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11,519,241 | 11,518,666 | 1 | 3 | 11,517,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that it has to be ugly. I think the good brutalist architecture is quite beautiful, as well as very pleasant to use (it&#x27;s a misconception that brutalist design is meant to be _brutal_ towards it&#x27;s users, although the bad stuff is -- and I think, maybe heretically, much of Le Corbusier is pretty bad).<p>When I think of brutalist, I think no frills, and putting the infrastructural elements forward, not covering them up with any surface-level aesthetics. Exposing the infrastructural bones, hiding nothing.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s at all obvious what this means for a website. The very very abstract nature of all software makes it perhaps impossible to put the &#x27;concrete&#x27; forward (double meaning intended, but primarily here as the opposite of &#x27;abstract&#x27;), there&#x27;s no there there. But I think it&#x27;s interesting to think about, and the candidates listed there are contenders worth considering.<p>But there&#x27;s a link to submit more, you should submit a JavaDoc page, I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll list it too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gradstudent</author><text>IMO, the cited examples are minimalist but not brutalist. When I think of a brutalist website I think of the design elements being exposed as part of the presentation. Frames and tables with exposed borders and ugly html buttons -- not, as suggested by the OP, clean layouts driven by an invisible style sheet.<p>A typical JavaDoc page for example, rather than Hacker News.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brutalist Websites</title><url>http://brutalistwebsites.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>minikomi</author><text>Agreed. I think more along the lines of <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thin.npr.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thin.npr.org&#x2F;</a><p>.. which is great &amp; I wish more sites had a &quot;thin&quot; version.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gradstudent</author><text>IMO, the cited examples are minimalist but not brutalist. When I think of a brutalist website I think of the design elements being exposed as part of the presentation. Frames and tables with exposed borders and ugly html buttons -- not, as suggested by the OP, clean layouts driven by an invisible style sheet.<p>A typical JavaDoc page for example, rather than Hacker News.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brutalist Websites</title><url>http://brutalistwebsites.com/</url></story> |
31,298,969 | 31,298,244 | 1 | 2 | 31,293,066 | 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>evandale</author><text>I&#x27;m the same. It&#x27;s a fascinating game and I&#x27;ve given it a couple of tries but I get the feeling you really need friends or be outgoing enough to make friends in-game. It&#x27;s not a game you can play by yourself in my experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justusthane</author><text>Eve is a game that I love to read about, but have never played and probably never will. Same with DF.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059064/eve-online-fanfest-microsoft-excel</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tigerlily</author><text>Nah you should definitely dive into DF, losing is fun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justusthane</author><text>Eve is a game that I love to read about, but have never played and probably never will. Same with DF.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059064/eve-online-fanfest-microsoft-excel</url></story> |
27,731,251 | 27,730,613 | 1 | 3 | 27,729,987 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>piva00</author><text>&gt; Nobody ever told me to work late, but nobody ever told me to _stop_ working. If my boss&#x2F;bosses boss&#x2F;&lt;etc&gt; came up to me a once or twice and told me &quot;hey, you shouldn&#x27;t work past &lt;x&gt; PM&quot;, particularly in my first few days, _and most importantly_ they left too, that would have set an excellent example on how to have a work-life balance.<p>When I moved to Sweden my first manager did exactly that. I was on my 3rd day and working until 18:00, he came to me and asked why I was still at my desk, I should&#x27;ve left an hour ago. He always enjoyed his time off and allowed us to be flexible whenever needed, it was an amazing example to set right at the beginning.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maccard</author><text>I found myself nodding along to almost everything in this article; Two comments:<p>&gt; The problems pulled me in, and I’d get so involved I’d be unable to sleep until I solved a problem, sometimes escaping into my dreams if I hadn’t found a natural pause point.<p>I can relate to this, so much. It&#x27;s an incrediblely productive time period when my brain is like this at 7&#x2F;8&#x2F;9pm, but inevitably I lose out on a day or two following it. It sounds cliched, but exercise + mindfulness are a hard requirement for me, and not doing either of those inevitably has my brain racing on whatever I&#x27;m working on at 4am.<p>&gt; Grey found me at exactly 5pm and forced me to logoff.<p>Nobody ever told me to work late, but nobody ever told me to _stop_ working. If my boss&#x2F;bosses boss&#x2F;&lt;etc&gt; came up to me a once or twice and told me &quot;hey, you shouldn&#x27;t work past &lt;x&gt; PM&quot;, particularly in my first few days, _and most importantly_ they left too, that would have set an excellent example on how to have a work-life balance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others</title><url>https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/working-too-hard/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Nobody ever told me to work late, but nobody ever told me to _stop_ working. If my boss&#x2F;bosses boss&#x2F;&lt;etc&gt; came up to me a once or twice and told me &quot;hey, you shouldn&#x27;t work past &lt;x&gt; PM&quot;, particularly in my first few days, _and most importantly_ they left too, that would have set an excellent example on how to have a work-life balance.<p>I&#x27;ve had managers try to nanny my working hours like this. It wasn&#x27;t fun. I know they thought it was a good gesture, but if I have a spare hour or two in the evening and a good idea I want to try out before bed, I don&#x27;t want anyone telling me I can&#x27;t work right now.<p>In fact, I don&#x27;t want my manager policing my working hours at all, in either direction.<p>What works better is for managers to gather honest feedback about how long tasks took and how many excess hours were being worked during their 1:1s with employees. It&#x27;s not hard to ask employees how their workload looks and adjust schedules or resource allocation to compensate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maccard</author><text>I found myself nodding along to almost everything in this article; Two comments:<p>&gt; The problems pulled me in, and I’d get so involved I’d be unable to sleep until I solved a problem, sometimes escaping into my dreams if I hadn’t found a natural pause point.<p>I can relate to this, so much. It&#x27;s an incrediblely productive time period when my brain is like this at 7&#x2F;8&#x2F;9pm, but inevitably I lose out on a day or two following it. It sounds cliched, but exercise + mindfulness are a hard requirement for me, and not doing either of those inevitably has my brain racing on whatever I&#x27;m working on at 4am.<p>&gt; Grey found me at exactly 5pm and forced me to logoff.<p>Nobody ever told me to work late, but nobody ever told me to _stop_ working. If my boss&#x2F;bosses boss&#x2F;&lt;etc&gt; came up to me a once or twice and told me &quot;hey, you shouldn&#x27;t work past &lt;x&gt; PM&quot;, particularly in my first few days, _and most importantly_ they left too, that would have set an excellent example on how to have a work-life balance.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others</title><url>https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/working-too-hard/</url></story> |
4,179,986 | 4,179,352 | 1 | 2 | 4,178,487 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wrs</author><text>Hey, someone remembers! (I did the Newton object store.)<p>I spent years of my life trying to get rid of treating direct user access to the filesystem as a foundational UI metaphor, at both Apple and Microsoft. As I liked to say, why is the UI based on a filesystem debugger? (If you can see /dev or C:\windows\system32, then yeah, you're running a debugger.)<p>Many people who aren't programmers don't seem to get deep hierarchy (deep meaning &#62; 2 levels). Searching works, tags kind of work, but few people really know how to set up and use a folder hierarchy.<p>The reason it works to let the app deal with navigation is that the app knows how to do type-specific, contextual navigation. People like concrete things (whereas programmers like abstract things—a constant struggle). If you're trying to find a song, you want to have a UI that knows about songs: they come in albums, the same song may be on multiple albums, they have artists and composers, etc. Any attempt to represent that in a filesystem hierarchy can be nothing but a compromise.<p>This has nothing to do with defining standard formats for exchanging units of data. Just how you find them once you've stored them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thoughtsimple</author><text>I disagree that files are the only solution. Back in the 90's Apple had an OS that had fully interoperable data in applications and that OS didn't have a file system.<p>It was Newton-OS and it used something known as soups for persistent storage. Soups were discoverable databases that intelligently handled Flash cards insertion/ejection. The ability to handle Flash on removable media is still something that mobile OS's have trouble with to this day.<p>The OS could merge soups on different stores dynamically and detect if some data in a soup was currently in use on an ejected card and ask for the card back. This merging of soups on different storage devices is something I've never seen duplicated in the subsequent 20 years.<p>Files are not the only way to achieve the requirements in the article. They are just the common solution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Files Exist</title><url>http://blog.filepicker.io/post/26157006600/why-files-exist</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kabdib</author><text>We stored lots more than just "notecard entries" in the Newton object store. We had application packages (with demand paging of compressed code). We had "large binary" support, similarly demand-paged. And all of this stuff was hooked up to the garbage collector.<p>I don't know how well it would scale to a non-hand-held device, but it worked really well on the Newton.<p>Files are useful, but they are not necessary. We are used to them, but there can be better ways to do things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thoughtsimple</author><text>I disagree that files are the only solution. Back in the 90's Apple had an OS that had fully interoperable data in applications and that OS didn't have a file system.<p>It was Newton-OS and it used something known as soups for persistent storage. Soups were discoverable databases that intelligently handled Flash cards insertion/ejection. The ability to handle Flash on removable media is still something that mobile OS's have trouble with to this day.<p>The OS could merge soups on different stores dynamically and detect if some data in a soup was currently in use on an ejected card and ask for the card back. This merging of soups on different storage devices is something I've never seen duplicated in the subsequent 20 years.<p>Files are not the only way to achieve the requirements in the article. They are just the common solution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Files Exist</title><url>http://blog.filepicker.io/post/26157006600/why-files-exist</url></story> |
37,083,980 | 37,082,160 | 1 | 2 | 37,081,306 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; I argue the window is moving as to what “open source” means<p>Only if we let it, and stop shouting about it and finding alternatives every time a company does this.<p>This isn&#x27;t a <i>new</i> thing; companies have been trying to play &quot;almost open source&quot; games for decades, and they&#x27;ll continue playing those games as long as it either works or doesn&#x27;t have sufficiently large penalties for trying. (Much as companies will continue violating copyleft licenses as long as they either get away with it or the penalties for trying are simply an expected part of the risk.)<p>The best possible response to a company doing this is that someone forks the code, starts or expands a competitor, and the original company&#x27;s revenue drops massively as a deterrent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I argue the window is moving as to what “open source” means out of survival. Source available is the new open source, and what young technologists will grow up grinding on. You’ll have folks complain about it during the transition (as happens with any Overton window sort of event), but they’ll move on eventually and a new crop of tech industry will grow up with this as the new normal. Change is inevitable, broadly speaking.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>&gt; Ideology is great until people need to eat. That’s what revenue is for<p>That sounds like what the GP comment is saying. If someone said &quot;turns out open source doesn&#x27;t work for our business model&quot; it&#x27;s hard to argue with. If instead they talk about &quot;evolving open source models&quot; and whatnot, it feels like they want the best of both worlds. It&#x27;s been happening a lot recently that companies pretend they are &quot;open sourcing&quot; something for the PR but really use a much more restrictive license.</text></item><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Ideology is great until people need to eat. That’s what revenue is for.<p>High level, times have changed. Source should be (my two cents, ymmv) about a mutually beneficial partnership between builders and users, not “give it all away for free or you’re not legit.” Users get to understand and extend what they’re running (via source), while the project steward&#x2F;maintainer&#x2F;owner can continue to do so.<p>It is a balance to be maintained in tension, not an equilibrium to be reached.</text></item><item><author>jamestanderson</author><text>All that I get from this is that HashiCorp is no longer an open source company.<p>&gt; However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back. We don’t believe this is in the spirit of open source.<p>This is 100% in the spirit of open source. If this is a problem for them, why not adopt an open source license that compels developers to open source their code instead, like the AGPL?<p>This is purely a way for HashiCorp to ensure they are the only ones who can commercialize these formerly open source projects. Which is fine. But just go closed source, then, and own that, instead of trying to have it both ways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HashiCorp adopts Business Source License</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>&gt; I argue the window is moving as to what “open source” means out of survival.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is happening at all. Open source means the same thing it&#x27;s always meant. Some people are just retreating from open source. Which is fine, they should be writing Free Software anyway if they want the world to have it, or use proprietary licenses if they don&#x27;t. Otherwise very wealthy people will live on your back.</text><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I argue the window is moving as to what “open source” means out of survival. Source available is the new open source, and what young technologists will grow up grinding on. You’ll have folks complain about it during the transition (as happens with any Overton window sort of event), but they’ll move on eventually and a new crop of tech industry will grow up with this as the new normal. Change is inevitable, broadly speaking.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>&gt; Ideology is great until people need to eat. That’s what revenue is for<p>That sounds like what the GP comment is saying. If someone said &quot;turns out open source doesn&#x27;t work for our business model&quot; it&#x27;s hard to argue with. If instead they talk about &quot;evolving open source models&quot; and whatnot, it feels like they want the best of both worlds. It&#x27;s been happening a lot recently that companies pretend they are &quot;open sourcing&quot; something for the PR but really use a much more restrictive license.</text></item><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Ideology is great until people need to eat. That’s what revenue is for.<p>High level, times have changed. Source should be (my two cents, ymmv) about a mutually beneficial partnership between builders and users, not “give it all away for free or you’re not legit.” Users get to understand and extend what they’re running (via source), while the project steward&#x2F;maintainer&#x2F;owner can continue to do so.<p>It is a balance to be maintained in tension, not an equilibrium to be reached.</text></item><item><author>jamestanderson</author><text>All that I get from this is that HashiCorp is no longer an open source company.<p>&gt; However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back. We don’t believe this is in the spirit of open source.<p>This is 100% in the spirit of open source. If this is a problem for them, why not adopt an open source license that compels developers to open source their code instead, like the AGPL?<p>This is purely a way for HashiCorp to ensure they are the only ones who can commercialize these formerly open source projects. Which is fine. But just go closed source, then, and own that, instead of trying to have it both ways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HashiCorp adopts Business Source License</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license</url></story> |
13,938,497 | 13,938,477 | 1 | 2 | 13,937,921 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>&gt; Salaries for professionals are markedly lower, we live in much smaller houses etc.<p>This is an age old debate, and it&#x27;s very hard to compare one vast continent to another. Regional differences between US cities and European cities are at least as large or larger than the difference between the avereages of US and European salaries&#x2F;living standards etc. The difference between central manhattan and rural Apalachia is just like the difference between the fancy parts of Stockholm and rural eastern Europe. There is just no comparison in Salaries, Life expectancy etc.<p>When it comes to those of us that are &quot;winning&quot;, the difference is there, especially for some professions like doctors who can basically make a killing in the US but not in Europe. That is probably to do with that it&#x27;s an economic risk&#x2F;investment to get the MD in the US, whereas in Europe it&#x27;s normally free. When you are a finished doctor you aren&#x27;t entitled to a fancy car - we just paid your MD so you better get to work and be thankful ;)<p>To make a fair comparison between me (a software dev) and a comparable person in the US (in a similar metro area of ~1M people) you&#x27;d have to make a pretty tricky calculation involving costs of healthcare, childcare, money saved for retirement, pensions etc. On the bottom line I think the US person would make a bit more money, but on the other hand would have a worse work&#x2F;life balance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>J-dawg</author><text>Not to disagree with the parent comment (because overall I prefer the European way) but we <i>do</i> have it worse in some ways.<p>Salaries for professionals are markedly lower, we live in much smaller houses etc. I get the feeling that when you&#x27;re winning at life in America, you&#x27;re <i>really</i> winning. But when you&#x27;re losing you&#x27;re really losing. In Europe the ups and downs of life are more smoothed out.</text></item><item><author>rmc</author><text>And many of them think that people in Europe have it worse. That the economy would just collapse into African-levels of poverty if there was mandatory paid holidays.<p>This is a danger of American TV shows and movie studios remaking shows for the American audiences. They don&#x27;t get to see that Europe is mostly a developed place.</text></item><item><author>seanhandley</author><text>As a European (used to free healthcare, statutory maternity leave, and 25 days paid leave per year) it shocked me on first visiting America how third-world it actually feels regarding what people consider a &quot;normal&quot; work&#x2F;life balance.<p>People work incredibly hard, long hours and often with very little to show for it. It&#x27;s surreal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>Salaries for professionals are markedly lower, we live in much smaller houses etc. I get the feeling that when you&#x27;re winning at life in America...</i><p>If having more money and a bigger house is winning that&#x27;s true, but many people don&#x27;t see life that way. Being happy, having time to enjoy life with your friends, doing worthwhile and interesting things, raising your kids well, etc are also ways to win. <i>In general</i> if you talk to an older, wealthy person, they say those are things that should have done instead of working so much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>J-dawg</author><text>Not to disagree with the parent comment (because overall I prefer the European way) but we <i>do</i> have it worse in some ways.<p>Salaries for professionals are markedly lower, we live in much smaller houses etc. I get the feeling that when you&#x27;re winning at life in America, you&#x27;re <i>really</i> winning. But when you&#x27;re losing you&#x27;re really losing. In Europe the ups and downs of life are more smoothed out.</text></item><item><author>rmc</author><text>And many of them think that people in Europe have it worse. That the economy would just collapse into African-levels of poverty if there was mandatory paid holidays.<p>This is a danger of American TV shows and movie studios remaking shows for the American audiences. They don&#x27;t get to see that Europe is mostly a developed place.</text></item><item><author>seanhandley</author><text>As a European (used to free healthcare, statutory maternity leave, and 25 days paid leave per year) it shocked me on first visiting America how third-world it actually feels regarding what people consider a &quot;normal&quot; work&#x2F;life balance.<p>People work incredibly hard, long hours and often with very little to show for it. It&#x27;s surreal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death</url></story> |
23,143,158 | 23,143,401 | 1 | 2 | 23,141,191 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abaga129</author><text>I&#x27;m fairly new to the game, but I&#x27;m a solo developer. Currently I dont make enough to quit my day job, but it is a nice supplementary income, and it&#x27;s nice to get paid a bit for something I truly enjoy.<p>There are also several solo&#x2F;small shop developers that do make a living from selling plug-ins. Here are a few that I can think of off the top of my head.<p>Auburn Sounds: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.auburnsounds.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.auburnsounds.com&#x2F;</a>
Valhalla DSP: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;valhalladsp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;valhalladsp.com&#x2F;</a>
Kilohearts: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kilohearts.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kilohearts.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>Do solo or small shop vst plugin developers make any money?<p>I’m curious if anyone has any direct knowledge about that.<p>There are so many professional activities similar to that where no one makes any money and people really just do it for the love, and then there are seemingly similar things like that where people make surprisingly large amounts of money.</text></item><item><author>fab1an</author><text>Pretty cool, though I wonder what the latency of this would be if used as a plugin?<p>The author says it works in real-time, but to non music&#x2F;audio folks this could mean &#x27;100 ms latency is real-time enough, right?&#x27;<p>Generally, I think the audio VST business is a really fun space to be in for a lifestyle business, as it is way too small to be attractive for VCs. It seems like a space that provides many niches for lots of small players to thrive in.<p>As an aside, it&#x27;s really quite interesting that a lot of cutting edge tech is now used to emulate the hardware-based tech of yesteryear. Think film filters for photoshop, and about 90% of all audio plugins that emulate high end hardware, compressors, pedals, etc etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deep Learning for Guitar Effect Emulation</title><url>https://teddykoker.com/2020/05/deep-learning-for-guitar-effect-emulation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text>Steve Duda, the developer of Serum is kind of the poster child for this. He contracts out for pieces of the synth (UI design, resampler, filters), but he&#x27;s mostly a one-man shop and, as I understand it, Serum pays the bills.<p>It&#x27;s hard to tell how much Duda is an outlier, though, and how many other people could succesfully follow his path.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>Do solo or small shop vst plugin developers make any money?<p>I’m curious if anyone has any direct knowledge about that.<p>There are so many professional activities similar to that where no one makes any money and people really just do it for the love, and then there are seemingly similar things like that where people make surprisingly large amounts of money.</text></item><item><author>fab1an</author><text>Pretty cool, though I wonder what the latency of this would be if used as a plugin?<p>The author says it works in real-time, but to non music&#x2F;audio folks this could mean &#x27;100 ms latency is real-time enough, right?&#x27;<p>Generally, I think the audio VST business is a really fun space to be in for a lifestyle business, as it is way too small to be attractive for VCs. It seems like a space that provides many niches for lots of small players to thrive in.<p>As an aside, it&#x27;s really quite interesting that a lot of cutting edge tech is now used to emulate the hardware-based tech of yesteryear. Think film filters for photoshop, and about 90% of all audio plugins that emulate high end hardware, compressors, pedals, etc etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deep Learning for Guitar Effect Emulation</title><url>https://teddykoker.com/2020/05/deep-learning-for-guitar-effect-emulation/</url></story> |
29,170,240 | 29,169,425 | 1 | 2 | 29,167,000 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>The simplest energy storage solution is your hot water heater. Turning on everyone&#x27;s hot water heater when there is surplus electricity, and turning them off when there&#x27;s a deficit, is a very low cost solution.<p>The next level is using residential HVAC systems the same way. Comfortable temperatures are a range, so heating&#x2F;cooling can push the temps to one end of the range, and when there is less electricity available, they can drift to the other end.<p>The charger for your electric car is another very practical sink for cheap electricity.<p>This is accomplished by having a spot price for electricity, and then people buying thermostats that query the spot price and turn HVAC, hot water heater, car battery chargers, etc., on and off.<p>This can be extended EVEN FURTHER by heating&#x2F;cooling a pile of rocks to later use to heat&#x2F;cool the house.<p>A battery consisting of a pile of rocks can&#x27;t be expensive.<p>The idea is to not only adjust supply to the demand, but to shape the demand to the supply.<p>I am utterly astonished that this is never, ever discussed when talking about solutions to fluctuating supply. Having fixed electricity rates 24&#x2F;7 is simply madness in today&#x27;s electricity generation situation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Manuel_D</author><text>Comparing the cost of a non-intermittent energy source with an intermittent energy source excluding the cost of storage is comparing apples to oranges. Solar and wind are cheap, until you saturate the energy market during peak production hours. Then it gets exorbitantly expensive. The only viable storage solution at the moment is hydroelectric, which is geographically limited. Global lithium ion battery output for a whole year doesn&#x27;t even add up to 1 hour&#x27;s worth of the USA&#x27;s electricity consumption.<p>When probed on how to address intermittency, many wind and solar advocates propose things like hydrogen storage, giant flywheels, compressed air, or other solutions that are currently in the prototyping stage and have yet to actually be deployed to a grid and demonstrate viability.<p>This is the chief advantage of nuclear power: it works and we have over half a century of production experience with it. Betting on one of those storage solutions panning out is betting on a big unknown.</text></item><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>It&#x27;s not a comeback until you push the first kwh to the grid for the price you said you&#x27;d build the new generator for. Japan turning back on mothballed reactors is a Big Deal (and a quick win for avoiding CO2 emissions), but getting new reactors built in less than a decade or for less than billons of dollars is where the proof lies. Talk and promises are cheap, action has a cost and can&#x27;t be faked.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazard.com&#x2F;perspective&#x2F;levelized-cost-of-energy-levelized-cost-of-storage-and-levelized-cost-of-hydrogen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazard.com&#x2F;perspective&#x2F;levelized-cost-of-energy-...</a> (Lazard’s latest annual Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 15.0) shows the continued cost-competitiveness of certain renewable energy technologies on a subsidized basis and the marginal cost of coal, nuclear and combined cycle gas generation.)</text></item><item><author>1cvmask</author><text>The Chinese have committed to building over 150 new nuclear reactors. The British government will subsidize Rolls Royce. Japan will reactivate over 30 nuclear reactors.<p>It seems this is the biggest energy story of the year. The comeback of nuclear energy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallcaps.com.au&#x2F;china-supercharge-uranium-race-150-new-nuclear-reactors&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallcaps.com.au&#x2F;china-supercharge-uranium-race-150-...</a><p>The HN discussion on the China story:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29151741" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29151741</a><p>Japan reactivating nuclear reactors:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mainichi.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20210501&#x2F;p2a&#x2F;00m&#x2F;0op&#x2F;007000c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mainichi.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20210501&#x2F;p2a&#x2F;00m&#x2F;0op&#x2F;00...</a><p>UK. Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop mini nuclear reactors:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-59212983" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-59212983</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/macron-says-france-will-build-more-nuclear-energy-reactors-2021-11-09/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twelvechairs</author><text>A mix of sources (e.g. a few solar and wind plants in different locations) overcomes much of the intermittency and storage issues. It usually requires upgrades to the grid and beyond that just some careful management of the (less regular) intermittency issues (whether storage or alternative sources on demand).<p>One plant should not be judged on its intermittency alone. Its just not how the system works at a connected-grid scale.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Manuel_D</author><text>Comparing the cost of a non-intermittent energy source with an intermittent energy source excluding the cost of storage is comparing apples to oranges. Solar and wind are cheap, until you saturate the energy market during peak production hours. Then it gets exorbitantly expensive. The only viable storage solution at the moment is hydroelectric, which is geographically limited. Global lithium ion battery output for a whole year doesn&#x27;t even add up to 1 hour&#x27;s worth of the USA&#x27;s electricity consumption.<p>When probed on how to address intermittency, many wind and solar advocates propose things like hydrogen storage, giant flywheels, compressed air, or other solutions that are currently in the prototyping stage and have yet to actually be deployed to a grid and demonstrate viability.<p>This is the chief advantage of nuclear power: it works and we have over half a century of production experience with it. Betting on one of those storage solutions panning out is betting on a big unknown.</text></item><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>It&#x27;s not a comeback until you push the first kwh to the grid for the price you said you&#x27;d build the new generator for. Japan turning back on mothballed reactors is a Big Deal (and a quick win for avoiding CO2 emissions), but getting new reactors built in less than a decade or for less than billons of dollars is where the proof lies. Talk and promises are cheap, action has a cost and can&#x27;t be faked.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazard.com&#x2F;perspective&#x2F;levelized-cost-of-energy-levelized-cost-of-storage-and-levelized-cost-of-hydrogen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazard.com&#x2F;perspective&#x2F;levelized-cost-of-energy-...</a> (Lazard’s latest annual Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 15.0) shows the continued cost-competitiveness of certain renewable energy technologies on a subsidized basis and the marginal cost of coal, nuclear and combined cycle gas generation.)</text></item><item><author>1cvmask</author><text>The Chinese have committed to building over 150 new nuclear reactors. The British government will subsidize Rolls Royce. Japan will reactivate over 30 nuclear reactors.<p>It seems this is the biggest energy story of the year. The comeback of nuclear energy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallcaps.com.au&#x2F;china-supercharge-uranium-race-150-new-nuclear-reactors&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smallcaps.com.au&#x2F;china-supercharge-uranium-race-150-...</a><p>The HN discussion on the China story:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29151741" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29151741</a><p>Japan reactivating nuclear reactors:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mainichi.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20210501&#x2F;p2a&#x2F;00m&#x2F;0op&#x2F;007000c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mainichi.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20210501&#x2F;p2a&#x2F;00m&#x2F;0op&#x2F;00...</a><p>UK. Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop mini nuclear reactors:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-59212983" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-59212983</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/macron-says-france-will-build-more-nuclear-energy-reactors-2021-11-09/</url></story> |
13,417,946 | 13,418,135 | 1 | 3 | 13,417,616 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>e0m</author><text>Electron actually gives you quite a bit of free help for power consumption. The Chromium team goes through great lengths to save power and most of those efforts get reflected in Electron. For example, when it the app gets put in the background it will automatically reduce power usage.<p>When no javascript is running the app consumes effectively no power.<p>Now that being said there&#x27;s nothing to stop developers from running lots of expensive code or being non-performant with rendering. This is true in any environment. However; having access to the type of flame-charts and profiling tools that come with Chrome &#x2F; Electron go a really long way to addressing some of these issues.<p>I work at Nylas and we&#x27;ve been heavily focused on reducing the amount of power the app consumes. We&#x27;ve still got a lot of work to do, but at the end of the day processing a ton of email quickly is a fairly expensive operation.<p>In the long run it&#x27;s possible to offload very expensive work to natively compiled modules. A lot of Electron projects do this and can use Node&#x27;s native bindings to connect to processes that really need to be fast in native code.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnufied</author><text>I really wanted an Email client for Linux which isn&#x27;t power hungry but unfortunately last I tried Nylas - it was always top app in `powertop`. An always running app has to be low on power consumption IMO, but because so many apps are being built on top of webkit&#x2F;electron most of them pretty much suck when it comes to battery usage.<p>Another case in point is slack app. On Linux, it is probably the worst app. :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nylas Mail is now free</title><url>https://blog.nylas.com/nylas-mail-is-now-free-8350d6a1044d#.7cykx2z49</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrissnell</author><text>I think the answer is Mutt. For me, the editor is what stops me from switching. Does it still require you to shell out to an external editor to send a mail?<p>There was an amazing mail client for (of all things) FidoNet back in the 90s called GoldEd that was amazing. It had threaded message display, a great editor, pleasant colors, etc. It was tailored to that network, however. Would love to find something like this for console-based email that has the built-in editor and isn&#x27;t Pine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnufied</author><text>I really wanted an Email client for Linux which isn&#x27;t power hungry but unfortunately last I tried Nylas - it was always top app in `powertop`. An always running app has to be low on power consumption IMO, but because so many apps are being built on top of webkit&#x2F;electron most of them pretty much suck when it comes to battery usage.<p>Another case in point is slack app. On Linux, it is probably the worst app. :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nylas Mail is now free</title><url>https://blog.nylas.com/nylas-mail-is-now-free-8350d6a1044d#.7cykx2z49</url></story> |
