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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>edef</author><text>The qemu TCG parts that it presumably links to are GPLv2, so the combined project is GPLv2 by necessity[1]. I think that&#x27;s all they&#x27;re trying to get across.<p>[1]: apart from viral licenses being pretty much meaningless under EU copyright law</text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>License is weird and unclear to me. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;revng&#x2F;revng&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;LICENSE.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;revng&#x2F;revng&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;LICENSE.md</a>:<p><i>“Licensing information<p>Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Alessandro Di Federico &lt;ale@clearmind.me&gt;<p>Copyright (c) 2017-2020 rev.ng Labs Srl &lt;info@rev.ng&gt;<p>The project as a whole is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.gpl.<p>Each individual file, unless otherwise noted, is released under the terms of the MIT License. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.mit.”</i><p>Does that paragraph about GPLv2 constitute a version of “unless otherwise noted”?<p>If so, why mention the MIT license at all?<p>If not, doesn’t that mean it effectively is dual licensed? If everything is GPLv2, and I take a single file, that’s still GPLv2, and if if have set of MIT licensed files and group them, the result still is MIT licensed.<p>(Browsing the code, all source files seem to have a MIT header, so, presumably, they mean this to beMIT licensed)<p>Also, it’s not “GPLv2 or later”, but I think you can take the MIT licensed files and rerelease them as GPLv3, if you’d want to (or is the attribution requirement a showstopper there?)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>revng translates (i386, x86-64, MIPS, ARM, AArch64, s390x) binaries to LLVM IR</title><url>https://github.com/revng/revng</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>Brian_K_White</author><text>If you have a set of MIT files, and group them, the group is whatever you want it to be.<p>It just means someone else can take all the files and make something else with them, but they just can&#x27;t redistribute the new project under the name revng, unless it conforms to gpl2.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>License is weird and unclear to me. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;revng&#x2F;revng&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;LICENSE.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;revng&#x2F;revng&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;LICENSE.md</a>:<p><i>“Licensing information<p>Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Alessandro Di Federico &lt;ale@clearmind.me&gt;<p>Copyright (c) 2017-2020 rev.ng Labs Srl &lt;info@rev.ng&gt;<p>The project as a whole is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.gpl.<p>Each individual file, unless otherwise noted, is released under the terms of the MIT License. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.mit.”</i><p>Does that paragraph about GPLv2 constitute a version of “unless otherwise noted”?<p>If so, why mention the MIT license at all?<p>If not, doesn’t that mean it effectively is dual licensed? If everything is GPLv2, and I take a single file, that’s still GPLv2, and if if have set of MIT licensed files and group them, the result still is MIT licensed.<p>(Browsing the code, all source files seem to have a MIT header, so, presumably, they mean this to beMIT licensed)<p>Also, it’s not “GPLv2 or later”, but I think you can take the MIT licensed files and rerelease them as GPLv3, if you’d want to (or is the attribution requirement a showstopper there?)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>revng translates (i386, x86-64, MIPS, ARM, AArch64, s390x) binaries to LLVM IR</title><url>https://github.com/revng/revng</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>ysavir</author><text>This is the thing that makes me lose interest in HTMX. People talk about it like it eliminates the need for JS&#x2F;React&#x2F;etc, but as far as I can tell, you&#x27;re still writing those same templates, just using your backend language instead of JS. Which is convenient, but hardly &quot;less code&quot;, just a different language, and that backend language probably lacks a lot of functionality you&#x27;d want for UI convenience. That&#x27;s all fine if you&#x27;ll never want those UI conveniences, by my experience has been that the want of those UI conveniences creep in over time, and eventually you regret not using something that makes them native and easy.<p>I haven&#x27;t actually played around with HTMX, so I might be sizing it up wrong, but it&#x27;s mission statement just never resonated with me enough to want to try it out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve been struggling with using HTMX... with an app and a frontend REST API I&#x27;ve found I can really kinda quickly craft a frontend by filtering down whatever resources I need (though it&#x27;s honestly pretty wasteful at times).<p>With HTMX I&#x27;m finding myself needing to have as many backend views as I have ways of interacting with a page. I still have to write the frontend, and on top of that I gotta make a bunch of one-off backend views for many interactions. What am I doing wrong?</text></item><item><author>simonbarker87</author><text>I’ve been using htmx for over a year now for our internal management application (order monitoring, partner management, CAD model uploading and management type stuff) and I continue to be delighted at how quickly I can add features and iterate existing ones. I write way less client side JS, the app is very fast and responsive and I don’t have to write the app twice like with a SPA + API.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS</title><url>https://rakujourney.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/htmx-raku-and-pico-css/</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>djbusby</author><text>I make htmx sites built around view fragments rather than pages. And when I need a page it&#x27;s just a set of fragments. I make &quot;API&quot; endpoints fir the needed fragments and call via ssr on first paint, then as needed from the htmx side.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve been struggling with using HTMX... with an app and a frontend REST API I&#x27;ve found I can really kinda quickly craft a frontend by filtering down whatever resources I need (though it&#x27;s honestly pretty wasteful at times).<p>With HTMX I&#x27;m finding myself needing to have as many backend views as I have ways of interacting with a page. I still have to write the frontend, and on top of that I gotta make a bunch of one-off backend views for many interactions. What am I doing wrong?</text></item><item><author>simonbarker87</author><text>I’ve been using htmx for over a year now for our internal management application (order monitoring, partner management, CAD model uploading and management type stuff) and I continue to be delighted at how quickly I can add features and iterate existing ones. I write way less client side JS, the app is very fast and responsive and I don’t have to write the app twice like with a SPA + API.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS</title><url>https://rakujourney.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/htmx-raku-and-pico-css/</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>mc32</author><text>Just stop guaranteeing them, let students default on them. All these guaranteed loans that can&#x27;t be discharged allows academic institutions to ratchet up the price. Let them calculate risk and price them accordingly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>If we&#x27;re going to be forgiving loans, we shouldn&#x27;t be giving them out in the first place. Otherwise, we&#x27;re going to be in the same spot in one generation&#x27;s time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. forgives 40k student loans</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-forgives-40000-student-loans-provides-aid-millions-more-2022-04-19/</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>AtlasBarfed</author><text>Are you complaining about the massive amount of not-really-loans given to small and not small during COVID?<p>Right? You&#x27;re vociferously complaining about that frequent game played by corporations with outsized lobbying abilities to get loans that aren&#x27;t really ever expected to be paid? How much was that in the grand scheme of printing money by the fed, a billion?<p>Or are you angry about little poor people getting a pittance of money in the grand scheme of things?<p>It is so strange how much people shrug off corporate handouts, but get up in arms when poor folks get a pittance from the government.<p>Edit: my tone was a bit harsh, probably because I get this knee jerk reaction.<p>It&#x27;s probably because corporations are like gods. You can&#x27;t kill them. They are omnipresent. With data hoovering, they are some form of omniscient. They are tireless, sleepless, don&#x27;t require air, water, or food. The modern way to kill a corporation is probably so serpentine that it puts the best D&amp;D plot to kill a god to shame. They don&#x27;t technically have a physical body. They have servants, followers, a clergy, and power. They can cast &quot;summon army of retainer lawyers&quot; and send you to hell.<p>Who are we to question if the god of money hands the god of cars magic printed-but-never-actually-printed numbers that aren&#x27;t based in something?</text><parent_chain><item><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>If we&#x27;re going to be forgiving loans, we shouldn&#x27;t be giving them out in the first place. Otherwise, we&#x27;re going to be in the same spot in one generation&#x27;s time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. forgives 40k student loans</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-forgives-40000-student-loans-provides-aid-millions-more-2022-04-19/</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>jevinskie</author><text><a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/90549" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;permalink.gmane.org&#x2F;gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general&#x2F;9054...</a><p>Apparently the latest and greatest SQLite is sometimes 50% faster than 3.7.17 released in July of last year. Impressive!<p>I also love using SQLite for testing compiler optimization passes. Their TCL test suite coverage is quite good. Unfortunately, I think you have to splurge tens of thousands of dollars to get the C-based test suite. I believe you can only test full branch coverage with the C test suite.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The SQLite Database File Format</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat2.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>monocasa</author><text>Nvidia has a very different model for what they&#x27;re trying to get out of their drivers. They spent something like 5x more on the number of driver developers than AMD, then would send engineers to work with AAA game studios to &quot;optimize their games&quot; for Nvidia. Good so far. But then these optimizations went so far as fixing (in the driver) broken game code. Like apparently it was so bad that games were being shipped without issuing BeginScene&#x2F;EndScene on DirectX.<p>Hence AMDs push for Mantle then Vulkan. The console like API is the carrot to get people to use an API that has an verification layer so that third parties can easily say &quot;wow what a broken game&quot; rather &quot;wow this new game runs on Nvidia and not AMD, what broken AMD drivers&quot;.<p>Nvidia open sourcing their drivers completely destroys a large chunk of their competitive advantage and is so intertwined with all the IP of the games they have hacks for that I&#x27;d be surprised if they ever would want to open source them, or even could if they wanted to.<p>More docs would be nice though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fluffything</author><text>&gt; There could be a viable Open Source driver for most of their GPUs tomorrow if they changed some licensing<p>I always just assumed that interfacing proprietary IP with the GPL is a tricky legal business. One slip, and all your IP becomes open source.<p>Do you have a source explaining what licensing changes they would have to make and what impact would that have for Linux and Nvidia ? I&#x27;d like to read that.</text></item><item><author>robert_foss</author><text>Speaking as a Linux graphics developer, I can confirm that NVidia indeed is a pretty terrible actor. There could be a viable Open Source driver for most of their GPUs tomorrow if they changed some licensing, NVidia knows this.<p>A NVidia purchase of ARM would also create a lot of conflicts of interest.</text></item><item><author>fluffything</author><text>You are not wrong, but the facts you have cherry picked fail to portrait the whole picture.<p>For example, you paint it as if Nvidia is the only company Apple has had problems with, yet Apple has parted ways with Intel, IBM (Power PCs), and many other companies in the past.<p>The claim that Nintendo is the only company nvidia successfully collaborates with is just wrong:<p>- nvidia manufactures GPU chips, collaborates with dozens of OEMs to ship graphics cards<p>- nvidia collaborates with IBM which ships Power8,9,10 processors all with nvidia technology<p>- nvidia collaborates with OS vendors like microsoft very successfully<p>- nvidia collaborated with mellanox successfully and acquired it<p>- nvidia collaborates with ARM today...<p>The claim that nvidia is bad at open source because it does not open source its Linux driver is also quite wrong, since NVIDIA contributes many many hours of paid developer time open source, has many open source products, donates money to many open source organizations, contributes with paid manpower to many open source organizations as well...<p>I mean, this is not nvidia specific.<p>You can take any big company, e.g., Apple, and paint a horrible case by cherry picking things (no Vulkan support on MacOSX forcing everyone to use Metal, they don&#x27;t open source their C++ toolchain, etc.), yet Apple does many good things too (open sourced parts of their toolchain like LLVM, open source swift, etc.).<p>I mean, you even try to paint this as if Nvidia is the only company that Apple has parted ways with, yet Apple has long track record of parting ways with other companies (IBM PowerPC processors, Intel, ...). I&#x27;m pretty sure that the moment Apple is able to produce a competitive GFX card, they will part ways with AMD as well.</text></item><item><author>DCKing</author><text>This is quite concerning honestly. I don&#x27;t mind ARM being acquired, and I don&#x27;t mind Nvidia acquiring things. But I&#x27;m concerned about this combination.<p>Nvidia is a pretty hostile company to others in the market. They have a track record of vigorously pushing their market dominance and their own way of doing things. They view making custom designs as beneath them. Their custom console GPU designs - in the original Xbox, in the Playstation 3 - were considered a failure because of terrible cooporation with Nvidia [0]. Apple is probably more demanding than other PC builders and have completely fallen out with them. Nvidia has famously failed to cooporate with the Linux community on the standardized graphics stack supported by Intel and AMD and keeps pushing propietary stuff. There are more examples.<p>It&#x27;s hard to not make &quot;hostile&quot; too much of a value judgement. Nvidia has been an extremely successful company <i>because of it</i> too. It&#x27;s alright if it&#x27;s not in their corporate culture to work well with others. Clearly it&#x27;s working, and Nvidia for all their faults is still innovating.<p>But this culture won&#x27;t fly well if your core business is developing chip designs <i>for others</i>. It&#x27;s also a problem if you are the gatekeeper of a CPU instruction set that a metric ton of other infrastructure increasingly depends on. I really, really hope ARM&#x27;s current business will be allowed to run independently as ARM knows how to do this and Nvidia has time and time again shown not to understand this at all. But I&#x27;m pessimistic about that. I&#x27;m afraid Nvidia will gut ARM the company, the ARM architectures, and the ARM instruction set in the long run.<p>[0]: An interesting counterpoint would the Nintendo Switch running on an Nvidia Tegra hardware, but all the evidence points to that this chip is a 100% vanilla Nvidia Tegra X1 that Nvidia was already selling themselves (to the point its bootloader could be unlocked like a standard Tegra, leading to the Switch Fusee-Gelee exploit).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/nvidia-said-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-softbank-s-chip-company-arm</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>mappu</author><text>Nouveau is a highly capable open source driver for NVIDIA GPUs based on reverse-engineering.<p>For some older card generations (e.g. GTX 600 series) it was competitive with the official driver. But in every hardware generation since then, the GPU requires signed firmware in order to run at any decent clock speed.<p>The necessary signed firmware is present inside the proprietary driver, but nouveau can&#x27;t load it because it&#x27;s against the ToS to redistribute it.<p>Most GPU features are available but run at 0.1x speed or slower because of this single reason. Nvidia could absolutely fix this &quot;tomorrow&quot; if they were motivated.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Nouveau-Mesa-Volta-Turing-MR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Nouveau-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>fluffything</author><text>&gt; There could be a viable Open Source driver for most of their GPUs tomorrow if they changed some licensing<p>I always just assumed that interfacing proprietary IP with the GPL is a tricky legal business. One slip, and all your IP becomes open source.<p>Do you have a source explaining what licensing changes they would have to make and what impact would that have for Linux and Nvidia ? I&#x27;d like to read that.</text></item><item><author>robert_foss</author><text>Speaking as a Linux graphics developer, I can confirm that NVidia indeed is a pretty terrible actor. There could be a viable Open Source driver for most of their GPUs tomorrow if they changed some licensing, NVidia knows this.<p>A NVidia purchase of ARM would also create a lot of conflicts of interest.</text></item><item><author>fluffything</author><text>You are not wrong, but the facts you have cherry picked fail to portrait the whole picture.<p>For example, you paint it as if Nvidia is the only company Apple has had problems with, yet Apple has parted ways with Intel, IBM (Power PCs), and many other companies in the past.<p>The claim that Nintendo is the only company nvidia successfully collaborates with is just wrong:<p>- nvidia manufactures GPU chips, collaborates with dozens of OEMs to ship graphics cards<p>- nvidia collaborates with IBM which ships Power8,9,10 processors all with nvidia technology<p>- nvidia collaborates with OS vendors like microsoft very successfully<p>- nvidia collaborated with mellanox successfully and acquired it<p>- nvidia collaborates with ARM today...<p>The claim that nvidia is bad at open source because it does not open source its Linux driver is also quite wrong, since NVIDIA contributes many many hours of paid developer time open source, has many open source products, donates money to many open source organizations, contributes with paid manpower to many open source organizations as well...<p>I mean, this is not nvidia specific.<p>You can take any big company, e.g., Apple, and paint a horrible case by cherry picking things (no Vulkan support on MacOSX forcing everyone to use Metal, they don&#x27;t open source their C++ toolchain, etc.), yet Apple does many good things too (open sourced parts of their toolchain like LLVM, open source swift, etc.).<p>I mean, you even try to paint this as if Nvidia is the only company that Apple has parted ways with, yet Apple has long track record of parting ways with other companies (IBM PowerPC processors, Intel, ...). I&#x27;m pretty sure that the moment Apple is able to produce a competitive GFX card, they will part ways with AMD as well.</text></item><item><author>DCKing</author><text>This is quite concerning honestly. I don&#x27;t mind ARM being acquired, and I don&#x27;t mind Nvidia acquiring things. But I&#x27;m concerned about this combination.<p>Nvidia is a pretty hostile company to others in the market. They have a track record of vigorously pushing their market dominance and their own way of doing things. They view making custom designs as beneath them. Their custom console GPU designs - in the original Xbox, in the Playstation 3 - were considered a failure because of terrible cooporation with Nvidia [0]. Apple is probably more demanding than other PC builders and have completely fallen out with them. Nvidia has famously failed to cooporate with the Linux community on the standardized graphics stack supported by Intel and AMD and keeps pushing propietary stuff. There are more examples.<p>It&#x27;s hard to not make &quot;hostile&quot; too much of a value judgement. Nvidia has been an extremely successful company <i>because of it</i> too. It&#x27;s alright if it&#x27;s not in their corporate culture to work well with others. Clearly it&#x27;s working, and Nvidia for all their faults is still innovating.<p>But this culture won&#x27;t fly well if your core business is developing chip designs <i>for others</i>. It&#x27;s also a problem if you are the gatekeeper of a CPU instruction set that a metric ton of other infrastructure increasingly depends on. I really, really hope ARM&#x27;s current business will be allowed to run independently as ARM knows how to do this and Nvidia has time and time again shown not to understand this at all. But I&#x27;m pessimistic about that. I&#x27;m afraid Nvidia will gut ARM the company, the ARM architectures, and the ARM instruction set in the long run.<p>[0]: An interesting counterpoint would the Nintendo Switch running on an Nvidia Tegra hardware, but all the evidence points to that this chip is a 100% vanilla Nvidia Tegra X1 that Nvidia was already selling themselves (to the point its bootloader could be unlocked like a standard Tegra, leading to the Switch Fusee-Gelee exploit).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/nvidia-said-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-softbank-s-chip-company-arm</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>will_brown</author><text>I am not sure the answer is framing this as a Left&#x2F;Right issue like a lot of the thread is doing.<p>The underlying reason for cuts in Mental Health is the same reason 1,000 State jobs got eliminated this year or $1.2B was cut from FL education the Governor&#x27;s first year...it is a finite budget problem.<p>Take the Zika virus, a current South Florida news story gaining national attention. I haven&#x27;t seen a single news spot&#x2F;article mention how Zika is linked to the budget cuts (State and local) that gutted mosquito controlling programs. There is no mention how before Zika, in 2009 under former Governor Crist the budget cuts for mosquito control lead to a Dengue outbreak (~4,000 cases). Yet about $5.5M in mosquito control cuts lead to a $5.5B (10%) loss in FL tourism in 2009, these are not calculated political decision of the Right, but difficult budget decision that had horrendous consequences.<p>To really put it in perspective, Crist later ran for Senate as an Independent and then re-ran for Governor as a Democrat with full support of Obama...party affiliation would not have changed the decisions he made as a Republican Governor. Further take the $1.2B education cut the first year of the new Governor, since then he has fully restored that amount and then some, why? Not because as a member of the Right he changed his political ideology towards education, but the reality is FL is $200B in debt; however, we are no longer running a $3.5B deficit, in fact not only is the budget balanced this year FL is projected to have a surplus and that has allowed the Governor to restore education funding.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed</title><url>http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2015/investigations/florida-mental-health-hospitals/</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>happyslobro</author><text>Stuff like this has happened in recent history in Canada too. At the federal level, and the BC provincial level. All in the name of fiscal responsibility, as if people existed for the sake of money, and not the other way around.<p>It&#x27;s too bad that the people who founded the country didn&#x27;t lay down some sort of law against a (then colonial) government sabotaging itself. We even have a vestigial British governor general who could enforce it for us. The word &quot;treason&quot; comes to mind.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed</title><url>http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2015/investigations/florida-mental-health-hospitals/</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>jwarden</author><text>Fascinating discussion. I see some parallel here to the Bayesian vs Frequentist view of probability.<p>They are perhaps both valid points of view depending on the situation.<p>If you take a frequentist view of an unbiased coin, then the probability that it will land heads on the next flip is objectively, by definition 50%. So the resulting calculation of entropy (log 50% = 1 bit) is also objectively defined. But if your 50% probability represents a subjective belief, the resulting entropy calculation should also be considered subjective, I would think.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andi999</author><text>Entropy (differences) are an objective quantity which can be measured, there is no subjectivity about it. It is not which parameters you know it is about which parameters you hold fixed.</text></item><item><author>jbay808</author><text>&gt; But if you look deeper than that averaging it stops making sense to me. It&#x27;s a completely different world.<p>I think you&#x27;re less confused than you think you are!<p>As I posted elsewhere, it helps to think of entropy as a quantity that <i>actually</i> depends on how much you know about the system in question.<p>Typically when you calculate the entropy of a system at temperature X, that means <i>all you know</i> is that you stuck a thermometer in it and measured X. You don&#x27;t know anything more than the average temperature. It could be in any state consistent with that temperature.<p>If you know more about the system, it has less entropy. If you know it down to the exact microstate, it has zero entropy.</text></item><item><author>threatripper</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand entropy and this article did not change it. The issue I take is with the definition of &quot;the most likely state&quot;.<p>Think of a series of random bits that can be either 0 or 1 with equal probability. How likely is it that they are all 0 or all 1? Not very likely. There is exactly one configuration. How likely is it that they have a specific configuration of 0 and 1? Equally likely. All states are equally likely. If you randomly flip bits you go from one state to another state but each one is equally likely to occur. There is no special meaning to a specific configuration if you don&#x27;t give it one.<p>If you look at the average of all bits you start grouping all states together with the equal number of 1s. If you talk about the average there is only one configuration that is all 1s but most configurations have roughly 50% 1s. If you now start flipping bits you will meander through all possible bit-states but the average will most likely be close to 50% 1s most of the time.<p>In physics we usually look at averages such as the average velocity expressed as temperature. Therefore it makes sense to group together all states using the average and then the states with very low or very high averages are few.<p>But if you look deeper than that averaging it stops making sense to me. It&#x27;s a completely different world. I don&#x27;t know what Entropy is supposed to mean on the level of individual states&#x2F;configurations. I don&#x27;t understand what kind of macroscopic &quot;averaging&quot; function we may use to group up those states. There could be more than one possibility - from that would follow that there is more than one definition of macro-Entropy. Ideally there should be one general definition of how we have to look at those microstates and from that follows our general definition of Entropy. Sadly I didn&#x27;t study Physics and this topic still continues to confuse me. The usual explanations fail to enlighten me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It took me 10 years to understand entropy</title><url>https://www.cantorsparadise.com/it-took-me-10-years-to-understand-entropy-here-is-what-i-learned-b2d51e8ccd4c</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>im3w1l</author><text>I&#x27;ve been trying to reconcile these perspectives, and I think it really is both. And they are both physically relevant.<p>Consider the subjective entropy perspective. If you know the exact microstate of a system, then you can in theory play the part of Maxwell&#x27;s demon. You could have a little gate that you open only for fast particles, and using your knowledge of the microstate, you can predict exactly when they will arrive.<p>But consider the objective perspective. If you take this very same system and put it in thermal contact with another system, then an objective entropy perspective is the relevant one. Those systems will equilibrize and your subjective knowledge is irrelevant to that process.<p>I haven&#x27;t fully wrapped my head around it yet, but I do think that acknowledging both is a step in the right direction at least.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andi999</author><text>Entropy (differences) are an objective quantity which can be measured, there is no subjectivity about it. It is not which parameters you know it is about which parameters you hold fixed.</text></item><item><author>jbay808</author><text>&gt; But if you look deeper than that averaging it stops making sense to me. It&#x27;s a completely different world.<p>I think you&#x27;re less confused than you think you are!<p>As I posted elsewhere, it helps to think of entropy as a quantity that <i>actually</i> depends on how much you know about the system in question.<p>Typically when you calculate the entropy of a system at temperature X, that means <i>all you know</i> is that you stuck a thermometer in it and measured X. You don&#x27;t know anything more than the average temperature. It could be in any state consistent with that temperature.<p>If you know more about the system, it has less entropy. If you know it down to the exact microstate, it has zero entropy.</text></item><item><author>threatripper</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand entropy and this article did not change it. The issue I take is with the definition of &quot;the most likely state&quot;.<p>Think of a series of random bits that can be either 0 or 1 with equal probability. How likely is it that they are all 0 or all 1? Not very likely. There is exactly one configuration. How likely is it that they have a specific configuration of 0 and 1? Equally likely. All states are equally likely. If you randomly flip bits you go from one state to another state but each one is equally likely to occur. There is no special meaning to a specific configuration if you don&#x27;t give it one.<p>If you look at the average of all bits you start grouping all states together with the equal number of 1s. If you talk about the average there is only one configuration that is all 1s but most configurations have roughly 50% 1s. If you now start flipping bits you will meander through all possible bit-states but the average will most likely be close to 50% 1s most of the time.<p>In physics we usually look at averages such as the average velocity expressed as temperature. Therefore it makes sense to group together all states using the average and then the states with very low or very high averages are few.<p>But if you look deeper than that averaging it stops making sense to me. It&#x27;s a completely different world. I don&#x27;t know what Entropy is supposed to mean on the level of individual states&#x2F;configurations. I don&#x27;t understand what kind of macroscopic &quot;averaging&quot; function we may use to group up those states. There could be more than one possibility - from that would follow that there is more than one definition of macro-Entropy. Ideally there should be one general definition of how we have to look at those microstates and from that follows our general definition of Entropy. Sadly I didn&#x27;t study Physics and this topic still continues to confuse me. The usual explanations fail to enlighten me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It took me 10 years to understand entropy</title><url>https://www.cantorsparadise.com/it-took-me-10-years-to-understand-entropy-here-is-what-i-learned-b2d51e8ccd4c</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>colanderman</author><text>I strongly disagree on the setup with only one fan. Having only an exhaust fan in the room will draw nasty air in through cracks in the house&#x27;s structure, possibly stuff with e.g. mold spores. My wife could never remember which way was which for our window fan; I could tell by smell when she had left it exhausting for more than an hour.<p>If you have only one, set it to intake and leave another window open a bit (maybe like half the fan size). You can confirm that air is exiting that way by hanging some strips of tissue paper in it.<p>Positive pressure (blowing in, from outdoors) is also the right thing to do if you are trying to keep smells from other rooms at bay. Whereas negative pressure (blowing out, to outdoors) is best to keep a smell confined to one room (e.g. this is how bathroom fans work).</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbanek</author><text>Like others have joked about, it&#x27;s really about where you want the air and temperature to go.<p>Let&#x27;s say you have three fans in a computer case, one at the back, one at the front, and one on top of the CPU. If they all blow out of the case, then you&#x27;ve basically created a negative air pressure zone, and you will be sucking air through the vent holes elsewhere, and through any gaps in the case. This may have effects for where the dust is taken in.<p>If all of them blow into the case from the outside, you&#x27;ve created basically a high pressure zone, and air will be taken from the room and pushed out through the same cracks and vent holes elsewhere.<p>A fan if it&#x27;s pushing against high pressure will inherently push less air because it&#x27;s pushing against air that isn&#x27;t moving as well. A fan that is trying to pull air out can also become inefficient if it is working hard to suck air in to eventually push out. Therefore it&#x27;s best to have matching airflow - what you push out, you should try to also pull in somewhere else in more or less an equal CFM (cubic feet &#x2F; minute).<p>For a room, it&#x27;s best to have one area that is your intake and the other side of the room be the exhaust. This way you aren&#x27;t just exhausting air you just pulled in. If you just have one fan, I suggest blowing out, which will draw air in from other spaces, such as under the door, because of the negative air pressure by pushing air out.<p>(I&#x27;ve worked these problems with indoor gardens and HVAC systems, where there&#x27;s a lot higher CFM fans and spaces, but the theory is basically the same)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?</title><text>I am positive that there&#x27;s a huge difference between the theoretical model and reality here.<p>Let&#x27;s assume it&#x27;s 30 celsius inside the room and &lt;20 celsius outside.<p>Enjoy your Monday my thermodynamics friends!</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>kenhwang</author><text>Just to add, for computer cases, you want it to be a high pressure zone because intake fans generally have filters in front to catch the dust before it gets into the case. Negative pressure means dust gets sucked in from the cracks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbanek</author><text>Like others have joked about, it&#x27;s really about where you want the air and temperature to go.<p>Let&#x27;s say you have three fans in a computer case, one at the back, one at the front, and one on top of the CPU. If they all blow out of the case, then you&#x27;ve basically created a negative air pressure zone, and you will be sucking air through the vent holes elsewhere, and through any gaps in the case. This may have effects for where the dust is taken in.<p>If all of them blow into the case from the outside, you&#x27;ve created basically a high pressure zone, and air will be taken from the room and pushed out through the same cracks and vent holes elsewhere.<p>A fan if it&#x27;s pushing against high pressure will inherently push less air because it&#x27;s pushing against air that isn&#x27;t moving as well. A fan that is trying to pull air out can also become inefficient if it is working hard to suck air in to eventually push out. Therefore it&#x27;s best to have matching airflow - what you push out, you should try to also pull in somewhere else in more or less an equal CFM (cubic feet &#x2F; minute).<p>For a room, it&#x27;s best to have one area that is your intake and the other side of the room be the exhaust. This way you aren&#x27;t just exhausting air you just pulled in. If you just have one fan, I suggest blowing out, which will draw air in from other spaces, such as under the door, because of the negative air pressure by pushing air out.<p>(I&#x27;ve worked these problems with indoor gardens and HVAC systems, where there&#x27;s a lot higher CFM fans and spaces, but the theory is basically the same)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?</title><text>I am positive that there&#x27;s a huge difference between the theoretical model and reality here.<p>Let&#x27;s assume it&#x27;s 30 celsius inside the room and &lt;20 celsius outside.<p>Enjoy your Monday my thermodynamics friends!</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>bmurphy1976</author><text>This definitely happens. This is how videos uploaded to Facebook or YouTube become available so quickly. The video is split into chunks based on key frame, the chunks are farmed out to a cluster of servers and encoded in parallel, and the outputs are then re-assembled into the final file.