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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darkerside</author><text>There&#x27;s a difference between working fixed hours, working a fixed amount of time, and working within boundaries. I think it&#x27;s a level you work your way up.<p>Early career, just work fixed hours. You don&#x27;t have a sense for what is reasonable yet, and this is a good way to build up a work ethic and understand your limits.<p>Once you&#x27;re comfortable there, tweak your hours as needed. This might mean working the same irregular hours every day (parents can schedule around their kids) or just making sure that when you hit a number, you call it a day (wake up early and work so you can go hiking in the afternoon).<p>As you get to know yourself better, you&#x27;ll know when you&#x27;ve put in good day&#x27;s work, when you have capacity to keep going, and when you need to dial it back.<p>This last stage is important if you aspire to leadership roles. In these roles, you are never done, there is always more you can do to improve your business, so you need to find your sustainable boundary and stick to it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Should you work fixed hours, even if you have a flexible schedule?</title><url>https://remote.ma/2022/03/16/should-you-work-fixed-hours/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hericium</author><text>I have trouble focusing and flexible hours help me avoid wasting work-incapable time on &quot;being at work&quot; (and not doing any). I never billed customers for additional time so was wasting a lot of it on attempts to get some work done, when I couldn&#x27;t concentrate. Later I was spending additional time on doing actual work.<p>I&#x27;m doing flexible remote for a few years now and never been more productive. Less stress from &quot;I can&#x27;t concentrate&quot; frustration, tidy backlog, more and better work done in less time. More time for other customers or side projects, hobbies and family&#x2F;social.<p>I&#x27;m trying not to be indispensable. I&#x27;m there when I&#x27;m needed but there is no constant &quot;being on call&quot; feeling.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Should you work fixed hours, even if you have a flexible schedule?</title><url>https://remote.ma/2022/03/16/should-you-work-fixed-hours/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aseipp</author><text>Trial and error. You need to dial in the right point on the voltage&#x2F;clock frequency curve for your workloads, AKA &quot;just play some games and look at the results.&quot; Just use whatever your overclocking software for your motherboard is, and modify the default curve it has. I use MSI Afterburner and just set a flat clock frequency (plateau) at a certain voltage level to undervolt. I think for NVidia GPUs there&#x27;s a way to modify the curve with the default tooling, but third party tools like Afterburner can also do it.<p>You can get great results pretty fast this way. My Mini-ITX build is about as thermally compact as possible given the parts (3080+Ryzen 5600X, NZXT H1), and I&#x27;m pushing my PSU to the absolute limits in the stock settings, so undervolting is important for safe power margins since the 3080 can reach ~360W in my testing. I think 30 minutes of tweaking got me something like a +80W power drop for only 10% FPS in Read Dead Redemption 2 @ 4k60fps; I never breach 300W now which is within my personal safety margins, and can native 4k everything.<p>Some software like Afterburner have &quot;Overclock Scanner&quot; tools that will run benchmarks and repeatedly try to dial these settings in for you, but it really is easier to just modify the curve manually and test your specific workloads.</text><parent_chain><item><author>5d8767c68926</author><text>&gt;A lot of people are undervolting their RTX GPU&#x27;s because for an only about a ~3% performance loss you get about 10C less temp which translates to far less fan noise<p>Bah, this is brilliant. I just upgraded a 1070 to a 3070 and am flabbergasted at how much heat it dumps into my room. One of the reasons I did not go with the 3080 was the ~100 watt lower draw.<p>Do you know of any good tooling to assess the impact of undervolting or is it a manual guess-and-check process?</text></item><item><author>pentae</author><text>It certainly makes building Mini ITX a lot more interesting when you&#x27;re trying to get the sweet spot for performance to thermals&#x2F;noise ratio.<p>I did a nCase M1 build recently and my objective for the build was small as possible, quiet as possible, and as powerful as possible in that order. I still ended up with a pretty powerful machine by going with an i3-12100 instead of an i5&#x2F;i7 which uses much less power and puts out less heat. The RTX 3080 reference card was the biggest card that could fit into the case which I undervolted.<p>A lot of people are undervolting their RTX GPU&#x27;s because for an only about a ~3% performance loss you get about 10C less temp which translates to far less fan noise. I don&#x27;t know why Nvidia doesn&#x27;t just have a one click button for people.<p>nCase unfortunately have discontinued this case based on &#x27;market factors&#x27; which I suspect means that they don&#x27;t anticipate things to be getting smaller and cooler any time soon.</text></item><item><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>Between this and the ridiculous TDP expectations for this generations latest graphic cards people are going to have to start thinking about using dedicated circuits per gaming computer.</text></item><item><author>stardude900</author><text>Wow, Raptor Lake&#x27;s max TDP looks to be 253W. That&#x27;s crazy high
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake-release-date-specifications-pricing-benchmarks-all-we-know-specs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/12/23348620/intel-13th-gen-cpus-raptor-lake-6ghz-stock-8ghz-overclocked</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nottorp</author><text>I just built a Ryzen 5600G system (without a discrete video card atm) and you can set either temperature or power consumption limits in the BIOS and it will underclock itself (actually turbo boost less) until it obeys your limits.<p>Perhaps I&#x27;ll wait with the video card until they give me the option to do the same there...</text><parent_chain><item><author>5d8767c68926</author><text>&gt;A lot of people are undervolting their RTX GPU&#x27;s because for an only about a ~3% performance loss you get about 10C less temp which translates to far less fan noise<p>Bah, this is brilliant. I just upgraded a 1070 to a 3070 and am flabbergasted at how much heat it dumps into my room. One of the reasons I did not go with the 3080 was the ~100 watt lower draw.<p>Do you know of any good tooling to assess the impact of undervolting or is it a manual guess-and-check process?</text></item><item><author>pentae</author><text>It certainly makes building Mini ITX a lot more interesting when you&#x27;re trying to get the sweet spot for performance to thermals&#x2F;noise ratio.<p>I did a nCase M1 build recently and my objective for the build was small as possible, quiet as possible, and as powerful as possible in that order. I still ended up with a pretty powerful machine by going with an i3-12100 instead of an i5&#x2F;i7 which uses much less power and puts out less heat. The RTX 3080 reference card was the biggest card that could fit into the case which I undervolted.<p>A lot of people are undervolting their RTX GPU&#x27;s because for an only about a ~3% performance loss you get about 10C less temp which translates to far less fan noise. I don&#x27;t know why Nvidia doesn&#x27;t just have a one click button for people.<p>nCase unfortunately have discontinued this case based on &#x27;market factors&#x27; which I suspect means that they don&#x27;t anticipate things to be getting smaller and cooler any time soon.</text></item><item><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>Between this and the ridiculous TDP expectations for this generations latest graphic cards people are going to have to start thinking about using dedicated circuits per gaming computer.</text></item><item><author>stardude900</author><text>Wow, Raptor Lake&#x27;s max TDP looks to be 253W. That&#x27;s crazy high
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake-release-date-specifications-pricing-benchmarks-all-we-know-specs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/12/23348620/intel-13th-gen-cpus-raptor-lake-6ghz-stock-8ghz-overclocked</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seldonnn</author><text>I’m not an engineer and read it as the latter, correct meaning. Preposition “on” makes it pretty clear.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cshg</author><text>The title makes it sound like the number of employees at Github scaled to 25k. The actual meaning though is that the number of Github contributers &#x2F; participants at Microsoft increased to 25k.<p>Quote:
&quot;At Microsoft today we have almost 25,000 engineers participating in our official GitHub organizations for open source, a great number of them contributing to open source communities throughout GitHub.&quot;<p>Quite misleading IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft</title><url>https://jeffwilcox.blog/2019/06/scaling-25k/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>irjustin</author><text>I was also quite surprised - Why does Github need 25k engineers.... let alone 2k engineers?!</text><parent_chain><item><author>cshg</author><text>The title makes it sound like the number of employees at Github scaled to 25k. The actual meaning though is that the number of Github contributers &#x2F; participants at Microsoft increased to 25k.<p>Quote:
&quot;At Microsoft today we have almost 25,000 engineers participating in our official GitHub organizations for open source, a great number of them contributing to open source communities throughout GitHub.&quot;<p>Quite misleading IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft</title><url>https://jeffwilcox.blog/2019/06/scaling-25k/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t make any sense to blame the garbage collector. During startup you&#x27;re loading classes, allocating structures, and verifying byte code. There aren&#x27;t things that involve garbage collection (allocating with a tracing GC is generally by bump-pointer so is very efficient).<p>I work on a large Java project (JRuby) and for us the largest component of time spent is on loading classes. Also, startup code is likely to run in the interpreter rather than being JIT compiled, which is also slower.<p>The solution we&#x27;re looking at is ahead of time compilation. This avoids class loading and interpretation, and it does seem to solve the problem (we&#x27;re back to ms startup time).<p>In V8 (Node.js) the majority of the core language and library features are effectively already AOT compiled as they&#x27;re implemented in C++. In the OpenJDK (and most JVMs) a lot of this is implemented in Java, so that has to be loaded and interpreted rather than executed natively.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Somewhat off-topic. I recently got interested in Java and its ecosystem because of Clojure. However, what bugs me is the startup time for Java. Since this is mature technology, I cannot believe it takes so long for an executable to start. One guess is that this is because of the garbage collector inside the VM, but that doesn&#x27;t make much sense because NodeJS also uses a garbage collector and it starts instantly (and it even has to parse &amp; compile the code upon startup, which the Java VM doesn&#x27;t even have to do). So... I&#x27;m puzzled. Any comments? This is not meant as a trolling question.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaCPP</title><url>https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Hupriene</author><text>Alex Miller is collecting information on impact of clojure&#x27;s slow startup time. For that and some good discussion of the causes of clojure&#x27;s slow startup time see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!msg&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;MG8UTcgFhYc&#x2F;lBiQBoCjAwAJ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!msg&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;MG8UTcgFhYc&#x2F;lB...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Somewhat off-topic. I recently got interested in Java and its ecosystem because of Clojure. However, what bugs me is the startup time for Java. Since this is mature technology, I cannot believe it takes so long for an executable to start. One guess is that this is because of the garbage collector inside the VM, but that doesn&#x27;t make much sense because NodeJS also uses a garbage collector and it starts instantly (and it even has to parse &amp; compile the code upon startup, which the Java VM doesn&#x27;t even have to do). So... I&#x27;m puzzled. Any comments? This is not meant as a trolling question.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaCPP</title><url>https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edouard-harris</author><text>&gt; There is a big BUG in marketing economics that we do not have a price for external Junk&#x2F;Waste.<p>This is called a negative externality, and it&#x27;s been understood by economists for about a century. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Externality#Negative" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Externality#Negative</a><p>One of the reasons negative externalities persist is that they&#x27;re <i>hard</i> to put a price on. How would you calculate the economic cost of the marginal piece of space junk?<p>In practice governments will have to do their best to impose reasonable frictions, by taxing launches or otherwise regulating them. But I think it&#x27;s more correct to call this a genuinely hard problem in economics, as opposed to a bug.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acd</author><text>There is a big BUG in marketing economics that we do not have a price for external Junk&#x2F;Waste. This one organizations junk may be &quot;free&quot; to them, but cost another organization big amounts of work and hassle.<p>Space junk is such an example. After you launch your satellite and it does it work and then becomes obsolete, there is very low to no incentive to remove the waste in a good manner.<p>Nature usually works differently in that there is some kind of waste harvest process that recycles the waste into a renewable process.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/space-debris-has-damaged-the-international-space-station</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>These things are managed and approved, end of life is a consideration for approval for us related space launches.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acd</author><text>There is a big BUG in marketing economics that we do not have a price for external Junk&#x2F;Waste. This one organizations junk may be &quot;free&quot; to them, but cost another organization big amounts of work and hassle.<p>Space junk is such an example. After you launch your satellite and it does it work and then becomes obsolete, there is very low to no incentive to remove the waste in a good manner.<p>Nature usually works differently in that there is some kind of waste harvest process that recycles the waste into a renewable process.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/space-debris-has-damaged-the-international-space-station</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jamesgagan</author><text>&quot;They killed our orcas&quot; - really? 2 Belugas just died in captivity at that aquarium -it wasn&#x27;t environmentalists who killed them, it was the aquarium. I have been to that aquarium and it was just depressing. Watching the Orca swim upside down around and around in circles was the saddest thing I&#x27;ve ever seen. Making intelligent creatures perform tricks for profit is hardly a noble enterprise.
Have you seen Blackfish? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blackfishmovie.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blackfishmovie.com&#x2F;</a>
Watch it and then come back and tell us that Tilikum had any kind of good life. These animals belong in the wild. They don&#x27;t need to be &quot;rescued&quot;. The idea that gawking at magnificent animals in captivity is somehow required to instill respect for them is ridiculous. The best way to respect all animals is to leave them alone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ohthehugemanate</author><text>So frustrating.<p>The Vancouver acquarium was one of the top cetacean health, care, and research institutes in the world. It was one of the models of how good a captive and public educational environment can be. Thanks to campaigns like this one, they had to close down and transfer their rescue orcas to the only organizations that could take them... Which turned out to be SeaWorld, where they died shortly after. Of course, SeaWorld is notorious for terrible conditions for the animals.<p>It drives me nuts that kids growing up in my hometown now don&#x27;t understand these magnificent creatures, don&#x27;t feel any special connection to them. For many in my generation, it feels like a betrayal on the part of our local environmentalist movement. They killed our orcas and disconnected our children from one of the most amazing parts of their environment. They destroyed the model that powered legislative attempts to protect cetaceans around the world.<p>We had a similar story with the beavers in Stanley park - our environmenal lobby campaigned to have the city stop dredging &quot;Beaver lake&quot;, because it disturbed the beavers. They stopped dredging, the lake filled with silt and most of the beavers (and other wildlife) died. Now they&#x27;re debating starting dredging again, to save the one surviving beaver.<p>For people like me that care about our environment and the animals we share it with, it&#x27;s rage inducing. The naturalist fallacy at work. :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vancouver bans whales and dolphins at aquarium</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39943267</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway2348</author><text>I am rather for a ban on cetaceans in any tank too small to use their sonar, but as a Vancouverite <i>I am extremely uncomfortable with who and how this ban was made</i>.<p>Vision Vancouver, the political party, is very slick and spends an order of magnitude more on PR than anybody else in the city, in a town now with little news reporting.<p>1. It&#x27;s well known who killed 2 of belugas -- somebody who publicly presents themselves as caring for whales -- but there is no discussion of it in the reporting.<p>2. There has been zero effort to have a conversation with the people at the Aquarium. There is an intentional effort to get shock value, encourage a public squabble that rouses some of their base and that distracts from their overall performance.<p>Vision Vancouver is now feeling the heat for freezing upzoning of single family home neighbourhoods so that they can direct hundreds of millions annually in buildable land grants in one-off variances to the large developers who are their main donors (Wall, Westbank, Concord). The problem in Vancouver is a monopoly of new buildable land where a single marketer, Bob Rennie, can dictate pricing for a year by virtue of controlling over 80% of new units in any given year under Vision Vancouver.<p>The next municipal election is a year away, but they&#x27;ve been around at full speed hiring PR folks on the public dime, setting up astroturf groups, wining and dining the few remaining beat reporters, and sending moles to infiltrate the new Vancouver Renters&#x27; Union. They&#x27;re picking fights that are fake and real, any news is good news now if they can be ahead of the story instead of chasing to catch up for once.<p>---<p>Disclosure: I volunteered for the last two Vision Vancouver campaigns, as a favor to a friend and when I believed they actually meant what they said. I had already given up on them when I was asked to join an astroturf group by Mike Magee last summer</text><parent_chain><item><author>ohthehugemanate</author><text>So frustrating.<p>The Vancouver acquarium was one of the top cetacean health, care, and research institutes in the world. It was one of the models of how good a captive and public educational environment can be. Thanks to campaigns like this one, they had to close down and transfer their rescue orcas to the only organizations that could take them... Which turned out to be SeaWorld, where they died shortly after. Of course, SeaWorld is notorious for terrible conditions for the animals.<p>It drives me nuts that kids growing up in my hometown now don&#x27;t understand these magnificent creatures, don&#x27;t feel any special connection to them. For many in my generation, it feels like a betrayal on the part of our local environmentalist movement. They killed our orcas and disconnected our children from one of the most amazing parts of their environment. They destroyed the model that powered legislative attempts to protect cetaceans around the world.<p>We had a similar story with the beavers in Stanley park - our environmenal lobby campaigned to have the city stop dredging &quot;Beaver lake&quot;, because it disturbed the beavers. They stopped dredging, the lake filled with silt and most of the beavers (and other wildlife) died. Now they&#x27;re debating starting dredging again, to save the one surviving beaver.<p>For people like me that care about our environment and the animals we share it with, it&#x27;s rage inducing. The naturalist fallacy at work. :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vancouver bans whales and dolphins at aquarium</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39943267</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eru</author><text>In Python you are much more likely to hit that problem not with closures constructed with an explicit &#x27;lambda&#x27;, but with generator-comprehension expressions.<p><pre><code> (((i, j) for i in &quot;abc&quot;) for j in range(3))
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The values of the above depends on in which order you evaluate the whole thing.<p>(Do take what I wrote with a grain of salt. Either the above is already a problem, or perhaps you also need to mix in list-comprehension expressions, too, to surface the bug.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>travisd</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that it&#x27;s much less of a problem in Python due to the lack of ergonomic closures&#x2F;lambdas. You have to construct rather esoteric looking code for it to be a problem.<p><pre><code> add_n = []
for n in range(10):
add_n.append(lambda x: x + n)
add_n[9](10) # 19
add_n[0](10) # 19
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This isn&#x27;t to say it&#x27;s *not* a footgun (and it has bit me in Python before), but it&#x27;s much worse in Go due to the idiomatic use of goroutines in a loop:<p><pre><code> for i := 0; i &lt; 10; i++ {
go func() { fmt.Printf(&quot;num: %d\n&quot;, i) }()
}</code></pre></text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>Meanwhile Python has received this same feature request many times over the years, and the answer is always that it would break existing code for little major benefit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;make-lambdas-proper-closures&#x2F;10553" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;make-lambdas-proper-closures&#x2F;10...</a><p>Given how much of an uproar there was over changing the string type in the Python 2 -&gt; 3 transition, I can&#x27;t imagine this change would ever end up in Python before a 4.0.<p>Cue someone arguing about how bad Python is because it won&#x27;t fix these things, and then arguing about how bad Python is because their scripts from 2003 stopped working...</text></item><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>The C# language team encountered this as well, after introducing lightweight closures in C# 4.0 it quickly became apparent that this was a footgun. Users almost always used loop variables incorrectly, and C# 5.0 made the breaking change.<p>Eric Lippert has a wonderful blog on the &quot;why&quot; from their perspective: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericlippert.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;closing-over-the-loop-variable-considered-harmful-part-one&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericlippert.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;closing-over-the-loop-var...</a><p>I had a bit of trouble finding the original C# 5 announcement; that&#x27;s hopefully not been lost in the (several?) blog migrations on the Microsoft domain since 2012.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fixing for loops in Go 1.22</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>Ignoring the strange nature of this code in the first place the more pythonic way to do it would be<p><pre><code> from functools import partial
from operators import add
add_n = [partial(add, n)) for n in range(10)]
assert add_n[5](4) == 9
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Look ma, no closures.</text><parent_chain><item><author>travisd</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that it&#x27;s much less of a problem in Python due to the lack of ergonomic closures&#x2F;lambdas. You have to construct rather esoteric looking code for it to be a problem.<p><pre><code> add_n = []
for n in range(10):
add_n.append(lambda x: x + n)
add_n[9](10) # 19
add_n[0](10) # 19
</code></pre>
This isn&#x27;t to say it&#x27;s *not* a footgun (and it has bit me in Python before), but it&#x27;s much worse in Go due to the idiomatic use of goroutines in a loop:<p><pre><code> for i := 0; i &lt; 10; i++ {
go func() { fmt.Printf(&quot;num: %d\n&quot;, i) }()
}</code></pre></text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>Meanwhile Python has received this same feature request many times over the years, and the answer is always that it would break existing code for little major benefit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;make-lambdas-proper-closures&#x2F;10553" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;make-lambdas-proper-closures&#x2F;10...</a><p>Given how much of an uproar there was over changing the string type in the Python 2 -&gt; 3 transition, I can&#x27;t imagine this change would ever end up in Python before a 4.0.<p>Cue someone arguing about how bad Python is because it won&#x27;t fix these things, and then arguing about how bad Python is because their scripts from 2003 stopped working...</text></item><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>The C# language team encountered this as well, after introducing lightweight closures in C# 4.0 it quickly became apparent that this was a footgun. Users almost always used loop variables incorrectly, and C# 5.0 made the breaking change.<p>Eric Lippert has a wonderful blog on the &quot;why&quot; from their perspective: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericlippert.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;closing-over-the-loop-variable-considered-harmful-part-one&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericlippert.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;closing-over-the-loop-var...</a><p>I had a bit of trouble finding the original C# 5 announcement; that&#x27;s hopefully not been lost in the (several?) blog migrations on the Microsoft domain since 2012.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fixing for loops in Go 1.22</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>imurray</author><text>If you mainly care about prediction, rather than inspecting the fitted parameters, a lot of this detail is usually overkill.<p>To generalize well, it&#x27;s almost always a good idea to have some sort of regularization, such as penalizing the sum of the square of the parameters. The extra term in the cost function will usually make the naive &quot;normal equations&quot; approach work fine, and give much the same predictions as fancy pivoted QR approaches. On my machine it&#x27;s also a lot faster (the ball-park is ~~10x faster for large systems).<p>I&#x27;m glad R has super-solid robust GLM implementations. And unless you&#x27;re fitting <i>many</i> models, you should probably just use such a library routine. However, I wish more tutorials and textbooks would spend more time on the reasons for numerical stability, and when one should care, rather than pushing that detail off into a trail of citations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Generalized linear models, abridged</title><url>http://bwlewis.github.io/GLM/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rrmm</author><text>Nice overview. I thought it was a bit odd that they pulled out a stieltjes integral so early on to define the mean and variance (I = Integral x dF(x)). I wouldn&#x27;t expect most people reading this sort of introductory material to be familiar with it.<p>Did it trip anyone up?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Generalized linear models, abridged</title><url>http://bwlewis.github.io/GLM/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mellosouls</author><text>This article rings true to me.<p>In particular I&#x27;ve noticed a steady stream of woke articles being pushed my way despite me having little interest in that sort of thing.<p>These things are supposed to be fed by our preferences, but while I&#x27;m happy to read across the board brow-wise, most of my reading is of the deeper articles and yet genuinely intellectual essays are rarely offered up.<p>It&#x27;s frustrating as a reader, and interesting to hear about it from the view of the writer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms are changing what we read online</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/how-algorithms-are-changing-what-we-read-online/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jseliger</author><text>I saw this essay in Arts and Letters Daily (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aldaily.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aldaily.com&#x2F;</a>) and added it to my blog&#x27;s next links post, with a variation of this comment: I&#x27;ve never heard of this guy and yet his work sounds like just the sort of thing I&#x27;d like to read: I&#x27;m not interested in most of the standard political and pop culture stuff that&#x27;s endlessly written and re-written. Unfortunately, he doesn&#x27;t seem to have a link list of his recent works anywhere, at least that I can find. His website (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;russellsmith.ca&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;russellsmith.ca&#x2F;</a>) appears to be pretty generic, and its RSS feed seems to have last been updated in 2015. How are we supposed to find his work and follow him, if we are interested in his work (and I am, after reading this)?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms are changing what we read online</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/how-algorithms-are-changing-what-we-read-online/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsweeney21</author><text>.9 is an angel investor. They say they like to be the first money in. Many of the things on this checklist shouldn&#x27;t even be on your radar until after seed or series a. Paying thousands of dollars for employees to attend conferences, hiring a chief product officer, thinking about scaling by x100000, worrying about multi cloud, avoiding vendor lock in, unit test coverage, one click deploys...and the list goes on. This is textbook over engineering and the HN crowd is very vulnerable to it.<p>Pre-angel funding you should take every hack and shortcut you can to get something into your users hands.<p>Please ignore this checklist. It is really bad advice.<p>(source: 2 time founder, over $16M raised from VC. I have made many of these mistakes.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech Due Diligence Calculator</title><url>https://decodingvc.gitbooks.io/p9-startup-tech-due-diligence-calculator/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>jandrewrogers</author><text>A few of these make unwarranted assumptions, though this may be based on the kinds of companies they invest in. Examples:<p>S1.3b - For several types of software, releasing continuously is an anti-pattern. Not only will it annoy your customers, it will significantly increase the cost of development. Not every tech startup is a website.<p>S1.4b - Same as above, not every kind of software application can be properly monitored without custom monitoring development, though most can. If someone develops a custom monitoring solution, you should at least understand why first; using an off-the-shelf solution in some cases would be a negative.<p>S2.6g - There should be an on-premise option. For several industries and applications it is required by the customers and&#x2F;or IaaS has substantial adverse economics. The correct answer is that there is a financial model that captures these CapEx&#x2F;OpEx tradeoffs. I&#x27;ve seen too many startups burn millions of dollars per year unnecessarily because they never did the math. (You should always be able to easily deploy across IaaS and on-prem though.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech Due Diligence Calculator</title><url>https://decodingvc.gitbooks.io/p9-startup-tech-due-diligence-calculator/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>mrtnmcc</author><text>You have to understand that after the cultural revolution, most all Chinese understand that internal rebellion can be very bad (leading to mass famine and death). Hence they largely support strong government regulation, even on speech. Americans think individual independence is a noble &quot;Western value&quot; because the Revolutionary War worked out fine for us. But these experiences each lead to biased extrapolations from the past. For the future, the specific conditions matter for individualism versus collectivism.. on which is the better path.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Hostile Forces of Beijing</title><url>https://scholars-stage.org/candlelight-vigils-and-hostile-forces/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>netsharc</author><text>I wonder if the people who get these Security Commission briefings believe the bullshit about &quot;hostile external forces&quot; or if they all know it&#x27;s just a pretend boogeyman and the population unrest happened because they don&#x27;t tolerate the government&#x27;s behavior.<p>Then again a lot of American reddit&#x2F;Twitter users screamed &quot;Russian bot!&quot; when they see things they didn&#x27;t like. Some of it maybe were Russian bots, but imagine if all the Russian interference disappeared, would all the anti-American commenters disappear off the Internet?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Hostile Forces of Beijing</title><url>https://scholars-stage.org/candlelight-vigils-and-hostile-forces/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inglondon</author><text>I can&#x27;t verify the quality of these studies but it seems that injury rates per 1000 active hours of crossfit at 0.27 - 0.74 [1] are significantly lower than more common sports such as running at 2.9 - 4.4 and basketball at 6.3 - 12.9 [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6201188&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6201188&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bionics.seas.ucla.edu&#x2F;education&#x2F;Rowing&#x2F;Injury_2004_01.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bionics.seas.ucla.edu&#x2F;education&#x2F;Rowing&#x2F;Injury_2004_01...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>If you&#x27;ve ever been an athlete, and have spent 30 seconds watching crossfit - it becomes obvious the goal is to see how dumb of an &quot;exercise&quot; you can do before getting hurt.<p>There are two type of crossfitters - those who have gotten a permanent and serious injury, and those who are going to get one.</text></item><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment?<p>&gt; The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and multinational food, beverage, and pharmaceutical companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties</title><url>https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cglace</author><text>I was a multi sport athlete and loved crossfit when I did it. Guess it all depends on where you go.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>If you&#x27;ve ever been an athlete, and have spent 30 seconds watching crossfit - it becomes obvious the goal is to see how dumb of an &quot;exercise&quot; you can do before getting hurt.<p>There are two type of crossfitters - those who have gotten a permanent and serious injury, and those who are going to get one.</text></item><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Wow I had heard Crossfit was a bit of an obsession for some people and a quirky approach to fitness, but I had no idea their official spiel was this level of paranoia - attacking academia as an unholy alliance of the establishment?<p>&gt; The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands steadfastly and often alone against an unholy alliance of academia, government, and multinational food, beverage, and pharmaceutical companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties</title><url>https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>j-bos</author><text>I&#x27;m partial to the remix:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;PateraQuetzaI&#x2F;status&#x2F;1156300892733243392?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;PateraQuetzaI&#x2F;status&#x2F;1156300892733243392...</a>
Link to a thread of Percy Shelley&#x27;s &quot;Ozimandias&quot; in the rhythm of Smash Mouth&#x27;s All Star</text><parent_chain><item><author>pugworthy</author><text><p><pre><code> I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
</code></pre>
— Percy Shelley&#x27;s &quot;Ozymandias&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?</title><text>Say you wanted to host a personal page that can outlive you and be seen by the children of your grandchildren. Other than asking your progeny to keep paying the hosting bills, is there another way?</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>gran_colombia</author><text>Ramses is still better known than Shelley, some 5k years later. Ozymandias won.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pugworthy</author><text><p><pre><code> I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
</code></pre>
— Percy Shelley&#x27;s &quot;Ozymandias&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?</title><text>Say you wanted to host a personal page that can outlive you and be seen by the children of your grandchildren. Other than asking your progeny to keep paying the hosting bills, is there another way?</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>nocture</author><text>Worth noting, this landed a patch that moves some of the UI work to Core Animation on MacOS[1]. More work will happen that builds on top of this, but some reports in that ticket are promising already.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1429522" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1429522</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CJefferson</author><text>Can anyone explain exactly what&#x27;s different about this?<p>Are all these features not in normal Firefox? Is this like a beta of normal firefox, set of extensions, or a significant fork?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>It&#x27;s almost a shame they spent so much time talking about 2048; it takes away from the point I gleaned: to make something simple and &quot;obvious&quot; takes a ton of work. I&#x27;ve spent months on designs, and felt bad because the end design was so <i>obvious</i>. &quot;Why didn&#x27;t I think of that in the first place?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Gracana</author><text>&gt; Nobody cares how hard you had to work to get from idea to product.<p>That was my initial reaction to that statement as well, but upon reading on I realized that&#x27;s not the point they&#x27;re trying to make. They&#x27;re not saying &quot;respect our efforts,&quot; they&#x27;re saying &quot;we spent a year on designing this to be challenging and replayable,&quot; and they go on to provide evidence for their claims of superiority.</text></item><item><author>smacktoward</author><text><i>&gt; We know Threes is a better game, we spent over a year on it.</i><p>I played Threes, and I liked it. And I feel for these guys having to watch everybody and his brother pile on to the idea they had to work so hard to tease out into reality.<p>But here is some hard truth: none of that matters.<p>Nobody cares how hard you had to work to get from idea to product. All they care about is <i>what you have produced</i> at the end of all that work. What makes it better or worse is how it stacks up relative to the competition -- even the competition that is shamelessly riffing off your core ideas -- not how much sweat you put into it.<p>And I gotta say, having played 2048, 1024 and Threes (the Android versions, at least), I think of the three of them 1024 stands up the best. It takes the core ideas in Threes and sands them down into a game that is easier to grasp and plays faster, without becoming so simple (a la 2048) that it becomes a game a script can beat. Threes makes you swipe-swipe-swipe after every game to get your score and &quot;sign&quot; it (why do I care about signing it?) before you can play again; 1024 just moves you straight on to the next game. Mobile games need to be simple and streamlined, and 1024 understands that imperative better than Threes does.<p>I say all this to help others understand why I would point to this essay as an example of how <i>not</i> to respond to a problem like a barrage of cloners. It&#x27;s because this essay sees the world entirely from the developers&#x27; perspective -- look how hard we worked! Look how long we labored! Look how subtle our decisions were! -- which is exactly the wrong angle.<p>You want your communications to speak from the <i>customer&#x27;s</i> perspective, not from your own. Customers don&#x27;t give you brownie points for how hard you worked on something. All they care about is how to get the best product for the best price. So if you put your heart and soul into something, and then someone comes along, tweaks your thing and makes it better, the way to respond isn&#x27;t to ask people to respect how hard you worked; it&#x27;s to look closely at the new thing, <i>understand why people like it better</i>, and then bring that understanding to your next iteration or your next product.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game</title><url>http://asherv.com/threes/threemails</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rjvin</author><text>Yeah it&#x27;s more of an insight into the design process than any sort of &#x27;plea&#x27;. It should also be noted that for their previous game, Puzzlejuice, they also released all the emails&#x2F;prototypes&#x2F;images that documented the process, so it&#x27;s likely they would have done the same for Threes even if it hadn&#x27;t been cloned many times over. The response to the clones and rip-offs is just a tacked on part at the beginning because they feel strongly about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Gracana</author><text>&gt; Nobody cares how hard you had to work to get from idea to product.<p>That was my initial reaction to that statement as well, but upon reading on I realized that&#x27;s not the point they&#x27;re trying to make. They&#x27;re not saying &quot;respect our efforts,&quot; they&#x27;re saying &quot;we spent a year on designing this to be challenging and replayable,&quot; and they go on to provide evidence for their claims of superiority.</text></item><item><author>smacktoward</author><text><i>&gt; We know Threes is a better game, we spent over a year on it.</i><p>I played Threes, and I liked it. And I feel for these guys having to watch everybody and his brother pile on to the idea they had to work so hard to tease out into reality.<p>But here is some hard truth: none of that matters.<p>Nobody cares how hard you had to work to get from idea to product. All they care about is <i>what you have produced</i> at the end of all that work. What makes it better or worse is how it stacks up relative to the competition -- even the competition that is shamelessly riffing off your core ideas -- not how much sweat you put into it.<p>And I gotta say, having played 2048, 1024 and Threes (the Android versions, at least), I think of the three of them 1024 stands up the best. It takes the core ideas in Threes and sands them down into a game that is easier to grasp and plays faster, without becoming so simple (a la 2048) that it becomes a game a script can beat. Threes makes you swipe-swipe-swipe after every game to get your score and &quot;sign&quot; it (why do I care about signing it?) before you can play again; 1024 just moves you straight on to the next game. Mobile games need to be simple and streamlined, and 1024 understands that imperative better than Threes does.<p>I say all this to help others understand why I would point to this essay as an example of how <i>not</i> to respond to a problem like a barrage of cloners. It&#x27;s because this essay sees the world entirely from the developers&#x27; perspective -- look how hard we worked! Look how long we labored! Look how subtle our decisions were! -- which is exactly the wrong angle.<p>You want your communications to speak from the <i>customer&#x27;s</i> perspective, not from your own. Customers don&#x27;t give you brownie points for how hard you worked on something. All they care about is how to get the best product for the best price. So if you put your heart and soul into something, and then someone comes along, tweaks your thing and makes it better, the way to respond isn&#x27;t to ask people to respect how hard you worked; it&#x27;s to look closely at the new thing, <i>understand why people like it better</i>, and then bring that understanding to your next iteration or your next product.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game</title><url>http://asherv.com/threes/threemails</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>genericresponse</author><text>Companies that file for bankruptcy don&#x27;t have much damage done to operations and the organizational structure because its ability to keep operating is usually the highest value outcome. That is- the company&#x27;s continued operations bring in more money than selling off the assets. Most corporate bankruptcy is about not making enough money to pay their outstanding debts, not having money losing operations.
