual property rights&quot; or just &quot;traffic violations&quot;) will be found. I consider this approach one step more in the direction of keeping every citizen an on-demand criminal. There are so many, sometimes incomprehensible, laws nowadays that pretty much everyone is not compliant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irish police to be given powers over passwords</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57468750</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ska</author><text>&gt; is tiny when the former group (criminals) is probably an order of magnitude smaller?<p>How did you arrive at that? Even a significant fraction of people I know who <i>do security work</i> would agree they don&#x27;t in general have good info opsec, because it&#x27;s a pain in the ass. Most of the technical people I know wouldn&#x27;t even know how to do it properly.<p>&quot;Criminals&quot; is hard to define precisely, but some small integer percent is at least a reasonable lower bound. Afaics people who are actually good at info opsec don&#x27;t number in the millions.<p>So even if we simplify by assuming the rough magnitude of both groups is the same, you still have the intersection of two small groups -&gt; tiny. This is probably complicated a little bit because criminals have more incentive than average, if not more experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>runarberg</author><text>Out of curiosity. Why do you mention the latter group (people with good information opsec) is tiny when the former group (criminals) is probably an order of magnitude smaller?</text></item><item><author>ska</author><text>&gt; such a law does nothing against proper criminals.<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound right to me; The intersection between criminals and people with good information opsec is tiny(mostly because the latter category is tiny anyway).<p>I agree the law is problematic, but not for that reason.</text></item><item><author>choeger</author><text>Interestingly, such a law does nothing against proper criminals. People that know they have incriminating evidence will either not carry it on their phones or uses some form of steganography to hide it perfectly. In the worst case, they will have some form of wipe-me passphrase that cleans the device before unlocking.<p>Normal people, on the other hand, do not have these kind of (mental, time) resources. They will be forced to unlock their phones and <i>something</i> incriminating (for instance regarding &quot;hate speech&quot; or &quot;intellectual property rights&quot; or just &quot;traffic violations&quot;) will be found. I consider this approach one step more in the direction of keeping every citizen an on-demand criminal. There are so many, sometimes incomprehensible, laws nowadays that pretty much everyone is not compliant.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irish police to be given powers over passwords</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57468750</url></story> |
35,375,303 | 35,370,443 | 1 | 2 | 35,364,985 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fatnoah</author><text>&gt; I can&#x27;t imagine what it would have been like if I had spent the week out commuting between the hours of 7am to 7pm<p>I can, because I lived that life. My wife and I moved from 1 bedroom apartment in the city to a house in a suburb (&quot;only&quot; 10 miles away) and the only time during the week I was able to spend much time with my child was 7am-8:30am before school. By the time I got home, he was going to bed. Generally, one weekend day had to be devoted to home&#x2F;yard maintenance in the summer.<p>Before he started kindergarten, my wife and I decided that&#x27;s not how we wanted to live our lives, so we sold the house and went back to renting w&#x2F;a 2 bedroom apartment back in the city. My commute was 30 minutes, if I walked, with my son&#x27;s school about at the halfway point of the commute. I was able to walk my son to school daily, and leave my office at 5pm and get to the sports fields at 5:15pm to coach sports. As a bonus, no house or yard to take care of meant both weekend days were also free. No regrets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jossclimb</author><text>I have been remote for 11 years now and have two children 9 and 12. I can&#x27;t imagine what it would have been like if I had spent the week out commuting between the hours of 7am to 7pm, we would have lost out on so much bonding time with their daddy being an integral part of their life.<p>I managed to be highly productive, build a career, yet be there for bath times, tucking into bed, school plays &#x2F; sports days, nursing when ill, impromptu dancing to toddlers programs on the TV.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation</title><url>https://eig.org/remote-work-family-formation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyoma</author><text>I’ve also been working from home and very glad to have been there for my kids when they are young, but <i>highly productive</i> are not two words I’d use to describe the experience.<p>I guess my time management and prioritization skill have improved by necessity, but the lack of uninterrupted quiet time is real.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jossclimb</author><text>I have been remote for 11 years now and have two children 9 and 12. I can&#x27;t imagine what it would have been like if I had spent the week out commuting between the hours of 7am to 7pm, we would have lost out on so much bonding time with their daddy being an integral part of their life.<p>I managed to be highly productive, build a career, yet be there for bath times, tucking into bed, school plays &#x2F; sports days, nursing when ill, impromptu dancing to toddlers programs on the TV.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation</title><url>https://eig.org/remote-work-family-formation/</url></story> |
34,835,775 | 34,835,732 | 1 | 2 | 34,835,200 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Retr0id</author><text>IIUC both were projects spawned after Audacity added telemetry to their release builds.<p>The telemetry in Audacity is behind both a build flag, and a runtime opt-in setting (although it was originally going to be opt-out, hence the uproar (I need to go fact-check this, it&#x27;s been a while)).<p>So, if you install Audacity through your distro&#x27;s package manager, you&#x27;re probably not getting any telemetry, opt-in or otherwise.<p>With that in mind, I&#x27;m not sure I understand why these forks exist exactly. If I was a windows or macOS user, I might be interested in telemetry-free builds, and I&#x27;d be very thankful for anyone providing them, but I&#x27;m not sure why a whole fork is needed to do that.<p>Looking at the git tree, it&#x27;s clear that these forks have diverged significantly from upstream Audacity (simply from looking at commit counts and screenshots etc.), so it&#x27;s apparently not a simple build-config-change and rebrand. However, the marketing blurb on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tenacityaudio.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tenacityaudio.org&#x2F;</a> does not make it clear which features are distinct from upstream.<p>Edit: You can read about the telemetry options currently present in Audacity here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.audacityteam.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;desktop-privacy-notice&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.audacityteam.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;desktop-privacy-notice&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity</title><url>https://github.com/Audacium/audacium/commit/709c098bdc2968c12fcf9b7092af12d11f309101</url></story> | <instructions>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>Audacity is audio&#x2F;sample editor¹ that&#x27;s popular as a My First Editor™ for podcasters, etc. For anyone wondering why the Audacium&#x2F;Tenacity forks exist: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;audacity-reverses-course-on-plans-to-add-opt-in-telemetry-after-outcry&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;audacity-reverses-course-on-pl...</a><p>Apparently, Audacity telemetry is now restricted to a self-hosted Sentry error reporting service, and to sending version info an IP address (anonymized to the first 3 octets) on update checks.<p>¹ It&#x27;s a so-called &quot;destructive&quot; audio editor², and so is different than modern, &quot;non-destructive&quot; audio editors like GarageBand, Reaper, Descript, etc.<p>² <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.iq.harvard.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;hks-communications-program&#x2F;files&#x2F;ho_2_kgagne-audacity_10_30_17.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.iq.harvard.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;hks-communications-pro...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity</title><url>https://github.com/Audacium/audacium/commit/709c098bdc2968c12fcf9b7092af12d11f309101</url></story> |
12,598,262 | 12,598,137 | 1 | 2 | 12,597,800 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>To me the title sounds like they just mean the missile was <i>made</i> in Russia, which was obvious from the start. (Even if the Ukranians had been responsible, their missiles were still made in Russia!)<p>What they actually mean is that the missile was transported in from Russia shortly before the shootdown, and the launcher and remaining missiles went back to Russia not long after. But yes, the wording of the title is way too vague.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lfx</author><text>It is me or title looks very ambiguous? It sounds that missile was launched from Russian grounds. What a scary way to begin a morning.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MH17 missile 'brought in from Russia'</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37495067</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>supergirl</author><text>Yeah. Title is technically correct but to make it so ambiguous it has to be intentional.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lfx</author><text>It is me or title looks very ambiguous? It sounds that missile was launched from Russian grounds. What a scary way to begin a morning.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MH17 missile 'brought in from Russia'</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37495067</url></story> |
21,603,108 | 21,603,174 | 1 | 2 | 21,599,546 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chongli</author><text><i>but &quot;it&#x27;s unfamiliar if you don&#x27;t use FP&quot; is a terrible one</i><p>I get the sense that there is a large contingent of programmers who feel disdain for mathematics and FP gets caught in the crossfire. It’s unfair toward both mathematics and functional programming.<p>I would love it if North American culture could adopt a better attitude toward mathematics in general. I think far too many people decide they’re bad at mathematics at some point in high school and never look back. This attitude is far less prevalent in many Asian cultures, where the emphasis is put on hard work instead of talent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>adrusi</author><text><i>from a programming perspecting it looks really un-readable if you don&#x27;t use FP.</i><p>I don&#x27;t mean this as a slight, and I myself am slacking in the same regard, but it&#x27;s depressing to me that this attitude is so prevalent among professionals.<p>There might be some good engineering reasons that tools like Docker and Kubernetes have much more traction than Nix, but &quot;it&#x27;s unfamiliar if you don&#x27;t use FP&quot; is a terrible one. It doesn&#x27;t require that much investment to become familiar, and there seems to be many fantastic advantages to functional approaches.<p>Why does our industry tolerate this laziness?</text></item><item><author>Thaxll</author><text>Because this is a toy demo that doesn&#x27;t do anything, in the real world you need much more that than just to do something simple.<p>Also it looks &quot;beautiful&quot; to your eye, from a programming perspecting it looks really un-readable if you don&#x27;t use FP.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Gabriel439&#x2F;simple-twitter&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Main.hs#L174" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Gabriel439&#x2F;simple-twitter&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Mai...</a></text></item><item><author>cblum</author><text>This is the first time I’m seeing that. It’s so beautiful. It’s elegant. I can understand it.<p>Why can’t the world move in that direction, instead of the insane Kubernetes hype that’s prevalent these days?</text></item><item><author>apetresc</author><text>A note to those who might dismiss this without looking at it carefully because you assume it&#x27;s just some SPA that mocks the Twitter UI: it&#x27;s actually a NixOps file (with everything inlined) that deploys the entire stack, including a full backend and database.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file</title><url>https://github.com/Gabriel439/simple-twitter/blob/master/Main.hs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hota_mazi</author><text>&gt; It doesn&#x27;t require that much investment to become familiar,<p>It requires a lot of investment to become familiar.<p>I&#x27;ve found this mischaracterization very common among people who are proficient with FP: they forget where they came from, how long it took them to get familiar with all these concepts (the Haskell syntax first, then the FP mindset, then advanced concepts like monoids, functors, applicatives, monads), etc...</text><parent_chain><item><author>adrusi</author><text><i>from a programming perspecting it looks really un-readable if you don&#x27;t use FP.</i><p>I don&#x27;t mean this as a slight, and I myself am slacking in the same regard, but it&#x27;s depressing to me that this attitude is so prevalent among professionals.<p>There might be some good engineering reasons that tools like Docker and Kubernetes have much more traction than Nix, but &quot;it&#x27;s unfamiliar if you don&#x27;t use FP&quot; is a terrible one. It doesn&#x27;t require that much investment to become familiar, and there seems to be many fantastic advantages to functional approaches.<p>Why does our industry tolerate this laziness?</text></item><item><author>Thaxll</author><text>Because this is a toy demo that doesn&#x27;t do anything, in the real world you need much more that than just to do something simple.<p>Also it looks &quot;beautiful&quot; to your eye, from a programming perspecting it looks really un-readable if you don&#x27;t use FP.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Gabriel439&#x2F;simple-twitter&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Main.hs#L174" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Gabriel439&#x2F;simple-twitter&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Mai...</a></text></item><item><author>cblum</author><text>This is the first time I’m seeing that. It’s so beautiful. It’s elegant. I can understand it.<p>Why can’t the world move in that direction, instead of the insane Kubernetes hype that’s prevalent these days?</text></item><item><author>apetresc</author><text>A note to those who might dismiss this without looking at it carefully because you assume it&#x27;s just some SPA that mocks the Twitter UI: it&#x27;s actually a NixOps file (with everything inlined) that deploys the entire stack, including a full backend and database.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file</title><url>https://github.com/Gabriel439/simple-twitter/blob/master/Main.hs</url></story> |
26,870,408 | 26,870,234 | 1 | 2 | 26,869,814 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ToFab123</author><text>I remember that they made an special version just for me. An update had removed a feature i used a lot.<p>A while later I helped them track down an error they couldn&#x27;t find the cause of. They asked how they could thank me and i replied &quot;bring back feature x&quot;<p>For a little while they put up a link to a &quot;Tony-edition&quot; on the official download site until they got the feature back in the regular release. I still have it somewhere.<p>Hotdog was my first html editor. Brilliant is was. Happy memories</text><parent_chain><item><author>mynameisash</author><text>I was really hoping that this was some sort of reboot of the HotDog[0] HTML editor by Sausage Software[1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;tucows_194462_HotDog_Professional" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;tucows_194462_HotDog_Professiona...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sausage_Software" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sausage_Software</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Hotdog web browser and browser engine</title><url>https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cosmotic</author><text>I thought the same thing! I was pretty excited.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20020603235020&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sausage.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20020603235020&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sausag...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20040605112000&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sausage.com&#x2F;hotdog-professional.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20040605112000&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sausag...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mynameisash</author><text>I was really hoping that this was some sort of reboot of the HotDog[0] HTML editor by Sausage Software[1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;tucows_194462_HotDog_Professional" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;tucows_194462_HotDog_Professiona...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sausage_Software" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sausage_Software</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Hotdog web browser and browser engine</title><url>https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb</url></story> |
8,437,687 | 8,437,283 | 1 | 3 | 8,436,309 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anon1385</author><text>Text isn&#x27;t the universal interface in Unix, byte streams are. You can quite happily send non-textual control characters and such around in Unix, or pipe data containing NULLs from one process to another. &#x27;Text&#x27; is a very seductive abstraction, but it&#x27;s one of the most brutal to work with once you start interacting with the real world and have to give up on ascii and deal with encodings and unicode and so on.<p>Putting commands and data inline is a recipe for disaster and a million command injection exploits. The Unix philosophy has broken the minds of generations of programmers. It leads them to doing things like concatenating strings to build SQL queries or doing IPC with ad-hoc regex-parsed protocols or using a couple of magical characters to indicate that the contents of a variable should be parsed and executed instead of just stored. Take a read of some of the earlier threads on HN about <i>Shellshock</i>, and you will find numerous people blaming Apache for not &quot;escaping&quot; the data it was putting in a shell variable. As if it even could.<p>Even Unix nerds have at least partially internalised the dangerousness of the paradigm -- &quot;don&#x27;t parse the output of ls&quot; and so on. The fact that the Unix paradigm (passing everything as strings with magical characters and escape sequences) is broken for the most fundamental computing tasks like working with file names ought to be a damning inditement of the paradigm. Sadly people merely parrot the rote learned lesson &quot;don&#x27;t parse ls because file names can&#x27;t be trusted&quot;, without thinking about all the other untrusted data they expose to unix shells all the time.<p>Just this week Yahoo got exploited. At first people thought it was <i>Shellshock</i>, but no, it was just a routine command injection vulnerability in their log processing shell scripts. A problem blighting just about every non-trivial shell script ever written.<p>The usual reply is &quot;don&#x27;t use shells with untrusted data&quot;. But auditing where any particular bit of data came from can be just about impossible once it has been across several systems through programmes written in a variety of languages, stored on a file system, read back and so on. The only sane solution is to never use shell scripts.<p>Like the C memory and integer model makes writing secure C code borderline impossible, the Unix &quot;single pipe of bytes that defaults to being commands&quot; paradigm makes writing secure shell scripts borderline impossible.<p>Unix needs to be taken out back and shot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zorbo</author><text>Text is the universal interface. You can do things with it. You can strip it, cut it, transform it, send it to other places. Humans can read it, programs can read it, your printer can output it. It can be sent to web APIs, it can be stored anywhere. It&#x27;s compressible, can be colored and can be copy-pasted and is infinitely extendable. Thousands of protocols run over it.<p>The command line works with text. The command line remains the best interface I&#x27;ve ever used. It&#x27;s user friendly, composable and available everywhere. It&#x27;s easy to automate and easy to extend.<p>I wish the &quot;command line with pictures&quot; idea would just go away already. It adds nothing for the general public. I can already view pictures on remote machines with X forwarding.<p>Command line with pictures never made it, because there are ten competing standards. With text, everybody just agreed on ASCII and now Unicode&#x2F;UTF8. Text has hundreds of ugly clutches on top of it (Extended ASCII, ANSI, Escape codes, etc, etc). It still works. It&#x27;s still simple. It has its problems, but nowhere near as many problems as GUIs.<p>Those who don&#x27;t understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it... poorly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rich Command Shells</title><url>http://waywardmonkeys.org/2014/10/10/rich-command-shells/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aduitsis</author><text>Exactly as you indicate, even in &quot;classic&quot; terminals we have features like unicode support, color, geometry reporting, mouse reporting, window title manipulation, arbitrary cursor movement, etc. All these are in widespread use today. These features could not have been implemented in a real tty, but nowadays I think it makes sense to have them. Maybe some are a little kludge-ish, but are we really arguing about their usefulness?<p>So why shouldn&#x27;t we have a couple of extra escape sequences where the terminal could, e.g. draw an arbitrary bitmap? You are right, that would certainly require some sort of standard becoming prevalent, but why would a little extra capability (that doesn&#x27;t break compatibility) be a bad thing?</text><parent_chain><item><author>zorbo</author><text>Text is the universal interface. You can do things with it. You can strip it, cut it, transform it, send it to other places. Humans can read it, programs can read it, your printer can output it. It can be sent to web APIs, it can be stored anywhere. It&#x27;s compressible, can be colored and can be copy-pasted and is infinitely extendable. Thousands of protocols run over it.<p>The command line works with text. The command line remains the best interface I&#x27;ve ever used. It&#x27;s user friendly, composable and available everywhere. It&#x27;s easy to automate and easy to extend.<p>I wish the &quot;command line with pictures&quot; idea would just go away already. It adds nothing for the general public. I can already view pictures on remote machines with X forwarding.<p>Command line with pictures never made it, because there are ten competing standards. With text, everybody just agreed on ASCII and now Unicode&#x2F;UTF8. Text has hundreds of ugly clutches on top of it (Extended ASCII, ANSI, Escape codes, etc, etc). It still works. It&#x27;s still simple. It has its problems, but nowhere near as many problems as GUIs.<p>Those who don&#x27;t understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it... poorly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rich Command Shells</title><url>http://waywardmonkeys.org/2014/10/10/rich-command-shells/</url></story> |
31,194,056 | 31,193,478 | 1 | 2 | 31,190,795 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bregma</author><text>The depths of all the lakes except Eerie are below mean sea level. It would require a prolonged period of new orogeny for the lakes to disappear. Since that hasn&#x27;t happened in a few billion years in the area, it&#x27;s more likely that the sun will expand to encompass the orbit of the Earth and vapourize the entire planet first.<p>Hardly something that will happen in a few thousand years. But you never know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>&gt; In this climate change age<p>The Great Lakes only exist because the massive ice sheet melted and left the lakes as a deposit some 10-15,000 years ago.<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few thousand years the lakes largely dissipate.<p>That said I grew up near the lake, definitely something that’s awesome to live near</text></item><item><author>godtoldmetodoit</author><text>I grew up in south west Michigan and absolutely took them for granted. After almost 5 years in Austin we decided to come back to Michigan with the birth of our first child. I missed the lakes terribly, just totally took for granted that not everywhere has fresh water surrounding them on all sides.<p>In this climate change age, being close to so much fresh water really helps calm my nerves knowing that I am in a spot that will be able to weather the changes better then most and possibly become a refuge for more people.</text></item><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>Seas or not, I love the lakes and the land around them, in the 20+ years since I moved myself here they&#x27;ve taken over my heart. I&#x27;m from the aspen parkland of central Alberta; thin trees, dry air, small muddy leach-infested kettle lakes, big skies, poplar and birch land. When I was 8 we did a trip across Canada, and I remember us camping by the shores of Superior when a massive thunderstorm came rolling in, and it left a lifelong impression on me. When I was 16 I did an exchange with a family in rural Ontario near Huron, and the moment I saw the rolling green hills, the maples and oaks, the cyan waters of Huron lapping against the limestone, the heavy humid air, the wild grapes crawling on every fence, I was sold. In my early 20s I moved to Toronto for work, and I&#x27;ve been near Lake Ontario since. I&#x27;m an atheist, a materialist... but there&#x27;s something deeply spiritual about the Great Lakes, powerful and intimidating like the ocean but more accomodating in their fresh water and the fact that massive as they are, they&#x27;re more finite than the ocean. My wife participated in an archaeological dig down on some low flat lands near the shore, on a calm inland bay near here some years ago. The ceramic cookware, the copious fish bones, the arrowheads and fish hooks, it was fascinating how the lake has been giving rich life to people here for thousands of years; in fact so diminished now from what it was then when fish were more abundant.<p>They&#x27;re pretty awesome, these lakes. I am not sure people who grow up next to them (like my kids) appreciate what they are in the same way?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/great-lakes-inland-seas</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>khuey</author><text>The Great Lakes will eventually go away, but not for the reason you think. Niagara Falls is eroding its way upstream and will eventually reach Lake Erie, at which point Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan will all drain away downstream.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>&gt; In this climate change age<p>The Great Lakes only exist because the massive ice sheet melted and left the lakes as a deposit some 10-15,000 years ago.<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few thousand years the lakes largely dissipate.<p>That said I grew up near the lake, definitely something that’s awesome to live near</text></item><item><author>godtoldmetodoit</author><text>I grew up in south west Michigan and absolutely took them for granted. After almost 5 years in Austin we decided to come back to Michigan with the birth of our first child. I missed the lakes terribly, just totally took for granted that not everywhere has fresh water surrounding them on all sides.<p>In this climate change age, being close to so much fresh water really helps calm my nerves knowing that I am in a spot that will be able to weather the changes better then most and possibly become a refuge for more people.</text></item><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>Seas or not, I love the lakes and the land around them, in the 20+ years since I moved myself here they&#x27;ve taken over my heart. I&#x27;m from the aspen parkland of central Alberta; thin trees, dry air, small muddy leach-infested kettle lakes, big skies, poplar and birch land. When I was 8 we did a trip across Canada, and I remember us camping by the shores of Superior when a massive thunderstorm came rolling in, and it left a lifelong impression on me. When I was 16 I did an exchange with a family in rural Ontario near Huron, and the moment I saw the rolling green hills, the maples and oaks, the cyan waters of Huron lapping against the limestone, the heavy humid air, the wild grapes crawling on every fence, I was sold. In my early 20s I moved to Toronto for work, and I&#x27;ve been near Lake Ontario since. I&#x27;m an atheist, a materialist... but there&#x27;s something deeply spiritual about the Great Lakes, powerful and intimidating like the ocean but more accomodating in their fresh water and the fact that massive as they are, they&#x27;re more finite than the ocean. My wife participated in an archaeological dig down on some low flat lands near the shore, on a calm inland bay near here some years ago. The ceramic cookware, the copious fish bones, the arrowheads and fish hooks, it was fascinating how the lake has been giving rich life to people here for thousands of years; in fact so diminished now from what it was then when fish were more abundant.<p>They&#x27;re pretty awesome, these lakes. I am not sure people who grow up next to them (like my kids) appreciate what they are in the same way?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/great-lakes-inland-seas</url></story> |
23,812,366 | 23,812,592 | 1 | 3 | 23,811,679 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rorykoehler</author><text>Posted 10 mins ago and already downvoted. Do HN not have algos to stop this astroturfing behaviour? It’s becoming very prevalent for anything that criticises the CCP.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ciguy</author><text>I&#x27;ve been to China a few times, most recently in late 2018. I traveled overland by train from Beijing to Xian and then to Shanghai. Everything as a non-chinese citizen was just harder than it was when I visited in 2014. Buying train tickets was a massive hassle without a Chinese ID. Paying for anything was difficult because many places no longer take cash and you can&#x27;t really get a proper WeChat account as a foreigner.<p>The entire time I just couldn&#x27;t shake the feeling that I was living in a dystopian future. Security around Tiananmen Square in Beijing was so overdone it would almost have been funny if it wasn&#x27;t scary. Facial recognition scans on the metro system. In Shanghai they use facial recognition at crosswalks and then put up the name and picture of violators on a huge screen at the intersection (I can only assume they also deduct from their social credit score).<p>If this is the direction China wants to continue to go in, I no longer want anything to do with it. As long as the CCP is in power I won&#x27;t be visiting again. And now that includes Hong Kong sadly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US citizens warned they face arbitrary arrest in China</title><url>https://m.dw.com/en/us-citizens-warned-they-face-arbitrary-arrest-in-china/a-54144205</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackewiehose</author><text>&gt; The entire time I just couldn&#x27;t shake the feeling that I was
living in a dystopian future [...] they use facial recognition
at crosswalks and then put up the name and picture of violators
on a huge screen at the intersection<p>&quot;feeling of a dystopian future&quot;? That sounds straight like from an episode of Black Mirror.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ciguy</author><text>I&#x27;ve been to China a few times, most recently in late 2018. I traveled overland by train from Beijing to Xian and then to Shanghai. Everything as a non-chinese citizen was just harder than it was when I visited in 2014. Buying train tickets was a massive hassle without a Chinese ID. Paying for anything was difficult because many places no longer take cash and you can&#x27;t really get a proper WeChat account as a foreigner.<p>The entire time I just couldn&#x27;t shake the feeling that I was living in a dystopian future. Security around Tiananmen Square in Beijing was so overdone it would almost have been funny if it wasn&#x27;t scary. Facial recognition scans on the metro system. In Shanghai they use facial recognition at crosswalks and then put up the name and picture of violators on a huge screen at the intersection (I can only assume they also deduct from their social credit score).<p>If this is the direction China wants to continue to go in, I no longer want anything to do with it. As long as the CCP is in power I won&#x27;t be visiting again. And now that includes Hong Kong sadly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US citizens warned they face arbitrary arrest in China</title><url>https://m.dw.com/en/us-citizens-warned-they-face-arbitrary-arrest-in-china/a-54144205</url></story> |
19,954,628 | 19,951,251 | 1 | 3 | 19,950,560 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klyrs</author><text>I&#x27;ve always found Slack&#x27;s link handling to be weird and annoying. Show me the URL I&#x27;m going to be sent to, and stop clickjacking. Please. My company has an internal domain, so when we link to internal docs, it splats because Slack can&#x27;t resolve the hostname. And we&#x27;re paying for this inconvenience.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stealing Downloads from Slack Users</title><url>https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/stealing-downloads-from-slack-users-be6829a55f63</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gaelan</author><text>It intrigues me that (per the screenshot in the post) slack appears to bundle uncompiled TS source in their app. You&#x27;d think that they&#x27;d just have a single JS bundle so their code wasn&#x27;t so easy to reverse engineer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stealing Downloads from Slack Users</title><url>https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/stealing-downloads-from-slack-users-be6829a55f63</url></story> |
6,166,661 | 6,165,998 | 1 | 3 | 6,165,711 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snsr</author><text>Secondary liability for service providers and hosts on the internet remains a serious threat to the open web. Service providers should not be held accountable for the content of their users.<p>This effort to bring back parts of SOPA, combined with a recent push by state attorneys general[1] to compromise Section 230 of the CDA are extremely concerning to me.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130724/12345123927/state-attorneys-general-want-to-sue-innovators-children.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;innovation&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20130724&#x2F;12...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05/sopa-died-in-2012-but-obama-administration-wants-to-revive-part-of-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>magoon</author><text>Think about the starving artists - decades of downloading have crippled the entertainment industries so much thay there are no new artists, songs, movies, video games, software comlanies, television shows -- oh, wait...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05/sopa-died-in-2012-but-obama-administration-wants-to-revive-part-of-it/</url></story> |
