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22,478,661 | 22,478,338 | 1 | 3 | 22,457,767 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>georgewfraser</author><text>Why do people on HN love Clickhouse so much? As far as I can tell, it’s an ordinary column store, with a bunch of limitations around distributed joins and a heuristic-based query planner. There are several good analytical databases that will give you the same scan performance and a much better query planner and executor.<p>This is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know why it gets so much attention here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clickhouse Local</title><url>https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/operations/utils/clickhouse-local/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1996</author><text>Clickhouse is one of the most underrated databases.<p>This basically replaces most of my usages of SQLite.<p>When its SQL &quot;dialect&quot; matures, Clickhouse will eat MySQL lunch, then PostgreSQL.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clickhouse Local</title><url>https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/operations/utils/clickhouse-local/</url></story> |
35,260,146 | 35,259,916 | 1 | 2 | 35,259,214 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tveita</author><text><p><pre><code> In relevant studies, people attempt to discriminate lies from truths in real time with no special aids or training. In these circumstances, people achieve an average of 54% correct lie-truth judgments, correctly classifying 47% of lies as deceptive and 61% of truths as nondeceptive. [1]
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What I think people miss are all the mechanisms we&#x27;ve evolved to prevent people from lying, so we can live effectively in a high-trust society, from built-in biological tendencies, to how we&#x27;re raised, to societal pressures.<p>&quot;People lie too&quot; but in 95% of cases they don&#x27;t. If someone on Hacker News say they prefer Zig to Rust or that they liked the Dune movie, they&#x27;re likely telling the truth. There&#x27;s no incentive either way, we&#x27;ve just evolved as social creatures that share little bits of information and reputation. And to lie, yes, and to expose the lies of others, but only when there&#x27;s a big payoff to defect.<p>If you had a friend that kept telling you about their trips to restaurants that didn&#x27;t actually exist, or a junior developer at work that made up fictional APIs when they didn&#x27;t know the answer to a question, you&#x27;d tell them to stop, and if they kept at it you probably wouldn&#x27;t care to hang out with them. ChatGPT seems to bypass those natural defenses for now.<p>Most people think they are hard to deceive. But I see plenty people here on HN with confidently wrong beliefs about how ChatGPT works, that they&#x27;ve gotten from asking ChatGPT about itself. It&#x27;s not intuitive for us that ChatGPT actually knows very little about how itself works. It even took humanity a while to realize that &quot;How does it feel like my body works&quot; isn&#x27;t a great way to figure out biology.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.sagepub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.1207&#x2F;s15327957pspr1003_2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.sagepub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.1207&#x2F;s15327957pspr10...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>williamtrask</author><text>Detecting whether something is written by an AI is a waste of time. Either someone will sign the statement as their own or they won&#x27;t (and it should be treated as nonsense).<p>People lie. People tell the truth. Machines lie. Machines tell the truth. I bet our ability to detect when a person is lieing isn&#x27;t any better than 50% either.<p>What matters is accountability, not method of generation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time</title><url>https://hai.stanford.edu/news/was-written-human-or-ai-tsu</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Veen</author><text>People believe lies, often. That&#x27;s just an undeniable fact of human nature. AIs can produce lots of plausible lies very quickly, much more quickly and at much greater scale than humans could. There&#x27;s a quantitative difference that will have a real impact on the world. Sure, we could have humans attest to and digitally sign their content, but I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s likely to work at scale, and people will be motivated to lie about that too—and there&#x27;s no way to prove they are lying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>williamtrask</author><text>Detecting whether something is written by an AI is a waste of time. Either someone will sign the statement as their own or they won&#x27;t (and it should be treated as nonsense).<p>People lie. People tell the truth. Machines lie. Machines tell the truth. I bet our ability to detect when a person is lieing isn&#x27;t any better than 50% either.<p>What matters is accountability, not method of generation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research shows we can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time</title><url>https://hai.stanford.edu/news/was-written-human-or-ai-tsu</url></story> |
12,709,314 | 12,709,579 | 1 | 3 | 12,708,576 | 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>a11r</author><text>I am assuming that you are talking about the thermal expansion of the tubes (ducts ?). A long time ago, the rails making up train tracks used to have gaps every few meters to accommodate thermal expansion (same problem). Modern rails in high speed train tracks are welded into one continuous bar that can be over a kilometer long. The trick is to stretch the rail just enough and then pin it down - kind of like a slightly stretched rubber band. That stretch can accommodate thermal expansion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>Ooh, how I wish I could buy put options on the Hyperloop. Because unless they solve the thermal expansion problem -- and there is no feasible solution on the horizon AFAICT -- they will fail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hyperloop One Raises $50M, Hires Former Uber CFO</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-13/hyperloop-one-raises-50-million-hires-former-uber-cfo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lnanek2</author><text>What&#x27;s unsolvable about it? Every bridge I&#x27;ve ever been on has had a little gap for expansion. Just make a little gap every 5km, cover the outside with rubber that stretches across the two sides, boom, you are done. The cars float on a little air pressure cushion and don&#x27;t normally use their wheels, so there wouldn&#x27;t even be a bump.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>Ooh, how I wish I could buy put options on the Hyperloop. Because unless they solve the thermal expansion problem -- and there is no feasible solution on the horizon AFAICT -- they will fail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hyperloop One Raises $50M, Hires Former Uber CFO</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-13/hyperloop-one-raises-50-million-hires-former-uber-cfo</url></story> |
36,757,665 | 36,757,463 | 1 | 2 | 36,734,479 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>foobarbecue</author><text>I see this type of reasoning a lot and it feels like it should have its own named fallacy. A tiny percent savings on a huge cost is a moderately big number, yes.<p>The problem here is that you&#x27;ve switched from proportional thinking to arithmetic thinking in the middle of the thought.<p>In most cases, if you started with proportional thinking, you should stick to it.<p>Example of the fallacy: 0.1% of my salary goes to avocado toast, which might not seem that much, but over ten years, that&#x27;s a thousand dollars!<p>The fallacy here lies in the fact that a thousand dollars is insignificant over 10 years, but the statement makes it feel significant by switching from proportional to absolute.<p>&quot;The avocado toast fallacy&quot;?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; Especially things like removing as much whitespace as possible or replacing true&#x2F;false with !0&#x2F;!1 just don&#x27;t really save a lot of space.<p>At the scale of Wikipedia (~10 billion pageviews a month), even a single byte saving can mean terabytes worth of bandwidth saved.</text></item><item><author>arp242</author><text>A few years ago I did some measurements of popular projects (Wikipedia, WordPress, default React, jQuery, few things like that) comparing minify, minify+gzip, and just gzip, and found found that most minification beyond &quot;removing comments&quot; gives very little benefit even for poor 2G connections.<p>Especially things like removing as much whitespace as possible or replacing true&#x2F;false with !0&#x2F;!1 just don&#x27;t really save a lot of space. The only two I found to make a significant difference were removing comments, and shortening identifiers (and usually with most of the savings being in &quot;removing comments&quot;, depending on the amount of comments and code style).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minify and Gzip (2022)</title><url>https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/minify-and-gzip</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>distcs</author><text>&gt; At the scale of Wikipedia (~10 billion pageviews a month), even a single byte saving can mean terabytes worth of bandwidth saved.<p>But does it really move the needle anywhere where it matters? If you are serving a million bytes in every response but you manage to trim a single byte from it, I don&#x27;t think it is going to move the needle anywhere.<p>Sure it will save a terabyte when you have served a trillion responses. But in a trillion responses you are saving only one terabyte out of an exabyte of responses. That&#x27;s not much!</text><parent_chain><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; Especially things like removing as much whitespace as possible or replacing true&#x2F;false with !0&#x2F;!1 just don&#x27;t really save a lot of space.<p>At the scale of Wikipedia (~10 billion pageviews a month), even a single byte saving can mean terabytes worth of bandwidth saved.</text></item><item><author>arp242</author><text>A few years ago I did some measurements of popular projects (Wikipedia, WordPress, default React, jQuery, few things like that) comparing minify, minify+gzip, and just gzip, and found found that most minification beyond &quot;removing comments&quot; gives very little benefit even for poor 2G connections.<p>Especially things like removing as much whitespace as possible or replacing true&#x2F;false with !0&#x2F;!1 just don&#x27;t really save a lot of space. The only two I found to make a significant difference were removing comments, and shortening identifiers (and usually with most of the savings being in &quot;removing comments&quot;, depending on the amount of comments and code style).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minify and Gzip (2022)</title><url>https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/minify-and-gzip</url></story> |
29,293,733 | 29,293,228 | 1 | 2 | 29,291,443 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>janmo</author><text>I have attempted twice to ride from Hannover to Berlin in a single day which is approx. 280km.<p>First try I made 140km. It was a hot day and the main issue I had was that I sweat more than I could drink. Also it was getting night and I was afraid of not being able to get a train anymore so I abandoned.<p>For the second try I started at night (2am) to make sure I had a chance to make it in time. Around 4pm after over 180km I had to abandon because the cycle path ended and it was too dangerous to drive on the road with all that traffic.<p>Anyway it was a very pleasant experience as you pass many nice towns and other sightseeing. I stopped countless times to take pictures.
Riding 100km, or even 200km is less harder than many expect it to be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>I once did 250 km and change in a single day (a trip with Amsterdam as start and end counterclockwise around the IJsselmeer). When I was 21 and probably the fittest I&#x27;ve been in my life. Afsluitdijk seemed like it would never end, 30 km straight against a terrible headwind (but the whole trip has hardly any elevation change). I peed green stuff and had major skin damage on the inside of my thighs afterwards. Having to go up two flights of stairs with my relatively light racing bike at the end nearly did me in.<p>900 km in a day sounds like an incredible feat to me and I&#x27;m super impressed with it, but I would really wonder about the kind of impact that has on your body.<p>I slept for more than a day after that trip and I swore I would never do it again (and I didn&#x27;t).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What it's like to ride 900 km in a day</title><url>https://cyclingtips.com/2021/11/what-its-like-to-ride-900-km-in-a-day/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>The longest I&#x27;ve ridden is from Long Beach, CA to San Diego, which is about 170 km. Started at 5am and arrived at 5pm. I remember the first half of the trip to have nice scenery. I don&#x27;t remember the second half at all, as I zoned out and contemplated the mistake I had made as I kept pedaling.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>I once did 250 km and change in a single day (a trip with Amsterdam as start and end counterclockwise around the IJsselmeer). When I was 21 and probably the fittest I&#x27;ve been in my life. Afsluitdijk seemed like it would never end, 30 km straight against a terrible headwind (but the whole trip has hardly any elevation change). I peed green stuff and had major skin damage on the inside of my thighs afterwards. Having to go up two flights of stairs with my relatively light racing bike at the end nearly did me in.<p>900 km in a day sounds like an incredible feat to me and I&#x27;m super impressed with it, but I would really wonder about the kind of impact that has on your body.<p>I slept for more than a day after that trip and I swore I would never do it again (and I didn&#x27;t).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What it's like to ride 900 km in a day</title><url>https://cyclingtips.com/2021/11/what-its-like-to-ride-900-km-in-a-day/</url></story> |
20,868,117 | 20,868,069 | 1 | 2 | 20,867,758 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fra</author><text>First and foremost, this speaks to the ubiquity and hacker friendliness of Espressif&#x27;s chips. Most of their competitors (I&#x27;m looking at you, Broadcom), prefer security through obscurity and make it extremely difficult to get access to chips, let alone SDKs. I am certain that similar vulnerability exist in every embedded WiFi chipset out there.<p>That being said, the status quo is completely untenable. Connectivity has become the norm in the hardware space, and it is built on a shoddy software foundation. Vendor SDKs are often best effort endeavors provided &quot;as is&quot; with no thought given to security or reliability. The results are clear: &quot;the S in IOT stands for security&quot; has become a trope, and connected cameras, locks, washing machines, and many more are getting owned on a weekly basis.<p>This will change, and whoever cracks this nut will be very successful indeed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks</title><url>https://github.com/Matheus-Garbelini/esp32_esp8266_attacks</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>For those unfamiliar with the topic, these two chips are by and far the most common wifi chips for DIY and are also very common in IoT devices. Due to cheap price ($2—$5 depending on the model) and very low barrier to entry technically, these devices are both very popular as well as very wide spread in those two categories.<p>These chips are the first hits for searches such as &quot;Arduino wifi module&quot;, &quot;breadboard wifi&quot;, &quot;IoT wifi module&quot;, and many, many more as they&#x27;re the downright easiest way to add wifi to something that doesn&#x27;t have it out of the box.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how applicable these attack vectors are in the real world, but they affect a very large number of devices for sure.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks</title><url>https://github.com/Matheus-Garbelini/esp32_esp8266_attacks</url></story> |
28,991,247 | 28,991,470 | 1 | 2 | 28,988,459 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Veen</author><text>As many UK media organisations have pointed out, linking David Amess’ murder to online speech and incivility allows politicians to be seen to do something without having to address the politically awkward problem of Islamic extremism in the UK.<p>Naturally, Owen Jones chooses not to mention that too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>It’s <i>extremely</i> suspect that they’re moving to ban anonymity and “legal but harmful”[0] speech as part of the response to an attack that doesn’t appear to have anything to do with online activity. It’s interesting how the tabloids that regularly call people incredibly vile things don’t get singled out…<p>Frankly, I think this is politicians getting tired of being heckled by the citizenry, and this is a convenient crisis to take advantage of. Must not be a lot of fun to go from giving speeches in parliament to being called a wanker or ratio’d online, but that seems like something they should get over rather than curtailing our rights.<p>0 - Part of the Online Harms bill, being debated now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Banning anonymous social media accounts would only stifle free speech, democracy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/25/banning-anonymous-social-media-accounts-stifle-free-speech-abuse</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gorwell</author><text>There&#x27;s a book about this called `Revolt of the Public`. That&#x27;s more or less the thesis in a nutshell.<p>“All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my #1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the Internet.” --Marc Andreessen</text><parent_chain><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>It’s <i>extremely</i> suspect that they’re moving to ban anonymity and “legal but harmful”[0] speech as part of the response to an attack that doesn’t appear to have anything to do with online activity. It’s interesting how the tabloids that regularly call people incredibly vile things don’t get singled out…<p>Frankly, I think this is politicians getting tired of being heckled by the citizenry, and this is a convenient crisis to take advantage of. Must not be a lot of fun to go from giving speeches in parliament to being called a wanker or ratio’d online, but that seems like something they should get over rather than curtailing our rights.<p>0 - Part of the Online Harms bill, being debated now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Banning anonymous social media accounts would only stifle free speech, democracy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/25/banning-anonymous-social-media-accounts-stifle-free-speech-abuse</url></story> |
12,066,834 | 12,066,679 | 1 | 2 | 12,065,504 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>People in this discussion keep on referring to the levitation as &quot;maglev.&quot; It is a form of magnetic levitation, but it&#x27;s significant that they&#x27;re planning to use Halbach arrays. Musk&#x27;s original idea was to basically &quot;fly&quot; the pod inside a low-vacuum tube using air bearings on the bottom of the pod. Halbach arrays basically fly above a series of passive metal coils. The faster the Halbach arrays are traveling, the stronger the field, which lifts the pod, which decreases the field, lowering it again. The system experiences negative feedback. It&#x27;s self regulating. This makes it much cheaper than other forms of Maglev.<p>The advantage over Musk&#x27;s original idea, is that Halbach array levitation doesn&#x27;t require the tight clearances that air bearing levitation would require. Apparently, the cost of manufacturing linear arrays of aluminum coils is cheaper than ensuring tight tolerances.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia Jumps into the Race to Build a Hyperloop</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-07/putin-mind-melds-with-elon-musk-as-russia-funds-hyperloop-dream</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>russellbeattie</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why we haven&#x27;t seen decently sized scale model before starting full sized tests. It seems that sending packages over a few miles would be an interesting viability test... Connect a bunch of oil pipes, design a self-driven transporter and see what the issues are. Then the public could also see the thing working as well. It&#x27;s weird to me the groups so far have just started with massive designs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia Jumps into the Race to Build a Hyperloop</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-07/putin-mind-melds-with-elon-musk-as-russia-funds-hyperloop-dream</url></story> |
21,095,844 | 21,095,265 | 1 | 2 | 21,094,231 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>Tap water in the developed world is really really good. You can measure a country by the ability of that nation to provide clean water to people. Municipal water supplies in cities like Atlanta and Cincinnati are often tested 200~300 times per month at several pumping and maintenance locations. Bottled water is a scam, and it also is a resources that&#x27;s often extracted from poor countries and communities.<p>The documentary Tapped and Blue Gold both go into all the screwed up thing the bottle water industry does. For countries without clean water, bottled water is not the solution. Better municipal water, more wells and cheaper, low energy water purification around those wells is a much more sustainable solution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:<p>&gt; Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.<p>Worse... it&#x27;s worse than tap water.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>groby_b</author><text>Well, for microplastics.<p>If you live e.g. in the Bay Area, your tap water instead has a good chance of having a good helping of hexavalent chromium[1], which... not too healthy. (Neither are arsenic, bromium, etc.)<p>Pick your poison. Literally.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;Tap-water-Bay-Area-database-contaminants-study-11510434.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;Tap-water-Bay-Area-datab...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:<p>&gt; Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.<p>Worse... it&#x27;s worse than tap water.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045</url></story> |
19,389,110 | 19,389,070 | 1 | 2 | 19,388,473 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rakoo</author><text>I trust S3, B2 Google&#x27;s blobstore more than some rando&#x27;s machine who runs filecoin. Tahoe-LAFS gives you the assurance that the actual backend storage only sees encrypted data. The big clouds have this advantage that they are probably more reliable, faster, have lower latency, better uptime, and lower price.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moviuro</author><text>So you share your data on untrusted machines that you bet will live long enough to hold what you want to keep.<p>Sounds risky.<p>Do storage providers have an incentive to provide the service reliably <i>à la</i> filecoin? [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;filecoin.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;filecoin.io&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>zorked</author><text>A big thing is that Tahoe LAFS can be run on untrusted computers.</text></item><item><author>moviuro</author><text>FWIW, I&#x27;ve been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it&#x27;s synced on my &quot;fleet&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation?<p>EDIT&gt; The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or what have you. It feels like RAID in the network, and it allows very precise setting of redundancy policies.<p>So syncthing actually only runs on trusted machines, whereas PrivateStorage will be able to run on both trusted (tightly managed) and untrusted machines (like a VPS in the USA).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.popho.be&#x2F;byeunison.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.popho.be&#x2F;byeunison.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&#x2F;trac&#x2F;tahoe-lafs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&#x2F;trac&#x2F;tahoe-lafs</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution</title><url>https://leastauthority.com/blog/least-authority-and-private-internet-access-announce-privatestorage-io-a-secure-and-privacy-focused-cloud-storage-solution/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zorked</author><text>The Tahoe LAFS model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or what have you. It feels like RAID in the network, and it allows very precise setting of redundancy policies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moviuro</author><text>So you share your data on untrusted machines that you bet will live long enough to hold what you want to keep.<p>Sounds risky.<p>Do storage providers have an incentive to provide the service reliably <i>à la</i> filecoin? [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;filecoin.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;filecoin.io&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>zorked</author><text>A big thing is that Tahoe LAFS can be run on untrusted computers.</text></item><item><author>moviuro</author><text>FWIW, I&#x27;ve been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it&#x27;s synced on my &quot;fleet&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation?<p>EDIT&gt; The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or what have you. It feels like RAID in the network, and it allows very precise setting of redundancy policies.<p>So syncthing actually only runs on trusted machines, whereas PrivateStorage will be able to run on both trusted (tightly managed) and untrusted machines (like a VPS in the USA).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.popho.be&#x2F;byeunison.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.popho.be&#x2F;byeunison.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&#x2F;trac&#x2F;tahoe-lafs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&#x2F;trac&#x2F;tahoe-lafs</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution</title><url>https://leastauthority.com/blog/least-authority-and-private-internet-access-announce-privatestorage-io-a-secure-and-privacy-focused-cloud-storage-solution/</url></story> |
23,912,978 | 23,911,652 | 1 | 2 | 23,909,138 | 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>mrob</author><text>You have LinuxSampler listed as GPL licensed, but it&#x27;s actually source-available proprietary software.<p>From <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxsampler.org&#x2F;downloads.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxsampler.org&#x2F;downloads.html</a>:<p>&quot;LinuxSampler is licensed under the GNU GPL with the exception that USAGE of the source code, libraries and applications FOR COMMERCIAL HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS IS NOT ALLOWED without prior written permission by the LinuxSampler authors.&quot;<p>This directly contradicts the GPL v2.0 (the relevant version):
&quot;You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients&#x27; exercise of the rights granted herein.&quot;<p>Of course the copyright holders have the right to impose whatever self-contradictory license they like, but this combination isn&#x27;t GPL and it isn&#x27;t Open Source.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryan_midi</author><text>Hello! I&#x27;m the author of this page.<p>I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all suggestions.<p>In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet, you can make a copy of this one:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHhwPTXomc188VcIwhZJB0P8ro&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHh...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open-Source Music Production Tools</title><url>https://midination.com/free-music-production-software/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>npteljes</author><text>Hello Ryan! As long as we&#x27;re talking open source, can I suggest you Onlyoffice instead of Goggle Sheets? Similar functionality, but with AGPL license, and the personal tier is free as in free beer too. Here&#x27;s how you doc would look if shared similarly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlyo.co&#x2F;32FPJAZ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlyo.co&#x2F;32FPJAZ</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ryan_midi</author><text>Hello! I&#x27;m the author of this page.<p>I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all suggestions.<p>In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet, you can make a copy of this one:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHhwPTXomc188VcIwhZJB0P8ro&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1YfVyZHy83WHIiZmQJwHh...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open-Source Music Production Tools</title><url>https://midination.com/free-music-production-software/</url></story> |
14,387,468 | 14,386,029 | 1 | 3 | 14,385,277 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>imranq</author><text>When the steam engine was invented, we thought of the brain as a series of pressures. When we discovered electricity, we thought of the brain as wires. When we got the internet, we thought of the brain as a network. Now sure neural networks have the word &quot;neuron&quot; in them, but they are far far away from the wetware that produced this conversation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghthor</author><text>Hits the nail on the head. Our brains are back propagating, recursive neural networks that are consistently making predictions about the next input in the stream of input signals as it changes over time. When the prediction results are correct we save a fuzzy recording of the higher-order-pattern that resulted in our correct prediction. Each time our predictions are correct that &quot;memory&quot; is reinforced so we&#x27;re able to make faster predictions, at earlier points in the pattern.<p>I hypothesize that the source of most anxiety or nervousness stems from our brains making no correct predictions in that moment. This is supported anecdotally by my patterns for overcoming social interactions that used to make me anxious that I&#x27;ve now become comfortable with. My brain now makes enough correct predictions that I don&#x27;t feel the need to leave the situation.<p>I hypothesize that part of why I started acting on my transgender feelings was because I&#x27;d become so uncomfortable in my own body that my brain wasn&#x27;t able to make accurate predictions about the sensations coming from my within. This is supported anecdotally by the following.<p>I started 2 activities when I accepted my desire to transition to female. Both were touted at reducing the feelings of un-comfortableness in my own body. Female to Male hormone therapy and taijiquan. Both produced lots of new feelings for my brain. Both gave me a sense of agency over my own body, the understanding that I have the ability to shape my body into what I want. In the end I stopped transitioning because taking the hormones(mostly the T blocker) isn&#x27;t known to be healthy for the body(Liver&#x2F;Kidneys). Taijiquan is almost unanimously a positive source of change in ones health for the rest of their lives therefore I choose taijiquan and a long healthy life over my desires to have female genitals. Practicing Taijiquan makes me feel better, and in regards to my gender dysphoria taijiquan has cured it; I am very comfortable with my male genitals now that I&#x27;m able to make enough consistent predictions during sex to remain engaged with the situation and remain turned on.<p>Edit Addition: I&#x27;d like to state that I still identify as a cross dresser and I&#x27;m comfortable saying that love certain parts&#x2F;styles of womens fashion and accessories. Example, I love long flowing skirts. As a society I feel we should reassess men wearing skirts as it is much healthier for our genitals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/sunday/why-the-future-is-always-on-your-mind.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>_98fj</author><text>&gt; I hypothesize that the source of most anxiety or nervousness stems from our brains making no correct predictions in that moment.<p>Since fight&#x2F;flight behaviour is regulated by the amygdala and basal ganglia, you can say:<p>Anxiety stems from our amygdalae getting started up, because they sense a threat where none is, and effecting inappropriate behaviour thereafter.<p>Actually, the threat is often correctly sensed, it&#x27;s just the behaviour (running away, attacking, feigning death&#x2F;freezing) that&#x27;s not useful in the modern world.<p>The therapeutically interesting question is how to change that.<p>Compared to the rational parts, those emotional mechanisms are much deeper and better wired to the rest of the brain. At the same time they aren&#x27;t very sophisticated. Some people refer to them as &quot;reptilian complex&quot;.<p>We can&#x27;t adjust emotions directly and in general we have to wait much more time (think: weeks, sometimes months) to let new ideas like not being afraid of something sink into the subconscious.<p>But knowing and accepting that makes it possible to grow.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghthor</author><text>Hits the nail on the head. Our brains are back propagating, recursive neural networks that are consistently making predictions about the next input in the stream of input signals as it changes over time. When the prediction results are correct we save a fuzzy recording of the higher-order-pattern that resulted in our correct prediction. Each time our predictions are correct that &quot;memory&quot; is reinforced so we&#x27;re able to make faster predictions, at earlier points in the pattern.<p>I hypothesize that the source of most anxiety or nervousness stems from our brains making no correct predictions in that moment. This is supported anecdotally by my patterns for overcoming social interactions that used to make me anxious that I&#x27;ve now become comfortable with. My brain now makes enough correct predictions that I don&#x27;t feel the need to leave the situation.<p>I hypothesize that part of why I started acting on my transgender feelings was because I&#x27;d become so uncomfortable in my own body that my brain wasn&#x27;t able to make accurate predictions about the sensations coming from my within. This is supported anecdotally by the following.<p>I started 2 activities when I accepted my desire to transition to female. Both were touted at reducing the feelings of un-comfortableness in my own body. Female to Male hormone therapy and taijiquan. Both produced lots of new feelings for my brain. Both gave me a sense of agency over my own body, the understanding that I have the ability to shape my body into what I want. In the end I stopped transitioning because taking the hormones(mostly the T blocker) isn&#x27;t known to be healthy for the body(Liver&#x2F;Kidneys). Taijiquan is almost unanimously a positive source of change in ones health for the rest of their lives therefore I choose taijiquan and a long healthy life over my desires to have female genitals. Practicing Taijiquan makes me feel better, and in regards to my gender dysphoria taijiquan has cured it; I am very comfortable with my male genitals now that I&#x27;m able to make enough consistent predictions during sex to remain engaged with the situation and remain turned on.<p>Edit Addition: I&#x27;d like to state that I still identify as a cross dresser and I&#x27;m comfortable saying that love certain parts&#x2F;styles of womens fashion and accessories. Example, I love long flowing skirts. As a society I feel we should reassess men wearing skirts as it is much healthier for our genitals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/sunday/why-the-future-is-always-on-your-mind.html</url></story> |
1,572,061 | 1,571,489 | 1 | 3 | 1,571,231 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pragmatic</author><text>See another article currently on the front page:<p>Realtime Linux: academia v. reality <a href="http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/397422/27eef125e03b8a2d/" rel="nofollow">http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/397422/27eef125e03b8a2d/</a><p>"I actually took the time to spend a day at a university where I could gain access to IEEE papers without wasting my private money. I picked out twenty recent realtime related papers and did a quick survey. Twelve of the papers were a rehash of well-known and well-researched topics, and at least half of them were badly written as well. From the remaining eight papers, six were micro improvements based on previous papers where I had a hard time figuring out why the papers had been written at all. One of those was merely describing the effects of converting a constant which influences resource partitioning into a runtime configurable variable. So that left two papers which seemed actually worthwhile to read in detail. Funny enough, I had already read one of those papers as it was publicly accessible in a slightly modified form.<p>That survey really convinced me to stay away from IEEE forever and to consider the university ranking system even more suspicious."</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexandros</author><text>"A glance at scholarly journals or university-press catalogs might make one wonder how much of this "research" is advancing knowledge and how much is part of a guild's need to credentialize its members."<p>A glance? Really? Judging the life's work of a few thousand people who got into academia to do research is easily judged in a 'glance'? It's interesting that some would like universities to be little more than vocational training programs, but I've never seen such dismissal of the work produced by academia in such a high profile outlet, with no evidence to back it up whatsoever.<p>EDIT: Reading further, I see that they did look more closely.. at sociology journals. Why the strange choice? Biology, computing, medicine, physics not interesting enough?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Colleges Serve the People Who Work There, Not the Students</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575377140202306852.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h</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>scott_s</author><text>I noticed that too, and I wondered if they were even capable of making that judgement. I looked up their backgrounds: the review writer is an English professor at Emory; one of the book authors is a Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department at Queens College in NY.<p>This continues the tendency I've seen elsewhere, which is to lump science and engineering education and research in with humanities when criticizing higher education.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexandros</author><text>"A glance at scholarly journals or university-press catalogs might make one wonder how much of this "research" is advancing knowledge and how much is part of a guild's need to credentialize its members."<p>A glance? Really? Judging the life's work of a few thousand people who got into academia to do research is easily judged in a 'glance'? It's interesting that some would like universities to be little more than vocational training programs, but I've never seen such dismissal of the work produced by academia in such a high profile outlet, with no evidence to back it up whatsoever.<p>EDIT: Reading further, I see that they did look more closely.. at sociology journals. Why the strange choice? Biology, computing, medicine, physics not interesting enough?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Colleges Serve the People Who Work There, Not the Students</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575377140202306852.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h</url><text></text></story> |
11,539,990 | 11,539,843 | 1 | 3 | 11,537,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fffernan</author><text>Yeah what is a tech company? I here people in Bay Area saying they work in tech all time time. Uber is a transportation company not a technology company. If Uber is a tech company then American Airlines is a tech company too. Both have an app which will let you get on some form of transportation and get one place to another. Boston Dynamics is a technology company for example. They build robots for the sake of building robots and hoping to sell the technology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cavisne</author><text>It&#x27;s weird the article conflates &quot;tech&quot; with startups.<p>Within the next few years Facebook, Google will have huge headquarters (currently under construction or planning) right next to Amazon&#x27;s collection of buildings in Seattle, and Microsoft near by.<p>I think the issue startups have in Seattle is they expect to pay less than in SV, because cost of living is cheaper. However with some negotiation the Big 4 will pay you the same as in SV, while paying a quarter of SV rent for a nice apartment with a walking commute.<p>I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails</title><url>https://medium.com/@sandimac/nyc-tech-catching-up-to-silicon-valley-while-seattle-flails-here-s-why-97ba7147b5f6#.e84c892cd</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whyenot</author><text>&gt; I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF?<p>That&#x27;s true. Seattle has the frequent rain to wash smells like that away.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cavisne</author><text>It&#x27;s weird the article conflates &quot;tech&quot; with startups.<p>Within the next few years Facebook, Google will have huge headquarters (currently under construction or planning) right next to Amazon&#x27;s collection of buildings in Seattle, and Microsoft near by.<p>I think the issue startups have in Seattle is they expect to pay less than in SV, because cost of living is cheaper. However with some negotiation the Big 4 will pay you the same as in SV, while paying a quarter of SV rent for a nice apartment with a walking commute.<p>I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails</title><url>https://medium.com/@sandimac/nyc-tech-catching-up-to-silicon-valley-while-seattle-flails-here-s-why-97ba7147b5f6#.e84c892cd</url></story> |
13,693,960 | 13,693,083 | 1 | 2 | 13,691,920 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buserror</author><text>Looks fun! I did some reverse engineering for the RF sensors of my weather station a few weeks back, I used gnuradio, audacity etc but it was all &#x27;manual&#x27;, ie feeding the .WAV capture file to my own program and trying to find the decoding [0].
