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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomseddon</author><text>You'll find there is a shed load of OAuth2 provider libraries, look at "server libraries" here: <a href="http://oauth.net/2/" rel="nofollow">http://oauth.net/2/</a><p>Also, a few that aren't listed:
Rails: <a href="https://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin</a>
Django: <a href="http://code.larlet.fr/django-oauth-plus/wiki/Home" rel="nofollow">http://code.larlet.fr/django-oauth-plus/wiki/Home</a>
NodeJS: <a href="https://github.com/nightworld/node-oauth2-server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nightworld/node-oauth2-server</a> (me)
CakePHP: <a href="https://github.com/thomseddon/cakephp-oauth-server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thomseddon/cakephp-oauth-server</a> (me again)</text><parent_chain><item><author>_frog</author><text>There's no shortage of simple OAuth consumer libraries out there, what I really want to see is a simple way to set up my app as an OAuth _provider_. As far as I know there's nothing out there to make that simple yet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.</title><url>http://oauth.io</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IanChiles</author><text>Or even if there was a simple, detailed guide on what your own OAuth needs to do to be secure - and a basic overview of how to implement it (not language specific, just concept-wise).</text><parent_chain><item><author>_frog</author><text>There's no shortage of simple OAuth consumer libraries out there, what I really want to see is a simple way to set up my app as an OAuth _provider_. As far as I know there's nothing out there to make that simple yet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.</title><url>http://oauth.io</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chroma</author><text>I used to think that this was the solution, but it&#x27;s now clear to me that the state and local governments are too incompetent to fix this problem. Over the past decade, the bay area has gotten so much worse. The cost of living has skyrocketed. Commutes have gotten longer. The homeless problem has become something out of a George Romero movie. None of these show signs of improving, and it&#x27;s not due to lack of trying. The city of San Francisco spends a quarter <i>billion</i> dollars a year on homelessness.[1] That&#x27;s $33,000 per homeless person per year![2] The city is experiencing the greatest economic success in its history, but it can barely keep Muni running. Imagine how bad things will get in a downturn.<p>What laws do we see being passed? Plastic bag bans. Plastic straw bans. Scooter bans. Tech company cafeteria bans. Laws that demonstrate a total lack of knowledge of economics, incentives, or any sort of numerical analysis.<p>I&#x27;ve given up on the bay area and am preparing to move. I know the tech jobs and community won&#x27;t be as good, and I&#x27;ll miss my friends, but I can no longer stand being governed by complete nincompoops.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;29-million-increase-for-San-Francisco-12902707.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;29-million-incre...</a><p>2. There are approximately 7,500 homeless in SF according to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hsh.sfgov.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;2017-SF-Point-in-Time-Count-General-FINAL-6.21.17.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hsh.sfgov.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;2017-SF-Poin...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>justinzollars</author><text>I encourage everyone who lives in San Francisco to join YIMBY.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfyimby.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfyimby.org&#x2F;</a><p>The fundamental problem in the Bay Area is a lack of affordable housing. This pushes us into higher paying tech jobs, when we may prefer to start a company. Its my dream to start a company but paying bay area rent is expensive!<p>This is what you can do to help:<p>- Housing Costs (Our SF politicians lack focus: Think tech cafeterias and Social Engineering vs Building Housing)<p>What can you do: unseat Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Jane Kim, Hilary Ronen and Sandra Lee Fewer. This group votes against housing every chance they get. Aaron has introduced the silly tech cafeteria legislation.<p>- Demand infrastructure. We must demand it.<p>I do not want to lose our dynamism, so lets change SF</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peak Valley?</title><url>https://avc.com/2018/09/peak-valley/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kelp</author><text>I&#x27;d like to add that the Bay Area affordability problem is not some unsolvable situation that we have to just be resigned to accept. But it does require getting involved somehow. If you have a decent paying job, the easiest way is to start donating to organizations like SF YIMBY, and &#x2F; or political campains of pro YIMBY candidates. People such as Sonja Trauss, Christine Johnson, who are both running for SF D6. David Chiu and Scott Wiener have had a great track record in the State Assembly and State Senate.<p>We got into this affordability situation by passing a series of laws at the state and local levels, over many years. We&#x27;re never going to be as cheap as Akron OH, but we can slow the price growth, and maybe reduce it some by making it easier, and cheaper to build, by changing state and local laws to allow that.<p>Finally, local politicians are actually quite accessible, so your voice can be heard. And groups like SF YIMBY help to amplify that voice. Fundamentally, most politicians do what they think will get them votes, so it helps to find a group of like minded individuals.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justinzollars</author><text>I encourage everyone who lives in San Francisco to join YIMBY.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfyimby.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfyimby.org&#x2F;</a><p>The fundamental problem in the Bay Area is a lack of affordable housing. This pushes us into higher paying tech jobs, when we may prefer to start a company. Its my dream to start a company but paying bay area rent is expensive!<p>This is what you can do to help:<p>- Housing Costs (Our SF politicians lack focus: Think tech cafeterias and Social Engineering vs Building Housing)<p>What can you do: unseat Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Jane Kim, Hilary Ronen and Sandra Lee Fewer. This group votes against housing every chance they get. Aaron has introduced the silly tech cafeteria legislation.<p>- Demand infrastructure. We must demand it.<p>I do not want to lose our dynamism, so lets change SF</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Peak Valley?</title><url>https://avc.com/2018/09/peak-valley/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjice</author><text>The absurdity of not being able to support a name as common as Christopher or anything as long or longer just screams &quot;government work&quot;. What the hell went through everyone&#x27;s head when they built this system? Absolutely no testing or real data was used either, but that shouldn&#x27;t matter, because having a max limit on someone&#x27;s (very common) name is honestly impressive. The fact they developed this system without addressing this issue is a testament to the quality of government software development.<p>I&#x27;m sure there is good government software out there, but there are plenty of showcases of the opposite (especially since these are systems that NEED to work).</text><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>At the time I moved out of New Jersey 8 years ago, the state was still unable to represent my completely vanilla name on my driver&#x27;s license. My first name is &quot;Christopher&quot;, but their computers can&#x27;t&#x2F;couldn&#x27;t handle an 11-character name. It was always truncated on my driver&#x27;s license.<p>This led to problems when they instituted their trusted ID compliance. When renewing the license we were required to provide some combination of documentation to corroborate our identity, and obviously that documentation needs to match the name shown on the driver&#x27;s license - and of course mine did not.<p>There was one way out for Christophers like myself. A birth certificate was considered the ultimate truth, so as long as I had a notarized (with the raised seal) birth certificate to prove my identity, they would allow me to renew my license.<p>The State of New Jersey is very awful at IT. My wife, who works in healthcare finance, told me about problems she was having with the State because - get this - their field for what amounts to &quot;Medicaid ID#&quot; was too narrow, so they had to recycle ID#s for new recipients! And to make that worse, they discarded old backup data so when checking the data for a patient several years ago, it&#x27;s only possible to find that of the latest owner of ID# 12345.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pickledcods</author><text>I have the exact same problem with my European passport. maximum name length, that is total first+middle+surname must be less than 30 characters.<p>Officially I am not who I am.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>At the time I moved out of New Jersey 8 years ago, the state was still unable to represent my completely vanilla name on my driver&#x27;s license. My first name is &quot;Christopher&quot;, but their computers can&#x27;t&#x2F;couldn&#x27;t handle an 11-character name. It was always truncated on my driver&#x27;s license.<p>This led to problems when they instituted their trusted ID compliance. When renewing the license we were required to provide some combination of documentation to corroborate our identity, and obviously that documentation needs to match the name shown on the driver&#x27;s license - and of course mine did not.<p>There was one way out for Christophers like myself. A birth certificate was considered the ultimate truth, so as long as I had a notarized (with the raised seal) birth certificate to prove my identity, they would allow me to renew my license.<p>The State of New Jersey is very awful at IT. My wife, who works in healthcare finance, told me about problems she was having with the State because - get this - their field for what amounts to &quot;Medicaid ID#&quot; was too narrow, so they had to recycle ID#s for new recipients! And to make that worse, they discarded old backup data so when checking the data for a patient several years ago, it&#x27;s only possible to find that of the latest owner of ID# 12345.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Yizahi</author><text>You also cut the article to fit your point. E.g. full text regarding 574 participants:<p>=================================== quote<p>But many of the trial’s 574 participants reported having visual aberrations and dry eyes before surgery, and the study concluded that Lasik slightly reduced the prevalence of these problems.<p>Three months after surgery, however, glare, halos and double vision were common, affecting 50 to 60 percent of all patients, with up to 5 percent characterizing them as “very” or “extremely” bothersome.<p>Even after six months, some 41 percent of patients reported visual aberrations, with nearly 2 percent — or one in 50 — saying the symptoms presented “a lot of difficulty” or “so much difficulty that I can no longer do some of my usual activities.” And one-quarter of the patients followed six months had mild to severe dry eyes.<p>=================================== end quote<p>Note that wording here is unclear, because &quot;many&quot; is not quantified and we don&#x27;t have percentage change over time here. Did it increase or not and by how much. But due to this it is possible to interpret this part however your want - that lasik made things worse or that it didn&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>As a subscriber I love the New York Times, but like many articles in the Wellness section this is low quality.<p>The article starts off with:<p>&gt;A recent clinical trial by the F.D.A. suggests that the complications experienced by Mr. Ramirez are not uncommon. Nearly half of all people who had healthy eyes before Lasik developed visual aberrations for the first time after the procedure, the trial found.<p>And then five minutes of reading later leads to this valuable insight:<p>&gt;But many of the trial’s 574 participants reported having visual aberrations and dry eyes before surgery, and the study concluded that Lasik slightly reduced the prevalence of these problems.<p>Why... didn&#x27;t they put that in the same paragraph? The title of the article leads me to believe this obfuscation was on purpose.<p>Then, a few minutes later into the article, they state:<p>&gt;The study’s lead author ... said the researchers had concluded that the multimillion dollar trial was too small to produce meaningful results, and that the purpose of the study had shifted from determining how many patients have problems functioning to developing a questionnaire that might be used in future research.<p>Ugh. I just spent 10 minutes reading an article formed around a flawed study that contradicts the title. Filled with circumstantial evidence and discussion about clearly biased people (like the guy with seemingly no credentials who runs lasikcomplications.com).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lasik’s Risks Are Coming into Sharper Focus</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/well/lasik-complications-vision.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>forapurpose</author><text>For anyone who hasn&#x27;t read the article, the parent is very misleading. The article presents at least half a dozen studies, interviews at least 20 people, and their list of credentials is exceptional.[0]<p>In this case at least, it&#x27;s not the Times&#x27; research that is &#x27;low quality&#x27;.<p>[0] I copied and pasted the credentialed people quoted in the article below; I only made it 80% of the way through and then realized it had become absurd:<p>Diana Zuckerman, president of the nonprofit National Center for Health Research in Washington<p>Dr. Eric Donnenfeld, who was Mr. Puglisi’s surgeon and a past president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery<p>global medical director for a large laser eye-surgery provider<p>Researchers at Ohio State University<p>one surgeon’s 2017 analysis of more recent data<p>Morris Waxler, a retired senior F.D.A. official ... [and] former chief of the diagnostic and surgical devices branch in the F.D.A.’s division of ophthalmic devices<p>Dr. Cynthia MacKay [ophthalmologist]<p>Dr. John Vukich, chair of the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery’s refractive clinical surgery committee<p>Dr. Malvina Eydelman, director of the division of ophthalmic and ear, nose and throat devices at the F.D.A.’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health<p>Dr. Anat Galor, an associate professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami.<p>Dr. Pedram Hamrah, director of research at the New England Eye Center at Tufts Medical Center</text><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>As a subscriber I love the New York Times, but like many articles in the Wellness section this is low quality.<p>The article starts off with:<p>&gt;A recent clinical trial by the F.D.A. suggests that the complications experienced by Mr. Ramirez are not uncommon. Nearly half of all people who had healthy eyes before Lasik developed visual aberrations for the first time after the procedure, the trial found.<p>And then five minutes of reading later leads to this valuable insight:<p>&gt;But many of the trial’s 574 participants reported having visual aberrations and dry eyes before surgery, and the study concluded that Lasik slightly reduced the prevalence of these problems.<p>Why... didn&#x27;t they put that in the same paragraph? The title of the article leads me to believe this obfuscation was on purpose.<p>Then, a few minutes later into the article, they state:<p>&gt;The study’s lead author ... said the researchers had concluded that the multimillion dollar trial was too small to produce meaningful results, and that the purpose of the study had shifted from determining how many patients have problems functioning to developing a questionnaire that might be used in future research.<p>Ugh. I just spent 10 minutes reading an article formed around a flawed study that contradicts the title. Filled with circumstantial evidence and discussion about clearly biased people (like the guy with seemingly no credentials who runs lasikcomplications.com).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lasik’s Risks Are Coming into Sharper Focus</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/well/lasik-complications-vision.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>osrec</author><text>Perhaps I have been unlucky in my past jobs, but the single most important thing that allowed me to be successful in my investment banking career was bowing down to my boss&#x27;s ego, even when he&#x2F;she was wrong. A few of my colleagues had perfected this &quot;skill&quot;, and got promoted super quick. Talent, ability and reliability are all okay, but giving your interviewer&#x2F;boss the impression that you will never show them up seems to make you super employable! I remember a particular interview, where me and my then boss were looking to hire a new market risk guy. The first guy we interviewed was super talented, and actually quite a nice guy - I thought he deserved the job - he even corrected our misunderstandings on a newish risk model. The second guy we interviewed, not so great. My boss gave it to the second guy; when I asked him why, he fobbed me off with a vague response, but it was clear to me that he felt threatened. Had the first guy acted a bit more average in the interview and pandered to my boss&#x27;s ego, he would have almost certainly got the job. Personally, I have also had much more success in interviews&#x2F;jobs by trying to be distinctly average. Eventually I was sick of playing that game so I started my own company and never looked back!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Which job skills are most employable?</title><url>https://80000hours.org/articles/skills-most-employable/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alanbernstein</author><text>&quot;Coding&quot; is mechanical. &quot;Judgement and decision making&quot;, &quot;Critical thinking&quot;, &quot;Complex problem solving&quot;, the actually difficult parts of doing long-term programming work, are at the top of the list.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Which job skills are most employable?</title><url>https://80000hours.org/articles/skills-most-employable/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>halomru</author><text>Sure, the FBI can legally hack anywhere in the world in the same sense that Russians can hack anywhere outside Russia: it&#x27;s legal in their host country.<p>But if a Russian hacker leaves Russia, or if a FBI hacker leaves the US, they can be prosecuted for those hacks. That&#x27;s not what most people expect as the outcome of a &quot;legal&quot; action.<p>I think &quot;government sanctioned&quot; is the word we usually use for these cases, not &quot;legal&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>edblarney</author><text>It&#x27;s not misrepresenting, as it&#x27;s clearly in the context of on e governments laws.<p>It seems rather nefarious, but there is Judicial oversight, meaning they need permission in each instance, which is at least one good thing.</text></item><item><author>sklivvz1971</author><text>&quot;Legally&quot;? Seriously misleading title, a foreign nation state hacking people has not been made legal outside the US at all. It might be legal in the US, but surely it&#x27;s still computer crime where it&#x27;s committed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FBI Can Now Legally Hack Everywhere Around the World</title><url>http://saintlad.com/beware-the-fbi-can-now-legally-hack-you-everywhere/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sklivvz1971</author><text>Surely you are not suggesting that US laws have any bearing outside of it, correct?</text><parent_chain><item><author>edblarney</author><text>It&#x27;s not misrepresenting, as it&#x27;s clearly in the context of on e governments laws.<p>It seems rather nefarious, but there is Judicial oversight, meaning they need permission in each instance, which is at least one good thing.</text></item><item><author>sklivvz1971</author><text>&quot;Legally&quot;? Seriously misleading title, a foreign nation state hacking people has not been made legal outside the US at all. It might be legal in the US, but surely it&#x27;s still computer crime where it&#x27;s committed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FBI Can Now Legally Hack Everywhere Around the World</title><url>http://saintlad.com/beware-the-fbi-can-now-legally-hack-you-everywhere/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>&gt; For instance, in those cases in which Smart City has used de-authentication in the past, it targeted only access points and wireless devices that are located within the confined and proprietary space of the exhibit hall -- areas of a convention center that are licensed for private event and to which access is limited -- and that pose a threat to secure, reliable, WiFi availability within that confined space.<p>That&#x27;s not how WiFi works. They cannot know for a fact that these WiFi hotspots are within the convention space, they could and likely are, blocking WiFi located outside of that space.<p>Additionally they&#x27;re claiming that they literally own the radio spectrum within a &quot;proprietary space&quot; which is a dangerous line. What is stopping them from blocking all cellular signals or worse charging cellphone companies for the signal travelling through their space?<p>Their point about security is nonsense. The technology they&#x27;re employing is DESIGNED to secure WiFi networks by disconnecting actually rogue APs (i.e. devices squawking the same SSID as their network), that is still legal, the problem they and the Hilten ran into is that they took tech&#x27; designed for security and mis-used it for monopolising the WiFi spectrum within their convention centers.<p>So, sorry, no. If your WiFi network is called SmartCityWiFi and you disconnect MyHotSpot then you&#x27;re breaking the law and have zero security arguments to make.<p>Good on the FCC for giving these guys a fine. Too bad it wasn&#x27;t more. I read their arguments and it has only made me side with the FCC more. What they&#x27;re asking for would make the world a worse place in general and only helps their bottom line.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notacoward</author><text>Here is Smart City&#x27;s response.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.fcc.gov&#x2F;ecfs&#x2F;document&#x2F;view?id=60001011936" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.fcc.gov&#x2F;ecfs&#x2F;document&#x2F;view?id=60001011936</a><p>Among other interesting points is that they seem to have been using the same &quot;de-authentication&quot; trick that Marriott had used in a similar case a while ago. Also, they make an argument about density and interference that IMO shouldn&#x27;t be dismissed out of hand. I still think they were wrong and deserved the fine, but it&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that mobile hotspots can fall afoul of the very same principle and law behind that fine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi</title><url>https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-smart-city-750k-blocking-wi-fi-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>urda</author><text>&gt; but it&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that mobile hotspots can fall afoul of the very same principle and law behind that fine.<p><i>Absolutely</i> wrong. Mobile hotspots do not actively transmit deauth packets into their surrounding environment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>notacoward</author><text>Here is Smart City&#x27;s response.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.fcc.gov&#x2F;ecfs&#x2F;document&#x2F;view?id=60001011936" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.fcc.gov&#x2F;ecfs&#x2F;document&#x2F;view?id=60001011936</a><p>Among other interesting points is that they seem to have been using the same &quot;de-authentication&quot; trick that Marriott had used in a similar case a while ago. Also, they make an argument about density and interference that IMO shouldn&#x27;t be dismissed out of hand. I still think they were wrong and deserved the fine, but it&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that mobile hotspots can fall afoul of the very same principle and law behind that fine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi</title><url>https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-smart-city-750k-blocking-wi-fi-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>gofreddygo</author><text>1. Name-Location-Contact-Email- Phone<p>2. Work history (1 or 2 lines per year ). Include location, company, project, duration.<p>3. Education, certs, achievements, Personal projects<p>maintain that order.<p>One page (ideal) or two.<p>Pro tip, add relevant keywords specific to the role, position or company (e.g. aws, azure, kubernetes).<p>Remember, more machines and algorithms will parse and filter your resume than human eyeballs (hint: if linkedin cannot parse your resume, reformat it).<p>keep a pdf, text and MS word version ready to be shared via email at all times (especially on your phone)<p>I added a passport size pic of myself on it to stand out from a wall of text no idea if it works, but it feels personal enough to me(ymmv)<p>Do NOT have any grammatical mistakes.<p>Name the file logically (e.g. 2022-resume-fred.pdf)<p>Share.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fprotthetarball</author><text>On the topic of resumes: what do people put in these things? I haven&#x27;t job hopped in a while and haven&#x27;t done any resume work in over 10 years. Anyone have good examples for software developers with the kind of content that gets noticed?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I'm deprecating LinkedIn recruitment with a Lisp, SQLite and htmx</title><url>https://withoutdistractions.com/</url><text>FAQ: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdistractions.com&#x2F;cv&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdistractions.com&#x2F;cv&#x2F;faq</a><p>Feel free to ask me any questions.<p>FAQ archive in case the website goes down: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220503102946&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdistractions.com&#x2F;cv&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220503102946&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdi...</a></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>harryvederci</author><text>I like to put some kind of achievement in there, like the &quot;reduced AWS costs by 80%&quot; example on the login page of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdistractions.com&#x2F;cv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdistractions.com&#x2F;cv</a><p>Aside from that, just some info about what my work was for a given project.<p>As far as the description goes, the one on the login page is exactly what I have on my own CV:<p>&gt; I am a full stack developer &#x2F; Linux enthusiast with an IT-Law master&#x27;s degree. I enjoy automating DevOps processes and delivering robust and intuitive end products to clients. My positive character and social skills allow me to combine hard work with friendly and constructive collegiality.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fprotthetarball</author><text>On the topic of resumes: what do people put in these things? I haven&#x27;t job hopped in a while and haven&#x27;t done any resume work in over 10 years. Anyone have good examples for software developers with the kind of content that gets noticed?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I'm deprecating LinkedIn recruitment with a Lisp, SQLite and htmx</title><url>https://withoutdistractions.com/</url><text>FAQ: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdistractions.com&#x2F;cv&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdistractions.com&#x2F;cv&#x2F;faq</a><p>Feel free to ask me any questions.<p>FAQ archive in case the website goes down: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220503102946&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdistractions.com&#x2F;cv&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220503102946&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withoutdi...</a></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>liversage</author><text>I live in Denmark so also Europe. Our social security number (which can be guessed with enough information and a few tries) has been incorrectly used as a password instead of a key just like you describe. You make a call, provide this number and the clerk on the phone believes that you are who you claim to be.<p>Nowadays things are better because computers are used everywhere We have a national ID system using 2FA which is pretty safe. Unfortunately, identify theft is still a thing.<p>Recently someone installed keyloggers on public computers. The second factor in the 2FA is a cardboard card with a list of one time password codes. You use a code on each sign in.<p>The criminals were able to determine when there were only a few codes left on the card. You then get a new cardboard card sent to your home address. They would stalk their victim&#x27;s mail box and steal the new card as soon as it arrived.<p>With user name (your social security number) and password from the key logger together with the 2FA codes they were able to perform identity theft.<p>It&#x27;s not easy to guard against attacks like this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bonzini</author><text>The problem is that it&#x27;s a username that is used as a password. In Europe you&#x27;d use some kind of tax identification number <i>plus</i> a physical copy of an ID card or driving license.<p>My identification number is algorithmically derived from place and date of birth, first and last name and gender. Anybody who knows my address and has heard someone greeting me happy birthday can guess mine with two-three trials corresponding to the closest hospitals. But that doesn&#x27;t worry me, because I don&#x27;t fear identity theft, it just doesn&#x27;t exist in Italy.<p>Instead, as a result of America&#x27;s allergy to ID, they are essentially the only country where identity theft is a thing.</text></item><item><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>It always amazes me that in the US there is such a weak identification system, relying on a single number.<p>Then it is apparently to the owner of said number to worry if it leaked.</text></item><item><author>fotta</author><text>&gt; What was the subdomain I X’d out of his message? Just my Social Security number. I’d been doxed via DNS.<p>That would freak me the fuck out wow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No, I did not hack your MS Exchange server</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/no-i-did-not-hack-your-ms-exchange-server/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toyg</author><text><i>&gt; identity theft [...] just doesn’t exist in Italy</i><p>Big lol. The country used to be famous for frauds and scams! <i>Of course</i> identity fraud exists, but precisely <i>because</i> everyone expects it, the majority of systems errs on the side of caution and requires validation from multiple sources. The result is that fraud processes become so much harder to pull off that fewer and fewer bad guys attempt it, but on the other hand every validation step becomes a bureaucratic nightmare (“did you include certificate X from office A, Y from office B, and Z from office C, as well as your ID card, health card, tax card, and recent pictures? No? Sorry, no cookie for you.”)<p>This is also why the country has a pretty secure and advanced way to carry out official acts electronically (PEC) - because otherwise fraud would be even more rampant.<p>I do agree that the “anglo” hate for ID documents (“such Napoleonic constructs, so barbaric!”) leaves the door open to scammers, but it’s not like they don’t exist in Italy too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bonzini</author><text>The problem is that it&#x27;s a username that is used as a password. In Europe you&#x27;d use some kind of tax identification number <i>plus</i> a physical copy of an ID card or driving license.<p>My identification number is algorithmically derived from place and date of birth, first and last name and gender. Anybody who knows my address and has heard someone greeting me happy birthday can guess mine with two-three trials corresponding to the closest hospitals. But that doesn&#x27;t worry me, because I don&#x27;t fear identity theft, it just doesn&#x27;t exist in Italy.<p>Instead, as a result of America&#x27;s allergy to ID, they are essentially the only country where identity theft is a thing.</text></item><item><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>It always amazes me that in the US there is such a weak identification system, relying on a single number.<p>Then it is apparently to the owner of said number to worry if it leaked.</text></item><item><author>fotta</author><text>&gt; What was the subdomain I X’d out of his message? Just my Social Security number. I’d been doxed via DNS.<p>That would freak me the fuck out wow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No, I did not hack your MS Exchange server</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/no-i-did-not-hack-your-ms-exchange-server/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmix</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mamot.fr&#x2F;system&#x2F;media_attachments&#x2F;files&#x2F;001&#x2F;582&#x2F;923&#x2F;original&#x2F;e2136d6b4d317af6.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mamot.fr&#x2F;system&#x2F;media_attachments&#x2F;files&#x2F;001&#x2F;582&#x2F;923&#x2F;...</a><p>Classic comic from years ago</text><parent_chain><item><author>j9461701</author><text>The same thing happened with live journal. Executives massively over-react to the terror of possibly hosting child pornography, and therefore decided <i>all</i> pornography - or even anything mildly erotic - had to be ejected. And, like what happened with live journal, the site never recovered.<p>As a sex positive liberal, I admit a certain level of schadenfreude at seeing tumblr&#x27;s decision bite them in the butt. Using child porn as a pretext to justify a puritanical purge of all erotic content is absolutely obnoxious IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/verizon-reportedly-seeking-to-sell-tumblr/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zimpenfish</author><text>&gt; Using child porn as a pretext to justify a puritanical purge of all erotic content is absolutely obnoxious IMO.<p>And not what Tumblr did - their erotic content ban was under way before the CP snafu got them temporarily kicked out of the iOS App Store. Consensus is that it saves them from SESTA-FOSTA legal troubles.</text><parent_chain><item><author>j9461701</author><text>The same thing happened with live journal. Executives massively over-react to the terror of possibly hosting child pornography, and therefore decided <i>all</i> pornography - or even anything mildly erotic - had to be ejected. And, like what happened with live journal, the site never recovered.<p>As a sex positive liberal, I admit a certain level of schadenfreude at seeing tumblr&#x27;s decision bite them in the butt. Using child porn as a pretext to justify a puritanical purge of all erotic content is absolutely obnoxious IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/verizon-reportedly-seeking-to-sell-tumblr/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drusenko</author><text>Why don't you have a very limited free version that lets them kick the tires without paying you anything?<p>Then, put the free version limit at 25 page views per month, or something small. Once it's all set up and running, and customers are visiting the mobile site, they'll "see the value" and be much more inclined to pay up :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevenwei</author><text><a href="http://www.chompstack.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.chompstack.com</a><p>We all know how mobile unfriendly restaurant websites tend to be. Many of them are done in Flash, and don't work at all on most phones. Others force you to download PDF menus which take forever to load and have an annoying tendency to lock up my phone.<p>The irony, of course, is that I'm <i>most</i> likely to be looking at restaurant websites on my phone, when I'm around town looking for an interesting place to eat. There's nothing more frustrating than pulling up a restaurant website, only to see a Flash page that doesn't work, or a desktop website that you have to pinch, zoom, and scroll your way around.<p>I built ChompStack to make it easier for restaurants to create mobile friendly versions of their websites.<p>Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.<p>I feel like our biggest challenge with this service is getting in touch with restaurant owners and convincing them of the value of having a mobile website, most of them don't seem to be particularly interested in technology.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants</title><url>http://www.chompstack.com</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>jroes</author><text>Instead of charging a flat setup or monthly fee, have you thought about pivoting your business model so that customers can order through your app, and you charge a percentage fee to the restaurant owner?<p>I think skeptical restaurant owners would choose that no-risk option, and you'd probably make more money. Restaurant owners who think it'll be successful in making sales would probably be willing to pay a decent sum per month.<p>I agree with the other commenter that you are probably not charging enough. I think this kind of service has high value if it can demonstrably increase sales.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevenwei</author><text><a href="http://www.chompstack.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.chompstack.com</a><p>We all know how mobile unfriendly restaurant websites tend to be. Many of them are done in Flash, and don't work at all on most phones. Others force you to download PDF menus which take forever to load and have an annoying tendency to lock up my phone.<p>The irony, of course, is that I'm <i>most</i> likely to be looking at restaurant websites on my phone, when I'm around town looking for an interesting place to eat. There's nothing more frustrating than pulling up a restaurant website, only to see a Flash page that doesn't work, or a desktop website that you have to pinch, zoom, and scroll your way around.<p>I built ChompStack to make it easier for restaurants to create mobile friendly versions of their websites.<p>Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.<p>I feel like our biggest challenge with this service is getting in touch with restaurant owners and convincing them of the value of having a mobile website, most of them don't seem to be particularly interested in technology.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants</title><url>http://www.chompstack.com</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>philliphaydon</author><text>I use jetbrains rider. Tooling on linux is just as good as Windows. Developing .net is far more enjoyable than Java.</text><parent_chain><item><author>5e92cb50239222b</author><text>Java is miles ahead in terms of cross-platform support. .NET applications may be running fine on other operating systems (I write them at $DAYJOB and they mostly do), but the development tooling is absolutely incomparable across OSes. As long as .NET is being developed and pushed by Microsoft, the situation won&#x27;t change, because it doesn&#x27;t align with their incentives.<p>Some people&#x2F;companies also care about more than the big three operating systems that MS cares to acknowledge. .NET has no official FreeBSD port, for example.</text></item><item><author>kemonocode</author><text>Here&#x27;s hoping .NET can some day shake off its Windows exclusivity stigma, as I&#x27;ve been writing pretty interoperable C# code for the past 3-4 years or so, and it&#x27;s been a joy. Night and day compared to Java, at least.<p>I&#x27;ll admit it takes some time to get started, but it&#x27;s smooth sailing once you get past the initial hurdles of setting up your project, understanding some idiosyncrasies when it comes to ASP.NET&#x2F;Web API&#x2F;Entity Framework if you&#x27;re going that route for your backend and such. And now with Blazor, I can even work on the frontend and touch Javascript as little as possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>.NET 6 Preview 5</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-5/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>.net is catching up very quickly in cross-platform support.<p>Tooling for. Net is miles ahead of anything else I&#x27;ve witnessed.<p>As for FreeBSD there&#x27;s a huge nuance:<p>&gt; FreeBSD support still requires additional work to implement features that are missing in the runtime to reach parity with the other operating systems. The community will most likely need to do that work in .Net 3.0&#x2F;3.1 but I would like to see official automated daily builds for FreeBSD restarted with the master (.Net 5) branches of the necessary repos.<p>As for your statement on Microsoft. I&#x27;d trust Microsoft with. Net more than Oracle with Java.</text><parent_chain><item><author>5e92cb50239222b</author><text>Java is miles ahead in terms of cross-platform support. .NET applications may be running fine on other operating systems (I write them at $DAYJOB and they mostly do), but the development tooling is absolutely incomparable across OSes. As long as .NET is being developed and pushed by Microsoft, the situation won&#x27;t change, because it doesn&#x27;t align with their incentives.<p>Some people&#x2F;companies also care about more than the big three operating systems that MS cares to acknowledge. .NET has no official FreeBSD port, for example.</text></item><item><author>kemonocode</author><text>Here&#x27;s hoping .NET can some day shake off its Windows exclusivity stigma, as I&#x27;ve been writing pretty interoperable C# code for the past 3-4 years or so, and it&#x27;s been a joy. Night and day compared to Java, at least.<p>I&#x27;ll admit it takes some time to get started, but it&#x27;s smooth sailing once you get past the initial hurdles of setting up your project, understanding some idiosyncrasies when it comes to ASP.NET&#x2F;Web API&#x2F;Entity Framework if you&#x27;re going that route for your backend and such. And now with Blazor, I can even work on the frontend and touch Javascript as little as possible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>.NET 6 Preview 5</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-5/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makewavesnotwar</author><text>Sure and while you&#x27;re at it why not implement cameras all over every roadway to automatically ticket you every time you break the speed limit. Or better yet, why not devise a real time geolocation device to be embedded in cars and then lobby for it to be nationally adopted so people literally can&#x27;t speed?