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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taneq</author><text>It’s always fascinating to me how some people churn from tech to tech, burning most of their time reading docs and fighting with configurations, just because a new technology might be a bit better than the existing, perfectly adequate system.<p>It’s not that things can’t be improved, just that there is so very much low-hanging fruit that has never been implemented at all in a usable manner. We should focus on the huge gains to be made there before the tiny incremental gains to be made by endlessly iterating.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ironmagma</author><text>It’s always fascinating to me how people can get to this point where they eschew new technologies just because there is an older way that works fine. Yes, having a tried and true pipeline is important, but it shouldn’t be surprising that companies are made of people who want their company to push the envelope to further evolve the systems. <i>Someone</i> was the first person to use Python for a production project, and that evolution has to happen somewhere, with real applications to test them.</text></item><item><author>shantly</author><text>As long as hiring and technology decisions remain largely hype-driven, having someone around who says &quot;we don&#x27;t need k8s, hadoop, machine learning, and AWS with some big-ass Terraform-driven constellation of supporting serices for our expected data, workload, and use case; look, give me one middle-weight server, or one heavyish VM somewhere, and I can show you how to do all this with awk, sed, cron, and maybe a few lines of Perl or Python. We can have it up fast and anyone who can read man pages and a README can admin it, and anyway it&#x27;s so simple and the workload static enough that once some initial kinks are worked out it&#x27;d probably run in a closet without issue for so long you&#x27;d forget it was in there—so, longer than this project is likely to be alive, anyway&quot; isn&#x27;t really something you want unless you plan to ignore them. For their fellow developers, that&#x27;s résumé poison, you <i>need</i> &quot;real world&quot; experience with all this crap for the next job hunt. For the product manager, owner, and sales, you can&#x27;t baffle stakeholders or investors or prospects with fancy bullshit when there isn&#x27;t any fancy bullshit.</text></item><item><author>petermcneeley</author><text>&quot;I suspect that most discrimination that happens against older programmers is not, in fact, age discrimination, but is, in fact, ‘wisdom discrimination’.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20160308032127/https://medium.com/@bryanedds/living-in-the-age-of-software-fuckery-8859f81ca877</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inimino</author><text>You really missed the point. It&#x27;s not &quot;there is an older way that works fine&quot;. It&#x27;s that there is a simpler way that can be built in less time, takes fewer developers to maintain, will have less bugs, performs better, and is more reliable, because it&#x27;s simpler than all the crap that people want to use. But people will insist on using all the trendy crap because it&#x27;s trendy, FAANG is using it, it looks good on a resume, etc, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ironmagma</author><text>It’s always fascinating to me how people can get to this point where they eschew new technologies just because there is an older way that works fine. Yes, having a tried and true pipeline is important, but it shouldn’t be surprising that companies are made of people who want their company to push the envelope to further evolve the systems. <i>Someone</i> was the first person to use Python for a production project, and that evolution has to happen somewhere, with real applications to test them.</text></item><item><author>shantly</author><text>As long as hiring and technology decisions remain largely hype-driven, having someone around who says &quot;we don&#x27;t need k8s, hadoop, machine learning, and AWS with some big-ass Terraform-driven constellation of supporting serices for our expected data, workload, and use case; look, give me one middle-weight server, or one heavyish VM somewhere, and I can show you how to do all this with awk, sed, cron, and maybe a few lines of Perl or Python. We can have it up fast and anyone who can read man pages and a README can admin it, and anyway it&#x27;s so simple and the workload static enough that once some initial kinks are worked out it&#x27;d probably run in a closet without issue for so long you&#x27;d forget it was in there—so, longer than this project is likely to be alive, anyway&quot; isn&#x27;t really something you want unless you plan to ignore them. For their fellow developers, that&#x27;s résumé poison, you <i>need</i> &quot;real world&quot; experience with all this crap for the next job hunt. For the product manager, owner, and sales, you can&#x27;t baffle stakeholders or investors or prospects with fancy bullshit when there isn&#x27;t any fancy bullshit.</text></item><item><author>petermcneeley</author><text>&quot;I suspect that most discrimination that happens against older programmers is not, in fact, age discrimination, but is, in fact, ‘wisdom discrimination’.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20160308032127/https://medium.com/@bryanedds/living-in-the-age-of-software-fuckery-8859f81ca877</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sigmoid10</author><text>You greatly underestimate the order of magnitude difference of produced energy in these two examples. You can&#x27;t contain a bomb&#x27;s hydrogen fusion reaction in a chamber for the simple reason that you need a nuclear fission warhead just to ignite it. So if you want to produce useful, controlled energy outside of killing things, the lasers are your only shot for inertial confinement fusion. Yes they still get damaged, but lasers have seen ridiculous advancements in precision and instantaneous power over the past few decades. This news shows that practical fusion is now only an engineering problem, not a fundamental physics one - like it still is for Tokamaks and Stellarotors. For them noone knows if it is even possible to e.g. control turbulence long enough to achieve net positive energy gain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rob74</author><text>Still unconvinced why this is such a major breakthrough - it may be the first net-positive controlled fusion, but the distinction between controlled and uncontrolled fusion is a bit academic in this case. In uncontrolled fusion (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thermonuclear_weapon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thermonuclear_weapon</a>), you are using a nuclear fission primary stage to generate enough energy to start the fusion reaction in the secondary stage. In the NIF, you are using lasers (that have to be aligned to trillionths of a meter and damage their own guiding optics everytime they fire) to start the fusion reaction in a smaller pellet (that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars). So the only real difference between the first and the second case is that the H-bomb is smaller, much more expensive per amount of energy released, and explodes inside a chamber. And it&#x27;s obvious to pretty much everyone who is paying attention that transforming this setup into a working and cost-effective fusion power plant is a very tall order. Also, what somehow always gets left out of these articles is that the NIF is a <i>military facility</i> financed from the &quot;(Nuclear) Stockpile Stewardship&quot; budget. So its primary objective is studying fusion in a controlled way, but for building better bombs (and retaining the expertise necessary to build them), not for energy production.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nuclear physicist explains why fusion ignition is hailed as a major breakthrough</title><url>https://theconversation.com/why-fusion-ignition-is-being-hailed-as-a-major-breakthrough-in-fusion-a-nuclear-physicist-explains-196475</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Systemic33</author><text>With regards to NIF being a military facility, I&#x27;d very much think that energy production (cheap, safe, limitless?) is very much a military needs as much as a civilian need.
Even if said energy goes further to power laser weapons or other exotic power hungry systems; energy is energy, and something has to produce it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rob74</author><text>Still unconvinced why this is such a major breakthrough - it may be the first net-positive controlled fusion, but the distinction between controlled and uncontrolled fusion is a bit academic in this case. In uncontrolled fusion (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thermonuclear_weapon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thermonuclear_weapon</a>), you are using a nuclear fission primary stage to generate enough energy to start the fusion reaction in the secondary stage. In the NIF, you are using lasers (that have to be aligned to trillionths of a meter and damage their own guiding optics everytime they fire) to start the fusion reaction in a smaller pellet (that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars). So the only real difference between the first and the second case is that the H-bomb is smaller, much more expensive per amount of energy released, and explodes inside a chamber. And it&#x27;s obvious to pretty much everyone who is paying attention that transforming this setup into a working and cost-effective fusion power plant is a very tall order. Also, what somehow always gets left out of these articles is that the NIF is a <i>military facility</i> financed from the &quot;(Nuclear) Stockpile Stewardship&quot; budget. So its primary objective is studying fusion in a controlled way, but for building better bombs (and retaining the expertise necessary to build them), not for energy production.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nuclear physicist explains why fusion ignition is hailed as a major breakthrough</title><url>https://theconversation.com/why-fusion-ignition-is-being-hailed-as-a-major-breakthrough-in-fusion-a-nuclear-physicist-explains-196475</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>That was how the US Senate originally operated. You would elect your state legislature (where your vote is <i>much</i> less diluted than at the federal level) and they would elect your Senator.<p>Early 20th century populism took that away. It also meant that the states now have no representation in the federal legislature, which led to an almost immediate federal takeover of basically everything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Perhaps we can save democracy by replacing the voting mechanism by placing people in groups of 10, and letting them reach consensus before making a vote.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00045##</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>malodyets</author><text>Iowa has caucuses rather than primaries, and from what I hear from my family, that&#x27;s essentially how the Democratic party caucuses work in Des Moines, Iowa. Rather than filing in and filling out a ballot, my father describes the process as going into a room, forming groups around candidates, and then trying to convince the uncommitted to support your candidate. It always sounded like a rip-roaring good time; now it&#x27;s interesting to learn that this process might produce better results.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Perhaps we can save democracy by replacing the voting mechanism by placing people in groups of 10, and letting them reach consensus before making a vote.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00045##</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>techsupporter</author><text>&gt; I get what you mean, but what&#x27;s the alternative? How should you behave if you&#x27;re exempt from normal social boundaries because of your personal tragedy? Shout at random people? Throw things? Punch some guy in the face?<p>I don&#x27;t mean to put words in obblekk&#x27;s mouth (text box) so what I perceived them as meaning is: I don&#x27;t think the person you&#x27;re replying to was advocating for direct person-on-person action. When we see people protesting or pushing back against or loudly saying &quot;this is wrong and I won&#x27;t have it and neither should you&quot; kinds of things, we should consider how our personal situation could rapidly change to be like theirs. And, in a lot of cases, <i>would</i> have been like theirs but for some skill at leveraging a few strokes of uncontrollable luck.<p>To me, it&#x27;s like when people complain that &quot;those damn unionized trash truck drivers are making $90,000 with a lot of overtime and a pension.&quot; Why is the response to try to tear them down, when the correct, to my mind, question is &quot;why don&#x27;t I have that, too?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Meekro</author><text>I get what you mean, but what&#x27;s the alternative? How <i>should</i> you behave if you&#x27;re exempt from normal social boundaries because of your personal tragedy? Shout at random people? Throw things? Punch some guy in the face?<p>Seems to me it&#x27;s better to try and be kind, and treat others right despite your horrible situation. The person you&#x27;re treating cruelly because of your personal trauma could easily be going through a trauma worse than yours.<p>Apologies if I misunderstood what you were getting at, though. I wasn&#x27;t clear on which social boundaries you&#x27;d propose to exempt people from.</text></item><item><author>obblekk</author><text>I feel so much cognitive dissonance realizing that there are hard working people literally losing their home and shelter <i>wrongly</i> while I might be sitting across from them at any time, expecting them to behave within normal social boundaries.<p>Imagine a family with a new born, working 50+ hours at a physically demanding job, making $80k&#x2F;yr combined, and then losing their home for no reason... and then being expected to do everything else right while dealing quietly.<p>Incidents like this make it easier for me to understand &quot;protest voting&quot; against the system politically. Not sure of constructive ways to prevent this more broadly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-reaches-record-3-135449093.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>kodyo</author><text>Banks would rightly collapse if people took their business to credit unions. No random violence required.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Meekro</author><text>I get what you mean, but what&#x27;s the alternative? How <i>should</i> you behave if you&#x27;re exempt from normal social boundaries because of your personal tragedy? Shout at random people? Throw things? Punch some guy in the face?<p>Seems to me it&#x27;s better to try and be kind, and treat others right despite your horrible situation. The person you&#x27;re treating cruelly because of your personal trauma could easily be going through a trauma worse than yours.<p>Apologies if I misunderstood what you were getting at, though. I wasn&#x27;t clear on which social boundaries you&#x27;d propose to exempt people from.</text></item><item><author>obblekk</author><text>I feel so much cognitive dissonance realizing that there are hard working people literally losing their home and shelter <i>wrongly</i> while I might be sitting across from them at any time, expecting them to behave within normal social boundaries.<p>Imagine a family with a new born, working 50+ hours at a physically demanding job, making $80k&#x2F;yr combined, and then losing their home for no reason... and then being expected to do everything else right while dealing quietly.<p>Incidents like this make it easier for me to understand &quot;protest voting&quot; against the system politically. Not sure of constructive ways to prevent this more broadly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-reaches-record-3-135449093.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>ArekDymalski</author><text>&gt; may have trouble praising themselves in detail<p>Yes that happens quite often. The <i>really</i> good interviewers know that and understand that their job is to help the candidate to present his&#x2F;her skills. That means additional questions, rephrasing the question, patience, empathy and first of all: taming the premature judgements.<p>It&#x27;s really hard but it can and should be done, if interview is to have any sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>decisiveness</author><text>The problem with &quot;Tell me about a time when ...&quot; questions is that they more so test the strength of self-righteous memory than offer a clear picture of valuable job skills. These questions assume the interviewee has a vivid set of occurrences of which they can commend themselves. A good candidate who frequently leads, salvages, solves problems better than the rest probably doesn&#x27;t store a list of these occurrences as special times they were able to do good work, they think of them as the norm, and may have trouble praising themselves in detail. In fact, I&#x27;d be more weary of the candidates that have a go to story to answer these questions as it may mean it&#x27;s the type of thing that doesn&#x27;t happen regularly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Google Hires</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbart</author><text>Totally agree. Also, not everyone is a good story teller. I&#x27;d find it difficult to pick one such occurrence (&quot;Tell me about a time when ...&quot;) and describe it vividly in a blink of an eye. My answers tend to be laconic and concrete, especially when I&#x27;m nervous (which is somewhat natural during interviews). Such questions might be great for managing roles, but not so good for technical ones imho.</text><parent_chain><item><author>decisiveness</author><text>The problem with &quot;Tell me about a time when ...&quot; questions is that they more so test the strength of self-righteous memory than offer a clear picture of valuable job skills. These questions assume the interviewee has a vivid set of occurrences of which they can commend themselves. A good candidate who frequently leads, salvages, solves problems better than the rest probably doesn&#x27;t store a list of these occurrences as special times they were able to do good work, they think of them as the norm, and may have trouble praising themselves in detail. In fact, I&#x27;d be more weary of the candidates that have a go to story to answer these questions as it may mean it&#x27;s the type of thing that doesn&#x27;t happen regularly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Google Hires</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fdej</author><text>This is not an accurate summary of what the study actually found. The article proposes a high-level explanation for <i>how</i> one aspect of learning changes with age.<p>The actual cause of this high-level change could be lower-level age-induced differences in neurotransmitter levels or in neuronal function and connectivity. As the article&#x27;s summary points out, the actual biological basis needs to be investigated in further research.<p>It&#x27;s also important to note that this study found a plausible explanation for changes in learning performance <i>under specific circumstances</i>. This is a very important qualification.<p>Learning in general is believed to involve many different interrelated mechanisms. It&#x27;s well established that many different cognitive abilities (perhaps most importantly working memory) diminish with age, and some of this degradation is likely related to natural cerebral shrinkage (a healthy 75-year-old has a 15% smaller brain than a 25-year-old).</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmichulke</author><text>TLDR; If you think you know everything already (or you don&#x27;t need to learn something) then you learn less well.<p>Older people are more often fulfilling the above premises, and thereby the above conclusion.<p>This means: Worse learning performance is not a consequence of age per se.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Age differences in learning from an insufficient representation of uncertainty</title><url>http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11609</url></story>
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<instructions>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>lol, is this why impostor syndrome exists?<p>1. I think I know nothing.<p>2. I try to learn hard to get better.<p>3. goto 1.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmichulke</author><text>TLDR; If you think you know everything already (or you don&#x27;t need to learn something) then you learn less well.<p>Older people are more often fulfilling the above premises, and thereby the above conclusion.<p>This means: Worse learning performance is not a consequence of age per se.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Age differences in learning from an insufficient representation of uncertainty</title><url>http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11609</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ecpottinger</author><text>Yet somehow this study leaves out how much China is adding solar and wind energy to it&#x27;s supply.<p>Infact China is closing down it&#x27;s worse coal plants.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Solar_power_in_China" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Solar_power_in_China</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-40341833" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-40341833</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-07-19&#x2F;china-adds-about-24gw-of-solar-capacity-in-first-half-official" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-07-19&#x2F;china-add...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wind_power_in_China" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wind_power_in_China</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;china-and-us-lead-way-with-wind-power-installations-says-global-energy-report.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;china-and-us-lead-way-with-w...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>brownbat</author><text>EVs in China produce two to five times the amount of smog as gas vehicles, because the supporting energy mix is so dirty.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;in-coal-powered-china-electric-car-surge-fuels-fear-of-worsening-smog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;in-coal-powered-c...</a><p>Should be good long term, if China realizes other energy sourcing goals, just... EVs alone don&#x27;t fix everything.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese government is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Brakenshire</author><text>Is the headline really substantiated in the article? The key part is:<p>&gt; A series of studies by Tsinghua University, whose alumni includes the incumbent president, showed electric vehicles charged in China produce two to five times as much particulate matter and chemicals that contribute to smog versus gas-engine cars. Hybrid vehicles fare little better.<p>Producing particulate matter 50 miles away from a city is not remotely the same as producing it 2ft from a pavement. I&#x27;m not sure about smog, though, is the effect regional or local?</text><parent_chain><item><author>brownbat</author><text>EVs in China produce two to five times the amount of smog as gas vehicles, because the supporting energy mix is so dirty.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;in-coal-powered-china-electric-car-surge-fuels-fear-of-worsening-smog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;in-coal-powered-c...</a><p>Should be good long term, if China realizes other energy sourcing goals, just... EVs alone don&#x27;t fix everything.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese government is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bb88</author><text>Okay.<p>Step 1. Open ports on your router. It&#x27;s your job to figure out which ports those may be.<p>Step 2. Redirect said ports to the box in question, hopefully you&#x27;ll know the ip address that was assigned by your home router&#x27;s DHCP<p>Step 3. Make sure rssh is installed.<p>Step 4. If rssh is not installed, please simply follow the simple instructions to get it installed for your system.<p>Step 4a. If it&#x27;s a mac, use brew. Type brew install rssh<p>Step 4b. If it&#x27;a a redhat system, type yum install rssh<p>Step 4c. If it&#x27;s an ubuntu system, type apt-get install rssh<p>Step 4d. If step 4b and step 4c fail, use sudo.<p>Step 5. Get the external facing ip address, and give it to your friend. Note that this is different than the internal address that you used in step 2.<p>Step 6. Create an account on your system, using rssh, and allowing sftp<p>Step 7. Give him the username&#x2F;password<p>Step 8. Copy the file into his account<p>Step 8a. Don&#x27;t forget to chmod it so he can read it.<p>Step 9. Tell him to get the file<p>Step 10. Remove the account from &#x2F;etc&#x2F;passwd and &#x2F;etc&#x2F;shadow and remove him from &#x2F;etc&#x2F;groups. Also delete his home directory<p>Step 11. Rejoice in the simplicity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhenc</author><text>&gt; Copying files with ssh&#x2F;scp is fine, but requires previous arrangements and an account on the target machine, and how do you bootstrap the account?~<p>Assuming that you have openssh and rssh installed, you bootstrap like this:
useradd -m -g users -s &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;rssh tmp
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Share the password with the party you want to exchange data with. Make sure your ports are open.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;197545&#x2F;can-non-login-accounts-in-linux-make-scp-connections&#x2F;197546" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;197545&#x2F;can-non-login-accou...</a><p>The use case I see for wormhole is if you&#x27;re working purely in the python ecosystem. That&#x27;s it.<p>You&#x27;re free to disagree of course, but I prefer ssh, since it&#x27;s peer-to-peer end-to-end encrypted,
and extends to cover other use cases much more easily (rsync, VNC, etc.).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely</title><url>https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmd</author><text>&gt; you bootstrap like this<p>Ah, yes. oh come on please it&#x27;s easy just &#x2F;etc&#x2F;init.apt-get&#x2F;frob-set-conf --arc=0 - +&#x2F;lib&#x2F;syn.${SETDCONPATH}.so.4.2 even my grandma can do that</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhenc</author><text>&gt; Copying files with ssh&#x2F;scp is fine, but requires previous arrangements and an account on the target machine, and how do you bootstrap the account?~<p>Assuming that you have openssh and rssh installed, you bootstrap like this:
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Share the password with the party you want to exchange data with. Make sure your ports are open.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;197545&#x2F;can-non-login-accounts-in-linux-make-scp-connections&#x2F;197546" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;197545&#x2F;can-non-login-accou...</a><p>The use case I see for wormhole is if you&#x27;re working purely in the python ecosystem. That&#x27;s it.<p>You&#x27;re free to disagree of course, but I prefer ssh, since it&#x27;s peer-to-peer end-to-end encrypted,
and extends to cover other use cases much more easily (rsync, VNC, etc.).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely</title><url>https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onli</author><text>Oh, they definitely notified their users. There were emails and warnings in the UI, it was very visible. Really, you can&#x27;t blame Dropbox there.<p>However, one can still blame Dropbox for the change itself. I used this on several occasions, including hosting archives for academic publications. No way in hell I can change those links. Maybe that wasn&#x27;t a wise choice, but at that time it looked like a good way: The link did not give a clue about my identity, making peer review easier, and DB being a well-funded and known internet company those links were surely meant to work forever, cool URLs don&#x27;t change is something they had to know. Boy was I wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cpg</author><text>I relied on this &quot;light&quot; publishing for a few things and I&#x27;m quite pissed off. I did not notice any notification on this.<p>To me, this should be done very very visibly and with tons of warnings. I used it to communicate screenshots with details, etc. Now all links are broken and I&#x27;m SOL with no viable solution to changing those links from documents, bugs, etc., etc.<p>Very very very bad!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/help/16</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hundchenkatze</author><text>I received a notification 3 to 4 months ago and then a reminder about 2 weeks ago. Maybe a spam filter ate it. :(</text><parent_chain><item><author>cpg</author><text>I relied on this &quot;light&quot; publishing for a few things and I&#x27;m quite pissed off. I did not notice any notification on this.<p>To me, this should be done very very visibly and with tons of warnings. I used it to communicate screenshots with details, etc. Now all links are broken and I&#x27;m SOL with no viable solution to changing those links from documents, bugs, etc., etc.<p>Very very very bad!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/help/16</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aethr</author><text>A big mistake I made when I started mentoring other developers was making the answers to their questions too easy.<p>I spent a lot of my early career crawling around on linux servers trying to fix weird bugs in pretty typical web stacks. Later on, when other developers needed help diagnosing an issue on a server I would say something like &quot;sounds like X problem, look at the log file in Y&quot;. After several years of this, the same devs were still asking the same questions. I was helping them solve immediate problems quickly and easily, but I was <i>not</i> mentoring them.<p>Developers don&#x27;t grow by being given the answers. They grow by trying things and experimenting and solving problems themselves. These are the skills and the lessons that will serve them well as they level up their career. Not giving them the answers but giving them the tools to find the answers.<p>These days, if there&#x27;s no urgency, I would say something like &quot;where are the places in the stack where a problem like that might occur, and what can we do to narrow down the set of likely issues?&quot; I might give them some ideas, but let them do most of the legwork.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/developers-mentoring-other-developers/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roberta_welch</author><text>Imagine a mentor who belittles you, exaggerates your flaws, and brings up false accusations only in private, during one-on-one meetings, and only picks on you in secret. But outside they are very friendly.<p>I have had two such mentors.<p>I am extremely suspicious of any such one-on-one arrangements when there are no written records and opportunities for challenging unfair assessments formally. There has to be second opinions from disinterested parties.<p>Now imagine an office politician who relays to you bad things other people said about you, and relays to others bad things you said about them, and encourages retaliation between staff. I have worked with one such person. Again here, under the guise of mentorship of one-on-one feedback there is a lot of gossip being generated.<p>I can already predict that there will be more people who think they can mentor than people who think they can improve.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/developers-mentoring-other-developers/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wlll</author><text>All computers are NAS if you stick S on them and A them to an N, the Raspberry pi is no different, but it&#x27;s got a great advantage in that it&#x27;s small and relatively power efficient. I turned a Dell Optiplex USFF into a NAS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;willj.net&#x2F;posts&#x2F;fitting-two-hard-drives-and-an-ssd-in-a-dell-optiplex-7010-usff&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;willj.net&#x2F;posts&#x2F;fitting-two-hard-drives-and-an-ssd-i...</a>) but in the same space I could easily fit 4+1 disks instead of the 2+1 if I was using a far smaller motherboard.<p>As for being underpowered, again it depends what you are doing with them. For my NAS (basically long-term storage of stuff I don&#x27;t access much and tiemmachine backups) there would be plenty of CPU, the biggest problem would be memory.<p>*edit* Just to be clear, the Pi has some <i>massive</i> drawbacks as a NAS at present because of it&#x27;s significant lack of disk IO, but there&#x27;s nothing inherent in it&#x27;s <i>form factor</i> that makes it a bad NAS. If I could have plugged 2+ HDs into one in a performant way I&#x27;d likely have done that rather than the Dell Optiplex shenanigans.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>If you want a NAS, buy a NAS. I really don’t get people’s desire to take an underpowered single board computer and try to turn it into a useful server. There are absolutely places where a Raspberry Pi makes sense, those places are where you’ve got electronics you want to interface with complex software that can’t viably be run on a smaller MCU.</text></item><item><author>harvie</author><text>I would be totally happy with PCIe based hat that has PCIe to SATA interface with 4-6 SATA ports (with at least one of them being bootable). I know SATA SSDs are not newest, coolest nor fastest. But for home NAS setup i would find it totaly acceptable. Unlike the USB port sacrificing and &quot;loopback&quot; USB cable mess that is usualy used by older raspberries in order to mount SATA drives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NVMe SSD boot with the Raspberry Pi 5</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/nvme-ssd-boot-raspberry-pi-5</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harvie</author><text>Pi has superior long term support and even better community support. Loads of options for upgrades and extensions should you need one in the future. Also once i decide that i don&#x27;t need that NAS anymore, because the pi would be obsolete or slow in the future, i can just take that pi out and use it for some other DIY project.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>If you want a NAS, buy a NAS. I really don’t get people’s desire to take an underpowered single board computer and try to turn it into a useful server. There are absolutely places where a Raspberry Pi makes sense, those places are where you’ve got electronics you want to interface with complex software that can’t viably be run on a smaller MCU.</text></item><item><author>harvie</author><text>I would be totally happy with PCIe based hat that has PCIe to SATA interface with 4-6 SATA ports (with at least one of them being bootable). I know SATA SSDs are not newest, coolest nor fastest. But for home NAS setup i would find it totaly acceptable. Unlike the USB port sacrificing and &quot;loopback&quot; USB cable mess that is usualy used by older raspberries in order to mount SATA drives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NVMe SSD boot with the Raspberry Pi 5</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/nvme-ssd-boot-raspberry-pi-5</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NikolaeVarius</author><text>&gt; PG&amp;E announced that it plans to close the two Diablo Canyon reactors in 2024 and 2025, stating that because California&#x27;s energy regulations give renewables priority over nuclear, the plant would likely only run half-time, making it uneconomical.<p>&gt; In 2020, experts at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) warned that when the plant closes the state will reach a &quot;critical inflection point&quot;, which will create a significant challenge to ensure reliability of the grid without resorting to more fossil fuel usage, and could jeopardize California&#x27;s greenhouse gas reduction targets.<p>Good stuff, shooting yourself in the foot because ideology versus reality</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-scrambles-to-find-electricity-to-offset-plant-closures-11634376600</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>google234123</author><text>California has such a disfunctional gov, don’t ever let people tell you there’s no money. It’s just going to overpaid public sector workers in education (where you can’t be fired after 2 years and pay is completely based on seniority), health care, and the prisons. Police in my area make up to 600k with overtime, and probably get a similarly large guaranteed pension. All those services have gotten huge increases in money over the last few years with 0 to negative improvement.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-scrambles-to-find-electricity-to-offset-plant-closures-11634376600</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noufalibrahim</author><text>I worked at the Archive for a few years remotely. It permanently altered my view of the tech. world. Here are the notable differences. I think these would apply to several non-profits but this is my experience<p>1. There was no rush to pick the latest technologies. Tried and tested was much better than new and shiny. Archive.org was mostly old PHP and shell scripts (atleast the parts I worked on).<p>2. The software was just a necessity. The data was what was valuable. Archive.org itself had tons of kluges and several crude bits of code to keep it going but the aim was the keep the data secure and it did that. Someone (maybe Brewster himself) likened it to a ship traveling through time. Several repairs with limited resources have permanently scarred the ship but the cargo is safe and pristine. When it finally arrives, the ship itself will be dismantled or might just crumble but the cargo will be there for the future.<p>3. Everything was super simple. Some of the techniques to run things etc. were absurdly simple and purposely so to help keep the thing manageable. Storage formats were straightforward so that even if a hard disk from the archive were found in a landfill a century from now, the contents would be usable (unlike if it were some kind of complex filesystem across multiple disks).<p>4. Brewster, and consequently the crew, were all dedicated to protecting the user. e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;04&#x2F;brewster-kahle-receives-the-zoia-horn-intellectual-freedom-award&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;04&#x2F;brewster-kahle-receives-...</a>. There was code and stuff in place to not even accidentally collect data so that even if everything was confiscated, the user identities would be safe.<p>5. There was a mission. A serious social mission. Not just, &quot;make money&quot; or &quot;build cool stuff&quot; or anything. There was a buzz that made you feel like you were playing your role in mankinds intellectual history. That&#x27;s an amazing feeling that I&#x27;ve never been able to replicate.<p>Archive.org is truly only of the most underappreciated corners of the world wide web. Gives me faith in the positive potential of the internet.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonah-archive</author><text>If you&#x27;re curious to learn more about us, we&#x27;re hosting our big annual event in SF this Wednesday (Oct 3)! Details: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;save-the-date-building-a-better-web-internet-archives-annual-bash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;save-the-date-building-a...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;It&#x27;s pretty easy for the system to show the source photo to an employee, and then they themselves can judge if they feel confident the shopper is actually the same person.