Turns out it was a <i>known</i> protocol of course, but it was still fun! Next time I know where to look for the proper tools, this looks awesome!<p>[0]: My RF&#x2F;MQTT bridge for switches and sensors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;buserror&#x2F;rf_bridge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;buserror&#x2F;rf_bridge</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols like a boss</title><url>https://github.com/jopohl/urh</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heywire</author><text>Nice, thanks for sharing! I&#x27;ll have to check this out. Not sure how I missed hearing about this one when I was working on understanding the mesh network protocol for the water and electric meters on the side of my house. Aside from GNU Radio, which has already been mentioned, Inspectrum also proved to be invaluable to me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols like a boss</title><url>https://github.com/jopohl/urh</url></story> |
15,417,522 | 15,417,607 | 1 | 2 | 15,416,819 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Chaebixi</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda understandable, though. Whenever the services of Google, Facebook, etc. behave in an inscrutable, nonsensical, or offensive way, they blame it on their &quot;algorithm&quot; (for a recent example, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;oct&#x2F;06&#x2F;youtube-alters-search-algorithm-over-fake-las-vegas-conspiracy-videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;oct&#x2F;06&#x2F;youtube-alte...</a>). That&#x27;s really the only context where the term &quot;algorithm&quot; surfaces in mainstream discussion.<p>ML has had a lot of successes, but one of its failures has been more unpredictability on the level of individuals and events that people actually experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tenaciousDaniel</author><text>That&#x27;s been bothering me, the word &quot;algorithm&quot; is slowly becoming known as this ambiguously scary thing.</text></item><item><author>jordigh</author><text>Is this his new meme-hustling? &quot;Algorithm&quot;?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebaffler.com&#x2F;salvos&#x2F;the-meme-hustler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebaffler.com&#x2F;salvos&#x2F;the-meme-hustler</a><p>I&#x27;ve never liked how Tim O&#x27;Reilly frames his discussion around vague terms like &quot;open&quot; which could mean participatory, transparent, available, or any other number of vague, feel-good terms. Now he seems to be calling &quot;algorithm&quot; things like economic models and government policy.<p>These are widely disparate things, but by using vague terms in different contexts, he pushes discussion towards the direction he wants to steer it: in the case of &quot;open&quot;, away from free software. In the case of &quot;Web 2.0&quot;, towards anything that involved crowd participation.<p>With &quot;algorithms&quot;, he seems to be wanting to push the notion that technology is both scary but liberating and we need tech messiahs like Bezos or Musk to bring it under control.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms Have Already Gone Rogue</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/tim-oreilly-algorithms-have-already-gone-rogue/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>Maybe if humans took responsibility for the algorithms they created and didn&#x27;t shrug and say, &quot;It&#x27;s the algorithm&quot; then &quot;the algorithm&quot; wouldn&#x27;t be the antagonists in this story.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tenaciousDaniel</author><text>That&#x27;s been bothering me, the word &quot;algorithm&quot; is slowly becoming known as this ambiguously scary thing.</text></item><item><author>jordigh</author><text>Is this his new meme-hustling? &quot;Algorithm&quot;?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebaffler.com&#x2F;salvos&#x2F;the-meme-hustler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebaffler.com&#x2F;salvos&#x2F;the-meme-hustler</a><p>I&#x27;ve never liked how Tim O&#x27;Reilly frames his discussion around vague terms like &quot;open&quot; which could mean participatory, transparent, available, or any other number of vague, feel-good terms. Now he seems to be calling &quot;algorithm&quot; things like economic models and government policy.<p>These are widely disparate things, but by using vague terms in different contexts, he pushes discussion towards the direction he wants to steer it: in the case of &quot;open&quot;, away from free software. In the case of &quot;Web 2.0&quot;, towards anything that involved crowd participation.<p>With &quot;algorithms&quot;, he seems to be wanting to push the notion that technology is both scary but liberating and we need tech messiahs like Bezos or Musk to bring it under control.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms Have Already Gone Rogue</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/tim-oreilly-algorithms-have-already-gone-rogue/</url></story> |
36,520,168 | 36,520,205 | 1 | 2 | 36,519,633 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>data-ottawa</author><text>I can personally memorize and recite copyrighted works all I want, but when ChatGPT does it then it’s in a commercial context and they’re liable to be sued for infringement.<p>If you ask ChatGPT the rules for D&amp;D, the private sourcebooks are all in there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>Hard to understand how this is a crime, or how they came up with 3 billion dollars of damage.<p>Seems like if it&#x27;s legal for a person to do it should be legal for software to do for the most part.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsoft_openai_sued_privacy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codekansas</author><text>&gt; including personal information obtained without consent<p>Obtained from (check notes) public internet forums<p>&gt; For the 16 plaintiffs, the complaint indicates that they used ChatGPT, as well as other internet services like Reddit, and expected that their digital interactions would not be incorporated into an AI model.<p>You&#x27;ve got to be incredibly naive if you think public Reddit data isn&#x27;t used to train ML models, not least by Reddit themselves</text><parent_chain><item><author>zug_zug</author><text>Hard to understand how this is a crime, or how they came up with 3 billion dollars of damage.<p>Seems like if it&#x27;s legal for a person to do it should be legal for software to do for the most part.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsoft_openai_sued_privacy/</url></story> |
24,886,725 | 24,883,379 | 1 | 2 | 24,882,480 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phiresky</author><text>Yeah, filters are great. Writing filters is easy: Pandoc basically converts the input document into a universal AST (json), and a filter is just any program that takes this json as an input and outputs a modified json AST.<p>I wrote a filter that automatically converts URL citstions in markdown to &quot;real&quot; citations in any style you want - very useful for writing papers without fighting with bibtex and managing bibliographies manually: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phiresky&#x2F;pandoc-url2cite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phiresky&#x2F;pandoc-url2cite</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cosmic_quanta</author><text>One thing I love about pandoc that I don&#x27;t see mentioned here is the ability to apply filters to transform documents mid-conversion.<p>I&#x27;m using Pandoc to write my PhD thesis at the moment, from Markdown source, using certain filters to &quot;augment&quot; what Markdown can do. Examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LaurentRDC&#x2F;pandoc-plot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LaurentRDC&#x2F;pandoc-plot</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lierdakil&#x2F;pandoc-crossref" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lierdakil&#x2F;pandoc-crossref</a><p>More info here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pandoc.org&#x2F;filters.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pandoc.org&#x2F;filters.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pandoc – A universal document converter</title><url>https://pandoc.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>flobosg</author><text>What a coincidence! I am also writing my PhD thesis with pandoc and filters, but I use panflute for the latter: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scorreia.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;panflute&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scorreia.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;panflute&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cosmic_quanta</author><text>One thing I love about pandoc that I don&#x27;t see mentioned here is the ability to apply filters to transform documents mid-conversion.<p>I&#x27;m using Pandoc to write my PhD thesis at the moment, from Markdown source, using certain filters to &quot;augment&quot; what Markdown can do. Examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LaurentRDC&#x2F;pandoc-plot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LaurentRDC&#x2F;pandoc-plot</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lierdakil&#x2F;pandoc-crossref" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lierdakil&#x2F;pandoc-crossref</a><p>More info here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pandoc.org&#x2F;filters.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pandoc.org&#x2F;filters.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pandoc – A universal document converter</title><url>https://pandoc.org/</url></story> |
35,540,098 | 35,538,272 | 1 | 2 | 35,536,202 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dragony</author><text>I actually worked on an App for a company that made home appliances. Originally they made everything local, so direct App to Washing machine communication. They had a really hard time with that approach for a number of reasons.<p>The first, and most obvious, reason is that getting your phone and (all) your appliances on the same network is non-trivial. Especially for a novice user. Sometimes the washing machine is in the basement and can&#x27;t connect to your WiFi. Or maybe you&#x27;re simply outside your house in your car and can&#x27;t connect to your local network. The cloud approach solves this.<p>The other, not so obvious reason, is that the manufacturer made a ton of devices. Some of them a decade old, with very rudimentary interfaces. Originally the App had to handle special cases and workarounds for dozens of devices. This became a problem once they tried to port it to multiple platforms. For Android and iPhone they started with a shared C++ library. But that quickly became a problem, once they wanted to interface with popular home network and automation solutions.<p>To solve all this they decided to build a cloud API that would resolve all these problems in one go. A single, unified API with a modern HTTP interface and available via the internet. That solves the workaround and compatability issues by having a single abstraction layer (instead of one per app). It solves the &quot;on the go&quot; problem when you&#x27;re not in you local wifi. It enables you to control devices outside your home network in a true IoT sense.<p>I totally agree with you that, if you&#x27;re not in an urban environment with good internet and cell coverage, the advantages dwindle away. Also, of course, there is the privacy concern that is very real. At the end of the day the cloud solution is selected for the same reason companies select Electron. It saves development time and is very easy for the average end user to use. At the expense of performance and privacy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>belugacat</author><text>Great hack, but I’m sure any engineer worth their salt winces at the thought of a machine in their home roundtripping through far away 3rd party servers (I guess they’re the manufacturer’s, but if it’s hardware I own in my house those servers are 3rd party to me) just to notify them of a numerical value when they’re sitting literally 10 meters away (I live in the countryside and experience internet interruptions not infrequently, things running locally matter a lot to me).<p>I was thinking the other day as I was remodeling my kitchen that I would happily pay several times the price of regular appliances (fridge, clothes washer, dish washer) if they were built with a tasteful, minimalist design (eg 1960s Braun style), quality materials, and fully open source PCB&#x2F;firmware&#x2F;schematics&#x2F;etc. I’m probably not the only one. It’d be a weird niche market but perhaps there’s something there.<p>If you tie it with the building consumer awareness of right to repair, anti consumerism, planned obsolescence, etc, the marketing just writes itself.<p>Maybe that’s a kind of company I want to start myself, having worked in consumer hardware for a long time and thinking about my next step, but if anyone wants to take the idea go ahead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth</title><url>https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/displaying_my_washing_machines_remaining_time_with_curl_jq_pizauth.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>nonethewiser</author><text>I’d pay more for NO firmware in my washing machine.<p>This is beyond my desire to just keep things simple. What is the point of washing machine you can control remotely? You have to put clothes in at the start and take them out at the end. It offers no convenience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>belugacat</author><text>Great hack, but I’m sure any engineer worth their salt winces at the thought of a machine in their home roundtripping through far away 3rd party servers (I guess they’re the manufacturer’s, but if it’s hardware I own in my house those servers are 3rd party to me) just to notify them of a numerical value when they’re sitting literally 10 meters away (I live in the countryside and experience internet interruptions not infrequently, things running locally matter a lot to me).<p>I was thinking the other day as I was remodeling my kitchen that I would happily pay several times the price of regular appliances (fridge, clothes washer, dish washer) if they were built with a tasteful, minimalist design (eg 1960s Braun style), quality materials, and fully open source PCB&#x2F;firmware&#x2F;schematics&#x2F;etc. I’m probably not the only one. It’d be a weird niche market but perhaps there’s something there.<p>If you tie it with the building consumer awareness of right to repair, anti consumerism, planned obsolescence, etc, the marketing just writes itself.<p>Maybe that’s a kind of company I want to start myself, having worked in consumer hardware for a long time and thinking about my next step, but if anyone wants to take the idea go ahead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth</title><url>https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/displaying_my_washing_machines_remaining_time_with_curl_jq_pizauth.html</url></story> |
26,125,058 | 26,124,482 | 1 | 2 | 26,123,888 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>Since the kids are all about sea shanties these days:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;78_rio-grande_leonard-warren-tom-scott-morris-levine_gbia0036362" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;78_rio-grande_leonard-warren-tom...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>78rpm Records Digitized</title><url>https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?tab=collection</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>css</author><text>The trouble with digitizing analog mediums (especially vinyl) is how much your equipment can alter the sound. Given a different tonearm, cartridge, amp, etc, the same record can sound very different.<p>I’ve had some luck digitizing some of my collection with a DP-450 [0] and Ortofon Blue [1], but had higher end stuff end up sounding less interesting to my ears.<p>This is the trouble with audio in general: people not only prefer different sound profiles but also perceive sound differently, which makes it difficult to get rips (at least in my limited experience).<p>There is a lot of sibilance in the recordings I sampled from the OP link, whoever did the digitization would have benefitted from cleaner records, probably an anti-static brush, a fresh cartridge, and possibly some post-processing since they’re already digital. It’s better than nothing, of course, but it could be a lot better.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.denon.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;product&#x2F;turntables&#x2F;dp-450usb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.denon.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;product&#x2F;turntables&#x2F;dp-450usb</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ortofon.com&#x2F;ortofon-2m-blue-p-333" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ortofon.com&#x2F;ortofon-2m-blue-p-333</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>78rpm Records Digitized</title><url>https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?tab=collection</url></story> |
15,343,128 | 15,342,639 | 1 | 2 | 15,341,566 | 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>wh-uws</author><text>Some permutation of this comment is made litterally everytime any coding interview resource is posted.<p>I&#x27;m sorry man no cares that you and everyone who upvoted this comment are Super God programmers with 30 offers everytime they say they are looking who can afford to tell every company where they can stuff their interview.<p>Us mere mortals are willing to do whatever it takes to get our dream gigs.<p>These guides are largely targeted are getting into the some of the best, thus pickiest and most selective, companies in the world.<p>And if getting on means being a dsalgo monkey in front of a whiteboard for a few hours so be it.<p>Let us share interview tips in peace please.<p>This &quot;hurr durr technical interviews suck&quot; but I have no real alternative and have never built a company nor seen any really flourish at the top without this is monotonous.<p>Put your money where your mouth is and start and only support companies that skip these kinds of interviews.<p>Like these fine people<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;poteto&#x2F;hiring-without-whiteboards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;poteto&#x2F;hiring-without-whiteboards</a><p>But the snarky comments are beyond annoying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kafkaesq</author><text><i>2. What happens between you typing a URL into your browser address bar, hitting enter and seeing a web page?</i><p>&quot;What happens when I&#x27;m asked a question like X? I spout a mutated form of some canned response I cribbed from a list I found on HN a while back. Because I hear that&#x27;s how you&#x27;re supposed to &#x27;rock your coding interview&#x27;, these days.&quot;<p><i>3. What are the things you should consider if you were writing your own database server?</i><p>&quot;Look, you know as well as I that this job has nothing -- as in, <i>nothing whatsoever</i> -- to do with actually building production-grade database servers. Or anything even remotely analogous to it. Debugging that tangled mess of poorly conceived, never-reviewed JSON APIs left behind by the other developer (while you were pestering them about &#x27;disruption&#x27; and &#x27;just needing to get this thing to market&#x27;) is more like it.&quot;<p>&quot;But hey, since you&#x27;re playing that game, I can play too: here&#x27;s a bunch of catchphrases like &#x27;non-blocking I&#x2F;O, sharding, blah blah.&#x27; Because I hear that&#x27;s the killer answer to give to questions like these. And BTW, if you really think that people Michael Widenius or Salvatore Sanfilippo would be interviewing for this job, then your problems are way bigger than I could ever hope to help you with.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding interview</title><url>https://github.com/yangshun/tech-interview-handbook?utm_campaign=explore-email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=weekly</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>I&#x27;m not quite sure what you&#x27;re complaining about.<p><i>What happens between you typing a URL into your browser address bar?</i> isn&#x27;t a question that requires a canned response to be parroted back – it&#x27;s a starting point for a conversation about your knowledge of the web technology stack. It&#x27;s not at all like there is a &#x27;correct&#x27; answer, but demonstrating that you have a vague idea of how parts work, can identify gaps in your own knowledge, and make reasonable choices about how you might fill them.<p>Maybe <i>what are the things you should consider if you were writing your own database server?</i> is somewhat less directly applicable to most jobs, but I&#x27;d argue much the same sort of thing applies – it&#x27;s a kicking-off point for a conversation about systems that you should have at least rudimentary knowledge about.<p>I&#x27;m curious as to what you would prefer in a technical interview - more directly relevant questions about the specific systems you would be working on?</text><parent_chain><item><author>kafkaesq</author><text><i>2. What happens between you typing a URL into your browser address bar, hitting enter and seeing a web page?</i><p>&quot;What happens when I&#x27;m asked a question like X? I spout a mutated form of some canned response I cribbed from a list I found on HN a while back. Because I hear that&#x27;s how you&#x27;re supposed to &#x27;rock your coding interview&#x27;, these days.&quot;<p><i>3. What are the things you should consider if you were writing your own database server?</i><p>&quot;Look, you know as well as I that this job has nothing -- as in, <i>nothing whatsoever</i> -- to do with actually building production-grade database servers. Or anything even remotely analogous to it. Debugging that tangled mess of poorly conceived, never-reviewed JSON APIs left behind by the other developer (while you were pestering them about &#x27;disruption&#x27; and &#x27;just needing to get this thing to market&#x27;) is more like it.&quot;<p>&quot;But hey, since you&#x27;re playing that game, I can play too: here&#x27;s a bunch of catchphrases like &#x27;non-blocking I&#x2F;O, sharding, blah blah.&#x27; Because I hear that&#x27;s the killer answer to give to questions like these. And BTW, if you really think that people Michael Widenius or Salvatore Sanfilippo would be interviewing for this job, then your problems are way bigger than I could ever hope to help you with.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding interview</title><url>https://github.com/yangshun/tech-interview-handbook?utm_campaign=explore-email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=weekly</url></story> |
4,056,978 | 4,056,116 | 1 | 2 | 4,052,330 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jsz0</author><text><i>The real question, is why did the administration leak the story, and why now?</i><p>The latest round of multi-lateral talks on Iran's nuclear program just concluded a few days ago in Baghdad. I think they're trying to send the message to Iran that they will never be able to have a clandestine nuclear weapons program. The world is going to know about it. So if a nuclear power option is on the table for Iran this might give them a little extra motivation to accept all international regulations/inspections as a precondition. What are they actually going to be able to hide? Not much apparently.<p>The other goal here is to make Iran's position that they only want nuclear power, not nuclear weapons, even more difficult to accept. They are enduring sanctions and refusing to accept all of the regulations/inspections for what purpose exactly? They could have had nuclear power years ago if they were willing to accept these conditions. The longer they hide behind 'nuclear power only' the harder it is to believe. At some crucial point I have no doubt we'll be leaking detailed information about their weapons program. When that happens Iran will have to probably admit they <i>do</i> want nuclear weapons and from there the war question pretty much resolves itself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jcampbell1</author><text>This is clearly an approved leak from the administration. The number of sources and specifics make it very easy to catch whoever leaked this information. If this wasn't approved, the leaker is going to be sitting next to bradly manning within a week, and there is no moral cause to leak this information, so it is safe to assume this was an approved leak.<p>The real question, is why did the administration leak the story, and why now? Is it politically motivated because Obama wants to seem tough on Iran in an election year? Is it to trick the Iranians into thinking the program is over? Maybe versions 2, 3, and 4 are already in place, and it will be demoralizing to Iran's program if they keep getting setback.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.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>grandalf</author><text>Good points. I think the tough on Iran story is probably part of it. Also I think it could be a way to test the public/media reaction to news of US cyber terrorism against other nations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jcampbell1</author><text>This is clearly an approved leak from the administration. The number of sources and specifics make it very easy to catch whoever leaked this information. If this wasn't approved, the leaker is going to be sitting next to bradly manning within a week, and there is no moral cause to leak this information, so it is safe to assume this was an approved leak.<p>The real question, is why did the administration leak the story, and why now? Is it politically motivated because Obama wants to seem tough on Iran in an election year? Is it to trick the Iranians into thinking the program is over? Maybe versions 2, 3, and 4 are already in place, and it will be demoralizing to Iran's program if they keep getting setback.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html</url></story> |
11,536,940 | 11,537,083 | 1 | 2 | 11,535,731 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brandur</author><text>&gt; Data durability<p>&gt;<p>&gt; As a data service our first priority is keeping your data safe. We utilize WAL-E (link is external), the popular continuous archiving tool for Postgres.<p>A slight aside, but it&#x27;s definitely worth looking at Postgres&#x27; WAL system [1], which is very cool technology that recently got better in 9.4 in that it can stream a &quot;logical&quot; representation of the WAL instead of the previous format which was largely only good for internal use. The WAL-E project that persists WAL to S3 was originally started for Heroku Postgres, but is now in widespread use elsewhere including the new Citus initiative.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m a little biased because this was bootstrapped by ex-colleagues, but I&#x27;m excited to see an alternative to Redshift (not necessarily the target competitor here, but one interesting technology that Citus could viably replace) that allows for more consistent query performance and has all the modern features of Postgres (i.e. as opposed to being permanently locked into 8.0.2 with Redshift).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;static&#x2F;wal-intro.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;static&#x2F;wal-intro.html</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;9.4&#x2F;static&#x2F;logicaldecoding-explanation.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;9.4&#x2F;static&#x2F;logicaldecoding-ex...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wal-e&#x2F;wal-e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wal-e&#x2F;wal-e</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Citus Cloud</title><url>https://www.citusdata.com/blog/1773-craig-kerstiens/414-introducing-citus-cloud</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pbarnes_1</author><text>You guys really need to do this on GCP where there&#x27;s zero Postgres competition.<p>Since GCP will be overtaking AWS in like 2-3 years (hah), good to get a head start now. ;)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Citus Cloud</title><url>https://www.citusdata.com/blog/1773-craig-kerstiens/414-introducing-citus-cloud</url></story> |
40,248,189 | 40,247,499 | 1 | 2 | 40,246,841 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>You can very practically make this viewable in normal web browsers if you give it an XSLT stylesheet, and preferably use &lt;content type=&quot;xhtml&quot;&gt; instead of &lt;content type=&quot;html&quot;&gt; so that you don’t even need any JavaScript to unescape things (grumble grumble, disable-output-escaping, grumble grumble, messy unmaintained XML pipelines with ancient feature support, grumble grumble).<p>Here’s a sample, having taken this feed.xml, switched it to &lt;content type=&quot;xhtml&quot;&gt;, and added my own stylesheet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;temp.chrismorgan.info&#x2F;2024-05-04-hn-40246841.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;temp.chrismorgan.info&#x2F;2024-05-04-hn-40246841.xml</a><p>There’s all kinds of fun stuff you can then add, such as pagination as you get more entries, rather than just deleting old ones. I’d suggest adding actual links using the fragment and xml:id attribute (mapped to HTML id in the stylesheet), but that wouldn’t play nicely with pagination shifting entries.<p>You can even do things like publish an Atom entry document for each entry, so they have their own paths, but that that URL is still an Atom document. Basically, if you want to, you can <i>completely</i> realistically have a full blog where everything is in Atom containers instead of HTML containers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader</title><url>https://theunderground.blog/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kwhitefoot</author><text>Surely the biggest problem that most bloggers have is that no one reads what they write. Doesn&#x27;t this make it worse?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader</title><url>https://theunderground.blog/</url></story> |
28,999,972 | 28,999,761 | 1 | 2 | 28,998,374 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>As a OSS author, the problem is that other developers <i>also</i> treat issues as tasks. If you look at anywhere or any kind of rubric that tries to measure the &quot;health&quot; of a repository, things like the number or lifetime of issues play an important role. Even npm shows publicly (open) &quot;Issues&quot; and &quot;Pull Requests&quot;. Well, if my project is working as intended, I like that people look at it and see the &quot;Issues&quot; count to be as close to 0 as possible.<p>That&#x27;s why I&#x27;m so excited&#x2F;hopeful about Github Discussions, that seems like it was a huge hole in the whole Github and finally being addressed. A place to ask questions, meta questions, show YOUR issues using the library, etc. just a place to have conversations around the library. So you can leave the Issues for bug reports&#x2F;potential issues.<p>I closed the Issues tab in two of my most popular libraries because they just got low quality questions where devs were expecting me&#x2F;others to basically fix their code&#x2F;do their homework.</text><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>In my experience, these auto-closing bots are the natural result of software development workflows that treat <i>issues</i> as <i>tasks to be closed</i>, rather than a <i>data point</i> that a user is experiencing a problem of some kind (maybe they are doing things wrong, expecting something the project doesn&#x27;t provide, or triggering a real problem – the exact cause is immaterial).<p>This treatment of issue-as-a-task is made worse by corporate micromanagement frameworks like Agile, which encourage metrics on how many of these issues-as-tasks are closed, which leads to ill-advised features like this that close them automatically because &quot;Duh, no one said anything in 30 days&quot;.<p>If I were to design this myself, I would argue that the correct way to treat an issue is <i>not</i> to have it have a closed or open state at all. If the issue spawns a task or related tasks, you can close <i>those</i>. Or you can provide feedback on the issue that states that it is invalid. The user has already experienced a problem or wants a feature, there is no value in putting a red label that indicates &quot;I&#x27;m done with this, please go away&quot;. It unnecessarily invalidates the experience of users who have their provided valuable time to report something to your software project. I think this is similar to the approach used by forums like Discourse, where a thread about a problem will usually not be closed or locked, but will just age out of current discussion if nobody brings it up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub stale bot considered harmful</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.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>pydry</author><text>It&#x27;s ironic that github sold itself as &quot;social coding&quot; coz while the design was pretty and the usability is good the social aspects are almost programmed to bring the worst out in people.<p>Their review workflow, for instance, is innately structured as a dehumanizing pipeline for delivering soundbites of impersonal criticism that Must Be Attended To.<p>It&#x27;s not that it will ruin your relationships if you work with good people or vice versa but I&#x27;ve seen bad blood and insecurities exacetbated by the workflow that were unnecessary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>In my experience, these auto-closing bots are the natural result of software development workflows that treat <i>issues</i> as <i>tasks to be closed</i>, rather than a <i>data point</i> that a user is experiencing a problem of some kind (maybe they are doing things wrong, expecting something the project doesn&#x27;t provide, or triggering a real problem – the exact cause is immaterial).<p>This treatment of issue-as-a-task is made worse by corporate micromanagement frameworks like Agile, which encourage metrics on how many of these issues-as-tasks are closed, which leads to ill-advised features like this that close them automatically because &quot;Duh, no one said anything in 30 days&quot;.<p>If I were to design this myself, I would argue that the correct way to treat an issue is <i>not</i> to have it have a closed or open state at all. If the issue spawns a task or related tasks, you can close <i>those</i>. Or you can provide feedback on the issue that states that it is invalid. The user has already experienced a problem or wants a feature, there is no value in putting a red label that indicates &quot;I&#x27;m done with this, please go away&quot;. It unnecessarily invalidates the experience of users who have their provided valuable time to report something to your software project. I think this is similar to the approach used by forums like Discourse, where a thread about a problem will usually not be closed or locked, but will just age out of current discussion if nobody brings it up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub stale bot considered harmful</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html</url></story> |
5,052,601 | 5,052,449 | 1 | 3 | 5,052,252 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riprock</author><text>This needs to also happen for case law (free as in beer). How absurd is this:<p>"Pursuant to common law tradition, the courts of California have developed a large body of case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court of California and the California Courts of Appeal. The state supreme court's decisions are published in official reporters known as California Reports. The decisions of the Courts of Appeal are published in the California Appellate Reports.<p>The content of both reporters is compiled and edited by the California Reporter of Decisions. The Reporter maintains a contract with a private publisher (as allowed by Government Code Section 68903) who in turn is responsible for actually publishing and selling the official reporters. The current official publisher is LexisNexis." [0]<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_California" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_California</a> [0]<p><a href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/clients/CACourts/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lexisnexis.com/clients/CACourts/</a> [1]</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Petition: require free access to publicly-funded research</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thorum</author><text>The White House hasn't had time to respond to this petition because they've been busy responding to more important ones - like "begin construction of a Death Star by 2016".<p><a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking" rel="nofollow">https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-resp...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Petition: require free access to publicly-funded research</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ</url></story> |
39,444,091 | 39,443,128 | 1 | 2 | 39,440,808 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oneshtein</author><text>`&amp;` is a reference.<p>`&#x27;a` is a label for a memory area, like goto labels in C but for data. You can read it as (memory) pool A. Roughly, when function entered, memory pool is created, then destroyed at exit.<p>`&#x27;static` is special label for static data (embedded constants).<p>`()` is nothing, like void in C.<p>`&amp;()` is an reference to nothing (an address) like `void const *` in C.<p>`&amp;&amp;()` is an reference to reference to nothing, like `void const * const *` in C.<p>`&amp; &#x27;static &amp; &#x27;static ()` is like void `const * const *` to a built-in data in C.<p>`&amp; &#x27;a &amp; &#x27;b ()` tells compiler that second reference is stored in pool &#x27;a, while data is stored in pool &#x27;b. (First reference is in scope of current function.)<p>`_` is a special prefix for variables to instruct compiler to ignore warning about unused variable. Just `_` is a valid variable name too.<p><pre><code> static UNIT: &amp;&#x27;static &amp;&#x27;static () = &amp;&amp;();
fn foo&lt;&#x27;a, &#x27;b, T&gt;(_: &amp;&#x27;a &amp;&#x27;b (), v: &amp;&#x27;b T) -&gt; &amp;&#x27;a T { v }
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Let&#x27;s say that `&amp;&#x27;a` is from a function `a()`, while `&amp;&#x27;b` is from a function `b()`, which called from the function `a()`.<p>The trick here is that we relabel reference from pool `&#x27;b`, from an inner function, to pool `&#x27;a` from outer function, so when program will exit from function `b()`, compiler will destroy memory pool `&#x27;b`, but will keep reference to data inside until end of the function `a()`.<p>This should not be allowed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dgfitz</author><text>Looking at the syntax in that bug report makes me think I could never learn rust.</text></item><item><author>dralley</author><text>Seems to rely on at least one known compiler bug (admittedly one open since 2015) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;25860">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;25860</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust</title><url>https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>faitswulff</author><text>You could also think of it as &quot;look at all the weird syntax olympics you need to do in order to trigger a compiler edge case!&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>dgfitz</author><text>Looking at the syntax in that bug report makes me think I could never learn rust.</text></item><item><author>dralley</author><text>Seems to rely on at least one known compiler bug (admittedly one open since 2015) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;25860">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;25860</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust</title><url>https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs</url></story> |