31,091,376 | 31,087,209 | 1 | 3 | 31,086,310 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woojoo666</author><text>&gt; As it turns out, a lot of people <i>choose</i> to be inclusive and non-inflammatory.<p>I think you are making the implicit assumption here that there is a single path towards &quot;inclusive&quot; and &quot;non-inflammatory&quot;. But that&#x27;s not always the case. For example, some people prefer the term GSRM (Gender-Sexual-Romantic Minority [1]) in favor of LGBT because they see it as more inclusive. Others see it as problematic [2]. Should Google Docs push one term over the other? Or just not make a stance? But how do they choose when to make a stance? Because once they do start making a stance, it has <i>massive</i> influence over the public. And that&#x27;s the real issue; these features allow companies to have greater and greater influence and power over the public discourse.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sexual_minority" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sexual_minority</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sexual_minority#Controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sexual_minority#Controversy</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Here&#x27;s the announcement from Google: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspaceupdates.googleblog.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;more-assistive-writing-suggestions-in.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspaceupdates.googleblog.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;more-assisti...</a><p>You could think of it as Google wanting to police people, OR you could see it as Google seeing that a ton of people use Grammarly and clearly want this feature. (Remember, Google Docs is used for lots of formal docs. It&#x27;s not a chat app or Twitter clone.)<p>As it turns out, a lot of people <i>choose</i> to be inclusive and non-inflammatory.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twofornone</author><text>&gt;As it turns out, a lot of people choose to be inclusive and non-inflammatory.<p>Ideologues deliberately gloss over the fact that the &quot;inclusiveness&quot; has become inflammatory.<p>Edit: our D&amp;I consultant does not allow us to use words like &quot;analysis&quot;, &quot;independent&quot;, &quot;lead&quot;, &quot;driven&quot;, and &quot;competitive&quot; (there is a whole laundry list) in our job postings to foster &quot;inclusiveness&quot; [0]. The implication that these traits, which are virtues in my culture, are undesirable, is offensive, as is this top-down culturally mandated feminization. Google is doing the same thing here. Its a minority imposing their culture onto others. Let&#x27;s not even get started on the views that we are <i>supposed</i> to have regarding, say, gender.<p>The same &quot;research&quot; is undoubtedly underpinning Google&#x27;s &quot;inclusive&quot; suggestions. Is this really benefitting anybody? It&#x27;s worse than mere coddling, it&#x27;s antithetical to the equality movement, fosters a toxic workplace for straight men, and we should all be pushing back against it.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ongig.com&#x2F;diversity-and-inclusion&#x2F;list-of-gender-coded-words&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ongig.com&#x2F;diversity-and-inclusion&#x2F;list-of-gende...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Here&#x27;s the announcement from Google: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspaceupdates.googleblog.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;more-assistive-writing-suggestions-in.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspaceupdates.googleblog.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;more-assisti...</a><p>You could think of it as Google wanting to police people, OR you could see it as Google seeing that a ton of people use Grammarly and clearly want this feature. (Remember, Google Docs is used for lots of formal docs. It&#x27;s not a chat app or Twitter clone.)<p>As it turns out, a lot of people <i>choose</i> to be inclusive and non-inflammatory.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554</url></story> |
11,808,993 | 11,808,323 | 1 | 3 | 11,807,450 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>&gt;&gt; &quot;The liberal would prefer to keep universal healthcare and food programs and put cash on top, making the total distribution to the poor larger.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d definitely say I look at it from a liberal (non-libertarian perspective) but I don&#x27;t agree with your statement. I believe universal, free health care should be available but not a food program. The money you get as your BI should cover basic living requirements - rent, food, clothing, heat. I come from a country which has free health care (NHS) which I think should remain in place. If citizens had no choice but to pay for health care then the BI should be higher to cover that cost (although I think cost of health care would rise and people would end up screwed - hence why we should have a free system). So put simply your BI should be enough for you to live &#x27;comfortably&#x27;. That doesn&#x27;t mean with a nice TV and steak for dinner every night - it means clean, warm shelter, healthy home cooked meals, adequate health care etc. The essentials for living. If you want anything more you can work. We&#x27;re putting more trust in people by giving them the money without any conditions on it but I believe if there aren&#x27;t extra safety nets and BI is equal to or greater than current welfare payments people will learn quickly. Their financial position doesn&#x27;t change, just the trust put in them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acgourley</author><text>You&#x27;ll find there are two voices for BI, the liberal and the liberatian. The liberal would prefer to <i>keep</i> universal healthcare and food programs and put cash on top, making the total distribution to the poor larger. The liberatian would prefer to simply move the complex paternalistic safety net into a simpler cash payment which doesn&#x27;t disincentivize work while not increasing it&#x27;s size.<p>As an aside, if you pay attention you&#x27;ll see the two types of people will squelch their vocalizations in the interest of a short term alliance in support of BI.<p>Personally I believe the liberal position has both moral and practical superiority. It&#x27;s going to be cheaper to make sure people have bread and vaccinations despite themselves than it&#x27;s going to be to solve the resulting issues later.</text></item><item><author>colinplamondon</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;d hope the system would absolutely tell them &quot;tough shit&quot;. There&#x27;s got to be a line where the safety net gives out, because someone is too expensive to help.<p>That&#x27;s where family and charity hopefully take over.<p>At the same time, I think your instinct is right, and it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve never heard mentioned before. It&#x27;s almost inevitably that there&#x27;ll then be the &quot;food security&quot; fund, and the &quot;housing guarantee&quot; fund.... and then we&#x27;ve just recreated the existing system.<p>That&#x27;s the best argument against BI I&#x27;ve heard, and one I&#x27;d love to hear rebuttals to.</text></item><item><author>xienze</author><text>So, a question for the BI fans:<p>I&#x27;ve seen it said repeatedly that BI will save us money (or at least, not be so outrageously expensive) in part because we can eliminate existing welfare programs. &quot;Just cut a single check, no more overhead from several agencies&quot;, they say.<p>But riddle me this: what do you do when someone on BI has a financial emergency or, as will happen with some regularity, just flat-out blows all their money and now can&#x27;t afford rent and&#x2F;or food? Do you tell them &quot;tough shit, you&#x27;ve exhausted all your social safety nets&quot; or are there safety nets below BI, essentially recreating the welfare programs previously destroyed? If so, how do you prevent fraud without a department following up on Joe&#x27;s twelfth &quot;my car broke down&quot; case of the year?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving Forward on Basic Income</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>The two types of people might squelch their vocalization when writing arguments in support of the BI. But both would vote in favour of the status quo against the other side&#x27;s proposal if given the opportunity: liberals don&#x27;t want a meagre BI to replace most of the welfare state and most existing low income tax credits and libertarians <i>certainly</i> don&#x27;t want high taxes to pay for a generous BI in addition to most existing programmes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acgourley</author><text>You&#x27;ll find there are two voices for BI, the liberal and the liberatian. The liberal would prefer to <i>keep</i> universal healthcare and food programs and put cash on top, making the total distribution to the poor larger. The liberatian would prefer to simply move the complex paternalistic safety net into a simpler cash payment which doesn&#x27;t disincentivize work while not increasing it&#x27;s size.<p>As an aside, if you pay attention you&#x27;ll see the two types of people will squelch their vocalizations in the interest of a short term alliance in support of BI.<p>Personally I believe the liberal position has both moral and practical superiority. It&#x27;s going to be cheaper to make sure people have bread and vaccinations despite themselves than it&#x27;s going to be to solve the resulting issues later.</text></item><item><author>colinplamondon</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;d hope the system would absolutely tell them &quot;tough shit&quot;. There&#x27;s got to be a line where the safety net gives out, because someone is too expensive to help.<p>That&#x27;s where family and charity hopefully take over.<p>At the same time, I think your instinct is right, and it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve never heard mentioned before. It&#x27;s almost inevitably that there&#x27;ll then be the &quot;food security&quot; fund, and the &quot;housing guarantee&quot; fund.... and then we&#x27;ve just recreated the existing system.<p>That&#x27;s the best argument against BI I&#x27;ve heard, and one I&#x27;d love to hear rebuttals to.</text></item><item><author>xienze</author><text>So, a question for the BI fans:<p>I&#x27;ve seen it said repeatedly that BI will save us money (or at least, not be so outrageously expensive) in part because we can eliminate existing welfare programs. &quot;Just cut a single check, no more overhead from several agencies&quot;, they say.<p>But riddle me this: what do you do when someone on BI has a financial emergency or, as will happen with some regularity, just flat-out blows all their money and now can&#x27;t afford rent and&#x2F;or food? Do you tell them &quot;tough shit, you&#x27;ve exhausted all your social safety nets&quot; or are there safety nets below BI, essentially recreating the welfare programs previously destroyed? If so, how do you prevent fraud without a department following up on Joe&#x27;s twelfth &quot;my car broke down&quot; case of the year?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving Forward on Basic Income</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income</url></story> |
19,676,566 | 19,676,570 | 1 | 2 | 19,672,212 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swatkat7</author><text>&quot;ByteDance’s applications TikTok and Helo are hugely popular among India’s teen and pre-teen population, especially in smaller towns. Many Chinese apps, including TikTok, have come under fire not only in India but also in the US, the UK, Hong Kong and Indonesia for content that is often dangerously close to exposing children to nudity and possibly those who seek to coerce or groom underage users into committing explicit acts.&quot;<p>Saved you a click. The rest of the article is fluff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app</title><url>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/no-sc-stay-on-ban-government-asks-apple-google-to-take-down-tiktok-app/articleshow/68898483.cms</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tareqak</author><text>Google has now blocked Tik Tok in India as a result [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-tiktok-india-court&#x2F;google-blocks-chinese-app-tiktok-in-india-after-court-order-idUSKCN1RS1HT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-tiktok-india-court&#x2F;google...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app</title><url>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/no-sc-stay-on-ban-government-asks-apple-google-to-take-down-tiktok-app/articleshow/68898483.cms</url></story> |
38,736,907 | 38,736,737 | 1 | 2 | 38,735,066 | train | <instructions>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>You&#x27;re making a category error, I think. This books&#x2F;course doesn&#x27;t cover physics. It doesn&#x27;t even cover signal stuff, like stuff about how fast the voltage levels stabilize, or even voltages at all.<p>It&#x27;s not &quot;silicon wafer to Tetris&quot; or &quot;pile of protons and neutrons to Tetris&quot; or &quot;transistors to Tetris&quot;. You start with nand gates (and later also you get flipflops for free).<p>This course would work equally well on nand gates made of carved wooden gears, or nand gates made with fluidic logic, or nand gates made by encoding the whole thing into O-gauge hobby railroads.<p>If that&#x27;s the level of explanation you seek, this book is incredible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>How did you learn the prerequisite solid state physics knowledge in order to fully understand the background behind the first two chapters?<p>e.g. The actual mechanism by which an integrated circuit transforms input into useful output. I&#x27;ve never been able to find a solid explanation on how even the simplest real world integrated circuit, such as a TI SN7400, actually does that.</text></item><item><author>meter</author><text>I first attempted this 7 years ago, after I graduated college. I got through the first 2 chapters. It was extremely rewarding. But regrettably, I abandoned it for other side projects.<p>I picked it up again 3 months ago, and it’s been a blast. I’m on chapter 8, having completed the logic gates, ALU, CPU, assembler, and half of the virtual machine.<p>Every chapter is overwhelming — in a good way. I keep thinking to myself, “how the hell is this going to work?” And when it does, it’s so satisfying.<p>As a side project, purely for educational purposes, it’s the most rewarding thing I’ve done. I’ve learned so much. It’s a damn good project. And I’m damn proud of myself for sticking with it.<p>Highly recommended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>From Nand to Tetris (2017)</title><url>https://www.nand2tetris.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>moritzwarhier</author><text>I have only faint memories of my beginner&#x27;s course on this topic at university, and absolutely no knowledge.<p>Somehow I remember the word MOSFET.<p>I think the wikipedia articles about logic gates should provide all necessary cross references.<p>&quot;Fully understand&quot; is an elusive term though. How do you fully understand the solid-state physics of logic gates if you don&#x27;t fully understand all of physics, chemistry, maybe even quantum mechanics...<p>Not meaning to be dismissive though! I love to try to fully understand things and hate having to accept black box logic. But I also have to admit that I&#x27;ve given up on this approach for many things a long time ago.<p>Skimming the course summary, it sounds as if this &quot;Hardware Description Language&quot; might mark the boundary of what this course is about.<p>Makes sense, it&#x27;s not &quot;from physics to NAND&quot;, it&#x27;s &quot;from NAND to Tetris&quot; :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>How did you learn the prerequisite solid state physics knowledge in order to fully understand the background behind the first two chapters?<p>e.g. The actual mechanism by which an integrated circuit transforms input into useful output. I&#x27;ve never been able to find a solid explanation on how even the simplest real world integrated circuit, such as a TI SN7400, actually does that.</text></item><item><author>meter</author><text>I first attempted this 7 years ago, after I graduated college. I got through the first 2 chapters. It was extremely rewarding. But regrettably, I abandoned it for other side projects.<p>I picked it up again 3 months ago, and it’s been a blast. I’m on chapter 8, having completed the logic gates, ALU, CPU, assembler, and half of the virtual machine.<p>Every chapter is overwhelming — in a good way. I keep thinking to myself, “how the hell is this going to work?” And when it does, it’s so satisfying.<p>As a side project, purely for educational purposes, it’s the most rewarding thing I’ve done. I’ve learned so much. It’s a damn good project. And I’m damn proud of myself for sticking with it.<p>Highly recommended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>From Nand to Tetris (2017)</title><url>https://www.nand2tetris.org</url></story> |
3,109,486 | 3,109,492 | 1 | 2 | 3,109,225 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grannyg00se</author><text>To say she thinks the magazine is a broken iPad is quite a leap. There is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is an iPad. And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken".<p>She is simply trying familiar gestures on a similar looking media.<p>Give her magazines for the next couple of days and you may find she tries to turn the iPad over looking for other pages. It's not because she thinks the iPad is a broken magazine. It's simple familiarity. First we try what we know. Failing that, we begin to experiment.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20120086-71/1-year-old-thinks-a-magazine-is-a-broken-ipad/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>Notice that the kid is interacting with the magazine outside but the iPad inside.<p>Ergo, the iPad is a magazine that is broken when you try to use it outside in the sunlight.<p>(This is mostly a joke, but if we want to go assigning meaning willy-nilly to these videoclips, this one fits too).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20120086-71/1-year-old-thinks-a-magazine-is-a-broken-ipad/</url></story> |
15,340,969 | 15,339,666 | 1 | 3 | 15,338,382 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grincho</author><text>&gt; It isn&#x27;t enough to explain how fast Firefox feels now.<p>That&#x27;s because we&#x27;ve been making a dedicated effort to find and stamp out sources of UI lag! It&#x27;s called Quantum Flow; see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Quantum&#x2F;Flow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Quantum&#x2F;Flow</a> for more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>As someone that jumped ship from how slow Chrome has gotten and went to Nightly &#x2F;w Stylo and (CPU threads - 1) e10s processes enabled about 2 monthsish ago...<p>Holy damn Firefox is actually fast.<p>Fair comparison, both having Pocket, uBlock, Evernote, OneNote, Pushbullet, and Bitwarden; neither of them having an extension the other doesn&#x27;t. Above described Firefox Nightly config vs Chrome Dev.<p>Test machines are a workstation with a i7-4771 @ 3.9ghz, 32GB DDR3-2133, Radeon 7970 with a trio of 1080p screens (a very fast modern machine from the Haswell era) and a laptop with a i5-32120M, 8GB of DDR3-1600, Intel HD4000 iGPU feeding a 13&quot; 2560x1600 @ 200% hidpi (an Ivy Bridge era MBPr 13&quot; Late 2012). Both machines run Win10.<p>Both machines have less real world wait on Firefox than Chrome, and the interface has less latency between when I do something and it even begins processing the request. Also, under a ton of windows and tabs, Firefox seems to use less RAM and the speed gap seems to widen.<p>I don&#x27;t care about about artificial benchmarks, btw, they never seem to measure what actually makes browsers slower for humans.<p>Edit: Even though I just said I don&#x27;t care about benchmarks, using Speedometer 2.0-r2216: On the workstation: Firefox 58.0a1 2017-09-26 64bit 61.18 vs Chrome 63.0.3217.0 dev 64-bit 51.67; on the laptop, same versions: Firefox 28.58 vs Chrome 26.74<p>So, arguably, flat out benchmarkable performance is the same, with Firefox just slightly edging ahead (18% and 6% faster). It isn&#x27;t enough to explain how fast Firefox feels now.<p>Edit 2: And now with Edge 40.15063.0.0&#x2F;EdgeHTML 15.15063: Workstation, 46.72; Laptop 21.37. Firefox is 34% and 31% faster, Chrome is 25% and 11% faster.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/26/firefox-quantum-beta-developer-edition/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>low_battery</author><text>Unfortunately, as long as Firefox security infrastructure does not match Chrome, I can not use it. Note that errors like use-after-free and buffer overflows are marked as Critical (run arbitrary code on computer) for Firefox, but marked as High (execute code in the context of, or otherwise impersonate other origins.) for Chrome because of sandboxing.<p>Firefox: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;security&#x2F;known-vulnerabilities&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;security&#x2F;known-vulnerabilities...</a><p>Chrome: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromereleases.googleblog.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;label&#x2F;Stable%20updates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromereleases.googleblog.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;label&#x2F;Stable%20...</a><p>Hopefully with their sandboxing project done (Also with Rust) will make Firefox much better in the security department, but until then, no.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>As someone that jumped ship from how slow Chrome has gotten and went to Nightly &#x2F;w Stylo and (CPU threads - 1) e10s processes enabled about 2 monthsish ago...<p>Holy damn Firefox is actually fast.<p>Fair comparison, both having Pocket, uBlock, Evernote, OneNote, Pushbullet, and Bitwarden; neither of them having an extension the other doesn&#x27;t. Above described Firefox Nightly config vs Chrome Dev.<p>Test machines are a workstation with a i7-4771 @ 3.9ghz, 32GB DDR3-2133, Radeon 7970 with a trio of 1080p screens (a very fast modern machine from the Haswell era) and a laptop with a i5-32120M, 8GB of DDR3-1600, Intel HD4000 iGPU feeding a 13&quot; 2560x1600 @ 200% hidpi (an Ivy Bridge era MBPr 13&quot; Late 2012). Both machines run Win10.<p>Both machines have less real world wait on Firefox than Chrome, and the interface has less latency between when I do something and it even begins processing the request. Also, under a ton of windows and tabs, Firefox seems to use less RAM and the speed gap seems to widen.<p>I don&#x27;t care about about artificial benchmarks, btw, they never seem to measure what actually makes browsers slower for humans.<p>Edit: Even though I just said I don&#x27;t care about benchmarks, using Speedometer 2.0-r2216: On the workstation: Firefox 58.0a1 2017-09-26 64bit 61.18 vs Chrome 63.0.3217.0 dev 64-bit 51.67; on the laptop, same versions: Firefox 28.58 vs Chrome 26.74<p>So, arguably, flat out benchmarkable performance is the same, with Firefox just slightly edging ahead (18% and 6% faster). It isn&#x27;t enough to explain how fast Firefox feels now.<p>Edit 2: And now with Edge 40.15063.0.0&#x2F;EdgeHTML 15.15063: Workstation, 46.72; Laptop 21.37. Firefox is 34% and 31% faster, Chrome is 25% and 11% faster.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/26/firefox-quantum-beta-developer-edition/</url></story> |
7,743,743 | 7,743,741 | 1 | 2 | 7,743,447 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jessaustin</author><text><i>Or you could pay an additional $5&#x2F;month for a decent VPN.</i><p>TIL another reason why Ma Bell doesn&#x27;t like neutrality. If they get their way we can expect performance on unobfuscated VPNs to suffer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kenthorvath</author><text>Or you could pay an additional $5&#x2F;month for a decent VPN. In fact, I have a number of close contacts who work in the industry who tell me that this type of practice is of heavy interest and routine on the wireless end of things. Companies are tracking not just your browsing habits but your location data based on cell tower triangulation.<p>This is why we need to decentralize the ISPs and move to local mesh networks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2014/05/13/atts-gigapower-plans-turn-privacy-into-a-luxury-that-few-would-choose/?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r1ch</author><text>You&#x27;d probably end up paying a lot more than $5&#x2F;mo for a VPN that is actually able to keep up with gigabit internet speeds and downloading habits.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kenthorvath</author><text>Or you could pay an additional $5&#x2F;month for a decent VPN. In fact, I have a number of close contacts who work in the industry who tell me that this type of practice is of heavy interest and routine on the wireless end of things. Companies are tracking not just your browsing habits but your location data based on cell tower triangulation.<p>This is why we need to decentralize the ISPs and move to local mesh networks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2014/05/13/atts-gigapower-plans-turn-privacy-into-a-luxury-that-few-would-choose/?</url></story> |
36,351,420 | 36,351,577 | 1 | 2 | 36,350,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mlyle</author><text>The richest part here is where spez refers to moderators as a &quot;landed gentry&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;reddit-protest-blacko...</a><p>“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”<p>What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community?</text><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>Reddit could have avoided all of this years ago by building out the tools that moderators claim to need. Instead, they relied on third parties to create them. Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting. While removing 3rd party apps is certainly annoying for users, mods are what keep the site functioning.<p>The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_team_unanimously/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Accujack</author><text>&gt;The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.<p>It&#x27;s seemed like that for years. They&#x27;ve had strong reasons to develop the site for years. The two main things they&#x27;ve done are build an app for phones and spend a relatively long time creating a &quot;new&quot; UI that changes the look of the site and provides more advertising space but has no major changes to the way the site works.<p>It&#x27;s like they don&#x27;t have any idea how to actually develop the site, and they&#x27;re limited to doing window dressing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>Reddit could have avoided all of this years ago by building out the tools that moderators claim to need. Instead, they relied on third parties to create them. Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting. While removing 3rd party apps is certainly annoying for users, mods are what keep the site functioning.<p>The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_team_unanimously/</url></story> |
3,321,257 | 3,321,010 | 1 | 3 | 3,320,332 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trotsky</author><text>Why bother securing your DNS from eavesdropping when an eavesdropper can easily tell what sites you're visiting based on your other IP traffic?<p>It seems OpenDNS is interested in this technology only as far as it deflects from people being interested in DNSSEC, an ietf standard. Why don't they care for DNSSEC? Because it either discourages or prevents DNS poisoning or hijacking (depending on how you set up your client) and Open's business model relies on hijacking NXDOMAIN DNS responses to serve ad filled pages.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenDNS launches DNSCrypt: secure DNS</title><url>http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peterwwillis</author><text>So a vendor/service provider makes a custom proxy for DNS record encryption and breaks the first rule of cryptography. Granted, they're basing it on DNSCurve so at least a few other people have looked at the design, but the implementation is custom... I wouldn't touch this with a 50 foot pole until a dozen PhDs vet it.<p><i>edit</i> I didn't notice libnacl is provided, so I assume a good chunk of the crypto work is done by this. My comments were probably too harsh. But I would still like to see a professional look over the rest of their code to make sure there's no glaring problems.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenDNS launches DNSCrypt: secure DNS</title><url>http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/</url></story> |
26,164,164 | 26,164,225 | 1 | 2 | 26,163,691 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>Even with an alarm I find that I almost immediately fall into a cycle of waking up at later than 7PM if I don&#x27;t stop myself - I don&#x27;t even go to bed that late sometimes, exercise or not.<p>Its the only superpower I actually want - to be able to just turn myself off like lightswitch. My brain itself is fairly happy just sort of thinking about compilers or field theory and stuff like that when going to sleep but I physically cannot stop myself from putting my fingers in yet another pie when I&#x27;m awake so I end up in this hyperfocused state in bursts of an hour or two and then I won&#x27;t be going to bed possibly ever.<p>Sometimes I&#x27;m completely fine, sometimes the only way I&#x27;m getting up before 12AM is if I haven&#x27;t slept a second. Even more annoying is that I have no vices other than tea - ADHD has been bandied around at me in the past, could be something like that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gjulianm</author><text>Honestly, I don&#x27;t really know why this article is focused on the alarm clock instead of in getting the necessary sleep. I need an alarm clock because if I don&#x27;t have it, I enter a loop of &quot;sleep until late - go to sleep late because I&#x27;m not tired - sleep until later&quot;, all without sleeping less than eight hours. In extended holidays without alarm clocks my waking hour would shift to three hours gradually, but consistently. (and before anyone says it, exercise just makes me sleep more so it doesn&#x27;t solve the issue). So yeah, I need an alarm clock or something that wakes me up.<p>I&#x27;d focus more on actually getting the necessary sleep, and also in not using caffeine regularly. In a new job where coffee was free, I started noticing that I was very drowsy on the evenings after lunch, and also happened in the weekend mornings. Turns out I was drinking a minimum of two coffees in the morning and my body had become used to having that caffeine, and without it I didn&#x27;t work properly. I fully removed coffee from my diet and after a few weeks I returned to normal. If you are one of those people that &quot;can&#x27;t function without coffee&quot;, try removing it completely and see what happens.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)</title><url>https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Kill_the_alarm_clock</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>I am the same, and also weight lift and ride bikes so it&#x27;s not from lack of exercise either.<p>My sleep cycle drifts naturally forward, and it has lead to many weird issues. I don&#x27;t fit in a 9-5, at least not without feeling like shit for 80% of the day, being basically useless during the 9-5 portion.<p>I&#x27;m happiest when I just let it happen, and accept that for some portion of the time I am essentially a night-shift worker. But I&#x27;m not totally satisfied with that, either. I would love to be up at 9am and down at 1am every day, I think that&#x27;s the sweet spot. But inevitably 1am becomes 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am, and at about 7am I will just stay up for 24 hours and start all over. This happens over the course of a month or so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gjulianm</author><text>Honestly, I don&#x27;t really know why this article is focused on the alarm clock instead of in getting the necessary sleep. I need an alarm clock because if I don&#x27;t have it, I enter a loop of &quot;sleep until late - go to sleep late because I&#x27;m not tired - sleep until later&quot;, all without sleeping less than eight hours. In extended holidays without alarm clocks my waking hour would shift to three hours gradually, but consistently. (and before anyone says it, exercise just makes me sleep more so it doesn&#x27;t solve the issue). So yeah, I need an alarm clock or something that wakes me up.<p>I&#x27;d focus more on actually getting the necessary sleep, and also in not using caffeine regularly. In a new job where coffee was free, I started noticing that I was very drowsy on the evenings after lunch, and also happened in the weekend mornings. Turns out I was drinking a minimum of two coffees in the morning and my body had become used to having that caffeine, and without it I didn&#x27;t work properly. I fully removed coffee from my diet and after a few weeks I returned to normal. If you are one of those people that &quot;can&#x27;t function without coffee&quot;, try removing it completely and see what happens.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)</title><url>https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Kill_the_alarm_clock</url></story> |
18,720,099 | 18,720,402 | 1 | 3 | 18,714,580 | 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>ddebernardy</author><text>I&#x27;m at a loss as to why the US is still dead set to have no meaningful health coverage.<p>I got burned by this in California a decade ago. A dentist charged me $4,500 to fix a broken tooth (panic!) and fill in a cavity on a Sunday.<p>Had I known then what it might have cost I&#x27;d have simply flown back to Europe in the next flight ($600-800 at the time) and get the same thing done for under $100-200 with a full refund from my local social security.<p>Adding insult to injury I had a very expensive international health insurance policy owing to my traveling around the world back then. And they didn&#x27;t cover dental with my plan. I knew they wouldn&#x27;t. But it was still mind boggling to me in that I never expected a casual procedure that would have cost me €150 at most anywhere in Europe - most of which would have gotten refunded at that - to cost me a whopping $4,500 in the US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>y-c-o-m-b</author><text>I was a victim of the surprise out of network bill in the Portland, OR area. I did all my research before hand: hospital in network, surgeon in network, etc. but ONE person in that operating room was not in network and SURPRISE i&#x27;m out thousands of dollars. The worst part about this is my state passed a bill to stop this prior to my surgery, but the bill&#x27;s effective date was roughly 3 months later. Talk about bad timing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills</title><url>https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/12/18/18134825/emergency-room-bills-health-care-costs-america</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fitzroy</author><text>With Medicaid (in New York, at least) a provider isn&#x27;t allowed to bill a beneficiary for treatment. It is such a huge stress reliever. I can&#x27;t figure out how so many people continually fall for the propaganda against single payer &#x2F; Medicaid&#x2F;care-for-all.<p>Source:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyacep.org&#x2F;practice-resources-2&#x2F;resources&#x2F;practice-management-resources&#x2F;medicaid&#x2F;222-medicaid-beneficiaries-cannot-be-billed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyacep.org&#x2F;practice-resources-2&#x2F;resources&#x2F;practi...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>y-c-o-m-b</author><text>I was a victim of the surprise out of network bill in the Portland, OR area. I did all my research before hand: hospital in network, surgeon in network, etc. but ONE person in that operating room was not in network and SURPRISE i&#x27;m out thousands of dollars. The worst part about this is my state passed a bill to stop this prior to my surgery, but the bill&#x27;s effective date was roughly 3 months later. Talk about bad timing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills</title><url>https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/12/18/18134825/emergency-room-bills-health-care-costs-america</url></story> |
30,125,567 | 30,125,385 | 1 | 2 | 30,124,941 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>probably_wrong</author><text>&gt; <i>[Operations] is a level of analysis between tactics (how do I fight the battle when I get there?) and strategy (why am I fighting overall?).</i><p>Does anyone here know a book dedicated to these topics? I always wanted to pick a &quot;military textbook&quot; (assuming such a thing exists), apply its lessons to Age of Empires, and see how far that gets me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2020/05/01/collections-the-battle-of-helms-deep-part-i-bargaining-for-goods-at-helms-gate/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thom</author><text>Heh, I am hoping we can keep up the pace of ACOUP articles on the front page because they truly are a delight.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2020/05/01/collections-the-battle-of-helms-deep-part-i-bargaining-for-goods-at-helms-gate/</url></story> |
12,197,280 | 12,195,966 | 1 | 2 | 12,195,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>It&#x27;s not an uncommon attitude, and it&#x27;s also one I detest --- many articles about &quot;security&quot; have some authoritarian&#x2F;paternalistic aspects to them. Then again, encouraging ignorant users is the easiest way to monetise, analyse, and otherwise manipulate them... and if this ignorance is a convenient byproduct of arranging things so &quot;it&#x27;s for your security&quot; ostensibly, all the better.<p>The obligatory related link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;right-to-read.en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;right-to-read.en.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>shawkinaw</author><text>Wow, this guy has the completely opposite attitude of me. He seems to think it&#x27;s a bad thing, an attack!, for users to see just what the hell data you&#x27;re pulling off someone&#x27;s phone. And, bizarrely, uses an example of an app that essentially stole data from its users.<p>I should be able to see what data an app is sending, and certificate pinning (and ATS according to another comment) kills that. That&#x27;s not a good thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse Engineering Native Apps by Intercepting Network Traffic</title><url>http://nickfishman.com/post/50557873036/reverse-engineering-native-apps-by-intercepting-network</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matchu</author><text>Certificate pinning <i>does</i> prevent an important class of MitM attacks, though.<p>I think some applications use certificate pinning when validating a certificate provided by a default certificate authority, but, if you <i>manually</i> install a root certificate onto your device, the app will accept the override. That&#x27;s one possible middle ground.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shawkinaw</author><text>Wow, this guy has the completely opposite attitude of me. He seems to think it&#x27;s a bad thing, an attack!, for users to see just what the hell data you&#x27;re pulling off someone&#x27;s phone. And, bizarrely, uses an example of an app that essentially stole data from its users.<p>I should be able to see what data an app is sending, and certificate pinning (and ATS according to another comment) kills that. That&#x27;s not a good thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reverse Engineering Native Apps by Intercepting Network Traffic</title><url>http://nickfishman.com/post/50557873036/reverse-engineering-native-apps-by-intercepting-network</url></story> |