&quot;<p>I would contest that. Determining if someone is the same person as a low-quality photo is not necessarily something a human can do, and that&#x27;s especially true if the human in question A: basically doesn&#x27;t care and is likely to screw it up every way it is possible to screw it up and B: is influenced by whether or not they&#x27;re willing to directly confront someone who is nominally a criminal while they&#x27;re being paid the de facto local minimum wage.<p>This plan is all sorts of infeasible and frankly stupid, and the purely human concerns are sufficient for that determination even before we add the tech in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I&#x27;m not defending Rite-Aid at all, but <i>that&#x27;s</i> not the problem here.<p>It&#x27;s pretty easy for the system to show the source photo to an employee, and then they themselves can judge if they feel confident the shopper is actually the same person.<p>Facial recognition software should <i>always</i> be implemented under the assumption that it makes plenty of false positives, and human review is <i>always</i> necessary.<p>(What you&#x27;re talking about is 1,280 false positives a day, or less than 1 per store per day.)<p>Again -- <i>not</i> defending Rite-Aid here. Just saying that there&#x27;s nothing wrong with the <i>statistics</i> of it.</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>If the best face recognition software has an error rate of 0.08% [1] and Rite Aid serves 1.6M customers a day [2] what moron thought that was a good idea?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;usnistgov&#x2F;frvt&#x2F;blob&#x2F;nist-pages&#x2F;reports&#x2F;1N&#x2F;frvt_1N_report_2020_03_27.pdf">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;usnistgov&#x2F;frvt&#x2F;blob&#x2F;nist-pages&#x2F;reports&#x2F;1N...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.riteaid.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;company-info" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.riteaid.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;company-info</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software after false ID shoplifters</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/20/rite-aid-facial-recognition/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; .. then they themselves can judge if they feel confident the shopper is actually the same person<p>Yes - but the &quot;approach and identify&quot; of false positives&#x2F;innocent people was the actual embarrassment and harassment that the system got banned for, it was the human review (asking for ID etc) that was the issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I&#x27;m not defending Rite-Aid at all, but <i>that&#x27;s</i> not the problem here.<p>It&#x27;s pretty easy for the system to show the source photo to an employee, and then they themselves can judge if they feel confident the shopper is actually the same person.<p>Facial recognition software should <i>always</i> be implemented under the assumption that it makes plenty of false positives, and human review is <i>always</i> necessary.<p>(What you&#x27;re talking about is 1,280 false positives a day, or less than 1 per store per day.)<p>Again -- <i>not</i> defending Rite-Aid here. Just saying that there&#x27;s nothing wrong with the <i>statistics</i> of it.</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>If the best face recognition software has an error rate of 0.08% [1] and Rite Aid serves 1.6M customers a day [2] what moron thought that was a good idea?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;usnistgov&#x2F;frvt&#x2F;blob&#x2F;nist-pages&#x2F;reports&#x2F;1N&#x2F;frvt_1N_report_2020_03_27.pdf">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;usnistgov&#x2F;frvt&#x2F;blob&#x2F;nist-pages&#x2F;reports&#x2F;1N...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.riteaid.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;company-info" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.riteaid.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;company-info</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software after false ID shoplifters</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/20/rite-aid-facial-recognition/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>Hi there, allow me to correct this misconception. I've debunked that idea often enough that I wrote a blog post about this four years ago: <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/toolbar-indexing-debunk-post/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/toolbar-indexing-debunk-post/</a> I wrote an earlier debunk post in 2006 too: <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/debunking-toolbar-doesnt-lead-to-page-being-indexed/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/debunking-toolbar-doesnt-lead-...</a><p>I noticed a new twist in your post though: you're saying that because of Safe Browsing (which checks for e.g. malware as users surf the web), those urls are sent to Google. The way that Chrome and Firefox actually do Safe Browsing is that they download an encrypted blob which allows the browser to do a lookup for dangerous urls on the client side--not by sending any urls to Google. I believe that if there's a match in the client-side encrypted table, only then does the browser send the now-suspect url to Google for checking.<p>Here's more info: <a href="https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/</a> I believe the correct mental model of the Safe Browsing API in browsers is "Download a hash table of believed-to-be-dangerous urls. As you surf, check against that local hash table. If you find a match/collision, then the user might be about to land on a bad url, so check for more info at that point."<p>Hope that helps. Further down in the discussion, someone posted this helpful link with more explanation: <a href="http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2010/03/nice-bloom-filter-application.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2010/03/nice-bloom-filter-applic...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lazyjones</author><text>The URLs don't need to be posted online. Some browsers (Chrome, possibly Firefox with Safe Browsing mode, very likely any browser with a Google Toolbar installed) send visited URLs to Google and they will be indexed. I don't know if this is officially documented by Google, but several people have reported seeing this while testing new/beta websites that weren't published or linked anywhere.</text></item><item><author>mkjones</author><text>My name is Matt Jones, and I work on the Facbook security team that looked into this tonight. We only send these URLs to the email address of the account owner for their ease of use and never make them publicly available. Even then we put protection in place to reduce the likelihood that anyone else could click through to the account.<p>For a search engine to come across these links, the content of the emails would need to have been posted online (e.g. via throwaway email sites, as someone pointed out - or people whose email addresses go to email lists with online archives).<p>As jpadvo surmised, the nonces expire after a period of time. They also only work for certain users, and even then we run additional security checks to make sure it looks like the account owner who's logging in. Regardless, due to some of these links being disclosed, we've turned the feature off until we can better ensure its security for users whose email contents are publicly visible. We are also securing the accounts of anyone who recently logged in through this flow.<p>In the future if you run into something that looks like a security problem with Facebook, feel free to disclose it responsibly through our whitehat program: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitehat" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/whitehat</a>. That way, in addition to making some money, you can avoid a bunch of script kiddies exploiting whatever the issue is that you've found.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed </title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=bcode%3D&oq=bcode%3D&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=inurl:bcode%3D%5B*%5D%2Bn_m%3D%5B*%5D+site:facebook.com&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&filter=0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=8c0bb27d33614e56&bpcl=37189454&biw=1560&bih=698</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mkjones</author><text>I'm not sure either, but I doubt that Chrome or any of the badware-stopping features that are built in to it cause the URLs they're checking to be indexed. I'd be even more surprised if Firefox did this.<p>If you've got the toolbar installed though, I'd be less surprised if they tried crawling or indexing URLs you go to.<p>EDIT: It looks like they've explicitly said the toolbar does <i>not</i> cause things to appear in search results: <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/google-toolbar-indexing-12894.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.seroundtable.com/google-toolbar-indexing-12894.ht...</a>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lazyjones</author><text>The URLs don't need to be posted online. Some browsers (Chrome, possibly Firefox with Safe Browsing mode, very likely any browser with a Google Toolbar installed) send visited URLs to Google and they will be indexed. I don't know if this is officially documented by Google, but several people have reported seeing this while testing new/beta websites that weren't published or linked anywhere.</text></item><item><author>mkjones</author><text>My name is Matt Jones, and I work on the Facbook security team that looked into this tonight. We only send these URLs to the email address of the account owner for their ease of use and never make them publicly available. Even then we put protection in place to reduce the likelihood that anyone else could click through to the account.<p>For a search engine to come across these links, the content of the emails would need to have been posted online (e.g. via throwaway email sites, as someone pointed out - or people whose email addresses go to email lists with online archives).<p>As jpadvo surmised, the nonces expire after a period of time. They also only work for certain users, and even then we run additional security checks to make sure it looks like the account owner who's logging in. Regardless, due to some of these links being disclosed, we've turned the feature off until we can better ensure its security for users whose email contents are publicly visible. We are also securing the accounts of anyone who recently logged in through this flow.<p>In the future if you run into something that looks like a security problem with Facebook, feel free to disclose it responsibly through our whitehat program: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitehat" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/whitehat</a>. That way, in addition to making some money, you can avoid a bunch of script kiddies exploiting whatever the issue is that you've found.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>More than 1MM Facebook accounts exposed </title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=bcode%3D&oq=bcode%3D&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=inurl:bcode%3D%5B*%5D%2Bn_m%3D%5B*%5D+site:facebook.com&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&filter=0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=8c0bb27d33614e56&bpcl=37189454&biw=1560&bih=698</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scarecrowbob</author><text>There are several reasons why I agree, but I want to elaborate on one specifically.<p>I believe almost all &quot;meaning&quot; comes from context. The process of reading a book is part of the process of developing a context for a story. When we come back to the book&#x27;s beginning again, we are experiencing that same work in a new context. Often that new context provides elements in the text I may have missed on the first read-through<p>And, further, when I return to books with new life experiences their context has changed again, sometimes radically: reading King&#x27;s &quot;The Shining&quot; as a preteen was very different than reading through it as a twice-divorced alcoholic with two grown children.<p>In my understanding, some texts allow for that return better than others.<p>Some texts are complex, in that they can speak deeply to us in many ways based on the varied contexts in which we approach them, and that&#x27;s much of how I value the books I value.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abhaynayar</author><text>This, plus reading great books more than once.<p>The idea of reading a book a second time was repulsive when I had never done it before. But once I tried it, I realized that it is a much better use of my time and I get many more insights the second time around. I&#x27;d rather read an amazing book again, than waste my time on mediocre books just to say I read a lot of books.<p>Reading a lot of books is overrated. Reading great books is underrated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On the Joy of Reading Slowly</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/02/i-want-to-savour-every-word-the-joy-of-reading-slowly</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sorokod</author><text>I commented elsewhere that rereading a book can be compared to revisiting a certain landscape. After a wery long time I am rereading &quot;A Study In Scarlet&quot;, the very first Sherlock Holmes story. Just from the first few chapters some things I have not noticed or perhaps forgot:<p>* Watson is an Afghanistan veteran<p>* The London borough of Holborn is referred to as &quot;the Holborn&quot; (no idea why)<p>* Watson and Holmes are flatmates, they share an apartment as they can&#x27;t afford to live solo - some things don&#x27;t change.<p>* The word &quot;ejaculate&quot; did some cultural traveling over the years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abhaynayar</author><text>This, plus reading great books more than once.<p>The idea of reading a book a second time was repulsive when I had never done it before. But once I tried it, I realized that it is a much better use of my time and I get many more insights the second time around. I&#x27;d rather read an amazing book again, than waste my time on mediocre books just to say I read a lot of books.<p>Reading a lot of books is overrated. Reading great books is underrated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On the Joy of Reading Slowly</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/02/i-want-to-savour-every-word-the-joy-of-reading-slowly</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harryvederci</author><text>Some interesting parts:<p>&gt; Every Kremlin ruler knows that one of the quickest ways to end a Russian dynasty or regime is to lose a war.<p>&gt; In October, Rasputitsa turns firm ground into mud. In March, the frozen steppes thaw, and the land again becomes at best a bog, and at worst a sea of mud.<p>&gt; The key to thwarting Russian ambitions is to prevent Moscow from having a quick victory and to raise the economic, political, and military costs by imposing economic sanctions, ensuring political isolation from the West, and raising the prospect of a prolonged insurgency that grinds away the Russian military. In this war, Russia might have the watches, but the West and Ukraine may have the time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia’s Possible Invasion of Ukraine</title><url>https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-possible-invasion-ukraine</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhaak</author><text>&gt; Once there is a casus belli, cyberattacks will likely follow to degrade Ukraine’s military command and control systems and public communications and electrical grids. Next, kinetic operations will likely begin with air and missile strikes against Ukraine’s air force and air defense systems. Once air superiority is established, Russian ground forces would move forward, slightly preceded by special operations to degrade further command and control capabilities and delay the mobilization of reserves by conducting bombings, assassinations, and sabotage operations.<p>The Russian commandants were so sure about their chances that they didn&#x27;t wait for air superiority.<p>Or, they didn&#x27;t want to be seen as an invader but a liberator and as we know that failed terribly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia’s Possible Invasion of Ukraine</title><url>https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-possible-invasion-ukraine</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Matthias247</author><text>I can totally understand that opinion, but let me give a further view on that:<p>I implemented in the last years dozens of async&#x2F;event-driven networking libraries, and wanted to do the same in Rust about 4 years ago. I guess I even started to work on the first async IO libraries for it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Matthias247&#x2F;revbio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Matthias247&#x2F;revbio</a>). However I also got frustrated quite quickly with it, since the ownership model makes the typical solutions for asynchronous programming super hard (e.g. callbacks or callback interfaces). Therefore I also gave up on that (and also temporarily on the language).<p>However some years and evolution of Rust later my viewpoint on this changed a bit:<p>- Asynchronous I&#x2F;O is generally messy and leaves a lot of room for errors. E.g. each callback that is involved might cause reentrancy problems or invalidations, object lifetimes might not be well-defined or matching expectations, etc. While most languages still allow it, it&#x27;s hard to get fully right. Especially when manual memory management is involved. Async I&#x2F;O plus multithreading is mostly a recipe for disaster.<p>- Rust just puts these facts directly in our face, and wants to you to go the extra route to provide that things are working directly. It&#x27;s far from easy to figure out how to do this in a sane way. I think the tokio authors did an awesome job on finding some primitive abstractions with the poll model that allows for async I&#x2F;O and uses Rusts type system for safety guarantees. It&#x27;s a little bit akward to use without syntactic sugar like async&#x2F;await or coroutines, but I think that is in the nature of the problem.<p>- Trying to do async IO probably shows off the domain which is the most inconvenient in Rust (besides similar problems like object-oriented and callback-driven UI frameworks). Therefore it shouldn&#x27;t be used as a general point of measurement how easy or complex Rust is to use.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lurr</author><text>Yeah, but I actually have a reasonable chance of accomplishing what I want in C++.<p>vs Rust where I bash my head against it for 2 days then give up. I&#x27;m not smart enough for Rust, oh well.</text></item><item><author>jcrites</author><text>&gt; Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn?<p>Not always. Some abstractions are designed to make it easier to solve hard problems correctly (than without the abstraction).<p>For example, consider Rust&#x27;s memory model. Many people criticize that model as difficult to learn. By comparison, you might argue that C&#x27;s memory model is simpler to learn. Yet, the C approach to allocating, using, and freeing memory is highly error-prone. C programs historically have frequently had mistakes such as use-after-free errors, or buffer under&#x2F;overflow&#x2F;reuse errors. The high-profile OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability was an example of a weakness in C&#x27;s memory model and memory handling abstractions [1].<p>Rust&#x27;s memory model may be more difficult to learn than C&#x27;s, but once learned, they are abstractions that provide an advantage in building correct software, by ruling out certain classes of mistakes. (GC in languages like C# and Java and Go can also prevent these mistakes, but comes with a runtime cost. Rust aims to provide zero-cost abstractions.)<p>Building correct async IO programs using kernel abstractions is difficult for similar reasons as it&#x27;s difficult to write correct programs with C&#x27;s memory model. It&#x27;s especially difficult if you want the async IO program to be portable across multiple OS&#x2F;kernels. I have not used Tokio, but I would guess that its Rust-powered abstractions will make it difficult or impossible to leak memory or sockets, or to fail to handle error cases that might arise handling async IO.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartbleed-bug.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartble...</a></text></item><item><author>kindfellow92</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, Tokio is notoriously difficult to learn due to its sophisticated abstractions.<p>Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn? Something about the idea of “complex abstractions” seems wrong.<p>(Edit: this is not a criticism of Tokio, it’s a criticism of the OP’s characterization of “sophisticated abstractions” which IMO should reduce complexity)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's async I/O framework</title><url>https://cafbit.com/post/tokio_internals/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drb91</author><text>Rust really doesn’t require much intelligence per se; it’s just a different set of patterns to learn.<p>I find myself thinking more about data ownership, allocations, and type structure. C++ is more about testing correctness about memory ownership and trying to break existing assumptions as I code. Different skillsets entirely!<p>You may be able to produce C++ faster, but i’d choose maintaining a rust codebase any day. Memory models require a lot of energy to maintain correctly, and rust does the heavy lifting for you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lurr</author><text>Yeah, but I actually have a reasonable chance of accomplishing what I want in C++.<p>vs Rust where I bash my head against it for 2 days then give up. I&#x27;m not smart enough for Rust, oh well.</text></item><item><author>jcrites</author><text>&gt; Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn?<p>Not always. Some abstractions are designed to make it easier to solve hard problems correctly (than without the abstraction).<p>For example, consider Rust&#x27;s memory model. Many people criticize that model as difficult to learn. By comparison, you might argue that C&#x27;s memory model is simpler to learn. Yet, the C approach to allocating, using, and freeing memory is highly error-prone. C programs historically have frequently had mistakes such as use-after-free errors, or buffer under&#x2F;overflow&#x2F;reuse errors. The high-profile OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability was an example of a weakness in C&#x27;s memory model and memory handling abstractions [1].<p>Rust&#x27;s memory model may be more difficult to learn than C&#x27;s, but once learned, they are abstractions that provide an advantage in building correct software, by ruling out certain classes of mistakes. (GC in languages like C# and Java and Go can also prevent these mistakes, but comes with a runtime cost. Rust aims to provide zero-cost abstractions.)<p>Building correct async IO programs using kernel abstractions is difficult for similar reasons as it&#x27;s difficult to write correct programs with C&#x27;s memory model. It&#x27;s especially difficult if you want the async IO program to be portable across multiple OS&#x2F;kernels. I have not used Tokio, but I would guess that its Rust-powered abstractions will make it difficult or impossible to leak memory or sockets, or to fail to handle error cases that might arise handling async IO.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartbleed-bug.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartble...</a></text></item><item><author>kindfellow92</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, Tokio is notoriously difficult to learn due to its sophisticated abstractions.<p>Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn? Something about the idea of “complex abstractions” seems wrong.<p>(Edit: this is not a criticism of Tokio, it’s a criticism of the OP’s characterization of “sophisticated abstractions” which IMO should reduce complexity)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's async I/O framework</title><url>https://cafbit.com/post/tokio_internals/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nobleach</author><text>When you have a team that has no Obj-C/iOS development experience, you'll lose more than a couple of weeks. We have one Java guy on staff, and he's never touched Dalvik. Our usage of Sencha Touch has produced relatively good results. The sheer force required to write a native app for multiple platforms is too costly. If I hit a case that I can't handle in JS, I won't take the job.</text><parent_chain><item><author>isnie</author><text>Used Phonegap on 2 projects and I have to say, never again.
If you want to have the job done right and you want a quality product, go native. We lost days(weeks even) of time chasing an obscure bug in the location tracking of Phonegap. Also, the end result wasn't very good to be honest. It lacked the fluidity and responsiveness you have with native apps.<p>sure, you can develop things 2 as fast but then you spend all the rest of the time just messing around to get that "native feel".</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phonegap 2.0 released</title><url>http://phonegap.com/2012/07/20/adobe-phonegap-2-0-released.md//</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ch0wn</author><text>Couldn't agree more. At the company I work for, we tried both Phonegap and Appcelerator Titanium and it both was a total disaster. We're back developing native apps and both the development and user experience is just so much better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>isnie</author><text>Used Phonegap on 2 projects and I have to say, never again.
If you want to have the job done right and you want a quality product, go native. We lost days(weeks even) of time chasing an obscure bug in the location tracking of Phonegap. Also, the end result wasn't very good to be honest. It lacked the fluidity and responsiveness you have with native apps.<p>sure, you can develop things 2 as fast but then you spend all the rest of the time just messing around to get that "native feel".</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phonegap 2.0 released</title><url>http://phonegap.com/2012/07/20/adobe-phonegap-2-0-released.md//</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kodah</author><text>Chicken pox doesn&#x27;t impact HSV1&#x2F;2 which <i>a lot</i> of people have and is also implicated in this analysis. There is, however, a doctor working on a cure and vaccine for HSV1&#x2F;2 that will hopefully be available within the decade.</text><parent_chain><item><author>analog31</author><text>Does this mean the chickenpox vax will eliminate Alzheimer&#x27;s? How many years til we know?</text></item><item><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Shingles (Herpes zoster) is implicated. The whole &#x27;lifelong nervous system infection&#x27; does seem a bit awful. I bet if we chip away at new kinds of herpes viruses, we&#x27;ll find a fairly drastic reduction in Alzheimers.<p>&quot;There is mounting evidence that herpes [simplex]
leads to Alzheimers&quot;, so, HSV1&#x2F;2 also.<p>And apparently having APOE4 genome makes it all worse. HSV1+APOE4=12x risk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;article&#x2F;20181022-there-is-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-leads-to-alzheimers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;article&#x2F;20181022-there-is-mountin...</a><p>EDIT: for clarity, the twitter thread showed that the shingles vaccine drastically reduces risk</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases</title><url>https://twitter.com/PGeldsetzer1/status/1661776663074738176</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xattt</author><text>MMR-V was first approved in 2005 in the US. Alzheimer’s-type dementia usually has onset in the mid-60s and 70s.<p>However, there are other dementias (i.e. vascular) that have other etiologies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>analog31</author><text>Does this mean the chickenpox vax will eliminate Alzheimer&#x27;s? How many years til we know?</text></item><item><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Shingles (Herpes zoster) is implicated. The whole &#x27;lifelong nervous system infection&#x27; does seem a bit awful. I bet if we chip away at new kinds of herpes viruses, we&#x27;ll find a fairly drastic reduction in Alzheimers.<p>&quot;There is mounting evidence that herpes [simplex]
leads to Alzheimers&quot;, so, HSV1&#x2F;2 also.<p>And apparently having APOE4 genome makes it all worse. HSV1+APOE4=12x risk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;article&#x2F;20181022-there-is-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-leads-to-alzheimers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;article&#x2F;20181022-there-is-mountin...</a><p>EDIT: for clarity, the twitter thread showed that the shingles vaccine drastically reduces risk</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases</title><url>https://twitter.com/PGeldsetzer1/status/1661776663074738176</url></story>
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<instructions>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; There seem to be more articles about age popping up on HN lately. I find this both weird and disconcerting.<p>Not so weird.<p>We&#x27;re now 30+ years from the dawn of the desktop PC marketplace. 20+ years from the dawn of the web and associated original internet startup mania. 10+ years from the post-collapse web 2.0 resurgence with Ajax and frameworks. Pushing a decade since the introduction of the smartphone.<p>Every bright-eyed twentysomething that could bask in the glory of their wunderkind youth at the start of each of those eras -- everybody who knew PG was talking to&#x2F;about them in his essays -- has now wound the course that time dictates everybody&#x27;s gotta take: they arrived at being older.<p>So of course there&#x27;s a lot of interest in what that means in the software industry. And maybe some rueful reflection from some participants on what they thought that meant when they were younger.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>There seem to be more articles about age popping up on HN lately. I find this both weird and disconcerting. As I wrote in a comment in another thread:<p>&gt; This is idiotic. People over 40 trade one set of skills for another (source: I&#x27;m over 40). You lose short-term memory, can&#x27;t juggle too many things simultaneously, and aren&#x27;t always up to date on every latest fad. But what you gain is fantastically valuable: intuition, abstract thinking, systems thinking, ability to detect patterns in large systems, ability to notice that certain problems have been solved in a different field, and lots more. As I grow older, I notice these changes, and while I do regret not being able to remember IP addresses after switching to a different window (get a larger monitor, or just copy&amp;paste), I am very happy with the overall shift.<p>To put this in other words, as I age, I found that yes, I do have less ability to do brilliant-late-night-ninja-coding stunts, but overall what I gained translates into Getting Things Done. Which is why I find this ageism trend mindboggling: is there a CEO out there that doesn&#x27;t want his company to Get Things Done?<p>To give a tangible practical example: I just wrote and launched PartsBox.io (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partsbox.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partsbox.io&#x2F;</a>) as a side project. I could only do it in the time constraints involved because I knew which shortcuts I could take and which code I should not write. My 25-year old self would likely have written brilliant ninja code (that no one would ever see), but would never have gotten the project shipped.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Old Geek</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/09/14/Old-Geek</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dunkelheit</author><text>I am under 30 but ageism scares the shit out of me.<p>I love to build things and I am not keen on sliding into a management position. But this becomes the easiest career path once your soft skills start to increase to the detriment of raw coding skills.<p>On the other hand I&#x27;ve seen enough engineers with decades of experience who said no to going into management and who are now basically irrelevant.<p>Both these outcomes are scary but they seem to be the defaults for someone who goes with the flow.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>There seem to be more articles about age popping up on HN lately. I find this both weird and disconcerting. As I wrote in a comment in another thread:<p>&gt; This is idiotic. People over 40 trade one set of skills for another (source: I&#x27;m over 40). You lose short-term memory, can&#x27;t juggle too many things simultaneously, and aren&#x27;t always up to date on every latest fad. But what you gain is fantastically valuable: intuition, abstract thinking, systems thinking, ability to detect patterns in large systems, ability to notice that certain problems have been solved in a different field, and lots more. As I grow older, I notice these changes, and while I do regret not being able to remember IP addresses after switching to a different window (get a larger monitor, or just copy&amp;paste), I am very happy with the overall shift.<p>To put this in other words, as I age, I found that yes, I do have less ability to do brilliant-late-night-ninja-coding stunts, but overall what I gained translates into Getting Things Done. Which is why I find this ageism trend mindboggling: is there a CEO out there that doesn&#x27;t want his company to Get Things Done?<p>To give a tangible practical example: I just wrote and launched PartsBox.io (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partsbox.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partsbox.io&#x2F;</a>) as a side project. I could only do it in the time constraints involved because I knew which shortcuts I could take and which code I should not write. My 25-year old self would likely have written brilliant ninja code (that no one would ever see), but would never have gotten the project shipped.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Old Geek</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/09/14/Old-Geek</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I love Apple, but this is so Apple: hidden powerful functionality you&#x27;ll only know about through word of mouth or intentional exploration in the UI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chazeon</author><text>You can actually directly scan in the Files app from the triple dots menu in the upper right corner, this will allow you to directly scan as a PDF file.</text></item><item><author>miles</author><text>Thanks so much for crafting and sharing this app. Was just chatting with a friend about scanning via Notes[1], which is a little clunky for quickly and seamlessly sharing a scan.<p>A few feature suggestions:<p>* Allow setting default color mode (having to switch manually to B&amp;W every time adds another step)<p>* Allow setting setting type (PDF, JPG, TXT) and size (Original, Medium, Small) in Sharing Options à la Scanner Pro[2]<p>* Allow sharing immediately after scanning rather than first having to tap Save then opening the image again<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;108963" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;108963</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readdle.com&#x2F;scannerpro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readdle.com&#x2F;scannerpro</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone</title><url>https://github.com/pencilresearch/OpenScanner</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manmal</author><text>And you can scan to any cloud provider that integrates with Files that way. Dropbox etc</text><parent_chain><item><author>chazeon</author><text>You can actually directly scan in the Files app from the triple dots menu in the upper right corner, this will allow you to directly scan as a PDF file.</text></item><item><author>miles</author><text>Thanks so much for crafting and sharing this app. Was just chatting with a friend about scanning via Notes[1], which is a little clunky for quickly and seamlessly sharing a scan.<p>A few feature suggestions:<p>* Allow setting default color mode (having to switch manually to B&amp;W every time adds another step)<p>* Allow setting setting type (PDF, JPG, TXT) and size (Original, Medium, Small) in Sharing Options à la Scanner Pro[2]<p>* Allow sharing immediately after scanning rather than first having to tap Save then opening the image again<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;108963" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;108963</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readdle.com&#x2F;scannerpro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readdle.com&#x2F;scannerpro</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone</title><url>https://github.com/pencilresearch/OpenScanner</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>Eric Adams&#x27; &quot;performers and sports players&quot; exemption was specifically to allow Broadway to re-open and to allow Kyrie Irving to play in Brooklyn.<p>The whole thing was a farce anyway so it doesn&#x27;t matter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a confusing headline. The judgement here is in NY state court, and pertains to employees of and in the City of New York, which enacted a vaccine requirement for employees of the city and later private employers in the city. Months later, Eric Adams was elected mayor of NYC, and he issued an executive order exempting athletes, performers, and artists from the mandate.<p>Petitioners sued, saying that the mandate with the exemptions was essentially arbitrary, and the courts agreed. So what happened here is that Eric Adams sabotaged NYC&#x27;s vaccine mandate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay</title><url>https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=JK5E3gx5XV1/ku37jnWR_PLUS_w==&system=prod&TSPD_101_R0=08533cd43fab2000edb19601c775225bb3f6399e467eba468d5199c578db439f849eb7e40f10149908fdb0d7a514480063155165f24217998870310adf4e840d6f2dc7e02b7b4af121d79ec670c4468d9bd049aca6bd09e1e6afd8e75126fd352e140d96c7de44a910dd0fd70c45a64765c0ad37a316ee13</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spfzero</author><text>Not merely arbitrary. From the decision:
&quot;This Court aggress that the Commissioner cannot enact a term of employment on City employees and has exceeded his scope of authority...&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a confusing headline. The judgement here is in NY state court, and pertains to employees of and in the City of New York, which enacted a vaccine requirement for employees of the city and later private employers in the city. Months later, Eric Adams was elected mayor of NYC, and he issued an executive order exempting athletes, performers, and artists from the mandate.<p>Petitioners sued, saying that the mandate with the exemptions was essentially arbitrary, and the courts agreed. So what happened here is that Eric Adams sabotaged NYC&#x27;s vaccine mandate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay</title><url>https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=JK5E3gx5XV1/ku37jnWR_PLUS_w==&system=prod&TSPD_101_R0=08533cd43fab2000edb19601c775225bb3f6399e467eba468d5199c578db439f849eb7e40f10149908fdb0d7a514480063155165f24217998870310adf4e840d6f2dc7e02b7b4af121d79ec670c4468d9bd049aca6bd09e1e6afd8e75126fd352e140d96c7de44a910dd0fd70c45a64765c0ad37a316ee13</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JacksonGariety</author><text>There&#x27;s one exception this rule regarding creativity and misery: philosophy.<p>Here&#x27;s my reasoning: if you&#x27;re doing philosophy and you saw &quot;a way out of the circumstances&quot; making you unhappy (philosophical circumstances) you would be able to become a political theorist or a religious figure.<p>The misery is mandatory if you plan on being truly (i.e. purely) introspective and avoid being compromised by the hope of external circumstances being favorable, it seems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>People conflate happiness with joy. I can be happy and sad at the same time. I cannot be joyful and sad in the same instant, though I can flit between the two rapidly enough to occasionally cause alarm.<p>What you want to avoid is misery. I banished misery from my life sometime in my early twenties. I am unhappy somewhat often, but never miserable. Misery means not seeing a way out of the circumstances making you unhappy.<p>I believe emotional health revolves as much in how you see your emotions as which emotions you&#x27;re experiencing. Reframing the emotions you feel can be a quite powerful experience for those not too jaded on the woo-woo aspect of it. &quot;I didn&#x27;t lose my girlfriend, we just weren&#x27;t right for each other.&quot; If all you do is reframe, and never do any real learning, then sure, you&#x27;ll end up miserable. But in general finding a way to reframe setbacks is a great way to find the energy to keep moving rather than wallow.<p>For some people, creativity is tied intimately to misery; I believe that people for whom their creative output relies on drug use are ultimately deriving it from misery. Minds need to be in a loose, free state to mix seemingly-unrelated concepts together. When one is truly miserable, they cannot see a way out of their predicament and so mind naturally finds a way towards that state. If they could see a way, then they&#x27;d focus on that way, and having a single point of focus is pretty much the opposite of creativity.<p>The most prolific creators make a workflow out of managing their minds. They&#x27;ll tune out in order to become unfocused enough to get an idea, then they&#x27;ll focus on putting that idea to paper, or electronic media or whatever. Good coders are well-attuned to such a workflow, but often don&#x27;t think of themselves as creative, perhaps because their output isn&#x27;t immediately pleasing to the senses. Artistic, maybe not. But creative? Absolutely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The downside of being happy: creativity kindled by sadness</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/25/why-happiness-might-be-getting-in-the-way-of-your-artistic-brilliance/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedks</author><text>There are certain culturally universal emotions; happiness and sadness are two of them, but joy or misery aren&#x27;t, and I&#x27;ve never seen this definition of misery before in the literature. Is this based on your own framework and anecdotes or is there a source for it?</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>People conflate happiness with joy. I can be happy and sad at the same time. I cannot be joyful and sad in the same instant, though I can flit between the two rapidly enough to occasionally cause alarm.<p>What you want to avoid is misery. I banished misery from my life sometime in my early twenties. I am unhappy somewhat often, but never miserable. Misery means not seeing a way out of the circumstances making you unhappy.<p>I believe emotional health revolves as much in how you see your emotions as which emotions you&#x27;re experiencing. Reframing the emotions you feel can be a quite powerful experience for those not too jaded on the woo-woo aspect of it. &quot;I didn&#x27;t lose my girlfriend, we just weren&#x27;t right for each other.&quot; If all you do is reframe, and never do any real learning, then sure, you&#x27;ll end up miserable. But in general finding a way to reframe setbacks is a great way to find the energy to keep moving rather than wallow.<p>For some people, creativity is tied intimately to misery; I believe that people for whom their creative output relies on drug use are ultimately deriving it from misery. Minds need to be in a loose, free state to mix seemingly-unrelated concepts together. When one is truly miserable, they cannot see a way out of their predicament and so mind naturally finds a way towards that state. If they could see a way, then they&#x27;d focus on that way, and having a single point of focus is pretty much the opposite of creativity.<p>The most prolific creators make a workflow out of managing their minds. They&#x27;ll tune out in order to become unfocused enough to get an idea, then they&#x27;ll focus on putting that idea to paper, or electronic media or whatever. Good coders are well-attuned to such a workflow, but often don&#x27;t think of themselves as creative, perhaps because their output isn&#x27;t immediately pleasing to the senses. Artistic, maybe not. But creative? Absolutely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The downside of being happy: creativity kindled by sadness</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/25/why-happiness-might-be-getting-in-the-way-of-your-artistic-brilliance/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>EDIT: So I got a coke and thought about this a bit. I like your point, but I feel like maybe the high-noters are high-noters precisely <i>because</i> they're ruthlessly self-critical and growth-minded. Ever see someone who was really good at something cringe after what you thought was an amazing performance, because they missed, e.g. the f6 in Mozart's Queen of the Night? They're better (honest?) at seeing their mistakes, and they're better at addressing them. Maybe that's the natural talent?<p>Aside from the tone, maybe, this article is not 'one for the masses.'<p>Jony Ive didn't just sit down and whip up the iPod, to use Spolsky's example. We don't see the blood/sweat/tears that goes into it. From Ive:<p><i>One of the hallmarks of our team is this sense of looking to be wrong ... It’s about being excited to be wrong because then you’ve discovered something new.</i><p>Obviously Ive has the creative ingredient. And some are going to be predisposed with talent. Michael Jordan may have had his famous "4am club" where he hit the court every morning to just drill, but so did Scotty Pippen, and he never hit the Jordan high note clutch performances that make my jaw drop watching 20-year-old replays. So I see your point, that talent matters. But the other way to look at it is that Jordan was just better at learning from his mistakes in those 4am practices.<p>So no, this is not some pedestrian piece of feel-good soup. Great work, in programming, design, anything, is about repeatedly pushing a boundary, recognizing where you messed up, fixing it, and repeating that all over again. The people who do this best are the people who believe that by iterating they can get better. This works even as you get all the way up into the stratosphere of a field.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1367481/Apples-Jonathan-Ive-How-did-British-polytechnic-graduate-design-genius.html#ixzz1nEKjLSAN" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1367481/Appl...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tpatke</author><text>I think about Spolsky's post on programmer productivity quite often [1]. I think the most interesting part of the post is when he says, "The mediocre talent just <i>never</i> hits the high notes that the top talent hits all the time." Obviously, I wonder if I am a programmer who can hit the high notes and, if not, what it will take to get there.<p>When I read a post like this, I try to apply it to making myself a better programmer in the "high note" sense. Trouble is - it just doesn't apply (and I am a huge fan of Dweck's work). This article is one for the masses - not people who are trying to create the next Google. Motivation, hard work and an ability to learn from mistakes are all necessary, but ultimately not sufficient for our craft.<p>If I had to guess what the missing ingredient is, I would say creativity.<p>Heck - we are programmers. We get immediate feedback on our mistakes all day long and anyone reading this post has most likely gotten really really good and learning from those mistakes. ...but, how many of us are hitting those high notes?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Do Some People Learn Faster?</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/why-do-some-people-learn-faster-2/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackpirate</author><text>It's very easy for us to forget about variance and standard deviation of programmer productivity when all other factors are equal. Let's imagine we have 1000 of the world's best programmers working for a year on creative projects. All of them will try something innovative. Only some of them, however, will succeed.<p>Who succeeds is a function of what projects they were working on. And that, is almost purely random and a result of circumstances. We like to think that Sergey and Larey were more brilliant than anyone else, for example, but the truth is they just stumbled into the right thing at the right time.<p>Don't discredit yourself as a programmer for not yet having a huge stroke of luck.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tpatke</author><text>I think about Spolsky's post on programmer productivity quite often [1]. I think the most interesting part of the post is when he says, "The mediocre talent just <i>never</i> hits the high notes that the top talent hits all the time." Obviously, I wonder if I am a programmer who can hit the high notes and, if not, what it will take to get there.<p>When I read a post like this, I try to apply it to making myself a better programmer in the "high note" sense. Trouble is - it just doesn't apply (and I am a huge fan of Dweck's work). This article is one for the masses - not people who are trying to create the next Google. Motivation, hard work and an ability to learn from mistakes are all necessary, but ultimately not sufficient for our craft.<p>If I had to guess what the missing ingredient is, I would say creativity.<p>Heck - we are programmers. We get immediate feedback on our mistakes all day long and anyone reading this post has most likely gotten really really good and learning from those mistakes. ...but, how many of us are hitting those high notes?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Do Some People Learn Faster?</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/why-do-some-people-learn-faster-2/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>whyenot</author><text>I seem to remember that in some pools you had to initiate a payout to your wallet through the pool website. Payouts weren&#x27;t automatic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ringaroundthetx</author><text>How did you lose money in a mining pool? Hopped in a cloudmining scam?<p>Mining pools don&#x27;t store funds, you tell them your payout address.</text></item><item><author>slacka</author><text>As someone who lost over 100 bitcoins in a sketchy mining pool, for the love of god, please be careful. I was in early on this madness, and dedicated my gaming rig for a couple of years. Basically forgot about it, until one day I went to move my coins only to find the site just a Cloudflare mirror. Learn from my mistakes and be careful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/bitcoin-bitfinex-tether.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>ww520</author><text>They used his machine for mining over the years but never paid?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ringaroundthetx</author><text>How did you lose money in a mining pool? Hopped in a cloudmining scam?<p>Mining pools don&#x27;t store funds, you tell them your payout address.</text></item><item><author>slacka</author><text>As someone who lost over 100 bitcoins in a sketchy mining pool, for the love of god, please be careful. I was in early on this madness, and dedicated my gaming rig for a couple of years. Basically forgot about it, until one day I went to move my coins only to find the site just a Cloudflare mirror. Learn from my mistakes and be careful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/bitcoin-bitfinex-tether.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>ClumsyPilot</author><text>&gt; just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence<p>1. Appoint Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev to House of Lords as Lord of Siberia. His dad is a Russian oligarch and owns evening standard.<p>2. Handing out billions in PPE contracts to Tory donors to companies that were literally registered yesterday.<p>3. Privatise rail. Allow massive dividends from private rail companies. Spend 3.5 billion bailing out the same rail companies.<p>4. Allow 80 billion in dividents to be extracted from private water companies. Legalised dumping of raw sewage into rivers by water companies. Infrastructure is not maintained and most of water is lost to leaks. Enter talks about bailout with water companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnfargbl</author><text>Who is the evil bond villain behind this dastardly plan, exactly?<p>The UK government has made the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable through a combination of<p>(a) ham-fisted political decisions (Brexit referendum held for party-political reasons, followed by the multi-decade car crash that is still ongoing); plus<p>(b) plain and simple <i>not giving a single shit</i> about the majority of the population, because it isn&#x27;t in the personal interests of most of the current set of ruling MPs to give said shit.<p>There&#x27;s no overarching devious plan to enslave us all, here. It&#x27;s just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence and disinterest.</text></item><item><author>trackflak</author><text>It seems like the government playbook reads as follows:<p>- Make the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable<p>- Make the population worn down and apathetic because things are so bad, a better life unattainable for all but a few<p>- Then, no one will notice while we pass bills that heavily restrict your liberty and vastly entrench our power<p>- Profit<p>It&#x27;s a sinister genius, and smacks of contempt for the governed.</text></item><item><author>switch007</author><text>This is a short list of issues many people are dealing with right now:<p>- affording heating<p>- affording food<p>- affording their mortgage<p>- being kicked out of their rented accommodation<p>- unable to find somewhere to rent<p>- unable to afford somewhere to rent<p>- badly maintained rented properties<p>- bad public transport making commutes miserable<p>- increasing petrol prices<p>- unaffordable nursery fees<p>- long NHS wait times<p>- unable to find an NHS dentist<p>- crime<p>Please explain why and how privacy can rank above this on a day to day basis about things they have the energy to care about. You kind of acknowledged this but then disregard it</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before and I&#x27;ll repeat it here - as someone who lives in the UK the thing that bothers me the most about it is a complete apathy from everyone I know, and I work in IT. People just go &quot;meh what are you going to do&quot;, or recently very common &quot;I don&#x27;t have strength to be angry at this government all the time over everything, I just carry on forward and hope things improve&quot;. And of course the fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn&#x27;t help.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>You forgot about widening of the wealth gap and massive wealth transfer in the last couple of years.<p>That&#x27;s not incompetence. The rich are in charge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnfargbl</author><text>Who is the evil bond villain behind this dastardly plan, exactly?<p>The UK government has made the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable through a combination of<p>(a) ham-fisted political decisions (Brexit referendum held for party-political reasons, followed by the multi-decade car crash that is still ongoing); plus<p>(b) plain and simple <i>not giving a single shit</i> about the majority of the population, because it isn&#x27;t in the personal interests of most of the current set of ruling MPs to give said shit.<p>There&#x27;s no overarching devious plan to enslave us all, here. It&#x27;s just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence and disinterest.</text></item><item><author>trackflak</author><text>It seems like the government playbook reads as follows:<p>- Make the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable<p>- Make the population worn down and apathetic because things are so bad, a better life unattainable for all but a few<p>- Then, no one will notice while we pass bills that heavily restrict your liberty and vastly entrench our power<p>- Profit<p>It&#x27;s a sinister genius, and smacks of contempt for the governed.</text></item><item><author>switch007</author><text>This is a short list of issues many people are dealing with right now:<p>- affording heating<p>- affording food<p>- affording their mortgage<p>- being kicked out of their rented accommodation<p>- unable to find somewhere to rent<p>- unable to afford somewhere to rent<p>- badly maintained rented properties<p>- bad public transport making commutes miserable<p>- increasing petrol prices<p>- unaffordable nursery fees<p>- long NHS wait times<p>- unable to find an NHS dentist<p>- crime<p>Please explain why and how privacy can rank above this on a day to day basis about things they have the energy to care about. You kind of acknowledged this but then disregard it</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before and I&#x27;ll repeat it here - as someone who lives in the UK the thing that bothers me the most about it is a complete apathy from everyone I know, and I work in IT. People just go &quot;meh what are you going to do&quot;, or recently very common &quot;I don&#x27;t have strength to be angry at this government all the time over everything, I just carry on forward and hope things improve&quot;. And of course the fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn&#x27;t help.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sonnyz</author><text>I agree. A simple &quot;Windows 10&quot; with no subtitle would really make things easier for the consumer. Appending &#x27;Home&#x27; on what is really a feature reduced version of Windows 10 doesn&#x27;t seem to be in the best interest of the customer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>I realize Microsoft has to price segment, which requires they call out an &quot;Enterprise&quot; category for Mobile and Laptop&#x2F;Desktop, but sometimes I wonder if they really need all of these categories.<p>For example, do they really get significant financial value from having a Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Education, Windows 10 Pro? <i>particularly</i> as they are offering it as a free upgrade to Windows 7&#x2F;8 users.<p>Notice they don&#x27;t have a Windows 10 Mobile Home, Windows 10 Mobile Education, and Windows 10 Mobile Pro - just plain, &quot;Windows 10 Mobile&quot;.<p>My suspicion is they would have managed to avoid customer confusion, and captured pretty much all the same economic value, with a simple list of:<p><pre><code> Windows 10
Windows 10 Mobile
Windows 10 Enterprise
Windows 10 Mobile Enteprise</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Windows 10 Editions</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/13/introducing-windows-10-editions/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bskap</author><text>&quot;Pro&quot; is for people that don&#x27;t have volume licenses but want the business-specific features like domain joining. Remember, Windows 10 may be a free upgrade, but it&#x27;s not free and I imagine they still make quite a bit of extra money from businesses buying Pro.<p>&quot;Education&quot; looks like it&#x27;s a discounted volume license available to schools. Not sure what extra features it&#x27;s going to have but it&#x27;s not something that anyone other than a school administrator will ever care about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>I realize Microsoft has to price segment, which requires they call out an &quot;Enterprise&quot; category for Mobile and Laptop&#x2F;Desktop, but sometimes I wonder if they really need all of these categories.<p>For example, do they really get significant financial value from having a Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Education, Windows 10 Pro? <i>particularly</i> as they are offering it as a free upgrade to Windows 7&#x2F;8 users.<p>Notice they don&#x27;t have a Windows 10 Mobile Home, Windows 10 Mobile Education, and Windows 10 Mobile Pro - just plain, &quot;Windows 10 Mobile&quot;.<p>My suspicion is they would have managed to avoid customer confusion, and captured pretty much all the same economic value, with a simple list of:<p><pre><code> Windows 10
Windows 10 Mobile
Windows 10 Enterprise
Windows 10 Mobile Enteprise</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Windows 10 Editions</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/13/introducing-windows-10-editions/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>esamatti</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that with upcoming Babel 7 it is possible to strip Typescript types like with Flow and use it just as a typechecker&#x2F;linter [1]. This means following things:<p>- You don&#x27;t need ts-loader&#x2F;at-loader with Webpack anymore. You&#x27;ll lose typechecking during webpack build but you can run it as separate step. Your editor will show them as usual still.<p>- You can use all the Babel plugins with Typescript without running two compilers (should speed things up)<p>- Should add first class support for React Native as it uses Babel (or at least no more 2-step builds)<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;babeljs.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;12&#x2F;planning-for-7.0#typescript" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;babeljs.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;12&#x2F;planning-for-7.0#typescrip...</a><p>EDIT: For the curious here&#x27;s my build configuration with Webpack demoing this with extra plugins <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;epeli&#x2F;bb8ae386f9dbb2a4ae2159e1f265fd56" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;epeli&#x2F;bb8ae386f9dbb2a4ae2159e1f265fd...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flow and TypeScript</title><url>https://engineering.tumblr.com/post/165261504692/flow-and-typescript</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pcx</author><text>We faced a similar situation in our project and went with Flow instead. We found a TS + Webpack setup too unreliable. There are couple of popular Webpack loaders (ts-loader and at-loader), and both kept crashing the Node process every other build. Build times were pretty high. We could not find any documentation on how to fix these problems, except for a few open GitHub issues.<p>We then tried Flow. Oh dear god, has it been a blessing.<p>Pros:<p>* It&#x27;s seamless to integrate with Webpack, ESLint &amp; Babel.<p>* It&#x27;s crazy fast<p>* Has great support for React<p>* Fits in perfectly with Redux<p>* Dead easy for beginners to learn<p>* Has an amazing Type system. My major experience with types has been Java, and Flowtype just blew my mind with - non-nullable types, subtyping and type refining.<p>* Documentation is great<p>* Community is very active<p>Cons:<p>* About 1&#x2F;3rd of the time error messages are not intuitive. But nothing you can not figure out. And it&#x27;s getting better.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flow and TypeScript</title><url>https://engineering.tumblr.com/post/165261504692/flow-and-typescript</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tipsysquid</author><text>I believe it was this Marketplace podcast episode[0] that talks about the UK and their relationship with Huawei.
If I can recall, the UK is tied tightly to Huawei across several industries, one including nuclear reactor&#x2F;plant development that has been in on going for ages and involves packages of training lots of UK workers.<p>The podcast goes on to say that the UK is in a tough position because to break ties with any part of Huawei could have a chain reaction of cancellations&#x2F;retaliations that could be extremely costly to UK in a time of uncertainty with Brexit and now covid-19.
&quot;Damned if they do, damned if they don&#x27;t&quot; was the general sentiment.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketplace.org&#x2F;shows&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;what-weighs-down-gdp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketplace.org&#x2F;shows&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;what-weighs-do...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cgh</author><text>This is why Canada detained Huawei&#x27;s CFO Meng Wanzhou. I&#x27;m also guessing this news is why Telus, a major Canadian telco, just dropped Huawei for its 5G rollout and went with Ericsson instead. This is in line with other Canadian telcos and I believe the rest of the Five Eyes as well. Although didn&#x27;t the UK flirt with Huawei for a while there?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-probe-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-hid-business-operation-in-iran-after-reuters-reported-links-to-cfo-idUSKBN23A19B</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justicezyx</author><text>Actually, this is not the official charge on Mrs. Meng.<p>According to wiki, the actual charge is:
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proxies conspired &quot;to misappropriate intellectual property&quot;, and Meng lied to HSBC bank.
```<p>Canada&#x27;s legal agreement with US is that they work in accordance with US, for criminals that violated the laws at Canada. But there needs to be laws in Canada that are equivalent to US ones.<p>For example, if I committed murder in US, and fled to Canada, they legally are obliged to capture and send me back to US. But if I sell limited item to Iran, and fled to Canada, then Canada are obliged to send me back, because Canada does not have a sanction on Iran.<p>And this is why this action outraged a lot of Chinese, and worried a lot business people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cgh</author><text>This is why Canada detained Huawei&#x27;s CFO Meng Wanzhou. I&#x27;m also guessing this news is why Telus, a major Canadian telco, just dropped Huawei for its 5G rollout and went with Ericsson instead. This is in line with other Canadian telcos and I believe the rest of the Five Eyes as well. Although didn&#x27;t the UK flirt with Huawei for a while there?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-probe-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-hid-business-operation-in-iran-after-reuters-reported-links-to-cfo-idUSKBN23A19B</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spacemanmatt</author><text>Since I switched to pipewire I&#x27;ve had the best Linux audio end-user experience with BlueTooth devices, ever.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update</title><url>https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/pipewire-bluetooth-support-status-update.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>ComputerGuru</author><text>I’ve only heard good things about PipeWire so I must ask: will this finally give me a lower latency option for Bluetooth audio on Linux? After my old Anker speakers went belly-up° I “upgraded” to their latest model which I didn’t realize was aux&#x2F;3.5mm-free and have been suffering ever since from horrendous lag when using the external speakers to stream movies on my Linux laptop.<p>° Ok, in actuality my kid broke half a male 3.5mm connector in the speaker’s 3.5mm female port and I was too lazy to break it open and solder in a replacement. Mostly due to not wanting to hunt for a layout-compatible female 3.5mm jack.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update</title><url>https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/pipewire-bluetooth-support-status-update.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>PragmaticPulp</author><text>One of the weirder side effects of the early retirement (FIRE) movement is that it selects for people who value freedom and time away from work and then convince them that they need to work the highest paid job they can find no matter how miserable it makes them right now. A lot of tech companies capitalize on this by offering 20% raises to recruit people and then demand 50-100% more work until they burn out. They can always recruit more people to backfill because 20% (or more) raises are hard to turn down.<p>Not everyone, of course, but this theme plays out far too frequently in FIRE communities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robotburrito</author><text>Seems like a huge # of techies I meet out here are trying to reach a million dollars in savings in a job they hate so that they can &quot;go live in a cabin in the woods.&quot; I try to tell them that my Cousin has been doing that for 40 years, and he dropped out of high school and worked at a gas station.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I quit the tech industry (2015)</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tiborsaas</author><text>Yes, but the &quot;cabin&quot; should look like this and should not be more than a 30 min drive from a major city:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;offbeathome.com&#x2F;snohomish-pyramid-house&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;offbeathome.com&#x2F;snohomish-pyramid-house&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prefabcontainerhomes.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;4x45-ft-shipping-container-home-ireland.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prefabcontainerhomes.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;4x45-ft-shippin...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ignant.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;a-minimal-concrete-house-offering-stunning-views-from-both-sides&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ignant.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;a-minimal-concrete-house-o...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>robotburrito</author><text>Seems like a huge # of techies I meet out here are trying to reach a million dollars in savings in a job they hate so that they can &quot;go live in a cabin in the woods.&quot; I try to tell them that my Cousin has been doing that for 40 years, and he dropped out of high school and worked at a gas station.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I quit the tech industry (2015)</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchw</author><text>Not sure why your original comment disappeared.<p>I was kind of curious what the latencies might be for other contemporary processors&#x2F;builds, and I&#x27;m not sure 70ns is actually really outside the normal margins.<p>Here&#x27;s an i7-8700k build that is already pretty close to 70ns: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18173216" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18173216</a> - Also acknowledging that, this is not the &#x27;best case&#x27; performance. But seems to be not so unusual either.<p>(edit: Removed section about latency ladder as I just realized it was caching and not system memory latency that we were most likely seeing initially, and therefore not terribly relevant.)<p>As far as I can tell, Zen 1 has similar latency characteristics[0][1]... so I guess I won&#x27;t notice any degradation when upgrading to Zen 2.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18173307" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18173307</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18173240" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18173240</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>garkin</author><text>Zen 2 is very good in number crunching and synthetics. But it has a problem - terrible memory latency. 70ns with 3600cl16. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18168279" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18168279</a>) It distills to a not-so-good gaming frame times. It&#x27;s 64mb L3 cache (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikichip.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;amd&#x2F;ryzen_9&#x2F;3900x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikichip.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;amd&#x2F;ryzen_9&#x2F;3900x</a>) helps only partially.<p>Few games will suffer greatly from it, but there are several titles with RAM bottlenecks, like PUBG and FarCry.<p>Anyway, AMD has a much better price&#x2F;performance offer than Intel. For general puprose Intel is totaly anihilated, but for the games they are still more than competitive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Look at the AMD Zen 2 Core</title><url>https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2458/a-look-at-the-amd-zen-2-core/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>demilicious</author><text>As far as I know, these processors are not yet released. What&#x27;s the confidence level that this user benchmark will be indicative of real life expected performance?<p>It seems implausible that this user benchmark is a good indicator. The Zen 1 architecture exhibited nothing of the sort[0] -- it would be an order of magnitude performance regression.<p>I expect we&#x27;ll start to see more accurate tests once the processors are actually released into the wild.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;amd-ryzen-7-2700x-review,5571-3.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;amd-ryzen-7-2700x-revie...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>garkin</author><text>Zen 2 is very good in number crunching and synthetics. But it has a problem - terrible memory latency. 70ns with 3600cl16. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18168279" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.userbenchmark.com&#x2F;UserRun&#x2F;18168279</a>) It distills to a not-so-good gaming frame times. It&#x27;s 64mb L3 cache (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikichip.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;amd&#x2F;ryzen_9&#x2F;3900x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikichip.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;amd&#x2F;ryzen_9&#x2F;3900x</a>) helps only partially.<p>Few games will suffer greatly from it, but there are several titles with RAM bottlenecks, like PUBG and FarCry.<p>Anyway, AMD has a much better price&#x2F;performance offer than Intel. For general puprose Intel is totaly anihilated, but for the games they are still more than competitive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Look at the AMD Zen 2 Core</title><url>https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2458/a-look-at-the-amd-zen-2-core/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>I get that, but as someone who rides a bike in the city, very few cyclists consistently go faster than that. I don&#x27;t want to have to share a bike lane with people who are riding what is more a small electric motorcycle than a bicycle.<p>That said, I&#x27;m all for people buying electric motorcycles if that&#x27;s what they want. It seems like an area ripe for innovation, and getting somebody to step down from a car to something smaller is great by me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clarry</author><text>What bothers me even more is the 25 kph speed limit, after which all the electronics are legally required to be dead weight. Come on, I can cycle faster than that on muscle power (and I normally do). I&#x27;ve averaged 27 kph doing 90 kilometers on a friggin touring bike, carrying a sleeping bag, change of clothes, shoes.<p>I take a bike to get from place A to B faster. I&#x27;d take an electric bike to get even faster while spending less of my own energy. Actually, I&#x27;d be quite happy even with just 250W as long as I can use all of it on top of my muscle power, no matter how fast or slow I&#x27;m going.<p>Speed is ultimately what makes me pick the car over bike for longer rides.</text></item><item><author>arthurfm</author><text>The law regarding &gt; 250w e-bikes is ridiculous too and badly needs updating.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ebiketips.road.cc&#x2F;content&#x2F;advice&#x2F;advice&#x2F;buying-and-riding-an-s-pedelec-in-the-uk-1637" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ebiketips.road.cc&#x2F;content&#x2F;advice&#x2F;advice&#x2F;buying-and-r...</a></text></item><item><author>neverminder</author><text>In the mean time electric scooters are illegal in UK because of some 200 year old law that talks about pigs and donkeys (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&#x2F;electric-scooters-illegal-1835-highways-act-2018-8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&#x2F;electric-scooters-illegal-1835...</a>). Even so I see an increasing number of people using them, because apparently cops just turn a blind eye, which does make sense, unlike this law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says</title><url>https://ggwash.org/view/69621/scooters-are-taking-cars-off-the-road-a-survey-says</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enoch_r</author><text>Riding consistently enough to gain speed is strongly correlated with being a better rider. I don&#x27;t want to share the bike path with a bunch of 14-year-old kids traveling 40kph on electric bikes that they got for Christmas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>clarry</author><text>What bothers me even more is the 25 kph speed limit, after which all the electronics are legally required to be dead weight. Come on, I can cycle faster than that on muscle power (and I normally do). I&#x27;ve averaged 27 kph doing 90 kilometers on a friggin touring bike, carrying a sleeping bag, change of clothes, shoes.<p>I take a bike to get from place A to B faster. I&#x27;d take an electric bike to get even faster while spending less of my own energy. Actually, I&#x27;d be quite happy even with just 250W as long as I can use all of it on top of my muscle power, no matter how fast or slow I&#x27;m going.<p>Speed is ultimately what makes me pick the car over bike for longer rides.</text></item><item><author>arthurfm</author><text>The law regarding &gt; 250w e-bikes is ridiculous too and badly needs updating.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ebiketips.road.cc&#x2F;content&#x2F;advice&#x2F;advice&#x2F;buying-and-riding-an-s-pedelec-in-the-uk-1637" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ebiketips.road.cc&#x2F;content&#x2F;advice&#x2F;advice&#x2F;buying-and-r...</a></text></item><item><author>neverminder</author><text>In the mean time electric scooters are illegal in UK because of some 200 year old law that talks about pigs and donkeys (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&#x2F;electric-scooters-illegal-1835-highways-act-2018-8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&#x2F;electric-scooters-illegal-1835...</a>). Even so I see an increasing number of people using them, because apparently cops just turn a blind eye, which does make sense, unlike this law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says</title><url>https://ggwash.org/view/69621/scooters-are-taking-cars-off-the-road-a-survey-says</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&quot;Tort reform&quot; can seriously screw over people, because the parties that tend to favor tort reform (by which they mean greatly limiting the ability of people to sue and&#x2F;or the amount they can win if they do sue) also tend to favor limiting government regulation and oversight. That can leave nothing to compensate for the removal of the deterrence factor that the threat of lawsuits provides against bad corporate or professional behavior.<p>A sad example is provided by Texas. Protection against bad doctors was provided in Texas by three things: the Texas Medical Board, malpractice suits, and hospital managers. The legislature greatly limited the amount patients can win in malpractice suits, and they made it so hospitals cannot be held liable for hiring incompetent doctors unless the plaintiff can prove the hospital knew the doctor was an extreme risk and ignored this--and they made it so the plaintiff usually cannot get access to the documents that would be needed to prove this.<p>This shifted most of the burden of protecting Texans from bad doctors to the Texas Medical Board, which was not designed for that. It was more designed for licensing and ensuring that doctors keep with standards, not for investigating bad doctors. The Medical Board was not given any more resources to deal with this new and heavy workload, and so bad doctors could practice much longer than they would have been able to before the legislature decided to do their tort reform.<p>This article on the Dr. Christopher Duntsch case shows who wrong this can go: <a href="http://www.texasobserver.org/anatomy-tragedy/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texasobserver.org&#x2F;anatomy-tragedy&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/how-a-lawsuit-over-hot-coffee-helped-erode-the-7th/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>I&#x27;ve always (and I mean always; I&#x27;ve long been aware about the real story) thought the comments about the coffee lawsuit were extremely cruel. &#x27;Oh, hot coffee fell on her lap and burned her, and she sued for millions in damages!&#x27; - hot coffee at an unreasonably high temperature fell on her lap and gave her <i>third-degree burns</i>. To suggest she was suing over something trivial is horribly disrespectful to a woman who suffered that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/how-a-lawsuit-over-hot-coffee-helped-erode-the-7th/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shrike</author><text>The VTL was invented because, at the time (2012ish), none of the largest enterprise backup solutions had a good S3 interface and none supported Glacier. After talking with the backup software vendors (Spectrum, Tivoli, Symantec, Commvault, etc) it became clear that adding another backup target wasn&#x27;t something we (AWS) could get them to prioritize, for perfectly reasonable reasons. We could (and did) apply pressure via our shared customers, even then they estimated it would take years.<p>The fastest way to enable large enterprise access to S3 and Glacier for backups was to meet them where they were. We did this by virtualizing a tape library.<p>Background: I&#x27;m one of the original inventors - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;image-ppubs.uspto.gov&#x2F;dirsearch-public&#x2F;print&#x2F;downloadPdf&#x2F;10013166" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;image-ppubs.uspto.gov&#x2F;dirsearch-public&#x2F;print&#x2F;downloa...</a>. I am no longer with AWS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SCdF</author><text>Dumb question, and I&#x27;m guessing this is a &quot;if you don&#x27;t know it&#x27;s not for you&quot; situation, but what is the point of a virtual tape? Isn&#x27;t the point of a tape that it&#x27;s not virtual? Or is this more replicating tape software apis (WINE&#x2F;proton style) so you can get rid of physical tapes (because you no longer care about their physicality) without having to change your backup strategy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Tape Gateway</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/vtl/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thedougd</author><text>It&#x27;s the latter. In a large enterprise, the backup configuration can be wildly complicated, a matrix of systems, schedules, slas, etc. Just reconfigure your backup software to use this new virtual tape device and you&#x27;re on your way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SCdF</author><text>Dumb question, and I&#x27;m guessing this is a &quot;if you don&#x27;t know it&#x27;s not for you&quot; situation, but what is the point of a virtual tape? Isn&#x27;t the point of a tape that it&#x27;s not virtual? Or is this more replicating tape software apis (WINE&#x2F;proton style) so you can get rid of physical tapes (because you no longer care about their physicality) without having to change your backup strategy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Tape Gateway</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/vtl/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pxc</author><text>Beware that some settings won&#x27;t show up this way, and some settings that you can witness through `defaults read &lt;some plist file&gt;` cannot be safely edited through `defaults write`.<p>Power management settings, for example, will break some System Settings panes when manually written, in addition to not effectively modifying the relevant setting. Those, you have to modify with the `pmset` command instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bartvk</author><text>It&#x27;s now a habit to save all my changes in system and app preferences in a script.<p>First I do a<p><pre><code> defaults read &gt; 1