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kevincox</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered if better multi-core performance can come from processing different keyframe segments separately.<p>IIUC all current encoders that support parallelism work by multiple threads working on the same frame at the same time. Often times the frame is split into regions and each thread focuses on a specific region of the frame. This approach can have a (usually small) quality&#x2F;efficiency cost and requires per-encoder logic to assemble those regions into a single frame.<p>What if instead&#x2F;additionally different keyframe segments are processed independently? So if keyframes are every 60 frames ffmpeg will read 60 frames pass that to the first thread, the next 60 to the next thread, ... then assemble the results basically by concatenating them. It seems like this could be used to parallelize any codec in a fairly generic way and it should be more efficient as there is no thread-communication overhead or splitting of the frame into regions which harms cross-region compression.<p>Off the top of my head I can only think of two issues:<p>1. Requires loading N*keyframe period frames into memory as well as the overhead memory for encoding N frames.<p>2. Variable keyframe support would require special support as the keyframe splits will need to be identified before passing the video to the encoding threads. This may require extra work to be performed upfront.<p>But both of these seem like they won&#x27;t be an issue in many cases. Lots of the time I&#x27;d be happy to use tons of RAM and output with a fixed keyframe interval.<p>Probably I would combine this with intra-frame parallelization such as process every frame with 4 threads and then run 8 keyframe segments in parallel. This way I can get really good parallelism but only minor quality loss from 4 regions rather than splitting the video into 32 regions which would harm quality more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-CLI-MT-Merged</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>cudder</author><text>I know next to nothing about video encoders, and in my naive mind I absolutely thought that parallelism would work just like you suggested it should. It sounds absolutely wild to me that they&#x27;re splitting single frames into multiple segments. Merging work from different threads for every single frame sounds wasteful somehow. But I guess it works, if that&#x27;s how everybody does it. TIL!</text><parent_chain><item><author>kevincox</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered if better multi-core performance can come from processing different keyframe segments separately.<p>IIUC all current encoders that support parallelism work by multiple threads working on the same frame at the same time. Often times the frame is split into regions and each thread focuses on a specific region of the frame. This approach can have a (usually small) quality&#x2F;efficiency cost and requires per-encoder logic to assemble those regions into a single frame.<p>What if instead&#x2F;additionally different keyframe segments are processed independently? So if keyframes are every 60 frames ffmpeg will read 60 frames pass that to the first thread, the next 60 to the next thread, ... then assemble the results basically by concatenating them. It seems like this could be used to parallelize any codec in a fairly generic way and it should be more efficient as there is no thread-communication overhead or splitting of the frame into regions which harms cross-region compression.<p>Off the top of my head I can only think of two issues:<p>1. Requires loading N*keyframe period frames into memory as well as the overhead memory for encoding N frames.<p>2. Variable keyframe support would require special support as the keyframe splits will need to be identified before passing the video to the encoding threads. This may require extra work to be performed upfront.<p>But both of these seem like they won&#x27;t be an issue in many cases. Lots of the time I&#x27;d be happy to use tons of RAM and output with a fixed keyframe interval.<p>Probably I would combine this with intra-frame parallelization such as process every frame with 4 threads and then run 8 keyframe segments in parallel. This way I can get really good parallelism but only minor quality loss from 4 regions rather than splitting the video into 32 regions which would harm quality more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-CLI-MT-Merged</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>photochemsyn</author><text>IIRC a liter of Coca-Cola contains ~120g of sugar, and they need to add phosphoric acid to make it all go into solution. In fact, so much phosphoric acid that it makes a good de-rusting agent, i.e. any iron oxide (rust) will, after being soaked in Coca-Cola overnight, be converted to iron phosphate, which is easily removed with a light scrub. In addition, regularly consuming that much sugar puts you at high risk for type II diabetes, heart disease due to obesity, liver malfunction, and probably other things.<p>So no, absolutely do not want to drink what amounts to a toxic industrial solvent... though I did drink the stuff as a teenager before I learned all that, I must admit.<p>Point being, such advertising only works that effectively if you have a dumbed-down population ignorant of science, math, history and similar matters.<p>Here&#x27;s a viable conspiracy theory, on that could very well be true: the attacks on American public education over the past 40 years are part of a deliberate effort to create a dumbed down population more susceptible to manipulation by corporate advertisers and state propagandists.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fragmede</author><text>If you think you&#x27;re not being manipulated, you&#x27;re deluded. Advertising <i>works</i>. It worked before the Internet and there&#x27;s even more of it now. We do still have individual agency but don&#x27;t you want a cool refreshing Coca-Cola right about now?</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;either individually or collectively anonymously or not, gives them power over us in many ways to predict, manipulate, dispossess<p>The thing is, is that actually true? What always comes to mind for me is the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which involved their self-declared &#x27;psychometric targeting&#x27;, which it turned out, after scientists did some studies had a measurable effect of zero on people&#x27;s behaviour[1].<p>People <i>love</i> this idea of &#x27;big data&#x27; as some powerful ominous tool, even big companies themselves seem to push it explicitly to seem more towering than they are. It&#x27;s much more boring and unfashionable to think that people are a little more complex and have more agency and that companies push it because it makes them sound more sophisticated than they are.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;science-and-health&#x2F;2018&#x2F;3&#x2F;23&#x2F;17152564&#x2F;cambridge-analytica-psychographic-microtargeting-what" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;science-and-health&#x2F;2018&#x2F;3&#x2F;23&#x2F;17152564&#x2F;ca...</a></text></item><item><author>kornhole</author><text>Author does not mention the major reason I care which is that allowing others to know what we are doing, thinking, saying, where we are going.. either individually or collectively anonymously or not, gives them power over us in many ways to predict, manipulate, dispossess.. which leads to the imbalances we have today of the haves and have nots of data.<p>The people who say big tech already has so much data on them so why care are missing the valence of time. What you did, thought, said.. last year is much less valuable and useful than what you are doing today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?</title><url>https://cyb3rsecurity.tips/p/-online-privacy-to-what-extent-should</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>spunker540</author><text>Nobody is denying advertising works. But most of the time ads are trying to win you over vs competitors in the market. Most of it is predicated on the fact that you are in the market for something, and they want you to choose them over someone else. I doubt coca-cola is targeting non-soda drinkers in their advertisements. But they want you to pick coke over Pepsi.<p>Even if you create an open source drug that cures cancer and give it away for free, you’re gonna need a marketing campaign so that doctors know about it, or that patients know to ask their doctor about it. Not because you’re malicious and trying to manipulate people but because otherwise people who would benefit from your product won’t know it exists.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fragmede</author><text>If you think you&#x27;re not being manipulated, you&#x27;re deluded. Advertising <i>works</i>. It worked before the Internet and there&#x27;s even more of it now. We do still have individual agency but don&#x27;t you want a cool refreshing Coca-Cola right about now?</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;either individually or collectively anonymously or not, gives them power over us in many ways to predict, manipulate, dispossess<p>The thing is, is that actually true? What always comes to mind for me is the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which involved their self-declared &#x27;psychometric targeting&#x27;, which it turned out, after scientists did some studies had a measurable effect of zero on people&#x27;s behaviour[1].<p>People <i>love</i> this idea of &#x27;big data&#x27; as some powerful ominous tool, even big companies themselves seem to push it explicitly to seem more towering than they are. It&#x27;s much more boring and unfashionable to think that people are a little more complex and have more agency and that companies push it because it makes them sound more sophisticated than they are.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;science-and-health&#x2F;2018&#x2F;3&#x2F;23&#x2F;17152564&#x2F;cambridge-analytica-psychographic-microtargeting-what" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;science-and-health&#x2F;2018&#x2F;3&#x2F;23&#x2F;17152564&#x2F;ca...</a></text></item><item><author>kornhole</author><text>Author does not mention the major reason I care which is that allowing others to know what we are doing, thinking, saying, where we are going.. either individually or collectively anonymously or not, gives them power over us in many ways to predict, manipulate, dispossess.. which leads to the imbalances we have today of the haves and have nots of data.<p>The people who say big tech already has so much data on them so why care are missing the valence of time. What you did, thought, said.. last year is much less valuable and useful than what you are doing today.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?</title><url>https://cyb3rsecurity.tips/p/-online-privacy-to-what-extent-should</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>msluyter</author><text>I&#x27;ve often thought this -- age stratification to our current degree is a relatively new (20th century?) phenomenon, and seems under-studied. I think the awareness came to my mind when I went to a number of mixed polka&#x2F;swing dances back in like 1999 put on by the local Czech center. It was a rare mix of seniors doing traditional polka side by side with college students (who were brought in by the swing dancing) along with other adults, their kids, 5 year olds running around, etc... And then we&#x27;d do goofy dances like the Hokey Pokey or the Chicken Dance. (This was via the eclectic and fun band, &quot;Brave Combo.&quot;) The entire mix felt weirdly... healthy.<p>One reason we chose a private girl&#x27;s school for our daughter is that, along with traditional (horizontal) grades, it has &quot;sister groups,&quot; which are vertical slices of girls from varying grade levels. These meet and socialize throughout the year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>underwater</author><text>I&#x27;m increasingly of the opinion that grouping school children with others kids their age is hugely damaging.<p>The major figures in most kid&#x27;s lives are parents and teachers, who are in an authority position; siblings, who have a complex relationship that often turns competitive; and their school friends.<p>Kids are missing a chance to socialise with children who are older than them, learn from adults who are not in an authority role, and to care for and mentor younger children.<p>Instead they spend all their time with other kids who are have they exact same emotionally immaturity as they do. You get feedback loops of bad behaviour, and put them in bubbles where their peers and their psychopathic games (like bullying) make up 100% of their reality.<p>The only consistent counterpoint I can think of are cousins, who are typically slightly older or younger, and are outside of kids&#x27; normal peer groups. As a result these are often very positive relationships.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study</title><url>https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/most-teen-bullying-occurs-among-peers-climbing-social-ladder</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>vinceguidry</author><text>You know I really think you&#x27;re on to something there. I distinctly remember being in middle school and not wanting to associate with anyone my age. Few years older, great, few years younger, great. But it just wasn&#x27;t pleasant to try to maintain friendships with my peers. The constant social competitiveness just really irked me. I always preferred one-on-one socializing rather than groups. If I didn&#x27;t like how one of my older friends was treating me, well, I didn&#x27;t have to knock on his door for awhile.<p>And when I started bullying the younger kids I would hang out with, I was able to reflect on it later and stop being such an ass. Course, it would come out anyway, but not being trapped in one single group of friends and having to derive my social identity from that made it much easier to self-adjust. Looking back on those years, it&#x27;s pretty obvious now just how much of what I experienced back then was that pecking order mindset.</text><parent_chain><item><author>underwater</author><text>I&#x27;m increasingly of the opinion that grouping school children with others kids their age is hugely damaging.<p>The major figures in most kid&#x27;s lives are parents and teachers, who are in an authority position; siblings, who have a complex relationship that often turns competitive; and their school friends.<p>Kids are missing a chance to socialise with children who are older than them, learn from adults who are not in an authority role, and to care for and mentor younger children.<p>Instead they spend all their time with other kids who are have they exact same emotionally immaturity as they do. You get feedback loops of bad behaviour, and put them in bubbles where their peers and their psychopathic games (like bullying) make up 100% of their reality.<p>The only consistent counterpoint I can think of are cousins, who are typically slightly older or younger, and are outside of kids&#x27; normal peer groups. As a result these are often very positive relationships.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study</title><url>https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/most-teen-bullying-occurs-among-peers-climbing-social-ladder</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>ur-whale</author><text>&gt;The fact that it doesn&#x27;t make predictions any more reliably than astrology.<p>yup.<p>Physics: apply force F to projectile of mass M and know in advance where and when it&#x27;ll land modulo a tiny error margin.<p>Economics: raise the interest rates by X%, wait unknown amount of time Y, observe state of the system after time Y, formulate complex theory as to why action led to &quot;cause&quot;, go write a paper about it. Get wined and dined by policy makers who see great benefit in your &quot;explanation&quot;.<p>The phenomenon is not new BTW, oracle, druids and shamans have occupied that ecological niche for as long as there has been tribes and leaders needing to justify their actions to the masses.<p>They just changed their names in the 20th century to sound more respectable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guerrilla</author><text>The fact that it doesn&#x27;t make predictions any more reliably than astrology.</text></item><item><author>slothtrop</author><text>What&#x27;s the measure?</text></item><item><author>ur-whale</author><text>&gt; the risk in that is that the field becomes disconnected from reality<p>it&#x27;s not a risk, it&#x27;s a measurable fact.</text></item><item><author>m12k</author><text>The problem is that economics as a field spans from sociology and mass-psychology (almost impossible reason about, fully quantify or prove anything in a scientific manner) to mathematics (easy to reason about, model and publish results - but at the risk of not actually modeling the real world). The incentives of the academic world nudges researchers toward the math side of the field, but the risk in that is that the field becomes disconnected from reality.</text></item><item><author>bsedlm</author><text>IMO, economics as a science is all about making up theories to &#x27;scientifically&#x27; (but actually, just academically) justify whatever the ruling powers want to do.<p>In a larger sense, academia and a big chunk of contemporary western &quot;culture&quot; is all about coming up with stories, narratives, explanations, mindsets (frameworks) to ignore the exploitation of humans as a resource for the sake of ill-defined (by design) notions of &quot;the group&quot; or &quot;us all&quot; when in fact the end result is a big hierarchical pyramid with little room at the top which requires lots and lots of desperate people at the bottom (by this point, the bottom is entire countries).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unsolved problems in economics</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_economics</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>slothtrop</author><text>Were it reduced to &quot;predictions&quot;. It isn&#x27;t. And people take for granted a lot of popular concepts borne of the study as though it was always known. E.g. the relationship between interest rates &amp; exchange rates, supply and demand, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guerrilla</author><text>The fact that it doesn&#x27;t make predictions any more reliably than astrology.</text></item><item><author>slothtrop</author><text>What&#x27;s the measure?</text></item><item><author>ur-whale</author><text>&gt; the risk in that is that the field becomes disconnected from reality<p>it&#x27;s not a risk, it&#x27;s a measurable fact.</text></item><item><author>m12k</author><text>The problem is that economics as a field spans from sociology and mass-psychology (almost impossible reason about, fully quantify or prove anything in a scientific manner) to mathematics (easy to reason about, model and publish results - but at the risk of not actually modeling the real world). The incentives of the academic world nudges researchers toward the math side of the field, but the risk in that is that the field becomes disconnected from reality.</text></item><item><author>bsedlm</author><text>IMO, economics as a science is all about making up theories to &#x27;scientifically&#x27; (but actually, just academically) justify whatever the ruling powers want to do.<p>In a larger sense, academia and a big chunk of contemporary western &quot;culture&quot; is all about coming up with stories, narratives, explanations, mindsets (frameworks) to ignore the exploitation of humans as a resource for the sake of ill-defined (by design) notions of &quot;the group&quot; or &quot;us all&quot; when in fact the end result is a big hierarchical pyramid with little room at the top which requires lots and lots of desperate people at the bottom (by this point, the bottom is entire countries).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unsolved problems in economics</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_economics</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>yk</author><text><p><pre><code> Due to a misplaced parenthesis, if insufficient GOOD
bits were available to satisfy a request, the
keying/rekeying code requested either 32 or 64 ANY bits,
rather than the balance of bits required to key the
stream generator.
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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>kilovoltaire</author><text>I enjoyed the Thanks To section:<p><pre><code> Thor Lancelot Simon for causing, finding and fixing the bug</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Critical PRNG Bug in NetBSD Kernel</title><url>http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2013-003.txt.asc</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>naner</author><text>Google, while not perfect, has been more consumer friendly in handing privacy issues than Facebook has. They allow adblocking in Chrome, they allow you to export your data from their properties, they allow you to delete your account, etc. Also Google's walled garden is more permeable than Facebook's.<p>So while data collection is creepy and monopolies are harmful, I trust Google more than I trust Facebook.</text><parent_chain><item><author>timr</author><text>I don't get it. Isn't anyone else as creeped-out by the idea of a Google social network as I am?<p>I'm definitely not thrilled at the idea of Facebook being the One True Social Network, but the idea of a Google social network makes me sad, and more than a little nervous. The fact that Google is trying to exploit their search dominance to funnel people into a Facebook competitor screams "anti-trust violation" to me, and the information-control consequences make me a little woozy -- I'd rather that Facebook dominate the space completely than give Google any more of my personal information. Google+ may not be evil, but it isn't exactly lily-pure, either.<p>I'm hoping that this is another classic case of Nerd Blindness (much like Rob Malda's famous proclamation that the original iPod was 'lame'): Google has an exceptionally good technical reputation, so techies are foaming at the mouth to get access to their newest plaything, while <i>everyone else</i> just sees this as an attempt by a gigantic company to destroy a good service that it sees as a threat.<p>Cheering for Google to win in the social network space seems to be to be a bit like hoping that IBM will take down Microsoft. When giants fight, I can't summon up any other feeling than fear that the rest of us are going to get squashed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I'm Rooting For Google+</title><url>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/07/why-im-rooting-for-google.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>Daniel14</author><text>&#62; I'd rather that Facebook dominate the space completely than give Google any more of my personal information.<p>I feel differently, but see quite a few (mostly non-technical) people agreeing with you - at least, here in Europe. Google already owns most of the data you've given facebook, and treats it a lot better than fb imho (e.g. allowing export/deletion). I don't see why giving Google access to a bit more of your personal data will somehow decrease your quality of life.<p>The reason people are foaming at the mouth, as you call it, isn't the exceptionally good technical execution, but rather how Google handles consumers (giving them more rights over their data) and developers (they're the underdog, they have to). This is another reason I like Google entering social - Facebook has been behaving rather arrogantly, and it does seem like they really <i>own</i> the social web [1]. But with Google acting as a threat, perhaps Facebook will be forced to soften up on some of its policies. Competition is a good thing, and I really doubt it will result in the rest of us getting squashed - In fact, I really believe we'll profit from those giants having to compete.
For other reasons why G+ is anticipated highly, try <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/234825/9_reasons_to_switch_from_facebook_to_google.html#tk.hp_fv" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcworld.com/article/234825/9_reasons_to_switch_fr...</a><p>Lastly, IANAL, but I doubt promoting one of your products on one of your products is in any way illegal. The Google homepage has been showing us links to Docs, Reader, Gmail etc. for a long time without anyone getting upset about it.<p>[1] <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/its-a-facebook-world-other-social-networks-just-live-in-it/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/its-a-facebook-world-other-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>timr</author><text>I don't get it. Isn't anyone else as creeped-out by the idea of a Google social network as I am?<p>I'm definitely not thrilled at the idea of Facebook being the One True Social Network, but the idea of a Google social network makes me sad, and more than a little nervous. The fact that Google is trying to exploit their search dominance to funnel people into a Facebook competitor screams "anti-trust violation" to me, and the information-control consequences make me a little woozy -- I'd rather that Facebook dominate the space completely than give Google any more of my personal information. Google+ may not be evil, but it isn't exactly lily-pure, either.<p>I'm hoping that this is another classic case of Nerd Blindness (much like Rob Malda's famous proclamation that the original iPod was 'lame'): Google has an exceptionally good technical reputation, so techies are foaming at the mouth to get access to their newest plaything, while <i>everyone else</i> just sees this as an attempt by a gigantic company to destroy a good service that it sees as a threat.<p>Cheering for Google to win in the social network space seems to be to be a bit like hoping that IBM will take down Microsoft. When giants fight, I can't summon up any other feeling than fear that the rest of us are going to get squashed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I'm Rooting For Google+</title><url>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/07/why-im-rooting-for-google.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>&gt; It means that some people who don&#x27;t have goals, but do have depression, may remedy it by getting goals. But not everyone.<p>It really doesn&#x27;t show this at all, you are misreading the study because the author of the article misrepresents it. Very few correlation studies turn into causation studies. Even when we have entire subfields dedicated to it. See amyloid beta.<p>Other possibilities &quot;goals are protective against anxiety and depression but not changeable&quot; &quot;other factors increase goal driven behavior and protect against anxiety and depression&quot; &quot;goal driven behavior is protective but not curative of anxiety and depression&quot; &quot;goal driven behavior increases likelihood that individual gets treated for anxiety or depression&quot;<p>Any of which would mean that increasing goal driven behavior would not help with anxiety or depression.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>I empathize with your frustration, but you&#x27;re letting your personal experience override logic.<p>You&#x27;ve made a simple logical error: a study claiming that people who have goals can fend off depression does not imply that those with depression have it because they do not have goals. It means that some people who don&#x27;t have goals, but do have depression, may remedy it by getting goals. But not everyone.<p>If the research above is resulting in psychiatrists becoming lazy, it&#x27;s because they&#x27;re making the same logical error you are making. So in that sense, you should avoid doing so, since the kind of error you are making is the very thing which leads to the behavior you&#x27;ve experienced.<p>The proper response (by you, and psychiatrists) is to conclude that trying to encourage goal formation in those with depression seems wise, and will help some, but many (like yourself) will not benefit. Nor should we invert causation and assume the reason people have depression is due to lack of goals, much like if we determined that eating a specific kind of food helped prevent cancer meant that those who for whatever reason didn&#x27;t have that food in their diet were somehow causing their own cancer by neglecting to eat it.</text></item><item><author>podgaj</author><text>I do not know how many people here have &quot;Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders&quot; but I am on disability for all three and it runs in my family on my mother&#x27;s side.<p>So what is this article saying? Me and my family just do not have perseverance? That we lack the &quot;will&quot; not to be depressed and anxious? That I just need to &quot;Aspir[e] toward personal and career goals&quot;? HA!<p>No, it&#x27;s not true. You see, they found we all have a genetic disorder (GCH1 Deficiency). After I yelled at my doctors for years to look more deeply they finally found that it was not that I did not have goals, but that I needed a low protein diet and some medications that a psychiatrist could not give me, and now I am doing better. Now I can have goals.<p>So while this article might be true for some people with situational depression, I hate these studies because people always said crap like this to me. I was &quot;lazy&quot; and just needed a hobby, and on and on. They psychiatric association does not recognize, still, that mood disorders can be caused by metabolic issues. When they say I do not have enough serotonin and I ask them why they looked at me like they were in Psych 101. And these articles make psychiatrists lazy, putting all the effort on the patient while they sit back and collect check after check.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders</title><url>https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/goals-perseverance</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>hrktb</author><text>To me the article is not far from parent&#x27;s reading. For instance these quotes:<p>&gt; We wanted to understand what specific coping strategies would be helpful in reducing rates of depression, anxiety and panic attacks.<p>&gt; Our findings suggest that people can improve their mental health by raising or maintaining high levels of tenacity, resilience and optimism,” she said. “Aspiring toward personal and career goals can make people feel like their lives have meaning. On the other hand, disengaging from striving toward those aims or having a cynical attitude can have high mental health costs.”<p>The second quote is really not far from presenting lack of perseverence or negativity as an active choice, putting the onus on the patient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>I empathize with your frustration, but you&#x27;re letting your personal experience override logic.<p>You&#x27;ve made a simple logical error: a study claiming that people who have goals can fend off depression does not imply that those with depression have it because they do not have goals. It means that some people who don&#x27;t have goals, but do have depression, may remedy it by getting goals. But not everyone.<p>If the research above is resulting in psychiatrists becoming lazy, it&#x27;s because they&#x27;re making the same logical error you are making. So in that sense, you should avoid doing so, since the kind of error you are making is the very thing which leads to the behavior you&#x27;ve experienced.<p>The proper response (by you, and psychiatrists) is to conclude that trying to encourage goal formation in those with depression seems wise, and will help some, but many (like yourself) will not benefit. Nor should we invert causation and assume the reason people have depression is due to lack of goals, much like if we determined that eating a specific kind of food helped prevent cancer meant that those who for whatever reason didn&#x27;t have that food in their diet were somehow causing their own cancer by neglecting to eat it.</text></item><item><author>podgaj</author><text>I do not know how many people here have &quot;Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders&quot; but I am on disability for all three and it runs in my family on my mother&#x27;s side.<p>So what is this article saying? Me and my family just do not have perseverance? That we lack the &quot;will&quot; not to be depressed and anxious? That I just need to &quot;Aspir[e] toward personal and career goals&quot;? HA!<p>No, it&#x27;s not true. You see, they found we all have a genetic disorder (GCH1 Deficiency). After I yelled at my doctors for years to look more deeply they finally found that it was not that I did not have goals, but that I needed a low protein diet and some medications that a psychiatrist could not give me, and now I am doing better. Now I can have goals.<p>So while this article might be true for some people with situational depression, I hate these studies because people always said crap like this to me. I was &quot;lazy&quot; and just needed a hobby, and on and on. They psychiatric association does not recognize, still, that mood disorders can be caused by metabolic issues. When they say I do not have enough serotonin and I ask them why they looked at me like they were in Psych 101. And these articles make psychiatrists lazy, putting all the effort on the patient while they sit back and collect check after check.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders</title><url>https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/goals-perseverance</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>radarsat1</author><text>&gt; technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as &quot;simple&quot; as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available<p>In rural communities here in Chile, and also in smaller towns, there is an amazing solution to this called Collectivo. I had never heard of it before arriving, but man it&#x27;s the greatest thing. It&#x27;s something in-between a bus and a taxi: a taxi with a predefined route. So if you&#x27;re on a route, which there are many, you flag down a collectivo as it passes, and since both you and the driver already know where it&#x27;s going, it&#x27;ll stop for you even if there are already people in the car.<p>What makes this amazing is that it&#x27;s <i>cheap</i> because the route is pre-set, and it&#x27;s shared, and the driver can just go all day knowing there will be people along the route, and doesn&#x27;t have to finish one ride before starting another. But meanwhile they&#x27;ll generally go partially off their route if you request it, and it&#x27;s not too much of a bother.<p>Why don&#x27;t North American rural areas do this? It&#x27;s a really great way to get around, and makes it so you can live (or at least visit) in rural areas without owning a car.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spIrr</author><text>I&#x27;ll post a comment from ProductHunt, which might give a bit more context to where the founder sees this going, and why cash rides make sense under certain circumstances he designed the app for:<p>[…] I have gone to the founder&#x27;s blog and it provides a better understanding of where he sees it going: Uber (and similar apps) will never reach many remote villages, cities and regions around the world (and don&#x27;t have to), but technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as &quot;simple&quot; as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available.<p>For more details, here&#x27;s the founder&#x27;s blog on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@romanpushkin&#x2F;how-i-made-uber-like-app-in-no-time-with-javascript-and-secret-sauce-94ef9120c7f6#.dc99pd5qm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@romanpushkin&#x2F;how-i-made-uber-like-app-in...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://libretaxi.org/</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>parasanti</author><text>Uber is trying to address the Credit Card issues after it noticed that lots of Singaporeans, maids and foreign labor do not have credit cards but still needs the service. They accept cash now.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techinasia.com&#x2F;uber-cash-payments-singapore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techinasia.com&#x2F;uber-cash-payments-singapore</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>spIrr</author><text>I&#x27;ll post a comment from ProductHunt, which might give a bit more context to where the founder sees this going, and why cash rides make sense under certain circumstances he designed the app for:<p>[…] I have gone to the founder&#x27;s blog and it provides a better understanding of where he sees it going: Uber (and similar apps) will never reach many remote villages, cities and regions around the world (and don&#x27;t have to), but technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as &quot;simple&quot; as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available.<p>For more details, here&#x27;s the founder&#x27;s blog on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@romanpushkin&#x2F;how-i-made-uber-like-app-in-no-time-with-javascript-and-secret-sauce-94ef9120c7f6#.dc99pd5qm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@romanpushkin&#x2F;how-i-made-uber-like-app-in...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://libretaxi.org/</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>gibsjose</author><text>As a NASA flight software engineer who has created and worked with coding standards for critical software, I would highly recommend Gerard Holzmann&#x27;s (JPL) Power of 10 Rules [<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;gerard&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;P10.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;gerard&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;P10.pdf</a>]. This is a set of the 10 most important (and thus highly restrictive) embedded flight software rules. It gets straight to the point and, at only 6 pages, is much easier to apply to actual software development than this ~400 page tome.<p>EDIT:
Another great point referenced in the Power of 10 rules: a requirement is only valuable as long as you can enforce it. With some exception, if you can&#x27;t enforce it with a static analysis tool or something of the sort, it might not belong in your coding standards.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA Software Safety Guidebook (2004) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/871913.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>stuartmalcolm</author><text>The thing to bear in mind is that not every organisation needs &#x27;NASA-level&#x27; quality.
IMHO The Capability Maturity Model is a must-read for everyone interested in professional software development.