16,498,838 | 16,498,579 | 1 | 2 | 16,497,551 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>The GP was arguing a point that is agreed-upon by many who argue against affirmative action — that the minorities ostensibly helped are harmed in the bigger picture. Yet you rip on the GP for not thinking enough about the whites and Asians who are also the victims of affirmative action? You could be a bit reflexively polarized about this issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway0255</author><text>Tell that to the white and asian males who get rejected on the basis of their race and gender despite having worked their entire lives to be the most qualified and technically adept candidate.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure impostor syndrome is a problem they would love to have.<p>Instead they got the entire course of their careers (and lives) stepped on by bigoted racists and sexists.<p>I know your comment has to be the top one because it turns this whole thing back into more sympathy for women and minorities, but this is literally an article about white and asian males being overtly discriminated against on the basis of race and gender. Can <i>some</i> of the conversation be about that?</text></item><item><author>danieltillett</author><text>The thing I hate about actions like this is what it does to talented people who fit some diversity quota checklist, both in the perception they have of themselves and those of other people. If you are a talented melanin-rich woman you are going to face both heightened impostor syndrome and dismissal by others that you only got the job because of some quota. Not good for anyone.<p>There are no easy solutions, but it would help I think if all effort was concentrated on removing hurdles rather than patching problems downstream with lazy fixes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positions-excluded-white-and-asian-males-lawsuit-says-1519948013</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spicymaki</author><text>I am trying to wrap my head around this. The level of black employees at Google is at 2% and actually dropped since 2016. How fair is it to say from a statistical point of view that if you did not get hired, you lost out to a lesser qualified black person and not someone from a white or asian of equal or more qualifications? I pick on the black statistic specifically because at the end of the day the blow back for these perceived diversity programs lands on this group in particular.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway0255</author><text>Tell that to the white and asian males who get rejected on the basis of their race and gender despite having worked their entire lives to be the most qualified and technically adept candidate.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure impostor syndrome is a problem they would love to have.<p>Instead they got the entire course of their careers (and lives) stepped on by bigoted racists and sexists.<p>I know your comment has to be the top one because it turns this whole thing back into more sympathy for women and minorities, but this is literally an article about white and asian males being overtly discriminated against on the basis of race and gender. Can <i>some</i> of the conversation be about that?</text></item><item><author>danieltillett</author><text>The thing I hate about actions like this is what it does to talented people who fit some diversity quota checklist, both in the perception they have of themselves and those of other people. If you are a talented melanin-rich woman you are going to face both heightened impostor syndrome and dismissal by others that you only got the job because of some quota. Not good for anyone.<p>There are no easy solutions, but it would help I think if all effort was concentrated on removing hurdles rather than patching problems downstream with lazy fixes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positions-excluded-white-and-asian-males-lawsuit-says-1519948013</url></story> |
37,057,315 | 37,057,236 | 1 | 3 | 37,055,514 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>&gt; There have been multiple videos of tiny LK99 specs completely levitating on single magnets, and resisting motion when pushed, and staying afloat when the magnet is inverted.<p>One of those has already been admitted to being outright faked:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;lk-99-video-fraud-taken-down" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;lk-99-video-fraud-taken-do...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>There have been multiple videos of tiny LK99 specs completely levitating on single magnets, and resisting motion when pushed, and staying afloat when the magnet is inverted.<p>That is not possible in any known material. Unless thats an array of very elaborate fakes, its a RT superconductor.<p>But the simulation papers and conductance tests make me suspect its a topological superconductor that would fail such tests.</text></item><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>Levitation with a corner touching the magnet can be accomplished by iron. It&#x27;s what iron filings do when you put them on a magnet!</text></item><item><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>&gt; We have to have a thorough analysis on the sample directly provided by Lee and Kim.<p>Even this sample could be marginal, going by the original paper.<p>But there has been plenty of &quot;locked&quot; levitation and lots of zero conductance failures. I believe LK-99 a finicky topological superconductor thats going to give researchers headaches for years, not something that will suddenly be a bulk superconductor with just the right synthesis in the coming months.</text></item><item><author>ayakang31415</author><text>As I feared, it is no use at all at this stage to claim anything about LK-99 as every synthesized LK-99 seems different each time. We have to have a thorough analysis on the sample directly provided by Lee and Kim.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ekD2KVV_SUid2wH__o1ODS3hTl1GUFb5/view</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>carabiner</author><text>Are any of those from legit research institutions? I know there have been a bunch of fake hover videos in the past 48 hours.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>There have been multiple videos of tiny LK99 specs completely levitating on single magnets, and resisting motion when pushed, and staying afloat when the magnet is inverted.<p>That is not possible in any known material. Unless thats an array of very elaborate fakes, its a RT superconductor.<p>But the simulation papers and conductance tests make me suspect its a topological superconductor that would fail such tests.</text></item><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>Levitation with a corner touching the magnet can be accomplished by iron. It&#x27;s what iron filings do when you put them on a magnet!</text></item><item><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>&gt; We have to have a thorough analysis on the sample directly provided by Lee and Kim.<p>Even this sample could be marginal, going by the original paper.<p>But there has been plenty of &quot;locked&quot; levitation and lots of zero conductance failures. I believe LK-99 a finicky topological superconductor thats going to give researchers headaches for years, not something that will suddenly be a bulk superconductor with just the right synthesis in the coming months.</text></item><item><author>ayakang31415</author><text>As I feared, it is no use at all at this stage to claim anything about LK-99 as every synthesized LK-99 seems different each time. We have to have a thorough analysis on the sample directly provided by Lee and Kim.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ekD2KVV_SUid2wH__o1ODS3hTl1GUFb5/view</url></story> |
30,848,063 | 30,847,454 | 1 | 2 | 30,833,555 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>areichert</author><text>I remember having mixed feelings about Sorbet when I first joined Stripe in late 2018, but by the time I left, I found it indispensable. Especially after the VS Code extension was released internally... holy crap, that made such a huge difference (vs having CI fail 20 mins after pushing up a PR because you forgot to run the typechecker script ahead of time, ugh).<p>This article also made me laugh, because it reminded me of one of my small pet peeves about the Ruby codebase at Stripe: the fact that you would often find `merchant`, `account`, `invoice`, etc used as method parameters that represented the _ID_ of the resource rather than the resource itself. So Sorbet definitely helped with that, but it also could&#x27;ve been nice to just write `invoice_id` instead... :P<p>Makes me nostalgic though, good times!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/sorbet-stripes-type-checker-for-ruby</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jez</author><text>Hey! I wrote this article. If you have any questions about Sorbet or Stripe, please don’t hesitate to ask!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/sorbet-stripes-type-checker-for-ruby</url></story> |
20,286,375 | 20,286,695 | 1 | 2 | 20,285,910 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zaphoyd</author><text>So far the earlier versions of DisplayPort have worked quite well as a USB-C alt mode so I am hopeful.<p>I strongly disagree that higher resolutions are not interesting on smaller sized displays. I personally find 21.5 inch to be the sweet spot for 4K and welcome the better support for higher resolution so displays in the 24-30 inch range can more easily support 220+dpi, higher refresh rates, and HDR.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bcheung</author><text>Realistically I hope they work solidly through USB-C. I&#x27;m tired of piling up expensive high quality monitors I can&#x27;t use because they keep changing the connections every 3 or so years.<p>And they really need to have larger displays 30&quot;+ for anything 4K and beyond. There&#x27;s not much point to a 27&quot; 4K monitor if you have to double the scaling just to read anything. 8K at 27&quot; would be a complete waste.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard</title><url>https://vesa.org/press/vesa-publishes-displayport-2-0-video-standard-enabling-support-for-beyond-8k-resolutions-higher-refresh-rates-for-4k-hdr-and-virtual-reality-applications/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RussianCow</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s not much point to a 27&quot; 4K monitor if you have to double the scaling just to read anything.<p>Of course there is! The higher pixel density means everything is significantly more crisp and easier on the eyes. Resolution is not only about how many things you can fit onto the screen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bcheung</author><text>Realistically I hope they work solidly through USB-C. I&#x27;m tired of piling up expensive high quality monitors I can&#x27;t use because they keep changing the connections every 3 or so years.<p>And they really need to have larger displays 30&quot;+ for anything 4K and beyond. There&#x27;s not much point to a 27&quot; 4K monitor if you have to double the scaling just to read anything. 8K at 27&quot; would be a complete waste.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard</title><url>https://vesa.org/press/vesa-publishes-displayport-2-0-video-standard-enabling-support-for-beyond-8k-resolutions-higher-refresh-rates-for-4k-hdr-and-virtual-reality-applications/</url></story> |
35,601,723 | 35,601,446 | 1 | 2 | 35,597,493 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchw</author><text>Video games still have a reputation for being a children&#x27;s affair even though less than a quarter of people who play video games are under 18. Granted, the demographic may actually be a little skewed for Nintendo, but frankly, I doubt it&#x27;s that much different.<p>Even if this is true, though, I am pretty sure that videos on topics like &quot;Breath of the Wild multiplayer&quot; absolutely appeal to Nintendo consumers, even younger ones. Thinking about all of the schoolyard banter and rumors about video games, I can only imagine how crazy it is that these days, some of the wild &quot;what if?&quot; scenarios are actually made true by skilled, motivated fans. I do not play many video games these days, so admittedly it is hard for me to be sure. However, I have seen the way that kids respond to this DMCA garbage, and I have never gotten any impression other than that it feels like a great injustice and an unfortunate reality.<p>If Nintendo really didn&#x27;t care about the demographic of these videos, then it truly begs the question why they care so much to suppress it. They also were doing the same thing when it came to videos of Switch games running on the Valve Steam Deck.<p>Clearly, they have some motivated interest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bragr</author><text>&gt;Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.<p>Counterpoint: maybe none of the people they have drama with are their core customers. Nintendo seems to have a similar &quot;Disney Adult&quot; problem as Disney where you have a population of vocal adults who think they are the core customer, but in reality the company moved on to selling to those people&#x27;s children or grandchildren years ago.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Well, regardless of what you think about who is in the right morally and legally, I will say one thing: Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZYpDk9Xm8</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>Pointcrow is not really their customer. He&#x27;s their free marketing service. Most of his content seems to be based on Nintendo games - and that works for at least some of the actual customer base. Reviews and trailers are fun and all, but I think every game I bought in the last few years was a result of me seeing a stream of someone having fun playing it. I know others who do the same.<p>They essentially put an advertisement of how much they suck in place of a free ad space they were given.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bragr</author><text>&gt;Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.<p>Counterpoint: maybe none of the people they have drama with are their core customers. Nintendo seems to have a similar &quot;Disney Adult&quot; problem as Disney where you have a population of vocal adults who think they are the core customer, but in reality the company moved on to selling to those people&#x27;s children or grandchildren years ago.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Well, regardless of what you think about who is in the right morally and legally, I will say one thing: Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZYpDk9Xm8</url></story> |
4,061,941 | 4,061,942 | 1 | 3 | 4,061,748 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rd108</author><text>Is there a real controversy over whether the Harappan script is writing vs. "a kind of ornamentation"? Your comment smacks of condescension but I'm sure you can just provide citations. Your (wikipedia) article contains some arguments based on relative frequency of symbols, but is controverted by studies of modern pictographic languages with similar characteristic (e.g. Chinese.)<p><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/324/5931/1165" rel="nofollow">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/324/5931/1165</a><p>You also mentioned the Brahmi script is "unquestionably based on the scripts of the ancient Near East". That is also news to me. Could you provide citations, please?<p>The real controversial implication, IMHO, of studying ancient Indian languages is that Sanskrit (used over thousands of years and refined by rigid grammar rules by e.g. Panini 500 B.C.) may actually be the language from which Latin, and hence many European Romantic languages, developed.<p><a href="http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/sanskrit-mother-of-european-languages-says-prof-dean-brown/" rel="nofollow">http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/sanskrit-mother-of-eu...</a><p>That's probably worth diving into, if you are genuinely curious. As the Welsh linguist Sir William Jones said,<p>"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists."<p>[edit- link added and fluff redacted. :)]</text><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>The interesting submitted article refers to "and as-yet undeciphered writing," but there is considerable controversy about whether or not the Indus Valley script<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script</a><p>is a writing system at all, rather than the kind of ornamentation from a pre-proto-writing stage known in several other sites of ancient civilizations. (As a reality check, we can remember that several regions of the world had elaborate empires and cities with extensive trade routes but without writing.)<p>Some of the controversy about this issue arises because of the extreme sensitivity of cultural heritage claims in south Asia in a region that spans a heavily militarized border. A good popular book about the nature and origin of writing systems in general, worldwide, is Visible Speech by John DeFrancis,<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Comparisons/dp/0824812077" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Co...</a><p>and the definitive compilation of international research on writing systems to the date of publication is The World's Writing Systems<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/dp/0195079930/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/d...</a><p>edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright and published in 1996. I haven't concluded absolutely that the Indus Valley Script could not be a writing system, but there is no sure evidence that it is, and the earliest attested writing system in a nearby region is the Brahmi script<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hm%C4%AB_script" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hm%C4%AB_script</a><p>that is much more recent in time (a few centuries older than the common era, that is approximately 2,300 years old) and unquestionably based on the scripts of the ancient Near East.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indus Valley Civilization’s Collapse Explained</title><url>http://news.yahoo.com/huge-ancient-civilization-collapse-explained-123449804.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>sunwooz</author><text>Wasn't there a mathematical study that concluded that the Indus script has the structure of a language? I found an article on it <a href="http://grimoires.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/grim-writing-the-indus-script-and-computer-science/" rel="nofollow">http://grimoires.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/grim-writing-the-i...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>The interesting submitted article refers to "and as-yet undeciphered writing," but there is considerable controversy about whether or not the Indus Valley script<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script</a><p>is a writing system at all, rather than the kind of ornamentation from a pre-proto-writing stage known in several other sites of ancient civilizations. (As a reality check, we can remember that several regions of the world had elaborate empires and cities with extensive trade routes but without writing.)<p>Some of the controversy about this issue arises because of the extreme sensitivity of cultural heritage claims in south Asia in a region that spans a heavily militarized border. A good popular book about the nature and origin of writing systems in general, worldwide, is Visible Speech by John DeFrancis,<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Comparisons/dp/0824812077" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Co...</a><p>and the definitive compilation of international research on writing systems to the date of publication is The World's Writing Systems<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/dp/0195079930/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/d...</a><p>edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright and published in 1996. I haven't concluded absolutely that the Indus Valley Script could not be a writing system, but there is no sure evidence that it is, and the earliest attested writing system in a nearby region is the Brahmi script<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hm%C4%AB_script" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hm%C4%AB_script</a><p>that is much more recent in time (a few centuries older than the common era, that is approximately 2,300 years old) and unquestionably based on the scripts of the ancient Near East.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indus Valley Civilization’s Collapse Explained</title><url>http://news.yahoo.com/huge-ancient-civilization-collapse-explained-123449804.html</url></story> |
35,620,530 | 35,620,790 | 1 | 2 | 35,619,711 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Isamu</author><text>Tucker and others like Hannity are not considered journalists, and I even remember Hannity being careful to make this point- they are opinion show hosts. This was also made clear in a lawsuit a few years ago. Like the opinion section in a newspaper, they are not held to journalistic standards by their organization.<p>But they can be sued for libel and slander, as in this lawsuit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattcantstop</author><text>Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks said he would lie to spin the story in a different way to achieve his desired outcome. There is no journalistic integrity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-dominion-voting-systems-lawsuit-settlement/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laweijfmvo</author><text>FWIW the source of that quote was actually that, if Tucker Carlson were _president_, would he ban self-driving trucks solely to preserve truck-driving jobs? He said he would make up some pretense&#x2F;excuse&#x2F;spin when justifying it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattcantstop</author><text>Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks said he would lie to spin the story in a different way to achieve his desired outcome. There is no journalistic integrity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-dominion-voting-systems-lawsuit-settlement/</url></story> |
37,201,947 | 37,202,095 | 1 | 3 | 37,200,615 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>belugacat</author><text>That’s a POV I’ve grown to adopt as I got older (like many, perhaps). I used to heavily privilege theory, believing that everything could (and maybe should) be derived from first principles.<p>Now I place the concrete over everything else; theory is nice when it can illuminate why the practice works. Otherwise, it’s just words.<p>The most frustrating is when I have friends who have derived their entire understanding of a subject I know as a practitioner (typically something tech&#x2F;programming related) from watching YouTube videos&#x2F;listening to podcasts.<p>Because they’ve heard hours and hours from experts, they have a feeling of deep understanding. But talking to them about this topic is extremely frustrating because their knowledge clearly has never had to be applied to the real world, and is grounded in nothingness, so they misunderstand lots, but they feel like they know what they’re talking about as much as you do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>A point that&#x27;s rightfully emphasized by the author:<p>&gt; Solving problems is the only way to understand physics. There&#x27;s no way around it.<p>This generalizes well to other fields. I don&#x27;t want to discourage anybody from trying to educate themselves in a difficult field (be it physics or something else), but that&#x27;s a very common and immediately visible problem with autodidacts. If you haven&#x27;t worked through enough hard problems you lack the intuition that ties together theory.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So you want to learn physics (2021)</title><url>https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Totally 100% with this. When younger I thought I could read the material and say &quot;Oh, okay that makes sense I understand this.&quot; Only to fail miserably when on a test or somewhere I had to apply what I &quot;knew&quot; and realizing I didn&#x27;t actually know it. I lean strongly toward autodidacticism and learned that if I could solve problems with the technique <i>then</i> I knew it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>A point that&#x27;s rightfully emphasized by the author:<p>&gt; Solving problems is the only way to understand physics. There&#x27;s no way around it.<p>This generalizes well to other fields. I don&#x27;t want to discourage anybody from trying to educate themselves in a difficult field (be it physics or something else), but that&#x27;s a very common and immediately visible problem with autodidacts. If you haven&#x27;t worked through enough hard problems you lack the intuition that ties together theory.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So you want to learn physics (2021)</title><url>https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics</url></story> |
16,219,706 | 16,218,988 | 1 | 3 | 16,217,419 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nextstep</author><text>Oh HN, how is this the top comment on this fantastic blog post about the huge lifestyle drawbacks from living in SV?<p>&gt;&gt; 2. Behind Silicon Valley on best technology and product building practices by at least 2 years.<p>This was clearly written in earnest, but works better as a satirical joke about the inward-facing nature of bay area tech. Please explain what &quot;best technology and product building practices&quot; means here, and how you can quantify that over time. What were the best practices of early 2016 which are just now being implemented in Zurich-base startups?</text><parent_chain><item><author>timewarrior</author><text>I have been involved with Swissnex and been advising Swiss startups for some time. I also go to Switzerland every other year if not every year and meet with startups there.<p>Things I noticed:<p>1. Incredibly smart people.<p>2. Behind Silicon Valley on best technology and product building practices by at least 2 years.<p>3. Great work ethic and social responsibility.<p>4. Do not have world conquering ambitions - which kinda works against them. One of the founders was talking about an idea and was being very conservative with market size estimates. So I suggested to him - Think about how you can conquer the world. And his reply was - We are Swiss, we don&#x27;t conquer the world.<p>I think one of the biggest challenge for Switzerland tech scene is that there is no viable immigration path for a non-EU citizen. Even after decades, you might not get a citizenship [1]. It makes it difficult for them to attract talent from outside, especially those with Silicon Valley experience.<p>Not that US is any better for Indians. Based on current estimates, if someone from India applies for an employment based Green Card now, they might get it in 70 years. And life is a pain because you have to do a lot of paperwork throughout.<p>If there was a viable immigration path in Switzerland, I would move there tomorrow!<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swissinfo.ch&#x2F;eng&#x2F;naturalisation-controversy_american-professor-denied-swiss-citizenship&#x2F;41075124" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swissinfo.ch&#x2F;eng&#x2F;naturalisation-controversy_amer...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV</title><url>https://nextrends.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/forging-a-swiss-lens-3-ways-zurich-changed-my-view-of-silicon-valley/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;I think one of the biggest challenge for Switzerland tech scene is that there is no viable immigration path for a non-EU citizen&quot;<p>This is not true. It&#x27;s up to the local canton to grant citizenship[1]. It has noting to do with EU vs non-EU either. Switzerland itself is not actually part of the EU[2]. For someone who visits so often, it seems odd that you don&#x27;t know that. In fact even in the video in your link says that the same committee that rejected this person&#x27;s citizenship awarded it to a Turkish individual and Turkey is not part of the EU.<p>&gt;&quot;Do not have world conquering ambitions&quot;<p>Yes in the majority of the world this is actually considered quite normal and acceptable. Many would even say &quot;preferable.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swissinfo.ch&#x2F;eng&#x2F;becoming-a-citizen&#x2F;29288376" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swissinfo.ch&#x2F;eng&#x2F;becoming-a-citizen&#x2F;29288376</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;european-union&#x2F;about-eu&#x2F;countries&#x2F;member-countries_en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;european-union&#x2F;about-eu&#x2F;countries&#x2F;member-c...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>timewarrior</author><text>I have been involved with Swissnex and been advising Swiss startups for some time. I also go to Switzerland every other year if not every year and meet with startups there.<p>Things I noticed:<p>1. Incredibly smart people.<p>2. Behind Silicon Valley on best technology and product building practices by at least 2 years.<p>3. Great work ethic and social responsibility.<p>4. Do not have world conquering ambitions - which kinda works against them. One of the founders was talking about an idea and was being very conservative with market size estimates. So I suggested to him - Think about how you can conquer the world. And his reply was - We are Swiss, we don&#x27;t conquer the world.<p>I think one of the biggest challenge for Switzerland tech scene is that there is no viable immigration path for a non-EU citizen. Even after decades, you might not get a citizenship [1]. It makes it difficult for them to attract talent from outside, especially those with Silicon Valley experience.<p>Not that US is any better for Indians. Based on current estimates, if someone from India applies for an employment based Green Card now, they might get it in 70 years. And life is a pain because you have to do a lot of paperwork throughout.<p>If there was a viable immigration path in Switzerland, I would move there tomorrow!<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swissinfo.ch&#x2F;eng&#x2F;naturalisation-controversy_american-professor-denied-swiss-citizenship&#x2F;41075124" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swissinfo.ch&#x2F;eng&#x2F;naturalisation-controversy_amer...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV</title><url>https://nextrends.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/forging-a-swiss-lens-3-ways-zurich-changed-my-view-of-silicon-valley/</url></story> |
17,062,516 | 17,062,065 | 1 | 3 | 17,061,850 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmckeon</author><text>For the non-Disney versions, try:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Complete-Grimms-Fairy-Tales&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0394709306" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Complete-Grimms-Fairy-Tales&#x2F;dp&#x2F;039470...</a><p>Spoiler &amp; trigger alert - the princess discovers
the true nature of the Frog Prince not with a kiss,
but by flinging him against a wall. Many of the other
stories are equally blunt, forceful, or realistic
for the times they came from.<p>Of note is the modern excision of the last phrase
from the closing formula:
&quot;And they all lived happily ever after until they died.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>user982</author><text><i>&gt; all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him</i><p>I agree with the rest of that sentence, but this really isn&#x27;t true. Disney&#x27;s bowdlerized versions actually do harm and even displace the source material in public consciousness.</text></item><item><author>ardent_uno</author><text>Why should he not make money off fairy tales? By making money he built a company which has brought joy to millions of people over a near century, employed thousands and created value all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him. It&#x27;s a classic win-win.</text></item><item><author>jedwhite</author><text>The Atlas Obscura article linked at the end has some other interesting quotes, including another one from Tolkien Scholar, Trish Lambert, that “Here you have a brash, American entrepreneur who had the audacity to go in and make money off of fairy tales.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;tolkien-cs-lewis-disney-snow-white-narnia-hobbit-dwarves" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;tolkien-cs-lewis-disne...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/j-r-r-tolkien-expressed-a-heartfelt-loathing-for-walt-disney.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>pphysch</author><text>To be fair though, once you undermine this clause, the rest of the comment can be applied to almost any enterprise: illegal drugs, weapons, or almost any other harmful industry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>user982</author><text><i>&gt; all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him</i><p>I agree with the rest of that sentence, but this really isn&#x27;t true. Disney&#x27;s bowdlerized versions actually do harm and even displace the source material in public consciousness.</text></item><item><author>ardent_uno</author><text>Why should he not make money off fairy tales? By making money he built a company which has brought joy to millions of people over a near century, employed thousands and created value all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him. It&#x27;s a classic win-win.</text></item><item><author>jedwhite</author><text>The Atlas Obscura article linked at the end has some other interesting quotes, including another one from Tolkien Scholar, Trish Lambert, that “Here you have a brash, American entrepreneur who had the audacity to go in and make money off of fairy tales.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;tolkien-cs-lewis-disney-snow-white-narnia-hobbit-dwarves" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;tolkien-cs-lewis-disne...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/j-r-r-tolkien-expressed-a-heartfelt-loathing-for-walt-disney.html</url></story> |
30,821,038 | 30,821,036 | 1 | 2 | 30,820,072 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>Bill Baxter (CTO, Vizio)<p>Smart TVs continue to make money for the manufacture after the sale by providing data to viewer measurement and consumer research companies and through all of those apps they integrate in the TV’s smart functions and subsequent app usage.<p>“This is a cutthroat industry,” Baxter went on to say. “It’s pretty ruthless. The greater strategy is I really don’t need to make money off the TV. I need to
cover my costs.”<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cjni.com&#x2F;smart-tvs-too-smart&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cjni.com&#x2F;smart-tvs-too-smart&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Sujan</author><text>(Reputable) source?</text></item><item><author>Arubis</author><text>&gt; Why are monitors so expensive and old tech compared to TVs?<p>(“Smart”) TVs are subsidized by the push advertising and analytics crammed into their firmware.</text></item><item><author>mnkmnk</author><text>I am tempted to do this, at least as a FU to the monitor industry. There is so little innovation in monitor tech! Why are monitors so expensive and old tech compared to TVs? I just want an affordable large monitor with 120Hz refresh rate and USB-C for coding, but options are quite limited. All monitor innovation is into HDR and super high refresh rate which I don’t care about. And prices seem artificially high.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/toecyt/dual_75_4k_tv_floor_computing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MrVitaliy</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samsung.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;business&#x2F;samsungads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samsung.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;business&#x2F;samsungads&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;i-spent-3000-on-a-samsung-smart-tv-and-all-i-got-were-ads-and-unwanted-content&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;i-spent-3000-on-a-samsung-smar...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Sujan</author><text>(Reputable) source?</text></item><item><author>Arubis</author><text>&gt; Why are monitors so expensive and old tech compared to TVs?<p>(“Smart”) TVs are subsidized by the push advertising and analytics crammed into their firmware.</text></item><item><author>mnkmnk</author><text>I am tempted to do this, at least as a FU to the monitor industry. There is so little innovation in monitor tech! Why are monitors so expensive and old tech compared to TVs? I just want an affordable large monitor with 120Hz refresh rate and USB-C for coding, but options are quite limited. All monitor innovation is into HDR and super high refresh rate which I don’t care about. And prices seem artificially high.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/toecyt/dual_75_4k_tv_floor_computing/</url></story> |
