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1,816,260 | 1,816,357 | 1 | 3 | 1,815,682 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>I feel that there is the danger here of a blind leading the blind effect. I tried it out for giggles. Not to pick on my reviewer, but here:<p><i>There are alot of words on the landing page [of BCC]. Look at some of the ycombinator pages and you will notice the average site has about 45 words and 4-9 links. Don't give them so many options and so much to read. Otherewise, looks good!</i><p>The quality of your users' interactions with FeedbackRoulette is directly related to the quality of the advice they receive. To recruit and retain the best users who give the best advice, you have to be giving out advice which is worth their time. The above quoted advice is well-intentioned but does not convince me that I am likely to realize business value by continuing to be engaged with the service.<p>To see another take at resolving this problem, take a look at StackOverflow: by breaking the 1:1 nature of the communication, you can use people's desire to peacock to get hypercontributing members of the community to be responsible for most of the good advice on the site, and let the 90% who do no writing merely vote the good stuff to the top. Hopefully they pick the right good stuff. If, on the other hand, StackOverflow picked two random programmers with a question and connected them, the average experience of using it would be getting your query on Rails ActiveRecord validation answered by a junior Java programmer from India. That would be a much less effective StackOverflow. It would likely not maintain the interest of somebody like John Skeet (who, if you are not familiar with the SO community, is something of a local legend).<p>(Sidenote: if this reviewer was right and there are in fact YC companies with 45 words on the front page... how do I put this gently... there must be someone in your alumni network who you trust on SEO, right? Talk to him about whether that is a good idea. It will be a very brief conversation.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Review others websites and they review yours</title><url>http://feedbackroulette.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>melvinram</author><text>I reviewed 4 sites just for kicks and submitted my site to it. So far, only 1 person rated my review so I got 1 feedback point and 1 review for my website. Seems like getting an ROI on my time is dependent on a) whether people see the rating buttons b) click on them. Seems like something that needs to be fixed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Review others websites and they review yours</title><url>http://feedbackroulette.com/</url></story> |
40,480,675 | 40,480,280 | 1 | 3 | 40,479,328 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jexp</author><text>RenTec was covered in much depth at the Acquired podcast.
Basically algorithms from signal processing applied to huge volumes of historical and current data to determine buy and sell signals. Originally developed for national defense.<p>Very secretive all external partners were bought out. Only hundred or so people benefited in the billions per person. Including Robert Mercer of Trump campaign financing and Cambridge Analytica fame.<p>Very interesting but also disheartening episode about smart people only caring about getting richer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acquired.fm&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;renaissance-technologies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acquired.fm&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;renaissance-technologies</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success</title><url>https://alchemy.substack.com/p/the-algorithm-behind-jim-simonss</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DeathArrow</author><text>Assembling a team and keep working on something for 10 years when you are unsure whether it will work or not, requires a huge amount of passion, dedication and patience. I think most people would quit early if they don&#x27;t see a rapid pay off.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success</title><url>https://alchemy.substack.com/p/the-algorithm-behind-jim-simonss</url></story> |
10,837,826 | 10,837,932 | 1 | 3 | 10,835,860 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Merad</author><text>Sorry, I think this is just totally disconnected from the reality of the average American who lives outside of a major urban center.<p>1. Mom, dad, and kid all need to go to work&#x2F;school at roughly the same time. If they all have a 15-20 minute commute (well below average for many areas) and the destinations for all three aren&#x27;t in the same immediate vicinity, we&#x27;re right back to the family needing 2-3 cars.<p>2. Eh, no. Go to the mall or a shopping center parking lot and walk around looking in people&#x27;s cars. The average person&#x27;s car is somewhere between messy and a pigsty. IMO, this will only get worse with SDCs, since people will be able to do more eating&#x2F;dressing&#x2F;preparing&#x2F;relaxing in their car without the need to drive. Not to mention the number of people who simply don&#x27;t want random strangers using their car. Uber or Lyft would have to offer a <i>significant</i> fee before I would even consider it.<p>3. Vehicle owners are used to convenience. If I live in 20 minutes outside the city, then I probably have to wait 20-30 minutes for a ride to arrive before I even start my trip. Massively inconvenient, and not worth it.<p>SDCs will definitely lead to change in American society, but I have to wonder if it won&#x27;t completely backfire on some of these expectations, and actually lead to American society sprawling out even more into the suburban and rural areas. WFH is becoming a viable option for more and more jobs, and longer commutes will be much more acceptable to most people when the time in their car isn&#x27;t simply lost time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>It is predicted that autonomous cars will reduce America&#x27;s fleet of vehicles by something like 10-fold [1]. I think it will unfold something like this:<p>FIRST, instead three cars for mom, dad and kid, the average family has one car that drops mom off to work, then dad, and then the teen off to school.<p>SECOND, aforementioned car makes use of its down time to drive strangers around via Uber, Lyft, et cetera. The car&#x27;s owners collect a fee from Uber, Lyft et al.<p>THIRD, economies of scale and changes in perceptions towards the utility versus cost of owning cars causes people to stop buying them. Instead, they subscribe for access to a fleet–such as Uber or Tesla&#x27;s. (Note: people already do this in cities like New York, where car ownership is relatively scarce.)<p>AND FINALLY, as distributed car ownership falls, retail locations for their maintenance go out of business. Barring massive public subsidy for car ownership, this creates a feedback loop that increases the cost of individual car ownership until it becomes a luxury.<p>1 will happen later than we expect. 2 will happen sooner, 3 much later and 4 drastically sooner. In fact, I think it will ultimately be 4, not 3, that drives a rapid, self-perpetuating dominance of self-driving cars within our lifetime.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sustainablemobility.ei.columbia.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;Transforming-Personal-Mobility-Jan-27-20132.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sustainablemobility.ei.columbia.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;Tra...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/technology/gm-invests-in-lyft.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Ftechnology%2Fgm-invests-in-lyft.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>ssmoot</author><text>I think it&#x27;s crazy unrealistic that autonomous cars will be the majority in anything short of 20 to 30 years. The tech doesn&#x27;t even exist yet.<p>It&#x27;s taken that long just to see ABS become standard equipment across 90% of vehicles.<p>And this just completely ignores the ~5 to 7 year product cycle. There&#x27;s no way that in just one or two generations of the Taurus we have a completely self-driving car capable of operating in all normal driving conditions, and that it&#x27;s displaced the 4 or 5 previous generations of vehicles commonly on the road without the tech.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>It is predicted that autonomous cars will reduce America&#x27;s fleet of vehicles by something like 10-fold [1]. I think it will unfold something like this:<p>FIRST, instead three cars for mom, dad and kid, the average family has one car that drops mom off to work, then dad, and then the teen off to school.<p>SECOND, aforementioned car makes use of its down time to drive strangers around via Uber, Lyft, et cetera. The car&#x27;s owners collect a fee from Uber, Lyft et al.<p>THIRD, economies of scale and changes in perceptions towards the utility versus cost of owning cars causes people to stop buying them. Instead, they subscribe for access to a fleet–such as Uber or Tesla&#x27;s. (Note: people already do this in cities like New York, where car ownership is relatively scarce.)<p>AND FINALLY, as distributed car ownership falls, retail locations for their maintenance go out of business. Barring massive public subsidy for car ownership, this creates a feedback loop that increases the cost of individual car ownership until it becomes a luxury.<p>1 will happen later than we expect. 2 will happen sooner, 3 much later and 4 drastically sooner. In fact, I think it will ultimately be 4, not 3, that drives a rapid, self-perpetuating dominance of self-driving cars within our lifetime.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sustainablemobility.ei.columbia.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;Transforming-Personal-Mobility-Jan-27-20132.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sustainablemobility.ei.columbia.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;Tra...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/technology/gm-invests-in-lyft.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Ftechnology%2Fgm-invests-in-lyft.html</url></story> |
28,392,066 | 28,388,435 | 1 | 3 | 28,379,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Blahagun</author><text>&gt;You trust a private corporation more than actual laws and government procedures and you feel right and cool?<p>Governments all around the world have proven many times that they are corrupt, incompetent, constantly make _horrible_ mistakes that impact our privacy, etc.
What&#x27;s your point exactly?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nbzso</author><text>The disturbing thing is that instead of breaking monopolistic behemoths who are feeding their empires from our data, governments are offloading more power to them. If some form of Digital ID is required it must be done on government level with proper public oversight and always available analogue procedures and backup.<p>But this is convenient, you say.
What is this? Because you have a digital gizmo, knowing all about you, you cannot comprehend the magnitude of situation? You trust a private corporation more than actual laws and government procedures and you feel right and cool?<p>You have nothing to hide and everyone is having your data anyway?
The Minority Report version of the future is building in front of you and you don&#x27;t care, because is convenient?
Are you not informed? Are you technically uneducated? Or are you blind? CCP Social rating is working in China. In the next two years will work globally, under different &quot;democratic&quot; branding.<p>What is a logical response? The logical response is simple. It is time to balance convenience with privacy and some form of &quot;realistic&quot; view of the world.
This corporate power will be abused. The question is how soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first-states-to-adopt-drivers-licenses-and-state-ids-in-wallet/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>littleweep</author><text>You present problems. What are the solutions in your view?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nbzso</author><text>The disturbing thing is that instead of breaking monopolistic behemoths who are feeding their empires from our data, governments are offloading more power to them. If some form of Digital ID is required it must be done on government level with proper public oversight and always available analogue procedures and backup.<p>But this is convenient, you say.
What is this? Because you have a digital gizmo, knowing all about you, you cannot comprehend the magnitude of situation? You trust a private corporation more than actual laws and government procedures and you feel right and cool?<p>You have nothing to hide and everyone is having your data anyway?
The Minority Report version of the future is building in front of you and you don&#x27;t care, because is convenient?
Are you not informed? Are you technically uneducated? Or are you blind? CCP Social rating is working in China. In the next two years will work globally, under different &quot;democratic&quot; branding.<p>What is a logical response? The logical response is simple. It is time to balance convenience with privacy and some form of &quot;realistic&quot; view of the world.
This corporate power will be abused. The question is how soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first-states-to-adopt-drivers-licenses-and-state-ids-in-wallet/</url></story> |
33,014,097 | 33,013,401 | 1 | 2 | 33,012,115 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&gt; IOW, use the AppleTV (or Roku, or whatever) regardless just for the better experience.<p>I&#x27;ve never used AppleTV. Does it come with ads and a bunch of data collection too? Roku collects massive amounts of data and has ads. For example:<p>&quot;Roughly twice per second, a Roku TV captures video “snapshots” in 4K resolution. These snapshots are scanned through a database of content and ads, which allows the exposure to be matched to what is airing. For example, if a streamer is watching an NFL football game and sees an ad for a hard seltzer, Roku’s ACR will know that the ad has appeared on the TV being watched at that time. In this way, the content on screen is automatically recognized, as the technology’s name indicates. The data then is paired with user profile data to link the account watching with the content they’re watching.&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;advertising.roku.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;blog&#x2F;insights-analysis&#x2F;acr-the-future-of-tv-and-audience-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;advertising.roku.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;blog&#x2F;insights-analysi...</a>)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>Just give me my Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, HBO Max,...</i><p>All of which are available on an AppleTV, and I assume other less-intrusive devices. TFA comes to that conclusion in the last paragraph, but just in case anyone didn&#x27;t make it that far. And then, as everyone on this page is going to say, never let that TV anywhere near a network connection. Why anyone would go to the effort of dicking with a pi-hole cat-and-mouse game is beyond me. Plug in a box, remove network access to the TV, watch your shows.<p><i>...even if it duplicates all the streaming app functionality in the TV itself.</i><p>I don&#x27;t know, Samsung&#x27;s fuckery aside, does anyone seriously think that using the duplicate app on the Samsung is going to be anywhere nearly as pleasant a UX as the AppleTV? IOW, use the AppleTV (or Roku, or whatever) regardless just for the better experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/i-spent-3000-on-a-samsung-smart-tv-and-all-i-got-were-ads-and-unwanted-content/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>One remote is inherently better than two remotes. It&#x27;s objectively less hassle.<p>The apps are actually mostly identical from experience.<p>I actually use a PS4 at the moment, and it occasionally forces me to update before I can use the TV app, so even more hassle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>Just give me my Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, HBO Max,...</i><p>All of which are available on an AppleTV, and I assume other less-intrusive devices. TFA comes to that conclusion in the last paragraph, but just in case anyone didn&#x27;t make it that far. And then, as everyone on this page is going to say, never let that TV anywhere near a network connection. Why anyone would go to the effort of dicking with a pi-hole cat-and-mouse game is beyond me. Plug in a box, remove network access to the TV, watch your shows.<p><i>...even if it duplicates all the streaming app functionality in the TV itself.</i><p>I don&#x27;t know, Samsung&#x27;s fuckery aside, does anyone seriously think that using the duplicate app on the Samsung is going to be anywhere nearly as pleasant a UX as the AppleTV? IOW, use the AppleTV (or Roku, or whatever) regardless just for the better experience.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/i-spent-3000-on-a-samsung-smart-tv-and-all-i-got-were-ads-and-unwanted-content/</url></story> |
7,644,110 | 7,642,457 | 1 | 3 | 7,640,473 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidrupp</author><text>Datomic is bundled with a REST server: <a href="http://docs.datomic.com/rest.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.datomic.com&#x2F;rest.html</a>. And it includes an endpoint to subscribe to a stream of Server-Sent Events, which lets you drink from the transaction-report firehose. But there is a lot of data in that stream. I&#x27;m writing a production Pedestal app, and I could definitely use the capability to store my data on the client in the same shape as Datomic and query it with Datalog.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>Looks like a great library... It would be intriguing to try to use something like DatomicScript for the app state of an Om application.<p>(Edit: Read in a separate blog post that the author of DatomicScript is thinking about this already)<p>At the end of the day though, I still think someone (smarter than me) needs to figure out the full end-to-end solution for datomic+clojurescript, with both client and server elements.<p>The core question: Does it make sense to map datomic to a REST API on the server, then consume the REST on the client? Or, does it make more sense to build something more clojure-like for the client-server interface, and remove REST from the equation entirely?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DataScript – Datomic in ClojureScript</title><url>https://github.com/tonsky/datomicscript</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dustingetz</author><text>i think you want the application-facing interface to remain REST (links between entities, HATEOAS), but the REST&#x2F;CRUD client&#x27;s transport layer wouldn&#x27;t be traditional http&#x2F;ajax, rather implement similar capabilities to a Datomic Peer. So a CRUD READ would query a cached Datomic index rather than touch network. Create, Update, Delete could be http&#x2F;ajax or could be something else like a websocket; I believe transport to be orthogonal to the fundamental principles of REST application design.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>Looks like a great library... It would be intriguing to try to use something like DatomicScript for the app state of an Om application.<p>(Edit: Read in a separate blog post that the author of DatomicScript is thinking about this already)<p>At the end of the day though, I still think someone (smarter than me) needs to figure out the full end-to-end solution for datomic+clojurescript, with both client and server elements.<p>The core question: Does it make sense to map datomic to a REST API on the server, then consume the REST on the client? Or, does it make more sense to build something more clojure-like for the client-server interface, and remove REST from the equation entirely?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DataScript – Datomic in ClojureScript</title><url>https://github.com/tonsky/datomicscript</url></story> |
41,448,680 | 41,448,663 | 1 | 2 | 41,445,790 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Misdicorl</author><text>The past decade is a difficult framing to ask the question in. Notable breakthrough results are usually understood in hindsight and a decade just isn&#x27;t a lot of time for that context and understanding to develop. Science also doesn&#x27;t necessarily develop in this way with consistent progress every X timespan. Usually you get lots and lots of breakthroughs all at once as an important paradigm is shattered and a new one is installed. Then observations with tiny differences slowly pile up and a very blurry&#x2F;messy picture of the problems with the new paradigm takes shape. But none of those things feels like a breakthrough, especially to a layman.<p>That said: I&#x27;ll submit the first detection of gravitational waves as two black holes merged together in 2020 as meeting the bar of &quot;notable breakthrough in the last decade&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alickz</author><text>please forgive my ignorance, has there been notable progress in the field of physics in the last decade? noteworthy breakthroughs i mean<p>i ask out of layman curiosity</text></item><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>I don’t agree with this. I think there are definitely people like Michio Kaku who have books to sell who spend their time pontificating. People just think that physics looks like pontificating because that’s what it looks like on TV.<p>But there are also active researchers doing real research. Physics postdocs aren’t just sitting around in a circle making up stories about what the universe is like.</text></item><item><author>selectodude</author><text>To some extent, observation has taken a back seat because we&#x27;re at the point in our physics journey where we pontificate about things that are too small or too dark and far away to see. We simply can&#x27;t observe this stuff anymore.</text></item><item><author>tines</author><text>&gt; it wasn&#x27;t made during the nineteenth century<p>That&#x27;s because people were totally focused on physics, and math was just a useful tool sometimes. Doing physics was the true goal and observation the final arbiter of truth.<p>Nowadays, that distinction is blurred but for the opposite reason; people think that anything conceived by sound math must be true, and observation has taken a back seat.</text></item><item><author>cjs_ac</author><text>One of my physics lecturers at university made the offhand observation that the distinction between physics and mathematics is a <i>twentieth-century idea</i>: it wasn&#x27;t made during the nineteenth century or before, and it seems to be disappearing in the twenty-first.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math</title><url>https://nautil.us/why-physics-is-unreasonably-good-at-creating-new-math-797056/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hughesjj</author><text>Absolutely, they&#x27;re still handing out nobels after all.<p>Personally I think the ER=EPR conjecture and the complexity&#x2F;action duality hypothesis are incredibly interesting. Technically ER=EPR was formulated in 2000s (maybe 90s?) and CA-duality is approaching if not just past 10 years old, but the thing about asking for breakthroughs is that they take a while to percolate. Ex Hawking radiation wasn&#x27;t formulated until, like, 50-70 years after the &quot;basis&quot; (schwarzshild, Schrodinger) was formed.<p>There&#x27;s also been a ton of productive research integrsting computer science and physics lately ( on hn last week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.16850" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.16850</a> and 2022 novel prize; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-universe-is-n...</a>)<p>Also JWST just keeps on giving, and gravitational waves were only confirmed in 2017. If you extend a bit further higgs was in the 2010s<p>So, in summary, in the late 10 years
- we&#x27;ve shown a break in our intuition of physics (nonloca-realness, that 2022 paper)
- proposed some novel yet elegant theories (CA-duality, and I&#x27;d hope you&#x27;d begrudge me er=EPR)
- confirmed some insane provings to the underlying reality (gravitational waves)<p>If those aren&#x27;t noteworthy, I&#x27;d ask what you consider noteworthy any why you consider it noteworthy</text><parent_chain><item><author>alickz</author><text>please forgive my ignorance, has there been notable progress in the field of physics in the last decade? noteworthy breakthroughs i mean<p>i ask out of layman curiosity</text></item><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>I don’t agree with this. I think there are definitely people like Michio Kaku who have books to sell who spend their time pontificating. People just think that physics looks like pontificating because that’s what it looks like on TV.<p>But there are also active researchers doing real research. Physics postdocs aren’t just sitting around in a circle making up stories about what the universe is like.</text></item><item><author>selectodude</author><text>To some extent, observation has taken a back seat because we&#x27;re at the point in our physics journey where we pontificate about things that are too small or too dark and far away to see. We simply can&#x27;t observe this stuff anymore.</text></item><item><author>tines</author><text>&gt; it wasn&#x27;t made during the nineteenth century<p>That&#x27;s because people were totally focused on physics, and math was just a useful tool sometimes. Doing physics was the true goal and observation the final arbiter of truth.<p>Nowadays, that distinction is blurred but for the opposite reason; people think that anything conceived by sound math must be true, and observation has taken a back seat.</text></item><item><author>cjs_ac</author><text>One of my physics lecturers at university made the offhand observation that the distinction between physics and mathematics is a <i>twentieth-century idea</i>: it wasn&#x27;t made during the nineteenth century or before, and it seems to be disappearing in the twenty-first.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math</title><url>https://nautil.us/why-physics-is-unreasonably-good-at-creating-new-math-797056/</url></story> |
22,220,796 | 22,218,059 | 1 | 2 | 22,216,821 | 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>labcomputer</author><text>You can measure peak acceleration--cars accelerate much faster than buses or trains--or whether you&#x27;re connected to headphones (not a head-unit). Use of headphones by drivers is illegal in most places.<p>As for express vs. regular lanes, express-lane cars will have much different distributions than regular-lane cars. Use something like KNN where the distance metric is a weighted sum of Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between speed distributions and K-S between acceleration distributions (each vehicle is one unit with a distribution of speeds and accelerations).</text><parent_chain><item><author>onionisafruit</author><text>How did you fix that? I’ve been wondering how google and the others differentiate between cars on the free vs express lanes.</text></item><item><author>nudgeee</author><text>I used to work for a mapping &amp; navigation company that offered a traffic API service. It worked by using anonymized cell phone data to predict traffic patterns. I once heard a story that during peak hour, every five minutes or so the jams on a highway would magically disappear then reappear. After some head scratching, turns out there is a train track inbetween the lanes of the highway full of high speed commuters that would cancel out the stationary car commuters.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Maps Hacks</title><url>http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.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>lucb1e</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what a free lane vs an express lane is, but for the &quot;that&quot;, I can imagine that a cluster of hundreds of phones moving at exactly the same speed in the vicinity of a train track until they reach the next station would be a reasonable indicator that the were in a train. The preexisting phones in that area would not show the property of moving at the same speed at the same time, and it also kind of stands out that they&#x27;re still doing 15-30km&#x2F;h (or however bad traffic may be) while the newcomer phones all rush through at 140km&#x2F;h (85miles&#x2F;h).<p>Bonus points if those clients all connect from the same IP address (range). That would be the train WiFi.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onionisafruit</author><text>How did you fix that? I’ve been wondering how google and the others differentiate between cars on the free vs express lanes.</text></item><item><author>nudgeee</author><text>I used to work for a mapping &amp; navigation company that offered a traffic API service. It worked by using anonymized cell phone data to predict traffic patterns. I once heard a story that during peak hour, every five minutes or so the jams on a highway would magically disappear then reappear. After some head scratching, turns out there is a train track inbetween the lanes of the highway full of high speed commuters that would cancel out the stationary car commuters.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Maps Hacks</title><url>http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html</url></story> |
18,444,688 | 18,444,622 | 1 | 2 | 18,442,775 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpm_sd</author><text>This is a pretty incredible achievement. Be sure to follow the #3 &quot;High quality ambient imagery&quot; link too, if you haven&#x27;t seen it before:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ouster.io&#x2F;blog-posts&#x2F;2018&#x2F;8&#x2F;31&#x2F;the-camera-is-in-the-lidar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ouster.io&#x2F;blog-posts&#x2F;2018&#x2F;8&#x2F;31&#x2F;the-camera-is-in-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Multi-Beam Flash Lidar Works</title><url>https://www.ouster.io/blog-posts/2018/11/8/how-multi-beam-flash-lidar-works</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dev_dull</author><text>&gt; <i>And since we’re asked about it occasionally, the lasers we use are well under the eye safety limit and have been certified as Class 1 eye-safe lasers by third party labs.</i><p>Oh geeze. I’ve never even considered the fact that there’s a possibility looking at these cars might cause vision issues!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Multi-Beam Flash Lidar Works</title><url>https://www.ouster.io/blog-posts/2018/11/8/how-multi-beam-flash-lidar-works</url></story> |
28,295,216 | 28,294,979 | 1 | 2 | 28,274,128 | 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>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Rack mount hardware is almost always expensive, loud, and power hungry.<p>Buying old rack-mount server hardware for home use is almost always a mistake. Old server hardware may feel cheap when you see an old dual-socket rack mount server on eBay with hardware that was fast 8 years ago, but you can probably meet or exceed the performance with something like a cheap 8-core Ryzen.<p>Rack mount servers are also exceptionally loud. Unless you love the noise of small, high-RPM server fans, you don&#x27;t want rack mount server hardware in your house.<p>And don&#x27;t forget the power bill. Some old servers idle at hundreds of watts, which will add up over the several years you leave it running. 24&#x2F;7 server hardware is a good example of where it makes sense to be mindful of power consumption.<p>&gt; What makes even less sense is wanting use to use software like vSphere or ESXi since its about 10x more complicated than just using virt-manager&#x2F;QEMU.<p>I disagree. ESXi is actually extremely easy to use, as long as you pick compatible hardware up front. The GUI isn&#x27;t perfect, but it&#x27;s intuitive enough that I feel confident clicking around to accomplish what I need instead of looking up a tutorial first.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>Rack mount hardware is almost always expensive, loud, and power hungry. I just have never seen the point of building a home lab like this.<p>A single ATX desktop can do almost [1] everything a homelab at a fraction of the cost &amp; power consuption. I think a lot of the reason for homelabs&#x2F;server hardware was to get access to more CPU cores, now that 8+ cores are very cheap it is actually cheaper to buy a new consumer desktop than it is to run an old server.<p>What makes even less sense is <i>wanting</i> use to use software like vSphere or ESXi since its about 10x more complicated than just using virt-manager&#x2F;QEMU. It&#x27;s like using an excavator to dig a fire pit. Server hardware &amp; software makes sense when it&#x27;s not your home because then you do need a remote access tool like iDRACK. (There are DIY options if you just need something for personal use).<p>That said if you enjoy it as a hobby (or your homelab is actually a business thing) then go for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Lab Hardware Guide</title><url>https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p_j_w</author><text>&gt;What makes even less sense is wanting use to use software like vSphere or ESXi since its about 10x more complicated than just using virt-manager&#x2F;QEMU.<p>I always just assumed it was as a learning experience. When I was in my 20s, I didn&#x27;t try to get Apache, qmail, and bind running because it was practical for me, I wanted a marketable skill. There are lucrative jobs out there for people who know these technologies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>Rack mount hardware is almost always expensive, loud, and power hungry. I just have never seen the point of building a home lab like this.<p>A single ATX desktop can do almost [1] everything a homelab at a fraction of the cost &amp; power consuption. I think a lot of the reason for homelabs&#x2F;server hardware was to get access to more CPU cores, now that 8+ cores are very cheap it is actually cheaper to buy a new consumer desktop than it is to run an old server.<p>What makes even less sense is <i>wanting</i> use to use software like vSphere or ESXi since its about 10x more complicated than just using virt-manager&#x2F;QEMU. It&#x27;s like using an excavator to dig a fire pit. Server hardware &amp; software makes sense when it&#x27;s not your home because then you do need a remote access tool like iDRACK. (There are DIY options if you just need something for personal use).<p>That said if you enjoy it as a hobby (or your homelab is actually a business thing) then go for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Lab Hardware Guide</title><url>https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners</url></story> |
41,190,380 | 41,190,406 | 1 | 3 | 41,167,626 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>In my opinion, if you are going position yourself as a neutral arbiter of device repairability, it does not pass the smell test to enter into for-profit business relationships with the companies manufacturing the devices you rate.<p>Providing consumers with information on where to find reputable companies selling repair parts would be a much more palatable alternative to selling them yourself.<p>&gt; “I don’t know why Samsung insists on charging so much for service parts,” Wiens says, visibly frustrated. “The prices that we see are out of line with what we know components actually cost to manufacture.” Wiens starts to elaborate but stops himself. He clarifies that he would love to discuss this more, but his contract with Samsung prevents him from doing so.<p>In this case, the for-profit business relationship with Samsung also stands in the way of advocating for consumers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-ifixit-partnership-story-3456726/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ilaksh</author><text>There are many companies that just do whatever they can get away with and because of their market position, this is a lot.<p>Maybe someday there will be a movement to boycott these abusive companies or something.<p>Check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;futo.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;futo.org</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-ifixit-partnership-story-3456726/</url></story> |
20,809,019 | 20,809,011 | 1 | 2 | 20,807,978 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; If the Library of Alexandria can burn, then so can any form of digital storage.<p>There is no form of storage that cannot be destroyed. Even stone scriptures eventually erode and fade away. The best thing we can do is duplicate everything as much as we can and hope to reduce the loss over time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ddxxdd</author><text>This feels reminiscent of the current issue of long-term data storage.<p>Flash drives are volatile and can lose your data any minute. Solid State drives are slightly less volatile, and a hard disk has magnetic fields that will last decades, but nothing will keep our gigabytes of data alive and intact for future archaeologists. If the Library of Alexandria can burn, then so can any form of digital storage.<p>On a side note, I enjoy reading John Baez&#x27;s answers to common physics questions: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.ucr.edu&#x2F;home&#x2F;baez&#x2F;physics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.ucr.edu&#x2F;home&#x2F;baez&#x2F;physics&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Civilizational Collapse, Part 4</title><url>https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/civilizational-collapse-part-4/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>24gttghh</author><text>&gt;but nothing will keep our gigabytes of data alive and intact for future archaeologists<p>Not so, it seems:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archmission.org&#x2F;5d-optical-memory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archmission.org&#x2F;5d-optical-memory</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ddxxdd</author><text>This feels reminiscent of the current issue of long-term data storage.<p>Flash drives are volatile and can lose your data any minute. Solid State drives are slightly less volatile, and a hard disk has magnetic fields that will last decades, but nothing will keep our gigabytes of data alive and intact for future archaeologists. If the Library of Alexandria can burn, then so can any form of digital storage.<p>On a side note, I enjoy reading John Baez&#x27;s answers to common physics questions: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.ucr.edu&#x2F;home&#x2F;baez&#x2F;physics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.ucr.edu&#x2F;home&#x2F;baez&#x2F;physics&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Civilizational Collapse, Part 4</title><url>https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/civilizational-collapse-part-4/</url></story> |
29,468,724 | 29,468,574 | 1 | 2 | 29,466,172 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jointpdf</author><text>But Delta has been the only game in town for a while now (&gt;99% of cases since late August), so this recent rise in the wastewater viral levels shouldn’t be attributable to a change in the proportion of variants (TBD on Omicron?).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid.cdc.gov&#x2F;covid-data-tracker&#x2F;#variant-proportions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid.cdc.gov&#x2F;covid-data-tracker&#x2F;#variant-proportion...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hardtke</author><text>Be careful interpreting this. Delta and now Omicron are more contagious than the original virus precisely because they have higher peak viral loads and shed more virus from infected patients. Hence, the virus in wastewater per infected individual has been changing along with the number of infected individuals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston</title><url>https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>itamarst</author><text>MA sequences 30% of PCR tests, and has so far found only a single Omicron case...</text><parent_chain><item><author>hardtke</author><text>Be careful interpreting this. Delta and now Omicron are more contagious than the original virus precisely because they have higher peak viral loads and shed more virus from infected patients. Hence, the virus in wastewater per infected individual has been changing along with the number of infected individuals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston</title><url>https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm</url></story> |
18,870,569 | 18,869,894 | 1 | 3 | 18,865,160 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_hardwaregeek</author><text>Yeah, I&#x27;m a little skeptical of CS schools that try to shelter their students from suffering. While schools should obviously not attempt to break students, there should be a reasonable crescendo of difficulty within the program. Because, well, software development can be <i>hard</i>. Students that don&#x27;t like the hard parts don&#x27;t like software development. This doesn&#x27;t mean insanely hard &quot;weed-out&quot; classes, but simply projects that reflect the difficulty and demand of the real world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karmelapple</author><text>&gt; &quot;Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d generalize it to: &quot;Great craftspeople have to kind of like the part of their craft that is unpleasant to 99% of the population.&quot;<p>Someone who excels at playing violin, writing computer software, public speaking, etc., generally does not find the &quot;unpleasant&quot; part to be &quot;tiring&quot;, &quot;boring&quot;, or &quot;work&quot;. Instead, it&#x27;s just part of the overall experience, which is a net positive.<p>When I was younger, I had a classmate who&#x27;s an excellent violin player. Her practice schedule sounded awful to me, with well over an hour spent even on weekdays. I played musical instruments, too, and I liked a little practice, but rarely more than 30 minutes in a day.<p>I asked the violin player about this schedule, and the way she answered the question made it clear that practicing didn&#x27;t seem unpleasant, or like &quot;work,&quot; like it would to many other people. It was something she truly enjoyed.<p>Similar things can be applied to software development and liking the idea of investigating obtuse error messages and things breaking without any clear root cause.</text></item><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>The author doesn&#x27;t want to treat Chan&#x27;s insistence on his account being an inspirational one and just wants to see it as sad.<p>I&#x27;m reminded of a Quora answer by a guy who loved fighting, one phrase he used stuck out at me. &quot;Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit.&quot;<p>You can&#x27;t push your body to its very limits without getting injured. Planning and preparing for it is not sad, it&#x27;s smart. Chan&#x27;s account should be taken at face value. It is inspirational for all the reasons he thinks it is.<p>I mean, sure, it would be way better if Hong Kong weren&#x27;t the colonial hell-hole it was. Chan rose above that and made a noticeable dent in the world. If he could do it in the situation he grew up in, anyone can.<p>As the Brits like to say, Chan and his story are exactly what it says on the tin. To say it&#x27;s not demeans Chan and his life and his choices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/article/152848/painful-price-becoming-jackie-chan</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skookumchuck</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of fighter pilots: &quot;I can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m being paid to fly!&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>karmelapple</author><text>&gt; &quot;Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d generalize it to: &quot;Great craftspeople have to kind of like the part of their craft that is unpleasant to 99% of the population.&quot;<p>Someone who excels at playing violin, writing computer software, public speaking, etc., generally does not find the &quot;unpleasant&quot; part to be &quot;tiring&quot;, &quot;boring&quot;, or &quot;work&quot;. Instead, it&#x27;s just part of the overall experience, which is a net positive.<p>When I was younger, I had a classmate who&#x27;s an excellent violin player. Her practice schedule sounded awful to me, with well over an hour spent even on weekdays. I played musical instruments, too, and I liked a little practice, but rarely more than 30 minutes in a day.<p>I asked the violin player about this schedule, and the way she answered the question made it clear that practicing didn&#x27;t seem unpleasant, or like &quot;work,&quot; like it would to many other people. It was something she truly enjoyed.<p>Similar things can be applied to software development and liking the idea of investigating obtuse error messages and things breaking without any clear root cause.</text></item><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>The author doesn&#x27;t want to treat Chan&#x27;s insistence on his account being an inspirational one and just wants to see it as sad.<p>I&#x27;m reminded of a Quora answer by a guy who loved fighting, one phrase he used stuck out at me. &quot;Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit.&quot;<p>You can&#x27;t push your body to its very limits without getting injured. Planning and preparing for it is not sad, it&#x27;s smart. Chan&#x27;s account should be taken at face value. It is inspirational for all the reasons he thinks it is.<p>I mean, sure, it would be way better if Hong Kong weren&#x27;t the colonial hell-hole it was. Chan rose above that and made a noticeable dent in the world. If he could do it in the situation he grew up in, anyone can.<p>As the Brits like to say, Chan and his story are exactly what it says on the tin. To say it&#x27;s not demeans Chan and his life and his choices.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/article/152848/painful-price-becoming-jackie-chan</url></story> |
40,252,861 | 40,250,337 | 1 | 2 | 40,248,530 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exceptione</author><text>Some additions are nice, but I have my doubts about where this is going. As usual, Google throws in tons of extra stuff. To compute the size, position and appearance of anything, engines have to deal with a growing list of instructions, that all brings conflict. We had floats, flex, grids, position, and now anchor positioning as well.<p>It strikes me that the more useful additions are implemented by Firefox, and the lesser ones not.<p>I had expected that by now we would have a super light (kernel) spec for SPAs, and the heavier spec for design heavy documents. Chrome cannot keep up with Firefox wrt CSS performance.
