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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>&gt; they should stop with preferential treatment of those who shame them publicly<p>That&#x27;s the only way companies care in the 21st century, 3 weeks on an email thread, one tweet and suddenly everyone cares.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amenod</author><text>Not sure why you are being downvoted, you have a point. There is no excuse for the way Google is operating now - poor customer support, the only recourse twits and HN posts.<p>I think it also hurts Google themselves. There is a reason they have trouble competing with AWS. Why should developers trust Google that there will be a person on the other side helping them out when things go wrong? And they always do, at worst possible time. Amazon, for all its problems, has <i>excellent</i> customer service.<p>So your parent&#x27;s attempt to fix this is a PR stunt at best. If they (&#x2F;Google) care about this, they should fix the problems in the process:<p>- define, hardcode <i>and publish</i> rules that will lead to successfull e-mail delivery (SPF, DKIM, history,...)<p>- establish a gmail technical customer support service<p>And they should stop with preferential treatment of those who shame them publicly. Or do they want all of us to start doing the same?</text></item><item><author>joering2</author><text>Since you profile claims you are from Google, you should know by helping here you really doing disservice to everyone else having same problems. Hacker News is not a “gmail customer support hotline center”. You have billions of dollars to setup a system or heck the whole state of the art department to help people with their gmail problem. So you will help two people on HN bitching at gmail.. what about all those that never heard of HN? Sorry friend you doing this only because at some degree google and gmail obviously does not want to look bad to tech society. &#x2F;rant</text></item><item><author>prlambert</author><text>I&#x27;m genuinely sorry to hear that. Our analysts are looking into the issue described in the article, hopefully we find something we can fix that will resolve this.</text></item><item><author>mcsb4</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s simply not true we have no incentive to fix this<p>I just happen to have set up an email server and encountered the same problems with Google as described in the article. I own the IP since quite some time, it is not on any black list, reverse DNS is set up etc. but Google rejects email as spam.<p>And this even happens when the gmail account has added the sender in his address book and has send the first email to which I replied - thus there is a message id that should already be known on Gmail&#x27;s side.<p>Use your AI to put email into the spam folder. Refusing it outright is a case for the European Commission which hopefully will slap you another few billions of fine onto the wrist until you remember to play nicely with the other kids.<p>There is no excuse to refuse SPF, DKIM, reverse DNS, proper MX, no blacklist, sender in recipient address book and reply-to msgId email.</text></item><item><author>prlambert</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the PMs for Gmail and hang around HN quite a bit. This is my personal take, not an official reply.<p>It&#x27;s simply not true we have no incentive to fix this. Here are a few:<p>Firstly, Gmail&#x27;s success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem. Gmail does not, inherently, have any network effects (unlike FB, messengers, any other comms tool of Gmail&#x27;s scale). Email itself, of course has a huge network effect, and <i>that</i> is because you can email anyone in the world, regardless of what email system they use. It&#x27;s because email is open. If we lose an open, healthy ecosystem with many providers, we&#x27;ll destroy the base we stand on.<p>Secondly, we care deeply about having positive relationships with developers and all our users. I can tell you it definitely makes me sad to see articles like this. There are going to be false positives, we will make mistakes, but we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them.<p>I agree Postmaster tools has been underinvested in and we could do much better there.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.<p>It&#x27;s big enough that when someone complains that a message sent wasn&#x27;t received, the intended recipient will say, &quot;I never have problems with my Gmail account. It must be you.&quot; And the sender has to switch to Gmail to reliably communicate with the outside world.<p>I wish this was just paranoia, but we&#x27;ve seen multiple discussions on HN about Google programs and policies that alter the internet in ways that only benefit Big G. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re heading back to the days when people didn&#x27;t know the difference between AOL and &quot;the internet.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Is Eating Our Mail</title><url>https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_is_eating_our_mail/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usefulcat</author><text>&gt; Or do they want all of us to start doing the same?<p>An increase in public shamings probably means that public shamings become less news- or interest-worthy. So an increase in shamings might not have as much effect as you might expect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amenod</author><text>Not sure why you are being downvoted, you have a point. There is no excuse for the way Google is operating now - poor customer support, the only recourse twits and HN posts.<p>I think it also hurts Google themselves. There is a reason they have trouble competing with AWS. Why should developers trust Google that there will be a person on the other side helping them out when things go wrong? And they always do, at worst possible time. Amazon, for all its problems, has <i>excellent</i> customer service.<p>So your parent&#x27;s attempt to fix this is a PR stunt at best. If they (&#x2F;Google) care about this, they should fix the problems in the process:<p>- define, hardcode <i>and publish</i> rules that will lead to successfull e-mail delivery (SPF, DKIM, history,...)<p>- establish a gmail technical customer support service<p>And they should stop with preferential treatment of those who shame them publicly. Or do they want all of us to start doing the same?</text></item><item><author>joering2</author><text>Since you profile claims you are from Google, you should know by helping here you really doing disservice to everyone else having same problems. Hacker News is not a “gmail customer support hotline center”. You have billions of dollars to setup a system or heck the whole state of the art department to help people with their gmail problem. So you will help two people on HN bitching at gmail.. what about all those that never heard of HN? Sorry friend you doing this only because at some degree google and gmail obviously does not want to look bad to tech society. &#x2F;rant</text></item><item><author>prlambert</author><text>I&#x27;m genuinely sorry to hear that. Our analysts are looking into the issue described in the article, hopefully we find something we can fix that will resolve this.</text></item><item><author>mcsb4</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s simply not true we have no incentive to fix this<p>I just happen to have set up an email server and encountered the same problems with Google as described in the article. I own the IP since quite some time, it is not on any black list, reverse DNS is set up etc. but Google rejects email as spam.<p>And this even happens when the gmail account has added the sender in his address book and has send the first email to which I replied - thus there is a message id that should already be known on Gmail&#x27;s side.<p>Use your AI to put email into the spam folder. Refusing it outright is a case for the European Commission which hopefully will slap you another few billions of fine onto the wrist until you remember to play nicely with the other kids.<p>There is no excuse to refuse SPF, DKIM, reverse DNS, proper MX, no blacklist, sender in recipient address book and reply-to msgId email.</text></item><item><author>prlambert</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the PMs for Gmail and hang around HN quite a bit. This is my personal take, not an official reply.<p>It&#x27;s simply not true we have no incentive to fix this. Here are a few:<p>Firstly, Gmail&#x27;s success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem. Gmail does not, inherently, have any network effects (unlike FB, messengers, any other comms tool of Gmail&#x27;s scale). Email itself, of course has a huge network effect, and <i>that</i> is because you can email anyone in the world, regardless of what email system they use. It&#x27;s because email is open. If we lose an open, healthy ecosystem with many providers, we&#x27;ll destroy the base we stand on.<p>Secondly, we care deeply about having positive relationships with developers and all our users. I can tell you it definitely makes me sad to see articles like this. There are going to be false positives, we will make mistakes, but we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them.<p>I agree Postmaster tools has been underinvested in and we could do much better there.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.<p>It&#x27;s big enough that when someone complains that a message sent wasn&#x27;t received, the intended recipient will say, &quot;I never have problems with my Gmail account. It must be you.&quot; And the sender has to switch to Gmail to reliably communicate with the outside world.<p>I wish this was just paranoia, but we&#x27;ve seen multiple discussions on HN about Google programs and policies that alter the internet in ways that only benefit Big G. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re heading back to the days when people didn&#x27;t know the difference between AOL and &quot;the internet.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Is Eating Our Mail</title><url>https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_is_eating_our_mail/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bd_at_rivenhill</author><text>&#62; CHP officers call this the "personality test" - and they administer it every time you get pulled over, BTW.<p>This is pretty much true of all police agencies. "Contempt of cop" is one of the worst offenses you can commit in terms of your likelihood of being punished for something minor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>javajosh</author><text>Ah, procedure. I'm particularly fond of situations like this where the procedure is, for the normal person, a once-in-a-lifetime event. But the flunky on the other side of the desk does it every day. And they think you are yet another stupid person who doesn't understand the simple procedure, and they have nothing but contempt for those who don't understand the procedure as deeply as they do (especially which parts of the paperwork are important, and which really are not.)<p>Nestled deep within this fucked up situation is an asymmetry of information that gives the flunky incredible power over someone who is, in almost every other context, perceived to be better than they are (especially in this case involving a young rich kid with an expensive toy). Most human beings, when confronted with such an imbalance of power, are not going to be able to resist abusing their power.<p>In practical terms, there are only two solutions to this problem that I know of. You can learn the procedure better than they do, and beat them on details. This can be effective, but it's boring and the payoff isn't very good. The other solution is to be really, really nice. To be incredibly accommodating. To engender a spirit of goodwill, joviality and kindness such that the flunky <i>wants to help you</i>. CHP officers call this the "personality test" - and they administer it every time you get pulled over, BTW.<p>It sucks. It's a form of psychic bribery. It's like they are saying, "If you can at least pretend that I'm a good person, just doing my job, then you won't have to suffer. However, if you annoy me, disrespect me, I will make you suffer like you've never known. Remember: I can check a <i>box</i> that will consume <i>months</i> of your life and untold amounts of treasure."<p>God bless the USA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Department of Homeland Security Stole My Boat Today</title><url>http://uncrunched.com/2013/02/21/the-department-of-homeland-security-stole-my-boat-today/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snprbob86</author><text>&#62; [T]he procedure is, for the normal person, a once-in-a-lifetime event. But the flunky on the other side of the desk does it every day.<p>I just had a TV delivered. And then a replacement delivered, but they were unauthorized to pick up the original, so the same two delivery guys had to come back a third time.<p>All three times, the delivery guys tried to force me to sign an incomplete form. They clearly wanted me to sign for whatever condition it was in and they would check all the boxes on my behalf to cover their own asses. The tactic was plainly obvious.<p>&#62; The other solution is to be really, really nice. To be incredibly accommodating.<p>That's what I usually try to do in this sort of situation. However, it simply was <i>impossible</i> because the delivery guys 1) were rather large and intimidating 2) in my home, where I'm still unpacking and 3) spoke very poor english. Charm simply does not work on underpaid meatheads who don't understand the words your using. Any attempt to communicate clearly resulted in them becoming impatient and visibly annoyed, which resulted in me becoming uncomfortable (in my own home!). So each of the first two times, I just didn't sign my name. I just made an X that is in no way similar to my normal signature. The last time, for the pickup, I wrote "PERFECT CONDITION" over the whole form and then signed my name to that. The delivery guys were clearly <i>pissed</i> that last time because they didn't have another form and that if they dropped the TV, then they couldn't blame damage on me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>javajosh</author><text>Ah, procedure. I'm particularly fond of situations like this where the procedure is, for the normal person, a once-in-a-lifetime event. But the flunky on the other side of the desk does it every day. And they think you are yet another stupid person who doesn't understand the simple procedure, and they have nothing but contempt for those who don't understand the procedure as deeply as they do (especially which parts of the paperwork are important, and which really are not.)<p>Nestled deep within this fucked up situation is an asymmetry of information that gives the flunky incredible power over someone who is, in almost every other context, perceived to be better than they are (especially in this case involving a young rich kid with an expensive toy). Most human beings, when confronted with such an imbalance of power, are not going to be able to resist abusing their power.<p>In practical terms, there are only two solutions to this problem that I know of. You can learn the procedure better than they do, and beat them on details. This can be effective, but it's boring and the payoff isn't very good. The other solution is to be really, really nice. To be incredibly accommodating. To engender a spirit of goodwill, joviality and kindness such that the flunky <i>wants to help you</i>. CHP officers call this the "personality test" - and they administer it every time you get pulled over, BTW.<p>It sucks. It's a form of psychic bribery. It's like they are saying, "If you can at least pretend that I'm a good person, just doing my job, then you won't have to suffer. However, if you annoy me, disrespect me, I will make you suffer like you've never known. Remember: I can check a <i>box</i> that will consume <i>months</i> of your life and untold amounts of treasure."<p>God bless the USA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Department of Homeland Security Stole My Boat Today</title><url>http://uncrunched.com/2013/02/21/the-department-of-homeland-security-stole-my-boat-today/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>LegalEagle did a video on this case two weeks ago, digging into it in some more depth: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;oqSYljRYDEM" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;oqSYljRYDEM</a><p>They lied to a judge, doubled down, showed further incompetence by admitting to not knowing how the legal reference they supposedly quoted was even structured, then lied to a judge again trying to get more time to get their story straight, and all it cost them was $5000? And even then they have the guts to say they disagree with the judge?<p>Levidow, Levidow &amp; Oberman must either be run by fools or take the rest of the world for fools.<p>I can understand how the rubber stamping lawyer signing all the paperwork got off easy; he was just signing documents because the lawyer who supposedly did all the work for the case couldn&#x27;t operate in the court the case was transfered to.<p>The other lawyer, the one who did the AI equivalent from copy pasting from the summary page of Google, should not be deemed fit to practice law.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/23/two-us-lawyers-fined-submitting-fake-court-citations-chatgpt</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notavalleyman</author><text>&gt; Levidow, Levidow &amp; Oberman said in a statement on Thursday that its lawyers “respectfully” disagreed with the court that they had acted in bad faith. “We made a good-faith mistake in failing to believe that a piece of technology could be making up cases out of whole cloth,” it said.<p>Seems like they still don&#x27;t get it.<p>It&#x27;s not good faith representation of your client, it&#x27;s not good lawyering to interrogate a chatbot for your case. Even if it could somehow only ever tell the truth.<p>It&#x27;s not a &quot;good faith mistake&quot; - so I think they still don&#x27;t understand the problem here.<p>It might be representative of greater society: when people interact with ChatGPT, they treat it as an oracle. I see it all the time on r&#x2F;chatgpt - people say, &quot;I asked ChatGPT about my long lost grandparent whose life I am researching. Apparently my grandma was a pilot!&quot;<p>Seems like the lawyers are shocked the oracle lied but still think they were right to consult it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/23/two-us-lawyers-fined-submitting-fake-court-citations-chatgpt</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonameiguess</author><text>He obviously wasn&#x27;t clear enough about this, but if you&#x27;re just trying to use the tool, download the binary release. Don&#x27;t use go get as an installer. They&#x27;re trying to be multi-OS compatible, an autotools that doesn&#x27;t assume every system has a &#x2F;usr&#x2F;local or whatever the Windows equivalent but not assuming everyone has a %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Low\Roaming or whatever. It does assume everyone has a home directory and an environment variable indicating where that is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iso1631</author><text>Well that failed rather misterably<p><pre><code> package github.com&#x2F;liamg&#x2F;traitor&#x2F;cmd&#x2F;traitor: mkdir &#x2F;home&#x2F;test&#x2F;go: not a directory
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Does go assume that you have a directory in $HOME that is for it&#x27;s own personal use?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Traitor: Linux privilege escalation made easy</title><url>https://github.com/liamg/traitor</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axaxs</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s precisely what it does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iso1631</author><text>Well that failed rather misterably<p><pre><code> package github.com&#x2F;liamg&#x2F;traitor&#x2F;cmd&#x2F;traitor: mkdir &#x2F;home&#x2F;test&#x2F;go: not a directory
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tehbeard</author><text>Western gear like that is very different in terms of maintenance to the Soviet era gear Ukraine has been making use of.<p>Even if there wasn&#x27;t some theoretical advantage to prolonging Russia&#x27;s engagement to bleed them, or the risk of current tech falling into enemy hands, there just isn&#x27;t the infrastructure in place to keep Abrams etc in the fight. Hell the fuel and ammo difference alone would be a logistical nightmare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>Great, now free the Leopards, Abrams and IFVs&#x2F;APCs. This ain&#x27;t gonna end unless Ukraine gets more armor to (re)form battalions.<p>I really don&#x27;t get the whole &quot;don&#x27;t anger Putin&quot; vibe, during the Vietnam War the USSR would send pretty much anything they could against the American forces. Even aircraft together with crews, as aircraft weapon systems really really require trained personnel. And no WW3 happened.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/first-lng-tanker-arrives-at-germanys-new-floating-terminal/a-64272015</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mannerheim</author><text>Whenever you hear Germans tell you something isn&#x27;t possible wrt Ukraine, just wait a month or two for America to end up doing it anyway.<p>Happened with Western heavy equipment when the HIMARS and M777s were sent, happened with air defense with the Patriots, and I&#x27;m sure Bradleys will be sent next.</text><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>Great, now free the Leopards, Abrams and IFVs&#x2F;APCs. This ain&#x27;t gonna end unless Ukraine gets more armor to (re)form battalions.<p>I really don&#x27;t get the whole &quot;don&#x27;t anger Putin&quot; vibe, during the Vietnam War the USSR would send pretty much anything they could against the American forces. Even aircraft together with crews, as aircraft weapon systems really really require trained personnel. And no WW3 happened.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/first-lng-tanker-arrives-at-germanys-new-floating-terminal/a-64272015</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leroy_masochist</author><text>RIP. Some ugly truths are surfaced by the case of Major Fishback:<p>- People who are motivated to do hard things like go to West Point and SFAS sometimes have mental health issues; anecdotally, would say maybe even at a higher rate than the general population<p>- People who have found their &quot;mission in life&quot; often can be pretty abrasive about it, alienating friends and former colleagues -- especially when it&#x27;s a &quot;moral imperative&quot; mission like ending detainee abuse<p>- In the social environment of an infantry platoon and&#x2F;or ODA, contra what they tell you in the officer pipeline, &quot;just doing the right thing&quot; isn&#x27;t enough; you have to do the right thing AND sell your guys on why it&#x27;s the right thing. Fishback clearly failed to do the latter, especially as an ODA commander. Having your guys criticize you as both too timid and too aggressive isn&#x27;t an indictment of their ability to think rationally, it&#x27;s a sign you&#x27;ve lost their trust and confidence<p>- The veteran mental health care system remains generally fucked, largely because the animating force behind the VA is CYA, not a bona fide desire to help patients. If their CYA interests converge with what you need, you&#x27;ll get great care. If not, you can slip through the cracks, as Fishback did<p>- On a related note, veterans can be a difficult bunch and VA mental health people are often overworked and cynical. In the case of someone like Fishback who was in crisis and probably not the easiest person to interact with, it is sad but not surprising that his care team was lackadaisical about following up and getting him the care he needed</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who exposed torture by US troops</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/12/02/1060884859/the-final-anguished-years-of-a-warrior-scholar-who-exposed-torture-by-u-s-troops</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tristor</author><text>It&#x27;s not nice to hear, but the reality is, we treat most veterans even worse than this. The VA is an abysmal failure, and its failure, especially in the arena of mental healthcare, is a primary driving factor why many homeless men in the US are veterans. Going to war takes a serious and long-lasting toll on a person, and an even deeper toll when you are someone who allows yourself to consider and struggle with the ethics and morals of war.<p>This country needs to wrestle with and resolve its treatment of veterans. More than any other nation, the United States has been encaptured by the military-industrial complex, and we treat the millions of people who are driven through this complex as less than dirt, discarding them as husks of their former selves without any recourse or support once they no longer serve that complex. No less a luminary than Eisenhower[1] and Smedley Butler[2] warned us clearly that the military-industrial complex would lead to this, that war is a racket, and that our society was trending in a direction where it was acceptable to utterly destroy the lives of men so that a few may profit.<p>It is very sad that this is the end, at such a young age, of this man.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;17&#x2F;132942244&#x2F;ikes-warning-of-military-expansion-50-years-later" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;17&#x2F;132942244&#x2F;ikes-warning-of-mil...</a>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crystalis</author><text>To be fair, several posters can earn their points on name alone:<p>- grellas can post a one liner on a law issue<p>- DarkShikari can post about video codecs<p>- tptacek can post about security<p>- patio11 can post about bingo<p>- edw519 can post a grocery list</text><parent_chain><item><author>zefhous</author><text>I'd love to see how well it could predict comment ratings from Hacker News.<p>The following data would be a good start:<p>1. Text of comment<p>2. How many points the comment has<p>3. How many points the article has<p>4. Time article was posted<p>5. Time comment was posted<p>I'd also be interested to see what kind of user bias there is. If you don't provide user names, you could see what kind of rating a comment <i>should</i> have based on its content, and what rating it actually has because certain users are generally loved (pg) or hated (jasonmcalacanis) by the community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Prediction API</title><url>http://code.google.com/apis/predict/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>physcab</author><text>That would be interesting. Does anyone have a dataset? Ideally to do this type analysis you would also need to know the upvote (or downvote) history of the users so you can pinpoint any bias, or predict which comments <i>you as a user</i> are most fond of reading.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zefhous</author><text>I'd love to see how well it could predict comment ratings from Hacker News.<p>The following data would be a good start:<p>1. Text of comment<p>2. How many points the comment has<p>3. How many points the article has<p>4. Time article was posted<p>5. Time comment was posted<p>I'd also be interested to see what kind of user bias there is. If you don't provide user names, you could see what kind of rating a comment <i>should</i> have based on its content, and what rating it actually has because certain users are generally loved (pg) or hated (jasonmcalacanis) by the community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Prediction API</title><url>http://code.google.com/apis/predict/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>I just straight-up ignore &quot;sale&quot; claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I&#x27;ve gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word &quot;sale&quot; the page is is simply uncorrelated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alpaca128</author><text>&gt; In some cases, consumers paid more for the add-on monitor advertised as &quot;discounted&quot; than they would have paid if they had bought it as a stand-alone product<p>That&#x27;s insane. Reminds me of LTT&#x27;s secret shopper incident where they rejected Dell&#x27;s suggested extra warranty package and then Dell included <i>two</i> mutually exclusive warranty packages that you cannot even intentionally select simultaneously on their website.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pushcx</author><text>The &quot;What is happening?&quot; and &quot;How is it happening?&quot; sections of the article spend 900 words differentiating legal financial services from cryptocurrency scams.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anaphor</author><text>There are also a lot of traditional finance companies using Haskell[1]. And, historically some of the people who created the language itself and have worked on GHC (and other compilers), or contributed heavily to the ecosystem have worked for traditional banks[2].<p>I don&#x27;t mention them to encourage people to attack these people, but it comes off as a bit selective to focus on the people using your language for cryptocurrency when it&#x27;s also used heavily by traditional fintech companies, as well as defense contractors, and even for large retail chains (Target uses it for data analysis). Facebook also uses it for their spam detection system. Why are all of these uses fine and cryptocurrency is not? And if they also aren&#x27;t fine, then how should we solve this problem? Start non-profits&#x2F;charities that specifically use Haskell, and somehow make those the majority of the available jobs that use it? That seems pretty infeasible unless you want to solve the broader problem of these jobs existing in the first place.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6p2x0p&#x2F;list_of_companies_that_use_haskell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6p2x0p&#x2F;list_of_com...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lennart_Augustsson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lennart_Augustsson</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;ekmett&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;ekmett&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;83805&#x2F;don-stewart" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;83805&#x2F;don-stewart</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Haskell Elephant in the Room</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moomin</author><text>I mean, you ask a lot of questions, but the first one is answered by the article and the others aren&#x27;t really that important given the answer to the first.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anaphor</author><text>There are also a lot of traditional finance companies using Haskell[1]. And, historically some of the people who created the language itself and have worked on GHC (and other compilers), or contributed heavily to the ecosystem have worked for traditional banks[2].<p>I don&#x27;t mention them to encourage people to attack these people, but it comes off as a bit selective to focus on the people using your language for cryptocurrency when it&#x27;s also used heavily by traditional fintech companies, as well as defense contractors, and even for large retail chains (Target uses it for data analysis). Facebook also uses it for their spam detection system. Why are all of these uses fine and cryptocurrency is not? And if they also aren&#x27;t fine, then how should we solve this problem? Start non-profits&#x2F;charities that specifically use Haskell, and somehow make those the majority of the available jobs that use it? That seems pretty infeasible unless you want to solve the broader problem of these jobs existing in the first place.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6p2x0p&#x2F;list_of_companies_that_use_haskell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6p2x0p&#x2F;list_of_com...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lennart_Augustsson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lennart_Augustsson</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;ekmett&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;ekmett&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;83805&#x2F;don-stewart" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;83805&#x2F;don-stewart</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Haskell Elephant in the Room</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>journalctl</author><text>I don’t... I don’t want to rebuild my kernel? I want my goddamn computer to compute. I want to get my work done, then maybe order Chipotle. At least the Mac sleeps properly when I close the lid, unlike every Linux laptop I’ve ever had.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robert_foss</author><text>There&#x27;s no real package manager. You can&#x27;t rebuild your kernel. You can&#x27;t upgrade your hardware. Once your HW is unsupported by Apple you&#x27;re stuck with an old OS that is unsupported by third party software as well.</text></item><item><author>cytzol</author><text>&gt; In a hotel (=on Mac), everything is stylish and cared for, but you have very little freedom to change things.<p>I&#x27;ve heard this over and over — that Macs are locked-down, uncustomisable machines — and I don&#x27;t agree with it at all.<p>I use replacements for almost all the built-in apps. I use a custom launcher. My editor config Git repo is approaching ten years old, and my shell config Git repo is almost eight. There are standard interfaces to per-application Preferences and keyboard shortcuts. When I sit down to use someone else&#x27;s Mac, I have no idea how to use it!<p>What changes am I missing? The only thing I can think of is that I can&#x27;t use a different window manager or a different kernel, but I&#x27;m fine with those already.</text></item><item><author>mherrmann</author><text>I switched from MBP to a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu. I compare the experience to living in a hotel vs. living at home [1]. In a hotel (=on Mac), everything is stylish and cared for, but you have very little freedom to change things. At home (=on Linux), you need to do the dishes yourself but there&#x27;s no external agenda. It&#x27;s simply yours.<p>I&#x27;m very happy with the switch. Though I&#x27;m on (Debian+) Xfce now instead of Ubuntu and would go for a ThinkPad instead of the XPS, because 1) I want a 14&quot; screen 2) the XPS&#x27;s fan is too loud, especially when Skyping 3) the XPS&#x27;s camera is placed at the bottom of the screen instead of at the top, so people you have video calls with look up your nostrils.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fman.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;home-and-hotel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fman.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;home-and-hotel</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?</title><text>The MBP is by far the best laptop I’ve used. The graphics are amazing, and the touchpad is ergonomic. However, Apple has demonstrated their inability to be reliable. I bought my MBP in January of this year (2019) and tomorrow I’ll pick it up from its 3rd repair. I’ve grown tired of this repair routine. And after the 3 years runs out, they will start charging me.</text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>new_realist</author><text>“You can’t rebuild your kernel.” Are you kidding me? Apple supports the hardware it ships on day one, then provides free updates until the device is obsolete.<p>If you must rebuild Apple’s OSS kernel, you can follow the instructions here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;archive&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;Darwin&#x2F;Conceptual&#x2F;KernelProgramming&#x2F;build&#x2F;build.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;archive&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;Da...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>robert_foss</author><text>There&#x27;s no real package manager. You can&#x27;t rebuild your kernel. You can&#x27;t upgrade your hardware. Once your HW is unsupported by Apple you&#x27;re stuck with an old OS that is unsupported by third party software as well.</text></item><item><author>cytzol</author><text>&gt; In a hotel (=on Mac), everything is stylish and cared for, but you have very little freedom to change things.<p>I&#x27;ve heard this over and over — that Macs are locked-down, uncustomisable machines — and I don&#x27;t agree with it at all.<p>I use replacements for almost all the built-in apps. I use a custom launcher. My editor config Git repo is approaching ten years old, and my shell config Git repo is almost eight. There are standard interfaces to per-application Preferences and keyboard shortcuts. When I sit down to use someone else&#x27;s Mac, I have no idea how to use it!<p>What changes am I missing? The only thing I can think of is that I can&#x27;t use a different window manager or a different kernel, but I&#x27;m fine with those already.</text></item><item><author>mherrmann</author><text>I switched from MBP to a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu. I compare the experience to living in a hotel vs. living at home [1]. In a hotel (=on Mac), everything is stylish and cared for, but you have very little freedom to change things. At home (=on Linux), you need to do the dishes yourself but there&#x27;s no external agenda. It&#x27;s simply yours.<p>I&#x27;m very happy with the switch. Though I&#x27;m on (Debian+) Xfce now instead of Ubuntu and would go for a ThinkPad instead of the XPS, because 1) I want a 14&quot; screen 2) the XPS&#x27;s fan is too loud, especially when Skyping 3) the XPS&#x27;s camera is placed at the bottom of the screen instead of at the top, so people you have video calls with look up your nostrils.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fman.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;home-and-hotel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fman.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;home-and-hotel</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?</title><text>The MBP is by far the best laptop I’ve used. The graphics are amazing, and the touchpad is ergonomic. However, Apple has demonstrated their inability to be reliable. I bought my MBP in January of this year (2019) and tomorrow I’ll pick it up from its 3rd repair. I’ve grown tired of this repair routine. And after the 3 years runs out, they will start charging me.</text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>traverseda</author><text>I made the logo for that!<p>I play tabletop simulator (a steam game) with friends at least once a week. Especially during covid it was a great solution (with some rough edges and a somewhat prohibitive cost if you&#x27;re trying to get 6+ people involved). I found that it worked surprisingly well with my tech-illiterate family. We could help people out when they got confused by grabbing their pieces, or pointing at the board, and if someone made a mistake the game doesn&#x27;t lock you into it you can just move the pieces however you need to. That last part is something that&#x27;s sorely missing in digital editions of board games.<p>I think the world really needs an open source tabletop-simulator, and while tabletop-club isn&#x27;t quite there yet I&#x27;m really hopeful it will eventually surpass the &quot;tabletop-simulator&quot; game on steam. If you know your way around Godot or game-engines I highly encourage you to contribute to this project! I think it&#x27;s legitimately important, as even my tech-illiterate family can grasp the concepts quickly. Much quicker than they grasp normal desktop metaphors.<p>It&#x27;s also has a lot of potential as a tool to experiment with skeuomorphic interfaces and concepts like the ones in dynamicland.<p>Also personally I think that this has some interesting VR applications, as &quot;desk scale&quot; VR&#x2F;cooperative-environments have a lot of potential for bridging the divide between full scale VR and regular computers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open-source tabletop board game simulator</title><url>https://github.com/drwhut/tabletop-club</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>auveair</author><text>An open source board game simulator is nice and this project looks quite far along, but I wonder if it makes sense to make it physics based, by far this is the worst aspect of Tabletop simulator (the paid game) and it makes it really hard to play if you have any kind of impairment (visual, motor, etc).<p>Which is kinda sad, because turn by turn board games are the best for those kind of players, but there are no open source 2D board game software that I know of.<p>I&#x27;m not disabled, but it was just as painful for me to play on TTS anyway so I don&#x27;t really understand the appeal.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open-source tabletop board game simulator</title><url>https://github.com/drwhut/tabletop-club</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>balfirevic</author><text>&gt; he doesn&#x27;t need it.