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2,712,241 | 2,712,156 | 1 | 2 | 2,711,959 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcavezza</author><text>To save time, here are the main points:<p>Set up your pages for SEO
Have a blog
Use Adwords
Get your name on Twitter &#38; Facebook
Submit blogposts to reddit, digg, hn, etc...
Create an email list
Use Feedburner
Monitor, Track, and Test Everything<p>Nothing groundbreaking.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Noob Guide to Online Marketing</title><url>http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketing-with-giant-infographic-11928</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>aymeric</author><text>Question: The article mentions you should guestblog. I know this is important but writing is a chore to me.<p>I am in the outsourcing space but I find outsourcing writing really hard to outsource because I need someone who can express my ideas or who have a good experience in outsourcing.<p>Is there a place where I can contact great writers?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Noob Guide to Online Marketing</title><url>http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketing-with-giant-infographic-11928</url><text></text></story> |
3,206,957 | 3,206,575 | 1 | 3 | 3,206,457 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rkalla</author><text>I don't intend this comment to be an insightful deconstruction of the NoSQL space and/or Mongo... but does anyone else notice that the level of energy around a project (positive or negative) <i>usually</i> indicates its progress along the hype-dissolution cycle[1]?<p>I try not to take the actual comments or articles as law, but rather use them as a temperature reading to figure out where in the slope we are currently for a given tech or trend.<p>Given that Mongo-talk has absolutely dominated HN over the weekend as well as reddit/r/programming, I am interpreting this as being in the bottom of the dissolution curve right now.<p>It is this point where the community push-back and temporary "hating on" forces the team to go into overdrive, addressing whatever pain points the community has griped on the loudest, in this case:<p><pre><code> - Write locks
- Durability / Replication consistency (already addressed)
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This is like tempering steel by pounding on it... but instead it is the community pounding on the people over at 10gen. That sucks, but this right of passage for them will see sweeter days on the other side.<p>I imagine Mongo 3.0 will represent the final climb out of the dissolution curve where all open complaints have been addressed and we actually get back to solving problems with the technology.<p>I don't know that Cassandra or Redis or CouchDB have completed their hype-cycles yet, because they haven't had the hyper-aggressive response from the community during the dissolution step. They are all popular and well-liked, but it seems like their popularity is still climbing.<p>It is all interesting none the less. Mongo is a huge success, regardless of how many of these articles are written.<p>I've not seen a team as dedicated and involved like 10gen is for a long time; Eliot still answered 100s of messages on the group every week (Along with every new member of the team) -- which I find the biggest indicator of Mongo's future success. If the CTO is carving out that much time during the day to stay involved, while still bug fixing, replying to posts like these and testing bug reports... that's a lot of love right there.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0</title><url>http://luigimontanez.com/2011/mongodb-2.0-should-have-been-1.0/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matthewcford</author><text>I've been using MongoDB for well over a year now in around 6 apps (moved on from CouchDB) and I agree prior to 1.8 it should have been made more obvious that there were still some stability issues.<p>I have seen first hand some of the issues raised, we've had data disappear, recurring random crashes, ect. But I think the difference is 'everyone' knew that there were issues with MongoDB, you just needed to check in jira. Jumping to 1.0 too early is clearly part of the reason for this backlash as not everyone thinks to check the issues because they've come to believe 1.0 means its ready for mass adoption.<p>That being said, I love MongoDB and I would still use it in other apps, just got to decide if it's the right tool for the job.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0</title><url>http://luigimontanez.com/2011/mongodb-2.0-should-have-been-1.0/</url></story> |
7,891,301 | 7,891,374 | 1 | 3 | 7,890,448 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zdw</author><text>&gt; why shouldn&#x27;t I have to educate myself<p>The problem with this argument is that it devolves into:<p>1. Requring that everyone knows everything about everything (total knowledge)<p>2. It being acceptable to take advantage of anyone who doesn&#x27;t do #1<p>I see this argument as a trust issue. I&#x27;d prefer to live in a society free from kickbacks and money passed under the table, and arguing for it is the first step to even worse corruption.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d love for it to be self regulating - for example, the &quot;You break the candy bar in half, I get to pick which piece I get, and you get the other&quot; model, where the best action for the breaker is to make a perfect 50&#x2F;50 cut. I&#x27;d love for honesty to be the best policy for all involved parties.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>Devil&#x27;s advocate, why should the financial service industry be different than any other sales industry? Remember most financial service people are simply salespeople pushing a product.<p>No one would bat an eye if a used car salesman put his own personal interest above the interest of his customer? Why should we then be outraged when someone sells you an annuity that isn&#x27;t the ideal product for you? If it is my responsibility to educate myself enough that I don&#x27;t spend an extra grand when the dealer recommends they undercoat my new car, why shouldn&#x27;t I have to educate myself on why I shoudn&#x27;t purchase an annuity in my new IRA?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brokers Fight Rule to Favor Best Interests of Customers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/your-money/rule-to-make-brokers-act-in-clients-interest-still-pending-after-4-years.html?_r=0</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>zachlipton</author><text>Two reasons. The first is that these people often don&#x27;t look like salesmen. They come in appearing to be providing impartial advice, and all the incentives, commissions, etc... that bias their advice are kept secret. The other problem is that these guys are often pushing complex products to an uneducated public where small details can make a big difference. A small change in an annual fee for an investment can, thanks to the magic of compound interest, easily add up to huge differences in investment returns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>Devil&#x27;s advocate, why should the financial service industry be different than any other sales industry? Remember most financial service people are simply salespeople pushing a product.<p>No one would bat an eye if a used car salesman put his own personal interest above the interest of his customer? Why should we then be outraged when someone sells you an annuity that isn&#x27;t the ideal product for you? If it is my responsibility to educate myself enough that I don&#x27;t spend an extra grand when the dealer recommends they undercoat my new car, why shouldn&#x27;t I have to educate myself on why I shoudn&#x27;t purchase an annuity in my new IRA?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brokers Fight Rule to Favor Best Interests of Customers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/your-money/rule-to-make-brokers-act-in-clients-interest-still-pending-after-4-years.html?_r=0</url><text></text></story> |
26,427,710 | 26,426,174 | 1 | 2 | 26,425,233 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pedrogpimenta</author><text>It seems none of the commenters opened any of the &quot;clones&quot; in the list.<p>These are <i>only</i> UI clones, at least from the 5 I clicked to try to understand what I was seeing.<p>They are not clones, alternatives or replacemente, only exercises in UI design and Front-end development.<p>It is not a bad list but I hate it because the title (and description) teels a differente story. They say they&#x27;re clones but they are not.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clone Wars: Open-source clones of popular sites</title><url>https://gourav.io/clone-wars</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>Related:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GorvGoyl&#x2F;clone-wars" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GorvGoyl&#x2F;clone-wars</a><p>Also:<p>From HBO&#x27;s &quot;Silicon Valley&quot;:<p>&quot;Jian Yang, are you copying all of those companies for the Chinese market?&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Km5XQxRrQvw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Km5XQxRrQvw</a><p>(Jin Yang erases &quot;New Pied Piper&quot; from the whiteboard... &lt;g&gt;)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clone Wars: Open-source clones of popular sites</title><url>https://gourav.io/clone-wars</url></story> |
14,668,315 | 14,667,828 | 1 | 3 | 14,667,398 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wolfspider</author><text>My paranoid brain often thought that Microsoft not only acquired their stake in Nokia for Windows phones but also to control some aspects of Qt as it was quickly unloaded from Nokia after Microsoft entered the picture. A sort of power play which we all saw later on with Xamarin without the feel-good outcome that Xamarin eventually had. Qt Creator is a joy to work with for open source software in my opinion for even just non-Qt projects. Back then I was using it on my BSD desktop before switching to XCode for vanilla C++ projects. Anyhow, it was extremely portable I could code with MinGW on Windows and then move the same project to BSD and then move it into XCode with minor changes. I would imagine Nokia at that time would seem extremely unique to Microsoft for just Qt alone. Just some food for thought...I still have Qt built ANGLE libs in my GH repo I think. Yeah, it was also an OpenGL ES 2 emulator that ran on DirectX which you could optionally run Qt Creator on top of and I remember Nokia&#x27;s name was all over it. It was possible to do cross-platform Windows and Android code this way with just a JNI wrapper. It was a hot mess and I loved it! Here are a couple links that back up this strange tale:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.qt.io&#x2F;Qt_5_on_Windows_ANGLE_and_OpenGL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.qt.io&#x2F;Qt_5_on_Windows_ANGLE_and_OpenGL</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Qt_(software)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Qt_(software)</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where Is Nokia Now?</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-29/they-built-the-first-phone-you-loved-where-in-the-world-is-nokia-now</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dijit</author><text>Every time the fall of Nokia is mentioned I always retell the feelings I had sitting in Ruholahti, Helsinki on February 2011- the Friday of my first week at the company; and hearing the news that R&amp;D was shutting down in favour of Windows Phone.<p>Many considered it an inferior product, many had just lost the work of their lives. Most just went to the bar across the street.<p>I feel the heart and soul of Nokia, just like those engineers, is off of the main building somewhere. Getting drunk and telling stories of how great things were and could have been.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where Is Nokia Now?</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-29/they-built-the-first-phone-you-loved-where-in-the-world-is-nokia-now</url></story> |
5,041,904 | 5,041,819 | 1 | 2 | 5,041,708 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>terhechte</author><text>I still remember watching the Keynote and expecting Gecko and then they had KHTML. I'd played around with Konqueror before, on various Linux distributions, and wasn't overwhelmed by its standards support (or quirks mode support, after all this was 2003). But Safari really enhanced it, and was so damn fast.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003)</title><url>http://lists.kde.org/?m=104197092318639</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>niggler</author><text>Wow, the original submission which linked to this article (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5041354" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5041354</a>, <a href="http://donmelton.com/2013/01/10/safari-is-released-to-the-world/" rel="nofollow">http://donmelton.com/2013/01/10/safari-is-released-to-the-wo...</a>) is #1 and this submission is #4</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003)</title><url>http://lists.kde.org/?m=104197092318639</url><text></text></story> |
29,668,414 | 29,668,416 | 1 | 2 | 29,667,095 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SJMosley</author><text>When I backed this, It is the first book I ordered for my future kid. The day the campaign ended my wife told me she was pregnant!<p>Very much looking forward to it. Great work!</text><parent_chain><item><author>crobertsbmw</author><text>My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates.<p>I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon employ my little sister to manage all the shipping. She’s been an Amazon driver for the last 2 years and I think she’d appreciate a change of pace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell</title><text>It seems this question hasn&#x27;t been asked for some time, so I&#x27;d be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.</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>sshine</author><text>Kudos for providing jobs. If I were to create a successful company, making others busy doing something nicer than what they would otherwise have given themselves would be the greatest accomplishment I could think of, professionally. But starting with oneself on exactly that is not a bad starting point, at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crobertsbmw</author><text>My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates.<p>I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon employ my little sister to manage all the shipping. She’s been an Amazon driver for the last 2 years and I think she’d appreciate a change of pace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell</title><text>It seems this question hasn&#x27;t been asked for some time, so I&#x27;d be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.</text></story> |
33,607,434 | 33,607,409 | 1 | 2 | 33,606,740 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>williamcotton</author><text>If the cup is half empty it&#x27;s called bribing. Otherwise it&#x27;s called lobbying.<p>I don&#x27;t know anything about the CFTC in particular but I&#x27;m familiar with the general idea of lobbying and the role it plays in a representative government.<p>Elected officials have to interface with basically every industry in the country. How is any specific representative in a legislature going to have the knowledge required to vote on a banking act? Or a bill pertaining to power plants? Or cryptocurrencies?<p>Does it make sense to allow representatives from various industries access to members of the legislative branches of government? How else could Cynthia Lummis or Kirsten Gillibrand make an informed decision when writing federal laws related to cryptocurrencies? Should there be federal laws related to cryptocurrencies? Should legislatures have a government regulatory agency that enforces federal laws? Who is going to write those laws? Should there be a federal agency like the SEC, but specifically for cryptocurrency? Is that the CFTC? Who should make up the CFTC? Who should make up the SEC? Are the people who are qualified to work for industry more or less qualified to work in the agency that regulates the industry? Who is best qualified to lobby for the industry? For the people who work for the regulatory agencies or lobby for industry, are they owners or laborers in the regulated industry? What if everyone at least wrote their name down on a big public list and said who they worked for and published when they met and who from which government position they met with?<p>Are there easy answers to these questions? How the hell has any of this ever worked?</text><parent_chain><item><author>flanked-evergl</author><text>Before or after they were bribing politicians for favourable regulation for FTX at the detriment of their competitors who were not fraudulent?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prospect.org&#x2F;power&#x2F;sam-bankman-frieds-multimillion-dollar-game&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prospect.org&#x2F;power&#x2F;sam-bankman-frieds-multimillion-d...</a><p>&gt; Crypto’s supporters in Congress are determined to ignore the massive gap in capacity between the two agencies; in fact, they likely understand that its incapacity is part of its appeal to FTX. A bill proposed by Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) seeks to grant the CFTC “exclusive jurisdiction over any agreement, contract, or transaction involving a contract of sale of a digital asset that is offered, solicited, traded, executed, or otherwise dealt in interstate commerce, including market activities relating to ancillary assets.” Perhaps in anticipation of such a move, FTX has stocked up its ranks with former CFTC officials. Former CFTC commissioner and acting chair Mark Wetjen is FTX’s head of policy and regulatory strategy. Ryne Miller, who was legal counsel to Gensler when he led the CFTC, is FTX’s general counsel. The Tech Transparency Project has also identified 14 other cases of CFTC alumni revolving into the crypto industry.<p>Vote these people out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened at Alameda Research</title><url>https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>howmayiannoyyou</author><text>Nobody will be voted out. You cannot get elected without cash, but if you do then you can&#x27;t remain in office without it. You also won&#x27;t influence legislation without money in your campaign or PAC wallets.<p>If HN users want to impact policy and legislation, its not happening without donating a lot of money (or to a limited extent time) en masse to lobbyists and institutes that believe in whatever it is you believe in.<p>Better to be slapped with the truth, than kissed with a lie, and having worked in politics, this is the truth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flanked-evergl</author><text>Before or after they were bribing politicians for favourable regulation for FTX at the detriment of their competitors who were not fraudulent?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prospect.org&#x2F;power&#x2F;sam-bankman-frieds-multimillion-dollar-game&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prospect.org&#x2F;power&#x2F;sam-bankman-frieds-multimillion-d...</a><p>&gt; Crypto’s supporters in Congress are determined to ignore the massive gap in capacity between the two agencies; in fact, they likely understand that its incapacity is part of its appeal to FTX. A bill proposed by Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) seeks to grant the CFTC “exclusive jurisdiction over any agreement, contract, or transaction involving a contract of sale of a digital asset that is offered, solicited, traded, executed, or otherwise dealt in interstate commerce, including market activities relating to ancillary assets.” Perhaps in anticipation of such a move, FTX has stocked up its ranks with former CFTC officials. Former CFTC commissioner and acting chair Mark Wetjen is FTX’s head of policy and regulatory strategy. Ryne Miller, who was legal counsel to Gensler when he led the CFTC, is FTX’s general counsel. The Tech Transparency Project has also identified 14 other cases of CFTC alumni revolving into the crypto industry.<p>Vote these people out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened at Alameda Research</title><url>https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175</url></story> |
23,326,147 | 23,325,160 | 1 | 3 | 23,320,974 | 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>nogabebop23</author><text>I think the correct path here has not really changed in the past 20+ years: find out how they dress for a typical work day and then go one step more dressy. So if it&#x27;s a jeans and t-shirt shop, go khakis and collared shirt; if it&#x27;s business casual a jacket and tie is fine.<p>It&#x27;s not so much about what you are wearing as it is about &quot;fitting in with our culture&quot;. At least this is a bias that you can usually mitigate (if you want to)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>Interview clothing is a bit controversial. Not that I&#x27;ve had a lot of interviews over the years, but I&#x27;ve always tended to overdress a bit. Maybe I didn&#x27;t need to, but it seems respectful. On the other hand, I&#x27;ve heard people who feel strongly that it someone shows up in a tie for a dev job that&#x27;s a hard &quot;nope.&quot;</text></item><item><author>noirbot</author><text>Probably hard to tease apart, but I wonder if the &quot;dying your hair&quot; part matters as much as the &quot;dressing more hip&quot; part. Someone that looks like they&#x27;re dressing well and have a sense of style is likely to innately have a better first impression than if you look like you&#x27;re an extra in a sitcom. It&#x27;ll help you stick out in people&#x27;s minds, for better or worse, and shows at least some level of caring about the position.<p>I&#x27;m a younger guy, but I know I try to pick my outfit carefully when going for an interview. I don&#x27;t have a totally different interview wardrobe or anything, but I pay a little more attention to matching colors and generally looking more put-together.<p>You may not even need to get your kids to dress you - just find a friend your age who cares about fashion some to help. Even if you think you dress well, having someone else check you over or make small suggestions can help.</text></item><item><author>travisgriggs</author><text>My experience is anecdotal and second hand. I&#x27;ve seen it twice now.<p>It began with a friend who was in the job market as a 50+. More on the hardware side. This guy has some cool experience. He gets lots of interviews, they go well, but no offers.<p>As his frustration grows, he grows desperate to try something different. He dyes some color back into his hair, gets some tinted glasses, and lets his daughter take him shopping for some more hip interview clothes.<p>A month later and he&#x27;s in bidding wars for who to hire him. He said the difference was night and day. He was now pointing out his age in interviews &quot;are you sure I&#x27;m not too old?&quot; and the interviewers were like &quot;no way man.&quot;<p>I wondered how one off this was. A year or so later, knew another guy who was having this same struggle. We shared the story with him. He raised his eyebrows, hesitated for a week or two, the colored his hair, got his niece to take him shopping. And pretty much same thing.<p>Obviously, this is a small sample set. But the lesson I took from this (and haven&#x27;t had a chance to prove for myself yet) is that it&#x27;s not your age that will limit you, but your apparent age. If you are old, but look like a younger&#x2F;fresher version of yourself, you do well. If you appear &quot;old&quot;, you struggle.<p>Best of luck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?</title><text>I&#x27;ve spent last year interviewing only to find out that I&#x27;m considered too old (I&#x27;m 45) for most shops around. They won&#x27;t spit it out directly of course but people talk and what they say is that I need to be stellar or young to be hired. Companies won&#x27;t invest in me the slightest bit, so the moment I miss a question in the long interview process I&#x27;m out of the door without second thought.<p>So...<p>1. I might be banging the wrong doors. E.g. FAANGs don&#x27;t seem to be right. Any companies that don&#x27;t drink&#x2F;sell the youth cool-aid?<p>2. I might be searching at the wrong job boards. Any suggestions welcome.<p>3. Finally I might be better doing sth else altogether (but what?) rather than fighting a loosing battle against preconceptions that run so deep.<p>Anyway. Thanks for any non-insulting answers in advance.<p>PS: I&#x27;m based in EU and I&#x27;m a SW Dev working mainly in DevOps and Reliability.</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>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>I once had an interview set up by a &quot;high touch&quot; recruiter who insisted that I &quot;suit up&quot;. I showed up at an un-airconditioned office to meet the VP wearing ratty cutoff shorts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>Interview clothing is a bit controversial. Not that I&#x27;ve had a lot of interviews over the years, but I&#x27;ve always tended to overdress a bit. Maybe I didn&#x27;t need to, but it seems respectful. On the other hand, I&#x27;ve heard people who feel strongly that it someone shows up in a tie for a dev job that&#x27;s a hard &quot;nope.&quot;</text></item><item><author>noirbot</author><text>Probably hard to tease apart, but I wonder if the &quot;dying your hair&quot; part matters as much as the &quot;dressing more hip&quot; part. Someone that looks like they&#x27;re dressing well and have a sense of style is likely to innately have a better first impression than if you look like you&#x27;re an extra in a sitcom. It&#x27;ll help you stick out in people&#x27;s minds, for better or worse, and shows at least some level of caring about the position.<p>I&#x27;m a younger guy, but I know I try to pick my outfit carefully when going for an interview. I don&#x27;t have a totally different interview wardrobe or anything, but I pay a little more attention to matching colors and generally looking more put-together.<p>You may not even need to get your kids to dress you - just find a friend your age who cares about fashion some to help. Even if you think you dress well, having someone else check you over or make small suggestions can help.</text></item><item><author>travisgriggs</author><text>My experience is anecdotal and second hand. I&#x27;ve seen it twice now.<p>It began with a friend who was in the job market as a 50+. More on the hardware side. This guy has some cool experience. He gets lots of interviews, they go well, but no offers.<p>As his frustration grows, he grows desperate to try something different. He dyes some color back into his hair, gets some tinted glasses, and lets his daughter take him shopping for some more hip interview clothes.<p>A month later and he&#x27;s in bidding wars for who to hire him. He said the difference was night and day. He was now pointing out his age in interviews &quot;are you sure I&#x27;m not too old?&quot; and the interviewers were like &quot;no way man.&quot;<p>I wondered how one off this was. A year or so later, knew another guy who was having this same struggle. We shared the story with him. He raised his eyebrows, hesitated for a week or two, the colored his hair, got his niece to take him shopping. And pretty much same thing.<p>Obviously, this is a small sample set. But the lesson I took from this (and haven&#x27;t had a chance to prove for myself yet) is that it&#x27;s not your age that will limit you, but your apparent age. If you are old, but look like a younger&#x2F;fresher version of yourself, you do well. If you appear &quot;old&quot;, you struggle.<p>Best of luck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?</title><text>I&#x27;ve spent last year interviewing only to find out that I&#x27;m considered too old (I&#x27;m 45) for most shops around. They won&#x27;t spit it out directly of course but people talk and what they say is that I need to be stellar or young to be hired. Companies won&#x27;t invest in me the slightest bit, so the moment I miss a question in the long interview process I&#x27;m out of the door without second thought.<p>So...<p>1. I might be banging the wrong doors. E.g. FAANGs don&#x27;t seem to be right. Any companies that don&#x27;t drink&#x2F;sell the youth cool-aid?<p>2. I might be searching at the wrong job boards. Any suggestions welcome.<p>3. Finally I might be better doing sth else altogether (but what?) rather than fighting a loosing battle against preconceptions that run so deep.<p>Anyway. Thanks for any non-insulting answers in advance.<p>PS: I&#x27;m based in EU and I&#x27;m a SW Dev working mainly in DevOps and Reliability.</text></story> |
16,928,449 | 16,925,653 | 1 | 2 | 16,925,499 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>PipelineDB is pretty interesting for time-series data. It takes an approach to processing the data as it comes in, and storing aggregates or pre-aggregates over time series. I haven&#x27;t followed the latest, but as of a few years ago much of the approach was similar to some research out of UC Berkeley from about 10 years ago. You can find the paper that talks about that work (TelegraphCQ CQ for continuous query) at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;db.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;madden&#x2F;html&#x2F;TCQcidr03.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;db.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;madden&#x2F;html&#x2F;TCQcidr03.pdf</a>. Definitely an interesting read if you&#x27;re into technical papers and databases.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PipelineDB v0.9.9 – One More Release Until PipelineDB Is a PostgreSQL Extension</title><url>https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/pipelinedb-0-9-9-one-more-release-until-pipelinedb-is-a-postgresql-extension</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isoprophlex</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know the product at all, at a glance this looks amazing to be for BI&#x2F;alerting on streaming time series data.<p>Anyone who wants to chime in on whether this has fit your requirements for time series data processing? Thanks!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PipelineDB v0.9.9 – One More Release Until PipelineDB Is a PostgreSQL Extension</title><url>https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/pipelinedb-0-9-9-one-more-release-until-pipelinedb-is-a-postgresql-extension</url></story> |
29,248,672 | 29,248,510 | 1 | 3 | 29,246,485 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>voussoir</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of Haneke&#x27;s work and I agree that depicting the truth, even obscene truths, is an important role of art. But in this case I am reminded of the &quot;Thermian Argument&quot; [1]. Squid Game isn&#x27;t truth, it&#x27;s fiction, and the authors of that fiction chose how much violence is needed to tell their story. If they go out of their way to make sure everybody gets murdered, it might not reveal a whole lot of truth.<p>I haven&#x27;t watched any of Squid Game, I just didn&#x27;t want to miss a chance to share Folding Ideas&#x27;s work.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AxV8gAGmbtk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AxV8gAGmbtk</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hhmc</author><text>There&#x27;s arguably something more insidious about pretending murder is a pg-13 act.<p>To paraphrase Michael Haneke: Violence must shown in all its vicious detail, The truth is obscene</text></item><item><author>nelblu</author><text>I am probably an outlier but I can&#x27;t stand shows that are too gory or violent. I prefer the old school shows where even when someone was murdered you could hardly see a drop of blood. These days almost any show that involves any kind of crime depicts so much violence and blood, I find it extremely disturbing. Is this just me? I really hope not.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>It&#x27;s fun to look at the numbers for Squid Game (under TV&#x2F;Non-English) over time. The first week on September 13 was better than most English TV shows...and then the next few weeks nearly <i>10x</i>ed that first week performance. Even now, two months later, it beats most of the Top English TV shows.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films</title><url>https://top10.netflix.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>Riseed</author><text>There&#x27;s a full range of possible depictions on the scale from &quot;pretending&quot; murder is G-rated to showing gratuitous violence and unnecessary gory detail.<p>For example, it&#x27;s largely sufficient to the plot and character development to know that Batman&#x27;s parents were killed by a mugger when Bruce was just a boy, and that Uncle Ben was killed by a petty criminal whom Spiderman had the chance to apprehend (but declined to do so). Nothing is added by showing entry&#x2F;exit wounds, slow pans over puddles of and spurts of blood, or any other sort of gore porn.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hhmc</author><text>There&#x27;s arguably something more insidious about pretending murder is a pg-13 act.<p>To paraphrase Michael Haneke: Violence must shown in all its vicious detail, The truth is obscene</text></item><item><author>nelblu</author><text>I am probably an outlier but I can&#x27;t stand shows that are too gory or violent. I prefer the old school shows where even when someone was murdered you could hardly see a drop of blood. These days almost any show that involves any kind of crime depicts so much violence and blood, I find it extremely disturbing. Is this just me? I really hope not.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>It&#x27;s fun to look at the numbers for Squid Game (under TV&#x2F;Non-English) over time. The first week on September 13 was better than most English TV shows...and then the next few weeks nearly <i>10x</i>ed that first week performance. Even now, two months later, it beats most of the Top English TV shows.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films</title><url>https://top10.netflix.com/?</url></story> |
6,027,806 | 6,027,931 | 1 | 2 | 6,027,423 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryankshaw</author><text>the owner of that company, pete ashdown, is an outright great guy. he even tried to run for a senate seat last election[1] -- without PAC $ and a focus on passing a constitutional amendment to overturn citizen&#x27;s united. But instead utah got stuck with good ol&#x27; Orrin Hatch, which was one of the chief proponents of building the NSA datacenter in bluffdale that is going to store all the stuff collected by PRISIM et. al. [2]<p>the world needs more Pete Ashdowns and more Xmissions.<p>1. <a href="http://peteashdown.org/archive/2012/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;peteashdown.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2012&#x2F;</a>
2. <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2013/06/utah-senator-who-pushed-local-12-billion-nsa-data-center-now-silent/65222/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nextgov.com&#x2F;big-data&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;utah-senator-who-pus...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/utah-isp-surveillance-state-corporations-925/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yaddayadda</author><text>In addition to the praises from @ryankschaw &amp; @letney&#x27;s, Pete is involved in a lot of local causes and provides free internet to many organizations.<p>I&#x27;ve been with Xmission for the better part of a decade now, and the service they provide has almost always rocked. On the rare occasion when it didn&#x27;t, their service department did rock, keeping customers informed as progress was made - even if the problem wasn&#x27;t under Xmission&#x27;s control (for example, at one point I was connected via a phone line which got cut - they actually followed up with the phone company and would call my cell phone to give me updates).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/utah-isp-surveillance-state-corporations-925/</url></story> |
15,323,041 | 15,322,340 | 1 | 3 | 15,321,588 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pktgen</author><text>&gt; Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, and Kroger, the second biggest, said they were comfortable continuing to send Equifax their payroll data.<p>Kroger has a large union workforce. It will be interesting to see if their unions make this an issue and force the data handover to stop.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blfr</author><text><i>Equifax persuaded more than 7,000 employers to hand over salary details for an income verification system</i><p>How? Is it all from the Talx acquisition?<p>If not, that is impressive. For many companies payroll is the most or even only really sensitive information.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Equifax Amassed Ever More Data, Safety Was a Sales Pitch</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/business/equifax-data-breach.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>makmanalp</author><text>Aren&#x27;t there laws against releasing payroll data without the consent of the employee?</text><parent_chain><item><author>blfr</author><text><i>Equifax persuaded more than 7,000 employers to hand over salary details for an income verification system</i><p>How? Is it all from the Talx acquisition?<p>If not, that is impressive. For many companies payroll is the most or even only really sensitive information.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Equifax Amassed Ever More Data, Safety Was a Sales Pitch</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/business/equifax-data-breach.html</url></story> |
40,413,453 | 40,411,527 | 1 | 2 | 40,409,718 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>I have overclocked a 1433MHz Athlon 1700+ (TBred&#x2F;B IIRC) to 2200 MHz (3200+ levels) with an AN7-Ultra.<p>The secret sauce was running it at 200x11, with 1T capable RAMs, and that thing was snappier than &quot;bog standard&quot; 3200+ systems a considerable amount.<p>Without much of a voltage bump, and a good cooling solution, it ran within its thermal design without noise, and with rock solid stability. That system lived more than 15 years IIRC.</text><parent_chain><item><author>K0balt</author><text>I still remember my dual celeron 450 clocked to 900 mhz. Those chips ran rock solid at double their rated clock, no didling the voltage or anything. Just needed decent cooling. Never mind that at the time having 2 processors was nearly useless.</text></item><item><author>metadat</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty crazy, thanks for sharing, Jeff.<p>Overclocking was my bread and butter as a [relatively] broke teenager in the late nineties, around the era of the first Athlon Thunderbirds, when you could take a 1GHz chip and [maybe] OC it to 1.5Ghz. It was a great time to be alive, and yet this is the first case I&#x27;ve heard of where LN2 would not give you a dramatically better result 99.99%+ of the time! I still miss HardOCP and Kyle Bennett and his team&#x27;s reviews.<p>That one t-bird with char spots... It still worked reliably somehow, I might even have it in a box somewhere. Those swirly finned CPU coolers were shit! I came home every day after school and volted&#x2F;burned the hell out of that poor chip, not realizing what I was doing.. lol.</text></item><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>No physics-level explanation, just that they found the chips to be more stable in testing when they were a little warmer vs a little colder. The key was to keep them around that temperature, though, which still requires a good amount of cooling the more voltage that runs through it!<p>Just... he mentioned I might not have as much success using LN2 or something more exotic, compared to standard water or Peltier cooling.</text></item><item><author>metadat</author><text>Did the engineer explain why the higher temps contribute to stability? I&#x27;ve not heard of such a phenomenon before.</text></item><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Awesome work, and I&#x27;m glad you could post some results! I&#x27;m hoping to get time to delid one, put on a peltier cooler, and try to control the temperature a little better for a run to see how high it&#x27;ll go before either burning up or going unstable.<p>From my testing on clocks on the Pi 5, it looks like the default clock of 2.4 GHz is pretty close to the sweet spot for this chip (BCM2712), and you burn a lot of power for small incremental gains after that[1]. (Which you seem to also show with the 3.3 GHz overclock!).<p>I also spoke to one of the Pi engineers about the chip behavior at higher clocks, and he suggested unlike some chips, this chip might run more stably at higher temperatures (like 50-60°C) rather than &#x27;as cold as you can get it&#x27;. So that poses some challenges since most cooling solutions aren&#x27;t tuned for &#x27;keep a temperature&#x27; but instead &#x27;get it as cold as possible&#x27;, without a lot of manual tweaking.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;overclocking-and-underclocking-raspberry-pi-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;overclocking-and-unde...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5</title><url>https://jonatron.github.io/randomstuff/pivolt/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Heh, back in those days decent cooling was a lot easier than now (for overclocking, at least).<p>That&#x27;s one nice thing working on these little mobile chips—I don&#x27;t need a $300 cooler, I can use a cheap little water block, or a small peltier element that doesn&#x27;t cost much at all... and it&#x27;s not being a space heater for the room. It&#x27;s only pulling maybe 10-20W max.</text><parent_chain><item><author>K0balt</author><text>I still remember my dual celeron 450 clocked to 900 mhz. Those chips ran rock solid at double their rated clock, no didling the voltage or anything. Just needed decent cooling. Never mind that at the time having 2 processors was nearly useless.</text></item><item><author>metadat</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty crazy, thanks for sharing, Jeff.<p>Overclocking was my bread and butter as a [relatively] broke teenager in the late nineties, around the era of the first Athlon Thunderbirds, when you could take a 1GHz chip and [maybe] OC it to 1.5Ghz. It was a great time to be alive, and yet this is the first case I&#x27;ve heard of where LN2 would not give you a dramatically better result 99.99%+ of the time! I still miss HardOCP and Kyle Bennett and his team&#x27;s reviews.<p>That one t-bird with char spots... It still worked reliably somehow, I might even have it in a box somewhere. Those swirly finned CPU coolers were shit! I came home every day after school and volted&#x2F;burned the hell out of that poor chip, not realizing what I was doing.. lol.</text></item><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>No physics-level explanation, just that they found the chips to be more stable in testing when they were a little warmer vs a little colder. The key was to keep them around that temperature, though, which still requires a good amount of cooling the more voltage that runs through it!<p>Just... he mentioned I might not have as much success using LN2 or something more exotic, compared to standard water or Peltier cooling.</text></item><item><author>metadat</author><text>Did the engineer explain why the higher temps contribute to stability? I&#x27;ve not heard of such a phenomenon before.</text></item><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Awesome work, and I&#x27;m glad you could post some results! I&#x27;m hoping to get time to delid one, put on a peltier cooler, and try to control the temperature a little better for a run to see how high it&#x27;ll go before either burning up or going unstable.<p>From my testing on clocks on the Pi 5, it looks like the default clock of 2.4 GHz is pretty close to the sweet spot for this chip (BCM2712), and you burn a lot of power for small incremental gains after that[1]. (Which you seem to also show with the 3.3 GHz overclock!).<p>I also spoke to one of the Pi engineers about the chip behavior at higher clocks, and he suggested unlike some chips, this chip might run more stably at higher temperatures (like 50-60°C) rather than &#x27;as cold as you can get it&#x27;. So that poses some challenges since most cooling solutions aren&#x27;t tuned for &#x27;keep a temperature&#x27; but instead &#x27;get it as cold as possible&#x27;, without a lot of manual tweaking.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;overclocking-and-underclocking-raspberry-pi-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;overclocking-and-unde...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5</title><url>https://jonatron.github.io/randomstuff/pivolt/</url></story> |
24,488,952 | 24,488,732 | 1 | 2 | 24,488,624 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>et2o</author><text>&gt; For banking there is a reason for regulation, and it is precisely deposits. Deposits are open to runs. Runs are bad for all sorts of reasons. Financial crises are runs. Hence we have banking regulations. That&#x27;s not a defense of current banking regulation. But there is a problem and a reason for some regulation.<p>&gt; But fintech doesn&#x27;t take deposits. The one central problem with banking is gone.<p>All banking regulations are due solely to the fact that banks take deposits? There is no other reason one could imagine for why banks, FinTech, or other financial services providers need to be regulated? All financial crises are runs on deposits?<p>Pretty undeveloped and unconvincing reasoning. If you think for a few seconds it’s easy to imagine other situations that led to necessary regulations in banking.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fintech in Chains</title><url>https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/09/fintech-in-chains.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>coderintherye</author><text>In general, I&#x27;m in agreement with this thesis, but it ignores consumer protection. What entity should handle consumer protection in respect to fintechs? Should it fall under state and local laws? Then, what if Jonny in California (which has strong protections) takes a loan from Fintech X in South Dakota. Can Jonny apply California regulations to his loan, placing a cap on interest that he has to pay Fintech X? Can Fintech X take Jonny&#x27;s house that he signed over as collateral, ignoring California&#x27;s regulations?<p>Financial regulation is a giant headache here and in many of the countries we&#x27;ve worked in. Looser regulation should be beneficial to most consumers. But what about consumers or businesses that sign themselves into bad deals or get purposefully taken advantage of? Which is really the heart of a lot of politics, how much do we protect people from their own poor choices.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fintech in Chains</title><url>https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/09/fintech-in-chains.html</url></story> |
9,514,124 | 9,514,158 | 1 | 3 | 9,513,850 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bri3d</author><text>Note that the CHIP doesn&#x27;t have HDMI output built in and that with the HDMI daughterboard, it&#x27;s right back into RPi cost territory.<p>Also, on the flip side of cost comparison, low-quality Allwinner-based tablets are easily available at under $30 on AliExpress.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mplewis</author><text>They&#x27;re claiming better specs than the RPi Model A (512 MB RAM, 1 GHz CPU) with more features (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi on board) for $9 vs the RPi&#x27;s $25.<p>I highly doubt they will be able to produce the CHIP for $9&#x2F;unit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The CHIP Is a $9 Computer That Can Almost Do It All</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/08/the-chip-is-a-9-computer-that-can-almost-do-it-all/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>detaro</author><text>From the makezine blog coverage (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;makezine.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;07&#x2F;next-thing-co-releases-worlds-first-9-computer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;makezine.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;07&#x2F;next-thing-co-releases-worlds...</a>)<p><i>How an industry giant and a tiny startup came to partner on a sub-$10 computing device owes to Next Thing’s history developing products and business connections with Shenzhen-based accelerator HAXLR8R, says Dave Rauchwerk, one of Next Thing’s three founders. “Once they understood what we were trying to do, they supported us fully.”<p>Connecting with the right company wasn’t the only break the Oakland-based team had going for them. At the same time they were meeting with Allwinner and explaining their aspirations for a dirt-cheap computer, Allwinner was looking to redesign their successful A13 processor in a new, smaller form factor as a cheaper system-on-chip. It is this new chip, called the R8, that Next Thing received early access to and used in its board design.