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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>zaphar</author><text>I think this concern gets lost in translation sometimes. It&#x27;s not that you need to understand everything but you do need to know that there is a layer underneath. And it needs to be possible to follow a trail to and through that layer to debug things. Most of the time I <i>don&#x27;t</i> need to understand the physics of a harddisk. But I know a hard disk operates under certain pysical laws. When I encounter something happening wrong it has on occasion been useful to be able to follow the trail all the way down to that disk and debug at that level.<p>Ruby&#x27;s freewheeling philosophy however means that even when you are the <i>author</i> of the code some other code might have reached in and changed something out from under you. Not only do you not know there is another layer somewhere doing stuff that impacts you you can&#x27;t even reliably follow a path to find that layer and debug it. As long as <i>everyone</i> does everything perfectly this is a wonderful world to live in. But the first time someone breaks the rules and impacts you and you lose a week or more unnecessarily you&#x27;ll understand the distaste that ruby fosters in some people.<p>It&#x27;s more about being able to discover what you need to know that it is possessing full knowledge of everything you need to know.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jshen</author><text>I think this is wrong. Nearly all of us build on top of things we don&#x27;t understand. I don&#x27;t understand the physics of a harddisk, or the pipelining of a CPU, or some of the low level OS functionality.<p>The issue is when do each of us, as individuals and&#x2F;or teams, really need to understand more. And perhaps more importantly, when does it make business sense to leverage magic to get to market faster, build cheaper, or find market fit before worrying about building the most robust thing possible.</text></item><item><author>glossyscr</author><text>&gt; Too much magic happening everywhere, a gazillion of built-in methods, weird shit happening all over the place<p>Couldn&#x27;t agree more on this. Magic is good if you understand the underlying stuff but if you don&#x27;t and you are once offtrack you are lost. Maybe it&#x27;s also a matter of taste. However the hype and traction DHH could build when RoR started was quite impressive.</text></item><item><author>sauere</author><text>Funny, everything in this post is exactly why i prefer Python(+Django&#x2F;Flask) over Ruby(+Rails). Too much magic happening everywhere, a gazillion of built-in methods, weird shit happening all over the place, all that combined with all the syntactic sugar Ruby offers.<p>Granted, it might look &quot;beautiful&quot; in the eyes of a experienced RoR developer, but personally i find it just makes code very hard to read. Just my 2 cents.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Rails Doctrine</title><url>http://rubyonrails.org/doctrine</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>Eridrus</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t understand the physics of a harddisk, or the pipelining of a CPU, or some of the low level OS functionality.<p>I think the key difference is that you don&#x27;t <i>need</i> to know how that works. I think there&#x27;s a question of how leaky the abstraction is and how often you need to look behind the curtain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jshen</author><text>I think this is wrong. Nearly all of us build on top of things we don&#x27;t understand. I don&#x27;t understand the physics of a harddisk, or the pipelining of a CPU, or some of the low level OS functionality.<p>The issue is when do each of us, as individuals and&#x2F;or teams, really need to understand more. And perhaps more importantly, when does it make business sense to leverage magic to get to market faster, build cheaper, or find market fit before worrying about building the most robust thing possible.</text></item><item><author>glossyscr</author><text>&gt; Too much magic happening everywhere, a gazillion of built-in methods, weird shit happening all over the place<p>Couldn&#x27;t agree more on this. Magic is good if you understand the underlying stuff but if you don&#x27;t and you are once offtrack you are lost. Maybe it&#x27;s also a matter of taste. However the hype and traction DHH could build when RoR started was quite impressive.</text></item><item><author>sauere</author><text>Funny, everything in this post is exactly why i prefer Python(+Django&#x2F;Flask) over Ruby(+Rails). Too much magic happening everywhere, a gazillion of built-in methods, weird shit happening all over the place, all that combined with all the syntactic sugar Ruby offers.<p>Granted, it might look &quot;beautiful&quot; in the eyes of a experienced RoR developer, but personally i find it just makes code very hard to read. Just my 2 cents.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Rails Doctrine</title><url>http://rubyonrails.org/doctrine</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>ComputerGuru</author><text>Reminds me of one of my favorite books (well, not really. The premise was incredible and the writing was impeccable but it was part one of a trilogy that never materialized): <i>Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus</i><p>It was basically a brilliant alternative historical fiction novel based around the premise of being able to rewatch the past.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth</title><url>http://rein.pk/gravitational-lensing-to-observe-ancient-earth/</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>rcthompson</author><text>So it&#x27;s possible for a beam of light to wrap around a black hole and intersect its own path. This must mean that light doesn&#x27;t follow Kepler orbits[1] in general relativity?<p>[1] i.e. ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_orbit" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kepler_orbit</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth</title><url>http://rein.pk/gravitational-lensing-to-observe-ancient-earth/</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>PragmaticPulp</author><text>For everyone confused by this comment: In some countries you might find dishwashers with a sort of built-in water softener: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dishwasher_salt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dishwasher_salt</a><p>It&#x27;s not common in the United States. Some all-in-one detergent packets might contain some amount of dishwasher salt, though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm</author><text>Rinse aid is completely unneeded if you properly maintain and use your dishwasher.<p>I never use any, and my dishes are completely spotless. 30 years old dishwasher, super hard water.<p>Specifically, you should:<p>- always fill the salt of the dishwasher&#x27;s water softener once it&#x27;s empty. It cannot soften the water if it doesn&#x27;t get cleaned by the salt. If the water is not softened you will get spots. EDIT: Apparently US folks often have dishwashers which don&#x27;t soften the water. Ugh. In Europe I haven&#x27;t even heard that such a thing exists! :|<p>- configure the dishwasher to your water hardness.<p>- do NOT use detergent which is advertised as &quot;you won&#x27;t need salt&quot;. This is garbage for lazy people. It cannot properly replace the water softener. Think about it for a moment: The detergent is meant to fully dissolve during washing so you won&#x27;t have it on your dishes after the final water cycle. The only way it could affect the softness of the water in the final cycle is if it did NOT fully dissolve in time. So there are two factors to be optimized which contradict - stay long enough to soften the water, but not long enough to leave remainders on the dishes. It will never work properly.<p>- This is not related to rinse aid, but you should know it: Clean the sieve regularly, at least every week. It will get ultra nasty with gunk if you don&#x27;t. If you have no time for cleaning it, buy a second one, switch them once one is dirty and put it among the dishes so the dishwasher washes it like a dish.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids</title><url>https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(22)01477-4/fulltext</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>casion</author><text>Fill the salt? Configure for water hardness?<p>I&#x27;ve never heard of either of these things before. Certainly not things on my, relatively fancy, dishwasher.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm</author><text>Rinse aid is completely unneeded if you properly maintain and use your dishwasher.<p>I never use any, and my dishes are completely spotless. 30 years old dishwasher, super hard water.<p>Specifically, you should:<p>- always fill the salt of the dishwasher&#x27;s water softener once it&#x27;s empty. It cannot soften the water if it doesn&#x27;t get cleaned by the salt. If the water is not softened you will get spots. EDIT: Apparently US folks often have dishwashers which don&#x27;t soften the water. Ugh. In Europe I haven&#x27;t even heard that such a thing exists! :|<p>- configure the dishwasher to your water hardness.<p>- do NOT use detergent which is advertised as &quot;you won&#x27;t need salt&quot;. This is garbage for lazy people. It cannot properly replace the water softener. Think about it for a moment: The detergent is meant to fully dissolve during washing so you won&#x27;t have it on your dishes after the final water cycle. The only way it could affect the softness of the water in the final cycle is if it did NOT fully dissolve in time. So there are two factors to be optimized which contradict - stay long enough to soften the water, but not long enough to leave remainders on the dishes. It will never work properly.<p>- This is not related to rinse aid, but you should know it: Clean the sieve regularly, at least every week. It will get ultra nasty with gunk if you don&#x27;t. If you have no time for cleaning it, buy a second one, switch them once one is dirty and put it among the dishes so the dishwasher washes it like a dish.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids</title><url>https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(22)01477-4/fulltext</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>tracker1</author><text>I think it depends on what you are doing... I think there are huge opportunities for interop performance as well as just optimized process paths for certain things. I&#x27;m not that deep on the technical side, more of an avid observer. It just seems that as long as many things in WASM are slower than general performance for say Java or C#, that there is definitely room to improve things.<p>As an example, looking at the in-the-box Garbage Collection support that&#x27;s being flushed out, as an example will improve languages that rely on GC (C#, Java, Go, etc) without having to include an implementation for the runtime.<p>Another point where there&#x27;s potential for massive gains are the browser UI interop as well, and I think there&#x27;s been a lot of effort to work within&#x2F;around current limitations, but obviously there&#x27;s room to improve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Retr0id</author><text>&gt; I don’t expect the WASM translations to be much (or any) faster at the moment, but I do expect them to get faster over time, as the WASM engines in web browsers improve (just as JS engines have).<p>I haven&#x27;t been following WASM progress, do people generally share this optimism for WASM performance improvement over time, relative to JS? I was under the vague impression that all the &quot;obvious&quot; optimizations had already been done (i.e. JIT, and more recently, SIMD support)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dynamic translation of Smalltalk to WebAssembly</title><url>https://thiscontext.com/2023/07/26/dynamic-translation-of-smalltalk-to-webassembly/</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>dgb23</author><text>There seems to be alot of work going into WASM itself, much of it is performance related:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebAssembly&#x2F;proposals">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebAssembly&#x2F;proposals</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Retr0id</author><text>&gt; I don’t expect the WASM translations to be much (or any) faster at the moment, but I do expect them to get faster over time, as the WASM engines in web browsers improve (just as JS engines have).<p>I haven&#x27;t been following WASM progress, do people generally share this optimism for WASM performance improvement over time, relative to JS? I was under the vague impression that all the &quot;obvious&quot; optimizations had already been done (i.e. JIT, and more recently, SIMD support)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dynamic translation of Smalltalk to WebAssembly</title><url>https://thiscontext.com/2023/07/26/dynamic-translation-of-smalltalk-to-webassembly/</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>culi</author><text>What do you mean by this? I mainly use FireFox on my iPhone. Are you saying the FireFox app utilizes WebKit?</text><parent_chain><item><author>speedgoose</author><text>If you want to use Firefox you should get an Android smartphone. Apple forbids other browsers engines on iOS.</text></item><item><author>timwis</author><text>Ahhh I accidentally zoomed on the page on mobile, so double tapped to unzoom and hit this. Proceeded to infinite loop Firefox on iOS. Oh well, time for a new phone anyway.</text></item><item><author>joombaga</author><text>Warning: Don&#x27;t click this if you don&#x27;t understand what it&#x27;s doing. You may have trouble closing it.<p>GH pages link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hamukazu.github.io&#x2F;lets-get-arrested&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hamukazu.github.io&#x2F;lets-get-arrested&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lets Get Arrested (2019)</title><url>https://github.com/hamukazu/lets-get-arrested</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>marcellus23</author><text>&gt; If you want to use Firefox you should get an Android smartphone. Apple forbids other browsers engines on iOS.<p>How does the first sentence follow from the second? For almost all users, the engine is irrelevant, it&#x27;s the chrome that matters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>speedgoose</author><text>If you want to use Firefox you should get an Android smartphone. Apple forbids other browsers engines on iOS.</text></item><item><author>timwis</author><text>Ahhh I accidentally zoomed on the page on mobile, so double tapped to unzoom and hit this. Proceeded to infinite loop Firefox on iOS. Oh well, time for a new phone anyway.</text></item><item><author>joombaga</author><text>Warning: Don&#x27;t click this if you don&#x27;t understand what it&#x27;s doing. You may have trouble closing it.<p>GH pages link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hamukazu.github.io&#x2F;lets-get-arrested&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hamukazu.github.io&#x2F;lets-get-arrested&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lets Get Arrested (2019)</title><url>https://github.com/hamukazu/lets-get-arrested</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>nxsynonym</author><text>I think the only real alternative is to get rid of the 8+ hour work day.<p>Correct me if there is evidence to the contrary, but I don&#x27;t think humans were designed to sit or stand in one position for extended periods of time, habitually.<p>Unfortunately I don&#x27;t see the 8 hour work day going away any time soon, so imo the best option is to alternate sitting&#x2F;standing and take as many walking around breaks as possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluGill</author><text>Unfortunately while there is evidence that sitting all day is bad, we don&#x27;t know if&#x2F;what alternatives are good. Is standing better, or do you need to move? Maybe it is staring at something close (monitor, papers...) and sitting is only bad as a proxy (I know of no study that can actually say that hypothesis is wrong even though I just made it up). Modern life currently requires a lot of people to spend a lot of time at computers, so we need to know how to be healthy while at computers.<p>I like having a motorized desk, but I don&#x27;t think I could actually stand all day long, (other than the same breaks someone sitting all day would take). I tried a treadmill desk a time or two, but I don&#x27;t have the option of using it daily.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/well/move/why-sitting-may-be-bad-for-your-heart.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-1&action=click&contentCollection=Well&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article</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>austinjp</author><text>Prolonged standing increases risk of varicose veins. It seems likely that mixing sitting and standing would be best. In what proportions, I don&#x27;t know. Walking is likely to be a good substitute for simple standing in most people. It improves veinous return, puts some healthy impact into the legs, increases uptake of glucose from the blood stream by the leg muscles, gives the heart and lungs a little extra work, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluGill</author><text>Unfortunately while there is evidence that sitting all day is bad, we don&#x27;t know if&#x2F;what alternatives are good. Is standing better, or do you need to move? Maybe it is staring at something close (monitor, papers...) and sitting is only bad as a proxy (I know of no study that can actually say that hypothesis is wrong even though I just made it up). Modern life currently requires a lot of people to spend a lot of time at computers, so we need to know how to be healthy while at computers.<p>I like having a motorized desk, but I don&#x27;t think I could actually stand all day long, (other than the same breaks someone sitting all day would take). I tried a treadmill desk a time or two, but I don&#x27;t have the option of using it daily.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/well/move/why-sitting-may-be-bad-for-your-heart.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-1&action=click&contentCollection=Well&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article</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>rwallace</author><text>This is a good example of an important general point: <i>human social instincts are a really huge security vulnerability</i>. The price we pay for adaptability is that we can&#x27;t have a hardwired instinct of what&#x27;s normal, so the solution evolution came up with was to program us to take our cue on that from the people around us. The downside is that if we put ourselves in an environment where people are doing bad things - working overtime, doing a PhD, taking drugs, bullying, working for a totalitarian regime, basically anything whatsoever - it won&#x27;t be long before our brains start telling us it&#x27;s perfectly normal and finding excuses for the harmful effects. Look at this guy: he admits it ruined his life, but he still thinks it was okay because he liked his initial group of co-workers.<p>Conclusion: do not put yourself in an environment where the people around you are doing bad things. If you are already in such an environment, talk to someone outside it, get their view on the matter, and take it seriously. And if you think you aren&#x27;t in such an environment, consider doing that anyway as a reality check.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An insider's look at what he gave up to create a classic game</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/1/11820966/fable-crunch-microsoft</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>mrdrozdov</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t exactly seem like the healthiest (or most efficient) routine.<p>&gt; A pattern emerged in my days during this period. Get up, get washed and dressed, wash down a couple of caffeine tablets with some strong coffee, pick up a red bull, a coke and some cereal bars on my way into the office. Once at work I’d be at my desk non-stop; all meals would be eaten at my desk, though sometimes I’d not eat at all. When I did eat, it would usually mean a sandwich from the supermarket for lunch. Work would often provide dinner, invariably takeout. Sugary caffeinated drinks and sweets would sustain me for the rest of the time.<p>Working 80 hour weeks is not okay, but working 40 hour weeks is also probably not okay when you&#x27;re relying on this sort of sustenance.<p>Thanks incredibly for sharing your experience and helping build such a renowned game. Hopefully people can take away from your experiences strategies to avoid a similar fate!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An insider's look at what he gave up to create a classic game</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/1/11820966/fable-crunch-microsoft</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>gwbas1c</author><text>I&#x27;d never give a detailed answer, because I don&#x27;t want future candidates to cheat. The last thing I want is for someone to share my interview, and then I can no longer filter out bad candidates. It takes a super-long time to write a good interview.<p>But, more importantly, very few candidates fail on a single question. They usually fail on patterns: Poor comprehension of the task at hand, too many snap judgements, or lack of professionalism.<p>(Another reason, though, is that I&#x27;ve rejected a lot of people who I believe shouldn&#x27;t be software engineers. It&#x27;s not my place to tell them they should pick another career, nor do I want to make it easier for them to bluff their way to becoming someone else&#x27;s headache.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ragnese</author><text>And I wonder how often a candidate actually follows up to ask why they failed and whether many interviewers will give honest&#x2F;complete answers.</text></item><item><author>zomglings</author><text>No one knows why they <i>actually</i> failed her on the interview. Have run many interviews, and it is very rarely the case that you fail a candidate for one technical slip up.</text></item><item><author>missblit</author><text>&gt; I didn’t know the limit because it had been many years since I’d had a problem that could be solved with a DB small enough to be held in its entirety in memory. And they were right to fail me for that: the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had.<p>No way it&#x27;s &quot;right&quot; to fail an interviewee because they wondered outloud if a dataset can fit in memory. A candidate should be able to estimate the answer, but beyond that it&#x27;s trivia that can be researched as needed -- indeed even asking the question is a positive signal not a negative one (it&#x27;s not just people with &quot;google scale&quot; background who reach for over-complicated solutions).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I don’t know how to count that low</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/koGbEwgbfst2wCbzG/i-don-t-know-how-to-count-that-low</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>zomglings</author><text>Very rarely. And they shouldn&#x27;t trust any answers that they receive.<p>It&#x27;s difficult to give an honest answer to this question even if you <i>want</i> to be honest.<p>There are often so many little reasons that go into a rejection -- different reasons for different interviewers all feeding into an activation function that leads to a rejection or an acceptance (default state depends on team culture and how well you filter out candidates at the top of the funnel).<p>For most candidates, it&#x27;s very hard to distill this into actionable criticism.<p>Edit: For anyone fundraising, this is also why you shouldn&#x27;t listen too carefully to the reasons that investors give you when they reject your business as an investment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ragnese</author><text>And I wonder how often a candidate actually follows up to ask why they failed and whether many interviewers will give honest&#x2F;complete answers.</text></item><item><author>zomglings</author><text>No one knows why they <i>actually</i> failed her on the interview. Have run many interviews, and it is very rarely the case that you fail a candidate for one technical slip up.</text></item><item><author>missblit</author><text>&gt; I didn’t know the limit because it had been many years since I’d had a problem that could be solved with a DB small enough to be held in its entirety in memory. And they were right to fail me for that: the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had.<p>No way it&#x27;s &quot;right&quot; to fail an interviewee because they wondered outloud if a dataset can fit in memory. A candidate should be able to estimate the answer, but beyond that it&#x27;s trivia that can be researched as needed -- indeed even asking the question is a positive signal not a negative one (it&#x27;s not just people with &quot;google scale&quot; background who reach for over-complicated solutions).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I don’t know how to count that low</title><url>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/koGbEwgbfst2wCbzG/i-don-t-know-how-to-count-that-low</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>MSFT_Edging</author><text>Yeah this is a super deep issue but its not mind control.<p>It&#x27;s a mix of middlemen being the only industry that can still extract more profit, and a level of control over markets by Capital that makes most opinions meaningless.<p>Its essentially a return to feudalism, where certain people own vast swaths of productive space, they&#x27;re untouchable in the legal system and real life, and one is forced to work for them.<p>To escape the system means leaving behind most of society depending on your convictions. These groups can kill you physically(Monsanto poisoning people with pesticides) or metaphorically(you lose all connection to the general societal social media) and nothing can be done.<p>For the first one, if you were to suggest violence against those doing violence against you, you&#x27;re essentially told that violence is never the answer, except when its in the form of collateral damage for profit motive.<p>For the latter, its not nearly as life ending, annoying, but not life ending or even altering unless your livelihood is based around grifting on social media. For social media it is ironically democratic, if most people find you to be an annoying asshole, they sorta kick you off so you leave everyone alone. No different than getting kicked out of a bar for demanding to see someone&#x27;s genitals.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clucas</author><text>&gt; as if they already operate effective mind control at systemic scale.<p>If the logical conclusion of your reasoning is a mass mind control conspiracy, you should revisit your assumptions.<p>&gt; somehow they can bully into submission basically the entire universe<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone is bullying all of society. I think most people just don&#x27;t care. It&#x27;s really not that crazy, no mind control involved. Just good old fashioned apathy and ignorance.</text></item><item><author>nologic01</author><text>&gt; A handful of companies have established chokepoints between buyers and sellers, performers and audiences, workers and employers, as well as families and communities. When those companies refuse to deal with you, your digital life grinds to a halt<p>This short paragraph summarizes the (ex-ante) improbably unusual situation we have drifted into.<p>The negatively affected stakeholders being enumerated are more or less the entire society.<p>These gatekeepers and chokepoint operators do have a few natural allies (the captured politicos, others in direct or indirect payroll, externality-blind markets). Yet somehow they can bully into submission basically the entire universe. With its infinite financial, political, intellectual resources.<p>Rather strange dont you think? It almost as if they already operate effective mind control at systemic scale.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your computer should say what you tell it to say</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1</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>xphos</author><text>If they can kick the former president off his platform they can bully joe schmo off there platform. Whether you agree with the former president, he was in theory the most powerful person on the planet and had to submit to the powers of large tech companies. I think the idea that most people don&#x27;t care is not a supported or found assumption either rather you just asserted it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clucas</author><text>&gt; as if they already operate effective mind control at systemic scale.<p>If the logical conclusion of your reasoning is a mass mind control conspiracy, you should revisit your assumptions.<p>&gt; somehow they can bully into submission basically the entire universe<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone is bullying all of society. I think most people just don&#x27;t care. It&#x27;s really not that crazy, no mind control involved. Just good old fashioned apathy and ignorance.</text></item><item><author>nologic01</author><text>&gt; A handful of companies have established chokepoints between buyers and sellers, performers and audiences, workers and employers, as well as families and communities. When those companies refuse to deal with you, your digital life grinds to a halt<p>This short paragraph summarizes the (ex-ante) improbably unusual situation we have drifted into.<p>The negatively affected stakeholders being enumerated are more or less the entire society.<p>These gatekeepers and chokepoint operators do have a few natural allies (the captured politicos, others in direct or indirect payroll, externality-blind markets). Yet somehow they can bully into submission basically the entire universe. With its infinite financial, political, intellectual resources.<p>Rather strange dont you think? It almost as if they already operate effective mind control at systemic scale.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your computer should say what you tell it to say</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1</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>TuringNYC</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; For example, France during the population boom of the high middle ages overproduced knights and minor nobles from 1200-1300. The nobility increased from around 2% to 4% of the population, while the incomes of the richest nobles soared. Eventually, peasants could no longer produce enough to feed themselves and provide income for all the nobles: this was a contributing factor to the famines and wars of 1350-1400.<p><i>Wow, this literally reminds me of one of my tech employers.</i> Eventually half the company was a VP, Director, Senior Director or something else. Often you had a reporting chain with a VP --&gt; Sr.Director --&gt; Director --&gt; 1or2 workers<p>Naturally, the high salaries above had to be supported, so the 1 or 2 workers at the bottom had to code more, code faster, and the management layer figuratively cracked the whip harder and harder to somehow produce enough billings to support the team of 5. (note the layers above were <i>not</i> sales, they were all program-manager types. sales was a different group.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>lwneal</author><text>In Peter Turchin&#x27;s book War and Peace and War [1], the term &quot;elite overproduction&quot; does not refer to an overproduction of smart people, education, or college degrees. Instead, it refers to an overproduction of <i>nobility</i>, individuals who extract income but who do not perform useful work.<p>For example, France during the population boom of the high middle ages overproduced knights and minor nobles from 1200-1300. The nobility increased from around 2% to 4% of the population, while the incomes of the richest nobles soared. Eventually, peasants could no longer produce enough to feed themselves and provide income for all the nobles: this was a contributing factor to the famines and wars of 1350-1400.<p>The most straightforward modern equivalent to Turchin&#x27;s &quot;elite&quot; nobility would not be people with advanced degrees: it would be investors who do not work for wages. (Not to say there is no overlap between those groups.)<p>[1] Turchin, Peter. War and peace and war: The life cycles of imperial nations. Pi, 2005.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/24/can-too-many-brainy-people-be-a-dangerous-thing</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>moosey</author><text>There are no real shortages of food or shelter at this time. We should be able to support a very large number of people working on human development: scientists and technologists, medical professionals and even wide-spread service jobs, especially if better paid.<p>Unfortunately, for money to prove it&#x27;s worth, too many things must be made scarce. It is this scarcity driven by the people who already have money and their servants in the system that are going to drive the current collapse, if it is happening (and I certainly think it is).<p>What&#x27;s mocking about the entire thing is that to retire with a 401k is to join the rent-seeking class. I imagine there is some dark society that could exist where all the food was produced with automation and all that existed otherwise was ownership of that and other automation, producing nothing of value other than the already specious concept of wealth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lwneal</author><text>In Peter Turchin&#x27;s book War and Peace and War [1], the term &quot;elite overproduction&quot; does not refer to an overproduction of smart people, education, or college degrees. Instead, it refers to an overproduction of <i>nobility</i>, individuals who extract income but who do not perform useful work.<p>For example, France during the population boom of the high middle ages overproduced knights and minor nobles from 1200-1300. The nobility increased from around 2% to 4% of the population, while the incomes of the richest nobles soared. Eventually, peasants could no longer produce enough to feed themselves and provide income for all the nobles: this was a contributing factor to the famines and wars of 1350-1400.<p>The most straightforward modern equivalent to Turchin&#x27;s &quot;elite&quot; nobility would not be people with advanced degrees: it would be investors who do not work for wages. (Not to say there is no overlap between those groups.)<p>[1] Turchin, Peter. War and peace and war: The life cycles of imperial nations. Pi, 2005.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/24/can-too-many-brainy-people-be-a-dangerous-thing</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>Rezo</author><text>Coverity is great, but for example on the mid-size service (10s but not 100s of kloc) that my team works on the analysis still takes hours. Therefore we only do it for prod releases, not on every commit or CI deployment.<p>If you want to make static analysis part of the everyday development process, it has to be 1) very quick, ideally seconds; minutes at most 2) preferably something the developer can just run locally before pushing a change. If it&#x27;s fast and easy enough, it simply becomes another code hygiene tool like a code formatter that you&#x27;ll run continuously, perhaps even directly integrated into something like IntelliJ.<p>To me Infer sounds like a nice complement to Coverity to catch issues as close to where they are introduced as possible. It might even be Good Enough for many projects to be the only tool, since Coverity is pretty expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guepe</author><text>The types of issues discovered (they mention null pointer access and resource and memory leaks) is much smaller than what a tool like Coverity will find (I use it). And they analyze C and Java, two languages supported by Coverity, a very mature tool...<p>I am not certain of the proposed value, except it&#x27;s free to other than Facebook - but not to Facebook, who pays engineers to develop this...
Is this some kind of NIH syndrom by Facebook, or is there something I missed ?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship</title><url>http://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882</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>Lewisham</author><text>Coverity was evaluated a number of times at Google, and IIRC we decided it wasn&#x27;t going to scale to the codebase size we needed it to. A separate and unrelated effort ended up with us building Tricorder [1].<p>Often perceived NIH at large companies for this sort of thing is simply a byproduct of scale that is unreasonable for external companies to have to worry about supporting.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google.com&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pub43322.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google.com&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pub43322.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>guepe</author><text>The types of issues discovered (they mention null pointer access and resource and memory leaks) is much smaller than what a tool like Coverity will find (I use it). And they analyze C and Java, two languages supported by Coverity, a very mature tool...<p>I am not certain of the proposed value, except it&#x27;s free to other than Facebook - but not to Facebook, who pays engineers to develop this...
Is this some kind of NIH syndrom by Facebook, or is there something I missed ?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship</title><url>http://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882</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>mattrp</author><text>I’ve seen this so many times as well where candidates under sell themselves or key accomplishments never get brought up. Even Elon Musk in the most recent Autonomy day had to say to Karparthy “introduce yourself and don’t be bashful.” Even then, I’ve noticed, I’ve noticed that people don’t “hear” things until a second or third conversation. The idea that you can absolutely hear everything a candidate has to say in 60 minutes is just unreasonable. At the same time, I think you did the right thing: you helped your client make a better decision but not letting them rely on a first look exclusively.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>I am both a recruiter and a highly experienced developer and software designer.<p>I once sent one of the very best programmers I know for a job interview.<p>I have met a small handful of outstanding programmers in my &gt; 30 years in IT and this guy was in the top five, near the top.<p>I had personally worked directly with him for 5 years and he was unquestionably one of the most talented programmers there is, and a nice guy, easy to get along with and great to work with. Incredibly productive, and capable of the most incredible feats of software development.<p>The client interviewed him and said ....... no thanks.<p>There you go - I have just explained everything you need to know about technical recruiting. Give it some thought - the more you think about it, the more it reveals the deepest truth about YOU and your software hiring processes.<p>NO-ONE - no-one ever thinks they make the wrong call when they reject a candidate - including you.<p>If you want to know what happened after that - I called the CEO who I knew quite well and essentially said to him &quot;What the fuck are you doing? I sent you one of the best programmers there is - and I know this from first hand personal experience over five years - and your interviewers rejected him?&quot;. They employed him because of that and he became their chief technical architect pretty quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We can't judge another programmer's abilities in a 60 minute interview</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6528766848526278657</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>apple4ever</author><text>&gt; NO-ONE - no-one ever thinks they make the wrong call when they reject a candidate - including you.<p>I disagree. Maybe not immediately, but I’ve definitely picked the wrong candidate when I had two other better candidates in hindsight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>I am both a recruiter and a highly experienced developer and software designer.<p>I once sent one of the very best programmers I know for a job interview.<p>I have met a small handful of outstanding programmers in my &gt; 30 years in IT and this guy was in the top five, near the top.<p>I had personally worked directly with him for 5 years and he was unquestionably one of the most talented programmers there is, and a nice guy, easy to get along with and great to work with. Incredibly productive, and capable of the most incredible feats of software development.<p>The client interviewed him and said ....... no thanks.<p>There you go - I have just explained everything you need to know about technical recruiting. Give it some thought - the more you think about it, the more it reveals the deepest truth about YOU and your software hiring processes.<p>NO-ONE - no-one ever thinks they make the wrong call when they reject a candidate - including you.<p>If you want to know what happened after that - I called the CEO who I knew quite well and essentially said to him &quot;What the fuck are you doing? I sent you one of the best programmers there is - and I know this from first hand personal experience over five years - and your interviewers rejected him?&quot;. They employed him because of that and he became their chief technical architect pretty quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We can't judge another programmer's abilities in a 60 minute interview</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6528766848526278657</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>csours</author><text>Inspired by this, I led a group of 5th graders and high school students through a &quot;peanut butter and jelly sandwich robot&quot; exercise.<p>I had a blast and so did the kids.<p>We had them list some steps to make a pb&amp;j sandwich, and then I, as the robot acted the steps out as literally as possible.<p>When they said &quot;gather materials&quot;, I went around the room and picked up erasers, markers, water bottles; whatever I could find.<p>When they said &quot;put the knife in the peanut butter&quot; I stabbed the (plastic) knife through the cardboard seal.<p>When they said &quot;put the peanut butter on the bread&quot;, I put the jar of peanut butter on a slice of bread.<p>After all of that we showed a video of an industrial robot applying sealant, just like we spread the peanut butter and jelly.<p>At the end we asked how we could have done it better, and one of the kids said &quot;Get a smarter robot&quot;<p>I&#x27;d highly recommend doing something like this for a STEM day, or just for fun.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer</title><url>https://csunplugged.org/en/</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>toomanybeersies</author><text>Tim Bell, one of the creators of CS Unplugged, was one of my lecturers at the University of Canterbury, and before that he taught me the fundamentals of computer science at the NZ Olympiad of Informatics training camp when I was at high school. It would be fair to say that he&#x27;s a significant part of the reason I&#x27;m a software developer.<p>I&#x27;ve never met a man so passionate and interested in the pedagogy of computer science. I&#x27;d say that he&#x27;s one of the leading figures in pre-tertiary (primary and secondary school) computer science education in New Zealand. I think that science pedagogy is a massively underserved field of academia. Everyone wants to create new theories and breakthroughs, but nobody wants to figure out how to teach them.<p>The way that he manages to use practical demonstrations to teach computer science theories and algorithms is brilliant. It really helps make algorithms click with a lot of students. It was refreshing to have him as a lecturer as opposed to some of the lecturers who were clearly did it because they were required to, not because they wanted to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer</title><url>https://csunplugged.org/en/</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>ChuckMcM</author><text>As a person who has run through this particular loop once with local politics (Sunnyvale&#x27;s northern border is the SF Bay which has former Morton Salt ponds in it) what I ran into was two things, one that there wasn&#x27;t a cost effective power solution for just desalination, and two, the players don&#x27;t care about water to individuals (drinking water and what not) because there is absolutely no risk whatsoever in the bay area of not having &quot;enough&quot; of it. The political block that kills it is a combination of local pop saying &quot;we don&#x27;t want nuclear&#x2F;cheap power in our back yard&quot; and the folks farming the desert in the central valley saying &quot;If you can&#x27;t supply farms, why would you do it?&quot;<p>My hope is that one day, small scale nuclear power (sometimes called &quot;modular nuclear power&quot;) will make this a reality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bagels</author><text>Article puts the cost to produce a cubic meter of water at $1-$2<p>In the bay area, I&#x27;m paying ~$2.80 per cubic meter.<p>I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s not feasible.<p>Yes, there are transmission&#x2F;pumping costs. Assuming the water we&#x27;re getting now is free, that&#x27;s still only ~50-75% increase in cost over current costs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-dont-we-get-our-drinking-water-from-the-ocean/</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>labster</author><text>Article is 15 years old, energy and labor prices have increased a lot. We need a new cost estimate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bagels</author><text>Article puts the cost to produce a cubic meter of water at $1-$2<p>In the bay area, I&#x27;m paying ~$2.80 per cubic meter.<p>I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s not feasible.<p>Yes, there are transmission&#x2F;pumping costs. Assuming the water we&#x27;re getting now is free, that&#x27;s still only ~50-75% increase in cost over current costs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-dont-we-get-our-drinking-water-from-the-ocean/</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>jlg23</author><text>Some background tidbits the article does not explain very well or at all:<p>* For short-term rentals (vacation homes) one needs to have a permit and pay taxes.<p>* Subletting your apartment without permission from the landlord is illegal, making a profit and not declaring it is tax fraud (and most don&#x27;t declare them because then they&#x27;d also have to have a permit and pay tourist tax).<p>* The landlord has to grant permission for sublets (also whole apartments) if the tenant is temporarily moving out of town but wants to keep the apartment, but also here: no profit allowed. EDIT: The landlord has a right to review <i>every single</i> intermediate tenant - so he can refuse them (this basically rules out the AirBnB model in this scenario).<p>What really annoys people is that in the best locations there are lots of people who ignore the existing laws and the rest of society has to pay for that: by not finding an affordable space to live, by having to endure a new set of drunk neighbors every weekend who either party in the apartment or come home drunk and very noisy at 4am and who, understandably, don&#x27;t participate in the house community (and yes, people tend to know their neighbors and even talk to them!).<p>But before adopting new laws it would have been much simpler to simply enforce the existing laws. Get all these folks who offer apartments on AirBnB 365 days a year and check whether they have all permits and taxes. Let them pay fines. Put them on a list of people whose tax-statements and books are checked annually (they do that with everybody else who commits tax fraud or just annoys the tax clerks).<p>Calling German laws too rigid is everyone&#x27;s right, but it is also the right of German people to value diversity in their cities enough to protect it by those rigid laws.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berlin Is Banning Most Vacation Apartment Rentals</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/airbnb-rentals-berlin-vacation-apartment-law/480381/</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>solidsnack9000</author><text>A city is more than a rental market -- it&#x27;s also a community. This is where all the-market-fixes-everything kind of arguments fall short. Unfettered development would eventually stack Berlin with enough housing but the disruption to people&#x27;s lives would be immense; and Berlin would lose much of the charm and character that has drawn so many people there to begin with.<p>A city is one part market and one part enchanted forest.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berlin Is Banning Most Vacation Apartment Rentals</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/airbnb-rentals-berlin-vacation-apartment-law/480381/</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>trgn</author><text>Loved how humane his angle is. It&#x27;s only a 5 minute summary, so I guess a lot is missing. He isn&#x27;t ridiculing mediocrity or the sorry state of bloated bureaucracies, he seems genuinely concerned about the detrimental effects of being stuck in a rat race, of how individuals fall in this trap unknowingly. His thoughts lead him to think self-knowledge is the answer (but not in a blaming way). He isn&#x27;t talking about better promotion cycles, or better hiring, or better employee evaluation. He puts much of the agency with the employee, not the institution. Not what I expected, I thought it&#x27;d be a lot more sarcastic and cynical.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Peter Principle (1974) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39wzku9KIEM</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>everly</author><text>A good scene in 30 Rock is when Tracy is told about the Peter Principle and responds &quot;but my incompetence knows no bounds!&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Peter Principle (1974) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39wzku9KIEM</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>throw0101b</author><text>There is another benefit to &lt;3000K indoor lighting: lighting is usually used in the evening, close to bed time. So a warmer light helps with people&#x27;s circadian rhythm in preparing for sleep. Remember that light at sunset also becomes warmer.<p>If all your indoor lighting was 5000K, then it would be like you would be living your indoor life constantly at noon.<p>It&#x27;s why software like f.lux was created (and the functionality has been incorporated into some OSes as well).</text><parent_chain><item><author>fsh</author><text>It is quite interesting that 2700K is often considered to be a &quot;normal&quot; color temperature, even though it is much yellower than sunlight (around 5000K, depending on atmospheric scattering). This stems purely from a technological limitation of incandescent bulbs. The bulb filaments simply cannot withstand a temperature significantly above 2700K. Even though LED bulbs have no such limitations, a color temperature of only 2700K is often chosen.</text></item><item><author>eig</author><text>The irony of this article is that the author is suffering from “too much choice”. LEDs have so much more capability than fluorescent and halogen bulbs that the burden has fallen on the consumer to sort out what dimmability, temperature, and lumens they need. It used to be that you only had one option so you didn’t have to think about it.<p>Anyone who works in stage lighting or art knows that light is complicated. We should not fault the technology for now giving us too many options, but instead improve the branding and advertising.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There's something off about LED bulbs</title><url>https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investigation.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>DennisP</author><text>Sunlight is great during the day but in the evening, you want to be closer to the color of sunsets and campfires.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fsh</author><text>It is quite interesting that 2700K is often considered to be a &quot;normal&quot; color temperature, even though it is much yellower than sunlight (around 5000K, depending on atmospheric scattering). This stems purely from a technological limitation of incandescent bulbs. The bulb filaments simply cannot withstand a temperature significantly above 2700K. Even though LED bulbs have no such limitations, a color temperature of only 2700K is often chosen.</text></item><item><author>eig</author><text>The irony of this article is that the author is suffering from “too much choice”. LEDs have so much more capability than fluorescent and halogen bulbs that the burden has fallen on the consumer to sort out what dimmability, temperature, and lumens they need. It used to be that you only had one option so you didn’t have to think about it.<p>Anyone who works in stage lighting or art knows that light is complicated. We should not fault the technology for now giving us too many options, but instead improve the branding and advertising.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There's something off about LED bulbs</title><url>https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investigation.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>clvv</author><text>Here is a quick-and-hackish way to stream / broadcast your terminal (<a href="http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6788/" rel="nofollow">http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6788/</a>):<p><pre><code> script -qf | tee &#62;(nc -l -p 5000) &#62;(nc -l -p 5001) &#62;(nc -l -p 5002)
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The client can then run `nc your_ip port` to watch your terminal live.<p>Also, I once wrote a node.js script that broadcasts recorded terminal sessions. To see a demo:<p><pre><code> nc wei23.net 5000
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Code is on Github: <a href="https://github.com/clvv/scriptbroadcast" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/clvv/scriptbroadcast</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Codestre.am: streaming your code to the masses</title><url>http://codestre.am/</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>dmor</author><text>Have been hoping for someone to do this for so long - kind of like casting Star Craft, but codecasting instead. Rock on!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Codestre.am: streaming your code to the masses</title><url>http://codestre.am/</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>wpietri</author><text>A friend runs a residency program and I&#x27;ve talked with them about it a few times. This is definitely getting better, but the number of hours still seems high to me. As a developer, I&#x27;m strongly against extended hours because I know how quickly the error rate creeps up. (And I probably wouldn&#x27;t know that if I weren&#x27;t doing TDD and pair programming, because the first thing that goes for me is ability to notice my poor performance.) My basic question was: shouldn&#x27;t doctors work 8 hours and then go home?<p>The big difference between writing code and doing medicine is that patients won&#x27;t stay the same when a doctor leaves for the day. With 8-hour shifts and 40-hour weeks, covering a patient around the clock requires 4-5 people. Those people will have 21 handoffs during that week. Each one of those handoffs is an opportunity for information to get lost, for understanding to fade, for followups not to happen. If people work 12 hours, that&#x27;s only 4 handoffs. 16 and it&#x27;s 10. 24 and it&#x27;s 7.<p>Obviously, at some point the harm from overwork outweighs the harm from handoffs. But it&#x27;s not an easy decision to make. When I&#x27;m debugging some weird, urgent problem, I know how valuable it is to stay with it, to keep all the state loaded in my head until I figure it out. And hospitals are full of weird, urgent problems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>travisoneill1</author><text>Of course they all use stimulants. I don&#x27;t know how else they could handle the workload. The scary part is that it continues into residency. There are surgery residents working 24h+ shifts. We have laws against overworking truck drivers, but somehow the medical profession gets a pass.<p>And Johns Hopkins estimates 250K deaths a year from medical errors. I wonder how many of these are from lack of sleep.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;leahbinder&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;ignored-as-an-election-issue-deaths-from-medical-errors-have-researchers-alarmed&#x2F;#2a778350653d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;leahbinder&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;ignored-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)</title><url>http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/75-med-students-antidepressants-stimulants/</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>philip1209</author><text>The book &quot;Why we sleep&quot; talks a lot about this - apparently the doctor who created the first residency program was a cocaine addict, which let him stay awake for days at a time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;William_Stewart_Halsted" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;William_Stewart_Halsted</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>travisoneill1</author><text>Of course they all use stimulants. I don&#x27;t know how else they could handle the workload. The scary part is that it continues into residency. There are surgery residents working 24h+ shifts. We have laws against overworking truck drivers, but somehow the medical profession gets a pass.<p>And Johns Hopkins estimates 250K deaths a year from medical errors. I wonder how many of these are from lack of sleep.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;leahbinder&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;ignored-as-an-election-issue-deaths-from-medical-errors-have-researchers-alarmed&#x2F;#2a778350653d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;leahbinder&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;ignored-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)</title><url>http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/75-med-students-antidepressants-stimulants/</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>We are just as of 2020 reaching cost effectiveness for batteries, and planning by utilities is often on five year time lines and uses outdated data, so they are slow to pick up new technology.<p>Nonetheless, storage is ready, and even in profit driven grids like Texas&#x27; ERCOT:<p>&gt; Citing lower costs and increased renewables, momentum continued in the growth of battery energy storage systems in 2021, roughly doubling with 1,262 MW online, compared to 640 MW in 2020. ... with the next two largest systems in Texas, namely the 102-MW Gambit Battery Energy Storage Park and the 100-MW North Fork Battery Storage Project.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spglobal.com&#x2F;marketintelligence&#x2F;en&#x2F;news-insights&#x2F;latest-news-headlines&#x2F;nearly-28-gw-of-new-us-generating-capacity-added-in-2021-led-by-wind-68435915" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spglobal.com&#x2F;marketintelligence&#x2F;en&#x2F;news-insights...</a><p>If you want week long batteries, you&#x27;ll first have to show the need for that, but something like that won&#x27;t be built until it is needed: enough cheap solar and wind on the grid.<p>With how slow utilities are to adopt cheap new technologies, that will be a while. But cost-optimization strategies for carbon free grids tend to select a lot of excess solar and wind capacity, and almost no nuclear at all. Though I would say that those models are flawed in that they assume that nuclear <i>can</i> be built, when the last decades have shown that it can not really be built.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simion314</author><text>&gt;Meanwhile, we are deploying GW of solar, wind, and storage on time, on budget, ar ever decreasing costs.<p>That is the easier part, show me the battery deployments please , the ones that can backup the country&#x2F;state for a week.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>They will be serious if they actually build it, unlike Flamanville.<p>While you call non-nuclear options &quot;virtue signaling,&quot; the attempts at building it in France and the US have been virtue signaling. We don&#x27;t have the industrial capacity to build nuclear.<p>Meanwhile, we are deploying GW of solar, wind, and storage on time, on budget, ar ever decreasing costs.<p>Locking in the high costs of nuclear, for the 60 year lifetime of a nuclear reactor, after a 15 year delay for building, is not a serious solution for climate change.</text></item><item><author>ike0790</author><text>Looks like a G20 country is serious about the impending &quot;climate emergency&quot;. Regardless of the motives and timing behind this, I think its great to see a country is actually being serious and practical. Anyone going on about the climate and refuses to put nuclear energy at the forefront of the conversation is unserious and is only interested in virtual signaling in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-build-6-new-nuclear-reactors/</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>sendben2</author><text>Yes. This. Storage is still expensive. Also France is already a world leader in nuclear grid energy. They already have a long history of building and maintaining nuclear plants.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simion314</author><text>&gt;Meanwhile, we are deploying GW of solar, wind, and storage on time, on budget, ar ever decreasing costs.<p>That is the easier part, show me the battery deployments please , the ones that can backup the country&#x2F;state for a week.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>They will be serious if they actually build it, unlike Flamanville.<p>While you call non-nuclear options &quot;virtue signaling,&quot; the attempts at building it in France and the US have been virtue signaling. We don&#x27;t have the industrial capacity to build nuclear.<p>Meanwhile, we are deploying GW of solar, wind, and storage on time, on budget, ar ever decreasing costs.<p>Locking in the high costs of nuclear, for the 60 year lifetime of a nuclear reactor, after a 15 year delay for building, is not a serious solution for climate change.</text></item><item><author>ike0790</author><text>Looks like a G20 country is serious about the impending &quot;climate emergency&quot;. Regardless of the motives and timing behind this, I think its great to see a country is actually being serious and practical. Anyone going on about the climate and refuses to put nuclear energy at the forefront of the conversation is unserious and is only interested in virtual signaling in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-build-6-new-nuclear-reactors/</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>mehrdadn</author><text>I&#x27;m so confused. I&#x27;ve never wanted the scroll wheel to do anything but zooming on Google Maps. It&#x27;s not like there is anywhere to scroll to in the first place?</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Ugh. Can I just say that using the scroll wheel for <i>anything but scrolling</i> is one of my all-time UX pet peeves. Probably #1, in fact.<p>Above all, Google Maps repurposing it for zoom. Like, I&#x27;m scrolling down a webpage, there&#x27;s an embedded Google Map, and suddenly it stops scrolling and starts zooming in by orders of magnitude and it&#x27;s just a WTF moment... you&#x27;re <i>breaking the web</i>. Nobody wants to zoom by orders of magnitude like that. Nobody asked you to stop scrolling the page. It&#x27;s beyond useless.<p>Likewise, this is doing the same for numbers, at least in Safari. Again, <i>nobody wants that</i>. I can&#x27;t think of any good reason ever to have that as a &quot;feature&quot;. I can&#x27;t even imagine what goes through the minds of people who think that&#x27;s a good idea. Worst. Design. Decision. Ever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You probably don’t need input type=“number”</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/you-probably-dont-need-input-typenumber/</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>syncsynchalt</author><text>In my experience Google Maps fixed embedded maps about a year ago, it requires command-scroll to zoom and otherwise scrolls normally. I didn&#x27;t realize that might be browser-specific, I&#x27;m using macos + safari.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Ugh. Can I just say that using the scroll wheel for <i>anything but scrolling</i> is one of my all-time UX pet peeves. Probably #1, in fact.<p>Above all, Google Maps repurposing it for zoom. Like, I&#x27;m scrolling down a webpage, there&#x27;s an embedded Google Map, and suddenly it stops scrolling and starts zooming in by orders of magnitude and it&#x27;s just a WTF moment... you&#x27;re <i>breaking the web</i>. Nobody wants to zoom by orders of magnitude like that. Nobody asked you to stop scrolling the page. It&#x27;s beyond useless.<p>Likewise, this is doing the same for numbers, at least in Safari. Again, <i>nobody wants that</i>. I can&#x27;t think of any good reason ever to have that as a &quot;feature&quot;. I can&#x27;t even imagine what goes through the minds of people who think that&#x27;s a good idea. Worst. Design. Decision. Ever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You probably don’t need input type=“number”</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/you-probably-dont-need-input-typenumber/</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>DanielBMarkham</author><text>My wife and I have a small site that serves up hamburger casserole recipes ( <a href="http://hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/</a> )<p>She was getting over 15K visits per month -- the site made almost nothing, but we enjoyed creating it together, watching the numbers and responding to emails. And the numbers kept climbing -- at least until a couple of weeks ago.<p>I noticed the traffic numbers starting to drop. I was wondering why. I thought about digging into it but put it off. Perhaps this new feature at DDG did it? If so, fine with me. They doing a much more awesome job than we did.<p>The only reason I mention it is because this is the type of question that if you knew enough, you could find the answers in SEO-land. But for a little mom-and-pop site, lots of times you don't have that luxury. You're hot for a few months then suddenly it all dies off and you never know why. You could be adding the best content you can and still all the visitors disappear. No skin off of my back in this particular case, but this has to be frustrating for lots of folks -- especially if your site is a startup instead of something silly like recipes.<p>Way cool UI! I think we'll add it -- looks like it might be a nice fit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckGo adds zero-click recipe search with the Punchfork Recipe API</title><url>http://blog.punchfork.com/2011/07/05/announcing-the-punchfork-recipe-api-and-a-search-partnership-with-duckduckgo/</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>po</author><text>My favorite part of punchfork (besides Jeff) are the custom url shorteners. Check out the customize dropdown on the side of a recipe page: <a href="http://punchfork.com/recipe/Bramble-Chow" rel="nofollow">http://punchfork.com/recipe/Bramble-Chow</a><p>Nice little touch.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckGo adds zero-click recipe search with the Punchfork Recipe API</title><url>http://blog.punchfork.com/2011/07/05/announcing-the-punchfork-recipe-api-and-a-search-partnership-with-duckduckgo/</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>nerdponx</author><text>&gt; In June, Heather noticed that I was upset at a dinner after ScalaDays. I shared with her about what happened. She warned me to stay away from Jon Pretty. And she wasn’t the only person who told me that. Even though my experience in Berlin was awful, it was difficult for me to accept that someone, who seemed like a good friend, mentor, and ally, could be so selfish, manipulative, and cruel.<p>It sounds like people knew about him and didn&#x27;t do anything. If the community is allowing it to happen, then the community is as much at fault as the sick individual doing the abuse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>merb</author><text>first, a small rant:
tbf. I dislike the title.