<p>Nobody needs anything. You didn&#x27;t need to write your comment. And neither did I have to write this one. That&#x27;s terrible criteria to judge anything, if it even means anything sensible at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>calpaterson</author><text>I find it hard to reconcile the incredible generousity of making this material available for free on the internet with the cringeworthiness of Andy Pavlo&#x27;s style. I love the material but the &quot;6th form humour&quot; is really off-putting and he doesn&#x27;t need it.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=m72mt4VN9ik&amp;t=781" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=m72mt4VN9ik&amp;t=781</a> for an example of what I mean</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CMU 15-721: In-Memory Databases / Advanced Database Systems [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXja7K1hjZ01UTVDnGQdx5v5U</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ahmedalsudani</author><text>Personally, I enjoy the material on databases—but if I’m being honest, the main reason I watch the first lecture is to find out what sort of trouble Andy Pavlo has gotten into.</text><parent_chain><item><author>calpaterson</author><text>I find it hard to reconcile the incredible generousity of making this material available for free on the internet with the cringeworthiness of Andy Pavlo&#x27;s style. I love the material but the &quot;6th form humour&quot; is really off-putting and he doesn&#x27;t need it.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=m72mt4VN9ik&amp;t=781" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=m72mt4VN9ik&amp;t=781</a> for an example of what I mean</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CMU 15-721: In-Memory Databases / Advanced Database Systems [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXja7K1hjZ01UTVDnGQdx5v5U</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>copsarebastards</author><text>&gt; So let&#x27;s not blame officers. They&#x27;re probably doing the best they can with a bad situation.<p>I don&#x27;t know how you come to this conclusion from the data you&#x27;re citing.<p>You seem to be claiming that LEOs kill more people because more people attack LEOs with guns; i.e. you&#x27;re arguing that LEOs kill more people in self-defense. But you&#x27;re far from proving that point.<p>In fact, the easiest way to prove this point would be to have data on police shootings: if every officer had body-cam footage of every time they fired in self-defense, your argument would be proven. Yet the majority of police officers are resistant to wearing body cams. If LEOs are really firing in defense of self or others, why are they so opposed to proving it?<p>One could make the opposite argument: that people who use guns against LEOs are doing so in self-defense. The fuck-the-police attitude is equally explained by this: if the police are murdering your fathers, brothers, and friends, <i>of course</i> you&#x27;re going to thing &quot;fuck the police&quot;. And this would explain why LEOs in the US are so resistant to body cams: if they are the aggressors in these situations, then they aren&#x27;t going to want footage showing their crimes.<p>I think that the evidence better supports the latter argument. But of course, we&#x27;re short on evidence: we&#x27;re a long way from proving <i>either</i> point. This is why we need more evidence. If, as you claim, LEOs are acting in self-defense, the evidence will only exonerate them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saulrh</author><text>Let me plagiarize a reddit comment here:<p>America&#x27;s LEOs may kill way people per capita, but our LEOs also <i>get killed by</i> people way more per capita. Even the most unhelpful lists of killings by police officers have an overwhelmingly common trend: &quot;Officers arrived. Suspect drew gun. Suspect didn&#x27;t drop gun when ordered to. Suspect pointed gun at officers. Officers opened fire.&quot; There are dozens or hundreds of people that are on killed-by-LEO lists only because they <i>shot second</i>.<p>Compare Canada to the US:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canada.odmp.org&#x2F;year.php?year=2014&amp;Submit=Go" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canada.odmp.org&#x2F;year.php?year=2014&amp;Submit=Go</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.odmp.org&#x2F;search&#x2F;year&#x2F;2014" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.odmp.org&#x2F;search&#x2F;year&#x2F;2014</a><p>Similarly, if you look at Sweden&#x27;s first-ever police killing from a few years ago, the story isn&#x27;t about police dying heroically because they&#x27;re sacrificing themselves rather than killing criminals. It&#x27;s that they don&#x27;t have to kill anybody because nobody needs to be killed in order to defend others. &quot;Violent crime is almost non-existent there.&quot; No violent crime, no violent police. No problem.<p>So let&#x27;s not blame officers. They&#x27;re probably doing the best they can with a bad situation. Let&#x27;s blame the politicians who criminalize everything, the socioeconomic system that screws with poor people&#x27;s minds, the macho culture that drives gun nuttery and &#x27;stand-your-ground&#x27; and &#x27;fuck-tha-police&#x27; sentiments, and violence in general. Until we get rid of those we&#x27;re not going to be able to fix the police because, for the most part, the police aren&#x27;t broken.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>Let me just throw these tangentially relevant facts into this thread:<p>Deaths by police<p>in California: about 100 p.a.<p>in Germany: 8 in 2014<p>Population:<p>California: 39 Million<p>Germany: 82 Million<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;police-in-california-killed-more-than-610-people-over-6-years&#x2F;407326&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;police-i...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridiculous," "embarrassing"</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-director-calls-lack-of-data-on-police-shootings-ridiculous-embarrassing/2015/10/07/c0ebaf7a-6d16-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hackuser</author><text>I think you raise some good points. Another issue is the prevelance of guns. From a recent article (I don&#x27;t know enough to vouch for these numbers in any way) [1]<p>* &quot;America has 4.4 percent of the world&#x27;s population but almost half of its civilian-owned guns.&quot;<p>* &quot;In 2013, the US had 106.4 gun deaths per million people. In 2011, the last year for which we have numbers, the UK endured 146 gun deaths total - or 2.3 gun deaths per million people.&quot;<p>* &quot;Plenty of research has found a strong correlation between the amount of guns in an area and its gun homicide rate&quot; ... &quot;Perhaps the single most supported contention in all of gun research is that more guns mean more gun deaths.&quot;<p>&gt; let&#x27;s not blame officers. They&#x27;re probably doing the best they can with a bad situation.<p>If by &quot;blame officers&quot; you mean assign group guilt to all individual police officers, I&#x27;d agree, but it&#x27;s just as mistaken to say all police officers are doing the best they can. We have many examples of specific police officers harming civillians, including outright murder (something clearly not related to threats to police and not happening in Sweden). Whole classes of Americans see the police as a threat. As these problems occur in many places, I think we can say there is a systemic problem with policing in the U.S.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;5&#x2F;9454161&#x2F;gun-violence-solution" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;5&#x2F;9454161&#x2F;gun-violence-solution</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>saulrh</author><text>Let me plagiarize a reddit comment here:<p>America&#x27;s LEOs may kill way people per capita, but our LEOs also <i>get killed by</i> people way more per capita. Even the most unhelpful lists of killings by police officers have an overwhelmingly common trend: &quot;Officers arrived. Suspect drew gun. Suspect didn&#x27;t drop gun when ordered to. Suspect pointed gun at officers. Officers opened fire.&quot; There are dozens or hundreds of people that are on killed-by-LEO lists only because they <i>shot second</i>.<p>Compare Canada to the US:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canada.odmp.org&#x2F;year.php?year=2014&amp;Submit=Go" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canada.odmp.org&#x2F;year.php?year=2014&amp;Submit=Go</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.odmp.org&#x2F;search&#x2F;year&#x2F;2014" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.odmp.org&#x2F;search&#x2F;year&#x2F;2014</a><p>Similarly, if you look at Sweden&#x27;s first-ever police killing from a few years ago, the story isn&#x27;t about police dying heroically because they&#x27;re sacrificing themselves rather than killing criminals. It&#x27;s that they don&#x27;t have to kill anybody because nobody needs to be killed in order to defend others. &quot;Violent crime is almost non-existent there.&quot; No violent crime, no violent police. No problem.<p>So let&#x27;s not blame officers. They&#x27;re probably doing the best they can with a bad situation. Let&#x27;s blame the politicians who criminalize everything, the socioeconomic system that screws with poor people&#x27;s minds, the macho culture that drives gun nuttery and &#x27;stand-your-ground&#x27; and &#x27;fuck-tha-police&#x27; sentiments, and violence in general. Until we get rid of those we&#x27;re not going to be able to fix the police because, for the most part, the police aren&#x27;t broken.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>Let me just throw these tangentially relevant facts into this thread:<p>Deaths by police<p>in California: about 100 p.a.<p>in Germany: 8 in 2014<p>Population:<p>California: 39 Million<p>Germany: 82 Million<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;police-in-california-killed-more-than-610-people-over-6-years&#x2F;407326&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;police-i...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridiculous," "embarrassing"</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-director-calls-lack-of-data-on-police-shootings-ridiculous-embarrassing/2015/10/07/c0ebaf7a-6d16-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>The difference is simply in stage. Threads is 0 to 1. Twitter is legacy. If Twitter shipped a massive extension it would rightly be mocked as it, until recently, had a staff of folks iterating and improving on it. Threads is probably 15-20 people proving a concept.<p>The dissonance you’re pointing out is Twitter is being mocked for turning itself from incumbent to upstart when it certainly didn’t need to. It’s the stick in the spokes meme in corporate form.<p>Threads on the other hand is a proper upstart from a company that very much isn’t - and notably one that hasn’t shown itself particularly adept at building 0 to 1 products.<p>Meta is doing an uncharacteristically good job launching Threads and Twitter is doing an uncharacteristically bad job of maintaining and iterating on Twitter.<p>[edit] I can&#x27;t help but feel like the Twitter changes are just like the Digg re-design that led to its relegation to archive.org, and if this had never happened, I seriously doubt anyone would have challenged Twitter, let alone Zucc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wouldbecouldbe</author><text>Hahah I love the bias here.<p>Musk ships &amp; changes things on the fly, Twitter is going to hell.<p>Zuck releases threads, amazing he dears to launch an MVP that fast.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>Features are a looooooong second place to userbase. Hashtags mean nothing compared to having millions of users to interact with.<p>Launching in a hurry to capitalize on the mistakes of your competitors is an amazing plan. Better to ship without the feature than to ship the wrong feature and be stuck with the tech debt. Better to launch and acquire users when possible, and slowly add the necessary parts.<p>A far more important piece than hashtags is the ability to search posts. But even that is far behind the ability to have good image sharing on posts, and Threads already does that better than Twitter, as the carousel allows far better viewing.</text></item><item><author>coldcode</author><text>They are missing substantial features like hashtags and follows, leaving you at their mercy to show you content. That would imply it&#x27;s just a WIP shipped to nearly 100M people. It&#x27;s doubtful it will ever shrink, given how much is missing, unless it&#x27;s in there but not production quality. My guess is they shipped it in a hurry, and now there is enormous pressure on them to add all the missing features quickly, never a good plan.</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Almost certainly just a dependency graph pruning issue. They likely pulled in too much of the main app into the plugin, which no longer has the strict sizing requirements that it used to. They&#x27;ll trim it over the next couple of releases and the binary size shrink will look good on someone&#x27;s performance review. Any kind of quantifiable changes like this counts as solid impact, heh, even if it has no real impact on usage.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest, nobody cares how big it is, so long as it doesn&#x27;t force you to download over WiFi. Nobody sorts the App Store by &#x27;size.&#x27; It&#x27;s more important in the initial release to prove product market fit rather than spending time whittling down the share extension.<p>They made the right call to get to market fast.</text></item><item><author>maxptop</author><text>Would be surprised if this extension doesn&#x27;t shrink in a subsequent release</text></item><item><author>kelsolaar</author><text>&gt; Threads has one of the largest plugins we’ve ever seen. BarcelonaShareExtension is 81 MB. For context, the largest Instagram plugin - InstagramNotificationExtension is 23.5 MB. TheInstagramShareExtension is 5.6 MB<p>Out of a 244.2 MB App on iOS.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the new Threads app is made</title><url>https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it far more biased to assume that anything Musk ships is good?<p>Features and shipping should be evaluated empirically by results, not by deciding a priori that the decision maker is good or bad.<p>So I think you might be projecting a bit with your bias. And for that matter, I didn&#x27;t even mention Musk&#x27;s changes at all, yet you seem to be grouping me in with people that have! (But for the record, I preferred the feature set of Twitter before Musk started changing things. Still, the feature changes are still a loooot less important than the user base. And by prioritizing replies by paying versus non-paying customers, the user base that I experience on Twitter has gone down in quality by a ton, meaning that it is far less useful. That and shutting down the site for a few days and letting me experience zero of the user base-or rather a feed refresh two reply threads before 600 tweets were hit-was completely boneheaded. Stupid. B-player move.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wouldbecouldbe</author><text>Hahah I love the bias here.<p>Musk ships &amp; changes things on the fly, Twitter is going to hell.<p>Zuck releases threads, amazing he dears to launch an MVP that fast.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>Features are a looooooong second place to userbase. Hashtags mean nothing compared to having millions of users to interact with.<p>Launching in a hurry to capitalize on the mistakes of your competitors is an amazing plan. Better to ship without the feature than to ship the wrong feature and be stuck with the tech debt. Better to launch and acquire users when possible, and slowly add the necessary parts.<p>A far more important piece than hashtags is the ability to search posts. But even that is far behind the ability to have good image sharing on posts, and Threads already does that better than Twitter, as the carousel allows far better viewing.</text></item><item><author>coldcode</author><text>They are missing substantial features like hashtags and follows, leaving you at their mercy to show you content. That would imply it&#x27;s just a WIP shipped to nearly 100M people. It&#x27;s doubtful it will ever shrink, given how much is missing, unless it&#x27;s in there but not production quality. My guess is they shipped it in a hurry, and now there is enormous pressure on them to add all the missing features quickly, never a good plan.</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Almost certainly just a dependency graph pruning issue. They likely pulled in too much of the main app into the plugin, which no longer has the strict sizing requirements that it used to. They&#x27;ll trim it over the next couple of releases and the binary size shrink will look good on someone&#x27;s performance review. Any kind of quantifiable changes like this counts as solid impact, heh, even if it has no real impact on usage.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest, nobody cares how big it is, so long as it doesn&#x27;t force you to download over WiFi. Nobody sorts the App Store by &#x27;size.&#x27; It&#x27;s more important in the initial release to prove product market fit rather than spending time whittling down the share extension.<p>They made the right call to get to market fast.</text></item><item><author>maxptop</author><text>Would be surprised if this extension doesn&#x27;t shrink in a subsequent release</text></item><item><author>kelsolaar</author><text>&gt; Threads has one of the largest plugins we’ve ever seen. BarcelonaShareExtension is 81 MB. For context, the largest Instagram plugin - InstagramNotificationExtension is 23.5 MB. TheInstagramShareExtension is 5.6 MB<p>Out of a 244.2 MB App on iOS.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the new Threads app is made</title><url>https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/threads</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>detritus</author><text>Laterally, imagine a city over the horizon somewhere that doesn&#x27;t give a hoot about your existence and is increasingly made up of people not from your own country, yet dictates ever-more fundamentally how you should live your life. Imagine that city is then in turn dictated-to by an even higher echelon of governing who you not only didn&#x27;t empower to have a say in your affairs, but who don&#x27;t even speak your own language or live in your country.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I live in London, and I didnt vote &#x27;Leave&#x27; but I can fully understand the frustrations of a domestic populace whose voice in their own country is ever increasingly marginalised.<p>Britain isn&#x27;t the US - we&#x27;re not (and I apologise in advance to the indigineous &#x27;Indian&#x27; populations of North America) an &#x27;immigrant country&#x27;, despite what some people might suggest when they mention a few thousand Hugenots popping over for a few decades, hundreds of years ago.<p>It&#x27;s not in our culture so therefore who is right to say it should be?</text><parent_chain><item><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>Not going to happen, but I can see the sentiment.<p>The Brexit vote was basically rural England telling London to shove it. &quot;You wanted to be a cosmopolitan world city, but if us old people in the county don&#x27;t like what we see, you can&#x27;t have it.&quot;<p>As an analogy, imagine if the people in California that voted for Proposition 8 got really upset about the Supreme Court overruling them, and didn&#x27;t like all the non-native Californians immigrating to SF and LA, so they voted to secede.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Petition for London independence signed by thousands after Brexit vote</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36620401</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>howlingfantods</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to fault the blue collar worker, who had dutifully voted Labour for decades, only to see Labour&#x27;s neoliberalism collapse their local economies. This was basically a vote against the status quo.<p>I think before people blame the voters for being misinformed or illogical, it&#x27;s useful to question why our current economic and political system would push people towards fear, nationalism and xenophobia. Wealth inequality is probabaly a big part.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>Not going to happen, but I can see the sentiment.<p>The Brexit vote was basically rural England telling London to shove it. &quot;You wanted to be a cosmopolitan world city, but if us old people in the county don&#x27;t like what we see, you can&#x27;t have it.&quot;<p>As an analogy, imagine if the people in California that voted for Proposition 8 got really upset about the Supreme Court overruling them, and didn&#x27;t like all the non-native Californians immigrating to SF and LA, so they voted to secede.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Petition for London independence signed by thousands after Brexit vote</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36620401</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PaulKeeble</author><text>A friend has a Thinkpad that if the battery is fully charged when the machine is turned on with the monitor out plugged in then the monitor works perfectly from the USB 3, if however the battery is not entirely full then the display gets no signal. It requires a reboot once the battery is completely full.<p>It is reliable in producing an image or not depending on battery status. I have no idea why though and neither does support, they haven&#x27;t fixed it for a year at this point so I doubt they ever will.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_nickwhite</author><text>I&#x27;m over IT for about 40 remote workers. One of the comments in this article rings so true about the pain of using USB-C to DisplayPort:<p>&quot;I hate my USB-C monitor ports that work is making me use. Sometimes when I plug the USB-Dock in, it works fine. Other times I get one of the two 1920×1080 monitors attached to turn on. Others, no monitors turn on, and I have to unplug it and plug it back in. Then it usually works.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s SUPER finicky and picky, pretty much across the board. I find this true for the PC&#x2F;Windows- macbook pros seems to work MUCH better, even with triple-2k monitors, but still not perfectly every time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019)</title><url>https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/05/19/explaining-4k-60hz-video-through-usb-c-hub/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vladvasiliu</author><text>This looks to me like the controllers are sometimes badly implemented.<p>I have a HP ProBook with a USB-C&#x2F;DP output that I plug into an LG monitor with a USB hub. The hub works in USB2 mode + 4K@60Hz (as advertised by LG). This has worked consistently for me for more than two years, using Arch Linux + X11. Sleep, plug, unplug whenever I like, it just works. It seems to also work fairly consistently when colleagues plug in their Windows laptops (also HP).<p>I also have a HP EliteDesk with a Thunderbolt + USB-C &#x2F; DP port. This is a shitshow. The same LG monitor works every time for BIOS and such when connected through USB-C.<p>Installing Windows works. The Windows logon screen sometimes shows up, but not reliably. The Windows desktop has only ever worked once. This same setup <i>usually</i> works with Linux&#x2F;X11. But after a display sleep, it sometimes figures it can only do 4K@30Hz. Sometimes it chooses some other random resolution. If I unplug it a number of times, it may end up working again. Maybe. Or maybe not. Sometimes I have to reboot. Which may or may not solve the issue.<p>Plugging in a thunderbolt display (Apple) works more often. But if the screen goes to sleep, there&#x27;s a good chance it will wake up with some ridiculous resolution, like 1280x720. It&#x27;s impossible to change it. If the computer goes to sleep or if the monitor is unplugged, it&#x27;s game over. The screen will never come back again unless I do a cold boot (turn off &amp; on, reboot won&#x27;t do).<p>I keep hearing people complaining about macbooks being unreliable with external screens. I wonder if it isn&#x27;t the same kind of issue with a broken controller implementation somewhere. I&#x27;ve never had the slightest issue with external screens on my 2013 MBP (15&quot; with nvidia dGPU). Thunderbolt, 4k@60Hz, you name it, it works. Plug &#x2F; unplug when it&#x27;s running, when it&#x27;s sleeping, whatever, it just works as expected.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_nickwhite</author><text>I&#x27;m over IT for about 40 remote workers. One of the comments in this article rings so true about the pain of using USB-C to DisplayPort:<p>&quot;I hate my USB-C monitor ports that work is making me use. Sometimes when I plug the USB-Dock in, it works fine. Other times I get one of the two 1920×1080 monitors attached to turn on. Others, no monitors turn on, and I have to unplug it and plug it back in. Then it usually works.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s SUPER finicky and picky, pretty much across the board. I find this true for the PC&#x2F;Windows- macbook pros seems to work MUCH better, even with triple-2k monitors, but still not perfectly every time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019)</title><url>https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/05/19/explaining-4k-60hz-video-through-usb-c-hub/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>happybuy</author><text>Being an App Store developer is like intentionally walking into an abusive relationship and hoping that the pay-off will be worth the trouble.<p>I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;re aware but, as an app developer, the review process seems random at many times.<p>Depending upon the phase of the moon certain features or metadata may be accepted or rejected in apps. Even when the exact same features have been accepted in prior app versions and app reviews (without changes to the actual guidelines).<p>In such cases, perhaps Apple&#x27;s interpretation of the guidelines have changed. If so, there&#x27;s no way for app developers to know this until they get hit with a rejection. Rejections rarely include explanation of the interpretation so it&#x27;s up to the developer to try and interpret what the real issue is.<p>This is on top of the fact that, in many cases, Apple deliberately uses the guidelines and shifting interpretations to delay or destroy competitors. This occurs even if competitors are acting within the guidelines and all prior known interpretations of those guidelines.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>Weird. I thought all the apps were already reviewed and approved by a specialized and trained committee before being blessed with a space in the App Store. What could we possibly need this button for?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New “Report a Problem” link on product pages</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=j5uyprul</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Closi</author><text>Eh, it’s pretty easy to hide things behind a feature flag during the review process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>Weird. I thought all the apps were already reviewed and approved by a specialized and trained committee before being blessed with a space in the App Store. What could we possibly need this button for?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New “Report a Problem” link on product pages</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=j5uyprul</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzs</author><text>I believe that US households on average get a higher percent of their energy from electricity than do European households. For a proper comparison we need to compare energy use, not electricity use.<p>The average US household used 77 million BTU of energy in 2015 [1]. That&#x27;s 1.94 TOE (tons of oil equivalent).<p>The EU average in 2014 was 1.3 TOE. It ranged from a little under 0.5 (Malta) to around 2.7 (Luxembourg) [2]. UK and Germany were around 1.4, France around 1.7, Italy around 1.9. Belgium was just under 2.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpsc.energy.gov&#x2F;energy-data-facts" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpsc.energy.gov&#x2F;energy-data-facts</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enerdata.net&#x2F;publications&#x2F;executive-briefing&#x2F;households-energy-efficiency.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enerdata.net&#x2F;publications&#x2F;executive-briefing&#x2F;hou...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nuancebydefault</author><text>I never stop to be amazed how average consumption figures in the US are often at least 100 per cent bigger than in Europe. At least for water and electricity, let alone fuel.<p>Just a thought that naturally pops up... :<p>If you take the reasoning one step back, wouldn&#x27;t it be easier to optimize the consumption side (low hanging fruit) in favour if optimizing the cost per unit of energy? The latter seems a lot of effort, at least for the devs.</text></item><item><author>rndmize</author><text>This is something I&#x27;ve been curious&#x2F;interested in for a long time, so its good to see that somewhere out there (random Pacific islands aside), there&#x27;s communities making it work.<p>Some rough numbers I did a month or two ago - Tesla offers a megapack that has 3.9 MWh at a cost of $2.4m. &quot;In 2021, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. home was 10,632 kilowatt-hours (kWh). Or about 886 kWh per month.&quot; That&#x27;s about 30 kWh per day; my community has 45 houses, so use of 1.35 MWh in total, so a megapack will provide power for 3 days for the community at a cost of ~50k per house. Probably not worth it and I&#x27;d expect 3 days to be overkill. But a community that was double our size will have a cost of about 25k per unit for 1.5 days of power - which doesn&#x27;t sound too bad to me.<p>Another thing I&#x27;ve found interesting is Anker seems to be getting into the home power business - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anker.com&#x2F;anker-solix&#x2F;home-energy-solutions?ref=anker-solix-brand" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anker.com&#x2F;anker-solix&#x2F;home-energy-solutions?ref=...</a> - which I&#x27;m hopeful about, since it doesn&#x27;t seem like anyone except Tesla has been able to make something that feels simple&#x2F;easy&#x2F;attractive. Every time I&#x27;ve look at Powerwall alternatives I&#x27;m been unimpressed by the offerings; maybe Anker can deliver.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/realestate/microgrid-solar-power-energy.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eddy_chan</author><text>I would imagine in the southern states where it&#x27;s 40 degrees C+ every day for 3 months-4 months or more on end the heatpump (aka reverse cycle a&#x2F;c) is basically kept on constantly. Let&#x27;s say it draws 1kw on average, that&#x27;s 24kwh right there. They actually draw more than that. There&#x27;s no way around it if you want to live comfortably. But I think the whole society is designed so much around driving everywhere and living in detached houses that the low hanging fruit is actually to install solar&#x2F;batteries for these guys.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nuancebydefault</author><text>I never stop to be amazed how average consumption figures in the US are often at least 100 per cent bigger than in Europe. At least for water and electricity, let alone fuel.<p>Just a thought that naturally pops up... :<p>If you take the reasoning one step back, wouldn&#x27;t it be easier to optimize the consumption side (low hanging fruit) in favour if optimizing the cost per unit of energy? The latter seems a lot of effort, at least for the devs.</text></item><item><author>rndmize</author><text>This is something I&#x27;ve been curious&#x2F;interested in for a long time, so its good to see that somewhere out there (random Pacific islands aside), there&#x27;s communities making it work.<p>Some rough numbers I did a month or two ago - Tesla offers a megapack that has 3.9 MWh at a cost of $2.4m. &quot;In 2021, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. home was 10,632 kilowatt-hours (kWh). Or about 886 kWh per month.&quot; That&#x27;s about 30 kWh per day; my community has 45 houses, so use of 1.35 MWh in total, so a megapack will provide power for 3 days for the community at a cost of ~50k per house. Probably not worth it and I&#x27;d expect 3 days to be overkill. But a community that was double our size will have a cost of about 25k per unit for 1.5 days of power - which doesn&#x27;t sound too bad to me.<p>Another thing I&#x27;ve found interesting is Anker seems to be getting into the home power business - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anker.com&#x2F;anker-solix&#x2F;home-energy-solutions?ref=anker-solix-brand" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anker.com&#x2F;anker-solix&#x2F;home-energy-solutions?ref=...</a> - which I&#x27;m hopeful about, since it doesn&#x27;t seem like anyone except Tesla has been able to make something that feels simple&#x2F;easy&#x2F;attractive. Every time I&#x27;ve look at Powerwall alternatives I&#x27;m been unimpressed by the offerings; maybe Anker can deliver.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/realestate/microgrid-solar-power-energy.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xvello</author><text>That is the main value proposition for the new search engine <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kagi.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kagi.com&#x2F;</a>
Each result has a menu to block or boost the domain, to remove SEO spam, and pin relevant domains (the online documentation for that framework that always ranks below stackoverflow) to the top. So far I am loving it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guntars</author><text>What Google needs is to do is start taking explicit user feedback. If I click on something and it&#x27;s a major waste of time, I want to be able to tell Google to never show me this result or the whole domain. Why can&#x27;t I do this? They are happy to hoover all of my data in the name of &quot;personalization&quot;, but there&#x27;s zero way I can personalize the results myself without resorting to insecure 3rd party extensions.</text></item><item><author>karterk</author><text>Any algorithm is going to get gamed sooner or later. The biggest problem I&#x27;ve with Google ranking is this:<p>1. Everyone now knows that Google favors long content pieces which covers the topic in depth (what, why, when, etc.)<p>2. So an army of content marketing firms are writing 2000 word posts for simple topics that can be covered in 200 words.<p>3. As the user gets lost in the 2000 word article, trying to find what they really need, Google treats this as a positive &quot;lots of time spent on page&quot; signal and rewards this behavior further.<p>The result is people trying to now write 3000 word articles to &quot;one up&quot; the other already long posts dominating the first few results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MarketRank: Anti-SEO Ranking Algorithm</title><url>https://dkb.io/post/market-rank</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isolli</author><text>Back in the early 2000s there was a browser toolbar from Google that allowed you to do exactly that. Maybe such a tool today would be too easy to abuse?</text><parent_chain><item><author>guntars</author><text>What Google needs is to do is start taking explicit user feedback. If I click on something and it&#x27;s a major waste of time, I want to be able to tell Google to never show me this result or the whole domain. Why can&#x27;t I do this? They are happy to hoover all of my data in the name of &quot;personalization&quot;, but there&#x27;s zero way I can personalize the results myself without resorting to insecure 3rd party extensions.</text></item><item><author>karterk</author><text>Any algorithm is going to get gamed sooner or later. The biggest problem I&#x27;ve with Google ranking is this:<p>1. Everyone now knows that Google favors long content pieces which covers the topic in depth (what, why, when, etc.)<p>2. So an army of content marketing firms are writing 2000 word posts for simple topics that can be covered in 200 words.<p>3. As the user gets lost in the 2000 word article, trying to find what they really need, Google treats this as a positive &quot;lots of time spent on page&quot; signal and rewards this behavior further.<p>The result is people trying to now write 3000 word articles to &quot;one up&quot; the other already long posts dominating the first few results.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MarketRank: Anti-SEO Ranking Algorithm</title><url>https://dkb.io/post/market-rank</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>convex</author><text>The current quality and quantity of information previously classified as &quot;news&quot; is far beyond what has ever existed previously. Look at any news event and compare the information that&#x27;s immediately available now compared to similar news events 20 or 30 years ago. People on the ground publish pictures, videos, and reports <i>as the events are happening,</i> and we can read reports from any source in the world translated instantaneously into our native languages. And we have access to all of this using a tiny computer that fits in a pocket.<p>The idea that quality has decreased is simply an absurd and obvious myth perpetuated by editors and professional writers who are unhappy that their control over the journalism and publishing industries is evaporating. Furthermore, the market has never really paid for journalism, which was always subsidized by ads of questionable efficacy and ownership by wealthy individuals.<p>Finally, the big secret is the a massive amount of non-fiction by professional writers is embellished, plagiarized, or outright fabricated, and there is almost no real fact-checking in the industry. The regular scandals are just the tip of the iceberg.<p>Journalism and non-fiction writing as they exist now are in need of a major overhaul. Thankfully, technology is creating a situation where the world is naturally moving forward.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aikah</author><text>&gt; almost all of the money is falling out of it.<p>Well no money because nobody&#x27;s paying for it,and since nobody&#x27;s paying for it the content is usually average at best.<p>Free information is great,but let&#x27;s face it,quality news cost money and time. What have we today?in the tech world? content farms (readwrite,thenextweb,techcrunch,mashable...) where writers often know nothing about the subject,or are using social justice warfare to manifacture outrage in order to generate impressions( <a href="http://readwrite.com/2014/09/09/apple-no-women-on-stage-diversity-iwatch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;readwrite.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;apple-no-women-on-stage-dive...</a> ). How can that kind of news scale? readers are not idiots. But most readers ,at the same time,refuse to pay for anything,so the money has to come from somewhere,so we get sponsorised news too...<p>Real journalists or writers have skills,what&#x27;s missing is a plateform where pro journalists could monetize their skills to corporations directly,to write serious reports on a specific subject for instance,intelligence,sourcing,or just writing for the web(for commercial purposes,i.e. writing for content for a corporate website).</text></item><item><author>munificent</author><text>Today is a great time to be a writer. There are virtually no middlemen between you putting together a sentence and millions being able to read it. There are countless communities where you can find people to give you good feedback to hone your craft.<p>Unfortunately, that also means it&#x27;s a really terrible time to be a writer <i>for a living.</i> Like every job that is (a) creative and (b) can be distributed digitally, almost all of the money is falling out of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Macworld lays off most staff</title><url>https://twitter.com/DanFrakes/status/509753738454528000</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>37prime</author><text>I rolled my eyes every time someone linked to the “publications” you’ve mentioned: readwrite, thenextweb, techcrunch, mashable… add venturebeat, buzzfeed, cnet, business insider, the street, and many more……<p>It is all in the name of page hit, no longer about useful information.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aikah</author><text>&gt; almost all of the money is falling out of it.<p>Well no money because nobody&#x27;s paying for it,and since nobody&#x27;s paying for it the content is usually average at best.