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36,750,389 | 36,749,221 | 1 | 2 | 36,744,090 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>&gt; But, achieving all of the other attributes of simple HTTP triggered functions in a DIY context is very challenging without also spinning up a billion dollar corporation and hiring 1k more people.<p>I literally rolled my eyes reading that. How do you think we did before cloud computing?<p>I am currently in charge of multiple teams scaling and deploying innovative applications for a large industrial company. We are using Azure for everything. Our cloud costs are insane for our number of users. I used to manage applications with ten times more user for one hundredth of the cost and less complexity. It’s billed to another part of the company which is responsible for this dubious choice (I really hope someone is getting nice business trips paid by MS so it’s not a complete waste) so I don’t care but how people can blindly put faith in the cloud is beside me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>HTTP triggered cloud functions are my new favorite thing. They can evaporate complexity if you dance around the various vendors carefully enough. This is the only cloud-native abstraction that feels &quot;end game&quot; to me. I still haven&#x27;t been able to deploy a cloud function and get the &quot;runner&quot; into a state where I&#x27;d have to contact support or issue arcane console commands. I&#x27;ve done well over 2000 deploys by now for just one app alone with a 100% success rate.<p>Performance is fantastic (using isolated app service plans in Azure), and I am completely over the ideological principals against per-request billing. Absolutely, you can do it cheaper if you own the literal real estate the servers are running inside of. Paying for flat colo fees makes per-request costs look ludicrous on the surface. But, achieving all of the other attributes of simple HTTP triggered functions in a DIY context is very challenging without also spinning up a billion dollar corporation and hiring 1k more people. Compliance, audits, etc are where it gets real super fast.<p>The &quot;what about lock-in?&quot; argument doesn&#x27;t work for me anymore. HTTP triggers are a pretty natural interface to code against: &quot;I&#x27;ve got a HTTP request for you to review, give me some HTTP response please&quot;. The only stuff that is vendor-specific are the actual trigger method signatures and specific contexts beyond HTTP, such as OIDC or SAML claims. You&#x27;d really have to go out of your way to design an HTTP trigger web app&#x2F;API solution that is impossible to refactor for another vendor within a week or so.<p>If your business is a personal blog, then yeah I get it. It&#x27;s more <i>fun</i> to buy a VM in Hetzner and get all artisanal about it. Also, if you are operating in a totally unregulated industry, perhaps you can make some stronger arguments against completely outsourcing the servers in favor of splitting hairs on margin vs complexity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I run my servers (2022)</title><url>https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/how-i-run-my-servers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RadiozRadioz</author><text>I work in an extremely highly regulated industry and I don&#x27;t understand your last sentence. It is in our best interest to run all our own hardware. We can&#x27;t even take pictures in the office, there&#x27;s an absolute 0% chance we&#x27;re trusting a cloud provider with anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>HTTP triggered cloud functions are my new favorite thing. They can evaporate complexity if you dance around the various vendors carefully enough. This is the only cloud-native abstraction that feels &quot;end game&quot; to me. I still haven&#x27;t been able to deploy a cloud function and get the &quot;runner&quot; into a state where I&#x27;d have to contact support or issue arcane console commands. I&#x27;ve done well over 2000 deploys by now for just one app alone with a 100% success rate.<p>Performance is fantastic (using isolated app service plans in Azure), and I am completely over the ideological principals against per-request billing. Absolutely, you can do it cheaper if you own the literal real estate the servers are running inside of. Paying for flat colo fees makes per-request costs look ludicrous on the surface. But, achieving all of the other attributes of simple HTTP triggered functions in a DIY context is very challenging without also spinning up a billion dollar corporation and hiring 1k more people. Compliance, audits, etc are where it gets real super fast.<p>The &quot;what about lock-in?&quot; argument doesn&#x27;t work for me anymore. HTTP triggers are a pretty natural interface to code against: &quot;I&#x27;ve got a HTTP request for you to review, give me some HTTP response please&quot;. The only stuff that is vendor-specific are the actual trigger method signatures and specific contexts beyond HTTP, such as OIDC or SAML claims. You&#x27;d really have to go out of your way to design an HTTP trigger web app&#x2F;API solution that is impossible to refactor for another vendor within a week or so.<p>If your business is a personal blog, then yeah I get it. It&#x27;s more <i>fun</i> to buy a VM in Hetzner and get all artisanal about it. Also, if you are operating in a totally unregulated industry, perhaps you can make some stronger arguments against completely outsourcing the servers in favor of splitting hairs on margin vs complexity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I run my servers (2022)</title><url>https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/how-i-run-my-servers</url></story> |
27,581,746 | 27,581,863 | 1 | 2 | 27,580,946 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>I mean, I&#x27;m a strong introvert (defined here as somebody who likes people but is drained by socialization). Any given day I&#x27;d prefer working at home than from office; will prefer lunch at computer than cafeteria; dinner with friends or &quot;me time&quot; over team-building exercise; being at home with family than in office with co-workers. I&#x27;m friendly with my co-workers but we&#x27;re not out-of-office friends -- I have my own circle of friends and family and interests.<p>But working from home, only home, for 16 months now? At macro level, it drained me of motivation after a few months - and it took a lot of self-examination to realize I&#x27;m no longer at my peak and why, because the change was slow and subtle. I lose this internal intuitive feeling of what we&#x27;re doing and more importantly, why it matters. Everything is just words on the screen; success or failure, it&#x27;s just an email or slack. There&#x27;s no energy and pride to soak in when we wrap up a project. And most of all, I recognize I&#x27;m highly motivated by successful peers I respect; and I just don&#x27;t get to experience that the same way. I see the good results&#x2F;work of my peers, but I don&#x27;t get to &quot;see them be successful &#x2F; good at their job&quot;, which is subtly but critically different thing, more of a continuous and passive experience - what you call &quot;being surrounded by smart people doing interesting work&quot; really rings true.<p>So while any given morning I&#x27;d rather stay at home, I recognize that in long term, I&#x27;m suffering from <i>only</i> staying home.<p>I cannot IMAGINE what an extrovert is feeling these days :-&#x2F;.<p>(Oh and yes, I love them to death but there IS such a thing as &quot;too much contiguous time spent with my kids&quot;, for me at least it turns out... but office is not necessarily the solution for that:)</text><parent_chain><item><author>lastofthemojito</author><text>I think a lot of the responses to the straw man&#x27;s questions are reasonable and thoughtful. But I think this sentiment:<p>&gt;I don&#x27;t want to change the way I work, I just want people to join me in the office. My kids are driving me crazy. Is it weird to say I&#x27;m lonely; I miss my office friends.<p>Deserves more respect. There are lot of types of people out there, and it seems like at least some of them are energized by being surrounded by smart people doing interesting work. For whatever reason, for some folks, exchanging Slack messages with those same smart people isn&#x27;t similarly energizing compared to overhearing and jumping into interesting in-person conversations, etc. Maybe the tech giants need to be very accommodating to remote work in order to maintain their massive workforces, but I think a lot of typical companies could just say &quot;we prefer being in-office&quot; and find sufficient local folks to make that happen. That won&#x27;t be for everyone. But there might be a sizeable enough cohort that performs better in the office that it&#x27;ll be a good option for some companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons</title><url>https://blog.davidtate.org/we-cant-let-people-work-from-home-for-stupid-reasons/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>What ever happened to social clubs? I remember my grandpa was a member of the Knights of Columbus and would frequently go there to socialize &#x2F; network. I feel like these clubs used to be pretty common: Scouts, Rotary Club, Moose&#x2F;Elk Lodge, KoC, Veterans of Foreign Wars (which no longer requires members to be former military), and local cultural&#x2F;historical clubs are pretty prevalent.<p>I&#x27;ve been to a lot of these clubs at the invite of friends, but found that most of the members are 60+. Maybe these clubs need to get out there and advertise themselves to a younger audience, because it&#x27;s quite clear that many people <i>need</i> the social outlets that these provide. Plus, dancing is fun and people should do more of it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lastofthemojito</author><text>I think a lot of the responses to the straw man&#x27;s questions are reasonable and thoughtful. But I think this sentiment:<p>&gt;I don&#x27;t want to change the way I work, I just want people to join me in the office. My kids are driving me crazy. Is it weird to say I&#x27;m lonely; I miss my office friends.<p>Deserves more respect. There are lot of types of people out there, and it seems like at least some of them are energized by being surrounded by smart people doing interesting work. For whatever reason, for some folks, exchanging Slack messages with those same smart people isn&#x27;t similarly energizing compared to overhearing and jumping into interesting in-person conversations, etc. Maybe the tech giants need to be very accommodating to remote work in order to maintain their massive workforces, but I think a lot of typical companies could just say &quot;we prefer being in-office&quot; and find sufficient local folks to make that happen. That won&#x27;t be for everyone. But there might be a sizeable enough cohort that performs better in the office that it&#x27;ll be a good option for some companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons</title><url>https://blog.davidtate.org/we-cant-let-people-work-from-home-for-stupid-reasons/</url></story> |
25,978,789 | 25,978,787 | 1 | 2 | 25,978,013 | 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>MasterScrat</author><text>I have a 14U rack next to my desk.<p>It&#x27;s doable, but you need to spend time to optimize the noise factor:<p>- If you need many cores but can live with lower clock speeds, you can underclock.<p>- 1U servers will be noisy no matter what. 2U is already more manageable. 4Us are the best.<p>- GPUs will be noisy, no real solution around that. High heat production, and they hinder the air flow, so the front fans will have to spin faster. I physically remove GPUs from chassis when I&#x27;m not actively using them.<p>- There are small-size soundproof server cabinets that can easily solve this problem. They&#x27;re very expensive though.<p>- Depending on the server, you can directly control fan speed at the firmware level. This needs careful control if you don&#x27;t want to destroy your hardware and&#x2F;or burn down your place.<p>- The pandemic makes all this much harder. I used to keep things running lightly during the night and full blast during the day when everyone was out of the house. I saved tons of money, compared to what I would have paid on any cloud platform. Now that we&#x27;re home 24&#x2F;7 it&#x27;s not so worth it anymore.<p>Also this is all worth it if you actually enjoy playing with the hardware, in that case the money you put into this brings you both fun and cheap compute. If the setup is a chore for you, don&#x27;t do it, it probably won&#x27;t be worth your hourly rate.<p>Fun fact: the noise&#x2F;space&#x2F;aesthetics factors are referred to in the community as the &quot;WAF&quot; - Wife Acceptance Factor ;-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>smiley1437</author><text>I used to desire putting rack mounted equipment in my homelab and actually filled a lackrack with decommissioned servers and switches but quickly found that rackmounted equipment tends to have loud, high speed fans which are quite unpleasant to spend any time with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Turn an IKEA Coffee Table into a DIY Server Rack</title><url>https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DrBazza</author><text>I had a colleague back in the very late 90s that lived in a typical British semi-detached house. Under the stairs was a cupboard against the external wall. He decided to make that his server room with a rack and &quot;cheap&quot; second hand kit.<p>To cool it, he drilled through the external brick wall several times and fitted exhaust fans.<p>His hall sounded like standing behind a 747.<p>If it rained, he often ended up tripping the fuses.<p>&lt;&#x2F;end of anecdote&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>smiley1437</author><text>I used to desire putting rack mounted equipment in my homelab and actually filled a lackrack with decommissioned servers and switches but quickly found that rackmounted equipment tends to have loud, high speed fans which are quite unpleasant to spend any time with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Turn an IKEA Coffee Table into a DIY Server Rack</title><url>https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack</url></story> |
5,664,650 | 5,664,769 | 1 | 3 | 5,664,125 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>calinet6</author><text>Honestly, does it matter what kind of designer you are as long as you have a good visual aesthetic and understanding of usability and how people will see, interpret, feel, and use your product from end-to-end? Isn't "graphic designer" just a pigeon-hole limiting title that doesn't really mean squat when thinking about product design at a high-level?<p>Apple, in the past, has gotten things right because they thought about product correctly at every level. I don't see why we should think they will change this habit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer</title><url>http://stratechery.com/2013/jony-ive-is-not-a-graphic-designer/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>How much discussion of the iOS design overhaul, based on fourth-hand accounts of what somebody might have seen once as they walked past an office, will we have to endure over the next month? It's driving me nuts. Roughly nobody knows what it's actually going to look like, but everyone seems to think they're still very qualified to comment.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer</title><url>http://stratechery.com/2013/jony-ive-is-not-a-graphic-designer/</url></story> |
4,104,801 | 4,102,644 | 1 | 3 | 4,101,355 | 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>philjones88</author><text>Signed up too. I kind of started freelance work but like Alan's post, the c# freelance world was either "contract" or "permi".<p>Found some good guys to do work with now on a kind of "per project" approach which is good.<p>Interested to read the book as I found my weaknesses to be:<p>1. Charging for my work. I still find I undercharge as I enjoy the work and feel awkward asking for large amounts per billable hour. I'm now kind of trapped on low billable hours with my initial clients...<p>2. Finances. I've learnt enough and in the UK you can survive for the first 6 months without an accountant. I'm probably going to get one soon to handle the more complex tax/pay stuff.<p>3. Work out a proper hourly rate. Don't use the same broken formula I did thinking I can work 7 billable hours per day. I end up with about 4.5. I didn't account for the gaps between work. I now understand why freelancers have high rates.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevejalim</author><text>Shameless, shameless plug alert: if you found Alan's post interesting, you may also like the book I've almost finished writing. Check out <a href="http://freelancedeveloperbook.com" rel="nofollow">http://freelancedeveloperbook.com</a><p>The plan is to ship it before the end of June - am publishing via leanpub.com (great experience so far) and it'll be a paid-for book to cover the (many, many, _many_) hours I've put into it.<p>When it's ready, I'll make a sample available so you can try before you buy, and will be pulling out a dozen names from the early-sign-up hat for a free copy.<p>So, if you're interested, please do sign up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My first month freelancing</title><url>http://alanhollis.com/first-month-freelancing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kranner</author><text>Looks interesting! Signed up and emailed you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevejalim</author><text>Shameless, shameless plug alert: if you found Alan's post interesting, you may also like the book I've almost finished writing. Check out <a href="http://freelancedeveloperbook.com" rel="nofollow">http://freelancedeveloperbook.com</a><p>The plan is to ship it before the end of June - am publishing via leanpub.com (great experience so far) and it'll be a paid-for book to cover the (many, many, _many_) hours I've put into it.<p>When it's ready, I'll make a sample available so you can try before you buy, and will be pulling out a dozen names from the early-sign-up hat for a free copy.<p>So, if you're interested, please do sign up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My first month freelancing</title><url>http://alanhollis.com/first-month-freelancing/</url></story> |
19,007,837 | 19,007,625 | 1 | 2 | 19,004,899 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajross</author><text>Oh come on, that&#x27;s the way employers everywhere treat their employees. There&#x27;s nothing specific to Google here at all, really. Every company that reaches the end of a growth curve needs to start finding revenue growth in the higher hanging fruit. That means fewer perks and lower compenstation. It happens everywhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drugme</author><text><i>Perhaps the most significant change in the proposal called for trimming the rate of promotions. Each year, a certain number of employees are up for promotions based on performance and other metrics. The slide deck suggested reducing this by 2 percentage points. The document said this could be rolled out without upsetting staff because workers didn’t know what the existing rate was, so wouldn’t notice if it declined.</i><p>That last sentence is quite telling about Google&#x27;s attitude toward its employees.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/google-memo-on-cost-cuts-sparks-heated-debate-inside-company</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>It also said that Google doesn&#x27;t have enough higher level work for people if it promoted them (because the promo rate is so much higher than industry average, and Google has shifted right in levels) but just about everyone ignored that.<p>You can&#x27;t create larger scope&#x2F;etc roles out of thin air (you actually have to need the work done), and levels always seem to right shift over time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drugme</author><text><i>Perhaps the most significant change in the proposal called for trimming the rate of promotions. Each year, a certain number of employees are up for promotions based on performance and other metrics. The slide deck suggested reducing this by 2 percentage points. The document said this could be rolled out without upsetting staff because workers didn’t know what the existing rate was, so wouldn’t notice if it declined.</i><p>That last sentence is quite telling about Google&#x27;s attitude toward its employees.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/google-memo-on-cost-cuts-sparks-heated-debate-inside-company</url></story> |
19,773,421 | 19,773,531 | 1 | 2 | 19,772,665 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>In Sweden I was paid to count votes. It&#x27;s boring and important work, so it makes a ton of sense to me.<p>I&#x27;d prefer disinterested people counting votes for money to fanatics doing it idealistically. But perhaps my bias shines through in the phrasing...</text><parent_chain><item><author>littlestymaar</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised to see that they pay workers to count ballots. In France ballots are counted by benevolent citizens at voting places, and I always assumed it was a necessary condition for free democratic elections.<p>What about your country fellow HNer, how do elections work there ?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indonesia election: More than 270 election staff die counting votes</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48083051</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnchristopher</author><text>In Belgium citizens are selected at random (there are filters such as age and civic rights I think) and are obliged to manage the electoral place set with ballots. If there isn&#x27;t enough people showing up then the first voters are supposed to do the job.<p>You are supposed to get fined if you fail to show up and you were chosen but it&#x27;s rarely applied except for the chief (president is the term) (who is also chosen at random) of the voting booths.<p>Voting is mandatory in Belgium so it kinda&#x2F;maybe make sense to pick people among the population.<p>You are compensated for the day&#x27;s work but not much.<p>I&#x27;d rather have random citizen do that job than civil servants.</text><parent_chain><item><author>littlestymaar</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised to see that they pay workers to count ballots. In France ballots are counted by benevolent citizens at voting places, and I always assumed it was a necessary condition for free democratic elections.<p>What about your country fellow HNer, how do elections work there ?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indonesia election: More than 270 election staff die counting votes</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48083051</url></story> |
19,497,109 | 19,497,171 | 1 | 2 | 19,496,280 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonas21</author><text>As another commenter pointed out, Dominos is kinda the poster child for fast food companies driving growth by embracing technology. They started investing in online ordering back in 2007, and their stock has gone up more than 20x since then.<p>And if you look at how Dominos describes itself, they&#x27;re clearly focused on technology (or at least want you to think they are). For example, half of their standard investor blurb is about technology:<p>&gt; <i>Emphasis on technology innovation helped Domino&#x27;s achieve more than half of all global retail sales in 2017 from digital channels, primarily online ordering and mobile applications. In the U.S., Domino&#x27;s generates over 60% of sales via digital channels and has produced several innovative ordering platforms, including Google Home, Facebook Messenger, Apple Watch, Amazon Echo, Twitter and text message using a pizza emoji. In late 2017, Domino&#x27;s began an industry-first test of self-driving vehicle delivery with Ford Motor Company – and in April 2018, launched Domino&#x27;s HotSpots™, featuring over 200,000 non-traditional delivery locations including parks, beaches, local landmarks and other unique gathering spots.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;dominos-pizza-announces-q4year-end-2018-earnings-webcast-300791397.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;dominos-pizza-annou...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>It seems like when your company&#x27;s revenue has been flat for over a decade, you should focus on improving your core offering of, you know, <i>food quality</i>, and not find new ways to annoy customers with data mining and extreme personalization.<p>In 2009 Dominos realized their food sucked, committed to improving it, and have since been doing very well. (Their stock has more than quadrupled.) At some point McDonalds will need to do the same.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>McDonald's Acquires Machine-Learning Startup Dynamic Yield for $300M</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-big-data-dynamic-yield-acquisition/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>What are you talking about? McDonald&#x27;s has been.<p>They revamped their quarter pounders a ~year ago to be much fresher, tastier, juicier burgers. They serve more gourmet-style toppings now and a variety of cheeses. They&#x27;re experimenting with new items like the morning &quot;donut sticks&quot; which are surprisingly good. The buttermilk chicken tenders are worlds beyond the old nuggets. And you can get breakfast all day, with eggs that are now fresh-cracked.<p>They still sell all their old stuff because people still love it. But if you think their menu hasn&#x27;t been increasing in quality for those who want it, you haven&#x27;t been paying attention. Some people prefer not to believe it.<p>But it&#x27;s still McDonald&#x27;s. People want and like McDonald&#x27;s. They&#x27;re not looking for fine dining.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>It seems like when your company&#x27;s revenue has been flat for over a decade, you should focus on improving your core offering of, you know, <i>food quality</i>, and not find new ways to annoy customers with data mining and extreme personalization.<p>In 2009 Dominos realized their food sucked, committed to improving it, and have since been doing very well. (Their stock has more than quadrupled.) At some point McDonalds will need to do the same.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>McDonald's Acquires Machine-Learning Startup Dynamic Yield for $300M</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-big-data-dynamic-yield-acquisition/</url></story> |
24,426,898 | 24,426,380 | 1 | 3 | 24,425,424 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kd913</author><text>I can understand the benefit of automating these things but I think it would probably be better for people to setup these things manually first. At least to understand what each step is doing. Otherwise, people are trusting rather a core piece of infrastructure with a random docker image online.<p>I found personally that there are several aspects of this automation that needs tweaking.<p>* If you need ipv6 support this config needs to be overhauled.<p>* Wireguard config should have ipv6 addresses set to avoid potential leakages (even if ipv6 is disabled).<p>* This setup would benefit from some ddns mechanism as most people do not have static ip setups.<p>* Firefox is beginning to have https only modes in which case maybe I would like to adjust lighthttp to work with that.<p>The list goes on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantly</title><url>https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matrixagent</author><text>If I&#x27;m reading the docker-compose file correctly, this creates an open dns resolver that is accessible to the outside, as Docker by default bypasses the firewall, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chaifeng&#x2F;ufw-docker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chaifeng&#x2F;ufw-docker</a>. I&#x27;m not quite sure about that, though, so I&#x27;d be happy to be corrected and learn more about how your setup works exactly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantly</title><url>https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole</url></story> |
14,181,608 | 14,181,132 | 1 | 3 | 14,180,761 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sharkjacobs</author><text>Apple needs to improve the image stabilization on live photos. I like live photos a lot now, but I had disabled them until I discovered Google&#x27;s Motion Stills app.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple releases a bit of code to let you put Live Photos on your sites</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/20/apple-releases-a-bit-of-code-to-let-you-put-live-photos-on-your-sites</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedmiston</author><text>Direct link to Apple demo - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;live-photos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;live-photos&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple releases a bit of code to let you put Live Photos on your sites</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/20/apple-releases-a-bit-of-code-to-let-you-put-live-photos-on-your-sites</url></story> |
17,054,561 | 17,054,262 | 1 | 2 | 17,053,214 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>That&#x27;s what I thought too. But they&#x27;ve been designing this for years; so it might have started before drones got as popular as they are.<p>I mean, drones are just a new name for hobby aircraft. People typically associate drones with quad-copters, but people were flying tiny helicopters next to their small replica remote aircraft for decades.<p>I realize the FAA has official designations for what is a drone (and a lot of older hobby aircrafts may now technically be drones), but it&#x27;s a word that&#x27;s really come about because the field is now more accessible&#x2F;affordable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>&quot;The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter...&quot;<p>Not to be little it but, in short, a drone.<p>I presume the rocket scientists are jealous ;)</text></item><item><author>KineticLensman</author><text>Link to the underlying press release [0] which has slightly more info than the BBC article. There is a bit more background about the project at [1], with some key points being:<p>&quot;The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter. Its payload will be a high resolution downward-looking camera for navigation, landing, and science surveying of the terrain, and a communication system to relay data to the 2020 Mars rover. The inconsistent Mars magnetic field precludes the use of a compass for navigation, so it would require a solar tracker camera integrated to JPL&#x27;s visual inertial navigation system. Some additional inputs might include gyros, visual odometry, tilt sensors, altimeter, and hazard detectors. It would use solar panels to recharge its batteries.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;mars-helicopter-to-fly-on-nasa-s-next-red-planet-rover-mission" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;mars-helicopter-to-fly-on...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44090509</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Retric</author><text>NASA has been using drones since 1950, it&#x27;s everyone else that&#x27;s jelly.<p>PS: Unmanned Rockets are Drones <i>that shoot fire.</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>&quot;The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter...&quot;<p>Not to be little it but, in short, a drone.<p>I presume the rocket scientists are jealous ;)</text></item><item><author>KineticLensman</author><text>Link to the underlying press release [0] which has slightly more info than the BBC article. There is a bit more background about the project at [1], with some key points being:<p>&quot;The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter. Its payload will be a high resolution downward-looking camera for navigation, landing, and science surveying of the terrain, and a communication system to relay data to the 2020 Mars rover. The inconsistent Mars magnetic field precludes the use of a compass for navigation, so it would require a solar tracker camera integrated to JPL&#x27;s visual inertial navigation system. Some additional inputs might include gyros, visual odometry, tilt sensors, altimeter, and hazard detectors. It would use solar panels to recharge its batteries.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;mars-helicopter-to-fly-on-nasa-s-next-red-planet-rover-mission" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;mars-helicopter-to-fly-on...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44090509</url></story> |
3,573,919 | 3,573,541 | 1 | 2 | 3,573,270 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blhack</author><text>Dear Everybody:<p>The most wonderful thing you can ever give somebody is your time.<p>No matter who you are, no matter how much money you make, most people have roughly the same amount of <i>time</i>. In this sense we're all equal.<p>So yes, some of us could off and spend enormous amounts of money on each other for gifts...but if I spend a week building something, and Bill Gates spends a week building something, the gift is the same temporal size.<p>It's like saying "Yes, I could do anything at all with this week of time, but I decided that that week of time would be best spent building something that will make you happy."<p>There's something that I find profoundly beautiful about that.<p>This is an absolutely fantastic gift. She should be really proud of herself for learning that quickly, and I'm sure he's over the moon about this as a gift.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>According to the article, she started in December from basically scratch. She used Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way and learned enough Python to then figure out Django and deploy to Heroku herself.<p>More importantly, she learned enough to gain this insight:<p><i>“Learning to program isn’t the hard part. The biggest challenge is figuring out how all the moving parts of a web application fit together. There’s no book for that,” she said."</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww/</url></story> |
20,932,050 | 20,932,138 | 1 | 2 | 20,930,622 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elpakal</author><text>Sorry for the cynicism, but this worries me.<p>&gt; This strategic partnership will combine Google’s cloud and AI capabilities and Mayo’s world-leading clinical expertise to improve the health of people—and entire communities—through the transformative impact of understanding insights at scale. Ultimately, we will work together to solve humanity’s most serious and complex medical challenges.<p>I&#x27;m sorry but this is just pure silicon valley speak. Are Mayo&#x27;s patients really going to know what Google is doing with their clinical data? When I hear &quot;partnering with Google to create machine-learning models for serious and complex disease&quot;, I have a hard time believing Mayo patients know what they are signing away when they consent to this (if at all, which is not mentioned?)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mayo Clinic to partner with Google</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/customers/how-google-and-mayo-clinic-will-transform-the-future-of-healthcare</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>disabled</author><text>I &quot;love&quot; how Google just throws in &quot;rare diseases&quot; in to this, via their press release, as somebody who lives with 2 rare diseases that affect my peripheral nervous system. Actually, one of the diseases I have was discovered in the early 2000s on NIH grant funds at the Mayo Clinic.<p>This sounds wild, but it is true: Rare diseases are an absolute cash cow, and everyone should watch this. Our healthcare system in the US will be unsustainable if orphan drugs are not regulated (Which is why I naturalized as an European Union citizen, in addition to being American. I fret and worry about getting proper access to medical care every single day.): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-weekly&#x2F;rare-diseases-orphan-drugs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-weekly&#x2F;rare-diseases-...</a><p>(I do not believe that healthcare for all is unsustainable, but an unregulated free market will make it unsustainable.)<p>Just in case anyone was wondering, it is common to have a rare disease, and they are unfathomly expensive to have. In the US, the definition of rare disease (which really should be called &quot;orphan conditions&quot; based on the law) is tied to &quot;orphan drugs&quot; which in theory can collectively benefit 10% of the general population. There are a ton of orphan drugs being approved at the moment, which cost between hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to millions per year, in the US. The European estimate on rare diseases is more realistic and 6-8% of the general population has a rare disease.<p>So, do not think think that it cannot happen to you. You are naive to believe otherwise.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mayo Clinic to partner with Google</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/customers/how-google-and-mayo-clinic-will-transform-the-future-of-healthcare</url></story> |
20,360,456 | 20,360,300 | 1 | 3 | 20,359,700 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonnydubowsky</author><text>My recent experience with a credit card customer support agent might as well have been me conversing with a bot. It was actually more frustrating for both me and the agent, that they were so strictly bound to a script, with no room for their creative human brain to actually adapt their response to the unique context of my issue.
When customer service is nothing more then an agent choosing from various scripted responses, what is the point?
Escalating my issue up through 2 senior agents, i finally reached a human who was allowed by their employer to actively apply context to their support tasks.