</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>mplewis</author><text>They&#x27;re claiming better specs than the RPi Model A (512 MB RAM, 1 GHz CPU) with more features (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi on board) for $9 vs the RPi&#x27;s $25.<p>I highly doubt they will be able to produce the CHIP for $9&#x2F;unit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The CHIP Is a $9 Computer That Can Almost Do It All</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/08/the-chip-is-a-9-computer-that-can-almost-do-it-all/</url></story> |
1,387,606 | 1,387,434 | 1 | 3 | 1,387,043 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whimsy</author><text>Yeah, my thoughts exactly. When I saw it, I instantly thought of Man Hacks from Half Life 2 - flying drones with buzz-saws attached. They were far less maneuverable than these quadcopters. Buzz-saws are for chumps, though - I'm sure these things could carry more than sufficient C4 to ensure that any human-sized target was eliminated completely in the sort of way that their relatives hope their dental records are up to date.<p>Terrifying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>run4yourlives</author><text>Holy. Crap.<p>Imagine what could become of this research in 5-10 years of sustained development?<p>God help the poor sucker that needs to deal with one of those things when coupled with less than benevolent intentions. Imagine five of these, armed and working together?<p>Good bye urban combat, hello robotic assassins.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/phd-student-gets-quadrotor-helicopter-moving-aggressively-20100528/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ErrantX</author><text>It reminds me heavily of some of the bots in The Terminator movies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>run4yourlives</author><text>Holy. Crap.<p>Imagine what could become of this research in 5-10 years of sustained development?<p>God help the poor sucker that needs to deal with one of those things when coupled with less than benevolent intentions. Imagine five of these, armed and working together?<p>Good bye urban combat, hello robotic assassins.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/phd-student-gets-quadrotor-helicopter-moving-aggressively-20100528/</url></story> |
28,695,839 | 28,695,987 | 1 | 2 | 28,693,855 | train | <instructions>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>Can you provide any examples of a high-profile company, ultimately shown to be dishonest, where the early investors were able to “cash out” before this dishonesty became known?</text><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn&#x27;t do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.</i><p>The thing is, the primary goal of an investor is not to invest in companies that are honest and actually do what they claim. The goal is to invest in a company that reaches a valuation high enough to let them recoup their investment at a profit.<p>If that valuation happens through fraud, hype, destroying the environment, whatever, that doesn&#x27;t really factor in. It probably is the case that successfully doing what the company claims has a positive correlation with higher valuation, but it&#x27;s not strictly necessary.<p>The failure mode for the investors in Theranos is not that it was fraudulent. It&#x27;s that the fraud was discovered before they could cash out. They didn&#x27;t need to believe that Theranos was honest, they just needed to believe that <i>other later investors would believe they were honest</i>.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>The crazy thing about Theranos is that so many people with experience in microfluidics (developed mainly for DNA sequencing although there are other uses) knew that their claims were impossible, technologically speaking.<p>Working with such small volumes to obtain quantitive estimates of blood chemistry is so implausible, as you are introducing uncontrollable variability - micro-evaporation, even tissue localization issues, I mean all the trained blood chemistry specialists knew this. I worked a little with DNA microfluidics, and it works because it&#x27;s not quantitative.<p>Now, what they could have done is just stuck to pos&#x2F;neg tests, i.e. &#x27;are you infected with this virus or not&#x27; which is a lot more plausible as you don&#x27;t have to meet a quantitative goal, just a detection goal. Also, one-stop STD screening for HIV &#x2F; herpes &#x2F; etc. is possible too (I suggested this and someone responded, &#x27;new company name: ClapTrap&quot;).<p>It&#x27;s really kind of sad, as Theranos might have been able to pull that off (although new management would probably be required), and then they&#x27;d have been positioned to do all the COVID testing (which was a major problem in the initial US response).<p>What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn&#x27;t do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/elizabeth-holmes-urged-employees-to-hide-theranos-lab-equipment-from-inspectors/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>But in the end, it&#x27;s such a gamble that I&#x27;m skeptical any of the investors knew or suspected fraud when they initially invested. I&#x27;ve heard of exits for companies without a business model or revenue, but how many companies have an exit event (e.g. get acquired or IPO) with no product at all?</text><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn&#x27;t do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.</i><p>The thing is, the primary goal of an investor is not to invest in companies that are honest and actually do what they claim. The goal is to invest in a company that reaches a valuation high enough to let them recoup their investment at a profit.<p>If that valuation happens through fraud, hype, destroying the environment, whatever, that doesn&#x27;t really factor in. It probably is the case that successfully doing what the company claims has a positive correlation with higher valuation, but it&#x27;s not strictly necessary.<p>The failure mode for the investors in Theranos is not that it was fraudulent. It&#x27;s that the fraud was discovered before they could cash out. They didn&#x27;t need to believe that Theranos was honest, they just needed to believe that <i>other later investors would believe they were honest</i>.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>The crazy thing about Theranos is that so many people with experience in microfluidics (developed mainly for DNA sequencing although there are other uses) knew that their claims were impossible, technologically speaking.<p>Working with such small volumes to obtain quantitive estimates of blood chemistry is so implausible, as you are introducing uncontrollable variability - micro-evaporation, even tissue localization issues, I mean all the trained blood chemistry specialists knew this. I worked a little with DNA microfluidics, and it works because it&#x27;s not quantitative.<p>Now, what they could have done is just stuck to pos&#x2F;neg tests, i.e. &#x27;are you infected with this virus or not&#x27; which is a lot more plausible as you don&#x27;t have to meet a quantitative goal, just a detection goal. Also, one-stop STD screening for HIV &#x2F; herpes &#x2F; etc. is possible too (I suggested this and someone responded, &#x27;new company name: ClapTrap&quot;).<p>It&#x27;s really kind of sad, as Theranos might have been able to pull that off (although new management would probably be required), and then they&#x27;d have been positioned to do all the COVID testing (which was a major problem in the initial US response).<p>What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn&#x27;t do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/elizabeth-holmes-urged-employees-to-hide-theranos-lab-equipment-from-inspectors/</url></story> |
36,377,605 | 36,376,901 | 1 | 2 | 36,376,071 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Procedural generation is something the demoscene has essentially specialised in for several decades, but I see no mention of it in the article. The demoscene has also done so using several orders of magnitude less computing resources than mentioned here, so I think everyone else has a lot to learn from them.<p>Here&#x27;s a memorable intro, from 2009: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31636482">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31636482</a><p>Earlier than that, another famous 64k from 2000:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theproduct.de&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theproduct.de&#x2F;index.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09310</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avaer</author><text>I ran this for most of today in the background and I have some thoughts:<p>The quality is good and it&#x27;s giving you all of the maps (as well as the .blends!). It seems great for its stated goal of generating ground truth for training.<p>However, it&#x27;s very slow&#x2F;CPU bound (go get lunch) so probably doesn&#x27;t make sense for applications with users behind the computer in the current state.<p>Additionally, the .blend files are so unoptimized that you can&#x27;t even edit them on a laptop with texturing on. The larger generations will OOM a single run on a reasonably beefy server. To be fair, these warnings are in the documentation.<p>With some optimization (of the output) you could probably do some cool things with the resulting assets, but I would agree with the authors the best use case is where you need a full image set (diffuse, depth, segmentation) for training, where you can run this for a week on a cluster.<p>To hype this up as No Man&#x27;s Sky is a stretch (NMS is a marvel in its own right, but has a completely different set of tradeoffs).<p>EDIT: Although there are configuration files you can use to create your own &quot;biomes&quot;, there is no easy way to control this with an LLM. Maybe you might be able to hack GPT-4 functions to get the right format for it to be accepted, but I wouldn&#x27;t expect great results from that technique.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09310</url></story> |
40,658,530 | 40,654,948 | 1 | 2 | 40,633,766 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doublerabbit</author><text>&gt; Telnet has not been installed on any OS (including Linux) for years now.<p>FreeBSD has it out the box.<p>&gt; And this is the Right Thing(TM) to do.<p>Why? Telnet is just a application, client. A telnet-like server, I could understand. The telnet client does lots of things and handy ones too. It&#x27;s a raw protocol allowing you to send whatever data you desire.<p>Checking if the web server is responding correctly, sometimes you need to troubleshoot HTML headers and telnet is perfect for that as well as checking ports too to name a few.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ReleaseCandidat</author><text>Telnet has not been installed on any OS (including Linux) for years now. And this is the Right Thing(TM) to do.</text></item><item><author>xu_ituairo</author><text>Wild that telnet isn’t installed by default on modern Macs. Times have changed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Collaborative ASCII Drawing with Telnet</title><url>https://jott.live/markdown/telnet_draw</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Zambyte</author><text>Linux doesn&#x27;t even install a command line shell by default, so I think that goes without saying :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ReleaseCandidat</author><text>Telnet has not been installed on any OS (including Linux) for years now. And this is the Right Thing(TM) to do.</text></item><item><author>xu_ituairo</author><text>Wild that telnet isn’t installed by default on modern Macs. Times have changed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Collaborative ASCII Drawing with Telnet</title><url>https://jott.live/markdown/telnet_draw</url></story> |
41,775,706 | 41,775,669 | 1 | 2 | 41,775,463 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eigenket</author><text>I think this is (very) inaccurate. It feels more like them trying to jump on a &quot;hot topic&quot; bandwagon (machine learning&#x2F;AI hype is huge).<p>Physics as a discipline hasn&#x27;t really stalled at all. Fundamental physics arguably has, because no one really has any idea how to get close to making experimental tests that would distinguish the competing ideas. But even in fundamental physics there are cool developments like the stuff from Jonathan Oppenheim and collaborators in the last couple of years.<p>That said &quot;physics&quot; != &quot;fundamental physics&quot; and physics of composite systems ranging from correlated electron systems, and condensed matter through to galaxies and cosmology is very far from dead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ma8ee</author><text>I think this is the Royal Academy of Sciences way to admit that Physics as a research subject has ground to a halt. String theory suffocated theoretical high energy physics for nearly half a century with nothing to show for it, and a lot of other areas of fundamental physics are kind of done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]</title><url>https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mppm</author><text>It really has not, though. There is more to physics than high-energy and cosmology, and there is no shortage of deserving contributions of smaller scope. It really is bizarre that deep learning would make it to the top of the list.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ma8ee</author><text>I think this is the Royal Academy of Sciences way to admit that Physics as a research subject has ground to a halt. String theory suffocated theoretical high energy physics for nearly half a century with nothing to show for it, and a lot of other areas of fundamental physics are kind of done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]</title><url>https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf</url></story> |
6,244,139 | 6,243,847 | 1 | 3 | 6,243,451 | train | <instructions>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_Cutts</author><text>Just trying to decide the politest way to debunk the idea that more Google +1s lead to higher Google web rankings. Let&#x27;s start with correlation != causation: <a href="http://xkcd.com/552/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;552&#x2F;</a><p>But it would probably be better to point to this 2011 post (also from SEOMoz&#x2F;Moz) from two years ago in which a similar claim was made about Facebook shares: <a href="http://moz.com/blog/does-google-use-facebook-shares-to-influence-search-rankings" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;moz.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;does-google-use-facebook-shares-to-influ...</a> . From that blog post from two years ago: &quot;One of the most interesting findings from our 2011 Ranking Factors analysis was the high correlation between Facebook shares and Google US search position.&quot;<p>This all came to a head at the SMX Advanced search conference in 2011 where Rand Fishkin presented his claims. I did a polite debunk of the idea that Google used Facebook shares in our web ranking at the conference, leading to this section in the 2011 blog post: &quot;Rand pointed out that Google does have some access to Facebook data overall and set up a small-scale test to determine if Google would index content that was solely shared on Facebook. To date, that page has not been indexed, despite having quite a few shares (64 according to the OpenGraph).&quot;<p>If you make compelling content, people will link to it, like it, share it on Facebook, +1 it, etc. But that doesn&#x27;t mean that Google is using those signals in our ranking.<p>Rather than chasing +1s of content, your time is much better spent making great content.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google +1's Correlation with Higher Search Rankings</title><url>http://moz.com/blog/google-plus-correlations</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buro9</author><text>2 things:<p>1) I think most people suspected this, and it&#x27;s not amazing.<p>2) Is this not an abuse of their monopoly position in search? In that, to obtain a better placement or even just retain existing placement, you would have to participate in Google+</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google +1's Correlation with Higher Search Rankings</title><url>http://moz.com/blog/google-plus-correlations</url></story> |
12,667,930 | 12,667,612 | 1 | 2 | 12,665,180 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tikhonj</author><text>Yes, all the time. I&#x27;ve heard it for physics, I&#x27;ve heard it for CS and I&#x27;ve heard it for programming, all with good reason: the way you teach somebody deeply invested in your field is different than the way you teach somebody deeply invested in a <i>different</i> field, learning yours as a supplement. Or maybe a better way of putting it is that the way you teach somebody interested in a field <i>in and of itself</i> is different than the way you teach somebody who has other interests and motivations, but still needs to learn.<p>And hey, maybe before college, almost everyone is a non-mathematician. There&#x27;s the small majority of students who&#x27;d love learning group theory because it&#x27;s fun and beautiful, and then there&#x27;s everyone else who need practical applications and real-world examples. But the way you teach them is ultimately just like the way you&#x27;d teach non-mathematicians in college or further on in life, when there&#x27;s a clearer delineation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>Do other disciplines ask similar questions?<p>How should physics be taught to non-physicists?<p>How should writing be taught to non-writers?<p>How should car maintenance be taught to non-mechanics?<p>I guess my point is, why should we teach mathematics any differently to &quot;non-mathematicians&quot; than we do to &quot;mathematicians&quot;? I mean, at the point when you&#x27;re first teaching someone, how do you even know if they&#x27;re a &quot;non-mathematician&quot; or a &quot;mathematician&quot;? After all, they haven&#x27;t learned enough yet to know if they&#x27;d want to continue in that field of study.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians? (2012)</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/how-should-mathematics-be-taught-to-non-mathematicians/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>godelski</author><text>When I was in school I taught a physics lab to non-physicists, and this was a conversation professors and I had. Granted this was at university level so most people had an idea about whether they (thought they) were a math person or not. I went in with a completely different philosophy to that class than with physicists. Because here&#x27;s the thing, a physicist will care about different things than the non-physicist.<p>What I focused on was less of the physics and mathematics and more on making sure they gained an intuition about how nature works and how to think critically. These people didn&#x27;t need the same toolbox as the ones trying to get a degree in physics or engineering. I could care less if these students knew the equations for Newton&#x27;s laws, but I did care if they had an intuition. I didn&#x27;t care if they had Bernoulli&#x27;s principle memorized, but I did care if they could analyze an experiment.<p>The difference is that these people needed different skills in their lives. You must know it is popular to say things like &quot;School taught me the Pythagorean theorem but not how to do my taxes.&quot; These people aren&#x27;t realizing that math is giving them a toolbox that can help them do their taxes and other things. I teach my young nephews math whenever I visit them. They don&#x27;t care about it in school but they like what I teach them because I make it fun and challenging. You can get a lot of topics covered and a lot of ideas and principles conveyed if you aren&#x27;t worried about them being able to do every case. An example of this being that the basic principles of calculus can be used in your daily life and could benefit everyone (thinking about things like rates of change, tangents, series, limits, and squeeze theorem), but they won&#x27;t need to be able to take the derivative of a function unless they are going into a job that requires that.<p>So I guess what I&#x27;m getting at is that there is a lot of benefit from math to the average person without actually requiring them to be fluent in the language. Think about this like being a moderate speaker in a second language but not being able to write or hold a deep conversation. They have a lot of advantages over someone who might know more about the written language and grammar, but don&#x27;t know many words. I think the same argument of learning basic phrases in a second language would apply here as well. Most people don&#x27;t need to be fluent, but we are teaching them like they are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>Do other disciplines ask similar questions?<p>How should physics be taught to non-physicists?<p>How should writing be taught to non-writers?<p>How should car maintenance be taught to non-mechanics?<p>I guess my point is, why should we teach mathematics any differently to &quot;non-mathematicians&quot; than we do to &quot;mathematicians&quot;? I mean, at the point when you&#x27;re first teaching someone, how do you even know if they&#x27;re a &quot;non-mathematician&quot; or a &quot;mathematician&quot;? After all, they haven&#x27;t learned enough yet to know if they&#x27;d want to continue in that field of study.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians? (2012)</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/how-should-mathematics-be-taught-to-non-mathematicians/</url></story> |
34,708,285 | 34,705,768 | 1 | 2 | 34,703,626 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rationalist</author><text>&gt; I feel for these tower controllers<p>I would feel for this tower controller if there wasn&#x27;t a bunch of comments in r&#x2F;ATC saying how this particular controller has transferred between facilities because he keeps messing up and makes workplace complaints instead of owning up to his mistakes.<p>Edit to add source:<p>&gt; a controller who, according to everyone who has worked with him from the last facility where he washed out and now AUS, say has no business being a controller and they can&#x27;t fire him because he files EEO complaints habitually.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ATC&#x2F;comments&#x2F;10uub5x&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ATC&#x2F;comments&#x2F;10uub5x&#x2F;</a><p>More discussion:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ATC&#x2F;comments&#x2F;10u0zvl&#x2F;disaster_averted_at_austin_airport_after_fedex&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ATC&#x2F;comments&#x2F;10u0zvl&#x2F;disaster_avert...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>zackbloom</author><text>Just to give a little context as a pilot: It is the job of the tower controller to decide who uses the runway when. There are often multiple planes waiting to take off, and multiple planes nearing the airport to land. It&#x27;s not uncommon for a tower controller to allow a plane to takeoff while another is approaching the runway. The theory is, of course, that the flight will depart in plenty of time.<p>In this case, the controller failed to tell the departing flight to hurry (the references to &#x27;no delay&#x27; or &#x27;immediate&#x27; in the blog post), AND frankly timed things pretty close given the weather. Without the ability to actually see the approaching plane, or perhaps even the plane on the ground, it will probably be found that timing a departure that close at all was reckless. That said, I feel for these tower controllers, it&#x27;s not common for many planes to get stacked up waiting to depart, and it is their job to get them out. What may have worked just fine on a clear-weather day simply became too dangerous on that day.<p>The official manual for air traffic controllers in the US is the FAA Order JO 7110.65W [1], if anyone cares to review it.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faa.gov&#x2F;documentlibrary&#x2F;media&#x2F;order&#x2F;atc.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faa.gov&#x2F;documentlibrary&#x2F;media&#x2F;order&#x2F;atc.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin</title><url>https://fallows.substack.com/p/as-bad-as-it-gets-without-body-bags</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rlpb</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not uncommon for a tower controller to allow a plane to takeoff while another is approaching the runway.<p>Only in the US is it permitted for the controller to clear an aircraft to land while another is using the runway. The rest of of the world does not allow &quot;anticipated clearance&quot;.<p>(Apart from a &quot;land after&quot; clearance where the landing aircraft must accept responsibility for separation.)<p>Edited to add: how it works everywhere else in the world: the controller is not permitted to clear an aircraft to land unless and until the previous one is confirmed clear. That&#x27;s why the term is &quot;cleared&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zackbloom</author><text>Just to give a little context as a pilot: It is the job of the tower controller to decide who uses the runway when. There are often multiple planes waiting to take off, and multiple planes nearing the airport to land. It&#x27;s not uncommon for a tower controller to allow a plane to takeoff while another is approaching the runway. The theory is, of course, that the flight will depart in plenty of time.<p>In this case, the controller failed to tell the departing flight to hurry (the references to &#x27;no delay&#x27; or &#x27;immediate&#x27; in the blog post), AND frankly timed things pretty close given the weather. Without the ability to actually see the approaching plane, or perhaps even the plane on the ground, it will probably be found that timing a departure that close at all was reckless. That said, I feel for these tower controllers, it&#x27;s not common for many planes to get stacked up waiting to depart, and it is their job to get them out. What may have worked just fine on a clear-weather day simply became too dangerous on that day.<p>The official manual for air traffic controllers in the US is the FAA Order JO 7110.65W [1], if anyone cares to review it.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faa.gov&#x2F;documentlibrary&#x2F;media&#x2F;order&#x2F;atc.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faa.gov&#x2F;documentlibrary&#x2F;media&#x2F;order&#x2F;atc.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin</title><url>https://fallows.substack.com/p/as-bad-as-it-gets-without-body-bags</url></story> |
36,799,094 | 36,798,057 | 1 | 2 | 36,794,430 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonathankoren</author><text>As a former LinkedIn engineer, let me ask, what happened? LI was using protobufs and BJSON like ten years ago. That was part of the whole conversion from Java serialization to rest APIs. This article implies that tossed everything, went back to text based JSON, and then said, “Well somabitch! Binary formats are faster than uncompressed text after all!”</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbb330</author><text>Speaking as a current engineer at LinkedIn,<p>Big Tech companies will often conflate micro service with large distributed system.<p>These services are by no means at all micro.</text></item><item><author>iamflimflam1</author><text><i>“50 thousand API endpoints exposed by microservices”</i><p>Feels that their problem may just be they went a bit too far on the microservices band wagon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn adopts protocol buffers and reduces latency up to 60%</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/linkedin-protocol-buffers-restli/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>There are 19,000 LinkedIn employees world wide according to my cursory Kagi. That means more than two endpoints for every employee. I feel like regardless of micro or macro that’s an enormous sprawl of entropy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbb330</author><text>Speaking as a current engineer at LinkedIn,<p>Big Tech companies will often conflate micro service with large distributed system.<p>These services are by no means at all micro.</text></item><item><author>iamflimflam1</author><text><i>“50 thousand API endpoints exposed by microservices”</i><p>Feels that their problem may just be they went a bit too far on the microservices band wagon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn adopts protocol buffers and reduces latency up to 60%</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/linkedin-protocol-buffers-restli/</url></story> |
21,343,404 | 21,342,827 | 1 | 3 | 21,341,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>braythwayt</author><text>Well, you are asking about “cool” in the sense of “socially&#x2F;morally acceptable,” as opposed to “intellectually stimulating.”<p>That is an interesting distinction, because historically, the hacker ethos has been about the pursuit of the latter at the expense of the former.<p>For example, phone phreaking. Or the Morris Worm.<p>Stealing scooters and reselling them is just theft. Hacking a scooter for the pleasure of finding out how they tick, or for fun, is still stealing, but it’s also hacking in the original sense.<p>That doesn’t justify it, but given that we are arguing this point on a forum named after hackers and which celebrated the hacker ethos in its early days...<p>I suggest we at least understand and appreciate the second definition of “cool,” even if we aren’t going to let go of recognizing that it doesn’t meet the first definition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0b0001</author><text>How is it cool when people steal scooters and the companies ultimately stop to offer rental scooters?<p>Nobody will maintain the scooters just because cool and cyberpunk and viral.<p>[Edit: do I misinterpret your post?]</text></item><item><author>cyberbanjo</author><text>These are the types of things that I feel like if could be made socially-viral would make some really cool real cyberpunk effects. Teach all the people with any interest how to hack the public scooters and do what they will.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Letting Bird’s scooters fly free</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.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>Fiahil</author><text>We had&#x2F;have about 10 active free-floating scooter companies in Paris. Names like Bird, Lime, Flash, Voi, Volt, Dott, Wind, Jump, Hive, Tier, ...<p>Even if you don&#x27;t take into account the gigantic safety hazard that these vehicles represent, this is absolutely insane. Sidewalks are small. In this situation, each scooter that you can take off the street is a step in the right direction for the public interest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0b0001</author><text>How is it cool when people steal scooters and the companies ultimately stop to offer rental scooters?<p>Nobody will maintain the scooters just because cool and cyberpunk and viral.<p>[Edit: do I misinterpret your post?]</text></item><item><author>cyberbanjo</author><text>These are the types of things that I feel like if could be made socially-viral would make some really cool real cyberpunk effects. Teach all the people with any interest how to hack the public scooters and do what they will.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Letting Bird’s scooters fly free</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html</url></story> |
13,996,130 | 13,996,398 | 1 | 3 | 13,995,765 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blowski</author><text>Why do they need to expand beyond that? Am I idealistic to say a company can survive just by doing something really well. Salesforce is hardly a paragon of a well-executed clear and consistent vision.<p>I pay Dropbox because I can rely on their backups any place at any time, not because their storage is cheap.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>One concern about Dropbox I have is its inability to establish itself beyond its File Storage &#x2F; Syncing software. Salesforce.com, in comparison, has been acquiring companies left and right. Notable acquisitions of Dropbox, like Mailbox, have either shut down, or are nowhere on the impact map. As Dropbox user (albeit a free one), I don&#x27;t find it useful for anything beyond synced storage (if there is any new addition in their interface, I might have missed it). After I started uploading pics on Google photos, I have little to store on Dropbox.<p>Synced storage might be big enough problem for it to continue to grow bigger, but I wonder if it&#x27;s a meaningful moat. What if the storage + software gets commoditized to an extent that it becomes essentially free for most people?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/dropbox-secures-600-million-credit-line-ahead-of-expected-ipo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>james_pm</author><text>Paper is a great little part of Dropbox that is showing some real potential. They recently added task dates and assignments, and some nice formatting options (like code blocks with syntax highlighting).</text><parent_chain><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>One concern about Dropbox I have is its inability to establish itself beyond its File Storage &#x2F; Syncing software. Salesforce.com, in comparison, has been acquiring companies left and right. Notable acquisitions of Dropbox, like Mailbox, have either shut down, or are nowhere on the impact map. As Dropbox user (albeit a free one), I don&#x27;t find it useful for anything beyond synced storage (if there is any new addition in their interface, I might have missed it). After I started uploading pics on Google photos, I have little to store on Dropbox.<p>Synced storage might be big enough problem for it to continue to grow bigger, but I wonder if it&#x27;s a meaningful moat. What if the storage + software gets commoditized to an extent that it becomes essentially free for most people?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/dropbox-secures-600-million-credit-line-ahead-of-expected-ipo</url></story> |
36,974,369 | 36,974,666 | 1 | 2 | 36,971,826 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>Instead of telling people to play video games or go kayaking, I hope we can ask them to go play checkers with the elderly, read to children, hold hands with dying people in hospice, and mentor the formerly-incarcerated. These are &quot;jobs&quot; that I would argue robots cannot meaningfully fill, but which society would benefit from a lot more of.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chongli</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s going to be in any way easy to convince people that it&#x27;s okay not to be useful. No matter how times we care to repeat it, people will still feel dejected and hollow. &quot;What is the meaning of my life?&quot; is a difficult enough question to answer when you&#x27;re a philosopher who has studied the problem academically and you&#x27;re surrounded by other people going about their productive lives and overcoming various challenges in order to survive.<p>Now we&#x27;re supposed to have millions of people face the question and at the same time tell them &quot;no, there&#x27;s nothing useful for you to do, robots can already do it faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than you will ever manage.&quot; So, what? Do we tell everyone &quot;just go smoke weed and play video games&quot;? Or &quot;go kayaking and hiking and rockclimbing and find yourself in nature&quot;? The latter will not scale. Many natural places are already overcrowded and we don&#x27;t even have a post-work economic system in place.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>The &quot;Bullshit Jobs&quot; phenomenon was identified decades ago by Buckminster Fuller:<p>&quot;We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.&quot;<p>As more and more work becomes automated or done by robots, we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. So we make up all this work and have 1&#x2F;2 the population digging holes so the other 1&#x2F;2 can fill them in. I fully expect that by the time my [eventual] grandchildren enter the workforce, more than 50% (maybe more than 75%) of jobs will be make-work that just serves to employ people so that society doesn&#x27;t fall apart.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless</title><url>https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Jobs.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>shanusmagnus</author><text>My conviction is that there are literally infinite ways to be useful, and always will be, even if the robot overlords work perfectly, which they won&#x27;t.<p>My other conviction is that people find their own meaning with absurd ease when they&#x27;re children. Then that becomes non-viable. If it ever were to become viable again -- if they didn&#x27;t have to work at the gas station to cling to existence that keeps them from sleeping under a bridge -- then their ability to find meaning will come back.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chongli</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s going to be in any way easy to convince people that it&#x27;s okay not to be useful. No matter how times we care to repeat it, people will still feel dejected and hollow. &quot;What is the meaning of my life?&quot; is a difficult enough question to answer when you&#x27;re a philosopher who has studied the problem academically and you&#x27;re surrounded by other people going about their productive lives and overcoming various challenges in order to survive.<p>Now we&#x27;re supposed to have millions of people face the question and at the same time tell them &quot;no, there&#x27;s nothing useful for you to do, robots can already do it faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than you will ever manage.&quot; So, what? Do we tell everyone &quot;just go smoke weed and play video games&quot;? Or &quot;go kayaking and hiking and rockclimbing and find yourself in nature&quot;? The latter will not scale. Many natural places are already overcrowded and we don&#x27;t even have a post-work economic system in place.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>The &quot;Bullshit Jobs&quot; phenomenon was identified decades ago by Buckminster Fuller:<p>&quot;We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.&quot;<p>As more and more work becomes automated or done by robots, we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. So we make up all this work and have 1&#x2F;2 the population digging holes so the other 1&#x2F;2 can fill them in. I fully expect that by the time my [eventual] grandchildren enter the workforce, more than 50% (maybe more than 75%) of jobs will be make-work that just serves to employ people so that society doesn&#x27;t fall apart.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless</title><url>https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Jobs.html</url></story> |
20,160,600 | 20,160,541 | 1 | 2 | 20,159,926 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mjkornbl</author><text>Radvocate here:
We do have a vested interest. Over time, we want to be the place you come when you have a dispute against a big company because we&#x27;ll fight hard for you.<p>We&#x27;re excited to partner on this project partly because it is very &quot;on brand&quot; for us from that perspective — we can help people, get our name out there, and shine light on an issue that matters to us. We&#x27;re a business, but we&#x27;re also all in this business (instead of some other business) because we want to make the system fairer for consumers.<p>ETA: Also, to correct one misapprehension: we are not in the class action business. We actually help consumers pursue individual arbitrations. We think more people should know that even if their contract doesn&#x27;t let them sue, they actually do have a way to assert their power through arbitration. If anything, we&#x27;ll have more customers for our current business if no one opts out of their Chase clause.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkhassen</author><text>For me the red flag is them willing to send this letter to Chase, via snail mail at no charge to you. Nobody gives something for nothing. So I thought, why would they do this? after reading through the form, at the bottom, it looks like one of the companies, who sponsors this site, &quot;Radvocate&quot; seems like they are in the &quot;class action&quot; lawsuit business. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myradvocate.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myradvocate.com&#x2F;</a><p>This site is about having enough potential clients are able to sue Chase at some point in the future, whenever a class action lawsuit comes up - and heck, they even will have a customer list and a relationship with you from sending this &quot;free&quot; letter for you in the past.<p>Usually in those kinds of cases, the end recipient gets very little - perhaps some subscription to a ID protection service or a few bucks but the firm who runs the class action makes a lot.<p>On the one hand, maybe it helps keep them honest (they cite Wells Fargo) so its good to be able to. But clearly there is some vested interest here on the part of Radvocate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing</title><url>https://www.chaseoptout.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>dsfyu404ed</author><text>From a &quot;consumer who wouldn&#x27;t individually sue chase&quot; perspective I see nothing wrong here.<p>I know many here consider this to be ideological heresy but it&#x27;s possible to have a transaction where both parties come out ahead and this seems like one of those win-wins to me. They do a little work for you in exchange for putting your name on a list of people they can use in a class action, you might even get $5 or something out of it if they win.<p>Putting your PII into a random website should be what raises red flags here. I hope they&#x27;re not storing the account numbers, or at least not storing them with the associated personal details.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkhassen</author><text>For me the red flag is them willing to send this letter to Chase, via snail mail at no charge to you. Nobody gives something for nothing. So I thought, why would they do this? after reading through the form, at the bottom, it looks like one of the companies, who sponsors this site, &quot;Radvocate&quot; seems like they are in the &quot;class action&quot; lawsuit business. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myradvocate.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myradvocate.com&#x2F;</a><p>This site is about having enough potential clients are able to sue Chase at some point in the future, whenever a class action lawsuit comes up - and heck, they even will have a customer list and a relationship with you from sending this &quot;free&quot; letter for you in the past.<p>Usually in those kinds of cases, the end recipient gets very little - perhaps some subscription to a ID protection service or a few bucks but the firm who runs the class action makes a lot.<p>On the one hand, maybe it helps keep them honest (they cite Wells Fargo) so its good to be able to. But clearly there is some vested interest here on the part of Radvocate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing</title><url>https://www.chaseoptout.com/</url></story> |
15,493,425 | 15,492,567 | 1 | 2 | 15,490,598 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>A general practice of many coding bootcamps is making admissions selections in part based on the likelihood of career (as opposed to academic) success. There is a degree of &quot;would I like to have a beer with this person&quot; in the application process which is absent from traditional academic institutions like &#x27;Old State U.&#x27;<p>One of the operating models of bootcamps is as a recruiter for tech companies. In addition to tuition from students, the bootcamp receives a fee from employers when graduates are hired. This provides incentives bootcamps to encourage students to take jobs as apprentices. And whether a student has the financial resources to take on an apprentice role can also factor into admission selection.</text><parent_chain><item><author>segmondy</author><text>58% of classroom graduates making $74,447 average seems better than most universities out there. Too bad they had to lie about it.</text></item><item><author>jefftk</author><text>&quot;Between January and June 2017, Flatiron claimed that 98.5% of its students received employment less than 180 days after graduation and that Flatiron graduates had an average salary of $74,447. However, Flatiron did not disclose clearly and conspicuously that the 98.5% employment rate included not only full time salaried employees but also apprentices, contract employees and self-employed freelance workers, some who were employed for less than twelve weeks. Similarly, Flatiron failed to clearly and conspicuously disclose that its $74,447 average salary claim included full time employed graduates only, which represent only 58% of classroom graduates and 39% of online graduates.&quot;<p>Good to crack down on this.<p>&quot;In order to obtain a SED license, a non-degree granting career school must meet a number of criteria, including using an approved curriculum and employing a licensed director and teachers.&quot;<p>This is worrying. Part of why these bootcamps have been a valuable addition is that they&#x27;ve been able to use their own curricula and train their own teachers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flatiron School settles for operating without license, employment/salary claims</title><url>https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-375000-settlement-flatiron-computer-coding-school-operating</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>learc83</author><text>Their acceptance rate is much lower than all but the very top tier schools. Plus the students are a good bit older on average, they have more work experience, and most of them already have degrees.</text><parent_chain><item><author>segmondy</author><text>58% of classroom graduates making $74,447 average seems better than most universities out there. Too bad they had to lie about it.</text></item><item><author>jefftk</author><text>&quot;Between January and June 2017, Flatiron claimed that 98.5% of its students received employment less than 180 days after graduation and that Flatiron graduates had an average salary of $74,447. However, Flatiron did not disclose clearly and conspicuously that the 98.5% employment rate included not only full time salaried employees but also apprentices, contract employees and self-employed freelance workers, some who were employed for less than twelve weeks. Similarly, Flatiron failed to clearly and conspicuously disclose that its $74,447 average salary claim included full time employed graduates only, which represent only 58% of classroom graduates and 39% of online graduates.&quot;<p>Good to crack down on this.<p>&quot;In order to obtain a SED license, a non-degree granting career school must meet a number of criteria, including using an approved curriculum and employing a licensed director and teachers.&quot;<p>This is worrying. Part of why these bootcamps have been a valuable addition is that they&#x27;ve been able to use their own curricula and train their own teachers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flatiron School settles for operating without license, employment/salary claims</title><url>https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-375000-settlement-flatiron-computer-coding-school-operating</url></story> |
37,300,850 | 37,297,727 | 1 | 2 | 37,296,401 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hot_gril</author><text>Sticking to Vim and other very well-established CLIs is partially what enabled flexibility for me. As long as I have access to a *nix machine locally or over SSH, I have a capable dev setup that I&#x27;m well-versed in. Same thing for the past 8 jobs I&#x27;ve bounced around in, whether in-office or remote, with whatever security restrictions, with or without a desk, maybe with just a 13&quot; laptop. It&#x27;s the lowest common denominator. Meanwhile my teammates at my current job are constantly trying to protect their workstation setups so they can use their IDEs locally, and they&#x27;ve also been forced to switch IDEs twice in the past couple of years.<p>And this isn&#x27;t coming from some FOSS ideology. I don&#x27;t personally care about any of that, but the best tools are sometimes FOSS. I&#x27;ve got a Mac and can deal with Linux as needed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>masto</author><text>These features are nice, but I&#x27;ve never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them.<p>I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it&#x27;s not that I&#x27;m not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I&#x27;ve moved away from Emacs to VS Code, and work from more heterogeneous environments instead of being 100% Mac. So these platform-specific thick client apps no longer feel like the way to go.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon acquires Fig</title><url>https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-joins-aws</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>veg</author><text>There&#x27;s no need for a new terminal. Their homepage literally says &quot;IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>masto</author><text>These features are nice, but I&#x27;ve never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them.<p>I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it&#x27;s not that I&#x27;m not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I&#x27;ve moved away from Emacs to VS Code, and work from more heterogeneous environments instead of being 100% Mac. So these platform-specific thick client apps no longer feel like the way to go.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon acquires Fig</title><url>https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-joins-aws</url></story> |
34,251,305 | 34,250,156 | 1 | 2 | 34,247,817 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kamikaz1k</author><text>Love love love planetscale.<p>When I found it (you can thank Theo), shocked this isn&#x27;t what AWS&#x27; serverless DB offering already was.<p>I agree with what the author mentioned in another comment, not dropping performance for non-serverless use cases is a decided win. I deeply appreciate the work being done to enable serverless applications, so thank you for the work and thank you for sharing your findings OP.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Faster MySQL with HTTP/3</title><url>https://planetscale.com/blog/faster-mysql-with-http3</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erulabs</author><text>Awesome work! I&#x27;m loving planetscale for lighting a new fire under the butt of MySQL again. Have been demoing Vitess (Planetscale&#x27;s underlying software) and have only positive things to say so far - the Kubernetes operator is wonderful.<p>I&#x27;m also curious about the comparison to the MySQL Classic protocol - would be interesting have an &quot;as-close-as-possible&quot; benchmark between Aurora MySQL &quot;Serverless V2&quot; and Planetscale. Even if it was as naive as &quot;Given 100$ of credits, how many reads can you do at what average latency&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Faster MySQL with HTTP/3</title><url>https://planetscale.com/blog/faster-mysql-with-http3</url></story> |
24,925,523 | 24,922,170 | 1 | 2 | 24,919,569 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dalmo3</author><text>Yesterday I spent the longest ever with a recaptcha, about 2-3 minutes, at a frigging checkout page. I decided to endure it just because I really needed that ergonomic kb+mouse combo.<p>Hopefully they&#x27;ll allow me to solve captchas for longer without getting a RSI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>encom</author><text>I immediately back out whenever encounter Recaptcha.<p>The other day I was forced to endure it, because I wanted to delete my ancient Minecraft account, since Microsoft pulled a Facebook and are going to require a Microsoft account to play going forwards. Without exaggeration, it took me 15 minutes of training Google surveillance AI (had to solve it three times), for Recaptcha to let me in. I guess Google really hates me.</text></item><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Relying on Google&#x27;s Spying-as-a-Service tooling is not very FOSS at all.<p>There need to be other ways to reach out to users who block Google.</text></item><item><author>phikai</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m the PM at GitLab who works on Snippets, so thanks for providing this feedback. We do have Recaptcha support which can be configured - are you seeing these kinds of issues with that enabled&#x2F;configured?<p>One item that is on the roadmap that is coming and may be of interest is `Optional Admin Approval for local user sign up` - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;-&#x2F;epics&#x2F;4491" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;-&#x2F;epics&#x2F;4491</a>.<p>I&#x27;m not in the group working on that, but it does appear to be coming soon and would limit the ability of newly created accounts from doing anything until they&#x27;re approved.</text></item><item><author>jancsika</author><text>Anyone thinking of moving to their own Gitlab instance with Gitlab CE-- either stay on Github or prepare to waste your time dealing with user spam bots that pollute your site&#x27;s search results.<p>In other words-- if you want the common use case for a FOSS project:<p>1. publicly viewable main repository with publicly viewable issue tracker<p>2. requirement to log in to view all snippets, user profiles, perhaps even other repos as enforced by administrator settings (otherwise SEO bots will leverage these features to eat your search results)<p>3. anyone with an email can sign up to post issues to the main repo&#x27;s issue tracker<p>There is no combination of settings in Gitlab CE to achieve this. Any sane approach has to leave out step #2. That means that your Gitlab instance gets hammered with user spam from bots which then get indexed in Google search results for your site.<p>Worse, Gitlab has no tools to make it easy to remove the user spam (and obviously no tools to prevent it from happening).<p>Just run a public-facing Gitlab CE instance for a few days. Search for one of the spam snippets you collect, and you&#x27;ll find results for all the FOSS projects out there running their own Gitlab instances.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen any solutions offered by Gitlab for this, nor frankly any interest in the myriad bug reports about them addressing this at all.<p>Edit: typo</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab</title><url>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Outcome</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wolco2</author><text>Are you sure you are human?</text><parent_chain><item><author>encom</author><text>I immediately back out whenever encounter Recaptcha.<p>The other day I was forced to endure it, because I wanted to delete my ancient Minecraft account, since Microsoft pulled a Facebook and are going to require a Microsoft account to play going forwards. Without exaggeration, it took me 15 minutes of training Google surveillance AI (had to solve it three times), for Recaptcha to let me in. I guess Google really hates me.</text></item><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Relying on Google&#x27;s Spying-as-a-Service tooling is not very FOSS at all.<p>There need to be other ways to reach out to users who block Google.</text></item><item><author>phikai</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m the PM at GitLab who works on Snippets, so thanks for providing this feedback. We do have Recaptcha support which can be configured - are you seeing these kinds of issues with that enabled&#x2F;configured?<p>One item that is on the roadmap that is coming and may be of interest is `Optional Admin Approval for local user sign up` - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;-&#x2F;epics&#x2F;4491" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;-&#x2F;epics&#x2F;4491</a>.<p>I&#x27;m not in the group working on that, but it does appear to be coming soon and would limit the ability of newly created accounts from doing anything until they&#x27;re approved.</text></item><item><author>jancsika</author><text>Anyone thinking of moving to their own Gitlab instance with Gitlab CE-- either stay on Github or prepare to waste your time dealing with user spam bots that pollute your site&#x27;s search results.<p>In other words-- if you want the common use case for a FOSS project:<p>1. publicly viewable main repository with publicly viewable issue tracker<p>2. requirement to log in to view all snippets, user profiles, perhaps even other repos as enforced by administrator settings (otherwise SEO bots will leverage these features to eat your search results)<p>3. anyone with an email can sign up to post issues to the main repo&#x27;s issue tracker<p>There is no combination of settings in Gitlab CE to achieve this. Any sane approach has to leave out step #2. That means that your Gitlab instance gets hammered with user spam from bots which then get indexed in Google search results for your site.<p>Worse, Gitlab has no tools to make it easy to remove the user spam (and obviously no tools to prevent it from happening).<p>Just run a public-facing Gitlab CE instance for a few days. Search for one of the spam snippets you collect, and you&#x27;ll find results for all the FOSS projects out there running their own Gitlab instances.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen any solutions offered by Gitlab for this, nor frankly any interest in the myriad bug reports about them addressing this at all.<p>Edit: typo</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab</title><url>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Outcome</url></story> |
28,136,643 | 28,135,226 | 1 | 2 | 28,131,745 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krisoft</author><text>&gt; In my mind, understanding a thing means you can justify an answer.<p>Do you understand cats? If I show you a picture of either a cat or a dog do you think you can tell which one it is? I think most people could solve that challenge, and if pressed they could vax poetically about what makes them think it is a cat. Maybe they would mention the shape of an ear, or talk about feline grace or what have you. But is that really a “justification”? Let alone one they can “defend”? How would “defending” even work in this situation?</text><parent_chain><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>&gt; The &quot;language models don&#x27;t really understand anything&quot; corner is getting smaller and smaller.<p>In my mind, understanding a thing means you can justify an answer. Like a student showing their work and being able to defend it. An answer with a proof understands the answer with respect to the proof it provides. E.g. to understand an answer with regards to first order logic, it&#x27;ll have to be able to defend a logical deduction of that answer.<p>These models still can&#x27;t justify their answers very well, so I&#x27;d say they&#x27;re accurate but only understand with respect to a fairly dumb proof system (e.g. they can select relevant passages or just appeal to overall accuracy statistics). They&#x27;re still far from being able to justify answers in the various ways we do, which I&#x27;d say means that by definition that they still don&#x27;t understand with regards to the &quot;proof systems&quot; that we understand things with regards to.<p>Maybe the next step will require increasingly interesting justification systems.</text></item><item><author>maxwells-daemon</author><text>The &quot;language models don&#x27;t really understand anything&quot; corner is getting smaller and smaller. In the last few months we&#x27;ve seen pretty definitive evidence that transformers can recombine concepts ([1], [2]) and do simple logical inference using contextual information ([3], &quot;make the score font color visible&quot;). I see no reason that this technology couldn&#x27;t smoothly scale into human-level intelligence, yet lots of people seem to think it&#x27;ll require a step change or is impossible.<p>That being said, robust systematic generalization is still a hard problem. But &quot;achieve symbol grounding through tons of multimodal data&quot; is looking more and more like the answer.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;dall-e&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;dall-e&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;distill.pub&#x2F;2021&#x2F;multimodal-neurons&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;distill.pub&#x2F;2021&#x2F;multimodal-neurons&#x2F;</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;openai-codex&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;openai-codex&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI Codex</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beering</author><text>&gt; In my mind, understanding a thing means you can justify an answer.<p>What if the language model can generate a step-by-step explanation in the form of text? [0]<p>There&#x27;s no guarantee that the reasoning was used to come up with the answer in the first place, and no proof that the reasoning isn&#x27;t just the product of &quot;a really fancy markov chain generator&quot;, but would you accept it?<p>We&#x27;re really walking into Searle&#x27;s Chinese Room at this point.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.hu&#x2F;kleptid&#x2F;status&#x2F;1284069270603866113#m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.hu&#x2F;kleptid&#x2F;status&#x2F;1284069270603866113#m</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>&gt; The &quot;language models don&#x27;t really understand anything&quot; corner is getting smaller and smaller.<p>In my mind, understanding a thing means you can justify an answer. Like a student showing their work and being able to defend it. An answer with a proof understands the answer with respect to the proof it provides. E.g. to understand an answer with regards to first order logic, it&#x27;ll have to be able to defend a logical deduction of that answer.<p>These models still can&#x27;t justify their answers very well, so I&#x27;d say they&#x27;re accurate but only understand with respect to a fairly dumb proof system (e.g. they can select relevant passages or just appeal to overall accuracy statistics). They&#x27;re still far from being able to justify answers in the various ways we do, which I&#x27;d say means that by definition that they still don&#x27;t understand with regards to the &quot;proof systems&quot; that we understand things with regards to.<p>Maybe the next step will require increasingly interesting justification systems.</text></item><item><author>maxwells-daemon</author><text>The &quot;language models don&#x27;t really understand anything&quot; corner is getting smaller and smaller. In the last few months we&#x27;ve seen pretty definitive evidence that transformers can recombine concepts ([1], [2]) and do simple logical inference using contextual information ([3], &quot;make the score font color visible&quot;). I see no reason that this technology couldn&#x27;t smoothly scale into human-level intelligence, yet lots of people seem to think it&#x27;ll require a step change or is impossible.<p>That being said, robust systematic generalization is still a hard problem. But &quot;achieve symbol grounding through tons of multimodal data&quot; is looking more and more like the answer.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;dall-e&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;dall-e&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;distill.pub&#x2F;2021&#x2F;multimodal-neurons&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;distill.pub&#x2F;2021&#x2F;multimodal-neurons&#x2F;</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;openai-codex&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;openai-codex&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI Codex</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/</url></story> |
3,067,626 | 3,066,892 | 1 | 3 | 3,066,791 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jinushaun</author><text>RailsCast is an amazing service and I don't know if I could've ever learned Rails (and the RoR ecosystem) without it. Definitely a service worth paying for. I'm glad he's keeping the free episodes because it would be a shame if newbies shied away from trying it out because episodes were no longer free.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro</title><url>http://railscasts.com/pro</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thehodge</author><text>This is awesome but I'd rather pay $13 and have him split it with asciicasts</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro</title><url>http://railscasts.com/pro</url></story> |
25,768,533 | 25,763,159 | 1 | 2 | 25,761,469 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1vuio0pswjnm7</author><text>On the systems I can control, I do all work &quot;disk-less&quot;. I strongly prefer it. I like to keep programs and data segregated. The basic setup on NetBSD is as follows, with endless variations possible therefrom. The kernel(s) and userland(s), along with bootloader(s), are on external media, like an SD card or USB stick, marked read-only. There&#x27;s a RAM-disk in the kernel with a multi-call binary-based userland (custom-made using BusyBox or crunchgen). After boot, a full userland from external media or the network is mounted on tmpfs-based or mfs-based overlay and then we chroot into the full userland. From there, the work space is all tmpfs (RAM).^1 I can experiment to heart&#x27;s content without jeopardising the ability to reboot into a clean slate. The &quot;user experience&quot; is also much faster than with disk-based. Any new &quot;data&quot; that is to be retained for future use across reboots is periodically saved to some USB or Ethernet connected storage media. I do not use &quot;cloud&quot; for personal data. Sorry. This forces me to think carefully about what needs to be saved and what is just temporary. It helps prevent the accumulation of cruft. The number one benefit of this for me though is that I can recover from a crash instantly and without an internet connection. No dependencies on any corporation.<p>This BeagleV looks like it would work well for me as it has Ethernet and USB ports.<p>1. With NetBSD, I can run out of memory with no major problems. With Linux, this has not been the case. I have to be more careful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>Is there something inherently complicated in adding a SATA&#x2F;M.2 port to board like this?<p>The RaspberryPi is also &quot;disk-less&quot;, which to me is one of the major limitations.<p>It&#x27;s a super interesting little board, and I love that it&#x27;s a RISC-V, that could really help getting the CPU in the hands of people. I just don&#x27;t know enough about these things to understand why there are no storage connectors (other than an SD card slot).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux</title><url>https://beaglev.seeed.cc/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brucehoult</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crowdsupply.com&#x2F;sifive&#x2F;hifive-unmatched" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crowdsupply.com&#x2F;sifive&#x2F;hifive-unmatched</a><p>PCIe, 16 GB DDR4, two M.2 (one for storage, one WIFI), quad core 1.5 GHz (same cores as this board, but twice as many)</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>Is there something inherently complicated in adding a SATA&#x2F;M.2 port to board like this?<p>The RaspberryPi is also &quot;disk-less&quot;, which to me is one of the major limitations.<p>It&#x27;s a super interesting little board, and I love that it&#x27;s a RISC-V, that could really help getting the CPU in the hands of people. I just don&#x27;t know enough about these things to understand why there are no storage connectors (other than an SD card slot).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux</title><url>https://beaglev.seeed.cc/</url></story> |
33,627,146 | 33,625,197 | 1 | 2 | 33,623,632 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ziomek77</author><text>Yeah, I saw the title &quot;WSL 1.0.0 released&quot; and the first thing I think of is...<p>&quot;I&#x27;m already using WSL2, how old is this news? wink, wink&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>politelemon</author><text>WSL has been a deitysend, I appreciate it quite a bit now. It allowed me to get out of Macos development hell, allows &#x27;dropping into&#x27; Linux easily from Win if one is too lazy to dual boot, and especially useful in enterprises where Win&#x2F;Mac are the only options.<p>That said I will agree with other comments here, the version numbering is weird. I can&#x27;t even tell _how_ to tell what version of WSL I have. Versioning is still an unsolved problem even for tech giants I observe.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/1.0.0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>22SAS</author><text>True true! I am stuck to Windows at work, while we SSH into development Linux machines. Windows terminal and WSL keep me from going insane. All I need to do is just F11 the terminal, make it fullscreen and forget ever that I am on Windows.<p>With Mac OS I still like the Mac terminal more than the Windows terminal and just SSH into Linux boxes.<p>Still, for me, nothing beats a Linux desktop with i3wm on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>politelemon</author><text>WSL has been a deitysend, I appreciate it quite a bit now. It allowed me to get out of Macos development hell, allows &#x27;dropping into&#x27; Linux easily from Win if one is too lazy to dual boot, and especially useful in enterprises where Win&#x2F;Mac are the only options.<p>That said I will agree with other comments here, the version numbering is weird. I can&#x27;t even tell _how_ to tell what version of WSL I have. Versioning is still an unsolved problem even for tech giants I observe.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/1.0.0</url></story> |
35,205,154 | 35,205,165 | 1 | 2 | 35,204,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wishfish</author><text>Was 9 years old and living in Little Rock at the time. Just 20 or 30 miles away. Remember the news reports and my proto-survivalist mom going into action. Telling me everything we’d have to do if the nuke went off.<p>Had relatives who lived not too far off from Damascus. I remember driving that way past the silos. Even as a kid, you could easily pick out the silos. They were hidden behind foliage with no identifying signs. But each and every one had the exact same driveway and culverts. Very different than the farm entrances and dirt roads. It was a weird time. Driving past a bunch of possible world-enders on the way to see Aunt Gloria.<p>That scene in The Day After, when the ICBMs were launched from the silos based out of a farm, hit me particularly hard. That’s what rural central Arkansas would have looked like.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>I rather enjoyed reading <i>Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety</i> which covers a few of these events in more detail, as well as the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion[1] and some broader history about the security and management of US nuclear weapons.<p>[1]: The missile itself exploded, not its nuclear payload. See Wikipedia for an overview: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons (2021)</title><url>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing-six-nuclear-weapons-180032</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lelandfe</author><text>Looking up broken arrow incidents is pretty horrifying. Wikipedia&#x27;s &quot;military nuclear accidents&quot; list isn&#x27;t even a full list - just notable ones - and it&#x27;s still absurdly long: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_military_nuclear_accidents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_military_nuclear_accid...</a><p>July 28, 1957, two nukes jettisoned from airplane into the Atlantic, never recovered. February 5, 1958, bomber collides mid-air, jettisons nuke off coast of Georgia, never recovered. July 6, 1959, cargo plane crashes on takeoff, explosives do not go off in the fire. January 24, 1961, bomber catches fire while in air, two hydrogen bombs dropped over North Carolina, one comes close to detonation.<p>And on, and on, and on. America in the Cold War kept nuclear weapons continuously aloft along the Soviet border, but the program experienced so many crashes that it had to be scuttled. In the final one, the nuclear payload ruptured: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>I rather enjoyed reading <i>Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety</i> which covers a few of these events in more detail, as well as the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion[1] and some broader history about the security and management of US nuclear weapons.<p>[1]: The missile itself exploded, not its nuclear payload. See Wikipedia for an overview: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons (2021)</title><url>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing-six-nuclear-weapons-180032</url></story> |
30,054,176 | 30,052,766 | 1 | 2 | 30,052,281 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>varenc</author><text>While insect population decline seems the primary cause, windshields are also more sloped and aerodynamic now. I suspect more bugs bounce off these instead of being splattered.<p>My one data point is that on a 2-hour rural drive with a friend my 90s SUV’s windshield and front bumper splattered a lot of bugs. While my friend’s sleeker more modern car with a sloped windshield had barely any.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>It seems there are far fewer bugs in general.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Decline_in_insect_populations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Decline_in_insect_populations</a><p>Anecdotally, remember when you would drive any distance on a freeway and your windshield was just COVERED with smashed bugs?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists find there are 70% fewer pollinators, due to air pollution</title><url>https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/pollination-air-pollution/127964/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcbutterbunz</author><text>&gt; Anecdotally, remember when you would drive any distance on a freeway and your windshield was just COVERED with smashed bugs?<p>I do, now that you mention it. It&#x27;s weird how much we don&#x27;t notice those small changes. I remember I used to see Monarch butterflies all the time, as a child, and I, until this last year, would never see any in the wild.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>It seems there are far fewer bugs in general.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Decline_in_insect_populations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Decline_in_insect_populations</a><p>Anecdotally, remember when you would drive any distance on a freeway and your windshield was just COVERED with smashed bugs?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists find there are 70% fewer pollinators, due to air pollution</title><url>https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/pollination-air-pollution/127964/</url></story> |
20,104,740 | 20,104,418 | 1 | 2 | 20,103,292 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cybiote</author><text>Your question is excellent but I sort of arrive at an opposite conclusion. Before I explain, I want to point out that bees and jumping spiders are exceptional as far as insect* intelligence goes.<p>The gist of my view is that evolution is the mother of all demo scene hackers. Imagine a programmer that build amazing AIs on whatever hardware you give it, whether a top of the line GPU or an old PIC microcontroller.<p>The AIs runnable on both will not be fully equicapable† but the fact that you could get the PIC to do abstract learning or image recognition and learning at all will be incredible. It&#x27;s like the fact that you can get a strong Chess AI running in just a few kb doesn&#x27;t mean that Stockfish9 is unimpressive. It&#x27;s rather, that such a strong chess AI can exist given such few resources is impressive.<p>Regarding intelligent AIs or space aliens with more computational resources, I&#x27;m biased but, I do think they&#x27;d be impressed with what we can do with only 20 watts or thereabouts.<p>* Yes I know spiders are not insects.<p>† Corvids and parrots are sort of exceptions to this. They can outperform certain primates even though they have smaller brains, fewer neurons (even if still high) while using less energy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>menzoic</author><text>Reminds me of Neil deGrasse Tyson&#x27;s comments on the &quot;intelligence gap&quot;.<p>If bees can do this, how smart are we really? Compared to generally intelligent AI or extraterrestrials, the difference between our intelligence and a bees might not be much.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Tt0uV5d8tss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Tt0uV5d8tss</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bees-link.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>taneq</author><text>The thing is, it&#x27;s not <i>that</i> hard for an animal (or a machine) to do <i>one</i> thing that we do, sometimes even to do it better than we do. But doing <i>everything</i> that we do, in the same package, is really, really hard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>menzoic</author><text>Reminds me of Neil deGrasse Tyson&#x27;s comments on the &quot;intelligence gap&quot;.<p>If bees can do this, how smart are we really? Compared to generally intelligent AI or extraterrestrials, the difference between our intelligence and a bees might not be much.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Tt0uV5d8tss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Tt0uV5d8tss</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bees-link.html</url></story> |