25,798,028 | 25,798,055 | 1 | 2 | 25,788,993 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edoceo</author><text>This is a problem for me. I&#x27;m from east-bay. Every thing that&#x27;s hella stuff is hella stuff, so I&#x27;ve been calling various amounts of hella data as hella-bytes (or my fast internet give me hella-BPS). A big cultural shift for it to mean a precise amount.<p>It&#x27;s like aksing some New Englander to define what &quot;a wicked lotta&quot; is...it&#x27;s hella! Oh! Why didn&#x27;t you say so?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/14/hellabyte_si_prefix/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_5659</author><text>For the uninitiated, hella is flexible as a quantifier and intensifier. Hella has hella meanings for hella words.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hella" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hella</a><p>Honestly, being from the Bay Area, I&#x27;m against pegging hella to a specific size. It feels more appropriate for cases where you don&#x27;t know how many, but &#x27;a lot&#x27; feels insufficient.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/14/hellabyte_si_prefix/</url></story> |
11,204,903 | 11,204,547 | 1 | 2 | 11,204,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbob2000</author><text>So today I had to implement the XDomainRequest API to support IE9 for one of our features. Yesterday I worked on a branch to upgrade our front end framework to a newer version. The day before that I was refactoring out our old API from an older module. Last week I was working through a specification document from our product team to implement a new interface.<p>Where, in any of my day-to-day job duties, am I going to need to find the kth permutation of a set of numbers? or clone a directed graph? If someone presented me with these questions in an interview, I would be tempted to leave.<p>And in reflecting on my job as a coder, I find that most of the work I do is janitorial; clean this up, add support for this, fix this, talk with product about this, break this up into smaller pieces... Never once have I had to implement a feature that would require these types of algorithms. Like 98% of my challenges are &quot;this needs to work this way, but that needs to work that way, how can we make them work together?&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not picking at educative.io per se, they&#x27;re just a symptom. It just really sucks that there are some companies out that believe that if you can rattle off an algorithm, then you must be a good coder.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coding Interview Preparation in JavaScript</title><url>https://www.educative.io/collection/page/6630002/190001/270001</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mycroft-holmes</author><text>The sample problems are...well let&#x27;s just say if every dev I work with had to solve those problems on the spot right now, there&#x27;d be no developers in the office tomorrow. And guess what? We still push code. Our application is still being built.<p>It&#x27;s problems like that which terrify newbies.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coding Interview Preparation in JavaScript</title><url>https://www.educative.io/collection/page/6630002/190001/270001</url></story> |
21,158,619 | 21,158,603 | 1 | 2 | 21,158,402 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>There are differences: no commercials, shows on demand, more shows, and higher quality (arguably) shows. Additionally, it’s possible to just subscribe to the one service you really like because they all have a lot of content.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thismyrealone</author><text>It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fullshark</author><text>The difference this time is that there&#x27;s no artificial limit on content volume. In other words a tv channel can only deliver 24 hours of content a day, a streaming service can deliver an unbounded amount. This is going to change the dynamics severely I think.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thismyrealone</author><text>It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn</url></story> |
25,768,220 | 25,768,217 | 1 | 2 | 25,766,736 | train | <instructions>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; If we believe in democracy, we necessarily must believe that the crowd - the mob, if you&#x27;re feeling less generous - is better at making decisions than any small group of people.<p>What you are describing is leaning towards &quot;direct democracy&quot;, which nobody tries to implement, vs &quot;representative democracy&quot; which is what we all experience. In the latter it absolutely is a feature that representatives will go against the preference of the majority at least some of the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>If we believe in democracy, we necessarily must believe that the crowd - the mob, if you&#x27;re feeling less generous - is better at making decisions than any small group of people.<p>Which means believing that it&#x27;s better to implement a terrible but popular decision than to override the will of the people.<p>So in this case, IF the majority supported lifting restrictions (and I&#x27;m not Irish so I have no idea what the public sentiment was), then the politicians did the right thing: They obeyed the will of the people.<p>Which also means that in this case, the people of Ireland f&#x27;d up and need to take responsibility for that, rather than blame the politicians who simply implemented their will.<p>We can&#x27;t have it both ways. We can&#x27;t demand a government of the people, by the people, for the people, and also let ourselves off the hook whenever our collective decisions suck.<p>Maybe we, the people, suck at governing in a crisis.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Representative government caving to demands when the demands are terrible, like in this case, is not a good thing. In that moment what is needed is enough guts to see the measures through and fend interest groups off. Loss of leadership and movement towards &quot;the customer is king&quot; politics is responsible for a lot of mistakes in the response to this virus.</text></item><item><author>ls612</author><text>Isn’t this last bit in some sense a good thing? Representative government changing policies to reflect a shift in the population’s preference after ten months of dealing with these restrictions?</text></item><item><author>lynchdt</author><text>Also Irish. +1 on your assessment here. The virulent strain narrative was peddled by the Irish government who went against medical advice and tried to deflect blame. The evidence doesn’t support the narrative.<p>I think the COVID-fatigue angle is quite interesting though. As critical as I am of the government they were under a lot of pressure from the populous to provide some sort of respite.</text></item><item><author>Fordec</author><text>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m Irish, working in tech but my hobby that gets me more of a social life is involvement with an Irish political party.<p>The new variant accounted for 10-25% of these new cases over the period of that spike. The spike happened two weeks after Christmas when lock-down restrictions were lifted, as planned in October, so people could have a respite after 9 months of all this. Did the government misjudge just how much people would socially interact? You bet.<p>But to claim that this event is a sign of things to come is to willfully ignore what Irish medical professionals (NPHET) are saying about what the root cause has been and fully buy into the government politicians attempts to cover their butts by blaming the new strain and not their own operational strategy.<p>Also note that it is coming up to three weeks since Christmas and new infections today is half of what it was last week already and dropping.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-ireland-event-2/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>waterhouse</author><text>&gt; If we believe in democracy, we necessarily must believe that the crowd - the mob, if you&#x27;re feeling less generous - is better at making decisions than any small group of people.<p>Not necessarily. I think some people have said that democracy is designed to imitate revolutions without actually being violent: that if much of the populace is armed and not <i>that</i> many people have enough gear and training to make them enormously more effective than a random person with a gun, then &quot;one person, one vote; majority wins&quot; approximately reflects what would happen if there <i>was</i> a violent revolution, so people don&#x27;t have much to gain by adding violence. If that&#x27;s true, then appeasing the mob by letting them more or less get their policies implemented may be best even if those policies are not the best—because the alternative is risking a bloody revolution followed by the mob implementing their policies anyway.<p>That&#x27;s one perspective, anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>If we believe in democracy, we necessarily must believe that the crowd - the mob, if you&#x27;re feeling less generous - is better at making decisions than any small group of people.<p>Which means believing that it&#x27;s better to implement a terrible but popular decision than to override the will of the people.<p>So in this case, IF the majority supported lifting restrictions (and I&#x27;m not Irish so I have no idea what the public sentiment was), then the politicians did the right thing: They obeyed the will of the people.<p>Which also means that in this case, the people of Ireland f&#x27;d up and need to take responsibility for that, rather than blame the politicians who simply implemented their will.<p>We can&#x27;t have it both ways. We can&#x27;t demand a government of the people, by the people, for the people, and also let ourselves off the hook whenever our collective decisions suck.<p>Maybe we, the people, suck at governing in a crisis.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Representative government caving to demands when the demands are terrible, like in this case, is not a good thing. In that moment what is needed is enough guts to see the measures through and fend interest groups off. Loss of leadership and movement towards &quot;the customer is king&quot; politics is responsible for a lot of mistakes in the response to this virus.</text></item><item><author>ls612</author><text>Isn’t this last bit in some sense a good thing? Representative government changing policies to reflect a shift in the population’s preference after ten months of dealing with these restrictions?</text></item><item><author>lynchdt</author><text>Also Irish. +1 on your assessment here. The virulent strain narrative was peddled by the Irish government who went against medical advice and tried to deflect blame. The evidence doesn’t support the narrative.<p>I think the COVID-fatigue angle is quite interesting though. As critical as I am of the government they were under a lot of pressure from the populous to provide some sort of respite.</text></item><item><author>Fordec</author><text>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m Irish, working in tech but my hobby that gets me more of a social life is involvement with an Irish political party.<p>The new variant accounted for 10-25% of these new cases over the period of that spike. The spike happened two weeks after Christmas when lock-down restrictions were lifted, as planned in October, so people could have a respite after 9 months of all this. Did the government misjudge just how much people would socially interact? You bet.<p>But to claim that this event is a sign of things to come is to willfully ignore what Irish medical professionals (NPHET) are saying about what the root cause has been and fully buy into the government politicians attempts to cover their butts by blaming the new strain and not their own operational strategy.<p>Also note that it is coming up to three weeks since Christmas and new infections today is half of what it was last week already and dropping.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-ireland-event-2/</url></story> |
11,092,051 | 11,090,911 | 1 | 2 | 11,089,744 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refurb</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s true for all companies. The big, multi-national company I work for keeps all candidate assessment form that have been filled out by the interviewer (even for summer interns). Of course we&#x27;re trained beforehand to not put stuff in the form that could be construed as discriminatory based on protected classes.<p>You have to keep in mind that if a candidate is rejected and comes back and says it was illegal discrimination, those forms are valuable evidence to show why the candidate was not selected. Get rid of the forms and it&#x27;s basically your word against theirs in court.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve also been told that no one every goes to the trouble to dig those up later on. Even for current employees. You could get a letter of reprimand put in your file and nobody would probably see it again (this comment came from HR).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzwinck</author><text>Not only does fear of lawsuits prevent companies from disclosing no-hire reasons, it prevents them from even recording those reasons internally.<p>If you get rejected and don&#x27;t know why, take heart: a year from now the company also won&#x27;t know why. You can apply again as if it were Groundhog Day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-do-employers-rarely-offer-explanations-rejected-ambra-benjamin?trk=hp-feed-article-title-comment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wheaties</author><text>We keep a record of all coding exercises performed by people who want to come in for an interview. We reference it for those who reapply to see if there has been improvement. All of our interview questions are in a github repo and peer reviewd so you don&#x27;t get those brain teaser useless questions.<p>I wish we took notes during interviews. On well. We still remember candidates who apply multiple times.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jzwinck</author><text>Not only does fear of lawsuits prevent companies from disclosing no-hire reasons, it prevents them from even recording those reasons internally.<p>If you get rejected and don&#x27;t know why, take heart: a year from now the company also won&#x27;t know why. You can apply again as if it were Groundhog Day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-do-employers-rarely-offer-explanations-rejected-ambra-benjamin?trk=hp-feed-article-title-comment</url></story> |
37,175,516 | 37,175,615 | 1 | 2 | 37,174,916 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dubcanada</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it just environment variables but rather then setting it manually it&#x27;s in a file?<p>So the spec is the same as regular environment variables?</text><parent_chain><item><author>SOLAR_FIELDS</author><text>.env desperately needs a formal specification. I wrote a bit of code using some features python_dotenv offers but realized after the fact that other software might not parse it the same way. I’ve taken to instead doing my templating in Python itself via pydantic BaseSettings</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files</title><url>https://twitter.com/kom_256/status/1692225622091706389</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrew_</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;dotenv" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;dotenv</a> is the gold standard imho. they have a few other packages you can add-on that expand its functionality. I have a custom package which utilizes dotenv, dotenv-expand, and find-up for a truly delightful DX.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SOLAR_FIELDS</author><text>.env desperately needs a formal specification. I wrote a bit of code using some features python_dotenv offers but realized after the fact that other software might not parse it the same way. I’ve taken to instead doing my templating in Python itself via pydantic BaseSettings</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files</title><url>https://twitter.com/kom_256/status/1692225622091706389</url></story> |
30,550,350 | 30,550,543 | 1 | 2 | 30,548,631 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>The why it was possible in Chechnya is that the rebels have started fighting between themselves; specifically, the (older) Chechen traditionalist &#x2F; nationalist faction was unhappy with the growing power of the (newer) Salafi fundamentalist faction.<p>Thus, Kadyrov - except back then it was Ahmad Kadyrov; Ramzan is his son and successor. As the Chief Mufti of Chechnya, he was one of the most powerful figures in the traditionalist camp, and one with the most to lose from Salafism gaining ground (traditional Chechen Islam is Sufi).<p>Ahmad Kadyrov was all in with the rebels during the first Chechen war, officially declaring it a jihad in his capacity as a mufti. Ramzan boasted of &quot;killing his first Russian at 16&quot; at the time. But by 1999, the Kadyrov clan decided that Salafis are more dangerous than Russians, and switched allegiance.<p>That is why Russia could install that puppet government relatively easily - because they had considerable local support: not just the Kadyrov clan, but numerous others aligned with it. Ukraine also has many potential collaborators, but mostly in the East, and they are already mostly in the separatist militias. I expect that Russia will recruit from those for its occupation administration.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>Chechnya is the counterpoint here: Russia crushed the local populace completely mercilessly and <i>successfully</i> installed a puppet in the form of the equally merciless Ramzan Kadyrov.<p>This would be likely the worst possible outcome for Ukraine, but it&#x27;s sadly feasible. The main difference is that world didn&#x27;t really care about a bunch of Muslims in an unpronounceable city (Grozny) in what was legally Russian territory, while for Ukraine they do seem willing to stand up a bit more.</text></item><item><author>bduerst</author><text>I&#x27;d wished they would have gone into some of the differences between a protracted was with the U.S. and Russia looks like.<p>It&#x27;s seems like it is easier to point out how Afghanistan and Vietnam were able to draw out a long-term protracted war and out-will a democracy that (to a degree) follows the changing will of the people. It&#x27;s especially easier given the lack of threat to the mainland that can be manufactured.<p>But what about against a neighboring oligarchy like Russia? How do you out-will the singular authoritarian leader and&#x2F;or his small group of oligarchs?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the weak can win – A primer on protracted war</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2022/03/03/collections-how-the-weak-can-win-a-primer-on-protracted-war/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AtlasBarfed</author><text>I doubt Chechnya has the opportunity to be outfitted with a drone air force and TOW&#x2F;MANPADS for any Ukrainian that wants them. Chechnya involved muslims. Ukrainians are far more European, yes that makes a difference.<p>Chechnya didn&#x27;t have direct NATO border nations and supply lines.<p>I don&#x27;t believe this to be the normal massive asymmetric difference in firepower if NATO arms the Ukrainians enough. IF they are given sufficient drones, I believe Ukraine could actually have a firepower and battlefield advantage.<p>Now, I don&#x27;t know for sure NATO is going to commit to such supply. I think they&#x27;ll be a bit more reserved, but the more weaponry Russia use, the more NATO will supply Ukraine. NATO may decided to supply just enough to bog down Russia but not hand Ukraine a rapid victory.<p>I 100% believe NATO could equip Ukraine with enough weapons for certain victory. It now comes down to whether NATO does that.<p>Missiles: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;davidhambling&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;03&#x2F;ukraine-receives-fresh-supplies-of-bayraktar-drones-and-anti-tank-weapons&#x2F;?sh=5b5807a2359a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;davidhambling&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;03&#x2F;ukrain...</a><p>Turkey is supplying new drones. I bet there are more on the way. Stingers and Polish MANPADS are being supplied.<p>These are the publicly announced numbers. Those numbers tell me NATO will supply ample weaponry.<p>Ukraine is a nation of 40,000,000 people. And they appear spoiling for a fight. How many of those would train to fight? 2 million? 5 million? 10 million? If Ukraine gets 1 million volunteers and full arms support from the West, Russia is doomed.<p>I&#x27;ll be interested to see if female fighting units start getting news like in Kurdistan. If that happens, Russia is in deep trouble.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>Chechnya is the counterpoint here: Russia crushed the local populace completely mercilessly and <i>successfully</i> installed a puppet in the form of the equally merciless Ramzan Kadyrov.<p>This would be likely the worst possible outcome for Ukraine, but it&#x27;s sadly feasible. The main difference is that world didn&#x27;t really care about a bunch of Muslims in an unpronounceable city (Grozny) in what was legally Russian territory, while for Ukraine they do seem willing to stand up a bit more.</text></item><item><author>bduerst</author><text>I&#x27;d wished they would have gone into some of the differences between a protracted was with the U.S. and Russia looks like.<p>It&#x27;s seems like it is easier to point out how Afghanistan and Vietnam were able to draw out a long-term protracted war and out-will a democracy that (to a degree) follows the changing will of the people. It&#x27;s especially easier given the lack of threat to the mainland that can be manufactured.<p>But what about against a neighboring oligarchy like Russia? How do you out-will the singular authoritarian leader and&#x2F;or his small group of oligarchs?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the weak can win – A primer on protracted war</title><url>https://acoup.blog/2022/03/03/collections-how-the-weak-can-win-a-primer-on-protracted-war/</url></story> |
37,593,763 | 37,593,914 | 1 | 2 | 37,593,459 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joemelonyeah</author><text>Microsoft actually has a guide for manual partitioning, which this guide does not follow. [1] The Microsoft guide cleans the whole disk and ensures the 100MB EFI partition is before the 16MB MSR partition.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows-hardware&#x2F;manufacture&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions?view=windows-11" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows-hardware&#x2F;manufactu...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Install Windows the Arch Linux Way</title><url>https://christitus.com/install-windows-the-arch-linux-way/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greatcircle</author><text>I installed Windows 10 the other week - it kinda blew my mind how poor the install experience was.<p>The iso contained files greater than 4GB, which breaks fat32, which I&#x27;m sure many people are still using on flash drives. So I had to use an MS cmd-line tool to split the wim files manually and edit the install files. Why doesn&#x27;t the installer just use smaller archive files?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Install Windows the Arch Linux Way</title><url>https://christitus.com/install-windows-the-arch-linux-way/</url></story> |
36,296,136 | 36,296,189 | 1 | 3 | 36,295,093 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dijit</author><text>CEO also 10x’d the headcount.<p>and spent significant funding on buying Alien Blue and then ruining it.<p>and spent significant resources on a new UI design that is near universally reviled.<p>Its not good enough to say you are not profitable, when you are a significant cause</text><parent_chain><item><author>timmg</author><text>Is it just me, or are users trying to solve the wrong problem here?<p>According to the CEO, Reddit is losing money. It won&#x27;t survive long-term if that doesn&#x27;t change. If people care about reddit and its community, it seems like that&#x27;s what they should be thinking about.<p>If an alternate client <i>uses</i> the API, but doesn&#x27;t return any advertising (or other) revenue, that is a good reason for reddit (as a company) to change that relationship.<p>To be clear, I&#x27;m not making a comment about how they are going about it. But destroying reddit&#x27;s <i>business</i> is no help to anyone.<p>Lots of people on reddit (and on here) brag about using ad-blockers. They also complain about paying for services. I mean: something&#x27;s go to give. VC&#x27;s won&#x27;t continue to fund these free services forever.<p>I&#x27;d rather live in a world where you view advertisements <i>or</i> pay a fee to use services. But I seem to be outside the norm on these things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit goes down fully as thousands of subreddits protest API changes</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-fully/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>musictubes</author><text>The developer of Apollo was clear that the problem wasn’t that Reddit wanted to charge for API usage, it was the price.<p>Reddit could have just made third party client use a feature of Reddit premium and avoid all of the current issues. Yes, some would still complain that Reddit costs anything to use but big clients have paying customers and are less price sensitive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>timmg</author><text>Is it just me, or are users trying to solve the wrong problem here?<p>According to the CEO, Reddit is losing money. It won&#x27;t survive long-term if that doesn&#x27;t change. If people care about reddit and its community, it seems like that&#x27;s what they should be thinking about.<p>If an alternate client <i>uses</i> the API, but doesn&#x27;t return any advertising (or other) revenue, that is a good reason for reddit (as a company) to change that relationship.<p>To be clear, I&#x27;m not making a comment about how they are going about it. But destroying reddit&#x27;s <i>business</i> is no help to anyone.<p>Lots of people on reddit (and on here) brag about using ad-blockers. They also complain about paying for services. I mean: something&#x27;s go to give. VC&#x27;s won&#x27;t continue to fund these free services forever.<p>I&#x27;d rather live in a world where you view advertisements <i>or</i> pay a fee to use services. But I seem to be outside the norm on these things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit goes down fully as thousands of subreddits protest API changes</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-fully/</url></story> |
26,941,500 | 26,941,083 | 1 | 2 | 26,940,548 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simiones</author><text>Don&#x27;t monads in themselves have the same problem of introducing &quot;coloring&quot; (where each monad is a different color) , so that functions which work for one monad won&#x27;t work with easily compose with functions which work with another monad?<p>For example, isn&#x27;t it true that you can&#x27;t easily compose a function f :: a -&gt; IO b with a function g :: b -&gt; [c] (assuming you don&#x27;t use unsafePerformIO, of course)?<p>Of course, there will be ways to do it (just as you can wrap a sync function in an async function, or .Wait() on an async function result to get a sync function), and Haskell&#x27;s very high level of abstraction will make that wrapping easier than in a language like C#.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willtim</author><text>And why restrict oneself to just two colours? Haskell monads also allow one to abstract over the &quot;colour&quot;, such that one can write polymorphic code that works for any colour, which I think was the main objection from the original red&#x2F;blue post.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Koka is an example of a language that further empraces effect types and makes them easier to use:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;index.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Red and blue functions are a good thing</title><url>https://blainehansen.me/post/red-blue-functions-are-actually-good/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>benrbray</author><text>Fun Fact: The author of Koka (Daan Leijen) wrote a LaTeX-flavored Markdown editor called Madoko [1] using Koka! It is used to render the &quot;Programming Z3&quot; book [2], for instance.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;madoko.org&#x2F;reference.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;madoko.org&#x2F;reference.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theory.stanford.edu&#x2F;~nikolaj&#x2F;programmingz3.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theory.stanford.edu&#x2F;~nikolaj&#x2F;programmingz3.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>willtim</author><text>And why restrict oneself to just two colours? Haskell monads also allow one to abstract over the &quot;colour&quot;, such that one can write polymorphic code that works for any colour, which I think was the main objection from the original red&#x2F;blue post.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Koka is an example of a language that further empraces effect types and makes them easier to use:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;index.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Red and blue functions are a good thing</title><url>https://blainehansen.me/post/red-blue-functions-are-actually-good/</url></story> |
27,161,877 | 27,160,958 | 1 | 3 | 27,158,088 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nimbix</author><text>The company I worked for had a pretty much identical experience with Unilever: they aggressively reduced the scope of the contract, but expected all the extras anyway; then at the end of the contract made the company choose between getting paid for all the overages, or extending the contract. They never even really needed us if you ask me; we were primarily used as a tool for one group of execs trying to one-up another group who was backing a competitor. Eventually it all lead to us having to integrate with that competing company... until said competitor suddnly went out of business (helped by their Unilever deal, no doubt). Of course the management&#x27;s objective was keeping them as a client at any cost because having them as a reference would open up so many opportunities (it didn&#x27;t really).<p>It will come as a surprise to many people, but it&#x27;s quite possible to lose a ton of money on a toxic client who is paying you millions. Avoid such &quot;white elephant&quot; clients at any cost. And really, the last thing you need in your life is getting dragged into some huge conglomerate&#x27;s internal politics.<p>I never worked with Singapore Airlines, but people who have experience with them tell me they&#x27;re even worse in the sense that they allegedly have a policy of not paying for software - you get to give them free stuff in exchange for being able to list them as a client. Huge software companies can afford to do that; your growth stage startup probably can&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>&gt;If they can, corp dev people like to turn the tables on you. They like to get you to the point where you&#x27;re trying to convince them to buy instead of them trying to convince you to sell.<p>I worked for an established company (not a startup) and had a run in with Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart managed to buy some stuff at an ultra low discount because ... someone thought maybe if we get in there we could sell tons to their IT team.<p>Meanwhile I&#x27;m working with their IT guys. They hate the product. They tell me in no uncertain terms and in every unprofessional way you can imagine (that part was pretty shocking). Of course what they&#x27;re really doing is just buying the minimum and pounding the hell out of support with complaints as they pump 20 gallons into 10-gallon hat of our product.<p>What happens? We keep providing them free services, extra services. The folks at the top think they&#x27;re at the tip of a big sale, big money despite myself and others telling them &quot;These guys don&#x27;t like our widget, they don&#x27;t want it... and they&#x27;re not capable of even making good use of it. All while giving it to them for free, why would they pay a dime more?&quot;<p>By the end I hear we&#x27;ve made like our 5th pitch to them that is barely profitable for us... just on the face value of the product and support. Somehow Wal-Mart convinced these guys to take a &#x27;big sale&#x27; moment and turn it into a loss if you consider all the time put into working with them. And they were happy to do it.<p>Finally we had a stroke of luck, we were acquired, and the new CEO had worked with Wal-Mart before as a customer and cut them lose. Finally all that effort and energy that went into this big deal that never happened (probably for 18+ months) could be put to use with better customers.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how some folks can over time convince other people to actually propose a bad deal... for themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't Talk to Corp Dev (2015)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.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>nkozyra</author><text>I had two of these moments, both with former top 3 tech giants (they were both far removed from the top by the time we talked).<p>The first gave us all sorts of access to their products first, presumably to see how our product would utilize them. And we used this as selling point to customers, not recognizing that we were kind of doing advertising for that other company as well as removing a barrier to customer acquisition. Nearly eight months in and that relationship petered out.<p>Second was more exciting. They came in loud and excited and had recently made some 9 figure acquisitions. They wanted to move quick so they started some technical evaluations. Tons of questions, requests, ideas, meetings, handoffs, etc. After four months of this we kind of got sick of doing their bidding without any timeline for how the process might go. After pressing a few times, they went cold. Our assumption was they were initially interested in a deal but moved into make-it-feel-like-we&#x27;ll-be-family-soon-so-they-share-way-too-much mode.<p>I believe the second group was intent on just replicating what we had but I watched them closely and nothing materialized. I suspect given the resources they devoted the project collapsed there or was repurposed to a subsidiary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>&gt;If they can, corp dev people like to turn the tables on you. They like to get you to the point where you&#x27;re trying to convince them to buy instead of them trying to convince you to sell.<p>I worked for an established company (not a startup) and had a run in with Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart managed to buy some stuff at an ultra low discount because ... someone thought maybe if we get in there we could sell tons to their IT team.<p>Meanwhile I&#x27;m working with their IT guys. They hate the product. They tell me in no uncertain terms and in every unprofessional way you can imagine (that part was pretty shocking). Of course what they&#x27;re really doing is just buying the minimum and pounding the hell out of support with complaints as they pump 20 gallons into 10-gallon hat of our product.<p>What happens? We keep providing them free services, extra services. The folks at the top think they&#x27;re at the tip of a big sale, big money despite myself and others telling them &quot;These guys don&#x27;t like our widget, they don&#x27;t want it... and they&#x27;re not capable of even making good use of it. All while giving it to them for free, why would they pay a dime more?&quot;<p>By the end I hear we&#x27;ve made like our 5th pitch to them that is barely profitable for us... just on the face value of the product and support. Somehow Wal-Mart convinced these guys to take a &#x27;big sale&#x27; moment and turn it into a loss if you consider all the time put into working with them. And they were happy to do it.<p>Finally we had a stroke of luck, we were acquired, and the new CEO had worked with Wal-Mart before as a customer and cut them lose. Finally all that effort and energy that went into this big deal that never happened (probably for 18+ months) could be put to use with better customers.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how some folks can over time convince other people to actually propose a bad deal... for themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't Talk to Corp Dev (2015)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html</url></story> |