The use of programmed constraints on a system and how that system is sold to customers, this is a wicked problem of our times.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dessant</author><text>I felt stupid, but I have fallen victim to this on dpd.com while tracking a package. A helpful chat popup has appeared where I could request assistance from a support agent, but it was not disclosed that the agent is a bot.<p>Needless to say I have spent a couple of minutes repeatedly asking a question, and even rephrasing it while being frustrated that this person does not seem to grasp my issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/will-californias-new-bot-law-strengthen-democracy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burfog</author><text>I&#x27;ve been assuming that it&#x27;s a pre-determined initial message, but that a real human in a low-cost country would immediately be involved if I bothered to respond.<p>What portion of the chat pop up windows do you think are purely bot? Might any of them be purely human?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dessant</author><text>I felt stupid, but I have fallen victim to this on dpd.com while tracking a package. A helpful chat popup has appeared where I could request assistance from a support agent, but it was not disclosed that the agent is a bot.<p>Needless to say I have spent a couple of minutes repeatedly asking a question, and even rephrasing it while being frustrated that this person does not seem to grasp my issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/will-californias-new-bot-law-strengthen-democracy</url></story> |
34,395,900 | 34,396,017 | 1 | 2 | 34,394,351 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iopq</author><text>Not really. When each PHP page was copy pasted and slightly modified, I had to manually search to fix each bug and fix it in EVERY instance.<p>Are you going to tell me that this kind of tech debt doesn&#x27;t affect my time to fix the bug? I could have done it once, now I have to hunt for 5+ instances of it. Am I just complaining or did doing the original development in a lazy way directly impact my time to complete the task?<p>I could have recorded the exact amount between the original bug fix and finally fixing the last instance of the bug to quantify how much time lazy coding cost me. It may have taken the same amount of time to write the original pages with an extendable component that only has one copy and takes arguments to create all the variations we need. But in the end we&#x27;d have fewer lines of code to maintain in the future and that&#x27;s also an objective metric.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hooande</author><text>&gt; &quot;You see, the leadership did not care about the code quality as long as the stories were delivered on time.&quot;<p>My problem with the concept of technical debt is that &quot;code quality&quot; is subjective, and more often than not it translates to &quot;I don&#x27;t like the structure of this code because I didn&#x27;t write it&quot;. What matters to the business is that the code works. The owners of the business do not care if the developers enjoy working with the code or if they find it to be well written.<p>I hear all the time that bad code slows down development, increases bugs, etc. And that can be true in a number of cases. But most of the time it&#x27;s just complaining. If a developer takes the time to re-factor the code base, it&#x27;s very likely that whoever takes over from them in a few years will have the same complaints about technical debt and want to re-factor all over again.<p>The best way to ensure everyone&#x27;s job and increase compensation is to deliver features that customers really want. Doesn&#x27;t matter what the code looks like, as long as the customers are happy. Re-factoring is important to developers and to maintaining an organization. But it can wait until there aren&#x27;t pressing feature demands.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We invested 10% to pay back tech debt</title><url>https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>I heavily disagree.<p>At the time of change, its obvious you&#x27;re making the code shittier. That function? It doesn&#x27;t do what it says anymore. That other function? Just a few more boolean variables. Hey, we don&#x27;t need to refactor, we can just make negative numbers mean one thing, and positive ones mean another! Death by a thousand cuts.<p>This is also the best time to refactor. You skip the whole &quot;I don&#x27;t like the way the code looks&quot; bullshit. The codebase doesn&#x27;t support your feature? Make it support your feature, then code your feature.<p>And you know what else? You are only changing code you&#x27;re touching. Refactoring code you don&#x27;t need to otherwise touch is a waste of time.<p>But yeah, if you parachute in 6 months later to look for a refactor, its gonna be all gravy. How much shittier your code is just a distant memory. Get on that next feature - just another flag, just another lying variable - in <i>hindsight</i>, it&#x27;s all subjective anyways.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hooande</author><text>&gt; &quot;You see, the leadership did not care about the code quality as long as the stories were delivered on time.&quot;<p>My problem with the concept of technical debt is that &quot;code quality&quot; is subjective, and more often than not it translates to &quot;I don&#x27;t like the structure of this code because I didn&#x27;t write it&quot;. What matters to the business is that the code works. The owners of the business do not care if the developers enjoy working with the code or if they find it to be well written.<p>I hear all the time that bad code slows down development, increases bugs, etc. And that can be true in a number of cases. But most of the time it&#x27;s just complaining. If a developer takes the time to re-factor the code base, it&#x27;s very likely that whoever takes over from them in a few years will have the same complaints about technical debt and want to re-factor all over again.<p>The best way to ensure everyone&#x27;s job and increase compensation is to deliver features that customers really want. Doesn&#x27;t matter what the code looks like, as long as the customers are happy. Re-factoring is important to developers and to maintaining an organization. But it can wait until there aren&#x27;t pressing feature demands.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We invested 10% to pay back tech debt</title><url>https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day</url></story> |
13,915,541 | 13,914,471 | 1 | 2 | 13,914,137 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pklausler</author><text>That&#x27;s about how long it took me to write a self-compiling C compiler and basic runtime library for a simulation environment for a new instruction set architecture back in &#x27;98 (it eventually became the Cray X-1). Although I did start with a working C preprocessor left over from an earlier project, and in many ways the preprocessor can be the hardest part to get right.<p>Bringing up a compiler in a simulated environment has its advantages over real metal. Seeing instruction traces with computed values is awesome for debugging.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)</title><url>http://www.sigbus.info/how-i-wrote-a-self-hosting-c-compiler-in-40-days.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>sly010</author><text>&gt; At first the compiler was about 20 lines long, and the only thing that was able to do is to read an integer from the standard input and then emit a program that immediately exits with the integer as exit code.<p>I always find it hard to find the absolute minimum functionality i can implement so I usually just attack the problem hard, fail, and keep repeating until I have enough broken functionality, then I start adding tests and refactoring.<p>Can I ask what is your day job? :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)</title><url>http://www.sigbus.info/how-i-wrote-a-self-hosting-c-compiler-in-40-days.html</url></story> |
25,016,073 | 25,016,091 | 1 | 2 | 25,014,421 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kelp</author><text>This has never been a problem for me. But when I&#x27;m running Debian I mostly run testing anyway. Also rarely a problem there.<p>On Arch I run sudo pacman -Syu almost every day.<p>You could run something like this to get a warning if there is anything that requires manual intervention: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bradford-smith94&#x2F;informant" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bradford-smith94&#x2F;informant</a><p>I also run my laptop with Snapper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;snapper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;snapper</a><p>I use a btrfs root volume with btrfs subvolumes instead of separate partitions. I have snapper setup with a pacman hook to take a snapshot before and after every pacman run. So worst case, if something goes horribly wrong, I can boot from an Arch install image into a previous snapshot and unbreak things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mherrmann</author><text>How much time do you spend upgrading and fixing issues, if any? Rolling release has always scared me.</text></item><item><author>joseluisq</author><text>Arch simplicity and top performance as well as its rolling release, high quality packages and community (yes, docs too!) definitely makes me more productive every day.<p>As a happy user since 2015, thanks for such amazing distro and experience.<p>Long live Arch!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arch Conf 2020</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/c/arch-conf-2020</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tlamponi</author><text>I&#x27;m using Arch Linux on a VM since 2015. On that VM I host some services for personal projects, gitolite, Grafana, InfluxDB, wireguard and some self baked daemons (they are also deployed as Arch Linux package, it&#x27;s not too hard and much cleaner and easier to deal with in the long run).<p>I update weekly to daily, but sometimes also a month goes by (e.g., if I&#x27;m on vacation or the like), never had an issue, never had any breakage. I reboot on kernel updates, downtime is a few seconds which I can deal with.<p>The VM is only single core, 4GB memory, 40 GB disk space - chugging along just fine.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d always feel safe and good with choosing either Arch Linux, Debian or Alpine Linux as VM&#x2F;CT distribution (my underlying hypervisor would be Proxmox VE, which derives from Debian).</text><parent_chain><item><author>mherrmann</author><text>How much time do you spend upgrading and fixing issues, if any? Rolling release has always scared me.</text></item><item><author>joseluisq</author><text>Arch simplicity and top performance as well as its rolling release, high quality packages and community (yes, docs too!) definitely makes me more productive every day.<p>As a happy user since 2015, thanks for such amazing distro and experience.<p>Long live Arch!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arch Conf 2020</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/c/arch-conf-2020</url></story> |
19,541,371 | 19,541,034 | 1 | 2 | 19,540,678 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaabe</author><text>I think splitting into projects with their own separate dependencies is&#x2F;was actually one of the few advantages to C#, because it lets you replace an entire project and it’s dependencies seamlessly.<p>This has been extremely handy for us as we’ve been slowly upgrading to .net core. Because we can literally do it one project at a time without even risking breaking anything. Before going to .Net core it made switching from Web Forns to MVC really, really painless because all the business logic lived in its own projects, allowing us to run and maintain the Web Forms project, while building its replacement within the same solution.<p>I guess it requires you to think about the architecture of your solution, but what stack doesn’t? I say “is&#x2F;was” an advantage though, because it’s primary use cases are frankly mostly related to the past or really bad practices. It allows you to keep a single project running on some really old .Net version, to utilise something legacy. That’s bad, but sometimes it has real works value, even if it’s bad.<p>NUGET has been fairly terrible though, and despite its many improvements, frankly continues to be so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>james_s_tayler</author><text>Is this related to C# having this structure where everything is split into hundreds of csproj files and multiple solutions?<p>And this must be related to needing to have pdb file or being unable to debug.<p>I wish those two things were not the case. And nuget.<p>I find C# wonderful except those particular decisions give me pain on a daily basis.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>C#88: The Original C# (2018)</title><url>https://medium.com/@ricomariani/c-88-the-original-c-66a1b5de47d7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ygra</author><text>(a) How you structure larger applications into projects (assemblies) is largely your own problem. If you have a component that&#x27;s intended to be used from different projects, then it sometimes makes sense that it gets its own project as well. However, you can just as well cross-include the source file if you want. There aren&#x27;t that many things that explicitly require separate assemblies.<p>(b) Debug symbols have to be there for you to be able to have source-level debugging, of course. You can always debug the assembly code, of course. For Microsoft&#x27;s tooling, PDB files are the debug symbols that link the assembly code to the source code. Other tools sometimes embed debugging information in the binaries. And if this information isn&#x27;t there, you can&#x27;t have source debugging either.<p>(c) No one&#x27;s forcing you to use NuGet, although I wonder what you particular problems are with it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>james_s_tayler</author><text>Is this related to C# having this structure where everything is split into hundreds of csproj files and multiple solutions?<p>And this must be related to needing to have pdb file or being unable to debug.<p>I wish those two things were not the case. And nuget.<p>I find C# wonderful except those particular decisions give me pain on a daily basis.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>C#88: The Original C# (2018)</title><url>https://medium.com/@ricomariani/c-88-the-original-c-66a1b5de47d7</url></story> |
30,706,566 | 30,703,114 | 1 | 2 | 30,702,507 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>batmaniam</author><text>Even corporations do this kind of thing, not just state agents. There was an interesting case where Ebay harassed two old couple for running a blog that was critical of Ebay practices. Ebay went so far as to cause long-term psychological damage to the couple by mailing them bloody pig masks, signing them up to naughty magazines and sending them to their neighbors, van stalking them, and all other kinds of crazy stuff you wouldn&#x27;t believe. Everything was directed by senior leadership at Ebay, and &#x27;encouraged&#x27; by the CEO.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EBay_stalking_scandal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EBay_stalking_scandal</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;26&#x2F;technology&#x2F;ebay-cockroaches-stalking-scandal.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;26&#x2F;technology&#x2F;ebay-cockroach...</a><p>Really interesting read, if you guys wanna learn more. But basically anyone with money and power can initiate this kind of harassment activity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>philovivero</author><text>Sometimes I think this sounds conspiratorial, and surely isn&#x27;t happening. Who has the time or money to pay 5 people to just go around harassing and stalking people for political gain only?<p>Then I remember the story of the lady in East Germany who, after it fell, managed to get the Stasi records that finally proved that yes, they had been stalking her, harassing her, and spying on her.<p>They would do things like wait until she went into a store to buy something, then let the air out of her bicycle tires. Just stupid little harassing things like that, so that if she complained about it to her family they&#x27;d think she was crazy.<p>Next time you hear some nutcase on the street talking about things like this to whoever will listen... ponder things like this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>5 Charged with Stalking, Harassing, Spying on US Residents for PRC Secret Police</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-individuals-charged-variously-stalking-harassing-and-spying-us-residents-behalf-prc-0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>That reminds me of COINTELPRO, and how the FBI tried to get MLK to commit suicide by sending him a harassing black mailing letter. It&#x27;s amazing how states particularly when they have apparatuses that can go rouge or are even actually encouraged by the government like the Stasi were go to ridiculous lengths to harass people they find politically inconvenient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>philovivero</author><text>Sometimes I think this sounds conspiratorial, and surely isn&#x27;t happening. Who has the time or money to pay 5 people to just go around harassing and stalking people for political gain only?<p>Then I remember the story of the lady in East Germany who, after it fell, managed to get the Stasi records that finally proved that yes, they had been stalking her, harassing her, and spying on her.<p>They would do things like wait until she went into a store to buy something, then let the air out of her bicycle tires. Just stupid little harassing things like that, so that if she complained about it to her family they&#x27;d think she was crazy.<p>Next time you hear some nutcase on the street talking about things like this to whoever will listen... ponder things like this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>5 Charged with Stalking, Harassing, Spying on US Residents for PRC Secret Police</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-individuals-charged-variously-stalking-harassing-and-spying-us-residents-behalf-prc-0</url></story> |
8,613,467 | 8,613,493 | 1 | 2 | 8,613,231 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xnull2guest</author><text>Since when do these companies get such a big say in <i>our</i> Democracy? Since when is &quot;Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying&quot; a headline and not &quot;American people rally the vote to stop sweeping surveillance&quot;?<p>Personally, I think it&#x27;s mostly a show to bolster consumer confidence (rant purposefully left out). But let&#x27;s say it&#x27;s not. Why should a handful of private individuals be more important for the direction of legislature than democratic consensus AND what&#x27;s written into law <i>by the Constitution</i>.<p>A fluffy feel good piece about how the elite are on your side. Bullshit through and through.<p>I&#x27;m not upset that (publicly) these corporations are against surveillance, I&#x27;m upset that it matters.<p>Yes we live in a Representative Democratic Republic. But I don&#x27;t remember voting for the board of directors.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/companies-call-on-senate-to-pass-bill-curbing-nsa-powers.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>cowpig</author><text>I find this article interesting in that it describes a direct clash of motives between two major systematic problems in American government at present: corporate capture of politics, and the runaway NSA.<p>What needs to happen is for both of these forces to be curbed, before they find a compromise that I don&#x27;t expect to be in the best interest of the people.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/companies-call-on-senate-to-pass-bill-curbing-nsa-powers.html</url></story> |
13,687,811 | 13,687,705 | 1 | 3 | 13,686,793 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mankyd</author><text>Tell that to the 1000&#x27;s of people who can&#x27;t implement them.<p>I agree, its not that hard, but that&#x27;s all the more reason to avoid giving attitude about the question. Answer it quickly and move on. If you can&#x27;t answer it quickly, maybe it _is_ that complex.<p>A lot of interviewers have a short time window in which to conduct their 1-on-1. Sometimes they ask easy questions for a reason.<p>Often, I start with a soft ball that I intend on building on - turn a linked list into a doubly linked list; a circular list; can you improve the lookup time; can you make it generic; what are the space constraints; what are the time constraints.<p>And if they can&#x27;t answer the simple question, we just leave it at that.<p>A simple question can easily be built upon. &quot;I&#x27;d Google it&quot; can not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kppiskingpp</author><text>linked list is not complex for christ sake.</text></item><item><author>mankyd</author><text>I interviewed someone who gave responses akin to &quot;I&#x27;d Google it.&quot; When presssed, he did finally give some reasonable answers.<p>We ended up hiring him, as we&#x27;d interviewed 10 other candidates who&#x27;d failed at that point.<p>He ended up being a terrible employee.<p>Seriously, when someone asks you the details of a linked list, they&#x27;re not trying to find out if you will be able to use one specifically on the job. They&#x27;re trying to figure out if you know how to implement the details of a moderately tricky algorithm&#x2F;data structure.<p>I&#x27;ve never implemented a linked list for work, but I have implemented complex data structures and other analogous code. Implementing a linked list demonstrates that I paid attention to the basics and can reconstitute mildly complex algorithms when needed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Programming Interview from Hell</title><url>http://pythonforengineers.com/the-programming-interview-from-hell/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>base698</author><text>I think the original intent of the linked list question was to see if the candidate knew pointers. Implementing in a non pointer language would be trivial and definitely not complex.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kppiskingpp</author><text>linked list is not complex for christ sake.</text></item><item><author>mankyd</author><text>I interviewed someone who gave responses akin to &quot;I&#x27;d Google it.&quot; When presssed, he did finally give some reasonable answers.<p>We ended up hiring him, as we&#x27;d interviewed 10 other candidates who&#x27;d failed at that point.<p>He ended up being a terrible employee.<p>Seriously, when someone asks you the details of a linked list, they&#x27;re not trying to find out if you will be able to use one specifically on the job. They&#x27;re trying to figure out if you know how to implement the details of a moderately tricky algorithm&#x2F;data structure.<p>I&#x27;ve never implemented a linked list for work, but I have implemented complex data structures and other analogous code. Implementing a linked list demonstrates that I paid attention to the basics and can reconstitute mildly complex algorithms when needed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Programming Interview from Hell</title><url>http://pythonforengineers.com/the-programming-interview-from-hell/</url></story> |
30,521,615 | 30,520,853 | 1 | 3 | 30,517,049 | 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>gerdesj</author><text>&gt;&gt; I think I&#x27;m gonna call my mom.<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;Always a good plan, I highly recommend it. I think I will do the same. Treasure your loved ones, even when times are good it can change suddenly.<p>Absolutely. Now, I hope this does not come across as trite but I lost my mum to cancer in 1997. I was 27 at the time. It was hard, very hard as you&#x27;d expect. Time does heal but it takes a lot of time. I can still call my mum and she sometimes responds. Not literally - that&#x27;s mad. I can still remember her values and guidance.<p>That won&#x27;t be same for everyone because loss is personal and so is all experience. I&#x27;ve buried (in the loss sense, not mass murderer sense) quite a lot of relos and it is hard and part of life.<p>Whatever happens, you can always call your mum and she&#x27;ll always be there in some way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Much of my adult life was the same way. We used to talk about how great our family had it -- we went for decades without losing anyone close. We knew eventually our turn would come, but I treasured the time we did have.<p>But come it did, about 7 years ago. Since then I&#x27;ve lost two brothers, my dad, my grandparents, and my best friend. The trite &quot;fuck cancer&quot; statement comes to mind regularly. Another friend of mine has cancer, my mom has terminal cancer, my stepmother has cancer...<p>&gt; I think I&#x27;m gonna call my mom.<p>Always a good plan, I highly recommend it. I think I will do the same. Treasure your loved ones, even when times are good it can change suddenly.</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>I&#x27;m really lucky to where most of the people that I care a lot about are still alive, but I realize that that&#x27;s a finite luxury. Sooner or later either I or one of those people are going to die, and it&#x27;s going to be sad.<p>I think I&#x27;m gonna call my mom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zain Nadella, Satya Nadella's son, dies at 26</title><url>https://www.ibtimes.com/zain-nadella-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadellas-son-dies-26-3418278</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wnolens</author><text>The same has happened to me. It&#x27;s been almost every 1-2 years for the past 10 that I experience another great loss. Most recently was my mother. That one was&#x2F;still is tough.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Much of my adult life was the same way. We used to talk about how great our family had it -- we went for decades without losing anyone close. We knew eventually our turn would come, but I treasured the time we did have.<p>But come it did, about 7 years ago. Since then I&#x27;ve lost two brothers, my dad, my grandparents, and my best friend. The trite &quot;fuck cancer&quot; statement comes to mind regularly. Another friend of mine has cancer, my mom has terminal cancer, my stepmother has cancer...<p>&gt; I think I&#x27;m gonna call my mom.<p>Always a good plan, I highly recommend it. I think I will do the same. Treasure your loved ones, even when times are good it can change suddenly.</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>I&#x27;m really lucky to where most of the people that I care a lot about are still alive, but I realize that that&#x27;s a finite luxury. Sooner or later either I or one of those people are going to die, and it&#x27;s going to be sad.<p>I think I&#x27;m gonna call my mom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zain Nadella, Satya Nadella's son, dies at 26</title><url>https://www.ibtimes.com/zain-nadella-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadellas-son-dies-26-3418278</url></story> |
23,180,921 | 23,180,153 | 1 | 3 | 23,178,149 | 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>DavidVoid</author><text>This just reminded me of the most unusual switch I&#x27;ve ever heard of: Smith-Corona&#x27;s <i>acoustic</i> switch from the 80s.<p>There&#x27;s no per-switch sensor at all!<p>Instead, each key-press just results in one wide metal bar being hit.
And to figure out which key was pressed, there&#x27;s a sensor on the right and the left side which are used to calculate what key was pressed based on how long it took for the signal (i.e. vibration in the bar) to reach the left and right sensor.<p>It&#x27;s so clever and so ridiculous at the same time!<p>[1] Video presentation (Talk about acoustic switches starts at 1:46:00): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;AvszDsr1js8?t=6361" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;AvszDsr1js8?t=6361</a><p>[2] Slides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;1jfWpf8cABnH54yVjPIU3iECoH0aguMo6QFYJJptRous&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;1jfWpf8cABnH54yVjPIU3...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A unusual keyboard key switch</title><url>https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1260688848104771586</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Exmoor</author><text>Slightly more readable version:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;threadreaderapp.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;1260688848104771586.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;threadreaderapp.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;1260688848104771586.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A unusual keyboard key switch</title><url>https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1260688848104771586</url></story> |
4,190,620 | 4,187,991 | 1 | 2 | 4,187,628 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>__david__</author><text>A quick note:<p>&#62; INCS=-I./<p>This is generally a bad idea, unless you're explicitly trying to override #include &#60;stdio.h&#62; with a local file (and there are better ways to do that). &#60;&#62; are for system files, "" are for local files.<p>So off the bat, your makefile example is better than most makefiles out there. I still see things that look like some dumb IDE wrote them with explicit .d and x.c: x.o rules littered about.<p>Though I do note you aren't taking advantage of the built-in makefile rules (which are defined in POSIX), and you aren't taking advantage of gcc's -MMD flag, which does the dependencies during compilation instead of a separate step. That eliminates much of the file:<p><pre><code> LDLIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS+=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=-MMD
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
SRCS=$(wildcard *.c)
OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o)
EXECUTABLE=main
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXECUTABLE)
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDLIBS) -o $@ $^
-include *.d
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) *.d
</code></pre>
Furthermore, I like to name my objects explicitly instead of using * .c, which lets you order them on the command line, if you find that makes a difference. In particular, if your executable is named the same as one of your C source files then you don't even need the link line, as long as the C source file is the first dependency:<p><pre><code> LDLIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS+=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=-MMD
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
OBJS=main.o obj1.o obj2.o
.PHONY: all clean
all: main
main: $(OBJS)
-include *.d
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) *.d
</code></pre>
I tend to like to prefix variables with the thing you are making so that different executables in the same Makefile can have (drastically) different compilation parameters:<p><pre><code> .PHONY: all clean
all: main
main: LDLIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
main: CFLAGS+=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
main: CFLAGS+=-MMD
main: CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
main: CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
main: OBJS=main.o obj1.o obj2.o
main: $(OBJS)
-include *.d
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) *.d
</code></pre>
If you have an embedded project that needs both compiling and cross-compiling that trick can work wonders.</text><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>Thank you for a good article. Even I learned some new stuff. However, there was a major omission: automatic dependency generation. Every now and then I forget how it's done and try to find a good source on the net, but they're really scarce. On the other hand, there are tons of small "your first makefile" tutorials (this article is better than the average).<p>Here's my Makefile boilerplate. It build single executable from all .c files in this directory and scans for include file dependencies to properly cause recompilation when a header file is touched.<p><pre><code> INCS=-I./
LIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
SRCS=$(wildcard *.c)
OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o)
DEPS=$(SRCS:.c=.d)
EXECUTABLE=main
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXECUTABLE)
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@ $^
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $&#60;
%.d: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM -o $@ $&#60;
-include $(DEPS)
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) $(DEPS)
</code></pre>
If anyone has a better one (preferably with out-of-source build to put .d and .o files to a better place), please share it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU Make in Detail for Beginners</title><url>http://www.linuxforu.com/2012/06/gnu-make-in-detail-for-beginners/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thristian</author><text>I don't know about out-of-source building, but I know Make has a bunch of built-in rules that you can use to cut down your boilerplate.<p>For example, I'm pretty sure that a filename depending on objects will automatically be created by linking those objects (although you'd have to specify your libraries in LDFLAGS rather than LIBS. Also, your rule for building .o files from .c files would be automatic if you put your include-directives in CPPFLAGS instead of INCS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>Thank you for a good article. Even I learned some new stuff. However, there was a major omission: automatic dependency generation. Every now and then I forget how it's done and try to find a good source on the net, but they're really scarce. On the other hand, there are tons of small "your first makefile" tutorials (this article is better than the average).<p>Here's my Makefile boilerplate. It build single executable from all .c files in this directory and scans for include file dependencies to properly cause recompilation when a header file is touched.<p><pre><code> INCS=-I./
LIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
SRCS=$(wildcard *.c)
OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o)
DEPS=$(SRCS:.c=.d)
EXECUTABLE=main
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXECUTABLE)
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@ $^
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $&#60;
%.d: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM -o $@ $&#60;
-include $(DEPS)
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) $(DEPS)
</code></pre>
If anyone has a better one (preferably with out-of-source build to put .d and .o files to a better place), please share it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU Make in Detail for Beginners</title><url>http://www.linuxforu.com/2012/06/gnu-make-in-detail-for-beginners/</url></story> |
27,775,993 | 27,776,219 | 1 | 2 | 27,775,620 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>If the only ones allowed to emit net positive CO2 where those rich enough to afford private planes global warming wouldn&#x27;t be an issue because there are not enough of them.<p>It is still a evil corrupt practice to except the rich like this though. The same laws need to apply to everyone, which means my time on an airplane counts for as much as anyone else even though I can only afford to fly at all because I buy one seat on a commercial plane once in a while. Either everyone can&#x27;t fly, everyone can, or at least the same rules apply.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>That and it&#x27;s also the most wasteful use of fuel, because you&#x27;re lifting an entire jet and crew for more than likely a single rich jerk who feels too special to fly passenger jets like everyone else. On a carbon-per-person metric, private jets are <i>literally the worst</i>.</text></item><item><author>BelenusMordred</author><text>&gt; Private jets will enjoy an exemption through classification of &quot;business aviation&quot; as the use of aircraft by firms for carriage of passengers or goods as an &quot;aid to the conduct of their business&quot;, if generally considered not for public hire.<p>&gt; A further exemption is given for &quot;pleasure&quot; flights whereby an aircraft is used for &quot;personal or recreational&quot; purposes not associated with a business or professional use.<p>Surely they can afford it more than everyone else flying?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax</title><url>https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-private-jets-cargo-from-jet-fuel-tax</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avalys</author><text>Private jets are completely irrelevant to global warming because there are not enough of them.<p>They’re a convenient distraction from the problem that actually curbing global warming will require huge changes in the lifestyle of the global middle class. Not just the super-rich.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>That and it&#x27;s also the most wasteful use of fuel, because you&#x27;re lifting an entire jet and crew for more than likely a single rich jerk who feels too special to fly passenger jets like everyone else. On a carbon-per-person metric, private jets are <i>literally the worst</i>.</text></item><item><author>BelenusMordred</author><text>&gt; Private jets will enjoy an exemption through classification of &quot;business aviation&quot; as the use of aircraft by firms for carriage of passengers or goods as an &quot;aid to the conduct of their business&quot;, if generally considered not for public hire.<p>&gt; A further exemption is given for &quot;pleasure&quot; flights whereby an aircraft is used for &quot;personal or recreational&quot; purposes not associated with a business or professional use.<p>Surely they can afford it more than everyone else flying?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax</title><url>https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-private-jets-cargo-from-jet-fuel-tax</url></story> |
2,431,856 | 2,431,735 | 1 | 2 | 2,431,554 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Talent and potential are very subjective metrics -- I'm not sure YC gets the best candidates. They only get the best as judged by the pool accessible to them, and by their selection criteria.<p>That said, yc reject groups probably will suffer from a smaller talent pool (since they are indeed option B), and from a lack of experienced people to make a reasonably good selection.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phamilton</author><text>There was an article a month or two ago about the problems with tech accelerators gaining popularity.<p>I can't find the link but it basically said the accelerator bubble is going to happen when the secondary groups get the 'B' talent startups, and then the next groups get the 'C' talent...<p>While I have no idea about the quality of YC Reject groups, this does kinda have that same feel to it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YC Reject - We've been offered an investment to fund our Summer 2011 class</title><url>http://www.ycreject.com/2011/04/yc-reject-has-been-approached-with.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>allanscu</author><text>Even YC has always said that there were promising groups from those that did not make the cut. They've admitted that they aren't the best at picking winners. So you can't say that the A groups were better than the B groups. Many of the B groups (and even single co-founders) were just a victim of YC's rules and capacity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phamilton</author><text>There was an article a month or two ago about the problems with tech accelerators gaining popularity.<p>I can't find the link but it basically said the accelerator bubble is going to happen when the secondary groups get the 'B' talent startups, and then the next groups get the 'C' talent...<p>While I have no idea about the quality of YC Reject groups, this does kinda have that same feel to it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YC Reject - We've been offered an investment to fund our Summer 2011 class</title><url>http://www.ycreject.com/2011/04/yc-reject-has-been-approached-with.html</url><text></text></story> |
18,413,781 | 18,413,079 | 1 | 2 | 18,411,991 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcv</author><text>I used to be strongly opposed to nuclear energy, but I now see that as a mistake. I&#x27;m still no fan; nuclear has inherent dangers, and nuclear waste is a massive problem.<p>But global warming is a far bigger problem, which poses far larger threats to the world. We should do whatever it takes to cut back on CO2. We shouldn&#x27;t be having any coal plants anymore. Everything is better than continuing to burn coal and oil, and that includes nuclear.<p>I don&#x27;t see nuclear as a definitive energy source for the next thousand years, but I think we need it as a transitional energy source while we take coal offline and continue to invest in solar, wind, and energy storage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>piokoch</author><text>For years Greenpeace and other &quot;eco&quot; organizations were fighting nuclear energy and now we have what we have. I understand that using solar or wind sounds sweet and in some places on the Earth it might even make some sense if we learn some day how to efficiently store energy. But we need something that works regardless on the weather.<p>Nuclear energy does not comes for free, there are nuclear wastes, but the dangers and difficulties were greatly overblown in the course of anti-nuclear propaganda.<p>I believe we can find the way to reuse nuclear wastes - my guess is that nobody was doing serious research in this area since being &quot;pro&quot; nuclear was not fashionable (and it is still not in many places).</text></item><item><author>nukemandan</author><text>Love this. Close to my heart - Nuclear power is key to making a clean, reliable, safe, and robusts electrical grid. Plus - this is the only realistic way _right now_ to phase out fossil fuels!<p>Great advancements to keep an eye on:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;ne&#x2F;nuclear-reactor-technologies&#x2F;small-modular-nuclear-reactors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;ne&#x2F;nuclear-reactor-technologies&#x2F;small...</a><p>Specifically Molten Salt (Liquid Floride) Thorium Breeder reactors are my personal favorite technology I hope to see come around!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...</a><p>Great place to start: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA</a><p>Great videos to follow: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;gordonmcdowell&#x2F;featured" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;gordonmcdowell&#x2F;featured</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-we-need-innovative-nuclear-power/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walkingolof</author><text>&gt;but the dangers and difficulties were greatly overblown in the course of anti-nuclear propaganda.<p>The nuclear waste generation is a _HUGE_ problem, the problem is so big that very few (if any) country really know how to solve it, look a the US for example as a really frightening example of an out of control waste problem, both from civil and military sources...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radioactive_waste#Long_term_management" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radioactive_waste#Long_term_ma...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>piokoch</author><text>For years Greenpeace and other &quot;eco&quot; organizations were fighting nuclear energy and now we have what we have. I understand that using solar or wind sounds sweet and in some places on the Earth it might even make some sense if we learn some day how to efficiently store energy. But we need something that works regardless on the weather.<p>Nuclear energy does not comes for free, there are nuclear wastes, but the dangers and difficulties were greatly overblown in the course of anti-nuclear propaganda.<p>I believe we can find the way to reuse nuclear wastes - my guess is that nobody was doing serious research in this area since being &quot;pro&quot; nuclear was not fashionable (and it is still not in many places).</text></item><item><author>nukemandan</author><text>Love this. Close to my heart - Nuclear power is key to making a clean, reliable, safe, and robusts electrical grid. Plus - this is the only realistic way _right now_ to phase out fossil fuels!<p>Great advancements to keep an eye on:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;ne&#x2F;nuclear-reactor-technologies&#x2F;small-modular-nuclear-reactors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;ne&#x2F;nuclear-reactor-technologies&#x2F;small...</a><p>Specifically Molten Salt (Liquid Floride) Thorium Breeder reactors are my personal favorite technology I hope to see come around!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...</a><p>Great place to start: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA</a><p>Great videos to follow: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;gordonmcdowell&#x2F;featured" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;gordonmcdowell&#x2F;featured</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-we-need-innovative-nuclear-power/</url></story> |
35,106,273 | 35,106,310 | 1 | 2 | 35,105,528 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robalni</author><text>I used to like to rewrite code that I thought was &quot;ugly&quot; because it was not written in the modern way or it was not very generic or whatever.