38,912,981 | 38,912,675 | 1 | 2 | 38,912,032 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluescrn</author><text>With a real monitor, a 4K screen on your desk covers maybe 45 degrees of your horizontal field of view. And it&#x27;s pixel perfect.<p>In VR, that 4K needs to cover over 100 degrees FOV. And any &#x27;virtual monitor&#x27; content is being resampled and filtered, inevitably blurring&#x2F;softening things.<p>I suspect that we&#x27;re going to need a <i>lot</i> more than 4K resolution before you can comfortably work with small text (e.g. coding, web browsing) in VR.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_gastropod</author><text>I don’t understand the huge screens thing. The Vision Pro has 4k resolution (if I remember correctly). Most decent monitors have the same. Isn’t this basically the same as moving your existing monitor closer to your head to make it a huge monitor?</text></item><item><author>wombat-man</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting to me is that it seems to fully get rid of the screen door effect, and could actually be useable for work with virtual huge screens. I didn&#x27;t really get into VR games, and maybe I should take another crack at them with something cheaper from meta before investing in the Vision Pro.<p>Anyway, there&#x27;s no way my work will buy me one, and I&#x27;m not buying one with my own dollars just to lock it to my corp account, so not sure I could even use it for my dream use case.</text></item><item><author>goosedragons</author><text>What do you see with it? I see a better in some ways (display, cameras, maybe finger tracking) VR headset than an alternative like the Quest 3 but also with some serious downsides, no controllers, insanely high price and potential weight issues because of all the metal&#x2F;glass.</text></item><item><author>FumblingBear</author><text>I know a lot of people are rightfully concerned with the viability of this product, but I&#x27;m unbelievably excited! Definitely going to be pre-ordering one and picking it up on release day if I can!<p>I&#x27;m sure it won&#x27;t be perfect or anything, but I&#x27;m mostly just stoked about the possibilities I see with this thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-vision-pro-available-in-the-us-on-february-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>alphabettsy</author><text>Maybe a little. If the existing monitor could also use your entire visual field for workspace and easily be used anywhere.<p>I travel often and I’m looking forward to always having the ability to have a large high resolution display to work on. Also seems cool for entertainment. It’s returnable like anything else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_gastropod</author><text>I don’t understand the huge screens thing. The Vision Pro has 4k resolution (if I remember correctly). Most decent monitors have the same. Isn’t this basically the same as moving your existing monitor closer to your head to make it a huge monitor?</text></item><item><author>wombat-man</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting to me is that it seems to fully get rid of the screen door effect, and could actually be useable for work with virtual huge screens. I didn&#x27;t really get into VR games, and maybe I should take another crack at them with something cheaper from meta before investing in the Vision Pro.<p>Anyway, there&#x27;s no way my work will buy me one, and I&#x27;m not buying one with my own dollars just to lock it to my corp account, so not sure I could even use it for my dream use case.</text></item><item><author>goosedragons</author><text>What do you see with it? I see a better in some ways (display, cameras, maybe finger tracking) VR headset than an alternative like the Quest 3 but also with some serious downsides, no controllers, insanely high price and potential weight issues because of all the metal&#x2F;glass.</text></item><item><author>FumblingBear</author><text>I know a lot of people are rightfully concerned with the viability of this product, but I&#x27;m unbelievably excited! Definitely going to be pre-ordering one and picking it up on release day if I can!<p>I&#x27;m sure it won&#x27;t be perfect or anything, but I&#x27;m mostly just stoked about the possibilities I see with this thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-vision-pro-available-in-the-us-on-february-2/</url></story> |
36,076,861 | 36,076,023 | 1 | 3 | 36,073,379 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>citrin_ru</author><text>It very similar to chip die space - modern technologies are so complex that to learn how 8086 works is a very small effort compare to learning how the latest intel CPUs work. And emulation of older generations is a small part of this complexity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shpx</author><text>I care. I want to learn the entire thing I&#x27;m using, which means I appreciate things that are simpler and faster to learn. You can say I am a stupid or irrational person not worthy of consideration for wanting this but I am who I am and I want to spend money on computers that cater to me.</text></item><item><author>jeffbee</author><text>Yeah but who, other than the person responsible for the firmware that boots the system, cares? These simplifications will have zero observable benefits to you. They won’t save a lot of die space or cost.<p>The complexity of the far past is so small that it is inconsequential today. The PS1 was implemented in spare die area of the PS2’s USB controller. Time marches on and die space becomes free.</text></item><item><author>danudey</author><text>It still blows my mind that a 64-bit i9-13900K with 24 cores, 36 MB of cache, and a turbo speed of 5.8 GHz has to pretend to be a 16-bit 8086, which had a clock speed of 5-10 MHz and was discontinued in 1998, just to properly boot itself.<p>(An exaggerated oversimplification I know, but still)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/intel_proposes_dropping_16_bit_mode/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bdamm</author><text>Then you are obviously running OpenBSD on ARM.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shpx</author><text>I care. I want to learn the entire thing I&#x27;m using, which means I appreciate things that are simpler and faster to learn. You can say I am a stupid or irrational person not worthy of consideration for wanting this but I am who I am and I want to spend money on computers that cater to me.</text></item><item><author>jeffbee</author><text>Yeah but who, other than the person responsible for the firmware that boots the system, cares? These simplifications will have zero observable benefits to you. They won’t save a lot of die space or cost.<p>The complexity of the far past is so small that it is inconsequential today. The PS1 was implemented in spare die area of the PS2’s USB controller. Time marches on and die space becomes free.</text></item><item><author>danudey</author><text>It still blows my mind that a 64-bit i9-13900K with 24 cores, 36 MB of cache, and a turbo speed of 5.8 GHz has to pretend to be a 16-bit 8086, which had a clock speed of 5-10 MHz and was discontinued in 1998, just to properly boot itself.<p>(An exaggerated oversimplification I know, but still)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/intel_proposes_dropping_16_bit_mode/</url></story> |
28,249,783 | 28,249,316 | 1 | 2 | 28,248,354 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rrrrrrrrrrrryan</author><text>This logic doesn&#x27;t hold in all housing markets.<p>In California, people generally buy the absolute most house they can possibly afford. Houses are extremely expensive and people don&#x27;t want to live in shacks, so they stretch their budget as far as they can. Home prices in these markets are extremely sensitive to changes in interest rates, as you&#x27;ve described.<p>However in other markets, interest rates can wiggle up and down without having as dramatic an effect on prices, because livable homes aren&#x27;t as expensive and people have more slack in their budgets.<p>In markets with lots of cash buyers, home prices may also be somewhat isolated from interest rate swings.</text><parent_chain><item><author>meterplech</author><text>100% true.<p>And a good reminder of how much exposure housing prices have to interest rates. To frame the same math another way:<p>If you bought a house for, say, $580k with a $500k mortgage... You paid $80k down payment + $20k closing costs and your monthly would be ~$2,073&#x2F;month.<p>If interest rates go up to 6%, and the person buying your house also wants to pay the same ~2,073&#x2F;month, they would only be able to afford a $344,649 mortgage. Assume the same $80k down payment and $20k closing costs... and they should be willing to pay $444,649 for your house ($135,351 less than you paid!).<p>Obviously with inflation the person may be willing to spend more than you spent! But there&#x27;s a lot of risk for homeowners who need&#x2F;want to sell if&#x2F;when interest rates go up. That&#x27;s why the 30 year fixed is such a fantastic bet if you are willing + able to hold and lock that fixed price... but housing is a pretty lousy investment if you need to sell.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>They cite the numbers in &quot;real terms&quot;, which would mean inflation adjusted:<p>&gt; The average price of American homes, in real terms, is now the highest it&#x27;s ever been<p>Of course, you really need to be looking at mortgage rates to understand housing affordability: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freddiemac.com&#x2F;pmms&#x2F;pmms30.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freddiemac.com&#x2F;pmms&#x2F;pmms30.html</a><p>July 2021 average 30-year mortgage rate: 2.87% (with 0.7 points)<p>2008 12-month average 30-year mortgage rate: 6.03% (with 0.6 points)<p>To put that in perspective, a $500,000 mortgage (excluding down payment) would require a $2,073 monthly payment today, but a $3,007 monthly payment at 2008&#x27;s 6% mortgage rates.<p>In other words: Houses are still way cheaper, in actual out-of-pocket terms for average people, than they were in 2008. Today&#x27;s interest rates are way too low.<p>EDIT: Updated with 2008 numbers, thanks to comment below</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/08/17/1028083046/home-prices-are-now-higher-than-the-peak-of-the-2000s-housing-bubble-what-gives</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>api</author><text>I&#x27;ve wondered if we are in a regime today where interest rates simply can&#x27;t go up. I can&#x27;t imagine a scenario where they can go up more than a point or two without blood in the streets... possibly literally.</text><parent_chain><item><author>meterplech</author><text>100% true.<p>And a good reminder of how much exposure housing prices have to interest rates. To frame the same math another way:<p>If you bought a house for, say, $580k with a $500k mortgage... You paid $80k down payment + $20k closing costs and your monthly would be ~$2,073&#x2F;month.<p>If interest rates go up to 6%, and the person buying your house also wants to pay the same ~2,073&#x2F;month, they would only be able to afford a $344,649 mortgage. Assume the same $80k down payment and $20k closing costs... and they should be willing to pay $444,649 for your house ($135,351 less than you paid!).<p>Obviously with inflation the person may be willing to spend more than you spent! But there&#x27;s a lot of risk for homeowners who need&#x2F;want to sell if&#x2F;when interest rates go up. That&#x27;s why the 30 year fixed is such a fantastic bet if you are willing + able to hold and lock that fixed price... but housing is a pretty lousy investment if you need to sell.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>They cite the numbers in &quot;real terms&quot;, which would mean inflation adjusted:<p>&gt; The average price of American homes, in real terms, is now the highest it&#x27;s ever been<p>Of course, you really need to be looking at mortgage rates to understand housing affordability: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freddiemac.com&#x2F;pmms&#x2F;pmms30.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freddiemac.com&#x2F;pmms&#x2F;pmms30.html</a><p>July 2021 average 30-year mortgage rate: 2.87% (with 0.7 points)<p>2008 12-month average 30-year mortgage rate: 6.03% (with 0.6 points)<p>To put that in perspective, a $500,000 mortgage (excluding down payment) would require a $2,073 monthly payment today, but a $3,007 monthly payment at 2008&#x27;s 6% mortgage rates.<p>In other words: Houses are still way cheaper, in actual out-of-pocket terms for average people, than they were in 2008. Today&#x27;s interest rates are way too low.<p>EDIT: Updated with 2008 numbers, thanks to comment below</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/08/17/1028083046/home-prices-are-now-higher-than-the-peak-of-the-2000s-housing-bubble-what-gives</url></story> |
11,422,183 | 11,422,207 | 1 | 3 | 11,421,722 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mvandenbergh</author><text>I actually think that low speed driving and parking in very narrow streets is much easier for an autonomous system than for a person. All those obstacles are made of stone so nice juicy returns for the sensor systems. Carrying out a turn with a centimetre of clearance from a hard surface is much easier for a computer than maintaining lane discipline on a road with faded markings at high speed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>&gt; At this point, can it be anything other than full autonomous?<p>There is no way that autonomous driving is going to work in most small European town and villages. There are so many downtowns which were never meant to be used by car and it is already difficult to navigate those places as a human. I just don&#x27;t see how this should work over here in Europe.<p>Selfdriving on the highway or in a typical suburban sprawl in the US? Yes, that might work in the near future. Navigating twisted one-way streets in some old town from the middle ages during rush hour? That will take a long time to do this fully autonomously.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>Unveil part 2 is &quot;super next-level&quot;.<p>And the &quot;steering controls and system feels like a spaceship&quot;<p>And Musk tweeted a little while ago about getting a special team of Software Engineers reporting directly to him for self-driving that was &quot;top priority&quot; within the company.<p>And there are no gauges directly in front of the driver at all, which has been confirmed to be like that for production.<p>At this point, can it be anything other than full autonomous?
(and maybe you&#x27;ll have to take over sometimes, but I&#x27;m thinking 95%+ of the time it will be driving itself)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Intrigue Deepens with Musk's Twitter Barrage</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-04/tesla-intrigue-deepens-with-musk-s-twitter-barrage</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philfrasty</author><text>One scenario that I keep thinking about all the time: traffic in most south-east asian countries like Vietnam (Hanoi for example). The streets are occupied by a mix of cars, pedestrians (+ animals) and motorcycles. Everything moves ultra close.<p>Must be a nightmare for every car proximity-sensor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>&gt; At this point, can it be anything other than full autonomous?<p>There is no way that autonomous driving is going to work in most small European town and villages. There are so many downtowns which were never meant to be used by car and it is already difficult to navigate those places as a human. I just don&#x27;t see how this should work over here in Europe.<p>Selfdriving on the highway or in a typical suburban sprawl in the US? Yes, that might work in the near future. Navigating twisted one-way streets in some old town from the middle ages during rush hour? That will take a long time to do this fully autonomously.</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>Unveil part 2 is &quot;super next-level&quot;.<p>And the &quot;steering controls and system feels like a spaceship&quot;<p>And Musk tweeted a little while ago about getting a special team of Software Engineers reporting directly to him for self-driving that was &quot;top priority&quot; within the company.<p>And there are no gauges directly in front of the driver at all, which has been confirmed to be like that for production.<p>At this point, can it be anything other than full autonomous?
(and maybe you&#x27;ll have to take over sometimes, but I&#x27;m thinking 95%+ of the time it will be driving itself)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Intrigue Deepens with Musk's Twitter Barrage</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-04/tesla-intrigue-deepens-with-musk-s-twitter-barrage</url></story> |
13,295,110 | 13,294,962 | 1 | 2 | 13,294,318 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hal9000xp</author><text>This is nice list and ability to implement these algorithms certainly won&#x27;t hurt.<p>But I have to say that knowing these algorithms alone won&#x27;t help you much during job interview with smart employer like Google.<p>The reason is simple but often overlooked by many people: the most important thing is not these algorithms themselves but ability to <i>recognize</i> them in problems.<p>You may learn pretty quickly how these algorithms work and implemented but it may take years of practice to earn ability to <i>recognize</i> them.<p>Google won&#x27;t ask you directly to implement Dijkstra algorithm. They may give you a problem which on surface have nothing to do with graphs. It may take a while before you actually have a light-bulb&#x2F;aha moment when you realize it&#x27;s a graph problem.<p>In practical non-interview problems, ability to <i>recognize</i> algorithms is much more important than knowing their implementation. You can always find their implementation on the Internet after all.<p>This is why I&#x27;m trying hard to improve my problem solving skills by solving competitive programming problems almost everyday.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Top algorithms in interview questions</title><url>http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-algorithms-in-interview-questions/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madmax108</author><text>This site is EXTREMELY popular in India, and used a lot by students AND interviewers (I know many who simply ask questions from the front page of G4G on a given day). It&#x27;s the inverted tree equivalent in India.<p>I&#x27;m someone who was actually interviewed by GeeksForGeeks because a junior from college connected them to me (They do interviews with people who have gotten placed in * dream * companies... not my terminology).<p>In the interview, which was done over email, I actually mentioned that resources like G4G are bad resources for studying because they over-simplify algorithms and reduce them to silly proportions, and also encourage rote learning. To my surprise, they directly published the same ON THEIR SITE. Speaks volumes of their editorial team (?).
This article too has little basis in reality, but more of one guy&#x27;s list.<p>I strongly suggest you use much better resources for learning algortihms, rather than this site, which is (by and large) the W3Schools of algorithms&#x2F;data structures.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Top algorithms in interview questions</title><url>http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-algorithms-in-interview-questions/</url></story> |
29,553,019 | 29,553,390 | 1 | 2 | 29,552,136 | 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>vsareto</author><text>If it takes 15 years to teach someone only to a decent level, the industry needs to start laying out plans for effective training and credentialing. The solution here is not higher years required, but more effective teaching. Learning on the job is practical, but not efficient, one example being you spend time dealing with org issues rather than learning something technical.<p>I don&#x27;t agree that it takes 15 years though. I think you&#x27;re setting the standards way too high for no good reason, especially for &quot;decent&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>This. The only person I would trust is a person that was a sysadmin for at least 10 years and decided to specialize in security for another 5 years. So you are looking at minimum of 15 years experience to be decent. Without deep sysadmin skills - I am at a loss of what they would contribute. You are going to update our firewall without understanding what CIDR notation is? You are going to create a VPC for the dev environment not knowing what a subnet mask is? You are going to monitor security with thousands of VMs with no cloud background? Security is a specialized specialized field. Not only that you need to be a bit of a bully. You are always fighting PMs for more time to vet things and patch things - all while being a cost center.<p>Why do we have so many security disasters? Because those people are rare unicorns, ridiculously expensive, with no way to show added value.</text></item><item><author>dmhmr</author><text>The past few years have made me feel sour on how many organizations run cybersecurity in general. The industry is full of individuals who do not understand the tech they are protecting, and often they barely understand the security tech they use daily. A lot of places are simply doing compliance check-marking and barely have a shred of technical aptitude. They struggle with basic fundamentals like inventory and patch management. It is an industry that is hard to stay upbeat about if you are looking at anything larger than how it benefits your personal paycheck. If you want to get insight into the reality of how the government operates, just look at GAO reports, they are alarming: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gao.gov&#x2F;highrisk&#x2F;ensuring-cybersecurity-nation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gao.gov&#x2F;highrisk&#x2F;ensuring-cybersecurity-nation</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?</title><text>In the last 12 months we have seen the SolarWinds hack, the Microsoft Exchange Server data breach, and since Friday, Log4j. I&#x27;m reading an article on CNN about the US government&#x27;s response to Log4j.<p>&quot;Organizations are now in a race against time to figure out if they have computers running the vulnerable software that were exposed to the internet. Cybersecurity executives across government and industry are working around the clock on the issue.&quot;<p>&quot;&quot;For most of the information technology world, there was no weekend,&quot; Rick Holland, chief information security officer at cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows, told CNN. &quot;It was just another long set of days.&quot;&quot;<p>The sysadmin subreddit is also full of professionals talking about the problem.<p>With so many large scale hacks, 0-days, and breaches happening these days, are cybersecurity professionals ok? Have studies about the mental health and anxiety levels of this group of professionals been conducted?</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>mistrial9</author><text>you are utterly missing a business dynamic here in America and elsewhere.. Companies that originate in, with strong-ties to, established finance, literally push skill down the pay stack, not up. What does that mean? If a certain engineering skill is rare, it will cost more money to pay someone, and harder to find. Therefore, commoditize and automate where you can, via cloud accounts and &quot;best practices&quot;, outsource to another company where you can, and promote internally for ruthless cost-cutting, firing and aggressive contract manipulations. This is not extreme, this is normal and daily for decades.<p>The imaginary skilled professional you are describing clearly originates in the mind of an engineering worker.. a person gains skill through experience and is promoted. This is opposite of what management builds over time.. Management specifically and exactly destroys this career path because it costs them more money. As long as you can commoditize and outsource, you drive costs down, not up.<p>Meanwhile, it is &quot;eternal September&quot; in the job world, with streams of 20-somethings lining up to get into the markets. Add lower cost engineers, for example in Eastern Europe, South East Asia and South Asia. Rinse and repeat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>This. The only person I would trust is a person that was a sysadmin for at least 10 years and decided to specialize in security for another 5 years. So you are looking at minimum of 15 years experience to be decent. Without deep sysadmin skills - I am at a loss of what they would contribute. You are going to update our firewall without understanding what CIDR notation is? You are going to create a VPC for the dev environment not knowing what a subnet mask is? You are going to monitor security with thousands of VMs with no cloud background? Security is a specialized specialized field. Not only that you need to be a bit of a bully. You are always fighting PMs for more time to vet things and patch things - all while being a cost center.<p>Why do we have so many security disasters? Because those people are rare unicorns, ridiculously expensive, with no way to show added value.</text></item><item><author>dmhmr</author><text>The past few years have made me feel sour on how many organizations run cybersecurity in general. The industry is full of individuals who do not understand the tech they are protecting, and often they barely understand the security tech they use daily. A lot of places are simply doing compliance check-marking and barely have a shred of technical aptitude. They struggle with basic fundamentals like inventory and patch management. It is an industry that is hard to stay upbeat about if you are looking at anything larger than how it benefits your personal paycheck. If you want to get insight into the reality of how the government operates, just look at GAO reports, they are alarming: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gao.gov&#x2F;highrisk&#x2F;ensuring-cybersecurity-nation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gao.gov&#x2F;highrisk&#x2F;ensuring-cybersecurity-nation</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?</title><text>In the last 12 months we have seen the SolarWinds hack, the Microsoft Exchange Server data breach, and since Friday, Log4j. I&#x27;m reading an article on CNN about the US government&#x27;s response to Log4j.<p>&quot;Organizations are now in a race against time to figure out if they have computers running the vulnerable software that were exposed to the internet. Cybersecurity executives across government and industry are working around the clock on the issue.&quot;<p>&quot;&quot;For most of the information technology world, there was no weekend,&quot; Rick Holland, chief information security officer at cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows, told CNN. &quot;It was just another long set of days.&quot;&quot;<p>The sysadmin subreddit is also full of professionals talking about the problem.<p>With so many large scale hacks, 0-days, and breaches happening these days, are cybersecurity professionals ok? Have studies about the mental health and anxiety levels of this group of professionals been conducted?</text></story> |
11,001,319 | 11,000,967 | 1 | 2 | 11,000,887 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cieplak</author><text>$100 billion is not unrealistic for typical defense budgets. Modern warfare is transitioning from lead to silicon. It takes 6 lines of VHDL to backdoor a CPU. Modern chips have billions of transistors. It would be irresponsible of any modern superpower not to ensure their nation&#x27;s machines are secure. I am a US citizen, but if I were a Chinese national, I might be worried about things like Intel Active Management Technology. Maybe mutual defense is a good thing if it prevents escalation. I&#x27;m still outraged that members of my Congress proposed violent conflict with China as an appropriate reaction to a data breech, as if their own organization had never accessed Chinese systems without authorization. It&#x27;s probably just theatrics of elected officials from states with large military presence, but how evil is it to propose killing people for sneaking into your computers which you failed to secure properly?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China wants to become a semiconductor superpower, budgeting $100B to achieve it</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688871-china-wants-become-superpower-semiconductors-and-plans-spend-colossal-sums</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cieplak</author><text>It will be interesting to watch this play out in the context of the Chinese intellectual property policies and non-enforcement of US copyrights, patents and trade secrets. That might be enough money to reverse engineer Intel&#x27;s 14nm chipsets. Will it accelerate humanity&#x27;s technological progress, or will it stifle progress by removing incentives for inventors?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China wants to become a semiconductor superpower, budgeting $100B to achieve it</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688871-china-wants-become-superpower-semiconductors-and-plans-spend-colossal-sums</url></story> |
26,269,398 | 26,265,925 | 1 | 2 | 26,249,175 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ksec</author><text>Ok, a few things.<p>1. WiFi 6 only improves &#x2F; reduce congestions when all devices on the network are WiFi 6 only. As soon as you have older WiFi devices, the difference becomes negligible to non-existence.<p>2. WiFi 6 only improves &#x2F; reduce congestions when all devices on the network support WiFi 6 <i>OFDMA</i>, which while being officially part of WiFi 6, it was not mandatory. And if you have one that doesn&#x27;t support it or does not have a firmware updated to support it, read point 1.<p>3. WiFi 6<i>E</i> will mandate all those optional features that were intentionally missed out on WiFi 6 due to all sort of technical, economical, political reasons. So in realty if you dont have all your devices as WiFi 6E, read point 1.<p>4. It is not clear whether 6Ghz support is mandated to be certified as WiFi 6E. On paper it seems to be the case, In practice most part of the world dont have 6Ghz spectrum ready. And I am not sure how FCC ( or similar ) clearance will work for a product that are already shipped on the market. Could we get new spectrum support via Firmware update? I am sure that is how US intends to deal with it since Intel are already shipping WiFi 6E product with label that support 6Ghz. I am just not sure if EU, UK, or other part of the world would allow or follow similar route. That has an implications on how fast WiFI 6E could launch worldwide.<p>5. Finally, there is only so much you can do with WiFi spec. If you have an extremely noisy environment nothing could really help. In an ultra packed City like HK, I could detect at least a dozen AP at any given time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/technology/personaltech/new-generation-wi-fi-home-network.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>t0mbstone</author><text>I have a Ubiquiti Unifi UAP‑AC‑HD wifi access point for my home. It&#x27;s not WiFi 6, but it can handle 500+ concurrent users while delivering 800 Mbps on 2.4 ghz and 1733 Mbps on 5 ghz.<p>All in all, I have around 70 wifi devices in my apartment. That might sound like a lot of devices (it is), but I&#x27;m a nerd and I like to tinker with lots of smart home stuff and I also have a lot of computers and gadgets.<p>Also, because I live in an apartment complex, there is a ton of WiFi noise from other neighbors. There are around 20 different WiFi networks within range.<p>I went through multiple WiFi routers (including high end $300 ones), but I was rarely able to get over 100 Mbps.<p>When I upgraded the Unifi UAP‑AC‑HD, it was like flipping a light switch. All of my wifi problems went away, and I was able to get 300-400 Mbps in pretty much every room.<p>I get that WiFi 6 is great and all, but at this point, I&#x27;m not really sure what I would be gaining by upgrading. The UAP‑AC‑HD is on the high end of the previous generation, and at least for now, it&#x27;s good enough for me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/technology/personaltech/new-generation-wi-fi-home-network.html</url></story> |
30,802,180 | 30,801,938 | 1 | 3 | 30,801,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>I started (and quit) a PhD based on the Machine Learning algorithms used for BCI systems such as this.<p>Every 6-12 months, someone will write a puff piece about their research in order to get grant money[1]&#x2F;street cred. And every time, HN responds as if it&#x27;s sci-fi tech from the future and I shit on everybody&#x27;s dreams.<p>So here we go:<p>At a glance, nothing about this system in particular is new. It seems to solve the same problems as older invasive arrays from 15 years ago, with the same deal-breaking flaw still unfixed (namely, the body rejecting the implant over time).<p>He had OK-ish performance in a single patient (one character per minute on a good day), but single-patient performance is misleading as it&#x27;s very common for a system to work with one &quot;golden&quot; patient but not others. Interestingly, no real research has been done (at least, none as of 4 years ago) to look into why this is the case - most &quot;breakthroughs&quot; are people throwing machine-learning spaghetti at the wall to cover up deliberately flawed benchmarking. (To be fair, this is more of a comment on the field as a whole than this particular trial. His results seem honest and humble.)<p>The field is going nowhere, and this article is yet another shining example of this. Nothing will ever be achieved until we abandon the current paradigm and actually learn more about the underlying neurophysiology (or possibly create batshit-insane sensors).<p>[1] They actually explicitly mention this in the article this time, which is pretty bold:<p>&gt;Chaudhary’s foundation is seeking funding to give similar implants to several more people with ALS. He estimates the system would cost close to $500,000 over the first 2 years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/first-brain-implant-lets-man-complete-paralysis-spell-out-thoughts-i-love-my-cool-son</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thatjoeoverthr</author><text>Has anyone else noticed this is sort of a permanent story? I’ve read it as news verbatim at least once a year since the 90s. It’s the “Russian bombers intercepted” of medical science. This article is better than most, acknowledging prior work but only to a few years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/first-brain-implant-lets-man-complete-paralysis-spell-out-thoughts-i-love-my-cool-son</url></story> |
19,575,944 | 19,574,972 | 1 | 3 | 19,571,519 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tinco</author><text>When this was released I posted this comment on the Haskell subreddit, thinking I was on the rust subreddit. It&#x27;s got some musings about what the dangers of becoming like Haskell are:<p>I wonder, were the Rust community be given the same power as the Haskell community, would they use it to create a complex more advanced idiomatic Rust that you could only read and understand after months of training?<p>There is this weird phenomenon in Haskell, I attribute it to Haskell having a syntax that feels limiting, but a type system that seems almost limitless.<p>There are two branches of idiomatic Haskell. One is the style anyone would recognize as generic &quot;functional programming&quot; and would be able to work with and be productive after a week or two of practice.<p>The other is where a dozen language features are enabled, and the latest and greatest utility libraries are imported and Haskell shows itself to be as flexible and alienating as Lisp. An expert can wield extreme expression under purity and safety. A beginner stands no chance.<p>It would be interesting to see more expressive power come to Rust. But it would be a bad thing if it would come at the cost of being beginner friendly. Rust might be challenging to write as a beginner due to the borrow checker, but at least it&#x27;s easy enough to read.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Idiomatic Monads in Rust</title><url>https://varkor.github.io/blog/2019/03/28/idiomatic-monads-in-rust.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>mruts</author><text>I&#x27;m not that familiar with Rust, but what is the rational against higher-kinded types? Is it a technical limitation that everyone agrees is a limitation, or is there some rationale why higher-kinded types in Rust are not useful?<p>This is probably not relevant, but as a professional Scala programmer, I find higher-kinded types absolutely indispensable. Without them, writing truly generic (and imo, beautiful) code is almost impossible. Programming with higher-kinded types does really feel like some &quot;next level shit.&quot; higher-kinded types are to types as first-order functions are functions: the natural and logical extension that unlocks simplicity, genericity, and beauty.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Idiomatic Monads in Rust</title><url>https://varkor.github.io/blog/2019/03/28/idiomatic-monads-in-rust.html</url></story> |
10,968,337 | 10,968,210 | 1 | 3 | 10,967,206 | 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>morbidhawk</author><text>&gt; When we win, we try for more; when we fail, we cut back.<p>Thanks for sharing this book, OP. I&#x27;ve personally seen this range of ambition in my own life. I can very much relate to this. When I was younger I was always seeking more out of life. Now becoming an adult and struggling as sole-provider of my family and spending many years attending university while trying to help my wife through severe depression and my special-needs child I am now careful about finding new commitments and I&#x27;m trying to greatly simplify my life.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout our lives (1992)</title><url>https://ambition-book.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>laotzu</author><text>Success is as dangerous as failure.<p>Hope is as hollow as fear.<p>What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?<p>Whether you go up the ladder or down it,<p>Your position is shaky.<p>When you stand with your own two feet on the ground,<p>You will always keep your balance.<p>-Lao Tzu</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout our lives (1992)</title><url>https://ambition-book.com</url></story> |
22,291,733 | 22,291,987 | 1 | 2 | 22,290,061 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfengel</author><text>React and Redux are for apps. If you can do it with HTML&#x2F;CSS, you absolutely should.<p>React&#x2F;Redux are a replacement for what people used to do with jquery or plain JS. They&#x27;re not for display; they&#x27;re for complex interaction of the kind that used to require a native user interface (Java Swing, Gtk, Win32, etc). Javascript is a mess, and the DOM is a mess; React makes that slightly less awful. (Redux is an extension to React to help manage global state; again, it&#x27;s compensating for just how bad Javascript is.)<p>Bonus: React encourages the use of JSX, a language that makes a lot of behavior look as if you were writing it directly in HTML. You don&#x27;t need React to use JSX, and you don&#x27;t need JSX to use React, but they do dovetail nicely.<p>You can write in plain JS&#x2F;jquery if you want. Plenty of people do. React is a framework to make that a bit easier; that&#x27;s all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_gastropod</author><text>I&#x27;m one of those &quot;old dogs&quot; who don&#x27;t quite get the advantage of using React in the majority of the cases it&#x27;s used. This article didn&#x27;t really help...<p>&gt; What makes these frontends complex?
State management. The frontend “knows” a lot of things, and these things interact with each other in non-trivial ways [...] Example: dark mode support. For example, say your app has a dark mode. All your rendered components must know what theme is on, so they can render the UI in the right color.<p>Back in my day.... you&#x27;d slap a class on the &lt;body&gt; tag, and you&#x27;d have all you&#x27;d need for your CSS to style the rest of the page accordingly. How is using Redux an improvement here?<p>None of the examples of &quot;complex&quot; front-ends would be at all difficult in an old-school &quot;just re-render the page&quot; setup using something like pjax or turbolinks. And in my experience (seeing web pages with &gt; 1MB js files) it&#x27;d be faster&#x2F;more responsive for the end-user too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps</title><url>https://medium.com/@veeralpatel/things-ive-learned-about-state-management-for-react-apps-174b8bde87fb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>some-guy</author><text>For individuals making small sites, it&#x27;s absolutely overkill.<p>For my job, with hundreds of developers working on a giant SPA blob with constant feature creep, frameworks like React are a necessary evil to maintain the insanity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_gastropod</author><text>I&#x27;m one of those &quot;old dogs&quot; who don&#x27;t quite get the advantage of using React in the majority of the cases it&#x27;s used. This article didn&#x27;t really help...<p>&gt; What makes these frontends complex?