27,755,136 | 27,755,074 | 1 | 2 | 27,744,075 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vl</author><text>Or he is well-versed in classics - this is exactly what happens in “How to Steal a Million” with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klyrs</author><text>&gt; He took the metro into town, changed clothes in a park next to the gallery and waited until the museum’s 9 p.m. closing time, before finding a balcony with unsecured doors. When he moved a door and a beep sounded, he said, he reconsidered his course of action ... &quot;That&#x27;s when I decided that annoying the security guard was the best way to do the theft, by making him believe that there was a technical problem in the alarm zones,&quot; the suspect told the police. So he opened and closed the door several times to confuse the guards.<p>This is a great hack, applicable to probably most human security. Can it apply to computer security? Well, if you&#x27;ve ever been inclined to silence an alarm you can&#x27;t diagnose...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in Greece</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/world/europe/greece-picasso-mondrian-stolen-art.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>alexpetralia</author><text>There must be some infosec term for this, but I&#x27;d imagine it&#x27;s close to &quot;signal poisoning&quot; - turning signal into noise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klyrs</author><text>&gt; He took the metro into town, changed clothes in a park next to the gallery and waited until the museum’s 9 p.m. closing time, before finding a balcony with unsecured doors. When he moved a door and a beep sounded, he said, he reconsidered his course of action ... &quot;That&#x27;s when I decided that annoying the security guard was the best way to do the theft, by making him believe that there was a technical problem in the alarm zones,&quot; the suspect told the police. So he opened and closed the door several times to confuse the guards.<p>This is a great hack, applicable to probably most human security. Can it apply to computer security? Well, if you&#x27;ve ever been inclined to silence an alarm you can&#x27;t diagnose...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in Greece</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/world/europe/greece-picasso-mondrian-stolen-art.html</url></story> |
41,036,034 | 41,036,299 | 1 | 3 | 41,034,738 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monsieurbanana</author><text>I can&#x27;t access the discovery link from europe.<p>From your quotes, there seems to be an important difference: in the first quote they talk about &quot;ideal human leg bones&quot; and in the second one about a &quot;typical human femur&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m certain that an elite sprinter blessed in genetics has leg bones significantly stronger than the average human. Bones also get stronger from repetitive exercise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Noumenon72</author><text>&gt; Elite sprinters can apply peak forces of 800-1000 pounds (3560-4450 Newtons) to each limb. Beyond ~1300 pounds, ideal human leg bones would surely break[1].<p>I followed the link and it just said<p>&gt; If you&#x27;re looking for the specifics to snap a piece of your skeleton, it takes about 4,000 newtons of force to break the typical human femur.<p>So the sprinters are already producing that much force (900 pounds) and the 1300 notion seems unsupported. Not to mention that applying the force with different amounts of torque might not break the bone, since bones are 10x stronger in compression so can withstand a lot more force longitudinally.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discovery.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;force-to-break-bone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discovery.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;force-to-break-bone</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?</title><url>https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/fast-human-run-100-meters/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xattt</author><text>Tendons may be the limiting factor here. They are soft tissue that has an elastic limit that is likely to be lower than solid non-deformable bone. Exceed that and tendons will either tear or pathologically lengthen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Noumenon72</author><text>&gt; Elite sprinters can apply peak forces of 800-1000 pounds (3560-4450 Newtons) to each limb. Beyond ~1300 pounds, ideal human leg bones would surely break[1].<p>I followed the link and it just said<p>&gt; If you&#x27;re looking for the specifics to snap a piece of your skeleton, it takes about 4,000 newtons of force to break the typical human femur.<p>So the sprinters are already producing that much force (900 pounds) and the 1300 notion seems unsupported. Not to mention that applying the force with different amounts of torque might not break the bone, since bones are 10x stronger in compression so can withstand a lot more force longitudinally.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discovery.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;force-to-break-bone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discovery.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;force-to-break-bone</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?</title><url>https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/fast-human-run-100-meters/</url></story> |
26,705,246 | 26,705,038 | 1 | 2 | 26,697,325 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ArkanExplorer</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;4&#x2F;20&#x2F;21228324&#x2F;amazon-whole-foods-unionization-heat-map-union" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;4&#x2F;20&#x2F;21228324&#x2F;amazon-whole-foo...</a><p>&quot;Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon, is using a heat map to track stores that may be at risk of unionization&quot;<p>&quot;a “diversity index” represents the racial and ethnic diversity of every store. Stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trak.in&#x2F;tags&#x2F;business&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;h1b-visa-ban-google-amazon-44-tech-biggies-sue-us-govt-over-h1b-visa-ban&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trak.in&#x2F;tags&#x2F;business&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;h1b-visa-ban-google...</a><p>In October 2020 Google, Amazon &amp; 44 Tech Companies Sued the US Govt Over the H1B Visa Ban<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uscis.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;document&#x2F;data&#x2F;h-1b-petitions-by-gender-country-of-birth-fy2019.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uscis.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;document&#x2F;data&#x2F;h-1b...</a><p>European countries make up only 2.8% of the H1B intake.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>This case is something to keep in mind anytime Amazon comments on any labor matter, be it minimum wage, visas, diversity, work conditions, contractors, anything at all. Amazon is not commenting on those issues with anything in mind other than its own interests.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/technology/amazon-nlrb-activist-workers.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>paxys</author><text>It&#x27;s bizarre that this even needs to be said IMO.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>This case is something to keep in mind anytime Amazon comments on any labor matter, be it minimum wage, visas, diversity, work conditions, contractors, anything at all. Amazon is not commenting on those issues with anything in mind other than its own interests.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/technology/amazon-nlrb-activist-workers.html</url></story> |
30,158,899 | 30,157,461 | 1 | 2 | 30,156,551 | 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>nyx_land</author><text>I started using yggdrasil yesterday. The ability to get a static IPv6 address on a meshnet, with encrypted traffic by default, and the option to only accept inbound connections from public keys I trust is incredibly cool. Just like that I can access any of my devices that run ygg from anywhere using standard tools like git or ssh (or git-annex). It makes it really easy to network my devices together without having to screw around with split tunneling a wireguard server and create a DIY set of services to, for example, remotely manage my devices or sync things from one to the other, and that&#x27;s just for starters. Feels like the Unix philosophy actually being useful for once.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yggdrasil P2P mesh E2EE IPv6 network</title><url>https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SlavikCA</author><text>I read the website.<p>I read the &quot;About&quot; page.<p>I read project&#x27;s Github page.<p>Still - can&#x27;t figure out what the project does and what would be practical application for it?.<p>Is it something like Tailscale?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yggdrasil P2P mesh E2EE IPv6 network</title><url>https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/</url></story> |
37,830,851 | 37,830,729 | 1 | 2 | 37,830,079 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adrian_b</author><text>Some people in that discussion wonder about &quot;-&gt;&quot;, which is used for indirect addressing through a structure member.<p>When C has added structures, which did not exist in B, it has taken the keyword &quot;struct&quot; and also both &quot;.&quot; and &quot;-&gt;&quot; from the IBM PL&#x2F;I language, from which C has also taken some other features.<p>In general, almost any feature added by C to B was taken either from PL&#x2F;I or from Algol 68. The exceptions are &quot;continue&quot; and the generalized &quot;for&quot;, which did not exist in any previous language.<p>(However the generalized &quot;for&quot; of C was a mistake, because it complicates the frequent use cases in order to simplify seldom encountered use cases. The right way to generalize &quot;for&quot;, i.e. with iterators, was introduced by Alphard in the same year with C, i.e. in 1974.) (Compare &quot;for (I=0;I&lt;N;I+=5) {&quot; of C with &quot;for I from 0 to N by 5 do&quot; or &quot;for I in 0:N:5 do&quot; of previous languages. C requires typing a lot of redundant characters in the most frequent cases.)<p>The oldest symbol for indirection through a pointer (in the language Euler, in January 1966) was a raised middle dot (i.e. a point). This was before ASCII and ASCII did not include the raised middle dot (U+00B7), so it was replaced by the most similar ASCII character, &quot;*&quot;.<p>Euler had used &quot;@&quot; for &quot;address of&quot; and indirection was a postfix operator, as it should. Making &quot;*&quot; a prefix operator in B and C was a mistake, which forced the importing of &quot;-&gt;&quot; from PL&#x2F;I, to avoid an excessive number of parentheses. Otherwise &quot;(*x).y&quot; would have been needed, instead of &quot;x-&gt;y&quot;. With a postfix &quot;*&quot;, that would have been &quot;x*.y&quot;, and &quot;-&gt;&quot;, would not have been needed.<p>In CPL, the ancestor of BCPL and B, indirection was implicit, like with the C++ references. Instead of having an &quot;address of&quot; operator, CPL had a distinct symbol for an assignment variant that assigns the address of a variable, instead of assigning its value.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand sounds like "address"'</title><url>https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/252023/why-does-c-use-the-asterisk-for-pointers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>latexr</author><text>The correct link is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;273268&#x2F;94821" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;273268&#x2F;94821</a>, which points directly to the answer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand sounds like "address"'</title><url>https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/252023/why-does-c-use-the-asterisk-for-pointers</url></story> |
23,093,333 | 23,091,933 | 1 | 3 | 23,089,817 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>floren</author><text>And the login screen is just taken from the manual for the MVS TK-4 system: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;1258028638617796608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;125802863861...</a><p>So the pictures are: a stock photo of a mainframe, a stock photo of a Raspberry Pi, and a cropped screenshot from an MVS installation manual. Looking at OP&#x27;s other tweets he appears to be a pretty shamelessly self-promoting &quot;thought leader&quot; type so I would be pretty unsurprised if it&#x27;s bullshit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Harvesterify</author><text>This is apparently greatly over-hyped (or a complete lie, depending on your interpretation) :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;1258018826823729154" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;125801882682...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a Raspberry Pi Zero</title><url>https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1257832168455208963</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>implements</author><text>Aside: “Soldier of Fortran” is a <i>great</i> user ID!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Harvesterify</author><text>This is apparently greatly over-hyped (or a complete lie, depending on your interpretation) :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;1258018826823729154" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;125801882682...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a Raspberry Pi Zero</title><url>https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1257832168455208963</url></story> |
38,958,088 | 38,957,802 | 1 | 2 | 38,956,623 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>The fact that, as far as I understand, section 174 rules are disliked across the aisle, yet Congress cannot get its act together enough to fix what will wreak the pipeline for arguably the most valuable and dynamic part of the US&#x27;s economy speaks volumes. The legislative branch of the US federal government is in such dire need of reform.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_justinfunk</author><text>I wonder if the new IRS section 174 rules are intensifying these tech lay offs. As far as I understand it, software engineering salaries are no longer fully tax deductible in the year they are paid, instead they can only be depreciated at 20%.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>In addition to more layoffs&#x2F;less hiring it looks like there are a lot of undesirable side effects of this change, especially for small to medium sized companies. Including moving IP out of the US. What were they thinking?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-pulse-75" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-pulse-75</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>_justinfunk</author><text>I wonder if the new IRS section 174 rules are intensifying these tech lay offs. As far as I understand it, software engineering salaries are no longer fully tax deductible in the year they are paid, instead they can only be depreciated at 20%.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees</url></story> |
22,565,916 | 22,562,819 | 1 | 2 | 22,562,329 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tpetry</author><text>We‘ve got a problem in germany with anything spent for by tax money. If something is done by tax money and some private company is doing the same with their own money the will go to court because the other one has an unfair advantage.<p>For example we have some tv channels being run by tax money (not absolutely correct, its a forced pay for everyone not included in taxes but its basically the same) without any ads. Any many free private channels fiddled with ad pauses. The tax ones wanted to put their movies online in a netflix style for free long before netflix but the private ones wonnin court because it would be unfair. Nowadays they are allowed to put them online but only for 30 days after airing in tv, everything else would be unfair to the real low-quality free channels...</text><parent_chain><item><author>SimeVidas</author><text>&gt; The German Weather Service (DWD) will no longer be allowed to provide general weather forecasts in a free mobile phone app. … [DWD] will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and … a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.<p>The government service is forced to put ads in its free app. WTF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/court-outlaws-german-weather-services-free-weather-app/a-52735502</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>s1artibartfast</author><text>&gt;or be purchased by users<p>Didn&#x27;t the users already purchase the app with their tax dollars?<p>I hope they embed helpful PSAs as adds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SimeVidas</author><text>&gt; The German Weather Service (DWD) will no longer be allowed to provide general weather forecasts in a free mobile phone app. … [DWD] will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and … a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.<p>The government service is forced to put ads in its free app. WTF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/court-outlaws-german-weather-services-free-weather-app/a-52735502</url></story> |
24,265,083 | 24,264,117 | 1 | 3 | 24,257,648 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzs</author><text>It will make a significant difference for specific species of birds, such as assorted eagles and other raptors, that generally live away from cities with their tall glass buildings, and that would quickly kill any house cat foolish enough to try to take them.<p>Wind turbines tend to be built in the same kind of places those birds hunt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I&#x27;m all for reducing avian fatalities from wind turbines. But it&#x27;s also important to understand that this is not going to make a significant dent in how many birds are killed by human causes. Glass buildings kill 2500 times as many birds as wind turbines. House cats kill <i>10,000 times</i> as many.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;amp&#x2F;15195&#x2F;wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;amp&#x2F;15195&#x2F;wind-turbines-are-n...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6592</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>triceratops</author><text>Pretty much this. If you have a cat, keep it indoors! A bell on the collar isn&#x27;t enough.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I&#x27;m all for reducing avian fatalities from wind turbines. But it&#x27;s also important to understand that this is not going to make a significant dent in how many birds are killed by human causes. Glass buildings kill 2500 times as many birds as wind turbines. House cats kill <i>10,000 times</i> as many.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;amp&#x2F;15195&#x2F;wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;amp&#x2F;15195&#x2F;wind-turbines-are-n...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Increasing wind turbine rotor blade visibility reduces avian fatalities</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6592</url></story> |
38,251,162 | 38,248,498 | 1 | 2 | 38,247,964 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>For me the killer app was POVRAY. Ran so much faster with a 387 (I seem to recall something like 100x faster but it was a long long time ago).</text><parent_chain><item><author>glimshe</author><text>I got a math coprocessor relatively early for my 386SX20 - I wanted to use 3D Studio, the killer app for math processors back in the day! The vast majority of games simply used integer math and didn&#x27;t require, or could take an advantage from a coprocessor, but I have no idea what was going on in the article. In the early 90s, the only games I can remember that could optionally leverage a coprocessor were the Falcon 3.0 family of simulators.</text></item><item><author>rob74</author><text>I was actually hoping that by the end of the blog post, the mystery of why the game didn&#x27;t run would be cleared up, but sadly it wasn&#x27;t. Looks like it had trouble accessing the HDD - but why should HDD access for a DOS game running under OS&#x2F;2 require a math coprocessor?!<p>I have my own story of living happily without a math coprocessor for quite some time: from 1992 to 1997, I had an IBM PS&#x2F;1000 with a &quot;Blue Lightning&quot; CPU which can be best described as a &quot;486SX3&quot; (25 MHz bus clock, 75MHz internal). Then I tried to run the Quake demo and found out that &quot;real&quot; 3D games need an FPU :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said</title><url>https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/12/dont-waste-money-on-a-math-coprocessor-they-said/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Loic</author><text>20+ floppy disks to get 3D Studio and of course you always had a bad one and not the first.</text><parent_chain><item><author>glimshe</author><text>I got a math coprocessor relatively early for my 386SX20 - I wanted to use 3D Studio, the killer app for math processors back in the day! The vast majority of games simply used integer math and didn&#x27;t require, or could take an advantage from a coprocessor, but I have no idea what was going on in the article. In the early 90s, the only games I can remember that could optionally leverage a coprocessor were the Falcon 3.0 family of simulators.</text></item><item><author>rob74</author><text>I was actually hoping that by the end of the blog post, the mystery of why the game didn&#x27;t run would be cleared up, but sadly it wasn&#x27;t. Looks like it had trouble accessing the HDD - but why should HDD access for a DOS game running under OS&#x2F;2 require a math coprocessor?!<p>I have my own story of living happily without a math coprocessor for quite some time: from 1992 to 1997, I had an IBM PS&#x2F;1000 with a &quot;Blue Lightning&quot; CPU which can be best described as a &quot;486SX3&quot; (25 MHz bus clock, 75MHz internal). Then I tried to run the Quake demo and found out that &quot;real&quot; 3D games need an FPU :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said</title><url>https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/12/dont-waste-money-on-a-math-coprocessor-they-said/</url></story> |
23,439,418 | 23,438,161 | 1 | 3 | 23,436,537 | train | <instructions>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>&gt;&gt; a Colorado State University chemist who orders a 60-liter dewar every 8–13 weeks to fill his 8-tesla superconducting magnet.<p>So... absolutely no recapture of this used helium? I wouldn&#x27;t be throwing stones at party balloons. Seriously, the concept of helium as a <i>disposable</i> gas is the root of the entire price problem. <i>Hopefully</i> the price will rise to the point that capture and recycling become more cost effective.<p>&gt;&gt;A new, $110 000 liquefier at the University of Idaho is expected to recycle most of the helium needed for three NMR magnets, an electron paramagnetic resonance magnet, and a Mössbauer spectrometer, says Blumenfeld. As an added benefit, the new machine will enable the university to purchase its helium in gaseous form instead of liquid, for a substantial cost savings, he says.<p>110K? That is dirt cheap for nearly any industrial process. Industrial baking ovens can cost more. Why are such things not standard with every device needing substantial amounts of helium.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Helium shortage has ended, at least for now</title><url>https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20200605a/full/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Havoc</author><text>And it&#x27;ll improve. There was a helium find with absolutely insane natural concentrations in South Africa recently.<p>&gt;Helium is found within natural gas in concentrations typically up to 1% by volume of the gas released; however, the updated reserve review shows that the latest well drilled in the Virgina project contains a concentration of almost 11%.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.miningweekly.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;south-africa-to-become-eighth-country-to-export-helium-by-2019-renergen-2018-03-12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.miningweekly.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;south-africa-to-become-ei...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Helium shortage has ended, at least for now</title><url>https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20200605a/full/</url></story> |
34,111,681 | 34,111,943 | 1 | 2 | 34,110,738 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmiyer</author><text>ChatGPT says &quot;Boston is a city located in Massachusetts, United States. It is not possible for Boston to be a distance away from itself. If you are asking about the distance from one part of the city to another, it will depend on the specific locations within the city. The distance within the city can be measured in miles or kilometers and can be determined using a map or a GPS device.&quot;<p>So it seems like this particular implementation is not particularly good but the general chat-as-search might fare better, though there are definitely many ways to get ChatGPT to say nonsense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dr_kiszonka</author><text>Q: How far is Boston from Boston?<p>A: Boston, Massachusetts is approximately 2.5 miles from Boston, Massachusetts. It would take approximately 5 minutes to drive between the two locations<p>I rest my case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A new chat feature has been released by You Search</title><url>https://you.com/search?q=what+was+the+recent+breakthrough+in+fusion+research%3F&fromSearchBar=true&tbm=youchat</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Areading314</author><text>Driving in Boston it can very easily take 5 minutes to get from point A to point A</text><parent_chain><item><author>dr_kiszonka</author><text>Q: How far is Boston from Boston?<p>A: Boston, Massachusetts is approximately 2.5 miles from Boston, Massachusetts. It would take approximately 5 minutes to drive between the two locations<p>I rest my case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A new chat feature has been released by You Search</title><url>https://you.com/search?q=what+was+the+recent+breakthrough+in+fusion+research%3F&fromSearchBar=true&tbm=youchat</url></story> |
21,716,180 | 21,713,611 | 1 | 3 | 21,711,761 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cranekam</author><text>This article is awful. You&#x27;re not going to &quot;break your dependence on the GUI&quot; by replacing 5 things you do a few times a day with obscure, less good CLI alternatives. What about things like manipulating files and running programs? Aren&#x27;t they the things people do with computers?<p>Also, bc is especially terrible. Nobody who is already &quot;dependent on the GUI&quot; is going to want to know about scale= and all that. Better to use Python or even bash (echo $((123+456)) etc)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI</title><url>https://www.putorius.net/5-cool-command-line-tools.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>msluyter</author><text>I love finding good command line replacements for UIs. One I&#x27;ve grown to rely on a lot these days is awslogs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jorgebastida&#x2F;awslogs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jorgebastida&#x2F;awslogs</a><p>Which allows you to stream Cloudwatch logs via a command like:<p><pre><code> awslogs get &lt;log group name&gt; ALL --watch
</code></pre>
which is cool because you can just specify the log group and get all streams without having to dig around for the specific stream in the AWS console.<p>There&#x27;s a python based command line HN client (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donnemartin&#x2F;haxor-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donnemartin&#x2F;haxor-news</a>) that&#x27;s nice, although I think the dependencies need updating (I get various conflicts if I try to install other packages in the same venv).<p>For twitter, rainbowstream is nice:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;orakaro&#x2F;rainbowstream" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;orakaro&#x2F;rainbowstream</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI</title><url>https://www.putorius.net/5-cool-command-line-tools.html</url></story> |
41,790,395 | 41,790,398 | 1 | 2 | 41,764,163 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rjknight</author><text>Valibot is really nice, particularly for avoiding bundle size bloat. Because Zod uses a &quot;fluent builder&quot; API, all of Zod&#x27;s functionality is implemented in classes with many methods. Importing something like `z.string` also imports validators to check if the string is a UUID, email address, has a minimum or maximum length, matches a regex, and so on - even if none of those validators are used. Valibot makes these independent functions that are composed using the &quot;pipe&quot; function, which means that only the functions which are actually used need to be included in your JavaScript bundle. Since most apps use only a small percentage of the available validators, the bundle size reduction can be quite significant relative to Zod.</text><parent_chain><item><author>threatofrain</author><text>This is just a link to the front page of possibly the #1 most popular type validation library in the ecosystem? Anyways, ya&#x27;ll might want to check out up-and-coming Valibot, which has a really nice pipe API.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;valibot.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;valibot.dev</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference</title><url>https://zod.dev/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crooked-v</author><text>Valibot also has much, much more efficient type inference, which sounds unimportant right up until you have 50 schemas referencing each other and all your Typescript stuff slows to a molasses crawl.</text><parent_chain><item><author>threatofrain</author><text>This is just a link to the front page of possibly the #1 most popular type validation library in the ecosystem? Anyways, ya&#x27;ll might want to check out up-and-coming Valibot, which has a really nice pipe API.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;valibot.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;valibot.dev</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference</title><url>https://zod.dev/</url></story> |
22,741,314 | 22,740,633 | 1 | 2 | 22,739,605 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>The actionable thing is the graph about two thirds of the way down - passthrough rate vs performance.<p>That&#x27;s the whole point of the article. Two possible conclusions:<p>One is that companies are cargo-culting hiring, and have absolutely no idea what they&#x27;re doing. Clearly whatever the process is supposed to do, it&#x27;s not hiring the &quot;best people&quot; by any realistic metric.<p>The other is that the process is working as intended, but the actual goals are not stated. This might be true if the aim is to hiring difficult and stressful for candidates to discourage job hopping. (Other interpretations are also possible. [1])<p>If a company wants the &quot;best people&quot; it needs to follow up hiring with performance tracking, and identify and reward the people and hiring practices which increase performance. [2]<p>If companies want hiring to continue as a social&#x2F;political game which stresses and discourages developers, the system is working for them, and they don&#x27;t need to change it.<p>Startups need to decide what kind of company they want to be. [3]<p>[1] IMO there may be a strong element of corporate narcissism in the process. It&#x27;s not about hiring good people, it&#x27;s about allowing the CEO and senior management to feel that their company is better than those other companies which hire these people. In reality &quot;these people&quot; may be a bit more than averagely competent, but with a few standouts most won&#x27;t be insanely great or A players or 10X or whatever the goal is supposed to be.<p>[2] Which assumes it&#x27;s possible to measure performance, which is a whole other issue.<p>[3] I&#x27;d bet almost anything that in reality there&#x27;s a lot of &quot;Oh, you were working with X at Y? Awesome!&quot; affecting hiring choices in SV.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>The article could be a_lot_ more concise. Here’s what I got out of it as the takeaway:<p>&gt; And that helps us understand why Recursive Cactus spends so much time practicing. He’s training himself partially because his current company isn’t developing his skills.<p>Exactly. Recursive Calculus wants a better job, (a lot) higher pay, a better environment. So he spends time prepping for this.<p>And companies who can offer all of this, and get a lot of interest already, they are selective, minimising false positives in the hiring process. They expect working code in the coding challenge, a good attitude and some other skills like demonstrating decent systems design. Recursive Calculus also preps so much as his interview process to his current place was different and he _really_ wants to nail these interviews, get a bunch of offers and get into a bidding war before saying bye to his current workplace he’d love to leave for something better.<p>There wasn’t really any actionable thing in this article that I found, or applicable advice. The end.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is the engineering hiring bar?</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/the-eng-hiring-bar-what-the-hell-is-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>commandlinefan</author><text>It seems like a lot of these discussions end up being something along the lines of &quot;the standards are bad because they exclude me, therefore there shouldn&#x27;t be any standards at all&quot; (just with a lot more words).</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>The article could be a_lot_ more concise. Here’s what I got out of it as the takeaway:<p>&gt; And that helps us understand why Recursive Cactus spends so much time practicing. He’s training himself partially because his current company isn’t developing his skills.<p>Exactly. Recursive Calculus wants a better job, (a lot) higher pay, a better environment. So he spends time prepping for this.<p>And companies who can offer all of this, and get a lot of interest already, they are selective, minimising false positives in the hiring process. They expect working code in the coding challenge, a good attitude and some other skills like demonstrating decent systems design. Recursive Calculus also preps so much as his interview process to his current place was different and he _really_ wants to nail these interviews, get a bunch of offers and get into a bidding war before saying bye to his current workplace he’d love to leave for something better.<p>There wasn’t really any actionable thing in this article that I found, or applicable advice. The end.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is the engineering hiring bar?</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/the-eng-hiring-bar-what-the-hell-is-it/</url></story> |
8,417,543 | 8,417,731 | 1 | 2 | 8,416,853 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting about this story is that it starts out seemingly like it&#x27;s going to be about devious marketers devising a way to turn a product nobody wanted into a hot seller strictly through marketing, in much the same way that clever marketing turned the universally reviled Patagonian toothfish into a big seller by bestowing upon it the more upscale name &quot;Chilean sea bass&quot; (see <a href="http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-chilean-sea-bass/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;the-invention-of-the-chilean-sea-bas...</a>).<p>But then you get into the meat of it (sorry) and find that the root of the turnaround is an actual technical accomplishment -- a method to cook and distribute pre-cooked bacon that wouldn&#x27;t rob the bacon of its flavor:<p><i>&gt; The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&amp;D. Hormel and Swift worked on microwaveable precooked slices for home consumers, while Chicago’s OSI and the now-defunct Wilson Foods poured their efforts into bacon spirals that would fit perfectly atop a hamburger.</i><p>These technical innovations turned out to be the key, because the pork marketers were pitching bacon to fast-food chains as a &quot;flavor enhancer,&quot; but the chains that tried it mostly came away dissatisfied: the hassle of adding bacon-cooking to their highly regimented kitchens created expense and added time to the burger-assembly process, while existing methods for pre-cooking bacon yielded a tasteless product. Pre-cooked bacon with taste intact (that came in shapes ready to plop on top of a hamburger patty, no less) took all that friction away.<p>My only regret is that the whole thing is written from the perspective of the Pork Marketing Board, which funded the research into pre-cooking bacon, but doesn&#x27;t really tell you much about the research itself. That seems like it&#x27;d be an interesting story, for those of a technical bent; here&#x27;s a problem, how do you solve it?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Bacon Boom Was Not an Accident</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-06/bacon-why-americas-favorite-food-mania-happened?google_editors_picks=true</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>Non US based HNers might be confused; bacon really is a big deal in the US. Restaurants put it in salads, sandwiches, and pretty much anything they can- I&#x27;ve had bacon ice cream once (weirdly it was pretty tasty).<p>Some macho people proudly eat pounds of it, claiming that it is a manly&#x2F;american food- see for example this youtube video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8u8Z3bUQfs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=m8u8Z3bUQfs</a> . In stores, you can find as many items with bacon texture on them as you can find items with prints of the US flag. &quot;Bacon bowls&quot; are a thing.<p>It&#x27;s really more than just a food in the US- people are obsessed with it. If you spend time on reddit, you can get a glimpse of that through the ever recurring bacon posts in the mainstream subreddits.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Bacon Boom Was Not an Accident</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-06/bacon-why-americas-favorite-food-mania-happened?google_editors_picks=true</url></story> |