I don&#x27;t understand why Google is overloading its own camel; the web is not going to render faster with more added complexity.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition)</title><url>https://frontendmasters.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-modern-css-spring-2024-edition/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doix</author><text>The :has selector is huge if you like customizing sites with grease monkey. You can now modify parents based on their children with pure css. Saves you having to use mutation observers in those cases (assuming the site is built with a React-like thing).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition)</title><url>https://frontendmasters.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-modern-css-spring-2024-edition/</url></story> |
21,889,660 | 21,889,391 | 1 | 2 | 21,888,049 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>At a conceptual level, I support this, but there should be no need for a cottage industry to explain how to use AWS. The UI is a nightmare. I have to open my browser&#x27;s element inspector to see full docker image names in ECR. That&#x27;s atrocious for a product that brings in billions. Clearly the UI&#x27;s deficiencies &quot;don&#x27;t matter&quot; to AWS&#x27; success, but they could try a smidge harder to make user&#x27;s lives easier. But they likely won&#x27;t, since it&#x27;s business, and many of us using AWS aren&#x27;t doing so by individual choice. But next time, when I am the decision maker, ...remember that, Amazon. People (individual contributors) do occasionally ascend upwards in technology organizations, and they <i>will</i> know what it&#x27;s like to use your technology, and it will absolutely influence decision making.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day</title><text>Hi HN<p>I&#x27;m an ex-AWS employee, now working for myself. Together with a friend of mine (who also recently left Amazon) we tried an experiment and put almost everything we know about AWS in one short digital book. We launched the book yesterday (xmas day) and it sold over $13K already: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dvassallo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1210352939539161088<p>This is the first time I got paid for something I wrote, so I&#x27;m still very new to this. But I&#x27;m happy to share what I learned so far, so please feel free to ask me anything.<p>And here&#x27;s a discount link for the book if you&#x27;d like to check it out: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gum.co&#x2F;aws-good-parts&#x2F;hn</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>duxup</author><text>Is this a good book for dipping your toes into AWS?<p>I&#x27;m mostly a front end developer and have used Google&#x27;s cloud services and others for my personal apps and experiments.<p>... but always found AWSs multitude of services and administration interfaces daunting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day</title><text>Hi HN<p>I&#x27;m an ex-AWS employee, now working for myself. Together with a friend of mine (who also recently left Amazon) we tried an experiment and put almost everything we know about AWS in one short digital book. We launched the book yesterday (xmas day) and it sold over $13K already: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dvassallo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1210352939539161088<p>This is the first time I got paid for something I wrote, so I&#x27;m still very new to this. But I&#x27;m happy to share what I learned so far, so please feel free to ask me anything.<p>And here&#x27;s a discount link for the book if you&#x27;d like to check it out: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gum.co&#x2F;aws-good-parts&#x2F;hn</text></story> |
1,687,713 | 1,687,652 | 1 | 2 | 1,687,139 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>docgnome</author><text>Would be nice if there was an rss feed to download the interviews. Probably be prohibitively expensive for just one person to handle though. I love the idea, I'm just sort of afraid I'll forget about it.<p>Actually, audio podcasts would be really awesome. Love to be able to listen to them while I walk to work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HN, Remember you said go out and talk to people? I did: InsidersTalk.com</title><url>http://insiderstalk.com</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>placer14</author><text>Fantastic approach. Love the simple, easy-to-read layout.<p>Idea: Maybe you could make certain interviews "open" where you invite your users/readers to submit their own follow-up questions during the next few days after it posted to the site. These follow up questions will spur discussion, your interviewee might agree to answer these questions after the deadline, and you'll create a "stickier" site that readers can enjoy until your next interview posts. ;) Great work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HN, Remember you said go out and talk to people? I did: InsidersTalk.com</title><url>http://insiderstalk.com</url><text></text></story> |
27,759,156 | 27,759,094 | 1 | 3 | 27,755,898 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quietbritishjim</author><text>&quot;My list&quot; is not algorithmically generated; it&#x27;s a list of shows you have chosen to add to it. It would be nice if have you the option to remove a show from it when you finished it but very annoying if it did it automatically behind your back. Although clearly the real problem here is that &quot;my list&quot; isn&#x27;t a clear enough description to show you manually control it (but I don&#x27;t have a better suggestion).</text><parent_chain><item><author>klausjensen</author><text>Completely agree. I am constantly baffled at the bullshit Netflix suggests me.<p>I just went to the frontpage of my Netflix and...:<p>- &quot;My list&quot; recommends 3 series where I have alread watched the last episode<p>- &quot;Only on Netflix&quot; recommends another two series, I have already wathed.<p>- A section displayed is &quot;Watch together for older kids&quot; - I dont have kids, never watched any kids stuff on my account.<p>- &quot;Documentaries&quot; contains six suggestions, 3 of which I have already watched on netflix&quot;.<p>- I am suggested several shows, which are good - but I have already watched outside Netflix earlier - and there is no way to tell Netflix (none that I know of, anyway)<p>9 out of 10 times when I go to Netflix, I intend to continue watching a series - but Netflix makes me scroll past SEVEN sections of recommendations to get to &quot;Continue watching..&quot; before showing me the series I have watched 1-2 episodes of most days for the past two weeks.<p>Maybe they are just too busy making sure all new series are woke-i-fied to care about how this simple stuff works?</text></item><item><author>koonsolo</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why they wanted to go all out on AI for this. I use Netflix, and a simple algorithm would already be an improvement:<p>- If I watched a movie and gave it a thumbs down, don&#x27;t recommend it<p>- If I watched a movie &lt; 1 month ago, don&#x27;t recommend it<p>- If I browsed over a movie 50 times, read the info, and still didn&#x27;t play it, stop recommending it.<p>- If I watched the last episode, remove the &quot;new episodes&quot; banner.<p>WTF</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?</title><url>https://www.quora.com/How-useful-was-the-Netflix-Prize-challenge-for-Netflix/answer/Xavier-Amatriain?share=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rkachowski</author><text>I always took the &quot;older kids&quot; thing to mean &quot;adults interested in cartoons&quot; rather than &quot;teenagers&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klausjensen</author><text>Completely agree. I am constantly baffled at the bullshit Netflix suggests me.<p>I just went to the frontpage of my Netflix and...:<p>- &quot;My list&quot; recommends 3 series where I have alread watched the last episode<p>- &quot;Only on Netflix&quot; recommends another two series, I have already wathed.<p>- A section displayed is &quot;Watch together for older kids&quot; - I dont have kids, never watched any kids stuff on my account.<p>- &quot;Documentaries&quot; contains six suggestions, 3 of which I have already watched on netflix&quot;.<p>- I am suggested several shows, which are good - but I have already watched outside Netflix earlier - and there is no way to tell Netflix (none that I know of, anyway)<p>9 out of 10 times when I go to Netflix, I intend to continue watching a series - but Netflix makes me scroll past SEVEN sections of recommendations to get to &quot;Continue watching..&quot; before showing me the series I have watched 1-2 episodes of most days for the past two weeks.<p>Maybe they are just too busy making sure all new series are woke-i-fied to care about how this simple stuff works?</text></item><item><author>koonsolo</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why they wanted to go all out on AI for this. I use Netflix, and a simple algorithm would already be an improvement:<p>- If I watched a movie and gave it a thumbs down, don&#x27;t recommend it<p>- If I watched a movie &lt; 1 month ago, don&#x27;t recommend it<p>- If I browsed over a movie 50 times, read the info, and still didn&#x27;t play it, stop recommending it.<p>- If I watched the last episode, remove the &quot;new episodes&quot; banner.<p>WTF</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?</title><url>https://www.quora.com/How-useful-was-the-Netflix-Prize-challenge-for-Netflix/answer/Xavier-Amatriain?share=1</url></story> |
12,256,094 | 12,255,209 | 1 | 2 | 12,254,374 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattzito</author><text>So - what you saw was automatically generated on your phone, and not uploaded to facebook. It&#x27;s just displayed on your phone in the newsfeed view, and you can opt-in to having it posted.<p>This happened to a friend of mine who is an ex-FBer, and he posted on FB about it, and a number of people from the FB team who worked on the mobile app piece of it confirmed that indeed no data had left his phone without him requesting that it be posted, but that they were going to make that behavior more clear in an upcoming release.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bsbechtel</author><text>This is tangentially related to this, but apparently their mobile app now automatically downloads all the photos on your phone if you give permissions to access photos? My wife and I recently had a child, and when I opened up the app to post one single photo of our child, Facebook was showing in my newsfeed a video they made with all of my photos I had taken. This seems like a gross violation of my privacy. Is there any way to prevent this aside from deleting the app and no longer sharing photos with family and friends via FB?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?</title><text>Hi HN! I want to reduce my footprint on FB, i.e. delete all posts and photos, unlike all likes, etc. I&#x27;d like to keep the account active, so simply deactivating isn&#x27;t the way to go (yet?)<p>I did some digging and there seems to be some Chrome extensions that - according to reviews - can give mixed results.<p>Most of what I could find - including past posts to HN - were 4 or 5 years old. So my question: is there a recent, go-to tool that you know of which can help me achieve the above? Or should I try my luck with the random years-old tutorials you can find online?<p>Thanks!</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>Tharkun</author><text>You&#x27;re using FB. Talking about a &#x27;gross violation of privacy&#x27; is almost laughable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bsbechtel</author><text>This is tangentially related to this, but apparently their mobile app now automatically downloads all the photos on your phone if you give permissions to access photos? My wife and I recently had a child, and when I opened up the app to post one single photo of our child, Facebook was showing in my newsfeed a video they made with all of my photos I had taken. This seems like a gross violation of my privacy. Is there any way to prevent this aside from deleting the app and no longer sharing photos with family and friends via FB?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?</title><text>Hi HN! I want to reduce my footprint on FB, i.e. delete all posts and photos, unlike all likes, etc. I&#x27;d like to keep the account active, so simply deactivating isn&#x27;t the way to go (yet?)<p>I did some digging and there seems to be some Chrome extensions that - according to reviews - can give mixed results.<p>Most of what I could find - including past posts to HN - were 4 or 5 years old. So my question: is there a recent, go-to tool that you know of which can help me achieve the above? Or should I try my luck with the random years-old tutorials you can find online?<p>Thanks!</text></story> |
26,425,366 | 26,421,314 | 1 | 3 | 26,419,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; On this subject, can an American please tell me what a spoonful is?<p>The problem isn&#x27;t with American conventions. We have no &quot;spoonful&quot; measure any more than you do. That website is not following any American convention by declining to specify its spice amounts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deanclatworthy</author><text>On this subject, can an American please tell me what a spoonful is? There is a great video series on youtube, with his recipes online, but all measurements are spoonful: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ethanchlebowski.com&#x2F;cooking-techniques-recipes&#x2F;pakistani-chicken-karahi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ethanchlebowski.com&#x2F;cooking-techniques-recipes&#x2F;p...</a><p>Spoons can vary in size, so is it a tablespoon or a teaspoon? When dealing with spices you&#x27;ll be adding 3 times the amount if you go with tablespoon interpretation so it&#x27;d be a pretty big difference in flavour and intensity.</text></item><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Some of these recipes seem decent if you&#x27;re already somewhat experienced and have developed cook&#x27;s intuition. Otherwise they&#x27;re way too vague. For instance, the chicken parm recipe:<p>- There should be a photo of how to slice the chicken breast. Saying &quot;through their width&quot; isn&#x27;t good enough. I had to explain what &quot;lengthwise&quot; was once because my friend cut all the vegetables the exact opposite of it.<p>- Pound with what? A lot of people will come up with very bad answers to this question.<p>- How much flour? How much egg? I&#x27;ll bet that plenty of beginners will use a tablespoon of flour or a singular egg<p>- Ditto with oil. Beginners do not know how much oil is necessary to fry stuff<p>- How high heat? You probably want to turn down the heat after the oil starts smoking.<p>- Is there a single mention of adding salt? Sounds like a pretty bland recipe<p>I don&#x27;t mean to be too harsh but recipes are hard. There&#x27;s a reason why professional recipe developers have developed certain standards like measurements, terms (folding batter, shimmering oil, etc.), and development procedures (cross testing).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Based Cooking</title><url>https://based.cooking/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jetrel</author><text>If I had to hazard a guess, our table cutlery (i.e. the stuff people eat meals with) has somehow managed to get really bizarrely standardized. There are basically only two sizes of spoon in the normal set - a regular spoon, which has a fairly consistent size, and then a &quot;soup spoon&quot;, which is a bit inconsistent (sometimes it&#x27;s a larger size, sometimes it&#x27;s round rather than teardrop-shaped, etc).<p>So most likely they&#x27;re relying on the &quot;incidental standardizing&quot; of normal silverware, and making a guess that most people&#x27;s regular eating spoons are bizarrely similar in size.<p>Since we&#x27;re on HN, there&#x27;s probably a really interesting philosophical rabbit hole one could go down, concerning the idea of things that aren&#x27;t officially standardized (by some standard-setting body), but end up gravitating towards almost being so, due to industrial pressures and consumer expectations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deanclatworthy</author><text>On this subject, can an American please tell me what a spoonful is? There is a great video series on youtube, with his recipes online, but all measurements are spoonful: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ethanchlebowski.com&#x2F;cooking-techniques-recipes&#x2F;pakistani-chicken-karahi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ethanchlebowski.com&#x2F;cooking-techniques-recipes&#x2F;p...</a><p>Spoons can vary in size, so is it a tablespoon or a teaspoon? When dealing with spices you&#x27;ll be adding 3 times the amount if you go with tablespoon interpretation so it&#x27;d be a pretty big difference in flavour and intensity.</text></item><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Some of these recipes seem decent if you&#x27;re already somewhat experienced and have developed cook&#x27;s intuition. Otherwise they&#x27;re way too vague. For instance, the chicken parm recipe:<p>- There should be a photo of how to slice the chicken breast. Saying &quot;through their width&quot; isn&#x27;t good enough. I had to explain what &quot;lengthwise&quot; was once because my friend cut all the vegetables the exact opposite of it.<p>- Pound with what? A lot of people will come up with very bad answers to this question.<p>- How much flour? How much egg? I&#x27;ll bet that plenty of beginners will use a tablespoon of flour or a singular egg<p>- Ditto with oil. Beginners do not know how much oil is necessary to fry stuff<p>- How high heat? You probably want to turn down the heat after the oil starts smoking.<p>- Is there a single mention of adding salt? Sounds like a pretty bland recipe<p>I don&#x27;t mean to be too harsh but recipes are hard. There&#x27;s a reason why professional recipe developers have developed certain standards like measurements, terms (folding batter, shimmering oil, etc.), and development procedures (cross testing).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Based Cooking</title><url>https://based.cooking/</url></story> |
26,089,104 | 26,087,181 | 1 | 3 | 26,078,677 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alanbernstein</author><text>The <i>code</i> is simple, but don&#x27;t overlook the level of effort in producing the, yes, hand-drawn, images that all align with their neighbors in a weird way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Most of that script is actually for loading, playback and keyboard&#x2F;mouse controls. The salient bit is loop() function on lines 152 to 233.<p>It loops around an array of 48 (hand-drawn?!) images, using 4 images at any given time. The images and the base scale factor are based on an incrementing &#x27;z_position&#x27; value. It copies each of of the four images in to an HTML5 canvas so the outer 25% is a straight up copy of one image, then 50-75% is 0.5 scale copy of another image, then 25-50% is a third image at 0.25 scale, and the centre 25% is the fourth image at 0.125 scale. All the effects are CSS filters applied to the canvas element.<p>It&#x27;s surprisingly simple for such a cool effect.</text></item><item><author>lioeters</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a few variations of this technique, and always wondered how they&#x27;re made. Here&#x27;s the script if anyone else is curious: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arkadia.xyz&#x2F;zoom.js?v=19" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arkadia.xyz&#x2F;zoom.js?v=19</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting</title><url>http://arkadia.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>AltruisticGap2</author><text>Ahh. I thought it was another one of those AI generated effects.<p>I haven&#x27;t looked at the images, I assume then that they are specially made for that effect? (because I can&#x27;t see the images fading one into another)</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Most of that script is actually for loading, playback and keyboard&#x2F;mouse controls. The salient bit is loop() function on lines 152 to 233.<p>It loops around an array of 48 (hand-drawn?!) images, using 4 images at any given time. The images and the base scale factor are based on an incrementing &#x27;z_position&#x27; value. It copies each of of the four images in to an HTML5 canvas so the outer 25% is a straight up copy of one image, then 50-75% is 0.5 scale copy of another image, then 25-50% is a third image at 0.25 scale, and the centre 25% is the fourth image at 0.125 scale. All the effects are CSS filters applied to the canvas element.<p>It&#x27;s surprisingly simple for such a cool effect.</text></item><item><author>lioeters</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a few variations of this technique, and always wondered how they&#x27;re made. Here&#x27;s the script if anyone else is curious: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arkadia.xyz&#x2F;zoom.js?v=19" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arkadia.xyz&#x2F;zoom.js?v=19</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting</title><url>http://arkadia.xyz/</url></story> |
41,099,581 | 41,096,190 | 1 | 3 | 41,091,163 | 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>aargh_aargh</author><text>Specification of ffmpeg commands can get quite complex, especially once you get to filters.<p>I never understood why it hasn&#x27;t grown a DSL to specify the input&#x2F;output&#x2F;transformation. Could be JSON-based for what I care. Then we could have nice things like easy programmatic generation of these scripts and schema verification (for each particular ffmpeg version).<p>Also, when I looked at how LosslessCut (an Electron app) does the timeline preview thumbnails, it just calls the ffmpeg CLI app however many times it needs (once per thumbnail). With the number of heavy users of ffmpeg, I&#x27;m wondering how nobody has yet started a project to run ffmpeg in-memory as a server and avoid the process startup cost as I&#x27;m sure LosslessCut isn&#x27;t the only one who does this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>StreamPot: Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-FFmpeg compatibility, queues and S3</title><url>https://github.com/StreamPot/StreamPot</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackbridger</author><text>Jack from StreamPot here. So happy to see it shared here. We&#x27;d love you to try it out and give us any feedback or requests.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>StreamPot: Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-FFmpeg compatibility, queues and S3</title><url>https://github.com/StreamPot/StreamPot</url></story> |
31,534,134 | 31,533,882 | 1 | 2 | 31,533,420 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>probotect0r</author><text>In my experience, most retro meetings I have been in start with the scrum master asking things like &quot;what did we do well this sprint?&quot;, followed by complete silence from the team until someone points out a non-point like &quot;we collaborated well...&quot;.<p>One team I worked on decided to not pre-schedule retro meetings. Instead we had a &#x27;retro board&#x27;, which was just a section of a white board where team members would write down specific things that they think would be worth discussing in a future retro meeting. The team would decide to hold a retro meeting once the board had accumulated a few things to talk about. We found this approach was super effective because we knew what we needed to discuss when we held the meeting, instead of waiting for team members to recall something to talk about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpswade</author><text>The most important part of scrum and the only part that is important is retrospectives, because it allows the team opportunity to step back and make changes to their processes. Everything else is mostly arbitrary. Want to stop doing stand ups or change how you manage work? Go for it, nobody is stopping you. Do what works for you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The age of Scrum is over</title><url>https://chrisjameslennon.medium.com/the-age-of-scrum-is-over-185407ad705b</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>corrral</author><text>That&#x27;s how it works in well-functioning agile teams, but in &quot;Agile&quot; teams the team can&#x27;t decide on their own to e.g. totally ditch standups. Management won&#x27;t allow it, or they&#x27;ve set up the project manager to be God of Agile and they get last say on that kind of thing, and so on.<p>&quot;Agile&quot; teams outnumber agile teams by a large margin.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpswade</author><text>The most important part of scrum and the only part that is important is retrospectives, because it allows the team opportunity to step back and make changes to their processes. Everything else is mostly arbitrary. Want to stop doing stand ups or change how you manage work? Go for it, nobody is stopping you. Do what works for you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The age of Scrum is over</title><url>https://chrisjameslennon.medium.com/the-age-of-scrum-is-over-185407ad705b</url></story> |
18,105,438 | 18,105,188 | 1 | 2 | 18,103,949 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>puranjay</author><text>I would like to see an equivalent study on Indian weddings. All the people I know who got married recently spent between $50-$100k on their wedding. My own wedding was about $50k. Food alone was nearly $20k (over 1200 guests were invited - which was on the low end)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marriage Costs in China Are Out of Control</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-29/why-marriage-costs-in-china-are-out-of-control</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>Things have already changed. It&#x27;s becoming more and more common in rural China to marry South East Asian women from places like Vietnam and Cambodia... which of course potentially spreads the problem<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2018&#x2F;world&#x2F;too-many-men&#x2F;?utm_term=.855ea8d420a4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2018&#x2F;world&#x2F;too-many-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marriage Costs in China Are Out of Control</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-29/why-marriage-costs-in-china-are-out-of-control</url></story> |
6,407,095 | 6,407,186 | 1 | 3 | 6,403,928 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PixelCut</author><text>Did you try WebCode (<a href="http://www.webcodeapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webcodeapp.com&#x2F;</a>)? It is a vector drawing app for Mac that instantly generates nice, clean and readable SVG code. You can also choose to generate HTML&#x2F;CSS and JavaScript&#x2F;Canvas code from your drawings.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sambeau</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see more SVG libraries arriving and SVG.js and Pablo.js look like interesting new tools.<p>While tools to dynamically generate SVG are needed sometimes the big future of SVG is artist-created images, so we generally in need of ways to manipulate , animate and add-to existing existing SVG images. SVG markup is already a better: clearer, faster, more embeddable way to create SVG images. Our tools should focus on adding value to the markup.<p>I use a lot of SVG these days and, sadly, SVG has to come with caveats. It currently performs terribly on iOS devices (especially large, detailed images) and there is no way to create progressively detailed svgs or mark areas for baking. Webkit did have an SVG scrolling bug where svgs were constantly repainted but, thankfully, that is fixed now.<p>Another gripe is SVG drawing tools. I am using a rather strange hodge-podge of a workflow (especially as I am a Mac user). Microsoft Expression Design → export as XAML → translate XAML to SVG.<p>It&#x27;s actually quite effective &#x2F; sensible for a few reasons 1) Expression Design is now a free download 2) XAML and SVG are very similar so the translation is reasonable straight-forward 3) Expression Design gives accurate pixel previews (and I have a second SVG testing tool that can flick between SVG and PNG to see where there are problems).<p>My tools are written in Go and may be of use &#x2F; interest to other people. Let me know if you&#x27;d like to try them (caveat: they are one-user-one-developer-tools — me — so there is a layer of polish missing that I am happy to live with but you may not) and I&#x27;ll work out how to upload them to GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Svg.js</title><url>http://svgjs.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>headbiznatch</author><text>Re: SVG drawing tools - why not Inkscape? It&#x27;s native format is SVG and it allows editing the markup directly. I get much better results using it than converting XAML to SVG (which is JUST different enough to be annoying). Would love to see the tools you&#x27;ve written... Thanks for sharing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sambeau</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see more SVG libraries arriving and SVG.js and Pablo.js look like interesting new tools.<p>While tools to dynamically generate SVG are needed sometimes the big future of SVG is artist-created images, so we generally in need of ways to manipulate , animate and add-to existing existing SVG images. SVG markup is already a better: clearer, faster, more embeddable way to create SVG images. Our tools should focus on adding value to the markup.<p>I use a lot of SVG these days and, sadly, SVG has to come with caveats. It currently performs terribly on iOS devices (especially large, detailed images) and there is no way to create progressively detailed svgs or mark areas for baking. Webkit did have an SVG scrolling bug where svgs were constantly repainted but, thankfully, that is fixed now.<p>Another gripe is SVG drawing tools. I am using a rather strange hodge-podge of a workflow (especially as I am a Mac user). Microsoft Expression Design → export as XAML → translate XAML to SVG.<p>It&#x27;s actually quite effective &#x2F; sensible for a few reasons 1) Expression Design is now a free download 2) XAML and SVG are very similar so the translation is reasonable straight-forward 3) Expression Design gives accurate pixel previews (and I have a second SVG testing tool that can flick between SVG and PNG to see where there are problems).<p>My tools are written in Go and may be of use &#x2F; interest to other people. Let me know if you&#x27;d like to try them (caveat: they are one-user-one-developer-tools — me — so there is a layer of polish missing that I am happy to live with but you may not) and I&#x27;ll work out how to upload them to GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Svg.js</title><url>http://svgjs.com/</url></story> |
34,851,504 | 34,851,479 | 1 | 2 | 34,851,257 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Miraste</author><text>He was unpopular for a number of other reasons, some of which were just bad luck. Inflation was high, the economy was poor, there was a massive oil shortage, and the Iranian hostage crisis went poorly. There were a lot of smaller issues too, like the 55mph speed limit. While he had good intentions and was far more forward thinking than other presidents, he wasn’t an adept administrator and didn’t manage to get buy-in on any of his plans. It’s another sad instance of good people making bad politicians.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wkat4242</author><text>I have a lot of respect for Carter. Not only did he really seem interested in world peace instead of the warmongering from the MIC, he also remained active for all these years furthering humanitarian causes. And he was a brilliant nuclear engineer who cleaned up a nuclear accident with this team in Canada.<p>I know he wasn&#x27;t popular in the US which I don&#x27;t really understand. It sounds to me like he fought the vested big money interests too much and they campaigned against him. I&#x27;m a European though and as such I don&#x27;t know a lot about his domestic policies. Perhaps those were not as well received as his international leadership.<p>But I&#x27;m very sure that if most world leaders were like him, the world would be a much better place.<p>I&#x27;m very sad to hear he&#x27;s in a hospice now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Statement on President Carter’s Health</title><url>https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2023/statement-on-president-carters-health.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>coin</author><text>&gt; really seem interested in world peace<p>Definitely. He returned the Panama Canal to Panama because it&#x27;s the right thing to do despite perhaps not being in the US&#x27; best interest. He advocated Palestine&#x27;s rights despite all the resistance from the pro-Israel community.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wkat4242</author><text>I have a lot of respect for Carter. Not only did he really seem interested in world peace instead of the warmongering from the MIC, he also remained active for all these years furthering humanitarian causes. And he was a brilliant nuclear engineer who cleaned up a nuclear accident with this team in Canada.<p>I know he wasn&#x27;t popular in the US which I don&#x27;t really understand. It sounds to me like he fought the vested big money interests too much and they campaigned against him. I&#x27;m a European though and as such I don&#x27;t know a lot about his domestic policies. Perhaps those were not as well received as his international leadership.<p>But I&#x27;m very sure that if most world leaders were like him, the world would be a much better place.<p>I&#x27;m very sad to hear he&#x27;s in a hospice now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Statement on President Carter’s Health</title><url>https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2023/statement-on-president-carters-health.html</url></story> |
29,653,921 | 29,651,519 | 1 | 3 | 29,649,066 | 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>cnst</author><text>Sounds pretty cool! TBH, I don&#x27;t understand how the &quot;modern&quot; app security models are not deemed to be fundamentally insecure in 2021 where any random app on any random system can simply leak your whole photo library to their servers, or delete all your files. Why do banking apps need full access to my filesystem? Why don&#x27;t the reviewers of the app stores prohibit such practices of excessive permissions?<p>Yes, there&#x27;s always a question of usability, but if you&#x27;re an advanced user, it&#x27;s still scary that you&#x27;re not afforded any control to prevent these incidents unless you go ahead and redesign the whole way all these apps are working all by yourself.<p>It seems terribly inefficient if every engineer has to do it on their own, and in their own incompatible way. Obviously most people simply give up after a while, since maintaining such a setup might itself be a whole full-time job.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drclau</author><text>FreeBSD Jails were so much better than everything else out there, for a long time. I&#x27;ll just copy&amp;paste part of a comment I wrote on another HN thread some time ago, since it&#x27;s relevant here:<p>[...] In fact, many years ago, when FreeBSD was my main OS (including on notebook) I went as far as to isolate each app that used internet into its own custom-setup jail [0][1].