<p>Free information is great,but let&#x27;s face it,quality news cost money and time. What have we today?in the tech world? content farms (readwrite,thenextweb,techcrunch,mashable...) where writers often know nothing about the subject,or are using social justice warfare to manifacture outrage in order to generate impressions( <a href="http://readwrite.com/2014/09/09/apple-no-women-on-stage-diversity-iwatch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;readwrite.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;09&#x2F;apple-no-women-on-stage-dive...</a> ). How can that kind of news scale? readers are not idiots. But most readers ,at the same time,refuse to pay for anything,so the money has to come from somewhere,so we get sponsorised news too...<p>Real journalists or writers have skills,what&#x27;s missing is a plateform where pro journalists could monetize their skills to corporations directly,to write serious reports on a specific subject for instance,intelligence,sourcing,or just writing for the web(for commercial purposes,i.e. writing for content for a corporate website).</text></item><item><author>munificent</author><text>Today is a great time to be a writer. There are virtually no middlemen between you putting together a sentence and millions being able to read it. There are countless communities where you can find people to give you good feedback to hone your craft.<p>Unfortunately, that also means it&#x27;s a really terrible time to be a writer <i>for a living.</i> Like every job that is (a) creative and (b) can be distributed digitally, almost all of the money is falling out of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Macworld lays off most staff</title><url>https://twitter.com/DanFrakes/status/509753738454528000</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donkey-hotei</author><text>Norvig teaches a really cool, and challenging, class on Udacity called the &quot;Design of Computer Programs&quot;[0] in Python where you can learn his thought process on how to write reliable and beautiful software to solve interesting problems.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udacity.com&#x2F;course&#x2F;design-of-computer-programs--cs212" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udacity.com&#x2F;course&#x2F;design-of-computer-programs--...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>How do you algorithmically code like this? In my software engineering career, I am a plumber at best. Would fail hard at anyone who would ask me to code anything more than fizz buzz under time pressure. That said, I&#x27;ve built some incredible production worthy and robust systems that move mountains as a plumber. I am damn good at that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Advent-2020.ipynb</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jtsummers</author><text>I&#x27;d recommend taking a look at his book <i>Paradigms of AI Programming</i> [0]. It really shows his thought process in developing solutions to problems. The only other way is practice, and in particular practice with languages that offer functional features. Notice his use of lambdas, assignment of existing functions&#x2F;constructors to more accurate names (Passport instead of dict, day 4), and higher order functions (quantify).<p>Those are things that really help in algorithmic code by increasing accuracy of the names of things to the application (almost creating a domain specific language).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norvig&#x2F;paip-lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norvig&#x2F;paip-lisp</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>How do you algorithmically code like this? In my software engineering career, I am a plumber at best. Would fail hard at anyone who would ask me to code anything more than fizz buzz under time pressure. That said, I&#x27;ve built some incredible production worthy and robust systems that move mountains as a plumber. I am damn good at that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Advent-2020.ipynb</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ofek</author><text>Hey, Ofek from Datadog here!<p>I recently implemented our ClickHouse integration [1], so if any of you would like to try it out we would appreciate feedback. I really enjoyed learning about this database, and it has excellent docs :)<p>Oh fun fact, speaking of docs, this was the first integration of ours that we scrape docs for as part of the test suite. So when a new built-in metric is added it will fail our CI until we support it [2]. We just did this again for Apache Airflow [3].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DataDog&#x2F;integrations-core&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4957" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DataDog&#x2F;integrations-core&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4957</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DataDog&#x2F;integrations-core&#x2F;pull&#x2F;5233" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DataDog&#x2F;integrations-core&#x2F;pull&#x2F;5233</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DataDog&#x2F;integrations-core&#x2F;pull&#x2F;5311" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DataDog&#x2F;integrations-core&#x2F;pull&#x2F;5311</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC</title><url>https://www.altinity.com/blog/2020/1/1/clickhouse-cost-efficiency-in-action-analyzing-500-billion-rows-on-an-intel-nuc</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patelh</author><text>Not exactly a good comparison if you don&#x27;t generate the data the same way for the test setup. Your generated data is more compressible by clickhouse, that skews the comparison. Would have been better to not change the test data if you wanted to do a comparison.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC</title><url>https://www.altinity.com/blog/2020/1/1/clickhouse-cost-efficiency-in-action-analyzing-500-billion-rows-on-an-intel-nuc</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sevg</author><text>For people outside USA&#x2F;California, PG&amp;E serves gas and electricity to two thirds of California.<p>They&#x27;re featured in the film Erin Brockovitch for knowingly dumping 1400 million litres of hexavalent chromium contaminated water in the 50s and not informing the water board until the 80s, resulting in countless cancer deaths in Hinkley, California.<p>Their equipment has led to many wildfires (eg, approximately 40 of the 315 wildfires in PG&amp;E&#x27;s service area in 2017 and 2018 were allegedly caused by PG&amp;E equipment). They&#x27;ve been guilty multiple times of criminal negligence, including for gas explosions (see comments below from epistasis and toomuchtodo).<p>They&#x27;ve had controversies surrounding tax dodging, deforestation, dirty tactics to maintain monopoly, collusion with regulatory agencies, and rates that are among the highest in the US (eg, electricity rates in 2021 were 80% above the national average).<p>Overall, a real treasure of a utility company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company#Disasters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Com...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company#Controversies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Com...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PG&E claims no connection between rate increases and $2.2B jump in earnings</title><url>https://abc7news.com/pge-rate-increase-2023-earning-2-billion-dollar-profit/14483425/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EchoChamberMan</author><text>Unlimited year over year growth is cancer, and it&#x27;s killing most of us. A lot of other companies are raking in records profits as well.<p>[Edit]<p>Much of these profits have just as much justification as pg&amp;e - &quot;I want more.&quot;<p>[Edi]<p>Wow, they have the audacity to say the profits are &quot;primarily driven by an increase in customer capital investment,&quot; as if customers chose to give their money away.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgecorp.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;news-details.d78413bf-71e9-4a77-be2c-d88f44203572.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pgecorp.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;news-details.d78413bf-71e9-4a77...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PG&E claims no connection between rate increases and $2.2B jump in earnings</title><url>https://abc7news.com/pge-rate-increase-2023-earning-2-billion-dollar-profit/14483425/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>totalZero</author><text>Some of these &quot;AI ethics researchers&quot; seem like wingnuts, and their profession appears to serve more of a PR purpose than a business purpose. What am I missing? Why are they so essential? Are these people the canaries in the coal mine, or do they simply exist because of paranoia and political correctness?</text><parent_chain><item><author>marricks</author><text>It’s pretty cool we can just take Google at it’s word after a 5 week investigation with literally no details coming out.<p>Google also decided to drop this bombshell on a Friday the same day they are announcing a rebranded ethics team. It’s clear they wanted to bury this story and the leaders of the old team.<p>I for one don’t plan to in any way give Google the benefit of the doubt here...</text></item><item><author>Crash0v3rid3</author><text>“After conducting a review of this manager’s conduct, we confirmed that there were multiple violations of our code of conduct, as well as of our security policies, which included the exfiltration of confidential business-sensitive documents and private data of other employees,” a Google spokesman said in a statement.<p>This feels pretty cut and dry to me. Meg exported business material from the company. That a fire-able offense at any company.<p>I feel bad for her but I honestly don’t understand why she is even surprised she got fired.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Margaret Mitchell fired from Google</title><url>https://www.axios.com/google-fires-another-ai-ethics-leader-6ef7dcd5-4583-4396-b5b3-129547ff3091.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JamesBarney</author><text>1. Lying about why an employee fired in an easily verified way is a huge unforced error. We can probably assume Google is not that incompetent.<p>2. She hasn&#x27;t denied the accusations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>marricks</author><text>It’s pretty cool we can just take Google at it’s word after a 5 week investigation with literally no details coming out.<p>Google also decided to drop this bombshell on a Friday the same day they are announcing a rebranded ethics team. It’s clear they wanted to bury this story and the leaders of the old team.<p>I for one don’t plan to in any way give Google the benefit of the doubt here...</text></item><item><author>Crash0v3rid3</author><text>“After conducting a review of this manager’s conduct, we confirmed that there were multiple violations of our code of conduct, as well as of our security policies, which included the exfiltration of confidential business-sensitive documents and private data of other employees,” a Google spokesman said in a statement.<p>This feels pretty cut and dry to me. Meg exported business material from the company. That a fire-able offense at any company.<p>I feel bad for her but I honestly don’t understand why she is even surprised she got fired.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Margaret Mitchell fired from Google</title><url>https://www.axios.com/google-fires-another-ai-ethics-leader-6ef7dcd5-4583-4396-b5b3-129547ff3091.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>postmodest</author><text>This is the same issue as Prop 65, and while we can all say &quot;oh the law is bad&quot; the real problem is _corporations are lazy_.<p>Instead of making sure their products are safe, they just say everything is unsafe, because they know consumers will become numb to it.<p>Our food shouldn&#x27;t contain allergens, and our computer mice shouldn&#x27;t give us cancer, but instead of taking the time to make sure of that, companies just tell us the products are dangerous, because they know we don&#x27;t really have a choice.<p>They have the money and the capability, but they choose profit over consumer safety, and that&#x27;s THEIR sin, not ours.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lpolovets</author><text>My understanding is this allergen over-labeling was inspired by the FDA in the first place. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;90830854&#x2F;sesame-seed-allergen-fda-food-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;90830854&#x2F;sesame-seed-allergen-fd...</a><p>From the linked article (from Jan 2023):<p><pre><code> But sesame does differ in one distinct way from eggs, peanuts, shellfish, milk, and soy: The seeds are teeny tiny and hard to keep track of. This means they’re prone to “cross-contamination,” in food-allergy terms. If you operate a bakery that makes sesame bagels, the odds are decent that rogue seeds will end up in your other products, too. Bad news for people with severe sesame allergies. But it’s also expensive and frustrating for food manufacturers to ensure the seeds are kept away from other foods, if they’re on the FDA’s major allergens list.
Advocates have therefore been warning since December that the FASTER Act is poised to have a counter effect. Rather than minimize cross-contamination, as they argue the law requires, many big food brands have opted to add sesame to their bread products, then simply declare it as an ingredient. They are intentionally adding sesame flour to “avoid complying with the spirit and intent of the FASTER Act,” FARE tells Fast Company. That is cheaper than certifying that their facilities are 100% sesame-free.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/g-s1-6238/fda-warns-bakery-foods-allergens</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>&gt; Rather than minimize cross-contamination, as they argue the law requires, many big food brands have opted to add sesame to their bread products, then simply declare it as an ingredient.<p>Right.<p>Bimbo has not been actually adding the allergen to the product. Presumably, they will start explicitly adding it, so the warning will be proper.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lpolovets</author><text>My understanding is this allergen over-labeling was inspired by the FDA in the first place. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;90830854&#x2F;sesame-seed-allergen-fda-food-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;90830854&#x2F;sesame-seed-allergen-fd...</a><p>From the linked article (from Jan 2023):<p><pre><code> But sesame does differ in one distinct way from eggs, peanuts, shellfish, milk, and soy: The seeds are teeny tiny and hard to keep track of. This means they’re prone to “cross-contamination,” in food-allergy terms. If you operate a bakery that makes sesame bagels, the odds are decent that rogue seeds will end up in your other products, too. Bad news for people with severe sesame allergies. But it’s also expensive and frustrating for food manufacturers to ensure the seeds are kept away from other foods, if they’re on the FDA’s major allergens list.
Advocates have therefore been warning since December that the FASTER Act is poised to have a counter effect. Rather than minimize cross-contamination, as they argue the law requires, many big food brands have opted to add sesame to their bread products, then simply declare it as an ingredient. They are intentionally adding sesame flour to “avoid complying with the spirit and intent of the FASTER Act,” FARE tells Fast Company. That is cheaper than certifying that their facilities are 100% sesame-free.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/g-s1-6238/fda-warns-bakery-foods-allergens</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bdcravens</author><text>I can't deny that he violated the trust placed in him by the military. That's a scary game, and one that I can't honestly take a position in, as I've never served.<p>However, I feel that service is more than to your branch, commander, or unit. What is a soldier? Someone willing to sacrifice themselves for a greater, to defend those who can't defend themselves, to bring honor to their service. A US soldier serves the people first, the government second. Manning realized the risk he was placing his life in, and like a true soldier, he didn't let that knowledge deter him. In taking responsibility, he's holding his head high, not cowering behind attorneys and HTTP proxies.<p>I can't say if he's right or wrong, but I can say that he showed courage befitting his title.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bradley Manning Takes "Full Responsibility" for Giving WikiLeaks Government Data</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/bradley-manning/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>austingunter</author><text>Full responsibility. Let's break that down.<p>Full responsibility, on the surface, means that Manning is taking full responsibility under the law, and is not shying away from the legal consequences of his actions. He knows that according to the laws and the power structure, he's accountable for his actions which threaten said laws and power structure. Those self-interested parties will react in the appropriate way to defend the status quo.<p>Full responsibility to history means something else entirely.<p>Full responsibility to history means that Manning doesn't shy away from the responsibility he has in challenging a corrupt power structure, and fighting for the rule of law. He's accepting responsibility for standing up for truth, in spite of the legal consequences. He's accepting full responsibility for being part of something bigger than himself.<p><i>Salutes</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bradley Manning Takes "Full Responsibility" for Giving WikiLeaks Government Data</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/bradley-manning/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stornetn</author><text>&gt; a wise businessperson would see this as a signal that their product offering doesn&#x27;t actually match demand, and work to fill that demand<p>This is not necessarily true. It depends entirely on the shape of demand. By way of simplified example, imagine that there are two types of consumers equally distributed: those willing to pay $1000 and those willing to pay $100. Unless you can distinguish at time of payment between these users and charge them different prices (without possibility of resale), you will always be better off forgoing half of the market and charging only the higher price.<p>It&#x27;s <i>possible</i> that the business has estimated things incorrectly and is acting suboptimally, but I think it&#x27;s as least as likely that they are maximizing profits the way we&#x27;d expect a rational business operator to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>This has the same solution as any other story around copyright infringement.<p>If you provide people with easy, convenient, legal methods to consume the content in a way that works for them, for a price they find reasonable, then they overwhelmingly won&#x27;t resort to illegal means.<p>I&#x27;m not saying these bars are correct to resort to illegal streaming, but a wise businessperson would see this as a signal that their product offering doesn&#x27;t actually match demand, and work to fill that demand. You&#x27;re not going to make 100% of people happy in 100% of cases, but you can get to a point where the level of illegal streaming just isn&#x27;t worth cracking down on.<p>It&#x27;s such a sad waste that all this money has been spent to identify and track down illegal activity when it could have been spent making the overall legal experience good enough that most people wouldn&#x27;t need to resort to illegality. It adds insult to injury to note that companies like La Liga are already making money hand-over-fist; it&#x27;s not like they have some sort of crisis where the lost revenue due to illegal streaming is posing an existential threat to their business. Instead of cracking down and making enemies, they could instead work to make the experience better and turn potential enemies into satisfied customers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662968/la-liga-app-illegal-soccer-streaming-fine</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>batiudrami</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about La Liga specifically but in general bars pay a much higher fee than end users to stream sports because it&#x27;s such a big value-add for them. It&#x27;s likely that these bars are streaming publicly on a user license, rather than using an illegal stream. The value proposition isn&#x27;t necessarily that far out - just people want to pay less for things and will do if they can.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>This has the same solution as any other story around copyright infringement.<p>If you provide people with easy, convenient, legal methods to consume the content in a way that works for them, for a price they find reasonable, then they overwhelmingly won&#x27;t resort to illegal means.<p>I&#x27;m not saying these bars are correct to resort to illegal streaming, but a wise businessperson would see this as a signal that their product offering doesn&#x27;t actually match demand, and work to fill that demand. You&#x27;re not going to make 100% of people happy in 100% of cases, but you can get to a point where the level of illegal streaming just isn&#x27;t worth cracking down on.<p>It&#x27;s such a sad waste that all this money has been spent to identify and track down illegal activity when it could have been spent making the overall legal experience good enough that most people wouldn&#x27;t need to resort to illegality. It adds insult to injury to note that companies like La Liga are already making money hand-over-fist; it&#x27;s not like they have some sort of crisis where the lost revenue due to illegal streaming is posing an existential threat to their business. Instead of cracking down and making enemies, they could instead work to make the experience better and turn potential enemies into satisfied customers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662968/la-liga-app-illegal-soccer-streaming-fine</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sho_hn</author><text>What's the latest on Python 3 support in Flask?<p>Edit: Why the downvote? I'm just fishing for anybody having newer info than what's on the website out of genuine interest and because HN tends to be a place where people would know; it's not meant as a troll.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flask 0.9 codename Campari released today</title><url>https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/CHANGES</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The CHANGELOG is ReST-formatted for Sphinx; might as well view it the way it is meant to be viewed:<p><a href="http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/changelog/#version-0-9" rel="nofollow">http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/changelog/#version-0-9</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flask 0.9 codename Campari released today</title><url>https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/CHANGES</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikestew</author><text><i>Who owns your home? If government can tell you who can stay with you</i><p>The government can do all manner of proscriptions for your residence. For instance, no, you cannot run a brothel from your house. You cannot turn it into a bouncy house park. And you cannot have short-term rentals in an area that the community has decided to use for permanent housing.<p>It&#x27;s called &quot;zoning&quot;, and collectively we&#x27;ve agreed to the allowed uses of our property. You live in a community of others, and your property lines do not define &quot;The Independent Republic of JJordan&quot;, so yeah, the government does have some authority over your use of your property. You might not like it, but you&#x27;ll be going against the flow. Because, personally, I&#x27;d rather not have the house next to me used for short-term rentals &quot;shared&quot; with those that don&#x27;t give two shits about the community they&#x27;ll be leaving on Sunday afternoon.<p>You also don&#x27;t get to just decide not to follow the rules after the fact. One moved to a community, and directly or indirectly agreed to abide by the community standards. If one decides that&#x27;s just not really working for them anymore, well, move to a community that has standards more to your liking. There do exist places that will have no problem with you throwing all the loud parties you like, and renting to college students on spring break. Those places are not in SV, however, so good luck in your search for remote work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjordan</author><text>This highlights a flaw in the law more than anything else. Who owns your home? If government can tell you who can stay with you, regardless of any private transactions or agreements you make with that person, then government has more authority over your living space than you do.</text></item><item><author>geebee</author><text>Airbnb&#x27;s response: &quot;A majority of New Yorkers have embraced home sharing, and we will continue to fight for a smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d be more interested in knowing how New Yorkers feel about regulating short term apartment rentals than how they feel about sharing.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m guilty of being a broken record if airbnb keeps misusing the word &quot;sharing.&quot; Although I understand there can be some ambiguity in the word &quot;sharing&quot;, the arrangement &quot;you may rent my apartment out for a week if and only if you pay me $1,000&quot; isn&#x27;t anywhere close to this zone of ambiguity.<p>It is commerce. It is unambiguously commerce, it is a pure quid pro quo money for services transaction.<p>New York has passed legislation regulating commerce - in this case, the conditions under which someone may rent out property for under 30 days. Those laws aren&#x27;t obsolete just because someone wrote a rails app where you can type in an address and click a &quot;create hotel here&quot; button. Also, commerce doesn&#x27;t become sharing just because the quid pro quo financial transactions take place over the web.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC</title><url>http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/268627/cuomo-signs-bill-prohibiting-airbnb-listings-in-nyc/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bloat</author><text>This argument doesn&#x27;t hold much water. There&#x27;s many, many things you can&#x27;t do in or with your own home due to various laws. There are externalities associated with lots of activities, and therefore these activities are regulated or outlawed. I can&#x27;t use my home as a bar, or as a concert venue. I can&#x27;t use it to tan leather, or operate a waste incinerator.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjordan</author><text>This highlights a flaw in the law more than anything else. Who owns your home? If government can tell you who can stay with you, regardless of any private transactions or agreements you make with that person, then government has more authority over your living space than you do.</text></item><item><author>geebee</author><text>Airbnb&#x27;s response: &quot;A majority of New Yorkers have embraced home sharing, and we will continue to fight for a smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d be more interested in knowing how New Yorkers feel about regulating short term apartment rentals than how they feel about sharing.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m guilty of being a broken record if airbnb keeps misusing the word &quot;sharing.&quot; Although I understand there can be some ambiguity in the word &quot;sharing&quot;, the arrangement &quot;you may rent my apartment out for a week if and only if you pay me $1,000&quot; isn&#x27;t anywhere close to this zone of ambiguity.<p>It is commerce. It is unambiguously commerce, it is a pure quid pro quo money for services transaction.<p>New York has passed legislation regulating commerce - in this case, the conditions under which someone may rent out property for under 30 days. Those laws aren&#x27;t obsolete just because someone wrote a rails app where you can type in an address and click a &quot;create hotel here&quot; button. Also, commerce doesn&#x27;t become sharing just because the quid pro quo financial transactions take place over the web.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC</title><url>http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/268627/cuomo-signs-bill-prohibiting-airbnb-listings-in-nyc/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajdecon</author><text>I took the same route, "mastering out", and that cultural perception that "leaving your PhD is failing at life" was my biggest hurdle. I knew I could get a job, knew that I could probably find something interesting, but the looks of pity and disgust from my colleagues were not so easy to ignore. I think the comment I heard most often was, "what a waste."<p>Until I was actually out. Then I started getting furtive emails asking me questions like, "how do you write a resume?", "is the pay ok?", and most often, "are you happy?"<p>I still think a PhD is <i>absolutely</i> worth it in many cases, and trains you to be a scientist better than any other path. But it's a long hard road, and there are many people out there (me included) who do it because it's presented as the default path. If you're interested in physics, or biology, or any other science, it's just what comes next after undergrad. And that's not a good enough reason.<p>Edit: 'You know, most Ph.D.ers are smart and successful people. Hence they have a difficulty in saying “This is not for me”. They instead say “I’ve been successful all my life, and I finished everything I started, so I should finish this as well”. By saying that, they choose to hang in there for many years in a depressed state.<p><i>This</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sunahsuh</author><text>I recently left my PhD program too (I'm "mastering out" in local parlance ;)) and what this post doesn't address is what I found to be the hardest part: making a decision to leave a world where people that leave are construed as a failures (note: contrary to my expectation, I've only received support in my decision from my awesome and anomalous department.) (Also, I should note that I left a software industry job to do the PhD so I knew I shouldn't have difficulty finding a job.)<p>For anyone who wants to take the leap but is afraid or unsure, I offer some words that were incredibly helpful for me from some of fantastic friends. To quote my amazing advisor from his response to my "I'm leaving" email:<p>'We had a Head of Department at Lancaster who used to stomp around the corridors moaning - "I've just lost another student to industry. He's got a great job, has a starting salary bigger than mine, is working on a fabulous project with better resources than we have. In what mad world is this judged as a failure?"'<p>And another colleague, who's currently a junior professor:
'You know, most Ph.D.ers are smart and successful people. Hence they have a difficulty in saying “This is not for me”. They instead say “I’ve been successful all my life, and I finished everything I started, so I should finish this as well”. By saying that, they choose to hang in there for many years in a depressed state.<p>Sometimes, the most courageous thing and the best thing to do is to quit when you know you would rather work in another capacity, or when you know you don’t want to work in academia. I congratulate you on your decision and I hope the best for you. ( In case you later decide to come back to academia, it will be waiting for you, so I would not worry about it.)'<p>Best of luck, those of you that are struggling with the decision. If you're anything like me, if you decide to leave you'll feel better than you have in years =)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to leave academia (for science PhDs)</title><url>http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/leaving_academia.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>Part of that's due to incentives; like a corporation, universities don't primarily think institutionally about what's in <i>your</i> best interests. Hence you also rarely find companies happy that you left to take a better job, though you might find some individual managers who're supportive of a decision to move on.<p>For universities, people who leave PhD programs earlyish are a particular negative, because at least in the US, typically universities subsidize the masters portion of your education if you enter into a PhD program, out of research funds or departmental TA funds, whereas students who enter explicitly intending to get a masters have to pay tuition, and don't usually receive a stipend (though a few can land TAships). What they expect in return is that later in your PhD you'll publish a bunch of papers which bring them some prestige, help out on grant applications, etc. So if you enter a PhD program, stay for 2 years for the coursework/masters portion, and then leave, from the university's perspective it's like you're really a masters student who somehow tricked them into treating you as a PhD student for 2 years, and got away without paying tuition--- but without staying long enough to produce the expected ROI in publications. It also hurts the graduation-rate statistics in some ways of calculating them, and as education is getting more metrics/assessment heavy, that can matter too.<p>At least, that's from an administrative/bean-counter perspective; from a cultural perspective among researchers themselves, attitudes are more varied and have more complicated reasons. In areas where industrial partnerships are important, I think the reaction is often fairly positive, because a former student now working at a large company is a good connection for a lab to have.<p>Some of the negative reactions I think are just due to people not conceiving that other people could have different preferences/aptitudes. You can also find the reverse, where e.g. the attitudes if you left a startup after two years to pursue grad school can range from confused to "you're throwing away a golden opportunity" type views, to outright derisive ("couldn't make it in the real world"). Unfortunately I think it's pretty common for people to be pretty invested in what <i>they</i> did as the definition of success (whether it's research or entrepreneurship or whatever), and to generalize that to thinking that people who quit that route and try another one are therefore failures.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sunahsuh</author><text>I recently left my PhD program too (I'm "mastering out" in local parlance ;)) and what this post doesn't address is what I found to be the hardest part: making a decision to leave a world where people that leave are construed as a failures (note: contrary to my expectation, I've only received support in my decision from my awesome and anomalous department.) (Also, I should note that I left a software industry job to do the PhD so I knew I shouldn't have difficulty finding a job.)<p>For anyone who wants to take the leap but is afraid or unsure, I offer some words that were incredibly helpful for me from some of fantastic friends. To quote my amazing advisor from his response to my "I'm leaving" email:<p>'We had a Head of Department at Lancaster who used to stomp around the corridors moaning - "I've just lost another student to industry. He's got a great job, has a starting salary bigger than mine, is working on a fabulous project with better resources than we have. In what mad world is this judged as a failure?"'<p>And another colleague, who's currently a junior professor:
'You know, most Ph.D.ers are smart and successful people. Hence they have a difficulty in saying “This is not for me”. They instead say “I’ve been successful all my life, and I finished everything I started, so I should finish this as well”. By saying that, they choose to hang in there for many years in a depressed state.<p>Sometimes, the most courageous thing and the best thing to do is to quit when you know you would rather work in another capacity, or when you know you don’t want to work in academia. I congratulate you on your decision and I hope the best for you. ( In case you later decide to come back to academia, it will be waiting for you, so I would not worry about it.)'<p>Best of luck, those of you that are struggling with the decision. If you're anything like me, if you decide to leave you'll feel better than you have in years =)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to leave academia (for science PhDs)</title><url>http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/leaving_academia.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>martinald</author><text>I think we are living in a post &quot;IP address&quot; world to be to totally honest.<p>I can often switch thru many IP addresses in an hour (especially travelling) - various WiFi points, 4G, etc. Services will appear incredibly broken these days if they require a new login per IP address.<p>Obviously you could force all traffic to be routed thru a VPN and list it there, but it seems people are moving away from that approach.<p>To me, the better question is how are these cookies get stolen in the first place?</text><parent_chain><item><author>hu3</author><text>This is a concern of mine on systems I design&#x2F;maintain.<p>How do I mitigate a stolen cookie from successfully authenticating someone else?<p>Do I store user browser-agent&#x2F;IP and check that on every request?</text></item><item><author>Thaxll</author><text>The thing is you need MFA to log into Slack but having a valid cookie bypass that.<p>On top of that once you&#x27;re in Slack you can access every public channel, search string etc ... I can tell you that large compagny have a lot of thing displayed on Slack ( CI&#x2F;CD pipelines results, credentials in logs, alerts ect ... ) you don&#x27;t even need to talk to someone to have a lot of info.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>The problem probably isn&#x27;t Slack itself, but EA&#x27;s policies around Slack. I think it&#x27;s not nothing that the social engineering happened over Slack. For starters, somehow login cookies to the Slack were stolen and then sold, and those were enough to get into the Slack. And then in 2 separate instances, the hackers were able to convince IT to give them 2 new tokens.<p>Maybe the IT team&#x2F;policy is just weak across the board, and they would&#x27;ve handed keys over the phone or through internal email. But it&#x27;s not impossible for the IT team to have a complacent mindset around Slack.</text></item><item><author>barbazoo</author><text>Exactly, doesn&#x27;t sound like this has anything to do with Slack in particular.</text></item><item><author>sxp</author><text>The key bit is &quot;The hackers then requested a multifactor authentication token from EA IT support to gain access to EA&#x27;s corporate network. The representative said this was successful two times.&quot;<p>So this was primarily a social engineering hack after Slack was used to get access to a trusted messaging channel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hacked-slack</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawayboise</author><text>If it&#x27;s an internal corporate system where all the users sit at assigned machines and have fixed IP addresses, yes you can do stuff like IP address checking.<p>Otherwise you probably need short-lived cookies that get renewed by the client in the background, with a hard expiry of some reasonable &quot;work day&quot; length such as 8, 12, 16 hrs. Then even if it&#x27;s stolen, there&#x27;s a fairly short window of time that it&#x27;s useful to anyone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hu3</author><text>This is a concern of mine on systems I design&#x2F;maintain.<p>How do I mitigate a stolen cookie from successfully authenticating someone else?<p>Do I store user browser-agent&#x2F;IP and check that on every request?</text></item><item><author>Thaxll</author><text>The thing is you need MFA to log into Slack but having a valid cookie bypass that.<p>On top of that once you&#x27;re in Slack you can access every public channel, search string etc ... I can tell you that large compagny have a lot of thing displayed on Slack ( CI&#x2F;CD pipelines results, credentials in logs, alerts ect ... ) you don&#x27;t even need to talk to someone to have a lot of info.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>The problem probably isn&#x27;t Slack itself, but EA&#x27;s policies around Slack. I think it&#x27;s not nothing that the social engineering happened over Slack. For starters, somehow login cookies to the Slack were stolen and then sold, and those were enough to get into the Slack. And then in 2 separate instances, the hackers were able to convince IT to give them 2 new tokens.<p>Maybe the IT team&#x2F;policy is just weak across the board, and they would&#x27;ve handed keys over the phone or through internal email. But it&#x27;s not impossible for the IT team to have a complacent mindset around Slack.</text></item><item><author>barbazoo</author><text>Exactly, doesn&#x27;t sound like this has anything to do with Slack in particular.</text></item><item><author>sxp</author><text>The key bit is &quot;The hackers then requested a multifactor authentication token from EA IT support to gain access to EA&#x27;s corporate network. The representative said this was successful two times.&quot;<p>So this was primarily a social engineering hack after Slack was used to get access to a trusted messaging channel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hacked-slack</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VohuMana</author><text>Been using ripgrep for a while now, I love it. One other Rust tool people might find useful is fd (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sharkdp&#x2F;fd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sharkdp&#x2F;fd</a>) which is similar to find.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and Its Applications Today</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applications-today/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simmons</author><text>I just installed Fedora 27 in a VM out of curiosity. As far as I can tell from a quick glance, it looks like these Rust executables (ternimal, tokei) statically link their dependent Rust crates (including the Rust standard library), which is the typical approach to building Rust programs. I do wonder if someday we&#x27;ll see distributions arranging a common dependency realm (as much as possible) among their Rust programs so that shared libraries can be used to reduce the total memory and storage footprint.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and Its Applications Today</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applications-today/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>silenced_trope</author><text>Yikes is that really an &quot;FBI informant&quot;?<p>It sounds logical, consider this news item from yesterday: &quot;Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China&#x27;s IP theft program now at &#x27;unprecedented&#x27; levels&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;18&#x2F;five_eyes_china_espionage&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;18&#x2F;five_eyes_china_espio...</a><p>Should people here really just accept other nations blatantly stealing and &quot;infiltrating&quot;?</text><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>&gt; <i>Thiel&#x27;s reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley. Thiel has publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google&#x27;s ties to the Chinese government.</i><p>Seems like a lot of words to leave this comment buried in the middle of. The story seems like a soup of hopeful political operators trying to sow chaos, and since they&#x27;re all on the same side, the publisher is happy to oblige. Talking to the IC at all gives them the unlimited option to call you an informant if you ever get involved in something counter-establishment anyway.<p>One gets the impression that part of America&#x27;s new class system is whether you are connected to the intelligence community somehow, as if you have a certain level of responsibility at all, someone who knows someone always seems to be in touch or within a degree of separation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peter Thiel was an FBI informant</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tonmoy</author><text>You conveniently left out the first part of the sentence you are quoting</text><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>&gt; <i>Thiel&#x27;s reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley. Thiel has publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google&#x27;s ties to the Chinese government.</i><p>Seems like a lot of words to leave this comment buried in the middle of. The story seems like a soup of hopeful political operators trying to sow chaos, and since they&#x27;re all on the same side, the publisher is happy to oblige. Talking to the IC at all gives them the unlimited option to call you an informant if you ever get involved in something counter-establishment anyway.<p>One gets the impression that part of America&#x27;s new class system is whether you are connected to the intelligence community somehow, as if you have a certain level of responsibility at all, someone who knows someone always seems to be in touch or within a degree of separation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peter Thiel was an FBI informant</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>meowface</author><text>&gt;I get a world tilting thing maybe once a year. Usually while falling asleep.<p>I think this is very common and occasionally experienced by most people, including myself. Typically when you&#x27;re on the border between being awake and falling asleep.<p>&gt;I also sometimes get this weird perceptual thing where objects look huge, again, normally while in a dark room.<p>Haven&#x27;t experienced this one, but perceptual distortions in a dark environment shouldn&#x27;t be a concern, I think. I definitely get thrown off sometimes. It&#x27;s natural, since your brain is constantly trying to predict what should be there, and ambiguous signals due to limited light can throw a wrench into that, especially if you&#x27;re not habituated to the light conditions.<p>&gt;I&#x27;ve also had odd sensations that accompany these perceptual changes.<p>Could there be a nocebo effect? After learning about seizure auras, it&#x27;s possible that when these things happen, you might enter a brief positive feedback loop where aura-like things could psychogenically manifest. Was this also the case before you learned about such things?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ImuMotive</author><text>I get a world tilting thing maybe once a year. Usually while falling asleep. I also sometimes get this weird perceptual thing where objects look huge, again, normally while in a dark room. I&#x27;ve also had odd sensations that accompany these perceptual changes.<p>All of these occur very rarely. Like I said, maybe twice a year, but closer to once per year. I can&#x27;t find it now, but I had learned about seizure activity and how you can experience one without really knowing it, things just might get wonky like your perception, feelings, smells, etc.</text></item><item><author>01100011</author><text>This is a bit disturbing to read as someone who had perceptual distortions in my late teens. I always attributed it to HPPD after using LSD around 15 years old. Now I&#x27;m not so sure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3179/early-signs-perceptual-distortions-in-late-teens-predict-psychotic-symptoms-in-mid-life</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>Sounds like vertigo maybe? Does it feel like someone tilted the floor and there&#x27;s no &quot;up&quot;? Followed by sweating and vomiting and 48 hours of headaches? (Source: I get it a few times a year.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ImuMotive</author><text>I get a world tilting thing maybe once a year. Usually while falling asleep. I also sometimes get this weird perceptual thing where objects look huge, again, normally while in a dark room. I&#x27;ve also had odd sensations that accompany these perceptual changes.<p>All of these occur very rarely. Like I said, maybe twice a year, but closer to once per year. I can&#x27;t find it now, but I had learned about seizure activity and how you can experience one without really knowing it, things just might get wonky like your perception, feelings, smells, etc.</text></item><item><author>01100011</author><text>This is a bit disturbing to read as someone who had perceptual distortions in my late teens. I always attributed it to HPPD after using LSD around 15 years old. Now I&#x27;m not so sure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3179/early-signs-perceptual-distortions-in-late-teens-predict-psychotic-symptoms-in-mid-life</url></story>
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<instructions>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>The article was about soft skills (a.k.a. interpersonal skills), but I most clearly see the distinction between expiring vs. permanent skills in my field of study, computer science + software development.<p>When I look at what&#x27;s hot - in people&#x27;s blogs, in bootcamp classes, and in what people like to boast about - I see stuff like the React framework and Node.js and MongoDB. Having been in the industry long enough, I&#x27;ve watched these top trends change every few years.<p>Meanwhile, what I learned in university is all the unpopular stuff but that which underpins the technologies we use today. For example: Mathematical proofs, regular languages and automata, time complexity, computability, balanced trees, assembly language, recursion, pointers, declarative rules, SQL, various subsystems of operating systems, etc. This stuff gets mentioned a lot less in popular discourse, but I find that my knowledge in these areas accumulate over time instead of going out of date with each new fad. Moreover, I find that this set of knowledge continues to help me understand and work with new things that come out in this field.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Expiring vs. permanent skills</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/expiring-vs-permanent-skills</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gchamonlive</author><text>I am kinda experiencing this in my journey learning cloud solutions.<p>When I first started two years ago, all AWS solutions were really interesting and I was deeply hooked. Managed systems were the way to go. And that is explainable. We sysadm all lived the hassle of maintaining live production systems, and the thought of delegating all this maintenance while focusing on the core functionality is quite seductive.<p>Many caveats arise, though. Integration although native in AWS is not without its inherent complexity. Costs are opaque. Performance is sometimes subpar. And when something breaks it can take a while to debug a proprietary, closed application, not to mention when you come across an actual cloud framework bug or downtime.<p>I was painstakingly rediscovering the flexibility of self-managed systems. Yes, there is more maintenance work, but the core skills related to managing your own cluster of computers is timeless, while tying yourself to a vendor or framework is a gamble that can bite you hard in the long run.<p>Edit: I am not advocating against using cloud solutions. The ideal scenario is something between managed and unmanaged solutions, the best of both worlds, but that has to be studied in a case by case basis</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Expiring vs. permanent skills</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/expiring-vs-permanent-skills</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DwnVoteHoneyPot</author><text>My read on this is they just wanted to cut out Ruby and do everything in Node. That&#x27;s fine as a decision, but rest of the article feels like just trying to justify it after the fact. Like someone at the top decided, now lets pretend it&#x27;s a good decision.<p>As you mentioned, if they&#x27;re not OK with CLI, they could refactor in Ruby. The whole &quot;embracing functional programming&quot; and MVC architecture (i think Rails when i hear MVC) as reasons to go to Node, and not Ruby, is nuts.<p>If they were worried about dependencies, they&#x27;d use Rust or Go as they mentioned.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eatwater123</author><text>Cool. But god, the Shopify CLI &#x2F; developer experience has degraded so much in the past few years. With the newest iteration, they want a full app re-structure just to work with the CLI properly. It is absolutely brutal.<p>Sure, before they had basically no tooling, but then they had some basic ones that everyone was basically happy with, and then they just decided to iterate too much.<p>(saying this as a ~ 8 year long Partner &#x2F; Expert &#x2F; App Developer)<p>I&#x27;ve spoken to some Shopify employees and they all agreed that the developer teams are a bit of a mess. It seems like nobody managing the developer products are actually using the end results, otherwise they&#x27;d realize the hoops needed to work through (unless you are starting a brand new project right now --- and hoping that they don&#x27;t decide to change it all, like they have 5 times in the past 3 years)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience</title><url>https://shopify.engineering/overhauling-shopify-cli-for-a-better-developer-experience</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btown</author><text>One of the things I find fascinating is that in the days where it was Liquid templates, and Vercel etc. were barely a twinkle in people&#x27;s eyes, Shopify had a huge value add - that you or an app development consultancy could iterate on customizing interfaces here and there, and deploy changes from the CLI or directly on the Shopify platform, without needing to worry about deployment, payment processing, etc.<p>But so much has changed now. Deploying a customized frontend has a negligible cost, and the API surface that Shopify powers could be powered by a myriad of tools, with Stripe etc. doing large amounts of heavy lifting on the administrative side.<p>Were contractual obligations, and not wanting to bite the hand that feeds, the only thing preventing longstanding Shopify app developers from joining together and creating an industry-standard alternative API surface that could be deployed in different ways?</text><parent_chain><item><author>eatwater123</author><text>Cool. But god, the Shopify CLI &#x2F; developer experience has degraded so much in the past few years. With the newest iteration, they want a full app re-structure just to work with the CLI properly. It is absolutely brutal.<p>Sure, before they had basically no tooling, but then they had some basic ones that everyone was basically happy with, and then they just decided to iterate too much.<p>(saying this as a ~ 8 year long Partner &#x2F; Expert &#x2F; App Developer)<p>I&#x27;ve spoken to some Shopify employees and they all agreed that the developer teams are a bit of a mess. It seems like nobody managing the developer products are actually using the end results, otherwise they&#x27;d realize the hoops needed to work through (unless you are starting a brand new project right now --- and hoping that they don&#x27;t decide to change it all, like they have 5 times in the past 3 years)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience</title><url>https://shopify.engineering/overhauling-shopify-cli-for-a-better-developer-experience</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>I&#x27;ll never forget the time shortly after switching into industry from a purely laboratory workplace, that I had my first encounter with a professional project manager.<p>I got so pissed off that some un-introduced remote person on a conference call was try to tease out what all my &quot;tasks&quot; where, when they would be done and in what order (as well as when everyone else&#x27;s would be done). Thus began my career-long love&#x2F;hate relationship with project management (mostly hate).<p>While I am sure that scientists and academics can do well with general-purpose time-management skills, I think that industry could perhaps have more to gain by picking up some tips from how scientists work (and ease-off on the obsession with project management).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ways to manage your time better</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00973-6</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smackay</author><text>The biggest time saver for scientists would be a funding process that does not involved writing voluminous proposals with key metrics and other make work information that keeps bureaucrats happily well-fed and well-paid.<p>I&#x27;m not saying there is no need for some way of making sure the money is spent effectively but the grant proposal process is largely a sham and a charade that needs radical overhaul.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ways to manage your time better</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00973-6</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forkandwait</author><text>I work for a social services agency, and my guesstimate is that 70% of the managers think that zip codes are the answer to all their spatial analysis problems -- they are very easy to collect, and they <i>feel</i> right. These managers don&#x27;t really have any training in geography, so it isn&#x27;t exactly surprising, but I think there is a pretty strong committment to zip codes as <i>the</i> unit of analysis because it is the one thing they know and think they understand.<p>For the folks who in this thread say &quot;just use a point map of occurrences and you would have seen the problem&quot; you are right in this case, but it isn&#x27;t really enough in most cases.<p>For one, the boundary of the city limit needs to be shown to see the correlation; perhaps one should map the point occurrences a la Snow, and then overlay all the boundaries you have (mosquito district, city boundary, water district boundary, county, etc...).<p>Additionally, a point map doesn&#x27;t tell you rates of occurence, for that you need a denominator, or you can&#x27;t calculate things like number of occurences divided by total population. One poster mentioned Census Tracts, and I would agree those should be the default boundary, subject to more investigation -- tracts correpsond well to &quot;natural&quot; boundaries, they are mostly consistent over census decades, they are mostly consistent with population (~5k), they nest perfectly with other census boundaries, and they are the smallest geography for which you can get mostly the full suite of population characteristics like education from the ACS.<p>For some reason tracts feel just wrong to people. I have managers who reject zip codes, but then fixate on weird systems like pixels or equal area hexagons or whatever for which you can&#x27;t get denominator data and which don&#x27;t correspond to anything real. I don&#x27;t understand, though I don&#x27;t think in public policy &#x2F; social work education anybody bothers to teach you shit about GIS or Census data unless you know to ask specifically.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How ZIP codes nearly masked the lead problem in Flint (2016)</title><url>https://theconversation.com/how-zip-codes-nearly-masked-the-lead-problem-in-flint-65626</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toast0</author><text>At a more general level, your mailing address indicates how to deliver your mail; it does not indicate what city, if any, the delivery address is in. Neither does your zip code (as illustrated in the article), your phone number area code, or phone number prefix. All of these things indicate the location of the mail or phone facility that services the delivery address -- or that once did, before facility consolidation or expansion.<p>A related phenomenon is that different agencies have different boundaries, despite often sharing the same geographic name. Cities, water districts, sanitary districts, school districts, community college districts, counties, congressional districts, etc each have their own boundaries, and they are usually not aligned.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How ZIP codes nearly masked the lead problem in Flint (2016)</title><url>https://theconversation.com/how-zip-codes-nearly-masked-the-lead-problem-in-flint-65626</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stuaxo</author><text>Not surprising after they got rid of so many devs, reminds me of another company who did that recently, I wonder how long we will have to wait for that to start having issues.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Travis CI is seemingly compromised (once again)</title><text>A number of Travis CI users appear to have had Travis CI tokens revoked by Github in response to suspicious activity surrounding token.<p>Travis themselves have still not issued any notice or acknowledged this incident so it&#x27;s worth letting the community know if they weren&#x27;t already aware.<p>From memory, this will be the second breach in 2022 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.aquasec.com&#x2F;travis-ci-security" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.aquasec.com&#x2F;travis-ci-security</a>) in addition to last year&#x27;s secret exposure (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;travis-ci-flaw-exposed-secrets-for-thousands-of-open-source-projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;travi...</a>)<p>---<p>A sampling of users on Twitter who have run into this issue:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;peter_szilagyi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600593274108055559" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;peter_szilagyi&#x2F;status&#x2F;160059327410805555...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;yaqwsx_cz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600599797118996491" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;yaqwsx_cz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600599797118996491</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samonchain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600611567606775808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samonchain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600611567606775808</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dzarda_cz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600613369408634886" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dzarda_cz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600613369408634886</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samonchain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600611567606775808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samonchain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600611567606775808</a><p>---<p>An example notice being sent out by Github (in lieu of Travis themselves taking any action):<p>&gt; Hi {username}<p>&gt; We&#x27;re writing to let you know that we observed suspicious activity that suggests a threat actor used a Personal Access Token (PAT) associated with your account to access private repository metadata.<p>&gt; Out of an abundance of caution, we reset your account password and revoked all of your Personal Access Tokens (classic), OAuth App tokens, and GitHub App tokens to protect your account, {username}.</text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>piskerpan</author><text>I’m surprised it’s still around. Since GitHub released Actions and Travis abandoned the freemium, there weren’t many reasons to stay</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tell HN: Travis CI is seemingly compromised (once again)</title><text>A number of Travis CI users appear to have had Travis CI tokens revoked by Github in response to suspicious activity surrounding token.<p>Travis themselves have still not issued any notice or acknowledged this incident so it&#x27;s worth letting the community know if they weren&#x27;t already aware.<p>From memory, this will be the second breach in 2022 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.aquasec.com&#x2F;travis-ci-security" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.aquasec.com&#x2F;travis-ci-security</a>) in addition to last year&#x27;s secret exposure (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;travis-ci-flaw-exposed-secrets-for-thousands-of-open-source-projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;travi...</a>)<p>---<p>A sampling of users on Twitter who have run into this issue:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;peter_szilagyi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600593274108055559" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;peter_szilagyi&#x2F;status&#x2F;160059327410805555...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;yaqwsx_cz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600599797118996491" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;yaqwsx_cz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600599797118996491</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samonchain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600611567606775808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samonchain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600611567606775808</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dzarda_cz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600613369408634886" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dzarda_cz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600613369408634886</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samonchain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600611567606775808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;samonchain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1600611567606775808</a><p>---<p>An example notice being sent out by Github (in lieu of Travis themselves taking any action):<p>&gt; Hi {username}<p>&gt; We&#x27;re writing to let you know that we observed suspicious activity that suggests a threat actor used a Personal Access Token (PAT) associated with your account to access private repository metadata.<p>&gt; Out of an abundance of caution, we reset your account password and revoked all of your Personal Access Tokens (classic), OAuth App tokens, and GitHub App tokens to protect your account, {username}.</text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>You are talking about the city that has half its space dedicated to free street parking and a bunch of highways cutting through it as if it&#x27;s some sort of modern mobility policy paragon just trying to correctly price out externalities.<p>No, whatever Ubers goal in <i>not doing this</i>, I&#x27;m sure the motivations of local L.A. politicians are forever more twisted. These people wouldn&#x27;t know public transport if a bus ran them over. Which is unlikely to happen, given their average speed of 9 mph.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyxodiwktis</author><text>The core issue is that ridership data is a key piece the cities need to craft a tax on ride-sharing, and to tailor the tax to help their financially challenged public transit entities. Uber knows that if they give up scooter use data the city will immediately request it for ride sharing as well. The privacy question conveniently aligns with Uber’s position, but I doubt that this is Uber’s core concern vs avoiding every major city banging on the rideshare piñata to fund the gigantic debt service payments and generous benefit programs for their underutilized public transit systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-04/los-angeles-suspends-uber-jump-scooters-bikes-data-privacy</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spenrose</author><text>You have the dynamic correct but the values backwards. Cities are defined by their physical and social density and their long-term investments in physical capital. Uber lacks a sustainable business model. Transportation within a city features many &quot;natural&quot; monopolies (i.e. train tracks), and the promise of an emergent overarching monopoly: providing one-App entry into multi-modal transportation. If Uber can capture those monopoly rents it has a chance to survive as a permanent parasite. If it doesn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s doomed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tyxodiwktis</author><text>The core issue is that ridership data is a key piece the cities need to craft a tax on ride-sharing, and to tailor the tax to help their financially challenged public transit entities. Uber knows that if they give up scooter use data the city will immediately request it for ride sharing as well. The privacy question conveniently aligns with Uber’s position, but I doubt that this is Uber’s core concern vs avoiding every major city banging on the rideshare piñata to fund the gigantic debt service payments and generous benefit programs for their underutilized public transit systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-04/los-angeles-suspends-uber-jump-scooters-bikes-data-privacy</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zackmorris</author><text>Somewhat related, but I wish that more languages provided a reserved convenience variable for accessing the result of the previous function call:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;3326826&#x2F;language-history-origin-of-variable-it-in-read-eval-print-loop&#x2F;3342195" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;3326826&#x2F;language-history...</a><p><pre><code> Python and Ruby: _
Shell: $?
HyperTalk: it (my first exposure to the concept, even though it was more of a convention)
Some Lisps: *, **, ***, ...
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If we had that, then we could write:<p><pre><code> func1();
func2(_);
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Which reminds me of PostScript, which lets you examine and manipulate the program&#x27;s stack directly (the top of the stack is the previous result):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca&#x2F;Flat&#x2F;intro.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca&#x2F;Flat&#x2F;intro.html</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca&#x2F;Flat&#x2F;stack.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca&#x2F;Flat&#x2F;stack.html</a><p>If I were implementing it, I would make the previous result and stack contents read-only so that it&#x27;s conceptually the same as the pipeline operator except that it allows inspecting the intermediate value.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>F# Pipeline Operator in JavaScript with Babel</title><url>http://codereform.com/blog/post/babel-fsharp-pipeline-operator/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alharith</author><text>There&#x27;s also ReasonML for those looking to scratch the itch sooner.<p>Also, don&#x27;t be turned off by the sea of comments. Pick one, they are all great. but yes ML language enthusiasts can be a bit overenthusiastic, but I don&#x27;t fault them for that. They are all anxious to spread the gospel of ML. The Reason community on discord is excellent, one of the best I have had the pleasure to be a part of.<p>I didn&#x27;t go with straight OCaml with js_of_ocaml because I wanted a better representation of what I was doing in JS land. There is an excellent write-up about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.javierchavarri.com&#x2F;js_of_ocaml-and-bucklescript&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.javierchavarri.com&#x2F;js_of_ocaml-and-bucklescript&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>F# Pipeline Operator in JavaScript with Babel</title><url>http://codereform.com/blog/post/babel-fsharp-pipeline-operator/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>menthe</author><text>&quot;without ever having a job&quot;<p>First Google Result for &quot;nofx retire&quot;:<p>&gt; The punk group have all got normal jobs, which they will continue to pursue, but are pulling out all the stops for one final tour for their army of fans.<p>Seems in direct contradiction with this anarchist click bait title.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/style/nofx-farewell-tour.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moandcompany</author><text>I heard they suck live</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/style/nofx-farewell-tour.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gerdesj</author><text>&quot;Processes are to blame, not people&quot;<p>It&#x27;s called Disaster Recovery and it has a best mate called Business Continuity. If you don&#x27;t actually have a process for something then it will fail unconditionally, without you even knowing it is going to happen, until it does.<p>OK, it&#x27;s easy for me to snipe but nowhere did I see terms like those. Backups are mentioned almost casually and there is this: &quot;but no process was implemented for ElasticSearch databases&quot;.<p>So, not only were critical parts of the system not actually backed up but there seems to have been no attempt to even discuss how to put Humpty Dumpty (1) back together again if the silly sod falls off the wall.<p>Then we get the meat of the &quot;Processes are to blame, not people&quot; section. It discusses avoiding fucking up by making some small changes to working practices and so on but completely misses the real point. The blogger lacks a process for recovery. It&#x27;s all very well worrying about avoiding a fuck up involving a DB deletion but how do you recover? That should be only one entry in your DR plan. BC also needs some work ...<p>I own a small company and I spend quite a lot of time worrying about an awful lot of things. This &quot;contrite&quot; article that implies that the writer has actually learned a lesson worth divulging is extremely concerning to me. I suppose it&#x27;s a good start but I feel it falls rather short of identifying the real problem, learning from it and implementing a proper ... process.<p>(1) Humpty Dumpty: UK nursery rhyme nominally about an egg. Bit more to it than than but good enough for this discussion.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistake</title><url>https://medium.com/@hugo.oliveira.rocha/what-we-learned-after-i-deleted-the-main-production-database-by-mistake-13c0a5815de5</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>For me, an interesting statement was &quot;However, it took 6 days to fetch all data for all 17 million products.&quot; - in my experience of DB systems, 17 million entries is significant but not particularly much, it&#x27;s something that fits in the RAM of a laptop and can be imported&#x2F;exported&#x2F;indexed&#x2F;processed in minutes (if you do batch processing, not a separate transaction per entry), perhaps hours if the architecture is lousy but certainly not days.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistake</title><url>https://medium.com/@hugo.oliveira.rocha/what-we-learned-after-i-deleted-the-main-production-database-by-mistake-13c0a5815de5</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheCleric</author><text>I like how they started off making sandpaper and that’s still the thing I buy from them to this day. Their Cubitron sandpaper is my go to for woodworking.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why 3M stopped making floppy disks in the '90s</title><url>https://tedium.co/2023/11/17/3m-floppy-disks-history/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>powera</author><text>All the comments are suggesting, roughly, that 3M is somehow &quot;evil&quot; for getting out of the floppy disk business.<p>But nobody uses floppy disks anymore! (This is a good thing.)<p>Why shouldn&#x27;t they have gotten out before the complete collapse of the floppy-drive market?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why 3M stopped making floppy disks in the '90s</title><url>https://tedium.co/2023/11/17/3m-floppy-disks-history/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluenose69</author><text>The article is over-the-top in lots of ways, which is a shame, because slide rules really <i>are</i> worth learning. I love them. Always have. I&#x27;ve designed several for calculations that are specific to my research field.<p>I would love to get my students using slide rules, but it&#x27;s difficult to find physical ones for a reasonable price. Virtual slide rules, like those at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.antiquark.com&#x2F;sliderule&#x2F;sim&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.antiquark.com&#x2F;sliderule&#x2F;sim&#x2F;</a>, are just not quite the same as a physical thing, which requires force to slide, and good light to see the details.<p>I miss the days when you could go into any university bookstore and find sliderules in a wide range of prices. Another fond memory is watching my high-school teacher using a broomstick to move the slider on a giant sliderule he had above his blackboard.<p>What do students miss, using calculators?
1. Concrete notions of the difficulty of measurement, each digit being much harder to obtain than its predecessor.
2. A intuitive feeling for the propagation of uncertainty.
3. The ability to carry the exponents of 10 in their head.<p>Lacking this sort foundation seems to make it hard for people to connect their calculations, or numbers they read, with reality. This makes it hard to spot errors. It also makes it hard to remember things effectively. For example, I&#x27;ve found that students remember the mantissa of Avogadro&#x27;s number correctly to 3 digits, but they have no idea on the exponent. The same goes for the speed of light in a vacuum. These errors were rare in the sliderule age, because it was imperative to keep the exponent in your head, as you worked through a calculation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everyone should learn the slide rule (2021)</title><url>https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/why-everyone-should-learn-the-slide-rule/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pfortuny</author><text>A pity it is too snarky,<p>I agree with the thesis (it would be very nice to have children&#x2F;young people to know how to use it) but the tone is too negative.<p>I am a big fan of teaching children to use an abacus, also.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everyone should learn the slide rule (2021)</title><url>https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/why-everyone-should-learn-the-slide-rule/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lifthrasiir</author><text>&gt; Now that I have a 32-bit floating point representation to compare to, I can go one step further: Since mincostaddcostj is always greater than or equal to 0, and because non-negative floats are monotonically ascending when the bits are interpreted as an integer, I can use an <i>integer comparison</i> to do the check!<p>Good points. It exactly sounds like that we can benefit from specialized &quot;non-negative&quot; or &quot;non-NaN&quot; types, either implemented in the library (with a limited operator overloading) or in the compiler level (via static range analyses).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boosting zopfli performance</title><url>http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2016/04/boosting-zopfli-performance.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hannob</author><text>Very interesting, unfortunately he doesn&#x27;t say if he has submitted these improvements to the upstream developers so that other users of zopfli will benefit from them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boosting zopfli performance</title><url>http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2016/04/boosting-zopfli-performance.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaggederest</author><text>There&#x27;s also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;voormedia&#x2F;rails-erd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;voormedia&#x2F;rails-erd</a> and my favorite <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;amatsuda&#x2F;erd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;amatsuda&#x2F;erd</a> which is fully interactive (can write migrations based on changes from the UI)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Visualize Your Rails App to ER Diagram Automatically</title><url>https://www.holistics.io/blog/visualize-rails-database-to-erd-diagram/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>I recently discovered schemaspy and while it took a bit of working knowledge of java (need to execute a jar file from the command line) to get it working, it’s absolutely fantastic and one of the most sophisticated tools for dealing with ERDs at the DB level. Plus it’s open source! The only things I see that are possible improvements with this product are the fact that you don’t need to bootstrap a local database to generate this and it’s probably faster and easier to generate. I had a reasonably complex schema (200 ish tables with relationships) and schemaspy took about 3 minutes to generate the output. Once you do generate it though, it’s just a bunch of html and SVG in a folder so you don’t have to regenerate it until your scheme is updated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Visualize Your Rails App to ER Diagram Automatically</title><url>https://www.holistics.io/blog/visualize-rails-database-to-erd-diagram/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nordsieck</author><text>&gt; If we are unlucky, someone will use the brand name to start producing (en masse) garbage, selling it to Netflix, and Netflix will be pushing garbage low-quality, hi-speed cartoons.<p>I would really hate to see the Ghibli version of &quot;rings of power&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>HenryBemis</author><text>&quot;We&#x27;ll Always Have Paris&quot; is the phrase that came to my mind.
