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12,313,180 | 12,312,934 | 1 | 2 | 12,312,488 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cknoxrun</author><text>When I was 12 I was the hub for FidoNet mail in my smallish town. I was tweaking the settings before heading on vacation. We left the next morning, and returned a week later. We came home to an official notice from the police to contact them immediately. My parents did, and pretty soon 2 police officers showed up at our door.<p>They wanted to know who had been &quot;hacking&quot; from the second line in the house. It turns out I forgot to enter the area code for the FidoNet long distance number, and some poor souls had been getting a phone call at 3am with &quot;strange noises&quot;, which auto-dialed every minute for 3 hours straight.<p>The police had disconnected the line, and I had to spend an hour explaining to the police officers what a BBS is, and what FidoNet is. I remember trying to draw a diagram, but it was in vain. In the end they just left confused, reconnected the line and I promised to be more careful in future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>The non-immediacy of messaging was one of the things I loved so much about FidoNet. A few times a day, your node (BBS) would dial into a hub server somewhere (sometimes over a long distance phone call) and download the mail bundle. The more messages you got, the longer it would take, so there was always some excitement when the bundle was large. You&#x27;d read your mail with care--after all, you might get 2-3 private messages a day--and responded with care. Normally, you&#x27;d just let your messages get delivered during the next daily mail call but if you had something important to send, you could initiate one manually. If you were sending internationally and didn&#x27;t mind spending a little coin, it was fun to mark your message as &quot;direct&quot; and watch your node dial up the recipient&#x27;s node across the pond or the world.<p>It was remarkable technology for the savvy home computer user in 1989.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Formal – Interruption free communication</title><url>https://www.formalapp.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>honkhonkpants</author><text>In 1989 I had to walk down to the lab to use a terminal to check my messages and this effectively limited my email checking to 1-2 days per week. Those ... might not have been the days actually. But there were some high points.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>The non-immediacy of messaging was one of the things I loved so much about FidoNet. A few times a day, your node (BBS) would dial into a hub server somewhere (sometimes over a long distance phone call) and download the mail bundle. The more messages you got, the longer it would take, so there was always some excitement when the bundle was large. You&#x27;d read your mail with care--after all, you might get 2-3 private messages a day--and responded with care. Normally, you&#x27;d just let your messages get delivered during the next daily mail call but if you had something important to send, you could initiate one manually. If you were sending internationally and didn&#x27;t mind spending a little coin, it was fun to mark your message as &quot;direct&quot; and watch your node dial up the recipient&#x27;s node across the pond or the world.<p>It was remarkable technology for the savvy home computer user in 1989.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Formal – Interruption free communication</title><url>https://www.formalapp.com</url></story> |
27,265,679 | 27,265,637 | 1 | 2 | 27,263,136 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>&gt; All of these replacement commands dry run by default<p>Same here. In addition if there&#x27;s never a use case for running in production (e.g. at one point we had a command that reset a dev environment to a clean slate) then the command will actually specifically check for the production environment and refuse to run as an extra failsafe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>overshard</author><text>At my work I&#x27;ve gone through and setup a variety of &quot;replacement&quot; commands for commands that may have dire impact on production systems. All of these replacement commands dry run by default (or fake dry run&#x2F;try to create a dry run the best they can) and require a &quot;--do-it&quot; (think emperor palpatine voice) flag to do the intended operation. I&#x27;ve had multiple coworkers thank me for this setup as it&#x27;s saved people from silly typos and mistakes, one such being the different handling of programs in the use of and ending &quot;&#x2F;&quot; in folders. ex. &quot;&#x2F;etc&quot; is different than &quot;&#x2F;etc&#x2F;&quot; sometimes for certain operations.<p>I&#x27;d like to one day see a global flag on operating systems to dry run nearly all commands that changed anything.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In praise of --dry-run</title><url>https://www.gresearch.co.uk/article/in-praise-of-dry-run/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Twirrim</author><text>I&#x27;ve largely switched to writing all my tools dry-run by default. We&#x27;ve had a few undesirable events from tools that had --dry-run modes and accidentally got run without. Making --run or similar necessary almost guarantees it&#x27;s never run without intention.</text><parent_chain><item><author>overshard</author><text>At my work I&#x27;ve gone through and setup a variety of &quot;replacement&quot; commands for commands that may have dire impact on production systems. All of these replacement commands dry run by default (or fake dry run&#x2F;try to create a dry run the best they can) and require a &quot;--do-it&quot; (think emperor palpatine voice) flag to do the intended operation. I&#x27;ve had multiple coworkers thank me for this setup as it&#x27;s saved people from silly typos and mistakes, one such being the different handling of programs in the use of and ending &quot;&#x2F;&quot; in folders. ex. &quot;&#x2F;etc&quot; is different than &quot;&#x2F;etc&#x2F;&quot; sometimes for certain operations.<p>I&#x27;d like to one day see a global flag on operating systems to dry run nearly all commands that changed anything.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In praise of --dry-run</title><url>https://www.gresearch.co.uk/article/in-praise-of-dry-run/</url></story> |
35,670,183 | 35,670,391 | 1 | 2 | 35,664,219 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhawks</author><text>If anything I would say their ability to cope with the poor medium indicates even more complex levels of understanding.<p>They are able to reason that it is a real bird, it is not physically present, doesn&#x27;t sound perfect, doesnt look right but they still engage despite all of that friction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Findecanor</author><text>I&#x27;m curious to how the parrots perceive the video images ... with cameras, codecs and screens tuned to a human visual system.<p>While our eyes have three primaries (red, green, blue), birds have <i>four</i> and can see into the ultraviolet — which is missing. The &quot;cones&quot; in their retinas also have additional colour filters, which allows them to notice differences in hues, and thereby quantisation in the codec&#x27;s colour planes easier than humans.
Birds&#x27; eyes are also faster, so they might find the frame rate to be irritatingly low, and PWM-driven backlight would need to use high frequencies so as to not be perceived as flickering.<p>The paper does mention these issues and finds that the birds seem to <i>cope</i> — but I anticipate that they would give criticism if they could. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study</title><url>https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dorfsmay</author><text>Humans took pictures and watched movies and TV in black and white without any issue. High def colour is nice but not a must have to communicate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Findecanor</author><text>I&#x27;m curious to how the parrots perceive the video images ... with cameras, codecs and screens tuned to a human visual system.<p>While our eyes have three primaries (red, green, blue), birds have <i>four</i> and can see into the ultraviolet — which is missing. The &quot;cones&quot; in their retinas also have additional colour filters, which allows them to notice differences in hues, and thereby quantisation in the codec&#x27;s colour planes easier than humans.
Birds&#x27; eyes are also faster, so they might find the frame rate to be irritatingly low, and PWM-driven backlight would need to use high frequencies so as to not be perceived as flickering.<p>The paper does mention these issues and finds that the birds seem to <i>cope</i> — but I anticipate that they would give criticism if they could. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study</title><url>https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/</url></story> |
27,533,219 | 27,533,413 | 1 | 2 | 27,532,243 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>I think society needs to have a reckoning around advertisement and decide what kinds of ads are moral and societally good. There are lots of categories I&#x27;d love to ban if king:<p>- All advertisements to children<p>- Advertisements for prescription drugs<p>- Advertisements that intend to evoke emotional responses rather than inform:<p>--- Many ads are designed to make the viewer feel inferior so they want to buy the product to remedy the negative emotions the ads caused<p>--- Many ads seek to irrationally associate a brand with a positive feeling, which overrides consumers ability to make rational purchasing decisions<p>--- Many ads seek vague &#x27;brand awareness&#x27; without any informational content<p>I think there is a narrow case around informative advertisements &quot;Hey this product or service exists, it might be something you want&quot; that can be societally useful, but the vast majority of video and print ads are not doing that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>root_axis</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t there a bigger push to regulate the pernicious injection of ads into every aspect of society? There is regularly discussion about the dominance of big tech and often suggestions that we enshrine big tech as permanent fixtures into our life by designating them as necessary utilities that we pump into every home like running water, yet we rarely if ever hear any discussion of cracking down on ads, which are actually the primary source of power for big tech and also the source of all the things we hate most about them (tracking, behavior and demographic analysis, data collection, advertiser driven content agendas that result in bans etc). I wish this were more of a concern to the public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/16/22535511/facebook-ads-oculus-quest-vr-apps</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avalys</author><text>Because the purpose of regulation is not simply “stop people from doing things I don’t like.”<p>Why is it that the default response of so many adults today is to demand that an authority figure impose their own will on someone else?</text><parent_chain><item><author>root_axis</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t there a bigger push to regulate the pernicious injection of ads into every aspect of society? There is regularly discussion about the dominance of big tech and often suggestions that we enshrine big tech as permanent fixtures into our life by designating them as necessary utilities that we pump into every home like running water, yet we rarely if ever hear any discussion of cracking down on ads, which are actually the primary source of power for big tech and also the source of all the things we hate most about them (tracking, behavior and demographic analysis, data collection, advertiser driven content agendas that result in bans etc). I wish this were more of a concern to the public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/16/22535511/facebook-ads-oculus-quest-vr-apps</url></story> |
29,703,158 | 29,703,028 | 1 | 3 | 29,692,087 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andreilys</author><text>A simpler solution is to embrace lazy tracking.<p>Apps like RescueTime (time spent online) and Withings (sleep and steps) are simply running in the background of your life, with no additional input needed from the user.<p>I&#x27;m always impressed when I see people who maintain these massive data-entry systems, I know personally I would never be able to maintain them which is why I opt for lazy tracking. The less data entry I need to do, the better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Netcob</author><text>A few days ago I finally stopped doing something very similar.<p>As fascinating as the data could be (I never managed to transform it like this), the constant recording of every single thing made me stop enjoying things. It made me hyper-conscious of everything going on in my body as the primary goal was to figure out some health issues. Everything I felt or did seemed to have an &quot;event handler&quot; attached to it.<p>I now just stick to one line a day in a spreadsheet as a sort of diary.<p>To anyone attempting it:<p>1. Figure out what you want to do with the data first. Even if you just want some pretty graphs, create some random test data and set everything up so you can see these graphs. Don&#x27;t just throw data into a black hole for years.<p>2. Make sure recording the data is as easy and comfortable as possible. That android app from the article looks good, but you have to be absolutely sure it&#x27;s okay to use many times a day. Be aware that there&#x27;s no good answer to &quot;why do you keep reaching for your phone all the time?&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ten Years of Logging My Life</title><url>https://chaidarun.com/ten-years-of-logging-my-life</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pkrotich</author><text>Forget the data - I’m just amazed by the act of sticking to an activity. I’ve attempted “never break the chain” trick to try to build good habits but I always come short.<p>Saying all that to say I truly admire people like you!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Netcob</author><text>A few days ago I finally stopped doing something very similar.<p>As fascinating as the data could be (I never managed to transform it like this), the constant recording of every single thing made me stop enjoying things. It made me hyper-conscious of everything going on in my body as the primary goal was to figure out some health issues. Everything I felt or did seemed to have an &quot;event handler&quot; attached to it.<p>I now just stick to one line a day in a spreadsheet as a sort of diary.<p>To anyone attempting it:<p>1. Figure out what you want to do with the data first. Even if you just want some pretty graphs, create some random test data and set everything up so you can see these graphs. Don&#x27;t just throw data into a black hole for years.<p>2. Make sure recording the data is as easy and comfortable as possible. That android app from the article looks good, but you have to be absolutely sure it&#x27;s okay to use many times a day. Be aware that there&#x27;s no good answer to &quot;why do you keep reaching for your phone all the time?&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ten Years of Logging My Life</title><url>https://chaidarun.com/ten-years-of-logging-my-life</url></story> |
30,510,678 | 30,509,941 | 1 | 3 | 30,503,446 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xinniethepooh</author><text>There&#x27;s no &quot;we&quot; because exactly your attitude lmao<p>You point out some red herring, claim it&#x27;s the base case, and thus it proves the entire viewpoint that it&#x27;s some &quot;decaying corrupt corpse&quot;<p>Compared to what, exactly?</text><parent_chain><item><author>zionic</author><text>&gt; We need to protect Taiwan because they are a democracy.<p>There is no “we” anymore. No way in hell am I sending my kids, or allowing my kids to be drafted to fight for this stupid ass country.<p>I don’t like Russia either, before anyone accuses me of that.<p>I’m just pointing out that your collective interest delusion no longer exists, I feel no connection to the country I was born in. Fighting to protect its decaying corrupt corpse is the last thing I’ll do.</text></item><item><author>rnk</author><text>We need to protect Taiwan because they are a democracy. The fact that the most important IC manufacturer is there is important but less important than the humans who live in Taiwan. I strongly believe the US plan for &quot;strategic ambiguity&quot; w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t Taiwan, which is basically lack of clarity over will the us go to war to help protect Taiwan from China - is stupid. China will attack sooner or later.<p>Democratic countries need to bond together so the current two powerful authoritarian dystopian dictatorships as well as any future ones are not able to destroy them. You don&#x27;t have a right to destroy my country (looking at China and Russia) because you don&#x27;t like the fact that we are democratic.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>This is absolutely the lens we need to view the Ukranian crisis through. It&#x27;s actually quite surprising that Europe has acted so strongly and unanimously in their condemnation of Russia given that they <i>really</i> need Russian gas to heat their homes. Sure, they haven&#x27;t literally turned off the gas because they can&#x27;t, but they&#x27;ve done everything but. It&#x27;s up to Russia at this point but they absolutely can turn off that gas, and it has been suggested that they were limiting exports for the last 6 months to make sure Europe didn&#x27;t have any stockpiles to weather an event like this.<p>I think recent events send a message to China that Western countries are perfectly willing to act against their own interests purely to punish a country that steps out of line. The whole of western Europe will suffer to punish Russia in this conflict, but the conflict has taken a situation where countries were semi-committed and made them fully committed. Germany&#x27;s stance now, would&#x27;ve been unthinkable 1 month ago. It highlights how easy it is to push countries away.</text></item><item><author>ohazi</author><text>If we manage to get through this chip shortage and then China decides to invade Taiwan and we lose TSMC, I&#x27;m gonna fucking lose it. Everything feels so fragile right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TSMC R&D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tsmc-exec-on-chip-shortage</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mlindner</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure which country you&#x27;re from but without Taiwan there is no Nvidia, Apple, or personal computers. Taiwan MUST be protected.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zionic</author><text>&gt; We need to protect Taiwan because they are a democracy.<p>There is no “we” anymore. No way in hell am I sending my kids, or allowing my kids to be drafted to fight for this stupid ass country.<p>I don’t like Russia either, before anyone accuses me of that.<p>I’m just pointing out that your collective interest delusion no longer exists, I feel no connection to the country I was born in. Fighting to protect its decaying corrupt corpse is the last thing I’ll do.</text></item><item><author>rnk</author><text>We need to protect Taiwan because they are a democracy. The fact that the most important IC manufacturer is there is important but less important than the humans who live in Taiwan. I strongly believe the US plan for &quot;strategic ambiguity&quot; w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t Taiwan, which is basically lack of clarity over will the us go to war to help protect Taiwan from China - is stupid. China will attack sooner or later.<p>Democratic countries need to bond together so the current two powerful authoritarian dystopian dictatorships as well as any future ones are not able to destroy them. You don&#x27;t have a right to destroy my country (looking at China and Russia) because you don&#x27;t like the fact that we are democratic.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>This is absolutely the lens we need to view the Ukranian crisis through. It&#x27;s actually quite surprising that Europe has acted so strongly and unanimously in their condemnation of Russia given that they <i>really</i> need Russian gas to heat their homes. Sure, they haven&#x27;t literally turned off the gas because they can&#x27;t, but they&#x27;ve done everything but. It&#x27;s up to Russia at this point but they absolutely can turn off that gas, and it has been suggested that they were limiting exports for the last 6 months to make sure Europe didn&#x27;t have any stockpiles to weather an event like this.<p>I think recent events send a message to China that Western countries are perfectly willing to act against their own interests purely to punish a country that steps out of line. The whole of western Europe will suffer to punish Russia in this conflict, but the conflict has taken a situation where countries were semi-committed and made them fully committed. Germany&#x27;s stance now, would&#x27;ve been unthinkable 1 month ago. It highlights how easy it is to push countries away.</text></item><item><author>ohazi</author><text>If we manage to get through this chip shortage and then China decides to invade Taiwan and we lose TSMC, I&#x27;m gonna fucking lose it. Everything feels so fragile right now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TSMC R&D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tsmc-exec-on-chip-shortage</url></story> |
8,291,342 | 8,289,666 | 1 | 2 | 8,288,506 | 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>AndrewKemendo</author><text>Exactly right. I raced in college and it was well known that shaving was for making it easier to deal with injuries&#x2F;massage.<p>A bit of it is also in-group&#x2F;out-group signaling.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmadsen</author><text>Strange. When I was racing, we never thought about drag, except as a joke.<p>We shave because it helps reduce road rash when you go down on asphalt (slide easier) &amp; easier to keep the wounds clean afterwards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/the-curious-case-of-the-cyclists-unshaved-legs/article20370814/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andygates</author><text>And the fact that everyone else does it; it&#x27;s a badge of seriousness.<p>&quot;Reduce drag&quot; is always the jokey reason I&#x27;d use for non-cyclists :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmadsen</author><text>Strange. When I was racing, we never thought about drag, except as a joke.<p>We shave because it helps reduce road rash when you go down on asphalt (slide easier) &amp; easier to keep the wounds clean afterwards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/the-curious-case-of-the-cyclists-unshaved-legs/article20370814/</url></story> |
25,645,418 | 25,645,217 | 1 | 2 | 25,644,605 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mellosouls</author><text>Dupe again, fwiw<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25638368" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25638368</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page requests just 21 5xx errors</title><url>https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1346183432876019712</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prof-dr-ir</author><text>I have lived in five countries now, but not one (local or state) government had an online presence that was nearly as good as the gov.uk infrastructure.<p>Their websites might not look the part, but they excel (again, in my experience) in their practicality, accessibility and ease of use. And that is exactly what you would expect from a government website.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page requests just 21 5xx errors</title><url>https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1346183432876019712</url></story> |
13,479,517 | 13,479,439 | 1 | 2 | 13,478,514 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>In one respect, the gaffe is insignificant to current events. In another, it&#x27;s vastly more important, because while small it erodes the underpinnings of the system by which we actually disseminate information.<p>It&#x27;s like having to choose between being upset about the person that mugged you for $500 on the street, or the bank that surreptitiously added 0.05% APR or the loan you just got for your house. One feels more important in the moment, but the other has much farther reaching implications, not just to your pocketbook, but as to whether you can trust anything about that institution going forward.<p>If this is the beginning of a new trend for the Whitehouse where <i>nothing</i> presented can be trusted, and it continues through future presidencies, I can definitely tell you which <i>I</i> think will be more important in 20 years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pavanred</author><text>I really wish people and the media stop over emphasizing about every gaffe and focus on real news stories. For instance, the &quot;alternative facts&quot; comment&#x2F;incident is being talked about everywhere, from TV news channels to news parody shows to talk shows to social media etc. But, at the same time it seems like there is so much more important news that one would think deserves more attention like the executive orders, withdrawal from TPP, revival of oil pipelines, changes in healthcare spending etc. I even just saw news articles headlining on the guardian now about agencies being banned from sharing information on social media or to reporters and few journalists getting felony charges after covering the protests around the inauguration.<p>It almost makes me wonder if it would be a good idea if there was a website that covered the latest gaffe and the corresponding actual news worthy story that was lost out on optimal coverage because of it.<p>Edit: I couldn&#x27;t find this before but here is an interesting article I read yesterday [0]. It&#x27;s an opinion piece by Alexey Kovalev. - &quot;I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jan&#x2F;23&#x2F;reported-putin-journalists-trump-media" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jan&#x2F;23&#x2F;report...</a></text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>I must admit, I&#x27;m really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it.<p>Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but &quot;alternative facts&quot;. Why tell such obvious falsehoods? We&#x27;re all laughing (nervously) now because the lies seem to be harmless, self-serving vain ones. However, is Trump just a little insane, or is he actually finding out who is willing to say &quot;We&#x27;ve always been at war with Eurasia&quot; and who isn&#x27;t?<p>This is probably a good time for people to be reading 1984.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/george-orwells-1984-is-now-the-1-bestselling-book-on-amazon.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>TheGRS</author><text>This is what people have been noticing during and since the election, you can&#x27;t pin down Trump on anything because he is a controversy machine. He says something ridiculous and the media gives it attention and even begins to get some momentum on the story, but a week later, sometimes even days later, he does or says something that&#x27;s even more ridiculous and now most people are concentrating on that new thing. Its hard to say if this is intentional or if his bombastic style is just something we&#x27;re not used to in politics, but it seems to be effective in that the media is always chasing after the latest controversy.<p>For me it looked like the media had really nailed him on not releasing his tax forms, even going so far as to uncover damning ones from the 90s, but then the inside edition tapes came out and everyone focused on that instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pavanred</author><text>I really wish people and the media stop over emphasizing about every gaffe and focus on real news stories. For instance, the &quot;alternative facts&quot; comment&#x2F;incident is being talked about everywhere, from TV news channels to news parody shows to talk shows to social media etc. But, at the same time it seems like there is so much more important news that one would think deserves more attention like the executive orders, withdrawal from TPP, revival of oil pipelines, changes in healthcare spending etc. I even just saw news articles headlining on the guardian now about agencies being banned from sharing information on social media or to reporters and few journalists getting felony charges after covering the protests around the inauguration.<p>It almost makes me wonder if it would be a good idea if there was a website that covered the latest gaffe and the corresponding actual news worthy story that was lost out on optimal coverage because of it.<p>Edit: I couldn&#x27;t find this before but here is an interesting article I read yesterday [0]. It&#x27;s an opinion piece by Alexey Kovalev. - &quot;I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jan&#x2F;23&#x2F;reported-putin-journalists-trump-media" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jan&#x2F;23&#x2F;report...</a></text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>I must admit, I&#x27;m really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it.<p>Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but &quot;alternative facts&quot;. Why tell such obvious falsehoods? We&#x27;re all laughing (nervously) now because the lies seem to be harmless, self-serving vain ones. However, is Trump just a little insane, or is he actually finding out who is willing to say &quot;We&#x27;ve always been at war with Eurasia&quot; and who isn&#x27;t?<p>This is probably a good time for people to be reading 1984.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/george-orwells-1984-is-now-the-1-bestselling-book-on-amazon.html</url></story> |
11,012,323 | 11,012,354 | 1 | 2 | 11,009,956 | 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>cshipley</author><text>It&#x27;s actually a larger question than you perhaps realize. There are different kinds of freelancing. The spectrum ranges from something that looks like &quot;remote&quot; work to something more akin to agency-like project work.<p>That former is much easier. The latter pays better but requires a whole bunch of other skills, and takes much more time. The two aren&#x27;t mutually exclusive however, and that is what I&#x27;ve done as part of my strategy.<p>There is a monthly find a freelancer thread on here where you might be able to find a gig. Work on building your portfolio&#x2F;reputation. I&#x27;d suggest small projects at reduced rates.<p>Next, I&#x27;d visit a lawyer and get a template contract worked out. Rather than have him write one from scratch, find one that includes a lot of the things you want and have him tweak it. It will be cheaper that way. Most important (IMO) are indemnification, terms of payment, and arbitration.<p>Get used to promoting yourself. Have your short and long &quot;elevator pitch&quot; together. Put together a landing page and get some business cards. Talk.To.Everyone! You never know where and when your next client will come from.<p>One of the issues you will run into is the feast or famine issue. You never know when you will get your next client, you have to always be on the lookout and courting -- overloading the queue because a percentage will drop out. If you don&#x27;t find the next soon enough, then famine. If, as it happens often, several prospects say yes, then you feast. By feast I mean work a lot of hours and save up so you can weather the next famine.<p>What are your skills? Do you have a portfolio? How about an up-to-date linked-in profile?</text><parent_chain><item><author>turnip1979</author><text>Dumb question .. how does one go about getting started as a freelancer? Are there agencies or some other mechanism to get you started? Specifically, interested in how to get started in North America.</text></item><item><author>awjr</author><text>I would suggest looking in the mirror ;)<p>Let&#x27;s be honest. Freelancers are not there to find &quot;interesting clients&quot;. They are a temporary resource that enables a client to get a job done they under-resourced.<p>You have a choice as a freelancer
1) Become money focused. Earn as much as you can for as long as you can.
2) Become idea focused. Earn as much as you can until you have enough to bootstrap the idea. Rinse and repeat.
3) Become money focused but use your income to get the idea fleshed out using upwork.com<p>If you can get a few of you together it will be a better experience. Working at a co-location hub can be worth it.</text></item><item><author>herval</author><text>Do you have any advice for freelancers looking for interesting clients?<p>I&#x27;m mostly able to find clients that either 1) want full-time employees or 2) are working on &#x27;me-too&#x27; CRUDs (sometimes both).</text></item><item><author>lhnz</author><text>I enjoy programming but &#x27;working as a programmer&#x27; is infuriating.<p>There are so many interesting product ideas yet &#x27;me-too&#x27; CRUD app recreations of previously successful incumbents products are highly desired. This is particularly true in the startup ecosystems where kids talk about &#x27;interesting&#x27; problems and finding &#x27;purpose&#x27; and yet are blindly following the mantras and motivational speeches of trite capitalists.<p>I currently work as a freelancer&#x2F;contractor in London and I am happy as I make enough money to finance my own intellectual and creative interests for months on end. I hope I&#x27;ll soon meet other intellectually curious people doing the same thing, and hope we&#x27;ll be able to join forces to teach ourselves things or perhaps even work on small projects together.<p>Of course I feel extremely lucky to be in this position which has nothing to do with wanting a slower pace and everything to do with wanting to exert my whole self. And I can&#x27;t say whether it will be good for me or bad for me; I&#x27;m certainly learning a lot about myself and the practicalities of doing this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?</title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CaptainAmerica</author><text>You know I&#x27;ve been wondering this lately too. I haven&#x27;t done any freelance work but I want to get into it. I&#x27;m still not sure the answer, but I started by turning on the &#x27;Hire Me&#x27; buttons on my Codepen and GitHub accounts. I just launched a portfolio website (last night actually) that showcases a few of my projects and lists my contact information. I think my next step would be to check out sites like elance etc. But I&#x27;d love to hear other ideas from successful freelancers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>turnip1979</author><text>Dumb question .. how does one go about getting started as a freelancer? Are there agencies or some other mechanism to get you started? Specifically, interested in how to get started in North America.</text></item><item><author>awjr</author><text>I would suggest looking in the mirror ;)<p>Let&#x27;s be honest. Freelancers are not there to find &quot;interesting clients&quot;. They are a temporary resource that enables a client to get a job done they under-resourced.<p>You have a choice as a freelancer
1) Become money focused. Earn as much as you can for as long as you can.
2) Become idea focused. Earn as much as you can until you have enough to bootstrap the idea. Rinse and repeat.