39,052,157 | 39,049,757 | 1 | 2 | 39,049,217 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gmerc</author><text>As someone who worked on platform and partnership in big tech:<p>Because they smell leverage. Vision Pro adoption has to be subsidized by Apple, there’s no demand. To bootstrap demand popular apps with users need to be available. They have no risk of losing customers to a competitor by not shipping this.<p>So they are building negotiation ammo for a bit for the next round of conversations over platform fees, app review processes, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>By why not let Vision Pro users install the iPad versions of their apps? They&#x27;re explicitly opting out of that!</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Considering most of these companies are in the middle of budget cuts and layoffs (including specifically in the YouTube division), it should be obvious that they aren’t going to be rushing to staff up teams to build an app for an untested device that will probably be in the hands of a few thousand people at launch. “Wait and see” is the best approach right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>Likely because the Vision SDK is going to be buggy in the beginning and they don&#x27;t want to deal with the crash reports, support tickets etc. As well as all of their telemetry and product analytics data being messed up with people using their products in weird ways.<p>If I was any of those companies I wouldn&#x27;t bother either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>By why not let Vision Pro users install the iPad versions of their apps? They&#x27;re explicitly opting out of that!</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Considering most of these companies are in the middle of budget cuts and layoffs (including specifically in the YouTube division), it should be obvious that they aren’t going to be rushing to staff up teams to build an app for an untested device that will probably be in the hands of a few thousand people at launch. “Wait and see” is the best approach right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps</url></story> |
17,498,776 | 17,498,819 | 1 | 2 | 17,496,581 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtdo</author><text>I agree. I probably should have stressed that more in the initial disclaimer. It is possible (though, again, unlikely) that it might not be as bad as it initially sounds simply due to fewer bad patents being submitted if the submitter knows the patent application would go through such an extensive process. There&#x27;d be a lot fewer vague patent applications and a lot fewer applications for stuff that&#x27;s obvious.<p>I generally feel that the cost of patents isn&#x27;t worth the value they&#x27;ve created. Once one factors in the costs of lawsuits over stupid&#x2F;obvious patents, patent trolls, the cost of patent attorneys, the increased cost of goods due to patents, etc, etc, the value of patents generally shrinks considerably. Being sure only good patents get through could go some way to increasing the value of patents to society, and thus might be worth the extra cost.<p>Then again, I&#x27;d rather patents just be dumped unceremoniously.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpadkins</author><text>the costs of your system are probably way more than the value created for society via patents.</text></item><item><author>wtdo</author><text>Not that this would be an efficient use of anyone&#x27;s time but...<p>Assuming the purpose of patents is 1) to eliminate trade secrets, 2) that patents must be novel, and 3) that patents must be non-obvious to someone skilled in the art, then perhaps a solution would be: take a handful of people skilled in the art, tell half of them to implement the patent and tell the other half only the end goal and see if any of them come up with the same process.<p>The first group would help to see if the patent is written well enough. If they can&#x27;t implement it then your patent is automatically rejected.<p>If anyone from the second group comes up with the same process, then that&#x27;s an automatic patent rejection. Even if they don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s still helpful information for the patent examiner. For example, if they can solve the problem, just not in the same way as the patent application proposes, perhaps the patent examiner will see that the patent isn&#x27;t necessary. Go ahead and have your trade secret, the public can obviously solve that problem with or without that knowledge.</text></item><item><author>jordigh</author><text>I never thought that the case for patents was to increase productivity. I always thought that their purpose was to eliminate trade secrets: people are going to invent stuff whether you want to or not, but without patents, they&#x27;ll take the secrets to the grave.<p>My favourite patent of all time is Michael Jackson&#x27;s smooth criminal patent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;michael-jackson-shoe-patent&#x2F;#AdzmmRRZPmqY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;michael-jackson-shoe-patent&#x2F;...</a><p>This is the patent system working as intended. A magician revealing his tricks. Tell us how you did it, and in exchange we promise to not compete with you for a while.<p>The patent system could work if patent clerks had the time to be a lot more discerning and reject any patent that is obvious or already known. But it takes a lot of work to do that and the deluge of patents makes it impossible to give each application sufficient consideration.<p>I think the general idea of patents is good, but perhaps it&#x27;s impossible to execute it correctly.<p><i>Edit</i>: Should have read the damn article. They address concern further below and also argue that patents are not revealing any secrets because pattent attorneys are not qualified to judge the merit of patents and because the way patents are written makes it almost impossible to reproduce their results, and sometimes patents are granted for utter nonsense, such as moving &quot;through the fifth dimension&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Case Against Patents (2013)</title><url>https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.1.3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>That may be true, but I suspect you&#x27;re underestimating the value created by patents. Three examples:<p>1) Patents enable &quot;benevolent monopolies.&quot; Companies that can afford to splurge on fundamental research because they have a revenue source protected by some sort of barrier to entry or network effect. Xerox PARC, for example, created many of the technologies fundamental to modern computing. PARC was bankrolled by Xerox&#x27;s near-monopoly on copiers, which was enabled by Xerox&#x27;s patents. PARC&#x27;s decline closely tracks what happened after the 1975 consent decree in which Xerox was forced to license its patents to Japanese competitors.<p>2) Patents enable business models that separate design from production. ARM and MIPS, for example, design chips incorporated into designs from myriad manufacturers. How much value has been enabled by proliferation of these IP cores? You may point to things like RISC V, but that only proves the point. RISC V followed 15 years after the first ARM licenses, and has a fraction of the capital backing it. It&#x27;s a lot harder to raise capital to build designs with the idea that you&#x27;re going to give away the work product for free.<p>3) Patents enable technology sharing. Dozens of different companies have technology that is included in DVD, Blu-Ray, 2G&#x2F;3G&#x2F;4G, Wi-Fi, etc. Companies contribute the results of very expensive R&amp;D efforts to these openly-published standards because they can ensure they get a cut of the value created by that technology. If they could not, there would be strong incentives to keep that technology secret instead. You might point to the success of web standards in the absence of patent protections. I&#x27;d posit that the web is the exception not the rule, and it&#x27;s an exception that exists because of how easily the web can be monetized with advertising. That monetization strategy is not widely applicable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpadkins</author><text>the costs of your system are probably way more than the value created for society via patents.</text></item><item><author>wtdo</author><text>Not that this would be an efficient use of anyone&#x27;s time but...<p>Assuming the purpose of patents is 1) to eliminate trade secrets, 2) that patents must be novel, and 3) that patents must be non-obvious to someone skilled in the art, then perhaps a solution would be: take a handful of people skilled in the art, tell half of them to implement the patent and tell the other half only the end goal and see if any of them come up with the same process.<p>The first group would help to see if the patent is written well enough. If they can&#x27;t implement it then your patent is automatically rejected.<p>If anyone from the second group comes up with the same process, then that&#x27;s an automatic patent rejection. Even if they don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s still helpful information for the patent examiner. For example, if they can solve the problem, just not in the same way as the patent application proposes, perhaps the patent examiner will see that the patent isn&#x27;t necessary. Go ahead and have your trade secret, the public can obviously solve that problem with or without that knowledge.</text></item><item><author>jordigh</author><text>I never thought that the case for patents was to increase productivity. I always thought that their purpose was to eliminate trade secrets: people are going to invent stuff whether you want to or not, but without patents, they&#x27;ll take the secrets to the grave.<p>My favourite patent of all time is Michael Jackson&#x27;s smooth criminal patent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;michael-jackson-shoe-patent&#x2F;#AdzmmRRZPmqY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;michael-jackson-shoe-patent&#x2F;...</a><p>This is the patent system working as intended. A magician revealing his tricks. Tell us how you did it, and in exchange we promise to not compete with you for a while.<p>The patent system could work if patent clerks had the time to be a lot more discerning and reject any patent that is obvious or already known. But it takes a lot of work to do that and the deluge of patents makes it impossible to give each application sufficient consideration.<p>I think the general idea of patents is good, but perhaps it&#x27;s impossible to execute it correctly.<p><i>Edit</i>: Should have read the damn article. They address concern further below and also argue that patents are not revealing any secrets because pattent attorneys are not qualified to judge the merit of patents and because the way patents are written makes it almost impossible to reproduce their results, and sometimes patents are granted for utter nonsense, such as moving &quot;through the fifth dimension&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Case Against Patents (2013)</title><url>https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.1.3</url></story> |
13,391,384 | 13,389,111 | 1 | 2 | 13,387,960 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>linsomniac</author><text>The analogy has been made &quot;You wouldn&#x27;t leave your car at a gas pump&quot;. But Tesla charging is different, a gas car takes ~4m to fill, not long enough for you to do much else. A Tesla on a road trip takes 20-40 minutes to charge. So long you aren&#x27;t going to stand there, but not long enough to a sit down meal or walk the half mile from the hotel with the charger to a fast food restaurant and eat, visit a gift shop, etc... To name some examples of what we did on a recent road trip.<p>With the Tesla, a road trip is a different cadence from gas, where many peoples tendency seems to just get on with it and minimize these fueling interruptions. With the Tesla, we would talk to locals, visit the train museum, go to gift shops, I&#x27;d drop them off at historic districts and go charge.<p>It didn&#x27;t feel like we were waiting for the car to charge, but that was because we were doing other things. If I now have to go back and move the car because the stalls are 50% full, that changes the road trip a lot.<p>Something not common knowledge: Superchargers operate in pairs. If there are 4 stalls, only 2 of them at a time will operate at full speed. If you are charging on stall 1A and someone pulls into 1B, they get a much slower charge rate until 1A completes charging.<p>So a 50% full supercharger is actually &quot;full&quot;, but the remaining stalls can be parked at and will start charging full rate as things finish.<p>Because of this, I was kind of expecting the idle fee to be when the stalls were all full. If there are no stalls left, you are making someone potentially wait while your car sits there idle.<p>The longer term plan is they hope to make the cars move themselves when charging is done. That would be awesome.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla details how it’ll charge new owners to use Superchargers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/tesla-details-how-itll-charge-new-owners-to-use-superchargers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CptJamesCook</author><text>I&#x27;m glad the superchargers will no longer be free for new Tesla owners. I wish they would charge existing Tesla owners for the power as well.<p>I went to charge my Model X at the Whole Foods in Menlo Park on Friday night, because mine was broken. I waited for over 40 minutes for other people using the chargers to leave.<p>I&#x27;d much rather pay a market rate for the power from Tesla and have the units open when I need them, than take the chance of waiting for hours because people are clogging the spots to get free power.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla details how it’ll charge new owners to use Superchargers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/tesla-details-how-itll-charge-new-owners-to-use-superchargers/</url></story> |
8,959,319 | 8,959,201 | 1 | 3 | 8,958,731 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rattray</author><text>It wouldn&#x27;t work with Typescript, but this is what my vanilla CoffeeScript React code looks like:<p><pre><code> div
className: &#x27;navbar-form&#x27;
style:
backgroundColor: &quot;green&quot;
,
div
className: &#x27;btn-group&#x27;
,
button
type: &#x27;button&#x27;
className: &#x27;btn btn-warning&#x27;
onClick: @handleDecreaseWpmClick
,
span
className: &#x27;glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-down&#x27;
span
className: &#x27;btn btn-default disabled&#x27;
,
&quot;#{ @props.status.get(&#x27;wpm&#x27;) }&quot;
span
className: &#x27;hidden-xs&#x27;
,
&quot; wpm&quot;
button
type: &#x27;button&#x27;
className: &#x27;btn btn-warning&#x27;
onClick: @handleIncreaseWpmClick
,
span
className: &#x27;glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-up&#x27;
</code></pre>
(For the curious, &quot;wpm&quot; is short for &quot;words per minute&quot; - this is straight out of my code for <a href="http://splashreaderapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;splashreaderapp.com</a>. More code at <a href="http://github.com/rattrayalex/splashreaderapp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rattrayalex&#x2F;splashreaderapp</a>)</text><parent_chain><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Similarly, I&#x27;m looking for a way to use react with HAML. I just can&#x27;t give it up, I have absolutely no interest in closing my tags ever again.<p>One of the things I like about angular is how it deals with standard HTML. HAML doesn&#x27;t care about its wacky attributes. Whats the best way to achieve this with react? Does the JSX compiler have hooks for preprocessing of any kind?</text></item><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Nice! I think that if you use vanilla JS (even ES6), the class support adds more hassle than the gains it provides. For example, setting proptypes completely at the bottom of the file seems, well, cumbersome. It&#x27;s a bit like putting a function signature after the function body. From that perspective, using the old React.createClass syntax seems to keep everything together a bit nicer.<p>However, if you want to use e.g. TypeScript with React, than this is a very big thing! Up until now, it was always a bit of a hassle, and with this change, it&#x27;s completely straightforward (especially if you don&#x27;t want JSX). You&#x27;ll also need propTypes less because you can just use TypeScript interfaces for the `props` constructor parameter. Plus, TypeScript already has property initializers and all that, so all the other annoyances that you get when doing this with plain ES6 classes disappear with TypeScript.<p>I&#x27;m currently really considering porting my current project back to TypeScript for this single reason. The bad mix of TypeScript and JSX is what mostly holds me back. I&#x27;d like my view code to be somewhat understandable&#x2F;hackable by designers and JSX really matters there. Any suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React v0.13.0 Beta 1</title><url>http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/01/27/react-v0.13.0-beta-1.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pea</author><text>Not what you&#x27;re looking for exactly, but you could settle for using Jade? <a href="https://github.com/duncanbeevers/jade-react" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;duncanbeevers&#x2F;jade-react</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Similarly, I&#x27;m looking for a way to use react with HAML. I just can&#x27;t give it up, I have absolutely no interest in closing my tags ever again.<p>One of the things I like about angular is how it deals with standard HTML. HAML doesn&#x27;t care about its wacky attributes. Whats the best way to achieve this with react? Does the JSX compiler have hooks for preprocessing of any kind?</text></item><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Nice! I think that if you use vanilla JS (even ES6), the class support adds more hassle than the gains it provides. For example, setting proptypes completely at the bottom of the file seems, well, cumbersome. It&#x27;s a bit like putting a function signature after the function body. From that perspective, using the old React.createClass syntax seems to keep everything together a bit nicer.<p>However, if you want to use e.g. TypeScript with React, than this is a very big thing! Up until now, it was always a bit of a hassle, and with this change, it&#x27;s completely straightforward (especially if you don&#x27;t want JSX). You&#x27;ll also need propTypes less because you can just use TypeScript interfaces for the `props` constructor parameter. Plus, TypeScript already has property initializers and all that, so all the other annoyances that you get when doing this with plain ES6 classes disappear with TypeScript.<p>I&#x27;m currently really considering porting my current project back to TypeScript for this single reason. The bad mix of TypeScript and JSX is what mostly holds me back. I&#x27;d like my view code to be somewhat understandable&#x2F;hackable by designers and JSX really matters there. Any suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React v0.13.0 Beta 1</title><url>http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/01/27/react-v0.13.0-beta-1.html</url><text></text></story> |
16,134,437 | 16,133,840 | 1 | 2 | 16,130,297 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TFortunato</author><text>For anyone interested in a quick visual overview of some important ideas in information theory, I&#x27;d like to give a shout out to colah&#x27;s &quot;Visual Information Theory&quot; post: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;colah.github.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2015-09-Visual-Information&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;colah.github.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2015-09-Visual-Information&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/reprints/IT44.6.2057-2078.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>glial</author><text>I read Shannon&#x27;s original papers and have been trying to grok information theory off and on with only limited success for several years. The book &quot;Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction&quot; by Stone really helped the principles sink in. For anyone who&#x27;d like a textual introduction, I highly recommend it. It&#x27;s semi-technical - high-school level math helps explain much of the foundational concepts.<p>If you&#x27;re feeling more adventurous, Cover and Thomas&#x27;s textbook is the information theory bible. It&#x27;s very dense but absolutely packed with insight.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/reprints/IT44.6.2057-2078.pdf</url></story> |
14,177,043 | 14,177,067 | 1 | 2 | 14,175,238 | 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>kartan</author><text>&gt; Stop guessing languages<p>Thank you. That is it. As the world goes global, who speaks what gets impossible to guess. I had a friend from Barcelona (Spain), that lives in Sweden, temporarily relocated to Shangai. To guess his preferred language is impossible. Sometimes he can prefer to read something in English to send it to colleagues. Other times he is more comfortable reading Spanish, or maybe Catalan. But can also want to read in Chinese, as sometimes it is better to read the original language - even with a very low understanding of it - than to read a really bad translation.<p>&gt; The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags.<p>To show every user of your website a long list of languages each time you get a visit is overkilling. I understand that a website will show by default a reasonably guessed language, it is going to work for 90% of your users, but changing to any other language should be fast and easy. The worse I have seen is websites that don&#x27;t allow you to change the language, so you are trapped for whatever guess they did.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bigbugbag</author><text>&quot;Stop guessing languages based on IP address&quot; misses the target by going a bit too far. IMHO it should be &quot;Stop guessing languages&quot;, because that&#x27;s the root cause of this issue.<p>It stems from making assumptions on the human and her intentions based on the computer settings or network location. We know better than that.<p>Problem is design is made based on metrics and tracking, and things are tailored to the largest user base and the rest is an afterthought.<p>The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags. Tackling this in an almost universal way is not that easy and obvious, but even a partial success is better than having an automated way force a broken choice upon the human visiting the website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address</title><url>https://medium.com/@kristopolous/stop-guessing-languages-based-on-ip-address-3862464b97c7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patrick_haply</author><text>&gt; The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags<p>The whole point of the blog was that the browser <i>already has</i> asked the user that question in the sense that it defaults to the system language setting, i.e. the first things you do on a computer when you open it for the first time.<p>&gt; but even a partial success is better than having an automated way force a broken choice upon the human visiting the website.<p>I don&#x27;t understand. What you&#x27;re proposing as a solution (asking visitors their language on first entry) is essentially the fallback scenario for guessing incorrectly.<p>I try to think of the number of different websites I visit and thinking of every single one asking me for a language preference makes me feel not good about using the web. Right now, the worst case scenario is when chrome automatically detects that the website doesn&#x27;t match my language and gives me a popup asking me if I want to translate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bigbugbag</author><text>&quot;Stop guessing languages based on IP address&quot; misses the target by going a bit too far. IMHO it should be &quot;Stop guessing languages&quot;, because that&#x27;s the root cause of this issue.<p>It stems from making assumptions on the human and her intentions based on the computer settings or network location. We know better than that.<p>Problem is design is made based on metrics and tracking, and things are tailored to the largest user base and the rest is an afterthought.<p>The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags. Tackling this in an almost universal way is not that easy and obvious, but even a partial success is better than having an automated way force a broken choice upon the human visiting the website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address</title><url>https://medium.com/@kristopolous/stop-guessing-languages-based-on-ip-address-3862464b97c7</url></story> |
6,259,317 | 6,259,296 | 1 | 2 | 6,258,422 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>(For the curious, magickarp is the author of Cryptocat)</text><parent_chain><item><author>magikarp</author><text>Everything about this story, right down to the questions, agents involved, luggage inspections and the man&#x27;s apartment being broken into and searched, fits very well with my own experiences in 2012 with entering the United States. I&#x27;m a recent Lebanese immigrant to Canada, male, in my early twenties, and to top it off I work on encryption software. I imagine the only worse thing I could be is an Iranian nuclear scientist.<p>I was asked questions ranging from whether I am affiliated with Hezbollah to why I was developing encryption software (and one time there was even a technician who asked me about its technical aspects), and specifically detained for questioning more times than I can count.<p>I was never refused entry, but I just wanted to attest that this man&#x27;s story is completely credible to me, right down to the fine details he describes.<p>Possibly an interesting side-story for HN folks: By astronomical coincidence, I bumped into David Petraeus at a strange social event in D.C., after being harassed at the border every single time, and told him conversationally, casually, about my background and what I work on, just to see how he would react, if his reaction would line up with the knee-jerk reaction at the border. He smiled, raised a glass of champagne, and said, &quot;cheers.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't Fly During Ramadan</title><url>http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-during-ramadan</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>javert</author><text>&gt; I imagine the only worse thing I could be is an Iranian nuclear scientist.<p>I would like to think such a person would have no problem coming, but just wouldn&#x27;t be allowed to go back.</text><parent_chain><item><author>magikarp</author><text>Everything about this story, right down to the questions, agents involved, luggage inspections and the man&#x27;s apartment being broken into and searched, fits very well with my own experiences in 2012 with entering the United States. I&#x27;m a recent Lebanese immigrant to Canada, male, in my early twenties, and to top it off I work on encryption software. I imagine the only worse thing I could be is an Iranian nuclear scientist.<p>I was asked questions ranging from whether I am affiliated with Hezbollah to why I was developing encryption software (and one time there was even a technician who asked me about its technical aspects), and specifically detained for questioning more times than I can count.<p>I was never refused entry, but I just wanted to attest that this man&#x27;s story is completely credible to me, right down to the fine details he describes.<p>Possibly an interesting side-story for HN folks: By astronomical coincidence, I bumped into David Petraeus at a strange social event in D.C., after being harassed at the border every single time, and told him conversationally, casually, about my background and what I work on, just to see how he would react, if his reaction would line up with the knee-jerk reaction at the border. He smiled, raised a glass of champagne, and said, &quot;cheers.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't Fly During Ramadan</title><url>http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-during-ramadan</url></story> |
22,422,773 | 22,422,279 | 1 | 2 | 22,422,077 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>I think there is an important point missing in the debate. This is an extradition hearing. It doesn&#x27;t matter whether Assange is guilty of the alleged crimes the US has come up with or not, what matters is whether he is expected to receive a fair trial in the US and whether the potential sentences in the US would be roughly on a par with what he&#x27;d expect for the same alleged crimes in the UK. For all I can see, this is definitely not the case.<p>You can even make a case that almost nobody should be extradited to the US by any country, since the US justice system has serious flaws, might not be just at all (e.g. it has about 10 times longer maximum prison sentences than in the rest of the civilized world) and the US penal system constitutes a constant human rights violation. For example, the administrations of many US prisons are notoriously unable to prevent the raping and murdering of their inmates. I&#x27;ve even heard people from the US making jokes about prison rape, as if that was to be expected and part of the &quot;justice&quot;. As another example, a prison in Illinois was under 23 years of permanent lockdown, meaning that all inmates were in isolation for 23 years. There are credible accounts that Assange is facing imprisonment in high-security isolation facilities similar to what they did to Manning for a long time. I cannot understand why any civilized person would allow a treatment as inhumane as in US maximum security prisons with isolation, regardless of the crime.<p>Generally speaking, countries should review their extradition treaties. US justice is non-proportionality based on revenge and involves frequent human rights abuses. The same is true of other countries like Japan or Russia, but AFAIK extradition requests to these countries are much rarer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Assange Hearing Day 2</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AndyMcConachie</author><text>&gt; Julian had twice been stripped naked and searched, eleven times been handcuffed, and five times been locked up in different holding cells. On top of this, all of his court documents had been taken from him by the prison authorities, including privileged communications between his lawyers and himself, and he had been left with no ability to prepare to participate in today’s proceedings.<p>Still barely any mention of this case in the mainstream American or UK press. Until recently Amnesty International refused to even recognize Assange as a political prisoner, and the only thing they had said about him was that he was &quot;not a political prisoner&quot;. They&#x27;ve since changed their tune, but it sure took them long enough.<p>A man is being tortured in plain sight in the UK and no one in the media cares to report on it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Assange Hearing Day 2</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/</url></story> |
13,068,889 | 13,068,829 | 1 | 3 | 13,068,698 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qwartor</author><text>There are two parts to the characterization at play here:<p>1. Psychedelics are not &quot;abused&quot; in the same way that other substances are. Furthermore, when psychedelics do get abused, the adverse effects are expressed differently, and patients are not routed through the same treatment channels that addictive substances see. Since psychedelics aren&#x27;t addictive, users usually don&#x27;t need ongoing maintenance to prevent relapses. Instead, victims of psychedelic side effects usually suffer from catastrophic burnouts after the mother of all bad trips, or persistent neurological symptoms creep in after a period of experimentation, and remain possibly for life. Once that happens people quit cold turkey, and cope with their flashbacks however they must.<p>2. Being a director of anything isn&#x27;t a huge deal. It&#x27;s not much of an auspicious title. Like manager or vice president, after you meet a thousand of them, big deal. Meanwhile, as for doctors, you&#x27;d be shocked at how sheltered some doctors are. Many of the doctors I&#x27;ve met only became doctors because their parents forced them into it, and they spent their youth locked in their bedrooms getting good grades, and those geeky scholarly habits stick with them into middle age. It wouldn&#x27;t surprise me to meet a doctor who is a total outsider to the patient population their supposedly expected to treat through book learnin&#x27;...</text><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Also: <i>He is also the director of the substance-abuse division at Bellevue, and he told me that he had known little about psychedelics [..] until a colleague happened to mention that, in the nineteen-sixties, LSD had been used successfully to treat alcoholics. Ross did some research and was astounded at what he found.</i><p>How do you get to be director of a drug abuse program at one of the nation&#x27;s top hospitals while being so ignorant about the field you supervise?! I&#x27;m not saying he should have been a fan of psychedelics all along, but he should at least have had some awareness of their history and how they came to be controlled substances.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results (2015)</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>One would have thought such a role would require at least some formal study of the relevant subjects, which should expose you to the history of such things.<p>I like to imagine these people actually taking LSD. While watching Bill Hicks. What a blast they&#x27;d have.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Also: <i>He is also the director of the substance-abuse division at Bellevue, and he told me that he had known little about psychedelics [..] until a colleague happened to mention that, in the nineteen-sixties, LSD had been used successfully to treat alcoholics. Ross did some research and was astounded at what he found.</i><p>How do you get to be director of a drug abuse program at one of the nation&#x27;s top hospitals while being so ignorant about the field you supervise?! I&#x27;m not saying he should have been a fan of psychedelics all along, but he should at least have had some awareness of their history and how they came to be controlled substances.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results (2015)</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment</url></story> |
31,948,082 | 31,948,041 | 1 | 2 | 31,944,636 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chimprich</author><text>&gt; I also don’t understand this argument because you can just take 1 hit and be done.<p>The increased THC concentration compared to other psychoactive chemicals seems to produce more paranoia and other negative effects in some people, so it&#x27;s not just a strength issue. The effect is different if the proportion of THC to CBD increases.<p>It&#x27;s also easier to get more THC than you intended if you&#x27;re consuming stronger stuff.<p>&gt; Should liquor be outlawed because it is stronger than beer?<p>If spirits are legal then people should at least have the choice of drinking beer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>peanut_worm</author><text>You can still find lower THC cannabis at any dispensary. Most carry from 10 to 30%. Most also carry CBD flower and very low dose edibles.<p>I also don’t understand this argument because you can just take 1 hit and be done. No one is forcing you to finish a whole joint. Should liquor be outlawed because it is stronger than beer?</text></item><item><author>j-krieger</author><text>I think the legalization of cannabis in Europe has a lot of potential. I just wish that we would take measures to avoid the ever increasing levels of THC dosage in weed to insane levels, like you see in the US or California specifically. I firmly believe that cannabis can do a lot of good, but the poison is in the dosage. It has been shown in the past that increasing THC while decreasing CBD leads to an increase in negative side effects, some being permanent [1].<p>Let&#x27;s see how it&#x27;ll work out. I also think it&#x27;s quite funny that the German meme &quot;Bubatz&quot; has made it into the highest levels of our government.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6312155&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6312155&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/germanys-move-to-legalise-cannabis-expected-to-create-domino-effect</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>standardUser</author><text>It&#x27;s really hard to dose &quot;1 hit&quot;. It&#x27;s not like a shot of liquor. And inexperienced users are not experts at hitting pipes or vapes or joints, so that &quot;1 hit&quot; becomes even trickier. And if you fuck up, whoops, now you&#x27;re uncomfortably high for several hours!<p>Better to have a much wider variety of potencies available, like we have with alcohol. Especially for the casual users who have been ignored by the market because traditional dealers get most of their money from heavy users, and heavy users want the chronic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>peanut_worm</author><text>You can still find lower THC cannabis at any dispensary. Most carry from 10 to 30%. Most also carry CBD flower and very low dose edibles.<p>I also don’t understand this argument because you can just take 1 hit and be done. No one is forcing you to finish a whole joint. Should liquor be outlawed because it is stronger than beer?</text></item><item><author>j-krieger</author><text>I think the legalization of cannabis in Europe has a lot of potential. I just wish that we would take measures to avoid the ever increasing levels of THC dosage in weed to insane levels, like you see in the US or California specifically. I firmly believe that cannabis can do a lot of good, but the poison is in the dosage. It has been shown in the past that increasing THC while decreasing CBD leads to an increase in negative side effects, some being permanent [1].<p>Let&#x27;s see how it&#x27;ll work out. I also think it&#x27;s quite funny that the German meme &quot;Bubatz&quot; has made it into the highest levels of our government.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6312155&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6312155&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/germanys-move-to-legalise-cannabis-expected-to-create-domino-effect</url></story> |