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snapplebobapple</author><text>I wonder if the program i use to manage my dotfiles could help manage your scripts and extend your setup to all your desktops? Its called yadm (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yadm.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yadm.io&#x2F;</a>) it makes it so easy to have a laptop and a desktop or two.<p>Edit: seems to support doing a diff and reverting&#x2F;modifying right in yadm, i just do t really use thst bit myself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yadm.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;common_commands#" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yadm.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;common_commands#</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bartvk</author><text>It&#x27;s now a habit to save all my changes in system and app preferences in a script.<p>First I do a<p><pre><code> defaults read &gt; 1
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Then I change the setting in the app or System Settings, then back on the commandline, I do<p><pre><code> defaults read &gt; 2
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>plibither8</author><text>A few more...<p>* Person: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thispersondoesnotexist.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thispersondoesnotexist.com&#x2F;</a><p>* Waifu: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net&#x2F;</a><p>* SO Question: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackroboflow.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackroboflow.com&#x2F;</a><p>* Startup: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thisstartupdoesnotexist.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thisstartupdoesnotexist.com&#x2F;</a><p>* Resume: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thisresumedoesnotexist.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thisresumedoesnotexist.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist</title><url>http://thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.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>QuackingJimbo</author><text>I was ready to crap on this post for calling your own work &quot;semi-convincing&quot; but this writing does actually resemble most of the random blogs I find when trying to research something like nutrition or fitness.<p>Not a compliment to the quality of the writing. But definitely not unconvincing. Add some ads that make it impossible to scroll without freezing Chrome and you&#x27;re good to go.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist</title><url>http://thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.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>kevinconroy</author><text>I had a Motofone (also called F3) for the last 7 years. It started with a two week working battery life. It's a pain to text message on since it only shows 4 or 5 characters on, but it just <i>worked</i> as a reliable phone. Finally switched to an iPhone 5 after it became vital for me to have full Internet access 24/7 for work. If it weren't for that, I'd still have my F3. I love it as much as I love my iPhone 5.<p>You can still find some of them on eBay. I'd offer mine, but I'm keeping it as an emergency (911) phone for my car.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rapind</author><text>I actually spent some time looking into dumb phones a couple years ago. My favorite would be the motofone. It's got an e-ink display, which is great for battery and sunlight, and 2 antennas which is also great if you <i>heaven forbid</i> make actual calls with it. Also, pretty sturdy, small, and light.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone</a><p>Beware though, if you txt a lot, you won't like it. Not enough real estate for the crazy font they use.<p>There are also these <i>printed</i> cell phones showing up. Do a google for "card phone". Pretty interesting.</text></item><item><author>bryogenic</author><text>Slightly off topic, are there actually any good (i.e. recommendable) dumb phones? It has been an interesting market to try to navigate and research.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An App Platform for Dumb Phones</title><url>http://www.dumbsto.re/</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>JimJames</author><text>I used this phone for about 6 months. The screen made it hard to navigate the menus and got in the way of even simple things like adding someone to your address book. The battery life was good but it was not significantly longer than the battery life of other dumb phones (since the screen is mostly off it doesn't make a huge difference).<p>Eventually I traded it in for a cheap nokia with an lcd.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rapind</author><text>I actually spent some time looking into dumb phones a couple years ago. My favorite would be the motofone. It's got an e-ink display, which is great for battery and sunlight, and 2 antennas which is also great if you <i>heaven forbid</i> make actual calls with it. Also, pretty sturdy, small, and light.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone</a><p>Beware though, if you txt a lot, you won't like it. Not enough real estate for the crazy font they use.<p>There are also these <i>printed</i> cell phones showing up. Do a google for "card phone". Pretty interesting.</text></item><item><author>bryogenic</author><text>Slightly off topic, are there actually any good (i.e. recommendable) dumb phones? It has been an interesting market to try to navigate and research.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An App Platform for Dumb Phones</title><url>http://www.dumbsto.re/</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>inasio</author><text>My favorite part of the new Top Gun movie was the first 10-15 minutes. It features a very nice looking plane with a cool skunk logo [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lockheedmartin.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;lockheed-martin&#x2F;aero&#x2F;photo&#x2F;skunkworks&#x2F;Homepage&#x2F;classified3.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lockheedmartin.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;lockheed-martin&#x2F;a...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>austinl</author><text>I&#x27;d highly recommend the book <i>Skunk Works</i> by Ben Rich. It&#x27;s about the engineering team at Lockheed Martin that designed the Blackbird (and the U-2, and several other amazing planes), and describes many of the engineering challenges in detail.</text></item><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>I love hearing these stories about these little automatic backups and failsafes kicking-in and heroically doing their jobs in the case of unthinkable situations (e.g
the flight suit emergency oxygen, automatic parachute etc here). I get kinda goose pimples thinking about all the systems that were probably spasmodically firing off in that last second or two or flight (and perhaps in the split seconds after breakup if they had power still?), trying their damn best to valiantly do their final important tasks, even when doomed to fail.<p>Kudos to all the engineers involved.<p>Anyone got any other first-hand stories or links to similar stuff?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pilot explains how he Survived Blackbird Disintegration at Mach 3.2</title><url>https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-71-pilot-explains-how-he-survived-to-his-blackbird-disintegration-at-a-speed-of-mach-3-2/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeffdn</author><text>Such a fascinating read! I particularly enjoyed the part where they are testing the radar cross section of Have Blue, the initial design for the F-117. They had put it up on the test stand, but think the radar is malfunctioning, as they don&#x27;t see any returns on the scope. Finally, they get a tiny return -- a bird had landed on the test object!</text><parent_chain><item><author>austinl</author><text>I&#x27;d highly recommend the book <i>Skunk Works</i> by Ben Rich. It&#x27;s about the engineering team at Lockheed Martin that designed the Blackbird (and the U-2, and several other amazing planes), and describes many of the engineering challenges in detail.</text></item><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>I love hearing these stories about these little automatic backups and failsafes kicking-in and heroically doing their jobs in the case of unthinkable situations (e.g
the flight suit emergency oxygen, automatic parachute etc here). I get kinda goose pimples thinking about all the systems that were probably spasmodically firing off in that last second or two or flight (and perhaps in the split seconds after breakup if they had power still?), trying their damn best to valiantly do their final important tasks, even when doomed to fail.<p>Kudos to all the engineers involved.<p>Anyone got any other first-hand stories or links to similar stuff?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pilot explains how he Survived Blackbird Disintegration at Mach 3.2</title><url>https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-71-pilot-explains-how-he-survived-to-his-blackbird-disintegration-at-a-speed-of-mach-3-2/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Fama himself proposed the efficient markets hypothesis, to some acclaim:<p><i>EMH is the closest finance has to a “theory of everything”, and won Fama the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2013. But it remains as controversial today as it did when Fama first proposed it half a century ago.</i><p>(From TFA.)<p>The fact that the hypothesis&#x27;s own formulator and presumably chief cheerleader now has his doubts <i>is</i> worthy of comment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pembrook</author><text>Maybe this is a revelation to…someone? I don’t know why Eugene Fama saying this in 2024 is considered news. The guys entire body of research since the 1960s is about market inefficiencies.<p>Amazing that 100 years later we’re still unable to grasp the nuance of the efficiency idea.<p>We settled this one forever ago, but somehow armchair internet commenters still think they can zing the entire field of economics by saying “lol you guys still think people are efficient robots.” Cool 1940s insult, bro.<p>Yes, obviously markets aren’t perfectly efficient and nobody believes they are. But they trend toward efficiency over time. Ignore this at your own peril.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Economist Eugene Fama: 'Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It's not reality</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/ec06fe06-6150-4f39-8175-37b9b61a5520</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ksynwa</author><text>&gt; But they trend toward efficiency over time.<p>What does efficiency mean here? And can you support this claim?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pembrook</author><text>Maybe this is a revelation to…someone? I don’t know why Eugene Fama saying this in 2024 is considered news. The guys entire body of research since the 1960s is about market inefficiencies.<p>Amazing that 100 years later we’re still unable to grasp the nuance of the efficiency idea.<p>We settled this one forever ago, but somehow armchair internet commenters still think they can zing the entire field of economics by saying “lol you guys still think people are efficient robots.” Cool 1940s insult, bro.<p>Yes, obviously markets aren’t perfectly efficient and nobody believes they are. But they trend toward efficiency over time. Ignore this at your own peril.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Economist Eugene Fama: 'Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It's not reality</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/ec06fe06-6150-4f39-8175-37b9b61a5520</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noad</author><text>The complete failure to imagine an alternative to property&#x2F;sales taxes and development fees during this crisis has been one of the most disappointing failures of politicians everywhere. We keep being told we need to suffer more and more with deeper cuts while living in the wealthiest country that ever existed by a wide margin.<p>This is absurd. There is plenty of money, we could tax something like 5% of stock buybacks and completely rebuild our entire society from the ground up.<p>Instead our leaders just keep telling us to toughen up and get stronger while flying jets overhead in meaningless salutes. They seem to be very bad at their jobs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>America's Growth Ponzi Scheme</title><url>https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growth-ponzi-scheme-md2020</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>treis</author><text>I&#x27;m getting a bit tired of seeing these bizarre and unsupported screeds from strongtowns. The idea that infrastructure is bankrupting the american city&#x2F;town is totally unsupported. Spending on things like roads is a small percentage of government. As a random cite, the Urban institute puts it at 6%:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.urban.org&#x2F;policy-centers&#x2F;cross-center-initiatives&#x2F;state-and-local-finance-initiative&#x2F;state-and-local-backgrounders&#x2F;state-and-local-expenditures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.urban.org&#x2F;policy-centers&#x2F;cross-center-initiative...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>America's Growth Ponzi Scheme</title><url>https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growth-ponzi-scheme-md2020</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>freeqaz</author><text>We just pushed a follow-up post[0] to talk about why the hell we thought this crazy exploit thing might be a good idea. (spoiler: Log4Shell is actually forcing companies to deal with tech debt via dependency hell)<p>I&#x27;ll finishing writing up the technical explanation tomorrow and publish that in a separate post. For now, I&#x27;m after some much needed sleep!<p>Good night, y&#x27;all. :)<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lunasec.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;blog&#x2F;log4shell-live-patch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lunasec.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;blog&#x2F;log4shell-live-patch&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>freeqaz</author><text>We also wrote a Log4Shell payload that will in-memory &quot;hot patch&quot; your server against Log4Shell.<p>${jndi:ldap:&#x2F;&#x2F;hotpatch.log4shell.com:1389&#x2F;a}<p>If you paste that into a vulnerable server (or even throw it into a log statement in your `main` function), that&#x27;ll patch you against this until you can manage to update properly.<p>Source code is on GitHub here[0][1] if you want to host it yourself.<p>(This work is based on Logout4Shell[2], but we rewrote it to fix the bugs, make it work in more places, and also hosted it so that you don&#x27;t have to muck with DNS and live server stuff.)<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;releases&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;releases&#x2F;</a><p>1: (Go source code) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;tools&#x2F;log4shell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;tools&#x2F;log4...</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cybereason&#x2F;Logout4Shell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cybereason&#x2F;Logout4Shell</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published</title><url>https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day-update-on-cve-2021-45046/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eitland</author><text>Heh.<p>I remember seeing a framework for this kind of thing, i.e. using exploits to display warnings, hotpatch or otherwise patch servers back on Hackcon #1 in February 2006 in Oslo.<p>I think it was HP who presented it and I also can&#x27;t remember hearing about it since and I think there are good reasons for that[1].<p>In this case however the advantages might actually outweigh the risks as long as it is done carefully.<p>[1]: others mention services or servers that no one know how to restart anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>freeqaz</author><text>We also wrote a Log4Shell payload that will in-memory &quot;hot patch&quot; your server against Log4Shell.<p>${jndi:ldap:&#x2F;&#x2F;hotpatch.log4shell.com:1389&#x2F;a}<p>If you paste that into a vulnerable server (or even throw it into a log statement in your `main` function), that&#x27;ll patch you against this until you can manage to update properly.<p>Source code is on GitHub here[0][1] if you want to host it yourself.<p>(This work is based on Logout4Shell[2], but we rewrote it to fix the bugs, make it work in more places, and also hosted it so that you don&#x27;t have to muck with DNS and live server stuff.)<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;releases&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;releases&#x2F;</a><p>1: (Go source code) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;tools&#x2F;log4shell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunasec-io&#x2F;lunasec&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;tools&#x2F;log4...</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cybereason&#x2F;Logout4Shell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cybereason&#x2F;Logout4Shell</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published</title><url>https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day-update-on-cve-2021-45046/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beeboop</author><text>I recently tried to get involved as an editor but gave up. It can take literally hours out of your day going back and forth with some other editor who decides he or she wants to debate you on the world&#x27;s dumbest, most pedantic thing ever. One time it literally took 3+ hours to make a change of less than a sentence on some stupid article like a particular model of motorcycle and it required escalating it to dispute resolution. Eventually a few more people chimed in and unanimously supported my position but my several hours were lost.<p>Articles that are in a niche people care (politically charged subjects) about have pretty strong biases that are impossible to remove because it doesn&#x27;t matter which side follows the rules or the intended spirit of Wikipedia, all that matters is which side has more people and which side is more vocal. When making community decisions, the number of people voting is all that seems to matter, even if they vote with zero explanation or with an explanation that uses the rules incorrectly.<p>I gave up after probably 60 hours accumulated editing time, most of it spent not editing but dealing with other users and their bullshit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia for Pay</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/wikipedia-editors-for-pay/393926/?single_page=true</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sytelus</author><text>The most enlightening thing in this article is a graph which shows numbers of editors has declined by 25% while articles are more than doubling over past 8 years. There must obviously be breaking point sooner or later where Wikipedia has more garbage then useful bits. My take away is that Wikipedia&#x27;s model of small tribes of editors is not working and is demonstrably unscalable.<p>What could be the replacement? How about Stackoverflow style reputations that one must accumulate overtime and then they translate to <i>privileges</i>. The beauty of Stackoverflow is not its content but this community model they have sharpened to almost perfection. It feels far more scalable than Wikipedia&#x27;s arcane model of emulating print world editorial team and beautifully takes advantage of gamification combining rewards with career profile.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia for Pay</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/wikipedia-editors-for-pay/393926/?single_page=true</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clarkmoody</author><text>Interesting that we have a whole vocabulary of words reserved for those on the &quot;wrong side&quot;: insurrection, sedition, traitor, deserter, criminal, smuggler, terrorist, extremist, rebel, revolutionary, etc.<p>But from the &quot;right side&quot; of an ideology, those are the freedom fighters, visionaries, defenders, Founding Fathers, Underground Railroad, idealists, etc.<p>Controlling vocabulary is a very powerful tactic in politics, as illustrated in <i>1984</i>. People respond in very predictable ways to certain words, hence their power.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>I think youtube needs to consider backing off regulating political content.<p>The fact is politics and morality are inherently intermingled. One can use words like extremist, but sometimes the extremists are the &quot;correct&quot; ones (like our founding fathers who orchestrated a revolution). How could any system consistently categorize &quot;appropriate&quot; videos without making moral judgements?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war crime videos</title><url>http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-admits-wrong-call-over-deletion-syrian-war-crime-videos-1140126078</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Agree but it&#x27;s far easier for politicians (May, Rudd, Trump, Turnball, Putin, Netanyahu, Xi Jinping, Mugabe, Zuma, Chan-ocha, el-Sisi, Erdoğan, Khamenei, Maduro - the list is endless) to blame videos on Youtube for radicalising people then it is to tackle the long running political, historical and socio-economic grievances that fuel the fire.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>I think youtube needs to consider backing off regulating political content.<p>The fact is politics and morality are inherently intermingled. One can use words like extremist, but sometimes the extremists are the &quot;correct&quot; ones (like our founding fathers who orchestrated a revolution). How could any system consistently categorize &quot;appropriate&quot; videos without making moral judgements?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war crime videos</title><url>http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-admits-wrong-call-over-deletion-syrian-war-crime-videos-1140126078</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josephg</author><text>Using invariants like this is now my preferred programming style. Almost all of my complex container classes have a dbg_check() method which checks all the internal invariants hold, and panics if not. When testing and debugging, I’ll add calls to dbg_check() after each mutation of my data structure. And then I write a fuzzer which exercises my API in a loop. Each iteration, I check that my invariants still hold.<p>The nice thing about this sort of invariant checking is that it makes it very fast and easy to narrow in on bugs. The crash happens right after a change which made the data invalid, not later when the invalid data is accessed.<p>And a few dozen lines of fuzz testing can find an extraordinary quantity of subtle bugs. It’s remarkable. Devastating for the ego, but remarkable.<p><i>Edit:</i><p>Simple dbg_check implementation example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josephg&#x2F;diamond-types&#x2F;blob&#x2F;3eb48478fd879e9f2bb9bcc6062762fbf2f8db21&#x2F;src&#x2F;causalgraph&#x2F;check.rs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josephg&#x2F;diamond-types&#x2F;blob&#x2F;3eb48478fd879e...</a><p>And here&#x27;s a simple fuzz tester: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josephg&#x2F;jumprope-rs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;318e87d3aae1b2a0333042c7e75d30179c162f21&#x2F;tests&#x2F;test.rs#L202-L261">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josephg&#x2F;jumprope-rs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;318e87d3aae1b2a0...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adding design-by-contract conditions to C++ via a GCC plugin</title><url>https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/adding-invariant-to-cpp-design-by-contract</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>I thought &quot;contracts&quot; were dropped out of C++20.[1]<p>Entry and exit assertions, and invariants, are powerful, especially when coupled with a proof of correctness system. But they&#x27;re a tough retrofit.<p>Invariants have some issues. The general idea is that the invariant has to be true when control is outside the object. This was once the core idea of the object concept, although it&#x27;s been somewhat forgotten. A big issue is, when does control enter and exit the object? What if you call a public member function from inside the object? Did you re-enter? What if you call out of an object to something that calls back in? What about recursion? What if another thread enters? Objects need clarity on the inside&#x2F;outside issue for invariants to work. This is quite possible but a tough retrofit.<p>Invariants need syntax for talking about arrays and parts therof. You need quantifiers, or something like them. Lambdas?<p>From back when I did this sort of thing, decades ago, a simple SAT solver can eliminate the need to check over 90% of assertions at run time. So you want something like that, rather than trying to check everything at run time. Otherwise, nobody will keep the checks turned on.<p>All this is quite do-able. Most attempts to do it have suffered from academic overreach - the technology is pushed by people in love with formal methods, and the result is too complicated for routine use.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;cpp&#x2F;comments&#x2F;cmk7ek&#x2F;what_happened_to_c20_contracts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;cpp&#x2F;comments&#x2F;cmk7ek&#x2F;what_happened_t...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adding design-by-contract conditions to C++ via a GCC plugin</title><url>https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/adding-invariant-to-cpp-design-by-contract</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmelbye</author><text>From what I&#x27;ve seen of mobile games, in practice it means that it starts off fun and well balanced. Then after [x] minutes it starts to get a bit frustrating, and suddenly you&#x27;re unable to make progress without sitting and waiting or banging your head against the wall. This presents a choice to the player. They can choose to put the game down until they unlock some power up that helps them pass the level. Or, they can pay money to receive the instant dopamine hit of getting back to the beginning of the &quot;compulsion loop&quot;.<p>The real dystopia is that I&#x27;m 99% sure these games dynamically adjust durations, prices, and incentives based on the user&#x27;s past behavior to extract as much money per hour of play as possible. Essentially a machine that identifies and preys on a person&#x27;s weaknesses.</text><parent_chain><item><author>actinium226</author><text>Compulsion loop does sound rather dystopian and &quot;attention-hacking&quot; but it&#x27;s interesting that he says &quot;two minutes when it should have been an hour,&quot; instead of the other way around. An hour long compulsion loop sounds like it could be an immersive experience.<p>That said, I&#x27;m not hearing nice things about IronSource and it sounds like maybe there&#x27;s better ways to get user feedback than the particular implementations they&#x27;re using and are going to use with IronSource.</text></item><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; “I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour.<p>A &#x27;compulsion loop&#x27; sounds bad to me, I&#x27;d never heard the term before. Although if I try to take a step back I suppose this term could be used to describe any game and not just one of the lootbox-mania or idle games.<p>However, the wikipedia article [1] states:<p>&gt; A core or compulsion loop is any repetitive gameplay cycle that is designed to keep the player engaged with the game. ... A compulsion loop may be distinguished further from a core loop; while many games have a core loop of activities that a player may repeat over and over again, such as combat within a role-playing game, a compulsion loop is particularly designed to guide the player into anticipation for the potential reward from specific activities<p>For some reason, all I can think of is that game from ST:TNG [2]. I&#x27;d like to say that I am somehow above it all but back when I used to play FPS games, it was probably just the same thing. Nonstop dopamine infusion.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compulsion_loop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compulsion_loop</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gamedevs not baking in monetization are “fucking idiots”, says Unity CEO</title><url>https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource-john-riccitiello-marc-whitten-merger/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bakuninsbart</author><text>I&#x27;ve developed to be a terrible gamer: Great games that are finished in 7 hours usually don&#x27;t feel worth the money, while games that do these compulsion loops quickly feel like a waste of time.<p>I think I&#x27;m not alone in that, and the few games I really enjoyed in the last couple of years were significantly text-based and&#x2F;or complex simulations for this reason.</text><parent_chain><item><author>actinium226</author><text>Compulsion loop does sound rather dystopian and &quot;attention-hacking&quot; but it&#x27;s interesting that he says &quot;two minutes when it should have been an hour,&quot; instead of the other way around. An hour long compulsion loop sounds like it could be an immersive experience.<p>That said, I&#x27;m not hearing nice things about IronSource and it sounds like maybe there&#x27;s better ways to get user feedback than the particular implementations they&#x27;re using and are going to use with IronSource.</text></item><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; “I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour.<p>A &#x27;compulsion loop&#x27; sounds bad to me, I&#x27;d never heard the term before. Although if I try to take a step back I suppose this term could be used to describe any game and not just one of the lootbox-mania or idle games.<p>However, the wikipedia article [1] states:<p>&gt; A core or compulsion loop is any repetitive gameplay cycle that is designed to keep the player engaged with the game. ... A compulsion loop may be distinguished further from a core loop; while many games have a core loop of activities that a player may repeat over and over again, such as combat within a role-playing game, a compulsion loop is particularly designed to guide the player into anticipation for the potential reward from specific activities<p>For some reason, all I can think of is that game from ST:TNG [2]. I&#x27;d like to say that I am somehow above it all but back when I used to play FPS games, it was probably just the same thing. Nonstop dopamine infusion.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compulsion_loop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compulsion_loop</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gamedevs not baking in monetization are “fucking idiots”, says Unity CEO</title><url>https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource-john-riccitiello-marc-whitten-merger/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seized</author><text>Just finished installing it on my OpenIndiana NAS to replace Minio.<p>Biggest difference so far is that Minio is just files on disk, Garage chunks all files and has a metadata db.<p>Minios listing operations were horribly slow, still have to see if Garage resolves that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Garage: An open-source distributed object storage service</title><url>https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ollybee</author><text>It looks similar to minio, which as also an AGPL single binary that implements the S3 API. However Minio is written in Go and Garage is in Rust. I&#x27;d love to see a detailed comparison.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Garage: An open-source distributed object storage service</title><url>https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m23khan</author><text>As a Pakistani living abroad, here is my suggestion to avoid diarrhea:<p>Simply avoid eating food from outside anywhere besides KFC. No, not even McDonalds or Pizza Hut. Doesn&#x27;t matter how fresh or clean the food or restaurant or bakery look.<p>I love meat and dairy - avoid these both things while in Pakistan (KFC is alright). Only drink canned cold drinks (Try to do as locals -- they prefer &#x27;white&#x27; &#x2F; transparent cold drinks over coca cola. Only drink boiled water (or mineral water from some large supermarket&#x2F;pharmacy&#x2F;hotel). And avoid eating salad after sunset -- don&#x27;t know why, just don&#x27;t.<p>If you can, take dried instant oats&#x2F;ramen noodles&#x2F;etc. and chuck them into bowl of boiled water. Fruits and veges are good - just make sure you wash your fruits such as apples and grapes thoroughly with cooled boiled water &#x2F; mineral water before eating them.<p>Finally, if you do get diarrhea in Pakistan, DO visit the local clinic and get some medicine prescribed. It will help you feel better much faster then trying to &#x27;brave it out&#x27; or relying on some simple medications from back home.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PopeDotNinja</author><text>I’m an American, and I visited Pakistan on a whim back in September. I was able to spend a few days in the north. I can only say the north of Pakistan is incredible. There’s nothing that prepares you for seeing 8000+ meter mountains for the first time.<p>There’s no shortage of people offering tours, but I made my own plans. I rented a Toyota Hilux 4x4 for 4 days at $50&#x2F;day, and they insisted I hire a driver because they didn’t trust me to drive solo (which in retrospect was wise of them because of language barriers, road conditions, police&#x2F;military checkpoints, etc.). The driver quoted me a rate of $3&#x2F;day (not a typo). I drove from Islamabad to Hunza and back in 3 days (I could only get one day off work, lol). It was way too much driving, but the trip was still incredible.<p>To make the trip extra fun, I had the worst case of food poisoning w&#x2F; diarrhea that I’ve ever had for the entire time. I developed that the night before I was scheduled to drive off. So in the morning I picked up some Imodium and baby wipes, and just stopped every hour or two. I somehow managed to avoid shitting in my pants, but I don’t know how. Nearly every bathroom in Pakistan, which might just be a hole in the ground, has a handheld bidet, which is a power washer for your backside. No matter how messy it got, I also walked away from a pit stop with a fresh backside.<p>Here’s some pictures of the traveling, sans pit stops...