3) Become money focused but use your income to get the idea fleshed out using upwork.com<p>If you can get a few of you together it will be a better experience. Working at a co-location hub can be worth it.</text></item><item><author>herval</author><text>Do you have any advice for freelancers looking for interesting clients?<p>I&#x27;m mostly able to find clients that either 1) want full-time employees or 2) are working on &#x27;me-too&#x27; CRUDs (sometimes both).</text></item><item><author>lhnz</author><text>I enjoy programming but &#x27;working as a programmer&#x27; is infuriating.<p>There are so many interesting product ideas yet &#x27;me-too&#x27; CRUD app recreations of previously successful incumbents products are highly desired. This is particularly true in the startup ecosystems where kids talk about &#x27;interesting&#x27; problems and finding &#x27;purpose&#x27; and yet are blindly following the mantras and motivational speeches of trite capitalists.<p>I currently work as a freelancer&#x2F;contractor in London and I am happy as I make enough money to finance my own intellectual and creative interests for months on end. I hope I&#x27;ll soon meet other intellectually curious people doing the same thing, and hope we&#x27;ll be able to join forces to teach ourselves things or perhaps even work on small projects together.<p>Of course I feel extremely lucky to be in this position which has nothing to do with wanting a slower pace and everything to do with wanting to exert my whole self. And I can&#x27;t say whether it will be good for me or bad for me; I&#x27;m certainly learning a lot about myself and the practicalities of doing this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?</title></story> |
32,482,748 | 32,474,530 | 1 | 3 | 32,471,400 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>egberts1</author><text>Far much easier to suppress kernel&#x2F;driver log of kernel addresses and deny access to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;kmem, et. al.<p>Leaving eBPF access open demonstratively has made way for file-less persistent malware to linger on unwantedly.<p>A real cybersecurity specialist would only allow eBPF access on host OS if no network access can be made to the host OS (and its ok for guest VMs to have eBPF).<p>An Uber cybersecurity goon, however, would compile out the eBPF JIT access from the Linux kernel (or use BSD-variant, instead).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Process behaviour anomaly detection using eBPF and unsupervised learning</title><url>https://www.evilsocket.net/2022/08/15/Process-behaviour-anomaly-detection-using-eBPF-and-unsupervised-learning-Autoencoders/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brodouevencode</author><text>The github link if you just want to look at the code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evilsocket&#x2F;ebpf-process-anomaly-detection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evilsocket&#x2F;ebpf-process-anomaly-detection</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Process behaviour anomaly detection using eBPF and unsupervised learning</title><url>https://www.evilsocket.net/2022/08/15/Process-behaviour-anomaly-detection-using-eBPF-and-unsupervised-learning-Autoencoders/</url></story> |
27,205,463 | 27,205,417 | 1 | 2 | 27,205,201 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>awb</author><text>I don’t know what’s going on here either with masks.<p>30-50 year old adults outside, alone, in direct sunlight, exercising, dozens of feet away from anyone else are still wearing masks. No doubt they’re fully vaccinated by now as well.<p>And multiple times a day you see people driving alone in cars wearing masks.<p>Just the other week, we overheard a young girl commenting on a woman not wearing a mask, “she’s a bad person, isn’t she mommy?” “No, she’s not a bad person, just inconsiderate”, the mother replied. This was in response to a fully vaccinated adult walking in a state park alone, in broad daylight, 3-4x father away than social distancing guidelines require.<p>I’m glad we took COVID seriously here earlier and longer than most states, but now that several states are reporting 0 deaths and vaccination rates are climbing the fear of an explosion of cases should hopefully be subsiding.<p>In the beginning comparing mental health to a potentially uncontrolled global pandemic I think was a serious misunderstanding of how exponential growth works, but now that the pandemic is getting under control it makes sense to weigh mental health more heavily.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baby</author><text>I live here and to anyone who doesn’t know san francisco this might help explain why I am not surprised (and probably anyone living here isn’t as well):<p>- Everybody wears a mask here. Everyone. Even vaccinated people and children. It’s taken extremely seriously. And I’m not even talking about social distancing. Everything has been closed since the beginning of the virus and indoor dining is merely re-opening.<p>- san francisco has the largest homeless population I’ve seen in the world (and I’ve traveled and lived in a bit everywhere in the world including many poor countries). On top of that, drug is hitting homeless people hard. It’s extremely common to see someone shooting themselves with a syringe here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about SF specifically, but according to [1], California is doing about average for the US and is at the world&#x27;s top 30 (higher is worse) for deaths per million, so I&#x27;d guess it&#x27;s more #2 than #1.<p>Is SF doing significantly better than the rest of California, in general? Hopefully now enough people are vaccinated that the rates have dropped.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baby</author><text>I live here and to anyone who doesn’t know san francisco this might help explain why I am not surprised (and probably anyone living here isn’t as well):<p>- Everybody wears a mask here. Everyone. Even vaccinated people and children. It’s taken extremely seriously. And I’m not even talking about social distancing. Everything has been closed since the beginning of the virus and indoor dining is merely re-opening.<p>- san francisco has the largest homeless population I’ve seen in the world (and I’ve traveled and lived in a bit everywhere in the world including many poor countries). On top of that, drug is hitting homeless people hard. It’s extremely common to see someone shooting themselves with a syringe here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19</url></story> |
9,300,043 | 9,299,944 | 1 | 2 | 9,297,665 | 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>necubi</author><text>Scala has macros [0], and as you reasoned the type checker has to run after the macro expansion. That&#x27;s not a huge downside; to the user it still appears to be a single pipeline (parsing -&gt; macro expansion -&gt; type checking -&gt; compilation).<p>Haskell also has very powerful metaprogramming facilities, like template haskell [1].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scalamacros.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scalamacros.org&#x2F;</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.haskell.org&#x2F;Template_Haskell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.haskell.org&#x2F;Template_Haskell</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>To me, it seems impossible to have both macros and a type system on par with Haskell. Either your macros can no longer do arbitrary textural transformations, or your type system can&#x27;t reason about macro cases. (Or, I suppose, your type system has to run after the macro transformations, and you could get a type error then just like you could get a syntax error then. But that means your IDE&#x2F;development environment can&#x27;t give you any type assistance on macro calls - you have to compile it to find out if it works. (Or, I suppose, your IDE has to run the macro for you and then do the type checking on the resulting post-macro code.))<p>I am open to being proven wrong, though...</text></item><item><author>codygman</author><text>Put this in my &quot;watch later&quot; queue. I&#x27;m <i>very</i> interested in a Lisp whose type system is on par with that of Haskell&#x2F;Ocaml.<p>EDIT: Especially since Shen is now BSD licensed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp [video] (2014)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcRBdSdO_U</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doublec</author><text>ATS had macros: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ats-lang.sourceforge.net&#x2F;htdocs-old&#x2F;TUTORIAL&#x2F;contents&#x2F;macros.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ats-lang.sourceforge.net&#x2F;htdocs-old&#x2F;TUTORIAL&#x2F;contents...</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure if these made it into ATS2 though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>To me, it seems impossible to have both macros and a type system on par with Haskell. Either your macros can no longer do arbitrary textural transformations, or your type system can&#x27;t reason about macro cases. (Or, I suppose, your type system has to run after the macro transformations, and you could get a type error then just like you could get a syntax error then. But that means your IDE&#x2F;development environment can&#x27;t give you any type assistance on macro calls - you have to compile it to find out if it works. (Or, I suppose, your IDE has to run the macro for you and then do the type checking on the resulting post-macro code.))<p>I am open to being proven wrong, though...</text></item><item><author>codygman</author><text>Put this in my &quot;watch later&quot; queue. I&#x27;m <i>very</i> interested in a Lisp whose type system is on par with that of Haskell&#x2F;Ocaml.<p>EDIT: Especially since Shen is now BSD licensed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp [video] (2014)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcRBdSdO_U</url></story> |
13,377,700 | 13,377,795 | 1 | 3 | 13,375,543 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>I enjoyed GTA V because it was so hilariously over the top.<p>It didn&#x27;t try to be realistic. The whole point is that the police response is always massively disproportionate to the crime.<p>It&#x27;s a pastiche of society, everything is exaggerated: they have a legalize medicinal cocaine campaign, you can buy supercars online, rocket launchers and machine guns at your local gun shop, you can launch your car at 100 miles an hour of the edge of the highway and survive.<p>They even reference the outrageousness of it in a scene where Michael goes to the therapist and comments that he may have even killed someone on the way there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>Hmpth. Conversely, while playing GTAV in completely innocent explore-the-world mode, I accidentally bumped a police boat with my jetski. Apparently this warranted being shot in the head.<p>Most reviews I&#x27;ve read actually complain that GTAV is a step back in realism from GTA4 (for example, body-part specific injuries were dropped), but let&#x27;s not beat about the bush - no GTA deserves the title of &quot;realistic&quot;, because as you say &quot;it&#x27;s GTA and you have to shoot everyone, duh&quot;. They&#x27;re made to <i>feel</i> realistic, but in fact they powerfully reward violence and punish being law-abiding, in precisely the opposite way that the real world does.</text></item><item><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>I love GTAV so much, it&#x27;s the most real single player world I&#x27;ve ever experienced. I once rear-ended an NPC because they suddenly stopped in the middle of the street. I got out of my car (because it&#x27;s GTA and you have to shoot everyone, duh) I saw the NPC had stopped because he hit a cat with his car!<p>I&#x27;d be lying if I said OpenAI Universe &#x2F; GTAV wasn&#x27;t one of the primary drivers in me trying to learn ML.<p>Anyone know what kind of hardware I will need to play with this? The AMI page on github mentions an AWS g2.2xlarge (iirc a GTX 1060 is slightly better than this?). And it seems like GTA is actually running on a different system you use VNC to share the screen&#x2F;input? Any estimates about whether a 1060 or 1080 on a beefy gaming PC could handle both at once?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Integrating GTA V into Universe</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/GTA-V-plus-Universe/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>necessity</author><text>&gt;they powerfully reward violence and punish being law-abiding, in precisely the opposite way that the real world does.<p>Except if you&#x27;re into politics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>Hmpth. Conversely, while playing GTAV in completely innocent explore-the-world mode, I accidentally bumped a police boat with my jetski. Apparently this warranted being shot in the head.<p>Most reviews I&#x27;ve read actually complain that GTAV is a step back in realism from GTA4 (for example, body-part specific injuries were dropped), but let&#x27;s not beat about the bush - no GTA deserves the title of &quot;realistic&quot;, because as you say &quot;it&#x27;s GTA and you have to shoot everyone, duh&quot;. They&#x27;re made to <i>feel</i> realistic, but in fact they powerfully reward violence and punish being law-abiding, in precisely the opposite way that the real world does.</text></item><item><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>I love GTAV so much, it&#x27;s the most real single player world I&#x27;ve ever experienced. I once rear-ended an NPC because they suddenly stopped in the middle of the street. I got out of my car (because it&#x27;s GTA and you have to shoot everyone, duh) I saw the NPC had stopped because he hit a cat with his car!<p>I&#x27;d be lying if I said OpenAI Universe &#x2F; GTAV wasn&#x27;t one of the primary drivers in me trying to learn ML.<p>Anyone know what kind of hardware I will need to play with this? The AMI page on github mentions an AWS g2.2xlarge (iirc a GTX 1060 is slightly better than this?). And it seems like GTA is actually running on a different system you use VNC to share the screen&#x2F;input? Any estimates about whether a 1060 or 1080 on a beefy gaming PC could handle both at once?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Integrating GTA V into Universe</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/GTA-V-plus-Universe/</url></story> |
24,641,376 | 24,641,478 | 1 | 2 | 24,640,545 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>korethr</author><text>I seem to recall the OpenBSD folks deliberately keeping around uncommon and old architectures in part because compiling and running on those old architectures flushes out bugs. So, from that perspective, your regression tests failing on legacy hobbyist platforms is a good thing.<p>Or maybe I was misunderstanding the point of Theo&#x27;s post back in 2014 around the discussion of their power bill[1].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-tech&amp;m=138973312304511&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-tech&amp;m=138973312304511&amp;w=2</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>drewg123</author><text>This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I hate having hobby platform support in modern projects.<p>I work on a OS kernel (non-Linux), and in my view, we should support x86_64, arm64, and maybe ppc64le. But instead we have all sorts of 32b legacy hobbiest platforms where there are maybe 3 machines in the world running on them. These platforms make it harder to test changes, simply by the fact that it takes regression tests longer to compile &amp; run, you have to build&#x2F;install more cross tools, etc. They make it harder to develop because all of a sudden you realize that some standard interface is not implemented on them, and you have regression test failures that you need to work around.<p>I&#x27;m fine with hobby platforms if they play in their own sandbox, but not when they impede development of current systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developers Try Again to Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support in LLVM</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Motorola-6800-Series-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>pm215</author><text>I have a lot of sympathy for this view, especially since &#x27;hobby&#x27; platforms tend also to be those whose maintainers are doing it on the side and who are thus less likely to be keeping up with internal API and similar cross-codebase improvements. But it gets complicated when the project is a foundational one like LLVM, where dropping or not accepting support for an architecture is effectively also locking the architecture out from a wide swathe of other projects (for instance, Rust, and via Rust also Firefox). I think the best way to manage this seems to be to have an official &#x27;tier list&#x27; with criteria and consequences for being in each tier (so for instance lower-tier ports might be in a &quot;nobody else is expected to build&#x2F;test this, failures are not a blocker for commits&quot; grouping). That doesn&#x27;t solve the problems, but it does at least mean everybody knows where they stand.
(IIRC LLVM does have a tier list system but I haven&#x27;t looked up the details.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>drewg123</author><text>This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I hate having hobby platform support in modern projects.<p>I work on a OS kernel (non-Linux), and in my view, we should support x86_64, arm64, and maybe ppc64le. But instead we have all sorts of 32b legacy hobbiest platforms where there are maybe 3 machines in the world running on them. These platforms make it harder to test changes, simply by the fact that it takes regression tests longer to compile &amp; run, you have to build&#x2F;install more cross tools, etc. They make it harder to develop because all of a sudden you realize that some standard interface is not implemented on them, and you have regression test failures that you need to work around.<p>I&#x27;m fine with hobby platforms if they play in their own sandbox, but not when they impede development of current systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developers Try Again to Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support in LLVM</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Motorola-6800-Series-2020</url></story> |
17,861,119 | 17,860,998 | 1 | 3 | 17,859,897 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FireBeyond</author><text>When you realize that the hospital was charging $19,000 for a stent that cost $1,500, you realize that painting Calver as someone who is going to cost us all money is misdirected anger.<p>And, to be clear, they charged $19,000 for the stent, not &quot;stent plus theater time to place it plus surgeon, anesthesiology, OR nurses&quot;, of course not. Those are all absolutely billed separately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jtokoph</author><text>&gt; UPDATE: Monday, shortly after publication and broadcast of this story by Kaiser Health News and NPR, St. David’s said it was now willing to accept $782.29 to resolve the $108,951 balance because Drew Calver qualifies for its “financial assistance discount.”<p>Sounds all fine and dandy until you realize that these charges will just be made up for by people that aren&#x27;t able to get NPR to publish a story about them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack</title><url>https://khn.org/news/a-jolt-to-the-jugular-youre-insured-but-still-owe-109k-for-your-heart-attack/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>achoped</author><text>Not always. My mom had a quadruple bypass about 6 years ago during a gap year where she stopped working but didn&#x27;t have Medicare yet. Unlucky. I think she was billed for around $180k.<p>She told them &quot;I&#x27;m on Social Security for $1000&#x2F;mo, I&#x27;ll pay you $50&#x2F;mo&quot;. It was basically that or sending it to collections and never getting a dime from a retiree. So they accepted and told her a &quot;non-profit&quot; paid for the doctor&#x27;s portion of the bill, which was all but about $40k.<p>She&#x27;ll probably be around another 10 years max, which means she&#x27;ll end up paying about $10k of that balance.<p>Medical debt is the least concerning type of debt for most lenders. If you ever fall into this hole, don&#x27;t sweat it. [Unsolicited advice.] Just let it go to collections. You&#x27;ll get harassed for a little over a year. Debt older than a year is almost never pursued by collections agencies. After things quiet down start sending letters to the credits agencies saying the collections debt has been settled. The collections agency will usually slip up and not respond at some point and it&#x27;ll be gone from your credit history.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jtokoph</author><text>&gt; UPDATE: Monday, shortly after publication and broadcast of this story by Kaiser Health News and NPR, St. David’s said it was now willing to accept $782.29 to resolve the $108,951 balance because Drew Calver qualifies for its “financial assistance discount.”<p>Sounds all fine and dandy until you realize that these charges will just be made up for by people that aren&#x27;t able to get NPR to publish a story about them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack</title><url>https://khn.org/news/a-jolt-to-the-jugular-youre-insured-but-still-owe-109k-for-your-heart-attack/</url></story> |
41,779,125 | 41,767,102 | 1 | 2 | 41,764,486 | 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>screye</author><text>Can&#x27;t forget having to signal away from military. Accessible drone AI can be used to stop petty crime, man the borders, catch drug smuggling boats &amp; ofc, kill people effectively. These uses are drenched in politics, so have to signal something more palatable.<p>Truly accessible drone automation software is instant unicorn status. It would&#x27;ve been acquired by Anduril or Dji before it saw the light of day.<p>We live in an interesting time where the 1st world&#x27;s biggest problems (illegal immigration, drug smuggling, obesity, effective transportation, solving crimes, infinite energy) are already solved from a technical standpoint. But we artificially limit their use due to dystopian vibes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0_____0</author><text>It&#x27;s basically the FREE POINT square on the bingo card at this point. When someone builds a cool robot that they don&#x27;t know what to do with, it&#x27;s inevitably for SAR. I&#x27;ve worked on a couple of them myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/this-homemade-ai-drone-software-finds-bodies-when-search-and-rescue-teams-cant/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drhagen</author><text>It even has an xkcd: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;2128&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;2128&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>0_____0</author><text>It&#x27;s basically the FREE POINT square on the bingo card at this point. When someone builds a cool robot that they don&#x27;t know what to do with, it&#x27;s inevitably for SAR. I&#x27;ve worked on a couple of them myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/this-homemade-ai-drone-software-finds-bodies-when-search-and-rescue-teams-cant/</url></story> |
7,500,925 | 7,501,018 | 1 | 2 | 7,500,600 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>watt</author><text>The quote goes on and in fact references the &quot;Rhythm &amp; Hues&quot; VFX company that won the Oscar for work on &quot;Life of Pi&quot; visual effects. While at the same time filing for bankruptcy and firing 238 employees. (Life of Pi made $609mil worldvide on budget of $120mil.) Those greedy people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nwatson</author><text>&gt;&gt; There&#x27;s a real growing unrest out there about how a few greedy people control [the movie] business - making their billions<p>Those greedy people understand the importance of &quot;story.&quot; The Gooseberry trailer showed no promise there. The industry story telling isn&#x27;t always that great but I could see none in the Blender trailer.<p>If this is just a technical showcase label it such. The early pixar public demos were such but their stories were so great audiences looked forward to the five minute delay to see them before the main feature.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Gooseberry, the open animation film, matters</title><url>http://gooseberry.blender.org/why-gooseberry-matters/</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>panzi</author><text>Besides the problem illustrated in LIFE AFTER PI I think that AutoDesk seems to buy up all&#x2F;most of the competition is a bit worry some and every bit of more competition is a good thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nwatson</author><text>&gt;&gt; There&#x27;s a real growing unrest out there about how a few greedy people control [the movie] business - making their billions<p>Those greedy people understand the importance of &quot;story.&quot; The Gooseberry trailer showed no promise there. The industry story telling isn&#x27;t always that great but I could see none in the Blender trailer.<p>If this is just a technical showcase label it such. The early pixar public demos were such but their stories were so great audiences looked forward to the five minute delay to see them before the main feature.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Gooseberry, the open animation film, matters</title><url>http://gooseberry.blender.org/why-gooseberry-matters/</url><text></text></story> |
25,766,372 | 25,765,771 | 1 | 2 | 25,765,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xvedejas</author><text>It seems likely that the more efficient our processors become, the larger share of the world&#x27;s energy we&#x27;ll devote to them [0]. Not that that&#x27;s necessarily a bad thing, if we&#x27;re getting more than proportionally more utility out of the processors, but I worry about that too [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wirth%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wirth%27s_law</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>b0rsuk</author><text>Given the cooling requirements, I suppose it would create completely impassable rift between datacenter computing and other kinds. Imagine how programming and operating systems might look in a world where processing power is 80x cheaper.<p>Considering that &quot;data centers alone consume 2% of world&#x27;s enegy&quot;, I think it&#x27;s worth it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/new-superconductor-microprocessor-yields-a-substantial-boost-in-efficiency</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>layoutIfNeeded</author><text>&gt;Imagine how programming and operating systems might look in a world where processing power is 80x cheaper.<p>So like 2009 compared to 2021? Based on that, I&#x27;d say even more inefficient webshit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>b0rsuk</author><text>Given the cooling requirements, I suppose it would create completely impassable rift between datacenter computing and other kinds. Imagine how programming and operating systems might look in a world where processing power is 80x cheaper.<p>Considering that &quot;data centers alone consume 2% of world&#x27;s enegy&quot;, I think it&#x27;s worth it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/new-superconductor-microprocessor-yields-a-substantial-boost-in-efficiency</url></story> |
30,776,952 | 30,776,140 | 1 | 3 | 30,739,866 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Taniwha</author><text>I think that really the hard part of learning to design chip stuff really is other stuff - understanding where&#x2F;how to use storage (flops) and combinatorial logic - and simultaneity: how to handle things that happen at the same time.<p>Initially you really need a strong understanding of digital logic (not a language), in particular pipelines.<p>Once you have that stuff in your head you can turn to verilog (or vhdl or whatever) and learn how to map these ideas into the language<p>In System Verilog it&#x27;s easy this is the only way to reliably make synthesisable flops:<p><pre><code> bit a, b;
always @(posedge clk)
a &lt;= b;
</code></pre>
And you can make combinatorial logic 2 ways:<p><pre><code> wire c; bit d;
assign c = a&amp;b;
always @(*)
d = a&amp;b;
</code></pre>
They&#x27;ll make the same gates, notice the use of = vs &lt;=, you typically use the always when you want something more complex<p>&quot;always X&quot; just means loop waiting for X, &#x27;*&#x27; means &quot;anything important changes&quot;<p>That&#x27;s it, the most important concepts you have to get your head around, everything else is just this at scale - also please ignore the async reset in the &quot;Verilog is Weird&quot; example - they tend to be timing nightmares in the real world, use a synchronous reset instead.<p>One more thing - Verilog is an early object oriented language - modules are objects - but they are static, the entire design can be elaborated at compile (or synthesis) time - why? because you can&#x27;t new or malloc more gates on the fly on a real chip - almost everything in verilog is static by design (it does support local variables in functions but anything that&#x27;s vaguely recursive wont make gates in synthesis)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verilog Is Weird</title><url>https://danluu.com/why-hardware-development-is-hard/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jwilk</author><text>&gt; maybe try copy+pasting that URL<p>That doesn&#x27;t work either, because the generator dropped the underscore.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flip-flop_(electronics)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flip-flop_(electronics)</a><p>Hugo would normally handle such links fine, but earlier on there&#x27;s an unescaped underscore in &quot;d_out&quot;, which makes it go off the rails.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verilog Is Weird</title><url>https://danluu.com/why-hardware-development-is-hard/</url></story> |
8,398,420 | 8,398,360 | 1 | 2 | 8,398,127 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this convo is entirely fair to Yishan. While I&#x27;m not familiar with Reddit&#x27;s tech stack or management policies, I can&#x27;t say they have been a shining example of a remote engineering team. For a site that is simply some text and comments, they have a staggering amount of downtime and timeouts.<p>Whatever they were doing before didn&#x27;t seem to be working and maybe getting everyone in one place is the fix to that (not to say a remote team doesn&#x27; work, as GitHub gets along just fine).</text><parent_chain><item><author>gk1</author><text>Here&#x27;s the Twitter conversation between DHH and Yishan Wong, as of right now:<p>DHH: Story I heard about Reddit post-$50M investment includes everyone not in San Francisco getting 1 week to decide whether to move or GTFO. o.0<p>Yishan Wong: Yes, we are relocating ppl back to SF w&#x2F;generous relo package &amp; COL adjustment, +3mos severance for anyone who can’t make the move, and no, the timeline for the move is not 1 week, but through the end of the year. Decision was also independent of fundraising.<p>DHH: Very sad to hear. Especially for a company like Reddit that&#x27;s all about bringing people together for causes regardless of location. Also, are you claiming that there never was a deadline of 1 week? That it was &quot;through end of year&quot; from the beginning?<p>Yishan: Intention is to get whole team under one roof for optimal teamwork. Our goal is to retain 100% of the team.<p>DHH: Hey, at least the shit sandwich comes with a smile and a thank you. Guess everything is peachy then.<p>Yishan: Originally we asked for decision in 2 weeks but realized almost immediately that was too short and extended the timeline to EOY.<p>DHH: Man, that is some cruel shit. Was that such that you could have a full headcount before the $50M check cleared?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-forces-remote-workers-to-relocate-to-sf-or-get-fired/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hashberry</author><text>&quot;Optimal teamwork&quot; = filling your day with meetings meetings and more meetings!</text><parent_chain><item><author>gk1</author><text>Here&#x27;s the Twitter conversation between DHH and Yishan Wong, as of right now:<p>DHH: Story I heard about Reddit post-$50M investment includes everyone not in San Francisco getting 1 week to decide whether to move or GTFO. o.0<p>Yishan Wong: Yes, we are relocating ppl back to SF w&#x2F;generous relo package &amp; COL adjustment, +3mos severance for anyone who can’t make the move, and no, the timeline for the move is not 1 week, but through the end of the year. Decision was also independent of fundraising.<p>DHH: Very sad to hear. Especially for a company like Reddit that&#x27;s all about bringing people together for causes regardless of location. Also, are you claiming that there never was a deadline of 1 week? That it was &quot;through end of year&quot; from the beginning?<p>Yishan: Intention is to get whole team under one roof for optimal teamwork. Our goal is to retain 100% of the team.<p>DHH: Hey, at least the shit sandwich comes with a smile and a thank you. Guess everything is peachy then.<p>Yishan: Originally we asked for decision in 2 weeks but realized almost immediately that was too short and extended the timeline to EOY.<p>DHH: Man, that is some cruel shit. Was that such that you could have a full headcount before the $50M check cleared?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-forces-remote-workers-to-relocate-to-sf-or-get-fired/</url></story> |
5,051,320 | 5,051,401 | 1 | 2 | 5,051,159 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>&#62; People who espouse environmental deregulation should go check it out.<p>This is a very interesting comment. Right now in Canada, we have a Conservative majority government that is absolutely hell-bent on environmental deregulation. Their supporters almost exclusively bring up China as the primary reason why environmental deregulation is so important to them ("if we kept our existing regulations, our economy would tank since China would make so much more money").<p>I very much doubt seeing the skies in Beijing would change anything, but I wonder. Perhaps a campaign in Canada to show images of what China is like would make a difference; on the other hand, the supporters of the environmental deregulation are not the type of people to care about air quality. They value a "strong economy" and money above absolutely everything else, and think that Canada needs to pollute more and more, as much as it can in fact, in order to be a reasonable country in the future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>I lived there in '08 and '09. You cannot believe it until you have seen it. The difference during the Olympics was stark. For example, my apartment in Shijingshan had a view of a mountain (~5 mi) and a comm tower (~1 mi). I lived in that apartment for a month before I ever saw either of them. The 'Jing rarely gets full sunlight, rather there is this kind of yellowish lambertian light source in the white-ish gray sky. People who espouse environmental deregulation should go check it out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755 </title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/science/earth/beijing-air-pollution-off-the-charts.html?_r=1&</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newbie12</author><text>This isn't a case of regulation or no regulation-- most of the worst polluters in China are state-owned enterprises. Just cutting off national and local government subsidies for industry would do a great deal to stop the pollution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>I lived there in '08 and '09. You cannot believe it until you have seen it. The difference during the Olympics was stark. For example, my apartment in Shijingshan had a view of a mountain (~5 mi) and a comm tower (~1 mi). I lived in that apartment for a month before I ever saw either of them. The 'Jing rarely gets full sunlight, rather there is this kind of yellowish lambertian light source in the white-ish gray sky. People who espouse environmental deregulation should go check it out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755 </title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/science/earth/beijing-air-pollution-off-the-charts.html?_r=1&</url></story> |
28,175,198 | 28,175,221 | 1 | 2 | 28,174,901 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>&gt;&quot;any group thinking about attacking the US on it&#x27;s homeland will have to contemplate a 20+ year conflict afterwards.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know how true this is, but I heard that Bin Laden&#x27;s goal was to get the US mired in an extremely expensive and prolonged war of attrition. It&#x27;s the same strategy that helped bring down the Soviet Union. It makes sense, at face value, to get a vastly more powerful adversary bogged down in such a war.<p>&gt;&quot;Maybe I&#x27;m just searching for the silver lining...&quot;<p>I feel you. It&#x27;s pretty disheartening.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>I&#x27;m not certain there&#x27;s <i>nothing</i> to show for it.<p>For starters... any group thinking about attacking the US on it&#x27;s homeland will have to contemplate a 20+ year conflict afterwards.<p>We also did educate a lot of people there, many of which are leaving the country right now for obvious reasons - but still, we did help a lot of people there.<p>Lastly, the way we&#x27;re throwing money around these days, $2 Trillion is practically nothing when spread out over a 20 year period anyway.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just searching for the silver lining...</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I remember the sentiment right after 9&#x2F;11 and the country was baying for blood.<p>It seems like the most prudent thing to have done was to adopt a kind of Fabian Strategy where we don&#x27;t invade a nation halfway around the globe and hope to change a culture that has stubbornly been able to avoid being conquered by the major empires in world history. When you <i>really</i> look at it, no major act of terrorism of the same scale was going to happen anyways. I mean really, mass shootings end up killing more people. And it&#x27;s not like the hijack an airliner strategy is going to work again.<p>But here we are, 2+ Trillion burned and nothing to show for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1027390545</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>For starters... any group thinking about attacking the US on it&#x27;s homeland will have to contemplate a 20+ year conflict afterwards.</i><p>The US didn&#x27;t invade Saudi Arabia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>I&#x27;m not certain there&#x27;s <i>nothing</i> to show for it.<p>For starters... any group thinking about attacking the US on it&#x27;s homeland will have to contemplate a 20+ year conflict afterwards.<p>We also did educate a lot of people there, many of which are leaving the country right now for obvious reasons - but still, we did help a lot of people there.<p>Lastly, the way we&#x27;re throwing money around these days, $2 Trillion is practically nothing when spread out over a 20 year period anyway.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just searching for the silver lining...</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I remember the sentiment right after 9&#x2F;11 and the country was baying for blood.<p>It seems like the most prudent thing to have done was to adopt a kind of Fabian Strategy where we don&#x27;t invade a nation halfway around the globe and hope to change a culture that has stubbornly been able to avoid being conquered by the major empires in world history. When you <i>really</i> look at it, no major act of terrorism of the same scale was going to happen anyways. I mean really, mass shootings end up killing more people. And it&#x27;s not like the hijack an airliner strategy is going to work again.<p>But here we are, 2+ Trillion burned and nothing to show for it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1027390545</url></story> |
33,324,044 | 33,324,072 | 1 | 2 | 33,322,154 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickpinkston</author><text>I lived near waste center myself (sewage treatment plant in Bayview SF) with all the smells it emitted, but I&#x27;m still really glad it exists!<p>It definitely should be regulated to not offgas like that, but we can&#x2F;should solve those problems. It wouldn&#x27;t even be that hard - probably like $10-50M or so.<p>We need to address the lack of true democratic representation in those communities allows those problems to persist. It&#x27;s not because of lack of tech or finance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thwayunion</author><text><i>&gt; Friendly reminder that modern, well regulated landfills are actually fine and there is plenty of space for them.</i><p>I guess this depends on your tax bracket and political bargaining power. I grew up smelling (and smelling like) solid waste trucked in from the waste treatment facility for the richer suburbs in a racially segregated metro area. The less PC way of sating that is &quot;concentrated rich 95% white person shit&quot;.<p>And let me tell you: despite what they think, MD&#x2F;JD&#x2F;MBA shit does not smell like roses. The smell permeated the entire community for days at a time, every month. I also now have a whole set of recommended annual cancer screenings. All from a modern and well regulated landfill that is still in operation.<p>I shit you not: we had movie days in high school that corresponded with the worse smelling days. Just whole days&#x2F;weeks of lost learning, regularly, because the whole place smelled like literal human shit.<p>Now I live in a snow white upper middle class suburb and those problems are behind me, but I&#x27;m still very conscious about where my waste <i>really</i> ends up and have gone to war in more than city council meeting about where our literal shit ends up.<p>But, again, if you have a FAANG salary then your shit and trash will be shipped to someone else&#x27;s community and it&#x27;s not your problem. Waste away! &#x2F;s</text></item><item><author>nickpinkston</author><text>Friendly reminder that modern, well regulated landfills are actually fine and there is plenty of space for them.<p>Also, most of the ocean plastic comes from a small number of rivers in the less developed world. [1] Rich countries aren&#x27;t really the problem.<p>While we should try to reduce waste as much as possible. This is far more effective at the front end of the process when they&#x27;re designed and produced, the vast amount of carbon is from direct carbon from production and follow on carbon from the carbon intensity of the products under use.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;stemming-the-plas...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Much US “recycling” goes straight to the landfill</title><url>https://futurism.com/plastic-recycling-landfill-greenpeace</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kotlin2</author><text>That’s a solvable problem though. Regulations could be changed to require more buffer areas for the landfill.<p>Also, another thing to think about it is that your parents likely picked the best place available for their means. Not many people choose to live next to landfills if they can afford something better. Had the landfill not existed, your parents would have likely needed to live next to some other type of hazard. It’s unfortunate, but a reality of our economic system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thwayunion</author><text><i>&gt; Friendly reminder that modern, well regulated landfills are actually fine and there is plenty of space for them.</i><p>I guess this depends on your tax bracket and political bargaining power. I grew up smelling (and smelling like) solid waste trucked in from the waste treatment facility for the richer suburbs in a racially segregated metro area. The less PC way of sating that is &quot;concentrated rich 95% white person shit&quot;.<p>And let me tell you: despite what they think, MD&#x2F;JD&#x2F;MBA shit does not smell like roses. The smell permeated the entire community for days at a time, every month. I also now have a whole set of recommended annual cancer screenings. All from a modern and well regulated landfill that is still in operation.<p>I shit you not: we had movie days in high school that corresponded with the worse smelling days. Just whole days&#x2F;weeks of lost learning, regularly, because the whole place smelled like literal human shit.<p>Now I live in a snow white upper middle class suburb and those problems are behind me, but I&#x27;m still very conscious about where my waste <i>really</i> ends up and have gone to war in more than city council meeting about where our literal shit ends up.<p>But, again, if you have a FAANG salary then your shit and trash will be shipped to someone else&#x27;s community and it&#x27;s not your problem. Waste away! &#x2F;s</text></item><item><author>nickpinkston</author><text>Friendly reminder that modern, well regulated landfills are actually fine and there is plenty of space for them.<p>Also, most of the ocean plastic comes from a small number of rivers in the less developed world. [1] Rich countries aren&#x27;t really the problem.<p>While we should try to reduce waste as much as possible. This is far more effective at the front end of the process when they&#x27;re designed and produced, the vast amount of carbon is from direct carbon from production and follow on carbon from the carbon intensity of the products under use.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;stemming-the-plas...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Much US “recycling” goes straight to the landfill</title><url>https://futurism.com/plastic-recycling-landfill-greenpeace</url></story> |