Typically the owners lose all their investment and the debtors lose some of their investment. The debtors, in order of priority, are given ownership of the company by the court.<p>The ability for ownership to exist separately from the &quot;operating&quot; company, for the owners to only be liable up to losing their investment, not more, and for the management and employees not to directly lose money is sorta the &quot;why&quot; for corporations to exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>victor106</author><text>It’s interesting how companies can file for bankruptcy and can come out of it with not much damage done to the company. At a personal level you are essentially screwed for 7 years and even after that I think some companies don’t employ you.<p>Can anyone point to any resources that provide a good introduction to the bankruptcy process in the US?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chesapeake-enrgy-bankruptcy/shale-pioneer-chesapeake-energy-files-for-bankruptcy-idUSKBN23Z0SS</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>Hostess &quot;recovered&quot; after their bankruptcy by selling assets to a new company (the new company is now Hostess Brands and the old one is &quot;Old HB Inc&quot;). The good parts of the company are in a new shell, and the unit economics allowed them to continue operation. All of the liabilities are in the old company.
Many investors and pension holders took a loss, and many employees lost their jobs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>victor106</author><text>It’s interesting how companies can file for bankruptcy and can come out of it with not much damage done to the company. At a personal level you are essentially screwed for 7 years and even after that I think some companies don’t employ you.<p>Can anyone point to any resources that provide a good introduction to the bankruptcy process in the US?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chesapeake-enrgy-bankruptcy/shale-pioneer-chesapeake-energy-files-for-bankruptcy-idUSKBN23Z0SS</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atoav</author><text>In such situations I tend to ask that question directly:<p>&quot;It was my understanding that you looking for someone who will help you with Django tooling. I can do that. Although number theory sounds interesting, I never felt the need of diving into it in order to solve any Django-related issue. I would be happy to learn more about how you think number theory relates to Django tooling should I start working here.&quot;<p>When people try to be important like that, it is paramount to take them at face value. In a lot of geek environments this happens all the time. People trying to push that <i>one</i> niche topic they <i>really</i> know about, because this is their comfort zone. The problem is: that one niche topic will rarely be a natural fit for any given conversation. More often than not just asking how they think this relates to the conversation at hand is enough to tame them a little bit.<p>Many times the stuff people say will contradict with the stated (or implicit) goals of a conversation. in this case the chosen topic was one with which the interviewer felt at home.<p>So another approach would have been to make it even more about them by e.g. instead of answering their question showing that you did your research: &quot;Ah number theory! I saw you majored in number theory, I admittedly never had the need to dive too much into it — what role does number theory play in $Companyname?&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>leetrout</author><text>&gt; Guidance is expected; a great interview should be more of a conversation than a one-sided question and one-sided answer.<p>I had a particularly awful interview at Google where the interviewer scoffed at me needing assistance.<p>And in an interview at Twitter with a xoogler they asked me what I knew about number theory and I said &quot;nothing&quot; and they said they majored in it and proceeded to ask me number theory questions. For a Django tooling position. He asked me how many prime numbers there were and I said &quot;optimus prime&quot; and he looked at me and asked if I was serious and if he should record my answer. I said yes followed by &quot;autobots roll out&quot;<p>Such a waste of my time to fly out there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gaming CS Interviews</title><url>https://transitivebullsh.it/gaming-cs-interviews</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bodge5000</author><text>I remember being told once in an interview &quot;I&#x27;ll be your google, your stackoverflow, so anything you&#x27;d usually search for on there ask me&quot;.<p>Eventually I got to the point where I forgot how to do something simple where you&#x27;d usually just google it to refresh your memory. I decided to take his advice seriously and asked him, to which he responded to me basically by rephrasing my question as another question back to me.<p>I can tell you now there is no chance Stackoverflow would be as big as it is if the responses you got back where riddles.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leetrout</author><text>&gt; Guidance is expected; a great interview should be more of a conversation than a one-sided question and one-sided answer.<p>I had a particularly awful interview at Google where the interviewer scoffed at me needing assistance.<p>And in an interview at Twitter with a xoogler they asked me what I knew about number theory and I said &quot;nothing&quot; and they said they majored in it and proceeded to ask me number theory questions. For a Django tooling position. He asked me how many prime numbers there were and I said &quot;optimus prime&quot; and he looked at me and asked if I was serious and if he should record my answer. I said yes followed by &quot;autobots roll out&quot;<p>Such a waste of my time to fly out there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gaming CS Interviews</title><url>https://transitivebullsh.it/gaming-cs-interviews</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arp242</author><text>The biggest problem is people who would consent, but just never bothered filling in the form.<p>I think asking people this question when they apply for a passport would be a good middle ground, and&#x2F;or maybe on the intake form for their GP, or other kinds of government interactions (voting registration might make sense in the UK specifically). People would still be able to opt-out of choosing at all, but this would catch the large group of people who just never bothered to register.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ninjin</author><text>I have been a registered organ donor (full body, even for research purposes) ever since I could legally do so, which is for almost twenty years now and registering for donation in every single country I have lived. However, not seeking consent is inexcusable, regardless of how noble the cause. Reading “80% of people in England support organ donation but only 38% have opted in. This means families are often left with a difficult decision when a loved one dies.” [1], it is clear that despite a massive amount of popular support the UK government fails to communicate effectively with its populace and instead of reflecting on its failures it now opts for a nuclear option. What about those without family? What about cases where family can not be contacted in due time? What about cases where the UK bureaucracy “accidentally” approves it? I am not a fan of slippery slope arguments, but here is a case where a good cause is hijacked and corrupted by a political body, leaving someone like me that considered donation to be a no-brainer with a bitter taste in my mouth wondering how best to protest as opting out clearly will not cut it given my moral inclinations.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;news&#x2F;opt-out-organ-donation-max-and-keira-s-bill-passed-into-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;news&#x2F;opt-out-organ-donation-ma...</a></text></item><item><author>Crosseye_Jack</author><text>New? Law came into effect on 20 May 2020 and received royal on 15 March 2019. Title of the post doesn&#x27;t even reflect that of the link.<p>Want more info on the subject including a brief reason as to why visit (Spoiler: not enough donors) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.organdonation.nhs.uk&#x2F;helping-you-to-decide&#x2F;about-organ-donation&#x2F;faq&#x2F;what-is-the-opt-out-system&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.organdonation.nhs.uk&#x2F;helping-you-to-decide&#x2F;about...</a><p>The UK has been trying to push people more into being donors for a while. Back in 2011 (iirc) they added questions about your status as an organ donor to the driving license application. As the UK has about 75% of the adult population holding full licenses its was a good way of getting the question atleast asked to new drivers.<p>Also<p>&gt; Will you automatically take my organs if I don&#x27;t opt out?<p>&gt; No. Your family would always be involved before donation takes place, so it is really important that you choose whether you want to be a donor and discuss what you want to happen with your family, so your decision is clear and they can have peace of mind knowing that your decision is being honoured.<p>EDIT: Also this is law in England. Wales has had a similar opt-out system in place since 2015 (Not checked Scotland or Northern Ireland)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Explicit Opt-Out (2020)</title><url>https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/get-involved/news/organ-donation-law-change-due-to-come-into-effect-in-england-on-20th-may/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lysium</author><text>Must feel strange to have opted in many years ago and now it’s “just„ the default.<p>This rule has been decided by elected leaders after many discussions. As a citizen you opt in by default into many things that have been different in the older times. School, health care, the BBC, etc. some of which you even cannot opt out at all.
Why should organ donation be treated differently?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ninjin</author><text>I have been a registered organ donor (full body, even for research purposes) ever since I could legally do so, which is for almost twenty years now and registering for donation in every single country I have lived. However, not seeking consent is inexcusable, regardless of how noble the cause. Reading “80% of people in England support organ donation but only 38% have opted in. This means families are often left with a difficult decision when a loved one dies.” [1], it is clear that despite a massive amount of popular support the UK government fails to communicate effectively with its populace and instead of reflecting on its failures it now opts for a nuclear option. What about those without family? What about cases where family can not be contacted in due time? What about cases where the UK bureaucracy “accidentally” approves it? I am not a fan of slippery slope arguments, but here is a case where a good cause is hijacked and corrupted by a political body, leaving someone like me that considered donation to be a no-brainer with a bitter taste in my mouth wondering how best to protest as opting out clearly will not cut it given my moral inclinations.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;news&#x2F;opt-out-organ-donation-max-and-keira-s-bill-passed-into-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;news&#x2F;opt-out-organ-donation-ma...</a></text></item><item><author>Crosseye_Jack</author><text>New? Law came into effect on 20 May 2020 and received royal on 15 March 2019. Title of the post doesn&#x27;t even reflect that of the link.<p>Want more info on the subject including a brief reason as to why visit (Spoiler: not enough donors) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.organdonation.nhs.uk&#x2F;helping-you-to-decide&#x2F;about-organ-donation&#x2F;faq&#x2F;what-is-the-opt-out-system&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.organdonation.nhs.uk&#x2F;helping-you-to-decide&#x2F;about...</a><p>The UK has been trying to push people more into being donors for a while. Back in 2011 (iirc) they added questions about your status as an organ donor to the driving license application. As the UK has about 75% of the adult population holding full licenses its was a good way of getting the question atleast asked to new drivers.<p>Also<p>&gt; Will you automatically take my organs if I don&#x27;t opt out?<p>&gt; No. Your family would always be involved before donation takes place, so it is really important that you choose whether you want to be a donor and discuss what you want to happen with your family, so your decision is clear and they can have peace of mind knowing that your decision is being honoured.<p>EDIT: Also this is law in England. Wales has had a similar opt-out system in place since 2015 (Not checked Scotland or Northern Ireland)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Explicit Opt-Out (2020)</title><url>https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/get-involved/news/organ-donation-law-change-due-to-come-into-effect-in-england-on-20th-may/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>Why do people act like this is all some great big accident, the result of eternal human fallibility?<p>It&#x27;s not. This was planned. It was the objective all along. Why else do you think Google Maps is free? Gmail? Why did they drive around 1,000s of cities with cameras on a car taking photos for Street View? Was it really just to become the world&#x27;s most comprehensive search engine? Hell no, it was to get people into the ecosystem and to stay there, and be content with doing so. Just think how much money and manpower went into each of those free products we take for granted, not the least of which includes the Google search engine; now think about how they make so much money off your attention that they can offer it <i>free of charge</i>, because sucking you into the ecosystem is just that profitable.<p>Chrome is the same thing. Why would a for-profit company develop a web browser more or less unprompted and give it away for free? To draw people into the system and get them comfortable with staying there. Now that they have monopoly power, they can start tightening their grip with the good old embrace, extend, extinguish.<p>Google isn&#x27;t unique in this. Similar arguments could be made about Facebook.<p>To be sure, Google and Facebook have produced tremendous advances in science and technology. But let&#x27;s not forget what funded them, or why they were developed in the first place. Lest we forget why these things play out the way they do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>This is why it’s so unfortunate and frustrating that people are depending so much on Chromium&#x2F;Blink. Electron, various browsers that are just skins over the embedded framework...<p>We were still dealing with legacy IE6 (and IE 7&#x2F;8 by that point also) in 2013! Almost a decade since we got Firefox and the first version of Chrome.<p>The web has empirically suffered through homogeneity and the lack of strong competitors in the browser space, not helped by the underlying HTML&#x2F;JS spec becoming exponentially more convoluted to the point where building your own renderer is nigh impossible.<p>And since everyone is standardising on a Google, their decisions on ad blocking and supporting APIs are automatically going to flow down into every dependent product.<p>It’s frustrating that MS copped out and went Chromium. Like we never learned this lesson the first time.<p>We still have WebKit and Firefox and (sooner or later), more of Servo at least. These need to be protected if we don’t want Google and the ad network to totally control the browsing experience.<p>Although, controversially, we as a web dev collective have learned nothing if we continue to only develop for a single browser. Not for the web itself, but for one particular rendering engine. “Only works in Chrome,” is poor engineering for anything more than a prototype or proof of concept.</text></item><item><author>user17843</author><text>Indeed, almost the entire ad-blocking market is controlled by the company behind Adblock Plus (eyeo GmbH), who has contracts with Google. It appears they also own AdBlock, and uBlock (not confused with uBO), so during the last years they basically tried to capture the entire market. The fact that Eyeo has &gt;150 employees tells us something about the amount of money to be made from ad blocking. Although they have only published the numbers from 2016, it seems they are quickly approaching around €50 million yearly revenue, with almost 50% of pure profit. For Google this Acceptable Ads Program may be more than a 100 million dollar business.<p>The only real nuisance is uBO and the future possibility that someone comes along and uses Google&#x27;s own software to eliminate their core business model.<p>Basically in this entire environment if an extension does not take part in extracting money out of people, it becomes a problem for most parties involved.<p>Someone at Google in the higher ups probably realized at one point that giving the user so much freedom and control could theoretically backfire enourmously.<p>Google indirectly controls ABP, but they want the ABP model to apply to all blockers, so that they both get money from non-blocking users as well as from blocking-users.<p>In the perfect world of Google content-blocking does not exist beyond mere visual ad-blocking of the most annoying ads.<p>ABP already allows cookies and network connections, so google still knows everything about those users.<p>Personally I use a combination of pi-hole, third-party cookie blocking and uBO, which takes care of basically all cross-site tracking. But when I recently had a look at another system of someone who uses ABP I noticed that the blocking really is only visual, theres still a profile that is being sold to data brokers, you just don&#x27;t see the stuff they recommend to you.<p>The default settings of ABP are also extremely anti-user.<p>ABP&#x2F;Eyeo is a wolf in sheep&#x27;s clothing.<p>uBO users on the other hand are basically invisible to the survaillance capitalists.</text></item><item><author>phiresky</author><text>From the author of uBlock on this:<p>What we see are the public statements, for public consumption, they are designed to &quot;sell&quot; the changes to the wider public. What we do not see is what is being said in private meetings by officers who get to decide how to optimize the business. So we have to judge not by what is said for public consumption purpose, but by what in effect is being done, or what they plan to do.<p>This is how personally I see the deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API in manifest v3:<p>In order for Google Chrome to reach its current user base, it had to support content blockers -- these are the top most popular extensions for any browser. Google strategy has been to find the optimal point between the two goals of growing the user base of Google Chrome and preventing content blockers from harming its business.<p>The blocking ability of the webRequest API caused Google to yield control of content blocking to content blockers. Now that Google Chrome is the dominant browser, it is in a better position to shift the optimal point between the two goals which benefits Google&#x27;s primary business.<p>The deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API is to gain back this control, and to further now instrument and report how web pages are filtered since now the exact filters which are applied to web page is information which will be collectable by Google Chrome.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uBlock-issues&#x2F;issues&#x2F;338#issuecomment-496009417" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uBlock-issues&#x2F;issues&#x2F;338#iss...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m-p-3</author><text>I ditched Chrome and came back to Firefox, next step is to donate to Mozilla.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>This is why it’s so unfortunate and frustrating that people are depending so much on Chromium&#x2F;Blink. Electron, various browsers that are just skins over the embedded framework...<p>We were still dealing with legacy IE6 (and IE 7&#x2F;8 by that point also) in 2013! Almost a decade since we got Firefox and the first version of Chrome.<p>The web has empirically suffered through homogeneity and the lack of strong competitors in the browser space, not helped by the underlying HTML&#x2F;JS spec becoming exponentially more convoluted to the point where building your own renderer is nigh impossible.<p>And since everyone is standardising on a Google, their decisions on ad blocking and supporting APIs are automatically going to flow down into every dependent product.<p>It’s frustrating that MS copped out and went Chromium. Like we never learned this lesson the first time.<p>We still have WebKit and Firefox and (sooner or later), more of Servo at least. These need to be protected if we don’t want Google and the ad network to totally control the browsing experience.<p>Although, controversially, we as a web dev collective have learned nothing if we continue to only develop for a single browser. Not for the web itself, but for one particular rendering engine. “Only works in Chrome,” is poor engineering for anything more than a prototype or proof of concept.</text></item><item><author>user17843</author><text>Indeed, almost the entire ad-blocking market is controlled by the company behind Adblock Plus (eyeo GmbH), who has contracts with Google. It appears they also own AdBlock, and uBlock (not confused with uBO), so during the last years they basically tried to capture the entire market. The fact that Eyeo has &gt;150 employees tells us something about the amount of money to be made from ad blocking. Although they have only published the numbers from 2016, it seems they are quickly approaching around €50 million yearly revenue, with almost 50% of pure profit. For Google this Acceptable Ads Program may be more than a 100 million dollar business.<p>The only real nuisance is uBO and the future possibility that someone comes along and uses Google&#x27;s own software to eliminate their core business model.<p>Basically in this entire environment if an extension does not take part in extracting money out of people, it becomes a problem for most parties involved.<p>Someone at Google in the higher ups probably realized at one point that giving the user so much freedom and control could theoretically backfire enourmously.<p>Google indirectly controls ABP, but they want the ABP model to apply to all blockers, so that they both get money from non-blocking users as well as from blocking-users.<p>In the perfect world of Google content-blocking does not exist beyond mere visual ad-blocking of the most annoying ads.<p>ABP already allows cookies and network connections, so google still knows everything about those users.<p>Personally I use a combination of pi-hole, third-party cookie blocking and uBO, which takes care of basically all cross-site tracking. But when I recently had a look at another system of someone who uses ABP I noticed that the blocking really is only visual, theres still a profile that is being sold to data brokers, you just don&#x27;t see the stuff they recommend to you.<p>The default settings of ABP are also extremely anti-user.<p>ABP&#x2F;Eyeo is a wolf in sheep&#x27;s clothing.<p>uBO users on the other hand are basically invisible to the survaillance capitalists.</text></item><item><author>phiresky</author><text>From the author of uBlock on this:<p>What we see are the public statements, for public consumption, they are designed to &quot;sell&quot; the changes to the wider public. What we do not see is what is being said in private meetings by officers who get to decide how to optimize the business. So we have to judge not by what is said for public consumption purpose, but by what in effect is being done, or what they plan to do.<p>This is how personally I see the deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API in manifest v3:<p>In order for Google Chrome to reach its current user base, it had to support content blockers -- these are the top most popular extensions for any browser. Google strategy has been to find the optimal point between the two goals of growing the user base of Google Chrome and preventing content blockers from harming its business.<p>The blocking ability of the webRequest API caused Google to yield control of content blocking to content blockers. Now that Google Chrome is the dominant browser, it is in a better position to shift the optimal point between the two goals which benefits Google&#x27;s primary business.<p>The deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API is to gain back this control, and to further now instrument and report how web pages are filtered since now the exact filters which are applied to web page is information which will be collectable by Google Chrome.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uBlock-issues&#x2F;issues&#x2F;338#issuecomment-496009417" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uBlockOrigin&#x2F;uBlock-issues&#x2F;issues&#x2F;338#iss...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dowwie</author><text>Additionally..<p>1. Give yourself permission to just try, for a little while<p>2. use fear-setting for really tough moments<p>A technique that I&#x27;ve found helpful when dealing with anxious thoughts is I become mindful of the anxious feeling, realize what I&#x27;m feeling anxious about, and then give myself <i>permission to just try</i>, regardless of the outcome. I&#x27;ll explicitly granting myself permission to &quot;just try&quot; and even throw in &quot;just for a little while, see how things go&quot;. This at times has turned into a productive, multi-hour session.<p>Tim Ferriss talks about a technique use to confront fears, called &quot;fear setting&quot; [1]. Essentially, I put together a 3-column table and think through the worst that can possibly happen. It helps me think about risks and realize what I can handle. This helps to manage worry.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tim.blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;fear-setting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tim.blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;fear-setting&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Psychology of Dreaded Tasks</title><url>https://dcgross.com/accomplish-dread-tasks/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tofflos</author><text>In the &quot;Learning How to Learn&quot; course, that was mentioned in the MOOC-discussion a while back, they suggest tackling this by focusing on process over product and tying a reward to it:<p>&quot;I&#x27;m just gonna sit here and do taxes for 25 minutes and then eat some chocolate&quot; rather then &quot;I&#x27;m going to finish my taxes&quot;.<p>The reasoning is that by removing the pressure of completing the whole task you can sometimes convince yourself to stop procrastinating.<p>If that still doesn&#x27;t do it for you then at least you have the chocolate.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Psychology of Dreaded Tasks</title><url>https://dcgross.com/accomplish-dread-tasks/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fomine3</author><text>Reasons those arcade games requiring (or giving benefit) for NFC (like Paseli by Konami):<p>* Game company want to collect money more from arcade shop.<p>* Managing many coins aren&#x27;t easy task.<p>* Consumption tax is raised from 5% to 10% in past decade, but coin (100 JPY) game can&#x27;t apply the raised tax precisely.<p>* Flexible play options thanks to ability of flexible pricing<p>* Anyway most player want to save game progress<p>But coldly treating coin user is bad for newcomer. Maybe general credit card NFC payment solves some problem, but it&#x27;s not well accessible for teenages in Japan.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tmm84</author><text>Having lived in Japan for the past decade I can say that game centers (arcades to those outside Japan) have changed. I remember playing rhythm based games (pop-n-music, taiko drum master, etc.) and some fighting&#x2F;shooting games for a few years. But, within the last two years or so, the NFC card requirement for almost all games has come to fruition. Wanna play that racing game? Gonna need to &quot;grind&quot; a vehicle and save that progress with an NFC. Wanna play that rhythm game? Scan your NFC first. Wanna shoot at dinos? You know the drill. This is why I won&#x27;t put a single yen in the machines. Arcade games were put your coin in the box and see how good you were at it. However, they have turned it into a scan your NFC and see how far you&#x27;ve &quot;grind&quot;-ed to mastery. Instead of &quot;grind&quot;-ing an arcade game at 100 yen per round I could actually use my money on other things that bring more pleasure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2021/06/06/digital/japanese-gaming-arcades-pandemic/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phaseshifter</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised you have that takeaway for NFC since you have played some rhythm games at least. For the most part I&#x27;d say on most rhythm games I&#x27;ve played (IIDX, SDVX, Groove Coaster) it&#x27;s pretty much storing your song scores so you can see what you&#x27;ve played before and you can go to another arcade and have the same data there too. I feel it&#x27;s less of a grinding thing and more of a player convenience there.<p>An interesting thing is that you don&#x27;t have to buy their NFC card either, most of the Konami cabs (e-amusement) can accept a Suica&#x2F;any IC transit card (a side effect of their card systems both using FeliCa).</text><parent_chain><item><author>tmm84</author><text>Having lived in Japan for the past decade I can say that game centers (arcades to those outside Japan) have changed. I remember playing rhythm based games (pop-n-music, taiko drum master, etc.) and some fighting&#x2F;shooting games for a few years. But, within the last two years or so, the NFC card requirement for almost all games has come to fruition. Wanna play that racing game? Gonna need to &quot;grind&quot; a vehicle and save that progress with an NFC. Wanna play that rhythm game? Scan your NFC first. Wanna shoot at dinos? You know the drill. This is why I won&#x27;t put a single yen in the machines. Arcade games were put your coin in the box and see how good you were at it. However, they have turned it into a scan your NFC and see how far you&#x27;ve &quot;grind&quot;-ed to mastery. Instead of &quot;grind&quot;-ing an arcade game at 100 yen per round I could actually use my money on other things that bring more pleasure.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2021/06/06/digital/japanese-gaming-arcades-pandemic/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajuc</author><text>&gt; This article made me think about how the presence of trains indicate peace. Trains are so vulnerable to attack. Their existence depends on everyone with access to the tracks to trust and agree with their purpose. I suspect if we&#x27;re mourning these trains, we also mourn the loss of peace and stability in the region.<p>Trains can also indicate war :) They are crucial for logistics, and were especially so before WW2. My country uses European gauge rails despite starting with Russian gauge rails because during WW1 Germany occupied big parts of it and switched the gauge to incorporate it in their WW1 supply train.<p>BTW you could deduce if some country wanted to invade the other or defend itself by looking at the rails and roads they invest in - if the lines go along the border they are more likely to defend, if the lines go perpendicular to the border - they are more likely to attack.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rendall</author><text>This article made me think about how the presence of trains indicate peace. Trains are so vulnerable to attack. Their existence depends on everyone with access to the tracks to trust and agree with their purpose. I suspect if we&#x27;re mourning these trains, we also mourn the loss of peace and stability in the region.<p>As an aside, TIL that there are actually <i>two</i> Tripolis, one in Libya and the other in Lebanon.<p>I have heard references to an ancient, historical <i>Tripoli</i> for years, even in the lyrics of <i>Onward, Christian Soldier</i>. I only knew about the Libyan city and thought the article was mistaken when it referred to &quot;Tripoli, Beirut and Haifa&quot; together as Levantine ports, but &quot;The last train left Tripoli for Beirut at the start of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975&quot; tipped me off that my geography was off, since a train from Libya to Lebanon would not have been possible after Israel closed her borders.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Railway lines once connected the Middle East</title><url>https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/railway-lines-once-connected-the-middle-east</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nmridul</author><text>The trains between India and Pakistan also runs regular during peacetime and gets suspended on first indication of conflict.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Samjhauta_Express" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Samjhauta_Express</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rendall</author><text>This article made me think about how the presence of trains indicate peace. Trains are so vulnerable to attack. Their existence depends on everyone with access to the tracks to trust and agree with their purpose. I suspect if we&#x27;re mourning these trains, we also mourn the loss of peace and stability in the region.<p>As an aside, TIL that there are actually <i>two</i> Tripolis, one in Libya and the other in Lebanon.<p>I have heard references to an ancient, historical <i>Tripoli</i> for years, even in the lyrics of <i>Onward, Christian Soldier</i>. I only knew about the Libyan city and thought the article was mistaken when it referred to &quot;Tripoli, Beirut and Haifa&quot; together as Levantine ports, but &quot;The last train left Tripoli for Beirut at the start of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975&quot; tipped me off that my geography was off, since a train from Libya to Lebanon would not have been possible after Israel closed her borders.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Railway lines once connected the Middle East</title><url>https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/railway-lines-once-connected-the-middle-east</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adrianmonk</author><text>A few possibilities for why people find trains fascinating:<p>1. Their place in history. Sailing has been around forever, but only recently in the grand scheme of things did land-based travel become quick and convenient. And trains did it. Cars came later. Trains revolutionized both industry and personal mobility.<p>2. Nostalgia for a time in the past when they were at their peak, before they were partially supplanted by cars. There&#x27;s something intriguing about a technology we don&#x27;t use nearly as much anymore but was once able to bear a key part of the burden of making society tick.<p>3. Cars and trains are both neat machines, but most people own or have access to a car, so there isn&#x27;t a feeling of mystery or exclusivity around cars. How many people get a chance to drive a train even one time in their life?<p>4. Where they are used, trains naturally make themselves the center of attention. With cars, they come and go constantly, so the arrival or departure of a car isn&#x27;t really an event. The arrival or departure of a train is an event, often with a schedule. When they were the dominant form of transportation, in a small town, probably everyone in the entire town knew what time the train arrived. Trains also make a lot of noise (whistles, horns, engines, etc.), so that&#x27;s another way they&#x27;re the center of attention.<p>5. A passenger train is part of the public sphere and is a location where things can happen. So it is its own social setting, like work, school, church, etc. are social settings.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dnc</author><text>I wonder where the fascination with trains and railways (that I share) comes from. Maybe from the 19th century industrialization and technological revolution when railway was one of its main symbols (&quot;locomotion of progress&quot;)? Related to this, it was a great surprise to me when I first found out about the origin of the term &#x27;hacker&#x27;:<p>&quot;3. The Early Hackers<p>The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. The Signals and Power committee of MIT&#x27;s Tech Model Railroad Club adopted the machine as their favorite tech-toy and invented programming tools, slang, and an entire surrounding culture that is still recognizably with us today. These early years have been examined in the first part of Steven Levy&#x27;s book Hackers [Levy] .<p>MIT&#x27;s computer culture seems to have been the first to adopt the term `hacker&#x27;. The Tech Model Railroad Club&#x27;s hackers became the nucleus of MIT&#x27;s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the world&#x27;s leading center of AI research into the early 1980s. Their influence was spread far wider after 1969, the first year of the ARPANET. &quot;<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;catb.org&#x2F;esr&#x2F;writings&#x2F;hacker-history&#x2F;hacker-history-3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;catb.org&#x2F;esr&#x2F;writings&#x2F;hacker-history&#x2F;hacker-history-3...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sir Rod Stewart reveals his epic model railway city</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teh_klev</author><text>Link to TMRC&#x27;s site:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tmrc.mit.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tmrc.mit.edu&#x2F;</a> (no SSL&#x2F;TLS available)<p>It&#x27;s amazing how in a model, such as this one, the control system has gone from a bunch of mini-computers and relays over the years, to these days, in modern layouts, tiny DDC control modules and very compact hand held DCC controllers. And on top of that a reasonably mature common control protocol defined by the NMRA (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nmra.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nmra.org&#x2F;</a>) that&#x27;s pretty standard world wide.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dnc</author><text>I wonder where the fascination with trains and railways (that I share) comes from. Maybe from the 19th century industrialization and technological revolution when railway was one of its main symbols (&quot;locomotion of progress&quot;)? Related to this, it was a great surprise to me when I first found out about the origin of the term &#x27;hacker&#x27;:<p>&quot;3. The Early Hackers<p>The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. The Signals and Power committee of MIT&#x27;s Tech Model Railroad Club adopted the machine as their favorite tech-toy and invented programming tools, slang, and an entire surrounding culture that is still recognizably with us today. These early years have been examined in the first part of Steven Levy&#x27;s book Hackers [Levy] .<p>MIT&#x27;s computer culture seems to have been the first to adopt the term `hacker&#x27;. The Tech Model Railroad Club&#x27;s hackers became the nucleus of MIT&#x27;s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the world&#x27;s leading center of AI research into the early 1980s. Their influence was spread far wider after 1969, the first year of the ARPANET. &quot;<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;catb.org&#x2F;esr&#x2F;writings&#x2F;hacker-history&#x2F;hacker-history-3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;catb.org&#x2F;esr&#x2F;writings&#x2F;hacker-history&#x2F;hacker-history-3...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sir Rod Stewart reveals his epic model railway city</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>axegon_</author><text>I agree. Many years ago I was really happy with medium as a reader. And the feed algorithm was decent enough. By no means the perfect content but for the most part it pushed forward things I was interested in. However, the monetization model turned medium(originally a decent blogging platform) into tumblr and it was a race to the bottom from that point. Any website that asks you to register in order to read a blog post immediately goes on my blacklist.<p>What is annoying though is that often people who self-host their blogs make the exact same mistake. More and more often I see something that will grab my attention and when I get to the bottom of a blog post, I find something along the lines of &quot;The full guide is available in my free e-book, which you can download from here&quot;. And when you click &quot;here&quot;, you are greeted with &quot;Please enter your e-mail address&quot;. Sure, everyone has a spam-mail type of thing or mailinator or whatever but this is still a terrible thing to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joelrunyon</author><text>I&#x27;ve been yelling about this for years, but please start &amp; own your own blog.<p>Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people.<p>HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we&#x27;ll actually set up your site for you for free - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;startablog.com&#x2F;start" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;startablog.com&#x2F;start</a>).<p>Own your platform. Own your content. Own your voice. Use everything else as distribution methods - not core dependencies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Medium is not the home for your ideas</title><url>https://hulry.com/medium-vs-own-blog/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>Another easy solution, both for hosting and ownership, is using a static site generator&#x2F;editor. I like desktop-based visual WYSIWYG tools so i use Publii[0] (example[1], though i really need to write something more :-P or at least move some older articles i had in now-defunct blogs that were hosted by others). I&#x27;m not a big fan of the program though (i dislike how it is based on Electron while not even taking advantage of it being based on Electron - e.g. no full WYSIWYG and not even an in-app site preview - and the UX has all the issues i dislike by modern apps like a design that pretends i&#x27;m using an oversized tablet) but it is the only one that does what i want without requiring me to enter cryptic codes (ok, markdown isn&#x27;t so cryptic but i really prefer using WYSIWYG tools), having inline images&#x2F;galleries and some (primitive) site management while generating static HTML (though a bit too heavy and i really dislike the themes... but again, not much of a choice and the tech used to make the themes look like a PITA so i avoid touching it for now).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpublii.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpublii.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;runtimeterror.com&#x2F;devlog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;runtimeterror.com&#x2F;devlog&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>joelrunyon</author><text>I&#x27;ve been yelling about this for years, but please start &amp; own your own blog.<p>Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people.<p>HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we&#x27;ll actually set up your site for you for free - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;startablog.com&#x2F;start" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;startablog.com&#x2F;start</a>).<p>Own your platform. Own your content. Own your voice. Use everything else as distribution methods - not core dependencies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Medium is not the home for your ideas</title><url>https://hulry.com/medium-vs-own-blog/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>&quot;Might be used for illegal purposes&quot; is a significant understatement. The chief selling point of Tornado Cash is money laundering, which is <i>in and of itself</i> a crime in both the US and Netherlands.<p>Normally, there&#x27;d be an aspect of plausible deniability: torrent index operators can, for example, rightfully claim that they&#x27;re facilitating legal filesharing, or that they&#x27;re entirely agnostic to the content being shared (if all they&#x27;re doing is sharing URLs). What&#x27;s key in this case is that law enforcement <i>claims</i> that Pertsev was aware of the crimes his service was being used for. Whether or not that&#x27;s actually true is up to a court to decide.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikece</author><text>Banning a service because it &quot;might be used for illegal purposes&quot; is insufficient. This is a problem with law enforcement in general: they are lazy and seek to have automated solutions to so much of what used to be called police work. This applies to warrant-less wiretaps, pulling information on people from 3rd party data brokers to side-step warrant and FOIA requirements, and more. I would rather money-launderers get away with things and for freedom to prosper than to have an all-encompassing surveillance state.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Investors sue Treasury Department for blacklisting crypto platform Tornado Cash</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/business/tornado-cash-treasury-sued.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>JustLurking2022</author><text>It&#x27;s a service specifically designed to facilitate money laundering. It&#x27;s a bit like running a business that produces paperwork to make stolen cars indistinguishable from legal ones - there&#x27;s no reason such a service should be allowed to exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikece</author><text>Banning a service because it &quot;might be used for illegal purposes&quot; is insufficient. This is a problem with law enforcement in general: they are lazy and seek to have automated solutions to so much of what used to be called police work. This applies to warrant-less wiretaps, pulling information on people from 3rd party data brokers to side-step warrant and FOIA requirements, and more. I would rather money-launderers get away with things and for freedom to prosper than to have an all-encompassing surveillance state.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Investors sue Treasury Department for blacklisting crypto platform Tornado Cash</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/business/tornado-cash-treasury-sued.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>codingkev</author><text>People who are interested in this may also be interested in Cooklang, a simple plain-text markdown format for recipes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooklang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooklang.org&#x2F;</a> -- doesn&#x27;t get much easier than that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end</title><url>https://github.com/hay-kot/mealie</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pratio</author><text>I love it, I&#x27;m hosting a version for me at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;food.modispub.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;food.modispub.com&#x2F;</a><p>The recipe importer is great, I was using paprika but there&#x27;s always the issue of sharing the recipe with your friends. Here, I can share the recipe where they don&#x27;t even have to login. The UI is responsive on the phone and the collapsing steps feature is just great. I&#x27;m not using the shopping list and meal planner on a daily basis.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end</title><url>https://github.com/hay-kot/mealie</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;NASA needs to stop milking the &quot;water on mars&quot; thing.<p>Perhaps. I&#x27;m inclined to cut NASA some slack though - they are in a tricky catch 22 position: To get spectacular results they need funding and to get funding they need spectacular results. So I&#x27;m all for them milking whatever seems viable.<p>&gt;its near monopoly on space exploration.<p>When it comes to space exploration I tend to agree with Nike &amp; their slogan. I really don&#x27;t care whether the US or the Chinese does it as long as someone acts. Same thing with costs...humanity as a whole needs to get off this rock to have any hope of long term survival. If it takes X billion USD...who cares? Raise some notional debt ceiling if you must...</text><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>I know this is an unpopular opinion here but:<p>NASA needs to stop milking the &quot;water on mars&quot; thing. Every few months it seems their PR department lazily says to themselves &quot;Hey! let&#x27;s do another water on mars story!&quot; (I know, NASA doesn&#x27;t do PR and these are just completely objective releases of scientific papers... believe what you will.)<p>I hope within my lifetime we have some disruption in this space and NASA stops constantly taking blatant advantage of its near monopoly on space exploration.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Water seems to flow freely on Mars</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343?</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kamakazizuru</author><text>I think they put out regular press releases of anything interesting they find. HN just has a taste for certain types of articles is all..</text><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>I know this is an unpopular opinion here but:<p>NASA needs to stop milking the &quot;water on mars&quot; thing. Every few months it seems their PR department lazily says to themselves &quot;Hey! let&#x27;s do another water on mars story!&quot; (I know, NASA doesn&#x27;t do PR and these are just completely objective releases of scientific papers... believe what you will.)<p>I hope within my lifetime we have some disruption in this space and NASA stops constantly taking blatant advantage of its near monopoly on space exploration.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Water seems to flow freely on Mars</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343?</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jakobegger</author><text>As I see it, the problem with the app is not only that kids lose points for bathroom breaks. That&#x27;s just the most outragous part, but it distracts from the core of the problem.<p>The problem is how this app is designed to enforce absolute discipline and completely disregards the students need for privacy.<p>Can you imagine how terrible it would be if you had a bad day, were a bit distracted in school, got yelled at by the teacher, only to have your mom text you to tell you off for not behaving in school?<p>The app would be just as bad without the bathroom break part.<p>As developers &#x2F; product designers we can&#x27;t always hide behind our users, by claiming that we can&#x27;t influence how they use our products. Some products simply encourage bad behaviour, and we should take at least some responsibility for what people do with them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kevinconroy</author><text>As a parent who has two kids who have ClassDojo, I can say that ClassDojo supports points for any teacher defined criteria. I this case I believe it was a teacher-defined point system, not the default app settings.<p>So while it’s all good to discuss gamification and the dark side of these things, it’s not the apps designer that decided to negatively reinforce bathroom breaks, but their app did allow the teacher to set that up.<p>What other user defined settings and unintended dark patterns are out there?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Student rating app penalizes fifth-graders who need bathroom breaks</title><url>https://twitter.com/JoshSeim/status/1177402278895992834</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>This isn&#x27;t gamification; this is a violation of a child&#x27;s privacy, and teaches kids that if they don&#x27;t toe the line and follow whatever arbitrary rules someone in power has designed for them, they get in trouble. I&#x27;m genuinely appalled that this even exists. This is one step away from some kind of social credit system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kevinconroy</author><text>As a parent who has two kids who have ClassDojo, I can say that ClassDojo supports points for any teacher defined criteria. I this case I believe it was a teacher-defined point system, not the default app settings.<p>So while it’s all good to discuss gamification and the dark side of these things, it’s not the apps designer that decided to negatively reinforce bathroom breaks, but their app did allow the teacher to set that up.<p>What other user defined settings and unintended dark patterns are out there?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Student rating app penalizes fifth-graders who need bathroom breaks</title><url>https://twitter.com/JoshSeim/status/1177402278895992834</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usrnm</author><text>On the other hand, these photos show us a country where old people can live a full life regardless of their age. They are working, they have something to do and the society doesn&#x27;t just shove them aside as some goods past their expiration date.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Old (2018)</title><url>https://neocha.com/magazine/the-old/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rkuska</author><text>I would recommend you to go and watch What Owning a Japanese Public Bath is Like[0]. While the video is supposed to be about running an onsen I think it is more about love, aging, family and importance of not being idle. It is very touching.<p>(fyi Life Where I&#x27;m From is one of the best channels on youtube with high quality content)