23,511,086 | 23,511,049 | 1 | 2 | 23,498,440 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gimmeThaBeet</author><text>That&#x27;s not really insider trading. Matt Levine pops up here all the time, and one of the really distilled mantras he has:
inside trading isn&#x27;t about <i>fairness</i>, it&#x27;s about <i>theft</i>.<p>Like the people who track flights to speculate on M&amp;A, or use satellite and aerial imagery to look at parking lots. Gathering information isn&#x27;t a crime, in fact gathering and acting on that information is explicitly <i>what you want</i> at an aggregate level. What you don&#x27;t want is entities stealing or misappropriating information that doesn&#x27;t belong to them. I think all the mentioned data categories are basically Fb&#x27;s line of business, so if it&#x27;s usable it seems like its pretty fair game.</text><parent_chain><item><author>a13n</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty interesting that FAANG doing venture capital is basically like legal insider trading.<p>They clearly have data on web traffic, consumer usage, advertising spend, etc. that other VC firms and investors generally don&#x27;t have access to.<p>They can use this to understand entire markets, see who the incumbents are, estimate revenue&#x2F;users, see who&#x27;s up-and-coming, etc. Obviously within some margin of error.<p>I wonder if this is how Facebook identified that Instagram was on the path to success, and knew $1B was a great deal. Meanwhile everyone at the time thought they were crazy for spending that much.<p>Since startups aren&#x27;t publicly traded, I don&#x27;t think insider trading laws apply to trading their securities. FAANG is legally allowed to use their access to information to make better investing decisions than other companies are able to. (IANAL)<p>It seems like they have a high chance of getting a great ROI. Once you&#x27;re a big tech company, this is just another way of monetizing the vast troves of data you have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups</title><url>https://www.axios.com/facebook-establishing-a-venture-arm-to-invest-in-startups-91d9ee71-2282-4032-8f31-45b861a6ba9c.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>objclxt</author><text>&gt; Since startups aren&#x27;t publicly traded, I don&#x27;t think insider trading laws apply to trading their securities. FAANG is legally allowed to use their access to information to make better investing decisions than other companies are able to<p>Insider trading laws apply to all companies, be them public or private. It is illegal to trade based on undisclosed material information the other party doesn&#x27;t have - the law doesn&#x27;t care whether the stock you&#x27;re buying is private or on an exchange.<p>Here&#x27;s an example: suppose you have a startup that&#x27;s been going a long time, and some employees want to sell their stock on a secondary market. To avoid this, the startup offers to buy back employee stock, using the most recent valuation of the company to price it. However, the CEO knows that since that valuation was carried out the company is doing much better than expected - and the real value of the stock is much higher. This isn&#x27;t disclosed to their employees.<p>This is classic insider trading, and the SEC has taken enforcement action against private companies for doing this sort of thing.<p>FWIW, I don&#x27;t think Facebook actually has a large amount of material data in this case - a lot of what they possess (number of active users, platform engagement, etc) is already going to be known by the other party.</text><parent_chain><item><author>a13n</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty interesting that FAANG doing venture capital is basically like legal insider trading.<p>They clearly have data on web traffic, consumer usage, advertising spend, etc. that other VC firms and investors generally don&#x27;t have access to.<p>They can use this to understand entire markets, see who the incumbents are, estimate revenue&#x2F;users, see who&#x27;s up-and-coming, etc. Obviously within some margin of error.<p>I wonder if this is how Facebook identified that Instagram was on the path to success, and knew $1B was a great deal. Meanwhile everyone at the time thought they were crazy for spending that much.<p>Since startups aren&#x27;t publicly traded, I don&#x27;t think insider trading laws apply to trading their securities. FAANG is legally allowed to use their access to information to make better investing decisions than other companies are able to. (IANAL)<p>It seems like they have a high chance of getting a great ROI. Once you&#x27;re a big tech company, this is just another way of monetizing the vast troves of data you have.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups</title><url>https://www.axios.com/facebook-establishing-a-venture-arm-to-invest-in-startups-91d9ee71-2282-4032-8f31-45b861a6ba9c.html</url></story> |
4,123,551 | 4,123,541 | 1 | 2 | 4,123,445 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cushman</author><text>Conversely, I see zero value in this kind of reactionarily pessimistic you're-average-at-everything-and-even-if-you're-good-you'll-probably-fail-anyway stuff that always turns up on any encouraging article.<p>You get zero points for being able to say "See, I was right" when someone fails. Completely aside from that, it's factually wrong; people on this site are quite likely to have skills and resources that the average person cannot <i>comprehend</i>. Being a "decent programmer" is a fabulously valuable skill in the modern world. You aren't guaranteed to be able to leverage it into capital right away, but if you work hard and get out of your own head it's fully achievable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apl</author><text>This type of saccharine feel-good prose irritates to no end. No, chances are you're not the exception to the rule of mediocrity; that's just a matter of statistics. Believing so in absence of hard evidence to the contrary is delusional and won't make things better.<p>Entrepeneurs fail every day. Hundreds, maybe thousands. Don't fall for the cheap words of encouragement.<p>[ADDENDUM: I still don't trust the "Most coders can't do FizzBuzz" meme that generally accompanies the flowery you're-a-special-snowflake-talk. Applicants maybe, but that doesn't say much. There's tons of decent programmers out there, and 99% of them won't get famous or found a sustainable business.]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Are the Exception to the Rule</title><url>https://zapier.com/blog/2012/06/17/you-are-exception-rule/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lotharbot</author><text>Think about what you spend money on, and the people behind it. They might be making your lunch, bagging your groceries, or mowing your lawn. They are probably mediocre at it, but you pay them anyway.<p>Others will pay you decent money to do a mediocre job, and good money to do a good job, because you are the exception to the rule of <i>being willing and able to do the thing for them at all</i>. Most people who have problem X would rather pay money for you to solve some problem for them (even if your solution is mediocre) than solve it themselves, because that allows them to focus on solving whatever problem they care about or think they can get paid for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apl</author><text>This type of saccharine feel-good prose irritates to no end. No, chances are you're not the exception to the rule of mediocrity; that's just a matter of statistics. Believing so in absence of hard evidence to the contrary is delusional and won't make things better.<p>Entrepeneurs fail every day. Hundreds, maybe thousands. Don't fall for the cheap words of encouragement.<p>[ADDENDUM: I still don't trust the "Most coders can't do FizzBuzz" meme that generally accompanies the flowery you're-a-special-snowflake-talk. Applicants maybe, but that doesn't say much. There's tons of decent programmers out there, and 99% of them won't get famous or found a sustainable business.]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Are the Exception to the Rule</title><url>https://zapier.com/blog/2012/06/17/you-are-exception-rule/</url></story> |
3,605,213 | 3,604,888 | 1 | 2 | 3,604,623 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>d2vid</author><text>In Britain (where this case was tried), the law is different. If you don't mention facts that you will rely upon in court, it can harm your defense. Shutting up is not as much of an option:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning#England_and_Wales" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning#England_and_Wal...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bryanh</author><text>&#62; "He added that when Mangham was arrested he made "copious" admissions to police about what he had done."<p>Given the chance, I always bang the "don't talk to authorities" drum. So now you have to wonder, how did his "copious admissions" help him? Seriously, if you are suspected of <i>anything</i>, no matter how innocuous or momentous: <i>Shut. The. Hell. Up.</i> Get a damned attorney.<p>Of course the classic video needs to be linked: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17079853</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wyclif</author><text>Upvoted. Never, ever, talk to the cops.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bryanh</author><text>&#62; "He added that when Mangham was arrested he made "copious" admissions to police about what he had done."<p>Given the chance, I always bang the "don't talk to authorities" drum. So now you have to wonder, how did his "copious admissions" help him? Seriously, if you are suspected of <i>anything</i>, no matter how innocuous or momentous: <i>Shut. The. Hell. Up.</i> Get a damned attorney.<p>Of course the classic video needs to be linked: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17079853</url></story> |
23,654,850 | 23,636,800 | 1 | 3 | 23,627,017 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>A good pattern matching library in Lisp makes code a heck of a lot more readable.<p>Firstly, even basic list destructuring with destructuring-bind is an improvement over a soup of car&#x2F;cadar&#x2F;caddr&#x2F;.<p>Suppose we are in a compiler and would like to look for expressions of he pattern:<p><pre><code> (not (and (not e0) (not e1) (not e2) ...))
</code></pre>
in order to apply DeMorgan&#x27;s and rewrite them to<p><pre><code> (or e0 e1 ...)
</code></pre>
I would rather have a nice pattern matching case like this:<p><pre><code> (match-case expr
...
((not (and @(zeromore not @term)))
`(or ,term)) ;; rewrite done!
...)
</code></pre>
than:<p><pre><code> (if (and (consp expr)
(eq (car expr) &#x27;not))
(consp (cdr expr))
(consp (cadr (expr)))
(null (cddr expr))
(eq (caadr (expr)) &#x27;and)
(eq (cadr expr)
... ad nauseum)
</code></pre>
Even if a fail-safe version of <i>destructuring-bind</i> is used to validate and get the basic shape, it&#x27;s still tedious:<p><pre><code> (destructuring-case expr
...
((a (b c))
(if (and (eq a &#x27;and)
(eq b &#x27;not))
... now check that c is a list of nothing but (not x) forms
)))
</code></pre>
I don&#x27;t have a pattern matcher in TXR Lisp. That is such a problem that it&#x27;s holding up compiler work! Because having to write grotty code just to recognize patterns and pull out pieces is demotivating. It&#x27;s not just demotivating as in &quot;I don&#x27;t feel like doing the gruntwork&quot;, but demotivating as in, &quot;I don&#x27;t want to saddle my project with the technical debt caused by cranking out that kind of code&quot;, which will have to be rewritten into pattern matching later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I have a visceral dislike of pattern matching. Lisp shows just how much people will abuse it in real-world production codebases. It becomes impossible to understand even simple logic without comments. I’d link to some examples, but I’m on mobile; suffice to say, pull up the emacs codebase and read through some of the more advanced modules like edebug.el. I’m not certain that one uses pattern matching, but it’s a perfect example of “this codebase cannot be understood without extensive study of language features.”<p>You may argue that I am simply not versed enough in pattern matching. “You should study harder.” I would argue that simplicity is worth striving for.<p>I hope this PEP never moves beyond draft.<p>It’s also shocking that most people here seem to be tacitly supporting this, or happy about it. Yes, it’s cool. Yes, it might simplify a few cases. But it will also give birth to codebases that <i>you can’t read</i> in about, say, 5 years. And then you’ll have a bright line between people in the camp of “This is perfectly readable; it does so and so” and the rest of us regular humans that just want to build reliable systems.<p>And oh yes, it becomes impossible to backport to older python versions. Lovely.</text></item><item><author>justusw</author><text>Very interesting. This PEP is still in draft state, but I am interested to see how the community will react. For me, I have a few thoughts:<p>1) This is really close to Erlang&#x2F;Elixir pattern matching and will make fail-early code much easier to write and easier to reason about.<p>2) match&#x2F;case means double indentation, which I see they reasoned about later in the &quot;Rejected ideas&quot;. Might have a negative impact on readability.<p>3) Match is an already used word (as acknowledged by the authors), but I think this could have been a good case for actually using hard syntax. For me, perhaps because I&#x27;m used to it, Elixir&#x27;s &quot;{a, b, c} = {:hello, &quot;world&quot;, 42}&quot; just makes sense.<p>4) I hope there won&#x27;t be a big flame-war debacle like with :=<p>5) And then finally there is the question of: &quot;It&#x27;s cool, but do we really need it? And will it increase the surprise factor?&quot; And here I&#x27;m not sure. And again, this was the concern with the new assignment expression. The assignment expression is legitimately useful in some use cases (no more silly while True), but it might reduce the learnability of Python. Python is often used as an introductory programming language, so the impact would be that curricula need to be adjust or beginner programmers will encounter some surprising code along the road.<p>I can&#x27;t say this is a good or bad proposal, I want to see what other opinions are out there, and what kind of projects out there in the world would really benefit from syntax like this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching</title><url>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>Apart from Clojure, lisps generally do not support destructuring pattern matching on an object&#x2F;dict.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I have a visceral dislike of pattern matching. Lisp shows just how much people will abuse it in real-world production codebases. It becomes impossible to understand even simple logic without comments. I’d link to some examples, but I’m on mobile; suffice to say, pull up the emacs codebase and read through some of the more advanced modules like edebug.el. I’m not certain that one uses pattern matching, but it’s a perfect example of “this codebase cannot be understood without extensive study of language features.”<p>You may argue that I am simply not versed enough in pattern matching. “You should study harder.” I would argue that simplicity is worth striving for.<p>I hope this PEP never moves beyond draft.<p>It’s also shocking that most people here seem to be tacitly supporting this, or happy about it. Yes, it’s cool. Yes, it might simplify a few cases. But it will also give birth to codebases that <i>you can’t read</i> in about, say, 5 years. And then you’ll have a bright line between people in the camp of “This is perfectly readable; it does so and so” and the rest of us regular humans that just want to build reliable systems.<p>And oh yes, it becomes impossible to backport to older python versions. Lovely.</text></item><item><author>justusw</author><text>Very interesting. This PEP is still in draft state, but I am interested to see how the community will react. For me, I have a few thoughts:<p>1) This is really close to Erlang&#x2F;Elixir pattern matching and will make fail-early code much easier to write and easier to reason about.<p>2) match&#x2F;case means double indentation, which I see they reasoned about later in the &quot;Rejected ideas&quot;. Might have a negative impact on readability.<p>3) Match is an already used word (as acknowledged by the authors), but I think this could have been a good case for actually using hard syntax. For me, perhaps because I&#x27;m used to it, Elixir&#x27;s &quot;{a, b, c} = {:hello, &quot;world&quot;, 42}&quot; just makes sense.<p>4) I hope there won&#x27;t be a big flame-war debacle like with :=<p>5) And then finally there is the question of: &quot;It&#x27;s cool, but do we really need it? And will it increase the surprise factor?&quot; And here I&#x27;m not sure. And again, this was the concern with the new assignment expression. The assignment expression is legitimately useful in some use cases (no more silly while True), but it might reduce the learnability of Python. Python is often used as an introductory programming language, so the impact would be that curricula need to be adjust or beginner programmers will encounter some surprising code along the road.<p>I can&#x27;t say this is a good or bad proposal, I want to see what other opinions are out there, and what kind of projects out there in the world would really benefit from syntax like this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching</title><url>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/</url></story> |
15,403,121 | 15,403,335 | 1 | 2 | 15,401,397 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avn2109</author><text>The usual tribal conflict pattern is to seize territory as a hunting ground. Note that for nomadic tribes, there is no village and therefore no fixed location to raid.<p>E.g. the Comanches had a longstanding war* with the Apaches not because they wanted to seize each other&#x27;s grain stores, but rather because they wanted control of the best buffalo hunting grounds.<p>* Not a war in the sense that we&#x27;d call it today. There were e.g. no organized charges, battle lines etc. Maybe &quot;long slow series of irregular cavalry skirmishes&quot; is more accurate than &quot;war.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonmp85</author><text>I have little knowledge about the truth here but I&#x27;d heard that this sort of warring stuff only ramped up after agriculture became common, no? Why kill other tribes&#x27; members unless they have a hoard of food? I suppose &quot;to reduce competition&quot; is one answer, but if everyone can hunt&#x2F;gather for enough food, the motivation seems reduced.<p>OTOH if I can ignore preparation for winter and just raid your village for grain stores, the calculus changes.</text></item><item><author>smallnamespace</author><text>&gt; with friends to socialize<p>Or, sometimes, rival tribes to fight with and kill -- not everything is (necessarily) hunky-dory in every tribal society.</text></item><item><author>wmil</author><text>Not only that, but the 40h&#x2F;week ignores commutes. For some people that&#x27;s an additional 15h&#x2F;week.<p>Also hunger-gatherers lived right beside the people they knew. They just had to step outside to meet up with friends to socialize.</text></item><item><author>lutorm</author><text>Actually, studies have shown that hunter-gatherer societies spent much less than 40h&#x2F;week &quot;working&quot; and had more leisure time than we do. It&#x27;s just recent history that&#x27;s an anomaly...</text></item><item><author>_qbjt</author><text>This is one of the reasons I hate the eight-hour work day. Between that and all of the other shit you have to do in a day (commute, chores, eating, exercise etc.), it seems like there&#x27;s little to no opportunity to just have a life. I know it sounds like first world problems (people used to work 100 hour weeks), but I think our culture needs to change before we can really put the onus on people to improve their sleeping habits. I&#x27;d love to get 7-9 hours of sleep, but I just don&#x27;t have the time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding yourself, expert says</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-bsi-why-we-sleep-matt-walker-20171003-story.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>zipwitch</author><text>I am not an anthropologist, but I believe that&#x27;s a popular misconception. Many technologically primitive tribal cultures have low absolute numbers of violent deaths, but they also typically have very low populations compared to agricultural societies. Their per capita casualties from intra- and inter-tribal violence are quite high.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonmp85</author><text>I have little knowledge about the truth here but I&#x27;d heard that this sort of warring stuff only ramped up after agriculture became common, no? Why kill other tribes&#x27; members unless they have a hoard of food? I suppose &quot;to reduce competition&quot; is one answer, but if everyone can hunt&#x2F;gather for enough food, the motivation seems reduced.<p>OTOH if I can ignore preparation for winter and just raid your village for grain stores, the calculus changes.</text></item><item><author>smallnamespace</author><text>&gt; with friends to socialize<p>Or, sometimes, rival tribes to fight with and kill -- not everything is (necessarily) hunky-dory in every tribal society.</text></item><item><author>wmil</author><text>Not only that, but the 40h&#x2F;week ignores commutes. For some people that&#x27;s an additional 15h&#x2F;week.<p>Also hunger-gatherers lived right beside the people they knew. They just had to step outside to meet up with friends to socialize.</text></item><item><author>lutorm</author><text>Actually, studies have shown that hunter-gatherer societies spent much less than 40h&#x2F;week &quot;working&quot; and had more leisure time than we do. It&#x27;s just recent history that&#x27;s an anomaly...</text></item><item><author>_qbjt</author><text>This is one of the reasons I hate the eight-hour work day. Between that and all of the other shit you have to do in a day (commute, chores, eating, exercise etc.), it seems like there&#x27;s little to no opportunity to just have a life. I know it sounds like first world problems (people used to work 100 hour weeks), but I think our culture needs to change before we can really put the onus on people to improve their sleeping habits. I&#x27;d love to get 7-9 hours of sleep, but I just don&#x27;t have the time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding yourself, expert says</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-bsi-why-we-sleep-matt-walker-20171003-story.html</url></story> |
7,448,193 | 7,447,840 | 1 | 2 | 7,447,542 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lambdaphage</author><text>I&#x27;m always surprised when reading the notes of scientists and mathematicians working in previous centuries to see just how steeped they were in synthetic geometry. This was taken to an extreme in the case of the Principia, but one can&#x27;t read Gibbs or Maxwell either without realizing that they felt Euclid in their bones in a way that few people do today, with possible exceptions for mathematicians trained under the Soviet system.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>College Notebook by Isaac Newton</title><url>http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/20</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hawkharris</author><text>On a technical note, kudos to Cambridge for developing this beautiful platform for interacting with documents -- and for doing it without Flash.<p>On a personal note, everything I wrote during my college career suddenly seems a little less substantial...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>College Notebook by Isaac Newton</title><url>http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/20</url></story> |
21,141,015 | 21,140,538 | 1 | 3 | 21,128,268 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>praxulus</author><text>The word &quot;qualified&quot; is pulling a lot of weight in your argument.<p>You can absolutely hire a programmer for $70k if you&#x27;re willing to significantly relax your standards. On the other hand, you probably wouldn&#x27;t be able to hire enough teachers at existing teacher salaries if you significantly raised your standards for what counts as &quot;qualified&quot;.<p>Tech companies have to use a relatively high bar, because bad developers will drive them out of business, but such market forces don&#x27;t apply to schools. Unless you want to completely privatize education (which has its own set of issues) we have to use the political process to drive schools to raise their both their salaries and hiring standards.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crumpets</author><text>&gt;how society decides salaries. It seems pretty arbitrary from my perspective.<p>Society doesn&#x27;t &quot;decide&quot;. It&#x27;s a decided by the labor market. Nobody <i>wants</i> to pay programmers six figures.<p>It&#x27;s a myth that we think teachers are less important than programmers because they make less on average. There is just a larger supply of qualified teachers willing to work at lower prices.<p>Wait until you find out how little art history masters holders make. Amount of training is irrelevant to how much money you get.</text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This seems to use private education as a benchmark for the entire argument. From quit rates, to pay, to conditions, and beyond, but ignores the obvious which is that private pay and private conditions are largely pinned to be just above public salaries and conditions (meaning private education cannot be used as a benchmark for when someone is under-paid, over-qualified, or has too high of a quit rate because they are related).<p>Personally I think someone required to have a degree (master&#x27;s for quoted salary), continued education requirements, and licensing earning under $50K&#x2F;year starting is too low. Plus no teacher is working 8-3, you&#x27;d have no opportunity for lesson planning, grading, and all those extra curriculars they are essentially guilted into organizing.<p>The fact that I could walk out of college with zero experience and only a degree, and earn $20K more than that working only 9-5 in the same city seems unfair (as a programmer). But I have no idea how society decides salaries. It seems pretty arbitrary from my perspective.<p>But it is great that at the end of a long career a few unicorn teachers can earn $100K, a salary I earned within 5 years and still no master&#x27;s or licencing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The myth of the teacher pay gap?</title><url>https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-truth-about-teacher-pay</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crdoconnor</author><text>The labor market is a tool of society. It&#x27;s like any other tool: it can be fixed or supplemented or even swapped out with something else if it doesn&#x27;t perform its function effectively.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crumpets</author><text>&gt;how society decides salaries. It seems pretty arbitrary from my perspective.<p>Society doesn&#x27;t &quot;decide&quot;. It&#x27;s a decided by the labor market. Nobody <i>wants</i> to pay programmers six figures.<p>It&#x27;s a myth that we think teachers are less important than programmers because they make less on average. There is just a larger supply of qualified teachers willing to work at lower prices.<p>Wait until you find out how little art history masters holders make. Amount of training is irrelevant to how much money you get.</text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This seems to use private education as a benchmark for the entire argument. From quit rates, to pay, to conditions, and beyond, but ignores the obvious which is that private pay and private conditions are largely pinned to be just above public salaries and conditions (meaning private education cannot be used as a benchmark for when someone is under-paid, over-qualified, or has too high of a quit rate because they are related).<p>Personally I think someone required to have a degree (master&#x27;s for quoted salary), continued education requirements, and licensing earning under $50K&#x2F;year starting is too low. Plus no teacher is working 8-3, you&#x27;d have no opportunity for lesson planning, grading, and all those extra curriculars they are essentially guilted into organizing.<p>The fact that I could walk out of college with zero experience and only a degree, and earn $20K more than that working only 9-5 in the same city seems unfair (as a programmer). But I have no idea how society decides salaries. It seems pretty arbitrary from my perspective.<p>But it is great that at the end of a long career a few unicorn teachers can earn $100K, a salary I earned within 5 years and still no master&#x27;s or licencing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The myth of the teacher pay gap?</title><url>https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-truth-about-teacher-pay</url></story> |
16,791,115 | 16,788,833 | 1 | 3 | 16,787,691 | 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>mpweiher</author><text>&gt; I think people who don&#x27;t live in the city don&#x27;t<p>&gt; realize how (relatively) stressful it can be<p>&gt; when the trains are late.<p>So much this. I always thought that the typical characterization of Germany, &quot;the trains run on time&quot; was a put down for how boring and uptight we are.<p>Then I lived in places where the trains do not run on time.<p>Oh my god.<p>Whenever I travelled back to Berlin, I wanted to hug the BVG employees.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wgerard</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting seeing the ways people work around this, even for people who don&#x27;t have hard start&#x2F;end times (e.g. tech employees).<p>I have one friend who uses Citi Bike to get to important meetings &lt; 30 blocks away, because they don&#x27;t trust the subway to get them there on time (and during peak hours, cabs are even slower). I have another who goes pretty far out of their way to avoid the more troublesome lines (the F, specifically). Some have started using the bus much more regularly, because at least the bus doesn&#x27;t break down for an hour at a time. One manager I know just stopped scheduling any meetings before 11, because they got tired of having people miss meetings or come in late because of the trains.<p>I think people who don&#x27;t live in the city don&#x27;t realize how (relatively) stressful it can be when the trains are late. Riding the train during peak hours is already a pretty stressful experience: The sardine analogy is very real, and it&#x27;s fairly common for trains to be so packed that I literally don&#x27;t have room to even put my phone in front of my face (let alone a book or anything else) to pass the time.<p>Now imagine that, but the train platform is also similarly packed. And people are fighting (sometimes literally) to get onto the packed train. And you&#x27;ll have to wait for 2-3 trains to pass, because there&#x27;s no empty space on the trains. And you&#x27;re late, and you have no idea when you&#x27;ll get to where you&#x27;re going because the train ETA board just says &quot;Delay&quot;. And when you need to get off the train, you&#x27;ll have to just pray that people make room for you or you&#x27;ll have to really force your way through the crowd on your way out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Subway Is So Late, It’s Making New Yorkers Early</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/nyregion/subway-late-early-new-york.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>SOLAR_FIELDS</author><text>Reading this doubly reinforces how good it is in Sweden where I live now. While trains and buses are notoriously delayed (somewhat frequently), I can look on a phone app and tell when the next one will arrive +- 1 minute.<p>It’s no Switzerland or Japan, but it’s what a reasonably well run system looks like.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wgerard</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting seeing the ways people work around this, even for people who don&#x27;t have hard start&#x2F;end times (e.g. tech employees).<p>I have one friend who uses Citi Bike to get to important meetings &lt; 30 blocks away, because they don&#x27;t trust the subway to get them there on time (and during peak hours, cabs are even slower). I have another who goes pretty far out of their way to avoid the more troublesome lines (the F, specifically). Some have started using the bus much more regularly, because at least the bus doesn&#x27;t break down for an hour at a time. One manager I know just stopped scheduling any meetings before 11, because they got tired of having people miss meetings or come in late because of the trains.<p>I think people who don&#x27;t live in the city don&#x27;t realize how (relatively) stressful it can be when the trains are late. Riding the train during peak hours is already a pretty stressful experience: The sardine analogy is very real, and it&#x27;s fairly common for trains to be so packed that I literally don&#x27;t have room to even put my phone in front of my face (let alone a book or anything else) to pass the time.<p>Now imagine that, but the train platform is also similarly packed. And people are fighting (sometimes literally) to get onto the packed train. And you&#x27;ll have to wait for 2-3 trains to pass, because there&#x27;s no empty space on the trains. And you&#x27;re late, and you have no idea when you&#x27;ll get to where you&#x27;re going because the train ETA board just says &quot;Delay&quot;. And when you need to get off the train, you&#x27;ll have to just pray that people make room for you or you&#x27;ll have to really force your way through the crowd on your way out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Subway Is So Late, It’s Making New Yorkers Early</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/nyregion/subway-late-early-new-york.html</url></story> |
4,025,354 | 4,024,083 | 1 | 2 | 4,023,834 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dminor</author><text>&#62; Another idea would be for banks to offer special credit card numbers, that get automatically flagged as bogus purchases. Any bank offering such a service? If I ever use the magic number, the transaction is perceived to go through, but it's actually tracked and no money is exchanged. Not sure if it's doable with respect to Visa and Mastercard networks.<p>A credit card that allows you to make purchases but never transfers any money? I'm not sure you've quite thought that through.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alain94040</author><text>Great, but the main problem is to find out who is calling you. I wish the phone company had some kind of obligation to give me that information, so I could trace back annoying telemarketing calls. Stringing them along until they reveal who they work for just doesn't work well.<p>Another idea would be for banks to offer special credit card numbers, that get automatically flagged as bogus purchases. Any bank offering such a service? If I ever use the magic number, the transaction is perceived to go through, but it's actually tracked and no money is exchanged. Not sure if it's doable with respect to Visa and Mastercard networks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I sued a telemarketer and got $4,000</title><url>http://www.impactdialing.com/2012/05/how-to-sue-a-telemarketer/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelrkn</author><text>Thanks to Voice over IP, this is pretty much impossible to regulate any more. The telephone networks were built on a trust model that VoIP destroyed. Now, you can originate a call on the internet that's nearly impossible to trace.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alain94040</author><text>Great, but the main problem is to find out who is calling you. I wish the phone company had some kind of obligation to give me that information, so I could trace back annoying telemarketing calls. Stringing them along until they reveal who they work for just doesn't work well.<p>Another idea would be for banks to offer special credit card numbers, that get automatically flagged as bogus purchases. Any bank offering such a service? If I ever use the magic number, the transaction is perceived to go through, but it's actually tracked and no money is exchanged. Not sure if it's doable with respect to Visa and Mastercard networks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I sued a telemarketer and got $4,000</title><url>http://www.impactdialing.com/2012/05/how-to-sue-a-telemarketer/</url></story> |
23,831,651 | 23,831,089 | 1 | 3 | 23,830,432 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nayuki</author><text>&gt; Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers. $0.01-$0.02 per transaction<p>This assertion is wrong. If the item you buy is $1.00, then after your 14% tax it will be $1.14, which is rounded up to $1.15. If the item is $2.00, then after tax it is $2.28, which also rounds up to $2.30. But if the item is $3.00, then after tax it is $3.42, which rounds down to $3.40. If the item is $4.00, then after tax it is $4.56, which rounds down to $4.55.<p>Secondly, the rounding to nearest nickel is done per transaction, not per item. So if you go to a supermarket and pick up 3 items costing exactly $1.00, then the total you owe is $3.42 (which becomes $3.40 in cash), and it is that amount that is subjected to rounding, not the individual items (which are $1.13 and would round to $1.15).<p>I live in Toronto and have analyzed my retail receipts. (I&#x27;m aware the HST is currently 13% but that&#x27;s not relevant to this argument.) The rule about rounding to the nearest nickel is sensible enough, but I&#x27;ve witnessed various weird behaviors. For example, each vendor has a different kind of wording to show how they rounded your cash transaction. Some use a negative sign to show that the penny rounding deducted money from your total owed, while some use a negative sign to show that the penny rounding increased your total owed (as if you paid negative money). Also, a few vendors always round down to the nearest 5 cents (to appear nice to the customer), which causes a surprise when I&#x27;m trying to prepare the correct amount of change. Finally, some vendors don&#x27;t display cash rounding on their receipts, so for them it is an oral culture that isn&#x27;t formally written down.</text><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>Yes.<p>Canada stopped producing pennies in the fall of 2012. [0]
The sky didn&#x27;t fall.