6,027,205 | 6,026,760 | 1 | 2 | 6,025,789 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tallanvor</author><text>Huh? A strategy is not the same thing as a mission statement. Microsoft&#x27;s mission statement is &quot;to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/about/en/us/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;en&#x2F;us&#x2F;default.aspx</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>I almost choked when I read Microsoft&#x27;s new mission statement: <i>&quot;our strategy will focus on creating a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most.&quot;</i><p>In other words, Ballmer wants the company to &quot;focus&quot; on being everything to everyone!<p>Not a good sign for the business.<p>--<p>PS. Compare Ballmer&#x27;s long, complicated memo to Google&#x27;s mission statement: &quot;to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.&quot; (Source: <a href="http://www.google.com/about/company/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;company&#x2F;</a> )</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft reorganizes</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13/07-11OneMicrosoft.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>Metrop0218</author><text>This isn&#x27;t an agile startup here, it&#x27;s one of the world&#x27;s largest software companies. I think aiming to do a lot isn&#x27;t a big stretch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>I almost choked when I read Microsoft&#x27;s new mission statement: <i>&quot;our strategy will focus on creating a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most.&quot;</i><p>In other words, Ballmer wants the company to &quot;focus&quot; on being everything to everyone!<p>Not a good sign for the business.<p>--<p>PS. Compare Ballmer&#x27;s long, complicated memo to Google&#x27;s mission statement: &quot;to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.&quot; (Source: <a href="http://www.google.com/about/company/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;company&#x2F;</a> )</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft reorganizes</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13/07-11OneMicrosoft.aspx</url></story> |
27,374,738 | 27,374,897 | 1 | 3 | 27,372,930 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stormbrew</author><text>It&#x27;s complicated. Keyboards are almost certainly &#x27;better&#x27; in the abstract if they&#x27;re good enough (low activation threshold, not a lot of bus latency on whatever you&#x27;re using to connect it, etc) because it&#x27;s easier to press complex sequences of buttons when you&#x27;re not holding the thing you&#x27;re pressing them on (&#x27;fat thumb&#x27;) or you can choose the layout of the relevant keys (vs. &#x27;claw&#x27; or &#x27;piano&#x27; gripping a controller).<p>But there are advantages to controllers too -- it tends to be easier to press two buttons on the same frame for eg.<p>And the thing is, it&#x27;s not like there&#x27;s only one controller you can perfectly standardize on. Even if you require only an &#x27;original controller from the console manufacturer&#x27;, well does that mean you have to be using the original rubber contact pads? Those are mostly all dead by now. Are all replacement rubbers equal? What about putting tape in the middle of the dpad to make diagonals more consistent?<p>And then it&#x27;s also an accessibility issue. A lot of people can&#x27;t use the original controllers. A lot of people who are otherwise very good at video games. Many of them can&#x27;t use them <i>because</i> they played so many video games on them and they&#x27;ve gotten RSIs.<p>All that said there are usually limits. Almost no games allow macros (exception: Celeste allows a macro for a dash technique) or any other &quot;press one button for multiple inputs&quot; kinda stuff. Very few games allow turbo (exceptions: some RPGs do because mashing through cutscenes is very bad for your hands).<p>A lot of games do require controllers that are at least no more <i>capable</i> than one that came with the console though. But then there are things like one-handed controllers that are no more capable but could potentially change what&#x27;s easy&#x2F;hard.<p>So.. yeah it&#x27;s complicated. It&#x27;s just down to the game and its &#x27;community&#x27; to decide what makes sense. That&#x27;s largely how the whole speedrunning world works these days.<p>But no it&#x27;s not too late to change the rules. Speedrun leaderboard rules change all the time to accommodate new information, techniques, and glitches. If people who run SMB feel it&#x27;s unfair, it might change.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thenoblesunfish</author><text>It‘s probably way too late to change the rules now, but even though it‘s totally legal according to the rules on the leaderboards, using a keyboard seems like quite a difference from using a controller, and from the end of the video, sounds like it does make certain moves easier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIJNT7dCmE</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elihu</author><text>The video mentions that moves that can only be done by pressing right and left at the same time aren&#x27;t allowed, as that can&#x27;t be done on a controller. I wonder if keyboard input is tolerated but only if it blocks impossible combinations, or if it&#x27;s just on the honor system not to do those moves?</text><parent_chain><item><author>thenoblesunfish</author><text>It‘s probably way too late to change the rules now, but even though it‘s totally legal according to the rules on the leaderboards, using a keyboard seems like quite a difference from using a controller, and from the end of the video, sounds like it does make certain moves easier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIJNT7dCmE</url></story> |
29,880,071 | 29,879,932 | 1 | 2 | 29,878,476 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wy35</author><text>Disagree. While the &quot;we&#x27;re working consciously&quot; bit can be left out, you have to let the people you communicate with know that it&#x27;s not just this Friday, it&#x27;s EVERY Friday. Just saying &quot;I&#x27;m out of the office today and will respond on Monday&quot; implies it&#x27;s a one-time thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwawayboise</author><text><i>we’re encouraging employees to set the following out-of-office email notification of Fridays: “I’m out of the office today because we’re working consciously here at Bolt and are currently testing out a four-day workweek. I’ll be back in touch with you on [Monday].”</i><p>Ugh. Just say &quot;I&#x27;m out of the office today and will respond on Monday&quot; no need to tout your experimental company philosophy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switching to a four-day workweek (2021)</title><url>https://www.bolt.com/blog/switching-four-day-workweek/#</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Ugh. Four day work week trials have proven very successful in Japan, Iceland, Spain, and now the US. It <i>absolutely</i> makes sense to tout this proven benefit to others. The only folks complaining are the ones who don’t believe data driven evidence or have an unhealthy relationship with work. No need to denigrate positive, <i>no cost</i> efforts to drag forward work life balance and quality of life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwawayboise</author><text><i>we’re encouraging employees to set the following out-of-office email notification of Fridays: “I’m out of the office today because we’re working consciously here at Bolt and are currently testing out a four-day workweek. I’ll be back in touch with you on [Monday].”</i><p>Ugh. Just say &quot;I&#x27;m out of the office today and will respond on Monday&quot; no need to tout your experimental company philosophy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switching to a four-day workweek (2021)</title><url>https://www.bolt.com/blog/switching-four-day-workweek/#</url></story> |
32,206,048 | 32,206,136 | 1 | 2 | 32,204,256 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matkoniecz</author><text>I would expect the same expectations also from air and car traffic.<p>If railways are expected to break even, then I expect the same from public funding in roads and airports.<p>Using the same metrics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>balderdash</author><text>While I don’t think this stuff needs to make money, I think the goal should be at least be to break even, as people’s willingness to pay seems to be the best proxy of its actual utility to society. (E.g. trying to avoid bridges to nowhere [1])<p>The question then becomes how much if at all do want to subsidize transportation.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gravina_Island_Bridge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gravina_Island_Bridge</a></text></item><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Free or extremely cheap transportation is a fascinating development. I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don&#x27;t expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?<p>If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out. Maybe it&#x27;d gain some popularity and we could finally see a shift away from cars. Public transportation is a difficult process because until the money is spent and the line is there, people are not sold. Whereas with cars, even if a highway is not built, people still have a car by default. Therefore the government needs to float money, either in infrastructure or in subsidized fares. At least subsidized fares is a little less binary than infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spain will introduce free train travel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/spain-will-introduce-free-train-travel-to-help-ease-the-cost-of-living</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ljw1001</author><text>Great idea. Maybe we should try paying the cost of car travel via gas taxes. We could start by just paying the for the entire road, bridge, and highway network, and then add in the costs associated with climate change.</text><parent_chain><item><author>balderdash</author><text>While I don’t think this stuff needs to make money, I think the goal should be at least be to break even, as people’s willingness to pay seems to be the best proxy of its actual utility to society. (E.g. trying to avoid bridges to nowhere [1])<p>The question then becomes how much if at all do want to subsidize transportation.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gravina_Island_Bridge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gravina_Island_Bridge</a></text></item><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Free or extremely cheap transportation is a fascinating development. I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don&#x27;t expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?<p>If Amtrak went that direction and made its transportation close to free, I wonder if we&#x27;d see more people try it out. Maybe it&#x27;d gain some popularity and we could finally see a shift away from cars. Public transportation is a difficult process because until the money is spent and the line is there, people are not sold. Whereas with cars, even if a highway is not built, people still have a car by default. Therefore the government needs to float money, either in infrastructure or in subsidized fares. At least subsidized fares is a little less binary than infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spain will introduce free train travel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/spain-will-introduce-free-train-travel-to-help-ease-the-cost-of-living</url></story> |
16,322,966 | 16,322,291 | 1 | 2 | 16,320,097 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freddie_mercury</author><text>I don&#x27;t know a single person in Vietnam who uses Snapchat. Every person I&#x27;ve ever met uses Instagram. Everyone uses Facebook. Facebook Messenger is the most popular chat tool by a fair margin. No one ever sends a message by Snap or SMS.<p>We have a population of 100 million.<p>The world is bigger than just the US.<p>Indonesia, with a population of 260 million, also overwhelmingly prefers Facebook over Snapchat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>verall</author><text>As a member of 18~23yo age group (&quot;young person&quot;), I would say snaps the only social media I enjoy using besides HN&#x2F;reddit.<p>Most young people I know use Facebook for groups (local like a school or city), events , and chat. IMO Facebook is shooting all of these feet off with the algorithmic newsfeed and spinning off messenger.<p>Snap however is used constantly to keep up with peers. Haven&#x27;t met a single person that uses instagram&#x27;s stories, even though its usage numbers tell another story.<p>It really might just be my age&#x2F;location&#x2F;privlege bubble, but it consistently baffles me that Facebook keeps growing at such a faster speed than snap.<p>I asked my younger siblings and none of them nor their friends have facebooks, besides the one in college. They all have snap and insta, and spend ~2X time on snap than insta. Most text communication is snap or SMS.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-06/snap-revenue-surges-72-on-user-growth-advertising-gains</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maruhan2</author><text>Age 27 here. I see more people moving away from snap and using instagram stories.</text><parent_chain><item><author>verall</author><text>As a member of 18~23yo age group (&quot;young person&quot;), I would say snaps the only social media I enjoy using besides HN&#x2F;reddit.<p>Most young people I know use Facebook for groups (local like a school or city), events , and chat. IMO Facebook is shooting all of these feet off with the algorithmic newsfeed and spinning off messenger.<p>Snap however is used constantly to keep up with peers. Haven&#x27;t met a single person that uses instagram&#x27;s stories, even though its usage numbers tell another story.<p>It really might just be my age&#x2F;location&#x2F;privlege bubble, but it consistently baffles me that Facebook keeps growing at such a faster speed than snap.<p>I asked my younger siblings and none of them nor their friends have facebooks, besides the one in college. They all have snap and insta, and spend ~2X time on snap than insta. Most text communication is snap or SMS.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-06/snap-revenue-surges-72-on-user-growth-advertising-gains</url></story> |
18,862,710 | 18,862,499 | 1 | 3 | 18,855,695 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>null000</author><text>Suggesting that there&#x27;s enough ambiguity for it to be reasonable to assume ferns exist on the same level of consciousness or understanding of the world around them as cows is a bit of a weak argument. There&#x27;s a pretty obvious difference between the two, and even if you believe plants can experience pain or distress in a meaningful way, it still makes <i>way</i> more sense to kill a carrot over a pig if you have the choice, making the two very clearly not morally equivalent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>white-flame</author><text>Consider that killing a living thing to eat its body is not unique to &quot;meat&quot;, nor is raising it in a controlled environment for the purpose of consumption. Fish (as is sometimes classified separately) and vegetables are living things raised and killed for consumption of their bodies as well.<p>I believe reconciling all of these as ethically equal (including raising the ethical weight of killing a plant as equal to an animal) is important for sanely dealing with our natural ecosystem of food. The &quot;aliveness&quot; of plants is continually researched and shown in a positive light, and it&#x27;s hard to draw a clear and reasonable line between &quot;life that is acceptable to eat&quot; and &quot;life that is not acceptable to eat&quot;.<p>When you look at the spectrum of life and how ethically impactful killing it for food is, it tends to follow anthropomorphism and social compatibility with humans, which doesn&#x27;t seem objective enough to be pursued for widely-accepted ethics, but merely for local cultural acceptability.</text></item><item><author>puranjay</author><text>I love meat but I&#x27;ve always struggled to reconcile my love of eating it with my love of animals. I would be happy to pay a premium if it meant I could get meat-like taste without the guilt</text></item><item><author>nindalf</author><text>Congrats to that team for building a great product. I hope they see a lot of success. Long term, I hope plant based meat alternatives become commoditized. If there are a bunch of alternatives that taste just as good and importantly <i>are cheaper than meat</i>, most people will switch. That&#x27;s a huge win for the environment (and also animal rights), and I can&#x27;t wait to see it happen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/07/impossible-burger-2/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gbear605</author><text>Animals, or at least cows, pigs, and chicken, clearly show a level of consciousness that plants do not</text><parent_chain><item><author>white-flame</author><text>Consider that killing a living thing to eat its body is not unique to &quot;meat&quot;, nor is raising it in a controlled environment for the purpose of consumption. Fish (as is sometimes classified separately) and vegetables are living things raised and killed for consumption of their bodies as well.<p>I believe reconciling all of these as ethically equal (including raising the ethical weight of killing a plant as equal to an animal) is important for sanely dealing with our natural ecosystem of food. The &quot;aliveness&quot; of plants is continually researched and shown in a positive light, and it&#x27;s hard to draw a clear and reasonable line between &quot;life that is acceptable to eat&quot; and &quot;life that is not acceptable to eat&quot;.<p>When you look at the spectrum of life and how ethically impactful killing it for food is, it tends to follow anthropomorphism and social compatibility with humans, which doesn&#x27;t seem objective enough to be pursued for widely-accepted ethics, but merely for local cultural acceptability.</text></item><item><author>puranjay</author><text>I love meat but I&#x27;ve always struggled to reconcile my love of eating it with my love of animals. I would be happy to pay a premium if it meant I could get meat-like taste without the guilt</text></item><item><author>nindalf</author><text>Congrats to that team for building a great product. I hope they see a lot of success. Long term, I hope plant based meat alternatives become commoditized. If there are a bunch of alternatives that taste just as good and importantly <i>are cheaper than meat</i>, most people will switch. That&#x27;s a huge win for the environment (and also animal rights), and I can&#x27;t wait to see it happen.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/07/impossible-burger-2/</url></story> |
28,005,939 | 28,005,745 | 1 | 2 | 27,996,484 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mordisquitos</author><text>I think it is to fall into a trap to argue whether figs are &quot;100% vegan&quot; or not. The real problem is the quasi-religious approach that some unfortunately vociferous people follow with regards to many personal decisions, in such a way that the end goal of pursuing a moral principle is co-opted by a simplistic totalitarian interpretation of the rules, with the need to follow them perfectly as a sign of purity.<p>There is no such thing as a &quot;vegan food&quot;, be it figs, honey, or lettuce. What does exist are vegan <i>values</i>, and their end goal is to reduce suffering of sentient beings and to have no part in promoting it by exploiting them or consuming products which do. Arguing whether there is any wasp biomass in figs should be irrelevant to veganism. What <i>should</i> matter is whether wasps are suffering and being exploited because we eat figs. I believe not, but what do I know, I am not a vegan.</text><parent_chain><item><author>planetis</author><text>Don&#x27;t get me started on the smear campaign started years ago by probably competitors, all figs are 100% vegan foods, there is no scientific proof that there is &quot;wasp biomass&quot; in there. We are not talking about a regular wasp, but an ant sized one, small enough that can fit in from the flowers lentil sized opening. Their wings are dropped upon entering. They get trapped and consumed by the tree.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The fig is an ecological marvel</title><url>https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-incredible-fig</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yosito</author><text>I will never understand people who are so vegan that they wouldn&#x27;t even eat biomass from an insect that naturally died. Why? Do such people also refuse to travel in any vehicles? Where do they draw the line at how small an organism has to be?</text><parent_chain><item><author>planetis</author><text>Don&#x27;t get me started on the smear campaign started years ago by probably competitors, all figs are 100% vegan foods, there is no scientific proof that there is &quot;wasp biomass&quot; in there. We are not talking about a regular wasp, but an ant sized one, small enough that can fit in from the flowers lentil sized opening. Their wings are dropped upon entering. They get trapped and consumed by the tree.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The fig is an ecological marvel</title><url>https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/the-incredible-fig</url></story> |
20,755,290 | 20,755,295 | 1 | 2 | 20,754,896 | 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>cryptica</author><text>I think that the mobile trend was blown way out of proportion. I very often find myself clicking on the &#x27;Browse desktop version&#x27; button when browsing a so-called &#x27;mobile-friendly&#x27; version of a site. Is the look of the website really more important than the content and functionality? For me, it&#x27;s not. This is just another example of a big tech monopoly imposing their highly opinionated ideas on billions of people.<p>Also, I hate it when a mobile site keeps reminding me to install the app. This is extremely mobile-unfriendly. Google ought to punish those sites.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A new AMP update shows how it can infiltrate every corner of the internet</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/google-is-tightening-its-iron-grip-on-your-website-27e06b3150e0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maaaats</author><text>Google intentionally gimps Firefox on Android, by serving an old-school page. Using an addon (which you can on mobile Fx, and not on Chrome), fixes this by editing the UA string when visiting Google.<p>Getting the &quot;nice experience&quot;, however, gives me amp links. And when I click on them, I&#x27;m unable to scroll?! It doesn&#x27;t matter if it loads fast, when I cannot read beyond the fold.<p>It also breaks the &quot;open in app&quot; I normally have. If the link is a reddit link, for instance, I can press an icon in Firefox to have it open in &quot;Reddit is fun&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A new AMP update shows how it can infiltrate every corner of the internet</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/google-is-tightening-its-iron-grip-on-your-website-27e06b3150e0</url></story> |
37,398,394 | 37,398,370 | 1 | 2 | 37,397,323 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drekipus</author><text>Just raise it up early, often, and simply.<p>&quot;Isn&#x27;t this just a Boolean flag? If X else y?&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve saved a great many man months by doing just this. Sometimes work just vanishes. And it&#x27;s not just the juniors that do it, sometimes the senior &#x2F; tech lead types just miss a crucial point to make the solution trivial.<p>But juniors are often used to wanting to make work, rather than solve a problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smokel</author><text>I have recently seen someone wrap a single function in about 10 classes of Java to turn it into a standalone application, slap on some Docker Compose magic, add some build scripts, and then continue to look proud at the feature being wholly configurable at deployment time.<p>Of course, the deployment team would have to be informed about this change, so some documentation was required as well, but that was exactly the part of the process where most effort was saved.<p>Note that all this was used for a system that would be deployed only at one customer, and the feature would always be on. Yes, a boolean flag would have been a better solution for this.<p>My cynicism is probably not the best approach to change the world for the better, so any hint on how to teach younger colleagues to stop snacking micro service candy is much appreciated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler</title><url>https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/when-deployments-are-easy-code-becomes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>digging</author><text>&gt; My cynicism is probably not the best approach to change the world for the better, so any hint on how to teach younger colleagues to stop snacking micro service candy is much appreciated.<p>I could be way off base here, but I&#x27;d bet a lot of junior devs are just trying to stand out. They want respect, raises, promotions, and new job offers. Invisible good solutions don&#x27;t bring those.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smokel</author><text>I have recently seen someone wrap a single function in about 10 classes of Java to turn it into a standalone application, slap on some Docker Compose magic, add some build scripts, and then continue to look proud at the feature being wholly configurable at deployment time.<p>Of course, the deployment team would have to be informed about this change, so some documentation was required as well, but that was exactly the part of the process where most effort was saved.<p>Note that all this was used for a system that would be deployed only at one customer, and the feature would always be on. Yes, a boolean flag would have been a better solution for this.<p>My cynicism is probably not the best approach to change the world for the better, so any hint on how to teach younger colleagues to stop snacking micro service candy is much appreciated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler</title><url>https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/when-deployments-are-easy-code-becomes</url></story> |
2,444,885 | 2,444,765 | 1 | 2 | 2,444,590 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakelear</author><text>I had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Carmack recently (here's the photo proof: <a href="http://jacoblear.com/carmack.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://jacoblear.com/carmack.jpg</a> ) and was able to listen to him talk casually, as opposed to in an interview or speaking event. He doesn't turn his brilliance on and off, it's there all the time.<p>When I was a kid, I wanted to do 2 things, make video games and go to space. Here we have a man who is a legend in the games industry, and also started a company sending rockets into space. He's awesome.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack Interview</title><url>http://www.nowgamer.com/print/feature/1308</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>johnyzee</author><text>"I just turned 40 and I can be programming for another 40 years; there’s a lot yet to do!"<p>I love John Carmack.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack Interview</title><url>http://www.nowgamer.com/print/feature/1308</url><text></text></story> |
14,600,295 | 14,600,318 | 1 | 3 | 14,599,668 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geodel</author><text>Don&#x27;t people like it here when a company does not indulge in pc bullshit. I think Tesla statement is to the point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pscsbs</author><text>Wow! Tesla&#x27;s official statement: <i>&quot;Chris just wasn’t the right fit for Tesla, and we’ve decided to make a change. We wish him the best.&quot;</i> [0]<p>Chris&#x27;s response: <i>&quot;Turns out that Tesla isn&#x27;t a good fit for me after all. I&#x27;m interested to hear about interesting roles for a seasoned engineering leader!&quot;</i><p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever seen a tech company throw an employee under the bus so publicly. I wonder what Lattner did to warrant such a public separation?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;tesla-autopilot-chris-lattner-software-vision&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;tesla-autopilot-chris-lattner...</a></text></item><item><author>ccorda</author><text>Seems to be taking Chris Lattner&#x27;s place:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;clattner_llvm&#x2F;status&#x2F;877341760812232704" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;clattner_llvm&#x2F;status&#x2F;877341760812232704</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/tesla-hires-deep-learning-expert-andrej-karpathy-to-lead-autopilot-vision</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chc</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s any better way to downplay a major hire leaving after less than half a year. Everything in those statements is extremely obvious from the circumstances and I can&#x27;t think of a more cordial way to phrase it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pscsbs</author><text>Wow! Tesla&#x27;s official statement: <i>&quot;Chris just wasn’t the right fit for Tesla, and we’ve decided to make a change. We wish him the best.&quot;</i> [0]<p>Chris&#x27;s response: <i>&quot;Turns out that Tesla isn&#x27;t a good fit for me after all. I&#x27;m interested to hear about interesting roles for a seasoned engineering leader!&quot;</i><p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever seen a tech company throw an employee under the bus so publicly. I wonder what Lattner did to warrant such a public separation?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;tesla-autopilot-chris-lattner-software-vision&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;tesla-autopilot-chris-lattner...</a></text></item><item><author>ccorda</author><text>Seems to be taking Chris Lattner&#x27;s place:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;clattner_llvm&#x2F;status&#x2F;877341760812232704" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;clattner_llvm&#x2F;status&#x2F;877341760812232704</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/tesla-hires-deep-learning-expert-andrej-karpathy-to-lead-autopilot-vision</url></story> |
6,227,364 | 6,226,029 | 1 | 3 | 6,223,466 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freshhawk</author><text>I&#x27;m not seeing any &quot;generosity&quot; on Google&#x27;s part, at least from the examples you provided.<p>You certainly seem like a smart guy, working on some cool stuff, so I&#x27;m not surprised people are a bit confused (hence the term &quot;brainwashed&quot;) by your (pretending to?) not understand the business model of the company you work for.<p>You are giving your time away, for free, to a for profit corporation. That&#x27;s so irrational it&#x27;s painful to hear.<p>If you like working with google systems and resources so much that you are willing to <i>pay your employer to use them</i> then ok, that&#x27;s a bit weird, but it&#x27;s your time. If you feel you need to work 120% time to keep your career on track then ok, that&#x27;s not uncommon in this industry (but it&#x27;s the opposite of generosity and it&#x27;s not sustainable for you).<p>Framing this as repaying Google for &quot;their extreme generosity&quot; is delusional, which is why I&#x27;m assuming it&#x27;s not the real reason.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>Why would I give my time for free to Google?<p>Because my entire career- well before I started working here- has been dependent on things that Google has given to me for free.<p>Like Google Search. Search helped me learn to run linux clusters effectively (it was far better than AltaVista for searching for specific error messages) which ensured I had a job, even in the dotcom busts. It helped me learn python, which also played a huge role in my future employment.<p>Like Gmail. Although I&#x27;ve run my own highly available mail services in the past, free Gmail with its initial large quotas hooked me early on. I have never regretted handing the responsibility for email over to Gmail.<p>Like Exacycle (my project): <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/millions-of-core-hours-awarded-to.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleresearch.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;millions-of-core-...</a>
in which Google donated 1B CPU hours to 5 visiting faculty (who got to keep the intellectual property they generated).<p>I would like to repay Google for their extreme generosity. Spending my &quot;Free&quot; time doing things I enjoy (building large, complex distributed computing systems that manage insane amounts of resources) so that Google can make products that it profits from seems perfectly reasonable to me.<p>If I had continued to work in academia, I&#x27;d spend most of my time applying for grants, writing papers, and working 150% time just to maintain basic status and get tenure. Anybody working in the highly competitive sciences, or in the tech industry, who wants to be successful, has to put in more than what most people consider a 9-5 job.<p>As for open sourcing: Google has a nice program to ensure that Googlers can write open source code. I haven&#x27;t taken advantage of it, because most of my codes are internally facing and don&#x27;t need to be open sourced. But I would certainly consider using my time to do that; I just think my time is best spent working on Google products because I believe their impact will be much higher.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>&gt; Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it&#x27;s hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.<p>Then it&#x27;s not 20% time, it&#x27;s personal time you&#x27;re giving to your employer for free. Why would you do that? Why not build your projects outside of Google and keep them for yourself (assuming it&#x27;s a product and not open source)?</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>I am a Googler. I will only speak to my personal experience, and the experience of people around me: 20% time still exists, and is encouraged as a mechanism to explore exciting new ideas without the complexity and cost of a real product.<p>My last three years were spent turning my 20% project into a product, and my job now is spent turning another 20% project into a product. There was never any management pressure from any of my managers to not work on 20% projects; my performance reviews were consistent with a productive Googler.<p>Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it&#x27;s hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.<p>What 20% time really means is that you- as a Google eng- have access to, and can use, Google&#x27;s compute infrastructure to experiment and build new systems. The infrastructure, and the associated software tools, can be leveraged in 20% time to make an eng far more productive than they normally would be. Certainly I, and many other Googlers, are simply super-motivated and willing to use our free time to work on projects that use our infrstructure because we&#x27;re intrinsically interested in using these things to make new products.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead</title><url>http://qz.com/115831/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail-and-adsense-is-now-as-good-as-dead/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bennyg</author><text>To be honest, you sound brainwashed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>Why would I give my time for free to Google?<p>Because my entire career- well before I started working here- has been dependent on things that Google has given to me for free.<p>Like Google Search. Search helped me learn to run linux clusters effectively (it was far better than AltaVista for searching for specific error messages) which ensured I had a job, even in the dotcom busts. It helped me learn python, which also played a huge role in my future employment.<p>Like Gmail. Although I&#x27;ve run my own highly available mail services in the past, free Gmail with its initial large quotas hooked me early on. I have never regretted handing the responsibility for email over to Gmail.<p>Like Exacycle (my project): <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/millions-of-core-hours-awarded-to.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleresearch.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;millions-of-core-...</a>
in which Google donated 1B CPU hours to 5 visiting faculty (who got to keep the intellectual property they generated).<p>I would like to repay Google for their extreme generosity. Spending my &quot;Free&quot; time doing things I enjoy (building large, complex distributed computing systems that manage insane amounts of resources) so that Google can make products that it profits from seems perfectly reasonable to me.<p>If I had continued to work in academia, I&#x27;d spend most of my time applying for grants, writing papers, and working 150% time just to maintain basic status and get tenure. Anybody working in the highly competitive sciences, or in the tech industry, who wants to be successful, has to put in more than what most people consider a 9-5 job.<p>As for open sourcing: Google has a nice program to ensure that Googlers can write open source code. I haven&#x27;t taken advantage of it, because most of my codes are internally facing and don&#x27;t need to be open sourced. But I would certainly consider using my time to do that; I just think my time is best spent working on Google products because I believe their impact will be much higher.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>&gt; Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it&#x27;s hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.<p>Then it&#x27;s not 20% time, it&#x27;s personal time you&#x27;re giving to your employer for free. Why would you do that? Why not build your projects outside of Google and keep them for yourself (assuming it&#x27;s a product and not open source)?</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>I am a Googler. I will only speak to my personal experience, and the experience of people around me: 20% time still exists, and is encouraged as a mechanism to explore exciting new ideas without the complexity and cost of a real product.<p>My last three years were spent turning my 20% project into a product, and my job now is spent turning another 20% project into a product. There was never any management pressure from any of my managers to not work on 20% projects; my performance reviews were consistent with a productive Googler.<p>Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it&#x27;s hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.<p>What 20% time really means is that you- as a Google eng- have access to, and can use, Google&#x27;s compute infrastructure to experiment and build new systems. The infrastructure, and the associated software tools, can be leveraged in 20% time to make an eng far more productive than they normally would be. Certainly I, and many other Googlers, are simply super-motivated and willing to use our free time to work on projects that use our infrstructure because we&#x27;re intrinsically interested in using these things to make new products.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead</title><url>http://qz.com/115831/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail-and-adsense-is-now-as-good-as-dead/</url></story> |
22,122,492 | 22,122,629 | 1 | 2 | 22,122,114 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>By coincidence, I ran across this last night:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=cameronsworld.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=cameronsworld.net</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cameronsworld.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cameronsworld.net&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Geocities Gallery</title><url>https://geocities.restorativland.org/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sp332</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.geocities.institute&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.geocities.institute&#x2F;</a> has been doing analyses of Geocities images, page design, character encoding etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Geocities Gallery</title><url>https://geocities.restorativland.org/</url></story> |