If we are lucky, the Ghibli will be the empty shell holding the royalties&#x2F;rights&#x2F;etc of the Miyazaki (and other) produced movies.<p>If we are unlucky, someone will use the brand name to start producing (en masse) garbage, selling it to Netflix, and Netflix will be pushing garbage low-quality, hi-speed cartoons.</text></item><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Yes. I think this also comes less as a shock as the new generation of directors have a number of studios willing to give them a chance (including new studios beasically founded for a single director, or even single piece).<p>Ghibli can stay an icon of a glorious past area, in good hands.</text></item><item><author>fidotron</author><text>Yep. This is near the better end of possible outcomes given at least they have a track record of respecting legacy and showing the value of archives.<p>The idea that Ghibli as a major production concern would outlast Hayao Miyazaki was obvious nonsense, and you can almost feel the relief of Goro.</text></item><item><author>belugacat</author><text>Hayao Miyazaki, in the documentary &quot;The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness&quot; (2013):<p>Interviewer: &quot;Aren&#x27;t you worried about [Studio Ghibli]&#x27;s future?&quot;<p>HM: &quot;The future is clear. It&#x27;s gonna fall apart. I can already see it. What&#x27;s the use worrying? It&#x27;s inevitable. &quot;Ghibli&quot; is just a random name I got from an airplane. It&#x27;s only a name.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/09/21/companies/nippon-tv-ghibli-acquisition/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xwdv</author><text>Who cares? The past has happened, and nobody can change it, nobody can go back and unmake those movies we saw. Nobody can take the memories away.<p>The point is it doesn’t matter anymore. Someone can take the name and make mass produced garbage, you don’t have to watch it. Ghibli doesn’t mean anything. Let it go. People care too much about keeping everything exactly the same.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HenryBemis</author><text>&quot;We&#x27;ll Always Have Paris&quot; is the phrase that came to my mind.
If we are lucky, the Ghibli will be the empty shell holding the royalties&#x2F;rights&#x2F;etc of the Miyazaki (and other) produced movies.<p>If we are unlucky, someone will use the brand name to start producing (en masse) garbage, selling it to Netflix, and Netflix will be pushing garbage low-quality, hi-speed cartoons.</text></item><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Yes. I think this also comes less as a shock as the new generation of directors have a number of studios willing to give them a chance (including new studios beasically founded for a single director, or even single piece).<p>Ghibli can stay an icon of a glorious past area, in good hands.</text></item><item><author>fidotron</author><text>Yep. This is near the better end of possible outcomes given at least they have a track record of respecting legacy and showing the value of archives.<p>The idea that Ghibli as a major production concern would outlast Hayao Miyazaki was obvious nonsense, and you can almost feel the relief of Goro.</text></item><item><author>belugacat</author><text>Hayao Miyazaki, in the documentary &quot;The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness&quot; (2013):<p>Interviewer: &quot;Aren&#x27;t you worried about [Studio Ghibli]&#x27;s future?&quot;<p>HM: &quot;The future is clear. It&#x27;s gonna fall apart. I can already see it. What&#x27;s the use worrying? It&#x27;s inevitable. &quot;Ghibli&quot; is just a random name I got from an airplane. It&#x27;s only a name.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/09/21/companies/nippon-tv-ghibli-acquisition/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelchisari</author><text>For as terrible as the internals of Wordpress are, the user-facing part of it all isn't bad. So if you never have to hack the core, it's a solid product. And since 99% of people using Wordpress like this won't touch the code, beyond maybe basic templating, then the ease of installation is really the biggest part of it's ubiquity.<p>There's something to be said for open source packages which work really well out-of-the-box for the vast majority of people who use it.<p>But oh, my lord, are the internals awful.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How did WordPress win?</title><url>http://www.majordojo.com/2011/02/how-did-wordpress-win.php</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cagenut</author><text>The core difference between the platforms was that wordpress was designed for any schmuck to follow a howto, while MT was designed to sell the <i>real</i> product, professional services billable hours. There were soooo many things about MT that stayed locked up in "plugin packs" or were completely undocumented that if you weren't paying a few (hundred)grand in proserv it was just plain not a usable product.<p>For the record, I was the enterprise customer clamoring for ldap support in Byrne's post, and I've since worked for another high profile site built on MT. Its a solid product if you bring a handful of good engineers in on top of it, its just got that "you must be this tall" barrier to entry that makes it an immediate loss for broad-consumer adoption.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How did WordPress win?</title><url>http://www.majordojo.com/2011/02/how-did-wordpress-win.php</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>&gt; What happens when the number of dollars approximately doubles in 2 years as it happened?<p>Do you think countries that don&#x27;t use the USD will remain unaffected? People keep blaming this on the fed &quot;printing money&quot;, but that logic only holds water when just the USA is affected.<p>Everyone is experiencing inflation; it&#x27;s a global phenomenon. Some countries have it even worse than the USA because their local production is getting redirected to the USA, where even higher prices will be paid.<p>In two years, things will very likely cool down globally.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kerng</author><text>You miss the key point on why this is happening and will continue to get significantly worse.<p>What happens when the number of dollars approximately doubles in 2 years as it happened?<p>Do you think prices stay the same and everything is just 50% off?<p>Reality is that the current number is off by reality quite a bit, real number <i>has</i> to be much higher. It&#x27;s just math and the worst part... it can&#x27;t be just reversed.</text></item><item><author>boringg</author><text>Hey everyone - we need to chill out for a second. Stop buying the knee jerk reaction of the media trying to freak everyone out and get some good advertising dollars.<p>This is going to take until after the new year maybe Q1-Q3 timeframe to see if it is transitory.<p>Reminder: we had an unprecedented global supply collapse followed by shutdowns and border closures for more than a year combined with historic levels of fast moving monetary growth during that time. We now have a situation of incredible levels of built up demand, a labor shortage and supply chain issues. Not to mention significant amount of illness and deaths as a result of a pandemic.<p>There were bound to be second and third order effects. The system needs some time to adjust.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US inflation jumps to 31-year high amid global supply chain crisis</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2021/nov/10/inflation-picks-up-china-germany-oil-prices-surge-stocks-retreat-business-live</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blagie</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s the worst part.<p>I predicted about 2x inflation as a best-case outcome a year ago. Worst-case outcome would have been serious structural damage, in terms of business bankruptcies, lost jobs, lost mortgages, etc.<p>Unless we get into a hyperinflationary cycle, we came out pretty well, economically.<p>Our public health response, on the other hand, was and continues to be a disaster.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kerng</author><text>You miss the key point on why this is happening and will continue to get significantly worse.<p>What happens when the number of dollars approximately doubles in 2 years as it happened?<p>Do you think prices stay the same and everything is just 50% off?<p>Reality is that the current number is off by reality quite a bit, real number <i>has</i> to be much higher. It&#x27;s just math and the worst part... it can&#x27;t be just reversed.</text></item><item><author>boringg</author><text>Hey everyone - we need to chill out for a second. Stop buying the knee jerk reaction of the media trying to freak everyone out and get some good advertising dollars.<p>This is going to take until after the new year maybe Q1-Q3 timeframe to see if it is transitory.<p>Reminder: we had an unprecedented global supply collapse followed by shutdowns and border closures for more than a year combined with historic levels of fast moving monetary growth during that time. We now have a situation of incredible levels of built up demand, a labor shortage and supply chain issues. Not to mention significant amount of illness and deaths as a result of a pandemic.<p>There were bound to be second and third order effects. The system needs some time to adjust.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US inflation jumps to 31-year high amid global supply chain crisis</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2021/nov/10/inflation-picks-up-china-germany-oil-prices-surge-stocks-retreat-business-live</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dpweb</author><text>When it&#x27;s all assets going up, it&#x27;s not the assets cost more, it&#x27;s the dollar is worth less.
So for all the help and assistance. Housing is LESS affordable than ever before.<p>You cannot infuse trillions of extra dollars into the economy without inflation. There&#x27;s no magic pill - there must be consequences.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gp</author><text>While it doesn&#x27;t directly affect the average person&#x27;s purchasing power, the same dramatic increase is happening in other asset values as well. [0] One interesting thing to note is that 2019 EV &#x2F; EBITDA values were already &quot;high,&quot; before the coronavirus was spreading.<p>I suspect these two phenomena have different causes overall, but low interest rates are a common factor that cause all asset prices to increase.<p>On the housing side, I suspect consumers purchase the house that their cashflow can comfortably support, not necessarily the one where they believe it is correctly valued, because the assumption that house values only increase means purchasing a well constructed house is almost never a &quot;bad deal.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure what the &quot;solution,&quot; is, but knowing that voters hate when their home values fall does not give me confidence that prices will decrease in the long term.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;953641&#x2F;sandp-500-ev-to-ebitda-multiples&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;953641&#x2F;sandp-500-ev-to-e...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Home Price to Income Ratio</title><url>https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robotnikman</author><text>The amount of people that seem &quot;unable to regulate emotion like a healthy adult&quot; as you say is surprising.<p>I used to work at a call center job many years ago, and the amount of people who just seem unable to act like a decent person is astounding. I had to leave the job after a few months for my own sanity.<p>I know its somewhat biased since obviously a call center position will deal with many unpleasant people, but it worries me how it seems like there is an overall decline in mental health of the general population</text><parent_chain><item><author>AussieWog93</author><text>So sometimes discs won&#x27;t load or cartridges won&#x27;t read in their console, or they&#x27;re unhappy with condition - sometimes this is as simple as apologising and accepting a return, sometimes people aren&#x27;t happy with that and just want to kick up a stink. More often than not, the people kicking up a stink return a perfectly working product, and they just wanted to make sure we&#x27;d accept it by them being as foul as possible.<p>Sometimes we&#x27;ll get people just asking for more information on an item we sell.
Usually you can tell whether or not these people are actually interested in the product or not by how they ask the question. If they&#x27;re asking about a specific detail (for example, if they&#x27;re looking for a particular serial number range on a console), they&#x27;ll usually follow up if you give them a positive response.
People asking less specific questions (such as asking for &quot;more photos&quot;) are often just bored and have nothing better to do and will either disappear or ask more questions. You can waste literal hours serving these customers and in the process lose thousands of dollars worth of actual sales.<p>The worst group are just really badly socialised people - often people with serious mental health or drug-related issues. If you engage with them, they will demand massive amounts of your time and have absolutely zero concern for your feelings (let alone your business goals). If they feel you have slighted they, they will respond in the most foul and violent way possible.
Just today, my wife was publicly berated by an incel-type guy because she didn&#x27;t respond to a message he had sent over a week ago. There are at least 2 other occasions I can think of in the last year where this happened.<p>I think the thing to remember is that the average HN reader (and, by extension, most people that the average HN reader knows) is educated, values their time, and is socialised well enough to the point that they can hold down a job and maintain basic interpersonal relationships. The type of person who contacts customer support for products that shouldn&#x27;t really require support are absolutely not like this. Mostly it&#x27;s just people that don&#x27;t value their own time (or the time of others), but multiple times every week we&#x27;ll come across people with _serious_ social issues (I don&#x27;t mean socially awkward, I mean &quot;unable to regulate emotion like a healthy adult&quot;) and no-one to talk to about it.</text></item><item><author>edude03</author><text>I&#x27;m really curious what sort of support the retro video game business needs. My (clearly naive) assumption is that it would be as simple as sending them the cartridge and telling them to have a great day, but if you&#x27;re meeting so many seemingly unpleasant people it seems to be a lot more than that.<p>Could you share more about the sort of issues you face?</text></item><item><author>AussieWog93</author><text>Just to give another perspective, I run a couple of small businesses with my wife and we handle support ourselves.<p>This is an absolute pleasure for our USB oscilloscope business - intelligent, reasonable customers ask for help with a problem they have, we help them solve it and both parties move on with our lives.<p>Our other business - dealing in retro video games, is an absolute nightmare. Almost all support questions we field come from people who have no intention of solving a problem. Most are just anxious people who need a little bit of reassurance, but plenty expect us to do pointless busywork, want to vent emotionally at someone who can&#x27;t fight back, or just generally want to smear shit all over the walls because they can.
Either way, because they don&#x27;t want to solve a problem, they just keep up eating up your support time and emotional energy in an extended loop for no gain - we&#x27;re talking upwards of 80% of your support resources if you let these people have their way.<p>Having to deal regularly with the type of person that the average HN reader would never come across in their lifetime, I can understand why organisations like Amazon would set up these bureaucratic support &quot;walls&quot; and&#x2F;or outsource all support to a Filipino call centre staffed by people that don&#x27;t even know what Amazon is.
The systems are designed to make getting support hard, because most people contacting consumer support literally don&#x27;t even have a problem that good support staff could solve.<p>In this instance, they&#x27;ve clearly made an error in requiring the user to navigate an automated system when the dollar value is in the _millions_, and I understand why the average HN user would be pissed off by a system like this, but I don&#x27;t think the solution to the problem is as simple as &quot;provide good, human support to everyone&quot; - it creates as many problems as it solves.</text></item><item><author>ethanwillis</author><text><p><pre><code> The merchants must navigate a largely automated,
guilty-until-proven-innocent process in which Amazon
serves as judge and jury. Their emails and calls can go
unanswered, or Amazon&#x27;s replies are incomprehensible,
making sellers suspect they&#x27;re at the mercy of
algorithms with little human oversight.
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This is something our modern society was and is not ready for. Bureaucracy and the bureaucrats that administered it is a nightmare that society has known about and dealt with for a long time. But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront.. we&#x27;re now effectively at the mercy of a dice roll in the worst case. And no one can even confirm if the dice are even fair dice. In the best case you get to deal with a robot that can&#x27;t even understand what you&#x27;re saying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ruined-my-life-after-going-all-in-on-amazon-a-merchant-says-he-lost-everything-20201028-p5697l.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mistersquid</author><text>Thank you for these details about the difficulties in handling support requests from people with underlying socialization and&#x2F;or mental health issues.<p>As someone who is mostly emotionally and cognitively balanced and who has been trained to communicate in order to reach mutually satisfactory outcomes, I don&#x27;t even think to consider that some people are too maladjusted to use support resources (i.e. communication) in productive ways.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AussieWog93</author><text>So sometimes discs won&#x27;t load or cartridges won&#x27;t read in their console, or they&#x27;re unhappy with condition - sometimes this is as simple as apologising and accepting a return, sometimes people aren&#x27;t happy with that and just want to kick up a stink. More often than not, the people kicking up a stink return a perfectly working product, and they just wanted to make sure we&#x27;d accept it by them being as foul as possible.<p>Sometimes we&#x27;ll get people just asking for more information on an item we sell.
Usually you can tell whether or not these people are actually interested in the product or not by how they ask the question. If they&#x27;re asking about a specific detail (for example, if they&#x27;re looking for a particular serial number range on a console), they&#x27;ll usually follow up if you give them a positive response.
People asking less specific questions (such as asking for &quot;more photos&quot;) are often just bored and have nothing better to do and will either disappear or ask more questions. You can waste literal hours serving these customers and in the process lose thousands of dollars worth of actual sales.<p>The worst group are just really badly socialised people - often people with serious mental health or drug-related issues. If you engage with them, they will demand massive amounts of your time and have absolutely zero concern for your feelings (let alone your business goals). If they feel you have slighted they, they will respond in the most foul and violent way possible.
Just today, my wife was publicly berated by an incel-type guy because she didn&#x27;t respond to a message he had sent over a week ago. There are at least 2 other occasions I can think of in the last year where this happened.<p>I think the thing to remember is that the average HN reader (and, by extension, most people that the average HN reader knows) is educated, values their time, and is socialised well enough to the point that they can hold down a job and maintain basic interpersonal relationships. The type of person who contacts customer support for products that shouldn&#x27;t really require support are absolutely not like this. Mostly it&#x27;s just people that don&#x27;t value their own time (or the time of others), but multiple times every week we&#x27;ll come across people with _serious_ social issues (I don&#x27;t mean socially awkward, I mean &quot;unable to regulate emotion like a healthy adult&quot;) and no-one to talk to about it.</text></item><item><author>edude03</author><text>I&#x27;m really curious what sort of support the retro video game business needs. My (clearly naive) assumption is that it would be as simple as sending them the cartridge and telling them to have a great day, but if you&#x27;re meeting so many seemingly unpleasant people it seems to be a lot more than that.<p>Could you share more about the sort of issues you face?</text></item><item><author>AussieWog93</author><text>Just to give another perspective, I run a couple of small businesses with my wife and we handle support ourselves.<p>This is an absolute pleasure for our USB oscilloscope business - intelligent, reasonable customers ask for help with a problem they have, we help them solve it and both parties move on with our lives.<p>Our other business - dealing in retro video games, is an absolute nightmare. Almost all support questions we field come from people who have no intention of solving a problem. Most are just anxious people who need a little bit of reassurance, but plenty expect us to do pointless busywork, want to vent emotionally at someone who can&#x27;t fight back, or just generally want to smear shit all over the walls because they can.
Either way, because they don&#x27;t want to solve a problem, they just keep up eating up your support time and emotional energy in an extended loop for no gain - we&#x27;re talking upwards of 80% of your support resources if you let these people have their way.<p>Having to deal regularly with the type of person that the average HN reader would never come across in their lifetime, I can understand why organisations like Amazon would set up these bureaucratic support &quot;walls&quot; and&#x2F;or outsource all support to a Filipino call centre staffed by people that don&#x27;t even know what Amazon is.
The systems are designed to make getting support hard, because most people contacting consumer support literally don&#x27;t even have a problem that good support staff could solve.<p>In this instance, they&#x27;ve clearly made an error in requiring the user to navigate an automated system when the dollar value is in the _millions_, and I understand why the average HN user would be pissed off by a system like this, but I don&#x27;t think the solution to the problem is as simple as &quot;provide good, human support to everyone&quot; - it creates as many problems as it solves.</text></item><item><author>ethanwillis</author><text><p><pre><code> The merchants must navigate a largely automated,
guilty-until-proven-innocent process in which Amazon
serves as judge and jury. Their emails and calls can go
unanswered, or Amazon&#x27;s replies are incomprehensible,
making sellers suspect they&#x27;re at the mercy of
algorithms with little human oversight.
</code></pre>
This is something our modern society was and is not ready for. Bureaucracy and the bureaucrats that administered it is a nightmare that society has known about and dealt with for a long time. But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront.. we&#x27;re now effectively at the mercy of a dice roll in the worst case. And no one can even confirm if the dice are even fair dice. In the best case you get to deal with a robot that can&#x27;t even understand what you&#x27;re saying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ruined-my-life-after-going-all-in-on-amazon-a-merchant-says-he-lost-everything-20201028-p5697l.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ggm</author><text>As I heard it, Apple boosted VLSI design smarts in the UK to get audio stuff in the iPod era, got really good FPGA and there was a one-two year boost in the british chip smarts IPR. Next cycle round, Apple went to the cheaper foundries and said &quot;do this smart stuff cheaper&quot; and undercut. So the apple model appears to me to be: get good design work, but don&#x27;t depend on it, leverage scale to get cheaper.<p>Apple is still hugely exposed to the lack of diversity in touch screen and battery smarts. I expect to see something there, because it must hurt paying Samsung with one hand, while you are suing for a pound of flesh with the other.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What’s Inside Every iPhone, from Retina Displays to Cameras</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/apple-iphone-guts/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KGIII</author><text>It&#x27;s worth a look, actually.<p>At first, I was thinking, &quot;Surely they mean &quot;current&quot; and not &quot;every.&quot; So, I clicked the link and, sure enough, they do actually mean every iPhone.<p>It&#x27;s a bit more in-depth than I&#x27;d expect from Bloomberg and that&#x27;s a pleasant surprise. Nice find, OP.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What’s Inside Every iPhone, from Retina Displays to Cameras</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/apple-iphone-guts/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nialv7</author><text>These are carefully constructed truthful statistic lies.<p>Of all the free users, how many of them even have a repository? Out of all the users who have a repository, how many of them actually make any use of CI&#x2F;CD?<p>They are saying &quot;1.5%&quot; to make it sounds small, but those 1.5% could account for a significant portion of total minutes of CI&#x2F;CD used.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>One thing that always confuses me about the business factors in this kind of announcement, where they say that the vast majority of users won&#x27;t be effected:<p>&gt; We evaluted CI&#x2F;CD minute usage and found that 98.5% of free users use 400 CI&#x2F;CD minutes or less per month.<p>Okay, so just that 1.5% of free users, each using at most 1600 minutes more than the 400 under the new limits... is enough cost to actually matter and make it worth making this change?<p>Or they anticipated that number going up if they didn&#x27;t make the change?<p>It seems odd to me to say &quot;This hardly effects anyone at all, almost everyone can keep doing exactly what they are doing for the same price (free in this case)&quot;, AND &quot;this was necessary for the sustainability of our budget.&quot;<p>What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/09/01/ci-minutes-update-free-users/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>contravariant</author><text>It wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if 90% (or more) of their free users use exactly 0 minutes of CI&#x2F;CD per month.<p>So then it&#x27;s more like 1 in 6 of the people that <i>do</i> use CI&#x2F;CD need more than 400 minutes per month.<p>Just to be clear, these numbers are completely made up. They seem reasonable though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>One thing that always confuses me about the business factors in this kind of announcement, where they say that the vast majority of users won&#x27;t be effected:<p>&gt; We evaluted CI&#x2F;CD minute usage and found that 98.5% of free users use 400 CI&#x2F;CD minutes or less per month.<p>Okay, so just that 1.5% of free users, each using at most 1600 minutes more than the 400 under the new limits... is enough cost to actually matter and make it worth making this change?<p>Or they anticipated that number going up if they didn&#x27;t make the change?<p>It seems odd to me to say &quot;This hardly effects anyone at all, almost everyone can keep doing exactly what they are doing for the same price (free in this case)&quot;, AND &quot;this was necessary for the sustainability of our budget.&quot;<p>What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/09/01/ci-minutes-update-free-users/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>evnix</author><text>The general slowness extends to simple things like x-rays and blood tests too. This is not just US but whole of the west seems to have the exact same attitude.<p>Most of Asia has same day or next day medical tests. In India you can order something like UberEats where in a technician comes home collects your blood samples and the results are emailed within the next 24 hours or so.<p>Medicine seems to be commoditzed in the east, easily accessible and cheap. West treats it like voodoo magic or rocket science that only a chosen few are capable of partaking in. There is always a long queue to get to your local voodoo practitioner.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arjie</author><text>One thing that&#x27;s surprised me about the US is the general slowness of most things. In India, you can get MRIs and CT Scans same day. Or you could the last time I was there. And it didn&#x27;t cost very much in comparison.<p>My doctors have all been good (attested to by my parents who are surgeons themselves) but the healthcare system is wonky.<p>One thing I didn&#x27;t expect is that the Indian system where you just drag your health records around paper copy yourself is superior to US EMR systems - which doctors seem to always have trouble with.<p>But now I have some friends in medicine and I always have them pull my records and keep a copy myself. It&#x27;s usually a fax but it&#x27;s better that way. Clearly electronic interop isn&#x27;t working most of the time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/american-health-system-ranks-last</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>askonomm</author><text>In Estonia all of our records (incl. Health) are digitized and online in a central system that both doctors and you can access. It works wonders. Every doctor I go to can see my entire medical history with a press of a button, and I don&#x27;t have to deal with any of that. Likewise when they prescribe new things, I can see my prescriptions right there, and so forth. We&#x27;re a 100% online nation now, and clearly when done well it&#x27;s remarkably good.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arjie</author><text>One thing that&#x27;s surprised me about the US is the general slowness of most things. In India, you can get MRIs and CT Scans same day. Or you could the last time I was there. And it didn&#x27;t cost very much in comparison.<p>My doctors have all been good (attested to by my parents who are surgeons themselves) but the healthcare system is wonky.<p>One thing I didn&#x27;t expect is that the Indian system where you just drag your health records around paper copy yourself is superior to US EMR systems - which doctors seem to always have trouble with.<p>But now I have some friends in medicine and I always have them pull my records and keep a copy myself. It&#x27;s usually a fax but it&#x27;s better that way. Clearly electronic interop isn&#x27;t working most of the time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/american-health-system-ranks-last</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lifty</author><text>Really curious, what ideology did the defunded African Pycons fail to embrace?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mont_tag</author><text>&quot;Not engaging at all&quot; allows the engaging group to completely take over and expunge their opposition. The Python Software Foundation is an example. They have multiple former directors banned or resigning. They&#x27;ve defunded African Pycons that won&#x27;t embrace certain ideologies. PSF employees and work group members are being purged of anyone not fully on board with the new ruling party. The discussion forums are censored and long-term contributors are afraid to post.<p>In general, in democratic organizations it is a failing strategy to not engage in arguments or to boycott elections. It is a recipe for an imbalance that is almost impossible to correct later.<p>So, I respectfully disagree with your suggestion to not engage at all.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>&gt; There was a small crowd when the drama was happening suggesting that Rust devs should just go write their own Linux-compatible kernel somewhere else which I found... insane.<p>One of the most important skills I found in open source development is separating technical arguments from religious arguments, and choosing to simply ignore the latter. You can spend all your time having the religious debates and feeling very productive while actually getting absolutely nothing done. Learning to recognize the distinction and, crucially, <i>not engage at all</i> when someone is coming at you with a religious argument is incredibly valuable for anyone who is or wants to be in a leadership-ish role in that kind of environment. You&#x27;ve got better things to do with your time than explain to someone why building a whole separate kernel is a stupid idea.</text></item><item><author>hypeatei</author><text>Good to see that he&#x27;s still optimistic about Rust in the kernel. There was a small crowd when the drama was happening suggesting that Rust devs should just go write their own Linux-compatible kernel somewhere else which I found... insane. It&#x27;s better to iterate and improve existing systems IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux'</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-muses-about-maintainer-gray-hairs-and-the-next-king-of-linux/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>I think the original comment probably had an implicit [ignore <i>isolated actors</i>] as part of the context. Any organisation has to be wary of alternative mission statements overriding their actual mission statement and a failure to engage when that happens generally presages trouble.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mont_tag</author><text>&quot;Not engaging at all&quot; allows the engaging group to completely take over and expunge their opposition. The Python Software Foundation is an example. They have multiple former directors banned or resigning. They&#x27;ve defunded African Pycons that won&#x27;t embrace certain ideologies. PSF employees and work group members are being purged of anyone not fully on board with the new ruling party. The discussion forums are censored and long-term contributors are afraid to post.<p>In general, in democratic organizations it is a failing strategy to not engage in arguments or to boycott elections. It is a recipe for an imbalance that is almost impossible to correct later.<p>So, I respectfully disagree with your suggestion to not engage at all.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>&gt; There was a small crowd when the drama was happening suggesting that Rust devs should just go write their own Linux-compatible kernel somewhere else which I found... insane.<p>One of the most important skills I found in open source development is separating technical arguments from religious arguments, and choosing to simply ignore the latter. You can spend all your time having the religious debates and feeling very productive while actually getting absolutely nothing done. Learning to recognize the distinction and, crucially, <i>not engage at all</i> when someone is coming at you with a religious argument is incredibly valuable for anyone who is or wants to be in a leadership-ish role in that kind of environment. You&#x27;ve got better things to do with your time than explain to someone why building a whole separate kernel is a stupid idea.</text></item><item><author>hypeatei</author><text>Good to see that he&#x27;s still optimistic about Rust in the kernel. There was a small crowd when the drama was happening suggesting that Rust devs should just go write their own Linux-compatible kernel somewhere else which I found... insane. It&#x27;s better to iterate and improve existing systems IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux'</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-muses-about-maintainer-gray-hairs-and-the-next-king-of-linux/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twobitshifter</author><text>These are cool but when talking of alternative heating systems the author misunderstands how hydronic heating (radiators) work and blames metal for being a poor material for holding heat and as heating the air through convection. This is all incorrect, the heat transfer medium is the water which is great at retaining heat, and the heaters heat primarily through radiation (although they do use convection over fins to speed the rate at which they heat the room.) Another form of hydronic heat would be radiant heat in your floor which would be very close to having a oven stove under your feet.<p>I think these are neat and the idea of running a stove for only a short time each day would be great, but the architectural drawbacks should be obvious. The heart of your house is now lost to a massive stone structure.<p>The drawback of taking a long time to heat up shouldn’t be overlooked either. Anyone who has lived in a stone or brick house could tell you that it will stay warm once it’s warm but bringing it up to temperature can take a long while. The same is true of radiant floor heating in a slab. This can make your home difficult to adapt to temperature swings.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (2008)</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>apcragg</author><text>As someone who suffers through winter smog caused by people in my county heating their homes with wood, please please please use a modern efficient heating source instead of this neopasotral quackery.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (2008)</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcpherrinm</author><text>Gecko was, afaik, the last major browser engine that supported &lt;blink&gt;. Chrome and IE don&#x27;t, at least. Opera won&#x27;t, after switching to, ironically enough, the engine called Blink.<p>So it&#x27;s not exactly the same as removing &lt;center&gt;: Other browsers already didn&#x27;t support it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcav</author><text>All snark aside, I wonder what the rationale was for doing this. It&#x27;d be a shame to load a website in a browser 20 years from now, only to see the site render incorrectly due to no-longer-implemented tags. Next, &lt;center&gt;?<p>It&#x27;s tough, obviously, because we can&#x27;t have cruft build up all over. But this seems like a fairly straightforward case that a browser could shim out in JavaScript by default. Blink is a pretty straightforward piece of internet history. It&#x27;s not like &lt;applet&gt;, which, while also a piece of history, actually carries legitimate complexity&#x2F;security risks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blink tag removed from Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>There were parameters threaded throughout random layout functions to record how long things were supposed to blink for. It was a maintenance burden.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcav</author><text>All snark aside, I wonder what the rationale was for doing this. It&#x27;d be a shame to load a website in a browser 20 years from now, only to see the site render incorrectly due to no-longer-implemented tags. Next, &lt;center&gt;?<p>It&#x27;s tough, obviously, because we can&#x27;t have cruft build up all over. But this seems like a fairly straightforward case that a browser could shim out in JavaScript by default. Blink is a pretty straightforward piece of internet history. It&#x27;s not like &lt;applet&gt;, which, while also a piece of history, actually carries legitimate complexity&#x2F;security risks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blink tag removed from Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>This isn&#x27;t about scale, it&#x27;s about location. Ecuador is a <i>LOT</i> more powerful than you are, but assuming you are not currently in Ecuador and don&#x27;t have any bank accounts in Ecuador, how do you think they could seize any of your assets, if they had a mind to? Their options start (and very nearly end) at &quot;sending you a polite request&quot;.<p>The backstory here is, Chevron <i>used</i> to have a lot of assets in Ecuador as part of a joint venture with the Ecuador state oil company. The joint venture wound up, Chevron left, and now there&#x27;s some dispute over whether any remaining clean-up is properly the responsibility of Chevron or Ecuador. But this is being discussed <i>after</i> they closed everything down, sold up, and left.<p>All that&#x27;s left if for Ecuador to go try and convince the legal system of other countries (where Chevron <i>does</i> have assets) to do something. And so far, that&#x27;s not working very well for them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oefrha</author><text>&gt; Even though the ruling was subsequently upheld by the Ecuadorian Supreme Court, Chevron immediately made clear that it would not be paying the judgment. Instead, Chevron moved its assets out of the country, making it impossible for the Ecuadorians to collect.<p>WTF? A nation state couldn’t have seized the assets? It seems that multinational megacorps are truly more powerful than and above the law in small countries these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mapcars</author><text>&gt;megacorps are truly more powerful than and above the law in small countries these days.<p>Why in small countries? They do what they want in America too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oefrha</author><text>&gt; Even though the ruling was subsequently upheld by the Ecuadorian Supreme Court, Chevron immediately made clear that it would not be paying the judgment. Instead, Chevron moved its assets out of the country, making it impossible for the Ecuadorians to collect.<p>WTF? A nation state couldn’t have seized the assets? It seems that multinational megacorps are truly more powerful than and above the law in small countries these days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>icanhackit</author><text><i>It is a step in the right direction, but it still half-baked.</i><p>We all want the revolution overnight but it takes careful and calculated steps to make progress. Consider Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) when accosted by a Republican Rep who claimed the States&#x27; Rights to Medical Marijuana Act was a sly step towards the process of legalizing marijuana outright. Barney&#x27;s (paraphrased) answer: <i>Yep, you got me. That is our goal.</i><p>And of course once you&#x27;ve legalized the selling of marijuana, you&#x27;re potentially opening the doors for other substances. But they come with their own set of problems and taboos so it will take time.<p>Initiatives have to start somewhere and demonstrate their utility with minimal fuss. Baby steps, but in the right direction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iamcurious</author><text>It is a step in the right direction, but it still half-baked. Without decriminalizing production as well, they are maintaining a monopoly for those that works outside of the law. Which means a very profitable tax free market that has to recreate all of the state features like physical safety and insurance policies from scratch. Every nation that forbids something that is in demand, is gestating its own competition. The laws of capitalism are brutal and can not be escaped. I wonder how far we can go by following the principle that it should be easier for demand to be satisfied legally than illegally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs for personal use</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-to-decriminalise-small-amounts-of-drugs-including-heroin-cocaine-and-cannabis-for-personal-a6719136.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>I agree with you but remember that Ireland and the UK are islands, which immediately puts them in a better position to deal with smuggling compared to countries that share long land borders. I think this is why island nations are generally a bit more conservative - it&#x27;s much more practical to control imports.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iamcurious</author><text>It is a step in the right direction, but it still half-baked. Without decriminalizing production as well, they are maintaining a monopoly for those that works outside of the law. Which means a very profitable tax free market that has to recreate all of the state features like physical safety and insurance policies from scratch. Every nation that forbids something that is in demand, is gestating its own competition. The laws of capitalism are brutal and can not be escaped. I wonder how far we can go by following the principle that it should be easier for demand to be satisfied legally than illegally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs for personal use</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-to-decriminalise-small-amounts-of-drugs-including-heroin-cocaine-and-cannabis-for-personal-a6719136.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>Lots of people -- I'm one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack.<p>Whereas turning my head left and right does not do so.<p>Most programming requires at least 4 logical views, IMO:<p>1. The code<p>2. The result of the code (web page, test results etc)<p>3. Documentation that supports coding<p>4. A control mechanism (ie, a terminal)<p>No doubt there will be quibbling that some of these are really the same, blah blah. I don't care, I think 4 is the logical minimum and the physical assignment of those 4 basic information types is a matter for each programmer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MaysonL</author><text>Am I the only one who hardly sees any value in window managers? About 99% of the time, I'm wanting only one window visible at a time, with others quickly accessible via cmd-tab and cmd=`.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users</title><url>http://mauriciogardini.com/post/43348489262/slate-a-mac-os-x-window-manager-for-power-users</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mauriciogardini</author><text>I was discussing this some minutes ago with a friend of mine: if you have a 11" or 13" screen, that's the reasonable way to go (Unless if you are like me, of course, that feels the need to use Slate in a 13" screen)... But, if you can work with bigger screens, splitting your workspace and making more information available at the same time may be a good thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MaysonL</author><text>Am I the only one who hardly sees any value in window managers? About 99% of the time, I'm wanting only one window visible at a time, with others quickly accessible via cmd-tab and cmd=`.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users</title><url>http://mauriciogardini.com/post/43348489262/slate-a-mac-os-x-window-manager-for-power-users</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonw</author><text>If I want to know how a classic trick is done I&#x27;ll look at the Wikipedia page. It often won&#x27;t reveal the secret directly, but if you check the page history you&#x27;ll find an edit war between magicians which exposes exactly how it works.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.de/inside-art-of-misdirection-ultra-exclusive-private-torrent-tracker-magical-pirates-invites-2016-11</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TillE</author><text>&gt; The site is a trading post for stolen, pirated and unlawfully copied tricks, which are covered by copyright, trademarks or other intellectual property in much the same way that TV shows and films are.<p>A video or whatever may be copyrighted, but it&#x27;s not really possible to protect a &quot;trick&quot;. You can patent a process, but of course this reveals it to the public.<p>Most of the described contents of the tracker are commercially released products. That&#x27;s really not &quot;stealing tricks&quot; in any way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.de/inside-art-of-misdirection-ultra-exclusive-private-torrent-tracker-magical-pirates-invites-2016-11</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexatkeplar</author><text>Assuming your event data is immutable (i.e. no UPDATEs, just INSERTs), you'd probably have fewer headaches long-term if you just dumped the database to flatfiles, stored in HDFS and queried using Hive (which has MySQLish query syntax anyway). This architecture will take you to billions of rows quite happily.<p>This is the architecture we use for eventstream analysis at SnowPlow (<a href="https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow</a>).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Loading half a billion rows into MySQL</title><url>http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/24490758395/loading-half-a-billion-rows-into-mysql</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whalesalad</author><text>I want to give this 10 upvotes. This is one of those things you only see on HN occasionally, and it's full of all kinds of awesome little nuggets. That command to get the count from the information_schema in and of itself is gold (I now know about the tee command)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Loading half a billion rows into MySQL</title><url>http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/24490758395/loading-half-a-billion-rows-into-mysql</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gioele</author><text>&gt; A lot of administration is still done on paper. Government organisations barely communicate, […] For every minor thing, you have to fill in a form.<p>My impression is that Germany requires a lot of paperwork, but this paperwork is often well guided and backed by organizations that are reasonably big and efficient. So the inefficiencies of living in a &quot;paper bureaucracy&quot; where you have to fill out a form for everything are there, but people barely notice them because the bureaucratic machine is well oiled.<p>The problem is that if you happen to meet one of the not well oiled parts of the mechanism you will be crushed by the bureaucracy. But this is mostly a foreigners&#x27; problem, so it not a very important part of the political agenda.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text><i>In Germany, I&#x27;ve witnessed excellent efficiency of course,</i><p>I live in Germany. Coming from The Netherlands, it surprises me how inefficient Germany often is. A lot of administration is still done on paper. Government organisations barely communicate, e.g. probably half of my non-native co-workers had taxation problems in their first months as a result of that. For every minor thing, you have to fill in a form.<p>The private sector is not much better. E.g. in NL I could arrange virtually all my banking affairs via internet. Here, except for some internet banks (such as the non-German ING DiBa), you have to go to an office to arrange anything. In NL, most local branches are gone from villages and are slowly retracting from cities as well. Here you have many branches in a small city, with many employees (probably because stuff is all handled on paper) and royal interiors. And then you have to go to the bank every couple of weeks to print your statements using a machine (I am not making this up).<p>Compared to Northern European countries, there is a huge space for increasing efficiency.<p><i>there is no minimum salary</i><p>Yes. This is I dislike very much too, it&#x27;s hard to see people working hard, only earning a few Euros per hour in an extremely rich society. Luckily, Germany may finally see a minimum wage now that the SPD is part of the government again.</text></item><item><author>jotm</author><text>This article is bullshit fluff. In Germany, I&#x27;ve witnessed excellent efficiency of course, but most of the workers are dicking around just as much as their counterparts from any other country. They&#x27;re not machines, after all.<p>I won&#x27;t get into details, but here&#x27;s some first hand observations: the health care is great, the pay is average, the taxes are high, the Internet is average, working hours are average and there is no minimum salary (also there are people who work 9-6 incl. Saturdays, mostly foreigners), people are great, crime is low, language is hard, opportunities through the roof, business is hard (esp. compared to the US and nearby UK), basic living prices are OK, but any &quot;luxuries&quot; are expensive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture</title><url>http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kleiba</author><text><p><pre><code> *there is no minimum salary*
Yes. This is I dislike very much too, it&#x27;s hard to see
people working hard, only earning a few Euros per hour
in an extremely rich society.