the real title is sexual harassment from Jon Pretty a leader of certain Scala Community standups.<p>because the current title actually sounds like it&#x27;s the whole commnity, but the blog is about a specific guy.<p>---<p>second I really do not understand, how other people can be so horrible. he basically abused her in a moment where she was really really desperate and I think such a thing is really really bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community</title><url>https://yifanxing.medium.com/my-experience-with-sexual-harassment-in-the-scala-community-9245b4a139de</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>ummonk</author><text>The community has allowed this guy to continue to be influential, so while the perpetrator is just one guy, it’s a community problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>merb</author><text>first, a small rant:
tbf. I dislike the title.
the real title is sexual harassment from Jon Pretty a leader of certain Scala Community standups.<p>because the current title actually sounds like it&#x27;s the whole commnity, but the blog is about a specific guy.<p>---<p>second I really do not understand, how other people can be so horrible. he basically abused her in a moment where she was really really desperate and I think such a thing is really really bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community</title><url>https://yifanxing.medium.com/my-experience-with-sexual-harassment-in-the-scala-community-9245b4a139de</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>KMag</author><text>&gt; - Many countries have enacted policies to increase proportion of people who get degrees. Far from fixing inequality, this has instead diluted the value of university degrees.<p>I know enacting social change is much much harder than throwing money at problems, but I wish America figured out a way to really strengthen the cultural admiration for the hard-working craftsperson archetype.<p>Pete Buttigieg took a lot of flak for pointing out that many jobs in America don&#x27;t require a college degree, and there should be nothing shameful about learning a skilled trade instead of going to college. We have a vast over-supply of many college majors, and (I&#x27;m told) big shortages in many skilled trades. There are way too many people with 4-year degrees from top-100 schools working cash registers in retail, when they&#x27;d have far less debt and higher income (and a good chance of later becoming successful small business owners) if they&#x27;d gone to trade school instead of college.<p>It&#x27;s honestly classist to push 4-year degrees so hard. There&#x27;s something noble about optimizing your own happiness while providing valuable services, despite much of America considering skilled laborers to be a class below cashier workers with useless 4-year degrees. I wish we as a society could better appreciate skilled laborers.<p>We don&#x27;t have much positive to show from decades of flooding the college tuition markets with cheap credit &#x2F; crippling debt and implicitly pushing hard the notion that going to trade school is settling for second-best.<p>There&#x27;s something to be said about removing the crippling personal debt from the act of flooding the education markets with money, but without cultural changes, I think a big effect would be further ballooning of college costs. I fear the crippling debt will just get hidden as accelerating the ballooning of government debt without moving the needle much on inequality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>omginternets</author><text>I barely skimmed the article, but I don&#x27;t find this surprising for a few reasons (some of which have been mentioned elsewhere in the comments):<p>- &quot;University degree&quot; is a heterogeneous thing. While there is such thing as non-economic value, the strictly <i>economic</i> value of a college education tends to cluster around a small subset of degrees.<p>- Many countries have enacted policies to increase proportion of people who get degrees. Far from fixing inequality, this has instead diluted the value of university degrees.<p>- All universities are not created equal. While it is possible (and even common) for employers to pay too much attention to the reputation of the school, it is also quite common for students to over-estimate the value of a no-name institution. I&#x27;ve found this to be moreso the case in the two European countries I&#x27;ve lived in for an extended period of time (France &amp; England).<p>- The exorbitant debt incurred by university tuition in some countries (which need not be named, I think) means the ROI on the university degree has to also be exorbitant.<p>Have I missed anything?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/will-going-college-make-you-happier/613729/</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>mcguire</author><text>&quot;<i>- All universities are not created equal. While it is possible (and even common) for employers to pay too much attention to the reputation of the school, it is also quite common for students to over-estimate the value of a no-name institution. I&#x27;ve found this to be moreso the case in the two European countries I&#x27;ve lived in for an extended period of time (France &amp; England).</i>&quot;<p>From what I&#x27;ve seen over the last decade, this is incredibly true in the United States, particularly with the rise of for-profit schools offering online degrees.<p>(&quot;Oh, and X has a Ph.D.&quot;<p>&quot;Oh? Where from?&quot;<p>&quot;I think it&#x27;s the University of Phoenix.&quot;<p>&quot;Ok.&quot;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>omginternets</author><text>I barely skimmed the article, but I don&#x27;t find this surprising for a few reasons (some of which have been mentioned elsewhere in the comments):<p>- &quot;University degree&quot; is a heterogeneous thing. While there is such thing as non-economic value, the strictly <i>economic</i> value of a college education tends to cluster around a small subset of degrees.<p>- Many countries have enacted policies to increase proportion of people who get degrees. Far from fixing inequality, this has instead diluted the value of university degrees.<p>- All universities are not created equal. While it is possible (and even common) for employers to pay too much attention to the reputation of the school, it is also quite common for students to over-estimate the value of a no-name institution. I&#x27;ve found this to be moreso the case in the two European countries I&#x27;ve lived in for an extended period of time (France &amp; England).<p>- The exorbitant debt incurred by university tuition in some countries (which need not be named, I think) means the ROI on the university degree has to also be exorbitant.<p>Have I missed anything?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/will-going-college-make-you-happier/613729/</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>Loughla</author><text>Revenge? Spite? A feeling of importance and control in a situation completely out of their control? Shits and giggles?<p>Not sure angry human beings are the most rational actors in most cases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; The first person who gets laid off is going to immediately call The New York Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, etc<p>Why do people do this? What do they get out of it? They don&#x27;t pay for tip-offs do they? Seems unethical anyway.</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>The first person who gets laid off is going to immediately call The New York Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, etc. with probably-incorrect information about the layoffs. So PR wants to be out ahead of that. The real world doesn&#x27;t have atomic transactions, so you have to pick between that scenario and one where some people are worried about their job for a few hours.</text></item><item><author>duggable</author><text>&gt; Today we will let 1,000 of our colleagues go and furlough approximately 1,100 more, while reducing hours for others. Your department leaders will be in touch this morning to discuss how this affects you individually, and letters with more details and FAQs will follow this afternoon.<p>Honest question - is it normal to announce layoffs publicly before telling the affected employees? I guess I can understand it from a PR perspective, but it must be awful to read that and sit around waiting to find out if you&#x27;re affected.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100</title><url>https://blog.yelp.com/2020/04/planning-for-yelps-future</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>CydeWeys</author><text>Usually it&#x27;s more people who get laid off start talking about it on Twitter, then the news media get wind of it and start talking with the laid off employees, and find some willing to describe in detail exactly what went down, send along a screenshot of the announcement email, etc.<p>If I got laid off I&#x27;d talk about it on Twitter too. That&#x27;s a natural reaction for many people. You want to commiserate with others in the same situation and share useful unemployment and job-finding resources. Hell, a big layoff gets its own hashtag.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; The first person who gets laid off is going to immediately call The New York Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, etc<p>Why do people do this? What do they get out of it? They don&#x27;t pay for tip-offs do they? Seems unethical anyway.</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>The first person who gets laid off is going to immediately call The New York Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, etc. with probably-incorrect information about the layoffs. So PR wants to be out ahead of that. The real world doesn&#x27;t have atomic transactions, so you have to pick between that scenario and one where some people are worried about their job for a few hours.</text></item><item><author>duggable</author><text>&gt; Today we will let 1,000 of our colleagues go and furlough approximately 1,100 more, while reducing hours for others. Your department leaders will be in touch this morning to discuss how this affects you individually, and letters with more details and FAQs will follow this afternoon.<p>Honest question - is it normal to announce layoffs publicly before telling the affected employees? I guess I can understand it from a PR perspective, but it must be awful to read that and sit around waiting to find out if you&#x27;re affected.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100</title><url>https://blog.yelp.com/2020/04/planning-for-yelps-future</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>nikcub</author><text>I achieve this by having multiple users in Chrome. My main user is signed into my google account and has no extensions installed and all plugins disabled, I only access gmail and google services with it.<p>My second user account is logged into basic services like HN, reddit, amazon and has only adblock and disconnect installed.<p>A third user is not logged in anywhere and has adblock and a half-dozen other extensions installed including UA switcher. No plugins installed and cookies + cache cleared every day.<p>4th user has all the anonimity extensions installed and has privoxy + tor set as the proxy<p>I use Facebook in a completely different browser again, YouTube and video watching in yet another and development in chromium.<p>7 or 8 different cookie stores, and a throwaway temp email account associated with the 3rd and 4th user for signing up to services.<p>Start out by creating a separate user for browsing sites and eventually develop your own way to split up your web browsing profiles.<p>This can get a bit messy when you try and access from tablet or mobikle , but I&#x27;d rather not have a single large profile and a huge exploit surface and sacrifice browsing history and remembering passwords.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yaakov34</author><text>Can we start a petition for Google to let us disable extensions on specific sites? After reading the last few stories about this, I am quite sure I don&#x27;t want any extensions whatsoever running in the same tab as my Gmail account. I think there is some extension that does this for you (turns off other extensions per site), but then we get into a &quot;who guards the guardians&quot; situation.<p>Not to mention we need better and finer grained permissions for extensions in general, now that we use so many web apps with crucial data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/?</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>anonymfus</author><text>Opera 12 has ability to disable access of specific extensions to https sites and&#x2F;or private tabs (by default access to https sites is enabled and to private tabs is disabled). May be there is a hope that they implement it in Blink based Opera, but now they only have ability to disable access of specific extensions to private windows and have no private tabs at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yaakov34</author><text>Can we start a petition for Google to let us disable extensions on specific sites? After reading the last few stories about this, I am quite sure I don&#x27;t want any extensions whatsoever running in the same tab as my Gmail account. I think there is some extension that does this for you (turns off other extensions per site), but then we get into a &quot;who guards the guardians&quot; situation.<p>Not to mention we need better and finer grained permissions for extensions in general, now that we use so many web apps with crucial data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/?</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>bluefish</author><text>You have to give DHH, Jason and others at 37signals credit for not just having decent business ideas and executing on them but also developing a brand and image. It doesn't hurt that DHH is stylish and can deliver humorous, slightly self deprecating lines like “We don’t have 200k RSS subscribers because of my deliciously swirly hair”. It also doesn't hurt that 37signals doesn't lock DHH into the code monkey box and instead lets him travel around giving talks and promoting that image. I've seen him talk in person and have to admit that he is a great presenter, even on topics unrelated to code.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DHH: Fuck the Real World</title><url>http://www.rubyrailways.com/dhh-fuck-the-real-world/</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>mixmax</author><text>The most amazing thing about this, and DHH in general, is that it is all common sense. But he is the only one that has the guts to shout <i>"but the emperor has no clothes on"</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DHH: Fuck the Real World</title><url>http://www.rubyrailways.com/dhh-fuck-the-real-world/</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>themgt</author><text>This is a very strange perspective, demanding a five-sentence summary and details on the technical aspects of the cheating, rather than this a well-written close-lens narrative of a fascinating person and his bizarre, borderline-inexplicable behavior<p>This isn't being presented as "news", whatever that even means. I think you should reflect on what you're looking for from the world - I would consider this kind of work a form of art, and one I very much appreciate. You don't have to appreciate it, but you're asking it to be some other thing you'd rather have - raw facts and data, summarized into as few words as possible<p>Some of us would rather the world still have some art</text><parent_chain><item><author>yaakov34</author><text>I am a runner also (finished one marathon with a time that is nothing to write home about), and was looking forward to an interesting story. I read this whole article with a growing feeling of incredulity, not about the cheating that it describes (yes, I understand that there are confabulators of this type - Stephen Glass was already mentioned in the comments), but about the effort and space that a national magazine would spend on this story. I kept waiting for SOMETHING of momentous importance towards the end somewhere that would justify all this buildup, but it never came. Yup, a guy cheated in a bunch of races. Yup, he is a confabulator who will invent any number of details and fake personas to build up his fantasies. Yup, he was caught in due time. You could summarize this in five lines. This is not just beating a dead horse, this is shooting it with a howitzer, repeatedly.<p>The only truly interesting detail would be the method by which he cheated, which the reporter, at long last, admits that nobody has figured out. This leaves the possibility that other people are cheating the same way, although maybe less brazenly. Again, this could be summarized in a line (it's clear that he cheated, the method is difficult to figure out). What is this, a slow news year?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marathon Man: A Michigan dentist’s improbable transformation</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_singer?currentPage=all</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>DanBC</author><text>People who cheat one marathon are not common, but they do exist.<p>People who cheat multiple marathons are rare.<p>People who go as far as to invent a marathon, and to create fake runners for that fake marathon, are very rare.<p>The article isn't about how or why a man cheats. It's about a man who cheats; and everyone knows that man cheats; and yet he still maintains his innocence; and so he still hasn't "had his comeuppance yet".</text><parent_chain><item><author>yaakov34</author><text>I am a runner also (finished one marathon with a time that is nothing to write home about), and was looking forward to an interesting story. I read this whole article with a growing feeling of incredulity, not about the cheating that it describes (yes, I understand that there are confabulators of this type - Stephen Glass was already mentioned in the comments), but about the effort and space that a national magazine would spend on this story. I kept waiting for SOMETHING of momentous importance towards the end somewhere that would justify all this buildup, but it never came. Yup, a guy cheated in a bunch of races. Yup, he is a confabulator who will invent any number of details and fake personas to build up his fantasies. Yup, he was caught in due time. You could summarize this in five lines. This is not just beating a dead horse, this is shooting it with a howitzer, repeatedly.<p>The only truly interesting detail would be the method by which he cheated, which the reporter, at long last, admits that nobody has figured out. This leaves the possibility that other people are cheating the same way, although maybe less brazenly. Again, this could be summarized in a line (it's clear that he cheated, the method is difficult to figure out). What is this, a slow news year?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marathon Man: A Michigan dentist’s improbable transformation</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_singer?currentPage=all</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>tovmeod</author><text>This reminds of of a story I heard from a speaker about over-engineering:<p>A toothpaste company had a small rate of faults when producing the product, every couple of thousand tubes produces the machine would put an empty one on the production line, it would then be packaged and shipped, so every now and then a customer would complain he bought an empty toothpaste.<p>The company decided to fix that, hired a couple of consultants, and after a dozen of engineers looked into the problem for a couple of months and burned a couple of millions in research they came up with a brilliant solution.<p>before packaging the toothpaste, they added a very sensitive balance to the production line, every toothpaste would pass there, if the balance detected a difference in the expected wight it would pause the line, then a mechanical arm would push it out, go back to the resting place and continue the line.<p>After implementing the solution the managers waited a couple of months to see the results and compare numbers, to see how efficient the new solution was. It was amazing! 100%. not one complaint of empty tubes after the expensive solution was implemented. The board was so satisfied with the investment that they came to the production floor for a tour on the new QA perfect tool. But it was turned off.
They called the floor manager and asked what happened, they couldn&#x27;t turn off that important piece of the production line, they could have all the complaints back.
The floor manager said he doesn&#x27;t even remember how to turn it on, he said, I turned it off shortly after the put this thing here.<p>So how it is possible they have 0 complaints with if not because of the new tool?