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;tZ3scbSFbPbxQCpG7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;tZ3scbSFbPbxQCpG7</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2</title><url>http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web21w/newswire-k2-first-winter-ascent</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Agingcoder</author><text>Fifteen years ago I spent three weeks in Pakistan (as part of a significantly longer trip) - entered from the Indian side not far from Amritsar, went to Lahore, spent some time in rawalpindi then off to the Hunza. I also got the nastiest bout of diarrhea I had ever had in my life, most likely caused my bad meat (I still remember the faulty kebab...).<p>The locals where very friendly. When I was in the bus on the karakoram highway, we had a brief stop (bathroom break, food, etc). I was chatting with someone who was asking where I came from, when suddenly he snapped his fingers. A can of coke appeared on his hand, and he handed it to me, saying &#x27;welcome to Pakistan!&#x27;.<p>As to the landscape, I still remember it many years later.<p>A truly extraordinary place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PopeDotNinja</author><text>I’m an American, and I visited Pakistan on a whim back in September. I was able to spend a few days in the north. I can only say the north of Pakistan is incredible. There’s nothing that prepares you for seeing 8000+ meter mountains for the first time.<p>There’s no shortage of people offering tours, but I made my own plans. I rented a Toyota Hilux 4x4 for 4 days at $50&#x2F;day, and they insisted I hire a driver because they didn’t trust me to drive solo (which in retrospect was wise of them because of language barriers, road conditions, police&#x2F;military checkpoints, etc.). The driver quoted me a rate of $3&#x2F;day (not a typo). I drove from Islamabad to Hunza and back in 3 days (I could only get one day off work, lol). It was way too much driving, but the trip was still incredible.<p>To make the trip extra fun, I had the worst case of food poisoning w&#x2F; diarrhea that I’ve ever had for the entire time. I developed that the night before I was scheduled to drive off. So in the morning I picked up some Imodium and baby wipes, and just stopped every hour or two. I somehow managed to avoid shitting in my pants, but I don’t know how. Nearly every bathroom in Pakistan, which might just be a hole in the ground, has a handheld bidet, which is a power washer for your backside. No matter how messy it got, I also walked away from a pit stop with a fresh backside.<p>Here’s some pictures of the traveling, sans pit stops...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;tZ3scbSFbPbxQCpG7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;tZ3scbSFbPbxQCpG7</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2</title><url>http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web21w/newswire-k2-first-winter-ascent</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>daniel_iversen</author><text>I got the uHoo Air Quality Monitor[1] and I love it. One of the few nice smart-home&#x2F;app ones to monitor carbon monoxide too. But it&#x27;s pricey. I can probably get some discount codes from them if the HN community is interested (I&#x27;ve spoken with their team once before in Singapore and they were very nice and accommodating!)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getuhoo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getuhoo.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Open source diy is wonderful. But is there a reliable trustworthy monitor that can just... Be bought? A box that will reliably tell me what&#x27;s the carbon dioxide carbon monoxide dust allergens volatile compounds? Am I possibly being greedy and I need several konitors (I wouldn&#x27;t have an issue with that)?<p>Every review I check for any consumer accessible device seems to indicate they&#x27;re inaccurate, miscalibrated, or downright deceptive :-(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/diy-pro-v37/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomaskafka</author><text>Anything under $60 doesn&#x27;t have a &#x27;real&#x27; CO2 sensor. One of the good budget ones is Cleargrass Air Monitor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Open source diy is wonderful. But is there a reliable trustworthy monitor that can just... Be bought? A box that will reliably tell me what&#x27;s the carbon dioxide carbon monoxide dust allergens volatile compounds? Am I possibly being greedy and I need several konitors (I wouldn&#x27;t have an issue with that)?<p>Every review I check for any consumer accessible device seems to indicate they&#x27;re inaccurate, miscalibrated, or downright deceptive :-(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/diy-pro-v37/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kannanvijayan</author><text>&gt; Can everyone be code literate?<p>Why not, for the same reason that everyone can be - to reasonable standards - be literate?<p>This is merely a new and powerful form of literacy that has become relevant due to a particular set of technological circumstances, but structurally it&#x27;s not that different from the printing press preceding widespread literacy of the regular sort.<p>And no doubt this form of literacy is powerful. It relates to an understanding of how to describe the processing of information in various contexts. In an increasingly information overloaded world, the ability to use the tool of your time to process the information you need will become a critical ability.<p>I think one fallacy we can implicitly succumb to is the notion that &quot;everybody knowing how to program&quot; somehow relates to everyone being a programmer.<p>Everyone knowing how to read and write doesn&#x27;t mean everyone is an author or a technical writer. But everyone _does_ use their ability to read and write to make their own work more productive within their contexts. And even in a personal context, being able to read an ingredients list, or write a shopping list, is underpinned by literacy.<p>What&#x27;s so hard to imagine about a future where everyone knows how to build small useful programs for themselves, and just as everyone has access to post it notes and notepads, everyone having access to a few small devices that allow them to use that literacy to build programs that are useful to them in their day to day activities?<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine the specifics of how that might be applied, but it seems easy to imagine the transformative power of that sort of a casual power being not just available to the masses, but understood and able to be exercised by all of them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danr4</author><text>Is it another attempt to &quot;make programming easy&quot;?. I keep wondering if it&#x27;s even possible. Can everyone be code literate? or do you have to have an &quot;algorithmic&quot; (for lack of a better word) way of thinking? Is it something like woodworking class vs real carpentry?<p>Minecraft, for example, opened a door to system thinking to a lot of young people, but there&#x27;s probably many more that just like the fun and not the understanding and craft, so maybe those people&#x27;s brain already leaned towards it?<p>Right now we&#x27;re in peak &quot;Everyone should know how to code&quot; but sometimes it seems like we keep chasing the golden goose - Visual Basic, Dreamweaver, Node based programming, Webflow etc.<p>Edit: forgot to add that the CEO has that confident delusional&#x2F;visionary vibe so this certainly fits the bill. Time will tell which it is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Replit Apps</title><url>https://blog.replit.com/apps</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tangert</author><text>Are you referring to Replit as a whole? I&#x27;m curious what your comment has to do with the launch of an app store specifically.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danr4</author><text>Is it another attempt to &quot;make programming easy&quot;?. I keep wondering if it&#x27;s even possible. Can everyone be code literate? or do you have to have an &quot;algorithmic&quot; (for lack of a better word) way of thinking? Is it something like woodworking class vs real carpentry?<p>Minecraft, for example, opened a door to system thinking to a lot of young people, but there&#x27;s probably many more that just like the fun and not the understanding and craft, so maybe those people&#x27;s brain already leaned towards it?<p>Right now we&#x27;re in peak &quot;Everyone should know how to code&quot; but sometimes it seems like we keep chasing the golden goose - Visual Basic, Dreamweaver, Node based programming, Webflow etc.<p>Edit: forgot to add that the CEO has that confident delusional&#x2F;visionary vibe so this certainly fits the bill. Time will tell which it is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Replit Apps</title><url>https://blog.replit.com/apps</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roc</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;I can&#x27;t conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance.&quot;</i><p>I think, logically, we&#x27;re down to only a few options:<p>1. &quot;he&#x27;s lying&quot;: His stated opinions&#x2F;positions don&#x27;t reflect his beliefs at all.<p>2. &quot;he&#x27;s powerless&quot;: despite being President, he has no practical control over what is pursued, so his speeches and signing statements are essentially a plea for people and historians to not blame him for that which he cannot control.<p>3. &quot;he&#x27;s corrupt&quot;: Power has corrupted his ideals, and he truly believes he can fairly wield dangerous powers such as the drone kill list and suspension of citizenship&#x2F;rights, despite their risks, and that having these tools available to him today is more necessary&#x2F;important than denying them for fear of future abuse.<p>And none of those possibilities are particularly encouraging.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>&quot;Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned indefinitely&quot;<p>If you want to influence someone, it helps to understand their motivations. I can&#x27;t conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance.<p>Is it not obvious to everyone the unwanted side-effects of this kind of power? Is it not obvious how much this flies in the face of the intent of the people who wrote the Constitution. Or more relevantly the Declaration of Independence? Obama is a <i>lawyer</i>! He&#x27;s intelligent. What can he be thinking? Did he forget the purpose and spirit of the Bill of Rights as he and advisors schemed to get around its letters?<p>Those revolutionaries would have all been labeled terrorists today. With the King in England, any colonist would have been an enemy combatant, stripped of rights, jailed or worse arbitrarily, and who knows what else.<p>Whether the United States has become what we rebelled against is not the question. If nothing changes, it&#x27;s only a matter of time. This country has gotten rid of slavery and overcome major hurdles of sexual and racial inequality. Let&#x27;s hope we have what it takes to overcome this centralization of power and unaccountability. And that we act on it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/obama-ndaa-appeal-suit-229/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xradionut</author><text>The United States has become empire. We have the trappings of a democratic republic, but it&#x27;s obvious that the law of the land is broken for those in power. No one should be surprised by this, it&#x27;s evolution in action and the writing&#x27;s been on the wall for years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>&quot;Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned indefinitely&quot;<p>If you want to influence someone, it helps to understand their motivations. I can&#x27;t conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance.<p>Is it not obvious to everyone the unwanted side-effects of this kind of power? Is it not obvious how much this flies in the face of the intent of the people who wrote the Constitution. Or more relevantly the Declaration of Independence? Obama is a <i>lawyer</i>! He&#x27;s intelligent. What can he be thinking? Did he forget the purpose and spirit of the Bill of Rights as he and advisors schemed to get around its letters?<p>Those revolutionaries would have all been labeled terrorists today. With the King in England, any colonist would have been an enemy combatant, stripped of rights, jailed or worse arbitrarily, and who knows what else.<p>Whether the United States has become what we rebelled against is not the question. If nothing changes, it&#x27;s only a matter of time. This country has gotten rid of slavery and overcome major hurdles of sexual and racial inequality. Let&#x27;s hope we have what it takes to overcome this centralization of power and unaccountability. And that we act on it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/obama-ndaa-appeal-suit-229/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prepend</author><text>“The south” is a really big region so maybe someone pops up because you’re tarring an entire region based on your individual experience. As an LGBT person, I grew up with people telling urban legends about gerbils and whatnot. Perhaps they witnessed a single person doing this, but attributing it to a large group is not very accurate.<p>I grew up in the south in a super backwards small town and now live in a really forward town in the south. It’s a big place and there’s a lot of great places.<p>Stereotypes are based on common behavior but don’t apply to everyone here or every part of the south.</text><parent_chain><item><author>scarmig</author><text>Or maybe they themselves have experienced discriminatory behavior in the Midwest?<p>As an LGBT guy, I&#x27;m always direct when pointing out that I left the South partially because of discrimination, and someone is always happy to butt in to say I&#x27;m making it all up and the South is perfectly open and tolerant. It gets tiring.</text></item><item><author>jacobriis</author><text>&quot;What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white).&quot;<p>Be aware that when people say things like this they often do so to feel virtuous themselves like only they are so enlightened that only they even consider being friendly to non white people.<p>The idea that people in the Midwest (which has a population of over 65 million people similar to France and the UK) are only friendly to white people is pretty crazy.</text></item><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area, and tech comes in two forms: IT departments at major industrial firms (manufacturing, chemical, pharma, etc), or companies that are eventually bought by West Coast companies. The pay cap is much lower. Becoming a millionaire through stocks and wages is harder, but you will still be in the top 10% of earners overall.<p>If you want to live in a mansion, the Midwest makes this dream obtainable. Buy a 6 bedroom, lake (reservoir) side, 4k sqr ft home for less than a million. Of if you want an acre of lawn, but not live too far in the country.<p>What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white). (EDIT: This gets more pronounced the more rural you are. Cities tend to be more accepting. What you will find is that rural areas have more relative sway on thought compared to the West Coast.) Towns outside of major metropolitan areas are dying as most major industries that supported that last two generations have left. Drugs are a huge issue, but its not as obvious because the floor for homelessness is so much lower. The only major infrastructure and building projects that get approved are sports stadiums, because idiots in local government rather have sports teams than functioning schools.<p>What the Midwest does have is solid engineering and research universities, that graduate thousands of STEM oriented students a year. Unfortunately there are often over an hour from the nearest 250k+ city. I went to one, and I think less than 25% of my friends stayed in state. The brain drain is real.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities</title><url>https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>learc83</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;m making it all up and the South is perfectly open and tolerant.<p>I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;re not. But &quot;the South&quot; is diverse. Atlanta has a very large LGBT community (both in absolute terms and as a percentage) and culture that is completely different from areas just an hour away. It&#x27;s very possible that you and the people you are talking to had completely different experiences.<p>Both of you are almost certainly overgeneralizing your experiences when you say &quot;the South&quot;.<p>People who live in the South get upset that the country likes to pretend that the rest of the country outside a few urban centers is any different. That is, if you had left the South for the rural or suburban Midwest or most of Pennsylvania, you&#x27;d likely have had a similar experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>scarmig</author><text>Or maybe they themselves have experienced discriminatory behavior in the Midwest?<p>As an LGBT guy, I&#x27;m always direct when pointing out that I left the South partially because of discrimination, and someone is always happy to butt in to say I&#x27;m making it all up and the South is perfectly open and tolerant. It gets tiring.</text></item><item><author>jacobriis</author><text>&quot;What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white).&quot;<p>Be aware that when people say things like this they often do so to feel virtuous themselves like only they are so enlightened that only they even consider being friendly to non white people.<p>The idea that people in the Midwest (which has a population of over 65 million people similar to France and the UK) are only friendly to white people is pretty crazy.</text></item><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area, and tech comes in two forms: IT departments at major industrial firms (manufacturing, chemical, pharma, etc), or companies that are eventually bought by West Coast companies. The pay cap is much lower. Becoming a millionaire through stocks and wages is harder, but you will still be in the top 10% of earners overall.<p>If you want to live in a mansion, the Midwest makes this dream obtainable. Buy a 6 bedroom, lake (reservoir) side, 4k sqr ft home for less than a million. Of if you want an acre of lawn, but not live too far in the country.<p>What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white). (EDIT: This gets more pronounced the more rural you are. Cities tend to be more accepting. What you will find is that rural areas have more relative sway on thought compared to the West Coast.) Towns outside of major metropolitan areas are dying as most major industries that supported that last two generations have left. Drugs are a huge issue, but its not as obvious because the floor for homelessness is so much lower. The only major infrastructure and building projects that get approved are sports stadiums, because idiots in local government rather have sports teams than functioning schools.<p>What the Midwest does have is solid engineering and research universities, that graduate thousands of STEM oriented students a year. Unfortunately there are often over an hour from the nearest 250k+ city. I went to one, and I think less than 25% of my friends stayed in state. The brain drain is real.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities</title><url>https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wodenokoto</author><text>Didn&#x27;t Firefox show puny code in the url bar once?<p>The problem is quite old. [1] is a 12 year old bug report on this very problem in Mozilla.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=279099" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=279099</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>For reference, the example is using:<p><pre><code> U+0435 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE
U+0440 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER
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...which are basically <i>indistinguishable</i> from the corresponding ASCII (65 70 69 63) in most if not all fonts.<p>I don&#x27;t see this as being an easy or even solvable problem in general --- after all, a Russian IDN registrar could rightly argue that it should be valid to use all Cyrillic characters in IDNs; but at least for those of us who are content with English-only domain names, we can just disable IDN.<p>I suppose one solution would be, when IDN is detected, to show both the Unicode and Punycoded versions:<p>[www.xn--e1awd7f.com]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epic.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epic.com&#x2F;</a><p>One could also argue that this is also a usability feature, for easy copying of IDNs by those who otherwise cannot write them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phishing attack uses Unicode characters in domains to clone known safe sites</title><url>https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-firefox-unicode-phishing</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dolzenko</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it possible to detect the mixture of cyrillic vs english and so on?</text><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>For reference, the example is using:<p><pre><code> U+0435 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE
U+0440 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER
U+0456 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
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...which are basically <i>indistinguishable</i> from the corresponding ASCII (65 70 69 63) in most if not all fonts.<p>I don&#x27;t see this as being an easy or even solvable problem in general --- after all, a Russian IDN registrar could rightly argue that it should be valid to use all Cyrillic characters in IDNs; but at least for those of us who are content with English-only domain names, we can just disable IDN.<p>I suppose one solution would be, when IDN is detected, to show both the Unicode and Punycoded versions:<p>[www.xn--e1awd7f.com]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epic.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epic.com&#x2F;</a><p>One could also argue that this is also a usability feature, for easy copying of IDNs by those who otherwise cannot write them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Phishing attack uses Unicode characters in domains to clone known safe sites</title><url>https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-firefox-unicode-phishing</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jasper_</author><text>Abusing the framebuffer contents to do convincing-unless-you-stare-closely-at-them reflections is a time-honored tradition stretching back to the early 2000s. Nintendo pulls off this effect a couple of times in this shot:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noclip.website&#x2F;#smg&#x2F;HeavensDoorGalaxy;ShareData=AY,m79a;TO8=kB:9sLRjXA$3GQ?k+ZUulYx8]bTS=!@a%7dUug3%7d8,X%7bo9Q7tZ=a~" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noclip.website&#x2F;#smg&#x2F;HeavensDoorGalaxy;ShareData=AY,m...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jessep</author><text>I found this one by the same person even more amazing. It shows the background image being refracted through the glass: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;domenicobrz.github.io&#x2F;webgl&#x2F;projects&#x2F;glass-absorption&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;domenicobrz.github.io&#x2F;webgl&#x2F;projects&#x2F;glass-absorptio...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rendering photo-realistic glass in the browser</title><url>https://domenicobrz.github.io/webgl/projects/SSRefractionDepthPeeling/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Pulcinella</author><text>Is this actually refracting through the glass? The distortion doesn’t seem quite correct.<p>I wonder if this is actually a clever cheat. Perhaps it’s actually not transparent, but a mirror surface and the cube map for reflections is actually just the skybox inverted. So instead of actually looking through the glass sculpture, it’s reflecting the inverted skybox.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jessep</author><text>I found this one by the same person even more amazing. It shows the background image being refracted through the glass: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;domenicobrz.github.io&#x2F;webgl&#x2F;projects&#x2F;glass-absorption&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;domenicobrz.github.io&#x2F;webgl&#x2F;projects&#x2F;glass-absorptio...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rendering photo-realistic glass in the browser</title><url>https://domenicobrz.github.io/webgl/projects/SSRefractionDepthPeeling/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewstuart2</author><text>If we really aspire to be an information-driven culture who makes informed decisions about important topics, we really ought to curate lists like these down to actual informed discussions on the items in the list.<p>Printing out a list of &quot;falsehoods&quot; littered with personal opinions and calling them &quot;demonstrable&quot; [1] without a shred of evidence is not going to contribute to general knowledge. There may be some utility in getting me thinking, but for the most part I just find it self-aggrandizing. For what it&#x27;s worth, I do find this [2] format much more helpful. I&#x27;d very much rather see valid counterexamples proving a sweeping statement false than yet another sweeping statement that happens to cover a few sweeping statements.<p>Of course, the above is my personal opinion and may not be shared by the rest of the community, but <i>please</i> can we do better than curating a list of lists we agree with?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chiselapp.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;ttmrichter&#x2F;repository&#x2F;gng&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;output&#x2F;falsehoods.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chiselapp.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;ttmrichter&#x2F;repository&#x2F;gng&#x2F;doc&#x2F;tru...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mjt.me.uk&#x2F;posts&#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mjt.me.uk&#x2F;posts&#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of falsehoods programmers believe in</title><url>https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nodesocket</author><text>First, let me say I am a huge fans of RethinkDB and their entire team. The quality and beauty of their software is something to be admired.<p>I&#x27;ve been working on my 3rd startup for a few months and decided to use RethinkDB with Node.js. If you follow them at all, they are extremely active on GitHub and Twitter. Then... All the sudden everything stopped. No new commits. No new tweets. Complete radio silence.<p>I wish them all the best, and hope they can solve whatever issues they are dealing with.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is RethinkDB shutting down?</title><url>https://discuss.horizon.io/t/are-rethink-and-horizon-dead-abandoned/619/10</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>The TL;DR:<p>&gt; It appears Horizon development slowed to a trickle. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rethinkdb&#x2F;horizon&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;contributors52" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rethinkdb&#x2F;horizon&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;contributors52</a> Are there any updates?<p>&gt; Slava @ Rethink here. Unfortunately I cannot comment yet (I really wish I could), but your intuition is right. We&#x27;re working hard to be able to give a full account ASAP (matter of days). Please stay tuned. ... There is no legal action&#x2F;litigation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is RethinkDB shutting down?</title><url>https://discuss.horizon.io/t/are-rethink-and-horizon-dead-abandoned/619/10</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>laumars</author><text>There was a Korean movie about a vaguely similar topic: salvaging space debris that I enjoyed<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt12838766&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt12838766&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>So here&#x27;s a potential business model for this: salvage rights.<p>When ships sink, the owner generally still retains ownership of any property. Sometimes the location of the wreck is known. Sometimes it needs to be found. It can cost a lot of money to find a wreck and recover any property.<p>So salvage rights are a principle of maritime law such that whoever does this is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the goods recovered (eg 10%).<p>I imagine there are orbital slots that are essentially unusable because of space debris (eg Project West Ford [1]). If orbital slots are sufficiently scarce then these could have value. At some point it may become commercial to spend the effort cleaning up an orbit and making it available. Companies could then be compensated for the value they create this way.<p>I do believe this will still require a dramatic decrease in launch costs, as in orders of magnitude more. But we&#x27;ll see.<p>My personal belief (and hope) is that the future of getting into orbit is orbital rings [2]. If so, that completely changes the game because cleaning up an orbit essentially becomes a problem of just holding up a giant &quot;paddle&quot; (for lack of a better word) that is fixed to a point on Earth (essentially) and just letting the debris hit it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_West_Ford" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_West_Ford</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/apple-founder-wozniak-space-debris-company-b1919747.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>SonicScrub</author><text>This could work, but would limit effectiveness to the orbits that MUST be very specific to work. For most satellites this doesn&#x27;t matter. If 500 km is clogged, you design your mission to work at 505 km. I could see something like this working for geostationary orbits and sun-synchronous orbits as they require specific altitudes and inclinations, but not for much else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>So here&#x27;s a potential business model for this: salvage rights.<p>When ships sink, the owner generally still retains ownership of any property. Sometimes the location of the wreck is known. Sometimes it needs to be found. It can cost a lot of money to find a wreck and recover any property.<p>So salvage rights are a principle of maritime law such that whoever does this is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the goods recovered (eg 10%).<p>I imagine there are orbital slots that are essentially unusable because of space debris (eg Project West Ford [1]). If orbital slots are sufficiently scarce then these could have value. At some point it may become commercial to spend the effort cleaning up an orbit and making it available. Companies could then be compensated for the value they create this way.<p>I do believe this will still require a dramatic decrease in launch costs, as in orders of magnitude more. But we&#x27;ll see.<p>My personal belief (and hope) is that the future of getting into orbit is orbital rings [2]. If so, that completely changes the game because cleaning up an orbit essentially becomes a problem of just holding up a giant &quot;paddle&quot; (for lack of a better word) that is fixed to a point on Earth (essentially) and just letting the debris hit it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_West_Ford" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_West_Ford</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit</title><url>https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/apple-founder-wozniak-space-debris-company-b1919747.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>samatman</author><text>Please understand that what I&#x27;m about to say isn&#x27;t to be taken personally. I don&#x27;t know you, and I&#x27;m taking your word for it that you have a healthy relationship with your phone.<p>Something functional alcoholics will often say is &quot;I don&#x27;t have a problem, I just like a beer with dinner, nothing wrong with that&quot;, and a usual response is &quot;okay, then how about you take a week off? If it&#x27;s just something you like, then that should be no problem&quot;.<p>Of course, that&#x27;s where the excuses start!<p>This May challenge is conceptually similar. Nothing in your morning routine would be disrupted by more than 120 seconds, if you took the time to look at the sky and appreciate it before starting in with the phone.<p>Again, I&#x27;m mentioning this on behalf of <i>other people</i> who might be a bit in denial about how they start their day.<p>My personal routine starts with plugging the laptop into the monitor and brewing coffee, and browsing Twitter and HN while my brain wakes up. I&#x27;m not big on my phone in general, especially not lately.<p>But I&#x27;m intending to add looking at the sky for the month of May (although not joining a Facebook group, yuck!).<p>It sounds nice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>soneca</author><text>I wake up and the first thing I do is check my phone and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s unhealthy. Quite the contrary I believe.<p>It is a slow start to the day and I feel connected to friends and family. I am living abroad, a few hours behind my native country where most of my friends live. So when I wake up, there is already a lot of activity in the WhatsApp groups I am part of. I don&#x27;t use WhatsApp professionally, so it&#x27;s just personal stuff. I love to read trivial chatting from my friends and family first thing in the morning. Specially living abroad. Specially these days of Covid.<p>I also check Twitter and HN, but just a quick look, not the reason I pick up my phone. I spend about 20min on WhatsApp, 5min elsewhere.<p>It also wakes me up, so I don&#x27;t oversleep. Then I am ready to go the bathroom, prepare my breakfast and when I get to work, I am ready and sharp.<p>I believe people use the idea of picking your phone first thing in the morning as an image and a proxy for phone addiction, I don&#x27;t think it is. I believe I would be less healthy if I had my phone locked away from me in the morning.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>May Sky Challenge</title><url>https://mayskychallenge.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>qqssccfftt</author><text>The first thing I do when I wake up is send a good morning to people and check the stuff they wanted me to see as I was sleeping. It refuse to believe this is &quot;unhealthy&quot;. It&#x27;s communication.</text><parent_chain><item><author>soneca</author><text>I wake up and the first thing I do is check my phone and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s unhealthy. Quite the contrary I believe.<p>It is a slow start to the day and I feel connected to friends and family. I am living abroad, a few hours behind my native country where most of my friends live. So when I wake up, there is already a lot of activity in the WhatsApp groups I am part of. I don&#x27;t use WhatsApp professionally, so it&#x27;s just personal stuff. I love to read trivial chatting from my friends and family first thing in the morning. Specially living abroad. Specially these days of Covid.<p>I also check Twitter and HN, but just a quick look, not the reason I pick up my phone. I spend about 20min on WhatsApp, 5min elsewhere.<p>It also wakes me up, so I don&#x27;t oversleep. Then I am ready to go the bathroom, prepare my breakfast and when I get to work, I am ready and sharp.<p>I believe people use the idea of picking your phone first thing in the morning as an image and a proxy for phone addiction, I don&#x27;t think it is. I believe I would be less healthy if I had my phone locked away from me in the morning.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>May Sky Challenge</title><url>https://mayskychallenge.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>andylynch</author><text>Especially in the next few months, supply of all of these will be limited by production capacity and supply chains. Having multiple available means more doses can be delivered sooner.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>If they actually get to 90% or more, why would anyone bother with the more expensive and cumbersome vaccines? Except that the EU already signed a deal to buy the vaccines from AstraZeneca, Sanofi and Johnson &amp; Johnson.</text></item><item><author>bawolff</author><text>Maybe for less developed countries, but i think for major economies, the price difference is insignificant relative to the benefits of any vaccine.</text></item><item><author>throwawayiionqz</author><text>Another huge differentiator is price. At $3 to $4, many countries will jump on board ASAP and stay away from the expensive vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.</text></item><item><author>mcdowall</author><text>The key differentiator here is the storage requirements (2-8c ‘normal refrigerator’).<p>That’s much more accessible to developing &#x2F; low GDP countries as opposed the cumbersome and expensive storage requirements of the other two.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine</title><url>https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-breakthrough-global-covid-19-vaccine</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ulfw</author><text>Because 95% efficacy is twice as good as 90%. And some people are willing to pay the $30 it costs to be 5% likelihood to have a non-functioning vaccine vs. a 10% likelihood the vaccine you just got won&#x27;t work on you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>If they actually get to 90% or more, why would anyone bother with the more expensive and cumbersome vaccines? Except that the EU already signed a deal to buy the vaccines from AstraZeneca, Sanofi and Johnson &amp; Johnson.</text></item><item><author>bawolff</author><text>Maybe for less developed countries, but i think for major economies, the price difference is insignificant relative to the benefits of any vaccine.</text></item><item><author>throwawayiionqz</author><text>Another huge differentiator is price. At $3 to $4, many countries will jump on board ASAP and stay away from the expensive vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.</text></item><item><author>mcdowall</author><text>The key differentiator here is the storage requirements (2-8c ‘normal refrigerator’).<p>That’s much more accessible to developing &#x2F; low GDP countries as opposed the cumbersome and expensive storage requirements of the other two.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine</title><url>https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-breakthrough-global-covid-19-vaccine</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fsloth</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit familiar with finnish industrial history. Finland has a history of massively innovative companies that were decades ahead of their competition in several sectors. The thing that they did not have, was capital funding, so they could not grow, and experience of global markets to have the know how to grow. So they remained small shops, with one or two big industrial clients who did not care to help them grow, and the world caught up with them.<p>The ones that managed to grow, are exceptions. Nokia and Kone are probably the more familiar ones (look at the next elevator you ride, there&#x27;s a 50&#x2F;50 chance it&#x27;s made by Kone).<p>Finland is a capital poor country but rich in ideas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rasjani</author><text>Few foss projects and authors that started in this god forsaken country, Finland:<p>Linux - Linus Torvalds. Finn
Ssh - Tatu Ylönen. Finn
IRC - Jarkko Oikarinen. Finn.