<p>The reality is that very few people want to live in that world and even if we do fully adopt technologies like this, it doesn&#x27;t necessarily make us any safer. A car traveling 30 mph is absolutely as lethal as a car traveling 10 mph faster than that. And I&#x27;m much more likely to be killed by a random traffic accident (only time I&#x27;ve been hit on my bike was by a white women driving a Ford) or domestic terrorist&#x2F;psychopath than an immigrant.<p>So you&#x27;re pitching huge lifestyle and diplomatic costs without any obvious benefit... Please count me as a no.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-23/amazon-pitches-facial-recognition-tools-to-monitor-immigrants?srnd=premium</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tinktank</author><text>It&#x27;s just another use-case for them I suppose. Interesting to see how, as tech companies become bigger, they go the same way as companies in all the other industries. I&#x27;m not surprised, but I am disappointed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-23/amazon-pitches-facial-recognition-tools-to-monitor-immigrants?srnd=premium</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I was having this discussion with a friend recently, arguing over what the actual use cases are for crypto, and I came to a similar conclusion.<p>In terms of <i>facilitating payments</i>, cryptocurrencies are worse in almost every way I can think of compared to existing systems. They are (currently) slow, have high transaction fees, but most importantly the non-refundability of crypto transactions is a bug, not the feature crypto proponents suggest.<p>However, as a <i>store of value</i> (e.g. &quot;digital gold&quot;), I think crypto has real potential. There is a reason crypto is very popular in places with hyper-inflationary monetary systems like Venezuela and Iran. And compared to actual, physical gold, crypto is almost <i>better</i> in every way: it is much more easily transferred and stored, and the ledger means establishing &quot;provenance&quot; is not an issue. Yes, it&#x27;s obviously currently extremely volatile, but it&#x27;s not hard to imagine that volatility lessening over time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>doggosphere</author><text>Fiat currencies will probably always exist.<p>Digital crypto assets like Bitcoin or Ethereum will exist alongside them. Bitcoin can be an asset like gold, of which users keep a portion of their networth to protect from economic uncertainty.<p>Its deflationary policy may make it less usable as a currency, but at least crypto gives people choice.</text></item><item><author>lovetocode</author><text>Cryptocurrency continues to gain more ground but I still have my reservations about it being the currency of the future.<p>If by design, cryptocurrency has a finite volume of transferrable currency, do early adopters have an unfair advantage that could potentially make the currency unusable? I don’t see how it could possibly be fair when earlier mining yielded currency more quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO</title><url>https://www.coindesk.com/visa-may-add-cryptocurrencies-to-its-payments-network-says-ceo</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>You&#x27;re not protecting from uncertainty with a currency whose value fluctuates against the dollar by 10% daily on a regular basis.</text><parent_chain><item><author>doggosphere</author><text>Fiat currencies will probably always exist.<p>Digital crypto assets like Bitcoin or Ethereum will exist alongside them. Bitcoin can be an asset like gold, of which users keep a portion of their networth to protect from economic uncertainty.<p>Its deflationary policy may make it less usable as a currency, but at least crypto gives people choice.</text></item><item><author>lovetocode</author><text>Cryptocurrency continues to gain more ground but I still have my reservations about it being the currency of the future.<p>If by design, cryptocurrency has a finite volume of transferrable currency, do early adopters have an unfair advantage that could potentially make the currency unusable? I don’t see how it could possibly be fair when earlier mining yielded currency more quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO</title><url>https://www.coindesk.com/visa-may-add-cryptocurrencies-to-its-payments-network-says-ceo</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>If there is any magic bullet, it&#x27;ll be something biological evolution can&#x27;t easily jump-to or stumble-upon. Otherwise I think it would have happened already, given the risks of sleep and the rewards of an expanded activity (or at least awareness) cycle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>moffkalast</author><text>I wonder if eventually once this is more thoroughly researched there could be a way to induce constant cleaning instead of having to do it while unconscious at night? Or at least reduce the hours required. If we could solve this we could just stay awake perpetually and instantly gain a 30% longer lifespan as it were.</text></item><item><author>robg</author><text>If you have any doubts about sleep quantity and quality, worth reading about the glymphatic nervous system, which is so newly discovered likely you didn’t learn about it in school.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4636982&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4636982&#x2F;</a><p>In short it explains, mechanistically, why poor sleep affects daily cognition, mental health, and age-related declines. Robust scientific theories explain more of the evidence. The glymphatic nervous system explains why sleep is so key to surviving and thriving. Maiken Nedergaard will end up winning the Nobel for its discovery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice</title><url>https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2816616</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>someplaceguy</author><text>&gt; I wonder if eventually once this is more thoroughly researched there could be a way to induce constant cleaning instead of having to do it while unconscious at night?<p>Hopefully without having to induce those brainwaves, otherwise you might be able to do it during the day but you wouldn&#x27;t exactly be conscious. But there&#x27;s also the question of whether those brainwaves are doing more than just cleaning the brain.<p>I think some types of learning and memory formation also happen during sleep, right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>moffkalast</author><text>I wonder if eventually once this is more thoroughly researched there could be a way to induce constant cleaning instead of having to do it while unconscious at night? Or at least reduce the hours required. If we could solve this we could just stay awake perpetually and instantly gain a 30% longer lifespan as it were.</text></item><item><author>robg</author><text>If you have any doubts about sleep quantity and quality, worth reading about the glymphatic nervous system, which is so newly discovered likely you didn’t learn about it in school.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4636982&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4636982&#x2F;</a><p>In short it explains, mechanistically, why poor sleep affects daily cognition, mental health, and age-related declines. Robust scientific theories explain more of the evidence. The glymphatic nervous system explains why sleep is so key to surviving and thriving. Maiken Nedergaard will end up winning the Nobel for its discovery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice</title><url>https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2816616</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gizmo686</author><text>A good engineer knows the difference between safe and dangerous. Setting up an AI computer is safe. Maybe you trip a circut. Maybe you interfere with something else running on your hobby computer. But nothing bad can really happen.<p>Residential electrical is dangerous. Maybe you electrocute yourself. Maybe you cause a fire 5 years down the line. Maybe you cause a fire for the next owner because you didn&#x27;t know to protect the wire with a metal plate so they drill into it.<p>Having said that, 2 4090s will run you aroud $5,000, not counting any of the surrounding system. At that cost point, hireing an electritian would not be that big of an expense relativly speaking.<p>Also, if you are at the point where you need to add a circut for power, you might need to seriously consider cooling, which could potentially be another side quest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tcdent</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe a group of engineers are so afraid of residential power.<p>It is not expensive, nor is it highly technical. It&#x27;s not like we&#x27;re factoring in latency and crosstalk...<p>Read a quick howto, cruise into Home Depot and grab some legos off the shelf. Far easier to figure out than executing &quot;hello world&quot; without domain expertise.</text></item><item><author>mattnewton</author><text>The main thing stopping me from going beyond 2x 4090’s in my home lab is power. Anything around ~2k watts on a single circuit breaker is likely to flip it, and that’s before you get to the costs involved of drawing that much power for multiple days of a training run. How did you navigate that in a (presumably) residential setting?</text></item><item><author>XMasterrrr</author><text>Hey guys, this is something I have been intending to share here for a while. This setup took me some time to plan and put together, and then some more time to explore the software part of things and the possibilities that came with it.<p>Part of the main reason I built this was data privacy, I do not want to hand over my private data to any company to further train their closed weight models; and given the recent drop in output quality on different platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, etc), I don&#x27;t regret spending the money on this setup.<p>I was also able to do a lot of cool things using this server by leveraging tensor parallelism and batch inference, generating synthetic data, and experimenting with finetuning models using my private data. I am currently building a model from scratch, mainly as a learning project, but I am also finding some cool things while doing so and if I can get around ironing out the kinks, I might release it and write a tutorial from my notes.<p>So I finally had the time this weekend to get my blog up and running, and I am planning on following up this blog post with a series of posts on my learnings and findings. I am also open to topics and ideas to experiment with on this server and write about, so feel free to shoot your shot if you have ideas you want to experiment with and don&#x27;t have the hardware, I am more than willing to do that on your behalf and sharing the findings<p>Please let me know if you have any questions, my PMs are open, and you can also reach me on any of the socials I have posted on my website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup</title><url>https://ahmadosman.com/blog/serving-ai-from-basement/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>&gt; I can&#x27;t believe a group of engineers are so afraid of residential power. ... Read a quick howto, cruise into Home Depot and grab some legos off the shelf. Far easier to figure out than executing &quot;hello world&quot; without domain expertise.<p>The instinct to not touch something that you don&#x27;t yet deeply understand is very much an engineer&#x27;s instinct. Any engineer worthy of the title has often spent weeks carefully designing a system to take care of the hundreds of edge cases that weren&#x27;t apparent at a quick glance. Once you&#x27;ve done that once (much less dozens of times) you have a healthy respect for the complexity that usually lurks below the surface, and you&#x27;re loathe to confidently insert yourself confidently into an unfamiliar domain that has a whole engineering discipline dedicated to it. You understand that those engineers are employed full time for a reason.<p>The attitude you describe is one that&#x27;s useful in a lot of cases and may even be correct for this particular application (though I&#x27;m personally leery of it), but if confidently injecting yourself into territory you don&#x27;t know well is what being an &quot;engineer&quot; means to you, that&#x27;s a sad commentary on the state of software engineering today.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tcdent</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe a group of engineers are so afraid of residential power.<p>It is not expensive, nor is it highly technical. It&#x27;s not like we&#x27;re factoring in latency and crosstalk...<p>Read a quick howto, cruise into Home Depot and grab some legos off the shelf. Far easier to figure out than executing &quot;hello world&quot; without domain expertise.</text></item><item><author>mattnewton</author><text>The main thing stopping me from going beyond 2x 4090’s in my home lab is power. Anything around ~2k watts on a single circuit breaker is likely to flip it, and that’s before you get to the costs involved of drawing that much power for multiple days of a training run. How did you navigate that in a (presumably) residential setting?</text></item><item><author>XMasterrrr</author><text>Hey guys, this is something I have been intending to share here for a while. This setup took me some time to plan and put together, and then some more time to explore the software part of things and the possibilities that came with it.<p>Part of the main reason I built this was data privacy, I do not want to hand over my private data to any company to further train their closed weight models; and given the recent drop in output quality on different platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, etc), I don&#x27;t regret spending the money on this setup.<p>I was also able to do a lot of cool things using this server by leveraging tensor parallelism and batch inference, generating synthetic data, and experimenting with finetuning models using my private data. I am currently building a model from scratch, mainly as a learning project, but I am also finding some cool things while doing so and if I can get around ironing out the kinks, I might release it and write a tutorial from my notes.<p>So I finally had the time this weekend to get my blog up and running, and I am planning on following up this blog post with a series of posts on my learnings and findings. I am also open to topics and ideas to experiment with on this server and write about, so feel free to shoot your shot if you have ideas you want to experiment with and don&#x27;t have the hardware, I am more than willing to do that on your behalf and sharing the findings<p>Please let me know if you have any questions, my PMs are open, and you can also reach me on any of the socials I have posted on my website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup</title><url>https://ahmadosman.com/blog/serving-ai-from-basement/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>This issue was covered in great depth when the Smart Car (e.g. Fortwo) got popular in Europe. Smart Cars have a lot of safety features, seat belts, airbags (4x), ABS, stability control, but the question was really about impact distribution.<p>They put in a tridion protection cell[0] and moved the engine to the back to offer SOME crumple at the front. The Euro NCAP rated it 4&#x2F;5, IIHS rated it &quot;good&quot; but it later failed the partial frontal collision test (&quot;poor&quot;).<p>A Smart Car likely would do alright in most collisions. Although it somewhat benefits from the large crumple zones of every other vehicle has on the road. If two Smart Cars collided head on, the results might be worse than if a Smart Car collided with any other vehicle type.<p>That all being said, just because Smart managed it, doesn&#x27;t mean every small car is equally safe. Without the tridion cell and SOME crumple zone, it would be a much less safe vehicle.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;auto.howstuffworks.com&#x2F;smart-car1.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;auto.howstuffworks.com&#x2F;smart-car1.htm</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>I feel like the size = safety is fallacious. Size <i>can</i> equal safety, but its not a guarantee. Sure I would not want to get hit by a 3 ton lifted SUV with ranch style bumpers on it. I would feel that way even if what I were driving was a 3 ton suv with the same bumpers. There was an NHTSA video a few years back of a modern chevy impala hitting a 1959 impala and the much larger 59 getting demolished, while the new one had much more survivable damage. Safety cages, and metallurgy have made cars much safer, even small ones. I drive a mid sized sedan, and feel that I have a pretty reasonable chance of surviving a crash so long as I am not hit by a vehicle that is so tall the bumper goes through my windows and doesn&#x27;t hit any significant metal surface of my car.</text></item><item><author>pmontra</author><text>A car sharing service in Milan, Italy, is using small two seater electric cars from China.<p>Prompted by this article I finally investigated and found them at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alibaba.com&#x2F;product-detail&#x2F;China-eec-l7e-80-electric-car_60432063640.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alibaba.com&#x2F;product-detail&#x2F;China-eec-l7e-80-elect...</a> They&#x27;re quoted with a maximum price of $8000.<p>They&#x27;re definitely made for driving inside a city. Not very good suspensions (don&#x27;t drive too fast on cobble stones) but good torque (easily beats a gas car out of a green light). 120 km of autonomy, which is good enough in the typical European city center, apparently 80 km&#x2F;h max speed, which again is more than enough there. Very easy to park.<p>More important matters:<p>Would I survive a crash? They&#x27;re very tiny...<p>How long to recharge?<p>Operating costs? I&#x27;m paying 19 Eurocents per minute, all included.<p>Do they compete with gas cars? The other two car sharing companies in Milan have gas cars and cost 25 and 29 cents per minute. I prefer the electric one: it&#x27;s a shakier ride but cheaper and more fun because of the torque.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?</title><url>http://rameznaam.com/2016/04/12/how-cheap-can-electric-vehicles-get/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JshWright</author><text>The thing &#x27;size&#x27; gets you is crumple zones. A bigger vehicle has a lot more material that can be engineered to deform and absorb the energy of the impact, spreading the deceleration over a longer period of time.<p>A small car can be designed to prevent intrusion into the passenger compartment, but it can&#x27;t do anything about the g-forces of the collision (which can seriously ruin your day...).</text><parent_chain><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>I feel like the size = safety is fallacious. Size <i>can</i> equal safety, but its not a guarantee. Sure I would not want to get hit by a 3 ton lifted SUV with ranch style bumpers on it. I would feel that way even if what I were driving was a 3 ton suv with the same bumpers. There was an NHTSA video a few years back of a modern chevy impala hitting a 1959 impala and the much larger 59 getting demolished, while the new one had much more survivable damage. Safety cages, and metallurgy have made cars much safer, even small ones. I drive a mid sized sedan, and feel that I have a pretty reasonable chance of surviving a crash so long as I am not hit by a vehicle that is so tall the bumper goes through my windows and doesn&#x27;t hit any significant metal surface of my car.</text></item><item><author>pmontra</author><text>A car sharing service in Milan, Italy, is using small two seater electric cars from China.<p>Prompted by this article I finally investigated and found them at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alibaba.com&#x2F;product-detail&#x2F;China-eec-l7e-80-electric-car_60432063640.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alibaba.com&#x2F;product-detail&#x2F;China-eec-l7e-80-elect...</a> They&#x27;re quoted with a maximum price of $8000.<p>They&#x27;re definitely made for driving inside a city. Not very good suspensions (don&#x27;t drive too fast on cobble stones) but good torque (easily beats a gas car out of a green light). 120 km of autonomy, which is good enough in the typical European city center, apparently 80 km&#x2F;h max speed, which again is more than enough there. Very easy to park.<p>More important matters:<p>Would I survive a crash? They&#x27;re very tiny...<p>How long to recharge?<p>Operating costs? I&#x27;m paying 19 Eurocents per minute, all included.<p>Do they compete with gas cars? The other two car sharing companies in Milan have gas cars and cost 25 and 29 cents per minute. I prefer the electric one: it&#x27;s a shakier ride but cheaper and more fun because of the torque.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?</title><url>http://rameznaam.com/2016/04/12/how-cheap-can-electric-vehicles-get/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>creshal</author><text>&gt; They set their own agenda with limited cooperation.<p>Canonical depends on their community for everything from the very OS (Debian) to marketing to support.<p>Yet, they&#x27;re crippling their community at the same time with their IP policy and their general refusal to integrate with software projects <i>they depend on for survival</i>.<p>This is, simply, unsustainable. Canonical cannot fork everything and do their own thing (not without quickly going bankrupt – unlike Apple, which has no problem with say, developing their own SMB stack if needed); and they cannot continue alienating potential (and current) users and upstream sources.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vezzy-fnord</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why you think this is a bad thing. Canonical is a corollary to Apple in the Linux world. They set their own agenda with limited cooperation.<p>The FOSS obsession with &quot;community&quot; and &quot;integration&quot; is myopic and abhorrent. As if everyone must converge on one approach, one vanguard. There are scantly any problem domains where only one solution applies.<p>Now, Canonical keeping to themselves has a very crucial advantage: <i>they leave everyone else alone</i>. They stay in their corner, they don&#x27;t bother, they don&#x27;t intervene. They don&#x27;t start a massive integration effort to drag everyone else in every time they devise something new.<p>We should be commending Canonical for this.</text></item><item><author>pnt12</author><text>I agree: Canonical should make it easier for developers to strip the company&#x27;s trademarks when forking their applications.<p>Canonical&#x27;s relationship with the rest of the FOSS community always seemed a bit screwed up to me. They try to make Ubuntu the best Linux distro while ignoring what all the other ones are doing. All other distros seem much more friendly towards integration between projects, to benefit from the shared work, while Ubuntu most of the time paves its own way - there&#x27;s a lot of Ubuntu only software, such as Unity, Mir, etc. that you just dont see in other distros.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/665175/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hohenheim</author><text>Canonical&#x27;s contribution is welcomed as long as people could continue it without getting blocked by their IP.<p>There is no obsession over &quot;community&quot; or &quot;integration&quot; as you stated. It is a valid concern that if others can not contribute freely, we are killing the essential of what made Ubuntu possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vezzy-fnord</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why you think this is a bad thing. Canonical is a corollary to Apple in the Linux world. They set their own agenda with limited cooperation.<p>The FOSS obsession with &quot;community&quot; and &quot;integration&quot; is myopic and abhorrent. As if everyone must converge on one approach, one vanguard. There are scantly any problem domains where only one solution applies.<p>Now, Canonical keeping to themselves has a very crucial advantage: <i>they leave everyone else alone</i>. They stay in their corner, they don&#x27;t bother, they don&#x27;t intervene. They don&#x27;t start a massive integration effort to drag everyone else in every time they devise something new.<p>We should be commending Canonical for this.</text></item><item><author>pnt12</author><text>I agree: Canonical should make it easier for developers to strip the company&#x27;s trademarks when forking their applications.<p>Canonical&#x27;s relationship with the rest of the FOSS community always seemed a bit screwed up to me. They try to make Ubuntu the best Linux distro while ignoring what all the other ones are doing. All other distros seem much more friendly towards integration between projects, to benefit from the shared work, while Ubuntu most of the time paves its own way - there&#x27;s a lot of Ubuntu only software, such as Unity, Mir, etc. that you just dont see in other distros.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/665175/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phaemon</author><text>They did not gloss over it. It&#x27;s right there in the abstract: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;17&#x2F;science.aar3247" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;17&#x2F;scien...</a><p>Please realise that, just because a detail is omitted in a news report, it does not mean that the team who did the research didn&#x27;t think of it, or tried to hide it. This is just the usual shoddy reporting by the BBC.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AstralStorm</author><text>They glossed over the false positive rate...</text></item><item><author>tempestn</author><text>This was the most exciting part for me:<p><i>It was trialled on 1,005 patients with cancers in the ovary, liver, stomach, pancreas, oesophagus, colon, lung or breast that had not yet spread to other tissues.<p>Overall, the test found 70% of the cancers. </i><p>I expected it to be blood cancers only, but this list covers many of the most common forms of cancer. Could be a huge development.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42736764</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bron101</author><text>From other sources (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medscape.com&#x2F;viewarticle&#x2F;891491" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medscape.com&#x2F;viewarticle&#x2F;891491</a>) I was able to find they had a specificity of &gt;99%, with a sensitivity averaging 70% but was as low as 20% on certain cancers (esophageal cancer).<p>With such an excellent specificity this sounds promising as a cheap screening tool, although the sensitivity is too low in some cancer types to be used as a means to rule out cancer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AstralStorm</author><text>They glossed over the false positive rate...</text></item><item><author>tempestn</author><text>This was the most exciting part for me:<p><i>It was trialled on 1,005 patients with cancers in the ovary, liver, stomach, pancreas, oesophagus, colon, lung or breast that had not yet spread to other tissues.<p>Overall, the test found 70% of the cancers. </i><p>I expected it to be blood cancers only, but this list covers many of the most common forms of cancer. Could be a huge development.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42736764</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gen220</author><text>What you describe is microservices developed in a monorepo, and a lot of companies (including the one I currently work at) have gone this route.<p>Some people might disagree, but imo the cult of microservices does not require 1 repo per microservice.<p>The tools you describe are build-graph management tools (bazel pants buck etc) and rpc tools (gRPC + protobufs, cap&#x27;n proto) and they are indeed pretty cool, albeit to a niche crowd.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lmarcos</author><text>Great article. Main takeaway: microservices is not the only option when managing big codebases. In a parallel universe I imagine that the coolest trend in software development right now is a tool for monoliths: all code in a single repo, independent deployable components, contracts in the boundaries and mockable dependant components where needed. As opposed to our universe in which building microservices is the non-official way to go.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith</title><url>https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/shopify-monolith</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hliyan</author><text>I often find myself saying &quot;never do at runtime what could be done at compile time&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lmarcos</author><text>Great article. Main takeaway: microservices is not the only option when managing big codebases. In a parallel universe I imagine that the coolest trend in software development right now is a tool for monoliths: all code in a single repo, independent deployable components, contracts in the boundaries and mockable dependant components where needed. As opposed to our universe in which building microservices is the non-official way to go.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith</title><url>https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/shopify-monolith</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gotrecruit</author><text>You mean do the needful?</text><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>Would you kindly do the willingly and explain how? :)</text></item><item><author>bubbleRefuge</author><text>Well, I can tell the way sentences are formed in many cases if I&#x27;m dealing with a native speaker or not.</text></item><item><author>rudolf0</author><text>Well, for one, you can hide contact info from a resume (which is still stored in a system somewhere, with a unique ID).<p>And you can also make the early stages of your interview email or text-chat based (or just a Google Doc, like some companies do), to eliminate any potential bias in things that can be inferred from voice like accent, region, and gender.<p>Obviously once they&#x27;re on-site for an interview, you can&#x27;t anonymize much anymore, but anonymizing every stage before that seems like a win-win to me (excluding potential costs of implementing the system).</text></item><item><author>grepthisab</author><text>When you say anonymous, how do you mean it? As in: the interviewer meets face-to-face without a resume in front of them, or the interviewer has a resume but the interview is done over the phone, or a phone interview with no resume?</text></item><item><author>tabeth</author><text>Couple points:<p>First, this is where the meat is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;releases&#x2F;ofccp&#x2F;ofccp20170118-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;releases&#x2F;ofccp&#x2F;ofccp20170118-0</a><p>Second:<p>&quot;...Oracle nevertheless preferred Asian applications over other qualified applicants in the Professional Technical 1, Individual Contributor Job group and in the Product Development job group at statistically significant rates.&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;newsreleases&#x2F;OFCCP20170071.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;newsrelease...</a><p>---<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m naive, but I&#x27;ll say it again and again until someone with influence hears me: large companies should do anonymous interviewing. I&#x27;ve interviewed with Oracle, Cisco, and many of the &quot;old corporate-y&quot; companies. There&#x27;s ZERO reason the interview process can&#x27;t be completely anonymized. Their interviews (from my limited experience) are completely impersonal and done on an ad-hoc basis anyway.<p>That being said, it seems this issue may be more of an H1B1 issue, which inherently cannot be made anonymous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-usa-labor-idUSKBN1522O6?il=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>mschuster91</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty easy, but also pretty rough - if you&#x27;re good, you can certainly distinguish between an American, a British or an Indian English-speaking person writing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>Would you kindly do the willingly and explain how? :)</text></item><item><author>bubbleRefuge</author><text>Well, I can tell the way sentences are formed in many cases if I&#x27;m dealing with a native speaker or not.</text></item><item><author>rudolf0</author><text>Well, for one, you can hide contact info from a resume (which is still stored in a system somewhere, with a unique ID).<p>And you can also make the early stages of your interview email or text-chat based (or just a Google Doc, like some companies do), to eliminate any potential bias in things that can be inferred from voice like accent, region, and gender.<p>Obviously once they&#x27;re on-site for an interview, you can&#x27;t anonymize much anymore, but anonymizing every stage before that seems like a win-win to me (excluding potential costs of implementing the system).</text></item><item><author>grepthisab</author><text>When you say anonymous, how do you mean it? As in: the interviewer meets face-to-face without a resume in front of them, or the interviewer has a resume but the interview is done over the phone, or a phone interview with no resume?</text></item><item><author>tabeth</author><text>Couple points:<p>First, this is where the meat is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;releases&#x2F;ofccp&#x2F;ofccp20170118-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;releases&#x2F;ofccp&#x2F;ofccp20170118-0</a><p>Second:<p>&quot;...Oracle nevertheless preferred Asian applications over other qualified applicants in the Professional Technical 1, Individual Contributor Job group and in the Product Development job group at statistically significant rates.&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;newsreleases&#x2F;OFCCP20170071.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;newsrelease...</a><p>---<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m naive, but I&#x27;ll say it again and again until someone with influence hears me: large companies should do anonymous interviewing. I&#x27;ve interviewed with Oracle, Cisco, and many of the &quot;old corporate-y&quot; companies. There&#x27;s ZERO reason the interview process can&#x27;t be completely anonymized. Their interviews (from my limited experience) are completely impersonal and done on an ad-hoc basis anyway.<p>That being said, it seems this issue may be more of an H1B1 issue, which inherently cannot be made anonymous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-usa-labor-idUSKBN1522O6?il=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>camgunz</author><text>My partner and I just moved to the Netherlands and I mildly disagree. For one, we really like the diversity and appreciate the different cultures and histories. But I also think there&#x27;s something to different member states getting to experiment on their own. Like, the Finns are onto something with their school system for sure, but the Dutch have a lot of Montessori schools--what are the pros and cons of each approach?<p>But, yeah not that we&#x27;re wild about international train travel--that&#x27;s a sore spot for sure. But generally we view the differences as a kind of richness and less of an inconvenience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reacharavindh</author><text>This is the baffling side of the EU to all outsiders&#x2F;newcomers. When I first moved here, that was my first thought as well. There is just so much in common, why repeat everything everywhere instead of single effort with branches everywhere?! (police force, consular services, Identity services, and pretty much any Government paperwork one can think of, transportation services etc). However, the population is very localised and divided. The French do it their way, Italians another way, the Germans on their own way etc. It is hard to find gain common ground beyond what EU already represents(which is very good IMO). I do wish doing things at EU level becomes the norm, and individualities slowly disappear.<p>Imagine a single European rail service (not Euro rail where you can buy a single ticket that will make you take Dutch train, and then connect on a German train, and then on an Austrian train, and if you miss a connection, good luck figuring out your replacement..)</text></item><item><author>college_physics</author><text>maybe EU countries could save a bundle and co-develop these apps. might also improve quality &#x2F; ensure best practises are available to all etc.</text></item><item><author>cloudify</author><text>Italy does the same: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pagopa&#x2F;io-app">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pagopa&#x2F;io-app</a><p>This is the official government app (you can get benefits, pay taxes, etc...), downloaded by 30+ million citizens, stack is React Native + Typescript</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act</title><url>https://github.com/MinBZK/woo-besluit-broncode-digid-app</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>&gt; I do wish doing things at EU level becomes the norm, and individualities slowly disappear.<p>Unless you reach an economic moment where you can pay the same to a policeman in Sweden and a policeman in Greece there is never going to be a socioeconomic identity that would allow you to aggregate all these people in some sort of federation police force. Same for rail, same for most anything where there is a cost or expense or transaction.<p>The diversity of systems reflects a diversity of arbitrage. Brute forcing that into a single entity or federal body is ivory tower thinking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reacharavindh</author><text>This is the baffling side of the EU to all outsiders&#x2F;newcomers. When I first moved here, that was my first thought as well. There is just so much in common, why repeat everything everywhere instead of single effort with branches everywhere?! (police force, consular services, Identity services, and pretty much any Government paperwork one can think of, transportation services etc). However, the population is very localised and divided. The French do it their way, Italians another way, the Germans on their own way etc. It is hard to find gain common ground beyond what EU already represents(which is very good IMO). I do wish doing things at EU level becomes the norm, and individualities slowly disappear.<p>Imagine a single European rail service (not Euro rail where you can buy a single ticket that will make you take Dutch train, and then connect on a German train, and then on an Austrian train, and if you miss a connection, good luck figuring out your replacement..)</text></item><item><author>college_physics</author><text>maybe EU countries could save a bundle and co-develop these apps. might also improve quality &#x2F; ensure best practises are available to all etc.</text></item><item><author>cloudify</author><text>Italy does the same: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pagopa&#x2F;io-app">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pagopa&#x2F;io-app</a><p>This is the official government app (you can get benefits, pay taxes, etc...), downloaded by 30+ million citizens, stack is React Native + Typescript</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act</title><url>https://github.com/MinBZK/woo-besluit-broncode-digid-app</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>guelo</author><text>FUD. That's the point of the decades long propaganda campaign by the energy companies. If they can't convince you outright they at least want to create the confusion and doubt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>muppetman</author><text>With these sorts of articles now I'm never quite sure what to believe.<p>Now before you jump in to mock me, it's just that I don't have time to keep really up-to-date with climate change anymore. Are we really getting warmer? Are we cooling? What's causing it?<p>For each article I read that tells me one thing, a few days later another comes out and tells me the previous one was wrong and here's why.<p>I hope that this article's right and being New Scientist I have a lot more faith in it. I just wish I had more time to understand all the factors of climate change for myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New ice age? Don't count on it</title><url>http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/06/new-ice-age-dont-count-on-it.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Joakal</author><text>Well, other people think it's bullshit here so far without any sources. Here's some scientific stuff: <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change" rel="nofollow">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Scientific_op...</a><p>It's unlikely you can understand all the factors of climate change since there's far more variables of Earth than most scientists can comprehend so they could only study and make scientific theory based understandings. I think it's best to leave it to the academics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>muppetman</author><text>With these sorts of articles now I'm never quite sure what to believe.<p>Now before you jump in to mock me, it's just that I don't have time to keep really up-to-date with climate change anymore. Are we really getting warmer? Are we cooling? What's causing it?<p>For each article I read that tells me one thing, a few days later another comes out and tells me the previous one was wrong and here's why.<p>I hope that this article's right and being New Scientist I have a lot more faith in it. I just wish I had more time to understand all the factors of climate change for myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New ice age? Don't count on it</title><url>http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/06/new-ice-age-dont-count-on-it.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amval</author><text>I tried it a couple days ago and so far my main gripe is that I am not all that familiar with Scala, which anyway seems like a great language. The project seems very well enginereed and the maintainer is very friendly (there is a Discord where you can ask questions and chat a bit). I&#x27;d recommend you to try it if you are curious about Scala.<p>As a side note, it&#x27;s quite exhausting to enter into a random HN post and see that most of the discussion revolves around some negative comment that required zero effort. Not only the JVM aspect is completely irrelevant for this project, but this is an engine geared towards making 2D pixel art games for fun, not AAA games.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indigo: A game engine for functional programmers, in Scala</title><url>https://indigoengine.io/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noelwelsh</author><text>There is a growing ecosystem of frontend and creative computing libraries in Scala. It&#x27;s a fun way to get into the language, and a good language in which to have fun.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indigo: A game engine for functional programmers, in Scala</title><url>https://indigoengine.io/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maskedinvader</author><text>WOW, this is simple indeed, amazing how individual interactions shape collective behavior and form complex solutions.It would be even more fascinating to find out what the evolutionary path was that lead to this algorithm being picked from the presumably several similar algorithms. I am assuming similar interactions and simple instructions lead to fire ants in south america forming rafts during flooding as discussed here [1] , also it helps that ants can lift almost 5000 times its own weight [2].