State management. The frontend “knows” a lot of things, and these things interact with each other in non-trivial ways [...] Example: dark mode support. For example, say your app has a dark mode. All your rendered components must know what theme is on, so they can render the UI in the right color.<p>Back in my day.... you&#x27;d slap a class on the &lt;body&gt; tag, and you&#x27;d have all you&#x27;d need for your CSS to style the rest of the page accordingly. How is using Redux an improvement here?<p>None of the examples of &quot;complex&quot; front-ends would be at all difficult in an old-school &quot;just re-render the page&quot; setup using something like pjax or turbolinks. And in my experience (seeing web pages with &gt; 1MB js files) it&#x27;d be faster&#x2F;more responsive for the end-user too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps</title><url>https://medium.com/@veeralpatel/things-ive-learned-about-state-management-for-react-apps-174b8bde87fb</url></story> |
25,263,790 | 25,263,049 | 1 | 3 | 25,261,291 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>I think you need a confluence of fortuitous circumstances to get things like this done:<p>- You need to have your own psychology in order. A lot of people have things going on in their lives that make it impossible to concentrate on this sort of thing.<p>- You need to be close enough, background wise. No prereqs -&gt; can&#x27;t learn this subject.<p>- You need to be aware of where the low hanging fruit is. This might be some random comment by a lecturer or a line in a paper that makes you investigate something.<p>- You need access to resources. Anything from a sparring partner to a hadron collider might be needed.<p>- Timing. Bunch of stuff coming together, might happen 10 years before you or 10 years after.<p>So there&#x27;s reasons why undergrads don&#x27;t always come up with groundbreaking things. Not to worry. You can still try to understand stuff after someone else has found it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bigdict</author><text>This sort of news is always like a splash of cold water to the face to me.<p>I haven&#x27;t produced any breakthrough research as an undergraduate. Have I accomplished enough? Am I too complacent? Should I be doing more, working more, studying more?<p>I always remember that the best way to achievement is to stick to areas that are personally exciting to me, and keep cranking at the best pace I can.<p>Others&#x27; success shouldn&#x27;t make you anxious. Instead, let it motivate you to move faster along your own groove.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mit-undergraduate-math-student-pushes-frontier-of-graph-theory-20201130/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway201103</author><text>Most post-graduate researchers don&#x27;t produce any breakthrough research. The produce incremental improvements, moderately interesting findings, etc. Or often, inconclusive results. Breakthroughs are rare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bigdict</author><text>This sort of news is always like a splash of cold water to the face to me.<p>I haven&#x27;t produced any breakthrough research as an undergraduate. Have I accomplished enough? Am I too complacent? Should I be doing more, working more, studying more?<p>I always remember that the best way to achievement is to stick to areas that are personally exciting to me, and keep cranking at the best pace I can.<p>Others&#x27; success shouldn&#x27;t make you anxious. Instead, let it motivate you to move faster along your own groove.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mit-undergraduate-math-student-pushes-frontier-of-graph-theory-20201130/</url></story> |
20,820,233 | 20,818,654 | 1 | 2 | 20,818,230 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nocture</author><text>Worth noting, this landed a patch that moves some of the UI work to Core Animation on MacOS[1]. More work will happen that builds on top of this, but some reports in that ticket are promising already.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1429522" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1429522</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>archie2</author><text>Has there been a significant update to the devtools recently? I&#x27;ve been a devedition user for years, odd to see it on the front page of HN just linking to the homepage..</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/</url></story> |
21,755,950 | 21,755,915 | 1 | 2 | 21,754,642 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mourner</author><text>Leaflet author here! Just wanted to note that if you haven&#x27;t looked into OpenLayers in a few years, you absolutely should — it&#x27;s astonishing how much it progressed: from something that I was so frustrated with that it prompted me to write Leaflet in the first place (11 years ago) to a modern, fast, well-engineered and lovingly maintained library.<p>It&#x27;s especially great when you&#x27;re doing complex GIS stuff and need a ton of features and formats supported out of the box. As for other libraries, I&#x27;d recommend Leaflet for simple maps, and Mapbox GL for rich, highly interactive apps that benefit from vector rendering tech (I&#x27;m biased since I contributed to both), but it&#x27;s great to have OpenLayers in the mix — there&#x27;s a library for anyone&#x27;s needs, cross-inspiration moves all three forward, and the mapping software landscape in general is greater than it has ever been.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenLayers</title><url>https://openlayers.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>rickette</author><text>When compared to the other two major OSS libraries I would say:<p>- Leaflet. Widely known, suitable for mostly simple use cases.<p>- Mapbox GL JS. State of the art library based on WebGL. Mapbox started off with a fork&#x2F;extension of Leaflet called Mapbox.js but over time has moved on and created the Mapbox GL JS library from the ground up. Very fast, but requires a GPU due to WebGL.<p>- OpenLayers. Often used by more professional users. Probably the most features complete library. Also usable without a GPU.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenLayers</title><url>https://openlayers.org/</url></story> |
36,426,452 | 36,424,561 | 1 | 2 | 36,422,730 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghughes</author><text>Cool project! I&#x27;m working in the same space (a ChatGPT plugin that can edit files within a shared VS Code workspace) and have built something similar to your &quot;repo map&quot; concept, except slightly lower-level: what you might call a &quot;file map&quot; generated by selectively collapsing AST nodes to fit within the available token budget. If ctags isn&#x27;t cutting it for you, have a look at tree-sitter [1]. It can generate ASTs for most languages and has a nice API.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tree-sitter.github.io&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tree-sitter.github.io&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>anotherpaulg</author><text>Have you done much work on using GPT to *edit* code in an existing codebase? That&#x27;s been my focus lately, working on my open source GPT coding tool [0].<p>Generating new code from whole-cloth seems like an easier task for GPT. My tool can certainly do that, as can smol-developer, etc. But you really only do that &quot;once&quot; per project.<p>Can folks use gpt-engineer to modify and extend the code it has already created, as the user comes up with new features, etc? Can it be used to work on a pre-existing codebase?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paul-gauthier&#x2F;aider">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paul-gauthier&#x2F;aider</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools</title><text>Hello Hacker News community,<p>Wanted to share a project I started working on during my spare time and was then discovered by many in the open source community last week.<p>GPT Engineer’s mission:
Be the open platform for devs to tinker with and build their personal code-generation toolbox.<p>I believe it&#x27;s key for us devs to engage in how building software can and will change.<p>You can find more info about the flexible technical &quot;philosophy&quot; to make it work well, and the community we want it to become on github:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AntonOsika&#x2F;gpt-engineer<p>The project is still in early stages. It&#x27;s clear that there is a lot of room for improvement as the space to combine tricks that guide LLM&#x27;s is large.<p>Appreciate any suggestions, experiences, or ideas on the project from you all!</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>headcanon</author><text>Looks like you know more about it than me, but it seems to me that the main challenge is being able to include the appropriate context, and train it to output a diff which you can then apply to the codebase.<p>Definitely looking forward to the day I review my first AI-generated PR (beyond dependency updates of course).</text><parent_chain><item><author>anotherpaulg</author><text>Have you done much work on using GPT to *edit* code in an existing codebase? That&#x27;s been my focus lately, working on my open source GPT coding tool [0].<p>Generating new code from whole-cloth seems like an easier task for GPT. My tool can certainly do that, as can smol-developer, etc. But you really only do that &quot;once&quot; per project.<p>Can folks use gpt-engineer to modify and extend the code it has already created, as the user comes up with new features, etc? Can it be used to work on a pre-existing codebase?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paul-gauthier&#x2F;aider">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paul-gauthier&#x2F;aider</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools</title><text>Hello Hacker News community,<p>Wanted to share a project I started working on during my spare time and was then discovered by many in the open source community last week.<p>GPT Engineer’s mission:
Be the open platform for devs to tinker with and build their personal code-generation toolbox.<p>I believe it&#x27;s key for us devs to engage in how building software can and will change.<p>You can find more info about the flexible technical &quot;philosophy&quot; to make it work well, and the community we want it to become on github:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AntonOsika&#x2F;gpt-engineer<p>The project is still in early stages. It&#x27;s clear that there is a lot of room for improvement as the space to combine tricks that guide LLM&#x27;s is large.<p>Appreciate any suggestions, experiences, or ideas on the project from you all!</text></story> |
9,376,387 | 9,375,037 | 1 | 3 | 9,374,691 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>j42</author><text>As someone who develops&#x2F;maintains many high-IO requirement PHP microservices (as part of a service-oriented architecture, or, SOA), I&#x27;m torn on this one.<p>Laravel is one of my favorite frameworks, especially since 5.0 given its noble attempt to adhere to contract-first&#x2F;interfaced development and many best practices that in some ways prevent the &quot;worst&quot; kinds of code from being written. It&#x27;s not static typing, but it&#x27;s a step in the right direction.<p>This seems like it&#x27;s heavily optimized over the Laravel base, and if high speed and concurrency is important enough that you&#x27;d choose Lumen, then it seems like you&#x27;d still be stopping halfway in a bit of a &quot;if you have a hammer everything seems like a nail&quot; situation. Unless I&#x27;m missing something Lumen still requires resources to be bootstrapped on request, and ultimately that (in the context of a framework) will lead to memory leaks in a loosely-typed language; no way around that.<p>Also because disk writes will quickly become the bottleneck before your network capacity does, the two most relevant performance enhancements are to use a non-blocking event-loop (with expensive writes deferred to a tick cycle) and to completely avoid any unnecessary per-request bootstrapping--best done with raw PHP and ideally kept simple. This, combined with an optimized TCP configuration and split-per-process nginx LB at the head will give me r&#x2F;s 10-50x the purported benchmarks. As much as 1000x when introducing intelligent edge-caching rules.<p>Is there a situation where this would be the right tool for the job&#x2F;more ideal than the base framework but not worthy of a &quot;roll-your-own&quot; solution?<p>Either way +1 for Taylor Otwell as a developer and the general quality of his code&#x2F;releases--Laravel is an ambitious project, and as a developer quite enjoyable to work with!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lumen – A micro-framework by Laravel</title><url>https://laravel-news.com/2015/04/lumen/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hising</author><text>Looks nice, I really like Slim Framework, this looks a lot like Slim from what I could tell. Gonna be interesting to see how (if at all) this will effect some performance focus from the Slim developers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lumen – A micro-framework by Laravel</title><url>https://laravel-news.com/2015/04/lumen/</url></story> |
11,505,584 | 11,505,424 | 1 | 2 | 11,505,187 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>What is missing is that the total income in the state in 2012 was $1.1 Trillion.<p>So the top 1% earned 28% of the income, but paid 45% of the total taxes:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftb.ca.gov&#x2F;aboutFTB&#x2F;Tax_Statistics&#x2F;Reports&#x2F;2013&#x2F;Personal_Income_Tax&#x2F;B-3.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftb.ca.gov&#x2F;aboutFTB&#x2F;Tax_Statistics&#x2F;Reports&#x2F;2013&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Of course they do! Just look at the chart here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacbee.com&#x2F;site-services&#x2F;databases&#x2F;article9349178.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacbee.com&#x2F;site-services&#x2F;databases&#x2F;article9349178...</a> and the referenced franchise tax info.<p>I am really tired of seeing sensationalist headlines like these. The top 1% of income earners earn an absolutely massive portion of all income in the state, but <i>only</i> pay 45% of taxes. We should be asking if that&#x27;s enough, not implying that the wealthy are somehow propping up the state&#x27;s finances when inequality is accelerating every year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Top 1% of Income Earners pay 45% of California's Taxes</title><url>http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article71944477.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>entee</author><text>Wow that chart is astonishing, and in the context makes the headline a little misleading.<p>Having a such a small percent pay such a huge share is toxic. I&#x27;ve heard people who pay high taxes say incredibly entitled things about &quot;paying for&quot; things. It destroys a sense of shared investment and purpose.<p>Clearly the solution has to be to ensure income is more evenly distributed, though I don&#x27;t know how to do that exactly. Education and learning skills necessary for high paying industries would certainly help, but every time I hear that it feels like kind of a weak solution. That said, I don&#x27;t really have a better one.<p>What are some interesting off the wall ideas for reducing income disequilibrium?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Of course they do! Just look at the chart here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacbee.com&#x2F;site-services&#x2F;databases&#x2F;article9349178.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacbee.com&#x2F;site-services&#x2F;databases&#x2F;article9349178...</a> and the referenced franchise tax info.<p>I am really tired of seeing sensationalist headlines like these. The top 1% of income earners earn an absolutely massive portion of all income in the state, but <i>only</i> pay 45% of taxes. We should be asking if that&#x27;s enough, not implying that the wealthy are somehow propping up the state&#x27;s finances when inequality is accelerating every year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Top 1% of Income Earners pay 45% of California's Taxes</title><url>http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article71944477.html</url></story> |
4,651,750 | 4,651,680 | 1 | 3 | 4,651,373 | 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>jandrewrogers</author><text>This is a pretty good list of data structures that are out there, that are also useful, and to which most programmers never seem to have been introduced. I regularly use variants of some of the data structures listed (plus several that did not make the list) and frequently get questions about the design and structure from programmers that have never seen them.<p>In practice, you can get away with knowing just a handful of data structures and most programmers do. However, when it comes time to profile it is valuable to have alternatives to what the standard libraries and implementations offer. For any given set of constraints on the intended use case and workload for a classic container, there is usually a data structure that is nearly ideal for that use case. Also, there are often neat ideas buried in some of these data structures that are worth learning for their own sake.<p>For the work that I do (high-performance C++) the first pass will often use the C++ STL. When we start profiling, the STL is usually among the first things that need to be replaced. Having a large number of workload optimized data structures in the toolkit for the same abstract container makes this relatively easy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exotic data structures</title><url>http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Exotic%20Data%20Structures</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jayferd</author><text>I would especially appreciate how one might go about implementing these in some of the concatenative languages listed there, as these kinds of data structures tend to be pointer- and memory-based, which I've found difficult to replicate in Forth et al.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Exotic data structures</title><url>http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Exotic%20Data%20Structures</url></story> |
19,846,149 | 19,845,667 | 1 | 2 | 19,843,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>You are right to be cautious. Don&#x27;t let people oversell the benefits and minimize the risk. Yes, Johns Hopkins and some other places have early promising results, but these subjects were given counseling before, during, and after their trip. I&#x27;m sure for some people a lightbulb goes off and suddenly they can see the problems in their life which had been invisible to them and the benefit is immediate. Most of the time the message isn&#x27;t so clear, and the benefit comes from actual hard work and changes that come as the result of your insights.<p>For example, I know I&#x27;m getting older, time is limited, and I&#x27;m mortal. Taking LSD and looking in the mirror and really seeing myself more objectively, all the wrinkles and saggy skin, the meat of my body hanging off my bones, makes my aging far more tangible and immediate than I can normally conjure. The trick is afterward maintaining that feeling and using it to make decisions about health, prioritizing things that are important, and dropping things that won&#x27;t matter to me in 20 years.<p>If I had anxiety issues or deep trauma to work through, I&#x27;d absolutely want to use psychedelics in concert with a trained professional to minimize the risk of having things go wrong and to get help in figuring out what the trip meant to me (or &quot;integrating&quot; in the parlance).</text><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I would love to try a psychedelic trip with a trained therapist guiding me toward facing my fears.<p>I’m generally a pretty anxious person (diagnosed with OCD, managed with ERP therapy), and I feel pretty confident that it would force me to face that part of me. I have no doubt that it’d be a beneficial experience.<p>Buuuuut... part of me is super nervous about what I might also find. It’s like part of my mind wants to explore it, and the other part doesn’t, which creates a lot of inner conflict. I honestly don’t know what I’m supposed to do with two parts of my brain fighting with itself.<p>Side note: How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan is a fantastic book and worth a read.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Psychedelic Renaissance</title><url>https://www.philanthropy.com/article/With-Government-Skittish-About/246170?key=GCZRFFWJmdWfHIIYJmst8JP0M4DTMThB3J8gWMr73DvMQUzdvlnIckIeopOfeeXEQzk0Y0xhRF9fcWRWUGIyYTctTklFRXFZdTRyRVA1aFUwbGdhN0hPUk9tOA</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>h2odragon</author><text>Trained therapist? Nah. Good, trusted friend. Someone who will be willing to clean up embarrassing bodily functions for you type of friend.<p>You can&#x27;t pay somebody to discover you, you&#x27;re going to have to do that yourself. Having a companion is just to help keep things from getting messy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I would love to try a psychedelic trip with a trained therapist guiding me toward facing my fears.<p>I’m generally a pretty anxious person (diagnosed with OCD, managed with ERP therapy), and I feel pretty confident that it would force me to face that part of me. I have no doubt that it’d be a beneficial experience.<p>Buuuuut... part of me is super nervous about what I might also find. It’s like part of my mind wants to explore it, and the other part doesn’t, which creates a lot of inner conflict. I honestly don’t know what I’m supposed to do with two parts of my brain fighting with itself.<p>Side note: How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan is a fantastic book and worth a read.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Psychedelic Renaissance</title><url>https://www.philanthropy.com/article/With-Government-Skittish-About/246170?key=GCZRFFWJmdWfHIIYJmst8JP0M4DTMThB3J8gWMr73DvMQUzdvlnIckIeopOfeeXEQzk0Y0xhRF9fcWRWUGIyYTctTklFRXFZdTRyRVA1aFUwbGdhN0hPUk9tOA</url></story> |
8,227,464 | 8,227,494 | 1 | 3 | 8,227,198 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s even more weird that the WIRED writer didn&#x27;t mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago. Good PR folks at Instagram &#x2F; FB<p>This article seems like an exclusive that Wired got, probably been in the works for ages and timed for the release date.<p>Fine line between this kind of thing and just letting the company write the article themselves (aka &quot;native advertising&quot;.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>davidu</author><text>It&#x27;s weird that they called it Hyperlapse two weeks after Microsoft Research published a paper on the exact same topic, with the exact same name:<p>PDF here: <a href="https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/paper/hyperlapse.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;um&#x2F;redmond&#x2F;projects&#x2F;hyp...</a><p>Examples here: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;um&#x2F;redmond&#x2F;projects&#x2F;hype...</a><p>It&#x27;s even more weird that the WIRED writer didn&#x27;t mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago. Good PR folks at Instagram &#x2F; FB.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hyperlapse-instagrams-new-app-is-like-a-15000-video-setup-in-your-hand</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>izendejas</author><text>I was using Instagram Hyperlapse before the MSR paper was published. It came out of a Hackathon project at Facebook.<p>And yes, the concept existed well before both.<p>Note: FB employee.</text><parent_chain><item><author>davidu</author><text>It&#x27;s weird that they called it Hyperlapse two weeks after Microsoft Research published a paper on the exact same topic, with the exact same name:<p>PDF here: <a href="https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/paper/hyperlapse.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;um&#x2F;redmond&#x2F;projects&#x2F;hyp...</a><p>Examples here: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;um&#x2F;redmond&#x2F;projects&#x2F;hype...</a><p>It&#x27;s even more weird that the WIRED writer didn&#x27;t mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago. Good PR folks at Instagram &#x2F; FB.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hyperlapse-instagrams-new-app-is-like-a-15000-video-setup-in-your-hand</url></story> |
29,448,549 | 29,448,577 | 1 | 2 | 29,447,741 | 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>stavros</author><text>I wrote Harbormaster because I needed exactly this. It&#x27;s very simple and has worked extremely well for me, at home as well as in production:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;stavros&#x2F;harbormaster" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;stavros&#x2F;harbormaster</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; I miss its programmatic approach to deployments<p>That seems to be people main justification for using Kubernetes. We really need to find an solution that will allow us to deploy software programmatically, without dragging along the complexity of Kubernetes.<p>I know, Kubernetes is “easy” on AWS, Azure or GCP. Well great, but many of us can’t use managed Kubernetes. Now we’re stuck managing on-prem cluster, just so the developers can deploy three containers and an ingress controller while complaining that they need to update their YAML because some API changed again.<p>Kubernetes is great, for some project, just not most. Sadly we’re don’t have any good alternative for deploying to VMs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kubernetes at Home with K3s</title><url>https://blog.nootch.net/post/kubernetes-at-home-with-k3s/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3np</author><text>I find Nomad (coupled with Terraform, Consul and Vault) hits the sweet spot for me.<p>It provides all the orchestration, coordination and resource management in source-controlled templates but doesn’t add at all the layers of abstraction and indirection that k8s does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; I miss its programmatic approach to deployments<p>That seems to be people main justification for using Kubernetes. We really need to find an solution that will allow us to deploy software programmatically, without dragging along the complexity of Kubernetes.<p>I know, Kubernetes is “easy” on AWS, Azure or GCP. Well great, but many of us can’t use managed Kubernetes. Now we’re stuck managing on-prem cluster, just so the developers can deploy three containers and an ingress controller while complaining that they need to update their YAML because some API changed again.<p>Kubernetes is great, for some project, just not most. Sadly we’re don’t have any good alternative for deploying to VMs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kubernetes at Home with K3s</title><url>https://blog.nootch.net/post/kubernetes-at-home-with-k3s/</url></story> |
2,762,574 | 2,762,598 | 1 | 2 | 2,762,325 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>These articles always remind me of how prescient Star Trek was when it came to technology, and how we really don't have anything like that these days. The last big SciFi show, Battlestar Galactica, seemed to go out of its way to avoid making any bold tech predictions, and the Star Trek franchise seems to have fizzled out (that movie doesn't count). ST:TOS predicted cloaks just <i>six years</i> after the first <i>laser</i> was ever fired, and 3 years before development began on UNIX. Holograms took until TNG, but they were still a good 20 years early.<p>I feel like we're getting ripped off. I want radical predictions that I can watch daytime specials on Discovery about in 50 years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I'm still trying to get my head around this. To the layman, it sounds almost like something trivial (properties of metamaterials) extrapolated into a bit of a sensationalist headline.<p>So I go grab my good friend Schrödinger. We take his cat, subject of numerous cruel and unusual experiments, and stick it in a box. We tie the health of the cat to a quantum state which could condense either way. If it goes one way, the cat lives. If it goes the other way, the cat dies. Then we wrap the quantum state in these time-cloaking lenses.<p>We look at the cat, and what? Does the lack of ability to observe the quantum state mean that the condensation of probabilities never happened? Perhaps the cat disappears?<p>EDIT: Link for those who don't get the reference. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story> |
22,520,776 | 22,520,867 | 1 | 2 | 22,520,264 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aprdm</author><text>The concept of fixing corporate culture seems like a weird one, if you remove corporate and go for the generic term, can you &quot;fix culture&quot;?<p>I think what you can do is influence the culture of a company and reap the rewards, having done the devops transformation in two difference companies that were deemed unfixable (both more than 4 offices and 3k people) I feel it is very doable! It just takes time and it is not an algorithm you can learn and apply blindly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>Rachel had something about fixing corporate culture recently (hint: you can&#x27;t), and sometimes really you can&#x27;t leave. Some are shackled to their jobs through their visa, others because of healthcare needs (their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member), and others because of the nature of the industry (university faculty comes to mind, especially post-2008).<p>The fact that you are paid does nothing about the <i>ennui</i>. You clearly never held a no-show job before.</text></item><item><author>tracerbulletx</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand people who write things like this. If you&#x27;re unhappy leave, if you think the corporate culture is wrong, either participate in fixing it, or get out. I honestly can&#x27;t stand people who self righteously sound the alarm about how they can see all of the things wrong with everybody else. It sounds especially childish when you are making so much money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I survived being a $220k/year intern</title><url>https://matt.sh/commit-this</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>If you have the political capital to spend, you can, for example:<p>- Model the behaviors you want to see.<p>- Thanks and recognize others when they do the behaviors you want to see.<p>- Use your Comment and Reject buttons when formal processes ask you to sign off on behaviors you don&#x27;t want to see.<p>- Propose initiatives to influential people you trust and identify as likely allies.<p>Of course if you&#x27;re wrong about having the political capital, and especially if your own manager is not on board, swimming upstream can be dangerous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>Rachel had something about fixing corporate culture recently (hint: you can&#x27;t), and sometimes really you can&#x27;t leave. Some are shackled to their jobs through their visa, others because of healthcare needs (their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member), and others because of the nature of the industry (university faculty comes to mind, especially post-2008).<p>The fact that you are paid does nothing about the <i>ennui</i>. You clearly never held a no-show job before.</text></item><item><author>tracerbulletx</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand people who write things like this. If you&#x27;re unhappy leave, if you think the corporate culture is wrong, either participate in fixing it, or get out. I honestly can&#x27;t stand people who self righteously sound the alarm about how they can see all of the things wrong with everybody else. It sounds especially childish when you are making so much money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I survived being a $220k/year intern</title><url>https://matt.sh/commit-this</url></story> |
31,497,496 | 31,494,735 | 1 | 3 | 31,493,207 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paroneayea</author><text>Author of this blogpost here. I think the post is good, though it&#x27;s mostly aimed at the perspective of &quot;Racket is a very practical Lisp, for getting things done, akin to how Python is a very practical lisp&quot; and also &quot;DrRacket gives an accessible entry-point for Lisp for newcomers.&quot; Unfortunately I don&#x27;t think Racket quite took this to be the rallying cry I hoped them to, to embrace Racket&#x27;s lispiness <i>as</i> &quot;The Python of Lisps&quot; (which was the other alternate title I was debating between when I wrote it).<p>But in the comments here and as with most articles about Lisp, the conversation moves to... can newcomers understand Lisp&#x27;s syntax? My spouse and I gave a talk about this very topic: &quot;Lisp but Beautiful; Lisp for Everyone&quot;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;event&#x2F;lispforeveryone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;event&#x2F;lispforeveryone&#x2F;</a><p>There&#x27;s a lot in there (including demonstrations of representations of lisp which <i>don&#x27;t</i> have parentheses at all). But the biggest point in the talk is that lisp <i>isn&#x27;t</i> scary for <i>new</i> programmers... it&#x27;s scary for <i>experienced</i> programmers. As we talk about in the video, my spouse and I co-ran introductions to programming using Racket aimed at humanities students with no required prior programming experience whatsoever.<p>What we found was that the students who had <i>no</i> prior programming experience, after just a few minutes, had no problem with the syntax (and DrRacket made it easy enough to pick up the language). But we <i>did</i> have complaints in the class about lisp&#x27;s syntax... from those who <i>already knew how to program.</i> They already had a frame, and within that frame, lisp&#x27;s syntax looked alien. <i>Without</i> a frame, students just accepted it and did fine with the syntax... great, even. (Many of them praised its clarity; like any decent lisp editor, DrRacket helps identify the kinds of parentheses-oriented errors that users <i>think</i> they&#x27;re going to encounter.)<p>Anyway, I do more work in Guile these days than Racket, but both are really great systems with great communities. The thing I miss most about Racket though is that DrRacket gave an easy entry point for students which wasn&#x27;t &quot;and now start learning Emacs&quot;. (Guix is pretty great, however.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Racket Is an Acceptable Python (2019)</title><url>https://dustycloud.org/blog/racket-is-an-acceptable-python/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dark-star</author><text>We used Racket in the early 2000&#x27;s at university, in the first year of CS. Everyone (including me) was appalled by it (we already knew C, Pascal, Java, etc.)<p>After a few weeks it &quot;clicked&quot;, and since then I&#x27;ve been a huge fan of Scheme. When other students went out of their way to write C-to-Scheme converters to keep coding their homework in C, if you fully embraced the language it felt something close to enlightenment ;-)<p>I used Scheme later to teach programming to absolute non-science people and they all simply &quot;got&quot; how it worked, even though they had previously struggled doing even very basic things in Excel Macros and the like.<p>Scheme is a perfect tool for learning how to program, and it is even useful later to write complex programs in production. Yes, C might be faster, and Python might have more hits on StackOverflow, but to really understand the concepts behind polymorphism, recursion, lazy evaluation, oop, etc. Scheme helps a lot with it&#x27;s simple syntax.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Racket Is an Acceptable Python (2019)</title><url>https://dustycloud.org/blog/racket-is-an-acceptable-python/</url></story> |
7,450,503 | 7,450,510 | 1 | 3 | 7,449,816 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>This is going to be a lot more revolutionary than a lot of people think. I mentor Lego Robotics teams, and this year&#x27;s season will mark my eighth year doing Lego Robotics. During this time, I&#x27;ve shown the kids (ages 9-14) hundreds of programming-related things, ranging from quadcopters to Arduinos to WebGL experiments to Leap Motion devices, and what never fails to captivate them is when they make the Lego Mindstorm brick <i></i>display<i></i> something.<p>When kids on the team seem reluctant to start programming, I always bust out the smiley face demo: they push a button and the smiley face smiles. It&#x27;s ridiculously simple, but that&#x27;s part of the appeal - they see that it&#x27;s simple and they want to know how to do it themselves. If I were to show them an Arduino blinking out a message in Morse code using an LED, they assume that it&#x27;s over their head and could care less how it was done, but when I show a simple demo using the Mindstorms display everyone&#x27;s captivated.<p>Each Mindstorms brick costs $200-$250, and parts can add hundreds of dollars to this cost. Since the price of the MicroView is 4-5 times smaller, there can be 4-5 times more people captivated by them - not to mention how school districts that have fewer funds can now introduce students to programming as well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MicroView: Chip-sized Arduino with built-in OLED Display</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-chip-sized-arduino-with-built-in-oled-di</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iSloth</author><text>Few comments on here suggesting that it might be over priced, and yes it probably is, however some people like my self just want something simple to play around with, without buying loads of different parts when you don&#x27;t really know what&#x27;s required, if that costs me a few extra dollars to be lazy well that&#x27;s ok with me :)<p>Never used an Arduino before and like the idea of having a screen to use, so ordered one to play around with.<p>Good luck with the project!<p>Edit: Just realised, I&#x27;m a long time lurker on KickStarter, but this is my first backing!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MicroView: Chip-sized Arduino with built-in OLED Display</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-chip-sized-arduino-with-built-in-oled-di</url></story> |
2,998,210 | 2,998,144 | 1 | 2 | 2,997,952 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rusky</author><text>The desire to compile into JavaScript is not what's being criticized here; it's the "blah is to JS as C is to Assembly" analogy: "That’s not to say that any of these systems are bad, just that the “blah is to JS as C is to Assembly” analogy is wildly wrongheaded."<p>Trying to treat JavaScript as assembly is silly because it doesn't vary too much between browsers- it is palatable to write, by hand, cross-browser JS programs, whereas it is literally impossible to do so in assembly because different assembly languages, as human-readable machine code, have virtually nothing in common at that level.<p>Treating JavaScript as C is the reality, because JavaScript is what gets run in different browsers (the analogy to compiling C to different platforms).<p>CoffeeScript is more like C++ than C because the language it's replacing/augmenting/etc. is very similar semantics-wise- it's just trying to make the same basic idea nicer to work with. The 10x difference thing is pointing out that C-&#62;assembly is a massive translation, whereas C++-&#62;C, while still a worthwhile difference, is much smaller.<p>Again, this is not a value judgement of CoffeeScript or GWT or anything. It's pointing out a flawed analogy. This is useful because when we think of JS as C rather than Assembly, it becomes clear that it shouldn't be the only option. It would be an improvement if, in the future, more mature language compilers could bypass JS to some form of bytecode (be it browser-specific, which would be a much bigger problem in the browser world, or a standardized one like the JVM does for the non-browser world... this is where the analogy breaks down a little).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jashkenas</author><text>I usually try not to weigh in on these debates -- I imagine <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/a7yVzBw1sJk" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/a7yVzBw1sJk</a> is what triggered this post. But...<p>Mr. Schlueter is right on -- C++ is a much more accurate comparison, and especially so because it was originally implemented as a cross-compiler into C source code (circa 1983-1990).<p>That said, saying that the desire to compile into JavaScript is (to paraphrase the post) pathological language-wank craziness, is a bit extreme.<p>I'd like to think that the reason why CoffeeScript has caught on like wildfire, when there are so many other AltJS languages out there (<a href="https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...</a>) is that we're trying to take the deeply pragmatic approach.<p>Mr. Schlueter writes "you don’t compile it to target a given platform," as if this would be an advantage or a justification for existing ... when it's really quite the opposite. JavaScript is plagued with libraries that will only ever run on certain platforms because they opt-in to platform specific features. I can't use your simple pluralization library to turn "bit" into "bits", because it was only written to run on Node.js, and is riddled with `forEach` and `require`, or because it was only written for the browser, and hides data in the DOM.<p>CoffeeScript tries very hard to compile into efficient, lowest-common-denominator JavaScript (read avoid Internet Explorer bugs) because that's how your library can be used widely across devices and runtimes, while being reasonably future proof.<p>I don't know when "order of magnitude difference" became a synonym for "worthwhile difference", but ... how much easier does a program have to be to read and write before it becomes a worthwhile choice to make the change? 2x? 1.3x?<p>In any case, CoffeeScript is a little thought experiment -- not a corporate project, or a Dart-like browser takeover. If it suits your fancy, use it, and if it itches you the wrong way, by all means leave it out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript is Not Web Assembly</title><url>http://blog.izs.me/post/10213512387/javascript-is-not-web-assembly</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mvzink</author><text>I'm bothered by these bits:<p><i>Mr. Schlueter writes "you don’t compile it to target a given platform," as if this would be an advantage or a justification for existing ... when it's really quite the opposite.</i><p><i>I don't know when "order of magnitude difference" became a synonym for "worthwhile difference"</i><p>I didn't see Schlueter arguing either of these things, but we may have read the post differently. Both points, in my view, seemed only to illustrate that the JS-Assembly analogy is wrong, not to argue against to-JS languages.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jashkenas</author><text>I usually try not to weigh in on these debates -- I imagine <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/a7yVzBw1sJk" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/a7yVzBw1sJk</a> is what triggered this post. But...<p>Mr. Schlueter is right on -- C++ is a much more accurate comparison, and especially so because it was originally implemented as a cross-compiler into C source code (circa 1983-1990).<p>That said, saying that the desire to compile into JavaScript is (to paraphrase the post) pathological language-wank craziness, is a bit extreme.<p>I'd like to think that the reason why CoffeeScript has caught on like wildfire, when there are so many other AltJS languages out there (<a href="https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...</a>) is that we're trying to take the deeply pragmatic approach.<p>Mr. Schlueter writes "you don’t compile it to target a given platform," as if this would be an advantage or a justification for existing ... when it's really quite the opposite. JavaScript is plagued with libraries that will only ever run on certain platforms because they opt-in to platform specific features. I can't use your simple pluralization library to turn "bit" into "bits", because it was only written to run on Node.js, and is riddled with `forEach` and `require`, or because it was only written for the browser, and hides data in the DOM.<p>CoffeeScript tries very hard to compile into efficient, lowest-common-denominator JavaScript (read avoid Internet Explorer bugs) because that's how your library can be used widely across devices and runtimes, while being reasonably future proof.<p>I don't know when "order of magnitude difference" became a synonym for "worthwhile difference", but ... how much easier does a program have to be to read and write before it becomes a worthwhile choice to make the change? 2x? 1.3x?<p>In any case, CoffeeScript is a little thought experiment -- not a corporate project, or a Dart-like browser takeover. If it suits your fancy, use it, and if it itches you the wrong way, by all means leave it out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript is Not Web Assembly</title><url>http://blog.izs.me/post/10213512387/javascript-is-not-web-assembly</url></story> |