I thought that doing that was often pretty easy so I thought &quot;why has no one done this already?&quot;<p>Later I realized that the fact that it was easy to change was what made it good and the changes I wanted to make to it would probably just make it more complicated.<p>That&#x27;s the danger; good code is easy to change so it will easily get rewritten until it&#x27;s not easy to change anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkolaczk</author><text>It is debatable if Clean Code actually improves the programmer efficiency and programs readability. I find people applying it religiously often create over-complex designs like FizzBuzz Enterprise.<p>Even Uncle Bob&#x27;s examples are not the state of the art in readability:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;clean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;clean</a><p>The main problem seems to be that Clean Code is mostly a premature optimisation in code flexibility. It makes code more complex and objectively worse in hope it would be easier to extend later. Unfortunately we often dont know how the code will change, and in practice the code has to be significantly changed&#x2F;rewritten anyway when a business requirement change appears.<p>IMHO optimizing for simplicity and readability has served me the best. Instead of avoiding the changes in code, it is better to write code so obvious that anyone can safely and easily change it when really needed.<p>And finally, performance of the program vs performance of the developer is a false dichotomy. So many times I&#x27;ve seen a more readable, simpler code turned out to be more efficient as well. You often can have both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion</title><url>https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/cleancodeqa.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>wirrbel</author><text>Robert C Martin&#x27;s (who is not my uncle) Clean Code book&#x2F;advice is what I would call junior programmer material. Its good to get someone started to think about better ways of writing software (albeit is hasn&#x27;t aged very well).<p>I don&#x27;t recommend it to juniors anymore because it hasn&#x27;t aged well and is for my taste hyperbolic in its promises.<p>IMHO clean code also is more focused on code implementing &quot;business logic&quot; than &quot;systems programming&quot; for example (probably a bit tricky to actually define what the difference is between these too).</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkolaczk</author><text>It is debatable if Clean Code actually improves the programmer efficiency and programs readability. I find people applying it religiously often create over-complex designs like FizzBuzz Enterprise.<p>Even Uncle Bob&#x27;s examples are not the state of the art in readability:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;clean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;clean</a><p>The main problem seems to be that Clean Code is mostly a premature optimisation in code flexibility. It makes code more complex and objectively worse in hope it would be easier to extend later. Unfortunately we often dont know how the code will change, and in practice the code has to be significantly changed&#x2F;rewritten anyway when a business requirement change appears.<p>IMHO optimizing for simplicity and readability has served me the best. Instead of avoiding the changes in code, it is better to write code so obvious that anyone can safely and easily change it when really needed.<p>And finally, performance of the program vs performance of the developer is a false dichotomy. So many times I&#x27;ve seen a more readable, simpler code turned out to be more efficient as well. You often can have both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion</title><url>https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/cleancodeqa.md</url></story> |
26,604,604 | 26,604,617 | 1 | 2 | 26,603,464 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brtkdotse</author><text>Not quite, it depend where the carbon forming the CO2 comes from. Carbon extracted from sewage is already in the carbon cycle giving a net 0 carbon when burned. Extracting and burning fossile carbon ADDS carbon to the cycle, hence the problem</text><parent_chain><item><author>loeg</author><text>Either? The problem is that combusting it produces CO₂.</text></item><item><author>brtkdotse</author><text>Natural gas or biogas? Same gas but the first is fossil while the other is made from fermenting sewage and hence renewable</text></item><item><author>jdsully</author><text>Crazy they were able to label natural gas as “sustainable” but nuclear just barely squeaked in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-regulations-finance/eu-experts-to-say-nuclear-power-qualifies-for-green-investment-label-document-idUSKBN2BJ0F0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hedora</author><text>If the CO2 was recently extracted from the atmosphere, then burning the gas is carbon neutral.<p>It might be more thermodynamically favorable to use the gas as input to a carbon capture process. Even if that is the case, bootstrapping a market for biogas will lower the cost of biogas. In turn, that will lower the cost of biogas-based carbon sequestration.</text><parent_chain><item><author>loeg</author><text>Either? The problem is that combusting it produces CO₂.</text></item><item><author>brtkdotse</author><text>Natural gas or biogas? Same gas but the first is fossil while the other is made from fermenting sewage and hence renewable</text></item><item><author>jdsully</author><text>Crazy they were able to label natural gas as “sustainable” but nuclear just barely squeaked in.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-regulations-finance/eu-experts-to-say-nuclear-power-qualifies-for-green-investment-label-document-idUSKBN2BJ0F0</url></story> |
35,392,195 | 35,390,986 | 1 | 2 | 35,389,915 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taylodl</author><text>Commercial Real Estate is a completely different animal than residential real estate. Yes, you can mortgage commercial properties but the downpayment requirements are <i>significantly</i> higher and the term of the loan is <i>significantly</i> shorter.<p>Most of the entities on the hook for paying back the bank are commercial real estate development firms. As such they often have a mixed portfolio of residential (think apartments), office, retail, and entertainment properties. Offices are further divided into small business, professional services (doctors, dentist), and general office space. Unless their portfolio is extremely focused and not diversified, then they&#x27;ll be alright.<p>Fortune 500 companies also aren&#x27;t letting go of their iconic office buildings, as the building itself is an icon for the company.<p>Given all these factors, I think the idea that commercial real estate is going to crash and burn and that the banks are going to be left holding the bag are being quite a bit overblown.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0xADADA</author><text>Banks also have a <i>MASSIVE</i> amount of CRE Commercial Real Estate (office buildings) that are completely empty, without lease payments flowing in, and since COVID-19 has shifted knowledge work to remote-first in many cities, these office will be empty for a long time.<p>The CRE bubble is going to burst in the next 18 months as the 5-year commercial office leases signed in 2017+ are all going to come to an end, and the banks will be realizing these losses starting now and the next few years. Its going to get ugly soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US banks have $620B of unrealized losses on their books</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-svb-exposed-risks-banks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gumby</author><text>This is right on, and I normally roll my eyes at comments that single factor X means we’re all doomed.<p>But the looming CRE crisis isn’t making it into the mainstream consciousness, even though its big driver (WFH and its ramified impact) <i>is</i> being well reported on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0xADADA</author><text>Banks also have a <i>MASSIVE</i> amount of CRE Commercial Real Estate (office buildings) that are completely empty, without lease payments flowing in, and since COVID-19 has shifted knowledge work to remote-first in many cities, these office will be empty for a long time.<p>The CRE bubble is going to burst in the next 18 months as the 5-year commercial office leases signed in 2017+ are all going to come to an end, and the banks will be realizing these losses starting now and the next few years. Its going to get ugly soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US banks have $620B of unrealized losses on their books</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-svb-exposed-risks-banks/</url></story> |
40,009,978 | 40,010,028 | 1 | 2 | 40,004,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toast0</author><text>You don&#x27;t need that much tech. When the second copy of a boarding pass scans, you double check with that person, maybe there&#x27;s a good reason (scanned pass, but had to leave the line for some reason). If it doesn&#x27;t make sense, ask the flight attendants to audit seats. Also summon security.<p>The suspect is on the plane and can&#x27;t easily leave, presuming the real passenger is the one who presents second.</text><parent_chain><item><author>waltbosz</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought up this exact scam before while standing in line to board a flight and watching people being cavalier with their boarding passes.<p>I suspect others have successfully pulled it off before and this guy was the first to get caught because of a full flight.<p>My back seat driver solution: have cameras that takes a picture of the person presenting the boarding pass, the shutter is triggered by the pass scanner. If a pass is scanned twice, bring up the photo of the person who scanned it the first time and grab them. But it&#x27;s a whole lot of tech to solve a problem that probably rarely happens.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught</title><url>https://onemileatatime.com/news/man-creatively-sneaks-onto-delta-flight/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>occamrazor</author><text>On all flights I have taken the flight attendants count the passengers on board before taxiing and check the lavatories. This method wouldn&#x27;t have worked even with available free seats.</text><parent_chain><item><author>waltbosz</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought up this exact scam before while standing in line to board a flight and watching people being cavalier with their boarding passes.<p>I suspect others have successfully pulled it off before and this guy was the first to get caught because of a full flight.<p>My back seat driver solution: have cameras that takes a picture of the person presenting the boarding pass, the shutter is triggered by the pass scanner. If a pass is scanned twice, bring up the photo of the person who scanned it the first time and grab them. But it&#x27;s a whole lot of tech to solve a problem that probably rarely happens.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught</title><url>https://onemileatatime.com/news/man-creatively-sneaks-onto-delta-flight/</url></story> |
24,360,987 | 24,361,006 | 1 | 3 | 24,359,650 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>The paradigm that Go uses only fits a very narrow case of concurrency, and actually it is quite old.<p>Modula-2, Concurrent Pascal, Active Oberon already had similar constructs.<p>Async&#x2F;await are configurable, not only can you replace the task scheduler algorithms, if the type being applied on does provide some magic methods, the runtime will use them instead of the default ones.<p>This allows for very powerful concurrency optimizations and workflows, that still look like plain async&#x2F;await calls.</text><parent_chain><item><author>naikrovek</author><text>Hmm, I don&#x27;t know. I had this limited concurrency issue on the first Go program I ever wrote, and I&#x27;m very new to concurrent stuff, certainly if you only count the past ten years or so.<p>I figured this out in Go about 30 minutes after I realized I needed to limit concurrency, and I&#x27;m a dumbass, basically.<p>So, I&#x27;m not sure that &quot;still not easy&quot; is accurate, especially given that I have a lot of trouble conceptualizing async and await, as used in C#. In fact, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever successfully used that paradigm in C#. I&#x27;ve been told that C# async and await are &quot;easy&quot; and this article says Go concurrency is &quot;still not easy&quot; and I&#x27;ve had the exact opposite experience in both cases.<p>In fact I really don&#x27;t understand why async and await is even a thing anymore, given the paradigm that Go uses and the example it sets. It is almost supernatural in its ease, for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoConcurrencyStillNotEasy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jshen</author><text>I’ll bet your Go code, if it isn’t trivial, has race conditions all over and you just don’t realize it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>naikrovek</author><text>Hmm, I don&#x27;t know. I had this limited concurrency issue on the first Go program I ever wrote, and I&#x27;m very new to concurrent stuff, certainly if you only count the past ten years or so.<p>I figured this out in Go about 30 minutes after I realized I needed to limit concurrency, and I&#x27;m a dumbass, basically.<p>So, I&#x27;m not sure that &quot;still not easy&quot; is accurate, especially given that I have a lot of trouble conceptualizing async and await, as used in C#. In fact, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever successfully used that paradigm in C#. I&#x27;ve been told that C# async and await are &quot;easy&quot; and this article says Go concurrency is &quot;still not easy&quot; and I&#x27;ve had the exact opposite experience in both cases.<p>In fact I really don&#x27;t understand why async and await is even a thing anymore, given the paradigm that Go uses and the example it sets. It is almost supernatural in its ease, for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoConcurrencyStillNotEasy</url></story> |
6,636,672 | 6,636,790 | 1 | 3 | 6,636,303 | train | <instructions>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>It&#x27;s bizarrely worded, yes. I think what they&#x27;re trying to say is it&#x27;s a planetary system very similar to the Solar system. Announcing it as a new &quot;planetary system&quot; would sound much less dramatic, since we&#x27;ve cataloged more than 700 of those.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nezumi</author><text>Hang on, I thought &#x27;Solar system&#x27; means the system orbiting the star &#x27;Sol&#x27; i.e. our sun? Isn&#x27;t the general term &#x27;planetary system&#x27;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seven-Planet System Detected</title><url>http://livasperiklis.com/2013/10/29/httpwp-mep29tmj-53u/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doctoboggan</author><text>I usually hear them referred to as stellar systems. But like my sibling comment said, they are trying to say this stellar system is a second &quot;solar system&quot; due to its similarities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nezumi</author><text>Hang on, I thought &#x27;Solar system&#x27; means the system orbiting the star &#x27;Sol&#x27; i.e. our sun? Isn&#x27;t the general term &#x27;planetary system&#x27;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seven-Planet System Detected</title><url>http://livasperiklis.com/2013/10/29/httpwp-mep29tmj-53u/</url></story> |
15,316,867 | 15,316,884 | 1 | 2 | 15,316,348 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gshulegaard</author><text>Just an anecdote, but joining a fraternity drastically improved my social skills...and I personally believe these skills are fundamental when it comes to being successful in the work force. Not because being in a fraternity made me a member of a elite alumni group that excludes others, but because it allows me to be a more effective team member.<p>I have not doubt that I would be far less successful if I was as socially self-isolating as I was in high school. Not just successful as far as career trajectory, but just a less effective contributor. Most jobs require team efforts...which require social skills to navigate politely and effectively.<p>It is from this perspective I find the original conclusion more reserved and purely based on observed correlations, while the second infers much (regarding causation).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Steko</author><text>Kevin Drum notes it&#x27;s a weak result but if true, wonders if the authors draw the right conclusions:<p><i>suppose it’s true. Here’s what the authors say:</i><p><i>Our results indicate that college administrators face an important trade-off when they consider policies designed to limit fraternity life on campus: while such policies may significantly raise academic performance, these gains may come at a significant cost in terms of expected future income for their graduates.</i><p><i>I’d argue exactly the opposite: ... Allow me to reframe the authors’ conclusion:</i><p><i>Our results provide empirical evidence that fraternities are just another way for social elites to keep themselves at the top regardless of actual performance. Those rejected by fraternities, even though they have higher GPAs, earn 36 percent less than those accepted by fraternities. This is further evidence, if any were needed, that college administrators face few trade-offs when they consider policies designed to limit fraternity life on campus.</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;kevin-drum&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;new-report-fraternities-help-mediocrities-succeed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;kevin-drum&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;new-report-fra...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763720</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>Or, maybe, there&#x27;s a difference between getting a good grade in the class, inside strictly controlled academic environment shaped by the college administration, and the real world where one has to deal with chaotic conditions of real life and social environments rarely covered by academic curriculum. And fraternity life improves social skills, and gives people tools that can make them successful outside of the strict conformance to the rules prescribed by the academy. And limiting access to those tools would only make future graduates less fit to meet the challenges of the open market.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Steko</author><text>Kevin Drum notes it&#x27;s a weak result but if true, wonders if the authors draw the right conclusions:<p><i>suppose it’s true. Here’s what the authors say:</i><p><i>Our results indicate that college administrators face an important trade-off when they consider policies designed to limit fraternity life on campus: while such policies may significantly raise academic performance, these gains may come at a significant cost in terms of expected future income for their graduates.</i><p><i>I’d argue exactly the opposite: ... Allow me to reframe the authors’ conclusion:</i><p><i>Our results provide empirical evidence that fraternities are just another way for social elites to keep themselves at the top regardless of actual performance. Those rejected by fraternities, even though they have higher GPAs, earn 36 percent less than those accepted by fraternities. This is further evidence, if any were needed, that college administrators face few trade-offs when they consider policies designed to limit fraternity life on campus.</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;kevin-drum&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;new-report-fraternities-help-mediocrities-succeed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;kevin-drum&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;new-report-fra...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763720</url></story> |
21,701,930 | 21,700,696 | 1 | 2 | 21,691,622 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mauvehaus</author><text>While we&#x27;re on the subject of gin:<p>A martini is comprised of gin, vermouth and between 0 and 3 olives.<p>If there is no vermouth it isn&#x27;t a &quot;bone dry martini&quot;. It&#x27;s just &quot;a glass of cold gin&quot;.<p>The modifiers &quot;perfect&quot; and &quot;dirty&quot; are also permissible when applied to to a martini.<p>If it&#x27;s made with vodka, not gin, it&#x27;s a vodka martini.<p>Other concoctions served in a cocktail glass are just cocktails. Which are fine, but please don&#x27;t co-opt the name &quot;martini&quot; because it sounds cosmopolitan.<p>Wait.<p>Shit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Intoxicating History of Gin</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/the-intoxicating-history-of-gin</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandGorgon</author><text>&gt;<i>From the outset, it was laced with memories, or myths, of imperial rule; what Schweppes first sold in 1870 was not just tonic water but “Indian Tonic Water,” and today, though besieged by an army of Fever-Tree tonics, it still holds considerable sway. The water is tonic because it contains quinine, which is anti-malarial—a lifesaver, if you happen to be invading or infesting a marshy foreign land. </i><p>Oh yes - gin and tonic should be rightfully considered India&#x27;s national drink. Its what the British had to invent to not die.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Intoxicating History of Gin</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/the-intoxicating-history-of-gin</url></story> |
32,867,925 | 32,868,007 | 1 | 2 | 32,866,481 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcintyre1994</author><text>&gt; In the UK the mainstream (serious) news has been fairly reliant on reporting based on estimated troop movements illustrated by video so there hasn&#x27;t been too much potential for egregious nonsense.<p>I&#x27;d agree with this. The BBC&#x27;s Ukrainecast podcast seems to be very conservative here as an example. I don&#x27;t listen all the time, but when I do it reports things as new days behind OSINT sources. And they&#x27;re always very clear about what they can and can&#x27;t independently verify, and specifically call out when Ukrainians are stopping journalists getting places to verify their claims.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mhh__</author><text>It&#x27;s obviously better if people always look at things with a sceptical eye but it isn&#x27;t weird to me people want to support the Ukrainians.<p>Pair the narrative of the smaller country being invaded by the belligerent dictator next door with (in my case) a country where Russia is already unpopular due to various assassinations, sabre-rattling, and so on, its not hard to understand the current balance of<p>In the UK the mainstream (serious) news has been fairly reliant on reporting based on estimated troop movements illustrated by video so there hasn&#x27;t been too much potential for egregious nonsense.<p>In my obviously biased view the thing that worries me is actually people (knowingly, twitter promotes a fairly distorted presentation of ones true feelings) swallowing Russian propaganda hook line and sinker out of a fairly boring contrarianism.<p>It is easy to imagine the debates in the neutral (or less than neutral) countries of past historical conflicts - you can make your own mind up about how those debates would go, but this conflict (paired with such easy access to differing opinion) seems to be a great source of material.<p>Contrarianism is often a very important thing to have in society, make no mistake, but many would benefit (and perhaps internally do, who knows) from being contrarian against their own beliefs, even just for a little time a day - this goes for both sides of this conflict although I won&#x27;t pussyfoot by saying that both sides are in some way the same.</text></item><item><author>unsupp0rted</author><text>Reddit is weirdly overflowing with pro Ukraine propaganda and people don&#x27;t seem to notice.<p>Any even <i>neutral</i> story about Russia brings out vitriol about how obvious Russia&#x27;s propaganda is.<p>But somehow they miss the same effect when the story is pro-Ukraine, no matter who the sources are, how unlikely the content is to be true, etc.<p>This was to be expected in the first months of the war, but after so many months of a steady diet of propaganda that doesn&#x27;t turn out to be true, somehow Redditors still take it at face value.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine</title><url>https://theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukraine-war-bots-90-pro-ukraine-finds-new-study/1114878/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mistrial9</author><text>I think there is a false-dichotomy presented here.. a choice is not &quot;believe big govt (mine) versus big govt (theirs)&quot; to be contrarian. There is another avenue and that is to listen to your own sense of right and wrong, up to and including questioning the authority of your own govt, of &quot;their&quot; govt, giving voice to the voiceless like minority social elements, the elderly, the agrarian, the less-educated locals with cultural affinity, religious voices.. etc.<p>The media products of mass mobilized military societies have some similarity with each other, when viewed this way, despite being &quot;at war&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mhh__</author><text>It&#x27;s obviously better if people always look at things with a sceptical eye but it isn&#x27;t weird to me people want to support the Ukrainians.<p>Pair the narrative of the smaller country being invaded by the belligerent dictator next door with (in my case) a country where Russia is already unpopular due to various assassinations, sabre-rattling, and so on, its not hard to understand the current balance of<p>In the UK the mainstream (serious) news has been fairly reliant on reporting based on estimated troop movements illustrated by video so there hasn&#x27;t been too much potential for egregious nonsense.<p>In my obviously biased view the thing that worries me is actually people (knowingly, twitter promotes a fairly distorted presentation of ones true feelings) swallowing Russian propaganda hook line and sinker out of a fairly boring contrarianism.<p>It is easy to imagine the debates in the neutral (or less than neutral) countries of past historical conflicts - you can make your own mind up about how those debates would go, but this conflict (paired with such easy access to differing opinion) seems to be a great source of material.<p>Contrarianism is often a very important thing to have in society, make no mistake, but many would benefit (and perhaps internally do, who knows) from being contrarian against their own beliefs, even just for a little time a day - this goes for both sides of this conflict although I won&#x27;t pussyfoot by saying that both sides are in some way the same.</text></item><item><author>unsupp0rted</author><text>Reddit is weirdly overflowing with pro Ukraine propaganda and people don&#x27;t seem to notice.<p>Any even <i>neutral</i> story about Russia brings out vitriol about how obvious Russia&#x27;s propaganda is.<p>But somehow they miss the same effect when the story is pro-Ukraine, no matter who the sources are, how unlikely the content is to be true, etc.<p>This was to be expected in the first months of the war, but after so many months of a steady diet of propaganda that doesn&#x27;t turn out to be true, somehow Redditors still take it at face value.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine</title><url>https://theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukraine-war-bots-90-pro-ukraine-finds-new-study/1114878/</url></story> |
14,815,461 | 14,814,612 | 1 | 2 | 14,814,007 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sorenbs</author><text>There are basically two approaches to this issue:<p>0) Do nothing<p>If you are just prototyping, you should do the simplest thing that could possibly work. (But this is not a real solution, so I won&#x27;t count it)<p>2) Request Batching<p>This approach is popularised by Facebooks Dataloader library <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;dataloader" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;dataloader</a>
Instead of directly querying the database in the resolver, you return a specification of what data you are interested in. When all resolvers on the same level in the query has returned this specification, the Dataloader library figures out how to batch queries together as much as possible<p>3) Big Join<p>You can inspect the GraphQL query in the top level resolver and basically perform one giant join up front. You will then pass the entire value down your resolve hierarchy, and all they have to do is pick out the correct data from the complete result set. Take a look at join-monster if you are interested in this approach.<p>The Graphcool hosted backend is serving millions of requests an hour using the Dataloader approach, and we have found this to be more flexible and more performant at scale than generating a big complex join up front.<p>For most queries we see single digit millisecond response time for a batched query, and the time complexity scales linearly with the depth of the query, which is not the case for joins.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danr4</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t find if Apollo solves the database round trips issue with GraphQL (the joins&#x2F;n+1 problem). Can anybody shed a light on it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apollo Server 1.0 – GraphQL Server for Node.js Frameworks</title><url>https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-server-1-0-a-graphql-server-for-all-node-js-frameworks-2b37d3342f7c</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tylerbainbridge</author><text>It does not-- we&#x27;ve been using graphql intensively with relationship-heavy graph data and join-monster seems handle this gracefully.<p>join-monster.readthedocs.io</text><parent_chain><item><author>danr4</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t find if Apollo solves the database round trips issue with GraphQL (the joins&#x2F;n+1 problem). Can anybody shed a light on it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apollo Server 1.0 – GraphQL Server for Node.js Frameworks</title><url>https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-server-1-0-a-graphql-server-for-all-node-js-frameworks-2b37d3342f7c</url></story> |
22,464,812 | 22,464,579 | 1 | 3 | 22,463,769 | train | <instructions>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; A more under-valued takeaway than &quot;charge more&quot; would be &quot;the power of free&quot;. Adam built a massive following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.<p>Agreed. $500K in 3 days sounds like a sudden windfall, but Adam has spent a long time and a lot of effort building a quality product and a quality following.<p>&gt; I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if somebody with a user name ending in eleven showed up saying &quot;charge more&quot;, but I believe that rallying cry has already pretty thoroughly saturated HN and the bootstrapper world in general.<p>These &quot;charge more&quot; success stories are a prime example of survivorship bias. We never hear about the bootstrappers or freelancers who charged too much for too little and lost their clients. Furthermore, it undermines from the amount of effort that successful bootstrappers invested before they reach success. Frankly, it feels like the &quot;charge more&quot; crowd is trying to downplay the effort of founders and replace it with their own &quot;one cool trick&quot; bit of guru wisdom.<p>Locally, I&#x27;ve seen a lot of beginner freelancers and bootstrappers put the cart before the horse with &quot;charge more&quot; before they have a quality product&#x2F;service.<p>Charging premium prices for premium products makes sense. Charging premium prices for mediocre work will build the wrong type of reputation very quickly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting a bit about how he was so successful. I don&#x27;t believe it was the pricing. He&#x27;s selling two modules at $149 each or a bundle with both for $249, which is fairly typical.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if somebody with a user name ending in eleven showed up saying &quot;charge more&quot;, but I believe that rallying cry has already pretty thoroughly saturated HN and the bootstrapper world in general.<p>So much so, that most of us are blind to what actually does differentiate Adam and leads to his success.<p>A more under-valued takeaway than &quot;charge more&quot; would be &quot;the power of free&quot;. Adam built a <i>massive</i> following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.<p>During his <i>excellent</i> interview with csallen on IH[1], he described this practice of helping people for free as a &quot;spring&quot; that he was pushing down on. When he finally sold something, that stored commercial energy was released!<p>Each cycle he&#x27;s pressed the spring down harder and longer.<p>His earlier courses came together relatively quickly. His design book was started on the back of a longer free campaign of tidbits on his blog and twitter. This time, he started by building Tailwind CSS into a top-notch open source library with extraordinary growth for multiple years before he monetized it with Tailwind UI.<p>1) It was csallen&#x27;s helpful post on IH that sparked me into disagreement to write this one! See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;adam-wathan-just-made-500k-in-3-days-from-his-new-product-603feefe61" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;adam-wathan-just-made-500k...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tailwind UI has made over $500k in sales in its first three days</title><url>https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1233517884619546631</url><text>Adam&#x27;s tweet -&gt; https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;adamwathan&#x2F;status&#x2F;1233517884619546631<p>Tailwind UI is a library of responsive HTML components, built using Adam&#x27;s framework Tailwind CSS. It&#x27;s only been selling in early access for three days!</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>dominotw</author><text>&gt; Adam built a massive following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.<p>Just a counterpoint. I had never heard of tailwind before it front page of HN couple of weeks ago. I bought it because it looked pretty and I need to revamp one of my sites. And yea price point was super attractive to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting a bit about how he was so successful. I don&#x27;t believe it was the pricing. He&#x27;s selling two modules at $149 each or a bundle with both for $249, which is fairly typical.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if somebody with a user name ending in eleven showed up saying &quot;charge more&quot;, but I believe that rallying cry has already pretty thoroughly saturated HN and the bootstrapper world in general.<p>So much so, that most of us are blind to what actually does differentiate Adam and leads to his success.<p>A more under-valued takeaway than &quot;charge more&quot; would be &quot;the power of free&quot;. Adam built a <i>massive</i> following by giving devs what they wanted for free while contracting. This ranged from sharing countless useful tips on Twitter to blogging and then later podcasting.<p>During his <i>excellent</i> interview with csallen on IH[1], he described this practice of helping people for free as a &quot;spring&quot; that he was pushing down on. When he finally sold something, that stored commercial energy was released!<p>Each cycle he&#x27;s pressed the spring down harder and longer.<p>His earlier courses came together relatively quickly. His design book was started on the back of a longer free campaign of tidbits on his blog and twitter. This time, he started by building Tailwind CSS into a top-notch open source library with extraordinary growth for multiple years before he monetized it with Tailwind UI.<p>1) It was csallen&#x27;s helpful post on IH that sparked me into disagreement to write this one! See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;adam-wathan-just-made-500k-in-3-days-from-his-new-product-603feefe61" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;adam-wathan-just-made-500k...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tailwind UI has made over $500k in sales in its first three days</title><url>https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1233517884619546631</url><text>Adam&#x27;s tweet -&gt; https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;adamwathan&#x2F;status&#x2F;1233517884619546631<p>Tailwind UI is a library of responsive HTML components, built using Adam&#x27;s framework Tailwind CSS. It&#x27;s only been selling in early access for three days!</text></story> |
26,327,961 | 26,327,900 | 1 | 2 | 26,326,795 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>He has been punished for his wrong doing, which had nothing to do with DNS. The least ICANN could do it tell Sunde exactly what they are affaird he’ll do to misuse an accreditation. Some one with an accreditation sold Sunde and team piratebay.org, so they can’t be worried that he’ll register a ton of pirate domains, he can easily get those elsewhere.<p>People shouldn’t be punished for life, especially not by excluding them from areas that are completely unrelated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>I have no ill will against Sunde, I have used Piratebay from the start.<p>But denying application because you have a conviction is completely fair and expected. They have that box in the application for reason.<p>Sunde choose pirate life. Crying about how you can&#x27;t be respected businessman and convicted pirate is just pathetic.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>Sunde understands the value of propaganda, so it&#x27;s fairly obvious he expected this outcome. He wanted to highlight the undemocratic and corrupt nature of one of the most critical parts of our global infrastructure, and he did it.<p>Ironically, this was a better proof of transparency than what most &quot;problematic&quot; people would subject themselves to. If any vanilla oligarch wanted to be in those circles, he would just pay some squeaky-clean individual to be his stooge, and then make it known, after registration, who the real power is. Sunde could have configured himself as a freelance consultant to his friends, and he would not have appeared on any radar. This would have made his business work, but it would not have advanced the perennial conversation about ICANN&#x27;s <i>original sins</i>, which have become more and more untolerable with the years.<p>ICANN were pretty stupid to just veto his admission. That&#x27;s not how you deal with institutional critics. They could have simply brought him in, then informally and formally vetoed anything he wanted to do. They have experience with people who tried to blow up things &quot;from inside&quot; in the past, so clearly they&#x27;ve developed countermeasures ready for that scenario. Or they could have given him something, enough to behold him, so he&#x27;d have an incentive to stay in the tent and piss outside rather than the other way around.<p>This attitude proved Sunde is fundamentally right on the subject matter, like him or not as a person.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/icann-refuses-to-accredit-pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-due-to-his-background-210303/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hvdijk</author><text>They don&#x27;t have &quot;that&quot; box in the application (whether you have a conviction). They have a different box in the application (whether you have a conviction for fraud or similar) that according to the story, ICANN agree Sunde did not need to check.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>I have no ill will against Sunde, I have used Piratebay from the start.<p>But denying application because you have a conviction is completely fair and expected. They have that box in the application for reason.<p>Sunde choose pirate life. Crying about how you can&#x27;t be respected businessman and convicted pirate is just pathetic.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>Sunde understands the value of propaganda, so it&#x27;s fairly obvious he expected this outcome. He wanted to highlight the undemocratic and corrupt nature of one of the most critical parts of our global infrastructure, and he did it.<p>Ironically, this was a better proof of transparency than what most &quot;problematic&quot; people would subject themselves to. If any vanilla oligarch wanted to be in those circles, he would just pay some squeaky-clean individual to be his stooge, and then make it known, after registration, who the real power is. Sunde could have configured himself as a freelance consultant to his friends, and he would not have appeared on any radar. This would have made his business work, but it would not have advanced the perennial conversation about ICANN&#x27;s <i>original sins</i>, which have become more and more untolerable with the years.<p>ICANN were pretty stupid to just veto his admission. That&#x27;s not how you deal with institutional critics. They could have simply brought him in, then informally and formally vetoed anything he wanted to do. They have experience with people who tried to blow up things &quot;from inside&quot; in the past, so clearly they&#x27;ve developed countermeasures ready for that scenario. Or they could have given him something, enough to behold him, so he&#x27;d have an incentive to stay in the tent and piss outside rather than the other way around.<p>This attitude proved Sunde is fundamentally right on the subject matter, like him or not as a person.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/icann-refuses-to-accredit-pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-due-to-his-background-210303/</url></story> |
27,982,042 | 27,977,642 | 1 | 2 | 27,975,519 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oxinabox</author><text>I think particular nice thing about this is that it is a bundle of nice libraries integrated together well, with nice docs.