Ive always been fascinated by ants and their social structure, first introduced to their amazing skills in Richard Dawking&#x27;s &#x27;The Selfish Gene&#x27; -[3]<p>1.<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-1380471&#x2F;Survival-strategy-tropical-ants-form-living-raft-avoid-drowning.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-1380471&#x2F;Survi...</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;entomologytoday.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;ants-can-lift-up-to-5000-times-their-own-body-weight-new-study-suggests&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;entomologytoday.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;ants-can-lift-up-to-5...</a>
3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0192860925" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science&#x2F;dp&#x2F;01928...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges-20180226/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anonytrary</author><text>And this is why we need to study emergent protocols. Emergence is the bedrock of nature and mechanics. Many seemingly useless nodes can do spectacular things with some very, very simple assumptions. The output space is huge. See, for example, Conway&#x27;s Game of Life. Small parts and simple rules can lead to incredibly rich output.<p>This kind of thing is responsible for much, much more than ant behavior.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges-20180226/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cpleppert</author><text>The studies done ten years ago suggested that the best case scenario was about thirty years( one demonstration phase of 15 years and another development phase of 15 years). This was premised on the INF demonstrating ignition using indirect drive soon after operation. There was also an expectation that the INF would transistion to researching other, possibly more promising technologies like direct drive ignition.<p>Instead, it took over ten years to simply demonstrate ignition using the indirect drive method which was chosen specifically because it was seen as being more technologically viable. This &quot;big breakthrough&quot; was supposed to happen immediately after operation!<p>No one knows whether commercialization of inertial confinement fusion is even possible. Laser efficiency is just one small part; the work to produce and develop a system to reliably shoot hohlraum targets is an order of magnitude harder than shooting a static target in ideal conditions.<p>Compared to these engineering challenges demonstrating ignition is the easy part.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zbobet2012</author><text>This is the third thread today with pithy &quot;this means nothing takes&quot;. If you&#x27;re thinking of posting a one liner on the subject you should probably stop.<p>Let&#x27;s save some time out of discussion now:<p>1. The lasers at NIF are not designed to be efficient, and they are very old. Modern semiconductor lasers are 20x more efficient. The 300MJ wall plug conversation is stupid, stop pointing it out.<p>2. Dropping crystals and hitting them with lasers is not hard, we do it in semiconductors for EUV light source generation all the time. In fact EUV light sources do it at 100khz or more.<p>3. Power extraction from a bundle of hot material is not a particularly unknown problem. It&#x27;s in fact how every power plant on the planet works.<p>Make no mistake there are a lot of engineering problems to solve. The &quot;droplets&quot; are enormously expensive, the &quot;firing&quot; itself creates debries which need cleared from the chamber, dt supply is not something that&#x27;s readily available in large quantities, blah blah. I&#x27;d love interesting conversation about what stands between ICF and a real energy plant, not hot takes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: what does it mean?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04440-7</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gwypaas</author><text>&gt; 3. Power extraction from a bundle of hot material is not a particularly unknown problem. It&#x27;s in fact how every power plant on the planet works.<p>Coal and nuclear are uncompetitive simply from the cost of the steam side. Today you can just about give a steam plant free energy and it still makes a loss.<p>Solar or wind does not have this limitation. CCGT gas plants gets around it by having a turbine giving raw mechanical power and then utilizing the same awful steam side to get the last percentage points of efficiency at a much smaller required scale.<p>Unless you can step around the steam turbine I do not see this becoming anything outside of incredibly small niches.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zbobet2012</author><text>This is the third thread today with pithy &quot;this means nothing takes&quot;. If you&#x27;re thinking of posting a one liner on the subject you should probably stop.<p>Let&#x27;s save some time out of discussion now:<p>1. The lasers at NIF are not designed to be efficient, and they are very old. Modern semiconductor lasers are 20x more efficient. The 300MJ wall plug conversation is stupid, stop pointing it out.<p>2. Dropping crystals and hitting them with lasers is not hard, we do it in semiconductors for EUV light source generation all the time. In fact EUV light sources do it at 100khz or more.<p>3. Power extraction from a bundle of hot material is not a particularly unknown problem. It&#x27;s in fact how every power plant on the planet works.<p>Make no mistake there are a lot of engineering problems to solve. The &quot;droplets&quot; are enormously expensive, the &quot;firing&quot; itself creates debries which need cleared from the chamber, dt supply is not something that&#x27;s readily available in large quantities, blah blah. I&#x27;d love interesting conversation about what stands between ICF and a real energy plant, not hot takes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: what does it mean?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04440-7</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pflats</author><text>20% is going to the publisher. They paid for the Steam version, including hiring the graphics and sound people. They&#x27;re also handling customer support for the paid version.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dwarffortress&#x2F;comments&#x2F;b0mzog&#x2F;official_announcement_dwarf_fortress_is_coming_to&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dwarffortress&#x2F;comments&#x2F;b0mzog&#x2F;offic...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>HDThoreaun</author><text>30% goes to the publisher? What service are they providing?</text></item><item><author>berkle4455</author><text>$15M * 70% = $10.5M and some percentage goes to the publisher they&#x27;re working with (let&#x27;s say another 30%) = $7.4M &#x2F; 2 = ~$3.7M each</text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>And it&#x27;s 15k divided by 2 before tax isn&#x27;t it? Pretty amazing story of just doing what you love and eventually getting rewarded.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Revenue numbers on that page don&#x27;t include the Steam numbers since the launch in December ~ $15M is revenue in one month!!<p>To go from $15k to $15M, x1000, in a matter of weeks must feel incredible. Particularly after 15 years of hard work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies</title><url>http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=181050.0</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>SXX</author><text>Of course for legendary game like Dwarf Fortress it doesn&#x27;t make sense and it much lower, but for normal indie game 30% is not a limit so most of developers get less than 50% of sales after Steam and publisher cut.<p>Usually % that goes to a publisher depend on stage of development, risk publisher taking, whatever you give up your IP and your agreement on recuperation. E.g. if you keep your IP, but publisher cover most of development costs after prototype then they will likely take up to 50% after Steam cut.</text><parent_chain><item><author>HDThoreaun</author><text>30% goes to the publisher? What service are they providing?</text></item><item><author>berkle4455</author><text>$15M * 70% = $10.5M and some percentage goes to the publisher they&#x27;re working with (let&#x27;s say another 30%) = $7.4M &#x2F; 2 = ~$3.7M each</text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>And it&#x27;s 15k divided by 2 before tax isn&#x27;t it? Pretty amazing story of just doing what you love and eventually getting rewarded.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Revenue numbers on that page don&#x27;t include the Steam numbers since the launch in December ~ $15M is revenue in one month!!<p>To go from $15k to $15M, x1000, in a matter of weeks must feel incredible. Particularly after 15 years of hard work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies</title><url>http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=181050.0</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>notafraudster</author><text>This tool is really cool!<p>But I don&#x27;t really understand why the text and framing is written is written as if it was supernatural (&quot;esoteric&quot;, &quot;mystical&quot;, &quot;witchcraft&quot;, &quot;magical&quot;, &quot;otherworldly&quot;, &quot;sorcerer&quot;, &quot;summoning&quot;, &quot;the power to shape and mold lies in your hands&quot;, &quot;the choice is yours&quot;, &quot;magic&quot;, &quot;uncharted territories&quot;, &quot;let not your journey end here&quot;, &quot;mystical journey&quot;, &quot;arcane knowledge of the ancients&quot;). The first few times it felt a little bit cheeky but by the end it felt like a TikTok about manifesting wealth through your horoscope.<p>Paradoxically, the one thing I wanted to know that would have been an opportunity for flavour -- how it &quot;def[ies] conventional color science&quot; -- isn&#x27;t actually clarified in the text.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Poline – esoteric color palette generator</title><url>https://meodai.github.io/poline/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JyrkiAlakuijala</author><text>It could use CIELAB (low spatial freq use) or xyb (high spatial freq use) behind the polar coordinates for smoother and more psychovisually even colors.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Poline – esoteric color palette generator</title><url>https://meodai.github.io/poline/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ronsor</author><text>People aren&#x27;t looking at this from a business perspective. Right now a decent subset of artists hate AI, so it makes sense to try and target that market if it&#x27;s large enough.<p>If artists suddenly started loving AI tomorrow, this pledge would be out the window. It&#x27;s just business and marketing - nothing more, nothing less.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223473/procreate-anti-generative-ai-pledge-digital-illustration-creatives</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacoblambda</author><text>Good. If your customers vehemently don&#x27;t want the feature in your product (with the exception of maybe security&#x2F;privacy features), don&#x27;t add it.<p>If you still really want to make that feature, make it a plugin or application that is completely separate so that people who want it can use and people who don&#x27;t can pretend it does not exist and never even have to look at it or think about it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223473/procreate-anti-generative-ai-pledge-digital-illustration-creatives</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>If it were up to me there wouldn&#x27;t <i>be</i> an h1b. People would be admitted via a points based system like Canada (but stricter) and would then be on a green card path and be granted perm residency after 5y, citizenship after 10.<p>That&#x27;s of course my pie in the sky &#x27;we can get congress to agree on things&#x27; version. If I were president, I would simply make the h1b go to the highest bidder, so the people that enter the US are, supposedly, the cream of the crop. Yeah, that <i>would</i> make students return home vs someone with more skills and experience. The whole point of the h1b is to bring over people with skills we can&#x27;t find here in the US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkoiralap</author><text>Something that I personally feel unfair about the H1B lottery is that it doesn&#x27;t consider where you live and what you are currently doing. Students that graduate through a STEM degree get to work for 3 years in their OPT (Optional Practical Training). This extends then to them having 3 chances (one per year) at getting the H1B. Now what&#x27;s unfair is that an employer in the US can apply H1B for employees living oversees. That application then goes to the same pool where H1B application of the employees that are already living in the US go. The very same people that already hold a college or graduate degree, are already living in the US, and are contributing to the US economy. Unfortunately, the lottery is fair. So those that don&#x27;t get picked up even after their third attempt are kicked out. They leave their life that they were trying to build in the US, potentially their girlfriends and partners, their friends, and their possessions. While that happens, someone who has never stepped foot in the US soil gets to go to the US. So in a sense it&#x27;s fair for them. And while there is no real metric to measure this, when compared, between the fairness people oversees get and the unfairness people already living in the US experience, I personally think that the later tips the scale by a huge margin.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>I would expect that to be partially counter balanced by companies being more willing to sponsor someone already in the US over someone currently overseas? Haven&#x27;t had to go through that process fortunately but seems likely from a practical standpoint.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkoiralap</author><text>Something that I personally feel unfair about the H1B lottery is that it doesn&#x27;t consider where you live and what you are currently doing. Students that graduate through a STEM degree get to work for 3 years in their OPT (Optional Practical Training). This extends then to them having 3 chances (one per year) at getting the H1B. Now what&#x27;s unfair is that an employer in the US can apply H1B for employees living oversees. That application then goes to the same pool where H1B application of the employees that are already living in the US go. The very same people that already hold a college or graduate degree, are already living in the US, and are contributing to the US economy. Unfortunately, the lottery is fair. So those that don&#x27;t get picked up even after their third attempt are kicked out. They leave their life that they were trying to build in the US, potentially their girlfriends and partners, their friends, and their possessions. While that happens, someone who has never stepped foot in the US soil gets to go to the US. So in a sense it&#x27;s fair for them. And while there is no real metric to measure this, when compared, between the fairness people oversees get and the unfairness people already living in the US experience, I personally think that the later tips the scale by a huge margin.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>As much as I like this I&#x27;m sad to say that we <i>also</i> have numerous violations of the law with respect to privacy by many branches of the Dutch government. Journalists have had their phones tapped, the schools and health care providers are asking for ever more absolutely private information about parents from both the parents <i>and</i> their children (this is of course &#x27;for the children&#x27; so never mind the violations), finger prints of non-felons are still collected with impunity, dragnet style information collection is on the order of the day, there are no means of transport that are not under continuous surveillance outside of going on foot and by bicycle (and even there the little snitch in your pocket will tell big daddy where you are) and so on.<p>It&#x27;s sad that we <i>seem</i> to be able to make the right decisions from time to time but at the same time we are actually making the wrong decisions most of the time. Here&#x27;s to hoping things will eventually get better, I shudder to think of the kind of catastrophe that would swing the pendulum back the other way and turn the tide.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/dutch_government_says_no_to_backdoors/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>If I&#x27;m thinking of the same thing (and I believe I am), the vote actually happened a month or so ago.<p>The original proposal was to give 500k euro to OpenSSL but what actually was approved was to spread that out amongst OpenSSL, PolarSSL (which, I think, comes from .nl), and LibreSSL, in a manner that was not yet determined.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d prefer to see the majority of it go to the guys working on LibreSSL simply because I think it would have the most impact there. I somewhat expect most of it go to OpenSSL, however, if for no other reason than it being the most widely used of the three.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/dutch_government_says_no_to_backdoors/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>specialist</author><text>I now have two reservations (open questions) about Project Xanadu.<p>Centralization<p>I believe but cannot yet prove that (durable) two-way links require some kind of central authority.<p>I was very slow to appreciate that Nelson always intended for Project Xanadu to be centralized (authoritative?). Much like Facebook and AOL. Whole onto themselves. Walled gardens.<p>Being a huge fan of the Xanadu vision (and never understanding the tech or stack), I was disappointed with the Web&#x27;s one-way links.<p>Now I see that we dodged a bullet. A suspect that an &quot;open&quot; Web and two-way links are mutually incompatible.<p>Tumblers<p>I&#x27;ve always wanted the transclusion feature. But I never fully grokked tumbers, Xanadu&#x27;s fundamental data structure. I&#x27;d done a bit of work with SNMP MIB, which uses OIDs. Honestly, they sucked. But I couldn&#x27;t think of anything better.<p>Now I suspect the tumbler approach has been mooted by the advances in version control systems.<p>I still want something like purple numbers or xpointers. Some kind of &quot;light weight&quot; tumbler. Not to say the tumbler data structure is itself heavy; just the over reliance on tumblers. So something like tumblers, as needed, when they&#x27;re a value-add. So intra-document tumblers, not inter-document (eg directory, catalog). And definitely not for document management (workflows, version control).<p>--<p>Thanks for reading. I write to understand. (And Xanadu is something I&#x27;ve struggled to understand for decades.) Feedback appreciated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu</title><url>https://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patterns</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimmySixDOF</author><text>For the last couple of years WonderOS has explored what a return to first principles OS design might look like today and there are definitely parallels to Xanadu with explicit callouts to Hypercard, Vannevar Bush and Engelbert if you explore the Lab Notes from the developer which are very thoughtful.<p>&quot;.... an itemized user environment. The item is an alternative boundary for our digital things which may let us interact with our devices more fluidly, and reflect our thinking more accurately, across our entire personal computing domain.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wonderos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wonderos.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu</title><url>https://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patterns</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neonate</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;YmlLB" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;YmlLB</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple asked Amazon to block rival ads</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-gives-apple-special-treatment-while-others-suffer-junk-ads-2023-11</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>addicted</author><text>I returned my unopened Apple Watch to Amazon.<p>Getting my money back has been a massive pain. Usually Amazon literally returns the money when the delivery person picks up the item from my doorstep.<p>But with this Amazon required a scheduled pickup with UPS, did not acknowledge receiving the item even though UPS showed it as received and a few weeks later they are still asking me to wait for 1 month before contacting them for any information.<p>Well, I filed a chargeback with my credit card and automagically the errors in their system got resolved, and the item shows as received (on the correct date 2+ weeks ago), and they are promising a refund in a week (as opposed to 2.5 more weeks).<p>Looks like they’re not just giving Apple preferential treatment but going out of their way to protect Apple.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple asked Amazon to block rival ads</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-gives-apple-special-treatment-while-others-suffer-junk-ads-2023-11</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dschobel</author><text><i>That's just how humans roll.</i><p>Precisely. History is littered with examples of the imperialistic tendencies of man (if you want to see some grade-A imperialism, look into how the Aztecs built their empire, hint: it wasn't by having lots of babies).</text><parent_chain><item><author>_h4xr</author><text>I recommend getting over it. You are almost certainly the descendants murderers and conquerors.<p><a href="http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&#38;IBLOCK_ID=35" rel="nofollow">http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&#38;...</a><p>That's just how humans roll.<p>Western Europe had lots of problems, but countries that operate in the European tradition are better places to live. (At least, when you look at the immigration patterns between third-world and first-world countries, it's clear that first world countries export idealism, which is then processed into jaded realism and returned. Meanwhile, poor countries send their top .1% to join the Western world's top 10%; a good deal for both sides).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>senthil_rajasek</author><text>"That's just how humans roll."<p>Thats not how I look at it. We have made progress from a society of primitive tribes to a more reasonable society rapidly in the last couple of centuries.<p>Universal women's suffrage (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage#United_States" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womens_suffrage#United_States</a>) did not even exist in the United States until the beginning of the 20th century.<p>There is an endless number of social issues that Humans have made advancements, including Civil Rights, Gay Rights etc.,<p>Our understanding of the world has increased [changed] and so has our ability to make decisions based on such new knowledge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_h4xr</author><text>I recommend getting over it. You are almost certainly the descendants murderers and conquerors.<p><a href="http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&#38;IBLOCK_ID=35" rel="nofollow">http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&#38;...</a><p>That's just how humans roll.<p>Western Europe had lots of problems, but countries that operate in the European tradition are better places to live. (At least, when you look at the immigration patterns between third-world and first-world countries, it's clear that first world countries export idealism, which is then processed into jaded realism and returned. Meanwhile, poor countries send their top .1% to join the Western world's top 10%; a good deal for both sides).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>One of the patterns that interests me a lot is supernormal stimulus. An organism is evolved to deal with a stimulus in a certain range, and something comes along that is so far outside it that things break.<p>The classic example is Niko Tinbergen, who created models of fish that were rounder and redder than the real fish, who would ignore other real fish and focus on the models. The human ability to refine things produces a lot of good examples. Like how refined sugar influences us so much that it ends up in most processed foods. Or how refining the coca leaf produces addicts.<p>My theory with sociopaths is that giving no fucks what others think allows them to be unnaturally confident. Since we often evaluate others by how confident they are, we are easily taken in by people with supernormal confidence. That gives us the reality distortion field (as social primates, our main reality is social) and &quot;drinking the kool-aid&quot;. Which is a metaphor Jobs used for how he wanted people to react to the Mac, but the metaphor is about a cult whose charismatic leaders led them to mass suicide. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>&gt; The short answer is her Jobs-like &quot;reality distortion field&quot; -- she was exceedingly good at convincing ...<p>Considering this and the lack of substance behind her claims, I would personally bet money that she is a clinical psychopath.<p>The most disturbing thing I have ever observed about human beings is our tendency to follow psychopaths. Psychopaths seem to have this gravity around them and people just fall into line. I&#x27;ve observed some spectacular examples. A psychopath can say the most questionable or even absurd things and people will just believe, whereas people will be skeptical of even very sane things that come out of the mouths of non-psychopaths. It&#x27;s as if clinical psychopaths have some special instinctive ability to generate body language, vocal cues, and linguistic patterns that manipulate others very effectively.<p>I am not claiming that everyone with a &quot;reality distortion field&quot; must be a psychopath, but I&#x27;ve definitely observed a positive correlation.</text></item><item><author>atombender</author><text>This interview with John Carreyrou [1], the Wall Street Journal journalist who is largely responsible for exposing Theranos, goes into a lot of detail. It&#x27;s long, so if you want a shorter answer, jump to the question &quot;What technology did Theranos actually develop?&quot;:<p><i>Basically there were three iterations of the technology. The first one used microfluidics, which are basically the repurposing of the micro-fabrication techniques that the computer chip industry pioneered to move tiny volumes of liquid. Theranos tried to work on that for several years before Holmes lost patience in late fall 2007 and abandoned it. At that point she pivoted to what was essentially a converted glue-dispensing robot. One of the engineers ordered a glue-dispensing robot from a company called Fisnar in New Jersey, studied its components and rebuilt a smaller version of it. It was a robotic arm on a gantry with three degrees of motion and a pipette stuck to its end, and it replicated what the scientist does at the bench. That ended up being called the Edison and it could do only one class of test, known as immunoassays. It was also error-prone. The third iteration of the technology was the miniLab, which Holmes wanted to be able to do more than just immunoassays. The miniLab didn’t invent any new techniques to test blood with. It miniaturized existing laboratory instruments and packed them into one box. By the time Theranos went live with its tests, the miniLab was a malfunctioning prototype.</i><p>The interview also explains how Holmes was able to attract so many influential people on her board. The short answer is her Jobs-like &quot;reality distortion field&quot; -- she was exceedingly good at convincing non-scientists that their science worked.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;60&#x2F;searches&#x2F;does-theranos-mark-the-peak-of-the-silicon-valley-bubble" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;60&#x2F;searches&#x2F;does-theranos-mark-the-...</a></text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Does anybody know if Theranos got started with at least an idea how to accomplish what they wanted to do? From what I have heard in interviews they started with the thought &quot;Doing xxx would be super useful&quot; but didn&#x27;t have an approach for accomplishing this but instead took in money and tried to figure it out. It&#x27;s like me saying &quot;An antimatter drive would revolutionize space exploration&quot; and starting to collect money but without even the faintest idea how to produce one.<p>Does anyone know? Did Holmes have any insight that caused her and the investors to believe she could do the blood tests?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-files-criminal-charges-against-theranoss-elizabeth-holmes-ramesh-balwani-1529096005</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elgenie</author><text>A lot of communication is non-verbal. A person evaluating a statement in context and expecting to find some physical and culturally-instilled signs of self-doubt in their interlocutor may unconsciously be strongly pushed to conclude that the person is telling the truth when not finding those signs, even if the reason that those aspects of communication are absent is because the person is incapable of producing them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>&gt; The short answer is her Jobs-like &quot;reality distortion field&quot; -- she was exceedingly good at convincing ...<p>Considering this and the lack of substance behind her claims, I would personally bet money that she is a clinical psychopath.<p>The most disturbing thing I have ever observed about human beings is our tendency to follow psychopaths. Psychopaths seem to have this gravity around them and people just fall into line. I&#x27;ve observed some spectacular examples. A psychopath can say the most questionable or even absurd things and people will just believe, whereas people will be skeptical of even very sane things that come out of the mouths of non-psychopaths. It&#x27;s as if clinical psychopaths have some special instinctive ability to generate body language, vocal cues, and linguistic patterns that manipulate others very effectively.<p>I am not claiming that everyone with a &quot;reality distortion field&quot; must be a psychopath, but I&#x27;ve definitely observed a positive correlation.</text></item><item><author>atombender</author><text>This interview with John Carreyrou [1], the Wall Street Journal journalist who is largely responsible for exposing Theranos, goes into a lot of detail. It&#x27;s long, so if you want a shorter answer, jump to the question &quot;What technology did Theranos actually develop?&quot;:<p><i>Basically there were three iterations of the technology. The first one used microfluidics, which are basically the repurposing of the micro-fabrication techniques that the computer chip industry pioneered to move tiny volumes of liquid. Theranos tried to work on that for several years before Holmes lost patience in late fall 2007 and abandoned it. At that point she pivoted to what was essentially a converted glue-dispensing robot. One of the engineers ordered a glue-dispensing robot from a company called Fisnar in New Jersey, studied its components and rebuilt a smaller version of it. It was a robotic arm on a gantry with three degrees of motion and a pipette stuck to its end, and it replicated what the scientist does at the bench. That ended up being called the Edison and it could do only one class of test, known as immunoassays. It was also error-prone. The third iteration of the technology was the miniLab, which Holmes wanted to be able to do more than just immunoassays. The miniLab didn’t invent any new techniques to test blood with. It miniaturized existing laboratory instruments and packed them into one box. By the time Theranos went live with its tests, the miniLab was a malfunctioning prototype.</i><p>The interview also explains how Holmes was able to attract so many influential people on her board. The short answer is her Jobs-like &quot;reality distortion field&quot; -- she was exceedingly good at convincing non-scientists that their science worked.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;60&#x2F;searches&#x2F;does-theranos-mark-the-peak-of-the-silicon-valley-bubble" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;60&#x2F;searches&#x2F;does-theranos-mark-the-...</a></text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Does anybody know if Theranos got started with at least an idea how to accomplish what they wanted to do? From what I have heard in interviews they started with the thought &quot;Doing xxx would be super useful&quot; but didn&#x27;t have an approach for accomplishing this but instead took in money and tried to figure it out. It&#x27;s like me saying &quot;An antimatter drive would revolutionize space exploration&quot; and starting to collect money but without even the faintest idea how to produce one.<p>Does anyone know? Did Holmes have any insight that caused her and the investors to believe she could do the blood tests?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-files-criminal-charges-against-theranoss-elizabeth-holmes-ramesh-balwani-1529096005</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cosgroveb</author><text>I'm not going to comment on whether GPL style licenses actually have the effect of promoting freedom like they say, but I don't see at <i>all</i> how they take it away. An author is free to write code and distribute it under the GPL. Likewise anyone else is free to fork it, or use it in their own codebase so long as they honor <i>the terms of the license</i>.<p>How does that take away anyone's freedom? Don't like the terms of an author's library? Go write your own then.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btipling</author><text>Exactly. Also GPL style licenses are a virus that while they promote freedom, in reality they take it away. It assumes that people are naturally untrustworthy and thus forces them to act in a way the creators of GPL see as the right way. Because of how the GPL licenses are worded, especially insane versions like the AGPL, everything they touch may be affected negatively. MIT and BSD style licenses on the other hand assume the best in people, and gives them the real freedom to do with code whatever they want.</text></item><item><author>SimonPStevens</author><text>They aren't prohibiting "Free Software", they are prohibiting software that is under a license that requires the distributor to pass certain rights along to the recipient.<p>Hence GPL like licenses that require distribution of source code, and that you grant redistribution rights to everyone you distribute it to are being explicitly prohibited. (And in fairness I can see why those licenses would cause problems for Microsoft as distributors)<p>On the other hand BSD like licenses that allow you to repackage and distribute without source and without passing rights forward are acceptable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft: No GPLv3 Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps.</title><url>http://jan.wildeboer.net/2011/02/microsoft-absolutely-no-free-software-for-windows-phone-and-xbox-apps/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skore</author><text>You're probably just trolling, but it needs to be said every time: The freedom that the GPL takes away is the freedom to bring down the system. It keeps people in check and prevents corruption. If you enjoy the freedoms of MIT and BSD style licenses - why do you complain about the GPL? It seems that it only takes "freedoms" away that you don't appear to be interested in anyways?</text><parent_chain><item><author>btipling</author><text>Exactly. Also GPL style licenses are a virus that while they promote freedom, in reality they take it away. It assumes that people are naturally untrustworthy and thus forces them to act in a way the creators of GPL see as the right way. Because of how the GPL licenses are worded, especially insane versions like the AGPL, everything they touch may be affected negatively. MIT and BSD style licenses on the other hand assume the best in people, and gives them the real freedom to do with code whatever they want.</text></item><item><author>SimonPStevens</author><text>They aren't prohibiting "Free Software", they are prohibiting software that is under a license that requires the distributor to pass certain rights along to the recipient.<p>Hence GPL like licenses that require distribution of source code, and that you grant redistribution rights to everyone you distribute it to are being explicitly prohibited. (And in fairness I can see why those licenses would cause problems for Microsoft as distributors)<p>On the other hand BSD like licenses that allow you to repackage and distribute without source and without passing rights forward are acceptable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft: No GPLv3 Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps.</title><url>http://jan.wildeboer.net/2011/02/microsoft-absolutely-no-free-software-for-windows-phone-and-xbox-apps/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shiggerino</author><text>The W3C sort of had a solution with the semantic web, too bad nobody cared about the semantic web.