I had Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin and a few others running in complete isolation from the base system, and from each other. I even had a separate Firefox jail that was only allowed to get out via a Tor socks proxy to avoid leaks (more of an experiment than a necessity, to be fair).
Communication between jails was done via commonly mounted nullfs. I have also setup QoS via PF for each of them.
They were all running on the host’s Xorg, which was probably also the weakness of this setup.
It was a pretty sweet setup, but required quite a bit of effort to maintain, even tho I automated most of the stuff.
[...]<p>The original comment is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27709256" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27709256</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)</title><url>https://topikettunen.com/blog/freebsd-jails-for-fun-and-profit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vegai_</author><text>Is there a reason why FreeBSD doesn&#x27;t default to running all applications in jails? Seems like this would be a pretty huge advantage compared to the typical Unix system&#x27;s almost complete lack of sandboxing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drclau</author><text>FreeBSD Jails were so much better than everything else out there, for a long time. I&#x27;ll just copy&amp;paste part of a comment I wrote on another HN thread some time ago, since it&#x27;s relevant here:<p>[...] In fact, many years ago, when FreeBSD was my main OS (including on notebook) I went as far as to isolate each app that used internet into its own custom-setup jail [0][1].
I had Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin and a few others running in complete isolation from the base system, and from each other. I even had a separate Firefox jail that was only allowed to get out via a Tor socks proxy to avoid leaks (more of an experiment than a necessity, to be fair).
Communication between jails was done via commonly mounted nullfs. I have also setup QoS via PF for each of them.
They were all running on the host’s Xorg, which was probably also the weakness of this setup.
It was a pretty sweet setup, but required quite a bit of effort to maintain, even tho I automated most of the stuff.
[...]<p>The original comment is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27709256" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27709256</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)</title><url>https://topikettunen.com/blog/freebsd-jails-for-fun-and-profit/</url></story> |
5,626,970 | 5,626,934 | 1 | 3 | 5,624,179 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sb</author><text>A couple of years ago, I read his paper "Definitional Interpreters for Higher Order Languages" [1], because it was suggested to me by a friend. It was a joyful read, and to the best of my knowledge it is the first treatment of how to implement higher-order language constructs in a first-order language. Just recently, I thought of the paper, so it's sad news that the author has died...<p>[1] <a href="http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/plsemantics/reynolds/HOSC-11-4-pp363-397.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/plsemantics/reyn...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John C. Reynolds, Eminent Programming Language Researcher, has Died </title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Reynolds</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>phdtree</author><text>Anyone knows who was John C. Reynolds's PhD advisor in Harvard? We have his profile at phdtree:<p><a href="http://phdtree.org/scholar/reynolds-john-c/" rel="nofollow">http://phdtree.org/scholar/reynolds-john-c/</a><p>But his phd advisor info is missing</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John C. Reynolds, Eminent Programming Language Researcher, has Died </title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Reynolds</url><text></text></story> |
29,653,116 | 29,651,347 | 1 | 2 | 29,650,719 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ineedasername</author><text>Ethical guidelines on research exist to prevent an adverse impact on participants. This study had adverse impacts: fear, stress, time &amp; money in consulting lawyers. It was therefore defacto an unethical research study. Speculation as to why the protocol slipped through the IRB cracks are that the language used in the study proposal (at least the part made public) dehumanized the protocols by referring to &quot;websites&quot; rather than humans that would be responding to the inquiries.<p>The IRB ruled this was not a human subject piece of research, but that is contradicted by the deception protocol. Deception was justified as necessary because people&#x27;s behavior might change if they knew it was a research request. That acknowledgement made it implicit that human behavior and potential changes to it due to the experiment was a core factor in the study-- ergo, it had human subjects. Behavioral research on human subjects is required to go through a much more rigorous IRB oversight process precisely to anticipate and mitigate potential adverse reactions.<p>Some people are focussing on the deception, but that is, under some circumstances, allowed by research ethics. The more serious problem was adverse impact which, again, is the primary motivator for why we now have laws and regulation-mandated IRB processes to make sure it doesn&#x27;t become an issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwawyaaccoun</author><text>[Throwaway for privacy.]<p>I know this was hashed out on the other threads a bit, but can someone please explain to me why folks are so up in arms about this, compared to, say, studies that scrape user data without consent (something the IRB allows <i>all the time</i> by saying that no human subjects are involved)? Is it simply because there is no visibility into this practice (i.e., no email sent?) Scraping user data from public profiles, aggregating it into a model, and publishing a paper or whatever -- that seems demonstrably more invasive to individuals, storing and keeping their user data, than an email quoting a statute.<p>I <i>agree</i> that the deception was unnecessary, but that&#x27;s it. It doesn&#x27;t feel any wronger than that.<p>Especially because these researchers really were acting in &quot;meta&quot; good faith trying to probe the privacy ecosystem, I fear there may be a chilling effect. Consumers deserve privacy rights and privacy knowledge in the asymmetric surveillance economy we find ourselves in, IMO.<p>I&#x27;m open to being wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Princeton researcher apologizes for GDPR/CCPA email study</title><url>https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/?update</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codazoda</author><text>The post here on hacker news mentioned the down sides for one receiver. That person was stressed out thinking that they were about to be sued. They considered retaining council, which could have cost them a few thousand dollars, in order to get ahead of the threat. It didn’t come to that, so it’s a “what if”, but I could see myself trying to retain council too. Hopefully, a lawyer would have talked me down and advised me to wait it out. On the flip side, they may have offered to respond on my behalf (which would cost money).<p>I would not respond to such an email myself, ignoring it until I was able to defer to an attorney.<p>I publish a simple personal blog and I worry about the _worldwide_ legal implications of doing so. As one example, I have some old information about making model rocket fuel at home. At the time I had carefully reviewed U.S. law and knew how much I could legally make and have in my possession. Then I got questions from people in other countries and I got spooked. What if I break a law somewhere else?</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwawyaaccoun</author><text>[Throwaway for privacy.]<p>I know this was hashed out on the other threads a bit, but can someone please explain to me why folks are so up in arms about this, compared to, say, studies that scrape user data without consent (something the IRB allows <i>all the time</i> by saying that no human subjects are involved)? Is it simply because there is no visibility into this practice (i.e., no email sent?) Scraping user data from public profiles, aggregating it into a model, and publishing a paper or whatever -- that seems demonstrably more invasive to individuals, storing and keeping their user data, than an email quoting a statute.<p>I <i>agree</i> that the deception was unnecessary, but that&#x27;s it. It doesn&#x27;t feel any wronger than that.<p>Especially because these researchers really were acting in &quot;meta&quot; good faith trying to probe the privacy ecosystem, I fear there may be a chilling effect. Consumers deserve privacy rights and privacy knowledge in the asymmetric surveillance economy we find ourselves in, IMO.<p>I&#x27;m open to being wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Princeton researcher apologizes for GDPR/CCPA email study</title><url>https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/?update</url></story> |
27,514,717 | 27,514,482 | 1 | 3 | 27,514,005 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>subroutine</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure which med you are on, but I&#x27;ve been on adderall for about 12 years. Started during 1st year of a phd program.<p>In my experience with adderall... everything initially good about this particular Rx eventually fades away. Amphetamine makes you feel great. At the beginning really, really, great. It certainly helped me focus on whatever was in front of me, whether it was math homework or an iphone game. It became very important to ensure the right thing(s) were in front of me before taking meds (e.g. homework textbook or open IDE; not, for example, wikipedia, or email, or HN). Not getting enough sleep was the most acute negative effect of the meds. The battle for sleep continues to this day. The meds do suppress my appetite - they still do. It didn&#x27;t help me lose as much weight as I&#x27;d hoped; turns out staring at a computer screen doesn&#x27;t require a ton of calories.<p>These days I take as little Rx as possible, and I feel a lot better. I attribute a portion of this mood improvement to using a treadmill desk, which I started using ~2 years ago. I walk about 15-20 miles a day, while working (coding&#x2F;writing&#x2F;etc). I feel like it helps me focus, because I am &quot;burning off&quot; pent-up ADHD restlessness while working. And probably most helpful of all, I&#x27;m tired at the end of the day, so I fall asleep much easier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>corobo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on medication for about a week now and I&#x27;ve not thought about offing myself once since starting. That seems dramatic but honestly that used to be the default go-to answer for any problem that couldn&#x27;t be resolved within a day or so. Seems a bit excessive of a response to problems now.. It really looks like my depression might be rooted in undiagnosed ADHD.<p>I can also if not properly focus on tasks at least <i>force</i> myself to finish whatever I&#x27;m working on before wandering off. I&#x27;m going to give it another week then ask for a bump on the dosage to see if that helps that one<p>Negatives:<p>Sweating a bunch, especially at night. Then again we are just about cruising into summer and in my old place I had aircon so that might be unrelated, but it is a possible side effect.<p>Appetite seems to have taken a hit too. While I am fully for that (I could lose a bit of weight no bother) I will keep an eye on it<p>Due to covid restrictions I&#x27;ve not been seen for talky therapy or anything yet, this is purely medicinal treatment currently but it&#x27;s been a MASSIVE positive move for me</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?</title><text>My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?<p>I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we&#x27;ve come up to the ADHD talk.<p>They want to run neurological tests, said I&#x27;m &#x27;twice exceptional&#x27; and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?</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>richthegeek</author><text>Definitely try some of the alternate first-line medicines. For me, methylphenidate (Ritalin&#x2F;Concerta in US) works wonders. Many people seem very happy with Strattera or Adderall.<p>My first few weeks were a rollercoaster, but the negative effects reduced significantly over time as I got used to the medicine and stabilised my dosage. And the positive effects are life-changing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>corobo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on medication for about a week now and I&#x27;ve not thought about offing myself once since starting. That seems dramatic but honestly that used to be the default go-to answer for any problem that couldn&#x27;t be resolved within a day or so. Seems a bit excessive of a response to problems now.. It really looks like my depression might be rooted in undiagnosed ADHD.<p>I can also if not properly focus on tasks at least <i>force</i> myself to finish whatever I&#x27;m working on before wandering off. I&#x27;m going to give it another week then ask for a bump on the dosage to see if that helps that one<p>Negatives:<p>Sweating a bunch, especially at night. Then again we are just about cruising into summer and in my old place I had aircon so that might be unrelated, but it is a possible side effect.<p>Appetite seems to have taken a hit too. While I am fully for that (I could lose a bit of weight no bother) I will keep an eye on it<p>Due to covid restrictions I&#x27;ve not been seen for talky therapy or anything yet, this is purely medicinal treatment currently but it&#x27;s been a MASSIVE positive move for me</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?</title><text>My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?<p>I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we&#x27;ve come up to the ADHD talk.<p>They want to run neurological tests, said I&#x27;m &#x27;twice exceptional&#x27; and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?</text></story> |
7,179,165 | 7,179,082 | 1 | 2 | 7,178,690 | 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>zach</author><text>This is probably referring to &quot;SOD tips&quot; or &quot;SOD tip-offs&quot;, where intelligence-community information is &quot;laundered&quot; through a source that provides a tip to investigators, as discussed in this Reuters article from last year:<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;05&#x2F;us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than parallel construction</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/04/method-so-acceptable-dea-cant-even-tell-you-its-na/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pstuart</author><text>The DEA is evil. They operate under a pretense of &quot;reducing harm&quot; yet are actively trying to create more crime to validate their existence. In the course of doing so they create far more harm than they ostensibly prevent.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than parallel construction</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/04/method-so-acceptable-dea-cant-even-tell-you-its-na/</url></story> |
22,810,770 | 22,810,652 | 1 | 3 | 22,810,399 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdasen</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.universalhub.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;baker-got-krafts-involved-getting-those-masks-try" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.universalhub.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;baker-got-krafts-involved-...</a><p>The Feds seized 3M masks that Massachusetts purchased. The governor found a supplier to get more masks and had the Patriots (football team) fly their jet to China to pick them up to avoid seizure.<p>Massachusetts has transported 300,000 masks from that mission to NYC under state police escort: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masslive.com&#x2F;patriots&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;coronavirus-response-shipment-of-300000-masks-from-new-england-patriots-plane-en-route-to-new-york-city-with-massachusetts-state-police-as-its-escort.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masslive.com&#x2F;patriots&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;coronavirus-respon...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CalRobert</author><text>How long can the federal government be actively opposed to the interests of states before the whole thing crumbles? At some point the conflict would manifest itself as a reduced quality of life I&#x27;d think?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies</url></story> |
17,222,012 | 17,220,740 | 1 | 2 | 17,220,630 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MarcScott</author><text>My colleagues think I&#x27;m weird for using emacs, like i&#x27;m some 1980s retro fanboy.<p>I can access my calendar (org-gcal), my email (mu4e), git (magit), edit files on a remote server (tramp) and have a full code editor with pep8 syntax checker and repl all from a single application.<p>That same application also encompasses my file manager, my todo list, my pdf reader, my image viewer and if I really need it, a web-browser.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magit 2.13 released</title><url>https://emacsair.me/2018/06/02/magit-2.13/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddavis</author><text>I started using magit about 3 months ago - it&#x27;s definitely one of my favorite parts of emacs now. I highly recommend it to anyone using emacs as a daily driver.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magit 2.13 released</title><url>https://emacsair.me/2018/06/02/magit-2.13/</url></story> |
6,435,089 | 6,435,009 | 1 | 3 | 6,434,400 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PhasmaFelis</author><text>By &quot;unpopular speech&quot;, do you mean the AT&amp;T bit, or the harassment bit? If the latter, I disagree. A free and fair society can certainly draw a line between &quot;unpopular speech&quot; and &quot;criminal harassment.&quot;<p>If I were to threaten to murder you, you wouldn&#x27;t expect the police to say &quot;Eh, nothing we can do, he&#x27;s got a right to free speech. Call us back after he shoots you, you&#x27;ll have a case then.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>Weev&#x27;s a right shithead, you&#x27;re absolutely right.<p>I still bailed him out of jail for the time leading up to and during his trial. Why? Because UNPOPULAR SPEECH SHOULD NEVER BE CRIMINAL, no matter how revolting. Indeed, it is the unpopular and revolting stuff that needs the most defending:<p>&quot;The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one&#x27;s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.&quot; —H.L. Mencken</text></item><item><author>austenallred</author><text>Reading this article <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindness-weev-and-the-cult-of-the-angry-young-man" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;9&#x2F;12&#x2F;4693710&#x2F;the-end-of-kindnes...</a> makes me feel not too terrible that he&#x27;s being thrown in jail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/23/this-hacker-might-seem-shady-but-throwing-him-in-jail-is-bad-for-everyone/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mayanksinghal</author><text>I have no information of the case at hand, but that could the reason why the prosecutor went for hacking charges instead of harassment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>Weev&#x27;s a right shithead, you&#x27;re absolutely right.<p>I still bailed him out of jail for the time leading up to and during his trial. Why? Because UNPOPULAR SPEECH SHOULD NEVER BE CRIMINAL, no matter how revolting. Indeed, it is the unpopular and revolting stuff that needs the most defending:<p>&quot;The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one&#x27;s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.&quot; —H.L. Mencken</text></item><item><author>austenallred</author><text>Reading this article <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindness-weev-and-the-cult-of-the-angry-young-man" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;9&#x2F;12&#x2F;4693710&#x2F;the-end-of-kindnes...</a> makes me feel not too terrible that he&#x27;s being thrown in jail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/23/this-hacker-might-seem-shady-but-throwing-him-in-jail-is-bad-for-everyone/</url></story> |
26,171,551 | 26,171,715 | 1 | 3 | 26,169,886 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jonanin</author><text>This is an incredibly naive perspective. I guess you want to ban search engines, self driving cars, automated filtering of lewd and abusive content (why do you think FB isn’t full of porn? It’s not a hand engineered algorithm), automatic speech recognition for the hearing impaired, and a vast swath of important technology I didn’t list. I don’t think you really understand the implications of what you’re asking for. Sorry - black boxes are here to stay. And they are immeasurably useful. I could spend hours listing important and crucial technologies that you want banned because you are scared of racism.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>I also believe any algorithm that isn&#x27;t human-readable should be banned. If it can&#x27;t be understood, nobody can validate that it isn&#x27;t racist, sexist, or slanted towards encouraging violence and harm.<p>The fact that technology companies have been grossly negligent and irresponsible isn&#x27;t a reason to not regulate them: It&#x27;s proof regulation needs to be much, much stronger.</text></item><item><author>Jonanin</author><text>These algorithms are not human readable code. They are massively complex interconnected systems of many black box ML models. I don&#x27;t understand what clarity people think releasing the &quot;algorithms&quot; will bring. In fact, describing ranking as a single algorithm is pretty misleading.</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>The only problem I have with this requirement is that it requires giving <i>only</i> news organizations access to this information. Your concerns can adequately be addressed by ensuring everyone has even access to that information.<p>Google and Facebook&#x27;s algorithms should be required to be publicly disclosed. As a society, we should <i>demand</i> that we are able to see the algorithms that every web property lives and dies based on, that lives are built and destroyed by.</text></item><item><author>gkmcd</author><text>A key part of this legislation is the requirements for tech companies to provide selected news organisations with advance notice about changes to ranking algorithms. This has been generally overlooked in the reporting and discussion but I believe it is the actually the most important part of the legislation. It will give the selected news organisations an enormous advantage over other companies not included and protect them from new competitors, basically entrenching the current media landscape for the foreseeable future.<p>Given the current Australian government&#x27;s cosy relationship with a particular media company that currently dominates the media landscape here, I don&#x27;t think it is coincidence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jonanin</author><text>If you look at the actual data, you will find that black box models are in fact responsible for <i>preventing</i> the majority of abusive content including hate speech and porn on social media platforms. Ban these models and you’d find your favorite social media platform is more abusive. Most of the racism and sexism you are concerned about comes from other humans.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>I also believe any algorithm that isn&#x27;t human-readable should be banned. If it can&#x27;t be understood, nobody can validate that it isn&#x27;t racist, sexist, or slanted towards encouraging violence and harm.<p>The fact that technology companies have been grossly negligent and irresponsible isn&#x27;t a reason to not regulate them: It&#x27;s proof regulation needs to be much, much stronger.</text></item><item><author>Jonanin</author><text>These algorithms are not human readable code. They are massively complex interconnected systems of many black box ML models. I don&#x27;t understand what clarity people think releasing the &quot;algorithms&quot; will bring. In fact, describing ranking as a single algorithm is pretty misleading.</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>The only problem I have with this requirement is that it requires giving <i>only</i> news organizations access to this information. Your concerns can adequately be addressed by ensuring everyone has even access to that information.<p>Google and Facebook&#x27;s algorithms should be required to be publicly disclosed. As a society, we should <i>demand</i> that we are able to see the algorithms that every web property lives and dies based on, that lives are built and destroyed by.</text></item><item><author>gkmcd</author><text>A key part of this legislation is the requirements for tech companies to provide selected news organisations with advance notice about changes to ranking algorithms. This has been generally overlooked in the reporting and discussion but I believe it is the actually the most important part of the legislation. It will give the selected news organisations an enormous advantage over other companies not included and protect them from new competitors, basically entrenching the current media landscape for the foreseeable future.<p>Given the current Australian government&#x27;s cosy relationship with a particular media company that currently dominates the media landscape here, I don&#x27;t think it is coincidence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/</url></story> |
14,946,549 | 14,946,252 | 1 | 3 | 14,944,404 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>Sometimes you&#x27;re just forced to accept you need to take some shortcuts. There&#x27;s a few fields for which my general approach is to just try and maintain a mental index of &quot;when might I want to use this&quot;.<p>I&#x27;d have a hard time implementing my own crypto, but I&#x27;ve learned enough to know how to use it to secure communications, hide or protect information, ensure no alterations have been made to some arbitrary asset, identify an asset&#x27;s source, etc.<p>I love working with a well understood and boring RDBMS. It&#x27;s predictable and it lets you quickly move on to other problems. But you still need to have a good understanding of how it&#x27;s implemented in order to store and query your data efficiently. If you have a poor understanding of how indexing works, you&#x27;ll probably have a hard time selecting the right data model.<p>There&#x27;s actually lots of fun problems in the frontend world. Try to write a multi-touch gesture responder, it&#x27;s very tricky to get things right. How about a natural animation system that allows interruptions? CSS animations tend to look unnatural because they&#x27;re largely time-based, and they don&#x27;t handle interruptions very well. (Spoiler alert: springs are the magic sauce.)<p>Learning about compilers unlocks lots of powerful skills too. You can implement your own syntax highlighting, linter, refactoring tools, autocomplete, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>Software engineers need to know to recognize and classify problems in CS. You need to know what algorithms and data structures exist, what their properties are, and what they are called. The areas that come up will come from Math and Computer science (which are closely related). A solid computer scientist person knows how to derive some Dijksttra algorithm from first principles. A good software engineer <i>recognizes</i> the problem at hand, and recalls the algorithm to pick when presented with the problem.<p>What is that problem in front of you? Gradient descent? Tree traversal? Multiple dispatch? Path finding?
What structure represents the data or algorithm? Ring buffer? Blocking queue? Bloom filter?<p>You rarely need to remember a pathfinding algorithm or trie implementation by heart. What&#x27;s important is that you a) recognized the problem at hand as &quot;path finding&quot;, &quot;bin packing&quot; or whatever. Terminology is <i>important</i> here. The good software engineer needs to know the proper names for a LOT of things. Recognizing and labeling problems means you can basically look up the solution in no time.<p>So CS is definitely very relevant for software engineering - but you need a broad understanding instead of a deep one.<p>There is always the argument that a lot of devs basically to monotone work with SQL and some web thing in node and rarely even reach for a structure beyond a list or map. That&#x27;s true - but sooner or later even they bounce into a performance or reliability issue that&#x27;s basically <i>always</i> due to incorrect choice of data structure or algorithm. I&#x27;m only half joking when I suggest that most of todays &quot;scaling&quot; is compensating for CS mistakes in software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)</title><url>http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-engineering-computer-science/217701907</url></story> | <instructions>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 don&#x27;t have a formal CS background and have indeed run into the issues you&#x27;ve described.<p>I generally resort to Google and then go find the best approach and implement it if necessary.<p>I taught myself the basics of the underlying stuff (and it helps that I&#x27;m an older developer who grew up on Turbo Pascal and C since I do have a working knowledge of what the machine is doing underneath).<p>Those are rare cases though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>Software engineers need to know to recognize and classify problems in CS. You need to know what algorithms and data structures exist, what their properties are, and what they are called. The areas that come up will come from Math and Computer science (which are closely related). A solid computer scientist person knows how to derive some Dijksttra algorithm from first principles. A good software engineer <i>recognizes</i> the problem at hand, and recalls the algorithm to pick when presented with the problem.<p>What is that problem in front of you? Gradient descent? Tree traversal? Multiple dispatch? Path finding?