There was no great debate, no public opinion polls and politicians swearing heartily about the demise of our great nation. (Ok that&#x27;s probably not true. For too many politicians that&#x27;s all they do.)<p>There was resistance when Canada dropped the $1 bill in favour of a Loonie (a $1 coin with the image of a loon on it). People bitched about having too much change in there pocket, pockets became too heavy, etc. I do however see more coins in tip &amp; donation jars now then I ever saw paper money.<p>This is a key difference between US policy &amp; Canadian policy that I have informally noticed while growing up on the border (with family ties on both sides).<p>Canadian government: We think it&#x27;s a good idea, so we&#x27;re going to do it.<p>US Government: Lets have more opinion polls, and countless politicians swearing against any decent public reform or change to the status quo. Watch the media whip the public up into a frenzy. I guaranty that this will create a more frantic response and airtime then the BLM &amp; Police Reform protests did.<p>Side note: If you drop the penny, for the love of $diety change your sales tax structure so that it&#x27;s a multiple of 5. 5%, 10%, 15%, etc... Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers.
$0.01-$0.02 per transaction * millions of transactions per day has got to make some accountants happy.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all-you-need-to-know-1.1174547" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is It Time to Kill the Penny?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/14/890435359/is-it-time-to-kill-the-penny</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philistine</author><text>The rounding only happens on paper transactions. Since most transactions are made using plastic, where no rounding happens, the impact is terribly small.<p>You do realize you’re being guilty of exactly what you’re decrying in American politics? You’re over analyzing a minuscule impact that would result from a change to the status quo.</text><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>Yes.<p>Canada stopped producing pennies in the fall of 2012. [0]
The sky didn&#x27;t fall.
There was no great debate, no public opinion polls and politicians swearing heartily about the demise of our great nation. (Ok that&#x27;s probably not true. For too many politicians that&#x27;s all they do.)<p>There was resistance when Canada dropped the $1 bill in favour of a Loonie (a $1 coin with the image of a loon on it). People bitched about having too much change in there pocket, pockets became too heavy, etc. I do however see more coins in tip &amp; donation jars now then I ever saw paper money.<p>This is a key difference between US policy &amp; Canadian policy that I have informally noticed while growing up on the border (with family ties on both sides).<p>Canadian government: We think it&#x27;s a good idea, so we&#x27;re going to do it.<p>US Government: Lets have more opinion polls, and countless politicians swearing against any decent public reform or change to the status quo. Watch the media whip the public up into a frenzy. I guaranty that this will create a more frantic response and airtime then the BLM &amp; Police Reform protests did.<p>Side note: If you drop the penny, for the love of $diety change your sales tax structure so that it&#x27;s a multiple of 5. 5%, 10%, 15%, etc... Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers.
$0.01-$0.02 per transaction * millions of transactions per day has got to make some accountants happy.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all-you-need-to-know-1.1174547" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;canada-s-penny-withdrawal-all...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is It Time to Kill the Penny?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/14/890435359/is-it-time-to-kill-the-penny</url></story> |
11,820,459 | 11,820,077 | 1 | 2 | 11,819,525 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vonnik</author><text>Anyone following DL news knows that DL alone will not lead to strong AI. The most impressive feats in the last year or so have come from combining deep artificial neural networks with other algorithms, just as DeepMind combined deep ConvNets with reinforcement learning and Monte Carlo Tree Search. There&#x27;s not really an interesting conversation to be had about whether DL will get us to strong AI. It won&#x27;t. It is just machine perception; that is, it classifies, clusters and makes predictions about data very well in many situations, but it&#x27;s not going to solve goal-oriented learning. But it solves perception problems very well, often better than human experts. So in the not too distant future, as people wake up to its potential, we will use those infinitely replicable NNs to extract actionable knowledge from the raw data of the world. That is, the world will become more transparent. It will offer fewer surprises. We may not solve cancer with DL, but we will spot it in X-rays more consistently with image recognition, and save more lives.<p>Disclosure: I work on the open-source DL project Deeplearning4j: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deeplearning4j.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deeplearning4j.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The truth about deep learning</title><url>http://blog.claymcleod.io/2016/06/01/The-truth-about-Deep-Learning/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>I understand and empathize with the skepticism or rather criticisms around hand wringing with respect to the implications of current deep learning methods.<p>However, as someone who builds them for vision applications I&#x27;m increasingly convinced that some form of ANN will underlie AGI - what he calls a universal algorithm.<p>If we assume that general intelligence comes from highly trained, highly connected single processors (neurons) with a massive and complex sensor system, then replicating that neuron is step one - which arguably is what we are building, albeit comparatively crudely, with ANN&#x27;s.<p>If you compare at a high level how infants learn and how we train RNN&#x2F;CNNs they are remarkably similar.<p>I think where the author, and in general the ML crowd focuses too much is on unsupervised learning as being pivotal for AGI.<p>In fact if you look again at biological models the bulk of animal learning is supervised training in the strict technical sense. Just look at feral children studies as proof of this.<p>Where the author detours too much is assuming the academic world would prove a broader scope for ANN if it were there. In fact however research priorities are across the board not focused on general intelligence and most machine learning programs explicitly forbid this research for graduate students as it&#x27;s not productive over the timeline of a program.<p>Bengio and others I think are on the right track, focusing on the question of ANN towards AGI and I think it will start producing results as our training methods.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The truth about deep learning</title><url>http://blog.claymcleod.io/2016/06/01/The-truth-about-Deep-Learning/</url></story> |
17,243,761 | 17,243,710 | 1 | 2 | 17,242,136 | 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>madhadron</author><text>I regard the command line as a last resort if I can&#x27;t do something in SourceTree. After spending time with a quality source control client, any command line interface feels like wading through quicksand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikeyjk</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it is fair to say that git users loathe it overall. I enjoy using git, is this not a common experience?</text></item><item><author>jeremymcanally</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s also non-sensical. A CLI &quot;interface&quot; needs a lot of thought and work behind it, too, unless you want to end up loathed by your users as something like git is.</text></item><item><author>lquist</author><text><i>CLI tools also have the advantage that their developers don&#x27;t have to waste their time building and maintaining a useless GUI, but can instead use the time to improve the tool itself</i><p>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I stopped reading here b&#x2F;c this language struck me as unnecessarily antagonistic. Just some feedback.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Transity – Plain Text Accounting</title><url>https://www.feram.io/blog/2018-06-05_transity_the_future_of_plain_text_accounting/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>staticautomatic</author><text>I think it would be fair to say that a lot of people have a love&#x2F;hate relationship with git.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikeyjk</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it is fair to say that git users loathe it overall. I enjoy using git, is this not a common experience?</text></item><item><author>jeremymcanally</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s also non-sensical. A CLI &quot;interface&quot; needs a lot of thought and work behind it, too, unless you want to end up loathed by your users as something like git is.</text></item><item><author>lquist</author><text><i>CLI tools also have the advantage that their developers don&#x27;t have to waste their time building and maintaining a useless GUI, but can instead use the time to improve the tool itself</i><p>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I stopped reading here b&#x2F;c this language struck me as unnecessarily antagonistic. Just some feedback.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Transity – Plain Text Accounting</title><url>https://www.feram.io/blog/2018-06-05_transity_the_future_of_plain_text_accounting/</url></story> |
35,122,123 | 35,120,599 | 1 | 2 | 35,119,159 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SilverBirch</author><text>What&#x27;s really scary about the SVB situation is the dynamic that there&#x27;s no cost to causing a bank run, so now you&#x27;ve got all these VC guys who are disingenuously claiming that every bank in America is now at risk because of SVB. We all know what they&#x27;re doing - they&#x27;re trying to create panic so that the government has to step in, but it&#x27;s a massively dangerous game to be playing. If other regional banks do start failing it&#x27;s going to be in no small part due to these people preaching doomsday scenarios. Will they pay a price for their behaviour. Of course not.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Republic, other regional bank stocks sink after failure of SVB</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/first-republic-leads-regional-bank-rout-as-silicon-valley-bank-crisis-raises-fears-about-bond-losses.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>howmayiannoyyou</author><text>From @commbankerguy | <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;commbankerguy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;commbankerguy</a> | on Twitter on evaluating your bank, where more than one factor should be in play to probably be of concern:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;commbankerguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1634637082659364866" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;commbankerguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1634637082659364866</a><p>1. Red flag if cash as % of assets or deposits is below 3%. Meaning can they handle a withdrawal of up to 3% or is cash tied up in bonds.<p>2. Red flag if tangible capital is under 4% after looking at bond portfolio as % of tangible capital (this one wasn&#x27;t totally clear, but I think get the idea).<p>3. Red flag if over 20% of liabilities are brokered deposits and&#x2F;or funds borrowed from FHLB. If the bank is not well capitalized those funds become restricted&#x2F;unavailable.<p>Also:<p>High concentration of consumer deposits is less likely to face destabilizing run.<p>For example @commbankerguy says:<p>&quot;If 50% in brokered&#x2F;FHLB and capital level of 5%, I would recommend you move your money if over $250k.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;commbankerguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1634764850126520320?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;commbankerguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1634764850126520320...</a><p>@Citrini7 shorted $SIVB in late 2022 after marking their holding to market and finding their book value was negative. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Citrini7&#x2F;status&#x2F;1583593158738612226?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Citrini7&#x2F;status&#x2F;1583593158738612226?s=20</a><p>Then this dude created an SVB recovery analysis that is legend:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;13OyOLDePh85Wna5xcyTihfvWgMKI8Y4ejtLydKvXUrg&#x2F;edit#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;13OyOLDePh85Wna5xcyTi...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First Republic, other regional bank stocks sink after failure of SVB</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/first-republic-leads-regional-bank-rout-as-silicon-valley-bank-crisis-raises-fears-about-bond-losses.html</url></story> |
22,131,591 | 22,131,394 | 1 | 2 | 22,130,438 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; Fascism is gaining in many parts of the world today. But the &#x27;other&#x27; this time aren&#x27;t Jews, they&#x27;re Muslims.<p>As someone from a Muslim country, this comparison strikes me as facile and ignorant. It’s not just a group of people being viewed as “the other.” Even Muslim majority countries are facing challenges. In Bangladesh, the government is taking actions that people in western countries would probably liken to “fascism.” E.g. banning Muslim political parties. The problem these countries are grappling with is that they’re not just dealing with a group of people who happen to be different. There is a political ideology that crosses national borders and seeks to supplant existing institutions and governments. There is a lot of foreign money flowing into Bangladesh, to fund madrasas (schools) that teach hard line religion. Egypt and Turkey both fought these forces for decades, struggling to maintain secular, western institutions, and ultimately lost.<p>That is not to say that I don’t find Modi’s actions, or Bannon’s
rhetoric, etc., troubling. I do. It’s just that there is a lot more here than you can understand through shallow analogies or the lens of western politics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Despegar</author><text>Excellent New Yorker piece about this (I submitted it to HN when it came out but it didn&#x27;t get any traction):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;blood-and-soil...</a><p>Fascism is gaining in many parts of the world today. But the &#x27;other&#x27; this time aren&#x27;t Jews, they&#x27;re Muslims.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky</title><url>https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/in-india-what-we-are-seeing-is-the-symptoms-of-fascism-noam-chomsky</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>With such a large percentage of the population of not just the country in question in the article, but also the entire world, I&#x27;m not sure they can be seen to be &quot;the other&quot; to the same degree as the Jews were, given how common they are.<p>In 1933, there were an estimated 15 million Jews worldwide[1], 9 million or so in Europe. In Germany, with the largest Jewish population, they accounted for less than 1% of the populace. In India today, Muslims account for close to 15% of the population. According to wikipedia, they&#x27;re very close to 25% of the entire world population. There may be some vilification going on, but when the other group is as large as that, I doubt you can expect a similar outcome or as much of a one sided narrative in the places where it&#x27;s attempted.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encyclopedia.ushmm.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;jewish-population-of-europe-in-1933-population-data-by-country" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encyclopedia.ushmm.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;jewish-pop...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Despegar</author><text>Excellent New Yorker piece about this (I submitted it to HN when it came out but it didn&#x27;t get any traction):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;blood-and-soil...</a><p>Fascism is gaining in many parts of the world today. But the &#x27;other&#x27; this time aren&#x27;t Jews, they&#x27;re Muslims.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky</title><url>https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/in-india-what-we-are-seeing-is-the-symptoms-of-fascism-noam-chomsky</url></story> |
17,706,967 | 17,706,850 | 1 | 2 | 17,706,551 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>The EPA already allows asbestos to be used in a huge range of products. I simply cannot see what justification could be made for allowing asbestos to continue to be used in cement sheet, floor tile and brake pads. It might pose no immediate hazard when installed, but it could become a serious hazard at any point during its lifespan. Cement sheets crack and crumble, floor tiles become worn and get replaced, brake pads are designed to wear down. When you install any asbestos-containing material, you&#x27;re setting a deadly man-trap.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;asbestos&#x2F;us-federal-bans-asbestos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;asbestos&#x2F;us-federal-bans-asbestos</a><p>In the EU, there&#x27;s a blanket ban on manufacturing or selling asbestos-containing products under the REACH regulations, with an exception only for replacement membranes in existing electrolysis equipment. Member states can add specific exemptions where there is a valid justification; in the UK, those exemptions apply only to used acetylene gas cylinders, heritage vehicles and museum artefacts.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;echa.europa.eu&#x2F;documents&#x2F;10162&#x2F;574c30dd-398d-b3ff-cc67-e7e843c2b243" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;echa.europa.eu&#x2F;documents&#x2F;10162&#x2F;574c30dd-398d-b3ff-cc...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hse.gov.uk&#x2F;asbestos&#x2F;exemption.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hse.gov.uk&#x2F;asbestos&#x2F;exemption.htm</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>base698</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;is-epa-allowing-asbestos-products&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;is-epa-allowing-asbestos-p...</a><p>The EPA has not changed anything about currently banned uses of asbestos, and any new uses would first be assessed by the agency.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing</title><url>https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_fizz_buzz_</author><text>You make it sound like the Snopes article contradicts the OP articled. They both say the same thing: &quot;On June 1, the EPA authorized a “SNUR” (Significant New Use Rule) which allows new products containing asbestos to be created on a case-by-case basis.&quot; (2nd sentence of the OP article). Also, Snopes rates the claim as &quot;mostly true&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>base698</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;is-epa-allowing-asbestos-products&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;is-epa-allowing-asbestos-p...</a><p>The EPA has not changed anything about currently banned uses of asbestos, and any new uses would first be assessed by the agency.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing</title><url>https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/</url></story> |
29,011,517 | 29,010,146 | 1 | 3 | 29,008,910 | train | <instructions>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>&gt; The top 10% of miners control 90% and just 0.1% (about 50 miners) control close to 50% of mining capacity<p>This is incorrect. Replace &quot;miners&quot; with &quot;mining pools&quot; and they&#x27;re closer to the mark. What&#x27;s happened is that the block construction (done by the pool operator) and the PoW (done by miners) are mostly decoupled. Some miners will run everything themselves, but they&#x27;re not represented in those numbers. (There are some things that can change here in stratum2, the new protocol used for coordinating mining pool s, but whatever)<p>Sure, pool operators can abuse their power. But as the paper shows, hash power is liquid; miners do move between pools for various reasons.<p>While there is a bit of a systemic risk there, it&#x27;s not necessarily as bad as it might seem.<p>IMO the biggest risk here is censorship; and we saw how responsive miners are to things like that earlier this year with the whole &quot;OFAC-compliant&quot; debacle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>YossarianFrPrez</author><text>Interesting quotes from the first section of the paper:<p>&quot;We first document that 90% of transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain is not tied to economically meaningful activities but is the byproduct of the Bitcoin protocol design as well as the preference of many participants for anonymity.&quot;<p>&quot;We show that the Bitcoin mining capacity is highly concentrated and has been
for the last five years. The top 10% of miners control 90% and just 0.1% (about 50
miners) control close to 50% of mining capacity. Furthermore, this concentration of
mining capacity is counter cyclical and varies with the Bitcoin price.&quot;<p>&quot;We show that the balances held at intermediaries have been steadily increasing
since 2014. By the end of 2020 it is equal to 5.5 million bitcoins, roughly one-third of
Bitcoin in circulation. In contrast, individual investors collectively control 8.5 million
bitcoins by the end of 2020. The individual holdings are still highly concentrated:
the top 1000 investors control about 3 million BTC and the top 10,000 investors own
around 5 million bitcoins.&quot;<p>I haven&#x27;t read the methods yet, but the idea that the authors were able to do this analysis is fascinating.</text></item><item><author>jonas21</author><text>The Techspot article is a summary of this Bloomberg piece:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2021-10-25&#x2F;bitcoin-still-concentrated-in-few-hands-study-finds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2021-10-25&#x2F;bitcoin-s...</a><p>which is itself reporting on this paper from the NBER:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;w29396&#x2F;w29396.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;w29396&#x2F;w293...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/91937-bitcoin-largely-controlled-small-group-investors-miners-study.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>paisawalla</author><text>As someone who&#x27;s read the paper, do you know how they account for ownership by exchanges? There&#x27;s got to be a large amount of BTC that is held in Coinbase&#x27;s wallets, but actually owned by many more individuals.<p>I.e. isn&#x27;t the BTC I have parked at Coinbase is in the same wallet as many of their other customers&#x27; BTC, and shows up on the blockchain as one owner by this analysis?</text><parent_chain><item><author>YossarianFrPrez</author><text>Interesting quotes from the first section of the paper:<p>&quot;We first document that 90% of transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain is not tied to economically meaningful activities but is the byproduct of the Bitcoin protocol design as well as the preference of many participants for anonymity.&quot;<p>&quot;We show that the Bitcoin mining capacity is highly concentrated and has been
for the last five years. The top 10% of miners control 90% and just 0.1% (about 50
miners) control close to 50% of mining capacity. Furthermore, this concentration of
mining capacity is counter cyclical and varies with the Bitcoin price.&quot;<p>&quot;We show that the balances held at intermediaries have been steadily increasing
since 2014. By the end of 2020 it is equal to 5.5 million bitcoins, roughly one-third of
Bitcoin in circulation. In contrast, individual investors collectively control 8.5 million
bitcoins by the end of 2020. The individual holdings are still highly concentrated:
the top 1000 investors control about 3 million BTC and the top 10,000 investors own
around 5 million bitcoins.&quot;<p>I haven&#x27;t read the methods yet, but the idea that the authors were able to do this analysis is fascinating.</text></item><item><author>jonas21</author><text>The Techspot article is a summary of this Bloomberg piece:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2021-10-25&#x2F;bitcoin-still-concentrated-in-few-hands-study-finds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2021-10-25&#x2F;bitcoin-s...</a><p>which is itself reporting on this paper from the NBER:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;w29396&#x2F;w29396.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;w29396&#x2F;w293...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/91937-bitcoin-largely-controlled-small-group-investors-miners-study.html</url></story> |
32,111,946 | 32,112,116 | 1 | 2 | 32,111,738 | 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>SoftTalker</author><text>Volunteers abandon projects when the dam breaks. They work, and adapt, and take on more and more, and then one day one small new thing (that an outsider would see as totally reasonable) breaks the dam, all their motivation is washed away, and they quit.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this happen much more often than I&#x27;ve seen volunteers gracefully leave a project with a smooth transition to a replacement person or persons.<p>If you are using volunteer-maintained software in a &quot;critical&quot; part of your business, you should be prepared for this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Critical” projects and volunteer maintainers</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/900953/44823d451920e233/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ctur</author><text>It is interesting seeing the evolution of open source maintenance in the light of new (or increasing) supply chain attacks and acts of political protest. There always has been a &quot;what is your obligation to quickly respond to a security issue?&quot; expectation around the code and now similar obligatory expectation questions arise on the maintenance process itself.<p>We also see what seems like rather balkanized approaches (npm, pypi, cargo, ...). It would be great if broader consensus arose on what the ideal standard should be for package management and distribution that then those projects could adhere to. Similar about commit access to repos and what the requirements there should be.<p>It&#x27;s also peculiar how much stronger the guarantees you get from your operating system vendor are w.r.t. signatures on packages vs what the underlying projects themselves have. OSs have had this pretty well handled for decades, but no common best practices like 2fa, signatures, etc seem to have emerged.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Critical” projects and volunteer maintainers</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/900953/44823d451920e233/</url></story> |
8,455,529 | 8,454,572 | 1 | 2 | 8,453,995 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tolmasky</author><text>Its just as bad if not worse from a customer perspective. The Mac App Store is basically the antithesis of what Apple is theoretically about (&quot;the details&quot;) while at the same time highlighting everything Apple is bad at (ahem hem &gt;services&lt;). Some simple examples:<p>1. I go to buy an app, oh, I already own it. I know since it says &quot;Installed&quot;. So helpful, now I can go search for it again on my computer. Compare this to the iPhone where it isn&#x27;t completely idiotic and instead of &quot;installed&quot; says &quot;open&quot; which you can click on.<p>2. Type &quot;Diasy Disk&quot; into the Mac App Store search. You&#x27;ll get 5 results that AREN&#x27;T &quot;Daisy Disk&quot;. That&#x27;s because Apple couldn&#x27;t search their way out of a paper bag.<p>3. Let me send a link to this app to my friend. Of course its buried in an unlabeled drop down since sharing content is a decade ahead of any thinking going on at Apple. Let&#x27;s not try to get any network affects for these apps, that would be silly.<p>4. The top 10 is full of apps I already own. Super useful. Really makes me want to open this thing up periodically if I&#x27;m feeling spendy. Heaven forbid the tailor that page to at the very least show the top 10 apps <i>I don&#x27;t own</i>. But we live in a world where selling me toilet paper online is more sophisticated than applications.<p>4.1. My favorite is that #2 on top free is OS X Mavericks. How about just putting up a banner telling me reasons to upgrade to Mavericks instead of eternally taking up a slot in the top 10 free essentially making it a top 9? Especially when most your customer base is already on Mavericks and thus making that slot the most useless slot ever.<p>5. Hey what was that app I was looking at yesterday? Welp, since we chose to make it a super-fast amazing <i>native</i> experience, I don&#x27;t get simple features like <i>browsing history</i> that I&#x27;d get from this being in a browser. But hey, at least all these 3d graphics in the Mac App Store are crazy performant right? Now if only I could view two apps at once, you know, like maybe two competitors I&#x27;d like to compare, in tabs...<p>It&#x27;s funny because they ended up having to mirror the content on the web anyways, so the Mac App Store is now the worse of the two options you get (the other being google -&gt; mac app store pages)</text><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>As much as I support Apple and have been since 1979, including being an early Mac developer in 1985 and even working there in the horrible mid-90&#x27;s, the major problem is that Tim and Jony don&#x27;t care (and Steve didn&#x27;t either for that matter) about developers enough to do anything more than what works for Apple. Whether the people in charge have no budget or don&#x27;t care or are hamstrung by politics, nothing will change until and if the top people start to care. Apple makes so much money even with all the crap we have to put up with as developers they clearly have no reason to change and sadly I don&#x27;t expect them to. You don&#x27;t tell the world&#x27;s most valuable company how to run their business. It didn&#x27;t work for people telling Microsoft in the 90&#x27;s or Apple today.<p>Sorry for the brutal truth but it is what it is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus</title><url>http://blog.helftone.com/mac-app-store-the-subtle-exodus/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clumsysmurf</author><text>As an independent Android developer, I have the same feelings towards Google Play.<p>There have been many things about Play that devs have repeatedly brought up, but Google does not take action. For example, iOS has &quot;Promo Codes&quot; but not Play.<p>Another is not being able to migrate a paid app to IAP (In App Purchase) without pissing everyone off (the linkage is lost between what the customer already paid for and the new IAPs).<p>Not to mention the algorithmic jail you wind up in if you ever inadvertently get caught tripping some automated alarm in the googleplex.<p>I wish there was some strong alternative by now, whether Ubuntu Touch or Windows Phone. We need more options.</text><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>As much as I support Apple and have been since 1979, including being an early Mac developer in 1985 and even working there in the horrible mid-90&#x27;s, the major problem is that Tim and Jony don&#x27;t care (and Steve didn&#x27;t either for that matter) about developers enough to do anything more than what works for Apple. Whether the people in charge have no budget or don&#x27;t care or are hamstrung by politics, nothing will change until and if the top people start to care. Apple makes so much money even with all the crap we have to put up with as developers they clearly have no reason to change and sadly I don&#x27;t expect them to. You don&#x27;t tell the world&#x27;s most valuable company how to run their business. It didn&#x27;t work for people telling Microsoft in the 90&#x27;s or Apple today.<p>Sorry for the brutal truth but it is what it is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus</title><url>http://blog.helftone.com/mac-app-store-the-subtle-exodus/</url></story> |
37,742,032 | 37,741,568 | 1 | 3 | 37,740,425 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>I have no idea if they do it to for ad reasons, but Google has been creatively interpreting search queries for a long while now. I think it&#x27;s one of (maybe the primary) the reasons why Google search quality has fallen so much.<p>It&#x27;s not a huge stretch to think that while they&#x27;re at it, they would take into account advertisers. Again, not saying they are -- only that it wouldn&#x27;t be that shocking.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>&gt; Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query<p>Wait. Is this example from the court testimony, or something the author made up?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/</url></story> |
29,438,145 | 29,435,992 | 1 | 2 | 29,434,097 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xvilka</author><text>There are also Toshi[1] and Sonic[2] in Rust. And Vector[3] as a Logstash alternative too. There is an issue[4] proposing to integrate Vector with Sonic and Toshi. Maybe Zinc can pursue this goal too. Always good to see people who realize that Java is unwieldy monster that will eat all your memory. Native is a way to go for big systems.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toshi-search&#x2F;Toshi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toshi-search&#x2F;Toshi</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;valeriansaliou&#x2F;sonic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;valeriansaliou&#x2F;sonic</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vector.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vector.dev&#x2F;</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vectordotdev&#x2F;vector&#x2F;issues&#x2F;988" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vectordotdev&#x2F;vector&#x2F;issues&#x2F;988</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zinc Search engine. A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/prabhatsharma/zinc</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjz</author><text>&gt;(Kibana is not supported with zinc. Zinc provides its own UI).<p>1. I was hoping for a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch. A new&#x2F;different API means Zinc can&#x27;t leverage existing tools that use Elasticsearch.<p>2. I don&#x27;t like that you&#x27;re bundling zinc with a UI; that disadvantages anyone else trying to build a better UI and often (usually?) leads to tying the db too closely to the UI (or vice versa)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zinc Search engine. A lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/prabhatsharma/zinc</url></story> |
37,540,626 | 37,538,475 | 1 | 3 | 37,535,910 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>turquoisevar</author><text>That’s a decent amount of revisionism.<p>Uber used VC money to heavily undercut the taxi rates, heavily inflate driver pay and decided to speedrun breaking as many laws as possible<p>As for getting into strangers’ cars, getting in a taxi is no different.<p>Do you think Uber was able to become as ubiquitous as it is if it didn’t heavily subsidize both sides of the equation and abide by the laws?<p>I doubt it.<p>Like you aptly describe now the fares as on par if not more than taxis, because now that they’ve attained dominance over the market by burning VC money, they can squeeze the customers and drivers alike.