Those libraries in turn also break down into other nice libraries and so forth (but many don&#x27;t have does quite this nice) because that is how Julia is.<p>I can&#x27;t seem myself ever using FastAI.jl (though I am sure many will).
But I absolutely can see myself using Flux + FluxTraining.jl which nicely brings together TensorBoardLogger and EarlyStopping and several other things.
(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FluxML&#x2F;FluxTraining.jl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FluxML&#x2F;FluxTraining.jl</a>)
And I can well imagine many will use DataLoaders.jl + Flux.<p>I feel like this project has nicely rounded out the ecosystem.
Making standard tools where before there were a bunch of individual solutions per project.
(Like I currently do use TensorBoardLogger + Flux directly with my own custom training loop)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia</title><url>https://forums.fast.ai/t/ann-announcing-fastai-jl-fastai-for-julia/90228</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ellisv</author><text>This is interesting to me but the motivation behind this is unclear. Since FastAI.jl uses Flux, and not PyTorch, functionality has to be reimplemented. FastAI.jl has vision support but no text support yet.<p>What does this mean for the development of fastai?<p>What is the timeline for FastAI.jl to achieve parity?<p>When should I choose FastAI.jl vs fastai?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FastAI.jl: FastAI for Julia</title><url>https://forums.fast.ai/t/ann-announcing-fastai-jl-fastai-for-julia/90228</url></story> |
24,607,917 | 24,605,593 | 1 | 2 | 24,602,722 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>I recently purchased a HP 48GX, and its portable IR printer buddy (printing out pixelated graphs onto a paper roll is oddly satisfying), because I always wanted one when I was a kid. I had an HP 48G that I cracked open and soldered extra memory into some 25 years ago, but I was always jealous of the 48GX. So, when it became clear the COVID-19 pandemic wasn&#x27;t going to be even remotely short-lived I decided to finally splurge on a 48GX to satiate my childhood dreams (aim high kids!) and to see if I could get it to act as a probe endpoint for my company&#x27;s Modality analysis software.<p>I absolutely love the 48GX, and playing around with it has been fun as I&#x27;d hoped (including the esoteric land surveying software expansion card), but if SwissMicros made its own version I&#x27;d buy it in a heartbeat. A 40 Mhz Cortex-M4F under the hood of a homage to the 48GX would be awesome!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DM41x: a modern take on the HP-41CX</title><url>https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm41x</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flyinghamster</author><text>I still have my 1980s-era HP-11C, but I&#x27;ve almost never used it since college. If I need a calculator, usually I&#x27;m at a computer, and bc, dc, or a spreadsheet is readily available.<p>If I&#x27;m not at a keyboard, then the calculator app on my cell phone will do. Which just led me down the rabbit hole of Android RPN calculator apps. :o)<p>Still, there&#x27;s nothing quite like the tactile feel of a classic HP calculator keyboard from back when HP really was Hewlett-Packard.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DM41x: a modern take on the HP-41CX</title><url>https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm41x</url></story> |
21,558,647 | 21,557,952 | 1 | 2 | 21,557,309 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ken</author><text>That&#x27;s a convenient excuse on iOS, but Firefox is doing poorly on macOS, too, where no such restriction exists. According to the first statistics I found, Firefox is only about half as popular on the Mac as it in on Windows -- and it&#x27;s still under 10% there, too.<p>Privacy-compromising systems aren&#x27;t winning today because people seek out systems that compromise their privacy. They&#x27;re winning because these companies focused on making the user interface good. Firefox will win big again when they stop talking about privacy and start making a UI that isn&#x27;t lousy.<p>True, Apple is talking about privacy a lot these days, but they&#x27;ve been focusing on UX first for decades. You can&#x27;t <i>start</i> with &quot;here is an abstract principle that&#x27;s good for you, and you should use our systems because of it&quot;. The Free Software Foundation tried that for years. It doesn&#x27;t work.<p>Privacy is important, but it&#x27;s a feature, not a product. You still need to have a great product.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chappi42</author><text>The article once more reiterates the fact that Apple doesn&#x27;t allow other browser engines. You cannot even fight, there is no future ;-) on iOS.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/17/firefox-mozilla-fights-back-against-google-chrome-dominance-privacy-fears</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nfriedly</author><text>If Apple allowed Firefox on iOS - real Firefox with the rendering engine and extensions and everything, just like Android - I probably would have switched already.<p>As it stands, I stay on Android mostly for Firefox.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chappi42</author><text>The article once more reiterates the fact that Apple doesn&#x27;t allow other browser engines. You cannot even fight, there is no future ;-) on iOS.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/17/firefox-mozilla-fights-back-against-google-chrome-dominance-privacy-fears</url></story> |
14,898,188 | 14,897,684 | 1 | 2 | 14,896,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zik</author><text>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a syndrome - ie. &quot;a group of symptoms which consistently occur together&quot;. The fact that it&#x27;s called a syndrome rather than a disease is a recognition that it&#x27;s not understood and may be in fact a grouping of different diseases with similar symptoms.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Gibbon1</author><text>The thing that currently spazs me out is the Simpson Paradox (Yule–Simpson effect)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simpson%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simpson%27s_paradox</a><p>In short, if your population has two (or more) diseases with similar enough symptoms that they are grouped together, statistical analysis can and does totally fail. And your experiment will produce garbage.<p>So what if Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is really caused by a couple of different things, but with converging symptomology. You have a real catch 22 situation. Can&#x27;t identify the cause of the disease without a consistent experimental group. Can&#x27;t select a consistent experimental group without a functional test.</text></item><item><author>kens</author><text>I looked at the paper and the data is kind of strange. Looking at figure 2, there are a bunch of cytokines that have a nice linear progression with increasing levels corresponding to increasing severity of disease. This seems like solid evidence that more cytokine = bad.<p>But if you compare with the controls, mild cases of ME&#x2F;CFS have <i>less</i> than the control, moderate cases have the same as controls, and severe cases have more. This kind of torpedoes any simple explanation of what&#x27;s going on. The authors discuss this in a kind of hand-wavy way that maybe ME&#x2F;CFS causes some down-regulation to start with and then the increasing trend is on top of that.<p>So, I&#x27;m not sure what to make of this. It seems useless as a test at this point: &quot;You have totally normal cytokine levels, indicating that you&#x27;re either healthy or have moderate ME&#x2F;CFS.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists Edge Closer To Lab Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/31/540565526/scientists-edge-closer-to-elusive-lab-test-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kens</author><text>That&#x27;s a very good point. The paper suggests that &quot;severity may be a key variable for subgrouping ME&#x2F;CFS.&quot; So it&#x27;s possible that there are three different ME&#x2F;CFS diseases that can be distinguished by cytokine levels. Hopefully once these are separated, statistical analysis will succeed and medical progress would follow.<p>In the bigger picture, you have to wonder how many things that we currently categorize as one disease are really many different diseases. (Like how in the 1800s, people would die of &quot;a fever&quot; but we now know there are many different diseases causing fevers.) It&#x27;s kind of a cliche now that cancer is not a single disease. I expect conditions such as autism and schizophrenia will fragment once the right tests are available. What else?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Gibbon1</author><text>The thing that currently spazs me out is the Simpson Paradox (Yule–Simpson effect)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simpson%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simpson%27s_paradox</a><p>In short, if your population has two (or more) diseases with similar enough symptoms that they are grouped together, statistical analysis can and does totally fail. And your experiment will produce garbage.<p>So what if Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is really caused by a couple of different things, but with converging symptomology. You have a real catch 22 situation. Can&#x27;t identify the cause of the disease without a consistent experimental group. Can&#x27;t select a consistent experimental group without a functional test.</text></item><item><author>kens</author><text>I looked at the paper and the data is kind of strange. Looking at figure 2, there are a bunch of cytokines that have a nice linear progression with increasing levels corresponding to increasing severity of disease. This seems like solid evidence that more cytokine = bad.<p>But if you compare with the controls, mild cases of ME&#x2F;CFS have <i>less</i> than the control, moderate cases have the same as controls, and severe cases have more. This kind of torpedoes any simple explanation of what&#x27;s going on. The authors discuss this in a kind of hand-wavy way that maybe ME&#x2F;CFS causes some down-regulation to start with and then the increasing trend is on top of that.<p>So, I&#x27;m not sure what to make of this. It seems useless as a test at this point: &quot;You have totally normal cytokine levels, indicating that you&#x27;re either healthy or have moderate ME&#x2F;CFS.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists Edge Closer To Lab Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/31/540565526/scientists-edge-closer-to-elusive-lab-test-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome</url></story> |
40,729,341 | 40,728,717 | 1 | 3 | 40,726,792 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Jerk is also very important for road or rail track design. If you imagine needing to make a 90 degree bend, the &quot;obvious&quot; way to do it is by rounding off the corner with a circular radius.<p>But if you do that, it means the vehicle goes from having 0 sideways acceleration to experiencing 100% of the centripetal acceleration to move an object on a circular path (a = v^2 &#x2F; r) instantaneously.<p>As an occupant of the car, that means you go from sitting comfortably to suddenly being thrown sideways.<p>It&#x27;s much more comfortable if you ease into the turn, with the track design considering the rate of change of acceleration. If the designer didn&#x27;t consider jerk you would definitely notice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PinguTS</author><text>I know, this is an old paper, but I don&#x27;t follow the this assumption:<p>&gt; The terms jerk and snap mean very little to most people, including physicists and engineers.<p>Almost 20 years ago we defined jerk into our standards for lift applications. I know jerk is an important parameter for any modern rotating machine that includes gears.<p>While in lift applications it is known as the roller coaster effect, people in different parts of the world have a different taste on when they want to use a lift. I know I over simplify when I say, that American people want to have the gut feeling when riding a lift, especially an express lift in those high buildings. In difference in Asian countries the lift ride must be smooth as possible. They don&#x27;t like to have the feeling of riding a lift at all. In Europe it is something in between. Lift manufacturers have to respect those (end) costumers otherwise the are not chosen.<p>The same in any rotating machine with some sort of gears. Because jerk and those higher orders contribute to the wear and tear of gears. As you want to have longer lasting gears many modern machine manufacturers limit those parameters to reduce wear and tear. So, with a little software change I can demand a higher price because service and maintenance can be reduced.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016)</title><url>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/37/6/065008</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>account42</author><text>&gt; American people want to have the gut feeling when riding a lift, especially an express lift in those high buildings. In difference in Asian countries the lift ride must be smooth as possible. They don&#x27;t like to have the feeling of riding a lift at all. In Europe it is something in between<p>How representative are these stated preferences actually of the population. I&#x27;d imagine that the individual preferences vary greatly from person to person and also change with age.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PinguTS</author><text>I know, this is an old paper, but I don&#x27;t follow the this assumption:<p>&gt; The terms jerk and snap mean very little to most people, including physicists and engineers.<p>Almost 20 years ago we defined jerk into our standards for lift applications. I know jerk is an important parameter for any modern rotating machine that includes gears.<p>While in lift applications it is known as the roller coaster effect, people in different parts of the world have a different taste on when they want to use a lift. I know I over simplify when I say, that American people want to have the gut feeling when riding a lift, especially an express lift in those high buildings. In difference in Asian countries the lift ride must be smooth as possible. They don&#x27;t like to have the feeling of riding a lift at all. In Europe it is something in between. Lift manufacturers have to respect those (end) costumers otherwise the are not chosen.<p>The same in any rotating machine with some sort of gears. Because jerk and those higher orders contribute to the wear and tear of gears. As you want to have longer lasting gears many modern machine manufacturers limit those parameters to reduce wear and tear. So, with a little software change I can demand a higher price because service and maintenance can be reduced.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016)</title><url>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/37/6/065008</url></story> |
32,632,938 | 32,632,692 | 1 | 2 | 32,629,857 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noSyncCloud</author><text>I absolutely loved Seveneves; easily my second favorite. The first part was too long and the second too short, however, and it&#x27;s obviously not as good as Anathem ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>Anathem is also my favorite, fairly easily.<p>I’m not surprised there are Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, or Baroque Cycle favorite-rs but I am when I come across someone that thought Seveneves or Dodge was his best.</text></item><item><author>The_Colonel</author><text>My favorite Stephenson&#x27;s novel is Anathem with superb world building (as usual) but also a pretty good story and ending.<p>But it&#x27;s also a book whose world (specifically the avout society) attracts me. I&#x27;ve grown up in a Catholic setting, but &quot;converted&quot; to atheism&#x2F;agnosticism pretty early. But even with its many failings, there are certain aspects of religions which seem worth preserving - the focus on community, the rituals, a particular rule framework, meditation (prayers) and introspection.<p>The book presents a (on a certain level) pretty attractive model of society which combines the practical religious patterns with a full rationalism.<p>I kind of understand why such &quot;atheist religion&quot; is unlikely to get off in the real world, but it&#x27;s still something I would wish for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson</title><url>https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/neal_stephenson/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stuven</author><text>I&#x27;ve only read Seveneves to the end and was blown away (and simultaneously a bit disappointed if that makes sense?). I&#x27;ve started Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash but they didn&#x27;t interest me as much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>Anathem is also my favorite, fairly easily.<p>I’m not surprised there are Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, or Baroque Cycle favorite-rs but I am when I come across someone that thought Seveneves or Dodge was his best.</text></item><item><author>The_Colonel</author><text>My favorite Stephenson&#x27;s novel is Anathem with superb world building (as usual) but also a pretty good story and ending.<p>But it&#x27;s also a book whose world (specifically the avout society) attracts me. I&#x27;ve grown up in a Catholic setting, but &quot;converted&quot; to atheism&#x2F;agnosticism pretty early. But even with its many failings, there are certain aspects of religions which seem worth preserving - the focus on community, the rituals, a particular rule framework, meditation (prayers) and introspection.<p>The book presents a (on a certain level) pretty attractive model of society which combines the practical religious patterns with a full rationalism.<p>I kind of understand why such &quot;atheist religion&quot; is unlikely to get off in the real world, but it&#x27;s still something I would wish for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson</title><url>https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/neal_stephenson/</url></story> |
2,768,979 | 2,768,913 | 1 | 2 | 2,768,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jellicle</author><text>Author doesn't really understand the situation.<p>The problem, which started becoming visible in 2001, is that in the aftermath of the "dot-com boom", the ratings agencies starting rating a lot of things AAA that were not, in fact, AAA. That is not "an excess of overcaution". In fact it was an exploit of the banking/finance system, that went like this:<p><pre><code> -- lots of places are required by law or regulation to only invest in AAA securities, because they/the public don't want to lose any money. They have a LOT of money to invest.
-- but they don't check the shit themselves
-- they depend on a rating agency
-- ratings agencies are paid by the issuers
-- they are exploitable
-- bribe the rating agency to give my shit a AAA rating, and now I can sell a ton of it
-- offer the investor a slightly greater than AAA return, and they love it
-- everyone is happy: rating agency is bribed, investor is getting better returns than expected, and I can sell all the shit I can package up
-- until it all falls apart.
</code></pre>
And the far right side of the chart is just a continuance of the same thing: our shit fell apart, what should we do? Well, the easiest thing is to bribe the politicians to take our private debts and turn them into public debts. And so it happened. That big tall lavender bar in 2009 is the dark purple lines from a few years prior....<p>None of this has anything to do with an excess of caution or with AAA debt being more systemically dangerous than other types of debt. The blogger here almost grasps what is wrong:<p>&#62; "That’s possibly the most horrifying bit of all: it simply defies credulity for anybody to be asked to believe that more than half the bonds issued in any given year are essentially free of any credit risk."<p>but he skips past the correct answer, which is that the ratings agencies have been suborned.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The horrifying AAA debt-issuance chart</title><url>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/15/the-horrifying-aaa-debt-issuance-chart/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JamisonM</author><text>The author argues that AAA debt is dangerous because it breeds complacency because it is considered risk-free. It strikes me that this is begging the question of how all these debt instruments can carry the same grade and do so so consistently. Is it not the case that AAA debt is dangerous because most of it is probably not really AAA?<p>I thought we established a long time ago that the ratings system is broken, this is just another symptom of that illness that no one is willing to even try to cure.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The horrifying AAA debt-issuance chart</title><url>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/15/the-horrifying-aaa-debt-issuance-chart/</url></story> |
39,814,016 | 39,813,524 | 1 | 2 | 39,813,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lqet</author><text>&gt; As a highschooler, this looked so futuristic &amp; colorful as compared to 2000&#x2F;XP desktop themes &amp; icons.<p>Exactly my experience. The first time I installed Linux when I was around 15 I was surprised how modern, &quot;sharp&quot; and professional everything looked compared to Windows XP.<p>(The default Windows XP design was really the beginning of a downward curve for Windows designs. Windows 98 looked like a tool, Windows XP looked like a toy, which is a shame because Windows XP was a vastly superior (and in my experience ridiculously stable) OS. I always used the &quot;classic&quot; Win 98 design).</text><parent_chain><item><author>srvmshr</author><text>Getting reminded of late 90s &amp; early 2000s design choices, the glassy feel of Bluecurve icon themes of Redhat Linux looked way ahead of their competition [1] Most people didn&#x27;t have access to Classic Macs OS 8.5~9, which probably had beautiful icon sets too (Aqua?). As a highschooler, this looked so futuristic &amp; colorful as compared to 2000&#x2F;XP desktop themes &amp; icons.<p>EDIT: Adding as postscript: Is there anything similar which would come close to Bluecurve today? TIA if there is anything in reader&#x27;s minds.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;7&#x2F;71&#x2F;GNOME_2.2_on_Red_Hat_Linux_9_--_2003-02.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;7&#x2F;71&#x2F;GNOME_2....</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;b&#x2F;b8&#x2F;Fedora-yarrow-bluecurve.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;b&#x2F;b8&#x2F;Fedora-y...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 98 Icons (2015)</title><url>https://win98icons.alexmeub.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>mdasen</author><text>Bluecurve was amazing. For me, nothing in the Linux world has equaled it since. It was so nice and polished with thoughtful colors and design. It was quite similar in colors to Mac OS 8 &amp; 9 (the platinum gray, the purple-ish blue).</text><parent_chain><item><author>srvmshr</author><text>Getting reminded of late 90s &amp; early 2000s design choices, the glassy feel of Bluecurve icon themes of Redhat Linux looked way ahead of their competition [1] Most people didn&#x27;t have access to Classic Macs OS 8.5~9, which probably had beautiful icon sets too (Aqua?). As a highschooler, this looked so futuristic &amp; colorful as compared to 2000&#x2F;XP desktop themes &amp; icons.<p>EDIT: Adding as postscript: Is there anything similar which would come close to Bluecurve today? TIA if there is anything in reader&#x27;s minds.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;7&#x2F;71&#x2F;GNOME_2.2_on_Red_Hat_Linux_9_--_2003-02.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;7&#x2F;71&#x2F;GNOME_2....</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;b&#x2F;b8&#x2F;Fedora-yarrow-bluecurve.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;b&#x2F;b8&#x2F;Fedora-y...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 98 Icons (2015)</title><url>https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/</url></story> |
15,811,720 | 15,811,409 | 1 | 2 | 15,810,244 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fimdomeio</author><text>I&#x27;ve been dreaming with a sci-fi world where at some point the web get&#x27;s so awful, that a small group splits to an alternate hypertext reality that is only text based.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go</title><url>https://github.com/manifoldco/promptui</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hammerandtongs</author><text>The single screencast is pretty compelling, I&#x27;d suggest just screencasting everything from the examples and adding to your landing page.<p>Don&#x27;t have an immediate use but I like it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go</title><url>https://github.com/manifoldco/promptui</url></story> |
31,537,120 | 31,534,331 | 1 | 2 | 31,532,285 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>No, nobody uses a 3-strip&#x2F;3-sensor approach anymore. It was used in the early Technicolor process, and was revived during the digital era with cameras like the Minolta RD-175, and it lingered on in cine cameras for a while longer, but nowadays almost everyone uses a bayer-filter approach (or a very similar one - there are several proprietary alternatives for the mosaic layout that claim various quality improvements).<p>The only similar thing nowadays is Foveon sensors where you have 3 color sites stacked on top of each other, but Foveon didn&#x27;t really have the money to keep up with the arms race and nowadays the modern sensors are far better even though they do have to apply a low-pass filter to avoid mosaicing. When you have many, many, many nodes of improvement past the Foveon sensor, that stops being a big deal.<p>It was also never particularly widely adopted, because none of these things are new - it was a tough sell to market a &quot;really high color-resolution!&quot; 5mp camera going up against 20mp filtered sensors and 50mp unfiltered sensors even 10 years ago.<p>Interestingly though, the Foveon approach is similar to film. Film has multiple layers and all are exposed at once. There&#x27;s no denying bayer is sort of weird. It&#x27;s just very expensive to be the odd man out doing your own sensors. &quot;Good enough&quot; usually wins, Foveon may be betamax but bayer is VHS - and I use that analogy knowingly, in the sense of Betamax also doing key features worse in areas that consumers care a lot about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeffbee</author><text>Aren&#x27;t there still plenty of cameras using 3 separate sensors and an optical beam splitter, instead of a Bayer filter array?</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text>For those who may not be aware: digital cameras capture a grayscale image with a single value per pixel. The image sensor is covered by an array of colour filters (red, green, blue) in a pattern called the Bayer pattern. Typically, one row of filters will alternate RGRGRGRGRG and the next row will alternate GBGBGBGBGB. &quot;Debayering&quot; involves interpolating the colour-filtered grayscale values of neighbouring pixels into each pixel, and then often applying some software filtering to remove dead pixels, noise, and sharpen the image.</text></item><item><author>ryandamm</author><text>I haven&#x27;t pulled the patents, but they probably have to do with compressing the pre-debayered image. Apple sends Red a big check every year for the same patents; I believe they&#x27;re part of ProRes but not sure.<p>Essentially, by compressing the raw RGB data coming off the sensor (where each pixel only has R, or G, or B) you avoid the data explosion of interpolating color values at each pixel. It&#x27;s a technique for compressing raw files, and Red was early to the game.<p>Perhaps someone on here has more detailed technical info, I haven&#x27;t actually read the patents, just talked to engineers close to the project.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RED is suing Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents</title><url>https://nikonrumors.com/2022/05/26/red-is-suing-nikon-for-infringing-on-its-video-compression-patents.aspx/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kelsolaar</author><text>Consumers camera use a Bayer colour filter array because it is cheaper and more compact. Demosaicing is performant enough for most consumer applications that it is hard to justify for anything than scientific applications. As a matter of fact, even Motion Picture cameras, e.g. ARRI LF, are using a Bayer CFA.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeffbee</author><text>Aren&#x27;t there still plenty of cameras using 3 separate sensors and an optical beam splitter, instead of a Bayer filter array?</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text>For those who may not be aware: digital cameras capture a grayscale image with a single value per pixel. The image sensor is covered by an array of colour filters (red, green, blue) in a pattern called the Bayer pattern. Typically, one row of filters will alternate RGRGRGRGRG and the next row will alternate GBGBGBGBGB. &quot;Debayering&quot; involves interpolating the colour-filtered grayscale values of neighbouring pixels into each pixel, and then often applying some software filtering to remove dead pixels, noise, and sharpen the image.</text></item><item><author>ryandamm</author><text>I haven&#x27;t pulled the patents, but they probably have to do with compressing the pre-debayered image. Apple sends Red a big check every year for the same patents; I believe they&#x27;re part of ProRes but not sure.<p>Essentially, by compressing the raw RGB data coming off the sensor (where each pixel only has R, or G, or B) you avoid the data explosion of interpolating color values at each pixel. It&#x27;s a technique for compressing raw files, and Red was early to the game.<p>Perhaps someone on here has more detailed technical info, I haven&#x27;t actually read the patents, just talked to engineers close to the project.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RED is suing Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents</title><url>https://nikonrumors.com/2022/05/26/red-is-suing-nikon-for-infringing-on-its-video-compression-patents.aspx/</url></story> |
22,561,600 | 22,561,557 | 1 | 3 | 22,561,373 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>I don&#x27;t remember which talk it was, but it was comparing an okay dev to a good dev; There was a slide where the &quot;okay&quot; dev rated their C++ knowledge as a 8 or 9, the &quot;good&quot; dev rating it as a 5 or a 6 and Bjarne Stroustrup rating it as a 7.<p>[edit]<p>Some googling later: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;olvemaudal&#x2F;deep-c&#x2F;255" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;olvemaudal&#x2F;deep-c&#x2F;255</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; So, yes, I am still learning Rust.<p>I have always been very cautious about how much I tout my skill with C++. Sure, I know a bunch. Probably a good bit more than the average bear. But the scope of C++ is enormous (even if you stop at C++03 there is a lot to know). And with new language standards it keeps growing.<p>Despite ~two decades of experience, I list my skill level with C++ as &quot;intermediate&quot; because &quot;expert&quot; paints a bullseye on your forehead. I could imagine tons of C++ questions that I could not answer off the top of my head. Those probably disqualify me as an expert and would involve a lot of embarrassing backpedaling in an interview.<p>I wonder how many times my resume was discarded because they needed someone with more than &quot;intermediate&quot; level experience with C++?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, I am still learning Rust</title><url>https://llogiq.github.io/2020/03/07/learning.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>jerf</author><text>&quot;I wonder how many times my resume was discarded because they needed someone with more than &quot;intermediate&quot; level experience with C++?&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t be afraid to write &quot;expert&quot; with an ∗ with an explanation. You pass the initial screen and anyone hiring an &quot;expert C++ programmer&quot; who won&#x27;t understand that caveat you gave just there is probably someone you don&#x27;t want to work for anyhow....</text><parent_chain><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; So, yes, I am still learning Rust.<p>I have always been very cautious about how much I tout my skill with C++. Sure, I know a bunch. Probably a good bit more than the average bear. But the scope of C++ is enormous (even if you stop at C++03 there is a lot to know). And with new language standards it keeps growing.<p>Despite ~two decades of experience, I list my skill level with C++ as &quot;intermediate&quot; because &quot;expert&quot; paints a bullseye on your forehead. I could imagine tons of C++ questions that I could not answer off the top of my head. Those probably disqualify me as an expert and would involve a lot of embarrassing backpedaling in an interview.<p>I wonder how many times my resume was discarded because they needed someone with more than &quot;intermediate&quot; level experience with C++?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, I am still learning Rust</title><url>https://llogiq.github.io/2020/03/07/learning.html</url></story> |
23,703,352 | 23,702,929 | 1 | 3 | 23,700,486 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kubanczyk</author><text>&gt; The Coding will always be the easiest part of a Coding Career<p>The Coding will sometimes be the hardest part of a Coding Career.<p>Since people are throwing around authoritatively-sounding statements here, anyone interested is cordially invited to use mine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>quicklime</author><text>&gt; The Coding will always be the easiest part of a Coding Career<p>I&#x27;m a little triggered by this headline. I understand what it means, and I agree there&#x27;s some truth to it. It can be good advice when given to developers who haven&#x27;t yet figured out that their job is not exclusively to write code.<p>But in my company (which is a big non-tech corporate) I&#x27;ve noticed that a similar phrase often gets used by non-technical people to belittle the work that software developers do. The exact wording varies, but the sentiment is basically that technical problems are easy, and can safely be outsourced to the lowest bidder, as long as there&#x27;s a good Project Manager who can enforce the right methodology and processes. It&#x27;s the problems that require &quot;soft&quot; skills that are <i>difficult</i> - these are the kind that Thought Leaders and Influencers work on - and we need to pay a premium for people who can solve these problems.<p>In reality, technical and non-technical problems are both difficult in their own ways, and both occupy a space that ranges from trivial to impossible.<p>In terms of career advice, I&#x27;d really suggest not perpetuating this myth. One of the tactics that the book lists is &quot;marketing yourself&quot;, and repeating the idea that coding is easy (especially to non-technical people) undermines your career and that of your technical colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Coding Career Handbook</title><url>https://www.learninpublic.org/?from=Hacker%20News</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluntfang</author><text>Coding isn&#x27;t the hard part of your job, it&#x27;s convincing people that outsourcing isn&#x27;t going to result in good outcomes. The reason why they won&#x27;t result in good outcomes:<p>* maintenance is hard<p>* writing quality code is hard<p>* CI&#x2F;CD is hard<p>* requirements gathering is hard<p>etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>quicklime</author><text>&gt; The Coding will always be the easiest part of a Coding Career<p>I&#x27;m a little triggered by this headline. I understand what it means, and I agree there&#x27;s some truth to it. It can be good advice when given to developers who haven&#x27;t yet figured out that their job is not exclusively to write code.<p>But in my company (which is a big non-tech corporate) I&#x27;ve noticed that a similar phrase often gets used by non-technical people to belittle the work that software developers do. The exact wording varies, but the sentiment is basically that technical problems are easy, and can safely be outsourced to the lowest bidder, as long as there&#x27;s a good Project Manager who can enforce the right methodology and processes. It&#x27;s the problems that require &quot;soft&quot; skills that are <i>difficult</i> - these are the kind that Thought Leaders and Influencers work on - and we need to pay a premium for people who can solve these problems.<p>In reality, technical and non-technical problems are both difficult in their own ways, and both occupy a space that ranges from trivial to impossible.<p>In terms of career advice, I&#x27;d really suggest not perpetuating this myth. One of the tactics that the book lists is &quot;marketing yourself&quot;, and repeating the idea that coding is easy (especially to non-technical people) undermines your career and that of your technical colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Coding Career Handbook</title><url>https://www.learninpublic.org/?from=Hacker%20News</url></story> |