What structure represents the data or algorithm? Ring buffer? Blocking queue? Bloom filter?<p>You rarely need to remember a pathfinding algorithm or trie implementation by heart. What&#x27;s important is that you a) recognized the problem at hand as &quot;path finding&quot;, &quot;bin packing&quot; or whatever. Terminology is <i>important</i> here. The good software engineer needs to know the proper names for a LOT of things. Recognizing and labeling problems means you can basically look up the solution in no time.<p>So CS is definitely very relevant for software engineering - but you need a broad understanding instead of a deep one.<p>There is always the argument that a lot of devs basically to monotone work with SQL and some web thing in node and rarely even reach for a structure beyond a list or map. That&#x27;s true - but sooner or later even they bounce into a performance or reliability issue that&#x27;s basically <i>always</i> due to incorrect choice of data structure or algorithm. I&#x27;m only half joking when I suggest that most of todays &quot;scaling&quot; is compensating for CS mistakes in software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)</title><url>http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-engineering-computer-science/217701907</url></story> |
36,109,318 | 36,109,309 | 1 | 2 | 36,107,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ykonstant</author><text>Thank you very much for this book. It has been invaluable for my introduction to Lean and a joy to study from. I still have not read the last chapter, looking forward to it! Kudos for your effort, and I hope you will write some more stuff about Lean in the future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>d_christiansen</author><text>Lean 4 is an interactive theorem prover. It&#x27;s also a programming language with a self-hosting compiler. This is a free book on using Lean 4 as a programming language, written without assuming any background in functional programming. It&#x27;s intended to be accessible to Python, C#, Rust, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, and Scala developers. Today marks the final release, after more than a year of writing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Functional Programming in Lean</title><url>https://leanprover.github.io/functional_programming_in_lean/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdm12</author><text>Congratulations on the publication! As a dabbler in strictly typed functional programming languages like Scala and F#, I have always been curious about proof-oriented languages such as Coq or Agda, but found it difficult to justify the time investment. Lean seems to position itself as a theorem proving language that also supports general-purpose programs. Looking forward to digging into your book!</text><parent_chain><item><author>d_christiansen</author><text>Lean 4 is an interactive theorem prover. It&#x27;s also a programming language with a self-hosting compiler. This is a free book on using Lean 4 as a programming language, written without assuming any background in functional programming. It&#x27;s intended to be accessible to Python, C#, Rust, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, and Scala developers. Today marks the final release, after more than a year of writing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Functional Programming in Lean</title><url>https://leanprover.github.io/functional_programming_in_lean/</url></story> |
37,326,783 | 37,325,039 | 1 | 3 | 37,323,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>This is mostly true* and beyond irrelevant to the point GP was making (that they no longer use Linux on the desktop because of annoyances like this).<p>From the original article &quot;It works great on both Mac and Windows, but on Linux it displays just a black panel&quot; and, amusingly, after the fix: &quot;One issue is that now my second monitor isn&#x27;t displaying anything. When I go into Display Settings, it seems like my computer thinks that both monitors are sending this EDID so it&#x27;s put the second monitor into the wrong mode.&quot;<p>Seems like 2023 isn&#x27;t the Year of the Linux Desktop either.<p>* I say &quot;mostly&quot; because to 99+% of the people, telling them &quot;this monitor works great on both Mac and Windows and shows nothing but a black screen on Linux, but don&#x27;t worry; it has <i>nothing to do with Linux</i>&quot; will get you some pretty quizzical looks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>&gt; 2. This reminds me why I no longer use linux on the desktop<p>Lest anyone read this and nodded along: This was a defect in the LG monitor the OP worked around, not anything to do with Linux.</text></item><item><author>llimllib</author><text>1. This is impressive debugging work by the author. No individual step is rocket science - especially when the story is the success path and not the forking paths of possible failures - but they kept their eyes on the prize and figured it out.<p>2. This reminds me why I no longer use linux on the desktop</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID</title><url>https://gist.github.com/kj800x/be3001c07c49fdb36970633b0bc6defb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>InitialLastName</author><text>A defect that was not in evidence for MacOs or Windows.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>&gt; 2. This reminds me why I no longer use linux on the desktop<p>Lest anyone read this and nodded along: This was a defect in the LG monitor the OP worked around, not anything to do with Linux.</text></item><item><author>llimllib</author><text>1. This is impressive debugging work by the author. No individual step is rocket science - especially when the story is the success path and not the forking paths of possible failures - but they kept their eyes on the prize and figured it out.<p>2. This reminds me why I no longer use linux on the desktop</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID</title><url>https://gist.github.com/kj800x/be3001c07c49fdb36970633b0bc6defb</url></story> |
15,603,446 | 15,603,515 | 1 | 2 | 15,602,538 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>In the past not all images on pexels.com had the correct license or did check the license. We stopped using pexels some time ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whitingx</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixabay.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixabay.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stocksnap.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stocksnap.io&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.free-images.cc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.free-images.cc&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pexels.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pexels.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skuawk.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skuawk.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitebuilderreport.com&#x2F;stock-up" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitebuilderreport.com&#x2F;stock-up</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finda.photo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finda.photo&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodshot.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodshot.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growthtext.com&#x2F;free-stock-photos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growthtext.com&#x2F;free-stock-photos&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockified.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockified.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.negativespace.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.negativespace.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everypixel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everypixel.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupstockphotos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupstockphotos.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodiesfeed.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodiesfeed.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picjumbo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picjumbo.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockio.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockio.com&#x2F;</a><p>hope this helps ツ</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?</title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amelius</author><text>Great list! Now I&#x27;m looking for a similar list for icons. And fonts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whitingx</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixabay.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixabay.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stocksnap.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stocksnap.io&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.free-images.cc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.free-images.cc&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pexels.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pexels.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skuawk.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skuawk.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitebuilderreport.com&#x2F;stock-up" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitebuilderreport.com&#x2F;stock-up</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finda.photo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finda.photo&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodshot.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodshot.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growthtext.com&#x2F;free-stock-photos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growthtext.com&#x2F;free-stock-photos&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockified.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockified.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.negativespace.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.negativespace.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everypixel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everypixel.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupstockphotos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupstockphotos.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodiesfeed.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodiesfeed.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picjumbo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picjumbo.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockio.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockio.com&#x2F;</a><p>hope this helps ツ</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?</title></story> |
34,752,162 | 34,751,207 | 1 | 3 | 34,750,397 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aerhardt</author><text>I think the example is indeed contrived - you said it yourself!<p>To me it doesn&#x27;t illustrate the problem with default parameters specifically.<p>For example it shows that the programmer doesn&#x27;t know dependency injection and first-class functions. Printing could be passed in as a function param, but then it might actually be sensible to provide a default callable (eg, print), depending on how the greet function is going to be called.<p>Language seems to be a perfectly sensible thing to have a default on.<p>Then, and_return... That is, like, <i>super</i> contrived, man... I mean if a programmer doesn&#x27;t know that a function caller can simply call for side effects and ignore the return value, they likely have much bigger problems than their judgement to use defaults or not.<p>I empathize with your plight though - you&#x27;re probably a great programmer, and I think it&#x27;s very difficult for someone who is good at their craft to come up with genuinely but subtly shitty examples.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>It is a shame that <i>default arguments</i> isn’t a bit longer. Perhaps it’s out of scope to talk about anti-patterns but in my experience default arguments cause a lot of distress to a good code base.<p>Defaults are useful when you are providing a library function for other teams to use. If you’re inside a more private code base and doing work on the implementation of your team’s service then it is wise to avoid default arguments.<p>The problem is they provide a point after which it seems acceptable to add a flood of more default arguments. This is particularly the case for junior developers who lack confidence to refactor instead of patch. Default arguments go hand in hand with conditional logic and cause functions to bloat into do-everything multi-page monsters without any focus and no tractable flow of logic.<p>Forgive the contrived example, but what was once this:<p><pre><code> def greet(name):
print(f”Hello {name}”)
</code></pre>
ends up becoming this, all because no one would bite the bullet and pick this apart into individual functions:<p><pre><code> def greet(
name,
language=None,
io=None,
is_ci=False,
and_return=False,
):
greeting = “Hello”
if language:
greeting = translate(greeting)
message = f”{greeting} {name}”
fn = print
flush = False
if is_ci:
fn = log
flush = True
fn(
greeting,
flush=flush,
io=io if io else stdout,
)
if and_return:
return greeting
</code></pre>
The slow rot of more and more defaults makes the function longer and longer. Moreover, each time someone adds a new option it gets harder to justify why they shouldn’t do it when the previous person <i>was</i> allowed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Python Style Guide</title><url>https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.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>rightbyte</author><text>You don&#x27;t suggest any solution. Do you want more function overloading or maybe config objects?<p>Adding default parameters works well with existing code. It is not bad and lazy because it is easy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>It is a shame that <i>default arguments</i> isn’t a bit longer. Perhaps it’s out of scope to talk about anti-patterns but in my experience default arguments cause a lot of distress to a good code base.<p>Defaults are useful when you are providing a library function for other teams to use. If you’re inside a more private code base and doing work on the implementation of your team’s service then it is wise to avoid default arguments.<p>The problem is they provide a point after which it seems acceptable to add a flood of more default arguments. This is particularly the case for junior developers who lack confidence to refactor instead of patch. Default arguments go hand in hand with conditional logic and cause functions to bloat into do-everything multi-page monsters without any focus and no tractable flow of logic.<p>Forgive the contrived example, but what was once this:<p><pre><code> def greet(name):
print(f”Hello {name}”)
</code></pre>
ends up becoming this, all because no one would bite the bullet and pick this apart into individual functions:<p><pre><code> def greet(
name,
language=None,
io=None,
is_ci=False,
and_return=False,
):
greeting = “Hello”
if language:
greeting = translate(greeting)
message = f”{greeting} {name}”
fn = print
flush = False
if is_ci:
fn = log
flush = True
fn(
greeting,
flush=flush,
io=io if io else stdout,
)
if and_return:
return greeting
</code></pre>
The slow rot of more and more defaults makes the function longer and longer. Moreover, each time someone adds a new option it gets harder to justify why they shouldn’t do it when the previous person <i>was</i> allowed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Python Style Guide</title><url>https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html</url></story> |
39,827,270 | 39,827,240 | 1 | 3 | 39,826,176 | 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>bdw5204</author><text>Arguably, the rest of the &quot;free world&quot; can be seen as provinces of an American Empire with their independence. From that perspective, the Assange extradition makes perfect sense.<p>This isn&#x27;t as crazy as it sounds because the Roman Empire had provinces which were technically &quot;independent&quot; monarchies aligned with Rome. Most famously, Egypt under Cleopatra and Judea under Herod.</text><parent_chain><item><author>prmoustache</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand how a country can grant extradition of a non US citizen to the USA for &quot;espionage&quot;. Every country is potentially spying on every other country and it doesn&#x27;t even matter if they are supposed to be allies or enemies. The only limits are resources.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Julian Assange granted permission to appeal against extradition to US</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/26/julian-assange-granted-permission-to-appeal-against-extradition-to-us</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>surfingdino</author><text>It&#x27;s a complex legal matter and nobody involved is in any rush to make hasty decisions, because they may impact future extradition requests. Speaking of the future, intentional or not, Assange&#x27;s case has a freezing effect on people who might be thinking of sharing secrets. That&#x27;s already a win for those who don&#x27;t want secrets to be shared with the public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>prmoustache</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand how a country can grant extradition of a non US citizen to the USA for &quot;espionage&quot;. Every country is potentially spying on every other country and it doesn&#x27;t even matter if they are supposed to be allies or enemies. The only limits are resources.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Julian Assange granted permission to appeal against extradition to US</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/26/julian-assange-granted-permission-to-appeal-against-extradition-to-us</url></story> |
33,111,257 | 33,109,813 | 1 | 2 | 33,109,243 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GistNoesis</author><text>&gt;Stable-Diffusion is a latent diffusion model, which diffuses in a latent space instead of the original image space. Therefore, we need the loss to propagate back from the VAE&#x27;s encoder<p>There is also an alternative way to handle this latent difference with the original paper that should also work :<p>Instead of working in voxel color space, you push the latent to the voxel (Aka instead of having a voxel grid of 3d rgb color, you have a voxel grid of dimlatent latents, (you can also use spherical harmonics if you want as it works just the same in nd) ).<p>Only the color prediction network differ, the density is kept the same.<p>The NERF then directly render to the latent space (so there are less rays to render) which mean you need to decode it with the VAE only for visualization purposes and not in the training loop.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A working implementation of text-to-3D DreamFusion, powered by Stable Diffusion</title><url>https://github.com/ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nobbis</author><text>Took a week, as predicted: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DvashElad&#x2F;status&#x2F;1575614411834011651" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DvashElad&#x2F;status&#x2F;1575614411834011651</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A working implementation of text-to-3D DreamFusion, powered by Stable Diffusion</title><url>https://github.com/ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion</url></story> |
33,305,037 | 33,303,684 | 1 | 2 | 33,302,905 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaosprint</author><text>For those who are interested in music programming, I would like to invite you to have a look on the project I am working on and any feedback would be appreciated.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glicol.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glicol.org</a><p>You can also live coding Glicol code as scripts inside a VST plugin:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;tmmBhBmIEW0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;tmmBhBmIEW0</a><p>Pd is one of the most famous MPL and I have been referring to and reflecting on its design from the first day I design Glicol. I have been teaching it to students, and one issue I found is that when the projects get a little complex, the code becomes very difficult to read even with comments. Essentially I think it&#x27;s determined by the philosophy of the language. So I wouldn&#x27;t complain about the fact that you need to start from scratch. That&#x27;s exactly the elegancy from pd. Have a look on the &quot;counter&quot; example in Pd; it will give you a new understanding for &quot;programming&quot;.<p>But from this perspective, I would be interested to see how people will design VST with PD from scratch. Maybe the opposite would be more practical, to use VST in PD (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Cs0NPime0kU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Cs0NPime0kU</a>), considering they are both GUI-based tools. PD is also great for algorithmic composition (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;I9_3CfRm8GE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;I9_3CfRm8GE</a>).<p>Also to make project in real world some batteries like the else lib would be great and it&#x27;s great that the PlugData has included that. Also check this Erbe reverb pd patches:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tre.ucsd.edu&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;?p=625" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tre.ucsd.edu&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;?p=625</a><p>You should also look at some hardware in the future such as Bela and Daisy where you can also run Pd and Glicol.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pure Data as a plugin, with a new GUI</title><url>https://github.com/timothyschoen/PlugData</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw_m239339</author><text>For those who don&#x27;t know, Pure Data or PD is a visual audio programming language that can be used to develop software synthesizers. It&#x27;s open source, the commercial version by the same creator is called MAX-MSP.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pure Data as a plugin, with a new GUI</title><url>https://github.com/timothyschoen/PlugData</url></story> |
12,632,840 | 12,632,762 | 1 | 3 | 12,632,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>M_Grey</author><text>I think that&#x27;s why Half Life 3 is still so desirable for so many who were influenced by that story, despite the reality that it&#x27;s almost certainly never going to be made.<p>By the way, is Yahtzee still slumming it on the Escapist, or has he done the Patreon thing like Jim? He always seemed too good for that place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwertyuiop924</author><text>This echoes what Yahtzee said about the game years later, and it still rings true: Half-Life is such a powerful experience precisely because you never leave the shoes of Freeman. Its story interleaves with its gameplay, and the pieces are all there to see, but if you just want to shoot some aliens, that&#x27;s okay too.<p>It&#x27;s a collection of innovations and feelings that few other games have been able to capture.<p>On an unrelated side-note, if you&#x27;ve played Half-Life, Freeman&#x27;s Mind is a must-watch: it&#x27;s an astoundingly funny bit of comedy that is just so brilliant.<p>Yahtzee Crowshaw&#x27;s (yes, the very same guy I mentioned above) LP of the game (Let&#x27;s Drown Out All Of Half-Life), while by no means a must-watch, is also reccomended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing for Half-Life</title><url>http://www.marclaidlaw.com/writing-half-life/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greyskull</author><text>&gt; if you&#x27;ve played Half-Life, Freeman&#x27;s Mind is a must-watch<p>Agreed! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=ELkznu7Gec_hU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=ELkznu7Gec_hU</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>qwertyuiop924</author><text>This echoes what Yahtzee said about the game years later, and it still rings true: Half-Life is such a powerful experience precisely because you never leave the shoes of Freeman. Its story interleaves with its gameplay, and the pieces are all there to see, but if you just want to shoot some aliens, that&#x27;s okay too.<p>It&#x27;s a collection of innovations and feelings that few other games have been able to capture.<p>On an unrelated side-note, if you&#x27;ve played Half-Life, Freeman&#x27;s Mind is a must-watch: it&#x27;s an astoundingly funny bit of comedy that is just so brilliant.<p>Yahtzee Crowshaw&#x27;s (yes, the very same guy I mentioned above) LP of the game (Let&#x27;s Drown Out All Of Half-Life), while by no means a must-watch, is also reccomended.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Writing for Half-Life</title><url>http://www.marclaidlaw.com/writing-half-life/</url></story> |
35,210,708 | 35,210,400 | 1 | 2 | 35,178,719 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>civilized</author><text>I&#x27;m a sympathetic mathematician but I found this whole passage bizarrely off-base:<p>&gt; mathematics is in a weird and, I’d say, unique position of always having to defend what they do with respect to it’s value for other disciplines. I again stress that this is something that would be considered absurd when it comes to any other discipline.<p>&gt; People don’t expect any return on investment from physical theories - noone bashed string theory for failing to make useful predictions.<p>Huh? Tons of people bash string theory for failing to make useful predictions! There was a whole book criticizing it called &quot;Not Even Wrong&quot;, meaning it didn&#x27;t even reach the point of being testable.<p>A better argument for advanced math: it&#x27;s not always clear in advance what math will be useful. A popular example is Riemannian geometry, which had no clear real-world value when developed, but ended up being used for General Relativity a few decades later.<p>I also support the argument that math is intrinsically and aesthetically valuable, but for those who don&#x27;t agree, the argument above may make some headway.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Category Theory Illustrated</title><url>https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/00_about/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timmg</author><text>Working as a SWE for lots of years, I&#x27;ve worked with people that always feel the need to &quot;add a level of abstraction&quot; or &quot;build a framework&quot; for (and out of) everything. A lot of the time it doesn&#x27;t make things better (and often makes things worse).<p>Every time I try to learn about Category Theory, I get to a certain point and just start wondering &quot;why?&quot;<p>I can&#x27;t tell if I&#x27;m not smart enough to get it (I think that&#x27;s the most likely answer). But it <i>feels</i> like some math people -- who have nothing better to do -- are just trying to create another level of abstraction.<p>Are there things that Category Theory does that other branches couldn&#x27;t already do? I&#x27;m curious to hear other takes on this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Category Theory Illustrated</title><url>https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/00_about/</url></story> |
37,005,013 | 37,004,912 | 1 | 2 | 37,001,345 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scarmig</author><text>Enterprise likes it, because it gives them more visibility and control over what&#x27;s going on in the dev box. That gives more angles to control against e.g. exfiltration threats. It also makes dev environments much more homogeneous: you worry less about client machines. In principle you could have a fleet of stateless Chromebooks whose main function is ssh and http, all connecting to identical virtualized desktops that are easily provisioned and deprovisioned.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stephenr</author><text>This whole article is weird to me.<p>I don&#x27;t really understand the point of a &quot;dev box&quot; that&#x27;s hosted in a DC and shared, <i>at all</i> - at least not the way they&#x27;re painting it here.<p>Hardware capabilities for even consumer level laptops and desktops have progressed much faster than average network connections.<p>Having testing&#x2F;preview&#x2F;branch named environments in a DC? Sure. But this line:<p>&gt; They should be able to run any software they want inside their own workspaces without impacting each other.<p>What does that even mean?<p>Is this about someone working on a feature branch that uses some new dependency that needs to be installed?<p>That&#x27;s 100% the sort of thing your <i>local</i> development environment is for, until you&#x27;re ready to push it to your hosted test&#x2F;whatever environment.<p>&gt; But when it&#x27;s running in a VM, the VM gobbles up as much memory as it can and, by itself, shows no inclination to give it back.<p>Someone, anyone, tell me which hypervisor <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> enforce a memory limit on VMs?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Virtualizing development environments in 2023</title><url>https://hocus.dev/blog/virtualizing-development-environments/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>See VSCode ssh remote:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;remote&#x2F;ssh-tutorial" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;remote&#x2F;ssh-tutorial</a><p>See also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;devcontainers&#x2F;containers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;devcontainers&#x2F;containers</a><p>People pay for this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;codespaces">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;codespaces</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>stephenr</author><text>This whole article is weird to me.<p>I don&#x27;t really understand the point of a &quot;dev box&quot; that&#x27;s hosted in a DC and shared, <i>at all</i> - at least not the way they&#x27;re painting it here.<p>Hardware capabilities for even consumer level laptops and desktops have progressed much faster than average network connections.<p>Having testing&#x2F;preview&#x2F;branch named environments in a DC? Sure. But this line:<p>&gt; They should be able to run any software they want inside their own workspaces without impacting each other.<p>What does that even mean?<p>Is this about someone working on a feature branch that uses some new dependency that needs to be installed?<p>That&#x27;s 100% the sort of thing your <i>local</i> development environment is for, until you&#x27;re ready to push it to your hosted test&#x2F;whatever environment.<p>&gt; But when it&#x27;s running in a VM, the VM gobbles up as much memory as it can and, by itself, shows no inclination to give it back.<p>Someone, anyone, tell me which hypervisor <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> enforce a memory limit on VMs?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Virtualizing development environments in 2023</title><url>https://hocus.dev/blog/virtualizing-development-environments/</url></story> |
11,628,870 | 11,628,806 | 1 | 2 | 11,628,477 | 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>mavrc</author><text>&gt; Steam, Netflix, Spotify<p>I use and enjoy all of these things but the DRM they include isn&#x27;t why they are successful - it&#x27;s the fact that they make it so much easier to deliver content to anyone, immediately, bypassing the normal &#x27;store shelves&#x27; systems of distribution. (well, as long as you&#x27;re in North America or some parts of Europe.)<p>While I agree that the EFF&#x27;s message is often more reactionary than necessary, the DRM in these services serves no purpose except to make to provide a placebo to traditional commercial content owners, to get the content on those services. Ultimately, this is only a placebo. Netflix exclusives appear on the Pirate Bay minutes or hours after they go up on the service. Yet Netflix not only survives, but thrives - to such a degree that people use VPNs to circumvent the region locks, not the payment system.<p>How many years has it been since iTunes music went DRM-free? Yet it&#x27;s the most popular means of acquiring paid-for music. Build a successful distribution system, make it available to everyone, and people will pay for content.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc show that DRM can work properly when users are given the easy access to the media&#x2F;content, and they&#x27;ve been a boon to content creators as well.<p>And, no, none of those sites using DRM are &quot;a danger to our rights and our security&quot; as the article breathlessly claims.<p>I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s not a popular opinion around here, but I used to be a donor to the EFF and no longer am. I feel they&#x27;ve gone off the deep end on too many issues and they&#x27;re increasingly using hyperbole and hysteria to make arguments against relatively small issues. I mean, come on:<p>&gt; &quot;That proposition ranges from unpalatable on a gaming console, to repulsive on laptops and phones loaded with sensors and personal info&quot;<p>Repulsive? With those scary &quot;sensors&quot; sensing things and you know what happens when DRM and sensors get together!?! Oh, that&#x27;s right, nothing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, All DRM</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/yes-all-drm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>muddi900</author><text>Can you use Spotify with you iPod classic? Can you iTunes movie work on your Android phone?<p>At some point, corporations convinced consumers that buying a whole service contract everytime you play a song is more convenient than just playing a song.<p>Also, phone sensors contain vital biometric data that the user has no access to.The repulsive thing that happens is that the device is locking your information from you. This is spreading out in other industries like autombiles and medical devices. Now you will have to buy a whole new service contract everytime you drive a car or check your blood pressure. So convenient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc show that DRM can work properly when users are given the easy access to the media&#x2F;content, and they&#x27;ve been a boon to content creators as well.<p>And, no, none of those sites using DRM are &quot;a danger to our rights and our security&quot; as the article breathlessly claims.<p>I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s not a popular opinion around here, but I used to be a donor to the EFF and no longer am. I feel they&#x27;ve gone off the deep end on too many issues and they&#x27;re increasingly using hyperbole and hysteria to make arguments against relatively small issues. I mean, come on:<p>&gt; &quot;That proposition ranges from unpalatable on a gaming console, to repulsive on laptops and phones loaded with sensors and personal info&quot;<p>Repulsive? With those scary &quot;sensors&quot; sensing things and you know what happens when DRM and sensors get together!?! Oh, that&#x27;s right, nothing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, All DRM</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/yes-all-drm</url></story> |
11,442,490 | 11,442,313 | 1 | 3 | 11,440,668 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manachar</author><text>I&#x27;m with Orwell on this one. Whether by design or &quot;happy&quot; accident, Trump exemplifies the trend for politicians to be vague. Or as he puts it, speaking like this &quot;is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Politics_and_the_English_Language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Politics_and_the_English_Langu...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewUnmuted</author><text>The technique is working quite well for Donald Trump: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-fix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;how-trump-speak-has-pushed-the-donald-into-first-place&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-fix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;ho...</a><p>&gt; Some of his answers last only a few seconds, some are slightly longer, but almost all consist of simple sentences, grammatically and conceptually, and most of them withhold their most important word or phrase until the very end. Trump’s sentences end with a pop, and he seems to know instinctively where to put the emphasis in each one.</text></item><item><author>gregschlom</author><text>Am I the only one to find that using only the 1,000 most common words actually makes thing <i>harder</i> to understand? The writer ends up having to use convoluted paraphrases to refer to things where a precise, well defined and well understood word exists but it&#x27;s not part of the top 1,000.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English</title><url>https://github.com/mortenjust/cleartext-mac/blob/master/README.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrrrgn</author><text>I hope that they normalized the data to account for the number of words spoken during each debate, rally, etc... This is important because of Zipf&#x27;s law: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zipf%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zipf%27s_law</a><p>If they didn&#x27;t, the findings are invalid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewUnmuted</author><text>The technique is working quite well for Donald Trump: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-fix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;how-trump-speak-has-pushed-the-donald-into-first-place&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-fix&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;ho...</a><p>&gt; Some of his answers last only a few seconds, some are slightly longer, but almost all consist of simple sentences, grammatically and conceptually, and most of them withhold their most important word or phrase until the very end. Trump’s sentences end with a pop, and he seems to know instinctively where to put the emphasis in each one.</text></item><item><author>gregschlom</author><text>Am I the only one to find that using only the 1,000 most common words actually makes thing <i>harder</i> to understand? The writer ends up having to use convoluted paraphrases to refer to things where a precise, well defined and well understood word exists but it&#x27;s not part of the top 1,000.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English</title><url>https://github.com/mortenjust/cleartext-mac/blob/master/README.md</url></story> |
7,399,321 | 7,399,291 | 1 | 2 | 7,398,970 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a-priori</author><text><i>As far as we know, it never works.</i><p>There&#x27;s no way to know how often this sort of thing has happened in the past. We only find out about the cases where a bank is <i>not</i> able to earn back it&#x27;s loss and runs out of cash. At that point they have to admit they&#x27;re insolvent.<p>If the bank was able to earn back the money and become solvent again, then no one outside the bank would know it happened and the bank would have every reason to cover it up to save its reputation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>I&#x27;ve been saying this for a while now, including on HN.<p>&gt; The reason I tend to believe this scenario is because it&#x27;s completely consistent with their behavior.<p>Another reason to believe this is that it is something that has happened <i>often</i> in the past before modern banking regulations. Seriously, read history of banking in Netherlands or England, the idea:<p>&quot;Oops, I just lost my customer deposits. I&#x27;m probably going to get lynched now. But hey, if I just hide this until I make the loss back from fees&#x2F;reckless trading, I&#x27;ll be able to pay my customers back and avoid being lynched. It&#x27;s a win-win.&quot;<p>Is something that at least hundreds, if not thousands of bankers have had over the course of history. As far as we know, it never works.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>One theory is that Mt. Gox became fractional reserve some time in the past, either by losing bitcoins or by spending them. Then they were unable to replenish their supply, so it was a matter of time before a bank run.<p>The reason I tend to believe this scenario is because it&#x27;s completely consistent with their behavior. I watched them very closely, and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason for their behavior. That is, unless they were missing everyone&#x27;s bitcoin for some reason. Then their behavior made perfect sense.<p>In that scenario, Mt. Gox would have knowingly traded non-existent Bitcoins for far, far longer than two weeks.<p>EDIT: I should mention that there&#x27;s still no evidence whatsoever that malleability somehow led to the loss of &gt;500,000 BTC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mt. Gox knowingly traded non-existent Bitcoins for two weeks, filing shows</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/14/mtgox-knowingly-traded-non-existent-bitcoins-for-two-weeks-filing-shows</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HockeyPlayer</author><text>&gt; As far as we know, it never works.<p>Only because when it does work, you never find out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>I&#x27;ve been saying this for a while now, including on HN.<p>&gt; The reason I tend to believe this scenario is because it&#x27;s completely consistent with their behavior.<p>Another reason to believe this is that it is something that has happened <i>often</i> in the past before modern banking regulations. Seriously, read history of banking in Netherlands or England, the idea:<p>&quot;Oops, I just lost my customer deposits. I&#x27;m probably going to get lynched now. But hey, if I just hide this until I make the loss back from fees&#x2F;reckless trading, I&#x27;ll be able to pay my customers back and avoid being lynched. It&#x27;s a win-win.&quot;<p>Is something that at least hundreds, if not thousands of bankers have had over the course of history. As far as we know, it never works.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>One theory is that Mt. Gox became fractional reserve some time in the past, either by losing bitcoins or by spending them. Then they were unable to replenish their supply, so it was a matter of time before a bank run.<p>The reason I tend to believe this scenario is because it&#x27;s completely consistent with their behavior. I watched them very closely, and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason for their behavior. That is, unless they were missing everyone&#x27;s bitcoin for some reason. Then their behavior made perfect sense.<p>In that scenario, Mt. Gox would have knowingly traded non-existent Bitcoins for far, far longer than two weeks.<p>EDIT: I should mention that there&#x27;s still no evidence whatsoever that malleability somehow led to the loss of &gt;500,000 BTC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mt. Gox knowingly traded non-existent Bitcoins for two weeks, filing shows</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/14/mtgox-knowingly-traded-non-existent-bitcoins-for-two-weeks-filing-shows</url></story> |
30,536,509 | 30,536,485 | 1 | 2 | 30,528,609 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>This is very clever, and a great demonstration of how flexible and generic Nom is!<p>It&#x27;s not quite as inspired, but I wrote a minimal bitstream cursor&#x2F;parser from scratch in Rust a few months ago[1]. It&#x27;s developed with LLVM bitstreams in mind, but the API itself is suitable for just about any bitstream.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;llvm-bitcursor&#x2F;latest&#x2F;llvm_bitcursor&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;llvm-bitcursor&#x2F;latest&#x2F;llvm_bitcursor&#x2F;index.h...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parsing bitstreams with Nom</title><url>https://blog.adamchalmers.com/nom-bits/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minhajuddin</author><text>I have started fiddling with rust, and one thing that I miss from the Elixir world is binary pattern parsing&#x2F;matching. The elixir model is so much nicer, I&#x27;ve used byteorder to convert a datetime to a byte array and then the reverse and it is not the most elegant code, nom looks much nicer. I wish rust had Elixir&#x2F;Erlang like binary pattern matching.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parsing bitstreams with Nom</title><url>https://blog.adamchalmers.com/nom-bits/</url></story> |