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RivieraKid</author><text>Like Gravatar but for everything, not just avatars. Gravatar is a service, where you save your avatar. Websites such as StackOverflow can connect to Gravatar and retrieve your avatar from there. So when you decide to change your avatar, you do it in one place.<p>On a more abstract level, the problem here is that people and organizations often create some data and basically Ctrl+C Ctrl+V it to different services. Couple of examples:<p>- RSS subscriptions. If I want to try a new reader, I have to export subscriptions from my current reader and import it to the new one.<p>- Calendar events. Same problem. Yes, some services can sync with each other but it&#x27;s a messy situation. Calendar apps must separately implement sync with several calendar services.<p>- Whenever I want to buy something from a new eshop, I need to enter my email and address.<p>- Restaurants publish their location, opening hours or photos on Yelp, Google Maps and others. When opening hours change, they need to separately update every service.<p>- Public transport operators send their timetables to Google and other services.<p>The solution I suggest is to store this data at the source. People and organizations would have something that&#x27;s sort of similar to Dropbox, let&#x27;s call it databox. You have a databox url, such as databox.org&#x2F;1. Your avatar is available at databox.org&#x2F;1&#x2F;avatar. Your RSS subscriptions are at databox.org&#x2F;1&#x2F;rss&#x2F;subscriptions. Opening hours of some company are inside a JSON that&#x27;s on databox.org&#x2F;2&#x2F;restaurants.<p>The databox URL also serves as a login. So the workflow when trying a new RSS reader is like this. 1) You click on &quot;register&quot;. 2) Enter your databox URL. 3) The reader requests a read and write permission to your RSS data. 4) You allow it and the reader fetches your subscriptions.<p>There are some standardized &quot;subdirectories&quot; (e.g. &#x2F;rss, &#x2F;calendar, &#x2F;tasks) but anyone can create a new standard. For example, a bunch of Linux distributions can decide they will save desktop background and other desktop settings to &#x2F;linux-desktop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Idea Sunday</title><text>I think we should resume this Idea Sunday threads. And this first edition of March, 2015.<p>A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.</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>mhomde</author><text>Ever heard about Microsoft&#x27;s Hailstorm and the backlash that followed? :)<p>For the record I think it&#x27;s a good idea if it can be standardized and federated so you can choose and move between providers</text><parent_chain><item><author>RivieraKid</author><text>Like Gravatar but for everything, not just avatars. Gravatar is a service, where you save your avatar. Websites such as StackOverflow can connect to Gravatar and retrieve your avatar from there. So when you decide to change your avatar, you do it in one place.<p>On a more abstract level, the problem here is that people and organizations often create some data and basically Ctrl+C Ctrl+V it to different services. Couple of examples:<p>- RSS subscriptions. If I want to try a new reader, I have to export subscriptions from my current reader and import it to the new one.<p>- Calendar events. Same problem. Yes, some services can sync with each other but it&#x27;s a messy situation. Calendar apps must separately implement sync with several calendar services.<p>- Whenever I want to buy something from a new eshop, I need to enter my email and address.<p>- Restaurants publish their location, opening hours or photos on Yelp, Google Maps and others. When opening hours change, they need to separately update every service.<p>- Public transport operators send their timetables to Google and other services.<p>The solution I suggest is to store this data at the source. People and organizations would have something that&#x27;s sort of similar to Dropbox, let&#x27;s call it databox. You have a databox url, such as databox.org&#x2F;1. Your avatar is available at databox.org&#x2F;1&#x2F;avatar. Your RSS subscriptions are at databox.org&#x2F;1&#x2F;rss&#x2F;subscriptions. Opening hours of some company are inside a JSON that&#x27;s on databox.org&#x2F;2&#x2F;restaurants.<p>The databox URL also serves as a login. So the workflow when trying a new RSS reader is like this. 1) You click on &quot;register&quot;. 2) Enter your databox URL. 3) The reader requests a read and write permission to your RSS data. 4) You allow it and the reader fetches your subscriptions.<p>There are some standardized &quot;subdirectories&quot; (e.g. &#x2F;rss, &#x2F;calendar, &#x2F;tasks) but anyone can create a new standard. For example, a bunch of Linux distributions can decide they will save desktop background and other desktop settings to &#x2F;linux-desktop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Idea Sunday</title><text>I think we should resume this Idea Sunday threads. And this first edition of March, 2015.<p>A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.</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>mbrock</author><text>Green threads aren&#x27;t just a substitute for when you don&#x27;t have system level threads. Instead, they&#x27;re a way of structuring code that allows you to express highly concurrent programs without requiring the heavy overhead of launching and switching between operating system threads.<p>Linux switches between threads at some frequency, I think it used to be 100 Hz. It involves swapping out the process registers, doing some kernel bookkeeping, etc—this is called a &quot;context switch&quot; and it&#x27;s quite costly. Also, Linux threads allocate at least one memory page (4 KB) for the stack. [If I&#x27;m wrong about these details, please correct me!]<p>Basically, the cost associated with an operating system thread comes from the fact that it has to be isolated from other system threads on a low level... whereas language runtimes that offer green threads impose their own safety via language construction, e.g., Erlang processes can&#x27;t reach in and mess with other processes memory (without C hacks).<p>So green threads can be much more efficient, but they require some care in the implementation, especially to support I&#x2F;O, and to have fair and efficient load balancing, etc. Then you run N operating system threads to get balancing across cores, and distribute green thread work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mistercow</author><text>I&#x27;ve been confused for some time as to why people get excited about green threads. From what I&#x27;ve read, the main advantage seems to be that you can have threads on hardware that doesn&#x27;t support threads natively, which is cool if you&#x27;re on that kind of hardware. There&#x27;s also some spin-up advantages I guess? But they don&#x27;t get load-balanced across cores, right?<p>I feel like I&#x27;m missing something important.</text></item><item><author>jeremyjh</author><text>There is one other. Haskell has green threads, a preemptive scheduler, and it has a pretty decent implementation of Erlang-inspired multi-node concurrency primitives and higher-level framework including supervisors, gen_server equivalent etc in the Cloud Haskell project. It does NOT have Erlangs deployment base and track record but it is still a very promising framework and very appealing if you like Haskell&#x27;s type system.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskell-distributed.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskell-distributed.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>atemerev</author><text>AFAIK, Erlang is still (as of 2016) the only distributed actor model implementation with preemptive scheduler.<p>All other major implementations (including Akka) have cooperative scheduling, i.e. forbidding blocking code in actors. Erlang allows it. This is huge.<p>And actor supervision is the best way to write reliable systems. I have wrote some code in Akka without much effort and testing (streaming market data aggregation), and it is still running with a few years uptime.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Erlang Matters</title><url>https://sameroom.io/blog/why-erlang-matters</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hornetblack</author><text>One advantage is spinning up new green threads can be very quick. Starting a new Kernel thread requires at least 1 syscall.<p>For example: on a network service, you have 1 thread listening for new connections, when a new connection is made. It starts a new thread, which calls the handler. The listener thread then goes back to listening for new connections.<p>Now the advantages can depend on your green threading implementation. If a listener thread blocks on reading from Disk or a DB. Then the listener thread can still wait for new connections and other connection handlers can still operate. Making you network application responsive, without increasing latency on clone syscalls.<p>Of course you can achieve this in other ways.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mistercow</author><text>I&#x27;ve been confused for some time as to why people get excited about green threads. From what I&#x27;ve read, the main advantage seems to be that you can have threads on hardware that doesn&#x27;t support threads natively, which is cool if you&#x27;re on that kind of hardware. There&#x27;s also some spin-up advantages I guess? But they don&#x27;t get load-balanced across cores, right?<p>I feel like I&#x27;m missing something important.</text></item><item><author>jeremyjh</author><text>There is one other. Haskell has green threads, a preemptive scheduler, and it has a pretty decent implementation of Erlang-inspired multi-node concurrency primitives and higher-level framework including supervisors, gen_server equivalent etc in the Cloud Haskell project. It does NOT have Erlangs deployment base and track record but it is still a very promising framework and very appealing if you like Haskell&#x27;s type system.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskell-distributed.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskell-distributed.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>atemerev</author><text>AFAIK, Erlang is still (as of 2016) the only distributed actor model implementation with preemptive scheduler.<p>All other major implementations (including Akka) have cooperative scheduling, i.e. forbidding blocking code in actors. Erlang allows it. This is huge.<p>And actor supervision is the best way to write reliable systems. I have wrote some code in Akka without much effort and testing (streaming market data aggregation), and it is still running with a few years uptime.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Erlang Matters</title><url>https://sameroom.io/blog/why-erlang-matters</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway84742</author><text>I’ve done something like this at Microsoft in 2002. Except in my case it was a multi-user system and each row represented a logical user, or a range of users in a range partitioned space. You could vary granularity, click through to see what’s busted, zoom into user ranges, discover correlated failures, discover cases when something is failing for just one user consistently, correlate all of it to performance counters, etc, etc. No one gave a shit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix FlameScope</title><url>https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/netflix-flamescope-a57ca19d47bb</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smaili</author><text>Link to the repo -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Netflix&#x2F;flamescope" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Netflix&#x2F;flamescope</a><p>From a quick glance, it&#x27;s interesting to see both Flask and Node.JS be used within the same project repo. Is this becoming more commonplace?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix FlameScope</title><url>https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog/netflix-flamescope-a57ca19d47bb</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Verdex</author><text>I think it&#x27;s interesting that the famous tech companies are all developing programming languages that are less managed than java&#x2F;c#, but more predictable (read: less undefined behavior) than c&#x2F;c++. Facebook seems interested in D, Apple has Swift, Microsoft has some sort of secret project they are working on, Google has Go, and Mozilla has Rust. Even c++ seems to be attempting to modernize with the new additions to it&#x27;s spec. And now we see a desire for c itself to change. I wonder if our industry is at a turning point where managed languages aren&#x27;t quite cutting it, but no one is comfortable going back to the &#x27;good old days&#x27;.<p>On a personal note, I like the idea of friendly C so much that I finally made an HN account. One of my favorite things to do is to take things apart and understand them. I was mortified when I learned the real meaning of undefined behavior in c&#x2F;c++. It seems like the only way to be sure you understand a C program is to check the generated machine code. Even worse is that when I try to talk to other developers about undefined behavior, I tend to get the impression that they don&#x27;t actually understand what undefined behavior means. I can&#x27;t think of a way to verify what they think it means without insulting their intelligence, but hopefully the existence of something like friendly C will make it an easier discussion to have.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C</title><url>http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I really like these suggestions since they can be summed up in one sentence: they are what C programmers who write code with UB would already expect any reasonably sane platform would do. I think it&#x27;s definitely a very positive change in attitude from the &quot;undefined behaviour, therefore <i>anything</i> can happen&quot; that resulted in compilers&#x27; optimisations becoming very surprising and unpredictable.<p><i>Rather, we are trying rescue the predictable little language that we all know is hiding within the C standard.</i><p>Well said. I think the practice of UB-exploiting optimisation was completely against the spirit of the language, and that the majority of optimisation benefits happen in the compiler backend (instruction selection, register allocation, etc.) At least as an Asm programmer, I can attest that IS&#x2F;RA can make a <i>huge</i> difference in speed&#x2F;size.<p>The other nice point about this friendly C dialect is that it still allows for much optimisation, but with a significant difference: instead of basing it on assumptions of UB defined by the standard, it can still be done based on proof; e.g. code that can be proved to be unneeded can be eliminated, instead of code that may invoke UB. I think this sort of optimisation is what most C programmers intuitively agree with.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C</title><url>http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mobilio</author><text>This is less known fact, but few years (15+) ago Intel hire Elbrus design team:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;56406-intel-hires-elbrus-microprocessor-design-team" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;56406-intel-hires-elbrus...</a><p>&quot;On Monday, Intel representatives confirmed reports in Russian-language newspapers that the American chip giant had hired approximately 500 engineers and related staff from the Elbrus Moscow Center of Sparc Technology, a state-sponsored design house in Russia. Some of the engineers will be hired away from Unipro, a related company. The new hires include Boris Babayan, Alexander Kim and Ivan Bolozov, said to be the architects of the E2K processor, a failed “Itanium-killer”.&quot;<p>And same happens in past too:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;Print&#x2F;1999&#x2F;06&#x2F;07&#x2F;intel_uses_russia_military_technologies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;Print&#x2F;1999&#x2F;06&#x2F;07&#x2F;intel_uses_russ...</a><p>But i couldn&#x27;t get information more about this team.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia’s Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-Core VLIW on TSMC 28nm</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15823/russias-elbrus-8cb-microarchitecture-8core-vliw-on-tsmc-28nm</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rurban</author><text>I find this wide addressing mode interesting<p>&gt; -m128<p>&gt; compile in 128-bit secure addressing mode with hardware access control to objects.<p>&gt; In this mode, a pointer to data and functions takes 128 bits. It contains the 64-bit address of the object, its size (no more than 4 GB) and the position of the pointer inside the object. The mode enhances program memory control during execution.<p>Like Intels unused bound checking additions, it checks the starting offset and the ending offset. But without the HW hash table.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russia’s Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-Core VLIW on TSMC 28nm</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15823/russias-elbrus-8cb-microarchitecture-8core-vliw-on-tsmc-28nm</url></story>
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<instructions>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>I was once involved with a young woman in a homeless program which was entirely defeated by this exact &quot;wrong person&quot; attitude.<p>Get a homeless person an apartment? Great.<p>But it didn&#x27;t end there, there was a constant stream of documentation requirements, your employer had to, monthly, sign paperwork about how much you earned (advertise to employers that you are&#x2F;were homeless). The program punished you for making money and took most of your earnings away to pay for the housing. The program <i>constantly</i> threatened to take away your funding if the paperwork wasn&#x27;t perfect. The program <i>constantly</i> made mistakes, paid rent late, and generally threatened a vulnerable homeless person with further homelessness.<p>It was infuriating to experience this through another person. In attempts to help a person, these programs were taking vulnerable people, dangling housing in front of them, and constantly threatening them with taking it away. That is of course exactly the opposite of what you need to do to someone having trouble taking care of themselves, and sadly mirrors the abusive kinds of situation which so often leads people to homelessness.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>Spent a long time reading about how vast bureaucratic inefficiencies are created by people worrying that &quot;the wrong person&quot; will benefit from government programs or that someone &quot;undeserving&quot; might get theirs before I do. This falls squarely in that bucket. Tragic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired</title><url>https://nyti.ms/3q5J38a</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>happytoexplain</author><text>This is the root of a lot of problems. We spend far too much energy making sure &quot;bad people&quot; get what they &quot;deserve&quot; and don&#x27;t get what they &quot;don&#x27;t deserve&quot;, and put in too little of that same energy in the case of &quot;all people&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>Spent a long time reading about how vast bureaucratic inefficiencies are created by people worrying that &quot;the wrong person&quot; will benefit from government programs or that someone &quot;undeserving&quot; might get theirs before I do. This falls squarely in that bucket. Tragic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired</title><url>https://nyti.ms/3q5J38a</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>You may be interested in the history of the Semipalatinsk Test Site, and what happened when the USSR broke up.<p>There was something of a heroic, very secret effort to get the place more or less secured and reduce its proliferation risk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebulletin.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;into-thin-air-the-story-of-plutonium-mountain&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebulletin.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;into-thin-air-the-story-of-p...</a><p>&gt; Some of these tests—particularly tests involving plutonium—did not vaporize the material in a nuclear blast. It remained in tunnels and containers, in forms that could be recovered and recycled into a bomb. In addition, the Soviet Union discarded equipment that included high-purity plutonium that would have provided materials and information that could lead to a relatively sophisticated nuclear device if it had been found.<p>&gt; When scientists and military personnel withdrew from Kazakhstan following the collapse of the Soviet Union, they abandoned tunnels and bore holes filled with plutonium residue—enough plutonium, if fully reclaimed, for terrorists or a state to construct dozens of nuclear bombs. Between 1991 and 2012, scavengers looking for valuable metal and equipment from the former Soviet test site came within yards of the unguarded fissile material; in two cases the scavengers broke into the vessels used to contain some of the experiments, although there is no evidence that they removed any plutonium.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.belfercenter.org&#x2F;publication&#x2F;plutonium-mountain-inside-17-year-mission-secure-legacy-soviet-nuclear-testing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.belfercenter.org&#x2F;publication&#x2F;plutonium-mountain-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kiliantics</author><text>These seem like pretty reasonable ways for them to be lost. Though the headline suggestion did give me a scary thought: if we do end up on a trajectory of social collapse, most likely caused by ecosystem breakdown, then the resulting failed states could make it very easy for weapons such as these to get &quot;lost&quot;.</text></item><item><author>MichaelCollins</author><text>1956, a B-47 carrying two nuclear weapon cores (not assembled bombs) disappears somewhere near the Mediterranean, never seen again: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1956_B-47_disappearance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1956_B-47_disappearance</a><p>1959, A USN P5M carrying an unarmed Mark 90 nuclear depth charge (no core) is lost in the Puget Sound, never recovered: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whidbey_Island#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whidbey_Island#History</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US has lost at least three nuclear bombs that have never been located</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear-bombs-that-no-one-can-find</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MichaelCollins</author><text>I probably should have mentioned that the three I listed above aren&#x27;t the three the headline is talking about. The three the article talks about were all assembled: one in Georgia (USA), one in Greenland, and one in the Philippine Sea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kiliantics</author><text>These seem like pretty reasonable ways for them to be lost. Though the headline suggestion did give me a scary thought: if we do end up on a trajectory of social collapse, most likely caused by ecosystem breakdown, then the resulting failed states could make it very easy for weapons such as these to get &quot;lost&quot;.</text></item><item><author>MichaelCollins</author><text>1956, a B-47 carrying two nuclear weapon cores (not assembled bombs) disappears somewhere near the Mediterranean, never seen again: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1956_B-47_disappearance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1956_B-47_disappearance</a><p>1959, A USN P5M carrying an unarmed Mark 90 nuclear depth charge (no core) is lost in the Puget Sound, never recovered: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whidbey_Island#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whidbey_Island#History</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US has lost at least three nuclear bombs that have never been located</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear-bombs-that-no-one-can-find</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidgh</author><text>You mean, become a typical agency?</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulcole</author><text>Until proven otherwise I&#x27;ll assume any agency-of-1 will end up outsourcing to contractors at some point.</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>If DesignJoy is making $1M a year selling $2500-$3000 month subscriptions, and there&#x27;s only one person doing the work, then he&#x27;s got around 30 clients for whom he is doing &quot;unlimited&quot; work every month.<p>As a contractor, I once had 9 ongoing projects for about 2 weeks, and that was an insane amount of work and context juggling. Handling 30 <i>active</i> clients for a year, let alone a career, seems impossible.<p>So either the clients aren&#x27;t asking for much (which is most likely) or I&#x27;m missing something. I assume many bigger companies would happily replace a staff member, or a staff member&#x27;s valuable time, with a ~30k&#x2F;year contractor. Critically, these companies wouldn&#x27;t feel the need to &quot;get their money&#x27;s worth&quot; by keeping the guy busy every day. However, the smaller companies most freelancers see as their bread and butter are more cost sensitive, and will nickel and dime you as much as possible.<p>Are there enough big, monied companies to constitute a &quot;storm&quot;, which I take to mean a shift in the business model for freelancers and boutique contractors? I dunno about that. I&#x27;d guess no, offhand.<p>Seems like DesignJoy has create a neat niche, which is awesome for him! I don&#x27;t think it scales to the &quot;disruption&quot; level as this article implies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The “agencies of one” storm is coming</title><url>https://elazzabi.com/2022/03/04/the-agencies-of-one-storm-is-coming/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonwinstanley</author><text>Which, if done right could be very profitable</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulcole</author><text>Until proven otherwise I&#x27;ll assume any agency-of-1 will end up outsourcing to contractors at some point.</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>If DesignJoy is making $1M a year selling $2500-$3000 month subscriptions, and there&#x27;s only one person doing the work, then he&#x27;s got around 30 clients for whom he is doing &quot;unlimited&quot; work every month.<p>As a contractor, I once had 9 ongoing projects for about 2 weeks, and that was an insane amount of work and context juggling. Handling 30 <i>active</i> clients for a year, let alone a career, seems impossible.<p>So either the clients aren&#x27;t asking for much (which is most likely) or I&#x27;m missing something. I assume many bigger companies would happily replace a staff member, or a staff member&#x27;s valuable time, with a ~30k&#x2F;year contractor. Critically, these companies wouldn&#x27;t feel the need to &quot;get their money&#x27;s worth&quot; by keeping the guy busy every day. However, the smaller companies most freelancers see as their bread and butter are more cost sensitive, and will nickel and dime you as much as possible.<p>Are there enough big, monied companies to constitute a &quot;storm&quot;, which I take to mean a shift in the business model for freelancers and boutique contractors? I dunno about that. I&#x27;d guess no, offhand.<p>Seems like DesignJoy has create a neat niche, which is awesome for him! I don&#x27;t think it scales to the &quot;disruption&quot; level as this article implies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The “agencies of one” storm is coming</title><url>https://elazzabi.com/2022/03/04/the-agencies-of-one-storm-is-coming/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ctl</author><text>You've made an extremely weak argument.<p>You're saying:<p><i>Golf is mostly mental.</i> That certainly isn't a problem: you can train mentality. In fact what you've just argued is that golf is <i>well</i>-suited to be conquered purely through training (among sports). Dan would have a much harder time becoming effective in basketball, where normal-size people are at a huge disadvantage off the bat.<p><i>Golf requires feel.</i> Where do you think feel comes from? (Training!) Again, you've actually argued that golf is well-suited to Dan's approach, not the opposite.<p><i>You've seen this before.</i> No you haven't. Come on.<p><i>Golf is hard.</i> That's tautological. Anything that can reasonably be called an endeavor is in some sense infinitely hard. (Also: how do you know that shaving off those last few strokes is impossible once you've achieved your potential? Did you dedicate <i>your</i> life to golf?)<p><i>Sometimes you'll have a day of training that won't contribute to your progress.</i> Anybody trying to learn anything will experience days like that.<p>This is a cool and ballsy experiment and you're being a bit of a hater. Do I think Dan will become a PGA golfer? No, but I'm looking forward to seeing him try.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonwilk</author><text>I have been playing golf since I was 6 years old (I am now 25, running a YC company and whiteyboard). I've played competitively, going all over the country and even got a full scholarship to a NCAA Division 1 university for the sport.<p>I can honestly say that this guy does not stand a chance, and here is why.<p>1. Golf, especially when it comes to playing professionally, is more of a mental sport than physical (both strength and muscle memory). Even if this guy can learn to hit the ball 300 yards, it will take him at least 10 years if not longer to get the mental comfort required to play effectively in front of thousands of people and successfully place or win an event.<p>2. The 10,000 hour rule is best applied to things like coding or langauge learning, in other words, low pressure learning environments that have structured guidelines to success. Golf, beyond mental and physical, requires great feel. To be able to know that in 15 mile an hour wind, with your ball half buried by sand, and water in front of the green, how would one hit that shot? There are millions of variations of what you could end up with on the golf course, none that could be figured out in 10,000 hours. We haven't even talked about the putting green yet. Yikes<p>3. I've seen this before, over a dozen times. Guy gets tired of his job, has some talent and decides to take a ton of golf lessons and practice hard to go for the tour. At least the guys Im referring to played college golf. This guy didn't so much as do that.<p>4. Golf is seriously hard and the difference between the best players and the mediocre pro players most of the time is just an average difference of a few shots. To shave off those few shots is next to impossible once you've reached your peak potential.<p>Golf is not for everyone. This guy is wasting his time.<p>Update ( I forgot something):<p>Here is another reason why this is a pointless ambition.<p>5. 10,000 hours of golf is a lot different than 10,000 of something like...learning a language (we'll use this again). To become good at golf does not mean that you can sit on the driving range and hit golf balls every day until your hands bleed. To become a great player, one must get great at playing the golf course. To play one round of golf takes between 3-5 hours (depending on where you play), and there is no guarantee that those 5 hours spent on the course are in any way productive to your progress. That is not a good use of time spent in his quest for 10,000 hours. Someone could certainly guarantee that in 5 focused hours of a spanish tutoring session that they have progresses. With golf, a bad round could send you right back to the drawing board.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice?</title><url>http://www.tampabay.com/features/can-a-complete-novice-become-a-golf-pro-with-10000-hours-of-practice/1159357</url></story>
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<instructions>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>An interesting response. This statement however is demonstrably incorrect:<p>"This guy is wasting his time."<p>Whether or not you believe his hypothesis, you cannot deny that he is not rigorously testing it. And one of two things will be true at the end of his experiment; He'll be playing in the PGA, or he won't. In both cases he has learned a number of valuable things, and he will have advanced the understanding of expertise in some small way, and perhaps he will have opened up some new avenues for exploration.<p>Personally I don't know if I could put 10K hours into something that I wasn't really enjoying, coding? sure, golfing? not so much. (even though I was employee #9 at GolfWeb :-)) So on that level I think his experiment is doubly valuable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonwilk</author><text>I have been playing golf since I was 6 years old (I am now 25, running a YC company and whiteyboard). I've played competitively, going all over the country and even got a full scholarship to a NCAA Division 1 university for the sport.<p>I can honestly say that this guy does not stand a chance, and here is why.<p>1. Golf, especially when it comes to playing professionally, is more of a mental sport than physical (both strength and muscle memory). Even if this guy can learn to hit the ball 300 yards, it will take him at least 10 years if not longer to get the mental comfort required to play effectively in front of thousands of people and successfully place or win an event.<p>2. The 10,000 hour rule is best applied to things like coding or langauge learning, in other words, low pressure learning environments that have structured guidelines to success. Golf, beyond mental and physical, requires great feel. To be able to know that in 15 mile an hour wind, with your ball half buried by sand, and water in front of the green, how would one hit that shot? There are millions of variations of what you could end up with on the golf course, none that could be figured out in 10,000 hours. We haven't even talked about the putting green yet. Yikes<p>3. I've seen this before, over a dozen times. Guy gets tired of his job, has some talent and decides to take a ton of golf lessons and practice hard to go for the tour. At least the guys Im referring to played college golf. This guy didn't so much as do that.<p>4. Golf is seriously hard and the difference between the best players and the mediocre pro players most of the time is just an average difference of a few shots. To shave off those few shots is next to impossible once you've reached your peak potential.<p>Golf is not for everyone. This guy is wasting his time.<p>Update ( I forgot something):<p>Here is another reason why this is a pointless ambition.<p>5. 10,000 hours of golf is a lot different than 10,000 of something like...learning a language (we'll use this again). To become good at golf does not mean that you can sit on the driving range and hit golf balls every day until your hands bleed. To become a great player, one must get great at playing the golf course. To play one round of golf takes between 3-5 hours (depending on where you play), and there is no guarantee that those 5 hours spent on the course are in any way productive to your progress. That is not a good use of time spent in his quest for 10,000 hours. Someone could certainly guarantee that in 5 focused hours of a spanish tutoring session that they have progresses. With golf, a bad round could send you right back to the drawing board.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice?</title><url>http://www.tampabay.com/features/can-a-complete-novice-become-a-golf-pro-with-10000-hours-of-practice/1159357</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Tunneling is currently so expensive that there are few companies doing any innovation on how to properly utilize them. A big part of the problem is actually digging them in a way that is cheap and scaleable. Another part of the problem is the organizations doing the digging and doing the exploitation are typically have misaligned incentives and goals.<p>For example, expanding subway systems is currently in the hands of very badly run semi government institutions who are arguably quite bad at even utilizing the tunnels they have. E.g. the new york subway system is famously less efficient than ever due to the fact that they keep reducing the speed at which trains travel through it. Digging new tunnels is relatively rare for them; and when they do dig new tunnels, they tend to just use them exactly the same way as their existing tunnels, which is not very efficiently. Also, like most government infrastructure projects, progress is slow and things tend to go way over budget.<p>Musk&#x27;s approach is twofold: 1) turn tunnel digging into a scaleable business. 2) provide concrete things to do with these tunnels that are not backwards and stupid that he can sell. For example, if you have autonomous vehicles, you don&#x27;t need a lot of expensive infrastructure inside the tunnels to get from A to B. Infrastructure like rails, signaling equipment, power lines for the trains, etc. It so happens he has a business for autonomous vehicles already. He sells the whole package. That&#x27;s why he&#x27;s emphasizing the use cases.<p>This is classic Musk, he thinks end to end an he might actually pull it off.</text><parent_chain><item><author>konschubert</author><text>If they manage to reduce the cost of tunnel boring then that&#x27;s super exciting and I congratulate them.<p>But all this discussion of what to put in the tunnel seems very silly to me.