32,382,795 | 32,382,901 | 1 | 2 | 32,375,667 | 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>lanstin</author><text>If you are too busy, you will not think of the optimal solution to your intellectual problem.<p>I don’t know about other people, but I often have the experience of banging away at some problem for a few hours, then going away and not thinking about it for a while then a simple resolution pops into my mind without much effort.<p>Continuing to push hard when you aren’t getting any where on an intellectual puzzle isn’t always the best approach.<p>And there are some fields of inquiry where deep concentration and deep knowledge is useful. For instance, rather than recreating all the knowledge by your own trial and error you can read and then make truly novel mistakes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drannex</author><text>To become wise, do everything, fuck up on most of it, and know what works and doesn&#x27;t by direct experience.<p>I am a minimalist (Essentialist) by choice, but a maximalist regarding knowledge and experience. Try and do everything you can, that way you know what does and doesn&#x27;t work. Done. Anything else is overly reductive. You can&#x27;t know how to do anything if you do or experience close to nothing.<p>Leisure is good, I am a ferverent advocate of Veblen philosophy, but if you want to be wise use your leisure to do the maximum you can and want to do with that time. Leisure is different for everyone, reading, gaming, sitting on the beach, making art, but if you want to be &#x2F;wise&#x2F; with your leisure you have to do everything you want to do! Focus a lot, or focus a little, you just have to do everything possible to fuck up as much as possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To Become Wise, Do Less</title><url>https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/to-become-wise-do-less</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sifar</author><text>&gt;&gt; Try and do everything you can<p>Ars longa, vita brevis [1]<p>While I agree that experience by doing is the way to learn, the thing is we have finite resources and time while the things which we want to do are infinite. Which means when you choose to do something you are choosing not to do something else - think of it as an opportunity cost.<p>And merely doing without reflection is also not useful - and one can also reflect on the deeds of others too so that one can learn without a direct harm to ourselves.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ars_longa%2C_vita_brevis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ars_longa%2C_vita_brevis</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>drannex</author><text>To become wise, do everything, fuck up on most of it, and know what works and doesn&#x27;t by direct experience.<p>I am a minimalist (Essentialist) by choice, but a maximalist regarding knowledge and experience. Try and do everything you can, that way you know what does and doesn&#x27;t work. Done. Anything else is overly reductive. You can&#x27;t know how to do anything if you do or experience close to nothing.<p>Leisure is good, I am a ferverent advocate of Veblen philosophy, but if you want to be wise use your leisure to do the maximum you can and want to do with that time. Leisure is different for everyone, reading, gaming, sitting on the beach, making art, but if you want to be &#x2F;wise&#x2F; with your leisure you have to do everything you want to do! Focus a lot, or focus a little, you just have to do everything possible to fuck up as much as possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To Become Wise, Do Less</title><url>https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/to-become-wise-do-less</url></story> |
38,098,711 | 38,098,982 | 1 | 2 | 38,097,184 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ironlikebike</author><text>I have always had insomnia and have to maintain very good sleep hygiene. Here&#x27;s a few things I have found that help me get to sleep:<p>- No exercise after 18:30&#x2F;6:30pm<p>- Absolutely avoid Vitamin D and Vitamin B supplements in the evening. These will suppress deep and REM sleep and I&#x27;ll sleep lightly all night long if I take them.<p>- Hot sauna, shower, or bath before bed.<p>- Anti-histamine (cetirizine hydrochloride aka Zyrtec) as needed - I&#x27;m allergic to my wife&#x27;s dog and some nights I feel like I have bugs crawling on my skin. It can even wake me up.<p>Things that keep me from waking up at night:<p>- Gas X as needed to avoid acid reflux<p>- Anti Inflammatory helps keep me from having to use the bathroom when I know I&#x27;m inflamed (getting old sucks).<p>- No alcohol in the evening<p>- No videogames, interesting books, or French lessons right before bed, or I&#x27;ll be sleeping lightly and find myself ruminating in light sleep over these mentally engaging topics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hiAndrewQuinn</author><text>Lots of low hanging fruit in this arena for people who haven&#x27;t made a serious effort yet. Cutting out caffeine and alcohol entirely from my diet were by far the biggest improvements I made, then regular exercise, and finally a midday nap during my lunch break.</text></item><item><author>thesuavefactor</author><text>The million dollar question is though &quot;How do we improve deep sleep?&quot;
I have a sleep tracker at home and my weak point is always not getting enough deep sleep. I&#x27;m not sure there&#x27;s a way to force deep sleep somehow...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds</title><url>https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/improving-deep-sleep-may-prevent-dementia,-study-finds</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bogota</author><text>Im jealous of anyone who can sleep well. I have been doing all of the above for years as well as testing out different temperatures and also not looking at screens for well over an hour before going to bed.<p>I just can’t get good consistent deep sleep. I will say one thing that did help was i use to live in the city and after i moved outside of it and it was much much quieter at night (no trucks driving through or random sounds or honking in the middle of the night) i did notice an improvement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hiAndrewQuinn</author><text>Lots of low hanging fruit in this arena for people who haven&#x27;t made a serious effort yet. Cutting out caffeine and alcohol entirely from my diet were by far the biggest improvements I made, then regular exercise, and finally a midday nap during my lunch break.</text></item><item><author>thesuavefactor</author><text>The million dollar question is though &quot;How do we improve deep sleep?&quot;
I have a sleep tracker at home and my weak point is always not getting enough deep sleep. I&#x27;m not sure there&#x27;s a way to force deep sleep somehow...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds</title><url>https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/improving-deep-sleep-may-prevent-dementia,-study-finds</url></story> |
11,886,187 | 11,886,087 | 1 | 2 | 11,874,830 | 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>hueving</author><text>AWS is not anywhere near cheap when it comes to raw performance per dollar. You are paying a very large premium for that flexibility of an arbitrary number of instances at any time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>themartorana</author><text>€10&#x2F;m&#x2F;location is damn impressive. I&#x27;ve run servers for a turn-based asynchronous and real-time casual game for the past three years. With ~700k unique monthly players (about 200k&#x2F;day) we do about 1500 request&#x2F;s at peak and pay thousands a month for our AWS stack. I&#x27;m not mad at it, I think we get great utility for what we pay, but this is lean and mean for realz.<p>Kudos!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Overview of Running an Online Game for 3 Years</title><url>https://hookrace.net/blog/ddnet-evolution-architecture-technology/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>def-</author><text>Thanks! Interesting to hear about your experience as well. By requests per seconds you mean packets? I was curious and with 330 players playing on DDNet right now[1] we get ~7400 packets&#x2F;s incoming, ~8300 packets&#x2F;s outgoing.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ddnet.tw&#x2F;status&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ddnet.tw&#x2F;status&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>themartorana</author><text>€10&#x2F;m&#x2F;location is damn impressive. I&#x27;ve run servers for a turn-based asynchronous and real-time casual game for the past three years. With ~700k unique monthly players (about 200k&#x2F;day) we do about 1500 request&#x2F;s at peak and pay thousands a month for our AWS stack. I&#x27;m not mad at it, I think we get great utility for what we pay, but this is lean and mean for realz.<p>Kudos!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Overview of Running an Online Game for 3 Years</title><url>https://hookrace.net/blog/ddnet-evolution-architecture-technology/</url></story> |
24,656,448 | 24,655,982 | 1 | 2 | 24,637,121 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oaferlanger</author><text>OTOH every decent erlang book or tutorial I&#x27;ve ready, from Armstrong&#x27;s book[1] to Learn You Some Erlang[2] to Erlang and OTP in Action[3] and others all start off by introducing primitives like spawn, message sending , and receive.<p>They then introduce OTP and explain all the cases it handles.<p>I&#x27;ve never read a book or tutorial on OTP that just starts with OTP. In fact (a bit tangetially) whenever I encounter abstractions where I don&#x27;t already understand the primitives I have a very difficult time. Maybe that&#x27;s just the way my brain is wired though. I have a terrible time with OO programming for that reason. I much prefer a separation of functions and data because it&#x27;s much easier for me to reason about what is happening.<p>Anyway, I agree that programmers should start with the primitives, but I&#x27;ve never seen anyone really teach OTP any other way.<p>Edit: also there are tools such as Erlang.mk[4] by Loïc Hoguin[5] that will handle a lot of the boilerplate for OTP projects and building releases, though it&#x27;s good to do it manually at least once while learning.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;jaerlang2&#x2F;programming-erlang-2nd-edition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;jaerlang2&#x2F;programming-erlang-2nd...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnyousomeerlang.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnyousomeerlang.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manning.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;erlang-and-otp-in-action" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manning.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;erlang-and-otp-in-action</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erlang.mk&#x2F;guide&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erlang.mk&#x2F;guide&#x2F;index.html</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ninenines.eu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ninenines.eu&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tlack</author><text>What you said is rarely stated in public, but I&#x27;ve often felt it too: OTP obscures the underlying beauty of the Erlang platform.<p>OTP is well engineered of course, but the basic notion of the spawn -&gt; receive -&gt; loop cycle is so clean and illuminating that I wish newbies would hold out before learning OTP sometimes.<p>It&#x27;s natural to think of case-specific abstractions around the primitives that are more germane to the domain at hand than OTP&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>pmontra</author><text>&gt; In real life, we don’t need to write code with receive do loops. Instead, we use one of the behaviours created by people much smarter than us.<p>I make more than half of my income from Elixir. That said,
the naive receive loop is much easier to understand than any of the GenServer examples. They pollute the module logic with all that handle_* boilerplate. I believe that neither Erlang nor Elixir got the right abstraction there. Method definition in any OO language is easier to understand. At least Elixir should have taken Agent and made it an invisible part of the language. All those calls to Agent in this example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elixir-lang.org&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;mix-otp&#x2F;agent.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elixir-lang.org&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;mix-otp&#x2F;agent.html</a> are still boilerplate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir</title><url>https://serokell.io/blog/elixir-otp-guide</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeremyjh</author><text>&gt; spawn -&gt; receive -&gt; loop cycle is so clean and illuminating that I wish newbies would hold out before learning OTP sometimes<p>Yes it is neat and its fun to play with but it isn&#x27;t usually something you want to use in production code. In production code it is important to have processes linked correctly so that errors propagate to callers. GenServer.call handles this for you, and also clarifies intent (blocking call to another process that must respond or fail).</text><parent_chain><item><author>tlack</author><text>What you said is rarely stated in public, but I&#x27;ve often felt it too: OTP obscures the underlying beauty of the Erlang platform.<p>OTP is well engineered of course, but the basic notion of the spawn -&gt; receive -&gt; loop cycle is so clean and illuminating that I wish newbies would hold out before learning OTP sometimes.<p>It&#x27;s natural to think of case-specific abstractions around the primitives that are more germane to the domain at hand than OTP&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>pmontra</author><text>&gt; In real life, we don’t need to write code with receive do loops. Instead, we use one of the behaviours created by people much smarter than us.<p>I make more than half of my income from Elixir. That said,
the naive receive loop is much easier to understand than any of the GenServer examples. They pollute the module logic with all that handle_* boilerplate. I believe that neither Erlang nor Elixir got the right abstraction there. Method definition in any OO language is easier to understand. At least Elixir should have taken Agent and made it an invisible part of the language. All those calls to Agent in this example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elixir-lang.org&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;mix-otp&#x2F;agent.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elixir-lang.org&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;mix-otp&#x2F;agent.html</a> are still boilerplate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir</title><url>https://serokell.io/blog/elixir-otp-guide</url></story> |
33,941,002 | 33,940,712 | 1 | 3 | 33,939,923 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sph</author><text>&gt; There are four types of walks to consider implementing in your routines<p>Ugh, can these growth hacking types stop trying to make everything into a &quot;thing&quot;? Can one just go out for a bloody walk without someone saying they need to make the best out of it, and to use it for spiritual and career growth. Just go out to pump some fresh blood and air in your body. There&#x27;s no unproductive way of walking, for god&#x27;s sake.<p>Also:<p>&gt; University of Hong Kong researchers showed that walking side-by-side led to deeper feelings of connection, implying that walking meetings may actually create better outcomes.<p>Soon at your BigCo walking meetings for you to bond emotionally with your boss. We found it improves employee retention and reduces turnover rates.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a walking routine</title><url>https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the-single-greatest-habit-you-can-build</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mudrockbestgirl</author><text>Amazing! Added to my 1000-item list with the other &quot;must-build habits for life success according to influencer BS clickbait posts&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t forget to meditate, journal, go on silent retreats, take cold showers, eat a kiwi a day, and use Rust for maximum life success!<p>Ah, and don&#x27;t forget to breathe. I read it increases longevity.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a walking routine</title><url>https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the-single-greatest-habit-you-can-build</url></story> |
38,441,989 | 38,441,281 | 1 | 2 | 38,432,486 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SushiHippie</author><text>Mine got surral real fast, though the sixth one is kinda cool <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=DNgriW_E" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=DNgriW_E</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>andrelaszlo</author><text>Here&#x27;s a custom prompt that I enjoyed:<p>&quot;Think hard about every single detail of the image, conceptualize it including the style, colors, and lighting.<p>Final step, condensing this into a single paragraph:<p>Very carefully, condense your thoughts using the most prominent features and extremely precise language into a single paragraph.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=1lSMniUP" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=1lSMniUP</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=cEUyjzch" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=cEUyjzch</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=14fnkTv-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=14fnkTv-</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=wstiY-Iw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=wstiY-Iw</a><p>Praise the Basilisk, I finally got rate-limited and can go to bed!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop</title><url>https://dalle.party/</url><text>I used to enjoy Translation Party, and over the weekend I realized that we can build the same feedback loop with DALLE-3 and GPT4-Vision. Start with a text prompt, let DALLE-3 generate an image, then GPT-4 Vision turns that image back into a text prompt, DALLE-3 creates another image, and so on.<p>You need to bring your own OpenAI API key (costs about $0.10&#x2F;run)<p>Some prompts are very stable, others go wild. If you bias GPT4&#x27;s prompting by telling it to &quot;make it weird&quot; you can get crazy results.<p>Here&#x27;s a few of my favorites:<p>- Gnomes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=k4eeMQ6I" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=k4eeMQ6I</a><p>- Start with a sailboat but bias GPT4V to &quot;replace everything with cats&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=0uKfJjQn" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=0uKfJjQn</a><p>- A more stable one (but everyone is always an actor): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=oxpeZKh5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=oxpeZKh5</a></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Blammar</author><text>The thing that is truly mindboggling to me is that THE SHADOWS IN THE IMAGES ARE CORRECT. How is that possible??? Does DALL-E actually have a shadow-tracing component?</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrelaszlo</author><text>Here&#x27;s a custom prompt that I enjoyed:<p>&quot;Think hard about every single detail of the image, conceptualize it including the style, colors, and lighting.<p>Final step, condensing this into a single paragraph:<p>Very carefully, condense your thoughts using the most prominent features and extremely precise language into a single paragraph.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=1lSMniUP" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=1lSMniUP</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=cEUyjzch" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=cEUyjzch</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=14fnkTv-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=14fnkTv-</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=wstiY-Iw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=wstiY-Iw</a><p>Praise the Basilisk, I finally got rate-limited and can go to bed!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop</title><url>https://dalle.party/</url><text>I used to enjoy Translation Party, and over the weekend I realized that we can build the same feedback loop with DALLE-3 and GPT4-Vision. Start with a text prompt, let DALLE-3 generate an image, then GPT-4 Vision turns that image back into a text prompt, DALLE-3 creates another image, and so on.<p>You need to bring your own OpenAI API key (costs about $0.10&#x2F;run)<p>Some prompts are very stable, others go wild. If you bias GPT4&#x27;s prompting by telling it to &quot;make it weird&quot; you can get crazy results.<p>Here&#x27;s a few of my favorites:<p>- Gnomes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=k4eeMQ6I" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=k4eeMQ6I</a><p>- Start with a sailboat but bias GPT4V to &quot;replace everything with cats&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=0uKfJjQn" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=0uKfJjQn</a><p>- A more stable one (but everyone is always an actor): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=oxpeZKh5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dalle.party&#x2F;?party=oxpeZKh5</a></text></story> |
32,682,068 | 32,681,751 | 1 | 3 | 32,680,957 | 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>tiffanyh</author><text>In 2018, folks were getting 4M queries per second using SQLite (BedrockDB) [0].<p>This was also accomplished from just 1 server, not needing 40 shards like blog post.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.expensify.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a-single-server&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.expensify.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One million queries per second with MySQL</title><url>https://planetscale.com/blog/one-million-queries-per-second-with-mysql</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>truth_seeker</author><text>Correct me if my knowledge is outdated,<p>Vitess deployment comes at a cost:<p>1. You can&#x27;t have single database view of all shards
2. No distributed ACID
3. No distributed JOINs<p>If I were to do it in PostgreSQL 14 natively without any other third party plugins, I can get help of Table Partitioning (say root server) + Tables on Foreign Servers (say leaf servers) through FDW. Parallel scans and JOINs are allowed. Also, PostgreSQL 15 (in beta now) will allow parallel commits to foreign server tables through FDW.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One million queries per second with MySQL</title><url>https://planetscale.com/blog/one-million-queries-per-second-with-mysql</url></story> |
11,726,553 | 11,725,866 | 1 | 2 | 11,725,462 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hristov</author><text>That is true. Also, Goldman Sachs is so experienced with conflicts of interest that they are just very good at handling them. You see Goldman Sachs experiences so many conflicts of interest all the time that they have obtained expertise in handling these conflicts that people like me and you cannot even imagine.<p>The modern Goldman banker is a unique creature with a conscience that is so complex and evolved that he can earnestly and passionately defend two positions that would seem to me and you completely opposite.<p>... Ok I have stopped laughing now and I am starting to get angry so I might as well get back to work ...</text><parent_chain><item><author>xadhominemx</author><text>The equity research department is firewalled off from the deal teams doing the offering. It would be unethical if the people who published the research note even knew anything about the offering.</text></item><item><author>jboydyhacker</author><text>The big surprise here isn&#x27;t that Tesla was doing an offering - it was Goldman did a huge research note 24 hours before the offering while actually participating in said offering.<p>Super bad form and just goes to show the community- don&#x27;t trust investment bankers. Such bad form.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/tesla-announces-2-billion-public-offering-to-accelerate-model-3-ramp-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>kbenson</author><text>&gt; It would be unethical if the people who published the research note even knew anything about the offering.<p>Whether something is unethical is not evidence for or against something happening, it just informs your <i>opinion</i> on whether it happened. Given Goldman&#x27;s past behavior, I wouldn&#x27;t let it inform my opinion <i>too much</i> in the direction that they worked in an ethical manner.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xadhominemx</author><text>The equity research department is firewalled off from the deal teams doing the offering. It would be unethical if the people who published the research note even knew anything about the offering.</text></item><item><author>jboydyhacker</author><text>The big surprise here isn&#x27;t that Tesla was doing an offering - it was Goldman did a huge research note 24 hours before the offering while actually participating in said offering.<p>Super bad form and just goes to show the community- don&#x27;t trust investment bankers. Such bad form.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/tesla-announces-2-billion-public-offering-to-accelerate-model-3-ramp-up</url></story> |
17,452,715 | 17,452,727 | 1 | 2 | 17,450,896 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donarb</author><text>If you remove the block signaling system and use in-cab signaling, you still need to know where the back of the train is. Otherwise a train could run into the back of another in the fog or heavy rainstorm. Currently, railroads use FREDs (flashing rear end device) on the last car of the train. Some FREDs are more intelligent than others but would benefit from being able to send out their location via GPS.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;End-of-train_device" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;End-of-train_device</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>TylerE</author><text>The locomotives, not all the rolling stock. I&#x27;m not saying it wouldn&#x27;t be hard&#x2F;expensive, but it seems better to spend money on things that will be useful for decades rather than stopgaps that just kick the can a little further up the road.</text></item><item><author>adrianN</author><text>You&#x27;d have to upgrade all the rolling stock as well. That&#x27;s not always possible, for technical or financial reasons.</text></item><item><author>TylerE</author><text>Dunno why they don&#x27;t just go ahead and bite the bullet and go to 100% in-cab signaling. The technology has worked for decades and has been deployed on many lines, including a few in the UK.</text></item><item><author>lbriner</author><text>Because of signal sighting rules in the UK, we experienced a lot of trouble upgrading lines to higher speed. All of a sudden, that signal that you could see for 10 seconds could now only be seen for 8 due to a bridge or whatever. Muchos dollars relocating signals and in some places not being able to increase the line speed at all.<p>Boring but very real reasons why we &quot;can&#x27;t just update things&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Dangers of Train Yards, Through the Eyes of Railroad Employees</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/train-yard-photos-1960s</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Most British passenger trains are multiple units (and most British trains are passenger trains), so there&#x27;s effectively little distinction between locomotive and rolling stock.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TylerE</author><text>The locomotives, not all the rolling stock. I&#x27;m not saying it wouldn&#x27;t be hard&#x2F;expensive, but it seems better to spend money on things that will be useful for decades rather than stopgaps that just kick the can a little further up the road.</text></item><item><author>adrianN</author><text>You&#x27;d have to upgrade all the rolling stock as well. That&#x27;s not always possible, for technical or financial reasons.</text></item><item><author>TylerE</author><text>Dunno why they don&#x27;t just go ahead and bite the bullet and go to 100% in-cab signaling. The technology has worked for decades and has been deployed on many lines, including a few in the UK.</text></item><item><author>lbriner</author><text>Because of signal sighting rules in the UK, we experienced a lot of trouble upgrading lines to higher speed. All of a sudden, that signal that you could see for 10 seconds could now only be seen for 8 due to a bridge or whatever. Muchos dollars relocating signals and in some places not being able to increase the line speed at all.<p>Boring but very real reasons why we &quot;can&#x27;t just update things&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Dangers of Train Yards, Through the Eyes of Railroad Employees</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/train-yard-photos-1960s</url></story> |
3,797,047 | 3,796,971 | 1 | 3 | 3,796,869 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rakeshpai</author><text>I'm the developer of Errorception (<a href="http://errorception.com/" rel="nofollow">http://errorception.com/</a>), and wanted to jump in to talk about some of the points raised on the thread here.<p>As chrisacky mentioned, making one HTTP post for every error is very wasteful. It's much better to buffer up such errors (Errorception does it in memory, since localStorage can be unavailable and/or full), and post them every once in a while.<p>As masklinn pointed out, window.onerror _is_ complete shit, so Errorception does a couple of tricks to make this slightly better. Firstly, on IE, the stack isn't lost when window.onerror is called, so it's possible to get the call stack and arguments at each level of the stack. Secondly, it's very easy to get other kind of details (browser, version, page, etc.), which helps a great deal in aiding debugging.<p>However, masklinn's suggestion about wrapping code in try/catch blocks is probably not a good idea. This is because some interpreters (I know v8 does this) don't compile the code in such code-paths. May cause a performance hit.<p>As DavidPP mentioned, depending on the nature of your application, it might be a good idea to not record too much sensitive information. For example, Errorception doesn't record function arguments if the page is served over SSL.<p>troels is right - this does create a massive flood of errors. There are several ways to deal with this. What we do for example, is hide away errors from most third-parties - Facebook, Twitter, GoogleBot, GoogleAnalytics, etc. The rest of the errors can still be huge in number, so we group similar errors together based on several parameters like browsers, browser versions, possible variation in inline code line-numbers because of dynamic content, etc.<p>Also, as Kartificial pointed out, this is probably something you don't want to do on your own server. You want to move this out of your infrastructure, and distribute it if possible.<p>There are other concerns - some that come to mind are page load time, ensuring that your error catching code itself doesn't raise errors (or if it does, it doesn't affect your app in any way), and that of managing data-growth on the server. These are fun problems, but it's probably not worth re-inventing the wheel.<p>&#60;/plug&#62;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors</title><url>http://openmymind.net/2012/4/4/You-Really-Should-Log-Client-Side-Error/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisacky</author><text>Theory correct. Implementation wrong.<p>If I was actually doing this and wanted to run it on a production site, I would certainly not fire off a post on each error. The most likely solution that I would use off the top of my head would be to store the data in localStorage of the current user where supported.<p>You wouldn't need to collect <i>every</i> <i>single</i> <i>error</i>, but just a sample. You shouldn't really need to be that concerned with the totally extreme edge cases, and if you are triaging correctly then it's the most common errors that you want to look out for.<p>So I would implement something that would result in a random selection of my visitors from collecting the errors for me and also have a buffer and client side rate limit included into the application so that errors are saved up, and sent in bulk.<p>As I start collecting errors which I realise are totally beyond my control, I would then start dropping errors generated from particular files and extensions installed and stop logging them.<p>Logging <i>everything</i> is wrong in my opinion.<p>Edit:<p>Yes I would do the <i>bulk</i> of deciding what to log on the server. However, I think I would still have some standard rules that I know I can apply to disregard certain error events. But since I would constantly be working over the logs, the majority would be done server side.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors</title><url>http://openmymind.net/2012/4/4/You-Really-Should-Log-Client-Side-Error/</url></story> |
36,764,227 | 36,764,011 | 1 | 2 | 36,762,682 | 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>eklitzke</author><text>I think it&#x27;s also worth mentioning that for certain specific use cases coroutines are much more efficient than a full goroutine, because switching to&#x2F;from a coroutine doesn&#x27;t require context switching or rescheduling anything. If you have two cooperating tasks that are logically synchronous anyway (e.g. an iterator) it&#x27;s much more efficient to just run everything on the same CPU because the kernel doesn&#x27;t have to reschedule anything or power down&#x2F;wake up CPU cores, and the data is in the right CPU caches, so you&#x27;ll get better cache latency and hit rates. With goroutines this <i>may</i> happen anyway, but it&#x27;s not guaranteed and at the minimum you have the overhead of going through the Go runtime goroutine scheduler which is fast, but not as fast as just executing a different code context in the same goroutine. Coroutines offer more predictable scheduling behavior because you know that task A is switching directly to task B, whereas otherwise the goroutine scheduler could switch to another available task that wants to run. The last section of the blog post goes into this, where Russ shows that an optimized runtime implementation of coroutines is 10x faster than emulating them with goroutines.<p>Google has internal kernel patches that implement cooperating multithreading this way (internally they&#x27;re called fibers), and the patches exist for precisely this reason: better latency and more predictable scheduling behavior. Paul Turner gave a presentation about this at LPC ~10 years ago that explains more about the motivation for the patches and why they improve efficiency: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>alphazard</author><text>It looks like a lot of people are missing the point here. Yes a coroutine library would be a worse&#x2F;more cumbersome way to do concurrency than the go keyword.<p>The use case motivating all the complexity is function iterators, where `range` can be used on functions of type `func() (T, bool)`. That has been discussed in the Go community for a long time, and the semantics would be intuitive&#x2F;obvious to most Go programmers.<p>This post addresses the next thing: Assuming function iterators are added to the language, how do I write one of these iterators that I can use in a for loop?<p>It starts by noticing that it is often very easy to write push iterators, and builds up to a push-to-pull adapter. It also includes a general purpose mechanism for coroutines, which the adapter is built on.<p>If all of this goes in, I think it will be bad practice to use coroutines for things other than iteration, just like it&#x27;s bad practice to use channels&#x2F;goroutines in places where a mutex would do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coroutines for Go</title><url>https://research.swtch.com/coro</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcme</author><text>What is wrong with:<p><pre><code> for {
next := getNext()
...
}
</code></pre>
What is the advantage of writing this as:<p><pre><code> for next := range getNext {
...