The floor manager said it was slowing down production, every now and then it would completely stop the whole production line, so he turned it off and bought a fan, pointed out to the stop, the fan would be string enough to push any empty toothpaste case.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdip</author><text>It sounds like the &quot;main purpose&quot; of this system is to create a one-way exit to prevent people from accessing the terminal without going through the security checkpoint (using the exit as an entrance). It&#x27;s a problem that every airport has solved in one way or another by either posting security or using existing, novel, techniques. In an attempt to &quot;improve&quot; on the one-way exit idea, they&#x27;ve created a user experience that is exceptionally foreign to anyone using it and also adds a one second jarring experience that gives the impression of being detained in a tall, glass, coffin.<p>At one of the major airports I used to travel through (DTW), exiting the terminal involved going through a slow-moving motorized revolving door. It was one way, and also included a brief instant where you could neither enter, nor leave, and could be &quot;stopped&quot; by airport security at that point should detaining you be necessary. Because it&#x27;s a revolving door that works very similar to nearly every revolving door a person encounters (save for the motor and one-way nature), it doesn&#x27;t have that same feel and certainly wouldn&#x27;t warrant an NBC News segment.<p>I&#x27;d imagine this over-engineered solution to a solved problem also comes at a much steeper price tag.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You can no longer just leave Syracuse airport [video]</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53594630</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>AutoCorrect</author><text>not only that, they&#x27;ve created a novel way to trap people inside a burning building. This is a terrible idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdip</author><text>It sounds like the &quot;main purpose&quot; of this system is to create a one-way exit to prevent people from accessing the terminal without going through the security checkpoint (using the exit as an entrance). It&#x27;s a problem that every airport has solved in one way or another by either posting security or using existing, novel, techniques. In an attempt to &quot;improve&quot; on the one-way exit idea, they&#x27;ve created a user experience that is exceptionally foreign to anyone using it and also adds a one second jarring experience that gives the impression of being detained in a tall, glass, coffin.<p>At one of the major airports I used to travel through (DTW), exiting the terminal involved going through a slow-moving motorized revolving door. It was one way, and also included a brief instant where you could neither enter, nor leave, and could be &quot;stopped&quot; by airport security at that point should detaining you be necessary. Because it&#x27;s a revolving door that works very similar to nearly every revolving door a person encounters (save for the motor and one-way nature), it doesn&#x27;t have that same feel and certainly wouldn&#x27;t warrant an NBC News segment.<p>I&#x27;d imagine this over-engineered solution to a solved problem also comes at a much steeper price tag.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You can no longer just leave Syracuse airport [video]</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53594630</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>lacampbell</author><text><i>&quot;I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.&quot;
Dense, incredibly difficult to parse, with a non-standard use of &quot;front&quot; as a verb and what seems to be a triple-negative. If I said that sentence to you, out loud, I doubt you would catch the meaning of it on the first pass. The book is filled with stuff like that.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s difficult for educated native English speakers. Walden was written in 1854, and most people who went to high school in an English speaking country would have some exposure to Shakespeare which is 250 years older than that - so I really don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s very archaic. Are you a non-native speaker? You write English completely fluently but if you&#x27;ve had no real exposure to the literature I can understand why you might find it hard going.<p>I haven&#x27;t taken English since high school, and had no &quot;liberal education&quot; at university, and I did just fine with the audiobook (ie the whole thing was read aloud to me). I am not going to pretend it&#x27;s easy to understand as modern, informal speech but it certainly wasn&#x27;t arduous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>x1798DE</author><text>I was so disappointed with this book. Some of the platitudes Zinsser goes into are reasonable, like try to be uncluttered, direct and to the point, but all the worked examples seem to just be arbitrarily chosen to his taste. For example, in the chapter on &quot;clutter&quot;, Zinsser picks out this passage from <i>Walden</i> as his exemplar of &quot;uncluttered English&quot;:<p>&quot;I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.&quot;<p>Dense, incredibly difficult to parse, with a non-standard use of &quot;front&quot; as a verb and what seems to be a triple-negative. If I said that sentence to you, out loud, I doubt you would catch the meaning of it on the first pass. The book is filled with stuff like that.<p>That said, I really do want to get better at non-fiction writing, specifically technical writing, but I haven&#x27;t found any good recommendations for &quot;canonical&quot; books on technical writing. If anyone can suggest a decent, pragmatic (as opposed to Strunk-and-White style prescriptivism) introduction to technical writing specifically, I&#x27;d appreciate it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lessons Learned from “On Writing Well”</title><url>https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-on-writing-well/</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>karlb</author><text>I agree. I struggled through Zinsser and didn&#x27;t highlight much.<p>My colleagues and I have read over 50 books about writing and our 11 favorites are here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.conversion-rate-experts.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.conversion-rate-experts.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;</a><p>In answer to your question, “Handbook of Technical Writing” by Alred et al is good, but I&#x27;d start with the first half of “Keys to Great Writing” by Stephen Wilbers, which deserves its Amazon rating of 4.8&#x2F;5.0.</text><parent_chain><item><author>x1798DE</author><text>I was so disappointed with this book. Some of the platitudes Zinsser goes into are reasonable, like try to be uncluttered, direct and to the point, but all the worked examples seem to just be arbitrarily chosen to his taste. For example, in the chapter on &quot;clutter&quot;, Zinsser picks out this passage from <i>Walden</i> as his exemplar of &quot;uncluttered English&quot;:<p>&quot;I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.&quot;<p>Dense, incredibly difficult to parse, with a non-standard use of &quot;front&quot; as a verb and what seems to be a triple-negative. If I said that sentence to you, out loud, I doubt you would catch the meaning of it on the first pass. The book is filled with stuff like that.<p>That said, I really do want to get better at non-fiction writing, specifically technical writing, but I haven&#x27;t found any good recommendations for &quot;canonical&quot; books on technical writing. If anyone can suggest a decent, pragmatic (as opposed to Strunk-and-White style prescriptivism) introduction to technical writing specifically, I&#x27;d appreciate it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lessons Learned from “On Writing Well”</title><url>https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-on-writing-well/</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>sampo</author><text>&gt; <i>How is this an &quot;explanation&quot; or &quot;cracking&quot; the problem? They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been?</i><p>There are Facebook support groups, and a subreddit, for people suffering form this disorder, and it&#x27;s not uncommon that family members, spouses and friends think they are just being obnoxious, and advise them to &quot;just shrug it off&quot;.<p>If it&#x27;s a measurable neurophysiological condition, this gives some support that those people just cannot shrug it off, whatever they try. It can also help the sufferers to know that they are not being just crazy, but something really is different in the way their brain is wired.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brockf</author><text>How is this an &quot;explanation&quot; or &quot;cracking&quot; the problem? They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been?<p>More broadly, it&#x27;s frustrating that neuroscientists reframe genuinely interesting questions (&quot;Why do I get angry when people eat apples beside me?&quot;) into boring questions (&quot;What does my brain look like when I&#x27;m angry about someone eating an apple?&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38842561</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>orange_fritter</author><text>The actual journal article contains more specifics that may help direct further research.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cell.com&#x2F;current-biology&#x2F;fulltext&#x2F;S0960-9822(16)31530-5" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cell.com&#x2F;current-biology&#x2F;fulltext&#x2F;S0960-9822(16)3...</a><p>You&#x27;re right that the BBC article is titled inappropriately. One sentence of the scientific paper&#x27;s conclusion indicates that the problem is far from &quot;cracked&quot;:<p>&gt; With the available data, it is not possible to decide whether misophonia is a cause or consequence of atypical interoception, and further work is needed to delineate the relation between the two.<p>I don&#x27;t find brain activity to be boring and I&#x27;m willing to put up with researchers trying in earnest to gain any insight into misophonia; this seemingly laughable condition drastically impacts my daily experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brockf</author><text>How is this an &quot;explanation&quot; or &quot;cracking&quot; the problem? They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been?<p>More broadly, it&#x27;s frustrating that neuroscientists reframe genuinely interesting questions (&quot;Why do I get angry when people eat apples beside me?&quot;) into boring questions (&quot;What does my brain look like when I&#x27;m angry about someone eating an apple?&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38842561</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>curun1r</author><text>I think you and the people disagreeing with you are both right, in a sense. These tools can absolutely simplify and improve even a small deployment…for someone with significant experience using them. But there’s a lot of learning that has to happen to get to that level of experience. And for a solo operator or small team without that experience, investing that time into learning may not be the best investment.<p>You see this contextual disagreement a ton here on HN. Those who gave taken the time to learn these tools and have practical experience using them for real deployments see the alternative as primitive, error prone and fundamentally limiting. Those without the experience see the tools as overly-complex distractions. Both are true, depending on your situation. Like almost all tech decisions, there are no universally correct answers. The best decisions are those tailored to the specific circumstances.</text><parent_chain><item><author>altdataseller</author><text>That fancy devops&#x2F;containers tooling is easier to maintain and work on vs running on bare metal servers.</text></item><item><author>BilalBudhani</author><text>I&#x27;m someone who likes configuring &amp; running my own servers, it is always a pleasure reading how others small &#x2F; solo businesses are running their show.<p>It is so cool to see one-person SaaS business running on old school bare metal servers without needing any fancy devOps &#x2F; containerize tooling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software</title><url>https://blog.healthchecks.io/2022/02/healthchecks-io-hosting-setup-2022-edition/</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>dolmen</author><text>When there are just 9 servers and a single developer like in the article your opinion doesn&#x27;t matter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>altdataseller</author><text>That fancy devops&#x2F;containers tooling is easier to maintain and work on vs running on bare metal servers.</text></item><item><author>BilalBudhani</author><text>I&#x27;m someone who likes configuring &amp; running my own servers, it is always a pleasure reading how others small &#x2F; solo businesses are running their show.<p>It is so cool to see one-person SaaS business running on old school bare metal servers without needing any fancy devOps &#x2F; containerize tooling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software</title><url>https://blog.healthchecks.io/2022/02/healthchecks-io-hosting-setup-2022-edition/</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>jedberg</author><text>This was a great writeup with lots of great information. One thing that bugged me though was the &quot;When to Raise Money&quot; section. It says, in part: &quot;However, for most it will require an idea, a product, and some amount of customer adoption, a.k.a. traction.&quot;<p>There was a great comment on HN a while back (I wish I remembered who said it) that said, &quot;If you&#x27;re asking about traction or revenue, you aren&#x27;t making a seed investment&quot;.<p>Andy Bechtolsheim was a seed investor in Google -- he gave them a check based solely on their idea and who they were. Paul Graham&#x2F;YC made a seed investment in reddit and Justin.tv and whole host of other companies -- none of them existed as more than idea when YC invested.<p>But VCs are risk averse people (ironic given they are in the risk business), so it makes sense that they would rather invest after a company can show a little traction, especially now that it&#x27;s so easy to get that initial traction.<p>I just think we need a new term besides &quot;seed&quot; to differentiate it from the true seed investments.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Guide to Seed Fundraising</title><url>http://themacro.com/articles/2016/01/how-to-raise-a-seed-round/</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>urs2102</author><text>This is fantastic. I am more and more impressed with the wealth of knowledge being shared by YC, especially regarding clarifying common financial vocabulary (which is often used to make people believe that finance is difficult as the terminology used in discussing finance is designed to sound more complicated than it is).<p>Similar to how clear and concise the SAFE documents are, this is really nice to read.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Guide to Seed Fundraising</title><url>http://themacro.com/articles/2016/01/how-to-raise-a-seed-round/</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>dahfizz</author><text>&gt; Because the data shows they don&#x27;t matter.<p>Source? Because the CDC says otherwise.<p>&gt; In the first full week of October, vaccinated New Yorkers with a prior Covid-19 case were 19.8 times less likely to catch the virus than their unvaccinated and uninfected peers, whereas people who were unvaccinated but previously infected were 14.7 times less likely, and vaccinated but uninfected New Yorkers were just 4.5 times less likely.<p>In other words, natural immunity alone can be up to 5X more protective than the vaccine alone, according to the CDC.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;joewalsh&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;19&#x2F;cdc-prior-covid-infection-offered-more-protection-against-delta-than-vaccines---but-both-together-did-best&#x2F;?sh=140821063d04" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;joewalsh&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;19&#x2F;cdc-prior-c...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bonzini</author><text>&gt; why are they so adamant to vaccinate those with prior infection<p>Because the data shows they don&#x27;t matter.<p>This is the same thing as deaths due to covid vs. deaths while positive to covid. Sure some people might have been miscounted as covid deaths but actually died due to cancer&#x2F;car accident&#x2F;whatever. Despite this the excess deaths over the past two years is much higher than the number of covid deaths; thus showing that miscounts must be a small minority which, in any case, is absolutely dwarfed by excess deaths not counted as covid deaths. It might even grow a little as testing improves but it still remains mostly irrelevant.<p>Likewise it may be that some people do not need a vaccination. However, we have a 30&#x2F;70 split in number of covid hospitalizations, with 30 being vaccinated people, in countries where the split in the normal population is 90&#x2F;10. This means that <i>despite</i> some unvaccinated people having had prior infection the vaccine reduces hospitalizations by 20x. Given this data the most effective strategy is to just vaccinate everyone without what is effectively a pointless distinction.<p>As the number of unvaccinated but protected people will grow (through a combination of more infections, more vaccinations and more deaths), the proportion above will revert to 90&#x2F;10 and unvaccinated people will not be an issue anymore. For now however analyzing the proportion of naturally immune people among the unvaccinated is, again, mostly irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>Apologies in advance for getting on my soapbox, but this has been on my mind for a while.<p>The way in which the media has gotten everyone to say &quot;the unvaccinated&quot; is a &#x27;disease&#x27; against basic science (not even getting into the divisive nature of this). I would go as far as saying if you read any paper, study, or other that refers to the &quot;unvaccinated&quot; as a single cohort, you are reading vaccine propaganda, not science, or certainly not good science.<p>This must stop. Prior infection immunity is basic science that we&#x27;ve known for eons, and ignoring it is so blatantly glaring an omission, it should make the most staunch pro-vaccine person pause and say: &quot;why are they so adamant to vaccinate those with prior infection?&quot;. One would expect prior infection to be robust, and multiple studies, including even the CDC&#x27;s most recent shows it to be easily as good if not better and longer lasting than the vaccine. This should not come as a surprise to anyone.<p>If you think any of the above is &quot;anti-vax&quot; then I would suggest the media has won and science is dead. I&#x27;m not suggesting the vaccine doesn&#x27;t work. I&#x27;m not suggesting it doesn&#x27;t provide protection against severe disease and death. I&#x27;m not suggesting anyone go out and intentionally try to get COVID, but a HUGE # of people have already had it and ignoring them is downright unscientific. If you are a rational person who wants to see good science and are unemotional and detached from outcomes, then you will want to see proper study cohorts, and combining prior infection in with the &quot;unvaccinated&quot; cohort, is just bad science. This bad science fuels the anti-vaxx movement even more, and honestly, it is hard blame them.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>Something from the NYT mailing list yesterday:<p>&gt; The Covid vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing serious illness. If you’re vaccinated, your chances of getting severely sick are extremely low. Even among people 65 and older, the combination of the vaccines’ effectiveness and the Omicron variant’s relative mildness means that Covid now appears to present less danger than a normal flu.<p>&gt; For the unvaccinated, however, Covid is worse than any other common virus. It has killed more than 865,000 Americans, the vast majority unvaccinated. In the weeks before vaccines became widely available, Covid was the country’s No. 1 cause of death, above even cancer and heart disease.<p>At this point if an adult in the US is unvaccinated it is (1) almost certainly by choice (there are some people who cannot get it for medical reasons but they make up only a very tiny fraction of the unvaccinated), and (2) it is very unlikely that any evidence or logical arguments will chance their minds.<p>With COVID becoming endemic everyone is going to get antibodies, with the only choice being whether you get your first antibodies by vaccination or by getting COVID.<p>The only question really then is how fast do we want the unvaccinated to do the getting antibodies by getting COVID thing. The faster they get it, the faster we can be as done with COVID as we are ever going to be.<p>I&#x27;d say the answer to that should be determined by the hospital capacity. If a region has sufficient hospital capacity that it would not be overwhelmed by the increase in COVID cases among the unvaccinated go ahead and lift most restrictions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates</title><url>https://ntdca.com/pfizer-board-member-suggests-end-to-mask-vaccine-mandates/</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>nu11ptr</author><text>My point is that it is NOT a pointless distinction, and there is a huge discrepancy between &quot;unvaccinated - prior infection&quot; and &quot;unvaccinated - no infection&quot; cohorts. Countries that track prior infection (there are a few) show this in their data, and if you separate them you will see the &quot;unvaxxed - no infection&quot; get worse and the other much better. If the subject matter were something less politically polarizing I&#x27;m suggesting this would be a split group in everyone&#x27;s data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bonzini</author><text>&gt; why are they so adamant to vaccinate those with prior infection<p>Because the data shows they don&#x27;t matter.<p>This is the same thing as deaths due to covid vs. deaths while positive to covid. Sure some people might have been miscounted as covid deaths but actually died due to cancer&#x2F;car accident&#x2F;whatever. Despite this the excess deaths over the past two years is much higher than the number of covid deaths; thus showing that miscounts must be a small minority which, in any case, is absolutely dwarfed by excess deaths not counted as covid deaths. It might even grow a little as testing improves but it still remains mostly irrelevant.<p>Likewise it may be that some people do not need a vaccination. However, we have a 30&#x2F;70 split in number of covid hospitalizations, with 30 being vaccinated people, in countries where the split in the normal population is 90&#x2F;10. This means that <i>despite</i> some unvaccinated people having had prior infection the vaccine reduces hospitalizations by 20x. Given this data the most effective strategy is to just vaccinate everyone without what is effectively a pointless distinction.<p>As the number of unvaccinated but protected people will grow (through a combination of more infections, more vaccinations and more deaths), the proportion above will revert to 90&#x2F;10 and unvaccinated people will not be an issue anymore. For now however analyzing the proportion of naturally immune people among the unvaccinated is, again, mostly irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>Apologies in advance for getting on my soapbox, but this has been on my mind for a while.<p>The way in which the media has gotten everyone to say &quot;the unvaccinated&quot; is a &#x27;disease&#x27; against basic science (not even getting into the divisive nature of this). I would go as far as saying if you read any paper, study, or other that refers to the &quot;unvaccinated&quot; as a single cohort, you are reading vaccine propaganda, not science, or certainly not good science.<p>This must stop. Prior infection immunity is basic science that we&#x27;ve known for eons, and ignoring it is so blatantly glaring an omission, it should make the most staunch pro-vaccine person pause and say: &quot;why are they so adamant to vaccinate those with prior infection?&quot;. One would expect prior infection to be robust, and multiple studies, including even the CDC&#x27;s most recent shows it to be easily as good if not better and longer lasting than the vaccine. This should not come as a surprise to anyone.<p>If you think any of the above is &quot;anti-vax&quot; then I would suggest the media has won and science is dead. I&#x27;m not suggesting the vaccine doesn&#x27;t work. I&#x27;m not suggesting it doesn&#x27;t provide protection against severe disease and death. I&#x27;m not suggesting anyone go out and intentionally try to get COVID, but a HUGE # of people have already had it and ignoring them is downright unscientific. If you are a rational person who wants to see good science and are unemotional and detached from outcomes, then you will want to see proper study cohorts, and combining prior infection in with the &quot;unvaccinated&quot; cohort, is just bad science. This bad science fuels the anti-vaxx movement even more, and honestly, it is hard blame them.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>Something from the NYT mailing list yesterday:<p>&gt; The Covid vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing serious illness. If you’re vaccinated, your chances of getting severely sick are extremely low. Even among people 65 and older, the combination of the vaccines’ effectiveness and the Omicron variant’s relative mildness means that Covid now appears to present less danger than a normal flu.<p>&gt; For the unvaccinated, however, Covid is worse than any other common virus. It has killed more than 865,000 Americans, the vast majority unvaccinated. In the weeks before vaccines became widely available, Covid was the country’s No. 1 cause of death, above even cancer and heart disease.<p>At this point if an adult in the US is unvaccinated it is (1) almost certainly by choice (there are some people who cannot get it for medical reasons but they make up only a very tiny fraction of the unvaccinated), and (2) it is very unlikely that any evidence or logical arguments will chance their minds.<p>With COVID becoming endemic everyone is going to get antibodies, with the only choice being whether you get your first antibodies by vaccination or by getting COVID.<p>The only question really then is how fast do we want the unvaccinated to do the getting antibodies by getting COVID thing. The faster they get it, the faster we can be as done with COVID as we are ever going to be.<p>I&#x27;d say the answer to that should be determined by the hospital capacity. If a region has sufficient hospital capacity that it would not be overwhelmed by the increase in COVID cases among the unvaccinated go ahead and lift most restrictions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates</title><url>https://ntdca.com/pfizer-board-member-suggests-end-to-mask-vaccine-mandates/</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>Groxx</author><text>It only provides that guarantee because the parsers have agreed to do so (and not all do, nor do they do so identically). It's a guarantee by communal agreement, nothing more.<p>There's no reason a JSON format can't do the exact same thing. JSON-RPC, for instance, defines its own rules on top of JSON which anything using it must conform to. How hard would it be to make a set of JSON interchange rules which specify external schema documents?<p>edit: answer:<p><pre><code> {json_strict_version:1, schema:{external:[url,url], internal:[{schema},{schema}]}}</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>"XML deals remarkably well with the full richness of unstructured data."<p>What? No, it doesn't. XML has even more structure than JSON does. Unless you're using it improperly, and the you're negating all the advantages that XML was supposed to bring.<p>It wasn't for 'mixed content'. It was for system interoperability.<p>The advantage that XML brings over JSON is that you can have an external document that you can use to validate any XML you're sending or receiving. You can guarantee it's formatted correctly. JSON provides no such guarantee.<p>Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deprecating XML</title><url>http://norman.walsh.name/2010/11/17/deprecatingXML</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>iampims</author><text>There's json-schema[1] if you feel like validating your json payload<p>[1] : <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-02" rel="nofollow">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-02</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>"XML deals remarkably well with the full richness of unstructured data."<p>What? No, it doesn't. XML has even more structure than JSON does. Unless you're using it improperly, and the you're negating all the advantages that XML was supposed to bring.<p>It wasn't for 'mixed content'. It was for system interoperability.<p>The advantage that XML brings over JSON is that you can have an external document that you can use to validate any XML you're sending or receiving. You can guarantee it's formatted correctly. JSON provides no such guarantee.<p>Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deprecating XML</title><url>http://norman.walsh.name/2010/11/17/deprecatingXML</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>sharkweek</author><text>This is super common.<p>It’s very normal to remember the “bad” stuff (and turn them into worse memories than they really were) because of how our brains are wired to try and avoid said “bad stuff.”<p>All my earliest memories are traumatic in the sense that it was something bad that happened in a very visceral way, e.g., being stung by a bee in my back yard, falling off of a tire swing, the basement door closing behind me and being locked in it for maybe 30 seconds (but my memory is that it was forever).<p>I had the same feelings as you but then in therapy learned how normal it is and that helped a lot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>My memory of my childhood is terrible. I just have little &#x27;flashbulb&#x27; memories, and they mostly seem to be of the worst moments. I&#x27;ve read that recalling memories will change them, and for some reason <i>those</i> just happen to be the memories that come to me late at night when I&#x27;m trying to sleep. I often wonder how those memories have changed in my mind as a result of me getting stuck on them. I don&#x27;t recall ruminating over those events in childhood, so maybe they weren&#x27;t as bad as I remember and my negativity is slowly twisting them into something worse than they actually were.<p>I feel like I&#x27;m a little ungrateful because I have so few good memories of that time and my parents couldn&#x27;t have really been <i>that</i> bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>False memory implantation in adults is easy</title><url>https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/sins-of-memory</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>WanderPanda</author><text>For me it is the complete opposite, I only remember the good memories and feel nostalgic all the time, thinking everything was better and I was happier 1&#x2F;2&#x2F;5&#x2F;10&#x2F;15 years ago</text><parent_chain><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>My memory of my childhood is terrible. I just have little &#x27;flashbulb&#x27; memories, and they mostly seem to be of the worst moments. I&#x27;ve read that recalling memories will change them, and for some reason <i>those</i> just happen to be the memories that come to me late at night when I&#x27;m trying to sleep. I often wonder how those memories have changed in my mind as a result of me getting stuck on them. I don&#x27;t recall ruminating over those events in childhood, so maybe they weren&#x27;t as bad as I remember and my negativity is slowly twisting them into something worse than they actually were.<p>I feel like I&#x27;m a little ungrateful because I have so few good memories of that time and my parents couldn&#x27;t have really been <i>that</i> bad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>False memory implantation in adults is easy</title><url>https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/sins-of-memory</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>nindwen</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pi-squared</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>wenderen</author><text>I wish more sites were like this.<p>1. It loads lightning fast on my 512 kbps connection.<p>2. The font is preinstalled on my system, no separate request needs to be made.<p>3. It&#x27;s easy to tell what is a link and what isn&#x27;t.<p>4. Scrolling works like I&#x27;d expect it to, and doesn&#x27;t involve any clever &quot;transition&quot; effects. More generally, there are next to no distracting animations or effects on the entire page.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>I want stallman.org to remain simple: not a &quot;user experience&quot; but rather a place where I present certain information, views and action opportunities to you.</i><p>...and as a result, I think it gives a very good &quot;user experience&quot; - I wish more webpages were like this, plain and informative without distractions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I do my computing</title><url>https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.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>mariojv</author><text>This is awesome. When I had a small college blog running, I build in all in raw HTML with a small bit of CSS.<p>It loaded quickly, and it was a pleasure to edit. I liked it much better than writing tons of JS based on big web frameworks that often had bugs or non-obvious functionality.<p>Even with the small college blog, though, the CSS was a bit much. The fact that sites like this exist: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;howtocenterincss.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;howtocenterincss.com&#x2F;</a> seems like a testament to the idea that CSS is a bit broken.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pi-squared</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>wenderen</author><text>I wish more sites were like this.<p>1. It loads lightning fast on my 512 kbps connection.<p>2. The font is preinstalled on my system, no separate request needs to be made.<p>3. It&#x27;s easy to tell what is a link and what isn&#x27;t.<p>4. Scrolling works like I&#x27;d expect it to, and doesn&#x27;t involve any clever &quot;transition&quot; effects. More generally, there are next to no distracting animations or effects on the entire page.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>I want stallman.org to remain simple: not a &quot;user experience&quot; but rather a place where I present certain information, views and action opportunities to you.</i><p>...and as a result, I think it gives a very good &quot;user experience&quot; - I wish more webpages were like this, plain and informative without distractions.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I do my computing</title><url>https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.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>saiya-jin</author><text>What you named can effectively kill 8h, every effin&#x27; day.<p>Personally, what I don&#x27;t get is folks wearing smart watches, getting instant notifications when somebody pings them. Its apparently not enough that phone blinks and plays sounds and your desk vibrates, now your wrist has to. How desperately addicted to constant stream of stimuli they are, my boss including (and he still thinks his apple watch are great, but when I sit next to him I see how it fucks him pretty badly, plus its so annoying I want to throw him out through closed window myself and I am not alone).<p>People still somehow do their job, <i>despite</i> of these semi-useless gizmos, not thanks to them. Yes you can tune it down but for every person doing so there are 10, or more like 100 who don&#x27;t do it at all. And not only for the case of my boss, it makes them objectively worse workers, employees, friends, parents and overall human beings.</text><parent_chain><item><author>headcanon</author><text>This is a big part of why I don&#x27;t use social media beyond HN and Reddit (if those count). Being inundated with a constant stream of notifications is not only distracting, it makes me feel less in control of my mind, and therefore, my life.<p>My regular email, slack notifications from work, and text messages from friends are pretty much all my introverted mind can handle, and even then I still feel out of focus much of the time. Meditating helps considerably, but it feels like I&#x27;m swimming upstream.<p>While I&#x27;m not immune to wanting to pull the content slot machine, at least with HN and Reddit I get at least some choice about how I interact with those environments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/05/22/modern-work-requires-attention-constant-alerts-steal-it/</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>qingcharles</author><text>HN is a killer for my productivity, even though I only try to visit it a couple of times a day. Once in the morning to read the whole front page, and then later in the day to get updates.<p>I need to somehow massively increase my filtering of which articles I open. I often end up reading 50% of the stories on the front page, plus the comments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>headcanon</author><text>This is a big part of why I don&#x27;t use social media beyond HN and Reddit (if those count). Being inundated with a constant stream of notifications is not only distracting, it makes me feel less in control of my mind, and therefore, my life.<p>My regular email, slack notifications from work, and text messages from friends are pretty much all my introverted mind can handle, and even then I still feel out of focus much of the time. Meditating helps considerably, but it feels like I&#x27;m swimming upstream.<p>While I&#x27;m not immune to wanting to pull the content slot machine, at least with HN and Reddit I get at least some choice about how I interact with those environments.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/05/22/modern-work-requires-attention-constant-alerts-steal-it/</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>ljm</author><text>If anyone is in any doubt about this, I would like to point them towards this github issue: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mrc-ide&#x2F;covid-sim&#x2F;issues&#x2F;165" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mrc-ide&#x2F;covid-sim&#x2F;issues&#x2F;165</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>People often act very entitled about open source I&#x27;ve found.<p>You&#x27;ll often get angry irate emails&#x2F;issues raised <i>demanding</i> you help them or add a new feature or whatever. Some people are just clueless and need help, others are just dicks.<p>It is often not worth the hassle in my opinion, but then everyone&#x27;s circumstances and motivations are different and I am glad that a lot of people do think it is worth it.</text></item><item><author>yuribro</author><text>Why would you feel bad? The whole point of open source is they could have done it themselves, if they wanted some integration they needed and you didn&#x27;t.<p>And then they could either contribute it back, fork your project or just keep it to themselves, if the license allows it. At any rate, you already helped them...</text></item><item><author>Justsignedup</author><text>I once wrote a library in backbone.js to have a data-synchronized list. It allowed me to provide an array, and it&#x27;ll keep that array sync&#x27;d up to what I saw.<p>I had a kid and a fulltime job and going through a divorce. I happened to use it at my job, but everyone kept asking for me to integrate it into new up and coming repos which I didn&#x27;t have time for. Honestly I felt bad about not caring, but the reality is that I didn&#x27;t. I had other things on my mind.<p>Some people are DINKs (dual income, no kids) and get bored so instead of video games they&#x27;ll make a side project. Some people have totally other circumstances. For me I wanted my spare time to either zone out to some games, or zone in to spending time with my daughter. I had plenty of coding to do at work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)</title><url>https://www.drmaciver.com/2015/04/its-ok-for-your-open-source-library-to-be-a-bit-shitty/</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>bartread</author><text>&gt; People often act very entitled about open source I&#x27;ve found.<p>It&#x27;s interesting. For me there are at least two classes of open source.<p>1) Project with a single maintainer, or perhaps a small number of key people, nothing in the way of corporate backing, often worked on in spare time, but which can still be very popular and widely used. I always think back to the example of NDoc, which was a great tool for taking raw XML doc comments from .NET code and turning them into beautiful Javadoc-style HTML documentation. It worked incredibly well for .NET 1.x but the .NET 2 support was never finished because the author, Kevin Downs, received abuse and threats via mail-bomb due to it not being ready &quot;fast enough&quot; for some people. Understandable he decided to quit and, as far as I&#x27;m aware, not a peep has been heard from him since in terms of OSS contributions. The way Kevin was treated, and the way other OSS maintainers have been treated by both individuals and corporations, is absolutely despicable and completely unacceptable.<p>2) Corporate backed OSS projects that are actively evangelised: projects like .NET Core, Node, npm, TypeScript, React, Angular. You might even think of something like Firefox in this category since, although Mozilla is a foundation, it&#x27;s substantially funded by corporate sponsors (mainly Google?), has full time employees paid to work on the products, etc. Some of these might at times have been considered open source in name only: i.e., source code is absolutely available, but there is little or no way for most people outside of the sponsoring organisation to meaningfully contribute. With these I take a slightly different attitude, and I certainly expect sponsoring organisations to take more responsibility for the projects. If you&#x27;re actively evangelising people to use a project (and especially if you&#x27;ve succeeded in recruiting large numbers of people to use your project), and you&#x27;re not giving them much opportunity to contribute, then absolutely you need to take responsibility for making sure the project is supported appropriately. That might even include paid support options.<p>And I suppose perhaps these represent the extremes of a spectrum (perhaps - I don&#x27;t claim to have this absolutely right, by any means).<p>Clearly there are a lot of people who would disagree with me on both sides. E.g., people who think every open source project should be like (2) and that all authors bear an equal responsibility for supporting their code. On the flipside, since I&#x27;ve been flamed on this before, I know there are people who think I&#x27;m a walking manifestation of all human evil because I&#x27;ve suggested that any open source project might perhaps fall into category (2).<p>Fundamentally though I think your point stands: a lot of people behave in a way that&#x27;s very entitled towards individual maintainers of OSS projects. As you say, depending on your circumstances, often not worth the hassle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>People often act very entitled about open source I&#x27;ve found.<p>You&#x27;ll often get angry irate emails&#x2F;issues raised <i>demanding</i> you help them or add a new feature or whatever. Some people are just clueless and need help, others are just dicks.<p>It is often not worth the hassle in my opinion, but then everyone&#x27;s circumstances and motivations are different and I am glad that a lot of people do think it is worth it.</text></item><item><author>yuribro</author><text>Why would you feel bad? The whole point of open source is they could have done it themselves, if they wanted some integration they needed and you didn&#x27;t.<p>And then they could either contribute it back, fork your project or just keep it to themselves, if the license allows it. At any rate, you already helped them...</text></item><item><author>Justsignedup</author><text>I once wrote a library in backbone.js to have a data-synchronized list. It allowed me to provide an array, and it&#x27;ll keep that array sync&#x27;d up to what I saw.<p>I had a kid and a fulltime job and going through a divorce. I happened to use it at my job, but everyone kept asking for me to integrate it into new up and coming repos which I didn&#x27;t have time for. Honestly I felt bad about not caring, but the reality is that I didn&#x27;t. I had other things on my mind.<p>Some people are DINKs (dual income, no kids) and get bored so instead of video games they&#x27;ll make a side project. Some people have totally other circumstances. For me I wanted my spare time to either zone out to some games, or zone in to spending time with my daughter. I had plenty of coding to do at work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)</title><url>https://www.drmaciver.com/2015/04/its-ok-for-your-open-source-library-to-be-a-bit-shitty/</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>enobrev</author><text>I think discussion is absolutely essential. I already saw this one coming, but I learn about political issues like this from here and other forums fairly often.<p>Of course, said discussions are pointless without action.</text><parent_chain><item><author>callcallcall</author><text>Please do not complain into the echo chamber of comments here. Please take a moment to support the EFF, call your representatives, and speak to friends and family.<p>EFF: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;</a>
Find your reps: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryvoices.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryvoices.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28/the-house-just-voted-to-wipe-out-the-fccs-landmark-internet-privacy-protections/</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>endgame</author><text>I renewed with pride a month or so ago. The US has an enormous influence on the internet, and those of us on the outside are counting on you to look after it for us.</text><parent_chain><item><author>callcallcall</author><text>Please do not complain into the echo chamber of comments here. Please take a moment to support the EFF, call your representatives, and speak to friends and family.<p>EFF: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;</a>