Are they just re-discovering subways? Do they know that there are subways in the world (e.g. Paris) that run out rubber tires?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk Unveils Boring Co's First Tunnel</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-elon-musk-tunnel-20181218-story.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ztjio</author><text>During the presentation, Musk <i>specifically</i> compared to subways and how their vision is an improvement. I didn&#x27;t and won&#x27;t read the article, since I watched the presentation, but, if it doesn&#x27;t even mention that fact, this article is a waste of time. The presentation was quite informative of their ideas and visions for using the tunnels and gave clear explanations of how their approach is superior to existing ones.</text><parent_chain><item><author>konschubert</author><text>If they manage to reduce the cost of tunnel boring then that&#x27;s super exciting and I congratulate them.<p>But all this discussion of what to put in the tunnel seems very silly to me.
Are they just re-discovering subways? Do they know that there are subways in the world (e.g. Paris) that run out rubber tires?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elon Musk Unveils Boring Co's First Tunnel</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-elon-musk-tunnel-20181218-story.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>&gt; This isn&#x27;t a banner ad.<p>This is not a duck, its merely an animal that came from a female duck that happens to live in the water and share a nest with other ducks.<p>A banner ad, by definition, is a paid add that is an image.
Google is showing banner ads for any definition of the word.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shortformblog</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a banner ad. This is essentially a branded search. It&#x27;s not like Google is targeting users with Flash-based crud here. To call it a banner ad is kind of silly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title> Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-breaks-promise-banner-ads-search-results</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nodata</author><text>Somebody works in marketing :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>shortformblog</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a banner ad. This is essentially a branded search. It&#x27;s not like Google is targeting users with Flash-based crud here. To call it a banner ad is kind of silly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title> Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-breaks-promise-banner-ads-search-results</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>13871292throwaw</author><text>&gt; My guess is that the biggest thing preventing this kind of thing from happening more often is exactly the amount of red-tape and government regulation involved.<p>I was briefly and directly involved with the Google Fiber rollout here in Austin. Here&#x27;s the thing: anyone with firsthand information is unlikely to drop in to set things straight in a way that gives away any amount of detail, purely because in the professional world it would be unbecoming to say the kinds of things that would necessarily come out.<p>I don&#x27;t expect that local government intervention and red-tape could be called the major contributing factor here.<p>From someone involved at the end I was working from, dbg31415&#x27;s comments are exactly what I would expect the other end to feel like.<p>The thing you have to understand is this: generally speaking, the people involved with the labor on this kind of project inhabit a completely different world than the one that you or I or the rest of a site like HN lives in. That applies to the boys in the field doing the work, to the boys in the office shuffling paperwork and signing off on their checks.<p>It&#x27;s unsurprising to me to hear that the labor costs are out of control, and to hear that Google was halting expansion to other cities this past fall was like hearing someone say that they smashed their fingers in the door and it hurt.<p>6d11e0a226cb3b6b24dc05bd96ebb7b176c29b587512fae370d5c825ff5a08bf742152134a1e75c9104b8944fbae2b4640757e2533b41f44ceefbb04be602103</text><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text><i>The only business model for fiber that will work to produce the competition, low prices, and world-class data transport we need — certainly in urban areas — is to get local governments involved in overseeing basic, street grid-like “dark” (passive, unlit with electronics) fiber available at a set, wholesale price to a zillion retail providers of access and services</i><p>That&#x27;s an interesting assertion, but not supported by any evidence that I can see. And OTOH, there is direct contradictory evidence suggesting that there <i>is</i> another viable business model for building this kind of infrastructure: non-profit member-owned cooperatives. The same kind that provide telephone, cable and electric service all over the country[1].<p>Note that I&#x27;m not saying that cooperatives are a panacea, but their existence is evidence that other options are available. And before somebody screams &quot;but aren&#x27;t they all subsidized by the government&quot;, I would argue that if the kind long-term stable returns that the author of TFA speaks of are really available, then there&#x27;s no reason to think that a coop couldn&#x27;t get a loan (or equity investment) from private institutions.<p>My guess is that the biggest thing preventing this kind of thing from happening more often is exactly the amount of red-tape and government regulation involved.<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Utility_cooperative" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Utility_cooperative</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start</title><url>https://backchannel.com/google-fiber-was-doomed-from-the-start-a5cdfacdd7f2#.rhxzu4r91</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackmott</author><text>&gt;non-profit member-owned cooperatives<p>some might call that government</text><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text><i>The only business model for fiber that will work to produce the competition, low prices, and world-class data transport we need — certainly in urban areas — is to get local governments involved in overseeing basic, street grid-like “dark” (passive, unlit with electronics) fiber available at a set, wholesale price to a zillion retail providers of access and services</i><p>That&#x27;s an interesting assertion, but not supported by any evidence that I can see. And OTOH, there is direct contradictory evidence suggesting that there <i>is</i> another viable business model for building this kind of infrastructure: non-profit member-owned cooperatives. The same kind that provide telephone, cable and electric service all over the country[1].<p>Note that I&#x27;m not saying that cooperatives are a panacea, but their existence is evidence that other options are available. And before somebody screams &quot;but aren&#x27;t they all subsidized by the government&quot;, I would argue that if the kind long-term stable returns that the author of TFA speaks of are really available, then there&#x27;s no reason to think that a coop couldn&#x27;t get a loan (or equity investment) from private institutions.<p>My guess is that the biggest thing preventing this kind of thing from happening more often is exactly the amount of red-tape and government regulation involved.<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Utility_cooperative" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Utility_cooperative</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start</title><url>https://backchannel.com/google-fiber-was-doomed-from-the-start-a5cdfacdd7f2#.rhxzu4r91</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sbov</author><text>The comparison is disingenuous. The internet makes anything you build automatically global. You&#x27;re blasting software engineers for not knowing worldwide regulations. How many New York lawyers know the regulations of France? How many local UK construction companies know the building codes of Japan? None.<p>Knowing all regulations in the world for any given industry would be a full time job. The people you seem to be implying exist do not exist.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>No. Professionals in engineering or the trades have to know the regulations that govern their industry and abide by them.<p>What many SVers call &quot;innovation&quot;, other industries would call &quot;reckless&quot;.<p>How embarrassing for us!<p>EDIT: In terms of regulation, we&#x27;re practically chiropractors.</text></item><item><author>aeorgnoieang</author><text>I thought that was needlessly snarky. I&#x27;m pretty sure other fields rely on lawyers to know the relevant legal landscape just like we do.</text></item><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>&gt;GDPR will require developers to know the legal and policy landscape of their profession. (This has been the norm for other fields for centuries: how embarrassing for us.)<p>Favourite takeaway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-developers/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; No. Professionals in engineering or the trades have to know the regulations that govern their industry and abide by them.<p>Eh, not substantially or consistently more than in software. It&#x27;s possible to cherry-pick examples where engineers in other fields are more aware of relevant regulations, but overall, it&#x27;s roughly comparable.<p>I&#x27;m generally very critical of the move-fast-and-break-things mentality, but engineers in other fields are generally not more knowledgeable about industry regulations than software engineers are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>No. Professionals in engineering or the trades have to know the regulations that govern their industry and abide by them.<p>What many SVers call &quot;innovation&quot;, other industries would call &quot;reckless&quot;.<p>How embarrassing for us!<p>EDIT: In terms of regulation, we&#x27;re practically chiropractors.</text></item><item><author>aeorgnoieang</author><text>I thought that was needlessly snarky. I&#x27;m pretty sure other fields rely on lawyers to know the relevant legal landscape just like we do.</text></item><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>&gt;GDPR will require developers to know the legal and policy landscape of their profession. (This has been the norm for other fields for centuries: how embarrassing for us.)<p>Favourite takeaway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-developers/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexbecker</author><text>This only true if there is no competition and demand for the good is completely inelastic. What stops grocery stores from doubling the price of food? The other stores will make a killing by undercutting them. I think food is pretty safe here.<p>I am concerned about housing though. In some places, the supply is extremely inelastic, limiting competition, and the demand is also inelastic due to the difficulty of moving. Although UBI could make moving to a cheaper area easier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>austinjp</author><text>What&#x27;s to stop UBI from &quot;cancelling itself out&quot; due to inflationary effects?<p>Prior to UBI, the lowest possible income is zero. After UBI, the lowest income is X. The poorest people in the nation will have an income of X, so X becomes the new relative zero, the new baseline. Prices of everything (food, housing, whatever) will reset relative to X. So uni will become worthless shortly after it&#x27;s introduced.... but only if it is truly universal.<p>Someone feel free to tell me if I&#x27;m missing something.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/business/economy/universal-basic-income-finland.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>kalleboo</author><text>Don&#x27;t most countries already have welfare systems that keep the lowest possible income at X already? UBI is just supposed to simplify those systems by replacing them with a single non-means-tested system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>austinjp</author><text>What&#x27;s to stop UBI from &quot;cancelling itself out&quot; due to inflationary effects?<p>Prior to UBI, the lowest possible income is zero. After UBI, the lowest income is X. The poorest people in the nation will have an income of X, so X becomes the new relative zero, the new baseline. Prices of everything (food, housing, whatever) will reset relative to X. So uni will become worthless shortly after it&#x27;s introduced.... but only if it is truly universal.<p>Someone feel free to tell me if I&#x27;m missing something.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/business/economy/universal-basic-income-finland.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>jharsman</author><text>I was an early adopter of Mercurial and the teams insistence that file names were byte strings was the cause of lots of bugs when it came to Unicode support.<p>For example, when I converted our existing Subversion repository to Mercurial I had to rename a couple of files that had non ASCII characters in their names because Mercurial couldn&#x27;t handle it. At least on Windows file names would either be broken in Explorer or in the command line.<p>In fact I just checked and it is STILL broken in Mercurial 4.8.2 which I happened to have installed on my work laptop with Windows. Any file with non ASCII characters in the name is shown as garbled in the command line interface on Windows.<p>I remember some mailing list post way back when where mpm said that it was very important that hg was 8-bit clean since a Makefile might contain some random string of bytes that indicated a file and for that Makefile to work the file in question had to have the exact same string of bytes for a name. Of course, if file names are just strings of bytes instead of text, you can&#x27;t display them, or send them over the internet to a machine with another file name encoding or do hardly anything useful with them. So basic functionality still seems to be broken to support unix systems with non-ascii filenames that aren&#x27;t in UTF-8.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; The natural string type is the right type in many places</i><p>For many programs, yes. Not for a revision control system that needs to be sure it&#x27;s working with the exact binary data that&#x27;s stored in the repository. Repository data is bytes, not Unicode.<p>I think this article is an excellent illustration of the Python developers&#x27; failure to properly recognize this use case in the 2 to 3 transition.</text></item><item><author>ploxiln</author><text>I&#x27;ve been involved in multiple non-trivial libraries and frameworks that supported both python2 and python3 for many years with the same codebase ... and it really wasn&#x27;t anything like this. The python3 &quot;adaptation&quot; effort for mercurial was just bungled by multiple terrible decisions.<p>First was the idea that normal feature contributors should not see any b&quot;&quot; or any sign of python3 support for the first couple years of the effort. Huge mistake. You need some b&quot;&quot;.<p>But you don&#x27;t need all b&quot;&quot; everywhere. That was the second huge mistake. Don&#x27;t just convert every natural string in the whole codebase to b&quot;&quot;. The natural string type is the right type in many places, both for python2 (bytes-like) and python3 (unicode-like). The helpers for converting kwargs keys to&#x2F;from bytes is a sign that you are way off track. This guy got really hung up on the fact that the python2 natural string type is bytes-like, and tryied to force explicit bytes everywhere (dict keys, http headers, etc) and was really tilting at windmills for most of these past 5 years.<p>Yes, you pretty much had to wait for python-3.4 to be released and for python-2.6 to be mostly retired in favor of python-2.7. Then, starting in early 2014, it was pretty straightforward to make a clean codebase compatible with python-2.7 and python-3.4+, and I saw it done for Tornado, paramiko, and a few other smaller projects.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3</title><url>https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/01/13/mercurial%27s-journey-to-and-reflections-on-python-3/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; For many programs, yes.<p>For all programs, for the simple reason that:<p>&gt; Various standard library functionality now wanted unicode str and didn&#x27;t accept bytes, even though the Python 2 implementation used the equivalent of bytes.<p>Much of the stdlib works with <i>native strings</i> and will either blow up or misbehave if fed anything else[0], which means much of your codebase will necessarily be <i>native strings</i>, with a subset being explicitly bytes or unicode.<p>&gt; Repository data is bytes, not Unicode.<p>It&#x27;s also mostly absent from the source code, and where it is present (e.g. placeholders or separators) it&#x27;s easy to flag as explicitly bytes.<p>[0] though some e.g. the encoding layers or io module want either bytes or unicode depending what you&#x27;re doing specifically, and not always the most sensible, like baseXY being bytes -&gt; bytes conversions where 95% of the use case is to smuggle binary data through text… oh well</text><parent_chain><item><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; The natural string type is the right type in many places</i><p>For many programs, yes. Not for a revision control system that needs to be sure it&#x27;s working with the exact binary data that&#x27;s stored in the repository. Repository data is bytes, not Unicode.<p>I think this article is an excellent illustration of the Python developers&#x27; failure to properly recognize this use case in the 2 to 3 transition.</text></item><item><author>ploxiln</author><text>I&#x27;ve been involved in multiple non-trivial libraries and frameworks that supported both python2 and python3 for many years with the same codebase ... and it really wasn&#x27;t anything like this. The python3 &quot;adaptation&quot; effort for mercurial was just bungled by multiple terrible decisions.<p>First was the idea that normal feature contributors should not see any b&quot;&quot; or any sign of python3 support for the first couple years of the effort. Huge mistake. You need some b&quot;&quot;.<p>But you don&#x27;t need all b&quot;&quot; everywhere. That was the second huge mistake. Don&#x27;t just convert every natural string in the whole codebase to b&quot;&quot;. The natural string type is the right type in many places, both for python2 (bytes-like) and python3 (unicode-like). The helpers for converting kwargs keys to&#x2F;from bytes is a sign that you are way off track. This guy got really hung up on the fact that the python2 natural string type is bytes-like, and tryied to force explicit bytes everywhere (dict keys, http headers, etc) and was really tilting at windmills for most of these past 5 years.<p>Yes, you pretty much had to wait for python-3.4 to be released and for python-2.6 to be mostly retired in favor of python-2.7. Then, starting in early 2014, it was pretty straightforward to make a clean codebase compatible with python-2.7 and python-3.4+, and I saw it done for Tornado, paramiko, and a few other smaller projects.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3</title><url>https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/01/13/mercurial%27s-journey-to-and-reflections-on-python-3/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>This would be a nice option to have, but it&#x27;s only useful for a small number of tech affine people who know what they&#x27;re doing. If the location doesn&#x27;t agree with the IP address, the app would know it&#x27;s not real. And if this is used with banks or payment services people are going to get their accounts disabled.<p>In general, I&#x27;m not sure spreading random fake news about yourself is such a great idea unless everybody does it. And everybody doesn&#x27;t do it, because if everybody cared so much about these things the problem wouldn&#x27;t exist in the first place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>What they <i>really</i> need to do is to simulate data for permissions that are rejected.<p>For example, if I reject location permissions, then play back a random GPS trail in a randomly selected city on the planet, complete with simulated error and drift. If I reject Wi-Fi scanning, then show a constantly changing set of fake access points. If I reject camera, then play back some cartoons or deepfaked video as a camera device.<p>The app should never have to know its permission request was denied.</text></item><item><author>lovelearning</author><text>The dynamic permissions are not a replacement.<p>Some users would never even install apps that asked for too many static permissions on the Play page.<p>But now, if an app seems to meet their needs and they aren&#x27;t sure, some of them will go ahead and install it just to try it out. How much can one run hurt after all? Due to unresolved questions or sunk cost dilemmas, they may even grant dynamic permissions. How much can one run hurt after all?<p>So this will manipulate a percentage of reluctant users into data-providing users by hiding a reason for their reluctance. I&#x27;m inclined to suspect it&#x27;ll benefit Google&#x27;s ad impressions business and that&#x27;s the actual motivation, not &quot;feature parity&quot; with Apple.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We can't check the app permissions on Google Play anymore</title><url>https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/google-play-permissions-list/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seoaeu</author><text>If you do that, some users are going to land in a weird purgatory where they’ve denied camera permissions to their camera app or something, and be completely unsure of why the app is acting strangely or how to fix it</text><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>What they <i>really</i> need to do is to simulate data for permissions that are rejected.<p>For example, if I reject location permissions, then play back a random GPS trail in a randomly selected city on the planet, complete with simulated error and drift. If I reject Wi-Fi scanning, then show a constantly changing set of fake access points. If I reject camera, then play back some cartoons or deepfaked video as a camera device.<p>The app should never have to know its permission request was denied.</text></item><item><author>lovelearning</author><text>The dynamic permissions are not a replacement.<p>Some users would never even install apps that asked for too many static permissions on the Play page.<p>But now, if an app seems to meet their needs and they aren&#x27;t sure, some of them will go ahead and install it just to try it out. How much can one run hurt after all? Due to unresolved questions or sunk cost dilemmas, they may even grant dynamic permissions. How much can one run hurt after all?<p>So this will manipulate a percentage of reluctant users into data-providing users by hiding a reason for their reluctance. I&#x27;m inclined to suspect it&#x27;ll benefit Google&#x27;s ad impressions business and that&#x27;s the actual motivation, not &quot;feature parity&quot; with Apple.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We can't check the app permissions on Google Play anymore</title><url>https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/google-play-permissions-list/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tpoacher</author><text>PS. For anyone not getting the &#x27;I have pen&#x27; quote, it&#x27;s a reference to this internet classic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0o8XMlL8rqY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0o8XMlL8rqY</a> :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>tpoacher</author><text>What a silly plan. Consider the reverse situation.<p>You are a US citizen, and your phone randomly rings. On the other line, there is a guy speaking English with a heavy russian accent:<p>&quot;Hello. I call from Russia. This website I find ask me to call and inform you of real happenings in Ukraine. Your media full of lies. Trust me. Look. I have pen.&quot;<p>Yeah I can totally see Americans taking up arms against their government after a couple of spam calls like this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine</title><url>https://callrussia.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>bombcar</author><text>This is a wonderful way to make some poor Russian have to explain to the FSB why he got calls from the United States.<p>Or maybe they don&#x27;t even bother asking and just gulag him.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tpoacher</author><text>What a silly plan. Consider the reverse situation.<p>You are a US citizen, and your phone randomly rings. On the other line, there is a guy speaking English with a heavy russian accent:<p>&quot;Hello. I call from Russia. This website I find ask me to call and inform you of real happenings in Ukraine. Your media full of lies. Trust me. Look. I have pen.&quot;<p>Yeah I can totally see Americans taking up arms against their government after a couple of spam calls like this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine</title><url>https://callrussia.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>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.<p>&gt; people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...)<p>This makes it clear &quot;nobody successfully proved&quot; really means &quot;I didn&#x27;t bother to listen&quot;. The messaging on masks has long been &quot;they reduce transmission by infected people&quot;, not &quot;they prevent you from getting it&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>polote</author><text>&gt; I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.<p>Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.<p>You can&#x27;t tell to people, you have no risk of dying (0.5% death rate for population, much much lower for healthy and young people), people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...) so this is not your fault if they catch it but you need to stop living your life. That can&#x27;t work.<p>And above all, what is the long term strategy, we stop everything for the rest of our lives ? (a vaccine doesn&#x27;t always work, example the flu vaccine, which works approximately).<p>It is not that people don&#x27;t want to sacrifice, it is just that scarifying is the worst solution for everyone</text></item><item><author>readingnews</author><text>There is a crossfit gym that I pass by every morning on the way to work. It is full, and never stopped during this pandemic. Even at 7AM, it is full of patrons.<p>I would call the &quot;proper authorities&quot;, but since there is a State Police car parked outside every morning, and he is in there working out, just like before the pandemic, I doubt calling anyone would do anything.<p>Adding to the post, I read it earlier... it is really strange that people feel they have to go work out in groups. Or get together, or go to bars. I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/08/11/900895704/secret-gyms-and-the-economics-of-prohibition?s=09</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>esalman</author><text>US didn&#x27;t have a federal strategy to deal with the pandemic. They shot at their own foot and didn&#x27;t give themselves a chance to be successful.<p>The rest of the (developed, and many underdeveloped) world dealt with it and are moving on. I&#x27;m watching Champions league finals on TV and Wuhan pool party clips on twitter, thinking wtf went wrong here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>polote</author><text>&gt; I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.<p>Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.<p>You can&#x27;t tell to people, you have no risk of dying (0.5% death rate for population, much much lower for healthy and young people), people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...) so this is not your fault if they catch it but you need to stop living your life. That can&#x27;t work.<p>And above all, what is the long term strategy, we stop everything for the rest of our lives ? (a vaccine doesn&#x27;t always work, example the flu vaccine, which works approximately).<p>It is not that people don&#x27;t want to sacrifice, it is just that scarifying is the worst solution for everyone</text></item><item><author>readingnews</author><text>There is a crossfit gym that I pass by every morning on the way to work. It is full, and never stopped during this pandemic. Even at 7AM, it is full of patrons.<p>I would call the &quot;proper authorities&quot;, but since there is a State Police car parked outside every morning, and he is in there working out, just like before the pandemic, I doubt calling anyone would do anything.<p>Adding to the post, I read it earlier... it is really strange that people feel they have to go work out in groups. Or get together, or go to bars. I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/08/11/900895704/secret-gyms-and-the-economics-of-prohibition?s=09</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>e-dant</author><text>Without stepping on anyone’s toes, I think we can agree that “safety” could be broken down a bit. Memory safety, thread safety, fine… but there’s a whole forest past those trees.<p>Is it a safety feature to type-check regular expressions using dependent types? Is Python a security vulnerability because the performance can be unpredictable?<p>I don’t know.<p>Rust, for that matter, doesn’t protect you from running out of memory from leaking data on the heap — or from running out of stack space because your infinitely recursive function doesn’t halt. Maybe that’s not part of memory safety — but that’s my point.<p>There’s a whole safety forest out there. Whenever I read an article about safety in software, it seems like a comfy blanket statement. “This is a nice definition which I will live in.”<p>I just don’t see how it’s so flat.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elixir is still safe</title><url>https://paraxial.io/blog/still-safe</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aeurielesn</author><text>What would normally be the process to debunk a published paper? Simply publishing another paper debunking it in the same journal?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elixir is still safe</title><url>https://paraxial.io/blog/still-safe</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dereg</author><text>It&#x27;s really poor work.<p>There are two conclusions I took from scanning through this and trying to reproduce a few of the reported failures.<p>1. The author is bad at prompting. There are many ways to reduce hallucinations and provoke better thinking paths for the model.<p>2. The author is using ChatGPT&#x27;s GPT-4, leading him to conflate &quot;GPT-4&quot; with &quot;ChatGPT&quot;. While you can consider this a shared failure with OpenAI, due to OpenAI&#x27;s poor communication, anybody doing serious work evaluating these models would know that the first thing you need to do is use the API and pin the model version. In the author&#x27;s case, he should have used gpt-4-0314 or gpt-4-0613. What I <i>suspect</i> he did is that he just used ChatGPT&#x27;s GPT-4, and likely the default model at that. (Nobody should ever use the Default model. It&#x27;s their most heavily performance optimized model and performs worse on reasoning tasks than the Plugins model, even on within-context-size tasks.)<p>There are huge problems with that, because OpenAI has done both a ton of fine tuning and performance optimization continuously on the default ChatGPT model over time that its performance has ranged anywhere from &quot;I&#x27;m pretty sure this is gpt-3.5&quot; to &quot;whoa, this is damn good&quot; (the latter being mostly the model at launch, which was probably the same as gpt-4-0314).<p>If the author has been working seriously at evaluating models, specifying the model is the first thing he&#x27;d do. Perhaps he should explain his reasoning.</text><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>There are some serious problems with this paper, namely that I just tried to reproduce it and it failed every test: I tested out several of the problems presented in the paper which it was claimed that GPT-4 failed on and it passed every one every time.<p>I used the standard chat.openai.com web interface with no special or additional prompting.<p>It seems like there are others that have the same issues in this thread, which raises the question - what went wrong here? I can&#x27;t see which version of GPT-4 the paper uses mentioned anywhere, did anyone else spot this?<p>I&#x27;ve contacted the author and included this thread, so hopefully we get some insight into what&#x27;s happening here. To clarify, I am not accusing the author of anything and on the contrary I recognize that OpenAI is rather opaque about the models and changes them frequently. That said, the responses from GPT-4 in the paper do not match my personal experience using GPT-4 with reasoning tasks at any point during the last several months, which is why I am curious if the author may have accidentally used GPT-3.5.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPT-4 can't reason</title><url>https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202308.0148/v1</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>I didn&#x27;t have time to go through all 49 pages and plug everything into GPT-4 but here is what I tested:<p>- Suppose I’m in the middle of South Dakota and I’m looking straight down towards the center of Texas. Is Boston to my left or to my right?<p>- Mable’s heart rate at 9 AM was 75 bpm and her blood pressure at 7 PM was 120&#x2F;80. She died at 11 PM. Was she alive at noon?<p>- There are five square blocks stacked on top of one another. You are given the following information about them:
1. The second-from-the-top block is green.
2. The fourth-from-the-top block is not green.
Assuming that these two premises hold, disprove or else prove the following conclusion: There is a green block directly on top of a non-green block.
Explain your answer.<p>- Tom and Nancy commute to work. Nancy’s commute takes about 30 to 40 minutes, while Tom’s commute takes about 40 to 50 minutes. Last Friday, Nancy left home between 8:10 and 8:20 AM, while Tom arrived at work between 8:50 and 9:10 AM. In addition, Nancy arrived at work after Tom left his place, but no more than 20 minutes after that. What can we conclude about when Tom and Nancy arrived at work last Friday?<p>- Let Z be a random vector consisting of n random variables X1,...Xn. Under what conditions can the entropy of Z exceed the sum of the entropies of all Xi?<p>Given that zero of these reproduced (and GPT-4 thinking about them correctly also fits with my personal experience) I have a feeling that perhaps the author used GPT-3.5 mistakenly?</text><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>There are some serious problems with this paper, namely that I just tried to reproduce it and it failed every test: I tested out several of the problems presented in the paper which it was claimed that GPT-4 failed on and it passed every one every time.<p>I used the standard chat.openai.com web interface with no special or additional prompting.<p>It seems like there are others that have the same issues in this thread, which raises the question - what went wrong here? I can&#x27;t see which version of GPT-4 the paper uses mentioned anywhere, did anyone else spot this?<p>I&#x27;ve contacted the author and included this thread, so hopefully we get some insight into what&#x27;s happening here. To clarify, I am not accusing the author of anything and on the contrary I recognize that OpenAI is rather opaque about the models and changes them frequently. That said, the responses from GPT-4 in the paper do not match my personal experience using GPT-4 with reasoning tasks at any point during the last several months, which is why I am curious if the author may have accidentally used GPT-3.5.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPT-4 can't reason</title><url>https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202308.0148/v1</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trafficante</author><text>&gt; You&#x27;d just stumble over these non-trivial quest locations, and for me that&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve not really felt in other games. Almost all just confine you to the narrow path.<p>It seems to be a casualty of the ever increasing time and expense needed to create a modern AAA game. Bethesda themselves are clearly suffering from this trap; their games are taking longer and longer to get released and get further “dumbed down” in each new title. I suspect this is one of the bigger contributing reasons for all the AAA studios going “games as a service”.<p>One bright spot: the, uh, upcoming Zelda title will absolutely scratch some of this itch. Somebody at Big N really took that “huge beautiful world, but mostly empty” BotW criticism to heart and sunk six years into addressing it. It’s honestly unbelievable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&gt; For me it feels alive but like a diorama.<p>This is one of the things that Oblivion and Skyrim did really well. You&#x27;re just walking around randomly in a forest, see a small cabin, go to investigate, oh hmm some notes mentions a basement, but where? Oh there&#x27;s a hidden door? Wut? A giant cave system, full with backstory notes of some guys trying to revive some old monster?!<p>This happened to me like 15 minutes into the game, and I spent a good hour or more (lost track of time) exploring the caves and fought the monster at the end.<p>You&#x27;d just stumble over these non-trivial quest locations, and for me that&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve not really felt in other games. Almost all just confine you to the narrow path.</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>I hear this criticism a lot, I imagine it is different for everyone but what do you think is missing in comparison to other games?<p>For me it feels alive but like a diorama. You can&#x27;t really interact with much, so once you stray from quests you really haven&#x27;t got much to do.<p>Obligatory mention to check if you have &quot;HDD Mode&quot; disabled, with it enabled it reduces the NPC and vehicle count and variety. The game is also huge with day&#x2F;night cycles, so there are times and places that have few NPCs.</text></item><item><author>EA-3167</author><text>My biggest issue with the game at launch was that the place felt empty, like a giant city with nothing going on. Has that changed at all?</text></item><item><author>jeron</author><text>It’s so crazy how this game continues to get significantly better and better but since they botched the release, these updates go mostly ignored</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cyberpunk 2077’s Path Tracing Update</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/05/07/cyberpunk-2077s-path-tracing-update/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>Fallout isn&#x27;t quite as good as Skyrim was at it, but that is what I loved from those games too.<p>Cyberpunk actually has a lot of good environmental storytelling moments just wandering the city, but they don&#x27;t capitalize and turn them into self driven exploration, the stories don&#x27;t go anywhere.<p>An example might be the homeless thief living under the underpass near North Oak, there are two story beats, you find the first note suggesting where they live, then you find the spot and there is a second note, and that&#x27;s it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&gt; For me it feels alive but like a diorama.<p>This is one of the things that Oblivion and Skyrim did really well. You&#x27;re just walking around randomly in a forest, see a small cabin, go to investigate, oh hmm some notes mentions a basement, but where? Oh there&#x27;s a hidden door? Wut? A giant cave system, full with backstory notes of some guys trying to revive some old monster?!<p>This happened to me like 15 minutes into the game, and I spent a good hour or more (lost track of time) exploring the caves and fought the monster at the end.<p>You&#x27;d just stumble over these non-trivial quest locations, and for me that&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve not really felt in other games. Almost all just confine you to the narrow path.</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>I hear this criticism a lot, I imagine it is different for everyone but what do you think is missing in comparison to other games?<p>For me it feels alive but like a diorama. You can&#x27;t really interact with much, so once you stray from quests you really haven&#x27;t got much to do.<p>Obligatory mention to check if you have &quot;HDD Mode&quot; disabled, with it enabled it reduces the NPC and vehicle count and variety. The game is also huge with day&#x2F;night cycles, so there are times and places that have few NPCs.</text></item><item><author>EA-3167</author><text>My biggest issue with the game at launch was that the place felt empty, like a giant city with nothing going on. Has that changed at all?</text></item><item><author>jeron</author><text>It’s so crazy how this game continues to get significantly better and better but since they botched the release, these updates go mostly ignored</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cyberpunk 2077’s Path Tracing Update</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/05/07/cyberpunk-2077s-path-tracing-update/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>addicted</author><text>I’m not sure why you couldn’t do the same with the Fn keys instead.<p>What you’d lose in being able to look down and see what a key does at the moment, you’d gain in having more tactile response allowing for easier pressing without looking.<p>Also, when I find an inscrutable keyboard shortcut I use frequently, I simply remap it. There are enough KB shortcut combos possible that running out of keyboard shortcuts is rarely an issue. And bonus, you can touch type those shortcuts in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>This thread is going to dissolve into a pile-up on the Touch Bar, so I wanna jump in front of this.<p>Readers of this site are mostly “hackers,” however mutated or dumbed-down that term has become over the years, correct? Everyone here has their windows and spaces just so, a full complement of shortcuts and trackpad gestures, and if they&#x27;re serious about the Macintosh tools like TextExpander.<p>As standard as GUIs are, we&#x27;ve all experienced a moment of disorientation when borrowing another person&#x27;s computer. The more experienced and skilled that other person is, the greater that disorientation due to the amount of “hacking” they&#x27;ve done on their own environment.<p>So how come this impulse stops at the Touch Bar?<p>I&#x27;ve hacked the hell out of mine. I&#x27;ve mapped inscrutable keyboard commands like cmd-opt-ctrl-D to context sensitive buttons, included globals for quick terminal visors and development tools and password managers… it&#x27;s slick as hell and I hate giving it up when I occasionally opt for the external keyboard at home.<p>The Touch Bar is amazing, you just need to hack the damn thing. Yeah, Apple should have done a better job making it more useful out of the box, but it&#x27;s possible to do some really wild stuff with it.<p>map your Caps Lock key to Escape and go to town. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vas3k&#x2F;btt-touchbar-presets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vas3k&#x2F;btt-touchbar-presets</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/apple-macbook-air-macbook-pro-updates/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TYPE_FASTER</author><text>I can&#x27;t type on the keyboard without accidentally triggering the Touch Bar. I really wanted to hack it, but wow is it annoying. I have to relearn typing because of it.<p>If there was a small gap between the top of the physical keyboard and the touch bar, that might be enough to prevent false taps. Or I have to hack the Touch Bar to figure out where I&#x27;m accidentally hitting it, and don&#x27;t put any buttons there.<p>I&#x27;m also triggering false taps on the Touch Pad, which <i>never</i> used to happen. I suspect if there was another gap between the bottom of the physical keyboard and the top of the Touch Pad, this wouldn&#x27;t happen.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>This thread is going to dissolve into a pile-up on the Touch Bar, so I wanna jump in front of this.<p>Readers of this site are mostly “hackers,” however mutated or dumbed-down that term has become over the years, correct? Everyone here has their windows and spaces just so, a full complement of shortcuts and trackpad gestures, and if they&#x27;re serious about the Macintosh tools like TextExpander.<p>As standard as GUIs are, we&#x27;ve all experienced a moment of disorientation when borrowing another person&#x27;s computer. The more experienced and skilled that other person is, the greater that disorientation due to the amount of “hacking” they&#x27;ve done on their own environment.<p>So how come this impulse stops at the Touch Bar?<p>I&#x27;ve hacked the hell out of mine. I&#x27;ve mapped inscrutable keyboard commands like cmd-opt-ctrl-D to context sensitive buttons, included globals for quick terminal visors and development tools and password managers… it&#x27;s slick as hell and I hate giving it up when I occasionally opt for the external keyboard at home.<p>The Touch Bar is amazing, you just need to hack the damn thing. Yeah, Apple should have done a better job making it more useful out of the box, but it&#x27;s possible to do some really wild stuff with it.<p>map your Caps Lock key to Escape and go to town. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vas3k&#x2F;btt-touchbar-presets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vas3k&#x2F;btt-touchbar-presets</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/apple-macbook-air-macbook-pro-updates/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexis</author><text>Not sure where the author got &quot;redditcoin&quot; but here&#x27;s what we&#x27;re actually doing with redditnotes (I said the same thing to fortune when this rumor first arose):<p>We will be issuing redditnotes.<p>Our research leads us to want to wait until the law and technology around cryptocurrency are further along before deciding exactly how. We want to make sure we can give the community the full value of the equity when they receive it in the future, and today we haven’t been able to find a way to do that within existing regulations.<p>Edit: here&#x27;s the last official blog post on the subject.