10,669,933 | 10,669,466 | 1 | 3 | 10,668,809 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>evanpw</author><text>Related (amazing) paper by Scott Aaronson: &quot;NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;quant-ph&#x2F;0502072" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;quant-ph&#x2F;0502072</a>). He proposes &quot;anthropic computing&quot; as a way of solving NP-complete problems in polynomial time: guess an answer, then kill yourself if the answer is wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koenigdavidmj</author><text>Sorting in O(n) time:<p>1. Apply a quantum permutation to your list.<p>2. Check if it&#x27;s sorted.<p>3. If not, destroy the universe.</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Hence, Many World Interpretation of quantum mechanics.</text></item><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Oh that makes for a funny part of the ending too then.<p>While going about your work, you suddenly disappear along with your universe and everything in it. Someone somewhere in the world drank a cup of coffee, which means that he now has an empty cup instead of a full cup. A new universe had to be created with the full cup replaced, and unfortunately your universe had to be thrown away. You continue life as a clone in a new universe with an empty coffee cup somewhere in Nebraska.<p>Why did this happen? Someone picked a copy-on-write map implementation because it had a slightly faster O(logN) delete behavior and unfortunately the re-use function of the map wasn&#x27;t implemented yet because the author has gone on to do a series on the use of monads in baking the ultimate croissant.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text><i>You can&#x27;t change the chair because it&#x27;s all immutable, so you create a new chair along with a new universe and build a new car with the new chair.</i><p>No, if you read Okasaki, you knew you only have to reconstruct the part of the universe (up to its origin) that refers (directly or indirectly) to the seat ;).<p>In fact, you can safely have two universes with different seats, where most of the universes is shared.</text></item><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>I wonder how a functional version of this would go..<p>You need transportation, so you define an engine and a set of wheels and a chair, and a whole universe. You define a way to have the engine, wheels and a chair work together. You try to sit in the chair, but it&#x27;s too small. You can&#x27;t change the chair because it&#x27;s all immutable, so you create a new chair along with a new universe and build a new car with the new chair.<p>You need to get to work, but you don&#x27;t want to pollute your universe with state, so you don&#x27;t know where work is. So you put all of your state in your relational stateful database and forget that this part exists in your universe. Of course theoretically you could model your knowledge as a function based off the state of the universe, but you don&#x27;t have budget to do that. You write comments about quick hacks to get around purity constraints. The hacks are never removed and you end up passing stateful maps of database tables around. You make a big todo note about how you should implement a new method for handling this that you&#x27;ve read in a new academic paper, but never get the 500 hours you need to implement it.<p>EDIT: For those not getting it, the article is describing the difference between the theory behind OO interaction between self contained actors and how this really plays out in actual code. Instead of doing the theoretical part of communication between actors, we have code which does getCoworker().getWallet(). In the same way above, I&#x27;ve tried to show the difference between theoretical functional programming where we can create pure functions and how this actually plays out in real functional code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)</title><url>http://darrenhobbs.com/2006/04/22/a-bad-citizen-in-javaland/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>That made me think of Greg Egan&#x27;s <i>Quarantine</i>:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quarantine_%28Greg_Egan_novel%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quarantine_%28Greg_Egan_novel%...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>koenigdavidmj</author><text>Sorting in O(n) time:<p>1. Apply a quantum permutation to your list.<p>2. Check if it&#x27;s sorted.<p>3. If not, destroy the universe.</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Hence, Many World Interpretation of quantum mechanics.</text></item><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Oh that makes for a funny part of the ending too then.<p>While going about your work, you suddenly disappear along with your universe and everything in it. Someone somewhere in the world drank a cup of coffee, which means that he now has an empty cup instead of a full cup. A new universe had to be created with the full cup replaced, and unfortunately your universe had to be thrown away. You continue life as a clone in a new universe with an empty coffee cup somewhere in Nebraska.<p>Why did this happen? Someone picked a copy-on-write map implementation because it had a slightly faster O(logN) delete behavior and unfortunately the re-use function of the map wasn&#x27;t implemented yet because the author has gone on to do a series on the use of monads in baking the ultimate croissant.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text><i>You can&#x27;t change the chair because it&#x27;s all immutable, so you create a new chair along with a new universe and build a new car with the new chair.</i><p>No, if you read Okasaki, you knew you only have to reconstruct the part of the universe (up to its origin) that refers (directly or indirectly) to the seat ;).<p>In fact, you can safely have two universes with different seats, where most of the universes is shared.</text></item><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>I wonder how a functional version of this would go..<p>You need transportation, so you define an engine and a set of wheels and a chair, and a whole universe. You define a way to have the engine, wheels and a chair work together. You try to sit in the chair, but it&#x27;s too small. You can&#x27;t change the chair because it&#x27;s all immutable, so you create a new chair along with a new universe and build a new car with the new chair.<p>You need to get to work, but you don&#x27;t want to pollute your universe with state, so you don&#x27;t know where work is. So you put all of your state in your relational stateful database and forget that this part exists in your universe. Of course theoretically you could model your knowledge as a function based off the state of the universe, but you don&#x27;t have budget to do that. You write comments about quick hacks to get around purity constraints. The hacks are never removed and you end up passing stateful maps of database tables around. You make a big todo note about how you should implement a new method for handling this that you&#x27;ve read in a new academic paper, but never get the 500 hours you need to implement it.<p>EDIT: For those not getting it, the article is describing the difference between the theory behind OO interaction between self contained actors and how this really plays out in actual code. Instead of doing the theoretical part of communication between actors, we have code which does getCoworker().getWallet(). In the same way above, I&#x27;ve tried to show the difference between theoretical functional programming where we can create pure functions and how this actually plays out in real functional code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)</title><url>http://darrenhobbs.com/2006/04/22/a-bad-citizen-in-javaland/</url></story> |
19,642,977 | 19,642,726 | 1 | 2 | 19,642,222 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TuringNYC</author><text>I once had a midsized startup doing something very similar to my small startup try and recruit me aggressively, they sent an NDA to sign and said i couldn’t even speak to interviewers until I did. (Consider how dangerous this is given the similar products.)<p>I told them I’d sign the NDA if all my interviewers also signed one from me, nice way to end the discussion.<p>My point is, if there is something you don’t like and it isn’t common, a way to decline is to decline the job. If it is a widespread practice, and unfair, then we need legislation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>perfunctory</author><text>&quot;I believe private businesses should have the power to determine their own hiring practices&quot;<p>In that case I want to have the power to determine my own job acceptance practices. I want my hiring manager to take a drug test too. After all, I don&#x27;t wanna end up working for a drug edict.<p>The asymmetry of employer&#x2F;employee relationship is just astonishing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/nyregion/marijuana-drug-testing-nyc.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>King-Aaron</author><text>&gt; After all, I don&#x27;t wanna end up working for a drug edict.<p>I know it&#x27;s a tongue-in-cheek comment, but this is part of the stigma needs to end too. If they wanted to have a toke with some friends at a bucks night the week before or some such, and then have it detected on a test, that doesn&#x27;t really mean they&#x27;re a drug addict...</text><parent_chain><item><author>perfunctory</author><text>&quot;I believe private businesses should have the power to determine their own hiring practices&quot;<p>In that case I want to have the power to determine my own job acceptance practices. I want my hiring manager to take a drug test too. After all, I don&#x27;t wanna end up working for a drug edict.<p>The asymmetry of employer&#x2F;employee relationship is just astonishing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/nyregion/marijuana-drug-testing-nyc.html</url></story> |
37,539,018 | 37,538,785 | 1 | 2 | 37,537,689 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmayle</author><text>I&#x27;ve just started down that route. I&#x27;ve got the nitro key hsm2 in the mail, have heard the advice on using two levels (first root in the Key, and intermediary on the Device for easier revoking). I mainly want to issue client certificates so that I can expose internal sites on the public Internet via proxy without having to require a VPN for all of my users, though I&#x27;m also interested in certificate based SSH</text><parent_chain><item><author>obnauticus</author><text>I eventually need to publish an article about how to run an HSM backed root CA on the cheap with m of n auth.<p>Using nitrokey and some glue scripts you can get the cost below $500. If anyone is interested, let me know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023</title><url>https://wejn.org/2023/09/running-ones-own-root-certificate-authority-in-2023/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>n0n</author><text>Yes, please! I would be interested. Currently i&#x27;m fiddling around with vault as an ICA, so this sounds like a good next step</text><parent_chain><item><author>obnauticus</author><text>I eventually need to publish an article about how to run an HSM backed root CA on the cheap with m of n auth.<p>Using nitrokey and some glue scripts you can get the cost below $500. If anyone is interested, let me know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023</title><url>https://wejn.org/2023/09/running-ones-own-root-certificate-authority-in-2023/</url></story> |
25,326,350 | 25,325,982 | 1 | 2 | 25,325,056 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>&gt; As a platform for running production code it might be dead or dying, but as an ecosystem and a development tool it will continue to live and probably thrive.<p>Not everyone needs an over the top Kubernetes cluster in production. I&#x27;m plenty happy using Docker Compose in production and foresee myself continuing to use it as long as Docker maintains it. There&#x27;s even a WIP issue on their roadmap[0] to rewrite Docker Compose with Go to make it more consistent with their main CLI. Looks like full steam ahead to me rather than death.<p>It&#x27;s really nice having the same Dockerfile + docker-compose.yml get used in dev + ci and prod. There&#x27;s no surprises and no massive amount of complexity.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;docker&#x2F;roadmap&#x2F;issues&#x2F;15" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;docker&#x2F;roadmap&#x2F;issues&#x2F;15</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hmottestad</author><text>I enjoyed the following:<p>&gt; Though it [Docker] does live on strongly within CI&#x2F;CD ecosystems and, ostensibly, the inner loop of development thanks to the de facto standard Dockerfile.<p>Docker will still live on for both Windows and Mac developers. As a platform for running production code it might be dead or dying, but as an ecosystem and a development tool it will continue to live and probably thrive.<p>Docker is still the simplest way to install Elasticsearch, to make sure everyone on your team is using the same Java version, or run up a production equivalent environment on your laptop. Regardless of if you are on Linux, Mac or Windows.<p>I still love Docker and hope they end up finding a good business model so they can continue to live on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Docker's Second Death</title><url>https://www.tariqislam.com/posts/kubernetes-docker-dep/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hacknat</author><text>There’s no need for them to live on. There are open source alternatives that mimic Docker exactly. In fact on Fedora[1] the “docker” cli command is actually buildah and podman (you actually can’t install Docker on Fedora anymore - I genuinely haven’t noticed a difference). The commands are exactly the same right down to the command starting with the word “docker”.<p>I don’t wish them ill, but literally everything has been replicated. If they fail as a company it won’t matter to developers who don’t use their enterprise software.<p>I actually think the company isn’t long for this world. It wouldn’t surprise me if they got bought for a paltry sum in the next few years.<p>Their lasting legacy is that most software and people assume that a shortened container image points to docker.io.<p>1 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedoramagazine.org&#x2F;docker-and-fedora-32&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedoramagazine.org&#x2F;docker-and-fedora-32&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hmottestad</author><text>I enjoyed the following:<p>&gt; Though it [Docker] does live on strongly within CI&#x2F;CD ecosystems and, ostensibly, the inner loop of development thanks to the de facto standard Dockerfile.<p>Docker will still live on for both Windows and Mac developers. As a platform for running production code it might be dead or dying, but as an ecosystem and a development tool it will continue to live and probably thrive.<p>Docker is still the simplest way to install Elasticsearch, to make sure everyone on your team is using the same Java version, or run up a production equivalent environment on your laptop. Regardless of if you are on Linux, Mac or Windows.<p>I still love Docker and hope they end up finding a good business model so they can continue to live on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Docker's Second Death</title><url>https://www.tariqislam.com/posts/kubernetes-docker-dep/</url></story> |
39,181,518 | 39,177,559 | 1 | 3 | 39,176,877 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>subsubzero</author><text>There is a narrative that Wal-mart pays low wages, I think its quite apt as most positions do pay quite low, I worked at Wal Mart while in college and saw it first hand. A few things to note, certain positions do pay well, store managers for one, I know for a fact that over 20 years ago certain store managers would see over $300k in yearly compensation. In addition once I got into tech after college I worked with a few walmart.com ex-employees, and these employees stated that part of their bonus was tied to a percentage of sales walmart.com made and they said the bonus pay was wildly lucrative. So Wal Mart does pay well in fact if you are in the right position. Considering keeping your shelves(and online distribution centers) stocked is the lifeblood of the company it behooves them to have a healthy circulatory system and not have drivers who do not deliver on time or get into accidents.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures</title><url>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-walmart-uses-trucking-to-dominate-american-retail</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asimpleusecase</author><text>Here is the money quote that makes the most sense to me:
“They wanted to pay them good money because it was the absolute core of their, of their business — to get this stuff from the distribution center to the store at precisely the right time with no screw-ups,” Lichtenstein said. “That was crucial.”<p>I am sure that WalMart demands full compliance with all regulations and is very exacting in pick up and delivery times. Likely drives are doing the same routes all the time. A lot of drivers would find that boring.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures</title><url>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-walmart-uses-trucking-to-dominate-american-retail</url></story> |
13,716,169 | 13,715,608 | 1 | 2 | 13,714,070 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>conradev</author><text>Because it has largely not been done before, part of me wonders how well Rust would work to build a large, complex GUI. All GUI code I&#x27;ve seen relies on inheritance and dynamic dispatch to structure APIs.<p>I would love to see something like the Flutter Engine[1] written in Rust, which is a layer tree that runs in an OpenGL context and includes text rendering, shape drawing, gesture recognition, scroll layers, a layout engine, etc. – all components necessary for modern mobile app development.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flutter&#x2F;engine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flutter&#x2F;engine</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Simple Rust GUI with QML</title><url>https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/02/17/a-simple-rust-gui-with-qml.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>erichdongubler</author><text>Gist that I&#x27;ve been developing for quick setup guides (PRs welcome!): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ErichDonGubler&#x2F;c802e066de7068241f0e6e492e6584ed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ErichDonGubler&#x2F;c802e066de7068241f0e6...</a><p>We&#x27;re still trying to get this to work with Windows. I&#x27;ve been reporting on this issue here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;White-Oak&#x2F;qml-rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;31" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;White-Oak&#x2F;qml-rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;31</a>.<p>Any suggestions to get this going would be appreciated! Developing with Rust&#x2F;QML on Windows definitely seems possible at this point...that said, most of what&#x27;s left to be defined is what setup is required to actually get things to work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Simple Rust GUI with QML</title><url>https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/02/17/a-simple-rust-gui-with-qml.html</url></story> |
23,639,416 | 23,639,171 | 1 | 2 | 23,633,850 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; I asked her what happens after we get him fired? Can he earn back the worthiness to again feed his family? Will he need to denounce his views or just stop spewing them publicly? Will he just need to collect unemployment for the rest of his life now that we&#x27;ve deemed him a heretic unworthy of work?<p>As someone who&#x27;s a devout Christian, it&#x27;s quite interesting to me to see how the same anti-patterns which plague zealous religious movements -- intolerance, judgementalism, lack of an avenue for repentance &#x2F; rehabilitation, unquestionable dogmas, inquisitions to root out heresies, factionalism, etc -- plague the progressive movement as well.<p>&quot;So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.&quot; - The Apostle Paul</text><parent_chain><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>I argued with a family member about this just the other day. She was trying to get a faculty member at a local university fired for saying something offensive on Twitter. I asked her what happens after we get him fired? Can he earn back the worthiness to again feed his family? Will he need to denounce his views or just stop spewing them publicly? Will he just need to collect unemployment for the rest of his life now that we&#x27;ve deemed him a heretic unworthy of work?<p>The answers of her and her friends bounced between &quot;I don&#x27;t care what happens to racists like him&quot; and calling me a racist for &quot;defending&quot; him. One participant said that he&#x27;ll just have to work a job making far less like &quot;the rest of us.&quot; As if there&#x27;s a cap on how much money racists are allowed to make. I read everything he said that offended people, and I didn&#x27;t see anything racist, as far as I can tell, he just hates protesters and &quot;PC&quot; culture.<p>I just can&#x27;t shake the first 3 words of The Constitution from my thoughts lately. Very nice of the LA Times to include a picture of it at the top of the page. We are not two separate entities in this country, the government and the NOT government. We are all The People. And we should all uphold the rights guaranteed in The Constitution to all of our fellow citizens.<p>Shoutout to Paul Grahams ever applicable &quot;What You Can&#x27;t Say&quot;
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;say.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;say.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/protests-free-speech-first-amendment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>The thing is that these groups (yeah, yeah, always with the generalizations) preach empathy but have no trouble to get people fired, their families too if possible. I think they behave this way because of pressure from social media and racism and sexism are used as some form of emotional sink.<p>Maybe that is too harsh on them in contrast of people just flaming random people by random characteristics, but they do have real institutional support.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>I argued with a family member about this just the other day. She was trying to get a faculty member at a local university fired for saying something offensive on Twitter. I asked her what happens after we get him fired? Can he earn back the worthiness to again feed his family? Will he need to denounce his views or just stop spewing them publicly? Will he just need to collect unemployment for the rest of his life now that we&#x27;ve deemed him a heretic unworthy of work?<p>The answers of her and her friends bounced between &quot;I don&#x27;t care what happens to racists like him&quot; and calling me a racist for &quot;defending&quot; him. One participant said that he&#x27;ll just have to work a job making far less like &quot;the rest of us.&quot; As if there&#x27;s a cap on how much money racists are allowed to make. I read everything he said that offended people, and I didn&#x27;t see anything racist, as far as I can tell, he just hates protesters and &quot;PC&quot; culture.<p>I just can&#x27;t shake the first 3 words of The Constitution from my thoughts lately. Very nice of the LA Times to include a picture of it at the top of the page. We are not two separate entities in this country, the government and the NOT government. We are all The People. And we should all uphold the rights guaranteed in The Constitution to all of our fellow citizens.<p>Shoutout to Paul Grahams ever applicable &quot;What You Can&#x27;t Say&quot;
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;say.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;say.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/protests-free-speech-first-amendment</url></story> |
15,399,723 | 15,397,496 | 1 | 3 | 15,397,370 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vasco</author><text>How incredible it is that a Federal Agency needs a private company to identify its own citizens. You guys really should get smart ID cards like every other sane country. They have a certificate on them and you can even buy a card reader to use the chip and identify yourself in state-ran online services. Come join us in 2017, it&#x27;s cool here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IRS Awards Equifax $7.25M Contract to Help 'Verify Taxpayer Identities'</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/irs-awards-equifax-7-25-million-no-bid-contract-to-hel-1819119424</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thephyber</author><text>The important part of the reply:<p>&gt; As noted in public records, the short-term contract was awarded to Equifax to prevent a lapse in service during a protest on another contract. The service relates to assisting in ongoing identity validation needs of the IRS. Equifax provided these identity proofing services to the IRS under a previous contract.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IRS Awards Equifax $7.25M Contract to Help 'Verify Taxpayer Identities'</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/irs-awards-equifax-7-25-million-no-bid-contract-to-hel-1819119424</url></story> |
39,208,486 | 39,201,754 | 1 | 3 | 39,200,149 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samatman</author><text>The implementation is incredibly simplistic to the point where I consider it broken.<p>I have a custom GPT where part of the shtick is that it speaks in rhyme. As an aside, I tried, and repeatedly failed, to get it to speak in iambic pentameter blank verse, but for whatever reason, that isn&#x27;t a concept&#x2F;constraint it can recognize and work with. So whatever, rhyming is ok.<p>The point isn&#x27;t about that, it&#x27;s that when I talk with this GPT for long enough, it abruptly forgets about speaking in rhyme. The custom prompt is just initial token state, once it drops out of the context window, it&#x27;s gone.<p>This is a disaster for anyone trying to deploy a task-specific GPT, because it will appear to work for a few thousand tokens, after which it will just turn into vanilla GPT. There have to be a ton of ways to prevent this from happening but the system as implemented doesn&#x27;t do any of them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gmerc</author><text>In my experience they are equally unusable due to compounding reliability issues.<p>It’s a tech demo, not a platform, a data acquisition operation and alpha testing rather than anything seriously useful.<p>Interfaces are unstable.
Inference is intentionally non deterministic and control is crippled (e.g by choosing not to expose seed, denoising or image to image on dalle), to avoid PR backlash whole simultaneously hiding the true capabilities of the platform.<p>something as simple as using VITS to analyze an image fails 30% of the time because GPT5 decides it doesn’t have vision, wants to use pytesseract instead or writes hallucinatory pytorch code for a non existent vits library instead of just using inference.<p>One may create prompts that temporarily don’t fail at a high rate but constant silent finetuning, system prompt changes and unstable models &#x2F; APIs make the whole thing a tech demo designed to get users to volunteer future training data</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins</title><url>https://moveit.substack.com/p/why-custom-gpts-are-better-than-plugins</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arthurcolle</author><text>snapshotted models don&#x27;t really do this... But I agree, OpenAI is a seriously awful target for serious work. I&#x27;ve been pretty focused on a function calling mixtral funetuning dataset. The moment I can reliably do inference at a high speed with a finetuned model that can do gpt-4-32k function calling in an intelligent, hierarchically ordered big planner manner is the day that I use OpenAI a lot less. It&#x27;s coming! miqu leaked over the last week! We&#x27;re so close.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gmerc</author><text>In my experience they are equally unusable due to compounding reliability issues.<p>It’s a tech demo, not a platform, a data acquisition operation and alpha testing rather than anything seriously useful.<p>Interfaces are unstable.
Inference is intentionally non deterministic and control is crippled (e.g by choosing not to expose seed, denoising or image to image on dalle), to avoid PR backlash whole simultaneously hiding the true capabilities of the platform.<p>something as simple as using VITS to analyze an image fails 30% of the time because GPT5 decides it doesn’t have vision, wants to use pytesseract instead or writes hallucinatory pytorch code for a non existent vits library instead of just using inference.<p>One may create prompts that temporarily don’t fail at a high rate but constant silent finetuning, system prompt changes and unstable models &#x2F; APIs make the whole thing a tech demo designed to get users to volunteer future training data</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins</title><url>https://moveit.substack.com/p/why-custom-gpts-are-better-than-plugins</url></story> |
17,199,062 | 17,199,312 | 1 | 2 | 17,198,610 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matttproud</author><text>… and closed about a bazillion bugs I filed over the years in the process without (apparently) migrating them, too.<p>… though I am pretty sure they left the bugs in the source intact.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gnome has moved to GitLab</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/05/31/welcome-gnome-to-gitlab/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Slippery_John</author><text>Unrelated, but GitLab has a pretty slick cookie notice. Tells you exactly what they&#x27;re doing and lets you opt out of non-essentials.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gnome has moved to GitLab</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/05/31/welcome-gnome-to-gitlab/</url></story> |
32,594,204 | 32,593,706 | 1 | 2 | 32,544,216 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RobotToaster</author><text>This extension automatically creates archives (local and on archive.org) for your bookmarks <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rahiel&#x2F;archiveror" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rahiel&#x2F;archiveror</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lordswork</author><text>What mechanism(s) do you use to download articles and videos?</text></item><item><author>spaghettiToy</author><text>I&#x27;ve learned that the hard way. Now I download articles and videos that I find useful.</text></item><item><author>mgdlbp</author><text><i>52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32098194" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32098194</a> - 2022-07 (56 comments)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says</title><url>https://hyperallergic.com/742789/over-90-of-medieval-manuscripts-have-been-lost-study-says/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cratermoon</author><text>I&#x27;ve become a convert to Zotero[1], even though I&#x27;m not an academic. It will automatically snapshot websites (although paywalls and such can trip it up) and for many academic sites will find a PDF version and attach it. For anything it can&#x27;t automatically archive, it&#x27;s easy to attach or provide a link to your personal archive version. When I need to manually archive something, wget as:<p><pre><code> wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent https:&#x2F;&#x2F;site-to-download.com
</code></pre>
For videos, youtube-dl or its successor, yt-dlp[2] work well.<p>1 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zotero.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zotero.org&#x2F;</a><p>2 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yt-dlp&#x2F;yt-dlp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yt-dlp&#x2F;yt-dlp</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lordswork</author><text>What mechanism(s) do you use to download articles and videos?</text></item><item><author>spaghettiToy</author><text>I&#x27;ve learned that the hard way. Now I download articles and videos that I find useful.</text></item><item><author>mgdlbp</author><text><i>52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32098194" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32098194</a> - 2022-07 (56 comments)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says</title><url>https://hyperallergic.com/742789/over-90-of-medieval-manuscripts-have-been-lost-study-says/</url></story> |
30,019,347 | 30,017,321 | 1 | 2 | 30,015,659 | 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>tkgally</author><text>On the morning of January 17 Japan time, my daughter and grandson were in a park near our home in Yokohama when she noticed that the clouds looked very unusual. She took some photos [1]. We speculated that the clouds might have been affected by the shockwave from the Tonga eruption.<p>Other people in Yokohama posted similar photos to Twitter [2, 3, 4].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gally.net&#x2F;miscellaneous&#x2F;20220117_Yokohama_clouds&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gally.net&#x2F;miscellaneous&#x2F;20220117_Yokohama_clouds&#x2F;inde...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hiboshi045&#x2F;status&#x2F;1482884882837966853" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hiboshi045&#x2F;status&#x2F;1482884882837966853</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mimikaki75&#x2F;status&#x2F;1483037087213375488" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mimikaki75&#x2F;status&#x2F;1483037087213375488</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;YasuA_Yokohama&#x2F;status&#x2F;1482878942176747523" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;YasuA_Yokohama&#x2F;status&#x2F;148287894217674752...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tonga volcano eruption created ripples in Earth’s atmosphere</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00127-1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>The waves observed being not merely compression (sound) waves, but gravity waves, in which the air column itself is transported vertically.<p>Implications and impacts of this are as yet unknown, but the results might include mixing between atmospheric regions, impacts on satellites (increased drag for very-low-orbiting craft), the speed at which the waves propagate (atmospheric gravity waves should be slower than compression blast waves), cloud patterns (lifted humid air would tend to condense out, then re-vaporise, at it is lifted and lowered).<p>What&#x27;s changed in particular is our ability to observe, from multiple instruments and points of view, events of this magnitude. New sensors -&gt; new observable phenomena.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tonga volcano eruption created ripples in Earth’s atmosphere</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00127-1</url></story> |
20,010,715 | 20,010,673 | 1 | 2 | 20,009,534 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ahnick</author><text>I talked to a lawyer about this and the feedback I received was while technically they might be able to sue to try and receive compensation even from your personal assets if you are a single-member LLC as long as you can show you were acting in good faith and as an agent of the company (i.e. you didn&#x27;t personally guarantee the work and sign your name instead of the company&#x27;s and you maintain distinct records and finances for the business), then it is unlikely to get approved in a court of law.<p>So an example here might be that you were working for a client and work wasn&#x27;t fully completed on time. You made a good faith effort to get the work done, so while the company you were working for might be entitled to compensation from your LLC they can&#x27;t come after your house.<p>Finally, let me caveat all this by saying that the standards for &quot;piercing the corporate veil&quot; vary by state and as always you should consult with a lawyer before making a final determination. Also, another work around is to form a multi-member LLC and hold formal annual meetings. This is normally enough for most states to consider the LLC as a separate distinct entity and prevent piercing of the corporate veil.</text><parent_chain><item><author>busterarm</author><text>Being a single-person LLC usually doesn&#x27;t give you any of the legal advantages of having an LLC in case you get sued.</text></item><item><author>gshdg</author><text>Note that a single-person LLC can file taxes as a pass-thru entity, which is essentially the same as a sole proprietorship. You do still need to separate your finances&#x2F;accounts&#x2F;etc tho.</text></item><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>1) Doing taxes correctly as anything other than a sole proprietorship is a huge pain in the ass, especially if you&#x27;re selling things across state borders, and doubly so if you&#x27;re in California. I recommend finding a tax professional to handle that for you (the time it takes to do it yourself is generally not worth it). Also don&#x27;t forget that if you&#x27;re actually making money you&#x27;ll need to pay estimated taxes quarterly.<p>2) Either learn basic accounting (if you don&#x27;t already) and keep excellent records of all revenue and expenses business-related (ideally categorized into standard business categories) or find a CPA to keep your records straight monthly. A huge number of people get burned simply because they didn&#x27;t keep proper records and then ran into tax or regulatory trouble later.<p>3) Definitely keep your business finances as separate from your personal funds as possible. Different checking account, different credit card, etc.<p>4) Think really hard before you hire anyone for anything, and if you do, make sure you&#x27;re either doing 1099 correctly or get a professional to help with W2 stuff. Again, this is something that often comes back to bite people.<p>And lastly, remember that most businesses fail and that failing at business is not something to be ashamed of. If it&#x27;s not working out, don&#x27;t make yourself miserable and mortgage your future to try and save it indefinitely - walk away and try again with the lessons you learned.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Starting Your Own LLC?</title><text>I want to start my firm in the USA to channelize my creative endeavors. What are the nuts and bolts of starting your own firm? I can register an LLC online, but what else should I know? e.g Filing taxes, choosing between different corporations etc.
What did you wish you knew , when you started yours? What are some good resources ?</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>ksdale</author><text>Being a single person LLC absolutely does gives you the legal advantages of an LLC, provided you maintain separation of personal and business, eg keeping business bank accounts and routing all income and expenses through them, keeping proper accounting books, signing contracts as the LLC and not as yourself, holding company meetings w&#x2F; minutes, etc.<p>In practice this protection isn’t worth as much as it is for larger businesses because, for example, any bank lending to a new single person LLC will require a personal guarantee anyway, and most single person LLC don’t have a lot of situations where they might incur a life destroying liability, like an accident in a warehouse or something, but that protection still definitely exists for single person LLCs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>busterarm</author><text>Being a single-person LLC usually doesn&#x27;t give you any of the legal advantages of having an LLC in case you get sued.</text></item><item><author>gshdg</author><text>Note that a single-person LLC can file taxes as a pass-thru entity, which is essentially the same as a sole proprietorship. You do still need to separate your finances&#x2F;accounts&#x2F;etc tho.</text></item><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>1) Doing taxes correctly as anything other than a sole proprietorship is a huge pain in the ass, especially if you&#x27;re selling things across state borders, and doubly so if you&#x27;re in California. I recommend finding a tax professional to handle that for you (the time it takes to do it yourself is generally not worth it). Also don&#x27;t forget that if you&#x27;re actually making money you&#x27;ll need to pay estimated taxes quarterly.<p>2) Either learn basic accounting (if you don&#x27;t already) and keep excellent records of all revenue and expenses business-related (ideally categorized into standard business categories) or find a CPA to keep your records straight monthly. A huge number of people get burned simply because they didn&#x27;t keep proper records and then ran into tax or regulatory trouble later.<p>3) Definitely keep your business finances as separate from your personal funds as possible. Different checking account, different credit card, etc.<p>4) Think really hard before you hire anyone for anything, and if you do, make sure you&#x27;re either doing 1099 correctly or get a professional to help with W2 stuff. Again, this is something that often comes back to bite people.<p>And lastly, remember that most businesses fail and that failing at business is not something to be ashamed of. If it&#x27;s not working out, don&#x27;t make yourself miserable and mortgage your future to try and save it indefinitely - walk away and try again with the lessons you learned.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Starting Your Own LLC?</title><text>I want to start my firm in the USA to channelize my creative endeavors. What are the nuts and bolts of starting your own firm? I can register an LLC online, but what else should I know? e.g Filing taxes, choosing between different corporations etc.
What did you wish you knew , when you started yours? What are some good resources ?</text></story> |
17,540,111 | 17,539,046 | 1 | 3 | 17,538,390 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exikyut</author><text>Related&#x2F;relevant question.<p>A number of months ago I decided to finally begin researching a project I&#x27;ve had on the backburner for ages: a simple domain+IP bandwidth throughput counter for everything within my LAN. Basically I wanted to make a dashboard saying &quot;you exchanged this much data with this many IPs within the last 24h; here&#x27;s the per-IP and per-domain breakdown; here are the domains each IP served&quot;, that sort of thing.<p>Part of the motivation for this was to track down the headscratch-generating mysterious small amount of &quot;unmetered data&quot; my ISP reports each month (I don&#x27;t watch TV over the internet and cannot think of what else would be it), and the other part of the motivation was to satisfy idle curiosity and observe domain&lt;-&gt;IP cohesion&#x2F;fragmentation over time.<p>At the exact point I began my research TLS 1.3 had just been approved, and I rapidly realized my nice little idea was going to get majorly stomped on: the inspiration for the project, years ago, was the SNI field itself (hah).<p>5-10 years ago, I would have been able to route all my traffic through a gateway box, and passively watch&#x2F;trace (slightly behind realtime) everything via tcpdump or similar, catching DNS lookups and sniffing SNI fields. That would have handled everything.<p>Now, with encrypted SNI, and the upcoming DNS-over-HTTPS (seems I need to think ahead :&#x2F;), it looks like my (now irritatingly stupid-seeming) project will require me to generate a local cert, install it on all my devices, and get a machine beefy enough to keep line-rate speed while doing MITM cert-resigning.<p>And then, for the fraction of traffic my system reports as &quot;not signed by local cert&quot;, I&#x27;m just going to have to let that go, or I&#x27;ll break everything that uses cert pinning.<p>...which I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if some programs eventually use with DoH lookups (using pinned certs fished out of DNSSEC for DoH makes sense).<p>I&#x27;m very very interested to know if there are any alternatives I can use. I realize, for now, that I can sniff for and collect DNS lookup results and associate these with IPs, but when will this break?(!)<p>Honestly HTTPS and security in general just seems like a gigantic mess. I say this not as a disrespect of the architecture, but more as a &quot;wow, this is just so hard to get right&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI</title><url>https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1018566026320019457</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cyphase</author><text>It&#x27;s great seeing more and more work being done to increase privacy and anonymity online, especially things like this which are about plugging smaller, less obvious holes. Nothing is perfect, but the harder it is for the snoops and spooks, the better.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI</title><url>https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1018566026320019457</url></story> |
26,163,734 | 26,161,373 | 1 | 3 | 26,159,680 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>It is annoying when this sort of event happens and everyone starts deciding what they believe to be truth within 48 hours of the outage. It makes more sense to be talking about the 2011 outages in terms of what went wrong than the 2021 ones - because we have actual information on 2011 instead of &quot;things went wrong!&quot; now.<p>I want to thank you personally for injecting a PDF into the discussion, but also positively assert that it is not obvious what just happened this week. We don&#x27;t yet know how many of the recommendations were ignored, what happened in the last decade regulator-wise or whether this round of failures are for the same or different reasons.<p>Speculation is much less useful than waiting a few months for the actual investigations. Emergencies are urgent, engineering (and political) decisions and assessments are never emergencies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregw2</author><text>What went wrong is that the Texas legislature which owns Texas-specific grid process to avoid interference from the Feds didn&#x27;t figure out how to also ensure Texas generator companies got compensated for weatherizing (and ensuring it was done).<p>How many of the 24+6 recommendations from the NERC&#x2F;FERC review of last time this happened in Texas (hint:2011) were taken up by the legislature or those at ERCOT they delegated responsibility to or the power generation providers?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nerc.com&#x2F;pa&#x2F;rrm&#x2F;ea&#x2F;ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials&#x2F;FERC%20NERC%20Findings%20and%20Recommendations.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nerc.com&#x2F;pa&#x2F;rrm&#x2F;ea&#x2F;ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials&#x2F;...</a><p>The eye opener to me from skimming the 2011 recommendations is that there was no explicit rating&#x2F;SLA for a power plant&#x27;s acceptable temperature operating that could be used by planners for assessing the risks of an upcoming weather event by policy planners. It&#x27;d seem pretty basic to be able to ask &quot;How many plants do we lose when temperature drops below X&quot;?
Dunno whether they fixed trying to create such a basic measurement for Texas plants, but it doesn&#x27;t seem like it.<p>If you want to know some of the specifics about what &quot;winterization&quot; means in practice for a power plant including natural gas ones, you can read some of the details in that report. It&#x27;s kinda interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What went wrong with the Texas power grid?</title><url>https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-Texas-15951684.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mjevans</author><text>Parts 15 and 16 of that PDF are, in polished up polite speak, particularly scathing in terms of what&#x27;s being recommended.<p>The summary is: Regularly inspect and maintain your equipment, here are the obvious things that must be done. (Unstated: We feel a need to say this, because obviously it didn&#x27;t happen in at least one place...)<p>Probably got cut by the bean counters and a cut-throat market that didn&#x27;t require safety and availability as considerations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregw2</author><text>What went wrong is that the Texas legislature which owns Texas-specific grid process to avoid interference from the Feds didn&#x27;t figure out how to also ensure Texas generator companies got compensated for weatherizing (and ensuring it was done).<p>How many of the 24+6 recommendations from the NERC&#x2F;FERC review of last time this happened in Texas (hint:2011) were taken up by the legislature or those at ERCOT they delegated responsibility to or the power generation providers?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nerc.com&#x2F;pa&#x2F;rrm&#x2F;ea&#x2F;ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials&#x2F;FERC%20NERC%20Findings%20and%20Recommendations.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nerc.com&#x2F;pa&#x2F;rrm&#x2F;ea&#x2F;ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials&#x2F;...</a><p>The eye opener to me from skimming the 2011 recommendations is that there was no explicit rating&#x2F;SLA for a power plant&#x27;s acceptable temperature operating that could be used by planners for assessing the risks of an upcoming weather event by policy planners. It&#x27;d seem pretty basic to be able to ask &quot;How many plants do we lose when temperature drops below X&quot;?