40,237,863 | 40,235,515 | 1 | 3 | 40,233,784 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hbn</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry, no matter how good hardware gets, you can rest assured bad software will push it to the limits and further push the minimum system requirements to run anything as basic as a note taking app or music player.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andy_and_Bill%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andy_and_Bill%27s_law</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>netbioserror</author><text>iGPUs have climbed high enough that they are overpowered for &quot;normal&quot; tasks like video watching and playing browser games. They can even do 1080p 60 FPS gaming to a decently high standard. And we&#x27;ve already proven via ARM that RISC architectures are more than ready for everything from embedded to high-power compute. What happens when iGPUs get good enough for 1440p 120 FPS high-end gaming? Game visuals have plateaued on the rasterization front. Once iGPUs are good enough, nobody will have much reason to get anything other than a tiny mini PC. The last frontier for GPUs will be raw supercomputing. Basically all PCs from there on out will just be mini machines.<p>The next few years will be very interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Snapdragon 855's iGPU</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/05/01/inside-the-snapdragon-855s-igpu/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jsheard</author><text>Memory bandwidth is the major bottleneck holding iGPUs back, the conventional approach to CPU RAM is absolutely nowhere near fast enough to keep a big GPU fed. I think the only way to break through that barrier is to do what Apple is doing - move all of the memory on-package and, unfortunately, give up the ability to upgrade it yourself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>netbioserror</author><text>iGPUs have climbed high enough that they are overpowered for &quot;normal&quot; tasks like video watching and playing browser games. They can even do 1080p 60 FPS gaming to a decently high standard. And we&#x27;ve already proven via ARM that RISC architectures are more than ready for everything from embedded to high-power compute. What happens when iGPUs get good enough for 1440p 120 FPS high-end gaming? Game visuals have plateaued on the rasterization front. Once iGPUs are good enough, nobody will have much reason to get anything other than a tiny mini PC. The last frontier for GPUs will be raw supercomputing. Basically all PCs from there on out will just be mini machines.<p>The next few years will be very interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Snapdragon 855's iGPU</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/05/01/inside-the-snapdragon-855s-igpu/</url></story> |
2,400,001 | 2,399,753 | 1 | 2 | 2,399,714 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andymoe</author><text>If you have done some web development before (maybe python, maybe php, maybe ASP 1.0) go read the getting started guides and get rolling. It's a big framework and there is a lot there but if this not your first rodeo it's not going to take long to get it. You know what MVC is and rails is just anther (good) web framework with some nice code generation to start you off fast. Oh and that ORM can be handy too!<p>If you are new to Ruby or web dev I would suggest you first start with Sinatra (<a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sinatrarb.com</a><p>That will give you an idea of what basic basic web dev looks like in ruby without the overhead of a huge framework to take in.<p>After you have a simple hello world running with Sinatra then see about adding an external gem. (Maybe the 'shotgun' gem mentioned on the Sinatra site) then learn about bundler <a href="http://gembundler.com" rel="nofollow">http://gembundler.com</a> and get Sinatra running with that setup. Look at the template languages (erb, haml) and play with those. When you find yourself playing with middleware then maybe look at rails and see what it has to offer. At this point you will already have a felling for how everything fits together with a rack based web app (Sinatra and Rails both use Rack) at a little lower level and I think you will have a better experience with rails and be more productive because of it.<p>EDIT: Submissions that have links to articles with questions marks in the title are annoying. Thought it was an ask HN at first.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learning Ruby and Rails, where would you start?</title><url>http://ontwik.com/ruby/learning-ruby-and-rails-where-would-you-start/</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>sradnidge</author><text>In all honesty, I would forget about Rails unless you have a really, _really_ compelling reason to pursue it. Rails is such a big framework, you could easily spend as much time learning it (Rails) as you would learning Ruby itself. I would recommend starting with Sinatra and Padrino for Ruby based web frameworks, you'll likely find you never need anything more unless you get a job at a Rails shop.<p>In terms of Ruby itself, having picked it up myself only fairly recently I would recommend the following:<p>- unless you plan on maintaining someone elses code, jump straight into Ruby 1.9.<p>- hang out in the IRC channels, #ruby-lang and #sinatra on Freenode. The community is awesome and really helpful.<p>- the Sinatra video from Peepcode is really good<p>- for books, I would recommend "Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby" (ISBN 978-1849511063), "Beginning Ruby from Novice to Professional, 2nd Ed" (ISBN 978-1430223634) and of course the current version of the Pickaxe book (google it :)<p>- check out thechangelog.com regularly if you don't already<p>That's about it, good luck with it - I've found it fun so far and am currently developing my first web app on top of Sinatra which i hope to launch in a month or so!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learning Ruby and Rails, where would you start?</title><url>http://ontwik.com/ruby/learning-ruby-and-rails-where-would-you-start/</url><text></text></story> |
13,270,606 | 13,266,416 | 1 | 2 | 13,264,258 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard this criticism from several game developers at this point. Contrary to some other voices here, I do think it&#x27;s legitimate: if safety isn&#x27;t important to you, then I can&#x27;t argue with that.<p>At the same time, I think that Rust made the right choice for most domains. For most software, memory safety problems that hostile attackers find have consequences. Games are an exception, not the rule. It would be irresponsible for us to target servers or network-facing client software without memory safety.<p>It&#x27;s also of course true that we have many game developers in the Rust community. A lot of people, including me, see safety as a productivity booster, especially combined with all the other features in Rust. I&#x27;ve advanced suggestions in the past for making unsafe Rust easier to program in, effectively turning off some of the safety checks, specifically for game developers who would prefer not to have the restrictions. These suggestions have been very unpopular in the Rust community, including from the game devs, and so they haven&#x27;t gone further.</text><parent_chain><item><author>psyc</author><text>I agree with you. I&#x27;ve been a C and C++ programmer for decades, and nothing to do with memory safety or leaks has ever risen to the level of prohibitive or even annoying. Ironically, I&#x27;ve had infinitely more grief from fighting hostile garbage collectors, but that&#x27;s because I&#x27;m a game programmer. I quickly dropped Rust upon realizing that the core of the language addresses problems I don&#x27;t have.<p>I&#x27;m always met with strawman arguments about how I can&#x27;t possibly write &quot;correct&quot; code. It&#x27;s a strawman because I don&#x27;t claim to write correct code. I don&#x27;t care if Herb Sutter can find 1000 &quot;bugs&quot; in my C++. I care that my users and myself are happy.</text></item><item><author>jstewartmobile</author><text>Whenever C gets brought up, people are like, &quot;pointers... memory... dangerous!&quot; In 20+ years of C, I&#x27;ve never had a (self-inflicted) problem in that area. Maybe I&#x27;m the rain man of bit-twiddling?<p>What has caused me tremendous grief are all of the inconsistencies in the compilers, the gotchas of the precompiler, and the ambiguities in the language itself. C++ is even worse.<p>Rust is great, but not great enough to justify a redo of a program that has been extended and maintained for decades (like vim or photoshop).<p>I think an iterative tightening of the language would be of greater utility to everyday computing than a rush to re-do everything in something &quot;better.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Resurgence of C Programming</title><url>https://www.oreilly.com/learning/the-resurgence-of-c-programming</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unscaled</author><text>The real problem with C (and to a lesser extent C++) nowadays is not just memory leaks or segfaults, but all the security vulnerabilities you get from the lack of memory safety.<p>Your code might work 100% correctly for your users, but it may also put their system into risk when processing arbitrary and potentially malicious data. When your system needs to handle data that may come from anywhere - and almost every system does - writing Herb Sutter-correct code is no longer just a nice-to-have.</text><parent_chain><item><author>psyc</author><text>I agree with you. I&#x27;ve been a C and C++ programmer for decades, and nothing to do with memory safety or leaks has ever risen to the level of prohibitive or even annoying. Ironically, I&#x27;ve had infinitely more grief from fighting hostile garbage collectors, but that&#x27;s because I&#x27;m a game programmer. I quickly dropped Rust upon realizing that the core of the language addresses problems I don&#x27;t have.<p>I&#x27;m always met with strawman arguments about how I can&#x27;t possibly write &quot;correct&quot; code. It&#x27;s a strawman because I don&#x27;t claim to write correct code. I don&#x27;t care if Herb Sutter can find 1000 &quot;bugs&quot; in my C++. I care that my users and myself are happy.</text></item><item><author>jstewartmobile</author><text>Whenever C gets brought up, people are like, &quot;pointers... memory... dangerous!&quot; In 20+ years of C, I&#x27;ve never had a (self-inflicted) problem in that area. Maybe I&#x27;m the rain man of bit-twiddling?<p>What has caused me tremendous grief are all of the inconsistencies in the compilers, the gotchas of the precompiler, and the ambiguities in the language itself. C++ is even worse.<p>Rust is great, but not great enough to justify a redo of a program that has been extended and maintained for decades (like vim or photoshop).<p>I think an iterative tightening of the language would be of greater utility to everyday computing than a rush to re-do everything in something &quot;better.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Resurgence of C Programming</title><url>https://www.oreilly.com/learning/the-resurgence-of-c-programming</url></story> |
38,394,636 | 38,394,525 | 1 | 2 | 38,393,238 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tharkun__</author><text>I keep repeating this every time someone talks about git and finds something weird or doesn&#x27;t get branches, so I&#x27;m really glad your parent mentioned it as well and I know there&#x27;s someone else out there that &quot;gets&quot; that:<p><pre><code> In git it&#x27;s all just labels&#x2F;pointers
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It&#x27;s not useful at all to think about branches as the user sees them as &quot;things&quot; of their own. Branches don&#x27;t &quot;have&quot; anything. Branches in that sense are just convenient labels.<p>Of course actual &quot;branches&quot; in the commit tree exist whether you label them or not. Until `git` does a garbage collection and gets rid of anything that doesn&#x27;t have a pointer ultimately leading to it - something that a human would understand aka branch&#x2F;tag. And that&#x27;s why we call these labels &quot;branches&quot; as well but it&#x27;s actually one word for two things here. The actual tree branch and the label that&#x27;s called branch.<p>And a branch and a tag are basically the same exact thing underneath, just a file in the `.git` directory somewhere that contains a commit hash. All the meaning and differentiation of branch or tag is just in the human brain and how we and our tools treat them. Such as if you look at a particular commit in your tool of choice, it will tell you which branch it&#x27;s part of. To create a branch you can literally just create a thousand randomly named files in the right part of the `.git` directory containing the same commit hash and suddenly this commit &quot;is on all those branches&quot;. That&#x27;s what git does and why creating a branch in git is so super fast.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jansan</author><text>This was the most useful piece of information that I have ever read about Git.<p>But what happens if you merge branch A into beanch B? A and B will both contain the commits of A, but in B there may be commits of B between the commits that were merged. Do the same commits of A then have different parents depending on which branch they are on?</text></item><item><author>riperoni</author><text>While the explanation is right in some sense, it misses a few points.<p>Branches are pointers to a commit and that pointer is refreshed when a new commit is created. One could say they are a wandering tag (without explaining a tag for now).<p>The actual chain of commits that represent what we see as branch comes from the commits themselves. Those commits point back to their parent commit.<p>And then one can see why no branch has any special meaning: It is a chain of related commits with a named entrypoint. Once you delete a branch (i.e. the named wandering pointer to a commit), you cannot identify a branch as such anymore. It is just a chain of related commits without a named label now. And nothing besides the name distinguished the branch from other commit chains before.<p>The master&#x2F;dev&#x2F;release branches are then a convention to keep an updated commit pointer on the chain of commits containing changes of interest.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git Branches: Intuition and Reality</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/23/branches-intuition-reality/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seba_dos1</author><text>&gt; Do the same commits of A then have different parents depending on which branch they are on?<p>Absolutely not. Commits are immutable (representing whole repo state, <i>not</i> a diff), and branches are just (mutable) pointers to them.<p>As the sibling already noted, a merge commit is just a regular commit. It simply points to multiple parents, &quot;merging&quot; them. Aside of the whole machinery to resolve conflicts etc. that&#x27;s pretty much all there is to it.<p>When your graph topology allows it, you can also merge branches without generating a new commit (so called &quot;fast forward&quot; merges) - such a merge does nothing but rewrites the branch pointer. You can also create merge commits that point to more parents than two (&quot;octopus&quot; merges). Reconciling the commits&#x27; content can get quite complicated in such cases, but from the repo graph perspective it&#x27;s nothing special.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jansan</author><text>This was the most useful piece of information that I have ever read about Git.<p>But what happens if you merge branch A into beanch B? A and B will both contain the commits of A, but in B there may be commits of B between the commits that were merged. Do the same commits of A then have different parents depending on which branch they are on?</text></item><item><author>riperoni</author><text>While the explanation is right in some sense, it misses a few points.<p>Branches are pointers to a commit and that pointer is refreshed when a new commit is created. One could say they are a wandering tag (without explaining a tag for now).<p>The actual chain of commits that represent what we see as branch comes from the commits themselves. Those commits point back to their parent commit.<p>And then one can see why no branch has any special meaning: It is a chain of related commits with a named entrypoint. Once you delete a branch (i.e. the named wandering pointer to a commit), you cannot identify a branch as such anymore. It is just a chain of related commits without a named label now. And nothing besides the name distinguished the branch from other commit chains before.<p>The master&#x2F;dev&#x2F;release branches are then a convention to keep an updated commit pointer on the chain of commits containing changes of interest.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git Branches: Intuition and Reality</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/23/branches-intuition-reality/</url></story> |
16,877,510 | 16,877,578 | 1 | 2 | 16,874,015 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>The best &quot;work environment&quot; tech job I ever had was at an investment bank. Didn&#x27;t disrupt anything (quite the opposite) but got great experience with databases, unix, C, scripting, working with internal clients, determining requirements, managing projects, etc.<p>9:00 - 4:30 daily hours, no nights, no weekends. Full benefits, good salary, good yearly bonus, quiet office, great people who were there to get a job done and then go home.<p>Had to wear a shirt and tie but that&#x27;s not the worst thing in the world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>teachrdan</author><text>Real talk? I&#x27;d be concerned that, at a non-tech company, I&#x27;d be seen as a IT rather than a software engineer. And the conventional wisdom goes that IT is a cost center.<p>Some of the best career advice I&#x27;ve ever gleaned is to work on something that visibly makes money for the company. I get to do that every day at my tech company. I don&#x27;t know that I could say that if I worked in a technical capacity in another industry.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>&gt; Our industry&#x27;s hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious.<p>Agreed. The solution is to not work at a tech company, but instead work in a tech capacity at a real company.<p>- No silly games (before or after hiring).<p>- Better benefits (I&#x27;d rather have proper health coverage and a pension than a room full of toys and vaporware stock options).<p>- Immensely more job security (Henry Ford didn&#x27;t have an &quot;exit strategy&quot;).<p>- People respect you more as a professional with a needed skillset, and not a throwaway cog in a machine who can be replaced or offshored on a whim.<p>- And in many real companies, proper internal HR groups focused on making you a better person and a better employee, and not some farmed-out commission-based headhunter group that makes money on employee churn.<p>&gt; In an ideal world, you could trust someone&#x27;s resume.<p>That&#x27;s not an ideal world. That&#x27;s the real world. Meaning not SV, and its wannabes.</text></item><item><author>speby</author><text>Our industry&#x27;s hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious. In an ideal world, you could trust someone&#x27;s resume. e.g. &quot;I&#x27;ve written large production programs in C.&quot; Ok, great, so then clearly this person knows C so there should be no need to dissect code or run them thru some linked list algorithm and see if they know how to use pointers correctly.<p>Yet, we do. Ok, then what about open source contributions (if they have them)? Well, sure, but we don&#x27;t really know, for sure, if that code is their own or if they indeed truly wrote it, can we? So we can&#x27;t count on it. It helps but it can&#x27;t be an automatic &quot;this person passes the technical&quot; signaler.<p>So maybe the person shares <i>actual</i> code and walks us through it that they wrote, even if not open source? Again, we can&#x27;t know for certain it is their own code and not some friend who wrote it for them 2 years ago that they claim is their own. Or was a teammate&#x27;s, or what-have-you. So we can&#x27;t count on that either.<p>Apart from getting a candidate to actually pump out some code, even trivially, we don&#x27;t really have a way to de-facto verify that the person says they can do what they say they can do, short of a personal reference from someone, say, in the company already that knows and has worked with the person in the past.<p>I absolutely hate this practice of having to constantly &quot;re-prove&quot; to the next employer that someone knows how to write software. It&#x27;s extremely redundant and yet we keep on doing it, with no real hope of actually making it better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework</title><url>https://work.qz.com/1254663/job-interviews-for-programmers-now-often-come-with-days-of-unpaid-homework/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neurobashing</author><text>Real talk? There is nothing wrong with being in IT. Imagine if someone said &quot;I would be concerned I&#x27;d be seen as a carpenter and not a woodworking artisan&quot;.<p>You&#x27;re a carpenter. You nail boards together to serve the business interests of the company. Even if the boards are SQL queries or ReactJS or whatever.<p>Companies need tech. You can bring value by making everyone&#x27;s jobs better with your technology - sand off those rough edges on everyone&#x27;s workflows. Demonstrate your value.</text><parent_chain><item><author>teachrdan</author><text>Real talk? I&#x27;d be concerned that, at a non-tech company, I&#x27;d be seen as a IT rather than a software engineer. And the conventional wisdom goes that IT is a cost center.<p>Some of the best career advice I&#x27;ve ever gleaned is to work on something that visibly makes money for the company. I get to do that every day at my tech company. I don&#x27;t know that I could say that if I worked in a technical capacity in another industry.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>&gt; Our industry&#x27;s hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious.<p>Agreed. The solution is to not work at a tech company, but instead work in a tech capacity at a real company.<p>- No silly games (before or after hiring).<p>- Better benefits (I&#x27;d rather have proper health coverage and a pension than a room full of toys and vaporware stock options).<p>- Immensely more job security (Henry Ford didn&#x27;t have an &quot;exit strategy&quot;).<p>- People respect you more as a professional with a needed skillset, and not a throwaway cog in a machine who can be replaced or offshored on a whim.<p>- And in many real companies, proper internal HR groups focused on making you a better person and a better employee, and not some farmed-out commission-based headhunter group that makes money on employee churn.<p>&gt; In an ideal world, you could trust someone&#x27;s resume.<p>That&#x27;s not an ideal world. That&#x27;s the real world. Meaning not SV, and its wannabes.</text></item><item><author>speby</author><text>Our industry&#x27;s hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious. In an ideal world, you could trust someone&#x27;s resume. e.g. &quot;I&#x27;ve written large production programs in C.&quot; Ok, great, so then clearly this person knows C so there should be no need to dissect code or run them thru some linked list algorithm and see if they know how to use pointers correctly.<p>Yet, we do. Ok, then what about open source contributions (if they have them)? Well, sure, but we don&#x27;t really know, for sure, if that code is their own or if they indeed truly wrote it, can we? So we can&#x27;t count on it. It helps but it can&#x27;t be an automatic &quot;this person passes the technical&quot; signaler.<p>So maybe the person shares <i>actual</i> code and walks us through it that they wrote, even if not open source? Again, we can&#x27;t know for certain it is their own code and not some friend who wrote it for them 2 years ago that they claim is their own. Or was a teammate&#x27;s, or what-have-you. So we can&#x27;t count on that either.<p>Apart from getting a candidate to actually pump out some code, even trivially, we don&#x27;t really have a way to de-facto verify that the person says they can do what they say they can do, short of a personal reference from someone, say, in the company already that knows and has worked with the person in the past.<p>I absolutely hate this practice of having to constantly &quot;re-prove&quot; to the next employer that someone knows how to write software. It&#x27;s extremely redundant and yet we keep on doing it, with no real hope of actually making it better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework</title><url>https://work.qz.com/1254663/job-interviews-for-programmers-now-often-come-with-days-of-unpaid-homework/</url></story> |
3,223,281 | 3,223,019 | 1 | 3 | 3,222,554 | 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>Gaussian</author><text>Pincus is attempting to make it sound as if he wants to claw back equity from employees who don't do their jobs. But if they aren't doing their jobs, why not fire them?<p>No, it seems to me that Pincus is looking at some people, perhaps they're middle-level employees, and saying, "you know, that guy might be doing his job, but he isn't worth $50 million."<p>Yeah, no shit he's not worth $50M. Few people are. But that's how the fucking game works. The fact that a Google chef got $20M -- why is that bad? It's not bad; it's cool. How many Microsoft stories are there about secretaries that made off with $10 million? Those aren't <i>bad</i> stories; those are good stories.<p>I'm sorry that Pincus fails to see things that way. And I'm sorry that he's decided to shit on a paradigm that's helped build Silicon Valley.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Way to build employee morale, Zynga</title><url>http://www.itworld.com/software/223167/way-build-employee-morale-zynga</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>tatsuke95</author><text>Whether or not you think this is ethical or legal (I'm not sure it's either), the most amazing thing about this is the timing. I mean, with all the anti-corporate sentiment in the wind, how on earth did they think this would fly? I can see them getting crushed, not in the legal sense, but in the PR sense.<p>Can people possibly dislike Zynga, as a company, more then they already do? Between this and Groupon, I'm getting fat from plowing popcorn.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Way to build employee morale, Zynga</title><url>http://www.itworld.com/software/223167/way-build-employee-morale-zynga</url><text></text></story> |
41,521,249 | 41,521,037 | 1 | 3 | 41,520,516 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dwallin</author><text>I&#x27;m confident they could come up with a filler eye animation algorithm that was convincing enough to pass muster for short periods of time. Even if hand coding something didn&#x27;t quite work out, they certainly have tons of eye tracking data internally they could use to train a small model, or optimize parameters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>generalizations</author><text>Whole point of the digital face is to look real though, and freezing the gaze would look unnervingly fake.</text></item><item><author>LorenDB</author><text>I&#x27;m genuinely shocked. I assumed that Apple would have foreseen this possibility and locked the Persona&#x27;s eyes somewhere as long as the user was typing, at least for passwords.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GAZEploit: Remote keystroke inference attack by gaze estimation in VR/MR devices</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vision-pro-persona-eye-tracking-spy-typing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kobalsky</author><text>add sunglasses to the avatar while typing</text><parent_chain><item><author>generalizations</author><text>Whole point of the digital face is to look real though, and freezing the gaze would look unnervingly fake.</text></item><item><author>LorenDB</author><text>I&#x27;m genuinely shocked. I assumed that Apple would have foreseen this possibility and locked the Persona&#x27;s eyes somewhere as long as the user was typing, at least for passwords.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GAZEploit: Remote keystroke inference attack by gaze estimation in VR/MR devices</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vision-pro-persona-eye-tracking-spy-typing/</url></story> |
9,531,102 | 9,530,598 | 1 | 2 | 9,529,782 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I think the trend of &quot;turning a primarily content-based site into a dynamic app&quot;, and indeed most of what has been referred to as &quot;Web progress&quot;, &quot;moving the Web forward&quot;, etc. comes from the desire of content producers to obtain and maintain more control over their content. Look at how browsers have evolved to de-emphasise features which give the user control while adding those that are author-targeted.<p>We&#x27;re moving from browsers being viewers for simple HTML documents (which can be copied, shared, and linked via simple means), to a platform for running complex applications written in JavaScript which often render data retrieved in proprietary formats from proprietary APIs. The &quot;open by default&quot; nature of plain HTML has become the &quot;closed by default&quot; of the data processed by web apps, much like with many native apps. Native app platforms (e.g. mobile) are also gradually becoming more &quot;closed by default&quot;; I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s a related trend.<p><i>Google can say more sternly that using JavaScript can have ugly consequences for user experience and accessibility, but they are swimming upstream: The web seems to be moving on to fancy new technologies regardless of what their SEO says.</i><p>Part of the reason is because Google themselves are doing this in many of their products... some of their employees probably disagree with &quot;JS everything&quot;, but they&#x27;re in the minority.</text><parent_chain><item><author>compbio</author><text>I feel that dynamic websites are not websites, but applications. Even after this thorough research, I&#x27;d still be very wary of turning a primarily content-based site into a dynamic app.<p>A plain HTML site is accessible, and will be accessible in a 1000 years. A site depending on (external) JavaScript sources will force John Titor to travel back in time to find version 1.x of jQuery. Starting with JavaScript abandons principles of progressive enhancement. Sometimes there is not even a fallback&#x2F;graceful degradation, reminding me of these 2001-era: &quot;Best viewed at 800x600 resolution in Netscape&quot;-sites.<p>Google holds enormous clout among SEO&#x27;s. Google says they will factor in site-speed and a large fraction of the web will become faster. Google can say more sternly that using JavaScript can have ugly consequences for user experience and accessibility, but they are swimming upstream: The web seems to be moving on to fancy new technologies regardless of what their SEO says.<p>Not much good comes from HTML5 JavaScript fans forcing your hand. Tor enabled JavaScript, because too much of the web would break without it, leading to a poor user experience. This led to a huge security gaffe, which I fully blame on webdevelopers eschewing basic principles, to get that slideshow running.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Googlebot crawls JavaScript</title><url>http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axx</author><text>IMHO: Websites that don&#x27;t have &quot;realtime&quot; content should always stick with traditional HTML. I&#x27;m a Webdeveloper myself and i don&#x27;t like the JavaScript Frontend trend.<p>Many Devs use Frontend JS in places where it&#x27;s absolutely not needed. If you&#x27;re building an App that updates in realtime, shows informations while it&#x27;s created, i&#x27;m fine with Frontend JS, but it&#x27;s an overkill for most content pages.<p>Sure, it depends on your implementation details, but as i said, it&#x27;s just my opinion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>compbio</author><text>I feel that dynamic websites are not websites, but applications. Even after this thorough research, I&#x27;d still be very wary of turning a primarily content-based site into a dynamic app.<p>A plain HTML site is accessible, and will be accessible in a 1000 years. A site depending on (external) JavaScript sources will force John Titor to travel back in time to find version 1.x of jQuery. Starting with JavaScript abandons principles of progressive enhancement. Sometimes there is not even a fallback&#x2F;graceful degradation, reminding me of these 2001-era: &quot;Best viewed at 800x600 resolution in Netscape&quot;-sites.<p>Google holds enormous clout among SEO&#x27;s. Google says they will factor in site-speed and a large fraction of the web will become faster. Google can say more sternly that using JavaScript can have ugly consequences for user experience and accessibility, but they are swimming upstream: The web seems to be moving on to fancy new technologies regardless of what their SEO says.<p>Not much good comes from HTML5 JavaScript fans forcing your hand. Tor enabled JavaScript, because too much of the web would break without it, leading to a poor user experience. This led to a huge security gaffe, which I fully blame on webdevelopers eschewing basic principles, to get that slideshow running.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Googlebot crawls JavaScript</title><url>http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157</url></story> |
32,449,791 | 32,449,214 | 1 | 3 | 32,448,621 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mastazi</author><text>&gt; frankly under-utilized in the western world.<p>they are not popular at home but, even in the western world, carbon steel pans are the most common type of pan used in restaurants, they are also known as Lyonnaise pans. Recently they are becoming more common and you can even buy them at Ikea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;vardagen-frying-pan-carbon-steel-90438011&#x2F;#content" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;vardagen-frying-pan-carbon-stee...</a><p>Not only they (carbon steel pans and woks) are faster to heat and easier to control than cast iron, they are also lighter, and another advantage is that they have longer handles that don&#x27;t heat up as much, which means you can grab them without using oven mitts or handle covers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taywrobel</author><text>This does miss one huge drawback of cast iron for cooking some dishes - heat control. Cast iron retains heat like crazy and doesn’t change quickly. Get that thing up to a searing temperature and it’ll be 10-15 minutes before you can get an egg anywhere near it for example. A thinner steel pan will heat up and cool down much rapidly allowing for a lot more control.<p>Luckily there’s a fantastic non-nonstick option for that too; a carbon steel wok. Amazing tool that is frankly under-utilized in the western world.<p>J. Kenji López-Alt released a book this year that goes over how to use it in great engineering-focused detail for anyone wanting to give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cast iron leet</title><url>https://erock.prose.sh/cast-iron-leet</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>f38zf5vdt</author><text>Virtually every type of pan comes in carbon steel for affordable prices from cookware wholesalers. They&#x27;ve been life changing for me, especially combined with an induction cooker.<p>Not to endorse any specific company, but a Thermalloy 8-inch pan is available for approximately $20 USD.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taywrobel</author><text>This does miss one huge drawback of cast iron for cooking some dishes - heat control. Cast iron retains heat like crazy and doesn’t change quickly. Get that thing up to a searing temperature and it’ll be 10-15 minutes before you can get an egg anywhere near it for example. A thinner steel pan will heat up and cool down much rapidly allowing for a lot more control.<p>Luckily there’s a fantastic non-nonstick option for that too; a carbon steel wok. Amazing tool that is frankly under-utilized in the western world.<p>J. Kenji López-Alt released a book this year that goes over how to use it in great engineering-focused detail for anyone wanting to give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cast iron leet</title><url>https://erock.prose.sh/cast-iron-leet</url></story> |
39,745,940 | 39,742,597 | 1 | 3 | 39,741,956 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakozaur</author><text>I see a lot of these types of tools, each with some essential support, but usually they don&#x27;t work. I would appreciate what is support what is not.<p>Tried this tool:
go run gitlab.com&#x2F;dalibo&#x2F;[email protected]<p>select TRUNC(SYSDATE, &#x27;month&#x27;) from dual<p>-- TRANSLATION ERROR at +1:8: unsupported date format: &quot;month&quot; rule=&quot;replace trunc() by date_trunc()&quot;
select DATE_TRUNC(&#x27;month&#x27;, LOCALTIMESTAMP)exit status 1<p>Also, at least, it would set the latest git tag, currently command from Readme.md doesn&#x27;t work:<p>go run gitlab.com&#x2F;dalibo&#x2F;transqlate@latest<p>go: gitlab.com&#x2F;dalibo&#x2F;transqlate@latest: module gitlab.com&#x2F;dalibo&#x2F;transqlate@latest found (v0.0.0), but does not contain package gitlab.com&#x2F;dalibo&#x2F;transqlate<p>latest should point to v0.1-beta.2</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Transpile Any SQL to PostgreSQL Dialect</title><url>https://gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>souenzzo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jooq.org&#x2F;translate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jooq.org&#x2F;translate&#x2F;</a><p>JOOQ also do that, but it is in JAVA.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Transpile Any SQL to PostgreSQL Dialect</title><url>https://gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate</url></story> |
22,782,544 | 22,782,015 | 1 | 3 | 22,781,113 | 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>jacobwilliamroy</author><text>I stopped reading the news entirely. Doesnt even matter what they&#x27;re saying, I&#x27;ll hear about it eventually.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonv</author><text>I keep a long list of blocked words in Twitter, Feedly, and I try... as much as I can, to only consume news on reuters.com (and 4 print weeklies). I block CNN and Facebook in my hosts file.<p>And yet, I&#x27;m barraged on the web with celebrity news, popular news, Tiger King (never clicked on it, never wanted it, can&#x27;t get away from it), whatever the foamy coffee thing that&#x27;s big right now.<p>I know about the shelters in place. I knew not to bring my re-usable bags to the grocery this morning.<p>The whole of media, content, everything you see when you open your browser and leave the house, is a monumental barrage of trending, overwhelming, unavoidable content. Memes you can&#x27;t get away from but which you&#x27;ll see hundreds, thousands of times.<p>Whatever people need to do to get away from it... you&#x27;ll still get it, but if you choose and are aware of the filters you use, by all means.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19</title><url>https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phagocyte/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AznHisoka</author><text>I saw the first episode of Tiger King, expecting to see some epic, thrilling dramatic series, given all the buzz. I was severely disappointed. Is this really what humans love to watch?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonv</author><text>I keep a long list of blocked words in Twitter, Feedly, and I try... as much as I can, to only consume news on reuters.com (and 4 print weeklies). I block CNN and Facebook in my hosts file.<p>And yet, I&#x27;m barraged on the web with celebrity news, popular news, Tiger King (never clicked on it, never wanted it, can&#x27;t get away from it), whatever the foamy coffee thing that&#x27;s big right now.<p>I know about the shelters in place. I knew not to bring my re-usable bags to the grocery this morning.<p>The whole of media, content, everything you see when you open your browser and leave the house, is a monumental barrage of trending, overwhelming, unavoidable content. Memes you can&#x27;t get away from but which you&#x27;ll see hundreds, thousands of times.<p>Whatever people need to do to get away from it... you&#x27;ll still get it, but if you choose and are aware of the filters you use, by all means.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19</title><url>https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/phagocyte/</url></story> |