32,223,700 | 32,223,904 | 1 | 2 | 32,206,120 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jason-phillips</author><text>&gt; Cooperation is natural and good.<p>Recently, after seeing people from Dallas haul their trailers to my small Texas town&#x27;s grocery store so as to pillage our remaining toilet paper stock, my faith in the rational ability of my fellow Man has been somewhat reduced.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oneoff786</author><text>Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good.<p>My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell they are. They do this strongman creepy virtue signaling for a while and then tie up Jim’s replacement with some noisy chains on a dock. Surprise surprise, Not Jim makes a noise (not with the chains for some reason), and sure enough the entire cult is immediately wiped out.<p>…<p>How did these people canonically survive for so long doing these dumbass shenanigans?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/apocalypse-fiction-texas/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walls</author><text>&gt; The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly.<p>The hordes of lunatics already exist, and are just waiting for something to happen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oneoff786</author><text>Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good.<p>My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell they are. They do this strongman creepy virtue signaling for a while and then tie up Jim’s replacement with some noisy chains on a dock. Surprise surprise, Not Jim makes a noise (not with the chains for some reason), and sure enough the entire cult is immediately wiped out.<p>…<p>How did these people canonically survive for so long doing these dumbass shenanigans?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/apocalypse-fiction-texas/</url></story> |
35,660,006 | 35,658,836 | 1 | 3 | 35,655,282 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>louloulou</author><text>&quot;Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn&#x27;t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn&#x27;t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.&quot;<p>--
excerpt from A Cypherpunk&#x27;s Manifesto,
Eric Hughes,
March 9, 1993</text><parent_chain><item><author>MikeDelta</author><text>Many seem to not realize that privacy is not about having something to hide (I guess that would be secrecy), but about the right to keep things to yourself. Those are two different concepts.</text></item><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>A reminder that &quot;you have nothing to hide&quot; argument is a fallacy because people abuse their power:<p>Some first hits as reminders of places where their powers are abused<p>[1]: &quot;NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-surveillance-watchdog&#x2F;nsa-staff-used-spy-tools-on-spouses-ex-lovers-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;police-can-access-your-ring-camera-footage-without-a-warrant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;police-can-access-your-ring-ca...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;warrantless-border-searches-draw-call-for-supreme-court-action&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;warrantless-border-searches-dr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>StingyJelly</author><text>Exactly! The best way someone put it - right to choose what to share and who to share it with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MikeDelta</author><text>Many seem to not realize that privacy is not about having something to hide (I guess that would be secrecy), but about the right to keep things to yourself. Those are two different concepts.</text></item><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>A reminder that &quot;you have nothing to hide&quot; argument is a fallacy because people abuse their power:<p>Some first hits as reminders of places where their powers are abused<p>[1]: &quot;NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-surveillance-watchdog&#x2F;nsa-staff-used-spy-tools-on-spouses-ex-lovers-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;police-can-access-your-ring-camera-footage-without-a-warrant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;police-can-access-your-ring-ca...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;warrantless-border-searches-draw-call-for-supreme-court-action&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;warrantless-border-searches-dr...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos</url></story> |
17,545,781 | 17,544,210 | 1 | 2 | 17,542,864 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Giorgi</author><text>Not true, Munro does labor of cost assessments as well, not just BoM. If Munro is saying car is profitable then I am pretty sure he factored that in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s bill of materials cost. What&#x27;s killing Tesla is labor cost in assembly. Tesla has about 10,000 employees in Fremont, to produce about 3500 cars a week., per Bloomberg.[1] (No, not 5000 cars; they got up to 4500 once, though.)<p>Modern auto assembly plants typically run about 15-30 labor hours per car.[2] Tesla&#x27;s Fremont plant is somewhere over 110, even in good weeks. In bad weeks, the ratio is much worse.<p>The point of the teardown is that the design isn&#x27;t inherently expensive. If Tesla ever gets their assembly plant working properly, they could make money.<p>Musk commented &quot;go to Ford, it looks like a morgue&quot;, after apparently visiting the Ford Rouge plant. Ford&#x27;s PR person replied &quot;No doubt the vibe is funky in that &#x27;makeshift tent,&#x27; but it&#x27;s not bad either across the street at the #FordRouge plant where a high quality, high-tech F-150 rolls off the line every 53 seconds like clockwork.&quot; That&#x27;s what&#x27;s supposed to happen. Cars coming off the line at a steady rate, union workers not being worked to death.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2018-tesla-tracker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2018-tesla-tracker&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motortrend.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;toyota-chrysler-have-north-americas-most-efficient-plants-1859&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motortrend.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;toyota-chrysler-have-north-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Munro Teardown Shows Tesla Model 3 Solidly Profitable [video]</title><url>https://youtube.com/watch?v=pAS-yjWj9DY</url></story> | <instructions>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>Is your figure of 10,000 employees just for the Model 3 lines, or is it for the entire factory? Because they’re making about 2,000 Model S and X per week, so your numbers need to account for that if it’s the entire factory.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s bill of materials cost. What&#x27;s killing Tesla is labor cost in assembly. Tesla has about 10,000 employees in Fremont, to produce about 3500 cars a week., per Bloomberg.[1] (No, not 5000 cars; they got up to 4500 once, though.)<p>Modern auto assembly plants typically run about 15-30 labor hours per car.[2] Tesla&#x27;s Fremont plant is somewhere over 110, even in good weeks. In bad weeks, the ratio is much worse.<p>The point of the teardown is that the design isn&#x27;t inherently expensive. If Tesla ever gets their assembly plant working properly, they could make money.<p>Musk commented &quot;go to Ford, it looks like a morgue&quot;, after apparently visiting the Ford Rouge plant. Ford&#x27;s PR person replied &quot;No doubt the vibe is funky in that &#x27;makeshift tent,&#x27; but it&#x27;s not bad either across the street at the #FordRouge plant where a high quality, high-tech F-150 rolls off the line every 53 seconds like clockwork.&quot; That&#x27;s what&#x27;s supposed to happen. Cars coming off the line at a steady rate, union workers not being worked to death.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2018-tesla-tracker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2018-tesla-tracker&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motortrend.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;toyota-chrysler-have-north-americas-most-efficient-plants-1859&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motortrend.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;toyota-chrysler-have-north-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Munro Teardown Shows Tesla Model 3 Solidly Profitable [video]</title><url>https://youtube.com/watch?v=pAS-yjWj9DY</url></story> |
4,137,230 | 4,134,973 | 1 | 3 | 4,134,906 | 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>pohl</author><text>The user experience of watching WWDC session videos on the iPad has always been a thorn in my side.<p>Back when the 2011 videos were new, I downloaded them all to my computer (in Standard Definition) and synced them all to my iPad so that I would have immediate offline access to them all should I find myself with a free hour to spend.<p>Sadly, the Videos application has one horrible UX problem: the names of each session video was very long, but the label in Videos is too short, and so they all endup being truncated, like "Session 205 - Introducing Collection Vi...". Even in landscape, mind you! Half of the screen was wasted with a graphic that added no useful information.<p>Halfway through the year, things got a lot better when the "iTunes U" app was released, and browsing the 2011 videos immediately became much better. The Videos app still has the same usability issue (and I think they should still fix it), but the iTunes U app is better so at least I can avoid the bad app.<p>Well, last night I downloaded the 2012 session videos and synced them over to my iPad, and now iTunes U has a horrible UX, because the videos from 2011 and 2012 are all mixed in the same list, and there's no way to tell from the session title which year it came from.<p>It's as if no one at Apple dogfoods their own applications with their own content.<p><i>Edit: just to be clear, none of my complaint here is about iTunes or the iTunes store. Those applications (though I admit the former is a bloated dumping-ground of features) have always behaved perfectly for me. Rather, I'm specifically refering to the "iTunes U" mobile app (see link below) and the "Videos" app that is bundled on the iPad.</i><p><a href="http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WWDC 2012 Session Videos</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donmcc</author><text>Always a good source for iOS devs. A (free) Apple developer account is required. Previous years are also available.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WWDC 2012 Session Videos</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/</url></story> |
20,928,868 | 20,928,287 | 1 | 2 | 20,928,067 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cs702</author><text>It&#x27;s <i>remarkably easy</i> to make fun of WeWork, given the company&#x27;s high-as-a-kite ambitions, its largely conjectural business model, its dependence on fresh capital for survival, its charismatic CEO’s new-age antics, and its disregard for conventional norms of ethical corporate behavior.[a]<p>But if the IPO of a company as prominent as WeWork fails and the company is unable to raise the fresh capital it needs to stay afloat, we should view that as a <i>warning sign</i> that capital markets are shifting from &quot;grow at all costs&quot; to &quot;show me the profits.&quot;<p>The last time we had such a shift, in 2000, it was sudden and cruel. Many fast-growing companies found themselves unable to raise capital. Down-rounds became common. There was a wave of failures. The startup ecosystem went through a long, cold winter.[b]<p>If you are at a money-burning startup, please make sure your company has a viable plan for survival in the event that access to fresh capital is suddenly cut off.[c]<p>--<p>[a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;shiraovide&#x2F;status&#x2F;1161601877517246464" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;shiraovide&#x2F;status&#x2F;1161601877517246464</a><p>[b] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dot-com_bubble#Aftermath" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dot-com_bubble#Aftermath</a><p>[c] Here&#x27;s a good first-hand account of a fast-growing, money-burning company that managed to survive the post-2000 environment, while most of its competitors went bankrupt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a16z.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-case-for-the-fat-startup&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a16z.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-case-for-the-fat-startup&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeWork Bonds Drop Below Par for First Time Since IPO Filing</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-10/wework-bonds-drop-below-par-for-first-time-since-ipo-filing-k0dutcn0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duxup</author><text>It just seems like WeWork took an existing business model of renting office space, went all VC and gathered a bunch of money and sky high evaluation (toss in some creepy insider dealing) ... and ... that&#x27;s it.<p>I know there were some theories on cornering the market, or getting some sort of huge buy in &#x2F; contracts with companies hiring remote workers but for the most part there&#x27;s plenty of office space (at least in my area) and remote work that I see rarely involves the hiring company shelling out extra for expensive office space for remote workers.<p>I wonder what other folks selling office space in the market think about all this? They seem to operate just fine and financially seem to do so with a lot less risk than WeWork.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeWork Bonds Drop Below Par for First Time Since IPO Filing</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-10/wework-bonds-drop-below-par-for-first-time-since-ipo-filing-k0dutcn0</url></story> |
23,129,740 | 23,128,715 | 1 | 2 | 23,128,518 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noidexe</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately I think it&#x27;ll be held back on that front until it supports console builds<p>I think the Godot devs have not been clear enough communicating about console support. There are export templates ready to use, up to date and fully working on different consoles. They just can&#x27;t be offered as part of the open source engine due to legal reasons. That actually applies to other engines too. In the case of Unity, to build for Switch you need to download the required software from the Nintendo Developers portal and it&#x27;s only accessible to you if you get approved as a developer. If Nintendo wishes to do the same with Godot they can do it know since there are no technical or legal impediments. Since Nintendo hasn&#x27;t done it so far and the Godot team can&#x27;t do it for legal reasons, it falls to third parties to do it.
One of those is Lone Worlf Technology LLC, owned by one of the co-founders of the engine, so it&#x27;s as official as it can get. If you don&#x27;t want to work with them you now have a second option that&#x27;s called Pineapple Works.<p>It&#x27;s not like you have to pay a company to port your game to switch from scratch. I think many people get that idea.<p>Edit: orthography<p>Edit2: Just to clarify even further. If you check the process to build for switch using Unreal you&#x27;ll see that the process is exactly the same as with Godot, the only difference being that in the case of Unreal it&#x27;s the same company providing the base engine and the switch export tools.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unrealengine.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;blog&#x2F;launch-your-game-on-the-nintendo-switch-with-unreal-engine-4-16" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unrealengine.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;blog&#x2F;launch-your-game-on-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>Godot really seems to be taking off lately. It would be very exciting to see a true open-source competitor to Unity and Unreal. Unfortunately I think it&#x27;ll be held back on that front until it supports console builds, but still, it&#x27;s quite an impressive endeavor considering the size of the team and the funding model.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/godot-40-will-get-new-modernized-lightmapper</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nightowl_games</author><text>&gt; I think it&#x27;ll be held back on that front until it supports console builds<p>It likely won&#x27;t ever directly support consoles. [1]<p>But yes Godot is awesome and Juan is doing an extremely large public good in terms of education. I&#x27;ve been a gamedev for half a decade and there&#x27;s still so much to learn, and godot&#x27;s code base serves as an amazing resource.<p>EDIT: link<p>(1): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.godotengine.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;platform&#x2F;consoles.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.godotengine.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;platform&#x2F;co...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>Godot really seems to be taking off lately. It would be very exciting to see a true open-source competitor to Unity and Unreal. Unfortunately I think it&#x27;ll be held back on that front until it supports console builds, but still, it&#x27;s quite an impressive endeavor considering the size of the team and the funding model.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/godot-40-will-get-new-modernized-lightmapper</url></story> |
19,733,344 | 19,733,504 | 1 | 2 | 19,732,821 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vinay427</author><text>Well, thankfully they do also ship many products that are the first to do something useful, so as a normal consumer that isn&#x27;t a first-adopter for most things I appreciate that they create a market for many random innovations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lemoncucumber</author><text>Samsung has a history of shipping crappy products just for the sake of being the first to do it. Their product line has always been a sprawling mess of overly-specialized niche products. It seems like they have a strategy of throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.</text></item><item><author>stupidcar</author><text>I&#x27;m more interested in how Samsung ever got so far down the road with a such an apparently flawed design. Samsung&#x27;s engineers must have known it had big problems. Was this a classic case of dysfunctional corporate culture meaning nobody wanted to give the bosses bad news? I&#x27;m guessing so.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing</title><url>https://ifixit.org/blog/16025/galaxy-fold-failure-causes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradknowles</author><text>Samsung has a history of squirting out over fifty new phone models each year, hoping that a production rate in excess of 1.0 per week will be sufficient to cause at least one of those 50+ models to stick.<p>At least, they hope it will stick for a little while, long enough for them to find the next random thing that will stick for a little while.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lemoncucumber</author><text>Samsung has a history of shipping crappy products just for the sake of being the first to do it. Their product line has always been a sprawling mess of overly-specialized niche products. It seems like they have a strategy of throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.</text></item><item><author>stupidcar</author><text>I&#x27;m more interested in how Samsung ever got so far down the road with a such an apparently flawed design. Samsung&#x27;s engineers must have known it had big problems. Was this a classic case of dysfunctional corporate culture meaning nobody wanted to give the bosses bad news? I&#x27;m guessing so.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing</title><url>https://ifixit.org/blog/16025/galaxy-fold-failure-causes/</url></story> |
24,175,804 | 24,174,181 | 1 | 2 | 24,173,285 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>8bitsrule</author><text>You can DL and listen to a longish YT track without the video - in far less time and with (usually) better audio - by specifying format 251 (usually available).<p>For example, an hour-long performance video mp4 at 1280x720 gets you 96k audio and 280MB. &#x27;youtube-dl -f 251 url&#x27; will get you a 160K Opus in 54 MB.<p>To my ears Opus sounds sweeter and fuller than mp3. At 64K and lower bit-rates, it&#x27;s near the top.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lozf</author><text>The <i>only point</i> in lossy encoding is to <i>save space &#x2F; bandwidth</i>. Opus excels at getting good sound quality at lower bitrates.<p>If there&#x27;s a talk or lecture on Youtube that you&#x27;re about to grab, try the 50kbps Opus version and save your limited space for more important things, but you might need to remux from webm to an ogg container for compatibility.<p><pre><code> e.g. youtube-dl -f249 $URL --exec &#x27;ffmpeg -i {} -vn -c:a copy {}.ogg&#x27;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opus Audio Codec – FAQ</title><url>https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=OpusFAQ</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derf_</author><text>You can replace the --exec &#x27;ffmpeg ...&#x27; with just -x (or the long form --extract-audio).</text><parent_chain><item><author>lozf</author><text>The <i>only point</i> in lossy encoding is to <i>save space &#x2F; bandwidth</i>. Opus excels at getting good sound quality at lower bitrates.<p>If there&#x27;s a talk or lecture on Youtube that you&#x27;re about to grab, try the 50kbps Opus version and save your limited space for more important things, but you might need to remux from webm to an ogg container for compatibility.<p><pre><code> e.g. youtube-dl -f249 $URL --exec &#x27;ffmpeg -i {} -vn -c:a copy {}.ogg&#x27;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opus Audio Codec – FAQ</title><url>https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=OpusFAQ</url></story> |
25,340,229 | 25,339,003 | 1 | 2 | 25,338,633 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>O1111OOO</author><text>&gt; For the vast majority of people, the Librem 5 and Pinephone are probably not worth even considering. The GNU userspace and associated “mobile” paradigms within it are very much not ready for daily use.<p>&gt; Linux phones are definitely not yet ready to be daily drivers<p>Despite the author making this point twice and some of the negativity regarding Purism&#x27;s pricing - I still feel very good about the state of Linux phones and the incredible work these two entities are doing. We can&#x27;t lose sight of this.<p>It wasn&#x27;t too long ago that the mere mention of a Linux phone was pure fantasy. We now have two companies (and two passionate communities) that are helping move Open Source Linux forward. I&#x27;m still very excited about how things are developing and the trickle down effect it will have as we move forward.<p>&gt; One of the neat things about the Pinephone is the ability to boot and use a variety of Linux distributions on the hardware itself. It’s as easy as loading the distro onto an SD card, and then booting the phone. You don’t even have to flash anything to the internal eMMC in order to run it!<p>This is such a killer feature for me - while also providing a modern-ish platform for the various distributions and app developers to test their wares. It&#x27;s probably the biggest single most important thing about the PinePhone right now.<p>No more unsuccessful rooting, flashing and possibly bricking. No more nagging feeling that you are merely renting a device and are constantly at the whim of a corporate overlord (which never ends well).<p>I think, like the author, I&#x27;m a bit more excited about the flexibility of the PinePhone but acknowledge the importance of the work Purism is doing to try and bring a First Tier Linux phone to market. We all benefit from this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone</title><url>https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2020/12/06/Librem-5-Evergreen-vs-Pinephone/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fsflover</author><text>About the USA-made version of Librem 5:<p>&gt; it’s kind of appalling that literally anyone would pay this much. It’s kind of appalling that Purism would charge this much. I can imagine a scheme where the parts are shipped from China, and verified and assembled by a part-time college student in the States and they’d likely still be able to price it cheaper than $1999.00.<p>There are definitely valid reasons not to buy Chinese products: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Boycott_Chinese_products" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Boycott_Chinese_products</a>. Also what are the other competing smartphones which are made in USA?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone</title><url>https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2020/12/06/Librem-5-Evergreen-vs-Pinephone/</url></story> |
39,695,474 | 39,695,330 | 1 | 2 | 39,694,366 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>As a European that has been dealing with what US social media companies have been doing, I am enjoying how the US is loosing their absolute mind when an external company does the same they do to us.</text><parent_chain><item><author>omginternets</author><text>For once I disagree with the EFF. This is a national sovereignty issue masquerading as a freedom issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who</title><url>https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>badrequest</author><text>In what way does TikTok operating challenge U.S. sovereignty? This is 2003 all over again.</text><parent_chain><item><author>omginternets</author><text>For once I disagree with the EFF. This is a national sovereignty issue masquerading as a freedom issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who</title><url>https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban</url></story> |
35,824,976 | 35,822,692 | 1 | 2 | 35,813,322 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zztop44</author><text>I once volunteered with a older woman. She’d been a computer programmer in the 70s, using punch cards and, later, Pascal.<p>Then she had kids and stopped working for a while and the technology moved on without her. Now she’s like any other old person, doesn’t know how to use a computer and gets flustered when eg: trying to switch from the browser back to Word. Her kids and grandkids clown on her for being hopeless with computers.<p>I asked her what it was she found difficult about modern computers compared to what she worked with 50 years ago. She said it’s the multitasking. The computers she had worked with just did one thing at once.</text><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s going to be seamlessly integrated into every-day software.<p>I...kinda don&#x27;t want this? UIs have already changed in so many different fits, starts, waves, and cycles. I used to have skills. But I have no skills now. Nothing works like it used to. Yeah they were tricky to use but I cannot imagine that a murky AI interface is going to be any easier to use, and certainly impossible to master.<p>Even if it <i>is</i> easier to use, I am not sure I want that either. I don&#x27;t know where the buttons are. I don&#x27;t know what I can do and what I can&#x27;t. And it won&#x27;t stay the same, dodging my feckless attempts to commit to memory how it works and get better at it...?</text></item><item><author>dahwolf</author><text>The current paradigm is that AI is a destination. A product you go to and interact with.<p>That&#x27;s not at all how the masses are going to interact with AI in the near future. It&#x27;s going to be seamlessly integrated into every-day software. In Office&#x2F;Google docs, at the operating system level (Android), in your graphics editor (Adobe), on major web platforms: search, image search, Youtube, the like.<p>Since Google and other Big Tech continue to control these billion-user platforms, they have AI reach, even if they are temporarily behind in capability. They&#x27;ll also find a way to integrate this in a way where you don&#x27;t have to directly pay for the capability, as it&#x27;s paid in other ways: ads.<p>OpenAI faces the existential risk, not Google. They&#x27;ll catch up and will have the reach&#x2F;subsidy advantage.<p>And it doesn&#x27;t end there. This so-called &quot;competition&quot; from open source is going to be free labor. Any winning idea ported into Google&#x27;s products on short notice. Thanks open source!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”</title><url>https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>It was a sad day when I realized I was systematically overinvesting in skills on churning technology and that my investments would never amortize. Suddenly my parents&#x27; stubborn unwillingness to bother learning anything technological made complete sense and I had to adjust my own patience threshold sharply downwards.</text><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s going to be seamlessly integrated into every-day software.<p>I...kinda don&#x27;t want this? UIs have already changed in so many different fits, starts, waves, and cycles. I used to have skills. But I have no skills now. Nothing works like it used to. Yeah they were tricky to use but I cannot imagine that a murky AI interface is going to be any easier to use, and certainly impossible to master.<p>Even if it <i>is</i> easier to use, I am not sure I want that either. I don&#x27;t know where the buttons are. I don&#x27;t know what I can do and what I can&#x27;t. And it won&#x27;t stay the same, dodging my feckless attempts to commit to memory how it works and get better at it...?</text></item><item><author>dahwolf</author><text>The current paradigm is that AI is a destination. A product you go to and interact with.<p>That&#x27;s not at all how the masses are going to interact with AI in the near future. It&#x27;s going to be seamlessly integrated into every-day software. In Office&#x2F;Google docs, at the operating system level (Android), in your graphics editor (Adobe), on major web platforms: search, image search, Youtube, the like.<p>Since Google and other Big Tech continue to control these billion-user platforms, they have AI reach, even if they are temporarily behind in capability. They&#x27;ll also find a way to integrate this in a way where you don&#x27;t have to directly pay for the capability, as it&#x27;s paid in other ways: ads.<p>OpenAI faces the existential risk, not Google. They&#x27;ll catch up and will have the reach&#x2F;subsidy advantage.<p>And it doesn&#x27;t end there. This so-called &quot;competition&quot; from open source is going to be free labor. Any winning idea ported into Google&#x27;s products on short notice. Thanks open source!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”</title><url>https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither</url></story> |
16,251,617 | 16,251,206 | 1 | 2 | 16,245,810 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bgrohman</author><text>It looks nice, but I guess I still[1] don’t understand the proliferation of simple static site generators. It’s pretty easy (and fun!) to build your own that works exactly as you want it to. And I don’t think a static site generator is suitable for non-technical users. Is there an in-between type of user technical enough to use a static site generator but not able to write their own? Or maybe the proliferation is only because they are both easy and fun to create?<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14877298" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14877298</a><p>Edit: I didn’t intend for this to sound negative for the creator. Even if it’s just for fun and the chance someone else might find it useful, that’s enough of a reason to build it for me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ivy – A static website generator built in Python</title><url>http://mulholland.xyz/docs/ivy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaredandrews</author><text>Not sure if OP is the developer behind this but...<p>As a happy user of Pelican[0], a different Python based static site generator. Why would I want to switch over to Ivy?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.getpelican.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.getpelican.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ivy – A static website generator built in Python</title><url>http://mulholland.xyz/docs/ivy/</url></story> |
10,354,500 | 10,354,648 | 1 | 3 | 10,353,972 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchrisa</author><text>It&#x27;s important to highlight open source alternatives to AWS products. If you are looking at AWS IoT and wishing you could run it on your own servers, the Couchbase Mobile stack is open source and used for mission critical deployments by customers like General Electric, for IoT applications: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;Couchbase&#x2F;offline-first-how-ge-integrated-couchbase-mobile-in-less-than-90-days-couchbase-connect-2015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;Couchbase&#x2F;offline-first-how-ge-int...</a><p>More info: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.couchbase.com&#x2F;mobile" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.couchbase.com&#x2F;mobile</a><p>There is a lot going on in this space and we are a general purpose database. If you&#x27;re looking for native open source implementations that give you access to the whole stack, and interop with other tech like PouchDB and IBM Cloudant...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS IoT Beta</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/iot/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nbadg</author><text>I&#x27;m taking a 15-minute look at their IoT developer guide (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;iot&#x2F;latest&#x2F;developerguide&#x2F;what-is-aws-iot.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;iot&#x2F;latest&#x2F;developerguide&#x2F;what-i...</a>) to get a feel for what, exactly, this service is providing. My guess is that they&#x27;re trying to compete with Thingspeak, DeviceHub, etc. I&#x27;m not totally sure I&#x27;m capturing this right, because their documentation isn&#x27;t great at &quot;getting to the point&quot;, but here&#x27;s my read:<p>1. Internet-connected stuff needs to be able to talk, so awsiot needs to support messaging. So it looks like they&#x27;re currently offering http (publish only) and mqtt (bidirectional pub&#x2F;sub). They give each awsiot account a unique IoT internet endpoint (some-random-string.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com), and then parse everything into a stored state in the cloud (that&#x27;s the device &quot;shadow&quot;)<p>2. Ideally you&#x27;d be doing this securely. awsiot appears to be generating its own x509 certs here, -- are they then an intermediate CA? Not clear on this. The documentation here is terribly vague and I have no idea what&#x27;s going on. Not good for transparency. I can&#x27;t even tell if they&#x27;re forcing security, or if it&#x27;s optional.<p>3. State management. awsiot cloud-stores the state of devices, allowing you to check them (or to issue commands to either from a third-party device like a phone app).<p>4. Communication between devices. They&#x27;re claiming some kind of wholly undocumented authentication system for access to and control over device state. At any rate, they have a concept of device-based identity, and then based on that identity, devices are (or aren&#x27;t) allowed to talk to each other.<p>I&#x27;ve done some IoT development, and though it&#x27;s a bit hard to tell by their terribly inadequate documentation, I&#x27;m pretty sure this is intended for enterprise developers with massive IoT product offerings and very high product volume. AWS is much too complicated for a lot of the small device manufacturers, at least the ones coming in from the hardware side. To use this scalably (especially given you can only access it from CLI) with reasonable product volumes is going to require a lot of setup scripting to register devices, and I don&#x27;t think companies will be able to afford the tooling cost until they&#x27;re enterprise-level.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS IoT Beta</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/iot/</url></story> |
33,640,642 | 33,640,801 | 1 | 2 | 33,637,092 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codeflo</author><text>Having been bitten by that exact problem in C++, I think the original sin is to treat stuff like copy elision as a mere optimization, instead of a semantic guarantee.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klodolph</author><text>There’s a broader problem here, which also applies to the C++ ecosystem, which is that debug builds are far less usable than they should be. C++ compilers in common debug configurations will emit a function call for std::move(), which is not in any way useful for typical debugging tasks and can make the program significantly slower.<p>I don’t want to rely on compiler optimizations to make my code work. Or alternatively, find a way to deliver those optimizations in debug builds.<p>The idea of using a Vec would be nice—if only the boxed item were an array! It’s a struct, you see…</text></item><item><author>sitkack</author><text>Box::new allocating on the stack and moving is only true in debug builds, in release builds it directly allocates on the heap. Not apologizing, just explaining. It is being fixed, the interim solution is to use a Vec.</text></item><item><author>klodolph</author><text>This affects the way you write code, too.<p>I was writing something in Rust and I wanted to create a new boxed object.<p><pre><code> Box::new(...)