38,804,864 | 38,804,757 | 1 | 3 | 38,793,206 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adamckay</author><text>If you want to stick with using `pip` over any of the newer tools that build on top of it (Poetry - my favourite, pdm, pipenv, rye, ...) the simplest way I used in the past was to use a `requirements.human.txt` to set my dependencies, then install them in a venv and do `pip freeze &gt; requirements.txt` to lock all of the transitive dependencies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>davedx</author><text>The problem is `requirements.txt` doesn&#x27;t do anything with downstream dependencies. There&#x27;s nothing like a shinkwrap&#x2F;lockfile in python. Even if you pin dependencies to exact versions, if you check your project out in a new environment and run pip install -r requirements.txt, you can end up with different, broken downstream dependencies.<p>This happens <i>a lot</i> for me.</text></item><item><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; There is constant breaking changes with it (both runtime and tooling).</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure what you mean. Python 2 to 3 was a breaking change, but that was just one change, not &quot;constant breaking changes&quot;.<p>If you stick with one major version no old code breaks with a new minor version (e.g., you can run old 2.x code under 2.7 just fine, and you can run old 3.x code under 3.12 just fine). The minor version changes can add new features that your old code won&#x27;t make use of (for example, old 3.x code won&#x27;t use the &quot;async&quot; keyword or type annotations), but that doesn&#x27;t make the old code break.</text></item><item><author>imran-iq</author><text>Python is a really bad example of cold blooded software. There is constant breaking changes with it (both runtime and tooling). So much so that the author still has to use python2 which has been EOL&#x27;d for quite a while.<p>A much better example would be something like go or java where 10 year old code still runs fine with their modern tooling. Or an even better example, perl, where 30 year old code still runs fine to this day</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cold-blooded software</title><url>https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baq</author><text>That&#x27;s an awareness problem. requirements.txt was invented... a long time ago, I think before the much more sane (but still not perfect) dependencies&#x2F;lockfile split got popular. requirements.txt tries to be both - and it can be both, just not at the same time.<p>In short, you want your deployed software to use pip freeze &gt; requirements.txt and libraries to only specify dependencies with minimal version conditions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>davedx</author><text>The problem is `requirements.txt` doesn&#x27;t do anything with downstream dependencies. There&#x27;s nothing like a shinkwrap&#x2F;lockfile in python. Even if you pin dependencies to exact versions, if you check your project out in a new environment and run pip install -r requirements.txt, you can end up with different, broken downstream dependencies.<p>This happens <i>a lot</i> for me.</text></item><item><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; There is constant breaking changes with it (both runtime and tooling).</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure what you mean. Python 2 to 3 was a breaking change, but that was just one change, not &quot;constant breaking changes&quot;.<p>If you stick with one major version no old code breaks with a new minor version (e.g., you can run old 2.x code under 2.7 just fine, and you can run old 3.x code under 3.12 just fine). The minor version changes can add new features that your old code won&#x27;t make use of (for example, old 3.x code won&#x27;t use the &quot;async&quot; keyword or type annotations), but that doesn&#x27;t make the old code break.</text></item><item><author>imran-iq</author><text>Python is a really bad example of cold blooded software. There is constant breaking changes with it (both runtime and tooling). So much so that the author still has to use python2 which has been EOL&#x27;d for quite a while.<p>A much better example would be something like go or java where 10 year old code still runs fine with their modern tooling. Or an even better example, perl, where 30 year old code still runs fine to this day</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cold-blooded software</title><url>https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/</url></story> |
40,235,548 | 40,233,987 | 1 | 2 | 40,233,746 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dml2135</author><text>This is Dropbox Sign, not Dropbox. It’s a document signing product akin to Docusign, and was called Hellosign before Dropbox acquired them.<p>We are a customer of theirs at my startup, and as far as I can tell Dropbox has made very few changes since the acquisition beyond changing the branding. So I wouldn’t take this incident to be an indicator of much on the cloud-storage side of the company.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign</title><url>https://sign.dropbox.com/blog/a-recent-security-incident-involving-dropbox-sign</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chenxi9649</author><text>&quot;Upon further investigation, we discovered that a threat actor had accessed data including Dropbox Sign customer information such as emails, usernames, phone numbers and hashed passwords, in addition to general account settings and certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication.&quot;<p>hashed passwords, API keys, OAuth tokens, MFA...<p>Oh no.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign</title><url>https://sign.dropbox.com/blog/a-recent-security-incident-involving-dropbox-sign</url></story> |
19,656,103 | 19,655,474 | 1 | 3 | 19,653,802 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>It&#x27;s not necessarily that simple.<p>I would say that for most Americans who are cash poor, they intentionally do not optimize their taxes to break even, but rather to ensure they never end up owing the government money at the end of the year.<p>The rationale for this is pretty simple. Even if you&#x27;re poor, $50 a month in extra income isn&#x27;t going to make or break you, but an unexpected bill for $600 in April can really mess you up. On the other hand, just going with max withholdings and discovering in April that you get $600 back from the government is a nice bonus.<p>It&#x27;s not the &quot;optimal&quot; decision from a finance perspective, but for a lot of people it works better in real life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mindless2112</author><text>That tax withholding is the only way that many Americans manage to save speaks more to a lack of self-control than anything else.<p>If Uncle Sam can save a lump-sum for you by deducting from your paycheck, you could have done the same (in fact, better) with a bit of resolve and a bank account.</text></item><item><author>kartan</author><text>&gt; Out-of-pocket medical spending jumps once the money hits people’s bank accounts.<p>It is a bad thing that tax withholding is one of the few ways Americans can have savings. When you live check to check this can be your only option.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/what-to-spend-your-tax-refund-on-how-about-the-doctor</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jlebar</author><text>Not necessarily -- perhaps you&#x27;re in debt day-to-day. This is the reality for many Americans.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Mindless2112</author><text>That tax withholding is the only way that many Americans manage to save speaks more to a lack of self-control than anything else.<p>If Uncle Sam can save a lump-sum for you by deducting from your paycheck, you could have done the same (in fact, better) with a bit of resolve and a bank account.</text></item><item><author>kartan</author><text>&gt; Out-of-pocket medical spending jumps once the money hits people’s bank accounts.<p>It is a bad thing that tax withholding is one of the few ways Americans can have savings. When you live check to check this can be your only option.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/what-to-spend-your-tax-refund-on-how-about-the-doctor</url></story> |
23,056,948 | 23,056,875 | 1 | 2 | 23,056,562 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ofrzeta</author><text>Here&#x27;s a PDF paper of the same topic <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.eecs.northwestern.edu&#x2F;~hq&#x2F;papers&#x2F;ply.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.eecs.northwestern.edu&#x2F;~hq&#x2F;papers&#x2F;ply.pdf</a><p>and Github:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sliminality&#x2F;ply" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sliminality&#x2F;ply</a><p>&quot;Several of Ply&#x27;s core features have been released as Inactive CSS in Mozilla Firefox 70.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ply: A Visual Web Inspector (2018) [slides]</title><url>https://slim.computer/ply-uist-2018/#/title-slide</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rwesty</author><text>Neat, it would be an interesting linting tool to help minify CSS. I was wondering why the pruning tool took so long but I can see they are using visuals to determine if a a style is needed or not. That&#x27;s a really smart way to do it, I wonder what other use cases there are for mapping visual images to code. This is almost like a selenium test for CSS.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ply: A Visual Web Inspector (2018) [slides]</title><url>https://slim.computer/ply-uist-2018/#/title-slide</url></story> |
28,872,997 | 28,867,979 | 1 | 3 | 28,863,954 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>climb_stealth</author><text>Thank you for posting this! I agree.<p>Address bar: I know what I want and I want it to only search in bookmarks and history.<p>Search bar: I don&#x27;t quite know what I want and I want to open an internet search for it. And possibly give suggestions from actual search results.<p>Separating the address and search bars is the first thing I do when I set up a new Firefox. I hope it will stay around but I&#x27;m somewhat bracing myself for it to go away eventually.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MauranKilom</author><text>On the other hand, I despise this exact change in Firefox. When I want to search, I use the search bar. When I want to enter an address, I use the address bar. <i>I</i> have a clear picture of what I want to do, and it is annoying to no end if the browser confuses one for the other. For example, by auto-completing a search term to a URL instead (see: computers don&#x27;t know what users want). That&#x27;s why I personally prefer the ability to make that choice explicitly.<p>I get it, I&#x27;m not the kind of user this article is about. And maybe I&#x27;m just insufficiently exposed to the other paradigm to have become &quot;fluent&quot; in it. But I just wanted to point out that there <i>definitely</i> are users whose mental model differentiates search terms and URLs.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>This is a good example of making the mistake of conflating implementation details and user interface design.<p>Firefox always had two boxes: URL bar and search. One of the big changes Chrome made when it was born was to have the Omnibar, being of course one bar that does both.<p>If you think about this as an engineer, Firefox&#x27;s design decision makes sense. You don&#x27;t want to accidentally leak things to a search engine. URLs and search bars are just different. There are also corner cases where you&#x27;re not sure if something is a URL or a search term, mostly to do with intranets (eg &quot;go&#x2F;foo&quot; can be a URL internally).<p>But users don&#x27;t care about any of that. Users don&#x27;t have the mental model to differentiate search terms and a URL. Chrome&#x27;s decision was correct. It&#x27;s surprising how long Firefox stuck with their bad (IMHO) design.<p>Here&#x27;s another example of this: IIRC one of the most frequently searched terms on Google is &quot;facebook&quot;. Tech-savvy people will just type &quot;facebook.com&quot; but users will just search for &quot;facebook&quot; and click on the (hopefully) first result. That happens a ton.<p>So the lesson is don&#x27;t leak technical and implementation details into interface design. Your users don&#x27;t care about any of that. Think like a user, not an engineer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/every-search-bar-looks-like-a-url-bar-to-users/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>FYI in Firefox you can revert to the correct, two-box implementation by checking &quot;Settings &gt; Search&quot; . You can get two boxes back, and you can turn off search suggestions in the address bar.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MauranKilom</author><text>On the other hand, I despise this exact change in Firefox. When I want to search, I use the search bar. When I want to enter an address, I use the address bar. <i>I</i> have a clear picture of what I want to do, and it is annoying to no end if the browser confuses one for the other. For example, by auto-completing a search term to a URL instead (see: computers don&#x27;t know what users want). That&#x27;s why I personally prefer the ability to make that choice explicitly.<p>I get it, I&#x27;m not the kind of user this article is about. And maybe I&#x27;m just insufficiently exposed to the other paradigm to have become &quot;fluent&quot; in it. But I just wanted to point out that there <i>definitely</i> are users whose mental model differentiates search terms and URLs.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>This is a good example of making the mistake of conflating implementation details and user interface design.<p>Firefox always had two boxes: URL bar and search. One of the big changes Chrome made when it was born was to have the Omnibar, being of course one bar that does both.<p>If you think about this as an engineer, Firefox&#x27;s design decision makes sense. You don&#x27;t want to accidentally leak things to a search engine. URLs and search bars are just different. There are also corner cases where you&#x27;re not sure if something is a URL or a search term, mostly to do with intranets (eg &quot;go&#x2F;foo&quot; can be a URL internally).<p>But users don&#x27;t care about any of that. Users don&#x27;t have the mental model to differentiate search terms and a URL. Chrome&#x27;s decision was correct. It&#x27;s surprising how long Firefox stuck with their bad (IMHO) design.<p>Here&#x27;s another example of this: IIRC one of the most frequently searched terms on Google is &quot;facebook&quot;. Tech-savvy people will just type &quot;facebook.com&quot; but users will just search for &quot;facebook&quot; and click on the (hopefully) first result. That happens a ton.<p>So the lesson is don&#x27;t leak technical and implementation details into interface design. Your users don&#x27;t care about any of that. Think like a user, not an engineer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/every-search-bar-looks-like-a-url-bar-to-users/</url></story> |
38,848,829 | 38,848,742 | 1 | 3 | 38,847,613 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minitech</author><text>&gt; Also, the lack of a Javascript engine makes it a very secure browser. Whenever I try to open a link that I am suspicious of, I do so in dillo.<p>I would suggest using a Chromium or Firefox profile with JavaScript and webfonts disabled for this instead of questionably maintained C software that doesn’t have a sandbox for any of the complex and commonly exploited things it does (image decoding, HTML&#x2F;CSS parsing, network protocols, local file access).</text><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>Given the circumstances, I am happy to read this. I own two ~2009 netbooks with Intel Atom N270 CPUs and 1GB of RAM each - running Firefox on those is ridiculous, whereas dillo will run very well on these.<p>I used to use dillo on my main desktop too, for browsing documentation that wasn&#x27;t too heavy on CSS - having 20 to 40 tabs open would gobble up a lot of RAM in Firefox, whereas dillo happily stayed around 100MB no matter what I threw at it. My current desktop has enough RAM this not a concern any more, but I have fond memories of using dillo on memory-deficient machines and am a current user still.<p>Also, the lack of a Javascript engine makes it a very secure browser. Whenever I try to open a link that I am suspicious of, I do so in dillo.<p>So thanks to everyone who continues to work on this, I really appreciate the work you do! Dillo is a fine piece of software that I have enjoyed using for at least 15 years now, and I hope it will be around for many years to come! &lt;3</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser</title><url>https://dillo-browser.github.io/</url><text>Hi, in mid 2022 the host dillo.org expired [0], taking down the website, mercurial repo, the mailing list and the email server used to reach the core developers of Dillo. Someone bought it and now serves a weird clone of the original page with missing content.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32448104">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32448104</a><p>I felt sad as I didn&#x27;t want it to die, so I got a copy of the repo from my hard disk, uploaded it to GitHub and decided to do some maintenance on the code to at least keep the build working. After some time, the folks at Atari Forum decided to use my repo to port it to the Atari platform and they managed to do it [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dillo-browser&#x2F;dillo&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dillo-browser&#x2F;dillo&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34</a><p>That gave me some motivation to work a bit more on the project to prevent it from dying. So I created an organization under the name of &quot;dillo-browser&quot; and made a new webpage [2] with a backup of the old one.<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dillo-browser.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dillo-browser.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>With the help of Andreas Kemnade which had access to the original server, we managed to backup most of the stuff from the original website (including non-reachable pages) which I uploaded to the Archive.<p>In the meanwhile, I combined the support for both OpenSSL (1.1 and 3) and mbedTLS (2 and 3) as well as proper CI with rendering tests. We now build Dillo for Ubuntu, FreeBSD and macOS!<p>I also became familiar with the plugin mechanism in Dillo, which allows any program that uses the standard input and output to become a plugin registered to a given protocol (like file:&#x2F;&#x2F;...). I did a simple one (which is just a bash script) to read local manual pages which is handy to follow links to other pages [3], but check also the ones Charles E. Lehner did which are more advanced [4].<p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dillo-browser&#x2F;dillo-plugin-man">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dillo-browser&#x2F;dillo-plugin-man</a>
[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;g&#x2F;dillo&#x2F;c&#x2F;WGEMg7AXN4o&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;g&#x2F;dillo&#x2F;c&#x2F;WGEMg7AXN4o&#x2F;</a><p>As of today, I&#x27;m unable to contact the main developer, Jorge Arellano Cid, which has not interacted with the mailing list for some years now. Jorge, if you read this, please contact with me (you can find my email in the git commits).<p>Regarding the future of Dillo, I&#x27;m planning to (finally) do the 3.1 release after some testing, and for that it would be convenient to have the help of some users to get some feedback ;-)<p>If you want to contribute, feel free to open a PR or send a patch (via GitHub or by email, I don&#x27;t care). Check also the current issues and pull requests to see what is pending or already being working on. I will probably setup a mailing list at some point too.<p>Thanks!
Rodrigo.</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>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>I also like dillo, but just as an option - have you tried netsurf as well? Likewise very lightweight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>Given the circumstances, I am happy to read this. I own two ~2009 netbooks with Intel Atom N270 CPUs and 1GB of RAM each - running Firefox on those is ridiculous, whereas dillo will run very well on these.<p>I used to use dillo on my main desktop too, for browsing documentation that wasn&#x27;t too heavy on CSS - having 20 to 40 tabs open would gobble up a lot of RAM in Firefox, whereas dillo happily stayed around 100MB no matter what I threw at it. My current desktop has enough RAM this not a concern any more, but I have fond memories of using dillo on memory-deficient machines and am a current user still.<p>Also, the lack of a Javascript engine makes it a very secure browser. Whenever I try to open a link that I am suspicious of, I do so in dillo.<p>So thanks to everyone who continues to work on this, I really appreciate the work you do! Dillo is a fine piece of software that I have enjoyed using for at least 15 years now, and I hope it will be around for many years to come! &lt;3</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser</title><url>https://dillo-browser.github.io/</url><text>Hi, in mid 2022 the host dillo.org expired [0], taking down the website, mercurial repo, the mailing list and the email server used to reach the core developers of Dillo. Someone bought it and now serves a weird clone of the original page with missing content.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32448104">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32448104</a><p>I felt sad as I didn&#x27;t want it to die, so I got a copy of the repo from my hard disk, uploaded it to GitHub and decided to do some maintenance on the code to at least keep the build working. After some time, the folks at Atari Forum decided to use my repo to port it to the Atari platform and they managed to do it [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dillo-browser&#x2F;dillo&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dillo-browser&#x2F;dillo&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34</a><p>That gave me some motivation to work a bit more on the project to prevent it from dying. So I created an organization under the name of &quot;dillo-browser&quot; and made a new webpage [2] with a backup of the old one.<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dillo-browser.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dillo-browser.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>With the help of Andreas Kemnade which had access to the original server, we managed to backup most of the stuff from the original website (including non-reachable pages) which I uploaded to the Archive.<p>In the meanwhile, I combined the support for both OpenSSL (1.1 and 3) and mbedTLS (2 and 3) as well as proper CI with rendering tests. We now build Dillo for Ubuntu, FreeBSD and macOS!<p>I also became familiar with the plugin mechanism in Dillo, which allows any program that uses the standard input and output to become a plugin registered to a given protocol (like file:&#x2F;&#x2F;...). I did a simple one (which is just a bash script) to read local manual pages which is handy to follow links to other pages [3], but check also the ones Charles E. Lehner did which are more advanced [4].<p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dillo-browser&#x2F;dillo-plugin-man">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dillo-browser&#x2F;dillo-plugin-man</a>
[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;g&#x2F;dillo&#x2F;c&#x2F;WGEMg7AXN4o&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;g&#x2F;dillo&#x2F;c&#x2F;WGEMg7AXN4o&#x2F;</a><p>As of today, I&#x27;m unable to contact the main developer, Jorge Arellano Cid, which has not interacted with the mailing list for some years now. Jorge, if you read this, please contact with me (you can find my email in the git commits).<p>Regarding the future of Dillo, I&#x27;m planning to (finally) do the 3.1 release after some testing, and for that it would be convenient to have the help of some users to get some feedback ;-)<p>If you want to contribute, feel free to open a PR or send a patch (via GitHub or by email, I don&#x27;t care). Check also the current issues and pull requests to see what is pending or already being working on. I will probably setup a mailing list at some point too.<p>Thanks!
Rodrigo.</text></story> |
36,127,344 | 36,127,602 | 1 | 2 | 36,127,058 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sushisource</author><text>I also find it consistently obnoxious that there is essentially no way to say &quot;My driver was fine, but your platform did something stupid&quot; when leaving feedback. At least, not without jumping through a million hoops. The arrogance of our industry is tiresome.<p>I took a ride in SF a while ago and it predicted a 3 minute pick up time which turned out to be 25 minutes - no fault of the driver, and the only way I could complain about this was to click through like 4 levels of &quot;other issue&quot; and then jump through hoops sending emails back and forth with support.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bri3d</author><text>Does anyone know if Lyft plan to contribute their map corrections back to OSM? They mention other companies doing so in this blog post, but don&#x27;t make it clear whether or not they, too, intend to.<p>I&#x27;m curious to see how good Lyft Maps is, too. Uber Maps is, frankly, a disaster in my area, frequently suggesting illegal and&#x2F;or impossible turns. I try to submit map feedback every trip (very hard as a rider, as most forms of available feedback seem to be to punish the driver rather than the platform), and it&#x27;s still never been fixed. Most drivers seem to use Google Maps or Waze instead and if I see a driver using Uber Maps, I need to watch the trip and suggest several corrections. Ironically, I&#x27;m only a few miles from the office where most Uber Maps staff used to work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future</title><url>https://www.lyft.com/rev/posts/lyfts-secret-plan-to-take-control-of-its-maps-and-its-future</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uneekname</author><text>Lyft is one of the biggest contributors to OSM. Here is a list of OSM accounts related to Lyft [0]. In many places where I&#x27;ve edited OSM, Lyft employees have contributed quality data where there wasn&#x27;t any before.<p>How (and, how respectfully) companies should contribute to OSM is an ongoing debate. But corporate influences are often a good thing, and I think nearly anyone would agree that Lyft&#x27;s contributions to OSM have been resoundingly helpful.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OSM-DCT-Lyft&#x2F;US&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OSM-Team-Members">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OSM-DCT-Lyft&#x2F;US&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OSM-Team-Members</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bri3d</author><text>Does anyone know if Lyft plan to contribute their map corrections back to OSM? They mention other companies doing so in this blog post, but don&#x27;t make it clear whether or not they, too, intend to.<p>I&#x27;m curious to see how good Lyft Maps is, too. Uber Maps is, frankly, a disaster in my area, frequently suggesting illegal and&#x2F;or impossible turns. I try to submit map feedback every trip (very hard as a rider, as most forms of available feedback seem to be to punish the driver rather than the platform), and it&#x27;s still never been fixed. Most drivers seem to use Google Maps or Waze instead and if I see a driver using Uber Maps, I need to watch the trip and suggest several corrections. Ironically, I&#x27;m only a few miles from the office where most Uber Maps staff used to work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future</title><url>https://www.lyft.com/rev/posts/lyfts-secret-plan-to-take-control-of-its-maps-and-its-future</url></story> |
11,508,943 | 11,508,861 | 1 | 2 | 11,508,518 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>This is a great letter from Microsoft Nouveau and I applaud them for taking a stand. It&#x27;s on us as citizens to exercise our rights and bring about change and reform.<p>I think we should also remember those that took a stand early and paid the price, such as former Quest CEO Joseph Nacchio who was run under the bus for not being an accomplice to the NSA [1].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rt.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;qwest-ceo-nsa-jail-604&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rt.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;qwest-ceo-nsa-jail-604&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule</title><url>http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2016/04/14/keeping-secrecy-exception-not-rule-issue-consumers-businesses/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drtillberg</author><text>If the government can require Microsoft to break the contractual and fiduciary commitments to customers to protect data and report on what happens to it, can the government also require individual employees to break their commitments to their employers? Agents show up at data warehouse on 1000 Main Street, tell the employees they are prohibited from contacting their bosses, ever. What is the limiting principle, where does it end?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule</title><url>http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2016/04/14/keeping-secrecy-exception-not-rule-issue-consumers-businesses/</url></story> |
38,418,178 | 38,416,260 | 1 | 3 | 38,415,875 | train | <instructions>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>I seriously do not understand why any employee would steal their previous employers&#x27; code to use at a new employer.<p>There&#x27;s little-to-no personal upside, and only horrible downside if you get caught.<p>I mean, this guy:<p>&gt; <i>Moniruzzaman allegedly gave his personal email unauthorized access to Valeo&#x27;s systems to steal &quot;tens of thousands of files&quot; and 6GB of source code shortly after that development... Valeo said its former employee admitted to stealing its software and that German police found its documentation and hardware pinned on Moniruzzaman&#x27;s walls when his home was raided.</i><p>And while Nvidia presumably hired him for his expertise, they certainly didn&#x27;t expect him to be stealing code, not even wink-wink-nudge-nudge. Corporate lawyers at trillion-dollar-companies take this stuff <i>super</i> seriously.<p>So this guy puts himself at massive legal risk... for what? So he can slack off for a few months while he pretends to write code that&#x27;s already been written -- and gets to browse Reddit? Or so he can deliver code extra-fast in hopes of a quicker promotion -- that may or may not come? Is that really worth it?<p>It&#x27;s crazy to me. Why would you risk that?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-sued-for-stealing-trade-secrets-after-screensharing-blunder-showed-rival-companys-code-063009605.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>pritambaral</author><text>TFA makes it sound as if the entirety of the blame can be placed on one employee. Sure, his actions do seem to support that view, but then again, Nvidia did hire him precisely for his previous experience at this rival company, on the very same project that the two companies were partnered on, which is the same project that Nvidia hired him for.<p>There is no argument to be made that Nvidia wasn&#x27;t aware he&#x27;d be coming with secrets. The argument that that&#x27;s precisely why he was hired, OTOH, is looking very strong.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-sued-for-stealing-trade-secrets-after-screensharing-blunder-showed-rival-companys-code-063009605.html</url></story> |
11,637,918 | 11,637,446 | 1 | 3 | 11,634,600 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavedwalden</author><text>While the U2 fiasco was a bad move, I don&#x27;t think that &quot;break into your computer&quot; is a fair characterization of what they did. They added it to your available downloads and, depending on your sync settings, it was downloaded to devices.
I&#x27;m not a huge fan of having my media managed by the companies I buy hardware from, but when I found a user&#x27;s manual document on my Kindle I didn&#x27;t consider it &#x27;getting hacked&#x27; by them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clapinton</author><text>Remember the U2 fiasco, when Apple decided to break into your computer and push their new album through iTunes? It seems like whenever Apple decides to take control of your files, shit happens.<p>Back in the day, I tried to use iTunes for a while when I bought my iPod. One of the first things that it asked me was to take control of my music, as it would reorganize it by itself. I agreed, but tested it first with a small sample. When I saw the mess it had done to the way I organized my music, specially with the files&#x27; names, I backed out of the auto-organize option and preached heavily against it to everyone I knew.<p>I learned my lesson: never let whatever service control your files. And always, ALWAYS have backup. Remember: The answer to life, the universe and how many backups you should keep of your stuff is 42.</text></item><item><author>funkyy</author><text>I am surprised at people trying to rationale Apples wrongdoing by pointing at Google and bringing some crazy examples.<p>There is no rationale in this - this is outright breaking your privacy and ownership rights. No terms and conditions can be above law. It doesn&#x27;t matter what others do - Apple is doing those crazy things here and there trying to test the ground which indicates they are not pro privacy and pro user, but rather are willing to go huge lengths to please music industry.<p>Only because you eating in the restaurant it doesn&#x27;t mean waiter can run to your house and smash all of your food in the fridge reasoning &quot;from now on you are covered&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Stole My Music</title><url>https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/</url></story> | <instructions>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>Defense in depth is a good thing as well. In my case, the first line of defense would be ZFS snapshots on my homebuilt NAS. If malware scrozzles my NAS, a rollback to the last snapshot can be a quick way to fix it.<p>Other systems get backed up to the NAS, and the NAS drives are periodically backed up onto a second ZFS pool that is normally kept physically offline.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clapinton</author><text>Remember the U2 fiasco, when Apple decided to break into your computer and push their new album through iTunes? It seems like whenever Apple decides to take control of your files, shit happens.<p>Back in the day, I tried to use iTunes for a while when I bought my iPod. One of the first things that it asked me was to take control of my music, as it would reorganize it by itself. I agreed, but tested it first with a small sample. When I saw the mess it had done to the way I organized my music, specially with the files&#x27; names, I backed out of the auto-organize option and preached heavily against it to everyone I knew.<p>I learned my lesson: never let whatever service control your files. And always, ALWAYS have backup. Remember: The answer to life, the universe and how many backups you should keep of your stuff is 42.</text></item><item><author>funkyy</author><text>I am surprised at people trying to rationale Apples wrongdoing by pointing at Google and bringing some crazy examples.<p>There is no rationale in this - this is outright breaking your privacy and ownership rights. No terms and conditions can be above law. It doesn&#x27;t matter what others do - Apple is doing those crazy things here and there trying to test the ground which indicates they are not pro privacy and pro user, but rather are willing to go huge lengths to please music industry.<p>Only because you eating in the restaurant it doesn&#x27;t mean waiter can run to your house and smash all of your food in the fridge reasoning &quot;from now on you are covered&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Stole My Music</title><url>https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/</url></story> |
20,142,884 | 20,142,821 | 1 | 3 | 20,142,089 | train | <instructions>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>That looks <i>incredible</i>, and makes me upset I&#x27;m not a pilot and don&#x27;t have the time to learn!<p>Genuine question: is there any way to explore the world with visualizations as beautiful as those, but without the plane mechanics?<p>I have so much fun with Google Earth, but it doesn&#x27;t have anything like the level of &quot;realism&quot; shown here -- the water, the clouds, the sunset, the shadows. While a game like GTA V can be gorgeous visually and you can fly a helicopter in it intuitively... but it&#x27;s not a real place.<p>Is there any way to enjoy that realism without learning to fly a plane realistically?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Flight Simulator – E3 2019 – Announce Trailer</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lwansbrough</author><text>Absolutely stunning scenery. I’ll speculate that they’ll offer some sort of subscription service which allows you to stream high quality textures beyond what the standard install provides. It would also be incredible to see AI powered ATC. Something that is a little more adaptive and real would be amazing. For instance I’d love to be able to declare an emergency and have the ATC actually understand that. ATC seems very plausible for AI as there’s a somewhat limited set of instructions that need to be understood, and basically anything beyond that would be icing on the cake compared to what’s available in FSX&#x2F;X-Plane (aside from the real ATC plugins.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Flight Simulator – E3 2019 – Announce Trailer</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4</url></story> |
38,086,564 | 38,086,892 | 1 | 3 | 38,083,484 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nologic01</author><text>An added bonus of a dark sky is that with a good pair of eyes (and more democratically, with a set of binoculars) you can see all sort of clusters, nebulae, Jupiter&#x27;s moons and e.g., Andromeda.<p>While not as breathtaking as the panoramic view of a truly dark sky, experiencing this &quot;micro-structure&quot; is also a mind-expanding experience: The sky is no longer a set of random point sources. Its an organic &quot;thing&quot; enclosing other &quot;things&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I think many people have never experienced and don&#x27;t realize how mind-bending a clear night sky in the winter without light pollution is. You need to get pretty far from civilization but when you do you will see so many stars, colors and effects you had no idea were visible without a telescope. The first time I experienced it I couldn&#x27;t believe my eyes and it redefined my perception of space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map</title><url>https://darkhotels.co</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ruined</author><text>i think one of the greatest crimes of the modern world is light pollution. it has completely redefined nearly everyone&#x27;s perception of the universe and themselves in a really tragic way.<p>we would all be better off with fewer lights on buildings, and fewer streetlights. there is no reason for most of them, and the cost is existentially incredible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I think many people have never experienced and don&#x27;t realize how mind-bending a clear night sky in the winter without light pollution is. You need to get pretty far from civilization but when you do you will see so many stars, colors and effects you had no idea were visible without a telescope. The first time I experienced it I couldn&#x27;t believe my eyes and it redefined my perception of space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map</title><url>https://darkhotels.co</url></story> |
8,681,989 | 8,680,962 | 1 | 2 | 8,680,652 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>Every time IPv6 comes up on HN, around 50% of the comments seem to be about how IPv6 doesn&#x27;t do NAT and how now every device you have is suddenly directly exposed to the internet. Let&#x27;s clarify this a bit instead of answering individual commenters:<p>In IPv6, just like in IPv4, you have a firewall. In Linux, you use ip6tables instead iptables, for example. This is what keeps your devices on your network safe. If you were to start from scratch to set up a router with an IPv6 firewall, you&#x27;d need just two rules: (1) allow packets in for already established connections and (2) drop every other incoming packet. If you know what you are doing, you can actually set this up yourself. I have, and while educational, it provided no real world benefit.<p>Most people don&#x27;t want to bother with using iptables directly, so don&#x27;t. Get a router that supports OpenWRT and flash it. For most of them, it&#x27;s a really simple process (my TP-Link let me upload the binary to flash via the web GUI). Why OpenWRT? Well, it&#x27;s secure and constantly updated, it supports IPv6 natively, and it comes with the IPv6 firewall that is configured in a fashion very similar to how you think of IPv4 (it even rate limits ping requests, etc.). As a bonus, if your ISP doesn&#x27;t support IPv6, OpenWRT has an installable web GUI component for configuring an IPv6 tunnel. Lastly, even if you don&#x27;t want IPv6 (yes, I see you there in the back, climbing back under your rock), still use OpenWRT. It seems to have a lot less bugs than commercial router firmware, and is a lot more stable and up to date than DD-WRT or Tomato.<p>Edit: One other misconception that comes up frequently is that IPv6 means that your privacy is at a more of a risk because your MAC address may be exposed. While in some configurations this can happen, IPv6 has what&#x27;s called Privacy Extensions: in addition to your more permanent MAC-based IPv6 address (network prefix + munged MAC address), your OS will periodically generate a new random IPv6 address (network prefix + random number). This actually makes it marginally harder to track you since your exact IP address will change frequently, as seen by hosts you access. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IPv6#Privacy</a>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IPv6 Adoption Statistics</title><url>http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.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>pilif</author><text>After I switched ISP to one that supports native IPv6 (and generally is pure awesome), I noticed that my traffic at home went to about 50% IPv6, also thanks to YouTube supporting V6.<p>I also casually noticed that all but one address in my &quot;Account Activity&quot; view in Gmail are IPv6 addresses (ironically, the mobile phone got the one single IPv4 address in that list over 4G).<p>V6 works nicely and totally transparent causing zero trouble for me, even though there are some application protocols that don&#x27;t handle V6 properly yet (Apple Remote Desktop and Air Video to give two examples).<p>One thing that&#x27;s tricky about V6 is the fact that without NAT all your boxes are internet-reachable unless you have a firewall. That&#x27;s easily added of course, but whereas we have protocols like upnp and nat-pmp to reconfigure NAT routers, there&#x27;s nothing equivalent for various applications to tell the router to forward some V6 traffic.<p>So this is actually a step back what connectivity behind LANs is concerned.<p>I would love for applications to be able to ask the OS for their very own application specific v6 address. Then they could just listen on that instead of all interfaces (and listening on all interfaces would not include these application specific interfaces).<p>That way, I could theoretically get away without a restrictive firewall while still giving applications a way to be directly connected to. An attacker would have to scan a &#x2F;48 (in my case) or a &#x2F;64 (in the worst case) in order to find an open port given a known remote address.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IPv6 Adoption Statistics</title><url>http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html</url></story> |
40,740,507 | 40,737,761 | 1 | 3 | 40,736,577 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arp242</author><text>Connecting qualified would-be maintainers with projects looking for a maintainer is a tricky problem. Who here even knew PCRE2 was looking for a new maintainer?<p>I took over some fairly widely used Go projects, but only <i>after</i> they were archived. I had no idea they were looking for someone to maintain it.<p>There&#x27;s a bit of a catch-22 here:<p>- If a project is already well-maintained then no one really needs to contribute anything.<p>- If a project is poorly maintained due to lack of interest or time, then this will also discourage contributions – the first think I check before contributing is whether previous PRs are actually getting merged.<p>For larger projects where there&#x27;s always something to do, like Exim, this usually isn&#x27;t a big issue. But for smaller more narrowly scoped projects like PCRE2 this is more of an issue. I&#x27;m not surprised he&#x27;s having a harder time with PCRE2.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw0101c</author><text>Not mention of the music software:<p>&gt; <i>Hazel is also known for his typesetting software, in particular &quot;Philip&#x27;s Music Writer&quot;,[5][6] as well as programs to turn a simple markup into a subset of DocBook XML for use in the Exim manual, and to produce PostScript from this XML.</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Philip_Hazel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Philip_Hazel</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Philip%27s_Music_Writer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Philip%27s_Music_Writer</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/</url></story> |