26,575,558 | 26,573,835 | 1 | 3 | 26,573,143 | 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>dougall</author><text>Great post - glad some of that code has been useful!<p>If it&#x27;s of interest, these performance events (and the whitelist for this API), are described by Apple at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple&#x2F;darwin-xnu&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;osfmk&#x2F;arm64&#x2F;kpc.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple&#x2F;darwin-xnu&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;osfmk&#x2F;arm64&#x2F;kp...</a><p>Instruments.app is the official way to access performance counters. I believe it can use a few more (non-whitelisted) events, which are described in &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;kpep&#x2F;a14.plist - I couldn&#x27;t figure out how to hijack the single-consumer API that I think it&#x27;s using. (Edit: it seems it just shows non-whitelisted events in the GUI, but doesn&#x27;t let me use them.)<p>(And, for my own measurements, I use a kernel module to bypass the whitelist, which is even more likely to blow up the computer, and definitely not recommended: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dougallj&#x2F;applecpu&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;timer-hacks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dougallj&#x2F;applecpu&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;timer-hacks</a> )</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/24/counting-cycles-and-instructions-on-the-apple-m1-processor/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>genmud</author><text>I was skeptical about the m1 processors, specifically around performance on something like a desktop where you expect snappy performance.<p>I have definitely changed my thoughts and if apple can solve getting more ram in their systems (it’s pretty shameful that in 2021 you max out at 16gb on a MacBook Pro), I feel like they are going to knock it out of the park with their new architecture.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/24/counting-cycles-and-instructions-on-the-apple-m1-processor/</url></story> |
34,256,152 | 34,256,061 | 1 | 2 | 34,254,377 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p-e-w</author><text>&gt; &quot;Stable Diffusion is going to destroy the art industry;&quot;<p>While there is of course a bit of hyperbole in that statement, I do think it has a lot of truth in it as well.<p>Stable Diffusion isn&#x27;t going to destroy art since art is fundamentally a human endeavor. But many of the creative professions commonly <i>called</i> &quot;[something] artist&quot;, whose day-to-day work consists of drawing pictures to illustrate a point, making things &quot;look good&quot; etc. are absolutely going to be wiped out. Logo designs, cover illustrations for books and music albums, pictures for marketing releases and so on. No one is going to keep paying people to do those when AIs can do it faster, better, and at no cost. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if already in 2023, AI had a noticeable financial impact on those professions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>This isn&#x27;t really surprising. Even the HN comments for ChatGPT&#x2F;Stable Diffusion related topics completely drank the kool-aid for a bit. I saw absolutely unhinged blanket statements like &quot;ChatGPT is going to replace junior developers;&quot; &quot;Stable Diffusion is going to destroy the art industry;&quot; &quot;in a few years people will listen to completely AI-generated music playlists on Spotify.&quot;<p>The hype has died down a bit and sanity has been mostly restored to the comment sections here, but holy hell, HN readers are in this industry, they <i>should</i> know better, yet so many were, and maybe are, <i>still</i> fully bought in.<p>The average VC, or other manifestation of &quot;fool with money&quot;, has zero chance. The macro economy aside, it&#x27;s absolutely going to be a feeding frenzy for the entrepreneurs and grifters who can put together a convincing presentation on how they&#x27;re making an AI Netflix that will show infinitely generated AI TV shows or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters</title><text>I am sure most of you noticed the trend, but a lot of folks online, from influencers on twitter&#x2F;instagram&#x2F;tiktok to CEOs of some companies who were big on crypto, web3 (I never understood what that even means) now switched completely to AI&#x2F;ML with the popularity of DALL-E&#x2F;ChatGPT.<p>Me and some of my colleagues are fairly active on the MachineLearning subreddit and we&#x27;ve been getting a lot of unsolicited dms to collaborate in a breakthrough ML&#x2F;AI project. The conversations start something like this: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;z6GUTGc Yup, you guessed it, they have the idea and we have to implement it. If you look into their profile history, you’ll see that they’ve been heavy on crypto&#x2F;NFT&#x2F;web3 stuff until a few months ago, some even made good money. They don&#x27;t even have the dataset. One guy proposed my friend that he has a startup idea to use GPT-model to let people talk to their pets and that it should be &#x27;fairly easy&#x27; to finetune from an existing model.<p>I am already fairly tired of seeing all the ChatGPT stuff on my socials, and I am not looking forward to another few years of more low effort&#x2F;low quality stuff in peak of inflated expectations phase. I love GPT, I have many pipelines where I actively use it, but I also see the potential where people will abuse it, in every form from increased spam, personalized phishing, etc. Imagine scammers calling your grand parents not with an non-native accent anymore - heck maybe with your own voice (which in my head is fairly easy to do - get someone&#x27;s family tree, call the grandkid using a model fine-tuned on some local accent, perhaps of the opposite gender and engage them in a conversation - use the voice clips to finetune another model and then call their parents&#x2F;grandparents to get money, heck even the transcript for the scam interaction can be auto-generated). I am a first-generation college student, and getting my parents to use a smartphone has itself been a challenge - there&#x27;s no way I can teach them to identify sophisticated scams. I bracing myself and not looking forward for all of this to come.</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>jameshart</author><text>There&#x27;s a big difference between NFTs and most DeFi, and LLMs and other generative AIs. NFTs and shitcoins clearly had no actual non-scam usecases - they didn&#x27;t actually enable <i>anything</i> genuinely interesting to be done that was previously impossible (except for breaking the law in some slightly new and interesting ways). But LLMs and friends... these bring things that were impossible, or impractical, or unscalable, into the realm of possibility. There <i>will</i> be genuinely important things built on this tech. Figuring out what is going to be properly hard work though.<p>But of course, there will also be a ton of lazy ill-thought-out crap, too.<p>And the danger is that NFTs and cryptoscams created a bunch of random lottery winners who think they got rich off their genius insight into how to apply innovative tech, but who actually only proved they know how to generate ill-thought-out crap, very quickly, at the start of a hype curve. So unsurprising to see them moving in. But without the obvious get-rich-quick scam opportunities, and the likely massive compute fees doing anything interesting in this space will involve, it&#x27;s less obvious how long those folks will stick around.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>This isn&#x27;t really surprising. Even the HN comments for ChatGPT&#x2F;Stable Diffusion related topics completely drank the kool-aid for a bit. I saw absolutely unhinged blanket statements like &quot;ChatGPT is going to replace junior developers;&quot; &quot;Stable Diffusion is going to destroy the art industry;&quot; &quot;in a few years people will listen to completely AI-generated music playlists on Spotify.&quot;<p>The hype has died down a bit and sanity has been mostly restored to the comment sections here, but holy hell, HN readers are in this industry, they <i>should</i> know better, yet so many were, and maybe are, <i>still</i> fully bought in.<p>The average VC, or other manifestation of &quot;fool with money&quot;, has zero chance. The macro economy aside, it&#x27;s absolutely going to be a feeding frenzy for the entrepreneurs and grifters who can put together a convincing presentation on how they&#x27;re making an AI Netflix that will show infinitely generated AI TV shows or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Crypto/web3 grifters are Now AI/ML grifters</title><text>I am sure most of you noticed the trend, but a lot of folks online, from influencers on twitter&#x2F;instagram&#x2F;tiktok to CEOs of some companies who were big on crypto, web3 (I never understood what that even means) now switched completely to AI&#x2F;ML with the popularity of DALL-E&#x2F;ChatGPT.<p>Me and some of my colleagues are fairly active on the MachineLearning subreddit and we&#x27;ve been getting a lot of unsolicited dms to collaborate in a breakthrough ML&#x2F;AI project. The conversations start something like this: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;z6GUTGc Yup, you guessed it, they have the idea and we have to implement it. If you look into their profile history, you’ll see that they’ve been heavy on crypto&#x2F;NFT&#x2F;web3 stuff until a few months ago, some even made good money. They don&#x27;t even have the dataset. One guy proposed my friend that he has a startup idea to use GPT-model to let people talk to their pets and that it should be &#x27;fairly easy&#x27; to finetune from an existing model.<p>I am already fairly tired of seeing all the ChatGPT stuff on my socials, and I am not looking forward to another few years of more low effort&#x2F;low quality stuff in peak of inflated expectations phase. I love GPT, I have many pipelines where I actively use it, but I also see the potential where people will abuse it, in every form from increased spam, personalized phishing, etc. Imagine scammers calling your grand parents not with an non-native accent anymore - heck maybe with your own voice (which in my head is fairly easy to do - get someone&#x27;s family tree, call the grandkid using a model fine-tuned on some local accent, perhaps of the opposite gender and engage them in a conversation - use the voice clips to finetune another model and then call their parents&#x2F;grandparents to get money, heck even the transcript for the scam interaction can be auto-generated). I am a first-generation college student, and getting my parents to use a smartphone has itself been a challenge - there&#x27;s no way I can teach them to identify sophisticated scams. I bracing myself and not looking forward for all of this to come.</text></story> |
13,122,474 | 13,121,723 | 1 | 3 | 13,120,111 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>okreallywtf</author><text>I used to work as an installer for a wireless-isp and we supported some very rural areas as well as an urban area. I typically did the urban area but I grew up in one of the very rural areas so I could appreciate how badly people wanted their internets out there.<p>At one point I had to service some of the rural areas when the installer for that area quit and had one service request that I was <i>sure</i> would be fixed by a simple power cycle but wasn&#x27;t. &quot;Are you sure you unplugged the right thing?&quot; I asked, and &quot;If I come all the way out there and power cycle it and it works I&#x27;ll have to charge you, do you understand?&quot; I warned, he understood but wasn&#x27;t worried because he knew that wasn&#x27;t it.<p>After a nearly 2 hour drive out into the utter boondocks, I go inside and check the POE injector, unplug it and plug it back in. 20 seconds later I check his internet through his own router: golden (or as golden as you can be over a waverider 900Mhz link). He had just been unplugging his own router and plugging it back in over and over. In retrospect I could have made him physically trace the power cord but there was still a good 10% chance the unit actually had a problem.<p>People in the rural areas were really nice about everything though, being on 56k until 2010 makes you appreciate whatever broadband you can get. He just laughed and got his checkbook, in the city people complained when you told them the bill an hour after telling them what the charge would be over the phone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koliber</author><text>Regarding the &quot;is it plugged in?&quot; question. A great anecdote I heard was that the support person on the phone asked if the power plug was clean. The user was confused. The support person told them to unplug it, blow the dust out of the holes, and plug it back in. This fixed the problem!<p>The issue was that the power plug was in the socket, but too loose to connect. Somehow, the support person figured this was the case (prior experience?) and knew that if he asked &quot;is it plugged in?&quot; he would get a &quot;yes&quot;. Taking the power plug out and putting it back in ensured that it would be in properly. But just asking the person to do that can be faced with push-back or even a lie that they did it (since the power plug <i>obviously</i> was already connected).<p>I always chuckled at the story but did not think it was true. I worked tech support while attending university. One time, I had an on-site where the monitor just stopped working. We went through the standard question on the phone, including asking if it is plugged in, and of course it was. Could not get it fixed over the phone. Once on-site, it turned out it was a loose power cable.<p>I could have avoided an on-site had I only asked them to blow the dust out of the power cable. Maybe this should be added to the questionnaire.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half</title><url>http://itsupport.grammable.me/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Apple did that on the iPod manuals. They wouldn&#x27;t say &quot;make sure the lock button is unlocked&quot; (because duh, of course it&#x27;s unlocked), they would say &quot;turn the button to the lock and then the unlock position&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koliber</author><text>Regarding the &quot;is it plugged in?&quot; question. A great anecdote I heard was that the support person on the phone asked if the power plug was clean. The user was confused. The support person told them to unplug it, blow the dust out of the holes, and plug it back in. This fixed the problem!<p>The issue was that the power plug was in the socket, but too loose to connect. Somehow, the support person figured this was the case (prior experience?) and knew that if he asked &quot;is it plugged in?&quot; he would get a &quot;yes&quot;. Taking the power plug out and putting it back in ensured that it would be in properly. But just asking the person to do that can be faced with push-back or even a lie that they did it (since the power plug <i>obviously</i> was already connected).<p>I always chuckled at the story but did not think it was true. I worked tech support while attending university. One time, I had an on-site where the monitor just stopped working. We went through the standard question on the phone, including asking if it is plugged in, and of course it was. Could not get it fixed over the phone. Once on-site, it turned out it was a loose power cable.<p>I could have avoided an on-site had I only asked them to blow the dust out of the power cable. Maybe this should be added to the questionnaire.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half</title><url>http://itsupport.grammable.me/</url></story> |
15,832,628 | 15,831,594 | 1 | 3 | 15,830,545 | train | <instructions>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>Not sure if it still is, but it used to be possible to order OptiPlex machines (and others too, I assume) with the ME&#x2F;AMT in various states, including completely disabled.<p>If you have an older OptiPlex, pull the side off and there will&#x2F;might be a white sticker with a single digit number on it. The number refers to the state of the ME&#x2F;AMT.<p>For example, I have an older OptiPlex 780 that has a &quot;3&quot; which means the ME&#x2F;AMT is completely disabled. I&#x27;ve checked every way I know how and it isn&#x27;t &quot;visible&quot; at all. Apparently the end user does have some limited ability to change the status, though.<p>I&#x27;ll see if I can dig up the info on this.<p><i>Edit:</i> Not really what I was looking for but here [0] is a thread on Dell&#x27;s support forum that discusses this and how to change the state, etc., by accessing the MEBx on system start (by hitting CTRL-P).<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.community.dell.com&#x2F;support-forums&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;f&#x2F;3514&#x2F;t&#x2F;19626802" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.community.dell.com&#x2F;support-forums&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;f&#x2F;3514&#x2F;t...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to buy a Dell laptop with the Intel ME disabled from the factory</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/7grglm/how_to_buy_a_dell_laptop_with_the_intel_me/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nowherecat</author><text>Nice. Now I&#x27;d love to see Lenovo offer Thinkpads with a factory disabled Intel ME.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to buy a Dell laptop with the Intel ME disabled from the factory</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/7grglm/how_to_buy_a_dell_laptop_with_the_intel_me/</url></story> |
1,211,506 | 1,211,403 | 1 | 3 | 1,211,090 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>queensnake</author><text>(Strong agreement, like, 'Indeed!', 'Right on!', 'Quite!', 'You said it!', 'Yeah no kidding!', 'For sure!', (or more recently, 'this!' :) ))</text><parent_chain><item><author>seymour</author><text>Could someone please explain to me the frequency of the sentence, "Seriously."? An in joke? I don't get it...</text></item><item><author>eob</author><text>Seriously. It would be nice to see a widget like this that anyone could throw up on their site or blog. Problem would be getting the update -- you'd have to have a server in China pinging all the participating sites, I suppose.<p>This could be a very nice way for the web to passively protest China's censorship: put a strip at the top of your blog that displays whether or not your blog is readable in China at the moment. Even if the Chinese couldn't see it, plenty of people outside of China would, raising awareness of the problem and putting pressure on China.</text></item><item><author>lotharbot</author><text>IMO, the most valuable thing to come out of all of this is the China apps status dashboard:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en</a><p>tells us what China is currently allowing, blocking, or partially blocking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A new approach to China: an update</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.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>eob</author><text>I never stopped to think this was a regional colloquialism, but I suppose it is..<p>I used it above to mean "I agree"</text><parent_chain><item><author>seymour</author><text>Could someone please explain to me the frequency of the sentence, "Seriously."? An in joke? I don't get it...</text></item><item><author>eob</author><text>Seriously. It would be nice to see a widget like this that anyone could throw up on their site or blog. Problem would be getting the update -- you'd have to have a server in China pinging all the participating sites, I suppose.<p>This could be a very nice way for the web to passively protest China's censorship: put a strip at the top of your blog that displays whether or not your blog is readable in China at the moment. Even if the Chinese couldn't see it, plenty of people outside of China would, raising awareness of the problem and putting pressure on China.</text></item><item><author>lotharbot</author><text>IMO, the most valuable thing to come out of all of this is the China apps status dashboard:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en</a><p>tells us what China is currently allowing, blocking, or partially blocking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A new approach to China: an update</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html</url></story> |
31,894,322 | 31,892,714 | 1 | 2 | 31,888,624 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>StevePerkins</author><text>Every other major programming language is cargo culting as much &quot;functional programming&quot; as it can bolt on to its chassis. Which is then WAY overused by a small number of self-styled &quot;10x-ers&quot;, to dump a bunch of unmaintainable write-only code into your codebase before jumping ship and abandoning its support a few months later.<p>Go and Python code may have significant difference. But there is spiritual overlap in the sense that Go really encourages a straightforward imperative programming style, which makes its code more accessible to a wider range of developers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jgb1984</author><text>I never understood how people consider go an alternative to python. I tried it myself for a while, and I couldn&#x27;t stand the verbosity. So much code needed to do simple things, it almost felt like C again. And the error handling... Shudder.<p>I&#x27;m very happy python survived the 2-to-3 migration and is now thriving more than ever! Looking forward to the 3.11 speed improvements.</text></item><item><author>salmo</author><text>I’ll just say. Since about 3.6&#x2F;3.8 the language has been growing huge. Like C++ huge.<p>I liked f-strings. Asyncio has its place but is waaay overused. Typing was a cool idea, but so awkward in practice.<p>All of it has really turned me off, personally. It’s getting to where reading libraries is just painful. The simplicity of the language was really beautiful and when I wanted type safety, etc. I’d use something else. I can still write simple Python, but it’s more all the other code I need to grok.<p>I find myself going to Go more and more for stuff I used to use Python for. It’s easier to set up a dev environment for other people, easier to distribute code, and gives me type safety and concurrency as first class citizens while being a very small language.<p>I miss dictionary comprehensions and other shortcuts from time to time. But it actually feels more ergonomic now.<p>All personal opinion. I’m fine shifting languages. I still write C from time to time to bang bits. I play with various LISPs to exercise my brain. I never used Python for performance critical code. I guess ML is changing that need.<p>But I know others that want Java to have functional features and Python to have this stuff.<p>I’m not saying I’m “right”, just uncomfortable in a place I used to love to hang out in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What's New in Python 3.11?</title><url>https://deepsource.io/blog/python-3-11-whats-new/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>papito</author><text>Never understood this. I&#x27;ve been doing coding for a quarter century. There is a <i>reason</i> we moved away from manual error handling to exceptions. It&#x27;s easier to reason about, it&#x27;s less code, it&#x27;s better.<p>The Go fans keep insisting that this error handling in Go is new and fresh. I looked at my Go code, I saw that 2&#x2F;3 of it is basically checking if a function returned an error, and I moved on. I&#x27;ve done it this way - I am not going there again.<p>And no, it doesn&#x27;t <i>force</i> you to handle errors. You can simply not check for errors, just as you would swallow an exception.<p>My impression of the Go culture is that of the hip kids discovering vinyl.<p>As my former boss used to say - &quot;there is an easy way, and there is the cool way&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jgb1984</author><text>I never understood how people consider go an alternative to python. I tried it myself for a while, and I couldn&#x27;t stand the verbosity. So much code needed to do simple things, it almost felt like C again. And the error handling... Shudder.<p>I&#x27;m very happy python survived the 2-to-3 migration and is now thriving more than ever! Looking forward to the 3.11 speed improvements.</text></item><item><author>salmo</author><text>I’ll just say. Since about 3.6&#x2F;3.8 the language has been growing huge. Like C++ huge.<p>I liked f-strings. Asyncio has its place but is waaay overused. Typing was a cool idea, but so awkward in practice.<p>All of it has really turned me off, personally. It’s getting to where reading libraries is just painful. The simplicity of the language was really beautiful and when I wanted type safety, etc. I’d use something else. I can still write simple Python, but it’s more all the other code I need to grok.<p>I find myself going to Go more and more for stuff I used to use Python for. It’s easier to set up a dev environment for other people, easier to distribute code, and gives me type safety and concurrency as first class citizens while being a very small language.<p>I miss dictionary comprehensions and other shortcuts from time to time. But it actually feels more ergonomic now.<p>All personal opinion. I’m fine shifting languages. I still write C from time to time to bang bits. I play with various LISPs to exercise my brain. I never used Python for performance critical code. I guess ML is changing that need.<p>But I know others that want Java to have functional features and Python to have this stuff.<p>I’m not saying I’m “right”, just uncomfortable in a place I used to love to hang out in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What's New in Python 3.11?</title><url>https://deepsource.io/blog/python-3-11-whats-new/</url></story> |
39,763,971 | 39,763,269 | 1 | 2 | 39,761,179 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wasmitnetzen</author><text>The hard part are the engines anyway, which are still from the US (GE, Pratt &amp; Whitney, CFM (that one is partly French)), and from the UK (Rolls-Royce).</text><parent_chain><item><author>bandyaboot</author><text>Europe is now the only large scale producer of well-built commercial aircraft.</text></item><item><author>tekla</author><text>It&#x27;s so weird how increasingly irrelevant Europe is becoming on the world stage. How is a single American private compan lapping around all of the EU seemingly effortlessly?</text></item><item><author>627467</author><text>Whenever I read anything about rocketry and Europe I&#x27;m reminded of this quote:<p>&gt; Let us say we had ten guaranteed launches per year in Europe and we had a rocket which we can use ten times—we would build exactly one rocket per year,&quot; he said. &quot;That makes no sense. I cannot tell my teams: &#x27;Goodbye, see you next year!&#x27; [0]<p>European &quot;strategic autonomy&quot; in a quote.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;ariane-chief-seems-frustrated-with-spacex-for-driving-down-launch-costs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;ariane-chief-seems-f...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It's official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/its-official-europe-turns-to-the-falcon-9-to-launch-its-navigation-satellites/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thegrim000</author><text>Man the propaganda flies so fast, I don&#x27;t know how we&#x27;re going to survive the internet. Maybe instead of just shoveling the propaganda forward you could back up your wild claim with data? What are the odds of dying by flying in the current line of Boeing planes vs the odds in Airbus? Hint: It&#x27;s lottery ticket odds both ways, it&#x27;s the same order of magnitude both ways.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bandyaboot</author><text>Europe is now the only large scale producer of well-built commercial aircraft.</text></item><item><author>tekla</author><text>It&#x27;s so weird how increasingly irrelevant Europe is becoming on the world stage. How is a single American private compan lapping around all of the EU seemingly effortlessly?</text></item><item><author>627467</author><text>Whenever I read anything about rocketry and Europe I&#x27;m reminded of this quote:<p>&gt; Let us say we had ten guaranteed launches per year in Europe and we had a rocket which we can use ten times—we would build exactly one rocket per year,&quot; he said. &quot;That makes no sense. I cannot tell my teams: &#x27;Goodbye, see you next year!&#x27; [0]<p>European &quot;strategic autonomy&quot; in a quote.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;ariane-chief-seems-frustrated-with-spacex-for-driving-down-launch-costs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;ariane-chief-seems-f...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It's official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/its-official-europe-turns-to-the-falcon-9-to-launch-its-navigation-satellites/</url></story> |
9,779,936 | 9,779,867 | 1 | 2 | 9,779,440 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dao-</author><text>Seems like lots of FUD; how do Firefox Hello, Pocket and Geolocation &quot;leak data about you&quot; if you don&#x27;t explicitly use them? How do DRM and Reader mode leak data at all?<p>Also, Safe Browsing, DRM, Search suggestions, Telemetry and Health report can be disabled in the preferences UI. Don&#x27;t need sensationalist about:config protips for that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop Firefox leaking data about you</title><url>https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avian</author><text>Another thing worth noting is that if you are using Debian-rebranded Firefox (Iceweasel), you have a very unique user agent that is easy to track.<p>There is a bug opened (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=748897" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=748897</a>), but as far as I know, no simple solution exists yet. You can change the user agent with an extension to keep it identical with the most popular Firefox version, but then you have to manually keep it up-to-date.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop Firefox leaking data about you</title><url>https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat</url></story> |
10,412,051 | 10,411,702 | 1 | 3 | 10,410,046 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>I&#x27;m going to elaborate on your comment a bit because this infuriates me and I don&#x27;t think people truly understand the reasons behind why web-apps-for-desktop generally suck and there&#x27;s nothing <i>you</i> can do to fix it in yours.<p>Background: I&#x27;m the lead dev&#x2F;UX on LXQt, a linux desktop environment (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lxqt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lxqt.org&#x2F;</a>).<p>First one that comes to mind is accessibility and consistency of interactions. Apps that do not respect a host of user settings because the devs don&#x27;t even know they exist -- but on desktop frameworks, you get these for free. You find this on the web, too. People hijacking scrolling behaviour on websites, without a damn clue that not everybody is on a fucking iphone. You don&#x27;t respect smoothscroll options, you don&#x27;t respect autoscroll, you don&#x27;t respect lines-per-tick, it&#x27;s <i>infuriating</i>.
Zooming? What&#x27;s that? Let me disable it for whatever hacky performance reason. Who zooms anyway, people who can&#x27;t see well? FUCK EM!<p>There&#x27;s a lot of those examples. Maybe one day I&#x27;ll write about all of them. They infuriate me as both a user (who is used to some specific behaviour) and a UX guy.<p>Second reason is the performance. Both in executable size and general runtime performance, as you yourself mentioned. We, as engineers, spent a lot of time and effort working around all the design flaws of js and the web because it was the most pragmatic thing to do. But if you bring these problems with you on the desktop, you are doomed to lowering the quality of the experience we have on our machines. And the user won&#x27;t understand why their battery now drains at twice the rate - they&#x27;ll blame it on Lenovo&#x27;s shitty hardware, so you can get away with it. <i>sighs</i><p>And the final one is the direct consequence of lowering the barrier of entry. You often deal with worse quality code. Because of the reasons I cited above, serious devs work with different languages when dealing with the desktop.<p>There are better ways, that&#x27;s the worst thing. Qt and QML are extremely productive, work well on mobile and don&#x27;t have all of these issues. They also work on more platforms than you&#x27;d be able to enumerate. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I am a proponent of lowering the barrier of entry, and I want to bring the <i>advantages</i> of the web to the desktop. But you can&#x27;t just move the web there, lest you get its serious flaws and throw away decades of good engineering and UX.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trymas</author><text>+1<p>With all respect to leichzeit0 comment, IMHO, JS is an ugly language, with way too many pitfalls [0]. Even big boys [1] use CoffeScript to transpile into JS.<p>JS for cross platform desktop development may be an easy thing to manage, though it can become unusable and clunky super fast. You can spot JS desktop apps, just by the size of executable, which is at least 5-10 times bigger than you could expect (Spotify - 130MB). They have poorer performance, can drain your battery faster, and some OS native features&#x2F;guidelines must be implemented in a custom way, or could not be implemented&#x2F;used at all. Sorry, for my critical and conservative view, but it&#x27;s just my opinion (probably due to annoyance of overflow of laggy (web)apps, riddled with complex JS, where it could be avoided).<p>Probably it&#x27;s the price of &#x27;cross-platformity&#x27;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=20BySC_6HyY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=20BySC_6HyY</a> (original site does not load for whatever reason)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;basecamp&#x2F;trix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;basecamp&#x2F;trix</a></text></item><item><author>voltagex_</author><text>Because NodeJS is popular and desktop apps were getting small and efficient so we crammed a 30MB Chrome runtime in there.</text></item><item><author>eykanal</author><text>Please forgive the simple question, but...<p>Why does this exist? Is creating desktop programs out of HTML code really a good idea?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10</title><url>https://github.com/gabrielbull/react-desktop</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cristianpascu</author><text>&gt;&gt; &quot;JS is an ugly language&quot;<p>&gt;&gt; &quot;riddled with complex JS&quot;<p>If you pick a technology by the aesthetics of the language, I&#x27;m pretty sure you&#x27;ll make a bad decision no matter what. Not you like in you, but in principle. :)<p>The code is clean if you write it well. Ugly code comes in all parentheses positions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>trymas</author><text>+1<p>With all respect to leichzeit0 comment, IMHO, JS is an ugly language, with way too many pitfalls [0]. Even big boys [1] use CoffeScript to transpile into JS.<p>JS for cross platform desktop development may be an easy thing to manage, though it can become unusable and clunky super fast. You can spot JS desktop apps, just by the size of executable, which is at least 5-10 times bigger than you could expect (Spotify - 130MB). They have poorer performance, can drain your battery faster, and some OS native features&#x2F;guidelines must be implemented in a custom way, or could not be implemented&#x2F;used at all. Sorry, for my critical and conservative view, but it&#x27;s just my opinion (probably due to annoyance of overflow of laggy (web)apps, riddled with complex JS, where it could be avoided).<p>Probably it&#x27;s the price of &#x27;cross-platformity&#x27;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=20BySC_6HyY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=20BySC_6HyY</a> (original site does not load for whatever reason)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;basecamp&#x2F;trix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;basecamp&#x2F;trix</a></text></item><item><author>voltagex_</author><text>Because NodeJS is popular and desktop apps were getting small and efficient so we crammed a 30MB Chrome runtime in there.</text></item><item><author>eykanal</author><text>Please forgive the simple question, but...<p>Why does this exist? Is creating desktop programs out of HTML code really a good idea?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10</title><url>https://github.com/gabrielbull/react-desktop</url></story> |
3,863,952 | 3,863,730 | 1 | 2 | 3,863,298 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>I think Andy is missing the point of the Oatmeal comic. It's not that people want the content right then and there. That's a minor part in the larger picture: acquiring content illegally is a better experience than acquiring it legally.