}</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>alphazard</author><text>It looks like a lot of people are missing the point here. Yes a coroutine library would be a worse&#x2F;more cumbersome way to do concurrency than the go keyword.<p>The use case motivating all the complexity is function iterators, where `range` can be used on functions of type `func() (T, bool)`. That has been discussed in the Go community for a long time, and the semantics would be intuitive&#x2F;obvious to most Go programmers.<p>This post addresses the next thing: Assuming function iterators are added to the language, how do I write one of these iterators that I can use in a for loop?<p>It starts by noticing that it is often very easy to write push iterators, and builds up to a push-to-pull adapter. It also includes a general purpose mechanism for coroutines, which the adapter is built on.<p>If all of this goes in, I think it will be bad practice to use coroutines for things other than iteration, just like it&#x27;s bad practice to use channels&#x2F;goroutines in places where a mutex would do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coroutines for Go</title><url>https://research.swtch.com/coro</url></story> |
6,754,701 | 6,754,328 | 1 | 2 | 6,753,583 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>znowi</author><text>&gt; Mozilla is not profit oriented, they just care about their mission: Moving the web forward and keeping it open.<p>This was my experience with them ever since Firefox 1.0 came out in 2004 to liberate us from Internet Explorer. They really care about open Internet, user rights and privacy. And they stayed true to those ideals all these years. Something you can&#x27;t say about many big name companies on the net today. In fact, I consider them a fair replacement for the early Google that we&#x27;ve lost to the forces of evil :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>fhd2</author><text>I love contributing to Mozilla. I contributed to a bunch of projects in the past years, including Chromium (a very friendly bunch BTW), but Mozilla makes me feel like I&#x27;m a real part of this, not just some guy sending a patch.<p>- Literally everything they do is in the open, volunteers can participate a lot if they want to, even start new projects. (~50% of their employees remote, I guess that helps a lot here.)<p>- They&#x27;re mentoring people new to a project really well - I love this even though I prefer to just dive into the code myself.<p>- They call you a &quot;Mozillian&quot;, send you foundation&#x2F;company&#x2F;product updates, invite you to Mozilla Summit (I was there this year, and it was amazing) etc.<p>- Mozilla is not profit oriented, they just care about their mission: Moving the web forward and keeping it open. Makes me feel like part of a good cause, as opposed to unpaid labour.<p>All in all, they really got this figured out. I can recommend them to anyone who wants to contribute to something big&#x2F;important.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Code Firefox</title><url>http://codefirefox.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>agentultra</author><text>I cannot recommend the mentoring aspect enough. I contributed my first patch earlier this year and having contact with someone on the project to review my code and give me suggestions was a huge help to getting my patch accepted. It also helped me understand the code base better than if I had to make and test my own assumptions wrt design decisions and the like.<p>I highly recommend contributing to Firefox as well. It&#x27;s a very cool system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fhd2</author><text>I love contributing to Mozilla. I contributed to a bunch of projects in the past years, including Chromium (a very friendly bunch BTW), but Mozilla makes me feel like I&#x27;m a real part of this, not just some guy sending a patch.<p>- Literally everything they do is in the open, volunteers can participate a lot if they want to, even start new projects. (~50% of their employees remote, I guess that helps a lot here.)<p>- They&#x27;re mentoring people new to a project really well - I love this even though I prefer to just dive into the code myself.<p>- They call you a &quot;Mozillian&quot;, send you foundation&#x2F;company&#x2F;product updates, invite you to Mozilla Summit (I was there this year, and it was amazing) etc.<p>- Mozilla is not profit oriented, they just care about their mission: Moving the web forward and keeping it open. Makes me feel like part of a good cause, as opposed to unpaid labour.<p>All in all, they really got this figured out. I can recommend them to anyone who wants to contribute to something big&#x2F;important.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Code Firefox</title><url>http://codefirefox.com/</url></story> |
29,925,562 | 29,924,209 | 1 | 2 | 29,922,002 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beerandt</author><text>And then on top of it all, throttling ability.<p>People don&#x27;t grasp what an unbelievably complex engineering problem that is. It&#x27;s at least an addition of difficulty at the same magnitude as building a steady-state 63000 hp turbine pump in the first place.<p>Mechanically implementing it in the inherently steady-state design rocket of most rocket cycles. Having variable controls able to work at those pressures. Testing structural dynamics for a range of harmonic conditions instead of one. And do all of that with materials that need to tolerate temperatures going from cryogenic to white hot, without allowing thermal expansion to affect the mechanical tolerances of parts running at thousands of RPMs. And now you have varying flow rates and negative pressures in the lines coming from the external tanks, so have to design such that cryogenic liquids (that normally would require immense positive pressure to keep liquid) don&#x27;t spontaneously boil or cavitate or cause a shock-like wave (think water hammer turning off your bath faucet) under changing negative pressures.<p>It&#x27;s really difficult even for seasoned engineers to grasp the scale of difficulty involved.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HPsquared</author><text>I the power level of these engines is difficult to comprehend. The <i>fuel pump</i> has thousands of horsepower. Compare this to the fuel pump on a car engine, which is a tiny little electric thing. The combustion power must be in the gigawatt range.<p>Edit: the SSME high pressure fuel pump turbine produces 63000 hp (46 MW). There&#x27;s also one for the oxygen, and a pair of low pressure pumps as well. Crazy...<p>Edit edit: the fuel pump transfers 155 lb&#x2F;sec of liquid hydrogen. If fully combusted (142 MJ&#x2F;kg), that would release 10.0 GW of heat per engine.</text></item><item><author>opwieurposiu</author><text>This thing I can not comprehend about rocket engines is how the turbopump manages to hold together.<p>A turbine blade in the SSME about the size of your thumb makes 600 horsepower.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enginehistory.org&#x2F;Rockets&#x2F;SSME&#x2F;SSME6.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enginehistory.org&#x2F;Rockets&#x2F;SSME&#x2F;SSME6.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt</title><url>https://everydayastronaut.com/engine-cooling-methodes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>7952</author><text>Saturn V at take off had an equivalent power of 166GW. If that was electricity it would be around 2x the total capacity of all the power stations in the UK.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HPsquared</author><text>I the power level of these engines is difficult to comprehend. The <i>fuel pump</i> has thousands of horsepower. Compare this to the fuel pump on a car engine, which is a tiny little electric thing. The combustion power must be in the gigawatt range.<p>Edit: the SSME high pressure fuel pump turbine produces 63000 hp (46 MW). There&#x27;s also one for the oxygen, and a pair of low pressure pumps as well. Crazy...<p>Edit edit: the fuel pump transfers 155 lb&#x2F;sec of liquid hydrogen. If fully combusted (142 MJ&#x2F;kg), that would release 10.0 GW of heat per engine.</text></item><item><author>opwieurposiu</author><text>This thing I can not comprehend about rocket engines is how the turbopump manages to hold together.<p>A turbine blade in the SSME about the size of your thumb makes 600 horsepower.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enginehistory.org&#x2F;Rockets&#x2F;SSME&#x2F;SSME6.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enginehistory.org&#x2F;Rockets&#x2F;SSME&#x2F;SSME6.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt</title><url>https://everydayastronaut.com/engine-cooling-methodes/</url></story> |
13,306,053 | 13,305,753 | 1 | 2 | 13,305,156 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>farnsworth</author><text>- Write down, in paragraph form, absolutely everything I know about the problem<p>- Implement it in pseudocode<p>- Write the simplest code that will work end-to-end, and work outwards from there<p>- Find a library that does it</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oblique programming strategies</title><url>https://traviscj.com/blog/oblique_programming_strategies.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>traviscj</author><text>Author here, quite flattered to see the attention on HN! I would be quite open to feedback, additional mental de-blockers others have picked up, and&#x2F;or requests for clarifications that I could expound upon. :-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oblique programming strategies</title><url>https://traviscj.com/blog/oblique_programming_strategies.html</url></story> |
30,231,154 | 30,230,647 | 1 | 2 | 30,229,393 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tenoke</author><text>&gt;In web3, your wallet ID (used for purchases and proposed for logins too) is an undeletable cookie that tracks you both online and off, and one that anyone can retrieve.<p>Purchases sure on most chains (though not on e.g. Secret) but the chain isn&#x27;t recording your logins via your address in most cases. You are just showing to the site that you have the key without making any transactions. So no, advertisers won&#x27;t have much extra data on your site visiting habits that they don&#x27;t have now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>In web3, your wallet ID (used for purchases <i>and</i> proposed for logins too) is an undeletable cookie that tracks you both online and off, and one that <i>anyone</i> can retrieve.<p>This article seems to think that having a super cookie like this will make advertising less bad. I think it will be the opposite - instead of only Google&#x2F;Facebook doing it, you&#x27;re now going to have every single shady operation under the sun now able to use&#x2F;mine&#x2F;combine your data however they please with zero controls (and unlike HTTP cookies they&#x27;ll need exactly zero investment &amp; zero infrastructure to do so, so there is no barrier to entry to start using this data)<p>Web3 is the advertising world&#x27;s ultimate dream situation.<p>It allows significantly more invasive tracking by tying online and offline, cannot ever be deleted or changed, and the same cookie ID is shared across <i>all</i> aspects of your life (unless you use multiple wallets with one-per-site, but my understanding is that an anathema to web3 concepts about data ownership)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web3 doesn’t care about privacy</title><url>https://coinsights.substack.com/p/the-duality-of-web3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mouzogu</author><text>I think the underlying technologies behind web3, i.e blockchain cannot really evolve beyond ponzinomic pump and dump schemes without some kind of legitimate commercial purpose, maybe that&#x27;s some kind of incentivised advertising.<p>People always say the likes of Google and FB treat us as a product, so perhaps we can at least get some kind of magic bean tokens as a reward :D</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>In web3, your wallet ID (used for purchases <i>and</i> proposed for logins too) is an undeletable cookie that tracks you both online and off, and one that <i>anyone</i> can retrieve.<p>This article seems to think that having a super cookie like this will make advertising less bad. I think it will be the opposite - instead of only Google&#x2F;Facebook doing it, you&#x27;re now going to have every single shady operation under the sun now able to use&#x2F;mine&#x2F;combine your data however they please with zero controls (and unlike HTTP cookies they&#x27;ll need exactly zero investment &amp; zero infrastructure to do so, so there is no barrier to entry to start using this data)<p>Web3 is the advertising world&#x27;s ultimate dream situation.<p>It allows significantly more invasive tracking by tying online and offline, cannot ever be deleted or changed, and the same cookie ID is shared across <i>all</i> aspects of your life (unless you use multiple wallets with one-per-site, but my understanding is that an anathema to web3 concepts about data ownership)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web3 doesn’t care about privacy</title><url>https://coinsights.substack.com/p/the-duality-of-web3</url></story> |
36,231,707 | 36,231,652 | 1 | 2 | 36,230,839 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>schemescape</author><text>If they’re trying to sell apps, it would make sense to sell on the platform where people spend the most on apps. I have no way to verify, but I’ve heard that iOS is that platform.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guraf</author><text>Serious question: why or how does a developer in a developing nation end up selecting macos as a platform? And after that deliberate choice of hardware why do we assume they couldn&#x27;t afford the $99?</text></item><item><author>reaperman</author><text>This is still a huge improvement. Can devs also use TestFlight for free to distribute to a few dozen friends for testing?<p>Would be a massive benefit to budding developers in developing nations.</text></item><item><author>superkuh</author><text>&gt;Actually submitting apps to Apple for App Store distribution (or, on the Mac, signing them so that you can distribute them outside the App Store without setting off macOS&#x27; many unsigned app warning messages) will still cost $99 per year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 17 and macOS 14 betas</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/how-to-install-ios-17-and-macos-14-developer-betas-now-that-anyone-can-do-it/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>norman784</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how is now, but a few years ago you have more chances to monetize in iOS than in Android. Also you can get a used Mac or refurbished one relatively cheap.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guraf</author><text>Serious question: why or how does a developer in a developing nation end up selecting macos as a platform? And after that deliberate choice of hardware why do we assume they couldn&#x27;t afford the $99?</text></item><item><author>reaperman</author><text>This is still a huge improvement. Can devs also use TestFlight for free to distribute to a few dozen friends for testing?<p>Would be a massive benefit to budding developers in developing nations.</text></item><item><author>superkuh</author><text>&gt;Actually submitting apps to Apple for App Store distribution (or, on the Mac, signing them so that you can distribute them outside the App Store without setting off macOS&#x27; many unsigned app warning messages) will still cost $99 per year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 17 and macOS 14 betas</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/how-to-install-ios-17-and-macos-14-developer-betas-now-that-anyone-can-do-it/</url></story> |
8,445,606 | 8,445,202 | 1 | 2 | 8,444,634 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adambard</author><text>The Enlive scraping&#x2F;templating library for Clojure can be used in a pretty novel way to generate templates. I guess it&#x27;s a bit like transforming XML with XSLT, except without the need for an intermediary language (in favor of a DSL in Clojure).<p>Templating with Enlive takes regular old HTML, which could even be mockups of your ui, and a list of (selector, transform) pairs to apply to it. The selectors mostly mimic CSS, while the transforms come with a library to manipulate node attributes, contents, etc. Taking a non-functional form and setting its method and action might look like this:<p><pre><code> [:form#my-form] (enlive&#x2F;set-attr :action &quot;.&quot; :method &quot;POST&quot;)
</code></pre>
My favorite part of using enlive is that it removes almost all responsibility from any frontend developers to know about the templating. They can just produce straight HTML mockups with enough CSS hooks for you to get in and change what needs changing. I even use it on projects that I don&#x27;t envision anyone else working on -- it&#x27;s nice not to have to context-switch between design and development all the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>What I&#x27;d really like to see would be a nice templating language that recognizes and takes advantages of the regular structure of HTML rather than just treats it as a giant string. Can you imagine writing a program using string templating rather than functions, objects and libraries? Sure, it would be possible, but it would be rather awkward...<p>The closest I&#x27;ve seen to what I want is DRYML: <a href="http://hobocentral.net/manual/dryml-guide" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hobocentral.net&#x2F;manual&#x2F;dryml-guide</a><p>The big advantage of DRYML over systems like React &amp; builders is that it has a really nice story for customization. Rather than customizing just through XML attributes, it also has a system for passing in snippets through XML children. But not just snippets for the top component, but but snippets for children of the components you&#x27;re instantiating.<p>This has huge advantages for reusability. There are millions of jQuery widgets out there. How come you never use any of them? They never fit the style, behaviour nor requirements of your app. Yet on the server side, you pull in tens of gems, npms, etc from random authors.<p>DRYML allows customization in both the small and the large. It works well for both defining and customizing &lt;a&gt; tags as well as huge custom components. That huge custom component will use your customized &lt;a&gt; etc, so it automatically picks up your theme and behavior.<p>DRYML has some major disadvantages though: it&#x27;s really nice to use, but defining new components looks like line noise. It&#x27;s also tied to a heavyweight, lightly used framework for Ruby on Rails called Hobo.<p>One of my many projects abandoned due to lack of time is a port of DRYML&#x27;s &quot;standard library&quot; Rapid to React. React isn&#x27;t quite as nice as DRYML for re-use and customization, but it has a large number of advantages in popularity, speed and readability. If anybody else is interested in the project, give me a shout.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nunjucks – A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript by Mozilla</title><url>http://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_wmd</author><text>There were a whole family of older template systems that worked on this model. They suck because in practice they are much more restrictive, difficult to work with, and in most cases inefficient, since fundamentally they are working in the domain of a fully parsed node graph, instead of simply being lightweight control structures for basically memcpy().<p>See e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Template_Attribute_Language</a><p>On the flexibility front, the same template language (and especially ones with good whitespace control, e.g. Jinja2) can be used for any text-like format. If browser or device quirks force you to emit invalid XML to trigger some desired behavior, you don&#x27;t end up in a fight with your perfectionist templating system (and probably resorting to regexes over its output) to achieve the desired result.<p>I&#x27;d say (and probably, a younger version of myself turns in his grave as I say it) that in this case, worse turns out to be much better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>What I&#x27;d really like to see would be a nice templating language that recognizes and takes advantages of the regular structure of HTML rather than just treats it as a giant string. Can you imagine writing a program using string templating rather than functions, objects and libraries? Sure, it would be possible, but it would be rather awkward...<p>The closest I&#x27;ve seen to what I want is DRYML: <a href="http://hobocentral.net/manual/dryml-guide" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hobocentral.net&#x2F;manual&#x2F;dryml-guide</a><p>The big advantage of DRYML over systems like React &amp; builders is that it has a really nice story for customization. Rather than customizing just through XML attributes, it also has a system for passing in snippets through XML children. But not just snippets for the top component, but but snippets for children of the components you&#x27;re instantiating.<p>This has huge advantages for reusability. There are millions of jQuery widgets out there. How come you never use any of them? They never fit the style, behaviour nor requirements of your app. Yet on the server side, you pull in tens of gems, npms, etc from random authors.<p>DRYML allows customization in both the small and the large. It works well for both defining and customizing &lt;a&gt; tags as well as huge custom components. That huge custom component will use your customized &lt;a&gt; etc, so it automatically picks up your theme and behavior.<p>DRYML has some major disadvantages though: it&#x27;s really nice to use, but defining new components looks like line noise. It&#x27;s also tied to a heavyweight, lightly used framework for Ruby on Rails called Hobo.<p>One of my many projects abandoned due to lack of time is a port of DRYML&#x27;s &quot;standard library&quot; Rapid to React. React isn&#x27;t quite as nice as DRYML for re-use and customization, but it has a large number of advantages in popularity, speed and readability. If anybody else is interested in the project, give me a shout.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nunjucks – A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript by Mozilla</title><url>http://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/</url></story> |
22,415,111 | 22,414,933 | 1 | 3 | 22,413,676 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Anthony-G</author><text>I’ve upvoted your comment but I would disagree with saying “<i>your clock is messed up</i>”. The OP’s clock is fine and acting as it it’s ‘programmed’ to. What’s messed up is the way society places a higher value on the circadian rhythms of early-risers over those of night owls.<p>I recall hearing a theory that having individuals with differing circadian rhythms within the same social group provided an evolutionary advantage as not all members of the group would be asleep – and consequently vulnerable to external dangers – at the same time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arcturus17</author><text>I&#x27;ve done everything too, and the only thing that works for me is sleeping pills. I think it&#x27;s a very unpopular view nowadays (esp. after Why We Sleep), but a small dose of a benzodiazepine changes my life completely.<p>I&#x27;m in the midst of a full diagnostic course including cerebral scans, a sleep study and blood analysis, but my neurologist told me there&#x27;s a good chance that nothing actionable will be revealed and that the pill will remain the best treatment for the rest of my life.<p>I just wanted to say to you:<p>(1) I feel you, it sucks to feel that you&#x27;re underperforming b&#x2F;c your clock is messed up, and what further sucks more is that people, especially the internet, will tell you you&#x27;re doing something wrong, when you&#x27;re actually a disciplined guy that has tried everything.<p>(2) Get pro help if you can. Seeing my GP and my neurologist is the first time I&#x27;ve been assured that there&#x27;s a good chance that this is something that&#x27;s entirely out of my control, and that _actually feels good_.<p>(3) &quot;If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain&quot; - if you can&#x27;t fix it just roll with it, that&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve done at times. I&#x27;ve told a few of my bosses I&#x27;m a night owl, and they&#x27;ve fully respected it and given great freedom over my schedule.<p>You&#x27;ve got plenty of options with your skillset... If you wanted to f<i></i>* off to the beach and code as a freelancer late at night I&#x27;m guessing you could also go do that!</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a night owl my whole life, with the exception of that period during secondary school where I was so depressed in the evenings I went to bed early and as a consequence woke up super early.<p>I have followed every advice, meditation (1yr), excercise (3*1.5hrs per week for 18 months), staving off screens after 18:00 (8mo), no caffiene, no sugar, no food of any kind, I also tried: too much food, cooling my body down before I go to bed, valerian root, sleeping pills, codeine, running before sleep.. absolutely positively everything.<p>Why? because there is a strongly negative view society has on me for waking up at nearly 9am every day, or staying at work longer into the evenings.<p>At some point I have to call it quits, it&#x27;s not working.<p>(FWIW my brain &quot;wakes up&quot; at night, I get the majority of my best work done between midnight and 4am, and for 6 years now I have avoided being awake during that time for any reason.. but recently I let it happen for one night and the output was insane compared to my daily hours)<p>EDIT: Based on the comments here, I just need to have a kid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fluuuhi</author><text>I have thought about Benzos but to be honest, all the stories of addiction and old people becoming hazi&#x2F;stupid (temporarily) frightens me.<p>I try to sleep through weed (indica). I&#x27;m not to happy about it but that works more or less.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arcturus17</author><text>I&#x27;ve done everything too, and the only thing that works for me is sleeping pills. I think it&#x27;s a very unpopular view nowadays (esp. after Why We Sleep), but a small dose of a benzodiazepine changes my life completely.<p>I&#x27;m in the midst of a full diagnostic course including cerebral scans, a sleep study and blood analysis, but my neurologist told me there&#x27;s a good chance that nothing actionable will be revealed and that the pill will remain the best treatment for the rest of my life.<p>I just wanted to say to you:<p>(1) I feel you, it sucks to feel that you&#x27;re underperforming b&#x2F;c your clock is messed up, and what further sucks more is that people, especially the internet, will tell you you&#x27;re doing something wrong, when you&#x27;re actually a disciplined guy that has tried everything.<p>(2) Get pro help if you can. Seeing my GP and my neurologist is the first time I&#x27;ve been assured that there&#x27;s a good chance that this is something that&#x27;s entirely out of my control, and that _actually feels good_.<p>(3) &quot;If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain&quot; - if you can&#x27;t fix it just roll with it, that&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve done at times. I&#x27;ve told a few of my bosses I&#x27;m a night owl, and they&#x27;ve fully respected it and given great freedom over my schedule.<p>You&#x27;ve got plenty of options with your skillset... If you wanted to f<i></i>* off to the beach and code as a freelancer late at night I&#x27;m guessing you could also go do that!</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a night owl my whole life, with the exception of that period during secondary school where I was so depressed in the evenings I went to bed early and as a consequence woke up super early.<p>I have followed every advice, meditation (1yr), excercise (3*1.5hrs per week for 18 months), staving off screens after 18:00 (8mo), no caffiene, no sugar, no food of any kind, I also tried: too much food, cooling my body down before I go to bed, valerian root, sleeping pills, codeine, running before sleep.. absolutely positively everything.<p>Why? because there is a strongly negative view society has on me for waking up at nearly 9am every day, or staying at work longer into the evenings.<p>At some point I have to call it quits, it&#x27;s not working.<p>(FWIW my brain &quot;wakes up&quot; at night, I get the majority of my best work done between midnight and 4am, and for 6 years now I have avoided being awake during that time for any reason.. but recently I let it happen for one night and the output was insane compared to my daily hours)<p>EDIT: Based on the comments here, I just need to have a kid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/</url></story> |
37,532,237 | 37,530,659 | 1 | 2 | 37,527,720 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iancmceachern</author><text>I&#x27;ve watched this happen.<p>I&#x27;ve watched key, core engineers and technical leaders work for US and European companies, develop their next generation products, then turn around and design and develop essentially the exact same thing for the Chinese market. They then build a company, in China, that makes essentially the same product, but for the Chinese Market, and with Chinese investors, etc.<p>Examples:
Thoratec&#x2F;Abbot Heartmate III &amp; CH Biomedical<p>Auris&#x2F;Verb&#x2F;J&amp;J Robotic &amp; Digital Solutions &amp; Renovo Surgical<p>The ironic thing, is that some of these companies after success in China are working to sell and be competitive in the US and Europe.<p>It&#x27;s not even secret or under the table anymore, it&#x27;s overt and largely accepted as the way it is in our industry. A brave new world.<p>The other factor, is that it is very very difficult for a foreign company to do business and protect their assets in China, so often the wise companies don&#x27;t even try. They often just license their stuff for the Chinese market to a Chinese company. That way they at least have a chance of not having it all just stolen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ipython</author><text>Best quote: &quot;People working for Didi apply for intern jobs at Uber China and then exfiltrate our data. We can’t let them see the formulas or they’ll just copy what we do!”<p>This is so true. People in the US just don&#x27;t understand the level of economic and industrial espionage that happens in China on a daily basis. I was responding to an unrelated breach at an unnamed tech company back in mid-2000s time frame and had a side bar conversation that went like the following:<p>Them: &quot;Yeah, we just opened a tech center in Xinjiang and ... wow, we&#x27;ve had quite the rash of lost ID badges there recently&quot;<p>Me: &quot;Have you considered that they&#x27;re not &#x27;lost&#x27;, but rather &#x27;sold&#x27; for profit?&quot;<p>... silence ...<p>I don&#x27;t know if executives are aware but just don&#x27;t care, or if they&#x27;re simply incompetent, but China has productized industrial espionage on a massive scale. GE Aviation was a victim more recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cincinnati.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;accused-chinese-spy-who-targeted-ge-aviation-sentenced-to-20-years&#x2F;69653460007&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cincinnati.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;accused-chi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it</title><url>https://basta.substack.com/p/no-sacred-masterpieces</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mkii</author><text>And yet, when the author takes code from one company to use for another, or releases company code on Github, nobody bats an eyelid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ipython</author><text>Best quote: &quot;People working for Didi apply for intern jobs at Uber China and then exfiltrate our data. We can’t let them see the formulas or they’ll just copy what we do!”<p>This is so true. People in the US just don&#x27;t understand the level of economic and industrial espionage that happens in China on a daily basis. I was responding to an unrelated breach at an unnamed tech company back in mid-2000s time frame and had a side bar conversation that went like the following:<p>Them: &quot;Yeah, we just opened a tech center in Xinjiang and ... wow, we&#x27;ve had quite the rash of lost ID badges there recently&quot;<p>Me: &quot;Have you considered that they&#x27;re not &#x27;lost&#x27;, but rather &#x27;sold&#x27; for profit?&quot;<p>... silence ...<p>I don&#x27;t know if executives are aware but just don&#x27;t care, or if they&#x27;re simply incompetent, but China has productized industrial espionage on a massive scale. GE Aviation was a victim more recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cincinnati.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;accused-chinese-spy-who-targeted-ge-aviation-sentenced-to-20-years&#x2F;69653460007&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cincinnati.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;accused-chi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it</title><url>https://basta.substack.com/p/no-sacred-masterpieces</url></story> |
9,931,836 | 9,931,601 | 1 | 2 | 9,929,333 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeteo</author><text>This can be read as a story of what happens when management becomes divorced from engineering... literally.<p>&gt;Lore Harp and Carole Ely of Westlake Village brought along the Vector 1, a PC designed by Lore&#x27;s husband, Bob Harp.<p>&gt;In 1980, the partnership began to crack at the seams. The stresses of the company took a heavy toll on Bob and Lore&#x27;s marriage, prompting them to seek a divorce.<p>&gt;Bob fought with Vector&#x27;s board of directors, insisting the company should sell an IBM PC compatible machine, but Lore and the board resisted. [...] &quot;I felt that I had to leave the company and start another one based on PC compatibles,&quot; says Bob. Vector&#x27;s board granted his wish, firing him in 1981. The following year, Bob founded Corona Data Systems, which created one of the first IBM PC clones.<p>&gt;Lore became the first female founder to take her company public on the New York Stock Exchange. But the celebration was short-lived. IBM PC&#x27;s jump into the personal computer market in August of that year had a clarifying effect on the industry.<p>&gt;In 1982, Lore married tech media magnate Patrick McGovern, the founder of research firm IDC and publisher of Computerworld and InfoWorld [...] She sought a new beginning with more time devoted to her marriage. [...] Between the grueling daily commute and a lack of love from the board of directors, Lore had had enough. She stepped down once again, this time for good. It was 1984; she was 40 years old.<p>&gt;The company filed for bankruptcy in 1985, ceased operations in 1986, and a holding company liquidated all its assets [...] in 1987</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-two-bored-1970s-housewives-helped-create-the-pc-industry</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>I got through the first paragraph before the whole page was replaced with an interstitial ad.<p>What would you call that, Flash Of Actual Content?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-two-bored-1970s-housewives-helped-create-the-pc-industry</url></story> |
37,011,710 | 37,011,559 | 1 | 3 | 37,006,705 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>somehnguy</author><text>&gt; Just don&#x27;t buy the &quot;e&quot; models if you&#x27;re shopping elsewhere<p>Ah yes, “just” add another highly specific thing to your memory so that sometime unpredictable in a next x years you don’t get completely screwed by the giant corp. And for all those people who don’t spend their days on a computer reading HN, sucks to be you, HP got ya.<p>The sarcasm in this comment isn’t directed at you (thanks for sharing the ‘e’ tidbit) - I’m just so so tired of giant corps actively trying to screw the consumer at every possible turn. It makes shopping for anything besides the absolute basics exhausting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tjohns</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a Costco-specific thing.<p>HP printers come in an &quot;e&quot; model, which requires an Instant Ink subscription (but is cheaper - effectively subsidized by the subscription), and a non-&quot;e&quot; model that is unlocked (but costs more). Just don&#x27;t buy the &quot;e&quot; models if you&#x27;re shopping elsewhere.<p>In general, the reason Costco sells electronics with different model numbers is so that you can&#x27;t price match them to&#x2F;from other retailers. Sometimes a few minor features get removed as well to lower the overall cost.</text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Costco requires that all HP printers they sell are fully functional even if you don&#x27;t subscribe to any of HP&#x27;s services.<p>That&#x27;s why the Costco HP printers are often models exclusive to Costco.<p>(They require a similar thing of Sony televisions, which is why Sony TVs have slightly different model numbers at Costco.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820710/pay-no-attention-to-the-usb-port-behind-the-no-usb-sticker</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OGWhales</author><text>&gt; In general, the reason Costco sells electronics with different model numbers is so that you can&#x27;t price match them to&#x2F;from other retailers.<p>Costco doesn’t offer price matching.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tjohns</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a Costco-specific thing.<p>HP printers come in an &quot;e&quot; model, which requires an Instant Ink subscription (but is cheaper - effectively subsidized by the subscription), and a non-&quot;e&quot; model that is unlocked (but costs more). Just don&#x27;t buy the &quot;e&quot; models if you&#x27;re shopping elsewhere.<p>In general, the reason Costco sells electronics with different model numbers is so that you can&#x27;t price match them to&#x2F;from other retailers. Sometimes a few minor features get removed as well to lower the overall cost.</text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Costco requires that all HP printers they sell are fully functional even if you don&#x27;t subscribe to any of HP&#x27;s services.<p>That&#x27;s why the Costco HP printers are often models exclusive to Costco.<p>(They require a similar thing of Sony televisions, which is why Sony TVs have slightly different model numbers at Costco.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820710/pay-no-attention-to-the-usb-port-behind-the-no-usb-sticker</url></story> |
35,193,689 | 35,193,144 | 1 | 2 | 35,190,631 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ephil012</author><text>I think there’s a general trend online where people post tweets on places like Reddit where others might assume the tweet is factual. As a standard disclaimer, just because someone claimed on Twitter that SpaceX messed up the reaction wheels does not mean it’s true. Unless there’s more concrete proof, we should not automatically assume it’s true.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starlink V2 Satellites in Trouble</title><url>https://twitter.com/TMFAssociates/status/1636436007837941770</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>They also lost something like 40 out of 52 satellites when a solar flare caused the atmosphere to temporarily expand, causing more drag than expected before they could all go into thrusting prograde with their ion&#x2F;hall effect thruster for standard post-release orbit raising. Immediately after launch.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=starlink+launch+solar+flare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=starlink+...</a><p>At the scale of 3500+ satellites and automated assembly line production of them this is nothing more than a minor inconvenience. It&#x27;s unfortunate that this happened but also it&#x27;s <i>great</i> that if this is in fact the problem with the hardware design of the satellites it was revealed on the very first launch of the &quot;v2.0 mini&quot; production line. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re pushing it into a &quot;v2.0 mini rev B1&quot; now or something in Redmond.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starlink V2 Satellites in Trouble</title><url>https://twitter.com/TMFAssociates/status/1636436007837941770</url></story> |
38,719,198 | 38,718,435 | 1 | 2 | 38,718,020 | 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>lr1970</author><text>&gt; The whole approach is very sensitive to the detonation height, asteroid composition and color, rotational characteristics, etc. So Burkey’s group has really made a simulation framework for modeling the right thing to do for a given asteroid.<p>And don&#x27;t forget that most asteroids are spinning over its own center-of-mass. The thrust generated by evaporating rocks on one of its sides will be changing direction as the asteroid spins around. Think of a rocket with thrust but no stabilization. Cool idea but very hard to make practical.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spenczar5</author><text>So, this research is extremely cool. The way nuclear deflection works is not how you think. You probably don’t blast the rock to bits. Instead, Burkey’s model uses a bomb tunes to produce a crazy amount of x-ray radiation which heats up one side of the asteroid. You heat it up so much that the rock liquifies, then bubbles, and outgasses - and forms a propulsive engine, right on the surface, shooting out gaseous ultra-hot rock.<p>Newton’s third law kicks in: as the asteroid ejects mass in one direction, the asteroid reacts by going the opposite way. So you have altered the orbital trajectory of the asteroid, averting disaster.<p>The whole approach is very sensitive to the detonation height, asteroid composition and color, rotational characteristics, etc. So Burkey’s group has really made a simulation framework for modeling the right thing to do for a given asteroid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroids</title><url>https://www.llnl.gov/article/50716/new-nuclear-deflection-simulations-advance-planetary-defense-against-asteroid-threats</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noman-land</author><text>How do you prevent the asteroid from flying erratically like a balloon with the air rushing out?</text><parent_chain><item><author>spenczar5</author><text>So, this research is extremely cool. The way nuclear deflection works is not how you think. You probably don’t blast the rock to bits. Instead, Burkey’s model uses a bomb tunes to produce a crazy amount of x-ray radiation which heats up one side of the asteroid. You heat it up so much that the rock liquifies, then bubbles, and outgasses - and forms a propulsive engine, right on the surface, shooting out gaseous ultra-hot rock.<p>Newton’s third law kicks in: as the asteroid ejects mass in one direction, the asteroid reacts by going the opposite way. So you have altered the orbital trajectory of the asteroid, averting disaster.<p>The whole approach is very sensitive to the detonation height, asteroid composition and color, rotational characteristics, etc. So Burkey’s group has really made a simulation framework for modeling the right thing to do for a given asteroid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroids</title><url>https://www.llnl.gov/article/50716/new-nuclear-deflection-simulations-advance-planetary-defense-against-asteroid-threats</url></story> |