Dovecot - Timo Sirainen. Finn.
Robot Framework - Pekka Klarck. Finn.<p>And maybe not fortune100 or even 500 companies but companies like Nokia, F-secure, Futuremark have had their global impact. And Yeah. These are old tech already but saying that no innovations came out out of Finland or Europe is just plain bullsh*t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A guide to freelancing in Finland</title><url>https://github.com/sam-hosseini/freelancing-in-finland</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kinow</author><text>Skosmos (used by unicef and EU) and Annif too, both from the national library. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;natlibfi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;natlibfi</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rasjani</author><text>Few foss projects and authors that started in this god forsaken country, Finland:<p>Linux - Linus Torvalds. Finn
Ssh - Tatu Ylönen. Finn
IRC - Jarkko Oikarinen. Finn.
Dovecot - Timo Sirainen. Finn.
Robot Framework - Pekka Klarck. Finn.<p>And maybe not fortune100 or even 500 companies but companies like Nokia, F-secure, Futuremark have had their global impact. And Yeah. These are old tech already but saying that no innovations came out out of Finland or Europe is just plain bullsh*t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A guide to freelancing in Finland</title><url>https://github.com/sam-hosseini/freelancing-in-finland</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>20 years ago, the internet was already mainstream in Western markets and we were in a repreive between the old walled gardens of AOL&#x2F;CompuServe&#x2F;Prodigy&#x2F;etc and new agressively-walling gardens of Facebook&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;etc.<p>That was the ideal era that many of us entrepreneurial nerds wish we could get back to. You could stand up an online business with a website, buy targeted ads for approachable prices, and bootstrap (often sucessfully if modestly) whatever weird idea you wanted to pursue. It could be local and community serving, or digital and global, and you could put all the pieces together yourself without worrying about some garden&#x27;s arbitrary&#x2F;anti-competitive policy change shutting you down overnight.<p>You&#x27;re talking more about the 90&#x27;s which was indeed cool for the hacker spirit and hobbyisy nerds, but not as cool (to me) as the era that bloomed just a little later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>People keep panicking about huge internet portals but the thing is that if you compare the number of internet users 20 years ago with now there is a MASSIVE difference.<p>That was us back then, 20 years ago, the nerds, the sub-culture, the people who found this new internet thing fascinating.<p>Today it&#x27;s EVERYBODY. And they&#x27;re really not that fascinated with the internet but rather the content that they&#x27;re consuming from the internet. In their view this content could come from anywhere, it just happens to come from the internet.<p>So all of us old nerds, and new nerds, will continue using the internet, but we&#x27;ll be a miniscule minority.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are We Watching the Internet Die?</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jihadjihad</author><text>20 years ago was 2004 my guy not 1994</text><parent_chain><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>People keep panicking about huge internet portals but the thing is that if you compare the number of internet users 20 years ago with now there is a MASSIVE difference.<p>That was us back then, 20 years ago, the nerds, the sub-culture, the people who found this new internet thing fascinating.<p>Today it&#x27;s EVERYBODY. And they&#x27;re really not that fascinated with the internet but rather the content that they&#x27;re consuming from the internet. In their view this content could come from anywhere, it just happens to come from the internet.<p>So all of us old nerds, and new nerds, will continue using the internet, but we&#x27;ll be a miniscule minority.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are We Watching the Internet Die?</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>Two likely reasons. First, the previous form factor didn&#x27;t fit in all TVs, so they had to include a tiny HDMI extender cable; this form factor has built-in tolerance for tight fits. Second, the new form factor allows more room for hardware bits and heat dissipation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Omni5cience</author><text>I wonder what prompted the new form factor. I rather liked the simple HDMI stick aesthetic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Chromecast 2015</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_2015</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>I just installed a couple old CCs at the office, and the old rigid form factor can sometimes be tricky to plug into some TVs, due to the mounting brackets sitting right on top of the video connectors. Bad design from the TV makers? Yes, but the flexible dongle would never have this issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Omni5cience</author><text>I wonder what prompted the new form factor. I rather liked the simple HDMI stick aesthetic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Chromecast 2015</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_2015</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gen3</author><text>&gt; This defendant schemed to export to China semiconductors with military and civilian uses, then he lied about it to federal authorities and failed to report income generated by the scheme on his tax returns<p>Funny how it always comes back to taxes, I wonder if that is how they were caught. I&#x27;m also curious how he was contacted by that Chinese company. Did he just get an email one day asking for chips in exchange for money?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to China</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/engineer-found-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-military-chips-to-china/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchallis</author><text>Pretty flagrant violation of export laws. With all the good behavior reductions, he has a decent shot of getting his sentence halved to 105 years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to China</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/engineer-found-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-military-chips-to-china/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bsg75</author><text>Its somewhat unique in the open source category.<p>As a column store engine that supports (hybrid) SQL, manages its own storage and clustering, and has only one external dependency (Zookeeper), I believe its main competitor is Vertica which can be very expensive. I assume Oracle, IBM, and MS have column stores as well and for a cost.<p>Greenplum is a Postgres fork, and same scale requires much more hardware. Citus is row based, and therefore will lag in scan time for many OLAP query patterns. Presto, Hive, Spark, all of the &quot;post-hadoop&quot; options may scale larger, but will also lag in scan time, and have significant external dependencies - mainly storage.<p>Clickhouse is easy to install, configure a cluster, load and query. It does have limitations, but currently all horizontally scaled database platforms do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>georgewfraser</author><text>Why do people on HN love Clickhouse so much? As far as I can tell, it’s an ordinary column store, with a bunch of limitations around distributed joins and a heuristic-based query planner. There are several good analytical databases that will give you the same scan performance and a much better query planner and executor.<p>This is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know why it gets so much attention here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clickhouse Local</title><url>https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/operations/utils/clickhouse-local/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atombender</author><text>Because it&#x27;s one of the few mature, fast, scalable analytics-oriented databases that is also completely open source.<p>The closest open source thing that matches its feature set is Presto, but that one is quite different.<p>Apache Druid is supposed to be very mature, but also very difficult to set up and manage. I&#x27;ve not used it myself.<p>There&#x27;s also Vespa, but I don&#x27;t know how well it performs with large numbers of columns.<p>A lot of people use Elasticsearch for analytics. Being based on Lucene, it&#x27;s <i>kind of</i> columnar, and it can perform very well indeed on aggregations.<p>InfluxDB may be good, but it&#x27;s not fully open source.</text><parent_chain><item><author>georgewfraser</author><text>Why do people on HN love Clickhouse so much? As far as I can tell, it’s an ordinary column store, with a bunch of limitations around distributed joins and a heuristic-based query planner. There are several good analytical databases that will give you the same scan performance and a much better query planner and executor.<p>This is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know why it gets so much attention here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clickhouse Local</title><url>https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/operations/utils/clickhouse-local/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_uy6i</author><text>In furtherance of this point let’s take the article’s author at face value $50m inheritance @21% is $39.5m...not bad! But let’s now be a little more realistic, the family has two kids and not 1 so $19.25m per child - now let’s say that parents died at 85 and had their kids at the age of 30 so the kids are 55 which means they can invest their money for 30 years, and let’s say they invest it in a nice vanguard balanced fund, their after tax annualized return would be 5-7% [1] If we use the past 10-20 years as a guide (this also assumes you live in a place with no state tax like TX or FL). Now inflation is 2-3% so we’re making 3-5% real which means that over our 30 year investment horizon we could expect to increase our wealth between 2.5 - 4.3x if we don’t spend a dime... let’s be real someone with that money is going to want to enjoy at least some of it! So let’s say they spend 2% (or ~$400k&#x2F;year real) now that 3-5% real is 1% - 3% real or 1.4x - 2.5x the original corpus - now they pass it on to their 2 kids, they’d be lucky to pass along the same amount they inherited - spend a little more along the way, have some bad investments, get a divorce, have more than two kids and your heirs are almost guaranteed to get significantly less than their parents ... Sure they’re still rich, most rich families are in decline once the money’s been made...it may take several generations, but eventually their progeny is back working...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investor.vanguard.com&#x2F;mutual-funds&#x2F;profile&#x2F;performance&#x2F;vbiax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investor.vanguard.com&#x2F;mutual-funds&#x2F;profile&#x2F;performan...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>reese_john</author><text>It is said that 70% of families lose their wealth by the 2nd generation and 90% by the 3rd[1]<p>Inequality is not static, it is rather dynamic.<p>Nassim Taleb makes some good points about that here[2], for instance, ~ 70% of Americans will spend a year in the top 20% and only ten percent of the wealthiest five hundred American people or dynasties were so thirty years ago.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;generational-wealth%3A-why-do-70-of-families-lose-their-wealth-in-the-2nd-generation-2018-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;generational-wealth%3A-why-d...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;incerto&#x2F;inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;incerto&#x2F;inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/opinion/inheritance-tax-inequality.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>seattle_spring</author><text>Seems like we&#x27;re conflating wealth with income?</text><parent_chain><item><author>reese_john</author><text>It is said that 70% of families lose their wealth by the 2nd generation and 90% by the 3rd[1]<p>Inequality is not static, it is rather dynamic.<p>Nassim Taleb makes some good points about that here[2], for instance, ~ 70% of Americans will spend a year in the top 20% and only ten percent of the wealthiest five hundred American people or dynasties were so thirty years ago.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;generational-wealth%3A-why-do-70-of-families-lose-their-wealth-in-the-2nd-generation-2018-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;generational-wealth%3A-why-d...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;incerto&#x2F;inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d8f00bc0cb46" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;incerto&#x2F;inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/opinion/inheritance-tax-inequality.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>ams6110</author><text>I&#x27;ll agree that the drug war is out of control and as a &quot;cure&quot; it&#x27;s worse than the disease. But people are not being locked up just because they are black, or poor. They are committing crimes, and pleading or being found guilty. The problem I have with pieces like the original article are that they are making it sound like we are engaging in a Gestapo-like rounding up of large numbers of minorities for <i>no reason</i> and throwing them in jail.<p>By blaming the war on drugs we are also completely ignoring the other elephant in the room, and that is the massive breakdown in family structure that has occurred amongst the impoverished.<p>This is particularly the case for African-Americans but I don&#x27;t claim that it&#x27;s a racial thing, directly. It&#x27;s part of the cycle of poverty. In DC, which is a large focus of the original piece, over half of babies are born out of wedlock. For African Americans it&#x27;s close to 70%.<p>With no parents working, and fathers typically absent, children do not learn the behaviors and responsibilities that are required to be a productive and self-supporting member of society. They then perpetuate this in subsequent generations. Our &quot;war on poverty&quot; has, like the war on drugs, been a failure. The poverty rate in 1965 was about 15%, same as today, with trillions of dollars spent.<p>The war on drugs funds a massive effort to catch and punish drug dealers and users. So of course that happens. The war on poverty rewards disfunctional, irresponsible, and self-destructive life choices.<p>You get what you pay for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CPLX</author><text>There&#x27;s all this discussion of these issues, which relate to racism, economic issues, police brutality, crime, etc.<p>They seem complicated and nuanced and people throw their hands up and say well what can we do. The answer to that question is actually so simple you can say it in four words:<p><i></i>End the drug war.<i></i><p>Someone far more eloquent than me, The Wire creator David Simon, can flesh that out a little:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;rweb&#x2F;commentary&#x2F;want-to-fix-baltimore-end-the-drug-war-says-david-simon&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;696c2063a2386c61999ad0ae2f96956d_story.html?tid=kindle-app" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;rweb&#x2F;commentary&#x2F;want-to-fix-ba...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers</title><url>http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/policing-mass-imprisonment-and-the-failure-of-american-lawyers/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The drug war is a symptom of something more basic: Americans lack compassion. Consider something in the non-drug context: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;georgia-probation-misdemeanor-poor-jail" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;georgia-probatio...</a>. You can bring up private prisons and probation companies, but the fact is that these laws have been on the books all along. They were passed by part-time state legislators, who are pretty representative of ordinary people in the state.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CPLX</author><text>There&#x27;s all this discussion of these issues, which relate to racism, economic issues, police brutality, crime, etc.<p>They seem complicated and nuanced and people throw their hands up and say well what can we do. The answer to that question is actually so simple you can say it in four words:<p><i></i>End the drug war.<i></i><p>Someone far more eloquent than me, The Wire creator David Simon, can flesh that out a little:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;rweb&#x2F;commentary&#x2F;want-to-fix-baltimore-end-the-drug-war-says-david-simon&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;696c2063a2386c61999ad0ae2f96956d_story.html?tid=kindle-app" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;rweb&#x2F;commentary&#x2F;want-to-fix-ba...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers</title><url>http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/policing-mass-imprisonment-and-the-failure-of-american-lawyers/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nologic01</author><text>An added bonus of a dark sky is that with a good pair of eyes (and more democratically, with a set of binoculars) you can see all sort of clusters, nebulae, Jupiter&#x27;s moons and e.g., Andromeda.<p>While not as breathtaking as the panoramic view of a truly dark sky, experiencing this &quot;micro-structure&quot; is also a mind-expanding experience: The sky is no longer a set of random point sources. Its an organic &quot;thing&quot; enclosing other &quot;things&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I think many people have never experienced and don&#x27;t realize how mind-bending a clear night sky in the winter without light pollution is. You need to get pretty far from civilization but when you do you will see so many stars, colors and effects you had no idea were visible without a telescope. The first time I experienced it I couldn&#x27;t believe my eyes and it redefined my perception of space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map</title><url>https://darkhotels.co</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>louthy</author><text>My best experience of this was at Mt. Everest base-camp (Tibet side) at 5,364 metres (17,598 ft)<p>Not just no light pollution, but much less atmosphere too! It looked like those long exposure images of the Milky Way. There aren&#x27;t words available to describe how incredible it was. I’ll just state that it was one of the highlights of my life!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I think many people have never experienced and don&#x27;t realize how mind-bending a clear night sky in the winter without light pollution is. You need to get pretty far from civilization but when you do you will see so many stars, colors and effects you had no idea were visible without a telescope. The first time I experienced it I couldn&#x27;t believe my eyes and it redefined my perception of space.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map</title><url>https://darkhotels.co</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graeme</author><text>That might make a case for <i>replacing</i> the name but not eliminating it. Eliminating it would be akin to removing the name &quot;stomach cancer&quot; because other cells can also become cancerous.<p>You need a name for things. And long flu might have different etiology than long covid despite similar symptoms, so it doesn&#x27;t make sense to lump them together as &quot;long virus&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abrookewood</author><text>Recently read an article suggesting that we should drop the term Long Covid, as it implies that there is something unique about it, when the research seems to show that the impairment post-Covid is very similar to that from Influenza:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;2024&#x2F;mar&#x2F;15&#x2F;long-covid-symptoms-flu-cold" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;2024&#x2F;mar&#x2F;15&#x2F;long-covid-s...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/long-covid-brain-fog-blood-brain-barrier-damage</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>downWidOutaFite</author><text>Instead of wanting people to ignore Long Covid wouldn&#x27;t it be better to make people more aware of Long Flu?</text><parent_chain><item><author>abrookewood</author><text>Recently read an article suggesting that we should drop the term Long Covid, as it implies that there is something unique about it, when the research seems to show that the impairment post-Covid is very similar to that from Influenza:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;2024&#x2F;mar&#x2F;15&#x2F;long-covid-symptoms-flu-cold" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;2024&#x2F;mar&#x2F;15&#x2F;long-covid-s...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/long-covid-brain-fog-blood-brain-barrier-damage</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onphonenow</author><text>Some caution with cloudflare:<p>Because they give a lot away and post blog posts attacking AWS folks think they are cheap. But a lot of their free stuff may be in the marketing budget. The issue here is:<p>1) Their paid offerings for their core product, CDN, does not have a public pricing guide. That&#x27;s a BAD sign if they claim to be competing on price. So we can pretty safely assume their paid service bandwidth charges are NOT the 80X cheaper than amazon despite their claims here.<p>2) They hype their bandwidth alliance. I tried following this up on Azure, it&#x27;s basically all call a sales person &#x2F; maybe you&#x27;ll get a deal type stuff. Smoke and mirrors again.<p>3) If you actually try to use their CDN to serve something high bandwidth (games &#x2F; software updates &#x2F; video streaming) that is going to violate some type of clause which says that the free CDN is not REALLY unlimited.<p>4) Financially they spend a mind boggling amount on sales costs. Between sales costs and cost of sales I think they are negative relative to revenue.<p>BTW - If you try any of the other &quot;free&quot; and &quot;unlimited&quot; providers (for $5&#x2F;month etc) you will also find out once you try to move some real data volumes (video etc) - it&#x27;s all a lie over and over.<p>Same things with geo issues. Cloudflare claims to have &quot;one&quot; price globally. These are almost alwyas false claims. It&#x27;s easy to test - setup a stream into a high cost area, stream a bunch of video there - you&#x27;ll usually get a call over some tricky TOS issue they pull out.<p>In short, if you want pay and forget, there is a reason the big cloud players have a business still.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Set up a practically free CDN</title><url>https://gist.github.com/charlesroper/f2da6152d6789fa6f25e9d194a42b889</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>This B2&#x2F;CloudFlare combination is a good one.<p>CloudFlare are about to launch their own object&#x2F;file store with native CDN called R2. They have even come up with a wonderful trick for migrating to it from S3 and it’s looks like it’s going to have an incredible generous level of free egress. I suspect that it will beat out the B2&#x2F;CloudFlare combination once it launches.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;introducing-r2-object-storage&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;introducing-r2-object-storage&#x2F;</a><p>Edit: Typo</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Set up a practically free CDN</title><url>https://gist.github.com/charlesroper/f2da6152d6789fa6f25e9d194a42b889</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsync</author><text>I am stupefied by this.<p>Many, many times I have considered:<p>&quot;what would happen if I banked my own blood and transfused it back to myself 40 years later&quot;<p>And of course, my next thought was &quot;of course that has been thought of, and tried, and the reason we don&#x27;t all know about it is because it must not be helpful.&quot;<p>But you&#x27;re telling me that, in fact, nobody thought to try this ? It is 2014&#x2F;2015 when someone got around to trying this out ?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/ageing-research-blood-to-blood-1.16762</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jzila</author><text>Carl Zimmer published a piece on this in the NYTimes almost a year ago (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-hold-key-to-reversing-aging.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;05&#x2F;science&#x2F;young-blood-may-ho...</a>).<p>Here&#x27;s the HN thread on that topic: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7695621" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7695621</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/ageing-research-blood-to-blood-1.16762</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jaza</author><text>Perhaps what we need are shopping malls. Aren&#x27;t they, after all, the modern cathedrals of consumerism? (And aren&#x27;t they just what we need more of in this world?) :P<p>Shopping malls aspire to be beautiful (primarily on the inside), but they can never be as beautiful or as well-architected as cathedrals, in form or in spirit.<p>Shopping malls have a bigger overhead than bazaars, and are less flexible. But their overhead is much less, and their flexibility much greater, than that of cathedrals.<p>Shopping malls provide more foundation and infrastructure than bazaars do. A bazaar minus its stalls is just a dusty field. A shopping mall minus its shops still has multiple levels, maps &#x2F; directories, elevators &#x2F; escalators, parking, loading docks, etc.<p>It costs more to set up shop in a mall than in a bazaar, but your shop will be more trusted, you won&#x27;t have to squabble for space with your neighbours every day, and you won&#x27;t get blown away by the next storm.<p>Shopping malls are designed with dedicated spaces that are tailored to different businesses. A supermarket has very different needs compared to a shoe shop.<p>Shopping malls are bazaars with a tonne of design, engineering, and regulation thrown in. But they&#x27;re still bazaars. They&#x27;re still where you get your groceries.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>Cathedrals are beautiful. They represent the vision of one person or a very small group made real by the hard work of hundreds or thousands of skilled and semi-skilled workers over dozens of years.<p>Cathedrals are not, generally speaking, profitable. They represent the expenditure of lots of capital over a long period of time.<p>Bazaars don&#x27;t cost much to start. You can start quite small and have a functioning system that does useful things for people. They can grow quite large, and when they grow too large it becomes difficult to find exactly what you want without a really good map. But you can probably quickly find a bunch of things that are more or less close to what you want.<p>Cathedrals are not easy or cheap to repair, but the investment is so large that people usually prefer to repair them. A bazaar that doesn&#x27;t work out makes some local people sad, but they will go to another bazaar that is a little less convenient for them, and perhaps do better there.<p>It&#x27;s nice to have some cathedrals, because they feed the soul. But you need to eat every day, so there will always be bazaars, and if you need to make a choice, the bazaar is going to win unless you have a lot of resources stored up to fall back on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)</title><url>http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Clubber</author><text>A few points just for fun:<p>1. Christianity, the group who builds Cathedrals, is probably the most profitable organization in the history of mankind.<p>2. Bazaars blow away when the wind picks up. If too many people show up, things start falling down. Cathedrals, and their close cousins, castles, last centuries.<p>3. I think Bazaars have their place, when you really need to ramp up something to show. We used to call that prototyping. If it gets past that, you gotta build it right eventually.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>Cathedrals are beautiful. They represent the vision of one person or a very small group made real by the hard work of hundreds or thousands of skilled and semi-skilled workers over dozens of years.<p>Cathedrals are not, generally speaking, profitable. They represent the expenditure of lots of capital over a long period of time.<p>Bazaars don&#x27;t cost much to start. You can start quite small and have a functioning system that does useful things for people. They can grow quite large, and when they grow too large it becomes difficult to find exactly what you want without a really good map. But you can probably quickly find a bunch of things that are more or less close to what you want.<p>Cathedrals are not easy or cheap to repair, but the investment is so large that people usually prefer to repair them. A bazaar that doesn&#x27;t work out makes some local people sad, but they will go to another bazaar that is a little less convenient for them, and perhaps do better there.<p>It&#x27;s nice to have some cathedrals, because they feed the soul. But you need to eat every day, so there will always be bazaars, and if you need to make a choice, the bazaar is going to win unless you have a lot of resources stored up to fall back on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)</title><url>http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nightski</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree. Growth is not the only thing valued. Value companies are a big part of the US Markets for example. Dividend stocks are a thing.<p>But growth isn&#x27;t about one company ever increasing. It&#x27;s about new companies innovating and taking over old ones. As long as there is innovation, there will be growth.<p>Change should be embraced. I personally see no reason to advocate for stagnation of human progress with the same handful of companies serving humans for all time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superb-owl</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure &quot;Entropy&quot; is the right word for what the author wants to talk about, but the article raises some interesting points<p>&gt; 1st poison: Unlimited and uncontrolled growth<p>IMO this is by far the biggest poison, and the one our society is most prone to ignoring. Every company, government budget, population, etc is considered &quot;successful&quot; if it&#x27;s growing, and &quot;failing&quot; if it&#x27;s shrinking. And the growth is always measured in terms of percentage, meaning the growth is compounding&#x2F;exponential.<p>Sustainable living means getting comfortable with flat or even negative growth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Entropy Is Fatal</title><url>https://kerkour.com/entropy-is-fatal</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sumy23</author><text>Growth is possible by increasing outputs from the same level of inputs. Certain types of growth are unsustainable, yet other types of growth, e.g. productivity growth, is definitely sustainable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superb-owl</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure &quot;Entropy&quot; is the right word for what the author wants to talk about, but the article raises some interesting points<p>&gt; 1st poison: Unlimited and uncontrolled growth<p>IMO this is by far the biggest poison, and the one our society is most prone to ignoring. Every company, government budget, population, etc is considered &quot;successful&quot; if it&#x27;s growing, and &quot;failing&quot; if it&#x27;s shrinking. And the growth is always measured in terms of percentage, meaning the growth is compounding&#x2F;exponential.<p>Sustainable living means getting comfortable with flat or even negative growth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Entropy Is Fatal</title><url>https://kerkour.com/entropy-is-fatal</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cantrevealname</author><text>This site is one nasty lawyer&#x27;s letter away from being lost forever. It&#x27;s the unpaid[1] labor of love of a single person[2], far more than Popular Electronics[3], but appears to be unauthorized.<p>Whoever currently holds the rights to these journals should have no financial reason to order the material taken down, but they can still do so &quot;just because&quot;. This huge historical resource depends on the whims of old copyright holders and their lawyers.<p>Someone else here has pointed out that the Popular Electronics scans are also on the Internet Archive. I wonder how they deal with it; the issue must come up often for them.<p>[1] &quot;There are no ads or things for sale on the site. I&#x27;ve been in radio for better than 50 years. This site is a way of giving back.&quot; From the FAQ: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanradiohistory.com&#x2F;American-Radio-History-FAQ.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanradiohistory.com&#x2F;American-Radio-History-F...</a><p>[2] &quot;Just one person does most of the work.&quot; From the FAQ.<p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanradiohistory.com&#x2F;index.htm#TECHNICAL" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanradiohistory.com&#x2F;index.htm#TECHNICAL</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Popular Electronics archives</title><url>http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.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>ChuckMcM</author><text>That is glorius, consider this advertisement from Feb 1982<p><i>Reddy Chirra improves his vision with an Apple. Reddy is an optical engineer who&#x27;s used to working for big companies and using big mainframes. But when he started his own consulting business, he soon learned how costly mainframe time can be. So he bought himself a 48K Apple II Personal Computer. And, like thousands of other engineers and scientists, quickly learned the pleasures of cutting downon shared time and having his own tamper -proof data
base. His Apple can handle formulas with up to 80 variables and test parameters on 250 different optical glasses. He can even use BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal and Assembly languages.