Let's say I purchased season one on bluray, and just as I was coming home from the store my friend gave me a thumb drive with the torrented files on it. I wouldn't even open the shrink wrap. If the bluray disc gets scratched, I no longer have access to my content; I can back up the files on the thumb drive though. If I want to watch an episode, I have to sit through commercials on the bluray that I purchased; I can watch them immediately off the thumb drive though. If I want to project using a vga cable, I may run into content protection issues; the files on the thumb drive will work just fine though.<p>It's not a matter of cost or wait time. It's that torrent networks provide a better, faster, easier, more portable, and simpler experience than the legal way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guccimane</author><text>Andy Ihnatko about Oatmeal about difficulty of watching Game of Thrones: <a href="http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that-torrents-the-crown/" rel="nofollow">http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that...</a></text></item><item><author>PureSin</author><text>Oatmeal about difficult of watching Game of Thrones: <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones" rel="nofollow">http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones</a><p>and how I feel as a non US resident:
<a href="http://theoatmeal.com/pl/game_of_thrones/nz" rel="nofollow">http://theoatmeal.com/pl/game_of_thrones/nz</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-decides-it-still-isnt-difficult-enough-to-watch-hbo-shows.shtml</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rickmb</author><text>Which is a typical way of reversing the argument. The whole point of copyright and the free market is to do exactly that: to have as the end result consumers that can get what they want at an affordable price whilst allowing the original creators to make a living.<p>Copyright violation is not "sin" like theft, respecting it depends entirely on actually making it work. If copyright is the only thing that actually stands in the way of that, it is being abused.<p>To paraphrase the author: <i>The world doesn't OWE the copyright owners enforcement at any cost.</i> If you can't distribute it under your 100% terms, you have the free-and-clear option of not publishing it at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guccimane</author><text>Andy Ihnatko about Oatmeal about difficulty of watching Game of Thrones: <a href="http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that-torrents-the-crown/" rel="nofollow">http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that...</a></text></item><item><author>PureSin</author><text>Oatmeal about difficult of watching Game of Thrones: <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones" rel="nofollow">http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones</a><p>and how I feel as a non US resident:
<a href="http://theoatmeal.com/pl/game_of_thrones/nz" rel="nofollow">http://theoatmeal.com/pl/game_of_thrones/nz</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-decides-it-still-isnt-difficult-enough-to-watch-hbo-shows.shtml</url></story> |
36,604,772 | 36,604,682 | 1 | 2 | 36,603,382 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>The recent paper about using gpt-4 to give more insight into its actual internals was interesting, but yeah the risks seem really high at the moment that we&#x27;d accidentally develop unaligned AGI before figuring out alignment.<p>Out of the options to reduce that risk I think it would really take something like this, which also seems extremely unlikely to actually happen given the coordination problem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;6266923&#x2F;ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;6266923&#x2F;ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...</a><p>You talk about aligned agents - but there aren&#x27;t any today and we don&#x27;t know how to make them. It wouldn&#x27;t be aligned agents vs. unaligned, it&#x27;s only unaligned.<p>I don&#x27;t think spreading out the tech reduces the risk. Spreading out nuclear weapons doesn&#x27;t reduce the risk (and with nukes at least it&#x27;s a lot easier to control the fissionable materials). Even with nukes you can still create them and decide not to use them, not so true with superintelligent AGI.<p>If anyone could have made nukes from their computer humanity may not have made it.<p>I&#x27;m glad OpenAI understands the severity of the problem though and is at least trying to solve it in time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>You have to give them credit for putting their money where their mouth is here.<p>But it&#x27;s also easy to parody this. I am just imagining Ilya and Jan coming out on stage wearing red capes.<p>I think George Hotz made sense when he pointed out that the best defense will be having the technology available to everyone rather than a small group. We can at least try to create a collective &quot;digital immune system&quot; against unaligned agents with our own majority of aligned agents.<p>But I also believe that there isn&#x27;t any really effective mitigation against superintelligence superseding human decision making aside from just not deploying it. And it doesn&#x27;t need to be alive or anything to be dangerous. All you need is for a large amount of decision-making for critical systems to be given over to hyperspeed AI and that creates a brittle situation where things like computer viruses can be existential risks. It&#x27;s something similar to the danger of nuclear weapons.<p>Even if you just make GPT-4 say 33% smarter and 50 or 100 times faster and more efficient, that can lead to control of industrial and military assets being handed over to these AI agents. Because the agents are so much faster, humans cannot possibly compete, and if you interrupt them to try to give them new instructions then your competitor&#x27;s AIs race ahead the equivalent of days or weeks of work. This, again, is a precarious situation to be in.<p>There is huge promise and benefit from making the systems faster, smarter, and more efficient, but in the next few years we may be walking a fine line. We should agree to place some limitation on the performance level of AI hardware that we will design and manufacture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Superalignment</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JimtheCoder</author><text>&quot;Even if you just make GPT-4 say 33% smarter and 50 or 100 times faster and more efficient, that can lead to control of industrial and military assets being handed over to these AI agents.&quot;<p>I call BS on this...it&#x27;s an LLM...</text><parent_chain><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>You have to give them credit for putting their money where their mouth is here.<p>But it&#x27;s also easy to parody this. I am just imagining Ilya and Jan coming out on stage wearing red capes.<p>I think George Hotz made sense when he pointed out that the best defense will be having the technology available to everyone rather than a small group. We can at least try to create a collective &quot;digital immune system&quot; against unaligned agents with our own majority of aligned agents.<p>But I also believe that there isn&#x27;t any really effective mitigation against superintelligence superseding human decision making aside from just not deploying it. And it doesn&#x27;t need to be alive or anything to be dangerous. All you need is for a large amount of decision-making for critical systems to be given over to hyperspeed AI and that creates a brittle situation where things like computer viruses can be existential risks. It&#x27;s something similar to the danger of nuclear weapons.<p>Even if you just make GPT-4 say 33% smarter and 50 or 100 times faster and more efficient, that can lead to control of industrial and military assets being handed over to these AI agents. Because the agents are so much faster, humans cannot possibly compete, and if you interrupt them to try to give them new instructions then your competitor&#x27;s AIs race ahead the equivalent of days or weeks of work. This, again, is a precarious situation to be in.<p>There is huge promise and benefit from making the systems faster, smarter, and more efficient, but in the next few years we may be walking a fine line. We should agree to place some limitation on the performance level of AI hardware that we will design and manufacture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Superalignment</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment</url></story> |
8,702,034 | 8,701,829 | 1 | 2 | 8,701,114 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>The form of the metal matters. The elemental lead in leaded solder is not nearly as harmful as the lead in various compounds like tetraethyl lead anti-knock additive for gasoline, or the compounds used in leaded paint.<p>About mercury, consider that it&#x27;s still widely used in dental amalgam.<p>FDA article on amalgam: <a href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/DentalProducts/DentalAmalgam/ucm171094.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;MedicalDevices&#x2F;ProductsandMedicalProcedur...</a><p>&gt; <i>A lot more brave than I am, even if it is lead free.</i><p>Nobody who knows what they are doing works with lead-free solder for manual rework or repair. It needs a higher temperature, flows poorly, and produces an ugly matte surface, upon cooling, that looks like a cold solder joint even when the joint is actually good.<p>I can almost guarantee you that Woz is using nothing but 60&#x2F;40 Sn&#x2F;Pb in that shot. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dade_</author><text>It sure looks like Woz is holding solder with his mouth in the video. A lot more brave than I am, even if it is lead free. Maybe it is a generational thing, but my parents and adults around me when growing up were always warning me about the dangers of lead and mercury and would tell stories about how they played with them as children with no idea of the hazard.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/video/steve-wozniak-on-steve-jobs-geekiness-and-starting-apple-GVS_jUoTQtGYj9fwLg8dbQ.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>vinbreau</author><text>It made me uncomfortable as well. I actually knew a girl who willfully ingested a troublesome amount of mercury in high school. Her children have visible birth defects now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dade_</author><text>It sure looks like Woz is holding solder with his mouth in the video. A lot more brave than I am, even if it is lead free. Maybe it is a generational thing, but my parents and adults around me when growing up were always warning me about the dangers of lead and mercury and would tell stories about how they played with them as children with no idea of the hazard.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/video/steve-wozniak-on-steve-jobs-geekiness-and-starting-apple-GVS_jUoTQtGYj9fwLg8dbQ.html</url></story> |
17,023,711 | 17,023,682 | 1 | 3 | 17,023,220 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts&quot;<p>Thankfully, we&#x27;ve learned a few things since then and liberal (classic definition, not American definition), democratic minded people know how dangerous government defined truth (no matter how simple or well accepted) is.<p>There is a cost to this, of course - the citizenry is required to have a level of sophistication and erudition and they will be forced to make nuanced and complicated judgements about the state of their world.<p>If you find that too high a bar to cross, a &quot;ministry of truth&quot; may sound attractive. Please grow up and resist that urge. It may help to read about twentieth century dictatorships and the history of modern, repressive regimes in general.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts</title><url>http://blog.mass.gov/masslawlib/legal-history/the-law-against-lying-and-false-news-in-colonial-massachusetts/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfoutz</author><text>I&#x27;m really happy to have my freedom of speech. I don&#x27;t think i would do well under the classic Puritan model.<p>I do sometimes wonder if there&#x27;s room for a special class of formal speech for journalism. Grant rights perhaps formalizing protecting a source. But also require some responsibilities. Not sure what the standard should be, but we do the same thing for lawyers and doctors.<p>Also &quot;pernicious to the publick weal&quot; is an amusing phrase.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts</title><url>http://blog.mass.gov/masslawlib/legal-history/the-law-against-lying-and-false-news-in-colonial-massachusetts/</url></story> |
24,504,846 | 24,504,819 | 1 | 2 | 24,502,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Santosh83</author><text>Any software that depends on an Internet connection to function and&#x2F;or auto-update should be regarded as SaaS, not a static program or a product that you &quot;buy&quot; in the conventional sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dleslie</author><text>The rolling upgrade cycle for software and games is running afoul of our assumptions about what you get when you pay for a product.<p>With RL, customers have lost Linux support and are now losing the ability to opt-out of the EGS.<p>But it&#x27;s not the only example; Valve&#x27;s own TF2 increased its minimum system requirements over its lifespan. They may not have stated as much, but the rolling updates eventually made the game unplayable on machines that could play it decently.<p>Hell, Oculus is going to require a Facebook account.<p>And so on, there&#x27;s plenty of examples of game developers breaking a product their users paid for, and with no recourse for them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/iu1a6w/rocket_league_now_requires_an_epic_account_to/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexgmcm</author><text>Yep, Fall Guys just broke Proton (i.e. Linux) and Ultrawide Monitor support with the addition of Easy Anti-Cheat in the latest patch.<p>I feel consumers need better protections against this stuff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dleslie</author><text>The rolling upgrade cycle for software and games is running afoul of our assumptions about what you get when you pay for a product.<p>With RL, customers have lost Linux support and are now losing the ability to opt-out of the EGS.<p>But it&#x27;s not the only example; Valve&#x27;s own TF2 increased its minimum system requirements over its lifespan. They may not have stated as much, but the rolling updates eventually made the game unplayable on machines that could play it decently.<p>Hell, Oculus is going to require a Facebook account.<p>And so on, there&#x27;s plenty of examples of game developers breaking a product their users paid for, and with no recourse for them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/iu1a6w/rocket_league_now_requires_an_epic_account_to/</url></story> |
23,265,022 | 23,265,188 | 1 | 2 | 23,263,808 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nojito</author><text>Keeping the press alive is a worthwhile endeavor.<p>I&#x27;d rather the world not turn into Youtube News coming out of some basement with no staff that actually goes out and investigates. Instead he is able to carve a bubble to share what he&#x2F;she <i>thinks</i> as news.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Why does an “impact investor” own a newspaper anyway? Does this affect story selection and editorial behavior?<p>What “impact” could one expect to have by investing in a media organization, other than pushing an agenda?</text></item><item><author>burkaman</author><text>&gt; Between the lines: The Atlantic&#x27;s new majority ownership stake from Emerson Collective, the impact investment vehicle owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, has allowed the company to accelerate its growth in recent years, including a major staff increase and expansion that began in 2018.<p>&quot;Emerson Collective is a social change organization that uses a broad range of tools including philanthropy, impact investing, and policy solutions to create the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective is working to renew some of society’s most calcified systems, creating new possibilities for individuals, families, and communities.&quot;<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emersoncollective.com&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emersoncollective.com&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;</a><p>Laurene Powell Jobs has ~$22 billion. She could pay the salaries of these 68 employees for the next 10 years if she felt like it without noticing a change in her bank account.<p>Obviously she is not obligated to do anything, but if employees of my &quot;social change organization&quot; that were hired under my watch, with my encouragement, were impacted by a possibly temporary economic downturn in the middle of a global pandemic and I could help them without sacrificing anything, I hope I would.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff</title><url>https://www.axios.com/the-atlantic-layoffs-coronavirus-49cc6ad2-6579-45cd-b816-e20865f7351e.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>mc32</author><text>Of course. It’s the same reason “think tanks” are established.<p>You could always argue it’s good to get people to think and bring workable ideas to life... but of course the employees at these think tanks know who pays their salaries and what the expectations are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Why does an “impact investor” own a newspaper anyway? Does this affect story selection and editorial behavior?<p>What “impact” could one expect to have by investing in a media organization, other than pushing an agenda?</text></item><item><author>burkaman</author><text>&gt; Between the lines: The Atlantic&#x27;s new majority ownership stake from Emerson Collective, the impact investment vehicle owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, has allowed the company to accelerate its growth in recent years, including a major staff increase and expansion that began in 2018.<p>&quot;Emerson Collective is a social change organization that uses a broad range of tools including philanthropy, impact investing, and policy solutions to create the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective is working to renew some of society’s most calcified systems, creating new possibilities for individuals, families, and communities.&quot;<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emersoncollective.com&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emersoncollective.com&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;</a><p>Laurene Powell Jobs has ~$22 billion. She could pay the salaries of these 68 employees for the next 10 years if she felt like it without noticing a change in her bank account.<p>Obviously she is not obligated to do anything, but if employees of my &quot;social change organization&quot; that were hired under my watch, with my encouragement, were impacted by a possibly temporary economic downturn in the middle of a global pandemic and I could help them without sacrificing anything, I hope I would.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff</title><url>https://www.axios.com/the-atlantic-layoffs-coronavirus-49cc6ad2-6579-45cd-b816-e20865f7351e.html</url></story> |
27,802,577 | 27,802,807 | 1 | 3 | 27,801,445 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>NYT, WSJ, USA Today, etc have to realize that at $10 per month per paper, almost no one is going to pay for more than a single subscription</i><p>Plenty of people, offices and venues do. What&#x27;s more likely, and the direction we&#x27;ve been heading for years, is we see a population that consumes paid journalism and the broader market that has ad-supported filler.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I think the major newspapers need to get together and start offering umbrella subscription packages. Preferably via something like Scroll, which worked in any web browser via a simple cookie.<p>Surely the NYT, WSJ, USA Today, etc realize that at $10 per month per paper, few people are going to maintain more than one or two subscriptions. Since the incremental cost of online distribution is nearly zero, this means that the news outlets are leaving money on the table.<p>Make everyone&#x27;s first subscription cost $10, then provide access to additional papers for 50¢ each. Or use some other type of sliding scale—I&#x27;m sure there are numbers that would make sense.<p>The alternatives are either that a major tech company comes along and does it for them (as Apple is attempting), or that all the papers ultimately merge into 2-3 huge outlets. I don&#x27;t like either of those outcomes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/07/usa-today-is-getting-a-paywall-whos-the-audience-for-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>jpalomaki</author><text>They must take into account the loyal subscribers who are already paying the current fees. Introducing lower prices can mess up with this income stream.<p>It’s not easy to differentiate the product enough to collect maximum money from the both groups.<p>But I do agree with your thinking. For me it would be almost enough if I could get access to just those articles posted on HN for $10&#x2F;month (across many newspapers and with no risk of falling to some subscription trap).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I think the major newspapers need to get together and start offering umbrella subscription packages. Preferably via something like Scroll, which worked in any web browser via a simple cookie.<p>Surely the NYT, WSJ, USA Today, etc realize that at $10 per month per paper, few people are going to maintain more than one or two subscriptions. Since the incremental cost of online distribution is nearly zero, this means that the news outlets are leaving money on the table.<p>Make everyone&#x27;s first subscription cost $10, then provide access to additional papers for 50¢ each. Or use some other type of sliding scale—I&#x27;m sure there are numbers that would make sense.<p>The alternatives are either that a major tech company comes along and does it for them (as Apple is attempting), or that all the papers ultimately merge into 2-3 huge outlets. I don&#x27;t like either of those outcomes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/07/usa-today-is-getting-a-paywall-whos-the-audience-for-it/</url></story> |
27,926,730 | 27,926,365 | 1 | 2 | 27,925,393 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yoru-sulfur</author><text>What will really blow your mind is that you can cat a png and a zip together and the resulting file is both a valid png that looks identical to the image and a zip that contains the same contents as the archive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fendy3002</author><text>The fact that merging zip files with cat and do not produce error is amazing by itself. Now we&#x27;ll wait until someone find &#x2F; use a way to distribute hidden files using this method.</text></item><item><author>GrumpySloth</author><text><i>&gt; How do you read a zip file?</i><p><i>&gt; This is undefined by the spec.</i><p><i>&gt; There are 2 obvious ways.</i><p><i>&gt; 1. Scan from the front, when you see an id for a record do the appropriate thing.</i><p><i>&gt; 2. Scan from the back, find the end-of-central-directory-record and then use it to read through the central directory, only looking at things the central directory references.</i><p>I was recently bitten by this at work. I got a zip from someone and couldn&#x27;t find inside the files that were supposed to be there. I asked a colleague, and they sent me a screenshot showing that the files were there, and that they didn&#x27;t see the set of files that I saw. I listed the content of the zip using the &quot;unzip -l&quot; command. They used the engrampa GUI. At that point I looked at the hexdump of the file. What caught my eye was that I saw the zip magic number near the end of the zip, which was odd. The magic number was also present at the beginning of the file. At this point I suspected that someone used cat(1) to concatenate two zips together. I checked it with dd(1), extracting the sequence of bytes before the second occurrence of the zip magic number and the remainder into two separate files. And sure enough at that point both &quot;unzip -l&quot; and &quot;engrampa&quot; showed the same set of files, and both could show both zips correctly. Turns out engrampa was reading the file forwards, whereas unzip was reading the file backwards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zip – How not to design a file format</title><url>https://games.greggman.com/game/zip-rant/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cesarb</author><text>&gt; Now we&#x27;ll wait until someone find &#x2F; use a way to distribute hidden files using this method.<p>You mean like the GIFAR attack (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GIFAR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GIFAR</a>)?</text><parent_chain><item><author>fendy3002</author><text>The fact that merging zip files with cat and do not produce error is amazing by itself. Now we&#x27;ll wait until someone find &#x2F; use a way to distribute hidden files using this method.</text></item><item><author>GrumpySloth</author><text><i>&gt; How do you read a zip file?</i><p><i>&gt; This is undefined by the spec.</i><p><i>&gt; There are 2 obvious ways.</i><p><i>&gt; 1. Scan from the front, when you see an id for a record do the appropriate thing.</i><p><i>&gt; 2. Scan from the back, find the end-of-central-directory-record and then use it to read through the central directory, only looking at things the central directory references.</i><p>I was recently bitten by this at work. I got a zip from someone and couldn&#x27;t find inside the files that were supposed to be there. I asked a colleague, and they sent me a screenshot showing that the files were there, and that they didn&#x27;t see the set of files that I saw. I listed the content of the zip using the &quot;unzip -l&quot; command. They used the engrampa GUI. At that point I looked at the hexdump of the file. What caught my eye was that I saw the zip magic number near the end of the zip, which was odd. The magic number was also present at the beginning of the file. At this point I suspected that someone used cat(1) to concatenate two zips together. I checked it with dd(1), extracting the sequence of bytes before the second occurrence of the zip magic number and the remainder into two separate files. And sure enough at that point both &quot;unzip -l&quot; and &quot;engrampa&quot; showed the same set of files, and both could show both zips correctly. Turns out engrampa was reading the file forwards, whereas unzip was reading the file backwards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zip – How not to design a file format</title><url>https://games.greggman.com/game/zip-rant/</url></story> |
34,357,216 | 34,357,557 | 1 | 2 | 34,354,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>poulsbohemian</author><text>Where? I live in a poor rural area and every grocery store in town (and we ain’t talkin Whole Foods here) has even generic eggs for more than $5&#x2F;dozen. Thank goodness I have my own chickens.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SECProto</author><text>&gt; 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. [...] Just last week it was $110.<p>Might I suggest buying eggs from a normal grocery store or other alternative source? That&#x27;s $7.33 per dozen and unless you have some very unusual situation, a dozen eggs can be had for less than half that price at a grocery store.</text></item><item><author>bigtex</author><text>My wife has a cottage baking business and would buy 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. Already high, a few months back in cost about $45 for the box. Just last week it was $110. She doesn&#x27;t recall but it fairly certain the box was between $20-30 before inflation hit.<p>However she said they had chicken legs that were .49&#x2F;lb which is a great price but hard to reconcile with the narrative that avian flu is the cause for the price increases. Why are broiler chicken cheap but eggs from layer hens not?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/01/12/2023/eggs-are-60-more-expensive-than-last-year-in-the-us</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonnycomputer</author><text>&gt;The USDA shows the current price of a dozen large eggs in California cost about $6.72, which is double what it cost in July.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abc7.com&#x2F;egg-prices-in-california-avian-flu-bird-cage-free-eggs&#x2F;12690623&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abc7.com&#x2F;egg-prices-in-california-avian-flu-bird-cag...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>SECProto</author><text>&gt; 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. [...] Just last week it was $110.<p>Might I suggest buying eggs from a normal grocery store or other alternative source? That&#x27;s $7.33 per dozen and unless you have some very unusual situation, a dozen eggs can be had for less than half that price at a grocery store.</text></item><item><author>bigtex</author><text>My wife has a cottage baking business and would buy 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. Already high, a few months back in cost about $45 for the box. Just last week it was $110. She doesn&#x27;t recall but it fairly certain the box was between $20-30 before inflation hit.<p>However she said they had chicken legs that were .49&#x2F;lb which is a great price but hard to reconcile with the narrative that avian flu is the cause for the price increases. Why are broiler chicken cheap but eggs from layer hens not?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/01/12/2023/eggs-are-60-more-expensive-than-last-year-in-the-us</url></story> |
13,024,425 | 13,024,387 | 1 | 3 | 13,023,954 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Pfhreak</author><text>White nationalism can still create and post content to the web. But there&#x27;s no responsibility for other companies to financially support them.<p>If a company like Breitbart cannot survive without Google&#x27;s ad network, the onus is on them to figure out they can support themselves. Especially if supporting white nationalism undermines Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x27;s ability to hire and retain their own employees or impacts their reputation in a negative way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>javery</author><text>The world we are moving to is one where ad exchanges, google, and facebook get to decide what can survive on the web. This doesn&#x27;t seem like a good thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38076579</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelmrose</author><text>How about seeking alternative sources of revenue. Start your own ad exchange if you like.</text><parent_chain><item><author>javery</author><text>The world we are moving to is one where ad exchanges, google, and facebook get to decide what can survive on the web. This doesn&#x27;t seem like a good thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38076579</url></story> |
36,099,503 | 36,099,478 | 1 | 2 | 36,098,970 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>filleduchaos</author><text>Do you not have a bank? Why would you be unable to terminate a recurring charge on any payment method you actually own?</text><parent_chain><item><author>labster</author><text>This is why I will never pay for YouTube Premium. Imagine having a recurring charge that you can’t terminate because your account was deleted for some unrelated service, and you have no phone number or office to contact.<p>Limit your interactions with Google to only the services you most need, and you will probably be safe. It’s too dangerous to go all-in on Google, because you could lose your entire digital footprint from an AI bot with no recourse other than HN and Twitter.</text></item><item><author>Z7YCx5ieof4Std</author><text>And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should never store important things like your email&#x2F;passwords&#x2F;passkeys on google</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/13td3iq/google_account_deleted_after_2_hours_of_aurora/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; Imagine having a recurring charge that you can’t terminate because your account was deleted for some unrelated service<p>Has this actually happened - does Youtube Premium still charge for accounts that have been terminated? Or is this just FUD?</text><parent_chain><item><author>labster</author><text>This is why I will never pay for YouTube Premium. Imagine having a recurring charge that you can’t terminate because your account was deleted for some unrelated service, and you have no phone number or office to contact.<p>Limit your interactions with Google to only the services you most need, and you will probably be safe. It’s too dangerous to go all-in on Google, because you could lose your entire digital footprint from an AI bot with no recourse other than HN and Twitter.</text></item><item><author>Z7YCx5ieof4Std</author><text>And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should never store important things like your email&#x2F;passwords&#x2F;passkeys on google</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/13td3iq/google_account_deleted_after_2_hours_of_aurora/</url></story> |
9,226,854 | 9,226,925 | 1 | 3 | 9,226,497 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mod</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t you have had to (if a free user) listen to commercials during this? Wouldn&#x27;t that sort-of defeat the purpose of the silence?<p>May as well ask people to play some more normal 30s songs and turn off their speakers, avoid being delisted as a non-album.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kfor</author><text>Vulfpeck is also the band behind Sleepify[1], the album of ten silent 30s songs which fans looped on Spotify while they slept. Vulfpeck earned $20k as a result and used it to organize a tour.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sleepify</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Spotify Pays So Little</title><url>http://lit.vulf.de/spotify-so-little/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sahara</author><text>Vulfpeck is <i>also</i> also the band behind four really terrific EPs in as many years, and you should absolutely give them a listen[1], although ideally not on Spotify.<p>[1] <a href="http://vulf.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vulf.bandcamp.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kfor</author><text>Vulfpeck is also the band behind Sleepify[1], the album of ten silent 30s songs which fans looped on Spotify while they slept. Vulfpeck earned $20k as a result and used it to organize a tour.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sleepify</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Spotify Pays So Little</title><url>http://lit.vulf.de/spotify-so-little/</url></story> |
23,750,893 | 23,749,881 | 1 | 2 | 23,746,087 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>archagon</author><text>What? How can you possibly say this when the entire modus operandi of the conservative right (in the US) is unwavering deference to authority?<p>(On reflection, I guess &quot;we have rules and you should have known better&quot; could be construed as a belief in free will, in the sense of justifying the myriad ways in which systems pressure individuals. But it&#x27;s ironic that the purported side of free will is the side of &quot;president&#x2F;cops&#x2F;military&#x2F;corporation&#x2F;party knows best&quot;, while the other side is the one actually trying to enact change in these systems. <i>Actual</i> free will implies a feedback loop of observation, action, and reaction.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Swenrekcah</author><text>&gt;He proposes that &quot;leftists&quot; have this belief in their own freedom, but that this freedom is a delusion.<p>Interesting, because my pet theory is that what determines if people lean left or right is their belief in their own free will.<p>Those that truly believe they are completely free and autonomus from society and their environment will naturally favor right wing policies, but those that believe they are largely a product of their environment will favor left wing policies.<p>This belief is perhaps (probably) not always explicit but rather somehow implicit or &#x27;felt&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>lucideer</author><text>I have to say I had the exact opposite reaction.<p>I was also intrigued by the depiction in the Manhunt series and read the manifesto as a result.<p>In the TV show, Kaczinky is portrayed as a highly intellectual, informed, educated individual, mentally thwarting his interviewer in their debate on morals and politics. After building up that expectation of Kaczinky&#x27;s intellect, the manifesto is an enormous disappointment. It&#x27;s filled with base broad assumptions, ignorant and unresearched assertions on &quot;leftism&quot; and in particular his treatise on &quot;oversocialization&quot; is so transparently a defensive lashing out at the elements of society that have not been personally accepting of him.<p>Throughout, his arguments are made as plain, implicit statements. Nothing is approached in an evidence-based manner and there are no attempts to contradict obvious counter-arguments. His &quot;facts&quot; are simply stated as self-evident.<p>Take e.g.<p>&gt; <i>it’s likely that many leftists of the oversocialized type would say that most people, including themselves, are socialized too little rather than too much, yet the oversocialized leftist pays a heavy psychological price for his high level of socialization.</i><p>This is centred around the idea of society imposing restrictions on our autonomy through socialization; we believe strongly in our own freedom. He proposes that &quot;leftists&quot; have this belief in their own freedom, but that this freedom is a delusion. A delusion that results from their own oversocialization. At no point does he explain how&#x2F;why leftists are more oversocialized than non-lefists, or why he believes that he himself is not delusional in his sense of his own autonomy.<p>There are some central elements in there of value (his general focus on the importance of effort and autonomy in fulfillment I would agree with), but these can be found discussed more articulately in better writings without being padded with political&#x2F;social nonsense.<p>Overall, the manifesto is not worth reading.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Industrial Society and its Future”: the writings of the Unabomber</title><url>https://www.roelpeters.be/industrial-society-and-its-future-the-intelligent-yet-angry-writings-of-a-terrorist/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>Interesting. That would let you look at the same set of problems in society, and decide either that you need to fix the individuals (rightist) or fix the environment, that is, the structure of society (leftist). And their answer would feel so right to them (on both sides) that they would think that anyone who saw it the other way had to be maliciously advocating for a bad agenda.<p>And, in truth, neither view will do. We are more the product of our environment than the rightists think, but we are less the prisoner of our circumstances than the leftists think.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Swenrekcah</author><text>&gt;He proposes that &quot;leftists&quot; have this belief in their own freedom, but that this freedom is a delusion.<p>Interesting, because my pet theory is that what determines if people lean left or right is their belief in their own free will.<p>Those that truly believe they are completely free and autonomus from society and their environment will naturally favor right wing policies, but those that believe they are largely a product of their environment will favor left wing policies.<p>This belief is perhaps (probably) not always explicit but rather somehow implicit or &#x27;felt&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>lucideer</author><text>I have to say I had the exact opposite reaction.<p>I was also intrigued by the depiction in the Manhunt series and read the manifesto as a result.<p>In the TV show, Kaczinky is portrayed as a highly intellectual, informed, educated individual, mentally thwarting his interviewer in their debate on morals and politics. After building up that expectation of Kaczinky&#x27;s intellect, the manifesto is an enormous disappointment. It&#x27;s filled with base broad assumptions, ignorant and unresearched assertions on &quot;leftism&quot; and in particular his treatise on &quot;oversocialization&quot; is so transparently a defensive lashing out at the elements of society that have not been personally accepting of him.<p>Throughout, his arguments are made as plain, implicit statements. Nothing is approached in an evidence-based manner and there are no attempts to contradict obvious counter-arguments. His &quot;facts&quot; are simply stated as self-evident.<p>Take e.g.<p>&gt; <i>it’s likely that many leftists of the oversocialized type would say that most people, including themselves, are socialized too little rather than too much, yet the oversocialized leftist pays a heavy psychological price for his high level of socialization.</i><p>This is centred around the idea of society imposing restrictions on our autonomy through socialization; we believe strongly in our own freedom. He proposes that &quot;leftists&quot; have this belief in their own freedom, but that this freedom is a delusion. A delusion that results from their own oversocialization. At no point does he explain how&#x2F;why leftists are more oversocialized than non-lefists, or why he believes that he himself is not delusional in his sense of his own autonomy.<p>There are some central elements in there of value (his general focus on the importance of effort and autonomy in fulfillment I would agree with), but these can be found discussed more articulately in better writings without being padded with political&#x2F;social nonsense.<p>Overall, the manifesto is not worth reading.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Industrial Society and its Future”: the writings of the Unabomber</title><url>https://www.roelpeters.be/industrial-society-and-its-future-the-intelligent-yet-angry-writings-of-a-terrorist/</url></story> |