25,575,775 | 25,575,982 | 1 | 3 | 25,574,661 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>This reminds me of my favourite Windows application ever: EvalDraw.<p>It&#x27;s like this, except that beyond drawing single-argument f(x) -&gt; y functions, it also draws f(x, y) -&gt; z heatmaps, f(x, y) -&gt; (R, G, B) colored heatmaps, f(x, y, z) -&gt; (R, G, B) volumetric 3D graphics, and all these have also a f(..., t) -&gt; ... variant for animations. And then you dig in and discover it somehow also has keyboard &amp; mouse input handling, can play sounds (and can be used for live procedural music), simulate a piano keyboard, and probably a bunch of other stuff I&#x27;m forgetting. It was my go-to tool for visualizing any kind of math back during the university years.<p>In fact, I just took a look at it again (after not using it for years) and I discovered it has networking capability, IDE features, and - I kid you not - it seems to compile the scripts down to native code, offering a helpful x86 ASM output in the built-in debugger. It can dump executables, has bindings to OpenGL and support for old-school VR (colored stereoscopic, NVidia 3DVision).<p><i>All in an executable that weighs 746 KB.</i><p>It&#x27;s hands-down one of the most impressive pieces of software I have ever seen.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;advsys.net&#x2F;ken&#x2F;download.htm#evaldraw" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;advsys.net&#x2F;ken&#x2F;download.htm#evaldraw</a><p>EDIT: And if you give it a try, be sure to check some of the ridiculous amount of examples it comes bundled with, which include games, explorable explanations, infinite calendars, optical systems simulations, and a whole host of other stuff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Graph Toy, an interactive graph visualizer using mathematical functions</title><url>http://memorystomp.com/graphtoy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dahart</author><text>If the author is here -- the extra features compared to IQ&#x27;s version are nice! I might make this my bookmarked default version.<p>If interested, here are a few thoughts:<p>- It might be good to link directly to IQ&#x27;s version of GraphToy, rather than his homepage.<p>- I dig the white background option!<p>- The create link feature is a bit smoother than the original.<p>- The download image button is a great idea, though I just realized with both versions you can right click to save the image, without needing a new tab. One thing that occurred to me -- it would be <i>killer</i> if the download image version popped up an SVG render with a higher sampling rate, instead of pixels! A little text or UI could clarify how to save a pixel version vs a vector rendering.<p>- I like the escalator function used to demo the time variable! I&#x27;ve used that very function on ShaderToy.<p>- It would be super nice if the plot window used a flexbox or grid layout to stretch to fill the window. It&#x27;s currently a bit smaller than IQ&#x27;s and doesn&#x27;t resize.<p>- Might also be nice to have the help box be a popup you can click (the way it works in ShaderToy), and maybe put the variables underneath the plot, to allow the plot to expand to basically full screen?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Graph Toy, an interactive graph visualizer using mathematical functions</title><url>http://memorystomp.com/graphtoy/</url></story> |
29,203,290 | 29,202,039 | 1 | 2 | 29,200,506 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Recent and related:<p><i>EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29066894" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29066894</a> - Nov 2021 (197 comments)<p>Previously:<p><i>Messaging and chat control</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28115343" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28115343</a> - Aug 2021 (317 comments)<p><i>EU Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27759814" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27759814</a> - July 2021 (11 comments)<p><i>European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27753727" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27753727</a> - July 2021 (415 comments)<p><i>Indiscriminate messaging and chatcontrol: Last chance to protest</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27736435" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27736435</a> - July 2021 (104 comments)<p><i>IT companies warn in open letter: EU wants to ban encryption</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26825653" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26825653</a> - April 2021 (217 comments)<p>Others?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU interior ministers welcome mandatory chat control for all smartphones</title><url>https://european-pirateparty.eu/eu-minister-welcome-chatcontrol/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>triska</author><text>More in-depth information:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netzpolitik.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;eu-commission-why-chat-control-is-so-dangerous&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netzpolitik.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;eu-commission-why-chat-control-...</a><p>Including for example:<p><i>&quot;According to a legal opinion by Prof. Dr. Ninon Colneric automated scanning could indeed be illegal. Surveillance without a specific reason or reasonable suspicion is prohibited in the EU due to the fact of its violation of fundamental rights. The European Court of Justice has repeatedly confirmed this view and, for example, reproved the retention of data on a number of occasions.<p>Nevertheless, attempts to revive the data retention zombie with legal tricks have not died down. The demand can be found regularly in council papers of various EU countries. Thus, this type of mass surveillance is still part of the German Telecommunications Act („Telekommunikationsgesetz“), although being currently suspended.&quot;</i><p>The open letter, linked in the article, is also a good read:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patrick-breyer.de&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;20211020_Letter_General_Monitoring.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patrick-breyer.de&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;202...</a><p>Notably:<p><i>&quot;Individuals,
businesses and government rely on end-to-end encryption to safeguard their personal, commercial and
state secrets. The safety of individuals (e.g. witnesses, officials) depends on secure encryption protecting
their confidential communications. Backdoors can and will be abused by criminals, foreign intelligence
services and forces that seek to destabilise our society. The Commission keeps reiterating its
commitment to not generally weaken encryption, but “client-side scanning” would do exactly this.&quot;</i><p>A question I have about this topic: Banks and other organizations, including governments themselves, <i>mandate</i> that specific kinds of information be kept secret. An example of this is the information I need to log in to my bank account.<p><i>How am I supposed to comply with these requirements if every device I use is compromised?</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU interior ministers welcome mandatory chat control for all smartphones</title><url>https://european-pirateparty.eu/eu-minister-welcome-chatcontrol/</url></story> |
16,886,049 | 16,884,914 | 1 | 2 | 16,883,882 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raphar</author><text>This is key. I see that there are two aspects of this story:<p>1. The OP is obviously far ahead technically than his work environmment. He has the experience, know the practices and can improve the software process.<p>2. Second but key, he sucks at working in a team and also at communication. You don&#x27;t change a mess such as the one he describes in 5 months. That culture of the company, if you are not the boss, only changes by soft proposals, influence, bond building, debate.... Nothing is going to change to new practices or behaviours if not for conviction (or fear). It&#x27;s a slow process, an not one you can win only by logic. The subject is huge.<p>That said, I agree that it was better for him to leave.</text><parent_chain><item><author>OutsmartDan</author><text>Some hard lesson&#x27;s i&#x27;ve realized while working in &quot;professional&quot; environments:<p>1. You must earn respect before you trash the system, no matter how shitty their code is or lack of tests. It&#x27;s usually best to start by &quot;doing your job&quot;- whether that&#x27;s issues assigned to you or bug fixes; you are at the bottom of the totem pole right now. Once you&#x27;re &quot;respected&quot;, implementing better solutions will be a lot easier.<p>2. Excuses for why shitty code is in production are probably legitimate excuses; a company that makes profit on a SaaS product needs to launch and iterate quickly. Product managers&#x2F;sales&#x2F;marketing do not care about your unit tests. Your users also don&#x27;t care about your unit tests. Unfortunately this is a dilemma that&#x27;s hard to swallow, because when things break, it comes back around.<p>You have to realize a team that&#x27;s been there before you has done things in certain ways for certain reasons- whether that&#x27;s good or bad, you must adapt to it before you go king kong on their shit.<p>Or you can just start your own company and make your own rules.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Be likeable or get fired</title><url>https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/belikeableorgetfired</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>I will add that, as a new employee, the best possible way to gain the trust of your new managers is to make them look good. In the case where you can see some obvious improvements, that means working collaboratively with the manager so that they can take some credit for the improvements. Specifically it means offering criticism and suggestions privately, getting the OK before making changes, and letting the leader manage the broader communication about the changes.<p>This advice is going to piss some people off--I know it. It will piss off people who wish work was an objective technical meritocracy where the best coders immediately rise to the top and are in charge. And maybe a company that operates that way would indeed be the very best company! But that leads to the most important line in the comment above:<p>&gt; Or you can just start your own company and make your own rules.<p>When you accept employment in an existing company, you are making a trade--you are trading the stability of being an employee, for the power of running your own company and making all the rules. You must understand that that means you are accepting there will be some level of messiness in joining a culture that already exists. You have to understand that for all its apparent shortcomings, your new employer has already been successful enough to hire you, and they&#x27;re not unreasonable to expect some level of respect for that.<p>In my experience if you have a tech lead who is defensive and hostile to criticism of systems that are obviously not where they should be, it is either because they are total assholes, or it&#x27;s because they <i>know</i> of the shortcomings, and feel immense frustration that they have not felt able to address them.<p>If they are total assholes, you don&#x27;t want to work there anyway.<p>But if it&#x27;s just frustration (and IME it often is), then you have a huge opportunity to grow and lead. You can solve the frustrations and help make a better product! But if you lead of with public complaints and criticisms, or go off and make changes on your own without coordination and the ok--those will <i>add</i> frustrations, and undercut whatever good you&#x27;re delivering.</text><parent_chain><item><author>OutsmartDan</author><text>Some hard lesson&#x27;s i&#x27;ve realized while working in &quot;professional&quot; environments:<p>1. You must earn respect before you trash the system, no matter how shitty their code is or lack of tests. It&#x27;s usually best to start by &quot;doing your job&quot;- whether that&#x27;s issues assigned to you or bug fixes; you are at the bottom of the totem pole right now. Once you&#x27;re &quot;respected&quot;, implementing better solutions will be a lot easier.<p>2. Excuses for why shitty code is in production are probably legitimate excuses; a company that makes profit on a SaaS product needs to launch and iterate quickly. Product managers&#x2F;sales&#x2F;marketing do not care about your unit tests. Your users also don&#x27;t care about your unit tests. Unfortunately this is a dilemma that&#x27;s hard to swallow, because when things break, it comes back around.<p>You have to realize a team that&#x27;s been there before you has done things in certain ways for certain reasons- whether that&#x27;s good or bad, you must adapt to it before you go king kong on their shit.<p>Or you can just start your own company and make your own rules.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Be likeable or get fired</title><url>https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/belikeableorgetfired</url></story> |
22,075,057 | 22,074,788 | 1 | 3 | 22,073,882 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derrida</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;re talking about a national park in Australia, not the inaccessible depths of the Amazon encircled by the Andes.<p>It is pretty inaccessible. Experienced hikers go missing never to be found all the time in the blue mountains - just walking off the suburban commuter train lines that service sydney. And that&#x27;s in a few kms radius of the train line. The wollemi national park is miles away from that still, has no roads or trails that cross it, and is (was?) true wilderness - right on the outskirts of sydney. Huge part of the map was somewhere there wasn&#x27;t even trails you could get in. Right next to sydney a place of equal size where you could be sure there was not a single human sleeping :) We&#x27;ll have to see how it recovers.<p>I think what is unusual is people dont&#x27; have an experience of nature anymore where its wild.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>Is anyone else blown away that life as large as a couple hundred of these trees could remain hidden from discovery until 1994 in a developed nation? We&#x27;re talking about a national park in Australia, not the inaccessible depths of the Amazon encircled by the Andes.<p>It makes one wonder what else is out there to still be discovered.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796994699/aussie-firefighters-save-worlds-only-groves-of-prehistoric-wollemi-pines</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Needle in a haystack. It&#x27;s roughly as inaccessible as the Amazon; at least there you have water. We &quot;know&quot; as a matter of statistical likelihood that there are significant numbers plant and animal (mostly insect) species in the Amazon that have been destroyed by human action before they can be meaningfully catalogued, it&#x27;s just fortunate that these trees have been found and protected.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>Is anyone else blown away that life as large as a couple hundred of these trees could remain hidden from discovery until 1994 in a developed nation? We&#x27;re talking about a national park in Australia, not the inaccessible depths of the Amazon encircled by the Andes.<p>It makes one wonder what else is out there to still be discovered.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796994699/aussie-firefighters-save-worlds-only-groves-of-prehistoric-wollemi-pines</url></story> |
34,492,219 | 34,491,912 | 1 | 3 | 34,490,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Volundr</author><text>TBH this more or less describes the problem at least for me. I&#x27;m like 3 Star Wars series behind. Catching up at this point feels more like a chore than entertainment. Forget Marvel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Yeah, D+ is churning out an enormous volume of what would be considered prestige content at other services. All the Star Wars and Marvel shows are star-studded and larded with top-tier visual effects. And some of them aren&#x27;t really getting a lot of viewers from what the rumors say.</text></item><item><author>phphphphp</author><text>Content is expensive to produce. Disney+ is not just a streaming platform for existing Disney content, rather, Disney produce content for it. Likewise, Netflix spends most of its money on content, operating the actual platform is comparatively cheap.</text></item><item><author>zamadatix</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is how e.g. Disney+ is losing so much money. It&#x27;s Disney&#x27;s content, has an enormous userbase, and somehow is bleeding billions?</text></item><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>I&#x27;m gonna attempt to break this down:<p>- Netflix has 5-6 Billion USD free cash flow, and because they got what debt they do have under favorable terms, they are positioned to retain most of that free cash flow<p>- Disney, Comcast (Peacock), CBS&#x2F;Viacom and other media corporations are saddled with debt, and are all losing money on their own independent streaming businesses. Likely untenable in their shareholder model<p>- Therefore, Netflix needs to do what it can to retain &#x2F; attract subscribers, but essentially can wait until the other services have to give up due to cost<p>In a nutshell, Netflix is poised to play more long game, due to cost structures of their competitors.<p>so fair, sounds good, but it assumes the boards &#x2F; leadership of these companies won&#x27;t also play a long game, seeing some sort of profitability horizon is they cannibalize their existing businesses for sticky services (like streaming). I could see Disney doing this, to some extent, with their cable TV channels and movies. I&#x27;m less bullish on Comcast&#x2F;NBC, CBS&#x2F;Viacom or really any other media company being able to do this, simply because they don&#x27;t have the &quot;staying power&quot; Disney does.<p>This also fails to account for the strength of HBO Max (very strong sub numbers)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix's New Chapter</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2023/netflixs-new-chapter/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mardifoufs</author><text>That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s so surprising imo. Disney+ has a very wide and deep catalog of pre-existing IP, and I would have imagined that most subscribers care more about that than any future original production. So it&#x27;s weird to see them invest so much in new content, more so than competitors that have a much weaker, smaller catalog. Especially when the content is made exclusively for Disney+.<p>But I&#x27;m almost certainly completely wrong, and I&#x27;m sure they have tons of data justifying their investment in new content. I guess I&#x27;m biaised since I pay for Disney+ so that my little sister can use it, and original shows weren&#x27;t important to my decision to subscribe at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Yeah, D+ is churning out an enormous volume of what would be considered prestige content at other services. All the Star Wars and Marvel shows are star-studded and larded with top-tier visual effects. And some of them aren&#x27;t really getting a lot of viewers from what the rumors say.</text></item><item><author>phphphphp</author><text>Content is expensive to produce. Disney+ is not just a streaming platform for existing Disney content, rather, Disney produce content for it. Likewise, Netflix spends most of its money on content, operating the actual platform is comparatively cheap.</text></item><item><author>zamadatix</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is how e.g. Disney+ is losing so much money. It&#x27;s Disney&#x27;s content, has an enormous userbase, and somehow is bleeding billions?</text></item><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>I&#x27;m gonna attempt to break this down:<p>- Netflix has 5-6 Billion USD free cash flow, and because they got what debt they do have under favorable terms, they are positioned to retain most of that free cash flow<p>- Disney, Comcast (Peacock), CBS&#x2F;Viacom and other media corporations are saddled with debt, and are all losing money on their own independent streaming businesses. Likely untenable in their shareholder model<p>- Therefore, Netflix needs to do what it can to retain &#x2F; attract subscribers, but essentially can wait until the other services have to give up due to cost<p>In a nutshell, Netflix is poised to play more long game, due to cost structures of their competitors.<p>so fair, sounds good, but it assumes the boards &#x2F; leadership of these companies won&#x27;t also play a long game, seeing some sort of profitability horizon is they cannibalize their existing businesses for sticky services (like streaming). I could see Disney doing this, to some extent, with their cable TV channels and movies. I&#x27;m less bullish on Comcast&#x2F;NBC, CBS&#x2F;Viacom or really any other media company being able to do this, simply because they don&#x27;t have the &quot;staying power&quot; Disney does.<p>This also fails to account for the strength of HBO Max (very strong sub numbers)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix's New Chapter</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2023/netflixs-new-chapter/</url></story> |
30,193,266 | 30,193,642 | 1 | 2 | 30,192,558 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>My biggest gripe is the fact I can&#x27;t transfer it to my cousin, who lives on a farm with 300 Kbps DSL, 70 miles away.<p>Back when preorders started, it wasn&#x27;t obvious how slow Starlink would be to expand, and it also wasn&#x27;t obvious transfers wouldn&#x27;t be a supported feature for many months.<p>Even so, my cousin also signed up in hopes to get Starlink, and 11 months later her date was moved from &#x27;late 2021&#x27; to &#x27;late 2022&#x27;.<p>And yes, I&#x27;ve tried many address hacks to see if I could get my dish moved there, none have worked.<p>They shouldn&#x27;t have dropped the &#x27;beta&#x27; moniker last year if the service is truly so far from its final state (IMO).</text><parent_chain><item><author>fastaguy88</author><text>I get it. If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you. There are lots of questionable design choices (particularly in version 2), it&#x27;s picky about placement, etc. etc.<p>But if your other choice is HughesNet or its competitors, that throttles you after 15 GB (2 days of non-streaming usage for me), or 50 GB, the Starlink &quot;shortcomings&quot; are irrelevant. With Starlink, if you can get it, and if you can site it without blockages, you have &quot;real&quot; internet. Reasonable speeds and no caps&#x2F;throttling.<p>The massive over-subscription (presumably by people who have no functional alternative) suggests it serves a need.<p>Just not a need for people who have a non-DSL wired alternative, like Jeff Geerling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-took-down-starlink-i-havent-cancelled</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Diederich</author><text>&gt; If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you.<p>We bought a property in a very rural area in mid 2020. One of the hard requirements was verified high speed Internet access.<p>Our home has good performing Comcast. But I also pay $100&#x2F;month and have a Dishy on my roof. Fortunately our home is very tall and we&#x27;re able to get about 95% visibility, since our home is in the middle of a forest.<p>Why am I paying an extra $100&#x2F;month? Because our Comcast has outages. It&#x27;s not surprising since we&#x27;re at the end of miles and miles of above ground cable that has hundreds of trees pushing up against the wires and poles.<p>I&#x27;m a pretty well off &#x27;tech person&#x27; so an additional $100&#x2F;month to cover a few hours of use makes sense.<p>(Wireless coverage is terrible around here, so that was never a backup possibility.)<p>I&#x27;m pretty convinced that Starlink is not only going to revolutionize many people&#x27;s lives, but it&#x27;s also going to be a cash cow for SpaceX, in large part funding their Mars ambitions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fastaguy88</author><text>I get it. If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you. There are lots of questionable design choices (particularly in version 2), it&#x27;s picky about placement, etc. etc.<p>But if your other choice is HughesNet or its competitors, that throttles you after 15 GB (2 days of non-streaming usage for me), or 50 GB, the Starlink &quot;shortcomings&quot; are irrelevant. With Starlink, if you can get it, and if you can site it without blockages, you have &quot;real&quot; internet. Reasonable speeds and no caps&#x2F;throttling.<p>The massive over-subscription (presumably by people who have no functional alternative) suggests it serves a need.<p>Just not a need for people who have a non-DSL wired alternative, like Jeff Geerling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-took-down-starlink-i-havent-cancelled</url></story> |
36,596,441 | 36,596,398 | 1 | 2 | 36,596,193 | 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>reflexco</author><text>No, it&#x27;s absolutely not about how &quot;counterculture&quot; her opinions are. It&#x27;s about using offensive language. She probably would have avoided all trouble if instead of talking down a fellow participant of the conference, she plugged her beliefs in pacifism in a positive manner.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spondylosaurus</author><text>Nice read, thanks for sharing.<p>It&#x27;s interesting (to say the least) that they more or less used a &quot;no talking about politics&quot; clause to fire this woman, even though the other guy&#x27;s statements about DoD weapons systems are certainly just as political. But he&#x27;s an Air Force guy, she&#x27;s a dissident, he&#x27;s establishment, she&#x27;s counterculture, so he got to push her out of a job for meeting him on his playing field, so to speak.<p>Always illuminating to see what gets cast as &quot;political&quot; and what gets cast as merely neutral.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>comprev</author><text>The key element is the poster was essentially _representing_ their employer at a tech conference.<p>This would be no different than wearing the uniform of a supermarket and going on a political rant with a megaphone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spondylosaurus</author><text>Nice read, thanks for sharing.<p>It&#x27;s interesting (to say the least) that they more or less used a &quot;no talking about politics&quot; clause to fire this woman, even though the other guy&#x27;s statements about DoD weapons systems are certainly just as political. But he&#x27;s an Air Force guy, she&#x27;s a dissident, he&#x27;s establishment, she&#x27;s counterculture, so he got to push her out of a job for meeting him on his playing field, so to speak.<p>Always illuminating to see what gets cast as &quot;political&quot; and what gets cast as merely neutral.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story> |
21,565,665 | 21,564,379 | 1 | 2 | 21,563,871 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jiofih</author><text>That’s a very poor excuse for mass collection of personal data. They can easily figure that out from commercial datasets, or even a small-scale research effort.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>Not trying to defend intel, just trying to offer a (somewhat justified) answer:<p>If people are using more streaming services, that means Intel should focus more on their Integrated Graphics platforms. If people are downloading significantly more data than ever before, they should probably make sure their networking drivers receive more support.<p>Knowing how people use their PC&#x27;s, even by category, can help Intel manage its driver development.</text></item><item><author>rswail</author><text>Why on earth would the &quot;category of web sites&quot; be of possible use other than selling the data?<p>Telemetry is now an attack vector for privacy in general because no one can be trusted with the data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites you visit”</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/idsa-cip.html#CollectedData</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mixedbit</author><text>Right, because if you are using your computer mostly to download stuff, you are OK if your GPU occasionally hangs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>Not trying to defend intel, just trying to offer a (somewhat justified) answer:<p>If people are using more streaming services, that means Intel should focus more on their Integrated Graphics platforms. If people are downloading significantly more data than ever before, they should probably make sure their networking drivers receive more support.<p>Knowing how people use their PC&#x27;s, even by category, can help Intel manage its driver development.</text></item><item><author>rswail</author><text>Why on earth would the &quot;category of web sites&quot; be of possible use other than selling the data?<p>Telemetry is now an attack vector for privacy in general because no one can be trusted with the data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites you visit”</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/idsa-cip.html#CollectedData</url></story> |
13,530,264 | 13,529,341 | 1 | 2 | 13,528,434 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fecak</author><text>This could be a number of things. For context, I&#x27;ve been in recruiting for ~20 years (mostly software startups) and I also write resumes and consult&#x2F;coach job seekers on a number of topics.<p>Getting rejected without getting to the interview stage could be for several reasons.<p>Ageism - not all that likely in your early 30s, depending on your audience.<p>Resume - if your resume doesn&#x27;t convey your background well enough for the job you applied for, obviously nobody is going to interview you. If your resume is too bulky, nobody is even going to read (or skim) it. If you&#x27;d like it looked at by a professional, I&#x27;m easy to find.<p>Overqualified&#x2F;not a fit is often code for something else. It&#x27;s much easier to tell a candidate &quot;you&#x27;re overqualified&quot; (i.e. our work is below you) because that is flattering. It&#x27;s much harder to tell someone &quot;the team genuinely didn&#x27;t like you&quot;, as that is not only insulting to some people but also may cause you to ask follow-up questions. Tell someone they&#x27;re overqualified and it&#x27;s hard to follow-up - tell someone they &quot;aren&#x27;t a fit&quot; and they don&#x27;t usually ask &quot;why?&quot;, because it&#x27;s rather ambiguous.<p>Sometimes overqualified means &quot;paid above what we can afford&quot;.<p>You mention twice you&#x27;re in a niche industry, so I am guessing it&#x27;s pretty niche. Your problem is likely a marketing issue. How do we package your background in order to make it attractive to a wider audience? What are the elements of your background that we can make more &#x27;universal&#x27; to people out of your industry? Does your resume speak too much to the people in your industry, and does it assume that readers will understand some of the terms and acronyms that may not be part of the wider tech lexicon?<p>Could be tons of things.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Ever faced difficulties pivoting your job or career later in your life?</title><text>Tldr; I&#x27;m an architect (in a niche industry) trying to get a job in another industry but find myself constantly rejected for either having not enough experience for a similar architect&#x2F;lead role or being overqualified for a lower role (i.e. dev, support, etc).<p>I&#x27;ve been in the telco industry for 12 years where I started as a systems tester, became a support engineer, got into a lead role for a team of support engineers (i built the team from scratch at a startup!) and eventually ended up as an architect for a vendor (think Cisco) where I do pre-sales, architecture design and lead the onshore&#x2F;offshore teams to deliver client projects.<p>Early last year, I noticed a big shift in my industry to Managed Services and knew that it is a space I need to get myself involved in if I were to stay relevant for the next few years. Unfortunately, the company I am with is neither in this space nor have any plans in the future to be in it hence I started to look around for jobs at other companies in this space. After 3 months in, I&#x27;m now feeling utterly perplexed.<p>I tried applying for lead&#x2F;architect roles and was rejected (without even going to the interview stage) being told that I don&#x27;t have enough experience or expertise. Fair point I guess since I&#x27;m in a niche industry thus I started looking at roles that allow me to start at the bottom (i.e. dev, support&#x2F;operations, customer success). Even then, I keep getting rejected with the common trope that I don&#x27;t have enough experience or I am either overqualified and&#x2F;or will not be a good fit for the team!<p>I asked my professional network for some inputs on the matter and I&#x27;ve been told that I&#x27;m in an age group (30-40) where companies are not that keen to hire cause I&#x27;m considered too old (ageism). Is this possible? I&#x27;m barely in my early 30s so I find that very strange cause I don&#x27;t consider myself old at all.<p>So, have any of you ever been in the same situation and do you have any advice on how should I overcome this?</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>mikekchar</author><text>If you were in the same industry (potentially the same company) for 12 years, you may be getting tagged with a bit of a &quot;career employee&quot; stigma. I&#x27;m 49 now and took 5 years out between the ages of 39-44 to teach English in Japan. I&#x27;m back in the industry now. It took me about a month to get a job when I came back.<p>The key is really flexibility. If you have a a very narrow focus, you will have difficulty getting work. You need to be able to take on anything. In my career, I&#x27;ve worked in health care, Windows productivity apps, telecom and now I&#x27;m doing business systems&#x2F;web development.<p>There is absolutely nothing wrong being a pre-sales guy. There is tons of work in that area. But if you try to stay in a particular technology area, you may find that there just isn&#x27;t much work. You need to show that you can branch out and be productive in whatever a company needs you to do.<p>For me, having a portfolio and a solid side project helped a lot. If you are working now, I recommend spending the next year taking 8-10 hours a weeks to build a good portfolio that show-cases what you can do. A side project is fine, or several projects, or concentrate on writing blog posts -- whatever you think will be able to sell your skills in the future.<p>Also, take time to go to meetups, coding dojos, etc. Again, if you spend one day a week for the next year in these kinds of activities, you will find that you will be well plugged in to the local scene.<p>And yes... I realise that this is pretty difficult when you want to also have a life outside of work. But it will pay considerable dividends for your career.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Ever faced difficulties pivoting your job or career later in your life?</title><text>Tldr; I&#x27;m an architect (in a niche industry) trying to get a job in another industry but find myself constantly rejected for either having not enough experience for a similar architect&#x2F;lead role or being overqualified for a lower role (i.e. dev, support, etc).<p>I&#x27;ve been in the telco industry for 12 years where I started as a systems tester, became a support engineer, got into a lead role for a team of support engineers (i built the team from scratch at a startup!) and eventually ended up as an architect for a vendor (think Cisco) where I do pre-sales, architecture design and lead the onshore&#x2F;offshore teams to deliver client projects.<p>Early last year, I noticed a big shift in my industry to Managed Services and knew that it is a space I need to get myself involved in if I were to stay relevant for the next few years. Unfortunately, the company I am with is neither in this space nor have any plans in the future to be in it hence I started to look around for jobs at other companies in this space. After 3 months in, I&#x27;m now feeling utterly perplexed.<p>I tried applying for lead&#x2F;architect roles and was rejected (without even going to the interview stage) being told that I don&#x27;t have enough experience or expertise. Fair point I guess since I&#x27;m in a niche industry thus I started looking at roles that allow me to start at the bottom (i.e. dev, support&#x2F;operations, customer success). Even then, I keep getting rejected with the common trope that I don&#x27;t have enough experience or I am either overqualified and&#x2F;or will not be a good fit for the team!<p>I asked my professional network for some inputs on the matter and I&#x27;ve been told that I&#x27;m in an age group (30-40) where companies are not that keen to hire cause I&#x27;m considered too old (ageism). Is this possible? I&#x27;m barely in my early 30s so I find that very strange cause I don&#x27;t consider myself old at all.<p>So, have any of you ever been in the same situation and do you have any advice on how should I overcome this?</text></story> |
41,689,614 | 41,689,228 | 1 | 3 | 41,661,512 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aleph_minus_one</author><text>Now guess which countries staged a coup against the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in 1953, which brought the current oppressive regime to its power:<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rexpop</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>aaomidi</author><text>In Iran it’s the only option. Sanctions basically make it impossible to buy books.</text></item><item><author>bananamerica</author><text>Here in Brazil shadow libraries essentially make research possible. Paying for ebooks in US dollar is prohibitive to most academics.</text></item><item><author>internetter</author><text>I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve used shadow libraries before.<p>1. More often or not, I am in search of a single piece of information. Buying hundreds of pages of writing is not economical for this goal<p>2. Sometimes, I own the physical copy and want to search it. Buying a digital copy is a waste when I already own the physical one<p>3. Occasionally, the content is available to me via my library, but in the case of point 1, traveling all the ways is a waste of time. Some people don’t have access to a library.<p>4. Sometimes, I want to decide between two books, or see if the book has what I want before I purchase it.<p>5. A few times, the content I want disappeared, but there it is at the shadow library.</text></item><item><author>internetter</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annas-archive.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;critical-window.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annas-archive.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;critical-window.html</a><p>Years of this whack-a-mole, yet no clear use case found for banning shadow libraries. Books are highly information dense, making them an ideal target for archival. Shadow libraries are unique in their ability to search over all knowledge known to man, something that publishers refuse. They democratize access, resist censorship (some of which is happening in the land of the free), and provide better chance at preservation. There’s not even much evidence that shadow libraries detract from authors, who are already robbed by publishers (and most of the publisher’s funding comes from institutions, not individuals)<p>To hell with it. Viva la revolución. Let knowledge be free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-orders-libgen-to-pay-30m-to-publishers-issues-broad-injunction-240925/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amanaplanacanal</author><text>Blaming the innocents that live under a brutal regime seems counterproductive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rexpop</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>aaomidi</author><text>In Iran it’s the only option. Sanctions basically make it impossible to buy books.</text></item><item><author>bananamerica</author><text>Here in Brazil shadow libraries essentially make research possible. Paying for ebooks in US dollar is prohibitive to most academics.</text></item><item><author>internetter</author><text>I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve used shadow libraries before.<p>1. More often or not, I am in search of a single piece of information. Buying hundreds of pages of writing is not economical for this goal<p>2. Sometimes, I own the physical copy and want to search it. Buying a digital copy is a waste when I already own the physical one<p>3. Occasionally, the content is available to me via my library, but in the case of point 1, traveling all the ways is a waste of time. Some people don’t have access to a library.<p>4. Sometimes, I want to decide between two books, or see if the book has what I want before I purchase it.<p>5. A few times, the content I want disappeared, but there it is at the shadow library.</text></item><item><author>internetter</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annas-archive.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;critical-window.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annas-archive.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;critical-window.html</a><p>Years of this whack-a-mole, yet no clear use case found for banning shadow libraries. Books are highly information dense, making them an ideal target for archival. Shadow libraries are unique in their ability to search over all knowledge known to man, something that publishers refuse. They democratize access, resist censorship (some of which is happening in the land of the free), and provide better chance at preservation. There’s not even much evidence that shadow libraries detract from authors, who are already robbed by publishers (and most of the publisher’s funding comes from institutions, not individuals)<p>To hell with it. Viva la revolución. Let knowledge be free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-orders-libgen-to-pay-30m-to-publishers-issues-broad-injunction-240925/</url></story> |