Dunno whether they fixed trying to create such a basic measurement for Texas plants, but it doesn&#x27;t seem like it.<p>If you want to know some of the specifics about what &quot;winterization&quot; means in practice for a power plant including natural gas ones, you can read some of the details in that report. It&#x27;s kinda interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What went wrong with the Texas power grid?</title><url>https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-Texas-15951684.php</url></story> |
23,087,314 | 23,082,214 | 1 | 3 | 23,078,027 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boulos</author><text>Fabien, how come you skipped Volta? (Presumably because it wasn’t interesting for Display, but it’s a huge step up from Pascal)<p>The most interesting thing to me in the progression of NVIDIA’s compute offerings is that until Volta, the “SIMT” claims were just a programming model and the hardware was actually just like any other SIMD hardware (though with automatic mask stacks). In Volta, they finally added “we can run different ops at different program counters”.<p>For the casual reader, the hot chips 2017 presentation is probably the easiest skim:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hotchips.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;hc_archives&#x2F;hc29&#x2F;HC29.21-Monday-Pub&#x2F;HC29.21.10-GPU-Gaming-Pub&#x2F;HC29.21.132-Volta-Choquette-NVIDIA-Final3.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hotchips.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;hc_archives&#x2F;hc29...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An History of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor</title><url>http://fabiensanglard.net/cuda/index.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>mshockwave</author><text>&gt; This fragmented design reminds of the Pre-Tesla layered architecture, proving once again that history likes to repeat itself.<p>So true.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An History of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor</title><url>http://fabiensanglard.net/cuda/index.html</url></story> |
25,410,768 | 25,411,046 | 1 | 3 | 25,409,690 | 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>godelski</author><text>I&#x27;ve been hit twice. Both times I was at a stop sign. The second time the guy just said &quot;oh sorry, the sun was in my eyes.&quot; Meanwhile I thought I was going to be pushed into moving traffic and die by someone who in no way could have avoided me. Took me a full minute to catch my breath and gain enough composure to lay into the guy who hit me. He never got out of his car, never said sorry (real sorry), nothing. I&#x27;ve had cars chase me because they don&#x27;t think I should be riding in the right most lane (no bike lane or construction).<p>One time a Pizza Hut driver almost killed me. I called his boss, they didn&#x27;t care.<p>One time an <i></i><i>UBER DRIVER</i><i></i> almost hit me and then proceeded to chase me because I yelled and flipped him off. I sent a photo of the license place to Uber and the local PD, nothing. Not even an acknowledgement.<p>The fact is that people don&#x27;t care. You go on HN or Reddit and people will complain and actively encourage hitting riders. It is always the rider&#x27;s fault, even if the driver broke the law. And I&#x27;m tired of it. I don&#x27;t care if the rider was in the wrong, you&#x27;re a lot more squishy on a bike than in a plastic housing with a motor. There&#x27;s this weird dichotomy of not caring about the life or safety of someone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0xB31B1B</author><text>I am a cyclist and a driver. Unfortunately, I think the only way forward for cyclists is intense litigation against both cities and drivers around car collisions. The city will not prosecute cars for dangerous driving or violations, even if they hit drivers. Its crazy to me how getting caught going 15 miles over the speed limit will double your car insurance rates, but hitting a cyclists won&#x27;t do anything because as a driver you can say &quot;they darted into the lane&quot; to any cop and won&#x27;t be cited for anything. I was hit by a car once, had my bike totaled, and got a small settlement from the driver&#x27;s insurance company. If I was hit again, I would immediately go to a lawyer and take the insurance company to the cleaners an donate all of the money to a bicycle advocacy org, and I advise everyone I know who gets hit to do the same thing. It sucks but it seems like personal injury law is the only avenue to make change here and introduce some form of penalty and feedback to hitting a cyclist with a car. There is no infrastructure to stop this because drivers don&#x27;t care, they can hit cyclists without consequence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants</title><url>https://macwright.com/2020/12/04/sharrows.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>dr_dshiv</author><text>You might be interested in the history of the &quot;Stop Murdering Our Children&quot; campaign. It had a massive impact on the development of the Netherlands. In the 60s, automobile-pedestrian deaths were higher per capita than in the usa. It wasn&#x27;t always a bike mecca.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dutchreach.org&#x2F;car-child-murder-protests-safer-nl-roads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dutchreach.org&#x2F;car-child-murder-protests-safer-n...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>0xB31B1B</author><text>I am a cyclist and a driver. Unfortunately, I think the only way forward for cyclists is intense litigation against both cities and drivers around car collisions. The city will not prosecute cars for dangerous driving or violations, even if they hit drivers. Its crazy to me how getting caught going 15 miles over the speed limit will double your car insurance rates, but hitting a cyclists won&#x27;t do anything because as a driver you can say &quot;they darted into the lane&quot; to any cop and won&#x27;t be cited for anything. I was hit by a car once, had my bike totaled, and got a small settlement from the driver&#x27;s insurance company. If I was hit again, I would immediately go to a lawyer and take the insurance company to the cleaners an donate all of the money to a bicycle advocacy org, and I advise everyone I know who gets hit to do the same thing. It sucks but it seems like personal injury law is the only avenue to make change here and introduce some form of penalty and feedback to hitting a cyclist with a car. There is no infrastructure to stop this because drivers don&#x27;t care, they can hit cyclists without consequence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants</title><url>https://macwright.com/2020/12/04/sharrows.html</url></story> |
19,750,895 | 19,750,860 | 1 | 2 | 19,750,667 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>From casual observation (living here since 2000) I believe that being stressed and &quot;busy&quot; is a badge of honor in the US. For example during Christmas time everybody complains about being stressed with it. I don&#x27;t remember that from living in Germany. Christmas was downtime not a source of stress.<p>For a while it was also popular to be &quot;outraged&quot; about stuff but that seems to have calmed down quite a bit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/americans-stressful.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>nostromo</author><text>&gt; The findings were not all bleak for the United States. Despite having widespread negative experiences, Americans also generally reported more positive experiences, on average, than the rest of the world did.<p>It&#x27;d be interesting to know how they came to the decision to focus on the negative emotions in the article.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/americans-stressful.html</url></story> |
17,815,375 | 17,812,030 | 1 | 2 | 17,806,127 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ToFab123</author><text>A simple trick to get rid of Wasps. Get a brown paper bag (like the ones you get at McDonalds), fill it with air, seal it, and stick in our you wall. The wasp thinks it is another wasp nest and go somewhere else. Works like a charm</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/parasite-vine-wasp-tumor/567823/?single_page=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>catbird</author><text>Bravo to The Atlantic for actually linking to the source journal article.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/parasite-vine-wasp-tumor/567823/?single_page=true</url></story> |
24,499,119 | 24,498,640 | 1 | 3 | 24,495,330 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sho_hn</author><text>To me, the quote and what you put after came as a big surprise - I was ready to nod in agreement as you recognize this as a sad story about the platform.<p>The last time I was working on a text editor (KDE&#x27;s Kate) and found a bug in the text layout engine it was written against (Qt&#x27;s), I wrote a patch, submitted it upstream and it made everyone else&#x27;s apps better, too.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine the world of hurt, discomfort and frustration of developing against a lib set I can&#x27;t read source code of or improve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Brendinooo</author><text>&gt; Here&#x27;s a little editor story for fun. During beta we found some bugs in Apple&#x27;s text layout engine that we just could not fix. Our solution? Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch. Not only did this fix the bugs, but it also boosted our editor&#x27;s performance. We&#x27;re not messing around!<p>Seems like there&#x27;s nobody better than Panic at doing this sort of thing. They&#x27;re willing to push Apple&#x27;s UI forward, but they always do it in a way that feels Apple-y. Didn&#x27;t they also pioneer a tab UI that Apple ended up adopting?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nova by Panic</title><url>https://nova.app/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mooman219</author><text>&quot;Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch&quot;. I would be pessimistic of the magnitude of this statement.<p>I do a significant amount of text engine work and I&#x27;m skeptical what they implied by this. The likely case is they glued together other solutions (Like HarfBuzz&#x2F;FreeType&#x2F;etc) and expose their own API on top of that. This is perfectly acceptable and even encouraged for accessibility reasons. It may be that CoreText isn&#x27;t acceptable for their use case.<p>What I think this would be misinterpreted as them writing the whole stack from scratch. For example, shaping is part of layout and it would be monumental if they wrote their own shaper given even HarfBuzz, DirectWrite, and CoreText do not have complete coverage yet. Additionally, BiDi + line breaking + shaping has bugs even in Chrome on some edge cases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Brendinooo</author><text>&gt; Here&#x27;s a little editor story for fun. During beta we found some bugs in Apple&#x27;s text layout engine that we just could not fix. Our solution? Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch. Not only did this fix the bugs, but it also boosted our editor&#x27;s performance. We&#x27;re not messing around!<p>Seems like there&#x27;s nobody better than Panic at doing this sort of thing. They&#x27;re willing to push Apple&#x27;s UI forward, but they always do it in a way that feels Apple-y. Didn&#x27;t they also pioneer a tab UI that Apple ended up adopting?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nova by Panic</title><url>https://nova.app/</url></story> |
15,918,015 | 15,918,033 | 1 | 2 | 15,916,290 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aggie</author><text>Road maintenance is funded primarily through taxation of gas and diesel [1]. As electric vehicles don&#x27;t use either, they do not pay a proportional share of the cost to maintain roads. The fuel tax has been an elegant funding solution because it scales both with mileage and vehicle weight (as heavier vehicles use more fuel).<p>Further, electric vehicles weigh more than comparable gas or diesel vehicles, making the ratio of road wear to tax contribution even more disparate.<p>Even if you agree electric vehicles are good for society overall, we will need to find a new way to fund road maintenance.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0967070X16301482" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0967070X16...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>xpda</author><text>The Tesla Model S weighs significantly less than most pickups and large SUVs on the road today. Tesla&#x27;s heaviest, the Model X, is significantly lighter than the GMC Yukon, for example.<p>I don&#x27;t see the logic in this argument. Electric vehicles are not going to destroy the roads.</text></item><item><author>ProfessorLayton</author><text>Semis are incredibly damaging to roads, they cause 1,400x more wear than cars! [1]<p>It seems that with current battery technology, electric semis&#x27; average weight is going to increase drastically, even if they remain within the allowable GVW limit. For example, a Model S weighs more than a Honda Pilot, due to the 1,200lb battery [2]! . Without the diesel tax, we&#x27;re going to have to figure out another way to pay for road usage.<p>Right now semis are heavily subsidized by everyone else (They&#x27;re certainly not paying 1,400x more in fuel tax). And I suppose it would be unfair to continue to subsidize diesel, and not electric. However, as our infrastructure decays we&#x27;re going to have to figure this out.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrrb.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;201432.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrrb.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;201432.pdf</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roperld.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;teslamodels.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roperld.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;teslamodels.htm</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/this-electric-truck-will-probably-beat-tesla-s-to-market</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ProfessorLayton</author><text>A fully specced Model X weighs 5,531 lbs vs a fully specced Yukon at 5743 lbs, hardly significant, but thats beside the point.<p>I was specifically referencing semis, where an incredible amount of road damage comes from, and the need for new road funding to account for the transition from diesel taxes.<p>The logic is that road damage does not scale linearly with vehicle weight, and with current battery tech, an electric semi will need to complete more trips for the same amount of cargo due to the battery&#x27;s weight eating into the load capacity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xpda</author><text>The Tesla Model S weighs significantly less than most pickups and large SUVs on the road today. Tesla&#x27;s heaviest, the Model X, is significantly lighter than the GMC Yukon, for example.<p>I don&#x27;t see the logic in this argument. Electric vehicles are not going to destroy the roads.</text></item><item><author>ProfessorLayton</author><text>Semis are incredibly damaging to roads, they cause 1,400x more wear than cars! [1]<p>It seems that with current battery technology, electric semis&#x27; average weight is going to increase drastically, even if they remain within the allowable GVW limit. For example, a Model S weighs more than a Honda Pilot, due to the 1,200lb battery [2]! . Without the diesel tax, we&#x27;re going to have to figure out another way to pay for road usage.<p>Right now semis are heavily subsidized by everyone else (They&#x27;re certainly not paying 1,400x more in fuel tax). And I suppose it would be unfair to continue to subsidize diesel, and not electric. However, as our infrastructure decays we&#x27;re going to have to figure this out.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrrb.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;201432.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lrrb.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;201432.pdf</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roperld.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;teslamodels.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roperld.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;teslamodels.htm</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/this-electric-truck-will-probably-beat-tesla-s-to-market</url></story> |
38,871,691 | 38,732,087 | 1 | 2 | 38,731,355 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fevangelou</author><text>That&#x27;s a great writeup.<p>As someone who&#x27;s worked primarily on news&#x2F;media sites for the last 15 years, I can totally relate and agree on all your points.<p>I would also argue that there are non-code issues that could easily be resolved. Bundling fonts for example. Decide on the top 100 with support for all or almost all characters, based on usage etc., and bundle them in the browser. That would shave possibly hundreds of KBs of each page&#x27;s size.<p>On the flip side, stuff like lazy loading could become standard and use the attribute only to force-load content. Or stuff that is used on every freaking site (eg togglers as native html tags).<p>I&#x27;m hopeful though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What We Need Instead of "Web Components"</title><url>https://blog.carlana.net/post/2023/web-component-alternative-futures/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>While I agree with the general gist of the article (and please, yes, it seems like a minor thing, but give us resizable iframes), except that &quot;reactivity&quot; does not meet the bar of developers collectively having landed on a solution to a common problem. There are a couple of frameworks with similar, but different, approaches to it, and yet none of them is truly widespread. I&#x27;m very sceptical that standardisation would hit the right mark at this point in time.<p>But yes, that is basically what we saw with Web Components. People took drew the wrong conclusions about what problems React solved (&quot;everything is a component&quot;), and then tried to retrofit Web Components as a native solution to the problem - with the added assumption that just because it was built-in, it was better.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What We Need Instead of "Web Components"</title><url>https://blog.carlana.net/post/2023/web-component-alternative-futures/</url></story> |
27,779,954 | 27,779,843 | 1 | 2 | 27,776,830 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rablackburn</author><text>Slightly relevant story time:<p>On one of the better teams I’ve worked with the water-cooler activity was trying to come up with an algorithm to describe the behaviour of the Coca Cola machine in the kitchen.<p>It was one of those clear plexiglass front machines where after punching in the coordinates of the item you wanted, a mechanical arm would move to the coordinates, take a drink, and place it in the delivery bay at the bottom.<p>While it would always get the drink you wanted, it would rarely go to the exact coordinates you specified. Ie, if there were three columns filled with coke, and you punched in the coordinates for the one on the far right, the arm may take a can from the center, or left column.<p>We would often wager a can of coke (“if I can’t find anything wrong in your PR, I’ll buy you a coke”), so we were perhaps drinking more soft drink than was medically advisable, but in our defence:<p>a) the machine was really cheap (AUD$1 or $1.5)<p>b) it was an excellent 10min break game<p>Eventually we thought they had it figured out we would gather and make our predictions, but occasionally there would be an upset that would throw a wrench into the model.<p>We got to a point where we just couldn’t reconcile the machine behaviour with any kind of coherent set of rules, then one morning we saw the delivery guy stocking it.<p>After chatting with him we learned our algorithm was more or less correct, but the internal state of the machine was prone to getting out of sync with the actual stock levels, so it would make the “wrong” choice near the end of the refill cycle. Then he gave the engineer talking to him a free energy drink (source of stock problems right there haha)<p>While we were no Knuths, I love that these kinds of games are so universal among engineers&#x2F;devs. In fact, if I can get someone to tell me a similar story of theirs in an interview (for a technical
role) I’m much more likely to consider them for the position. Curiosity is a powerful trait for a developer.<p>…and the (simple) algorithm for the machine is:
Take from the column with the most stock, if there are multiple columns with the same stock level, take from the column furthest to the left.</text><parent_chain><item><author>svat</author><text>Donald Knuth&#x27;s <i>The Art of Computer Programming</i> has, in its first volume, a lengthy section on simulating an elevator. It is a single regular elevator (nothing &quot;special&quot; going on as in the post here), but even so, as he tries to make things precise, you realize how much detail is involved, and get some appreciation for the task of programming.<p>It occupies about 15 pages (plus several pages of exercises and solutions). Knuth started working on TAOCP when he was a PhD student at Caltech:<p>&gt; <i>The program developed below simulates the elevator system in the Mathematics building of the California Institute of Technology. The results of such a simulation will perhaps be of use only to people who make reasonably frequent visits to Caltech; and even for them, it may be simpler just to try using the elevator several times instead of writing a computer program.</i> […]<p>&gt; <i>The algorithm we will now study may not reflect the elevator’s true principles of operation, but it is believed to be the simplest set of rules that explain all the phenomena observed during several hours of experimentation by the author during the writing of this section.</i> […]<p>&gt; <i>The elevator system described above is quite complicated by comparison with other algorithms we have seen in this book, but the choice of a real-life system is more typical of a simulation problem than any cooked-up “textbook example” would ever be.</i><p>It ends with:<p>&gt; <i>It is hoped that some reader will learn as much about simulation from the example above as the author learned about elevators while the example was being prepared.</i><p>And one of the exercises adds:<p>&gt; <i>It is perhaps significant to note that although the author had used the elevator system for years and thought he knew it well, it wasn’t until he attempted to write this section that he realized there were quite a few facts about the elevator’s system of choosing directions that he did not know. He went back to experiment with the elevator six separate times, each time believing he had finally achieved a complete understanding of its</i> modus operandi. <i>(Now he is reluctant to ride it for fear that some new facet of its operation will appear, contradicting the algorithms given.) We often fail to realize how little we know about a thing until we attempt to simulate it on a computer.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of Special Elevator Modes</title><url>https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_elevator_special_modes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhgb</author><text>&gt; We often fail to realize how little we know about a thing until we attempt to simulate it on a computer.<p>&quot;Programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood and sloppily formulated ideas&quot; is definitely on the list of my favourite programming quotes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>svat</author><text>Donald Knuth&#x27;s <i>The Art of Computer Programming</i> has, in its first volume, a lengthy section on simulating an elevator. It is a single regular elevator (nothing &quot;special&quot; going on as in the post here), but even so, as he tries to make things precise, you realize how much detail is involved, and get some appreciation for the task of programming.<p>It occupies about 15 pages (plus several pages of exercises and solutions). Knuth started working on TAOCP when he was a PhD student at Caltech:<p>&gt; <i>The program developed below simulates the elevator system in the Mathematics building of the California Institute of Technology. The results of such a simulation will perhaps be of use only to people who make reasonably frequent visits to Caltech; and even for them, it may be simpler just to try using the elevator several times instead of writing a computer program.</i> […]<p>&gt; <i>The algorithm we will now study may not reflect the elevator’s true principles of operation, but it is believed to be the simplest set of rules that explain all the phenomena observed during several hours of experimentation by the author during the writing of this section.</i> […]<p>&gt; <i>The elevator system described above is quite complicated by comparison with other algorithms we have seen in this book, but the choice of a real-life system is more typical of a simulation problem than any cooked-up “textbook example” would ever be.</i><p>It ends with:<p>&gt; <i>It is hoped that some reader will learn as much about simulation from the example above as the author learned about elevators while the example was being prepared.</i><p>And one of the exercises adds:<p>&gt; <i>It is perhaps significant to note that although the author had used the elevator system for years and thought he knew it well, it wasn’t until he attempted to write this section that he realized there were quite a few facts about the elevator’s system of choosing directions that he did not know. He went back to experiment with the elevator six separate times, each time believing he had finally achieved a complete understanding of its</i> modus operandi. <i>(Now he is reluctant to ride it for fear that some new facet of its operation will appear, contradicting the algorithms given.) We often fail to realize how little we know about a thing until we attempt to simulate it on a computer.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of Special Elevator Modes</title><url>https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_elevator_special_modes</url></story> |
33,280,256 | 33,278,030 | 1 | 3 | 33,276,187 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rollcat</author><text>Let me add a few:<p>- Handover (shared clipboard between devices, continuing tasks on another device)<p>- AirPlay (both casting and playback control)<p>- Apps are just self-contained, launchable directories you can copy around, no separate installation step<p>- Application-centric (as opposed to window-centric) task management<p>- Tiny things like &lt;Cmd-tab&gt;, keep holding Cmd, click the app to switch to<p>- Even tinier things, like hold space to move the selection rectangle in the screenshot tool<p>- Extremely consistent support for all basic keyboard shortcuts like &lt;Cmd-q&gt;, &lt;Cmd-w&gt;, &lt;Cmd-,&gt;, etc, going back all the way to the classic Mac OS<p>- AppleScript, Shortcuts, (Automator)<p>- Color management<p>It&#x27;s these things I miss on Linux and (Open)BSD the most, not the GUI theme. I actually think the current design (starting with Big Sur) is a huge step backward for accessibility and usability, fortunately this project doesn&#x27;t blindly copy it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sandreas</author><text>Although I honor this huge effort - just looking like macOS does not mean it is macOS-Like. I hate to say this, but macOS is way more than just its look. Most people miss that. I doubt that these FreeBSD changes will contain the following macOS-Like features:<p><pre><code> - The best touchpad expierience including kinetic &#x2F; inertial scrolling, rubberbanding,etc.
- Apps like Mail and Preview with its simple but yet powerful set of features
- Fast and stable Wifi
- Battery life
- Excellent Typography
- System wide function keys (play, pause, volume up, etc.) that work everywhere
- Quick look
- Air drop
</code></pre>
I recently switched from macOS to Fedora 36 and will keep using it, because it is awesome, but the things I miss the most are listed above :-) But prefer freedom over macOS-Like, so kudos for posting this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD</title><url>https://github.com/Wamphyre/BSD-XFCE</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>Geary had promise as a sort of FOSS Mail.app counterpart but last I knew development on it had stalled. In theory Thunderbird could fill that need but it’s always felt kinda cludgy and odd in comparison.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sandreas</author><text>Although I honor this huge effort - just looking like macOS does not mean it is macOS-Like. I hate to say this, but macOS is way more than just its look. Most people miss that. I doubt that these FreeBSD changes will contain the following macOS-Like features:<p><pre><code> - The best touchpad expierience including kinetic &#x2F; inertial scrolling, rubberbanding,etc.