16,624,806 | 16,624,907 | 1 | 3 | 16,619,917 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>&gt; except in rare cases like gun laws<p>They&#x27;re still very reactionary in that, which is precisely why it isn&#x27;t very effective when a subset of them do react: there are plenty of smart things that could get proposed, but the overlap between people who know what they&#x27;re talking about and people that want the laws is exceptionally small, so consequently dumb, ineffective stuff that has no chance of passing anyway gets proposed. What does get proposed is a knee-jerk reaction to what just happened, and rarely actually looks systemically at the current laws and gun violence as a whole. Example: the Las Vegas shooting prompted a lot of talk of bump stock bans. Bump stocks are so rarely used at all, nevermind in violence, and they will generally ruin guns that weren&#x27;t originally made to be fully-automatic very quickly if they&#x27;re actually used for sustained automatic fire. Silly point to focus on suddenly. After the Florida shooting last month so much focused on why rifles are easier to obtain than handguns. And it&#x27;s because overwhemingly most gun violence is handguns. Easily concealable rifles are already heavily regulated at the federal level for that very reason.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>I am definitely not. Their version of the future is too damn bleak for me.<p>Your fear is very much grounded in reality. US lawmakers tend to be very reactionary, except in rare cases like gun laws. So it won&#x27;t take much to have restrictions imposed like this. Granted, I believe some regulation is good; after all the reason today&#x27;s cars are safer than those built 20 years ago isn&#x27;t because the free market decided so, but because of regulation. But self driving cars are so new and our lawmakers are by and large so ignorant, that I wouldn&#x27;t trust them to create good regulation from the get go.</text></item><item><author>orbitur</author><text>&gt; I won&#x27;t be surprised if someone at some point wears a stripy outfit, and the car thinks they are a part of the road, and tries to explicitly chase them down until they are under the wheels. Or if the car suddenly decides that the road continues at a 90 degree angle off a bridge. Or that the splashes from a puddle in front is actually an oncoming car and it must swerve into the school kids crossing the perpendicular road.<p>Are you working on the next season of Black Mirror?<p>In all seriousness, my fear (and maybe not fear, maybe it&#x27;s happy expectation in light of the nightmare scenarios) is that if a couple of the &quot;weird and terrifying&quot; accidents happen, the gov&#x27;t would shut down self-driving car usage immediately.</text></item><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>This is what&#x27;s going to happen. If you&#x27;ve ever seen a machine learning algorithm in action, this isn&#x27;t surprising at all. Basically, they&#x27;ll behave as expected some well known percentage of the time. But when they don&#x27;t, the result will not be just a slight deviation from the normal algorithm, but a very unexpected one.<p>So we will have overall a much smaller number of deaths caused by self driving cars, but ones that do happen will be completely unexpected and scary and shitty. You can&#x27;t really get away from this without putting these cars on rails.<p>Moreover, the human brain won&#x27;t like processing these freak accidents. People die in car crashes every damn day. But we have become really accustomed to rationalizing that: &quot;they were struck by a drunk driver&quot;, &quot;they were texting&quot;, &quot;they didn&#x27;t see the red light&quot;, etc. These are &quot;normal&quot; reasons for bad accidents and we can not only rationalize them, but also rationalize how it wouldn&#x27;t happen to us: &quot;I don&#x27;t drive near colleges where young kids are likely to drive drunk&quot;, &quot;I don&#x27;t text (much) while I drive&quot;, &quot;I pay attention&quot;.<p>But these algorithms will not fail like that. Each accident will be unique and weird and scary. I won&#x27;t be surprised if someone at some point wears a stripy outfit, and the car thinks they are a part of the road, and tries to explicitly chase them down until they are under the wheels. Or if the car suddenly decides that the road continues at a 90 degree angle off a bridge. Or that the splashes from a puddle in front is actually an oncoming car and it must swerve into the school kids crossing the perpendicular road. It&#x27;ll always be tragic, unpredictable and one-off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-uber/self-driving-uber-car-kills-arizona-woman-crossing-street-idUSKBN1GV296</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makomk</author><text>US lawmakers are very reactionary in the case of gun laws too, it&#x27;s just that gun owners usually have enough political pull to block them from successfully getting laws passed. (The current campaign for gun control is 100% a reactionary response to whatever&#x27;s been making the biggest news headlines. For example, the vast majority of US gun homicides are carried out with handguns, yet gun control supporters seem to think it&#x27;s absurd they&#x27;re more tightly regulated than AR-15s - which are relatively rarely used to kill anyone and have more mundane uses for things like hunting - just because the AR-15s are in the headlines. The US&#x27;s most deadly school shooting was done with handguns too.) In fact, I&#x27;d argue the reactionary nature of US lawmaking is important to understanding why &quot;sensible&quot;, &quot;common-sense&quot; gun control laws are so strongly opposed in the first place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>I am definitely not. Their version of the future is too damn bleak for me.<p>Your fear is very much grounded in reality. US lawmakers tend to be very reactionary, except in rare cases like gun laws. So it won&#x27;t take much to have restrictions imposed like this. Granted, I believe some regulation is good; after all the reason today&#x27;s cars are safer than those built 20 years ago isn&#x27;t because the free market decided so, but because of regulation. But self driving cars are so new and our lawmakers are by and large so ignorant, that I wouldn&#x27;t trust them to create good regulation from the get go.</text></item><item><author>orbitur</author><text>&gt; I won&#x27;t be surprised if someone at some point wears a stripy outfit, and the car thinks they are a part of the road, and tries to explicitly chase them down until they are under the wheels. Or if the car suddenly decides that the road continues at a 90 degree angle off a bridge. Or that the splashes from a puddle in front is actually an oncoming car and it must swerve into the school kids crossing the perpendicular road.<p>Are you working on the next season of Black Mirror?<p>In all seriousness, my fear (and maybe not fear, maybe it&#x27;s happy expectation in light of the nightmare scenarios) is that if a couple of the &quot;weird and terrifying&quot; accidents happen, the gov&#x27;t would shut down self-driving car usage immediately.</text></item><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>This is what&#x27;s going to happen. If you&#x27;ve ever seen a machine learning algorithm in action, this isn&#x27;t surprising at all. Basically, they&#x27;ll behave as expected some well known percentage of the time. But when they don&#x27;t, the result will not be just a slight deviation from the normal algorithm, but a very unexpected one.<p>So we will have overall a much smaller number of deaths caused by self driving cars, but ones that do happen will be completely unexpected and scary and shitty. You can&#x27;t really get away from this without putting these cars on rails.<p>Moreover, the human brain won&#x27;t like processing these freak accidents. People die in car crashes every damn day. But we have become really accustomed to rationalizing that: &quot;they were struck by a drunk driver&quot;, &quot;they were texting&quot;, &quot;they didn&#x27;t see the red light&quot;, etc. These are &quot;normal&quot; reasons for bad accidents and we can not only rationalize them, but also rationalize how it wouldn&#x27;t happen to us: &quot;I don&#x27;t drive near colleges where young kids are likely to drive drunk&quot;, &quot;I don&#x27;t text (much) while I drive&quot;, &quot;I pay attention&quot;.<p>But these algorithms will not fail like that. Each accident will be unique and weird and scary. I won&#x27;t be surprised if someone at some point wears a stripy outfit, and the car thinks they are a part of the road, and tries to explicitly chase them down until they are under the wheels. Or if the car suddenly decides that the road continues at a 90 degree angle off a bridge. Or that the splashes from a puddle in front is actually an oncoming car and it must swerve into the school kids crossing the perpendicular road. It&#x27;ll always be tragic, unpredictable and one-off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-uber/self-driving-uber-car-kills-arizona-woman-crossing-street-idUSKBN1GV296</url></story> |
26,079,441 | 26,074,030 | 1 | 3 | 26,070,262 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>re: alerting telemetry - I&#x27;m not finding photos to cite right now, but I&#x27;ve absolutely seen &quot;infrastructure&quot; buildings (here in rural Ohio) with warning annunciators (lights and bells) on their exteriors along with signs reading &quot;If this light is flashing call xxx.&quot; It&#x27;s definitely a viable system for alerting.<p>I like your thinking and I try to espouse it myself (keeping things as simple as they can be-- keeping &quot;technology&quot; out of voting, not connecting things to networks that have no business being connected, etc). Short of a Battlestar Galactica-type &quot;our machines rise up and try to kill us&quot; event, though, I don&#x27;t think the average person will ever understand the vulnerability inherent in networked computers or the risk&#x2F;benefit tradeoff of connected vs. disconnected systems.<p>Even down at the level of local politics in a rural setting the &quot;optics&quot; of bringing technological solutions to bear on problems is seen as forward-thinking-- particularly when it &quot;saves&quot; the taxpayer money. I can&#x27;t imagine trying to convince a local water board that moving away from a PLC-based system with a remote support vendor world fly, even citing this example.<p>This event will be another opportunity for more security vendors to cite in case studies justifying their products. More layers of garbage will build up on a foundation of protocols and design philosophies that grew up in an era of disconnected systems with lower stakes and a less complex threat model.<p>I don&#x27;t see big money to be made in providing sensible levels of connectivity and security to this kind of infrastructure. I don&#x27;t see industry stepping-up because of that. Maybe regulation is the answer, though I&#x27;d just expect regulatory capture to take over, and have it become another &quot;PCI&quot;. Maybe a lot of people have to die before society takes it seriously, as has been the case with so many other safety codes over human history.<p>It makes me really sad, embarrassed for our industry, and more disappointed in human nature.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;In a perfect world, maybe there would be unlimited budgets for small rural water districts to have 24&#x2F;7 onsite staff and run highly secured networks.&quot;<p>I reject this line of thought.<p>A small rural water district can run with looser tolerances and looser guarantees - and have done so for decades.<p>They should spend half the time (and a quarter of the money) setting up systems that fail safely and revert to known states and operate with looser tolerances.<p>As for telemetry ...<p>I am not joking at all when I say that a green light on the building that turns red and everyone in the county knows to call <i>either</i> Jed or Billy if that light is red is a <i>completely reasonable system</i>. It&#x27;s a small rural water district (your words) after all, right ?</text></item><item><author>ac29</author><text>In a perfect world, maybe there would be unlimited budgets for small rural water districts to have 24&#x2F;7 onsite staff and run highly secured networks.<p>I regularly work with these sorts of water districts (larger, better funded ones as well). In reality, some of these small districts may only have 2 or 3 SCADA operators on staff. Sending them home with a pager, a tablet, a VPN password, and some overtime pay is a lot easier to get past the city council then taking on another two employees to cover the night shift for those rare events that need to be handled ASAP.<p>I could share some real horror stories, but it wouldnt be professionally appropriate. Suffice to say, this story did not surprise me at all.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Internet-accessble industrial control systems have been a problem for many years now ...&quot;<p>They are a problem the way drunk driving is a problem.<p>You just don&#x27;t ever do it. Ever.<p>No cyber security products are needed. No budget required.<p>These &quot;startups in the ICS space&quot; are like turbotax&#x2F;HRBlock: only continued idiocy allows their business model to exist.</text></item><item><author>achillean</author><text>Internet-accessble industrial control systems have been a problem for many years now. It&#x27;s a documented issue but it&#x27;s difficult to fix for a variety of reasons:<p>1. Difficult to identify the owner: a lot of the devices are on mobile networks that don&#x27;t point to an obvious owner.<p>2. Unknown criticality: is it a demo system or something used in production?<p>3. Security budget: lots of smaller utilities don&#x27;t have a budget for buying cyber security products.<p>4. Uneducated vendor: sometimes the vendors of the device give very bad advice (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;why-control-systems-are-on-the-internet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;why-control-systems-are-on-the-intern...</a>)<p>That being said, based on the numbers in Shodan the situation has improved over the past decade. And there&#x27;s been a large resurgence of startups in the ICS space (ex <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dragos.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dragos.com</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gravwell.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gravwell.io</a>). Here&#x27;s a current view of exposed industrial devices on the Internet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.shodan.io&#x2F;search&#x2F;report?query=tag%3Aics&amp;title=Industrial%20Control%20Systems%20Overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.shodan.io&#x2F;search&#x2F;report?query=tag%3Aics&amp;title=I...</a><p>I&#x27;ve written&#x2F; presented on the issue a few times:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;taking-things-offline-is-hard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;taking-things-offline-is-hard&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;trends-in-internet-exposure&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;trends-in-internet-exposure&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exposure.shodan.io&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exposure.shodan.io&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says</title><url>https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/pinellas-oldsmar-water-system-computer-intrustion/67-512b2bab-9f94-44d7-841e-5169fdb0a0bd</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I invite you to become a pentester for a year and see if you still reject this line of thought.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;In a perfect world, maybe there would be unlimited budgets for small rural water districts to have 24&#x2F;7 onsite staff and run highly secured networks.&quot;<p>I reject this line of thought.<p>A small rural water district can run with looser tolerances and looser guarantees - and have done so for decades.<p>They should spend half the time (and a quarter of the money) setting up systems that fail safely and revert to known states and operate with looser tolerances.<p>As for telemetry ...<p>I am not joking at all when I say that a green light on the building that turns red and everyone in the county knows to call <i>either</i> Jed or Billy if that light is red is a <i>completely reasonable system</i>. It&#x27;s a small rural water district (your words) after all, right ?</text></item><item><author>ac29</author><text>In a perfect world, maybe there would be unlimited budgets for small rural water districts to have 24&#x2F;7 onsite staff and run highly secured networks.<p>I regularly work with these sorts of water districts (larger, better funded ones as well). In reality, some of these small districts may only have 2 or 3 SCADA operators on staff. Sending them home with a pager, a tablet, a VPN password, and some overtime pay is a lot easier to get past the city council then taking on another two employees to cover the night shift for those rare events that need to be handled ASAP.<p>I could share some real horror stories, but it wouldnt be professionally appropriate. Suffice to say, this story did not surprise me at all.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Internet-accessble industrial control systems have been a problem for many years now ...&quot;<p>They are a problem the way drunk driving is a problem.<p>You just don&#x27;t ever do it. Ever.<p>No cyber security products are needed. No budget required.<p>These &quot;startups in the ICS space&quot; are like turbotax&#x2F;HRBlock: only continued idiocy allows their business model to exist.</text></item><item><author>achillean</author><text>Internet-accessble industrial control systems have been a problem for many years now. It&#x27;s a documented issue but it&#x27;s difficult to fix for a variety of reasons:<p>1. Difficult to identify the owner: a lot of the devices are on mobile networks that don&#x27;t point to an obvious owner.<p>2. Unknown criticality: is it a demo system or something used in production?<p>3. Security budget: lots of smaller utilities don&#x27;t have a budget for buying cyber security products.<p>4. Uneducated vendor: sometimes the vendors of the device give very bad advice (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;why-control-systems-are-on-the-internet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;why-control-systems-are-on-the-intern...</a>)<p>That being said, based on the numbers in Shodan the situation has improved over the past decade. And there&#x27;s been a large resurgence of startups in the ICS space (ex <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dragos.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dragos.com</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gravwell.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gravwell.io</a>). Here&#x27;s a current view of exposed industrial devices on the Internet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.shodan.io&#x2F;search&#x2F;report?query=tag%3Aics&amp;title=Industrial%20Control%20Systems%20Overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.shodan.io&#x2F;search&#x2F;report?query=tag%3Aics&amp;title=I...</a><p>I&#x27;ve written&#x2F; presented on the issue a few times:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;taking-things-offline-is-hard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;taking-things-offline-is-hard&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;trends-in-internet-exposure&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;trends-in-internet-exposure&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exposure.shodan.io&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exposure.shodan.io&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says</title><url>https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/pinellas-oldsmar-water-system-computer-intrustion/67-512b2bab-9f94-44d7-841e-5169fdb0a0bd</url></story> |
36,519,118 | 36,518,954 | 1 | 3 | 36,494,378 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cstross</author><text>&gt; So what will happen? The same thing that happened with all of Apple&#x27;s bad products- they&#x27;ll continue to offer it for sale at incredibly high margins for eternity and never attempt to make it more competitive.<p>There&#x27;s another thing Apple do with bad products, though. The original 13&quot; Aluminum Macbook launched in November 2008. It was discontinued in June 2009, in favour of the 13&quot; Macbook Pro, which offered a permanently built-in battery (the previous model had a removable battery), and dropped Firewire. <i>That</i> stayed on sale, subject to regular spec bumps, until October 2012, when they bumped the screen to a retina display ...<p>I&#x27;m not an insider, just a long-term Apple watcher (been using Macs since 1991): what seems to happen is they used to get an internal goal to fill a niche in the product range by a certain date, and if the performance target isn&#x27;t quite achievable they ship whatever they&#x27;ve got -- then iterate on it, possibly with a model branding change.<p>The Mac Pro looks like a classic case of this: Tim Cook committed Apple to being 100% Apple Silicon across the range by the end of 2022, they missed, but they had to ship <i>something</i> to keep the Mac Pro brand alive. So they shipped a turkey (a Mac Studio with PCI slots and a higher price tag).<p>What happens next is: either they ship the <i>real</i> Apple Silicon Mac Pro in a year or two (with who-knows-what changes, but something to differentiate it from the top of the Mac Studio range other than price), or they admit defeat and kill the Pro range altogether, or maybe downgrade it to be the name of the top end Mac Studio.<p>But this model won&#x27;t be available for more than two years, max.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>I think it&#x27;s a mistake to view the Apple silicon mac pro as some big new investment. They had one very simple purpose - they said the whole Apple line up needed to be Apple silicon, and that&#x27;s what they delivered.<p>The truth is that Intel spent a lot of time plugging away at all the different mechanisms that you could try to get performance, and one of those is high bandwidth peripheral interfaces. Apple hasn&#x27;t got there yet, it doesn&#x27;t have a chip with a tonne of transceivers on it that it can use to hook up a massive GPU, and to get there they need to not only get all the transceiver work sorted, they also need to build an entire software stack to deliver that performance. All to benefit the lowest revenue product in their line up chasing a sector that&#x27;s not growing.<p>So what will happen? The same thing that happened with all of Apple&#x27;s bad products- they&#x27;ll continue to offer it for sale at incredibly high margins for eternity and never attempt to make it more competitive. Let me point you to the Mac Pro Trash can, it was almost immediately obvious that the product didn&#x27;t deliver. What is the reasonable thing to do? Do a redesign as soon as possible! What did they do? Quote from Wikipedia:<p>&gt;On September 18, 2018, the Mac Pro surpassed the Macintosh Plus&#x27;s production life record for an unchanged Mac model, with the Plus having remained on sale unchanged for 1,734 days. It was discontinued on December 10, 2019, after being on sale unchanged for a record 2,182 days.<p>The new Mac Pro is going to be here for a very long time is my guess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23770770/apple-mac-pro-m2-ultra-2023-review</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbverschoor</author><text>Apple and others could just as well create an accelerator card with a bunch of M2s on it.<p>They could also create some sort of blade server.. they print their own cups in literally everything. Phone, laptops, headset, apple cinema displays. The production cost of an M1 is about $30.<p>Remember that the 5-year $1.5B contact with AWS will expire next year. They already have XCode cloud, and have enabled virtualization natively for a while<p>Either large Mac Pro based rack-servers or accelerators for rendering, transcoding, and AI&#x2F;ML.<p>They could market those 10x$30 chips on a single board as something that is &quot;10x&quot; the power of the Mac Pro, at “only” $20000 a pop.<p>You can be very certain that NVDA did not get unnoticed, as Apple has the same capabilities, and sees a future in AI&#x2F;ML.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>I think it&#x27;s a mistake to view the Apple silicon mac pro as some big new investment. They had one very simple purpose - they said the whole Apple line up needed to be Apple silicon, and that&#x27;s what they delivered.<p>The truth is that Intel spent a lot of time plugging away at all the different mechanisms that you could try to get performance, and one of those is high bandwidth peripheral interfaces. Apple hasn&#x27;t got there yet, it doesn&#x27;t have a chip with a tonne of transceivers on it that it can use to hook up a massive GPU, and to get there they need to not only get all the transceiver work sorted, they also need to build an entire software stack to deliver that performance. All to benefit the lowest revenue product in their line up chasing a sector that&#x27;s not growing.<p>So what will happen? The same thing that happened with all of Apple&#x27;s bad products- they&#x27;ll continue to offer it for sale at incredibly high margins for eternity and never attempt to make it more competitive. Let me point you to the Mac Pro Trash can, it was almost immediately obvious that the product didn&#x27;t deliver. What is the reasonable thing to do? Do a redesign as soon as possible! What did they do? Quote from Wikipedia:<p>&gt;On September 18, 2018, the Mac Pro surpassed the Macintosh Plus&#x27;s production life record for an unchanged Mac model, with the Plus having remained on sale unchanged for 1,734 days. It was discontinued on December 10, 2019, after being on sale unchanged for a record 2,182 days.<p>The new Mac Pro is going to be here for a very long time is my guess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23770770/apple-mac-pro-m2-ultra-2023-review</url></story> |
36,152,218 | 36,151,978 | 1 | 2 | 36,148,807 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchw</author><text>Nailed it.<p>I happily pay a lot of money for nice things, but only if I get to own them. I am not cheap, I&#x27;m picky. I&#x27;m not picky by choice, I&#x27;m picky by experience. I already know I can&#x27;t trust subscriptions.<p>If you have to make your tool a one-time cost, you might come to realize it&#x27;s not really worth the amount of money you could&#x27;ve made by selling it for $5&#x2F;mo, and that&#x27;s a great illustration of just one reason why developers don&#x27;t like subscriptions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aceazzameen</author><text>No. Monthly subscriptions suck. Every company wants to &quot;tax&quot; me monthly for something that&#x27;s feature complete. The ones I already pay, I do so very begrudgingly. There&#x27;s simply too many SaaS products out there.<p>Let&#x27;s go back to perpetual licenses. And I&#x27;ll gladly pay for upgraded versions, or not if the upgrade isn&#x27;t worthwhile. When it&#x27;s not SaaS, I also get to control what version I&#x27;m using. The product doesn&#x27;t own me, I get to own the product.</text></item><item><author>rcconf</author><text>Honestly the comments are a good example on how difficult it is to sell to developers and why startup ideas that target developers are dangerous to bootstrap.<p>Developers have high incomes, but are quite frankly, extremely cheap. And I actually mean cheap and not frugal. They will spend 40 hours&#x2F;week for months to save $5&#x2F;mo. There&#x27;s basically no logic apart from that developers have a poor concept of time and money and are spending averse (again, cheap.)<p>In this case, this tool is $30&#x2F;mo, or about $360 &#x2F; year, what is that, 3 dinners for 2 people in a year? The tool may save the developer, let&#x27;s say 3-4 hours &#x2F; week and at 52 * 3 or about 156 hours of savings a year. At even 30 an hour, it&#x27;s saved the developer $4,680, or at 60&#x2F;hour, close to $10,000, but I can guarantee that 99% of developers will not spend $30&#x2F;month to make their lives easier.<p>My only recommendation is try to sell this product to businesses and maybe offer them a deal based on the amount of developers they have. So sell it do a dev shop with 10 developers at $20&#x2F;developer &#x2F; per month. Businesses understand the time&#x2F;money tradeoff and are not cheap.<p>Developers, my only word of advice, is seriously.. stop being so cheap and spend some money to make your lives easier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design</title><url>https://csspro.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>mhuffman</author><text>I mean, you are taking shit for this comment for some reason, but it is absolutely true! At some point I don&#x27;t want to have to pay for dozens of apps every month. Just charge me what you need and let me have it. If it is broken when you sold it to me, great, I will update. If you come up with new clever additions, I may or may not want those. But subscriptions take that ability away from you. And I want a tool to use, not a relationship with you forever!</text><parent_chain><item><author>aceazzameen</author><text>No. Monthly subscriptions suck. Every company wants to &quot;tax&quot; me monthly for something that&#x27;s feature complete. The ones I already pay, I do so very begrudgingly. There&#x27;s simply too many SaaS products out there.<p>Let&#x27;s go back to perpetual licenses. And I&#x27;ll gladly pay for upgraded versions, or not if the upgrade isn&#x27;t worthwhile. When it&#x27;s not SaaS, I also get to control what version I&#x27;m using. The product doesn&#x27;t own me, I get to own the product.</text></item><item><author>rcconf</author><text>Honestly the comments are a good example on how difficult it is to sell to developers and why startup ideas that target developers are dangerous to bootstrap.<p>Developers have high incomes, but are quite frankly, extremely cheap. And I actually mean cheap and not frugal. They will spend 40 hours&#x2F;week for months to save $5&#x2F;mo. There&#x27;s basically no logic apart from that developers have a poor concept of time and money and are spending averse (again, cheap.)<p>In this case, this tool is $30&#x2F;mo, or about $360 &#x2F; year, what is that, 3 dinners for 2 people in a year? The tool may save the developer, let&#x27;s say 3-4 hours &#x2F; week and at 52 * 3 or about 156 hours of savings a year. At even 30 an hour, it&#x27;s saved the developer $4,680, or at 60&#x2F;hour, close to $10,000, but I can guarantee that 99% of developers will not spend $30&#x2F;month to make their lives easier.<p>My only recommendation is try to sell this product to businesses and maybe offer them a deal based on the amount of developers they have. So sell it do a dev shop with 10 developers at $20&#x2F;developer &#x2F; per month. Businesses understand the time&#x2F;money tradeoff and are not cheap.<p>Developers, my only word of advice, is seriously.. stop being so cheap and spend some money to make your lives easier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design</title><url>https://csspro.com</url></story> |
39,730,408 | 39,730,092 | 1 | 2 | 39,728,519 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skissane</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d love to know more about why someone would choose COBOL today, if anyone can fill me in.<p>I doubt anybody is choosing to start a new greenfield system in COBOL in 2024.<p>But, if you have an existing COBOL code base, and the business is asking for new features, you have two basic choices (1) write new modules for the existing system in COBOL (2) write the new modules in a more mainstream language (Java, C#, whatever) and have the existing COBOL modules integrate with those new modules (e.g. using REST)<p>Both options have their pros and cons. If you aren&#x27;t already doing (2), then (in the short-term at least) (1) is the easier path.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajxs</author><text>I&#x27;ve spent some time working in finance, so I&#x27;ve actually worked with COBOL developers personally in multiple different roles. In all those cases they were maintaining legacy applications that ran on IBM mainframes. Why would a company choose to use COBOL if they weren&#x27;t restricted to what ran on IBM&#x27;s mainframe infrastructure? Serious question, not an attack.<p>I get that many of these legacy applications are some of the most battle-tested things in existence, and do what they do very well. I&#x27;ve seen them in action personally. However I&#x27;m also under the impression that COBOL is just not that amazing compared with modern alternatives: It&#x27;s not easy to write, or maintain, and (as far as I understand) the things that make it &#x27;fast&#x27; have more to do with the platform than COBOL itself.<p>I&#x27;d love to know more about why someone would choose COBOL today, if anyone can fill me in.</text></item><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>&gt;&gt;Get those punch cards back out!<p>I get that&#x27;s (probably!) a joke, but it misrepresents COBOL as something <i>completely</i> stuck in the 70s. And, y&#x27;know, it isn&#x27;t exactly the fanciest language in the world, but we still have several programmers on our project and they&#x27;re spitting out new code every day of their life, no punchcards:).<p>(And it&#x27;s not on a mainframe either - it&#x27;s running primarily on AIX, with some of Windows and Linux).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/20-years-in-the-making-gnucobol-is-ready-for-industry/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chasil</author><text>We actually rely upon two different operating environments for COBOL that do not originate from IBM.<p>The first is OS2200. Our final major application on this platform was complete by 1970, and links COBOL into assembler that accesses the hierarchical DMS database. The first SMP port of UNIX was to this hardware:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OS_2200" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OS_2200</a><p>The second is VMS, specifically the VAX variety. VMS bundled a COBOL compiler, which we used to write ACMS applications.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenVMS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenVMS</a><p>We continue to produce new COBOL code for both.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajxs</author><text>I&#x27;ve spent some time working in finance, so I&#x27;ve actually worked with COBOL developers personally in multiple different roles. In all those cases they were maintaining legacy applications that ran on IBM mainframes. Why would a company choose to use COBOL if they weren&#x27;t restricted to what ran on IBM&#x27;s mainframe infrastructure? Serious question, not an attack.<p>I get that many of these legacy applications are some of the most battle-tested things in existence, and do what they do very well. I&#x27;ve seen them in action personally. However I&#x27;m also under the impression that COBOL is just not that amazing compared with modern alternatives: It&#x27;s not easy to write, or maintain, and (as far as I understand) the things that make it &#x27;fast&#x27; have more to do with the platform than COBOL itself.<p>I&#x27;d love to know more about why someone would choose COBOL today, if anyone can fill me in.</text></item><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>&gt;&gt;Get those punch cards back out!<p>I get that&#x27;s (probably!) a joke, but it misrepresents COBOL as something <i>completely</i> stuck in the 70s. And, y&#x27;know, it isn&#x27;t exactly the fanciest language in the world, but we still have several programmers on our project and they&#x27;re spitting out new code every day of their life, no punchcards:).<p>(And it&#x27;s not on a mainframe either - it&#x27;s running primarily on AIX, with some of Windows and Linux).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/20-years-in-the-making-gnucobol-is-ready-for-industry/</url></story> |
9,715,185 | 9,715,141 | 1 | 2 | 9,714,985 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hartator</author><text>Finally, the most accurate reactions come from the web itself: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.bodybuilding.com&#x2F;showthread.php?t=166912491" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.bodybuilding.com&#x2F;showthread.php?t=166912491</a><p>&gt; study invalid. no control for calories at all.<p>&gt; Why are calories not counted on any of the individuals?<p>&gt; Free reign is not a way to go about doing a study. They might very well have, we don&#x27;t know. We all know cocoa has weight loss properties (Theobromine), but to do such a poorly constructed study was pointless.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss</title><url>http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oconnor663</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;that-chocolate-study&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;that-chocolate-study&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; For me, the takeaway from this affair is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to make statistics impossible to hack. Getting rid of p-values is appropriate sometimes, but not other times. Demanding large sample sizes is appropriate sometimes, but not other times. Not trusting silly conclusions like “chocolate causes weight loss” works sometimes but not other times. At the end of the day, you have to actually know what you’re doing. Also, <i>try to read more than one study.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss</title><url>http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800</url></story> |
25,146,626 | 25,146,678 | 1 | 2 | 25,142,175 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chordalkeyboard</author><text>&gt; The big problem in todays age is we can no longer assume the government is accountable to us, or even get straight answers from the right people there.<p>Consider the notion that government has always been this way however its easier to tell this now because we are all so interconnected and informed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>The big problem in todays age is we can no longer assume the government is accountable to us, or even get straight answers from the right people there.<p>Why can&#x27;t I ask someone at the government directly exactly what their policy is on blocking websites, which sites are blocked, and what the legal basis for blocking is? And get a real, detailed, authoritative answer? And contest that answer if it does not meet legal standards?<p>The current standard is far, far removed from that. They can block a site or surveil you without any realistic accountability. The legal system is technically a recourse, but that works only in horribly egregious cases like NSA spying revealed by Snowden, and after years of delay after the case has faded from public consciousness. Even that didn&#x27;t change anything about how the government acts today. And we would not have known about it if it hadn&#x27;t been for &quot;illegal&quot; whistleblowing.<p>When the average person can&#x27;t even get straight answers from the government about how they govern, let alone influence that policy, that is a failure of democracy. We are trying to solve problems in the democratic functioning of government using technology, but that will only ever be a cat and mouse game. These f<i></i><i></i> decided on their own that mass surveillance &amp; censorship is okay, and we are left trying to use technology to hide when we should be able to demand a national conversation about what kinds of surveillance is okay.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies</title><url>https://news.umich.edu/extremely-aggressive-internet-censorship-spreads-in-the-worlds-democracies/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dheera</author><text>In this age among democracies it also isn&#x27;t just governments that are blocking content -- it&#x27;s <i>companies</i> that play gatekeeper in communications between people. People have stopped reading traditional forms of interpersonal communication, so my only way to get messages out to friends is through platforms like Facebook.<p>Unfortunately, Facebook themselves like to play gatekeeper on what my friends see and don&#x27;t see, which I personally think is unethical. For example, if I post something about the election, its visibility may be restricted among my friends, so I need to do all kinds of Unicode upside-down tricks to prevent Facebook from even knowing my post is about the election. If I post a Youtube link instead of a Facebook video, Facebook downranks it because Youtube is a competitor, and downranks it to the point that friends don&#x27;t actually see it. Sometimes they downrank text only posts to the point that I need to include e.g. a cat picture to get Facebook to give it the proper visibility.<p>I once posted to my feed something about donating to a particular disaster relief NGO, only to be censored out by Facebook because they mostly censor external links (only a small fraction of friends actually see them). No friends saw it in the first hour in their feed. I asked several and they didn&#x27;t see it in their feed. Fishy, eh? I delete the post and re-post the same thing saying &quot;Google for XYZ to find the donation website&quot; instead of an actual link and BAM 40+ likes in the first hour and several friends donated.<p>Personally I think this corporate censorship is unethical. It&#x27;s okay for Facebook to play the ranking game with business-sponsored media but definitely NOT okay with them doing that between friends who have mutually agreed to follow each other. I&#x27;m okay with a &quot;popular posts&quot; section on top of everything else, but the &quot;everything else&quot; really must include <i>every single post</i> of all of the people I have chosen to be friends with unless I specifically tell them to mute a particular person&#x27;s content.<p>Ironically, WeChat doesn&#x27;t engage in <i>this</i> type of censorship. They obey government censorship, but besides that, I can guarantee on WeChat that a post that I make that passes the government test will be seen by every single contact if they happen to be looking at the feed. I much prefer that model, rather than Facebook&#x27;s sporadic random non-transparent censoring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>The big problem in todays age is we can no longer assume the government is accountable to us, or even get straight answers from the right people there.<p>Why can&#x27;t I ask someone at the government directly exactly what their policy is on blocking websites, which sites are blocked, and what the legal basis for blocking is? And get a real, detailed, authoritative answer? And contest that answer if it does not meet legal standards?<p>The current standard is far, far removed from that. They can block a site or surveil you without any realistic accountability. The legal system is technically a recourse, but that works only in horribly egregious cases like NSA spying revealed by Snowden, and after years of delay after the case has faded from public consciousness. Even that didn&#x27;t change anything about how the government acts today. And we would not have known about it if it hadn&#x27;t been for &quot;illegal&quot; whistleblowing.<p>When the average person can&#x27;t even get straight answers from the government about how they govern, let alone influence that policy, that is a failure of democracy. We are trying to solve problems in the democratic functioning of government using technology, but that will only ever be a cat and mouse game. These f<i></i><i></i> decided on their own that mass surveillance &amp; censorship is okay, and we are left trying to use technology to hide when we should be able to demand a national conversation about what kinds of surveillance is okay.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies</title><url>https://news.umich.edu/extremely-aggressive-internet-censorship-spreads-in-the-worlds-democracies/</url></story> |
30,714,476 | 30,714,525 | 1 | 3 | 30,711,621 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swamp40</author><text>I spent most of the day yesterday chasing down crosses for P-Channel FETs.<p>They are all GONE. No stock of anything (except the crappy ones, super-tiny packages, high Vgs(th) or high Rds(on) and other leftovers).<p>I&#x27;ve never seen anything like this, it&#x27;s kind of frightening. Like walking into a grocery store and seeing the aisles all EMPTY except for a few scraps.<p>I don&#x27;t even know where they all went. It&#x27;s not like you need a TSMC slot to make a FET.<p>And <i>whatever</i> you look up, Chinese brokers have 10K-50K pieces of them for $25 each. Don&#x27;t know what to think of that, either.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs</title><url>https://blog.robertelder.org/semiconductor-example-uses/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>CPUs and GPUs account for more dollars spent than solar cells, but solar cells account for most area&#x2F;mass of semiconductor devices made today.<p>A gigawatt of solar cells represents about 5 square kilometers of silicon wafers at 20% light conversion efficiency. The world installed 183 gigawatts of solar PV in 2021, almost all of it based on silicon wafers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pv-magazine.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;bloombergnef-says-global-solar-will-cross-200-gw-mark-for-first-time-this-year-expects-lower-panel-prices&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pv-magazine.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;bloombergnef-says-glo...</a><p>That&#x27;s in the neighborhood of 915 square kilometers of wafers.<p>Silicon for solar has risen meteorically over the past 20 years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pv-magazine.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;whats-next-for-polysilicon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pv-magazine.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;whats-next-for-polysi...</a><p><i>Until the early 2000s, demand for polysilicon (often simply referred to as “poly”) was dominated by the semiconductor industry, which required a fairly steady 20,000 to 25,000 metric tons (MT) per year. But semiconductor demand for poly was quickly outpaced by PV as the solar industry began to grow rapidly, from a rounding error at the turn of the millennium to almost half of global polysilicon demand by the middle of the decade.</i><p>...<p><i>By the end of 2013, the manufacturing cost of polysilicon had tumbled to below $20&#x2F;kg among industry leaders. Meanwhile, capacity had grown from less than 50,000 MT per year in 2007 to over 350,000 MT per year by 2013.</i><p>Polysilicon capacity at the end of 2021 was in the neighborhood of 700,000 metric tons, with more big expansions on the way. The extra 350,000 metric tons added since 2013 is almost entirely for solar.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs</title><url>https://blog.robertelder.org/semiconductor-example-uses/</url></story> |
36,679,877 | 36,679,283 | 1 | 3 | 36,678,375 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>Profit is the gain made by the enterprise. Shareholder returns are monies paid out to shareholders.<p>When the board is more like a group of Huns than a Shepard, you find that after you pay out the shareholders, the enterprise is toast. In some cases, like most recently in big box retail, the private equity investors are running an obvious and odious, but legal, fraud.<p>With utilities, the business is all about capitalization and cash flow. They should be stable and boring businesses. When they are exciting, the management is burning the candle at both ends.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>How are shareholder returns and profit different?</text></item><item><author>m-i-l</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;It&#x27;s even simpler than that ... their goal is to extract profits&quot;</i><p>According to the article, profit has not been the primary goal for the utilities though, because there is limited scope for extracting profits from uncompetitive essential utility services - the focus instead has been on maximising shareholder returns. So in the case of the water utilities, they &quot;borrowed £53bn in debt while distributing £72bn to shareholders&quot;, which of course is what the issue is now interest rates have risen significantly. The article describes this as &quot;the tension between generating strong returns for investors in uncompetitive monopoly conditions and providing high-quality, affordable infrastructure to the public&quot;. The end result is still the same though - transfer of wealth in a socially destructive direction.</text></item><item><author>juujian</author><text>It&#x27;s even simpler than that. All of these privatized entities are incredibly efficient... at extracting profits from the public. Of course their goal is to extract profits. And you don&#x27;t extract profits from a rail line by offering the best service. Bonus points if you can convince the government to bail you out and provide some extra cash.</text></item><item><author>wolframhempel</author><text>I am a deep believer in free markets as the most efficient mechanism for distributing goods and services, creating better offerings and lower prices through competition and encapsulating risk in innovation.