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cle</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s another important idea here - when designing a new application you should design it in such a way as to make it easier for it to be strangled in the future. Let&#x27;s face it, all we are doing is writing tomorrow&#x27;s legacy software today. By making it easy to be strangled in the future, you are enabling the graceful fading away of today&#x27;s work.<p>This is a very important point that I&#x27;ve been harping on for years. If the nature of your business requires quickly adapting to new business needs--then make your software and systems easy to delete! Chances are good that they&#x27;ll be obsolete&#x2F;outdated in a few years, and everyone will be much happier if the system is easy to remove and replace.<p>How to implement that is very dependent on the nature of your systems, how you deploy, your company&#x27;s tech and operational culture, etc. But it&#x27;s very much worth thinking about: &quot;If this project were to fail in the long run, how hard would it be to get rid of?&quot; In large companies, lingering legacy systems can make or break an entire organization.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Strangler pattern, a powerful simple concept to do refactoring</title><url>https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.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>systematical</author><text>Agreed. We are wrapping up the rewrite of a CRM and man-oh-man has it been long. Two years in the making due to being taken on and off, on and off, and yet again on and off the project. Looking back. I wish I had either just rewritten the existing system, piece by piece at a time, or at least starting moving pieces one-by-one out via micro-services to a new backend. The front-end then could&#x27;ve been completed in a smaller rebuild.<p>Regardless, had we gone with a strangler approach, we probably would&#x27;ve been done months ago. As it stands, there is at least another week or two of development via QA break&#x2F;fixing until its ready to go live.<p>With that said, I still think there are times when a full rewrite makes sense. We redid our API two years ago when it was still small and I am happy we did the full rewrite. The old architecture just wouldn&#x27;t have been able to scale with where we are now and I felt the code was just too far gone to be helped.<p>As always, life is full of learning experiences.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Strangler pattern, a powerful simple concept to do refactoring</title><url>https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.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>kpil</author><text>You think like an engineer :-)<p>I think cloud services are appealing for a couple of reasons from a top-brass perspective.<p>a) You free the capital, and the balance sheet looks nicer.<p>b) It&#x27;s less complicated on a PowerPoint level. Just a box. (probably not the reason Spotify opted for google though.)<p>c) You don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s your core competence to keep servers safe and running, and rather would like to spend the time and effort on developing services while enjoying reason a) although you know it won&#x27;t be cheaper.<p>d) Maybe it&#x27;s hard to find the right people</text><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>So I don&#x27;t get this. 1gbps and 2 million events&#x2F;s could be comfortably handled on a single beefy 10gbps server. Add a second for failover. That&#x27;s maximum $20K&#x2F;year which is far cry from $3.5 million. How does this even begin to make economic sense? The economy of the cloud has never made sense to me, since it&#x27;s cheaper to overbuy your capacity by 5x in dedicated machines than use AWS or GCE. After just one year you&#x27;ve paid for all your capital expenditures and then you&#x27;re minting it. For a startup the appeal of the cloud is obvious, but for a big established company with known technical requirements I don&#x27;t get it at all.</text></item><item><author>gberger</author><text>$290k per month is $3.5M per year.<p>A software engineer at Google earns, on average, $127k per year [1]. We multiply that by 1.4 [2] to obtain a cost per employee of $177k.<p>This means that according to this estimation, Spotify pays for 20 Google software engineers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Salary&#x2F;Google-Salaries-E9079.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Salary&#x2F;Google-Salaries-E9079.htm</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;e-club&#x2F;hadzima&#x2F;how-much-does-an-employee-cost.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;e-club&#x2F;hadzima&#x2F;how-much-does-an-employee-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?</title><url>https://medium.com/@davidmytton/how-much-is-spotify-paying-google-cloud-ebb3bf180f15</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>ISP cost, backups, patching, hardware upgrades, co-location, DR, insurance, paying for physical and cyber-security, personnel etc.<p>outsourcing allot of those things saves money it&#x27;s also a different expense of you buy infrastructure it has value which means depreciation overtime which affects how your accounting is done.<p>Cloud makes sense for allot of companies not just startups the biggest reason why companies with eatablished infrastructure don&#x27;t migrate is the initial cost and regulation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>So I don&#x27;t get this. 1gbps and 2 million events&#x2F;s could be comfortably handled on a single beefy 10gbps server. Add a second for failover. That&#x27;s maximum $20K&#x2F;year which is far cry from $3.5 million. How does this even begin to make economic sense? The economy of the cloud has never made sense to me, since it&#x27;s cheaper to overbuy your capacity by 5x in dedicated machines than use AWS or GCE. After just one year you&#x27;ve paid for all your capital expenditures and then you&#x27;re minting it. For a startup the appeal of the cloud is obvious, but for a big established company with known technical requirements I don&#x27;t get it at all.</text></item><item><author>gberger</author><text>$290k per month is $3.5M per year.<p>A software engineer at Google earns, on average, $127k per year [1]. We multiply that by 1.4 [2] to obtain a cost per employee of $177k.<p>This means that according to this estimation, Spotify pays for 20 Google software engineers.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Salary&#x2F;Google-Salaries-E9079.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glassdoor.com&#x2F;Salary&#x2F;Google-Salaries-E9079.htm</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;e-club&#x2F;hadzima&#x2F;how-much-does-an-employee-cost.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;e-club&#x2F;hadzima&#x2F;how-much-does-an-employee-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?</title><url>https://medium.com/@davidmytton/how-much-is-spotify-paying-google-cloud-ebb3bf180f15</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pyronik</author><text>How many men take offense to hiring quotas but keep their mouths shut so they don&#x27;t end up like Damore? You just set up an environment where how someone feels is more important than logic&#x2F;reason&#x2F;truth and that is never a good position to be in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Blackthorn</author><text>&gt; The thoughts of one twenty-something engineer posted to an internal message board (for these kinds of discussions I might add) does not create a hostile workplace or harm Google in any way.<p>Considering how all sixteen of my female teammates were pissed off about it, I&#x27;m going to go ahead and say you are demonstrably wrong.</text></item><item><author>rpiguy</author><text>The thoughts of one twenty-something engineer posted to an internal message board (for these kinds of discussions I might add) does not create a hostile workplace or harm Google in any way.<p>Basically, in any other context we expect people who have vastly differing views to be able to put them aside and work together. The only exception to this rule seems to be around leftist issues, where if you disagree you are out of luck.<p>You would expect, for example, the Jewish people and the Islamic people at a company to work together.<p>The idea that toleration for one memo form a nobody employee marks an entire company as unwelcome is insane. This zero tolerance attitude is a recipe for disaster.</text></item><item><author>tedivm</author><text>Lets assume that we&#x27;re in an alternative universe where the document was never leaked.<p>The document <i>still</i> did harm. Just read this quote from the posted article-<p>&gt; When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have? How do I prove myself to people one way or another? The additional mental and emotional burden on me just to do my job is not negligible at all, and it’s also a pretty crappy way to start every day thinking: “Will the team&#x2F;manager&#x2F;VC I talk with today realize I’m qualified, or will they be making stereotypical assumptions about my abilities and therefore make it harder for me to do my job?” To me, that absolutely makes for a hostile work environment, and it’s an unequal burden my male coworkers don’t have to deal with every day.<p>That quote wasn&#x27;t caused by this going public in the way it did, it was caused by it being posted in the first place. There is real harm done if women who work at a company don&#x27;t feel they are welcome there.</text></item><item><author>rpiguy</author><text>I really enjoyed the well reasoned discussion. I think a lot more constructive dialog is happening now that people have calmed down.<p>Of all the sentiments expressed in the article, I mainly disagree with the comment that Damore did the company harm.<p>He posted his thoughts on an internal discussion board and someone else leaked this internal document to the press. The leaker did harm to Google not Damore. In fact, I think the memo had been posted for a week or two before it was leaked. If your argument for firing Damore is that he did the company harm, you should look at the person who took an internal company document and made it public.<p>There are many people who believe he should have been fired anyway for offending his female coworkers and perhaps making them feel unsafe, but that is a different argument all together with its own merits and faults depending strongly on your stance on what constitutes tolerable speech.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Method-X</author><text>Some people take offence to the fact humans are related to apes and that the earth is more than 6000 years old. Doesn&#x27;t mean we should tip toe around their ridiculous sensitivities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Blackthorn</author><text>&gt; The thoughts of one twenty-something engineer posted to an internal message board (for these kinds of discussions I might add) does not create a hostile workplace or harm Google in any way.<p>Considering how all sixteen of my female teammates were pissed off about it, I&#x27;m going to go ahead and say you are demonstrably wrong.</text></item><item><author>rpiguy</author><text>The thoughts of one twenty-something engineer posted to an internal message board (for these kinds of discussions I might add) does not create a hostile workplace or harm Google in any way.<p>Basically, in any other context we expect people who have vastly differing views to be able to put them aside and work together. The only exception to this rule seems to be around leftist issues, where if you disagree you are out of luck.<p>You would expect, for example, the Jewish people and the Islamic people at a company to work together.<p>The idea that toleration for one memo form a nobody employee marks an entire company as unwelcome is insane. This zero tolerance attitude is a recipe for disaster.</text></item><item><author>tedivm</author><text>Lets assume that we&#x27;re in an alternative universe where the document was never leaked.<p>The document <i>still</i> did harm. Just read this quote from the posted article-<p>&gt; When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have? How do I prove myself to people one way or another? The additional mental and emotional burden on me just to do my job is not negligible at all, and it’s also a pretty crappy way to start every day thinking: “Will the team&#x2F;manager&#x2F;VC I talk with today realize I’m qualified, or will they be making stereotypical assumptions about my abilities and therefore make it harder for me to do my job?” To me, that absolutely makes for a hostile work environment, and it’s an unequal burden my male coworkers don’t have to deal with every day.<p>That quote wasn&#x27;t caused by this going public in the way it did, it was caused by it being posted in the first place. There is real harm done if women who work at a company don&#x27;t feel they are welcome there.</text></item><item><author>rpiguy</author><text>I really enjoyed the well reasoned discussion. I think a lot more constructive dialog is happening now that people have calmed down.<p>Of all the sentiments expressed in the article, I mainly disagree with the comment that Damore did the company harm.<p>He posted his thoughts on an internal discussion board and someone else leaked this internal document to the press. The leaker did harm to Google not Damore. In fact, I think the memo had been posted for a week or two before it was leaked. If your argument for firing Damore is that he did the company harm, you should look at the person who took an internal company document and made it public.<p>There are many people who believe he should have been fired anyway for offending his female coworkers and perhaps making them feel unsafe, but that is a different argument all together with its own merits and faults depending strongly on your stance on what constitutes tolerable speech.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cbsks</author><text>It’s for families making less than 300k. MIT has full scholarships for families making less than 140k <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfs.mit.edu&#x2F;undergraduate-students&#x2F;the-cost-of-attendance&#x2F;making-mit-affordable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfs.mit.edu&#x2F;undergraduate-students&#x2F;the-cost-of-atten...</a><p>Besides the 2 other medical schools mentioned in the article, what other universities have similar scholarships?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most after $1B donation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/07/08/johns-hopkins-bloomberg-donation</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unholythree</author><text>I wonder if a better use would be to establish a new medical school at a university without one. It seems like if society has too few doctors we need additional medical student spots more than a reduction in medical student debt.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most after $1B donation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/07/08/johns-hopkins-bloomberg-donation</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sz4kerto</author><text>&gt; premium families<p>For a second I thought you are referring to &#x27;premium family&#x27; as some kind of a social category.</text><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>That is pretty amazing pricing. Most premium families would be looking to the Land Rover Evoque ($41K), BMW X5 ($54K) etc But Tesla is pricing it not to compete with the baseline Porsche Cayenne ($58K) but around the Cayenne Turbo S level ($157K). I guess they aren&#x27;t planning on building a lot of them.</text></item><item><author>di</author><text>&gt; $132,000 for the P90D Signature and $142,000 for the P90D Founder edition [0]<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;tesla-model-x-electric-suv-luanch-price&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;tesla-model-x-electric-su...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meet Model X</title><url>http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>austenallred</author><text>I spend a lot of time in a little ski town near me (Park City) that is absolutely covered in Porsche Cayenne Turbos. It&#x27;s the perfect SUV for your family + ski gear + showing off just a little bit that you&#x27;re <i>really</i> wealthy.<p>I have zero doubt the parking lots next to the ski slopes will be <i>covered</i> in Model X&#x27;s in a couple of years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>That is pretty amazing pricing. Most premium families would be looking to the Land Rover Evoque ($41K), BMW X5 ($54K) etc But Tesla is pricing it not to compete with the baseline Porsche Cayenne ($58K) but around the Cayenne Turbo S level ($157K). I guess they aren&#x27;t planning on building a lot of them.</text></item><item><author>di</author><text>&gt; $132,000 for the P90D Signature and $142,000 for the P90D Founder edition [0]<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;tesla-model-x-electric-suv-luanch-price&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;tesla-model-x-electric-su...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meet Model X</title><url>http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koz1000</author><text>Man, the 6809 was an incredibly fun processor to write for.<p>I&#x27;ll let you know you were in good company. At Williams (pinball&#x2F;video game company, later became Midway) that exact same hack was used in almost every game that used the 6809. We definitely used it in all the dot-matrix pinball machines to blit large pieces of data in RAM.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (2013)</title><url>https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.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>bo0tzz</author><text>Previously:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6913467" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6913467</a> (2013, 145 comments)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10491768" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10491768</a> (2015, 11 comments)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18206463" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18206463</a> (2018, 22 comments)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (2013)</title><url>https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.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>sakopov</author><text>Blockchain is just a decentralized ledger of transactions. A cryptocurrency is an implementation of digital currency using a blockchain. Blaming blockchain for not having fraud prevention tech is like blaming TCP&#x2F;IP stack for delivering a scam email to your inbox. This is a problem to be solved in a higher layer, which we&#x27;re seemingly nowhere near as we&#x27;re still just trying to get blockchain to scale efficiently.</text><parent_chain><item><author>okintheory</author><text>It seems a bit off to assert that &quot;people feel it is a price worth paying&quot; when almost all purchases online are made with credit cards which have some protections against fraud, and almost none are made with blockchains in comparison. It seems like so far, most people don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a price worth paying?</text></item><item><author>Grustaf</author><text>I&#x27;m very sceptical of blockchain (though I&#x27;ve been in crypto off and on since 2013) but most of the arguments in this article are non-sensical. For example:<p>&gt; But even if all code was without mistakes, blockchains can’t do anything against threats like scams, fraud, hacking of devices with keys for the blochain or just plain old typos in a coin transfer.<p>I don&#x27;t think protection against human-factor scams and frauds was ever a goal, you certainly never hear it as an argument.<p>&gt; Normally, cases of fraud or mistakes could be rectified or reverted by the bank or similar institutions after a review of the situation by humans. However, in the world of blockchain there is no human supervisory authority.<p>This is a well-known, probably inevitable effect of what is probably the main point of using blockchains. Clearly people feel it is a price worth paying.<p>I do agree that 99% of blockchain usage is pointless at best, but that is really a different question. It <i>can</i> be used for storing and (slowly) transferring value in a decentralised way, and that is really the main idea.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense</title><url>https://www.eisfunke.com/article/blockchain-technology.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>Grustaf</author><text>I was referring to people in crypto. Obviously the general public prefers traditional payment systems because most people have no problem trusting that the banks will do the right thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>okintheory</author><text>It seems a bit off to assert that &quot;people feel it is a price worth paying&quot; when almost all purchases online are made with credit cards which have some protections against fraud, and almost none are made with blockchains in comparison. It seems like so far, most people don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a price worth paying?</text></item><item><author>Grustaf</author><text>I&#x27;m very sceptical of blockchain (though I&#x27;ve been in crypto off and on since 2013) but most of the arguments in this article are non-sensical. For example:<p>&gt; But even if all code was without mistakes, blockchains can’t do anything against threats like scams, fraud, hacking of devices with keys for the blochain or just plain old typos in a coin transfer.<p>I don&#x27;t think protection against human-factor scams and frauds was ever a goal, you certainly never hear it as an argument.<p>&gt; Normally, cases of fraud or mistakes could be rectified or reverted by the bank or similar institutions after a review of the situation by humans. However, in the world of blockchain there is no human supervisory authority.<p>This is a well-known, probably inevitable effect of what is probably the main point of using blockchains. Clearly people feel it is a price worth paying.<p>I do agree that 99% of blockchain usage is pointless at best, but that is really a different question. It <i>can</i> be used for storing and (slowly) transferring value in a decentralised way, and that is really the main idea.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense</title><url>https://www.eisfunke.com/article/blockchain-technology.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>NickM</author><text>It sort of has underlying value, in that owning bitcoin lets you write entries in an extraordinarily inefficient append-only database.<p>(It seems clear to me that this isn&#x27;t a valuable enough capability to justify the current price of BTC, but I guess that&#x27;s a separate discussion.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>airstrike</author><text>BTC is not a stock so I really don&#x27;t follow why people keep treating it like it has some underlying value</text></item><item><author>tacheiordache</author><text>GME is not bankrupt yet (it is indeed overpriced and comparable to HRTZ), but TSLA and BTC? They don&#x27;t belong to the same categories. TSLA and BTC will see a lot of gains to come. Eventually without a definite date what goes up comes down but it&#x27;d be silly to not take a piece of the pie yourself and keep your savings in cash...</text></item><item><author>VHRanger</author><text>Obviously?<p>The company was bankrupt.<p>People who bought HRTZ after bankruptcy had to have known it was a game of financial musical chairs, much like GME, TSLA or BTC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/hertz-the-original-meme-stock-is-turning-out-to-be-worthless</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>croes</author><text>Like most stocks BTC&#x27;s value depends on the buyers hope of a rise of the value. Buy low and sell high.
For the original function of stocks, support a company and get a share of the profit, you are right about BTC.</text><parent_chain><item><author>airstrike</author><text>BTC is not a stock so I really don&#x27;t follow why people keep treating it like it has some underlying value</text></item><item><author>tacheiordache</author><text>GME is not bankrupt yet (it is indeed overpriced and comparable to HRTZ), but TSLA and BTC? They don&#x27;t belong to the same categories. TSLA and BTC will see a lot of gains to come. Eventually without a definite date what goes up comes down but it&#x27;d be silly to not take a piece of the pie yourself and keep your savings in cash...</text></item><item><author>VHRanger</author><text>Obviously?<p>The company was bankrupt.<p>People who bought HRTZ after bankruptcy had to have known it was a game of financial musical chairs, much like GME, TSLA or BTC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/hertz-the-original-meme-stock-is-turning-out-to-be-worthless</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ExoticPearTree</author><text>In my part of the globe the city is in the process of finishing installing fiber ducts to all addresses in the city (currently around 3.5M people) and ISPs run microfiber to any residential area, event apartment buildings. The effect is that you can get service from whatever provider you want without the hassle of &quot;we don&#x27;t have the infrastructure to do it&quot;. ISPs rent the fibers on a per distance price, but it is pretty much negligible.<p>When I say installing fiber ducts, I mean trenches with ducts that have exits on every address. And the microfibers are blown through those and you have a fiber optic cable to your door.</text><parent_chain><item><author>llsf</author><text>Would it make sense for the municipality to own the pipes that run in the city ? Like some cities own the sewer pipes.
Could it be an infrastructure that the city builds, owns, maintains and rents to ISP ?
The city would have a full control on how many houses are connected.
That is the type of investments that a city is suited for (i.e. large upfront cost financed by bonds).
AT&amp;T, Charter, Comcast, they have no incentive to invest a lot upfront.
And they might duplicate the infrastructure.
At the end the customer pays for the piecemeal fiber deployment, and redundancy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cleveland launches plan to provide cheap broadband</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/23/tired-of-being-ripped-off-by-monopolies-cleveland-launches-ambitious-plan-to-provide-citywide-dirt-cheap-broadband/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>That&#x27;s what they do here in Utah: UTOPIA (the municipality) runs its own fiber lines, and leases its network to private ISPs. That way, there is a single physical network with competitive pricing.<p>Of course, that doesn&#x27;t stop Comcast, Centurylink, Google Fiber, etc. from running their own networks, and UTOPIA&#x27;s coverage generally doesn&#x27;t overlap where these other ISPs already have infrastructure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>llsf</author><text>Would it make sense for the municipality to own the pipes that run in the city ? Like some cities own the sewer pipes.
Could it be an infrastructure that the city builds, owns, maintains and rents to ISP ?
The city would have a full control on how many houses are connected.
That is the type of investments that a city is suited for (i.e. large upfront cost financed by bonds).
AT&amp;T, Charter, Comcast, they have no incentive to invest a lot upfront.
And they might duplicate the infrastructure.
At the end the customer pays for the piecemeal fiber deployment, and redundancy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cleveland launches plan to provide cheap broadband</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/23/tired-of-being-ripped-off-by-monopolies-cleveland-launches-ambitious-plan-to-provide-citywide-dirt-cheap-broadband/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JeffL</author><text>If you don&#x27;t have a huge commute every day, a 110v &quot;trickle charge&quot; is actually quite adequate. A Model 3 gets about 5 mph charge on a 110 outlet. That&#x27;s at least 60 miles over night and 120 miles in 24 hours. You can always supercharge if you need it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thehappypm</author><text>This stopped me from buying a Tesla with my most recent car purchase. I live in a 100 year old apartment in Boston that has 0 parking spots for over 100 units. My wife and I share a car, mostly for weekend adventuring, so we rent a spot in a dude&#x27;s backyard down the block from us. It works well for us, much more convenient than the rat race of street parking. But it was hard to imagine that life with a Tesla. I could probably negotiate that I could plug it into an outlet connected to the guy&#x27;s house, but I&#x27;d only get a slow trickle charge, and it&#x27;s an odd request he could easily reject. I could rent in a garage with chargers, but there are none near my apartment, and it would also be much more expensive. The thought of only being able to charge at Superchargers was a big turnoff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?</title><url>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-where-will-garage-orphans-charge-electric-cars-if-they-have-to-park/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; I live in a 100 year old apartment<p>Keeping in mind &#x27;100 years old&#x27; sounds dramatic but is now as recent as 1919, which doesn&#x27;t sound that old when you write it out! That&#x27;s about a fifth of the housing stock in the UK I believe. Obviously, almost none of these houses have garages.<p>I wonder if local governments could install plugs under little hatches like they use for stop cocks all the way down residential roads.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stock.adobe.com&#x2F;be_en&#x2F;images&#x2F;blue-painted-water-stopcock-valve-cover-found-in-the-pavement-on-the-street&#x2F;122551084" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stock.adobe.com&#x2F;be_en&#x2F;images&#x2F;blue-painted-water-stop...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>thehappypm</author><text>This stopped me from buying a Tesla with my most recent car purchase. I live in a 100 year old apartment in Boston that has 0 parking spots for over 100 units. My wife and I share a car, mostly for weekend adventuring, so we rent a spot in a dude&#x27;s backyard down the block from us. It works well for us, much more convenient than the rat race of street parking. But it was hard to imagine that life with a Tesla. I could probably negotiate that I could plug it into an outlet connected to the guy&#x27;s house, but I&#x27;d only get a slow trickle charge, and it&#x27;s an odd request he could easily reject. I could rent in a garage with chargers, but there are none near my apartment, and it would also be much more expensive. The thought of only being able to charge at Superchargers was a big turnoff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?</title><url>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-where-will-garage-orphans-charge-electric-cars-if-they-have-to-park/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cipheredStones</author><text>It&#x27;s minutiae to be concerned when someone who <i>just tested positive for covid</i> is talking to you with their mask down?</text><parent_chain><item><author>thepasswordis</author><text>I think I&#x27;m getting something different from this than what the author intended.<p>* They mention their study hall as a &quot;super spreader event&quot;. This feels...hysterical to me. Not just because it worries me that this kid is thinking about this in the way they are, but also because it&#x27;s <i>wrong</i>. The risk this person faces is much more likely from the HVAC system in the school, not the study hall.<p>* The way they talk about the other kid asking questions &quot;with their mask down&quot;. To be obsessed with this sort of minutiae as a kid is scary to me.<p>* Kids thinking about test...and apparently being given something like 5 tests in <i>a single day</i>? This seems wasteful <i>and</i> hysterical on behalf of the school.<p>* Begin upset at kids for taking these tests in the bathroom instead of at home.<p>It just seems like there is a whole realm of paranoia that this kid is trying to fit on top of their life, and I don&#x27;t think this sort of paranoia is in any way reasonable.<p>I think that teaching kids to think about their world with this framing, and at a formative age, is and already has done major damage to their development.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rxwnbl/i_am_a_new_york_city_public_high_school_student/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>starkd</author><text>Indeed, it&#x27;s truly sad. It&#x27;s an inability to deal with risk out of all proportion to the reality it actually poses. From his comments, I wonder if he actually thinks he will be dead from standing next to someone who just tested positive. The preliminary results from UK and SA indicate that this recent wave could be a blessing in that it serves as an innoculation rather than severe illness. And children his age are not at a great risk to begin with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thepasswordis</author><text>I think I&#x27;m getting something different from this than what the author intended.<p>* They mention their study hall as a &quot;super spreader event&quot;. This feels...hysterical to me. Not just because it worries me that this kid is thinking about this in the way they are, but also because it&#x27;s <i>wrong</i>. The risk this person faces is much more likely from the HVAC system in the school, not the study hall.<p>* The way they talk about the other kid asking questions &quot;with their mask down&quot;. To be obsessed with this sort of minutiae as a kid is scary to me.<p>* Kids thinking about test...and apparently being given something like 5 tests in <i>a single day</i>? This seems wasteful <i>and</i> hysterical on behalf of the school.<p>* Begin upset at kids for taking these tests in the bathroom instead of at home.<p>It just seems like there is a whole realm of paranoia that this kid is trying to fit on top of their life, and I don&#x27;t think this sort of paranoia is in any way reasonable.<p>I think that teaching kids to think about their world with this framing, and at a formative age, is and already has done major damage to their development.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rxwnbl/i_am_a_new_york_city_public_high_school_student/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Notable:
&quot;And these prices do not represent just a few one-off, left field offers. All told, there were more than 100 bids combining wind and solar, or both, with battery storage, and 20 gigawatts of such capacity.<p>The “median” means that half the bids were cheaper than the median price cited above.&quot;<p>I realize most readers of HN know what a median is, but the fact that this was not just the lowest bid in each group was worth highlighting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal</title><url>http://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-and-battery-storage-cheaper-than-coal-83151/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wonderwonder</author><text>We live in a strange time where our access to clean power is limited not by technology or product cost but by politics, dedicated lobbying dollars and the entrenched old guard in federal but more importantly state and local level government.<p>I&#x27;m still waiting on my clean coal...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal</title><url>http://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-and-battery-storage-cheaper-than-coal-83151/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tetrep</author><text>In essence, a big reason why the Intel team was able to do this was because they&#x27;re getting optimized IR from GHC&#x27;s front-end[0], and then applying further optimizations with their compiler (HRC) and then converting it into yet another IR (MIL) used by yet another compiler (FLRC), designed by Intel for arbitrary functional programming languages, for some further optimizations and ultimately into C where Intel&#x27;s C compiler does the rest of the work.<p>It&#x27;s interesting that HRC makes relatively significantly optimized programs (up to 2x), but that GHC&#x27;s runtime (which HRC is not using) is so well optimized that the performance of HRC programs is roughly on par with those from GHC, despite the programs themselves being more performant.<p>I find stuff like this to be a testament to the practicality of great design in functional programming language ecosystems: Even the compilers are composable!<p>[0]: For those unfamiliar with what GHC does&#x2F;how it&#x27;s designed, this talk gives a great overview of the Core language that is the optimized IR of GHC: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uR_VzYxvbxg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uR_VzYxvbxg</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Haskell Research Compiler</title><url>https://github.com/IntelLabs/flrc</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>georgewsinger</author><text>For context, here&#x27;s a quote from an abstract elsewhere on the web:<p>&gt; The Intel Labs Haskell Research Compiler uses GHC as a frontend, but provides a new whole-program optimizing backend by compiling the GHC intermediate representation to a relatively generic functional language compilation platform.<p>and later:<p>&gt; For certain classes of programs, our platform provides substantial performance benefits over GHC alone, performing 2x faster than GHC with the LLVM backend on selected modern performance-oriented benchmarks; for other classes of programs, the benefits of GHC&#x27;s tuned virtual machine continue to outweigh the benefits of more aggressive whole program optimization. Overall we achieve parity with GHC with the LLVM backend.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;paper&#x2F;The-Intel-labs-Haskell-research-compiler-Liu-Glew&#x2F;d90a018d01c5865f57db29bfb8d80ae46e7fcd61" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;paper&#x2F;The-Intel-labs-Haskell...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Haskell Research Compiler</title><url>https://github.com/IntelLabs/flrc</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tsumnia</author><text>As one of the employers posted on a Reddit forum (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;InternetIsBeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;53h2sl&#x2F;learn_to_code_writing_a_game&#x2F;d7t2e0x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;InternetIsBeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;53h2sl...</a>), CodinGame is not really a &quot;learn coding&quot; style site. If anything it&#x27;s a &quot;reinforce what I know&quot; site. You aren&#x27;t &#x27;learning&#x27; the concepts, nor are you learning &#x27;game programming&#x27;, you are practicing what you already know via a game format.<p>I once had a student that was taking my Java 2 (OOP concepts) course and was using CodinGame for &quot;fun&quot;.<p>If anything, I believe CodinGame&#x27;s business model is more on the recruitment side, as their tournaments often offer interviews with the sponsors.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Practice coding with fun programming challenges</title><url>http://www.codingame.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>rezashirazian</author><text>I&#x27;ve always advised against being introduced to programming through game development.<p>As much as game development is appealing and fun, the process is complicated and requires advanced knowledge of some fairly complicated algorithms even for fairly trivial games.<p>Also you can find yourself spending hours shuffling sprites and designing levels which is time spent not learning programming.<p>Also engines like Unity provide a false sense of security when infact you have no idea what&#x27;s going on behind the scene and when something goes wrong you don&#x27;t know where to begin and end up discouraged.<p>Start slow, build your foundation, learn your bits and bytes, data structures and sorting algorithms first then venture out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Practice coding with fun programming challenges</title><url>http://www.codingame.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>iaresee</author><text>I took both the intro and advanced version of this course in my undergrad. Academically interesting stuff, but the inability to translate from proved system to implemented and proved system was always frustrating.<p>It was definitey a clear delineation between _computer science_ and _engineering science_ during my undergraduate courses.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>I&#x27;ve done this course. It&#x27;s interesting and makes you think, would recommend if that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re looking for.<p>While not my area of expertise, I don&#x27;t this course is particularly relevant to any practical modern formal methods unless you want to reinvent the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Formal Methods of Software Design an Online Course by Eric Hehner</title><url>http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hehner/FMSD/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tra3</author><text>It it applicable to the &quot;practical&quot; (or practiced?) software development?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>I&#x27;ve done this course. It&#x27;s interesting and makes you think, would recommend if that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re looking for.<p>While not my area of expertise, I don&#x27;t this course is particularly relevant to any practical modern formal methods unless you want to reinvent the world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Formal Methods of Software Design an Online Course by Eric Hehner</title><url>http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hehner/FMSD/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Voloskaya</author><text>(Speaking for me) Yes. It&#x27;s not 500$ extra for 8GB more, it&#x27;s 500$ extra for being able to do ML at all basically.<p>AMD GPUs have near zero support in major ML frameworks. There are some things coming out with Rocm and other niche things, but most people in ML already have enough work dealing with model and framework problems that using experimental AMD support is probably a no go.<p>Hell, if AMD had a card with 8GB ram more than nvidia, and for 500$ cheaper, I would still go with nvidia.