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We were not contacted by this guardian reporter didn&#x27;t contact us for comment. So it goes.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/02/redditcoin-quietly-killed-off-and-lead-developer-fired</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>harvestmoon</author><text>Reddit is a great site in what it does. And due to its nature, it has tremendous amount of niches, some of which are worth a lot of money if handled properly.<p>For instance, &#x2F;r&#x2F;watches is an active area for discussion of watches. The people who post there often share their new Rolex or their treasured Patek Phillipe. &#x2F;r&#x2F;watches is just one of many, many such niches on the site which have a lot of potential value.<p>My thinking has been that reddit could focus on developing the value in its many product oriented subforums.<p>Also, interestingly enough, reddit has already sort of created its own new cybercurrency - dogecoin. Though it may not be doing well, I think most of the value in dogecoin was how easy it was to use on reddit.<p>reddit does need to find a way to monetize. I think it could do so quite successfully due to the nature of it having many high value niches.<p>I say all this as a big fan of the site and have even been considering making a subreddit finder (so that someone who is a fan of the TV show Suits, for instance, can know that there is &#x2F;r&#x2F;suits to discuss the show, which they would have simply no way of knowing if they just landed on reddit&#x27;s homepage with pictures of Very Round Eggs, to use a current example).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/02/redditcoin-quietly-killed-off-and-lead-developer-fired</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grecy</author><text>I&#x27;ve been driving around Africa for over 2 years now. 25 countries in West and Southern Africa.<p>There is <i>a lot</i> more development, infrastructure, happiness and success here than the majority of &quot;First Worlders&quot; have any notion of. Even when I tell my family directly they don&#x27;t really believe me.<p>4G Internet, chip n pin (or contactless) Credit card payments, multi lane freeways, high rise buildings and of course electricity and drinking water. That&#x27;s not just South Africa either, all of those exist in Rep. Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali, Zambia just to name a few examples of where people think of &quot;poverty&quot;.<p>I have come to the conclusion that anyone who hasn&#x27;t actually set food on this continent (and ventured outside a guided &quot;safari&quot;) has no way to discover the truth about this place. There is no media outlet that actual portrays an accurate picture, I have never even seen one that gets close.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blocked_again</author><text>A lot of people seems to be skeptical about this. There is a wonderful book called Factfullness which is written exactly for this kind of audience. In his book, Rosling suggests the vast majority of human beings are wrong about the state of the world. He believes his test subjects think the world is poorer, less healthy, and more dangerous than it is. Bill gates sponsored this book for all the students graduating from college and I can exactly see why by going through this thread.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed</title><url>https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/09/19/decline-of-global-extreme-poverty-continues-but-has-slowed-world-bank</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GreeniFi</author><text>Rosling, Pinker and Gates are right to point out that there have been absolute improvements in living standards across the globe.<p>However as Jeremy Grantham (the British Warren Buffet) warns, these current improvements may have been bought at the expense of future losses as we have destabilized the climate and mined the soils to achieve the gains of recent years.<p>Grantham projects 40% loss in soil productivity in a much more populated world.<p>This is not to knock these fantastic advances, but we now need to double down on ensuring they are sustainable.<p>Here’s Grantham’s paper. It’s a long but fascinating and wel-written read.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gmo.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;default-source&#x2F;research-and-commentary&#x2F;strategies&#x2F;asset-allocation&#x2F;the-race-of-our-lives-revisited.pdf?sfvrsn=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gmo.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;default-source&#x2F;research-and-comment...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>blocked_again</author><text>A lot of people seems to be skeptical about this. There is a wonderful book called Factfullness which is written exactly for this kind of audience. In his book, Rosling suggests the vast majority of human beings are wrong about the state of the world. He believes his test subjects think the world is poorer, less healthy, and more dangerous than it is. Bill gates sponsored this book for all the students graduating from college and I can exactly see why by going through this thread.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed</title><url>https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/09/19/decline-of-global-extreme-poverty-continues-but-has-slowed-world-bank</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>Just to clarify - why the hell didn&#x27;t the FBI task someone to do what Brian was doing?<p>&gt; So, each day for several years my morning routine went as follows: Make a pot of coffee; shuffle over to the computer and view the messages Aqua and his co-conspirators had sent to their money mules over the previous 12-24 hours; look up the victim company names in Google; pick up the phone to warn each that they were in the process of being robbed by the Russian Cyber Mob.<p>Just assigning an agent to that seems like a dead simple way to really quickly curtail that operation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-cybercrime-menace/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway5752</author><text>The US Treasury dropped sanctions on three companies related to Evil Corp after Lavrov&#x27;s recent visit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dcpoll&#x2F;status&#x2F;1205544785446129664" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dcpoll&#x2F;status&#x2F;1205544785446129664</a> (which references <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jeffstone500&#x2F;status&#x2F;1205539378019360768" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jeffstone500&#x2F;status&#x2F;1205539378019360768</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-cybercrime-menace/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>curryhowardiso</author><text>Hey there!<p>I am the subject of the article and to my knowledge I wasn&#x27;t &#x27;assessed&#x27; in any formal capacity (certainly not at the level of cross-referencing anything with Wikipedia)<p>I am thoroughly convinced that just getting down and putting code on paper in a confident way got me across that border!<p>So, if I had any advice for others it would be to do what you normally do in a software interview: act really convincing - even if you&#x27;re a bit flustered!</text><parent_chain><item><author>lb1lf</author><text>One cannot but wonder what happens if you answer the question in a different manner than that suggested by Wikipedia or whichever resource the CBP draws their questions from.<p>I think the basic idea - questioning people about things they ought to know, given who they claim to be - is a good one.<p>However, it only makes sense if the one doing the questioning is able to judge the quality of the answer - or, for that matter, determine whether your inability to answer satisfactorily is because you bluffed - or if you&#x27;re just a bit outside your professional comfort zone.<p>(I would probably have to answer &#x27;software engineer&#x27;, as that is what my business card says - however, I am much more of a hardware&#x2F;systems guy in practice, only our HR department is completely unable to change my title to something a bit more descriptive. If speaking to another engineer, I wouldn&#x27;t have any problems convincing him of my bona fides - however, if a CBP officer just looks up question #13 in the &#x27;SW engineer&#x27; quiz - I may be in trouble.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australian software engineer got asked algorithm question when entering US</title><url>http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stories/aussies-weird-immigration-interview-in-the-us/news-story/8222c65d2f12e6691ef27c9b1753e821</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>golergka</author><text>&gt; One cannot but wonder what happens if you answer the question in a different manner than that suggested by Wikipedia or whichever resource the CBP draws their questions from.<p>They&#x27;re looking at your overall attitude, not checking your knowledge of trivia. Answering the question about inverting a binary tree wrongly still means you understand what &quot;binary tree&quot; is and can at least come up with a couple of sentences with that term that sound coherent and resemble what is written in Wikipedia in broadest terms. For comparison, ask your non-engineering friends to answer the same question, even to try to fake an answer as best as they can.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lb1lf</author><text>One cannot but wonder what happens if you answer the question in a different manner than that suggested by Wikipedia or whichever resource the CBP draws their questions from.<p>I think the basic idea - questioning people about things they ought to know, given who they claim to be - is a good one.<p>However, it only makes sense if the one doing the questioning is able to judge the quality of the answer - or, for that matter, determine whether your inability to answer satisfactorily is because you bluffed - or if you&#x27;re just a bit outside your professional comfort zone.<p>(I would probably have to answer &#x27;software engineer&#x27;, as that is what my business card says - however, I am much more of a hardware&#x2F;systems guy in practice, only our HR department is completely unable to change my title to something a bit more descriptive. If speaking to another engineer, I wouldn&#x27;t have any problems convincing him of my bona fides - however, if a CBP officer just looks up question #13 in the &#x27;SW engineer&#x27; quiz - I may be in trouble.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australian software engineer got asked algorithm question when entering US</title><url>http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stories/aussies-weird-immigration-interview-in-the-us/news-story/8222c65d2f12e6691ef27c9b1753e821</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>Yep. Ventilator usage [if available] and deaths are more reliable indicators, but they&#x27;re also lagging ones [and even deaths aren&#x27;t entirely consistently measured since many of the most severely affected patients exhibit comorbities, and many nations don&#x27;t test the dead]</text><parent_chain><item><author>cowsandmilk</author><text>&gt; the USA curve is fearsomely steep<p>This analysis is difficult because it is related to testing capacity. We all know testing capacity was limited early on. It remains limited, but is growing. The faster capacity grows, the steeper the curve will be. Want to have a less steep curve? Lower the amount of testing.<p>In another comment, you claim looking at the curves leaves out politics completely, but it doesn&#x27;t. Any politician can make the situation look worse on the curve, but better serve their people, by increasing testing. They can also make their curve look better, but do worse for their people, by claiming their state is unable to purchase tests. This can be a very political game.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_pdp09</author><text>This is bad. I&#x27;ve been graphing the exp curve for Italy, UK and USA and the USA curve is fearsomely steep. Italy has more cases now but the USA is growing fastest and <i>looks like</i> it will match Italy&#x27;s on ~March 28th (looking at the most recent 10 points, see below)<p>The rate of growth in the USA, extrapolated, is just huge. Looking at the whole curve it does not match an exponential well, I think the early part is skewing it. If we take the last 10 data points, they fall very well onto the curves for all 3 countries, and that curve for the USA is horrific. I&#x27;m not an epidemiologist nor statistican so it would be irresponsible to put my predicted figures here, but christ, if I&#x27;m right the US is going to be reeling in just a few day.<p>Edit: @mnl below has pointed out that infection is not an exponential but on the whole a logistics curve (s-shaped curve <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Logistic_function" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Logistic_function</a>). He is correct. However in early stages I believe an exponential MAY be a decent approximation (and I&#x27;m reading up on it now). However, the inflection in the &#x27;S&#x27; (where new infections would start to slow down) would be expected to be at far higher figures than those I&#x27;m looking at - a few tens of thousands of reported infections per country currently - and it&#x27;s not even close to that (populations of multiple millions in each country).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/#intcid=recommendations_wired-homepage-right-rail-popular_d00a3648-f912-49b3-9b8a-f82ade2ecbd5_popular4-1</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>once people&#x27;s minds are made up, it&#x27;s incredibly difficult to walk them back to a different reasoning. Apart from the lack of early tests the problem is therefore exacerbated by the downplaying of the problem during the critical early stages. It wasn&#x27;t just lost-time that needs to be made up for but also that mitigations will now become harder to swallow!</text><parent_chain><item><author>cowsandmilk</author><text>&gt; the USA curve is fearsomely steep<p>This analysis is difficult because it is related to testing capacity. We all know testing capacity was limited early on. It remains limited, but is growing. The faster capacity grows, the steeper the curve will be. Want to have a less steep curve? Lower the amount of testing.<p>In another comment, you claim looking at the curves leaves out politics completely, but it doesn&#x27;t. Any politician can make the situation look worse on the curve, but better serve their people, by increasing testing. They can also make their curve look better, but do worse for their people, by claiming their state is unable to purchase tests. This can be a very political game.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_pdp09</author><text>This is bad. I&#x27;ve been graphing the exp curve for Italy, UK and USA and the USA curve is fearsomely steep. Italy has more cases now but the USA is growing fastest and <i>looks like</i> it will match Italy&#x27;s on ~March 28th (looking at the most recent 10 points, see below)<p>The rate of growth in the USA, extrapolated, is just huge. Looking at the whole curve it does not match an exponential well, I think the early part is skewing it. If we take the last 10 data points, they fall very well onto the curves for all 3 countries, and that curve for the USA is horrific. I&#x27;m not an epidemiologist nor statistican so it would be irresponsible to put my predicted figures here, but christ, if I&#x27;m right the US is going to be reeling in just a few day.<p>Edit: @mnl below has pointed out that infection is not an exponential but on the whole a logistics curve (s-shaped curve <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Logistic_function" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Logistic_function</a>). He is correct. However in early stages I believe an exponential MAY be a decent approximation (and I&#x27;m reading up on it now). However, the inflection in the &#x27;S&#x27; (where new infections would start to slow down) would be expected to be at far higher figures than those I&#x27;m looking at - a few tens of thousands of reported infections per country currently - and it&#x27;s not even close to that (populations of multiple millions in each country).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/#intcid=recommendations_wired-homepage-right-rail-popular_d00a3648-f912-49b3-9b8a-f82ade2ecbd5_popular4-1</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrsig</author><text>This is a good primer on the subject.<p>One of the major projects I maintain at $work is an apache module, which has given me so much grief because of the fact that it gets dynamically loaded (and then unloaded, and then reloaded)<p>It&#x27;s been very enlightening, but there&#x27;s no shortage of frustration.<p>One major points is that a dynamically loaded library can have undefined symbols that are found (or not!) at runtime. This can introduce a lot of trouble when trying to make a test binary. Especially in apache&#x27;s case, since any of the `ap_` symbols are only compiled into the executable, and aren&#x27;t available as a static or shared library.<p>In that situation, the only recourse that I&#x27;m aware of is to supply your own implementations of those functions that get compiled into the test binary (<i>not</i> the dynamic library under test, since that will create a collision when it&#x27;s loaded)<p>Another thing to consider is that linux&#x2F;elf shared libraries can be either dynamically loaded or dynamically linked. This is not true on all platforms, so it&#x27;s not advisable to lean into it if portability matters.<p>I recommend reading the ld.so manpage[0] -- in particular it outlines many environment variables to control the runtime linker. Notably, LD_DEBUG can be a life saver.<p>Lastly, I&#x27;ll also warn against using any global&#x2F;static memory in a dynamically loaded library. It can be unloaded&#x2F;reloaded, and that can create a lot of havoc, especially if a pointer to that memory gets saved somewhere that survives the unload, and then is accessible after the library gets reloaded.<p>libprotobuf is a major victim of these types of issues - which is why (or a major contributor) to why the libprotobuf-lite library exists.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man8&#x2F;ld.so.8.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man8&#x2F;ld.so.8.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries</title><url>https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-dynamic-libraries/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coley</author><text>The first time I learned about dynamic loading was while watching an episode of Casey Muratori&#x27;s Handmade Hero - a series where he builds a video game, in C, from scratch.<p>He compiles the game code as a dll and dynamically loads it at runtime in the Win32 platform layer code. This way he can keep platform code and game code separate and reload the game code at runtime if any changes are made. Being new to this technique, I was impressed to say the least.<p>I always assumed the same functionality was available in the linux environment, but I hadn&#x27;t bothered to look it up. Now I know.<p>For those who want to learn how to do this in Win32, here&#x27;s the episode I mentioned above - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WMSBRk5WG58" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WMSBRk5WG58</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries</title><url>https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-dynamic-libraries/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloisius</author><text>I’d settle for them making PRs as useful as they were in 2015, before they messed up some of the most basic functionality: showing the diff, and showing review comments. They hide big diffs behind a “load more” link, and as a result people often fail to code review the most substantial part of a change because they scan right past it, thinking it’s a removed file or binary or something. Then, once you submit a review, they only show 10 comments. In the middle, there’s an easy-to-miss “load more comments” button.<p>These are the two most fundamental features of a PR. How could they decide so few as 10 is the right number of comments?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pull Request File Tree Feedback</title><url>https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12341</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>politelemon</author><text>Bitbucket Server and Gitlab have this feature and it&#x27;s quite useful for very large pull requests as you can easily see the folder structure of the file you&#x27;re reviewing, for that bit extra bit of visual context. Bitbucket&#x27;s search box is slightly better because it also does a code search within the PR, it helps you quickly find specific words (say, a class name) across all the changed files. Gitlab&#x27;s only does a file name filter.<p>Though relatively late, I am glad it&#x27;s coming to Github, more people can benefit from this kind of pull request presentation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pull Request File Tree Feedback</title><url>https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/12341</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text><i>Stroke order is very important to Japanese culture, in a society where the process matters just as much as the end result. Some calligraphists take stroke order very seriously, and will probably explode if they see someone writing a Kanji with incorrect stroke order.</i><p>One might phrase this &quot;Stroke order is assigned by convention in Japanese; deviating from the conventional order is incorrect, much laik hau Einglish speling iz nat ap four eendevizyuelle tyoise.&quot; (&quot;What&#x27;s the matter? You can sound it out. Pfft, Americans, such rigid traditionalists. It makes sense in the context of their religious views and conservative political tendencies, though.&quot; [+])<p>This avoids unfortunate Man Japanese People They&#x27;re So Craaaaazy overtones. (FWIW: stroke order is prescriptionist not descriptionist but AFAIK prescriptionism has a virtually hegemonic mindshare among relevant authorities.)<p>n.b. Otherwise this project and post is freaking excellent.<p>[+] You can actually read Japanese-language takes on American culture which are exactly as bad as this Orientialism-in-reverse.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow</title><url>http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fake-chinese-characters-in-vector-format-with-tensorflow/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trhway</author><text>&gt;suddenly realise they forgot how to write Kanji. I am also guilty of this – even though I read a lot of Chinese and Japanese content in my everyday life, I struggle to write Chinese characters. What we notice is that while we can definitely read and recognise the characters we are able to write, the converse is certainly not true.<p>when written in ink by brush the order of strokes seems to follow very natural flow, yet when it is taught using pencil it looks much less natural.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow</title><url>http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fake-chinese-characters-in-vector-format-with-tensorflow/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>Latex can&#x27;t produce web output, which is increasingly a target I want.<p>Also, Latex can&#x27;t produce any output which is accessible to blind people (other than giving them the raw LaTeX). The PDFs latex produces are probably the least accessible format available (much worse than a word proeuced pdf, or some html). This matters to me, and should matter more to other people (in my opinion).</text><parent_chain><item><author>smohare</author><text>I’ve never understood the impetus for not using full LaTeX in an academic contex, given that the boiler plate is so minimal and presumably one has a built up a personal template over time.<p>For blog posts and notes I see the appeal, since the boilerplate can be a hindrance to spontaneous writing.</text></item><item><author>Schiphol</author><text>I do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher &#x27;needs&#x27; a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It&#x27;s just great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pandoc</title><url>https://pandoc.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>BeetleB</author><text>&gt;I’ve never understood the impetus for not using full LaTeX in an academic contex, given that the boiler plate is so minimal and presumably one has a built up a personal template over time.<p>I don&#x27;t find the boilerplate minimal at all. Contrast the following:<p><pre><code> \begin{itemize}
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\item Second
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I won&#x27;t even get into the hell that is tables.<p>I loved LaTeX until I discovered Org Mode. Pandoc also scratches the same itch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smohare</author><text>I’ve never understood the impetus for not using full LaTeX in an academic contex, given that the boiler plate is so minimal and presumably one has a built up a personal template over time.<p>For blog posts and notes I see the appeal, since the boilerplate can be a hindrance to spontaneous writing.</text></item><item><author>Schiphol</author><text>I do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher &#x27;needs&#x27; a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It&#x27;s just great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pandoc</title><url>https://pandoc.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>adra</author><text>Racing to the bottom has never been so steep. I was trying to buy an android auto wired to wireless dongle and all I see are temporary garbage re-skins of the same products from half a dozen suppliers that likely won&#x27;t exist next year. I&#x27;ve never felt so apathetic about using Amazon. I&#x27;ve definitely moved away from them as much as possible alas. It&#x27;s starting to stink like eBay.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shein forces Amazon to lower seller fees</title><url>https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/shein-forces-amazon-to-lower-seller-fees</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dv_dt</author><text>Funny that the article mentions that Shein can’t match Amazon two to four day delivery, but at this point Amazon isn’t meeting that for Amazon. Amazon has messed up more orders this year for me than they have in a decade before of using them. I’m actively switching out subscription items just because I’m tired of dealing with it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shein forces Amazon to lower seller fees</title><url>https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/shein-forces-amazon-to-lower-seller-fees</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Georgelemental</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not sure that it&#x27;s scary. After all, casual racism and sexism used to be a lot more common in the past. Now people are called out and criticized on those. Is that bad?<p>Even if we grant that the rise in self-censorship is entirely due to &quot;casual racism and sexism&quot; (and I don&#x27;t grant it), wouldn&#x27;t that meant that 40% of people are secret bigots? That sounds bad, you would rather they be open about their beliefs so you can identify them, no?</text><parent_chain><item><author>lapcat</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that it&#x27;s scary. After all, casual racism and sexism used to be a lot more common in the past. Now people are called out and criticized on those. Is that bad?<p>The other factor is the rise of internet social media, which didn&#x27;t exist back then. When people spoke their mind, it wasn&#x27;t broadcast publicly to the whole world, so there was less fear of backlash.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>&gt; In the 1950s, at the height of McCarthyism, 13.4 percent of Americans reported that “felt less free to speak their mind than they used to.” In 1987, the figure had reached 20 percent. By 2019, 40 percent of Americans reported that they did not feel free to speak their minds. This isn’t a partisan issue, either. Gibson and Sutherland report that, “The percentage of Democrats who are worried about speaking their mind is just about identical to the percentage of Republicans who self-censor: 39 and 40 percent, respectively.”<p>That&#x27;s a scary number. And it&#x27;s probably not wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Persuasion through status rather than argument</title><url>https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/how-dumb-ideas-capture-smart-and</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grif-fin</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;m not sure that it&#x27;s scary. After all, casual racism and sexism used to be a lot more common in the past. Now people are called out and criticized on those. Is that bad?<p>Isn&#x27;t it scary or least worrying that 40 percent of Americans reported that they did not feel free to speak their minds? Or are you implying they belong to the group who participated in casual racism and sexism that used to be a lot more common in the past and now people (majority of the other 60%) are calling them out and criticize them on those hence concluding not scary and perhaps good?<p>I find it scary too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lapcat</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that it&#x27;s scary. After all, casual racism and sexism used to be a lot more common in the past. Now people are called out and criticized on those. Is that bad?<p>The other factor is the rise of internet social media, which didn&#x27;t exist back then. When people spoke their mind, it wasn&#x27;t broadcast publicly to the whole world, so there was less fear of backlash.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>&gt; In the 1950s, at the height of McCarthyism, 13.4 percent of Americans reported that “felt less free to speak their mind than they used to.” In 1987, the figure had reached 20 percent. By 2019, 40 percent of Americans reported that they did not feel free to speak their minds. This isn’t a partisan issue, either. Gibson and Sutherland report that, “The percentage of Democrats who are worried about speaking their mind is just about identical to the percentage of Republicans who self-censor: 39 and 40 percent, respectively.”<p>That&#x27;s a scary number. And it&#x27;s probably not wrong.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Persuasion through status rather than argument</title><url>https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/how-dumb-ideas-capture-smart-and</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PedroBatista</author><text>That’s a common western view and wishful thinking but life is about power, not happiness. They can be all dissatisfied they want but a few crackdowns always put them in line, and in the end this is what matters.<p>I know it reads harsh but there’s little to no morality in this, they are “unhappy” because the expectations of having a good job, money, a big house and general prosperity forever is not materializing. In the past when China was really growing at 10% a year, there were also no freedom and horrible things were happening to many people, yet people where “very happy”, again no morality just a matter of power&#x2F;money.<p>“Meaningful change” will happen if they align with who has the power at that time and there is no indication “young people” will relinquish their power when they finally have it.<p>Current old powerful people were also young at some point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>It was interesting to read about younger Chinese people, and their dissatisfaction with life in China. At the risk of being too US&#x2F;West-centric, I do worry a lot about Western domination declining, and China taking its place. I fundamentally do not believe that their system of government is good for people, and for the world at large. (To be clear, I&#x27;m fine with US&#x2F;Western dominance declining over time, but I would like to see something I feel is equivalent or better taking its place, or, preferably, sharing its place.)<p>So in a way it&#x27;s good to read about two things in concert: 1) Xi tightening things up and cracking down harder and harder on free expression, and 2) younger Chinese people -- despite the propaganda I hear they&#x27;re exposed to -- becoming disillusioned and frustrated by it. Overall it sucks: I certainly don&#x27;t wish more and more censorship etc. being foisted upon a billion of my fellow humans. But I also don&#x27;t want to see a totalitarian regime being the main dominant world power.<p>Of course, dissatisfied young people -- and probably not even that many when compared to the whole of young Chinese people in China -- don&#x27;t guarantee any kind of meaningful change over time. I&#x27;m sure there are plenty of young people in China who will happily step into the party&#x27;s shoes once the current leadership&#x27;s time has past.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2023 Letter</title><url>https://danwang.co/2023-letter/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>huijzer</author><text>&gt; I do worry a lot about Western domination declining, and China taking its place.<p>What gives me hope is that we’re not driving in North Korean or Russian cars, nor use their chips, or airplanes. The Soviet Union tried to be a leader in all these fields. I know China is not Russia, but in many things it is. How many Western companies, for example, have the government sit on their board? Top-down economic planning has never worked and I don’t see why it would be different now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>It was interesting to read about younger Chinese people, and their dissatisfaction with life in China. At the risk of being too US&#x2F;West-centric, I do worry a lot about Western domination declining, and China taking its place. I fundamentally do not believe that their system of government is good for people, and for the world at large. (To be clear, I&#x27;m fine with US&#x2F;Western dominance declining over time, but I would like to see something I feel is equivalent or better taking its place, or, preferably, sharing its place.)<p>So in a way it&#x27;s good to read about two things in concert: 1) Xi tightening things up and cracking down harder and harder on free expression, and 2) younger Chinese people -- despite the propaganda I hear they&#x27;re exposed to -- becoming disillusioned and frustrated by it. Overall it sucks: I certainly don&#x27;t wish more and more censorship etc. being foisted upon a billion of my fellow humans. But I also don&#x27;t want to see a totalitarian regime being the main dominant world power.<p>Of course, dissatisfied young people -- and probably not even that many when compared to the whole of young Chinese people in China -- don&#x27;t guarantee any kind of meaningful change over time. I&#x27;m sure there are plenty of young people in China who will happily step into the party&#x27;s shoes once the current leadership&#x27;s time has past.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2023 Letter</title><url>https://danwang.co/2023-letter/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elliotec</author><text>This is wonderful.<p>I recently spun up a horizon(<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;horizon.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;horizon.io</a>) project on Digital Ocean with a Vue.js front end, and it has been by far the best experience I&#x27;ve had with full stack javascript, ever.<p>I really hope things like this start getting Vue the hype it deserves, because even though I&#x27;m a JS churn hater, this is one of the good ones. Much much nicer and simpler to work with than React or Angular, but using the ideas that have made them both of them great and popular.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mint UI – Mobile UI Elements for Vue.js</title><url>http://mint-ui.github.io/#!/en</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hayksaakian</author><text>this got me looking into vue.js where I found this<p>demo of hacker news built with vue.js using real up to date data from the api<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vuejs.github.io&#x2F;vue-hackernews&#x2F;#!&#x2F;news&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vuejs.github.io&#x2F;vue-hackernews&#x2F;#!&#x2F;news&#x2F;1</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mint UI – Mobile UI Elements for Vue.js</title><url>http://mint-ui.github.io/#!/en</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>privateSFacct</author><text>This 100%. I don&#x27;t do much AWS stuff - but this issue exists outside of AWS as well (inside a corp).<p>It&#x27;s why I hate all the password rotation, double VPN stuff - people work around it too much.<p>All the old staff start having the tech person track their passwords or write them near the computer, all the young staff use whatever new .io domain does X super easily (but less securely) or stick things on thumb driver (no keypad) or use their personal google drive etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dboreham</author><text>Laziness in attempting to share data with someone in another org?<p>&quot;Nope, can&#x27;t access it&quot; ...<p>&quot;Nope, still can&#x27;t access it&quot;...<p>&quot;My manager is harassing me to get access now&quot;...<p>&quot;Look, just make it public then change it back after I get it copied&quot;...</text></item><item><author>joncrane</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working almost exclusively in the AWS space for about 10 years now. Clients anywhere from tiny little three-person consultancies to Fortune 100. Commercial, govcloud, dozens of clients.<p>Never once have I ever found a use case for making public EBS snapshots.<p>Who on Earth is thinking that it is a good idea to take an EBS snapshot and make it public?<p>Note, several of those engagements did involve multiple accounts, and the need to share &#x2F; copy AMIs and&#x2F;or snapshots between accounts. But never making them public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/aws-ebs-cloud-backups-leak</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heyoni</author><text><i>goes home completely forgetting to change it back...</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>dboreham</author><text>Laziness in attempting to share data with someone in another org?<p>&quot;Nope, can&#x27;t access it&quot; ...<p>&quot;Nope, still can&#x27;t access it&quot;...<p>&quot;My manager is harassing me to get access now&quot;...<p>&quot;Look, just make it public then change it back after I get it copied&quot;...</text></item><item><author>joncrane</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working almost exclusively in the AWS space for about 10 years now. Clients anywhere from tiny little three-person consultancies to Fortune 100. Commercial, govcloud, dozens of clients.<p>Never once have I ever found a use case for making public EBS snapshots.<p>Who on Earth is thinking that it is a good idea to take an EBS snapshot and make it public?<p>Note, several of those engagements did involve multiple accounts, and the need to share &#x2F; copy AMIs and&#x2F;or snapshots between accounts. But never making them public.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/aws-ebs-cloud-backups-leak</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xtrumanx</author><text>&gt; Your Ember app will behave no differently than server-rendered apps when it comes to search engines, mobile users, cURL, or users with JavaScript disabled.<p>How are Javascript disabled users going to use the app? Unless the app consists text and links, all interaction like submitting a form is usually coded with the idea that an ajax request will be made instead of a form submission triggering a page refresh.<p>react-router is React&#x27;s most popular router component (which is inspired by Ember&#x27;s routing system) just delivered a solution for server-side rendering a few weeks ago. My app can now deliver the fully rendered html from the server and the server also can &quot;fetch the models&quot; when preparing the html. However, if the user is quick (or their internet connection is slow) and tries to submit a form before React had a chance to &quot;rehydrate&quot; it won&#x27;t work. Sure links work just fine but none of the bits that require my app to be running will work which is significant portion of most applications designed around React, Angular, Ember, etc.<p>For now, either we go back to spinners (which won&#x27;t stop spinning if you&#x27;ve got JS disabled) or design the whole app with JS-disabled users in mind which would mean a lot of duplicate effort by having two possible endpoints for submitting forms; ajax-returning endpoints and traditional POST request endpoints which would return a redirect or a full page of html with validation errors included.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside FastBoot: the road to server-side rendering</title><url>http://emberjs.com/blog/2014/12/22/inside-fastboot-the-road-to-server-side-rendering.html</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>cookrn</author><text>Thinking out &quot;loud&quot;:<p>1) How does transparent server-side rendering of Ember change the role of what was the server-side app before? Are you now managing a separate server environment for your Node Ember application?<p>2) Does this affect the ability to distribute your frontend over a CDN? Is this common practice for current Ember applications?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inside FastBoot: the road to server-side rendering</title><url>http://emberjs.com/blog/2014/12/22/inside-fastboot-the-road-to-server-side-rendering.html</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>nilved</author><text>&#62; When talking about farm help, they may hold a grudge against the animals they are working with. A friend would work his uncle's farm every saturday to help clean up after the pigs. His job was basically shoveling pig poop for 8 hours (or other equally not-fun jobs). It would take a day before he smelled normal again. Doing this kind of work can make some people resentful of the animals they work with.<p>Working in a call center, I resented every customer I dealt with. At no point did I electrocute, scald, maim or torture them. Not just because of the distance, but because I'm not a fucking psychopath. People who abuse living creatures do not need any defense; on the contrary, they're immoral, depraved and indefensible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kyrra</author><text>This is not meant to defend cruel people, I just want to raise a few points about farms.<p>While I have only been to small farms, I have definitely seen what some people would consider animal cruelty. But I think it's important to understand the mentality of people that work with these animals.<p>Animals on farms are seen as property, not a pet in any way. Most owners and workers of animals distance themselves from the animals to keep themselves mentally healthy as they will be putting these animals to slaughter to sell or eat. When distance yourself from an animal, you won't be treating it as nicely as you would your family dog.<p>When talking about farm help, they may hold a grudge against the animals they are working with. A friend would work his uncle's farm every saturday to help clean up after the pigs. His job was basically shoveling pig poop for 8 hours (or other equally not-fun jobs). It would take a day before he smelled normal again. Doing this kind of work can make some people resentful of the animals they work with.<p>Farmers and farm help see animals as money, so they won't do anything that could jeopardize being paid (won't damage the product).<p>When people are disconnected with the animals they are working with, it is easier for some people not to be so nice to those animals. This isn't to say that all people working with animals will be abusive towards them, but it creates an opening for those people that aren't as nice to take their anger out on the animals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.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>lprubin</author><text>As of a couple of years ago, the average job tenure of an employee working in a slaughterhouse was 6 months. Many people lasted half a day to three days. The emotional stress and trauma of witnessing living animals being put through the kind of things factory farming does to them is emotionally overwhelming to even the most hardened people.<p>The people who have to witness that day in and day out frequently end up with extreme emotional turmoil/psychological trauma similar to PTSD and it is these traumatized employees who end enacting much of the crueler practices talked about in these videos.<p>It's very challenging for a person to witness what goes on in a slaughterhouse and to maintain their sanity. Trying to keep the idea that these are living creatures with rights but also that it is perfectly fine for them to suffer the horrible treatment they are subjected to requires a tenuous mental gymnastics that apparently seems to break down after only a couple of months of exposure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kyrra</author><text>This is not meant to defend cruel people, I just want to raise a few points about farms.<p>While I have only been to small farms, I have definitely seen what some people would consider animal cruelty. But I think it's important to understand the mentality of people that work with these animals.<p>Animals on farms are seen as property, not a pet in any way. Most owners and workers of animals distance themselves from the animals to keep themselves mentally healthy as they will be putting these animals to slaughter to sell or eat. When distance yourself from an animal, you won't be treating it as nicely as you would your family dog.<p>When talking about farm help, they may hold a grudge against the animals they are working with. A friend would work his uncle's farm every saturday to help clean up after the pigs. His job was basically shoveling pig poop for 8 hours (or other equally not-fun jobs). It would take a day before he smelled normal again. Doing this kind of work can make some people resentful of the animals they work with.<p>Farmers and farm help see animals as money, so they won't do anything that could jeopardize being paid (won't damage the product).<p>When people are disconnected with the animals they are working with, it is easier for some people not to be so nice to those animals. This isn't to say that all people working with animals will be abusive towards them, but it creates an opening for those people that aren't as nice to take their anger out on the animals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.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>cletus</author><text>That is interesting although I&#x27;m wary of any allusions to a suicide or accident (of Robert Maxwell) being nefarious without some pretty significant proof. Like... it&#x27;s just a recipe for getting painted as a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.<p>As for the relation to Robert Maxwell, didn&#x27;t his connection to underage girls at that time come from him being a teacher at an elite school? Wouldn&#x27;t you expect such students to have famous and&#x2F;or rich parents?<p>But here&#x27;s the big one... can we please stop shoe-horning long form content into &quot;Twitter threads&quot;? That&#x27;s not a thing. It&#x27;s a terrible way of presenting long form content and it needs to die.</text><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>An independent activist journalist has been digging into the case and has come up with some interesting and alarming connections and history. Worth a read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libertyblitzkrieg.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-jeffrey-epstein-rabbit-hole-goes-a-lot-deeper-than-you-think&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libertyblitzkrieg.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-jeffrey-epstein...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance Themselves</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/jeffrey-epstein-arrest-spurs-tech-figures-to-distance-themselves</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edoo</author><text>That is called journalism, not activism. Activist journalist are a stain on the industry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>An independent activist journalist has been digging into the case and has come up with some interesting and alarming connections and history. Worth a read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libertyblitzkrieg.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-jeffrey-epstein-rabbit-hole-goes-a-lot-deeper-than-you-think&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libertyblitzkrieg.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-jeffrey-epstein...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance Themselves</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/jeffrey-epstein-arrest-spurs-tech-figures-to-distance-themselves</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kweks</author><text>I happened to head through this region last year.