And Apple&#x27;s HI-RES graphics come in handy for design. Reddy looked at other microcomputers, but chose Apple for its in -depth documentation, reliability and expandability. Youcan get up to 64K RAM in an Apple II. Up to 128K RAM in our new Apple III. And there&#x27;s a whole family of compatible peripherals, including an IEEE -488 bus for laboratory instrument control.<p>Visit your authorized Apple dealer to find out how
far an Apple can go with scientific&#x2F; technical applications. It&#x27;ll change the way you see things. The personal computer.</i><p>Remember that this was competing with the original IBM PC (1981) so something of a pitch. With a machine which was somewhat less powerful computationally to an Arduino but with more RAM and a lot less ROM (or FLASH in the ATMega case).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Popular Electronics archives</title><url>http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.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>joosters</author><text><i>The big problem seemed to be competition. You only get to write the insurance if you&#x27;re the best price but the best price is not necessarily one that makes sense for the business.</i><p>A friend of mine worked for an insurer, their job was to model the risks and calculate insurance costs for various things. The problem was, it didn&#x27;t really matter how clever or detailed their modelling was. If their risk model came up with too large a premium, management demanded that the pricing be made more competitive. So they ended up overriding their calculations with a whole heap of &#x27;fudge factors&#x27; to move their prices to be more in-line with the rest of the market. Kind of defeated the point of the modelling, really.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>I actually had a chat with a friend about prize indemnity insurance, he&#x27;s a Lloyd&#x27;s guy.<p>In the end it&#x27;s the law of large numbers, pretty much what a casino does: take lots of small positive bets, don&#x27;t let one bet dominate. If you do get something too big, syndicate it with some of your competitors to spread the risk. Of course also make sure everyone who comes for insurance is actually what you think, like the guy in the article says it&#x27;s not necessarily a hugely detailed check but it is enough to stop the worst frauds.<p>You want a model that&#x27;s robust, and you only have so much data about how often some guy hits a hole in one or a half court shot, and there&#x27;s only so much you can know about whether they are a pro and the distance to the hole.<p>The big problem seemed to be competition. You only get to write the insurance if you&#x27;re the best price but the best price is not necessarily one that makes sense for the business. If some guy is buying market share with a loss leader, what do you do? Every segment of the market could be affected by this at a given time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The strange business of hole-in-one insurance</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-strange-business-of-hole-in-one-insurance/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danielmarkbruce</author><text>This last part is true of any insurance. And it&#x27;s not just buying market share which can cause it - pure stupidity can too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>I actually had a chat with a friend about prize indemnity insurance, he&#x27;s a Lloyd&#x27;s guy.<p>In the end it&#x27;s the law of large numbers, pretty much what a casino does: take lots of small positive bets, don&#x27;t let one bet dominate. If you do get something too big, syndicate it with some of your competitors to spread the risk. Of course also make sure everyone who comes for insurance is actually what you think, like the guy in the article says it&#x27;s not necessarily a hugely detailed check but it is enough to stop the worst frauds.<p>You want a model that&#x27;s robust, and you only have so much data about how often some guy hits a hole in one or a half court shot, and there&#x27;s only so much you can know about whether they are a pro and the distance to the hole.<p>The big problem seemed to be competition. You only get to write the insurance if you&#x27;re the best price but the best price is not necessarily one that makes sense for the business. If some guy is buying market share with a loss leader, what do you do? Every segment of the market could be affected by this at a given time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The strange business of hole-in-one insurance</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-strange-business-of-hole-in-one-insurance/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dgacmu</author><text>Just the former. Cloud is about having paying customers and keeping them happy. In general (IANAL, IANA..anything), cloud customer data is sacrosanct, and Google builds very strong walls keeping that stuff isolated.<p>As far as I&#x27;ve heard, the hopes for Cloud TPUs in general are that people will think it&#x27;s an amazing service worth paying for.<p>The hopes for TFRC are more complicated, as you might imagine when a company is giving away free stuff, but one of them, I&#x27;d put in the &quot;long-term benefit altruism&quot; category: It&#x27;s quite hard to do some kinds of machine learning research in academia, because it can be fantastically expensive. We just blew $5k of google cloud credits in a week, and managed only 4 complete training runs of Inception &#x2F; Imagenet. This was for <i>one</i> conference paper submission. Having a situation where academia can&#x27;t do research that is relevant to Google (or Facebook, or Microsoft) is really bad from a long-term perspective, and one thing TFRC might do is help make sure that advances in deep learning continue at a rapid pace.<p>From watching the rate at which my deep learning colleagues get swallowed up by industry, I think it&#x27;s a very valid concern, and I&#x27;m very supportive of all of the industry efforts we&#x27;re seeing to try to address this. It&#x27;s good for the entire research ecosystem.<p>(There are undoubtedly many other reasons, such as those noted below by minimaxir, but this is the one I personally feel the pain of.) Disclaimer: I get paid by Google part-time to do work related to this, but this is not any kind of official statement. The pain-of-ML-in-academia bit is purely from my hat as a CS professor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaflo</author><text>I might be naive to think this, but are Google Cloud services making money simply through the fees you pay or does Google also have an interest in the data generated by and passing through its services? If the latter, what data do they collect and how do they profit?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud</title><url>https://research.googleblog.com/2017/05/introducing-tensorflow-research-cloud.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>minimaxir</author><text>Google benefits from this (in the non-altruistic perspective) because it encourages research&#x2F;model development on TensorFlow, and promotion when said research is published using the framework.<p>Not <i>everything</i> has to be a data play in the big picture.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jaflo</author><text>I might be naive to think this, but are Google Cloud services making money simply through the fees you pay or does Google also have an interest in the data generated by and passing through its services? If the latter, what data do they collect and how do they profit?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud</title><url>https://research.googleblog.com/2017/05/introducing-tensorflow-research-cloud.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>Waterluvian</author><text>Everything I see in this post looks wonderfully healthy for the human spirit. But it also looks so insufferable for me personally. Which is why I&#x27;m so delighted that people like Vi Hart exist. And more broadly speaking, why there&#x27;s beauty in the diversity of humans. You make your beautiful mathematical ribbon dances and I&#x27;ll seek the beauty in my software architecture design.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart</title><url>https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ycombinatoracct</author><text>&gt;when Evelyn shared a document about critique in art and how we could apply those techniques for CDG’s research. Up until then, I was thinking of the connection between art and research as something fuzzy and cultural, as if artists just happen to be good researchers due to some instinct for creativity, or that art gives us life and soul that helps to motivate interesting ideas.<p>I don&#x27;t classify myself as an artist but the cited document is wonderful!<p>Vi Hart if you&#x27;re out there somewhere, thank you for writing this! I&#x27;ve been a big fan of your work for a while and this was a delight to read.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elevr.com&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;art-based-research&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elevr.com&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;art-based-research&#x2F;</a>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zensavona</author><text>I&#x27;ll just add a couple of details here since I have had this happen to me multiple times...<p>I&#x27;m an Australian citizen and this applies just as much to me as a foreigner (for whom although I disagree about, I could make a reasonable argument for this being valid). Police require a warrant and&#x2F;or reasonable suspicion of having committed a specific crime to search any part of you or your belongings. Border Force do not require this.<p>When they ask for the code, they will either:<p>- just open your device and rifle through your photos and messages in front of you, asking questions like &quot;got a lot of photos of x, what&#x27;s that about?&quot; or &quot;who is y?&quot;, ask you questions like &quot;what are you doing in Australia? Who are you seeing? What&#x27;s your relationship to them?&quot; et cetera (even to me, a citizen who spends majority of my time abroad).<p>- Take it into another room for 20mins or so and presumably take a dump of the whole thing for further analysis. I once asked &quot;what is done with this data and how long is it stored&quot; and they refused to answer the question.<p>One time after refusing to hand over the code (politely) I was treated pretty aggressively, had my whole body searched (not strip searched, groped well all over), all my luggage taken apart etc. I received a letter in the mail that I could go and collect my phone at the airport after around 3 weeks. It seems unlikely they have some tech which allows exfiltration of data from a locked iPhone(?) so I&#x27;m not sure what that&#x27;s about. They claimed to me that they do indeed have this capability.<p>Since refusing to open the phone and letting them keep it I seem to be on some kind of list and have had a Border Force officer meet me at the baggage carousel a couple of times with the &quot;please come with me sir&quot; to my own private search area where a few of them are ready to search my luggage inside out. This seems to happen less recently since I have just given them the code. They have successfully made it inconvenient enough for me to comply.<p>One time years ago they did the same thing with my laptop. Since that incident they have only asked about my phone.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/11/australian-border-force-abf-searching-phones-travellers-data</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peutetre</author><text>&gt; <i>The department data reveals that close to 94% of the time people freely revealed their phone passcode to officers, despite there being no legal requirement to do so.</i><p>There really needs to be better education in civics. It&#x27;s so important to know your rights, especially when someone in a position of authority tries to abuse that authority.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/11/australian-border-force-abf-searching-phones-travellers-data</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JimDabell</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m actually perfectly fine if StackOverflow wants to sell an answer I made to help train AI.<p>I’m not.<p>This was a collaborative effort to make the lives of programmers easier, and the data was always meant to be a public good. OpenAI – and, more importantly – <i>all the other LLMs with pockets that aren’t as deep</i> – should be able to just download the database and train on it for free.<p>I don’t care about any license. I don’t care about attribution. Learning isn’t copying, so copyright is irrelevant. I contributed about a thousand answers to Stack Overflow, all with the understanding that anybody can download and use them for free, <i>not</i> so they can be locked up by Stack Overflow.<p>What concerns me with deals like this is that it’s <i>altering</i> the cultural norm to <i>expand</i> copyright to cover not just copying, but <i>use</i>. Deals like this being made by OpenAI makes it more likely to cause pushback at the social and legal level when other LLMs are trained without these deals in place.<p>It’s akin to – and can possibly result in – regulatory capture, making it difficult for new startups to compete with OpenAI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LouisSayers</author><text>I&#x27;m actually perfectly fine if StackOverflow wants to sell an answer I made to help train AI.<p>For me, the purpose of providing an answer is to help save others (and my future self) time, and I don&#x27;t really mind if someone uses that in a private product - especially if it helps tools like ChatGPT which provide an insane amount of value given the low monthly price.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership</title><url>https://build5nines.com/stack-overflow-upset-over-users-deleting-answers-after-openai-partnership/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uberman</author><text>The price to get an answer from stack overflow is usually free as most questions have already been asked and answered. You dont even need an account.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LouisSayers</author><text>I&#x27;m actually perfectly fine if StackOverflow wants to sell an answer I made to help train AI.<p>For me, the purpose of providing an answer is to help save others (and my future self) time, and I don&#x27;t really mind if someone uses that in a private product - especially if it helps tools like ChatGPT which provide an insane amount of value given the low monthly price.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership</title><url>https://build5nines.com/stack-overflow-upset-over-users-deleting-answers-after-openai-partnership/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>My understanding is that copyrighted content on Youtube is often uploaded under the guise of anonymous users, but this is illusory. Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance, we see this happening to content creators all the time for no good reason. If these videos get the thumbs up to stay up, they&#x27;re in cahoots with copyright holders somehow (most likely) or are deliberately ignored for some other reason. One think you&#x27;ll notice is that not just corporate sponsored content is region-locked; sometimes &quot;anonymous&quot; user videos get region locked. That is not a coincidence.<p>All of which to say, I expect this to be the same case on PH. There&#x27;s the usual wackamole game of unauthorized content being taken down, but much of what stays up from unauthorized sources probably does so out of permission that is not apparent on the surface.<p>I think streaming companies place a premium on the appearance of content coming from users, and this is the result. If I&#x27;m right, then changes may not significantly alter the level of traffic to PH, which is what everyone is soothsaying about: that users will just go elsewhere. But I&#x27;m curious what&#x27;s going to happen.<p>Like you said, PH&#x27;s model looks to ape youtube&#x27;s, and the latter does not appear to be entirely reliant on &quot;stolen&quot; content.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tmalsburg2</author><text>&gt; Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users,<p>Not disagreeing with you, but, to be fair, that was exactly Youtube&#x27;s recipe for success, and still is to some extent. I never understood how Youtube could get away with that.</text></item><item><author>pyrophane</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any sympathy for Pornhub here. Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users, and it wasn&#x27;t until they hollowed out the rest of the industry through theft that they started looking beyond it.<p>I would go so far as to say that the reason Pornhub and other tube sites haven&#x27;t taken problems like child porn and revenge porn seriously is because doing so would undermine the foundation of their business: stolen content.<p>On the other hand, this might ultimately work in their favor if it has the effect of raising the bridge they&#x27;ve just crossed. If it gets harder host stolen content, Pornhub has to worry less about someone else doing to them what they&#x27;ve done to others now that they are making a switch to paid content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sp332</author><text>I mean, they were facing down a bilion-dollar lawsuit and only avoided that on a technicality. Then spent a huge amount of money (and reputation) on ContentID.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tmalsburg2</author><text>&gt; Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users,<p>Not disagreeing with you, but, to be fair, that was exactly Youtube&#x27;s recipe for success, and still is to some extent. I never understood how Youtube could get away with that.</text></item><item><author>pyrophane</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any sympathy for Pornhub here. Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users, and it wasn&#x27;t until they hollowed out the rest of the industry through theft that they started looking beyond it.<p>I would go so far as to say that the reason Pornhub and other tube sites haven&#x27;t taken problems like child porn and revenge porn seriously is because doing so would undermine the foundation of their business: stolen content.<p>On the other hand, this might ultimately work in their favor if it has the effect of raising the bridge they&#x27;ve just crossed. If it gets harder host stolen content, Pornhub has to worry less about someone else doing to them what they&#x27;ve done to others now that they are making a switch to paid content.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masonhensley</author><text>I had a junior QA discover this while working at a Fortune 50... everything ground to a halt for two days until everyone (team of 20) was assured during a handful of meetings that this is how browsers work and why we use HTTPS.<p>I appreciate they where trying to protect passwords &amp; promote security, but it definitely caught me off guard that this wasn&#x27;t widely understood.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jialutu</author><text>Wow, it&#x27;s quite disheartening to read some of the comments here. Let&#x27;s try something shall we:<p>- open up private browsing<p>- press F12 (or however you get the developer console on a mac) and go to the networking tab<p>- go to gmail.com say<p>- enter your gmail credentials<p>- look at the post request generated, and at the request tab, it will contain your password in plain text<p>So passwords don&#x27;t get hashed on transit, this is why having HTTPS is so crucial, which is to prevent someone in the middle (say when you connect to an open Starbucks wifi) from sniffing out your unencrypted password. The password on the server side initially can be unencrypted before it gets hashed to be stored into the database. So in this instance, the password in the database is hashed, but there is a small period where the password is plain text in memory.<p>For a site called hacker news, it&#x27;s really sad how little people here know about hacking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password</title><url>https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1268611608672194560</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eddieplan9</author><text>Of course it’s OK the authentication system can read the password! What is so wrong on both technical and ethical levels is that the password entered into some data pipeline for machine learning. God knows what else they do with the cleartext passwords.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jialutu</author><text>Wow, it&#x27;s quite disheartening to read some of the comments here. Let&#x27;s try something shall we:<p>- open up private browsing<p>- press F12 (or however you get the developer console on a mac) and go to the networking tab<p>- go to gmail.com say<p>- enter your gmail credentials<p>- look at the post request generated, and at the request tab, it will contain your password in plain text<p>So passwords don&#x27;t get hashed on transit, this is why having HTTPS is so crucial, which is to prevent someone in the middle (say when you connect to an open Starbucks wifi) from sniffing out your unencrypted password. The password on the server side initially can be unencrypted before it gets hashed to be stored into the database. So in this instance, the password in the database is hashed, but there is a small period where the password is plain text in memory.<p>For a site called hacker news, it&#x27;s really sad how little people here know about hacking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password</title><url>https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1268611608672194560</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>You're acting like the act of "joining" is some huge deal. You already have an account with Google. "Joining" Google+ probably flips 3 bits in some BigTable database somewhere. The only reason you are getting so self-righteous about it is because Google is giving you the option. If you don't _do_ anything on Google+, what's it matter?<p>Interesting that you bring up you Facebook anti-creds. Do you also not own a TV?</text><parent_chain><item><author>kaoD</author><text>What I specially hate about Google+ is the fact that Google can't stop spamming me to join it.<p>Now even Google Play comments need to be part of Google+.<p>You know what, Google? Fuck you. No. Fuck you twice. I won't join that fucking horrid place. I don't even have Facebook, why would I join a crappy social network?</text></item><item><author>kunai</author><text>Google has overstayed the web's welcome.<p>What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it's a different story altogether.<p>Don't be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven't managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they <i>can't</i> afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.<p>This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.<p>Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that's the worst type of failure there is. Do I <i>hope</i> they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.<p>And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You know, Google, the web already had this feature</title><url>http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>You know, I don't really like Google+ but I have had no difficulty in opting out of it and declining to share things like my YouTube favorites and so forth (with a few exceptions that were wholly by choice). I'm not happy with their social strategy in general, but I don't feel it's anything like as burdensome on the user as Facebook's, which caused me to stop using that service altogether.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kaoD</author><text>What I specially hate about Google+ is the fact that Google can't stop spamming me to join it.<p>Now even Google Play comments need to be part of Google+.<p>You know what, Google? Fuck you. No. Fuck you twice. I won't join that fucking horrid place. I don't even have Facebook, why would I join a crappy social network?</text></item><item><author>kunai</author><text>Google has overstayed the web's welcome.<p>What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it's a different story altogether.<p>Don't be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven't managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they <i>can't</i> afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.<p>This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.<p>Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that's the worst type of failure there is. Do I <i>hope</i> they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.<p>And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You know, Google, the web already had this feature</title><url>http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>esrauch</author><text>It&#x27;s anecdotal but I always chat with my Uber drivers and nearly 100% of them are driving full time. I assume it&#x27;s a &quot;most rides are driven by a full-timer, most drivers are part timers&quot; situation.<p>I don&#x27;t really see why we need a third category, it should just be that some drivers are full time and some are not. I don&#x27;t believe that Uber could sufficiently fulfill even half the rides with only the true part timers short of driver incentives also going way up (which would benefit people like your husband).</text><parent_chain><item><author>ericabiz</author><text>My husband drives for Uber, and I’m glad the proposition passed as it is.<p>He drives the way Uber was originally envisioned. He goes out some nights if there’s a surge, and in the morning on the way to work he points the app toward our stores and grabs a person (pre-pandemic) or a food delivery (today) on his way in.<p>It pays for gas money, car maintenance, and then some. Some months he makes a few hundred dollars. Some months over $1000. He can work when he wants, and make as much or as little money as he needs.<p>I feel strongly like this law was pushed by people who want Uber to be a full-time job. It’s not. I understand that some people want it to be full-time, but I wish they would stop trying to make Uber something it’s not. Had the law passed, people like my husband would have had to quit working for Uber. It would have unfairly punished the part-time and “free time” drivers in favor of full-time drivers.<p>I still think we need a third class of employment, but that’s not what was on the table here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/12/uber-prop-22-law-drivers-ab5-gig-workers</url></story>
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<instructions>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>&gt; I feel strongly like this law was pushed by people who want Uber to be a full-time job. It’s not.<p>Does the app give him the contact info for each of his passengers after every ride so that he can own the business relationship with them? If not then he&#x27;s an employee, not an independent contractor. The number of hours worked per month is a complete red herring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ericabiz</author><text>My husband drives for Uber, and I’m glad the proposition passed as it is.<p>He drives the way Uber was originally envisioned. He goes out some nights if there’s a surge, and in the morning on the way to work he points the app toward our stores and grabs a person (pre-pandemic) or a food delivery (today) on his way in.<p>It pays for gas money, car maintenance, and then some. Some months he makes a few hundred dollars. Some months over $1000. He can work when he wants, and make as much or as little money as he needs.<p>I feel strongly like this law was pushed by people who want Uber to be a full-time job. It’s not. I understand that some people want it to be full-time, but I wish they would stop trying to make Uber something it’s not. Had the law passed, people like my husband would have had to quit working for Uber. It would have unfairly punished the part-time and “free time” drivers in favor of full-time drivers.<p>I still think we need a third class of employment, but that’s not what was on the table here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/12/uber-prop-22-law-drivers-ab5-gig-workers</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>24gttghh</author><text>Yeah? Try dealing with a printer that has to have a font file sent to it with an lp command from cron every 15 minutes or else checks wont be formatted correctly. AND there is a physical device (either USB on the printer or inline on ethernet in front of the printer) which has the MICR fonts stored.<p>And then the printer you are migrating the MICR device to has decided it doesn&#x27;t understand the PCL in the font file anymore.<p>This is 2017 and I just dealt with this today.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font</title><url>http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/sysadmin-war-story-the-network-ate-my-font/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gumboshoes</author><text>This sort of stuff happened all the time when I worked in tech support for ad agencies. Printing font problems seemed to be 99% of the job, some days. PDFs helped — but only of the person making them remembered to embed the fonts. Usually you would simply make an EPS (encapsulated Postscript file), which would work most of the time — as long as the receiving printer had sufficient memory for huge print files. Can&#x27;t tell you how many thousands of times art directors who should&#x27;ve known better would just send Quark or PageMaker or (later) InDesign files without the fonts. In fact, there were (are?) preflighting programs designed just to solve this exact problem. They&#x27;d look at your files and determine: Are your fonts there? Are your images there? How will this print? etc., etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font</title><url>http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/sysadmin-war-story-the-network-ate-my-font/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>onetimeusename</author><text>Over the last few years the FCC rules on carriers were relaxed so that they can discriminate against calls originating from domestic networks. Previously they could not block calls even if it was obvious it was a scam call. However, it&#x27;s not always obvious which robo calls are legitimate and which aren&#x27;t.<p>The bigger issue though is not about domestic origin calls, it&#x27;s about foreign originated calls that the FCC has no power over. The domestic carriers had to forward these calls. There is traction gaining to require that calls that originate overseas verify their identity to US based networks. Domestic carriers can reject calls that don&#x27;t verify (spoofed numbers that originate offshore).<p>That still may not stop all the spam calls but it will slow it down. The problem here is really that telephony became extremely cheap and accessible to the whole world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt;My wide-open Verizon cell-phone number is my least preferred method of contact by far, due to the fact that I cannot trust that unknown numbers are high-value incoming calls.<p>I thought it was a legal requirement for phone network operators to leave phone numbers accessible to all, and hence their inability to effectively fight spam.<p>Otherwise, what would stop the situation from becoming like email, where email is more likely to be delivered if sent from a big player and less likely from a small player.</text></item><item><author>brk</author><text>It is unfortunate that the cellular companies have allowed their core product (voice calls) to be so devalued that they need to be forced to solve this problem instead of just doing it naturally.<p>The carriers are clearly customer-hostile, as this is really a very solvable problem. Instead, we now are moving to alternate mechanisms to manage audio calls (eg: Signal, Whatsapp, Facebook, etc.). My wide-open Verizon cell-phone number is my least preferred method of contact by far, due to the fact that I cannot trust that unknown numbers are high-value incoming calls.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force</title><url>https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/nationwide-anti-robocall-litigation-task-force-created-to-fight-estimated-29-8b-in-scam-call/article_e3dfd458-129f-11ed-b714-7b059dbcf5e7.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>brk</author><text>There is nothing preventing them from providing users with more granular call-rejection controls. Their networks need to be &quot;accessible&quot; on the incoming call side, but that does not mean as a customer I should be forced to have every call intended for my number to be routed through to my phone.<p>An iptables concept with a user friendly UI would address much of this problem, particularly if we could filter on useful call origination data, or lack thereof.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>&gt;My wide-open Verizon cell-phone number is my least preferred method of contact by far, due to the fact that I cannot trust that unknown numbers are high-value incoming calls.<p>I thought it was a legal requirement for phone network operators to leave phone numbers accessible to all, and hence their inability to effectively fight spam.<p>Otherwise, what would stop the situation from becoming like email, where email is more likely to be delivered if sent from a big player and less likely from a small player.</text></item><item><author>brk</author><text>It is unfortunate that the cellular companies have allowed their core product (voice calls) to be so devalued that they need to be forced to solve this problem instead of just doing it naturally.<p>The carriers are clearly customer-hostile, as this is really a very solvable problem. Instead, we now are moving to alternate mechanisms to manage audio calls (eg: Signal, Whatsapp, Facebook, etc.). My wide-open Verizon cell-phone number is my least preferred method of contact by far, due to the fact that I cannot trust that unknown numbers are high-value incoming calls.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force</title><url>https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/nationwide-anti-robocall-litigation-task-force-created-to-fight-estimated-29-8b-in-scam-call/article_e3dfd458-129f-11ed-b714-7b059dbcf5e7.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>WhompingWindows</author><text>&quot;Pretty much any woman&quot; does not drive a $60k car. $60k cars are for the wealthiest of the wealthy. The rest of us drive beaters or a slightly used car in the 5-20k range.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>If they are driving a $60k car, yes.<p>Many women have hard to fit bras. My wife probably spends 2-3 hours per bra in acquisition time as inventory of odd sizes are tight and size fit varies dramatically. The cost would need to come down for her, but there’s definitely a market need.</text></item><item><author>cooperadymas</author><text>Am I misunderstanding, are are you actually positing that nearly any American woman would think $350 is a rational price point for a bra?<p>Because that would be one of the best examples of the risk of wealth imbalance in our country that I&#x27;ve yet seen.</text></item><item><author>DelaneyM</author><text>The many concerns in this thread (and their upvotes) about price (350$) are one of the best examples of the risks of gender imbalance in venture funding I&#x27;ve yet seen.<p>I suspect pretty much any woman in North America, regardless of ability to afford it, would see that as a totally rational price point.<p>And as someone who _can_ afford it, I&#x27;m seriously weighing a trip to NYC to be fitted.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next</title><url>https://bratheory.com/what-we-learned-and-whats-next/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ansible</author><text>Have her check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;abrathatfits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;abrathatfits</a> for the measurement and fitting guides. She may end up ordering from UK vendors, but it will be worth it.<p>From what I (a man) understand, most women are wearing the wrong size.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>If they are driving a $60k car, yes.<p>Many women have hard to fit bras. My wife probably spends 2-3 hours per bra in acquisition time as inventory of odd sizes are tight and size fit varies dramatically. The cost would need to come down for her, but there’s definitely a market need.</text></item><item><author>cooperadymas</author><text>Am I misunderstanding, are are you actually positing that nearly any American woman would think $350 is a rational price point for a bra?<p>Because that would be one of the best examples of the risk of wealth imbalance in our country that I&#x27;ve yet seen.</text></item><item><author>DelaneyM</author><text>The many concerns in this thread (and their upvotes) about price (350$) are one of the best examples of the risks of gender imbalance in venture funding I&#x27;ve yet seen.<p>I suspect pretty much any woman in North America, regardless of ability to afford it, would see that as a totally rational price point.<p>And as someone who _can_ afford it, I&#x27;m seriously weighing a trip to NYC to be fitted.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next</title><url>https://bratheory.com/what-we-learned-and-whats-next/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hammock</author><text>Title was edited from the original to censor the mention of Airbnb (a YC company)? Really, Dang?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras</title><url>http://julianoliver.com/output/log_2015-12-18_14-39</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bkjelden</author><text>Say someone is renting out a room on AirBNB, and they also have some dropcams monitoring the perimeter of their house.<p>Someone rents the room, and runs this script, disabling the cameras.<p>During the stay, the property is burglarized, and there is no surveillance footage of the crime because the renter disabled the cameras.<p>That seems like an incredibly messy legal situation. Would the renter even be able to exonerate themselves? They disabled the cameras, it almost feels like they inadvertently framed themselves for a crime they didn&#x27;t commit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras</title><url>http://julianoliver.com/output/log_2015-12-18_14-39</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jack6e</author><text>Even though the overall tone of this review was upbeat and positive, it seemed that the baseline conclusion was: &quot;hopefully we find a use for the minor iterative improvements that will make this more than just the next release in a series of underwhelming releases.&quot; For one of the first, selectively-chosen reviews of what is supposed to be a ground-breaking product, the article essentially told us 1) the pictures look better; 2) Apple finally imitated Samsung&#x27;s Infinity Display; 3) my fingers learned new motions that were useless with other Apple products; 4) FaceID became familiar and even worked sometimes; 5) I could put my face on a pile of poo, which required some cool technology.<p>Not that those features or the article suggest the iPhone X is a bad product, or bug-ridden, non-usable, or anything else. But how in the world are people--is Apple--still not embarrassed pretending that this is a revolutionary device? Even if FaceID is intensely innovative and unparalleled new technology - that is just the feature that people use to get to the features they actually want to use. No one is going to buy a phone to play around with the unlocking mechanism, they buy it for what that phone can do for them once it&#x27;s unlocked. Hyping on FaceID is like saying, &quot;We are revolutionizing mobile computing by entirely overhauling the millisecond process by which you gain access to a slightly improved version of the product you already have.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First field report of iPhone X</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-x-first-impression/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>waterflame</author><text>While I love the phone and find it a big improvement over all current market phones (not that innovative though), I wonder how many people will die trying to unlock their phones while driving.<p><i></i> And they will unlock it while driving.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>First field report of iPhone X</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-x-first-impression/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hinkley</author><text><p><pre><code> for(i = 0; i &lt; 10; i++){