13,414,229 | 13,411,242 | 1 | 3 | 13,409,914 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NamTaf</author><text>Fun fact: the CSIRO is the only Australian organisation to have a 2nd level domain name, lacking the .com and just using .au. This is because they were the first organisation to use a domain name in Australia and got in before the regulation specified it to be .{com|gov|edu|etc}.au</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway</title><url>https://blog.csiro.au/australian-square-kilometre-array-pathfinder-finally-hits-big-data-highway/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>satysin</author><text>How do you even begin to deal with that much data per second? What do they do with it? Storing more than a few minutes of data isn&#x27;t practical is it? Do they process it in realtime?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway</title><url>https://blog.csiro.au/australian-square-kilometre-array-pathfinder-finally-hits-big-data-highway/</url></story> |
11,587,754 | 11,587,490 | 1 | 3 | 11,586,804 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; I think it&#x27;s more likely to reinforce the lack of diversity in tech than to combat it...<p>I have mixed feelings about this. I have a hard time valuing diversity for its own sake, especially since there are so many qualities to have diversity in, and especially since the ones that actually affect the organization (like diversity of perspective) are so hard to measure and quantify.<p>That being said, it&#x27;s hard for me to sit in an interview and think, &quot;Hmmmm... this is a diversity candidate, so I should ___________.&quot; I&#x27;m not even sure what to put in that blank. And I feel like I&#x27;m already discriminating since I&#x27;m already treating this person like a demographic.<p>So what&#x27;s the answer? Don&#x27;t get to know any personalities? Treat everyone like a demographic? I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s an improvement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reflexorozy</author><text>This sounds like a cool idea, but I&#x27;ve seen where hiring for personality often leads towards hiring discrimination. I think it&#x27;s more likely to reinforce the lack of diversity in tech than to combat it as people unlike the interviewer tend to be viewed less favorably and would be less likely to be viewed as a person who could pick up the specific knowledge he&#x2F;she doesn&#x27;t already know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questions in interviews</title><url>http://voss.world/hire-characters-not-skill-sets-my-most-important-questions-in-interviews/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>takno</author><text>I feel like it&#x27;s telling that he refers to the candidates as guys throughout</text><parent_chain><item><author>reflexorozy</author><text>This sounds like a cool idea, but I&#x27;ve seen where hiring for personality often leads towards hiring discrimination. I think it&#x27;s more likely to reinforce the lack of diversity in tech than to combat it as people unlike the interviewer tend to be viewed less favorably and would be less likely to be viewed as a person who could pick up the specific knowledge he&#x2F;she doesn&#x27;t already know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questions in interviews</title><url>http://voss.world/hire-characters-not-skill-sets-my-most-important-questions-in-interviews/</url></story> |
3,396,398 | 3,396,397 | 1 | 2 | 3,395,738 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbooth</author><text>You know, I can understand not being brave enough to do this yourself. I'm not.<p>But pooh-poohing those who do do it? "Proper channels"? Yeah, I'm sure they're getting right on it.<p>How bad would it have to be before you stopped saying "Oh quit causing a disturbance"? I mean, this is already violating our most sacrosanct freedoms. Would I have to violate godwin's law to get you to agree with civil disobedience?</text><parent_chain><item><author>phaus</author><text>She didn't accomplish anything besides making herself look like a lunatic. As I stated, I really hate the TSA and all of the abuses that have occurred, but this isn't going to help.<p>The TSA has been guilty on numerous occasions of violating a person's constitutional rights. They have endangered the lives of some passengers and outright assaulted others. I really do hope that they are taken to task for the things that they have done, but I don't believe they were wrong to call the police. When you aren't sure what to do in a situation, it is best to defer things to a higher authority. If the police decided she should be arrested, they are the ones responsible for the decision, not the TSA. Whether or not what she did constituted a crime, I don't know, but she was disrupting the process.<p>When I was pulling guard duty in the desert, anyone who acted in an unusual manner would have been detained. I am aware that this event took place in the United States, but the bottom line is you don't mess around with safety. Until the day that the TSA is no longer in charge of airport security, they are responsible for making sure their job gets done. How easy would it be for you to remain focused on your work while someone is standing in front of you yelling out the words to the 4th amendment?<p>If we don't like the TSA, we need to go through the proper channels every time they do something that violates the law. Don't let them get away with anything. I know that it is extremely difficult to get the government to change anything, but the only way to get rid of the TSA is to put people in office that will side with the American people on this issue.</text></item><item><author>peterwwillis</author><text>These stupid things are also incredibly brave and necessary. If you have no other way of fighting what you know is wrong, you have to provoke a response.</text></item><item><author>phaus</author><text>When you decide to yell out the words to the 4th amendment at the same exact moment you are being processed through the security checkpoint at an airport, you are intentionally trying to cause a scene. This can and would be construed by any reasonable person as an attempt to disrupt the screening process. The author knew exactly what she was doing. While I'm not sure it was grounds for an arrest, she was maliciously attempting to provoke some sort of response from the TSA.<p>I hate the TSA as much as anyone, but when you do stupid things on purpose, stupid things happen to you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'TSA Arrests Me for Using the Fourth Amendment as a Weapon'</title><url>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/18/1027775/-TSA-Arrests-Me-for-Using-the-Fourth-Amendment-as-a-Weapon-(Tales-from-the-Edge-of-a-Revolution-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>dantheman</author><text>"the bottom line is you don't mess around with safety. "<p>The TSA fails at Safety, this is just bullshit security theater. If I could, I'd fly with absolutely no security screening before the flight. I'll take my chances instead of slowly losing my life waiting in their "security" lines.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phaus</author><text>She didn't accomplish anything besides making herself look like a lunatic. As I stated, I really hate the TSA and all of the abuses that have occurred, but this isn't going to help.<p>The TSA has been guilty on numerous occasions of violating a person's constitutional rights. They have endangered the lives of some passengers and outright assaulted others. I really do hope that they are taken to task for the things that they have done, but I don't believe they were wrong to call the police. When you aren't sure what to do in a situation, it is best to defer things to a higher authority. If the police decided she should be arrested, they are the ones responsible for the decision, not the TSA. Whether or not what she did constituted a crime, I don't know, but she was disrupting the process.<p>When I was pulling guard duty in the desert, anyone who acted in an unusual manner would have been detained. I am aware that this event took place in the United States, but the bottom line is you don't mess around with safety. Until the day that the TSA is no longer in charge of airport security, they are responsible for making sure their job gets done. How easy would it be for you to remain focused on your work while someone is standing in front of you yelling out the words to the 4th amendment?<p>If we don't like the TSA, we need to go through the proper channels every time they do something that violates the law. Don't let them get away with anything. I know that it is extremely difficult to get the government to change anything, but the only way to get rid of the TSA is to put people in office that will side with the American people on this issue.</text></item><item><author>peterwwillis</author><text>These stupid things are also incredibly brave and necessary. If you have no other way of fighting what you know is wrong, you have to provoke a response.</text></item><item><author>phaus</author><text>When you decide to yell out the words to the 4th amendment at the same exact moment you are being processed through the security checkpoint at an airport, you are intentionally trying to cause a scene. This can and would be construed by any reasonable person as an attempt to disrupt the screening process. The author knew exactly what she was doing. While I'm not sure it was grounds for an arrest, she was maliciously attempting to provoke some sort of response from the TSA.<p>I hate the TSA as much as anyone, but when you do stupid things on purpose, stupid things happen to you.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'TSA Arrests Me for Using the Fourth Amendment as a Weapon'</title><url>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/18/1027775/-TSA-Arrests-Me-for-Using-the-Fourth-Amendment-as-a-Weapon-(Tales-from-the-Edge-of-a-Revolution-2)</url></story> |
23,718,169 | 23,716,568 | 1 | 3 | 23,715,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>namdnay</author><text>Somebody far more eloquent than I am summarized the problem with this attitude: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;circlebroke&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3tsd5o&#x2F;comment&#x2F;cx8xc4o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;circlebroke&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3tsd5o&#x2F;comment...</a><p>By poking fun at everyone who tries to do anything, you end up defending the status quo</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksdale</author><text>&quot;Basically, for every stance they’ve gotten right—like this past season when they refused to back down to China—there’s another one that’s aged like a bowl of Cheesy Poofs left out in the rain.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s never felt to me like South Park was trying to be right about anything. I think of them more as a court jester, they play a role where they mock everything, all the time. The mocking is the point. Getting it right is irrelevant (my take, anyway).<p>When you mock everything, though, you will naturally convince a lot of people that everything is equally worth mocking (which may necessitate, say, readdressing climate change).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars</title><url>https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/6/24/21301245/south-park-2000-oscars-blame-canada-controversy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_jal</author><text>The ritual &quot;I&#x27;ve learned something today...&quot; bit is usually funny and meta, but there&#x27;s clearly a consistent worldview behind the sentiments in the sum up. They aren&#x27;t very subtle about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksdale</author><text>&quot;Basically, for every stance they’ve gotten right—like this past season when they refused to back down to China—there’s another one that’s aged like a bowl of Cheesy Poofs left out in the rain.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s never felt to me like South Park was trying to be right about anything. I think of them more as a court jester, they play a role where they mock everything, all the time. The mocking is the point. Getting it right is irrelevant (my take, anyway).<p>When you mock everything, though, you will naturally convince a lot of people that everything is equally worth mocking (which may necessitate, say, readdressing climate change).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars</title><url>https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/6/24/21301245/south-park-2000-oscars-blame-canada-controversy</url></story> |
27,021,595 | 27,021,714 | 1 | 2 | 27,020,810 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>e1g</author><text>It’s tempting to think that being “right” - in principle, objectively, or even legally - gives superpowers over legal proceedings. It doesn’t. Even a brief brush against targeted litigation will clear up this confusion quickly and painfully. You’ll be broke, and therefore defeated by default, long before you’ll be vindicated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>&gt; I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant&#x2F;suponea<p>Unless you&#x27;re (a) swimming in money, (b) have some kind of strong (and free?) legal&#x2F;financial support behind you to battle such a thing, (c) are not in the US, or (d) are so poor that you have nothing to lose anyway, this sounds like a rather incredible claim. Most people facing potentially massive lawsuits would probably cave.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>From TFA: “This is not a battle worth fighting,” he said in a tweet. Toponce told TechCrunch that he has complied with the demands, fearing legal repercussions if he didn’t.<p>Okay, but let&#x27;s see what they wanted: &quot;The letter also demands that he disclose to the law firm the identity of the person or people with whom he had shared a copy of the software, agree that he would not make any further copies of the software and to delete any copies of the software he had in his possession.&quot;<p>Umm, F-THAT!! I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant&#x2F;suponea for any of my clients&#x2F;customers&#x2F;users&#x2F;friends. Anyone that would be willing to do that should have that tattooed across their foreheads so anyone in the future will know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/what3words-legal-threat-whatfreewords/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eru</author><text>Alas, not being in the US does not protect against the American legal system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>&gt; I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant&#x2F;suponea<p>Unless you&#x27;re (a) swimming in money, (b) have some kind of strong (and free?) legal&#x2F;financial support behind you to battle such a thing, (c) are not in the US, or (d) are so poor that you have nothing to lose anyway, this sounds like a rather incredible claim. Most people facing potentially massive lawsuits would probably cave.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>From TFA: “This is not a battle worth fighting,” he said in a tweet. Toponce told TechCrunch that he has complied with the demands, fearing legal repercussions if he didn’t.<p>Okay, but let&#x27;s see what they wanted: &quot;The letter also demands that he disclose to the law firm the identity of the person or people with whom he had shared a copy of the software, agree that he would not make any further copies of the software and to delete any copies of the software he had in his possession.&quot;<p>Umm, F-THAT!! I will not send you personal contact info of anyone for anything without a warrant&#x2F;suponea for any of my clients&#x2F;customers&#x2F;users&#x2F;friends. Anyone that would be willing to do that should have that tattooed across their foreheads so anyone in the future will know.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/what3words-legal-threat-whatfreewords/</url></story> |
3,679,682 | 3,679,571 | 1 | 2 | 3,679,566 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmc</author><text>More details from OSMF <a href="http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/</a> ( and HN submission <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3679604" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3679604</a> )</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are Apple 'stealing' Open Street Map data?</title><url>http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/apple-maps-aka-apple-are-thieving-bastards/</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>sambeau</author><text>Confirmed (but no mention of stealing):<p><a href="http://blog.osmfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.osmfoundation.org/</a><p>though there is this:<p><pre><code> "It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s
contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get
that on there."
</code></pre>
I guess there is an outside possibility that both teams are using the same Ordinance Survey Data (although this seems unlikely now that the OSM Foundation has chimed in, I suspect they would have checked this before announcing Apple's welcome).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are Apple 'stealing' Open Street Map data?</title><url>http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/apple-maps-aka-apple-are-thieving-bastards/</url><text></text></story> |
29,333,705 | 29,333,367 | 1 | 3 | 29,330,879 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TSiege</author><text>I was just thinking the same thing. I was looking into [Gemini Dollar](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gemini.com&#x2F;dollar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gemini.com&#x2F;dollar</a>) yesterday. It&#x27;s a stable coin that gives the patina of being FDIC secured. Their website says, &quot;Gemini is a U.S. company regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services. GUSD reserves are eligible for FDIC insurance up to $250,000 per user while custodied with State Street Bank and Trust.¹&quot; Furthermore, Gemini offers 8% interest deposits of their Gemini Dollar. This sounds like a safe bet to an unassuming person. Easy 8% returns with no risk since your initial deposit is FDIC insured, so it&#x27;s just like any other savings account. BUT ITS NOT. The fine print reads, &quot;FDIC insurance applies only to the USD reserve funds. GUSD exist as ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain; tokens are under the user’s self-custody, and are not insured through Gemini.&quot;<p>And this is coming from a reputable backer, relative to other stable coins. Then you have Tether which is a ponzi scheme tire fire years in the making and done almost entirely in the open with no consequences. Given that stablecoins like these are used to underpin a lot of the crypto markets, if one of these were to falter I don&#x27;t see how it couldn&#x27;t trigger knock on effects bringing down the others and the entire crypto market with it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewla</author><text>If anything, I think stablecoins are way more dangerous than the author indicates.<p>People talk about things like Bitcoin as a threat to sovereign currencies, and they are, as competitors, of sorts. But stablecoins are another matter entirely. One huge aspect of the value of sovereign currencies is that they are instruments of law -- courts will settle in them as a lowest common denominator, and it is safe to use them in all sorts of settings as a result.<p>When dollar-denominated assets appear, they always run the risk of being considered a dollar-equivalent. For example, bank deposits are dollar-denominated, and are considered dollar-equivalent (even dollar-superior, in the sense that there are transactions that you can&#x27;t legally do with specie, only with bank deposits, like buy stocks). That means that if banks (which are businesses) are not good at doing business, the government is essentially forced to treat them as dollar-equivalents by making them whole. See Savings &amp; Loan Crisis, the GFC, LTCG, etc., etc.<p>Stablecoins piggyback on the legal aspects of dollars, and as long as you treat them as dollar-denominated assets, you&#x27;re fine. The second you treat them as dollar-equivalents, you run the risk of a change in the value of that asset being something that the government is forced into supporting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/nothing-burger.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>weego</author><text><i>People talk about things like Bitcoin as a threat to sovereign currencies, and they are, as competitors, of sorts</i><p>No, they&#x27;re competitors for the stores of sovereign wealth that are the backing of sovereign currencies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewla</author><text>If anything, I think stablecoins are way more dangerous than the author indicates.<p>People talk about things like Bitcoin as a threat to sovereign currencies, and they are, as competitors, of sorts. But stablecoins are another matter entirely. One huge aspect of the value of sovereign currencies is that they are instruments of law -- courts will settle in them as a lowest common denominator, and it is safe to use them in all sorts of settings as a result.<p>When dollar-denominated assets appear, they always run the risk of being considered a dollar-equivalent. For example, bank deposits are dollar-denominated, and are considered dollar-equivalent (even dollar-superior, in the sense that there are transactions that you can&#x27;t legally do with specie, only with bank deposits, like buy stocks). That means that if banks (which are businesses) are not good at doing business, the government is essentially forced to treat them as dollar-equivalents by making them whole. See Savings &amp; Loan Crisis, the GFC, LTCG, etc., etc.<p>Stablecoins piggyback on the legal aspects of dollars, and as long as you treat them as dollar-denominated assets, you&#x27;re fine. The second you treat them as dollar-equivalents, you run the risk of a change in the value of that asset being something that the government is forced into supporting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/nothing-burger.html</url></story> |
27,473,676 | 27,459,967 | 1 | 3 | 27,459,169 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kstenerud</author><text>&gt; In error checks that detect “impossible” conditions, just abort. There is usually no point in printing any message. These checks indicate the existence of bugs. Whoever wants to fix the bugs will have to read the source code and run a debugger. So explain the problem with comments in the source.<p>But then the person <i>RUNNING</i> the program will only see this:<p><pre><code> Abort trap: 6
</code></pre>
And that&#x27;s all the info you&#x27;ll get from their bug report.<p>So please ignore this directive and print a descriptive message always, complete with file and line, and the values that led to the impossible situation. Then you can get helpful bug reports like:<p><pre><code> BUG: flush.c:51: buff_offset (65535) must not be greater than 20!
Abort trap: 6</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Semantics</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigbillheck</author><text>I see that they still say:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Please don’t use “win” as an abbreviation for Microsoft Windows in GNU software or documentation. In hacker terminology, calling something a “win” is a form of praise. You’re free to praise Microsoft Windows on your own if you want, but please don’t do so in GNU packages. Please write “Windows” in full, or abbreviate it to “w.”<p>But they have removed some other guidance:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Instead of abbreviating “Windows” to “un”, you can write it in full or abbreviate it to “woe” or “w”.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Semantics</url></story> |
2,665,687 | 2,664,425 | 1 | 3 | 2,664,243 | 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>raganwald</author><text><i>why does it seem like most side projects are done by people for whom the predominance of their work appears to be side projects?</i><p>It's easy to see why most side projects are done by people for whom the predominance of their work <i>appears</i> to be side projects: This is a trivial consequence of the fact that the vast majority of the software developed on this planet is "dark matter." It's developed inside companies, and even if you know I work for IBM on DB2, it's hard to see from the outside whether I'm a coding machine by day or whether I write emails from 8-5 and code side projects from 5-8.<p>In the universe of software projects, we're mostly talking about side projects that are visible things like Github repositories, and mostly talking about day gigs that are invisible. If we want to drop the word "appears" from your first statement, we need to include side projects that aren't on Github (like startups being developed on nights and week-ends while the authors go to work "for the man" M-F 9-5).<p>We then need to compare all of the side projects to all of the code these people write during their day gigs, whether it's highly visible stuff like Linux or "invisible" like the internals of an ATM locator for an online bank.<p>If we don't include all of the side projects and we don't include all of the day gigs, it is very easy for our skewed sample to have many examples where the authors <i>appear</i> to do most of their work on their side projects.<p>Please don't assume from this that I disagree with where you seem to be taking the conversation. If we see that things are not always as they seem, we also must accept the idea that even if people with side projects <i>appear</i> to be good programmers, it might be that the high-profile examples we find on HN or who blog are not representative of programmers as a whole. It is very dangerous to draw conclusions about the correlation between a side project and talent based on an incomplete sample. I think we agree on this here and in another thread elsewhere.<p>As they say... The plural of anecdote is not "data."</text><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text><i>The right question is, What is it about certain/many good developers that leads them to program in their spare time?</i><p>This is a good question, but it does lead me to a thought... why does it seem like most side projects are done by people for whom the predominance of their work appears to be side projects? Let me explain.<p>Most of the programmers who produce large products, don't do much in the way of side projects. Carmack seems to be heads down on Rage. I don't see a Carmack GitHub project. Nothing from Tim Sweeney either. I don't see anything from the devs that did GTA or Halo or RDR or the latest Mario game.<p>What about David Cutler? Linus -- he did Git, I guess a side project(?) -- other stuff? Any of the iOS architects have GitHub side projects? WebOS architects?<p>It seems like we have two classes of devs. Those that ship large products. Whether its iOS or Grand Theft Auto 5. And devs that ship little projects. Small startups, little tools here and there. The overlap between the two seems rather small.</text></item><item><author>raganwald</author><text>Correlation does not equal causation. Asking whether not programming in your spare time makes you a bad developer is the wrong question. The right question is, <i>What is it about certain/many good developers that leads them to program in their spare time?</i><p>Pursue that something and you may end up programming in your spare time. Or starting a company such that your side project is your job. Or finding something really exciting to do at your current job. Or whatever. In words much older than our civilization: "Do not follow in the footsteps of the Sages. <i>Seek what they sought.</i>"</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I don't program in my spare time. Does that make me a bad developer?</title><url>http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/48698/i-dont-program-in-my-spare-time-does-that-make-me-a-bad-developer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Linus cooking up Git - that's not a side project; that's what he does for earning a living. They needed Git as a replacement for BitKeeper. I do admire Linus, when he sets his mind on something, he gets things done.<p>But, about people working for big companies, since you are talking about iOS / WebOS, etc... these people do many times have side projects, but they are internal and in the context of the company they work for, not public. And the cool thing about a big company (versus a startup) is that deadlines are more relaxed (you do have more free time) and you can switch projects when bored to death.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text><i>The right question is, What is it about certain/many good developers that leads them to program in their spare time?</i><p>This is a good question, but it does lead me to a thought... why does it seem like most side projects are done by people for whom the predominance of their work appears to be side projects? Let me explain.<p>Most of the programmers who produce large products, don't do much in the way of side projects. Carmack seems to be heads down on Rage. I don't see a Carmack GitHub project. Nothing from Tim Sweeney either. I don't see anything from the devs that did GTA or Halo or RDR or the latest Mario game.<p>What about David Cutler? Linus -- he did Git, I guess a side project(?) -- other stuff? Any of the iOS architects have GitHub side projects? WebOS architects?<p>It seems like we have two classes of devs. Those that ship large products. Whether its iOS or Grand Theft Auto 5. And devs that ship little projects. Small startups, little tools here and there. The overlap between the two seems rather small.</text></item><item><author>raganwald</author><text>Correlation does not equal causation. Asking whether not programming in your spare time makes you a bad developer is the wrong question. The right question is, <i>What is it about certain/many good developers that leads them to program in their spare time?</i><p>Pursue that something and you may end up programming in your spare time. Or starting a company such that your side project is your job. Or finding something really exciting to do at your current job. Or whatever. In words much older than our civilization: "Do not follow in the footsteps of the Sages. <i>Seek what they sought.</i>"</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I don't program in my spare time. Does that make me a bad developer?</title><url>http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/48698/i-dont-program-in-my-spare-time-does-that-make-me-a-bad-developer</url></story> |
36,491,927 | 36,485,916 | 1 | 2 | 36,480,007 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>Android has had sideloading forever, yet the Play Store still is the most popular store by miles.</text><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Which will unravel the App Store.<p>Because the benefits of side loading on iOS are so massive that everyone will use it i.e. you can use private APIs, bypass Apple&#x27;s privacy controls, implement device tracking, harvest data e.g. contacts.<p>It&#x27;s going to be a huge transfer of power and wealth back to the likes of Meta, Epic etc</text></item><item><author>max_</author><text>You can always give people an effective way to sideload applications.</text></item><item><author>rcoder</author><text>Choose one:<p>1. Full-on libre: speech, financial flows, technical architecture, etc. (i.e., basically the entire raison d&#x27;être for Nostr)<p>-or-<p>2. Live and work inside the walled garden of Apple + Google&#x27;s app stores<p>You really can&#x27;t have it both ways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature</title><url>https://twitter.com/damusapp/status/1673326463297392640</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axus</author><text>None of those seem like benefits to the iPhone owner; why wouldn&#x27;t I use the App Store?</text><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Which will unravel the App Store.<p>Because the benefits of side loading on iOS are so massive that everyone will use it i.e. you can use private APIs, bypass Apple&#x27;s privacy controls, implement device tracking, harvest data e.g. contacts.<p>It&#x27;s going to be a huge transfer of power and wealth back to the likes of Meta, Epic etc</text></item><item><author>max_</author><text>You can always give people an effective way to sideload applications.</text></item><item><author>rcoder</author><text>Choose one:<p>1. Full-on libre: speech, financial flows, technical architecture, etc. (i.e., basically the entire raison d&#x27;être for Nostr)<p>-or-<p>2. Live and work inside the walled garden of Apple + Google&#x27;s app stores<p>You really can&#x27;t have it both ways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature</title><url>https://twitter.com/damusapp/status/1673326463297392640</url></story> |
37,151,260 | 37,150,510 | 1 | 3 | 37,149,782 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Charles Stross has written at least two full-length novels that are, at their core, about interstellar economics:<p>- Neptune&#x27;s Brood (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neptune%27s_Brood" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neptune%27s_Brood</a>)<p>- Singularity Sky (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Singularity_Sky" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Singularity_Sky</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjdesno</author><text>To understand the bogus funding acknowledgement, it helps to remember that this was written during the era of Proxmire&#x27;s Golden Fleece awards, which picked random government-funded academic researchers and held them up for public ridicule based on highly slanted and selective descriptions of their research.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf</url></story> |
18,511,497 | 18,509,151 | 1 | 2 | 18,506,170 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Liskni_si</author><text>Our team is responsible for deployment&#x2F;operations of our self-hosted Jira so a few months ago I decided to make it faster, and oh what a rabbit hole that was:<p>When you look at Jira using Chrome DevTools there are these big batch.js and batch.css files (up to 5MB in total) that are different for every type of Jira view (dashboard, agile board, issue detail, issue search, …) so the first few page loads might be a bit slow but then they all should be cached as they don&#x27;t change until you update your Jira and everything should be smooth. Except that wasn&#x27;t what I saw, they seemed to be reloaded every hour or something.<p>Naturally I blamed Jira, and wasted hours Googling for batch.js not being cached, but eventually came to the conclusion that it can&#x27;t be Jira&#x27;s fault, and it isn&#x27;t. Turns out it&#x27;s the Google Chrome&#x27;s cache backend that&#x27;s used on Linux (and only there). There are three issues with it:<p>1. it&#x27;s limited to cca 320MB even if you&#x27;ve got 1TB free space<p>2. entries are evicted by age times size, ignoring number of hits<p>3. media files such as 2MB youtube fragments use the same cache<p>The result is that watching youtube for a while evicts all cached batch.js. To make this bearable, I enabled gzip in the reverse HTTP proxy in front of Jira, which brought batch.js down to 500KB so that it&#x27;s smaller than the youtube fragments and isn&#x27;t evicted sooner than those. Still, few hours of watching youtube and not visiting Jira evicts it. Increasing the cache size using &quot;google-chrome --disk-cache-size=2000000000&quot; helps as well.<p>Oh and here&#x27;s the link to Chromium issue tracker: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=617620" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=617620</a> :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ploxiln</author><text>Jira is in a league of its own. With latest stable Firefox on a Macbook Pro from 2014, I get a full 10 seconds loading time for the notifications sidebar. Every click in Jira takes between 5 and 15 seconds. It is absolutely nuts and it seems like many people just don&#x27;t understand how insanely bad it is (but obviously many engineers do ;)<p>Meanwhile my browser can load, render, and scroll a 4000 line colored diff in less than half a second (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux.git&#x2F;commit&#x2F;?id=01897f3e05ede4d66c0f9df465fde1d67a1d733f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;lin...</a>)</text></item><item><author>coder543</author><text>I think this article places too much emphasis on input devices and hardware constraints, and not enough on software architecture. JIRA doesn&#x27;t really feel any faster just because your input devices are fast; the application level latency dwarfs the input latency by a large margin.<p>I would take measurements, but JIRA prohibits benchmarking for some reason... ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯ they&#x27;re probably just trying to save everyone else the embarrassment of seeing how incredibly fast JIRA is compared to their own sluggish offerings, right?<p>I am confident that JIRA&#x27;s application latency has nothing to do with Java (backend) or JavaScript&#x27;s (frontend) garbage collector.<p>Many companies just feel no impetus to write fast software, or to use commensurately powerful hardware.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slow Software</title><url>https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.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>LolNoGenerics</author><text>At least we&#x27;re getting paid well for watching load indicators. Atlassian should make a step forward and show funny cat gifs to increase satisfaction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ploxiln</author><text>Jira is in a league of its own. With latest stable Firefox on a Macbook Pro from 2014, I get a full 10 seconds loading time for the notifications sidebar. Every click in Jira takes between 5 and 15 seconds. It is absolutely nuts and it seems like many people just don&#x27;t understand how insanely bad it is (but obviously many engineers do ;)<p>Meanwhile my browser can load, render, and scroll a 4000 line colored diff in less than half a second (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux.git&#x2F;commit&#x2F;?id=01897f3e05ede4d66c0f9df465fde1d67a1d733f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;lin...</a>)</text></item><item><author>coder543</author><text>I think this article places too much emphasis on input devices and hardware constraints, and not enough on software architecture. JIRA doesn&#x27;t really feel any faster just because your input devices are fast; the application level latency dwarfs the input latency by a large margin.<p>I would take measurements, but JIRA prohibits benchmarking for some reason... ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯ they&#x27;re probably just trying to save everyone else the embarrassment of seeing how incredibly fast JIRA is compared to their own sluggish offerings, right?<p>I am confident that JIRA&#x27;s application latency has nothing to do with Java (backend) or JavaScript&#x27;s (frontend) garbage collector.<p>Many companies just feel no impetus to write fast software, or to use commensurately powerful hardware.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slow Software</title><url>https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html</url></story> |