Find your reps: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryvoices.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryvoices.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28/the-house-just-voted-to-wipe-out-the-fccs-landmark-internet-privacy-protections/</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>vcxzxcv</author><text>Thanks for this post. I&#x27;m debating applying to a state University right now. Coming from a poor background (and still being poor) I find it hard to relate to a lot of my peers. You speak of &quot;dropping baggage&quot;, and for me, this is next to impossible because of my poor dental health. As soon as I open my mouth people assume I must be some meth head. My mom has dementia and can barely take care of her self and my dad is struggling with COPD. I&#x27;m not going to go further into my home life because I&#x27;m not looking for pity.<p>I&#x27;m one the best math students at my current school and calculus is fun for me. I&#x27;m the only person I know that knows how to program, none of the other students I&#x27;ve met are interested in computers at all.<p>The students that are performing at the same level as I am seem (to me) to be &quot;elites&quot;. I find my self becoming more and more cynical each day listening to complaints about having an old model of iPhone or &quot;having to go to Paris with dad&quot; (someone really said this), when all I have is a flip phone and I&#x27;ve never ridden on a plane.<p>I told my self a few years ago I was going to learn to program because it seemed to be something that anyone could do (as long as you have a computer and internet access), seemed to be growing, and seemed to be high paying. I&#x27;ve gotten pretty good, but I still have a ways to go.<p>Now I&#x27;m at the point where I can leave my disabled parents for school and let my teeth continue to decay and deal with that social stigma, or I can get a job doing tech support and hopefully help my situation a little faster.<p>We&#x27;ll see..</text><parent_chain><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>I attended an elite UK university having had a poor upbringing. This article reads painfully to me. I don&#x27;t have the words to describe why, but I can try.<p>The closest I can come is to say that this idea of inclusiveness is terminally broken. It&#x27;s a sort of bandage over a huge chasm of differences.<p>For a poor person to become wealthy requires them to discard their baggage. Change the accent, the clothes, the pop culture references, the &#x27;back home...&#x27; stories. Avoid the discussions about parents. The list goes on.<p>My transition into adulthood at present is essentially a game of throwing away my connections to that past. Not intentionally, but because living a double life is just too difficult. Visiting my hometown I feel like more of a tourist each time.<p>Money is a huge divider, the gulf between the working class and middle classes in this regard is enormous.<p>I am hardwired to assume that people cannot afford anything. My basic instinct is to design activities that are free.<p>Wealthier people do not always appreciate this. They might want to go and do something more expensive - and why not? They can.<p>Friendship groups.<p>I could waffle on seemingly forever but words can&#x27;t really express how odd I find all of this.<p>Different species...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school?</title><url>http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/04/09/what-like-poor-ivy-league-school/xPtql5uzDb6r9AUFER8R0O/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>jheriko</author><text>Its hard to take the article very seriously from the title, but it does make for a slightly cringeworthy read.<p>As someone from a very poor background (actual poor - starving in africa poor, not US overprivileged &#x27;I can eat for free out of bins&#x27; poor, but this is all relative...) I can sympathise somewhat too.<p>I agree with the point made here in this comment- personally, I never felt like I had the kind of disadvantages described in this article, and I&#x27;m sure its partly because I pass very well for an upper middle-class man thanks to a spiffing british accent I inherited from my mother - and partly down to a tremendous effort socially. I&#x27;ve always presented my background as exotic and interesting rather than woeful and sympathy-worthy.<p>All that being said, I am now doing quite well and earn a considerable amount of money, but still always find myself broke at the end of the month... its shameful.<p>A very rich man once said to me that if you act like a rich person eventually you would find yourself to be rich... I think there is an element of truth in that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>I attended an elite UK university having had a poor upbringing. This article reads painfully to me. I don&#x27;t have the words to describe why, but I can try.<p>The closest I can come is to say that this idea of inclusiveness is terminally broken. It&#x27;s a sort of bandage over a huge chasm of differences.<p>For a poor person to become wealthy requires them to discard their baggage. Change the accent, the clothes, the pop culture references, the &#x27;back home...&#x27; stories. Avoid the discussions about parents. The list goes on.<p>My transition into adulthood at present is essentially a game of throwing away my connections to that past. Not intentionally, but because living a double life is just too difficult. Visiting my hometown I feel like more of a tourist each time.<p>Money is a huge divider, the gulf between the working class and middle classes in this regard is enormous.<p>I am hardwired to assume that people cannot afford anything. My basic instinct is to design activities that are free.<p>Wealthier people do not always appreciate this. They might want to go and do something more expensive - and why not? They can.<p>Friendship groups.<p>I could waffle on seemingly forever but words can&#x27;t really express how odd I find all of this.<p>Different species...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school?</title><url>http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/04/09/what-like-poor-ivy-league-school/xPtql5uzDb6r9AUFER8R0O/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>Someone1234</author><text>The US still does this <i>today</i> via the MIC:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Machine_Identification_Code" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Machine_Identification_Code</a><p>That&#x27;s why your color printer cannot print in B&amp;W when you&#x27;re out of color ink (or at least one reason).</text><parent_chain><item><author>BuildTheRobots</author><text>The KGB used to require all typewriters to be registered, so they could identify the authors of anything they found objectionable.<p>Being able to track who produced an image that&#x27;s doing the rounds spreading &quot;propaganda&quot; seems like it adds a lot of value (from an authoritarian point of view, at least).</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&gt; add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files<p>But why?</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>&gt; Spoiler, he doesn’t give a fuck about your hentai porn.<p>These operating systems do actually contain code that add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files, so be wary if spreading your hentai porn in Kim&#x27;s country because it can be traced back to you.<p>That said, there&#x27;s a lot of panic about fears of having it reach out across the internet and infect your entire network without any real basis. If you&#x27;re comfortable with running Windows 11,you&#x27;re already sharing more data than the DPRK could possibly want to extract from you, only the DPRK can&#x27;t use that data and the Five Eyes most likely can.<p>The Glorious Leader liked his Macbook so he ordered his lackeys to build North Korea their own Macbooks with a shitty font and tracking submitted to their services instead it Apple&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fun with Red Star OS</title><url>https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/</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>whimsicalism</author><text>LOL yeah the US does the exact same thing.<p>I would pay to read a newspaper that (somewhat satirically) reported on the US the way we report on our adversaries. Complete with referring to police as &quot;security forces&quot;, including wild speculations about the backstabbing behind-the-scenes of their top politics, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BuildTheRobots</author><text>The KGB used to require all typewriters to be registered, so they could identify the authors of anything they found objectionable.<p>Being able to track who produced an image that&#x27;s doing the rounds spreading &quot;propaganda&quot; seems like it adds a lot of value (from an authoritarian point of view, at least).</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&gt; add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files<p>But why?</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>&gt; Spoiler, he doesn’t give a fuck about your hentai porn.<p>These operating systems do actually contain code that add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files, so be wary if spreading your hentai porn in Kim&#x27;s country because it can be traced back to you.<p>That said, there&#x27;s a lot of panic about fears of having it reach out across the internet and infect your entire network without any real basis. If you&#x27;re comfortable with running Windows 11,you&#x27;re already sharing more data than the DPRK could possibly want to extract from you, only the DPRK can&#x27;t use that data and the Five Eyes most likely can.<p>The Glorious Leader liked his Macbook so he ordered his lackeys to build North Korea their own Macbooks with a shitty font and tracking submitted to their services instead it Apple&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fun with Red Star OS</title><url>https://sizeof.cat/post/fun-with-redstar-os/</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>WalterBright</author><text>Do what I do - copy it forward every couple years onto new media.<p>My oldest files are from 1977 - proof:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DigitalMars&#x2F;Empire-for-PDP-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DigitalMars&#x2F;Empire-for-PDP-10</a><p>My files have gone from magtape to 8&quot; floppy to various 5.25&quot; floppy to 3.5 floppy to zip drives to cdroms to dvdroms, then to hard disks of ever-increasing size.<p>(My old hard drives are completely unreadable now.)<p>I&#x27;m sorry I never kept my punch card decks. I&#x27;m sure there was nothing but crap on them, but it would be fun to see what kind of crap it was.</text><parent_chain><item><author>allovernow</author><text>How does one archive data for long term storage in 2020? From what little I&#x27;ve read, all of the media accessable to the layman has an archive lifetime of less than 30 years before physical degradation- NAND, tape, disc, whatever. That makes for a brittle civilization when the vast majority of our knowledge is stored on media and would be unrecoverable just 3 decades after a global calamity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kzeg4/archivists-are-uploading-hundreds-of-random-vhs-tapes-to-the-internet</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>tialaramex</author><text>If you want data to survive you&#x27;ve always needed to copy it. Digital storage just makes that easier to do in bulk. Copying Bibles was a full time task for huge teams of monks but you can (and should) make backups routinely on a daily or weekly basis with barely a thought.</text><parent_chain><item><author>allovernow</author><text>How does one archive data for long term storage in 2020? From what little I&#x27;ve read, all of the media accessable to the layman has an archive lifetime of less than 30 years before physical degradation- NAND, tape, disc, whatever. That makes for a brittle civilization when the vast majority of our knowledge is stored on media and would be unrecoverable just 3 decades after a global calamity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kzeg4/archivists-are-uploading-hundreds-of-random-vhs-tapes-to-the-internet</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>ptero</author><text>In addition to other bad things already mentioned, any government enforcement usually comes with &quot;prosecutorial discretion&quot; -- freedom to choose whom to prosecute and whom to ignore.<p>Tracking all money spent would give a huge additional opportunity to many government agencies to harass those they find obnoxious. I have little doubt it would get misused very soon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ffggvv</author><text>Isn&#x27;t tracking a good thing? This way the government can fight tax-evasion and the black market...</text></item><item><author>StanislavPetrov</author><text>Banning cash is such a monumentally bad idea its a miracle of modern propaganda that a single person is willing to even consider it. From negative interest rates to ubiquitous tracking of your every move and purchase (by stores, banks, governments, and whoever else they choose to share the information with), to the total paralysis society would face from any sort of blackout or network disruption, to limitless technical vulnerability by hackers, eliminating cash is truly one of the worst ideas ever conceived. Its bad enough that the government enforces a legal monopoly on currency. Extending that monopoly to digital-only currency is a huge step in the wrong direction for business, commerce, and freedom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The War on Cash</title><url>http://thelongandshort.org/society/war-on-cash</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>tl</author><text>It&#x27;s a wonderful way to fight things governments don&#x27;t approve of. For example, generating a list of every person who bought food &#x2F; water &#x2F; whatever at a protest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ffggvv</author><text>Isn&#x27;t tracking a good thing? This way the government can fight tax-evasion and the black market...</text></item><item><author>StanislavPetrov</author><text>Banning cash is such a monumentally bad idea its a miracle of modern propaganda that a single person is willing to even consider it. From negative interest rates to ubiquitous tracking of your every move and purchase (by stores, banks, governments, and whoever else they choose to share the information with), to the total paralysis society would face from any sort of blackout or network disruption, to limitless technical vulnerability by hackers, eliminating cash is truly one of the worst ideas ever conceived. Its bad enough that the government enforces a legal monopoly on currency. Extending that monopoly to digital-only currency is a huge step in the wrong direction for business, commerce, and freedom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The War on Cash</title><url>http://thelongandshort.org/society/war-on-cash</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>andreyf</author><text>This is not a new phenomenon: JFK even wrote a book about it, titled "Profiles in Courage": <i>The book profiles senators who crossed party lines and/or defied the public opinion of their constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity because of their actions.</i> [1]<p>So sometimes the right thing to do is the unpopular thing. But that's not new. While democracy is great at preventing certain abuses of power which clearly hurt the populace at large. Hence, it is also good at preventing violent uprising. So while it comes up with good solutions to some problems, the democratic process we have doesn't come up with the right solution to <i>every</i> problem, terrorism being a good example. This notion is much older than JFK, of course. One purpose of the Bill of Rights was explicitly anti-democratic: put in a general way, it prohibits the majority from oppressing inherent rights of minorities.<p>In theory, it is the role of the courts to strike down such laws as unconstitutional. In practice, this doesn't seem to happen very quickly, Japanese internment serving as one historical comparison [2]. But the sky has not fallen, former transgressions were greater, and like them, this too, shall pass.<p>What <i>is</i> novel about the current political climate in the US, as far as I can tell, is the extent of the influence money has in politics, and the magnitude of such money being spent. The best chronicle of this I've read is "So Much Damned Money" [3]. <i>This</i> is a problem worth fretting over.<p>1. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiles_in_Courage" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiles_in_Courage</a><p>2. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment</a><p>3. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307266540" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307266540</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>SamAtt</author><text>There's an unfortunate reality here which is that the Government can't really prevent terrorist attacks. Israel is much smaller and they've tried much harder and they can't prevent them so the U.S. stands very little chance.<p>So another attack will happen some day. It's a given (and both the Bush and Obama administrations have said as much)<p>That's where the Patriot Act comes in. Every politician believes it would be the death of their career if they change or reject the existing law only to have that inevitable terrorist attack take place right after. And given how irrationally people act after an attack the politicians are probably right.<p>So we're stuck with the Patriot Act until politicians become brave or the public stops acting irrationally after an attack. I won't be holding my breath.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patriot Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections</title><url>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/epic-fail-congress-usa-patriot-act-renewed-without</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>ryanwaggoner</author><text><i>So we're stuck with the Patriot Act until politicians become brave or the public stops acting irrationally after an attack.</i><p><i>Or</i>, the courts knock it down as unconstitutional.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SamAtt</author><text>There's an unfortunate reality here which is that the Government can't really prevent terrorist attacks. Israel is much smaller and they've tried much harder and they can't prevent them so the U.S. stands very little chance.<p>So another attack will happen some day. It's a given (and both the Bush and Obama administrations have said as much)<p>That's where the Patriot Act comes in. Every politician believes it would be the death of their career if they change or reject the existing law only to have that inevitable terrorist attack take place right after. And given how irrationally people act after an attack the politicians are probably right.<p>So we're stuck with the Patriot Act until politicians become brave or the public stops acting irrationally after an attack. I won't be holding my breath.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patriot Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections</title><url>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/epic-fail-congress-usa-patriot-act-renewed-without</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>jacoblambda</author><text>This honestly is a really good reason for (A)GPL projects to use at least one GNU (A)GPL licensed dependency.<p>If someone does violate the license on your code, they are also transitively doing it to a bigger, angrier fish as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>voakbasda</author><text>My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that the FSF actively defends copyright on GNU projects. They do not defend other projects, but they will consult with attorneys on matters of the licenses themselves.<p>Nevertheless, I (and I&#x27;m sure many others here on HN) would enjoy seeing the response from the FSF.</text></item><item><author>ronsor</author><text>So far I&#x27;ve also emailed the FSF (license-violation@gnu.org) and am currently awaiting a response.</text></item><item><author>voakbasda</author><text>Great to see companies getting exposed for these kinds of violations. However, their response of shooting the messenger tells me that they will not simply roll over and give up their source code.<p>I strongly suggest contacting the owners of the open source projects and talking them into having a lawyer send a message to them. Those projects have the necessary legal standing to bring a meaningful copyright infringement case against Voice.ai.<p>There are plenty of lawyers that will send a suitable message, at no cost to the projects, For example, the Software Freedom Law Center [0] provides free consultations and has a good track record.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwarefreedom.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwarefreedom.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM</title><url>https://undeleted.ronsor.com/voice.ai-gpl-violations-with-a-side-of-drm/</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>jraph</author><text>Maybe the Software Freedom Conservancy would be more suitable?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfconservancy.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfconservancy.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>voakbasda</author><text>My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that the FSF actively defends copyright on GNU projects. They do not defend other projects, but they will consult with attorneys on matters of the licenses themselves.<p>Nevertheless, I (and I&#x27;m sure many others here on HN) would enjoy seeing the response from the FSF.</text></item><item><author>ronsor</author><text>So far I&#x27;ve also emailed the FSF (license-violation@gnu.org) and am currently awaiting a response.</text></item><item><author>voakbasda</author><text>Great to see companies getting exposed for these kinds of violations. However, their response of shooting the messenger tells me that they will not simply roll over and give up their source code.<p>I strongly suggest contacting the owners of the open source projects and talking them into having a lawyer send a message to them. Those projects have the necessary legal standing to bring a meaningful copyright infringement case against Voice.ai.<p>There are plenty of lawyers that will send a suitable message, at no cost to the projects, For example, the Software Freedom Law Center [0] provides free consultations and has a good track record.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwarefreedom.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwarefreedom.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM</title><url>https://undeleted.ronsor.com/voice.ai-gpl-violations-with-a-side-of-drm/</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>patcheudor</author><text>Part of me is now wondering if this was even nefarious as I&#x27;m picturing over zealous Cuban pest control specialists, without strong regulation or laws, simply using termite microwaves with people around.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pests.guru&#x2F;termites&#x2F;control&#x2F;treatment&#x2F;methods&#x2F;microwave.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pests.guru&#x2F;termites&#x2F;control&#x2F;treatment&#x2F;methods&#x2F;microwa...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuban Embassy Attacks and the Microwave Auditory Effect</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2017/09/25/cuban-embassy-attacks-and-the-microwave-auditory-effect/</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>Alex3917</author><text>The health effects described are also similar to what you can get with a severe black mold infestation. Although if they&#x27;ve already taken apart the walls looking for electronic devices then presumably they would have noticed that.<p>(Specifically I&#x27;m taking about things like immediate and unexplained brain damage, bleeding, hearing and vision loss, confusion, pain, lethargy, etc.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuban Embassy Attacks and the Microwave Auditory Effect</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2017/09/25/cuban-embassy-attacks-and-the-microwave-auditory-effect/</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>ekidd</author><text>This is one of my two favorite books in <i>The Little &lt;X&gt;er</i> series. The other is <i>The Reasoned Schemer</i>.<p><i>The Little Typer</i> provides an introduction to dependent types. These can by used to guarantee things like &quot;applying &#x27;concat&#x27; to a list of length X and list of length Y returns a list of X+Y&quot;. It is also possible, to some extent, to use dependent types to replace proof tools like Coq. Two interesting languages using dependent types are:<p>- Idris. This is basically &quot;Haskell plus dependent types (and minus lazy evaluation)&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idris-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idris-lang.org&#x2F;</a><p>- ATS. This is a complex systems-level language with dependent types: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ats-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ats-lang.org&#x2F;</a> This fills a niche (vaguely) similar to Rust and Ada Spark, with a focus on speed and safety.<p><i>The Reasoned Schemer</i> shows how to build a Prolog-like logic language as a Scheme library. This is a very good introduction to logic programming. And the implementation of backtracking and unification is fascinating. (Unification is a powerful technique that shows up in other places, including type checkers.)<p>This is an excellent series overall, but these two books are especially good for people who are interested in unusual programming language designs. I don&#x27;t expect dependent types or logic programming to become widely-used in the next couple generations of mainstream languages, but they&#x27;re still fascinating.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Little Typer (2018)</title><url>https://thelittletyper.com/</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>adamgordonbell</author><text>A very mind-blowing and challenging book about Types.<p>The strange loop talk and my own interview of the authors might give some sense of what it&#x27;s all about. There is also some interesting work online showing how the language used in the book can be created.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VxINoKFm-S4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VxINoKFm-S4</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;corecursive.com&#x2F;023-little-typer-and-pie-language&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;corecursive.com&#x2F;023-little-typer-and-pie-language&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;davidchristiansen.dk&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;nbe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;davidchristiansen.dk&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;nbe&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Little Typer (2018)</title><url>https://thelittletyper.com/</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>satvikpendem</author><text>What an even-handed article that acts as essentially a how-to guide on running an OSS product.<p>I have always held the notion that Open Source Is Not A Business Model; just because you build it does not mean that you are entitled to money, especially if you willingly give it out for free.<p>Just like any startup, you must find product market fit and generate revenue. It&#x27;s heartening to see the same philosophy in OSS as well. Treat it like any other commercial product, not as something special.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Asymmetry of Open Source</title><url>https://matt.life/writing/the-asymmetry-of-open-source</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>peschu</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if your underlying assumption holds at all.<p>In the end the GPL resolves these issues and enforces stuff. Obviously most companies don&#x27;t want that for different reasons.<p>Without GPL, as a company you take the code and if neccessary at some point, you employ somebody to further develop it in house (when maintainer gives up or something).<p>Why pay and share and give that advantage to your competitors?<p>The key to open source is when governments develop policies for using open source instead of paying licenses for proprietary software and maybe pressure from customers to companies which use open source software.<p>But average people don&#x27;t know and don&#x27;t care at all about open source ... :(</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Asymmetry of Open Source</title><url>https://matt.life/writing/the-asymmetry-of-open-source</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>hafriedlander</author><text>Somewhat tangential, but the Krita community and core team have been pretty explicitly anti-AI. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krita-artists.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;change-in-policy-for-topics-related-to-generative-ai-tools-on-krita-artists&#x2F;75230" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krita-artists.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;change-in-policy-for-topics-rela...</a><p>(I am part of a group that builds UI on top of open models, but we stopped working on our Krita version for that reason.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Krita AI Diffusion</title><url>https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion</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>2Gkashmiri</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0</a><p>the video is mindblowing because on one hand, adobe photoshop announced this as &quot;their own next big thing&quot; and here we have an open source software replicating this same thing, so cool.<p>edit:<p>this also means photoshop doesnt have the &quot;moat&quot; they seem to have built around the generative ai thing and their software.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Krita AI Diffusion</title><url>https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion</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>burpee</author><text>I interviewed a young man who was doing this kind of work for about six months in Ireland a while back for a completely different role. It was quite clearly mentally taxing and he broke down crying mid-interview.<p>I ended up canceling my following meeting and talking through things with him.<p>He was close to suicide, had cut contact with most people in his life and said that he hadn&#x27;t been able to sleep or think straight since he started the work.
Unfortunately I couldn&#x27;t offer him any work, only a shoulder to cry on and a promise that there was beauty in the world as well.<p>I never thought a job could do so much mental damage to someone, but these jobs are horrible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's African Sweatshop</title><url>https://time.com/6147458/facebook-africa-content-moderation-employee-treatment/</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>bArray</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if this is supposed to cause outrage or not. I know for example companies like Facebook recruit in places like Holland too [1]. I&#x27;m also aware that such jobs exist for checking child pornography too. These are not nice jobs, but they do need to be done. The important part is that people in these roles receive phycological support too, which I doubt they get when working for tech companies.<p>I always thought that a better model for moderation would be to distribute the effort. There will be people in my social bubble with similar reactions to the same content and once an algorithm understands these connections, it can distribute the effort of moderation amongst these like-minded people.<p>Another moderation tool would be to simply allow people to trade reputation (which has some value in terms of audience reach) for correctly tagging content.<p>On a different note, if you outsource your censorship, you will undoubtedly end up being censored based on the political ideology of the person doing the censoring.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jobsfactor.eu&#x2F;job&#x2F;49057&#x2F;dutch-content-moderator&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jobsfactor.eu&#x2F;job&#x2F;49057&#x2F;dutch-content-moderator&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's African Sweatshop</title><url>https://time.com/6147458/facebook-africa-content-moderation-employee-treatment/</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>nailer</author><text>I saw the original announcement of Typescript at JSconf EU last year. It was an interesting moment: everyone was expecting another Dart, or less (there&#x27;s a sea of Macs and most professional JS devs experience of Microsoft is IE) but stayed to listen to the presentation out of respect for the creator, who also made Delphi and C#.<p>Pretty much everyone came out impressed. Typescript is just JS with type hints, and neat warnings if you send a function something which its signature doesn&#x27;t expect.<p>You can make a JS project a Typescript one immediately, adding type hints as you go, which for large projects is damn useful. The output, however, is pure regular old JS.<p>It&#x27;s just like a CSS preprocessor, but for JS - transparently adding some optional awesomeness.<p>It works on Linux&#x2F;Mac and SublimeText (albeit you don&#x27;t get all the VS Intellisense stuff IIRC) too. I&#x27;m looking forward to trying it on a new project.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TypeScript 0.9 released</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/06/18/announcing-typescript-0-9.aspx</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>marshray</author><text>Typescript is closely integrated with Node.js at this point.<p>So there&#x27;s this related open source project seeking to optimize the performance of Node.js apps running on IIS and hosting them on Azure. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tjanczuk&#x2F;iisnode&#x2F;wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tjanczuk&#x2F;iisnode&#x2F;wiki</a> We&#x27;ve seen some interesting performance gains by supplanting Node.js&#x27;s HTTP implementation with the in-kernel HTTP stack, http.sys. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomasz.janczuk.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-httpsys-stack-for-nodejs-apps-on.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomasz.janczuk.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-httpsys-stack-for-node...</a><p>Disclosure: I work for Microsoft. I personally found this interesting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TypeScript 0.9 released</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/06/18/announcing-typescript-0-9.aspx</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>jacksmith21006</author><text>I went to pick up my son at University studying CS recently.<p>He had replaced Win 10 on his tower with Ubuntu and was writing a pretty complex program in C++. Doing some AI&#x2F;ML primitives.<p>Thought to myself I am old yet went to the same University and would have been coding in C++ on Unix (Ultrix or OSF or Solaris) at that point in my life.<p>How in the world have we not moved on?<p>BTW, his code was so, so pretty. Mine would have been ugly. Kids are far better coders than we were 30 years ago. I was crazy proud.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix (2016) [pdf]</title><url>https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2016-ICSE-ProgEvol/html/SLK16.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>drewg123</author><text>There seems to be an oddity with their LOC for FreeBSD 2.0. At ~6M LOC, it is roughly 3x the size of the FreeBSD releases just before and just after it. The size steadily creeps up, but we don&#x27;t see anything else that big until FreeBSD 5, so there seems to be something fishy there..</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix (2016) [pdf]</title><url>https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2016-ICSE-ProgEvol/html/SLK16.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>gutnor</author><text>It used to be better - I was looking for work in Spain just before the crisis. A senior dev could easily do 50K, banking positions were 70K and up.<p>Nowadays however, you can&#x27;t find anything over 35K that is related to development -and- in Spain ( i.e. not a position in Germany)<p>Anyway - Spain does not have a problem of running out of worker, it has a problem of not paying those workers. I have been looking for years to go back to Spain but the job market is just completely unrealistic. I&#x27;m highly skeptical of the 200K figure in the article. Of course, job offers in Spain often do not specify the salary at all, but I have regularly seen director level position for about 70-90K.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vemv</author><text>Spanish dev here, 3 years in the business, been twice a freelancer and twice an employee. My main complaints:<p>- The maximum salary a developer can earn at any given company is almost written in stone - around 36000 euros. Every public job posting will have that figure as the max. When it&#x27;s higher, they&#x27;ll water it down in the interview.<p>Why? Probably because they don&#x27;t have the notion of a 10x programmer at all. We all are perceived as &#x27;equal&#x27; or even replaceable.<p>- Also, companies are scared of the mere possibility of their programmers leaving. The sole hint of that you may leave will turn their red alarms on, and they&#x27;ll start searching a replacement.<p>There rarely exists here the mentality that a work relationship is a commercial exchange, not an intimate family-like relationship. Being open to the market is not &#x27;treason&#x27;.<p>- Tech stacks tend to be years behind San Francisco, whether is languages, frameworks, ops practices...<p>- Functional programming opportunities extremely scarce. Elixir is gaining traction here though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-01/spain-is-running-out-of-workers-with-almost-5-million-unemployed</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>Jare</author><text>Leaving aside the validity of the 10x programmer concept, the company still needs to be able to extract that extra performance in actual value. Most software jobs in Spain don&#x27;t have productivity of that kind. Almost no companies here develop software products or services whose effectiveness translates directly into revenue. Very few of those who have tried have had any sort of long-term success.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vemv</author><text>Spanish dev here, 3 years in the business, been twice a freelancer and twice an employee. My main complaints:<p>- The maximum salary a developer can earn at any given company is almost written in stone - around 36000 euros. Every public job posting will have that figure as the max. When it&#x27;s higher, they&#x27;ll water it down in the interview.<p>Why? Probably because they don&#x27;t have the notion of a 10x programmer at all. We all are perceived as &#x27;equal&#x27; or even replaceable.<p>- Also, companies are scared of the mere possibility of their programmers leaving. The sole hint of that you may leave will turn their red alarms on, and they&#x27;ll start searching a replacement.<p>There rarely exists here the mentality that a work relationship is a commercial exchange, not an intimate family-like relationship. Being open to the market is not &#x27;treason&#x27;.<p>- Tech stacks tend to be years behind San Francisco, whether is languages, frameworks, ops practices...<p>- Functional programming opportunities extremely scarce. Elixir is gaining traction here though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-01/spain-is-running-out-of-workers-with-almost-5-million-unemployed</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>Lammy</author><text>This was how I discovered my problem when I had bad non-ECC RAM in a machine with ZFS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mustache_kimono</author><text>FLAC makes lots of smart decisions. One constraint on lossless audio should, of course, be that it&#x27;s actually lossless (which the test suite confirms), but also that it <i>makes it easy for the user to confirm the audio streams are the same as the decoded WAV file</i> (`flac -t`) by storing a checksum of the stream.<p>I have often wondered why other media formats don&#x27;t do a similar thing, especially since changing a media file&#x27;s tags (which can change the checksum of a file) or name (which makes external verification from txt file difficult) is quite common. I even wrote a utility[0] that uses ffmpeg to hash all ffmpeg compatible bitstreams, and store their hashes in a xattr (yes, with lots of other options to test and compare, etc.), but all media formats should just be as clever (and care as much) to do this natively, like FLAC.<p>I mean -- why not?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kimono-koans&#x2F;dano" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kimono-koans&#x2F;dano</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FLAC – Format overview</title><url>https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_format_overview.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>hnuser123456</author><text>Are there any good ways to tell if audio has been lossy compressed but then re-encoded in a lossless format, or deceptively high lossy bitrate?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mustache_kimono</author><text>FLAC makes lots of smart decisions. One constraint on lossless audio should, of course, be that it&#x27;s actually lossless (which the test suite confirms), but also that it <i>makes it easy for the user to confirm the audio streams are the same as the decoded WAV file</i> (`flac -t`) by storing a checksum of the stream.<p>I have often wondered why other media formats don&#x27;t do a similar thing, especially since changing a media file&#x27;s tags (which can change the checksum of a file) or name (which makes external verification from txt file difficult) is quite common. I even wrote a utility[0] that uses ffmpeg to hash all ffmpeg compatible bitstreams, and store their hashes in a xattr (yes, with lots of other options to test and compare, etc.), but all media formats should just be as clever (and care as much) to do this natively, like FLAC.<p>I mean -- why not?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kimono-koans&#x2F;dano" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kimono-koans&#x2F;dano</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FLAC – Format overview</title><url>https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_format_overview.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>bastawhiz</author><text>Perhaps I misread, but it sounds like the author never managed to get Fargate to run without even a minimum of 3% failures?<p>That to me sounds like an astoundingly high number, especially for the amount of resources dedicated to the test (400GB of memory and 200 CPUs). Hell, if you&#x27;re monitoring uptime, that&#x27;s one nine (97% success).<p>I can&#x27;t believe that this is a well-configured setup. Running 50 instances with four CPUs each at a total of ~100rps means that half of the CPUs are probably doing exactly nothing (and if my understanding is correct and they&#x27;re using Flask in a single-threaded way, 150 of the 200 CPUs are going to be idle).<p>Triggering SNS is an API call. Assuming that&#x27;s all the test application is doing, you hardly need one server to do this. I&#x27;d bet that you could make 100 simultaneous API calls from a stock Macbook Pro with a small handful of Node or Go processes without even making your CPU spin up.<p>If Fargate can&#x27;t handle 100rps (to make a single API call per request) with &lt;10 instances, it&#x27;s a useless product. But I find it hard to believe that Amazon would put something so absolutely incapable into the wild. With the specs the author put up, that&#x27;s the equivalent of ~$10&#x2F;hr (if I&#x27;m reading their pricing page correctly). You could run 380 A1 instances, 58 t3.xl instances, or two m5a.24xlarge instances for that price.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers</title><url>https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/aws-api-performance-comparison/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zokier</author><text>This benchmark is all over the place; there are way too many variables changing to make any sorts of conclusions. You have flask-gunicorn-meinheld stack on the fargate side, all bits that might impact performance. Then there are the failing requests that alone would disqualify the comparison. I would also assume ApiGW to be slower than plain ELB, although I don&#x27;t know for sure and this comparison certainly did give any information about that. No comparison of different lambda&#x2F;fargate instance types, nor any mention about costs. Obviously just throwing more money should get better perf, so perf&#x2F;$ is sort of important.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers</title><url>https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/aws-api-performance-comparison/</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>kqr</author><text>Mirroring is different from what your parent comment talks about. Mirroring is simply about repeating, verbatim, the last part of what someone said. So as a response to your comment it might be something like &quot;Conversation tactics.&quot;<p>Your parent comment seems to be talking more about summarising someone else&#x27;s point in your own words, which is a deeper reflection on what someone means, and an even stronger signal that you&#x27;re actively listening. (That summary is what gets you a &quot;that&#x27;s right&quot; in the terminology of Voss. Mirroring is used to get your counterparty to expand on what they&#x27;re saying, not just go &quot;that&#x27;s right.&quot;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>__turbobrew__</author><text>Repeating what others said back to them is called “mirroring” and is an effective technique for not only confirming your understanding but also showing others that you are actively listening.<p>I recommend reading “ Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It” by Chris Voss if you are interested in conversation tactics.</text></item><item><author>thatsamonad</author><text>A somewhat related approach that I’ve found incredibly useful in my career is repeating what -others- have told you back to them, a lot.<p>It’s honestly amazing to me how much mileage I’ve gotten out of simply saying, “I heard you say X about Y. Does that sound right to you?” a couple of times during discussions just to make sure that everyone is clear that we’re all discussing the same thing.<p>It seems like “common sense” to clarify your understanding of someone else’s communication but I haven’t run into very many people who actually take the time to do it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Repeat Yourself, a Lot</title><url>https://tomtunguz.com/why-you-should-repeat-yourself/</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>scns</author><text>Robert Bolton dedicates three chapters to this technique in People Skills (1979), highly recommended.</text><parent_chain><item><author>__turbobrew__</author><text>Repeating what others said back to them is called “mirroring” and is an effective technique for not only confirming your understanding but also showing others that you are actively listening.<p>I recommend reading “ Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It” by Chris Voss if you are interested in conversation tactics.</text></item><item><author>thatsamonad</author><text>A somewhat related approach that I’ve found incredibly useful in my career is repeating what -others- have told you back to them, a lot.<p>It’s honestly amazing to me how much mileage I’ve gotten out of simply saying, “I heard you say X about Y. Does that sound right to you?” a couple of times during discussions just to make sure that everyone is clear that we’re all discussing the same thing.<p>It seems like “common sense” to clarify your understanding of someone else’s communication but I haven’t run into very many people who actually take the time to do it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Repeat Yourself, a Lot</title><url>https://tomtunguz.com/why-you-should-repeat-yourself/</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>wwweston</author><text>&gt; This article honestly read like something out of a bullshit self-help book.<p>There&#x27;s a reason for that. That reason <i>isn&#x27;t</i> that what he&#x27;s telling you is largely bullshit, because much of it is true enough to be useful at a first approximation (although one could argue that some points aren&#x27;t a fully articulated picture of reality -- in particular I&#x27;d assert he&#x27;s mixed the concerns of <i>status</i> and <i>values</i> and that&#x27;s going to make certain muddled conclusions easier).<p>It&#x27;s that part of what he&#x27;s doing here is in fact playing a version of the status games he defines, partly on a direct level (wealth creators are high status on by a certain measure of values, critics are just downers for competing values into the ring), partly on a meta level as the narrator who is telling this revealing story to an eager audience who, if they take this advice, will also almost certainly be successful because THIS is the mindset of SUCCESS and of course there is no survivorship bias.<p>It&#x27;s pretty standard if quality work in that respect, which is why it has a ring of aspirational self-help.<p>One good response is to learn from what he&#x27;s doing as well as carefully weighing the merits and limits of what he&#x27;s directly saying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>This article honestly read like something out of a bullshit self-help book. There&#x27;s a lot of tidbits in there that sort of ignore the reality for most people and how one small injury, accident etc can spiral out of control and bankrupt someone, at least in America. But reading this part especially stood out to me<p>&gt; We all know people who are consistently pessimistic, who will shoot down everything. Everyone in their life has the helpful critical guy, right? He thinks he’s being helpful, but he’s actually being critical, and he’s a downer on everything.