Everyone wish AMD would step their game up w.r.t ML workloads but it&#x27;s just not happening (yet), Nvidia has a complete monopoly there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shock</author><text>&gt; I do machine learning work and research, and when I upgrade I will pay the Nvidia “premium” without hesitation<p>Would you still do it <i>without hesitation</i> if the money was coming of your own pocket?</text></item><item><author>atty</author><text>I do machine learning work and research, and when I upgrade I will pay the Nvidia “premium” without hesitation for that extra RAM and CUDA. I really wish it wasn’t so one-sided, I’d love to have a choice.<p>Edit: should clarify that I’d really love to get a quadro or one of their data center cards, which aren’t gimped in certain non-gaming workloads... but I’m not made of money :)</text></item><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>But is 8 GB of GDDR whatever worth almost $1000? If AMD can put 16 in at about $500, paying another $1000 for an extra 8 is IMHO outrageous. Nvidia is charging that much because <i>many</i> gamers hold to the “Intel &amp; Nvidia are the best” even if benchmarks say otherwise.</text></item><item><author>tomerico</author><text>Addressing the price difference between RTX 3090 and 6900 XT:<p>3090 is priced at $1500 for its 24GB RAM which enables ML &amp; Rendering use cases (Nvidia is segmenting the market by RAM capacity).<p>AMD&#x27;s 6900XT has the same 16GB of RAM as 6800XT, with less support on the ML side. Their target market is gamers enthusiasts who wanted the absolute fastest GPU.</text></item><item><author>taurath</author><text>Big shot across the bow of Nvidia - the whole 30-series stock problems seem like a big miscalculation right now. Granted it’s still early as this is just announced, so no real world benchmarks, but their 3090 competitor coming in at $500 under Nvidia makes it a really tough sell - not that a lot of people have even gotten them at this point. Rumors of Nvidia making TI versions in literal months after the 30-series launch are probably true.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-rx-6000-series-rdna2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>If one makes bay area salaries, I can&#x27;t imagine the price of a 3090 would be a problem. One probably pays more in rent than that even with scalping prices.<p>Now on the other side of the world, where a 3090 is several times your rent, you really need to think thrice about buying one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shock</author><text>&gt; I do machine learning work and research, and when I upgrade I will pay the Nvidia “premium” without hesitation<p>Would you still do it <i>without hesitation</i> if the money was coming of your own pocket?</text></item><item><author>atty</author><text>I do machine learning work and research, and when I upgrade I will pay the Nvidia “premium” without hesitation for that extra RAM and CUDA. I really wish it wasn’t so one-sided, I’d love to have a choice.<p>Edit: should clarify that I’d really love to get a quadro or one of their data center cards, which aren’t gimped in certain non-gaming workloads... but I’m not made of money :)</text></item><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>But is 8 GB of GDDR whatever worth almost $1000? If AMD can put 16 in at about $500, paying another $1000 for an extra 8 is IMHO outrageous. Nvidia is charging that much because <i>many</i> gamers hold to the “Intel &amp; Nvidia are the best” even if benchmarks say otherwise.</text></item><item><author>tomerico</author><text>Addressing the price difference between RTX 3090 and 6900 XT:<p>3090 is priced at $1500 for its 24GB RAM which enables ML &amp; Rendering use cases (Nvidia is segmenting the market by RAM capacity).<p>AMD&#x27;s 6900XT has the same 16GB of RAM as 6800XT, with less support on the ML side. Their target market is gamers enthusiasts who wanted the absolute fastest GPU.</text></item><item><author>taurath</author><text>Big shot across the bow of Nvidia - the whole 30-series stock problems seem like a big miscalculation right now. Granted it’s still early as this is just announced, so no real world benchmarks, but their 3090 competitor coming in at $500 under Nvidia makes it a really tough sell - not that a lot of people have even gotten them at this point. Rumors of Nvidia making TI versions in literal months after the 30-series launch are probably true.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-rx-6000-series-rdna2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text>I urge everyone who&#x27;s contemplating trying this substance, which is arguably by far <i>the most powerful psychedelic on the planet</i>, to thoroughly educate themselves on it first.<p>Erowid[1] is a good place to start.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erowid.org&#x2F;chemicals&#x2F;5meo_dmt&#x2F;5meo_dmt.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erowid.org&#x2F;chemicals&#x2F;5meo_dmt&#x2F;5meo_dmt.shtml</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>5-MeO-DMT: 20-minute psychoactive experience that’s transforming lives</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2020/02/02/5-meo-dmt-the-20-minute-psychoactive-toad-experience-thats-transforming-lives/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arexxbifs</author><text>I seem to recall there was a similar article about psilocybin on HN just a few days ago.<p>While there certainly might be some therapeutic use for psychedelics, they are a very unpredictable instrument. I think this recently re-emerging trend of attributing them with almost magical cure-all qualities is risky at best.<p>You might certainly have a blissful, life-altering experience with a prolonged positive afterglow, but you could also end up in a hellish, confused world of angst and terror for what seems like an eternity, and feel excruciatingly hollow for weeks or months afterwards. The latter can of course be devastating to someone suffering from depression, anxiety or other psychological ailments.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>5-MeO-DMT: 20-minute psychoactive experience that’s transforming lives</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2020/02/02/5-meo-dmt-the-20-minute-psychoactive-toad-experience-thats-transforming-lives/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>starky</author><text>I&#x27;m happy to hear he is finally realizing the error of his previous decision, but this should not be an epiphany. So many of us that followed the project told him exactly that when he decided to throw out the MMX and start over. I still worry that he hasn&#x27;t learned the lesson that &quot;perfection is the enemy of good&quot; and will use yet another change of direction&#x2F;method to avoid actually finishing something.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guhcampos</author><text>I follow him and coincidentally (or not, maybe there&#x27;s some correlation with this coming back to HN?) he posted a video last week with sort of an epiphany.<p>According to him, he realized he&#x27;s been trying to engineer a functionally perfect machine this whole time, and that&#x27;s pointless, because it&#x27;s never been about the machine function, but about the artistic expression of creating such machine.<p>From this, he derived that instead of optimizing the machine for function, he&#x27;ll begin optimizing for fun, looks and generally the &quot;cool&quot; of the machine. I&#x27;m excited to see what&#x27;s going to happen from now on.</text></item><item><author>datadrivenangel</author><text>He&#x27;s on his third iteration of the machine because he keeps over engineering parts and starting over, in a way which is simultaneously impressive and heartbreaking.</text></item><item><author>calibas</author><text>According to the artist himself, this video is a bit misleading as the majority of what you hear in this video is not from the machine. There were some fundamental flaws in the first designs, he almost gave up on the whole project, but he&#x27;s recently come back with plans for a whole new version: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI</a><p>He&#x27;s very open about the whole process, it&#x27;s quite interesting from an engineering perspective.<p>Designing the marble divider: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo</a><p>Testing the new fly wheel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8ouH21npL58" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8ouH21npL58</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>&gt; he posted a video last week with sort of an epiphany<p>He does this every year or so. He always has some big takeaway – engineering for fun, getting back to enjoying his work, getting anything finished so he can go on tour which he enjoys...<p>I followed the channel for a few years because I wanted to see a machine come together, but I realised over time that the machine is not the point. It&#x27;s a self-help channel, it&#x27;s about productivity, burnout, and the process of engineering and design.<p>If that&#x27;s what you want, great. But I get enough pontificating about engineering process in my job, and I was there for the machine, so I gave up. If he ever goes on tour I&#x27;ll be there, but I&#x27;m not holding my breath.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guhcampos</author><text>I follow him and coincidentally (or not, maybe there&#x27;s some correlation with this coming back to HN?) he posted a video last week with sort of an epiphany.<p>According to him, he realized he&#x27;s been trying to engineer a functionally perfect machine this whole time, and that&#x27;s pointless, because it&#x27;s never been about the machine function, but about the artistic expression of creating such machine.<p>From this, he derived that instead of optimizing the machine for function, he&#x27;ll begin optimizing for fun, looks and generally the &quot;cool&quot; of the machine. I&#x27;m excited to see what&#x27;s going to happen from now on.</text></item><item><author>datadrivenangel</author><text>He&#x27;s on his third iteration of the machine because he keeps over engineering parts and starting over, in a way which is simultaneously impressive and heartbreaking.</text></item><item><author>calibas</author><text>According to the artist himself, this video is a bit misleading as the majority of what you hear in this video is not from the machine. There were some fundamental flaws in the first designs, he almost gave up on the whole project, but he&#x27;s recently come back with plans for a whole new version: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI</a><p>He&#x27;s very open about the whole process, it&#x27;s quite interesting from an engineering perspective.<p>Designing the marble divider: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo</a><p>Testing the new fly wheel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8ouH21npL58" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8ouH21npL58</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kmod</author><text>This reminds me about the Semantic Web, which was a movement explicitly about making the web more understandable to machines. I don&#x27;t agree with the ideas and I think a lot of other people were also skeptical, but I bring it up to say that some people take the other side of your argument rather seriously and that there&#x27;s a lot of existing debate on the topic. Here&#x27;s Tim Berners-Lee talking about this way back in 1999:<p>&gt; I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A &quot;Semantic Web&quot;, which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The &quot;intelligent agents&quot; people have touted for ages will finally materialize.<p>I quoted this from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Semantic_Web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Semantic_Web</a> since the original reference was a book that is not openly accessible. Also I think it&#x27;s funny that he&#x27;s talking about agents in exactly the same way that people do now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blenderob</author><text>Anyone else worried how backward this sounds? I mean this is like totally giving up on the dismal state of website UXes these days and gladly accepting that website navigation and experience should remain utterly confusing for humans but machines (yes, machines) should get preferential treatment! Good UX is now for machines, not for humans!<p>Shouldn&#x27;t something like this be first and foremost for humans ... which also benefits machines as an obvious side-effect?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Llms.txt</title><url>https://llmstxt.org/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spencerchubb</author><text>It&#x27;s recognizing that the needs of a human are different from the needs of an LLM.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blenderob</author><text>Anyone else worried how backward this sounds? I mean this is like totally giving up on the dismal state of website UXes these days and gladly accepting that website navigation and experience should remain utterly confusing for humans but machines (yes, machines) should get preferential treatment! Good UX is now for machines, not for humans!<p>Shouldn&#x27;t something like this be first and foremost for humans ... which also benefits machines as an obvious side-effect?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Llms.txt</title><url>https://llmstxt.org/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Try to remember that this is probably just a marketing document for YC. It&#x27;s aspirationally what they&#x27;d like people to think about YC startups. There&#x27;s not much point in debating it. If you have a good idea in almost any field, they&#x27;re going to consider it.<p>With 25 categories, their cost to saying &quot;we&#x27;d like YC to help end global warming&quot; is zero. As the world&#x27;s leading early-stage investment vehicle, the cost to them leaving out, say, adtech is also zero: the same people will apply either way.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Updated Request for Startups</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/updated-request-for-startups/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justcheck</author><text>I am hesitant to ask this as it seems you only hear about young folks being accepted into YC and succeeding. But I also know that YC thinks differently - so here goes:<p>I am a 62 year old solo founder working on my fifth startup - all have been bootstrapped and successful to varying degrees. How much does age factor into YC&#x27;s acceptance decision - if at all. What is the oldest founder YC has ever accepted?
Thanks!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Updated Request for Startups</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/updated-request-for-startups/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwenzel</author><text>How to figure out if you&#x27;ve built something people want.<p>1) Get someone to give you money. Hearing, &quot;oh, I&#x27;d buy that!&quot; is not the same as, &quot;here&#x27;s my credit card number.&quot;<p>2) Get them to give you money even though your product is not totally ready for prime time. Basically, even though your product is not done, not refined, difficult to use, etc., having your product is still so much better than not having it that someone is still willing to pay.<p>3) Short of getting someone to pay you, get them to get past some level of friction. If someone will invest their time to cross the chasm of not-user to user, it means they really want what is on the other side.<p>4) Get someone to use your product again. There&#x27;s a reason online apps look at Active Daily&#x2F;Monthly Users. If someone uses it, then uses it again... it must be something they want.<p>5) Don&#x27;t have a product yet, just an idea... pre-orders (see point 1).<p>6) Can&#x27;t even take pre-orders... You&#x27;re just guessing. Build an MVP (or minimum sellable product if you&#x27;re in enterprise). Don&#x27;t try to take on the world. Find the minimum that can offer. Then go back to point 1.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>&gt; It helps you answer the only question that matters: is your product something people want?<p>I&#x27;ve probably read that sentence at least 1000 times in a number of different books and articles. Having gone through a lean startup accelerator a few years ago when they were en vogue we focused on this aspect more than anything else.<p>The thing I never hear is how people actually figured that out. Cold calling, cold emailing, going to meetups, getting intros, pitching ideas and gathering feedback is never discussed. I want to hear _how_ you found a product market fit. It&#x27;s obvious that you need to do this.<p>As an example. A startup that I co-founded my sophomore year in college was accepted into a school run summer business accelerator. They emphasized talking with customers&#x2F;users more than anything else. The problem was we didn&#x27;t really know any of our potential customers or users (grade school teachers&#x2F;public schools). So we had to essentially cold call schools, find teachers&#x2F;admins emails online, and fish around our personal network for intros. To say it didn&#x27;t go well is an understatement. Our success rate, of even a phone call, was nearly 1% (roughly one answer per 100 or so emails&#x2F;calls). We eventually locked down a core group of users simply by contacting so many people. Aside from other bureaucratic factors in the public schooling system we failed simply because we couldn&#x27;t establish a growing user base.<p>So, if anyone wants to tell their story with nitty gitty details of not only how they found and retained their users but how they found what they wanted would be greatly appreciated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in</title><url>http://blog.frontapp.com/three-months-at-y-combinator-what-its-like-and-how-to-get-in/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>&gt;So we had to essentially cold call schools, find teachers&#x2F;admins emails online, and fish around our personal network for intros. To say it didn&#x27;t go well is an understatement. Our success rate, of even a phone call, was nearly 1% (roughly one answer per 100 or so emails&#x2F;calls). We eventually locked down a core group of users simply by contacting so many people. Aside from other bureaucratic factors in the public schooling system we failed simply because we couldn&#x27;t establish a growing user base.<p>I&#x27;ve found that walking into the school gets much better results. I work in test prep.<p>There&#x27;s no magic bullet for learning about clients, and it depends on the niche. In my case (LSAT prep) I learned about LSAT students because I had been an LSAT tutor. In fact, I still do <i>a bit</i> of tutoring just to stay in touch with what students are going through.<p>Other niches would require completely different approaches. Steps:<p><pre><code> 1. Identify target client
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3. Use *that* approach.
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I found targeted cold calls worked pretty well. Targeted in the sense that a meaningful % of whoever I was targeting would say &quot;woah, I gotta get me some of that&quot;, even if they had not previously heard of me.<p>The way you get that reaction is by knowing the needs of the prospect, putting yourself into their shoes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>&gt; It helps you answer the only question that matters: is your product something people want?<p>I&#x27;ve probably read that sentence at least 1000 times in a number of different books and articles. Having gone through a lean startup accelerator a few years ago when they were en vogue we focused on this aspect more than anything else.<p>The thing I never hear is how people actually figured that out. Cold calling, cold emailing, going to meetups, getting intros, pitching ideas and gathering feedback is never discussed. I want to hear _how_ you found a product market fit. It&#x27;s obvious that you need to do this.<p>As an example. A startup that I co-founded my sophomore year in college was accepted into a school run summer business accelerator. They emphasized talking with customers&#x2F;users more than anything else. The problem was we didn&#x27;t really know any of our potential customers or users (grade school teachers&#x2F;public schools). So we had to essentially cold call schools, find teachers&#x2F;admins emails online, and fish around our personal network for intros. To say it didn&#x27;t go well is an understatement. Our success rate, of even a phone call, was nearly 1% (roughly one answer per 100 or so emails&#x2F;calls). We eventually locked down a core group of users simply by contacting so many people. Aside from other bureaucratic factors in the public schooling system we failed simply because we couldn&#x27;t establish a growing user base.<p>So, if anyone wants to tell their story with nitty gitty details of not only how they found and retained their users but how they found what they wanted would be greatly appreciated.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in</title><url>http://blog.frontapp.com/three-months-at-y-combinator-what-its-like-and-how-to-get-in/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeidrich</author><text>A prison is a place where people are deprived of liberties. A society can justify depriving people of liberties. A private interest should not have the right to do so.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s not the private interest who condemns the prisoner, but they run these facilities at a profit, turning what should be a rehabilitating environment into an environment that is designed to promote full prisons to enrich an individual.<p>A good prison should work at a financial loss because there should be a societal benefit to rehabilitating inmates. If a higher prison population turns into a financial incentive, there is no incentive to help inmates or even reduce recidivism.<p>This is especially true when you consider how many minor offenses can send people to jail in the US. It is also interesting to consider that when slavery was abolished, many plantations turned into for-profit prisons; or that the incarceration rate of the US is the highest in the world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Prophasi</author><text>By definition? That requires some justification.<p>The justice system still sets the parameters and manages the procedures by which sentences are handed down. If a court determines you&#x27;re going to prison for 10 years, you&#x27;re going -- the private company manages your environment for that time.<p>And given that private parties also manage your medical care, hospital stays, air travel, car manufacture, work environments, home building, and thousands of other mechanisms and environments that determine your safety and quality of living, I struggle with finding a moral difference when it comes to prisons.<p>You could argue that these other things are voluntary and prison isn&#x27;t, but it&#x27;s involuntary even if run by government; most inmates would opt out either way.<p>And I think it&#x27;s highly naive, this distinction between private companies as greedy, interested parties and government agencies and functionaries as objective arbiters of truth and goodwill. Either way you have ridiculous salaries, internal power struggles, marketing&#x2F;perception, budget committees, and cynical people inured to the hard realities of the lives they affect.</text></item><item><author>northwest</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood how prisons could be allowed to become private businesses. It&#x27;s &quot;evil&quot; by definition.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>In the future, there will be a more extreme version of rickrolling. People will send you links and if you open them, you will be sent to jail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05/sopa-died-in-2012-but-obama-administration-wants-to-revive-part-of-it/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pilif</author><text>It starts to become a problem when judges and district attorneys own shares of the companies that run the prisons. This creates a clear conflict of interest (the more people they can convict, the more money they will make) which so far doesn&#x27;t seem to be noticed as you read about such circumstances at times.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Prophasi</author><text>By definition? That requires some justification.<p>The justice system still sets the parameters and manages the procedures by which sentences are handed down. If a court determines you&#x27;re going to prison for 10 years, you&#x27;re going -- the private company manages your environment for that time.<p>And given that private parties also manage your medical care, hospital stays, air travel, car manufacture, work environments, home building, and thousands of other mechanisms and environments that determine your safety and quality of living, I struggle with finding a moral difference when it comes to prisons.<p>You could argue that these other things are voluntary and prison isn&#x27;t, but it&#x27;s involuntary even if run by government; most inmates would opt out either way.<p>And I think it&#x27;s highly naive, this distinction between private companies as greedy, interested parties and government agencies and functionaries as objective arbiters of truth and goodwill. Either way you have ridiculous salaries, internal power struggles, marketing&#x2F;perception, budget committees, and cynical people inured to the hard realities of the lives they affect.</text></item><item><author>northwest</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood how prisons could be allowed to become private businesses. It&#x27;s &quot;evil&quot; by definition.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>In the future, there will be a more extreme version of rickrolling. People will send you links and if you open them, you will be sent to jail.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05/sopa-died-in-2012-but-obama-administration-wants-to-revive-part-of-it/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>13of40</author><text>Just my 2 cents: I worked on the DNS in Windows Server back in the 200x&#x27;s (validating the UI and back-end functionality, not dev work), so I did have to learn about it at one point and I recall that there was a vicious level of complexity to it compared to what we ask it to do. The 99% scenario is turning a domain into an IP via an A record. Next after that is doing the same with an MX record. Beyond that is this deep well of other things people thought someone might want to do with DNS, but that almost nobody takes advantage of in real life. So DNS is probably easy to understand if you&#x27;re just concerned about the one or two first class scenarios, but if you had to implement an RFC-correct instance of a DNS server, it&#x27;s a bit of a brain melter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jvns</author><text>Hello! I wrote this post and I have a couple of things to say about this &quot;DNS is not actually hard&quot; take. It took me many years to feel totally comfortable debugging DNS problems, and I wrote this post to explain why I think it was hard for me.<p>I also used to think that &quot;no, actually, it&#x27;s easy!&quot; was an encouraging response to &quot;this is hard to learn&quot;. And I kind of get it! I love DNS! I think it is surprisingly simple in many ways, and I&#x27;ve written about that a lot, for example in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;implement-dns.wizardzines.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;implement-dns.wizardzines.com</a> which shows you how to implement a toy DNS resolver from scratch in some pretty simple Python code.<p>But over the years I&#x27;ve learned that &quot;no, it&#x27;s easy to learn!&quot;, instead of coming off as an encouraging comment (&quot;you can do it!&quot;), often gets received as &quot;no, it&#x27;s not hard, actually the problem is that you&#x27;re dumb&quot;. Like, I&#x27;ve been confused about this for years, and you&#x27;re telling me that, no, actually it&#x27;s easy? Not that helpful!<p>So I&#x27;ve stopped telling people that, and instead I put a huge amount of work into trying to understand _why_ people find certain things hard and work to help remove some of those barriers.</text></item><item><author>tristor</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree with this article. I think DNS is something few people take the time to learn, but it&#x27;s not actually hard to learn. One of the great things about DNS is that the system itself will tell you about it&#x27;s internal state in response to queries. It&#x27;s very easy to inspect a DNS server for a known zone and understand how it works, and there&#x27;s very good tooling that&#x27;s free and widely available to do this (like dig).<p>It&#x27;s always been a big surprise to me that my DNS expertise is what seems to be most memorable for a lot of folks I&#x27;ve worked with through my career, when I don&#x27;t believe I know anything mystical or special. DNS is extremely well standardized, the most common server and client implementations rigorously follow the standard, and it&#x27;s very easy to inspect with free tooling. It just takes some effort and time to learn, but it&#x27;s not really hard.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is DNS still hard to learn?</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anyfoo</author><text>Maybe everyone sees this differently? Or maybe is more than one viewpoint to it.<p>For example, if someone tells me that something is &quot;actually really simple&quot;, and I did not get it yet, I tend to think that I likely (not certainly, but likely) have not found the right approach to that something yet, and once I found that way to look at it, things will resolve itself.<p>But if people assure me that something is &quot;hard to learn&quot; or &quot;hard to get&quot;, I&#x27;m rather suspecting that that thing is full of unwieldy complexity and&#x2F;or unintuitive aspects, and unless I&#x27;m either up for the challenge (definitely the case sometimes), or learning it is crucial for achieving a certain goal (in which case it may turn out to be fun after all, even if still hard), I might think twice if I want to put the time and energy into it.<p>In the case of DNS, which I&#x27;ve learned in the nineties, I found the principle simple and elegant, the tools and software unwieldy and sometimes arcane, and a large multitude of little details that are not strictly necessary for understanding and using DNS in basic ways, but that can get important when either debugging or working at scale.<p>So, in the case of DNS, I&#x27;d say the answer is &quot;depends on how deep you want to go&quot;, but don&#x27;t shy away from the simple and elegant principle, even if the arcane software (it has gotten better, though) stands in the way.<p>I think that matches the content of your article overall?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jvns</author><text>Hello! I wrote this post and I have a couple of things to say about this &quot;DNS is not actually hard&quot; take. It took me many years to feel totally comfortable debugging DNS problems, and I wrote this post to explain why I think it was hard for me.<p>I also used to think that &quot;no, actually, it&#x27;s easy!&quot; was an encouraging response to &quot;this is hard to learn&quot;. And I kind of get it! I love DNS! I think it is surprisingly simple in many ways, and I&#x27;ve written about that a lot, for example in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;implement-dns.wizardzines.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;implement-dns.wizardzines.com</a> which shows you how to implement a toy DNS resolver from scratch in some pretty simple Python code.<p>But over the years I&#x27;ve learned that &quot;no, it&#x27;s easy to learn!&quot;, instead of coming off as an encouraging comment (&quot;you can do it!&quot;), often gets received as &quot;no, it&#x27;s not hard, actually the problem is that you&#x27;re dumb&quot;. Like, I&#x27;ve been confused about this for years, and you&#x27;re telling me that, no, actually it&#x27;s easy? Not that helpful!<p>So I&#x27;ve stopped telling people that, and instead I put a huge amount of work into trying to understand _why_ people find certain things hard and work to help remove some of those barriers.</text></item><item><author>tristor</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree with this article. I think DNS is something few people take the time to learn, but it&#x27;s not actually hard to learn. One of the great things about DNS is that the system itself will tell you about it&#x27;s internal state in response to queries. It&#x27;s very easy to inspect a DNS server for a known zone and understand how it works, and there&#x27;s very good tooling that&#x27;s free and widely available to do this (like dig).<p>It&#x27;s always been a big surprise to me that my DNS expertise is what seems to be most memorable for a lot of folks I&#x27;ve worked with through my career, when I don&#x27;t believe I know anything mystical or special. DNS is extremely well standardized, the most common server and client implementations rigorously follow the standard, and it&#x27;s very easy to inspect with free tooling. It just takes some effort and time to learn, but it&#x27;s not really hard.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is DNS still hard to learn?</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text>&quot;...I can&#x27;t help but notice that you (and others here) are making the mistake of equating digital art with a need for high-end graphics cards. 99% of what most digital artists consider to be &quot;digital art&quot; does not require state-of-the-art GPUs. Graphic design work, retouching, painting, etc. barely even scratch the surface of what the last generation of graphics cards could handle...&quot;<p>I can&#x27;t help but notice that you are equating that 99% of &quot;digital art&quot; that can be handled by mobile graphics cards, to the 1% of &quot;digital art&quot; that anyone&#x27;s going to actually PAY someone to produce. As I said, this is a business. If I could make the living I currently make retouching photos, then I&#x27;d gladly pay $3000 for an underpowered machine...<p>but I can&#x27;t.<p>because no one is going to pay us that kind of money to retouch photos are they?<p>Look, these machines, to a business, are INVESTMENTS. You invest for the FUTURE, not to take advantage of the past. A 1070 or 1080 is not too much to ask considering Pascal&#x27;s MANIFEST superiority in efficiency. Additionally, I was being kind, I think MS should OFFER 64GB in the Surface Studio, but a 128GB option would really be necessary to future proof this thing.<p>I&#x27;ll tell you what MS and Apple are going for here... it&#x27;s a money grab. And they are setting themselves up to come back to guys like me every 18 to 24 months for another mandatory money grab instead of just giving us a 60 month machine from the outset.<p>Offer me a 60 month Surface Studio at the $3000 price point and I&#x27;d update every workstation here. But that&#x27;s not what they&#x27;re offering is it?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>I think you (and a few others here) are making the mistake of equating <i>digital art</i> with a need for high-end <i>graphics cards</i>. 99% of what most digital artists consider to be &quot;digital art&quot; does not require state-of-the-art GPUs. Graphic design work, retouching, painting, etc. barely even scratch the surface of what the last generation of graphics cards could handle.<p>Let&#x27;s call high-end graphics cards for what they really are: gaming console graphics hardware stuffed into PCs. Apart from a relatively small number of professionals who work with 3D rendering, high-end graphics cards are an even greater waste of money (unless of course you&#x27;re buying the machine for gaming, which doesn&#x27;t really fit the &quot;digital artist&quot; target of these machines).<p>Microsoft and Apple may still be pricing these products too high (&quot;robbing you&quot; as you say), but that&#x27;s a separate discussion.