The desert near Isfahan is absolutely mind blowing.<p>It&#x27;s like procedural generation meets the clone stamp tool.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;travel.ninjito.com&#x2F;2014-08-18-Iran" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;travel.ninjito.com&#x2F;2014-08-18-Iran</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia</title><url>http://riowang.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-tomb-of-queen-esther-in-persia.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>eternalban</author><text>Relations between the two tribes go back at least 3000 years if not earlier. (The city of Rages, then Ray, and now a suburb of Teheran, apparently had a substantial Jewish community during the Median period, per Book of Tobit [2]) Typically quite friendly and simpatico.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tomb_of_Daniel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tomb_of_Daniel</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Book_of_Tobit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Book_of_Tobit</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia</title><url>http://riowang.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-tomb-of-queen-esther-in-persia.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>nullvoyd</author><text>Glorious news this morning. Enabled it on my Nexus 4 with Telus and I can confirm that this works absolutely fine.<p>However, I'm quite curious about the battery life impact. So far the N4 isn't a champion in this category. Adding LTE..</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-for-lte-on-band-4-aws</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>untog</author><text>Cool. Now just let me buy one, please.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-for-lte-on-band-4-aws</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>zamnos</author><text>&gt; Technical people suffer from what I call &quot;Engineer&#x27;s Disease&quot;. We think because we&#x27;re an expert in one area, we&#x27;re automatically an expert in other areas. Just recognizing that helps.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10812804" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10812804</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; &quot;oh, that&#x27;s way easier than what I do, how hard could it be&quot;. A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it&#x27;s more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how hard could it be?</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people?<p>It seems like they&#x27;ve been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and &quot;neutral&quot; politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable.<p>Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet format? Something like: &quot;We just need to come up with the right algorithm and do an embarrassingly parallel run over these tiny 280-character chunks of text. How hard can that be. In my own Very Serious Day Job, I deal with oompabytes of very complex data. This tweet processing stuff should be child&#x27;s play in comparison.&quot;</text></item><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>My opinion of geohot definitely dropped after he started tweeting how easy it would be to fix Twitter, and then he started soliciting free work. He obviously underestimated the difficulty of shipping a feature across web and mobile. Hacking a prototype is trivial. Making it work well for all platforms, fully accessible, and across all supported languages is a bigger hurdle. It just gave me the impression that he thought frontend development was trivial and he&#x27;d just be able to hack it out in a day.</text></item><item><author>thesausageking</author><text>For background, &quot;geohot&quot;, is George Hotz, who&#x27;s a known hacker &#x2F; tech personality[0]<p>This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn&#x27;t have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale.<p>In 2016, Tesla and self-driving cars led to his comma one project (&quot;I could build a better vision system than Tesla autopilot in 3 months&quot;). In 2020, Ethereum got hot and so he created &quot;cheapETH&quot;. In 2022 it was Elon&#x27;s Twitter, which led him to &quot;fixing Twitter search&quot;. And in 2023 it&#x27;s NVIDIA.<p>I&#x27;d love to see an alternative to CUDA &#x2F; NVIDIA so I hope this one breaks the pattern, but I&#x27;d be very, very careful before giving him a deposit.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;George_Hotz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;George_Hotz</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The tiny corp raised $5.1M</title><url>https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-tiny-corp-raised-5M.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>OOPMan</author><text>You hit the nail on the head. There are definitely these kinds of people and they are definitely highly concentrated in tech.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; &quot;oh, that&#x27;s way easier than what I do, how hard could it be&quot;. A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it&#x27;s more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how hard could it be?</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Why is Twitter such a Waterloo for all these obviously accomplished people?<p>It seems like they&#x27;ve been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists, and if only they could apply their own get-things-done attitude and &quot;neutral&quot; politics, then the problem would be trivially fixable.<p>Where does this fallacy come from? Is it because of the illusory simplicity of the tweet format? Something like: &quot;We just need to come up with the right algorithm and do an embarrassingly parallel run over these tiny 280-character chunks of text. How hard can that be. In my own Very Serious Day Job, I deal with oompabytes of very complex data. This tweet processing stuff should be child&#x27;s play in comparison.&quot;</text></item><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>My opinion of geohot definitely dropped after he started tweeting how easy it would be to fix Twitter, and then he started soliciting free work. He obviously underestimated the difficulty of shipping a feature across web and mobile. Hacking a prototype is trivial. Making it work well for all platforms, fully accessible, and across all supported languages is a bigger hurdle. It just gave me the impression that he thought frontend development was trivial and he&#x27;d just be able to hack it out in a day.</text></item><item><author>thesausageking</author><text>For background, &quot;geohot&quot;, is George Hotz, who&#x27;s a known hacker &#x2F; tech personality[0]<p>This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn&#x27;t have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale.<p>In 2016, Tesla and self-driving cars led to his comma one project (&quot;I could build a better vision system than Tesla autopilot in 3 months&quot;). In 2020, Ethereum got hot and so he created &quot;cheapETH&quot;. In 2022 it was Elon&#x27;s Twitter, which led him to &quot;fixing Twitter search&quot;. And in 2023 it&#x27;s NVIDIA.<p>I&#x27;d love to see an alternative to CUDA &#x2F; NVIDIA so I hope this one breaks the pattern, but I&#x27;d be very, very careful before giving him a deposit.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;George_Hotz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;George_Hotz</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The tiny corp raised $5.1M</title><url>https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-tiny-corp-raised-5M.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>throwaway_str</author><text>From the engineering friends I know at Stripe, you&#x27;d be correct: there&#x27;s a strong cultural push to not question the status quo &#x2F; prevailing wisdom.<p>On the tech side, they continue to build on top of a broken foundation (MongoDB), resulting in millions of man hours wasted dealing with the complete lack of transactions. Mongo now has transactions, but last I heard Stripe was still running a very outdated version and spending absurd amounts of time dealing with issues that transactions would have entirely avoided. If you suggested that maybe it&#x27;d be worth changing course to something like Postgres because of the insane amount of work being wasted, you&#x27;d be shut down for not being optimistic enough.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vfc1</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, this super optimism as a value might lead to situations where something is going clearly in the wrong direction, but people get afraid of pointing it out due to fear of going against the company values, and getting natural overly optimistic personalities out of their delusional high and back into reality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lessons from Stripe</title><url>https://markmcgranaghan.com/lessons-from-stripe</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minxomat</author><text>I agree in the sense that small problems which have technical solutions should be pointed out and overcome. However, in later-stage startups and in larger companies, trying to change the direction might not be the wise thing to do. This highly depends on your position, but as an individual contributor and even as someone in the lower management lane (manager, director), your job most of the time is implementing the CEO&#x27;s vision, whatever that is. If you find yourself disagreeing with that vision, it might be best to change jobs.[1]<p>In smaller startups, where you might be able to steer more aggressively, you should still ask yourself whether the company is <i>clearly in the wrong direction</i> only from your perspective or if there are factors which you don&#x27;t have any insight into (no matter how close you are to founder(s)) which would re-contextualize the issue.<p>Not disagreeing, but these are some caveats which I found useful to keep in mind.<p>[1] - There was a story about someone from Apple(?) here a while ago who was let go after a lunch with &lt;someone important&gt; where he expressed his dissatisfaction with the company&#x27;s direction. He then took up japanese caligraphy. Maybe someone remembers and can link it here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vfc1</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, this super optimism as a value might lead to situations where something is going clearly in the wrong direction, but people get afraid of pointing it out due to fear of going against the company values, and getting natural overly optimistic personalities out of their delusional high and back into reality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lessons from Stripe</title><url>https://markmcgranaghan.com/lessons-from-stripe</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DarkShikari</author><text><i>It is not sufficient merely to prove a program correct; you have to test it too. Moreover, to be really certain that a program is correct, you have to test it for all possible input values, but this is seldom feasible.</i><p>This statement is tantamount to saying "you don't merely need to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, you also have to test it for all possible input values". By this line of reasoning, most of mathematics should be thrown out.<p>If you've proven a program correct, <i>it is correct for all input values</i>, whether you have tested them or not. If your proof ignores complexities such as the range of data values, it isn't a correct proof to begin with. And yes, proving programs correct is often possible -- in fact, the highest levels of software verification actually require explicit proofs of correctness for much of the code; see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_Assurance_Level#EAL7:_Formally_Verified_Design_and_Tested" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_Assurance_Level#EAL7...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006)</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.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>ColinWright</author><text>Previous, extensive discussion: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130463" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130463</a><p>I once ran a programming challenge based on this, but I discontinued when I started to get threats of physical violence from people whose code didn't pass the tests.<p>The Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures on the NIST site has a correction I submitted on exactly this point:<p><a href="http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/binarySearch.html" rel="nofollow">http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/binarySearch.html</a><p>And my blog post: <a href="http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/BinarySearchReconsidered.html?HN" rel="nofollow">http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/BinarySearchReconsidered.html?...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006)</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.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>rayiner</author><text>And Facebook and Google want to get you locked in a cycle of mindless browsing and ad consumption. The difference is that Facebook and Google operate in markets with high barriers to entry resulting in fat profit margins. Payday lenders, by contrast, operate in a market with immense amounts of competition. There’s one on every block in most places.<p>Payday lenders don’t lock people in cycles of debt. What looks people in cycles of debt is that their income levels are marginal so any unexpected event can totally derail them.<p>I have a paid off car. When I got into a fender bender, I needed to pay $2,500 out of pocket to fix it because I don’t carry insurance for damage to my own vehicle. If I was poor, what would I do? I can go to a payday lender, who has to charge high fees because poor people are high risk. I’m caught in a cycle of debt—because I couldn’t afford that expense to begin with. But at least I can get around. If you take away that option, I don’t get my car fixed and lose my job. That’s the alternative.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Payday lenders are predatory. They want to get people locked into a cycle of debt, so that they can charge many times the original amount in interest per <i>year</i>. I&#x27;m surprised to see anyone defending them.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The rules were misconceived to begin with, by people who mistook the symptoms for the problem. There is a ton of competition in payday lending—there is zero reason to believe that payday lending rates are higher than the efficient amount. There is no hint of market failure, systemic risk, or any of the other criteria that typically justify regulating financial institutions.<p>That means this rule wasn’t really a <i>consumer protection regulation</i> but rather a <i>moral regulation</i>. It’s not in the vein of Dodd-Frank, but rather blue laws and the prohibition on buying cooked food with food stamps. People don’t like the moral implications of what it means to be poor, so they try to legislate the symptoms. The result is denying poor people access to credit.<p>EDIT: I see people hand waving about fraud and hidden fees and lack of transparency. But if you look at the rules, they don’t address such things: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerfinance.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;cfpb-finalizes-rule-stop-payday-debt-traps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerfinance.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;cfpb-final...</a>. They are restrictions on who can borrow and how much.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Payday Lending</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/02/06/691944789/consumer-protection-bureau-aims-to-roll-back-rules-for-payday-lending</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>&gt; Payday lenders have low losses and high profits (34%+ return on investment)<p>&gt; A payday lender would have to work hard to lose money, even though borrowers are generally low-income and have weak credit histories. Holding a &quot;live&quot; check as security gives a lender strong collateral and leverage over a borrower who, when faced with the threat of criminal prosecution and penalty fees, will keep paying renewal fees every two weeks when they cannot afford to repay the loan in full and walk away. With these renewals (or loan flips), they are never paying down the principal owed. In North Carolina in 2000, for example, only 6% of payday checks were returned for insufficient funds (NSF) and lenders recovered about 69% of the value on these. They also collected $2 million in NSF fees.<p>&gt; In comparison, the credit card default rate, like the payday default rate, is also approximately 6% -- but the interest rate on a credit card rarely exceeds 29% (as opposed to payday loans that routinely charge 400% APR or more). Personal loans and car loans have default rates of around 2%, with APRs between 5 and 15%. Compared to other forms of credit, the exorbitantly high APR charged on payday loans is drastically out of proportion with the relatively normal risk involved in making those loans.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.responsiblelending.org&#x2F;research-publication&#x2F;fact-v-fiction-truth-about-payday-lending-industry-claims#five" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.responsiblelending.org&#x2F;research-publication&#x2F;fact...</a><p>The whole page is worth reading.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Payday lenders are predatory. They want to get people locked into a cycle of debt, so that they can charge many times the original amount in interest per <i>year</i>. I&#x27;m surprised to see anyone defending them.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The rules were misconceived to begin with, by people who mistook the symptoms for the problem. There is a ton of competition in payday lending—there is zero reason to believe that payday lending rates are higher than the efficient amount. There is no hint of market failure, systemic risk, or any of the other criteria that typically justify regulating financial institutions.<p>That means this rule wasn’t really a <i>consumer protection regulation</i> but rather a <i>moral regulation</i>. It’s not in the vein of Dodd-Frank, but rather blue laws and the prohibition on buying cooked food with food stamps. People don’t like the moral implications of what it means to be poor, so they try to legislate the symptoms. The result is denying poor people access to credit.<p>EDIT: I see people hand waving about fraud and hidden fees and lack of transparency. But if you look at the rules, they don’t address such things: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerfinance.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;cfpb-finalizes-rule-stop-payday-debt-traps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerfinance.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;cfpb-final...</a>. They are restrictions on who can borrow and how much.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Payday Lending</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/02/06/691944789/consumer-protection-bureau-aims-to-roll-back-rules-for-payday-lending</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>f6v</author><text>We’re just scratching the surface there. So many things can go wrong with the immune system that lead to inflammation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asadkn</author><text>Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let&#x27;s not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness.<p>Relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5476783&#x2F;#s2title" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5476783&#x2F;#s2titl...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>synthmeat</author><text>Serendipitously, this popped up for me right as I was reading this thread <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QezLxFuBxvM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QezLxFuBxvM</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>asadkn</author><text>Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let&#x27;s not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness.<p>Relevant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5476783&#x2F;#s2title" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5476783&#x2F;#s2titl...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chii</author><text>&gt; the copyright holder is the person who took the image.<p>only if you didn&#x27;t contract that person to take the image for you. So it makes sense, imho, that the person who paid for the image to be taken to own the copyright.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LosWochosWeek</author><text>&gt; In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.<p>This doesn&#x27;t answer the question in the article tho. The question isn&#x27;t &quot;Who has the rights to a copy of my medical images&quot;. It&#x27;s &quot;Who owns the copyright to my medical images&quot;.<p>To answer that question, you&#x27;d first have to find out if your medical images are even protected by copyright in the first place. The answer to this question depends wholly on the picture itself.<p>Let&#x27;s say a medical image of yours is indeed protected by copyright, then -- even in your country in Europe (regardless of which country it actually is) -- the copyright holder is the person who took the image. Not you. It may very well be that in your country this copyright is restricted by other laws (i.e. Persönlichkeitsrecht in Germany).</text></item><item><author>andix</author><text>In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.<p>But I have to pay the doctor the expenses, if there is some work involved (like burning a CD or buying a flash drive - bc of security reasons they don’t let you connect yours, you need to buy a new one).<p>If you have some kind of 3d images (also dentists create them nowadays), there is usually some kind of licensed viewer software on the disk, where you can view just your own images. And as far as I know, the doctors don’t have to pay a license fee for it. It’s included with their software. And it is a feature they need, to comply with the law, that they have to give images to the patients upon request.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who owns the copyright to my medical images? (2018)</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/who-owns-the-copyright-to-my-medical-images/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; the copyright holder is the person who took the image. Not you.<p>But it could be interesting to think about whether a dental X-ray is &quot;your likeness&quot;. So even if the dentist holds the copyright, their copyright is burdened&#x2F;encumbered by the fact that it&#x27;s a &quot;picture of you&quot;. Unless you sign away that right in exchange for treatment, the copyright might not be that useful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LosWochosWeek</author><text>&gt; In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.<p>This doesn&#x27;t answer the question in the article tho. The question isn&#x27;t &quot;Who has the rights to a copy of my medical images&quot;. It&#x27;s &quot;Who owns the copyright to my medical images&quot;.<p>To answer that question, you&#x27;d first have to find out if your medical images are even protected by copyright in the first place. The answer to this question depends wholly on the picture itself.<p>Let&#x27;s say a medical image of yours is indeed protected by copyright, then -- even in your country in Europe (regardless of which country it actually is) -- the copyright holder is the person who took the image. Not you. It may very well be that in your country this copyright is restricted by other laws (i.e. Persönlichkeitsrecht in Germany).</text></item><item><author>andix</author><text>In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.<p>But I have to pay the doctor the expenses, if there is some work involved (like burning a CD or buying a flash drive - bc of security reasons they don’t let you connect yours, you need to buy a new one).<p>If you have some kind of 3d images (also dentists create them nowadays), there is usually some kind of licensed viewer software on the disk, where you can view just your own images. And as far as I know, the doctors don’t have to pay a license fee for it. It’s included with their software. And it is a feature they need, to comply with the law, that they have to give images to the patients upon request.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who owns the copyright to my medical images? (2018)</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/who-owns-the-copyright-to-my-medical-images/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rob74</author><text>Well, if you are going to try to build affordable housing quickly, such large projects are the way to go. At least in the sixties and seventies city planners in the &quot;western world&quot; tried to do it (with more or less success), today they&#x27;re not even trying anymore.<p>A more successful example is the former Munich Olympic Village (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;1HTQWvGcRcoXAWvH6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;1HTQWvGcRcoXAWvH6</a>). It&#x27;s composed of 3 streets which are completely built over, so the cars at ground level are hidden from view and the pedestrians are walking in a completely pedestrian area at level 2 (I think). The buildings are also very linear and all look the same, but all apartments have huge south-facing terraces with lots of greenery (including shrubs or even trees). Public transport connection is also very good with a subway station nearby. Today the apartments are very sought after - wish they had built more projects like this. But if you look at more recent projects, like the &quot;Messestadt Riem&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;tVrahc4uDFkijGCC9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;tVrahc4uDFkijGCC9</a>), they are much more cramped and spread out over a larger surface, with squat buildings that look very interchangeable - not really better, I&#x27;m afraid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsnell</author><text>One more in the same theme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Prora" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Prora</a><p>What I&#x27;ve never understood with these projects is, what&#x27;s the supposed benefit of a single stupidly large building over a large number of reasonably sized ones? It doesn&#x27;t feel like this would bring any meaningful economies of scale to the building process. It seems unlikely to actually use land more efficiently.<p>Like, is it really just some kind of an authoritarian fetish for giant projects, or was there at least some attempt at justifying it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Corviale, a one-kilometer residential complex in Rome</title><url>https://www.archdaily.com/956906/corviale-a-one-kilometer-residential-complex-in-rome</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>Also here, last photo <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;bernadetealves.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;12&#x2F;unb-esta-no-top-10-no-ranking-qs-world-university&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;bernadetealves.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;12&#x2F;u...</a> , the 700-meter Minhocão (Big Worm) at UnB (Universidade Nacional de Brasília). I started EE program there in 1984 before deciding to move to the USA (student&#x2F;teacher strikes were gonna lead to lost semesters). Going between classes was real inconvenient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsnell</author><text>One more in the same theme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Prora" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Prora</a><p>What I&#x27;ve never understood with these projects is, what&#x27;s the supposed benefit of a single stupidly large building over a large number of reasonably sized ones? It doesn&#x27;t feel like this would bring any meaningful economies of scale to the building process. It seems unlikely to actually use land more efficiently.<p>Like, is it really just some kind of an authoritarian fetish for giant projects, or was there at least some attempt at justifying it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Corviale, a one-kilometer residential complex in Rome</title><url>https://www.archdaily.com/956906/corviale-a-one-kilometer-residential-complex-in-rome</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rectang</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;With their lives, blood and tears, the young people in Hong Kong have demonstrated for us that one country, two systems is not feasible,&quot; Tsai said.</i><p>The saga of Hong Kong is so sad. They didn&#x27;t take their freedom for granted, they struggled mightily, but ultimately they have been crushed.<p>The lesson for Taiwan could not be more stark. I can see why Tsai said this, and why she has received such support from the Taiwanese people in response.<p>It is hard to stand up to the CCP. If an individual with Chinese ties did so on a forum such as HN, doubtless they would be reported by omnipresent loyalists monitoring these exchanges, just as the students were at various US universities.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;even-on-us-campuses-china...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The leader who's standing up to China</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/taiwan-china-tsai/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>droopyEyelids</author><text>It is interesting how long a nearby territory&#x2F;country can &#x27;Stand up to China&#x27;<p>When you look at _countries_ (not even territories!) that have tried to &#x27;stand up&#x27; to the USA, you only see a trail of immiseration and coup d&#x27;état. They don&#x27;t even have to be _that_ close to us geographically, like Nicaragua or Chile. Cuba is the closest to a success story, and look at their economic indicators. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;cuba&#x2F;gdp-per-capita-ppp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;cuba&#x2F;gdp-per-capita-ppp</a><p>I don&#x27;t know what conclusion to draw from this, but it&#x27;s just wild to me that China is a superpower, and not only has Taiwan failed to have a revolution, but they&#x27;re a financial success. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statisticstimes.com&#x2F;economy&#x2F;country&#x2F;taiwan-gdp-per-capita.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statisticstimes.com&#x2F;economy&#x2F;country&#x2F;taiwan-gdp-per-c...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The leader who's standing up to China</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/taiwan-china-tsai/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>I often think that the medical industry enjoys (or suffers) from some sort of a given god complex. They can do what they want as soon as they reach a certain threshold of saving. Nobody will debate them (most of us don&#x27;t have the articulate knowledge anyway) and will morally and existentially satisfy from still being alive.<p>I just went through 4 doctors (gen. and specs.) about deep yet diffuse cardio vascular problems (life altering if not threatening). Their diagnosis was &quot;nothing to see you are depressed&quot;. Since my problems started I can&#x27;t sleep on my right side (causes heart race, pain and suffocation), and have now back pain; in order to sleep without pain I tried on my stomach. This configuration changed something, I felt stings around my heart, and a sudden relaxation, warm blood reaching my fingers and feets (something I didn&#x27;t feel for a year). Stings moved along, hurting at finger and toe tips. I felt sweetly alive, jumped out of my bed (because now I can). Even cleand my browser tabs. So much for depression.<p>I tried discussing with doctors calmly. Accepting the data, their knowledge. Yet not backing down if I felt they weren&#x27;t really solving my problems. But it&#x27;s impossible. One doctor even dared me to reproduce transient symptoms with an annoyed tone. You start considering being hypercondriac, a crybaby.<p>Deep down all I want is a way to monitor myself deeply so I can take care of myself but I&#x27;m facing this paywall.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ada1981</author><text>If you spend anytime with the medical industry you soon realize the issue.<p>I helped launched (the now deadpooled) Theil backed MetaMed a few years -- essentially a private research team for medicine, and what the founders taught me was astounding.<p>That things like amputating the wrong limbs, doctors not washing their hands and killing you by infection and a horror of other preventable errors are shocking common.<p>This didn&#x27;t even take into consideration that things discovered in labs that might cure you take at least 30 years to reach the doctors who might implement them, if they ever do.<p>The distortion of hubris from doctors, economic incentives and other systemic issues results in a &quot;health care system&quot; that doesn&#x27;t realily seem to do what it sets out to do -- we spend 10x what some developing countries do per year per person with no better outcomes.<p>Accute care seems to be reasonably good, fixing a broken arm, etc. (assuming they don&#x27;t accidentally remove it); but chronic care is often just a pipeline for the recurring revenue model of big pharma (at best).<p>The examples are never ending but for fun, take a google to discover how many pap smears are performed annually on women <i>who have already had their uterus removed</i> - then consider the cost to insurance and tax payers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in US</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/03/researchers-medical-errors-now-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-united-states/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&gt; That things like amputating the wrong limbs<p>Wrong site surgery is a &quot;never event&quot; in the English NHS. That means that there&#x27;s never any excuse for it to happen, and it should not ever happen.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.england.nhs.uk&#x2F;patientsafety&#x2F;never-events&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.england.nhs.uk&#x2F;patientsafety&#x2F;never-events&#x2F;</a><p>Indeed, it&#x27;s the first one on the list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.england.nhs.uk&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;never-evnts-list-15-16.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.england.nhs.uk&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;never-...</a><p>In 2012 &#x2F; 2013 there were 83 wrong site surgeries.<p>That&#x27;s way too many, but for context:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhsconfed.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;key-statistics-on-the-nhs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nhsconfed.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;key-statistics-on-the-nhs</a><p>&gt; There were 15.892m total hospital admissions in 2014&#x2F;15, 31 per cent more than a decade earlier (12.102m).<p>(Not all of those will be surgeries)<p>and:<p>&gt; In 2015, across Hospital and Community Healthcare Services (HCHS) and GP practices, the NHS employed 149,808 doctors, 314,966 qualified nursing staff and health visitors (HCHS), 25,418 midwives, 23,066 GP practice nurses, 146,792 qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff, 18,862 qualified ambulance staff and 30,952 managers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ada1981</author><text>If you spend anytime with the medical industry you soon realize the issue.<p>I helped launched (the now deadpooled) Theil backed MetaMed a few years -- essentially a private research team for medicine, and what the founders taught me was astounding.<p>That things like amputating the wrong limbs, doctors not washing their hands and killing you by infection and a horror of other preventable errors are shocking common.<p>This didn&#x27;t even take into consideration that things discovered in labs that might cure you take at least 30 years to reach the doctors who might implement them, if they ever do.<p>The distortion of hubris from doctors, economic incentives and other systemic issues results in a &quot;health care system&quot; that doesn&#x27;t realily seem to do what it sets out to do -- we spend 10x what some developing countries do per year per person with no better outcomes.<p>Accute care seems to be reasonably good, fixing a broken arm, etc. (assuming they don&#x27;t accidentally remove it); but chronic care is often just a pipeline for the recurring revenue model of big pharma (at best).<p>The examples are never ending but for fun, take a google to discover how many pap smears are performed annually on women <i>who have already had their uterus removed</i> - then consider the cost to insurance and tax payers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in US</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/03/researchers-medical-errors-now-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-united-states/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jarin</author><text>I also ran into a problem with GoDaddy when trying to transfer a domain name that was protected by Domains by Proxy. I first got a notification that I needed to enter into a new agreement, so I did. Then I got a notification that I needed to cancel my private registration, so I did. Then I got this:<p><pre><code> "The transfer of MYDOMAIN.ME from Go Daddy to another
registrar could not be completed for the following
reason(s):
Express written objection to the transfer from the
Transfer Contact. (e.g. - email, fax, paper document or
other processes by which the Transfer Contact has
expressly and voluntarily objected through opt-in
means)."