<p>&gt; That person will not only never do anything great in their lives, they’ll prevent other people around them from doing something great. They think their job is to shoot holes in things. And it’s okay to shoot holes in things as long as you come up with a solution.<p>This is silicon valley in a nutshell. Silicon valley needs more pessimists, people that understand the problems with all the nonsense they push in attempt to solve problems while exploiting people along the way. It needs people that are willing to question people and tell them to stop doing things that are fucked up. Because these companies don&#x27;t think about what will happen if they fuck up and break things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to get rich without getting lucky (2018)</title><url>https://nav.al/how-to-get-rich</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>gowld</author><text>Usually when they break things they break other people, for profit. So having a conscience doesn&#x27;t help them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>This article honestly read like something out of a bullshit self-help book. There&#x27;s a lot of tidbits in there that sort of ignore the reality for most people and how one small injury, accident etc can spiral out of control and bankrupt someone, at least in America. But reading this part especially stood out to me<p>&gt; We all know people who are consistently pessimistic, who will shoot down everything. Everyone in their life has the helpful critical guy, right? He thinks he’s being helpful, but he’s actually being critical, and he’s a downer on everything.<p>&gt; That person will not only never do anything great in their lives, they’ll prevent other people around them from doing something great. They think their job is to shoot holes in things. And it’s okay to shoot holes in things as long as you come up with a solution.<p>This is silicon valley in a nutshell. Silicon valley needs more pessimists, people that understand the problems with all the nonsense they push in attempt to solve problems while exploiting people along the way. It needs people that are willing to question people and tell them to stop doing things that are fucked up. Because these companies don&#x27;t think about what will happen if they fuck up and break things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to get rich without getting lucky (2018)</title><url>https://nav.al/how-to-get-rich</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>swiley</author><text>Personally I&#x27;m blocked from success because I spend too much time on Hacker News.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jamesfe</author><text>The author proposes that we&#x27;re somehow blocked from success because we can&#x27;t type fast enough. Is that true? I don&#x27;t agree; in fact, I&#x27;d rather be concise and communicate well than vomit more words onto the screen.<p>Additionally, beyond Dvorak, is there a better way to increase typing speed than spending what must be hours and hours building a bespoke solution for each one of your machines? And what is the cost of the inevitable tsunami of errors you make in the learning process? Are these neural pathways more valuable than say, learning a new language or practicing a different skill?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A tool that increased my typing speed</title><url>https://vasilishynkarenka.com/how-to-type-3x-faster/</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>jowsie</author><text>There&#x27;s always stenography<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstenoproject.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstenoproject.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jamesfe</author><text>The author proposes that we&#x27;re somehow blocked from success because we can&#x27;t type fast enough. Is that true? I don&#x27;t agree; in fact, I&#x27;d rather be concise and communicate well than vomit more words onto the screen.<p>Additionally, beyond Dvorak, is there a better way to increase typing speed than spending what must be hours and hours building a bespoke solution for each one of your machines? And what is the cost of the inevitable tsunami of errors you make in the learning process? Are these neural pathways more valuable than say, learning a new language or practicing a different skill?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A tool that increased my typing speed</title><url>https://vasilishynkarenka.com/how-to-type-3x-faster/</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>guax</author><text>There are so many photographers out there putting so many images on platforms that you get paid almost nothing for them. Unless you get a great image and have a proper agent or contact passing them along you don&#x27;t get much. Payout for some of my images ranged from under 5 USD to at most 40 USD for one image one time.<p>Some photographers just spam TONS of images on the platforms to get some cash by betting on the long tail. Someone, somewhere with a shutterstock subscription might need your image for a local magazine&#x2F;paper and you get 2 dollars for it.<p>That kind of stock photography might suffer even more with generated images. Actual premium stock or for hire photography will not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksaj</author><text>I had to put together a presentation that was somewhat graphic-heavy. I used Dall-e 2, and the ability to get things so tailored to what I needed, so quickly, was absolutely worth it.<p>I don&#x27;t know if AI will replace stock photography, but I wouldn&#x27;t bet against it.<p>The ability to charge a high price for stock photography is over though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective</title><url>https://www.stockperformer.com/blog/is-ai-killing-the-stock-industry-a-data-perspective/</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>stingraycharles</author><text>And the sad thing is that these models are most likely trained upon most of these stock photos to begin with. I can understand the frustration of the industry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ksaj</author><text>I had to put together a presentation that was somewhat graphic-heavy. I used Dall-e 2, and the ability to get things so tailored to what I needed, so quickly, was absolutely worth it.<p>I don&#x27;t know if AI will replace stock photography, but I wouldn&#x27;t bet against it.<p>The ability to charge a high price for stock photography is over though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective</title><url>https://www.stockperformer.com/blog/is-ai-killing-the-stock-industry-a-data-perspective/</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>will_hughes</author><text>&gt; Then the next-generation P2P network (BitTorrent) decided that it was easier just to rely on HTTP for metadata exchange and went to centralized trackers, and the ecosystem that grew up around BitTorrent realized branding &amp; centralized search engines were important for non-technical users and we got big torrent search engines like ThePirateBay and Mininova.<p>Followed by those trackers getting taken down, we went from distributing .torrent files over HTTP, to distributing magnet links and getting the torrent metadata over DHT.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It reminds me of the last wave of distributed P2P filesharing, c. 2000-2005. First we got Napster, which realized that by taking advantage of the bidirectional nature of TCP&#x2F;IP, we could distribute copyright infringement so widely that it would become impossible to enforce. Then some techies at NullSoft realized that you don&#x27;t actually need a central server for discovery <i>at all</i>, you can broadcast the existence of and metadata about files throughout the network for discovery, and put out Gnutella. Lots of excitement followed, with many people of that era believing P2P would be the Next Big Thing (among people working on this were such folks as Travis Kalanick of Red Swoosh -&gt; Uber, Mark Zuckerburg of WireHog -&gt; Facebook, Friis &amp; Zenstrom of Kazaa -&gt; Skype -&gt; Rdio, and Robert Tappan Morris of Chord -&gt; YCombinator).<p>And then folks realized that Gnutella was slow. Really slow, because folks on transient dialup connections in Estonia were critical nodes in file discovery. So they created the idea of super-peers, where the protocol was adapted to realize that some nodes are more equal than others and route requests through nodes with known-good connections. Then the next-generation P2P network (BitTorrent) decided that it was easier just to rely on HTTP for metadata exchange and went to centralized trackers, and the ecosystem that grew up around BitTorrent realized branding &amp; centralized search engines were important for non-technical users and we got big torrent search engines like ThePirateBay and Mininova.<p>Eventually, the market seemed to settle on convenience &amp; performance over distribution, and the real winners in the mass market were DropBox, Google, and Apple. There&#x27;s probably a lesson in there, but as someone who&#x27;s been fascinated by P2P technologies since high school and wasted a lot of time thinking about the problem in college, the lesson is pretty depressing. If hierarchy, market concentration, and single points of failure don&#x27;t already exist, they will be reinvented.</text></item><item><author>maxander</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating that the financial system has evolved this kind of layered abstraction (humans owning stocks is a fiction maintained by brokers owning stocks, which is a fiction maintained by DTC owning stocks, which is a fiction maintained...) reminiscent of hallowed engineering kludges like TCP&#x2F;IP. Its especially interesting since, unlike data packets, stocks are <i>purely an abstraction to begin with</i>, but the systems around them have become sufficiently complicated that it can&#x27;t function without this kind of structure.<p>A blockchain likely wouldn&#x27;t help this issue either- high-speed traders would inevitably be dissatisfied with blockchain latencies and re-invent brokers that abstracted over blockchain transactions at a faster pace. These brokers would wind up causing bureaucratic meltdowns and become managed by some overarching structure similar to the DTC. Etc. If anything, a blockchain-based system would become <i>more</i> complicated, because it reduces the task of adding another financial sub-mechanism to an engineering problem.<p>Something about large distributed systems of non- or imperfectly-cooperative agents breed complexity. (There&#x27;s probably already formalized versions of that principle, but none are presently coming to mind.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dole Food Had Too Many Shares</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-17/dole-food-had-too-many-shares</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>striking</author><text>This is probably the most enlightening comment I&#x27;ve read all day. I&#x27;ve been looking for a suitable explanation for this trend, and here it is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It reminds me of the last wave of distributed P2P filesharing, c. 2000-2005. First we got Napster, which realized that by taking advantage of the bidirectional nature of TCP&#x2F;IP, we could distribute copyright infringement so widely that it would become impossible to enforce. Then some techies at NullSoft realized that you don&#x27;t actually need a central server for discovery <i>at all</i>, you can broadcast the existence of and metadata about files throughout the network for discovery, and put out Gnutella. Lots of excitement followed, with many people of that era believing P2P would be the Next Big Thing (among people working on this were such folks as Travis Kalanick of Red Swoosh -&gt; Uber, Mark Zuckerburg of WireHog -&gt; Facebook, Friis &amp; Zenstrom of Kazaa -&gt; Skype -&gt; Rdio, and Robert Tappan Morris of Chord -&gt; YCombinator).<p>And then folks realized that Gnutella was slow. Really slow, because folks on transient dialup connections in Estonia were critical nodes in file discovery. So they created the idea of super-peers, where the protocol was adapted to realize that some nodes are more equal than others and route requests through nodes with known-good connections. Then the next-generation P2P network (BitTorrent) decided that it was easier just to rely on HTTP for metadata exchange and went to centralized trackers, and the ecosystem that grew up around BitTorrent realized branding &amp; centralized search engines were important for non-technical users and we got big torrent search engines like ThePirateBay and Mininova.<p>Eventually, the market seemed to settle on convenience &amp; performance over distribution, and the real winners in the mass market were DropBox, Google, and Apple. There&#x27;s probably a lesson in there, but as someone who&#x27;s been fascinated by P2P technologies since high school and wasted a lot of time thinking about the problem in college, the lesson is pretty depressing. If hierarchy, market concentration, and single points of failure don&#x27;t already exist, they will be reinvented.</text></item><item><author>maxander</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating that the financial system has evolved this kind of layered abstraction (humans owning stocks is a fiction maintained by brokers owning stocks, which is a fiction maintained by DTC owning stocks, which is a fiction maintained...) reminiscent of hallowed engineering kludges like TCP&#x2F;IP. Its especially interesting since, unlike data packets, stocks are <i>purely an abstraction to begin with</i>, but the systems around them have become sufficiently complicated that it can&#x27;t function without this kind of structure.<p>A blockchain likely wouldn&#x27;t help this issue either- high-speed traders would inevitably be dissatisfied with blockchain latencies and re-invent brokers that abstracted over blockchain transactions at a faster pace. These brokers would wind up causing bureaucratic meltdowns and become managed by some overarching structure similar to the DTC. Etc. If anything, a blockchain-based system would become <i>more</i> complicated, because it reduces the task of adding another financial sub-mechanism to an engineering problem.<p>Something about large distributed systems of non- or imperfectly-cooperative agents breed complexity. (There&#x27;s probably already formalized versions of that principle, but none are presently coming to mind.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dole Food Had Too Many Shares</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-17/dole-food-had-too-many-shares</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>svnpenn</author><text>Note that Deno is missing locale support. So for example this:<p><pre><code> (1000).toLocaleString();
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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>dang</author><text>A large thread about 1.0 from a few months ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23172483" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23172483</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deno 1.4</title><url>https://deno.land/posts/v1.4</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>wyc</author><text>This is important because there exists a trade-off in statistical learning models: in general, the more flexible your models are, the less understandable they become[0]. Modern machine learning techniques are typically very flexible.<p>To gain intuition and reasoning of a model is to have understanding and trust--transparency. When you strike a nail with a hammer, it&#x27;s pretty predictable what might happen: the nail could get hit, the hammer could miss, or very rarely, the hammer&#x27;s head may fly off of the handle. When you replace the hammer with a black box that works correctly 99.999% of the time, but for 0.001%, something completely unpredictable happens, then there&#x27;s a problem with volatility because that unpredictable event may have unacceptable consequences. I think explainable AI could help with intuitive and more fine-grained risk analysis, and that&#x27;s certainly a good thing in high-stakes applications such as defense.<p>[0] ISLR, Page 25: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&#x2F;~gareth&#x2F;ISL&#x2F;ISLR%20First%20Printing.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&#x2F;~gareth&#x2F;ISL&#x2F;ISLR%20First%20Printing.p...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding</title><url>https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=1606a253407e8773bdd1a9e884cc5293</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>Dim25</author><text>Direct link to detailed specification [PDF]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbo.gov&#x2F;utils&#x2F;view?id=ae0b129bca1080cc7c517e8dadfa3ca2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbo.gov&#x2F;utils&#x2F;view?id=ae0b129bca1080cc7c517e8dad...</a><p>Related FAQ [PDF]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.darpa.mil&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;XAIFAQ8-26.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.darpa.mil&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;XAIFAQ8-26.pdf</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding</title><url>https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=1606a253407e8773bdd1a9e884cc5293</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>antoinevg</author><text>DRM technologies are often sold to the public &amp; content providers as an anti-piracy measure but that has never been the intent.<p>It&#x27;s _always_ been about control on the creation and manufacture of playback platforms and&#x2F;or devices.</text><parent_chain><item><author>profmonocle</author><text>The saddest part is it doesn&#x27;t even seem to <i>accomplish</i> anything. What would-be pirates are actually being foiled by this? Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime use EME, but all their exclusive content is still readily available on torrent sites. Does it raise the difficulty bar? It&#x27;s hard to imagine anyone who knows how to rip video from their browser doesn&#x27;t know how to torrent something.</text></item><item><author>Daiz</author><text>Boy howdy, this is one subject where I loathe saying &quot;I told you so&quot;, but... I sure told you so.[1]<p>HTML DRM is antithetical to the Open Web itself. It was built on a sham of &quot;plugin-free&quot; media playback, but all we did was change Flash and Silverlight for a whole range of closed black boxes, which in turn are effectively all controlled by Big Media (<i>to make it crystal clear: EME was built with third-party decryption modules in mind, and Big Media was obviously never going to support any sort of decryption modules that they couldn&#x27;t control, so even if your custom browser supports EME it&#x27;s completely useless without a Big Media-approved decryption module</i>). And make no mistake: Requiring permission from Big Media to essentially build a fully-fledged browser is a 100% intended and expected outcome of HTML DRM as conceived. Big Media would love nothing more than to turn the entirety of the Open Web into Closed Web that they control, and with HTML DRM they&#x27;ve certainly achieved a great step toward doing so, to the detriment of public at wide. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re positively salivating about the thought of eventually reaching The Right to Read![2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7747142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7747142</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;right-to-read.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;right-to-read.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me</title><url>https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/</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>ndnxhs</author><text>It almost seams entirely to please management. The local TV stations use eme and yet youtube-dl still works fine on them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>profmonocle</author><text>The saddest part is it doesn&#x27;t even seem to <i>accomplish</i> anything. What would-be pirates are actually being foiled by this? Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime use EME, but all their exclusive content is still readily available on torrent sites. Does it raise the difficulty bar? It&#x27;s hard to imagine anyone who knows how to rip video from their browser doesn&#x27;t know how to torrent something.</text></item><item><author>Daiz</author><text>Boy howdy, this is one subject where I loathe saying &quot;I told you so&quot;, but... I sure told you so.[1]<p>HTML DRM is antithetical to the Open Web itself. It was built on a sham of &quot;plugin-free&quot; media playback, but all we did was change Flash and Silverlight for a whole range of closed black boxes, which in turn are effectively all controlled by Big Media (<i>to make it crystal clear: EME was built with third-party decryption modules in mind, and Big Media was obviously never going to support any sort of decryption modules that they couldn&#x27;t control, so even if your custom browser supports EME it&#x27;s completely useless without a Big Media-approved decryption module</i>). And make no mistake: Requiring permission from Big Media to essentially build a fully-fledged browser is a 100% intended and expected outcome of HTML DRM as conceived. Big Media would love nothing more than to turn the entirety of the Open Web into Closed Web that they control, and with HTML DRM they&#x27;ve certainly achieved a great step toward doing so, to the detriment of public at wide. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re positively salivating about the thought of eventually reaching The Right to Read![2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7747142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7747142</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;right-to-read.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;right-to-read.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me</title><url>https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/</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>igammarays</author><text>Classic Ukrainian arbitrage - selling Eastern talent to the Western market for prices they can&#x27;t believe with the high quality that they don&#x27;t expect. I love it, I did the same thing, most of the design work on my startup was also done by Ukrainian designers. Fantastic idea ... win-win.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround</title><text>Hi HN, I&#x27;m Stacy from Awesomic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;</a>). Awesomic is a website where you create a design task and receive a draft from a professional designer in 24 hours.<p>On freelance platforms, it takes up to 7-14 days to find the right designer. You negotiate, then manage, and you need to look for a new person every time a new task is needed, like branding first and then a website design for web and mobile. With Awesomic, our algorithm connects you based on availability and expertise required. Then, you never manage this person or worry about deadlines—we do it automatically and guarantee a 24h turnaround. You have all skills covered under one fixed price subscription.<p>While running a local online business (coding school, the first Github partner in the CIS region), we had the hard time hiring the right designer part-time. We experienced a lack of quality, style consistency and speed as freelancers changed. Roman, my co-founder, thought that being matched with the right person on subscription would be the perfect solution. We got traction in 10 days just from the idea, with no product. Our first client was YC alumni Outtalent, and the next 20 clients came from word of mouth. Our best-selling ad was a napkin left in a co-working space—it brought us People.ai as a client.<p>For the first 2 months, we emulated the app processes manually and turned the tasks around in 24 hours via email. Since then we’ve been gradually building software for everything that can be automated, including matching tasks, managing daily updates, files and communication.
Our matching algorithm defines the criteria of each task (like timezone, type of task, software) and finds the best-fit designer due to them. When you create a logo task, you work with the best logo&#x2F;branding designer. When you do an app or landing page that requires different skills, an algorithm will match you with a great UI&#x2F;UX designer. If you like the result, you will continue to work with the same person based on matching.<p>When you log into our app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.awesomic.io&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.awesomic.io&#x2F;login</a>), you can choose any popular design task brief or add a custom one. Then you describe the task, and it gets matched with the best-fit designer. In 24 hours you see the first results, and every business day a new update is guaranteed for you. So you can iterate fast on any visuals and stick to your deadlines. The expertises covered are branding, graphics, product UI&#x2F;UX design and animations. You communicate with the designers directly in the app, via comments or screenshare calls. All files are stored on private DigitalOcean Spaces and are accessible over the platform, so you don’t need to go back and forth between various tools, email, etc. We operate on a subscription model, but it is flexible: startups can upgrade&#x2F;downgrade or cancel their plans anytime. This helps to stay cost-effective and scale easily.<p>Here’s a case study on how we made a redesign for the most funded app on Kickstarter: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;memory-os" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;memory-os</a>. Here’s one on a Norwegian fitness startup using us for 18+ months already—their app is in the top 10 most popular apps in the country: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;entirebody" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;entirebody</a>.<p>As specialists, we’ve been reading HN for quite some time and we are really excited to share our story with you. We would love to hear back from the community! How do you manage your design tasks? What is the most painful?</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>memset</author><text>Just wanted to chime in as an early satisfied Awesomic user. I always have half a dozen side projects going (as you can see via my &quot;Show HN&quot; history) and always have a little bit of design needs that I can&#x27;t do via Bootstrap. I&#x27;ve been burned by upwork&#x2F;fiverr in the past who charge $100&#x2F;hr with no upper bound on the amount of time it will take to iterate on a design that will work. I&#x27;ve often just scrapped the design work entirely because it was too hard to get to the right end result.<p>The platform basically guarantees that I&#x27;ll see <i>some</i> progress once per day (the predictability is nice), and I don&#x27;t have to worry about using up my 1 revision, or whatever I&#x27;d agreed to. If I choose to spend the entire month on a single project to get it right, then great, I don&#x27;t have to do a calculation every time.<p>Congrats on getting into YC!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround</title><text>Hi HN, I&#x27;m Stacy from Awesomic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;</a>). Awesomic is a website where you create a design task and receive a draft from a professional designer in 24 hours.<p>On freelance platforms, it takes up to 7-14 days to find the right designer. You negotiate, then manage, and you need to look for a new person every time a new task is needed, like branding first and then a website design for web and mobile. With Awesomic, our algorithm connects you based on availability and expertise required. Then, you never manage this person or worry about deadlines—we do it automatically and guarantee a 24h turnaround. You have all skills covered under one fixed price subscription.<p>While running a local online business (coding school, the first Github partner in the CIS region), we had the hard time hiring the right designer part-time. We experienced a lack of quality, style consistency and speed as freelancers changed. Roman, my co-founder, thought that being matched with the right person on subscription would be the perfect solution. We got traction in 10 days just from the idea, with no product. Our first client was YC alumni Outtalent, and the next 20 clients came from word of mouth. Our best-selling ad was a napkin left in a co-working space—it brought us People.ai as a client.<p>For the first 2 months, we emulated the app processes manually and turned the tasks around in 24 hours via email. Since then we’ve been gradually building software for everything that can be automated, including matching tasks, managing daily updates, files and communication.
Our matching algorithm defines the criteria of each task (like timezone, type of task, software) and finds the best-fit designer due to them. When you create a logo task, you work with the best logo&#x2F;branding designer. When you do an app or landing page that requires different skills, an algorithm will match you with a great UI&#x2F;UX designer. If you like the result, you will continue to work with the same person based on matching.<p>When you log into our app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.awesomic.io&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.awesomic.io&#x2F;login</a>), you can choose any popular design task brief or add a custom one. Then you describe the task, and it gets matched with the best-fit designer. In 24 hours you see the first results, and every business day a new update is guaranteed for you. So you can iterate fast on any visuals and stick to your deadlines. The expertises covered are branding, graphics, product UI&#x2F;UX design and animations. You communicate with the designers directly in the app, via comments or screenshare calls. All files are stored on private DigitalOcean Spaces and are accessible over the platform, so you don’t need to go back and forth between various tools, email, etc. We operate on a subscription model, but it is flexible: startups can upgrade&#x2F;downgrade or cancel their plans anytime. This helps to stay cost-effective and scale easily.<p>Here’s a case study on how we made a redesign for the most funded app on Kickstarter: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;memory-os" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;memory-os</a>. Here’s one on a Norwegian fitness startup using us for 18+ months already—their app is in the top 10 most popular apps in the country: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;entirebody" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awesomic.io&#x2F;case-study&#x2F;entirebody</a>.<p>As specialists, we’ve been reading HN for quite some time and we are really excited to share our story with you. We would love to hear back from the community! How do you manage your design tasks? What is the most painful?</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>andrekandre</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; Just don&#x27;t understand how one could be convinced these days of the fundamental conceit that even a properly profitable company is necessarily going to provide good things for people downstream, or for society in general.
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if one has worked in a number of business it should become fairly obvious that good products and good revenue are orthogonal phenomena (sometimes they align of course)<p><pre><code> &gt; What is the argument for that in general again?
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i think the general conceit is that bad or good product, someone is paying and they are getting <i>some kind of value</i> so who is anyone to say its good or bad for society?<p><pre><code> &gt; the idea that companies with a self interest in profit will reliably help people or the world
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wasn&#x27;t this idea put forth strongly by milton freidman and the chicago school - &quot;greed is good&quot; [1] - because more economic activity rises all...? i have to admit intuitively it sounds good even if its probably b.s [2]<p><pre><code> &gt; It just does not at all feel rational, its like everyone in the world is dreaming.
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well, at least some economists anyways....<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;13&#x2F;business&#x2F;dealbook&#x2F;milton-friedman-essay-anniversary.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;13&#x2F;business&#x2F;dealbook&#x2F;milton-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>Just don&#x27;t understand how one could be convinced these days of the fundamental conceit that even a properly profitable company is necessarily going to provide good things for people downstream, or for society in general. What is the argument for that in general again?<p>Because to me, if your not Twitter, your Wal Mart or Raytheon or BoA. If your not shittifying a platform you are pushing out small businesses from every town, price gouging government contracts for missiles, fooling elderly people with complicated financial instruments.<p>I just can&#x27;t really put together any argument at all, if am being honest, to justify the idea that companies with a self interest in profit will reliably help people or the world. It just does not at all feel rational, its like everyone in the world is dreaming.</text></item><item><author>sharperguy</author><text>I think the issue could be rooted in recent monetary policy rather than an inhrenent feature of the market itself.<p>Artificially low interest rate environments lead to a lot of money in the hands of investors, which due to inflation slowly loses purchasing power over time. However, with large reserves, they can easily afford to prop up a business model which persistantly spends more money on bringing &quot;free&quot; features to user while charging very little. Those businesses obviously outcompete any business which do not recieve such investment.<p>However, as time goes on, those investments must eventually earn a return. Switching from a model which loses money every year to one which must profit every year is invariably going to affect the quality of the product. Especially in an environment where directly charging customers for your service would be a death sentence.<p>In the absense of such cheap credit, however, a truly competitive environment could potentially emerge, where businesses must be sustanably profitable from the ground up. Esentially this would mean the last 15 or so years has been wasted time in pursuit of this goal, as false monetary signals were steering us in completely the wrong direction.<p>Some of todays tech companies may survive the transition, but I believe that most will eventually be replaced by completely new ones. Unless we go back to a policy of lowering interest rates to near (or even below) 0%.</text></item><item><author>_eypq</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking about how enshittification, venture capital, shareholders and the life cycle of a company are in some ways related. Any company that has external investors is bound to go through this cycle of
- building a great product
- taking in external funding money
- growing and then either being acquired or going public (or more commonly shutting down)
- then all the head scratching decision making starts<p>It&#x27;s head scratching to users and outside observers, but the incentives are such that there is pressure to grow on a quarterly basis, get those charts looking good and individuals in the management chain are doing what they can to optimize their career growth leading to short term decision making at the cost of users and customers.<p>The big picture thinking and long term decision making are incredibly hard. Very few companies are able to do this over the long term. Micosoft and apple are doing great currently and it will be interesting to see how stripe and openai navigate this process.<p>My current opinion is that only small founder owned companies or foss organizations can avoid this trap over the long term and it involves not trying to squeeze out every last bit of value. Both of these require a certain level of financial security + there&#x27;s the opportunity cost vs just going the vc route.<p>VC funding is incredibly valuable and it opens up a lot of possibilities that small orgs can never hope for. I guess what I&#x27;m saying is: expect enshittification and enjoy the ride while it lasts and then jump ship when trouble starts. Jumping ship becomes incredibly hard with network effects, so that&#x27;s the challenge we are seeing with social media companies now. Also once companies become too big to fail, it&#x27;s a drag on society.<p>Personally I would still go the VC route since I don&#x27;t have a few million lying around and tell myself this is just the cycle of life (for corporates) to avoid existential questions and going down the rabbit hole of questioning everything around me. Sorry about the disconnected thoughts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio]</title><url>https://podtail.com/podcast/future-tense-full-program-podcast/cory-doctorow-platform-capitalism-and-the-curse-of/</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>ssklash</author><text>A guy named Karl came to the exact same conclusions, in 1867.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>Just don&#x27;t understand how one could be convinced these days of the fundamental conceit that even a properly profitable company is necessarily going to provide good things for people downstream, or for society in general. What is the argument for that in general again?<p>Because to me, if your not Twitter, your Wal Mart or Raytheon or BoA. If your not shittifying a platform you are pushing out small businesses from every town, price gouging government contracts for missiles, fooling elderly people with complicated financial instruments.<p>I just can&#x27;t really put together any argument at all, if am being honest, to justify the idea that companies with a self interest in profit will reliably help people or the world. It just does not at all feel rational, its like everyone in the world is dreaming.</text></item><item><author>sharperguy</author><text>I think the issue could be rooted in recent monetary policy rather than an inhrenent feature of the market itself.<p>Artificially low interest rate environments lead to a lot of money in the hands of investors, which due to inflation slowly loses purchasing power over time. However, with large reserves, they can easily afford to prop up a business model which persistantly spends more money on bringing &quot;free&quot; features to user while charging very little. Those businesses obviously outcompete any business which do not recieve such investment.<p>However, as time goes on, those investments must eventually earn a return. Switching from a model which loses money every year to one which must profit every year is invariably going to affect the quality of the product. Especially in an environment where directly charging customers for your service would be a death sentence.<p>In the absense of such cheap credit, however, a truly competitive environment could potentially emerge, where businesses must be sustanably profitable from the ground up. Esentially this would mean the last 15 or so years has been wasted time in pursuit of this goal, as false monetary signals were steering us in completely the wrong direction.<p>Some of todays tech companies may survive the transition, but I believe that most will eventually be replaced by completely new ones. Unless we go back to a policy of lowering interest rates to near (or even below) 0%.</text></item><item><author>_eypq</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking about how enshittification, venture capital, shareholders and the life cycle of a company are in some ways related. Any company that has external investors is bound to go through this cycle of
- building a great product
- taking in external funding money
- growing and then either being acquired or going public (or more commonly shutting down)
- then all the head scratching decision making starts<p>It&#x27;s head scratching to users and outside observers, but the incentives are such that there is pressure to grow on a quarterly basis, get those charts looking good and individuals in the management chain are doing what they can to optimize their career growth leading to short term decision making at the cost of users and customers.<p>The big picture thinking and long term decision making are incredibly hard. Very few companies are able to do this over the long term. Micosoft and apple are doing great currently and it will be interesting to see how stripe and openai navigate this process.<p>My current opinion is that only small founder owned companies or foss organizations can avoid this trap over the long term and it involves not trying to squeeze out every last bit of value. Both of these require a certain level of financial security + there&#x27;s the opportunity cost vs just going the vc route.<p>VC funding is incredibly valuable and it opens up a lot of possibilities that small orgs can never hope for. I guess what I&#x27;m saying is: expect enshittification and enjoy the ride while it lasts and then jump ship when trouble starts. Jumping ship becomes incredibly hard with network effects, so that&#x27;s the challenge we are seeing with social media companies now. Also once companies become too big to fail, it&#x27;s a drag on society.<p>Personally I would still go the VC route since I don&#x27;t have a few million lying around and tell myself this is just the cycle of life (for corporates) to avoid existential questions and going down the rabbit hole of questioning everything around me. Sorry about the disconnected thoughts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio]</title><url>https://podtail.com/podcast/future-tense-full-program-podcast/cory-doctorow-platform-capitalism-and-the-curse-of/</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>mstaoru</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t ride a bike until, ugh, maybe 21? Once I discovered the joy of it, I never let it go and still biking every day for almost 20 years.<p>When I lived in China, it was very easy to bike. China&#x27;s infrastructure is new and it has dedicated lanes. It can be very stressful though because it&#x27;s so dense, and since there&#x27;s general lack of any culture or manners, people on scooters can be very rude and pushy. Also nobody would help you if you fall, they just keep passing by (source: fell 4-5 times in my 12 years in China).<p>Now I&#x27;m living in Bangkok which looks like cyclist&#x27;s hell: horrible pavement, narrow roads, motorcycles, and constant traffic jams. However, I find it easier to bike since everybody are generally courteous to each other, and I fell once and had like 10 people rush to help me. Very heartwarming.<p>The point is, you can build a great biking infrastructure, but culture is very important as well.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"My Bike Is Everything to Me"</title><url>https://kottke.org/24/05/my-bike-is-everything-to-me</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>corpMaverick</author><text>I feel the same.I am more of a casual rider, but when I ride my bike in me feel so good. It is a source of health and happiness. I hope to be able to do it for many years. I wish cities in this side of the Atlantic had more biking infrastructure.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>"My Bike Is Everything to Me"</title><url>https://kottke.org/24/05/my-bike-is-everything-to-me</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>aaai</author><text>May be hard to understand for ppl. with no background, but <i>that description includes the crucial bit of information that OPs &quot;easy to grok&quot; simplified description lacks:</i><p>&gt; inhibit the [...] RNA polymerase of the [..] virus<p>If it would just <i>simply stop RNA synthesis</i> (eg. inhibit <i>any</i> RNA-polymerase) or if it would <i>actually break RNA in general</i>, it <i>would kill HUMANS just as well!</i><p>The point of antiviral compounds is to <i>selectively inhibit&#x2F;kill mechanisms&#x2F;components of the virus and not the human host</i>... there&#x27;s hundreds of thousands of antiviral and antibiotic compounds that are not very useful because they&#x27;d kill humans just as well or give them horrible cancers or god knows what else...<p>As the saying goes... <i>&quot;Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.&quot;</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>koboll</author><text>This is such a great description. Compare how Wikipedia describes the same process [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adenosine#Research" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adenosine#Research</a>]:<p>&gt; The adenosine analog NITD008 has been reported to directly inhibit the recombinant RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of the dengue virus by terminating its RNA chain synthesis. This interaction suppresses peak viremia and rise in cytokines and prevents lethality in infected animals, raising the possibility of a new treatment for this flavivirus.<p>Absolute gibberish to someone with limited knowledge of biology.</text></item><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>Remdesivir is an analog of adenosine, one of the four building blocks of RNA. Just look at the main structure and you&#x27;ll agree they look similar. It turns out the mechanism of action of this drug is that it&#x27;s supposed to be confused with adenosine, so that the viral RNA replication process uses remdesivir instead of adenosine, which later breaks the RNA†.<p>Our body, or really, all biological processes can synthesize incredibly complicated molecules that can take human chemists a huge amount of effort to synthesize. It really is amazing how awesome our body is.<p>†: My description here is a dumbed down description. For a more precise description see section 2 of <i>Arguments in favour of remdesivir for treating SARS-CoV-2 infections</i>, Wen-Chien Ko et al, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0924857920300832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S092485792...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir</title><url>https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/26/problem-remdesivir-making-it-14665</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>oefrha</author><text>Scientific articles on Wikipedia aren’t written for laymen, although some could be understood by laymen as a side effect. For example as a physicist&#x2F;mathematician I expect precise and physically&#x2F;mathematically accurate statements rather than hand-wavy analogues that the average Joe might be able to make sense of, and that’s how I edit. Now, it’s okay to also include more approachable explanations, but they’re not a must.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koboll</author><text>This is such a great description. Compare how Wikipedia describes the same process [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adenosine#Research" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adenosine#Research</a>]:<p>&gt; The adenosine analog NITD008 has been reported to directly inhibit the recombinant RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of the dengue virus by terminating its RNA chain synthesis. This interaction suppresses peak viremia and rise in cytokines and prevents lethality in infected animals, raising the possibility of a new treatment for this flavivirus.<p>Absolute gibberish to someone with limited knowledge of biology.</text></item><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>Remdesivir is an analog of adenosine, one of the four building blocks of RNA. Just look at the main structure and you&#x27;ll agree they look similar. It turns out the mechanism of action of this drug is that it&#x27;s supposed to be confused with adenosine, so that the viral RNA replication process uses remdesivir instead of adenosine, which later breaks the RNA†.<p>Our body, or really, all biological processes can synthesize incredibly complicated molecules that can take human chemists a huge amount of effort to synthesize. It really is amazing how awesome our body is.<p>†: My description here is a dumbed down description. For a more precise description see section 2 of <i>Arguments in favour of remdesivir for treating SARS-CoV-2 infections</i>, Wen-Chien Ko et al, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0924857920300832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S092485792...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir</title><url>https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/26/problem-remdesivir-making-it-14665</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>CliffStoll</author><text>Wonderful note about a most important mathematical physicist.