</text></item><item><author>bilbo0s</author><text>I&#x27;m a digital artist myself. I&#x27;m a more goal based guy, so I use both Windows and Mac hardware and software. I know that I am probably the target market for both the Macbook Pro and the Surface Studio, but I have to say, I&#x27;m not impressed. And I&#x27;d argue that the only people who are would have to be Microsoft or Apple fans. Certainly not tech based artists.<p>First, this is a business for me. And I suspect it&#x27;s a business for anyone that Apple or Microsoft expects to sell this stuff to. And having to pay $3000 for outdated hardware is a tough pill to swallow. The hardware in the Macbook &quot;Pro&quot; is simply inexcusable. (REALLY???? 16GB RAM MAX!?!?!?) But the hardware in the Surface Studio is equally galling. They give you an NVidia what? 965 for $3000??? And the BEST I could even POSSIBLY get would be a 980??? And for that magnanimous gesture on their part I would be obliged to pay a MINIMUM of $4100??? For LAST GENERATION graphics cards???? On a machine purportedly about graphics???? (A 1080 would run both faster AND cooler using LESS power Microsoft. And at this point in time, for a business investment 64GB of RAM should really be offered by anyone NOT trying to screw you. What&#x27;s the deal Microsoft???)<p>I think to objective observers who were waiting for these presentations... both proved SEVERELY underwhelming considering the pent up expectations. I mean... OK... if you put a gun to my head, I&#x27;ll probably buy the Surface Studio. But don&#x27;t expect me to pretend that I don&#x27;t know that both Microsoft and Apple are robbing me.<p>Sorry for the rant.</text></item><item><author>throwanem</author><text>&gt; Microsoft introduced a 28&quot; desktop PC<p>No. Microsoft introduced an entirely new <i>kind</i> of tool for digital artists. I&#x27;m not one myself, but the Surface Studio makes me wish I were. And the people I know who are, are over the moon about it. They can&#x27;t <i>wait</i> to get their hands on one.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s Microsoft that hit it out of the park, and made Apple look amazingly weak by comparison. Today&#x27;s event wouldn&#x27;t have been particularly impressive even on its own. By comparison with yesterday&#x27;s, it&#x27;s just embarrassing.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; Microsoft really hit it out of the park yesterday.<p>Did we watch the same event? Microsoft introduced a $3,000 desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore. It introduced a minor update to the Surface Book that <i>starts</i> at $2,300 with dual-core CPU, only 8GB of RAM, and last-gen graphics hardware.<p>For the same price as the new Surface Book i7, I can get an MBP 15&quot; with bigger screen, twice the RAM, and a quad-core CPU, and it&#x27;s <i>Microsoft</i> that hit it out of the park?!</text></item><item><author>npgatech</author><text>This event was by far the most disappointing Mac event in the history. A lot of the time was wasted in:<p>- Mildly funny jokes and comparison with 90&#x27;s technology.<p>- 90% of the talk was about the touch bar.<p>- Awful demos of Photoshop &amp; some cringy DJ.<p>I was hoping we would see:<p>- A new MacBook with all day battery life and touch bar, even thinner design. Ok, I understand that they are trying to consolidate their product line but the category of a web-browsing machine that is 12&quot;, super small design and an adequate processor is left without any update.<p>- A MacBook pro with some real innovation. They could just copy Microsoft with a detachable screen (oh but they would cannibalize iPad market), pen input, touch screen. But, instead we get this touchbar thing which is great but I am just disappointed that it is the only thing they have innovated here.<p>- Killed Macbook Air.<p>- No iMac update (!!!).<p>- No monitor announcement.<p>Microsoft really hit it out of the park yesterday. Apple&#x27;s entire presentation felt like they are trying to fill the 1.5 hours of time with bullshit.<p>Also, Panos Panay sounds like a genuine, authentic, passionate and knowledgeable whereas Jony Ive sounds like an Evangelical designer who feels &quot;fake&quot;. I don&#x27;t know how to explain it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Pro</title><url>http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ixtli</author><text>The stats for the Cintiq Companion 2 are in the same ballpark and, from personal use, the thing has a hard time providing smooth UI when editing very large photoshop, illustrator, or unity projects.<p>I think you&#x27;re right that artists largely don&#x27;t need what high end gaming PCs might require to play the newest steam titles at full graphics settings, but for what Microsoft is asking here, they do at least need enough GPU&#x2F;CPU strength to have a very responsive UI when editing very large and complex graphical projects at 2560 x 1600 and beyond.<p>My worry about the Surface is simply that the minority report-style advertisement isn&#x27;t really possible with a real-world PSD or 3dsmax scene.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>I think you (and a few others here) are making the mistake of equating <i>digital art</i> with a need for high-end <i>graphics cards</i>. 99% of what most digital artists consider to be &quot;digital art&quot; does not require state-of-the-art GPUs. Graphic design work, retouching, painting, etc. barely even scratch the surface of what the last generation of graphics cards could handle.<p>Let&#x27;s call high-end graphics cards for what they really are: gaming console graphics hardware stuffed into PCs. Apart from a relatively small number of professionals who work with 3D rendering, high-end graphics cards are an even greater waste of money (unless of course you&#x27;re buying the machine for gaming, which doesn&#x27;t really fit the &quot;digital artist&quot; target of these machines).<p>Microsoft and Apple may still be pricing these products too high (&quot;robbing you&quot; as you say), but that&#x27;s a separate discussion.</text></item><item><author>bilbo0s</author><text>I&#x27;m a digital artist myself. I&#x27;m a more goal based guy, so I use both Windows and Mac hardware and software. I know that I am probably the target market for both the Macbook Pro and the Surface Studio, but I have to say, I&#x27;m not impressed. And I&#x27;d argue that the only people who are would have to be Microsoft or Apple fans. Certainly not tech based artists.<p>First, this is a business for me. And I suspect it&#x27;s a business for anyone that Apple or Microsoft expects to sell this stuff to. And having to pay $3000 for outdated hardware is a tough pill to swallow. The hardware in the Macbook &quot;Pro&quot; is simply inexcusable. (REALLY???? 16GB RAM MAX!?!?!?) But the hardware in the Surface Studio is equally galling. They give you an NVidia what? 965 for $3000??? And the BEST I could even POSSIBLY get would be a 980??? And for that magnanimous gesture on their part I would be obliged to pay a MINIMUM of $4100??? For LAST GENERATION graphics cards???? On a machine purportedly about graphics???? (A 1080 would run both faster AND cooler using LESS power Microsoft. And at this point in time, for a business investment 64GB of RAM should really be offered by anyone NOT trying to screw you. What&#x27;s the deal Microsoft???)<p>I think to objective observers who were waiting for these presentations... both proved SEVERELY underwhelming considering the pent up expectations. I mean... OK... if you put a gun to my head, I&#x27;ll probably buy the Surface Studio. But don&#x27;t expect me to pretend that I don&#x27;t know that both Microsoft and Apple are robbing me.<p>Sorry for the rant.</text></item><item><author>throwanem</author><text>&gt; Microsoft introduced a 28&quot; desktop PC<p>No. Microsoft introduced an entirely new <i>kind</i> of tool for digital artists. I&#x27;m not one myself, but the Surface Studio makes me wish I were. And the people I know who are, are over the moon about it. They can&#x27;t <i>wait</i> to get their hands on one.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s Microsoft that hit it out of the park, and made Apple look amazingly weak by comparison. Today&#x27;s event wouldn&#x27;t have been particularly impressive even on its own. By comparison with yesterday&#x27;s, it&#x27;s just embarrassing.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; Microsoft really hit it out of the park yesterday.<p>Did we watch the same event? Microsoft introduced a $3,000 desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore. It introduced a minor update to the Surface Book that <i>starts</i> at $2,300 with dual-core CPU, only 8GB of RAM, and last-gen graphics hardware.<p>For the same price as the new Surface Book i7, I can get an MBP 15&quot; with bigger screen, twice the RAM, and a quad-core CPU, and it&#x27;s <i>Microsoft</i> that hit it out of the park?!</text></item><item><author>npgatech</author><text>This event was by far the most disappointing Mac event in the history. A lot of the time was wasted in:<p>- Mildly funny jokes and comparison with 90&#x27;s technology.<p>- 90% of the talk was about the touch bar.<p>- Awful demos of Photoshop &amp; some cringy DJ.<p>I was hoping we would see:<p>- A new MacBook with all day battery life and touch bar, even thinner design. Ok, I understand that they are trying to consolidate their product line but the category of a web-browsing machine that is 12&quot;, super small design and an adequate processor is left without any update.<p>- A MacBook pro with some real innovation. They could just copy Microsoft with a detachable screen (oh but they would cannibalize iPad market), pen input, touch screen. But, instead we get this touchbar thing which is great but I am just disappointed that it is the only thing they have innovated here.<p>- Killed Macbook Air.<p>- No iMac update (!!!).<p>- No monitor announcement.<p>Microsoft really hit it out of the park yesterday. Apple&#x27;s entire presentation felt like they are trying to fill the 1.5 hours of time with bullshit.<p>Also, Panos Panay sounds like a genuine, authentic, passionate and knowledgeable whereas Jony Ive sounds like an Evangelical designer who feels &quot;fake&quot;. I don&#x27;t know how to explain it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Pro</title><url>http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>Yeah it seems like there used to be a cultural value of putting people to work. Generally speaking you had to be a real fuck-up to not get a job. Maybe the jobs available weren&#x27;t the best, but you could get something to pay for basic food&#x2F;housing with little effort or credentialing. The attitude was, if you were a decent person and willing to work, &quot;come by and we&#x27;ll find something for you to do&quot;.<p>Now the zeitgeist in the job market seems to be &quot;Why should we give you the gift of this job? Speak quickly and well, lest we cast you back into the void! You are a piece of shit until proven otherwise!&quot;<p>Granted some of that was always around for more competitive jobs, and some fields like engineering seem relatively exempt (outside of FAANG-style interviews) due to demand, but given what I was taught to expect growing up by schools&#x2F;parents vs what reality turned out to be, there&#x27;s definitely been a shift.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ianai</author><text>In lieu of any particular review I’m submitting the Wikipedia page.<p>I was unemployed for most of the Great Recession and can empathize with much of this book. I also just remember the “tragedy of my twenties” realizing society had basically no interest in me. Despite a math degree and IT&#x2F;programming experience. Then the myriad people I’ve interacted with in the last decade plus who are in this situation.<p>Luckily I now have good paying career. But I fear a society that leaves so many cold.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Men Without Work (2016)</title><url>https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fullshark</author><text>Society (meaning gov&#x27;t programs) doesn&#x27;t care about you beyond your economic output. We offshored countless unskilled labor jobs that men would traditionally take in America and told them they needed to take out crippling loans in order to get knowledge worker skills that our industry is working overtime to make obsolete within 5-10 years anyway.<p>Many just are giving up, they don&#x27;t see an opportunity here, they just are going to play video games, take drugs, and accomplish nothing with their lives.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ianai</author><text>In lieu of any particular review I’m submitting the Wikipedia page.<p>I was unemployed for most of the Great Recession and can empathize with much of this book. I also just remember the “tragedy of my twenties” realizing society had basically no interest in me. Despite a math degree and IT&#x2F;programming experience. Then the myriad people I’ve interacted with in the last decade plus who are in this situation.<p>Luckily I now have good paying career. But I fear a society that leaves so many cold.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Men Without Work (2016)</title><url>https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>s_q_b</author><text>Historical German KWF secure analog telephone, with example red &quot;secure&quot; and green &quot;clear&quot; buttons. <a href="http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/ant/kwf/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cryptomuseum.com&#x2F;crypto&#x2F;ant&#x2F;kwf&#x2F;</a><p>The convention evolved early, when secure communications were rare. The US&#x2F;NATO clearly marked the secure lines with bright red phones, since the major danger is sending something in plaintext rather than secure, while the reverse error is more harmless.<p>The green phones followed (since green is the complementary color of red), more out of cargo cult thinking than any usability purpose, which is why you&#x27;ll still see a lot of black equipment (because the colour of the unsecured line is relatively unimportant.)<p>And now, we have a hand-me-down convention that contravenes one of our hard-wired conventions about colors:
Green: Go, Proceed, Correct, Benign
Red: Stop, Not permitted, Incorrect, Harmful.<p>It is odd, but much like the wrong sign on the electron, you get used to it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gergles</author><text>&gt; red and green are some form of standard for secure&#x2F;insecure notifications.<p>They are. If you look at photos that the military&#x2F;government publishes of facilities, the secure stuff is always red, and the public stuff is always green (well, always is a strong word. It is occasionally black). (I was going to include such an image now but I can&#x27;t seem to find a search term for it that will find what I want.)<p>I agree, it seems a little backwards, but I guess it&#x27;s a piece of domain-specific knowledge you don&#x27;t forget once you&#x27;ve acquired it.</text></item><item><author>mootothemax</author><text><i>All that red-green color-coding for secure and non-secure calls is going to ruin them...</i><p>I was surprised by the colour coding as well, albeit more from a usability angle than colour-blindness:<p>What are &quot;danger&quot; red and &quot;success&quot; green meant to represent?<p>My natural inclination would be to have no background colour for insecure, and then [colour of choice] for secure.<p>It makes me wonder how ignorant on the matter I am, and whether red and green are some form of standard for secure&#x2F;insecure notifications.</text></item><item><author>joosters</author><text>The US is doomed if the country elects a colorblind president. All that red-green color-coding for secure and non-secure calls is going to ruin them...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New phones aboard Air Force One</title><url>http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-phones-aboard-air-force-one.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>mootothemax</author><text><i>I agree, it seems a little backwards, but I guess it&#x27;s a piece of domain-specific knowledge you don&#x27;t forget once you&#x27;ve acquired it.</i><p>Thanks, I had absolutely no idea about this.<p>I guess red&#x2F;caution makes sense if the thinking is &quot;this is secure, be careful with it!&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>gergles</author><text>&gt; red and green are some form of standard for secure&#x2F;insecure notifications.<p>They are. If you look at photos that the military&#x2F;government publishes of facilities, the secure stuff is always red, and the public stuff is always green (well, always is a strong word. It is occasionally black). (I was going to include such an image now but I can&#x27;t seem to find a search term for it that will find what I want.)<p>I agree, it seems a little backwards, but I guess it&#x27;s a piece of domain-specific knowledge you don&#x27;t forget once you&#x27;ve acquired it.</text></item><item><author>mootothemax</author><text><i>All that red-green color-coding for secure and non-secure calls is going to ruin them...</i><p>I was surprised by the colour coding as well, albeit more from a usability angle than colour-blindness:<p>What are &quot;danger&quot; red and &quot;success&quot; green meant to represent?<p>My natural inclination would be to have no background colour for insecure, and then [colour of choice] for secure.<p>It makes me wonder how ignorant on the matter I am, and whether red and green are some form of standard for secure&#x2F;insecure notifications.</text></item><item><author>joosters</author><text>The US is doomed if the country elects a colorblind president. All that red-green color-coding for secure and non-secure calls is going to ruin them...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New phones aboard Air Force One</title><url>http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-phones-aboard-air-force-one.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>runjake</author><text><i>&gt; the AR-15 is impractical gun for both home defense (Too long to for hallways. Too powerful for drywall.)</i><p>1. Actually, the .223&#x2F;5.56mm round has less penetration in residential[1] that most handgun rounds due to its tumbling characteristics.<p>2. I&#x27;d say the AR-15 is impractical for home defense due to its stigma of being an evil black rifle, and that it seems like &quot;overkill&quot; to uneducated people. That&#x27;s a shame, due to point #1, that it has less drywall&#x2F;wood penetration than most handgun rounds.<p>The AR-15 is a pretty useful and relatively economical system, due to its modularity. That said, I agree with a lot of your other opinions regarding elements of the gun&#x2F;tacticool culture.<p>[1.] In the drywall&#x2F;stick-built US, anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonathankoren</author><text>&gt; These photos remind me of William Gibson&#x27;s observations on tactical fashion -- if you are really a militant, then the last thing you&#x27;d want to do is look all tactical and stuff.<p>Hear. Hear. The AR-15 segment of gun culture is essentially cosplay. For example, the AR-15 is impractical gun for both home defense (Too long to for hallways. Too powerful for drywall.) and actually illegal to hunt with because the bullets are literally too small to bring down game.[1] However, you look like a fucking action movie star. Tactical vests, &quot;every day carry&quot; trauma kits, throat mics, body armor, etc. There&#x27;s no practical reason for any of these, other than the owner wants to play dress up. Businesses know this. Why else would say armor manufacturer AR5000 unveil a Boba Fett helmet[2].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fieldandstream.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;campfire&#x2F;are-assault-rifles-hunting" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fieldandstream.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;campfire&#x2F;are-assault-ri...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;io9.gizmodo.com&#x2F;check-out-this-boba-fett-inspired-tactical-armor-before-1753821526" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;io9.gizmodo.com&#x2F;check-out-this-boba-fett-inspired-tac...</a></text></item><item><author>zekevermillion</author><text>These photos remind me of William Gibson&#x27;s observations on tactical fashion -- if you are really a militant, then the last thing you&#x27;d want to do is look all tactical and stuff. The Army surplus look, radios with whip antennae, etc., is fun. But in any scenario where militia were up against organized force, I would think they should try to blend into the population. But I guess it&#x27;s hard to keep morale up if you just go to meetings where you practice blending into population. Like, an organized concealed carry sit-in at Starbucks where you don&#x27;t tell anyone you&#x27;re carrying and try not to be noticed? Or, have radio conversations where you discuss nothing of substance and avoid transmitting any coded messages?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Militia Radio Frequencies</title><url>https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twothamendment</author><text>Impractical for home defense? That statement is a bit broad. It all depends on your home and you. Are you in an apartment in the city or multiple acres in the middle of nowhere? For some, home defense might start with the unknown drunk guy driving his ATV in a circle on the driveway while yelling crazy things. Home defense isn&#x27;t always a bump in the night inside your house.<p>I won&#x27;t tell anyone they shouldn&#x27;t use a handgun or shotgun or AR-15 for their defense - they all have their place, but I know which one I wouldn&#x27;t want my wife to have if I were the bad guy. It has something to do with being light weight, very low recoil, fast follow up, multiple rounds and the way the steel silhouette made a &quot;ding&quot; each time she pulled the trigger.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonathankoren</author><text>&gt; These photos remind me of William Gibson&#x27;s observations on tactical fashion -- if you are really a militant, then the last thing you&#x27;d want to do is look all tactical and stuff.<p>Hear. Hear. The AR-15 segment of gun culture is essentially cosplay. For example, the AR-15 is impractical gun for both home defense (Too long to for hallways. Too powerful for drywall.) and actually illegal to hunt with because the bullets are literally too small to bring down game.[1] However, you look like a fucking action movie star. Tactical vests, &quot;every day carry&quot; trauma kits, throat mics, body armor, etc. There&#x27;s no practical reason for any of these, other than the owner wants to play dress up. Businesses know this. Why else would say armor manufacturer AR5000 unveil a Boba Fett helmet[2].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fieldandstream.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;campfire&#x2F;are-assault-rifles-hunting" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fieldandstream.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;campfire&#x2F;are-assault-ri...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;io9.gizmodo.com&#x2F;check-out-this-boba-fett-inspired-tactical-armor-before-1753821526" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;io9.gizmodo.com&#x2F;check-out-this-boba-fett-inspired-tac...</a></text></item><item><author>zekevermillion</author><text>These photos remind me of William Gibson&#x27;s observations on tactical fashion -- if you are really a militant, then the last thing you&#x27;d want to do is look all tactical and stuff. The Army surplus look, radios with whip antennae, etc., is fun. But in any scenario where militia were up against organized force, I would think they should try to blend into the population. But I guess it&#x27;s hard to keep morale up if you just go to meetings where you practice blending into population. Like, an organized concealed carry sit-in at Starbucks where you don&#x27;t tell anyone you&#x27;re carrying and try not to be noticed? Or, have radio conversations where you discuss nothing of substance and avoid transmitting any coded messages?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Militia Radio Frequencies</title><url>https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davepeck</author><text>Shameless plug: my new app and service, Cloak (<a href="https://www.getcloak.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.getcloak.com/</a>), is a zero-hassle VPN. It's currently in beta for OS X.<p>I'd love feedback from the HN community!<p>Grab the app, enter your Cloak credentials, and you're done. If Cloak sees you're on on a password-less wireless network, it automatically activates. Cloak's servers are cloud-hosted; the client selects the back-end server that will give the lowest latency. Under the hood, Cloak for OSX is built on industry-standard OpenVPN.<p>I expect Cloak will exit beta when the iPhone/iPad client is finished, probably in early September. But if you'd like to try it sooner, drop me a line [davepeck at getcloak dot com] and I'll send you a special HN invite code. Cheers!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secure your browsing using a home VPN</title><url>http://sriramk.com/blog/2011/08/ddwrt-pptp-vpn.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>_b8r0</author><text>From TFA:<p>&#62; Here’s why I picked PPTP and I believe using it with very long passwords/passphrases is acceptable.<p>Bear in mind that the author is looking to use this in open hotspots such as coffee shops etc. I would not advise that people implement this.<p>As the author points out, there are a number of vulnerabilities in PPTP, the most serious of which is that the initiation protocol is susceptible to an offline brute force attack using tools like asleap[1].<p>To be clear, the attacker does not need a rogue access point, nor association with an access point for this to work. They can just passively sniff away, then at some point later go through the pcaps, crack it offline and do what they want. There's an episode of Hak5[2] covering this as well as this useful straight to the point video of asleep and THC pptp-bruter[3]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.willhackforsushi.com/Asleap.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.willhackforsushi.com/Asleap.html</a>
[2] <a href="http://revision3.com/hak5/asleap" rel="nofollow">http://revision3.com/hak5/asleap</a>
[3] <a href="http://blip.tv/g0tmi1k/cracking-vpns-asleap-and-thc-pptp-bruter-3375795" rel="nofollow">http://blip.tv/g0tmi1k/cracking-vpns-asleap-and-thc-pptp-bru...</a><p>The solution is to use L2TP and IPSec if you can and aren't jailbreaking, or to use a TLS VPN if you have jailbroken or don't have iDevices.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secure your browsing using a home VPN</title><url>http://sriramk.com/blog/2011/08/ddwrt-pptp-vpn.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>hilbert42</author><text><i>&quot;Right, it&#x27;s outrageously absurd Moriarty asked, &quot;How old was your daughter when you came in here?&quot;<p>&quot;Seven weeks old,&quot; he replied.<p>&quot;So, you&#x27;ve missed watching her grow up?&quot;<p>&quot;Every bit of it.&quot;<p>&quot;How old is she now?&quot;<p>&quot;She just turned 43.&quot;<p>But an apology, even from the prosecutor, is all he gets, Strickland is still in prison.&quot;</i><p>This is fucking terrible. It brought tears to my eyes as it&#x27;s both horrific and so tragic. It&#x27;s no wonder that much of the world looks on <i>American Justice</i> with much askance and suspicion in that its implementation of &#x27;justice&#x27; is so hypocritically at odds with stated American values—and even the Constitution. One wonders why so many American citizens actually tolerate this situation and do so little about it.<p>For heaven&#x27;s sake why aren&#x27;t people on the streets protesting for change?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cududa</author><text>Wait to have your mind blown further. In Missouri if you’re exonerated for a crime via someone else pleading guilty, DNA, etc and have used up all your appeals you still have to serve out your sentence, even if it’s life in prison <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-peopl...</a></text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>The last line in this article is the most insane one of them all.<p>&gt; ... Bento, who did not respond to a request for comment, said officials in that office had instructed him not to hand over any documents related to Castleberry’s 2006 drug case, including all records filed after May 2017 that actually pertained to Spriestersbach.<p>&gt; Spriestersbach was not entitled to the documents, officials said.<p>&gt; <i>The reason: He was not the defendant in that case. He was not Thomas Castleberry.</i><p>They are saying he is not allowed to get the documents for the case <i>which he was the main suspect and subsequently hospitalized for</i> since the documents for the case is for the other person. Even though it happened to him and not the other person. I&#x27;m dumbfounded.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>javiramos</author><text>Heartbreaking. The US criminal justice system is a shame.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cududa</author><text>Wait to have your mind blown further. In Missouri if you’re exonerated for a crime via someone else pleading guilty, DNA, etc and have used up all your appeals you still have to serve out your sentence, even if it’s life in prison <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-peopl...</a></text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>The last line in this article is the most insane one of them all.<p>&gt; ... Bento, who did not respond to a request for comment, said officials in that office had instructed him not to hand over any documents related to Castleberry’s 2006 drug case, including all records filed after May 2017 that actually pertained to Spriestersbach.<p>&gt; Spriestersbach was not entitled to the documents, officials said.<p>&gt; <i>The reason: He was not the defendant in that case. He was not Thomas Castleberry.</i><p>They are saying he is not allowed to get the documents for the case <i>which he was the main suspect and subsequently hospitalized for</i> since the documents for the case is for the other person. Even though it happened to him and not the other person. I&#x27;m dumbfounded.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>caconym_</author><text>I&#x27;ve practically stopped hearing about Tesla in the news, which must mean they&#x27;re doing great. Great job, Tesla folks!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q3-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samfisher83</author><text>In the last 4 quarters Tesla has delivered 271,521 model 3s. That would make it about the 12th best selling car in america. That is about as many escapes ford has sold. That is pretty phenomenal.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q3-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Shank</author><text>(Context: Using ChromeOS)<p>The biggest flaw I see in this (and in several alternatives suggested below) is that it doesn&#x27;t support native browser spell check because it uses Ace (and in the case of alternatives, they do text rendering that isn&#x27;t native and isn&#x27;t detected as text). I use Markdown for taking outline based notes - and one of the biggest stopgaps is that I can spell check my work to make sure I&#x27;m not screwing up my own notes as I type during a lecture.<p>In that regard, the only thing I&#x27;ve found that meets this criteria isn&#x27;t a Markdown editor, it&#x27;s Writebox -- <a href="https://write-box.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write-box.appspot.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>StackEdit: A free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown</title><url>http://benweet.github.io/stackedit/#</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nathancahill</author><text>Very slick. Nice touch adding the delay between scrolling and moving the other page. Your logo looks like StackOverflow&#x27;s, is there a relationship between the two? Otherwise I&#x27;d consider changing it.<p>Also, the save&#x2F;download buttons (the first thing I look for in an app like this) are hidden behind a sliding panel. Move them front and center!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>StackEdit: A free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown</title><url>http://benweet.github.io/stackedit/#</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fleddr</author><text>Fully agree with you. I believe a few years ago there was research stating that roughly speaking, 70K per year (in spending) is the happiness threshold.<p>Any spending above it leads to no, marginal, or only temporary extra happiness.<p>I put that bar far lower, personally. We already have the stuff we need and don&#x27;t enjoy shopping. We&#x27;re basically stuck at a particular spending level whilst income grows over time. Saving a large portion of our income is effortless, and not at all a sacrifice of quality of life.<p>The secret to life is to not want so much. It makes life so much easier and better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway-8c93</author><text>I&#x27;m one of those that save&#x2F;invest 70% of their take-home income. It&#x27;s not about frugality at all - I would gladly pay for an increased quality of life - but it&#x27;s simply not on offer.
Past a certain threshold, a threshold well within the reach of western upper-middle-class households, the exchange rate between money and the quality of life becomes essentially zero.
What&#x27;s left are pointless status seeking games, scams and useless trinkets. The Bible&#x27;s Book of Ecclesiastes describes it poignantly:<p>&gt; I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure[...] Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun</text></item><item><author>jstx1</author><text>At some point the question is - &quot;is it really worth it?&quot; Sure, if you save 10-20% on a regular basis, you&#x27;re just being prudent. But if you go out of your way to save 50-80% of your income and lower your quality of life significantly, just so you can have more money in your investment account, or so you can not go to work (but still live that same extremely restrictive lifestyle)... it really doesn&#x27;t seem worth it to me. But some people obviously disagree.</text></item><item><author>mmcconnell1618</author><text>The model described in the book does work. Spend less than you make, invest the excess in long term assets that have compounding interest rates above the inflation rate. It does produce millionaires. It also requires tremendous discipline over a long period of time. The math is relatively simple, the behavior is not.<p>While the millionaire described in the story had $8 million in assets, you will find almost no one &quot;next door&quot; with 10 to 100 million or a 1 billion. That level of wealth requires a return on investment that can&#x27;t be achieved using the earn and save model. It usually requires creating&#x2F;controlling an assets that can grow in value many orders of magnitude faster than the stock market (real estate, businesses, intellectual property).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-death-of-the-millionaire-next-door-dream-20150310-column.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>bradlys</author><text>You must live in a LCOL and&#x2F;or make an extremely high amount of money and&#x2F;or like to live an unusually low quality of life for your income.<p>Saving 70% of your take-home in some place like the SFBA is saying you&#x27;re an extremely high earner and&#x2F;or you really like studio apartments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway-8c93</author><text>I&#x27;m one of those that save&#x2F;invest 70% of their take-home income. It&#x27;s not about frugality at all - I would gladly pay for an increased quality of life - but it&#x27;s simply not on offer.
Past a certain threshold, a threshold well within the reach of western upper-middle-class households, the exchange rate between money and the quality of life becomes essentially zero.