I’m not even sure if they’re turning a profit yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CamperBob2</author><text>Uber isn&#x27;t a good example. They came up with a business model that literally required customers to get into strangers&#x27; cars. Eighteen nanoseconds later, the taxi industry was dead.<p>There is <i>no</i> other possible conclusion to draw, except that the taxi industry had it coming.<p>Fast-forward to today. The venture capital has long since run out. Taking an Uber costs at least as much as the taxis ever did. Yet, do you foresee any way for the taxi industry to make a comeback, except by holding the rest of us at gunpoint?</text></item><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; Unity lit money on fire for decades to buy a market advantage that overrules the basic economic incentives that supposedly ensure free markets work best for customers. It was successful in doing that because it&#x27;s very hard for a sustainable business to compete against one that is fine losing billions of dollars.<p>This right here is the most notable part of the article, and it is entirely correct - it has been <i>for years</i>. Venture capital is fine to use for actual ventures, to create new markets or hell, to break into a market with entrenched powers... but when it is used on a long time purely to undercut and destroy legitimate prior businesses (taxis&#x2F;Uber, hotels&#x2F;AirBnB, game engines&#x2F;Unity), authorities should step in.<p>It&#x27;s time to revive anti-trust, anti-dumping and other anti-predatory politics.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unity's Self-Combustion Engine</title><url>https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unitys-self-combustion-engine-this-week-in-business</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spondylosaurus</author><text>&quot;Getting in a stranger&#x27;s car&quot; also describes taking a regular taxi...</text><parent_chain><item><author>CamperBob2</author><text>Uber isn&#x27;t a good example. They came up with a business model that literally required customers to get into strangers&#x27; cars. Eighteen nanoseconds later, the taxi industry was dead.<p>There is <i>no</i> other possible conclusion to draw, except that the taxi industry had it coming.<p>Fast-forward to today. The venture capital has long since run out. Taking an Uber costs at least as much as the taxis ever did. Yet, do you foresee any way for the taxi industry to make a comeback, except by holding the rest of us at gunpoint?</text></item><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; Unity lit money on fire for decades to buy a market advantage that overrules the basic economic incentives that supposedly ensure free markets work best for customers. It was successful in doing that because it&#x27;s very hard for a sustainable business to compete against one that is fine losing billions of dollars.<p>This right here is the most notable part of the article, and it is entirely correct - it has been <i>for years</i>. Venture capital is fine to use for actual ventures, to create new markets or hell, to break into a market with entrenched powers... but when it is used on a long time purely to undercut and destroy legitimate prior businesses (taxis&#x2F;Uber, hotels&#x2F;AirBnB, game engines&#x2F;Unity), authorities should step in.<p>It&#x27;s time to revive anti-trust, anti-dumping and other anti-predatory politics.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unity's Self-Combustion Engine</title><url>https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unitys-self-combustion-engine-this-week-in-business</url></story> |
22,963,591 | 22,963,357 | 1 | 3 | 22,962,547 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmason</author><text>In Detroit thieves stripped all the wire and plumbing from abandoned houses, even furnaces were carted off. When the supply of houses ran thin they started stripping factories.<p>When the freeways of Detroit flooded they found the pumping stations that were supposed to get rid of the excess water had been stripped.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;detroit.cbslocal.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;13&#x2F;copper-theft-a-possible-factor-in-metro-detroit-freeway-flooding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;detroit.cbslocal.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;13&#x2F;copper-theft-a-possi...</a><p>Finally several hapless guys tried to get at the copper wiring in a power substation and were electrocuted.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fox2detroit.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;men-electrocuted-with-24k-volts-trying-to-steal-copper-wire" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fox2detroit.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;men-electrocuted-with-24k-v...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Pennies in your pocket is still preferable over dollars in someone else&#x27;s when your kids haven&#x27;t eaten in a week, which is the reality in a lot of these situations.</text></item><item><author>noelwelsh</author><text>On one level this is a funny story, on another level it is a great example of poverty and lack of opportunity leading to choices that turn dollars into pennies: destroying a resource that can generate a huge amount of value for a much lower value but more accessible use. Same thing with ripping up train tracks to sell for scrap metal, which happens in some parts of the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011)</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/telecom/internet/georgian-woman-accidentally-brings-down-armenias-internet</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>est31</author><text>In other words, giving people pennies lets others keep their dollars. So even if you are selfish you should support social programs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Pennies in your pocket is still preferable over dollars in someone else&#x27;s when your kids haven&#x27;t eaten in a week, which is the reality in a lot of these situations.</text></item><item><author>noelwelsh</author><text>On one level this is a funny story, on another level it is a great example of poverty and lack of opportunity leading to choices that turn dollars into pennies: destroying a resource that can generate a huge amount of value for a much lower value but more accessible use. Same thing with ripping up train tracks to sell for scrap metal, which happens in some parts of the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011)</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/telecom/internet/georgian-woman-accidentally-brings-down-armenias-internet</url></story> |
31,471,016 | 31,470,290 | 1 | 2 | 31,469,295 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DantesKite</author><text>I really like that the author gave some context at the top. So many times I struggle to read or realize the importance of a concept because there just isn&#x27;t enough context for me to follow along.<p>And certainly not all blogs have to, but it&#x27;s nice when it is.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Faster CRC32 on the Apple M1</title><url>https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/05/22/faster-crc32-on-the-apple-m1/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ntoskrnl</author><text>So ARM64 has dedicated instructions for CRC32, but implementing it by hand using SIMD is still faster. Score another point for RISC.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Faster CRC32 on the Apple M1</title><url>https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/05/22/faster-crc32-on-the-apple-m1/</url></story> |
23,024,818 | 23,024,558 | 1 | 2 | 23,023,658 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>These numbers are not prepared under GAAP for the automotive industry, since there is no such thing as GAAP per-automotive profit margins for global auto manufacturers. Vehicle pricing is too dependent on both the class of the vehicle and the geographic market for a single global number to be meaningful. (For example, Toyota profitably sells vehicles that range from $1000 to commercial vehicles that sell for $250,000 or more.)<p>Tesla provides these numbers because its financials on a GAAP basis show it is under-performing most of its competitors. Despite selling more cars than all of its luxury competitors, Tesla <i>lost money</i> doing so. Its competitors may not sell as many vehicles, but they made profits on a GAAP basis...(and using Tesla&#x27;s rubrics, would have even higher per-vehicle profits than Tesla since those profits account for capex and other items that Tesla excludes).</text><parent_chain><item><author>yalogin</author><text>Am I reading this right? They have 25% profit margin on each automotive? Feels like a tech company&#x27;s margins. Does anyone know how it compares to traditional automakers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Q1 2020 Update</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/c1723af4-ffda-4881-ae12-b6f3c972b795</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Traster</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that includes CapEx. So they&#x27;re making 25% on each car, but they have to spend several billion dollars building a factory to manufacture them that turned up on their balance sheet in previous years. In the same way they&#x27;re making 25% margin on their car, but they&#x27;re still losing money - because it all goes into building the facilities to manufacture their next model.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yalogin</author><text>Am I reading this right? They have 25% profit margin on each automotive? Feels like a tech company&#x27;s margins. Does anyone know how it compares to traditional automakers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Q1 2020 Update</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/c1723af4-ffda-4881-ae12-b6f3c972b795</url></story> |
35,639,144 | 35,639,495 | 1 | 2 | 35,638,740 | 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>avsteele</author><text>You probably don&#x27;t believe a library or book store should be sued if they sell a book with defamatory content, so why do you think Google should be here?<p>The connection between wrongdoing by Google is even more attenuated here, since Google is mostly an indexer, with limited curation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdrzn</author><text>The fact that some comments are defending Google is insane to me. My only guess is that they are all from USA and have a very &quot;american&quot; view of things.<p>Google has an ethical and moral responsibility to not allow its platform to be used for defamatory purposes.<p>While Google is an American company, it operates in many countries around the world and should be held accountable for its actions in each of these countries. The issue is not about one country telling another what to do but rather about a company being held accountable for its actions in a particular jurisdiction. The Canadian court system has the responsibility to enforce Canadian laws and protect the rights of its citizens, including the Montrealer in this case.<p>If you don&#x27;t agree with that, don&#x27;t offer your service in Canada.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google ordered to pay $500K to Montrealer over links calling him pedophile</title><url>https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/google-ordered-to-pay-500000-to-montrealer-over-links-to-post-calling-him-pedophile</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fasterik</author><text>I think your characterization is a straw man. Nobody is arguing that Google shouldn&#x27;t comply with court decisions. The question is what should happen when an individual comes to Google with a complaint, <i>before</i> they have sought any legal verdict. How is Google supposed to decide whether a claim is true or false? Even if it were their responsibility to determine what counts as defamation, how would we prevent people abusing that system to take down legitimate content they don&#x27;t like? Do we want tech companies making decisions like this independently of the legal system?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdrzn</author><text>The fact that some comments are defending Google is insane to me. My only guess is that they are all from USA and have a very &quot;american&quot; view of things.<p>Google has an ethical and moral responsibility to not allow its platform to be used for defamatory purposes.<p>While Google is an American company, it operates in many countries around the world and should be held accountable for its actions in each of these countries. The issue is not about one country telling another what to do but rather about a company being held accountable for its actions in a particular jurisdiction. The Canadian court system has the responsibility to enforce Canadian laws and protect the rights of its citizens, including the Montrealer in this case.<p>If you don&#x27;t agree with that, don&#x27;t offer your service in Canada.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google ordered to pay $500K to Montrealer over links calling him pedophile</title><url>https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/google-ordered-to-pay-500000-to-montrealer-over-links-to-post-calling-him-pedophile</url></story> |
8,932,212 | 8,931,708 | 1 | 2 | 8,931,221 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>Barrett&#x27;s response to today&#x27;s sentencing:<p><i>“Good news! — The U.S. government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex. For the next 35 months, I’ll be provided with free food, clothes, and housing as I seek to expose wrondgoing by Bureau of Prisons officials and staff and otherwise report on news and culture in the world’s greatest prison system. I want to thank the Department of Justice for having put so much time and energy into advocating on my behalf; rather than holding a grudge against me for the two years of work I put into in bringing attention to a DOJ-linked campaign to harass and discredit journalists like Glenn Greenwald, the agency instead labored tirelessly to ensure that I received this very prestigious assignment. — Wish me luck!”</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2015/01/22/barrettbrown.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>DannyBee</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to know what happened here, because the papers aren&#x27;t available, and honestly, PACER is a piece of shit to get stuff from anyway.<p>However, I wouldn&#x27;t believe random tweets.
For example, one says:<p>&quot;Notable that though there&#x27;s no evidence Barrett took part in the hack releasing credit card info judge is determined he did.
#FreeBB&quot;<p>This is pretty unlikely, particularly if it was used as a sentencing factor.
Every federal judge knows that you can&#x27;t use facts not proven to a jury or in a plea agreement, to enhance a sentence.<p>This is completely well-settled law now.
See United States v. Booker, 543 US 220 (2005), Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) and Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000)<p>(Apprendi is a little different in that it says you can&#x27;t enhance past statutory maximum, but Booker and Blakely make plain you can&#x27;t enhance at all except using facts admitted by the defendant or proven to a jury)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2015/01/22/barrettbrown.html</url></story> |
35,879,818 | 35,879,398 | 1 | 2 | 35,867,939 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ben_bai</author><text>1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed | Eric Cline <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=M4LRHJlijVU">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=M4LRHJlijVU</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>einpoklum</author><text>Is there a good documentary film or series about this period, which you could recommend?</text></item><item><author>namaria</author><text>The Bronze age collapse is one of my favorite topics in History. And I see a lot of parallels between the centralized palace economies that produced much brittleness then and the &#x27;everything is controlled by networked digital computers and defined in software&#x27; Ruby Goldberg machine of a civilization we have now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Bronze Age has never looked stronger</title><url>https://www.thechatner.com/p/its-1178-bce-and-the-bronze-age-has</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>Patrick Wyman&#x27;s, Tides of History podcast has done a lot of episodes on this and is a great introduction.<p>Yale&#x27;s introductory Greek history class with lectures from Donald Kagan is available online and part of it covers the Mycenaean empire and its fall.</text><parent_chain><item><author>einpoklum</author><text>Is there a good documentary film or series about this period, which you could recommend?</text></item><item><author>namaria</author><text>The Bronze age collapse is one of my favorite topics in History. And I see a lot of parallels between the centralized palace economies that produced much brittleness then and the &#x27;everything is controlled by networked digital computers and defined in software&#x27; Ruby Goldberg machine of a civilization we have now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Bronze Age has never looked stronger</title><url>https://www.thechatner.com/p/its-1178-bce-and-the-bronze-age-has</url></story> |
7,341,728 | 7,340,846 | 1 | 2 | 7,340,001 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madaxe_again</author><text>Did you <i>seriously</i> just equate North Korea, Russia, Rap Genius and Nagios?<p>Everyone knows that Rap Genius is an oppressive regime in which you&#x27;re executed for dissent, North Korea are SEO spammers, and in Russia... there is no need for monitoring software because <i>Russian computer does not fail!</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>seiji</author><text>You&#x27;re presenting the MySQL argument. &quot;Why should we switch since we know it fails in exactly these 1,000 different ways and we can fix these problems? Using something better has unknown failure scenarios!&quot;<p>Have you ever been woken up by a nagios page that automatically cleared after five minutes because the incoming queue was delayed past the alert interval?<p>Have you ever had your browser crash because you click on the wrong thing in the designed-in-1996-and-never-updated nagios interface and had your browser crash because it dumps 500MB of logs to your screen?<p>Have you ever had services wake you up with alert then clear then alert then clear again because some new intern configured a new monitor but didn&#x27;t set up alerting correctly (because lol, they don&#x27;t get paged, so who gives a flip if they copied and pasted the wrong template config, as is standard practice)?<p>Have you had to hire &quot;nagios consultants&quot; to figure out how to scale out your busted monitoring infrastructure because nagios was designed to run on a single core Pentium 90?<p>Being pro-nagios is like being pro-Russia, pro-North Korea, and pro-Rap Genius while arguing &quot;but at least we know how bad they are and can keep them in line.&quot;</text></item><item><author>markdennehy</author><text>So... stop using a debugged and stable tool whose limitations and problems are well-known and understood and replace it with six bits of software duct-taped together, two of which aren&#x27;t working yet (if they even exist), without any idea of how they interact when they hit edge cases.<p>I mean, &quot;don&#x27;t use X, use ShinyX instead&quot; is one thing (and most of the time it&#x27;s a bad thing but it does occasionally turn up good ideas), but this is just So Much Worse...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully)</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/superdupersheep/stop-using-nagios-so-it-can-die-peacefully</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>volume</author><text>I think his point is there are tradeoffs, and I agree. On top of that, meaningful debate over what tool should be about what context you&#x27;re in. This applies to the OP&#x27;s slidedeck.<p>To give context about my comment about context:<p>* was nagios setup before you started the job?<p>* did you setup nagios yourself?<p>* is your internal process for managing nagios broken?<p>* culturally do you work at a place where ops is an afterthought?<p>* if Nagios is your technical debt do you have a way out? are you crushed by other commitments? Maybe it&#x27;s more of a management&#x2F;culture issue.<p>... hmm actually I should stop. From re-reading your comment, I can&#x27;t tell how much of it is trolling (in a entertaining Skip Bayless, right wing radio, Jim Cramer kind of way).</text><parent_chain><item><author>seiji</author><text>You&#x27;re presenting the MySQL argument. &quot;Why should we switch since we know it fails in exactly these 1,000 different ways and we can fix these problems? Using something better has unknown failure scenarios!&quot;<p>Have you ever been woken up by a nagios page that automatically cleared after five minutes because the incoming queue was delayed past the alert interval?<p>Have you ever had your browser crash because you click on the wrong thing in the designed-in-1996-and-never-updated nagios interface and had your browser crash because it dumps 500MB of logs to your screen?<p>Have you ever had services wake you up with alert then clear then alert then clear again because some new intern configured a new monitor but didn&#x27;t set up alerting correctly (because lol, they don&#x27;t get paged, so who gives a flip if they copied and pasted the wrong template config, as is standard practice)?<p>Have you had to hire &quot;nagios consultants&quot; to figure out how to scale out your busted monitoring infrastructure because nagios was designed to run on a single core Pentium 90?<p>Being pro-nagios is like being pro-Russia, pro-North Korea, and pro-Rap Genius while arguing &quot;but at least we know how bad they are and can keep them in line.&quot;</text></item><item><author>markdennehy</author><text>So... stop using a debugged and stable tool whose limitations and problems are well-known and understood and replace it with six bits of software duct-taped together, two of which aren&#x27;t working yet (if they even exist), without any idea of how they interact when they hit edge cases.<p>I mean, &quot;don&#x27;t use X, use ShinyX instead&quot; is one thing (and most of the time it&#x27;s a bad thing but it does occasionally turn up good ideas), but this is just So Much Worse...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully)</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/superdupersheep/stop-using-nagios-so-it-can-die-peacefully</url></story> |
5,085,734 | 5,085,721 | 1 | 2 | 5,085,534 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>progn</author><text>Optimization problems like that are fascinating. We can treat them generically without having to teach our program about the specific problem it's trying to solve. All we have to do is come up with proposed solutions and pare them down.<p>For starters, we need a "cost function" so we can see which solutions are better than others. That's the easy part: render the model on 3D hardware, lighting it with a distant point light source. The "cost" (the value we're trying to minimize) is 1 - Σ(face_brightness); modern hardware can easily handle precise geometric shadowing using a stencil buffer or similar well-known technique. Handle the thermal constraints by setting the "cost" to 1 when the space station disintegrates.<p>Now we just need to find some ways of coming up with proposed solutions and pruning all but the best solutions. This problem has path dependencies, so we can't just apply a greedy algorithm. That is, solar panel actuators take time to move, so the best solution for time [T_1, T_3] isn't necessarily the concatenations of the best individual solutions for intervals [T_1, T_2] and [T2, T_3].<p>What you're left with is actually a graph search problem, where our graph nodes are actuator inputs at specific (quantized) times; I feel like something like the veneralbe A* algorihm would be a good place to start looking for paths through this graph.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2013/01/19/write-code-fix-the-space-station-win-10000/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jtchang</author><text>So many trash comments on the site about how NASA should be "offering more money" or how this is a way for them to "save money" and it is all a scam.<p>Seriously? Any decent hacker attempting this is probably doing it for props. The money is great and provides a good monetary incentive but when it comes down to it I'd wager people would do this for free. Hell a personal tour of NASA and maybe their name in the code might but just as good.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2013/01/19/write-code-fix-the-space-station-win-10000/</url></story> |
18,571,391 | 18,571,462 | 1 | 3 | 18,570,136 | 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>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>Is it sustainable? Is it gratifying? Is it scalable?</i><p>Why does Western Society have a fixation on <i>only</i> doing things that make sense <i>for the rest of your life</i>?<p>Who cares how long it will last. Who cares about <i>The rest of your life</i>. Do something that&#x27;s interesting NOW.<p>Let him enjoy it for however long he wants. When he doesn&#x27;t enjoy it, or it doesn&#x27;t work anymore, he&#x27;ll find something else to do that he finds interesting. That&#x27;s great for him! Maybe it&#x27;s not the life you want, but that&#x27;s not what we&#x27;re talking about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>padseeker</author><text>I guess this is one way to make a living. Is it sustainable? Is it gratifying? Is it scalable?<p>The guy is a hustler, I can appreciate that. He works for himself, I can appreciate that.<p>However if lots of other people try to do the same thing then does all the competition create a situation where lots of people are squabbling over a few crumbs? It looks like its a niche. And its only a matter of time others try to muscle in on his turf.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Retail Arbitrage at Walmart [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FknkqT5tHK8</url></story> | <instructions>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>&gt; <i>I guess this is one way to make a living. Is it sustainable? Is it gratifying? Is it scalable?</i><p>Is being a waiter, or a checkout clerk, or a fast food employee, or a Chili&#x27;s line cook?</text><parent_chain><item><author>padseeker</author><text>I guess this is one way to make a living. Is it sustainable? Is it gratifying? Is it scalable?<p>The guy is a hustler, I can appreciate that. He works for himself, I can appreciate that.<p>However if lots of other people try to do the same thing then does all the competition create a situation where lots of people are squabbling over a few crumbs? It looks like its a niche. And its only a matter of time others try to muscle in on his turf.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Retail Arbitrage at Walmart [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FknkqT5tHK8</url></story> |
32,283,571 | 32,283,616 | 1 | 3 | 32,281,218 | 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>deepdriver</author><text>While we&#x27;re on the subject of low-tech solar energy, what&#x27;s the current state of concentrated solar power (CSP)? The US Department of Energy&#x27;s SunShot initiative continues to invest in both photovoltaics and CSP, such as plants built with parabolic trough collectors. These are mirrors that focus sunlight on a working fluid like water or air, which in turn drives a turbine to generate electric power. One advantage of these systems is the ability to store thermal energy directly in large, relatively cheap batteries for on-demand generation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;eere&#x2F;solar&#x2F;linear-concentrator-system-concentrating-solar-thermal-power-basics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;eere&#x2F;solar&#x2F;linear-concentrator-system...</a><p>The Crescent Dunes CSP plant in Nevada had a number of stumbles, but appears to be generating power again:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Pr...</a><p>Their solution of storing thermal energy in molten salt isn&#x27;t exactly low-tech, but other CSP systems use cheaper thermal storage materials like sand or basalt, which avoid the geopolitical and environmental problems of lithium extraction. Of course, PV panels can dump power into thermal batteries too. Maybe PV farms with huge thermal batteries of sand or basalt will be the best long-term grid-scale solution.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Photovoltaic Solar Panels (1905)</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel.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>philipkglass</author><text>Much of the historical information in this article comes from the September 1909 issue of Modern Electrics magazine in an article called &quot;Harnessing Sunlight.&quot; The HathiTrust has a public scan of it here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;babel.hathitrust.org&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;pt?id=mdp.39015051407073&amp;view=1up&amp;seq=5&amp;skin=2021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;babel.hathitrust.org&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;pt?id=mdp.39015051407073&amp;vi...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Photovoltaic Solar Panels (1905)</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel.html</url></story> |
36,761,926 | 36,760,447 | 1 | 2 | 36,757,520 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>In late 2021 &#x2F; early 2022 I got scared about the incoming consequences of LLMs and downloaded all the &quot;Kiwix&quot; archives I could find, including Wikipedia, a bunch of other Wikimedia sites, Stack Overflow, etc.<p>I&#x27;m pretty glad that I did. I&#x27;m going to hold onto them indefinitely. They have become the &quot;low background steel&quot; of text.</text><parent_chain><item><author>charlieo88</author><text>I wish I had the time or facility to take a snapshot of wikipedia now before the imminent deluge of Chat-GPT based updates that start materially modifying wikipedia is some weird and unpredictable manner.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/Recent_research</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>speedgoose</author><text>Wikipedia doesn’t remove the old versions.<p>Otherwise you can find an archive there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;wikimediadownloads?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22dumps%22&amp;sort=-publicdate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;wikimediadownloads?and%5B%5D=sub...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>charlieo88</author><text>I wish I had the time or facility to take a snapshot of wikipedia now before the imminent deluge of Chat-GPT based updates that start materially modifying wikipedia is some weird and unpredictable manner.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/Recent_research</url></story> |
17,820,174 | 17,819,916 | 1 | 3 | 17,819,243 | 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>lawnchair_larry</author><text>Yep, most attendees seem to be unaware, but a big part of their sponsor&#x2F;exhibitor pitch involves selling access to this data. Most booths have a gimmick, such as a giveaway or party invite, which requires scanning your ID badge. That scan transfers all of your personal info, including employer and job title, straight into their CRM. At BlackHat, despite the large price tag, attendees are the product, and vendors are the customers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>I guess this is a story because it&#x27;s Black Hat and someone who wasn&#x27;t supposed to be able to access this info did. However, conference attendee information is widely sold and shared as a matter of course. You shouldn&#x27;t consider it as anything approaching confidential.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Legacy system’ exposed Black Hat 2018 attendees’ contact information</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/legacy-system-exposed-black-hat-2018-attendees-contact-information/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matthew-wegner</author><text>The conference is over, but it&#x27;s certainly be more of a social engineering risk if it were used beforehand (especially people attending as aliases printed on their badges).</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>I guess this is a story because it&#x27;s Black Hat and someone who wasn&#x27;t supposed to be able to access this info did. However, conference attendee information is widely sold and shared as a matter of course. You shouldn&#x27;t consider it as anything approaching confidential.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Legacy system’ exposed Black Hat 2018 attendees’ contact information</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/legacy-system-exposed-black-hat-2018-attendees-contact-information/</url></story> |
19,756,098 | 19,744,325 | 1 | 2 | 19,742,603 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moh_maya</author><text>From Terry Pratchett&#x27;s &quot;Guards, Guards&quot; [1]<p>&quot;One of the Patrician’s greatest contributions to the reliable operation of Ankh-Morpork had been, very early in his administration, the legalising of the ancient Guild of Thieves. Crime was always with us, he reasoned, and therefore, if you were going to have crime, it at least should be organised crime.<p>And so the Guild had been encouraged to come out of the shadows and build a big Guildhouse, take their place at civic banquets, and set up their training college with day-release courses and City and Guilds certificates and everything. In exchange for the winding down of the Watch, they agreed, while trying to keep their faces straight, to keep crime levels to a level to be determined annually. That way, everyone could plan ahead, said Lord Vetinari, and part of the uncertainty had been removed from the chaos that is life.<p>And then, a little while later, the Patrician summoned the leading thieves again and said, oh, by the way, there was something else. What was it, now? Oh, yes…<p>I know who you are, he said. I know where you live. I know what kind of horse you ride. I know where your wife has her hair done. I know where your lovely children, how old are they now, my, doesn’t time fly, I know where they play. So you won’t forget about what we agreed, will you? And he smiled.<p>So did they, after a fashion.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discworldquotes.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;150983136815&#x2F;one-of-the-patricians-greatest-contributions-to" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discworldquotes.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;150983136815&#x2F;one-of-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/26/18281325/ecuador-legalize-gangs</url></story> | <instructions>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>Excerpt: &quot;And when you hang out for a while, you see how differently they respond to conflicts now. For example, they [the Latin Kings] put on one of the biggest hip hop concerts ever, and they worked with other previously antagonistic gangs on the project.&quot;<p>If this is true, then I nominate David Brotherton for a Nobel Prize...<p>Also, I found this quote interesting: &quot;...basically, when you want to stop a behavior, the worst thing you can do is prohibit it. Social inclusion is the most productive means of social control.&quot;<p>Interesting...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/26/18281325/ecuador-legalize-gangs</url></story> |
18,919,074 | 18,916,618 | 1 | 2 | 18,913,438 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>venantius</author><text>The main thing is that Airbnb has a global economy of scale - having more hosts in Japan actually does benefit their guests who reside in New York year-round. Competitors to Airbnb similarly must achieve global scale in order to compete in a serious way. There are one or two meaningful exceptions (China, possibly the US domestic market), but essentially any Airbnb competitor must achieve global scale in order to be a serious threat.<p>By contrast, Uber has to fight to win <i>each city</i>, and most of its users will use Uber for the most part within that city. Adding more drivers to Tokyo does not have a meaningful impact on the resident of New York.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gringoDan</author><text>They&#x27;re often considered similar businesses, but intuitively it seems to me that, long-term, Airbnb will be valued higher than Uber and other ridesharing companies.<p>Home rentals seem to be simpler market to operate in than coordinating real-time supply and demand between drivers &amp; riders. Additionally, Uber seems to be facing issues on the driver side of the business - they have a $650 driver acquisition cost &amp; a 12% monthly churn rate [1].<p>It seems to me like this is the economics problem of a return on capital (Airbnb) vs. return on labor (Uber, etc.) playing out in the on-demand space.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4231786-will-wall-street-show-uber-patience-amazon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4231786-will-wall-street-sh...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/ahead-of-ipo-airbnb-achieves-profitability-for-second-year-in-a-row/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>On the other hand Uber is now operating mostly aboveboard while Airbnb, at least in its single largest market (NYC), is like Napster in its second incarnation—-while it may itself not be violating any laws the overwhelming majority of its facilitated transactions are illegal. That’s a dicey thing to invest in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gringoDan</author><text>They&#x27;re often considered similar businesses, but intuitively it seems to me that, long-term, Airbnb will be valued higher than Uber and other ridesharing companies.<p>Home rentals seem to be simpler market to operate in than coordinating real-time supply and demand between drivers &amp; riders. Additionally, Uber seems to be facing issues on the driver side of the business - they have a $650 driver acquisition cost &amp; a 12% monthly churn rate [1].<p>It seems to me like this is the economics problem of a return on capital (Airbnb) vs. return on labor (Uber, etc.) playing out in the on-demand space.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4231786-will-wall-street-show-uber-patience-amazon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4231786-will-wall-street-sh...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/ahead-of-ipo-airbnb-achieves-profitability-for-second-year-in-a-row/</url></story> |
7,713,953 | 7,713,675 | 1 | 3 | 7,713,544 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Schwolop</author><text>It&#x27;s not an RRT[1] if it doesn&#x27;t employ a Voronoi bias to sample within the largest Voronoi cell. Since the first paragraph describing the &quot;RRT&quot; implementation admits it didn&#x27;t explore properly, it really wasn&#x27;t an RRT. This is a pity, because a <i>proper</i> RRT (or better still, a PRM[2] with the monster walking every edge) would really have been a great way to handle this!<p>[1] Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree. Without the Voronoi bias it&#x27;s not rapidly-exploring, so it&#x27;s just a random tree (RT) instead.<p>[2] Probabilistic RoadMap. Similar to an RRT except that samples are connected to all close samples within some neighbourhood function.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Working on The Witness, Part 1 (2012)</title><url>http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0006.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>captn3m0</author><text>The post is dated Dec 2012, and the Witness is still to be released. [0].<p>[0]: <a href="http://the-witness.net/news/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;the-witness.net&#x2F;news&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Working on The Witness, Part 1 (2012)</title><url>http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0006.html</url></story> |