13,646,922 | 13,646,759 | 1 | 3 | 13,645,996 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Arizhel</author><text>&gt;Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t think they will.<p>Why &quot;unfortunately&quot;? This is a good thing. Facebook is horrible, in many different ways, and the last thing we need is to hand even more power over the internet to them. CL is &quot;ugly&quot;, but it&#x27;s fast and works great, and isn&#x27;t filled with ads and tracking, something I definitely can&#x27;t say about Facebook.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grapevines</author><text>Network effect, reliability, free, anonymous, ability to run without JavaScript.<p>If Craigslist decided to modernize today, they could potentially disrupt the state of things on the internet. Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t think they will. If a new-kid-on-the-block could offer anonymity, reliability, and free regional market based transactions, with preferably integration with Monero, it would be a killer app for the crypto industry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Craigslist Is Ugly, Janky, Old School, and Unbeatable</title><url>https://backchannel.com/craigslist-is-ugly-janky-old-school-and-unbeatable-85206829cb90#.ui9k4ktkl</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vyrotek</author><text>From what I understand, people started local garage sale groups on Facebook specifically to remove anonymity. It&#x27;s a benefit for those people. Facebook is just taking what is already a massively popular use of their groups feature and officially supporting it. It won&#x27;t replace craigslist but it will do just fine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grapevines</author><text>Network effect, reliability, free, anonymous, ability to run without JavaScript.<p>If Craigslist decided to modernize today, they could potentially disrupt the state of things on the internet. Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t think they will. If a new-kid-on-the-block could offer anonymity, reliability, and free regional market based transactions, with preferably integration with Monero, it would be a killer app for the crypto industry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Craigslist Is Ugly, Janky, Old School, and Unbeatable</title><url>https://backchannel.com/craigslist-is-ugly-janky-old-school-and-unbeatable-85206829cb90#.ui9k4ktkl</url></story> |
33,507,533 | 33,507,214 | 1 | 2 | 33,506,373 | 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>michaelt</author><text><i>&gt; I don’t understand the resources that apparently went into tracking down some kid who stole from an illegal marketplace a decade again.</i><p>1. I suspect that the justice system feels that, as a matter of principle, they ought to keep the heat on darknet markets generally. That getting darknet market related arrests in the news has deterrent value, and shows they&#x27;re doing their job. Obviously, arresting operators or big sellers would be even better - but any darknet market arrests are better than none at all.<p>2. They recovered $3.3 Billion, so the ROI on agents&#x27; time is probably pretty good. American society loves it when police departments are funded with criminals&#x27; money, through aggressive traffic ticketing and civil forfeiture! So this is really no different to fining a driver for doing 55 in a 54, except with much less police time used. From a certain perspective, this is one of the most productive uses of resources the department could possibly make.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nrmitchi</author><text>I may get slammed for this, but I don’t understand the resources that apparently went into tracking down some kid who stole from an illegal marketplace a decade again.<p>This feels way less like “pursing justice” and more like trying to track down everything the just I’ve department can seize and auction off. If Bitcoin hadn’t <i>drastically</i> increased in value since the original event, would this have ever been tracked down?<p>I cant even count the number of much more consumer-impacting crypto-related frauds, crimes, and hacks from the last 3 years that would be more deserving of justice department attention, rather than focusing resources and attention on a double withdrawal bug from an illegal marketplace from a decade ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-billion-cryptocurrency-seizure-and-conviction</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xyzzy4747</author><text>It’s probably because he accumulated billions of dollars of property that weren’t taxed, and illegally on top of that (although they were worth much less at the time).<p>It kind of sucks for him that he had to forfeit the Bitcoin and not just the dollar amount he stole at the time. I am sure if it was the other way around, and Bitcoin went to $0, they would take the historical dollar amount he stole instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nrmitchi</author><text>I may get slammed for this, but I don’t understand the resources that apparently went into tracking down some kid who stole from an illegal marketplace a decade again.<p>This feels way less like “pursing justice” and more like trying to track down everything the just I’ve department can seize and auction off. If Bitcoin hadn’t <i>drastically</i> increased in value since the original event, would this have ever been tracked down?<p>I cant even count the number of much more consumer-impacting crypto-related frauds, crimes, and hacks from the last 3 years that would be more deserving of justice department attention, rather than focusing resources and attention on a double withdrawal bug from an illegal marketplace from a decade ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-billion-cryptocurrency-seizure-and-conviction</url></story> |
19,615,653 | 19,615,275 | 1 | 2 | 19,614,819 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rchaud</author><text>&gt; The move is also a sign of increasing wage inflation for thriving companies.<p>This phrasing doesn&#x27;t sit well with me. If the company is thriving, as it is, then why would you term a wage increase as &quot;inflation&quot;? The wages aren&#x27;t tied to &quot;shareholder value&quot; or other metrics the BoD discusses before setting executive compensation.<p>Also, the article should be retitled to &quot;BoA raising minimum wage to $17&quot;, or &quot;plans to raise wages to $20 by 2021&quot;. Makes it sound like fait accompli otherwise, which it certainly is not.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/09/bank-of-america-is-raising-its-minimum-wage-for-employees-to-20-an-hour.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>mabbo</author><text>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s going to be some legitimate criticisms (they don&#x27;t have many low paid workers; they&#x27;re only doing this to win favor with the democrats; he still makes too much money; etc) but I don&#x27;t really care.<p>It&#x27;s a good thing to do. They didn&#x27;t have to do it. They did it. I&#x27;ll judge people on their actions first, intentions second.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/09/bank-of-america-is-raising-its-minimum-wage-for-employees-to-20-an-hour.html</url></story> |
23,285,793 | 23,284,510 | 1 | 3 | 23,279,837 | train | <instructions>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>That&#x27;s a natural assumption, but if you think a step further it&#x27;s not hard to see why it&#x27;s false: you shouldn&#x27;t optimize for local optima, especially if doing that would ruin your global optimum. When you have a goose that lays golden eggs, don&#x27;t risk the goose for an egg.<p>YC&#x27;s economic interest in HN is having it be a happy, thriving community. That dominates all other considerations put together. A fast way to ruin that would be to destroy the community&#x27;s good faith by suppressing negative posts about YC or YC startups. In addition to being wrong (we wouldn&#x27;t want to belong to such a community ourselves), it would be dumb. If anyone wants more explanation there are posts about HN vis-à-vis YC&#x27;s business interests going back years: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=by%3Adang%20yc%20business%20interests&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a>. See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=by%3Adang%20curiosity%20optimiz&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a>, which describes the simple way we try to optimize this (simple in principle, though not in execution). And see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com&#x2F;two-hn-announcements&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com&#x2F;two-hn-announcements&#x2F;</a> from 2015 about HN&#x27;s editorial independence.<p>(Edit—because I&#x27;ve been wanting to write about this for some time and this may as well be the place:)<p>The above is the answer I always give to questions of how HN serves YC&#x27;s business, because it&#x27;s true and it&#x27;s solid economics. It&#x27;s the right answer to give to anyone who&#x27;s looking at the question through a cynical economic lens (as we all have been trained to do) since it basically says &quot;we can be even more cynically self-interested by not doing that&quot;.<p>However, I also always feel a little bad after giving that answer because it&#x27;s not the deeper truth. The deeper truth is that we just feel this way. HN and YC grew up together. In a way they are siblings, and one doesn&#x27;t exploit one&#x27;s sibling. Or, to switch metaphors: because HN and YC grew together, the connections between them are complex and organic, like the connections between brain hemispheres. If you get in there and start snipping and moving things around, you&#x27;ll probably lobotomize yourself.<p>If you want a hard-nosed business reason for how HN makes money for YC, one is: it leads to people starting startups that wouldn&#x27;t otherwise exist, and it leads to YC funding startups that it wouldn&#x27;t otherwise get to fund. That&#x27;s how HN adds to YC&#x27;s core business (edit: but see [1] below). I use that reasoning to explain to people why we don&#x27;t need to sell ads on HN or do other things to monetize it or drive growth. Again, though, it doesn&#x27;t capture how I (and I think most at YC) really think and feel about HN. The deeper truth is the two have always been together and we can&#x27;t imagine them otherwise.<p>In other words, the value of HN to YC is intangible. That affects how we operate HN. If the value were tangible, then snipping things and moving them around and generally being bustling and managerial would be the way to go, or at least the most likely thing that people inside a business would do. But since it&#x27;s intangible, all that kind of thing gets supplanted by a general feeling of &quot;this is good, don&#x27;t fuck it up&quot;. Since the main indicator of whether we&#x27;re fucking it up or not is the community, the way HN can most add value to YC is by keeping the community happy. Happiness means interest (HN is supposed to be interesting) and trust (a community can&#x27;t exist without trust).<p>This is not a paradise that will last forever—it&#x27;s a historical accident that an internet forum ended up in a sweet spot vis-à-vis the company that owns it, where the business is better off optimizing for the forum being good and happy than by banner ads or growth hacking. But we all know that it&#x27;s an honor to get to be stewards of a community in that way, and while nothing lasts forever, we want to keep it going as long as possible, and maybe longer than one could reasonably have thought possible.<p>[1] edit: for some reason I forgot to mention the three formal things that HN also gives to YC: job ads for YC startups, Launch HNs for YC startups, and displaying YC founder usernames in orange to other YC founders. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23293437" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23293437</a> for more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>&gt; those comments don&#x27;t get flagged out of future HN search results.<p>Triplebyte is a YC company and HN is a YC site, so economic interests are aligned with nuking highly critical comments</text></item><item><author>nabilhat</author><text>Assume for a moment I&#x27;m a bad-faith, nosy employer who reads HN on a Saturday morning.
All it takes for me to match up my little stack of current employee&#x27;s resumes is a person&#x27;s city of residence, skills, and employment dates. If I&#x27;m that kind of employer, that&#x27;s enough to raise my red flags. If prior employers are named outright, that&#x27;s a 100% ID. If employment dates are paired with employment location, that&#x27;s a 100% ID.<p>I&#x27;ve known employers like this. I&#x27;ve worked for employers like this. Employers are already monitoring social media. Third party services are paid by employers to monitor for staff that might be looking at other jobs. Recruiters make it their mission to know who&#x27;s looking and what employers are likely to need their services in the near future. This is much of why trust and discretion is the most important asset on both sides of hiring related activities.<p>Triplebyte burning down their reputation as a recruitment avenue is one thing. Locking job searchers into reputation and livelihood risks inside Triplebyte&#x27;s own reputation dumpster fire, on the friday before a holiday weekend, during historic unemployment levels, in the middle of a fucking pandemic, is unforgivable. The CEO showing up in person with hamfisted gaslighting (seriously?) in the middle of this self made disaster makes me hope those comments don&#x27;t get flagged out of future HN search results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public</title><text>Fortunately this email made it through my spam filter. Looks like they want to take on LinkedIn and are planning to seed it by making existing accounts public unless you opt OUT within the next week:<p>Hey [redacted],<p>I’m excited to announce that we are expanding the reach of your Triplebyte profile. Now, you can use your Triplebyte credentials on and off the platform. Just like LinkedIn, your profile will be publicly accessible with a dedicated URL that you can share anywhere (job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc). When you do well on a Triplebyte assessment, your profile will showcase that achievement (we won’t show your scores publicly). Unlike LinkedIn, we aim to become your digital engineering skills resume — a credential based on actual skills, not pedigree.<p>The new profiles will be launching publicly in 1 week. This is a great opportunity to update your profile with your latest experience and preferences. You can edit your profile privacy settings to not appear in public search engines at any time.<p>Our mission is to build an open, valuable, and skills-based credential for all engineers. We believe that allowing Triplebyte engineers to publicly share their profiles and skills-based credentials will accelerate this mission.<p>Thanks,<p>Ammon
Co-founder &amp; CEO, Triplebyte</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>wolfgang42</author><text>Regarding HN’s policy on discussions of YC companies: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23280121" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23280121</a><p>What &#x27;nabilhat is talking about is the way the Triplebyte CEO’s comments in this thread (which are the opposite of “highly critical”) are being downvoted to very light grey.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>&gt; those comments don&#x27;t get flagged out of future HN search results.<p>Triplebyte is a YC company and HN is a YC site, so economic interests are aligned with nuking highly critical comments</text></item><item><author>nabilhat</author><text>Assume for a moment I&#x27;m a bad-faith, nosy employer who reads HN on a Saturday morning.
All it takes for me to match up my little stack of current employee&#x27;s resumes is a person&#x27;s city of residence, skills, and employment dates. If I&#x27;m that kind of employer, that&#x27;s enough to raise my red flags. If prior employers are named outright, that&#x27;s a 100% ID. If employment dates are paired with employment location, that&#x27;s a 100% ID.<p>I&#x27;ve known employers like this. I&#x27;ve worked for employers like this. Employers are already monitoring social media. Third party services are paid by employers to monitor for staff that might be looking at other jobs. Recruiters make it their mission to know who&#x27;s looking and what employers are likely to need their services in the near future. This is much of why trust and discretion is the most important asset on both sides of hiring related activities.<p>Triplebyte burning down their reputation as a recruitment avenue is one thing. Locking job searchers into reputation and livelihood risks inside Triplebyte&#x27;s own reputation dumpster fire, on the friday before a holiday weekend, during historic unemployment levels, in the middle of a fucking pandemic, is unforgivable. The CEO showing up in person with hamfisted gaslighting (seriously?) in the middle of this self made disaster makes me hope those comments don&#x27;t get flagged out of future HN search results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public</title><text>Fortunately this email made it through my spam filter. Looks like they want to take on LinkedIn and are planning to seed it by making existing accounts public unless you opt OUT within the next week:<p>Hey [redacted],<p>I’m excited to announce that we are expanding the reach of your Triplebyte profile. Now, you can use your Triplebyte credentials on and off the platform. Just like LinkedIn, your profile will be publicly accessible with a dedicated URL that you can share anywhere (job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc). When you do well on a Triplebyte assessment, your profile will showcase that achievement (we won’t show your scores publicly). Unlike LinkedIn, we aim to become your digital engineering skills resume — a credential based on actual skills, not pedigree.<p>The new profiles will be launching publicly in 1 week. This is a great opportunity to update your profile with your latest experience and preferences. You can edit your profile privacy settings to not appear in public search engines at any time.<p>Our mission is to build an open, valuable, and skills-based credential for all engineers. We believe that allowing Triplebyte engineers to publicly share their profiles and skills-based credentials will accelerate this mission.<p>Thanks,<p>Ammon
Co-founder &amp; CEO, Triplebyte</text></story> |
35,309,153 | 35,309,343 | 1 | 3 | 35,308,246 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crop_rotation</author><text>It&#x27;s possible the subject itself is &quot;boring&quot;, and I have found other compiler books to mostly be intolerable.<p>Crafting Interpreters, IMHO, is the most accessible book on the subject. If you didn&#x27;t find the implementation of the first part exciting, I would suggest to probably ignore the book code after reading the text and implement it yourself, and later compare with the book implementation. I encountered several pleasent surprises using this approach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>green_man_lives</author><text>I have a question about the book. I haven&#x27;t been able to ask anyone else because I don&#x27;t know anyone else who is working through the book.<p>Is the first half of the book boring or is it just me?<p>I wasn&#x27;t really expecting the scanner&#x2F;lexer to be interesting, but the interpreter part as well feels like an absolute slog. I started with a lot of enthusiasm but just couldn&#x27;t keep going after implementing functions. I downloaded someone else&#x27;s JsLox implementation and was planning on just skipping to the VM part of the book and hopefully would find it more engaging.<p>I also am a pretty jr developer. I have about 5 years experience since I started learning to code so I just may not &quot;get&quot; it yet. But I found writing the interpreter to be incredibly boring.</text></item><item><author>crop_rotation</author><text>Crafting interpreters is the best compiler&#x2F;interpreter book I read. I had tried both the Dragon book and Andrew Appel&#x27;s &quot;Modern Compiler Implementation in Java&quot; and Crafting Interpreters feels like a masterclass in how to write an accessible book. The author just has a special talent for explaining complex concepts simply.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust (2021)</title><url>https://ceronman.com/2021/07/22/my-experience-crafting-an-interpreter-with-rust/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shadowofneptune</author><text>Compiler writing does involve a fair amount of tedium. I don&#x27;t think it has anything to do with experience, either. It&#x27;s why tools like Yacc, Lemon, or ANTLR exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>green_man_lives</author><text>I have a question about the book. I haven&#x27;t been able to ask anyone else because I don&#x27;t know anyone else who is working through the book.<p>Is the first half of the book boring or is it just me?<p>I wasn&#x27;t really expecting the scanner&#x2F;lexer to be interesting, but the interpreter part as well feels like an absolute slog. I started with a lot of enthusiasm but just couldn&#x27;t keep going after implementing functions. I downloaded someone else&#x27;s JsLox implementation and was planning on just skipping to the VM part of the book and hopefully would find it more engaging.<p>I also am a pretty jr developer. I have about 5 years experience since I started learning to code so I just may not &quot;get&quot; it yet. But I found writing the interpreter to be incredibly boring.</text></item><item><author>crop_rotation</author><text>Crafting interpreters is the best compiler&#x2F;interpreter book I read. I had tried both the Dragon book and Andrew Appel&#x27;s &quot;Modern Compiler Implementation in Java&quot; and Crafting Interpreters feels like a masterclass in how to write an accessible book. The author just has a special talent for explaining complex concepts simply.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust (2021)</title><url>https://ceronman.com/2021/07/22/my-experience-crafting-an-interpreter-with-rust/</url></story> |
17,000,673 | 17,000,108 | 1 | 2 | 16,997,272 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matthberg</author><text>Thank you gorhill. Seriously, all the work you have done with uBlock Origin has made the world (wide web) a better place. And first recognizing the oft thankless blocklist maintainers here without a hint of name dropping yourself is truly honorable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gorhill</author><text>&gt; hardworking volunteers continually update and maintain the filter lists<p>This can&#x27;t be said enough.<p>Large numbers of users still have no idea that their blocker works at all because of these lists.<p>The collective amount of work which goes into these free-to-use lists on a daily basis is impressive, especially considering it&#x27;s done entirely on a voluntary basis.<p>To get an idea just glance at the commit rate:<p>EasyList&#x2F;EasyPrivacy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;easylist&#x2F;easylist&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;easylist&#x2F;easylist&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master</a><p>uBlock Origin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uAssets&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uAssets&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master</a><p>Add to this all the regional lists, specific-purpose lists, the hosts files (Peter Lowe&#x27;s, Dan Pollock, malware lists), etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)</title><url>https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hiq</author><text>Big shout-out to all these volunteers indeed, I wouldn&#x27;t use the web so much if it weren&#x27;t for them making it half-decent.<p>The amount of effort being put into these lists as well as the success of your extension also speaks volume about how unbearable ads are nowadays. I hope we will never lose this battle, at least not on the Internet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gorhill</author><text>&gt; hardworking volunteers continually update and maintain the filter lists<p>This can&#x27;t be said enough.<p>Large numbers of users still have no idea that their blocker works at all because of these lists.<p>The collective amount of work which goes into these free-to-use lists on a daily basis is impressive, especially considering it&#x27;s done entirely on a voluntary basis.<p>To get an idea just glance at the commit rate:<p>EasyList&#x2F;EasyPrivacy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;easylist&#x2F;easylist&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;easylist&#x2F;easylist&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master</a><p>uBlock Origin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uAssets&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uAssets&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master</a><p>Add to this all the regional lists, specific-purpose lists, the hosts files (Peter Lowe&#x27;s, Dan Pollock, malware lists), etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)</title><url>https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7</url></story> |
14,503,340 | 14,503,355 | 1 | 2 | 14,503,136 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krat0sprakhar</author><text>The Wingnut AR demo that Apple showed during WWDC featuring the Unreal Engine was just mindblowing! Thankfully, it&#x27;s available on Unreal&#x27;s Youtube channel so you can still watch if you don&#x27;t have Safari or the app - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=S14AVwaBF-Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=S14AVwaBF-Y</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ARKit</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/arkit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>panic</author><text>Most apps these days run on Android, too, which makes using a single-platform framework like this a lot harder to justify. It&#x27;s the same reason you don&#x27;t see many games using SpriteKit -- it just doesn&#x27;t make sense when you know you&#x27;ll need to support Android in the future.<p>I wonder if it would make sense for Apple itself to support frameworks like ARKit and SpriteKit on Android. I think it would make people a lot more comfortable relying on them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ARKit</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/arkit/</url></story> |
25,411,738 | 25,411,652 | 1 | 2 | 25,406,054 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshxyz</author><text>Things get funny at the right perspective. Our lives are too short, living on a pale blue dot of a space rock floating on some galaxy we dont even know much of.<p>At that scale you realize how insignificant we are and how pointless it is to be petty about taking things too personally instead of finding resolve and cherishing our short-lived lives lol</text><parent_chain><item><author>watwut</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what is funny about it. To me it sounds like having fun from imagining those men being unhappy which is just cruel.<p>And maybe your uncle was just asshole and you would be perfectly fine person without him too.</text></item><item><author>kls</author><text><i>Then he left his house in Jamaica to three men who hated one another, on the condition that they own it together.</i><p>I really like this guy. Humor is a slow play and if you can play your hand even after death then you have mastered humor.<p>I had an uncle like this, I hated him as a kid but he made me a man that does not take everything too serious. Unfortunately he passed right as I was becoming a man so I only realized his life lessons in reflection.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dead millionaire convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible (2015)</title><url>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-a-dead-millionaire-convinced-dozens-of-women-to-have-as-many-babies-as-possible/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>People prone to serious hatred should be trolled until they stop taking their hatred seriously. They themselves are who actually makes them unhappy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>watwut</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what is funny about it. To me it sounds like having fun from imagining those men being unhappy which is just cruel.<p>And maybe your uncle was just asshole and you would be perfectly fine person without him too.</text></item><item><author>kls</author><text><i>Then he left his house in Jamaica to three men who hated one another, on the condition that they own it together.</i><p>I really like this guy. Humor is a slow play and if you can play your hand even after death then you have mastered humor.<p>I had an uncle like this, I hated him as a kid but he made me a man that does not take everything too serious. Unfortunately he passed right as I was becoming a man so I only realized his life lessons in reflection.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dead millionaire convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible (2015)</title><url>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-a-dead-millionaire-convinced-dozens-of-women-to-have-as-many-babies-as-possible/</url></story> |
41,377,104 | 41,376,949 | 1 | 2 | 41,376,044 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Starz0r</author><text>What an interesting day when you see a site you&#x27;ve worked on for the past 2 (3?) years get posted to HN! Except I tried submitting this site years ago when I had just finished it, but it did not seem like HN was that interested at the time, and I don&#x27;t blame them. It was very niche and video game related, and the site also looked a lot worse. It&#x27;s come a long way to the point where there where I collaborated with someone else to do a redesign, which I think has done great for the project at large.<p>I originally created the site as a way to track which games would be supported on Linux, since at the time the Steam Deck was releasing, and some games were turning to support it. And it has since blossomed into a larger project, which some other tools even pull from! I would have never even imagined that when I first started making this.<p>I do want to address something I see being talked about in the comments, which is the fact people say that anti-cheats are snake oil, or useless. This is a big misunderstanding, and I feel like those more technically inclined should understand that anti-cheat is a &quot;defense-in-depth&quot; type of approach. Where it is just one of many lines of defense. Some anti-cheats are pretty useless, and don&#x27;t do much, but some actually do try and protect the game you&#x27;re playing. But, just like DRM, it can be cracked, and that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s more of a constant arms race, rather than a one and done thing.<p>I&#x27;m writing out a longer post about this for the future, but just know that without anti-cheat clientside, it would be far too easy for an attacker to cheat in these games. We&#x27;re still ways out from letting AI (see VACnet [1] and and Anybrain [2]) determine if someone is cheating server-side, so for now we have to rely on heavier client-side techniques and server-side decision making.<p>Also if anyone has questions about the site (or for me), I&#x27;ll try to answer them here when I see them. If not, have a nice day!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;kTiP0zKF9bc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;kTiP0zKF9bc</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anybrain.gg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anybrain.gg&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?</title><url>https://areweanticheatyet.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>hexomancer</author><text>One thing I don&#x27;t understand and I would really appreciate if someone could explain this to me.<p>Why do we need separate anti-cheat programs? Can&#x27;t the operating systems simply have an option when creating a process that prevents all operations looking at the memory of the process (and maybe if such a process is about to be launched the user has to explicitly accept that by clicking a button)? Wouldn&#x27;t that stop almost all the cheats without needing separate anti cheat programs, since I assume those programs have to use OS facilities to mess with the game anyway.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?</title><url>https://areweanticheatyet.com/</url></story> |
13,171,317 | 13,170,693 | 1 | 3 | 13,169,831 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ishields</author><text>I&#x27;m really glad that I&#x27;m not the only one who&#x27;s been frustrated by iOS recently. Their user interactions have become so inconsistent and there are so many places (like control center) where simple tasks like pausing music playback have additional friction for really no reason. Why would they split it into 2 screens when one worked just fine? Why did they eliminate slide to unlock? (My conspiracy theory here is to upsell people new devices because the home button unlock is absolutely horrible to use on anything &lt; iPhone 6s). There are lots of places where things are just downright much more difficult than they have to be. In the end, I switched to android after using iOS for the last ~5 (maybe more?) years and I have to say my phone actually feels smart again</text><parent_chain><item><author>jobu</author><text>There are a lot of small things that are making me hate iOS 10.<p>1) Unlock process: When the fingerprint reader fails it now takes several presses on the home key to get a keypad to pop up so I can input my code. With previous versions I could just swipe when I knew the fingerprint reader would fail (e.g. wet hands).<p>2) App updates: When apps are updating on my phone it decides it really wants to stay on the home screen. I can swipe to get to the other screens, but it goes back before I can tap any apps. Also, when I can get into an app they tend to lag and crash more when updates are happening in the background.<p>3) Control Center (bottom menu): Trying to slide the brightness or volume controls on the control center menus usually gets interpreted as a swipe to the next control menu. I have to be very precise when touching them for the sliders to actually work.<p>4) Safari: Auto-hide of the control buttons does help page visibility, but showing them seems to be glitchy as hell. They appear and then disappear before I can move my finger to tap them.<p>5) Crashes: At least daily now the whole phone crashes to a black screen and then comes back to the lock screen a few seconds later. Seems to involve location services.<p>Also, not exactly iOS 10, but the new Watch OS completely broke the usability of the Weather app for me. Something that was fairly intuitive and useful is now cumbersome and basically useless to me.</text></item><item><author>plainOldText</author><text>What are some of the things you hate about iOS 10? I&#x27;ve also disliked a few changes they&#x27;ve introduced, but after spending more time with the OS, I&#x27;ve discovered that some changes were not as bad as I&#x27;d initially considered. It was more a matter of getting used to.<p>I guess people don&#x27;t like changes to the things they&#x27;ve grown accustomed to.</text></item><item><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>Maybe because... it IS a marketing page?<p>As much as I&#x27;ve also become an apple hater recently because of what they&#x27;ve done to iOS10 and the new macbook pro, I think criticizing a marketing copy for being a marketing copy is not fair.</text></item><item><author>FireBeyond</author><text>There&#x27;s like a next-level Apple marketing babble on that page:<p>&quot;AirPods introduce an effortless wireless listening experience packed with high-quality audio and long battery life. These magical wireless headphones use advanced technology to reinvent how we listen to music, make phone calls, enjoy TV shows and movies, play games and interact with Siri, providing a wireless audio experience not possible before.&quot;<p>Magical. Reinvent. Not possible before.<p>None of these words applies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AirPods are now available</title><url>http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/12/apple-airpods-are-now-available.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>ihuman</author><text>For 1, if I press home with finger that&#x27;s not registered with TouchID, it immediately brings up the keyboard for a text password.<p>3 was allegedly fixed in iOS 10.2, which just came out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jobu</author><text>There are a lot of small things that are making me hate iOS 10.<p>1) Unlock process: When the fingerprint reader fails it now takes several presses on the home key to get a keypad to pop up so I can input my code. With previous versions I could just swipe when I knew the fingerprint reader would fail (e.g. wet hands).<p>2) App updates: When apps are updating on my phone it decides it really wants to stay on the home screen. I can swipe to get to the other screens, but it goes back before I can tap any apps. Also, when I can get into an app they tend to lag and crash more when updates are happening in the background.<p>3) Control Center (bottom menu): Trying to slide the brightness or volume controls on the control center menus usually gets interpreted as a swipe to the next control menu. I have to be very precise when touching them for the sliders to actually work.<p>4) Safari: Auto-hide of the control buttons does help page visibility, but showing them seems to be glitchy as hell. They appear and then disappear before I can move my finger to tap them.<p>5) Crashes: At least daily now the whole phone crashes to a black screen and then comes back to the lock screen a few seconds later. Seems to involve location services.<p>Also, not exactly iOS 10, but the new Watch OS completely broke the usability of the Weather app for me. Something that was fairly intuitive and useful is now cumbersome and basically useless to me.</text></item><item><author>plainOldText</author><text>What are some of the things you hate about iOS 10? I&#x27;ve also disliked a few changes they&#x27;ve introduced, but after spending more time with the OS, I&#x27;ve discovered that some changes were not as bad as I&#x27;d initially considered. It was more a matter of getting used to.<p>I guess people don&#x27;t like changes to the things they&#x27;ve grown accustomed to.</text></item><item><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>Maybe because... it IS a marketing page?<p>As much as I&#x27;ve also become an apple hater recently because of what they&#x27;ve done to iOS10 and the new macbook pro, I think criticizing a marketing copy for being a marketing copy is not fair.</text></item><item><author>FireBeyond</author><text>There&#x27;s like a next-level Apple marketing babble on that page:<p>&quot;AirPods introduce an effortless wireless listening experience packed with high-quality audio and long battery life. These magical wireless headphones use advanced technology to reinvent how we listen to music, make phone calls, enjoy TV shows and movies, play games and interact with Siri, providing a wireless audio experience not possible before.&quot;<p>Magical. Reinvent. Not possible before.<p>None of these words applies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AirPods are now available</title><url>http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/12/apple-airpods-are-now-available.html</url></story> |
11,114,006 | 11,114,003 | 1 | 2 | 11,112,473 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tsagadai</author><text>Physical space is often a constraint. Green houses which cover large areas which are needed in areas where it gets cold in winter and you want certain types of food. The other is that the quantity of sunlight varies throughout the year in everywhere that isn&#x27;t on the equator. Grow lights allow you to go from seed to harvest faster. Consider that the earth is not infinitely large and there is already a substantial portion of arable land covered in crops and there are few ways to increase productivity while still planting in the ground. Also consider costs of managing land with a limited staff and transportation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ValleyOfTheMtns</author><text>&gt;and the decision to use grow lights indoors instead of sunlight<p>This is the part of indoor automated farming I don&#x27;t get. You have this free, abundant source of energy needed to grow plants, and you don&#x27;t use it... why? Seems like a massive inefficiency. Indoors is fine to protect the crops and control the environment, but why not above ground with a clear roof to let sunlight in?</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>&gt; The robots will do everything from re-planting young seedlings to watering, trimming and harvesting crops.<p>Has the author been to a farm in the past 20 years? Most crops today are not planted by hand, or watered by hand, or harvested by hand. (Harvesting is still the most labor intensive part of farming for a few fruits, but automation isn&#x27;t far off.)<p>I think the most interesting part of this farm is not the automation, but the water saving, the reduction in pesticides, and the decision to use grow lights indoors instead of sunlight.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/01/japanese-firm-to-open-worlds-first-robot-run-farm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>orthecreedence</author><text>Oddly enough, and this is completely anecdotal, I&#x27;ve had much better luck growing outdoor plants than indoor plants. If an indoor plant gets some kind of pest (spider mites, aphids, etc) then you pretty much have to sit around spraying it and its peers with oils or alcohol day after day until you&#x27;re confident the infestation is gone.<p>With outdoor plants, there are so many natural predators to pests that things tend to form a balance. In addition to that, yes, there is the world&#x27;s most abundant (and inexhaustible) energy source just sitting there waiting to be used.<p>So I&#x27;d be really interested to know the benefits of indoor growing as well (besides the obvious reasons with regards to not wanting DEA aircraft spotting your crops).</text><parent_chain><item><author>ValleyOfTheMtns</author><text>&gt;and the decision to use grow lights indoors instead of sunlight<p>This is the part of indoor automated farming I don&#x27;t get. You have this free, abundant source of energy needed to grow plants, and you don&#x27;t use it... why? Seems like a massive inefficiency. Indoors is fine to protect the crops and control the environment, but why not above ground with a clear roof to let sunlight in?</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>&gt; The robots will do everything from re-planting young seedlings to watering, trimming and harvesting crops.<p>Has the author been to a farm in the past 20 years? Most crops today are not planted by hand, or watered by hand, or harvested by hand. (Harvesting is still the most labor intensive part of farming for a few fruits, but automation isn&#x27;t far off.)<p>I think the most interesting part of this farm is not the automation, but the water saving, the reduction in pesticides, and the decision to use grow lights indoors instead of sunlight.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/01/japanese-firm-to-open-worlds-first-robot-run-farm</url></story> |
17,420,487 | 17,420,530 | 1 | 2 | 17,419,261 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>angarg12</author><text>Is not even an issue of number of jobs, but of quality of labor.