34,937,831 | 34,938,103 | 1 | 3 | 34,937,305 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text>Funny, I was literally just looking at this issue today. I switched to wayland a few weeks ago, just because it seems to save a lot of battery power. But so much basic functionality is still broken it&#x27;s infuriating. And then so many things seem to follow the &quot;unix functionality&quot; and as a result they&#x27;re half baked tools that aren&#x27;t really working properly IMHO.<p>A lot of these issues have fixes or workarounds directly in KDE.<p>For reference I&#x27;m using sway. swayidle is an idle daemon, where the maintainer doesn&#x27;t think that it matters whether its connected to power or not. You&#x27;re supposed to create your own scripts around it that handles ac connect and disconnects.<p>There&#x27;s a tool to do flux like color warmth setting. One of them doesn&#x27;t allow you to toggle, so you have create your own toggle script that kills or restarts it. The other one is controllable, but doesn&#x27;t actually account for time or timezone.<p>XWayland has had 2 or 3 patches to handle hidpi when the main wayland screen has fractional scaling, none of them are merged and they seem hardly active. KDE works around that by allowing you to turn it off for xwayland clients. Sway just passes it down and blurs everything.<p>When I exit a wayland session and then restart it the screen locks up. This doesn&#x27;t happen with normal X.<p>And then there is electron. Slack is not the only app that ignores electron settings and doesn&#x27;t run with wayland support. In chrome and electron it&#x27;s supposedly supported but you have to toggle it yourself? What is this madness?<p>These things seem like basic functionality for me. I don&#x27;t really get it. Sure, maybe I shouldn&#x27;t expect a proper experience for random sway tools, so that makes the first two points irrelevant. But the fact that years in they still haven&#x27;t found a proper solution on passing down hidpi for xwayland? That&#x27;s incomprehensible for me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wine Wayland Driver</title><url>https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/2275</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>csdvrx</author><text>This falls right on time for my 2023 &quot;Linux on the desktop&quot; attempt! (now I wish <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phil294&#x2F;AHK_X11">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phil294&#x2F;AHK_X11</a> had a Wayland option...)<p>I can&#x27;t live without Office! My personal favorite is 2010 x64, as Word then starts faster than the current Wordpad.<p>Office 2010 works great in Windows 11, but there&#x27;ve been some suspicious move making me believe old office version will be given a poison pill or something under the plausible deniability of &quot;security risks of 13 year old software&quot;, like how Outlook 2010 can&#x27;t connect to outlook.com anymore (though it works great with gmail using google&#x27;s GWSO plugin)<p>On <i>MY</i> computer, I run what <i>I</i> want. So I&#x27;ll try Office 2010 in wine within Wayland.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wine Wayland Driver</title><url>https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/2275</url></story> |
8,142,940 | 8,142,966 | 1 | 3 | 8,142,269 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Thiz</author><text>When windows 95 came out, I got hooked on solitaire. I played for hours till I could finish it under 100 seconds, then to 90s, 80s, 70, and 60s. It was really hard to finish it below 50 seconds but once I got to 49s then that was my mark. Hard to do but got some games done under 50 seconds and then suddenly I got a lucky shot with all cards in an easy setting which I finished in 37 seconds. My own world record.<p>I considered myself the fastest mouse mover of all universe.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (2007)</title><url>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/?page=full</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hnal943</author><text>The article mentions King of Kong, which is great. But I think the better documentary on this whole scene is Chasing Ghosts. It&#x27;s a broader look and really gives you a feel for the type of people involved in this scene. Makes it even more surprising that this lady was a world record holder, if only for a little while.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (2007)</title><url>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/?page=full</url></story> |
16,000,921 | 16,000,899 | 1 | 2 | 15,978,588 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foob</author><text>Just to clarify, this was intended as a tongue-in-cheek critique of tech companies that actively project superficial images designed to appeal to specific hiring demographics. I&#x27;m sorry if the meaning didn&#x27;t come across as clearly as I had hoped for, but the statement was meant to be a condemnation of sexism and ageism rather than an endorsement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jp_sc</author><text><p><pre><code> “traditionally used for
vague attempts at humor
which signal to twenty-something
white males that this is
a “cool” place to work.”</code></pre>
WTF with the casual sexism&#x2F;ageism?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files</title><url>https://intoli.com/blog/analyzing-one-million-robots-txt-files/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sarreph</author><text>I think you&#x27;re overreacting to the author&#x27;s attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor... After all the explicit sarcasm, emphasised by quoting &#x27;cool&#x27;, turns the tables on the &#x27;twenty-something white males&#x27;, and makes &#x27;them&#x27; (the majority) look the fool. Still, doesn&#x27;t excuse sexist&#x2F;ageist remarks, even if they are just pointing out industrial stereotypes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jp_sc</author><text><p><pre><code> “traditionally used for
vague attempts at humor
which signal to twenty-something
white males that this is
a “cool” place to work.”</code></pre>
WTF with the casual sexism&#x2F;ageism?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files</title><url>https://intoli.com/blog/analyzing-one-million-robots-txt-files/</url></story> |
15,614,211 | 15,614,216 | 1 | 2 | 15,614,006 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>Making my running notes again from the earnings report and call.....<p>Numbers:<p>- $52.6 billion in revenue, up 12% YOY<p>- 46.7 million iPhones sold, up 2% YOY for revenue<p>- 10.3 million iPads sold, up 14% YOY for revenue<p>- 5.4 million Macs sold, up 25% YOY for revenue<p>- $8.5 billion services revenue, up 34% YOY<p>- $3.2 billion other products revenue, up 36% YOY<p>- Q1 guidance: $84 to $87 billion, a record high.<p>- 4Q EPS $2.07, Est. $1.87<p>- 4Q Rev. $52.6B, Est. $50.7B<p>Where it came from:<p>- China is back to growth with 22% quarter over quarter and 12% year over year revenue growth. Europe saw the strongest year over year revenue growth, up 20%. The U.S revenues increased year over year by 14%, while the rest of the Asia Pacific increased by 5% year over year.<p>- Apple announces it sold 46.7 million iPhones in Q417, compared to 45.5 million units in the year-ago quarter. This is in line with expectations. This represents a year-over-year 3% unit growth and 2% revenue growth, suggesting slightly more people are buying higher priced iPhones like the 7 Plus and 8 Plus.<p>- Apple sold 10.3 million iPads in Q417, compared to 9.3 million units in the year-ago quarter<p>- for the Apple Watch, Apple Pay and Apple TV products... The 36% year-over-year growth for this category, meaning Apple Watch and AirPods sales have been strong.<p>- Apple announces it generated $8.5 billion in revenues on services, which includes the App Store and Apple Music, in Q417. This is 34% growth from $6.3 billion in the year-ago quarter and 17% quarter over quarter growth.<p>- Apple sold 5.4 million Macs in Q417, representing 10% unit growth year over year. Mac revenues are up 25% year over year</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IBM</author><text>Narrative killer: Mac unit sales up 10% YoY, revenue up 25% YoY</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/</url></story> |
30,373,802 | 30,373,497 | 1 | 2 | 30,362,856 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt; Columbo shows the benefits of having reality bent around the assumption that you know the culprit instantly even if you don&#x27;t know why.<p>The shows don&#x27;t show everything, but what they do imply is that Columbo starts by pulling on <i>all</i> the strings and then doggedly chasing the inconsistencies and loose ends. Also, in a lot of cases there could only be a handful of suspects. The main thing they actually is the interplay between Colombo and the culprit, and the rest is (almost always) offscreen.<p>IMHO, the main weakness of the show are how over-eager the culprits sometimes are act like they&#x27;re helping Columbo. Not just answer his questions, but play detective with him.<p>&gt; Is there a single Columbo episode where he asks &quot;just one more thing&quot; of someone who isn&#x27;t the murderer?<p>I haven&#x27;t watched the whole series and don&#x27;t recall a specific episode, but I&#x27;m pretty sure he&#x27;s done that episodes where the murderer is trying to frame someone. There was also a not-great episode where the owner of a boat-builder was murdered and there were like 5 suspects (this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;columbophile.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;trying-to-salvage-last-salute-to-the-commodore&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;columbophile.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;trying-to-salvage-last-s...</a>).</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbg721</author><text>Columbo shows the benefits of having reality bent around the assumption that you know the culprit instantly even if you don&#x27;t know why. Is there a single Columbo episode where he asks &quot;just one more thing&quot; of someone who isn&#x27;t the murderer?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Columbo’ shows the benefits of asking just one more thing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/02/12/columbo-shows-the-benefits-of-asking-just-one-more-thing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rob74</author><text>Well, in the case of Columbo, you (the viewer) have the benefit of knowing the culprit, because the murder is shown at the beginning of the episode. That&#x27;s why Columbo is less a &quot;whodunnit&quot; and more a &quot;howcatchem&quot;. But yeah, this infallible instinct that leads him straight to the perpetrator is pretty unrealistic...</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbg721</author><text>Columbo shows the benefits of having reality bent around the assumption that you know the culprit instantly even if you don&#x27;t know why. Is there a single Columbo episode where he asks &quot;just one more thing&quot; of someone who isn&#x27;t the murderer?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Columbo’ shows the benefits of asking just one more thing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/02/12/columbo-shows-the-benefits-of-asking-just-one-more-thing</url></story> |
11,877,337 | 11,875,412 | 1 | 2 | 11,874,263 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OldSchoolJohnny</author><text>&quot;Now the programming cost of allowing filtering by anything is minimal&quot;<p>Not only is this not true except in your imaginary app but it&#x27;s also disregarding the incredibly bad UI that can come from allowing everything to be filtered.<p>A good design has constraints and thoughtful choices. A shitty design has everything possible thrown on the screen because &quot;allow filtering by anything is minimal&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andybak</author><text>I&#x27;ve noticed a trend in many web apps to stop doing something that used to be standard<p>It&#x27;s this: you&#x27;re displaying a list of things that have various properties. It used to be the case that you&#x27;re be allowed to sort and filter by any property. Many web apps nowadays seem to &#x27;curate&#x27; my sort and filter options and in many cases a particular use is crippled because the property I want to sort or filter by is one that the author deemed a minority use-case.<p>Now the programming cost of allowing filtering by anything is minimal. The cognitive load on the user is minimal (once you&#x27;ve got the UI for one property then adding more doesn&#x27;t make much difference)<p>I&#x27;ve found this deeply frustrating on many occasions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too Many Knobs</title><url>http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/09/too-many-knobs.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>dgoldstein0</author><text>One reason for this is that if the list is lazy loaded (e.g. paginated) in any way, it can be more difficult to make sorting &amp; filtering work on more dimensions - mainly it requires the list to be indexed in extra ways.<p>Not impossible, but some applications weren&#x27;t designed to support it from the beginning.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andybak</author><text>I&#x27;ve noticed a trend in many web apps to stop doing something that used to be standard<p>It&#x27;s this: you&#x27;re displaying a list of things that have various properties. It used to be the case that you&#x27;re be allowed to sort and filter by any property. Many web apps nowadays seem to &#x27;curate&#x27; my sort and filter options and in many cases a particular use is crippled because the property I want to sort or filter by is one that the author deemed a minority use-case.<p>Now the programming cost of allowing filtering by anything is minimal. The cognitive load on the user is minimal (once you&#x27;ve got the UI for one property then adding more doesn&#x27;t make much difference)<p>I&#x27;ve found this deeply frustrating on many occasions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Too Many Knobs</title><url>http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/09/too-many-knobs.html</url></story> |
29,004,388 | 29,004,426 | 1 | 3 | 29,001,721 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krall12</author><text>I think it means that any page that only renders server components can just push the built html to the browser. If there were to be client components, like an upvote button, react would be required for that to hydrate the DOM.<p>It’s very similar to what Astro is doing. Only adding the JS if it’s actually necessary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leotaku</author><text>I&#x27;m personally curious how the Next is able to achieve the claim of &quot;zero client-side JavaScript&quot; mentioned here[1] using react server components? It just doesn&#x27;t seem to make sense to me, and the HN clone example and my barebones test project also clearly still load about 74.2 KB of JavaScript. Is the claim supposed to mean that the server components won&#x27;t require additional JS, or maybe that they won&#x27;t need to execute any client-side JS to be fully rendered?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;advanced-features&#x2F;react-18#react-server-components" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;advanced-features&#x2F;react-18#react-ser...</a></text></item><item><author>leerob</author><text>Hey everyone, Lee from Vercel here! Happy to answer any questions about Next.js 12. Personally, I&#x27;m extremely excited for the new Rust compiler.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Next.js 12</title><url>https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leerob</author><text>You can read more here on the original RSC announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactjs.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;21&#x2F;data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactjs.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;21&#x2F;data-fetching-with-react...</a>. RSC are still experimental, and as mentioned, this demo has some client-side functionality (upvotes).</text><parent_chain><item><author>leotaku</author><text>I&#x27;m personally curious how the Next is able to achieve the claim of &quot;zero client-side JavaScript&quot; mentioned here[1] using react server components? It just doesn&#x27;t seem to make sense to me, and the HN clone example and my barebones test project also clearly still load about 74.2 KB of JavaScript. Is the claim supposed to mean that the server components won&#x27;t require additional JS, or maybe that they won&#x27;t need to execute any client-side JS to be fully rendered?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;advanced-features&#x2F;react-18#react-server-components" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;advanced-features&#x2F;react-18#react-ser...</a></text></item><item><author>leerob</author><text>Hey everyone, Lee from Vercel here! Happy to answer any questions about Next.js 12. Personally, I&#x27;m extremely excited for the new Rust compiler.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Next.js 12</title><url>https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12</url></story> |
35,581,358 | 35,581,371 | 1 | 2 | 35,580,845 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nverno</author><text>Yea that&#x27;s BS. I didn&#x27;t have any ID till I was 16 and got a driver&#x27;s license. A lot of kids, like city kids, don&#x27;t get one till years later. Are they planning to create a new type of ID for children? I wouldn&#x27;t want my kids anywhere near social media either, but I wouldn&#x27;t want to rely on the state to track and police their behaviour.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vhold</author><text>I think people may be overlooking a bigger story here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arkleg.state.ar.us&#x2F;Bills&#x2F;FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB396.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arkleg.state.ar.us&#x2F;Bills&#x2F;FTPDocument?path=%2FBil...</a><p><pre><code> Reasonable age verification methods under subdivision (c)(1)
of this section include providing:
(A) A digitized identification card, including a digital
copy of a driver&#x27;s license under § 27-16-601 et seq.;
(B) Government-issued identification; or
(C) Any commercially reasonable age verification method.
&quot;Digitized identification card&quot; means a data file available
on a mobile device that has connectivity to the internet through a state
approved application that allows the mobile device to download the data file
from the Office of Driver Services that contains all of the data elements
visible on the face and back of a driver&#x27;s license or identification card and
displays the current status of the driver&#x27;s license or identification card,
including valid, expired, cancelled, suspended, revoked, active, or inactive;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social platforms</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/13/23681770/arkansas-social-media-bill-restricts-minors-parental-consent</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vhold</author><text>In particular I would like people to consider the implications of &quot;state approved application&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>vhold</author><text>I think people may be overlooking a bigger story here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arkleg.state.ar.us&#x2F;Bills&#x2F;FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB396.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arkleg.state.ar.us&#x2F;Bills&#x2F;FTPDocument?path=%2FBil...</a><p><pre><code> Reasonable age verification methods under subdivision (c)(1)
of this section include providing:
(A) A digitized identification card, including a digital
copy of a driver&#x27;s license under § 27-16-601 et seq.;
(B) Government-issued identification; or
(C) Any commercially reasonable age verification method.
&quot;Digitized identification card&quot; means a data file available
on a mobile device that has connectivity to the internet through a state
approved application that allows the mobile device to download the data file
from the Office of Driver Services that contains all of the data elements
visible on the face and back of a driver&#x27;s license or identification card and
displays the current status of the driver&#x27;s license or identification card,
including valid, expired, cancelled, suspended, revoked, active, or inactive;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social platforms</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/13/23681770/arkansas-social-media-bill-restricts-minors-parental-consent</url></story> |
13,286,305 | 13,286,274 | 1 | 2 | 13,285,714 | 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>rayiner</author><text>There are not millions of people being held for offenses only involving marijuana: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bjs.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;pub&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;dofp12.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bjs.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;pub&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;dofp12.pdf</a> (page 2).<p>There&#x27;s about 95,000 people in federal prison with a drug offense as their most serious charge. About 11,500 of those charges involved primarily marijuana. (The overwhelming majority of that is for trafficking, not possession.)<p>Rolling Stone estimated about 40,000 people in prison for convictions primarily involving marijuana, with about half of those involving marijuana alone: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;lists&#x2F;top-10-marijuana-myths-and-facts-20120822&#x2F;myth-prisons-are-full-of-people-in-for-marijuana-possession-19691231" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;lists&#x2F;top-10-marijuana-m...</a>.<p>That is of course not to say that justice, for a few tens of thousands of people isn&#x27;t an important thing! Though I hesitate a little bit to put trafficking in the same &quot;justice&quot; category as using. It&#x27;s generally accepted that the government has much more leeway to control what is sold in the market than to control what people do with their bodies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ClayFerguson</author><text>If we ever decriminalize Marijuana at the Federal level, that seems to me like it would mean millions of prisoners held for offenses involving only that drug would need to be set free. In my mind it is a horrible injustice to jail people for a relatively harmless substance like THC.<p>I think in 100 years, more evolved humans will look back on the THC incarcerations the same way we now look upon the Salem Witch trials, or prohibition, etc. You know, one of those times where mankind just massively screwed up &#x27;en mass&#x27; on sort of a societal level, and was unable to correct itself because the majority of people are brainwashed into believing whatever their parents told them about things. Sort of as a feed-back loop also, parents were unwilling to teach their children things that conflicted with societal norms. So society as a whole can fall into this kind of a &#x27;rut&#x27; where getting out of it takes a long process of evolution of thought.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Tandem</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/30/incarceration-and-crime-rates-fall-in-ta</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>It would be interesting to see the re-incarceration rate of those set free from charges like that.<p>I wonder if jail time has the opposite effect of rehabilitation for many, especially considering how much harder life can be with jail time on your record, or even just the black hole in your resume that you have to explain.<p>Not to mention that you spent the last however many years being told and treated like criminal scum, I imagine that would have a fairly significant impact on your mental health and self image, as well as your relationships with friends and family.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ClayFerguson</author><text>If we ever decriminalize Marijuana at the Federal level, that seems to me like it would mean millions of prisoners held for offenses involving only that drug would need to be set free. In my mind it is a horrible injustice to jail people for a relatively harmless substance like THC.<p>I think in 100 years, more evolved humans will look back on the THC incarcerations the same way we now look upon the Salem Witch trials, or prohibition, etc. You know, one of those times where mankind just massively screwed up &#x27;en mass&#x27; on sort of a societal level, and was unable to correct itself because the majority of people are brainwashed into believing whatever their parents told them about things. Sort of as a feed-back loop also, parents were unwilling to teach their children things that conflicted with societal norms. So society as a whole can fall into this kind of a &#x27;rut&#x27; where getting out of it takes a long process of evolution of thought.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Tandem</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/30/incarceration-and-crime-rates-fall-in-ta</url></story> |
20,883,436 | 20,883,389 | 1 | 3 | 20,881,429 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Unlike a car, a plane at cruising altitude doesn&#x27;t immediately crash into the one in front if the pilot doesn&#x27;t pay attention for half a second, and despite their far higher <i>absolute</i> speed, actions performed when flying have a much lower <i>relative</i> speed.<p>For example, in a car, several seconds of following distance is normal and following another car that closely is common. In a plane, which can move in 3 dimensions, horizontal separation is measured in <i>minutes</i> and it&#x27;s not that common to be following immediately behind another plane at the same speed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Separation_(aeronautics)#Horizontal_separation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Separation_(aeronautics)#Horiz...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s virtually no way of being both attentive and passive for long periods of time.<p>How do aircraft pilots manage it?</text></item><item><author>c3534l</author><text>The best way to stay attentive behind the wheel is to actually be the one driving. There&#x27;s virtually no way of being both attentive and passive for long periods of time. If a driver can&#x27;t check their email or whatever on their phone while autopilot is on, then autopilot is not safe to put in cars. And while I&#x27;m okay with not-exactly-safe for most things people willingly consume or use, driving is not an area where it&#x27;s okay to roll out a feature that may cause people to stop paying attention to the road.</text></item><item><author>Confusedcius</author><text>The driver was found using his phone, over-relied on the autopilot system, and lied about what he was doing when being questioned. Sadly, we can&#x27;t 100% trust these automated driving systems yet so folks need to stay attentive behind the wheel. The more accidents like this will cause lawmakers to create laws that can potentially slow down automated driving development.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on the 405</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-04/tesla-autopilot-is-found-partly-to-blame-for-2018-freeway-crash</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slavik81</author><text>There are lots of differences, but one is that situations requiring aircraft pilot intervention often have a timeline measured in minutes. The recommended procedure for handling an emergency situation is to pull the checklist for that situation before starting to ensure you don&#x27;t miss anything. Even urgent situations, like a TCAS alert, will often give 30 seconds warning. By contrast, this driver had roughly 2 seconds to notice that the autopilot was silently failing to handle the situation and to apply the brakes to prevent a collision.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s virtually no way of being both attentive and passive for long periods of time.<p>How do aircraft pilots manage it?</text></item><item><author>c3534l</author><text>The best way to stay attentive behind the wheel is to actually be the one driving. There&#x27;s virtually no way of being both attentive and passive for long periods of time. If a driver can&#x27;t check their email or whatever on their phone while autopilot is on, then autopilot is not safe to put in cars. And while I&#x27;m okay with not-exactly-safe for most things people willingly consume or use, driving is not an area where it&#x27;s okay to roll out a feature that may cause people to stop paying attention to the road.</text></item><item><author>Confusedcius</author><text>The driver was found using his phone, over-relied on the autopilot system, and lied about what he was doing when being questioned. Sadly, we can&#x27;t 100% trust these automated driving systems yet so folks need to stay attentive behind the wheel. The more accidents like this will cause lawmakers to create laws that can potentially slow down automated driving development.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on the 405</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-04/tesla-autopilot-is-found-partly-to-blame-for-2018-freeway-crash</url></story> |
30,189,102 | 30,187,414 | 1 | 2 | 30,186,708 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EB66</author><text>I&#x27;m very glad to see the SIX getting some attention on HN. I have a lot of respect for how that IXP is operated -- Chris Caputo runs a tight ship. Their one-time fee structure is <i>very</i> friendly to small participants and <i>very</i> unique for an IXP of that size -- that alone should be lauded. SIX governance is very open and transparent. I can&#x27;t recall the last time they incurred a major unscheduled outage. I wish more large IXPs were run like the SIX.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX</title><url>https://www.seattleix.net/participant-updates</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>linsomniac</author><text>Aside, but super surreal...<p>I went to that page, see the top item is Starlink, the next link is &quot;Welcome Danga Interactive AS32150&quot;. That&#x27;s kind of a small AS compared to Starlink&#x27;s 146K, but then I realize that used to be my AS, tummy.com.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX</title><url>https://www.seattleix.net/participant-updates</url></story> |
19,465,422 | 19,465,279 | 1 | 3 | 19,464,724 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vtange</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t a breakup&#x2F;decentralization of Google, or any American multinational for that matter, just hand Chinese tech giants a massive advantage since the Internet as it is now heavily favors large, centralized organizations? I don&#x27;t see people arguing for the breakup of the tech giants across the Pacific even though they hardly have a better reputation when it comes to privacy, etc.<p>By the way, I highly anticipate that the above argument will be made by said multinationals to prevent said breakup&#x2F;anti-monopoly moves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ancalagon</author><text>If ever there were a reason to get politicians on the side of breaking up Google (or any other tech company), I imagine this would be it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, Dunford Says</title><url>https://www.military.com/defensetech/2019/03/21/googles-work-china-eroding-us-military-advantage-dunford-says.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>EGreg</author><text>Not sure how a broken-up google would be sharing less with China.<p>The US military is a total centrally planned monopoly itself. Maybe the US military should not be spending so much money on bases overseas, and trillions of dollars unaccounted for. We have 800 bases and the rest of the world has 30. The taxpayer funds all of it, but has very little say or oversight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ancalagon</author><text>If ever there were a reason to get politicians on the side of breaking up Google (or any other tech company), I imagine this would be it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, Dunford Says</title><url>https://www.military.com/defensetech/2019/03/21/googles-work-china-eroding-us-military-advantage-dunford-says.html</url></story> |
1,553,106 | 1,553,010 | 1 | 3 | 1,552,908 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blasdel</author><text>He mostly pans the <i>'less-than-expert programmers'</i> canard, so he never explores the assertion that's at its base — that events are far better for <i>correctness</i>.<p>Rob Pike has spent the last 25 years developing evented languages, and while the Hoare-style CSP approach he's settled on allows for physical concurrency, he doesn't give a shit about bare-metal performance. The fundamental purpose is to be able to write concise programs that directly model the parallelism of the real world, written in an expository manner as to be more obviously correct.<p>Pike's point is that you should be getting the best true performance by working in an environment that helps you arrive at the ideal algorithm in it's purest form. Making compromises to get more local physical concurrency is a fool's errand, since at scale you're going to far outgrow single machines anyway!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large</title><url>http://al3x.net/2010/07/27/node.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>KirinDave</author><text>I'm glad to see people starting to push back against the cult of “Evented is faster.”<p>It may be, it may not be. The idea that it always is, though, that's balderdash.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large</title><url>http://al3x.net/2010/07/27/node.html</url></story> |
8,934,719 | 8,934,516 | 1 | 2 | 8,934,459 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jblok</author><text>Bills like this worry me greatly as an advocate for internet freedoms and because of a desire to a right to privacy.<p>When I discuss government plans for the internet with non-technical people it worries me even more that they aren&#x27;t at all concerned about it. I hear arguments like &#x27;I have nothing to hide&#x27; and &#x27;If it stops terrorism, why not&#x27;.<p>I try to tell people that they should demand a right to privacy from the state, but I find it hard to not come across as a tin foil hat wearing goverment-skeptic. What arguments do you use with people that don&#x27;t understand the web all that well to get them to care about this stuff?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lords Sneak UK Internet Snooping Law into Bill</title><url>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/01/lords-sneak-uk-internet-snooping-law-bill-minus-safeguards.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>tomtoise</author><text>Your obtrusive and underhanded domestic spying law gets shot down by a democratic procedure?
No problem! Just tack it onto a bill already being considered by the House of Lords and sidestep the whole pesky review process.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lords Sneak UK Internet Snooping Law into Bill</title><url>http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/01/lords-sneak-uk-internet-snooping-law-bill-minus-safeguards.html</url></story> |
30,570,013 | 30,570,221 | 1 | 2 | 30,568,557 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maybelsyrup</author><text>&gt; Nobody wants World War 3.<p>Small point but this isn&#x27;t exactly true, especially among US policymakers and media people. All you need to do here is read the chorus of people in official &#x2F; corporate media going &quot;nuclear war would be bad, but [...]&quot;. You can also rewind to the enormous shit-fit Washington types threw last summer when Biden pulled out of Afghanistan, or go even further back to the Iraq war.<p>Washington is full of chickenhawk warmongers dying to send other people&#x27;s children into battle, consequences be damned. It&#x27;s the rare thing that is really bipartisan, too. A lot of people&#x27;s careers depend on support for World War III, so they find a way to be okay with it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>traceroute66</author><text>&gt; a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.<p>Its easy to say that but you have to look at the bigger picture.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say &quot;just punish the government &#x2F; the oligarchs&quot;, but as most Westerners know, these people have become extraordinarily adept at hiding their money and distributing their assets. So it is very difficult indeed to target them per-se, hence you need to make it difficult to move money&#x2F;assets around, sell assets and gain new money&#x2F;assets.<p>You also need to look at the even bigger problem. How do we stop Russia attacking Ukraine ?<p>Nobody wants World War 3. Even the Americans who are usually keen to test out their latest toys are being remarkably disciplined about sitting on their hands.<p>So, you don&#x27;t want to engage in a direct fight with the Russians, what&#x27;s left on the table ?<p>Diplomacy ? Well, they&#x27;ve tried and are trying, but not much light at the end of that tunnel as of yet.<p>So your only option left is to accept that running a war needs two things, money and supplies. If both of those dry up then its only a matter of time before the war grinds to a halt too.<p>Hence you end up doing things that affect banks, the central bank, transport and logistics.<p>Regrettably its not just about targeting the military and the government, you have to target the supporting structures too (food, parts, consumables), hence you need to go big and go fast on sanctions.<p>Yes your average Russian will get caught up in the sanctions. Yes it will be difficult and unpleasant for families.<p>But frankly the alternative, full-blown war across Europe and the potential for nuclear bombs being used is unfathomably worse for everyone both inside Russia and outside.</text></item><item><author>bsedlm</author><text>a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.<p>maybe these people have grown in better functioning democracies (unlike Russia or my own country) so they act as if the people were well represented by their governments; unlike reality for most countries with a serious corruption problem.</text></item><item><author>therusskiy</author><text>I managed to escape the country yesterday, had to flight to Egypt of all places, because ALL (even business) tickets were sold out.
The recent news is that starting March 6 all international flights are suspended, the trap has closed.<p>The disheartening thing is that even if you never supported Putin, other countries treat you as enemy.<p>I am at Georgia now and banks refuse to open bank accounts to Russians, and I need one to continue working as a remote dev for US companies. Older generation (who are pro-Russian) suggested being careful around young people as they may be hostile to Russians, even those who are running away from Putin.<p>A lot of my IT friends have fled the country, almost everyone who could. My heart is bleeding thinking of friends who wanted to leave on March 9, not sure what they can do now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/04/russians-are-trying-to-flee-putins-chaos</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>Although it supports the Ukrainians and that’s important, I don’t see how sanctions <i>reduce</i> the likelihood of wider war? It is, in its way, an escalation, though a safer one than directly entering the conflict.<p>It seems Putin sprung this on the rest of Russia as a surprise decision. (Of course the signs were there.) Did he bother to get the support of the oligarchs or anyone else first? It’s not at all clear he has anyone’s support; he just has their obedience.<p>Morally speaking, this looks rather simple: it’s Putin’s big mistake. To the extent that others failed to stop the invasion, it was by failing to influence him. But a paranoid and isolated dictator isn’t easily influenced.<p>Punishing other Russians for this, particularly outside Russia and Ukraine, often has no purpose and is a form of cruelty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>traceroute66</author><text>&gt; a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.<p>Its easy to say that but you have to look at the bigger picture.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say &quot;just punish the government &#x2F; the oligarchs&quot;, but as most Westerners know, these people have become extraordinarily adept at hiding their money and distributing their assets. So it is very difficult indeed to target them per-se, hence you need to make it difficult to move money&#x2F;assets around, sell assets and gain new money&#x2F;assets.<p>You also need to look at the even bigger problem. How do we stop Russia attacking Ukraine ?<p>Nobody wants World War 3. Even the Americans who are usually keen to test out their latest toys are being remarkably disciplined about sitting on their hands.<p>So, you don&#x27;t want to engage in a direct fight with the Russians, what&#x27;s left on the table ?<p>Diplomacy ? Well, they&#x27;ve tried and are trying, but not much light at the end of that tunnel as of yet.<p>So your only option left is to accept that running a war needs two things, money and supplies. If both of those dry up then its only a matter of time before the war grinds to a halt too.<p>Hence you end up doing things that affect banks, the central bank, transport and logistics.<p>Regrettably its not just about targeting the military and the government, you have to target the supporting structures too (food, parts, consumables), hence you need to go big and go fast on sanctions.<p>Yes your average Russian will get caught up in the sanctions. Yes it will be difficult and unpleasant for families.<p>But frankly the alternative, full-blown war across Europe and the potential for nuclear bombs being used is unfathomably worse for everyone both inside Russia and outside.</text></item><item><author>bsedlm</author><text>a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.<p>maybe these people have grown in better functioning democracies (unlike Russia or my own country) so they act as if the people were well represented by their governments; unlike reality for most countries with a serious corruption problem.</text></item><item><author>therusskiy</author><text>I managed to escape the country yesterday, had to flight to Egypt of all places, because ALL (even business) tickets were sold out.
The recent news is that starting March 6 all international flights are suspended, the trap has closed.<p>The disheartening thing is that even if you never supported Putin, other countries treat you as enemy.<p>I am at Georgia now and banks refuse to open bank accounts to Russians, and I need one to continue working as a remote dev for US companies. Older generation (who are pro-Russian) suggested being careful around young people as they may be hostile to Russians, even those who are running away from Putin.<p>A lot of my IT friends have fled the country, almost everyone who could. My heart is bleeding thinking of friends who wanted to leave on March 9, not sure what they can do now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/04/russians-are-trying-to-flee-putins-chaos</url></story> |
26,744,701 | 26,743,910 | 1 | 3 | 26,737,956 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>I haven&#x27;t had time to get very far into the author&#x27;s Generic Algorithms book yet, but what I did read definitely exceeded my expectations.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;smgaelixir&#x2F;genetic-algorithms-in-elixir&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;smgaelixir&#x2F;genetic-algorithms-in...</a><p>Really looking forward to where this goes with the Erlang 24 JIT and Elixir Nx. It&#x27;s amazing all the work that&#x27;s been going into performance.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Axon: A library for creating neural networks in Elixir</title><url>https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bfm</author><text>If you have not been following the work José and Sean have been doing lately, I recommend you watching José’s talk introducing Elixir Nx <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;fPKMmJpAGWc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;fPKMmJpAGWc</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Axon: A library for creating neural networks in Elixir</title><url>https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon</url></story> |
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