39,019,030 | 39,018,084 | 1 | 3 | 39,016,405 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>At this point, I assume this is the default and don’t expect data recovery to not be provide on the same physical machine (even across virtualization barriers).<p>If your data is that sensitive, run it on dedicated hardware. Papering over this with mitigation over mitigation is a fool’s errand: both a genuine waste of compute resources and guaranteed to be a game of cat and mouse.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/01/16/leftoverlocals-listening-to-llm-responses-through-leaked-gpu-local-memory/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kab1r</author><text>I&#x27;ve been told that historically performance has been prioritized over security in the GPU space. Mitigating things like this does incur a performance penalty.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/01/16/leftoverlocals-listening-to-llm-responses-through-leaked-gpu-local-memory/</url></story> |
15,721,750 | 15,719,744 | 1 | 2 | 15,719,262 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dkhenry</author><text>You have been reading too many finance blogs. Their finances are far from a mess, they are just not what finance people like to see. They have cash on hand and a roadmap to execute on. If they don&#x27;t execute they will go out of business, and they will take my money as an investor with them. I&#x27;m OK with that and as long as they continue to have a path to profitability I am all on board. I want to see them burning money to get market share, especially as they do something new. The idea that companies must always operate within a specific set of financial metrics is why GE is going out of business</text><parent_chain><item><author>wintermute2001</author><text>Am I the only one who&#x27;s worried that Tesla is really starting to bite off more than they can chew? Right now their finances are a mess, they are publicly struggling to produce their most important car ever, their CEO is spending time figuring out how to dig holes underneath LA...and now they&#x27;re announcing a semi truck and a roaster in the same day? Don&#x27;t get me wrong, Teslas are incredible cars. But this seems like an overreach considering they are struggling to figure out how to meet demand on the Model 3. It&#x27;s also insane to announce this car with what boils down to a bunch of CGI! These are some very bold announcements and there isn&#x27;t much explanation for how these goals will be met. I hope this all turns out as advertised, but I&#x27;m very skeptical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Roadster</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/roadster/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TimTheTinker</author><text>This isn’t CGI :-)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;DavidHodge&#x2F;status&#x2F;931391188065705984&#x2F;video&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;DavidHodge&#x2F;status&#x2F;931391188065705...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wintermute2001</author><text>Am I the only one who&#x27;s worried that Tesla is really starting to bite off more than they can chew? Right now their finances are a mess, they are publicly struggling to produce their most important car ever, their CEO is spending time figuring out how to dig holes underneath LA...and now they&#x27;re announcing a semi truck and a roaster in the same day? Don&#x27;t get me wrong, Teslas are incredible cars. But this seems like an overreach considering they are struggling to figure out how to meet demand on the Model 3. It&#x27;s also insane to announce this car with what boils down to a bunch of CGI! These are some very bold announcements and there isn&#x27;t much explanation for how these goals will be met. I hope this all turns out as advertised, but I&#x27;m very skeptical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Roadster</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/roadster/</url></story> |
8,929,021 | 8,929,084 | 1 | 3 | 8,928,612 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jacqued</author><text><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>NietTim</author><text>TIL Hackernews has a searchbar<p>I&#x27;m still finding my way trough this UI (Why is there no &#x27;inbox&#x27; with replies to your comments?!)</text></item><item><author>julianwachholz</author><text>Try searching for &quot;WhatsApp&quot;.</text></item><item><author>NietTim</author><text>Oh! I looked for it a bit but couldn&#x27;t find it. My bad</text></item><item><author>shadeless</author><text>Previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926644" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8926644</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WhatsApp doesn't understand the web</title><url>http://andregarzia.com/posts/en/whatsappdoesntunderstandtheweb</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SyneRyder</author><text>There is an &quot;inbox&quot; of sorts, but it took me years to find it - it&#x27;s the Threads link in the top navigation bar.</text><parent_chain><item><author>NietTim</author><text>TIL Hackernews has a searchbar<p>I&#x27;m still finding my way trough this UI (Why is there no &#x27;inbox&#x27; with replies to your comments?!)</text></item><item><author>julianwachholz</author><text>Try searching for &quot;WhatsApp&quot;.</text></item><item><author>NietTim</author><text>Oh! I looked for it a bit but couldn&#x27;t find it. My bad</text></item><item><author>shadeless</author><text>Previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926644" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8926644</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WhatsApp doesn't understand the web</title><url>http://andregarzia.com/posts/en/whatsappdoesntunderstandtheweb</url></story> |
11,761,092 | 11,761,012 | 1 | 2 | 11,760,298 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Benjamin_Dobell</author><text>This is pretty standard practice, in C# too. However, it&#x27;s still somewhat prone to typos.<p>If you don&#x27;t care about backward compatibility (i.e. the flags are used internally and never written anywhere), then a better method is actually to grab the value one line above and bit shift it by one. That way you can insert values in the middle and you won&#x27;t have to change every single line (just two).</text><parent_chain><item><author>NKCSS</author><text>This might be fun to look through; first thing I saw that I never thought of before was how to define flag enums.<p>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CRYTEK-CRYENGINE&#x2F;CRYENGINE&#x2F;blob&#x2F;release&#x2F;Code&#x2F;CryEngine&#x2F;Cry3DEngine&#x2F;BreakableGlassRenderNode.cpp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CRYTEK-CRYENGINE&#x2F;CRYENGINE&#x2F;blob&#x2F;release&#x2F;C...</a>:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; State flags
enum EGlassRNState
{
EGlassRNState_Initial = 0,
EGlassRNState_Weakened = 1 &lt;&lt; 0,
EGlassRNState_Shattering = 1 &lt;&lt; 1,
EGlassRNState_Shattered = 1 &lt;&lt; 2,
EGlassRNState_ActiveFrags = 1 &lt;&lt; 3
};
</code></pre>
Als a C# dev, I write Enum flags from time to time, but I always just write out the values; never thought of using bit-shifting to prevent typos :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CryEngine out on GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/CRYTEK-CRYENGINE/CRYENGINE</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cjbprime</author><text>The Linux kernel takes it a step farther:<p>#define BIT(nr) (1UL &lt;&lt; (nr))<p>#define BIT_MASK(nr) (1UL &lt;&lt; ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG))<p>#define BIT_WORD(nr) ((nr) &#x2F; BITS_PER_LONG)<p>#define BITS_TO_TYPE(nr, t) (((nr)+(t)-1)&#x2F;(t))</text><parent_chain><item><author>NKCSS</author><text>This might be fun to look through; first thing I saw that I never thought of before was how to define flag enums.<p>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CRYTEK-CRYENGINE&#x2F;CRYENGINE&#x2F;blob&#x2F;release&#x2F;Code&#x2F;CryEngine&#x2F;Cry3DEngine&#x2F;BreakableGlassRenderNode.cpp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CRYTEK-CRYENGINE&#x2F;CRYENGINE&#x2F;blob&#x2F;release&#x2F;C...</a>:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; State flags
enum EGlassRNState
{
EGlassRNState_Initial = 0,
EGlassRNState_Weakened = 1 &lt;&lt; 0,
EGlassRNState_Shattering = 1 &lt;&lt; 1,
EGlassRNState_Shattered = 1 &lt;&lt; 2,
EGlassRNState_ActiveFrags = 1 &lt;&lt; 3
};
</code></pre>
Als a C# dev, I write Enum flags from time to time, but I always just write out the values; never thought of using bit-shifting to prevent typos :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CryEngine out on GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/CRYTEK-CRYENGINE/CRYENGINE</url></story> |
32,517,653 | 32,515,838 | 1 | 2 | 32,515,511 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>doodlebugging</author><text>About 40 years ago I boarded my horse with an old cowboy who used DMSO as a horse liniment. He had been using it for years any time one of his mounts was worked pretty hard or when someone brought a lame horse to him. He would rub the joints, calves, and thighs of the horse down good with DMSO for a few days and then they were good to go again.<p>He also used it on his wife. He told me that she had type I diabetes and neuropathy as a result. Her feet were always cold from poor circulation. That was true until he happened to rub her feet one day after treating a horse. Her feet warmed up in minutes and became normal pink again. After that, he used it on her feet and legs since it improved circulation.<p>You can say what you will about it being reactive and possibly not good for you but she was able to dance again and get back on her horse so it definitely does have some benefit. They did this for at least 30 years and both of them were past 75 years old when they passed away.<p>Like another poster said, it is used as a carrier for some medications since it pulls them straight into the bloodstream. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s magic but I also don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll suffer much using it even with bare hands.<p>As far as lye is concerned, the sodium hydroxide in this paper, you can easily make that yourself with wood ash and water. It is pretty handy if you are tanning hides since the treatment of a raw hide with lye causes the hair to slip right off leaving a smooth skin ready for the next step.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>The paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.abm8868" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.abm8868</a><p>The &quot;soap and solvent&quot; is sodium hydroxide (lye) and DMSO at 120 degC. Those are... fairly... well behaved chemicals, but lye is stout stuff and DMSO attacks nitrile gloves.<p>You could imagine a remediation process that uses this process but the combo ain&#x27;t exactly Dawn dish soap. I&#x27;d almost prefer pyroprocessing over it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/simple-mix-soap-and-solvent-could-help-destroy-forever-chemicals</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chasil</author><text>DMSO is <i>not</i> well-behaved. It easily penetrates human skin, and carries solutes with it. Don&#x27;t touch!<p>&quot;DMSO can cause contaminants, toxins, and medicines to be absorbed through the skin, which may cause unexpected effects.<p>&quot;Because DMSO easily penetrates the skin, substances dissolved in DMSO may be quickly absorbed. Glove selection is important when working with DMSO. Butyl rubber, fluoroelastomer, neoprene, or thick (15 mil &#x2F; 0.4 mm) latex gloves are recommended. Nitrile gloves, which are very commonly used in chemical laboratories, may protect from brief contact but have been found to degrade rapidly with exposure to DMSO.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dimethyl_sulfoxide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dimethyl_sulfoxide</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>The paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.abm8868" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.abm8868</a><p>The &quot;soap and solvent&quot; is sodium hydroxide (lye) and DMSO at 120 degC. Those are... fairly... well behaved chemicals, but lye is stout stuff and DMSO attacks nitrile gloves.<p>You could imagine a remediation process that uses this process but the combo ain&#x27;t exactly Dawn dish soap. I&#x27;d almost prefer pyroprocessing over it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/simple-mix-soap-and-solvent-could-help-destroy-forever-chemicals</url></story> |
23,997,607 | 23,997,468 | 1 | 3 | 23,997,362 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>civilized</author><text>It didn&#x27;t. It contracted by 9.5% in Q2, which, if repeated for four consecutive quarters, would become 32.9%.<p>Annualized figures <i>might</i> make sense in ordinary times, but these are not ordinary times.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-economy-gdp-report-second-quarter-coronavirus-11596061406</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>This is getting into scary territory given that the US also spent 3.5 trillion to prop up the economy.<p>Some more &quot;fun facts&quot;:<p>- this is the biggest drop on record for GDP: 32.9%.<p>That far surpasses the previous historical contraction of 10% in 1958.<p>- 19th reporting period where initial jobless claims came in above 1,000,000 that is stunning<p>- Personal consumption: -34.6%<p>- Government spending: +2.7%<p>- 2Q GDP Price Index Falls at A 1.8% Annual Rate<p>- Domestic investment: -49%<p>- 2Q Core PCE Price Index Falls at A 1.1% Annual Rate<p>- 17 million people collecting money from teh government<p>- 2Q Personal Consumption Falls at 34.6% Annual Rate<p>and the kicker<p>When you compare the last three years of Obama’s Presidency vs. Trump’s first three years, Trump’s deficits will be almost $1 trillion greater at $2.47 trillion to $1.51 trillion for Obama. It doesn’t look like Trump’s tax cuts will pay for themselves.<p>The US under Trump will add about the same amount to the nation debt in 4 years as Obama did in 8 and Obama inherited the &quot;great recession&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;budget_fy21.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;budget...</a><p>For those of you who like to dive into the numbers<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bea.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020-07&#x2F;tech2q20_adv.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bea.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020-07&#x2F;tech2q20_adv...</a><p>From Bloomberg:<p>- Some categories actually added to GDP: consumer spending on cars, recreational goods, housing and utilities (as people worked from home and ran air conditioners longer?), and financial services and insurance.<p>- Other categories in positive territory: information processing equipment at companies (all other categories detracted from GDP), net exports, and government spending.<p>- China has only bought about 23% of its promised purchases for the year from the phase 1 trade deal so we probably can&#x27;t look to China to buy the US out of its depression</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-economy-gdp-report-second-quarter-coronavirus-11596061406</url></story> |
34,591,296 | 34,591,358 | 1 | 2 | 34,588,340 | train | <instructions>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>&gt; C++ just isn&#x27;t a very expressive language<p>Compared to what? Modern C++ is <i>by far</i> the most expressive systems language. That is its primary selling point. It isn’t pretty but it is uniquely powerful. One of the reasons C++ isn’t disappearing any time soon is that it elegantly and efficiently handles some software design problems that Rust struggles with. Rust and C++ are optimized for different types of software.<p>As is implied, the type of software someone is writing has a large impact on whether or not they need the expressiveness of C++.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xedrac</author><text>Aside from tooling (which is <i>much</i> better in Rust), C++ just isn&#x27;t a very expressive language and has a high impedance with cognition. I&#x27;ve worked in C++ for well over a decade, and now that I&#x27;ve used Rust for a couple years, I just don&#x27;t ever want to go back. It solves too many pain points of C++ to ignore.</text></item><item><author>Night_Thastus</author><text>As someone who works in C++, the build systems are definitely the worst part. QMake is abandoned. Cmake is the de-facto option and is an ancient horrible mess that feels like a miracle if it works at all. What&#x27;s left?<p>Options that are barely supported, severely limited in features, are only reasonable for tiny side projects, etc.</text></item><item><author>rtpg</author><text>I think that C++&#x27;s build system difficulties are _huge contributors_ to people not feeling like C++ is &quot;worth learning&quot;.<p>People do the C&#x2F;Rust comparison, but at least C has a simpler mental model so is a different thing. I feel like C++ has similar, if not more, complexity to Rust and is harder to onboard.<p>I do think there are domains where &quot;let&#x27;s use Rust&quot; are a bit ... aspirational more than anything (anything related to graphics or OS integration...). And there C++ makes a lot of sense. But I think that day by day the number of projects where C++ is the only obvious choice goes down. Hell, it&#x27;s been going down since Java!</text></item><item><author>tayo42</author><text>&gt; C++ is becoming a legacy language and finding contributors in the future will become difficult,<p>This is wild to see written down. Am I alone in feeling like there is a huge disconnect between what people online say and what happens I guess in the real world?<p>Developers I actually talk to never seem to have these kinds of opinions about c++ and alot more reserved about using rust</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rewrite it in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cozzyd</author><text>If anything, C++ is too expressive...</text><parent_chain><item><author>xedrac</author><text>Aside from tooling (which is <i>much</i> better in Rust), C++ just isn&#x27;t a very expressive language and has a high impedance with cognition. I&#x27;ve worked in C++ for well over a decade, and now that I&#x27;ve used Rust for a couple years, I just don&#x27;t ever want to go back. It solves too many pain points of C++ to ignore.</text></item><item><author>Night_Thastus</author><text>As someone who works in C++, the build systems are definitely the worst part. QMake is abandoned. Cmake is the de-facto option and is an ancient horrible mess that feels like a miracle if it works at all. What&#x27;s left?<p>Options that are barely supported, severely limited in features, are only reasonable for tiny side projects, etc.</text></item><item><author>rtpg</author><text>I think that C++&#x27;s build system difficulties are _huge contributors_ to people not feeling like C++ is &quot;worth learning&quot;.<p>People do the C&#x2F;Rust comparison, but at least C has a simpler mental model so is a different thing. I feel like C++ has similar, if not more, complexity to Rust and is harder to onboard.<p>I do think there are domains where &quot;let&#x27;s use Rust&quot; are a bit ... aspirational more than anything (anything related to graphics or OS integration...). And there C++ makes a lot of sense. But I think that day by day the number of projects where C++ is the only obvious choice goes down. Hell, it&#x27;s been going down since Java!</text></item><item><author>tayo42</author><text>&gt; C++ is becoming a legacy language and finding contributors in the future will become difficult,<p>This is wild to see written down. Am I alone in feeling like there is a huge disconnect between what people online say and what happens I guess in the real world?<p>Developers I actually talk to never seem to have these kinds of opinions about c++ and alot more reserved about using rust</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rewrite it in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512</url></story> |
26,635,977 | 26,635,617 | 1 | 3 | 26,634,101 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breck</author><text>The knowledge and initial introductions in online events can lead to hugely positive outcomes in the future, so in terms of ROI I think online events are probably far superior, but when I think to my top 100 memorable experiences I&#x27;ve had at events, not a single one of them took place online. Sure, I&#x27;ve met plenty of people that I later became friends&#x2F;collaborators with in person, but all the memorable stuff happens later in person.<p>Just a few recent off the top of my head:<p>- Paddleboard breakouts at East Meets West<p>- Asking Vinod a question about next-gen registers at Program Synthesis Conference<p>- Animated discussion about cpu design over beers post conference in SF<p>- Talking to a startup about IOT management on the roof of an Accel event<p>And some ones from 10+ years ago:<p>- When I was a college student sitting on a folding chair and chatting with a nice woman about the startups pitching at TechCrunch40 (turned out to be M Mayer)<p>- Drew pitching me on Dropbox before launch in Cambridge (boring, I thought)<p>- Nate pitching me AirBedAndBreakfast in Mountain View (loved the idea from the get go)<p>The only things that have come close to being memorable online were some recent Teamflow ice breaker type events we did at Our World in Data around the virtual campfire.</text><parent_chain><item><author>soapdog</author><text>I think I&#x27;m the minority that really values in-person events. The best experiences for me didn&#x27;t happened by watching the talks and sessions, but in casual conversations in the corridors and common areas. This is very hard to replicate with online events.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-is-back-in-its-all-online-format/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johannes1234321</author><text>As a presenter I prefer in-person events by far. Virtual events are so much speaking into the void with no feedback. Sometimes not even certainty whether connection or such might have been broken. Audience helps to see if jokes work and if audience keeps up or is getting bored as i go too slow. Also in a virtual event there is the risk of preproduction a talk, with artificial perfection.<p>As an participant for me the &quot;hallway track&quot; often is the most interesting, where I get into random discussions and run into people In otherwise rarely meet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>soapdog</author><text>I think I&#x27;m the minority that really values in-person events. The best experiences for me didn&#x27;t happened by watching the talks and sessions, but in casual conversations in the corridors and common areas. This is very hard to replicate with online events.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-is-back-in-its-all-online-format/</url></story> |
21,008,340 | 21,008,378 | 1 | 2 | 21,003,867 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pdonis</author><text>From the article: &quot;I no longer think about code lines as an asset to be accumulated, but rather as an expenditure to be avoided.&quot;<p>The obvious Edsger Djikstra reference:<p><i>[I]f we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plasmasturm.org&#x2F;log&#x2F;linesspent&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plasmasturm.org&#x2F;log&#x2F;linesspent&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Going Fast Slowly</title><url>https://varnish-cache.org/docs/6.2/phk/thatslow.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>jchook</author><text>“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”<p>Old military saying that I repeat often because I have relearned so many times that shortcuts cause more work (read: problems and rigidity) in the long run.<p>Choose one: get it done right, or get it done right now.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Going Fast Slowly</title><url>https://varnish-cache.org/docs/6.2/phk/thatslow.html</url></story> |
3,688,952 | 3,688,868 | 1 | 2 | 3,688,681 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johncoltrane</author><text>I was born in 1974 so I was too young to see them on their first run but I've been lucky to catch lots of reruns of "Tac au Tac" in the 80s. This incredible TV show was based on the surrealist concept of "Cadavre exquis" and made a bunch of cartoonists work together on a large drawing board around a common idea.<p>Jean Giraud participated in a number of episodes, including this one with Joe Kubert and Neal Adams:<p><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj263p_joe-kubert-neal-adams-jean-giraud-1972_creation" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj263p_joe-kubert-neal-adam...</a><p>Moebius leaves a long trail of beautiful work behind him.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>French comic-book artist "Moebius" dies</title><url>http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/10/uk-moebius-giraud-idUKBRE8290DK20120310?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=401</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>novalis</author><text>I joined the French Institute in my home town because they had a lot of his work and he was the reason why I got pulled into art at that young age. The work was so vast and different, so fantastic, I couldn't imagine the things he gave life to, on my own. I understood that then as I do now. It was greatness and he shared it through art. By that process he made me a rich man. Rich of thought. A true treasure. I have no words that can express how saddened I am by the news of his passing. It simply makes me cry and hurt. This is an irreparable loss.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>French comic-book artist "Moebius" dies</title><url>http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/10/uk-moebius-giraud-idUKBRE8290DK20120310?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=401</url><text></text></story> |
39,717,577 | 39,714,953 | 1 | 3 | 39,713,323 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>empath-nirvana</author><text>There&#x27;s two definitions of EDM, the first is it&#x27;s original intended definition, which was as a blanket classification for all electronic dance music -- techno, jungle, house, dubstep, whatever. Instead of calling it techno or electronica, or whatever, EDM was meant to encompass all of it.<p>Almost immediately after the term started being used, though, it became strongly associated with a particular type of dance music -- namely the mainstream house music that got played at big &quot;EDM&quot; festivals -- think David Guetta and Afrojack and Avicii and Tiesto... They used a blanket term when putting the festival together because the festival booked all kinds of dance music, but the main stages were dominated by a particular kind of dance music, so for most people that went to those festivals, that was the kind of music they associated with EDM.<p>&quot;Techno&quot; went through a similar evolution. It was originally a term for a particular subgenre of disco and kraftwerk influenced dance music coming out of detroit in the 1980s, around the same time that house music was starting up in Chicago and garage music started up in New York. It pushed further into pure electronic sounds than house and garage did (at first) and early techno compilations solidified in people&#x27;s minds that electronic music was &quot;techno&quot;, especially in america, so &quot;techno&quot; for a while became a catch-all term for all kinds of electronic music. That faded away when &quot;electronica&quot; and then &quot;edm&quot; sort of took on that role, and techno continued as a subgenre of music by itself.<p>So, I think, properly, techno is a _sub genre_ of &quot;electronic dance music&quot; in the general sense, but is a different genre than what a lot of people think of as EDM (the kind of house music played at large festivals).</text><parent_chain><item><author>ricksunny</author><text>Can you distinguish these two? In my head EDM &amp; techno occupy the same space.</text></item><item><author>earthnail</author><text>EDM isn&#x27;t Techno. It&#x27;s a bit like saying that hard rock is like metal (somewhat bad analogy, but I hope you get the point). I know you listed a range of genres but it&#x27;s important to note that the Berlin techno scene would never consider itself part of EDM.<p>In Europe, most EDM is happening in Amsterdam.</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>Is this specifically techno&#x2F;underground clubs you mean? My pokey city in Aus has like a dozen &quot;EDM&quot; clubs that spin a decent breadth of techno to house to dnb etc. Perhaps I should count myself lucky?</text></item><item><author>omnimus</author><text>Nothing even compares to Berlin. Prague has basically 2 clubs and they are working partly because it&#x27;s cheap and only 4hour train from Berlin so it&#x27;s fun destination for both Berliners and Berlin DJS.
Athens is where lots of the techno scene (djs, producers) has been moving to but that&#x27;s because property is cheap so they can run away from Berlin winter. It also has like 2 clubs.
In Berlin there are so many venues it&#x27;s hard to remember them.</text></item><item><author>larodi</author><text>According to many people, including record shop owners I’ve talked to, Berlin’s scene is actually not so underground and not so cool anymore as a result of tourism and immigration. Rich people nowadays buy property in Potsdam, and the scene is moving towards Leipzig.<p>In a more general sense the old rave cities are making way, and have been making way, to other cities. A movement spanning more than 20 years now, thanks to very active promoter teams, leads to Lyon, Prague, Zagreb, Thessaloniki and even Sofia.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jahnu</author><text>The exact meaning of EDM has shifted over the years but I would say that currently it means stuff like Skrillex and Hardwell whereas techno is more like Carl Craig or Inigo Kennedy or Charlotte de Witte</text><parent_chain><item><author>ricksunny</author><text>Can you distinguish these two? In my head EDM &amp; techno occupy the same space.</text></item><item><author>earthnail</author><text>EDM isn&#x27;t Techno. It&#x27;s a bit like saying that hard rock is like metal (somewhat bad analogy, but I hope you get the point). I know you listed a range of genres but it&#x27;s important to note that the Berlin techno scene would never consider itself part of EDM.<p>In Europe, most EDM is happening in Amsterdam.</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>Is this specifically techno&#x2F;underground clubs you mean? My pokey city in Aus has like a dozen &quot;EDM&quot; clubs that spin a decent breadth of techno to house to dnb etc. Perhaps I should count myself lucky?</text></item><item><author>omnimus</author><text>Nothing even compares to Berlin. Prague has basically 2 clubs and they are working partly because it&#x27;s cheap and only 4hour train from Berlin so it&#x27;s fun destination for both Berliners and Berlin DJS.
Athens is where lots of the techno scene (djs, producers) has been moving to but that&#x27;s because property is cheap so they can run away from Berlin winter. It also has like 2 clubs.
In Berlin there are so many venues it&#x27;s hard to remember them.</text></item><item><author>larodi</author><text>According to many people, including record shop owners I’ve talked to, Berlin’s scene is actually not so underground and not so cool anymore as a result of tourism and immigration. Rich people nowadays buy property in Potsdam, and the scene is moving towards Leipzig.<p>In a more general sense the old rave cities are making way, and have been making way, to other cities. A movement spanning more than 20 years now, thanks to very active promoter teams, leads to Lyon, Prague, Zagreb, Thessaloniki and even Sofia.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list</url></story> |
4,235,782 | 4,235,693 | 1 | 3 | 4,235,432 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>epo</author><text>I don't see it as fanboyism so much as a reaction to irrational anti-Apple complaints such as "this feature doesn't work therefore I'm not going to buy any Apple product ever again".<p>Yes, it's a bug. No, it's not a show stopper, and yes there is a perfectly reasonable work around. So the blind people are those who try to blow this up into some kind of crime against humanity and who then call those telling them to get a grip, "fanboys".</text><parent_chain><item><author>dguaraglia</author><text>Wow, apparently some people are so blinded by fanboyism (I know one such person myself) that they can't accept something created by Apple might have an issue. Some of the answers can be summed up as "hey, before you couldn't do X before, so stop moaning and keep doing what you did before if you don't like how X works!".<p>Even in the bad old days of Microsoft MVPs you didn't get answers as hostile as that. This is almost religious fervor. WTF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fullscreen in Mountain Lion still renders second display useless</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3196329?start=225&tstart=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>JacksonGariety</author><text>At WWDC, they showed that Mountain Lion would enable multi-monitor fullscreen support. But yes, they shouldn't expect Apple to be their friend and hold true to their word.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dguaraglia</author><text>Wow, apparently some people are so blinded by fanboyism (I know one such person myself) that they can't accept something created by Apple might have an issue. Some of the answers can be summed up as "hey, before you couldn't do X before, so stop moaning and keep doing what you did before if you don't like how X works!".<p>Even in the bad old days of Microsoft MVPs you didn't get answers as hostile as that. This is almost religious fervor. WTF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fullscreen in Mountain Lion still renders second display useless</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3196329?start=225&tstart=0</url></story> |
19,808,273 | 19,807,403 | 1 | 2 | 19,797,844 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gwern</author><text>That&#x27;s a good point. Another one I forgot to make: given the established empirical reality of &#x27;everything is correlated&#x27;, if you find a variable which does in fact seem to be independent of most or everything else, that alone makes that variable suspicious - it suggests that it may be a pseudo-variable, composed largely or entirely of measurement error&#x2F;randomness, or perhaps afflicted by a severe selection bias or other problem (such as range restriction or Berkson&#x27;s paradox eliminating the real correlation).<p>Somewhat similarly, because &#x27;everything is heritable&#x27;, if you run into a human trait which is <i>not</i> heritable at all and is precisely estimated at h^2~0, that cast considerable doubt on whether you have a real trait at all. (I&#x27;ve seen this happen to a few latent variables extracted by factor analysis: they have near-zero heritability in a twin study and on further investigation, turn out to have been just sampling error or bad factor analysis in the first place, and don&#x27;t replicate or predict anything or satisfy any of the criteria you might use to decide if a trait is &#x27;real&#x27;.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajuc</author><text>When the correlation is close to 0 it&#x27;s often because of a feedback loop.<p>For example - in economy with central bank trying to hit inflation target - interest rates and inflation will have near 0 correlation (interest rates change but inflation remains constant). That&#x27;s because central bank adjusts interest rates to counter other variables so that inflation remains near the target.<p>Other example (my favorite, it was mindblowing when my teacher showed it to us on econometrics as a warning :) ) - gas pedal and speed of a car driving on a hilly road. Driver wants to drive near the speed limit, so he adjusts the gas pedal to keep the speed constant. Simplistic conclusion would be - speed is constant despite the gas pedal position changing therefore they are unrelated :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everything Is Correlated</title><url>https://www.gwern.net/Everything</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tcgv</author><text>That&#x27;s very interesting. In the car driving example we can define three variables: 1) Throttle 2) Speed 3) Elevation derivative<p>If &quot;3&quot; is constant (ex: flat terrain) then &quot;1&quot; and &quot;2&quot; will have strong correlation. However if &quot;2&quot; is constant (ex: cruise control) as in your example, &quot;1&quot; and &quot;3&quot; will have strong correlation.<p>In the economic example, however, this kind of analisys should be much more complex and take plenty of variables into account.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajuc</author><text>When the correlation is close to 0 it&#x27;s often because of a feedback loop.<p>For example - in economy with central bank trying to hit inflation target - interest rates and inflation will have near 0 correlation (interest rates change but inflation remains constant). That&#x27;s because central bank adjusts interest rates to counter other variables so that inflation remains near the target.<p>Other example (my favorite, it was mindblowing when my teacher showed it to us on econometrics as a warning :) ) - gas pedal and speed of a car driving on a hilly road. Driver wants to drive near the speed limit, so he adjusts the gas pedal to keep the speed constant. Simplistic conclusion would be - speed is constant despite the gas pedal position changing therefore they are unrelated :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everything Is Correlated</title><url>https://www.gwern.net/Everything</url></story> |
35,852,295 | 35,850,546 | 1 | 3 | 35,849,356 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>belorn</author><text>At this point in history, tracking on the web is no longer a trusted activity where people can assume that the person behind the tracking is doing it for benevolent purposes. It&#x27;s the same thing with email and spam, especially when attachments are involved.<p>Writing your own analytics can give some additional benefits in that you are only collected what you need while taking into considerations your users needs. I expect however that in time browsers will block more and more by default, similar in how email clients and services has progressed in their arm race with spam.</text><parent_chain><item><author>riogordo2go</author><text>I&#x27;m using the matomo self hosted version and like it overall. I love you can track all outbound clicks without having to specifically add Dom elements to outbound links to make this possible.
Unfortunately matomo is blocked just like Google Analytics by every ad&#x2F;tracking blocker. Doesn&#x27;t matter if you host it yourself and only track global stats vs tracking users across the web like GA does. The only solution seems to be writing your own analytics.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy</title><url>https://matomo.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>chpatrick</author><text>You can usually rename the tracker to something that&#x27;s not on the blocklist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>riogordo2go</author><text>I&#x27;m using the matomo self hosted version and like it overall. I love you can track all outbound clicks without having to specifically add Dom elements to outbound links to make this possible.