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This is changing January 1st, 2015, at least for some.<p><pre><code> Luckily, Germany may finally see a minimum wage now that
the SPD is part of the government again.
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Let&#x27;s not forget who brought the Agenda 2010 on its way, including the Hartz reformations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text><i>In Germany, I&#x27;ve witnessed excellent efficiency of course,</i><p>I live in Germany. Coming from The Netherlands, it surprises me how inefficient Germany often is. A lot of administration is still done on paper. Government organisations barely communicate, e.g. probably half of my non-native co-workers had taxation problems in their first months as a result of that. For every minor thing, you have to fill in a form.<p>The private sector is not much better. E.g. in NL I could arrange virtually all my banking affairs via internet. Here, except for some internet banks (such as the non-German ING DiBa), you have to go to an office to arrange anything. In NL, most local branches are gone from villages and are slowly retracting from cities as well. Here you have many branches in a small city, with many employees (probably because stuff is all handled on paper) and royal interiors. And then you have to go to the bank every couple of weeks to print your statements using a machine (I am not making this up).<p>Compared to Northern European countries, there is a huge space for increasing efficiency.<p><i>there is no minimum salary</i><p>Yes. This is I dislike very much too, it&#x27;s hard to see people working hard, only earning a few Euros per hour in an extremely rich society. Luckily, Germany may finally see a minimum wage now that the SPD is part of the government again.</text></item><item><author>jotm</author><text>This article is bullshit fluff. In Germany, I&#x27;ve witnessed excellent efficiency of course, but most of the workers are dicking around just as much as their counterparts from any other country. They&#x27;re not machines, after all.<p>I won&#x27;t get into details, but here&#x27;s some first hand observations: the health care is great, the pay is average, the taxes are high, the Internet is average, working hours are average and there is no minimum salary (also there are people who work 9-6 incl. Saturdays, mostly foreigners), people are great, crime is low, language is hard, opportunities through the roof, business is hard (esp. compared to the US and nearby UK), basic living prices are OK, but any &quot;luxuries&quot; are expensive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture</title><url>http://knote.com/2014/11/10/why-germans-work-fewer-hours-but-produce-more-a-study-in-culture/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p_l</author><text>Cars got safer thanks to design differences unrelated to size.<p>The Car Obesity Crisis in USA is related at least partially to tricking NHTSA regulations related to mileage (IIRC), which take into account platform size of the car, which in turn drives other design concerns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TylerE</author><text>It’s hardly <i>stupid</i> and it’s not in the spirit of HN to go on such diatribes. Cars today are vastly, vastly safer than even 30 years ago, never mind 80, and crumple zones are a huge part of that.</text></item><item><author>brikym</author><text>This clip shows how ridiculously large vehicles have become. Not only is the mass higher than ever but the front ends have become stupidly large which results in pedestrians being mowed down rather than rolling over the top. It&#x27;s a symptom of american culture being highly individualistic and selfish.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n6tMSEW_EBs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n6tMSEW_EBs</a></text></item><item><author>ktosobcy</author><text>If only cars weren&#x27;t gigantic, oversized killing buckets...<p>NotJustBikes just posted another video (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JRbnBc-97Ps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JRbnBc-97Ps</a>) about the speed limit but touching on the same issue - less speed x less mass = safer environment -&gt; less need for physical barriers (they even removed some street lights). Honestly, there wouldn&#x27;t be that much need for bollard is majority of cars would be city-car like the one in 4:39 min (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;JRbnBc-97Ps?t=279" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;JRbnBc-97Ps?t=279</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bollards: Why and What</title><url>https://josh.works/bollards</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vhcr</author><text>Not that vast (in the US).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;e&#x2F;ef&#x2F;1994-_Motor_vehicle_traffic_deaths_in_road_accidents%2C_by_country.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;e&#x2F;ef&#x2F;1994-_Mo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>TylerE</author><text>It’s hardly <i>stupid</i> and it’s not in the spirit of HN to go on such diatribes. Cars today are vastly, vastly safer than even 30 years ago, never mind 80, and crumple zones are a huge part of that.</text></item><item><author>brikym</author><text>This clip shows how ridiculously large vehicles have become. Not only is the mass higher than ever but the front ends have become stupidly large which results in pedestrians being mowed down rather than rolling over the top. It&#x27;s a symptom of american culture being highly individualistic and selfish.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n6tMSEW_EBs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n6tMSEW_EBs</a></text></item><item><author>ktosobcy</author><text>If only cars weren&#x27;t gigantic, oversized killing buckets...<p>NotJustBikes just posted another video (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JRbnBc-97Ps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JRbnBc-97Ps</a>) about the speed limit but touching on the same issue - less speed x less mass = safer environment -&gt; less need for physical barriers (they even removed some street lights). Honestly, there wouldn&#x27;t be that much need for bollard is majority of cars would be city-car like the one in 4:39 min (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;JRbnBc-97Ps?t=279" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;JRbnBc-97Ps?t=279</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bollards: Why and What</title><url>https://josh.works/bollards</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TomMckenny</author><text>In this case what did or did not happen was that some employees noticed that search results for &quot;Muslim&quot; and &quot;Latino&quot; were almost exclusively anti-Muslim and anti-Latino. Since the typical person searching for those terms is obviously interested in a broader view, the algorithm was flawed or even gamed. The article title is click-baity.<p>But I agree it is terrifying that there are companies devoted to an overt political stance that have vast reach and even monopolies in many markets like Sinclair [0] and others [1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_stations_owned_or_oper...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fox_Networks_Group#International" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fox_Networks_Group#Internation...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>It&#x27;s bad enough to foster an echo chamber to your personal biases, as is currently standard operating procedure. But to actively engage in hidden manipulation of public views strikes at the very heart of democracy. Democracy only works because of the wisdom of crowds [1], and the wisdom of crowds only works if each participant has independent knowledge. The more people rely upon a shared source of knowledge and truth, the less accurate their collective wisdom becomes.<p>Practically, this means that anyone with wide enough influence can directly affect democratic outcomes, which defeats the entire purpose, and the level of influence possible these days is unprecedented.<p>So regardless of what actually did or did not happen, the fact that a few companies ARE in a position to wield this kind of influential power should strike fear into the heart of every free citizen of every democratic nation.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0385721706" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki&#x2F;dp&#x2F;038...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google workers discussed tweaking search after travel ban</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-workers-discussed-tweaking-search-function-to-counter-travel-ban-1537488472</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>For some reason I just had a sudden idea about democracy being like Monte Carlo localization. We don&#x27;t need everyone to have the same, or even correct ideas. We need a whole lot of disagreeable perspectives to consider and explore. That way we don&#x27;t get trapped in ideological local minima.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>It&#x27;s bad enough to foster an echo chamber to your personal biases, as is currently standard operating procedure. But to actively engage in hidden manipulation of public views strikes at the very heart of democracy. Democracy only works because of the wisdom of crowds [1], and the wisdom of crowds only works if each participant has independent knowledge. The more people rely upon a shared source of knowledge and truth, the less accurate their collective wisdom becomes.<p>Practically, this means that anyone with wide enough influence can directly affect democratic outcomes, which defeats the entire purpose, and the level of influence possible these days is unprecedented.<p>So regardless of what actually did or did not happen, the fact that a few companies ARE in a position to wield this kind of influential power should strike fear into the heart of every free citizen of every democratic nation.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0385721706" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki&#x2F;dp&#x2F;038...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google workers discussed tweaking search after travel ban</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-workers-discussed-tweaking-search-function-to-counter-travel-ban-1537488472</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>falinebambi</author><text>Hey there, this spreadsheet was made by SoundCloud employees of the Berlin office who are now looking for work. We are just helping to share it and hoped the HN community could help. Any companies hiring please post - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1JDx5acZPvdmmSeMyEr778TmdE52c1etHEBr-3FrIHQU&#x2F;edit#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1JDx5acZPvdmmSeMyEr77...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>emeraldd</author><text>Two questions ...
1. This is a somewhat odd spreadsheet to find semi-randomly posted to HN. Can anyone speak to its provenance?<p>2. Is something, not so public, going on at Sound Cloud or is this just normal turn over for a company of there size?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hire a former SoundClouder</title><url>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1ZP8FNlL0a-SvSpZFflxOj2LioK66lmB3S095A5FmOjg/htmlview?sle=true#</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>Can&#x27;t find the link now but there was a post yesterday about them laying off a lot of staff. The layoffs weren&#x27;t based on performance so a lot of good quality engineers will be looking new jobs quickly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>emeraldd</author><text>Two questions ...
1. This is a somewhat odd spreadsheet to find semi-randomly posted to HN. Can anyone speak to its provenance?<p>2. Is something, not so public, going on at Sound Cloud or is this just normal turn over for a company of there size?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hire a former SoundClouder</title><url>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1ZP8FNlL0a-SvSpZFflxOj2LioK66lmB3S095A5FmOjg/htmlview?sle=true#</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Did you read the origins of their zoning code? &quot;Protecting&quot; the city by attempting to limit Black people to certain areas. Not a great look.<p>A lot of zoning code is based on similar ideas, even if most people are not dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud these days.<p>You do still hear it on occasion: Bend, Oregon, where I live, passed a similar change a few years back, which was then superseded by Oregon&#x27;s HB 2001, which effectively eliminates exclusionary zoning in our cities. At the local hearing for the Bend rule, there was a woman who was really upset that &quot;renters&quot; might be able to live in her neighborhood. They&#x27;re dirty, messy, and &quot;don&#x27;t care about where they live&quot;, according to her testimony.<p>It&#x27;s economic segregation, plain and simple.</text><parent_chain><item><author>1MoreThing</author><text>&gt; neighborhoods or people to try to protect, to the detriment of everyone else wanting to live there<p>Wait, you have a problem with a city government trying to serve the people who actually live in a neighborhood rather than potential new residents?<p>That&#x27;s the whole point of a city government. To serve the people living in the city.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Yes, but this is still only one of about 10 other factors that prevent the region or city from having enough housing, or affordable housing (and I don&#x27;t mean in the public government-run housing sense).<p>Maybe Berkeley should also try to address the other unending issues that they keep up to prevent any meaningful change, if they really mean it:<p>-- Endless and convoluted environmental + city approvals processes that corrupt any transparent application for development and favor those who have money to navigate it<p>-- Picking and choosing special interest &#x2F; special case neighborhoods or people to try to protect, to the detriment of everyone else wanting to live there<p>-- Rent control<p>-- The extremely backwards property tax policies that favor existing landowners over anyone new, young, poor (though this admittedly is California&#x27;s problem, not just one city or county) and make everything else attempted bandaids -- and misguided bandaids, at that -- to fix the system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning</title><url>https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-may-get-rid-of-single-family-zoning-as-a-way-to-correct-the-arc-of-its-ugly-housing-history</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LargeWu</author><text>This is the underlying energy behind NIMBY.<p>Cities have many stakeholders. Residents, sure. But also businesses, workers, the homeless, the environment.<p>And there are tons of tradeoffs. Maybe by rezoning and not mandating single family homes, the increased population density will improve access to transit and services. It&#x27;s not necessarily as cut and dried as &quot;Rezoning is negatively perceived by current residents, therefore don&#x27;t do it&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>1MoreThing</author><text>&gt; neighborhoods or people to try to protect, to the detriment of everyone else wanting to live there<p>Wait, you have a problem with a city government trying to serve the people who actually live in a neighborhood rather than potential new residents?<p>That&#x27;s the whole point of a city government. To serve the people living in the city.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Yes, but this is still only one of about 10 other factors that prevent the region or city from having enough housing, or affordable housing (and I don&#x27;t mean in the public government-run housing sense).<p>Maybe Berkeley should also try to address the other unending issues that they keep up to prevent any meaningful change, if they really mean it:<p>-- Endless and convoluted environmental + city approvals processes that corrupt any transparent application for development and favor those who have money to navigate it<p>-- Picking and choosing special interest &#x2F; special case neighborhoods or people to try to protect, to the detriment of everyone else wanting to live there<p>-- Rent control<p>-- The extremely backwards property tax policies that favor existing landowners over anyone new, young, poor (though this admittedly is California&#x27;s problem, not just one city or county) and make everything else attempted bandaids -- and misguided bandaids, at that -- to fix the system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning</title><url>https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-may-get-rid-of-single-family-zoning-as-a-way-to-correct-the-arc-of-its-ugly-housing-history</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hft_throwaway</author><text>What Haim&#x27;s referring to are a set of order types used on many exchanges to allow traders to place orders on a level that can&#x27;t be displayed for regulatory reasons. There&#x27;s nothing nefarious about them.<p>Reg NMS prohibits exchanges from displaying quotes that would lock (bid==ask) or cross (bid&gt;ask) another marketplace.<p>As an example, say BATS is 10.01 bid 10.02 offered and the 10.02 offer trades out completely. Some HFTs want to be the first to form the new 10.02 bid to earn the spread + liquidity rebate, so they send post-only bids at 10.02. BATS sees stale 10.02 offers on ARCA, so they re-price the trader&#x27;s order to 10.01 bid, or reject it (behavior depends on the exchange). In response to this, HFT algos would repeatedly re-submit their orders until the exchange let them in. This led to enormous stress on their matching engines during price moves.<p>In response, exchanges created order types that would let the trader bid 10.02, but only display it once the away markets faded from their point of view. It&#x27;s basically like having a callback API rather than a polling one. The end result is basically the same, except less load is placed on the exchange&#x27;s matching engine.<p>There&#x27;s nothing &quot;rigged&quot; about this behavior. Traders forming new price levels on public markets still incur substantial risk that the price will move against them when filled. There aren&#x27;t any order types that let you get execution priority in front of a large queue like he describes.<p>These order types and their behavior were well-documented on public websites and anyone concerned with the microstructure of how their trades executed could easily use them. The game he&#x27;s describing is of little concern to anyone other than HFT MMs and execution algos that depend on favorable queue position. The entire process of a level ticking away and a new price being formed in liquid tick-wide names plays out in microseconds these days.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quant turned whistle blower explains how the market is rigged [video]</title><url>http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/11/video-the-wall-street-code/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Is there a text explanation of this? I&#x27;m curious to learn what the allegation is, but I don&#x27;t have 50 minutes to spend on what is likely a silly conspiracy theory.<p>The small amount of text present suggests someone is being allowed to jump the queue. Is that the allegation, or does it go beyond that?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quant turned whistle blower explains how the market is rigged [video]</title><url>http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/11/video-the-wall-street-code/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>code_duck</author><text>My conclusion about all of this is that the government <i>wants</i> people to be afraid. These are not real attempts to detect threats to flights. If anything, they're most interested in finding drugs and smuggled valuables. And this is not 'security theater'. The intent is to get everyone used to invasive, police-state style behavior.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No More Fear</title><url>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/12/29/My-Country</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zdw</author><text>Also recommended reading are Bruce Schneier's book "Beyond Fear" which provides a great mental framework for thinking about security (mainly IRL, but with applications in computing)<p><a href="http://www.schneier.com/book-beyondfear.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.schneier.com/book-beyondfear.html</a><p>and his blog:<p><a href="http://www.schneier.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.schneier.com/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No More Fear</title><url>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/12/29/My-Country</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dripton</author><text>Link to the actual paper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;julian.togelius.com&#x2F;Justesen2016Online.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;julian.togelius.com&#x2F;Justesen2016Online.pdf</a><p>I&#x27;ve written an AI for a similar game, where you can&#x27;t always even iterate over all your moves for this turn, let alone do a multi-ply tree search.<p>Using their terminology of Action and Turn, my method was to first evaluate individual Actions using a simpler evaluation function, and apply a cutoff so that only a reasonably number of Actions had to evaluated, then combine that reduced group of Actions together to make a reasonable subset of full Turn moves, then use the full evaluation function to find the best Turn.<p>Writing a good evaluation function for a complex game is hard, so I picked a whole bunch of inputs and then used a genetic algorithm to find weights for them. (Let the various AIs play entire games, and let the winners breed.)<p>Works okay, but still can&#x27;t beat a decent human player very often. (There&#x27;s enough randomness in the game that the better player doesn&#x27;t always win.)<p>In this paper, their Online Evolution beat the other four computer strategies, but they don&#x27;t mention whether it can beat good human players. If it can&#x27;t, it&#x27;s not clear to me whether Online Evolution is a good algorithm. Beating their other four algorithms doesn&#x27;t seem to be a very high bar.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A way to deal with enormous branching factors in strategy games</title><url>http://togelius.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-way-to-deal-with-enormous-branching.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>Small nitpick regarding Hearthstone: Its branching factor is really not that high. Higher than Chess, but not in the same category as Civilization, which gives you thousands to tens of thousands of potential inputs every turn.<p>In Hearthstone, you have a specific amount of options you can play (anywhere between 0 and 10-ish), and each option may have one or more targets (usually again between 0-10 ish). This sounds high, but you&#x27;re able to discard a lot of those options <i>much</i> more easily than you would in Go&#x2F;Chess (eg. damaging yourself is seldom a good idea).<p>There&#x27;s often multiple options you can play per turn, but each option has to be evaluated under the current state of the board since playing a single option can <i>radically</i> alter the game state. So a much fairer approach is to look at a branching factor of about 15, with multiple successive &quot;turns&quot; (eg. each option is a single &quot;turn&quot;, and you can play multiple turns before ceding control to the opponent).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A way to deal with enormous branching factors in strategy games</title><url>http://togelius.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-way-to-deal-with-enormous-branching.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jnbiche</author><text>It&#x27;s sketchy because the alleged actions are basically tax fraud. It&#x27;s also unethical because Hampton Creek were taking money from the pocket of the contractors because they were making them pay income taxes on money they didn&#x27;t actually earn.<p>Did you actually read the parent comment? This goes way beyond any deceptive marketing practices.<p>For the record, I&#x27;m one of HN&#x27;s many (oft mocked) libertarians, but even as a hands-off kinda guy, this is a step too far. They &quot;laundered&quot; the money through their contractor&#x27;s pay, because they didn&#x27;t want it to show up on their financial statements.<p>So it&#x27;s not the deceptive marketing (you&#x27;re right that this is more or less par for the course), it&#x27;s the lies and fraud they allegedly committed to hide the deceptive marketing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>homegarlic</author><text>Almost anyone in a highly competitive market doesn&#x27;t play by the rules.<p>Isn&#x27;t it sketchy when egg-carton has a chicken freely roaming the grass on it?<p>Isn&#x27;t it sketchy to write cage-free when the chicken is in a dark large container clumped together with hundreds of other chickens?<p>They are selling a product that has to compete with billion-dollar businesses that already have plenty of sketchy and untruthful marketing.<p>They spent a meager 77k on this and somehow that is unacceptable.<p>It&#x27;s just the same if not less worse than what their competition does.</text></item><item><author>themgt</author><text>&gt; <i>In at least some cases, Hampton Creek lumped in expenses related to buying its own products with wages paid to contractors, according to five former workers. All five said money they were given to buy jars of Just Mayo were treated as taxable income, making them liable for a higher tax bill than their actual earnings would require. One former contractor provided H&amp;R Block tax records showing this to be the case. Another Creeker asked the company in an e-mail to separate the expenses from taxable income. But the request was ignored, the contractor said. Hampton creek declined to comment about the alleged practice.</i><p>Sketchy and unacceptable</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hampton Creek Ran Undercover Project to Buy Up Its Own Vegan Mayo</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/food-startup-ran-undercover-project-to-buy-up-its-own-products</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thieving_magpie</author><text>It&#x27;s sketchy to call egg-free-white-flavored-oil-mix Mayo. It&#x27;s sketchy to put a giant egg on your egg-free mayo.<p>&quot;While Just Mayo is egg-free, Hampton Creek Chief Executive Josh Tetrick also emphasized that it doesn’t use the term “mayonnaise,” only “mayo.”&quot;<p>It&#x27;s mayo, not mayonnaise you silly consumers.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;just-mayo-reaches-agreement-with-fda-to-keep-name-change-label-1450394163" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;just-mayo-reaches-agreement-with...</a><p>edit: You know, of all the things I could comment I talk about eggless f&#x27;ng mayo. I wish I could delete this :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>homegarlic</author><text>Almost anyone in a highly competitive market doesn&#x27;t play by the rules.<p>Isn&#x27;t it sketchy when egg-carton has a chicken freely roaming the grass on it?<p>Isn&#x27;t it sketchy to write cage-free when the chicken is in a dark large container clumped together with hundreds of other chickens?<p>They are selling a product that has to compete with billion-dollar businesses that already have plenty of sketchy and untruthful marketing.<p>They spent a meager 77k on this and somehow that is unacceptable.<p>It&#x27;s just the same if not less worse than what their competition does.</text></item><item><author>themgt</author><text>&gt; <i>In at least some cases, Hampton Creek lumped in expenses related to buying its own products with wages paid to contractors, according to five former workers. All five said money they were given to buy jars of Just Mayo were treated as taxable income, making them liable for a higher tax bill than their actual earnings would require. One former contractor provided H&amp;R Block tax records showing this to be the case. Another Creeker asked the company in an e-mail to separate the expenses from taxable income. But the request was ignored, the contractor said. Hampton creek declined to comment about the alleged practice.</i><p>Sketchy and unacceptable</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hampton Creek Ran Undercover Project to Buy Up Its Own Vegan Mayo</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/food-startup-ran-undercover-project-to-buy-up-its-own-products</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>annexrichmond</author><text>yeah but if your org has orchestration tooling built around k8s, in a way it becomes much easier to provision a DB with k8s, setup the service, routing, networking, roles, etc than it would be in terraform. especially if you have to repeat this process in like 20 envs (stage, prod) x multiple regions</text><parent_chain><item><author>_skel</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the upsides are worth all the work.<p>You can spend a lot of time getting databases and other stateful workloads to work -- mess around with StatefulSet and PVC on top of all the normal Kubernetes concepts, and what do you get in the end? Are you really better off than you would have been if you ran the database in EC2?<p>Plus, &quot;herds not pets&quot; kind of breaks down once you start using StatefulSets and PVCs. Those things exist to make Kubernetes more like a static environment for workloads that can&#x27;t handle being run like ephemeral cattle. So why not just keep using your static environment?<p>If Kubernetes is the only workload management control plane you have, then I guess this makes sense. But if you are already able to deploy your databases with existing tools, and those existing tools don&#x27;t <i>really</i> suck, it&#x27;s probably not worth migrating. It would take a lot of time and introduce significant new risks and operational complexity without a compensating payoff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running Databases on Kubernetes</title><url>https://questdb.io/blog/databases-on-k8s/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>superyesh</author><text>+1 Sometimes just because you can does not mean you should.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_skel</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the upsides are worth all the work.<p>You can spend a lot of time getting databases and other stateful workloads to work -- mess around with StatefulSet and PVC on top of all the normal Kubernetes concepts, and what do you get in the end? Are you really better off than you would have been if you ran the database in EC2?<p>Plus, &quot;herds not pets&quot; kind of breaks down once you start using StatefulSets and PVCs. Those things exist to make Kubernetes more like a static environment for workloads that can&#x27;t handle being run like ephemeral cattle. So why not just keep using your static environment?<p>If Kubernetes is the only workload management control plane you have, then I guess this makes sense. But if you are already able to deploy your databases with existing tools, and those existing tools don&#x27;t <i>really</i> suck, it&#x27;s probably not worth migrating. It would take a lot of time and introduce significant new risks and operational complexity without a compensating payoff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running Databases on Kubernetes</title><url>https://questdb.io/blog/databases-on-k8s/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DavidChouinard</author><text>Similar attempts:<p>Gulfstream V: <a href="http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GLF17/history/20070206/1538Z/KATW/KATW" rel="nofollow">http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GLF17/history/20070206/15...</a><p>Cessna Logo: <a href="http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N750CX/history/20080307/1745Z/KICT/KICT" rel="nofollow">http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N750CX/history/20080307/1...</a><p>Boeing 747: <a href="http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE523/history/20110802/1330Z/KPAE/KPAE" rel="nofollow">http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE523/history/20110802/1...</a><p>Also, a thread from one of the pilots: <a href="http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular/24611/BOE236_787_performing_a_787_with_a_logo#36259" rel="nofollow">http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular/24611/B...</a><p>Interestingly, this required a lot of work on our side to pull this off. Since the route field on flights plans expects short input and this flight's route is dramatically longer, it caused an FAA system to split the flight arbitrarily into different legs.<p>(Disclaimer: I work for FlightAware)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dreamliner spells out "787" & Boeing logo over US during test flight</title><url>http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE236/history/20120209/2100Z/KBFI/KBFI</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peteforde</author><text>I actually posted this about 16 hours ago (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3574619" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3574619</a>) and I point this out because it's always fascinating to me when the "right" time to post something on different sites is.<p>For example, I believe days start at 8pm PST on Flickr (can anyone correct me if I'm mistaken) and there's a power-user perspective that will wait to post things so that they can get a leg up on the "interestingness" algorithm.<p>Anyhow, this post makes me smile even the second time around.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dreamliner spells out "787" & Boeing logo over US during test flight</title><url>http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE236/history/20120209/2100Z/KBFI/KBFI</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>Yes, the public Freenet opennet contains lots of horrible content. But then, Freenet&#x27;s focus has always been censorship resistance. Content gets distributed and replicated according to its popularity. It&#x27;s a lot like BitTorrent, but with serious transport encryption and randomized routing.<p>And arguably it&#x27;s worked pretty well for that, given that there&#x27;s been consistently lots of horrible content for 18 years. Content providers (and users) have been busted, but that hasn&#x27;t eliminated much of their content.<p>However, being a pure P2P system, you only have &quot;anonymity&quot; through plausible deniability. And that&#x27;s a dangerous game to play. Criminal investigators have used modified Freenet nodes to track chunks of illegal content, and have prosecuted users whose nodes processed those chunks.<p>The Freenet Project argues that it&#x27;s impossible to reliably determine whether nodes are requesting those chunks, or merely relaying requests from other nodes. But if you end up in court, you&#x27;ll need an expert witness to convince the jury of that. So you&#x27;ll likely end up with a plea bargain.<p>So anyway, it&#x27;s safest to run Freenet on anonymously leased VPS, and access its webGUI as a Tor .onion service. Just as you&#x27;d prudently run a BitTorrent seedbox.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simcop2387</author><text>I&#x27;ve always loved the ideals and design of Freenet for what it does, but the main issues I always ran into when I&#x27;d check it out were that discoverability was horrible and then once you did manage to dig into things and find content it was usually stuff I wouldn&#x27;t want to find to begin with. That&#x27;s left a lot of bad impressions on people I think, and caused it to have a reputation for only illegal things on it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (2000) [pdf]</title><url>http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/clarke00freenet.pdf</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>That&#x27;s rather inherent: if you create a network whose primary feature is anonymity and lack of rules, your early adopters will be everyone barred by the rules of other services, which means you become a cesspool.<p>Tor did a good job with marketing and optics early on, to make its <i>intended</i> use cases highly visible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simcop2387</author><text>I&#x27;ve always loved the ideals and design of Freenet for what it does, but the main issues I always ran into when I&#x27;d check it out were that discoverability was horrible and then once you did manage to dig into things and find content it was usually stuff I wouldn&#x27;t want to find to begin with. That&#x27;s left a lot of bad impressions on people I think, and caused it to have a reputation for only illegal things on it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (2000) [pdf]</title><url>http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/clarke00freenet.pdf</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sdfghswe</author><text>You don&#x27;t care about any features, apart from the features you care about. Just like everyone else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willyt</author><text>If everyone&#x27;s messaging has to be compatible with everyone else&#x27;s then maybe we will finally only need one messaging app on our phones again instead of 5. Sounds great. I just want to be able to send messages without thinking about which app I need to go into to communicate with a particular person; that really breaks my flow when I&#x27;m trying to get something done. I don&#x27;t give a shit about any features apart from pictures, groups and emojis.