- Apps like Mail and Preview with its simple but yet powerful set of features
- Fast and stable Wifi
- Battery life
- Excellent Typography
- System wide function keys (play, pause, volume up, etc.) that work everywhere
- Quick look
- Air drop
</code></pre>
I recently switched from macOS to Fedora 36 and will keep using it, because it is awesome, but the things I miss the most are listed above :-) But prefer freedom over macOS-Like, so kudos for posting this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD</title><url>https://github.com/Wamphyre/BSD-XFCE</url></story> |
34,168,393 | 34,167,821 | 1 | 2 | 34,166,193 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>Throughout history there are moments where humans realize they&#x27;re not special in a way they previously thought they were — universe doesn&#x27;t revolve around us, other animals possess skills we thought were unique to us, etc.<p>I think what&#x27;s interesting is that many types of creativity may really just be re-synthesizing &quot;stuff we already know.&quot;<p>So a lot of the negative comments along the lines of, &quot;it can&#x27;t be creative because it never thinks of anything beyond its training data&quot; don&#x27;t click with me. I think synthesizing two existing concepts into some third thing is actually a form of creativity.<p>These nets may not learn the same way we do exactly, and they may not possess the same creative abilities as us — but there&#x27;s definitely something interesting going on. I for one am taking a Beginner&#x27;s Mind view of it all. It&#x27;s pretty fascinating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>EMM_386</author><text>Very interesting.<p>People keep saying ChatGPT isn&#x27;t that impressive because it&#x27;s just &quot;regurgitating knowledge&quot; and has no insight into it, or things along those lines. But I find it insanely impressive that you can specify something like:<p>&quot;Provide your answer in JSON form. Reply with only the answer in JSON form and include no other commentary.&quot;<p>And it will do exactly that. Or tell it to explain you something &quot;in the style of Shakespere&quot;.<p>I just asked it about quantum physics as Shakespere and got this (plus a lot more):<p>---<p>Oh sweet youth, listen closely as I impart<p>The secrets of the quantum realm, a place of art<p>Where particles and waves, both small and large<p>Exist in states both definite and in charge<p>---<p>That is really fascinating stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer</title><url>https://spindas.dreamwidth.org/4207.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>Waterluvian</author><text>I keep describing it as the Enterprise Ship’s Computer. It won’t answer “how do I solve this problem?” But it’ll help you workshop a solution if you do the “thinking.”<p>…But I’ve also had it clearly tell me in an answer that 2 is an odd number.</text><parent_chain><item><author>EMM_386</author><text>Very interesting.<p>People keep saying ChatGPT isn&#x27;t that impressive because it&#x27;s just &quot;regurgitating knowledge&quot; and has no insight into it, or things along those lines. But I find it insanely impressive that you can specify something like:<p>&quot;Provide your answer in JSON form. Reply with only the answer in JSON form and include no other commentary.&quot;<p>And it will do exactly that. Or tell it to explain you something &quot;in the style of Shakespere&quot;.<p>I just asked it about quantum physics as Shakespere and got this (plus a lot more):<p>---<p>Oh sweet youth, listen closely as I impart<p>The secrets of the quantum realm, a place of art<p>Where particles and waves, both small and large<p>Exist in states both definite and in charge<p>---<p>That is really fascinating stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer</title><url>https://spindas.dreamwidth.org/4207.html</url></story> |
22,292,573 | 22,291,275 | 1 | 2 | 22,290,655 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ISL</author><text>As I tell my students all the time -- properly-executed, an experiment that doesn&#x27;t work is not a failure. If you don&#x27;t internalize this idea, you will find experimental physics to be psychologically untenable.<p>If you build an experiment (at any scale) to test out an idea that you think is going to work, and it doesn&#x27;t work, <i>you made progress</i>. Now you know something really essential -- that thing that seemed like a well-motivated idea has some kind of unknown flaw. With that in hand, you can proceed to try something better, whether it is a refined approach or something entirely new.<p>Without doing the experiment, that well-motivated idea would still look like something worth trying.<p>If a large team of people were willing to spend years and lots of resources on an Alzheimer&#x27;s clinical trial, it was likely to be because they thought it had a real chance of working. If it didn&#x27;t work, we all benefit from their effort.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/02/10/a-prospective-alzheimers-trial-reports</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>streptomycin</author><text><i>As that last-linked blog post makes clear, I don’t find that evidence compelling, and most certainly not compelling enough to approve the drug as it stands. But with the way the FDA is behaving these days, God only knows what’s going to happen. People are investing on just that basis, although rarely stated in quite those words. But if you can look at the ruins of all the attempts to show efficacy with anti-amyloid antibody therapies and decide that the Biogen&#x2F;Eisai data represent a real ray of hope, you have a sunnier disposition than I do.</i><p>I share the cynicism! Early drugs targeted amyloid plaques because it seemed like a good idea. But after so many failures, I can&#x27;t think of any reason so much time and money is spent on a failed hypothesis other than hoping for a false positive. Because a false positive, even with very modest results, would result in a ridiculously profitable drug given the complete lack of Alzheimer&#x27;s treatments we currently have.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/02/10/a-prospective-alzheimers-trial-reports</url></story> |
16,995,529 | 16,995,287 | 1 | 2 | 16,994,579 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnord123</author><text>To add to the list in TFA, Rust bindings are here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluejekyll&#x2F;foundationdb-rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluejekyll&#x2F;foundationdb-rs</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in</title><url>https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-community-highlights-two-weeks-in/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ihnorton</author><text>I’m curious how they plan to do continuous integration. The Apple hardware-only clause of the macOS SDK license agreement really crimps the options for CI, especially for open source projects with limited budget. Travis is a godsend, but there are startup latency and capacity issues there even in the paid tier. Apple has made major contributions to open source, as evidenced by FoundationDB here, LLVM, WebKit, and other projects. But they no longer make servers, and the fallback — Mac mini — is on life support, which puts projects and service providers who need to treat macOS as a first-class target in a real bind. Even something limited like the IE Edge and Visual Studio images Microsoft provides would be a huge boost.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in</title><url>https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/foundationdb-community-highlights-two-weeks-in/</url></story> |
35,384,290 | 35,384,165 | 1 | 2 | 35,382,698 | 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>jsty</author><text>&gt; Then &quot;explain why &lt;my code&gt; needs to be &lt;new code&gt;&quot;<p>It would be nice, but until there&#x27;s a breakthrough on having LLMs &#x2F; other models generate, maintain and walk the user through a representation of their reasoning, these explanations are likely no more reliable than a random StackOverflow answer - except without the benefit of other users scoring &#x2F; picking holes in the answer</text><parent_chain><item><author>JimmyRuska</author><text>Having spent a lot of time with GPT-4 recently, it&#x27;s possible the new generation will not have the same issues we did. For example they can write some code and say, &quot;adjust for best practice&quot;.<p>Then &quot;explain why &lt;my code&gt; needs to be &lt;new code&gt;&quot;<p>Oh this is called &lt;new concept&gt;, give me an example of it. Give me another example. Give me another example. Give me use cases where this would be better. Give me a short story where it was done my way but it lead to a mishap in production and the protagonist learned &lt;new concept&gt;. Explain it like I&#x27;m 5. etc<p>Basically the new generation is the training neural network, and they can keep flashing context until they absorb the material. Sure, some people are lazy and will go as far as getting something barely working. But superpowers are available for those who fight for their place in the world</text></item><item><author>zamfi</author><text>@Simon, I love this. And one day, in the not too distant future, a few old wizened graybeards, like you and I and the other folks on this site who have been writing code <i>from scratch</i> for 20 years, will be the magicians who walk the earth among mere mortals who only learned to code with the assistance of ChatGPT.<p>We will be the ones with the preattentive syntax parsing in our brains that let us simply <i>see</i> basic syntax errors; we will be the ones who can point out simple but subtle errors immediately—because we’ve made them 10000 times; we will be the ones who can take a ChatGPT response and immediately identify how it’s lacking not just in outcome but in edge case handling. We came of age before stack overflow, and have matured to the point where we treat stack overflow answers as mere suggestions for a possible approach, not as code to be copied and adapted.<p>And then, when we are no more, there will be no one left who can wrangle the turtles that reach the bottommost depths of the full stack.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-development/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lelanthran</author><text>&gt; Having spent a lot of time with GPT-4 recently, it&#x27;s possible the new generation will not have the same issues we did. For example they can write some code and say, &quot;adjust for best practice&quot;.<p>Not iteratively forever, the only feedback it will (eventually) get is it&#x27;s own feedback, because humans will be using the AI best practices, and what it deems as best practice is almost certainly going to be too opaque to us mere mortals.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JimmyRuska</author><text>Having spent a lot of time with GPT-4 recently, it&#x27;s possible the new generation will not have the same issues we did. For example they can write some code and say, &quot;adjust for best practice&quot;.<p>Then &quot;explain why &lt;my code&gt; needs to be &lt;new code&gt;&quot;<p>Oh this is called &lt;new concept&gt;, give me an example of it. Give me another example. Give me another example. Give me use cases where this would be better. Give me a short story where it was done my way but it lead to a mishap in production and the protagonist learned &lt;new concept&gt;. Explain it like I&#x27;m 5. etc<p>Basically the new generation is the training neural network, and they can keep flashing context until they absorb the material. Sure, some people are lazy and will go as far as getting something barely working. But superpowers are available for those who fight for their place in the world</text></item><item><author>zamfi</author><text>@Simon, I love this. And one day, in the not too distant future, a few old wizened graybeards, like you and I and the other folks on this site who have been writing code <i>from scratch</i> for 20 years, will be the magicians who walk the earth among mere mortals who only learned to code with the assistance of ChatGPT.<p>We will be the ones with the preattentive syntax parsing in our brains that let us simply <i>see</i> basic syntax errors; we will be the ones who can point out simple but subtle errors immediately—because we’ve made them 10000 times; we will be the ones who can take a ChatGPT response and immediately identify how it’s lacking not just in outcome but in edge case handling. We came of age before stack overflow, and have matured to the point where we treat stack overflow answers as mere suggestions for a possible approach, not as code to be copied and adapted.<p>And then, when we are no more, there will be no one left who can wrangle the turtles that reach the bottommost depths of the full stack.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-development/</url></story> |
38,893,611 | 38,893,205 | 1 | 2 | 38,892,685 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlecSchueler</author><text>I grew up on &#x27;60s and &#x27;70s WDR electronic music; it was super important for me in my teens, not only musically, but also as a gateway to my interest in computers, signal processing and European history.<p>They mention in the article a bit about the political push against experimental music in the 1930s, but it&#x27;s interesting to consider that the re-surfacing of such music was also very political: the West were very happy to broadcast free and progressive music across the wall. I definitely have a feeling that experimental music has become a lot more niche since relations softened, the extra funding and promotion has dried up a bit, and now the world of that music has moved almost entirely to the back rooms of various universities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music</title><url>https://artsandculture.google.com/story/sounds-of-cologne-wdr/gQWRzsVclcCYPA?hl=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>zwieback</author><text>Publicly funded radio and TV in Germany was a mishmash of entertainment, education, news reporting but also music production. Entire symphony orchestras and Jazz bands were part of the state-run stations. Private broadcasting didn&#x27;t exist, maybe wasn&#x27;t allowed then.<p>Not surprised to hear about electronic music being funded as well, the public networks had a reputation of being somewhat elitist and high brow.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music</title><url>https://artsandculture.google.com/story/sounds-of-cologne-wdr/gQWRzsVclcCYPA?hl=en</url></story> |
40,063,403 | 40,063,577 | 1 | 3 | 40,063,025 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>I&#x27;m not anti-EU, on the contrary, but honestly the claim is true in practice. I&#x27;m not going to give you any hard data, but I think it&#x27;s just obvious in plain sight.<p>At least in my country, almost all the debate in news outlets is about national or local issues. EU regulations do come up, but they are always depicted as something that comes &quot;from above&quot; and not tied to specific parties or people. If there is controversy about a national law, the media will blame things on the government or on the opposition (depending on their bias). If there is controversy about an European law, the media will blame an abstract &quot;Brussels&quot;... or directly the government or the opposition anyway, as they&#x27;re the ones who implement it.<p>In the EU elections, most (euphemism for all) people I know just vote to the party they prefer in terms of national or regional politics. Almost no one votes because they want a given European directive to be implemented.<p>Sometimes I have actually made some effort to find out what each of my country&#x27;s parties voted in some EU decision, and most of the times I failed. It&#x27;s not clear what decisions come from the Commission or from Parliament (many come from the Commission which is not even directly elected but elected by local governments, by the way). And even for those from Parliament, it&#x27;s not clear how to find detailed results of Parliament votes. Mind you, I&#x27;m not saying there is no way - probably there is one, if you are very well informed or have a lot of time, but there is definitely no way that I could find in 20 minutes of Googling, and most people won&#x27;t make a greater investment than that.<p>Not sure if it&#x27;s the same in all countries, and not sure how to fix it... but yes, I do have the perception that EU institutions are detached from citizens.<p>That said, this has its pros. If citizens had more of a say, we&#x27;d probably have no low-emmission zones, no or almost no pollution regulations, etc. Many environmental policies that are, IMO, unquestionably good, are pushed to reluctant citizens using the &quot;hey, don&#x27;t blame me, it comes from Brussels&quot; wildcard, and we are better for it (again, IMO). Sad, but true.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>&gt;The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing<p>What is the base of this claim? There are EU elections this year FYI.</text></item><item><author>dantondwa</author><text>Obviously, this is about creating the infrastructure for a continent-wide surveillance program, using children pornography as a troy horse.<p>The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing, at least until said European laws get implemented locally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves</title><url>https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freehorse</author><text>European parliament has a democracy-decorative role. All the important institutional decisions are taken by the commission and the european central bank. The parliament at best approves, or works on the less important stuff. EU is a very undemocratic institution, despite all the pro-democracy talking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>&gt;The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing<p>What is the base of this claim? There are EU elections this year FYI.</text></item><item><author>dantondwa</author><text>Obviously, this is about creating the infrastructure for a continent-wide surveillance program, using children pornography as a troy horse.<p>The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing, at least until said European laws get implemented locally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves</title><url>https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/</url></story> |
16,059,102 | 16,058,930 | 1 | 3 | 16,055,027 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnl</author><text>None of these points are valid:<p>1. Dependency management is probably <i>a lot</i> easier with Maven than with C++ or Python. Hope that needs no reference...<p>2. No idea why, but Java is backwards compatible. So not updating to the latest version is only laziness.<p>3. Having much smaller containers or virtual machine disk sizes should lower your AWS&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Cloud... bill a (little, but whatever) bit and therefore make your CFO happy...</text><parent_chain><item><author>freedomben</author><text>This is definitely an improvement for Java, but it leaves me with a few thoughts as someone who has done Java professionally at times, but also professionally lived in other ecosystems including C++&#x2F;Qt, Python, Ruby, Golang, and of course node&#x2F;JS.<p>1. Setting up a project is still a pain in the butt. Tools like Gradle are a nice improvement over Ant (and some would say maven), but still most people don&#x27;t even understand them. You have some serious reading ahead of you if you want to set something up that isn&#x27;t already templated somewhere for you. You can lean on an IDE for sure, and for most Java devs this is probably a no-brainer. I&#x27;m weird in that I don&#x27;t like magic. I prefer to know what the tool is doing on my behalf, and the Java IDE world is so complex that it isn&#x27;t practical to learn that unless you&#x27;re in the ecosystem for years. Then dealing with weird exceptions from the JVM can be maddening.<p>2. The Java world moves slowly. It could reasonably be years before many shops transition to Java 9, when you would actually realize the benefits of this in your work life.<p>3. So much Java runs on the server side anyway, where executable size and entrypoint doesn&#x27;t really matter that much. Because of this, it may only be a small subset of Java shops that really get into Java 9&#x2F;Jigsaw and iron out the bugs, and create tools&#x2F;tutorials for others.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps</title><url>https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship-zero-dependency-native-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>mohi13</author><text>I vividly remember starting my first java project a few years back and starting my first node project a year back, personally getting started with node was easily 5x more complicated with so many weird tooling before a first line of code is written.</text><parent_chain><item><author>freedomben</author><text>This is definitely an improvement for Java, but it leaves me with a few thoughts as someone who has done Java professionally at times, but also professionally lived in other ecosystems including C++&#x2F;Qt, Python, Ruby, Golang, and of course node&#x2F;JS.<p>1. Setting up a project is still a pain in the butt. Tools like Gradle are a nice improvement over Ant (and some would say maven), but still most people don&#x27;t even understand them. You have some serious reading ahead of you if you want to set something up that isn&#x27;t already templated somewhere for you. You can lean on an IDE for sure, and for most Java devs this is probably a no-brainer. I&#x27;m weird in that I don&#x27;t like magic. I prefer to know what the tool is doing on my behalf, and the Java IDE world is so complex that it isn&#x27;t practical to learn that unless you&#x27;re in the ecosystem for years. Then dealing with weird exceptions from the JVM can be maddening.<p>2. The Java world moves slowly. It could reasonably be years before many shops transition to Java 9, when you would actually realize the benefits of this in your work life.<p>3. So much Java runs on the server side anyway, where executable size and entrypoint doesn&#x27;t really matter that much. Because of this, it may only be a small subset of Java shops that really get into Java 9&#x2F;Jigsaw and iron out the bugs, and create tools&#x2F;tutorials for others.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps</title><url>https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship-zero-dependency-native-apps/</url></story> |
31,587,201 | 31,587,527 | 1 | 3 | 31,586,253 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danielovichdk</author><text>I just entered a week of what is called PI planning in SAFe.<p>What the fuck is going on in the world of software delivery.<p>100 people has to spend 4 days planing 3 months ahead based on headlines from the business.<p>I have in my 22 years of professional experience never ever tried anything so shocking.<p>Fire me. Please</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired? (June 2022)</title><text>Each of us have limits as to the things we&#x27;re willing to put up with at a job. What&#x27;s taking you near your threshold?</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>fmakunbound</author><text>I complete a ticket, now I&#x27;ve got to spend a day writing another ticket about how it&#x27;s supposed to be deployed so any regular jack off can deploy it. Then I&#x27;ve got to find a &quot;champion&quot; (aka. a middle manager) to &quot;champion&quot; the ticket I wrote about the ticket. Then I have to notify several Slack channels about it, wait a bit in case someone makes a stink, then finally press &quot;deploy&quot; in Jenkins.<p>It&#x27;s a Modern Stack™ – cookie cutter, untestable locally, horde of Golang services on Kubernetes pulling and pushing to various cloud services. Of course, it&#x27;s ad-tech and for a company that seems to be the media equivalent of a Jerry Springer show.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired? (June 2022)</title><text>Each of us have limits as to the things we&#x27;re willing to put up with at a job. What&#x27;s taking you near your threshold?</text></story> |
39,711,269 | 39,711,048 | 1 | 3 | 39,708,957 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>selectodude</author><text>CATV was designed as a one-way pipe. There are filters everywhere in the network that block inbound traffic because there wasn&#x27;t much of a reason for cable boxes to need to communicate with the wider network which meant that the bandwidth on the cable that was <i>actually</i> usable for upload bandwidth was orders of magnitude smaller than downloads. As Comcast basically rebuilds their network (fiber to the edge), they&#x27;re bypassing and removing all of those filters which means that there&#x27;s plenty of frequency for uploads.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>I&#x27;ve been coping with 6 Mbps upload speeds from Xfinity for years now. This morning I got an email from them saying they were raising my speeds at no cost, and after a modem restart I&#x27;m now getting ~20 Mbps up.<p>This whole time I&#x27;ve been told that Xfinity couldn&#x27;t provide decent upload speeds because of infrastructure reasons, but now that&#x27;s been proven a lie.</text></item><item><author>gamepsys</author><text>Zoom recommends 3.8Mbps for uploading 1080p video. Being able to do 1080p video conferencing is an expectation of broadband. Raising the definition of broadband to meet this basic requirement is clearly a win.<p>I do think 25Mbps up is more than what&#x27;s required for a large number of households (&gt;33%). I have advised family that 15Mbps is adequate when they needed to do office work from home. Perhaps the only good thing about this is that it will force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure, but I&#x27;m worried the cost of that will be passed onto consumers at a time when inflation has already taken a toll on budgets.</text></item><item><author>notfried</author><text>I like they raised the broadband minimum upload speed from 3 to 25Mbps. Spectrum&#x27;s 300 Mbps broadband is only 10 Mbps up. Let&#x27;s see how fast they change their statement that &quot;an upload speed of 3 Mbps is enough for most households&quot; [1].<p>[1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectrum.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;internet-wifi&#x2F;what-is-a-good-download-and-upload-speed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectrum.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;internet-wifi&#x2F;what-is-a-g...</a>]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-officially-raises-minimum-broadband-metric-from-25mbps-to-100mbps</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jtbayly</author><text>I just got an email saying my provider is bumping my fiber upload from 200 to 400.<p>Seemed crazy to me, but I guess they are just staying well ahead of the crappy competition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>I&#x27;ve been coping with 6 Mbps upload speeds from Xfinity for years now. This morning I got an email from them saying they were raising my speeds at no cost, and after a modem restart I&#x27;m now getting ~20 Mbps up.<p>This whole time I&#x27;ve been told that Xfinity couldn&#x27;t provide decent upload speeds because of infrastructure reasons, but now that&#x27;s been proven a lie.</text></item><item><author>gamepsys</author><text>Zoom recommends 3.8Mbps for uploading 1080p video. Being able to do 1080p video conferencing is an expectation of broadband. Raising the definition of broadband to meet this basic requirement is clearly a win.<p>I do think 25Mbps up is more than what&#x27;s required for a large number of households (&gt;33%). I have advised family that 15Mbps is adequate when they needed to do office work from home. Perhaps the only good thing about this is that it will force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure, but I&#x27;m worried the cost of that will be passed onto consumers at a time when inflation has already taken a toll on budgets.</text></item><item><author>notfried</author><text>I like they raised the broadband minimum upload speed from 3 to 25Mbps. Spectrum&#x27;s 300 Mbps broadband is only 10 Mbps up. Let&#x27;s see how fast they change their statement that &quot;an upload speed of 3 Mbps is enough for most households&quot; [1].<p>[1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectrum.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;internet-wifi&#x2F;what-is-a-good-download-and-upload-speed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectrum.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;internet-wifi&#x2F;what-is-a-g...</a>]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-officially-raises-minimum-broadband-metric-from-25mbps-to-100mbps</url></story> |
21,340,164 | 21,340,331 | 1 | 2 | 21,339,204 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CommieBobDole</author><text>I think that&#x27;s a problem on every platform; on Apple News, if I read an article that&#x27;s actual news that involves a celebrity somehow (&quot;Tom Hanks murders 12, dies in hail of gunfire&quot;) I get a deluge of celebrity gossip (&quot;OMG you won&#x27;t believe what Kylie Jenner&#x27;s cousin&#x27;s brother&#x27;s hairstylist said&quot;)articles for weeks.<p>I sort of feel like their recommendation AI is a bunch of if-then statements designed to funnel you into more heavily-monetized content if they think you display any interest at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>corodra</author><text>Heaven forbid I ever accidentally click on or get interested in some random talk show video, video roughly about video games or a big media news video. All of my normal engineering, business, programming, guns, history, and mechanics recommendations go right the fuck out the window. For the next week, half my recommendations are just filled with dogshit because of one accidental video. I stopped watching movie trailers because of this too. For some reason if I ever choose to watch a movie trailer, youtube thinks I want to watch makeup tutorials by teenagers. Drives me insane.<p>YouTube is better off with meta tag recommendations instead of their fancy little AI.</text></item><item><author>corndoge</author><text>In fact, exact title searches will usually not turn up videos with that title unless you use quotes. YouTube will return clickbait and Jimmy Kimmel, entirely unrelated to the search, for exact title searches of videos with only a few tens of views.</text></item><item><author>codingslave</author><text>Not only Youtube, I&#x27;ve noticed a huge disparity between Duck Duck Go results and Google results when writing queries that could be thought of as containing a controversial&#x2F;politically&#x2F;racially&#x2F;etc charged topic. Youtube recommendations and search&#x2F;ranking suppress searches as it is, even if they were to leave the content on there, most of it will never be surfaced through organic means without a direct link or a search with a direct title match.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/syria-youtube-content-moderation.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>purple_ducks</author><text>Try delete it from your watch history: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;feed&#x2F;history" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;feed&#x2F;history</a><p>Your recommendations may return to normal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>corodra</author><text>Heaven forbid I ever accidentally click on or get interested in some random talk show video, video roughly about video games or a big media news video. All of my normal engineering, business, programming, guns, history, and mechanics recommendations go right the fuck out the window. For the next week, half my recommendations are just filled with dogshit because of one accidental video. I stopped watching movie trailers because of this too. For some reason if I ever choose to watch a movie trailer, youtube thinks I want to watch makeup tutorials by teenagers. Drives me insane.<p>YouTube is better off with meta tag recommendations instead of their fancy little AI.</text></item><item><author>corndoge</author><text>In fact, exact title searches will usually not turn up videos with that title unless you use quotes. YouTube will return clickbait and Jimmy Kimmel, entirely unrelated to the search, for exact title searches of videos with only a few tens of views.</text></item><item><author>codingslave</author><text>Not only Youtube, I&#x27;ve noticed a huge disparity between Duck Duck Go results and Google results when writing queries that could be thought of as containing a controversial&#x2F;politically&#x2F;racially&#x2F;etc charged topic. Youtube recommendations and search&#x2F;ranking suppress searches as it is, even if they were to leave the content on there, most of it will never be surfaced through organic means without a direct link or a search with a direct title match.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/syria-youtube-content-moderation.html</url></story> |
10,852,916 | 10,853,049 | 1 | 2 | 10,852,344 | train | <instructions>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>What you call emotion, I call justice, and I think that matters.<p>Consider, without any emotion, the issue of murder versus suicide. What are the negative impacts of those acts? From the point of view of that person&#x27;s friends and family and society at large, leaving aside emotion or notions of justice, the impact of the acts is the same: loss of that person, loss of their financial and emotional support. In fact, the impact on family and friends is often worse in cases of suicide because insurance policies often have an exemption for suicide.<p>Yet, almost nobody thinks murder should be legal while quite a few people think suicide should be legal. If we just mechanically consider &quot;a death is a death&quot; and count up the monetary impact of each case, we have no way to explain or justify why people feel this way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>About 30,000 Americans die in car crashes every year. That&#x27;s about ~400,000 Americans killed by other Americans in their cars since the 2001 terrorist attacks. It&#x27;s pretty clear that the emotional appeal is what people seem to care about (&quot;someone wants to kill us&quot;) and it has absolutely nothing to do at all with Americans dying.<p>Terrorism has never been a problem. The same number of people died in car accidents during September 2001 as they did in terrorist attacks. Where is our war on cars? Oh, nobody cares about that, cars are <i>freedom</i>, cars are what we went to war to protect.</text></item><item><author>adam12</author><text>For me, this highlights how overblown the terrorist problem is.</text></item><item><author>RealGeek</author><text>93 victims were unarmed, 33 were armed with a toy, and 27 unknown.<p>That is a lot more than Americans killed by terrorists in US.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Some notes:<p>* The Guardian has a very similar feature, &quot;The Counted&quot;:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;jun&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-counted-police-killings-us-database" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;jun&#x2F;0...</a><p>The Guardian&#x27;s feature is better in some ways; for instance, it attempts to account for all police engagement fatalities, not just shootings. Some of the worst police abuses in the US haven&#x27;t involved guns, and if you read the data carefully you learn some surprising things, like how dangerous tasers are.<p>The Guardian also gives the state breakdowns weighted by their population, making it easier to spot problem states. But WaPo makes it much easier to see which states have more shootings of unarmed people.<p>* 79% of the people killed in this database were reported to have &quot;deadly weapons&quot; (not including cars).<p>* 64% of the people killed in this database were shot and killed while attacking someone with a deadly weapon.<p>You&#x27;d really like to have a more detailed breakdown on &quot;deadly weapon&quot;; specifically, you want to know which of the people shot had <i>firearms</i>, versus knives.<p>Nobody was fatally shot by a police officer in Rhode Island? That&#x27;s surprising.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Investigation: Police Shootings</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harryh</author><text>&gt; Where is our war on cars?<p>We do have a war on car fatalities. It&#x27;s been remarkably successful:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.donerdesigns.org&#x2F;_&#x2F;rsrc&#x2F;1376697199749&#x2F;other-causes&#x2F;110404-fatality-rate-per-100-million-vehicle-miles-traveled.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.donerdesigns.org&#x2F;_&#x2F;rsrc&#x2F;1376697199749&#x2F;other-cause...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>About 30,000 Americans die in car crashes every year. That&#x27;s about ~400,000 Americans killed by other Americans in their cars since the 2001 terrorist attacks. It&#x27;s pretty clear that the emotional appeal is what people seem to care about (&quot;someone wants to kill us&quot;) and it has absolutely nothing to do at all with Americans dying.<p>Terrorism has never been a problem. The same number of people died in car accidents during September 2001 as they did in terrorist attacks. Where is our war on cars? Oh, nobody cares about that, cars are <i>freedom</i>, cars are what we went to war to protect.</text></item><item><author>adam12</author><text>For me, this highlights how overblown the terrorist problem is.</text></item><item><author>RealGeek</author><text>93 victims were unarmed, 33 were armed with a toy, and 27 unknown.<p>That is a lot more than Americans killed by terrorists in US.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Some notes:<p>* The Guardian has a very similar feature, &quot;The Counted&quot;:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;jun&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-counted-police-killings-us-database" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;jun&#x2F;0...</a><p>The Guardian&#x27;s feature is better in some ways; for instance, it attempts to account for all police engagement fatalities, not just shootings. Some of the worst police abuses in the US haven&#x27;t involved guns, and if you read the data carefully you learn some surprising things, like how dangerous tasers are.<p>The Guardian also gives the state breakdowns weighted by their population, making it easier to spot problem states. But WaPo makes it much easier to see which states have more shootings of unarmed people.<p>* 79% of the people killed in this database were reported to have &quot;deadly weapons&quot; (not including cars).<p>* 64% of the people killed in this database were shot and killed while attacking someone with a deadly weapon.<p>You&#x27;d really like to have a more detailed breakdown on &quot;deadly weapon&quot;; specifically, you want to know which of the people shot had <i>firearms</i>, versus knives.<p>Nobody was fatally shot by a police officer in Rhode Island? That&#x27;s surprising.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Investigation: Police Shootings</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/</url></story> |
4,472,570 | 4,472,490 | 1 | 3 | 4,472,403 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>Brief description from their web site: "Qubes is an open source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. In the future it might also run Windows apps." (<a href="http://qubes-os.org/Home.html" rel="nofollow">http://qubes-os.org/Home.html</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Qubes 1.0 ("a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS")</title><url>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/introducing-qubes-10.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>hazov</author><text>Not exactly a security guy (I'm actually a mathematician/statistician not exactly a computer engineer) how do these compare in security terms to sandboxing applications or using lxc from the linux kernel?<p>As far as I remember you could use different kernels for Xen VMs and the physical hardware, then the only way to compromise the system would be if I could escalate privileges on the hypervisor, right?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Qubes 1.0 ("a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS")</title><url>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/introducing-qubes-10.html</url><text></text></story> |
21,942,528 | 21,942,469 | 1 | 2 | 21,936,234 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>Dart&#x27;s VM idea was dropped so its small usage is largely compiling to JS still.</i><p>Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that today&#x27;s Flutter development is highly dependent on the niceties the Dart VM provides, and newer Dart releases improved upon them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mminer237</author><text>I mean, JavaScript and Python have definitely become much more popular for many more things than they were in 2010.<p>I doubt Swift replaced much besides other compiled languages, and Kotlin just compiles to Java anyway. Dart&#x27;s VM idea was dropped so its small usage is largely compiling to JS still.<p>I would say that the overall idea of performance being traded for programmer time is definitely happening despite the emergence of Rust.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&gt; - As Moore&#x27;s Law marches on, dynamic languages that are even slower than Ruby are likely to catch on. They may be to Ruby what Ruby is to Java, trading even more programmer time for CPU time.<p>Interesting how plausible this one is, yet turned out to be terribly wrong: the newer hyped languages that got some uptake were largely compiled ones like Swift, Rust, Kotlin, and Dart.</text></item><item><author>haunter</author><text>IsaacL nailed it the best<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1027093" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1027093</a><p>And surprisingly the WoW one is the most off :D</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>In terms of language design, it seems like swift and julia are the most forward looking.<p>I personally don&#x27;t think swift will ever escape the Mac ecosystem, just like Objective-C never did, but something with the same DNA will.<p>In the same way that Objective-C and Ruby both implement the philosophy of Smalltalk, I think that philosophy has yet to be fleshed out in a simple syntax that is natively jit&#x27;ed&#x2F;compiled.<p>The same goes for julia as an answer to R&#x2F;pandas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mminer237</author><text>I mean, JavaScript and Python have definitely become much more popular for many more things than they were in 2010.<p>I doubt Swift replaced much besides other compiled languages, and Kotlin just compiles to Java anyway. Dart&#x27;s VM idea was dropped so its small usage is largely compiling to JS still.<p>I would say that the overall idea of performance being traded for programmer time is definitely happening despite the emergence of Rust.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&gt; - As Moore&#x27;s Law marches on, dynamic languages that are even slower than Ruby are likely to catch on. They may be to Ruby what Ruby is to Java, trading even more programmer time for CPU time.<p>Interesting how plausible this one is, yet turned out to be terribly wrong: the newer hyped languages that got some uptake were largely compiled ones like Swift, Rust, Kotlin, and Dart.</text></item><item><author>haunter</author><text>IsaacL nailed it the best<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1027093" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1027093</a><p>And surprisingly the WoW one is the most off :D</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681</url></story> |
8,882,800 | 8,882,887 | 1 | 2 | 8,882,020 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hansjorg</author><text>Leonard Ritter is a very talented guy. Looking forward to NOWHERE.<p>He&#x27;s known as paniq in the demoscene and did the music, 2d engine and graphics for the awesome Masagin:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQhgEJuExY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sbQhgEJuExY</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE</title><url>http://blog.duangle.com/2015/01/conspire-programming-environment-for.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>keyle</author><text>I can&#x27;t help to be amazed with what they&#x27;re pulling off. First of all, the game prototype looks amazing, although it may be one of those forever-early-access games, because it can&#x27;t be just a game. Then you see how Blender widgets are used. Wow. Then you see how he&#x27;s imitating UE4 Blueprints, again, wow.<p>But then the reality kicks in. Shouldn&#x27;t you be making a game?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE</title><url>http://blog.duangle.com/2015/01/conspire-programming-environment-for.html</url></story> |