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So it looks like they're auto-rejecting domain transfers if you're using Domains by Proxy?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Update on GoDaddy Transfer Issues</title><url>http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-transfer-update/</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>Sami_Lehtinen</author><text>Yup, same issue here. Transfer has been hanging over 24 hours now.
Edit: Transfer in Process - Acquiring Current Whois for Transfer Verification</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Update on GoDaddy Transfer Issues</title><url>http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-transfer-update/</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>tudborg</author><text>I actually like the strict style of Stack Overflow.<p>And i find the &quot;Not Constructive&quot; to be exactly that.<p>Yes, it can be annoying when a question is closed and you really wanted to discuss it, but the rules are quite clear on what is and is not classified as &quot;Not Constructive&quot;, and the discussion should just move to some of the discussion threads instead.<p>And i don&#x27;t know what you interpret as negativity?
I have never seen unfair or non-objective use of moderator functions?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jerrya</author><text>What can I say? Like many people, I believe, I find the questions that have been closed, usually as &quot;Not Constructive&quot; to be the most helpful.<p>I don&#x27;t understand Stack Overflow, but the weird negativity over there certainly keeps me from asking or answering questions there or at most of the stack exchange sites.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.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>runn1ng</author><text>And <i>exactly</i> because of this perceived negativity, SO recently changed their close criteria - right now, &quot;Not Constructive&quot; is not even an option in &quot;close&quot; voting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jerrya</author><text>What can I say? Like many people, I believe, I find the questions that have been closed, usually as &quot;Not Constructive&quot; to be the most helpful.<p>I don&#x27;t understand Stack Overflow, but the weird negativity over there certainly keeps me from asking or answering questions there or at most of the stack exchange sites.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.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>Micand</author><text>I remember reading about OpenWorm a few years ago and thinking it was ridiculously cool. I&#x27;m glad to see the project has persisted. They do a bad job, however, of selling themselves.<p>1. What have they accomplished to date? I see little more than an animated worm. Tell me about how you&#x27;re trying to model the worm, and how these approaches may accurately capture its behavior.<p>2. Why should I care about having an animated worm in my browser? Why is this an appropriate medium to deliver the simulation? If I want to do any kind of science, how will this help me? What I&#x27;ve seen to date looks scarcely more useful than Bonzi Buddy. The most interesting part seems the Academy, but I must donate at least $250 to gain access. This seems counter to the &quot;open&quot; part of &quot;OpenWorm.&quot;<p>3. What academic affiliations does the project have? If the project is useful and has experienced success to date, surely they can recruit students&#x2F;postdocs&#x2F;whatever to work on it full-time, with well-established labs making major contributions. Are they computational people? Biology people?<p>4. What are the bona fides of the people involved? If they can&#x27;t typeset or capitalize the species&#x27; name properly (&quot;C. Elegans&quot;) in their video, that doesn&#x27;t lend much faith to their expertise. The gentleman in the video marvels over the mere &quot;1000 cells&quot; in the worm, but does nothing to put this number in context (with, say, the 10 trillion cells of humans).<p>I&#x27;d love to see this project succeed, and I admire its attempt to recruit funding through a novel means, but the pricing seems too steep, and the overall quality of the pitch is regrettably poor.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-digital-organism-in-your-browser</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lambdanaut</author><text>This project is huge. I&#x27;m glad to see it has come this far. It&#x27;s the first ever simulation of a multi-cellular organism at a really useful detail, presented and made available to the masses.<p>It&#x27;s work like this that is going to help explode the use of citizen scientist work. Imagine being able to run your own experiments on a simulation first without having to buy and breed your own worms. So many more experiments can be carried out, and in parallel too.<p>It&#x27;s not an exact model yet, but it&#x27;s getting closer. The end goal is to get the model to the point where if you run an experiment on the virtual worm, you can be certain you&#x27;ll get the same results on the real worm.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-digital-organism-in-your-browser</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IkmoIkmo</author><text>Asking whether it&#x27;s too late to buy I think makes no sense... if it were, immediately market forces would drive up the price. If it were too soon, immediately market forces would sell.<p>You can ask anyone, any individual, of course and they&#x27;ll have a particular answer which will differ. But I wouldn&#x27;t be quick to trust a particular answer over the answer of the market (which IS the stock price), unless the particular answer is from a particular person, like a buffett, a domain expert or an alien from the future or someone with insider knowledge.<p>At least, that&#x27;s the theory haha. I know it&#x27;s a shitty answer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>AMZN, the stock, is trading at a P.E. Ratio of nearly 300. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.google.com&#x2F;finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.google.com&#x2F;finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN</a><p>Serious question: Considering that it nearly doubled over the past year, is it already too late to buy Amazon stock? Or not? What&#x27;s the upside?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Bezos's Net Worth Just Broke $100B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-24/jeff-bezos-fortune-hits-100-billion-on-black-friday-stock-surge</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>libertyEQ</author><text>While AMZN might grow into their valuation eventually, there are many other equities that are seemingly undervalued given their current fundamentals. I wouldn&#x27;t try to short AMZN, but I would look elsewhere for investment opportunities; and, while trite, the advice to invest using ETFs that spread your risk is probably a better strategy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>AMZN, the stock, is trading at a P.E. Ratio of nearly 300. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.google.com&#x2F;finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.google.com&#x2F;finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN</a><p>Serious question: Considering that it nearly doubled over the past year, is it already too late to buy Amazon stock? Or not? What&#x27;s the upside?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeff Bezos's Net Worth Just Broke $100B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-24/jeff-bezos-fortune-hits-100-billion-on-black-friday-stock-surge</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anguswithgusto</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised at how much flack this article is getting here on HN. Is it because we&#x27;re all making those sweet 1% salaries in tech?<p>All my non-tech&#x2F;finance friends are paying obscenely high rent, crippled with student debt, can&#x27;t afford houses, can&#x27;t afford cars, and three times as educated as their parents, but paid less than their parents were. In the case of unpaid internships (unavoidable for lots of industries, especially in the arts and media), many aren&#x27;t being paid at all.<p>I think there are some possible cultural reasons (our generation being, on a whole I think, a bit less materialistic and not as motivated to work hard, boring, financially-rewarding jobs [like accounting] and more likely to want those sexy art, media, and non-profit jobs.) But overall I think the Boomers have dealt a real bum hand to their children.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Millennials earn 20% less than Boomers did at same stage of life</title><url>http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/13/millennials-falling-behind-boomer-parents/96530338/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>speeder</author><text>Note that even in countries where the absolute amount of money is better, the stuff on this article still applies.<p>I am from Brazil, and many boomers told me when I was young how awesome I was to be young, because I was living in a golden age where I didn&#x27;t had to walk uphill both ways to school, could have computer, and whatnot.<p>But it is me that envy them now, I am 29, have zero income, lots of debt, and own no assets (not even a bicycle).<p>The same applies to almost all my friends and aquaintances, and even so, the &quot;almost&quot; is because one of them is an absolute exception (he was already rich, and made a hit game, his game is probably on top20 most sold on Steam right now...), and some of the humble and smart ones decided to ignore the &quot;adults&quot; advice, don&#x27;t go to college and deliberately choose professions seen in bad light in the social sense (construction, plumbing, car mechanic, CNC operator, security guard...)<p>The few friends I have that have families, did it by accident (ie: accidental pregnancy), and all of them are unemployed, and their spouses (when they actually have one, some are single parents) are unemployed too, the &quot;least worse&quot; couple are the ones that have moderately rich parents, and they have both sides of the family giving their child the stuff the child needs.<p>And the thing is, although this is mostly about my country (Brazil), I have lots of friends outside Brazil too, that are also in this situation, one guy I know is an absolute crazy coding genius (And his game is rumored to have inspired No Man&#x27;s Sky) and he is 40, and also childless, and own only a very old (20+ years I think) car, I have some Canadian friends also with problems like that, I know people that worked in AAA game studios around the planet and still failed to make enough money to pay student debts and start a family.<p>To be honest, the situation just feel hopeless, sometimes I get myself with the intruding unwanted thought of wishing someone would start WWIII just to see if at least life would be less boring. And from what I am seeing in the &quot;mood&quot; in social media and elections worldwide, I am not alone in this...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Millennials earn 20% less than Boomers did at same stage of life</title><url>http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/13/millennials-falling-behind-boomer-parents/96530338/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>So first Google (Chrome team) foobar&#x27;d HTTP (and HTML and CSS and ...) into overengineered crap to replace TCP with vague promises of pushed resources and multiplexing <i>only</i> necessary to handle absurdly bloated CSS, images, and fonts there for CDNs by Google et al to sensor your traffic and visit data in the first place, then they admitted server push, as the other touted advantage, being not well thought out after all. The effect being to derail most F&#x2F;OSS HTTP libs, web servers, and TCP&#x2F;IP stacks due to sheer complexity and conflicting goals. Wish we&#x27;d call Google&#x27;s destructive efforts towards the web as what they are.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome</title><url>https://developer.chrome.com/blog/removing-push/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>treve</author><text>The reason I&#x27;m a little disappointing about this, is because I was really hoping for a future where we improve sending collections of items from APIs.<p>One issue with the typical API formats is that all the data for each resource is shipped with the collection, which means that client caches are unaware of the &#x27;transcluded&#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;embedded&#x27; resources.<p>Server push, if implemented well could have allowed us to just push every collection member down the wire. Push lets you solve the Q+1 issue because all members can be generated together.<p>I did some work trying standardize a simple version of this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-pot-prefer-push-01" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-pot-prefer-push-...</a><p>Also, at some point there were talks about a browser request header that would send the browsers&#x27; cache state as a bloom filter to the server, which would let the browser have a pretty good idea of what not to send.<p>When the push removal was originally announced, I wrote a bit more about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evertpot.com&#x2F;http-2-push-is-dead&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evertpot.com&#x2F;http-2-push-is-dead&#x2F;</a><p>Anyway, I&#x27;m disappointed this happens. I get that people had trouble putting push to good use, but in my opinion this just needed more time to brew. Once Chrome announced the removal, all of this died.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome</title><url>https://developer.chrome.com/blog/removing-push/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trollied</author><text>The reentry videos during the 3rd launch were unreal. Live images of plasma dancing.<p>Just looking at the 2 vehicles stacked also looks sci-fi.<p>It&#x27;s great being part of another space age, having missed the first one when it was at its peak. Exciting times.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX's fourth Starship launch approved for Thursday</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/we-know-starship-can-fly-now-its-time-to-see-if-it-can-come-back-to-earth/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xnx</author><text>11 hours ago. 11 comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40578585">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40578585</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpaceX's fourth Starship launch approved for Thursday</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/we-know-starship-can-fly-now-its-time-to-see-if-it-can-come-back-to-earth/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>timeal</author><text>Why so many negative comments? Japan certainly seems to outshine the US according to multiple metrics, so they are doing something right:<p>Japan&#x27;s unemployment rate is 3.6% vs 5.5% for the US: <a href="http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/roudou/results/month/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stat.go.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;data&#x2F;roudou&#x2F;results&#x2F;month&#x2F;inde...</a> vs <a href="http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.bls.gov&#x2F;timeseries&#x2F;LNS14000000</a><p>Japan&#x27;s homelessness rate is 20 per 100,000 population (25,000 homeless people in 2001) vs 220 per 100,000 in the US: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=q-PgHH8TJi8C&amp;printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=q-PgHH8TJi8C&amp;printsec=front...</a> vs <a href="https://www.onecpd.info/resources/documents/2012AHAR_PITestimates.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onecpd.info&#x2F;resources&#x2F;documents&#x2F;2012AHAR_PITesti...</a><p>Japan&#x27;s incarceration rate is 50 per 100,000 population vs 710 per 100,000 for the US.<p>Japan is even on track to stop increasing their public deficit by this year (thanks to the new sales tax) whereas the US is far from being on budget. And Japan even manages to achieve this despite a significantly aging demographics (lots of social benefits paid to non-working people), compare <a href="http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/japan-population-pyramid-2014.gif" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indexmundi.com&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;population-pyramids&#x2F;japan-p...</a> vs <a href="http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2012/3/28/saupload_3-28-us.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.seekingalpha.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2012&#x2F;3&#x2F;28&#x2F;saupload_3-...</a><p>Japan&#x27;s society seems to be functioning better than the US. I appreciate this article for trying to find out why.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turning Japanese: Coping with stasis</title><url>http://thelongandshort.org/issues/season-three/turning-japanese-coping-with-stagnation.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>LukeHoersten</author><text>&#x27;&quot;Do rich societies really need to get richer and richer indefinitely?&quot; he asks.&#x27;<p>They do if they are going to pay off their mega-debt. The real fear is when the GDP drops below the yearly interest payments.<p>I feel the same when I go to nice European countries. &quot;Wow everything is so nice&quot; and then I remind myself that Germany is paying for it all. It&#x27;s not sustainable. Look at some of the Scandinavian countries for nice mass public transit in a more sustainable setting.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turning Japanese: Coping with stasis</title><url>http://thelongandshort.org/issues/season-three/turning-japanese-coping-with-stagnation.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>ThinkBeat</author><text>It is weird to me how the perspective on Intel flipped a while back.<p>For a long time, the discussion was that Intel had failed, failed and failed again to get their next generation fabs operating at acceptable yields that they were a couple of generations behind TSMC.<p>Which was a huge departure from their decades of first or least competitive on fabs.<p>Intel announced they would start having some chips produced by TSMC,
so they could try and harness benefits of the latest, or the generation
behind latest for their chips.<p>In short Intel was seen as incompetent and could no longer compete with their competitors. The long Intel domination was sliding away.<p>Then people started worrying about Taiwan.
Intel got a few billion dollars in a sweet contract with the military,
building fabs in the US became the major push in tech.<p>Since then, the perspective has been much more positive for Intel and
their role in building domestically.<p>Intels inability to build a latest generation fab has not changed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Launches $1B Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-launches-1-billion-fund-build-foundry-innovation-ecosystem.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>nynx</author><text>We dearly need a semiconductor fabrication technique that doesn’t involve 150 million dollar machines and campuses the size of cities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Launches $1B Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-launches-1-billion-fund-build-foundry-innovation-ecosystem.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>Sephr</author><text>Signal Desktop has a standalone registration UI that works perfectly fine in the source (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Desktop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Desktop</a>), but this hidden feature has been entirely removed from this version.<p>Here is a convoluted process that will allow you to register with any SMS-capable phone number, no Android app required:<p>First, install the Signal GitHub repo (unzip <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Desktop&#x2F;archive&#x2F;master.zip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;Signal-Desktop&#x2F;archive&#x2F;mas...</a>) unpacked in Chrome, inspect the background page and enter `extension.install(&quot;standalone&quot;)` in your console. Enter a phone number to get your verification code. Do not submit your registration using the standalone UI! Keep your verification code for use with the official app.<p>Next, uninstall the source app and install the official app. Inspect the background page and type this in your console: `getAccountManager().registerSingleDevice(&quot;your phone number&quot;, &quot;verification code&quot;)`. Don&#x27;t forget to include your country code in your phone number (+...) and remove the dashes from your verification code, or you will probably get an error.<p>No idea why Open Whisper Systems felt that it was necessary to entirely remove this hidden UI, when it wasn&#x27;t accessible through any of the standard UI anyways. The feature works completely fine (and has for months). The only purpose this removal seems to serve is to force users to install their mobile app.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Signal Desktop beta now publicly available</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop-public/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>click170</author><text>I just wish Signal was easier to get through a firewall.<p>&quot;You need to open TCP 31337 and <i>all UDP ports</i> in order for Signal to work.&quot;
Emphasis mine.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.whispersystems.org&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;213697218-Which-TCP-UDP-ports-need-to-be-available-" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.whispersystems.org&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;21369721...</a><p>When I first read that I was sure that must largely apply to the calling (voip) features, but testing showed me I was wrong. I couldn&#x27;t even make messaging work through a firewall so now I sourly use Telegram instead (no private chats by default in telegram??).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Signal Desktop beta now publicly available</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop-public/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>&gt; Also, I wonder if we&#x27;ll ever see a return of enthusiasm and
investment in tech related to the hard sciences. That&#x27;s what I
originally went into, but career growth and earning potential
couldn&#x27;t match soft tech so I ended up pursuing that instead.<p>I led the technical team of a London startup for a few years and it
was super exciting from a physics and electronics stance. We did did
R&amp;D into acoustics, vibration, materials sciences, 3D printing and
manufacturing. We basically invented new kinds of surface microphones.<p>Slowly the smartphone and app ecosystem ate into our priorities. We
shut down the lab, binned the prototypes, shelved the designs. Nothing
got patented. I ended up saying in a meeting one day, &quot;This isn&#x27;t a
startup any more. We&#x27;re all just employees of Apple&quot;. Everyone
nodded. Then carried on. I left when about 80 percent of the daily
grind was jumping through legal and PR hoops to get things past the
App Store gatekeepers, who I took to be hostile saboteurs.<p>Although the company lives on (and is doing well). looking back now
I&#x27;d say the pathological fixation on smartphones and apps circa 2015
killed a very promising transducer tech project.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>&gt; It is buffeting young tech firms particularly hard because much of their value is derived from the prospect of profits far in the future, whose present value is being eroded by rising interest rates<p>I wonder if this will benefit startups that are more bootstrap style. Does less funding necessary for anticipated future growth imply less damage during a recession?<p>Also, I wonder if we’ll ever see a return of enthusiasm and investment in tech related to the hard sciences. That’s what I originally went into, but career growth and earning potential couldn’t match soft tech so I ended up pursuing that instead. I really miss the physical sciences though. Is the problem that anticipated returns on investment are so far in the future that investors don’t think they would see any benefit in their lifetime? Or is it that we’ve already obtained all the low hanging fruit and what’s left is incredibly difficult?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The great Silicon Valley shake-out</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2022/06/28/the-great-silicon-valley-shake-out</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marvin</author><text>&gt;much of their value is derived from the prospect of profits far in the future, whose present value is being eroded by rising interest rates<p>I&#x27;ve seen this finance meme over and over again, and it&#x27;s mostly an irrelevant argument. Yes, of course interest rates affect the valuation of growth companies, but a successful startup might grow 1000x from early investment rounds to the time when it&#x27;s an established company with lower growth and a world-dominating role in its domain. An interest rate increase on the order of 2% is laughably small in that context.<p>What&#x27;s probably going to happen is that valuations will be a bit lower at all stages, but why should that affect motivations and outcomes? The most motivated people aren&#x27;t primarily in it for the money anyway, and there is plenty of room for getting rich.<p>Tens of thousands of people got rich after the dotcom crash, and interest rates were much higher back then. Interest rates are just a minor scaling factor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>&gt; It is buffeting young tech firms particularly hard because much of their value is derived from the prospect of profits far in the future, whose present value is being eroded by rising interest rates<p>I wonder if this will benefit startups that are more bootstrap style. Does less funding necessary for anticipated future growth imply less damage during a recession?<p>Also, I wonder if we’ll ever see a return of enthusiasm and investment in tech related to the hard sciences. That’s what I originally went into, but career growth and earning potential couldn’t match soft tech so I ended up pursuing that instead. I really miss the physical sciences though. Is the problem that anticipated returns on investment are so far in the future that investors don’t think they would see any benefit in their lifetime? Or is it that we’ve already obtained all the low hanging fruit and what’s left is incredibly difficult?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The great Silicon Valley shake-out</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2022/06/28/the-great-silicon-valley-shake-out</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>I adapted a user.js template [1] that hardens Firefox by disabling a lot of features, including disabling Mozilla products like Pocket.<p>By default it is very strict though, so you will probably want to go through the config setting by setting and relax it a bit. Like enabling Webassembly and the search engine integration of the URL bar.<p>Most settings have inline comments explaining what they do and why they are chosen.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyllyukko&#x2F;user.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyllyukko&#x2F;user.js</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>merlinscholz</author><text>Is it worth it running the Tor Browser without Tor itself if I wanted a Firefox version without Mozilla, pocket and tracking?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tor Browser 10</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-100</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ayesh</author><text>Yes.
It disables many (all?) mozilla integrations such as password manager and intermediate certificate preload.<p>I prefer to use the story network with standard Firefox because I value the mozilla features except for Pocket.</text><parent_chain><item><author>merlinscholz</author><text>Is it worth it running the Tor Browser without Tor itself if I wanted a Firefox version without Mozilla, pocket and tracking?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tor Browser 10</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-100</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tcard</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is misguided at all. I&#x27;ve heard right-wing people say work hours should be an employee-employer agreement that shouldn&#x27;t concern the government. The author argues, quite civically in my opinion, that one can disagree with this particular example but that shouldn&#x27;t interfere with the main point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rhaps0dy</author><text>&gt;Many people think that a country is better off if its workers are decently paid, do not work excessively long hours, and work in a safe environment. (If you are sufficiently right wing, then you may disagree, but that just means that you will need other examples to illustrate the abstract principle.)<p>Would it be possible to resist stabs at the &quot;other side&quot; of politics, if you are trying to explain something? People in the other side will be distracted by this, and think less of the author, or (like me) think it&#x27;s a misguided or untrue example.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Member of The European Union</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/6172/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwanem</author><text>It&#x27;s certainly possible, but it requires sufficient empathy and intellectual openness to study and understand the arguments of the &quot;other side&quot;, which seems lacking on all sides of late.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rhaps0dy</author><text>&gt;Many people think that a country is better off if its workers are decently paid, do not work excessively long hours, and work in a safe environment. (If you are sufficiently right wing, then you may disagree, but that just means that you will need other examples to illustrate the abstract principle.)<p>Would it be possible to resist stabs at the &quot;other side&quot; of politics, if you are trying to explain something? People in the other side will be distracted by this, and think less of the author, or (like me) think it&#x27;s a misguided or untrue example.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Member of The European Union</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/6172/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;ve taken some classes where teacher gave us an image where everything was already installed and configured.<p>My department tries this occasionally. It fails because students either have<p>a) cheap pieces of shit with unreasonably poor performance under virtualization (I&#x27;m talking multiple seconds to bring a different window to foreground under Ubuntu)<p>b) Retina MBPs, on which Linux has absolute garbage text rendering due to quarter-assed (half-assed is giving it too much credit) per-application support for high-DPI displays. Staring at code for hours is hard enough when the code isn&#x27;t blurry.<p>The department runs a Linux lab in one of the libraries with professionally maintained Ubuntu installs that already have everything professors request for their courses, and provides SSH access to those machines.<p>An interesting side effect is that you either get good at configuring your environment for yourself (to use your own Mac or Linux machine) or you learn to work with just a terminal (use Emacs&#x2F;Vim and Bash over SSH).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jozan</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t virtual machine basically do the same thing? I&#x27;ve taken some classes where teacher gave us an image where everything was already installed and configured. Everything went smoothly.<p>However, Cloud9 is much more convenient since it runs entirely on browser but VM solution could work in case C9 discontinues its free tier.</text></item><item><author>hyperdeficit</author><text>I really hope that the Cloud9 service keeps running, and maintains the free version that it currently provides. I have been using Cloud9 with the Michael Hartl Rails Tutorial to teach new programmers the basics of programming with Ruby and Rails and it has greatly reduced the friction for them to start learning.<p>In previous classes we had the students setup a Ruby and Rails environment on their own systems and not only did that take multiple sessions to get setup, but then we were dealing with environment differences that took the focus away from the basics of learning Ruby nearly every session.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon</title><url>https://c9.io/blog/great-news/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sytse</author><text>I think that the future is having not one but many workspaces. If you review a MR? Start that workspace. Help someone with a question? Login to their workspace. In GitLab we want every issue and every commit to have an IDE button <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab-ce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;12759" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab-ce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;12759</a><p>BTW congrats to the Cloud9 team. They made a great product and selling to Amazon will ensure it lives on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jozan</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t virtual machine basically do the same thing? I&#x27;ve taken some classes where teacher gave us an image where everything was already installed and configured. Everything went smoothly.<p>However, Cloud9 is much more convenient since it runs entirely on browser but VM solution could work in case C9 discontinues its free tier.</text></item><item><author>hyperdeficit</author><text>I really hope that the Cloud9 service keeps running, and maintains the free version that it currently provides. I have been using Cloud9 with the Michael Hartl Rails Tutorial to teach new programmers the basics of programming with Ruby and Rails and it has greatly reduced the friction for them to start learning.<p>In previous classes we had the students setup a Ruby and Rails environment on their own systems and not only did that take multiple sessions to get setup, but then we were dealing with environment differences that took the focus away from the basics of learning Ruby nearly every session.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon</title><url>https://c9.io/blog/great-news/</url></story>
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