12,941,205 | 12,941,101 | 1 | 2 | 12,939,856 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ckozlowski</author><text>One of the things I stress when talking to customers is that when one is moving to cloud, it&#x27;s not just the business model that changes, but the architecture model.<p>That may sound like cold comfort on the face of it, but it&#x27;s key to getting the most out of cloud and exceed the possibilities of an on-prem architecture. Rule #1 is, everything fails. The key advantage to a good cloud provider (and there are many) is not that they can deliver a guarantee against failure (as boulos stated correctly) but that they&#x27;ll allow you to design for failure. The issue becomes when the architecture in the cloud resembles that which was on-premise. While there&#x27;s still some advantages, they&#x27;re markedly fewer, and as you said, there&#x27;s nothing you can do to prioritize your fix.<p>They key to having a good cloud deployment is effectively utilizing the features that eliminate single points of failure so that the same storage controller failure that might knock you out in your on-prem can&#x27;t knock you out in the cloud, even though the repair time for the latter might be longer. That brings its own challenges, but brings huge advantages when it comes together.<p>Disclosure: I work for AWS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>At a certain scale, it&#x27;s better to just take that responsibility rather than rely on someone to be able to handle that burden. When something fails, the worst thing is being out of control of it and unable to do anything about it.<p>Last time I had a failed storage controller, HP delivered a replacement in four hours. Last time a service provider went down, I had no visibility into the repair process, and had to explain there was nothing I could do... For five days.<p>It seems like you&#x27;ve outright admitted you can&#x27;t guarantee what they need, yet you still urge them not to leave your business model. Maybe come back when your business model can meet their needs.</text></item><item><author>boulos</author><text>See my note about SLAs and ToR failures. We probably could promise something for our Local SSD offering (tail latency &lt; 1ms!), but high-performance, guaranteed networked storage is just tricky.<p>As I said, rolling your own will not give you a guarantee, it will just give you the responsibility for failure. We don&#x27;t offer the guarantee, because we don&#x27;t want you to believe it can&#x27;t fail.</text></item><item><author>Dwolb</author><text>I think what you&#x27;re seeing in this post has product implications for Google Cloud.<p>The OP is asking for guaranteed IOPS&#x2F;latency SLA for which they&#x27;re willing to pay HUGE money for by ROLLING THEIR OWN.<p>Possibly think about high service pricing tiers for systems that require it. This is a standard operations problem that can co-exist within pooled service models.</text></item><item><author>boulos</author><text>I appreciate that you didn&#x27;t sling mud at Azure, but re-reading the commit for the move to Azure [1] there were tell tale signs then that it might be bumpy for the storage layer.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, hardware doesn&#x27;t provide an IOPS&#x2F;latency SLA either ;). In all seriousness, we (Google, all providers) struggle with deciding what we can strictly promise. Offering you a &quot;guaranteed you can hit 50k IOPS&quot; SLA isn&#x27;t much comfort if we know that all it takes is a single ToR failure for that to be not true (providers could still offer it, have you ask for a refund if affected, etc. but your experience isn&#x27;t changed).<p>All that said, I would encourage you to reconsider. I know you&#x27;re frustrated, but rolling your own infrastructure just means you have to build systems even better than the providers. On the plus side, when it&#x27;s your fault, it&#x27;s your fault (or the hardware vendor, or the colo facility). You&#x27;ve been through a lot already, but I&#x27;d suggest you&#x27;d be better off returning to AWS or coming to us (Google) [Note: Our PD offering historically allowed up to 10 TiB per disk and is now a full 64 TiB, I&#x27;m sorry if the docs were confusing].<p>Again, I&#x27;m not saying this to have you come to us or another cloud provider, but because I honestly believe this would be a huge time sink for GitLab. Instead of focusing on your great product, you&#x27;d have to play &quot;Let&#x27;s order more storage&quot; (honestly managing Ceph has a similar annoyance). I&#x27;m sorry you had a bad experience with your provider, but it&#x27;s not all the same. Feel free to reach out to me or others, if you want to chat further.<p>Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-com&#x2F;www-gitlab-com&#x2F;merge_requests&#x2F;1097&#x2F;diffs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-com&#x2F;www-gitlab-com&#x2F;merge_requests&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boulos</author><text>That is quite honestly amazing turn around. Most people aren&#x27;t in a position to get a replacement delivered from a vendor that quickly, but if you are, awesome. Again though, there&#x27;s a big gap between simple, local storage (we could probably provide a tighter SLO&#x2F;SLA on Local SSD for example) and networked storage as a service.<p>As someone else alluded to downthread: anyone claiming they can provide guaranteed throughput and latency on networked block devices at arbitrary percentiles in the face of hardware failure is misleading you. I don&#x27;t disagree that you might feel better and have more visibility into what&#x27;s going on when it&#x27;s your own hardware, but it&#x27;s an apples and oranges comparison.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>At a certain scale, it&#x27;s better to just take that responsibility rather than rely on someone to be able to handle that burden. When something fails, the worst thing is being out of control of it and unable to do anything about it.<p>Last time I had a failed storage controller, HP delivered a replacement in four hours. Last time a service provider went down, I had no visibility into the repair process, and had to explain there was nothing I could do... For five days.<p>It seems like you&#x27;ve outright admitted you can&#x27;t guarantee what they need, yet you still urge them not to leave your business model. Maybe come back when your business model can meet their needs.</text></item><item><author>boulos</author><text>See my note about SLAs and ToR failures. We probably could promise something for our Local SSD offering (tail latency &lt; 1ms!), but high-performance, guaranteed networked storage is just tricky.<p>As I said, rolling your own will not give you a guarantee, it will just give you the responsibility for failure. We don&#x27;t offer the guarantee, because we don&#x27;t want you to believe it can&#x27;t fail.</text></item><item><author>Dwolb</author><text>I think what you&#x27;re seeing in this post has product implications for Google Cloud.<p>The OP is asking for guaranteed IOPS&#x2F;latency SLA for which they&#x27;re willing to pay HUGE money for by ROLLING THEIR OWN.<p>Possibly think about high service pricing tiers for systems that require it. This is a standard operations problem that can co-exist within pooled service models.</text></item><item><author>boulos</author><text>I appreciate that you didn&#x27;t sling mud at Azure, but re-reading the commit for the move to Azure [1] there were tell tale signs then that it might be bumpy for the storage layer.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, hardware doesn&#x27;t provide an IOPS&#x2F;latency SLA either ;). In all seriousness, we (Google, all providers) struggle with deciding what we can strictly promise. Offering you a &quot;guaranteed you can hit 50k IOPS&quot; SLA isn&#x27;t much comfort if we know that all it takes is a single ToR failure for that to be not true (providers could still offer it, have you ask for a refund if affected, etc. but your experience isn&#x27;t changed).<p>All that said, I would encourage you to reconsider. I know you&#x27;re frustrated, but rolling your own infrastructure just means you have to build systems even better than the providers. On the plus side, when it&#x27;s your fault, it&#x27;s your fault (or the hardware vendor, or the colo facility). You&#x27;ve been through a lot already, but I&#x27;d suggest you&#x27;d be better off returning to AWS or coming to us (Google) [Note: Our PD offering historically allowed up to 10 TiB per disk and is now a full 64 TiB, I&#x27;m sorry if the docs were confusing].<p>Again, I&#x27;m not saying this to have you come to us or another cloud provider, but because I honestly believe this would be a huge time sink for GitLab. Instead of focusing on your great product, you&#x27;d have to play &quot;Let&#x27;s order more storage&quot; (honestly managing Ceph has a similar annoyance). I&#x27;m sorry you had a bad experience with your provider, but it&#x27;s not all the same. Feel free to reach out to me or others, if you want to chat further.<p>Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-com&#x2F;www-gitlab-com&#x2F;merge_requests&#x2F;1097&#x2F;diffs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-com&#x2F;www-gitlab-com&#x2F;merge_requests&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/?</url></story> |
34,968,465 | 34,967,582 | 1 | 2 | 34,966,138 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lapcat</author><text>&gt; And I&#x27;ve actually been inside an organization or two.<p>Unless you&#x27;re inside the mind of the CEO, it&#x27;s not clear how this is relevant. And if the CEOs are acting irrationally, it&#x27;s not clear that even being inside their minds would help, because the irrational tend to lack the self-awareness to see their own irrationality.<p>The professor doesn&#x27;t claim to be inside their minds either. The point is that, empirically, layoffs very often fail to bring about any economic improvements to the company, and may indeed hurt the company in the long run.<p>It&#x27;s a matter of penny-wise but pound-foolish.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pie_flavor</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m a Stanford professor who&#x27;s studied organizational behavior for decades.<p>And I&#x27;ve actually been <i>inside</i> an organization or two. It&#x27;s cost-cutting. Companies are ludicrously bloated because caring about it is too much effort for the value; during a downturn, they care a bit more, so they trim a bit of the fat. Musk was the one that pointed out that the emperor has no clothes, but that doesn&#x27;t change how long it&#x27;s been that way for. There&#x27;s always this blind spot with academic types observing the software industry, where they assume that the dysfunction is rumors and the real issue is something thinky and academic (see e.g. the declining value of a CS degree - couldn&#x27;t&#x27;ve been always worthless, must be a supply-and-demand issue), because it&#x27;s just about impossible to fathom how something as dysfunctional as the software industry really is could possibly stand on two feet without falling over, until you&#x27;ve seen it firsthand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-professor-mass-layoffs-caused-by-social-contagion-companies-imitating-2023-2</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>rhaway84773</author><text>Your explanation fails to answer why these same companies were hiring people at highly inflated salaries only a year ago, whereas the academic type explanation fully covers that scenario as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pie_flavor</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m a Stanford professor who&#x27;s studied organizational behavior for decades.<p>And I&#x27;ve actually been <i>inside</i> an organization or two. It&#x27;s cost-cutting. Companies are ludicrously bloated because caring about it is too much effort for the value; during a downturn, they care a bit more, so they trim a bit of the fat. Musk was the one that pointed out that the emperor has no clothes, but that doesn&#x27;t change how long it&#x27;s been that way for. There&#x27;s always this blind spot with academic types observing the software industry, where they assume that the dysfunction is rumors and the real issue is something thinky and academic (see e.g. the declining value of a CS degree - couldn&#x27;t&#x27;ve been always worthless, must be a supply-and-demand issue), because it&#x27;s just about impossible to fathom how something as dysfunctional as the software industry really is could possibly stand on two feet without falling over, until you&#x27;ve seen it firsthand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-professor-mass-layoffs-caused-by-social-contagion-companies-imitating-2023-2</url></story> |
37,073,860 | 37,072,116 | 1 | 2 | 37,071,472 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Quinzel</author><text>I work in operating rooms, and while I think you make a good point, I don’t entirely agree with your comment. I do think that healthcare professionals have a responsibility to be held accountable for their behaviour - and the social medical MedTok thing is disgusting, and ultimately bad for healthcare as an industry that is in the business of caring - because this is exploitation of people who are generally vulnerable in one way or another.<p>I think using surgery&#x2F;medical procedures for entertainment is unethical and irresponsible even if consent is given. Firstly in addition to privacy concerns, there is also concerns around being distracted while doing surgery, and infection control risks. For that reason, I don’t think any responsible healthcare practitioners that had their patients well-being at the forefront of their mind would be indulging in that kind of behaviour.
However, I think there is a place for surgery to be shown to the general public, but from an educational perspective for both healthcare professionals that are learning, but also for people to know what happens to their bodies when they have surgery. It should not be some unknown exclusive mystery. (I think the mystery of it is what makes it appealing as a form of entertainment.)
However, I think the sharing of medical procedures should be done responsibly, and accurately, and not for entertainment - which has a tendency to overdramatise things, or misrepresent things.
My biggest daily drama in an operating room is actually often dealing with the anxiety patients have around coming in for their procedures because what they expect to happen is so warped by biased representation’s of what happens in operating rooms.
I think the article does bring to light some issues in healthcare being used as a form of entertainment</text><parent_chain><item><author>acyou</author><text>This is a hit piece with a divisive agenda. Patients vs. the health establishment. Us vs. them. I had to stop reading. I am not convinced this is widespread behavior. Yes, if I saw myself on social media without consent, I would go straight to the college or professional association with a privacy violation complaint. But this article is just trying to fuel hatred.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Doctors on TikTok</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/medical-tiktok/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbigelow76</author><text><i>I am not convinced this is widespread behavior.</i><p>How many does it take to be widespread (or more crucially, addressable) behavior, is it N+you?<p><i>Yes, if I saw myself on social media without consent, I would go straight to the college or professional association with a privacy violation complaint. But this article is just trying to fuel hatred.</i><p>Are there any release documents for doctors that you can cite that include a patient appearing, either knowingly or unknowingly, in social media? I know this sounds sarcastic because it&#x27;s so ludicrous but if they exist I would like to know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acyou</author><text>This is a hit piece with a divisive agenda. Patients vs. the health establishment. Us vs. them. I had to stop reading. I am not convinced this is widespread behavior. Yes, if I saw myself on social media without consent, I would go straight to the college or professional association with a privacy violation complaint. But this article is just trying to fuel hatred.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Doctors on TikTok</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/medical-tiktok/</url></story> |
20,130,085 | 20,128,699 | 1 | 3 | 20,127,154 | 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>Waterluvian</author><text>I have a really fond memory of Escape Velocity. My brother and I played it all summer one year. We daisy chained two apple keyboards so that he could fly and I could control escorts.<p>Then something incredible happened. I must have pressed a wrong key because we got a beep and a note, &quot;you are too far away to board this ship.&quot; We looked at each other like we just discovered the map to the holy Grail. &quot;WHAT DO YOU MEAN BOARD? YOU CAN BOARD SHIPS?&quot;<p>Then later came discovering ResEdit (and creating my patented &quot;Javelin Spray&quot;)<p>I still remember so much about that game. Like capturing Lightnings and selling them for a profit. Or how it takes exactly one torpedo to kill a Defender. Or how a bumper crop lowered the price of food on Levo. The forbidden planets were so mysterious. The Lethe&#x2F;Cydonia war. The Mass Driver. Modifying an Argosy into a terrifying gunboat of proton turrets. Captain Hector. Aliens. Feuding couriers that eventually start killing each other. Having 6 Rebel Destroyers as escorts, the F key turning into &quot;press for missile rain.&quot;<p>That game opened us up to a whole universe of what video games could be. We were maybe 8 and 10 years old.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Endless Sky: GPL Licensed Escape Velocity Successor</title><url>https://endless-sky.github.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inetknght</author><text>I&#x27;ve played all three of the Escape Velocities distributed by Ambrosia Software. They&#x27;re among my favorite games of all time. I first played Endless Sky on steam a few years ago. Its gameplay is very close to Escape Velocity. Its plot isn&#x27;t bad either.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Endless Sky: GPL Licensed Escape Velocity Successor</title><url>https://endless-sky.github.io/</url></story> |
18,069,600 | 18,069,243 | 1 | 3 | 18,067,684 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wiz21c</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s not pythonic but I can assure you, after having passed 6 years working with it that it&#x27;s extremely efficient and very well integrated with python. It just works, and a complaint about aesthetics won&#x27;t change that :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ehsankia</author><text>The API still looks messy and unpythonic though, sadly. Look at the basic hello world example. Why do I need to pass QApplication an empty array? Why am I calling a method ending with _ to launch the program? And the fact the label magically attaches to the app through some side effect is also confusing.<p>Does anyone know if there&#x27;s any good shim&#x2F;wrapper around PyQt that has a better API?</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>This is a case where the &quot;in 2018&quot; in the title is very helpful, as Googling information about Python and Qt usually returns something dreadfully out of date. (and as other comments note, there are lots of new companion tools&#x2F;competitors like Electron)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018</title><url>https://build-system.fman.io/pyqt5-tutorial</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blattimwind</author><text>Since Python 3 you can use exec() instead of exec_() (in Python 2 exec was a keyword).<p>&gt; And the fact the label magically attaches to the app through some side effect is also confusing.<p>Are you referring to the first &quot;label.show()&quot; example?<p>Typically that pattern is rare (~once per app for the main window). Regarding attachment to the app; QApplication is a process-wide singleton. <i>All</i> objects belong to the same app.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ehsankia</author><text>The API still looks messy and unpythonic though, sadly. Look at the basic hello world example. Why do I need to pass QApplication an empty array? Why am I calling a method ending with _ to launch the program? And the fact the label magically attaches to the app through some side effect is also confusing.<p>Does anyone know if there&#x27;s any good shim&#x2F;wrapper around PyQt that has a better API?</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>This is a case where the &quot;in 2018&quot; in the title is very helpful, as Googling information about Python and Qt usually returns something dreadfully out of date. (and as other comments note, there are lots of new companion tools&#x2F;competitors like Electron)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018</title><url>https://build-system.fman.io/pyqt5-tutorial</url></story> |
20,779,696 | 20,779,678 | 1 | 3 | 20,767,183 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>octosphere</author><text>It&#x27;s funny looking at some of the contributors to this. Some of the accounts seem to be vague, single-duty accounts made for the express purpose of contributing code to CyberChef and nothing else. I admire their OPSEC<p>(From: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gchq&#x2F;CyberChef&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;contributors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gchq&#x2F;CyberChef&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;contributors</a>)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;n1474335" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;n1474335</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;j433866" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;j433866</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;d98762625" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;d98762625</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;s2224834" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;s2224834</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GCHQ77703" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GCHQ77703</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife</title><url>https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>So much fun!<p>At first glance, only feature requests I might have added when I did this sort of work would be in for audio spectrographs in the multimedia section. Useful for finding stego, embedded thumbnails, hidden channels etc, and a generalized malicious ZIP parser that deals with the myriad of nasties packers can use.<p>The demand to scale this capability within an agency like that makes it worth while to build tools like this, wonder whatother easter eggs are in there beyond alert msgs.<p>Brits, so cheeky.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife</title><url>https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/</url></story> |
18,673,398 | 18,673,084 | 1 | 3 | 18,672,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nothrabannosir</author><text><i>&gt; Those who value their content should (when financially feasible) ideally use paid services or paid hosting where the provider&#x27;s interests and the publisher&#x27;s interest are aligned.</i><p>Or, when financially constrained but technologically inclined, use a custom domain on a service like Tumblr or Github, to allow migrating later down the line.<p>The author touches on this:<p><i>&quot;If I had used a custom domain for my Medium publication, it wouldn&#x27;t have been much of an issue. In that case, I could have just set up 301 redirects to the new articles and deleted the old ones from Medium. All the SEO juice would have been preserved, and Google would have shown the updated article in the search results.&quot;</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>newscracker</author><text>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, posting any content of value on any platform or service that you don&#x27;t pay for and don&#x27;t have a good control over is a bad idea. It doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s Medium or Facebook or Instagram or Quora or anything else. If it&#x27;s, say, on one of the Facebook properties that puts up barriers for people not registered with them (and thus the content is not easily accessible on the open web), it&#x27;s a terrible idea.<p>Those who value their content should (when financially feasible) ideally use paid services or paid hosting where the provider&#x27;s interests and the publisher&#x27;s interest are aligned.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium</title><url>https://bts.nomadgate.com/medium-evergreen-content</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tpaschalis</author><text>This exactly. Companies exist to make money, and that&#x27;s of course a good thing. But the way that some tech companies choose to go about that (growth at all costs, maximizing attention by clickbait, and ultimately selling whitespace for advertisments) may not be the best long-term way to do things.<p>It&#x27;s like the real-world option between choosing to publish your own little newspaper versus writing a small column in someone&#x27;s else newspaper, where you have no control over.</text><parent_chain><item><author>newscracker</author><text>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, posting any content of value on any platform or service that you don&#x27;t pay for and don&#x27;t have a good control over is a bad idea. It doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s Medium or Facebook or Instagram or Quora or anything else. If it&#x27;s, say, on one of the Facebook properties that puts up barriers for people not registered with them (and thus the content is not easily accessible on the open web), it&#x27;s a terrible idea.<p>Those who value their content should (when financially feasible) ideally use paid services or paid hosting where the provider&#x27;s interests and the publisher&#x27;s interest are aligned.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium</title><url>https://bts.nomadgate.com/medium-evergreen-content</url></story> |
22,729,241 | 22,728,558 | 1 | 2 | 22,728,127 | 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>john_moscow</author><text>&gt;So nobody dares do anything as they have lost faith in the police and all support.
&gt;I have aspergers and have serious PTSD due to years of this abuse and need help getting the truth out there.<p>Here&#x27;s one uncomfortable fact about our society that most people sort of feel, but don&#x27;t usually express in words. Despite what people say, nobody gives a damn about others&#x27; problems. People will tell you all kinds of kind and supportive words, because it makes <i>them</i> feel good about <i>themselves</i> being so kind. Nobody will go an extra mile and risk being attacked&#x2F;sued&#x2F;defamed, unless the problem starts seriously affecting <i>them</i>. Please do yourself a favor and put together what other people said and what they have done so far, and you will find this as the most plausible model.<p>If you truly have Aspergers, think of this purely logically. How much time&#x2F;effort have you put into getting the truth out there? What if you put the same effort towards simply moving elsewhere? Make sure you understand what neighborhoods&#x2F;apartment types will have lower probability of the same problem. Also think of renting a detached house in the middle of nowhere and working remotely. It could cost comparably to a downtown condo, but you will get priceless peace and quiet.<p>It is sad, but there is no &quot;getting truth out there&quot; option. There is an option of fighting the windmills, hearing kind words from everyone, while still stuck in a lifestyle you hate. Or there&#x27;s an option of being selfish, setting a goal that will help you and just you, and allocating every resource you have towards achieving this goal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zenst</author><text>I&#x27;m Stuck in a flat above heroin&#x2F;crack abusers, they have dealers in all the time, abuse the victim card and keep getting away with it. Police, council.... all just victimhood them and dispite over years and years of having hard evidence, they just ignore it.<p>Equally the partner of the women had a business, working and she got him hooked on the stuff, she&#x27;s abusive, killing him and nobody over the years seems to care as she is for want of a better word - classic dark triad case <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dark_triad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dark_triad</a><p>I&#x27;ve suffered abuse, homophobic abuse and as I&#x27;m not gay, it has been ignored. Even malicious gossip about me being a peado, again all ignored by the powers that be and I&#x27;ve done all the right things, tried so many times and been ignored.<p>Since lockdown they have guests all the time, dealers, really nasty people and yet, i&#x27;m still ignored.<p>Housing association in question even gone out their way to protect them and she has driven so many people out of their homes due to her abuse and still is allowed to get away with it as she excels at playing the victim, lies and I could list endless examples, it just frustrates me how these people keep on being allowed to carry on.<p>So yes, very mindful of abuse, sadly the system seems to excel at enabling them.<p>Oh as for police, even had instances of them not only doing nothing, but informing the dealers who informed upon them.
Like passing on statements to her so she can show the dealers she didn&#x27;t inform upon them and with that, lets them back in to the detrement of those who stood up.<p>So nobody dares do anything as they have lost faith in the police and all support.<p>I&#x27;m now at stage that I need a good investigative reporter as I have recordings and other proofs as the police have failed me so many times that I&#x27;ve lost faith in them completly. As I have all support systems.<p>I have aspergers and have serious PTSD due to years of this abuse and need help getting the truth out there.<p>Sorry if this not best place to talk about this, but I&#x27;ve tried and tried all the right avenues and only to be failed.<p>Also sorry that I can&#x27;t bestow all the details as it is so painful and triggers my PTSD but I&#x27;ll try.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For people with an abusive partner, lockdown means captivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/30/abusive-partner-lockdown-domestic-abuse-charities-women-home</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>topbanana</author><text>You need to get the hell out of there. It can&#x27;t be good for your mental health</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zenst</author><text>I&#x27;m Stuck in a flat above heroin&#x2F;crack abusers, they have dealers in all the time, abuse the victim card and keep getting away with it. Police, council.... all just victimhood them and dispite over years and years of having hard evidence, they just ignore it.<p>Equally the partner of the women had a business, working and she got him hooked on the stuff, she&#x27;s abusive, killing him and nobody over the years seems to care as she is for want of a better word - classic dark triad case <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dark_triad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dark_triad</a><p>I&#x27;ve suffered abuse, homophobic abuse and as I&#x27;m not gay, it has been ignored. Even malicious gossip about me being a peado, again all ignored by the powers that be and I&#x27;ve done all the right things, tried so many times and been ignored.<p>Since lockdown they have guests all the time, dealers, really nasty people and yet, i&#x27;m still ignored.<p>Housing association in question even gone out their way to protect them and she has driven so many people out of their homes due to her abuse and still is allowed to get away with it as she excels at playing the victim, lies and I could list endless examples, it just frustrates me how these people keep on being allowed to carry on.<p>So yes, very mindful of abuse, sadly the system seems to excel at enabling them.<p>Oh as for police, even had instances of them not only doing nothing, but informing the dealers who informed upon them.
Like passing on statements to her so she can show the dealers she didn&#x27;t inform upon them and with that, lets them back in to the detrement of those who stood up.<p>So nobody dares do anything as they have lost faith in the police and all support.<p>I&#x27;m now at stage that I need a good investigative reporter as I have recordings and other proofs as the police have failed me so many times that I&#x27;ve lost faith in them completly. As I have all support systems.<p>I have aspergers and have serious PTSD due to years of this abuse and need help getting the truth out there.<p>Sorry if this not best place to talk about this, but I&#x27;ve tried and tried all the right avenues and only to be failed.<p>Also sorry that I can&#x27;t bestow all the details as it is so painful and triggers my PTSD but I&#x27;ll try.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>For people with an abusive partner, lockdown means captivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/30/abusive-partner-lockdown-domestic-abuse-charities-women-home</url></story> |
9,435,811 | 9,435,524 | 1 | 3 | 9,431,944 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munro</author><text>Ability to fiddle isn&#x27;t tied to static or dynamic programming, it&#x27;s just every static language platform I&#x27;ve seen including The Haskell Platform neglects making it easier to fiddle.<p>When trying to build complex software in Haskell, I find myself spending a lot of time commenting&#x2F;uncommenting swaths of code, just so I can get part of a algorithm to load in GHCi. It sucks. What I wish would happen is GHCi allowed me to load just the things that type check, and skip the rest, so I can fiddle. This is definitely possible. Not compiling is great for production, but not while developing.<p>Software is built in pieces, if I&#x27;m working on one piece, another statically unrelated piece shouldn&#x27;t prevent me from working. In this regard Haskell GHCi (and many static languages), makes developing more complex than dynamic languages, but again it&#x27;s not intrinsic.<p>I also wish when I run my tests, it listed all the type errors, as well as run tests on the code that do type check. Having more safety mechanism in Haskell helps with writing correct code, but compiling doesn&#x27;t mean the code works. Automated testing is still more useful for writing software that works. Haskell isn&#x27;t as safe as many people think [1].<p><pre><code> sort a = a ++ a -- it compiles, so it must sort
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;base-4.8.0.0&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Prelude.html#v:head" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;base-4.8.0.0&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Prelude...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>QuantumRoar</author><text>Scripting languages try to seduce you to just fiddle around until the output looks like something you want. While that quickly gives you some results, I think it&#x27;s a huge roadblock in the mid- to longterm. Especially when programmers are only familiar with &quot;easy&quot; scripting languages, there are rarely insights about the general approach to the problem until the project already grew to become an abomination.<p>While fiddling around is still somewhat possible in Haskell, the language itself makes it quite difficult. Haskell kind of forces you right at the beginning to pause and think &quot;Well, what is it that I&#x27;m actually trying to do here?&quot; It let&#x27;s you recognize and apply common patterns and implement them in abstract ways without having to think about what kind of values you actually have at runtime. In that way Haskell is the most powerful language I know.<p>Have a tree&#x2F;list&#x2F;whatever? Need to apply a function to each of the elements? Make your tree&#x2F;list&#x2F;whatever an instance of the Functor type class and you&#x27;re done. Need to accumulate a result from all the elements? Make it foldable.<p>Something depends on some state? Make it a Monad.<p>You either get a result or you don&#x27;t (in which case any further computations shouldn&#x27;t apply)? Use the Maybe Monad.<p>You need to compute different possible results? Use the List Monad.<p>Need to distinguish three different possible values that are different compositions of elementary types? Make yourself your own type and pattern match the behavior of applying functions.<p>Need to output in a certain way? Make it an instance of the Show class.<p>Most concepts that are used every day have some kind of idea behind them that is abstract and implementation independent. Haskell kind of forces you to reference those ideas directly. The downside is that you actually have to know about those concepts. However, knowing about the such concepts makes you also a better programmer in other languages, so it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s a bad thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Becoming Productive in Haskell</title><url>http://mechanical-elephant.com/thoughts/2015-04-20-becoming-productive-in-haskell/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>hyperpallium</author><text>Requirements Uncertainty: Fast iteration has many benefits - especially when you (or your client) don&#x27;t actually know what&#x27;s <i>required</i> (&quot;agile&quot;); and when what is <i>required</i> changes quickly, because of changes in competitors, customers, technology, regulation etc.<p>But you&#x27;re right, as projects get larger, a priori design and static types quickly become essential. And at that point, requirements are usually known and frozen.<p>I predicted that the natural resolution would be languages with both (i.e. optional static types, especially at important interfaces) - but while this feature exists, it hasn&#x27;t taken off.<p>Instead it seems that performance is the main attraction of static types in the mainstream (java, c#, objective-c, c, c++); and ML-family and Haskell are popular where provable correctness is wanted.</text><parent_chain><item><author>QuantumRoar</author><text>Scripting languages try to seduce you to just fiddle around until the output looks like something you want. While that quickly gives you some results, I think it&#x27;s a huge roadblock in the mid- to longterm. Especially when programmers are only familiar with &quot;easy&quot; scripting languages, there are rarely insights about the general approach to the problem until the project already grew to become an abomination.<p>While fiddling around is still somewhat possible in Haskell, the language itself makes it quite difficult. Haskell kind of forces you right at the beginning to pause and think &quot;Well, what is it that I&#x27;m actually trying to do here?&quot; It let&#x27;s you recognize and apply common patterns and implement them in abstract ways without having to think about what kind of values you actually have at runtime. In that way Haskell is the most powerful language I know.<p>Have a tree&#x2F;list&#x2F;whatever? Need to apply a function to each of the elements? Make your tree&#x2F;list&#x2F;whatever an instance of the Functor type class and you&#x27;re done. Need to accumulate a result from all the elements? Make it foldable.<p>Something depends on some state? Make it a Monad.<p>You either get a result or you don&#x27;t (in which case any further computations shouldn&#x27;t apply)? Use the Maybe Monad.<p>You need to compute different possible results? Use the List Monad.<p>Need to distinguish three different possible values that are different compositions of elementary types? Make yourself your own type and pattern match the behavior of applying functions.<p>Need to output in a certain way? Make it an instance of the Show class.<p>Most concepts that are used every day have some kind of idea behind them that is abstract and implementation independent. Haskell kind of forces you to reference those ideas directly. The downside is that you actually have to know about those concepts. However, knowing about the such concepts makes you also a better programmer in other languages, so it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s a bad thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Becoming Productive in Haskell</title><url>http://mechanical-elephant.com/thoughts/2015-04-20-becoming-productive-in-haskell/index.html</url></story> |
3,338,949 | 3,338,909 | 1 | 2 | 3,338,424 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. God damnit Facebook.<p>So a couple of months back we did a give away, 100 people who like our Facebook page (for the Minecraft forum) get a free copy of Minecraft. After the competition "closed" I picked 100 winners and messaged them their copy, this is what, $2000 - $2500 value?<p>Less than 10% (edit: I checked my spreadsheet, 8 people) ever replied to me and this explains why. Because I can't message <i>from</i> a fan page I messaged from my personal account... so most of these people don't know that they ever won (they weren't my friends) and probably never will. The message is there sitting waiting to be read...<p>sigh.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook is Hiding Your Mail</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/facebook_s_other_messages_mail_you_are_probably_missing.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kylekramer</author><text>Golden rule of spam filtering: a false positive is much, much worse than a false negative. Friends only messaging is a kind of Gordian Knot solution that is admirable in its boldness, but spam is a complex problem that requires a complex solution. Facebook shouldn't be taking the easy way out, especially as it becomes the de facto communication platform.<p>Just to add a personal data point, I had a very similar experience with the author of the piece. Lost my wallet recently, and lo and behold, I got a Facebook message I never saw till today. Yes, 99% of all the "Other" messages were spam, but this was probably the most important FB message I ever got. Lucky for me I also had an ID card in there that the finder was nice enough to extrapolate my work email address from, but Facebook needs to address this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook is Hiding Your Mail</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/facebook_s_other_messages_mail_you_are_probably_missing.html</url><text></text></story> |
31,529,856 | 31,528,759 | 1 | 2 | 31,527,446 | 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>jeroenhd</author><text>They certainly can cause a lot of chaos. In fact, I&#x27;d say that most malicious chaos normal internet users may be subjected to is done by these scriptkiddies.<p>Theres a difference, though, between an extensive ransomeware attack and an experiment by a bunch of amateurs. The chance of key recovery is much greater if there are dedicated criminals behind the attack, but amateurs also don&#x27;t get the widespread reach that the media coverage might suggest.<p>I think the characterization of scriptkiddies as hopeless people is a bit romantic. I was something of a skiddie when I was young and I think a lot of their behaviour can be attributed to teenage recklessness.<p>The former USSR certainly has their fair share of scriptkiddies but they&#x27;re around in every country. When the USSR was still around, the west had its fair share of phreakers that developed into the hacker subculture and established the code of honour that evolved into the cybersecurity communities of today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dontbenebby</author><text>Don&#x27;t be dismissive of script kiddies, they can cause a lot of chaos, and often do it because they feel like no amount of self education or self improvement will improve their chances of stable full time employment.<p>(Hence many of them operating out of the former USSR.)</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>I can see a younger version of myself making something like this and intentionally letting it slip to the media for attention. I th8nk this line is telling: &quot;Since there are no known victims&#x2F; targets for the ransomware group, their Tactics, Techniques and Procedures remain unknown.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a risk if any great outbreak here. A bunch of scriptkiddies took some open source project and modified it with some silly instructions.<p>Alternatively, I could see this used in one of those scam calls. They set up remote accesslike normally and then months laltrr the6 infrct their victims and the &quot;trusted Microsoft technician&quot; gives them a call to steal even more off their money. This time there&#x27;s an actual piece of malware that gets removed, solidifying trust in the scammers even though they were the ones to infect the victims in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor</title><url>https://cloudsek.com/threatintelligence/goodwill-ransomware-forces-victims-to-donate-to-the-poor-and-provides-financial-assistance-to-patients-in-need/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>goshx</author><text>I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dontbenebby</author><text>Don&#x27;t be dismissive of script kiddies, they can cause a lot of chaos, and often do it because they feel like no amount of self education or self improvement will improve their chances of stable full time employment.<p>(Hence many of them operating out of the former USSR.)</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>I can see a younger version of myself making something like this and intentionally letting it slip to the media for attention. I th8nk this line is telling: &quot;Since there are no known victims&#x2F; targets for the ransomware group, their Tactics, Techniques and Procedures remain unknown.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a risk if any great outbreak here. A bunch of scriptkiddies took some open source project and modified it with some silly instructions.<p>Alternatively, I could see this used in one of those scam calls. They set up remote accesslike normally and then months laltrr the6 infrct their victims and the &quot;trusted Microsoft technician&quot; gives them a call to steal even more off their money. This time there&#x27;s an actual piece of malware that gets removed, solidifying trust in the scammers even though they were the ones to infect the victims in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor</title><url>https://cloudsek.com/threatintelligence/goodwill-ransomware-forces-victims-to-donate-to-the-poor-and-provides-financial-assistance-to-patients-in-need/</url></story> |
18,581,736 | 18,580,202 | 1 | 2 | 18,578,261 | 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>dragonfly02</author><text>Dart 2 is a very solid language. It&#x27;s primarily an OO language but does have some functional elements in it. It&#x27;s very similar to Java and C# and most dart developers think it&#x27;s a better version of Java and C#. It has more features like stream, asynchronous and mixins built into the language. It&#x27;s in fact a full stack language as you can write server side code in dart as well.