39,841,960 | 39,841,456 | 1 | 3 | 39,840,286 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lupire</author><text>It&#x27;s been called &quot;emotion &#x2F; intuition&quot; and &quot;logic&quot; for centuries or millennia before the goofy System name was invented.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>Yeah I wouldn&#x27;t read too much into any single study. But what I would defend vigorously is System1 &#x2F; System2 distinction as something so clear&#x2F;fundamental that you can see it constantly once you understand it.</text></item><item><author>mistercow</author><text>It’s worth noting that many of the results in Thinking, Fast and Slow didn’t hold up to replication.<p>It’s still very much worth reading in its own right, but now implicitly comes bundled with a game I like to call “calibrate yourself on the replication crisis”. Playing is simple: every time the book mentions a surprising result, try to guess whether it replicated. Then search online to see if you got it right.</text></item><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>I&#x27;m not one to give an exaggerated eulogy nor rhapsodize about all those &quot;Books with a white cover and a weird picture&quot; -- but I will say I read thinking fast and slow for the first time last year, after decades of resisting, and felt it covered some generally profound ideas that still are relevant as ever and not widely understood.<p>(Though at some point, maybe the 2nd half of the book, drags on and you can skip most of those chapters. If you don&#x27;t have time for that, I&#x27;m sure chat GPT can give you a taste of the main premises and you can probe deeper from there.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daniel Kahneman has died</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rileyphone</author><text>It&#x27;s just such a bad name though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>Yeah I wouldn&#x27;t read too much into any single study. But what I would defend vigorously is System1 &#x2F; System2 distinction as something so clear&#x2F;fundamental that you can see it constantly once you understand it.</text></item><item><author>mistercow</author><text>It’s worth noting that many of the results in Thinking, Fast and Slow didn’t hold up to replication.<p>It’s still very much worth reading in its own right, but now implicitly comes bundled with a game I like to call “calibrate yourself on the replication crisis”. Playing is simple: every time the book mentions a surprising result, try to guess whether it replicated. Then search online to see if you got it right.</text></item><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>I&#x27;m not one to give an exaggerated eulogy nor rhapsodize about all those &quot;Books with a white cover and a weird picture&quot; -- but I will say I read thinking fast and slow for the first time last year, after decades of resisting, and felt it covered some generally profound ideas that still are relevant as ever and not widely understood.<p>(Though at some point, maybe the 2nd half of the book, drags on and you can skip most of those chapters. If you don&#x27;t have time for that, I&#x27;m sure chat GPT can give you a taste of the main premises and you can probe deeper from there.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daniel Kahneman has died</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/</url></story> |
10,721,030 | 10,720,787 | 1 | 3 | 10,718,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vkou</author><text>What will happen is that devs will ask their QA counterparts to report issues through an undocumented side-channel.<p>If you give an engineer a career incentive to optimize something, you&#x27;d be surprised how seriously some will take it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DougWebb</author><text>That&#x27;s a management problem, not a problem with having a QA team. The top-level QA manager and the top-level Dev manager should both report to the CTO, and the Dev manager should be judged by how many issues the QA team finds. To keep things fair, the QA manager should <i>not</i> be rewarded nor penalized based on the number of issues found pre-release, and everyone should be rewarded or penalized based on the number of issues found post-release.<p>This keeps the devs incentivized to make sure everything works before the code goes to QA, and it keeps everyone incentivized to eliminate as many bugs as possible before release.</text></item><item><author>jboy55</author><text>I&#x27;m in full agreement.<p>In practise, a manual QA team encourages Devs to throw shit over the wall and expect someone else to do some basic sanity checks they should have already done. By the time those are done, what the QA team theoretically could find gets shipped.<p>Then, when its discovered in Prod, the QA team will get in the way of a speedy fix.</text></item><item><author>arielweisberg</author><text>Moving from an environment with a 10:1 dev:qa to 2:1 showed me what happens when dev is not responsible for shipping working software.<p>No thanks. It&#x27;s a bunch of deflection and diffusion of responsibility coupled with high latency flakey interactions between different teams. Everything that can slip through the cracks does slip through the cracks.<p>I&#x27;m sure QA can be done well, but I am convinced that giving your devs a pass to not finish their work is a dead end in several dimensions.</text></item><item><author>ef4</author><text>Surprised to see the negativity here. I have worked in environments with traditional manual QA, and environments where all development is test-driven and nobody is allowed to merge a feature that lacks automated test coverage.<p>Both the productivity and the quality were higher in the places with fully automated testing. Which is not shocking at all: does anybody really think a human can run through 800 test cases better than a computer can?<p>It&#x27;s not a magic way to save money -- the developers obviously end up spending time writing tests. But the long-term value of those tests is cumulative, whereas the effort spent on manual testing is spent anew every release.<p>Manual review is still good for noticing things that &quot;feel wrong&quot; or for helping think up new corner cases. But those bleed into product owner &amp; design concerns, and aren&#x27;t really a separate function.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/yahoos-engineers-move-to-coding-without-a-net</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fein</author><text>Have you ever worked for a fortune 100 company? The dev manager has probably never met the CTO. Im in this right now with my currrent job. I still keep my builds and test them longer than i should. Less broken shit gets through, but i regularly delay my qa ba&#x27;s because of it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DougWebb</author><text>That&#x27;s a management problem, not a problem with having a QA team. The top-level QA manager and the top-level Dev manager should both report to the CTO, and the Dev manager should be judged by how many issues the QA team finds. To keep things fair, the QA manager should <i>not</i> be rewarded nor penalized based on the number of issues found pre-release, and everyone should be rewarded or penalized based on the number of issues found post-release.<p>This keeps the devs incentivized to make sure everything works before the code goes to QA, and it keeps everyone incentivized to eliminate as many bugs as possible before release.</text></item><item><author>jboy55</author><text>I&#x27;m in full agreement.<p>In practise, a manual QA team encourages Devs to throw shit over the wall and expect someone else to do some basic sanity checks they should have already done. By the time those are done, what the QA team theoretically could find gets shipped.<p>Then, when its discovered in Prod, the QA team will get in the way of a speedy fix.</text></item><item><author>arielweisberg</author><text>Moving from an environment with a 10:1 dev:qa to 2:1 showed me what happens when dev is not responsible for shipping working software.<p>No thanks. It&#x27;s a bunch of deflection and diffusion of responsibility coupled with high latency flakey interactions between different teams. Everything that can slip through the cracks does slip through the cracks.<p>I&#x27;m sure QA can be done well, but I am convinced that giving your devs a pass to not finish their work is a dead end in several dimensions.</text></item><item><author>ef4</author><text>Surprised to see the negativity here. I have worked in environments with traditional manual QA, and environments where all development is test-driven and nobody is allowed to merge a feature that lacks automated test coverage.<p>Both the productivity and the quality were higher in the places with fully automated testing. Which is not shocking at all: does anybody really think a human can run through 800 test cases better than a computer can?<p>It&#x27;s not a magic way to save money -- the developers obviously end up spending time writing tests. But the long-term value of those tests is cumulative, whereas the effort spent on manual testing is spent anew every release.<p>Manual review is still good for noticing things that &quot;feel wrong&quot; or for helping think up new corner cases. But those bleed into product owner &amp; design concerns, and aren&#x27;t really a separate function.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/yahoos-engineers-move-to-coding-without-a-net</url></story> |
10,288,369 | 10,288,208 | 1 | 3 | 10,287,922 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fitzwatermellow</author><text>For lovers of the ancient world, this sort of thing is more news worthy than a visit from Vatican City&#x27;s Holiest. Sola lingua bona mortua est...<p>huskyr above called out the use of ancient.eu&#x27;s social buttons as being a distraction. But to be honest I&#x27;ve rarely seen a web or native digital library of ancient sources experience that was acceptable to non-scholastic audiences. Take a look at UCLA&#x27;s CDLI - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdli.ucla.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdli.ucla.edu&#x2F;</a><p>A search for &quot;Gilgamesh&quot; yields a trip back to an ancient page layout Endukugga himself might have been more comfortable browsing. I realize these are digital humanities projects funded with scarce grant resources. But I can&#x27;t help thinking they would appeal to a much wider audience, that would be enriched tremendously by the wisdom of the ancients, if only presented in a more user-friendly manner.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh</title><url>http://etc.ancient.eu/2015/09/24/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>melling</author><text>Speaking of Gilgamesh, what happened to that Kickstarter movie based on Gilgamesh? It has been over 3 years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;1331941187&#x2F;the-tube-open-movie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;1331941187&#x2F;the-tube-ope...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh</title><url>http://etc.ancient.eu/2015/09/24/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic/</url></story> |
36,679,072 | 36,678,540 | 1 | 2 | 36,678,079 | 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>freeone3000</author><text>&gt; I can&#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable.<p>Hey, here’s a comprehensive guide complete with commands, expected outcomes, and side effects of each command for setting up a Windows Domain using an RHEL domain controller: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_single_sign-on&#x2F;7.5&#x2F;html&#x2F;server_administration_guide&#x2F;identity_broker" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_single...</a><p>Oh, that’s for 7.5? One that’s 15 years old and no longer under standard support? It still works! Wait, but you’re a new customer. Sorry, here’s the one for 9: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_enterprise_linux&#x2F;9&#x2F;html-single&#x2F;planning_identity_management&#x2F;index" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_enterp...</a><p>It is like this for <i>everything</i>. The documentation is clear, concise, comprehensive, complete, and <i>versioned</i>. This is what being RHEL compatible gets you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>I&#x27;m continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.<p>I&#x27;ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years. Admining as a profession for at least a quarter of that. 20 years ago, it made a ton of sense. Today, less so.<p>The &#x27;stable version but we backport patches&#x27; mantra doesn&#x27;t make any sense today. I can&#x27;t even describe how many things that have broken that you can&#x27;t even find an answer for because it was some RH specific patch.<p>Between Debian, Nix, Arch, and others, I can&#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable. I&#x27;ll go as far as to say that my Arch boxes have been far more predictable than my RHEL boxes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SUSE is forking RHEL</title><url>https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bandrami</author><text>Our contract with the Air Force required that we document guarantees from every <i>parts</i> vendor for the servers we built for them that they would keep making those parts for at least a decade. They also demanded RHEL exclusively. It&#x27;s a great example of how extreme stability is more important than any other question in a lot of business decisions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>I&#x27;m continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.<p>I&#x27;ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years. Admining as a profession for at least a quarter of that. 20 years ago, it made a ton of sense. Today, less so.<p>The &#x27;stable version but we backport patches&#x27; mantra doesn&#x27;t make any sense today. I can&#x27;t even describe how many things that have broken that you can&#x27;t even find an answer for because it was some RH specific patch.<p>Between Debian, Nix, Arch, and others, I can&#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable. I&#x27;ll go as far as to say that my Arch boxes have been far more predictable than my RHEL boxes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SUSE is forking RHEL</title><url>https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/</url></story> |
5,166,133 | 5,165,837 | 1 | 2 | 5,163,407 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nollidge</author><text>Also, it super doesn't matter what the gender of the person posting the pictures was. The gender of the actors <i>does not matter</i> if the gender of the victim obviously <i>does</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>h2s</author><text>Not to mention the conspiracy theorist positing that it might have been a woman posting the fake porn pictures. The mental gymnastics some people will perform to avoid facing the obvious truth are amazing. How can we solve a problem we don't all admit exists?</text></item><item><author>timsally</author><text>Whenever an instance of blatant sexism comes up, an attempt is invariably made to rationalize away the fact that a sexist act has actually occurred. We have had two such attempts made here so far and I expect more. One commentator is attempting to advance the baseless theory that the bully did not care about the sex of his victim. This particular individual even goes so far to say that "the biggest problem" is the alleged misuse of labels related to racism or sexism, as if this could somehow be worse that the discrimination the disenfranchised experience on a day-to-day basis. Another commentator states that it is because of her popularity not her sex. This too is bunk. There are significantly more males in this industry with significantly more popularity. Yet no evidence is presented that these figures also have received this level of harassment.<p>There is one word for this behavior mentioned above: denial. Unfortunately, there seems to be a part of our community that refuses to call things what they are. This was an instance of sexism that manifested itself in a nasty way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Speaking up</title><url>http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>konstruktor</author><text>Why worry about the meaning of the terms you use when there is an opportunity to call somebody who disagrees with you names?</text><parent_chain><item><author>h2s</author><text>Not to mention the conspiracy theorist positing that it might have been a woman posting the fake porn pictures. The mental gymnastics some people will perform to avoid facing the obvious truth are amazing. How can we solve a problem we don't all admit exists?</text></item><item><author>timsally</author><text>Whenever an instance of blatant sexism comes up, an attempt is invariably made to rationalize away the fact that a sexist act has actually occurred. We have had two such attempts made here so far and I expect more. One commentator is attempting to advance the baseless theory that the bully did not care about the sex of his victim. This particular individual even goes so far to say that "the biggest problem" is the alleged misuse of labels related to racism or sexism, as if this could somehow be worse that the discrimination the disenfranchised experience on a day-to-day basis. Another commentator states that it is because of her popularity not her sex. This too is bunk. There are significantly more males in this industry with significantly more popularity. Yet no evidence is presented that these figures also have received this level of harassment.<p>There is one word for this behavior mentioned above: denial. Unfortunately, there seems to be a part of our community that refuses to call things what they are. This was an instance of sexism that manifested itself in a nasty way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Speaking up</title><url>http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/</url></story> |
22,389,144 | 22,388,099 | 1 | 2 | 22,373,906 | 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>zapita</author><text>Except employees do invest money in the business by exercising their options. And that money, dollar for dollar, buys them an inferior product: lower priority in the liquidation stack; less liquidity because of abusive bylaws restricting secondary transactions; less tax benefits since your “gains” are taxed upfront.<p>The lower the pay, and the higher the relative cost of exercising, the worse it gets. So higher-paid executives are less penalized than entry-level employees who might spend their savings exercising options that will end up worthless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alecbenzer</author><text>&gt; don&#x27;t deserve to be &quot;preferred&quot; instead of &quot;common&quot; because the VCs put in actual money<p>I agree with most of what you said, but a nit: one perspective I&#x27;ve heard on the motivation for preferred stock is this:<p>Suppose I give you $10M to start a company in exchange for 10% of it. You then easily sell the company for $9M, keeping 90% * $9M = $8.1M for yourself and returning $900k to me. Preferred (non-participating, 1x) shares prevent this problem by making sure you can&#x27;t just run away with the money: you have to actually use it to build the business.<p>People investing in the company in non-liquid ways (e.g., the founders or engineers, via opportunity costs) aren&#x27;t in the same boat, because their opportunity cost can&#x27;t be immediately liquidated.</text></item><item><author>ditonal</author><text>Startup ISOs are totally broken, and VCs and founders would rather write 30 page treatises on all their complexities (of course, glossing over the 99 ways to screw employees), than actually try to improve them.<p>A small percentage of people got rich off options a handful of times a long times ago, and since then countless people have been screwed.<p>Public RSUs for stock you can sell immediately on the open market are fantastic.<p>Common ISOs are toilet paper. At a _minimum_ you should get a 10 year exercise window, and if the CEO tries to say that would make it so early employees can hurt cap tables for future rounds, he&#x27;s basically saying he doesn&#x27;t consider your equity grant to be real equity as it deserves to be clawed back for the sin of not wanting to stick around for the 15 years it takes startups to IPO these days.<p>These exact same people will try to convince you that their ISOs are a valid subsitute to liquid RSUs, THEN say that they don&#x27;t deserve to be &quot;preferred&quot; instead of &quot;common&quot; because the VCs put in actual money (hint: so did you if you turned down a public company to work at the startup. Biggest difference is only that you&#x27;re way less diversified).<p>Am I ranting? Of course, but if VCs and founders are going to continually &quot;educate&quot; engineers on their equity offers, engineers need to stand up and inform each other of the pitfalls. I know countless people, myself included, who have been screwed by ISOs. You can actually lose money because the 30 day window forces you to pay strike price + taxes on gains, then you find out that the CEO sold the company at a bargain so liquidation preference kicked in and he just took a huge retention bonus instead.<p>The way out of this mess is not Github treatises on how to evaluate your equities. The way out is for engineers to continually tell founders&#x2F;VCs that they will pick public companies instead of startups until ISOs get fixed. If ISOs screwed over VCs instead of engineers, they would have gone to DC and gotten this fixed 10 years ago. At an absolute minimum you shouldn&#x27;t have to pay a dime in taxes until you&#x27;ve actually realized some money in your checkings account. VCs&#x2F;founders don&#x27;t care because they don&#x27;t have to care because engineers are still too gullible and accept these bogus deals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guide to Equity Compensation</title><url>https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TrueDuality</author><text>This is one of the better explanations I&#x27;ve heard about preferred stock. I&#x27;d say the counter point for the engineers at least is that frequently the opportunity cost for them is vesting stock.<p>That lost revenue over the vesting period is IMHO the same as directly investing cash in the company that the company itself can liquidate. I would say that when shares are used for compensation with a vesting period they should be treated equivalently to investors that are directly putting cash in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alecbenzer</author><text>&gt; don&#x27;t deserve to be &quot;preferred&quot; instead of &quot;common&quot; because the VCs put in actual money<p>I agree with most of what you said, but a nit: one perspective I&#x27;ve heard on the motivation for preferred stock is this:<p>Suppose I give you $10M to start a company in exchange for 10% of it. You then easily sell the company for $9M, keeping 90% * $9M = $8.1M for yourself and returning $900k to me. Preferred (non-participating, 1x) shares prevent this problem by making sure you can&#x27;t just run away with the money: you have to actually use it to build the business.<p>People investing in the company in non-liquid ways (e.g., the founders or engineers, via opportunity costs) aren&#x27;t in the same boat, because their opportunity cost can&#x27;t be immediately liquidated.</text></item><item><author>ditonal</author><text>Startup ISOs are totally broken, and VCs and founders would rather write 30 page treatises on all their complexities (of course, glossing over the 99 ways to screw employees), than actually try to improve them.<p>A small percentage of people got rich off options a handful of times a long times ago, and since then countless people have been screwed.<p>Public RSUs for stock you can sell immediately on the open market are fantastic.<p>Common ISOs are toilet paper. At a _minimum_ you should get a 10 year exercise window, and if the CEO tries to say that would make it so early employees can hurt cap tables for future rounds, he&#x27;s basically saying he doesn&#x27;t consider your equity grant to be real equity as it deserves to be clawed back for the sin of not wanting to stick around for the 15 years it takes startups to IPO these days.<p>These exact same people will try to convince you that their ISOs are a valid subsitute to liquid RSUs, THEN say that they don&#x27;t deserve to be &quot;preferred&quot; instead of &quot;common&quot; because the VCs put in actual money (hint: so did you if you turned down a public company to work at the startup. Biggest difference is only that you&#x27;re way less diversified).<p>Am I ranting? Of course, but if VCs and founders are going to continually &quot;educate&quot; engineers on their equity offers, engineers need to stand up and inform each other of the pitfalls. I know countless people, myself included, who have been screwed by ISOs. You can actually lose money because the 30 day window forces you to pay strike price + taxes on gains, then you find out that the CEO sold the company at a bargain so liquidation preference kicked in and he just took a huge retention bonus instead.<p>The way out of this mess is not Github treatises on how to evaluate your equities. The way out is for engineers to continually tell founders&#x2F;VCs that they will pick public companies instead of startups until ISOs get fixed. If ISOs screwed over VCs instead of engineers, they would have gone to DC and gotten this fixed 10 years ago. At an absolute minimum you shouldn&#x27;t have to pay a dime in taxes until you&#x27;ve actually realized some money in your checkings account. VCs&#x2F;founders don&#x27;t care because they don&#x27;t have to care because engineers are still too gullible and accept these bogus deals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guide to Equity Compensation</title><url>https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation</url></story> |
37,848,984 | 37,843,566 | 1 | 3 | 37,841,013 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lelanthran</author><text>Firstly, I&#x27;m not really an expert on marketing, so take what I say as mere opinion not fact.<p>I think that you should be pitching it a little differently: many people are confused about what your soundbite is actually saying (I also thought it was a file explorer, like all other file explorers I have even used).<p>Maybe lean hard into a phrase like &quot;Unified file browser; see all files on all your devices, all at once, all the time&quot;.[1]<p>The other thing I would emphasise is that <i>this isn&#x27;t syncthing</i>. You don&#x27;t have to mention syncthing by name, but you could emphasise that &quot;Your files aren&#x27;t synced between devices, they&#x27;re visible to all your devices&quot;.<p><i>Too many people who would otherwise use this would dismiss it with &quot;I&#x27;m already using syncthing&quot;!</i> AIUI, you <i>aren&#x27;t</i> syncing files between devices, only syncing file-listings.[2]<p>PS. For my own use, unfortunately, I don&#x27;t need something like this. Sorry.<p>While it would be a nice to have in theory, it just doesn&#x27;t solve any pain-points I am currently experiencing.<p>For example, any important document I need to read on different devices is <i>already</i> either in my email, or on google drive. I view movies on Netflix+AMZ+Disney+, I only ever share photos with others, not with other devices that belong to me. It&#x27;s rare that I look at a file stored locally on my phone and say &quot;I need to see this on my PC&quot;, or vice versa. It just never happens.<p>[1] That came out sounding super-weird: I <i>did warn you</i> that I wasn&#x27;t any good at marketing :-)<p>[2] I expect you provide value on top of that, like transparently copy-n-paste between two different devices, even from a third device.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>We&#x27;re early alpha, our product is free and open source<p>At the end of the day, it is an amazing experience simply just to search and organize files from not just devices, but disconnected drives. Search is lightning fast, the UI is clean and you own all the data, given its local first and peer-to-peer.<p>Hate it if you must, but we&#x27;re super passionate about it and are ruthlessly working to reach full stability across all platforms.</text></item><item><author>troupo</author><text>Honestly, you can&#x27;t call yourself a &quot;file explorer&quot; if you fail the basic task of exploring files without an additional step of &quot;adding a location&quot; (wat?)<p>Also, judging from the GitHub description, it&#x27;s not a file explorer. It&#x27;s a slightly extended Dropbox:<p>--- start quote ---<p>From cloud services to offline hard drives, Spacedrive combines the storage capacity and processing power of your devices into one personal distributed cloud, that is both secure and intuitive to use.<p>--- end quote ---</text></item><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>Hey thanks for trying Spacedrive! The bug you&#x27;re experiencing is known when browsing <i>before</i> adding a &quot;Location&quot;. We index Locations ahead of time to generate a cache that makes browsing super fast, Spacedrive is, contrary to some replies here, designed for big data, we cache and virtualize everything.<p>Next update we&#x27;ll fix the bug browsing non-locations, as those who open the app tend to try browsing first, before adding as a location it seems. It&#x27;s alpha software so I hope you give us time to iron it all out!</text></item><item><author>Klaster_1</author><text>Decided to try it out. After the installation, it asks to &quot;create the library&quot;, share the analytics and log in - not exactly what I expected compared to other file explorers. Next, I decided to navigate to a random directory on one of my drives. After double clicking, nothing happened. Opening a dir with a context menu action did nothing too. Turns out 15k files in a directory make it effectively non-navigable. Total Commander and Window Explorer have no such issues. Spacedrive still has to iron out the basic file explorer features, it seems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer</title><url>https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>devmor</author><text>You are definitely suffering from miscommunication here. Calling it a file explorer is a bit misleading. I think what your project aims to be is <i>really</i> cool and very useful, but a file explorer is a secondary trait to what it actually is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>We&#x27;re early alpha, our product is free and open source<p>At the end of the day, it is an amazing experience simply just to search and organize files from not just devices, but disconnected drives. Search is lightning fast, the UI is clean and you own all the data, given its local first and peer-to-peer.<p>Hate it if you must, but we&#x27;re super passionate about it and are ruthlessly working to reach full stability across all platforms.</text></item><item><author>troupo</author><text>Honestly, you can&#x27;t call yourself a &quot;file explorer&quot; if you fail the basic task of exploring files without an additional step of &quot;adding a location&quot; (wat?)<p>Also, judging from the GitHub description, it&#x27;s not a file explorer. It&#x27;s a slightly extended Dropbox:<p>--- start quote ---<p>From cloud services to offline hard drives, Spacedrive combines the storage capacity and processing power of your devices into one personal distributed cloud, that is both secure and intuitive to use.<p>--- end quote ---</text></item><item><author>jamiepine</author><text>Hey thanks for trying Spacedrive! The bug you&#x27;re experiencing is known when browsing <i>before</i> adding a &quot;Location&quot;. We index Locations ahead of time to generate a cache that makes browsing super fast, Spacedrive is, contrary to some replies here, designed for big data, we cache and virtualize everything.<p>Next update we&#x27;ll fix the bug browsing non-locations, as those who open the app tend to try browsing first, before adding as a location it seems. It&#x27;s alpha software so I hope you give us time to iron it all out!</text></item><item><author>Klaster_1</author><text>Decided to try it out. After the installation, it asks to &quot;create the library&quot;, share the analytics and log in - not exactly what I expected compared to other file explorers. Next, I decided to navigate to a random directory on one of my drives. After double clicking, nothing happened. Opening a dir with a context menu action did nothing too. Turns out 15k files in a directory make it effectively non-navigable. Total Commander and Window Explorer have no such issues. Spacedrive still has to iron out the basic file explorer features, it seems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer</title><url>https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive</url></story> |
12,064,729 | 12,064,268 | 1 | 2 | 12,064,022 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Perceptes</author><text>I&#x27;m so happy to see something like this in development. Every time there&#x27;s a discussion about OpenSSL vulnerabilities, the topic of a future replacement written in Rust comes up, but no one was stepping up to the plate. Now we have some real progress towards a safer future.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rustls: new, modern TLS library written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/ctz/rustls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oconnore</author><text>I&#x27;m developing a twitch whenever I see the word &quot;modern&quot; in a software description. It doesn&#x27;t actually say anything about what you&#x27;re doing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rustls: new, modern TLS library written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/ctz/rustls</url></story> |
22,760,256 | 22,760,230 | 1 | 2 | 22,759,575 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>&gt; They should shut down until they can get face masks for all employees and make them mandatory. The article says they won&#x27;t arrive until next week. And they should really be using some alternative fabric mask, rather than surgical masks which should go to healthcare workers.<p>And all the people ordering from Amazon? I would assume that on the whole, Amazon is better than every member of the public physically going out and shopping at a store.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oski</author><text>This response from Amazon is better than nothing, but given that recent figures show that up to 25% of people may be asymptomatic, might these temperature checks give people a false sense of security? They should have any employee with _any_ symptoms stay home and self-quarantine for longer than 3 days.<p>They should really focus on getting face masks for employees faster by using nonmedical fabric masks, which can help prevent asymptomatic transmission by blocking respiratory droplets from spreading. The article says the surgical masks won&#x27;t arrive until next week. And they should really be using some alternative fabric mask, rather than surgical masks which should go to healthcare workers.<p>Each day that interventions are delayed makes a huge difference.<p>More thoughts at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shouldiwearafacemask.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shouldiwearafacemask.com</a><p>(Edited to remove suggestion to close until they get masks with a compromise to use nonmedical fabric masks.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-masks-e/exclusive-amazon-to-deploy-masks-and-temperature-checks-for-workers-by-next-week-idUSKBN21K1Y6</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ferzul</author><text>anti-temperature perfectionism is what got us into this mess. having quick, imperfect tests and good follow up brought South Korea under control.<p>anti-test perfectionism means the entire west is shut down. we only had so many perfect tests, so we tested almost no one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oski</author><text>This response from Amazon is better than nothing, but given that recent figures show that up to 25% of people may be asymptomatic, might these temperature checks give people a false sense of security? They should have any employee with _any_ symptoms stay home and self-quarantine for longer than 3 days.<p>They should really focus on getting face masks for employees faster by using nonmedical fabric masks, which can help prevent asymptomatic transmission by blocking respiratory droplets from spreading. The article says the surgical masks won&#x27;t arrive until next week. And they should really be using some alternative fabric mask, rather than surgical masks which should go to healthcare workers.<p>Each day that interventions are delayed makes a huge difference.<p>More thoughts at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shouldiwearafacemask.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shouldiwearafacemask.com</a><p>(Edited to remove suggestion to close until they get masks with a compromise to use nonmedical fabric masks.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-masks-e/exclusive-amazon-to-deploy-masks-and-temperature-checks-for-workers-by-next-week-idUSKBN21K1Y6</url></story> |
34,300,891 | 34,297,892 | 1 | 2 | 34,295,828 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thefaux</author><text>&gt; I feel startups are not like they used to be.<p>I&#x27;ve had a similar epiphany over the last five years or so. Once you take money from the VCs, you are essentially just an R&amp;D department of the VC collective with perhaps a bit more autonomy than you might have in a BigCo but you are still heavily constrained by the demands of your funders. This is nothing like the romantic two guys in a garage with a great idea taking on the world narrative that we&#x27;ve been fed for decades.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I started to use the term &quot;fracking&quot; for this[0], because that&#x27;s more-less what the likes of Uber, AirBnB, Doordash, etc. do to their respective markets: they pump billions of VC money like it was a fracking fluid, in order to <i>crack</i> the market, pump out all the value, and leave behind a toxic mess for the locals to deal with.<p>While I agree that startups <i>can</i> disrupt the big monopolies, past Uber, I now find them just as dangerous as big companies to the customers and the societies they live in. Perhaps more so, because big companies don&#x27;t have to <i>disrupt</i> anything to extract their rents.<p>I feel startups are not like they used to be. Or maybe they always were what they were, and I became disillusioned only recently. Either way, today, this is a well-developed process of wealth transfer. In a sense, startups aren&#x27;t something opposite to big companies - they&#x27;re <i>the means</i> big companies use to frack an existing market and pump out all value. Startups are an integral part of the market ecosystem now, and from the POV of those at the top, it&#x27;s arguably a symbiotic, not parasitic relationship.<p>--<p>[0] - I used to call it &quot;strip-mining a market for all its worth&quot;, pointing at fast extraction of value with no concerns about sustainability, but I think &quot;fracking&quot; is better, as it also evokes the image of first cracking the market by a sudden, focused infusion of seemingly infinite free money.</text></item><item><author>franga2000</author><text>Many startups do the same thing to established industries. They burn VC money to &quot;disrupt&quot; a field, then when it&#x27;s time to make money, they hike prices. But by then, there&#x27;s no competition left.</text></item><item><author>langsoul-com</author><text>More legal effort should be put into big companies coming in and crushing start ups.<p>They usually build something and price it at a loss, because big companies can afford that till start ups go under.<p>Or unfairly using their services to hinder competiton.<p>Amazon is a big prepetrator of this. There was a smart oven, sold on Amazon. Amazon was also an investor, who made their own into a basics product at a loss.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you like startups you should love anti-trust</title><url>https://alexwrites.substack.com/p/if-you-like-startups-you-should-love</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>b1zguy</author><text>I did the term &#x27;fracking&#x27; in this context. I&#x27;ll start using it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I started to use the term &quot;fracking&quot; for this[0], because that&#x27;s more-less what the likes of Uber, AirBnB, Doordash, etc. do to their respective markets: they pump billions of VC money like it was a fracking fluid, in order to <i>crack</i> the market, pump out all the value, and leave behind a toxic mess for the locals to deal with.<p>While I agree that startups <i>can</i> disrupt the big monopolies, past Uber, I now find them just as dangerous as big companies to the customers and the societies they live in. Perhaps more so, because big companies don&#x27;t have to <i>disrupt</i> anything to extract their rents.<p>I feel startups are not like they used to be. Or maybe they always were what they were, and I became disillusioned only recently. Either way, today, this is a well-developed process of wealth transfer. In a sense, startups aren&#x27;t something opposite to big companies - they&#x27;re <i>the means</i> big companies use to frack an existing market and pump out all value. Startups are an integral part of the market ecosystem now, and from the POV of those at the top, it&#x27;s arguably a symbiotic, not parasitic relationship.<p>--<p>[0] - I used to call it &quot;strip-mining a market for all its worth&quot;, pointing at fast extraction of value with no concerns about sustainability, but I think &quot;fracking&quot; is better, as it also evokes the image of first cracking the market by a sudden, focused infusion of seemingly infinite free money.</text></item><item><author>franga2000</author><text>Many startups do the same thing to established industries. They burn VC money to &quot;disrupt&quot; a field, then when it&#x27;s time to make money, they hike prices. But by then, there&#x27;s no competition left.</text></item><item><author>langsoul-com</author><text>More legal effort should be put into big companies coming in and crushing start ups.<p>They usually build something and price it at a loss, because big companies can afford that till start ups go under.<p>Or unfairly using their services to hinder competiton.<p>Amazon is a big prepetrator of this. There was a smart oven, sold on Amazon. Amazon was also an investor, who made their own into a basics product at a loss.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you like startups you should love anti-trust</title><url>https://alexwrites.substack.com/p/if-you-like-startups-you-should-love</url></story> |
9,421,762 | 9,421,787 | 1 | 3 | 9,421,606 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jweb_Guru</author><text>No, the bad reputation is not overrated. This is the essence of why appeal to authority is a fallacy. Facebook is (or was) largely written in PHP; that doesn&#x27;t mean PHP&#x27;s bad reputation is overrated. Many banks run on COBOL; that doesn&#x27;t mean Cobol&#x27;s bad reputation is overrated.<p>MongoDB&#x27;s bad reputation is well-deserved and based on a long history of misleading (or outright false) marketing claims coupled with poor technical properties (from unavoidable data loss to horrible compaction performance to global write locks). At this point, even if all the known issues were fixed (and they aren&#x27;t) it would still take a long time for their reputation to recover. Given that some of MongoDB&#x27;s direct competitors do <i>not</i> suffer from these problems and can largely function as drop-in replacements, recommending people use something else is really the only responsible course of action.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lpsz</author><text>MongoDB seems to have a bad rep on HN for its various shortcomings, and yet here FB&#x2F;Parse seem to use it. Is the bad rep overrated? (Honest question)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MongoDB and RocksDB at Parse</title><url>http://blog.parse.com/announcements/mongodb-rocksdb-parse/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>htsh</author><text>Yes and no. Though I don&#x27;t disagree with any of the criticisms or other comments at this level, for some of us MongoDB has been pretty good in production and we haven&#x27;t experienced data loss. It all depends on your use case.<p>My first experience with it was for a social game running off of 3 mongo servers in a replica set &amp; here at a large healthcare company we use it for several internal CRUD applications (again in 3-server replica sets) which we continue to iterate. In these use cases, Mongo&#x27;s flexibility and ease of making changes trumped it&#x27;s shortcomings. My understanding is that many social games still use Mongo to store player data as our studio was told to use it by a large publisher.<p>My take is that it&#x27;s good for building prototypes and it&#x27;s pretty flexible to both change &amp; migrate data in and out &amp; Javascript devs pick it up relatively quickly. But I also think one should be well aware of it&#x27;s shortcomings and be careful not to use it where those things are of importance. More often than anything else, I recommend PostgreSQL when other people ask for a general-use db but I&#x27;d likely would pick up Mongo myself simply for speed of development.<p>Lastly, being part of the &quot;MEAN stack,&quot; we can point junior devs &amp; interns to one of the many books that cover the stack &amp; they can learn best practices get up to speed quickly. There&#x27;s an advantage to having books &amp; a slew of SO answers to refer to in that other devs aren&#x27;t pulled off of their work to teach. We literally had interns committing code on Day 1 of their jobs last summer as they came in having read up on our stack.<p>Regarding claims MongoDB has made, which I&#x27;ve only been made aware of the last two days, I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s any defending that &amp; it makes my itch to checkout rethinkdb a bit stronger than it was 2 days ago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lpsz</author><text>MongoDB seems to have a bad rep on HN for its various shortcomings, and yet here FB&#x2F;Parse seem to use it. Is the bad rep overrated? (Honest question)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MongoDB and RocksDB at Parse</title><url>http://blog.parse.com/announcements/mongodb-rocksdb-parse/</url></story> |
38,274,149 | 38,266,293 | 1 | 2 | 38,265,714 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>The first image contains some programs written for a Commodore P50 programmable calculator. Information about this device from 1978, including a photo, can be seen here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arithmomuseum.com&#x2F;album.php?cat=c&amp;id=246&amp;lang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arithmomuseum.com&#x2F;album.php?cat=c&amp;id=246&amp;lang=en</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Photos of Roger Penrose’s journal</title><url>https://abakcus.com/directory/roger-penroses-beautiful-journal/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bmitc</author><text>What is the source of these journal photos? I would love to see more.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Photos of Roger Penrose’s journal</title><url>https://abakcus.com/directory/roger-penroses-beautiful-journal/</url></story> |
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