</code></pre>
Boom! Program crashes. The object I’m putting in the heap is too large for the stack. Rustc does this by instantiating the object on the stack, and then copying it to the box. I don’t really want to fuss with nightly or stuff like Box::new_uninit just to deal with this. C++ has both regular `new` and placement `new`, both of which put objects in memory which is already allocated. I had assumed that the Rust compiler could optimize out a move, since that’s such a prominent feature in C++ compilers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Rust stack-efficient yet?</title><url>https://arewestackefficientyet.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>tialaramex</author><text>I <i>guess</i> what they mean is that the Vec would allocate heap space, and you could steal the allocation for your object to make the Box? You&#x27;d need to create this MyType manually and then tell Box what you made unsafely with like Box::from_raw()<p>It feels like a better way to do that directly with Box is Box::&lt;MyType&gt;::new_zeroed() which will make you a Box&lt;MaybeUninit&lt;MyType&gt;&gt; full of zero bytes. If MyType is definitely valid when made entirely of zero bytes and you&#x27;re sure of that, you can unsafely assume_init() to have the MaybeUninit resolve to an actual MyType.<p>[[ If you lied, now everything is on fire, I did warn you that you need to be sure and it is an unsafe function ]]<p>If MyType is very much not valid if consisting entirely of zero bytes well, new_uninit() gives you memory in unspecified (must not be read) state, you can properly initialise it and then assume_init() as before - but all the extra work kinda sucks, and in either case clearly it would be nicer to just write what you meant and have it work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klodolph</author><text>There’s a broader problem here, which also applies to the C++ ecosystem, which is that debug builds are far less usable than they should be. C++ compilers in common debug configurations will emit a function call for std::move(), which is not in any way useful for typical debugging tasks and can make the program significantly slower.<p>I don’t want to rely on compiler optimizations to make my code work. Or alternatively, find a way to deliver those optimizations in debug builds.<p>The idea of using a Vec would be nice—if only the boxed item were an array! It’s a struct, you see…</text></item><item><author>sitkack</author><text>Box::new allocating on the stack and moving is only true in debug builds, in release builds it directly allocates on the heap. Not apologizing, just explaining. It is being fixed, the interim solution is to use a Vec.</text></item><item><author>klodolph</author><text>This affects the way you write code, too.<p>I was writing something in Rust and I wanted to create a new boxed object.<p><pre><code> Box::new(...)
</code></pre>
Boom! Program crashes. The object I’m putting in the heap is too large for the stack. Rustc does this by instantiating the object on the stack, and then copying it to the box. I don’t really want to fuss with nightly or stuff like Box::new_uninit just to deal with this. C++ has both regular `new` and placement `new`, both of which put objects in memory which is already allocated. I had assumed that the Rust compiler could optimize out a move, since that’s such a prominent feature in C++ compilers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Rust stack-efficient yet?</title><url>https://arewestackefficientyet.com/</url></story> |
30,626,850 | 30,626,291 | 1 | 2 | 30,625,586 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>My sense is that <i>conventional dietary wisdom</i> comes from an agricultural heritage — where we spent all damn day working the fields. Without that intensive labor, three meals seems to make less sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>random_upvoter</author><text>For decades of my adult life I skipped breakfast, going against all conventional dietary wisdom. Having 3 meals a day just felt like turning my body into a conveyor belt that produces faeces. Now I feel kinda vindicated.<p>A few times I traveled with a friends who did the breakfast - lunch - dinner thing and after two or three days I had to opt out of either breakfast or dinner. I remember asking &quot;how do you even manage to process that much?&quot; and I just got blank stares.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I&#x27;m 51 now and my body weight is the same as when I was 20. It just doesn&#x27;t LOOK quite the same anymore ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)</title><url>https://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seer</author><text>The work from Dr. Sinclair, and various other scientist seems to agree that its not just weight and body shape, you actually live longer and have less illnesses throughout your life.<p>Really fascinating stuff - the Lifespan podcast really changed how I think about all of this. I&#x27;m like you and haven&#x27;t had breakfast in quite a while, but recently started skipping launch as well. A lot harder, but supposedly will feel about the same when my body adjusts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>random_upvoter</author><text>For decades of my adult life I skipped breakfast, going against all conventional dietary wisdom. Having 3 meals a day just felt like turning my body into a conveyor belt that produces faeces. Now I feel kinda vindicated.<p>A few times I traveled with a friends who did the breakfast - lunch - dinner thing and after two or three days I had to opt out of either breakfast or dinner. I remember asking &quot;how do you even manage to process that much?&quot; and I just got blank stares.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I&#x27;m 51 now and my body weight is the same as when I was 20. It just doesn&#x27;t LOOK quite the same anymore ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)</title><url>https://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting</url></story> |
15,992,255 | 15,992,346 | 1 | 2 | 15,991,735 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>History is full of people fighting for freedom for their own when they are suppressed. But then they go suppressing others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Incredibly moving. One of the more impactful interactive reports by the NYTimes.<p>There’s talk about trying to get Aung San Suu Kyi to the ICC. People complained about Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but all objective reports show credible allegations of true modern genocide (shocking for a word meaninglessly bandied about so often) in Kyi’s case, giving the prize a new low with a recipient going from Oslo to The Hague in no time at all.<p>(EDIT: The link is even more moving in fullscreen on a desktop. Excellent photography.)<p>(EDIT2: I&#x27;m aware of when Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize and for what. The irony of going from oppressed recipient of a NPP to oppressor standing trial in The Hague doesn&#x27;t change.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Rohingya Escaped</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/how-the-rohingya-escaped.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>Sabinus</author><text>My understanding is that the military did this, not the civil government.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Incredibly moving. One of the more impactful interactive reports by the NYTimes.<p>There’s talk about trying to get Aung San Suu Kyi to the ICC. People complained about Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but all objective reports show credible allegations of true modern genocide (shocking for a word meaninglessly bandied about so often) in Kyi’s case, giving the prize a new low with a recipient going from Oslo to The Hague in no time at all.<p>(EDIT: The link is even more moving in fullscreen on a desktop. Excellent photography.)<p>(EDIT2: I&#x27;m aware of when Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize and for what. The irony of going from oppressed recipient of a NPP to oppressor standing trial in The Hague doesn&#x27;t change.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Rohingya Escaped</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/how-the-rohingya-escaped.html</url></story> |
14,987,713 | 14,987,665 | 1 | 2 | 14,987,460 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frenchman99</author><text>Making everything dull won&#x27;t benefit the field.<p>Sure we can remove every joke, every code comment that contains &quot;FUCK&quot;, we can forbid commits that contain swear words, we can ask engineers to wear suits, we can remove animated GIFs from Slack and we can remove &quot;418 I&#x27;m a teapot&quot;.<p>This kind of joke is what makes the job fun. You look at an implementation of an HTTP request and see &quot;418 I&#x27;m a teapot&quot;, you smile for a second and keep working. That kind of fun contributes to happynness, increases psychological well-being and ends up contributing to long-term productivity.<p>In addition, removing the 418 code would break backwards compatibility. It will create way more problems than its availability does right now. This is the kind of thing you have to think about before-hand: add it and keep it, or don&#x27;t add it. Now that we have a fun status code, we shouldn&#x27;t add new ones. But removing the existing one is useless and damaging.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node</title><url>http://save418.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>retox</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry there will be one thousand packages you can download to re-add it, some of them won&#x27;t even contain exploits.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node</title><url>http://save418.com/</url></story> |
27,177,212 | 27,177,359 | 1 | 2 | 27,176,690 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roody15</author><text>No tinfoil needed here. This is exactly what is happening.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rocqua</author><text>If I put an extra bit of tinfoil on my hat, I might speculate this is actually encouraged by the CIA&#x2F;NSA&#x2F;FBI or similar parties.<p>Certainly, they now have the option of trying to force google into delivering modified apps to certain people. This situation changes the trust model for e.g. signal from &quot;do you trust the app developer&quot; to &quot;do you trust google&quot; against the pressures of hacking and legal requirement of cooperation. The fact that reproducible builds become _that much_ more difficult with this is extra bad. It takes away a rather effective &quot;after the fact&quot; detection mechanism for these kinds of abuses.<p>It seems obvious to me there are plenty of important app developers (like signal) that are less likely to bow before the long arm of the US than the google play store. Also because for a principled developer, their app is likely 100% of their business. Whereas for google, any app is only a small part of their business. Google simply has much less incentive to defend the users of a single app that the developer.<p>Hence, it seems to me that this situation is realistically going to lead to more ways for law enforcement to access secret data on your devices. Whether this is part of the motivation for this change or not, the effect seems unavoidable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you</title><url>https://twitter.com/dbrgn/status/1393331991957880838</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>willvarfar</author><text>The OS and App Store already control the code you download. If the App Store replaces one binary provided by the developer with another that isn’t, it already can. Whether it is signed by the developer or the store doesn’t change that.<p>Of course whoever controls the OS and app stores can already access all device data. They don’t need to fiddle with the apps to do that.<p>Who signs what doesn’t change the threat models.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rocqua</author><text>If I put an extra bit of tinfoil on my hat, I might speculate this is actually encouraged by the CIA&#x2F;NSA&#x2F;FBI or similar parties.<p>Certainly, they now have the option of trying to force google into delivering modified apps to certain people. This situation changes the trust model for e.g. signal from &quot;do you trust the app developer&quot; to &quot;do you trust google&quot; against the pressures of hacking and legal requirement of cooperation. The fact that reproducible builds become _that much_ more difficult with this is extra bad. It takes away a rather effective &quot;after the fact&quot; detection mechanism for these kinds of abuses.<p>It seems obvious to me there are plenty of important app developers (like signal) that are less likely to bow before the long arm of the US than the google play store. Also because for a principled developer, their app is likely 100% of their business. Whereas for google, any app is only a small part of their business. Google simply has much less incentive to defend the users of a single app that the developer.<p>Hence, it seems to me that this situation is realistically going to lead to more ways for law enforcement to access secret data on your devices. Whether this is part of the motivation for this change or not, the effect seems unavoidable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starting in August, Google will require that they sign apps, not you</title><url>https://twitter.com/dbrgn/status/1393331991957880838</url></story> |
2,921,781 | 2,920,973 | 1 | 2 | 2,920,477 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sidnicious</author><text>I wasn't entirely clear from the link — Are Lion <i>servers</i> not being picky about passwords, or are Lion <i>clients</i> not being picky about LDAP authentication failing (hence not being able to mount the user's home folder)?<p>If the latter, the impact is bad, but not as bad (you'll be able to get access to the machine you're sitting at, but not to any server-side resources).</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Not many people in the security community use Mac servers in such a way that they need LDAP, and of those people, very few are running Lion on their servers.</text></item><item><author>fredoliveira</author><text>This looks both real and a pretty serious issue (I wonder how it went by almost a month without getting picked up by the security community). There's an discussion about it on Apple's own forums, linked below, but the gist of it is that users can authenticate over LDAP using any password using the login screen, and can't authenticate at all using su:<p><a href="https://discussions.apple.com/message/15887083" rel="nofollow">https://discussions.apple.com/message/15887083</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating via LDAP</title><url>http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1197379</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>perlgeek</author><text>Wouldn't Mac <i>clients</i> need LDAP for authentification too?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Not many people in the security community use Mac servers in such a way that they need LDAP, and of those people, very few are running Lion on their servers.</text></item><item><author>fredoliveira</author><text>This looks both real and a pretty serious issue (I wonder how it went by almost a month without getting picked up by the security community). There's an discussion about it on Apple's own forums, linked below, but the gist of it is that users can authenticate over LDAP using any password using the login screen, and can't authenticate at all using su:<p><a href="https://discussions.apple.com/message/15887083" rel="nofollow">https://discussions.apple.com/message/15887083</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating via LDAP</title><url>http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1197379</url><text></text></story> |
22,311,715 | 22,311,327 | 1 | 3 | 22,310,516 | 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>bhl</author><text>I was recently looking into CRDTs for text-editing, and was surprised to see that Github devs were working on an experimental text editor (Xray) [1] along with a finer-grained version control system for real-time collaborative editing (Memo) [2]. That project, however, seems to have been lost (and archived) in the Microsoft reshuffling of things.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16525735" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16525735</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom-archive&#x2F;xray&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;memo_core" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom-archive&#x2F;xray&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;memo_core</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tengbretson</author><text>Were the GitHub devs doing <i>anything</i> before Microsoft bought them? All that comes to mind is Atom. MS seems to have really been a shot in the arm for feature development at GH.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub CLI is now in beta</title><url>https://github.blog/2020-02-12-supercharge-your-command-line-experience-github-cli-is-now-in-beta/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcr910303</author><text>Well, there was hub[0] back in the day. I also bet there are a load of features that I&amp;you have never heard of, but someone is using them.<p>And, not only adding features is doing something; improving reliability or just maintaining the site, monitoring is also work...<p>So dismissing pre-MS GitHub might not be really appropriate.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.github.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.github.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tengbretson</author><text>Were the GitHub devs doing <i>anything</i> before Microsoft bought them? All that comes to mind is Atom. MS seems to have really been a shot in the arm for feature development at GH.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub CLI is now in beta</title><url>https://github.blog/2020-02-12-supercharge-your-command-line-experience-github-cli-is-now-in-beta/</url></story> |
24,831,379 | 24,830,422 | 1 | 3 | 24,829,565 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty clear Epic set out to intentionally get their Apple developer account terminated so they would have standing to sue, so I would not draw too much inference from that.<p>That said, it&#x27;s generally true that any dependence on a platform is a form of risk. There are documented examples of Google kicking people out of their ecosystem unexpectedly too.<p>Federated sign-in schemes may be a good idea if they help your users create accounts and authenticate more easily, but it certainly seems smart to offer more than one, including your own email-based option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yegle</author><text>&quot;Sign in with Apple&quot; requires a developer account with Apple.<p>Having saw Epic&#x27;s developer account terminated by Apple, I would definitely stay away from any &quot;Sign in with Apple&quot;.<p>(FWIW, the only 2fa with &quot;Sign in with Apple&quot;, if you don&#x27;t own any Apple hardware, is SMS.)</text></item><item><author>blintz</author><text>So happy Apple decided to go with an open standard here rather than something proprietary. This is good news for the FIDO2 ecosystem and I hope this leads to far greater support for FIDO2 authenticators of all types.<p>There is another world in which Apple just pushed &#x27;Sign in with Apple&#x27; and created yet another federated identity provider rather than true, &#x27;secure element&#x27;-based FIDO2 authentication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Face ID and Touch ID for the Web</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/11312/meet-face-id-and-touch-id-for-the-web/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krtkush</author><text>&gt; I would definitely stay away from any &quot;Sign in with Apple&quot;.<p>I would stay away from any &quot;Sign in with..&quot; service as a user and as a product owner. You&#x27;re affectively giving away a major control of your users to a third party.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yegle</author><text>&quot;Sign in with Apple&quot; requires a developer account with Apple.<p>Having saw Epic&#x27;s developer account terminated by Apple, I would definitely stay away from any &quot;Sign in with Apple&quot;.<p>(FWIW, the only 2fa with &quot;Sign in with Apple&quot;, if you don&#x27;t own any Apple hardware, is SMS.)</text></item><item><author>blintz</author><text>So happy Apple decided to go with an open standard here rather than something proprietary. This is good news for the FIDO2 ecosystem and I hope this leads to far greater support for FIDO2 authenticators of all types.<p>There is another world in which Apple just pushed &#x27;Sign in with Apple&#x27; and created yet another federated identity provider rather than true, &#x27;secure element&#x27;-based FIDO2 authentication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Face ID and Touch ID for the Web</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/11312/meet-face-id-and-touch-id-for-the-web/</url></story> |
7,958,792 | 7,958,742 | 1 | 3 | 7,958,598 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucb1e</author><text>Looks like The Netherlands is one of the most dense countries in the world. I wonder why that is, we (speaking as a Dutch person) hardly seem to use OSM while in Germany it&#x27;s very popular.<p>One explanation is the recent addition of the government&#x27;s address and building data, which gives us close to perfect outlines for every building in the country plus an extra node per address. Or we just have a high number of people per square kilometer regardless of the recent (now almost finished) data import.<p>Edit: Looks like it&#x27;s simply our density in general and not this import; last year the Netherlands also stood out while we hadn&#x27;t even imported 10% yet. From last year: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tyr_asd/diary/19549" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;user&#x2F;tyr_asd&#x2F;diary&#x2F;19549</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenStreetMap node density map 2014</title><url>http://tyrasd.github.io/osm-node-density/#2/32.2/5.6</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Vik1ng</author><text>Blogpost from the guy who made it: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tyr_asd/diary/22363" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;user&#x2F;tyr_asd&#x2F;diary&#x2F;22363</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenStreetMap node density map 2014</title><url>http://tyrasd.github.io/osm-node-density/#2/32.2/5.6</url></story> |
23,825,884 | 23,825,844 | 1 | 2 | 23,824,845 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>srameshc</author><text>&gt; Police Department signed an agreement with Amazon&#x27;s home surveillance equipment company, Ring, in 2019 to gain special access to the company&#x27;s Neighbors app<p>this is the most scary part.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atlas of Surveillance</title><url>https://atlasofsurveillance.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>thewebcount</author><text>It&#x27;s really interesting to me that in Los Angeles, we have every technology except for &quot;Gunshot Detection&quot;. Anyone know why? It seems like one of the less intrusive forms of surveillance. Isn&#x27;t this the thing that turns a series of cameras in the direction of a very loud sound? Seems less harmful than specifically copying down every license plate that drives by an intersection, or every face that enters a building. (Which isn&#x27;t to say they should have it, just that it&#x27;s an odd omission.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atlas of Surveillance</title><url>https://atlasofsurveillance.org/</url></story> |
19,507,064 | 19,506,945 | 1 | 2 | 19,498,975 | train | <instructions>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>As a practical example, I&#x27;m guessing there&#x27;s concern that they could get personal sexuality information about someone in the military and extort them with it.<p>Seems really quite plausible to me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Told U.S. security at risk, Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-grindr-m-a-exclusive/exclusive-us-pushes-chinese-owner-of-grindr-to-divest-the-dating-app-sources-idUSKCN1R809L</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>killjoywashere</author><text>Nice to see someone taking the Chinese foothold in SV seriously. I&#x27;ve also heard people who go to work for Chinese companies are then blacklisted from US Government defense- and intel-related work for 1 year. Can anyone confirm?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Told U.S. security at risk, Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-grindr-m-a-exclusive/exclusive-us-pushes-chinese-owner-of-grindr-to-divest-the-dating-app-sources-idUSKCN1R809L</url></story> |
11,986,581 | 11,986,298 | 1 | 2 | 11,985,709 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roberdam</author><text>From the point of view of a programmer without much background in advanced maths, this is the best short intro to the subject I have found so far:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ageitgey&#x2F;machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec3c471#.7377bbqjf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ageitgey&#x2F;machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Start Learning Deep Learning</title><url>http://ofir.io/How-to-Start-Learning-Deep-Learning/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>S4M</author><text>I am very sorry for the negativity, but that post is just a list of links to Deep Learning and Machine Learning classes compiled by a student. The fact that it made it to the front page of HN proves that there&#x27;s a massive hip about Neural Network among programmers, but that it sounds like black magic for most people interested in learning them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Start Learning Deep Learning</title><url>http://ofir.io/How-to-Start-Learning-Deep-Learning/</url></story> |
21,158,844 | 21,158,462 | 1 | 2 | 21,156,664 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laumars</author><text>There&#x27;s no such thing as a perfect analogy because the entire point of an analogy is it takes an argument and reframes it in a different context. Different contexts have different edge cases and thus no analogy fits an argument perfectly.<p>Given this door analogy works for the majority of the arguments being presented (which is impressive in itself given how different the physical and electronic worlds are), I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s actually a pretty good analogy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwawayjava</author><text>and if you say &quot;no&quot;, they&#x27;re screwed. Whereas with a door, they can just push you out of the way and kick it down.<p>I&#x27;m opposed to back doors, but the door analogy is a bad one.</text></item><item><author>lysium</author><text>Shouldn’t they come to me then and look into my phone instead of constantly looking into my messages on the server?
I think the door is a great analogy.</text></item><item><author>jdsnape</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this is a great analogy as yes, we permit people to have doors and locks but society also provides a mechanism for the government to lawfully get access to them. If the Police have a legit reason to access a property they go to court and get a warrent, and if they need to they&#x27;ll kick the door in to get in.<p>The current government requests to be able to access encrypted info with a warrent are an extension of what currently happens in physical space.</text></item><item><author>diffeomorphism</author><text>Politicians propose to forbid all buildings from having doors. After all &quot;bad people&#x2F;stuff etc.&quot; could lock the doors and hide behind them. Anyone arguing against that is obviously against safety.<p>Counterpoints:<p>- Do we currently have a big door problem?<p>- Wait, don&#x27;t doors also serve an important function?<p>- Won&#x27;t that make everybody much more insecure and basically do nothing against &quot;bad stuff&quot;?<p>- What if I put a wooden plank in front of the hole in my building? Wouldn&#x27;t that be a &quot;door&quot;? Making doors illegal is not going to stop people from making &quot;doors&quot;.<p>Now, people like to spin this analogy further and revise their proposal and say &quot;Fine, keep your doors, but I get a spare key for every door made&quot;.<p>Problems with this:<p>- Yes, you and everyone in your office can grab the spare key and steal all my stuff (see TSA locks and basically any time in history that was tried).<p>- Remember the wooden plank above? That guy will not give you a spare key and can still hide &quot;bad stuff&quot;.<p>- Fine, we will just use magical (blockchain) keys that nobody can steal and not make things insecure, but have an officer visit and inspect every room you have every 5 minutes. You have nothing to hide, do you?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?</title><text>Also, how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?<p>Keep in mind that these arguments have to be made to laypersons who aren&#x27;t necessarily from the United States, and who don&#x27;t usually have a lot of technical knowledge.</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>brlewis</author><text>&gt; and if you say &quot;no&quot;, they&#x27;re screwed<p>This is false. If it&#x27;s ever true, the crime is confined to the perpetrator&#x27;s mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwawayjava</author><text>and if you say &quot;no&quot;, they&#x27;re screwed. Whereas with a door, they can just push you out of the way and kick it down.<p>I&#x27;m opposed to back doors, but the door analogy is a bad one.</text></item><item><author>lysium</author><text>Shouldn’t they come to me then and look into my phone instead of constantly looking into my messages on the server?
I think the door is a great analogy.</text></item><item><author>jdsnape</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this is a great analogy as yes, we permit people to have doors and locks but society also provides a mechanism for the government to lawfully get access to them. If the Police have a legit reason to access a property they go to court and get a warrent, and if they need to they&#x27;ll kick the door in to get in.<p>The current government requests to be able to access encrypted info with a warrent are an extension of what currently happens in physical space.</text></item><item><author>diffeomorphism</author><text>Politicians propose to forbid all buildings from having doors. After all &quot;bad people&#x2F;stuff etc.&quot; could lock the doors and hide behind them. Anyone arguing against that is obviously against safety.<p>Counterpoints:<p>- Do we currently have a big door problem?<p>- Wait, don&#x27;t doors also serve an important function?<p>- Won&#x27;t that make everybody much more insecure and basically do nothing against &quot;bad stuff&quot;?<p>- What if I put a wooden plank in front of the hole in my building? Wouldn&#x27;t that be a &quot;door&quot;? Making doors illegal is not going to stop people from making &quot;doors&quot;.<p>Now, people like to spin this analogy further and revise their proposal and say &quot;Fine, keep your doors, but I get a spare key for every door made&quot;.<p>Problems with this:<p>- Yes, you and everyone in your office can grab the spare key and steal all my stuff (see TSA locks and basically any time in history that was tried).<p>- Remember the wooden plank above? That guy will not give you a spare key and can still hide &quot;bad stuff&quot;.<p>- Fine, we will just use magical (blockchain) keys that nobody can steal and not make things insecure, but have an officer visit and inspect every room you have every 5 minutes. You have nothing to hide, do you?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?</title><text>Also, how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?<p>Keep in mind that these arguments have to be made to laypersons who aren&#x27;t necessarily from the United States, and who don&#x27;t usually have a lot of technical knowledge.</text></story> |
1,595,165 | 1,595,204 | 1 | 2 | 1,594,925 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>plinkplonk</author><text>From a comment on the article.<p>"You can't absorb all those people from Microsoft and not get infected by the same mindset. ".<p>I wouldn't be surprised at all if this initiative were being driven by an "acquired" (set of) VP s. DoubleClick maybe? Sounds right up their alley.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/a-paper-trail-of-betrayal-googles-net-neutrality-collapse.ars</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>icarus_drowning</author><text>What I think is missing from articles like this are clear suggestions on how else to compromise with telcos and the FCC. The latter party has already had significant trouble in their attempts to enforce neutrality, and telcos have fought it vigorously.<p>It seems clear that some sort of compromise was worth inspecting. Whether or not you agree with the Verizon/Google deal, it is worth criticizing it realistically (I thought the EFF's response is the best so far), rather than using charged language like "A paper trail of betrayal".</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/a-paper-trail-of-betrayal-googles-net-neutrality-collapse.ars</url><text></text></story> |
24,246,960 | 24,246,397 | 1 | 2 | 24,243,899 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nafey</author><text>What you are missing is that technological advancement can accelerate exponentially. Couple this fact nothing can move faster than light. This means if you don&#x27;t stamp out alien life as soon as you encounter it then the next time you come back they might already have achieved technological parity with you. And they might not be as forgiving as you are. This means you have to hide and you have to exterminate any alien life that knowns about your existence. I do think if oumuamua was an alien probe then we should be gravely concerned.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>While it&#x27;s entirely possible they&#x27;d have a good reason to be stealthy, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s likely to be anything we&#x27;ve thought of.<p>The Prime Directive is a mushy human emotional idea, not something that makes any logical sense for a space-faring civilization to follow. If there&#x27;s any competition out there among space-faring civilizations, none of them are going to tie their hands behind their backs by refusing to touch planets that have native life on them.<p>And under the Dark Forest, the best way to survive would be to replicate as fast as possible, consuming all available resources. They would want to hide from external, more-powerful civilizations, but they&#x27;d have no reason at all to hide from <i>us</i>. Hiding from us would be a strict loss for them, as it means they can&#x27;t mine Earth for resources.</text></item><item><author>throwaway316943</author><text>If the mission of the probe is exploration then it doesn’t need to consume all of the resources of a solar system. It just needs enough to make a few copies to reach the nearest handful of stars. If they are using light sails as propulsion they probably need barely anything. I don’t have a hard time believing that an advanced civilization would choose hiding as the default method of exploration. Anything from the dark forest to the prime directive could be used as an argument to do so. I agree with the other comments that it’s fairly likely that our system has had multiple probes pass through. The unlikely event will be when one decides to contact us.</text></item><item><author>kentonv</author><text>That could only be true if they are intentionally hiding from us, rather than replicating and harvesting the solar system as fast as they can. But personally I have a hard time believing that hyper-intelligent devices would care about avoiding detection by lowly biological organisms like us.</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>Which forces the logical conclusion that this isn&#x27;t the first such probe, obviously.</text></item><item><author>kentonv</author><text>My pet theory (which is not intended to be taken too seriously) is that it is indeed a discarded light sail, and that light sail in particular was used to transport a Von Neumann probe which detached at some point after the object entered our solar system but before we first observed it. This detachment, in addition to leaving the sail tumbling, would have changed its trajectory, meaning our estimation of which direction the object originally came from is incorrect. In any case, the probe is now busy replicating, perhaps on the surface of Mercury. In a few years an army of robots will launch from there and invade the rest of the solar system!<p>Realistically, though, it&#x27;s too much of a coincidence that such a probe would first arrive so soon after we gained the ability to conceive of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mystery-of-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-gets-trickier/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway316943</author><text>I’m not sure that reasoning holds up. There’s no reason to believe that “mushy human emotional ideas” are not the norm. There’s no data to support that claim since humanity is the only example we have of intelligence. So for the sake of the argument I’m going to define alien intelligence as similar to human intelligence. I’d also inquire what the point of having a Von Neumann probe consume all of a system would be? It’s not practical to ship the resources anywhere at sub light speed. There’s a limit on the number of probes it would be rational to make in any one system even if you were going for high redundancy. Even use as a weapon would be foolish since there’s a good chance something could go wrong and you’d wind up killing your own systems. Maybe if you were paving the way for a colony but even then you’d only build what you needed to avoid having to constantly maintain the structures until they were useful. The only way I see an exploitive strategy working is if you have FTL travel and if you have that then Von Neumann probes are useless old technology since you would just send a fleet of ships with what you need to get started rather than trying to bootstrap from a single self replicating probe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>While it&#x27;s entirely possible they&#x27;d have a good reason to be stealthy, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s likely to be anything we&#x27;ve thought of.<p>The Prime Directive is a mushy human emotional idea, not something that makes any logical sense for a space-faring civilization to follow. If there&#x27;s any competition out there among space-faring civilizations, none of them are going to tie their hands behind their backs by refusing to touch planets that have native life on them.<p>And under the Dark Forest, the best way to survive would be to replicate as fast as possible, consuming all available resources. They would want to hide from external, more-powerful civilizations, but they&#x27;d have no reason at all to hide from <i>us</i>. Hiding from us would be a strict loss for them, as it means they can&#x27;t mine Earth for resources.</text></item><item><author>throwaway316943</author><text>If the mission of the probe is exploration then it doesn’t need to consume all of the resources of a solar system. It just needs enough to make a few copies to reach the nearest handful of stars. If they are using light sails as propulsion they probably need barely anything. I don’t have a hard time believing that an advanced civilization would choose hiding as the default method of exploration. Anything from the dark forest to the prime directive could be used as an argument to do so. I agree with the other comments that it’s fairly likely that our system has had multiple probes pass through. The unlikely event will be when one decides to contact us.</text></item><item><author>kentonv</author><text>That could only be true if they are intentionally hiding from us, rather than replicating and harvesting the solar system as fast as they can. But personally I have a hard time believing that hyper-intelligent devices would care about avoiding detection by lowly biological organisms like us.</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>Which forces the logical conclusion that this isn&#x27;t the first such probe, obviously.</text></item><item><author>kentonv</author><text>My pet theory (which is not intended to be taken too seriously) is that it is indeed a discarded light sail, and that light sail in particular was used to transport a Von Neumann probe which detached at some point after the object entered our solar system but before we first observed it. This detachment, in addition to leaving the sail tumbling, would have changed its trajectory, meaning our estimation of which direction the object originally came from is incorrect. In any case, the probe is now busy replicating, perhaps on the surface of Mercury. In a few years an army of robots will launch from there and invade the rest of the solar system!<p>Realistically, though, it&#x27;s too much of a coincidence that such a probe would first arrive so soon after we gained the ability to conceive of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mystery-of-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-gets-trickier/</url></story> |
36,238,724 | 36,238,882 | 1 | 3 | 36,232,900 | train | <instructions>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>You can buy the annotated source code for Oscar Toledo G’s Nanochess here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Toledo-Nanochess-commented-source-code&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1304864375" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Toledo-Nanochess-commented-source-code...</a><p>It was certainly a humbling experience for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>detrites</author><text>Absolutely mad history here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20569438" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20569438</a> (2019)<p>As a teaser, from the above:<p><i>&gt; For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo; he and his family (it is a family) have been designing and building their own computers (and ancillary equipment like reflow ovens) and writing their own operating systems and web browsers for some 40 years now.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code</title><url>https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>misja111</author><text>Assembly was one of the first languages that I wrote in when I learned to program in the 80&#x27;s, simply because other languages were too slow to develop games and other stuff. Since then I&#x27;ve switched to Pascal, Java, Scala, Python etc.