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/europe-dma-apple-imessage</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rkangel</author><text>The solution I use to minimise this is Element One (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;element-one" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;element.io&#x2F;element-one</a>). This is a paid for service that operates bridges from Matrix to Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. I then get to communicate with all those contacts in one place (I&#x27;m on Android so iMessage not a problem).<p>I signed up the moment it came out and they had some teething reliability problems for a while, but it&#x27;s been great for months now. Element is a much better web client than any of the others and it&#x27;s nice to not have to worry about which computer or platform I&#x27;m on when I want to write a message.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willyt</author><text>If everyone&#x27;s messaging has to be compatible with everyone else&#x27;s then maybe we will finally only need one messaging app on our phones again instead of 5. Sounds great. I just want to be able to send messages without thinking about which app I need to go into to communicate with a particular person; that really breaks my flow when I&#x27;m trying to get something done. I don&#x27;t give a shit about any features apart from pictures, groups and emojis.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/europe-dma-apple-imessage</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>Well, we let them write undemocratic laws for security reasons because &quot;terrorism&quot;. It&#x27;s our fault.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rlpb</author><text>&gt; ...if criminal behaviour is suspected, facilities can be legally withdrawn.<p>This is unacceptable. The UK government has pushed all the risk to the bank, and this quasi-legal removal of the rule of law with respect to citizens having control of their own money is the result.<p>It should not be legal for the bank to withdraw access to funds for an extended period of time without a criminal standard of evidence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Customers are getting caught up as banks de-risk due to money laundering laws</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jan/22/barclays-took-my-440000-customers-caught-up-banks-de-risking-money-laundering-laws</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>retube</author><text>It&#x27;s a direct result of the regulatory and reputational risks that banks now face. Threatened with multi-billion dollar fines for facilitating money laundering they&#x27;re not taking any chances.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rlpb</author><text>&gt; ...if criminal behaviour is suspected, facilities can be legally withdrawn.<p>This is unacceptable. The UK government has pushed all the risk to the bank, and this quasi-legal removal of the rule of law with respect to citizens having control of their own money is the result.<p>It should not be legal for the bank to withdraw access to funds for an extended period of time without a criminal standard of evidence.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Customers are getting caught up as banks de-risk due to money laundering laws</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jan/22/barclays-took-my-440000-customers-caught-up-banks-de-risking-money-laundering-laws</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bojo</author><text>Environment setup has been heavily discussed[1] in the community and is definitely a pain point when getting started with Haskell. Unfortunately there are several sides with differing opinions on how to bootstrap a user and get them using Haskell, although the new Downloads page seems to be a good first step towards achieving a more unified goal.<p>The opinions kind of break down as:<p>1. Simply get GHC on their machine - Typically academic instructors trying to get their students started with low overhead. They simply want GHC and GHCi available so an assignment can compile, or code can be tested in the repl.<p>2. Install Haskell Platform - This has been strongly supported by what I would call the older Haskell community, although admittedly share your confusion as to its point. This seems to target point-and-click users and give them every tool in the ecosystem so that when they reference the random blogs&#x2F;documentation out there they aren&#x27;t confused by missing a command.<p>3. Use Stack - This has been heavily pushed by people trying to help Haskell grow in the programming industry. It&#x27;s a fantastic tool and I recommend everyone use it if they plan on doing complex projects, especially in a team setting.<p>My hope is that over the next year or so we&#x27;ll see more stack adoption, ideally because there are more consistent tutorials&#x2F;guides&#x2F;documentation published which target it as the basic tool to start developing Haskell in.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;comments&#x2F;50prvg&#x2F;haskellcommunity_next_steps_in_downloads_page&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;comments&#x2F;50prvg&#x2F;haskellcomm...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>I started learning Haskell this year.<p>One of the small bumps I had was getting my environment setup. Based on my experiences with Ruby and Node, I knew I&#x27;d want to have a tool for managing the language&#x27;s version and dependencies per-project, so I ended up going with stack [0]. Arriving at that decision required a bit more reading than with other languages. Additionally, while setting up stack, I thought their docs were too long. They&#x27;d benefit from being broken up into more pages, instead of pushing so much all at once. With that said, the information presented in the docs is actually quite clear and well written.<p>Looking at the Downloads section [1] on the Haskell website, it looks like they&#x27;ve improved the docs since I last visited, but it&#x27;s still a bit confusing. What&#x27;s the point of Haskell Platform? It looks like it includes stack, which <i>already</i> covers all my requirements. Maybe it&#x27;d be useful to include a &quot;why&quot; section for each choice, to provide some examples of scenarios in which you might go with one choice over the other. Telling me what I&#x27;m getting doesn&#x27;t give me any meaningful information if I don&#x27;t know why I&#x27;d want that in the first place. I think there&#x27;s too much information up-front, even though people landing there probably aren&#x27;t equipped to make use of it. Why would someone pick the Haskell Platform option or the minimal install option?<p>While reading Learn You a Haskell, I used Haskell for Mac [2] for poking around. It&#x27;s pretty great, although I didn&#x27;t end up purchasing it, as I&#x27;m not doing anything that would benefit from using it.<p>Something I liked about Elixir is that you can just read their getting started docs and pick up Phoenix framework to get a web app up and running. That gives you a nice base on which to gradually build upon as you learn. Does anyone have a similar suggestion for Haskell?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.haskellstack.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;README&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.haskellstack.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;README&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haskell.org&#x2F;downloads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haskell.org&#x2F;downloads</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskellformac.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskellformac.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reflecting on Haskell in 2016</title><url>http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2017.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harpocrates</author><text>You bring up good points! As a beginner, you are uniquely poised to observe these things, so thanks for sharing! I think a big part of the install problem is that some of the options (stack, platform) are fairly recent.<p>I recently got a new machine and decided to try _only_ using stack. All I had to run to get started was<p><pre><code> $ curl -sSL https:&#x2F;&#x2F;get.haskellstack.org&#x2F; | sh
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The advantages of stack are that:<p><pre><code> * I have an easy upgrade path for GHC (no need to install or uninstall) - I just change the global resolver
* I can have multiple GHC versions installed at once (great for debugging)
* getting rid of old versions (to clear up space) is just deleting a folder
* most of my dependency problems get solved by resolvers
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The only downside I&#x27;ve encountered so far is that building GHC itself is quite finicky with this setup. Unlike the Haskell Platform, I will have to install manually the libraries I need - that makes development offline quite tough (you find yourself without internet and without the library you need installed).<p>That aside, one good starting point for building up Haskell is the 99 problems [1]. Haskell is more general purpose than Elixir, so past that, it really depends on what you want to do with it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.haskell.org&#x2F;H-99:_Ninety-Nine_Haskell_Problems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.haskell.org&#x2F;H-99:_Ninety-Nine_Haskell_Problems</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>I started learning Haskell this year.<p>One of the small bumps I had was getting my environment setup. Based on my experiences with Ruby and Node, I knew I&#x27;d want to have a tool for managing the language&#x27;s version and dependencies per-project, so I ended up going with stack [0]. Arriving at that decision required a bit more reading than with other languages. Additionally, while setting up stack, I thought their docs were too long. They&#x27;d benefit from being broken up into more pages, instead of pushing so much all at once. With that said, the information presented in the docs is actually quite clear and well written.<p>Looking at the Downloads section [1] on the Haskell website, it looks like they&#x27;ve improved the docs since I last visited, but it&#x27;s still a bit confusing. What&#x27;s the point of Haskell Platform? It looks like it includes stack, which <i>already</i> covers all my requirements. Maybe it&#x27;d be useful to include a &quot;why&quot; section for each choice, to provide some examples of scenarios in which you might go with one choice over the other. Telling me what I&#x27;m getting doesn&#x27;t give me any meaningful information if I don&#x27;t know why I&#x27;d want that in the first place. I think there&#x27;s too much information up-front, even though people landing there probably aren&#x27;t equipped to make use of it. Why would someone pick the Haskell Platform option or the minimal install option?<p>While reading Learn You a Haskell, I used Haskell for Mac [2] for poking around. It&#x27;s pretty great, although I didn&#x27;t end up purchasing it, as I&#x27;m not doing anything that would benefit from using it.<p>Something I liked about Elixir is that you can just read their getting started docs and pick up Phoenix framework to get a web app up and running. That gives you a nice base on which to gradually build upon as you learn. Does anyone have a similar suggestion for Haskell?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.haskellstack.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;README&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.haskellstack.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;README&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haskell.org&#x2F;downloads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haskell.org&#x2F;downloads</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskellformac.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskellformac.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reflecting on Haskell in 2016</title><url>http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_2017.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>azakai</author><text>Here&#x27;s the part about numerics differing between the VM and dart2js:<p>&gt; A numeric literal is either a decimal or hexadecimal integer of arbitrary size, or a decimal double [..] In principle, the range of integers supported by a Dart implementations is unlimited. In practice, it is limited by available memory. Implementations may
also be limited by other considerations. For example, implementations may choose to limit the range to facilitate efficient compilation to Javascript. These limitations should be relaxed as soon as technologically feasible.<p>So in principle Dart has bignums and doubles, but does not specify anything about how &quot;big&quot; the bignums are supposed to be, so a conformant implementation can simply not implement bignums (i.e. they are the size of the integers that fit in doubles).<p>This technically makes dart2js conformant, even though it in practice has different numeric types than the VM. That&#x27;s fairly clever from a spec perspective, but worrying from a practical point of view.<p>Anyone know what the status of bignums in JS is? The spec says this will be fixed when &quot;technologically feasible&quot;, but I can&#x27;t find information about (1) what overhead dart2js currently suffers when it does implement bignums, and (2) when this is expected to become feasible, and how. I know some dart VM people are active in the comments here - is there any public info on those two issues?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dart Programming Language Specification [pdf]</title><url>http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-408.pdf</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mythz</author><text>Also announced today: Dart to get async&#x2F;await syntax sugar to simplify async programming:<p><pre><code> foo async =&gt; 42;
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<a href="https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/#!msg/misc/xFj2kuiC0fs/qqt_kD2ZSIQJ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;dartlang.org&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!msg&#x2F;misc&#x2F;xF...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dart Programming Language Specification [pdf]</title><url>http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-408.pdf</url><text></text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deepsun</author><text>I wonder if bad publicity is still publicity here. The hardest step here is to make people know about the &quot;club&quot;. Then a charismatic salesman can persuade whatever. I&#x27;ve seen people being persuaded milk is black, bombs are food etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Edward Snowden invited to promote a Ponzi Scheme and exposes founder instead (2021)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv3UC4lz3oQ</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mustafabisic1</author><text>&quot;But my advice to everyone on this call tonight is: Look up ..&quot;<p>Wow, so elegant.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Edward Snowden invited to promote a Ponzi Scheme and exposes founder instead (2021)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv3UC4lz3oQ</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>&gt; Bugorski survived, completed his PhD, and continued working as a particle physicist.[4] There was virtually no damage to his intellectual capacity, but the fatigue of mental work increased markedly.[2] Bugorski completely lost hearing in the left ear, replaced by a form of tinnitus.[5] The left half of his face was paralyzed due to the destruction of nerves.[1] He was able to function well, except for occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anatoli_Bugorski" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anatoli_Bugorski</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/why-we-can-stop-worrying-and-love-the-particle-accelerator</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snet0</author><text>It&#x27;s so strange to me that the brain could be so damaged as to lead to facial paralysis and deafness, as well as seizures, but still function well-enough for the person to complete their doctorate.<p>Did he just get unlucky, and receive a precise zap to the &quot;right side of the face&quot; zone? Or did the brain have to adapt under stress, and decided that this functionality was the sacrifice that had to be made?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/why-we-can-stop-worrying-and-love-the-particle-accelerator</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>One way of alleviating the boom&#x2F;bust effect is some form of supply management, such as what exists for diary products in Canada: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Supply_management_(Canada)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Supply_management_(Canada)</a><p>It&#x27;s effectively a subsidy, but the subsidy is provided by the actual consumers of the goods (via government price fixing) rather than out of the general revenue pot. Individual farmers get grouchy that they&#x27;re no allowed to have more cattle than their quota, but the reality is that those limitations protect a commons— if there were no restrictions and every farmer took on a few more cattle, there&#x27;d be oversupply, the price would crash, and they&#x27;d all be headed to Ottawa for a bailout. Yay free markets.<p>Note that this whole system is an interesting bit of political football in Canada, because the party that you&#x27;d expect to oppose it ideologically (the Conservatives) in fact do not, because their support base includes the rural farmers who benefit from it. The farmers are also well organized and well funded in terms of their lobbying operation. There was a recent mini-scandal about their presence at the Conservative party&#x27;s national convention, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nationalpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;full-text-the-dairy-lobby-briefing-binder-found-on-the-floor-of-the-conservative-convention" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nationalpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;full-text-the-dairy-lob...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>thereisnospork</author><text>The problem is that these natural market corrections, when they occur with farming, have historically resulted in famine.<p>Natural, self-correcting famine maybe, but all the same allowing it to occur is understandably undesirable.</text></item><item><author>tryptophan</author><text>&gt;What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;rice&#x2F;wheat isn&#x27;t going to cut it anymore.<p>The way this is done in other industries, except for farming, is that half of the producers go bankrupt, production is reduced, and the survivors are able to be self-sustaining and profitable. We really do not need this much soy&#x2F;corn. The market is screaming &quot;stop making it&quot; and perhaps it is time we listen.</text></item><item><author>acconrad</author><text>I work in agtech and I&#x27;m not surprised by this at all.<p>The major corn and soy producers have faced downward pressure for the last 4 years. It now costs more to plant the crop than to pick and sell it.<p>And yet, the government pushes and incentivizes farmers to just grow more.<p>Read <i>This Blessed Earth</i> or <i>Omnivore&#x27;s Dilemma</i> if you want a primer on how messed up this system has become.<p>What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;rice&#x2F;wheat isn&#x27;t going to cut it anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/u-s-farmers-stung-by-tariffs-now-face-a-3-5-billion-corn-loss</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>If a market correction is caused by overproduction there won&#x27;t be a famine. The level of production will decrease to align with consumer demand (as opposed to government subsidy demand which is far higher).</text><parent_chain><item><author>thereisnospork</author><text>The problem is that these natural market corrections, when they occur with farming, have historically resulted in famine.<p>Natural, self-correcting famine maybe, but all the same allowing it to occur is understandably undesirable.</text></item><item><author>tryptophan</author><text>&gt;What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;rice&#x2F;wheat isn&#x27;t going to cut it anymore.<p>The way this is done in other industries, except for farming, is that half of the producers go bankrupt, production is reduced, and the survivors are able to be self-sustaining and profitable. We really do not need this much soy&#x2F;corn. The market is screaming &quot;stop making it&quot; and perhaps it is time we listen.</text></item><item><author>acconrad</author><text>I work in agtech and I&#x27;m not surprised by this at all.<p>The major corn and soy producers have faced downward pressure for the last 4 years. It now costs more to plant the crop than to pick and sell it.<p>And yet, the government pushes and incentivizes farmers to just grow more.<p>Read <i>This Blessed Earth</i> or <i>Omnivore&#x27;s Dilemma</i> if you want a primer on how messed up this system has become.<p>What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;rice&#x2F;wheat isn&#x27;t going to cut it anymore.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/u-s-farmers-stung-by-tariffs-now-face-a-3-5-billion-corn-loss</url></story>
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<instructions>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>Discussion &amp; links to various implementations: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;eg1wr3&#x2F;reformer_the_efficient_transformer_anonymous_et&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;eg1wr3&#x2F;ref...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reformer, the Efficient Transformer</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/reformer-efficient-transformer.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lapink</author><text>There is no argument for why the LSH would work well, especially at the beginning of training. As the weights are initially random, bucket assignment would be random as well. If predicting at position A requires info from position B, but they are not in the same bucket, there will be no gradient to get the query embedding of A closer to the key embedding of B. The reversible layer trick is neat though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reformer, the Efficient Transformer</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/reformer-efficient-transformer.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diggan</author><text>Thanks for leaving your opinion but I think I&#x27;m not alone when I say that I prefer more elaborate feedback. You&#x27;re saying that a lot of things are bad, but not really why. &quot;Sloppy choice&quot;, &quot;boneheaded mistake&quot;, &quot;emberrassing&quot;, &quot;nonviable&quot;, &quot;code is garbage and won&#x27;t scale&quot; but neither of these things have any reasoning behind them (maybe you do, but you didn&#x27;t take the time to actually write it down) which makes your comment relatively useless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tfha</author><text>People who believe that ethereum is technically superior have not studied cryptocurrencies in depth. Ethereum made a lot of reckless design decisions, trading long term stability and security for advantages that only exist over bitcoin in the short term. Their short block time is a sloppy choice. Their focus on gpu mining is a boneheaded mistake. Their scripting system is embarrassing. Proof of stake is nonviable. Multiple clients invites large scale network forks like the spurious dragon update disaster. Their code is garbage and won&#x27;t scale.</text></item><item><author>randallsquared</author><text>As someone who has no stake in any of these, it seems to me that Ethereum has a big PR problem no matter how technically superior it is: it&#x27;s inextricably tied to the story about the DAO, where those who played the game by the rules had their Ethereum redistributed by the developers because said developers didn&#x27;t like the outcome. (I know that this isn&#x27;t a neutral phrasing, but it&#x27;s the perception I&#x27;m talking about...). Once it&#x27;s shown that some group is willing and able to change the rules to avoid losing, trusting that they won&#x27;t do it again seems naive.</text></item><item><author>joefourier</author><text>Notice how almost all news of Bitcoin now are about its price. Bitcoin used to be exciting in both technical and economical aspects, but has now become just a store of value entirely driven by speculation.<p>Other technically superior cryptocurrencies (e.g. Monero, Ethereum) have replaced most of its usecases, boasting much faster and cheaper transactions and real anonymity in the case of Monero. Bitcoin takes more than an hour even at absurd transaction fees of multiple dollars, and is actually pseudonymous, meaning if you can associate an address with a real person, it becomes relatively easy to trace all their transactions unless they were careful to cover their tracks.<p>It may or may not continue to increase in value long-term, but it has little uses outside of being worth a lot of money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/bitcoin-surges-past-7-000-to-extend-record-rally-this-year</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChrisClark</author><text>What do you think is better than Ethereum then? We already know by now Bitcoin is garbage. They have refused to do any innovation out of pride, and instead of just a tiny bit of compromise the devs pander to their ego and attack others instead. Directly causing this upcoming 51% attack on the chain (2X).<p>It is useless as a global currency now, and any more complicated smart contracts built on top of it need trust in a third party, eventually, if it&#x27;s ever built.<p>All it has left for it is brand recognition and large transactions as a settlement network.<p>The current price increase is obviously because people need to be in Bitcoin before this upcoming attack. Because if there is a back and forth fight over the hash power, you won&#x27;t know who is the winner immediately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tfha</author><text>People who believe that ethereum is technically superior have not studied cryptocurrencies in depth. Ethereum made a lot of reckless design decisions, trading long term stability and security for advantages that only exist over bitcoin in the short term. Their short block time is a sloppy choice. Their focus on gpu mining is a boneheaded mistake. Their scripting system is embarrassing. Proof of stake is nonviable. Multiple clients invites large scale network forks like the spurious dragon update disaster. Their code is garbage and won&#x27;t scale.</text></item><item><author>randallsquared</author><text>As someone who has no stake in any of these, it seems to me that Ethereum has a big PR problem no matter how technically superior it is: it&#x27;s inextricably tied to the story about the DAO, where those who played the game by the rules had their Ethereum redistributed by the developers because said developers didn&#x27;t like the outcome. (I know that this isn&#x27;t a neutral phrasing, but it&#x27;s the perception I&#x27;m talking about...). Once it&#x27;s shown that some group is willing and able to change the rules to avoid losing, trusting that they won&#x27;t do it again seems naive.</text></item><item><author>joefourier</author><text>Notice how almost all news of Bitcoin now are about its price. Bitcoin used to be exciting in both technical and economical aspects, but has now become just a store of value entirely driven by speculation.<p>Other technically superior cryptocurrencies (e.g. Monero, Ethereum) have replaced most of its usecases, boasting much faster and cheaper transactions and real anonymity in the case of Monero. Bitcoin takes more than an hour even at absurd transaction fees of multiple dollars, and is actually pseudonymous, meaning if you can associate an address with a real person, it becomes relatively easy to trace all their transactions unless they were careful to cover their tracks.<p>It may or may not continue to increase in value long-term, but it has little uses outside of being worth a lot of money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/bitcoin-surges-past-7-000-to-extend-record-rally-this-year</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swid</author><text>Cruise released a statement which said the car did hear the siren when it was louder than background noise. No indication how close the siren was for that to happen, but it sounds pretty definitive that audio sensors are already part of the kit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>&gt; The latest Cruise incident occurred Thursday night when a Cruise robotaxi and an emergency vehicle crashed and left a passenger injured. Cruise said in a social media post that one of its self-driving Chevy Bolt EVs entered an intersection on a green traffic light at Polk and Turk streets when it was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene.<p>Noticing and responding to emergency sounds&#x2F;signals in the road, distant but approaching, is yet another subtly complex aspect of human driving I hadn’t thought of but which seems obvious in retrospect. Seems solvable in theory but also involves a lot of uncertainty and contingencies. Then I suppose the cone-blocking hackers will start playing siren recordings to confuse the robotaxis…</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/18/cruise-told-by-regulators-to-immediately-reduce-robotaxi-fleet-50-following-crash/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; Then I suppose the cone-blocking hackers will start playing siren recordings to confuse the robotaxis…<p>Ummm, that would even confuse normal drivers, and I hope that it would wind you up in jail.<p>Those siren sounds get played on the radio sometimes, and I really wish that it was illegal to do so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>&gt; The latest Cruise incident occurred Thursday night when a Cruise robotaxi and an emergency vehicle crashed and left a passenger injured. Cruise said in a social media post that one of its self-driving Chevy Bolt EVs entered an intersection on a green traffic light at Polk and Turk streets when it was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene.<p>Noticing and responding to emergency sounds&#x2F;signals in the road, distant but approaching, is yet another subtly complex aspect of human driving I hadn’t thought of but which seems obvious in retrospect. Seems solvable in theory but also involves a lot of uncertainty and contingencies. Then I suppose the cone-blocking hackers will start playing siren recordings to confuse the robotaxis…</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/18/cruise-told-by-regulators-to-immediately-reduce-robotaxi-fleet-50-following-crash/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>A lot of the fraud hinges on the fact that all you need to drain an account is a static card number. A lot of hacks are subsequently piled on top of that to try and make it harder (SCA&#x2F;3D Secure, captchas, etc), and a lot of busywork is spent tidying up the consequences of that (chargeback handling, etc).<p>You could eliminate a lot of the fraud by moving off a mostly-static identifier to merchant, amount and time-limited tokens the user generates with their bank (or the merchant redirects them there). This would address a lot of the issues - the tokens are useless when leaked (as they only work against the merchant&#x27;s own account) and can&#x27;t be misused even by the merchant to go beyond the agreed amount or time limit.<p>This means with such a system you’d immediately eliminate a whole category of fraud, with the only thing remaining being merchant-level disputes like goods not as described&#x2F;etc, which can easily be made optional and the user can choose to opt-in for the extra fee. Then you would actually have a good case for lower&#x2F;no mandatory fees at all.<p>One problem you need to keep in mind is that fraud mitigation is a big industry in an of itself (some of it is real, some complete snake oil but relies on the underlying problem being real to sell itself) and wouldn&#x27;t be in favor of a system that is inherently immune to (at least some types of) fraud.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oldprogrammer2</author><text>Stripe, Block, and PayPal each solved a massive pain point.<p>PayPal provided a way to pay people and vendors without giving away your credit card number.<p>Square made it easy to accept payment in person on a phone, without an extensive upfront underwriting experience and without expensive fixed monthly fees.<p>Stripe did the same as Square, but for accepting online payments.<p>Fraud and Risk come in many forms, and these providers, even with their UX innovations, sit on top of those same rails to reduce fraud. Without those rails, buyers can’t trust sellers and sellers can’t trust buyers.<p>In my opinion, you need to find a way to solve that problem before you can eliminate the fees being captured by these providers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?</title><text>In total these companies have profit in double digit billions! That&#x27;s all coming from inefficiency and lack of real competition? is it totally necessary? does anyone think it possible to rival them in a decade with enough funding?</text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roughly</author><text>Stripe had a live dashboard over Black Friday that showed the dollar value of all transactions across their network, including those blocked for fraud. The fraud rate was nearly 12% of the total dollar amount of transactions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oldprogrammer2</author><text>Stripe, Block, and PayPal each solved a massive pain point.<p>PayPal provided a way to pay people and vendors without giving away your credit card number.<p>Square made it easy to accept payment in person on a phone, without an extensive upfront underwriting experience and without expensive fixed monthly fees.<p>Stripe did the same as Square, but for accepting online payments.<p>Fraud and Risk come in many forms, and these providers, even with their UX innovations, sit on top of those same rails to reduce fraud. Without those rails, buyers can’t trust sellers and sellers can’t trust buyers.<p>In my opinion, you need to find a way to solve that problem before you can eliminate the fees being captured by these providers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?</title><text>In total these companies have profit in double digit billions! That&#x27;s all coming from inefficiency and lack of real competition? is it totally necessary? does anyone think it possible to rival them in a decade with enough funding?</text></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>datadeft</author><text>Does this mean I have to potentially deal with two vendors when there is an outage? Awesome!</text><parent_chain><item><author>MattIPv4</author><text>Cloudflare&#x27;s R2 costs $0.36 per million read operations (after the 10 million you get for free) [1]. Vercel is wrapping R2 and is charging $2 per million reads [2]. They&#x27;re also charging $0.15&#x2F;GB for egress (after the 1GB you get free), when R2 charges nothing, and the storage cost is doubled from $0.015&#x2F;GB on R2 to $0.03&#x2F;GB on Vercel. That&#x27;s quite the cost increase for the DX improvement.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;r2&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;r2&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vercel.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;storage&#x2F;vercel-blob&#x2F;usage-and-pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vercel.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;storage&#x2F;vercel-blob&#x2F;usage-and-pricin...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Storage on Vercel</title><url>https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-storage</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>carride</author><text>You will get better customer support from Vercel. Cloudflare gives almost zero customer support if you are pay-as-you-go plan.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MattIPv4</author><text>Cloudflare&#x27;s R2 costs $0.36 per million read operations (after the 10 million you get for free) [1]. Vercel is wrapping R2 and is charging $2 per million reads [2]. They&#x27;re also charging $0.15&#x2F;GB for egress (after the 1GB you get free), when R2 charges nothing, and the storage cost is doubled from $0.015&#x2F;GB on R2 to $0.03&#x2F;GB on Vercel. That&#x27;s quite the cost increase for the DX improvement.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;r2&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;r2&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vercel.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;storage&#x2F;vercel-blob&#x2F;usage-and-pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vercel.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;storage&#x2F;vercel-blob&#x2F;usage-and-pricin...