What&#x27;s left are pointless status seeking games, scams and useless trinkets. The Bible&#x27;s Book of Ecclesiastes describes it poignantly:<p>&gt; I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure[...] Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun</text></item><item><author>jstx1</author><text>At some point the question is - &quot;is it really worth it?&quot; Sure, if you save 10-20% on a regular basis, you&#x27;re just being prudent. But if you go out of your way to save 50-80% of your income and lower your quality of life significantly, just so you can have more money in your investment account, or so you can not go to work (but still live that same extremely restrictive lifestyle)... it really doesn&#x27;t seem worth it to me. But some people obviously disagree.</text></item><item><author>mmcconnell1618</author><text>The model described in the book does work. Spend less than you make, invest the excess in long term assets that have compounding interest rates above the inflation rate. It does produce millionaires. It also requires tremendous discipline over a long period of time. The math is relatively simple, the behavior is not.<p>While the millionaire described in the story had $8 million in assets, you will find almost no one &quot;next door&quot; with 10 to 100 million or a 1 billion. That level of wealth requires a return on investment that can&#x27;t be achieved using the earn and save model. It usually requires creating&#x2F;controlling an assets that can grow in value many orders of magnitude faster than the stock market (real estate, businesses, intellectual property).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-death-of-the-millionaire-next-door-dream-20150310-column.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>mhitza</author><text>I literally chuckled when I saw the screenshot at the end with the bots reply and read the authors comment &quot;(totally made up URL, not even our domain)&quot;.<p>If it&#x27;s something that augments the support experience, as in something you can interact with while a real person is assigned to your support request, I&#x27;m totally fine with that. But if anyone places this as the first line of support, with no way of reaching a real person, I can&#x27;t wish them the best.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Prompt engineering DaVinci-003 on our own docs for automated support (Part I)</title><url>https://www.patterns.app/blog/2022/12/21/finetune-llm-tech-support/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PetrBrzyBrzek</author><text>“Fine-tune our model (OpenAIs GPT-3 davinci-003 engine)”<p>I think there is a mistake in the article. It is not possible to do fine-tuning for the latest davinci-text-003, but only for the original davinci model, which generates much worse results.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Prompt engineering DaVinci-003 on our own docs for automated support (Part I)</title><url>https://www.patterns.app/blog/2022/12/21/finetune-llm-tech-support/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mjfern</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see a founder CEO (Hamdi Ulukaya) making a bold ethical move like this to support his employees. It&#x27;s not flashy or earth shaking, but it&#x27;s very real and it will definitely change many lives for the better.<p>This story reminds me tangentially of the time when Hewlett and Packard, when faced with a downturn at HP, decided to cut pay across the board so the company could avoid layoffs. Once HP recovered, I&#x27;m assuming they reinstated previous salary levels and then some. HP then benefited from a highly committed and skilled workforce who deeply respected their leaders and company.<p>Unfortunately, these stories reflect the (very rare) exception and not the rule. Today, we&#x27;re much more likely to see CEOs and executive teams earning (multiple) millions in salary and options, all the while they are outsourcing jobs, implementing layoffs, converting full-time jobs to contract and part-time jobs, and so on. These CEOs are extracting as much wealth as they can, at the expense of their employees.<p>We desperately need more ethical, bold leaders like Ulukaya, Hewlett, and Packard who are going to shape the future of business; a future that is kinder, compassionate, and community-minded.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>At Chobani, Now It’s Not Just the Yogurt That’s Rich</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/business/a-windfall-for-chobani-employees-stakes-in-the-company.html?_r=0</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewfong</author><text>&gt; But unlike many of those tech companies, Mr. Ulukaya is giving his employees a piece of the company after its value is firmly established.<p>I wonder how they set this up tax-wise. Stock grants are income, even before you sell. In tech companies, you typically get the stock when it&#x27;s super cheap, so the tax hit is minimal. But here, since the value&#x27;s pretty firmly established, the employee is potentially on the hook for quite a bit. And depending on the details of the grant, it may not be possible for employees to sell off their stock to pay taxes.<p>There are several ways to solve this. The employees could be getting options (set up so taxes are deferred until they exercise). Or the company could just eat the tax themselves. But kind of curious which route they took.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>At Chobani, Now It’s Not Just the Yogurt That’s Rich</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/business/a-windfall-for-chobani-employees-stakes-in-the-company.html?_r=0</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>soyiuz</author><text>Whoa, I cannot disagree more with the premise and the conclusions of the author.<p>Exploration is absolutely one of the key goals of data visualization. Tukey&#x27;s insight was two-fold: First, that statistics puts too much emphasis on confirmation but not enough on systematic exploration of a data set. Too often researchers do not understand their data. They bring their own biases and preconceived notions, where they should be listening to the data.<p>Second, too often is visualization mistaken for confirmation. A curious pattern or an outlier may just be an artifact of the layout algorithm. The &quot;find&quot; part of visualization should happen through mathematical insight. Graphics can at best describe the underlying mathematical reality but no more. One cannot strictly speaking &quot;find&quot; anything, only form intuitions or illustrate already proven insights.<p>Perhaps the author&#x27;s difficulty in evaluating his students work lies not in the exploration part of their assignments, but in his own pedagogic emphasis on &quot;tools,&quot; &quot;frameworks,&quot; and &quot;users.&quot; None of those things are relevant to data visualization as such. They might be goals for a business built around data visualization (to produce tools, or to identify user needs). A university should offer more than job training. Those interested in users and in &quot;what one gets paid for&quot; would do better in an internship or at a more narrowly technical trade school.<p>I don&#x27;t know how &quot;finding&quot; is any more of a goal for data visualization than &quot;exploring.&quot; Data visualizations tell stories. They often support the first and the last step in data analysis: the exploratory phase and the presentation of findings. They are inherently subjective, evocative, concise, artful.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Banning exploration in my infovis class</title><url>https://medium.com/@eytanadar/banning-exploration-in-my-infovis-class-9578676a4705</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>Great article and applicable to way more than just infovis.<p>&gt; In denying the student the ability to frame their main task as exploration, they are forced to concede that what they want to find is not what their end-user may be looking for and then: (a) engage with their client or “create” a reasonable one with real tasks and decisions, (b) understand the data and tasks much more deeply, and (c) identify good validation strategies (no more insights!).<p>&gt; Maybe this is obvious, but when I started teaching I thought that being more open-ended about what I allowed was better. That somehow it would lead to more diverse, cool, weird, and novel projects. In some ways that’s true, but as I’ve argued elsewhere, teaching infovis is itself a wicked design problem.<p>Its not just infovis, I think this is a good teaching idea in a very broad sense. Reading other people&#x27;s writing nowadays, people are apt to be very lazy with their language and this by consequence makes them lazy with their ideas. Infovis should ban &quot;exploration.&quot; Architecture should ban &quot;modern.&quot; Career centers doing resume reviews should definitely ban &quot;utilize.&quot; I&#x27;m sure every field has such tropes that are maybe useful in the real world sometimes, but make for quite lazy school projects.<p>In fact I think he may be going a little overkill in justifying his ban on &quot;exploration&quot;. He doesn&#x27;t need to talk about weighing the pro&#x2F;con here, if before he had a paucity and now he has a multiplicity of interesting student results, he&#x27;s won and they&#x27;ve won. &quot;Surprise&quot; be damned. The kids can buy lotto tickets if they want to be surprised by big data.<p>For being so simple, restricting the common and obvious in classrooms is probably an underrated technique. This is widely done in photography classes, disallowing students from doing certain things, like making them only use film for a while, so they really have to frame photos and can&#x27;t just snap 1000 and &quot;discover&quot; one good one, or restrict to annoyingly wide prime lenses on an assignment to take some good portraits, etc. These constraints, even though they are constraints, greatly reduce the samey-ness of results and make the students engage their brains.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Banning exploration in my infovis class</title><url>https://medium.com/@eytanadar/banning-exploration-in-my-infovis-class-9578676a4705</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>To latch on to this comment, I found <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boringtechnology.club&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boringtechnology.club&#x2F;</a> to be a really good resource; mostly the slides in the middle somewhere that explain that adding more technologies = cost. It&#x27;s important to say no, to put a hold on people&#x27;s enthusiasm for new tech in favor of sticking to a tech stack, and that adding more tech, or shifting tech, is very expensive. Rebuilding an application will likely cost more than the original application cost in the first place. Etc.<p>But I admit, it&#x27;s a hard balance to find; you want to choose boring technology for your business, but for hiring you want to choose exciting, new technology because people generally don&#x27;t want to work with boring tech when they&#x27;re looking for a new job.<p>On that note, keep in mind that you will likely also be a project manager and responsible for hiring and &#x2F; or indicating that your company needs to hire people. You have been empowered, it&#x27;s up to you to push to your management to make investments in e.g. hiring, training, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KaiserPro</author><text>Congrats!<p>1) learn to say no<p>2) learn to make simple enforcable short, medium and longterm goals (ie, everyone must be on platform x by november)<p>3) learn to listen<p>4) learn to love small incremental changes rather than big bang<p>why say no? because you&#x27;ll be bombarded by brilliant solutions. On their own will be great, but in your environment will be tech debt. Or you&#x27;ll be asked to allow team x to use a new widget, instead of the old one. But then team z will want to use a different new widget to do the same thing.<p>Clear goals that we widely communicated allow normal people to make design decisions autonomously. It can really remove the need for constant daily updates and information overload (for you)<p>Some of the best insight into a product or thing will come from a junior whos only just joined. Make sure you have regular contact with all the teams, if only to steal ideas.<p>Large changes almost always fail. smaller incremental changes always feel less thrilling, but when you look back over a year, they will accomplish a lot more. Plus its far easier to course correct.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: I've been promoted to Architect. What do I need to learn/do to excel?</title><text>My company had some lateral movement which, somewhat surprisingly, resulted in me being promoted to &quot;Lead Architect&quot;. It&#x27;s just a fancy title because we don&#x27;t have any other designated software architects. There was, in any case, technical responsibility that needed to be redistributed, so that&#x27;s what happened, and titles shifted accordingly.<p>In the past, I had used my training budget for software architecture certifications, which was met positively by my team lead and management.<p>While I _wanted_ to take on that role _eventually_, I was surprised to have it happen so early. What are the things I need to learn ASAP? What things do I need to do? What should I study&#x2F;read?</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>benjaminjosephw</author><text>Learning to love incremental change is great advice. The challenge that comes with that is being able to &quot;sell&quot; those changes.<p>Big Bang changes have obvious benefits but the individual incremental states often don&#x27;t justify the change by themselves. You have to become really good at selling the overall vision while also keeping people focused on the short term objectives. Holding the two in balance is a really tricky thing to do but, I think, represents the core value of a good architect: they are the navigators who can describe the destination but can also describe the next turn to take to get us there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KaiserPro</author><text>Congrats!<p>1) learn to say no<p>2) learn to make simple enforcable short, medium and longterm goals (ie, everyone must be on platform x by november)<p>3) learn to listen<p>4) learn to love small incremental changes rather than big bang<p>why say no? because you&#x27;ll be bombarded by brilliant solutions. On their own will be great, but in your environment will be tech debt. Or you&#x27;ll be asked to allow team x to use a new widget, instead of the old one. But then team z will want to use a different new widget to do the same thing.<p>Clear goals that we widely communicated allow normal people to make design decisions autonomously. It can really remove the need for constant daily updates and information overload (for you)<p>Some of the best insight into a product or thing will come from a junior whos only just joined. Make sure you have regular contact with all the teams, if only to steal ideas.<p>Large changes almost always fail. smaller incremental changes always feel less thrilling, but when you look back over a year, they will accomplish a lot more. Plus its far easier to course correct.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: I've been promoted to Architect. What do I need to learn/do to excel?</title><text>My company had some lateral movement which, somewhat surprisingly, resulted in me being promoted to &quot;Lead Architect&quot;. It&#x27;s just a fancy title because we don&#x27;t have any other designated software architects. There was, in any case, technical responsibility that needed to be redistributed, so that&#x27;s what happened, and titles shifted accordingly.<p>In the past, I had used my training budget for software architecture certifications, which was met positively by my team lead and management.<p>While I _wanted_ to take on that role _eventually_, I was surprised to have it happen so early. What are the things I need to learn ASAP? What things do I need to do? What should I study&#x2F;read?</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>salawat</author><text>&gt;How do you set out to tackle loneliness or isolation?<p>Not having your media contributing to hyper-polarization of your populace through algorithm enforced bubbling, or riling them up through fear mongering helps. Lack of public works may also be a contributing factor. One thing I will say for the Great Depression&#x2F;New Deal generation: they didn&#x27;t have anywhere near the isolation issues our generation seems to grapple with.<p>&gt; How do you help prevent alcohol or drug addiction? What are the reasons that people become addicted to drugs or alcohol?<p>Inability to escape or alter their situation except by altered mental state. Get people something they can constructively do (and fairly pay then for their time) and it&#x27;s amazing how positive coping skills materialize.<p>For those with non-economic contributing factors, a big part of it seems to be social enablement, removing them from the stressor, etc... Which a robust framework of social services may help more with as long as you don&#x27;t start trying to turn reaching out into a life tainting thing (no publically available by default records for info brokers to suck up that would adversely effect future prospects).<p>Also, unironically, a better justice system, post-release process.<p>These aren&#x27;t hard. Just not terribly popular, due to the fact you have to pay people to help other people improve their lot. Or literally just inspect to make sure people are effectively using resources available to get their stuff straight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>&gt; improve mental health<p>I think that this is a poor target. How do you set out directly targeting mental health? What are the biggest causes of mental health issues?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;mentalhealth&#x2F;learn&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;mentalhealth&#x2F;learn&#x2F;index.htm</a><p>CDC lists causes such as childhood trauma, trauma from medical issues, biological factors, alcohol or drugs, and loneliness or isolation.<p>How do you set out to tackle loneliness or isolation? How do you help prevent alcohol or drug addiction? What are the reasons that people become addicted to drugs or alcohol?<p>&gt; Use and misuse of alcohol, nicotine, and illicit drugs, and misuse of prescription drugs cost Americans more than $700 billion a year in increased health care costs, crime, and lost productivity.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;drugs-brains-behavior-science-addiction&#x2F;introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;drugs-brains-behavior...</a><p>&gt; Some must cope with the early loss of a parent, violence, or sexual abuse. While not everyone who faces these stresses develops a mood disorder — in fact, most do not — stress plays an important role in depression.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&#x2F;mind-and-mood&#x2F;what-causes-depression" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&#x2F;mind-and-mood&#x2F;what-causes-dep...</a><p>This is a big interconnected problem. My point is that just giving directly to mental health resources rings hollow. A tougher holistic approach needs to examine why American society just plain sucks for so many people. Why do people want to kill themselves or others? Why does life suck so much for so many? We have a rotten system and drug addiction&#x2F;gun violence&#x2F;suicide are symptoms and not causes.<p>My 2 rambling cents.</text></item><item><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; So you have all this talk of &quot;bump stocks&quot; and &quot;ghost guns&quot; and &quot;assault weapons&quot; and whatnot, but it&#x27;s all just smoke and mirrors to assuage fears. The goal isn&#x27;t to save lives. The goal is to assuage fears. I don&#x27;t take any gun policy seriously that purports to save lives if it isn&#x27;t focused on handguns and suicides.<p>It&#x27;s also politics. If you actually wanted to solve the problem, well, like two thirds of US firearms fatalities are suicides. So a real solution is going to look like &quot;improve mental health&quot; and not &quot;restrict who can buy a gun&quot; or else you&#x27;re only going to be diverting people to other methods of suicide, or keeping people &quot;alive&quot; but still in such a precarious mental state that the only thing preventing them from taking their own life is access to an effective means. Neither of which is actually acceptable.<p>But from a political perspective, proposing useless gun restrictions makes the other team have to spend political capital to oppose them, because even if they&#x27;re completely ineffective at their stated purpose, they upset or inconvenience the other team&#x27;s constituents. Which seems to be the goal of modern US politics.</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths<p>It would be a highly controversial dashboard, I guarantee it, likely unpopular with both political parties.<p>The problem is that assuaging fear is often more important (to irrational people) than saving lives.<p>For example, guns. <i>Very</i> few people die because of mass shootings. Your chances of dying in a mass shooting are virtually nil. Yet, every time one happens there&#x27;s a big frenzy to enact anti-gun policies. So you have all this talk of &quot;bump stocks&quot; and &quot;ghost guns&quot; and &quot;assault weapons&quot; and whatnot, but it&#x27;s all just smoke and mirrors to assuage fears. The goal isn&#x27;t to save lives. The goal is to assuage fears. I don&#x27;t take any gun policy seriously that purports to save lives if it isn&#x27;t focused on handguns and suicides.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths. We are just so terrible at evaluating risk, for some reason it is OK to waste everyone&#x27;s time with over the top security to stop a tiny portion of terrorism deaths, while still being OK with high speed limits that kill thousands of people per year. Not that I&#x27;m advocating for lower speed limits, just that there is a contradiction here.<p>I bet that if instead of having people go through security at sporting events, you had them all do 20 push ups, you&#x27;d save more people from dying of heart disease than would die of terrorism.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?</title><url>https://www.ocregister.com/2021/09/07/20-years-after-9-11-will-we-ever-stop-taking-our-shoes-off-at-airports/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lolwut9654</author><text>Have you tried doing more than nothing?<p>On many occasions in the past, I’ve found that doing anything often works better than doing nothing, like the US usually advocates.<p>Turns out that there are no perfect solutions, but there are a lot of partial solutions that in aggregate add up to the mental health the rest of the developed world has.</text><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>&gt; improve mental health<p>I think that this is a poor target. How do you set out directly targeting mental health? What are the biggest causes of mental health issues?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;mentalhealth&#x2F;learn&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;mentalhealth&#x2F;learn&#x2F;index.htm</a><p>CDC lists causes such as childhood trauma, trauma from medical issues, biological factors, alcohol or drugs, and loneliness or isolation.<p>How do you set out to tackle loneliness or isolation? How do you help prevent alcohol or drug addiction? What are the reasons that people become addicted to drugs or alcohol?<p>&gt; Use and misuse of alcohol, nicotine, and illicit drugs, and misuse of prescription drugs cost Americans more than $700 billion a year in increased health care costs, crime, and lost productivity.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;drugs-brains-behavior-science-addiction&#x2F;introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;drugs-brains-behavior...</a><p>&gt; Some must cope with the early loss of a parent, violence, or sexual abuse. While not everyone who faces these stresses develops a mood disorder — in fact, most do not — stress plays an important role in depression.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&#x2F;mind-and-mood&#x2F;what-causes-depression" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&#x2F;mind-and-mood&#x2F;what-causes-dep...</a><p>This is a big interconnected problem. My point is that just giving directly to mental health resources rings hollow. A tougher holistic approach needs to examine why American society just plain sucks for so many people. Why do people want to kill themselves or others? Why does life suck so much for so many? We have a rotten system and drug addiction&#x2F;gun violence&#x2F;suicide are symptoms and not causes.<p>My 2 rambling cents.</text></item><item><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; So you have all this talk of &quot;bump stocks&quot; and &quot;ghost guns&quot; and &quot;assault weapons&quot; and whatnot, but it&#x27;s all just smoke and mirrors to assuage fears. The goal isn&#x27;t to save lives. The goal is to assuage fears. I don&#x27;t take any gun policy seriously that purports to save lives if it isn&#x27;t focused on handguns and suicides.<p>It&#x27;s also politics. If you actually wanted to solve the problem, well, like two thirds of US firearms fatalities are suicides. So a real solution is going to look like &quot;improve mental health&quot; and not &quot;restrict who can buy a gun&quot; or else you&#x27;re only going to be diverting people to other methods of suicide, or keeping people &quot;alive&quot; but still in such a precarious mental state that the only thing preventing them from taking their own life is access to an effective means. Neither of which is actually acceptable.<p>But from a political perspective, proposing useless gun restrictions makes the other team have to spend political capital to oppose them, because even if they&#x27;re completely ineffective at their stated purpose, they upset or inconvenience the other team&#x27;s constituents. Which seems to be the goal of modern US politics.</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths<p>It would be a highly controversial dashboard, I guarantee it, likely unpopular with both political parties.<p>The problem is that assuaging fear is often more important (to irrational people) than saving lives.<p>For example, guns. <i>Very</i> few people die because of mass shootings. Your chances of dying in a mass shooting are virtually nil. Yet, every time one happens there&#x27;s a big frenzy to enact anti-gun policies. So you have all this talk of &quot;bump stocks&quot; and &quot;ghost guns&quot; and &quot;assault weapons&quot; and whatnot, but it&#x27;s all just smoke and mirrors to assuage fears. The goal isn&#x27;t to save lives. The goal is to assuage fears. I don&#x27;t take any gun policy seriously that purports to save lives if it isn&#x27;t focused on handguns and suicides.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths. We are just so terrible at evaluating risk, for some reason it is OK to waste everyone&#x27;s time with over the top security to stop a tiny portion of terrorism deaths, while still being OK with high speed limits that kill thousands of people per year. Not that I&#x27;m advocating for lower speed limits, just that there is a contradiction here.<p>I bet that if instead of having people go through security at sporting events, you had them all do 20 push ups, you&#x27;d save more people from dying of heart disease than would die of terrorism.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?</title><url>https://www.ocregister.com/2021/09/07/20-years-after-9-11-will-we-ever-stop-taking-our-shoes-off-at-airports/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newbamboo</author><text>You may win the arguments but you will lose the war. Please, as someone who understands the problem, do the planet a favor and learn about psychology too. Arguing with people is counter productive, as is shading the truth. Lastly, have the wisdom to know that you will not be able to change everyone’s thinking. There are people who think iPhones are secure and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise. Don’t tilt at windmills. Invest your energy towards finding solutions not arguing with the stupid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>headmelted</author><text>I had to explain this to a relative who started in with the “the earth has always had climate change” jibberish.<p>They tried to tell me no-one knows how the last Ice Age happened. So I explained, but because they didn’t understand any of the concepts involved they thought I was just making it up.<p>It’s a good reminder never to assume malice when plain old stupidity is on the table.</text></item><item><author>SigmundA</author><text>Most of the deniers I know have shifted from it doesn&#x27;t exist to either its not man made and just a natural cycle or it may actually be a good thing because plants like CO2 and warmth...</text></item><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>Who still believes global warming does not exist?<p>I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy&#x27;s Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US.<p>This book is almost quarter of century old.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>actually_a_dog</author><text>&gt; “the earth has always had climate change” jibberish.<p>This is the worst kind of bullshit, because it starts with something that&#x27;s technically true. Nobody is ever going to say the Earth&#x27;s climate hasn&#x27;t changed. Obviously, we&#x27;ve had ice ages and warmer periods. And, we&#x27;ve had CO2 concentrations much, much higher than today.<p>What we haven&#x27;t had until is human civilization, and the capability to affect the climate ourselves. But, that&#x27;s never going to impress someone who starts out their argument with &quot;but the Earth has <i>always</i> had climate change.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>headmelted</author><text>I had to explain this to a relative who started in with the “the earth has always had climate change” jibberish.<p>They tried to tell me no-one knows how the last Ice Age happened. So I explained, but because they didn’t understand any of the concepts involved they thought I was just making it up.<p>It’s a good reminder never to assume malice when plain old stupidity is on the table.</text></item><item><author>SigmundA</author><text>Most of the deniers I know have shifted from it doesn&#x27;t exist to either its not man made and just a natural cycle or it may actually be a good thing because plants like CO2 and warmth...</text></item><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>Who still believes global warming does not exist?<p>I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy&#x27;s Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US.<p>This book is almost quarter of century old.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record</url></story>
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The big difference, which you wouldn&#x27;t realize from pictures, is that the guts of all the old relay-based control systems had been ripped out, and the entire place was being run on a few racks of Delta-V automation controllers.<p>The also had an enormous data centre room in the admin building that had been knocked back to two sparsely populated racks from maybe 50 at its peak.<p>So much crufty and interesting tech at that place...VAX, AS&#x2F;400, Netware 4...and I could go on about the scale of the place (7 story tall boiler!)</text><parent_chain><item><author>_n_b_</author><text>The ones I can see that are clearly nuclear power plant control rooms really don&#x27;t look all that different than the Western designs of the same era. They don&#x27;t even look that different now in those plants, except for more computer screens (at the operator desks mostly, not necessarily many &quot;on the boards&quot;) and digital strip chart recorders.<p>The biggest difference I see is that the Soviet stuff clearly wasn&#x27;t seismically qualified.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)</title><url>https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trimbo</author><text>I just finished &quot;Midnight in Chernobyl&quot;. One of the things mentioned in there was that the automation for their RBMK reactors was primitive compared to Western reactors. Even for normal operation, the operators had to be hands on continually to keep those beasts under control.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_n_b_</author><text>The ones I can see that are clearly nuclear power plant control rooms really don&#x27;t look all that different than the Western designs of the same era. They don&#x27;t even look that different now in those plants, except for more computer screens (at the operator desks mostly, not necessarily many &quot;on the boards&quot;) and digital strip chart recorders.<p>The biggest difference I see is that the Soviet stuff clearly wasn&#x27;t seismically qualified.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)</title><url>https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>Yea, I&#x27;m a big believer in setting goals, and then taking the &quot;most likely&quot; path to get there. My career decision method (disclaimer: it might not work for you) boils down to this:<p>1. Estimate $X: how much $$$ investment do I need in order for my family to live off interest for Y years so I never work again? For me right now, $X is 5M and Y is 40 years.<p>2. What do I need to do right now in order to get closer to $X? Maybe it&#x27;s &quot;study computer engineering&quot;. Maybe it&#x27;s &quot;get a job in tech&quot;. Maybe it&#x27;s &quot;apply for a FAANG company&quot;. Maybe it&#x27;s &quot;Go for promo&quot;. Maybe it&#x27;s &quot;Add more to my retirement savings&quot;. Maybe it&#x27;s even &quot;Change my entire fucking career, I&#x27;m at a dead end.&quot; Whatever it is will be different for whatever stage of life I&#x27;m at.<p>3. If not at $X, GOTO 1.<p>4. Retire and do whatever I really want to do with my life.<p>That&#x27;s pretty much it for my state machine. I wish I figured this out in my 20s--if I did, I&#x27;d be much closer to step 4 than I am now in my 40s.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thrav</author><text>Yeah, this is a popular saying, but couldn’t be further from the truth for the most successful people.<p>Generally, they begin with an end in mind. It’s a lot easier to get where you’re going if you know where that is.<p>Or, as the Cheshire Cat says to Alice, “Which way should I go?” “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t much care.” “Then it doesn’t really matter.” (Abridged)</text></item><item><author>dvtrn</author><text>I felt that way about my own life. Still so sometimes. Though far, far less than I used to, and feeling noticeably less anxiety about it previously.<p>A Relevant bit of reading, I think, I hope: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>seppin</author><text>Exactly, everyone acts like there is some grand plan&#x2F;design to all decision making. Everyone is just winging it.</text></item><item><author>Gunax</author><text>I don&#x27;t think a lot of people know what they want. There is just as much guessing as to which job to take as employers have choosing who to hire.<p>Taking the most prestigious or most compensation is the safest bet, given that you don&#x27;t really know what you want to do other than &#x27;I like coding and interesting problems&#x27;.<p>Partly I think that Harvard students have been adapted to seek prestige (else they probably wouldn&#x27;t be there), but I also think the author is missing that it isn&#x27;t so much a drive for prestige, but just a lack of other goals for which to substitute.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting</title><url>https://wesdesilvestro.com/the-prestige-trap</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dvtrn</author><text><i>Yeah, this is a popular saying, but couldn’t be further from the truth for the most successful people.</i><p>Probably. What about the rest of us who aren&#x27;t really looking to those people for any kind of framework? Part of the whole &quot;thinking there&#x27;s a grand narrative&quot; that caused me anxiety was trying to model after all of these &quot;successful&quot; people, what they were doing, and realizing I wasn&#x27;t any happier for it.<p>Lately, what&#x27;s brought me a lot of calm wasn&#x27;t the chase of an &quot;end state&quot; (so to speak) but more optimizing my path. That, personally, and only speaking personally has been INFINITELY more rewarding.<p>If that&#x27;s the &quot;it&quot; factor, then so be it ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>thrav</author><text>Yeah, this is a popular saying, but couldn’t be further from the truth for the most successful people.<p>Generally, they begin with an end in mind. It’s a lot easier to get where you’re going if you know where that is.<p>Or, as the Cheshire Cat says to Alice, “Which way should I go?” “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t much care.” “Then it doesn’t really matter.” (Abridged)</text></item><item><author>dvtrn</author><text>I felt that way about my own life. Still so sometimes. Though far, far less than I used to, and feeling noticeably less anxiety about it previously.<p>A Relevant bit of reading, I think, I hope: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fs.blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>seppin</author><text>Exactly, everyone acts like there is some grand plan&#x2F;design to all decision making. Everyone is just winging it.</text></item><item><author>Gunax</author><text>I don&#x27;t think a lot of people know what they want. There is just as much guessing as to which job to take as employers have choosing who to hire.<p>Taking the most prestigious or most compensation is the safest bet, given that you don&#x27;t really know what you want to do other than &#x27;I like coding and interesting problems&#x27;.<p>Partly I think that Harvard students have been adapted to seek prestige (else they probably wouldn&#x27;t be there), but I also think the author is missing that it isn&#x27;t so much a drive for prestige, but just a lack of other goals for which to substitute.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting</title><url>https://wesdesilvestro.com/the-prestige-trap</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m just missing something, but is there no way to deal with arrays? You know, like looping through data and displaying things for each of them? (also related: what about looping through Object.keys()?)<p>What about dates? And data parsing&#x2F;formatting in general?<p>Those are kind of important for a bi-directional bindings library. Remember that the Javascript data is usually the canonical data and the displayed data is derived from it, not the other way around.<p>If you want to compare w&#x2F; Knockout&#x2F;Angular&#x2F;etc then there&#x27;s even more stuff that could be considered as &quot;missing&quot; (e.g. condiditionals, partials&#x2F;components, how-do-i-use-select2-with-it, etc). One could argue those are out of scope for a lightweight library, but then again, I think this library has too many dependencies for something that advertises itself as &quot;lightweight&quot;.<p>My own framework Mithril ( <a href="http://lhorie.github.io/mithril" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lhorie.github.io&#x2F;mithril</a> ) for example is ~5kb gzipped, has no dependencies, and allows you to do quite a bit more in terms of templating and data binding.<p>Incidentally, I wrote a article a while back about how two-way binding isn&#x27;t even always the best answer to your questions, and that there are often better ways to update javascript data from forms: <a href="http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/asymmetrical-data-bindings.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lhorie.github.io&#x2F;mithril-blog&#x2F;asymmetrical-data-bindi...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding</title><url>http://gwendall.github.io/way/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sleepyhead</author><text>Why use invalid &#x27;way-data&#x27;-attributes when there is data-attributes?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding</title><url>http://gwendall.github.io/way/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>One of the best talks I had was a two hour discussion of this very topic with John Walecka. John had invested in Freegate and we were discussing risks and why things failed.<p>He helped me understand both the concept of &#x27;stacking risk&#x27; (where the startup is taking on more unknowns than it should) and &#x27;over burning&#x27; where a startup attempts to hire itself into shortening its schedule which not only fails but exhausts needed capital.<p>To this day I never hire an engineer if I cannot write down EXACTLY what they will be working on and how it will help the schedule. Even if they are a &quot;super star&quot;, if I don&#x27;t have something for them to do that will check off things that are currently on the path to the next milestone, no offer.<p>Whenever I&#x27;ve watched over hiring from inside or outside it tends to end badly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>twmahna</author><text>Worth noting that the proximate cause of death is often times largely uninformative as to why the startup actually failed.<p>Most failed startups fit into the following timeline:
was burning more money than it was making =&gt;
failed at raising more money =&gt;
did a round of layoffs &#x2F; cost cuts to get economics under control =&gt;
couldn&#x27;t right the ship and shut down &#x2F; did a fire sale or acquihire<p>But, the above timeline doesn&#x27;t teach you much about why the company really failed. The real answer almost always involves a multitude of contributing factors, and requires intimate knowledge of the startup&#x27;s business.<p>For the most part, the only reliable source for this type of information is one of the founders, board members, or (sometimes but not always) c-level execs. And, even then, they have to be willing to be vulnerable (which is very rare).<p>If I could give some advice to Failory, it would be to think about how you can incentivize founders to share their stories. As it stands, they have little to gain and potentially a lot to lose (e.g. being labeled one of YC&#x27;s &quot;biggest failures&quot;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator Failed Startups</title><url>https://www.failory.com/blog/y-combinator-failures</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>new_realist</author><text>Most startups fail. I don’t think most founders have the acumen to really know the full story of their own failure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>twmahna</author><text>Worth noting that the proximate cause of death is often times largely uninformative as to why the startup actually failed.<p>Most failed startups fit into the following timeline:
was burning more money than it was making =&gt;
failed at raising more money =&gt;
did a round of layoffs &#x2F; cost cuts to get economics under control =&gt;
couldn&#x27;t right the ship and shut down &#x2F; did a fire sale or acquihire<p>But, the above timeline doesn&#x27;t teach you much about why the company really failed. The real answer almost always involves a multitude of contributing factors, and requires intimate knowledge of the startup&#x27;s business.<p>For the most part, the only reliable source for this type of information is one of the founders, board members, or (sometimes but not always) c-level execs. And, even then, they have to be willing to be vulnerable (which is very rare).<p>If I could give some advice to Failory, it would be to think about how you can incentivize founders to share their stories. As it stands, they have little to gain and potentially a lot to lose (e.g. being labeled one of YC&#x27;s &quot;biggest failures&quot;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Y Combinator Failed Startups</title><url>https://www.failory.com/blog/y-combinator-failures</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Youden</author><text>I agree with the sentiment but based on the text of the ruling, I can&#x27;t agree with the ruling itself [0]. Missing from your summary is:<p>- &quot;The applicant, Violeta-Sibianca Lăcătuş, is a Romanian national who was born in 1992 and lives in Bistrita-Nasaud (Romania).&quot;<p>- &quot;In 2011 Ms Lăcătuş, who was unable to find work, began asking for charity in Geneva.&quot;<p>Why was somebody who &quot;lives in&quot; Romania begging in Geneva? Would she not have received social benefits in Romania? This looks like a perverse kind of tourism. Refugees and asylum seekers I can understand but Romania isn&#x27;t a warzone or dictatorship, it&#x27;s an EU member state.<p>And I think &quot;decriminalizes begging&quot; is a bit hyperbolic. The court did set some precedent but they were also clear that a critical factor in the ruling was that this woman was in a situation where she genuinely needed to beg in order to survive.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hudoc.echr.coe.int&#x2F;app&#x2F;conversion&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;?library=ECHR&amp;id=003-6910043-9279633&amp;filename=Judgment%20Lacatus%20v.%20Switzerland%20-%20sanction%20imposed%20for%20begging%20on%20the%20public%20highway%20violated%20the%20Convention.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hudoc.echr.coe.int&#x2F;app&#x2F;conversion&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;?library=ECHR&amp;...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Related news: European Court of Human Rights just made important ruling that decriminalizes begging. Making it criminal to be poor is against human rights.<p>-----<p>ECHR 021 (2021)<p>19.01.2021<p>(Judgment Lacatus v. Switzerland)<p>The penalty imposed on the applicant for begging in public breached the Convention<p>In today’s Chamber judgment 1 in the case of Lăcătuşv. Switzerland (application no. 14065&#x2F;15) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been:<p>a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)of the European Convention on Human Rights.<p>The case concerned an order for the applicant to pay a fine of 500 Swiss francs (CHF) (approximately 464 euros (EUR)) for begging in public in Geneva, and her detention in a remand prison for five days for failure to pay the fine.<p>The Court observed that the applicant, who was illiterate and came from an extremely poor family, had no work and was not in receipt of social benefits. Begging constituted a means of survival for her. Being in a clearly vulnerable situation, the applicant had had the right, inherent in human dignity, to be able to convey her plight and attempt to meet her basic needs by begging.<p>The Court considered that the penalty imposed on the applicant had not been proportionate either to the aim of combating organised crime or to the aim of protecting the rights of passers-by, residents and shopkeepers.<p>The Court did not subscribe to the Federal Court’s argument that less restrictive measures would not have achieved a comparable result.In the Court’s view, the penalty imposed had infringed the applicant’s human dignity and impaired the very essence of the rights protected by Article 8 of the Convention, and the State had thus overstepped its margin of appreciation in the present case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/12/18/finland-has-slashed-homelessness-the-rest-of-europe-is-failing</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usr1106</author><text>That sounds like a reasonable decision.<p>After all advertisement is nothing but begging to increase the profit of the advertiser. If I really need to buy something, I&#x27;m sure I can do so without advertisement.<p>Advertisement, be it some marketing phone call, someone offering me whatever subscription on the corridor of the mall, and ads making my phone browsing experience super slow are a much bigger nuisance to me than beggars.<p>The amount of various form of soliticing might vary where you live. But forbidding everything that&#x27;s a nuisance to someone won&#x27;t be the solution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Related news: European Court of Human Rights just made important ruling that decriminalizes begging. Making it criminal to be poor is against human rights.<p>-----<p>ECHR 021 (2021)<p>19.01.2021<p>(Judgment Lacatus v. Switzerland)<p>The penalty imposed on the applicant for begging in public breached the Convention<p>In today’s Chamber judgment 1 in the case of Lăcătuşv. Switzerland (application no. 14065&#x2F;15) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been:<p>a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)of the European Convention on Human Rights.<p>The case concerned an order for the applicant to pay a fine of 500 Swiss francs (CHF) (approximately 464 euros (EUR)) for begging in public in Geneva, and her detention in a remand prison for five days for failure to pay the fine.<p>The Court observed that the applicant, who was illiterate and came from an extremely poor family, had no work and was not in receipt of social benefits. Begging constituted a means of survival for her. Being in a clearly vulnerable situation, the applicant had had the right, inherent in human dignity, to be able to convey her plight and attempt to meet her basic needs by begging.<p>The Court considered that the penalty imposed on the applicant had not been proportionate either to the aim of combating organised crime or to the aim of protecting the rights of passers-by, residents and shopkeepers.<p>The Court did not subscribe to the Federal Court’s argument that less restrictive measures would not have achieved a comparable result.In the Court’s view, the penalty imposed had infringed the applicant’s human dignity and impaired the very essence of the rights protected by Article 8 of the Convention, and the State had thus overstepped its margin of appreciation in the present case.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/12/18/finland-has-slashed-homelessness-the-rest-of-europe-is-failing</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ineedasername</author><text>I just use a UUID for every variable name to make sure the codebase never has any ambiguity.<p>No one is going to confuse e7693160-b5cf-4761-9202-de019cfd0fc9 with c3d8b9ac-d0da-4bbc-912b-025ce4e47f62</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Developers Choose Names</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07487</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slver</author><text>One of the most cruel things evolution did to us is that we constantly seek meaning, order, correctness, where there are none to speak of.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Developers Choose Names</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07487</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>monsterix</author><text>&gt; &quot;It&#x27;s sort of like a sentiment of rocks.<p>You meant &#x27;sediment of rocks&#x27;?<p>&gt; Steve Jobs had such a way with words.<p>Oh absolutely. There are so many classy lines from him. And some of these lines are going to impact our industry for years to come.<p>Take for example: The &#x27;Post-PC era&#x27;?<p>Damn just those three words. They paint an altogether new story that is going to be written all over again! It gives an excitement and pumps blood back into what our industry does best - wow the users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hello_newman</author><text>Steve Jobs had such a way with words. I personally love this quote:<p>&quot;This is not a field where one paints a painting which will be looked at for centuries...This is a field where one does his work and in ten years it is obsolete.&quot;<p>I loved the metaphor:<p>&quot;It&#x27;s sort of like a sentiment of rocks. You&#x27;re building up a mountain and you get to contribute your little layer of sedimentary rock to make the mountain that much higher. No one will see it, but they will stand on it.&quot;<p>I think this is so true. Tech is about building on what others have done. Picking up where on person left off. It&#x27;s a never ending cycle.<p>I also like the line &quot;it&#x27;ll be appreciated by that rare geologist&quot;. In 100 years when historians are looking back on the tech boom that we are currently living in, it&#x27;ll be very interesting to see what goes down in history books as the most influential invention, device, software etc that really started this revolution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/18/steve-jobs-ponders-his-legacy-in-never-before-seen-1994-video/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dman</author><text>This is why Ritchie and McCarthy deserve a special place in computing heaven.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hello_newman</author><text>Steve Jobs had such a way with words. I personally love this quote:<p>&quot;This is not a field where one paints a painting which will be looked at for centuries...This is a field where one does his work and in ten years it is obsolete.&quot;<p>I loved the metaphor:<p>&quot;It&#x27;s sort of like a sentiment of rocks. You&#x27;re building up a mountain and you get to contribute your little layer of sedimentary rock to make the mountain that much higher. No one will see it, but they will stand on it.&quot;<p>I think this is so true. Tech is about building on what others have done. Picking up where on person left off. It&#x27;s a never ending cycle.<p>I also like the line &quot;it&#x27;ll be appreciated by that rare geologist&quot;. In 100 years when historians are looking back on the tech boom that we are currently living in, it&#x27;ll be very interesting to see what goes down in history books as the most influential invention, device, software etc that really started this revolution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/18/steve-jobs-ponders-his-legacy-in-never-before-seen-1994-video/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajross</author><text>This is a nice piece on aesthetics, right up to the last bit where it talks about technology and veers off the cliff.<p>The example simply makes no sense. In what way is a laptop with (gasp) modular panels and air vents (the horrors!) of lower quality than the apple thing? Modularity is good, it allows piecewise replacement of parts by untrained (or less trained) service personnel. Air vents are good, because they keep the CPU cool. Clean design is good too, because it makes people happy. What we have here is a collision of design goals, not a quality metric.<p>The author is trying to make a purely aesthetic point (Apple laptops look pretty) and extend it to one of hardware (and even software) quality. But that fails, because "quality" isn't always about aesthetics. It's about practical concerns. Maybe the Mac aesthetics are a net win, even at a $200 premium; maybe they're not. Maybe better ventilation is important; maybe it's not.