Spain grew economically in the 70s and 80s because it was a developing country, and could provide cheap labor to neighboring countries. The growth in the 2000s came from a massive housing bubble that didn&#x27;t end well for most involved.
As we became a developed country we didn&#x27;t know how to reorient our economy. Now we are too expensive for cheap labor, which is relocating elsewhere, neither we are specialized or competitive enough to oppose other strong economies.
Some times I have evaluated the possibility of going back there and try to make a career in tech. It just takes a couple of conversations with locals to erase that idea from my mind. The country is not socially tailored to attract and retain highly skilled specialized workers, and sadly it&#x27;s an issue that I don&#x27;t hope to see changed in the future.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade</title><url>http://thesoundingline.com/southern-europe-has-not-seen-net-job-creation-in-over-a-decade/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbcool</author><text>Wow...about the same level of journalism&#x2F;fact checking as expected these days....none.<p>Let&#x27;s compare the workforce of countries with an ageing population and rapidly dropping net population with countries like Australia that are absorbing 250k immigrants per year into &quot;self employed&quot; (read: rich third worlder&#x27;s buying a house and a passport) of course you&#x27;re going come up with a figure like that.<p>Throw in some countries with massive populations who have also got an ageing population but have 20x the population of Portugal to make them look bad on absolute numbers and you have a winner. Of course a tiny change in employment is going to look amazeballs or on the other hand terrible.<p>The difference is..being in one of those countries right now but from the greedy nation of Australia is that sustainability is practised. It&#x27;s not all about greed here. You don&#x27;t need to destroy the planet to have a family here so seriously a big middle finger to anyone who thinks that Europe not growing is a &quot;problem&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade</title><url>http://thesoundingline.com/southern-europe-has-not-seen-net-job-creation-in-over-a-decade/</url></story> |
13,298,948 | 13,298,106 | 1 | 2 | 13,296,129 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robertelder</author><text>But there is a pattern. It&#x27;s just a simple sum over all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann Zeta function[1]. It will pop right out at you if you take a look at the proof for the Riemann hypothesis (an exercise left to the reader). Also, speaking of Riemann, division by zero is also spoken for[2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Explicit_formulae_(L-function)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Explicit_formulae_(L-function)</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Riemann_sphere" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Riemann_sphere</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Pica_soO</author><text>Fascinating. And dangerous.<p>If you see a pattern and you search a explanation for it, you can get wrapped up in the hunt and end up investing a lot of time into a wild goose chase.<p>Our math profs warned us to do this, because if you zoom out wide enough, there is a pattern in every noise. As a undergrad, i got obsessed with the idea of creating a meaningful divide by zero operation.<p>The result, if i remember correctly, was a &quot;fractal&quot; cave, interconnected, the walls defined by aggregated infinitys reseeded by the &quot;echos&quot; of all previous caves until the next &quot;digit&quot; of the original seed number is reached. What a useless operation, one might think- but i got obsessed with it, because it generated sequences.
1&#x2F;0 = |1|0&#x2F;0=1|2|3|5<p>Some of the results started to look like the fibonacci-sequence(its basically a algorithm mapped to infinity echoing back and forth along the cave-walls after all) and i lost a semester chasing this numeric day dream. :(<p>Shame on me, i woke up when my math prof zoomed out over some random pattern revealing &quot;patterns&quot;. The Truth is, we humans want to see patterns. Desperately. So desperatly it can eat lives.<p>Still a fascinating read, can fully recommend. But wake up if you what you find eats you.<p>PS: To double my shame, i did never publish this. So if you venture down the rabbit sinkhole, put a warning sign up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Prime Number Spiral</title><url>http://www.numberspiral.com/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drvdevd</author><text>I haven&#x27;t read the article yet but your comment just reminded me of one of my all-time favorite movies: Pi (1998). Please watch it if you haven&#x27;t!<p>[edit] took a look and this is quite beautiful. Of course the search for a pattern in the primes <i>could</i> easily take over your mind...</text><parent_chain><item><author>Pica_soO</author><text>Fascinating. And dangerous.<p>If you see a pattern and you search a explanation for it, you can get wrapped up in the hunt and end up investing a lot of time into a wild goose chase.<p>Our math profs warned us to do this, because if you zoom out wide enough, there is a pattern in every noise. As a undergrad, i got obsessed with the idea of creating a meaningful divide by zero operation.<p>The result, if i remember correctly, was a &quot;fractal&quot; cave, interconnected, the walls defined by aggregated infinitys reseeded by the &quot;echos&quot; of all previous caves until the next &quot;digit&quot; of the original seed number is reached. What a useless operation, one might think- but i got obsessed with it, because it generated sequences.
1&#x2F;0 = |1|0&#x2F;0=1|2|3|5<p>Some of the results started to look like the fibonacci-sequence(its basically a algorithm mapped to infinity echoing back and forth along the cave-walls after all) and i lost a semester chasing this numeric day dream. :(<p>Shame on me, i woke up when my math prof zoomed out over some random pattern revealing &quot;patterns&quot;. The Truth is, we humans want to see patterns. Desperately. So desperatly it can eat lives.<p>Still a fascinating read, can fully recommend. But wake up if you what you find eats you.<p>PS: To double my shame, i did never publish this. So if you venture down the rabbit sinkhole, put a warning sign up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Prime Number Spiral</title><url>http://www.numberspiral.com/index.html</url></story> |
4,375,315 | 4,375,270 | 1 | 2 | 4,375,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tjic</author><text>The biggest problems I have with wikipedia are:<p>1) deletionists
2) secret editor cabals<p>Wikipedia is stunningly open to new editors, unless you create a page that someone else doesn't like. I've seen multiple people get turned off from Wikipedia when they create two or three pages and each gets hit with a speedy deletion within days.<p>The other big problem with Wikipedia, for slightly more advanced editors, is that the ethics of the site frown on recruiting allies for revision wars...and yet there is tons of evidence that there's a vast world of behind-the-scenes editor politics, factions, rivalries, and Joe User can make a change, or weigh in on a controversy, and a dozen editors can jump in at once.<p>After being burned a few times I've avoided the cliquey corners of wikipedia and mostly just work on things like spacecraft docking standards...but not everyone is content to work on out of the limelight areas.<p>I think it was Clay Shirky who once said that it was a mistake to try to solve social problems with technological fixes.<p>I think Wikipedia's big problems are social problems.<p>(Disclaimer: it's still an amazing site, and I'm a big fan...but it could be better.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redesigning Wikipedia: The Athena Project</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/Op-ed</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>micheljansen</author><text>Now <i>this</i> is how you go about redesigning a project like Wikipedia. All due respect to those other guys ( see <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290</a>), but Wikipedia doesn't need a branding makeover. Everyone knows Wikipedia, but not everyone contributes. Why? It's a pain in the ass to do.<p>A better Wikipedia starts with streamlining the editing process (although something can be said in favour of a healthy barrier to keep the trolls out). Making Wikipedia look prettier is a nice extra to have in the process.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redesigning Wikipedia: The Athena Project</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/Op-ed</url></story> |
20,451,957 | 20,452,036 | 1 | 2 | 20,451,319 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grecy</author><text>Don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s isolated to Russia either.<p>Alaska just reported their hottest June ever (It&#x27;s in the 90&#x27;s in a lot of places now), and the Yukon is seeing massive, massive climate changes in recent years.<p>The annual Redezvous festival used to be held ON the Yukon River in downtown Whitehorse. Friends tell of driving onto the river, having huge bonfires, etc. etc.<p>It hasn&#x27;t even frozen over enough to walk on in a decade or more, and now it actually goes above freezing in January most years..... even 20 years ago it wouldn&#x27;t go above -40 for all of Dec&#x2F;Jan.<p>Things are changing very, very fast in the North.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/melting-russian-permafrost-could-speed-up-global-warming-devastating-global-effect/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aoeusnth1</author><text>We need coordinated, urgent political action on climate change. We already have the technology needed to solve this - we just need to deploy it. Now.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/melting-russian-permafrost-could-speed-up-global-warming-devastating-global-effect/</url></story> |
36,409,620 | 36,409,139 | 1 | 2 | 36,408,700 | 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>orph</author><text>Orilly? We had no PM, EM, or designer: I played all those roles for 1.5 years.<p>I was one of the first to touch the OAI code model. Me and Albert developed the in-the-wild testing harness still in use today. We pulled all nighters to get GitHub approved for participation in the MSFT-OpenAI deal using those test results.<p>Existing Microsoft AI teams worked to halt our work, pushing their own small, worse models instead of OpenAI&#x27;s.<p>I protoyped and lobbied for creation of the VScode extension. I invented and hacked the ghost text prototype into VScode, I invented the block based termination and implemented all the tree-sitter based logic needed to do it. Then I had to lobby up to Satya to get VScode to implement proper support in less than 6 months.<p>I named it Copilot.<p>I implemented GH auth, made the waitlist and onboarding. Helped design the e2e http&#x2F;2 go server, after designing the fast.ly based precursor. Coordinated moving from OpenAI datacenter to Azure to improve Asia experience, and oversaw the cutover.<p>I was Chief Architect. It was my baby. Sad if this is how they are spinning the story internally at GitHub today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pleonasticity</author><text>I work on Copilot now, and I can say this guy is totally full of himself. Just because he contributed to the first prototype does not entitle him to claim creation. He wasn’t even the first person inside Microsoft to use LLMs in an IDE completion experience. The work from prototype to product is an order of magnitude more than prototype alone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot</title><url>https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1671213996735594503</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mjr00</author><text>Their profile does say &quot;creator of GitHub Copilot, Dropbox Paper, MobileCoin, and Hackpad&quot; which indicates a bit of an ego problem. Professional software is a team effort, and pretending to be the only person who worked on a project is a red flag. Most people would say lead developer rather than creator...</text><parent_chain><item><author>pleonasticity</author><text>I work on Copilot now, and I can say this guy is totally full of himself. Just because he contributed to the first prototype does not entitle him to claim creation. He wasn’t even the first person inside Microsoft to use LLMs in an IDE completion experience. The work from prototype to product is an order of magnitude more than prototype alone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot</title><url>https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1671213996735594503</url></story> |
27,556,741 | 27,556,720 | 1 | 3 | 27,556,092 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thanhhaimai</author><text>I&#x27;ve not asked the question &quot;what I am missing out&quot; for like almost a decade. It came from the realization that I constantly and always &quot;miss out&quot; on 99.99% of things that happened in the universe. Whatever more Twitter I read won&#x27;t move the needle of the statistics.<p>Rarely it happens that my success depends on things I &quot;miss out&quot;. On the other hand, usually that my success depends on how well I take advantage of the opportunities I currently have.<p>So respect the opportunity, and make sure you&#x27;re ready when it comes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>F_J_H</author><text><i>&gt;&gt;I simply don&#x27;t inhabit it, and I don&#x27;t feel that I&#x27;m missing out.</i><p>I&#x27;ve wondered about this - but how do you know what you are missing out on? For example, if you were active on twitter or LinkedIn and carefully cultivated those profiles, who knows what life changing connections you may have made? (I&#x27;ve seen several people comment on getting jobs, business partners, fellow hobbyists, etc. on twitter.)<p>*edit: missed a word</text></item><item><author>OnACoffeeBreak</author><text>I appreciate the point being made from the outside. I have no social media persona (a decade-old defunct Facebook account might be it, plus HN which doesn&#x27;t feel social in the same sense), yet I don&#x27;t feel that I&#x27;m homeless in the virtual space. I simply don&#x27;t inhabit it, and I don&#x27;t feel that I&#x27;m missing out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minimum Viable Self</title><url>https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/162-minimum-viable-self</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lugged</author><text>Spending all that time on social also comes at a cost.<p>Personally, one I&#x27;m not comfortable paying.<p>What are you missing out on by focusing everything through the lens of the Twitterverse?<p>Better yet, what is it doing to your psychology?</text><parent_chain><item><author>F_J_H</author><text><i>&gt;&gt;I simply don&#x27;t inhabit it, and I don&#x27;t feel that I&#x27;m missing out.</i><p>I&#x27;ve wondered about this - but how do you know what you are missing out on? For example, if you were active on twitter or LinkedIn and carefully cultivated those profiles, who knows what life changing connections you may have made? (I&#x27;ve seen several people comment on getting jobs, business partners, fellow hobbyists, etc. on twitter.)<p>*edit: missed a word</text></item><item><author>OnACoffeeBreak</author><text>I appreciate the point being made from the outside. I have no social media persona (a decade-old defunct Facebook account might be it, plus HN which doesn&#x27;t feel social in the same sense), yet I don&#x27;t feel that I&#x27;m homeless in the virtual space. I simply don&#x27;t inhabit it, and I don&#x27;t feel that I&#x27;m missing out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minimum Viable Self</title><url>https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/162-minimum-viable-self</url></story> |
16,271,817 | 16,270,252 | 1 | 3 | 16,264,573 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnord77</author><text>easiest method (this article glosses over it): use BFG 2000: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rtyley.github.io&#x2F;bfg-repo-cleaner&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rtyley.github.io&#x2F;bfg-repo-cleaner&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git</title><url>https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.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>_ikke_</author><text>We link to this regularly in the #git irc channel on freenode. Seth used to frequent there, but he hasn&#x27;t been there for a while.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git</title><url>https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html</url></story> |
20,100,452 | 20,097,523 | 1 | 3 | 20,094,242 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sytelus</author><text>I would suggest not reading too much in these self-help books. NYT, WSJ etc have great &quot;relationship&quot; with high-end publishers who propel several poorly researched myths but written in very appealing way. Self-help books are amazing amazing business netting 10s of millions of dollars in book sells per book. These publishers also know what sells: bottle a simple advise that is rather naive but has lots of anecdots and make claims to have found magic formula to make anyone insanely successful at everything. Entire self-help industry is disgusting because they take advantage of human vulnerability to the maximum extent with full knowledge of what they are doing. To some, it serves purpose of getting inspired for a week or month for $20 and that&#x27;s their best outcome.<p>The main topic discussed in this book, i.e. breadth vs depth is perenial delima also recasted in multiple forms such as exploitation vs exploration. There is no magic bullet in one side or another. The art of getting somewhere is very delicate balance between two. The best approach that has worked for people is either <i>get lucky</i> or find people who have made mistakes, analyze their mistake and, of course, <i>get little bit less lucky</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Snoozle</author><text>I feel strongly about this topic because I&#x27;m at the point in my career where I&#x27;ve done several different positions instead of getting better at one and I&#x27;m wondering if I made a mistake.<p>I started off in the software field as a developer. I&#x27;ve been in the software field for almost 10 years but I&#x27;ve only actually spent two years as a full time developer. I&#x27;ve also done project management, product management, marketing, customer support, and management. I find myself struggling to fill one of those individual roles because I don&#x27;t have the same level of experience as those who have dedicated themselves to those for the full ten years.<p>I&#x27;m currently a VP of Engineering for a small company. I know most would probably say that I&#x27;ve made it, but I&#x27;m looking for my next opportunity and struggling. It&#x27;s hard to get a job at a larger (200+ employee) company as each role filled is expected to be specialized and focused. At a smaller company or startup, though, I kick the crap out of anyone else applying because I know so much more about the business in general and can wear many different hats.<p>In addition, I feel a strong benefit is that my experience enhances my ability in each other role. For instance, if I&#x27;m working on a marketing email campaign, I can use my developer skills to pull relevant data from the application that helps me focus my targeting. If I&#x27;m developing, I will specifically build small helpful tools for customer support and marketing departments because I already know what they want and they don&#x27;t know they can have it. It takes a small amount of time but provides a big value.<p>I would probably also have a leg up on starting my own business compared to someone who has a deep specialized knowledge of enterprise level applications but no idea how to put together a customer support and good user experience.<p>Still, we are always looking at the greener grass, and there are times when I wish I could just apply for a senior developer role at a larger company and focus on one thing. Somehow, I don&#x27;t think that my lack of React experience will be made up for by letting them know that I will be able to directly interact with the customers or set up marketing campaigns. They already have 5+ people doing those things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/books/review/david-epstein-range.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>wyatty</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised no one has asked this, but why don&#x27;t you just go and work for a startup (or small company)? You mention that you are well positioned for a role where you have many different responsibilities.<p>Another option is that you can start your own (you mention this too). It doesn&#x27;t have to be solo. From the experience you describe, it seems like you could partner with a technical cofounder and really compliment their skills. There&#x27;s a lot to gain from experience like that and it can open the door to a lot of opportunities in the future that you don&#x27;t know about right now.<p>You haven&#x27;t made a mistake. You can provide a lot of value to an organization. You just have to find the right opportunity where you can do so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Snoozle</author><text>I feel strongly about this topic because I&#x27;m at the point in my career where I&#x27;ve done several different positions instead of getting better at one and I&#x27;m wondering if I made a mistake.<p>I started off in the software field as a developer. I&#x27;ve been in the software field for almost 10 years but I&#x27;ve only actually spent two years as a full time developer. I&#x27;ve also done project management, product management, marketing, customer support, and management. I find myself struggling to fill one of those individual roles because I don&#x27;t have the same level of experience as those who have dedicated themselves to those for the full ten years.<p>I&#x27;m currently a VP of Engineering for a small company. I know most would probably say that I&#x27;ve made it, but I&#x27;m looking for my next opportunity and struggling. It&#x27;s hard to get a job at a larger (200+ employee) company as each role filled is expected to be specialized and focused. At a smaller company or startup, though, I kick the crap out of anyone else applying because I know so much more about the business in general and can wear many different hats.<p>In addition, I feel a strong benefit is that my experience enhances my ability in each other role. For instance, if I&#x27;m working on a marketing email campaign, I can use my developer skills to pull relevant data from the application that helps me focus my targeting. If I&#x27;m developing, I will specifically build small helpful tools for customer support and marketing departments because I already know what they want and they don&#x27;t know they can have it. It takes a small amount of time but provides a big value.<p>I would probably also have a leg up on starting my own business compared to someone who has a deep specialized knowledge of enterprise level applications but no idea how to put together a customer support and good user experience.<p>Still, we are always looking at the greener grass, and there are times when I wish I could just apply for a senior developer role at a larger company and focus on one thing. Somehow, I don&#x27;t think that my lack of React experience will be made up for by letting them know that I will be able to directly interact with the customers or set up marketing campaigns. They already have 5+ people doing those things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/books/review/david-epstein-range.html</url></story> |
35,301,456 | 35,296,798 | 1 | 3 | 35,293,101 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nopinsight</author><text>GPT-4 got much better results on many benchmarks than PaLM, Google&#x27;s largest published model [1]. PaLM itself is probably quite a bit better than LamDa in several tasks, according to a chart and a couple of tables here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2204.02311" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2204.02311</a><p>It&#x27;s unclear that Google currently has an internal LLM as good as GPT-4. If they do, they are keeping quiet about it, which seems quite unlikely given the repercussion.<p>[1] GPT-4&#x27;s benchmark results vs PaLM: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;gpt-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;gpt-4</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>danans</author><text>&gt; Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I&#x27;m sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of &quot;big company that lost its way<p>Former Googler, opinions are my own. They haven&#x27;t lost their way technologically - as you mentioned they invented the Transformer - and internally Google has long had language models that rival ChatGPT in sheer size and coherence of responses (hallucinations and all). Bard is an intentionally toned down version of LamDa.<p>The reason they didn&#x27;t release their LLM earlier was likely due to the serious brand risk associated with making it part of Google search. Bing&#x2F;ChatGPT had no such brand risk, and released their LLMs using the &quot;There&#x27;s no such thing as bad publicity&quot; logic. That works great as a wrecking ball, but it&#x27;s not a long term product strategy.<p>So the real institutional problem at Google isn&#x27;t lack of technological innovation, it&#x27;s the inability to take major product risks, especially in anything adjacent to Search.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I agree with a bunch of other comments that are interested to see what happens in the long term, to me, all of this points to some <i>profound</i> organizational and cultural problems at Google. I base that statement on things I see as an external observer, from posts I&#x27;ve seen from current&#x2F;ex-Googlers here on HN, and from some (albeit brief) conversations I&#x27;ve had with some of these folks.<p>If a decade ago you told me Microsoft would leapfrog Google in the AI race (obviously albeit through OpenAI, but I think that separate org structure was key in the first place), I would have thought you were insane. Google <i>invented</i> the transformer architecture just 6 years ago. I recently compared ChatGPT (on the free, 3.5 version mind you, not even the 4 version) with Bard, and it wasn&#x27;t even close - ChatGPT was the &quot;Google&quot; to Bard&#x27;s &quot;AltaVista&quot; circa 2000 or so.<p>Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I&#x27;m sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of &quot;big company that lost its way&quot;. I can&#x27;t express enough how much admiration and amazement I had for Google that started to tarnish about 10 years ago (I think it was when the whole first page became ads for any remotely commercial search, whenever that started). I honestly hope they are able to course correct (heck, Microsoft had their decade+ of &quot;the Ballmer years&quot; before they turned around).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-tech-gives-microsofts-bing-boost-search-battle-with-google-2023-03-22/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TapWaterBandit</author><text>&gt; The reason they didn&#x27;t release their LLM earlier was likely due to the serious brand risk associated with making it part of Google search. Bing&#x2F;ChatGPT had no such brand risk, and released their LLMs using the &quot;There&#x27;s no such thing as bad publicity&quot; logic. That works great as a wrecking ball, but it&#x27;s not a long term product strategy.<p>Not sure if this is the right read considering that CHATGPT&#x2F;Bing now constitute a far greater brand risk to Google than they would if Google they had gotten out ahead on LLMs. What may have seemed like prudent caution to protect a brand has now shown to be much closer to incumbent complacency.<p>Suppose it is the classic story of big companies that get disrupted anywhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danans</author><text>&gt; Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I&#x27;m sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of &quot;big company that lost its way<p>Former Googler, opinions are my own. They haven&#x27;t lost their way technologically - as you mentioned they invented the Transformer - and internally Google has long had language models that rival ChatGPT in sheer size and coherence of responses (hallucinations and all). Bard is an intentionally toned down version of LamDa.<p>The reason they didn&#x27;t release their LLM earlier was likely due to the serious brand risk associated with making it part of Google search. Bing&#x2F;ChatGPT had no such brand risk, and released their LLMs using the &quot;There&#x27;s no such thing as bad publicity&quot; logic. That works great as a wrecking ball, but it&#x27;s not a long term product strategy.<p>So the real institutional problem at Google isn&#x27;t lack of technological innovation, it&#x27;s the inability to take major product risks, especially in anything adjacent to Search.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I agree with a bunch of other comments that are interested to see what happens in the long term, to me, all of this points to some <i>profound</i> organizational and cultural problems at Google. I base that statement on things I see as an external observer, from posts I&#x27;ve seen from current&#x2F;ex-Googlers here on HN, and from some (albeit brief) conversations I&#x27;ve had with some of these folks.<p>If a decade ago you told me Microsoft would leapfrog Google in the AI race (obviously albeit through OpenAI, but I think that separate org structure was key in the first place), I would have thought you were insane. Google <i>invented</i> the transformer architecture just 6 years ago. I recently compared ChatGPT (on the free, 3.5 version mind you, not even the 4 version) with Bard, and it wasn&#x27;t even close - ChatGPT was the &quot;Google&quot; to Bard&#x27;s &quot;AltaVista&quot; circa 2000 or so.<p>Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I&#x27;m sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of &quot;big company that lost its way&quot;. I can&#x27;t express enough how much admiration and amazement I had for Google that started to tarnish about 10 years ago (I think it was when the whole first page became ads for any remotely commercial search, whenever that started). I honestly hope they are able to course correct (heck, Microsoft had their decade+ of &quot;the Ballmer years&quot; before they turned around).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-tech-gives-microsofts-bing-boost-search-battle-with-google-2023-03-22/</url></story> |
35,683,648 | 35,683,012 | 1 | 2 | 35,678,238 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>techdragon</author><text> Neat and it doesn’t fall into the same trap as many others trying to build similar tools in python itself by being built with rust there’s no bootstrapping issues with managing the python environment the tool to manage python environments needs.<p>However it’s very opinionated and ignores several things I like to have control over (and have needed to use in the past) and most importantly I want to be able to compile my own python binary and pyenv makes it pretty painless. So while I’m impressed and think it looks good it’s a 100% no for me just because I have on multiple occasions had to compile ahead for testing, or apply a tiny patch python to build on an unsupported os such as a too old or new macOS…<p>I’m not the target audience but unfortunately I suspect sue to how well known he is, this will lead to adoption and popularity and while I think this tool is good for him and other people I don’t think python needs more opinionated management tool projects getting wildly popular… I don’t want to see a repeat of the pipenv saga</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rye: Flask author's new project for Python bootstrapping</title><url>https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darkteflon</author><text>This looks very nice.<p>I’ve been quite happy with Hatch, which I adopted about 3 months ago on the strength of the PyPA’s recommendation. I sort of like where they’re coming from philosophically - sticking as close as possible to standards - and find the API pretty nice. I’ve never used Poetry so couldn’t compare.<p>One concern I have is that it seems to largely be the work of a solo dev who also has other commitments. Absolutely nothing wrong with that in principle, of course, but I wonder how sustainable it is. I have just noticed that PyPA owns the repo - not sure if that was always the case or if it’s a recent development, but does bode well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rye: Flask author's new project for Python bootstrapping</title><url>https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye</url></story> |
30,505,448 | 30,505,536 | 1 | 2 | 30,505,219 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nix0n</author><text>Possibly Burroughs MCP[0] from 1961, currently Unisys ClearPath MCP.<p>Not to be confused with Encom MCP[1], which was defeated by Flynn and Tron in 1982.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Burroughs_MCP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Burroughs_MCP</a>
[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0084827&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0084827&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What is the oldest, still supported OS?</title><text>I recently discovered that TSOS, an old Univac OS that I used (and loved!) in the mid 1970&#x27;s and first released in 1968 by RCA, is still supported (although the name has changed) as Fujitsu&#x27;s BS2000 OS. Unix was released a year after that (1969). Is there something that beats these?</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>kragen</author><text>Burroughs MCP was released in 01961 and seems to still be supported. The latest release was 20.0 in May. That&#x27;s probably the oldest.<p>z&#x2F;OS was released in 01966. BOS&#x2F;360 made it out the door earlier, in 01965, thanks to the disastrous delays in z&#x2F;OS, but it&#x27;s no longer supported; DOS&#x2F;360 (z&#x2F;VSE) also beat z&#x2F;OS out, is still supported, and is arguably the continuation of BOS. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;360_and_successors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;360_and_successors</a><p>Unix wasn&#x27;t released in 01969. I think it wasn&#x27;t released until Fifth Edition in 01974, though Thompson and Ritchie described the Fourth Edition in CACM in 01973. Fourth Edition had &quot;over 20&quot; installations, but I think all within AT&amp;T. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Research_Unix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Research_Unix</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What is the oldest, still supported OS?</title><text>I recently discovered that TSOS, an old Univac OS that I used (and loved!) in the mid 1970&#x27;s and first released in 1968 by RCA, is still supported (although the name has changed) as Fujitsu&#x27;s BS2000 OS. Unix was released a year after that (1969). Is there something that beats these?</text></story> |
11,561,836 | 11,561,410 | 1 | 2 | 11,557,707 | 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>xorblurb</author><text>&gt; An implementation is not bound by the standard in its own use of the standard library functions. The implementation can use a function like memcpy in ways that would be formally undefined if they occured in user code; its implementation of memcpy just has to harmonize with that use, so that the intended behavior is ensured. This is because implementations can add their own requirements to areas that the standard leaves undefined. For instance, an implementation can add the requirement to its memcpy that the copy may overlap, if the destination has a lower address. Then, the implementation can generate code which uses memcpy that way, or make internal uses of memcpy from other library functions which use it that way. It&#x27;s just using its own (possibly not publicly documented) extension.<p>Yes. But right now they do not do that, and it&#x27;s not their implementation of memcpy they rely on, and they are exactly doing the kind of things they disallow their users to do, so the whole picture is just plain insane. They just call libc memcpy in some cases, and their rational is that &quot;it happens to work&quot;. Except nobody is actually sure about that, it might be already buggy on PPC, and the guarantee is not documented anywhere. Completely insane - especially given their very own approach in similar situations. As usual, they are prioritizing &quot;optimizations&quot; over correctness, and lets not even think about defense in depth. It&#x27;s a brand new level of insanity, even beyond their usual &quot;the standard allows us to do that&quot; excuse, because here it does not even allow that, and it seems that neither do officially all the used implementations!<p>Software engineers must loose the habit of taking all kind of crazy risks that can only lead to marginally faster execution of newly introduced bugs. That does not serve any purpose.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kazinator</author><text>The compiler is the implementation; it cannot <i>cause</i> &quot;undefined behavior&quot;.<p>What it can be is &quot;nonconforming&quot;.<p>A correct program which hits that situation continues to have well-defined behavior (which we know from the text of the program and the standard). Just the implementation isn&#x27;t handling the requirements correctly; it is not conforming.<p>An implementation is not bound by the standard in its own use of the standard library functions. The implementation can use a function like memcpy in ways that would be formally undefined if they occured in user code; its implementation of memcpy just has to harmonize with that use, so that the intended behavior is ensured.
This is because implementations can add their own requirements to areas that the standard leaves undefined. For instance, an implementation can add the requirement to its memcpy that the copy may overlap, if the destination has a lower address. Then, the implementation can generate code which uses memcpy that way, or make internal uses of memcpy from other library functions which use it that way. It&#x27;s just using its own (possibly not publicly documented) extension.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clang emits memcpy for std::swap, which can introduce undefined behavior</title><url>https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27498</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>The compiler has different layers. Layer X is nonconforming, which causes undefined behavior in layer M.<p>Layer M&#x27;s memcpy doesn&#x27;t have to have the same semantics as the C standard&#x27;s memcpy, but the bug report implies that it does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kazinator</author><text>The compiler is the implementation; it cannot <i>cause</i> &quot;undefined behavior&quot;.<p>What it can be is &quot;nonconforming&quot;.<p>A correct program which hits that situation continues to have well-defined behavior (which we know from the text of the program and the standard). Just the implementation isn&#x27;t handling the requirements correctly; it is not conforming.<p>An implementation is not bound by the standard in its own use of the standard library functions. The implementation can use a function like memcpy in ways that would be formally undefined if they occured in user code; its implementation of memcpy just has to harmonize with that use, so that the intended behavior is ensured.