But sometimes I still miss the joy of micro-optimizing some assembly code until perfection.<p>This Toledo family is amazing. I wonder if this will be the future of SD craftmanship, now that Moore&#x27;s law seems to come to an end and we are forced to look at optimizing the performance of our software stack.</text><parent_chain><item><author>detrites</author><text>Absolutely mad history here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20569438" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20569438</a> (2019)<p>As a teaser, from the above:<p><i>&gt; For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo; he and his family (it is a family) have been designing and building their own computers (and ancillary equipment like reflow ovens) and writing their own operating systems and web browsers for some 40 years now.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code</title><url>https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS</url></story> |
15,372,053 | 15,372,065 | 1 | 2 | 15,370,415 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bencollier49</author><text>I was thinking of trying it on something less Anime, and then noticed that another poster didn&#x27;t like the original poster&#x27;s subject-matter, so I ran it on this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;z00jG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;z00jG</a><p>Not bad? I guess?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Style2Paints: AI colorization of images</title><url>https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>myrryr</author><text>This is amazing. Do you think it would be possible to keep the coloring constant across an animation?<p>If so, you will certainly have a market for this. The coloring work in animation take a lot of time and is very expensive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Style2Paints: AI colorization of images</title><url>https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints</url></story> |
31,998,159 | 31,996,146 | 1 | 2 | 31,986,503 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>meteo-jeff</author><text>Some technical background:<p>Open-Meteo offers free weather APIs for a while now. Archiving data was not an option, because forecast data alone required 300 GB storage.<p>In the past couple of weeks, I started to look for fast and efficient compression algorithms like zstd, brotli or lz4. All of them, performed rather poor with time-series weather data.<p>After a lot of trial and error, I found a couple of pre-processing steps, that improve compression ratio a lot:<p>1) Scaling data to reasonable values. Temperature has an accuracy of 0.1° at best. I simply round everything to 0.05 instead of keeping the highest possible floating point precision.<p>2) A temperature time-series increases and decreases by small values. 0.4° warmer, then 0.2° colder. Only storing deltas improves compression performance.<p>3) Data are highly spatially correlated. If the temperature is rising in one &quot;grid-cell&quot;, it is rising in the neighbouring grid cells as well. Simply subtract the time-series from one grid-cell to the next grid-cell. Especially this yielded a large boost.<p>4) Although zstd performs quite well with this encoded data, other integer compression algorithms have far better compression and decompression speeds. Namely I am using FastPFor.<p>With that compression approach, an archive became possible. One week of weather forecast data should be around 10 GB compressed. With that, I can easily maintain a very long archive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Historical weather data API for machine learning, free for non-commercial</title><url>https://openmeteo.substack.com/p/historical-weather-for-machine-learning</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m0llusk</author><text>This is how we could defeat a rogue AI: Distract it by talking about the weather.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Historical weather data API for machine learning, free for non-commercial</title><url>https://openmeteo.substack.com/p/historical-weather-for-machine-learning</url></story> |
30,018,074 | 30,017,992 | 1 | 2 | 30,009,529 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>afcapel</author><text>In general European countries have bans on smoking in public places much stricter than the US.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_smoking_bans#Smoking_bans_by_country" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_smoking_bans#Smoking_b...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>Secondhand smoke is the cost of being in a bar outside of the US. Good luck making friends with European expats without some secondhand smoke.</text></item><item><author>thrashh</author><text>We’re not talking smoking though<p>We’re talking second hand smoke<p>Who exactly is looking to get some second hand smoke in their face while avoiding actually smoking?</text></item><item><author>dleslie</author><text>&gt; Nobody gains anything from an activity that fundamentally requires exposure to tobacco smoke.<p>Except smokers, of course.<p>Smoking isn&#x27;t just addictive and deadly, like alcohol, it has its own appeal to users.</text></item><item><author>babypuncher</author><text>I think the difference is that there is something to be gained in exchange for the risk posed by cosmic rays during air travel, so people are more interested in taking a nuanced approach to it. Meanwhile second hand smoke is a nuisance at best and a legitimate health concern at worse. Most people (myself included) are happy to ban smoking on airplanes or in restaurants even if the health benefits are negligible at best.<p>I do agree though, studies like this should always include useful context rather than just making absolutist statements. Perhaps alcohol and tobacco smoke need something similar to the banana equivalent dose used when talking about radiation exposure.</text></item><item><author>dionidium</author><text>If you want to feel some dissonance about this, you might note that this is the <i>exact</i> language the CDC uses for things like secondhand smoke -- &quot;There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke&quot; -- which everybody nods along to and accepts without much scrutiny.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;tobacco&#x2F;data_statistics&#x2F;fact_sheets&#x2F;secondhand_smoke&#x2F;health_effects&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;tobacco&#x2F;data_statistics&#x2F;fact_sheets&#x2F;seco...</a><p>Meanwhile, when it&#x27;s something like, say, cosmic radiation exposure from commercial air travel, suddenly the CDC is very interested in levels of exposure and has language that provides context intended to downplay the risks.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nceh&#x2F;radiation&#x2F;air_travel.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nceh&#x2F;radiation&#x2F;air_travel.html</a><p>Why these statements bother us when they&#x27;re about one thing and not another -- or, indeed, why our health agencies would choose language like this for some kinds of risks and not others -- is left as an exercise for the reader.</text></item><item><author>solox3</author><text>I am fine with abstinence as a general recommendation, but critical thinking pointed out two issues with the WHF Policy Brief, which I suppose I have read in sufficient depth:<p>1. There is no citation on the sentence, &quot;Recent evidence has found that no level of alcohol consumption is safe for health.&quot; This is really the only line we are interested in.<p>2. There is no comparison on the effects of alcohol on the body by dosage (and frequency), which is, again, what is required from the brief to make that claim.<p>Again, while I don&#x27;t necessarily disagree with what&#x27;s in the report, and that it is already established that drinking too much is not good for the heart, considering many otherwise toxic substances have a hormetic zone, it is critical that a study like this rules out the its existence for ethanol.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/is-a-glass-of-wine-a-day-good-for-me-heart-federation-says-no</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>babypuncher</author><text>I can&#x27;t stand the smell of cigarettes, many of them make me feel nauseous. This may be because I&#x27;m young enough that public smoking has been banned for most of my life, so I never ever got used to the smell.</text><parent_chain><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>Secondhand smoke is the cost of being in a bar outside of the US. Good luck making friends with European expats without some secondhand smoke.</text></item><item><author>thrashh</author><text>We’re not talking smoking though<p>We’re talking second hand smoke<p>Who exactly is looking to get some second hand smoke in their face while avoiding actually smoking?</text></item><item><author>dleslie</author><text>&gt; Nobody gains anything from an activity that fundamentally requires exposure to tobacco smoke.<p>Except smokers, of course.<p>Smoking isn&#x27;t just addictive and deadly, like alcohol, it has its own appeal to users.</text></item><item><author>babypuncher</author><text>I think the difference is that there is something to be gained in exchange for the risk posed by cosmic rays during air travel, so people are more interested in taking a nuanced approach to it. Meanwhile second hand smoke is a nuisance at best and a legitimate health concern at worse. Most people (myself included) are happy to ban smoking on airplanes or in restaurants even if the health benefits are negligible at best.<p>I do agree though, studies like this should always include useful context rather than just making absolutist statements. Perhaps alcohol and tobacco smoke need something similar to the banana equivalent dose used when talking about radiation exposure.</text></item><item><author>dionidium</author><text>If you want to feel some dissonance about this, you might note that this is the <i>exact</i> language the CDC uses for things like secondhand smoke -- &quot;There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke&quot; -- which everybody nods along to and accepts without much scrutiny.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;tobacco&#x2F;data_statistics&#x2F;fact_sheets&#x2F;secondhand_smoke&#x2F;health_effects&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;tobacco&#x2F;data_statistics&#x2F;fact_sheets&#x2F;seco...</a><p>Meanwhile, when it&#x27;s something like, say, cosmic radiation exposure from commercial air travel, suddenly the CDC is very interested in levels of exposure and has language that provides context intended to downplay the risks.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nceh&#x2F;radiation&#x2F;air_travel.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nceh&#x2F;radiation&#x2F;air_travel.html</a><p>Why these statements bother us when they&#x27;re about one thing and not another -- or, indeed, why our health agencies would choose language like this for some kinds of risks and not others -- is left as an exercise for the reader.</text></item><item><author>solox3</author><text>I am fine with abstinence as a general recommendation, but critical thinking pointed out two issues with the WHF Policy Brief, which I suppose I have read in sufficient depth:<p>1. There is no citation on the sentence, &quot;Recent evidence has found that no level of alcohol consumption is safe for health.&quot; This is really the only line we are interested in.<p>2. There is no comparison on the effects of alcohol on the body by dosage (and frequency), which is, again, what is required from the brief to make that claim.<p>Again, while I don&#x27;t necessarily disagree with what&#x27;s in the report, and that it is already established that drinking too much is not good for the heart, considering many otherwise toxic substances have a hormetic zone, it is critical that a study like this rules out the its existence for ethanol.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/is-a-glass-of-wine-a-day-good-for-me-heart-federation-says-no</url></story> |
41,212,848 | 41,212,835 | 1 | 3 | 41,212,271 | train | <instructions>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>Any efficiency comparison involving Apples chips also has to factor in that Tim Cook keeps showing up at TSMCs door with a freight container full of cash to buy out exclusive access to their bleeding edge silicon processes. ARM may be a factor but don&#x27;t underestimate the power of having more money than God.<p>Case in point, Strix Point is built on TSMC 4nm while Apple is already using TSMCs second generation 3nm process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arnaudsm</author><text>ARM got a lot of hype since the release of the M1, but most users only compared it to the terrible Intel MBPs. Ryzen mobile has been consistently close to Apple silicon perf&#x2F;watt for 5 years. But got little press coverage.<p>Hype can be really decorrelated from real world performance.</text></item><item><author>sm_1024</author><text>IMO, the most interesting thing about this line is the battery life---within an hour of MBP3 and within 2 hours of Asus&#x27;s Qualcomm. Making it comparable to ARM architectures.<p>Which is a little surprising because ARM is commonly believed to be much more power efficient than x86.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Z8WKR0VHfJw?si=A7zbFY2lsDa8iVQN&amp;t=277" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Z8WKR0VHfJw?si=A7zbFY2lsDa8iVQN&amp;t=277</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/10/amds-strix-point-zen-5-hits-mobile/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sm_1024</author><text>I have heard that part of the reason for little coverage of ryzen mobile CPUs is their limited availability as AMD was focussing on using the fab capacity for server chips.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arnaudsm</author><text>ARM got a lot of hype since the release of the M1, but most users only compared it to the terrible Intel MBPs. Ryzen mobile has been consistently close to Apple silicon perf&#x2F;watt for 5 years. But got little press coverage.<p>Hype can be really decorrelated from real world performance.</text></item><item><author>sm_1024</author><text>IMO, the most interesting thing about this line is the battery life---within an hour of MBP3 and within 2 hours of Asus&#x27;s Qualcomm. Making it comparable to ARM architectures.<p>Which is a little surprising because ARM is commonly believed to be much more power efficient than x86.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Z8WKR0VHfJw?si=A7zbFY2lsDa8iVQN&amp;t=277" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Z8WKR0VHfJw?si=A7zbFY2lsDa8iVQN&amp;t=277</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/10/amds-strix-point-zen-5-hits-mobile/</url></story> |
15,543,407 | 15,543,627 | 1 | 2 | 15,542,669 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noir_lord</author><text>I&#x27;d never heard of APD.<p>Interesting, all my life I&#x27;ve struggled to follow a conversation in a crowded environment, so much so that I actively avoid background noise with words in, I work with silicon ear plugs in or headphones and music with no lyrics.<p>Looking at NHS symptoms they describe me as a child, didn&#x27;t learn to read until I was 8.<p>I nearly ended up in the remedial track but for a single awesome teacher who spotted that it wasn&#x27;t that I was incapable but that I was struggling to understand in a noisy classroom, she gave up her lunch time for 6mths and taught me one on one by the end of that year I could read much better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>twothamendment</author><text>It is one thing to hear and correctly identify the words. It is another to understand the meaning.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about this because my son has Auditory Processing Disorder, APD. He can hear great, even a whisper across the house. The trouble is the words don&#x27;t always make sense. He can tell me the words he heard and they are correct, but assigning a meaning to them doesn&#x27;t work like it does for most people.<p>After playing him a bunch of audio with missing words, the lady who tested him was blown away by how smart he is - explaining that he is quickly filling in almost every missing word based by guessing from all thing possible things it could be, narrowing it down on context and getting it right. I guess that is a normal, all day long task for him.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve thought about voice recognition differently. The AI to understand the context or fill in the blanks is what will make or break it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Speech Recognition Is Not Solved</title><url>https://awni.github.io/speech-recognition/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>&gt; Since then I&#x27;ve thought about voice recognition differently. The AI to understand the context or fill in the blanks is what will make or break it.<p>Of course, and all humans rely on this as well. No one hears every word perfectly all the time --- it&#x27;s impossible, because the source person doesn&#x27;t pronounce every word perfectly all the time. Context clues are a huge part of speech recognition, as well as gestural typing recognition and other forms of machine interpretation of human input. While it&#x27;s always been a component of NLP, you can clearly see it in action with the Android keyboard these days because after you type two words in a row, the first may be corrected after you enter the second one, based on context provided by the second one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>twothamendment</author><text>It is one thing to hear and correctly identify the words. It is another to understand the meaning.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about this because my son has Auditory Processing Disorder, APD. He can hear great, even a whisper across the house. The trouble is the words don&#x27;t always make sense. He can tell me the words he heard and they are correct, but assigning a meaning to them doesn&#x27;t work like it does for most people.<p>After playing him a bunch of audio with missing words, the lady who tested him was blown away by how smart he is - explaining that he is quickly filling in almost every missing word based by guessing from all thing possible things it could be, narrowing it down on context and getting it right. I guess that is a normal, all day long task for him.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve thought about voice recognition differently. The AI to understand the context or fill in the blanks is what will make or break it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Speech Recognition Is Not Solved</title><url>https://awni.github.io/speech-recognition/</url></story> |
28,024,207 | 28,023,591 | 1 | 2 | 28,010,217 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thristian</author><text>Annoyingly, the canvas is hard-coded to use only the &quot;Simple Console&quot; font; if your browser doesn&#x27;t load the font for whatever reason, it shows up in a proportional typeface which ruins the effect.<p>Changing `font-family: &quot;Simple Console&quot;` to `font-family: &quot;Simple Console&quot;, monospace` would fix it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASCII Play</title><url>https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tabokie</author><text>Another commercial website that heavily uses ASCII animation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oxide.computer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oxide.computer&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASCII Play</title><url>https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/</url></story> |
30,306,192 | 30,305,300 | 1 | 3 | 30,304,161 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ansil849</author><text>&gt; For our attacker model, we assume that an initial compromise has happened on the target device through the software supply-chain similar to the incidents at SolarWinds [8] and CodeCov [7]. For example, a regular update of the device’s firmware might unnoticeably add the necessary code for sending and receiving data through a built-in LED.<p>I mean, sure, if you have the ability to compromise the airgapped device by running code on it then you could presumably be doing a lot of things besides just leveraging potential LED line of sight.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems</title><url>https://intellisec.de/research/lasershark/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jerrrry</author><text>you can exfiltrate data at a bit&#x2F;hour through power consumption.<p>Run while(1){sin(cos(tan(rand(1))) for 1, nothing for 0, every half hour, with a correctional bit thrown in for good measure.<p>measure the heat of the room via remote sensing, power consumption, AC&#x2F;air frequency analysis.<p>the NSA will have to add a layer of thermodynamic static noise in addition to their rooms full of stereo&#x27;s blasting white noise.<p>a technically proficient attacker could infer the value of a encryption key given the GDP of the nation-state, if the data was granular enough.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems</title><url>https://intellisec.de/research/lasershark/</url></story> |
33,337,256 | 33,335,732 | 1 | 3 | 33,335,415 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonas21</author><text>This points to what an anomaly 2021 was.<p>Alphabet was seeing around 15% YoY revenue growth prior to 2021. Then 2021 hit and the growth rate jumped to 41%. Now with the 6% YoY growth this year, it&#x27;s evening out to ~22% annualized growth over the last 2 years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alberth</author><text>My initial takeaways:<p>- Alphabet is experience massive decline in revenue growth. (Only 6% YoY growth vs 41% YoY growth in 2021)<p>- Internal costs are sharply increasing (Only a 25% Operating Margin vs 32% last year). A 7-point swing is massive. To put this into perspective, outside of tech, most companies only have ~10-point Operating Margin. So this swing of 7 points in margin, for most companies, could be the difference between being profitable vs not.<p>- Even though they are generating more total revenue than last year (same quarter) - they are considerable <i>less</i> profitable overall ($14B this year in Net Income vs $19B last year same quarter). This is related to the previous bullet.<p>Alphabets stock is -6% in after hour trading.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q3_alphabet_earnings_release.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>alphabetting</author><text>I think it&#x27;s dofficult to compare 22 to 21 and 21 to 20 given COVID.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alberth</author><text>My initial takeaways:<p>- Alphabet is experience massive decline in revenue growth. (Only 6% YoY growth vs 41% YoY growth in 2021)<p>- Internal costs are sharply increasing (Only a 25% Operating Margin vs 32% last year). A 7-point swing is massive. To put this into perspective, outside of tech, most companies only have ~10-point Operating Margin. So this swing of 7 points in margin, for most companies, could be the difference between being profitable vs not.<p>- Even though they are generating more total revenue than last year (same quarter) - they are considerable <i>less</i> profitable overall ($14B this year in Net Income vs $19B last year same quarter). This is related to the previous bullet.<p>Alphabets stock is -6% in after hour trading.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q3_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf</url></story> |
19,186,533 | 19,186,298 | 1 | 2 | 19,185,505 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ilyasut</author><text>Ilya from OpenAI here. Here&#x27;s our thinking:<p>- ML is getting more powerful and will continue to do so as time goes by. While this point of view is not unanimously held by the AI community, it is also not particularly controversial.<p>- If you accept the above, then the current AI norm of &quot;publish everything always&quot; will have to change<p>- The _whole point_ is that our model is not special and that other people can reproduce and improve upon what we did. We hope that when they do so, they too will reflect about the consequences of releasing their very powerful text generation models.<p>- I suggest going over some of the samples generated by the model. Many people react quite strongly, e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justkelly_ok&#x2F;status&#x2F;1096111155469180928" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justkelly_ok&#x2F;status&#x2F;1096111155469180928</a>.<p>- It is true that some media headlines presented our nonpublishing of the model as &quot;OpenAI&#x27;s model is too dangerous to be published out of world-taking-over concerns&quot;. We don&#x27;t endorse this framing, and if you read our blog post (or even in most cases the actual content of the news stories), you&#x27;ll see that we don&#x27;t claim this at all -- we say instead that this is just an early test case, we&#x27;re concerned about language models more generally, and we&#x27;re running an experiment.<p>Finally, despite the way the news cycle has played out, and despite the degree of polarized response (and the huge range of arguments for and against our decision), we feel we made the right call, even if it wasn&#x27;t an easy one to make.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues</title><url>http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amrrs</author><text>&gt;Elon Musk distances himself from OpenAI, group that built fake news AI tool<p>This is the worst headlines in this matter. This is one of the leading media in India. A language model being touted as Fake news AI tool. This is like calling a car, A run over machine by Ford.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hindustantimes.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;elon-musk-distances-himself-from-openai-group-that-built-fake-news-ai-tool&#x2F;story-Q3PkEU6fsJQVkhilpPCQ8M.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hindustantimes.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;elon-musk-distances-hims...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues</title><url>http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/</url></story> |
16,102,500 | 16,101,858 | 1 | 2 | 16,098,176 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexlikeits1999</author><text>While I agree with the general sentiment that CR is probably not very useful for humans, I think you are either misinformed or exaggerating for the sake of generating a response.<p>Ad-libitum feeding is not force feeding. Noone goes and shoves the food into mice. The food is just available.<p>Also, CR has extended lives in many species, including dogs (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avmajournals.avma.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.2460&#x2F;javma.2002.220.1315" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avmajournals.avma.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.2460&#x2F;javma.2002.220...</a>), not just mice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>I&#x27;ll offer a contrarian view: longevity research, as in the current scope, is about as accurate and useful as Ray Kurzweil&#x27;s predictions from the 90s.<p>Let&#x27;s take caloric restriction, for instance, which is all the rage. Trouble is, all of the evidence we have is in mice or lesser animals, <i>and the comparison is animals on caloric restriction against animals being force fed to the point of obesity</i>. Let me repeat that: in research that shows caloric restriction increasing lifespan in animal models, they are not comparing to animals on a normal diet. So it&#x27;s entirely plausible all this caloric restriction research findings is just confirmation of the fact that obesity shortens lifespans.<p>This isn&#x27;t even touching on the point that correspondence between animal models and humans is abysmally bad. It&#x27;s the best we have, but there&#x27;s a very good reason drugs need to go through three stages of human testing after it&#x27;s been proven successful in animals. With caloric restriction, we don&#x27;t even have consistent positive results in monkeys, only in rodents.<p>Has any of this longevity stuff ever been tested in humans? Obviously not, since it would take many decades.<p>Some pointers for further reading:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0891584914002317" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S089158491...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3765579&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3765579&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beginner's guide to longevity research</title><url>https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>I still haven&#x27;t really figured out how CR is supposed to be sustainable. I am around BMI of 19, and have been as low as 17 (6&#x27;2&quot;, 133lb). I become extremely unhealthy when I don&#x27;t eat enough. As far as I know, I can&#x27;t eat less and maintain the same weight. CR would, for me, send me to the hospital. Is CR just another name for &quot;lose weight&quot;? Is it working towards a goal rather than a lifelong steady state of living?</text><parent_chain><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>I&#x27;ll offer a contrarian view: longevity research, as in the current scope, is about as accurate and useful as Ray Kurzweil&#x27;s predictions from the 90s.<p>Let&#x27;s take caloric restriction, for instance, which is all the rage. Trouble is, all of the evidence we have is in mice or lesser animals, <i>and the comparison is animals on caloric restriction against animals being force fed to the point of obesity</i>. Let me repeat that: in research that shows caloric restriction increasing lifespan in animal models, they are not comparing to animals on a normal diet. So it&#x27;s entirely plausible all this caloric restriction research findings is just confirmation of the fact that obesity shortens lifespans.<p>This isn&#x27;t even touching on the point that correspondence between animal models and humans is abysmally bad. It&#x27;s the best we have, but there&#x27;s a very good reason drugs need to go through three stages of human testing after it&#x27;s been proven successful in animals. With caloric restriction, we don&#x27;t even have consistent positive results in monkeys, only in rodents.<p>Has any of this longevity stuff ever been tested in humans? Obviously not, since it would take many decades.<p>Some pointers for further reading:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0891584914002317" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S089158491...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3765579&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3765579&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beginner's guide to longevity research</title><url>https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq</url></story> |
21,623,882 | 21,622,681 | 1 | 2 | 21,622,322 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Quora and Pinterest are the worst parts of Google results. Also Google Images has been ruined. Used to be you could View Image and get the source image but now Google images hijacks that too. I gotta say I hate whoever decided that was ok. Do what I mean. Actually come to think of it I think this was due to copyright infringement case against Google. Stupid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghostcluster</author><text>They should definitely drop Pinterest from Google Image Search results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results</title><text>Finding answers to basically any question is now behind a walled garden that requires that you create an account.<p>This is the exact thing expertsexchange did before StackOverflow came and ate their lunch.<p>What do you think about it?</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>forgetcolor</author><text>For years now I have used &quot;-pinterest&quot; on every regular search term I utilize (I bake that into any Google bookmark). Would applaud the removal of Pinterest from search results.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghostcluster</author><text>They should definitely drop Pinterest from Google Image Search results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results</title><text>Finding answers to basically any question is now behind a walled garden that requires that you create an account.<p>This is the exact thing expertsexchange did before StackOverflow came and ate their lunch.<p>What do you think about it?</text></story> |
14,127,560 | 14,126,862 | 1 | 3 | 14,126,629 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crawfordcomeaux</author><text>For anyone wondering how this is useful outside of programming and&#x2F;or looking for an easier introduction, check out Category Theory for the Sciences [1]. There are free digital versions on Github, too [2]. Here&#x27;s the reasoning given by the author:<p>&quot;Information is inherently dynamic; the same ideas can be organized and reorganized in countless ways, and the ability to translate between such organizational structures is becoming increasingly important in the sciences. Category theory offers a unifying framework for information modeling that can facilitate the translation of knowledge between disciplines.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;category-theory-sciences" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;category-theory-sciences</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mmai&#x2F;Category-Theory-for-the-Sciences" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mmai&#x2F;Category-Theory-for-the-Sciences</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A monoid is a category, a category is a monad, a monad is a monoid</title><url>https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2017/04/16/a-monoid-is-a-category-a-category-is-a-monad-a-monad-is-a-monoid/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>casion</author><text>Are there really that many people on NH that can understand this?<p>I&#x27;m not trying to be snarky, I&#x27;m legitimately interested. It seems like this class of knowledge is highly specialized, yet I see posts like these high up on NH frequently.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A monoid is a category, a category is a monad, a monad is a monoid</title><url>https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2017/04/16/a-monoid-is-a-category-a-category-is-a-monad-a-monad-is-a-monoid/</url></story> |