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>georgeecollins</author><text>This is a great example of the dangerous syntax of Switch statements in C. However, I do think programmers should not reflexively avoid Switch&#x2F;Case statements in their code. Polymorphism is often a way of writing switch statements that looks very clean, but hides some of the same spooky branching behavior. The nice thing about a switch&#x2F;branch is you can see where the code might go from the text in front of you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)</title><url>https://blog.robertelder.org/switch-statements-statement-expressions/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jwuphysics</author><text>Please don&#x27;t editorialize the title. The title is<p>&gt; Starlink Generation 2 Mini Satellites: Photometric Characterization<p>I&#x27;m a professional astronomer and I don&#x27;t know what the &quot;brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers&quot; is. I do know that a 7th magnitude source will likely saturate most large research telescopes, rendering a good chunk of that data useless.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06657</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beardyw</author><text>Can someone explain to me how the title as it appears here relates to the linked paper.<p>&quot;Therefore, the Mini satellites are fainter than Gen 1 Starlink satellites despite their
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Symbiote</author><text>I had similar misgivings, so I chose an ErgoDash, which has a few more keys than some of the minimalist offerings. I have the arrow keys in a horizontal row (which took some time to adapt to), but I can still use them with Alt&#x2F;Ctrl&#x2F;Shift modifiers fairly easily.<p>However, I&#x27;m planning on making something like this[1] &quot;trackball Dactyl Manuform&quot;, where the trackball under the thumb can be configured to use different modes -- e.g. a key toggles it between being a mouse and being arrow keys, and another locks it to vertical&#x2F;horizontal. It could be combined with holding Alt&#x2F;Ctrl&#x2F;Shift.<p>I made a gallery of split&#x2F;ergonomic mechanical keyboards if you&#x27;d like a quick overview of other options. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@kincade&#x2F;track-beast-build-log-a-trackball-dactyl-manuform-19eaa0880222" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@kincade&#x2F;track-beast-build-log-a-trackbal...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aposymbiont.github.io&#x2F;split-keyboards&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aposymbiont.github.io&#x2F;split-keyboards&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>EForEndeavour</author><text>That reminds me, I consider losing arrow keys a dealbreaker. I use them frequently enough to navigate both text and code in various contexts (except in Vim, which I don&#x27;t use exclusively). I already hold modifiers to jump to next&#x2F;prev word boundary, page, start&#x2F;end of continuous data ranges in Excel, etc. Admittedly, I&#x27;d probably adapt, but I&#x27;m held back by the belief that any ergonomic advantages of moving to wasd or hjkl would be wiped out by reduction in speed and muscle memory for me.</text></item><item><author>sascha_sl</author><text>You can keep the normal layout on a 40%, you just wouldn&#x27;t have number&#x2F;function&#x2F;nav keys without layers<p>40% is <i>not</i> just plank, and I personally find the ergonomics of a plank board to be rather bad compared to staggered, unless it&#x27;s split.</text></item><item><author>EForEndeavour</author><text>What sort of WPM did you have on normal keyboards, and whta have you been able to train up to on your current one? I plateaued at roughly 35 WPM on Dvorak as a teenager and have been hesitant to commit to major layout changes since then, despite the ergonomic promises that a lot of them make.</text></item><item><author>readingnews</author><text>I am not OP, but I moved to a 40% (44 key minivan) about a year ago, and I am using it as my daily driver at home and work. I find that the fact that I can reach every key on the board and barely move my hands has helped a lot. The other interesting notation is that I can put the mouse really, really close by. So the motion going from keyboard to mouse is greatly reduced. I find that my wrists are much better off with this.</text></item><item><author>codezero</author><text>Is it an Atreus? How do you like that size of keyboard? I&#x27;m not too bothered about adopting some chords, but more interested in the general ergonomics &#x2F; RSI risks.</text></item><item><author>autocorr</author><text>For some context, this project was basically made to one up someone else, so it&#x27;s not fully serious. Part of what makes the keyboard funny though is that (a niche of) the custom mechanical keyboard scene has been moving to many fewer keys and programming the firmware to compensate. So it&#x27;s pretty funny going from seeing several Planck ~49 key layouts to seeing this gargantuan <i>450</i> key absolute unit.<p>Sincerely typed by someone on a 44 key layout :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>433% Keyboard</title><url>https://relivesight.com/projects/433/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SuperPaintMan</author><text>With light switches and a compact layout it&#x27;s not too bad for navigation. My default for arrows is LeftThumb+HJKL, so it&#x27;s quicker and more natural then diving for the arrow keys. I also have overloaded alphas (Ctrl on a or ;, Shift on Z&#x2F;?, etc) so Ctrl-Shift-Up maps to A+Z+LeftThumb+K. Seems a little bonkers but it only took a few days to adjust to my GergoPlex [0][1]<p>The bigger issue with adding more keys to the mix is that with heavier switches (35g+) the amount of work&#x2F;stress done by the hand can be more then a traditional keyboard. But even with heavier switches it&#x27;s often faster then having to move your hands around the physical board. And once you factor in things like combos you can just map End to something like QW or whatever works for you. Programmable input devices are _really_ weird!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-rRS_TOYuIQQ&#x2F;XhRERox3moI&#x2F;AAAAAAABEB0&#x2F;uTThutO8H9o8HK-sdNgzOKC1-gIdyEFoACLcBGAsYHQ&#x2F;s1600&#x2F;Capture.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-rRS_TOYuIQQ&#x2F;XhRERox3moI&#x2F;AAAAAAABE...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gboards.ca&#x2F;product&#x2F;gergoplex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gboards.ca&#x2F;product&#x2F;gergoplex</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>EForEndeavour</author><text>That reminds me, I consider losing arrow keys a dealbreaker. I use them frequently enough to navigate both text and code in various contexts (except in Vim, which I don&#x27;t use exclusively). I already hold modifiers to jump to next&#x2F;prev word boundary, page, start&#x2F;end of continuous data ranges in Excel, etc. Admittedly, I&#x27;d probably adapt, but I&#x27;m held back by the belief that any ergonomic advantages of moving to wasd or hjkl would be wiped out by reduction in speed and muscle memory for me.</text></item><item><author>sascha_sl</author><text>You can keep the normal layout on a 40%, you just wouldn&#x27;t have number&#x2F;function&#x2F;nav keys without layers<p>40% is <i>not</i> just plank, and I personally find the ergonomics of a plank board to be rather bad compared to staggered, unless it&#x27;s split.</text></item><item><author>EForEndeavour</author><text>What sort of WPM did you have on normal keyboards, and whta have you been able to train up to on your current one? I plateaued at roughly 35 WPM on Dvorak as a teenager and have been hesitant to commit to major layout changes since then, despite the ergonomic promises that a lot of them make.</text></item><item><author>readingnews</author><text>I am not OP, but I moved to a 40% (44 key minivan) about a year ago, and I am using it as my daily driver at home and work. I find that the fact that I can reach every key on the board and barely move my hands has helped a lot. The other interesting notation is that I can put the mouse really, really close by. So the motion going from keyboard to mouse is greatly reduced. I find that my wrists are much better off with this.</text></item><item><author>codezero</author><text>Is it an Atreus? How do you like that size of keyboard? I&#x27;m not too bothered about adopting some chords, but more interested in the general ergonomics &#x2F; RSI risks.</text></item><item><author>autocorr</author><text>For some context, this project was basically made to one up someone else, so it&#x27;s not fully serious. Part of what makes the keyboard funny though is that (a niche of) the custom mechanical keyboard scene has been moving to many fewer keys and programming the firmware to compensate. So it&#x27;s pretty funny going from seeing several Planck ~49 key layouts to seeing this gargantuan <i>450</i> key absolute unit.<p>Sincerely typed by someone on a 44 key layout :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>433% Keyboard</title><url>https://relivesight.com/projects/433/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>We do have an international framework, of sorts. It&#x27;s that each country must regulate satellites launched by their companies. A US-based company must comply with US laws regarding satellite launches and get permission to launch them.<p>In this case, Swarm lied to the Indian government and said the US had approved it (which made sense as they are a US-based company), while trying to hide the existence of the satellites from the US Government. Frankly, I think a $900k fine is too small.</text><parent_chain><item><author>riskable</author><text>So if Swarm wasn&#x27;t a US-based company they wouldn&#x27;t have gotten this fine? They launched the satellites from India and tested them from Georgia (the state in the US or the country? The article isn&#x27;t clear).<p>Seems to me that future companies that want to do this sort of testing just need to do it in other countries or from off-shore platforms. <i>Then</i> apply for your FCC license so you can charge US customers without having to worry about getting sanctioned (and losing your ability to process credit cards and bank in the US).<p>When I started reading the article and read about all these international launches my first thought was, &quot;why does the FCC have a say in any of this?&quot; Now I&#x27;m thinking, &quot;perhaps we need a better international framework for this sort of thing.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch</title><url>https://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1OJ2WT</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_oygb</author><text>US state.<p>Yes, the actual judgment document just vaguely refers to it as &quot;Georgia&quot; but it&#x27;s inferred that it&#x27;s the state since FCC has no statutory authority outside of the U.S. However in the application it&#x27;s clearly marked as state of Georgia.<p>&quot;Swarm seeks narrow authority to transmit data from the SpaceBEE satellites in order to access tracking information. The SpaceBEE satellites will only transmit to enable downlinking of GPS data, and will be muted at all other times. GPS data will be downlinked during passes over Los Altos, California and Buford, Georgia. These passes Swarm Technologies will occur approximately four times per day. Each transmission will require approximately two seconds.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-18-184A1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-18-184A1.pdf</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.fcc.gov&#x2F;els&#x2F;GetAtt.html?id=212398&amp;x=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.fcc.gov&#x2F;els&#x2F;GetAtt.html?id=212398&amp;x=</a>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>riskable</author><text>So if Swarm wasn&#x27;t a US-based company they wouldn&#x27;t have gotten this fine? They launched the satellites from India and tested them from Georgia (the state in the US or the country? The article isn&#x27;t clear).<p>Seems to me that future companies that want to do this sort of testing just need to do it in other countries or from off-shore platforms. <i>Then</i> apply for your FCC license so you can charge US customers without having to worry about getting sanctioned (and losing your ability to process credit cards and bank in the US).<p>When I started reading the article and read about all these international launches my first thought was, &quot;why does the FCC have a say in any of this?&quot; Now I&#x27;m thinking, &quot;perhaps we need a better international framework for this sort of thing.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch</title><url>https://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1OJ2WT</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eastbayjake</author><text>In January, a student from my alma mater flew all the way across the country to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. I ended up reading a <i>New Yorker</i> article from 2003[1] about Golden Gate jumpers and this anecdote stopped me:<p><i>Motto had a patient who committed suicide from the Golden Gate in 1963, but the jump that affected him most occurred in the seventies. “I went to this guy’s apartment afterward with the assistant medical examiner,” he told me. “The guy was in his thirties, lived alone, pretty bare apartment. He’d written a note and left it on his bureau. It said, ‘I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.’”</i><p>He jumped. And ever since I read that, I&#x27;ve made it a personal mission to smile at everyone I pass on the sidewalk every day. Not only does suicide have unknowable impacts on all of the people around you, but even your most insignificant actions could have an enormous impact on the people around you. Be good to others -- you never know how much it might mean to them.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2003&#x2F;10&#x2F;13&#x2F;jumpers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2003&#x2F;10&#x2F;13&#x2F;jumpers</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide</title><url>http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/05/06/how-to-commit-suicide/?utm_content=buffer7da00&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcpt</author><text>The best quote on this topic that I know of is terrifying:<p>The so-called &#x27;psychotically depressed&#x27; person who tries to kill herself doesn&#x27;t do so out of quote &#x27;hopelessness&#x27; or any abstract
conviction that life&#x27;s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in
whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling
from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out
the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire&#x27;s flames: when the flames get
close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It&#x27;s not desiring the fall; it&#x27;s terror of the flames.
And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling &#x27;Don&#x27;t!&#x27; and &#x27;Hang on!&#x27;, can understand the jump. Not really. You&#x27;d
have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.<p>-David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide</title><url>http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/05/06/how-to-commit-suicide/?utm_content=buffer7da00&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjude</author><text>I equate learning any new domain as going into a zoo. You look at each animal on its own and you can learn about difference between animals. You can complete it reasonably in a weekend. But going into wild wild forest is entirely another. (If you are interested, I wrote about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjude.com&#x2F;are-you-learning-a-new-domain-visit-its-zoo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjude.com&#x2F;are-you-learning-a-new-domain-visit-its-zo...</a>)<p>I learned React reasonably quick. But when I started writing production application, I got into so many cases which were not covered in introductory materials. I found answers to some of these cases via google; I had to find answers to many others by trial and error.<p>That is why people sharing these type of patterns helps. We all become wiser before getting into wild forest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crispyporkbites</author><text>This is great. Everyone says react is easy and can be learnt in a day, and the docs&#x2F;tutorials definitely make it feel that way. But then when you actually go to use it there are a bazillion funky patterns using new-ish es6 patterns and operators, and by the time you’ve implemented them they are outdated and no longer best practice because apparently there’s a better way now. So this list is useful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React in Patterns</title><url>https://krasimir.gitbooks.io/react-in-patterns/content/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kross</author><text>React in it&#x27;s stated goal IS quite easy, but I agree, to become a master, you should learn a few patterns quickly.<p>I don&#x27;t feel like react&#x27;s docs are misleading - like anything - mastery requires investment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crispyporkbites</author><text>This is great. Everyone says react is easy and can be learnt in a day, and the docs&#x2F;tutorials definitely make it feel that way. But then when you actually go to use it there are a bazillion funky patterns using new-ish es6 patterns and operators, and by the time you’ve implemented them they are outdated and no longer best practice because apparently there’s a better way now. So this list is useful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>React in Patterns</title><url>https://krasimir.gitbooks.io/react-in-patterns/content/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vladdanilov</author><text>Meanwhile, there are 2.8 MB of images in the article with the header image alone being a 1.6 MB JPEG (!). They can be reduced by at least 50%, given that the deringing filter works fine on contrast text&#x2F;charts. Even more, the optimal format for this type of images is PNG not JPEG. After the conversion and optimization, they take 889 KB [1], &gt;3 times smaller, and doing the same on properly resized originals without JPEG artifacts can bring them down to 100-200 KB.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vmdanilov&#x2F;optimage&#x2F;files&#x2F;1898955&#x2F;images.zip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vmdanilov&#x2F;optimage&#x2F;files&#x2F;1898955&#x2F;images.z...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/253852078523394/av1-beats-x264-and-libvpx-vp9-in-practical-use-case/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keldaris</author><text>&quot;Our testing shows AV1 surpasses its stated goal of 30% better compression than VP9, and achieves gains of 50.3%, 46.2% and 34.0%, compared to x264 main profile, x264 high profile and libvpx-vp9, respectively.<p>This sounds like AV1 is actually worse than H.265, at least at low-ish resolutions. Am I misreading these results?<p>For context, I&#x27;ve moved to using H.265 (via the x265 encoder) for archiving 720p and 1080p video. At least for low bitrates (in the 500-1500 kbit&#x2F;s range) it gives me over 50% smaller filesizes compared to x264 high profile at roughly the same quality. The encoding speed is much slower, of course, but not by more than 10x on modern CPUs, typically less. I had hoped to move over to some AV1 implementation in a few years, but these results make that look doubtful. Are the supposed advantages of AV1 over H.265 confined to ultra high resolutions and&#x2F;or high bitrates?<p>Please note that this is a purely technical question. I don&#x27;t care about the patent issues and for those that do, they&#x27;ve been covered at length in other comments already.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/253852078523394/av1-beats-x264-and-libvpx-vp9-in-practical-use-case/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matwood</author><text>I agree those were odd takes. I&#x27;ve likened firing most of the engineers to taking your hands off the wheel in the car. It won&#x27;t crash immediately, but it doesn&#x27;t mean the car can go driverless.<p>With that said, there are differences between internal systems and something like Twitter on the public internet. I assume that Twitter is a system under constant attack. What happens when the next log4shell level vulnerability comes out?</text><parent_chain><item><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&gt;<i>removing engineers won&#x27;t instantly crash the product. It&#x27;ll happen slowly</i><p>It&#x27;s amazing to me how many people following the Twitter saga, some familiar with or <i>actually working</i> in technology, thought that Twitter would crash within days of the engineers being fired. And because it didn&#x27;t, the job cuts are justified.</text></item><item><author>donkeyd</author><text>&gt; the article might actually persuade me that it was all bloat<p>First of all, how does it persuade you of that? The article touches a really small (though incredibly important for up-time) subject.<p>Secondly, in any large company, the majority is &#x27;bloat&#x27;. It&#x27;s security engineers, code reviews, data architecture, HR, internal audit teams, content moderators, ccrum masters and I can keep going. In a start-up many of these roles can be ignored, becaus growth &gt; stability. In a large organization, part of the bloat helps insure a certain amount of stability that&#x27;s necessary to keep an organization alive.<p>If a product is mature enough, like Twitter seems to be, removing engineers won&#x27;t instantly crash the product. It&#x27;ll happen slowly. Bugs will creep in, because less time is spent on review and over all architecture. Security issues will creep in because of about the same issues and less oversight. Then, once this causes enough issues for the product to actually crash, the right people to fix it quickly might not be there anymore. That&#x27;s when fixing the issues suddenly takes a lot more time.<p>If the current state of affairs at Twitter keeps up, it&#x27;ll probably be a slow descent into chaos. Especially with Elon pushing for new features to be implemented quickly, inevitably by people who cannot fully understand the implications of said features, because 80% of knowledge is missing.</text></item><item><author>resonious</author><text>&gt; This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat.<p>I was partly expecting the rest of the article to explain to me why exactly it <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> just bloat. But it goes on talking about this 1~3-person cache SRE team that built solid infra automation that&#x27;s really resilient to both hardware and software failures. If anything, the article might actually persuade me that it <i>was</i> all bloat.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE</title><url>https://matthewtejo.substack.com/p/why-twitter-didnt-go-down-from-a</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aeolun</author><text>&gt; thought that Twitter would crash within days of the engineers being fired<p>Because they work for companies where the product would fail within days of them being fired themselves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&gt;<i>removing engineers won&#x27;t instantly crash the product. It&#x27;ll happen slowly</i><p>It&#x27;s amazing to me how many people following the Twitter saga, some familiar with or <i>actually working</i> in technology, thought that Twitter would crash within days of the engineers being fired. And because it didn&#x27;t, the job cuts are justified.</text></item><item><author>donkeyd</author><text>&gt; the article might actually persuade me that it was all bloat<p>First of all, how does it persuade you of that? The article touches a really small (though incredibly important for up-time) subject.<p>Secondly, in any large company, the majority is &#x27;bloat&#x27;. It&#x27;s security engineers, code reviews, data architecture, HR, internal audit teams, content moderators, ccrum masters and I can keep going. In a start-up many of these roles can be ignored, becaus growth &gt; stability. In a large organization, part of the bloat helps insure a certain amount of stability that&#x27;s necessary to keep an organization alive.<p>If a product is mature enough, like Twitter seems to be, removing engineers won&#x27;t instantly crash the product. It&#x27;ll happen slowly. Bugs will creep in, because less time is spent on review and over all architecture. Security issues will creep in because of about the same issues and less oversight. Then, once this causes enough issues for the product to actually crash, the right people to fix it quickly might not be there anymore. That&#x27;s when fixing the issues suddenly takes a lot more time.<p>If the current state of affairs at Twitter keeps up, it&#x27;ll probably be a slow descent into chaos. Especially with Elon pushing for new features to be implemented quickly, inevitably by people who cannot fully understand the implications of said features, because 80% of knowledge is missing.</text></item><item><author>resonious</author><text>&gt; This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat.<p>I was partly expecting the rest of the article to explain to me why exactly it <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> just bloat. But it goes on talking about this 1~3-person cache SRE team that built solid infra automation that&#x27;s really resilient to both hardware and software failures. If anything, the article might actually persuade me that it <i>was</i> all bloat.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE</title><url>https://matthewtejo.substack.com/p/why-twitter-didnt-go-down-from-a</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>basilgohar</author><text>This is a big assumption. There are many reasons to release something as copyleft – not everyone that releases BSD-like is actively choosing to deprioritize upstreaming. Rather, they are choosing a license that is less restrictive which has other advantages beyond non-copyleft.<p>Moreover, using copyleft software doesn&#x27;t mean <i>using</i> forces you to release code. There are specific interactions that trigger the sharing clause in, for example, the GPL, such as distribution, linking, and so on. There remain many, many uses that allow commercialization that do not run afoul of the copyleft nature of the GPL.<p>I am commenting because I have seen this sentiment repeated ad nauseum on here and, maybe that&#x27;s not what you meant, but I felt the need to clarify. Moreover, if the code is not AGPL, most online uses do not run afoul, because the code product (say executables) are not themselves being distributed. AGPL was formulated to close this loophole, but GPL code is free from this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ABeeSea</author><text>If the creators of Postgres wanted all improvements to be upstreamed, they wouldn’t have released under a permissive license. The ability to use Postgres commercially without exposing your entire codebase to copyleft risk is one of the reasons it’s used commercially in the first place.</text></item><item><author>cdbattags</author><text>In the latest world of Postgres:<p>- we now have closed source Amazon Aurora infrastructure that boasts performance gains that might never see it back upstream (who knows if it&#x27;s just hardware or software or what behind the scenes here)<p>- we now have Amazon DocumentDB that is a closed source MongoDB-like scripting interface with Postgres under the hood<p>- lastly, with this news, looks like Microsoft is now doubling down on the same strategy to build out infrastructure and _possibly_ closed source &quot;forked&quot; wins on top of the beautiful open source world that is Postgres<p>Please, please, please let&#x27;s be sure to upstream! I love the cloud but when I go to &quot;snapshot&quot; and &quot;restore&quot; my PG DB I want a little transparency how y&#x27;all are doing this. Same with DocumentDB; I&#x27;d love an article of how they are using JSONB indices at this supposed scale! Not trying to throw shade; just raising my eyebrows a little.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-re-affirming-its-commitment-to-open-source-and-accelerating-azure-postgresql-performance-and-scale/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cdbattags</author><text>100% agree. I&#x27;m just weary of all these &quot;mini optimizations&quot; that all these cloud providers are about to start doing differently.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ABeeSea</author><text>If the creators of Postgres wanted all improvements to be upstreamed, they wouldn’t have released under a permissive license. The ability to use Postgres commercially without exposing your entire codebase to copyleft risk is one of the reasons it’s used commercially in the first place.</text></item><item><author>cdbattags</author><text>In the latest world of Postgres:<p>- we now have closed source Amazon Aurora infrastructure that boasts performance gains that might never see it back upstream (who knows if it&#x27;s just hardware or software or what behind the scenes here)<p>- we now have Amazon DocumentDB that is a closed source MongoDB-like scripting interface with Postgres under the hood<p>- lastly, with this news, looks like Microsoft is now doubling down on the same strategy to build out infrastructure and _possibly_ closed source &quot;forked&quot; wins on top of the beautiful open source world that is Postgres<p>Please, please, please let&#x27;s be sure to upstream! I love the cloud but when I go to &quot;snapshot&quot; and &quot;restore&quot; my PG DB I want a little transparency how y&#x27;all are doing this. Same with DocumentDB; I&#x27;d love an article of how they are using JSONB indices at this supposed scale! Not trying to throw shade; just raising my eyebrows a little.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-re-affirming-its-commitment-to-open-source-and-accelerating-azure-postgresql-performance-and-scale/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blast</author><text>&gt; A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire.<p>What evidence is there that that was real? An allegation was made on Twitter, but only thing I&#x27;ve found that digs into the details looks like a complete debunking (see links at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30336974" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30336974</a>). It&#x27;s from a biased source and I&#x27;m open to any factual refutation, but I&#x27;ve looked for contrary reporting that digs into the details, and haven&#x27;t found any. Only a lot of repetition of the original allegation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ar_turnbull</author><text>&gt; &quot;there is no violence, and no obvious danger.&quot;<p>This is false and I would expect better of HN posters.<p>A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire.<p>Although nobody has been injured yet, there have been plenty of weapons seizures as well as incidents of protestors ramming police vehicles and&#x2F;or attempting to arrest police officers.<p>Residents of Ottawa are scared to leave their homes for simple tasks like buying groceries because the protestors have assaulted vulnerable individuals for wearing masks.<p>The entire thing is a tinderbox just waiting for one unhinged protestor to make a wrong move. And even if we escape this incident peacefully, there are the toxic diesel fumes from idling trucks which have been polluting downtown Ottawa&#x27;s air for the last two weeks and are likely to become trapped in the urban environment.</text></item><item><author>dade_</author><text>It appears this was the result of terrible security at GiveSendGo. I&#x27;d agree it could be state sponsored, but I am certain there are enough people with the skills to do this on their own downtown Ottawa (even if it turned out they work for the gov&#x27;t).<p>That said, I am thoroughly disappointed the Federal gov&#x27;t and much of the media coverage. They have done nothing but make the situation worse. I think it is intentional (I assume some political end game), but their actions are fueling even more outlandish conspiracy theories.<p>The most insane was that all layers of government did nothing to stop the noise (truck horns), but it ended when a 21 year old who simply filed a court injunction and the protesters complied.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;injunction-ottawa-granted-1.6342468" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;injunction-ottawa-granted-1...</a><p>I&#x27;ve watched the Toronto Police Service play their A game through this entire debacle. They shut down the protests hard and were clearly visible throughout the city with heavy trucks and busses to block roads and maintain control of the situation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cp24.com&#x2F;video?clipId=2376560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cp24.com&#x2F;video?clipId=2376560</a><p>The idea that Justin Trudeau needs martial law to deal with parked trucks is outrageous. This isn&#x27;t an insurrection (reference to an MOU was removed from their website and I agree with the assertion that it was a poorly thought out idea, not a threat), there is no violence, and no obvious danger. The last person to use martial law was Trudeau&#x27;s father (Pierre) for an actual terrorist attack and kidnapping (the diplomat was later murdered). Get some proper police on the job and drop mandates for ineffective measures and let&#x27;s move on with our lives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/leak-site-says-it-has-been-given-list-canada-truck-convoy-donors-after-reported-2022-02-14/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>honkdaddy</author><text>The arson thing was pretty thoroughly debunked. &quot;I would expect better of HN posters.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>ar_turnbull</author><text>&gt; &quot;there is no violence, and no obvious danger.&quot;<p>This is false and I would expect better of HN posters.<p>A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire.<p>Although nobody has been injured yet, there have been plenty of weapons seizures as well as incidents of protestors ramming police vehicles and&#x2F;or attempting to arrest police officers.<p>Residents of Ottawa are scared to leave their homes for simple tasks like buying groceries because the protestors have assaulted vulnerable individuals for wearing masks.<p>The entire thing is a tinderbox just waiting for one unhinged protestor to make a wrong move. And even if we escape this incident peacefully, there are the toxic diesel fumes from idling trucks which have been polluting downtown Ottawa&#x27;s air for the last two weeks and are likely to become trapped in the urban environment.</text></item><item><author>dade_</author><text>It appears this was the result of terrible security at GiveSendGo. I&#x27;d agree it could be state sponsored, but I am certain there are enough people with the skills to do this on their own downtown Ottawa (even if it turned out they work for the gov&#x27;t).<p>That said, I am thoroughly disappointed the Federal gov&#x27;t and much of the media coverage. They have done nothing but make the situation worse. I think it is intentional (I assume some political end game), but their actions are fueling even more outlandish conspiracy theories.<p>The most insane was that all layers of government did nothing to stop the noise (truck horns), but it ended when a 21 year old who simply filed a court injunction and the protesters complied.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;injunction-ottawa-granted-1.6342468" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;injunction-ottawa-granted-1...</a><p>I&#x27;ve watched the Toronto Police Service play their A game through this entire debacle. They shut down the protests hard and were clearly visible throughout the city with heavy trucks and busses to block roads and maintain control of the situation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cp24.com&#x2F;video?clipId=2376560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cp24.com&#x2F;video?clipId=2376560</a><p>The idea that Justin Trudeau needs martial law to deal with parked trucks is outrageous. This isn&#x27;t an insurrection (reference to an MOU was removed from their website and I agree with the assertion that it was a poorly thought out idea, not a threat), there is no violence, and no obvious danger. The last person to use martial law was Trudeau&#x27;s father (Pierre) for an actual terrorist attack and kidnapping (the diplomat was later murdered). Get some proper police on the job and drop mandates for ineffective measures and let&#x27;s move on with our lives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/leak-site-says-it-has-been-given-list-canada-truck-convoy-donors-after-reported-2022-02-14/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jedisct1</author><text>Rust has evolved from something safe and <i>simple</i> (once you grasp the different type of pointers) to something way less accessible.<p>Rust source code is now full of annotations, and very hard to read and maintain.<p>Traits have evolved from a nice feature to something overused everywhere.<p>Basic crates use so many generics, impl Trait and abstractions over abstractions over abstractions that it&#x27;s really difficult to follow what concrete types you need to satisfy these.<p>When one of the oldest and still unanswered issue in the Hyper HTTP library is &quot;how do I read the body?&quot;, there is a conceptual problem.<p>And things got even more complicated with Futures. async&#x2F;await don&#x27;t solve much, as besides textbook examples, these are unusable without deep knowledge of how everything works internally. Pin&#x2F;Unpin makes things even more complicated.<p>I&#x27;m an early Rust adopter and advocate. However, I wouldn&#x27;t consider it any longer for new projects.<p>My productivity in Rust has become very low compared to other languages such as Go or even C, that let me easily express what I want to do.<p>With Rust, 90% of my time is spent trying to understand how to express what I want to do. Such as what types I have, what 3rd party crates expect and how to convert them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust 1.37.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/08/15/Rust-1.37.0.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>sitkack</author><text>Interesting how much two of the big cloud providers are assisting the Rust project. Is GCP absent due to Chrome&#x2F;Firefox?<p>&gt; AWS has provided hosting for release artifacts (compilers, libraries, tools, and source code), serving those artifacts to users through CloudFront, preventing regressions with Crater on EC2, and managing other Rust-related infrastructure hosted on AWS.<p>&gt; Microsoft Azure has sponsored builders for Rust’s CI infrastructure, notably the extremely resource intensive rust-lang&#x2F;rust repository.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust 1.37.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/08/15/Rust-1.37.0.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>xahrepap</author><text>I had a really awesome leather belt that I got when I was 15. I stopped wearing it when I was 30 because my weight finally out outgrew the belt. Still have it. It&#x27;s no worse today than it was when I got it as a teen.<p>I go through about a belt a year now. Because I always seem to end up with this crap you describe. Even if I try to avoid it. Guess I need to do a better job looking... Or just lose some weight so I can use that same belt for another 15years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stonogo</author><text>I&#x27;d be interested to know how much of this has to do with the dilution of the meaning of &#x27;leather&#x27; in terms of consumer goods. The market is flooded with garbage products, which are produced by slicing a thin veneer of leather and gluing it to a plastic backing, which is then sold as &quot;bonded leather.&quot; It&#x27;s gotten so bad that full-grain leather products are exceedingly rare.<p>Since 90% of &quot;leather&quot; products are such awful garbage, it&#x27;s not surprising to me that consumers have abandoned the sector en masse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-18/america-is-obsessed-with-beef-but-it-has-no-use-for-hides-so-leather-prices-plunge</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Clubber</author><text>There is a grading system for leather. &quot;Genuine&quot; leather is a deceptive marketing term designed to sell shit leather as quality.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joojoobs.com&#x2F;leather-grades&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joojoobs.com&#x2F;leather-grades&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>stonogo</author><text>I&#x27;d be interested to know how much of this has to do with the dilution of the meaning of &#x27;leather&#x27; in terms of consumer goods. The market is flooded with garbage products, which are produced by slicing a thin veneer of leather and gluing it to a plastic backing, which is then sold as &quot;bonded leather.&quot; It&#x27;s gotten so bad that full-grain leather products are exceedingly rare.<p>Since 90% of &quot;leather&quot; products are such awful garbage, it&#x27;s not surprising to me that consumers have abandoned the sector en masse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-18/america-is-obsessed-with-beef-but-it-has-no-use-for-hides-so-leather-prices-plunge</url></story>
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