Unfortunately matomo is blocked just like Google Analytics by every ad&#x2F;tracking blocker. Doesn&#x27;t matter if you host it yourself and only track global stats vs tracking users across the web like GA does. The only solution seems to be writing your own analytics.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy</title><url>https://matomo.org/</url></story> |
24,774,109 | 24,773,706 | 1 | 2 | 24,771,932 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MagnumPIG</author><text>This is not really &quot;huge&quot;, sorry.<p>For one thing, it&#x27;s still an intrusive method which requires <i>brain surgery</i>. I expected something like radioactive isotopes but no, this is easily summed up as &quot;better electrodes&quot;. As good thing for sure, not a game changer.<p>For another, the writer is a tech journalist and therefore more than likely wrong or inaccurate on important facts.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain</title><url>https://newatlas.com/medical/serotonin-dopamine-real-time-tracking-brain/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hexxiiiz</author><text>This is huge. So much of what we seem to know about these neuromodulation systems amounts to a number of &quot;has to do with ...&quot;s. Dopamine has to do with reward; serotonin has to do with happiness; etc... Knowing how these modulators actually modulate in response to circumstances may give us a much better sense of what they are actually doing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain</title><url>https://newatlas.com/medical/serotonin-dopamine-real-time-tracking-brain/</url></story> |
36,229,125 | 36,226,402 | 1 | 2 | 36,219,585 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexvoda</author><text>&gt; There are enormous advantages to living (as much as possible of) your life in VR:<p>&gt; - your home can be arbitrarily large at zero cost and without taking any land away from anyone else<p>Except it isn&#x27;t.<p>&gt; - you can change the decor whenever you want at zero cost<p>Except you can&#x27;t.<p>&gt; - you can paint walls as ornately as you like, at zero cost, immediately, without even any prep work required<p>Except you can&#x27;t.<p>&gt; - you spend zero time on travelling<p>Except you don&#x27;t.<p>&gt; - you can instantly hang out with friends in foreign countries for free without even needing a visa<p>Except you don&#x27;t.<p>This is an incredibly dystopian view.<p>Let&#x27;s not kid ourselves that VR will not be monetized to the breaking point just like any other platform. Enshitification is inevitable.<p>In other words, corporations will do what they already do, sell lies, create demand for those lies and in exchange demand more of the irreplaceable things like time, land and resources.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jstanley</author><text>You&#x27;re taking a backwards-looking view of this.<p>Imagine if ancient man, living in the woods, saw people of today living in cities. &quot;It feels very uncomfortable seeing all of these people isolating themselves inside buildings&quot;.<p>In fact the very opposite is the case. Now, we go into <i>nature</i> to isolate ourselves.<p>In the future, going into virtual reality will be where you go to interact with others, and you&#x27;ll take the goggles <i>off</i> to isolate yourself.<p>There are enormous advantages to living (as much as possible of) your life in VR:<p>- your home can be arbitrarily large at zero cost and without taking any land away from anyone else<p>- you can change the decor whenever you want at zero cost<p>- you can paint walls as ornately as you like, at zero cost, immediately, without even any prep work required<p>- you spend zero time on travelling<p>- you can instantly hang out with friends in foreign countries for free without even needing a visa<p>As long as the technology is good enough (and please remember that qualifier, because people normally respond with an implicit assumption that the technology is <i>not</i> good enough) - <i>as long as the technology is good enough</i> VR is strictly better than current reality.</text></item><item><author>jb1991</author><text>I use quite a few Apple products every day of the last 10 years, and I’m very impressed with certainly all the technology and reviews and explanations of how this device works and what the user experience will be. However, this is the first Apple device that really makes me pause. All of the marketing material, the WWDC videos, all of it feels very uncomfortable to see all these people isolating themselves in a room with big goggles on. I find it really hard to comprehend this is the direction that technology is taking our lives. Imagine walking into a house, and a lot of the people are just sitting around by themselves in corners with goggles on. The whole thing just feels very strange and post apocalyptic to me.<p>And these 3D spacial moment recordings, imagine children growing up in a house where when something nice happens, the parent rushes to put on goggles and stare at them through them, their little virtual eyes displayed on the outside, it’s frankly creepy to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Notes on Vision Pro</title><url>https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Vision%20Pro</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DonaldPShimoda</author><text>Asimov kind-of wrote about this phenomenon in 1956&#x27;s &quot;The Naked Sun&quot;, the second of his Elijah Bailey series. I won&#x27;t give plot spoilers, but the main connection is that a group of people on another planet have grown accustomed to virtual holographic &quot;viewing&quot; being the main mode of interacting with other people, while physically being in their presence is deemed unwholesome, embarrassing, or otherwise uncouth, causing people to go to great extents to avoid it.<p>I don&#x27;t know that Vision Pro is necessarily taking us on that sort of path; I&#x27;ll probably hold my judgment until they&#x27;ve proliferated enough that I actually know someone who has one. But your point that the virtual world is becoming where we go to interact with other people while physical spaces are used for individual isolation is a good one, and my contribution here is to tie it to a book that is over 65 years old to show that it&#x27;s not even a particularly new idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jstanley</author><text>You&#x27;re taking a backwards-looking view of this.<p>Imagine if ancient man, living in the woods, saw people of today living in cities. &quot;It feels very uncomfortable seeing all of these people isolating themselves inside buildings&quot;.<p>In fact the very opposite is the case. Now, we go into <i>nature</i> to isolate ourselves.<p>In the future, going into virtual reality will be where you go to interact with others, and you&#x27;ll take the goggles <i>off</i> to isolate yourself.<p>There are enormous advantages to living (as much as possible of) your life in VR:<p>- your home can be arbitrarily large at zero cost and without taking any land away from anyone else<p>- you can change the decor whenever you want at zero cost<p>- you can paint walls as ornately as you like, at zero cost, immediately, without even any prep work required<p>- you spend zero time on travelling<p>- you can instantly hang out with friends in foreign countries for free without even needing a visa<p>As long as the technology is good enough (and please remember that qualifier, because people normally respond with an implicit assumption that the technology is <i>not</i> good enough) - <i>as long as the technology is good enough</i> VR is strictly better than current reality.</text></item><item><author>jb1991</author><text>I use quite a few Apple products every day of the last 10 years, and I’m very impressed with certainly all the technology and reviews and explanations of how this device works and what the user experience will be. However, this is the first Apple device that really makes me pause. All of the marketing material, the WWDC videos, all of it feels very uncomfortable to see all these people isolating themselves in a room with big goggles on. I find it really hard to comprehend this is the direction that technology is taking our lives. Imagine walking into a house, and a lot of the people are just sitting around by themselves in corners with goggles on. The whole thing just feels very strange and post apocalyptic to me.<p>And these 3D spacial moment recordings, imagine children growing up in a house where when something nice happens, the parent rushes to put on goggles and stare at them through them, their little virtual eyes displayed on the outside, it’s frankly creepy to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Notes on Vision Pro</title><url>https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Vision%20Pro</url></story> |
22,223,944 | 22,222,390 | 1 | 2 | 22,221,507 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swiley</author><text>They have that option in the US, just not with public schools. I’ve been told that even public schools work that way in Australia under normal conditions.<p>Most people can’t work from home because of local tradition not because it doesn’t work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>obiefernandez</author><text>My wife is a high-school teacher in Shenzhen and her school has suspended physical attendance thru Feb 17th, possibly to be extended until the start of March. However, they are requiring teachers and students to work full-time from home using online assignments and communications channels. It struck me that this is indeed a huge experiment in remote working, even for professions that don&#x27;t typically have that option at all whatsoever (i.e. school teachers).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-forces-world-s-largest-work-from-home-experiment</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Obsnold</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard from relatives that it is the same thing in Hong Kong. Last time I talked to them they said it has been quite difficult so far. I&#x27;m not sure if they have had any training to prepare for this at all or if they are just winging it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>obiefernandez</author><text>My wife is a high-school teacher in Shenzhen and her school has suspended physical attendance thru Feb 17th, possibly to be extended until the start of March. However, they are requiring teachers and students to work full-time from home using online assignments and communications channels. It struck me that this is indeed a huge experiment in remote working, even for professions that don&#x27;t typically have that option at all whatsoever (i.e. school teachers).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-forces-world-s-largest-work-from-home-experiment</url></story> |
11,072,945 | 11,071,748 | 1 | 3 | 11,069,501 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xlayn</author><text>There are two things for this situation<p><pre><code> -On one hand Intel is disabling a &quot;Feature&quot; of their cpus
as a way of preventing users to get &quot;More expensive
performance&quot; without paying for it; you can think of it
like intel is just covering their back; we can assume the
difference on their cpus is just related to binning [0]
and they are just protecting their customers by not
allowing less performant cpus perform better therefore
increasing reliability.
-on the other hand you can see how hardware is not
anymore something you buy and expect to behave in a
certain way.
For those paranoid... would this mean they can also alter
how instructions behave? **cough**security**cough**
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Product_binning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Product_binning</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel to shut down renegade Skylake overclocking with microcode update</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/intel-to-shut-down-renegade-skylake-overclocking-with-microcode-update/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roddux</author><text>What possible reason could they have for this, apart from forcing users to buy their &#x27;unlocked&#x27; chips? Is it really worth the nightmarish PR debacle they will undoubtedly face?<p>Side note (from comments) -- apparently Intel paired this microcode update with a patch to fix CPUs freezing during Prime95. Not cool.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel to shut down renegade Skylake overclocking with microcode update</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/intel-to-shut-down-renegade-skylake-overclocking-with-microcode-update/</url></story> |
25,562,811 | 25,562,791 | 1 | 2 | 25,562,241 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kodah</author><text>Public shaming of individuals is really bad form. While it may solve problems in the immediate all it does is make people walk on egg shells in the future and doesn&#x27;t really teach anything meaningful. In my opinion its tantamount to bullying or abuse. I see this kind of stuff on Blind all the time and it&#x27;s disconcerting to see.<p>If you want some technical proof to this cultural concept, examine why blameless post-mortems exist. We learned a long time ago that naming larger organizations and not individuals incentivizes positive group-oriented change.<p>The more mature thing to do is develop relationships with recruiters so that your interactions are not so transactional. This requires <i>you</i> to be less lazy too, but leads to more positive outcomes overall as it has for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&#x27;s a great problem that you&#x27;re trying to solve, but this just isn&#x27;t a great solution - it&#x27;s no different than getting a throwaway email and sending a message yourself. Also, depending on the size of the company, the recruiter may have a good idea of who this is coming from.<p>A couple of suggestions:
1. Send these sorts of messages to the recruiter&#x27;s boss&#x2F;head of recruiting&#x2F;head of HR. If the recruiter is ghosting out of laziness when they should not be, then making management aware of it will solve the problem. If the recruiter&#x27;s told to do this by management, then management at least becomes aware that this policy is aggravating people.<p>2. Public shaming - make this a site where people can publicly name recruiters&#x2F;companies who engage in this behavior. If companies see themselves incurring reputational damage from ghosting, it&#x27;ll stop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by recruiters</title><url>http://ghostreply.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>bonestamp2</author><text>Agreed. If I can tell ahead of time that the recruiter is a ghost, then I can tell them I don&#x27;t want to work with them because they&#x27;ve got a bad reputation on the ghost-list. Like a bad yelp review, that will hopefully motivate them to change. As long as new reports keep coming in, their full history remains. But old reviews should start to fall off the ghost-list after a certain amount of time without a new report of ghosting (to reward the positive change in behavior).</text><parent_chain><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&#x27;s a great problem that you&#x27;re trying to solve, but this just isn&#x27;t a great solution - it&#x27;s no different than getting a throwaway email and sending a message yourself. Also, depending on the size of the company, the recruiter may have a good idea of who this is coming from.<p>A couple of suggestions:
1. Send these sorts of messages to the recruiter&#x27;s boss&#x2F;head of recruiting&#x2F;head of HR. If the recruiter is ghosting out of laziness when they should not be, then making management aware of it will solve the problem. If the recruiter&#x27;s told to do this by management, then management at least becomes aware that this policy is aggravating people.<p>2. Public shaming - make this a site where people can publicly name recruiters&#x2F;companies who engage in this behavior. If companies see themselves incurring reputational damage from ghosting, it&#x27;ll stop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by recruiters</title><url>http://ghostreply.com</url></story> |
25,850,193 | 25,849,426 | 1 | 2 | 25,849,054 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amasad</author><text>At Repl.it, we interviewed interns via Manara and was mind-blown by the quality. We&#x27;ve given offers to two and I know at least one will be joining us soon. I think Manara has a potential to transform the global developer market. Very excited for them!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies</title><text>Hey everyone! My name is Laila and with my co-founder Iliana I’m building Manara (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;</a>). We support software engineers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to get great jobs at tech companies worldwide. These companies appreciate being connected to skilled talent that is diverse and inclusive (50% of our engineers are women).<p>I grew up in a refugee camp in Gaza. My dream was to become a Silicon Valley software engineer. Eventually I hacked my way there successfully, becoming a software engineer at Nvidia. I like to joke that the hardest part wasn’t escaping Gaza in the middle of the 2014 war, but rather, my first interviews... which I totally bombed. ;)<p>Once I got to Silicon Valley, I was surprised at the lack of women. In Gaza, more women study computer science than men! I was also surprised to learn how hard it was for companies in Silicon Valley to attract the talent we needed. During interviews with candidates I’d often think, “I wish I could hire my friends in Gaza. They’d be great.”<p>That’s when I re-connected with Iliana. She and I had met in Gaza when she was running Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG), the first startup accelerator in Gaza. Her work was widely covered and has a few threads on HN including <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11858963" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11858963</a>. Iliana asked me “How can we produce more success stories like yours?”<p>I told her that engineers in the MENA region don&#x27;t lack talent, but they lack other ingredients. They&#x27;re mostly not aware of opportunities outside their region, and even if they are aware, they think you have to be a genius to work at a company like Google. Also, they have no idea what sorts of resumes recruiters want to see and don&#x27;t have brand names to put on them. They don&#x27;t have referral networks to get their foot in the door. And they&#x27;re completely unprepared for the style of interviews that tech companies go for. As we talked further, it became clear that all of these problems would be fixable with the right kind of coaching and support, and that bringing this growing talent pool to the global job marketplace would benefit both sides (accelerating the success of global companies, while redistributing wealth to the region).<p>We developed an approach to address those gaps - and it worked. Just last week, 67% of the people we referred to Google for internships made it past the hiring committee (they’re now waiting for their job offers, so if you work at Google and have internship headcount, let us know!) We’ve heard Google interviewers say several times, “This is the best junior engineering interview I’ve ever done.”<p>I want to emphasize that we are <i>not</i> a zero-to-hero bootcamp. Manara is a career accelerator for skilled software engineers at all levels with a focus on junior engineers. Students learn the technical and soft skills they need to pass interviews and get introductions to companies with jobs that are either remote or on-site (in Europe or Canada). We charge an affordable fee to both candidates and companies, only if a successful match is made.<p>We focus on MENA (and specifically Arabic-speaking countries in the region) for a few reasons. On the business side, that&#x27;s where we&#x27;re from and where our connections are, so we understand the dynamics and have comparative advantage there. Second, the region has a huge opportunity: the youngest population in the world, 2x more university graduates than 10 years ago, women studying computer science at high rates (in some countries more women study CS than men: 52% in Palestine, 62% in Tunisia, 70% in Qatar), and so on. Third, it lends itself to scale. Our graduates have a high sense of affiliation and loyalty to the region, which means that as soon as we place 1 candidate at a company that’s growing, s&#x2F;he comes back to us looking for 3 more to hire.<p>But we’re not building Manara just for business reasons; rather, we were motivated to launch Manara for social impact reasons. The unemployment rate for recent college grads is ~60%; for women who studied CS, it can be as high as 83%. It pains us personally to see highly talented friends of ours struggling to find (meaningful) work. We originally planned to build Manara as a non-profit, but after <i>lots</i> of research, we realized that a social enterprise approach would better support our mission: the pressure of becoming self-sustainable forces sharper thinking and execution, and will make it possible for us to deliver this solution at scale.<p>A powerful part of our impact is the community we are building. Students study in cohorts. Within each cohort, they compete to see who can solve more coding problems, and form strong bonds and support each other. Students also meet volunteers from tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Wayfair, Stripe, etc for mentorship and mock interviews once they achieve certain milestones (e.g., 100 questions on Leetcode). This leads to high motivation and retention. It also gives them access to professional networks like those Americans have when graduating from universities like Stanford. Often these networks later help them with their job hunting: just last week, a candidate got an interview at Uber thanks to a referral from one of our volunteers who works there.<p>Our volunteers love the chance to use their professional skills to mentor engineers from untraditional backgrounds. Several told us that they spent years looking for an effective way to contribute. One recently wrote to us, “I&#x27;m in awe of the work Manara is doing. I love interacting with my mentee and providing mock interviews - so thank you for giving me a platform to be able to support these students.”<p>If you&#x27;re hiring, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;hire-engineers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;hire-engineers</a>. If you&#x27;d like to get involved or join our newsletter, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;get-involved" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;get-involved</a>. Most importantly, we can&#x27;t wait to hear what you think, wherever in the world you might be.<p>Over to you, HN!</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jugurtha</author><text>Hi, Laila. Congratulations on the launch. I&#x27;ll share this (Algiers, Algeria).<p>One of the problems people here have is getting paid from companies abroad. I think it would be good to conduct interviews with people who may be having the same problem, and either offer a solution or explain it on the website. Many people work as freelancers, and the way they get their money is Herculean.<p>Also, many, especially here, neither are Arab nor identify as such [native population and ethnicity before 7th century invasions]. Many also do not share the language or other common attributes. Therefore, if you&#x27;re not ethnicity based, but based on the &quot;region&quot;, I guess North Africa, and Middle East are the terms that would work better.<p>Again, congratulations. There a <i>lot</i> of very talented people in these countries who will not work abroad for different reasons. Staying not to leave family behind is a very, very, common reason. Making remote work easier for them, whether positions or ease of payment, is huge.<p>This is encouraging even for those who are willing to move but aren&#x27;t invited to because they haven&#x27;t reached the skill level required for an employer to incur that cost, and they haven&#x27;t reached the financial level to incur that cost themselves. I guess your product hits that niche as well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies</title><text>Hey everyone! My name is Laila and with my co-founder Iliana I’m building Manara (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;</a>). We support software engineers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to get great jobs at tech companies worldwide. These companies appreciate being connected to skilled talent that is diverse and inclusive (50% of our engineers are women).<p>I grew up in a refugee camp in Gaza. My dream was to become a Silicon Valley software engineer. Eventually I hacked my way there successfully, becoming a software engineer at Nvidia. I like to joke that the hardest part wasn’t escaping Gaza in the middle of the 2014 war, but rather, my first interviews... which I totally bombed. ;)<p>Once I got to Silicon Valley, I was surprised at the lack of women. In Gaza, more women study computer science than men! I was also surprised to learn how hard it was for companies in Silicon Valley to attract the talent we needed. During interviews with candidates I’d often think, “I wish I could hire my friends in Gaza. They’d be great.”<p>That’s when I re-connected with Iliana. She and I had met in Gaza when she was running Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG), the first startup accelerator in Gaza. Her work was widely covered and has a few threads on HN including <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11858963" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11858963</a>. Iliana asked me “How can we produce more success stories like yours?”<p>I told her that engineers in the MENA region don&#x27;t lack talent, but they lack other ingredients. They&#x27;re mostly not aware of opportunities outside their region, and even if they are aware, they think you have to be a genius to work at a company like Google. Also, they have no idea what sorts of resumes recruiters want to see and don&#x27;t have brand names to put on them. They don&#x27;t have referral networks to get their foot in the door. And they&#x27;re completely unprepared for the style of interviews that tech companies go for. As we talked further, it became clear that all of these problems would be fixable with the right kind of coaching and support, and that bringing this growing talent pool to the global job marketplace would benefit both sides (accelerating the success of global companies, while redistributing wealth to the region).<p>We developed an approach to address those gaps - and it worked. Just last week, 67% of the people we referred to Google for internships made it past the hiring committee (they’re now waiting for their job offers, so if you work at Google and have internship headcount, let us know!) We’ve heard Google interviewers say several times, “This is the best junior engineering interview I’ve ever done.”<p>I want to emphasize that we are <i>not</i> a zero-to-hero bootcamp. Manara is a career accelerator for skilled software engineers at all levels with a focus on junior engineers. Students learn the technical and soft skills they need to pass interviews and get introductions to companies with jobs that are either remote or on-site (in Europe or Canada). We charge an affordable fee to both candidates and companies, only if a successful match is made.<p>We focus on MENA (and specifically Arabic-speaking countries in the region) for a few reasons. On the business side, that&#x27;s where we&#x27;re from and where our connections are, so we understand the dynamics and have comparative advantage there. Second, the region has a huge opportunity: the youngest population in the world, 2x more university graduates than 10 years ago, women studying computer science at high rates (in some countries more women study CS than men: 52% in Palestine, 62% in Tunisia, 70% in Qatar), and so on. Third, it lends itself to scale. Our graduates have a high sense of affiliation and loyalty to the region, which means that as soon as we place 1 candidate at a company that’s growing, s&#x2F;he comes back to us looking for 3 more to hire.<p>But we’re not building Manara just for business reasons; rather, we were motivated to launch Manara for social impact reasons. The unemployment rate for recent college grads is ~60%; for women who studied CS, it can be as high as 83%. It pains us personally to see highly talented friends of ours struggling to find (meaningful) work. We originally planned to build Manara as a non-profit, but after <i>lots</i> of research, we realized that a social enterprise approach would better support our mission: the pressure of becoming self-sustainable forces sharper thinking and execution, and will make it possible for us to deliver this solution at scale.<p>A powerful part of our impact is the community we are building. Students study in cohorts. Within each cohort, they compete to see who can solve more coding problems, and form strong bonds and support each other. Students also meet volunteers from tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Wayfair, Stripe, etc for mentorship and mock interviews once they achieve certain milestones (e.g., 100 questions on Leetcode). This leads to high motivation and retention. It also gives them access to professional networks like those Americans have when graduating from universities like Stanford. Often these networks later help them with their job hunting: just last week, a candidate got an interview at Uber thanks to a referral from one of our volunteers who works there.<p>Our volunteers love the chance to use their professional skills to mentor engineers from untraditional backgrounds. Several told us that they spent years looking for an effective way to contribute. One recently wrote to us, “I&#x27;m in awe of the work Manara is doing. I love interacting with my mentee and providing mock interviews - so thank you for giving me a platform to be able to support these students.”<p>If you&#x27;re hiring, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;hire-engineers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;hire-engineers</a>. If you&#x27;d like to get involved or join our newsletter, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;get-involved" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manara.tech&#x2F;get-involved</a>. Most importantly, we can&#x27;t wait to hear what you think, wherever in the world you might be.<p>Over to you, HN!</text></story> |
4,927,805 | 4,927,720 | 1 | 2 | 4,927,404 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>omGac0W</author><text>Is "wanting to kill people" really so far from the norm as to have a gene associated with it? What would the gene be responsible for, "Propensity to give a fuck about other living beings"? Because in my mind, the line between being "sane" and killing everyone in sight is pretty fine.<p>One's logic could go like this, "Man, everything sucks, and those kids down at the preschool are always so damn happy. Fuck Them. If I'm not happy no ones gets to be happy. Lock and load assholes." Suddenly you've got another tragedy. I would imagine people that are suicidal sometimes feel like this. Maybe it depends on how introverted or extroverted they are. The introverts disappear quietly in the dead of night, and the extroverts start mowing down pedestrians in the town square and then blow their brains out standing on the Mayor's statue.<p>If a gene could be isolated for "suicidal tendencies" and also for intro/extro we might be able to reduce future events like this. But just because someone is a suicidal extrovert that hates everyone it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to start killing people. Maybe the ones that don't are just pussies and the gene for "guts" or "courage" would also have to be isolated?<p>I don't know I'm just rambling. I ask myself why I don't kill my neighbors. Is it because I'm "sane"? Well I guess so, if "liking others" and not wanting them to be sad is a characteristic of sane people. But I firmly believe that there's a tiny slice of murderer in all sane people, and I like to think of people like Adam Lanza as having just a bigger slice, because putting them in a different category of "mentally ill" sort of feels like I'm denying a part of my own nature.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joonix</author><text>This may be politically incorrect to say right now, but I think the genes associated with mental illnesses that have a tendency to lead to violence will be phased out by a future generation sometime within this century and the next.<p>We'll soon enough try gun control. That won't stop mass killings. Then we'll try increased mental healthcare access. That won't do much because we'll struggle with the Constitutionality of locking people up in mental hospitals when they aren't <i>yet</i> a threat to anyone.<p>By this point in the future, genetic screening will be ubiquitous and affordable, possibly mandatory. Cultural attitudes will shift with this, and it will be expected for people to study their genome and compare openly when dating. People will pass on mates due to a high risk of major issues occurring should they have children together (this already happens in the Jewish community with Tay Sachs). Eventually people will be a lot more picky and aware of heredity and we could see a lot of hereditary mental illnesses removed from the population.<p>(I want to make clear I'm not expressing an opinion on or endorsing this, merely trying to make a prediction)</text></item><item><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>Post like this terrify me. What if there isn't anything that can be done? It seems like there are some people that are just born broken or at some point they break.<p>Men who experience schizophrenia it often stars in their late teens or early 20s, and late 20s/early 30s for women [1]. I had a friend in high school who was completely normal in every way. During his first year in college he literally just went crazy. It wasn't a singular event but over 6 months he lost it and he's never been the same. He has access to mental health care and after several years his parents even had him committed for a few months. Nothing helps and even his parents have finally accepted that he will never be the same or even normal.<p>I don't know what we as a society are supposed to do in these cases and that's what terrifies me above all else.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/mental_health_disorders/schizophrenia_85,P00762/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/ment...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thinking the unthinkable</title><url>http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/12/thinking-unthinkable.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>draq</author><text>The truth is that humans, like all other animals, have been selective breeding all the time, it's called evolution. We select our mates based on their phenotypes (like aggression, intelligence etc). It was more so in the past than now. People used to abandon infants that are born "defective" (we now have abortions). Parents selected the mates for their children because they are believed to be better judges of "good" phenotypes. It was customary to ensure that the family of the respective mate has no members with mental illness. Yet, after millennia of selective breeding, we still have all the crazies among us. The fact that those "bad" genes still exist must mean that they confer some benefits to the carrier.<p>The interplay between genes, RNA, proteins and other macromolecules is so complex that I doubt we can pin down a mental illness to a single gene or safely remove a mutation that causes mental illness from the gene pool without reducing other collateral beneficial traits.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joonix</author><text>This may be politically incorrect to say right now, but I think the genes associated with mental illnesses that have a tendency to lead to violence will be phased out by a future generation sometime within this century and the next.<p>We'll soon enough try gun control. That won't stop mass killings. Then we'll try increased mental healthcare access. That won't do much because we'll struggle with the Constitutionality of locking people up in mental hospitals when they aren't <i>yet</i> a threat to anyone.<p>By this point in the future, genetic screening will be ubiquitous and affordable, possibly mandatory. Cultural attitudes will shift with this, and it will be expected for people to study their genome and compare openly when dating. People will pass on mates due to a high risk of major issues occurring should they have children together (this already happens in the Jewish community with Tay Sachs). Eventually people will be a lot more picky and aware of heredity and we could see a lot of hereditary mental illnesses removed from the population.<p>(I want to make clear I'm not expressing an opinion on or endorsing this, merely trying to make a prediction)</text></item><item><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>Post like this terrify me. What if there isn't anything that can be done? It seems like there are some people that are just born broken or at some point they break.<p>Men who experience schizophrenia it often stars in their late teens or early 20s, and late 20s/early 30s for women [1]. I had a friend in high school who was completely normal in every way. During his first year in college he literally just went crazy. It wasn't a singular event but over 6 months he lost it and he's never been the same. He has access to mental health care and after several years his parents even had him committed for a few months. Nothing helps and even his parents have finally accepted that he will never be the same or even normal.<p>I don't know what we as a society are supposed to do in these cases and that's what terrifies me above all else.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/mental_health_disorders/schizophrenia_85,P00762/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/ment...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thinking the unthinkable</title><url>http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/12/thinking-unthinkable.html</url></story> |
9,647,345 | 9,647,241 | 1 | 3 | 9,646,572 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcraft</author><text>This is exactly why I prefer buying &quot;dumb&quot; tvs and simply adding chromecast&#x2F;appletv&#x2F;firetv, etc. Much better experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>This is the Achilles heel of the entire Internet of Things and smart appliance trend, and I think this will bite everyone bad. After 50+% of these vendors go out of business in the next decade, their products won&#x27;t get updated, and people will wonder why their &quot;smart&quot; TV can&#x27;t watch movies from whatever replaced Netflix&#x2F;new whizbang video service. They won&#x27;t be as likely to buy any &quot;smart&quot; thing again.</text></item><item><author>krschultz</author><text>I was flying from Dublin to Newark on Saturday on a United flight. At some point during our flight the entertainment system needed to be rebooted. When it came back up, the splash screen hit me with a huge amount of nostalgia. It was RedBoot with a kernel build date from 2004.<p>Obviously this is the entertainment system and not something more critical, but it&#x27;s telling. There is a huge cadence mismatch between software cycles and capital good replacement cycles. Airplanes, factories, HVAC systems, even home appliances last for decades. Software on these systems needs to get upgraded, I can&#x27;t even imagine the number of security patches that have gone into the Linux kernel in the last 11 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/06/united-flights-grounded-mysterious-problem/?mbid=social_twitter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jkestner</author><text>That will only matter if companies don&#x27;t train customers to expect frequent upgrade cycles. It&#x27;s worked for consumer electronics, but there will be strain in previously &quot;came with the house&quot; objects. You&#x27;ll need to sidestep people&#x27;s habits, in the way that the microwave did, perhaps.<p>And we&#x27;re only worried about vendors going out of business because it&#x27;s the early days and it&#x27;s largely startups pushing the trend. With a Samsung or Apple, it&#x27;s more that they&#x27;ll quickly (by home equipment standards) stop supporting whatever doesn&#x27;t stick to the wall.<p>There is a case to be made for self-contained objects that don&#x27;t derive most of their value from an ecosystem, but work normally with no network. Work up from a toaster, not down from a computer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>This is the Achilles heel of the entire Internet of Things and smart appliance trend, and I think this will bite everyone bad. After 50+% of these vendors go out of business in the next decade, their products won&#x27;t get updated, and people will wonder why their &quot;smart&quot; TV can&#x27;t watch movies from whatever replaced Netflix&#x2F;new whizbang video service. They won&#x27;t be as likely to buy any &quot;smart&quot; thing again.</text></item><item><author>krschultz</author><text>I was flying from Dublin to Newark on Saturday on a United flight. At some point during our flight the entertainment system needed to be rebooted. When it came back up, the splash screen hit me with a huge amount of nostalgia. It was RedBoot with a kernel build date from 2004.<p>Obviously this is the entertainment system and not something more critical, but it&#x27;s telling. There is a huge cadence mismatch between software cycles and capital good replacement cycles. Airplanes, factories, HVAC systems, even home appliances last for decades. Software on these systems needs to get upgraded, I can&#x27;t even imagine the number of security patches that have gone into the Linux kernel in the last 11 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/06/united-flights-grounded-mysterious-problem/?mbid=social_twitter</url></story> |