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Storage on Vercel</title><url>https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-storage</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobajeff</author><text>&gt;Arguably the rampant piracy that resulted was one of the causes of the Dreamcast&#x27;s decline...<p>I see this narrative parroted a lot but more than likely Dreamcast (and it&#x27;s piracy) had very little to do with sega&#x27;s exit from the hardware market.<p>Sega, the company, was already hanging on by the thread by a time the Dreamcast launched since they&#x27;d already been in massive debt at that point from previously launching and abandoning hardware projects in quick succession such as the Sega CD that 32x and the Saturn. Also, If I remember correctly this was during a recession in Japan. Around this time Sega was already looking at several companies to sell to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dusting off Dreamcast Linux</title><url>http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/02/dusting-off-dreamcast-linux.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I remember playing around with Linux of the Dreamcast back in the day. I think my plan back then was to use it as a media centre (that was before XBMC) but even back then, the lack of an Ethernet adapter as standard made Linux rather pointless. Though it didn’t help that I also didn’t have a keyboard either.<p>The modem did work surprisingly well for online gaming though and routers with Ethernet sockets weren’t (yet) common in most homes so I don’t disagree with Sega’s decision not to ship Ethernet as standard. It’s just a pity those Ethernet adapters are now in such short supply.<p>I still play on my Dreamcast a lot. It is a great console that, in my opinion, is the first of a whole new generation of consoles based around online play. But like a lot of pioneers, it suffered a little from being ahead of its time. Plus the fiasco of the Sega CD, 32x and Saturn (all of which were actually pretty decent in their own right but shouldn’t have existed from a commercial perspective) wouldn’t have helped peoples options of Sega ahead of the Dreamcast launch either.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dusting off Dreamcast Linux</title><url>http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/02/dusting-off-dreamcast-linux.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ydant</author><text>For me the big advantage of ripgrep is it defaults to searching recursively so I can just do &quot;rg term&quot;.<p>And the plugins support, which enables something like ripgrep-all, which can then search PDFs, etc.<p>If I&#x27;m scripting, though, I try to stick to common denominator grep.</text><parent_chain><item><author>heywoodlh</author><text>Ripgrep has always been interesting to me as I don&#x27;t ever find myself bothered by the speeds of GNU grep, even when working with large files. Additionally, grep is a standard utility included on most Unix-like OS-es so it is not super risky to write a script that relies on grep -- in contrast to writing a script that relies on a not-usually-installed-by-default tool like ripgrep. For me, I just don&#x27;t have issues with grep!<p>I&#x27;d love to hear people&#x27;s experiences on how grep wasn&#x27;t adequate and why they use ripgrep instead.<p>(This is not a criticism of Ripgrep: I&#x27;m glad it exists and that other people find it useful.)</text></item><item><author>epage</author><text>See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.burntsushi.net&#x2F;ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.burntsushi.net&#x2F;ripgrep</a> which contrasts ripgrep with GNU grep and others (from 2016)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why GNU grep is fast (2010)</title><url>https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wantoncl</author><text>Unicode support. It might have been the Windows ports of grep that were the problem, but ripgrep shines with Unicode files. And it handles a mix of Unicode and ASCII files without issue.<p>And I totally agree that having grep installed everywhere and it&#x27;s pretty fast enough. But I had a few ripgrep searches that were genuinely eyeblink fast. Like my finger hadn&#x27;t fully lifted off the enter key and it was done. On 10K+ plus files, about 1 GB, with 1.5M+ LOC. And the default folder recursion and .gitignore handling is a plus.</text><parent_chain><item><author>heywoodlh</author><text>Ripgrep has always been interesting to me as I don&#x27;t ever find myself bothered by the speeds of GNU grep, even when working with large files. Additionally, grep is a standard utility included on most Unix-like OS-es so it is not super risky to write a script that relies on grep -- in contrast to writing a script that relies on a not-usually-installed-by-default tool like ripgrep. For me, I just don&#x27;t have issues with grep!<p>I&#x27;d love to hear people&#x27;s experiences on how grep wasn&#x27;t adequate and why they use ripgrep instead.<p>(This is not a criticism of Ripgrep: I&#x27;m glad it exists and that other people find it useful.)</text></item><item><author>epage</author><text>See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.burntsushi.net&#x2F;ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.burntsushi.net&#x2F;ripgrep</a> which contrasts ripgrep with GNU grep and others (from 2016)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why GNU grep is fast (2010)</title><url>https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mfer</author><text>Preview has issues with PDFs with form fields right now. It causes a bunch of people to need to install Acrobat for that use case. :(</text><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>The good news is, unlike Windows, macOS has a fantastic default PDF viewer (&quot;Preview&quot;) and I don&#x27;t know why anyone would ever install Acrobat on it</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently</title><url>https://rekken.github.io/2020/05/14/Security-Flaws-in-Adobe-Acrobat-Reader-Allow-Malicious-Program-to-Gain-Root-on-macOS-Silently/</url></story>
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<instructions>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><i>The good news is, unlike Windows, macOS has a fantastic default PDF viewer (&quot;Preview&quot;) and I don&#x27;t know why anyone would ever install Acrobat on it</i><p>I, too, prefer Preview to Acrobat. But part of my workflow occasionally involves copying text from a PDF to create a web page. Preview cannot be counted on to reliably or accurately copy that text. It seems to have particular problems with the letter &quot;f&quot; when next to a letter &quot;s,&quot; in addition to other flaws.<p>Acrobat, on the other hand, always copies the text correctly.<p>Aside from this one use, however, I always employ Preview because otherwise it is far superior.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>The good news is, unlike Windows, macOS has a fantastic default PDF viewer (&quot;Preview&quot;) and I don&#x27;t know why anyone would ever install Acrobat on it</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently</title><url>https://rekken.github.io/2020/05/14/Security-Flaws-in-Adobe-Acrobat-Reader-Allow-Malicious-Program-to-Gain-Root-on-macOS-Silently/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>I feel like you&#x27;re replying to the title and not the article. The article starts with a huge disclaimer saying that the author has no tolerance for warnings getting merged in to their projects, but they have the warnings check in the CI pipeline. Doing that would totally prevent the kind of lax never-fixed errors you&#x27;re talking about, while allowing more flexibility while the PR is still in progress.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sgerenser</author><text>Within a company (at least in my experience) compilers&#x2F;toolchains are changed infrequently, usually less than once a year. In this case, keeping the software building with -Werror is a heck of a lot easier than allowing warnings to creep in, then trying to fix it later. It ends up that “later” never happens. Using -Werror from the very beginning forces you to address warnings: either by silencing obviously false positives, or fixing legitimate problems.<p>A previous company I worked at had large C++ projects that built with 5000+ warnings. Nobody looked at them, obviously. Buried within them I recall one about printf-style formatting string mismatching arguments, that said something like “mismatching arguments will cause a crash if this code is executed.” I only noticed it buried in the list of warnings after debugging a segfault caused by that line of code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>-Werror Is not your friend (2017)</title><url>https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2017/05/22/werror-is-not-your-friend/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ninkendo</author><text>&gt; either by silencing obviously false positives<p>(Off-topic) Oh how I wish this were possible in the language I use at $dayjob. Swift does not let you silence warnings on a line by line basis. It’s easily one of the top 5 worst things about the language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sgerenser</author><text>Within a company (at least in my experience) compilers&#x2F;toolchains are changed infrequently, usually less than once a year. In this case, keeping the software building with -Werror is a heck of a lot easier than allowing warnings to creep in, then trying to fix it later. It ends up that “later” never happens. Using -Werror from the very beginning forces you to address warnings: either by silencing obviously false positives, or fixing legitimate problems.<p>A previous company I worked at had large C++ projects that built with 5000+ warnings. Nobody looked at them, obviously. Buried within them I recall one about printf-style formatting string mismatching arguments, that said something like “mismatching arguments will cause a crash if this code is executed.” I only noticed it buried in the list of warnings after debugging a segfault caused by that line of code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>-Werror Is not your friend (2017)</title><url>https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2017/05/22/werror-is-not-your-friend/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>Thank you Tesla for replacing hardware buttons with menu driven touch screens and autopilot that will drive you home safely. Additionally thank you for causing such a hype that other car manufacturers feel like they missed the boat and are copying these brilliant features. &#x2F;s</text><parent_chain><item><author>DicIfTEx</author><text>And a sizeable portion of that medical error is due to poor device UX: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. (2016)</title><url>https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>This is insane. These device UIs should be standardized and any manufacturer making a significant UI change to their product should not be permitted to sell it under the same name and number. The FDA should be looking at this before approving such devices for use.<p>Don&#x27;t aircraft have more or less standardized controls and displays?</text><parent_chain><item><author>DicIfTEx</author><text>And a sizeable portion of that medical error is due to poor device UX: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. (2016)</title><url>https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>junko</author><text>There&#x27;s nothing wrong with seeking reassurance. Not everyone can be naturally confident, and in most cases the lack of it becomes a barrier. Take maths in British schools for example: most kids presume that it&#x27;s hard, and I&#x27;ve witnessed many times when they just refuse to try and have a go because of this pop delusion (because yeah, it&#x27;s almost cool to be bad in maths). But I&#x27;ve also taught lower set kids where their learning (and consequently test scores) boosted significantly once they realised that the &#x27;fear&#x27; was all in their heads.<p>But confidence is not like a switch that can be flipped on&#x2F;off. It might surge, but then it will tail off again. So you need support - not necessarily all the time - that&#x27;s enough to push you back up in the air. In the classroom, a good mentor will give you that. In an environment that is often perceived by a group of people to be a bit &#x27;scary&#x27; - like tech - the occasional empowerment talk will give you that. That&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t (well, no longer) see these &quot;women&quot; talks as awkward - on the contrary, they are much needed. You might roll your eyes, but there will be some in the audience feeling just a little less scared about the too-big-for-me ideas in their heads - and so increase the likelihood of executing them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>I personally know several successful professional women who have a policy of refusing to belong to any women-only groups. Their reason is that in their experience such groups are populated by people seeking reassurance. The result is that they offer the &quot;support&quot; of lowered expectations. Which won&#x27;t help you succeed.<p>One also pointed out to me that if a group of men were to form a men&#x27;s only business club, that would be seen as sexist. It is no less sexist to form a women&#x27;s only club, but nobody sees fit to criticize it.<p>This is not a bias against women in general. They just refuse to deal with people whose identify first as women, and only secondarily as professionals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech</title><url>https://soledadpenades.com/2016/07/20/why-i-wont-talk-about-being-a-woman-in-tech-and-neither-should-you/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AngrySkillzz</author><text>If you are a member of a disadvantaged group, you often do not have the ability to identify as a professional first and a group member second. That is the effect of being disadvantaged. Other people will make your life seem primarily about being a group member. Think about dealing with sexist&#x2F;sexually-charged comments, racial tension at the office. Even if you want to just be a professional, other people will get in your way (and not always intentionally). Maybe imagine what life would be like for one of those people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>I personally know several successful professional women who have a policy of refusing to belong to any women-only groups. Their reason is that in their experience such groups are populated by people seeking reassurance. The result is that they offer the &quot;support&quot; of lowered expectations. Which won&#x27;t help you succeed.<p>One also pointed out to me that if a group of men were to form a men&#x27;s only business club, that would be seen as sexist. It is no less sexist to form a women&#x27;s only club, but nobody sees fit to criticize it.<p>This is not a bias against women in general. They just refuse to deal with people whose identify first as women, and only secondarily as professionals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech</title><url>https://soledadpenades.com/2016/07/20/why-i-wont-talk-about-being-a-woman-in-tech-and-neither-should-you/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greggman</author><text>&gt; Exposing representation invariants In object-oriented programming, a representation invariant is a set of constraints that a concrete data type must uphold to correctly represent an abstract data type. Simply mapping a data structure to a UI would expose the invariant and put the burden of enforcing the invariant on users instead of the code. A typical example is having to enter a phone or part number in a specific format instead of the program handling any reasonable input.
&gt; Warning sign: Users required to enter data using a specific format.<p>This one drives me nuts. Soooooo many forms say &quot;enter your phone number no spaces or dashes or parens&quot; or cc number. Please just remove the dashes, spaces, parens when checking validation and maybe after submit. Don&#x27;t force the user to have to do this. They might be copying and pasting<p>Also don&#x27;t make some 4 field 16 digit custom form that ruins backspace behavior and makes it impossible to copy and paste. That also means don&#x27;t limit the field to 16 characters. If a users pastes in &quot;xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-wwww&quot; and only get &quot;xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-w&quot; you&#x27;re only going to frustrate them.<p>This is also an issue with many phone apps. Some you can&#x27;t paste a number in. Try copying a number from Safari iOS into Google Hangouts Phone dialer. There&#x27;s no paste option so I&#x27;m forced to write down the number on paper so I can manaully type it back in. Even the built in iOS phone dialer sucks. While you can paste you can&#x27;t edit. So if you copy something off a webpage and because of the crappy smartphone copy&#x2F;paste issues you get something like &quot;dial:123-4556&quot; there&#x27;s no way to remove the &quot;dial:&quot; part. At best you have to paste into some other app that will let you edit, edit, then copy and paste again. Sheesh, does no one ever use this stuff?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t design like a programmer (2010)</title><url>http://www.uxdesignedge.com/2010/03/dont-design-like-a-programmer/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ralusek</author><text>This is actually pretty well thought out here. I feel like the most important one is the one that I consider to be the most difficult: Optimizing for the most probable.<p>To me, it&#x27;s always a struggle between probability, predictability, and shortest possible paths between states. Probability being that at any given point, the path to what the user is most likely trying to do is as short as possible. Predictability means that from any given state, there is a consistent and predictable way that the user can know how to get to any other state. And finally, that from any state, the ability to switch to any other state in the application is as short as possible (which obviously conflicts with probability).<p>In my mind, almost every UX should be the equivalent of tabbed, nested folders. This takes care of predictability and short paths between all application states. The area this falls behind is in probability, in that there is no effort made to guess what the user wants. Given that your average user in a large application is unlikely to care about anything outside of the given task they&#x27;re trying to accomplish, I feel like it&#x27;s arguably more important than the things I traditionally prioritize for, and therefore something that I have to work on the most.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t design like a programmer (2010)</title><url>http://www.uxdesignedge.com/2010/03/dont-design-like-a-programmer/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>criddell</author><text>I went through the same process and got stuck on GoodNotes on the iPad. Once I got used to using the Pencil for sketching, marking up other documents, and handwriting notes (when that makes sense), I was hooked.<p>Obsidian is pretty cool and is progressing rapidly. If their iPad client gets Pencil support then I will probably end up there as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>utunbu</author><text>I&#x27;ve jumped between note-taking Apps, Evernote, Bear, Typora, Notion, Obsidian, ..., you name it. Finally settled down with Obsidian as I can manage note files directly such as using Syncthing for backing up and syncing. This one does seem interesting and possible to integrate into my workflow, gotta give it a try.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source</title><url>https://fsnot.es/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dinkleberg</author><text>I&#x27;m in a similar spot, recently started using Obsidian and am enjoying it. It&#x27;s far from perfect, but it is better than the others imo. And the fact that it is all markdown based means no lock-in which is fantastic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>utunbu</author><text>I&#x27;ve jumped between note-taking Apps, Evernote, Bear, Typora, Notion, Obsidian, ..., you name it. Finally settled down with Obsidian as I can manage note files directly such as using Syncthing for backing up and syncing. This one does seem interesting and possible to integrate into my workflow, gotta give it a try.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source</title><url>https://fsnot.es/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>knowtheory</author><text>This is one of the reasons why having adequate legal recourse is so important. The incompetence and inadequacy of the criminal justice system injures us all.<p>In an ideal world we would simply say &quot;where is the evidence, this should be sorted out in a trial&quot;. But given that the cops are so hostile to sexual assault victims, forensics which aren&#x27;t processed for <i>decades</i> (<a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/25/266275211/tested-at-last-rape-kits-giving-evidence-to-victims-stories" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;25&#x2F;266275211&#x2F;tested-at-last-rape-...</a> ) and a legal system which will try the credibility of victims, it&#x27;s hard to blame any sexual assault victim who shies away from reporting.<p>In the end, unanswered questions persist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beachstartup</author><text>so basically, we live in a society where anyone&#x27;s reputation can be instantly, completely and forever ruined, at will, by someone leveling a rape accusation on the internet.</text></item><item><author>eggbrain</author><text>Let me begin by saying that this is frustrating for all groups involved. But I wanted to specifically address what Max really can or cannot do regarding this situation.<p>1. I understand those that say that he should sue. But think of it this way: even if he goes through a long lawsuit to sue and wins, he still comes up worse for wear: people who hated him to begin with will just say he &quot;bought&quot; his freedom with high priced lawyers, and the publicity the trial would generate would just hurt him more no matter what the outcome.<p>2. What&#x27;s frustrating to me is even in these HN comments, the fact that he _isn&#x27;t_ suing is somehow proof that there might be more to the story! You end up not winning -- not going to trial is because you know the &quot;truth&quot; might come out, and going to trial and winning will still prove that you might still be guilty, but celebrity status&#x2F;money helped you.<p>3. Other people argue he should &#x2F; should not have posted this blog post. But again, it&#x27;s a catch-22: if you don&#x27;t publish the blog post, it&#x27;s because you are trying to bury the story because there might be some truth to it. But if you do publish it, now people think you aren&#x27;t telling <i>the whole truth</i> and are just spinning it to get people on your side!<p>So really, no matter what you do, there&#x27;s no good solution. If you sue, your victory will be Pyrrhic at best. If you don&#x27;t sue, you&#x27;re hiding something. If you post a response, you are spinning it. If you don&#x27;t post, you&#x27;re hiding something.<p>Worse yet, defending Max can end up being a lose-lose situation as well. If I believe Max&#x27;s story, and defend him in forums&#x2F;communications, that can portray me as being a sympathizer to sexual offenders rather than victims, which would anger me very much.<p>Sexual assault is a travesty. Period. And victims already have many times a hard enough time coming forward and talking about it, yet alone going to the police -- under the assumption that they might not be believed or that they will be shamed. But we need to make sure that there is justice for all, without hurting either side. We still have a long way to go.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This is a blog post that’s incredibly confusing and painful for me to write</title><url>http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/91476212698/this-is-a-blog-post-thats-incredibly-confusing</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rhizome</author><text>Has Max&#x27;s reputation been instantly, completely, and forever ruined?</text><parent_chain><item><author>beachstartup</author><text>so basically, we live in a society where anyone&#x27;s reputation can be instantly, completely and forever ruined, at will, by someone leveling a rape accusation on the internet.</text></item><item><author>eggbrain</author><text>Let me begin by saying that this is frustrating for all groups involved. But I wanted to specifically address what Max really can or cannot do regarding this situation.<p>1. I understand those that say that he should sue. But think of it this way: even if he goes through a long lawsuit to sue and wins, he still comes up worse for wear: people who hated him to begin with will just say he &quot;bought&quot; his freedom with high priced lawyers, and the publicity the trial would generate would just hurt him more no matter what the outcome.<p>2. What&#x27;s frustrating to me is even in these HN comments, the fact that he _isn&#x27;t_ suing is somehow proof that there might be more to the story! You end up not winning -- not going to trial is because you know the &quot;truth&quot; might come out, and going to trial and winning will still prove that you might still be guilty, but celebrity status&#x2F;money helped you.<p>3. Other people argue he should &#x2F; should not have posted this blog post. But again, it&#x27;s a catch-22: if you don&#x27;t publish the blog post, it&#x27;s because you are trying to bury the story because there might be some truth to it. But if you do publish it, now people think you aren&#x27;t telling <i>the whole truth</i> and are just spinning it to get people on your side!<p>So really, no matter what you do, there&#x27;s no good solution. If you sue, your victory will be Pyrrhic at best. If you don&#x27;t sue, you&#x27;re hiding something. If you post a response, you are spinning it. If you don&#x27;t post, you&#x27;re hiding something.<p>Worse yet, defending Max can end up being a lose-lose situation as well. If I believe Max&#x27;s story, and defend him in forums&#x2F;communications, that can portray me as being a sympathizer to sexual offenders rather than victims, which would anger me very much.<p>Sexual assault is a travesty. Period. And victims already have many times a hard enough time coming forward and talking about it, yet alone going to the police -- under the assumption that they might not be believed or that they will be shamed. But we need to make sure that there is justice for all, without hurting either side. We still have a long way to go.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This is a blog post that’s incredibly confusing and painful for me to write</title><url>http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/91476212698/this-is-a-blog-post-thats-incredibly-confusing</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CharlieDigital</author><text>In Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the new staff starts from cooking rice perfectly first and perfecting roasted seaweed before moving on to preparing an egg sushi and then graduating to fish.<p>It&#x27;s not grunt work.<p>It&#x27;s how new engineers learn the ropes and gain experience doing low risk work; it&#x27;s part of the learning process that only feels like grunt work to a senior dev.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>First of all chat GPT is great.<p>It is all the magic of early google, and stack overflow... Not as many ads less bullshit.<p>I have been coding for 25 years. Chat GPT + willing sr engineer means 2 less jr. dev&#x27;s. I lived through the dot com bust, and now I can do a heroic amount of work with less effort.<p>This raises two points:<p>1. It&#x27;s clear that we have too much grunt work. Im not sure if this is a failure of language design or libraries, but we need to do better at the core.<p>2. We continue to narrow the path to get experience as an engineer. This is great for companies in the near term (this looming down cycle), but bad for the industry as a whole long term (we dont have a pool of strong jr. engineers).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-development/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s clear that we have too much grunt work<p>Yes, architecture, medicine and metallurgy have been improved for millenniums. Next to that, IT is a baby that can barely walk. Of course we have too much grunt work.<p>But also because every time we remove grunt work, the customer expectation increase, the market adapts, and now you have to use new tools that are productive enough to do what the users want with the resource they are willing to pay.<p>So you don&#x27;t have to hand write assembly but you do have to have an app that works on 16 screens ratios. You have amazing databases ready to handle your data, but you should update the UI live.<p>&gt; We continue to narrow the path to get experience as an engineer.<p>Like in most industries, we are starting to move from &quot;everyone needs to be an experts&quot; to &quot;90% of the daily tasks really just need good technicians&quot;. That&#x27;s fine. That&#x27;s how it is supposed to be.<p>At some point only experts could duplicate your house keys. Now you have convenience key stores everywhere.<p>We are on the right track.<p>Next stop, the equivalent of residential building codes, but for public facing apps.<p>Because IT is so new and can be done in your garage, we thought it was special. It was not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>First of all chat GPT is great.<p>It is all the magic of early google, and stack overflow... Not as many ads less bullshit.<p>I have been coding for 25 years. Chat GPT + willing sr engineer means 2 less jr. dev&#x27;s. I lived through the dot com bust, and now I can do a heroic amount of work with less effort.<p>This raises two points:<p>1. It&#x27;s clear that we have too much grunt work. Im not sure if this is a failure of language design or libraries, but we need to do better at the core.<p>2. We continue to narrow the path to get experience as an engineer. This is great for companies in the near term (this looming down cycle), but bad for the industry as a whole long term (we dont have a pool of strong jr. engineers).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-development/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hamandcheese</author><text>I’ve had the pleasure of doing some contract work that involved dealings with Conduent, and my oh my are they absolutely horrible to work with, and generally incompetent.<p>Their m.o. is to put you on the phone with some folks from Bangalore, where if you ask anything off script they stonewall you with “that’s against internal security policy.”<p>Then, because the project is 6 months delayed and the main stakeholders are upset (the ones paying $$$ of taxpayer money), some account manager there CC’s every living soul who has ever been involved and tries to get them all on the phone together, which goes about as well as you would expect. Promises get made, timelines agreed upon, and then they never deliver.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Startup says it wants to fight poverty, but a food stamp giant is blocking it</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/technology/start-up-fight-poverty-food-stamp-giant-blocking-it.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>utopkara</author><text>Many will only read the image captions and will miss this buried &quot;info&quot; bit:<p>&quot;Conduent, in another twist, has begun competing with the start-up. The business services outsourcer, which has $6 billion in yearly revenue, introduced its own smartphone app last year. Conduent’s entry, ConnectEBT, has significantly fewer reviews and lower ratings on the Google and Apple app stores than Propel’s FreshEBT.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Startup says it wants to fight poverty, but a food stamp giant is blocking it</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/technology/start-up-fight-poverty-food-stamp-giant-blocking-it.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Question for folks with knowledge of the process. Government is also arguing for Holmes to pay $800 million in restitution. Obviously she doesn&#x27;t have that kind of money (neither even does her heir husband), so people she defrauded are never going to see that.<p>But what happens to her in that case? If the court does sign off on a restitution penalty, is it the equivalent of a creditor&#x27;s judgment against her? I believe acts of fraud can&#x27;t be discharged in bankruptcy, so is this judgment something that would hang over her forever? Could the defrauded parties garnish her wages?<p>Just curious as to how the logistics of &quot;unpayable restitution penalties&quot; play out in the real world.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. seeks 15 years for Elizabeth Holmes over Theranos fraud</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-seeks-15-years-elizabeth-holmes-over-theranos-fraud-2022-11-12/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bitexploder</author><text>This lays the process out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;criminal-vns&#x2F;restitution-process" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;criminal-vns&#x2F;restitution-process</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. seeks 15 years for Elizabeth Holmes over Theranos fraud</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-seeks-15-years-elizabeth-holmes-over-theranos-fraud-2022-11-12/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>It seems to me that I remember playing with a toy quite like theirs as a child many years ago. Basically cheap poker chips with cuts around the edge so they can connect.</i><p>The concept definitely isn&#x27;t new. Back in the 1990s, in Poland we had such &quot;chips with cuts around the edge&quot; added to bags of chips. See e.g. [0] or just search for &quot;Star Wars Tazo&quot;. These were themed and intended to be collectibles, but they had these tiny cuts into their sides and we absolutely did use them for small construction projects.<p>--<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;allegro.pl&#x2F;oferta&#x2F;zestaw-15-tazo-tazos-lays-star-wars-gwiezdne-wojny-7818241421" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;allegro.pl&#x2F;oferta&#x2F;zestaw-15-tazo-tazos-lays-star-war...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmyswimmy</author><text>I read this article expecting to hear about potential liability concerns, not IP protection. It seems to me that I remember playing with a toy quite like theirs as a child many years ago. Basically cheap poker chips with cuts around the edge so they can connect. So it seems quite unlikely that they&#x27;d try to protect that IP, since it probably wasn&#x27;t their invention in the first place.<p>The designs that they show being copied by others are an interesting problem. I got bored of all the pictures and didn&#x27;t compare one by one, but it seems like if you were to do a clean room design of a helicopter made of these snowflake chips, it would be legitimate to copy. I would guess they are suing this other company based on the copyright protection of their instruction manuals. Seems hard.<p>I&#x27;m quite glad my interests for developing products involve a healthy amount of algorithms rather than just pieces of plastic and instruction manuals. Success breeds competition, and in something like this I doubt it&#x27;s feasible to compete on quality, only price, which is a hard battle.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer</title><url>https://medium.com/@molson_hart/starting-a-physical-product-company-youre-gonna-need-a-lawyer-13b2eecebc9f</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hackerfromthefu</author><text>That was my first though on seeing the article also .. the chutzpah of writing the article like people are copying them .. when the presenting item is clearly a copy of existing children&#x27;s toys from before. Then to hear this is a lawyer spruiking IP business .. stopped reading after that honestly</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmyswimmy</author><text>I read this article expecting to hear about potential liability concerns, not IP protection. It seems to me that I remember playing with a toy quite like theirs as a child many years ago. Basically cheap poker chips with cuts around the edge so they can connect. So it seems quite unlikely that they&#x27;d try to protect that IP, since it probably wasn&#x27;t their invention in the first place.<p>The designs that they show being copied by others are an interesting problem. I got bored of all the pictures and didn&#x27;t compare one by one, but it seems like if you were to do a clean room design of a helicopter made of these snowflake chips, it would be legitimate to copy. I would guess they are suing this other company based on the copyright protection of their instruction manuals. Seems hard.<p>I&#x27;m quite glad my interests for developing products involve a healthy amount of algorithms rather than just pieces of plastic and instruction manuals. Success breeds competition, and in something like this I doubt it&#x27;s feasible to compete on quality, only price, which is a hard battle.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer</title><url>https://medium.com/@molson_hart/starting-a-physical-product-company-youre-gonna-need-a-lawyer-13b2eecebc9f</url></story>
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