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quality is Fractal, from restaurants to software. </title><url>http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-thickness-of-napkins/</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>kingkawn</author><text>When I worked as an Emergency Medical Technician I observed that nursing homes who regularly trim their residents' toenails are always of significantly higher quality.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quality is Fractal, from restaurants to software. </title><url>http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-thickness-of-napkins/</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>whalesalad</author><text>As a side note I use Schwab as a checking account and it’s incredible. Zero fees. Reimbursement of ATM fees. Easy overdraft protection from the brokerage account. I love them as a bank.<p>This is even more reason to love them.<p>I’ve used Chase, Citi, was a Simple customer for a long time... and Schwab blows all of them out of the water.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions</title><url>https://pressroom.aboutschwab.com/press-release/corporate-and-financial-news/conjunction-chuck-schwabs-new-book-invested-schwab-remove</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neilv</author><text>For Bogle-style[1][2] total-market low-ER index investing, free trades of ETFs is nice -- slightly more of each purchase goes towards shares, and that compounds, over a few decades.<p>I happen to be married to Fidelity already. Their great support, even when I&#x27;ve been poor, means that I&#x27;ll show some loyalty if I&#x27;m ever rich. But it&#x27;s nice to know that Schwab, Vanguard, TD Ameritrade, etc. are also out there for people.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bogleheads.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_philosophy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bogleheads.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bogleheads.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Charles_Schwab" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bogleheads.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Charles_Schwab</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions</title><url>https://pressroom.aboutschwab.com/press-release/corporate-and-financial-news/conjunction-chuck-schwabs-new-book-invested-schwab-remove</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parennoob</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand any of the ideas alluded to therein, but the tone of the discourse in there and the thread that led to this (<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/python-tulip/EgpBV5-sIQ4/hcTQwMmKFOUJ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!msg&#x2F;python-tulip&#x2F;EgpBV5-sI...</a>) is very respectful, and people apologize if their tone was too snarky or contemptuous.<p>I like this a lot about python, and it makes me excited and eager to perhaps contribute a little to its development some day (I&#x27;m currently at the level where I have a decent idea about the OOP aspects of python, and know some tricks that I think are nifty, such as overloading __setattr__ and the like. So quite a long way to go, but hopefully I will get there some day).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted's Deferreds</title><url>https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-tulip/ut4vTG-08k8/discussion</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aidos</author><text>I&#x27;ve only looked at Twisted briefly before but I feel like I learnt a lot from this run-through.<p>Guido writes so well; he is able to thoughtfully deconstruct ideas with a critical eye while still praising the bits he likes. I think we could all learn something from the way he has approached this. It&#x27;s definitely a model I will aspire to follow while appraising unfamiliar code.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted's Deferreds</title><url>https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-tulip/ut4vTG-08k8/discussion</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekiauhce</author><text>Thanks for the great article!<p>At my current employer we have a company-wide service for aggregating error logs in particular (WARN, ERORR level log rows and stacktraces, if it was an exception) so developers can analyze them for debugging purposes. Also it automatically gathers information about incoming http request (geo, ip address, user agent, etc) and you can easily see a particular segment of errors, and what kind of users getting them.<p>As I can see you have logs quantitative metric <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community-demo.coroot.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;oc1vhnmq&#x2F;app&#x2F;default:Deployment:cart&#x2F;Logs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community-demo.coroot.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;oc1vhnmq&#x2F;app&#x2F;default:Dep...</a> but without any detalization (maybe it works this way only for the demo app). I mean, it would be great to be able to inspect each ERROR event separately or to define custom SLO with alert for particular type of errors.<p>Another great feature we use a lot is historical data, so you can find patterns of error spikes on months scale and when it has gone after fix.<p>FYI this error-service I&#x27;m talking about is built on top of the ClickHouse, so it&#x27;s quite responsive regardless of the large volumes of data.<p>Another thing I want to mention is cron-like workload (or batch jobs, you name it). Is there any support or useful metrics for it?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using eBPF and predefined inspections to minimize “observability tax”</title><url>https://coroot.com/blog/minimizing-observability-tax</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>john-tells-all</author><text>this looks really useful! For my business I want 1) high-res data about local CPU-memory-IO (e.g. - how can I speed up tests), and 2) summary sampling data from production, to detect weird bugs or attacks. eBPF might be able to solve both cases!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using eBPF and predefined inspections to minimize “observability tax”</title><url>https://coroot.com/blog/minimizing-observability-tax</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rzwitserloot</author><text>I&#x27;m a programmer in the GP data analysis world. We use the term &#x27;pseudonymization&#x27; for this kind of data. &#x27;Anonymization&#x27; is used solely to refer to, say, &#x27;the sum total of diabetes patients this practice has&#x27; (that would be anonymous patient data; it would not be anonymous relative to the GP office this refers to): Aggregated data that can no longer be reduced to a single individual at all.<p>The term raises questions: Okay, so, what does it mean? How &#x27;pseudo&#x27; is psuedo? And that&#x27;s the point: When you pseudonimize data, you must ask those questions and there is no black and white anymore.<p>My go-to example to explain this is very simple: Let&#x27;s say we reduce birthdate info to just your birthyear, and geoloc info to just a wide area. And then I have an pseudonimized individual who is marked down as being 105 years old.<p>Usually there&#x27;s only one such person.<p>I invite everybody who works in this field to start using the term &#x27;pseudonimization&#x27;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/health/data-privacy-protection.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>shusson</author><text>The article title misses a bit of nuance from the paper which is specifically talking about re-identification.<p>e.g from the paper:<p>&quot;We show that, as a male born on July 31, 1945 and living in Cambridge (02138), the information used by Latanya Sweeney at the time, William Weld was unique with a 58% likelihood (ξx = 0.58 and κx = 0.77), meaning that Latanya Sweeney’s re-identification had 77% chances of being correct. We show that, if his medical records had included number of children—5 for William Weld—, her re-identification would have had 99.8% chances of being correct!&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/health/data-privacy-protection.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>anifow</author><text>Words like &quot;debt&quot; can be tricky to pin down, which is why we have an accounting profession who&#x27;s job it is to establish a cohesive and consistent language system with specific meanings.<p>Kickstarter money represents both revenue and a liability for the company that is doing the project. There are many types of liabilities which are not exactly debt in the sense that we think about a bank loan (which is also a liability). The thing that all liabilities have in common is that they represent an obligation of the company which could require them to spend money or other assets to fulfill. This does not mean they have to satisfy the liability, it just means that there is a financial justification for any work they do relating to that.<p>I am sure the accounting profession is continually being tested with new business models and trying to capture the financial reality for people who are playing very different games in the world of capital.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>Just to be clear though debt is actually a preferred type of financing because it is one of the cheapest forms.<p>A venture investor is expecting a 10x return on their investment. That means they are expected a much greater realized interest rate than debt - money that effective comes out of the pockets of the business owners.<p>If you can get debt, if is often preferred if you can figure out how to manage the default risk.<p>You do not give up equity (which could be worth a massive amount), rather you only have to pay back the debt at some future time with some much minor interest.<p>Also interest is often tax deductable, thus debt has further tax advantages.<p>One Nobel winning economic theory leads to an optimal capital structure of 100% debt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theo...</a><p>Example: Apple is buying back shares (the opposite of equity funding), while issuing massive amounts of debt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kickstarter is Debt</title><url>https://blog.bolt.io/kickstarter-is-debt-e3b6a70ce180</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robzyb</author><text>&gt; Just to be clear though debt is actually a preferred type of financing because it is one of the cheapest forms.<p>Honestly? That statement seems a tad simplistic to me. Especially in the context of startups.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>Just to be clear though debt is actually a preferred type of financing because it is one of the cheapest forms.<p>A venture investor is expecting a 10x return on their investment. That means they are expected a much greater realized interest rate than debt - money that effective comes out of the pockets of the business owners.<p>If you can get debt, if is often preferred if you can figure out how to manage the default risk.<p>You do not give up equity (which could be worth a massive amount), rather you only have to pay back the debt at some future time with some much minor interest.<p>Also interest is often tax deductable, thus debt has further tax advantages.<p>One Nobel winning economic theory leads to an optimal capital structure of 100% debt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theo...</a><p>Example: Apple is buying back shares (the opposite of equity funding), while issuing massive amounts of debt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kickstarter is Debt</title><url>https://blog.bolt.io/kickstarter-is-debt-e3b6a70ce180</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enra</author><text>Just to note that it&#x27;s not useful to group all of these companies together. While they all have massive valuations, and raised lot of funding, they don&#x27;t have similar businesses at all, or capital efficiencies. The market is also different today than it was with Microsoft or Google. Companies are expected and also need to grow faster (or others will). It took Microsoft 10 years to break $100M in revenue. All companies on your list are about 10 years old but have revenues in several billions.<p>WeWork&#x27;s problem was that while they valuation was $47B, they also had $47B committed in long term leases (essentially debt). Uber &amp; Lyft, are in war and their scale hasn&#x27;t helped the economics as much since neither can get a monopoly on demand or the supply side of the market. Postmates, Doordash, Instacart, all likely operate with large gross volumes but low transaction sizes and low margins which can be challenging.<p>Airbnb has now more cash the bank than they have ever raised ($3.5B) and it&#x27;s growing [1]. I suspect Stripe&#x27;s financials are strong as well.<p>Free cash flow, and the ability to use or invest it well, eventually lead to a great business. Raising a lot of money doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean that you are burning a lot of it, and the economics of the business matters.<p>It&#x27;s also likely Airbnb will do a direct listing since they don&#x27;t actually need the cash. Which is also potentially better for employees than traditional IPOs.<p>Disclaimer: I used to work at Airbnb, but this is all public information or speculation on my part.<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;KateClarkTweets&#x2F;status&#x2F;1184933412231995392" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;KateClarkTweets&#x2F;status&#x2F;11849334122319953...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>This matters more now that the current crop of tech companies have taken <i>so much</i> money.<p>In the old days, when software companies sold software rather than traditional services enhanced by software, it was common to get to profitability around the B round and then never take any more investment after that. Google took $25-35M and then nothing until IPO, running the company from 2001-2004 off cashflow. Microsoft took nothing except a small mezzanine round (to align incentives with the I-bankers) right before IPO. Github took a $50M Series A on a valuation of $500M; VCs owned 10% of the company, and the 3 founders + employees split the remaining 90% of its $7.5B acquisition. Indeed took a Series A and is profitable. Atlassian took a $60M Series A 8 years after starting the company, when it was already profitable. PlentyOfFish, HotOrNot, Reddit, Wufoo all raised either nothing or just angel money before being acquired.<p>When you&#x27;re capital efficient, you get to keep the majority of any sale price.<p>The current crop of unicorns like Uber, Lyft, WeWork, Postmates, DoorDash, Instacart, AirBnB, and Stripe have all taken massive amounts of capital though, sometimes in the multi billions of dollars. That has to be returned to the investors before the common shares (founders &amp; employees) make <i>anything</i>. If they hit on hard times before a liquidity event, there&#x27;s a good chance that the common will be wiped out, and investors effectively own the company. Why shouldn&#x27;t they, when they put up all the money that the company&#x27;s been burning?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?</title><url>https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>All the companies you&#x27;re talking about have 1 thing in common: they&#x27;re considered successes. You&#x27;re going back in time and cherry picking companies that made it out alive. The early 00s&#x2F;late 90s were full of companies that took Google levels of money that crashed and burned. There were also tons of companies that took little-to-no outside funding that crashed and burned.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>This matters more now that the current crop of tech companies have taken <i>so much</i> money.<p>In the old days, when software companies sold software rather than traditional services enhanced by software, it was common to get to profitability around the B round and then never take any more investment after that. Google took $25-35M and then nothing until IPO, running the company from 2001-2004 off cashflow. Microsoft took nothing except a small mezzanine round (to align incentives with the I-bankers) right before IPO. Github took a $50M Series A on a valuation of $500M; VCs owned 10% of the company, and the 3 founders + employees split the remaining 90% of its $7.5B acquisition. Indeed took a Series A and is profitable. Atlassian took a $60M Series A 8 years after starting the company, when it was already profitable. PlentyOfFish, HotOrNot, Reddit, Wufoo all raised either nothing or just angel money before being acquired.<p>When you&#x27;re capital efficient, you get to keep the majority of any sale price.<p>The current crop of unicorns like Uber, Lyft, WeWork, Postmates, DoorDash, Instacart, AirBnB, and Stripe have all taken massive amounts of capital though, sometimes in the multi billions of dollars. That has to be returned to the investors before the common shares (founders &amp; employees) make <i>anything</i>. If they hit on hard times before a liquidity event, there&#x27;s a good chance that the common will be wiped out, and investors effectively own the company. Why shouldn&#x27;t they, when they put up all the money that the company&#x27;s been burning?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?</title><url>https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uptown</author><text>"Unlocked iPhones: Why Apple Won't Do It"<p>By Lance Ulanoff<p>Editor in Chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for the Ziff Davis, Inc.<p><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386860,00.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386860,00.asp</a><p>June 13, 2011</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unlocked iPhone 4 up for sale</title><url>http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC603LL/A?mco=MjI4NTM2NTM</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>fmx</author><text>When I read the title my initial thought was that "unlocked" was the official term for "jailbroken". It sounded too good to be true and, sure enough, it was.<p>The fact that the phone is not locked to any one network doesn't seem like such a big deal to me. I believe most telcos in Australia will unlock your phone for you for a fee.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unlocked iPhone 4 up for sale</title><url>http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC603LL/A?mco=MjI4NTM2NTM</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>justingood</author><text>I think one thing to keep in mind about Ansible is that it&#x27;s an orchestration tool that also does configuration management. We&#x27;ve integrated Ansible into our workflows in such a way that it kicks off everything we need to do, even if that involves just coordinating some info between APIs.
We don&#x27;t mutate containers at all - merely get Ansible to make things happen around their deployment and communication.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superuser2</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand why an organization would want to use Docker (besides buzzword compliance) if they were planning on mutating running containers. What&#x27;s the advantage?</text></item><item><author>mattzito</author><text>I think the price point here is about a couple of things:<p>- Chef and Puppet are too expensive for most companies to acquire, and have too much operational cost for too little revenue<p>- Ansible got a strong following in the SMB space, Red Hat probably thinks they can move that upmarket some<p>- Ansible&#x27;s agentless configuration management has potentially strong applicability in a container world (why do I need a chunky agent to configure resources on my docker image? What if, for some reason, I need to affect change on running docker images? - I realize this is a bit of an anti-pattern for docker, but it was something I heard a lot from big enterprises)<p>$100m still sounds very high, kudos to the ansible folks who have come a long way in the last few years.<p>EDIT: one more piece I didn&#x27;t think of here - the openstack side of things is an area where Red Hat has made big long-term bets for the future of the company, and it probably helps to justify the price in terms of backstopping their openstack support.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Red Hat is buying Ansible</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/15/source-red-hat-is-buying-ansible-for-more-than-100m/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>Containers are useful as an alternative to full VMs. I use LXC on Ubuntu, and I edit software and packages on my containers as I would a normal VM.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s not standard with Docker specifically.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superuser2</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand why an organization would want to use Docker (besides buzzword compliance) if they were planning on mutating running containers. What&#x27;s the advantage?</text></item><item><author>mattzito</author><text>I think the price point here is about a couple of things:<p>- Chef and Puppet are too expensive for most companies to acquire, and have too much operational cost for too little revenue<p>- Ansible got a strong following in the SMB space, Red Hat probably thinks they can move that upmarket some<p>- Ansible&#x27;s agentless configuration management has potentially strong applicability in a container world (why do I need a chunky agent to configure resources on my docker image? What if, for some reason, I need to affect change on running docker images? - I realize this is a bit of an anti-pattern for docker, but it was something I heard a lot from big enterprises)<p>$100m still sounds very high, kudos to the ansible folks who have come a long way in the last few years.<p>EDIT: one more piece I didn&#x27;t think of here - the openstack side of things is an area where Red Hat has made big long-term bets for the future of the company, and it probably helps to justify the price in terms of backstopping their openstack support.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Red Hat is buying Ansible</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/15/source-red-hat-is-buying-ansible-for-more-than-100m/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edw</author><text>I'm going to go ahead and answer your question: I don't know if there's room for a product that grows with you, but I don't think such products are feasible.<p>I worked with a large personal finance software company at a time when they were enraptured with re-use. They had visions of doing things like sharing contact and project management modules across customer relationship management (CRM) and invoicing applications. I had a large stake in making sure they thought through these issues clearly, as the very form of the product I was leading the creation of was at stake.<p>We think about an invoice or a project or a task or a contact as something that's fairly self-evident, but they're not. More precisely, an application needs to create a model of these things, and that model is a useful simplification.<p>It is likely that "a product that grows with you" is one that fundamentally changes the model of the entities that your product works with. So, for example, a simple invoicing tool might have a client or a customer field, and that works in let's say ninety-five percent of the cases, but for some people, they want a full-on contact manager where you need to know that an invoice is for ABC Co., that the client contact is John Smith, that invoices should be sent to payables@abcco.example.com. Pretty soon you're going down the contact management slash engagement business process analysis rabbit hole.<p>And going down that rabbit hole is fine, but you're never going to be able to create 1. a simple, novice-friendly view of that industrial strength application that 2. stores data in a way that is semantically correct so that 3. when the user decides to upgrade from Invoicr Lite to Invoicr Enterprise Platinum their data isn't a nightmarish state.<p>This is one of the reasons why it took Windows user experience so long to approach anything even remotely as pleasant as the Mac: Windows had to support a much — let us say out of politeness — richer model computing than the Mac did. The Mac user was never exposed to certain details — like whether your filesystem was "really" hierarchical (the original Mac didn't have this feature) — but instead shown a simplified view of the world that Apple and developers had the freedom (and obligation) to implement by any means necessary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>giberson</author><text>I wonder if there is room for a product that grows with you?<p>What if there were a product that is exposed to you first in the simplest form. It's clean, elegant and simple. Easy and not intimidating to use.<p>As you use the product, your needs begin to increase and suddenly you need a new feature. As it turns out, the product actually supports this feature and so you turn it on. Now, you are turning on feature X, not feature package premium--just feature X.<p>In fact, the product actually has several additional features and functionality that can be enabled and disabled one at a time. None of these "extra" features cost "extra". They are all included in the base price of the package.<p>What if your product has a training module, where users can be guided through test use case scenarios that expose and demonstrate new feature modules. And what if we make it so that when you enable a new feature on the product, that feature only shows up to users who have completed the training guide for the new feature in the module.<p>In other words, in order for any specific extra feature to show up it needs to be:<p><pre><code> 1) Turned on by the administrator.
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This way the base product has easy accessibility and additional features can be exposed gradually not taking effect for an agent until they have gone through the training to learn how to use it.</text></item><item><author>spolsky</author><text>The 37signals ethos of having an opinion and saying no a lot creates wonderful experiences and products for users who are new to a certain field. For someone who is new to project management, for example, the fancy programs with every feature and option are confusing and scary. Products like Basecamp are beautiful for these users.<p>As users gain more experience, their needs become slightly more complex. They start to understand the simple product completely, and then they have the cognitive ability to understand more fancy bells 'n' whistles. For users who have been doing project management for a long time with any software product, they will have a long list of things that they know -- from experience! -- that they need.<p>That is why there's a market for simple and there's a market for full-featured. Both are discrete markets, usually. Obviously every software designer strives for "power made easy" -- it seems easy at first, but there is power under the hood when you need it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End</title><url>http://www.christianjung.com/2011/goodbye-basecamp-this-is-the-end-of-a-true-love-my-heart-is-broken/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbwyme</author><text>I think you are on track for an interesting idea but forcing training is certainly not the way to do it. I hate doing training in any software. UI/UX is all about keeping things intuitive/similar so new users pick it up with ease so there is no training required. Training is a buzz kill.<p>However, I think a piece of software that evolves is what most people intend when they start with a minimum viable product. What you don't see too often are benchmarks to "grade" users and automatically move them up to more advanced features. I'd have to think more about it to see how it could be implemented and how beneficial it would be but I think its interesting none the less. It would be similar to a game in which you "unlock" certain maps/levels/etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>giberson</author><text>I wonder if there is room for a product that grows with you?<p>What if there were a product that is exposed to you first in the simplest form. It's clean, elegant and simple. Easy and not intimidating to use.<p>As you use the product, your needs begin to increase and suddenly you need a new feature. As it turns out, the product actually supports this feature and so you turn it on. Now, you are turning on feature X, not feature package premium--just feature X.<p>In fact, the product actually has several additional features and functionality that can be enabled and disabled one at a time. None of these "extra" features cost "extra". They are all included in the base price of the package.<p>What if your product has a training module, where users can be guided through test use case scenarios that expose and demonstrate new feature modules. And what if we make it so that when you enable a new feature on the product, that feature only shows up to users who have completed the training guide for the new feature in the module.<p>In other words, in order for any specific extra feature to show up it needs to be:<p><pre><code> 1) Turned on by the administrator.
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This way the base product has easy accessibility and additional features can be exposed gradually not taking effect for an agent until they have gone through the training to learn how to use it.</text></item><item><author>spolsky</author><text>The 37signals ethos of having an opinion and saying no a lot creates wonderful experiences and products for users who are new to a certain field. For someone who is new to project management, for example, the fancy programs with every feature and option are confusing and scary. Products like Basecamp are beautiful for these users.<p>As users gain more experience, their needs become slightly more complex. They start to understand the simple product completely, and then they have the cognitive ability to understand more fancy bells 'n' whistles. For users who have been doing project management for a long time with any software product, they will have a long list of things that they know -- from experience! -- that they need.<p>That is why there's a market for simple and there's a market for full-featured. Both are discrete markets, usually. Obviously every software designer strives for "power made easy" -- it seems easy at first, but there is power under the hood when you need it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End</title><url>http://www.christianjung.com/2011/goodbye-basecamp-this-is-the-end-of-a-true-love-my-heart-is-broken/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tomminn</author><text>While I don&#x27;t think this is the case here, it&#x27;s super interesting that leaving in disgrace can be a valid financial exit strategy. The founder and (ex) CEO of a company is able to sell 100% of their stock without causing a panic, under the condition there is another story which justifies it.<p>Suppose you were in a position where you thought poorly of the long term viability of the company. Wouldn&#x27;t engineering a fallout with* the board be ultimately prudent?<p>*&quot;with&quot; here could even mean &quot;in collaboration with&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Is Leaving the Company’s Board of Directors</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/24/uber-founder-travis-kalanick-is-leaving-the-companys-board-of-directors/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I wonder what impact him selling all his stock had on the share price. They floated 180M shares at IPO, Travis owned 117.5M. Average daily volume is about 25M shares.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Is Leaving the Company’s Board of Directors</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/24/uber-founder-travis-kalanick-is-leaving-the-companys-board-of-directors/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>Thought experiment: you&#x27;re presented a jar, and offered the chance to bet ten bucks on drawing a white ball. You know nothing about the content of the jar. What odds would you take?<p>Now, you see ten white balls get added, then are blinded while other balls are added (maybe). You estimate the jar can&#x27;t hold more than about a hundred balls. What odds would you take?<p>Now, you see ten white and ten black get put in, and saw it was empty before. What odds?<p>Now, you see ten white and fifty black, but the whites are larger, and you get to draw a ball. What odds?<p>The difference between the second-to-last and the last is the missing information we usually think of when we talk about randomness being missing information.<p>And you&#x27;ll see that the previous scenarios don&#x27;t change anything about that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>st1x7</author><text>&gt; the probability of that coin toss being 50% does not talk about the coin; it talks about you, and about your partial knowledge of the universe.<p>But it does talk about the coin - a weighted coin would have a different probability. Same in the example with the white&#x2F;black balls - if they weren&#x27;t 5 white and 5 black but 6 white and 4 black, the probability you would assign to the top one would be different. Again, the probability is a way to describe the balls themselves, not just our knowledge.<p>I get the general idea of representing probability as uncertainty and partial knowledge but your statements strike me as just straight up incorrect.</text></item><item><author>enriquto</author><text>A simple sentence that I&#x27;ve found useful for pedagogy: &quot;the probability of that coin toss being 50% does not talk about the coin; it talks about <i>you</i>, and about your partial knowledge of the universe.&quot;<p>You can add: &quot;The coin toss itself is deterministic and the result can be computed if you know the initial position and speed.&quot; They will inevitably bother you about the physical impossibility to measure the starting position and speed exactly, and then you say &quot;ok, forget about the coin. You have 5 white and 5 black balls inside this opaque cylinder. What&#x27;s the probability that the top ball is white? This does not talk about the balls (the color of the top one is already determined) but about your partial knowledge of them&quot;.<p>(EDIT: formatting)</text></item><item><author>EbTech</author><text>Since this topic isn&#x27;t so well-known, I wrote the case arguing that frequentist interpretations don&#x27;t work, but algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity) does. I want to make this accessible and persuasive, so thoughts, questions, and arguments would be appreciated!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Probability Real?</title><url>https://www.arameb.com/blog/2020/11/22/probability</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>e12e</author><text>I like the balls in container better - the mechanics of determinism is more obvious - and the contrast between perfect and partial knowledge.<p>And there&#x27;s another interesting point - you could view &quot;there&#x27;s five white and five black balls&quot; as your model. If in reality, there&#x27;s one white ball and nine black - then your math is still right, but your model is wrong.<p>If you do experiments with the wrong model (assuming 50&#x2F;50, getting samples from 1&#x2F;10) - your best conclusion would be the model is wrong.<p>But for many settings, you&#x27;d end up declaring your container or the hand used to pull out balls has magical powers. (and to borrow from Douglas Adams go on to prove that black is white, and get killed in the next zebra crossing).</text><parent_chain><item><author>st1x7</author><text>&gt; the probability of that coin toss being 50% does not talk about the coin; it talks about you, and about your partial knowledge of the universe.<p>But it does talk about the coin - a weighted coin would have a different probability. Same in the example with the white&#x2F;black balls - if they weren&#x27;t 5 white and 5 black but 6 white and 4 black, the probability you would assign to the top one would be different. Again, the probability is a way to describe the balls themselves, not just our knowledge.<p>I get the general idea of representing probability as uncertainty and partial knowledge but your statements strike me as just straight up incorrect.</text></item><item><author>enriquto</author><text>A simple sentence that I&#x27;ve found useful for pedagogy: &quot;the probability of that coin toss being 50% does not talk about the coin; it talks about <i>you</i>, and about your partial knowledge of the universe.&quot;<p>You can add: &quot;The coin toss itself is deterministic and the result can be computed if you know the initial position and speed.&quot; They will inevitably bother you about the physical impossibility to measure the starting position and speed exactly, and then you say &quot;ok, forget about the coin. You have 5 white and 5 black balls inside this opaque cylinder. What&#x27;s the probability that the top ball is white? This does not talk about the balls (the color of the top one is already determined) but about your partial knowledge of them&quot;.<p>(EDIT: formatting)</text></item><item><author>EbTech</author><text>Since this topic isn&#x27;t so well-known, I wrote the case arguing that frequentist interpretations don&#x27;t work, but algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity) does. I want to make this accessible and persuasive, so thoughts, questions, and arguments would be appreciated!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Probability Real?</title><url>https://www.arameb.com/blog/2020/11/22/probability</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elliekelly</author><text>&gt; It appears as though charges from Apple are special, and if your account is not 100% current, Apple will quickly take drastic action.<p>It&#x27;s not just charges made on your Apple card. Here&#x27;s a comment thread[1] from two years ago when I mentioned Apple did the same thing to me over a recurring charge for iCloud that failed because I got a new debit card and didn&#x27;t update it in time. (I was traveling.)<p>Unlike the author of the post you linked I was given zero notice or warning that all-things-Apple would stop functioning. I had assumed the charge would just fail the same way any other charge to a &quot;bad&quot; card wouldn&#x27;t go through and that my iCloud subscription might lapse. I never in a million years imagined the charge would create an $8 debt to Apple payable immediately and that my iPhone (which I owned outright, not financed through Apple or anyone else) would be bricked unless and until I paid up. I was unable to download <i>anything</i> from the app store at all until I entered new payment information. I couldn&#x27;t even download free updates to free third-party apps.<p>Over $8.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18917685" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18917685</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>Apple&#x27;s card wouldn&#x27;t seem so bad to me if they didn&#x27;t treat debt to Apple differently [0] &amp; lock people out of all of their Apple services when there&#x27;s a payment overdue. It&#x27;s crappy enough to be behind on bills without that sort of pile-on, not to mention the Kafka-esque process of fixing the issue.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcurt.is&#x2F;apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcurt.is&#x2F;apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account</a></text></item><item><author>BugsJustFindMe</author><text>Plastic card distribution can be extremely frustrating, because the only time you need it to happen is when you don&#x27;t actually want it to be needed (fruad, loss, damage, new account, whatever). You just want to fucking buy things, not deal with shipping incompetence, you know?<p>This reminds me of a time I was traveling and had to cancel a lost credit card. I told the card company that I was not at home,was definitely outside of the country, not going to be home, definitely staying at an address that was not the home address listed on the account, wanted the card to be sent to _me_ and not my _home_, gave them my foreign delivery address 5 times over as many weeks, got 5 separate promises that the card was definitely going to reach me at my outside-of-the-country-and-not-at-home location in just a few business days, and the card never showed up. So I just gave up. And then, when I finally went home there were 5 goddamn cards in my mail slot.<p>Honestly this reason alone makes Apple&#x27;s purely digital credit card my favorite. Need a new card number? Just push a button. No incompetent shipping divisions with 5 hops and as many business days between you and your ability to buy things when your card number is breached.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/m2x83h/my_bank_sent_me_64_copies_of_the_same_debit_card/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t sound like it&#x27;s Apple Card but rather the Apple Store doing the disabling.<p>He said his Bank Account info had changed and the Auto-Pay to Apple Card failed. He mentions a card decline but that he had available balance, he never mentions that is Apple Card is disabled however and is vague about the specifics surrounding the card.<p>He bought a Macbook, didn&#x27;t or wasn&#x27;t able to fulfill the trade-in, and thus the Apple Store determined he owed the amount they credited for the Trade-In. So when the Apple Store tried to debit his Apple Card for the trade-in amount it failed. The Apple Store then disabled the device purchased and the accounts associated with the purchase.<p>I have a feeling if you tried to do this with a Pre-Paid Visa or a Debit Account, Apple would still disable the device and accounts.<p>* Yeah it&#x27;s just what I said. Apple&#x2F;Store froze his accounts, not Apple Card.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;03&#x2F;apple-missed-apple-card-payments-apple-id&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;03&#x2F;apple-missed-apple-card...</a><p>This will happen to anyone&#x27;s accounts if they don&#x27;t fulfill a transaction with Apple Store. It has nothing to do with Apple Pay.<p>** I also find it strange that he missed an email from Apple telling him he was delinquent on his purchase AND didn&#x27;t see any emails about an Auto-Pay failure all while waiting for an email from Apple Support about his account being disabled.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>Apple&#x27;s card wouldn&#x27;t seem so bad to me if they didn&#x27;t treat debt to Apple differently [0] &amp; lock people out of all of their Apple services when there&#x27;s a payment overdue. It&#x27;s crappy enough to be behind on bills without that sort of pile-on, not to mention the Kafka-esque process of fixing the issue.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcurt.is&#x2F;apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcurt.is&#x2F;apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account</a></text></item><item><author>BugsJustFindMe</author><text>Plastic card distribution can be extremely frustrating, because the only time you need it to happen is when you don&#x27;t actually want it to be needed (fruad, loss, damage, new account, whatever). You just want to fucking buy things, not deal with shipping incompetence, you know?<p>This reminds me of a time I was traveling and had to cancel a lost credit card. I told the card company that I was not at home,was definitely outside of the country, not going to be home, definitely staying at an address that was not the home address listed on the account, wanted the card to be sent to _me_ and not my _home_, gave them my foreign delivery address 5 times over as many weeks, got 5 separate promises that the card was definitely going to reach me at my outside-of-the-country-and-not-at-home location in just a few business days, and the card never showed up. So I just gave up. And then, when I finally went home there were 5 goddamn cards in my mail slot.<p>Honestly this reason alone makes Apple&#x27;s purely digital credit card my favorite. Need a new card number? Just push a button. No incompetent shipping divisions with 5 hops and as many business days between you and your ability to buy things when your card number is breached.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/m2x83h/my_bank_sent_me_64_copies_of_the_same_debit_card/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xg15</author><text>&gt; <i>It is entirely possible that this ant hijacking is entirely done though a few very simple manipulations of the existing ant nervous system</i><p>Hasn&#x27;t that been ruled out by now though?<p>(Content warning: Zombie ant fungus details)<p>I read articles about that fungus and I believe for a long time it was assumed that the fungus rewires something inside the ant&#x27;s brain that makes it want to climb to the top of a grass blade etc. - so it would &quot;only&quot; manipulate the high-level goals of the ant but not control the more complex and dynamic low-level operations (such as walking or navigating) directly.<p>However, a few months ago there was a paper about more detailed research on the molecular mechanisms the fungus uses for the takeover. Turns out, the former hypothesis was wrong and in fact it <i>does</i> control the ant&#x27;s arms&#x2F;legs directly. If that&#x27;s true, then the fungus itself must somehow actively steer the ant towards the grass.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>People tend to underestimate the ability of very simple systems to result in complex behavior. It is entirely possible that this ant hijacking is entirely done though a few very simple manipulations of the existing ant nervous system and more likely than a much more complex fungal brain replacement.</text></item><item><author>dilippkumar</author><text>&gt; In all seriousness mushrooms COULD be conscious<p>There is a fungus [0]. that takes over a carpenter ant&#x27;s brain and makes it climb up plants and clutch on to a leaf with it&#x27;s jaw and hang down from it. The fungus then sprouts the fruiting body from the dangling ant and spreads its spores.<p>As an armchair theorist, anything that can interface with a brain and coordinate a nervous system to produce complicated movement has to be capable of computation at some level.<p>[0]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#Natural_products" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#Na...</a></text></item><item><author>bognition</author><text>Neuro PhD here.<p>I haven&#x27;t read the entire paper but this citations stands out:
&gt; Fungi also exhibit trains of action-potential-like spikes, detectable by intracellular and extracellular recordings<p>Action potentials are the fundamental signaling mechanism used by neurons [1]. Think of them as an electrical signal that a cell actively propagates. Lots of cells use electrical potentials for signaling; however, most of them spread gradually or passively. Action potentials on the other hand the cell actively expends energy to send information quickly.<p>Really cool to see convergent biology (my personal guess) here. I can only imagine what new things we&#x27;re going to learn about fungi and mycelium in the next few decades. In all seriousness mushrooms COULD be conscious.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Action_potential" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Action_potential</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity</title><url>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211926</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yosito</author><text>&gt; It is entirely possible that this ant hijacking is entirely done though a few very simple manipulations<p>It is entirely possible that human motivations and reasoning are driven by similarly simple mechanisms. The best example I can think of is how much of an asshole I can be to my family when I&#x27;m hangry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>People tend to underestimate the ability of very simple systems to result in complex behavior. It is entirely possible that this ant hijacking is entirely done though a few very simple manipulations of the existing ant nervous system and more likely than a much more complex fungal brain replacement.</text></item><item><author>dilippkumar</author><text>&gt; In all seriousness mushrooms COULD be conscious<p>There is a fungus [0]. that takes over a carpenter ant&#x27;s brain and makes it climb up plants and clutch on to a leaf with it&#x27;s jaw and hang down from it. The fungus then sprouts the fruiting body from the dangling ant and spreads its spores.<p>As an armchair theorist, anything that can interface with a brain and coordinate a nervous system to produce complicated movement has to be capable of computation at some level.<p>[0]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#Natural_products" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#Na...</a></text></item><item><author>bognition</author><text>Neuro PhD here.<p>I haven&#x27;t read the entire paper but this citations stands out:
&gt; Fungi also exhibit trains of action-potential-like spikes, detectable by intracellular and extracellular recordings<p>Action potentials are the fundamental signaling mechanism used by neurons [1]. Think of them as an electrical signal that a cell actively propagates. Lots of cells use electrical potentials for signaling; however, most of them spread gradually or passively. Action potentials on the other hand the cell actively expends energy to send information quickly.<p>Really cool to see convergent biology (my personal guess) here. I can only imagine what new things we&#x27;re going to learn about fungi and mycelium in the next few decades. In all seriousness mushrooms COULD be conscious.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Action_potential" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Action_potential</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity</title><url>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211926</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; So, a bug in YouTube&#x27;s compatibility-autodetection caused it to fall back to a slower, bitrate-limited fallback method that it didn&#x27;t need to, for some versions of Firefox. They took two weeks to deploy the fix. Considering those two weeks included Christmas and the bug didn&#x27;t affect security or render the site unavailable, this seems like a pretty good response time.<p>Do you think it would take 2 weeks or less than a hour if the browser affected was Google Chrome?<p>Google has systematically made Firefox an inferior option when using Youtube, pushing people to install Chrome instead because &quot;Firefox doesn&#x27;t work&quot;. At some point you almost start thinking they&#x27;re doing it intentionally and maliciously to push their own (closed, DRMed) browser.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Browsers identify themselves with a user-agent string, and the user agent strings are a giant disaster of technical debt resulting from a long history of browsers working around buggy websites and websites working around buggy browsers. Browser video is <i>also</i> a giant disaster of technical debt, and YouTube uses the user-agent string to determine which ways of serving video will work and which ones won&#x27;t. Presence of bugs here is no surprise, and any such bugs will naturally impact some browsers but not others.<p>So, a bug in YouTube&#x27;s compatibility-autodetection caused it to fall back to a slower, bitrate-limited fallback method that it didn&#x27;t need to, for some versions of Firefox. They took two weeks to deploy the fix. Considering those two weeks included Christmas and the bug didn&#x27;t affect security or render the site unavailable, this seems like a pretty good response time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233970#c25</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akerro</author><text>&gt;a bug in YouTube&#x27;s compatibility-autodetection caused it to fall back to a slower<p>I double it&#x27;s a bug, it&#x27;s not the first time it happened, when YT introduced full HTML5 mode, there was a bug that for firefox, and only for firefox youtube was serving video with incompatible codec, the same as for Chrome, but Ff didn&#x27;t have that codec implemented yet, so video didn&#x27;t work. Opera was served video same as before, I noticed on reddit and other forums people were complaining on Firefox, that it stopped working on youtube. People started posting &quot;I&#x27;m moving to chrome because it works&quot;. I think it&#x27;s a plan to annoy firefox users by serving them not compatible videos so people move to Chrome. Google IS internet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Browsers identify themselves with a user-agent string, and the user agent strings are a giant disaster of technical debt resulting from a long history of browsers working around buggy websites and websites working around buggy browsers. Browser video is <i>also</i> a giant disaster of technical debt, and YouTube uses the user-agent string to determine which ways of serving video will work and which ones won&#x27;t. Presence of bugs here is no surprise, and any such bugs will naturally impact some browsers but not others.<p>So, a bug in YouTube&#x27;s compatibility-autodetection caused it to fall back to a slower, bitrate-limited fallback method that it didn&#x27;t need to, for some versions of Firefox. They took two weeks to deploy the fix. Considering those two weeks included Christmas and the bug didn&#x27;t affect security or render the site unavailable, this seems like a pretty good response time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233970#c25</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnord123</author><text>Yikes. The amount of times I type a message only to delete it, people I&#x27;m talking to will probably be horrified if they saw me give a wall of text to be replaced with &quot;cool&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moritonal</author><text>I once implemented in a dead chat-app a &quot;typing notification&quot; by sending both the `isTyping` flag, along with the length of the unsent message. On the clients side it was displayed as a blurred lorem-ipsum of the correct length.<p>It was the nicest form of instant conversation I&#x27;ve ever had. Watching the blurred text become a message was lovely and every conversation felt snapper rather than anxiety-inducing as you start at the &quot;x is typing&quot; message, instead you just watch the sentance grow, then materialise.</text></item><item><author>d--b</author><text>Ugh, they added &quot;Typing notification&quot;.