This is because implementations can add their own requirements to areas that the standard leaves undefined. For instance, an implementation can add the requirement to its memcpy that the copy may overlap, if the destination has a lower address. Then, the implementation can generate code which uses memcpy that way, or make internal uses of memcpy from other library functions which use it that way. It&#x27;s just using its own (possibly not publicly documented) extension.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clang emits memcpy for std::swap, which can introduce undefined behavior</title><url>https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27498</url></story> |
5,706,107 | 5,706,264 | 1 | 2 | 5,704,892 | train | <instructions>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><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062....</a><p>When you design user interfaces, it's a good idea to keep two principles in mind:<p>1. Users don't have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn't read it.<p>2. In fact, users can't read anything, and if they could, they wouldn't want to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>speeder</author><text>And I think some people will STILL crash on the tunnel anyway.<p>I made a arcade game once: www.abril.com.br/blog/campus-party/2011/01/19/fanatico-por-jogos-leva-seu-proprio-fliperama-para-a-arena/<p>It has instructions printed on the sides of the screen... It was VERY, VERY, VERY common to someone ask people around them what a button do (sometimes to even random passerby people, or for example a couple arrived at the machine, and the guy would start to play and ask stuff to his girlfriend), and then the asked either looked confused, or pointed to the instructions, and the people asking would behave surprised, confused and shamed.<p>Why people ignored the instructions and asked for example their girlfriends, random people and so on instead?<p>Why people see a huge sign blocking the way to a ATM saying it is out of order, they remove the sign from the way and attempt to use it anyway?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>You should talk to my mum about it. When anything comes up on her computers' screen, she will just panic and call me or my dad or anyone else, BEFORE even reading what is says. Most conversations look like this:
"Hi son, my computer just broke, something came up on the screen and it won't go away"
"ok mom, what does it say?"
"I don't know, I haven't read it"<p>People are exceedingly good at ignoring information if they don't want to get involved....</text><parent_chain><item><author>speeder</author><text>And I think some people will STILL crash on the tunnel anyway.<p>I made a arcade game once: www.abril.com.br/blog/campus-party/2011/01/19/fanatico-por-jogos-leva-seu-proprio-fliperama-para-a-arena/<p>It has instructions printed on the sides of the screen... It was VERY, VERY, VERY common to someone ask people around them what a button do (sometimes to even random passerby people, or for example a couple arrived at the machine, and the guy would start to play and ask stuff to his girlfriend), and then the asked either looked confused, or pointed to the instructions, and the people asking would behave surprised, confused and shamed.<p>Why people ignored the instructions and asked for example their girlfriends, random people and so on instead?<p>Why people see a huge sign blocking the way to a ATM saying it is out of order, they remove the sign from the way and attempt to use it anyway?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo</url></story> |
14,029,606 | 14,028,736 | 1 | 3 | 14,027,638 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>luctor_ad_astra</author><text>A quick rollback frees up the developer&#x27;s contextual burden and makes it easy to take calculated risks. This works better in some environments, of course. You wouldn&#x27;t want it in testing a medical support system, for example. LinkedIn goes a bit further and has continuous release monitoring: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.linkedin.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;monitoring-the-pulse-of-linkedin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.linkedin.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;monitoring-the...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How release canaries can save your bacon</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/how-release-canaries-can-save-your-bacon-CRE-life-lessons.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>jwatte</author><text>Yes, a Canary lets you limit the damage if some bug sneaks past testing. We&#x27;ve done it for over 10 years, with staged rollouts and automated crash statistics and such.<p>The draw back is that prod needs to be tolerant of multiple versions. Which is usually a fine practice in itself, anyway!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How release canaries can save your bacon</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/how-release-canaries-can-save-your-bacon-CRE-life-lessons.html</url></story> |
21,277,515 | 21,277,487 | 1 | 2 | 21,276,967 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elsewhen</author><text>In 2018 67% of the Forbes 400 were self made<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;luisakroll&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-forbes-400-self-made-score-from-silver-spooners-to-bootstrappers&#x2F;#56321176cd90" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;luisakroll&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-forbe...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt;In coastal cities, a two income household making 250k each is not absurd, and can certainly happen with two doctors, lawyers, or even software developers.<p>This is why the 99% stuff misses the mark. That 1% is the best of us; our doctors, lawyers, successful small business owners, etc. People who drive the economy and create outsized value through specialized labor that is rightfully compensated. The true problem in our society is the 0.01%. There is a tiny portion of these that are the Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerbergs who are self made. But the vast majority of them are the intergenerational wealth holders whose fortunes have simply continued to compound and provide them with an unnatural amount of power influence that is completely undeserved. It&#x27;s why a wealth tax is so neccessary in this country, and if properly implemented could completely absolve the need for income tax.</text></item><item><author>arcanus</author><text>Not to quibble, but this is household income, not necessarily a single individual&#x27;s income.<p>In coastal cities, a two income household making 250k each is not absurd, and can certainly happen with two doctors, lawyers, or even software developers.<p>I&#x27;d much rather see metrics normalized by the local household income, which would be much more representative of relative inequality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/americans-now-need-at-least-500-000-a-year-to-enter-the-top-1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xyzzyz</author><text>How many of the 0.01% inherited their wealth, and how many have made it? Do you have any sources for that? Most people on Fortune 500 list, for example, didn&#x27;t inherit any significant part of their wealth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt;In coastal cities, a two income household making 250k each is not absurd, and can certainly happen with two doctors, lawyers, or even software developers.<p>This is why the 99% stuff misses the mark. That 1% is the best of us; our doctors, lawyers, successful small business owners, etc. People who drive the economy and create outsized value through specialized labor that is rightfully compensated. The true problem in our society is the 0.01%. There is a tiny portion of these that are the Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerbergs who are self made. But the vast majority of them are the intergenerational wealth holders whose fortunes have simply continued to compound and provide them with an unnatural amount of power influence that is completely undeserved. It&#x27;s why a wealth tax is so neccessary in this country, and if properly implemented could completely absolve the need for income tax.</text></item><item><author>arcanus</author><text>Not to quibble, but this is household income, not necessarily a single individual&#x27;s income.<p>In coastal cities, a two income household making 250k each is not absurd, and can certainly happen with two doctors, lawyers, or even software developers.<p>I&#x27;d much rather see metrics normalized by the local household income, which would be much more representative of relative inequality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/americans-now-need-at-least-500-000-a-year-to-enter-the-top-1</url></story> |
12,298,230 | 12,297,220 | 1 | 2 | 12,296,974 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>Hi, Eric here, co-creator of evil32. I posted a brief note on our site about this, but here&#x27;s a little more detail.<p>I found an old (local) backup of the private keys and used it to
generate revocation certificates for each key. Fortunately, there is no
way for anyone else to access or regenerate the private keys for this particular clone of the strong set, and I have
been very careful with my copy - it is only available on my personal
machine, and I have only used it to generate the revocation
certificates. I will not use these keys to generate any fake signatures
nor to decrypt any messages intended for the original recipients.<p>We wanted to bring awareness to the dangers of using short key IDs in
the 21st century, since that ID is very easy to fake, and most of the
contents of the key body are not covered by the signature, so they can
be changed at will. However, we feel that the keys uploaded to the
public keyserver are, on balance, more of harmful to the usability of
the GPG ecosystem than they are helpful in highlighting security flaws.<p>It&#x27;s important to realize that anyone could repeat our work pretty
easily. While we did not release the scripts that automated cloning the
web of trust, the whole process took me less than a week. Cloning a
single key is even easier - it could be done with only a few minutes of
effort by someone familiar with GPG. The GPG ecosystem needs to develop
better defenses to this attack.<p>Our original talk (and previous work) seems to have convinced people to
stop using 32-bit IDs in documentation or on their business cards.
However, there is another common and harmful pattern: users who want to
email someone discover their key by searching the keyserver for that
email, then taking the newest key. This is akin to trust-on-first-use,
and opts out completely from the web of trust or any kind of external
verification.<p>Proof of identity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;aftbit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;aftbit</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs</title><url>https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/15/445</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajdlinux</author><text>All the fake keys that I&#x27;ve seen mentioned are from the data set at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evil32.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evil32.com</a>.<p>It appears a couple of researchers decided, back in 2014, to demonstrate this issue by cloning the entire strong set of the PGP web of trust (not just Linus&#x27; key, but basically everyone who uses PGP&#x2F;GPG for Free Software development - myself included).<p>It would appear that sometime quite recently, someone decided it would be fun to upload all of those keys (there&#x27;s ~24,000 in their tarball) to the keyservers...<p>One would hope that the researchers behind evil32.com are ethical enough and sensible enough to have permanently destroyed the secret keys - but obviously, anyone could mount this attack quite trivially with modern hardware.<p>So, check your fingerprints!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs</title><url>https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/15/445</url></story> |
33,792,724 | 33,792,104 | 1 | 3 | 33,787,719 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>&gt; A lot of people I respect really like Tailwind, but I just don’t get it.<p>I think I get it. For years there have been lots of popular CSS authoring conventions for JavaScript apps that are clever but complicated, fragile, and have a lot of churn. Most of these either have large JavaScript runtimes that generate and inject styles on the fly as components render, or deep integration into the JavaScript build system like Webpack&#x2F;Babel&#x2F;etc. plugins, or both.<p>I believe that there was intense fatigue from supporting these systems, keeping up with the newest versions and trends in the high-churn JavaScript ecosystem, etc. Tailwind essentially offers a ridiculously simple way out of this fatigue. You just say screw it, let&#x27;s just author all our JS component styles using string literals that from JavaScript&#x27;s perspective are just totally arbitrary HTML classes. No more importing things, or using plugins that transform the AST of our JS source code, or extracting chunks during SSR, etc. We just run this totally separate Tailwind compiler that looks for string literals that seem like Tailwind utility classes and generates a stylesheet that we just import in our HTML.<p>Tailwind is pretty great on its own as a utility CSS framework. There&#x27;s a lot of thought put into the &quot;API&quot; of their utility classes, and because it&#x27;s so popular there is a ton of support for almost any use case you&#x27;ll come across. But at the end of the day, I think the reason for its ubiquity (particularly among respected veterans and &quot;influencers&quot; in the frontend community) is that is offers a way out of the &quot;JavaScript tooling rat race&quot; that was causing so much fatigue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icambron</author><text>A lot of people I respect really like Tailwind, but I just don’t get it. Seems like you end up with walls of classes because you don’t name your compositions, and thus your design system doesn’t actually <i>live</i> anywhere. If you have a standard box in your design system with a certain padding, spacing, font size, and so on, are you really going to write out all its constituent properties every time you use it? How do you manage that effectively?<p>As an alternative, use a scss mixin (or even just a class) called standard-box and then use it everywhere. Do that for all the major parts of your design and you’ve created a language with which to build individual chunks of UI. Modifying the design system itself isn’t free but it’s a lot easier than mapping the change to every use of every tailwind class.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years</title><url>https://www.themosaad.com/blog/two-years-of-tailwind-css</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davnicwil</author><text>I think the usual solution here is just to make your standard box a component, as opposed to using a div with a class. Then if your design system changes, you just change the wall of tailwind classes in that single component file.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icambron</author><text>A lot of people I respect really like Tailwind, but I just don’t get it. Seems like you end up with walls of classes because you don’t name your compositions, and thus your design system doesn’t actually <i>live</i> anywhere. If you have a standard box in your design system with a certain padding, spacing, font size, and so on, are you really going to write out all its constituent properties every time you use it? How do you manage that effectively?<p>As an alternative, use a scss mixin (or even just a class) called standard-box and then use it everywhere. Do that for all the major parts of your design and you’ve created a language with which to build individual chunks of UI. Modifying the design system itself isn’t free but it’s a lot easier than mapping the change to every use of every tailwind class.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years</title><url>https://www.themosaad.com/blog/two-years-of-tailwind-css</url></story> |
20,308,072 | 20,305,768 | 1 | 3 | 20,298,653 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DavideNL</author><text>&gt; They neglect power-users.<p>The way i see it is Apple provides simple defaults which work best for most&#x2F;avarage users.<p>If you want something different&#x2F;extra vs the default, you can customize some stuff within SystemPreferences (like keyboard shortcuts) or install a third party app (like BetterTouchTool, Contexts, Moom, Magnet, etc.)<p>Personally, i much prefer my Macbook&#x27;s UX over my Windows10 UX.</text><parent_chain><item><author>app-pole</author><text>Apple has very skilled engineers, makes great strides in security, and I&#x27;m impressed by their hardware skills.<p>However, UX <i>is</i> their weakness. I don&#x27;t know why we keep pretending that UX is Apple&#x27;s strength. Have you used their window manager? Have you used their workspace implementation? Clearly they haven&#x27;t used it themselves. Everything about the Mac UI is geared toward just having a pile of windows in one workspace.<p>Their window switcher by default requires switching between applications then switching between the windows of that application. Why?<p>Rearranging the contents of workspaces is a complicated dance of swipes and drags and other mouse-heavy movements. On a decent window manager, this can all be done with keyboard shortcuts.<p>They neglect power-users. They neglect usability for those with limited range of motion.</text></item><item><author>m12k</author><text>I feel like the Apple we&#x27;ve seen since Jobs died is exactly what I would have expected if someone let the designers run the show without a strong product manager to reign them in: Gorgeous and mostly user-friendly products, but slightly too caught up in their own cleverness instead of the actual needs of real users.<p>I hope there&#x27;s a chance to rectify that now - though I fear it won&#x27;t happen until someone more visionary and less &#x27;operations-focused&#x27; takes the helm of the company. Steve Blank did this excellent analysis and comparison between Balmer and Cook [0] - I hope there&#x27;s a Satya Nadella in Apple&#x27;s future too.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheKarateKid</author><text>Agreed. The only thing that mitigated this is that larger screens naturally made us more prone to having a bunch of windows open on a screen. Back in the 1024x768 days, not being able to maximize a window on Mac was ridiculous. &quot;Full screen&quot; view is&#x2F;was a terrible &quot;solution&quot; to this.<p>The fact that windows can&#x27;t be &quot;snapped&quot; like on Windows is so frustrating. (Yes, I know there are 3rd party apps for this.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>app-pole</author><text>Apple has very skilled engineers, makes great strides in security, and I&#x27;m impressed by their hardware skills.<p>However, UX <i>is</i> their weakness. I don&#x27;t know why we keep pretending that UX is Apple&#x27;s strength. Have you used their window manager? Have you used their workspace implementation? Clearly they haven&#x27;t used it themselves. Everything about the Mac UI is geared toward just having a pile of windows in one workspace.<p>Their window switcher by default requires switching between applications then switching between the windows of that application. Why?<p>Rearranging the contents of workspaces is a complicated dance of swipes and drags and other mouse-heavy movements. On a decent window manager, this can all be done with keyboard shortcuts.<p>They neglect power-users. They neglect usability for those with limited range of motion.</text></item><item><author>m12k</author><text>I feel like the Apple we&#x27;ve seen since Jobs died is exactly what I would have expected if someone let the designers run the show without a strong product manager to reign them in: Gorgeous and mostly user-friendly products, but slightly too caught up in their own cleverness instead of the actual needs of real users.<p>I hope there&#x27;s a chance to rectify that now - though I fear it won&#x27;t happen until someone more visionary and less &#x27;operations-focused&#x27; takes the helm of the company. Steve Blank did this excellent analysis and comparison between Balmer and Cook [0] - I hope there&#x27;s a Satya Nadella in Apple&#x27;s future too.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/</url></story> |
34,466,050 | 34,465,472 | 1 | 3 | 34,463,869 | 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>sen</author><text>People are missing the point here. Carls entire channel is filled with really cool experiments in making PCBs do things people wouldn’t normally think of. There doesn’t have to be a practical purpose really, he just loves experimenting.<p>I really love his flexible PCB experiments too, he’s made a lot of awesome things from them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Self-Soldering Circuits [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0csHZveVvY</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Roark66</author><text>It&#x27;s an entertaining hack. I think it should be considered in this context.<p>If we start thinking about it in practical terms it stops making any sense. Specifically, a standard 2 layer board costs few $ to make. Here we&#x27;re paying a huge premium for extra internal layers. You may as well take that money and put it towards a hob with an scr and a cheap controller to solder them on it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Self-Soldering Circuits [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0csHZveVvY</url></story> |
33,860,389 | 33,859,939 | 1 | 2 | 33,858,947 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloff</author><text>I think you underestimate how hard it is to find evidence of human settlement under sediment in the sea floor in 400 ft of water. Anything organic likely is gone, but there might be stone evidence. Unless it&#x27;s something like Gobleki Tepi, it would be very hard to identify. And sites like that would be very rare, if there are any. It&#x27;s worse than finding a needle in a haystack.<p>As far as I know, little effort had been put into it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andsoitis</author><text>&gt; river deltas and coasts of 10,000 BCE are now under 400ft of ocean. What secrets lie buried under the ocean sediments? What will we discover?<p>With current technology isn’t there a way for us to scan all coastline to detect evidence of large settlements?<p>If someone truly believes (and moreover fashions their entire career around) in advanced earth civilization before 10,000 BCE, wouldn’t they be figuring out a way to scan all coastline?<p>This argument seems analogous to me to when someone tries to sell you an investment with unrealistic returns - why wouldn’t they just pocket the entire return instead of sharing?</text></item><item><author>slashdev</author><text>Graham Hancock is a journalist, not a scientist. He doesn&#x27;t pretend to be otherwise. He&#x27;s likely wrong about most of his theories. But he&#x27;s challenging accepted ideas in a field where accepted ideas are frequently overturned. That&#x27;s useful. He stimulates the imagination and tells stories expertly, making it a joy to listen to him talk. There&#x27;s value in thinking &quot;What If&quot; and being unafraid to think outside the box of the consensus. While being careful to understand probabilities enough to know it&#x27;s likely wrong. I think Archaeologists need to be a little less uptight and remember why they go into the field in the first place. It&#x27;s because their imaginations were captured by stories, told and untold, of history. Let&#x27;s also not forget that every new idea in any science was once against the &quot;consensus&quot; view.<p>I find it fascinating to think that civilization could have started earlier than we currently imagine. It doesn&#x27;t seem that crazy to think that humans like to settle around river deltas and near the coast, and all the river deltas and coasts of 10,000 BCE are now under 400ft of ocean. What secrets lie buried under the ocean sediments? What will we discover? Graham may well be wrong about most of it, but I&#x27;d bet my life savings that there are fascinating discoveries yet to be made that will overturn what we currently think we know about human history.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Archaeologists ask Netflix to reclassify Graham Hancock’s docuseries as fiction</title><url>https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-graham-hancocks-ancient-apocalypse-fiction-2222060</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moloch-hai</author><text>You expect a journalist to field tech to scan continental shelves? His role is to call attention to unaddressed questions provoked by evidence. It is historian&#x27;s and archaeologists&#x27; job to answer them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andsoitis</author><text>&gt; river deltas and coasts of 10,000 BCE are now under 400ft of ocean. What secrets lie buried under the ocean sediments? What will we discover?<p>With current technology isn’t there a way for us to scan all coastline to detect evidence of large settlements?<p>If someone truly believes (and moreover fashions their entire career around) in advanced earth civilization before 10,000 BCE, wouldn’t they be figuring out a way to scan all coastline?<p>This argument seems analogous to me to when someone tries to sell you an investment with unrealistic returns - why wouldn’t they just pocket the entire return instead of sharing?</text></item><item><author>slashdev</author><text>Graham Hancock is a journalist, not a scientist. He doesn&#x27;t pretend to be otherwise. He&#x27;s likely wrong about most of his theories. But he&#x27;s challenging accepted ideas in a field where accepted ideas are frequently overturned. That&#x27;s useful. He stimulates the imagination and tells stories expertly, making it a joy to listen to him talk. There&#x27;s value in thinking &quot;What If&quot; and being unafraid to think outside the box of the consensus. While being careful to understand probabilities enough to know it&#x27;s likely wrong. I think Archaeologists need to be a little less uptight and remember why they go into the field in the first place. It&#x27;s because their imaginations were captured by stories, told and untold, of history. Let&#x27;s also not forget that every new idea in any science was once against the &quot;consensus&quot; view.<p>I find it fascinating to think that civilization could have started earlier than we currently imagine. It doesn&#x27;t seem that crazy to think that humans like to settle around river deltas and near the coast, and all the river deltas and coasts of 10,000 BCE are now under 400ft of ocean. What secrets lie buried under the ocean sediments? What will we discover? Graham may well be wrong about most of it, but I&#x27;d bet my life savings that there are fascinating discoveries yet to be made that will overturn what we currently think we know about human history.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Archaeologists ask Netflix to reclassify Graham Hancock’s docuseries as fiction</title><url>https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-graham-hancocks-ancient-apocalypse-fiction-2222060</url></story> |
20,605,679 | 20,604,950 | 1 | 2 | 20,602,407 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neals</author><text>Because the power grid and city infrastructure do not allow for enough (fast) charging-points. In some European cities, for government BEV goals to be achieved, over 700 charging points have to be placed, every single day, for 5 years.<p>Now imagine a charging point using more electricity than your avarage household.<p>The grid is not ready for this and upgrading it might not be the best option.<p>Also know that there is up to 50% loss of electricity when transporting over long distances (like from wind-farm to the city).<p>Last, but not least: charging large vehicles like busses or trucks take a long time (and a lot of energy) time that is paid for by the company.<p>Now look at hydrogen: Produced and stored at decentralized locations, distributed through existing infrastructure, available at existing gas stations: Less stress on the grid, shorter charging times. Produce it where and when is most beneficial, store and transport it to when and where it is required.<p>I could go on. And probably somebody could go on with a lot of counter points.<p>However, this just states that &#x27;BEV are just better&#x27;, as you stated, is just not as simple as just that.<p>We are in a mobility and energy transition: Nothing about this is going to be easy.<p>Full disclosure: I operate both a corridor of electric car chargers and a hydrogen fueling station in Europe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kiba</author><text>I have no idea why auto companies are still pursuing hydrogen cars when BEV is just better?</text></item><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>BMW just appointed a new CEO who is supposed to come up with a strategy that apparently they expect to still involve hydrogen cars. They have been partnering with Toyota on hydrogen fuel cells. The last CEO kind of failed on the BEV front after launching the i3 and then failing to follow through with more&#x2F;better cars. His failure on this front is widely cited as the key reason for being replaced as they are feeling the pressure now from other manufacturers (Tesla, VW, Mercedes, etc.). The new CEO is apparently under a lot of pressure to start announcing things that are not lame concept cars to reassure investors that they are still relevant.<p>I don&#x27;t see a big hydrogen movement happening in Germany any time soon no matter what the wishful thinking on that is at BMW and elsewhere. What I do see is two of the three car manufacturers flooding the market with BEVs in the next five years. They&#x27;ve been a bit slow to catch up to Tesla but VW and Mercedes seem to be quite serious about ramping up production.</text></item><item><author>hannob</author><text>It is often interesting how things are framed in international media when you know the local discussion.<p>To put this in perspective: The role of hydrogen in the German energy system is extremely small. There are a couple of test plants, but that&#x27;s about it.
Yeah, lately there have been a few calls for more investments in that area, some articles discussing a larger role in the future. But it&#x27;s certainly not at the center of the debate. The headline seems heavily overblown.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany Turns to Hydrogen in Quest for Clean Energy Economy</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-02/germany-turns-to-hydrogen-in-quest-for-clean-energy-economy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>groestl</author><text>Auto companies that do this are essentialy motor engine companies. At their core, the structure is aligned to the R&amp;D and supply chain required to build a complex machine with thousands of small parts. BEVs threaten this model, as the components are much simpler and require a different organizational structure. Hydrogen engines, in contrast, do not (or to a much lesser extend) so the relevant actors are more inclined to push this idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kiba</author><text>I have no idea why auto companies are still pursuing hydrogen cars when BEV is just better?</text></item><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>BMW just appointed a new CEO who is supposed to come up with a strategy that apparently they expect to still involve hydrogen cars. They have been partnering with Toyota on hydrogen fuel cells. The last CEO kind of failed on the BEV front after launching the i3 and then failing to follow through with more&#x2F;better cars. His failure on this front is widely cited as the key reason for being replaced as they are feeling the pressure now from other manufacturers (Tesla, VW, Mercedes, etc.). The new CEO is apparently under a lot of pressure to start announcing things that are not lame concept cars to reassure investors that they are still relevant.<p>I don&#x27;t see a big hydrogen movement happening in Germany any time soon no matter what the wishful thinking on that is at BMW and elsewhere. What I do see is two of the three car manufacturers flooding the market with BEVs in the next five years. They&#x27;ve been a bit slow to catch up to Tesla but VW and Mercedes seem to be quite serious about ramping up production.</text></item><item><author>hannob</author><text>It is often interesting how things are framed in international media when you know the local discussion.<p>To put this in perspective: The role of hydrogen in the German energy system is extremely small. There are a couple of test plants, but that&#x27;s about it.
Yeah, lately there have been a few calls for more investments in that area, some articles discussing a larger role in the future. But it&#x27;s certainly not at the center of the debate. The headline seems heavily overblown.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany Turns to Hydrogen in Quest for Clean Energy Economy</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-02/germany-turns-to-hydrogen-in-quest-for-clean-energy-economy</url></story> |
25,144,289 | 25,143,691 | 1 | 2 | 25,143,369 | train | <instructions>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>As far as I know credit card companies have always sold transaction history - Google must surely be buyers of that data already. I’m sure this is intended to make that data flow more direct for them though, and easier to link it to a Google account this way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesuperbigfrog</author><text>Google already has too much info from email, location tracking, and search history.<p>Getting into bank accounts is too much. It would let them know exactly how effective advertising is since they would see how money is spent and they already know what advertisements they show you.<p>Sorry, but no. Hard pass from me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more</title><url>https://blog.google/products/google-pay/reimagined-pay-save-manage-expenses-and-more/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ra7</author><text>They <i>say</i> your transaction history with Google Pay won&#x27;t be used in other Google services. How much you trust that is up to you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thesuperbigfrog</author><text>Google already has too much info from email, location tracking, and search history.<p>Getting into bank accounts is too much. It would let them know exactly how effective advertising is since they would see how money is spent and they already know what advertisements they show you.<p>Sorry, but no. Hard pass from me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more</title><url>https://blog.google/products/google-pay/reimagined-pay-save-manage-expenses-and-more/</url></story> |
19,637,258 | 19,637,442 | 1 | 2 | 19,636,752 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrischen</author><text>I’m not a big fan of centrally planned cities, but this author has it out for China. The original articles about “China’a ghost town” were also not true. A narrative was invented to sell an interesting story about some failure of China... this article is a non-story, and just an attempt to revive a topic parroted since the last decade.<p>Many of China’s urban districts were centrally planned and sat empty before they were eventually filled, including the famous Pudong district of Shanghai.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;wadeshepard&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;ghost-towns-or-boomtowns-what-new-cities-really-become&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;wadeshepar...</a><p>&quot;If you look around, you will think this is a normal city and just assume this is the way it always was, not knowing that 10 years ago people were calling it a ghost city, 20 years ago it was just apartments and villages.&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;amp.abc.net.au&#x2F;article&#x2F;9912186" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;amp.abc.net.au&#x2F;article&#x2F;9912186</a><p>Short story is some developments work, others don’t, but investing in real estate is one way for people to park money so people still end up buying up all the properties.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/business/china-economy-debt-tianjin.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>gzu</author><text>I’ve been browsing around satellite view of Chinese cities for a while now. There are hundreds of thousands of high rise apartment complexes without visible activity around them. Literally copy paste buildings surrounded by empty fields. How does this bode for China’s economy? They are all over the place.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/business/china-economy-debt-tianjin.html</url></story> |
18,524,524 | 18,524,445 | 1 | 2 | 18,523,877 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexpw</author><text>&quot;Modern Thanksgiving was first officially called for in all states in 1863 by a presidential proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. [...]Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving on the final Thursday in November, explicitly in celebration of the bounties that had continued to fall on the Union and for the military successes in the war.&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thanksgiving" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thanksgiving</a><p>It&#x27;s easy to see why the &quot;Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Nothern Aggression&quot; from Lincoln&#x27;s action. He extended the meaning of the celebration to include victory of the North over the South, and asked the South to observe it, according to wikipedia.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-culture-war</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>The Fourth of July wasn’t strongly celebrated until the 90s (after Gulf War I) in the small southern town I was living in during the 80s&#x2F;90s. Something about still being bitter about the Civil War (which we were taught was not about slavery, but states rights, ugh).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-culture-war</url></story> |
28,596,764 | 28,595,514 | 1 | 3 | 28,592,683 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redshirtrob</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a couple mass layoffs. I survived one, but did not survive the next one a few years later.<p>This is very general advice and you need to correlate it with other events, but it&#x27;s been a pretty strong indicator something was up: Keep an eye on your manager&#x27;s priorities especially if they shift in a ways you can&#x27;t explain.<p>One example from early in my career: Our manager abruptly became much less interested in product status and overall progress. To his credit he scheduled a call (we were a remote office) a couple weeks later in which he said the following: &quot;Commit your code. Ignore all policies and procedures. Work at your own pace.&quot;<p>We suspected as much, but that call was the confirmation. Ironically, the organization was so large, and the layoffs so huge, they had to arrange financing just to complete the layoffs. This led to a one to two month period where we were employed, but had nothing to do. It was really weird. Generally we&#x27;d come to the office, play a bit of Half-Life, then adjourn to my friend&#x27;s basement to work on the BattleBot we were building.</text><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>Do you have any tips&#x2F;signs to look out for :-)</text></item><item><author>indigochill</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a couple of mass layoffs. How much you see that coming can be a function of how close to the decision-making you are and how familiar you are with the process. As I&#x27;ve advanced, I&#x27;ve progressively seen it coming farther out. But the first one was totally out of the blue to me.<p>Individual firings seem a bit more predictable.</text></item><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Off topic. Do firings come out of the blue though? I was a VP for a while (not anymore) - but when the person I had to fire was about to get fired, they KNEW it as soon as the door opened. Firing someone is the worst experience ever - the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s excellent advice that many have learned the hard way...<p>Honestly even as a non-manager it&#x27;s a very bad idea. When I was a junior one of my colleagues was called to the manager&#x27;s office. I assumed it would be for some mundane project scheduling or whatever, so I jokingly said &quot;you&#x27;re getting fired&quot; as he was going there. And he was.<p>This is one of these memories that come back to haunt you late at night when you&#x27;re trying to sleep...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)</title><url>https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don%27t-Joke.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>edgriebel</author><text>When you have a one-on-one with your manager and the VP of Engineering or a HR person is there too, or when your team in another site is laid off and you hear it thru the grapevine instead of from your manager.<p>But for something more actionable, if your manager is constantly pressing you for &quot;what happened with this one&quot; when dates are slipping, or reminding you &quot;you know, you&#x27;re one of the highest paid people here...&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>Do you have any tips&#x2F;signs to look out for :-)</text></item><item><author>indigochill</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a couple of mass layoffs. How much you see that coming can be a function of how close to the decision-making you are and how familiar you are with the process. As I&#x27;ve advanced, I&#x27;ve progressively seen it coming farther out. But the first one was totally out of the blue to me.<p>Individual firings seem a bit more predictable.</text></item><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Off topic. Do firings come out of the blue though? I was a VP for a while (not anymore) - but when the person I had to fire was about to get fired, they KNEW it as soon as the door opened. Firing someone is the worst experience ever - the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s excellent advice that many have learned the hard way...<p>Honestly even as a non-manager it&#x27;s a very bad idea. When I was a junior one of my colleagues was called to the manager&#x27;s office. I assumed it would be for some mundane project scheduling or whatever, so I jokingly said &quot;you&#x27;re getting fired&quot; as he was going there. And he was.<p>This is one of these memories that come back to haunt you late at night when you&#x27;re trying to sleep...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)</title><url>https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don%27t-Joke.html</url></story> |
29,428,471 | 29,427,850 | 1 | 2 | 29,426,411 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stayux</author><text>&gt;People like Rachael (who obviously love this work at their very core) are doomed to end up a jaded curmudgeon unless they 1) start their own company 2) join a tiny company. Big tech is hell. Make your money and GTFO.<p>Absolutely correct. This reflects perfectly with my professional career. In the early 2000s I worked at a place which started hiring &quot;bozos&quot; in frightening rate. They killed an internal project for CMS (I was the PM) and proceed to hire external agency for content management, because - &quot;Nobody of our clients is willing to do this complicated technical stuff&quot;.<p>After a heated &quot;debate&quot; with the &quot;bozos&quot;, management and CEO of the company, I quitted my well payed job.