I think Google&#x27;s long-term goal is to make dart&#x2F;flutter compatible with mobile (iOS and Android), web, desktop (macOS, Linux, Windows). It will be truly write once and run everywhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thrownaway954</author><text>The road block for adoption will be Dart. Why they didn&#x27;t just choose Typescript or go with native javascript is beyond me. No one uses Dart. It was probably the poorest design decision they could make.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron</title><url>https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-real-competitor-to-electron-4f049ea6b061</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>Because then the Flutter team couldn&#x27;t ask the language team to make extensive changes to the language when nobody had even heard of the Flutter team yet. Popular languages are popular because they already have a killer app.<p>You might as well ask why Brendan Eich invented JavaScript.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thrownaway954</author><text>The road block for adoption will be Dart. Why they didn&#x27;t just choose Typescript or go with native javascript is beyond me. No one uses Dart. It was probably the poorest design decision they could make.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron</title><url>https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-real-competitor-to-electron-4f049ea6b061</url></story> |
24,388,636 | 24,388,141 | 1 | 2 | 24,387,821 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nippoo</author><text>I was at the World Scrabble Championships in Prague a few years ago (with Nigel Richards). The amazing thing was how many of the highest-level Scrabble players were Thai and spoke barely any English. There are about 200,000 words in the Scrabble dictionary and and an average English speaker only knows 40,000. So knowing the language doesn&#x27;t give a huge advantage, and all competitors end up spending years memorising word lists with no definitions - at a high level it&#x27;s basically just a combinatorics game.
The majority of the English-speaking competitors were mathematicians &#x2F; scientists, rather than linguists for similar reasons.<p>This sometimes has amusing repercussions - the world no 2 at the time, who was Thai, played the word &quot;hetairas&quot; and then challenged the word &quot;twigs&quot;...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (2015)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/winner-of-french-scrabble-title-does-not-speak-french</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Memorizing an entire dictionary is kind of like the cases I&#x27;ve read about with persons whose native language isn&#x27;t arabic, but have successfully memorized and can recite verbally the entire Quran.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (2015)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/winner-of-french-scrabble-title-does-not-speak-french</url></story> |
31,062,084 | 31,062,057 | 1 | 2 | 31,061,138 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>In the case of LEOs or prosecutors, I think many give up the search for truth and give in to the us-vs-them mentality. The cognitive dissonance and pressure of group dynamics make it almost a certainty.<p>There is huge power in law enforcement and prosecutorial discretion. Yes, some parts of the job have to be strict for safety purposes. There are many other parts that don&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;ve had prosecutors and police know that our rights were violated as part of a citation. They did not care. Cop lied multiple times in court and was caught. IAD merely gave them a warning. The LT of the troop made a bunch of BS excuses - either he&#x27;s actually that stupid or he&#x27;s lying too. Filed a complaint about an incompetent magistrate whow also violated due process rights - judicial board doesn&#x27;t care. Prosecutor instructed the court not to talk to us which prevented us from securing remote accommodations for our witness - the Bar didn&#x27;t care. Civil rights lawyer said our rights were violated, but unless there was substantial monetary damages, the system doesn&#x27;t care and would likely see it as frivolous.<p>Nobody cares. Nobody protects your rights. If nobody can enforce your rights, do you even have them at all? All the trooper&#x2F;prosecutor&#x2F;magistrate&#x2F;judge had to do, was drop&#x2F;throw out the case. They had the discretion, and even the responsibility, to do that. Their mentality was the problem. We were guilty in their mind because if we were not, that would make them participants in a broken and unjust system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; A meatgrinder job is a job that pays more not because there are fewer people who can do it, but because there are fewer people that will. They have insanely high turnover, because some aspect of the job is so bad that the vast majority of people who try it don’t stay. Maybe it’s long hours that never stop or maybe it’s constant on-call work. Maybe it’s an insane, stress-intensive workload you can’t begin to keep up with.<p>Pediatric oncology. Extremely high skill&#x2F;pay. Very prestigious. But most will leave within a few years. A working day surrounded by kids undergoing painful treatments, particularly when you are the person prescribing those treatments, grinds down one&#x27;s soul. Or criminal defense attorneys&#x2F;prosecutors. Or any law enforcement. To survive such jobs you mush develop a skin so think that to outsiders you appear inhumane.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?</title><url>https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-mean-in-the</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TrackerFF</author><text>As far as low-skill, high-pay goes, dockworkers unloading ships is up there with meatgrinder jobs. Your team gets paid for each lb &#x2F; kg unloaded off the ship, and that sum is divided equally over each team member.<p>So the faster and more ships your team can unload, the more you&#x27;re paid. That&#x27;s the incentive.<p>I once got paid almost $1000, in just one day - but that day was 20 hours long, and you&#x27;re pretty much beat to a pulp afterwards.<p>We had people come in, and leave before lunch. No pay in the world would keep them there.<p>Edit, for the curious - I tried to look up some footage of what it looks like:<p>This clip shows a nice and modern trawler, the unloading requires little manpower. See those long brown blocks on the palets? Those would be around 40-50 kgs &#x2F; 90 - 110 lbs.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Qi7VNBOJetA?t=115" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Qi7VNBOJetA?t=115</a><p>This is more on par with what you&#x27;d usually see - the rooms would be stack to the ceiling with frozen packet&#x2F;blocks. Those blocks are around 20 kgs &#x2F; 45 lbs each.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;e7u-X8XR1hs?t=543" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;e7u-X8XR1hs?t=543</a><p>Here&#x27;s a larger trawler - again - sometimes the fish will be stacked to the ceiling
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;fQEwECzZL_s?t=2739" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;fQEwECzZL_s?t=2739</a><p>Unfortunately I can&#x27;t seem to find any footage of the more usual scenario, where the blocks are just piled up at random.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; A meatgrinder job is a job that pays more not because there are fewer people who can do it, but because there are fewer people that will. They have insanely high turnover, because some aspect of the job is so bad that the vast majority of people who try it don’t stay. Maybe it’s long hours that never stop or maybe it’s constant on-call work. Maybe it’s an insane, stress-intensive workload you can’t begin to keep up with.<p>Pediatric oncology. Extremely high skill&#x2F;pay. Very prestigious. But most will leave within a few years. A working day surrounded by kids undergoing painful treatments, particularly when you are the person prescribing those treatments, grinds down one&#x27;s soul. Or criminal defense attorneys&#x2F;prosecutors. Or any law enforcement. To survive such jobs you mush develop a skin so think that to outsiders you appear inhumane.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?</title><url>https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-mean-in-the</url></story> |
15,359,664 | 15,359,230 | 1 | 3 | 15,357,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>&gt; NK isn&#x27;t some rationalistic actor.<p>The way they&#x27;re behaving is quite rational. They looked at what happened to Gaddafi and Saddam, as well as how the new administration is seeking to tear down the Iran deal, and came to the conclusion that the US&#x2F;West could not be trusted to honor a nuclear disarment deal long term.<p>This means a credible nuclear deterrent is the only way to ensure the regime&#x27;s survival.<p>Lest people think I&#x27;m engaging in apologetics, what they&#x27;re doing to keep in power is reprehensible. But they&#x27;re not mad men looking for a symbolic &quot;win&quot; at the cost of suicide.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thevardanian</author><text>Honestly I don&#x27;t get this sentiment. NK isn&#x27;t some rationalistic actor. The NK problem can never ever be solved by diplomatic resolve. This goes beyond mere saving face, or diplomacy. This is simply about maintaining and expanding power. That is sometimes you need to be confrontational. Sometimes you need to stop being Chamberlain, and start being Churchill. Preferably before it&#x27;s too late.<p>What else is their development of nuclear arms about? NK is a signatory of the NPT. They broke their promise. They&#x27;ve broken their promise multiple times. What they&#x27;re looking for isn&#x27;t a resolution to their situation, if anything they want to prolong it as long as possible. What they actually want is to win, and emerge &quot;victorious&quot; in the face of US &quot;oppression&quot;.<p>Personally I think while China&#x27;s interests are in maintaining a peaceful region, we must be wary of the relationship between NK and China. As there is a possibility of another game being played. Perhaps China wants to annex NK.</text></item><item><author>gypsy_boots</author><text>This makes me nervous and I fear that Kim Jung Un will have to do something big in order to save face. I hope we make him feel that he has a non-violent way to posture for his people as that&#x27;s really what this is all about: posturing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China orders N.K. firms to close down within 120 days</title><url>http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/09/28/0401000000AEN20170928012000315.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>gumby</author><text>&gt; NK isn&#x27;t some rationalistic actor.<p>I don&#x27;t see why you say this. I wouldn&#x27;t say they are especially <i>competent,</i> but they seem to have stayed in existence and played off various larger rivals successfully for 70 odd years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thevardanian</author><text>Honestly I don&#x27;t get this sentiment. NK isn&#x27;t some rationalistic actor. The NK problem can never ever be solved by diplomatic resolve. This goes beyond mere saving face, or diplomacy. This is simply about maintaining and expanding power. That is sometimes you need to be confrontational. Sometimes you need to stop being Chamberlain, and start being Churchill. Preferably before it&#x27;s too late.<p>What else is their development of nuclear arms about? NK is a signatory of the NPT. They broke their promise. They&#x27;ve broken their promise multiple times. What they&#x27;re looking for isn&#x27;t a resolution to their situation, if anything they want to prolong it as long as possible. What they actually want is to win, and emerge &quot;victorious&quot; in the face of US &quot;oppression&quot;.<p>Personally I think while China&#x27;s interests are in maintaining a peaceful region, we must be wary of the relationship between NK and China. As there is a possibility of another game being played. Perhaps China wants to annex NK.</text></item><item><author>gypsy_boots</author><text>This makes me nervous and I fear that Kim Jung Un will have to do something big in order to save face. I hope we make him feel that he has a non-violent way to posture for his people as that&#x27;s really what this is all about: posturing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China orders N.K. firms to close down within 120 days</title><url>http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/09/28/0401000000AEN20170928012000315.html</url></story> |
36,027,008 | 36,025,993 | 1 | 2 | 36,024,209 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwy2342</author><text>The correct interpretation here is that golang chose explicit context passing where java chose implicit.<p>It&#x27;s similar to explicit DI vs implicits.<p>the function coloring metaphor doesn&#x27;t make sense since the calling convention is the same nor are there extra function keywords (`async` vs non-async).</text><parent_chain><item><author>za3faran</author><text>One thing I wanted to add is that in golang, you end up passing context.Context to all asynchronous functions to handle cancellations and timeouts, so you “color” them regardless. Java folks with structured concurrency have the right idea here.</text></item><item><author>cyberax</author><text>It&#x27;s not really fair to compare async&#x2F;await systems with Go and Java.<p>Go and Java with lightweight threads provide a full-blown system, without any limitations. You don&#x27;t have to &quot;color&quot; your code into async and blocking functions, everything &quot;just works&quot;. Go can even interrupt tight inner loops with async pre-emption.<p>The downside is that Go needs around 2k of stack minimum for each goroutine. Java is similar, but has a lower per-thread constant.<p>The upside is that Go can be _much_ faster due to these contiguous stacks. With async&#x2F;await each yield point is basically isomorphic to a segmented stack segment. I did a quick benchmark to show this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.alex.net&#x2F;benchmarking-go-and-c-async-await" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.alex.net&#x2F;benchmarking-go-and-c-async-await</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?</title><url>https://pkolaczk.github.io/memory-consumption-of-async/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cyberax</author><text>This is a convention, and you also don&#x27;t _have_ to do it.<p>A function without a context can still be used just fine from any code, you just won&#x27;t be able to cancel it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>za3faran</author><text>One thing I wanted to add is that in golang, you end up passing context.Context to all asynchronous functions to handle cancellations and timeouts, so you “color” them regardless. Java folks with structured concurrency have the right idea here.</text></item><item><author>cyberax</author><text>It&#x27;s not really fair to compare async&#x2F;await systems with Go and Java.<p>Go and Java with lightweight threads provide a full-blown system, without any limitations. You don&#x27;t have to &quot;color&quot; your code into async and blocking functions, everything &quot;just works&quot;. Go can even interrupt tight inner loops with async pre-emption.<p>The downside is that Go needs around 2k of stack minimum for each goroutine. Java is similar, but has a lower per-thread constant.<p>The upside is that Go can be _much_ faster due to these contiguous stacks. With async&#x2F;await each yield point is basically isomorphic to a segmented stack segment. I did a quick benchmark to show this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.alex.net&#x2F;benchmarking-go-and-c-async-await" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.alex.net&#x2F;benchmarking-go-and-c-async-await</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?</title><url>https://pkolaczk.github.io/memory-consumption-of-async/</url></story> |
38,970,858 | 38,970,891 | 1 | 2 | 38,968,619 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZephyrBlu</author><text>The distinction between trying to solve a problem yourself vs ask for help is: are you figuring out a new problem, or figuring out the system?<p>If you&#x27;re trying to figure out the system, you should probably ask for help ASAP and build up some knowledge. Over time you&#x27;ll need to ask questions about the system less frequently.<p>If you&#x27;re trying to figure out a new problem related to your work, slogging away at it for a while is more ok because it&#x27;s value-add and a good learning experience.<p>The lines are a bit blurry, but that&#x27;s how I tend to think about this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spencerchubb</author><text>As a junior dev, sometimes I&#x27;ve been blocked for hours because I want to show that I can solve problems independently. But I&#x27;ve definitely had cases where I should&#x27;ve asked questions early. A question that takes 1 minute to answer could have saved hours.<p>For instance, I was stuck on figuring out how to send an email through AWS. Turns out we have a lambda function that handles all the authentication and security things that are specific to our company. Once I asked my coworker and found out about this function, it was trivial.</text></item><item><author>philip1209</author><text>This article talks about learned helplessness in a learning context. I talked about it in a work context, and the two could be linked. I think social media is training people for everything to be quick, but learning + work aren&#x27;t necessarily quick.<p>&gt; This insistence on constant availability disrupts the essence of focused work. Rather than encouraging employees to tackle complex problems independently, there’s a trend, especially among junior staff, to quickly seek help upon encountering any obstacle. The fear is that being “blocked” under-utilizes an expensive team member. However, the nature of knowledge work is solving ambiguous, complicated problems - so the expectation of constant availability can lead to a culture of learned helplessness, which shunts professional development.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contraption.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;digital-quiet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contraption.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;digital-quiet&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learned-helplessness/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eminence32</author><text>As you get more and more experience, I think this will become easier. You&#x27;ll eventually get a feel for what types of questions you should just work through yourself, and which types of questions you should ask someone else about, and the threshold for moving between the two (you&#x27;ll develop a sense of &quot;let me investigate theory A, B, and C, and if I still can&#x27;t figure it out, I&#x27;ll ask for help&quot;).<p>Some of this will probably be via an increased understanding of the types of problems you can and can&#x27;t solve. And some of this will probably be because you&#x27;ll eventually know more people who can help (something like &quot;oh yeah, I know Sam worked on a similar problem last month, let me see if they found a solution&quot;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>spencerchubb</author><text>As a junior dev, sometimes I&#x27;ve been blocked for hours because I want to show that I can solve problems independently. But I&#x27;ve definitely had cases where I should&#x27;ve asked questions early. A question that takes 1 minute to answer could have saved hours.<p>For instance, I was stuck on figuring out how to send an email through AWS. Turns out we have a lambda function that handles all the authentication and security things that are specific to our company. Once I asked my coworker and found out about this function, it was trivial.</text></item><item><author>philip1209</author><text>This article talks about learned helplessness in a learning context. I talked about it in a work context, and the two could be linked. I think social media is training people for everything to be quick, but learning + work aren&#x27;t necessarily quick.<p>&gt; This insistence on constant availability disrupts the essence of focused work. Rather than encouraging employees to tackle complex problems independently, there’s a trend, especially among junior staff, to quickly seek help upon encountering any obstacle. The fear is that being “blocked” under-utilizes an expensive team member. However, the nature of knowledge work is solving ambiguous, complicated problems - so the expectation of constant availability can lead to a culture of learned helplessness, which shunts professional development.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contraption.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;digital-quiet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contraption.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;digital-quiet&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learned-helplessness/</url></story> |
13,311,397 | 13,311,429 | 1 | 3 | 13,310,038 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>No way. I have some friends who&#x27;ve been operating a family farm since the 1600&#x27;s in Upstate NY. They are doing great, and IMO the future looks brighter. The problem with what you describe is that there is too much complexity, too many middlemen, and too much reliance on the West Coast.<p>Without all of this nonsense, these folks are successfully growing greens through the winter in a harsh northern climate, using high tunnels and fans with simple timers and sensors. It&#x27;s totally doable and scalable without wasting lots of money on equipment and tractors.<p>In terms of cost -- most of the cost gets piled on in the supply chain. I get milk delivered twice a week for a slight (15%) price premium compared to the grocery store. The farmer&#x27;s gross is about 40% higher than what it would be if he were shipping to a co-op or commercial dairy. We do most seasonal vegetable shopping from non-organic, local farms and <i>conservatively</i> pay 75% less as compared to the stuff shipped in from California or Chile.<p>Small scale agriculture is going to be huge IMO as the ability the sustain the miracle in the desert in California and the costs of fertilizer rises.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rfdub</author><text>Hope these &quot;micro farmers&quot; enjoy the good times while they last as their days are numbered. Sensors, automation and intelligent, intensive and most importantly organic, vertical farming is going to ultimately decimate the small producer farming industry. The thing is produce is a commodity, not a branded good, and people ultimately don&#x27;t care what &quot;label&quot; is on their vegetables and won&#x27;t pay a premium for a given label when they can get reasonable analogs for the same or a lesser price. Consumers just want quality produce at a reasonable price.<p>When technology driven high intensity automated farms are able to output yields orders of magnitude greater than these people digging in the dirt with hand-tools are able to output, at a commensurate if not substantially higher quality, they&#x27;ll be able to undercut the prices of these &quot;micro farmers&quot; by significant amounts and all consumers will care about is that their organic heirloom greens taste just as good but cost half the price. Not the mention they&#x27;ll do so with a substantially reduced environmental impact, requiring less water per unit of output and requiring substantially less space allowing formerly agricultural lands to be returned back to their natural state.<p>Small scale agriculture is a fantastic solution to the problem of disaffected young people who want to be farmers, but doesn&#x27;t really offer any practical solutions for the rest of the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rise of the High-Profit Micro Farm (2016)</title><url>http://modernfarmer.com/2016/10/jm-fortier/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>willholloway</author><text>I have looked into this extensively and the promise of vertical farming is a big if, and It might take a breakthrough like fusion power to make it cost competitive with the methods these farmers are using.<p>The capital costs of the building and infrastructure and lights and most importantly the input costs of the power are going to have a very hard time beating what is essentially free energy from the sun, free land, free growing medium in the form of soil and virtually free water everywhere but in very dry climates.<p>These farmers also grow year round, even in places like Canada with very low tech solutions, which are basically plastic sheeting and metal tubes fashioned into low tunnels that cover the rows of crops.<p>When you factor in labor costs it might be hard to scale it over a certain size, but for a person that owns a half acre lot that came with their house and wants to farm instead of commuting into the city to a cubicle, that economy is going to be hard to beat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rfdub</author><text>Hope these &quot;micro farmers&quot; enjoy the good times while they last as their days are numbered. Sensors, automation and intelligent, intensive and most importantly organic, vertical farming is going to ultimately decimate the small producer farming industry. The thing is produce is a commodity, not a branded good, and people ultimately don&#x27;t care what &quot;label&quot; is on their vegetables and won&#x27;t pay a premium for a given label when they can get reasonable analogs for the same or a lesser price. Consumers just want quality produce at a reasonable price.<p>When technology driven high intensity automated farms are able to output yields orders of magnitude greater than these people digging in the dirt with hand-tools are able to output, at a commensurate if not substantially higher quality, they&#x27;ll be able to undercut the prices of these &quot;micro farmers&quot; by significant amounts and all consumers will care about is that their organic heirloom greens taste just as good but cost half the price. Not the mention they&#x27;ll do so with a substantially reduced environmental impact, requiring less water per unit of output and requiring substantially less space allowing formerly agricultural lands to be returned back to their natural state.<p>Small scale agriculture is a fantastic solution to the problem of disaffected young people who want to be farmers, but doesn&#x27;t really offer any practical solutions for the rest of the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rise of the High-Profit Micro Farm (2016)</title><url>http://modernfarmer.com/2016/10/jm-fortier/</url></story> |
20,042,542 | 20,040,550 | 1 | 3 | 20,039,863 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>csa</author><text>&gt; for the average Joe a solid education is a much better bet and you are doing them a disservice by spreading these second-hand anecdotes.<p>I agree with everything you said up to the above quote.<p>I’m not sure how you characterize “the average Joe”, but I assure you that the 50th percentile of college age people by any reasonable measure of aptitude will not be able to finish college with any degree, and they will certainly not be able to get a degree that will likely lead to (relatively) high pay like engineering or nursing.<p>About 32% of 24 year olds (maybe 25 yo) have an undergraduate degree. If you have a casual conversation with the 20%-32% folks (spitballing this number), you would probably be shocked about how little most of them know about anything, including their “major”. These folks were basically socially promoted through an undergraduate degree. This happens a lot more than many folks would like to believe, and it boils down to ability to pay.<p>If you need some anecdotal evidence of this, I strongly encourage you to teach or be a TA for a required freshman writing course (esp. at a lower competitive university &#x2F; junior college). The inability of many of these folks to write a coherent short essay or even a coherent paragraph would make your brain explode.<p>These are the average Joe’s you are referring to. College, at least in its current form, is not the answer for these folks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsss</author><text>The common denominator for making a lot of money is not &quot;the trades&quot; but owning a business. Of course he&#x27;s gonna make more if he doesn&#x27;t have to relinquish the majority of his profits to a boss.<p>A lot of people here and on reddit like to romanticize the trades while sitting in an air-conditioned office like it&#x27;s some secret tip to instant wealth without the need to study for years. But the reality is grim for the majority of salaried tradesmen. It&#x27;s a job that is very hard on your body and the heralded &quot;fresh air&quot; suddenly sounds a lot less nice when you have to do physical labor in intense heat or cold.<p>Those who go above and beyond will always succeed no matter the field but for the average Joe a solid education is a much better bet and you are doing them a disservice by spreading these second-hand anecdotes.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I’ve told this story before on here, but most of my social circle went to college. In general, most of those I’ve stayed in touch with are doing alright for themselves.<p>But we graduated college between 2007-2010, so it was a rough economy to be looking for a first job.<p>One friend skipped college and joined the local electrician union. He did his 10 years to get his lifetime card, and started his own business a few years ago.<p>Not only is he already making a ton of money, he has zero debt, and more importantly charges close to whatever he wants an hour because of how in demand he is.<p>He jokes that he’s going to be the only electrician in the city in the next ten years because all the old guard is retiring, and way fewer millennials went into trades.<p>College would have been a bad idea for him and he knew it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/buyer-s-remorse-high-debt-and-low-pay-leave-some-grads-rueful</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>My point isn’t that everyone should quit college and join a trade union, my point is that it can be a viable option for a lot of people, ESPECIALLY in lieu of taking on a bunch of debt at a young age.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tsss</author><text>The common denominator for making a lot of money is not &quot;the trades&quot; but owning a business. Of course he&#x27;s gonna make more if he doesn&#x27;t have to relinquish the majority of his profits to a boss.<p>A lot of people here and on reddit like to romanticize the trades while sitting in an air-conditioned office like it&#x27;s some secret tip to instant wealth without the need to study for years. But the reality is grim for the majority of salaried tradesmen. It&#x27;s a job that is very hard on your body and the heralded &quot;fresh air&quot; suddenly sounds a lot less nice when you have to do physical labor in intense heat or cold.<p>Those who go above and beyond will always succeed no matter the field but for the average Joe a solid education is a much better bet and you are doing them a disservice by spreading these second-hand anecdotes.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I’ve told this story before on here, but most of my social circle went to college. In general, most of those I’ve stayed in touch with are doing alright for themselves.<p>But we graduated college between 2007-2010, so it was a rough economy to be looking for a first job.<p>One friend skipped college and joined the local electrician union. He did his 10 years to get his lifetime card, and started his own business a few years ago.<p>Not only is he already making a ton of money, he has zero debt, and more importantly charges close to whatever he wants an hour because of how in demand he is.<p>He jokes that he’s going to be the only electrician in the city in the next ten years because all the old guard is retiring, and way fewer millennials went into trades.<p>College would have been a bad idea for him and he knew it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/buyer-s-remorse-high-debt-and-low-pay-leave-some-grads-rueful</url></story> |
20,881,175 | 20,881,169 | 1 | 2 | 20,880,576 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>compiler-guy</author><text>How many people change their phone numbers more than once a decade? How many people change their facebook accounts ever?<p>The age of this data may be &quot;old&quot; by whatever definition Facebook is using, but it is still of great interest to identity thieves and ne&#x27;er-do-wells.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Facebook: &quot;This dataset is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers.&quot;<p>Not that &quot;old.&quot; Some of those &quot;update&quot; dates are just a few days ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Avamander</author><text>&gt; changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers.<p>What? That&#x27;s not true, I reported the issue about user enumeration via phone numbers being possible in Whatsapp, Messenger and Instagram to them last week and they claimed (paraphrased) &quot;it&#x27;s a feature, not a security issue&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Facebook: &quot;This dataset is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers.&quot;<p>Not that &quot;old.&quot; Some of those &quot;update&quot; dates are just a few days ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/</url></story> |
34,132,214 | 34,132,245 | 1 | 2 | 34,131,553 | 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>krisoft</author><text>&gt; It famously asserted numbers like 42 were prime early on<p>Oh it tried to convince me that four is not larger than one. :) It went like this:<p>At first I asked ChatGPT to summarise J.C. Owen’s contribution to geometric constraint solving. It gave me an answer which might be even correct. It sounded correct anyway. Then I have asked for a worked example of his method used on a toy geometric constraint system. It run into problems with that. Chiefly that the system is selected was under constrained.<p>When I asked about that it insisted that it is well constrained. It even volunteared the info that for a system to be well constrained it needs as many variables as constraint equations. Then it told me that the system it generated has 4 variables and 1 equation.<p>As a last question I asked if “Is four larger than 1?” and it resolved the seeming contradiction by telling me that in the context of geometric constraint solving four is not larger than one. One does learn a new thing every day. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>WJW</author><text>What kills it for me (so far, perhaps they can fix it in the future) is that there is no way to know if you&#x27;ve actually asked ChatGPT correctly and it has given you a perfect document with the answer you seek, or if your question was slightly off and it has given a wrong answer, or even if your question was correct but it still confidently gives the wrong answer. It famously asserted numbers like 42 were prime early on, though that seems to have been fixed (although that may have been just through hardcoding).</text></item><item><author>gukov</author><text>The way I see it:<p>- Today&#x27;s search engines will give you links to millions of documents<p>- ChatGPT, if asked correctly, will instead generate one perfect document based on millions of the documents<p>To me, that&#x27;s a clear evolution of the search engine, especially with all the SEO &amp; ad spam that&#x27;s plaguing Google and others currently.<p>I wasn&#x27;t ready to pay a monthly fee for an ad-free Google. I am ready to pay for something like ChatGPT.<p>Google has an issue on their hands and is probably working overtime to lobby the threat of ChatGPT away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines</title><url>https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RBerenguel</author><text>Or you have asked correctly (or not, that&#x27;s hard to tell from the onset) and has given you a non-factual answer. For example, I asked ChatGPT for what would be the best introductory book for a subject (added some more conditions to make it pretty clear-cut). It recommended me a book that sounded reasonable in title, with existing authors in the field… but the book didn&#x27;t exist, at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WJW</author><text>What kills it for me (so far, perhaps they can fix it in the future) is that there is no way to know if you&#x27;ve actually asked ChatGPT correctly and it has given you a perfect document with the answer you seek, or if your question was slightly off and it has given a wrong answer, or even if your question was correct but it still confidently gives the wrong answer. It famously asserted numbers like 42 were prime early on, though that seems to have been fixed (although that may have been just through hardcoding).</text></item><item><author>gukov</author><text>The way I see it:<p>- Today&#x27;s search engines will give you links to millions of documents<p>- ChatGPT, if asked correctly, will instead generate one perfect document based on millions of the documents<p>To me, that&#x27;s a clear evolution of the search engine, especially with all the SEO &amp; ad spam that&#x27;s plaguing Google and others currently.<p>I wasn&#x27;t ready to pay a monthly fee for an ad-free Google. I am ready to pay for something like ChatGPT.<p>Google has an issue on their hands and is probably working overtime to lobby the threat of ChatGPT away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines</title><url>https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334</url></story> |
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