Thankfully it&#x27;s only a protocol, we can ignore this if we want.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IRCv3 Spec round-up</title><url>https://ircv3.net/2021/11/17/spec-round-up</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawaycuriou</author><text>I&#x27;m normally opposed to typing notifications, but I really like this idea for certain channels. How did you handle the case where many people are typing at once? &gt;5 might get noisy if they all had their own lines.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moritonal</author><text>I once implemented in a dead chat-app a &quot;typing notification&quot; by sending both the `isTyping` flag, along with the length of the unsent message. On the clients side it was displayed as a blurred lorem-ipsum of the correct length.<p>It was the nicest form of instant conversation I&#x27;ve ever had. Watching the blurred text become a message was lovely and every conversation felt snapper rather than anxiety-inducing as you start at the &quot;x is typing&quot; message, instead you just watch the sentance grow, then materialise.</text></item><item><author>d--b</author><text>Ugh, they added &quot;Typing notification&quot;.
Thankfully it&#x27;s only a protocol, we can ignore this if we want.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IRCv3 Spec round-up</title><url>https://ircv3.net/2021/11/17/spec-round-up</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>totetsu</author><text>What upsets me about DevOps, is I know ops pretty well, but am not on par with dev, and every job that just needs someone to ops work now wants to quiz me about O(n) before they&#x27;ll interview. Then I look around at the people who are good at the Dev part and the don&#x27;t know their way around an os or cloud infra.</text><parent_chain><item><author>samsquire</author><text>What upsets me about devops work is that everything I do at a client is a lineage of architecture and design that needs to be maintained going forward and it only exists at that client.<p>The lineage of interesting or useful things I do are tied to the client and dies with that client or when I leave.<p>I just think of the thousands of CI&#x2F;CD systems, build systems, attempts at parallelising builds, impressive optimisations, tooling, automation that have been written for each company over-and-over-again, and there&#x27;s no cross polenation except when they are open sourced.<p>I suppose Kubernetes is part of the answer here, a distribution of practices that survives organisations and spreads between organisations and client-specific lineages of software evolution.<p>I want to work on interesting capabilities such as diagrammatic observability and live visualizations of systems.<p>I really need to make a idle cloud environment simulation game where you invest time in servers, capabilities to handle load and problems that occur randomly or on a schedule.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model</title><url>https://octopus.com/blog/devops-uses-capability-not-maturity</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zug_zug</author><text>This isn&#x27;t unique to devops, this is a general software thing. But there is an answer, which is the standard technology stack:<p>- AWS
- Postgres
- Linux
- Docker
- Jenkins or similar
- Slack
- Pagerduty
- Jira - Packer - Terraform - etc<p>If you stay on the path there will be dozens of tools, plugins, and paths to do outstanding things with minimal work. Parallelising builds for example is built in to jenkins (if you define the workflow), which will autoscale workers in a setup that takes &lt; 1 hr to setup in aws.<p>If you&#x27;re writing code to solve a problem that a standard tool exists for, you&#x27;re the problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>samsquire</author><text>What upsets me about devops work is that everything I do at a client is a lineage of architecture and design that needs to be maintained going forward and it only exists at that client.<p>The lineage of interesting or useful things I do are tied to the client and dies with that client or when I leave.<p>I just think of the thousands of CI&#x2F;CD systems, build systems, attempts at parallelising builds, impressive optimisations, tooling, automation that have been written for each company over-and-over-again, and there&#x27;s no cross polenation except when they are open sourced.<p>I suppose Kubernetes is part of the answer here, a distribution of practices that survives organisations and spreads between organisations and client-specific lineages of software evolution.<p>I want to work on interesting capabilities such as diagrammatic observability and live visualizations of systems.<p>I really need to make a idle cloud environment simulation game where you invest time in servers, capabilities to handle load and problems that occur randomly or on a schedule.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model</title><url>https://octopus.com/blog/devops-uses-capability-not-maturity</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gingabriska</author><text>Don&#x27;t we simply need a missile covered with mirrors to defy these lasers?<p>It&#x27;s just a light bean albeit concentrated one, how hard can it be to deflect it?<p>Edit: don&#x27;t understand the downvoting, please enlighten. Your wisdom is not obvious to me. Thanks</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27795/the-air-force-just-shot-down-multiple-missiles-with-a-laser-destined-for-fighter-aircraft</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdiddly</author><text>All the acronyms are over the top. Have they heard of my Project SCIMITAR? (Symbolically Capturing Information by Making Inane Trite Acronyms to Rememberstuff)<p>Joking aside, if they can get this into a compact form that can be adequately supplied and cooled, it&#x27;ll be a quantum leap in weaponry. You&#x27;re talking about going from hurling chunks of matter that in turn impart kinetic and thermal energy, to being able to project energy directly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27795/the-air-force-just-shot-down-multiple-missiles-with-a-laser-destined-for-fighter-aircraft</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dgellow</author><text>IOHK who is behind Cardano does quite a lot of scentific research and formalized and developed innovative concepts: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iohk.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;research&#x2F;library&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iohk.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;research&#x2F;library&#x2F;</a>.<p>It&#x27;s still very experimental and yes, there are no clear applications yet, but there is some genuine research being made.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maeln</author><text>I really, really don&#x27;t understand where cryptocurrencies are going. Billions have been poured in this technology for almost no actual return technologically wise.<p>And I understand, because interest are not aligned. It really seems like nobody actually care about advancing the state of art, except actual researcher who work in universities and not in crypto startups...<p>Cryptocurrencies had a goal and a usefulness when they were at least used to buy drugs online and send a few bucks to your friends. Now you cannot even use them for that. Everybody saw the rise of the bitcoin valuation and since then, all that matter is how much you can make by trading crypto. The actual usefulness of the crypto, what it can do, is utterly irrelevant. This is proven by btc being one of the most traded and valuable crypto even though it is one of the crypto with the less feature. Most btc trade are not even going through the bitcoin network but through third party, so btc even fail at its own goal.<p>And because crypto are seen as an investment, everybody is holding, and nobody is using it, and you would be a fool to do so, since tomorrow, your 1 shitcoin might be worth 3 times what you brought it for. And no, &quot;stable coin&quot; is not an answer since the only thing they have been used for is to trade between crypto...<p>Then, to make matter even worse, the crypto community is its own worst enemy. Since it has been proven that, to make a few buck, all it takes is &quot;creating&quot; your own crypto and mining the first few block before other get in on it, you get thousand of startup coming out of nowhere proposing new crypto that are literally clone of other crypto. Tell me, what is the difference between Polkadot and Kusama ? Or is there even a significant technological difference between Litecoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, etc ?<p>We are more than 5 years into this crypto mania with an ungodly amount of money being thrown at it and there has been no significant technological progress, no crypto that is useful enough to be used by anybody else but crypto-fanatic trying to pump and dump it, and this is now becoming one of the worse climate disaster in a while. And all the while, every people invested in crypto will just talk about price, valuation, investment, hodling, etc. It is clear what is their real purpose.<p>If you want to see actual progress in distributed computing, look for scientific paper coming from universities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore</title><url>https://timdaub.github.io/2021/02/22/ethereum-isnt-fun-anymore/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>globular-toast</author><text>Same. I was super excited for bitcoin ten years ago, but now I&#x27;ve experienced first hand how bad bitcoin is as a currency. Most people aren&#x27;t even thinking of using it like that. It&#x27;s just sitting in their coinbase account. So you&#x27;ve just got a bunch of people who all expect to make money from each other. Without any actual value it&#x27;s a zero sum game, folks!</text><parent_chain><item><author>maeln</author><text>I really, really don&#x27;t understand where cryptocurrencies are going. Billions have been poured in this technology for almost no actual return technologically wise.<p>And I understand, because interest are not aligned. It really seems like nobody actually care about advancing the state of art, except actual researcher who work in universities and not in crypto startups...<p>Cryptocurrencies had a goal and a usefulness when they were at least used to buy drugs online and send a few bucks to your friends. Now you cannot even use them for that. Everybody saw the rise of the bitcoin valuation and since then, all that matter is how much you can make by trading crypto. The actual usefulness of the crypto, what it can do, is utterly irrelevant. This is proven by btc being one of the most traded and valuable crypto even though it is one of the crypto with the less feature. Most btc trade are not even going through the bitcoin network but through third party, so btc even fail at its own goal.<p>And because crypto are seen as an investment, everybody is holding, and nobody is using it, and you would be a fool to do so, since tomorrow, your 1 shitcoin might be worth 3 times what you brought it for. And no, &quot;stable coin&quot; is not an answer since the only thing they have been used for is to trade between crypto...<p>Then, to make matter even worse, the crypto community is its own worst enemy. Since it has been proven that, to make a few buck, all it takes is &quot;creating&quot; your own crypto and mining the first few block before other get in on it, you get thousand of startup coming out of nowhere proposing new crypto that are literally clone of other crypto. Tell me, what is the difference between Polkadot and Kusama ? Or is there even a significant technological difference between Litecoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, etc ?<p>We are more than 5 years into this crypto mania with an ungodly amount of money being thrown at it and there has been no significant technological progress, no crypto that is useful enough to be used by anybody else but crypto-fanatic trying to pump and dump it, and this is now becoming one of the worse climate disaster in a while. And all the while, every people invested in crypto will just talk about price, valuation, investment, hodling, etc. It is clear what is their real purpose.<p>If you want to see actual progress in distributed computing, look for scientific paper coming from universities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore</title><url>https://timdaub.github.io/2021/02/22/ethereum-isnt-fun-anymore/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sanderjd</author><text>I&#x27;ve always found it incredibly frustrating that <i>both</i> sides focus so much on &quot;is it caused by people&quot;. It makes things personal, it sounds to many people like an accusation – &quot;<i>you&#x27;re</i> ruining the world just by living your life&quot; – which (understandably!) makes people defensive, and it&#x27;s <i>completely</i> beside the point. There are only two relevant questions: 1. Is it happening? and 2. What can we do right now to fix it? The answer to (1) seems to be &quot;yes&quot;, but while I do hear lots of discussion about different answers to (2), I hear even more about all this stuff that&#x27;s happened in the past and can&#x27;t be changed. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it is definitely important for scientists to understand how our behavior impacts the climate, in order to make intelligent proposals about how to fix things, but it&#x27;s purely a distraction in the policy discussion. Even if we determine that humans have had nothing to do with the looming crisis, we still need to figure out how to fix it, if we want to survive. If lived in an era with an impending but completely naturally occurring ice age, we (or, at least, many of us) would still be trying to figure out how to stop it, or survive it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Has anyone else noticed that the conservative rhetoric has quietly switched from &quot;global warming doesn&#x27;t exist so we don&#x27;t have to do anything&quot; to &quot;global warming isn&#x27;t caused by people so there is nothing we can do&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded</title><url>http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201507</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jellicle</author><text>And don&#x27;t forget &quot;global warming is inevitable now, so there&#x27;s nothing we can do&quot;.<p>In my experience a good Fox News segment can use all three of these, at the same time, and switch back and forth among them, with no cognitive dissonance apparent. I don&#x27;t think any of them are really being phased out, it&#x27;s just that if any particular one is defeated in conversation, the arguer switches to one of the other arguments.<p>EDIT: Indeed, there are several HN comments in this thread to that effect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Has anyone else noticed that the conservative rhetoric has quietly switched from &quot;global warming doesn&#x27;t exist so we don&#x27;t have to do anything&quot; to &quot;global warming isn&#x27;t caused by people so there is nothing we can do&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded</title><url>http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201507</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steve_adams_86</author><text>I’m on the spectrum and I have both family and friends on the spectrum. None of them would want to fire thousands of people on a whim. That’s not what being on the spectrum is like. Uncaring is not an apt word at all, and it would be just as surprising for someone on the spectrum to be truly uncaring as any neurotypical person.<p>They might seem uncaring in fleeting moments due to communication breakdown. They might not understand other peoples’ needs at all times. That’s far, far different from executing on the unemployment of thousands as though they are just crumpled up balls of cash to throw in the waste bin. Not remotely comparable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saiya-jin</author><text></text></item><item><author>gttalbot</author><text>Also, firing people on parental leave, and firing people on H1B who have 60d to get a job or leave the country.</text></item><item><author>prepend</author><text>I’m curious about “not satisfactory” standards and how they are evaluated. I’ve met many earnest engineers and architects who were trying to do good and ended up making stuff worse by creating conformant code that still sucked.<p>I’ve met many more “witch-hunt” reviews that were just a reason to thin the company to please VC or shareholders.<p>The article&#x2F;tweet doesn’t mention it, but I assume they have the same severance package of a few months as the rest. If so, it could be a lot worse</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter has fired more software engineers</title><url>https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1595684664228052992</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joxel</author><text>I&#x27;m on the spectrum and I&#x27;m not a piece of shit to my employees. Being on the spectrum does not automatically make someone an asshole. That is personal failure of Musk.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saiya-jin</author><text></text></item><item><author>gttalbot</author><text>Also, firing people on parental leave, and firing people on H1B who have 60d to get a job or leave the country.</text></item><item><author>prepend</author><text>I’m curious about “not satisfactory” standards and how they are evaluated. I’ve met many earnest engineers and architects who were trying to do good and ended up making stuff worse by creating conformant code that still sucked.<p>I’ve met many more “witch-hunt” reviews that were just a reason to thin the company to please VC or shareholders.<p>The article&#x2F;tweet doesn’t mention it, but I assume they have the same severance package of a few months as the rest. If so, it could be a lot worse</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter has fired more software engineers</title><url>https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1595684664228052992</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I do think it is a strategy, but I think it&#x27;s a rather simpler one than that: basic work triage and scope management.<p>ssh and scp make sense to put into powershell, because they&#x27;re everyday sysops things. curses is pretty posix-specific, and apps that use it are likely to need other posix stuff, so handle that with WSL rather than unnecessarily re-inventing a wheel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>Rust needed a GUI and Microsoft provided one. They seem to be very focused on giving developers what they need, but only to a point. I&#x27;ve been doing some system glue stuff and while it&#x27;s nice that powershell has ssh an scp they are missing some options I want. I was going to use curses with python (batteries included!), only to find out it&#x27;s not supported on windows.<p>It almost feels like a strategy - be standard enough to bring people in, but idiosyncratic enough to lock them in.<p>I&#x27;ll be using gtk-rs thank you very much.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust for Windows</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ll be using gtk-rs thank you very much.<p>Please be aware that if you do this, your application won&#x27;t be accessible with screen readers or other assistive technologies on Windows and Mac. At least not now. Maybe I&#x27;ll have time to implement GTK accessibility backends for those platforms someday.</text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>Rust needed a GUI and Microsoft provided one. They seem to be very focused on giving developers what they need, but only to a point. I&#x27;ve been doing some system glue stuff and while it&#x27;s nice that powershell has ssh an scp they are missing some options I want. I was going to use curses with python (batteries included!), only to find out it&#x27;s not supported on windows.<p>It almost feels like a strategy - be standard enough to bring people in, but idiosyncratic enough to lock them in.<p>I&#x27;ll be using gtk-rs thank you very much.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rust for Windows</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>This is why I&#x27;m a believer in this type of regulation - you have two options:<p>1) Collect only the data strictly necessary for the functioning of the service. If you suffer a data breach, you used security best practices, and notified the corresponding authorities and your users in due time, then you shouldn&#x27;t be punished at all, with very few exceptions. If you didn&#x27;t use best security practices, you may see some small to moderate fines, depending on each case.<p>2) Collect whatever you want (while still mentioning it in your Privacy Policy, and the whole thing). But if you suffer a data breach, and that data is exposed, you should need a big fat banking account to survive the fine that will be imposed on you. The fines should be big enough that they should deter even the big players from collecting too much of the data they <i>don&#x27;t need</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lamlam</author><text>&gt;When researchers installed Ai.Type they were shocked to discover that users must allow “Full Access” to all of their data stored on the testng iPhone, including all keyboard data past and present. It raises the question of why would a keyboard and emoji application need to gather the entire data of the user’s phone or tablet?<p>I have a suspicion that due to how cheap bulk storage is these days, that companies collect as much information as they can get away with in hopes that _maybe_ it will be useful one day. That mixed with poor security practices is just going to keep leading to these sorts of events happening.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records</title><url>https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/virtual-keyboard-developer-leaked-31-million-of-client-records</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danso</author><text>I thought most keyboards at least ask for Full Access, though may not necessarily mandate it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8-keyboard-permissions-but-were-afraid-to-ask&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;everything-you-need-to-kno...</a><p>I was never sure what &quot;Full Access&quot; meant, other than keyboard data (including keystroke recording if the dev wanted it) going forward. But surely it doesn&#x27;t mean <i>everything</i>, as in access to keyboard-non-related data (user photos, etc).?</text><parent_chain><item><author>lamlam</author><text>&gt;When researchers installed Ai.Type they were shocked to discover that users must allow “Full Access” to all of their data stored on the testng iPhone, including all keyboard data past and present. It raises the question of why would a keyboard and emoji application need to gather the entire data of the user’s phone or tablet?<p>I have a suspicion that due to how cheap bulk storage is these days, that companies collect as much information as they can get away with in hopes that _maybe_ it will be useful one day. That mixed with poor security practices is just going to keep leading to these sorts of events happening.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records</title><url>https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/virtual-keyboard-developer-leaked-31-million-of-client-records</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madsushi</author><text>Well, games have been around for a far shorter time period than movies, so you&#x27;re not comparing games from 1920 to games from today (and thus the overall effect of inflation is lower). Also, since the former #1 game (BLOPS 2) came out just a couple of years ago, and GTA V beat it by 60% on launch ($800m to $500m), inflation didn&#x27;t play a significant role.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jahewson</author><text>These sorts of comparisons are pretty meaningless without inflation adjusted numbers. That&#x27;s why films break box office records year, after year, after year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/09/20/grand-theft-auto-v-crosses-1b-in-sales-biggest-entertainment-launch-in-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>baddox</author><text>It&#x27;s not meaningless unless there is some claim like &quot;the purchasing power of the money earned by this game is greater than that of some other game&#x2F;movie.&quot; I don&#x27;t see any such claim.<p>But besides, the movies and games it&#x27;s being compared to are no older than 4 years, so I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a huge problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jahewson</author><text>These sorts of comparisons are pretty meaningless without inflation adjusted numbers. That&#x27;s why films break box office records year, after year, after year.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/09/20/grand-theft-auto-v-crosses-1b-in-sales-biggest-entertainment-launch-in-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>mk89</author><text>&gt; BUT if we are honest, anonymizing log data is rarely a priority. Even if it is, leaking sensitive data can happen easily in a lot of different points in the infrastructure. In actual application code, client + server exception tracing (just imagine a deserialization exception which contains part of the input) , web server, load balancer, proxies, service mesh... There is a lot of interesting stuff hiding in the logs at pretty much every company.<p>I think so too, and I agree with you.<p>A couple of months ago we had to discuss with a colleague that wanted to log the request&#x2F;response body because &quot;without it, it makes debugging almost impossible&quot;. We certainly don&#x27;t log, and we made sure that even exceptions don&#x27;t spit internal data, and if it happens, it&#x27;s only an exceptional case, a bug (so far, I didn&#x27;t see). It&#x27;s tough, because of course when you have access to plain data you can do anything you want to, but we owe our customers this additional step. Laziness can&#x27;t be justified in this context.<p>However, generally speaking, I think it&#x27;s a common practice in many companies, it&#x27;s not the first time I see this happen, and I bet it&#x27;s not gonna be the last.<p>It&#x27;s a matter of mindset. The more I read such articles, the more I lose trust in even large companies. Typically smaller companies don&#x27;t care, in order to move &quot;fast&quot;. However, when this happens to large corporations, where does it end? Today it&#x27;s facebook with the passwords, tomorrow it might be amazon with tons of credit card numbers because of a legacy system not anymore maintained...</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>(Edit: reworded a bit to make it clear I don&#x27;t think this is acceptable)<p>Sounds a lot like some service was logging the full body of a signup&#x2F;login request, which then was readable for anyone with access to the logging&#x2F;tracing infrastructure.<p>Dumb mistake but it&#x27;s not hard to imagine this happening, considering that FB probably has a bunch of services involved in the login&#x2F;signup flow to prevent bots&#x2F;spam, abuse, etc.<p>Not to imply this is acceptable, especially at a IT company like FB with vast resources and know how. Raw passwords are an especially big screw-up.
There are a lot of failures here, from actually logging something so sensitive over giving access to so many employees to not noticing this for years. (Assuming this was actually log data).<p>BUT if we are honest, anonymizing log data is rarely a priority. Even if it is, leaking sensitive data can happen easily in a lot of different points in the infrastructure. In actual application code, client + server exception tracing (just imagine a deserialization exception which contains part of the input) , web server, load balancer, proxies, service mesh...
There is a lot of interesting stuff hiding in the logs at pretty much every company.<p>This is a good time to look in the mirror and audit your logging and tracing data. Unless you are in a highly regulated field like finance&#x2F;healthcare or there is a strong company-wide culture for security&#x2F;privacy with regular audits already, I can almost guarantee you will find at least one data point that should not be where it is.<p>Protecting sensitive data needs to be a big consideration for every dev, ops and especially management, which has to allocate enough time for security reviews and audits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kissickas</author><text>&gt; readable for anyone with access to the logging&#x2F;tracing infrastructure<p>The article says more than 20,000 Facebook employees. A quick search shows that they have around 35k now - do 60% of employees at Facebook really need access to all of those logs?</text><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>(Edit: reworded a bit to make it clear I don&#x27;t think this is acceptable)<p>Sounds a lot like some service was logging the full body of a signup&#x2F;login request, which then was readable for anyone with access to the logging&#x2F;tracing infrastructure.<p>Dumb mistake but it&#x27;s not hard to imagine this happening, considering that FB probably has a bunch of services involved in the login&#x2F;signup flow to prevent bots&#x2F;spam, abuse, etc.<p>Not to imply this is acceptable, especially at a IT company like FB with vast resources and know how. Raw passwords are an especially big screw-up.
There are a lot of failures here, from actually logging something so sensitive over giving access to so many employees to not noticing this for years. (Assuming this was actually log data).<p>BUT if we are honest, anonymizing log data is rarely a priority. Even if it is, leaking sensitive data can happen easily in a lot of different points in the infrastructure. In actual application code, client + server exception tracing (just imagine a deserialization exception which contains part of the input) , web server, load balancer, proxies, service mesh...
There is a lot of interesting stuff hiding in the logs at pretty much every company.<p>This is a good time to look in the mirror and audit your logging and tracing data. Unless you are in a highly regulated field like finance&#x2F;healthcare or there is a strong company-wide culture for security&#x2F;privacy with regular audits already, I can almost guarantee you will find at least one data point that should not be where it is.<p>Protecting sensitive data needs to be a big consideration for every dev, ops and especially management, which has to allocate enough time for security reviews and audits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newbie578</author><text>Now that you say it that way, that is actually a pretty good point.<p>He was fine with Facebook breaking users privacy, aggregating data, spying on users over smartphone mics, but a Tweet cuts the line?<p>Admirable of him, but I have a pretty big feeling that although he is working(ed) at Facebook, he is quite green for the real world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>somecommit</author><text>After all the shitty things facebook did in the whole world, inducing depression, suicidal behaviors for the most fragile etc... this person resigns because the CEO refused to censor the elected POTUS. I have a hard time to figure what&#x27;s going on in his head, and how he thinks it&#x27;s helping democraty.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmatter-activity-6673316720993824768-q_dU/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Voloskaya</author><text>It&#x27;s not a function of what facebook did or did not do, but a function of how we judge people working for facebook.<p>It&#x27;s pretty easy to close your eyes about a shitty thing your company might be doing, because for your personnally staying is a good deal.<p>It&#x27;s much harder to do when everyone else is judging you about it.<p>This is not a stab at the person than resigned, I think this is a normal human behavior, we are pretty egoistic creatures.</text><parent_chain><item><author>somecommit</author><text>After all the shitty things facebook did in the whole world, inducing depression, suicidal behaviors for the most fragile etc... this person resigns because the CEO refused to censor the elected POTUS. I have a hard time to figure what&#x27;s going on in his head, and how he thinks it&#x27;s helping democraty.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmatter-activity-6673316720993824768-q_dU/</url></story>
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