I created my own company and hired all of my team. For the next 10 years most of my ex company clients came to me by simple word of mouth marketing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0xFACEFEED</author><text>&gt; I will now point out that whether X makes it to production can become disconnected from the notion of whether X actually belongs in production.<p>... is the crux of her point.<p>So, um, who decides what belongs in production?<p>I generally like her essays but this has a weird senseless negative tone to it.<p>Look... I get it. We&#x27;ve all come across bozos. A lot of these bozos aren&#x27;t the derpy clowns we (hope? wish?) they would be. No - they&#x27;re usually very confident, very aggressive, and very very goal oriented. Yes it&#x27;s absolutely infuriating watching them somehow gain the confidence of the C-level folks, obtain a lot of resources, and burn everything to the ground all while claiming plausible deniability. Wishing that they&#x27;d get filtered out by the hiring process is &lt;insert idiom of improbability&gt;.<p>The real culprit is your director of engineering. That person is making terrible decisions but is so good at avoiding accountability that you place your blame on the bozo. Hot take: if your company keeps hiring bozos then your executives are doo-doo. Leave the company. Oh, you can&#x27;t because you&#x27;re making 300k base + 2 years away from 800k in RSUs? Congrats. You&#x27;re part of the problem (it&#x27;s not your fault).<p>The same reason why you won&#x27;t leave your company is the same reason Mr. Bozo gets a crack at &quot;innovating&quot; at that same company.<p>People like Rachael (who obviously love this work at their very core) are doomed to end up a jaded curmudgeon unless they 1) start their own company 2) join a tiny company. Big tech is hell. Make your money and GTFO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One way a builder culture can fail</title><url>http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/12/02/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>tda</author><text>&gt; Yes it&#x27;s absolutely infuriating watching them somehow gain the confidence of the C-level folks, obtain a lot of resources, and burn everything to the ground all while claiming plausible deniability.<p>Thanks for summarizing my biggest gripe with my current employer so clearly! It is going on, and all the senior all the engineers see it and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. Only make sure you stay away from whatever these bozo&#x27;s fancy, as someone will have to clean up or take the blame when everything falls apart.<p>Anyone know an alternative GTFO? After a few years of complain&#x2F;ignore&#x2F;avoid if feel that is my only option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0xFACEFEED</author><text>&gt; I will now point out that whether X makes it to production can become disconnected from the notion of whether X actually belongs in production.<p>... is the crux of her point.<p>So, um, who decides what belongs in production?<p>I generally like her essays but this has a weird senseless negative tone to it.<p>Look... I get it. We&#x27;ve all come across bozos. A lot of these bozos aren&#x27;t the derpy clowns we (hope? wish?) they would be. No - they&#x27;re usually very confident, very aggressive, and very very goal oriented. Yes it&#x27;s absolutely infuriating watching them somehow gain the confidence of the C-level folks, obtain a lot of resources, and burn everything to the ground all while claiming plausible deniability. Wishing that they&#x27;d get filtered out by the hiring process is &lt;insert idiom of improbability&gt;.<p>The real culprit is your director of engineering. That person is making terrible decisions but is so good at avoiding accountability that you place your blame on the bozo. Hot take: if your company keeps hiring bozos then your executives are doo-doo. Leave the company. Oh, you can&#x27;t because you&#x27;re making 300k base + 2 years away from 800k in RSUs? Congrats. You&#x27;re part of the problem (it&#x27;s not your fault).<p>The same reason why you won&#x27;t leave your company is the same reason Mr. Bozo gets a crack at &quot;innovating&quot; at that same company.<p>People like Rachael (who obviously love this work at their very core) are doomed to end up a jaded curmudgeon unless they 1) start their own company 2) join a tiny company. Big tech is hell. Make your money and GTFO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One way a builder culture can fail</title><url>http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/12/02/build/</url></story> |
26,816,612 | 26,816,115 | 1 | 3 | 26,811,592 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sali0</author><text>So much hate ITT for such a great tool. Terraform is definitely not perfect but it&#x27;s still one of my favorite tools, solely because of the amount of efficiency gained from learning it. Yes HCL is not perfect, but it is definitely adequate for a lot of applications. IMO, Hashicorp makes some of the most well thought out tools and I am grateful of their attitude towards open source.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terraform 0.15 General Availability</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-terraform-0-15-general-availability</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghjnut</author><text>Hijacking a bit, but does anyone have any good resources&#x2F;guides around managing terraform state in larger organizations? Terraform enterprise seems to address this but I was wondering if there&#x27;s workflows that allowed subsections of infrastructure (think teams or systems) and didn&#x27;t rely on a re-evaluation of the entire organization&#x27;s assets. So far the only approach I&#x27;ve seen is having protected high level (VPC, subnets etc) as a separate state and using terraform_remote_state to reference those.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Terraform 0.15 General Availability</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-terraform-0-15-general-availability</url></story> |
31,178,985 | 31,177,939 | 1 | 2 | 31,154,039 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jitl</author><text>It’s fascinating to see so many different parties converging on Datalog for reactive apps &amp; UI.<p>- There are several such talks at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hytradboi.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hytradboi.com&#x2F;</a> (happening this Friday)<p>- Roam Research and its clones Athens, Logseq, use Datascript &#x2F; ClojureScript <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tonsky&#x2F;datascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tonsky&#x2F;datascript</a><p>- differential-datalog isn’t an end-to-end system, but is highly optimized for quick reactivity <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vmware&#x2F;differential-datalog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vmware&#x2F;differential-datalog</a><p>- Datalog UI is a Typescript port of some of differential-datalog’s ideas <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datalogui.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datalogui.dev&#x2F;</a><p>I think an under appreciated aspect of Datalog is as a pure specification language for relationships. Schema languages like GraphQL specify a relation between types exists, but not how it is computed. Prisma and other ORM DSLs like ActiveRecord do a better job specifying how to compute a relation from SQL tables, but support only a few strict computation types that can be modeled using SQL JOIN on columns.<p>Datalog lets you purely specify arbitrarily complex logical relationships between data types. Even if you were to only use Datalog as a rules engine at test time, it could still be quite powerful for validating logic implemented in different languages on the same data model, to say keep your Typescript, Kotlin and Swift logic in sync.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Datalog in JavaScript</title><url>https://www.instantdb.dev/essays/datalogjs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simongray</author><text>It is really great that people are discovering the utility of triplestores through their ubiquity in the Clojure ecosystem (e.g. Datomic and its many clones).<p>I do feel saddened that few seem to realise that the fundamental idea actually comes from RDF (i.e. the semantic web) and that Datomic&#x27;s Datalog dialect is actually <i>very</i> similar to SPARQL. Datomic&#x27;s primary innovation is the immutability&#x2F;time travel feature, not the fact that is uses triples and works like a graph database. If you find triplestores fascinating I implore you to explore the semantic web stack too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Datalog in JavaScript</title><url>https://www.instantdb.dev/essays/datalogjs</url></story> |
40,835,757 | 40,835,678 | 1 | 2 | 40,834,600 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmg0</author><text>&gt; But... if the browser model is being invisibly upgraded, how are we supposed to test out prompts and expect them to continue working without modifications against whatever future versions of the bundled model show up?<p>Pinning the design of a language model task against checkpoint with known functionality is critical to really support building cool and consistent features on top of it<p>However the alternative to an invisibly evolving model is deploying an innumerable number of base models and versions, which web pages would be free to select from. This would rapidly explode the long tail of models which users would need to fetch and store locally to use their web pages, eg HF&#x27;s long tail of LoRA fine tunes all combinations of datasets &amp; foundation models. How many foundation model + LoRAs can people store and run locally?<p>So it makes some sense for google to deploy a single model which they believe strikes a balance in the size&#x2F;latency and quality space. They are likely looking for developers to build out on their platform first, bringing features to their browser first and directing usage towards their models. The most useful fuel to steer the training of these models is knowing what clients use it for</text><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>If this is the API that Google are going with here:<p><pre><code> const model = await window.ai.createTextSession();
const result = await model.prompt(&quot;3 names for a pet pelican&quot;);
</code></pre>
There&#x27;s a VERY obvious flaw: is there really no way to specify the model to use?<p>Are we expecting that Gemini Nano will be the one true model, forever supported by this API baked into the world&#x27;s most popular browser?<p>Given the rate at which models are improving that would be ludicrous. But... if the browser model is being invisibly upgraded, how are we supposed to test out prompts and expect them to continue working without modifications against whatever future versions of the bundled model show up?<p>Something like this would at least give us a fighting chance:<p><pre><code> const supportedModels = await window.ai.getSupportedModels();
if (supportedModels.includes(&quot;gemini-nano:0.4&quot;)) {
const model = await window.ai.createTextSession(&quot;gemini-nano:0.4&quot;);
&#x2F;&#x2F; ...</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser</title><url>https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1806385778064564622</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>j10u</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure that with time, they will be forced to let users choose the model. Just like it happened with the search engine...</text><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>If this is the API that Google are going with here:<p><pre><code> const model = await window.ai.createTextSession();
const result = await model.prompt(&quot;3 names for a pet pelican&quot;);
</code></pre>
There&#x27;s a VERY obvious flaw: is there really no way to specify the model to use?<p>Are we expecting that Gemini Nano will be the one true model, forever supported by this API baked into the world&#x27;s most popular browser?<p>Given the rate at which models are improving that would be ludicrous. But... if the browser model is being invisibly upgraded, how are we supposed to test out prompts and expect them to continue working without modifications against whatever future versions of the bundled model show up?<p>Something like this would at least give us a fighting chance:<p><pre><code> const supportedModels = await window.ai.getSupportedModels();
if (supportedModels.includes(&quot;gemini-nano:0.4&quot;)) {
const model = await window.ai.createTextSession(&quot;gemini-nano:0.4&quot;);
&#x2F;&#x2F; ...</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser</title><url>https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1806385778064564622</url></story> |
32,469,839 | 32,468,810 | 1 | 2 | 32,467,813 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tibbydudeza</author><text>The bane of my existence has always been wireless - family stopped complaining when I switched all the AP&#x27;s to Ubiquity.<p>Never rebooted - uptimes in months and they are on battery backup.<p>It is amazing how much the stock firmware shipped by the likes of Broadcom&#x2F;Realtek sucks so much - it is not like Mikrotik&#x2F;Ubiquiti makes their own SOC&#x27;s to make it more realizable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My network home setup v3.0</title><url>https://giuliomagnifico.blog/networking/2022/08/14/home-network_v3.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>jnsaff2</author><text>For this setup I would rather go with some of the Mikrotik gear. I have the hEX S as a router and if you only need 4 device ports it saves you having a separate switch. This one has a newish CPU so routing performance is pretty much line-rate and it also has an SFP cage so depending on your provider setup you might even get the fiber directly into this device (mine sadly uses GPON with dedicated crypto built into the media converter so I could not use it). It is very feature rich and only costs about 75EUR here.<p>The upgrade pick would be the RB5009 with SFP+, 2.5GBe and 8GBe ports, much-much more CPU. The availability of this is pretty bad tho, I have the PoE version on order.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My network home setup v3.0</title><url>https://giuliomagnifico.blog/networking/2022/08/14/home-network_v3.html</url></story> |
30,031,195 | 30,030,002 | 1 | 3 | 30,023,464 | 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>daolf</author><text>This blew way out of proportion.<p>Misleading people was never the intent.<p>We just wanted to share our story and give a little more &quot;human&quot; touch to our about-us page by sharing the journey.<p>Title was amended.<p>Have a good week-end HN!</text><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Congratulations! But maybe &quot;bootstrapped&quot; is not a 100% correct.<p>&gt; MAY 2020 - Joining Tinyseed<p>&gt; And this is precisely why we never decided to raise money. However, a few years ago, [...] An accelerator designed precisely to help people grow their business [...] The money and the support we got from the program helped us grow ScrapingBee into what it is now</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR</title><url>https://www.scrapingbee.com/journey-to-one-million-arr/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dreig</author><text>Looking at their MRR growth, it seems that they had ~$5K MRR in Spring of 2020, at the time they joined TinySeed.
So perhaps a more technically accurate post would be: &quot;How we bootstrapped to $60K ARR, then took a small investment and grew the company to $1MM ARR&quot; ?<p>When, in the lifecycle of the company, can you sell a small stake of it and still call it bootstrapped? Basecamp sold a bit of equity in 2006 to Bezos[1], and is still considered the epitome of the bootstrapped company.<p>Additionally, if one has a couple hundred K after working at MANGA or wherever, or has wealthy parents&#x2F;friends and uses that money to build their own start-up, is that still bootstrapping?<p>To me, their journey is much closer to bootstrapping, and is quite an impressive achievement. Congrats, guys!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.signalvnoise.com&#x2F;the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on-basecamp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.signalvnoise.com&#x2F;the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on-baseca...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Congratulations! But maybe &quot;bootstrapped&quot; is not a 100% correct.<p>&gt; MAY 2020 - Joining Tinyseed<p>&gt; And this is precisely why we never decided to raise money. However, a few years ago, [...] An accelerator designed precisely to help people grow their business [...] The money and the support we got from the program helped us grow ScrapingBee into what it is now</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR</title><url>https://www.scrapingbee.com/journey-to-one-million-arr/</url></story> |
19,461,107 | 19,460,978 | 1 | 2 | 19,460,248 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pizza234</author><text>I&#x27;m very skeptical.<p>This is not just RTT; there&#x27;s a big amount of rework. Likely, any old game would look significantly better with such development effort (in other words, with any good remastering).<p>This could be considered a great market stunt - the graphical improvement is touted to be due to RTX (ray tracing), while it&#x27;s actually due to many factors.<p>On top of that, it misleads people into thinking that this type of improvement is typical of ray tracing, and that it comes at virtually no cost, while currently, ray tracing takes a big performance hit, and it&#x27;s generally hard to notice.<p>Q2VKPT is close to the concept &quot;improved with ray tracing&quot;, and while certainly impressive, it doesn&#x27;t yield the same &quot;AMAZING!&quot; effect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tqkxzugoaupvwqr</author><text>The new lighting makes such a dramatic difference. Despite the same low polygon count, the levels seem much more lifelike. If all the game classics are re-released with raytracing engines, I will be all over it. The next years are going to be good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan</title><url>https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/quake-ii-rtx-ray-tracing-vulkan-vkray-geforce-rtx/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>navaati</author><text>Now it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s only an engine change, for this to work they added PBR layers (metalness, emission, normal, yada yada) to <i>all</i> textures here, and that&#x27;s a big artistic work.<p>That said… gimme gimme gimme Half Life 1, plssssssss :D !</text><parent_chain><item><author>tqkxzugoaupvwqr</author><text>The new lighting makes such a dramatic difference. Despite the same low polygon count, the levels seem much more lifelike. If all the game classics are re-released with raytracing engines, I will be all over it. The next years are going to be good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan</title><url>https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/quake-ii-rtx-ray-tracing-vulkan-vkray-geforce-rtx/</url></story> |
13,120,596 | 13,120,135 | 1 | 3 | 13,116,741 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcrites</author><text>&gt; Most languages support one or two of these. Java uses table dispatch by default, but you can opt into direct dispatch by using the final keyword.<p>This is not accurate. Java does not use table dispatch by default. The HotSpot compiler will optimize most code to use direct dispatch, reserving table dispatch only for cases where calls cannot be inlined; and final does not particularly enable direct dispatch.<p>A discussion of these issues: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;developerworks&#x2F;java&#x2F;library&#x2F;j-jtp1029&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;developerworks&#x2F;java&#x2F;library&#x2F;j-jtp1029&#x2F;ind...</a><p>&gt; Like many myths about Java performance, the erroneous belief that declaring classes or methods as final results in better performance is widely held but rarely examined. The argument goes that declaring a method or class as final means that the compiler can inline method calls more aggressively, because it knows that at run time this is definitely the version of the method that&#x27;s going to be called. But this is simply not true. Just because class X is compiled against final class Y doesn&#x27;t mean that the same version of class Y will be loaded at run time. So the compiler cannot inline such cross-class method calls safely, final or not. Only if a method is private can the compiler inline it freely, and in that case, the final keyword would be redundant.<p>&gt; On the other hand, the run-time environment and JIT compiler have more information about what classes are actually loaded, and can make much better optimization decisions than the compiler can. If the run-time environment knows that no classes are loaded that extend Y, then it can safely inline calls to methods of Y, regardless of whether Y is final (as long as it can invalidate such JIT-compiled code if a subclass of Y is later loaded). So the reality is that while final might be a useful hint to a dumb run-time optimizer that doesn&#x27;t perform any global dependency analysis, its use doesn&#x27;t actually enable very many compile-time optimizations, and is not needed by a smart JIT to perform run-time optimizations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CalChris</author><text><p><pre><code> Java uses table dispatch by default, but you can opt into
direct dispatch by using the final keyword. C++ uses direct
dispatch by default, but you can opt into table dispatch by
adding the virtual keyword. Objective-C always uses message
dispatch, but allows developers to fall back to C in order
to get the performance gains of direct dispatch. Swift has
taken on the noble goal of supporting all three types of
dispatch.
</code></pre>
I kinda already knew this but it&#x27;s nice and succinct.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Method dispatch in Swift</title><url>https://www.raizlabs.com/dev/2016/12/swift-method-dispatch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>schrodinger</author><text>It&#x27;s so hard to read those horizontally-scrolling fixed-width text blurbs on mobile!!!</text><parent_chain><item><author>CalChris</author><text><p><pre><code> Java uses table dispatch by default, but you can opt into
direct dispatch by using the final keyword. C++ uses direct
dispatch by default, but you can opt into table dispatch by
adding the virtual keyword. Objective-C always uses message
dispatch, but allows developers to fall back to C in order
to get the performance gains of direct dispatch. Swift has
taken on the noble goal of supporting all three types of
dispatch.
</code></pre>
I kinda already knew this but it&#x27;s nice and succinct.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Method dispatch in Swift</title><url>https://www.raizlabs.com/dev/2016/12/swift-method-dispatch/</url></story> |
35,411,219 | 35,410,782 | 1 | 2 | 35,408,874 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neongodzilla</author><text>I learned this week that &quot;occupational burnout&quot; [1] <i>often</i> results in the brain developing a trauma response to the idea of returning to the same job&#x2F;tasks, which is why people will sometimes entirely switch careers. It absolutely is the brain trying to protect itself.<p>Not all forms of burnout results in trauma responses, but they all require extended recovery. Burnout is preventable, but once it has been reached, the damage has been done and rest is required. No joke: 3-6 months is the usual recovery time.<p>Paths to occupational burnout:
- No mental rest from work. &quot;Taking it home with you.&quot; Often skipping breaks to keep focused.
- Jobs that require high amounts of mental processing for long periods (customer service, development, troubleshooting, multitasking, urgent-response).<p>&quot;Brown out&quot; is the stage when you&#x27;re still capable of functioning in spurts, but your brain&#x2F;body is sending warning signs (that we have been taught to ignore).<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Occupational_burnout?wprov=sfti1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Occupational_burnout?wprov=sft...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Trasmatta</author><text>I hit some bad burnout last year, and it&#x27;s become hard to think hard about anything ever since. Like a defense mechanism has been installed in my brain preventing me from hurting myself like that again. When I have to think hard about something for work I have to push past that and then I feel an intense dissociation while I do.<p>It doesn&#x27;t feel good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thinking hard makes the brain tired</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/11/how-thinking-hard-makes-the-brain-tired</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigDinosaur</author><text>It took me a year to recover from burnout. Don&#x27;t underestimate the recovery phase. I was at the point where any cognitive effort caused very similar effects to what you would describe, kind of like the mental equivalent of having lifted weights to failure but with an instantaneous onset. I suspect every case is unique, but I&#x27;d suggest thinking very carefully about how you can take an extended break from work.<p>The key distinguishing what I felt with burnout from just being mentally tired is that no problem, no matter how hard it was to solve (or even if I failed miserably at solving it) has ever caused me to <i>instanteously</i> feel 100% mentally exhausted. By contrast, when burnt out, even fairly trivial work tasks would trigger this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Trasmatta</author><text>I hit some bad burnout last year, and it&#x27;s become hard to think hard about anything ever since. Like a defense mechanism has been installed in my brain preventing me from hurting myself like that again. When I have to think hard about something for work I have to push past that and then I feel an intense dissociation while I do.<p>It doesn&#x27;t feel good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thinking hard makes the brain tired</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/11/how-thinking-hard-makes-the-brain-tired</url></story> |
16,030,946 | 16,030,919 | 1 | 2 | 16,018,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saas_co_de</author><text>It matters to buzzfeed it their competitors are getting deals off fake traffic :)<p>But really, when you are a large corporation that advertises through hundreds of channels there is no way to attribute conversion to particular ads. You are paying to have your ads seen by real people to create brand awareness and get the multiple touches that will result in conversions. If those ads aren&#x27;t getting seen then obviously they are not effective.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acchow</author><text>A bank spends $1000 on advertising and it ends up with dozens of accounts and credit cards opened and they decide it&#x27;s a good ROI. So they spend another $1000 on advertising and get the same results again.<p>Why does it matter that millions of the ad impressions were fake?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Publishers Bought Millions of Website Visits They Found Out Were Fraudulent</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/these-publishers-bought-millions-of-website-visits-they</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>Many ad campaigns are sold by the impression. It would be like if you bought a bag of rice, but after you opened it you discovered that half the grains were in fact plastic. Of course you could still filter out the fakes, and you&#x27;re still left with a half bag of edible rice, but in the end that&#x27;s not what you thought you bought. In other words, this is fraud, and marketplaces fail if there&#x27;s too much fraud.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acchow</author><text>A bank spends $1000 on advertising and it ends up with dozens of accounts and credit cards opened and they decide it&#x27;s a good ROI. So they spend another $1000 on advertising and get the same results again.<p>Why does it matter that millions of the ad impressions were fake?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Publishers Bought Millions of Website Visits They Found Out Were Fraudulent</title><url>https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/these-publishers-bought-millions-of-website-visits-they</url></story> |
3,660,407 | 3,660,361 | 1 | 3 | 3,659,927 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NyxWulf</author><text>I just checked out lean domain search, it actually looks pretty handy. I like how fast it is at generating domain names and checking for availability. One feature that would make it much more useful is the ability to specify multiple words and have it do a combinatorial check on them against your other words.<p>One other thing, the "LDS" favicon took me by surprise. I had tabbed away for a second, then coming back I saw LDS and thought "now how the hell did I get on Mormon church site?". Only after I clicked back to it did I realize it was your site. I live in Utah, and the Mormon church is very prevalent here, so I don't know if others would have the same thought or reaction. Just thought I'd mention it. Good luck with leandomainsearch</text><parent_chain><item><author>matt1</author><text>A few years back I built Domain Pigeon, a similar tool, that generated web 2.0-style domain names and made them available to visitors. One of my big lessons learned from that experience was that web 2.0 style domain names are NOT good domain names. More often than not people can't remember them and when they can, they misspell it and if they can spell it, it's only because someone had to spell it out when telling it to them.<p>I recently launched a follow up to Domain Pigeon called Lean Domain Search which I think handles the problem a lot better [1]. Rather than generating random words, it pairs your search phrase with 1,500+ other keywords and instantly shows you which are available. In this way, every domain it generates is a combination of two or more actual words which makes it much easier to remember and explain to people.<p>By all means explore and see what your options are, but try to pick a name that will be easy for people to remember and easy to spell.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.leandomainsearch.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.leandomainsearch.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to find a short domain name</title><url>http://www.zegup.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>neilk</author><text>I recently obtained a five-letter domain name (Grovr) in .org/.net/.com, and felt good about doing so on the cheap.<p>I hit on the that name out of desperation leading to silliness. The idea has to do with directed acyclic graphs of trust relationships, hence trees, hence "grove".<p>There aren't a lot of real-world analogs, so I'd been struggling to find some short name that explained the concept. I was working with a few others until recently and they had picked names like "layervote" which I never liked much. "Grovr" is obscure, but it makes <i>me</i> happy, and I'll probably make trees the fundamental graphic theme and metaphor.<p>But now you're telling me that misspellings are actually a big problem? How much of a problem, quantitatively?<p>Does that outweigh googlability? (On the other hand, if you add one letter, there is a popular children's TV character there which I'll never outrank, so that might be a problem.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>matt1</author><text>A few years back I built Domain Pigeon, a similar tool, that generated web 2.0-style domain names and made them available to visitors. One of my big lessons learned from that experience was that web 2.0 style domain names are NOT good domain names. More often than not people can't remember them and when they can, they misspell it and if they can spell it, it's only because someone had to spell it out when telling it to them.<p>I recently launched a follow up to Domain Pigeon called Lean Domain Search which I think handles the problem a lot better [1]. Rather than generating random words, it pairs your search phrase with 1,500+ other keywords and instantly shows you which are available. In this way, every domain it generates is a combination of two or more actual words which makes it much easier to remember and explain to people.<p>By all means explore and see what your options are, but try to pick a name that will be easy for people to remember and easy to spell.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.leandomainsearch.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.leandomainsearch.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to find a short domain name</title><url>http://www.zegup.com/</url></story> |
17,068,402 | 17,068,203 | 1 | 2 | 17,067,168 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hk__2</author><text>&gt; If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It&#x27;s hard to know what &#x27;Google One&#x27; means from just the name.<p>It’s also hard to know what &quot;Google&quot; means from its name. And &quot;Windows&quot;. And &quot;Bing&quot;. And &quot;Facebook&quot;, &quot;Twitter&quot;, &quot;WhatsApp&quot;, &quot;Amazon&quot;, &quot;Yelp&quot;, &quot;Pocket&quot;, &quot;Chrome&quot;, &quot;Firefox&quot;, &quot;Safari&quot;, &quot;Uber&quot;, &quot;Steam&quot;, and many more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donald123</author><text>If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It&#x27;s hard to know what &#x27;Google One&#x27; means from just the name. And there is &#x27;Android One&#x27;, which is designed for low-end devices, it would really confuse people when they talk about android one, google one. I can see more people will refer it as &quot;google one drive&quot;, and microsoft also has its &quot;One Drive&quot;, that&#x27;s even more confusing to all the average users.</text></item><item><author>ianstormtaylor</author><text>I think this article is missing the bigger picture—this isn&#x27;t about storage. This is Google trying to copy the success of Amazon Prime.<p>They&#x27;re going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription. The storage plans and priority support are just the first benefit they&#x27;ve tied to the subscription.<p>&gt; In addition to access to experts, the company also promises to provide subscribers with other benefits. Google One’s director Larissa Fontaine told me that those could include discounts on hotels you find in Google Search, preferred rates for other Google services or credits on Google Play. “We hope to build those out over time,” she noted.<p>That would make more sense as to why they&#x27;re &quot;rebranding&quot; these plans an not just updating Google Drive&#x27;s pricing plans. &quot;Google One&quot; isn&#x27;t a single product, it&#x27;s a single subscription across many products, just like Amazon Prime.<p>Of course, I could be wrong.<p>It does seem like a weird way to launch the subscription if that&#x27;s what they&#x27;re trying to do, since the announcement goes deep into the weeds of storage. And the low-end plans seem much too cheap to be able to add meaningful benefits to in the future.<p>Even the idea of multiple tiers of the subscription might be too complicated. One of the nice things about Prime is that although it&#x27;s expensive, there&#x27;s only one option.<p>Seeing as this is Google we&#x27;re talking about, I could imagine this new subscription will have incredible amounts of churn in branding, pricing and benefits along the way, and probably end up as a confusing mess in the minds of customers. Amazon&#x27;s Prime took a very different route. It started out as a very clear subscription service for cheaper shipping, and then added more and more benefits as time went on. These days it&#x27;s a little confusing, but it didn&#x27;t start that way. If Google already can&#x27;t get the messaging to be clear, it doesn&#x27;t bode well for them adding lots of orthogonal benefits in the future and keeping it all sane.<p>I bet we&#x27;ll see a Stratechery article about Google One in the context of Amazon Prime soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lainga</author><text>It&#x27;s probably reactive: &quot;Prime&quot; -&gt; &quot;One&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donald123</author><text>If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It&#x27;s hard to know what &#x27;Google One&#x27; means from just the name. And there is &#x27;Android One&#x27;, which is designed for low-end devices, it would really confuse people when they talk about android one, google one. I can see more people will refer it as &quot;google one drive&quot;, and microsoft also has its &quot;One Drive&quot;, that&#x27;s even more confusing to all the average users.</text></item><item><author>ianstormtaylor</author><text>I think this article is missing the bigger picture—this isn&#x27;t about storage. This is Google trying to copy the success of Amazon Prime.<p>They&#x27;re going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription. The storage plans and priority support are just the first benefit they&#x27;ve tied to the subscription.<p>&gt; In addition to access to experts, the company also promises to provide subscribers with other benefits. Google One’s director Larissa Fontaine told me that those could include discounts on hotels you find in Google Search, preferred rates for other Google services or credits on Google Play. “We hope to build those out over time,” she noted.<p>That would make more sense as to why they&#x27;re &quot;rebranding&quot; these plans an not just updating Google Drive&#x27;s pricing plans. &quot;Google One&quot; isn&#x27;t a single product, it&#x27;s a single subscription across many products, just like Amazon Prime.<p>Of course, I could be wrong.<p>It does seem like a weird way to launch the subscription if that&#x27;s what they&#x27;re trying to do, since the announcement goes deep into the weeds of storage. And the low-end plans seem much too cheap to be able to add meaningful benefits to in the future.<p>Even the idea of multiple tiers of the subscription might be too complicated. One of the nice things about Prime is that although it&#x27;s expensive, there&#x27;s only one option.<p>Seeing as this is Google we&#x27;re talking about, I could imagine this new subscription will have incredible amounts of churn in branding, pricing and benefits along the way, and probably end up as a confusing mess in the minds of customers. Amazon&#x27;s Prime took a very different route. It started out as a very clear subscription service for cheaper shipping, and then added more and more benefits as time went on. These days it&#x27;s a little confusing, but it didn&#x27;t start that way. If Google already can&#x27;t get the messaging to be clear, it doesn&#x27;t bode well for them adding lots of orthogonal benefits in the future and keeping it all sane.<p>I bet we&#x27;ll see a Stratechery article about Google One in the context of Amazon Prime soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/</url></story> |
32,311,049 | 32,309,547 | 1 | 3 | 32,308,553 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsp1984</author><text>Call me crazy but I think long term (10 years +) the Intel strategy of fabricating chips domestically is the correct choice. There&#x27;s a ton of geopolitical pressure in this direction. The US simply doesn&#x27;t want to be dependent on Taiwan for chips, for obvious reasons.<p>Intel knows this and is trying to become the TSMC of the west. And frankly they&#x27;re the only ones that can pull it off. I&#x27;d be surprised if 10 years from now the majority of their revenue comes from selling processors rather than fabricating them for AMD, NVIDIA, etc. Why compete when there&#x27;s plenty of steak for everyone?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.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>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.html</url></story> |
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