14,500,362 | 14,500,476 | 1 | 3 | 14,497,295 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>binarypaean</author><text>I feel like him doing that with a spreadsheet is more impressive than having some kind of photographic social memory.<p>He cared about people enough to make familiarity and kindness a discipline and habit that he lived. Despite many of our apps, life hacks, and &quot;social medias&quot; we miss the simple insight; social kindness is rooted in just giving enough of a damn to have a discipline for it. Any tool is secondary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danielvf</author><text>My uncle died suddenly this year. He was unbelievably caring - and not just to family - but to everyone he ever met. His funeral was jam packed with everyone from homeless people to executives of multi-billion dollar companies.<p>I always thought that his ability to always have you, and whatever you had last talked about with him, on his mind at any moment was some kind of supernatural gift. I was surprised to find out at his funeral that he actually kept an excel spreadsheet of everyone he met and what they needed and were going through. He reviewed this constantly.<p>It didn&#x27;t lessen his genuine love for everyone, just let him be a little more super human.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family</title><url>https://monicahq.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>jackarg</author><text>If you want to become a generous person such as him, when do you know when you&#x27;ve reached a limit in compassion? Would someone like your uncle ever think, for someone who is excessively rude, uncaring, disagreeable, unfriendly: &quot;he is not worth my time, I should move on?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>danielvf</author><text>My uncle died suddenly this year. He was unbelievably caring - and not just to family - but to everyone he ever met. His funeral was jam packed with everyone from homeless people to executives of multi-billion dollar companies.<p>I always thought that his ability to always have you, and whatever you had last talked about with him, on his mind at any moment was some kind of supernatural gift. I was surprised to find out at his funeral that he actually kept an excel spreadsheet of everyone he met and what they needed and were going through. He reviewed this constantly.<p>It didn&#x27;t lessen his genuine love for everyone, just let him be a little more super human.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family</title><url>https://monicahq.com</url></story> |
24,707,023 | 24,705,483 | 1 | 3 | 24,703,230 | 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>lucideer</author><text>&gt; <i>you have to understand auto-closing behaviour either way</i><p>You do, if you use HTML, but my read of the above two comments was that they would&#x27;ve preferred if the world had stuck on the XHTML path.<p>&gt; <i>Now with XHTML, that&#x27;s a different thing. But I think that ship sailed many years ago and HTML is a preferred way to go nowadays.</i><p>Actually, XHTML is a (little-known) part of the HTML5 spec.[0], so going the strict path is still an option. In the past, this would&#x27;ve required complex content-negotiation for media-type backward-compat but that&#x27;s no longer an issue unless a non-neglible % of your visitors are using IE8.<p>The only remaining issue is that of draconian error handling, which is an issue browsers definitely would have fixed the UX of had the mainstream stayed on the XHTML track, but sadly that never happened. Still, good modern support for server-side validation of well-formed XML documents means this is also less of an issue than it once was (though tbh, still a significant issue imo).<p>W3 have also put together a more informal guide to modern XHTML considerations within the HTML5 spec. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.w3.org&#x2F;html5&#x2F;html-polyglot&#x2F;html-polyglot.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.w3.org&#x2F;html5&#x2F;html-polyglot&#x2F;html-polyglot.html</a><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html.spec.whatwg.org&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;xhtml.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html.spec.whatwg.org&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;xhtml.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>It&#x27;s not a good idea to close all elements in HTML because browser does not care about your closing elements, they&#x27;ll be closed automatically regardless of whether you closed them or not. And your closed elements will be opened automatically.<p><pre><code> &lt;p&gt;List: &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;item1&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;&lt;&#x2F;ul&gt; of items&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
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and that&#x27;s probably not what you wanted. So you have to understand auto-closing behaviour either way. And if you understand it, you can just spare yourself from closing them.<p>Now with XHTML, that&#x27;s a different thing. But I think that ship sailed many years ago and HTML is a preferred way to go nowadays.</text></item><item><author>dataflow</author><text>+1 for XHTML. I never understood why people think it&#x27;s a good idea to avoid closing elements. It&#x27;s like a dangling brace to me... it nags me and it just doesn&#x27;t look right. How is it seen as acceptable practice?</text></item><item><author>Gehinnn</author><text>With this amount of exceptions in the specification, it is no wonder that people find unexpected combinations of different features to exploit stuff.<p>I know why I don&#x27;t like automatically closing elements. Xhtml for the win!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion</title><url>https://research.securitum.com/mutation-xss-via-mathml-mutation-dompurify-2-0-17-bypass/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cookiengineer</author><text>&gt; they&#x27;ll be closed automatically regardless of whether you closed them or not.<p>Actually that is not really true. It is defined per html5 spec what is closed automatically when another open node is being parsed.<p>The &lt;p&gt; element always had a weird flow-root behaviour, that is why it is always closed automatically.<p>Rather than that iirc mostly form relevant elements are also closed automatically, like optgroup, option, select, input and such.<p>Additionally it&#x27;s only table (same problem with flow root) and body, pretty much.<p>I can understand that a lot of people are confused why that is. But the reason is not the difference of XML vs SGML per se (xhtml will simply break if a p is within a p)... it&#x27;s the flow root model and the difference in behaviours of layouting that is specified here, not the notation structure.<p>So SGML was the better choice, to allow all php crapsites that never test their html validity to still run rather than forcing the enduser to (fix?) the xml.<p>I mean, at some point opera didn&#x27;t even work on bbcode based forum software(s), so people quickly started abandoning it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>It&#x27;s not a good idea to close all elements in HTML because browser does not care about your closing elements, they&#x27;ll be closed automatically regardless of whether you closed them or not. And your closed elements will be opened automatically.<p><pre><code> &lt;p&gt;List: &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;item1&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;&lt;&#x2F;ul&gt; of items&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
</code></pre>
becomes<p><pre><code> &lt;p&gt;List: &lt;&#x2F;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;item1&lt;&#x2F;li&gt;&lt;&#x2F;ul&gt; of items&lt;p&gt;&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
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and that&#x27;s probably not what you wanted. So you have to understand auto-closing behaviour either way. And if you understand it, you can just spare yourself from closing them.<p>Now with XHTML, that&#x27;s a different thing. But I think that ship sailed many years ago and HTML is a preferred way to go nowadays.</text></item><item><author>dataflow</author><text>+1 for XHTML. I never understood why people think it&#x27;s a good idea to avoid closing elements. It&#x27;s like a dangling brace to me... it nags me and it just doesn&#x27;t look right. How is it seen as acceptable practice?</text></item><item><author>Gehinnn</author><text>With this amount of exceptions in the specification, it is no wonder that people find unexpected combinations of different features to exploit stuff.<p>I know why I don&#x27;t like automatically closing elements. Xhtml for the win!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion</title><url>https://research.securitum.com/mutation-xss-via-mathml-mutation-dompurify-2-0-17-bypass/</url></story> |
9,610,019 | 9,610,047 | 1 | 2 | 9,609,269 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SandB0x</author><text>&gt; The investigation into Blazer’s tax affairs turned up some choice claims about his lifestyle - including the revelation that Concacaf paid $18,000 a month for his Trump Towers apartment, and another $6,000 a month for a second Trump Towers flat, used mainly by his cats.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;football&#x2F;live&#x2F;2015&#x2F;may&#x2F;27&#x2F;fifa-officials-arrested-on-corruption-charges-live" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;football&#x2F;live&#x2F;2015&#x2F;may&#x2F;27&#x2F;fifa-of...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>In case one wonders why the United States is enforcing this:<p>&quot;U.S. investigators got help from Chuck Blazer, the longtime general secretary of the confederation, the New York Daily News reported in November. Blazer wore a hidden recording device in a keychain to meetings with soccer officials at the London Olympics and elsewhere, the paper said. The IRS had leverage over Blazer: He hadn’t paid taxes on millions of income for more than a decade, according to the paper.<p>...<p>The choice of Qatar for the 2022 tournament angered many nations, and the U.S. in particular. The U.S. was beaten in a final vote run-off with the emirate after rival offers from Australia, South Korea and Japan had been eliminated in previous rounds. Former President Bill Clinton led a U.S. group that traveled to Zurich to make a final pitch to voters.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-27&#x2F;u-s-starts-world-cup-bribery-sweep-as-swiss-police-raid-hotel" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-27&#x2F;u-s-starts...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html?_r=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>nothrabannosir</author><text>Good. I don&#x27;t care how egoistic, petty or jealous their motivation; if this gets Blatter to face justice, I&#x27;m all for it. Go USA!</text><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>In case one wonders why the United States is enforcing this:<p>&quot;U.S. investigators got help from Chuck Blazer, the longtime general secretary of the confederation, the New York Daily News reported in November. Blazer wore a hidden recording device in a keychain to meetings with soccer officials at the London Olympics and elsewhere, the paper said. The IRS had leverage over Blazer: He hadn’t paid taxes on millions of income for more than a decade, according to the paper.<p>...<p>The choice of Qatar for the 2022 tournament angered many nations, and the U.S. in particular. The U.S. was beaten in a final vote run-off with the emirate after rival offers from Australia, South Korea and Japan had been eliminated in previous rounds. Former President Bill Clinton led a U.S. group that traveled to Zurich to make a final pitch to voters.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-27&#x2F;u-s-starts-world-cup-bribery-sweep-as-swiss-police-raid-hotel" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-27&#x2F;u-s-starts...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html?_r=0</url></story> |
16,507,136 | 16,505,995 | 1 | 3 | 16,505,023 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pitchups</author><text>This example, and others like it point to the central weakness of neural networks for image recognition:
No matter how much data you feed it, they never really develop concepts or abstractions of what the objects it is classifying really represent or mean. The weight and biases that get fine tuned by gradient descent, are no more than a highly complex function mapping the input pixels to discrete classes. While this may well represent how the visual cortex works at the lowest level, what appears to be missing are higher levels of abstraction and meaning. Perhaps machine learning needs to be coupled with some of the older paradigms of AI which included modeling, logic, reasoning, to achieve understanding. As of right now, a well trained convolutional neural network is no more than a mechanical pattern matching algorithm on steroids.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do neural networks dream of electric sheep?</title><url>http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-sheep</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>It&#x27;s okay, humans make these kind of mistakes too.<p>A friend of mine has a young son (~2-3 years old), and a cat named Mono.<p>Her son knows the cat is named Mono - he plays with her everyday.<p>But when they go out for a walk, any 4 legged animal he sees is also a &quot;Mono&quot;.<p>Fortunately for her son, his developing, extremely plastic brain will soon know how to differentiate Mono the cat from a random dog on the street (unlike neural networks which we will need to entirely redesign, rebuild, and retrain to get similar progress).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do neural networks dream of electric sheep?</title><url>http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-sheep</url></story> |
33,425,730 | 33,425,404 | 1 | 2 | 33,422,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peter303</author><text>Tiangoon flybys can reaches magnitude -2 now. Bright than most planets. Next bright evening flybys overUS in early December.<p>The ISS, which has five times more modules, reaches magnitude -4 sometimes. Third brightest thing in sky.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jorgesborges</author><text>Last week I stood outside my apartment and watched Tiangong fly across the sky[0]. What an incredible time to be alive.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As last module docks, China completes its space station</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/world/asia/china-launch-space-station.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>agambrahma</author><text>This is a fantastic website, thank you to whoever made it !!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jorgesborges</author><text>Last week I stood outside my apartment and watched Tiangong fly across the sky[0]. What an incredible time to be alive.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As last module docks, China completes its space station</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/world/asia/china-launch-space-station.html</url></story> |
28,427,957 | 28,426,831 | 1 | 2 | 28,422,196 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Scoundreller</author><text>Apple pulls some tricks like this with otherwise hidden-from-user SMSs.<p>In France, some cheap SIM cards charge per mb and per SMS until you register a plan. So I carefully disabled mobile data, avoided SMS, loaded 10 EUR of credit over wifi, which &#x27;activated&#x27; the phone on the network, but when I went to sign up for the 10 EUR plan, I found I only had 9,95 EUR left.<p>As soon as credit was loaded, my iPhone sent an SMS ping to an Apple shortcode to tell iMessage my new number. The sending and record of this SMS was completely hidden from the user on the phone. Cue some he-said she-said with the carrier about whether I did or didn&#x27;t send an SMS. Most mobile providers zero-rate shortcodes to Apple and hide it on their billing system too, but not Lebara.<p>So I had to add 5 EUR more of credit just to buy the 10 EUR package for the month.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia</title><url>https://therecord.media/malware-found-preinstalled-in-classic-push-button-phones-sold-in-russia/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>Once I have bought a no-name tablet made in China that had malware installed in an unremovable &#x27;browser&#x27; app. It was displaying ads on top of other apps, and was <i>installing new apps</i> onto tablet, and also restoring deleted apps, and also installing false copies of well known apps. It was rather ok because i bought it with the intention of tearing it apart, but still, the lesson for me was, <i>NEVER</i> enter sensitive personal data in devices of unknown origins.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia</title><url>https://therecord.media/malware-found-preinstalled-in-classic-push-button-phones-sold-in-russia/</url></story> |
4,875,492 | 4,874,641 | 1 | 2 | 4,873,471 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cromwellian</author><text>I think the "return an error code" approach is just as unreadable as nested or multiple try/catch blocks when the number of failure states grows large. I think the "Maybe Monad" approach of functional languages and Scala, combined with pattern matching in the language tends to look cleaner, e.g.<p>some_expression match {
case Some(x) =&#62; do_something_with(x)
case None =&#62; no result (e.g. null in C/Java/etc)
case Error(x) =&#62; handle error x
}<p>One of the nice things about the monad approach is they can be combined together. Consider the following chain of function calls which may return null at any point:<p>int val = foo().bar().baz().blah();<p>To deal with this with if/else statements, you need 3 nested if-statement for a single line of expression. In a language like Scala, you can just write:<p>for (a &#60;- foo();
b &#60;- a.bar();
c &#60;- b.baz()) c.blah();<p>I think there is an inherent tension between explicitly detailing everything and boilerplate in terms of readability and writeability. I haven't seen enough Go code or written much of anything to say anything about it, except that it worries me. I do think the multi-return stuff can limit the amount of accident ignoring of error conditions, but the Go language itself doesn't provide any high level syntactic constructs to make dealing with the errors less painful, whereas with the Monad approach (which essentially is multi-return), the pattern matching tends to look cleaner IMHO.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>millstone</author><text>I continue to be confused by how Go gets positioned. From the article:<p><i>"Go is a programming language designed by Google to help solve Google's problems, and Google has big problems. The hardware is big and the software is big. There are many millions of lines of software, with servers mostly in C++ and lots of Java and Python....And of course, all this software runs on zillions of machines, which are treated as a modest number of independent, networked compute clusters"</i><p>The author moved effortlessly from "Google's problems" to "servers" that are "networked compute clusters." That's quite a leap, because it's certainly not true that "<i></i>all<i></i> this software" runs in that manner. Android does not, Chrome does not, Chrome OS does not, the iOS YouTube app does not, Google Earth does not, etc. And there's plenty of not-big hardware that Google writes for, like laptops and phones.<p>And the reason I bring this up is because Go was explicitly pitched as a systems programming language - see the PDF <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-stanford.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-st...</a>. Programming tools, IDEs, web browsers, operating systems ("maybe") are among the tasks specifically called out as suitable for Go. But now this article tells us that Go was designed for "large server software".<p>So the question is, what changed? Was Go found to be unsuitable for tasks like web browsers? If so, in what way?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article</url></story> |
5,939,051 | 5,939,060 | 1 | 2 | 5,938,808 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>Just in case people forgot, he was also the primary Senate opponent of the PROTECT-IP Act (the Senate&#x27;s version of SOPA)<p><a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/W000779" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.propublica.org&#x2F;sopa&#x2F;W000779</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>adventured</author><text>Senator Wyden has been remarkable in how far he has been willing to legally stick his neck out while so many other politicians either quietly cower in fear or hop on the mass surveillance bus. He&#x27;ll be getting both my public support and campaign contributions for as long as he&#x27;s in office.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two Senators Say the NSA Is Still Feeding Us False Information</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/2-senators-say-the-nsa-is-still-feeding-us-false-information/277187/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nknighthb</author><text>At some point, hopefully one of them with enough information will walk on to the floor and exercise their Article I immunity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>adventured</author><text>Senator Wyden has been remarkable in how far he has been willing to legally stick his neck out while so many other politicians either quietly cower in fear or hop on the mass surveillance bus. He&#x27;ll be getting both my public support and campaign contributions for as long as he&#x27;s in office.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two Senators Say the NSA Is Still Feeding Us False Information</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/2-senators-say-the-nsa-is-still-feeding-us-false-information/277187/</url></story> |
40,852,647 | 40,852,700 | 1 | 2 | 40,851,895 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ecshafer</author><text>Good PR culture is definitely something that has to be built from the ground up, and supported top down. At Shopify, who I think has a really good PR culture we have a few things that I think help (beyond a good CICD, and static analysis tools):<p>1. PRs are supposed to wait for 2 acceptances, can be shipped with 1, and can be emergency shipped with 0. So the barrier is low, but the culture supports more. We are expected to get 2 reviewers from our team to okay.<p>2. Depending on the code project, we have to fill out a template for the PR, what is in it, what it changes, what to look for when we test the code, etc.<p>3. Some areas have code owners that might require an additional review from a specific team.<p>4. We are expected to check out, and test branches when we review them. So a quick read and LGTM is really discouraged outside of a few small cases.<p>I have seen a lot of places that do the blind PR acceptance, and its tough because without this really being enforced and encouraged that culture is hard to change.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jellyfishbeaver</author><text>I am a new manager and I am struggling to get my team to understand the value in code reviews. I have been through so many rewrites and re-re-writes of spaghetti code, I am much more critical now reviewing code, and I am trying to promote this culture on my team. Do you have any suggestions?<p>- The same people leave detailed comments on others&#x27; merge requests, but get discouraged when nobody else puts in the same amount of effort for theirs.<p>- People blindly accept suggestions with no resistance or discussion to get the review over with.<p>- People send their MRs to side channels or other teams to get their changes merged in without resistance or back and forth. (I&#x27;ve had to revert several of these).</text></item><item><author>willio58</author><text>Agreed. I mainly manage and review code at this point in my career. I find many bugs, every once in a while finding something that would have caused an outage or notable problem for users.<p>What I find more though is code that isn&#x27;t thought through. Tech debt and code smell are real, and they affect the performance of a team. Nipping that in the bud takes quality PR reviews and time to meet with submitters around issues you find.<p>Knock on wood but working at the company I do now where I, along with my team, have made quality PR reviews normal.. our codebase is now enjoyable and fun to work on. I highly recommend it!<p>One key aspect is being “kind, not nice”. Be helpful when leaving comments in PRs, but don’t be nice for the sake of avoiding conflict.<p>Also if you find code reviews to be a waste of time I can reccomend one thing I do often - give warnings. I approve and give comments around things I’d like to be fixed in the future for similar PRs. I don’t hold up the merge for little things, but at the same time I won’t let the little things slide forever</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Code reviews do find bugs</title><url>https://two-wrongs.com/code-reviews-do-find-bugs.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>xmprt</author><text>Culture for code reviews doesn&#x27;t start out of thin air. Unless you have processes for CI&#x2F;CD, testing, task estimation, retrospectives, incident postmortems, etc., there&#x27;s never going to be a point where you will convince people that they&#x27;re helpful. So start with those.<p>There&#x27;s always going to be pushback from adding more process, but if there&#x27;s an understanding amongst the team that keeping things working is P0 then these processes will slowly&#x2F;naturally come up as the team realizes that investing in them proactively will save them time down the road.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jellyfishbeaver</author><text>I am a new manager and I am struggling to get my team to understand the value in code reviews. I have been through so many rewrites and re-re-writes of spaghetti code, I am much more critical now reviewing code, and I am trying to promote this culture on my team. Do you have any suggestions?<p>- The same people leave detailed comments on others&#x27; merge requests, but get discouraged when nobody else puts in the same amount of effort for theirs.<p>- People blindly accept suggestions with no resistance or discussion to get the review over with.<p>- People send their MRs to side channels or other teams to get their changes merged in without resistance or back and forth. (I&#x27;ve had to revert several of these).</text></item><item><author>willio58</author><text>Agreed. I mainly manage and review code at this point in my career. I find many bugs, every once in a while finding something that would have caused an outage or notable problem for users.<p>What I find more though is code that isn&#x27;t thought through. Tech debt and code smell are real, and they affect the performance of a team. Nipping that in the bud takes quality PR reviews and time to meet with submitters around issues you find.<p>Knock on wood but working at the company I do now where I, along with my team, have made quality PR reviews normal.. our codebase is now enjoyable and fun to work on. I highly recommend it!<p>One key aspect is being “kind, not nice”. Be helpful when leaving comments in PRs, but don’t be nice for the sake of avoiding conflict.<p>Also if you find code reviews to be a waste of time I can reccomend one thing I do often - give warnings. I approve and give comments around things I’d like to be fixed in the future for similar PRs. I don’t hold up the merge for little things, but at the same time I won’t let the little things slide forever</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Code reviews do find bugs</title><url>https://two-wrongs.com/code-reviews-do-find-bugs.html</url></story> |
28,885,000 | 28,884,207 | 1 | 3 | 28,838,698 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hhh</author><text>One of the things I work on is a signage&#x2F;display solution. I really don’t understand where a snap solution fits into this space.<p>I took a small look around this setup, and it’s… weird. I think there is MASSIVE room for improvement in this space around the display server and maintaining the health of Chromium-based browsers. This solves a massive amount of needs by most people.<p>NEC and a few other manufacturers provide most of what you need to provide a managed self-service system for signage. We do this today with RPi Compute Modules w&#x2F; the NEC carrier boards so you get your display in a box and use a QR code to register it (so you don’t leave keys on the device,) and the device onboards and comes up without any interaction after registration.<p>The issues we’ve had are primarily:<p>1. Chromium Health management when inside a container<p>2. Memory (not an issue in cm4, was with cm3)<p>3. Display server<p>X11 was the hardest issue for us when we did not control the display (raspberry pi non-compute module), as you had to deal with KMS and weird TV stuff. This became MUCH more problematic once it was deployed globally.<p>I don’t see why someone would want to use snaps in this way since you have to publish your snap on the snap store OR install locally as far as I can tell. (Please correct me if this isn’t the case, I cannot find otherwise ANYWHERE.) This means you are making it MUCH harder for large enterprises or corporations to adopt this out of the gate.<p>I think there is MUCH MUCH more support and room for adoption for good OOTB display server containers. That’s really all this is, right? I honestly don’t see why you wouldn’t go for ‘here’s the dockerfile!’ first, and just package your snap, unless you are pushing snaps. Maybe it’s not viable to do LTS on a generic container for Canonical?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubuntu Frame; A secure, LTS display server for embedded displays [pdf]</title><url>https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/713b9224-Ubuntu.Frame.Datasheet.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>neltnerb</author><text>This is the main news release.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;canonical-launches-ubuntu-frame-the-foundation-for-embedded-displays" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;canonical-launches-ubuntu-frame-the-...</a><p>There&#x27;s also a webinar in addition to this PDF linked at the bottom, so I suppose the HTML link provides more information.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubuntu Frame; A secure, LTS display server for embedded displays [pdf]</title><url>https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/713b9224-Ubuntu.Frame.Datasheet.pdf</url></story> |
14,547,179 | 14,547,080 | 1 | 2 | 14,546,535 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>This being the internet, let me preface this with this being honest questions, rather than attacks. I did try to read through the docs before asking but I don&#x27;t see the answers directly.<p>Especially on the FPGA side, how does this interact with all the features of Go that seem ill-suited to an FPGA implementation? Can I write functions that generate and consume closures? Where is my garbage going on the FPGA side and how is it collected? Or is the FPGA code being written only in a subset of Go?<p>I understand the idea of wrapping the primitives offered by the FPGA hardware itself into channels, but I&#x27;m unclear on how one can sensibly implement a Go runtime on top of that in the FPGA without making it too difficult to understand the cost model of your Go code.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Program FPGAs with Go</title><url>https://reconfigure.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>rubenfiszel</author><text>Congrats!<p>We, a stanford lab, are pursuing similar goals but opensource and from a Scala DSL although our doc (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spatial-lang.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;starting.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spatial-lang.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;starti...</a>) is not that up-to-date:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stanford-ppl&#x2F;spatial-lang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stanford-ppl&#x2F;spatial-lang</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Program FPGAs with Go</title><url>https://reconfigure.io/</url></story> |
34,972,663 | 34,971,643 | 1 | 2 | 34,969,760 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaxor</author><text>How does this compare to the work done by the Netherlands group (Hulsing&#x2F;Zimmermann, etc al) [1] and the Kudeldki group from Switzerland (Raynal&#x2F;Genet&#x2F;Romailler) [2]?
It&#x27;s nice to see someone making this more available. I had thought about trying to push the pq-wg implementation from Kudelski group to wg or trying it out, but I never had the time. Rust implementation seems to be an improvement of implementation, but I don&#x27;t know about the underlying proofs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;379.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;379.pdf</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;csrc.nist.gov&#x2F;CSRC&#x2F;media&#x2F;Presentations&#x2F;pq-wireguard-we-did-it-again&#x2F;images-media&#x2F;session-5-raynal-pq-wireguard.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;csrc.nist.gov&#x2F;CSRC&#x2F;media&#x2F;Presentations&#x2F;pq-wireguard-...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kudelskisecurity&#x2F;pq-wireguard">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kudelskisecurity&#x2F;pq-wireguard</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard</title><url>https://github.com/rosenpass/rosenpass</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yellow_lead</author><text>&gt; We are working on a cryptographic proof of security, but we already provide a symbolic analysis using proverif as part of the software package<p>How can you prove this? There is still no mathematical proof that i.e discrete log is NP complete<p>edit - I see it&#x27;s a WIP but even the definition of secure seems difficult</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard</title><url>https://github.com/rosenpass/rosenpass</url></story> |
36,437,921 | 36,437,908 | 1 | 2 | 36,437,271 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Denvercoder9</author><text>&gt; And the banging noises are probably either the sub imploding or from debris falling to the ocean floor.<p>Or something else entirely. There&#x27;s a surprising amount of unexplained noise picked up from the ocean.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>Well, this explains a lot... they didn&#x27;t have a window rated for the right depth and weren&#x27;t really testing whether the hull was de-laminating according to the whistleblower, so we have a few guesses as to why the sub would just implode.<p>The lack of contact would be because nobody was alive to contact, which is honestly better, at least they had a quick death instead of slow suffocation.<p>And the banging noises are probably either the sub imploding or from debris falling to the ocean floor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”</title><url>https://twitter.com/GioBenitez/status/1671954007261151237</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonah</author><text>In the press-conference they said both end bells were found separately - no mention of whether the window was still intact. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see the failure analysis.<p>[Edit] Link to video with a description of the major debris found: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;A0xJ220Fod4?t=263" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;A0xJ220Fod4?t=263</a><p>&quot;the front end-bell of the pressure hull - that was the first indication that there was a catastrophic event&quot;<p>&quot;the aft end-bell which basically...comprised the totality of that pressure vessel&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>Well, this explains a lot... they didn&#x27;t have a window rated for the right depth and weren&#x27;t really testing whether the hull was de-laminating according to the whistleblower, so we have a few guesses as to why the sub would just implode.<p>The lack of contact would be because nobody was alive to contact, which is honestly better, at least they had a quick death instead of slow suffocation.<p>And the banging noises are probably either the sub imploding or from debris falling to the ocean floor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”</title><url>https://twitter.com/GioBenitez/status/1671954007261151237</url></story> |
20,581,026 | 20,581,054 | 1 | 2 | 20,580,589 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acover</author><text>&gt; Apple&#x27;s market capitalization is more than 5% of America&#x27;s entire GDP.<p>This compares apples to oranges. In case anyone else is curious:<p>Apple&#x27;s worldwide revenue (258 billion) is 1.2% of America&#x27;s GDP (19.9 trillion) or 0.3% of World GDP (84 trillion).</text><parent_chain><item><author>askafriend</author><text>No they&#x27;re not. They&#x27;re a different company serving a different, and now global audience. Consider that Apple is more than 5% of America&#x27;s entire GDP, and 1% of the world&#x27;s entire GDP. There are ~1 billion people in the Apple ecosystem and that number is an under-estimate. When Apple chooses to add Sapphire as a material to the Apple Watch or iPhone, they affect global prices for the raw material.<p>People still don&#x27;t get it. It&#x27;s not a game of pattern matching with their past. Not only have they and their customers changed, but the world has changed. Computing has changed.<p>These articles always fail to consider context in favor of the easy, selective, myopic pattern matching.<p>Don&#x27;t take this to mean that Apple is above criticism. They&#x27;re not. But articles like this are lazy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity</title><url>https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/8/1_Apple_is_reverting_to_their_1990s_disposition.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>paul_milovanov</author><text>Pet peeve: company market cap cannot and should not be compared to GDP of a country. The best comparable is the &quot;Gross Value Added&quot; GVA = delta in EBITDA + employee compensation, as outlined here by Matt Klein in FT Alphaville:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftalphaville.ft.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;2103622&#x2F;if-apple-were-a-country&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftalphaville.ft.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;2103622&#x2F;if-apple-were...</a><p>Others have recently estimated Apple GVA to be 0.5% of US GDP and 0.15% of world GDP.</text><parent_chain><item><author>askafriend</author><text>No they&#x27;re not. They&#x27;re a different company serving a different, and now global audience. Consider that Apple is more than 5% of America&#x27;s entire GDP, and 1% of the world&#x27;s entire GDP. There are ~1 billion people in the Apple ecosystem and that number is an under-estimate. When Apple chooses to add Sapphire as a material to the Apple Watch or iPhone, they affect global prices for the raw material.<p>People still don&#x27;t get it. It&#x27;s not a game of pattern matching with their past. Not only have they and their customers changed, but the world has changed. Computing has changed.<p>These articles always fail to consider context in favor of the easy, selective, myopic pattern matching.<p>Don&#x27;t take this to mean that Apple is above criticism. They&#x27;re not. But articles like this are lazy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity</title><url>https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/8/1_Apple_is_reverting_to_their_1990s_disposition.html</url></story> |
12,004,275 | 12,004,031 | 1 | 3 | 12,003,657 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aplaice</author><text>For anyone interested, here are some web browsers that are actually lightweight (if not html5-compliant) and not webkit-based:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dillo.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dillo.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netsurf-browser.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netsurf-browser.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wz1000</author><text>For anyone interested, here are some web browsers that are actually minimalist and not just reskins of chromium:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;surf.suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;surf.suckless.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanglingsu.github.io&#x2F;vimb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanglingsu.github.io&#x2F;vimb&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ōryōki Web Browser</title><url>http://oryoki.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>bpicolo</author><text>I mean, they all use webkit, so not really that much different from using chromium.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wz1000</author><text>For anyone interested, here are some web browsers that are actually minimalist and not just reskins of chromium:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;surf.suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;surf.suckless.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanglingsu.github.io&#x2F;vimb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanglingsu.github.io&#x2F;vimb&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ōryōki Web Browser</title><url>http://oryoki.io/</url></story> |
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