28,400,191 | 28,400,212 | 1 | 2 | 28,397,785 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jim-jim-jim</author><text>I got into it myself. Scheme is how I self-learned programming. Through a copy of SICP found in a local university&#x27;s book store specifically. I found the minimal syntax very conducive to learning. I was working in a call center at the time, but even while on calls it was possible to do the exercises in a different part of my head, since there was no real language to worry about. I don&#x27;t think I would have had the same success with K&amp;R, or God forbid: one of those 1,000 page OOP tomes.<p>Chicken Scheme was the specific implementation I started with too. I always found it fast&#x2F;solid and saw no reason to switch. The abstractness of Lisp and the direct access to memory&#x2F;C FFI were a nice mix. It suited my interest in music, where composition and DSP fell into those two respective domains.<p>I don&#x27;t have an appetite for dynamic languages these days, but I might still reach for Chicken if I had to put together a dozen line script or something.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oneplane</author><text>I have never really been exposed to the likes of Scheme, Lisp, Smalltalk etc. and I&#x27;m curious if anyone without an academic background actually got in to any of that by themselves.<p>Generally, it&#x27;s just a bunch of JS, C#, Java, Python, and some Scala that runs everywhere I look, which often also has a large &quot;I came across it and I got to work&quot; type of developer or engineer using it. Maybe it&#x27;s just the type of ecosystem I keep hopping around it but it seems that it&#x27;s much less prominent than you&#x27;d expect.<p>There are always novel compilers, transpilers and showcases, but the amount of widespread use eludes me. (Only ErLang comes to mind with RabbitMQ, and maybe OCaml with Xen)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chicken Scheme</title><url>https://call-cc.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>whartung</author><text>I got in to it myself. And, early on, it was a real struggle. Like many, books like SICP, Little Schemer, On Lisp, were all powerful testaments to the family of languages. But those all came later.<p>I poked around Lisp, very casually, for many years. But early on I really struggled with `lambda`.<p>It was a meaningless word to me. The classic complaints with CAR and CDR et al didn&#x27;t help. More meaningless words.<p>Finally, I managed to stumble across the book &quot;Simply Scheme&quot;. And the first thing it did was rename everything. It didn&#x27;t take long to realize that `lambda` was a function. And then, the light clicked on.<p>&quot;Oh.&quot;<p>During my learning of computer concepts, etc. there were a few events of true &quot;epiphany&quot;, and learning what lambda really was, and how it worked, closures, that was one of them.<p>The secret for picking it up is to just use it.<p>Not for some huge project, not for bolting together a bunch of pre-built libraries. But for some actual processing. Something that needs little more than to read some file, do something to it, and write it back out. Baby steps.<p>And, certainly, don&#x27;t get intimidated by the development environments. I use emacs for my work simply because it paren matches and auto-indents. All of the integration, I don&#x27;t bother with. My projects aren&#x27;t that big. A few thousand lines of code. I&#x27;m spoiled by auto-indent (and re-indent), so that&#x27;s my crutch.<p>The key point being it takes very little to get started.<p>Working the problems in Little Schemer is fun. Doing SICP exercises is fun. On Lisp is an inspiring, opinionated book, and fun to read because of it. So, you can start there.<p>Go &quot;write Fortran in Lisp&quot;, as they say. All of the stuff about macros and lambdas and functional or not etc. doesn&#x27;t do you much good when you&#x27;re searching and staring at an 8 page document on LOOP. Just write some simple stuff to get familiar with the things every piece of code has to do: input data, calculate on it, iterate on it, and print it out. Looking up the stuff that&#x27;s muscle memory for your other languages kills momentum and motivation. So, work some simple stuff first. Write some crummy code first, then work on idiomatic code. Work on using new concepts later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oneplane</author><text>I have never really been exposed to the likes of Scheme, Lisp, Smalltalk etc. and I&#x27;m curious if anyone without an academic background actually got in to any of that by themselves.<p>Generally, it&#x27;s just a bunch of JS, C#, Java, Python, and some Scala that runs everywhere I look, which often also has a large &quot;I came across it and I got to work&quot; type of developer or engineer using it. Maybe it&#x27;s just the type of ecosystem I keep hopping around it but it seems that it&#x27;s much less prominent than you&#x27;d expect.<p>There are always novel compilers, transpilers and showcases, but the amount of widespread use eludes me. (Only ErLang comes to mind with RabbitMQ, and maybe OCaml with Xen)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chicken Scheme</title><url>https://call-cc.org/</url></story> |
40,922,747 | 40,922,403 | 1 | 2 | 40,912,684 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gowld</author><text>This description makes it sounds like large areas of computer science are just goofy, meaningless, games.<p>But what&#x27;s really happening is that &quot;infinity&quot; is standing in for &quot;approximate, eventual, steady state behavior for sufficiently large N, larger than any specific one-off gimmick you might think of&quot;.<p>In the real world, though, those gimmicks are important, and the constants and low-order terms ignored in a Big-O comparison are important to real world performance.<p>There is constant tension between &quot;big enough problem that the contant factors don&#x27;t matter&quot;, and &quot;small enough problem that it conforms to the (often implicit) of what &#x27;constant&#x27; means (example: 32bit ints masquerading as integers)&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>It can be sort of unintuitive how the concept of computability necessarily involves infinity.<p>For example: does there exist an algorithm that computes the Kolmogorov complexity, K(s), of string s for arbitrary s? It is well-known that the answer is &quot;no&quot; — there is no Turing machine that takes as input a string of arbitrary length and computes K(s). The proof is quite brief and involves the halting problem.<p>But if we ask a similar question: does there exist an algorithm that computes K(s) of string s for arbitrary string s with length &lt; n? The answer is yes! And there exists such an algorithm for any value of n.<p>How is that possible? Think about it for a second, because the answer is going to disappoint you: simply create a Turing machine that consists of a giant lookup table for all 2^n possible strings that prints the value of K(s) for each one.<p>But wait, that&#x27;s cheating! Maybe so, but any specific implementation of the algorithm has a finite description. And by definition, K(s) is also finite for all s. While it&#x27;s true that I haven&#x27;t provided any particular method for determining the value of K(s) for all 2^n strings in order to actually create the lookup table, that doesn&#x27;t matter. Such an algorithm nevertheless exists, regardless of whether you can find it or prove that it does what you want it to.<p>So in a sense, finite questions about a finite number of things are sort of uninteresting from the perspective of computability, because you can always write a program that just prints the answer for all of those things (how quickly it does this is another matter). But when you extend the question to an infinite number of things, computability becomes much more interesting, because you don&#x27;t know whether something finite can provide answers to questions about an infinite number of things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The zombie misconception of theoretical computer science</title><url>https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8106</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>&gt; But if we ask a similar question: does there exist an algorithm that computes K(s) of string s for arbitrary string s with length &lt; n? The answer is yes! And there exists such an algorithm for any value of n.<p>of course - n is by definition a finite number!<p>and in fact at infinity, all finite numbers are quite small, actually. A mile might as well be a millimeter, from your chair at the end of the universe.<p>And your scenario is basically just &quot;hilbert&#x27;s infinite hotel, on a computer&quot; - we can of course add another program simply by moving all the existing programs 1 spot over... and it remains the exact same size of table needed to compute it!<p>I would actually generalize this and just say that most people have poor intuition of how infinities (alephs, etc) and transfinite mathematics work in general. it&#x27;s not a common subject, it&#x27;s not a subject with everyday relevance, and it&#x27;s deeply steeped in the emergent properties of mathematics and category&#x2F;set theory. Like not only are infinities bigger than any finite number, but some infinities can nevertheless be bigger than other infinities etc - these are not things that are immediately obvious to the 3rd-grade concept of &quot;infinity&quot; that most people stop at.<p>the much more interesting question would be if there exists an n &lt; infinity such that the algorithm can be computed, and of course the answer is no (darn, there goes my turing prize).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>It can be sort of unintuitive how the concept of computability necessarily involves infinity.<p>For example: does there exist an algorithm that computes the Kolmogorov complexity, K(s), of string s for arbitrary s? It is well-known that the answer is &quot;no&quot; — there is no Turing machine that takes as input a string of arbitrary length and computes K(s). The proof is quite brief and involves the halting problem.<p>But if we ask a similar question: does there exist an algorithm that computes K(s) of string s for arbitrary string s with length &lt; n? The answer is yes! And there exists such an algorithm for any value of n.<p>How is that possible? Think about it for a second, because the answer is going to disappoint you: simply create a Turing machine that consists of a giant lookup table for all 2^n possible strings that prints the value of K(s) for each one.<p>But wait, that&#x27;s cheating! Maybe so, but any specific implementation of the algorithm has a finite description. And by definition, K(s) is also finite for all s. While it&#x27;s true that I haven&#x27;t provided any particular method for determining the value of K(s) for all 2^n strings in order to actually create the lookup table, that doesn&#x27;t matter. Such an algorithm nevertheless exists, regardless of whether you can find it or prove that it does what you want it to.<p>So in a sense, finite questions about a finite number of things are sort of uninteresting from the perspective of computability, because you can always write a program that just prints the answer for all of those things (how quickly it does this is another matter). But when you extend the question to an infinite number of things, computability becomes much more interesting, because you don&#x27;t know whether something finite can provide answers to questions about an infinite number of things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The zombie misconception of theoretical computer science</title><url>https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8106</url></story> |
15,674,972 | 15,674,574 | 1 | 3 | 15,673,015 | 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>vogt</author><text>Yep, same. My mother&#x27;s best friend worked for MS at the time and brought me home VB4 in a giant box. Little did they know what I was up to (nothing too south of innocuous, I was mostly trying to spam render middle fingers in ASCII in AOL chatrooms)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eclyps</author><text>This brings back so many memories... this is where I really started my &quot;programming&quot; with Visual Basic 4, hunting the web for .bas files that I could load into my own VB project to create 1337 rainbow text in my IMs, punting users, trying to work around the rate limiting that they added to chatrooms... it&#x27;s incredible that the AOL warez scene is essential the catalyst for my now successful career in technology 20+ years later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>History of AOL Warez</title><url>http://peteflow.blogspot.com/2007/04/history-of-aol-warez.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>allcentury</author><text>Same! I used to spend hours picking the right theme song to bundle on the opening splash page to ship with my software that never worked.<p>I left tech in college and only got back into in my late 20&#x27;s, happy to be back but with a bit more maturity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eclyps</author><text>This brings back so many memories... this is where I really started my &quot;programming&quot; with Visual Basic 4, hunting the web for .bas files that I could load into my own VB project to create 1337 rainbow text in my IMs, punting users, trying to work around the rate limiting that they added to chatrooms... it&#x27;s incredible that the AOL warez scene is essential the catalyst for my now successful career in technology 20+ years later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>History of AOL Warez</title><url>http://peteflow.blogspot.com/2007/04/history-of-aol-warez.html</url></story> |
27,591,992 | 27,591,849 | 1 | 3 | 27,590,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Joker_vD</author><text>The supermarket network I usually shop at lets one chose 5 product categories (out of about 30 or so) that they will get cashback from. Recently, they&#x27;ve decided to split categories &quot;Tea, Coffee, Cocoa&quot; and &quot;Fruits &amp; vegetables&quot; into two new categories each: &quot;Tea&quot;, &quot;Coffee &amp; Cocoa&quot;, &quot;Fruits&quot;, and &quot;Vegetables&quot;, — with the stated reason &quot;to improve your shopping experience&quot;. No idea how that would improve my shopping experience, but hey, they probably know better than I do, right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&#x27;The company has cited &quot;safety and well-being&quot; as a reason for introducing the membership fee.&#x27;<p>I&#x27;ve noticed the &quot;fake because&quot; lately seems to be getting more and more brazen from corporations.<p>This is about the third or fourth &quot;for your safety and convenience we&#x27;re helping ourselves to more of your money&quot; I&#x27;ve seen in the last couple months, and unfortunately all the other ones I&#x27;ve seen are for products or services I actually have.<p>But I for one am just grateful that we have so many companies and governments willing to take more of our money, spend less of theirs, extend wait times, reduce services, and just generally do less for more money for our safety and convenience. Imagine how unsafe we&#x27;d be if they weren&#x27;t taking so much money and actually provided service. What a bloodbath it would be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee'</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/pelotons-3-000-treadmill-now-comes-with-surprise-subscription-fee/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>api</author><text>Running with a heavy wallet is dangerous. You&#x27;re more likely to lose your balance and any fall would be that much worse due to the added weight. Peloton is helpfully making your wallet lighter to ensure a safe running experience.<p>Seriously though: if something doesn&#x27;t really need it, any form of Internet-enabling is something I see as an anti-feature and now avoid at all costs. Internet enabled features or apps means &quot;it spies on you, will change or break needlessly due to an update, or will find a way to extract rent.&quot; I will pay more for something without Wifi or (worse) a fucking cellular modem.<p>I&#x27;m worried about the ability to buy a non-Internet-enabled car though. I have a 2013 Nissan Leaf and am looking into upgrading its battery. The car is otherwise absolutely perfect. It just needs more range per charge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&#x27;The company has cited &quot;safety and well-being&quot; as a reason for introducing the membership fee.&#x27;<p>I&#x27;ve noticed the &quot;fake because&quot; lately seems to be getting more and more brazen from corporations.<p>This is about the third or fourth &quot;for your safety and convenience we&#x27;re helping ourselves to more of your money&quot; I&#x27;ve seen in the last couple months, and unfortunately all the other ones I&#x27;ve seen are for products or services I actually have.<p>But I for one am just grateful that we have so many companies and governments willing to take more of our money, spend less of theirs, extend wait times, reduce services, and just generally do less for more money for our safety and convenience. Imagine how unsafe we&#x27;d be if they weren&#x27;t taking so much money and actually provided service. What a bloodbath it would be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee'</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/pelotons-3-000-treadmill-now-comes-with-surprise-subscription-fee/</url></story> |
17,909,932 | 17,908,459 | 1 | 2 | 17,908,028 | train | <instructions>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>It&#x27;s worth pointing out that the default configuration of almost every Mikrotik router these days comes with a firewall that blocks inbound access to all ports. Admins have to go out of their way to expose winbox to the internet (as many did - including myself - under the belief the protocol was somewhat secure running over TLS).<p>Unfortunately NIH syndrome runs at an all time high at Mikrotik. Even the RouterOS webserver and SMB implementations were custom written, and both were later found to contain remotely exploitable bugs. I&#x27;m sure there are other holes lurking in their implementations of ipsec, openvpn, etc, so I no longer open up anything and rely on port forwarding to more secure and battle-tested services like OpenSSH &#x2F; Wireguard for remote management.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers</title><url>https://blog.netlab.360.com/7500-mikrotik-routers-are-forwarding-owners-traffic-to-the-attackers-how-is-yours-en/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>Can anyone suggest a wireless router that someone can buy today that either ships with or can be flashed with OSS firmware? I&#x27;ve been trying to shop around for one compatible with DD-WRT or OpenWRT and been rather disheartened so far; every promising model I&#x27;ve found either requires you to play roulette with the specific hardware version of the router that you receive (which is never advertised on product pages), or is out of stock entirely, or costs upwards of $250 (which is tough to sell to my friends, when their ISP charges $10&#x2F;mo to rent a router with much less hassle).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers</title><url>https://blog.netlab.360.com/7500-mikrotik-routers-are-forwarding-owners-traffic-to-the-attackers-how-is-yours-en/</url></story> |
37,260,635 | 37,260,472 | 1 | 3 | 37,247,633 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>criddell</author><text>My introduction to cyberpunk culture came from Mondo 2000. Aside from reading about William Gibson, they also had articles on music and movies and smart drugs!<p>The 90&#x27;s are 30 years ago(??). I&#x27;ve often wondered if the people taking piracetam or whatever it was back then have had any long term effects, good or bad. It felt like dialing up your IQ and awareness was possible. You just had to figure out the right combination of substances to take.<p>I just spent 20 minutes looking over google results for <i>nootropics</i> and seems like little has changed.<p>Edit: Thought archive.org might have this magazine and, of course, they do!<p>It&#x27;s a lot harder to read than I remember and the ads are better than I remember. There&#x27;s also more nudity than I recall... so maybe don&#x27;t open this at work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;Mondo.2000.Issue.14.1995" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;Mondo.2000.Issue.14.1995</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cyberpunk in the Nineties (1998)</title><url>https://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPtext/Manifestos/CPInThe90s.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>anthk</author><text>I still play Shadowrun in Mednafen, but a hacked ROM (enhanced one), Shadowrun 2058.<p>It has all the vibe of cyberpunk except for the magick, but if you mentally replace magick with &quot;quantum futuristic alien tech masked as godly one&quot; it still fits with the lore.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cyberpunk in the Nineties (1998)</title><url>https://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPtext/Manifestos/CPInThe90s.html</url></story> |
34,702,399 | 34,701,850 | 1 | 2 | 34,700,883 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laurieg</author><text>Japanese employment law is a bit of a double edged sword. It&#x27;s very difficult to fire employees, so if you hire someone on a high salary and it turns out they weren&#x27;t worth it you are now stuck with an employee for years or decades. You basically have to show that employee is malicious to get rid of them. Low wages is one way to soften this risk.<p>The other side of this is many people are not full time employees. Dispatch (派遣) employees are employed by one company and then sent to work alongside regular employees at other companies, with the dispatch company taking a good slice. The employer is now able to shrink their workforce more easily and the employee gets a smaller piece of the pie.<p>Simply writing a temporary contract might not even be enough. Recent changes to the law say that if you have been on temporary contract that is renewed for 5 years then you have the right to full time employment with the same conditions. Now you see plenty of people getting let go at 4 years, just to be on the safe side.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>I’ve always heard that Japanese software developers were very poorly paid compared to their us counterparts. This 10% might be pretty terrible if your peers received large raises for years beforehand.<p>I do feel like something is off with Nintendo, their games seem very scarce recently. Either they’re launching a new system this year at e3 or Covid really messed up their dev practices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More</title><url>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-will-pay-its-workers-10-more/1100-6511268/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Analemma_</author><text>I have a friend at Nvidia who worked on the GPU for the Switch, and so worked closely with Nintendo employees, and he said he was appalled at how much more he made than people at his equivalent seniority. It&#x27;s pretty bad.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>I’ve always heard that Japanese software developers were very poorly paid compared to their us counterparts. This 10% might be pretty terrible if your peers received large raises for years beforehand.<p>I do feel like something is off with Nintendo, their games seem very scarce recently. Either they’re launching a new system this year at e3 or Covid really messed up their dev practices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More</title><url>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-will-pay-its-workers-10-more/1100-6511268/</url></story> |
1,227,938 | 1,227,901 | 1 | 3 | 1,227,532 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Same story here, though I've recently given up my Aeron. I bought my Aeron at the Arthur Andersen bankruptcy auction in Houston in response to back, elbow, and wrist pain caused by a half dozen crappy chairs bought from Office Max or Office Depot for about $100 each over the span of several years. I kept the Aeron for 8 years, and then sold it when I was moving out of my house and into an RV...and it looked as good as the day I bought it. The guy who bought it from me couldn't believe I'd had it for nearly a decade and that it was used when I got it. Best $385 I ever spent, and when I can make room for another one, I won't mind spending a few hundred bucks to buy another one. I can say with absolute sincerity that it's just stupid to buy a cheap office chair. You pay for it with your back, your ass, your wrists, your elbows, <i>and</i> with your wallet, because the cheap chairs only last a year or two if you are a heavy user, as programmers always are.<p>I had started to regret selling it a month or so into my travels, but I've now figured out how to avoid trouble with the new lifestyle. Moving regularly between all of the several sitting locations I have in the RV (dinette, desk, sofa, and also sitting outside in a cloth folding chair or a wooden folding chair when weather is nice (which is most of the time, since I follow good weather), and exercising a lot more (easy since I have to walk my dog regularly, anyway, and I'm always in some place new that is way more interesting than what's on TV). I also still have my tall table from Ikea that I used for a while as a standing desk, but I haven't parked anywhere long enough to make it worth setting up.<p>As I type, I'm sitting outside under the awning overlooking the desert in a place called "Slab City" about 150 miles west of San Diego, and just south of Joshua Tree. I think I am going to do some customization of my next RV to get an Aeron back into the picture, though. There's just no good reason not to have a really good chair.</text><parent_chain><item><author>msisk6</author><text>Right now I'm sitting in an Aeron chair I bought myself 11 years ago. It's been through 3 startups, 4 moves, 2 wives and a half-dozen laptops. I don't want to even think about how many hours my keister has been in this chair. Amortized for use over time I don't think I ever spent money so wisely.<p>Get a good chair now -- even if you have to spend your own money on it. You won't regret it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The greatest enemy of the programmer: hemorrhoids</title><url>http://blog.cubeofm.com/the-greatest-enemy-of-the-programmer-hemorrho</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abstractbill</author><text>In the office I work at a desk and on a chair. But at home (where I work on side-projects several hours most days) I <i>never</i> work sitting on a chair - it's always either curled up with a laptop on the couch, or sitting on the floor. Usually I alternate between the two. I much prefer <i>not</i> sitting on a chair if I can avoid it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>msisk6</author><text>Right now I'm sitting in an Aeron chair I bought myself 11 years ago. It's been through 3 startups, 4 moves, 2 wives and a half-dozen laptops. I don't want to even think about how many hours my keister has been in this chair. Amortized for use over time I don't think I ever spent money so wisely.<p>Get a good chair now -- even if you have to spend your own money on it. You won't regret it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The greatest enemy of the programmer: hemorrhoids</title><url>http://blog.cubeofm.com/the-greatest-enemy-of-the-programmer-hemorrho</url></story> |
21,602,085 | 21,600,988 | 1 | 2 | 21,600,101 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oxplot</author><text>What is it with this bullshit practice of requiring TOTP&#x2F;SMS setup first before using security keys! I&#x27;ve seen this all over the place, seemingly copied from all the existing ones. Basically they&#x27;re saying, you must have a less secure 2FA before using a more secure one. Even github does this circus show but at least it lets you register two keys. So what I do is to setup TOTP, add two keys and then remove the TOTP on my phone.<p>As for limitation of one key, I use my Yubikeys with TOTP as well, so for services that don&#x27;t support more than one security key, I store the same TOTP private key on both my security keys and get around it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>roca</author><text>Unfortunately there are two big problems:<p>-- You can&#x27;t provision more than one security key. I want to provision a backup key.<p>-- You must have TOTP or text-message 2FA enabled in order to use a security key. But the very reason I want to use a security key is because I don&#x27;t want to trust my phone!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number</title><url>https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1197630682631221248</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>You can do TOTP authentication on any device that you do trust. It&#x27;s just an HMAC of a timer. I use oauthtool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nongnu.org&#x2F;oath-toolkit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nongnu.org&#x2F;oath-toolkit&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>roca</author><text>Unfortunately there are two big problems:<p>-- You can&#x27;t provision more than one security key. I want to provision a backup key.<p>-- You must have TOTP or text-message 2FA enabled in order to use a security key. But the very reason I want to use a security key is because I don&#x27;t want to trust my phone!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number</title><url>https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1197630682631221248</url></story> |
32,738,828 | 32,737,880 | 1 | 2 | 32,736,563 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rjmunro</author><text>Right now, the UK is exporting energy to France because we are receiving Liquified Natural Gas at our Gas terminals and have nowhere to store it and can&#x27;t send it over pipelines to Europe fast enough, so our only option is to burn it for electricity and sell that.<p>Once other EU LNG terminals come online, and as the UK needs more energy itself over winter, it stop exporting. Hopefully some more UK gas storage will come on line in the next few weeks as well, but probably not enough to make a significant difference to this winter&#x27;s outlook: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-08-31&#x2F;centrica-moves-closer-to-restoring-key-uk-gas-reserve-for-winter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-08-31&#x2F;centrica-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>stuaxo</author><text>Amazing the UK exporting energy to France when it is in the state it is.<p>Similarly; during the potato famine Britain exported much of Irelands food crops.<p>Now, the UK is doing this to it&#x27;s own population, much of it&#x27;s Oil and Gas from the North see is being exported.<p>Ordinary people are getting hit with what will be some of the biggest prices rises in Europe, but the people who have been in charge for 12 years don&#x27;t care.<p>The new prime minister says she will fix this, but she was a minister for 8 years in this government, and her solution is to keep all the energy company profits, and give people a stopgap that will be added onto their bills for the next 10 years.</text></item><item><author>seren</author><text>EDF was a net electricity exporter, until 2022, but this year France is already importing quite a lot of electricity currently, due to most nuclear reactors being still in maintenance. They are supposed to be restarted before winter but I would not bet on it<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rte-france.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;eco2mix&#x2F;cross-border-electricity-trading" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rte-france.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;eco2mix&#x2F;cross-border-electrici...</a></text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>From what I recall the last time I was there is that they tune it down quite a bit in winter anyway because of electricity that is needed else where in France.<p>Also from my understanding most of the electricity that is generated for CERN is by nuclear power plants and since so many of those are currently under maintenance they may need the power they do have to supply export agreements etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/cern-drafts-plans-to-idle-accelerators-due-to-europe-s-energy-crunch/47875950</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>Usually that is due to existing contract agreements and futures. Which was agreed on by all parties involved.<p>In the Netherlands we&#x27;re also getting questions about why we&#x27;re exporting so much gas we need ourselves. Well that&#x27;s why. We&#x27;ve already sold it, it just hasn&#x27;t been delivered yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stuaxo</author><text>Amazing the UK exporting energy to France when it is in the state it is.<p>Similarly; during the potato famine Britain exported much of Irelands food crops.<p>Now, the UK is doing this to it&#x27;s own population, much of it&#x27;s Oil and Gas from the North see is being exported.<p>Ordinary people are getting hit with what will be some of the biggest prices rises in Europe, but the people who have been in charge for 12 years don&#x27;t care.<p>The new prime minister says she will fix this, but she was a minister for 8 years in this government, and her solution is to keep all the energy company profits, and give people a stopgap that will be added onto their bills for the next 10 years.</text></item><item><author>seren</author><text>EDF was a net electricity exporter, until 2022, but this year France is already importing quite a lot of electricity currently, due to most nuclear reactors being still in maintenance. They are supposed to be restarted before winter but I would not bet on it<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rte-france.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;eco2mix&#x2F;cross-border-electricity-trading" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rte-france.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;eco2mix&#x2F;cross-border-electrici...</a></text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>From what I recall the last time I was there is that they tune it down quite a bit in winter anyway because of electricity that is needed else where in France.<p>Also from my understanding most of the electricity that is generated for CERN is by nuclear power plants and since so many of those are currently under maintenance they may need the power they do have to supply export agreements etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/cern-drafts-plans-to-idle-accelerators-due-to-europe-s-energy-crunch/47875950</url></story> |
4,715,235 | 4,715,283 | 1 | 3 | 4,714,701 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zdw</author><text>AMD is no stranger to using busses and sockets that are compatible with "other" hardware.<p>The original Athlon was bus-compatible with DEC Alpha chips - some logic boards could take either with a firmware upgrade.<p>Also, there have been FPGA's that slot into Opteron logic boards (Celoxica made one around 2006), and various other chips that connect directly to the hypertransport bus as accelerators.<p>It remains to be seen what they'll do with this. Will it be a Xeon Phi competitor (lots of cores, high thermal footprint) or something aimed at lower end uses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6418/amd-will-build-64bit-arm-based-opteron-cpus-for-servers-production-in-2014</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stefantalpalaru</author><text>Shut up and take my money! Give me 64+ cores at an affordable price and my next build will keep you in business, AMD.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6418/amd-will-build-64bit-arm-based-opteron-cpus-for-servers-production-in-2014</url></story> |
41,349,775 | 41,349,663 | 1 | 2 | 41,348,659 | 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>stavros</author><text>I use Hetzner cloud not because it&#x27;s European, but because it&#x27;s great.</text><parent_chain><item><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>I run a European cloud service, 80% of our customers are basically looking for a European alternative to the big clouds. The market is huge and in my opinion underserved.<p>What makes it very exciting is that there not too much innovation required to compete</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing</title><url>https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isoprophlex</author><text>You&#x27;re absolutely right: a huge, underserved market exists. Are you hiring? I&#x27;d love to work on a European big cloud alternative..!</text><parent_chain><item><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>I run a European cloud service, 80% of our customers are basically looking for a European alternative to the big clouds. The market is huge and in my opinion underserved.<p>What makes it very exciting is that there not too much innovation required to compete</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing</title><url>https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311</url></story> |
13,236,658 | 13,234,641 | 1 | 2 | 13,234,406 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tom_mellior</author><text>&gt; Now that I know this tree exists, I have little doubt I&#x27;d die after a hike in the Caribbean.<p>It&#x27;s really not that big a deal. On most islands they are clearly marked with a red band. Don&#x27;t touch them, don&#x27;t eat strange fruit off the ground, and don&#x27;t stand under them in the rain and you&#x27;ll be fine. Even if not marked, just don&#x27;t go groping trees. Don&#x27;t worry about breathing the air, that part is sensationalist bullshit.<p>What&#x27;s more dangerous, as tour guides will be happy to tell you, are coconut palms: Falling coconuts are responsible for more deaths per year than shark attacks. (Although that says more about the rarity of shark attacks, I guess...)<p>Oh well, atlasobscura seems to need the clicks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>riebschlager</author><text>Every spring I google &quot;poison ivy&quot; so I can remember exactly what it looks like. And every summer, I get a poison ivy rash.<p>Now that I know this tree exists, I have little doubt I&#x27;d die after a hike in the Caribbean.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whatever-you-do-do-not-eat-touch-or-even-inhale-the-air-around-the-manchineel-tree?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=theatlantic</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>devbug</author><text>Have you tried not googling &quot;poison ivy&quot; in the spring?</text><parent_chain><item><author>riebschlager</author><text>Every spring I google &quot;poison ivy&quot; so I can remember exactly what it looks like. And every summer, I get a poison ivy rash.<p>Now that I know this tree exists, I have little doubt I&#x27;d die after a hike in the Caribbean.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whatever-you-do-do-not-eat-touch-or-even-inhale-the-air-around-the-manchineel-tree?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=theatlantic</url></story> |
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