Unfortunately, none of these apply to the privatization of inherently public commodities that run on top of an underlying network infrastructure. This can be streets, railway tracks or water pipes - whenever there’s a shared, standardized network that needs to be maintained by all market participants a lot of the mechanisms that make privatization appealing don’t apply anymore and you basically end up with the same tragedy of the commons only in private hands.
I believe the best way to make this work is by keeping the network itself in public hands and then having a competition of contributors to the network - e.g. electricity providers that add energy to the grid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain</title><url>https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/10/mathew-lawrence-on-why-privatisation-has-been-a-costly-failure-in-britain</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfengel</author><text>Borrowing is accounted differently from earnings. But yes, at the end of the day the people getting rich don&#x27;t care which pile of money it comes from, and the people getting poor service are equally unhappy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>How are shareholder returns and profit different?</text></item><item><author>m-i-l</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;It&#x27;s even simpler than that ... their goal is to extract profits&quot;</i><p>According to the article, profit has not been the primary goal for the utilities though, because there is limited scope for extracting profits from uncompetitive essential utility services - the focus instead has been on maximising shareholder returns. So in the case of the water utilities, they &quot;borrowed £53bn in debt while distributing £72bn to shareholders&quot;, which of course is what the issue is now interest rates have risen significantly. The article describes this as &quot;the tension between generating strong returns for investors in uncompetitive monopoly conditions and providing high-quality, affordable infrastructure to the public&quot;. The end result is still the same though - transfer of wealth in a socially destructive direction.</text></item><item><author>juujian</author><text>It&#x27;s even simpler than that. All of these privatized entities are incredibly efficient... at extracting profits from the public. Of course their goal is to extract profits. And you don&#x27;t extract profits from a rail line by offering the best service. Bonus points if you can convince the government to bail you out and provide some extra cash.</text></item><item><author>wolframhempel</author><text>I am a deep believer in free markets as the most efficient mechanism for distributing goods and services, creating better offerings and lower prices through competition and encapsulating risk in innovation.
Unfortunately, none of these apply to the privatization of inherently public commodities that run on top of an underlying network infrastructure. This can be streets, railway tracks or water pipes - whenever there’s a shared, standardized network that needs to be maintained by all market participants a lot of the mechanisms that make privatization appealing don’t apply anymore and you basically end up with the same tragedy of the commons only in private hands.
I believe the best way to make this work is by keeping the network itself in public hands and then having a competition of contributors to the network - e.g. electricity providers that add energy to the grid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain</title><url>https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/10/mathew-lawrence-on-why-privatisation-has-been-a-costly-failure-in-britain</url></story> |
2,475,381 | 2,475,209 | 1 | 3 | 2,474,970 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pg</author><text>These are all things we care about, but they are probably not the most common questions we ask. E.g. we already know about the equity split because we ask about it on the application form, so we only bring it up during the interview if we noticed something odd about it.<p>The thing we care most about in interviews (at least of things one can change) is how engaged the founders are with users. How do they know people actually want what they're building? Have they talked to real, live users? What have they learned from them?<p>We don't care super much how big the initial market is, so long as the startup is making something that (a) some subset of people want a <i>lot</i>, and (b) if that market is not itself huge, there is an easy path into bigger neighboring ones. Basically, we're looking for startups building Altair Basic.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview</title><url>http://www.hyperinkpress.com/news/2011/04/22/5-questions-youll-probably-get-asked-at-your-yc-interview/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ianl</author><text>In general, answer the question directly and be honest. Trying to use bullshit marketing speak similar to what is taught during an MBA is a turn off and limits their ability to access whether or not you know what you are talking about.<p>At least, thats what I get from this article and every single essay I've read that was authored by PG.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview</title><url>http://www.hyperinkpress.com/news/2011/04/22/5-questions-youll-probably-get-asked-at-your-yc-interview/</url></story> |
10,361,986 | 10,361,928 | 1 | 3 | 10,361,094 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>Zigging from clem&#x27;s zag, let me put this another way. There absolutely, positively, beyond a shadow of a doubt will be major political issues that arise from off-planet habitation.<p>But, to be honest, not particularly all that more major than any number of issues that arise on Earth all the time, and we generally muddle through them. It&#x27;ll be a <i>long</i> time before anyone would have any reason to start a shooting war over an off-planet resource.<p>And science fiction has been predicting the near inevitability that eventually the off-planet colony will demand independence anyhow, a position I see no reason to modify or disagree with, personally. The structural forces in favor of that outcome are just overwhelming.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevesearer</author><text>The word &#x27;colonize&#x27; evokes thoughts of British, Dutch, Portuguese, etc colonization ~500-200 years ago.<p>When thinking of colonizing a new planet, is there any information about who will control the resources of the colony? Will the USA control Martian resources if we get there first or will it be a collaborative effort like the Space Station?</text></item><item><author>mediocrejoker</author><text>That&#x27;s what makes it truly exciting to me: it seems like a lot of smart people have been putting serious thought and consideration towards what would&#x2F;will be required to have a realistic shot at colonizing another planet.</text></item><item><author>hackuser</author><text>If you have any interest, I highly recommend reading this. It&#x27;s not marketing fluff; it has a creative and (seemingly) complete vision and well-thought-through planning, and is clear, concise, and detailed. Maybe someone who follows these issues closely will already know much of it (or maybe not; I have no idea), but it is an education for me and by far the best thing I&#x27;ve read on the subject.<p>For example, the three phases in the title are defined not by physical locations or technological developments, but by dependence on Earth:<p>* Earth Reliant<p>* Proving Ground: R&amp;D in &#x27;cislunar&#x27; space<p>* Earth Independent<p>Maybe that&#x27;s old news to space geeks, but it&#x27;s new to me and shows an effort to carefully conceive of the mission.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf]</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/journey-to-mars-next-steps-20151008_508.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clem</author><text>At the moment that&#x27;s something of a moot point. Is there a single resource on Mars that&#x27;s worth the cost of transporting back to Earth? Until that&#x27;s the case, it&#x27;s only going to be the local Martian populace controlling the resources.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevesearer</author><text>The word &#x27;colonize&#x27; evokes thoughts of British, Dutch, Portuguese, etc colonization ~500-200 years ago.<p>When thinking of colonizing a new planet, is there any information about who will control the resources of the colony? Will the USA control Martian resources if we get there first or will it be a collaborative effort like the Space Station?</text></item><item><author>mediocrejoker</author><text>That&#x27;s what makes it truly exciting to me: it seems like a lot of smart people have been putting serious thought and consideration towards what would&#x2F;will be required to have a realistic shot at colonizing another planet.</text></item><item><author>hackuser</author><text>If you have any interest, I highly recommend reading this. It&#x27;s not marketing fluff; it has a creative and (seemingly) complete vision and well-thought-through planning, and is clear, concise, and detailed. Maybe someone who follows these issues closely will already know much of it (or maybe not; I have no idea), but it is an education for me and by far the best thing I&#x27;ve read on the subject.<p>For example, the three phases in the title are defined not by physical locations or technological developments, but by dependence on Earth:<p>* Earth Reliant<p>* Proving Ground: R&amp;D in &#x27;cislunar&#x27; space<p>* Earth Independent<p>Maybe that&#x27;s old news to space geeks, but it&#x27;s new to me and shows an effort to carefully conceive of the mission.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf]</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/journey-to-mars-next-steps-20151008_508.pdf</url></story> |
2,773,789 | 2,773,776 | 1 | 2 | 2,773,426 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acabal</author><text>Good article but it'll never be read by those who need to read it most.<p>Unfortunately terror has now been institutionalized. The TSA is a massive bureaucracy that generates jobs and cash flow. It's not something that will ever be dismantled overnight. That's not even mentioning the political convenience it provides: with it politicians can keep us afraid, thus getting our votes when they promise to protect us.<p>It goes deeper than just fear of terrorism though. Having spent the last few years traveling the world and seeing how other people live, it's always shocking to return to the States to see how afraid everybody is of even the smallest things. Fear seems to have become a centerpiece in the American psyche, and long before 9/11. We even raise our kids to be afraid (see some of the vitriolic responses freerangekids.wordpress.com gets in response to advice like, "It's OK to let your kid ride the bus alone"). Fear of mundane things giving you cancer; existential fear about the economy, which many of us don't even understand and as individuals, have no control over; fear of walking the streets alone at night; fear of getting sick if we don't use antibacterial soap after each bathroom trip. Fear of someone spiking your Tylenol. Uncontrollable fear of a country across the ocean maybe having WMD's.<p>No, fear of terrorism is just the latest in a laundry list of things Americans have scared themselves with. Until we learn to control that basic fear response, the TSA will still be around and people will still be scared of sitting next to a dark-skinned man kneeling in prayer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Refuse to be terrorized (2006)</title><url>http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/08/71642</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cstavish</author><text>It amazes me that people freak out when they see "Muslim-looking" people on flights. The politically-correct response is along the lines of "OMG That is highly prejudicial!", but that's irrelevant. From a purely practical perspective, why would a terrorist leader send an attacker whom many Americans immediately view as "suspicious", when he could send someone who appears more "normal"?<p>On another note, people these days still puff out their chests and say the terrorists couldn't change our way of life. Good one. Another fallacious line of reasoning is that we can destroy terrorism by military action alone. Tell that to the teenage boy who just lost his family to an errant US bomb in his Afghan village and now has a massive amount of pent up rage, and nothing to lose.<p>If the conditions are right, terrorism can always regenerate itself. The way to fight it is to alter the conditions. To do this we must understand why people hate America. Contrary to popular belief, it's not that we are secular or free. Osama bin Laden himself asked that if he wanted to attack secular, democratic states, why didn't he attack Sweden? I'm obviously not condoning terrorism, but the key to beating it is understanding it on at least a basic level. Unfortunately, our leaders in the past 10 years have been more inclined to drop bombs than to know the enemy.<p>edit: I'm not saying military action is inappropriate. It clearly has been effective in many cases.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Refuse to be terrorized (2006)</title><url>http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/08/71642</url></story> |
14,859,362 | 14,859,272 | 1 | 2 | 14,859,043 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tiffanyh</author><text>I wonder what impact this will have on open source software (OSS).<p>OSS can&#x27;t afford to pay people to look for bugs and improve the overall software. But commercial companies can.<p>I wonder if there will exist a date&#x2F;time in the future where closed-source software, because of these bug bounties, will yield better (less buggy) software vs OSS.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing the Windows Bounty Program</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/07/26/announcing-the-windows-bounty-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>crsv</author><text>With the increasing number and value of these bounty programs, how viable is a career in professional free lance security bug hunting?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Announcing the Windows Bounty Program</title><url>https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/07/26/announcing-the-windows-bounty-program/</url></story> |
20,986,134 | 20,984,977 | 1 | 2 | 20,983,922 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeeboo</author><text>The memory leak due to channels not being cleaned up was almost certainly because goroutines themselves are not garbage collected when they&#x27;re forever blocked. In other words, `ch := make(chan int); go func() { ch &lt;- 1 }()` is a memory leak. This is analogous to spawning a thread that deadlocks by attempting to lock a mutex twice, and has nothing to do with garbage collection.<p>About the GC pauses, check out the latency graphs at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ixy-languages&#x2F;ixy-languages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ixy-languages&#x2F;ixy-languages</a> (being careful not to mix up the Javascript and Go lines). Go handily beat every other garbage collected language in latency, and is in the same ballpark as the two non-GC languages (Rust and C). The peak tail latency times are measured in the hundreds of microseconds even at the highest loads tested, so I think the pundits may have a point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>For the record, I like Go. I also like Rust. But I really see them as being aimed at different markets. Go is a better Python&#x2F;Java. Rust is a better C&#x2F;C++. The interesting thing about Go is Rob Pike envisioned it as a systems programming language but any language with GC is a complete nonstarter as a systems programming language.<p>So as for the author&#x27;s pretext (writing some tool in Go), personally my view is &quot;why not?&quot; not &quot;why not Rust?&quot;. If someone had written that same tool in Rust I wouldn&#x27;t be saying &quot;why not Go?&quot;. Whatever floats your boat.<p>But here is the one part where I disagree with the author:<p>&gt; Go is unapologetically simple<p>It is not as simple as it seems, just like every GC language out there. I find Go advocates in particular seem to dismissive of any GC complexities or downsides. Maybe because many of them just don&#x27;t have the background in dealing with this from years of Java.<p>I worked on a team at Google that wrote and maintained a project using Go. Note that I never wrote anything for this project so my experience was second hand but close second hand.<p>One thing I remember was the Go binary blowing up on memory limits (10GB+) in production. Some debugging found there to be millions of Go channels (IIRC) that needed to be cleaned up. For whatever reason the GC didn&#x27;t clean them up, possibly because of a non-obvious dangling reference, possibly not.<p>Anything can have bugs obviously. It&#x27;s just a myth that GC is a silver bullet is my point.<p>There was a guy who worked on the Go team (David Crawshaw) who&#x27;d stop by every now and again. Occasionally I&#x27;d get into debates with him about Go and GC. It&#x27;s from these that I established my general observations of Go pundits:<p>1. Full GC pauses and GC in general are totally not a problem in Go.<p>2. If they were, they&#x27;re totally going to be fixed in Go 1.N+1 where N = the current version of Go.<p>(At the time, the argument David made was that Go&#x27;s STW GC pauses were sub-millisecond so totally not a problem).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Go and Not Rust?</title><url>https://kristoff.it/blog/why-go-and-not-rust/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Crinus</author><text>&gt; but any language with GC is a complete nonstarter as a systems programming language.<p>Check this out: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectoberon.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectoberon.com&#x2F;</a><p>A full system (not just a language, but also custom CPU on FPGA, OS with GUI, applications, etc) where the language is garbage collected. The system has 1MB of RAM (by default). Note that the garbage collector is implemented entirely in the language itself.<p>The Oberon language was also a big inspiration for Go.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>For the record, I like Go. I also like Rust. But I really see them as being aimed at different markets. Go is a better Python&#x2F;Java. Rust is a better C&#x2F;C++. The interesting thing about Go is Rob Pike envisioned it as a systems programming language but any language with GC is a complete nonstarter as a systems programming language.<p>So as for the author&#x27;s pretext (writing some tool in Go), personally my view is &quot;why not?&quot; not &quot;why not Rust?&quot;. If someone had written that same tool in Rust I wouldn&#x27;t be saying &quot;why not Go?&quot;. Whatever floats your boat.<p>But here is the one part where I disagree with the author:<p>&gt; Go is unapologetically simple<p>It is not as simple as it seems, just like every GC language out there. I find Go advocates in particular seem to dismissive of any GC complexities or downsides. Maybe because many of them just don&#x27;t have the background in dealing with this from years of Java.<p>I worked on a team at Google that wrote and maintained a project using Go. Note that I never wrote anything for this project so my experience was second hand but close second hand.<p>One thing I remember was the Go binary blowing up on memory limits (10GB+) in production. Some debugging found there to be millions of Go channels (IIRC) that needed to be cleaned up. For whatever reason the GC didn&#x27;t clean them up, possibly because of a non-obvious dangling reference, possibly not.<p>Anything can have bugs obviously. It&#x27;s just a myth that GC is a silver bullet is my point.<p>There was a guy who worked on the Go team (David Crawshaw) who&#x27;d stop by every now and again. Occasionally I&#x27;d get into debates with him about Go and GC. It&#x27;s from these that I established my general observations of Go pundits:<p>1. Full GC pauses and GC in general are totally not a problem in Go.<p>2. If they were, they&#x27;re totally going to be fixed in Go 1.N+1 where N = the current version of Go.<p>(At the time, the argument David made was that Go&#x27;s STW GC pauses were sub-millisecond so totally not a problem).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Go and Not Rust?</title><url>https://kristoff.it/blog/why-go-and-not-rust/</url></story> |
37,914,991 | 37,914,532 | 1 | 3 | 37,913,659 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gedy</author><text>&gt; After 25 years a new job should be a phone call or cup of coffee away. You should never even have to think about applications after two decades in the industry.<p>Oh really? What I&#x27;ve seen is the leaders&#x2F;power brokers you once knew are retired, fired, or even passed away. And the leaders at many companies aren&#x27;t keen to hire people with more years of experience than they have.<p>24 yoe</text><parent_chain><item><author>chasd00</author><text>Ftfa “I have been looking for over a year now. 25 years in IT. Sent out more than 900 applications. …”<p>Just some advice to those starting a career. You need to build a professional network. After 25 years a new job should be a phone call or cup of coffee away. You should never even have to think about applications after two decades in the industry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-employees-dissatisfied-jobs-new-data-labor-market-glassdoor-2023-10</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>Very easy for certain types of people. Very difficult for others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chasd00</author><text>Ftfa “I have been looking for over a year now. 25 years in IT. Sent out more than 900 applications. …”<p>Just some advice to those starting a career. You need to build a professional network. After 25 years a new job should be a phone call or cup of coffee away. You should never even have to think about applications after two decades in the industry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-employees-dissatisfied-jobs-new-data-labor-market-glassdoor-2023-10</url></story> |
29,246,884 | 29,246,580 | 1 | 2 | 29,239,587 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lmilcin</author><text>A few years back, on day 1 of my new job I was given root access to one of the development boxes.<p>So I ask: &quot;Okay, how do I log in?&quot;<p>The IT guy: &quot;What do you mean, you just log in using your personal domain account and then sudo su -. You know what sudo is?&quot; (followed by loud sigh)<p>Me: &quot;You mean like production domain, same that we use for our desktop?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;Of course! What do you mean, what other domain would you like?&quot;<p>Me: &quot;Can I at least change my password to something else just for the dev environment? Can I log in with SSH key?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;No, no, no. Per our <i>SECURITY</i> policy, SSH keys are disabled and you have to use our domain login and password&quot;. (another sigh... of course)<p>Me: &quot;Are you aware that when somebody has root access to the box they can do whatever they want including intercepting passwords of all users that log in to that box? In this case, every single developer that ever needs access to dev environment?&quot;<p>IT guy: &quot;That&#x27;s not true. SSH is encrypted protocol and it is not possible to access passwords&quot;.<p>Me: after many tries to explain this to various people from IT, I gave up and set out to intercept all passwords of all IT employees. After I had passwords of almost everybody, I put them all in an excel and sent to IT for &quot;verification&quot;.<p>There were a lot of angry people that day wanting me fired... fortunately they came to their senses.<p>Unfortunately, my development box access privileges were revoked.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bsuvc</author><text>A few years back, not too long ago, I started working on a new contract assignment at a medium size aerospace manufacturer.<p>I show up and check in with IT department. The system administrator shows me to my desk, and hands me a post it note with my password. Well pass phrase is more like it. It was something like “sliding down the tall building”.<p>I was quite impressed that they encouraged the use of long pass phrases instead of short cryptic passwords that are hard to remember (think “correct horse battery staple”). This place really is serious about security, I thought.<p>I thanked the system admin and causally said “I’ll be sure to change this to an equally secure pass phrase”.<p>“Oh no,” he said, “we don’t allow people to change their passwords here. You see, we need to be able to log into anyone’s computer if they go on vacation or are out of the office, so we keep an Excel worksheet with everyone’s username and password. So please don’t change your password.”<p>He turns and walks away, and I just sit there stunned, wondering if this was some kind of practical joke.<p>Sadly he was completely serious. I kept the password they gave me for the 3 months I was there, as I was asked to do, knowing that at any time someone could log in as me and do something illegal or unethical. It really did give me a bit of anxiety.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I hate password rules</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/why-i-hate-password-rules.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>er4hn</author><text>On the plus side, it also gave you plausible deniability it really was you if you wanted to do something illegal or unethical.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bsuvc</author><text>A few years back, not too long ago, I started working on a new contract assignment at a medium size aerospace manufacturer.<p>I show up and check in with IT department. The system administrator shows me to my desk, and hands me a post it note with my password. Well pass phrase is more like it. It was something like “sliding down the tall building”.<p>I was quite impressed that they encouraged the use of long pass phrases instead of short cryptic passwords that are hard to remember (think “correct horse battery staple”). This place really is serious about security, I thought.<p>I thanked the system admin and causally said “I’ll be sure to change this to an equally secure pass phrase”.<p>“Oh no,” he said, “we don’t allow people to change their passwords here. You see, we need to be able to log into anyone’s computer if they go on vacation or are out of the office, so we keep an Excel worksheet with everyone’s username and password. So please don’t change your password.”<p>He turns and walks away, and I just sit there stunned, wondering if this was some kind of practical joke.<p>Sadly he was completely serious. I kept the password they gave me for the 3 months I was there, as I was asked to do, knowing that at any time someone could log in as me and do something illegal or unethical. It really did give me a bit of anxiety.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I hate password rules</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/why-i-hate-password-rules.html</url></story> |
33,027,039 | 33,026,328 | 1 | 3 | 33,025,995 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SrslyJosh</author><text>I have an Awair sensor, and I can confirm that the VOC sensor is able to detect...well, pretty much anything from food to hair products to outgassing from some new thing that I opened up and accidentally left too close to the sensor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeffreygoesto</author><text>Relative VOC measurements at least are able to detect a no. 2 in nappies. Great to distinguish if you should go in and change them or would be a distraction from falling to sleep when checking. I bulit a Pi ZeroW that measures on the side of the bed and publishes a curve of the last hour of the values. You can see a pretty salient drop when &quot;it&quot; happens.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam</title><url>https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/048_indoorairsensing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clairity</author><text>yah, i think a lot of these IAQ (indoor air quality) products are ok at relative differences (which is mostly what lay consumers care about). the article mainly points out that they&#x27;re not good at absolute measurements, and for something like VOCs, it&#x27;s likely using a CO₂ sensor and a lookup table that&#x27;s static and only really valid for the test room it was created in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeffreygoesto</author><text>Relative VOC measurements at least are able to detect a no. 2 in nappies. Great to distinguish if you should go in and change them or would be a distraction from falling to sleep when checking. I bulit a Pi ZeroW that measures on the side of the bed and publishes a curve of the last hour of the values. You can see a pretty salient drop when &quot;it&quot; happens.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam</title><url>https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/048_indoorairsensing/</url></story> |
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