<p>Unmentioned is his stumble in relativity theory: As Paul Nahin wrote,<p>Despite the ‘Einsteinian look’ of Heaviside&#x27;s speed-dependent terms, his analysis was greatly lacking when compared with Einstein&#x27;s. Heaviside started with moving charged matter and then applied some heavy mathematics to Maxwell&#x27;s electrodynamics, while Einstein used nothing but the fundamental ideas of space and time, some simple algebra, and the two relativity principles (all physical laws look the same in all inertial frames, and observers in different inertial frames will measure the same value for the speed of light). Einstein&#x27;s analysis is free of any special assumptions concerning electricity in particular and the nature of matter in general: to put it bluntly, Einstein saw the whole forest, while Heaviside and Thomson were looking through a magnifying glass at the bark on a single tree.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;royalsocietypublishing.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1098&#x2F;rsta.2017.0448" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;royalsocietypublishing.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1098&#x2F;rsta.2017.044...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983)</title><url>https://sci-hub.se/10.1093/teamat/2.2.55</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>jhallenworld</author><text>Also:<p>&quot;Coaxial cable was used in the first (1858) and following transatlantic cable installations, but its theory wasn&#x27;t described until 1880 by English physicist, engineer, and mathematician Oliver Heaviside, who patented the design in that year (British patent No. 1,407).&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemmatalogic.com&#x2F;HeavisideUKPatent1407.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemmatalogic.com&#x2F;HeavisideUKPatent1407.pdf</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983)</title><url>https://sci-hub.se/10.1093/teamat/2.2.55</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>AJRF</author><text>I wonder why people say stuff like this. Are people writing code then just blindly shipping it to production?<p>The process goes;<p>1. Write some code<p>2. Get AI assistance with some part<p>3. Check it&#x27;s right, make changes<p>4. Write tests<p>5. Put up for code review<p>6. CI runs checks<p>7. Release Candidate<p>8. Release Testing<p>There are many, many chances to catch errors. If you don&#x27;t have the above in place, i&#x27;d focus on that first before using AI assistance tools.</text><parent_chain><item><author>withinboredom</author><text>How do you know it is even close to correct? When I’ve asked it for code, it has been subtly wrong, or worse, correct but missing important edge cases that it doesn’t even seem to be aware of.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>What I really love is the unbounded optimism of the AI. How many colleagues could you ask &quot;Can you write me a PoC for a horizontally scalable, probabilistic database in Rust, using Raft-based consensus?&quot; that would then just think for a second and go &quot;Certainly! Let&#x27;s start by ...&quot;. These people exist, but they&#x27;re one in a thousand (or million?). ChatGPT basically does that for almost every prompt you throw at it. So it really helps me overcome research barriers in software development in an incredibly short time, stuff that would&#x27;ve taken days or weeks to research can be done in literal minutes. And as I said before what&#x27;s amazing is that the PoCs are really elegant and minimal, i.e. no superfluous code at all and condensed to the essence of the problem you&#x27;re trying to solve.</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>ThePhysicist</author><text>I can read the code and verify it. Sometimes there are small mistakes but overall the architecture and approach are mostly correct. It won&#x27;t produce 100 % production-grade code, but that&#x27;s not expected for a PoC. And personally I also get stuff subtly wrong at times, I just iterate and test to find these cases and fix them. So I guess we&#x27;re not fully replacable yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>withinboredom</author><text>How do you know it is even close to correct? When I’ve asked it for code, it has been subtly wrong, or worse, correct but missing important edge cases that it doesn’t even seem to be aware of.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>What I really love is the unbounded optimism of the AI. How many colleagues could you ask &quot;Can you write me a PoC for a horizontally scalable, probabilistic database in Rust, using Raft-based consensus?&quot; that would then just think for a second and go &quot;Certainly! Let&#x27;s start by ...&quot;. These people exist, but they&#x27;re one in a thousand (or million?). ChatGPT basically does that for almost every prompt you throw at it. So it really helps me overcome research barriers in software development in an incredibly short time, stuff that would&#x27;ve taken days or weeks to research can be done in literal minutes. And as I said before what&#x27;s amazing is that the PoCs are really elegant and minimal, i.e. no superfluous code at all and condensed to the essence of the problem you&#x27;re trying to solve.</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>wutbrodo</author><text>&gt; In books, I do like scifi but they recommend a bunch of books with spaceships shooting each other on the cover - not what I have ever been interested in.<p>You&#x27;re making a huge mistake by judging a book by its cover in this case. The copy of the Foundation series that I had as a kid was very space opera looking too, and I&#x27;ve seen gaudy covers on everything from Dune to Kim Stanley Robinson. For Sci fi in particular, publishers have an incentive to trick a large chunk of the audience into thinking that its Star Wars-y, and there&#x27;s not much incentive in signaling the things that you or I would get out these books.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>I use ublock origin and privacy badger not because I am worried about privacy but because the internet is basically unusable without it.<p>Because of this, I don&#x27;t see many ads. But I have been an amazon customer since 1999 (according to what they say on their website when I&#x27;m logged in.) Looking at what they recommend for me, this personalization stuff is crap.<p>In music, Amazon recommends bands I never listen to like Montrose, Metallica, and the Doors (and to be fair, some people I&#x27;ve never heard of so I guess it is possible that I would be interested in them. Greta Van Fleet? William Patrick Corgan?)<p>In books, I do like scifi but they recommend a bunch of books with spaceships shooting each other on the cover - not what I have ever been interested in.<p>In the &quot;humor and entertainment&quot; section of books they do list some books that I would be interested in but, strangely, none of them are &quot;humor&quot; but are all academic books about videogames (which I am interested in). Even here the recommendation engine is very unsophisticated because in between academic books on videogames there are books on the art of Zelda and other coffee table books that I am not interested in.<p>And the first book in their recommended children&#x27;s book section is 1984. (and I don&#x27;t have any kids any way).<p>If this is the best they can do with 18 years of tracking my purchases then I am not worried.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web</title><url>https://www.neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/</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>bambax</author><text>It&#x27;s really amazing how bad those personnalisation engines are; AI seems pretty stupid for now.<p>But as I was making the exact same point a few days ago here on HN, someone responded to say that maybe it was on purpose, that if recommendations were too good they would creep us out.<p>Don&#x27;t know what to think of it but I found the objection interesting...</text><parent_chain><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>I use ublock origin and privacy badger not because I am worried about privacy but because the internet is basically unusable without it.<p>Because of this, I don&#x27;t see many ads. But I have been an amazon customer since 1999 (according to what they say on their website when I&#x27;m logged in.) Looking at what they recommend for me, this personalization stuff is crap.<p>In music, Amazon recommends bands I never listen to like Montrose, Metallica, and the Doors (and to be fair, some people I&#x27;ve never heard of so I guess it is possible that I would be interested in them. Greta Van Fleet? William Patrick Corgan?)<p>In books, I do like scifi but they recommend a bunch of books with spaceships shooting each other on the cover - not what I have ever been interested in.<p>In the &quot;humor and entertainment&quot; section of books they do list some books that I would be interested in but, strangely, none of them are &quot;humor&quot; but are all academic books about videogames (which I am interested in). Even here the recommendation engine is very unsophisticated because in between academic books on videogames there are books on the art of Zelda and other coffee table books that I am not interested in.<p>And the first book in their recommended children&#x27;s book section is 1984. (and I don&#x27;t have any kids any way).<p>If this is the best they can do with 18 years of tracking my purchases then I am not worried.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web</title><url>https://www.neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/</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>JorgeGT</author><text>They had quite advanced smart homes back in the 80s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg</a> (and to Nest shame, they still service it! <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;unitysystemshomemanager.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;unitysystemshomemanager.com&#x2F;</a>)</text><parent_chain><item><author>scarface74</author><text>Or end up like people investing in “smart homes” in the 90s.<p>Remember when built in intercom systems in the home were considered advanced?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;510559&#x2F;what-smart-home-technology-looked-1980s" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;510559&#x2F;what-smart-home-techno...</a></text></item><item><author>stirkac</author><text>This is why I would never invest too much into Smart Home. While my phone may be expected to last for a few years only, I don&#x27;t want my house deprecated because of a takeover&#x2F;bankruptcy of a company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019/</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>nabla9</author><text>All the dot-com bubble era business ideas are new again.<p>- digital currencies<p>- smartwatches<p>- smart homes (Bill gates had his house &#x27;smart homed&#x27; to the wazoo with tens of NT servers taking care of everything, like switching lights on and off)<p>- food delivery startups Webvan, Kozmo,<p>- livestreaming (JenniCam)</text><parent_chain><item><author>scarface74</author><text>Or end up like people investing in “smart homes” in the 90s.<p>Remember when built in intercom systems in the home were considered advanced?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;510559&#x2F;what-smart-home-technology-looked-1980s" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;510559&#x2F;what-smart-home-techno...</a></text></item><item><author>stirkac</author><text>This is why I would never invest too much into Smart Home. While my phone may be expected to last for a few years only, I don&#x27;t want my house deprecated because of a takeover&#x2F;bankruptcy of a company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019/</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>dogsgobork</author><text>For anyone interested in how terrible Chlorine trifluoride is, it&#x27;s on perpetual HN favorite Derek Lowe&#x27;s list of &quot;Things I won&#x27;t work with&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;blog-post&#x2F;sand-won-t-save-you-time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;blog-post&#x2F;sand-won-t-save-yo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Ygg2</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t litography use some pretty wild chemicals. Like Chlorine Trifloride? Thing that when burned emits hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid. Aka thing that burns ashes. Again.<p>I assume making those machines is pretty crazy as well.</text></item><item><author>dathinab</author><text>Berlin news (rbb) say that<p>Many things are still unclear including:<p>- how big the damage is
- how long it takes to operate again
- how it was possible to happen&#x2F;how it happend<p>The linked article basically says the same.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-fire-its-berlin-factory-2022-01-03/</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>Spooky23</author><text>I worked at a facility with experimental lithography machines. One of the
nasties looked like water, but would pass through your skin and melt your bones. Fun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Ygg2</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t litography use some pretty wild chemicals. Like Chlorine Trifloride? Thing that when burned emits hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid. Aka thing that burns ashes. Again.<p>I assume making those machines is pretty crazy as well.</text></item><item><author>dathinab</author><text>Berlin news (rbb) say that<p>Many things are still unclear including:<p>- how big the damage is
- how long it takes to operate again
- how it was possible to happen&#x2F;how it happend<p>The linked article basically says the same.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-fire-its-berlin-factory-2022-01-03/</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>It&#x27;s the text version of a talk. Those are the slides. I can forgive that.<p>This was published in 2015 - since then the loading=&quot;lazy&quot; attribute has gained widespread browser support. I&#x27;ve used that myself for some of my talk-as-blog-post pieces, eg <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2022&#x2F;Nov&#x2F;26&#x2F;productivity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2022&#x2F;Nov&#x2F;26&#x2F;productivity&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>defanor</author><text>As the article&#x27;s author, I like to rant about articles ranting about bloat being bloated themselves, but here&#x27;s an opportunity to rant about an article ranting about rants about bloat being bloated, being bloated itself! The page has 1 MB of rather unnecessary illustrations (many of which are just amusing pictures), which is larger than most of the books (as it compares other pages to books).<p>It is surprisingly common for content to contradict presentation in such articles. Well, it is mentioned in the article already, but still strange how common it seems to be.<p>Edit: though this is not exactly an article, but rather a presentation&#x27;s&#x2F;talk&#x27;s &quot;text&quot; version, and the illustrations are slides. So it probably wasn&#x27;t meant to look&#x2F;be quite like that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)</title><url>https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm</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>pohl</author><text>Just so no one assumes that’s all it’s about — the critique of bloated articles about bloat is really only the introduction. It’s worth reading beyond that. The writing is delicious.</text><parent_chain><item><author>defanor</author><text>As the article&#x27;s author, I like to rant about articles ranting about bloat being bloated themselves, but here&#x27;s an opportunity to rant about an article ranting about rants about bloat being bloated, being bloated itself! The page has 1 MB of rather unnecessary illustrations (many of which are just amusing pictures), which is larger than most of the books (as it compares other pages to books).<p>It is surprisingly common for content to contradict presentation in such articles. Well, it is mentioned in the article already, but still strange how common it seems to be.<p>Edit: though this is not exactly an article, but rather a presentation&#x27;s&#x2F;talk&#x27;s &quot;text&quot; version, and the illustrations are slides. So it probably wasn&#x27;t meant to look&#x2F;be quite like that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)</title><url>https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm</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>esperent</author><text>For most of my adult life (now I&#x27;m 34) I have spent 30-50% of any paycheck I&#x27;ve received on rent.<p>In my country (Ireland) over the previous two generations, houses went from dirt cheap to extremely expensive. In the generation that came of age in the late 80s and early 90s, you could work a normal job and buy a house, easily. If you had a good job, you could buy several houses.<p>Now, my generation. We came too late. Houses now cost so much that you will be en-debted to a bank for life if you buy one. Now we have a rent crisis. For many people, they can barely even afford to rent a house and buy basics like food. Meanwhile, anyone who was lucky enough to be a bit older and smart enough to jump on the property wagon when it was cheap, they are rolling in money. They earn thousands of euros from doing essentially nothing except be born in the right generation.<p>It&#x27;s very hard not to look at them, look at the hardships of the people my age who struggle to pay rent, and not think of landlords as social parasites.</text><parent_chain><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>I think you have a very misguided idea of what it&#x27;s like to be a landlord....and perceptions of who&#x2F;what &#x27;landlords&#x27; (a very unfortunate term) are from some tenants... no good deed goes unpunished etc. Plenty of great people around but you have to be very careful who you rent to...</text></item><item><author>tyre</author><text>&gt; when things come easy to people<p>I think you have a very misguided idea of what it&#x27;s like to live in poverty.</text></item><item><author>dmarlow</author><text>&gt; if they can&#x27;t pay the hundred bucks the government won&#x27;t I sure don&#x27;t care<p>I used to have this same mentality. Until the person who was renting one of my properties decided to lie about certain issues (like claiming a shampoo bottle lodged down one of the toilets was there for years). When I decided to not renew the lease with that tenant, they decided to cause considerable damage to our property.<p>Sometimes, when things come easy to people, they don&#x27;t appreciate it. Holding people accountable helps them lift themselves up too.</text></item><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>I&#x27;m so extremely grateful that I accepted section 8 tenants into my rental units. Most of these tenants have nearly all of their payment covered by the government and they just have to pay $100 or $200 on top of that to cover what the government won&#x27;t.<p>These tenants are often not accepted by landlords because they&#x27;re thought to cause more issues. Mine are great. They keep the units spotless, mow the lawn for me on my multi unit properties. When I have a tenant like this, I never raise their rent, and if they can&#x27;t pay the hundred bucks the government won&#x27;t I sure don&#x27;t care.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-</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>michaelmrose</author><text>&gt; Plenty of great people around<p>No offense but bullshit.<p>In my experience most people serve their own interests. Commercial enterprises in fact select for those who serve their own interests over morality because those parties are most likely to succeed.<p>In America you are lucky if your interests coincide sufficiently with the owner class that you can both get along productively. Expecting beneficence as well is unproductive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>I think you have a very misguided idea of what it&#x27;s like to be a landlord....and perceptions of who&#x2F;what &#x27;landlords&#x27; (a very unfortunate term) are from some tenants... no good deed goes unpunished etc. Plenty of great people around but you have to be very careful who you rent to...</text></item><item><author>tyre</author><text>&gt; when things come easy to people<p>I think you have a very misguided idea of what it&#x27;s like to live in poverty.</text></item><item><author>dmarlow</author><text>&gt; if they can&#x27;t pay the hundred bucks the government won&#x27;t I sure don&#x27;t care<p>I used to have this same mentality. Until the person who was renting one of my properties decided to lie about certain issues (like claiming a shampoo bottle lodged down one of the toilets was there for years). When I decided to not renew the lease with that tenant, they decided to cause considerable damage to our property.<p>Sometimes, when things come easy to people, they don&#x27;t appreciate it. Holding people accountable helps them lift themselves up too.</text></item><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>I&#x27;m so extremely grateful that I accepted section 8 tenants into my rental units. Most of these tenants have nearly all of their payment covered by the government and they just have to pay $100 or $200 on top of that to cover what the government won&#x27;t.<p>These tenants are often not accepted by landlords because they&#x27;re thought to cause more issues. Mine are great. They keep the units spotless, mow the lawn for me on my multi unit properties. When I have a tenant like this, I never raise their rent, and if they can&#x27;t pay the hundred bucks the government won&#x27;t I sure don&#x27;t care.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-</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>aeturnum</author><text>I agree about AI, though for slightly different reasons. Google published the foundational paper for some of the most important tech behind the exciting AI stuff[1]. Because there&#x27;s every reason to believe they are technically capable of competing, the reason they aren&#x27;t offering AI products is probably based on their beliefs about how practical that is right now (cost &#x2F; reliability &#x2F; etc). They also have all their Waymo experience.<p>Basically, I&#x27;m not convinced that Google is &quot;behind&quot; on the tech, but just disagrees about product strategy. Obviously there are lots of examples where this dooms the current leader (Xerox Parc!) - but I think it&#x27;s too early to say? I wouldn&#x27;t short them yet imo.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;transformer-novel-neural-network.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;transformer-novel-neural-n...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>I&#x27;m not so sure AI is as big a threat as Google perceives it to be; back in 2009 the HUGE EXISTENTIAL THREAT was Social, therefore Google+, but that came and went and Google&#x27;s growth continued unabated. That said, I do see a place for language-model driven search. And I shudder to think that language models will be specifically coerced, bribed, and have ingrained in their brains only what advertisers want. If you thought the search landscape of the 2020s is fully of SEO&#x27;d crap, just wait. Google is not in an enviable position.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is screwed, even if it wins its antitrust case</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/google-bing-microsoft-chatgpt-ai-antitrust-doj-screwed-1850029781</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>minsc_and_boo</author><text>The article also assumes that Google doesn&#x27;t have it&#x27;s own chatGPT or other AI irons in the fire right now.<p>Google Assistant dropped a year after Alexa, and Android&#x27;s reach helped bolster it&#x27;s marketshare (antitrust investigation or not).</text><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>I&#x27;m not so sure AI is as big a threat as Google perceives it to be; back in 2009 the HUGE EXISTENTIAL THREAT was Social, therefore Google+, but that came and went and Google&#x27;s growth continued unabated. That said, I do see a place for language-model driven search. And I shudder to think that language models will be specifically coerced, bribed, and have ingrained in their brains only what advertisers want. If you thought the search landscape of the 2020s is fully of SEO&#x27;d crap, just wait. Google is not in an enviable position.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is screwed, even if it wins its antitrust case</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/google-bing-microsoft-chatgpt-ai-antitrust-doj-screwed-1850029781</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>b_tterc_p</author><text>The 99% figure is a common misconception. Prosecutors in Japan are underfunded, so they only try to convict rock solid cases, among other factors.<p>This Wikipedia entry seems to flagrantly defy wiki rules but seems more informative for it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Criminal_justice_system_of_Japan#Conviction_rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Criminal_justice_system_of_J...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ptero</author><text>I think there are two things here: first is that Japan is so safe that police is actively looking for cases to pursue. I remember reading of police putting (as a trap) a case of beer in an open car at a shopping plaza, monitoring it for a week before finally nabbing a retiree who opened a door (whether to &quot;steal&quot; the beer or just to investigate). In and of itself such safely is, IMO, something to celebrate.<p>The second is that the justice system is structured so that the state is always right and the criminal system famously has a conviction rate that exceeds 99%. Couple this with the vaguely defined laws (as cited in the article) and the desire by police to find some criminals, somewhere, and the results can be ugly. Dangerous to the bystanders at best, enabling local dictatorial powers at worst. My 2c.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases</title><url>https://b.shujisado.com/2019/03/how-japanese-police-turned-cyber-prank.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>aburd</author><text>No, police looking for a crime when there is none is not something to celebrate.<p>Your second point is spot on, though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ptero</author><text>I think there are two things here: first is that Japan is so safe that police is actively looking for cases to pursue. I remember reading of police putting (as a trap) a case of beer in an open car at a shopping plaza, monitoring it for a week before finally nabbing a retiree who opened a door (whether to &quot;steal&quot; the beer or just to investigate). In and of itself such safely is, IMO, something to celebrate.<p>The second is that the justice system is structured so that the state is always right and the criminal system famously has a conviction rate that exceeds 99%. Couple this with the vaguely defined laws (as cited in the article) and the desire by police to find some criminals, somewhere, and the results can be ugly. Dangerous to the bystanders at best, enabling local dictatorial powers at worst. My 2c.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases</title><url>https://b.shujisado.com/2019/03/how-japanese-police-turned-cyber-prank.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>gavinpc</author><text>Can&#x27;t quite tell if this is a joke, but here&#x27;s a related &quot;story about a bug&quot; from Doug Crockford [0]:<p><pre><code> I made a bug once, and I need to tell you about it. So, in 2001, I wrote a
reference library for JSON, in Java, and in it, I had this line
private int index
that created a variable called &quot;index&quot; which counted the number of characters in
the JSON text that we were parsing, and it was used to produce an error message.
Last year, I got a bug report from somebody. It turns out that they had a JSON
text which was several gigabytes in size, and they had a syntax error past two
gigabytes, and my JSON library did not properly report where the error was — it
was off by two gigabytes, which, that&#x27;s kind of a big error, isn&#x27;t it? And the
reason was, I used an int.
Now, I can justify my choice in doing that. At the time that I did it, two
gigabytes was a really big disk drive, and my use of JSON still is very small
messages. My JSON messages are rarely bigger than a couple of K. And — a
couple gigs, yeah that&#x27;s about a thousand times bigger than I need, I should be
all right. No, turns out it wasn&#x27;t enough.
You might think well, one bug in 12 years you&#x27;re doing pretty good. And I&#x27;m
saying no, that&#x27;s not good enough. I want my programs to be perfect. I don&#x27;t
want anything to go wrong. And in this case it went wrong simply because *Java
gave me a choice that I didn&#x27;t need, and I made the wrong choice*.
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo36MrBfTk4&amp;t=38m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bo36MrBfTk4&amp;t=38m</a><p>EDIT: is there a reference for formatting comments? I&#x27;ve never been able to find one.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+youtube/posts/BUXfdWqu86Q</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>xanderjanz</author><text>Should have gone with unsigned ints, YouTube!<p>EDIT: Which is the solution they apparently implemented, converting signed to unsigned at some higher layer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+youtube/posts/BUXfdWqu86Q</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>lpage</author><text>In other compression news, Apple open sourced their implementation of lzfse yesterday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lzfse&#x2F;lzfse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lzfse&#x2F;lzfse</a>. It&#x27;s based on a relatively new type of coding - asymmetric numeral systems. Huffman coding is only optimal if you consider one bit as the smallest unit of information. ANS (and more broadly, arithmetic coding) allows for fractional bits and gets closer to the Shannon limit. It&#x27;s also simpler to implement than (real world) Huffman.<p>Unfortunately, most open source implementations of ANS are not highly optimized and quite division heavy, so they lag on speed benchmarks. Apple&#x27;s implementation looks pretty good (they&#x27;re using it in OS X, err, macOS, and iOS) and there&#x27;s some promising academic work being done on better implementations (optimizing Huffman for x86, ARM, and FPGA is a pretty well studied problem). The compression story is still being written.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20762094/how-are-zlib-gzip-and-zip-related-what-do-they-have-in-common-and-how-are-they/20765054#20765054</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>chickenbane</author><text>Not only is this a great read, but the follow up for citations is replied with &quot;I am the reference&quot;.<p>If this were reddit I&#x27;d post the hot fire gif. Eh, here it&#x27;s anyway: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;VQLGJOL.gif" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;VQLGJOL.gif</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20762094/how-are-zlib-gzip-and-zip-related-what-do-they-have-in-common-and-how-are-they/20765054#20765054</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>hosh</author><text>Both Google and Mozilla objected to this standard because the &quot;method&quot; is left undefined. W3C overruled them. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;w3c_overrules_objections&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;w3c_overrules_objecti...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cplli</author><text>I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The &quot;spec&quot; is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic &quot;concepts&quot;. The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it&#x27;s the &quot;methods&quot; that actually must have their own specification and actually &quot;do something&quot;.<p>Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they&#x27;re blockchain centric.<p>The entire concept is &quot;jack of all trades, master of none&quot;. I actually hope to be wrong, and see some more fully fledged implementations&#x2F;examples of real world use-cases, because I love the idea of federated&#x2F;decentralized identity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation</title><url>https://www.w3.org/2022/07/pressrelease-did-rec.html.en</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__</author><text>The standard has grown out of the blockchain space, because they finally offered a way to do decentralized PKI.<p>Most methods are based on blockchain networks.<p>But there are some that work without blockchains. Like IOTA, IPFS, p2p, web, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cplli</author><text>I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The &quot;spec&quot; is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic &quot;concepts&quot;. The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it&#x27;s the &quot;methods&quot; that actually must have their own specification and actually &quot;do something&quot;.<p>Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they&#x27;re blockchain centric.<p>The entire concept is &quot;jack of all trades, master of none&quot;. I actually hope to be wrong, and see some more fully fledged implementations&#x2F;examples of real world use-cases, because I love the idea of federated&#x2F;decentralized identity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation</title><url>https://www.w3.org/2022/07/pressrelease-did-rec.html.en</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>geebee</author><text>Totally reasonable response. However, it seems like we&#x27;re on an endless loop with this discussion. People talk about how they need technical interviews because someone who looks good on paper can&#x27;t code reverse string, or write a basic join. But here&#x27;s the thing, absolutely none of my technical interviews have involved anything remotely this simple. They are &quot;find all matching matching subtrees in a binary search tree&quot;, or &quot;find all possible matrices with a negative determinant within an NxM matrix of arbitrary size&quot;, and it&#x27;s supposed to be done in about 45 minutes, at the whiteboard.<p>Really, it&#x27;s not fizz buzz or string reversal that causes people to re-study for their algorithms and data structures exam before an interview.<p>In many ways, I think this is similar to requiring that senior actuaries re-study integration by parts prior to every interview. They don&#x27;t have to, because they have a proper exam that is widely accepted in their field. We don&#x27;t. So instead, we are taken through full day whiteboard exams, under conditions of great secrecy, over and over, every time we interview.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kronin</author><text>I&#x27;ve interviewed and been interviewing for over a decade. I have had the displeasure of interviewing many people who have very impressive resumes yet when asked how they would judge their skillset in an area, and being told from them that they would say &quot;expert&quot;, being shown exactly the opposite when it came time to answer some questions in that area.<p>One data point... Senior engineer that founded the local java user group and wrote a published book on the java language. Couldn&#x27;t code a simple reverse string algorithm, nor explain whether, after with help devising an answer, the method was thread-safe.<p>Another data point... A self-described expert in SQL with it all over their resume. Couldn&#x27;t write a simple join, inner outer or other.<p>Weed-out questions exist because our industry is flooded with people who don&#x27;t know, nor care to know, their craft. And there are plenty of employers who continue to hire these people, and promote them. I interviewed numerous &quot;architects&quot; (with development experience all over their resume) who couldn&#x27;t come up with a naive solution, let alone the optimal, to a very simple problem. Want to fix the interview process in our industry? Figure out a way to weed out the liars? I&#x27;m all for it. I would rather not have to do basic algorithm questions, but that&#x27;s the current environment.</text></item><item><author>mancerayder</author><text>Great, now can Netflix, Google and Facebook do this, too? Not because I want to work in these places, but because they influence everyone else and as a senior engineer in the systems space I feel I shouldn&#x27;t need to study days or weeks for fizzbuzz sorting algorithms questions that are designed to test comp sci recent grads. I have a proven career, and was never suddenly stumped in a project due to not being able to.. sort letters in some obscure order based on arbitrary rules. How about we look at that, and compare the candidate&#x27;s past experience to the current needs and interview based on that -- You DID look at the CV before bringing the candidate in, didn&#x27;t you?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-new-developer-interview-process-2018-12</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>dom96</author><text>I have very little experience with interviewing candidates, but how can you be certain these people were liars? Maybe they simply were having a bad day, or got too much in their head with stress during the interview. There are many factors at play when it comes to a bad performance and it&#x27;s not always simply that the engineer doesn&#x27;t know the answer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kronin</author><text>I&#x27;ve interviewed and been interviewing for over a decade. I have had the displeasure of interviewing many people who have very impressive resumes yet when asked how they would judge their skillset in an area, and being told from them that they would say &quot;expert&quot;, being shown exactly the opposite when it came time to answer some questions in that area.<p>One data point... Senior engineer that founded the local java user group and wrote a published book on the java language. Couldn&#x27;t code a simple reverse string algorithm, nor explain whether, after with help devising an answer, the method was thread-safe.<p>Another data point... A self-described expert in SQL with it all over their resume. Couldn&#x27;t write a simple join, inner outer or other.<p>Weed-out questions exist because our industry is flooded with people who don&#x27;t know, nor care to know, their craft. And there are plenty of employers who continue to hire these people, and promote them. I interviewed numerous &quot;architects&quot; (with development experience all over their resume) who couldn&#x27;t come up with a naive solution, let alone the optimal, to a very simple problem. Want to fix the interview process in our industry? Figure out a way to weed out the liars? I&#x27;m all for it. I would rather not have to do basic algorithm questions, but that&#x27;s the current environment.</text></item><item><author>mancerayder</author><text>Great, now can Netflix, Google and Facebook do this, too? Not because I want to work in these places, but because they influence everyone else and as a senior engineer in the systems space I feel I shouldn&#x27;t need to study days or weeks for fizzbuzz sorting algorithms questions that are designed to test comp sci recent grads. I have a proven career, and was never suddenly stumped in a project due to not being able to.. sort letters in some obscure order based on arbitrary rules. How about we look at that, and compare the candidate&#x27;s past experience to the current needs and interview based on that -- You DID look at the CV before bringing the candidate in, didn&#x27;t you?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-new-developer-interview-process-2018-12</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>titanomachy</author><text>Doordash charges the restaurants a percentage of the order, so a lot of restaurants increase their prices on Doordash to recover the cost. I&#x27;ve seen the same thing on other platforms. If you are ordering for pickup, it&#x27;s usually a <i>lot</i> cheaper to order by phone or through the restaurant&#x27;s website (if you can).<p>A sushi order I made last week would have been $77 (delivered) on Postmates. I ordered the same items from the restaurant directly and picked it up myself for $36. The restaurant is a 10-minute walk away.<p>This makes me skeptical of the business model. Those margins will absolutely get whittled down over time and these companies are already unprofitable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rpcwork</author><text>Nobody showed them more love than I did. Just because it felt like such a fun way to get food while still supporting the gig-workers. Until, I started noticing the huge markup on sides&#x2F;entrees that I recall costing way less on the restaurant menu.<p>Did prices go up? Nope, it was doordash.<p>A side of garlic sauteed edamame is $4.75 on the restaurant menu, but $7.85 on the delivery app. $7.85 isn’t too much for a good tasting side, but I am not a fan of being lied to about pricing. Felt like getting ripped off.<p>It obliterates my trust in today’s delivery apps and damages the value proposition.<p>One wonders: How much of the revenue is coming from markup in menu prices? What happens to this revenue when the average consumer grows wise to these markups?<p>Re: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;suzannerowankelleher&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;27&#x2F;meal-delivery-apps-can-charge-markups-as-high-as-91&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;suzannerowankelleher&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;27...</a></text></item><item><author>kevindong</author><text>In the age of deeply unprofitable (as in, they lose more money than they grossed in revenue) tech companies going public, DoorDash actually seems pretty okay.<p>In the 9 months ended 2020-09-30, DoorDash had a net loss of $149 million on $1,916 million in revenue (see page 93). Which implies if they can raise their revenue by ~7.78% while keeping costs steady, they can break even. Given their rate of revenue&#x2F;cost increases (in the same timeframe as above compared to the 9 months ended 2019-09-30, revenue grew 326% while costs grew 192%), they could very plausibly do so within the next year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DoorDash S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1792789/000119312520292381/d752207ds1.htm</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>tomashertus</author><text>I just noticed it this weekend. Side of egg rolls on Doordash is $10, additional egg roll $2. On menu $6.50 and additional egg roll $1. When I noticed that, I immediately removed the order and called the restaurant directly.<p>The markups for ordering through doordash are ridiculous. I can afford to pay $25 for a burrito, but I&#x27;m not going to do that. That&#x27;s a ridiculous price for being lazy&#x2F;greedy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rpcwork</author><text>Nobody showed them more love than I did. Just because it felt like such a fun way to get food while still supporting the gig-workers. Until, I started noticing the huge markup on sides&#x2F;entrees that I recall costing way less on the restaurant menu.<p>Did prices go up? Nope, it was doordash.<p>A side of garlic sauteed edamame is $4.75 on the restaurant menu, but $7.85 on the delivery app. $7.85 isn’t too much for a good tasting side, but I am not a fan of being lied to about pricing. Felt like getting ripped off.<p>It obliterates my trust in today’s delivery apps and damages the value proposition.<p>One wonders: How much of the revenue is coming from markup in menu prices? What happens to this revenue when the average consumer grows wise to these markups?<p>Re: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;suzannerowankelleher&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;27&#x2F;meal-delivery-apps-can-charge-markups-as-high-as-91&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;suzannerowankelleher&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;27...</a></text></item><item><author>kevindong</author><text>In the age of deeply unprofitable (as in, they lose more money than they grossed in revenue) tech companies going public, DoorDash actually seems pretty okay.<p>In the 9 months ended 2020-09-30, DoorDash had a net loss of $149 million on $1,916 million in revenue (see page 93). Which implies if they can raise their revenue by ~7.78% while keeping costs steady, they can break even. Given their rate of revenue&#x2F;cost increases (in the same timeframe as above compared to the 9 months ended 2019-09-30, revenue grew 326% while costs grew 192%), they could very plausibly do so within the next year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DoorDash S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1792789/000119312520292381/d752207ds1.htm</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>koboll</author><text>This is such a great description. Compare how Wikipedia describes the same process [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adenosine#Research" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adenosine#Research</a>]:<p>&gt; The adenosine analog NITD008 has been reported to directly inhibit the recombinant RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of the dengue virus by terminating its RNA chain synthesis. This interaction suppresses peak viremia and rise in cytokines and prevents lethality in infected animals, raising the possibility of a new treatment for this flavivirus.<p>Absolute gibberish to someone with limited knowledge of biology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>Remdesivir is an analog of adenosine, one of the four building blocks of RNA. Just look at the main structure and you&#x27;ll agree they look similar. It turns out the mechanism of action of this drug is that it&#x27;s supposed to be confused with adenosine, so that the viral RNA replication process uses remdesivir instead of adenosine, which later breaks the RNA†.<p>Our body, or really, all biological processes can synthesize incredibly complicated molecules that can take human chemists a huge amount of effort to synthesize. It really is amazing how awesome our body is.<p>†: My description here is a dumbed down description. For a more precise description see section 2 of <i>Arguments in favour of remdesivir for treating SARS-CoV-2 infections</i>, Wen-Chien Ko et al, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0924857920300832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S092485792...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir</title><url>https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/26/problem-remdesivir-making-it-14665</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>pfdietz</author><text>There has been exciting work on directed evolution of enzymes for drug synthesis, particularly for transamination (conversion of a ketone to an amine). This is I believe being used commercially now, for example for the production of the diabetes drug sitagliptin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;06&#x2F;chemical_biology_engineering_enzymes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;06&#x2F;ch...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;ejoc.201500852" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1002...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>Remdesivir is an analog of adenosine, one of the four building blocks of RNA. Just look at the main structure and you&#x27;ll agree they look similar. It turns out the mechanism of action of this drug is that it&#x27;s supposed to be confused with adenosine, so that the viral RNA replication process uses remdesivir instead of adenosine, which later breaks the RNA†.<p>Our body, or really, all biological processes can synthesize incredibly complicated molecules that can take human chemists a huge amount of effort to synthesize. It really is amazing how awesome our body is.<p>†: My description here is a dumbed down description. For a more precise description see section 2 of <i>Arguments in favour of remdesivir for treating SARS-CoV-2 infections</i>, Wen-Chien Ko et al, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0924857920300832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S092485792...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir</title><url>https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/26/problem-remdesivir-making-it-14665</url></story>
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